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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University football team overcame a 21-point first half deficit to stun defending NCAA Division II National Runner-Up Wayne State in a 35-24 victory on Saturday (Oct. 27) afternoon at Adams Field in Detroit.
The win was the Bulldogs' second-straight and assured themselves of a winning campaign as they improved to 6-3 overall and 5-3 in the GLIAC.
The Warriors jumped out to a 21-0 lead early in the second period after scoring on three touchdown runs from tailback Toney Davis. All three scores came following costly Bulldog fumbles.
WSU scored first as the Warriors used the short field following FSU's first fumble to take an early 7-0 lead with 2:26 left in the opening frame on Davis' six-yard scoring run that capped a 37-yard drive in seven plays.
The Bulldogs drove to the Wayne State four-yard line after the Warriors' score, but another fumble by the Bulldogs allowed WSU to move 96 yards in four plays before Davis capped the drive with another six-yard run to make it 14-00 with 12:12 left in the half.
Then, only a minute later, Wayne State reached paydirt again when Davis found the endzone from seven-yards out to finish a 53-yard jaunt in three plays setup after FSU's third offensive turnover.
From that point forward, however, the Bulldogs battled back. FSU reached the endzone for the first time with 5:40 left in the half as redshirt freshman quarterback Jason Vander Laan engineered a 68-yard march in 12 plays before finding tight end Cody DeWitt on a five-yard scoring pass to cut the lead to 21-7.
After a big defensive stop that included a key third down sack from senior linebacker Mike Elias, the offense took advantage of a short punt and moved 36 yards in only five plays before tailback Korey Ringer plunged in from four-yards out to make it 21-14 at the break.
The second half then belonged to the Bulldogs. FSU tied up the game with 7:22 left in the third on a five-yard run from Vander Laan to finish a 14-play drive covering 64 yards.
FSU took its first lead of the afternoon with 4:17 remaining in the third when Dwayne Williams wrapped up a 43-yard march with a four-yard scoring run on the seventh play of the drive to give the Bulldogs a 28-21 edge.
Wayne State managed to cut the FSU lead back to four points at 28-24 when Stefan Terleckyj connected on a 26-yard field goal with only 20 seconds left in the third quarter following a 66-yard Warrior drive.
However, the Bulldogs answered back with the final score of the game with 12:11 left in the fourth stanza as Vander Laan scored for the second time from eight-yards away to finish an eight-play, 71-yard drive.
Ferris State was able to seal the victory by running out the clock late in the game on the final possession.
Overall, the Bulldogs rolled up 484 total yards, including 409 on the ground on 70 carries. Vander Laan had another big afternoon as he ran 37 times for a personal career-high 244 yards and two TD's. Williams added 59 yards on nine carries for FSU in the victory.
Additionally, Vander Laan completed eight-of-10 passes for 75 yards and a score. Three receptions were made by senior Skyler Stoker for 25 yards while sophomore Jake Lampman had two grabs for 32 yards.
Wayne State managed 302 total offensive yards with 248 on the ground and 54 in the air. Davis led the Warriors with 139 yards and three scores on 22 rushes while Desmond Martin had 121 yards on three carries. Quarterback Mickey Mohner was five-of-14 for 54 yards, but was sacked four times by the FSU defense.
Senior defensive end Jordan Morgan paced the Bulldogs with eight tackles while three others had six stops each. Ed Viverette had a game-high 17 tackles in the loss for the Warriors, who fell to 5-3 overall.
Ferris State will be back at home to host the Northwood Timberwolves in the regular-season home finale next Saturday, Nov. 3, at FSU's Top Taggart Field. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. (ET) for the Senior and Kids Day game.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A modernized version of the world's first bicycle could help some people with emphysema get around more easily, a small pilot study suggests.
The study, published in the journal Chest, looked at the effects of a walking aid dubbed the "modern draisine." The draisine, which was invented in 1817, was a pedal-free prototype for today's bicycle.
Some manufacturers are now making a draisine-like device as a walking aid for people with mobility problems: They sit on the seat and hold the handlebars while using their feet on the ground to propel themselves along.
There are already walking aids for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) — a group of lung diseases that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
One of those is the "rollator" — a four-wheeled frame with handles that people push in front of them as they walk. The frame also has a basket so COPD patients can carry their portable oxygen tanks.
But people can be self-conscious about using the rollator. One small study found that 48 percent of COPD patients using a rollator said they felt "embarrassed" while using the device.
So for the new study, researchers tested the draisine device against a rollator among 21 COPD patients who had difficulty getting around on their own.
They found that the patients did a bit better on an indoor walking test when they used the bike-like device. They covered an average of 466 meters (1,529 feet) in 6 minutes, compared with 383 meters (1,257 feet) while using the rollator.
The study participants also seemed less self-conscious about the draisine: 10 percent said they felt embarrassed using it, while 19 percent said the same about the rollator.
Because the draisine has a seat, it may take some of the "load" off COPD patients' legs, according to lead researcher Anouk W. Vaes of CIRO, a Horn, Netherlands-based center that specializes in treating chronic organ failure.
In an email, Vaes said the draisine also seems to give users a more "fixed center of gravity," and possibly a more effective walking pattern, than the rollator.
But whether the draisine will take over as COPD patients' walking aid of choice remains to be seen.
Even though patients in this study were less likely to say the bike-like device embarrassed them, they were actually more willing to use the rollator in their daily lives. Of the 21 patients, 16 said they would use the rollator day-to-day, but only eight said they would use the draisine.
One problem, Vaes said, was that some people felt less balanced and secure on the two-wheeled draisine versus the four-wheeled rollator.
"This may improve after patients have used it for a longer period," Vaes noted, "but that remains currently unknown."
Right now, the draisine is not widely used among COPD patients, according to Vaes. But there are several models of the walking aid available in the Netherlands.
A major downside of the device is its cost — which is roughly five times that of a typical rollator, according to the researchers.
The draisine used in this study retails for 520 euros, or about $680.
Vaes said that larger studies are needed to confirm the better walk performance seen with the draisine. She and her colleagues are also testing the draisine against the rollator in outdoor settings, where people would actually use them in real life.
