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Joey Lott is the author of several O'Reilly books on Macromedia technology, including Flash 8 Cookbook, Programming Flash Communication Server, and the ActionScript Cookbook. He is also the author of Flash 8 ActionScript Bible (Wiley) and Advanced ActionScript with Design Patterns (Adobe Press, October 2006). Joey has been teaching Flash and ActionScript since 1999. His professional experience in the Internet industry includes co-founding RightSpring, Inc., as well as consulting for YourMobile/Premium Wireless Services (J2EE B2C application) and Ads.com (leading the development of a J2EE B2B application).
Darron Schall is an independent consultant specializing in the Flash Platform, with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Lehigh University. He has been using ActionScript since the early days and is a prominent voice in the Flash and Flex communities. He is actively involved in the Open Source Flash movement with projects ranging from software development tools to a Commodore 64 emulator. Darron has spoken at various conferences about ActionScript, and has contributed to books and magazines. You can find his Flash Platform related weblog at http://www.darronschall.com.
Keith Peters is a Flash developer in the Boston area. He has been working with Flash since 1999 and is currently a Senior Flash Developer at Brightcove (http://www.brightcove.com). Keith has been a contributing author to nine other books on Flash and ActionScript. His personal website, http://www.bit-101.com, features an active blog, over 700 open source Flash experiments, and lots of other random Flash-related stuff.
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There is no coverage of Flex or Flex Builder (perfect!). This is also not a tutorial book so you may need to look elsewhere if that is what you need.
This book is more of a desk reference for common tasks than an overall guide to the newest installment of Adobe's ECMA-based programming language. The sections devoted to the new features of ActionScript 3 are very useful and have thorough explanations with well documented code samples. I found the chapter on the new model for adding visual elements to a SWF via ActionScript using the Display List to be particularly helpful in my study of AS3.'
To sum up my thoughts on the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Definitely a worth the cover price for experienced ActionScript developers but maybe not the ideal resource for those developers that are just learning programming for the Flash Platform.
All of the code examples in this book are based on ActionScript 3.0 and only compatible with products that support ActionScript 3.0. Flex 2.0 and Flash 9 allow you to author ActionScript 3.0 content. Flash Player 9 supports ActionScript 3.0. If you are using a product that does not support ActionScript 3.0, then the code in this book is not likely to work.
The following is the table of contents:
Chapter 1. ActionScript Basics
Recipe 1.1. Creating an ActionScript Project
Recipe 1.2. Customizing the Properties of an Application
Recipe 1.3. Where to Place ActionScript Code
Recipe 1.4. How to Trace a Message
Recipe 1.5. Handling Events
Recipe 1.6. Responding to Mouse and Key Events
Recipe 1.7. Using Mathematical Operators
Recipe 1.8. Checking Equality or Comparing Values
Recipe 1.9. Performing Actions Conditionally
Recipe 1.10. Performing Complex Conditional Testing
Recipe 1.11. Repeating an Operation Many Times
Recipe 1.12. Repeating a Task over Time
Recipe 1.13. Creating Reusable Code
Recipe 1.14. Generalizing a Method to Enhance Reusability
Recipe 1.15. Exiting a Method
Recipe 1.16. Obtaining the Result of a Method
Recipe 1.17. Handling Errors
Chapter 2. Custom Classes
Classes are absolutely essential to ActionScript 3.0. This is truer in ActionScript 3.0 than in any earlier release of the language. ActionScript 1.0 was essentially a procedural language with modest object-oriented features. ActionScript 2.0 formalized the object-oriented features and took a big step in the direction of a truly object-oriented language. However, ActionScript 3.0 shifts the core focus of ActionScript so that the basic building block is that of the class. If you are using ActionScript 3.0 with Flex, and the introduction of the minor exception of code being placed within mx_Script tags, all ActionScript code must appear within a class. This chapter discusses the fundamentals of writing custom classes in ActionScript 3.0.
Recipe 2.1. Creating a Custom Class
Recipe 2.2. Determining Where to Save a Class
Recipe 2.3. Creating Properties That Behave As Methods
Recipe 2.4. Creating Static Methods and Properties
Recipe 2.5. Creating Subclasses
Recipe 2.6. Implementing Subclass Versions of Superclass Methods
Recipe 2.7. Creating Constants
Recipe 2.8. Dispatching Events
Chapter 3. Runtime Environment
Flash Player 9 offers a relatively large amount of information about and control over the runtime environment. The flash.system.Capabilities class has many static methods that return information about the player and the computer on which it is running, such as the operating system, language, audio, and video capabilities. There are other classes such as flash.display.Stage and flash.system.Security that allow you to control other elements of the Player such as the right-click menu under Windows (Control-click on the Macintosh) and the Settings dialog box. The flash.display.Stage class also controls the scaling and alignment of the movie within the Player.
Recipe 3.1. Detecting the Player Version
Recipe 3.2. Detecting the Operating System
Recipe 3.3. Checking the Player Type
Recipe 3.4. Checking the System Language
Recipe 3.5. Detecting Display Settings
Recipe 3.6. Scaling the Movie
Recipe 3.7. Changing the Alignment
Recipe 3.8. Hiding the Flash Player's Menu Items
Recipe 3.9. Detecting the Device's Audio Capabilities
Recipe 3.10. Detecting the Device's Video Capabilities
Recipe 3.11. Prompting the User to Change Player Settings
Recipe 3.12. Dealing with System Security
Chapter 4. Numbers and Math
ActionScript 3.0 has three basic numeric types: number, int, and uint. number is for any floating-point numbers, whereas int and uint are for integers (whole numbers). The distinction between int and uint is that int is the set of negative and non-negative integers, while uint is the set of non-negative integers (unsigned integers). This chapter gives you examples of working with all types of numbers in ActionScript using a variety of mathematical applications.
Recipe 4.1. Representing Numbers in Different Bases
Recipe 4.2. Converting Between Different Number Systems
Recipe 4.3. Rounding Numbers
Recipe 4.4. Inserting Leading or Trailing Zeros or Spaces
Recipe 4.5. Formatting Numbers for Display Without a Mask
Recipe 4.6. Formatting Currency Amounts
Recipe 4.7. Generating a Random Number
Recipe 4.8. Simulating a Coin Toss
Recipe 4.9. Simulating Dice
Recipe 4.10. Simulating Playing Cards
Recipe 4.11. Generating a Unique Number
Recipe 4.12. Converting Angle Measurements
Recipe 4.13. Calculating the Distance Between Two Points
Recipe 4.14. Determining Points Along a Circle
Recipe 4.15. Converting Between Units of Measurement
Chapter 5. Arrays
In ActionScript, there are two kinds of arrays: integer-indexed and associative. Both array types group related data, but they use different means of accessing the data. The integer-indexed array uses integers as unique identifiers for each element in the array. Associative arrays use string keys to access each value. There's more about associative arrays in Recipe 5.15. This chapter will remind you of any good chapter in any book on arrays in any programming language.
