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Cocoa Tips: Exposing System Services
- Services and Applications
- Exporting Services
- Using Services
- Services Versus Scripting
One of the things that sets an application apart from the competition is how well it integrates with the environment. Things like drag and drop between applications are expected to just work on OS X. System Services take this a step further.
The services mechanism is something that Apple inherited from NeXT. On NeXTSTEP, it was a top-level menu in every application, while OS X hides it in the application menu. With 10.6, the services menu has been improved, making it easier for users to hide services that they never use and only displaying services that are relevant to the current selection.
The basic idea of a service is similar to a UNIX pipe. A lot of command-line tools can be used as either stand-alone interactive programs, or as filters. When you use them as filters, they process some input from the standard input stream and emit a processed version on the standard output.
The limitation of UNIX filters is that pipes just transmit a stream of bytes. It is up to the user to make sure that the input is provided in a format that the filter can understand. Services work along the same lines but use pasteboards instead of pipes. A service takes a pasteboard as input and returns a pasteboard as output.
Pasteboards on OS X are effectively shared dictionaries. They store a set of different types and data. If you copy some text from TextEdit, for example, you might get RTF data and plain text in a few encodings copied.
Services and Applications
Any OS X application can expose services, and you can put services in stand-alone bundles that will be run on demand. Sometimes you even use the services mechanism for launching an application. There are a few examples of this included with OS X. The one that I use the most is the ISA reference. When at all possible, I try to avoid programming in assembly languages, but sometimes I fail. When I'm reading some assembly code and come across and instruction that I'm not familiar with, I can just select it, go to the services menu, and look up the documentation with the ISA reference service.
Other services exist in isolation. The Equation Service, for example, interprets text on the pasteboard as a LaTeX formula and returns a typeset PDF of the result. You can use this with Keynote to insert beautifully typeset mathematical formulae.
Sometimes it's not clear whether something should be a service or an application. For example, consider the calculator application. A lot of the time that you use this you simply want to do a quick sum. Launching the application, switching to it, and switching back, takes a significant amount of the total time to get the result. As of 10.5 it's often faster to type the sum into the spotlight query box, but this doesn't give a good way of copying the result out again.
Now imagine if the calculator exposed a service. If you wanted to compute a sum, you'd just type it, select it, and go to the evaluate service. You could even assign a shortcut key to this service if you used it frequently, allowing you to use it without touching the mouse.
Deciding which parts of your application to export as services, if any, can be a tricky problem. Some applications don't do anything that might be usefully exposed as a service. Others may want to expose a lot of different services.
Think carefully before you expose a lot of different services. The services menu is shared between all programs in the system and can very quickly become cluttered. Snow Leopard made it easy to remove things from the menu, but that's not an excuse to fill it with hundreds of things and expect the user to turn them all off. Before implementing a service, think about whether it could be better provided by a different user interface. A few of the services that Apple's standard applications provide do exactly the same thing as dropping the selection on the app's icon. This is much easier and faster to do than finding the service in the menu, so the service does nothing more than add clutter to the menu.


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Non Stop Bhangra¡Globalquerque!
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At the beginning of my love affair with Bollywood films, I made every single person I knew repeatedly watch the "Chaiyya Chaiyya" scene in Dil Se —a dance sequence that takes place on top of a moving train. While friends looked on with amusement, I would jump up and down, squealing and pointing at the screen. Something about the traditional Indian music and dance blended with club beats and '90s hip-hop moves filled me with glee. "And they're on top of a moving train!"Later, in a random museum gift shop, I found Bar Bhangra, a compilation of new and established DJs remixing traditional Indian music. For many weeks after, I drove around in my car bopping my head like a dashboard toy, playing the CD at a ridiculous volume and yelling "Isn't this so good?!" at all of my annoyed friends. The stuff just makes me wanna dance!Bhangra refers to an Indian folk dance, music and singing style from the Punjab region. The traditional music is lively and consists of percussion from the dhol hand drum, accompanied by a single-string instrument called the ektara , and the chiming sounds of a chimta , which are metal tongs fit with tiny cymbals. Bhangra dance is actually a collection of several different styles, but the earliest moves are thought to have originated with Sikh farmers celebrating the coming of harvest season. A wave of Punjabi immigration to the U.K. in the '80s brought Bhangra music into the Western mainstream, where it was mixed with rock, reggae and techno elements. DJs—many first-generation Brits searching for an identity that incorporated their heritage—began to play bhangra in clubs. The high-energy music with prominent beats lent itself to club dancing. If my nerdy assertions haven't convinced you that bhangra is awesome, you can get fully immersed in the genre this weekend at ¡Globalquerque! Non Stop Bhangra performs both Friday and Saturday night, and it isn't just a band. It's a whole event featuring lessons; dance performances; live music sets; and DJs spinning a mix of bhangra, hip-hop, reggae and electronica. Audiences are promised live painting and projected visuals. Dholrhythms, official Non Stop Bhangra dance troupe, will also give a free dance class on Saturday afternoon. NSB was founded by San Francisco residents DJ Jimmy Love and Vicki Virk (Dholrhythms leader), and also features DJ Rav-E, MCs Mandeep Sethi and Mista Chatman, singer Hina Patel, painter Marcus Murray, and visual operator Amar Sachdev. In the Bay Area, NSB throws at least one big bhangra bash each month, garnering accolades as well as hundreds of sweaty revelers. Online magazine 7×7 listed the event as one of "250 Things to Do in San Francisco Before You Die." Since most of you aren't sure how long you'll live (or when you'll next visit San Francisco), I recommend you go get your bhangra on while you have the chance.

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PSSHT yeah right. Here are the reasons I think he stepped down...
1. He wants to spend more time playing house and tea party with Tim Tebow.
2. Lane Kiffin called inquiring about the Florida job and offered to pay him off to step down
3. Ran out of trash talk to leak to the media
4. Tebow sent him a letter about how sad he was that he wasn't getting any playing time in the NFL and Meyer saw tear drops smearing the ink. He phoned Tebow and said he would be there right away.
5. Tebow has finally agreed to lose his virginity to Meyer (DING DING DING!)
Number 5 has my vote.
Why do you guys think he stepped down? I'd love to hear your thoughts! In case you haven't noticed by now, I am not a Florida fan.
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nisplus_table - Man Page
Postfix NIS+ client
postmap -q "string" "nisplus:[name=%s];name.name." postmap -q - "nisplus:[name=%s];name.name." <inputfile
The Postfix mail system uses optional lookup tables. These tables are usually in dbm or db format. Alternatively, lookup tables can be specified as NIS+ databases.
To find out what types of lookup tables your Postfix system supports use the "postconf -m" command.
To test Postfix NIS+ lookup tables, use the "postmap -q" command as described in the Synopsis above.
Query Syntax
Most of the NIS+ query is specified via the NIS+ map name. The general format of a Postfix NIS+ map name is as follows:
Postfix NIS+ map names differ from what one normally would use with commands such as niscat:
- With each NIS+ table lookup, "%s" is replaced by a version of the lookup string. There can be only one "%s" instance in a Postfix NIS+ map name.
