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When asked how many consecutive league titles his team has won. Dove Creek wrestling coach Shane Baughman didn't know.
"I honestly couldn't tell you," he said. "We just try to take it year by year."
That's how dominant the Bulldogs have been. That many team wins have become an afterthought over the years.
Dove Creek claimed another San Juan Basin League championship Thursday night at Dolores High School.
Sure a league title is nice, but the state's third-ranked 2A team has bigger goals in mind.
"We just came in today and used this as building for regionals," said SJBL champ Cole Baughman, who is ranked No. 1 in the state in 2A at 132 pounds. "We've been going two-a-days for two weeks now. It's kind of nice to get in some wrestling against somebody else. We're really just getting ready for next weekend."
The Bulldogs claimed eight league champions to easily with the tournament with 158.5 points. Nucla was second with 81 and host Dolores placed third at 65. Ignacio and Norwood were fourth and fifth with 58 and 49 points, respectively.
"It was pretty good," coach Baughman said. "Overall, they wrestled pretty good for the most part."
Dolores had two league champions. Wyatt Wade took care of business at 145 pounds. He went 2-0 with each win by technical fall, as he defeated Dove Creek's Tommy Fury and Nucla's Danny Harris. Wade is ranked No. 2 by coloradopreps.com.
Ethan Upton was a pleasant surprise for the hometown Bears. The former182-pounder cut weight to 170 and wrestled two hard fought matches that went the distance.
After 10 minutes of wrestling on the day, Upton's final period against Dove Creek's Wyatt Applin was two minutes for the ages.
Upton led Applin 7-4 after an exhausting two rounds, as each wrestler greatly gasped for air.
In the end, it came down to who was the better conditioned athlete. Even after losing more than 10 pounds, it was Upton that had more left in the tank.
With each side of fans frantically cheering on the grapplers, Upton controlled Applin on the mat for the final two minutes to hang on for a tough 7-4 win by decision.
"That kid's (Applin) really tough. I've been watching him all year. He's just one of them farmer-built kids," said Upton, who also won a 7-4 decision over Norwood's Kolby Starks in the first match. "I've just been cutting, cutting weight and trying to get down to 170s. I tried match control and tried to get as many takedowns as I can."
Upton won his first SJBL title and upped his season record to 16-4. The junior is confident heading into regionals next week in Grand Junction.
"My confidence is way up right now," Upton said. "I haven't won a league championship yet. Last year, I took third and going into regionals, I feel pretty good. My biggest goal is to go undefeated the rest of the season and try to get that state championship."
Luke Murefield and Kacee Davis placed second for Dolores at 132 and 160.
"I though the guys wrestled really well," said first-year Dolores coach Leo Garand. "We wrestled technically very sound. Wyatt took care of business and Ethan coming back from tonsillitis, to come out and do what he did, I thought was very impressive."
The Bears only had six guys suit up Thursday, but Garand expects injured wrestlers Wyatt Mattausch (132) and Levi Noyes (120) to be back for regionals. Murefield will drop back to 126.
"It's just keeping them focused," Garand said. "It's staying focused and doing those things that we're doing that fuels the success that we're seeing."
Before regionals, Dolores will wrestle today at the Nucla tournament beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Thursday, though, was mostly about the Bulldogs - again.
Cole Baughman solidified his No. 1 ranking with two pins. The senior was the state runner-up in 2012 at 120.
"I'm just looking to wrestle hard. I'm looking to wrestle my best every match," Cole Baughman said. "It's not ever about just dominating. I want to keep building. I want to wrestle my best, keep improving myself, get my attitude right going into state."
Case Baughman (113), Chance Randolph (120), Nick Jones (120), Tyler Ebberts (No. 4; 138), Dalton Randolph (No. 4; 152), Dillon Daves (160) and Tyson Smith (heavyweight) all claimed titles. Applin and Tyler Knuckles (195) both took second.
"We're confident. Everybody is confident in themselves getting to state," Cole Baughman said. "They say it's a team sport, but it's all a bunch of individuals. You just worry about yourself and do your own job."
The Bulldogs will rest up for the 2A western regionals next Friday and Saturday at Grand Junction High School.
Dove Creek will be a strong contender with defending regional and state champion Paonia.
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Small Plant News: Volume 6, Number 1
|Small Plant News Archive Page. This is an archive page. No new content is being added. While these newsletters remain available for reference purposes, the documents do not reflect changes to Agency policy that may have been instituted since the newsletters were published. Also note that resources and websites mentioned in older issues may have moved or may no longer be available. Points of contact for various initiatives may have changed.
