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- "We'll teach all those with brave deeds to their name."
- —Professor Gryffindor's preference of students.[src]
Professor Godric Gryffindor was a wizard of medieval times and one of the four Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was good friends with Salazar Slytherin, but opposed him when the latter thought that they should not accept Muggle-born students at Hogwarts. It is unknown when he died. Gryffindor's birthplace became known as Godric's Hollow, in his honour. Godric Gryffindor's portrait still remains at Hogwarts.
It is possible, due to the his personal colours and the appearance of a Lion Rampant on his personal crest that Gryffindor is related to the Cornish royal family, later rulers of the Duchy of Cornwall, whose crest is remarkably similar (Argent, a lion rampant gules, a border azure equidistant fifteen estoils.)
Early life
- "Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor..."
- —The Sorting Hat singing about the founders' birthplaces.[src]
Gryffindor hailed from a moor which is now known as Godric's Hollow [1], a small West Country village in England. He was described as being "the best duellist of his time" [2]
Founder of Hogwarts
Said to be one of "the four most brilliant witches and wizards of the time" [3], Godric Gryffindor founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in his adulthood, with friend Salazar Slytherin and companions Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw.
Preferences for students
- "By Gryffindor, the bravest were
- Prized far beyond the rest."
- —The Sorting Hat on Professor Gryffindor.[src]
Gryffindor is said to have praised courage, determination and strength of heart above all other qualities. Indeed, he selected students for his house based upon their daring and bravery, according to the Sorting Hat. He also was the most in favour of allowing Muggle-borns into the school.
- "Twas Gryffindor who found the way,
- He whipped me off his head
- The founders put some brains in me
- So I could choose instead!''"
- —The Sorting Hat on how Professor Gryffindor decided to use him to Sort.[src]
The founders, however, were unsure of how they would Sort the students when they were dead. To solve this, Gryffindor took off his hat and all four of them enchanted it so that it could Sort the students long after their deaths. It was, from then on, known as the Sorting Hat.
Gryffindor was initially a close friend of Salazar Slytherin, but over time their friendship deteriorated. After a number of years of working peacefully together, Slytherin eventually grew apart from his fellow founders due to his distrust of Muggle-borns, and his belief that they should not be accepted into Hogwarts. When Slytherin failed to convince Gryffindor and the others to accept his ideas, he chose to leave the school. Unbeknownst to Gryffindor, his former friend built a hidden chamber within the castle, in which he hid a Basilisk that his heir would later use to try and purge the school of Muggle-borns.
It is unknown how or when Gryffindor died, though he left an enduring legacy.
A portrait of Gryffindor hung at Hogwarts Castle guarded a secret short cut between the seventh-floor landing of the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. The password required to gain access to said shortcut was Starshine. [4] Gryffindor left two known relics: a goblin-made sword, adorned with rubies, and the Sorting Hat. The two items share a particular bond; whenever a "true Gryffindor" needs it, the Sword will let itself be pulled out of the hat. Godric's sword was capable of acquiring powers from those it had slain and thus was imbued with venom from Harry Potter's defeat of the Basilisk, making it suitable as a tool for destroying Voldemort's Horcruxes. Albus Dumbledore used it to destroy Marvolo Gaunt's Ring, Ron Weasley used it to eliminate Salazar Slytherin's Locket, and Neville Longbottom used it to kill Nagini.
Behind the scenes
- Gryffindor was named the July 2007 "Wizard of the Month" on Rowling's website. "One of the four famous Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Godric Gryffindor was the most accomplished duellist of his time, an enlightened fighter against Muggle-discrimination and the first owner of the celebrated Sorting Hat."
- It is possible that Gryffindor taught Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts due to his acclaimed talent as a duellist.
- J.K. Rowling once jokingly stated that if Godric Gryffindor was still alive: he would be the Giant Squid that lives in Hogwarts lake, that would make him the biggest Animagus (and, quite possibly, the oldest) in the Wizarding world. At the eleventh hour of each night the Squid would transform back into Gryffindor, who would wander the school grounds before returning to his Squid form. It should be noted that Rowling was sarcastically trying to make a point, so obviously this statement is not considered canon.
- Godric Gryffindor is the only founder who is not mentioned to have any descendants, although for a time it was speculated that Harry Potter himself was a descendant of Gryffindor either through James Potter possibly because James hailed from Godric's hometown, or possibly through a line of Squibs to James' wife Lily Evans. However, this theory was later debunked by J. K. Rowling in an interview[5].
- Gryffindor will appear in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey in Universal Studios as a portrait.
- On the official website of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Godric mentions that he is proud to have Harry Potter in his house.
- The name Godric is Anglo-Saxon in form, and can have several meanings, including, "he who rules with God" or "he who rules well".