None of the researchers reports any financial interests in the work.
SOURCE: bit.ly/vQrIO8 Chest, online November 23, 2011.

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This fact sheet answers the most frequently sked health questions about beryllium. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present.
People working or living near beryllium industries have the greatest potential for exposure to beryllium. Lung damage has been observed in people exposed to high levels of beryllium in the air. About 1-15% of all people occupationally-exposed to beryllium in air become sensitive to beryllium and may develop chronic beryllium disease (CBD), an irreversible and sometimes fatal scarring of the lungs. CBD may be completely asymptomatic or begin with coughing, chest pain, shortness of breath, weakness, and/or fatigue. Beryllium has been found in at least 535 of the 1,613 National Priorities List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
What is beryllium?
Beryllium is a hard, grayish metal naturally found in mineral rocks, coal, soil, and volcanic dust. Beryllium compounds are commercially mined, and the beryllium is purified for use in nuclear weapons and reactors, aircraft and space vehicle structures, instruments, x-ray machines, and mirrors. Beryllium ores are used to make speciality ceramics for electrical and high-technology applications. Beryllium alloys are used in automobiles, computers, sports equipment (golf clubs and bicycle frames), and dental bridges.
What happens to beryllium when it enters the environment?
- Beryllium dust enters the air from burning coal and oil. This beryllium dust will eventually settle over the land and water.
- It enters water from erosion of rocks and soil, and from industrial waste. Some beryllium compounds will dissolve in water, but most stick to particles and settle to the bottom.
- Most beryllium in soil does not dissolve in water and remains bound to soil.
- Beryllium does not accumulate in the food chain.
How might I be exposed to beryllium?
- The general population is exposed to normally low levels of beryllium in air, food, and water.
- People working in industries where beryllium is mined, processed, machined, or converted into metal, alloys, and other chemicals may be exposed to high levels of beryllium. People living near these industries may also be exposed to higher than normal levels of beryllium in air.
- People living near uncontrolled hazardous waste sites may be exposed to higher than normal levels of beryllium.
How can beryllium affect my health?
Beryllium can be harmful if you breathe it. The effects depend on how much you are exposed to and for how long. If beryllium air levels are high enough (greater than 1000 �g/m3), an acute condition can result. This condition resembles pneumonia and is called acute beryllium disease Occupational and community air standards are effective in preventing most acute lung damage.
Some people (1-15%) become sensitive to beryllium. These individuals may develop an inflammatory reaction in the respiratory system. This condition is called chronic beryllium disease (CBD), and can occur many years after exposure to higher than normal levels of beryllium (greater than 0.5 �g/m3). This disease can make you feel weak and tired, and can cause difficulty in breathing. It can also result in anorexia, weight loss, and may also lead to right side heart enlargement and heart disease in advanced cases. Some people who are sensitized to beryllium may not have any symptoms. The general population is unlikely to develop acute or chronic beryllium disease because ambient air levels of beryllium are normally very low (0.00003-0.0002 �g/m3).
Swallowing beryllium has not been reported to cause effects in humans because very little beryllium is absorbed from the stomach and intestines. Ulcers have been seen in dogs ingesting beryllium in the diet. Beryllium contact with skin that has been scraped or cut may cause rashes or ulcers.
How likely is beryllium to cause cancer?
Long term exposure to beryllium can increase the risk of developing lung cancer in people.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have determined that beryllium is a human carcinogen. The EPA has determined that beryllium is a probable human carcinogen. EPA has estimated that lifetime exposure to 0.04 �g/m3 beryllium can result in a one in a thousand chance of developing cancer.
How can beryllium affect children?
There are no studies on the health effects of children exposed to beryllium. It is likely that the health effects seen in children exposed to beryllium will be similar to the effects seen in adults. We do not know whether children differ from adults in their susceptibility to beryllium.
We do not know if exposure to beryllium will result in birth defects or other developmental effects in people. The studies on developmental effects in animals are not conclusive.
How can families reduce the risk of exposure to beryllium?
- Most families will not be exposed to high levels of beryllium.
- Children should avoid playing in soils near uncontrolled hazardous waste sites where beryllium may have been discarded.
Is there a medical test to show whether I've been exposed to beryllium?
Beryllium can be measured in the urine and blood. The amount of beryllium in blood or urine may not indicate how much or how recently you were exposed. Beryllium levels can also be measured in lung and skin samples. These tests are not usually available at your doctor's office, but your doctor can send the samples to a laboratory that can perform the tests.
Another blood test, the blood beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT), identifies beryllium sensitization and has predictive value for CBD.
Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
The EPA restricts the amount of beryllium that industries may release into the air to 0.01 �g/m3, averaged over a 30-day period.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets a limit of 2 �g/m3 of workroom air for an 8-hour work shift.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2002. Toxicological Profile for Beryllium. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
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- Boy was transferred to Fargo for further treatment, mayor says
- "As far as I know, he's a well-behaved, good kid," mayor says
- Town is trying "to figure out what could have possibly happened," mayor adds
- Boy was coherent after he shot himself with a small handgun, principal says
A North Dakota freshman walked in front of his class, made an apology and then shot himself with a handgun Thursday morning, Richland County authorities said.
The injured boy was coherent when he was taken to a hospital, said Principal Jay Townsend of Fairmount Public School, which has 112 students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Authorities don't know what the apology was about, Sheriff Larry Leshovsky said.
The student wasn't in any kind of trouble that the principal was aware of.
The freshman, whose name wasn't being released, has lived in the small, rural community of 380 residents his entire life and has spent all educational years at Fairmount School, Mayor Jon Nelk said.
The student was transferred to a hospital in Fargo, but the mayor had no further details.
The student's grandparents grew up in the Fairmount area and his parents have lived in town their entire lives, Nelk said.
"As far as I know, he's a well-behaved, good kid," the mayor said. "We're a rural area, but guns are not commonplace."
The shooting was "an isolated incident" for the town, Nelk said.