In This Issue:
- Staying on Top of Allergen Management in Your Plant
- Proposed Rule for Labeling Announced
- Undeclared Allergens Subject of Webinar
- Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Staying on Top of Allergen Management in Your Plant
By Tracy Hewitt, Ph.D.
Most scientists agree that there are no defined threshold levels or limits for allergens or their derivatives because the amount of an allergenic material that's needed to provoke a response in people varies. Some individuals in the general population are very sensitive to extremely low levels of an allergen, while others may have a higher tolerance and require a greater level of exposure to provoke a reaction.
Likewise, symptoms of an allergic reaction may be mildly inconvenient to quite severe and life threatening. In any case, avoidance of an allergen is the only tried-and-true preventative measure. Therefore, consumers must rely on you, the plant operator, to identify accurately any allergens you use and properly label your products.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) strongly recommends that you address food allergens in your hazard analysis. Prudent plants adopt a "zero tolerance" policy for allergen cross-contamination. These plants employ a multi-intervention approach to prevent cross-contamination of products and processes and to ensure that products containing allergens are clearly and accurately labeled.
There are five areas to consider within a production or processing environment: ingredients, production, packaging and labeling, sanitation, and consumer feedback. With this in mind, your allergen management program may involve the following:
- Insist that your suppliers provide adequate notification of changes in ingredients;
- Establish procedures to evaluate your labels and specifications of all ingredients;
- Secure and properly store all allergenic foods and ingredients;
- Audit your suppliers' allergen management programs;
- Determine the stage in your production or processing environment that allergen cross-contamination could occur;
- Verify the accuracy of your ingredient statement during label preparation, at printing, during packaging, and when there are changes in product development or formulas;
- Review the agents or materials associated with packaging materials;
- Ensure that your sanitation procedures are sufficient to prevent cross-contamination of allergens and their derivatives, keeping in mind that just because something is "visibly clean" doesn't mean that it is "allergen clean";
- Determine whether problems with allergens are the underlying cause of consumer complaints;
- Prior to distribution, ensure that all allergens have been declared on your product label.
In addition, an allergen control program should include all of the measures and policies that must be followed at your food processing plant to protect sensitive consumers from food allergens. An allergen control program may include:
- Identification of all allergen-containing materials;
- Designated allergen storage area in the warehouse;
- Identification and implementation of weigh area control procedures;
- Identification of all allergen-containing formulae;
- Individual scoops or measuring devices in allergen containers;
- Identification of all allergen containers and cleaning procedures, and documentation of cleaning activities;
- Identification of critical plant areas and cleaning programs, and documentation of cleaning activities;
- Implementation of a rework control program and documentation of rework usage; and
- Ensuring that package labels for products containing allergens have any allergens correctly listed in their ingredient statement.
As previously stated, the labeling of products containing any allergen or allergen derivative is very important. There are eight major food allergens: milk, soybeans, wheat, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, fish, and shellfish. If a food product contains a major food allergen or a protein derived from one of the eight, the allergen must be listed on the label. If a food product contains fish or shellfish, the labels must state the species (e.g., crab, flounder, or shrimp). If a food product contains tree nuts, the labels must state the type (e.g., almonds, pecans, or walnuts). Wheat includes any species in the genus Triticum.
There are three ways that food allergens may be listed: (1) list the names of the allergens in the ingredient list (e.g., crab, shrimp, or lobster); (2) list the names of the allergens next to the ingredient that does not disclose what is in it (e.g., flour (wheat), whey (from milk)); or (3) list the allergens after the word "contains" (e.g., "contains wheat, soy, peanuts").
For more information on labeling for food allergens, refer to 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 101.4 (21 CFR 101.4), Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, or go to www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Labeling_Requirements_Guide.pdf. You may also submit questions through askFSIS at http://askfsis.custhelp.com or call (800) 233-3935. You may also call the FSIS Labeling and Program Delivery Division directly at (301) 504-0878.
The Countertop Food Safety Training Program, Module 6, titled Food Allergens, is another helpful resource that may be accessed on FSIS' Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/6_Food_Alergens.pdf. The Countertop Food Safety Training Program is an English/Spanish bilingual training program that provides an educational tool for the processed egg, meat, poultry, and other food processing industries to train their line employees on essential concepts in short periods of time. It was prepared under an USDA-FSIS cooperative agreement by Dr. Cathy Cutter of Pennsylvania State University, in cooperation with Dr. Sergio Nieto-Montenegro of Hispanic Workforce Management, LLC, and USDA.