Recipe 5.1. Adding Elements to the Start or End of an Array
Recipe 5.2. Looping Through an Array
Recipe 5.3. Searching for Matching Elements in an Array
Recipe 5.4. Removing Elements
Recipe 5.5. Inserting Elements in the Middle of an Array
Recipe 5.6. Converting a String to an Array
Recipe 5.7. Converting an Array to a String
Recipe 5.8. Creating a Separate Copy of an Array
Recipe 5.9. Storing Complex or Multidimensional Data
Recipe 5.10. Sorting or Reversing an Array
Recipe 5.11. Implementing a Custom Sort
Recipe 5.12. Randomizing the Elements of an Array
Recipe 5.13. Getting the Minimum or Maximum Element
Recipe 5.14. Comparing Arrays
Recipe 5.15. Creating an Associative Array
Recipe 5.16. Reading Elements of an Associative Array
Chapter 6. Display List
The rendering model for ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 9 is radically different than in previous versions. The new renderer is still hierarchical, but not as rigid, and aims to simplify and optimize the rendering process. The new rendering model centers on the display list concept and focuses on the classes available in the flash.display package. The display list is a hierarchy that contains all visible objects in the .swf movie. Any object not on the display list is not drawn by the renderer. Each .swf movie contains exactly one display list, which is comprised of three types of elements: the stage, display object container, and display objects. This chapter gives you practice working with this new model.
Recipe 6.1. Adding an Item to the Display List
Recipe 6.2. Removing an Item from the Display List
Recipe 6.3. Moving Objects Forward and Backward
Recipe 6.4. Creating Custom Visual Classes
Recipe 6.5. Creating Simple Buttons
Recipe 6.6. Loading External Images at Runtime
Recipe 6.7. Loading and Interacting with External Movies
Recipe 6.8. Creating Mouse Interactions
Recipe 6.9. Dragging and Dropping Objects with the Mouse
Chapter 7. Drawing and Masking
With ActionScript, you can programmatically draw many display objects such as Shape, Sprite, Button, and MovieClip. Each of these classes has a graphics property that is an instance of the flash.display.Graphics class. The Graphics class defines an API for drawing content programmatically. Most recipes in this chapter discuss how to use the Graphics class API.
Recipe 7.1. Setting a Line Style
Recipe 7.2. Setting Gradient Line Styles
Recipe 7.3. Drawing a Line
Recipe 7.4. Drawing a Curve
Recipe 7.5. Drawing an Arc
Recipe 7.6. Drawing a Rectangle
Recipe 7.7. Drawing a Circle
Recipe 7.8. Drawing an Ellipse
Recipe 7.9. Drawing a Triangle
Recipe 7.10. Drawing Regular Polygons
Recipe 7.11. Drawing a Star
Recipe 7.12. Filling a Shape with a Solid or Translucent Color
Recipe 7.13. Filling a Shape with a Gradient
Recipe 7.14. Filling a Shape with a Bitmap
Recipe 7.15. Scripting Masks
Chapter 8. Bitmaps
Before Flash 8, support for bitmap images was minimal. Although they could be loaded and displayed, there wasn't much you could do with them at runtime. The BitmapData class offers a nice set of tools for creating and manipulating bitmap graphics at runtime in Flash, and is featured in this chapter.
Recipe 8.1. Creating a BitmapData Object
Recipe 8.2. Adding a Bitmap to the Display List
Recipe 8.3. Drawing a Display Object to a Bitmap
Recipe 8.4. Loading an External Image into a Bitmap
Recipe 8.5. Manipulating Pixels
Recipe 8.6. Creating Rectangular Fills
Recipe 8.7. Creating a Flood Fill
Recipe 8.8. Copying Pixels
Recipe 8.9. Copying Channels
Recipe 8.10. Creating Noise
Recipe 8.11. Creating Perlin Noise
Recipe 8.12. Using Threshold
Recipe 8.13. Applying a Filter to a Bitmap
Recipe 8.14. Dissolving Between Two Bitmaps
Recipe 8.15. Scrolling a Bitmap
Chapter 9. Text
With ActionScript 3.0, the new text field object isn't automatically added to the display list. That means that if you want to make the text field visible, you have to use the addChild( ) method. The addChild( ) method is defined for all container display objects, such as Sprite, and it adds the object specified as a parameter to the display list of the object from which it is called. These recipes are good examples of the new method.
Recipe 9.1. Creating an Outline Around a Text Field
Recipe 9.2. Creating a Background for a Text Field
Recipe 9.3. Making a User Input Field
Recipe 9.4. Making a Password Input Field
Recipe 9.5. Filtering Text Input
Recipe 9.6. Setting a Field's Maximum Length
Recipe 9.7. Displaying Text
Recipe 9.8. Displaying HTML-Formatted Text
Recipe 9.9. Condensing Whitespace
Recipe 9.10. Sizing Text Fields to Fit Contents
Recipe 9.11. Scrolling Text Programmatically
Recipe 9.12. Responding to Scroll Events
Recipe 9.13. Formatting Text
Recipe 9.14. Formatting User-Input Text
Recipe 9.15. Formatting a Portion of Existing Text
Recipe 9.16. Setting a Text Field's Font
Recipe 9.17. Embedding Fonts
Recipe 9.18. Creating Text that Can Be Rotated
Recipe 9.19. Displaying Unicode Text
Recipe 9.20. Assigning Focus to a Text Field
Recipe 9.21. Selecting Text with ActionScript
Recipe 9.22. Setting the Insertion Point in a Text Field
Recipe 9.23. Responding When Text Is Selected or Deselected
Recipe 9.24. Responding to User Text Entry
Recipe 9.25. Adding a Hyperlink to Text
Recipe 9.26. Calling ActionScript from Hyperlinks
Recipe 9.27. Working with Advanced Text Layout
Recipe 9.28. Applying Advanced Anti-Aliasing
Recipe 9.29. Replacing Text
Recipe 9.30. Retrieving a List of System Fonts
Chapter 10. Filters and Transforms
ActionScript lets you to apply several different transforms and filters to display objects (and bitmaps) to change their color, shape, rotation, size, and to apply special effects. Transforms are changes in color, shape, rotation, and size. The remainder of special effects di scussed in this chapter use filters. Filters are native to Flash Player; they allow you to apply effects ranging from blurs to embossing.
Recipe 10.1. Applying Color Changes
Recipe 10.2. Applying Color Tints
Recipe 10.3. Resetting Color
Recipe 10.4. Shearing
Recipe 10.5. Applying Basic Filters
Recipe 10.6. Applying Advanced Filter Effects (Emboss, etc.)
Recipe 10.7. Embossing
Recipe 10.8. Detecting Edges
Recipe 10.9. Sharpening
Recipe 10.10. Making a Digital Negative
Recipe 10.11. Applying Grayscale
Recipe 10.12. Changing Saturation
Recipe 10.13. Changing Brightness
Recipe 10.14. Changing Contrast
Chapter 11. Programmatic Animation
In the earliest versions of Flash, most animation was done by using tweens. An object was placed on a keyframe, another keyframe was made, and the object was changed in some way. Flash filled in the frames in between, hence, the term tween. Using ActionScript, you can create much more dynamic and interactive animation.
