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Research suggests that expectancy may modulate the response to medical interventions, including acupuncture. However, the paucity of validated tools to measure expectancy limits rigorous evaluation. We sought to validate a previously developed Acupuncture Expectancy Scale (AES) as an instrument to measure patients' expected responses to acupuncture.
Participants were patients with stage I to III cancers seen in outpatient medical and radiation oncology clinics. They were drawn from three study cohorts that included 404 participants. We examined the reliability, validity and responsiveness of AES.
The scores of AES had internal consistency (Cronbach's α coefficient) of 0.95 and test-retest reliability of 0.62 over four weeks without acupuncture treatment. Those who had previously used acupuncture had higher AES compared to those who were acupuncture naïve (12.4 vs. 9.5, p=0.002). AES was higher in those who reported willingness to participate in an acupuncture trial compared to those who did not want to participate in an acupuncture trial (11.5 vs. 8.1, p<0.001). Those patients who enrolled in a pilot trial of acupuncture had higher AES score than the general outpatient population (13.0 vs. 9.8, p=0.02), and expectancy increased during the course of acupuncture treatment (13.0 to 16.5, p<0.017).
The AES is reliable and valid, and scores appear to increase during or after prior therapy. Incorporation of AES in clinical trials and outcome studies can evaluate the role of expectancy on acupuncture outcomes.
There is substantial use of acupuncture in the United States (US) and world. In the US, the acupuncture use among adults has increased from 2 million to 3 million annually in the last five years, which represents a 50% increase.1,2 Such wide use and growing interest may be the result of a combination of personal experience as well as recent research findings indicating acupuncture can be effective for some indications, such as chronic painful conditions, particularly osteoarthritis,3–5 low back pain,6,7, and headache.8,9 Additionally, the integration of acupuncture into the European primary care setting appears to be cost effective for some of these conditions.10–12 Meta-analyses based on these and other trials have found that acupuncture produces clinically relevant short- and long- term benefits when compared to routine or enhanced medical care. However, these analyses have also found that the difference between real and placebo acupuncture is either small or inconsistent with unclear clinical significance.13,14 15 While this finding challenges the traditional notion that acupuncture is "effective" or "efficacious," the observed effect due to placebo/sham acupuncture demands rigorous investigation of a potential placebo response in acupuncture care. Further, because acupuncture is safe when practiced by licensed providers, patients may elect to choose safe treatments (i.e., either the real or sham acupuncture) which induce a known placebo response in order to feel better.
Response expectancy is one of the central variables in the placebo response16–18 and may play an important role in patients' responses to acupuncture. For example, Linde et al. found that the expectations for acupuncture outcome after the third session of acupuncture therapy is predictive of the response to acupuncture for pain in a pooled analysis of four randomized controlled trials (N=864).19 Myers et al. also found that pre-treatment expectancy is associated with improvement in functional status in patients (N=444) with acute low back pain when a combination of treatments options were offered (chiropractic, acupuncture, or massage).20 A recent f-MRI study using an expectancy manipulation model for experimentally induced pain found that while real acupuncture needle stimulation may inhibit incoming noxious stimuli from the periphery, expectancy may function via a central emotional circuit.21
In order to rigorously investigate the role of expectancy in acupuncture care for chronic pain and symptom distress, a validated instrument must be developed to quantify response expectancy in the context of acupuncture care. We previously developed and preliminarily validated the Acupuncture Expectancy Scale (AES) in a Chinese acupuncture clinical population.22 Here we describe the validation of the AES in an English speaking, U.S. cancer patient population. Our specific hypotheses are:
This study combines three different datasets to determine the reliability, validity and responsiveness of AES. Study 1: A cross-sectional survey study conducted in an outpatient breast cancer oncology clinic among postmenopausal women who have stage I-III breast cancer and are taking aromatase inhibitors(AI), (N=300). Subjects completed a one time survey, which included the AES. We used this sample to determine the internal consistency of the scale, to perform confirmatory factor analysis, and to test for construct validity. Study 2: A pilot, open-label acupuncture clinical trial among breast cancer survivors with symptomatic AI-related arthralgia (N=12). We used this sample to determine the effectiveness of AES as a measure in ongoing acupuncture treatment. AES was administered at baseline, week 4, and week 8. The details of the subject recruitment and conduct have been previously described.23,24 Study 3: An ongoing cohort study among outpatient radiation therapy patients with stage I-III tumors who were receiving non-palliative radiation (N=92). The AES was administered at baseline and at 4 weeks without acupuncture intervention to determine the test-retest reliability of AES in the setting of ongoing cancer care but no acupuncture treatment. All three studies have been approved by the University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board. Informed consent was conducted and obtained from all study participants.