If you have any questions or need more information regarding the control of allergens in your plant, contact the Small Plant Help Desk at 1-877-FSISHELP (1-877-374-7435) or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Proposed Rule for Labeling Announced
On December 5, 2011, FSIS announced a new proposed rule that would expand the circumstances in which the Agency will generically approve the labels of meat and poultry products. FSIS also proposed combining the regulations that provide for the approval of labels for meat products and poultry products into a new Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part. The proposed rule, titled "Prior Label Approval System: Generic Label Approval," may be viewed on FSIS' Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/Frame/FrameRedirect.asp?main=http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FRPubs/2005-0016.htm.
Generic label approval refers to the prior approval of labels or modifications to labels by the agency without submitting such labels to FSIS for sketch approval. Generic label approval requires that all mandatory label features be in conformance with FSIS regulations (9 CFR 317.5(a)(1) and 381.133(a)(1)). Although such labels are not submitted to FSIS for approval, they are deemed to be approved and, therefore, may be applied to product in accordance with the agency's prior label approval system. Guidance on current generic labeling information and regulations may be accessed on FSIS' Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/larc/Procedures/generic.pdf.
Comments on "Prior Label Approval System: Generic Label Approval" were accepted until March 3, 2012.
For more information, contact Jeff Canavan, Food Technologist, Labeling and Program Delivery Division, Office of Policy and Program Development, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stop Code 3784, Patriots Plaza III, 8-161A, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700; telephone (301) 504-0879; fax (301) 504-0872.
To sign up for email updates when new FSIS Federal Register notices, proposed rules, interim rules, and final rules are published, visit FSIS' Web site at www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations_&_policies/federal_register_publications_&_related_documents/index.asp and click on the link provided.
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Undeclared Allergens Subject of Webinar
The FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development, Labeling and Program Delivery Division, hosted a series of regulatory webinars titled "Recalls of Products with Undeclared Allergens." The webinars focused on the steps you can take to prevent production of items containing undeclared allergens. The presentation used during the webinars has been posted on FSIS' Web site and may be accessed at www.fsis.usda.gov/PPT/Undeclared_Allergen_Prevention.ppt.
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Commonly Asked Questions & Answers
Q. Is it acceptable for a cattle slaughter establishment to use its "zero tolerance" critical control point (CCP) to control the food safety hazard of E. coli O157:H7?
No, a cattle slaughter establishment's "zero tolerance" CCP is designed to identify visible fecal, ingesta, and milk contamination, and is not sufficient to control the microscopic pathogen E. coli O157:H7. A cattle slaughter establishment's CCP for the identification of visible fecal contamination is an indication of the establishment's control of its sanitary dressing procedures during the slaughter process (62 FR 63254, Nov. 28, 1997, Livestock Carcasses and Poultry Carcasses Contaminated With Visible Fecal Material). In 2002, the agency published a Federal Register Notice [Docket No. 00-022N] titled E. coli O157:H7 Contamination of Beef Products. In that notice, FSIS stated that it may be "more effective to control the risk of E. coli O157:H7 contamination while the product is still intact," and that it believes that the cattle slaughter establishments needed to put one or more validated CCPs in place that are designed to eliminate or reduce E. coli O157:H7 and other pathogens. Section 417.2(a)(1) of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations states that a food safety hazard that is reasonably likely to occur is one for which a prudent establishment would establish control measures because the hazard historically has occurred, or because there is a reasonable possibility that it will occur in the particular type of product being processed in the absence of those controls. In addition to a CCP to address the microbiological food safety hazard, the agency believes cattle slaughter establishments must have other controls in place to limit the cross-contamination and spread of the pathogen on the live animals in the lairage (i.e., holding pen) and subsequent steps in the slaughter process. A prudent establishment considers controls of its process, for example, based on conditions of the animals' hides at ante-mortem (e.g., mud score). The agency believes that cattle slaughter establishments must control the processing environment on the slaughter floor. Effective implementation of Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) (9 CFR 416.12), sanitary dressing procedures (9 CFR 416.1), temperature controls, and good manufacturing procedures limit the food safety hazard of E. coli O157:H7 through written control (prerequisite) programs (FSIS Directive 6410.1, Verifying Sanitary Dressing and Process Control Procedures in Slaughter Operations of Cattle of Any Age).
Additionally, the Agency recommended in the Federal Register Notice [Docket No. 00-022N] that cattle slaughter establishments "consider that E. coli O157:H7 prevalence may be higher in April through September than during other times of the year, resulting in a need to account for this increased prevalence in its HACCP systems." Cattle slaughter establishments may need to conduct more frequent or more rigorous verification activities and they may need to employ more rigorous interventions during April through September than during other times of the year.
Q. Are establishments required to provide access to their HACCP plan and supporting documentation to inspection program personnel so that they can record information into PHIS?