- His surname is a reference to the half-lion magical beast, the Griffin, a fierce, legendary beast with the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The Hogwarts house named after him uses a lion as its symbol. Furthermore, the last part of his surname, "dor", comes of the French d'or, "made from gold", "golden", which is one of the colours of his Hogwarts House.
See also
- Rowena Ravenclaw
- Helga Hufflepuff
- Salazar Slytherin
- Hogwarts founders
- Sorting Hat
- Godric Gryffindor's Sword
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Mentioned only) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Possible appearance) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- Wizard of the Month
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
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Lester for a prospect? Here's why it's crazy
Bob Dutton covers the Kansas City Royals for the Kansas City Star. He wrote a story on Monday speculating that the Royals could be willing to trade outfield prospect Wil Myers for a starting pitcher.
Dutton mentioned Jon Lester and James Shields as examples of such pitchers.
In the 12th paragraph of the story, halfway through, Dutton wrote:
Both deals have been discussed, but neither appears close at the moment. Other players could be involved, but the basic framework would be Myers for one of the two pitchers. At this point, all sides — the Royals, Rays and Red Sox — remain hesitant.
Obviously it's not something imminent, likely or even very probable. Otherwise Dutton would have made it first paragraph, not his 12th.
Nonetheless, this has become "Lester is on the trading block!" even though he's really not.
Would it be a good idea? Let's check it out:
• Wil Myers is a excellent prospect. He'll be 22 in December and he's coming off a season that saw him hit .314 with 37 home runs.
Myers also struck out 140 times in 591 plate appearances, 24 percent of the time. He started his career as a catcher and has since played right field, left field, center field and third base.
Scouting reports call him a below-average defender. He'd be passable in the majors at best. He has 29 stolen bases and 12 triples in four seasons.
This is not an athletic freak like Mike Trout or Bryce Harper. This is a corner outfielder with great power. That's a very good piece but it may not be a piece you change your franchise for.
The Red Sox also have two solid outfield prospects in Jackie Bradley Jr. and Bryce Brentz.
• Lester was 9-14 with a 4.82 ERA last season. It was the worst season of his career. In general terms, it's usually a really bad idea to trade a player when his value is at its low point.
• That said, Lester was 18th in the American League in FIP last season. Fielding Independent Pitching (per Fangraphs.com) is a statistic that measures what a player's ERA should have looked like over a given time period, assuming that performance on balls in play and timing were league average.
In basic terms, it measures those things a pitcher can control: strikeouts, walks, hit by pitches, and home runs. FIP is a much better indicator of a pitcher's worth than ERA and it shows that Lester wasn't as bad as it initially looks.
If you watched most of his starts last season, you probably already knew that. Lester had one of those season where everything that could go wrong did.
• Lester has had three pitching coaches in the last two seasons since John Farrell left. None were particularly good at the job. He also transitioned to a new catcher after the retirement of Jason Varitek.
The return of Farrell will be very meaningful to Lester. Lester was 54-23, 3.40 when Farrell was the pitching coach. There is nobody on the roster happier to have Farrell back than Lester.
• Lester was a disciple of Josh Beckett, which had its good points and bad. Two of the bad points were that he got too fond of his cut fastball and working at a slow pace. Lester had a 3.60 ERA in his last four starts once he started to pick up the tempo. He also was less grouchy.
Lester vehemently disagrees with this notion out of loyalty to his friend. But there are people in the organization who believe he will be better off now that Beckett is gone.
• Lester is under contract for $11.625 million in 2013. The team has a $13 million option for 2014. Lester, who will be 29 in January, is under control for two seasons at $24.625 million. That is a bargain in the current market.
• The Sox already need one starter. Trading Lester means they would need two. Where is that coming from? The free-agent market is thin and expensive. The trade market for starters hasn't exactly been robust.
• Facts aside, let's say for a second that the Red Sox were indeed willing to trade Lester. Don't you have to get back much more than an outfield prospect?
If you want to trade Lester and Jacoby Ellsbury for Felix Hernandez, go for it. Lester for a terrific pitching prospect? You would have to think about it. But Lester for a corner outfielder who has yet to play a game in the majors? This is Jon Lester.
• The Red Sox, hideous as they were last season, were fifth in the American League in runs scored. Offense is not their problem. Offense has never been their problem. Offensive never will be their problem.
Pitching is their problem, starting pitching in particular. The single most valuable commodity in baseball is homegrown, cost-controlled starting pitching.
Pitching, pitching, pitching. This cannot be repeated enough.
We know what Jon Lester is. He may not have become the ace he was supposed to be. But he's pretty darn good and he's 29. Nobody can be sure what Wil Myers will be.
