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Betsey Dexter Dyer
Professor of Biology
Ph.D., M.A., Boston University
A.B., Wheaton College
Research Interests
Symbiosis; termite symbionts; evolution of cells; field microbiology; genomics.
Teaching Interests
- Introductory Biology
- Cell Evolution
- Genetics
- Parasitology and Symbiosis
- Invertebrate Evolution
- Bacteriology
Other Interests
reading, cooking, dancing, playing basketball, thinking
2008 Dyer "The Invisible World" (14 lectures plus booklet for Recorded Books Modern Scholar series)
2007 Dyer, Kahn,and LeBlanc "Classification and Regression Tree Analyses of genomic signatures reveal sets of tetramers that discriminate temperature optima of Archaea and Bacteria" Archaea 2:159-167
2007 LeBlanc and Dyer Perl for Exploring DNA Oxford University Press
2004 Dyer, LeBlanc, et al; "A DNA Motif Lexicon: Cataloging and Annotating Sequences" InSilico Biology 4:39
2003 Dyer A Field Guide to Bacteria, Cornell University Press
1998 Dyer "A hypothesis about the significance of symbionts as a sorce of protein in the evolution of eusociality in naked mole rats" Symbiosis 24:369
1997 Dyer in Explore the World Using Protozoa "The termite as an ecological community"
1994 Dyer and Obar Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells Columbia U Press
Student Projects
I am part of the Genomics Research Group, working on regulatory sequences of the genomes of eukaryotes, with Mark LeBlanc, professor of Computer Science
Look at our website: http://genomics.wheatoncollege.edu
Contact us if you are interested in joining the group at any level. There are lots of projects for both biology and computer science majors.


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Despite an ongoing recessionary climate, Phoenix-based i/o Data Centers just keeps on growing and doesn't plan on stopping.
In the last year i/o doubled its number of employees and is looking to expand its Phoenix location. In Oct., i/o announced it closed $200 million in financing for the company's expansions.
In addition to its Phoenix and Scottsdale centers, i/o wants to establish locations throughout the U.S., as well as manufacture modular data centers, called i/o ANYWHERE, that would allow data center capacity anywhere a customer needs it. The modular data centers would be manufactured in Arizona, adding to i/o's employment capabilities within the state.
The i/o Data Centers in Phoenix are co-location data centers, which means individual companies hire i/o to store and secure their data at an i/o facility. Approximately 400 companies store their data in i/o's two Arizona locations.
The impression that i/o stores data is misleading, the company is merely the keeper of the outside package not the internal information, says Jason Ferrara, vice president of marketing at i/o Data Centers.
"You can say i/o stores data, and that's where I think confusion comes into play," Ferrara says. "We don't touch anyone's data. … We don't have access to your data, which is a really important thing because the companies we deal with here are literally some of the biggest in the world."
Its clients, companies such as AAA Insurance and Fender Musical Instruments, "have a competitive advantage by being here," Ferrara says. Some companies refuse to be named as an i/o client because it gives them a large competitive edge.
"Really what i/o does is we just allow other companies to do their business," Ferrara says. "We provide them with the infrastructure, the power, the cooling, the network and the access control so that they can conduct their IT operations without failure."
By using back-up power sources, an evaporative cooling system, and maintaining tight-as-Fort-Knox security, i/o ensures its clients will never go offline.
"They can effectively conduct business 24 by seven by forever," he says.
Round-the-clock power and flawless security are particularly important for companies such as banks that allow clients to make payments or transfers online, or a company that stores personal information, such as credit card numbers.
Ferrara says Arizona is a perfect place for a data center because of three reasons – Arizona is an exporter of power, which means i/o will never go without power; Arizona is business-friendly; and finally Arizona is free from environmental threats like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and tornadoes.
Although many people question the efficiency of running a data center – known to produce a large amount of heat – in one of the hottest cities in the nation, i/o uses a fairly green method of cooling, Ferrara says.
Evaporative cooling systems, which are more effective than air conditioning systems at keeping temperatures low, cool its data centers. Other green practices include LED lighting and variable frequency dry fans, which only operate at the frequency necessary to keep the room at a particular temperature.
In addition to keeping the temperature at a certain level, i/o also uses ultrasonic humidification devices to prevent static electricity from creating a spark and causing an outage, Ferarra says.
"That's our goal – is uptime – keeping our customers' computer systems online all the time. And they pay a lot of money for that."

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iPod paints it black
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Illustration: Frank Maiorana
Black is the colour of my true love's iPod - and the click wheel is as red as the 5am eyes of a rock-band drummer.
This is the U2 special-edition iPod, and lead singer Bono and guitarist Edge were onstage with fan and Apple chief Steve Jobs to launch it last week. (See the show in San Jose at stream.apple.akadns.net)
Despite the howls of some U2 fans who say the band has sold out, the Apple crowd is ecstatic. But that was not the big news.
Jobs plucked another, vastly more significant fat rabbit from his magician's hat - the iPod Photo.
It aims to do for Apple in the soaring digital photography market what it has achieved with music. Whether digital-still pictures will duplicate Apple's music bonanza is yet to be seen, but the potential is huge.
As Jobs showed, the two go together - photo slide shows, backed by iTunes music shown on your colour-screen iPod Photo. Share with friends on the road or - and this may be the killer - play them on a TV set straight from the iPod.
To manage pictures as well as music and data, iTunes has been updated to version 4.7. Macs keep pictures in iPhoto or a file folder, Windows stores them in My Pictures or a folder. Either can get images out of Adobe Photoshop Elements or (Windows) Album.
There are two models - 40GB and 60GB - the bigger model is capable of holding up to 25,000 photographs, 15,000 songs or a combination of both.
The 40GB iPod Photo sells for $800 and the 60GB device for $950. The 20GB black U2 music iPod, by the way, costs $570, complete with U2 poster and engraved autographs.
The iPod Photo's colour screen can present 25 thumbnails at a time. Click on one to get a full-screen view or to start a slide show.
The 2-inch screen has a resolution of 220x176-pixels in 65,356 colours, and is backlit. Apple says battery life is 15 hours for music and five for continuous slide shows.
"Our competitors seem to think that (portable) video is the next big thing," Jobs says. "We don't think so. Video players are too big, too heavy."
Besides, he says, video and TV are sedentary media. You sit to watch. And people want bigger, not smaller screens. Radio, music and photographs are mobile media for people on the go.
The iPod was a cultural phenomenon, Jobs says. So far, 8.5 million copies of iTunes had been downloaded for Macs and Windows. More than 150 million songs had been sold through the iTunes Music Stores. The iPod owned 65 per cent of the market for all digital music players and 92 per cent of the hard-drive sector.
Innovation is the key to Apple's success, says Jobs. "We think digital photography, not mobile video, is the next big thing."
Video had complex copyright issues, even more than music, he says. "But there are no copyright issues with personal photographs and they are being taken in the billions."
Digital photography companies agree with Jobs about the huge potential.
Stuart Poignand, marketing director of Canon Australia, says digital photography is booming and has just started its trajectory.
He predicts that in Australia this year, 1.6 million digital still cameras will be sold, adding to the 2 million already out there. He believes that more than 45,000 digital SLR cameras (most over the $2000 mark) will be sold, along with 320,000 digital video cameras, of which about 200,000 will be photo-capable.
He also predicted that 3 million camera phones will be sold next year.
And that is just Australia - think of the potential in the US and Europe.
For imaging companies such as Canon and Epson, this market has potential for the sale not only of cameras, but new, automated photo printers.
So, one last thought about iPod Photo: when will they give it one of those tiny mobile phone cameras?