Yes. 9 CFR 417.5(f) states: "All records required by this part (Part 417) and all plans and procedures required by this part shall be available for official review." The type of information recorded into PHIS includes the HACCP product categories, general processing steps, hazards controlled or prevented, a list of CCPs and pre-requisite programs, finished product categories, and product volume ranges. The Agency requires the type of data that it does record in order to best focus its inspection resources, including sampling to verify compliance with its requirements, and protect public health.
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This has been a strange year, no? I took advantage of the extended period that I at home in the spring and spent some time organizing some of my Sylvia Plath stuff. In particular, the magazines in which Plath published her verse and prose.
These were largely in order to begin with but the folders were unlabeled. Which made finding anything pretty frustrating. Now, they are labeled and in proper date order, with title of magazine, date, title of Plath's work, and page number. So I should be able to find anything I need in a jiffy. Above are larger format magazines; below are the smaller format journals.
If you are interested in seeing a more or less complete bibliography of Plath's publications, just go to A celebration, this is! Thanks and have a nice day.
All links accessed 18 April 2020.
20 September 2020
Organizing my Sylvia Plath Periodicals
Labels: Sylvia Plath
Publications & Acknowledgements
- BBC Four.A Poet's Guide to Britain: Sylvia Plath. London: BBC Four, 2009. (Acknowledged in)
- Biography: Sylvia Plath. New York: A & E Television Networks, 2005. (Photographs used)
- Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the angel in the house. 2d ed. Hebden Bridge: Pennine Pens, 1998. (Acknowledged in)
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives." Plath Profiles 2. Summer 2009: 183-208.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives, Redux." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 232-246.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 3." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 119-138.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 4: Looking for New England." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012: 11-56.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 5: Reanimating the Past." Plath Profiles 6. Summer 2013: 27-62.
- Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Oxford: Fonthill, 2017.
- Death Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. New York: Poets.org. (Photographs used)
- Doel, Irralie, Lena Friesen and Peter K. Steinberg. "An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath." Notes & Queries 56:3. September 2009: 428-430.
- Elements of Literature, Third Course. Austin, Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. (Photograph used)
- Gill, Jo. "Sylvia Plath in the South West." University of Exeter Centre for South West Writing, 2008. (Photograph used)
- Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Photographs used, acknowledged in)
- Helle, Anita. "Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Memory". Feminist Studies 31:3. Fall 2005: 631-652.. (Acknowledged in)
- Holden, Constance. "Sad Poets' Society." Science Magazine. 27 July 2008. (Photograph used)
- Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, Motion Picture. Directed by Rachel Talbot. Brookline (Mass.): Jewish Women's Archive, 2007. (Photograph used)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Karen V. Kukil. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York: Anchor Books, 2000. (Acknowledged in)
- Plath, Sylvia, and Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (eds.). The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1, 1940-1956. London: Faber, 2017.
- Plath, Sylvia, and Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil (eds.). The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2, 1956-1963. London: Faber, 2018.
- Plath, Sylvia. Glassklokken. Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene, 2004. (Photograph used on cover)
- Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2008.. (Images provided)
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'A Fetish: Somehow': A Sylvia Plath Bookmark." Court Green 13. 2017.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'I Should Be Loving This': Sylvia Plath's 'The Perfect Place' and The Bell Jar." Plath Profiles 1. Summer 2008: 253-262.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 106-132.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Sylvia Plath at Camp Helen Storrow." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 149-166.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Proof of Plath." Fine Books & Collections 9:2. Spring 2011: 11-12.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Sylvia Plath." The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath. London: British Library, 2010.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications." Plath Profiles 5. Summer 2012.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "The Persistence of Plath." Fine Books & Collections. Autumn 2017: 24-29
- Steinberg, Peter K. "This is a Celebration: A Festschrift for The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3 Supplement. Fall 2010: 3-14.
- Steinberg, Peter K. "Writing Life" [Introduction]. Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year's Turning. Stroud, Eng.: Fonthill Media, 2014.
- Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath (Great Writers). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
- "Banking on his passion for Plath" by Melissa Davis Haller. UMW Today. Spring 2005.
- "Sylvia Plath's Three Women to be staged in London" by Alison Flood. The Guardian. 3 December 2008.
- "FBI files on Sylvia Plath's father shed new light on poet" by Dalya Alberge. The Guardian. 17 August 2012.
- "There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath" by Ashley Fetters. The Atlantic. 11 February 2013.


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- 1 Abstract
- 2 ChannelHandler class
- 3 The main() function
- 4 The .component File
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- 6 CMakeLists.txt
- 7 Running our Application
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a simple application that uses Decibel's TextChannels to communicate via arbitrary instant messaging networks using telepathy. From the result of this tutorial, only a few more lines of code are needed to produce a functioning text based instant messaging client.