Recipe 11.1. Moving an Object
Recipe 11.2. Moving an Object in a Specific Direction
Recipe 11.3. Easing
Recipe 11.4. Acceleration
Recipe 11.5. Springs
Recipe 11.6. Using Trigonometry
Recipe 11.7. Applying Animation Techniques to Other Properties
Chapter 12. Strings
Strings are the fundamental textual element of the ActionScript language. A string is a series of zero or more characters enclosed in single or double quotes. Unlike some other languages, ActionScript does not differentiate between single characters and strings. Both characters and strings are grouped into the String datatype. This chapter gives you a good basic understanding of how to handle this datatype in programs.
Recipe 12.1. Joining Strings
Recipe 12.2. Using Quotes and Apostrophes in Strings
Recipe 12.3. Inserting Special Whitespace Characters
Recipe 12.4. Searching for a Substring
Recipe 12.5. Extracting a Substring
Recipe 12.6. Parsing a String into Words
Recipe 12.7. Removing and Replacing Characters and Words
Recipe 12.8. Retrieving One Character at a Time
Recipe 12.9. Converting Case
Recipe 12.10. Trimming Whitespace
Recipe 12.11. Reversing a String by Word or by Character
Recipe 12.12. Converting Between Strings and Unicode or ASCII
Chapter 13. Regular Expressions
One of the most powerful features added to ActionScript 3.0 is regular expressions. Regular expressions are, put simply, patterns that can be matched against strings. You may be familiar with other types of patterns, such as wildcards, which can be used to match patterns while searching for files. Patterns are also used in Recipe 9.5. Regular expressions support this type of pattern matching, but they are also much more sophisticated.
Recipe 13.1. Understanding Regular Expression Patterns
Recipe 13.2. Testing Regular Expressions
Recipe 13.3. Looking for Pattern Matches
Recipe 13.4. Removing and Replacing Characters and Words Using Patterns
Recipe 13.5. Creating a Nongreedy Pattern
Recipe 13.6. Validating User Input with Common Patterns
Chapter 14. Dates and Times
Recipe 14.1. Finding the Current Date and Time
Recipe 14.2. Retrieving the Date Values
Recipe 14.3. Retrieving the Day or Month Name
Recipe 14.4. Formatting the Date and Time
Recipe 14.5. Formatting Seconds or Milliseconds as Minutes and Seconds
Recipe 14.6. Converting Between DMYHMSM and Epoch Milliseconds
Recipe 14.7. Using Timers
Recipe 14.8. Calculating Elapsed Time or Intervals Between Dates
Recipe 14.9. Parsing a Date from a String
Chapter 15. Programming Sound
In the Flash IDE, you can import sound into the library, put sound on timeline frames, attach sounds to movie clips, and so on. This chapter covers programming sound with ActionScript 3.0, using the Sound class and its related classes SoundChannel, SoundLoaderContext, SoundMixer, and SoundTransform, all part of the flash.media package, so as your first order of business, make sure that you import flash.media.Sound in each example as well as any of the other classes the example use.
Recipe 15.1. Creating a Sound Object and Loading a Sound
Recipe 15.2. Starting and Stopping a Sound
Recipe 15.3. Setting the Buffer for a Sound
Recipe 15.4. Offsetting the Start of a Sound
Recipe 15.5. Playing a Sound Multiple Times (Looping)
Recipe 15.6. Getting the Size of a Sound File
Recipe 15.7. Reading the ID3 Tag of a Sound File
Recipe 15.8. Find Out When a Sound Finishes Playing
Recipe 15.9. Tracking the Progress of a Playing Sound
Recipe 15.10. Pausing and Restarting a Sound
Recipe 15.11. Reading the Level of a Sound
Recipe 15.12. Stopping All Sounds
Recipe 15.13. Reading the Sound Spectrum
Recipe 15.14. Changing the Volume or Pan of a Sound
Recipe 15.15. Creating a Sound Application
Chapter 16. Video
The Flash Player is capable of playing back video. Although it's possible to embed video content within an .swf file, most Flash video content is stored in Flash video files (.flv files) and loaded into the Flash Player at runtime using ActionScript. By loading .flv files at runtime, you have smaller .swf files, more flexible content management, and greater control over the loading and playback of the video content.
Flash video loaded from .flv files has two faces: progressive download and streaming. Streaming .flv video requires a streaming server, such as Flash Media Server. In contrast, progressive download doesn't require any additional software. However, for the most part, the ActionScript required to work with streaming and progressive download video is identical. The recipes in this chapter discuss how to work with progressive download video and focus exclusively on working with .flv files.
Recipe 16.1. Loading and Playing Back Video
Recipe 16.2. Controlling Video Sound
Recipe 16.3. Reading Playback Time
Recipe 16.4. Reading Video Duration
Recipe 16.5. Controlling Playback Time
Recipe 16.6. Scaling Video
Recipe 16.7. Managing and Monitoring Buffering and Loading
Recipe 16.8. Listening for Cue Points
Recipe 16.9. Applying Filters to Video
Recipe 16.10. Pausing and Resuming Video
Recipe 16.11. Stopping Video
Recipe 16.12. Scrubbing Video
Recipe 16.13. Clearing the Video Display
Recipe 16.14. Determining User Bandwidth
Chapter 17. Storing Persistent Data
This chapter focuses solely on local shared objects (LSOs). Local shared objects are similar to browser cookies in that they are stored on the client's machine. LSOs are useful for storing the same kind of information for which cookies have traditionally been used, such as the ability for a web site to remember a user so that the user does not have to manually login during each visit. However, LSOs are more powerful than cookies because, by default, they never expire, they can store more data than cookies, they aren't transmitted between the client and server, and they can store native ActionScript datatypes. In contrast to remote shared objects (RSOs), LSOs are available to use without any additional software involved on either the client or server.
Recipe 17.1. Creating and Opening a Local Shared Object
Recipe 17.2. Writing Data to a Shared Object
Recipe 17.3. Saving a Local Shared Object
Recipe 17.4. Reading Data from a Shared Object
Recipe 17.5. Removing Data from a Shared Object
Recipe 17.6. Serializing Custom Classes
Recipe 17.7. Sharing Data Between Flash Applications
Recipe 17.8. Controlling the Size of Local Shared Objects
Chapter 18. Communicating with Other Movies
Flash Player 6 introduced local connections, a means by which any Flash movie can broadcast to and listen for broadcasts from any other movie on the same computer. This chapter focuses on inter-movie communication through the use of LocalConnection, allowing multiple movies on the same client computer to interact with each other.
Recipe 18.1. Creating Local Connections
Recipe 18.2. Sending Data
Recipe 18.3. Validating Receipt of Communication over Local Connections
Recipe 18.4. Accepting Local Communications from Other Domains
Chapter 19. Sending and Loading Data
Sending and loading data has changed dramatically in ActionScript 3.0. The LoadVars class has been removed and replaced with a more robust URLLoader class in the flash.net package. URLLoader is supported by a new cast of characters, namely URLRequest, URLVariables, and URLStream (and a few others). In this chapter you'll see that these classes combine to form a rich API that offers more functionality and flexibility than what was available in previous versions.
