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by Joe Ward
10 June 2010
When you turn off system chrome for a window, you gain tremendous creative possibilities, but you also lose the automatic management of window size, position, and display state that the operating system provides for standard windows. The Custom Chrome example application, shown in Figure 1, illustrates how to leverage some of the creative advantages of providing your own chrome and how to replace the window management services that are no longer provided by the operating system.
Note: This is a sample application provided, as is, for instructional purposes.
This sample application includes the following files:
- CustomChrome.as: The main application file in ActionScript.
- chrome/Chrome.as:Defines the properties and functions used to lay out the chrome elements based on the current window size.
- chrome/Background.as:Extends the Chrome class to draw the window background.
- chrome/ContentArea.as:Extends the Chrome class to define the main drawing area in the window.
- buttons/CloseButton.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement a close button.
- buttons/MaxButton.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement a maximize button.
- buttons/MinButton.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement a minimize button.
- buttons/RestoreButton.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement a restore button.
- buttons/gfx/*.png:The images used for the buttons
- handles/TopChrome.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement the top drag handle.
- handles/BottomChrome.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement the bottom drag handle.
- handles/GripperChrome.as:Extends the Chrome class to implement resize gripper.
- handles/gfx/*.png:The images used for the handles.
- application/LissajousFigure.as:Draws a simple animation that changes based on the dimensions of the window.
- CustomChrome-app.xml:The AIR application descriptor file.
- Sample AIR icon files
The application descriptor file, CustomChrome-app.xml, uses the AIR 1.0 namespace. If you are compiling the application using Flex Builder 3.0.2 or Flex SDK 3.2 or later, edit the file to use the AIR 1.5 namespace:
Otherwise, you will not be able to test or package the application.
Types of chrome
The Custom Chrome example uses four general types of window chrome:
- buttons: SimpleButton objects and mouse-click events to close, maximize, minimize, and restore the window.
- move handles: Bitmap-based Sprites and mouse-down events to allow moving the window.
- resize grippers: Bitmap-based Sprite and the mouse-down event to allow resizing the window. The Custom Chrome example only implements resizing from the bottom-right corner, but AIR supports resizing from each edge and corner of a window.
- background: Draws an irregular background using a Sprite object and vector drawing commands.
Installing and testing the application
The Custom Chrome application is intentionally simple. The intent is to show you the basics of how to implement custom window chrome.
To test the application, download and run the application installer (CustomChrome.air). You can maximize, minimize, and restore the window; drag it around the desktop; and resize it. Right-click in the window to open a source code browser in a new window.
Understanding the code
To code a window in AIR that does not use system chrome, you can either use Flex chrome with the mx:Window and mx:WindowedApplication components, or code your own chrome. This example demonstrates how to add your own chrome using the Flash APIs for drawing bitmap and vector graphics. This article does not describe all of the ActionScript classes used in the application. For information on these, see the Flex 3 Language Reference.
Initializing the Window
The CustomChrome class extends the Sprite class so that it can be used as the root class in the application SWF file. AIR automatically creates the window, instantiates an instance of the CustomChrome class, and adds the CustomChrome object to the window stage.
The CustomChrome constructor adds an event listener to detect when it has been added to the stage. The handler for the
addedToStage event, gets the window instance using the
nativeWindow property of the stage, and initializes the window properties.
Note: You may notice that you can access the stage directly from the class constructor without waiting for the
addedToStage event. However, this can be a bad habit to get into since it is only true for the main Sprite class in the initial window of an AIR application.
Initialization tasks include:
- Adding event listeners for the basic window events:
Custom Chrome uses these events to reposition and redraw the window chrome elements when the window is resized and also to control which elements to display for a particular window display state.
- Setting the stage properties:
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
Setting the stage alignment to
topLeft means that the x and y coordinates of all sprites added to the window are initialized to (0,0). Setting the stage scaling mode to
noScale prevents the stage from scaling as the window is resized. Since the stage doesn't scale, the contents of the window are clipped when the window is resized smaller unless the contents are repositioned and redrawn.
- Adding the chrome:
addChildAt() method is used to explicitly set the depth ordering of the sprites used for the chrome elements. (If
addChild() is used, then the depth is set implicitly according to the order in which the sprites are added to their container.) Because Custom Chrome hides both the
bottomChrome and
gripperChrome sprites when the window is maximized, these sprites are grouped in the same container,
bottomGroup, so that their visibility can be controlled with a single property:
Defining the chrome elements
Custom Chrome defines a Chrome class to serve as the base class for all the chrome elements.
The constructor for the Chrome class takes a rectangle to define the chrome placement and size, a string defining how to anchor the control to the window border, and an optional function reference used to attach the chrome element to its related control function. For example, the Close button is defined with the following declaration:
private var closeButton:CloseButton =
new CloseButton(new Rectangle(65,8,0,0), 'TR', onCloseCommand)
The control is anchored to the window border according to the
anchorType parameter. A value of "TR" specifies that the control is anchored to the top-right corner.
Button chrome
To implement the buttons for controlling the window state, Custom Chrome extends the Chrome class and adds a SimpleButton object as a child of the chrome element. The images for the button states are loaded by the button chrome class. Each button chrome class also adds the event listener and passes the
offset and the
anchorType parameters to the Chrome super class.
Move handle and resize gripper chrome
To implement the move handles and resize grippers, Custom Chrome extends the Chrome base class and adds the chrome image as a child. PNG files are used for the images so that transparent areas can be defined. The transparent areas of the image don't capture mouse events.
To draw the background, Custom Chrome extends the Chrome base class and adds a
draw() method to perform the vector drawing. To call the
draw() method, the Background class overrides the base class
layout() method.
Allowing cancelation of window operations
When a window uses system chrome, user interaction with the window can be canceled by listening for and canceling the default behavior of the relevant event. For example, when a user clicks the system chrome close button, the
closing event is dispatched. If any registered listener calls the
preventDefault() method of the event, then the window will not close.
When a window does not use system chrome, notification events for window changes like resizing or closing are not automatically dispatched. Hence, if you call the methods for closing a window, changing the window display state, or set any of the window bounds properties, the change cannot be canceled. To notify components in your application before a window change is actually made, your application logic can dispatch the appropriate notification event using the
dispatchEvent() method of the window. For example, the following logic implements a cancelable event handler for a window close button:
public function onCloseCommand(event:MouseEvent):void{
var closing:Event = new Event(Event.CLOSING,true,true);
Note: Although the
dispatchEvent() method returns false if the event
preventDefault() method is called by a listener, it can also return false for other reasons. It is better to explicitly use the
isDefaultPrevented() method to test whether the window change should be canceled.
Resizing and moving a window
Calling the
startResize() or
startMove() methods of a window starts a system-mediated window change. The user's mouse or keyboard actions are used to change the window bounds. In this case, each incremental change is preceded by an automatically generated moving or resizing event. If any listeners cancel these events, the move or resize sequence is terminated and no further changes are made to the window.
Custom Chrome uses the following functions to start a resize and move:
public function onMoveCommand(event:MouseEvent):void{
public function onResizeCommand(event:MouseEvent):void{
When a window is moved, its contents move with it (as you would expect), but when a window is resized, the situation is more complicated. The default behavior of a window depends on the stage scale mode. If the scale mode is anything except,
noScale, then the stage and its contents are scaled when the window is resized. This means that any buttons or other chrome you add to your window are also scaled, which may not be a desirable effect. On the other hand, when you use the
noScale mode, your chrome won't be scaled, but then it won't be moved along with the resized window borders either. If you resize a window smaller, your chrome could be clipped. If you resize the window larger from the top edge, your title bar could be left in the middle.
