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Perhaps in this update it is an appropriate time to post a picture of our wedding cake. (It is posted to the right). The four layers have small miniature flowers on the sides with beaded piping around the edges and is adorned with live Gerber daisies (my wife's favorite flower).
I love cake, and so I was very excited the enjoy fresh wedding cake at my sister's wedding on Saturday. Like my wife and I, her cake had different flavors on different layers. I had a slice of almond poppyseed with raspberry (my favorite) as well as a slice of classic white with white frosting.
And although the catering company removed the top of her cake and boxed it up separately, the bakery my sister and her husband used have a special deal were they give you a small cake on your one year anniversary so they don't have to contend with the cake toping challenge.

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In the case of this unfortunate incident, some residents have been calling for changes in order to improve the safety of their children. When the Dutch TV programme HvNL (Heart of the Netherlands) reported on the incident they included comments from a local politician who wants change as well from a local councillor who saw no problem. During the short time that they were on site, the film crew caught a collision which could have resulted in a serious injury:
Where the collision occurred and where the film-crew saw another collision during a short visit. Making such a manoeuvre across traffic is difficult and error prone. View on Google Maps |
There is a common thread running through many stories about traffic accidents in the Netherlands. Where injuries occur, it is often the case that they take place where the infrastructure is sub-standard. This location definitely has substandard infrastructure.
It's easy to see where the opportunity for the crash came from. This road carries a lot of relatively high speed motorized through traffic as well as a lot of cyclists. Many of the cyclists are children going to school and they have to make a difficult to judge manoeuvre, crossing parallel traffic while checking both behind and in front, as part of their daily journey.
On-road cycle-lanes
Cycle-lanes are not really infrastructure at all, they're just paint. This road is decorated by particularly narrow on-road painted cycle-lanes and does not have the physical infrastructure which could protect cyclists from the danger of motor vehicles.
Further along the same road in Oostrum. Narrow cycle-lanes encourage cyclists to ride in the gutter and drivers to overtake. This is bad infrastructure. |
Narrow cycle-lanes like the one involved in the incident in Oostrum don't work very well anywhere. These encourage cyclists to ride in the gutter and they encourage drivers to expect cyclists to be in the gutter. Cycle-lanes of this design encourage close passing and risk-taking by drivers. They're often associated with drivers overtaking cyclists and almost immediately turning across their path. All cycle-lanes, regardless of width, make it difficult for a cyclist to safely turn across other traffic. Junctions need more thought than is apparent on this road.
Advanced stop lines (bike boxes) are often associated with on-road cycle-lanes, including here in Oostrum. ASLs make drivers frustrated behind cyclists and make them anxious to overtake. What's more, these cycle-lanes even encourage cyclists to ride in "the door zone" next to cars in parking bays at the same time as encouraging drivers to overtake those cyclists within a pinch point. This is poor infrastructure which causes many conflicts. At least cyclists don't have to deal with drivers turning right at the junction. Just because you can find an example of something like this in NL that doesn't mean it is good and should be copied. |
In a location where many children cycle to school this lack of well designed infrastructure encourages dangerous behaviour by those children and puts them in danger. But it's not only at this point - the road looks much the same for a stretch of about 1.5 km, well into the next town, Venray, and for most of the distance, including where the collision took place, the speed limit is relatively high at 50 km/h
The local councillor interviewed by the TV crew doesn't see the problem. He gave a response on camera in which he said that there were good sight lines and everyone should be able to see what everyone else is doing and behave accordingly. British readers may find parallels with Boris Johnson's widely criticised comment that cycling in London is "OK if you keep your wits about you".
Elsewhere in Oostrum, Google's camera spots people "voting with their feet" and continuing on the pedestrian path rather than switching to riding on the road. There are no cycle-paths within Oostrum. |
Unfortunately, the councillor has slipped into a common mode of thinking amongst people from all countries. It is imagined that given enough advice, people won't make mistakes. This is a fallacy. People will always make mistakes. This almost defines us as being human. Not only will no amount of training prevent either child cyclists or adult drivers from making mistakes, but law changes or punishment for mistakes will also not remove the possibility of mistakes occurring.
Readers from overseas who sometimes over-estimate the effects of "strict liability laws" in the Netherlands should note that this law doesn't prevent mistakes from being made in locations like this where the infrastructure is inadequate to the task of keeping people safe. The Dutch drive no more perfectly than do people of other nations, and while Dutch children receive limited traffic training in school, it's quite obvious from watching groups of children cycle that this doesn't have anything like the beneficial effect on behaviour that training advocates imagine.
Just because someone is Dutch and lived through campaigning forty years ago about childhood freedom and safety, that does not mean they will automatically understand about these issues. Some people simply can't see things from the point of view of others. Cycling is almost too common in the Netherlands. People take it for granted and don't realise that the high cycling modal share of this country is due to infrastructure and not culture.
The raised table in the centre of Oostrum is a more modern feature. This probably does help to reduce speeds in the centre, but the direct road to Venray has been overlooked |
What makes Dutch roads and cycle-paths safe is not training or strict liability but Sustainable Safety (Duurzaam Veilig). Sustainable Safety is a policy of reducing the opportunity for mistakes to become injuries by reducing the consequences of making such mistakes. Roads should be self-explanatory and forgiving (read an article which explains more).