This tutorial is based on the simpleclient demo included with Decibel. An explanation of using the simpleclient demo can be found here.
In this tutorial, we only pick out the important parts of the source code to discuss. The complete working source code for this example can be found here in KDE's SVN Repository.
ChannelHandler class
The first class we will need to create is an implementation of the Decibel::ChannelHandler interface.
The Class Definition
Here is the class definition for our implementation of the Decibel::ChannelHandler interface. It is explained below.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> class MyTextChannelHandler : public Decibel::ChannelHandler {
explicit MyTextChannelHandler(QObject * parent = 0); ~MyTextChannelHandler();
bool handleChannel(QtTapioca::Connection *, QtTapioca::Channel *, const bool);
public slots:
void onMessageReceived(); void onCloseChannel();
QtTapioca::Connection * m_connection; QtTapioca::TextChannel * m_channel;
We must inherit from Decibel::ChannelHandler which is the interface definition for handling incoming Channels. We reimplement the constructor, Destructor and the handleChannel() method as well as adding two slots of our own. We also create the member variables m_connecion and m_channel which will hold the QtTapioca::Connection and QtTapioca::Channel objects that are received by the handleChannel method.
The Class Implementation
Now that we have defined our Decibel::ChannelHandler subclass, we need to implement its methods.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> MyTextChannelHandler::MyTextChannelHandler(QObject * parent) :
ChannelHandler(parent), m_connection(0), m_channel(0)
{ } The constructor is very simple. We just pass the parent object on to the parent class and initialise our member variables to 0.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> MyTextChannelHandler::~MyTextChannelHandler() { } The destructor is even simpler. We don't need to do anything in it because Qt will handle the deletion of child objects automatically.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> bool MyTextChannelHandler::handleChannel(QtTapioca::Connection * connection,
QtTapioca::Channel * channel, const bool)
Q_ASSERT(connection != 0); Q_ASSERT(channel != 0);
if (m_connection != 0) { return false; }
m_channel = dynamic_cast<QtTapioca::TextChannel*>(channel); if (m_channel == 0) { return false; } m_connection = connection;
connect(m_channel, SIGNAL(messageReceived(const QtTapioca::TextChannel *, const QtTapioca::TextChannel::Message &)), this, SLOT(onMessageReceived())); connect(m_channel, SIGNAL(closed()), this, SLOT(onCloseChannel()));
return true;
} This method is reimplemented from the Decibel::ChannelHandler interface. It is called when ever a new incoming communication channel (QtTapioca::Channel) comes into existence. In this method, we must decide whether to accept the incoming channel, and if so, to deal with it appropriately.
First we check the incoming channel and connection objects are not invalid (=0) and we fail if this is the case. In a proper application, these error cases should be handled more gracefully, but for the purpose of this demo, we will just use Q_ASSERT() to handle them.
Next we check if the m_connection member variable is set to 0. If it is not, then we are already handling a channel. This demo can only handle one channel at a time, so we return false to reject the new incoming channel.
There are multiple types of channel we could possible receive. In this demo we are only interested in the TextChannel type. So the next step is to try and cast it to a QtTapioca::TextChannel object. We then evaluate if this cast was successful (not = 0) and if it was not, we again return false to reject the channel. If the cast is successful, we assign the QtTapioca::TextChannel object to the member variable m_channel to store it.
Now that we are sure the incoming channel is one we want to handle, we assign the incoming connection object to a member variable m_connection as well.
We are also ready to connect the channel's signals to the slots in our class. We connect the channel's messageReceived() signal to our onMessageReceived() slot, and the channel's closed() signal to our onCloseChannel() slot.
Finally, we call the onMessageReceived() slot to process any messages that have already arrived on the channel, before returning true to tell Decibel that we have accepted the channel and are handling it.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> void MyTextChannelHandler::onCloseChannel() {
m_connection = 0; m_channel = 0;
} This slot is called when the current TextChannel is closed. It resets the m_connection and m_channel member variables to 0 so that the handleChannel() method will accept the next incoming channel.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> void MyTextChannelHandler::onMessageReceived() {
QList<QtTapioca::TextChannel::Message> message_list = m_channel->pendingMessages();
for (QList<QtTapioca::TextChannel::Message>::const_iterator message = message_list.constBegin(); message != message_list.constEnd(); ++message) { if (message->type() == QtTapioca::TextChannel::Message::Normal && message->contents() == QString("ping?")) { m_channel->sendMessage(QString("pong!")); }
m_channel->acknowledge(*message); }
} This slot is called when a new message is received on the channel we are currently handling. It is where the processing of the message takes place.