- Postfix NIS+ map names use ";" instead of ",", because the latter character is special in the Postfix main.cf file. Postfix replaces ";" characters in the map name by "," before making NIS+ queries.
- The ":column" part in the NIS+ map name is not part of the actual NIS+ query. Instead, it specifies the number of the table column that provides the lookup result. When no ":column" is specified the first column (1) is used.
A NIS+ aliases map might be queried as follows:
alias_maps = dbm:/etc/mail/aliases, nisplus:[alias=%s];mail_aliases.org_dir.$mydomain.:1
This queries the local aliases file before the NIS+ file.
See Also
postmap(1), Postfix lookup table manager
Readme Files
Use "postconf readme_directory" or "postconf html_directory" to locate this information.
DATABASE_README, Postfix lookup table overview
The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.
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Tim Hudak's PC Party has released their first ad attacking the newly minted Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne.
Predictably, her "Dalton, Dalton" cheering during her victory was used by the PCs to link the old with the new as more of the same. McGuinty has been a polarizing figure in Ontario and with an imminent election, the Tories will be looking to make the ballot question one of McGuinty's legacy in Ontario.
The Tories have chosen to highlight debt as the first criticism of Wynne. They go back to Wynne's days as a school board trustee and her record as a fiscal manager there and state that Wynne would not aim to balance Ontario's books for five years.
This won't be the last we'll see on the Tory full-court press, however. The gas-plant and ORNGE helicopter scandals are still fresh in the minds of Ontarians.


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The Lovin' Ain't Over - Book Review
If you've been adversely affected by radiation and chemo treatments for Breast Cancer, Gynecological Cancers, or even from other cancer types, this book can help. As a personal witness to what treatment side-effects can do to your body and life, I was very interested in what this couple had to say. What I have learned has given me hope. My desire is for you to feel that hope, as well.
The Table of Contents, which consists of a mere thirteen chapters, gives a clear preview of what's inside. But since the book is a whopping 280 pages from cover to cover, I knew right away this would be no ordinary book. In my own opinion, this book is a bomb-shell. It may not be the whole enchilada, but it's as close as you can get.
The Forward is written by Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Former Surgeon General of the United States of America. I like what she says:
"It is accurate to say that we are sexual beings from birth to death."
- Dr. Joycelyn Elders
In the Preface Barbara tells right up front that Ralph was the one who had the cancer. After Ralph's diagnosis for Prostate Cancer in 1995, in trying to get help, they found that the subject of Prostate Cancer was not documented. So they determined to research it themselves, and eventually published two books.
During support groups, they were approached by women and other couples to write a book for women cancer survivors. This book is a collaboration from many experts, however, alot of the information comes from the women themselves. Some of them are quoted, and it's actually very moving.
Whether we want to admit it or not, every woman changes after a diagnosis of cancer. Many women have called this evolution, the New Normal. This chapter covers a woman's self-image, which is a huge hurdle for many women. One of the first things they teach you to do is to find out who you are, so that you can redefine who you are. Personally, I found this to be a key foundational component to the entire message of the book.
The next chapter covers female sexual dysfunction (FSD). It includes a woman's sexual response cycle, lifestyle choices that affect sexuality, including alcohol, drugs, and smoking. Normal aging is covered as a culprit, along with the already known main factor, which is the treatments, discussed in Chapter Three.
TREATMENTS - The Main Culprit
This chapter covers how the treatments change the body physically and emotionally, including psychological effects such as anxiety, fear of rejection, identity disorder, and depression. The social challenges are discussed as well. They have also made a list of suggestions on how to prevent or curb "chemo brain". The bottom-line of this chapter is not to pull away, or isolate yourself because you're having trouble.
This book is chock-full of information. There are shaded graphs, and practical tips that you can copy, or scan and download, to refer back to, or share with a friend.
Other Topics include:
I, The New Woman: Using Cancer to Redefine Yourself
The New Single Woman
Identity Disorder
AIDA - Admire Yourself/Identify Interests/Do It!/Assess
The Elephant in the Bedroom – That thing no one wants to talk about.
10 Practical Ways to Create a Loving Environment
20 Ways to Reinvent Your Sex Life
Develop a Sexuality Script (like a play) – write down likes, dislikes, what works, what doesn't, etc.
Emotions/Psychological/Biological Changes – Patient/Partner Response
Supplements/Lubricants/Moisturizers/Holistic helps
Drugs/Pharmaceutical- Brand name/Used for/Positive effect/Side-effect
Herbal Supplements- Name/Used for/Positive effect/Side-effect
M-E-D-S – Motivation/Exercise/Diet/Sleep
RUT- Routine/Unappreciated/Tired
CREST – Creativity/Respect/Excitement/Sensitivity/Togetherness
The book does not discuss Lymphedema.
There is an Appendix at the end for women who have, or have had, Breast Cancer, and need information on options about surgery and reconstruction. It is very clear and easy to understand.
There is a limited, yet rich, Resource section, and a nicely detailed Index.
In the end, Ralph and Barbara say this-
"A good sex life expresses and reinforces a loving relationship, which in turn makes for better sex, which deepens the love – a mutually reinforcing cycle."
However, in case you've misunderstood, this book is not all about sexual intercourse. Society has defined making love this way, which is an erroneous concept. Expressing love to a person wholly, is not only vital to any relationship, it is essential if you want to renew your sexuality and intimacy. If fear has paralyzed you in this area, don't fret, it's almost as if the authors take you by the hand while guiding you through the process.
It would be unrealistic to say that this book will help every cancer patient. However, it should help most, along with being a valuable tool in the hands of healthcare professionals who treat cancer patients. Every Mental Health Counselor should have this book in their library for reference to help those traumatized by the effects of cancer.
Some books we pass on, and some we put our names in and we never let them go. We can refer back to them again and again. This is that kind of book.
Ralph and Barbara Alterowitz are founders of The Center for Intimacy After Cancer Treatment, a non-profit organization. Sexuality counseling service is available in person, via Skype, or by phone.
The Alterowitz's are also available for public speaking engagements.
To purchase the book and for more valuable information visit the couple's website at RenewIntimacy. Ralph and Barbara Alterowitz are certified sexuality counselors through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT).
The Lovin' Ain't Over for Women with Cancer by Ralph and Barbara Alterowitz, 2011 by The Center for Intimacy After Cancer Treatment (C-I-ACT) 280 pgs.
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Written and directed by Maggie Greenwald (The Ballad of Little Jo), Songcatcher combines strong feminist sensibilities with surprisingly old-fashioned melodrama. The independent and ambitious Lily is a strikingly contemporary -- and universal -- heroine. A woman in an almost exclusively man's world, she is an accomplished professor of musicology whose struggles to advance professionally are continually thwarted by her male colleagues. After being passed over for promotion for the umpteenth time, Lily flees the city for the backwoods of Appalachia, where her sister Elna (Jane Adams of The Anniversary Party and Happiness) runs a school for the children of the poverty-stricken farmers and bootleggers who inhabit the isolated region.