Mac file
It is near midnight on a cool, clear night and I am sitting in the peace of my home office looking out at the moonlight filtering through the gum trees.
An owl is hooting in the bushland behind the house and a vixen I wish was not there to prey on the native animals is barking at her cubs.
As I write, the King's College Choir is singing Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring through the stereo. Soon Air on a G String will come on because it is next on my iPod playlist.
Beauty and tranquillity. It doesn't come much better than this.
The point of this tale is not to evoke envy among the prisoners of fashionable high-rise inner-city apartments, but to say that the music I am enjoying is being relayed to the stereo's FM tuner from my iPod via one of the neatest gadgets I've bought in an age, a Griffin iTrip FM transmitter.
The size of a lipstick case, it plugs into the headphone socket of the iPod.
Setting it up is easy. Install the software to get a list of 101 FM frequencies in your iTunes library. Sync the iPod, tune to a frequency not used by a radio station, match it on the iPod and hit play.
Griffin iTrips are available for all generations of iPod for both Windows and Mac. They cost $70 ($80 for the model for older iPods). Belkin has a similar device called the TuneCast for $80.
Dedicated in-car iPod transmitters, made by Griffin and Monster that sell for about $150, can also charge the iPod.
If you have any queries about Macs, contact Garry Barker at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Thread: Feeding every two hours
7th September 2012 07:56 PM #1
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Feeding every two hours
Hello there!
I have a toddler who's 17 months old. As what I knew, as the baby grows older, the feeding also lessens.
My daughter already eats 3 meals a day, with snacks in between. And mind you, she eats a lot.
But why is it that she still asks for milk every two hours when she's awake? Is that okay?
Most of my friends told me that their babies' feeding time is just about 3-4 times the whole day.
I am worried that there might be something wrong with her tummy. Haven't gone to a paediatrician yet.
Please enlighten me.
9th September 2012 03:22 PM #2
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That actually sounds pretty normal to me and I have four children. My youngest is currently around 19 months old and still requests milk every few hours. Every baby different, I doubt anything is wrong. Is she still breastfed? If so, she may also be seeking this time for comfort and connection, rather than a simple longing for nourishment. That would be a completely appropriate developmental response for a baby her age, though it varies from child to child. This is why it is so important to not base one child's development on that of another. Plus your friends also may not really realize how often they are feeding their little ones, I know it can be hard for me to remember some days.
10th September 2012 02:05 PM #3
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She's not breastfed anymore. I stopped when she reached her 12th month. How I wish I could turn back time and continued breastfeeding. This is really one thing I regret.
Thanks for your reply. It enlightened me.
26th September 2012 09:25 AM #4
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Hi Ryden's Mum,
I stopped breastfeeding after 13 months with my first child and regretted it just like you. But with my 2nd child, I breastfed until he was 3 and he wanted to wean. It was a wonderful experience. Of course they don't breastfeed all day when they're that age, but he enjoyed the experience before naps and first thing in the morning when he was 2.
Be sure Ryden is being offered plenty of healthy foods during the day so that she is not craving the sugar in the milk. I also agree with mom2many, that children can ask for a bottle when they want your attention or they are bored.
You can offer a variety of green smoothies throughout the day, using banana as a base (many children like bananas) and adding leafy greens and other fruits like berries, peaches, cherries, pineapple, oranges, papaya, mango, etc. Children LOVE smoothies and they are high in nutrition. The more "green" you make it, the higher the nutrient value.
Be sure to restrict the simple carbohydrates like rice, crackers, pasta, cookies, biscuits, and items made with white flour and refined sugar. Those things satisfy only for a short time, and create a craving for more of the same... which only ends up with a child (or adult) gaining weight easily, and getting sick more easily. Fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables have way more nutrition in them, ounce for ounce, than processed white flour/white sugar foods.
I'm guessing that once you transition to a healthy diet, and put Ryden on a schedule so that she has planned activites to do during the day, that you will see her take less of an interest in the bottle and that she will likely not ask for milk every 2 hours.
Warm Regards,


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On Monday I went to the studio where "Private Practice" shoots – Raleigh Studios, in West Hollywood. As soon as I arrived I met Gregory Van Horn '87, the wonderful production designer who I was shadowing for the week. He brought me upstairs to the fourth floor of the office building, which is where all of the "Private Practice" production offices are. Raleigh is also the home of two other TV shows, "Castle" and "The Closer," so the three shows all have office spaces and a number of soundstages for shooting on the lot.
Gregory first brought me around all of the different offices so I could meet the many different people who work behind the scenes on the show in the production, props, set decoration, accounting, and several other departments. I also met everyone in the art department, which was to be my home for the week – Kevin, the show's art director, Cate, the set designer, and Ditte, the art coordinator. All of them were so welcoming and helpful throughout the week – they really went above and beyond in showing me around and answering the many questions I had about art department work and the TV industry in general.
I spent Monday getting to know the many different places at Raleigh. Gregory and Kevin first brought me down to Stage 1, one of the many soundstages that Private Practice has. There I was able to walk around the set for the practice, and get a close up look at all of the incredible work the art and set decoration departments have done. Gregory and Kevin explained to me how the backdrops work (essentially, these are very large blow-ups of photographs of L.A. that get placed behind windows on the set, and which can be altered with lighting to portray either daytime or nighttime). They also showed me some of the work they've done for this season in particular – for example, the surface of the reception desk in the practice was changed this season to one with a more shell-like design on it – and the different walls and glass windows in the practice that can be moved to create additional room and visibility for the camera. Finally, we went to one of the most exciting places on set – craft services! This is the very long table on set that has all of the food you can ever imagine, which the cast, crew, and production staff can snack on throughout the day. Throughout this brief tour, I asked Gregory and Kevin a lot of questions about the different art-related jobs (production designer, art director, set designer, set decorator, etc.) so I could get a sense of how they differ and what areas I might be most interested in.
After the brief tour of Stage 1, we went back up to the art department office. I looked around at many of the drawings and collages that have been pinned up around the office and in the hallway. For example, all of the main characters have their own poster in the hallway that shows drawings and photographs of their houses, along with details like carpet materials and wallpaper color options. I was also given the opportunity at this point to read through all of the scripts for the rest of the season (episode 5.17 had just aired, so there were four to catch up on after that).
Gregory had a friend visiting the set in the late morning, so the group of us went back down to the lot at this point for a complete tour of all the different stages. It was amazing getting to see all the sets in person and to see how complex all of them are, because there are definitely some details you miss when watching TV. "Private Practice" has five soundstages at Raleigh (in addition to a stage at the Sunset-Gower Studios, a short drive away). Stage 1 holds the practice, Stage 10 holds the hospital, Stage 14 holds Addison's and Sam's (two of the main characters) Malibu houses, and Stages 7 and 9 contain a number of different character's houses and smaller rooms. In addition to getting to walk through all the sets, I also learned a bit about etiquette on TV/ film sets – for instance, always keeping your phone shut off, walking very quietly (or just standing still) when the camera is rolling, and not entering or exiting the stage when shooting is taking place (there is a red siren light outside the door of each stage to let you know when this is happening!).
After the grand tour of all the sets, it was time for lunch. Monday was a double-up day, meaning the show was shooting two different episodes at the same time. During lunch we went to the production meeting for the new episode that had just started filming (5.21), so I got to see how the AD's and production office schedule the shooting days and communicate with the many different departments in making sure that everything gets done for the episode on time. After the production meeting, I left Raleigh to go to ABC Studios in Burbank and fill out general internship paperwork for them.