The CustomChrome example solves this problem by drawing its chrome relative to the window corners, and redrawing whenever the window dispatches a
resize event. Each chrome element listens for the
resize event through an event listener added by the base Chrome class:
stage.nativeWindow.addEventListener(NativeWindowBoundsEvent.RESIZE, onWindowResize);
When the event is received, the chrome element sets its position and size based on the
afterBounds property of the event object:
private function onWindowResize(boundsEvent:NativeWindowBoundsEvent):void{
public function layout(bounds:Rectangle):void{
Note: If you are using Flex components, the automatic layout features of the framework already solve this problem.
Controlling the window display state
The window display state can be controlled using the
minimize(), and
restore() methods of the NativeWindow object. To allow other components to prepare for the change, Custom Chrome dispatches a
displayStateChanging event before changing the display state:
public function onMaximizeCommand(event:MouseEvent):void{
var displayStateChanging:NativeWindowDisplayStateEvent =
new NativeWindowDisplayStateEvent(
NativeWindowDisplayStateEvent.DISPLAY_STATE_CHANGING, true, true);
The command to change the display state and the process of updating the size and position of the chrome elements is decoupled. Custom Chrome listens for the
displayStateChange event to detect a change in display state and the
resize event to detect a change in window size.
Closing the window
CustomChrome closes the window using the
close() method of the NativeWindow object. To allow other components to prepare for the change, Custom Chrome dispatches a
closing event before closing the window:
public function onCloseCommand(event:MouseEvent):void{
var closing:Event = new Event(Event.CLOSING,true,true);
Creating Custom Chrome as an MXML application
Although Custom Chrome is programmed entirely in ActionScript, you can also achieve the same ends using the Flex framework. To do this, define a
mx:WindowedApplication component for the main window with the following properties:
<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
You could then define MXML components for the chrome elements. The Flex Framework makes it much easier to lay out components, so many of the issues involving tracking the window resizing events and repositioning or redrawing the chrome elements can be handled automatically. For example, instead of storing an anchor point value for a button, you could use the Flex-defined layout properties right and top, to place it relative to the window border:
<mx:Button label="Button" right="10" top="10"/>
Note: You cannot add a Sprite object as a child of a Flex component. You must either change the class of the Sprite to UIComponent (which itself extends Sprite), or add the Sprite as a child of a UIComponent object and add the UIComponent instance as a child of the Flex component.
Prerequisite knowledge
General experience of building applications with Flex Builder is suggested. For more details on getting started with this Quick Start, refer to Building the Quick Start sample applications with Flex.
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I believe in God. I hope in God. I love God.
I want to live and die for God.
Prayer of Venerable Mother Henriette Delille
After her parents died Henrietta used her inheritance to buy a house which she used as a school to teach religion to free blacks and poor whites. She was assisted in this regard by a French immigrant priest, Père Etienne Rousselon, and her friend, Juliette Gaudin. Later, another free woman of color, Josephine Charles, join in the effort.
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There are some who object to characterization of Venerable Mother Delille as the first "African-American" or black potential saint. They claim that she was not a black woman but a "Creole."
The term Creole with respect to people in Louisiana has several divergent meanings, all of which arise from the racialist need to classify people. It was the same "need" that led to the so-called "one drop rule." Under that rule, Henrietta Delille is certainly a black woman. In any event, she self-identified as "nonwhite."
This dispute illustrates our continuing human failure to see life the way God wants us to see it. It illustrates as well the conundrum of "race" in America. As Catholics we all want to celebrate the holy life of a good person. On the other hand, tucked into our little human-defined niches, we don't want others to take what we believe is ours. I know that the ways of God are but a mystery to us but somehow I feel certain that in welcoming Henrietta Delille to his kingdom he didn't turn around account and see how many blacks, whites or Creoles were already there.
C. Davis, Henriette Delille, Servant of Slaves, Witness to the Poor," (Sisters of the Holy Family,New Orleans 2004)
Answers.com: Henriette Delille (2012) http://www.answers.com/topic/henriette-delille
National Black Catholic Congress, Mother Henrietta Delille, http://www.nbccongress.org/black-catholics/mother-henriette-delille-famous-blacks.asp


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UEFI Boot
At the time of writing Sabayon cannot boot EFI Systems from USB sticks.
E.g. the EeePC Asus 1215b does only boot from (U)EFI capable usb sticks.
In the older days the bios booted an usb stick if it complied to the El Torito Bootable CD Specification. Newer systems, like the iBook or some EeeePcs, implement a different specification.
Here are a few links to get you started what (U)EFI is all about:
The current Sabayon ISO install images are made bootable with the syslinux project. Since there is no efi compatibility in syslinux the following howto uses grub2 to create a bootable image.
grub2 bootimages
The following procedure was tested on an x86 64bit system. The directory names are different on 32bit systems!
Given that the existing grub2 packages are not capable of creating efi images, we have to build one ourselves. (TODO: Create gentoo ebuilds and entropy packages...)
First we need to download a grub2 version with efi support: grub-1.99.tar.gz
Unpack the sources somewhere and invoke the following commands to build a local grub2 installation:
# cd grub-1.99 # ./autogen.sh # export EFI_ARCH=x86_64 # ./configure --prefix=/home/someuser/local/grub2 --with-platform=efi --target=${EFI_ARCH} --program-prefix="" # make # make install
create an grub2 efi boot image
For some reasons the local grub2 installation does only work if you're inside the following directory:
The grub-mkimage command creates the desired grub2 boot image:
# ../../../bin/grub-mkimage -Ox86_64-efi -d . -o BOOTX64.EFI -p "" part_gpt part_msdos ntfs ntfscomp hfsplus fat ext2 normal chain boot configfile linux multiboot
Next we need to create a font in pf2 format. Most documents use the unifont.pf2. If you don't have this file on your system you can use the grub-mkfont utility to create such a font. Download the PCF version of unifont from http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html, e.g. unifont-5.1.20080820.pcf.gz. Then use grub-mkfont to convert it:
# wget http://unifoundry.com/unifont-5.1.20080820.pcf.gz # gunzip unifont-5.1.20080820.pcf.gz # grub2/bin/grub-mkfont -o unifont.pf2 unifont-5.1.20080820.pcf
preparing the USB stick
The USB has to be formatted with a GUID Partition Table (GPT). Furthermore you must create a partition with the "boot" flag on. The program gparted is great to create such a partition scheme, but you may not have Xorg installed, so here are the steps for the console variant parted:
Let's assume the usb stick is registered under /dev/sdc:
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Now create a fat32 filesytem on the new usb partition:
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Mount the new system, e.g. under /mnt/usb:
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
installing the grub2 efi image
First create the directory from where an efi system will search for bootable images. The filesystem must be supported by the boot system, so we choose fat32 (nerds forgive us), because it is almost always supported:
# mkdir -p /mnt/usb/efi/BOOT
In the first step we created a grub2 efi image named BOOTX64.EFI under:
Out of this directory we copy the efi image along with all needed grub2 modules to efi/BOOT:
# cp BOOTX64.EFI *.mod *.lst /mnt/usb/efi/BOOT # cp unifont.pf2 /mnt/usb/efi/BOOT
Next we need to gather the kernel sources from a Sabayon ISO image and write a grub configuration file. Go to sabayon.org and download the file:
Mount this image, e.g. under /mnt/cdrom and copy all necessary file to the usb stick still mounted under /mnt/usb:
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 Sabayon_Linux_7_amd64_G.iso /mnt/cdrom # cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/sabayon /mnt/usb/ # cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/sabayon.igz /mnt/usb/ # cp /mnt/cdrom/livecd.squashfs /mnt/usb/
Inside the /mnt/usb/efi/BOOT directory create a grub configuration file to boot the sabayon kernel:
# cat > grub.cfg << EOF timeout=10 default=0 insmod efi_gop insmod efi_uga insmod font if loadfont efi/BOOT/unifont.pf2 then insmod gfxterm set gfxmode=auto set gfxpayload=keep terminal_output gfxterm fi menuentry "Sabayon" { root=(hd1,1) linux /sabayon root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/sabayon.igz aufs init=/linuxrc cdroot cdroot_type=udf looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs splash=silent,theme:sabayon vga=791 console=tty1 quiet installer-gui -- initrd /sabayon.igz } EOF
The kernel parameters for the grub menuentry are taken from the syslinux configuration file (isolinux/text.cfg) which you can find inside the Sabayon_Linux_7_amd64_G ISO image.