"I'm sure when we sit down this evening and start playing it back, we'll try to figure out what could have possibly happened and why this happened," Nelk said. "It's a very tight community.
"I've had a lot of conversations with parents and some students. They're quite worried and hoping that our prayers go out to the child and the family and the friends," the mayor said.
A teacher provided first-aid to the boy, and the school went into lockdown shortly after the 8:40 a.m. shooting, Townsend said.
An alert system called all parents, and school was canceled for the day, Townsend said.
School will resume Friday, when counselors will be on hand, the principal said.
"This has never happened here before," said Townsend, who has been principal of the school for five years. "This kind of situation is very rare and new to North Dakota, the community, our school and the students."


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Raucous, raw, and reliably remarkable, the century–old football riavlry between the state universities of Texas and Oklahoma stands as testimony that hate–based relationships are the most enduring. Texas and Oklahoma have been top–level programs for a long time, but in the last few years the rivalry has garnered ever more national attention. Mike Shropshire, an observer of this football war for more than 40 years, chronicles the long and colorful history of this fierce rivalry that has endured for more than a century.
The teams have been playing at the Texas State fair since 1929–just a three–hour drive from each campus. This is the only football game in the country that is louder than a NASCAR race, because there's no place in the country that's more football–mad than Texas. Animosity runs deep in this relationship–but beyond the emotional urgency that the Texas–OU followers expend on this event, this is a union of like–minded spirits. They were brought up amid the simple mantra of the Red State road to success: "Get up early. Work hard. Find oil." Football would naturally become the spectator sports of preference in these parts.
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The restart was set up by the diligent work of second-year midfielder Ethan Finlay, who made his first appearance of the season subbing for Dominic Oduro on the right side in the 63rd minute. For Finlay, it was a chance to release some pent up frustration for not playing in the win at Chivas USA and last week's' loss at Vancouver.
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Not long after their return, the fabric of living will be rent by the events of 9/11, but like a magic garment will reweave itself, reviving normalcy in a world where Jewish jokes mingle with debates about the problem of consciousness, the price of real estate, and the meaning of modern art. Along the way, the impermanence and transcendence of life will be embodied in the person of a beloved teacher and coach who, even facing death, radiates a distinctively local light.
Written with Gopnik's signature mix of mind and heart, elegant and exultantly alert to the minute miracles that bring a place to life, Through the Children's Gate is a chronicle, by turns tender and hilarious, of a family taking root in the unlikeliest patch of earth.
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- Andrew
- 10-20-06
Rambling and Often Dull
I'm a big Adam Gopnik fan, but I couldn't really believe this was his work. His essays are often two or three times longer than they ought to be, playing out over the course of months upon months of events, only painfully slowly folding back to return to focus in on a point. That's fine-- even luxurious-- when it works, but in most of the pieces in this book, it doesn't.
Worse, Gopnik, who reads the book himself, has pronunciation issues with words and phrases like "Elizabethan" and "sine qua non." Stunning for such an educated guy, and it'll stop you dead in mid-listen.
Perhaps the utter strangeness of Paris is what made Gopnik's writing there so engaging. With that gone, he focuses instead on his children, who for all of their quirks, are nothing but familiar and never very interesting. I want my Gopnik struggling and unmoored, not manifestly wealthy and bourgeois.
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- Yennta
- 11-06-06
A Wonderful Book
I read everything Gopnik writes in the New Yorker and am a grateful fan. So this collection appears to be stuff I've already read. No matter. He can be reread over and over and each time you notice something you missed before. His reading style, especially in the intro, is a little robotic, I'll admit; he sounds a little like the Rabbi in those Seinfeld episodes. But I got used to it quickly, and am now quite fond of it. He is one of the sweetist, funniest, and most insightful and surprising essayists writing today about the REAL stuff: Daily life. And also literature, architecture, style, manners, culture. He has such a light touch and is so generous and warm with all his erudition. He's definitely someone you'd like to know. And how many writers can you say that about?
4 people found this helpful
- Doggy Bird
- 06-22-07
Not as good as
I enjoyed "Paris to the Moon" both in hardback and audiobook formats, finding Gopnik's own reading to be quite a pleasurable listening experience. I was therefore really disappointed by his reading of "Through the Children's Gate" although I was able to finish it despite being tempted to just give it up. I can't put my finger precisely on what was wrong with the reading but Gopnik seemed rushed and less engaged, and it really detracted from my enjoyment of the book. Plus, I have to admit, his style gets a bit precious after a while.
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- Belinda Tate
- 06-29-15
We enjoyed every word and it was so nice to have Gopnik narrate his own book. His sense of humor was precious especially when talking a outs his kids. I want an update on them now that they are grown and leaving the nest as they all do.


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Tanel is right. An unkillable process represents one that is in an interruptible wait context on system response (i.e. a system call). If you waited long enough, it would probably return (or the box would crashed). What's an indication of a real hung process/serious kernel bug is where the process is waiting on something, but the kernel isn't servicing it anymore.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Report: 'World's most wanted hacker' lived on Avenue D
According to the FBI, 28-year-old Hector Xavier Monsegur, an unemployed computer programmer and father of two children, is Sabu, "the head of LulzSec, and the de facto King of Anonymous — easily the most notorious and influential hacker alive today," as Fox News put it.
Earlier today, the feds announced charges against the last members of the now-defunct LulzSec, accusing them of orchestrating an online assault against corporations, defense contractors, security firms and government sites, including the CIA.
As multiple outlets have reported, Monsegur had been working as a government informant since the FBI charged him with various hacking crimes last August.
Gizmodo has a lot more here .... and here... Gawker's coverage is here.
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- Shawn G. Chittle said...
Wow, this is definitely one of the more amazing crime stories to come out of the LES since Alejandro Lopez was busted in 1988 after a massive manhunt.
As a computer professional, I would have laughed in your face had you told me LulzSec was based at Jacob Riis. I would have said "No that's just those Chinese and/or Dutch hackers having a little fun with the FBI."
How much more wrong can you be?
- March 6, 2012 at 5:06 PM
was there a massive police raid today?
maybe the JR will be forfeited?