The AES consisted of four items measuring the expectation of improvement of illness (symptom), enhanced coping, increased vitality, and symptom alleviation due to acupuncture therapy. It is important to note that for this study, we asked patients to endorse their expectancy of acupuncture for specific symptoms (e.g. joint pain for breast cancer survivors, and fatigue for patients undergoing radiation therapy). We did not ask patient's expected outcome of acupuncture for treatment of cancer. Subjects were asked to rate from 1 to 5 on a five-point Likert scale, with 1 indicating "Not at all agree" and 5 indicating "Completely agree" with the expected improvement as result of acupuncture. The score of instrument ranged from 4 to 20 out of a possible 4 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater expectancy. The scale was originally developed in English but was translated into Chinese for the preliminary validation in the Chinese acupuncture clinic. Preliminary validation showed that the AES has a single factor structure with an acceptable reliability coefficient.22 Additionally, the score on the AES was positively correlated with both the perceived effectiveness of acupuncture treatment and the confidence in acupuncture care.
Descriptive statistics were performed for each scale item. The distributions of scores on the items were examined for missing data as well as to assess ceiling or floor effects (i.e., the majority of respondents choosing either extreme option).25 We evaluated item-item and item-total correlations. We then calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficient to evaluate the internal consistency of the scale. Additionally, we performed a principal components analysis to confirm the one domain structure that was found in our preliminary study. Interpretation of the results of the principal components analysis was guided by identifying Eigen values greater than 1 and the rotated loadings of variables on the identified components.
To evaluate construct validity, we compared the AES score between those who had acupuncture previously and those who had not. We also compared the score on the AES between those who expressed willingness to participate in an acupuncture trial and those who did not want to participate in acupuncture trial. Furthermore, we compared the AES between those who participated in the pilot acupuncture study (study 2) and those who were in study 1. Independent student's T-test was used for these analyzes. We hypothesized a priori that patients' expectancy of acupuncture may be higher among acupuncture experienced patients than acupuncture naïve patients. We also hypothesized a priori that expectancy predicted self-reported willingness to participate in acupuncture trial as well the actual participation.
We evaluated the change in AES between baseline and end, baseline and middle, and middle and end of acupuncture therapy using the paired-student's T-tests.
To evaluate the test-retest reliability of the AES, we performed intra-class correlation between baseline and week 4 AES scores, which calculated reliability. All statistical analyses were performed using STATA 10.0. All statistics were two sided with an alpha of 0.05 indicating significance.
The three study cohorts included 404 participants (see Table 1). The detailed characteristics of study 1 and 2 have been previously reported.23,24 In summary, these studies consisted of women who had breast cancer and finished their primary cancer treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy, and were currently receiving aromatase inhibitor medications. The median age of the participants was 59, with a range between 33 and 84. 84% were white. The radiation therapy cohort included 92 subjects with the following tumor types: 44 (47.8%) prostate, 27 (29.4%) breast, and 21 (22.8%) others. The median age of the participants was 66, with a range between 38 and 85. 38% were female, and 29.3% were non-white (mostly African American).
The four items are shown in Table 2. No item had over 5% missing data (the range was 4% to 5%). While we saw no ceiling effects, we observed substantial floor effects. Between 22% and 39% of subjects endorsed the lowest response options for the 4 items of the AES. The score was calculated for 283 (94.3%) of study participants and ranged from 4 to 20 out of a possible 4 to 20, with higher scores indicating greater expectancy. The mean was 9.8, with a standard deviation (SD) of 4.6, and a median of 8. Twenty percent of subjects had the minimum summative score. As we stratify the AES score by subject-reported willingness to participate in an acupuncture trial, the distribution can be seen in Figure 1. While 34% of subjects endorsed the minimum summative score among those who would not participate in an acupuncture trial, the AES score among those who indicated that they would like to participate were more normally distributed with 5% or less of the sample endorsing the extreme score on either end.
In a principal component factor analysis to confirm the factor structure in the original study, we identified and retained one component with an Eigen value of 3.52. This explained over 88% of the variance. Varimax rotated loadings ranged between 0.91 and 0.95.
Our 4-item scale had an internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient) of 0.95 with corrected item-total correlations for the scale ranged between 0.84 and 0.92.