Delmon Young was the top prospect in baseball in 2006 and routinely destroyed minor league pitching. He has been with three teams in his seven-year career and soon will be on his fourth because the Tigers don't want him him back.
The same people convinced that Myers will be stud thought the same of Young. It's an inexact science.
GMs talk to each other. That is what they do. Dayton Moore should fish around because the Royals haven't made the playoffs since 1985.
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Saint Crescens the Martyr was born into an illustrious family in Myra of Lycia. Of his own accord he confronted the pagans, imploring them to reject their futile idols and worship the One True God who is worshipped by the Christians. Crescens was arrested and brought before the authorities where he was questioned about his lineage. To this he replied only that he was a Christian. Crescens was offered freedom if he would offer sacrifice to the idols but he valiantly refused. This infuriated the ruler who ordered that he be hung up, beaten, have his flesh torn and finally thrown into a furnace where he gave up his soul for the love of Christ while his earthly body was not harmed by the flames.
- Thy Martyr, O Lord in his courageous contest for Thee,
- received the prize of the crowns of incorruption
- and life from Thee O Immortal God
- For since he possessed Thy strength, he cast down the tyrants
- and wholly destroyed the demons' strengthless presumtion.
- O Christ, God, by his prayers, save our souls
- for Thou art merciful.
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cool, wet, humid, breezy, hot
all of the above.
**update to this as i wrote this on wednesday night....friday's weather:
absolutely freakin' awesome!!! sunny...breezy...cool with just a tint of humidity...a great day for a day off and for the laundry to dry!!!
during rainy season, everywhere i look, i see women wearing really cute and stylish rain boots.
and i'm sure that, if i remembered, when i go to the states i could probably find a pair, just as stylish and colorful that would actually be my size.
but...i don't. remember, that is.
so, when it starts to get rainy, i make the annual trip around the shoe stores and pretty much, this is all i can find in my size:
yeah. no. huh-uh. sorry. no thank you.
oh, i'm sure they would work but just looking at those make my feet start to sweat...and i don't like that.
plus, really....fashion-wise, oh no....for a teacher,
they got "glamour don't" written all over them!!
so, this is why i would like to introduce you to
"the plastic shoes i didn't mind spending $40 for"
now, i know that these are not exactly what one would expect in a "rain shoe"....no, they don't cover the whole foot....
yes, there are little air holes in them.....but...
1. they are super comfy
2. they dry very quickly
3. i always have a towel in the car...i can dry my feet if i have to.
by the way...these are the CrosMesh Hover Skimmers....and i'm thinking of getting another pair in pink!!!
so, last saturday, when issei and i were walking in the downpour and the water was almost to our ankles for part of the way?
no prpblem.
none. at. all.
i love it when the stress level of my day is less.
you know...i just thought of something....what if....IF...i had a friend...OR TWO...who were way creative with sharpie pens.....could i throw them a challenge to help make those green boots "debbie-worthy"???
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This would mean nations such as Indonesia, but could also include others around the South China Sea — through which fossil fuels pass — such as the Philippines, for example, which has a territorial dispute with Beijing.
China and Japan are at loggerheads over the ownership of a string of islands in the East China Sea, while Beijing is also in dispute with several nations over territory in the South China Sea, which it claims almost entirely.
Beijing resists attempts to multi-lateralize its disputes, while Manila has sought to make common cause with other countries at odds with China.
Japan already supplies equipment to the Philippines' coast guard, an organization that is increasingly on the front line in the row with Beijing.
Any move to bolster that support with more outright weapon supplies could irk China, which regularly accuses Abe of trying to re-militarize his country by the backdoor.
Under its 1967 ban, Japan does not sell arms to communist nations, countries where the United Nations bans weapons sales, and nations that might become involved in armed conflicts.
The rule has long enjoyed general public support as a symbol of the pacifism that many Japanese treasure.
But it has been widely seen as impractical among experts, because it stops Japan from joining international projects to jointly develop sophisticated military equipment, such as jets and missiles.
Japan works with its only official ally the United States on weapon projects.
But it does not fully participate in multi-nation programs aimed at sharing development cost and know-how, because of the current ban.
Hawkish premier Abe is capitalizing on unease in Japan about China's increasing assertiveness and pushing to bolster his nation's military, including to allow it the right to "collective self-defense" — coming to the aid of an ally under attack.
The proposed policy change would still prohibit Japan from exports that would undermine global peace and security, Kyodo News said, citing a draft of the document it has obtained.
The government would inspect all arms sales and make sure exported weapons would not be transferred to another nation or used for purposes other than originally intended, Kyodo said. (AFP)


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Thanks to the success of food trucks like Kogi BBQ's, LA is considered responsible for the street food craze sweeping the U.S. This is why a USC architecture professor asked her students to design a food truck for the future.