NOW you can unmount the usb stick and boot from it.
What's next?? Figure out, why the systems shows the grub2 menu, boots the kernel, begins preparing the installation, but stops after a while with the following error message:
>> Determining root device... !! Could not find the root block device in . Please specifiy another value or: press Enter for the same, type "shell" for a shell, or "q" to skip... root block device() ::
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Older pets have dementia at increasing rate
Better veterinary care and nutrition has led to an increase in the senior pet population, a Massachusetts veterinarian says, but the downside is that vets are seeing more animals with dementia.
Thomas M. Burns, hospital director of Cape Cod Veterinary Associates, told the website SouthCoastToday.com that while strange behavior may be caused by underlying medical conditions, the family pet could also be suffering from dementia, or cognitive dysfunction as the condition is called in veterinary medicine.
The signs are usually very noticeable.
Your dog might wake up in the middle of the night and pace back and forth in a frenzy.
Your cat might scratch in its litter box, and then relieve itself on the kitchen floor.
Burns said there is no known cause of this progressive disease. The list of possible sources reads like a medical textbook.


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Soundtrack2 Ep. 98: Still Lost
Bear In Heaven, White Rabbits, Drowner, Vibravoid, Bishop Morocco & more
1. White Rabbits – Temporary
Boom! I'm guilty of loving electronic rock like this, straight out of the Phoenix school.
2. Beach Fossils – Shallow
Chiming guitar pop of the Real Estate variety. Lots of this stuff coming out of Brooklyn nowadays.
3. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Helium
Recently I heard someone describe music as fitting into one of two categories: sounding like New Order and not sounding like New Order. I'd put this hazy electronic track in the latter category, with a bit of 8-bit thrown in.
4. Bear In Heaven – Sinful Nature
The track of the week is off I Love You, It's Cool out April 3. And it's killer.
5. She's So Rad – Sinful Nature
If you like pounding electronica with layers of guitar and synth, crank this.
6. Vibravoid – Save My Soul
Their website calls them "Europe's #1 psychedelic and acid rock band." This track is proof.
7. Lazyflux – Trail Blazers
Eastern-tinged psychedelic folktronica out of the UK.
8. Bishop Morocco – Melt My Mind
Local Toronto boys drop a gem off their latest album.
9. Drowner – Tiny Ship
Slow-building beauty that just explodes! Best thing to ever come out of Houston?
10. West Indian Girl – Still Lost
Nice ethereal groove from a few years back. Wasn't sure if they're still around, but their Twitter account says an album is in the works.
11. The Magnetic Fields – Heroes
One of my favourite David Bowie tunes gets a superb, pretty faithful cover here. Minus the screaming…kind of a shame.
12. The Beta Band – Needles In My Eyes
Chill psych classic off the Scottish band's 3 EPs. Way more than the sum of its guitar, drums and organ parts.
13. Los Ingenieros Alemanes – (por el) Teorema de Gauss
This Madrid band does the best Built To Spill impression I've heard.
14. Big Sugar – Wild Ox Moan
A Low-like classic from the band's early bluesy days. Complete with yodelling and amazing guitar/falsetto vox solo.
15. Kontakte – Life's Road Movies
First you're floating in space, then you're jumping on your bed playing air guitar.


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- It's a deterrent to crime.
- It can aid in the identification of lost or stolen bicycles.
- It enables the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management to plan more accurately for improved bicycle parking and bicycle safety around the Ithaca College campus.
Bicycle registration at IC is cost-free and easy. Fill out the information on the form below and click Submit. Once we receive your information, your registration sticker will be mailed to your campus/local address or you may pick it up at the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management during normal business hours Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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A new report here, from Louisa and Kent.
Much of it may be "mind blowing" to some. Each one talks from their own unique perspective. Just remember, not all of this may resonate with everyone. My viewpoint is, use one's own discernment, and "Take the best, leave the rest".
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I get invited to speak to a lot of US Transition groups, and often I go. Often the leaders are blog readers, sometimes people I know through the internet, often future-friends. While every talk is different, they have some real similarities. Whether speaking in a suburb of Maryland, a large city in Ohio or to a coalition of rural towns in Virginia, I know that some things will probably happen.
I will meet wonderful, kind hosts who will put me up in their guest room and on their couch. I will most likely speak at a Unitarian Church (although I have spoken in many, many different kinds of venues including Churches of many denominations, synagogues, Grange Halls, Public Libraries, Town Halls, Public Parks and other venues, Unitarian Churches by far predominate.)
The audience will be warm, welcoming and attentive. The average age of the audience will be at least a decade older than me and often much more (50s, usually.) The audience will be largely or exclusively white (although I have also spoken to a very few impressive urban transition groups that are neither) and middle class. Before my talk a long list of committees and administrative tasks will be discussed, and we will welcome many co-sponsors of my talk from local resources that tend strongly towards the middle-class progressive.
After my talk on food issues, oil and climate issues, transportation, etc… (depending on what they've asked me to speak on), someone will raise their hand and say how wonderful it is that the audience is of X size, but how do we get the message out to everyone else, and why are there only white middle class people in the audience? Odds are I will have already had this conversation two or three times with the leaders of the group or others involved also. They will point out that they have done outreach and advertising, movie nights, etc… and it still seems to be mostly attracting the same group of people – older white people with money to spare.
When these questions are asked, I find myself giving a number of answers over and over again. Some of them I have rather frequently written about here, for example:
1. Most people do not hire babysitters/come out on a freezing/raining/frying (insert your climate here) evening after work unless they are going to have some fun. There is a comparatively limited number of people who think watching documentaries about oil extraction or climate change is fun. There are a comparatively limited number of people who think coming out to hear someone who wrote a book (even four or five books, even if she's as fun as I am ) is a good time. Want to get people out? Throw a party. Offer beer. Have a local food tasting and cooking class. Get someone to show you how to do something fun and useful. Dance. Have music. Offer babysitting. Do something FUN. In the INTERSTICES of fun, tell them about climate change or peak oil.