The score of AES appeared to be different in a priori defined populations (see Figure 2). Among the 300 participants in study 1, 27(9%) previously had acupuncture. As expected, subjects who had acupuncture previously had a 31% increase in expectancy related to acupuncture outcomes compared to those who were acupuncture naïve (12.4 vs. 9.5, p=0.002). Those subjects who were offered and reported that they were willing to participate in an acupuncture trial had a 42% higher AES score than those who did not want to participate (11.5 vs. 8.1, p<0.001). Merging baseline data from the 12 subjects who participated in the acupuncture trial (study 2) and study 1, clinical trial participants had a higher AES score than those general outpatients in an oncology setting (13.0 vs. 9.8, p=0.02).
Among the study participants enrolled in study 3, the AES score had no appreciable change at 4 weeks in the absence of acupuncture (10.1 vs. 10.7, p=0.43) (see Figure 2). The intra-class correlation between baseline measure and week 4 is 0.62, 95% confidence interval (0.48–0.75).
Among the 12 subjects who participated in an 8-week 10 session single arm acupuncture clinical trial, expectancy increased from baseline, to week 4 of treatment, and to week 8 (13 vs. 15 vs. 16.5 respectively), see Figure 2. The AES was significantly increased from baseline to week 8 (P=0.017). The comparisons between baseline and week 4 (p=0.25) and between week 4 and week 8 (p=0.29) were not significant.
What leads to the powerful effects seen in the placebo/sham acupuncture groups compared to routine care in recent clinical trials? And how can we harness these effects more broadly for clinical care? To assess response expectancy as a potential source of 'non-specific' therapeutic effects, it is essential to develop a psychometrically sound measure that can be used in acupuncture research and clinical care. In this study, we extended our previous work and further validated a simple 4-item Acupuncture Expectancy Scale (AES) to measure subjects' specific expectation about the outcomes of acupuncture therapy in English-speaking U.S. cancer patient populations. The scale is found to be reliable, valid, and is sensitive to change during treatment.
Several outcomes were different between this study and our previous research conducted in the Chinese acupuncture patient population.22 The American participants were mostly acupuncture naïve and there were substantial flooring effects in their responses to individual items with about 1/5 firmly believing acupuncture was unlikely to have any effect. In contrast, the Chinese participants were experienced with acupuncture and there were substantial ceiling effects in their responses, with many believing acupuncture would have significant positive effects. As suggested by our data, prior acupuncture experience may increase response expectancy towards acupuncture. Thus, the American/ Chinese differences may be related to the fact that the Chinese acupuncture patients were receiving acupuncture at the time of the survey. Secondly, the reliability coefficient of Cronbach's alpha was substantially higher in this study compared to the original Chinese validation study (0.95 vs. 0.82). It is possible that for those patients who have had acupuncture, their rating of expectancy is modeled after the actual acupuncture experience, so the variability of endorsement for individual items was greater for the patients who have had acupuncture. Nevertheless, the differences noted in the two studies highlight how different cultures and prior experience with conventional and complementary therapies may affect the expectancy of acupuncture.
Several previous studies have focused on the role of expectancy on clinical outcomes of acupuncture in the context of clinical trials. Thus far, most studies26,27 found higher pretreatment expectancy was associated with greater clinical improvement as measured by validated disease outcome measures. However, the use of different types and often un-validated scales to measure expectancy makes it difficult to gain insight into the degree expectancy plays a role in pain and symptom relief. It is possible that expectancy may play a bigger or smaller role in various conditions,28 as the psychological state of the patient may vary by condition, such as for cancer as compared with chronic knee pain. Also, the use of the validated AES across the disease spectrum may be important to isolate the specific effect of expectancy for various diseases outcomes (e.g. pain, function, satisfaction) in acupuncture care. Such understanding may help clinicians understand for which disease or specific outcomes, expectancy may exert greater power in the clinical outcome for patients. This would allow more careful facilitation of positive expectancy in certain patients.
Our study also highlights that positive response expectancy is associated with increased use of therapies, both stated and actual in clinical trial context. As the use of acupuncture and other types of conventional or complementary therapies occurs in societal and cultural contexts, expectancy can be influenced by science, media, health care professionals, family and friends. Research using the AES with appropriate study designs may help uncover how social and scientific forces shape expectancy and affect the utilization of acupuncture, and ultimately affect clinical outcomes.
