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Stocks that saw bearish crossovers in Monday's session were Gammon Infra, Karnataka Bank and Aban Offshore among others.
NEW DELHI: NSE's Nifty50 index settled just 34 points shy of the magical 11,000 mark on Monday, as the broader market continued to march on.
But momentum indicator Moving Average Convergence Divergence, or MACD, signalled bearish crossovers on 42 counters on NSE.
Market experts advised traders to follow strict stop losses ahead of the F&O expiry at the end of this holiday-truncated week.
Among the counters that saw bearish crossovers in Monday's session were Gammon Infra, Karnataka Bank, Aban Offshore, Shalimar Paints, Marksans Pharma, Central Bank, Control Print, Symphony, JSW Holdings, Rainbow Papers, Gravita India and Zee Learn.
Some of these counters also witnessed strong trading volumes, adding further credibility to the emerging trend.
Other stocks that witnessed bearish crossovers included Zydus Wellness, Jayant Agro, Chennai Petro, Mahindra Holidays, Rama Steel Tubes, GTPL Hathway.
MACD is a trend-following momentum indicator, and is the difference between the 26-day and 12-day exponential moving averages. A nine-day exponential moving average, called the 'signal' line, is plotted on top of the MACD to reflect 'buy' or 'sell' opportunities.
When the MACD slips below the signal line, it gives a bearish signal, indicating that the price of the security may experience a downward movement, and vice-versa.
However, the MACD alone may not be a sufficient indicator to help take an investment call. Traders should make use other indicators such as Relative Strength Index (RSI), Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci Series, candlestick patterns and Stochastic to confirm such trends.
Retail investors should consult financial experts before buying or selling a stock based on such technical indicators.
Monday's MACD charts also showed that 16 stocks witnessed bullish crossovers on NSE, giving 'buy' signals. The stocks included Reliance IndustriesBSE 1.08 %, Biocon, V-Guard Industries, LIC Housing Finance, Godrej Industries, Ajanta Pharma and Kirloskar Oil Engine.
On Monday, the Nifty50 made a clear breakout from the 10,900 level to settle at a record closing high of 10,966. In the process, it formed a strong bullish candle on the daily chart. The index has been forming higher highs and higher lows for last three sessions, suggesting that supports are shifting higher.
Rajesh Palviya, Head Technical & Derivatives Analyst at Axis Securities, said for the coming session, the 10,980 level would be the immediate resistance to watch out. Any sustainable move above this will give Nifty further strength and take it to 11,000-11,030 levels.
On the downside, an immediate support is placed around the 10,920 level. As hourly and daily charts are approaching overbought territory, it may be a cause of concern in the near term as profit booking at higher levels can't be ruled out.
Below 10,920 level on Nifty, accelerated profit booking is possible, in which case the index may slip towards 10,870 and 10,840 levels. Day traders are advised to be cautious and should keep strict stop losses, he said.
Chandan Taparia, Derivatives and Technical Analyst, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, said the Nifty50 has to continue to hold above 10,850 to extend its move towards 11,050 and then 11,100 levels. On the downside, support is seen at the 10,800 level.
Understanding MACD
A close look at the chart of Adani EnterprisesBSE 2.95 % shows whenever the MACD line has crossed above the signal line on the counter, the stock has always shown an upward momentum and vice versa.
Shares of the company closed 0.25 per cent down at Rs 199.20 on Monday.["Source-economictimes"]

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Monday, 7 May 2012
Yesterday I had easily the best Ringing day I've had since starting just over a year ago. With a nice early start at 5.30am, myself, John and Andy were joined by Adrian for the first time this year. Unfortunately he's been extremely busy this year, so it was great to have him back with us. As I progress as a Ringer, this years plans include trying to get me to Ring a lot more different species, and with that in mind Adrian had a full day planned in the hope of getting me a handful of new species. It began on the morning, as the two of us split up from John and Andy and went to Ring in the Nature Reserve of the Coastal Park. Its the first time I'd Ringed in this part of the Park, but hopefully it wont be the last. I absolutely loved it! It was nice to be doing something different, and it didnt take long at all to get my first new species, a lovely male Linnet in the first net check of the morning. Then the next one came along, a female Reed Bunting. A good start. As the morning went by, the birds came and went and by the end of it I'd bagged five new Ringing species, Linnet, Reed Bunting, House Sparrow, Woodpigeon and Starling. That put me upto 42 species. The afternoon would hopefully get me a couple more!
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The end of The Great Depression saw a significant rise in union membership. From 1935 to 1940 labor union membership as a percent of the workforce rose from 13% to 26%.
While union membership has declined to 12% in 2008, the global economic recession may usher in a resurgence of union membership.
Recent news reports include stories of companies requiring workers to accept employment concessions, most commonly involving:
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While concessions are being advocated as a way to help the company remain afloat, overtime workers may become dissatisfied.
As the level of dissatisfaction rises, union leaders may find conditions ripe for organizing and recruiting new members. In this scenario, it would be very difficult for management to reverse things once momentum built.
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Officials for Rappahannock County elected in November have been sworn in and assumed duties, as of the first day of the year. The Board of Supervisors will hold its first meeting of the new year today (Thursday). Mrs. Virginia D. Smith, newly elected to the post of Commissioner of the Revenue, has selected Mrs. Merle Scoggin as her deputy. Everett Estes of Washington has been selected by incoming Sheriff John Walker Jenkins as his deputy; Jonas Alther Sr. will remain as Jail Custodian for the county. Ray Jackson remains as an unpaid deputy.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bailey of Washington were honored with a dinner Jan. 31, in celebration of their fortieth anniversary. The dinner, given by their children, was held at their home in Washington. The former Miss Ethel Virginia Timbers and Edward H. Bailey were married in Washington, Va., Dec. 28, 1931, by the Rev. Luther Banks.
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A fire on Christmas night, Dec. 25, left the Ketchem family homeless and without clothing or home furnishings when the house they rented on Route 729 near Ben Venue burned to the ground. The house was owned by Robert Walter of Charlottesville. The Ketchems and their three children were away from home visiting Terry Ketchem's mother, Mrs. Marjorie J. Ketchem in Woodstock when the tragedy occurred.
A large woman with a big smile and an even bigger heart, Rachel Aylor moves around quietly on the county's backstage, lending a hand wherever she's needed. Black or white, rich or poor, anyone who needs help needs only to ask Rachel. With everything she does, there's little chance she'll rust away and she gives no sign of wearing out. "I just do things. I don't think about them. If I do something for somebody else, maybe when I'm old, somebody will give me some help if I need it," Rachel said. Another love that goes back to Rachel's childhood is the church. As a youngster, she joined Macedonia Baptist Church in Flint Hill, where she still sings in the senior choir.