The passing of time
Stationsweg is the road to Venray's railway station, so has probably always been quite busy. However, it hasn't always been like this. At some point, probably in the 1980s, adding cycle-lanes to this road perhaps seemed to make sense. However, the world didn't stop then. Both Oostrum and Venray have experienced growth in the last thirty years. There are many new homes, many more people. Car ownership in the Netherlands has grown and the use of cars has also grown with it.
Not all infrastructure in this country has been updated to current standards. Stationsweg in Oostrum is just one of many examples of roads which lag a long way behind the standards of 2013. The principles of Sustainable Safety have yet to make a dent here. There's some catching up to do.
Change is needed
Residents of Oostrum are absolutely right to demand changes which will improve the safety of themselves and their children. The safety of the next generation is the best thing any of us we can possibly campaign for.
In my view there are several obvious ways in which safety could be improved at the point of the accident:
- Diverting motorized traffic using this road to other routes would remove much of the danger from cars, regardless of other measures.
- Lower speed limits would make it easier to judge the speeds of cars and reduce the severity of injury.
- A raised table and narrowing of the motor lane to a single vehicle width could reduce the speed of cars at the point of crossing.
- A 90 degree crossing would make it easier for cyclists to see cars coming from both directions.
- A central reservation for crossing would remove the need for cyclists to see in both directions at once.
- A parallel cycle-path along much of the road would provide more distance between motorized vehicles and cyclists.
in the 1970s, the Stop de Kindermoord (Stop Child Murder) protests gained mass support. Other local actions such as dramatic protests in De Pijp in Amsterdam also played a part in changing the way people thought about safety on the streets. This country began to transform itself 40 years ago. and that happened because there was popular support for change. While not everyone was in agreement at all times, the entire population was behind the idea of children being safe and infrastructure across the country was transformed as a result.
Unfortunately, keeping up momentum is not easy. Because such a long time has passed, people have forgotten how important this was. The safety of children is no longer an explosive campaigning issue. The situation in the Netherlands isn't bad overall. Dutch children are still rated by UNICEF as having the best well-being in the world, but this is a sign of past success and did not come about due to current policy. The adults who led the change in the 1970s and the experts who designed the improved infrastructure have largely retired. There are signs that their good ideas are to some extent being forgotten. The children of the early 1970s, for whom the actions were taken, are now middle aged and even their own children are grown up. Younger activists are largely unaware and unappreciative of what was achieved and how unique and significant this was. Even Dutch people often fall into the easy trap of believing that they cycle because it's in their culture. We've found that people are quite shocked if shown pictures of what their streets used to look like because they don't remember the problems that designing towns solely around motor vehicles used to cause.
This is a dangerous time for the Netherlands because some of what made this country great is being forgotten. It should be no surprise that Dutch children are being taken to school by car more often these days.
Compared with villages in other countries, it's possible to approach Oostrum on surprisingly good quality cycle-paths. The village largely has relatively low speed limits and contains both a raised table in the centre and on-road cycle-lanes leading to the west. Not all of this is bad, and of course it could appear to be an example of relatively good practice. It would be easy to overlook the problems cause by the use of on-road cycle lanes on a busy road, especially if these were not witnessed first hand because of the time of day when they were observed.
We find it is not at all uncommon that people take photos of substandard infrastructure that they've found in the Netherlands and try to have similar ideas adopted after they return to their own country. Not only does older infrastructure not necessarily make itself obvious if you're from a country which is less advanced with regard to cycling but people also sometimes view what looks more familiar as more achievable, even though the cost difference is often not large, and doing something twice in order to fix a mistake is always more expensive than doing it properly in the first place.
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If Oostrum were local to us, we might visit to point out problems to be avoided. However there's no need to make a special trip. There are bad examples of infrastructure closer to home which already feature on our study tours, where we explain the problems caused. We also, of course, feature examples of very good infrastructure and encourage people to learn from these about what really works to encourage cycling. Our tours allow you to save yourself from misunderstandings and wasted effort.
The Netherlands has the difficult job of being in front and not having any other country to copy from. In other countries the job is much easier and there's no time to waste. You're already decades behind what the Dutch have achieved and the Netherlands still stands as very easily the best example to try to emulate.
Note that in most cases, Dutch children make relatively uneventful journeys to school. This is what makes cycling to school so popular in the Netherlands. However we have to be wary because there has been a small decline in recent years.


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If you've owned your house for at least a couple of years, there's something you're going to want to know more about – and that's home equity. If you're not familiar with that term, Freddie Mac defines it like this:
". . . your home's equity is the difference between how much your home is worth and how much you owe on your mortgage."