Recent advancement in neuroscience and imaging methods has increased the understanding of potential biological mechanisms of expectancy and placebo response. In a pharmacological paradigm, the expectancy of pain relief may be mediated via both brain opioid and dopaminergic pathways.29–32 Recent investigations in acupuncture yielded intriguing findings. In a fMRI study using expectancy manipulation and thermal pain model, Kong et al. found that although the acupuncture analgesic effect and expectancy-evoked placebo analgesia produced similar reductions in patient-reported pain, the neuro-pathways underlying such reports were distinct.21,33 Similarly, using C-carfentanil PET imaging, Harris et al. found that while both real and sham acupuncture produced similar clinical benefits for patients with fibromyalgia, the mechanism underlying the pain reduction was different -- real acupuncture increased both short- and long-term mu-opioid receptor (MOR) binding potential in multiple pain and sensory processing regions, while sham acupuncture actually resulted in only a small reduction of MOR binding potential.34 The above studies suggest that while real acupuncture may produce analgesia via peripheral to central, bottom-up modulation, expectancy (placebo effect) may induce analgesia via top-down, i.e., centrally mediated modulation. Using AES combined with advanced imaging techniques and clinical outcomes in actual disease models may help further elucidate the complex interaction between expectancy and specific efficacy of acupuncture needling in producing meaningful clinical outcomes. Such understanding will pave the way to better optimize the physiological effect of acupuncture needling and the psychological effect of setting appropriate outcome expectancy to produce clinical improvement of pain, symptoms, and functions.
Several limitations of our study need to be acknowledged. Our study participants were cancer patients and mostly female. Validation of the scale in other clinical and healthy populations is needed to learn how the scale will perform in other settings with different disease entities. Our scale was intended to measure specific expectancy towards acupuncture, so it may not capture other important cognitive processes such as trust and perceived barriers that may play important role in both use and efficacy of acupuncture. Furthermore, large prospective studies are needed to evaluate the predictive validity of this scale.
Despite the limitations, this study represents an incremental and necessary step in developing methods to uncover the mechanism of the "powerful placebo" effect seen in acupuncture research. The rapid development of neuroscience is likely to provide increased understanding of the biological mechanism of acupuncture. The development of a psychometrically sound measure of response expectancy related to acupuncture will further translate such mechanistic understanding into actual clinical context. The substantial non-specific effect seen in the previous acupuncture literature provides an impetus for effective utilization of such power in clinical care. Appropriate use of the AES combined with other newly developed biological markers may powerfully facilitate clinical and translational research that ultimately creates patient-centered integrative approaches to effectively ameliorate the suffering of chronic pain and other symptom distress.
Dr. Mao is supported by National Institutes of Health / National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine K23 AT004112 award. The data collection is in part supported by grants from the American Cancer Society #IRG-78-002-30 and Pennsylvania Department of Aging. The funding agency had no role in the design and conduct of this study. We also thank Donna Pucci, Dingyun Chan, Jamie Wolf, and Brandon Greene for data collection and management.
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1. Create a character on the sever where you want gold, and take it to the Auction House.
2. Browse the Auction House (on the server where you need gold) for battle pets, to see which ones sell for the highest amounts of gold. Or, search to see which expensive pets are completely missing from the Auction House on that server. If you already have some of those pets, which you don't really need, put them in cages, and list them in AH on the server where you need gold. Evidently, since battle pets are usable account-wide, you will be able to cage them from your list, with any character on any server, whether if it's on Alliance or Horde.
3. If you don't already have any pets that you want to sell, logout from the server where you need gold, and login to your main character, on the server where you do have gold.
4. Purchase some of the expensive pets on your main server.
5. Learn all those pets, with your main character.
6. Logout your main character, and log back in with the low lvl character, on the server where you want money.
7. Once again, open your battle pet tab, cage the pets that you just bought and learned with your main character, and auction them on the new server. Or, broadcast that you sell them on the main trade chat. This way you may find a buyer more quickly.
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Before doing this, it's best to do some research and find out about the pets that can be sold for high prices, in general.
Of course, don't expect the pets that you've auctioned to sell right away. Sometimes it may take days. Also, you may even have to cut off some of the price, in order to sell them.
Pets acquired during events are typically a good call, as you can purchase them for lower prices, during the time of the event they can be acquired, then sell them after several months, on whichever server you need gold. A few of the expensive event pets, are the ones from Midsummer Festival and Children's Week.
This method may not work so well, if you need gold on a low-pop server, or on a newly released server. Most players always focus on gearing up first, and on servers where gold is rather difficult to acquire, they may not be too interested on spending much on battle pets.
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Gaijin Entertainment today announced that the upcoming post-apocalyptic vehicular combat MMO, Crossout, will be entering Closed Beta testing later this year. As the developers continue to build hype for the highly anticipated MMO players have been treated to additional information on the background setting and lore of the game.