Produced for a class taught by architect Jennifer Siegal, these designs range from the practical, to the interesting, to the downright ridiculous...
The Teppanyaki truck provides plenty of space for people to kick back while they wait for their food.
The Mobile Water Truck has wings which funnel rain water into containers for future reuse.
And the Dunkin Donuts' truck looks like something out of Mario 64, with vehicles that glide over cars, hang out on overpasses, and deliver food to commuters stuck in traffic (this one still doesn't entirely make sense).
In addition to the additional photos on Eater, all of these designs (and more) are on display at the Border Grill in Downtown LA right now, so be sure to check 'em out. [Eater]


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As far as NASCAR-branded products go, nothing quite compares to the NASCAR romance novels, but this one is at least in the ballpark.
NASCAR is introducing the Daytona 500 cologne, which promises to "leverage the prestige and popularity of the great American race." This seems different to us than the Derek Jeter cologne, in that it is not the smell of a person, but in fact of a race. We have never been to the Daytona 500, but we can't imagine it, you know, smells all too pleasant.
But maybe we're being snobby; maybe axle grease is a happy pungent aroma in some places. One never knows, we guess.
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Ok, I stated that wrong, what I meant was "another movie in which British thought was generally anti-British or that Mel Gibson hates England". I personally did not think it was anti-British.
Still, it's certainly faulty for those people to think that way. Besides, I don't see Americans complaining, and we know for a fact that everyone hates us.


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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Activists honored the victims of last year's violent clashes with white nationalists and denounced racial bigotry on Sunday, but the all-day demonstrations still resulted in a few tense moments and four arrests.
The chanting, gathering and mourning lasted from morning to late afternoon, when local police took down their checkpoints and a few hundred activists, University of Virginia students and residents dispersed from downtown Charlottesville.
A year ago, violent clashes between counterprotesters and white nationalists led to injuries and a death, making the college town synonymous with racial unrest and amplifying the message of white nationalists.
This year, the activist's recurring message was that white supremacy has existed in the community for years – and it can't be ignored.
The crowd converged on Booker T. Washington Park to mark the first anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally last year. Sporting shirts and signs that read "Black Lives Matter" and "C'ville Fights Back." They listened to speakers and chanted "Old Jim Crow, new Jim Crow, this racist system's got to go."
"White supremacy doesn't just look like Nazis walking through the streets," said rally participant Grace Aheron, 27.
Don Gathers, a member of the local Black Lives Matter Movement, told the crowd oppression and racism must be defeated – and the city must be held accountable.
"We cannot continue to let hate win," he said. "It is imperative that each one of us get out there and do our part."
Throughout the day, police stayed out of the park, remaining on the road outside. Some of the protesters burned sage to dispel negativity, a sharp contrast to last year's torch-burning march of white supremacists.
But a heavy police presence frustrated the activists, who called it an overcompensation for last year's events. Police brought armored vehicles, riot gear and set up two downtown checkpoints where people were subject to bag checks. Authorities also blocked traffic.
The Virginia State Police arrested four people, including one who spit in a demonstrator's face and two others who started fighting after one of them saluted the statue of Robert E. Lee, the subject of last year's Unite the Right rally.
The 2017 rally ended in tragedy when a car slammed into a group of counterprotesters, killing demonstrator Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring many more. A white supremacist awaits trial in the case.
Later in the day, Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, spoke to a solemn crowd during a vigil for her daughter.
"There are mothers who lose their children all the time. And we don't seem to give a damn," she said, adding, "we have a long way to go" in terms of racial justice.
Bro, channeling her daughter's activism, said the gathering in Charlottesville is part of the larger fight against racial injustice. "It was never all about Heather," she said.
Community and clergy members locked arms around Bro and other mourners to give them privacy as they reflected at a memorial in Heyer's honor. Flowers and messages of support written in chalk for the Charlottesville community lined the sidewalks and walls.
Douglas Brown of Newport News, Va., attended last year's counterprotests and said he wasn't going to miss today's one-year anniversary.
"I owed it to Heather," Brown said.
Katrina Turner was at the rally last year and was almost hit by the car herself.
"We also need to think of the other victims on that day," she told the crowd. "We cannot let them be forgotten."
Brown was just happy the tense moments Sunday didn't escalate but said Heyer was still on the forefront of his mind.
"This day was the day for everybody to get some closure," he said. "It's a lot more peaceful than I thought it was going to be."


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It looks like we're nearing the endgame in the hunt for the Higgs boson, the missing elementary particle of the Standard Model. Its discovery will send shockwaves through the physics community and likely capture the public imagination.
So the question, then, is what can other fields do to complete with all that? What events outside physics could pack the same punch as finding the Higgs boson? That's the question taken up in a fascinating article over at Nature, but the basic answer is one that's obvious when you think about it: the discovery of alien life.