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Imagine a future where human environments respond to human preferences and needs. In this world, devices equipped with simple intelligence and the abilities to sense, communicate, and act will be unremarkable features of our world. We will expect the car to warn us of hazards, track our location and provide timely route advice. We will speak to simple machines and hold conversations with more complex systems, such as intelligent homes that will help us monitor conditions, track routine tasks, and program the behaviour of the heater, lights, garden watering and the entertainment centre. Analogous systems at work will make simple decisions in our stead ranging from scheduling meetings to negotiating for common services over the web. Such systems will also acquire, and adapt to our preferences over time. In sum, we will come to view simple software intelligence as an ambient feature of our environment.
This workshop will provide the opportunity to understand latest developments and take action to shape the future of the area by gathering researchers in a variety of AI subfields together with representatives of commercial interests to explore the technology and applications for ambient intelligence.
This event will build up on the topics discussed during the previous successful editions: AITAmI'06 held during ECAI'06 AITAmI'07 held during IJCAI'07, AITAmI'08 held during ECAI'08, AITAmI'09 held during IE'09, AITAmI'10 held during IE'10, AITAmI'11 held during IE'11, AITAmI'12 held during IE'12, AITAmI'13 held during IE'13, and AITAmI'14 held during IE'14.


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CLICK on the links to hear a selection of excerpts from this week's Talking Newspaper ... courtesy of the Macclesfield and District Talking Newspaper - http://www.macctn.org.uk .
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by Will
(NSW, Australia)
I would love this song played at my funeral… i think it was also played at Michael Jackson's Memorial…
Hold Me
Like The River Jordan
And I Will Then Say To Thee
You Are My Friend
Carry Me
Like You Are My Brother
Love Me Like A Mother
Will You Be There?
Tell Me Will You Hold Me
When Wrong, Will You Scold Me
When Lost Will You Find Me?
But They Told Me
A Man Should Be Faithful
And Walk When Not Able
And Fight Till The End
But I'm Only Human
Everyone's Taking Control Of Me
Seems That The World's
Got A Role For Me
I'm So Confused
Will You Show To Me
You'll Be There For Me
And Care Enough To Bear Me
(Hold Me)
(Lay Your Head Lowly)
(Softly Then Boldly)
(Carry Me There)
(Lead Me)
(Love Me And Feed Me)
(Kiss Me And Free Me)
(I Will Feel Blessed)
(Carry Me Boldly)
(Lift Me Up Slowly)
(Carry Me There)
(Save Me)
(Heal Me And Bathe Me)
(Softly You Say To Me)
(I Will Be There)
(Lift Me)
(Lift Me Up Slowly)
(Carry Me Boldly)
(Show Me You Care)
(Hold Me)
(Lay Your Head Lowly)
(Softly Then Boldly)
(Carry Me There)
(Need Me)
(Love Me And Feed Me)
(Kiss Me And Free Me)
(I Will Feel Blessed)
In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tribulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow
I'll Never Let You Part
For You're Always In My Heart.


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Why Must Adults Continue Education?
Adult education helps adults by providing education of high standards in a variety of forms. Several adult teaching programs guide adults towards better productivity of labor, regardless of how old they are. It ensures individuals to contend with others inside a better means by this competitive society. Adult education and literacy programs are funded through federal grants in the majority of the states.
It enriches your quality lifestyle. Ongoing education can be achieved at any stage of the existence. Many adult education centers are for sale to you to definitely continue your education. Additionally, it enhances your work possibilities, should you have had been unemployed for quite a while. National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) ensures anyone to carry on education at any stage by supplying an excellent education.
NAAL states a stable progress within the rate in adult education in america. Based on the report mentioned through the NAAL, the typical literacy points rose 8 points from 1992 to 2003. The particular prose and document literacy degree of African Americans has elevated from six to eight points. More efficient and accessible choices are available these days inside a much interactive way that has been produced by the academic department.
Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) helps Americans enhance their existence standards by helping them and offering a top quality of your practice. There are numerous those who have not had the ability to finish their degree or graduation what ever they want to complete. Many choose to continue the amount in schools. Individuals who require to acquire any degree within the later period can perform it with the aid of ongoing adult teaching programs. Ongoing adult education helps you receive a better qualification, whenever you have the degree you acquired isn't enough. It will help you leading to improvement in business, work culture, and family standard. The department of your practice improves adult teaching programs with a lot of options and options to adults who would like to continue the amount.


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Heart-shaped page marker origami
Each heart requires a half sheet of square origami paper. (My paper was 5" square, so my starting piece after cutting in half was a 5" x 2.5" rectangle.)
With the patterned side to the outside, fold the rectangle in half lengthwise.
Then fold it in half width-wise to mark the center line, and open again.
Fold one side up at a 45 degree angle, so the edge aligns with the center.
Repeat with the other side.
Turn the paper over. Fold the top downward. You can eyeball this; about 1/3 of the top section gets folded down.
Fold in the corners to form a heart shape. The little pocket at the bottom can fit over page corners if you use this as a bookmark.


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Failed Back Syndrome
What is Failed Back Surgery Syndrome?
Failed back surgery syndrome is a term used to describe poor results from previous spine surgery.