Devastation and decay has spread across the world, leaving the remaining survivors little choice but to the fight to the death as they hope to be the last one standing. It is for this reason that players must construct and customize their own unique battle vehicles and platforms, taking the battle to the enemy with a huge variety of unique options.
Each location in Crossout is illustrating a part of this new world's history. The "Bridge" map shows players what happened during the first few days of the disaster. Plastered across the Bridge map, players will see signs and messages left by panicked people such as "the end of the world coming soon" and "No Entry" as well as barricades where people tried to prevent the spread and secure their safety. Other maps will show players the decay of all that has been created before the catastrophe and how the new humanity is adapting to it, desperately trying to revive the ruins of its magnificent past.
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SHROUD OF THE AVATAR CAPS (AND SELLS OUT OF) PLAYER-OWNED TOWNS WITH OVERLAND MAP ACCESSJul 18
Shroud of the Avatar has been selling players the right to run their own towns for a while, which is a good thing. It also does create certain limitations, though, since if you have too many player towns out and about, the world feels less like a fantasy adventure realm and more like the New York City metro area. So the designers decided to hard-cap the number of player-owned towns with overland map access at a solid 230 towns.
Of course, the cap does not mean that more player-owned towns cannot be purchased, merely that any further towns must be connected to another town that does have overland map access. The details are available in the official announcement. You can still buy a town if you want to, but your ability to get random foot traffic will be slightly curtailed.
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ArtCraft's Raph Koster is the star witness of an in-depth interview in which he discusses the development of Crowfall using the perspective of his decades-long career in the industry. He said that the developers aren't strictly forging new territory with this PvP title: "A lot of what they're doing aren't so much new inventions as bringing back ideas that haven't been explored in awhile […] Crowfall cleverly puts together existing ideas and existing technologies that unlock potential that hasn't been pursued in a really long time."
Koster praised the flexibility of Crowfall's design, saying that if a campaign isn't working out, the developers can simply flip the switch and run a different ruleset the next time around. He also indicated that players will have much more of an impact in this MMO than others. "In the case of Crowfall, between voxels and the limited campaign durations, we can actually let players affect the world much more," he said. "Crowfall can feel more like a living world because, although the campaigns will end, the fact that they will end is what lets you really change things."
Crowfall isn't the sole topic of conversation in this interview. Koster does point a finger at World of Warcraft for cutting off MMO innovation, although he said that previous MMO ideas simply migrated to other games such as Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto.
Revamped Tutorial Heading To Champions OnlineJul 13
Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios update the Champions Online website today with a brief note informing players of upcoming changes to the games tutorial system with an aim of providing better immersion, smoother flow and reduced friction through the initial elements of the game.
We're living in a golden age for superhero stories. With all the great new superhero-based comic book series, TV shows, and movies coming out, lots of people are getting interested in the genre and trying out Champions Online. That means that it's the perfect time for us to take a fresh look at our tutorial and what new players experience in Champions Online. We're making some changes to provide better immersion, faster flow, reduced friction points, and clearer explanation of game mechanics. These changes are now live on PTS for Gold players to playtest.
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According to the post released earlier today the re-imagined tutorial is already available on the Public Test Server, a server with exclusive access available for Gold Members, but is not yet ready to be released on the official live servers.
We wanted to wrap this revised tutorial around an established setting in the Champions universe. The Ravenswood Academy is a private school that secretly trains young superhumans on how to use their powers. Taking the old Qularr Invasion tutorial and re-vamping it as a virtual training exercise for Ravenswood Academy is a great way to incorporate our streamlined new user experience into a new story context. We've also built a new Ravenswood Academy campus in Millennium City between Renaissance Center and Westside — we hope you enjoy role-playing at this new venue!


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Truth, Freedom and Religion
It's a free country" we used to say, when someone wanted to do something slightly ridiculous. Go ahead, walk around the streets with a placard saying
"The End is Nigh", eat mustard on your jam sandwiches or join the Mormons and denounce tea-drinking – it's a free country.
Is it? We can still do some ridiculous things if we like. But increasingly, Christians seem to be treated harshly by public authorities – even criminalised – for upholding in public some aspect of Christian morality, specifically sexual morality. The idea of a creative tension between freedom of speech and the needs of the community, of a shared desire to serve the common good, is under attack.
Are we free? We need to claim our freedom and make use of it. The Christian voice is needed in Britain. The great St John Paul said that religious freedom is "the basis of all other freedoms and is inseparably tied to them by reason of that very dignity which is the human person" (letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, 1978).