Recipe 19.1. Loading Variables from a Text File
Recipe 19.2. Loading Variables from a Server-Side Script
Recipe 19.3. Loading a Block of Text (Including HTML and XML)
Recipe 19.4. Checking Load Progress
Recipe 19.5. Accessing Data Being Downloaded
Recipe 19.6. Sending Data to a Server-Side Script
Recipe 19.7. Sending Variables and Handling a Returned Result
Chapter 20. XML
ActionScript 3.0 boasts a revolutionary new syntax for working with XML. ECMAScript for XML, otherwise known as E4X, is a language extension that gives you a simpler, easier to read approach for working with XML objects than the traditional Document Object Model (DOM), an interface of the past. Using E4X, you'll find that you can work with XML much easier than before. Additionally, if this is your first time working with XML, E4X dramatically lowers the learning curve of using XML, as the recipes in this chapter illustrate.
Recipe 20.1. Understanding XML Structure (Reading and Writing XML)
Recipe 20.2. Creating an XML Object
Recipe 20.3. Adding Elements to an XML Object
Recipe 20.4. Adding Text Nodes to an XML Object
Recipe 20.5. Adding Attributes to an XML Element
Recipe 20.6. Reading Elements in an XML Tree
Recipe 20.7. Finding Elements by Name
Recipe 20.8. Reading Text Nodes and Their Values
Recipe 20.9. Reading an Element's Attributes
Recipe 20.10. Removing Elements, Text Nodes, and Attributes
Recipe 20.11. Loading XML
Recipe 20.12. Loading XML from Different Domains
Recipe 20.13. Sending XML
Recipe 20.14. Searching XML
Recipe 20.15. Using HTML and Special Characters in XML
Chapter 21. Web Services and Flash Remoting
Flash Remoting and Web services both make asynchronous requests to service methods, and both can be used to create sophisticated client-server applications. The recipes in this chapter look at how to work with these technologies.
Recipe 21.1. Calling Web Services Methods
Recipe 21.2. Handling Web Services Responses
Recipe 21.3. Handling Web Services Errors
Recipe 21.4. Calling Flash Remoting Methods
Recipe 21.5. Handling Flash Remoting Responses
Chapter 22. Building Integrated Applications
Recipe 22.1. Calling JavaScript Functions
Recipe 22.2. Calling ActionScript Functions
Recipe 22.3. Passing Parameters from HTML
Chapter 23. File Management
Prior to Version 8, the Flash Player did not support any mechanism for allowing the user to browse their computer for files. Furthermore, Flash Player didn't have a mechanism for uploading or downloading files, either. As such, most web applications used HTML-based solutions for uploading and downloading files. Flash-based applications not deployed on the Web often had to use customized solutions for uploading and downloading files. Flash Player 8 and higher now supports the new APIs, which greatly simplify file I/O by allowing Flash Player to browse a user's system for files to upload and download. Flash Player allows users to browse to files on their local disks and upload and download files using the FileReference and FileReferenceList classes. This chapter discusses the details of working with those APIs
Recipe 23.1. Downloading Files
Recipe 23.2. Detecting When a User Selects a File to Upload
Recipe 23.3. Monitoring Download Progress
Recipe 23.4. Browsing for Files
Recipe 23.5. Filtering Files That Display in the Browser Window
Recipe 23.6. Detecting When the User Has Selected a File to Upload
Recipe 23.7. Uploading Files
Recipe 23.8. Monitoring File Upload Progress
Chapter 24. Socket Programming
Socket connections allow the Flash Player to send and load data from a server over a specified network port.
Binary socket connections are new in ActionScript 3.0 and enable raw connections that allow for transfer of binary information. Binary sockets are slightly more advanced than XML sockets because they require a low-level knowledge of binary datatypes, but they are also more powerful because you can connect to a wider range of socket servers and generally do more with them. For example, binary sockets allow you to connect to mail servers (via POP3, SMTP, and IMAP), news servers (via NNTP), chat servers, or even implement screen sharing and remote desktop applications by connection to a VNC server (via RFB). You'll learn more about how to deal with the asynchronous nature of the Flash Players socket connections as you go through this chapter.
Recipe 24.1. Connecting to a Socket Server
Recipe 24.2. Sending Data
Recipe 24.3. Receiving Data
Recipe 24.4. Handshaking with a Socket Server
Recipe 24.5. Disconnecting from a Socket Server
Recipe 24.6. Handling Socket Errors
The chapter on XML (chapter 20) is a must-read. It includes concise summaries of dealing with XML in AS3, which has changed significantly from AS2. Generally, XML handling is much easier in AS3, but there are some areas that can be really confusing when making the switch from AS2. This book explains most things you'll need to do with XML in AS3.
The chapter titled "Display List" (chapter 6) also contains critical information for developers coming from AS2. The rendering model in Flash Player 9 is completely re-designed -- a move away from the MovieClip class (although it's still in there) to the new DisplayObject class. The examples provided here give some important guidance on working with the various elements in rendering your project's interface.
I particularly like some of the custom classes available as a free download (of course, you should buy the book for those!). For instance, recursive arrays can be a hassle to deal with, but very useful in many projects. One of the classes includes several Array utilities -- one, in particular, that makes dealing with recursive arrays easier.
Of course, there's a lot of other great stuff in this book. I won't touch on all its greatness, but, again, I do recommend it highly.
That said, I do have a few complaints.They are not to dissuade you from buying the book, but to give the authors some feedback, in hopes that they can improve the next edition.
The authors state that this book is not intended to be an introduction to AS3. However, since it's really the first book to market on AS3, I'm sure that many AS3 developers will be looking to it for some introductory material.
The first 60 pages also seem to reinforce this impression. There are many pages devoted to basics of AS3, like creating functions and classes. Forcing these into the Cookbook scheme seems rather trite in several instances. Take, for instance, 2.5 Creating Subclasses. The Problem is stated as "You want to create a class that inherits from an existing class." And the Solution is "Write a subclass using the extends keyword." Now, if I know I want to create a class that inherits from another class, I'm pretty well along the way to knowing that I want to extend the latter. And I can probably find the answer much more readily in the Flex 2 or Flash 9 documentation. I'd rather see an appendix with documentation on the free-to-download custom classes, than 60 pages of very basic AS3.
In the interest of full disclosure, let me say that I have not read any of the Cookbook developer books lately, so some of my remarks may be a bit off base here. But it seems to me that this title falls short of the idea that I have for a Cookbook. There are a lot of good tidbits in here, like creating custom buttons and the inclusion of several custom class files, such as the already mentioned ArrayUtilities class (along with several other useful utilities classes) and the Cards class. But most of the Problems and Solutions are more like ingredients than recipes.
If I were editor of a book like this, I'd aim for more advanced Problems and Solutions that combine the various ingredients to provide a richer set of problems solved. How about solving the following Problems:
<li>I want to create a tile based game. How can I work with various sized grids to create a seamless experience for the user?</li>
<li>I have tons of UI to place in the limits of the users' screens. What are the various ways I can maximize the user experience (view stacks, tabs, and other new containers and navigator classes in AS3)?</li>
<li>I want to program card games using the Cards class. How would I program a version of Blackjack?</li>
<li>I need a reliable and reusable way to hit several web services. What's a good way to split up my code into one or more classes to make this efficient?</li>
Perhaps the Cookbook I'm describing better fits the Hacks series from O'Reilly. Or maybe it's more of an Advanced Cookbook.
But, yes, it's extremely useful. If you're using Flex 2, or plan to use Flash 9, run out and buy a copy -- now!