On Tuesday morning, Kevin brought me down to the set to watch a bit of shooting on the hospital set. I got to meet Jim, the first AD on the show (who basically runs the set during shooting), as well as many other people who work on the set. I was amazed by the number of people who work on shooting – from lighting to sound to camera operators, grips, hair and make-up crew, costumes crew, etc. There were many people scattered throughout the set, some working right next to the shooting and others (like the Director of Photography and the writers of the episode) watching the shooting on TV screens that show what the two different cameras are shooting at the moment. Kevin and I stood with Chuck, the video playback technician (whose job is awesome – he makes the medical equipment monitors in the hospital rooms show different images and stats for patients as needed during the scene) and watched the shooting of a scene in one of the patient rooms.
After watching shooting, I went back up to the art department office. Gregory showed me all of the set drawings that Cate makes for the show, and he explained to me how they represent different types of walls and sets on the drawings (for example, walls that need to swing out to make additional room for the camera are marked differently than walls that remain stationary). Gregory also showed me "Perspective," a production design magazine made up of different articles written by production designers about their work. I spent some time reading different copies of the magazine, which was really fascinating as far as learning about how different production designers approach their work in both film and TV. After lunch I went back to the set to watch some more shooting, this time on the Malibu set. Watching shooting on the Malibu decks is really interesting because it's incredible how much of the work is done in post-production (the entire beach and ocean are created by a blue screen right in front of the constructed deck). I continued to meet a bunch of the people who work on set and learned more about how they got involved in their respective areas of work.
After watching shooting I went with Kevin and Gregory to Stage 7, where they were working on a smaller personal project. We walked around the set for Violet's and Pete's (another couple on the show) house and Kevin and Gregory talked to me more about the different jobs in creating the look of each set (for example, if a lot of greenery is required on a set they might hire someone specifically to place the greenery). Tuesday was a pretty light day for the art department, so at 5 pm when everyone went home I went back down to the set to watch more shooting at "Malibu."
On Wednesday morning I got to go on a bunch of set decoration runs. First I went with Jill, the buyer, to the props house at Universal Studios and to Alpha, a props house devoted specifically to medical props. The Uni props house was one of the most amazing places I've ever been. It was enormous, containing different floors for drapery/ fabrics, furniture, and every kind of fixture and small prop you could imagine. I walked around with Jill and saw the process through which she marks any items that the set decorator, Melissa, might want for the show. Jill also showed me around the set lots behind the props house, which can be rented out to people who are filming, such as the western town and the European square sets.
After Uni we went to Alpha, where Jill was getting a few boxes full of different pill bottles to fill a new medical cabinet on the hospital set. Spending the morning with Jill was really fun and also really informative, because she taught me a lot about the differences between the art, set decoration, and props departments and unions, and she was very helpful and eager to clarify all the questions I had about the different jobs that exist.
Almost as soon as I got back to Raleigh, I went right back out again with Ditte to the sign shop at Uni. Kevin has a lot of graphic design experience, so he designs the new signs and posters that are frequently needed on the show sets. The sign shop at Uni then renders them into signs, so Ditte and I went to pick up a number of the finished renders. I continued to have some really great and informative conversations with Ditte about the different art-related jobs in the industry, and how Private Practice compares to other shows (for one thing, its shooting schedule is very efficient!).
In the afternoon I helped Kevin and Ditte tape up new signs outside the patient doors on the hospital set. I learned that the art department isn't allowed to actually affix the signs onto the set, because that's the painters' job. I hadn't realized until this week how segmented the different unions are and how specifically the jobs on the show are divided up between people, so it was really interesting for me to see how many different people create the look of the sets at every stage.
At the end of the day I stayed late again to watch shooting, this time in the practice. It was a very large scene with all of the main cast members, so shooting took a longer period of time. Once again, everyone on set was very kind and it was interesting to see all the ways the set can be changed between takes to accommodate filming the same scene from different angles.
Even though my Princeternship was only originally going to last three days, Gregory was very generous in allowing me to come in on Thursday and Friday as well to continue observing everything. On Thursday he and Kevin brought me to Sunset-Gower to show me around the other sets they have – Charlotte/Cooper's home, as well as an extension of the practice (it's interesting how the same building in TV-world is actually split up on two different sets in the real world). They pointed out some of the parts of the set that we rarely see on TV, like the bathroom in Charlotte/Cooper's home and the shelves in Pete's office. On Thursday afternoon, I went back to the art department office and read many of the old scripts of the show. It's fun to see how episodes I've already seen translated from page to screen, and all of the scripts in the art department office have set lists and drawings in the back as well that taught me more about how set plans are visually notated and organized for each episode.
On Friday morning, the art department received the list of new sets that needed to be created for the final episode. Gregory, Kevin, and I went into downtown L.A. to the L.A. Center Studio to look at some possible sets to use. Like the backlots at Uni, L.A. Center Studio has a number of sets in the building that can be rented out for different shooting needs, like a courthouse, a jail set, an office space, and much, much more. After walking around the sets here and choosing some to be used for the new episode, Gregory and Kevin took me on a brief architectural tour of downtown L.A. On Friday, we received the new script for the season finale, so we spent the end of the day reading through it (it was a very exciting goodbye present for me!).
I cannot express how amazing this week was and how grateful I am to Gregory, the art department, and everyone else I met at "Private Practice." I came into the week with a very strong interest in art department work, but I needed to learn more about the different jobs that are available in the TV/ film industry and which I would be most interested in. Everyone I met was incredibly accommodating and open to answering all of my questions and teaching me about what they do on the show, and I came away with even more excitement about possibly going into art department or set decoration work after graduating this year. Thank you, "Private Practice!"


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Getting Started:
- How to Share
- Share to a specific service
- Sharing Offline
Creating Services:
- Getting Started
- Understanding the share flow
- Creating Forms
- Using SHKItem
- Getting stored logins
- Using SHKRequest
Managing Services
How to Share
This documentation already assumes you've installed ShareKit. If you have not done that, I would recommend following the install instructions to familarize yourself with ShareKit.
As described by the install documentation, to launch ShareKit, you create an SHKItem to share, a SHKActionSheet with the item, and then display the SHKActionSheet to the user:
- (void)myButtonHandlerAction { // Create the item to share (in this example, a url) NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://getsharekit.com"]; SHKItem *item = [SHKItem URL:url title:@"ShareKit is Awesome!"]; // Get the ShareKit action sheet SHKActionSheet *actionSheet = [SHKActionSheet actionSheetForItem:item]; // Display the action sheet [actionSheet showFromToolbar:navigationController.toolbar]; }
SHKItem has four methods, one for each type of file that you want to share.
Sharing URLs
+ (SHKItem *)URL:(NSURL *)url title:(NSString *)title;
url - The URL you want to share
title - (optional nil) - The title of the URL
// Create the item to share (in this example, a url) NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://getsharekit.com"]; SHKItem *item = [SHKItem URL:url title:@"ShareKit is Awesome!"];
If you are sharing a page a user is viewing in a UIWebView, a category is provided to extract the page title from the page. Import "SHK.h" to the top of your class and call:
NSString *title = [myWebView pageTitle]; // which can be used like: SHKItem *item = [SHKItem URL:myWebView.request.URL title:title];
Sharing Images
+ (SHKItem *)image:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title;
image - The image you want to share
title - (optional nil) - The title of the image
// Example: Use an image in our resource bundle UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"sanFran.jpg"]; SHKItem *item = [SHKItem image:image title:@"Look at this picture!"];
Sharing Text
+ (SHKItem *)text:(NSString *)text;
text - The text you want to share
NSString *someText = @"This is a blurb of text I highlighted from a document."; SHKItem *item = [SHKItem text:someText];
Sharing Files
+ (SHKItem *)file:(NSData *)data filename:(NSString *)filename mimeType:(NSString *)mimeType title:(NSString *)title;
data - the contents of the file you want to share
filename - the suggested filename (ex: myFile.doc)
mimeType - the mime-type of the file
title - the name of the file
NSData *myPDF = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:@"path/to/my/file.pdf"]; SHKItem *item = [SHKItem file:myPDF filename:@"file.pdf" mimeType:@"application/pdf" title:@"A PDF file for you"];
Sharing with a Specific Service
If you create your own interface for ShareKit or have a reason to share directly with a specific service, it's just as easy as calling the actionsheet.