Inspiring the Young to Lifelong Marriage
Since 2013 the Diocese of Westminster has been working with the Explore educational charity to provide a "remote marriage preparation" experience in the diocese's high schools and parishes. In December 2014, with the help of a grant from the Celebrating Family Fund from the Catholic Bishops' Conference, a Local Development Officer for the project was appointed. Four parish youth/Confirmation groups and almost a dozen schools have taken par t in sessions during which more than 1500 young people have had a chance to dialogue with married couples about what makes their marriage work. The feedback from these "workshops" is over whelmingly positive. One student said: "It gave me a bet ter understanding of how marriage works." Another said, " You can overcome any thing in a relationship if you truly love each other and want to try."
Is Allah the God of the Bible?
The Second Vatican Council's declaration on relations with non-Christian religions (Nostra aetate) is shot through with a desire to be as positive as it can be about them: this tendenc y was both noted and complemented by Dominus Iesus of 2000 which emphasises the uniqueness and sufficiency of the Revelation in Jesus Christ.
Regarding Muslims, Nostra aetate tells us that "they worship God, who is one, living and subsistent, merciful and almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth." Interestingly, and helpfully, it does not locate the source of such belief in the Qur'an or the Sunnah of the Prophet of Islam. So how have Muslims come by such belief?
The Human Mind, Material Things and Argument
One of the most interesting areas of modern philosophy is the philosophy of the mind. This is because it brings the philosopher down from his (supposed) ivor y tower and into the thick of the bat tle raging bet ween the theist and the modern atheist. This rests upon the fact that if it is proved that the mind is immaterial, this implies its abilit y to live on af ter death. Now, while this does not directly demonstrate the existence of God, it does open up a whole world beyond the material universe and so it makes the average atheist refreshingly ner vous that his own position is nothing like as secure as he, misguidedly, tends to think it is.
Gravitational Waves
At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: "Almighty ever-living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed."


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Writing Swift Classes with Objective-C Behavior
Interoperability lets you define Swift classes that incorporate Objective-C behavior. You can subclass Objective-C classes, adopt Objective-C protocols, and take advantage of other Objective-C functionality when writing a Swift class. This means that you can create classes based on familiar, established behavior in Objective-C and enhance them with Swift's modern and powerful language features.
Inheriting from Objective-C Classes
In Swift, you can define subclasses of Objective-C classes. To create a Swift class that inherits from an Objective-C class, add a colon (
:) after the name of the Swift class, followed by the name of the Objective-C class.
import UIKit
class MySwiftViewController: UIViewController {
// define the class
You get all the functionality offered by the superclass in Objective-C. If you provide your own implementations of the superclass's methods, remember to use the
override keyword.
NSCoding protocol requires that conforming types implement the required initializer
init(coder:). Classes that adopt
NSCoding directly must implement this method. Subclasses of classes that adopt
NSCoding that have one or more custom initializers or any properties without initial values must also implement this method. Xcode provides the following fix-it to serve as a placeholder implementation:
required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
For objects that are loaded from Storyboards or archived to disk using the
NSUserDefaults or
NSKeyedArchiver classes, you must provide a full implementation of this initializer. However, you might not need to implement an initializer for types that are expected to or cannot be instantiated in this way.
Adopting Protocols
Objective-C protocols are imported as Swift protocols, which can be adopted by a class in a comma-separated list following the name of a class's superclass, if any.
class MySwiftViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {
// define the class
To declare a type that conforms to a single protocol in Swift code, use the protocol name directly as its type (as compared to
id<SomeProtocol> in Objective-C). To declare a type that conforms to multiple protocols in Swift code, use a protocol composition, which takes the form
protocol<SomeProtocol, AnotherProtocol> (as compared to
id<SomeProtocol, AnotherProtocol> in Objective-C).
var textFieldDelegate: UITextFieldDelegate
var tableViewController: protocol<UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate>
Writing Initializers and Deinitializers
The Swift compiler ensures that your initializers do not leave any properties in your class uninitialized to increase the safety and predictability of your code. Additionally, unlike Objective-C, in Swift there is no separate memory allocation method to invoke. You use native Swift initialization syntax even when you are working with Objective-C classes—Swift converts Objective-C initialization methods to Swift initializers. For more information about implementing your own initializers, see Initializers in The Swift Programming Language (Swift 2.2).
When you want to perform additional clean-up before your class is deallocated, you can implement a deninitializer instead of the
dealloc method. Swift deinitializers are called automatically, just before instance deallocation happens. Swift automatically calls the superclass deinitializer after invoking your subclass' deinitializer. When you are working with an Objective-C class or your Swift class inherits from an Objective-C class, Swift calls your class's superclass
dealloc method for you as well. For more information about implementing your own deinitializers, see Deinitializers in The Swift Programming Language (Swift 2.2).