Of course, contacting intelligent alien life elsewhere in space would utterly dwarf the Higgs boson in the popular imagination, but that still can't really be considered a particularly likely possibility, no matter how many exoplanets we discover. Of course, we might well find microbial life on some of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn, or perhaps traces of life that once existed on Mars. But the most intriguing possibility is the discovery of what Nature evocatively calls "the shadow biosphere":
Alien life - and a Higgs moment - might also be lurking close to home. Some have postulated the existence of a 'shadow biosphere' on Earth, teeming with life that has gone undiscovered because scientists simply don't know where to look. It could contain life that relies on a fundamentally different biochemistry, using different forms of amino acids or even entirely novel ways of storing, replicating and executing inherited information that do not rely on DNA or proteins.
The trick is deciding what to look for and how to detect it. The usual way that researchers search for new organisms - by sequencing DNA or RNA - will not pick up life that does not depend on them. Some scientists have speculated that desert varnish, a peculiar dark-coloured coating of unknown origin found on many desert rocks, could be a product of a shadow biosphere. Benner suggests looking in nooks and crannies that cannot support conventional life, such as areas with extremely high temperatures, radiation levels or harsh chemical environments.
Of course, as Nature points out, we came very close to just such a discovery a year ago with NASA's announcement of arsenic-based life - until that discovery utterly collapsed in the face of peer review. For more possible discoveries that could shake biology to its core, including the quest for immortality and the secrets of life's most ancient origins, check out the original article here.
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A man was arrested after he yelled, cursed and told a Martin County Sheriff's deputy: "I am not going anywhere until I get my weed," a recently release arrest report said.
On July 13, Nicholas Dimig, 34, appeared to be drunk and said he had gone to a house on the 2900 block of Southeast Ellendale Street, to buy marijuana, according to the report.
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But Dimig told deputies that an "illegal alien took his money and would not give him his weed," the arrest report said.
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When the deputy arrived, he asked Dimig to leave the property but he refused saying he would not leave without his marijuana.
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This past weekend, I traveled to my hometown of Harlan, Ky, to spend some time with my family. My parents have lived in the same house for nearly 50 years, and they have finally decided that it's too much house. They spend winters in Florida, anyway, so why not make the move?
They have put the old house on the market, and my brother and I were collecting what stuff we may want to take to our own homes. After having not lived there since my high school years, and returning only yearly as of late, it was really a trip down memory lane.
We took a drive out to the Harlan country club, to view the remains of the clubhouse that recently burned to the ground. As we walked around the grounds of the charred remains and the long-neglected swimming pool, memories washed through my head.
Many, many days of my childhood were spent here, learning to swim, then to dive, usually belly-first, off the diving board. Laying on the hot concrete swathed in baby oil and iodine, prematurely aging my skin while wishing for larger breasts and a boyfriend. Our mothers were golfers, so the best babysitter in town was the lifeguard.
Charging lunches consisting of Mrs. Williams' 'minnow cheese, sweet tea and a Hershey bar, my friends and I were left to our own devices for most of the day, no worries about any more harm coming to us than a skinned knee or bad sunburn.
Thursday night was family night at the club, and the lot of us would band together and ride the golf carts around the famously mountainous golf course, scarring each other on the rickety old swinging bridges. After- dark card games kept us occupied while our parents put away copious amounts of liquor, illegal in Harlan County until 2011.
Most of those people have long-since left the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and my only association of long-ago friends is now through Facebook. I doubt that I will return to Harlan when mom and dad leave for the last time this Fall. Seeing the country club in it's state of ruin seemed to close a door for me. Saying goodbye isn't easy. I'll keep the memories burned in my brain of a carefree childhood and far away friends.


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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit
This is Chapter 8, "Creating a New Module," from ASP.NET Community Starter Kit by K. Scott Allen and Cristian Darie, published by Packt Publishing. For more information, go to http://www.packtpub.com/community_starter_kit/book.
Creating a New Module
The next three chapters in this book will demonstrate various methods of customizing the CSK. Every community site will have different requirements to fulfill. Although the existing CSK framework offers a great deal of flexibility, having the entire source code available means you can add additional functionality to a site in an elegant manner. In this chapter, we will concentrate on creating a new module for the CSK. We will see how creating a new module allows you to add entirely new features which integrate seamlessly with the rest of the framework. In this chapter, we will implement a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) module.
Before we begin, let's mention one caveat. The CSK is a living piece of software. It will undoubtedly gain additional features and modules from the developer community, so one question you may want to answer is, "Has someone else already written the module I need?" Once you've made the commitment to customizing the CSK with your own code, you'll need to also think about integrating your code into newer versions of the CSK. If you stick to the current design used by the existing modules, chances are you'll find that the upgrades are easier.