Not surprisingly, Lily's initial efforts to penetrate the fiercely insular world of the mountain people meet with suspicion and hostility. Her superior attitude and domineering manner strike a particularly discordant chord in Tom Bledsoe (Aidan Quinn), one of the few locals who has spent time in "the other world," as they refer to so-called civilized society.
Lily's ongoing clash with Tom is one of several key relationships that fuel the story. The others include Lily's friendship with Tom's gun-toting grandmother, Aunt Viney (a wonderful Pat Carroll), and with a young orphan named Deladis Slocumb (teenage opera star Emmy Rossum in her feature debut), who has the voice of an angel and sings many of the film's most beautiful ballads (including Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies and Lord Randall). Lily's exposure to these people, experiencing their struggles -- and their goodness -- close up, has a profound effect on her. While never losing her drive or stubbornness, she finds herself opening up emotionally.
"I've never been anywhere where music is [so much] a part of life, like the air you breathe," she gasps in appreciation and awe. Suddenly, what had always been a strictly academic, intellectual pursuit takes on a feeling dimension, transforming Lily in the process.
McTeer is such an imposing presence it would seem difficult for any man to play opposite her, but Quinn more than holds his own. As headstrong as she is, he also has experienced life's injustices and disappointments and, like Lily, he has responded by shutting himself off emotionally. It is only through music that he comes alive.
Rejecting the hard, gritty look of Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange, early 20th-century photographers whose stunning pictures emphasized the poverty and dark underbelly of rural America, Greenwald opts for a soft, almost storybook look for her film (which was shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina). Although the corporate coal-mining villains are always close by, trying to bully the subsistence farmers into selling their land at dirt-cheap prices, we never glimpse the eroded mountains and ugly ravages of strip-mining. Rather, the landscape has an ethereal beauty: primitive but lush, unspoiled and unpolluted.
While Songcatcher (an old mountain term for someone who collects songs) probably won't spark a folk revival, traditional music enthusiasts will most definitely want to see it (Iris DeMent and Taj Mahal have small roles that allow them to showcase their talents). Moviegoers who don't know the music but are curious will find a most palatable introduction to it here. Appalachian music occupies a distinctive place in the history of this country's musical heritage, for it was the marriage of the sometimes lilting, sometimes intensely melancholy Old World folk melodies to the equally traditional but more primitive rhythms and beats of Africa -- which, itself, gave rise to the Southern blues -- that lies at the heart of all American music, from folk to bluegrass to country, blues and rock 'n' roll.


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I'd like to especially thank Michael for stepping up to the wizard's hat early. Also we have a few answerbubbles this month which I think people will enjoy.
I'd like to please discourage people from sending us questions on both plaintext and HTML versions. The HTML produced by mailers is just not of publishable quality, and the mime attachment just makes our mail clunkier. Thanks for the thought, but just text will be fine.
That said, I had an interesting time this month. USENIX Annual Technical was in San Diego, and a number of core linuxers, *BSD developers, and other open source developers were there. There's been a crossover for ages but with their Freenix track it's a little more obvious. Last year the Freenix track book was half as thick as the normal proceedings. This year it's just as thick. I suspect it's a really good thing that Atlanta Linux Showcase (ALS) is partnered with USENIX now, because I think there is a lot more research to publish where those came from... I'll be there of course.
Now, on to the editorial. I thought of this mid-month. I told my friends to look for it. I didn't really expect it would become a slashdot flamewar and so on but I still think it needs to be said. So I'll add a disclaimer which many of you will consider obvious, but others may need to have clear:
Looking outside the tiny little box in front of me, and indeed outside the open source world, we have one of the most hotly debated arguments about what is, and what isn't okay to use. We should follow its model, as it appears to have stood the test of time while most of its strongest adherents have not starved to death.
I am, of course, referring to kosher food.
Many of you may think this cannot possibly relate to computing except insofar as the usual meal preceding a product release is nightly orders of pizza until it's a go. Or chinese food or whatever else it is the managers and engineers share a yen for. Last I recall vegetarian pizza is kosher (though not pareve) and the usual Meat Lover's Special definitely is not. Neither is oyster sauce.
We can think of food in this context because it covers mixing code, as well as dynamic linking. I can take a slice of good Jewish rye, and dynamically link in some corned beef. Yum, still kosher. If I also dynamically link on some swiss cheese, um, no. Still removable? Ask your rabbi if the touched meat remains trafe. Most customers wouldn't be able to tell if this had been done in the kitchen. If I make that a hot sandwich, I statically linked it, guess I should get a new one.
A big fuss in the GPL seems to be about the sentence fragment which, paraphrased, is something like "the whole of derivitive works shall be under the GPL". One of its more common allergies is what to do about things which require linkage against something that is under some other license. (I refuse to label other licenses more or less restrictive, without a context to apply.)
But the fact is, that the rules of kosher food are not about preventing jewish kids from enjoying cheeseburgers with their schoolfriends. They're about health. It just isn't safe to eat crustaceans from the wrong part of the sea, pork that may be undercooked, and a number of other things. Conversely our concern over licenses is about our health. If a company, or a coalition of friends, that is responsible for maintaining a product stops answering their email forever, what am I as a user of their product able to do with it? Even if I don't personally read its source code, under the DFSG compliant licenses, I can always hire some programmer to solve my problems with it and make derivitive works. This truth is made more useful by the fact that it was also legal for me to glom a copy of the source code and keep it around.
It's perfectly normal for me to buy products at the store, in neat packaging even, which are not directly consumer-level food. At least, I know very few people who buy a bag of flour in order to scoop handfuls of it into their mouth and call it lunch. It's normally statically linked against some dairy products or water, leavened with yeast, and made into sandwich fixin's or (with more linkages) sweets. Ooo, I almost forgot. Leavening it means it's not kosher for passover. Do some people eat in this "more kosher" fashion all the time? I suspect some do.
There are other products, like cereal, which we normally expect to be dynamically linked (milk please!) but which are sometimes prepared in other ways (eg. rice krispie bars) and yes, I know kids who eat cereal straight out of the box.
So this is what I was thinking when the debate was re-awakened: Is the K project kosher? I think so. Others don't have to think so. Right now, the "Harmony" project (http://harmony.ruhr.de/ ? I can't read German, and couldn't find code) which would claim to also meet Qt's API, isn't enough to make even little bitty sandwiches with. But one of the Harmony crew feels that the QPL is kosher enough for him (read his letter to LWN at http://lwn.net/1998/1203/a/jd-harmony.html) so it may be a bit of work. I think I'll go get me a nice, thick, not-kosher-for-passover, corned beef sandwich on rye.