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The Mobil Travel guide announced last week in USA Today that the Inn at Little Washington again earned the guide's highest awards – Five Stars for both its restaurant and accommodations. The Inn once again becomes the only establishment in Mobil's history to ever receive two Five Star ratings. Eleven restaurants and only eight hotels in America received Five Star designations this year.
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I have been thinking for some days about what the answer is to all the issues thrown up by the horse meat scandal and I keep coming back to the one thought
We must become our own food processors
In other words we must make the majority of the food we consume ourselves. This is going to be an uncomfortable idea for a lot of people to accept as we have over the last 30 years changed our eating habits beyond recognition. A large amount of us now rely on third parties to prepare our meals and we are willing to spend less and less time in the kitchen. I listened with interest to a radio show the other day when one of the contributors suggested that we should all really be making our own spaghetti bolognaise and not buying pre prepared bolognaise. The other contributor was incredulous that this could even be suggested. The unpalatable truth is that we are going to have to change and we are going to have to return to a more traditional way of feeding ourselves and our families. Don't despair it can be done gradually and there are up sides to this, the biggest one being that we should as a result live healthier lives. For some years the statistics have been stacking up to show that the diet the Western population has so willingly taken to it's table is actually killing a vast number of this population. The diet with its heavy reliance on processed food and meat, with lots of added fat and sugar and not enough fruit and vegetables is sending many of us to hospital with heart disease, obesity issues and cancer.
One of the saddest things about the change that we have gradually made to our eating and cooking habits is that we have been encouraged to do it by the powerful and wealthy food manufacturing industry in the West . But what's wrong with this? Business has to make money and the industry provides jobs and prosperity to the country. There are two major things wrong with this. Firstly, a matter of trust. If someone else is going to make the food that I put into my body then I need to trust that they will put my health and wellbeing above the priority of their profit margins. When I was growing up we used to trust our food suppliers and supermarkets. I used to wave at Sainsbury lorry drivers. Our food suppliers were, more or less then, the farmers of the UK and the supermarkets were the places where those farmers sold their goods. The biggest supermarket in my home town had three aisles. You started at the fruit and vegetables, there were a few breakfast cereals and biscuits in the middle. The dairy was at the far end and you ended by the beer and the asti spumante. Whether the change started with the microwave, more women going out to work or a general influence from America who knows for sure, but we are now in a situation where we have a multi-billion pound food manufacturing industry very keen for us to buy as much manufactured food as we can fit in our fridges and then, more often than not, in our bins by the end of the week. So I am afraid this massive industry has too much to lose to start taking our health and wellbeing into account. They will get away with what they can as long as the money keeps rolling in. The hydrogenated fat issue was a good example of this. Health concerns about hydrogenated fats in ready meals, cake and biscuits had been rumbling on for some years. Consumers started to become concerned, as a result, and started to express their opinion on the matter through their spending. Suddenly the supermarkets reacted, seeing a possible chink in their armour, and decided to tell us that they were going to take hydrogenated fats out of their ready meals, because they cared about us the consumer. They still, however, sell cakes , doughnuts and biscuits with hydrogenated fats as an ingredient so they don't care that much. In Scandinavia governments have placed an outright ban on the use of such fats in manufactured foods as they consider them toxic. There is no scientist that will disagree in the UK but the food industry is so powerful that the government refuses to act. Meanwhile the consumer goes on consuming these fats and the tax payer keeps footing the bill for the consequent detrimental health issues caused.
On the point of trust, the fact that the supermarkets are now seeking to blame the meat processing industry for the horse meat situation is to completely miss the point. If they care about what they are selling us then they should know what is in the food we are buying from them.
The second major thing wrong with this reliance on processed food is the simple one and that is that it is bad for us. It is bad for our bodies and bad for our environment. We have to start eating a more balanced diet rich in fruit and vegetables, with some fresh meat and fish, basically eating how our grandmothers and grandfathers ate. Nobody puts it better and more simply than the food journalist Michael Pollen,
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
I hesitate after writing that though. Michael Pollen's rule is simple enough but the shocking truth is that our diet has changed so much over the years that we now have to stop and think about what "food" actually is. If we can at least all agree on one fact and that is this that what is made in a factory 300 miles away, using dubious ingredients and plenty of chemicals is not food. If we can all agree on this then I would feel optimistic about the future of our diets


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"…so she buys an instant cake, and she burns her frozen steak…"
Spinach is one of those leafy green vegetables your mother said was good for you. In the childhood of a baby boomer such as your correspondent, it might been good for you but not particularly tasty: an oblong, frozen brick pried out of a cardboard box and dropped into a pot. After being massacred in boiling water for 12 minutes, it might have been unceremoniously plopped on one's plate. Acrid, totally devoid of flavor, and inducing a gag reflex. Yuck.
Plagued by a paucity of spinach recipes, I came across this post by the French Food Fool, which made me think outside the box a bit. Last night, I sauteed minced shallots in olive oil, then added one and a half teaspoons of Dijon mustard. After a minute passed, I added my cleaned, chopped spinach. The juice of a lime came next. Another minute or two, and we were ready to eat. Piquant and aromatic, the result was pleasing to all, even out daughter, who asked for seconds.


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Nexter unveils the CAESAR® 8x8 for the first time on Eurosatory
Villepinte, 13th June 2016 - Nexter is present for this 2016 edition of the International Defence and Security Show, Eurosatory, which is being held from 13th to 17th June.
Armed with two centuries of experience and thanks to internationally recognised expertise, Nexter is one of the world's five leading artillery systems manufacturers. The Group relies notably on its perfect mastery of the weapon/ammunition combination and can offer a complete range of products to equip artillery battalions, from guns through ballistic computers (BACARA®) and firing control systems (FINDART®) to ammunition.
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Context Matters
I'm so tired of the "misinterpretation" of God's Word! Why? Because wrong teaching results in wrong believing!
Understand God. Know His love for you! Know His will for you. Know His Word and you will know all of that!
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The Predestined Myth
There are TOO many false teachings about "Pre-Destination" and that has really confused and frustrated people that see that as a reason that we don't need to share the Gospel, because some are just meant for "hell" anyway.
That teaching and doctrine is just as damnable as teaching that all people will go to heaven in the end anyway! Another lie of the enemy. And he has plenty if you don't know the truth!
In this podcast, I'll lay out the scriptures that will prove to you that predestination and the doctrine of it, have been mis-taught completely!
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The Salvation Myth Taught In The Church
The time comes when you must know the Word of God for yourself and not go by what you've heard from many false teachers. Your life depends on it!
Even sincere pastors who don't know the Word of God probably taught you wrong too. Why, because it's a "doctrine."
Every "denomination" has their own "doctrines" that they expect to be followed. They won't allow the Bible to get in the way of what they believe and teach.