You simply create a SHKItem and then push the item to the service's class. Here is an example of sharing a URL with Read It Later:
#import "SHKReadItLater.h" //include the service's header at the top of your class ... // Create the item to share (in this example, a url) NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://getsharekit.com"]; SHKItem *item = [SHKItem URL:url title:@"ShareKit is Awesome!"]; // Share the item [SHKReadItLater shareItem:item];
To share other types of content, see How to share above.
Sharing Offline
If your app can be used without an internet connection, you should support offline sharing. Luckily, this means only adding one additional line of code.
Most ShareKit services support offline sharing. This means when a user shares something while they are disconnected, ShareKit will store it and wait to send until they are connected again.
You just need to tell ShareKit when to retry these offline items. A good time to do this is when the app is opened. Simply add this line when you want ShareKit to try resending the items:
[SHK flushOfflineQueue];
Creating New Services
Understanding the Share Flow
There are 3 phases a service class will respond to. Here is a quick overview of what happens when a user clicks a share button that is hooked up to ShareKit.
Step 1 : CanShare...?
The first thing ShareKit will do is gather a list of services that can respond to the item being shared. If for example, the user wants to share a URL, it will call +(BOOL)canShareURL on your service class to see if you accept URLs. If your service can share URLs, you should return YES.
// Other types to respond to: + (BOOL)canShareURL + (BOOL)canShareImage + (BOOL)canShareText + (BOOL)canShareFile
Step 2 : Authentication
After a user has selected which service to use, ShareKit looks to see if it has stored credentials for the service. If it does not, it attempts to authenticate the user before sharing. This step is different depending on the type of service you are creating (action, web, web w/ OAuth).
Authenticating Actions
Generally actions should not require authenticating. If they connect to a web service, you should use the web service template instead.
Authenticating Web Services
ShareKit will call -(NSArray *)authorizationFormFields on your class to get a login form to display
to the user. You should return the fields required to log a user in to your service.
See using Forms for more on creating a form.
The form is then displayed to the user. Once they complete their information, they will hit 'Login'. This calls -(void)authorizationFormValidate:(SHKFormController *)form on your class.
In authorizationFormValidate, you will validate the form data and then send a request to your server to verify the provided credentials are correct. You are responsible for sending the request and handling and displaying errors (i.e. incorrect username and password).
Once the user's credentials have been verified, you'll save the form and ShareKit will continue on to the next step.
Authenticating Web Services with OAuth
If your service uses OAuth, most of the work is already done for you. ShareKit will use the provided token request, authorize, and access URLs along with the app's consumer and secret keys to do the complete OAuth roundtrip on its own.
Step 3 : Presenting an Edit Form
ShareKit will first check to see if the user has enabled auto-sharing for your service. Auto sharing allows the user to skip the share dialog. For example, when a user shares with Delicious, they can edit the title, add tags, and set the privacy setting of the shared item. If a user wants to skip this step, they can toggle on auto-share and ShareKit will just immediately share the item the next time they use Delicious.
If your service has additional information that is required, you can disable this by responding NO to - (BOOL)canAutoShare
Next ShareKit calls -(NSArray *)shareFormFieldsForType:(SHKShareType)type to request a form to
let the user edit the item they are sharing or provide additional details. If you do not require
any other information, do not provide this method and the form will be skipped.
See using Forms for more on creating a form.
Step 4 : Sending the item
Finally, ShareKit will attempt to send the item by calling -(BOOL)send.
Here you should do whatever is necessary to send the item to your service or perform the required action.
At this point you'll likely need information about the shared item and access to the stored credentials for the user. See the following sections for retrieving both:
If the action is asynchronous and will not be completed by the time send returns (which is likely to be the case for all web services), you need to update ShareKit and tell it what is happening. There are five methods you can call on your own service class:
[self sendDidStart];
This notifies ShareKit that you have started sending the item. ShareKit will present an activity indicator to the user.
[self sendDidFinish];
This notifies ShareKit that the item was sent successfully. ShareKit will display a 'Saved!' message and close any open ShareKit views.
[self sendDidFailShouldRelogin];
If the send request fails because the user's credentials are no longer accurate, use this and ShareKit will attempt to reauthenticate the user (Step 2 above).
[self sendDidFailWithError:(NSError *)];
This notifies ShareKit that sending the item has failed. It will display an error to user.
[self sendDidCancel];
This tells ShareKit that the user cancelled the share. Most implementations will not call this.
Using Forms
There are two places where ShareKit will present a form to the user: when logging in and when allowing them to edit an item before it is shared.
ShareKit takes care of displaying and storing the data collected from the form. You simply need to tell it what questions to ask.
The two instances where ShareKit will request form fields from your service are:
(NSArray *)shareFormFieldsForType:(SHKShareType)type
(NSArray *)authorizationFormFields
Each method should return a NSArray of SHKFormFieldSetting objects.
A SHKFormFieldSetting is made up of:
- a label : The question being asked
- a key : The key by which you'll retrieve the data later (like a variable name)
- a type : The type of field, either SHKFormFieldTypeText, SHKFormFieldTypePassword, or SHKFormFieldTypeSwitch
- a starting value : If the field should be prefilled, provide a starting value. For SHKFormFieldTypeSwitch fields, this can be either SHKFormFieldSwitchOn or SHKFormFieldSwitchOff.
You create a SHKFormFieldSetting object with one line:
SHKFormFieldSettings *field = [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"My Label" key:@"myKey" type:SHKFormFieldTypeText start:nil];
Some examples
Generally an authorization form will just ask for a username and password. That looks like:
- (NSArray *)authorizationFormFields { return [NSArray arrayWithObjects: [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Username" key:@"username" type:SHKFormFieldTypeText start:nil], [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Password" key:@"password" type:SHKFormFieldTypePassword start:nil], nil]; }
An edit share item form may ask for more details. Here is an example:
- (NSArray *)shareFormFieldsForType:(SHKShareType)type { return [NSArray arrayWithObjects: // Let the user edit the item's title before sending. // Use item.title as the starting value to prefill the existing title // Use "title" as the key so when the form is saved, it overwrites the // item's title property [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Title" key:@"title" type:SHKFormFieldTypeText start:item.title], // If your service let's users make their items public, you may want // to add an option to make the share public or private. // Here we add a UISwitch to the form and save it to the item // with the 'public' key. We also set the switch to start as OFF // so by default the share is private [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Public" key:@"public" type:SHKFormFieldTypeSwitch start:SHKFormFieldSwitchOff], nil]; }
Validating the data
You'll likely need to validate the data in the form before saving.
Instances where you'll need to do this are:
- (void)shareFormValidate:(SHKCustomFormController *)form
- (void)authorizationFormValidate:(SHKFormController *)form
When the form is being displayed and you have access to the SHKFormController object, you can access the form data with [theForm formValues]. This will return a NSDictionary of each field's 'key' value mapped to a key in the dictionary.