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Analysis of McAfee patent #6,266,774
Rhys Weatherley, . Last Modified: 10 August 2001 1. IntroductionThis document is an analysis of the McAfee patent #6,266,774, explaining what it does and does not cover. We hope to dispel the myth that this covers all application service providers. This document was prepared in part to assist the DotGNU project, http://www.dotgnu.org/, a free software initiative under the auspices of the GNU project, http://www.gnu.org/ and FreeDevelopers, . We concentrate on the claims in the patent, not the description or McAfee's press releases. Only the claims have legal weight. Nothing in this document should be construed as legal advice. It is an independent review by a computer programmer, not a patent attorney. If you discover any issues with this document, or other examples of prior art, please e-mail the author. 2. Overview of the patentThe patent was filed on December 8, 1998, and granted July 24, 2001. The abstract is as follows: A system, method, and computer program product for delivery and automatic execution of security, management, or optimization software over an Internet connection to a user computer responsive to a user request entered via a web browser on the user computer. In a preferred embodiment, the user directs the Internet browser to a Internet clinical services provider web site computer and logs in to the site using an identifier and a secure password and optionally makes a selection of the type of servicing desired, wherein an automatically-executing software package encapsulated within a markup language communication unit deliverable across the Internet is delivered, to the user computer, the automatically-executing software package being adapted to perform security, management, or optimization functions on the user computer. User identifiers and passwords enabling the downloads may be provided on a per-download basis or on a subscription basis. Essentially, the patent covers a system for automatically downloading security patches and virus scanner updates over the Internet. This is hardly an earth-shattering achievement: any competent Internet programmer could devise such a scheme. As we will see, the claims are obvious to a practitioner of computer programming. 3. The main claimsAll patents contain two kinds of claims: main and re-statements. The main claims are the core of the patent. The re-stated claims modify the main claims to cover extensions or variations. There are three main claims in this patent: 1, 12, and 14. 1. A method for automatically performing one or more maintenance tasks on a remotely located computer connected to a server computer via a data network, said method comprising the steps of: This claim describes the software and activities on the "remotely located computer", which is the user's machine. The machine is directed to connect to the server, download a set of maintainence tasks as a "markup communication unit", and execute the maintainence tasks. Prior art for this isn't hard to find: any system that downloads a shell script from a server for automatic execution on a client would be sufficient. Unix systems in the early 1990's regularly used the technique of loading shell scripts via NFS from a remote server. More recently, Red Hat Linux systems use RPM files to automatically apply security patches consisting of both software updates, and commands to be executed. RPM files can be downloaded by the user with a Web browser, or via direct connection to a HTTP server. Claim 1 attempts to make things different by using an Internet browser and a markup language. But these are just recent incarnations of a very old, and obvious, idea. Namely, administration is more efficient if it can be centralized. This claim is vague as to who or what performs the "directing". Is it the user themselves? An automated process installed on user's machine? Or the server computer? The first interpretation is no different than regular Web traffic. The second interpretation is no different than a Unix machine using NFS to download a shell script at pre-determined times. The patent description is also vague, but the third would seem to be the most likely interpretation. That is, the server sends some information to the user's Web browser to cause it to accept the download of the software package on a secondary connection. There are two sources of prior art for this: FTP and HTTP redirects. FTP servers negotiate with their clients to set up a secondary connection to exchange data files. HTTP redirects can also be used to force a Web browser to visit a secondary Web site that performs data transfer. 12. A computer program product for execution by a server computer for enabling the maintenance of a remote user computer coupled to the server computer over a network, comprising: This describes the Web server that is providing the service to the user machine described in claim 1. It is obvious that any gadget that conforms to the description of claim 1 will need to talk to a gadget that conforms to the description of claim 12. Otherwise the claim 1 gadget cannot function successfully. All known Web servers that existed one year prior to the patent filing date provide the above functionality. The more usual name for the client part of the mechanism is "browser plug-ins", which are activated by information supplied by the server upon user request. If the third interpretation of "directing" in claim 1 is the correct one, then existing Web servers provide all of the functionality except the establishment of the secondary connection. Such functionality is more common to FTP servers. The patent has combined the functionality of HTTP and FTP in the most obvious manner possible. 14. A computer-readable medium, comprising: This refers to the mechanism used to represent and deliver the software updates as the "markup language communication unit". Packaging software for download is not new: the ZIP format has existed since the early 1990's for precisely this purpose. Incorporating additional script commands is also quite common: the shar archive format was doing this in the late 1980's, and the RPM format is a more recent example from the mid-1990's. All of these predate the patent filing date by at least a year. The first part of this claim is vague as to when the unit is generated. Is it generated once for all users and stored for download? If so, then claim 14 is precisely the same as ZIP, shar, and RPM in functionality. Alternatively, the unit may be generated "on the fly" in the server. The unit can thus be customized to the specific maintainence tasks required by the user's machine. Previous systems did not normally do this, because it is inefficient. However, if an administrator of a previous system wanted to build such a system, it would be quite obvious how to do so. Packaging software is fully automatable and configurable. There is some prior art for packaging software "on the fly" in a server. The wu-ftpd FTP server can automatically package the contents of a directory as a "tar" file for download to a user's machine. Because the server does not know ahead of time which directories the user may wish to download, it must perform the task upon request. 4. Restating the obviousWith any system that uses the Internet, there are various practical considerations that must be taken into account: security, transaction logging, dynamic notification, etc. Claims 2 through 11, and 13 enumerate these, just in case the reader was unable to figure them out for themselves. 2. The method of claim 1, said step of directing including a registering step, said registering step comprising the steps of: This claim adds an extra Web page to the start of the process, to allow the user to login to the server that supplies the security updates. Since the server is providing security updates for particular machines, some way is needed to identify those machines. A username/password scheme is an obvious way of achieving this, if not a particularly secure one. 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of: This claim says that the server records every security update transaction in a log of some kind. Since Web servers normally keep logs of every request anyway, this claim is just restating the normal functions of a Web server. We will note here that keeping logs of every update made to a machine is probably a violation of the user's privacy. 4. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of generating a periodic activity report for the remotely located computer. To compound the privacy concerns, this claim says that the server has some mechanism to summarize the activities of the user. In any case, it is a normal function of Web servers to provide some way to summarize the logs according to various criteria. However, this analysis may be incorrect. Perhaps claim 4 does not refer to summa rising the user's activity for the server administrators. It may refer to summa rising the activity for the user themselves to view. It is fairly obvious that a way to summarize activity for the administrator can be trivially turned into a way for the user to access the same information. 5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of transmitting an electronic message in an e-mail format from the server computer to the remotely located computer indicating that a new product or a new application is available for download. It is quite common for Web sites to automatically e-mail registered users about updates or new offerings. This claim is not adding anything new. 6. The method of claim 5, said logical connection with the server computer being a secure network connection. This claim says that the patent still holds if the information is sent over a secure connection. That is, the user accesses the server and downloads the software package using SSL rather than a raw connection. It is obvious to anyone familiar with Internet protocols that any information that is sent via an insecure channel can also be sent by a secure channel. 