2. Use the Church Model. This is not religious, but it is something I've been working on for years, trying to point out why more people join churches than Environmental groups, and why even very energized movements often die out much more quickly than institutions like Churches. When you go to a Church (or synagogue or whatever) you are offered something. There's babysitting and Sunday school for the kids, often social networking for the parents, cookies and wine afterwards, a chance to meet people in the community, quiet and pretty music. After you go for a while, you might be asked to contribute to support the church or you might be asked to sit on the building committee, but no one says "Hey, come join us for the building committee meeting and discuss the failures of our roofing, and then stay for the service." You get the good stuff FIRST. How many times have I seen a Transition group leader pass around to new people a chance to sign up for the equivalent of the Building committee BEFORE they've had any other positive experiences.
3. I will say this as many times as it takes. For the people who are already dealing with the consequences of volatile energy prices, climate change and economic insecurity, asking them to get together to use their time and resources to help build resilience to something that hasn't happened yet is a bad idea – and kind of insulting. If you don't have anything to offer people who are already struggling with these issues, they will not come. As long as this is framed as preparing for some abstract future collapse, only people who think thinking about things getting worse is either useful or productive will come. So folks who don't like thinking about bad things and folks who already have plenty of bad things in their lives will stay home. If, however, you have positive resources to offer people who need help NOW, they will come, and offer help to others.
4. You do not have to agree about most stuff to work together. Most Transition Groups I have encountered focus on framing the issue early on, and pretty much eliminate anyone from membership who does not share their underlying premises. Often people fail to grasp what you DO need in common in order to work together and spend a lot of time filtering out people who don't agree. Do you have to agree on gay marriage to work on local food systems? Nope, you just have to agree that you want local food and that the nice gay couple and the religious conservative ones will focus on food, not marriage. Do you have to agree on gun control to work on local food systems? Nope, you just have to agree that you want local food and be skillful at keeping your focus. Do you have to agree on the REASONS why we need local food? Nope, you absolutely do not. If your neighbor is storing food for the rapture, the ones down the street because folks in their neighborhood are already going hungry and they expect it will only get worse and you are doing it because of climate-change induced drought, well, you've got a coalition, if you can keep the focus where it needs to be. This takes skillful LEADERSHIP and a commitment to not judging people as evil because they disagree with you. Those are both REALLY important skill sets for harder times, so cultivate them.
5. Leadership, leadership, leadership. Just because someone is willing to do the boring work of making flyers does not mean they can lead. Leadership is a job, and it is one worth doing right (note, I am not criticizing people who lead not out of natural aptitude but because there is no one else – I've done that myself, but spend your energies finding the right person while you do it!). I don't mean this in a bad way, but honestly, charismatic leadership is probably the biggest difference I see between groups that bring out 25 people and those that bring out 400. Charismatic leaders good at outreach and expansion are rare, but you probably have one in your midst. Then you have to cultivate him/her, and commit to providing the best person with the kind of support they would need to do the job. 90% of the time, I can tell you how active a group will be when I meet the official or unofficial leaders. That goes double for attracting people who are not obvious candidates for membership.
I've written variations on this before, I've also given this speech at talks before, but I've decided to add another suggestion, at least for US Transition groups (and the like, there are other non-Transition PO and Climate Groups to whom this applies equally, but whether official or unofficial, the word "Transition" in the majority of group names).
If you are SERIOUS about wanting to increase the diversity of your membership in terms of age, class and race, wanting to make your future communities more secure, wanting to expand local food and employment opportunities, wanting to do outreach into minority communities and offer something to those already hardest hit by the early stages of our society's crash, I'd recommend one particular access point – find ways for your group to work with recently released prison inmates in your community.
Why prison inmates? Why not poor single Moms or homeless veterans or (as is the American general perception) For Cripes Sake ANYONE but prison inmates who are bad people who deserve nothing at all from us?
The answer? Because it needs doing, and you are going to have to do it eventually. It might also be the right and compassionate thing to do, but that's not the only reason. The fact is that at any given time the US has more than 2 MILLION inmates. The enormous cost of the prison industry – in energy used for confinement and transport of prisoners, in economic costs – are not sustainable into the future. Sooner or later, as Dmitry Orlov first pointed out in _Reinventing Collapse_ we're going to stop imprisoning such an enormous portion of the US population.
Your community ALREADY has a population of men and women (mostly men) who go in and out of prison, and when out, have no jobs, few resources, and eventually commit crimes (sometimes with the intent of getting back in prison, which has the virtue of familiarity, food, shelter and heat, unlike their daily lives.) We send them to prison in lieu of social welfare programs, which in some countries would treat mental illness or addiction as a medical condition, not a crime, but don't save any money on the deal. When a warm bed and a meal are not an option, given no other alternatives, those folks will not stop committing crimes and making your life a lot harder.
Come a point at which we can no longer afford the tremendous costs of our prison programs (rapidly approaching) those folks will be living in your neighborhood. They will not be less mentally ill, less traumatized or less addicted, they will simply no longer have jail as a convenient way to keep them off the streets and not to count them in the unemployment rolls. They will simply be your neighbors. What kind of neighbors do you want?
That means it is time to start getting neighborly. Because what we do know is that community support makes a huge difference between going back to prison (remember, not always going to be an option) and becoming a more settled part of the community. As sociologists suggest, there is a pattern to cutting into criminal recidivism, even if it isn't perfect:
The few inmates who do reintegrate without much difficulty, who are best positioned to deal with the psychological effects of the transition, have the "big three" in place: they have a job lined up or find one quickly (e.g., through a trade union they previously worked with); they have housing (often with a relative or through a social-service program); and they have access to healthcare and treatment for substance-abuse and mental-health issues as necessary. The most effective reentry programs address these factors, and Western recommends directing more resources their way.
One more factor that can tip the odds is a mentor. Anthony Braga, M.P.A. '02, a senior research fellow in the HKS program and chief policy adviser to Boston's police commissioner, found that this was the key feature of the successful Boston Reentry Initiative. A joint project of local, state, and federal government, it matches each inmate being released with a mentor from a community organization. Braga, a longtime lecturer at Harvard who is now a professor at Rutgers, found that high-risk offenders who participated in the program and received mentoring took 30 percent longer to end up back in prison, and their offenses were far less likely to be violent crimes when they were rearrested. He says these results "show that you can make inroads and start getting them away from the pressures that lead them to falling back into their old ways." (But Western notes that keeping expectations modest is important: "Some of the most successful reentry programs," he says, "only reduce recidivism by 10 percent.")
Jerry does have a mentor, his case worker at the shelter, a woman he calls "an angel." Most recently, when his state-paid health insurance was canceled in error, she helped him get it reinstated. Not all former prisoners have advocates like this, notes Catherine Sirois '10, the project manager for Western's study; most are released into a piecemeal system where the assistance they receive relies on "luck, not a plan."
It is tremendously difficult to get and keep and job if you are one of the large portion of black men in this society who have a history with the US criminal justice system. And that starts early – minority men who drop out of high school and never get a degree are enormously likely to end up in prison. The vicious circle – impoverished, minority, hard to employ, into prison, even less employable, even poorer and more desperate….goes on and on unless someone breaks it. It is traditional for Americans to cut off our noses to spite our faces on these subjects – even if it would make our communities safer and our neighborhoods nicer, we don't like to give help to people who are not "deserving" so we mostly don't, and we build more prisons. But knowing that there won't be more prisons and prison industry forever should give us the boost we need.