If the data looks good and can be saved, call [form saveForm]. On the authentication form, this will save the values to the keychain and for the share form, the values will be saved to the SHKItem. See the next section on retrieving this data.
Retrieving the data
To retrieve the data collected from a login form, see Getting stored logins.
To retrieve the data collected from a share/edit form, see Using SHKItem.
Accessing SHKItem
Everything in ShareKit revolves around SHKItem. It stores everything there is to know about something that is being shared. You should be familar with accessing the information stored in SHKItem so your service can use it correctly.
There are several built-in properties that you can find/store values in:
// This indicates what type of content is stored in the item. SHKShareType shareType; // Possible values: // SHKShareTypeURL, SHKShareTypeImage, SHKShareTypeText, SHKShareTypeFile // This is generally used for url sharing (SHKShareTypeURL) NSURL *URL; // This is generally used for image sharing (SHKShareTypeImage) UIImage *image; // These text related properties are used for all 4 types NSString *title; // use for any title or subject type field NSString *text; // use for any long text like a note, SHKShareTypeText uses this NSString *tags; // use for tagging // These are used for file sharing (SHKShareTypeFile) NSData *data; NSString *mimeType; NSString *filename;
Setting and Storing Custom Values
Your service may have additional values that it needs to collect when sharing. You can set and retrieve custom variables from SHKItem. Custom values can only be NSStrings. This is so that they can be stored for offline use if your service supports offline sharing.
// Saving a custom value [item setCustomValue:@"This is my value" forKey:@"myCustomKey"]; // Retrieving the value NSString *value = [item customValueForKey:@myCustomKey"]; // value = @"This is my value"
Using with Forms
When using forms, setting any form key name to an item's property name will cause the item's property to be overwritten with that value when the form is saved.
If the form's key does not match a property, it will be saved as a custom value.
// A SHKFormFieldSetting mapped to the item's tags property: [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Tags" key:@"tags" // use of 'tags' here maps it to the item's tag property type:SHKFormFieldTypeText start:item.tags]; // display the current item.tags value in the form // After the form is saved, the result can be retrieved by item.tags .. // A SHKFormFieldSetting mapped to an item's custom value: [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Custom Question" key:@"myCustomKey" type:SHKFormFieldTypeText start:nil]; // After the form is saved, the result can be retrieved by NSString *value = [item customValueForKey:@"myCustomKey"]; .. // An example using a switch and the BOOL convenience method [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Public" key:@"myCustomKey" type:SHKFormFieldTypeSwitch start:nil]; // Can be retrieved by BOOL isPublic = [item customBoolForSwitchKey:@"myCustomKey"];
Accessing Stored Logins
If your web service uses basic auth, you'll likely need to send the username and password along with the shared item. After a user has been authenticated, the credentials are stored and easily accessible.
// To retrieve a stored value: // self = your service class // In this example, let's retrieve the username and password: NSString *username = [self getAuthValueForKey:@"username"]; NSString *password = [self getAuthValueForKey:@"password"]; // The keys used to retrieve the data are the same keys you used // when defining your login form: - (NSArray *)authorizationFormFields { return [NSArray arrayWithObjects: [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Username" key:@"username" <--- type:SHKFormFieldTypeText start:nil], [SHKFormFieldSettings label:@"Password" key:@"password" <--- type:SHKFormFieldTypePassword start:nil], nil]; }
Logging Out / Removing Stored Logins
There are three methods to remove stored credentials:
// Remove credentials for all services [SHK logoutOfAll]; // Remove credentials for a specific service // Use the service's class name: ex SHKTwitter, SHKDelicious [SHK logoutOfService:@"SHKReadItLater"]; // Remove credentials for a specific service (alternative method) // call +logout on any sharer class [SHKTwitter logout];
Using SHKRequest
You can use whatever methods you'd like to connect to your web service. If all you need is a way to send a few parameters to a specific URL and get the response, the SHKRequest object will help you get started quickly.
- (BOOL)send { // Set the parameters for the request // Create a parameter string like you would for a GET request NSString *params = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"username=%@&password=%@", SHKEncode([self authValueForKey:@"username"]), SHKEncode([self authValueForKey:@"password"]) ]; // Other helpers: // SHKEncode() takes a string and properly urlencodes it. // SHKEncodeURL() takes a NSURL and properly urlencodes it into a string. // Send request NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://api.example.com/share/"]; self.request = [[[SHKRequest alloc] initWithURL:url params:params delegate:self isFinishedSelector:@selector(sendFinished:) // set your callback function method:@"POST" // POST or GET autostart:YES] autorelease]; } // a callback (as set by isFinishedSelector above) - (void)sendFinished:(SHKRequest *)aRequest { // If the request status code was 200, 'success' will be set to YES if (aRequest.success) { // Do something with the result NSString *bodyOfResponse = [aRequest getResult]; } // If there is an error, handle it else { // SHKRequest has a few properties that can help find out what happened // aRequest.response is the NSHTTPURLResponse of the request // aRequest.response.statusCode is the HTTTP status code of the response // [aRequest getResult] returns a NSString of the body of the response // What was the status code? int HTTPstatusCode = aRequest.response.statusCode; // 404? 401? 500? // What was the value of some header value? NSString *contentType = [aRequest.headers objectForKey:@"Content-Type"]; } }


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Edit: "Great Idea…" (no "I" should be in title)
Hey guys, I just thought of a GREAT way to cut down the waiting time in the queue. I can't believe nobody has thought of this before. Here's how it goes:
When someone submits something that just doesn't quite work, take a few seconds to explain why it doesn't work. That way, the person knows and can work on correcting that exact problem INSTEAD of guessing and trying to fix something that was OK, then resubmitting to another rejection.
Novel idea, eh?
Say for instance someone was rejected due to:
"Unfortunately, we felt your submission was not appropriate as a stock audio file and offers very little utility to our audience. We are therefore unable to accept this particular submission into our library."
So what exactly about the submission offers very little utility? For example sake, let's say we have a cinematic hit with "extremely long reverb tail". (3 minutes worth) So it gets rejected. But author has no clue why EXACTLY. So author thinks it's the long reverb tail – seems reasonable; 3 minutes might be excessive. So author cuts down the tail to 10 seconds and resubmits. But wait, maybe it wasn't the tail. Maybe there was another reason. Maybe it was the "Hit" itself. Something about it was off. So author gets second rejection. Maybe he'll try a third submission with something else varied?
Wasting, wasting, wasting time…for reviewer, for author, for everyone in the queue.
Sorry to write so much. But reviewers, a small amount of direction could go a long way. The reviewers must have an idea why something is rejected, no? Then why not put that into words – if only a few?
(perhaps this isn't totally applicable to music submissions I admit, but more towards sound effects)
Hope you like my idea! I'm here to help!
While reviewer will write detailed description of rejection he can review 10 tracks for the same time)
And this point was already discussed.
AFAIK AJ is most picky and 'selective' stock for SFX. But you will learn what is needed and what's not. Everyone had to do that and then you submit what the site wants:) And you must know that everything is subjective and rejection does not mean that your sound is poor or bad. Sometimes it may sell elsewhere pretty well. So do not cry on rejected whoosh, just do another one:)!
Don't get me wrong guys (or gals if you're a woman), I'm very happy to get rejected, truly! How else can I perfect my craft? If EVERYTHING was accepted without question, this marketplace would be messy and nearly worthless. I WANT rejections to see where I'm falling short. But when we're given a canned response with little meaning, how does that help?