The first thing we do is to call the pendingMessages() method of the channel to receive *all* the unprocessed received messages on that channel.
Next we iterate over the list of these messages. For each message in the list, we check that it is a message of type Normal, as oposed to another type like Avatar or Emoticon which we are not interested in for this tutorial.
If it is a normal type of message, we check its contents, and if they are the string ping?, we reply with the string pong!.
We then call the acknowledge() method on the channel to confirm to the sender that we received the message.
The main() function
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp-qt"> int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
QCoreApplication app(argc, argv); app.setOrganizationName(Decibel::organisation_name); app.setApplicationName("SimpleClient");
MyTextChannelHandler thandler(&app);
QDBusConnection::sessionBus().registerService(Decibel::organisation_name + '.' + "SimpleClient"); QDBusConnection::sessionBus().registerObject("/TextChannelHandler", thandler);
return app.exec();
} Since this is a console application, we set up a QCoreApplication first.
Then we create an instance of the MyTextChannelHandler (which is our implementation of the Decibel::ChannelHandler interface).
Before registering any of the DBus interfaces for our app, it is necessary to call Decibe::registerTypes() to set up the types used by Decibel.
Next we register our application as a DBus service, and a TextChannelHandler so that decibel can communicate with it and can pass incoming TextChannels to it.
Finally, we start the application event-loop.
The .component File
Since we want Decibel to pass incoming channels to our application, we need to tell it that our program exists. We do this by creating a .component file. A component file is a simple .ini/.desktop style file.
The contents of our demo application's .component file are as follows.
The only group in this file is the [Component] group. It contains a series of keys idntifying our application to Decibel and detailing the funcionality it supports.
In this example, the important keys are the Service%20Name which tells Decibel the dbus name of our application, and the Object%20Path which tells Decibel the dbus object path that should be called on our application.
The .service File
In order to have dbus automatically start our application when Decibel tries to communicate with it, we must create a .service file.
[D-BUS Service]
[email protected][email protected]/decibel_simpleclient_demo
This is a standard dbus autostart file. It contains the dbus name of our application and the absolute path to it. @INSTALL_DIR will be replaced automatically by the installation directory using cmake in the next step.
Since this example program is built as part of the main Decibel sources, I will not explain here how to create a standalone CMakeLists.txt file to build it, but will instead explain the important parts of the CMakeLists.txt file as found in the Decibel sources for this subdirectory. For more information on how CMakeLists.txt files work, please see the Introduction to cmake tutorial.
SET(SERVICE_FILE "org.kde.SimpleClient.service")
The CONFIGURE_FILE line above tells cmake tp fill in the variable to the .service.cmake file we previously created.
- ######### simpleclient demo #########
QT4_WRAP_CPP(simpleclient_MOC_SRCS ${simpleclient_MOC_HDRS})
ADD_EXECUTABLE(decibel_simpleclient_demo ${simpleclient_SRCS}
INSTALL(TARGETS decibel_simpleclient_demo DESTINATION ${DEMO_INSTALL_DIR})
INSTALL(FILES org.kde.SimpleClient.TextChannel.component
Running our Application
In this tutorial, we have only looked at the important parts of the code of this application. The easiest way to build a working example from this tutorial is to check out the Decibel source code from the KDE SVN repository. The simpleclient demo which this tutorial explains will be built and installed automatically along with the rest of Decibel.
To see it working, you need to register an account with Decibel and bring it online. For information on how to do this, please see Getting Started with Decibel. Then you should use another instant messaging program to send the message ping? to that account. The simpleclient demo will reply with the message pong!.


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With the stellar performance of bonds over the past decade and cash returning close to zero, where can you find alpha? To the point, is it safe to resume a higher allocation in stocks?
I have a chart in my office that displays the gain needed to break even after a loss in a specific investment or an overall portfolio. For instance, if you lose 10%, you'd need to earn 11% to break even. A 50% loss would require a gain of 100% to get back to even. In other words, it illustrates that as losses increase in increments of 5%, the gains needed to get back to even increase exponentially. The moral is clear: Avoid large losses.
The great economic boom of the 1980s and 90s was fueled in large part by a great amount of leverage. Debt increased at an alarming rate during this period, but of course, there were few alarms sounding. Then, when the end came, when the bubble burst, it was clear that a prolonged period of deleveraging would ensue. But how long will this period last? And with less debt as a catalyst, growth will be considerably slower than it was during the expansion.
Today, the most disconcerting issue to me is the reckless fiscal path on which we are traveling. America is amassing debt at an alarming rate. In short, we will look like Greece if something doesn't change. Moreover, with the Fed functioning as the chief supplier of capital, there is theoretically no limit to the amount of debt we can amass. Of course, unabated money printing does have its consequences. As the Fed's balance sheet continues to expand, at some point, this easy money policy could well blow up in our face, causing interest rates and inflation to spike. This is a scenario which does not end well.