Module Design
Before you begin implementing a new module for the CSK, you will first want to have a firm grasp of the features you wish to add, and then decide if any of the existing modules shipped with the CSK can fulfill that functionality.
First, let us make a brief list of requirements for our community FAQ:
- An FAQ should consist of a question, an answer, a description or introduction, and pointers to additional references.
- Community users should have the ability to comment on and rank individual FAQs, as well as offer e-mail notifications when a new FAQ appears.
- Community users should have the ability to submit a new FAQ subject for the moderator's approval.
You could certainly create a list of questions and answers marked up in HTML and add the content to a community site using the HTML Page section type. However, the HTML Page section type offers limited user interaction (no comments, ranking, e-mails, or moderation).
Alternatively, the Articles section type could provide us with what we need, if we are willing to lump the FAQ answer and reference fields together in the article's body text. For maximum flexibility in presenting information, we would prefer to keep these as distinct entities. With our requirements and direction set, let's take a look at the classes and tables we will be building.
We know from the earlier chapters that the Community_ContentPages table will keep most of the information we need for an FAQ; for example, the author name, view count, and description. If we consider the question piece of the FAQ as the title, we really only need to store the FAQ answer and additional references as attributes. We will add a database table (Community_Faqs) as shown in the following diagram:
We can then build a class to hold FAQ information. As shown in the following diagram, the FaqInfo class inherits from ContentInfo, which holds most of the attributes for any content item. Every module also uses a utility class to retrieve, add, and edit content. For the FAQs module, this is the FaqUtility class (shown without method parameters).
We will also need to build classes for the code-behind pages that display and edit FAQs. We saw in earlier chapters how pages in the CSK derive from the SkinnedCommunityControl to allow themselves to be displayed with different skins. There are also a number of base classes with most of the behavior we need to add, edit, and display FAQs. The following diagram shows the class hierarchy that we will use for the FAQ code-behind classes: We will also need to create WebControl-derived classes to display FAQ content. Typically, each attribute of our content will display in a distinct control, which allows a skin to lay out the content in whatever manner it sees fit. The following diagram shows the controls that we will use for this module, all of which ultimately derive from WebControl:
Module Construction Blueprint
We will take a bottom-up approach by starting with the database work, and finishing with presentation skins and themes. We will follow the naming conventions and patterns established by the existing modules in the CSK so that the code fits well with the rest of the framework. For example, the Books module retrieves book information from the Community_Books table to populate a BookInfo component.
Thus we will use a table called Community_Faqs to populate an FaqInfo component. However, you may want to consider adding a unique identifier in case a future version of the CSK contains the module you are building. For instance, if you work for ABC Inc. you might use Community_ABCFaqs as a table name to lower the possibility of future name collisions.
We will use the following steps to build the FAQ module. You can also follow these steps in a general sense to build your own modules:
- Create a new table (Community_Faqs) to hold the additional fields for the new module.
- Create stored procedures to add, edit, and select a single FAQ, and a stored procedure to select all FAQs for a given section.
- Create a maintenance stored procedure to initialize the FAQ module by populating the Community_PageTypes and Community_NamedPages tables.
- Create a component (FaqInfo) to hold information on a single FAQ.
- Create a component (FaqUtility) with data-access routines to invoke our FAQ-related stored procedures.
- Create controls derived from WebControl to display the individual module fields. These controls will be FaqQuestion, FaqIntro, FaqAnswer, FaqReference, and FaqEditContent.
- Create controls derived from the SkinnedCommunityControl class to contain the logic behind the page content skins from the next step. These controls will be AddFaq, EditFaq, FaqSection, and Faq.
- Create new page-content skins for the module. This includes Faqs_AddFaq.ascx, Faqs_FaqSection.ascx, and Faq_Faq.ascx. We will use the Faqs_AddFaq skin to add a new FAQ as well as edit an existing FAQ. At a minimum you will need to create a default skin in the ContentSkins folder under the Communities\Common\Themes\Default\Skins directory. You can optionally create additional skins for other available themes, such as the Robotico and Professional themes.
- Create style rules in the CSS files in Communities\Common\Themes\Default\Styles for the module. You should also add CSS rules into all of the CSS files in the themes your community may use.
The rest of this chapter will explain each step in more detail.