I won't allow the "worlds mindset" or even the "so-called" church to get in the way of what the Word says about anything!
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Identity Crisis
I covered this topic in a past podcast, but it looks like once is NOT enough. There are still too many beleievers who are stymied about who they are.
Are they a sinner saved by grace or are you who God says you are? Can you be a sinner and a saint?
Can a dog be a cat too?
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Being "born of the Spirit" happens the moment you ask Jesus into your heart and life and receive His miracle of "salvation.
But why are so many believers struggling with life, relationships and the trials that face them?
The answer is all in their mind…
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No Feeling, Just Faith
Maybe if I pray enough… I'll be worthy.
Maybe if I tithe enough… God will open the "windows of heaven" for me…
Maybe if I work harder to "be good" and do good… I'll be healed.
Maybe if I fast longer God will… answer my prayers more.
And on and on the "false teachings" go.
God's provisions are not obtained by any of these "methods."
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Its OK To Hate
I'm sorry to say, the "spirit of religion" is still NOT dead!
When I got this email recently, I knew I had just seen the UGLY spirit of religion for myself…
The most "judgmental" people in the entire world are the religious people. The ones full of law and spiritual pride!
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Part 1 "Proof"
The people of the world that "mock" the Bible as being a "fairy tail," are simply not knowledgeable of the facts. We all like "proof" of something being true or reliable.
The Bible includes "undeniable" facts. Why the church doesn't spend more time on presenting these "facts," I don't understand.
In this podcast, I'll share with you, the "miraculous facts" that prove Jesus IS the Messiah.
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Enemy Or Friend?
We deceive ourselves all the time. We believe the sales pitch that if we get that product, we'll be so much better off than we are now…
If we have that new car, life will be more fun. If we make more money etc… But the biggest deception may be our lives as Christians.
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Tomorrow WILL Come
Did you know Jesus IS coming back? Are you acting and living like you know He's coming back?
Many Christians are living like He never even came here to earth… Others, act like He'll never be back again.
I read where He'll be back on October 2011. Another group says it's sometime in 2012…
Let me tell you when He's coming back.
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Reconcile Contradiction
If God really is a God of love??????? Why are so many people suffering all over this world?
Only an answer "based on TRUTH" is the right answer!
The "IF" question… usually tries to contradict the "answer based on truth" and leans to opinion "without truth"…
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Did You Forget This About God?
I don't know why people like to learn the hard way. We've all been there at one time or another, especially when we're young.
"Don't touch that stove… you'll burn yourself." WHY did we have to touch it?
Probably because:
- we didn't KNOW that it would burn us
- we didn't really believe the warning
- we didn't "feel" like listening to authority in our life, at the time
- we thought we could "get away" with doing it…
Whatever the reason, we got BURNED!
Knowing the true character and nature of God's love for us, will make us be more ready to obey. This podcast is about a too often forgotten part of God's character.
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You Learned It Wrong
If you've been a Christian for a while now, you have most likely been taught, that you must read your Bible so that your "faith will grow." Right?
WRONG! That is not the "source of faith" and I will prove it to you in this podcast. What you've been taught, even by well intentioned preachers, is not scriptural.
Learn the "truth" and it will set you free!!!
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Grace Is Not An Excuse
Why is it hard to tell sometimes, who is a Christian and who is not? Does God's grace mean, now that we've asked Jesus into our lives that we're free to live like we want and we'll still go to heaven no matter what?
If you believe that, then please listen to this podcast. You may be headed in the wrong direction and not even know it…
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Stay Here
Thank you for listening! Back on iTunes and now you can download any podcast to your iPod you want!
Talking about the way to be fruitful. After all, if we're not fruitful… what's the point?
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Sovereignty Myth
Like many other "false doctrines" created by those who take scriptures out of context, the doctrine of the sovereignty of God seems to be another. God's word is clear to those who read it and understand it, but to those who believe "wrong teaching" about God's word, it's a tool that the devil uses to manipulate their mind into unbelief.
Is God sovereign in the way you believe? Or is He sovereign in the way His word tells us He is?
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The Dark Deception part 4
In this last part of The Dark Deception, we talk about the other ways that saints give more glory to the enemy, than to the very God who redeemed them from hell, death and the grave.
If we name the Name of Jesus, let's stop being fooled by the enemy of our souls, and let's "throw off" fallacies about the Word and God's will that we learned wrongly, through false teachings or false doctrines and live for Him from now on!
The Gospel is Jesus Christ! Give Him the glory He so much deserves!
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The Dark Deception part 3
Are you giving more glory to Satan than you are to God? If you believe and walk in a lie… then you are!
It doesn't matter if you have 3 doctorates in Biblical studies, have attended the "best" seminaries or been lauded by kings and leaders across the planet.
Are you a "doer" of the Word and not just a "hearer" of the Word? Do you accuse those who have faith and trust in God, who take Him at His word? If you do, you're glorifying the devil more than you realize.
If you name the Name of Jesus, do what He says and believe what He says… Luke 6:46 "Why do you keep on saying that I am your Lord, when you refuse to do what I say?"
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The Dark Deception part 1
"If God is for us… who can be against us?"
Satan of course! If he is our enemy, why do so many saints "co-operate" with him, to help bring their own destruction?
This 4 part series will cover the many ways that Christians "unknowingly" glorify Satan and prevent them from receiving all the blessings and benefits that God has provided for them.
This must stop and it must stop now!
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Do We Need So Many Versions?
There are 8 major versions of the Bible. Why? Can't we just settle on one and that should be good enough?
Doesn't all the different versions make it confusing for people? How can they all be right?
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1. the quality or state of being happy.
2. good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy.
10 Habits of Incredibly Happy People | Forbes.com, Dr. Travis Bradberry 02/14/2017
We're always chasing something—be it a promotion, a new car, or a significant other.
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13 Things Science Says Will Make You Much Happier | LinkedIn, Dr. Travis Bradberry 06/21/2017
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Happiness | Psychology Today, Hedonic Treadmill
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How To Buy Happiness (10:58) 11/00/2011
At TEDxCambridge, Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can
indeed buy happiness — when you don't spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising
data on the many ways pro-social spending can benefit you, your work, and (of
course) other people.
"Incremental Improvements We Make Become Dramatic and Powerful over Time."
| Linkedin, Gretchen Rubin 05/12/2017
As someone who values self-knowledge, I was intrigued by Tasha Eurich's new book,
Insight, about self-awareness. Her research shows that we are remarkably poor judges
of ourselves and how we're perceived by others, and it's rare to get candid, objective
feedback from colleagues, employees, and even friends and family.
New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy | Ladders, Eric Barker 05/19/2017
You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don't know what
they're talking about. Don't trust them.
Actually, don't trust me either. Trust neuroscientists. They study that gray blob in your
head all day and have learned a lot about what truly will make you happy.