Causes of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
The main goals of spine surgery are to relieve pain and improve spine stability. Pain is usually relieved by taking pressure off a compressed spinal nerve. Spine stability and pain control may be achieved by surgical fusion of the vertebrae. Success with the chosen procedure may vary depending on your condition. Failure mainly occurs because the source of pain was not properly identified.
Other causes of failure include:
- Failure of fusion
- Development of a new lesion (source of pain) in an adjacent spinal level
- Inadequate nerve decompression
- Recurrent spinal stenosis or disc herniation
- Nerve damage before or during surgery
- Development of scar tissue around the nerve
- Secondary source of pain remains untreated
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Due to Failure of Fusion Surgery
Solid fusion of adjacent vertebrae can take 3 months or longer. If it is not achieved in a year, your doctor may suggest further surgery. Surgery may be considered sooner if there is dislodging or breakage of an implant. Breakage of an implant may indicate continued instability. The risk of implant failure increases with patient size and the number of segments fused.
Spinal segments above or below fused segments are subject to increased stress and may develop new lesions or sources of pain. This is more likely to happen with fusion of more than two segments due to changes in spine mechanics. Certain segments do not move much so fusion is more successful at these levels e.g. L5-S1. Others such as L4-L5 move a lot and can stress adjacent segments when fused.
Elderly patients who are not so active do better with fusion surgery.
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Due to Failure of Decompression Surgery
Pressure may be relieved by removing bone or disc material, but the compressed nerve may take time to heal. Your doctor will wait at least three months before deciding if your surgery has been successful. Pain can sometimes increase during this period due to swelling of the tissues around the nerve root after the operation.
Leg pain due to nerve compression usually heals instantly with surgery. Other symptoms such as numbness, tingling or weakness can take longer to resolve. Unresolved symptoms may suggest permanent nerve damage.
Pain may return following a period of relief in cases of recurrent stenosis or herniation. Recurrent disc herniation usually occurs in the first 3 months after surgery. Stenosis due to regrowth of bone can cause pain years after a surgery.
No relief of pain following decompression surgery may be due to:
- Bone or disc still compressing the nerve
- Treating the wrong spinal segment
- Nerve damage during the procedure
Imaging studies can reveal areas of stenosis. Nerve damage and regrowth can be evaluated by EMG studies.
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Due to Scar Tissue Formation
Following spine surgery, scar tissue usually develops as part of the healing process. It may cause fibrous adhesion of the nerve roots within the spinal canal leading to pain. This can be decreased by stretching which keeps the nerves moving to prevent adherence. Pain due to scar tissue usually develops 6-12 weeks after surgery.
Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Due to Improper Rehabilitation
Healing after back surgery can take several months to a year and postoperative rehabilitation is important. More intense rehabilitation is needed for those undergoing complicated surgery or with long-standing symptoms. Continued rehabilitation is often recommended over repeat surgery.
Pain may have a secondary source which spine surgery has not addressed, such as nerve compression associated with piriformis syndrome.
It is necessary to realize that surgery may not be the final solution but that other therapies may be needed for better results. Surgery can provide enough pain relief to allow you to participate in physical therapy. Your doctor will create an individualized plan based on your condition.


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Controlling Text in Macromedia Flash 5
- Creating Dynamic and Input Text Fields
- Troubleshooting Text
- Did You Know?
An important element of most movies is text. Text is an efficient, compact, and relatively unambiguous way to convey information. Although a picture may be worth a thousand words, if it's misinterpreted, it might be the wrong thousand words.
You can use static text fields (see Chapter 2, "Creating Artwork and Text with Flash") when the message doesn't change, but in cases when you can't predict exactly what information you need to show users, you need to use strings.
A string is an ActionScript data type that stores text information. String values can be modified by ActionScript commands by using string operators, functions, and constants.
Strings can be visible on the stage, or they can work behind the scenes, living only in the computer's memory.
Creating Dynamic and Input Text Fields
Two types of text fields can be displayed on the stage: dynamic and input. These fields are the onscreen representations of string variables stored in memory.
Dynamic Text
You use a dynamic text field when you want to display changing text values but when the users don't need to make changes to the values. Dynamic text fields can contain text in a variety of fonts and styles and can be changed based on ActionScript commands.
To create a dynamic text field, follow these steps:
Use the Text tool to draw a rectangle onscreen, just as you would for a static text field.
Open the Text Options panel and select Dynamic Text from the Text Type pop-up menu (see Figure 18.1).
Use the Line Type pop-up menu to control whether one or more lines of text appear.
Enter the name of the variable that will be displayed in the dynamic text field in the Variable field. The name can be virtually any combination of alphanumeric characters, but should start with a letter, such as result or t20, not 3rdline.
Select the HTML check box to enable dynamic text formatting. If the box is unchecked, all text including any tags is displayed. If the box is checked, all tags are hidden, and supported formatting tags are used to format the displayed text (see Figure 18.2).
Use the Border/Bg check box to control whether a border and background are displayed. If the box is unchecked, only text is displayed within the text field. If the box is checked, a 1-pixel black line is displayed around the perimeter of the field (no matter what the magnification level) and a white background is displayed within the perimeter.