@D_Cooper: How long will it take the reviewer to download and review my next submission 100+ MB? The original was 36MB, but since I've no idea what was wrong, I will upload several variations of the effect. One of those will undoubtedly be what they were looking for and the rest can offer "utility" as a variation.
But why do that when a very simple. "It sounded great, but a 4 minute reverb tail is just too long for our customers. Sorry. Please cut it down and we'll most likely accept it."
Or "Too much bass in the car drive-by. Try rolling some off and resubmit. It might pass next time, but no guarantee."
That took me 10 seconds to write each of those. Can they review 1 track a second D_Cooper?
I've had some reviewers actually write something like that I'm extremely grateful for their constructive criticism. It made my next submission all the better AND accepted. Truly a help and win-win situation for everyone. Guess I'm alone in this thinking.
And what if track has many issues? Writing extended description can take much more time than 10 secs.
As I mentioned, probably more to do with sound effects. They're often very short and simple. Not nearly as complex as music. But brutal honesty would be fine…"Your track has too many issues for me to list in a short time. I would personally completely rework it. Your are more than welcome to submit a support ticket if you feel I'm in error." Just a thought.
But I do feel that the reviewers must be professionals in their industry. If they have the skill set to accurately determine if an upload is unacceptable, one would think they would have the ability to succinctly describe the problem. Again, some reviewers have done this for me.
A new and short html "reject-template" could help.
Reviewer has only to mark corresponding issue in the template as many rejections are based on the same issus, AJ reviewer could fill in a template.
e.g. rejected due to: - sound quality > | mp3 128kbps |o| distorred peaks |o| VST effects |x| - length > too short |o| too long |x| .... - background sounds like rain, birds, sea > remove |x|
and so on
Easy to fill out in 10 sec.
The fact of the matter is that authors keep growing and the reviewers do not. The only real remedy is to limit the amount that authors can upload in a time frame of say maybe 1 month. Maybe a different amount for music vs sound effects. I think at some point it has to happen.
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AFAIK AJ is most picky and 'selective' stock for SFX. But you will learn what is needed and what's not. Everyone had to do that and then you submit what the site wants:) And you must know that everything is subjective and rejection does not mean that your sound is poor or bad. Sometimes it may sell elsewhere pretty well. So do not cry on rejected whoosh, just do another one:)!
Agreed. I think feedback of whether the sound "idea" or song "type" could be justified, but not specific responses for quality. There are plenty of resources (like top sellers, other libraries, youtube) that can help you better your sound instead of a reviewers specific recommendations. Compare your sounds to others and listen! Also if your sfx ideas are getting rejected, but you "don't know why", maybe some market demand research is in order
Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. If someone is getting a lot of rejections, they certainly should do more research.
And perhaps I can change my stance a bit. Yes, for reasons of "quality" it may be difficult to explain fully (for music) and this idea may not work for that. For sound effects, it's another story. (recording technique is flawed, too much background noise, sounds like a cheap mic, etc) any of these one-liners would easily help.
But what about "utility"? And for that matter, who are our "audience" as mentioned in the rejection? Don't think I've seen any mention about that in the knowledge base. Might be good to let us know if we're being judged by it, huh?
But back to utility. If we're rejected on 'lack of utility' but find several or many others in the library just like ours, how does one take that? So the guessing game begins…then the re-submitting.
At any rate, on the soft-rejections I've had, every single reviewer has stated exactly why it was soft-rejected…and sometimes in detail. Would it be that difficult to do the same with hard rejections? How many hard rejections does AJ have in a day? Now there's a number I'd really like to know. Can any reviewer clue us in on that one?


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With all going well and being matched properly, I should be looking at K-1 rules fight in Middle of July.
I've been training with Muay Thai for a couple of years (with breaks) but prefight training with Muay Thai, I effectively left out weight training for a full six week period. Usually I lose around 10 kg in 2 months (I'm heavyweight).
I'm considering keeping my weight training up until 4 weeks out this time as I'd also like to carry some more muscle.
Any fighters incorporate weight training that close and manage to repair well?
I ask specifically for k-1 rules, because if you haven't experienced it - there is a quite a difference between those rules and Muay Thai rules.


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Shore Projects grows with Shopify
Shore Projects is a watch brand inspired by the elementary beauty and idyllic fun of the British seaside. Launched in June 2014, Shore Projects experienced explosive growth in brand awareness and demand even though they sold exclusively online. Shore Projects will soon be stocked in TopShop, ASOS, Selfridges, John Lewis, Urban Outfitters, and Anthropologie. Shore Projects joined Shopify Plus in January 2015, but they've been using Shopify as their ecommerce solution since the very beginning.
Favourite feature
One of the things I'm most proud of is the way in which we allow people to customize their watch and choose from 20+ different straps with different designs and prices. We spent a lot of time coding up our product page so that there is a really visual way for people to see all the different options and then purchase the exact watch and strap combination they want. I like the page because it really represents what our brand is about, which is being able to easily change the look and feel of the watch.
Choosing Shopify
The fact that Shopify as a company is forever trying to improve conversion rates and make the platform as slick as possible meant that choosing Shopify was a nobrainer. Shopify gives a new brand the ability to stand shoulder to shoulder with big established brands.
Shopify is really scalable. Especially as we started to transition to brick and mortar, the fact that Shopify has a POS system and everything links up — it gave us an impressively slick operation in the shop. People come to the shop and see our POS and how slick it looks and they're all really impressed by it.
There's no way on earth we could have gotten to where we are now, in the way that we have, with the budget that we have, without a platform like Shopify.
Choosing Shopify Plus
Having a dedicated merchant success manager was really valuable to our business. When you've got a merchant success manager that's always in the loop, that's your one point of contact, and they'll chase and check that things are done on your behalf. At the scale we're at, that's an invaluable service to have. This allows us to focus on our brand and our product and not worry too much about the technical things.
Ease of Use
Its just so simple. It's so powerful, yet so simple. Especially back in the early days when we had a smaller team and I was trying to do things like set up a discount code, I could be out and about and do that on my mobile phone. There's no way on earth we could have got to where we are now, in the way that have, with the budget that we have, without a platform like Shopify.


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Since the moment of birth, a human being's nails continuously grow and get cut, grow and get cut again. And this physical event goes on until he dies. A person may find this normal because he is familiar with it. However, he does not think, "my eyebrows grow as well but stops at a certain height, so there is no reason for my nails to continue growing. How could my body make such a decision that my nails grow even though I regularly cut them for 50 years, 60 years or 70 years." Or on the contrary, a person's hair may also have grown and need to be cut constantly for health and aesthetic purposes. But such a thing never happens. In fact, the system that we are used to does not differ -except for special health conditions- for almost none of the almost 7 billion people in the world.
When a person thinks deeply like this, he cannot claim any one of these can happen by coincidence. When he avoids familiarity and evaluates the world with a reasonable point of view, he sees that there are billions of evidences around to believe in the existence of Allah. Every spot we lay our eyes on is full of evidences of Allah's Existence and Mightiness.
To give another example about this subject, a new-born baby begins to grow teeth after a while. In time that tooth begins to wriggle and comes off. Instead very durable teeth with even stronger roots come out. But this doesn't continue afterwards. If a person stops and thinks, he can immediately realize how uncommon this is. However, such a thing may not even enter his mind throughout his life because of the intensity of familiarity.