7. The method of claim 6, said software package including a program to detect computer viruses on the remotely located computer. Previous claims have left it fairly open as to the type of software that was being transferred, except to say that the software is performing maintainence operations. Should the previous claims be found to be too broad, then this claim is engaged to say that the particular case of virus scanning programs is still covered. This claim is really what the patent is all about: automatic downloading of virus scanners and updates. Thus, vendors of virus scanning software may have something to fear from this patent, but few other companies will. We will state though that it is pretty obvious that the Internet can be used to distribute programs and program updates of any kind. This has been one of its primary functions since its earliest days. Virus scanners and updates are no different to any other kind of software in this regard. 8. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of: The first part of this claim says that an account should be automatically created for new users. This is a common feature of most Web sites that require user registration. The second part of this claim says that the user should only be authorized by the login mechanism if they are properly subscribed and if sufficient funds are available in their personal account. The fundamental requirement of e-commerce, that no service shall be supplied without payment, makes it pretty obvious that such a check needs to be performed at some point. 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of transmitting payment information from the remotely located computer to the server computer in an electronic mail message format, wherein said account may reflect a current subscription or an increased fund balance upon receipt of said payment information. This claim says that payment information may be sent to the server in an e-mail message. Presumably this information would include credit card details, or some other form of payment. Obviously, some means is needed to communicate to the server how payment should be achieved. Interestingly, the patent only mentions sending payment information via e-mail, and not by direct entry on a Web page. This oversight makes it very easy for competitors to avoid infringing this aspect of the patent. They need only require their users to access a Web page to provide payment information. Since Web pages are easier to secure using SSL than e-mail, this will result in a better system for the users. 10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of: This claims says that a receipt is generated and transmitted after the payment information is supplied. This is an obvious requirement for any e-commerce system. 11. The method of claim 1 wherein said one or more maintenance tasks comprise at least one of the following: compression of software, compression of data, search for software that needs to be upgraded, search for data that needs to be upgraded, upgrade of software, upgrade of data, search for obsolete software, search for obsolete data, deletion of obsolete software, deletion of obsolete data, archival of software, archival of data, hardware diagnostics, and software diagnostics. This claim attempts to enumerate all of the tasks that may need to be performed during software maintainence. This list is hardly surprising: every system administrator since the dawn of computing has performed these tasks, or written automated scripts to perform the tasks for them. 13. The computer program product of claim 12, further comprising computer code for receiving payment or subscription information from the user, whereby said maintenance software package is downloaded to the user computer only upon receiving valid payment information or current subscription information from the user. This modifies claim 12 to include the ability to process the user's payment or subscription information. This is an obvious requirement for communicating with any client that conforms to claim 8. 5. Prior artSymantec's HealthyPC program may be sufficient prior art. The following is from a CNET news article, dated April 28, 1997: During the quarter, Symantec and ZDNet launched HealthyPC.com, a Web site that emphasizes PC maintenance. It offers two separate services: a free advice and consultation area maintained by ZDNet and a subscription-based service with access to Symantec's antivirus, utility, and LiveUpdate software. [http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-318512.html]. If HealthyPC is not sufficient prior art, then any Unix machine from the early 1990's that downloaded a shell script via NFS and executed it should be sufficient. RPM is also sufficient, and is even closer to the patent than shell/NFS. Automatic shell script download and execution is basically all this patent is about: the technologies have changed slightly, but the concept is identical. The USPTO guidelines on this are quite clear: Even if the subject matter sought to be patented is not exactly shown by the prior art, and involves one or more differences over the most nearly similar thing already known, a patent may still be refused if the differences would be obvious. The subject matter sought to be patented must be sufficiently different from what has been used or described before that it may be said to be nonobvious to a person having ordinary skill in the area of technology related to the invention. For example, the substitution of one material for another, or changes in size, are ordinarily not patentable. [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/novelty.htm]. Using the Internet instead of NFS and a markup language instead of shell scripts or RPM packages, is obvious to practicioners of computer programming. 6. Avoiding the patentIf the prior art is not sufficient to overturn the patent, then there are a number of ways to avoid infringing the patent. Claim 1 refers to an Internet browser being directed to upload the user's credentials and download the security patches. This is a very inefficient way to accomplish this task, especially if it is to be performed without user intervention. The overhead of loading the browser GUI and associated code is much greater than is required. It is better for the maintainence program to make a direct HTTP or HTTPS connection to the server, and to negotiate over this direct connection. There is no need for the involvement of a full Internet browser. Thus, a competing system need only avoid using a browser to contact the server, and would thereby deliver a superior user experience. The patent description attempts to justify this complexity because then users don't need to understand how to manually install the maintainence system. An alternative mechanism that is installed by OEM's on user computers, or is distributed as part of some standard software package, would provide the same level of functionality without confusing users. Some concern has been expressed that this patent covers all manner of "application service providers" (ASP's). This concern is based on the final paragraph of the patent description: The foregoing describes a new and useful method and system for automatically downloading and remotely executing software applications over a secure Internet connection. Those skilled in the art may make numerous modifications and departures from the specific embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed invention. For example, the server computer can comprise a distributed computing system or a cluster of networked computers; the database may comprise a distributed database or several databases. Additionally, web pages may comprise an interface that is not specified herein. Other embodiments may include a network connection other than the Internet between the server computer and the user computer; and the software downloaded may be intended to perform tasks such as database management, word processing, spread sheet, games, or other tasks that are not specified herein. Since the patent description carries no legal weight, this is just wishful thinking. Claims 7 and 11 make it quite clear what type of maintainence operations are being performed, and the bulk of the patent description makes no mention of other application types. ASP's that provide access to ordinary applications will rarely, if ever, need to perform maintainence tasks. For example, an online ticket reservation ASP does not need to access the user's machine to compress files, scan for viruses, etc. Even if the description was accepted as legal, it overlaps very heavily with technologies such as Java that were already deployed one year prior to the filing date. One cannot patent the download of non-maintainence software well after such software was being widely downloaded and deployed. This claim has no merit whatsoever. Claim 9 was a serious oversight. Payment information is sent via e-mail. To avoid infringement, competitors can instead use a Web browser or a direct HTTP or HTTPS connection. The result is likely to be a better user experience. As claim 1 is vague as to the method for "directing" the user's machine to download the software package, it is safer to use straightforward download mechanisms, rather than unnecessarily clever secondary connections. Claim 14 is ambiguous as to when the software package is generated. It may be safer to use methods that package the software ahead of time rather than on the fly. However, the example of wu-ftpd demonstrates that on the fly packaging is obvious. Your comments please...You are invited to add your comments concerning this at the appropriate page of the DotGNU Wiki |


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2014 September Sean's Fund Sponsors Strong Team Event and Simul
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The 2013 Sean Reader Master-Junior Simul drew its strongest field ever. Four teams competed each consisting of a seasoned GM or IM and 6 promising junior players. In each round, the titled players competed simultaneously against the juniors on the other team and vice versa. To win a match, a team needed 6.5 of the 12 possible points.
In Round 1, Team Sevillano (GM Enrico Sevillano and his 6 juniors) beat the slow-starting Team Ambartsoumian (IM Armen Ambartsoumian) 9-3, while Team Matikozyan (IM Andranik Matikozyan) squeaked by Team Khachiyan (GM Melik Khachiyan) 6.5-5.5.
In the afternoon round, Team Sevillano clinched victory when junior South African native Tameez Latib won over IM Matikozyan. Besides Tameez (2061), the other juniors on Team Sevillano were NM Yusheng Xia (2247), Leo Creger (2055), Annie Wang (2048), Matt Shuben (1907) and Joaquin Perkins (1872).