- March 6, 2012 at 5:51 PM
"was there a massive police raid today?"
No, they grabbed this guy last year and flipped him. He's states evidence now.
- March 6, 2012 at 7:24 PM
If the leader of a crime gang is working for the FBI, then aren't all the crimes effectively orchestrate by the FBI...Isn't it just one big entrapment scam?
- March 6, 2012 at 10:48 PM
Scum. Hope he ends up in jail despite becoming an informant. What pisses me off most is that this went on in public housing, while thousands of honest New Yorkers in genuine need await housing assistance in vain. NOW he's concerned about the kids and not wanting to go to jail? Should have thought about it before becoming a criminal in grandma's subsidized apartment. This guy needs to go to jail and not keep on living on everybody else's dime or as a star witness.
- March 6, 2012 at 11:52 PM
Anon 10:48: EXACTLY!
Folks engaged in monkey-wrenching, whether physical or cyber, ought to never join groups unless they deal strictly with long time friends or family.
Operating in small tight-knit cells makes it next to impossible for infiltration and much less likely for betrayal. As an infinite number of such cells are possible, they can be untraceable and therefore are collectively effective.
- March 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM
@ anonymous 1048; Are you assuming he is the "leader"? Is there a leader ? I read that his "cooperation" prevented hundreds of hacks. The Feds usually give the first guy caught a great deal to give up everyone else.
- March 7, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Well this is Interesting. I was just on Slashdot and I thought I hadn't left for a second.
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Is Low rate DOS attack (unintended) possible through asynchronous communication? Consider this scenario:
I have a client server application were there is a WAN communication between the client and server. Client makes synchronous calls to the service and so waits for a response. Now there happens some nasty WAN issue causing the latency to spike. In this case the server might wait for the packets to arrive while the client could timeout and start a new connection. If this happens fast enough the server might get saturated with connections causing legitimate connection requests to be dropped causing DOS.
Now if the communication is asynchronous the client will not wait for the response and repeated attempts wont happen. This seems to protect from DOS?
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ST. LOUIS (AP) – The nation's worst drought in decades has worsened in parts of the nation's midsection, further frustrating ranchers and growers of winter wheat in Kansas and Oklahoma.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - A strong first half helped the Armstrong Pirates coast to a 79-57 victory over the Georgia Southwestern Hurricanes Monday evening in Alumni Arena.
Armstrong led by five midway through the first half but outscored GSW 24-10 the rest of the way as the Pirates took a commanding 46-27 lead heading into halftime.
Pirate guard Aric Miller scored 17 first-half points and the Pirates shot 50 percent (17-of-34) and committed just one turnover in their dominate first period.
In the second half, the Hurricanes couldn't muster enough offense as Southwestern extended their current losing streak to three games.
GSW (7-9, 3-6 PBC) has lost six of their last seven conference games, after a 2-0 start to Peach Belt Conference play.
Senior forward Matt Shaw led the Hurricanes in scoring with 17 points while 6-foot-10 forward Milos Kleut had a double-double (13 points and 11 rebounds) for GSW.
Miller was the game's high scorer with 22 points as three Pirates finished in double figures for Armstrong (10-5, 6-2 PBC).
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{Sweet Romance}: A Palette of Purples, Pinks + Grays
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and social interaction and the presence of restricted, repetitive behaviors. Social communication deficits include impairments in aspects of joint attention and social reciprocity, as well as challenges in the use of verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors for social interaction. Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests, or activities are manifested by stereotyped, repetitive speech, motor movement, or use of objects; inflexible adherence to routines; restricted interests; and hyper- and/or hypo-sensitivity to sensory input.
This definition is consistent with the diagnostic criteria for ASD detailed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The criteria specified in the DSM-5 reflect a number of changes from those in the DSM-IV, the most notable of which are
According to the DSM-5, individuals who meet the specified criteria are given the diagnosis of "autism spectrum disorder (ASD)" with one of three levels of severity. Level of severity is defined in terms of the amount of support needed in the area of social communication and with restricted, repetitive behaviors, recognizing that severity may vary by context and fluctuate over time. Severity ratings are used for descriptive purposes only and not to diagnose or determine eligibility for services (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). See Paul (2013) for a more detailed discussion of DSM-5 changes and potential practice implications.
The scope of these pages includes ASD across the lifespan. For more detailed information and resources about social communication disorders in school-age children (5-21), including information about social communication deficits without repetitive behaviors, see the
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There is some research to suggest that most individuals previously diagnosed with pervasive developmental delay (PDD) based on DSM-IV criteria would also receive a diagnosis of ASD using DSM-5 criteria (Huerta, Bishop, Duncan, Hus, & Lord, 2012). Additional research will be needed to evaluate the impact of the new DSM-5 criteria on the diagnosis of ASD.
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In addition, SLPs will need to advocate for inclusion of language intervention for individuals diagnosed with ASD and ensure that individuals with ASD also receive a diagnosis of language disorder (LD), when they meet the criteria. Regardless of the presence or absence of difficulties acquiring the form and content of language, all individuals with ASD are eligible for speech-language pathology services due to the pervasive nature of the social communication impairment.
At its core, communication is a social process; therefore, the social communication issues experienced by individuals with ASD also impact their communication partners. Family members, friends, teachers, SLPs, and other service providers who interact with someone with ASD are faced with the challenge of learning to respond to subtle bids for communication, interpreting the functions of problem behavior, and modifying the environment to foster active, social engagement. Peers often feel ineffective when engaged in social exchanges with an individual with ASD and may avoid that person and/or react in a negative way (e.g., teasing or bullying) to social overtures, which can have a negative impact on the development of appropriate social skills.
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The goal of family-centered practice is to create a partnership so that the family fully participates in all aspects of the individual's care. The participation of families in services aimed at addressing the needs of the individual with autism can serve to ameliorate the stress experienced by family members (National Research Council [NRC], 2001).
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb University men and women's cross country teams will kick off the 2011 campaign Friday evening on the Vaughn's Gap course at Percy Warner Park in the Belmont Opener. The women's four-kilometer race is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m., while the men's five-kilometer run is scheduled for 6 p.m.