UCLA neuroscience researcher Alex Korb has some insights that can create an upward
spiral of happiness in your life. Here's what you and I can learn from the people who
really have answers:
Want to Be Happier? Ask Yourself This Question Every Morning | Inc., Chris Winfield
When you first wake up, what pops into your mind? Do you start thinking about
all the work you have to do? The emails you have to reply to, the pile of paperwork
on your desk that has to be completed, or maybe it's the housework that still needs
to get done?
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A Uniform Analysis of the Ly{alpha} Forest at z = 0-5. III. Hubble Space
Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph Spectral Atlas
Jill Bechtold, Adam Dobrzycki, Brenda Wilden, Miwa Morita, Jennifer Scott,
Danuta Dobrzycka, Kim-Vy Tran, and Thomas L. Aldcroft
Received 2001 July 21; accepted 2002 January 18
We analyzed the absorption line spectra of all quasars observed with the
high-resolution gratings of the Faint Object Spectrograph on board the
Hubble Space Telescope. We examined 788 spectra for 334 quasars and present
line lists and identifications of absorption lines in the spectra of 271 of
them. Analysis of the statistics of the Ly{alpha} and metal absorption
systems are presented in companion papers. The data and several analysis
products are available electronically and on the authors' Web site.
Subject headings: intergalactic medium - quasars: absorption lines -
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From wristbands to thermostats, we have access to more information about our lives than ever before
by Blaine Kyllo
If you've driven through agricultural areas you've likely seen the massive irrigation systems that are used to water crops. Technology – not far removed from smartwatches and other wearable devices – is collecting data and giving those oversized sprinklers the ability to know when to water.
According to the World Water Council, 70% of our fresh water is used for agriculture. Sam George, who leads Microsoft's work on cloud computing and the "Internet of Things," says that by 2050 the population increase will require even more water be used to grow food.
On the phone from his office in Redmond, WA, George explains how Microsoft and Schneider Electric are helping farmers in New Zealand reduce water use by 50% by placing sensors in the ground to track moisture levels in the soil. "They only water in areas that aren't saturated already," says George.
These same systems, he adds, are configured to pump water from rivers into holding tanks at optimal times, saving up to two-thirds of a farm's energy bill.
The sensors used by smart-irrigation systems aren't much different from those in smartphones, fitness trackers and home energy monitors. Just as farmers can collect data about how much water is in the ground, you can get real-time data about what's going on in your life. The trick is to turn that data into information you can use.
Track steps, calories and more
The gadgets and devices we use in our everyday lives are getting more powerful and sophisticated. So are the components that go into them.
Sensors in our smartphones and tablets and wearable devices such as Fitbits, Misfits, Apple Watches and Garmins can all measure things ranging from the direction and speed of movement of our bodies to our heart rate and our position on the surface of Earth. Smart thermostats and lighting systems can detect when people are around and automatically adjust settings based on temperature and lighting preferences.
These devices are also part of the Internet of Things, which means that they are connected to networks so the data they measure and track can be collected and analyzed.
In a similar way, the features available through MyHydro, your online BC Hydro account, let you monitor how much energy you're using every hour, day, month or year.
With other devices, we can count the number of steps we take in a day, because that's one indication of how physically active we are. Our wearables use algorithms to provide good estimates of the number of calories we've burned and there are connected scales that transmit data about our body weight to online services supporting healthy habits.
Microsoft's Sam George uses a Fitbit to track his sleep.
Get a good night's sleep
If you've ever suffered from insomnia – or had children – you know how precious sleep is. Dr. Wendy Hall knows about the dangers of fatigue and sleep deprivation. As a member of both the Canadian Sleep Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, she helped establish the guidelines for how much sleep kids need every night.
When she's working with families, the UBC professor starts by having them record things such as bedtimes, the time children actually fall asleep and the time they wake up. "Sleep diaries can be a very effective way of collecting data so that you can have some idea what's going on," says Hall.
She calls the process of measuring sleep "intense" and says it involves people sleeping in a laboratory where they would have electrodes connecting their heads and bodies to complex machines. To solve some problems, that data is essential. "If we don't understand what we're actually doing," she says, "it's hard to figure out how we can improve."
George has been able to keep his own version of a sleep diary by wearing a Fitbit that tracks how often he moves in his sleep or wakes up in the middle of the night.
The data isn't as accurate as what would be recorded in a sleep lab, but it led him to realize that he sleeps better at night when he cuts out caffeinated beverages after noon.
Turn data into information
Smartphones and wristbands make it easy to collect data about our lives. But if you want to be able to do something with all of those numbers, you need to turn that data into information, says sports psychology coach Richard Monette. Information is data you can use.
A resident of Banff, Monette has developed what he calls the "InnerWarrior Cycle" that helps make information useful. It's a technique used by the Canadian elite athletes Monette works with, including skiers Eric Guay and Alex Harvey, both world champions.
Monette believes we all have inner warriors to be revealed and that we can start by setting clear intentions.
"The moment you clarify the intent before you get on the ice, or the field of play, your actions become clearer," he says.
He is also coaching B.C. snowboarder Spencer O'Brien. She'll represent Canada at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. At the beginning of a training session, for example, a young, ambitious snowboarder might say to herself: "I want to medal at the Olympics so I will board with all my focus and energy each and every run today."
I've started a Team Power Smart Challenge and want to earn a $50 reward, so my clear intention is: "I want to reduce my energy consumption by 10%, so today I will hang my clothes to dry."
By stating that intention, I've committed to monitoring my progress and defined how I'm going to measure it. There's no point in measuring something if you don't know what to do with that information, says Monette. "You need to know your 'why.' Why does it matter?"
Move from measurement to motivation
Monette also believes in the power of asking ourselves questions – the right questions will lead to answers and those answers are powerful. "The beauty of an answer is that when you come up with an answer, you create a reality in your mind," he says. "That's the way our brains are designed."
This is also where the data becomes so important. We've collected it with our devices, we've turned that data into information by knowing what we want to do with it and now we have something to do with it. The phrase Monette uses is: "You treasure what you measure." Keeping track of something, he explains, gives it importance and value.
That value is critical, according to Dr. Richard Stock, a behaviour analyst who teaches at Capilano University. "For something to be motivating it has to have value," he explains from his office in North Vancouver. And the greater the value, the bigger the impact on behaviour.
Many of us value taking 10,000 steps every day to maintain a healthy weight. Some people are further motivated by competition and challenge friends and family to see who can record the most steps. In the same way, BC Hydro's online electricity-tracking tools let you compare your electricity use to similar homes in your neighbourhood. Electricity in B.C. is affordable compared to other regions so people are also motivated to conserve energy for environmental reasons.