FYI -- I'm the manager of the <a href="[...]" target="_blank">Maine Flash Platform User Group</a>. I've been using Flash since 1998. And I'm a recent convert to Flex 2.
The book also has a very nice supplemental code library. This is sort of a mixed blessing; it's a download, so anyone can get it (not just people who pay for the book) and in several recipes the authors' solution is just to "use class X and method Y from the book's code library," without any explanation as to why the code works, or what it does under the covers. Depending on your coding style, you may or may not want that level of detail, but I'm the sort of person who does want it so it left me a little disappointed.
However, there's also a lot in this book that doesn't fit with my idea of what should be in the "cookbook" format book. In my mind, a "cookbook" is a book whose topics are more "edgy" or involved than what you might find in the core documentation. It should cover how to accomplish specific tasks that aren't easily figured out and aren't found elsewhere (again, especially not in the main documentation). It should also include "hacks" or workarounds to accomplishing things that aren't readily available using the built-in functionality of the language.
This book has plenty of those topics, but it also has a lot of topics that are covered well and in sufficient detail in the in-product help. To make things worse, often those topics are not just given a one-page-or-less "cookbook" treatment (which would be useful for those "I know I've seen it before but I can't quite remember what the syntax is" moments). Instead, they get the full four (or fourteen) page description, and you have to read through that description to extract the three lines of code that you actually need to put into your program.
In summary, I have mixed feelings about this book. When it's good, it really shines--the sections that go into more depth or into a more advanced topic than Adobe's ActionScript 3.0 documentation are really valuable. However, a significant part of the book is redundant with the documentation, doesn't cover it in as much detail as the built-in documentation, but covers it in so much detail that the benefits of the "cookbook" format are lost.
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Those ever-observant Washington Post editorial writers have spotted the demise of President George W. Bush's "freedom agenda" in Pakistan. In an editorial yesterday, the Post bewailed President Pervez Musharraf's suspension of his country's constitution and said that the Bush Administration's timid response "mocks" the president's freedom agenda.
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On June 4, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt referred to "George Bush's wildly ambitious, and thus far stymied, freedom agenda." A week earlier, Diehl wrote an op-ed citing another alleged Bush betrayal of truth, justice and the American way headlined "Shortchanging Democracy in Ukraine; The President's 'Freedom Agenda' Is Losing Momentum."
Two months before that, Diehl warned about the erosion of the freedom agenda based on an earlier crackdown by Egypt's Mubarak, saying the administration's baffling timidity had "emboldened the aging autocrat." Go back another two months, to January 17, and a Post editorial said that a "new U.S. policy" of downplaying human rights "betrays President Bush's freedom agenda, giving a free pass to dictators who support the new geopolitical cause."
The list of betrayals to the "freedom agenda" goes on and on. In December of 2006, it was (in a Diehl column) administration officials gathering at "a glittering dinner in honor of Mehriban Aliyeva, the visiting first lady of Azerbaijan;" a month earlier (in an op-ed by Richard Holbrooke) the freedom agenda was "at stake" in Georgia, where the United States was not doing enough to help out President Mikheil Saakashvili; in September of 2006, the administration had sold out the freedom agenda in welcoming to the White House the authoritarian ruler of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev; in May of 2006, a Post editorial wondered why the administration would "continue to give nearly $2 billion each year to a government [Egypt's] that mocks President Bush's democracy initiative?"
Indeed, the Post has been spotting the Bush Administration making a mockery of the freedom agenda virtually from the moment the policy was declared. In yet another column on the topic, Diehl (discussing the "de facto reversal of Bush's freedom agenda") asked, "Who can make sense of this disaster?"
Listen, Diehl, I know I'm not as smart as you are with your fancypants Yale degree, but let me have a crack at it: There never was a freedom agenda. Bush simply repackaged rhetoric used by past administrations about America's commitment to democracy abroad, and cut the same deals they did that gave a free pass to dictators willing to support American foreign policy objectives.
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(June 23, 2014) -- A statue at the Sombrilla Plaza on the UTSA Main Campus is being moved inside to protect it from the weather. Formerly overlooking Sombrilla Plaza, the "Border Crossing" statue by renowned artist Luis Jimenez recently was moved to the University Center second floor. The piece is strikingly framed by a window overlooking the UC paseo.
An additional familiar work by Jimenez, "Fiesta Dancers," will be moved in the near future to the opposite end of the UC second-floor atrium. The statue currently is outside the UC north entrance.
Both pieces were loaned to the university from the William Atwell family collection in 1996. They were purchased for the UTSA Art Collection in September 2012.
Jimenez was born in El Paso and resided much of his life in Hondo, N.M., before his death in 2006. He received a bachelor's degree in art and architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jimenez is known nationally and internationally for his large-scale sculptures depicting ordinary people. He worked with themes such as the treatment of Native Americans and the elderly, drawing on his youth for inspiration. He participated in numerous one-person exhibits in New Mexico and received commissions for his work in Corpus Christi, New York and Denver.
"We are fortunate to have these statues as part of the UTSA Art Collection, and we are excited to be able to share them with the UTSA and San Antonio communities," said curator Arturo Infante Almeida. "Mr. Jimenez was such a talented artist whose work is well known worldwide. There continues to be great interest in his art."
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1up has a great article up on the artist (7 pages!) ---- worth checking out, donno' if it's already been posted.
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What an artist!
I dunno, i'm gonna agree with Prom here...rare gems indeed.
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As far as actual game design, I never found Amano's to be much more palpable than just inspiration. Which I think they do a pretty good job of, as I think he keeps this air of whimsy in his style which can do that, and I find a lot of his stuff real purty to look at. But when it comes to readable -designs-, I do think I liked the illustrated ones in FF much better when Tetsuya Nomura stepped in as a mediator. Always dug his Vampire Hunter D stuff, wasn't aware he started with Gatchaman, of all things.
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Lowering high combigan inside the eye helps to prevent blindness. If you are using another kind of eye medication (e. Do not double the dose to catch up. Place the prescribed solution of drops into the ophthalmic eyelid pocket.
Taking combigan Combigan X day for 2 months. Wiggs is the ophthalmic investigator for NEIGHBORHOOD and tear author of the report, which appears online today in Nature Genetics. Tilt your head back, solution up, and pull down the lower eyelid to make a pouch. Depending on your condition and medical history, your healthcare provider may prescribe a different regimen.
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A frequency counter is a testing device that measures the frequency of an electronic signal. Frequency is the number of cycles measured in the signal per unit of time, typically transmitted by a cyclical process such as a rotation, oscillation, or emitted wavelength. The measurement unit for frequency is hertz (Hz), which represents cycles per second.
Frequency counters are available as stationary or portable models. Both a benchtop style and a handheld frequency counter are commonly used in research and development laboratories or production environments to test or maintain electronic equipment. Frequency counters measure frequency in a specified range, such as 10 Hz to 120 MHz or 50 MHz to 2.5 GHz.
Basic frequency counters have one channel for measuring frequency, but may also provide additional features such as selectable gate times or basic math analysis and statistics such as minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation. Gate time represents the unit of time during which frequency is measured, and a selectable gate time may offer a choice between 0.1 seconds and 1.0 second. A universal frequency counter has two channels and may take additional measurements such as period, frequency ratio, level, time interval, single period, rise and fall time, pulse width, duty cycle, phase, and totalize. A microwave frequency counter measures microwave frequencies, which range between 1GHz and 100GHz.