Disproportionally, inmates are not white. Moreover, not only they but their families need support. In many low-income urban communities near you, there's hardly a family without someone in prison, often over long distances, often impoverishing everyone in the family still further, often making it harder for their kids and their parents. You want to make people sit up and pay attention to your message about collapse – well, get down on the ground and meet a need that isn't being met. Help arrange sustainable transport for visiting day. Help provide non-judgemental resource support for the wives and girlfriends and kids and parents left behind who no one cares about because their loved ones did something bad.
You want to reinvigorate local food systems and the local economy – how about helping work on projects that will find jobs for both former inmates and those who are most at risk – the low income, high school dropouts in your community. Think about Catherine Sneed's Prison Garden program, for example. What else does your community need skilled labor in – local food production, making locally produced goods, tool repair – how will those businesses come about? Who will work in them? It probably won't be retired, affluent baby boomers – so how about investing in local work for those who aren't going to college, but who have gifts with their hands and minds that haven't been fully utilized. The kinds of mentorship mentioned above are something that members of Transition groups could provide – along with a welcome into the community at large.
Is this easy stuff? Absolutely not. Is it sometimes risky, likely to bring about moments of painful culture clash, occasionally probably a little dangerous, much harder than showing another peak oil movie, and will it fail sometimes? Yup. Does it require you to ask who is really a part of your community, and what you want the future to look like, not in an idealized space, but in the real one we all inhabit. Yeah. Is it going to stretch you way out of your comfort zone? Absolutely. If you do it, and you do it well, will it change everything about how others see your relevance and your commitment? Yeah, I think it might.
Climate change is going to stretch you hard too. So will peak oil. So will the economic grind. So if you aren't prepared to make space NOW, when things are comparatively good to reach out to the most despised, hardest hit people in your community, when will you be? Because those folks are there now, and they'll be there afterwards, and you are going to have to ask the question "What is my relationship to these people" sooner or later. So ask now, and try and make it the one you want.
The prison population is just one issue – it is a good one if you need a place to start, but there may be other places in your community where people are struggling, and those struggles are going to spill over hard into your future. So next time someone asks me this question, I've got a new answer. It isn't because I don't think the old one was wrong or not true, but it didn't go far enough. Yes, throw a party. Yes, nurture new leadership. Yes make it fun. But also, find a lever for changing the future by changing the now. If you want to change the world, and you want to make the community you live in into the one you want to live in through very tough times, go to where things are toughest. Pick the place where the people you want to reach need you most, and do the hardest work you can think of right now that will help you now and help you in the future. Then go to the next toughest place and do the next hardest work. And onwards. And onwards.


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That card is the new Sapphire HD 7970 Dual-X card that features switchable dual BIOS chips, and dual cooling fans all on one PCB for maximum cooling and overclock stability. Sapphire one of the premiere AMD partners and a company that not only makes GPUs, they now also have their own line of motherboards based on a variety of industry standard chipsets both Intel and AMD surprisingly. Many people don't know this little insider secret, but Sapphire now has most of the design team from EVGA who made such classic boards for them in the past. Enough of that though, lets jump in and see just what this new card is all about.


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Have you ever been chatting online and gotten all sad and distant and wish your chat buddy could hug you? Or wanted to feel someone's heart race with rage via the internet? Well, intrepid science guinea pigs, wish no further.
Sometimes, the future is awesome, giving us things we didn't know we needed. And then sometimes it gives us hugging via IM-controlled suspenders.
Thanks to iFeel_IM — invented by Dzmitry Tsetserukou, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan — your dreams of not really occupying the same meatspace as your buddy but still sharing a physical experience can come true.
iFeel_IM is a assortment of motors, sensors, and speakers that's stitched into what looks like the straps of a backpack. According to Tsetserukou, "I am looking to create a deep immersive experience, not just a vibration in your shirt triggered by an SMS. Emotion is what give communication life." It can simulate hugs, shivers down the spine, and "realistic" hugs. But nothing sexual; apparently, Tsetserukou didn't want to distract from his "emotion boosting" goal.
Which means that no one will buy it.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Jeff Elorriaga scored 22 points to lead Boise State over Texas-Arlington 64-46 on Wednesday night, extending the Broncos winning streak to five games.
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Who among us doesn't have a few old-school record albums squirreled away in the closet somewhere? Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass with the naked woman covered in whipped cream? The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in all its psychedelic glory?
Does anyone even remember records?
It's hard for Eric Christensen to forget them, especially when he has more than 20,000 sitting as reminders in his Mill Valley home.
He's been acquiring them since he was first bitten by the rock-and-roll bug as a kid in the '50s. At first it was the bands that drew him in; the Beatles, the Stones. But gradually, like the acceptance of broccoli, his tastes changed.
"I used to collect only for the music," Christensen said this week, leaning on his wall of records. "Now I collect for the cover."
It was back in the '40s when someone discovered those plain brown wrappers that records came in could be spruced up with pictures or art. Christensen came to realize each one of those albums was the unique work of a photographer or an artist. Even Andy Warhol made record covers.
"Warhol had done a lot of covers," Christensen said. "I just thought, 'Hey, at a used record store you can get a Warhol print for under $10.' "
It was while pondering his vast vinyl acreage, Christensen decided there was a story to be told about cover art. The former KGO radio producer set-out to make a documentary film about the great album covers that had moved him. The film is called Cover Story.
He ended up interviewing dozens of musicians and artists including Steve Earle, Nick Lowe and Yoko Ono, who once used her husband John Lennon's bloody glasses for the Season of Glass album cover.
"I realized as an artist this was her expression of something very tragic that happened in her life," said Christensen. "And she put it on an album cover and shared it with everybody."
Christensen's real coup d'état was tracking down the woman who once posed nude as an 11-year-old for Blind Faith's controversial album cover, taken by San Francisco photographer Bob Seidemann. The cover was famously rejected by Atlantic Records as too shocking, only to have Eric Clapton put his foot down.
"There was this window between the late 60s and early 70s," said Christensen, "where a group like Blind Faith could tell the record company, if that ain't the cover, you don't have an album."
Christensen said album art was one of the few ways an artist could ride a band's musical wave to get their own art before new audiences. San Francisco artist Michael Rios' paintings have been seen by millions of people because they graced the cover of Carlos Santana's cosmically popular album Supernatural.
"However many people are buying Santana's music," said Rios in his studio, "and the few albums I've done with him already, are getting to see a little taste of my art."
But Christensen's film also mourns the passing of the record album as a vehicle for art. He dismisses the current vinyl comeback as not much more than the blast of a defibrillator on an already dead victim.
"The CD era reduced the size of the art work and thus the impact," said Christensen. "But the digital download, it's something on an iPhone."
One can imagine how little bravado the Stones' Sticky Finger cover would've conveyed if it had been released as a digital booklet. And just picture Led Zeppelin's Hindenburg cover reduced to the size of a thumbnail.
Album covers, Christensen said, are snapshots of time, history and trends. They conjure up memories of old romances, musical obsessions and cultural references.
You can think about it like this; it's hard to imagine many years from now, remembering back on where you were the day you downloaded Adele's album.
Christensen's film is playing around the Bay Area for select showings. Check out his website for a calendar.


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The trade deadline can be a dangerous temptress.
At times, it can cause otherwise levelheaded organizations to do something crazy. Like trade away Jeff Bagwell for Larry Anderson. Or give up Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee and Brandon Phillips for Bartolo Colon.
With a week before the July 31 deadline, though, Orioles fans can rest easy. History says any move the Orioles make at the deadline will be a good one. Or a wash at the very least.