The Vaughn's Gap course, in addition to being the home course of the Bison cross country teams, factors heavily into the schedule for the Lipscomb teams this season. September 15, the Bison will run the Vanderbilt Invitational on the same course, and will hit it once more at the end of October for the Atlantic Sun Championships.
Eleven teams will take the course for this one. In addition to the Bison and host Belmont will be squads from Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee and MTSU, among others.
The women's squad, recently ranked as the 10th-best squad in the south region in the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Associations (USTFCCCA) preseason poll, returns 2010 A-Sun Female Freshman of the Year Dani Walker from a squad that finished less than 20 combined spots behind champion North Florida for the 2010 A-Sun Championships.
Walker isn't the only returner for a strong Lady Bison side. Lipscomb's women's squad returns its top five runners from last season, including all-conference performers in senior Ashley Lehman and sophomore Alex Newby, the latter whom joined Walker as an all-freshman runner in 2010.
In all, 19 upper class athletes return and are joined by 11 freshmen runners, including all-state honorees Maggie Lawrence (Pennsylvania), Kaitlyn Llewellyn (Ohio) and Renee Menzie (Indiana).
Though talented and experienced, the Lady Bison runners are short on seniors in 2011, with only Lehman, Catherine Beals and Louisa Van Batavia reaching the end of their eligibility at the end of this year.
On the men's side, all-conference honoree Geoff Musick returns for the Bison, as one of the veterans from a squad that finished ninth at last season's A-Sun Championships. The top six runners from Lipscomb's A-Sun Championship line-up in 2010 return this season, highlighted by talented upperclassmen Ashton Fisher, Isaiah Greer and Ben Fennell.
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Secretaries of State Fighting Misinformation on Twitter
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Illinois Announces Gigabit Broadband Initiative
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April 17, 2012
Philly Police Dept. Embraces Twitter
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April 3, 2012
Cybersecurity: A Holistic Approach
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March 20, 2012
Maryland Seeks Health IT Ideas in New Contest
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March 6, 2012
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February 29, 2012
Electronic Warrants Raise Hawaii's Revenue
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February 7, 2012
Florida's Emails Move to the Cloud
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January 17, 2012
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January 3, 2012
Training Community College Students To Implement Health IT
A Midwestern community college consortium is working to train over 5,000 individuals in supporting electronic health records.
January 1, 2012
Putting Seniors to Work in Aiken, S.C.
In a town with a large population of people older than 65, a program that pairs senior citizens and at-risk kids is reaping benefits for both.
December 6, 2011
Governments Do Google Plus
About a month after Google Plus started offering brand pages, government entities have explored how to use the new platform.
November 15, 2011
Video Surveillance On Demand in Schools
One New York school district installed cameras with eyelids, protecting students' and staffers' well-being and privacy.
November 1, 2011
Maine Resident Brings Tech to Fishermen, Farmers
A recreational lobster fisher will equip local fishermen and farmers with Internet and software, helping them comply with government regulations.
October 31, 2011
Ohio County Demolishes Homes to Remove Blight
A land bank knocks down foreclosed homes to stabilize Cleveland-area neighborhoods -- all at the lender's expense.
October 18, 2011
Google Enhances Wyoming Gov't Operations
Moving to the cloud has let Equality State government employees focus on the mission and not the platform.
October 7, 2011
California's 'Great Realignment'
At a recent Leadership Forum in Sacramento, California leaders discussed recent responsibilities passed down from the state to counties in light of a $10 billion budget deficit.
October 4, 2011
How Intersections Now Sense What Will Zoom By
In Pleasanton, Calif., radar-like sensors can more easily detect bicycle traffic, providing safer crossings for cyclists and motorists.
September 20, 2011
Testing Technology in a Ghost Town
A 20-square-mile town is planned solely to test emerging intelligent and green technologies and innovations -- no inhabitants necessary.
September 6, 2011
Click Here for More Revenue
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August 16, 2011
Shaping Software for a Smarter Portland
City officials in Portland, Ore., and IBM collaborated to create software that can test the outcomes of policy changes before they are implemented.
August 2, 2011
Bridging the Distance in the Texas Panhandle
A new data hub and database, along with new computers, will allow Panhandle law enforcement agencies to share crime data over a 26,000-mile span.
July 19, 2011
Fishing Online for Michigan's Last-Minute Anglers
Anglers can purchase fishing licenses from the state's Department of Natural Resources on the spot if they remember to bring their smartphones along for the trip.
July 5, 2011
Reverse Auctions Help Agencies Save Money
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June 30, 2011
A National Model for Curbing Childhood Obesity
A Massachusetts town's award-winning program that puts healthy choices at the heart of its planning efforts has been mirrored by others around the country.
June 21, 2011
How to Lead in IT Management
The CIO of Texas' Lower Colorado River Authority says don't try to control all the technology in the organization from within a central entity.
June 7, 2011
Maryland's New Chief Innovation Officer Speaks Out
Bryan Sivak speaks about why failure is a necessary part of innovation.
May 31, 2011
Banning Teenagers from Tanning Beds
At the recommendation of doctors and in spite of the tanning industry, California may be the first state to set a precedent on tanning beds.
May 17, 2011
Building a Telemedicine Network in the Sunshine State
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May 3, 2011
Government Transparency: Privacy Please?
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April 29, 2011
Do Smokers Have Privacy Rights?
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April 19, 2011
How Kansas City, Kan., Won Over Google
An overbuilt fiber optic infrastructure and history of strong public-private partnerships made KCK a prime location for Google Fiber.
April 5, 2011
New Governor, New Web Presence
Many newly-elected governors have revamped their web strategies in order to open dialogue between government officials and constituents.
March 31, 2011
Health-Care Reform: To Implement or Not to Implement?
Many question health-care reform's status -- but it's still law, and likely will remain so.
March 15, 2011
The First Months of Code for America
Code for America's City Program Director Alissa Black speaks about transforming government via technology and what to expect in 2012.