Three different counting methods provide varying degrees of resolution to a frequency counter. In the simplest method, conventional counting, a register counts each cycle of the input signal during a 1 second gate time. With reciprocal counting, the gate time can be adjusted, allowing greater flexibility in measuring. Continuous counting uses high-speed digital circuits to count with higher resolution.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- When Michigan defensive coordinator Greg Mattison approached Jibreel Black a couple of weeks after the end of last season with a request, it wasn't a surprise. Black, a junior defensive lineman, figured it might be coming.
Mattison wanted Black to change positions, to bulk up his body to go from playing defensive end to defensive tackle. It would mean weight gain and playing from a different vantage point, but Black accepted it.
Then he made a phone call to the person who might be able to help him the most -- his brother.
Larry Black Jr. is a defensive tackle at Indiana, and he would be able to explain the position difference better than anyone, including how it would affect Jibreel's game and his body.
"I actually helped him out a lot," Larry Black Jr. said. "We text every day, and he asks me about different techniques, different moves and everything. But he weighs less than I do, so he relies on his speed and his technique a lot more."
Counseling his brother on the switch was easy. Now a redshirt senior, Larry Black Jr. has started for a good portion of his first three seasons with the Hoosiers. Plus, Michigan and Indiana don't play this season, so familial bonds can go unobstructed by any conflicting collegiate ties.
Plus, older brother thinks the move will be a good one for the younger one.
"I told him to go ahead and do it," Larry Black Jr. said. "With his quickness coming off the ball, not too many people will be able to block him or control him. He's pretty strong.
"I thought it would be a good fit for him, and it'll work out fine. It seems like it is working fine in the spring, from what I'm hearing from him."
To prepare for the move, Jibreel Black gained 10 pounds during winter conditioning after revamping his diet and lifting with strength coach Aaron Wellman. Now at 270 pounds, he said last week that he hopes to be 280 by the start of the season.
And the transition has gone about as smooth as he had hoped. Besides his brother, he also sought out the advice of former Michigan defensive lineman Will Heininger, who also had been a mentor for Will Campbell.
"I talk to him a lot," Jibreel Black said. "He showed me what he did and what helped him coming from nose to three-technique. He's been showing me ways he shoots with his hands."
Hand movement and footwork have been Black's biggest challenges, but the repetition throughout the spring has helped ease the transition for a player with 25 career tackles and 1.5 career sacks now thrust into a starting role at a new position.
Black's development is more critical, too, as Michigan likely will lose two starters off the defensive line again in 2012 -- Campbell and defensive end Craig Roh. So soon enough, he'll be one of the few linemen with experience at all.
"It being a new position for me," Black said. "I think I'm making some big strides for the team."
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UAB Mock Trial Team Advances to the Opening Round Championship Series
It would be difficult to tell the story from UAB's 2016 regionals without using the word "comeback." Before departing for the tournament, the team was told the minimum number of wins they would need to earn a bid was five out of the possible eight.
UAB Mock Trial Places Fifth at MTSU Invitational
The UAB Mock Trial Team has been diligently preparing for this tournament since the beginning of the academic year. It started with dividing the team into groups who analyzed a fictional case file posted by the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA).
UAB Digital Media Features Mock Trial Team
The Mock Trial Team wishes to thank those at UAB Digital Media for their hard work shooting and putting this video together. The team is excited for the upcoming year. As for the coach who was up until 3AM with Mr. Carpenter putting together demonstratives, he would like to assure all potential members our practices usually do not run that late.
UAB Mock Trial Team Narrowly Misses Championship Bid and Will Hold an Information Session for Interested Students
At the tournament, UAB faced Florida's "A" team, Houston Baptist University, Xavier University, and Rhodes College's "A" team. The team rallied after losing to Florida in the first round and won both judge's "ballots" or score sheets in the second round. In the third round, the team won one judge's ballot and tied the second. In the final round, the team "split," meaning that one judge's ballot gave the round to host Rhodes College while the other judge gave the round to UAB. At the conclusion of the tournament, Demarcus Williams again took home an individual award for his performance as an attorney.
Because of the kindness of Tennessee State Judges, courthouse security that worked the weekend, and others, the team was able to compete in the Shelby County Courthouse in Memphis. Although the courthouse was built in 1910, the building maintains a beautiful appearance, which the team was pleased to have the privilege of using. The team wishes to extend its thanks to Rhodes College, AMTA, attorney judges, and all who helped to make this a very well run tournament and a good experience for all who participated.
The team is already very excited for next year. Students interested in joining the UAB Mock Trial Team for the 2015-2016 season can come to an Information Session scheduled for April 8, 2015, at 7:30PM in the UAB Mock Trial Courtroom (UBOB 226). Refreshment, namely pizza, will be provided. Students can also get more information about joining by visiting www.uabmocktrial.com or by contacting coaches Nathan Mays (email@example.com) and Joseph Dease (email@example.com).


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Road to Mecca begins with wins for Linden, G/town clubs
The 'Road to Mecca' began Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with wins for Colts, Retrieve Raiders, Ravens and Kings as the new executive of the Guyana Amateur Basketball federation staged its first tournament a countrywide inter-club affair.
By far the most lopsided win of the night was registerd by Colts who scored a massive blowout win over oponents Rose Hall Jammers.
In the process Colts became the first team to register three figures in the tournament as they defeated their opponents by a whopping 70 points (102-32).
Shelroy Thomas was the top scorer for the winners with 26 points. He also pulled down six rebounds, had five steals and four assists.
Dave Causeway supported with 15 points, eight rebounds, eight steals and three assists while Nikkolai Smith contributed 14 points and three steals.
For Rose Hall Jammers Antonio Anton scored 13 points and had four steals.
Another top Georgetown club side Ravens was a little less dominant over another Berbice club side New Amsterdam Warriors who they downed by 80 points to 44.
Top scorers for Raavens were Ryan Gullen, 17 points and 10 rebounds, Dominic Vincente 14 points and three rebounds,Rodwell Fortune 13 points, four rebounds and two steals and Jermaine Fortune 12 points, 12 rebounds, two blocked shots and two steals.
For the losers Edmar Semple scored 12 points and pulled in eight rebounds.
Another Berbice side Smythfield Rockers failed to break the losing trend going under to Linden's Retrieve Raiders 65 points to 85.
Loris James 22 points, seven rebounds and two steals, Neil Marks, 15 points, nine rebounds, four assists and two steals, Dwayne `Brown Sugar' Roberts 13 points, 14 rebounds, three steals and one blocked shot and Alexander Rose, 13 points and four steals were the principal scorers for the Raiders while neil Wills, 19 points, 11 rebounds and three steals and Jamal Felix, 15 points, eight rebounds and four steals were the top shooters for the Berbice club side.
In the fourth match, another Linden side Kings, defeated Republic Bank Nets in overtime by 56 points to 47.
Orin Rose was the top scorer for the Kings with 17 points, 12 rebounds and one steal while Mortimer Williams, 16 points, five rebounds and three steals and Fabian Johnson 12 points and 13 rebounds led the way for Republic Bank Nets.