The Orioles have never had any Bagwell-for-Anderson trades. They have made their share of regrettable moves (wherefore art thou, Curt Schilling and Steve Finley?), but they've never really given up any significant piece at the deadline, at least not without getting something of value in return.
With the Orioles considering adding a corner infield bat or starting pitcher, The Baltimore Sun has compiled a list of the O's best deals at the deadline, as well as those that had more mixed results.
The only criterion is that the deal must have been executed within a week of the trade deadline. Also note: the MLB has maintained the July 31 deadline since 1986, but before that year, the deadline was June 15.
I've broken down the trades into three categories. The Good, The Less Good and The Harold Baines, named after the player of the same name who was traded to and from Baltimore two times each. When you're in that many deals, you deserve your own category.
The Good
July 29, 1988: The Orioles acquired Curt Schilling and Brady Anderson from the Red Sox for Mike Boddicker.
The Orioles never reaped the benefits of their best deadline deal. Just three years later, they traded Schilling along with Steve Finley and Pete Harnisch to Houston for Glenn Davis. Still, the 1988 deal was a gem. Schilling is a potential Hall of Famer and Anderson hit 50 home runs for the O's in 1996. Boddicker pitched two more good years and one very good year, but the second half of his career isn't close to matching Schilling's resume.
June 15, 1970: The Orioles acquired Moe Drabowsky from the Royals for Bobby Floyd.
This trade makes the list because it gave the Orioles the final piece for a World Series-winning team. The Royals received a good player in Floyd, but Drabowsky recorded three saves in the 1970 World Series to help lead Baltimore to a championship.
July 30, 2011: The Orioles traded Koji Uehara and cash to the Rangers for Chris Davis and Tommy Hunter.
The Orioles addressed two needs with this deal. Even though Hunter has been disappointing, Davis' power gives the lineup some pop. And Uehara, who hasn't pitched in more than a month with a lat injury, is not missed in a bullpen that has been the team's bright spot.
July 28, 1995: The Orioles acquired Bobby Bonilla and Jimmy Williams from the Mets for Damon Buford and Alex Ochoa.
Bonilla was a .300 hitter in a year and a half with the Orioles, and his addition helped the Orioles reach the ALCS in 1996.
The Less Good
July 31, 2000: The Orioles acquired Trent Hubbard, Fernando Lunar and Luis Rivera to the Braves for B.J. Surhoff and Gabe Molina.
This deal is more sad than anything else. None of the players involved in the trade made any major impacts after the deal, but Orioles fans will remember B.J. Surhoff crying after learning he would no longer be an Oriole.
June 15, 1976: The Orioles acquired Tippy Martinez, Rick Dempsey, Rudy May, Scott McGregor and Dave Pagan from the Yankees for Doyle Alexander, Grant Jackson, Jimmy Freeman, Elrod Hendricks and Ken Holtzman.
This trade lands in the "Less Good" category mostly for the ungodly amount of players involved. That's just messy. Plus, all but Jimmy Alexander were major leaguers.
On the positive side, the Orioles landed Martinez, who recorded a 3.46 ERA in 11 years in Baltimore. They did give up two good pieces in Alexander and Jackson, though, so this deal probably netted more negatives overall. The lesson? Never involve 8 major league players in one deal. Especially a deal with a divisional rival.
The Harold Baines
July 29, 1997: The Orioles acquired Harold Baines from the White Sox for a player to be named later (ultimately Juan Bautista).
This was the second time Baines was traded to the Orioles (he also signed or re-signed with Baltimore three times during his career). This one worked out for the O's. Baines hit .291 in 1997, including a .353 batting average in the ALCS against the Indians, though the Orioles lost that series.
July 29, 2000: The Orioles acquired Jason Lakman, Juan Figueroa, Miguel Felix and Brook Fordyce from the White Sox for Harold Baines and Charles Johnson.
By this time, the Orioles probably just dealt Baines out of habit. This deal, involving few players of significance, was the fourth time the O's had been involved in a trade including Baines and their second deadline deal involving the veteran.
So what can we learn from all of this? For one, the Orioles rarely make mistakes at the deadline, though they sometimes save those mistakes for the rest of the year.
Also, don't be surprised if Harold Baines comes out of retirement this week just so the Orioles can trade for him.
The trade deadline can be a dangerous temptress.


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Have you ever wondered about whether medications prescribed by a doctor could actually be dangerous? Or whether giving a friend a prescription pill you take for ADHD could be bad for them?
Sometimes, people assume that if your doctor prescribes you medications, then they are safe for anyone. Prescription drugs, like Ritalin or Adderall for ADHD, or Tylenol 3 or Percocet for pain, can be extremely effective when used as prescribed…by the people they were prescribed for.
But people who have not been seen by a doctor for these conditions are asking friends to share their drugs for a variety of reasons. For example, Adderall and Ritalin belong to a class of drugs called stimulants—that is, they stimulate your brain and make you feel more alert. Teens might think that's an advantage when taking a test at school. However, that kind of use is actually drug abuse, and can hurt you.
Check out the November issue of Glamour magazine for stories of women who have taken these drugs—both as prescribed and not—and see what they experienced as a result (NIDA's Director, Dr. Nora Volkow was interviewed as a subject expert). And check out the facts about prescription drug abuse on NIDA for Teens.
i think this is a very good webpage because it tells you exactly what you shouldnt do
no i think this is great becuase im doing a report on this...:) druglover you are lame!!!!!!!
The missuse and out right abuse of prescription drugs is an ever growing problem, most people are just blind to. on the other hand there are those select few who do need the drugs for pain and have to have them to function, and get addicted to them. Its a nasty cycle but its is what it is.
i think its alright but theres way bigger things to talk about
This is unrelated but; is Sara Bellum a real name? Because Parabellum is a pistol brand...
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it informs you,but at the same time ppl are going to do what they wanna do either way.
it is somuch
I actually think sometimes prescribed medications by the doctor can haarm you, because the doctor can give you the wrong medicine.Then giving medicine to a friend is kinda a bad idea but then its not.
I think drugs that are prescripted are no better thAN REGULAR illegal drugs. I mean they all have crazy side affects:). and they both get you high or dizzy.
In my opinion the person who is receiving the prescribed drugs should do research on the drug before they take it to make sure its not harmful to their body and will help them with their problem.
This article is so helpful about the prescribed drugs. Alot of patients that are prescribed Tylenol, Ritalin, and Percocet for pain. They are very effectful and can really hurt you. Alot of prescribed medication have alot of side effect such as: dizziness, weakness, rash, stomach pains, and etc. So this blog can really help alot of patients who just need any medication to get over pain.
this is actually true b/c the doctor prescribes the medicine for the person that has the condition. but it can be veryy harmful but at other times, it helps ppl with their issue they're having. idnt really agree on this b/c ihve taken ther ppl's meds & it actually help. but at the same time ihve common sence and idnt meds frm everybody.
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how many died in 2011 from this type of drug
@laina Prescription drug abuse is a serious problem. A few scary stats according to the November 2011 issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's CDC Vitalsigns (http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/PainkillerOverdoses):
· Prescription painkiller overdoses killed nearly 15,000 people in the US in 2008. This is more than 3 times the 4,000 people killed by these drugs in 1999.
· In 2010, about 12 million Americans (age 12 or older) reported nonmedical use of prescription painkillers in the past year.