March 1, 2011
Plano, Texas, Deploys Citywide Camera Security Platform
Though just in the beginning stages, the system will ultimately let police view feeds from multiple cameras throughout the city.
February 28, 2011
Libraries Now Offering Books and Workouts
Public libraries are now the place to stretch your mind and body.
February 15, 2011
NYC's First Chief Digital Officer Speaks Out
Rachel Sterne, previously a consultant and entrepreneur, aims to make the city more transparent and accessible.
February 1, 2011
Preventing Leaks from the Inside
After an Army intelligence analyst allegedly leaked 260,000 diplomatic cables to the WikiLeaks website, thwarting inside jobs is under the radar.
February 1, 2011
Taking Action on Alzheimer's
The National Alzheimer's Project Act incorporates the state perspective in implementation.
January 18, 2011
Relying on Software to Create Facial Composites
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January 4, 2011
Developing a Sustainability Performance Management Platform
Nine localities will help design an online platform to measure and rate their sustainability efforts.
January 1, 2011
Banning the Happy Meal
Governments take child nutrition into their own hands.
December 21, 2010
Demystifying the Connecticut E-mail Quandary
A policy addressing e-mail retention and disaster recovery raises issues about how electronic correspondence needs to be stored.
December 1, 2010
The Effects of California and Colorado's Immunization Schemes
Two states exempt their kids from vaccinations -- but pertussis is rampant in only one.
November 16, 2010
Combating Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons
Cell phones provide inmates with a connection to the outside world, so prison systems look at legal ways to prevent inmates from making calls while on the inside.
November 1, 2010
California: A National Model for Health Benefit Exchanges?
As states implement health benefit exchanges, they'll likely look west for guidance.
October 19, 2010
Could Technology Save Government $1 Trillion?
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October 1, 2010
Creating User-Friendly Medical Technology
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September 21, 2010
Running Fiber Through the Sewers
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September 1, 2010
NYC Handles the Rise of Bedbugs
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August 17, 2010
Implementing Tech Tools, Not Toys
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July 30, 2010
Minimizing Retiree Health-Care Benefits
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July 20, 2010
Indecent E-Communication?
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June 30, 2010
Health Checkups at the Office
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June 8, 2010
Gathering and Publishing Agency Data
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June 1, 2010
Fixing the Doctor Deficit
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May 1, 2010
The Miami-Dade Diet
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Denver college-bound teen gunned down in drive-by shooting
His mother pictured him in a lot of ways.
Playing violin. Going to college. Practicing medicine or law.
But Josie Davis didn't imagine her 16-year-old son Glenn Taylor lying on a street bleeding to death.
The Manuel High School junior was taking college level classes and getting good grades.
He was enrolled in Metropolitan State College of Denver's Upward Bound program. The program for low-income kids required him to attend classes after school twice a week and attend summer school.
He took challenging classes: zoology, geometry, history and American literature.


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Nothing much here, but I thought I'd share a handy little library to decode WebP in Flash. Here's two demo's : Lena and V for Vendetta, both encoded using the webp binaries provided here.
It's a small wrapper around the WebP library ported with Alchemy. The port is pretty easy to do using Alchemy, aside from some issues with the Alchemy toolchain pretending to be a normal gcc toolchain; it enables some x86 asm code for cpu identification in the webp code, which obviously won't work in Flash. After those issues are resolved getting up and running is easy.
However, I'd figure I'd post this as I have seen several requests for making webp work in Flash.
Although webp decoding isn't there natively om the FlashPlayer, this should help you a long way. Read further for an example on usage and download of the swc.
As for this blog; due to time constraints I find myself not being able to update it regularly, even though I want to. Also, as I do a lot more tech then just Flash these days, I'm looking for a way to post experiments in other technologies, without the daunting task of making a full scale blogpost about it….more on that when I figured it out.
Download webplib.swc.
public class Main extends Sprite { [Embed(source="V.webp", mimeType="application/octet-stream")] private const WebPImageClass:Class; public function Main() { stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE; stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT; init(); } private function init():void { WebPLib.init();//Only needs to be called once. var bitmapData:BitmapData = WebPLib.decode(new WebPImageClass() as ByteArray); addChild(new Bitmap(bitmapData)); } }


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According to a study published this month, physicians estimate that 20.6% of overall medical care is unnecessary. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine interviewed 2,106 doctors from across the United States, asking them about the prevalence and causes of overtreatment.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are being considered as one the key strategies in the next frontier of efforts to improve health care delivery and control health benefit costs. Roughly one in four large employers plan to pursue an ACO strategy in 2017 and that number is expected to grow in the coming years. However, employers have many questions about how ACOs deliver value better than the network models they offer today. To help employers better understand and evaluate ACOs in their markets, two groundbreaking tools have been released by the National Business Group on Health.
You can help the Business Group by supporting The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN), an initiative launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2015 to align stakeholders across sectors in moving payment from traditional fee-for-service (FFS) methods to ones linked to quality and alternative payment models (APMs). The LAN's next initiative will focus on providing support and resources to drive improvement in maternity care outcomes via episode payments.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the Health Care Payment and Learning and Action Network (LAN) in 2015 to align stakeholders across sectors in moving payment from traditional fee-for-service (FFS) methods to one linked to quality via alternative payment models (APMs). The LAN is an unprecedented collaboration of stakeholders from the private, public, and non-profit sectors whose goal is to transform the nation's health system by supporting health care value over volume.
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drpeseau@epracti needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 124 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Logo & Stationary kit for national lending broker working exclusivley with doctors needing loans.
Mediloan and http://www.mediloan.com
Desired Color Scheme:
Open to suggestion, but I see blue, red and green as possibilities.Use one or more, or come up with something better. I am open to suggestion.
Desired Style:
Look at any large, national brand today...FedEx as an example. I have thought that somehow using a stethescope, or a doctor icon in the design might work.
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Mediloan is a web based firm specializing in connecting doctors who need loans, with lenders willing to fill the loans. We have been servicing this industry for years and have chosen and trademarked Mediloan because of it's simplicity and ease of recognition. A complete new Web 2.0 interface (www.mediloan.com)Â is currently under development and all of our market research indicates Mediloan will become the market leader in the medical loan niche.