With U.S. G/60 Champ GM Sevillano completing the sweep (6-0) of the juniors from Team Matikozyan in Round 2, Team Khachiyan was able to sneak in and steal 2nd Place by virtue of earning a match point from Team Ambartsoumian while garnering enough individual points (Khachiyan, like Sevillano was 11-1) to edge Team Matikozyan by a half-point. Team Khachiyan juniors were Joshua Sheng (2175), Craig Hilby (2173), Alexander Xie (2029), Elkaei Rivera (2027), Danial Asaria (1930) and Stephanie Shao (1899).
The Sean Reader Master-Junior Simul invites Southern California's best young players (average rating this year was 2067!) to this mentoring event at which all costs are covered by Sean's Fund. The players enjoy a relaxed environment with their peers and their role models without any concern of rating loss. Players and their families enjoyed a catered lunch.
Each "Master" selects a Best Game winner. This year, the winners were:
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GM Sevillano – NM Daniel Mousseri
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27. Bc5!! Re1+ 28.Qxe1 Bxe1 29.Rxd5 Qe6 30.Rd8! 1-0.
GM Khachiyan – Lu (2169)
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19.Rxg4! hxg4
Now Melik's knights will control the board.
20.Ne5 Bc8 21.g3 Rf5 22.Ncd3 Ref8 23.Nxg4 Bd7 24.f4 Be8 25.Nc5 Bd7 26.Ne5 Be8 27.Nxa6 c5 28.Nxc5 Bb5 29.a4 Be8 30.b3 R8f6 31.Kb2 Bc6 32.a5 Bb5 33.Qb4 c6 34.a6 1-0.
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28. … Qxb7! 29.Nxb7 Nxe2 30.Qa5? Missing the only move that keeps it close: 30. Bb4! with the idea that White can meet 30. … Bf4+ and 31. … Bg3 with 32. Qa2+ forking the king and knight. 30. … Bf4+ 31.g3 Bxg3 32.Kh1 Rf1+ 33.Kg2 Rf2+ 0-1. Next is 34.Kh1 Rh2#.
Jay & Michel Stallings organized the event with assistance from Chan Reader. NTD Randy Hough officiated.
This event originated in the 1970's and was revised in 2000. It missed a few years, then was resurrected by Sean's Fund, in honor of Sean Reader who participated in the event in 2003. Sean, who was diagnosed with leukemia on April 1, 2005, led his school team to a tie for 2nd in the K-6 Open at SuperNationals III (2005) a few days later, before dying on August of 2006. One of Sean's teammates, Sam Kennedy (starting at 2:10), talked about how moving it was to play on Sean's team in the US Chess Scoop video from the recently concluded SuperNationals.
Sean's Fund not only sponsors this event, but also offers financial aid to chess students in the Santa Clarita Valley (CA) who cannot afford classes, camps, tournaments or other special events. Additionally, Sean's Fund takes chess-themed backpacks (and teaches chess) to the young patients at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, City of Hope Hospital, and The Painted Turtle Camp. More at www.seansfund.org.


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Things can get overwhelming fast when you have too many things to do. Author Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less suggests a system of ranking and dividing your tasks to help prioritize them.
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When I was learning to fly, one of the lessons was that if you see an object on the horizon that is seemingly stationary but getting larger, watch out. It is probably an aircraft closing with you.
Trouble with China in the South China Sea is on the horizon of U.S. strategic concerns and getting larger. A major confrontation may be at hand.
China claims sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel islands in the South China Sea. Its claims have been disputed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines,Taiwan and Vietnam.
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Vietnam and the Philippines have also built up reefs, but on a smaller scale, and mostly to help their fishing fleets.
Offshore islands, real or summoned from the deep, are trouble. Argentina and Chile nearly went to war over the Beagle Channel Islands, off the inhospitable tip of South America, until Pope John Paul II brokered a peace deal in 1984.
Britain and Argentina most certainly did go to war in 1982 over the Falkland Islands, which Argentina claimed then and still claims.
Nations use territorial disputes not only to divert attention from domestic problems, but also to heal the real or imagined wounds of history.
China feels, reasonably, that it was kicked around in history. Britain occupied parts of it, most notably Hong Kong, and then acted as a drug lord in the 19th-century Opium Wars. In the 20th century, China was invaded by Japan.
Now, as the world's second-largest economy and most populous nation, China is feeling assertive.
But all of Asia, and by extension the rest of the world, is invested in this dispute: one third of the world's shipping passes through the South China Sea, and its rich fishing grounds are a vital food source for the region.
The Chinese bolster their claims with a 1947 map showing what is known as the "nine-dash line," or the cow's tongue because of its shape, in the South China Sea. This line extends around the sea and encloses 90 percent of the area; by historical standards this is a whopper of a claim for territory, and one which threatens U.S. allies in the region as well as our shipping.
The Chinese claims appear to be in total violation of international law, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which the United States has not ratified, and which China ratified in 1996.
The dispute with claims and counterclaims is laid out in a new, dispassionate report by the Boston Global Forum, a Harvard professor-heavy think tank.
The United States responded to the China's claim of territorial integrity for its artificial islands after a long delay, testing the right to navigate by sending the USS Lassen, a guided missile destroyer, through the 12-nautical-mile zone off Subi Reef on Oct. 27. China has reacted angrily with aerial exercises.
The USS Lassen's transit of the reef appears to have divided the White House. At one point, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter would not acknowledge in public that it had actually happened, or that U.S. aircraft might test the Chinese claim to territorial air rights.
These actions are known as freedom of navigation operations, or FONOPS. It is a term we will hear more of if the United States and China cannot divert from their brinkmanship in the South China Sea.
The United States does not favor any nation's claim to islands, or even rocks, in that sea. It does, though, have a vital interest in checking Chinese expansion and the interests of its Asian allies who expect a robust U.S. response to China's island grab — and claim to a whole ocean. — For InsideSources.com


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Sometimes exercise might not be the right answer.
I'm not talking about the retired professor who wrote "The Joy of Laziness," advocating that people exercise less and sleep in more. He felt that exercise made people more stressed, while laziness (such as hanging out in a hammock) made them more relaxed. I'd like to put that theory to further non-rigorous testing before offering an opinion one way or another.
I'm talking about an article in Psychology Today about how exercise might not be the best way to respond to stress. This is totally contrary to my oft-repeated mantra of exercise or else, but this article made me think. (In itself a good thing.)
Basically the author suggests that exercise might not be the best response to stress. Or at least, not all the time. She advocates positive social contact instead. (I'm grossly oversimplifying what the author wrote, but that's a side effect of my laziness testing.) She quotes a neuroscientist, "You may think exercise is curative... but the calm you get from jogging 10 miles is more analgesic than therapeutic."
This runs counter to everything else I've read on the subject. Everywhere you look experts are recommending exercise as a form of stress management. Exercise helps the body relax. It doesn't make my problems go away, but if I'm relaxed I'm better prepared to face them.