The Word Wrap check box appears when the Multiline check box is selected. If you want the text to fit the width of the field, you need to either select this option or insert line break characters in the string.
Check the Selectable check box to allow users to select and copy the dynamic text. Users can't change dynamic text, but if this option is checked, the text can be copied and pasted into other programs.
Select the option(s) for which font characters will be embedded in the movie. For smaller movies, use the options that allow you to include only specific characters. If only numbers will be displayed, use the number option. Remember that decimal points aren't numbers! If a wide variety of characters are used in the field, your best choice is generally to include the entire outline.
Figure 18.1 The options for dynamic text fields appear in the Text Options panel.
Figure 18.2 Two dynamic text fields can display the same text in different ways. These dynamic text fields are identical (and reference the same string variable), except that the one on the right has its HTML check box selected. The tags shown in the field on the left style the text on the right.
Selectable text in dynamic and input text fields can interfere with buttons and clickable areas near them. Unless this capability is necessary, make it a habit to deselect this option.
A dynamic text field is a window onto the contents of a variable. The text field and the variable should exist on the same timeline—only the variable name (and not the path to the variable) should be used in the Variable field of the Text Options panel.
When the Flash player encounters a dynamic text field in a movie, it automatically defines a variable with the name assigned to the text field if one doesn't already exist. If a variable does exist (because an ActionScript command has already defined it), the contents of the text field are modified to display the value of the variable.
If two or more dynamic text fields reference a single variable (if the names in their Variable fields are the same), changes to the variable affect all the text fields.
Dynamic text fields can contain multiple lines and paragraphs of text. They also can automatically wrap text or break lines when a carriage-return character is added to the string variable.
Adding HTML tags to the string variable lets you create limited text styling. Supported tags include the following:

—Paragraph and alignment
—Font typeface
—Font size
—Font color
—Bold type style
—Italic type style
—Underline type style

—Line break
—Hypertext link
All the tags (with the exception of the line break and paragraph tags) require a closing tag.
The font-embedding options let you control which font outlines are added to the SWF file when it's exported. Everything from specific characters to the entire font outline can be specified. The same character set is used for all font styles included in the text field at export time.
Input Text
Input text fields work almost exactly like dynamic text fields and share most of the same options (see Figure 18.3).
The main difference between input and dynamic text is that users can type and paste directly into input text fields.
The only input text option that differs from the options for dynamic text fields is the maximum character count field. You can enter a value in this field to limit the number of characters that users can type into the field. The default value of 0 means that no limit to the number of characters in the field exists.
Figure 18.3 The options for input text fields appear in the Text Options panel.
Using String Variables
String variables are how text data is stored in Flash. ActionScript can manipulate and modify string variables in many ways. When used in conjunction with dynamic text and input text fields, they're one of the best ways to display dynamic information to the user.
String variables are attached to a timeline just like numeric variables are. Strings are composed of zero or more characters (a string with zero characters is an empty string).
String values are denoted in scripts with double quotation marks. The string value "Flash 5" includes the letters F, l, a, s, and h; a space; and the character for the number 5. The quotation marks are not part of the string value; they simply mark the beginning and end of the string. An empty string is represented by a pair of double quotation marks (as in ""). String values in quotation marks are referred to as literal values.
Creating Strings
You can create new string variables in two ways: by creating a dynamic or an input text field and designating the variable name following the previous instructions or by setting the value of the variable using an ActionScript command.
To create a string variable, use the assignment operator (=), just as you would for any other type of variable:
address = "1600 Pennsylvania Ave.";
This example creates a string variable named address and assigns it a 22-character value containing the street address of the White House. (It also would assign a new value to address if it were already in existence.)
String variables are associated with a specific timeline, whether it's the root timeline or that of a movie clip or a loaded movie. A string variable is referenced with the path to the variable followed by the variable name. You also can use this technique to create a new variable in a timeline other than the one to which the script is attached:
_level0.address = "1600 Pennsylvania Ave.";
This example creates the address variable in the root timeline of the movie in level 0. (It also would assign a new value to address if it were already in existence.)
String Expressions
You can use strings in calculations to build new strings. String variables that contain numeric values can also be used in numeric calculations.
One of the most common uses of a string expression is to concatenate two strings. Concatenation combines two strings, placing one immediately after another. This operation uses the addition operator (+).
If you're exporting to the Flash 4 format for delivery, you must use the add operator instead of + for string concatenation.
address = "1600 " + "Pennsylvania Ave.";
Here, the two string elements are concatenated into a single string, which is assigned to the variable. Note that the space between the numbers and the word Pennsylvania is enclosed by the first pair of double quotation marks. The concatenation operation doesn't insert a space automatically.
You can combine multiple concatenation operations in a single expression, along with literal values, constants, and variables containing other strings or even numbers:
streetNum = 1600; streetName = "Pennsylvania Ave."; address = streetNum + " " + streetName;
This example combines a numeric variable (streetNum) with a string literal (the space between the double quotation marks) and combines a string variable (streetName) into a single string.