Using Swift Class Names with Objective-C APIs
Swift classes are namespaced based on the module they are compiled in, even when used from Objective-C code. Unlike Objective-C, where all classes are part of a global namespace–and must not have the same name–Swift classes can be disambiguated based on the module they reside in. For example, the fully qualified name of a Swift class named
DataManager in a framework named
MyFramework is
MyFramework.DataManager. A Swift app target is a module itself, so the fully qualified name of a Swift class named
Observer in an app called
MyGreatApp is
In order to preserve namespacing when a Swift class is used in Objective-C code, Swift classes are exposed to the Objective-C runtime with their fully qualified names. Therefore, when you work with APIs that operate on the string representation of a Swift class, you must include the fully qualified name of the class. For example, when you create a document–based Mac app, you provide the name of your
NSDocument subclass in your app's
Info.plist file. In Swift, you must use the full name of your document subclass, including the module name derived from the name of your app or framework.
In the example below, the
NSClassFromString function is used to retrieve a reference to a class from its string representation. In order to retrieve a Swift class, the fully qualified name, including the name of the app, is used.
let myPersonClass: AnyClass? = NSClassFromString("MyGreatApp.Person")
Integrating with Interface Builder
The Swift compiler includes attributes that enable Interface Builder features for your Swift classes. As in Objective-C, you can use outlets, actions, and live rendering in Swift.
Working with Outlets and Actions
Outlets and actions allow you to connect your source code to user interface objects in Interface Builder. To use outlets and actions in Swift, insert
@IBOutlet or
@IBAction just before the property or method declaration. You use the same
@IBOutlet attribute to declare an outlet collection—just specify an array for the type.
When you declare an outlet in Swift, you should make the type of the outlet an implicitly unwrapped optional. This way, you can let the storyboard connect the outlets at runtime, after initialization. When your class is initialized from a storyboard or
xib file, you can assume that the outlet has been connected.
For example, the following Swift code declares a class with an outlet, an outlet collection, and an action:
class MyViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var button: UIButton!
@IBOutlet var textFields: [UITextField]!
@IBAction func buttonTapped(_: AnyObject) {
print("button tapped!")
Because the sender parameter of the
buttonTapped method wasn't used, the parameter name can be omitted.
Live Rendering
You can use two different attributes—
@IBDesignable and
@IBInspectable—to enable live, interactive custom view design in Interface Builder. When you create a custom view that inherits from the
UIView class or the
NSView class, you can add the
@IBDesignable attribute just before the class declaration. After you add the custom view to Interface Builder (by setting the custom class of the view in the inspector pane), Interface Builder renders your view in the canvas.
You can also add the
@IBInspectable attribute to properties with types compatible with user defined runtime attributes. After you add your custom view to Interface Builder, you can edit these properties in the inspector.
class MyCustomView: UIView {
@IBInspectable var textColor: UIColor
@IBInspectable var iconHeight: CGFloat
// ...
Specifying Property Attributes
In Objective-C, properties have a range of potential attributes that specify additional information about a property's behavior. In Swift, you specify these property attributes in a different way.
Strong and Weak
Swift properties are strong by default. Use the
weak keyword to indicate that a property has a weak reference to the object stored as its value. This keyword can be used only for properties that are optional class types. For more information, see Attributes.
Read/Write and Read-Only
In Swift, there are no
readwrite and
readonly attributes. When declaring a stored property, use
let to make it read-only, and use
var to make it read/write. When declaring a computed property, provide a getter only to make it read-only and provide both a getter and setter to make it read/write. For more information, see Properties in The Swift Programming Language (Swift 2.2).
Copy Semantics
In Swift, the Objective-C
copy property attribute translates to
@NSCopying. The type of the property must conform to the
NSCopying protocol. For more information, see Attributes in The Swift Programming Language (Swift 2.2).
Implementing Core Data Managed Object Subclasses
Core Data provides the underlying storage and implementation of properties in subclasses of the
NSManagedObject class. Core Data also provides the implementation of instance methods that you use to add and remove objects from to-many relationships. You use the
@NSManaged attribute to inform the Swift compiler that Core Data provides the storage and implementation of a declaration at runtime.