If Allah willed, He may have created no helplessness in the life of this world. But Allah created the 'knowledge of helplessness' at one side and the 'knowledge of cure' at the other, in order to remove helplessness. For example, disease is a kind of helplessness and also a miracle on its own. Because if Allah wills, a person may not become ill ever. If Allah wills, a person may continue to be as healthy as he was before the disease until he dies. However, life does not progress in this manner due to the wisdom of Allah's tradition. There are hundreds of different diseases in the world. Human being's mind is open to familiarity also in this matter. People who think with the suggestion that "everyone gets sick", cannot realize the wisdoms behind the helplessness they face when they catch a disease. A person who cannot realize this cannot distinguish the miraculous cures Allah creates in return for their helplessness. Because the diseases faced by a person are a miracle, but the medicine that help cure those diseases are even a greater miracle. Believing that a tiny pill can cure a disease is a result of the common suggestion resulting from not thinking thoroughly. Of course Allah makes the pill a cause for people to get back their health. But it is not that tiny pill that helps the person leave his sickbed. It is Allah Who gives and cures the disease. It is a result of familiarity to forget that Allah is the One Who gives health and to hope for medicine to help. Since the moment of his birth, a person who acts with the suggestion that "I will take a medicine and it will be gone", whenever he has an ache, does not think "how could a tiny medicine cure a disease that makes a 60-70 kg person lie down." Therefore, he lives in a state of mind closure so that he cannot realize the signs of faith and the miracles of Allah that he sees and experiences at every moment and in every second.
"He Who created me and guides me; He Who gives me food and gives me drink; and when I am ill, it is He Who heals me." (Surat Ash-Shu'ara', 78-80)
There is no doubt that this situation resulting from familiarity is a serious obstacle that stops some people to have faith in Allah and some people to achieve a deeper understanding of faith. To avoid familiarity leads to an open mind and consciousness with Allah's Will. An open-minded and clear-headed person would have the intelligence to think things with their wisdoms. Such a person would see the beauties, details and miracles in Allah's Creation wherever he looks, appreciates them greatly and becomes deeper in faith. An important way of avoiding familiarity is to leave the method of thinking that everything has a cause, which is suggested at home, on the street, in newspapers and on television for years, and to evaluate everything with an open mind as if they are created just now and as if he is getting to know them for the very first time. Such a person would not evaluate any detail he comes across with an understanding of familiarity and get excited about everything. In the Qur'an, it is revealed that believers think thoroughly about every detail created for them in the life of this world and that they understand the Mightiness of Allah, His infinitely beautiful art of Creation, and His mercy and compassion over His servants very well:
Those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the Creation of the heavens and the earth: 'Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire. (Surat Al 'Imran, 191)


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I made yet another "useless-video" ......
I state not to be an expert!! (especially in telephony & arm version)
intrigued by reading the web on various distributions "ARM-version" I wanted (with difficulty) because my "ignorance", to try one of the first version (I think) of BT5 on my galaxy s2
I made this little test-konsole mode without starting the vnc graphical BT5(although BT5-vnc-gui is very nice!!!)
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Shaped like a songbook and conducted by a baton-wielding mouse, this is the voice-guided ornament that creates a holiday music and light show on your Christmas tree. The ornament hangs from a branch, and light strands plug into its control box. The little murine maestro responds to your verbal greeting by inviting you to request one of the 12 carols listed on his song sheet. Listeners then delight in digital renditions of familiar carols such as Silent Night, O Christmas Tree, Joy to the World, and other classics as the Christmas tree lights flash in time to the music. You can also let the conductor choose the playlist from another 12 holiday tunes he has up the sleeve of his tuxedo jacket, or command him to turn the lights on or off. Includes easel stand for display on a tabletop. Plugs into AC with 19" cord. 6" L x 5 3/4" W x 1 1/2" D. (1 1/2 lbs.)
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Italian-Americans won't be the only ones celebrating their heritage on Oct. 9, Columbus Day. This year they share the date with Scandinavian-Americans, celebrating "Leif Ericson Day" and the 1,000th anniversary of the Vikings' arrival in North America.
Though they might argue over who "discovered" America, both ethnic groups helped build this country. More than 15 million Americans trace their ancestry to Italy, making them the fifth largest US ethnic heritage. Almost 11 million Americans have roots in the five Scandinavian nations; a greater percentage of the populations of Norway and Sweden emigrated to the US than any country besides Great Britain.
Americans seeking their Italian roots can find clues in the way their ancestors lived. Your family's food habits, for example, can help pinpoint the region they came from. You can unscramble your southern Italian genealogy by understanding the traditional pattern for choosing first names: naming the first son after the father's father and the second son after the mother's father, for instance.
You may find that your Italian ancestor was a "bird of passage," appearing on several ship passenger lists. These went back and forth several times before bringing their families over.
Understanding the ways of the old country can also be key to unpuzzling Scandinavian roots. Armed with your immigrant ancestor's correct name and home parish, you can tap church records going back centuries.
But for centuries throughout Scandinavia, it was common to take your last name from your father's first name. If your father's first name was Magnus, for example, your last name in Sweden would have been Magnusson or Magnussdotter (depending whether you're male or female). Other names might come from the farm your ancestor worked, or have been changed in the Army or in America.
You can get started tracing your Italian or Scandinavian ancestors with tips from our August and October issues. Discover guidebooks, social histories and cultural, heritage and travel links that will help you with Italian genealogy. You'll find links to databases, dictionaries, organizations and more for family history in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. And check out our features archive to see other ethnic ancestry features.


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I have previously posted on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Medellin v. Texas here.
In a recent article entitled "Human Rights Treaties in State Courts: The International Prospects of State Constitutionalism after Medellín", Johanna Kalb at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Penn State Law Review, Vol. 115, No. 4, 2011, examines the conditions under which state courts have engaged with the international human rights treaties the United States has signed or ratified, and considers whether and how these treaties will be affected by the Medellín decision. Kolb concludes that because state courts have been more receptive to arguments based on treaties as non-binding persuasive authority, even the broadest reading of the decision will not end this type of human rights advocacy.
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Prosecutors have charged a Bountiful man with allegedly sexually abusing a girl who played on his soccer team for three years, beginning when she was 13 years old.
Steven Dale Green was charged with 14 counts, each pertaining to some form of sexual abuse, on Friday in 2nd District Court. All of the charges are first-degree felonies and carry a potential life sentence.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Green, 41, allegedly began having sex with a 13-year-old player on his soccer team in 2008. Green was a friend of the girl's family, and most of the encounters occurred at Green's house, happening "almost every day" until 2011, when the girl was 17, according to the affidavit.
Police arrested Green last week at the South Davis Recreation Center, according to jail records. Bountiful Assistant Police Chief Ed Biehler said Green was at the center to work out, and he did not believe Green worked as a soccer coach for the center, which hosts youth soccer leagues in the spring.
Green was booked into the Davis County jail.
Detectives believe Green may still be a coach, but they were unsure with what team or league he may be affiliated, Biehler said last week. Details about Green's status as a coach were scarce because Green refused to answer investigators' questions.
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The bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 has passed the Senate, and every single Senator who voted against it was a Republican man.
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Richard C. Strasser has been appointed interim Copyright Royalty Board judge, replacing Stanley C. Wisniewski, who retired Aug. 31. Strasser will serve a six-month term, or until Librarian of Congress James H. Billington fills the position. Strasser previously served as a senior staff attorney for the Copyright Royalty Board since its inception in 2007. (9/18)


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Music Instructor, Adrienne Inglis will be the featured soloist for Round Rock Symphony
Flutist Adrienne Inglis will perform with the Round Rock Symphony for their Night Music and a Fantastic Flute concert. Ms. Inglis will be performing Poem for Flute and Orchestra by American composer Charles T. Griffes. The concert will take place on February 23 and 24, 2013. For more information visit www.roundrocksymphony.org.