When you want to add something to the end of an existing string variable, you can use the addition assignment operator (+=) to concatenate:
address = 1600; streetName = "Pennsylvania Ave."; address += " " + streetName;
This example creates a numeric variable in the first line. Adding the space and streetName variable—both string values—converts the value of address to a string after the concatenation. This process of converting one type of data to another is called coercion.
In other cases, it might be necessary to coerce string values into numeric values. This is the case when input text fields are provided for users to enter data.
In most cases, Flash tries to determine what you want to do with string values that contain numeric characters. If you multiply or divide two strings, such as "3" and "5", you get a numeric value. Because the plus sign is also the concatenation operator, though, you'll get "35"—as a string—instead of 8 when trying to add the two numbers.
To clarify how you want Flash to interpret string values in numeric expressions, use the Number function to coerce the string value to a numeric value first:
first = "6"; second = "5"; sum = Number (first) + Number (second);
By converting both string values to numbers, the numeric sum is calculated in the third line instead of the concatenated string.
Comparing Strings
You can compare string values just like other values, using the same operators. When comparing strings, you should know that a string is really a series of numeric values filling in for the characters. The string value "1600" is not really a number—it's actually an array of four numbers. Each character in a string is an item in an array. The items are ASCII values; integers ranging from 0 to 255. That's not something peculiar to Flash, it's how all computers store string data. In the case of the string "1600," the numbers are 49 (the ASCII value for "1"), 54 ("6"), and two 48s (for the "0" characters).
If you're exporting to the Flash 4 format for delivery, you can't use the standard comparison operators for strings. You must use the string-specific comparison operators eq (for equals ==), gt (for greater than >), and lt (for less than <).
The values computers use to represent characters were established more than 30 years ago and are called ASCII codes. Each ASCII code stands for a specific character, although this can vary between Windows and MacOS operating systems, as well as between languages.
When Flash compares two string values, it's actually comparing the ASCII values character by character. This can lead to some confusion if you're not familiar with how it works.
Take the postal abbreviation of Alabama (AL) as an example. The capital letter A has an ASCII value of 65. Capital L is 76. Therefore, the string value "AL" is actually a list of two numbers: 65 and 76.
When you look at the string "al", you can tell that the letters are the same as "AL" because you're smarter than a computer. A computer doesn't compare letters; it compares characters, and the character A is different from the character a. Consider the following:
trace ("AL" == "al");
This single line of code displays the result false in the Output window. For two string values to be equal, each of the characters in both strings must have the same ASCII character code values. Because the code for a is 97 and the code for l is 108, the strings aren't equal, even though they are the same length and contain the same letters.
The other comparison operators also depend on the ASCII codes when working with strings. All the following statements are true in ActionScript:
"AL" < "Al" "Al" < "aL" "ALA" < "al"
Even though in the last example, the first string is longer than the second, the first character of the string has a code that is less than the code for the first character of the second.
This is where working with numbers expressed as strings can cause problems. Comparing two strings with number characters does not compare them numerically. They're compared just like letters are. The ASCII code for 0 is 48, 1 is 49, 2 is 50, and so on, up to 9 and 57.
If you perform a numerical comparison of the values 99 and 100, the expression 99 < 100 is evaluated as true. If you compare two strings, though, "99" < "100" is false, because the character code for 9 is greater than the character code for 1. Because the strings are compared character by character, anything beginning with the character 9 is greater than anything beginning with 1, no matter how long it is.
Using String Functions
You can manipulate strings in many ways. Strings can be chopped up, be broken apart, have portions extracted, and have words or characters deleted. The way to accomplish this is through the string functions. String functions were introduced in Chapter 15, "ActionScript Syntax" (see Table 15.5, "String Object Functions").
The previous section mentioned the problem of comparing string values. When you're trying to determine whether one word appears before another in alphabetical order, you can't simply use the < or > comparison operator, because Z comes before a in the ASCII order. What you can do, however, is use the comparison operators on two strings in which all the characters are of the same case (upper- or lowercase).
In this sample movie (see Figure 18.4), each of the buttons is a movie clip and includes a trigger function to perform an operation on the string shown in the input text field Original. The final string appears in the dynamic text field Result.
The first pair of buttons converts the original text to all uppercase or lowercase (see Figure 18.5). The trigger function for the Uppercase button contains only one line of code.
_root.result = _root.original.toUpperCase();
By setting variables to the lower- or uppercase version of the strings you want to compare, you can better determine the alphabetical order of single words.
Something that's always good to know about a string value is how many characters it contains. The length property does this for you:
_root.result = _root.original.length;
One of the most common tasks when dealing with strings is extracting a portion of the string for use elsewhere. This is where the substring functions are useful.
Figure 18.4 This sample movie shows how the string functions work.
Figure 18.5 The Uppercase button converts the original text to all uppercase characters.
The first substring function (charAt) retrieves a single character at an index position:
_root.result = _root.original.charAt(_root.index1);
The charCodeAt function returns the ASCII code for a specific character in the string:
_root.result = _root.original.charCodeAt(_root.index1);
The other two substring functions go about this in slightly different ways. You specify a starting point for both by including an index position (the number of characters offset from the beginning of the string) within the string.