We are open to any designs. Our preference is a clean, simple, easy to remember look. The stationary designs should be the standard set including business card, envelope,letterhead and mailing label.


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Embodying the creative and independent spirit of youth culture, Volcom was founded on innovation and liberation. They attain success through experimentation and dedication to produce clothing, accessories and rolling gear bags that the entire action sports industry has come to respect.
Volcom began in 1991, where any good idea does, on a chairlift at Tahoe during a massive dumping of snow. The scheme for a clothing company with an attitude of "youth against establishment" echoes the sentiments of a time when board sports were looked down on, LA was rioting, and bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam reigned supreme. After a couple rough years of minimal sales but lots of hyping, Volcom finally burst onto the scene and has forever since been an influential presence.
Their varied product lines enable active young people, with an eye for style, to stay decked out in the highest quality gear no matter what the activity of choice. Volcom flexes their superiority on the mountain every winter with outerwear that dominates whatever the weather throws your way. The One4Zero Jacket and the Metro Cargo Snowboard Pant both feature V-Science materials and keep guys dry and fly without unleashing havoc on the wallets. When the ladies throw on the Ayers Insulated Jacket and the Eiffel Gore-Tex Pant they are treated to a warmth and dryness previously unknown to womankind.
Perhaps the slashing you like to do is more of the ocean variety. Not a problem, because Volcom designs and builds some of the top surf gear on the market. The super flexible Dingo Annihilator Boardshort keeps you comfortable whether you find yourself deep in the tube or getting a little too friendly with the reef. Think all rashguards are the same? Think again, because the Volcom Glued Stone Rashguard Jacket epitomizes the innovative edge Volcom spins into each of their products.
Now, there is no rule that states a man can't wear a dress, but if we are all being honest with ourselves, girls just do it better. It isn't difficult to make Volcom dresses like the Evo Hi-Lo Dress look good. In fact, they might even do you a few favors with their stylish look, comfortable fit, and no apologies sass. Pair up a dress with the Volcom Funday Tote and consider yourself good to go.
Through the crazy beginnings and the important maturation stages that have led Volcom to become the industry leader that they are today, they have never forgotten to stay true to their roots. As they continue to break all the rules in the sportswear and extreme sports arena, Volcom invites you to embrace the same passion, creativity and enthusiasm for life that flows through everything they touch.


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By Scott Petersen
11 October 2010
11 October 2010
Prerequisite knowledge
Familiarity with ActionScript 3 and its object-oriented features as well as familiarity with Flash application development.
User level
Required products
Sample files
- optimize_content_ios.zip (313 KB)
Optimizing code is an important step in the development of just about any application. When it comes to devices such as the Apple iPhone, optimization is even more critical. Since the computing capacity of most mobile devices ranges from about 1/100 to 1/10 that of a modern desktop machine (depending on hardware particulars and the type of computation being performed), even applications that seem to just sip CPU resources on your desktop may run unacceptably slowly on a mobile device.
Memory consumption is a similar story. Not only does your desktop have substantially more physical memory than a typical mobile device, but it is capable of using virtual memory and paging to expand effective its usable memory to several orders of magnitude beyond what is available on a mobile device.
Finally, with reduced computing power, graphical rendering becomes more expensive. Adobe AIR can offload some of the workload to the GPU with OpenGL ES1.1 enabled. However, a fair amount of computation is often required just to keep the GPU busy, especially with a complex display list.
This article presents some general optimization tips as well as some strategies and techniques for dealing with the unique challenges of developing AIR content for iOS devices. You'll be able to see all of the points discussed here in action in the samples.
Before I get into particular strategies and techniques, one aspect of optimization that is often overlooked deserves a mention. Measurement is the key to effective optimization. There is nothing worse than spending a day optimizing a piece of code that you're sure is a bottleneck, only to find out that something totally unrelated was the real culprit. This is even more true of developing AIR content for iOS devices.
It is tempting to think of an iOS device as a slower version of a desktop machine. In reality, the performance characteristics are unique and can sometimes be counterintuitive. Moreover, on iOS devices, ActionScript in an AIR application is not executed by the familiar JIT compiler found in the Flash Player runtime on other platforms. It is compiled to a native iOS executable during development. This precompiled code has performance quirks different from those found in JITted ActionScript. In other words, your application's performance bottlenecks may be different when running on iOS devices versus the desktop.
At this point, the debugging and profiling feature set for iOS is a little light, but when all else fails, use
Many articles have been written about ActionScript performance tuning. The vast majority of general ActionScript optimization techniques will yield benefits on iOS devices. Following are some well-known techniques that are particularly suited to AIR content on iOS devices.
Use type annotations
var x; // wrong! var x:int; // right!
This technique is pretty much a given. It's not unheard of for code to see a five-fold performance increase simply by adding type annotations.
Use static member variables
private const myPI:Number = 2 * Math.acos(0); // wrong! private static const myPI:Number = 2 * Math.acos(0); // right!