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With all of the issues surrounding America's fiscal policy, I do see some positives.
Globally, the economy was, and possibly still is, slowing. As I mentioned several months ago, emerging market bonds should continue to do well as their central banks reduce rates. Also, it appears real estate has bottomed and a good quality real estate fund may be warranted.
I've been investing in real estate since 2009, but I think there's still room to run. Here are a couple of my favorite funds in these asset classes. Fidelity Advisor Emerging Markets Income (FMKIX) and Nuveen Real Estate Securities (FARCX). You might also consider Non-Traditional bond funds. In this space, I like the Western Asset Total Return Unconstrained (WAARX).
To conclude, I'd like to say thanks for reading and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2013!


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Two articles about me have come to my attention recently. They are:
Why Brad Warner Matters
Brad Warner Vs. The Maha Teachers
It's weird to read about yourself. You quickly realize that the "Brad Warner" people write about is not the same guy who does my laundry, stands in line at the DMV for my plates, and eats alone with me at a Taco Bell somewhere off Interstate 35. The "Brad Warner" they write about is some kind of abstraction created by the writers themselves. I have only minimal control over this "Brad Warner."
The fact that I have such little control over "Brad Warner" is the cause of a lot of grief for this Brad Warner. People are constantly nagging me to make that "Brad Warner" more like they think he ought to be. But I can't even make that "Brad Warner" more like what I think he ought to be! I've even seen photos of Noah Levine labeled as "Brad Warner," to give you an idea how little control I have over that "Brad Warner" guy.* Grrr...
Take the those weirdos who chose to write obscene emails to Barry Magid after they read the post I put up a few weeks back. Please! I still don't understand why anyone would do that. It makes no sense at all. Were they trying to be like me? If so, they weren't being like me at all. But possibly they were acting like the "Brad Warner" they had created for themselves. Or, quite possibly, they were people who don't like what I do, who chose to pose as my fans to try and make me look bad. God only knows. I certainly do not.
People constantly demand that I take responsibility for this stuff. But I really can't. It's like saying The Beatles shouldn't have made the White Album because it inspired Charles Manson to kill Sharon Tate. You cannot control the bizarre ways people take what you do. You have a responsibility to present yourself honestly. After that, there's not much else you can do. I'm sorry. There really just is not. I've tried.
In any case, about these new articles. Why Brad Warner Matters is the view of one person schooled in Tibetan Buddhism as to why the "Brad Warner" he has invented for himself matters. It's nice to read what he says. But at the same time, slightly embarrassing to read the quotes he pulls from my books. They're all real quotes. But they certainly aren't the ones I would pull out myself to express what I feel are the core things I wanted to get across in those books. Interesting.
My favorite part of this article is the final line, "I invite you to be like yourself."
The other article, Brad Warner Vs. The Maha Teachers, is about the recent piece I put up regarding the Garrison Institute's Maha Teacher Council.
The most interesting part of this article is not in the article itself but in one of the links it presents to another article by the same writer. This other article is called "Nice" Buddhism. It puts forth the idea that what is being called "Buddhism" in mainstream America these days isn't really Buddhism at all. It's a Buddhist-influenced form of progressive Christianity.
I have long believed this was true. My teacher, Nishijima Roshi, noticed it even more keenly than I did. He used to often lament that what certain Buddhist teachers propagate is not Buddhism at all but a kind of Christianity.
The author likens contemporary American Buddhism to post-hippie politically correct "nice" Christianity. This "Buddhism" ignores the difficult parts of Buddhism and shoehorns the rest into the accepted norms of polite, feel-good Christianity -- but without all that messy Jesus stuff either. So it's neither good Buddhism nor good Christianity, but something that's not quite either one, and above all absolutely inoffensive.
Both of these articles cite my book Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate. The "Brad Warner" people invent as a result of reading that book causes lots of trouble for me. But I think it was really a necessary book.
A couple of points the guy who wrote about "Brad Warner" in Brad Warner Vs The Maha Teachers need qualifying.
He writes, "He has no organization, so he can't be dismissed as a cult leader." I do have some kind of organization. But it's so disorganized it hardly qualifies. It's true I don't currently have anyone working with me. I read all my own emails, I write all the replies myself, I book all my own speaking events, I don't have a temple of any kind, etc. But some folks out in California are working on setting up a non-profit religious corporation (or whatever you call it) with me as the leader. So maybe I'll develop that into a cult one of these days. (cue laugh track)
He also writes, "He does not charge for teaching, so he can't be dismissed as a spiritual entrepreneur." This is a tricky point. I do very happily charge for speaking events. That's a perfectly legitimate way for an author to earn a living. I also accept dana (donations) when I speak at Zen centers and lead retreats. I really couldn't do these talks and lead these retreats any other way.