However, money is still one of the most powerful motivators, says Stock. It's universally valued and it's a measurement we understand. Stock mentioned his BC Hydro bill and the bar graph that shows electricity use.
"The kilowatt hours means nothing to me, but I like to see that my use this month was lower than last month," he says. Trying to get the bar lower, by turning down the thermostat, for example, has value.
Make the invisible visible
"When we talk about savings, we lead with dollars," says Fatima Crerar, on the phone from Toronto. "Because dollars are real and dollars leave you with satisfaction knowing that this is working."
Crerar, a senior manager at Ecobee, the Canadian company that manufactures smart thermostats, is talking about the energy reports that are delivered to customers with information about how much they've reduced their energy use by using an Ecobee product. These ENERGY STAR® devices control the heating and cooling of homes, saving some customers nearly a quarter of their annual costs. Smart thermostats adjust the home environment when they sense you're at home or away and they can be controlled remotely with a smartphone.
The company also makes sensors that can be placed in other parts of your home so you can adjust the temperature to where you are. The sensors "measure temperature and detect occupancy in the rooms that matter," says Crerar.
In using BC Hydro's online electricity-tracking tools, I'm making the invisible visible. And I have a goal in mind. Last year, I spent about $1,700 on electricity, so if I deliver on the 10% Team Power Smart Reduction Challenge, I won't just get a $50 reward. I'll also save another $170 on my BC Hydro bills over the year or even $255 if I cut my usage by 15%.
So put those fitness trackers, online tracking tools and home energy monitors to good use. No matter what data you're collecting or what progress you're monitoring, know what you're going to do with the information, ask yourself why it matters and find the value in the change you want to see.
Make the switch
Keep your toes toasty. Buy slippers for everyone in your home. Then lower your thermostat by two degrees to save 5% on your heating bill. Lowering it five degrees could save 10%. Save as much as $72 a year.
How wearables work
It could be through your watch or a wristband, your smartphone or smart running shoes. But we can all measure ourselves. Wearables, the term given to electronic devices that we wear, use sensors to collect data about our lives. These include altimeters and GPS, which detect geographical position, and accelerometers and gyroscopes that track motion and movement intensity. This data can be transformed into more meaningful information such as steps taken and calories burned. Heart rates are measured using light sensors, which can detect blood flowing under your skin.
Turn consumption data into information and action
BC Hydro makes it easy for you to turn your energy consumption data into usable information that you can act on. It starts with logging in to your account at myhydro.com, where you can view, in a table or bar graph, just how much electricity you've used. You can see your consumption over the month, week, day or even down to the hour.
There are settings so you can make comparisons against the amount of energy you used the same time last year or against the average energy being used by similar homes in your neighbourhood. You can even plot your consumption against the average outside temperature.
A built-in forecaster provides you with an estimate of what your electricity will cost that month and you can set alerts to be notified when you cross certain energy-use thresholds.
Equipped with that information, you can make decisions about what to do. This winter, you'll know at a glance when your baseboard heaters have kicked into gear during a cold snap. If your electricity use has been high, you can choose to wear a sweater the next time the temperature drops, instead of turning up the thermostat.
Make the switch
Take shorter showers. It's tempting to take a long, hot shower when the weather is cooler. But hot water is expensive and energy costs add up. So consider changing your morning routine. If everyone in a four-person family cuts their showering time from 10 minutes to five minutes, imagine how much water and energy you could save over a year.


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Punishment is receiving penalty for ones wrong doings... Macbeth was punished in many ways for everything horrible thing that he did.
Macbeth made a lot wrong decisions and thought he could get away with them. Eventually those bad decisions caught up to him and he was killed.
For our interview we talked to officer Misty who is one of the D.A.R.E officers that talks to the middle schoolers at GCCS. She explained to us that all the bad choices that we make as kids can affect our future. Macbeth's bad choices greatly affected his future and ended up killing him.
Ambition is what got Macbeth into so much trouble. He had so much ambition that he started to not care about others' lives. All he began to care about was power. Macbeth's bad ambition got him everything he wanted but in the end he ended up realizing that his power did not make him happy.
Macbeths biggest punishment was guilt. Macbeth killed so many people and the guilt just kept building each time he took another life. He killed King Duncan, the guards, Young Siward, Macduff's son, Lady Macduff, Banquo, the three men he hired to murder, and caused the suicide of Lady Macbeth. Macbeth had killed all of these people just to get what he wanted, but in the end he would never be happy again with all of the guilt he would be carrying around for the rest of his life.
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Faith : Have you ever wanted to do something that you knew was bad , but you still wanted to do it?
Sarah M. : Did you ever do it? Where you punished for it?
Savannah : Well, in Shakespeare's Macbeth , Macbeth, the main character , did this , many times.
Sarah C. : Macbeth wanted to become king so badly , that he went as far as killing the current king in power, along with many other innocent people. He even killed his best friend.
Jesus: His ambition was to become King. He had bad ambition and he was punished for it.
Sarah M. - Macbeth was eventually killed by Macduff, but he had many punishments
leading up to his death.
Faith - He started going insane after he killed the king. He slowly realizes that he didn't do the right thing.
Savannah- He was paying for his actions
Sarah C - Macbeth starting hallucinating and saw a dagger after he killed King Duncan.
Jesus- He reached out and tried to grab the dagger, but it wasn't there
Sarah M.- He was imagining the dagger
Sarah C- He also "saw" Banqou's ghost sitting in his chair at the dinner table in Act 3 scene 4.
Faith - His wife and others at the dinner table told him there was nothing there. They tried to comfort him.
Savannah- Banqou's ghost , who only Macbeth could see , told him that he made a mistake by killing him.
Jesus- Macbeth had many sleepless nights. He couldn't stop thinking about it.
Sarah M- Macbeth was killed by Macduff , who suspected he killed the King.
Savannah - He was killed and punished for his bad ambition
Sarah C- This relates to our society today.
Faith - People make bad desicions and they eventually pay for them
Sarah C- People act without thinking things through , just Macbeth did.
Sarah M. - They dont think about how it could change their lives.
Jesus- Just like Officer Misty said , the decisions that you make now, affect your future.
Sarah M. - people will get punished for the desicions that they make
Sarah C - Officer Misty also talked about how your desicions affect your family
Savannah - Macbeth's decision affected his family greatly
Faith- Macbeth killing King Duncan , caused his wife to hallucinate as well
Jesus - His wife committed suicide because she couldn't take the pressure and stress of being responsible for the kings death.
Sarah M. - Making bad decisions today can seriously affect your family.
Sarah C- Macbeth could have handled his situation differently
Savannah- Yes, he should have not listened to his wife , who told him to kill the king
Jesus - He should have thought more about it before he acted on it
Sarah M. - It was selfish of him and did not think about how it could affect him
Faith- Macbeth has a different definition of wrong things people can do
Sarah C- Most people's definition of a bad choice or action would include killing someone.