· Nearly half a million emergency department visits in 2009 were due to people misusing or abusing prescription painkillers.
guess who, same here! hahaha:) and yes drug lover, you are very lame and should start living and caring about an actual LIFE
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Year 6 Life Science Worksheet
Human DNA
Human anatomy may be complicated, but even more intricate is our DNA! Learn the basics of our body's building blocks with an informative sheet. Your child will learn basic terms and concepts about human DNA.
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The Reflect Package
The reflect package provides runtime reflection (or introspection); that is, the ability to access and interact with values of arbitrary types at runtime.
The package also provides some useful utility functions such as
reflect.DeepEqual(), which can compare any two values for example, slices which aren't comparable using the
== and
!= operators.
Every value in Go has two attributes: its actual value and its type. The reflect.
TypeOf() function can tell us the type of any value.
x := 8.6 y := float32(2.5) fmt.Printf("var x %v = %v\n", reflect.TypeOf(x), x) fmt.Printf("var y %v = %v\n", reflect.TypeOf(y), y)
var x float64 = 8.6 var y float32 = 2.5
Here we have output two floating-point variables and their types as Go var declarations using reflection.
When the
reflect.ValueOf() function is called on a value it returns a
reflect.Value, which holds the value but isn't the value itself. If we want to access the held value, we must use one of the
reflect.Value methods.
word := "Chameleon" value := reflect.ValueOf(word) text := value.String() fmt.Println(text)
reflect.Value type has many methods for extracting the underlying type including
reflect.Value.Int(), and
reflect package can also work with collection types such as slices and maps, as well as with
structs; it can even access
structs' tag text. (This ability is used by the JSON and XML encoders and decoders.)
type Contact struct { Name string "check:len(3,40)" Id int "check:range(1,999999)" } person := Contact{"Bjork", 0xDEEDED} personType := reflect.TypeOf(person) if nameField, ok := personType.FieldByName("Name"); ok { fmt.Printf("%q %q %q\n", nameField.Type, nameField.Name, nameField.Tag) }
"string" "Name" "check:len(3,40)"
The underlying value held by a
reflect.Value can be changed if it is "settable." The setability can be checked by calling
reflect.Value.CanSet(), which returns a
presidents := []string{"Obama", "Bushy", "Clinton"} sliceValue := reflect.ValueOf(presidents) value = sliceValue.Index(1) value.SetString("Bush") fmt.Println(presidents)
[Obama Bush Clinton]
Although Go strings are immutable, any given item in a
[]string can be replaced by another string, and this is what we have done here. (Naturally, in this particular example, the easiest way to perform the change would be to write
presidents[1] = "Bush", and not use introspection at all.)
It is not possible to change immutable values themselves, but we can replace an immutable value with another value if we have the original value's address.
count := 1 if value = reflect.ValueOf(count); value.CanSet() { value.SetInt(2) // Would panic! Can't set an int. } fmt.Print(count, " ") value = reflect.ValueOf(&count) // Can't call SetInt() on value since value is a *int not an int pointee := value.Elem() pointee.SetInt(3) // OK. Can replace a pointed-to value. fmt.Println(count)
1 3
This snippet's output shows that the
if condition's conditional evaluates to false, so its body isn't executed. Although we cannot set immutable values such as
float64s, or
strings, we can use the
reflect.Value.Elem() method to retrieve a
reflect.Value through which we can set a pointed-to value, and this is what we do at the end of the snippet.
It is also possible to use reflection to call arbitrary functions and methods. Here is an example that calls a custom
TitleCase() function (not shown) twice, once conventionally and once using reflection.
caption := "greg egan's dark integers" title := TitleCase(caption) fmt.Println(title) titleFuncValue := reflect.ValueOf(TitleCase) values := titleFuncValue.Call( []reflect.Value{reflect.ValueOf(caption)}) title = values[0].String() fmt.Println(title)
Greg Egan's Dark Integers Greg Egan's Dark Integers
reflect.Value.Call() method takes and returns a slice of type
[]reflect. Value. In this case, we pass in a single value (as a slice of length
1), and retrieve a single result value.
We can call methods similarly and in fact, we can even query to see if a method exists and call it only if it does.
a := list.New() // a.Len() == 0 b := list.New() b.PushFront(1) // b.Len() == 1 c := stack.Stack{} c.Push(0.5) c.Push(1.5) // c.Len() == 2 d := map[string]int{"A": 1, "B": 2, "C": 3} // len(d) == 3 e := "Four" // len(e) == 4 f := []int{5, 0, 4, 1, 3} // len(f) == 5 fmt.Println(Len(a), Len(b), Len(c), Len(d), Len(e), Len(f))
0 1 2 3 4 5
Here we create two lists (using the
container/list package), one of which we add an item to. We also create a stack and add two items to it. And we create a
map, a
string, and a slice of
ints, all of different lengths. We then use a
Len() function to get their lengths.
func Len(x interface{}) int { value := reflect.ValueOf(x) switch reflect.TypeOf(x).Kind() { case reflect.Array, reflect.Chan, reflect.Map, reflect.Slice, reflect.String: return value.Len() default: if method := value.MethodByName("Len"); method.IsValid() { values := method.Call(nil) return int(values[0].Int()) } } panic(fmt.Sprintf("'%v' does not have a length", x)) }
This function returns the length of the value it is passed or panics if the value's type isn't one that supports the notion of length.
We begin by getting the value as a
reflect.Value because we will need this later on. Then we switch depending on the value's
reflect.Kind. If the value's kind is one of the built-in types that supports the built-in
len() function, we can call the
reflect.Value.Len() function directly on the value. Otherwise, we have either a type that doesn't support the notion of length, or a type that has a
Len() method. We use the
reflect.Value.MethodByName() method to retrieve the method or to retrieve an invalid
reflect.Value. If the method is valid, we call it.
There are no arguments to pass in this case because conventional
Len() methods take no arguments. When we retrieve a method using the
reflect.Value.MethodByName() method, the returned
reflect.Value holds both the method and the value. So, when we call
reflect.Value.Call(), the value is passed as the receiver.
reflect.Value.Int() method returns an
int64; we have converted this to a plain
int to match the generic
Len() function's return value's type.
If a value is passed in that doesn't support the built-in
len() function and doesn't have a
Len() method, the generic
Len() function panics. We could have handled this error case in other ways for example, by returning
-1 to signify "no length available," or by returning an
int and an error.
reflect package is incredibly flexible and allows us to do things at runtime that depend on the program's dynamic state. However, to quote Rob Pike, reflection is "a powerful tool that should be used with care and avoided unless strictly necessary." (Rob Pike has written an interesting and useful blog entry on Go reflection.)
This article brings to an end the set of five weekly tutorials on Go. By this point, you should have a good feel for the language, its tools, and its libraries even how to run it on the Google App Engine to host Web apps. I hope you'll agree that Go is an interesting and enjoyable way of writing portable, native code.
Mark Summerfield is an independent trainer, consultant, and writer specializing in Go, Python, C++, and Qt. His most recent book is Programming in Go. This article is derived from information in Chapter 9 of that book.
Related Reading
Go Tutorial: Object Orientation and Go's Special Data Types
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Do you remember reading about Robert Crandall, former head of American Airlines, calculating that if they removed just one olive from every salad served to passengers, nobody would notice, and the airline would save $100,000 a year? Innovative thinkers like Crandall have made telecommuting their olive. The larger the organization, the more impact that seemingly small differences can make overall.
Business trends analyst, Daniel Rasmus said:
"Failure to assert commitment-based management is the number one failure related to telecommuting and distributed work in my opinion. Commitment-based management simply captures people's commitments to the organization, and to each other, and holds them accountable for meeting those commitments."