I try to leave monetary considerations out of actual Buddhist teaching as much as possible. That's not because I am so pure and holy. It's because I think that once money gets involved it changes things so radically that Buddhist teaching can't happen. I almost feel like if I could charge money for teaching and still teach I'd probably do it. It's fucking hard work.
Someone asked recently what the difference between Buddhist teaching and therapy is. I said some stuff about the way therapists try to make a person fit in with society, while Buddhists see the value of being able to deal with society. But we question its core values and don't really try to make people fit society's warped mold, only deal with it.
But really, the biggest difference between therapy and Buddhist teaching is that therapists charge for their work. And they should. I wouldn't do that job for free! But this creates certain expectations. When you pay for a service you have a right to demand results. If people start feeling they have the right to demand results from Buddhist teachers, Buddhist teachers can't do their work.
Yet Buddhist teachers have bills to pay just like everyone else. It's hard to figure out where to draw the line. I have not succeeded in finding that just perfect spot to make the division between what I do as a writer/lecturer and what I do as a Buddhist teacher yet. I probably never will. And so the question of whether or not I "charge for teaching" is and will probably always be arguable. Ah well.
Anyway, nice articles.
*The photo of Heaven's Gate cult leader Marshall Applewhite on the top of this article is one of several oddities that came up on a Google image search of "Brad Warner."


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Naked mole rats live underground, where environmental conditions are harsh but predators are few. They can live for more than 30 years, almost twenty-seven years longer than their close cousin the house mouse—which is particularly susceptible to cancer. They breathe slowly due to the limited supply of oxygen, survive on very little food, have poor sight, and are largely indifferent to pain.
Naked mole rats are also the only mammals that do not regulate their body temperature. Because they live in colonies where the queen rat does the job of producing progeny and only a few males father the litters, their sperms become lazy.
For cancer researchers, mice and naked mole rats fall on two extremes of the disease spectrum. Mice are used as animal models of disease because of their short lives and high incidence of cancer, which help researchers study the mechanism of cancer occurrence and test drugs that fight the disease.
Naked mole rats, on the other hand, have never developed cancer in the years that they have been studied. In labs, researchers often don't wait for their animal models to develop cancer. Instead they induce cancer by blasting the animals with gamma radiation, transplanting tumors, or injecting cancer-causing agents. Do that to a naked mole rat, though, and nothing happens.
Now, Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov at the University of Rochester think they may have found one mechanism by which naked mole rats defend themselves against cancer. Their results, reported today in the journal Nature, make for a strange tale.
While studying cells taken from the armpits and lungs of naked mole rats, they found an unusually thick chemical surrounding the cells. This turned out to be hyaluronan, a substance that is present in all animals, where its main job is to hold cells together. Beyond providing mechanical strength, it is also involved in controlling when cells grow in number.
Cancer relies on the unregulated growth of cells, so hyaluronan was thought to be involved in the progression of malignant tumors. According to Gorbunova, aspects of hyaluronan may regulate cell growth as well as hyaluronan's amount and thickness. As a polymer, the greater the number of hyaluronan molecules in a single chain, the thicker it becomes.
When the molecular mass is high, cells are "told" to stop increasing in number. When the molecular mass is low, they are "asked" to proliferate. In the case of the naked mole rat, Gorbunova found that the molecular mass was unusually high, as much as five times that of mice or humans.
To understand whether this unusual hyaluroanan was responsible for cancer resistance in naked mole rats, Gorbunova increased the amount of enzyme that degrades the chemical, reducing its molecular weight. Soon after, she observed that the rat's cells readily started growing in thick clusters like cancerous mouse cells do.
In a separate experiment, she also tested this hypothesis by reducing the amount of hyaluronan by knocking out the genes that encode for its production. Then, on injecting cancer-causing virus, instead of resisting, the naked mole rat's cells became cancerous.
Gorbunova thinks that having thick hyaluronan might have helped increase the elasticity of the rat's skin, allowing it to live in small tunnels underground. This trait might then have accidentally developed a new role of preventing cancer.
Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center, has studied naked mole rats for years and was pleased to see that some light has been shed on this creature's remarkable resistance to cancer. "As we learn more about these cancer-resistant mechanisms that are effective and can be directly pertinent to humans, we may find new cancer prevention strategies," she said.
Nature, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/nature12234 (About DOIs).
This article was published at The Conversation.