Savannah- but Macbeth 's did not
Jesus - the bottom line is that we shouldn't make bad decisions
Sarah M. - because they greatly affect your future.
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Letters to the Editor
Driving education
I have been a member of the South Florida community since 1950. I think the missing link in transportation on our roadways is the understanding of the rules of the road.
If drivers were well taught and took time to properly prepare for their driving test and training, many of our road problems would be solved.
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By Daniel Ford
Not long ago, Sean and I had a brainstorming session at Hugh O'Neills, our favorite watering hole in Malden, Mass., following an afternoon of marathon podcast recording.
I was struggling to choose a beer, but my eyes kept coming back to one brewed by the Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.
"How's the Kentucky Bourbon Ale?" I asked our waitress, as one does during moments of boozy indecision.
"A lot of people order it," she said. "It's good."
Well, with that hard sell how could I not try it?
I wasn't disappointed. The beer came to me ice cold and it poured nicely into the handsome pint glass I was given. It was refreshingly sweet and smooth, with an oaky finish usually accompanied by hard, brown liquor in a heavy glass.
By the time I finished my second bottle, a new idea for Writer's Bone was born. We couldn't be more pleased to start our Friday Happy Hour series with the brewers of Kentucky Bourbon Ale.
Nathan Canavera, the brand manager for Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. , answered some of my questions recently and made me very, very thirsty.
Daniel Ford: Your company has a lengthy and colorful history. Give us a little background on that history and how you started brewing and distilling.
Nathan Canavera: Much too much to list, check out this video.
Daniel Ford: Kentucky is known for bourbon. What kind of relationship do you have with the community and how have they reacted to what your brewery has to offer?
NC: When we began brewing our beers after we bought the brewery in 1999, it was a much different landscape than craft beer is today. Craft beer and brew pubs were not on every corner. We had a very grassroots approach to pouring beer at every event that would let us in the door. At that time, and for years after, the yellow fizzy water was the choice of brew for central Kentucky. We built a craft following locally with sponsoring what events we could afford and Lexington was very supportive. Years later, we came upon what is now our flagship, Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale, and like you said, Kentucky is known for bourbon and it has taken off like wildfire for us!
DF: How did the idea for your Kentucky Bourbon Ale come about?
NC: The video goes over that a bit, but with Dr. Pearse Lyons history of both whiskey and coopers, as well as his background with Jameson in Ireland, he had a connection with the use of barrels. Fast forward to the brewery where we have barrels on display and we are tripping over barrels here in Kentucky, where there are more barrels with bourbon aging than people. Seems like a no brainer!
DF: All of your products have won multiple awards. Which award are you most proud of?
NC: I think the Silver Medal at the World Beer Cup in 2010. This came at a point where we were really beginning to see our growth take off and had opened into Ohio. This award put our brands on the map nationally and it was a huge honor to receive amongst our brothers and sisters in the craft community.
DF: You're on Facebook and Twitter, and also manage a blog on your website. What's your social media strategy and how has it helped build your brand?
NC: Funny enough I started our Facebook and Twitter pages years ago before they were seen as business pages. It was a way to engage customers and get feedback at little to no cost. Now, as you mention, it requires strategy, full-time upkeep, as well as individuals with writing skills far surpassing that of a simple beer guy. That being said, we still view social media as our direct line to the consumer—an open arena for good, bad, fun, silly, and serious discussions about our brands, our industry, and our competitors. Our goal is to keep our friends and followers as up to date as possible on everything in our world as well as answer any and all questions or concerns they may have. We know how much work went to getting to where we are today and how important our loyal supporters are to our success.
DF: If you were in Prohibition times, do you think you'd be bootleggers?
NC: Much like the Lexington Brewing Co. did in Prohibition, I feel like we would have been just like they were: brewing low/non-alcohol beers, but still brewing beer on the side. They were later busted and on one sad day the streets of Lexington were flooded with beer.
DF: If you were stuck on a deserted island with just one case of one of your spirits, which one would it be and why?
NC: Our new Rye, Town Branch Rye would be it for me!! The spicy notes of this whiskey, as well as its higher proof (100 would last longer on the island), would make this easy to enjoy while deserted…hopefully I wouldn't have to share!
DF: What's next for Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co.? What does the future look like?
NC: Hopefully we can continue to see the growth we've experienced over the last 14 years, we look for continued expansion into new territories while still back filling the territories we currently distribute within and filling in the gaps in our footprint. Our spirits are slowly following in the footsteps of the distribution of the beers that had a good six-plus years head start. As always, we need more pots and pans to continue to grow and these are all great problems to have!
DF: Name one random fact about your company.
NC: Dr. Lyons, our owner and original brewmaster, was the first Irishman to gain a formal degree in brewing.
To learn more about the Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co., visit its official website, like its Facebook page, or follow the brewery on Twitter @KentuckyAle.


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Refactoring The Archive's ReSwift Underpinnings
While I was refactoring my app's state recently, I noticed that there are virtually no dev logs about The Archive and how I manage state and events in this app. It's my largest app so far, still the amount of reflection and behind-the-scenes info is pretty sparse. This post outlines my recent changes to the app's state. It's a retelling of the past 5 weeks or so.
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ReSwift Custom Diffs and Enqueued State Updates
Vinh Nguyen found that his ReSwift status updates became slow.
- There were too many subscribers.
- Objects would react to state updates by dispatching a new action immediately. (ReSwift action dispatching happens synchronously.)
His app state ends up containing a lot of objects in a 3-level hierarchy that mimicks the hierarchy of view components on screen. In a drawing or otherwise canvas based graphics app, it seems. It doesn't make sense to have each objects on the canvas responds to state updates when one other object updates on screen. Instead, you'll want to at least minimize the amount of updates that get passed through.
Vinh implemented a custom diff or "delta update" for the 2nd level in his 3-level hierarchy of objects because they were few enough to be performant during state updates, and could easily manage their child objects.
Read about his discovery of state update bottlenecks on his blog.
He solved the second problem,
newState callbacks triggering the dispatch of another action, by enqueuing the dispatch in an asynchronous block on the main queue, which is the queue ReSwift uses:
class ObjectView {
func newState(state: ObjectState) {
// ...
if conditionThatTriggersAnAction == true {
DispatchQueue.main.async {
Sure, this enqueues the action dispatch until the current execution is finished. But you have to take care about other actions being dispatched in between now, and if that is a problem. (E.g. another subscriber type reacting to the same state update with another action.)