When a variable is conceptually associated with a given class and therefore holds identical values for different instances of that class, it should be static. This has several advantages. Static variables are accessible from static functions. They only occupy memory once, not once for every instance of the class. Also, they only need to be initialized once. In the DiceSample app, the descriptions of the various configurations of dots for the various die faces aren't going to be different for different instances of the Die class; therefore, the variable is static:
// description of die faces private static const _dots:String
Like variables, some functions are conceptually associated with classes and not with each instance of a given class. When this is the case, static functions should be used. Nonstatic member functions must be resolved against a particular object. When calling a static function, the exact function can be determined at compile time. This means that no CPU time needs to be spent determining the exact function to call at run time. The DiceSample app uses a static method to draw the various die faces in the Die class:
// create a sprite from each face private static function makeFaces(size:int):Vector.<Sprite>
When a class is not destined for subclassing, it can be marked final. Marking a class final has some of the same performance benefits as static member functions. When a class is final, member functions can no longer be overridden. This allows compile-time determination of the exact function being called in cases when the class of a given object is known and is final. The TruchetSample app has a class TruchetTiles encapsulating a set of graphical tiles. This class is not subclassed and can therefore be marked final:
// Encapsulates a set of colored tiles // http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TruchetTiling.html public final class TruchetTiles
When it is not appropriate to mark an entire class final, but certain methods of the class are never overridden, those individual methods can be marked final. Like final classes, this allows the exact function being called to be determined at compile time. Unlike marking an entire class final, marking a method as final allows this compile-time determination for the marked methods only. The TileView class in the TruchetSample app is not marked final, as it may be useful to subclass it; however, its methods are marked final:
// set the origin of the view; xo and yo are in pixels public final function setOrigin(xo:int, yo:int):void
Event dispatch involves allocation of not just the Event object but various internal data structures to track the event. In many cases where an Event is often used, a Function object can do the same job with less overhead:
public function doSomething() : void { // ... m_evD.dispatchEvent(new Event("done")); } public function doSomethingBetter(whenDone : Function) : void { // ... whenDone(); }
When several handlers need to be aware of Flash events like
MOUSE_DOWN or
ENTER_FRAME, add one listener and have that single listener call several handler methods to inform multiple clients of the event. The Dice sample performs two operations for each event. Instead of listening to
ENTER_FRAME twice, it listens once and uses FunMux, a simple function multiplexing class, to distribute the event to the two clients:
private var enterFrameMux:FunMux = new FunMux; // ... // only one listener for ENTER_FRAME so it only needs // to get dispatched once addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterFrameMux.invoke); // ... // animate dice each frame enterFrameMux.addFun(function():void { // ... animDiceMux.invoke(dur); }); // ... // z sort each frame enterFrameMux.addFun(function():void { zss.sortChildren(); });
One of the most expensive parts of a Flash application is often memory management: that is, allocations and garbage collection. Reusing objects reduces both the amount of time spent allocating objects as well as the amount of time spent determining if objects are garbage that need to be collected:
public function doSomething() : void { var a : Array = new Array(); for (var i : Number = 0; i < aMillion; ++i) { a.length = 0; // Better than: a = new Array(); // ... } }
The Dice sample takes advantage of object reuse in calculating the Matrix3D in the Die class. In
Die.updateMatrix(), the existing Matrix3D is "reset" using
Matrix3D.identity() and reused rather than regenerated from whole cloth.
While script optimization does yield benefits, you must also consider rendering performance if you want to optimize your iOS app to the fullest. Consider the following techniques, which aren't generally well known, since as they apply to AIR with GPU acceleration turned on.
Note: In the iPhone OS publish settings dialog box in Flash Professional CS5, there is a rendering selector that includes Auto, CPU, and GPU. When GPU is selected, some rendering operations will be GPU-accelerated—generally those that make use of bitmap operations. If CPU is selected, no GPU rendering will be used. Select CPU mode only if you encounter behavior, performance, or compatibility problems when running in GPU mode.
With OpenGL ES 1.1 enabled, some of the drawing workload is moved from the CPU to the GPU. Maximizing the amount of work done by the GPU can radically improve the performance of an application. Following are some features that GPU hardware accelerates well.
One of the most interesting features of the Adobe AIR rendering model is the intuitive 3D feature. 3D Sprites—that is, Sprites that have gone into "3D mode" as a result of having their
rotationY, or
Z properties set—have two characteristics that make them interesting from a performance perspective.
First, a rasterization of any given 3D Sprite is cached as a bitmap. This means that it is not re-rasterized every frame. Moreover, that cached bitmap is maintained across 2D and 3D transforms. So changing, say, the rotation or scale of a 3D Sprite does not result in a re-rasterization. Further, this cached bitmap will be maintained in video memory as a texture, minimizing bandwidth between the CPU and GPU.
Second, 3D Sprites use the GPU to do the final 3D transform and compositing. This frees the CPU from having to do all of the computation required to transform and render the Sprite with the 3D matrix applied.
The DiceSample app makes use of the AIR 3D feature to generate a simulation of dice bouncing around a virtual box. It performs well and it's simple due to the simplicity of the AIR 3D feature. Start to finish, it's under 500 lines of commented ActionScript code, with the core Die class being under 200.
Bitmap objects are GPU-accelerated as well. Their image data is maintained in video memory as textures. For
cacheAsBitmap and
cacheAsBitmapMatix Sprite objects, the individual Sprite's cached image data becomes a texture. For Bitmap objects, the Bitmap's BitmapData is represented by a texture. This distinction is important. It means that if multiple Bitmap objects are on the display list, but they all have the same BitmapData object, they will only require one texture in video memory. As with 3D Sprites, final compositing of these objects is performed by the GPU.
The TruchetSample app uses a grid of Bitmap objects and a "map" of BitmapData objects to implement a simple, tile-based scrolling engine. The sample uses a tiling of 128 unique BitmapData objects to realize a 16000 × 16000 pixel (almost 67 square feet on a 163 ppi iPhone) image.
When building AIR applications for iOS, an additional DisplayObject property is available. The property goes by
cacheAsBitmapMatix in the Labs release, but it is likely to undergo a name change before the API is finalized.
cacheAsBitmapMatix property is conceptually similar to
cacheAsBitmap; that is, setting this property to
true on a DisplayObject ensures that a cached bitmap of the DisplayObject is retained across certain operations. For
cacheAsBitmap, the cached bitmap is retained across translations (changes in x or y) only. The
cacheAsBitmapMatix property retains a cached bitmap across changes in translation, rotation, scaling, and alpha. The cached bitmap is maintained in video memory as a texture. Rotation, scaling, and alpha transforms are performed by the GPU at composite time.
The ShapesSample app creates and animates a number of Sprite objects. By setting the
cacheAsBitmapMatix property, the app uses the GPU to do most of the heavy lifting required to render each frame.
You can get some additional tips, tricks, and under-the-hood information by watching the MAX 2009 conference session that I shared with Chris Brichford: Optimizing Flash content for iPhone applications.
Check out this series of articles to help you learn more about developing for iOS using Flash Professional:
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