Add the
@NSManaged attribute to each property or method declaration in your managed object subclass that corresponds to an attribute or relationship in your Core Data model. For example, consider a Core Data entity called "Person" with a String attribute "name" and a to-many relationship "friends":
Here's the corresponding Swift code for the
NSManagedObject subclass,
import CoreData
class Person: NSManagedObject {
@NSManaged var name: String
@NSManaged var friends: NSSet
@NSManaged func addFriendsObject(friend: Person)
@NSManaged func removeFriendsObject(friend: Person)
@NSManaged func addFriends(friends: NSSet)
@NSManaged func removeFriends(friends: NSSet)
name and
friends properties are both declared with the
@NSManaged attribute to indicate that Core Data provides their implementation and storage at runtime. Because the "friends" relationship is to-many, Core Data also provides the implementation of a number of corresponding accessors.
To configure a Swift subclass of
NSManagedObject for use by a Core Data model entity, open the model entity inspector in Xcode, enter the class name into the Class field, and choose "Current Product Module" from the Module field drop-down list.
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|1. Pirate Looks At 40 - Jack Johnson
|2. What Would You Rather Do - September Sessions Band
|3. Grey's Groove - Greyboy feat. Karl Denson
|4. Willow Tree - G Love & Special Sauce
|5. Superbowl Sundae - Ozomatli
|6. Ganges A GoGo - Bombay The Hard Way
|7. Thug Style - September Sessions Band
|8. Meaningless Conversation - Princes Of Babylon
|9. Piglet's Lament - Beat Down Sound
|10. F-Stop Blues - Jack Johsnon
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2002 soundtrack release from the acclaimed singer, songwriter and surfer. Also features performances from Greyboy, G.Love & Special Sauce, Ozomatli and others.
Jack Johnson is one talented man. When he's not surfing or recording laid-back, rootsy rock jams like those on his debut, Brushfire Fairytales, he's filming award-winning movies about surfing like the September Sessions. Oh, and naturally, he has a hand in its soundtrack, an eclectic and relaxing array of jam-band improvisation, bluesy licks, and jazz-flecked rhythms. Johnson's solo contributions, including a cover of Jimmy Buffett's "Pirate Looks at 40," are stripped-down acoustic numbers with as much understated grace as Jeff Buckley. Other artists opt for more adornment, like Ozomatli's percussive reggae/hip-hip fusion, the Bollywood funk horn rave-up "Ganges a Go-Go," and the hands-down highlight, Greyboy and Karl Denson collaborating on a hypnotic bite of modern jazz driven by funky, spring-fresh flute loops. Sublime may have been the forbearer of breezy oceanside atmosphere, but this fantastic soundtrack takes laissez faire vibes to new levels--and emerges as yet another building block in the foundation of Jack Johnson's rapidly emerging chill-out empire. --Annie Zaleski
Customer Reviews
Top Customer Reviews
The September Sessions Soundtrack is not a Jack Johnson record. There's an excellent cover of Buffet's Pirate Looks at 40, and then a different version of F-Stop Blues from Brushfire Fairytales. However, only hardcore Jack J. fans will notice the difference between the original and the one on SS.
The fact that Johnson is not all over this album is not something that retracts from the album's score. In fact, the acts that Jack decides to put on here add up to an incredibly cohesive album for just about any mood. Put this on when you're alone and in a bad mood, you'll be able to vibe along with the melodies. Put this on when you're out surfing or playing basketball with your friends, it's perfect music for the atmosphere.
Johnson is quickly building an incredible catalogue in all areas. Whether it's with his surfing films, their accompanying soundtracks, Brushfire Fairytales, or the upcoming On and On (which is every bit as good as BF), he is becoming the number one name in jam rock.
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I read the reviews on here, and bought the CD based on them. It just goes to show that my opinion must be different than most of the others on here. Read morePublished on April 16 2004
It took me 4 months to convince myself to try the Sept.Sessions....I bought it last week. If I had to sum up the entire album in a word I'd say "variety". Read morePublished on Sept. 15 2003 by JD
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When you first bring in photos from a camera, it's a good idea to go through them all and see which ones you like the best, which you are your picks and which ones you are going to work on in Photoshop. Bridge has a star rating and a labeling system that you can use for that purpose. Combine that with its special Review Mode feature and you have a really manageable way to deal with lots of digital photos. Let's see how it works. First, I am going to go to the Label menu at the top of the screen in Bridge to show you the star rating system. It's really simple. The choices are: no rating at all, a Reject rating, and a choice of five different stars.
I like to keep my rating system really simple. Everything gets five stars, no rating at all, or completely rejected. In addition to stars, you could attach labels to photos. So sometimes although I am not sure about the star rating, I know that I want to go back and review a photo again, and so I will attach a label that says Review....
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