I had prefered another solution initially: subscribe to updates in the top level
Canvas object, then delegate down the view hierarchy as needed. Every sub-component that wants to fire an action tell the
Canvas about this, which enqueues the actions, and then processes the queue after all sub-component updates are finished. A bit like in game development where the game loop ensures there is just 1 point of action handling per run. But then again, Vinh's approach does exactly that: it enqueues action dispatching until later, ensuring the current run loop run isn't interrupted. Also, my approach to delegation would make everything just so much more complicated in the app code.
I wonder is it'd be beneficial if the ReSwift store operated on a high priority queue that is not the main queue all the time. Then you can dispatch actions synchronously from view components on the main queue, waiting for the result, or asynchronously.
I will have to think more about the consequences of an approach like this before I suggest anything to anybody, though. I don't do a lot of concurrent programming in my apps, and when I do, I contain it very strictly; on the downside, I don't have developed any instinct regarding implications of using multiple queues.
How I Avoided Over-Architecting a Simple Event Handler with ReSwift, Cheating with Existing Reactive Code
I am using ReSwift in my app. I like ReSwift because I can create a representation of my app in a "State" Swift module without any UIKit/AppKit dependency. There, I put all the data that the app is supposed to represent at any given moment in time. To get a feeling for this, have a look at two apps of mine:
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Inject ReSwift Middlewares from Different Project Targets During Runtime
Say you extract the ReSwift-based state module with all your app's state types, reducers, and middleware into its own framework target. Until you add middlewares to the mix, it's easy to keep this coherent. Injecting side-effects through middleware is not easy to do, though, as long as you provide the
Store instance from your state module. The store takes an array of
Middleware upon initialization. They cannot be changed later. The state module would then depend on your app module with all its network request services and whatnot. That's the wrong way around, also resulting in a circular dependency. Instead, you have two options to add side-effects that are inherently part of your app's module, not of the state module:
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ReSwift Niceties: The Current State Getter
When you have a reference to your store of
ReSwift.StoreType, you can use the current
state property to get to a value directly. This means you don't even need to make the object a store subscriber to grant access to some store state. I don't recommend doing this in real code, of course. This is just like any global variable and comes with the usual problems.
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Do You Need to Use Action Creators in ReSwift to Conditional Action Dispatching? (No)
This is an answer to a StackOverflow question titled "When, why and how to use Action Creators in redux?" that is really targeted at ReSwift. The real question is phrased a bit differently, though:
For example, I have a button, after user pressed it I want to start some process if I'm in state A. So, I have to write an action creator, which will check current state and then return correct action, or not action at all. Then dispatch this action from the same place.
Redux.js and ReSwift behave quite differently. Redux recommendations may not apply in all cases.
Clearing up Redux.js/ReSwift confusions
Action Creators in ReSwift
"Action creators" is a rather specialized term in Redux.js, but the type is defined like this in ReSwift as of v4:
public typealias ActionCreator = (_ state: State, _ store: Store) -> Action?
So contrary to general advice, you do have access to the state at the point of dispatching the action. You don't need a Thunk implementation, although Thunks or Epics can help in more complex cases.
"Action Creators help encapsulate action creation details"
A common benefit of Action Creators in Redux is their function as a factory.
Redux.js actions are object literals. Redux actions, if you were to write them in Swift, would be more like
Dictionarys. If you come from an Objective-C background, you know both the good and bad of dictionaries: they are flexible, but you can cause trouble with typos, and the compiler won't catch changes to values or keys if they are stringified. That's how Action Creators in Redux.js provide the convenience of factories (as in "Factory", the Gang of Four design pattern).
Here's one as an example:
function addTodo(text) {
return {
type : "ADD_TODO",
// Somewhere else
ReSwift.Action type is usually implemented in custom value types (
structs), though. ReSwift does not suffer from that problems of Redux.js actions. That means by creating a custom action type in ReSwift, the benefit of centralizing action creation in one function goes away. The initializer of your type does provide this already.
That paints a totally different picture.
And that's probably why
ReSwift.Store.ActionCreator passes in the state: to provide any benefit at all. At the cost of a different kind of API than Redux.
Application to the Question
Recall the question:
For example, I have a button, after user pressed it I want to start some process if I'm in state A. So, I have to write an action creator, which will check current state and then return correct action, or not action at all. Then dispatch this action from the same place.
There are a couple of ways to achieve that.
If you have access to the store variable to call
dispatch, you also have access to its current
state property. You can ask the store for the state the app is in and act accordingly. Usually, you'd write store subscribers to get "push notifications" of store changes, but in cases like this you can also ask the store.
That means the following would be a totally valid implementation:
let currentState = store.state
let action: Action = {
if currentState.someSubstate == "A" {
return ActionWhenInStateA()
} else {
return ActionWhenNotInStateA()
Since ReSwift
Stores are not supposed to receive dispatch commands from different threads, you can rely on the state from line 1 to be the same in the last line, where you dispatch.
TL;DR: you do not need
ActionCreator to achieve this. But you can if you like to write "east-oriented" code, leaning on callbacks instead of property queries:
store.dispatch { state, _ in
if state.someSubstate == "A" {
return ActionWhenInStateA()
} else {
return ActionWhenNotInStateA()
ReSwift v4 Released
I totally forgot to bring this up: ReSwift version 4 was released 13 days ago!
The coolest part (in my opinion) is to skip duplicate states in subscriptions if you want to. The state has to be equatable somehow to do this with the default subscription measurements. But then again you're using this anyway right now with ReSwift 3.x, only for every subscriber.
store.subscribe(subscriber) {
$0.select {
($0.testValue, $0.otherState?.name)
}.skipRepeats {
return $0 == $1
skipRepeats in the subscription builder/configuration block will be used automatically if the selected state conforms to
Equatable. But you can use your own
skipRepeats implementation if needed.
In theory, you could add
map and
filter and whatnot to the underlying
Subscription type that's being configured in the block you pass to
subscribe(), though I don't see much value in this at the moment.
How to Make ReSwift Actions Undoable with NSUndoManager
I wrote about using
NSUndoManager + ReSwift with a Middleware. You could think of the resulting
UndoMiddleware as some kind of observer of events that pass the
ReSwift.Store and which puts the opposites of incoming actions on the undo stack. Why a Middleware? Because making an action undoable is a side effect.
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Handle Pending File Changes with ReSwift as Your Backbone
Automatic saving of changes in some user interface component to a file should be handled differently when you employ ReSwift. In short, you have to extract the state information from the "save file" action and store it in the overall app's state somehow. I append these to a collection of
PendingFileChanges, a
ReSwift.StateType that is part of my overall app state.