The Community_Faq Table
Content that is common to all modules such as title, description, and view count resides in the Community_ContentPages table. Additional module-specific content requires a second table for storage. For the FAQ module, we can store the FAQ question in the contentPage_title field of Community_ContentPages, and the FAQ introduction in the contentPage_description field. We still need to store the FAQ answer and the additional references text for the FAQ, so we will use the following DDL to create a table:
CREATE TABLE [Community_Faqs] ( [Faq_ContentPageID] [int] NOT NULL , [Faq_Answer] [ntext] NOT NULL , [Faq_Reference] [ntext] NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_Community_Faqs] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [Faq_ContentPageID] ), CONSTRAINT [FK_Community_Faqs_Community_ContentPages] FOREIGN KEY ( [Faq_ContentPageID] ) REFERENCES [Community_ContentPages] ( [contentPage_id] ) ON DELETE CASCADE )
The naming conventions and data types we use for the table are consistent with the other modules shipped with the CSK.
We store the answer and reference data in fields of type ntext in order to support large quantities of text (up to 1 GB). Also notice how Faq_Answer is a required field but Faq_Reference may contain a NULL value. Our primary key (Faq_ContentPageID) references the additional FAQ content in the Community_ContentPages table. The foreign key constraint will ensure our referential integrity for this relationship.
Another nice design feature is the use of cascading referential integrity restraints. The ON DELETE CASCADE clause in the foreign key constraint means we will not need to write any code to delete an FAQ record from Community_Faqs.
The CSK uses the Community_ContentPagesDeleteContentPage stored procedure to delete records from the Community_ContentPages table. When the procedure removes a record from the content table, SQL Server will automatically remove the corresponding entry from the FAQ table.
The Community_Faqs Stored Procedures
The next steps in our blueprint calls for us to create stored procedures to add an FAQ, edit an FAQ, retrieve a single FAQ, and retrieve a paged and sorted list of FAQs, for a total of four procedures. All of the data access in the CSK happens via stored procedures. There is no ad hoc SQL in the code, which is a good practice from both encapsulation and security standpoints. The first procedure we will write is to add new FAQ content.


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Writing the Lisp Code
In this section we'll write Lisp code that duplicates the features provided by the Objective C code in Apple's tutorial. In Apple's tutorial, the explanation of the Objective C code begins with the section Bridging the Model and View: The Controller.
The Lisp code in this section of the HOWTO is considerably simpler than the corresponding Objective C code, in part because we can ignore the conventions that XCode uses for laying out source files. We can just write all our definitions into a single Lisp source file, and load that file into Clozure CL when we are ready to build the application. The Lisp code is also a little more compact than the corresponding Objective-C.
First Things First
Place the following line at the top of your Lisp source file:
(in-package "CCL")
OpenMCL's Objective-C bridge code is defined in the "CCL" package. Usually, when building an application, you'll create a package for that application and import the definitions you need to use. In order to keep the discussion short in this simple example, we just place all our definitions in the "CCL" package.
Defining the Converter Class
We begin by defining the Converter class. Recall from Apple's tutorial that this is the Model class that implements the conversion between dollars and other currencies. Here is the Lisp definition that implements the class you created in InterfaceBuilder:
(defclass converter (ns:ns-object) () (:metaclass ns:+ns-object))
This is an ordinary CLOS class definition, with a couple of simple wrinkles. First, the superclass it inherits from is the NS-OBJECT class in the "NS" package. NS-OBJECT is an Objective-C class, the ancestor of all Objective-C objects. This CLOS definition creates a new Objective-C class named "Converter".
We tell OpenMCL how to build the right kind of class object by including the :METACLASS option in the definition:
(:metaclass ns:+ns-object)
The Objective-C bridge knows that when the metaclass is ns:+ns-object, it must lay out the class object in memory as an Objective C class, rather than a normal CLOS STANDARD-CLASS.
Next, we define the method "convertCurrency:atRate:":
(objc:defmethod (#/convertCurrency:atRate: :float) ((self converter) (currency :float) (rate :float)) (* currency rate))
This is the method that actually does the currency conversion. It's very simple--really, it just multiples currency times rate. Most of the text in the definition is Objective C bridge code that links the definition to the right class with the right argument and return types.
objc:defmethod is a version of DEFMETHOD that creates Objective C method definitions.
The syntax #/convertCurrency:atRate: uses the "#/" reader macro to read a symbol with case preserved, so that you can see in your code the same name that Objective-C uses for the method, without worrying about how the name might be converted between Lisp and Objective-C naming conventions.
The number of arguments to an Objective-C method is the number of colons in the name, plus one. Each colon indicates an argument, and there is always an extra "self" argument that refers to the object that receives the message. These are normal Objective-C conventions, but we perhaps need to emphasize the details, since we are using Lisp code to call the Objective-C methods.


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Gender blender: Chadsey delineates masculinity
"And the girls want to be with the girls," David Byrne sings in a Talking Heads song. Let's hope so because in the world of artist Geoffrey Chadsey, there's no place for them (unless you count a pinup in a dorm room).