With the substring function, you specify another index position at the end of the substring. You tell the substr function, on the other hand, the number of characters following the first index you want to grab. The trigger function for the Substring (length) button is as follows (see Figure 18.6):
root.result = _root.original.substr(_root.index1, _root.index2);
Figure 18.6 The Substring buttons use the index1 and index2 fields as parameters. The result shown here is for the substring (index) function.
The two input text fields next to the substring buttons provide the values for index1 and index2. The value of index1 provides the starting point for both functions. substring uses index2 as its end point, whereas substr uses index2 as its length.
Finding a character in a string is another useful task. The indexOf function finds the first instance in which one string appears in another string. You include the string to search for in the search variable, and then the index1 variable determines the point at which the search begins:
_root.result = _root.original.indexOf(_root.search, _root.index1);
A variation on indexOf finds the last instance in which a string appears in another string:
_root.result = _root.original.lastIndexOf(_root.search);
There's not a function for everything you might want to do with a string, but you can usually accomplish it by combining functions and other actions. The Count button (see Figure 18.7) has a trigger script that determines the number of times the search string appears in the original string.
Figure 18.7 The Index and Count buttons look for the text in the search variable. This example finds three n characters after index position 8 (one of the four ns is before 8).
count = 0; index = 0; while (_root.original.indexOf (_root.search, index) > -1) { count++; index = _root.original.indexOf (_root.search, index) + 1; } _root.result = count;
The script begins searching at the first character and repeats as long as it can continue finding copies of the search string. Each time a match is found, the next search begins at the next character after the match. Both the indexOf and lastIndexOf functions return -1 when no match is found, ending the while loop.
The HTML text field shows how text styling can be affected by adding HTML tags to a string variable. The dynamic text field has its HTML option enabled:
quote = String.fromCharCode (34); root.html = "" + _root.original + ""; _root.result = _root.html;
The script on the Serif button creates a variable containing the double quotation character by using the fromCharCode function (this is done because you need to use the character in the tags you're going to add). The FONT tag is wrapped around the original text, with the appropriate typeface used for the FACE. The result text field displays the variable, including the tags.
Scrolling Text
You can display long text blocks in a couple of ways. Breaking the text into separate bite-size chunks or pages is probably the most common method. That isn't really possible with dynamic text, though, because you can't predict line wrapping or the exact length of each text block.
Scrolling the text similar to how a word-processing program does is another answer, but one that's often intimidating to even experienced programmers.
The dynamic and input text fields in Flash share two properties that enable you to control their scrolling.
Only dynamic and input text fields with the Multiline option enabled can be scrolled, and then only when more characters are in the string variable than can be displayed in the field.
When you create a text field in Flash, the boundaries of the field expand to enclose all the characters you enter. This means that scrolling text fields must be created as placeholders, with the actual data they display added through the use of ActionScript.
The sample movie contains two text fields that display the same text (see Figure 18.8). The dynamic text field play contains 24 lines of text. The text field html has room for only 5 lines (it has the HTML styling option selected).
Figure 18.8 The text field at the right can be viewed and scrolled in the text field on the left.
The first frame of the timeline assigns the value of play to html, which automatically displays the first 5 lines.
The first property controlling text scrolling is maxscroll. This property contains the line number in the text field that appears at the top of the text field when the last line of the text appears at the bottom.
A text field whose boundaries are larger than the text it contains will always have a maxscroll value of 1.
The Maximum Scroll button in this example uses the same trigger mechanism as the buttons in the String function example, and its script displays the maxscroll of the html variable in the max text field:
_root.max = _root.html.maxscroll;
When it's displayed in the html text field, the text still has 24 lines (this can vary depending on fonts and relative widths of the text field, but this example attempts to make both play and html the same width relative to the size of the text). In html, 5 lines of text can be displayed, and if line 20 is at the top, 4 more lines (21, 22, 23, and 24) can be displayed below it.
The maxscroll property is determined by the Flash player, based on the text being displayed and the size of the text field, and can't be changed directly. Modifying the text in an input text field or through ActionScript commands automatically updates the property.
The other property actually controls the top line that's displayed in the text field. The scroll property can range between 1 and the maxscroll value.
The Set Current Scroll button uses the value from the input text field current to change the top line of the html text field by changing the scroll property:
_root.html.scroll = _root.current;
If you enter any value from 1 to 20, a different line of text appears at the top of the html text field.
Now that you know how to change the scroll value by the numbers, you can make the scrolling effect really scroll by incorporating a variation of the scrollbars from Chapter 17, "Scripting Interface Elements."
The scrollbar controls a value from 0 to 1. You should have the scroll property of html set to 1 when the scrollbar value is 0. In addition, the scroll property should be set to 20 when the scroll bar value is 1.
To do this, you must continually read the value from the scrollbar and then apply it to _root.html.scroll:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) { _root.html.scroll = Math.round (this.value * (_root.html.maxscroll - 1) + 1); }
Only the second line is really important. The value set in the scrollbar is multiplied by the difference between the minimum scroll value (1) and maxscroll (20), yielding a number 0–19. Then, a 1 is added to shift the actual value to the range of 1–20.