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How to Unit Test Dispatching ReSwift Actions from RxSwift Observables
Say you are like me and work with ReSwift for unidirectional data flow goodness and employ RxSwift for your reactive cravings. You want to dispatch a
ReSwift.Action when an
RxSwift.Observable signal produces a new value. How do you write tests for that wiring? In code, it could look like this:
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A Look at the ReSwift Event Log During Launch of My Latest Project
I use a logging middleware in all my apps that use ReSwift. I love to see the event log. It makes me think the app is healthy when it tells me what's going on. All this happens when I start the knowledge management app I'm working on in about half a second (reformatted a bit to make reading easier):
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How to Save File Changes Using ReSwift Actions
Let's say you write a plain text editor that can work with multiple text files at a time. As a backbone for processing information, you use ReSwift to model the data flow in a clean fashion. The user has 10 files open, changes the text in 1 file's tab. The user leaves the text field and your awesome autosaving is triggered.
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Swipe Transitions and ReSwift
In a client meeting yesterday we tried to figure out how to animate scene transitions with swiping left/right when ReSwift is the single source of truth of the app state. What goes into the app state? How do you animate that? Should the % of the transition be part of the app state for some reason? (Spoiler: Nope.)
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RocketData is a Uni-Directional UI Component Data Source
I watched "Managing Consistency of Immutable Models" by Peter Livesey where Peter shows how RocketData works. Very worth the time! I'd call RocketData a uni-directional data source. It's uni-directional because you set up the
DataProvider as the source once, wire update notifications to view updates via the
delegate property, and you're done with the setup. Update events include:
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Comment On "Real World Flux Architecture on iOS"
The Flux architecture Benjamin Encz describes for the PlanGrid iOS app is like ReSwift only on a per-component basis: the user interactions fire change events that a store takes care of to mutate its state. The state then becomes the input for the view again.
It's much like MVVM, whereas here the view model is the store's state.
This Flux-like approach is still a big improvement over convoluted view controllers or not thinking about data flow at all. But I wonder if the gain is so much higher compared to properly separated MVC. Who reads the store's state? Only the views? Then the state is truly a view model; but how do side-effect populate to the rest of the app, like renaming or deleting things? I'd tend towards dispatching the change event to other stores, too, which may or may not react to the event. Then the view component's state is updated independently from the database, say, using the same event dispatch mechanism.
To model the flow of truth on a component basis (which is still uni-directional: from store to view) compared to a single global app state (ReSwift) sounds like a very easy to do component redesign. You can start with anything and "fluxify" it. Then move on to the next component that's particularly convoluted. You may not even want to convert all your components to this data flow approach when some components are simple enough as they are. Symmetry of component design will suffer, of course, but if you're aware of this and conclude it's better not to convert everything, that's fine.
With ReSwift, I interpret the global app state to be a state with real (Domain) Model objects. To make a state displayable, I derive view models from it. This came very natural to me. But Ben's posts got me thinking: could there be situations where keeping view model state around is better than keeping "real" model state?
Putting ReSwift Actions on the Undo Stack Using Middleware
It took me a while to grok the use of "Middleware" in ReSwift. ReSwift's own tests illustrate what you can do with it: you can filter or modify actions before they are passed to the Reducers, for example.
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When You Code, You Design Both Structure and Information Flow
As soon as you write a piece of software, you "architect" it. Can't get around that; but if you do not do it consciously, the resulting structure may not be great. Taking ownership of the process is important to change the result and create maintainable software. When we write/architect software, we worry about two things:
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I'll Split Up the Monolithic View Model in TableFlip. Here's What I Expect to Happen
The upcoming changes in TableFlip's user experience made me ponder how I structured the app's modules. The bottleneck I created in my app is simple: there's one presenter which transforms the model into a view model; the presenter defines a protocol for the view it expects and passes the view model to the object that satisfies this contract.
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How PlanGrid uses a Flux-Inspired Architecture to Simplify State Management
Benjamin Encz published an article about the architecture of PlanGrid.
They moved to a Flux-inspired "unidirectional flow" approach where state changes are performed in a
Store (in the backend, if you will) and updates pushed to the user interface (the frontend). No ad-hoc view updates, no shortcuts. User events are emitted, handled by the store, and state updates affect the view. That's it. So it's always obvious how the user interface got into the state it's in: all the details are plainly visible in the current state object.
Ben's post is very deep and detailed. You'll learn a ton from it:
- architectural discussion: why "unidirection flow", and why Flux?
- setup of actions/events and the store type
- basic state–view bindings via Reactive Cocoa
- how testing stores (and views) is straightforward with this setup
I can't wait for the next post in this series. Most of this easily applies to ReSwift, too, of course. And guess who just got inspired to refactor TableFlip so the model and view become even more loosely coupled?
Separating ReSwift Actions from UI Events
Today was the second time during the development of TableFlip that I started to implement a new feature in the wrong way: starting with an explicit event type that is triggered by pressing a button in the user interface. This is a 1:1 mapping of user intent to an event that performs changes in the model. Next time I'll start from another point of view instead to not rush too many minuscule changes until I hit a roadblock and hate myself. Here's what went wrong.
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Coding TableFlip: the Bigger Picture
Now that TableFlip is nearing completion, I want to share details of how I created this piece of software with you. Today, I'll start with the bigger picture: the application architecture. Earlier this year, I got to know ReSwift from a talk by Benjamin Encz which I loved.
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Information Flow and Stateful Buttons
After reading Sam's post, I discussed a code snippet with him. Shortsightedly, I told him I didn't like the following snippet because it controls
project instead of doing the object its own job: It made me wonder if we can do better, though, with standard OOP practice. My proposal was a simple toggle method:
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Uni-Directional Flow of Information with Realm
Sam Ritchie wrote "Building a Unidirectional Data Flow app with Realm" the other day. I haven't worked with Realm before, but the state propagation seems super interesting now that I dabble with ReSwift from time to time. His post excited me to try out Realm, soon.
ReSwift, Law of Demeter, and Another Level of Indirection
Benjamin Encz's presentation "Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift" about ReSwift features global app state: there's one
AppState type that acts as the facade to model and navigation state which is the single point of truth of every state in the app. This is a game changer when you suffer from massive view controller syndrome. In this post, I'd like to show you how he envisions the state of an app and what a next step could look like.
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Events as Declarative State
I think I found something better than closures to handle events. Instead of dispatching closures that are themselves the changes that should be performed, simply declare the change.
enum Action {
case ResizeBanana(BananaId, Size)
Now you need some kind of action handler, which Benjamin Encz calls "reducer" in his presentation "Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift". Think of a list of reducers as a Chain of Responsibility only without the final consummation of the action. It is passed throughout the whole responder chain. Why reducer? Because they operate similar to the reduce function. The end result will be the combined result of all reducer's mutations.
This is cool, because no component needs to know what such an action entails – none except the appropriate reducers.
If closures were great because where you type them you can see what is going on (more like "how" in my opinion), a simple action enum is even simpler, telling what should happen.
Works well with CQRS, I imagine. Will have to write a demo app using CQRS sometime to validate.
The current project is called ReSwift and code is available on GitHub.