The idea of deliberately not exercising worries me a bit. It would be so easy to slide into the habit of using stress as an excuse not to exercise. Working out is the best way to blow off steam that I know of. Perhaps the solution would be for people in high-stress situations to exercise in a social setting: go to a gym, join a cycling group, something like that. I've always been a loner when it comes to exercise, but maybe I could persuade the dog to come along on a run.
I don't think there's anything wrong with positive social contact when you're having a stressed-out day; I just don't think it should take the place of exercise.
I remember reading of one woman who used to stuff herself whenever she was upset, taking the concept of comfort food to an extreme. Then she switched to exercising when she was upset, which at first was great. She lost a lot of weight, toned her body, and felt good about herself. But she felt good about herself only when she was exercising. So she ended up exercising for hours at a time (I believe her exercise drug of choice was dancing), to the point where she seriously injured the tendons in her legs but wanted to continue dancing anyway. Someone in that situation should probably try hammock testing for a change. Or social contact. (Or social contact in a hammock.)
Seems to me that if you have a tendency to take things to this extreme, then exercise might not be the right answer for you. I suspect this woman is the exception rather than the rule. But that's just my opinion. What do you think?
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According to Recode, Facebook is implementing a major product reorganization.
Recode shares that the company has not shaken up their executives like this in it's 15-year reign on Social Media. The apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook's original app will now have different leaders, and it's meant to improve user privacy, as well as executive communication.
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Watch Dirilis Ertugrul Episode 123 with English & Urdu Subtitles. You are watching Dirilis Ertugrul Season 5 Episode 123 with English & Urdu Subtitles & 1080p Ultra HD Quality. The heroic story of Ertugrul Ghazi, the father of Osman (Uthman) who founded the Ottoman Empire.
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Show Name: | Dirilis Ertugrul |
Language: | Turkish |
Subtitles: | Urdu |
Episode: | 123rd |
Release Date: | 14th Nov 2018 |
Dirilis Ertugrul Synopsis:
The story is set in the 13th century and tells the story of Ertuğrul, the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. 400 large tents of Bedouins have settled in Anatolia but are struggling due to famine. All these Bedouins want to migrate to another place where they can enjoy a better life. Suleiman Shah, the leader of this group (Kai Clan), wants to give his people a better life, but he doesn't want to make a quick decision without considering all the side effects.
For this reason, some Bedouins accuse him of not being a good leader. Even his ambitious eldest son, Gündoğdu (was Tsaner), began to question his decisions. However, his youngest son Ertugrul trusts his father's decisions all the time and does not want to interfere in the affairs of the clan. Ertugrul (Engin Altan Duzyatan) is a young and brave man who often goes hunting with his three close men, Turgut (Cengiz Coskun), Bamsi Beyrek (Nurettin Sonmez) and Dogan (Cavit Cetin Guner). One day, he saved the life of a young girl named Halima (Ezra Bilgic) and her family from Temple Knights. He takes her to his clan without knowing her true identity.
Halima and her family belong to the noble family of the Seljuk Empire and must be killed by the Empire if Ertugrul does not save them. They don't reveal their true identity for fear of being caught. However, their arrival brings new difficulties for the Kayi clan: now they must fight the Seljuk Empire if they do not let their guests go, and they must fight the Knights Templar, who seek revenge. Meanwhile, Ertugrul carries the burden of his clan on his shoulders. He must find a new country for his clan. Because of this, Ertuğrul and his three men go to Halep to make an agreement with Halep Shah: they want new land in exchange for their help to Shah Halep against the Templars and other non-Muslims. Ertugrul wants to be successful in this journey and bring his clan back immediately to see his first love Halime again. He made a good impression on Halep Shah and eventually got land for the Kayi tribe. This new land has fertile soil but is very close to the Templars.
In their new land, the Ertugrul and Kayi tribes have to fight against the Templars and the Crusaders. The Pope and the Knights Templar prepare for the Sixth Crusade (which will take place 1228-1229). With the aim of reclaiming the city of Jerusalem, the Templars attempt to weaken the Seljuk Empire. They are trying to break the unity in the Islamic world and incite the Turkmen against the Anatolian Seljuks.
Dirilis Ertugrul Episode 123 Release Date and Time:
Country | Date | Time |
Pakistan | 14th Nov 18 | 10:00 PM |
India | 14th Nov 18 | 10:30 PM |
US | 14th Nov 18 | 1:00 AM |
UK | 14th Nov 18 | 6:00 PM |
Turkey | 14th Nov 18 | 8:00 PM |
UAE | 14th Nov 18 | 9:00 PM |
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In her book What's Math Got to Do With It?, Jo Boaler recounted her first contact with the math wars. A group of parents at a local school had organized against the adoption of reform textbooks, and were telling students that if they took the classes with the new books, they wouldn't be eligible for college. Apparently the parents had called admissions offices and asked a question like, "Would you accept a student who had not taken any math in high school but had just talked about math?" (Boaler, 2008, p. 33). Of course the colleges said no, and from that question and response parents based a claim about reform texts and college admission.
If we try to put angry politics aside for a moment, where did the parents in Boaler's story get the idea that reform math was all about talking about math? Certainly that thought was not a total fabrication. In fact, the learning theories that influenced much of the reform math movement led teachers and researchers to think about how to structure classrooms in ways that maximized learning, and that led to an attention to classroom discourse -- the teacher-student and student-student speaking and writing that happens in classrooms. By studying classroom discourse, we can gain key insights about what and how math is learned, and how our experiences and our environment affect that learning. (This, I believe, is not unique to reform classrooms -- all good math teachers and students pay careful attention to how we talk about and otherwise communicate mathematics.)
Megan Staples, a former advisee of Jo Boaler, is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut specializing in mathematics education and classroom discourse. In her article Supporting Whole-Class Collaborative Inquiry in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom (2007), Staples takes on the challenges of being the teacher and supporting students in "collaborative inquiry." Instead of simply viewing collaboration as working in groups, or cooperating to complete a task, Staples says collaboration, "implies a joint production of ideas, where students offer their thoughts, attend and respond to each other's ideas, and generate shared meaning or understanding through their joint efforts" (p. 162). As for inquiry, Staples sees it as a way of "engaging with and making sense of the world" (p. 163), and applies the term to "both inquiry into mathematics and inquiry with mathematics" (p. 163). Finally, and perhaps most importantly, is how Staples defines learning mathematics itself. Using a situative perspective, Staples sees mathematics as a cultural practice, where "learning results from, and is evidenced by, student participation in both standard and disciplinary practices (e.g., justifying, representing algebraically) and an array of other practices of mathematical communities (e.g., questioning, communicating, informal reasoning)" (p. 163). With these conceptions of collaboration, inquiry, and learning mathematics in mind, Staples conducted a year-long observation and analysis of Ms. Nelson, a veteran, award-winning teacher known for her dedication to reform mathematics principles. The class Staples analyzed was called "Math A," a lower-track 9th grade class for students with a history of low performance in traditional mathematics classrooms.