Which is not to say the feminine isn't present in Chadsey's exhibition, "Jam, Outing, Retreat," currently on view at Second Street Gallery. Chadsey's watercolor pencil-on-mylar drawings delve into male identity politics, examining, often humorously, how men mark themselves and act out their relationships with each other, whether it's wearing sports jerseys or drinking in a hotel room. Occasionally, Chadsey contrasts "the guys" with an effeminate male–-longhaired and nude–-who is in some way marginalized.
For instance, in "Waiting for the Ball to Drop," an androgynous blonde wearing only briefs watches TV on a rumpled floral bedspread in the foreground, while behind him five fully clad young men booze it up. The situation is unclear, but the testosterone-charged homoeroticism is uncomfortable.
Creepier still is Chadsey's "Weekend Outing," in which a pudgy Garrison Keillor-esque man lounges in a striped shirt and jeans on green grass, looking blandly at the viewer. In front of him, a naked man –-clearly modeled on the female figure in Gauguin's "The Spirit of the Dead Watching"-lies on his stomach. Perhaps he's dead, perhaps just napping.
Throughout his work, Chadsey makes puns and creates double entendres with his titles and images. "Outing," for example, could mean either a pleasure trip or a public revelation of homosexuality. Chadsey co-opts recognizable faces (is that Donald Rumsfeld cavorting in the pool in "Retreat"?) and appropriates compositions from pop culture and art history to spur the viewer to repeatedly think, "Wait, I know this from somewhere..." In fact, Chadsey is such a trickster in crafting sexually charged scenarios overflowing with commentary on consumer culture, art history, and machismo, his wink-wink smarty smartness borders on being smug.
Fortunately, Chadsey's technical skills save him. With an unusual approach to palette–-his characters often have green skin –-he creates flesh using parallel curves and concentric circles, yielding figures that resemble human contour maps. In contrast, his settings incorporate smudging and a lush variety of marks. The drawing itself is so gorgeous that it's easy to get lost in it and forget the strangeness of the subject matter.
But then the viewer snaps back to Chadsey's voyeuristic reality, where the boys just want to be with the boys.
Geoffrey Chadsey's exhibition, "Jam, Outing, Retreat," is no view through May 29 at Second Street Gallery. 115 Second St. SE. 977-7284.


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On November 6, 2012, Acadia Medical reported fiscal third quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of 17 cents, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 13.3%. However, the result fell short of the year-ago performance due to an increase in its shares outstanding, completion of the PHC Inc. acquisition in November 2011 and an increase in interest expenses.
On January 7, 2013, Acadia Medical purchased Greenleaf Center, a 50-bed acute inpatient psychiatric facility in Georgia, from South Georgia Medical Center. The company noted that Greenleaf, which has $7 million of annual revenues, will remain accretive to its 2013 EPS.
Recently, Acadia Medical has made several strategic acquisitions, including Behavioral Centers of America and AmiCare Behavioral Centers on December 31, 2013. In November, it purchased Park Royal Hospital, a 76-bed acute inpatient psychiatric hospital in Florida.
Also in November, the company declared its intention to buy Arkansas based AmiCare Behavioral Centers, which operates four inpatient psychiatric facilities. Management expects this transaction to be accretive to its 2013 financial results. The company is greatly optimistic about these recent developments, which are expected to act as major catalysts for future growth.
Earnings Estimates Moving Up
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 is 64 cents, up about 23.8% year over year. Meanwhile, over the past 30 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2013 gained 4.3% to 98 cents per share, representing year-over-year growth of about 52.9%.
Premium Valuation
Acadia Medical's valuation looks stretched compared to its peers by most metrics. Based on the 2012 earnings estimate, the company is trading at a P/E of 25.21x, which is almost 1.7 times the peer group average of 16.63x. The price-to-book ratio of 4.10x is also substantially higher than the peer group average of 2.10x. The premium is warranted given a higher long-term earnings growth rate of 29.0%, compared with the industry average 12.7%.
However, with respect to return on assets (ROA), Acadia Medical looks attractive at 3.9%, a marginal premium to the peer group average of 3.5%.
Acadia's price performance has been reasonably strong. Following the release of its fiscal third-quarter results, the stock showed a steep uptrend and is currently trading above both its 50- and 200-day averages.
Acadia Medical is a provider of inpatient behavioral healthcare services. As of September 30, 2012, the company operates a network of 33 behavioral health facilities with over 2,300 licensed beds in 19 states. Acadia provides psychiatric and chemical dependency services to its patients in a variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, outpatient clinics and therapeutic school-based programs. The company has a market cap of $1.04 billion.
Other Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) medical devices stocks include Spherix Inc. ( SPEX ) and Syneron Medical Ltd ( ELOS ).
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