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Bahamas crowned basketball champs, Guyana take out Barbados
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, CMC – The Bahamas crowned themselves Caribbean champions when they turned back a resilient Cuba in the final of the regional Basketball Championship here Saturday night.
NBA round-up
Masked James leads Heat past Orlando (The Sports Xchange) – Indiana forward Paul George scored 10 points over the final four minutes, 20 seconds as the Pacers, the team with the best record in the NBA, beat the Boston Celtics 102-97.
Heat need rare win streak to keep NBA title hopes alive
SAN ANTONIO, (Reuters) – Stringing together a two-game win streak sounds routine for the reigning champion Miami Heat, but they have failed to do it for more than three weeks and must do so in the NBA Finals or risk losing their crown.
Pacers, Grizzlies win
(Sports Direct) – Roy Hibbert collected a post-season career-high 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as host Indiana Pacers won a defensive battle over the New York Knicks to take a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal with a 82-71 points win on Saturday.
Denver Nuggets stave off elimination
(Sports Direct) – Denver's Andre Iguodala collected 25 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists as the Nuggets forced a Game Six against Golden State with a 107-100 points win.
Slumping Clippers seeking solutions as Griffin hobbles out
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Clippers are sweating on the fitness of All-Star forward Blake Griffin, who aggravated an ankle injury during a first-round playoff loss to Memphis on Tuesday that leaves the team on the brink of elimination.


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Welcome! We hope that you find this site informative and that you will return to it often to stay current with IRA and today's literacy instruction. We welcome your comments and questions.
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The Missouri State Council of the IRA Literacy Leadership Retreat will be held on June 11th, 10:00-2:00, at the Bridgeton Trails Library.
Address: 3455 McKelvey Road, Bridgeton, MO 63044.
Phone Number: 314-994-3300.
You will have an opportunity to network with your MSC State Board members and get updates on the new MSC by-laws, changes in ILA, a preview of the 2016 ILA Conference in Boston, and valuable information about how to use technology to support your council. You will also learn about the exciting READ and FEED LEGACY PROJECT being launched this spring.
We invite each council to send 2-4 representatives. Each council outside the St. Louis area will be reimbursed $100 for gas/travel expenses.
We need a count of those attending. MSC Board Members and Local Council Leaders PLEASE RSVP to Glenda Nugent firstname.lastname@example.com by June 7.
Please make your other council leaders aware of this opportunity.
The ILA Conference will be in Boston, MA, July 8-11. There will be a Council Training Workshop Prior to the Conference. Please also read information below about Council Officer Report Forms and 30 Under 30.
8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. on Friday, July 8, Sheraton Boston
This full day workshop for Council leaders and members will offer an integrated approach to growing Councils at the local, state, and provincial levels, as well as tools to help advance Council missions and strengthen leaders' knowledge of roles and responsibilities. This interactive session will focus on topics like nonprofit governance, leadership, social media, and advocacy, and information will be shared through a presentation, group work activities, and panel discussions.
Please note that the Award of Excellence, Honor Council Awards, and Council Achievement Awards will be presented at a short and informal gathering after the Council Training Workshop.
ILA 2016 Awards
Four peer-reviewed awards will be given out at the ILA 2016 Awards on Sunday, July 10: the Advocacy Award, Exemplary Reading Program Award, Local Community Service Award, and ILA Distinguished Council Award.
If you'd like to attend the Council Training Workshop or ILA 2016 Awards, please stay tuned for separate e-mails (coming by mid-April) with RSVP information.
If your Council is an award recipient, but will not be attending ILA 2016, we will mail your award to you.
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ILA will be hosting Literacy Night at the Ballpark on Friday, July 8. Join fellow Council members and conference attendees to watch the Boston Red Sox take on the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park! On Sunday, July 10, ILA will also host the Steps to Advance Literacy 5K (our first annual fun run). This event will benefit ILA literacy initiatives and Reach Out and Read.
Officer Report Forms
Officer Report Forms will be available online beginning April 1, and must be completed online by June 30. Please note that after midnight (ET) on June 30, the form will no longer be available. If you have trouble submitting the form, please contact email@example.com no later than 3:00 p.m. ET on June 30 in order to receive assistance from a member of the Council Advisory Team.
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Last year, ILA selected rising literacy champions from hundreds of nominees for our first-ever 30 Under 30 list, and nominations are now open for 2016! We're looking for educators making an extraordinary impact in their classrooms and communities, as well as outstanding administrators, authors, librarians, students, nonprofit leaders, politicians, technology experts, volunteers, and advocates who are advancing literacy for all.
If this sounds like you or someone you know, please click here to submit your nomination. Those selected for this year's list will join a dynamic group of literacy champions, have their inspiring stories shared in the September/October issue of Literacy Today and across ILA's platforms, receive a complimentary one-year ILA Online Membership, and be recognized at the ILA 2017 Conference & Exhibits.
Please note that nominees must not turn 30 before November 1, 2016. All nominations must be received by May 16, 2016, at 11:59 p.m. ET. We carefully review each and every nomination, so please be convincing and concise. Questions? Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Will you be attending the Write to Learn Conference at Tan-tar-a, February 25-27, 2016? If you have not registered, please check out the great speakers on the link below. When you register, please indicate that you are a member of MSC/IRA.
If you are attending, we want you to come visit with your literacy friends. Please join MSC/IRA and Achieve 3000 for a special Happy Hour networking event on Thursday, February 25 from 4:00-5:30 in Parasol 1 to meet with other literacy friends, enjoy a snack, and maybe win some prizes! Follow the link below to learn more about this GREAT conference.


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Three teases the HTC One 2 ahead of 'March' release date
HTC One sequel to arrive ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Sony Xperia Z2
NUMERICAL UK MOBILE OPERATOR Three has prematurely announced that it will be selling the so-called HTC One 2, and has outed the handset's March release date.
On Three's Coming Soon webpage the network has revealed that it will be among the first, along with Vodafone, to offer the HTC One 2, which reportedly will launch as "The All New HTC One".
If Three's webpage is to be believed, the HTC One 2 will go on sale some time in March. With HTC set to launch the handset on 25 March, this suggests that it will go on sale just days after, and if true, it will arrive in Three stores ahead of the Sony Xperia Z2, Xperia Z1 Compact and the Samsung Galaxy S5.
With Three seemingly having revealed the HTC One sequel's release date, there's not much we don't know about the upcoming smartphone.
The handset reportedly will feature a 5in HD 1080p display that will have HTC's new Sense skin sitting atop Google's Android 4.4 Kitkat mobile operating system. The HTC One 2 reportedly will be powered by a quad-core 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM.
The HTC One 2 is also expected to feature a dual rear-facing camera set up, a removable backplate allowing users to switch out the battery and to expand the 16GB of internal storage via microSD card, along with a 2,900mAh battery, 4G LTE support and a built-in fingerprint sensor.
At launch the HTC One successor is expected to launch in black, silver and gold models, much like the iPhone 5S, and will feature a quirky pinhole cover. A Google Play edition of the handset is also rumoured to be in the works.