Staples's analysis yielded two models for teaching that support student participation in class discussion. The first model describes the role of the teacher in a whole-class discussion, while the second describes how Ms. Nelson increases the class's ability to collaborate over time. I'll present Staples's findings in outline form, with attention to specific recommendations for teachers wishing to support collaborative inquiry in their own classrooms. (Be patient -- the original article is 57 pages long, after all.)
- Model 1: The teacher's role in supporting whole-class collaborative inquiry
- Supporting students in making contributions
- Eliciting student ideas -- Instead of just asking questions like, "Why?" or "How do you know?," Ms. Nelson presses students to share with comments like, "Come on, I'm really interested, come on, you can do it" (p. 175), gave students adequate time to formulate explanations, and offered participation points as a reward for contributing ideas.
- Scaffolding the production of student ideas -- Ms. Nelson helps direct struggling students to use multiple representations and models, such as number lines, graphs, diagrams, etc. The key, says Staples, is to provide structure for the mathematics without constraining how the students will work out the mathematics (p. 178).
- Creating contributions - Ms. Nelson treated incomplete and incorrect contributions by students the same as correct ideas, saying things like, "Remember the idea is to go up and give us some good discussion...that helps the class move along regardless of whether it's right or wrong, it enables us to have good discussion" (pp. 178-179).
- Establishing and monitoring a common ground
- Creating a shared context -- Ms. Nelson focused on creating shared contexts among students. This was accomplished by repeating of student statements and encouraging students to record and share their representations and ideas on the board.
- Maintaining continuity over time -- Ms. Nelson emphasized a sense of purpose when asking students to contribute. She directed students with phrases like, "Come up [to the board] please. Ron says that there are more diagonal lines. That Oscar didn't put enough in" (p. 181). Ms. Nelson also gave students time to understand and add clarity to other students' ideas before introducing new ideas.
- Coordinating the collective -- Ms. Nelson actively positions students to respond to each other. When a student, Jay, had difficulty explaining an idea and Ken raised his hand, Ms. Nelson asked, "OK, do you wanna explain some more Ken? Or do you have a question for Jay?" (p. 185).
- Guiding the mathematics
- Guiding high-level task implementation -- Ms. Nelson selected tasks that were difficult enough to invite collaboration, but guided students in ways that avoided unproductive exploration. This sometimes involved recounting the steps students had taken to reach their current thinking or requesting new representations of ideas. Either way, the focus was on how the students were thinking about the problem, and not just giving hints for the next step.
- Guiding with a map of students' algebra learning -- This is where Ms. Nelson showed her experience with mathematics and the learning of mathematics, knowing the "pressure points" (p. 190) where students needed to pay particular attention to the structure of the mathematics.
- Guiding by following: "going with the kids" -- Ms. Nelson showed a willingness to let go and follow students' thinking and be flexible with the intended destination of the lesson.
- Supporting students in making contributions
- Model 2: The development of a community of collaborative learners
- The development of practices over time -- High school is a difficult time to introduce collaborative inquiry because students have longer histories with traditional mathematics and because classes meet for a limited time each day. Expectations need to be made explicit and modeled for students.
- The model -- Developing community is an iterative process involving tasks or strategies that Staples calls "cycle starters" (p. 196) that spur student participation, which elicits negotiation of meanings, which leads to student interpretations and understandings. From there the cycle can repeat and improve.
- Negotiation of meanings -- For example, early in the year students, when asked to explain, automatically assume they've given a wrong answer. Once this practice is established, students improve in the ways they respond to questions about their thinking.
- Helping students make sense of practices -- Early in the year, Ms. Nelson would fill in commentary when students did work silently in front of the class, saying things like, "He is noticing a pattern over here" (p. 198). This modeled the practice of thinking aloud for the class and emphasized the value of sharing one's thinking.
- Providing evidence for the value for learning -- When students struggled, Ms. Nelson encouraged them to stop and express what it was they were struggling with. Making mistakes became an acceptable part of doing mathematics so long as they became opportunities to learn and correct misunderstandings.
- Negotiation of the joint enterprise -- Ms. Nelson explained early in the year that these students were doing to do mathematics differently than in the past, and that they didn't need the math dumbed-down just because they hadn't been successful before.
- Cycle starters -- Ms. Nelson included not only engaging tasks, but helped create a vision of how that task could be accomplished, sometimes by describing the expected collaboration but also by showing a video of older students collaborating and discussing how they worked together.
- Students' interpretations and understandings of practices -- From student interviews and surveys, Staples found that students interacted with each other during class either for social reasons or to make the class less boring. By the end of the year, students reported that working together helped them learn because of the opportunities to listen and respond to each others' ideas.
- Transforming a community's repertoire -- Ms. Nelson's effort to transform the way it does mathematics was an ongoing effort that lasted the entire year. The effort is a negotiation, where as the class built new experiences together they could reflect on what was working and adjust their practices in future lessons.
In her discussion, Staples focuses on how teachers support collaborative inquiry while maintaining their role. It is certainly possible for a teacher to ask students to share ideas or report strategies, but it takes extra effort to build that common ground where students analyze and evaluate each other's ideas. Defining this common ground is difficult and it will be different in every classroom, but it is up to the teacher to develop and maintain it throughout the school year. Teachers also must be mindful of the mathematics, even when "going with the kids." It takes a skillful teacher to subtly push the mathematics while keeping the class collaborative. Lastly, the teacher must maintain a sense for a "long-term trajectory of student learning" (p. 210), although having such a sense does not necessarily support collaboration by itself. Staples's research is thorough and well-grounded in qualitative methodology, but it is not without its criticisms. I see critiques coming from two directions: from a more cognitive perspective, Staples doesn't attend much to individual student thinking, preferring to focus on social practices and classroom norms for participation. From a more purely sociocultural perspective, Staples doesn't account for how the influence of other, beyond-the-classroom cultures and community norms affect how students approach and understand mathematics. This is not to fault Staples, however -- she prefaced her findings with defining a situative perspective, and she maintained that perspective throughout. This just means that there are multiple ways of describing classroom communities and learning, and more work can be done to describe and build bridges across multiple perspectives.
Boaler, J. (2008). What's math got to do with it? How parents and teachers can help children learn to love their least favorite subject (p. 273). New York, NY: Penguin Group.
Staples, M. (2007). Supporting whole-class collaborative inquiry in a secondary mathematics classroom. Cognition and Instruction, 25(2), 161-217. doi:10.1080/07370000701301125


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I recently had lunch with one of the world's most well-known critics, so I took the opportunity to ask her what she thought of the three judges on American Idol. "Truly, constructive criticism conveys that indispensable degree of honesty through a combination of credibility and skilled diplomacy," she said. "For example, Simon Cowell is too cold, while Paula Abdul is often way too warm. But Randy Jackson strikes the proper balance between the two." I pressed Goldilocks to elaborate, and she said, "He's just right."Someone submitting themselves to you for approval makes giving constructive criticism fraught with pitfalls. Here are some tips to find that critical golden mean so that your comments neither sound inutile nor cause too much offense, while still getting the person to respond and improve accordingly.
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Online vendettas, Yelp style. And mob think gets personal.
Virtual currencies congealing?
The history of the corporation.
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"Skill must be culled from a string of mistakes. Lots of them."
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