That's really all there is to it. After your scrollbar is in action, you can click, drag, and push buttons to your heart's content and watch the text move around.
The final version of the sample file also has an extra line in the script for the Set Current Scroll button. It updates the scrollbar when the button is used to change the scrolling:
_root.scroller.bar.setSlider ((_root.current - 1) / (_root.html.maxscroll - 1));
Both values are shifted from the range 1–20 into the 0–19 range so that the results of the division are in the correct range (0–1) for the slider value. Without that shift, setting the scroll to 1 wouldn't move the slide all the way to the top.
Avoid having two text fields onscreen that display the same variable when one of them is being scrolled. The results are unpredictable to say the least.


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Exhuming a Grave
Exhuming a Grave
In land scarce country like Singapore, more than 80,000 graves were exhumed over the last 30 years. In the past, more than 100 graves a day to make way for land development e.g. building highways, Mass Rapid Transit or new housing. Nowadays, there are fewer graves to exhume.
Rites and Rituals:
1. Depending on the hour, usually in the early morning, a priest e.g. Taoist priest conducts a simple ritual of prayers and offerings. The exhumation date is pikced according to the Chinese horoscopes of the deceased and family.
2. When digging starts, the family membrs who were present, MUST turn away when the first grain of dirt is unearthed. Chinese custom considers it unlucky to look when an ancestor's grave is dug up.
3. When the diggers reach close to the depth of the coffin, they set up a plastic cover over the grave because the Chinese believe that the dead cannot look at the sky.
4. Bones MUST be picked up in the RIGTH order. The first few bones unearthed are placed in a basin and washed in rice wine. There were situations where the corpse were in `excellent condition'. In such a situation, arrangement must be made to cremate the body together with the coffin.
5. Next, a relative will carry the bones in a white bag, with an identification tag under a Chinese wooden canvas umbrella to "guide the soul of the dead" out of the grave to it's new "home". The bag is handed to the diggers, who will then meet the family later in the day to cremate the remains.
6. Any valuables found e.g. rings or other `treasures' are returned to the relative.
WARNING, do not accept any `valuables' e.g. black buttons or items of clothing in the grave. These are very unlucky.
This is a true story: There was one situation where I recall, the diggers were not happy with the `red packet' or `ang pao' extra money given on the spot to the diggers and they asked the family member to give a black button to her child who was with her. Her child, a 4 year old boy cried non-stop after holding the black button for the whole day. Later, she had to approach to priest to `bless her child'. After that, the child immediately stopped crying.
7. After the bones were cremated, some families prefer to place all the ash into an urn and place it at a crematoria. While some family members may decide to bring back some ash and place them in an urn to pray at home.
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The long-awaited official launch of the Freedom and Unity Front (FUF) takes place this Saturday in London.
Among the speakers at the event will be Prof. Amii Omara-Otunnu (FUF Chairman), General David Sejusa (FUF founder member, and former Head of Uganda's Security Services) and other FUF leaders, activists and sympathizers.
According to the Press Department of FUF, delegates to the Launch are coming from many countries, such as: Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Sweden, Norway, Australia, etc, where FUF has already established functioning chapters and cells.
Media outlets from as far away as Australia, the US and Uganda will be covering the event, and recordings will be posted on the FUF website and on you tube for those who will not be able to attend.
Freedom and Unity Front, describes itself as an inclusive political organization working for a new democratic, united, tolerant and progressive Uganda. In the invitation to the launch, FUF says that it is fronting the global campaign to transform Uganda into a nation of peace and sustainable development based on the ethical values of democracy, respect for human rights, and the rule of law.
The organization further adds that it is committed to play a constructive role in international affairs, to work to end the culture of impunity and to promote accountability.
The FUF launch event, will include the unveiling of the FUF Manifesto and the official communication about the leadership of the organization.
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Little Entrance
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The Little Entrance is the procession of the clergy to the altar led by the Book of the Gospels. It sometimes called the "Small" or "First" Entrance.
If the priest is serving the Divine Liturgy alone, without a bishop, the Little Entrance is made by the clergy circling the altar table and then to the middle of the church with the Gospel Book. Then he enters the altar through the royal doors of the iconostasis accompanied by the hymn of Entrance.
If the bishop is celebrating, the Gospel Book is brought out to him in the center of the church, in the midst of the people, where he has been standing from the beginning of the liturgy. This is led by the deacon (who holds the Gospel Book in the procession), and is followed by priests in order of rank.
In the Little Entrance, the movement of the entire Church, through its Head Jesus Christ in the person of the celebrant (and in the Gospel Book the celebrant is holding), to the altar, which symbolizes the Kingdom of God, can be seen.
But dwelling on this "historical-representational symbolism" can lead to a separation of the clergy and the laity and a resulting misinterpretation of the two groups from full participants in the common action to performers and audience. (see: SYMBOL AND REALITY IN THE DIVINE LITURGY)
Originally, the Little Entrance marked the beginning of the service, but it is now preceded by various Litanies and Psalms. It was a way the bring the Gospel Book from where it was kept to the service.


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