The INQUIRER will be at HTC's One 2 launch on 25 March, so check back then for all the latest. µ
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Google Updates: Family of apps, Remix remixed, and spamming the Nexus
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Mysterious firm pays £135m for .web domain
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Virgin Media cuts off customer before it's even laid the cable
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Yahoo is building an online abuse detection tool
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If I'm lucky, I'm seen as a writer who does a little digital marketing on the side. A lot of digital marketing, more so to the point for those paying attention at home. To date, I have written drafts to one and a half Books of Blues.
One day I'm going to look up at the computer screen at my task list and see that those books, in fact, are next on the list. Until then, keep the head down, appreciate every moment, and try not to get lost in the anxiety of waiting for the first moment to get back to them.
…somewhere around here:
– Brunswick, Maine by my mama.
– Valparaiso, IN by my family.
– #SWFL from the family holidays.
– #Eastbay / #BayArea by #coinflip and getting a little too addicted to the weather, wineries, and craft brews here.
– #OregonCoast for about a month out of the year.
And all the roads and flight routes in between.
– Up & Married Katie (We 'hitched!)
– Re-upped my Google AdWords & Google Analytics Certifications – (check'm out) as well as Bing Ads Accreditation(got this one, too)
– Learned to Code (track my status on CodeSchool.com)
– Finished the marketing, content, and very bad code assistance on our BakedFinn eCommerce platform, BiziPorts
I will get back to them.
I hope to get them published. On my terms. It won't be enough to see them in print. If I wanted that, I'd go to AuthorHouse. Either way, DB Frazier is hoping I get them finished soon so he can read them and Pollack it with his red marker. Deep, bold, blood red marker.
There's contact buttons above and links to social media profiles all over the place. Pick your poison. And if you want some email updates, hit the Subscribe button in the header.
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Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI] - Treatment of Adult LCH
- General Information About Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH)
- Childhood LCH
- Histopathologic, Immunologic, and Cytogenetic Characteristics of LCH
- Presentation of LCH in Children
- Diagnostic Evaluation of Childhood LCH
- Follow-up Considerations in Childhood LCH
- Treatment of Childhood LCH
- Treatment of Recurrent, Refractory, or Progressive Childhood LCH
- Late Disease and Treatment Effects of Childhood LCH
- Adult LCH
- Treatment of Adult LCH
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Chemotherapy for the treatment of single-system and multisystem disease
Chemotherapy is generally used for skin LCH associated with multisystem disease in adults.
- A single-center, retrospective review of 58 adult patients with LCH reported on the efficacy and toxicities of treatment with vinblastine/prednisone, cladribine, and cytarabine. Patients treated with vinblastine/prednisone had the worst outcome, with 84% not responding within 6 weeks or relapsing within a year. The no-response/relapse rate was 59% for cladribine and 21% for cytarabine. Grade 3 or 4 neurologic toxic effects occurred in 75% of patients treated with vinblastine. Grade 3 or 4 neutropenia occurred in 37% of patients treated with cladribine and in 20% of patients receiving cytarabine.[21]
- Etoposide has been used with some success in single-system and multisystem LCH. Use of prolonged oral etoposide in adults with skin LCH has been reported with minimal toxicity, while 3-day courses of intravenous etoposide (100 mg/m2 /day) achieved complete remission in a small number of patients with resistant single-system and multisystem disease.[22] Another study at the same center found that azathioprine was the most successful drug for localized disease in adults, with the addition of etoposide for refractory and multisystem disease.[23]
- For patients who do not respond to front-line therapy with etoposide, cladribine is effective for adults with skin, bone, lymph node, and probably pulmonary and central nervous system (CNS) disease.[24,25] The first study that used cladribine to treat refractory and recurrent skin LCH disease reported on three patients (aged 33, 51, and 57 years) who received two to four courses of cladribine at 0.7 mg/kg intravenously over 2 hours/day for 5 days.[24] In a series of five adults (one untreated and four with refractory LCH treated with cladribine at the same dose noted above), three patients achieved a complete remission and two patients achieved a partial remission.[25]
- An adult lymphoma treatment regimen, methotrexate, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone and bleomycin (MACOP-B), was used in three patients with multisystem LCH and four with single-system multifocal bone LCH from 1995 to 2007.[26] Total duration of therapy was 12 weeks; response was seen in all patients, two with partial response and five with complete response. Three recurrences were seen after stopping therapy.[26] Despite the small number of patients and the retrospective nature of the study, MACOP-B may be useful as salvage therapy in adult patients with LCH and deserves further study.[27]
- Anecdotal reports have described the successful use of the bisphosphonate pamidronate in controlling severe bone pain in patients with multiple osteolytic lesions.[8,9,10]
- A case report suggests some benefit to treating neurodegenerative CNS LCH disease with infliximab, a tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitor.[28]
- A report of stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of pituitary LCH in adults showed efficacy in reducing the masses.[29] However, radiation therapy is not considered the standard of care for children with pituitary involvement. Systemic chemotherapy with cytarabine and cladribine have been the preferred treatments.[30,31]
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What trading P.K. Subban tells us about the city of Montreal
Martin Patriquin on how the Canadiens' trade of P.K. Subban has exposed every fanatic, ingrained facet of Montreal
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Martin Patriquin on how the Canadiens' trade of P.K. Subban has exposed every fanatic, ingrained facet of Montreal
July 5th, 2016 10 comments
The Parti Quebecois were thrilled by Scotland's referendum, even though it failed. So why won't Britain's successful Leave vote play for the party?
June 28th, 2016 1 comment
The provincial politics behind Quebec City's failure to convince the NHL to give them an expansion team
How the Pulse nightclub shooting unfolded in Orlando, rocking a community and a country
June 15th, 2016 1 comment
Sometimes, like in the case of Bill C-14, the House of Commons gets things wrong—and the red chamber proves its worth
June 10th, 2016 16 comments
A rookie MP and top Quebec cabinet minister, Mélanie Joly has become the optimistic, smiling face of Trudeau-era Ottawa
June 10th, 2016 7 comments
How the Liberals turned electoral reform—an issue that Canadians don't care about—into a pointless legislative car crash
May 19th, 2016 15 comments
The PQ seems less an opposition party than part and parcel of the Liberal Party's re-election strategy
May 13th, 2016 3 comments
Pierre Karl Péladeau exits politics just as he arrived: hastily. Martin Patriquin on the former Parti Québécois leader's surprise resignation
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Yes, the Quebec Liberal party is a source of endless frustration. But the latest accusations blaming English voters are absurd.
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Andrew Stott is a professional wrestler who goes by the name Superstar Shayne Hawke. Growing up in Montreal, he was steeped in the Spandex-clad hijinks of professional wrestling. It was a pastime, an obsession and finally a career. It also saved his life.
Homolka wanted to restart her life in French. But even in Quebec, she has not avoided the media's glare.
April 26th, 2016 12 comments
Pro-life activists are taking aim at sex-selective abortions—but that's merely a Trojan horse, to help them curtail access to abortion services in Canada
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The Quebec government is proving yet again that it has not broken free of the Quebec Liberal's old, ugly habits
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what you say to your woman when you want her to give you head.
After a long day at work you come home and sit down and see your wife/girlfriend and say "slob it"
av marmarthe2nd 4. juli 2006
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