Lucky for us, there is more than one way to achieve commitment-based management. These major companies have found their own unique ways of making teleworking work.
Cisco Provides Security
For many companies, security of intellectual property is a concern with BYOD and/or teleworking programs (which tend to go hand-in-hand). As of 2012, 90% of Cisco employees were regular telecommuters. That's an incredible amount of employees successfully working outside of the office. Cisco makes this possible by offering great tech security and support for their teleworkers. Instead of inhibiting and restricting, Cisco has taken the proper measures to ensure that workers can safely work remotely while guarding the company's treasured information.
Telecommuter.com offers some security advice for remote workers:
"A successful program leverages your existing network infrastructure, creating a seamless LAN experience extension to the users. To minimize security risks, consider one of two main VPN technology models: IP-Security (IPsec) or Secure Socket Layer (SSL)."
Netflix Encourages a Freedom and Responsibility Culture
Netflix made waves with their unlimited vacation policy, because at first it seemed ridiculous; of course employees are going to take advantage. Well that doesn't seem to be the case and it's because of Netflix's "Freedom and Responsibility Culture". They incorporate this in their hiring and management practices, and emphasize that work is what you do, not a place you go. Time off is no biggie, as long as the work gets done. That can mean teleworking or even putting in extra time, but the pay off of vacation time is well worth it.
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings said in a Bloomberg Weekly interview:
"Keeping vacation unlimited requires mature, responsible employees who care about high-quality work."
The WSJ Uses Robots
WSJ reporter, Rachel Silverman makes telecommuting work through telepresence. She uses a robot to zoom around the WSJ newsroom and converse with co-workers from her home office in Austin, Texas. Using robots to communicate sounds like a step away from building successful relationships at work, but it has proven quite the opposite.
Cisco did some research on these telepresence bots and David Hsieh, VP of marketing for video and emerging business found that people were actually more open and honest in their conversations with the robots:
"People may just be more present with a robot, due to the novelty factor. And because the robot doesn't have the benefit of full body language…it results in a higher level of openness."
These innovative companies found their own style in telecommuting and so can you. We like to facilitate the money saving and environment-friendly nature of telecommuting through virtual interviewing. The right security, tools and management are what any successful telecommuting program is built on. While telepresence robots may be out of some of some budgets, tools like virtual interviewing are certainly not.
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Great examples and I agree, show employees the respect they deserve for work well done and the rest will fall in place.
ISTM that most jobs that don't require F2F contact or the direct physical manipulation of objects could be done remotely. Perhaps we should move to where telework is the default, and managers and employees who wish to work onsite when otherwise telework is indicated need to make a case to do so...I'm willing to admit that occasional F2F contact in telework-optimal environments, but I seriously doubt it needs to be 40 hrs/week...


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Shitake in Burgundy Butter, Herbed Chevre Souffle With Tomato Coulis and Horseradish Mold recipes: Helen Dollaghan
Week 29: Shitake in Burgundy Butter, Herbed Chevre Souffle With Tomato Coulis and Horseradish Mold recipes
Helen Dollaghan, food editor of The Denver Post from 1958-1993, selected recipes she felt were the best and published them in this 1987 special section called "30 Years of Rocky Mountain Cooking." Most are recipes Helen or her readers developed.
On Fridays we share several of the recipes from her collection.
Recent Denver visitor
Jack Czarnecki, grandson
of the founder of
71-year-old Joe's
restaurant in Reading, Pa.,
put this recipe in
Joe's Book of Mushroom
Cookery (Atheneum,
Shitake in Burgundy Butter
1/2 cup chopped onions
3 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon crushed garlic
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 cup red wine
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 lb. shitake mushroom caps
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1/3 cup water
Saute onions in butter just until transparent. Stop the cooking by adding water to skillet. Add remaining ingredients except mushrooms and cornstarch. Stir one minute. Add mushrooms. Turn heat to low. Cover with tight-fitting lid. Simmer 30 minutes. Stir in cornstarch mixture. Cook until thickened. Serve as a first course over rice. Serves 4.
Coulis, which is the
French word for sauce, is
meant to be spooned on
the bottom of the plate
with wedges or spoonfuls
of this souffle placed on
top. By this time, of
course, even the
souffle has sunk, but its
creamy white
configuration and soft
brown crust makes an
interesting contrast to the
tomato mixture.
Herbed Chevre Souffle With Tomato Coulis
Unsalted butter
1 3/4 cups milk
3/4 lb. goat cheese, such as montrachet, bucheron or valencay without rind or ash coating
1 1/2 cups combined minced fresh parsley, basil and chives
Freshly ground pepper to taste
5 extra-large eggs, lightly beaten
Fresh tomato coulis (recipe follows)
Butter and flour a 1 1/2-qt. souffle dish. Melt 2 1/2 tablespoons butter in medium saucepan. Whisk in 1/3 cup flour over moderately high heat. Gradually add milk, whisking until thickened to medium-thick white sauce consistency. Remove from heat. Crumble in cheese, herbs and pepper, stirring with wooden spoon to combine. Stir in eggs. Pour into prepared dish. Bake on center shelf of preheated 400-degree oven 45 to 50 minutes or until puffed and golden brown and pulls away slightly from sides of dish. Divide tomato coulis among four dinner plates. Top each serving with wedges or spoonfuls of the souffle. Garnish with parsley. Serves 4. (Souffle can also be served cold, but in skinny wedges, as an hors d'oeuvre or appetizer.
(Fresh Tomato Coulis)
1 medium white onion, chopped
1 large clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup olive oil
1 lb. fresh tomatoes, peeled, coarsely chopped, seeded
1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme or 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Saute onion and garlic in olive oil until onion is soft. Add remaining ingredients. Cook, uncovered, over moderate heat until slightly thickened, about 15 minutes. Serve at room temperature or heated.
In the late '70s Virginia
Hilbert of Aurora served
this as an accompaniment
to baked ham and roast
beef. Sliced, it may be put
on top of slices of the
meat or served on the
Horseradish Mold
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
3/4 cup cold water
1/2 cup salad dressing (not mayonnaise)
1/3 cup cream style horseradish
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup heavy cream
Parsley, stuffed green olives, paprika for garnish
Soften gelatin in water in small pan. Heat over low heat, stirring, until gelatin dissolves. Remove from heat. Mix salad dressing, horseradish and salt until smooth. Add gelatin. Whip cream until stiff. Fold into horseradish mixture. Pour in 1-qt. ring mold. Refrigerate until set. Turn out on serving dish. Garnish with parsley, olives and paprika. Serve as a condiment. Serves 12.


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Talk:Not So Fast
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Since Trinity is an achievement, why not just change the name of this page to Not So Fast.KebbBone 13:25, November 1, 2009 (UTC)
Mission Fail
Are you sure you fail the mission by killing Niko or Patrick? I didn't even think you could kill either of them in the first place since you take off in the Buzzard. Grand Theft AJ 20:39, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
It's Niko and Johnny, not Niko and Patrick.
Just after the cutscene when Luis takes the diamonds you can see Niko on the ground floor who's fighting cops, you can shoot him and kill him which will result to fails the mission. Nostrein 20:48, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
- I meant Niko and Johnny, I was thinking of the mission Ladies Half Price where you can kill Niko or Patrick, my mistake. I'll have to try that out. Grand Theft AJ 20:51, November 30, 2009 (UTC)