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Aesop is famous for his fables: short tales which illustrated truths about life and human nature. Most of his fables feature familiar animals, including "The Grasshopper and the Ant" and "The Tortoise and the Hare." Little is known about the true life of Aesop himself, and some believe that no such person ever really existed. Those who believe Aesop existed generally agree that he lived during the 6th century B.C., lived for some time on the island of Samos, and was for at least part of his life a slave. It's also generally agreed that not all of Aesop's fables were actually created by him; his fame grew so great that many other fables were eventually put in his name.
The possibilities for Aesop's birthplace range from what is now southeastern Europe to northern Africa, including Thrace, Lydia and Phryigia (now Turkey)… It is uncertain precisely when he was born.
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Generally stacked construction wedding cakes are transported assembled, but 4 tiers is a very large cake to move. You might do best to keep your cake in 2- or 3-tier sections. Make sure each section is on sturdy boards to support the weights of these cakes! Make sure you bring along all the supplies you'll need to finish decorating. Then, when you get to your party location, stack the cakes and add the finishing touches!


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Teenager's social life
My son will be 14 years old this week. He is an only child unfortunately. He was born 2 months premie and a multitude of problems. One condition is Aspergers Syndrome, which is a form of high functioning autism. This of course has lead to many challenges over the years with him, however you can look at him and not have a clue that anything is different.
Now at 14, he is showing more independence, wants to go more places alone, hang out with kids from school that I haven't met and I'm not comfortable with this at all.
At what point do you loosen up the reigns? There is still the risk of his inability to make proper decisions with his health condition. I do want him to be as normal as possible, but also don't want to risk him getting with the wrong crowds.
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Hi Cheryl,
We are very careful about the influences on our children for as long as they are living in our home. Of course, when they become 18, 19, 20 - we do tend to allow them to make almost all decisions even while they are living at home. But we have raised them to be able to make good decisions by that point.
Everyone makes bad decisions every so often, and we learn from our mistakes, and that's just part of growing up.
But it's our responsibility, as parents, to properly shelter our children until they are mature enough to handle "the next step". A 14 year old will often be much better prepared to sit at a table by himself, with a burning candle, than a 3 year old would be. The 3 year old may not realize the risks associated with fire and might try to touch the flame or pull the candle towards him (dripping wax on his skin). But most 14 year olds would recognize that if they tip the candle, wax will spill, or if they're not careful, the candle could fall over and catch other things on fire.
So when it comes to influences, we choose the shows they watch on TV, we cut commercials out (or teach the children to turn the TV off during commercials) and we train them to do this from the time they can hold the remote.
We choose their friends by getting to know other families who have similar values, and doing things together, as families. This feels very natural to our children, helps us to keep their hearts and helps them not to want to search out friendships on their own.
If your son has already been with his peers on a regular basis (i.e. school), he will see what other children are doing, and he will want to be like them.
I wouldn't allow him to go anywhere alone. If he wants to hang out with kids from school, tell him he's welcome to invite them over to your house. You'll need to set house rules so that he's spending time with his friends in rooms where you and others can walk in freely at anytime. Make a rule that he shouldn't have his friends in his room, so that he is less tempted to do anything or have conversations behind closed doors. You want to be your son's main influence, but when he has private conversations with friends, they will become his main influence.
The time to loosen up the reigns is when he demonstrates maturity on a consistent basis. When you feel confident that he will make the right choices on his own. Until then, it's important to be a guiding influence in his life, in all areas that you feel he's not ready for.
I wish you and your son all the best.
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30th March 2012 12:23 AM #3
Dear anthonysmum,
One of my friend's sons has Aspergers Syndrome and I have also worked with children who have Aspergers Syndrome in the past.
I think it's so difficult as children become teenagers who become adults to know what boundaries to put in place and how much freedom to give them. But with children who have this syndrome in particular I believe we have to be even more careful as sometimes these children do not think through all the risks associated with what they are doing. This can end up with them getting in trouble for something which isn't really their fault.
I have come across some great agencies that match younger teenagers up with experienced 'befrienders': trained young adults (usually in their twenties) who can take children who have syndromes like Aspergers out on trips like to the cinema or bowling or shopping. The idea is that it is a step between being out with their parents and just being with people their own age (who may not act maturely). I don't know if he would be interested in this sort of thing or if it's on offer in your area? If not, perhaps you have a family friend or relative who could act in this role? This might enable your son to feel you are giving him some independence without you having to be concerned about him being on his own.
It sounds to me like you are wisely considering what is best for your son. As my friend's son has got older he has taken on more and more independence and is getting on so well. It just needed to be one small step at a time.
With best wishes to you and your son.
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Great insight, Laura-Jane. Nice to know there are resources available like what you mentioned.
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Thanks. There is help out there available: sometimes it's just knowing where to look or what to ask for.


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By looking at information stored in chemistry, says former NASA fellow, life from non-life can be explained
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They suggest that rather looking at the "hardware" (biochemicals), they look at the "software" (chemically encoding information). The authors suggest that the defining line between the living and non-living is the ability to manage encoded information, thus the key question is how this information handling arose.
Could the clue to how life arose lie in how it encodes information?
Comments Prof. Walker, "When we describe biological processes we typically use informational narratives -- cells send out signals, developmental programs are run, coded instructions are read, genomic data are transmitted between generations and so forth. So identifying life's origin in the way information is processed and managed can open up new avenues for research."
"Chemical based approaches have stalled at a very early stage of chemical complexity -- very far from anything we would consider 'alive.' More seriously they suffer from conceptual shortcomings in that they fail to distinguish between chemistry and biology."
"We propose that the transition from non-life to life is unique and definable," Prof. Davies adds, "We suggest that life may be characterized by its distinctive and active use of information, thus providing a roadmap to identify rigorous criteria for the emergence of life. This is in sharp contrast to a century of thought in which the transition to life has been cast as a problem of chemistry, with the goal of identifying a plausible reaction pathway from chemical mixtures to a living entity."
"To a physicist or chemist life seems like 'magic matter. It behaves in extraordinary ways that are unmatched in any other complex physical or chemical system. Such lifelike properties include autonomy, adaptability and goal-oriented behavior -- the ability to harness chemical reactions to enact a pre-programmed agenda, rather than being a slave to those reactions."
"We believe the transition in the informational architecture of chemical networks is akin to a phase transition in physics, and we place special emphasis on the top-down information flow in which the system as a whole gains causal purchase over its components. This approach will reveal how the logical organization of biological replicators differs crucially from trivial replication associated with crystals (non-life). By addressing the causal role of information directly, many of the baffling qualities of life are explained."
Crystals are also self-replicating, but they lack the flexibility of life.
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If that all sounds a bit abstract, it is.
But basically it seems that the pair are arguing that by looking at differences between the self-replicating information in biochemicals (e.g. RNA) verus self-replication information in inorganic/non-living constructs (e.g. crystals), researchers may be able to retrace the process of how life arose on Earth more easily than if they merely focus on painstakingly mixing chemical constituents, hoping something arises.
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LISTEN: BANKS' brilliant cover of Aaliyah's 'Are You That Somebody?'
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Covering '90s R&B acts feels like a bit of a cliché at this point in the '90s nostalgia wave, but we can't fault it when the cover is as brilliant as BANKS' take on the Aaliyah classic, "Are You That Somebody?".
We're used to hearing BANKS' voice all ghostly and subdued on various indie urban tunes, but here flexes her vocal muscles whilst channelling the sultry sexuality of Aaliyah. It's equal parts sensual and melancholy, just like much of Aaliyah's music was.
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