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Faith Formation Commission
The Faith Formation Commission coordinates all levels of educational programming in the parish, for Blessed Sacrament School students, public school students, teens and adults. The Commission oversees such activities as youth formation, sacramental preparation, RCIA, Landings, small-group faith sharing, family ministry, and marriage preparation.
Pam Kelly, Co Chair,
Fran Scango, Co Chair,
The Faith Formation Commission oversees the following ministries:
- Baptism Preparation Program
- Bread, Book and Brethren
- Centering Prayer
- Couples Communications Workshop
- Discovering Christ
- Faith on Tap
- Family Pilgrimage
- Foundations for the New Evangelization Courses
- "House Churches" Lenten Program
- Landings
- Legion of Mary
- Lenten Mission
- Marriage Encounter
- Marriage Preparation
- Men's Retreat Weekend
- Msgr. Corbett Memorial Lecture
- Neighborhood Churches Lenten Program
- Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
- School of Religion Catechists and Teacher Aides
- Serra Club
- Second Sunday Morning Lecture Series
- That Man is You (TMIY)
- Tuesday and Thursday Adult Education with Br. Malachy Broderick
- Walking With Purpose
- Wednesday Evening Bible Study
- Women's Weekend Retreat
- Young Adult Ministry
- Youth Ministry
For a detailed description of these ministries and the volunteer opportunities they offer, see the Faith Formation Commission section of the Parish Guide 2016-17.

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These are photos of Old Main in the snow from the winter of 2013-14.
Two Penn State engineering faculty members were recently awarded National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards. The faculty members are Gordon Warn, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
Once again this year, Penn State will implement reduced temperature settings in many University buildings during the holiday break to support energy reduction strategies. All faculty and staff should have already received notice via email.
Exteriors of Millennium Science Complex on Penn State's University Park campus.
Penn State Berks campus located in Reading, Pa.
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Blacksburg, VA, USA. Moog Components Group has announced that PRIZM Advanced Communications Electronics Inc. is now part of its product portfolio offering marine customers a broader range of capabilities, along with innovative product development and customer support. PRIZM specializes in the design and manufacture of fiber optic and wireless video and data multiplexers used in commercial and military subsea markets for oil and gas exploration, terrestrial robotics and remote sensing applications.
The addition of the PRIZM business demonstrates Moog's dedication to supporting our marine customers,says Paul Murphy, Vice President of Business Development for Moog Components Group. "We continuously develop products that support the next generation designs of our customers. Moog is proactive and we realize this is extremely important to the dynamic marine industry".
The addition of PRIZM is another forward step in Moog's business strategy to enhance customer satisfaction by offering a broad range of standard and custom solutions. Product lines include: slip rings, fiber optic rotary joints, multiplexers, fluid rotary unions, DC motors, solenoids and air moving solutions.Moog Acquires PRIZM to Expand Support to Marine Market Moog Inc. is a worldwide designer, manufacturer, and integrator of precision control components and systems. Moog's high performance systems control military and commercial aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, automated industry machinery, marine and medical equipment.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The leader of the nation's third-largest political party criticized President Barack Obama's decision to attack Libya on Sunday, saying that U.S. foreign policy is fueling resentment for America in the Arab world.
"President Obama's decision to order military attacks on Libya is only surprising to those who actually think he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize," said Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle. "He has now ordered bombing strikes in six different countries, adding Libya to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen.
Hinkle noted that a common thread between the six nations is that they are all predominantly Muslim countries.
"Libyan President Muammar Gadaffi is no friend of liberty, but the military involvement of the United States in the rebellion against him threatens to undermine the credibility of the resistance to his rule and turn him into a hero," Hinkle warned. "As news of both actual and rumored killings of innocent civilians by American bombs spreads throughout the Arab world, the hatred which spawned the 9/11 murderers will continue to grow."
The Libertarian Party leader advocates a policy of "armed neutrality" that embraces the idea of limiting use of the American military in "the defense of American soil, period."
"As Senator Barack Obama said in criticizing the Bush administration, 'The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,'" Hinkle said.
An IBOPE Zogby Interactive poll showed that 57% of American voters approve of U.S. military action to support the no-fly zone in Libya. A third of American voters support the military intervention "with an open possibility of further engagement." Twenty percent believe the U.S. should be offering only humanitarian help.
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O.W. Lee was selected as the Manufacturer of the Year as a result of its high point standings in a variety of categories, including quality of products, design, merchandising, customer service, ethics / trade relations, and communication. In addition, the company received a Manufacturer Leadership Award in the Wrought Iron / Aluminum category, as well as recognition for Dean Smith's, of Dean H. Smith Associates Inc., Sales Representative of Year Award.
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"I can't believe it but the first show for the Fearless Tour goes on sale tomorrow!! It's not the first show we play on the tour (our opening night is in Indiana), but it's the first show to put tickets on sale. It's the LA show at the Staples Center. First of all, I can't believe I'm playing the Staples Center. Wow. This is just.. Wow. I hope people show up.
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we're wishing our super sparkly girl gang member, dolly parton, the happiest of birthdays! every year, she continues to proves that MORE is definitely MORE. the saying "the higher the hair, the closer to God" is as true now as it was back then. this gal knows how to have fun and look good all at the same time. so happy birthday dolly – keep shining on!
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History Of Pottery
Romano-British Pottery
Asia Minor
Hispano-Moorish Pottery
Italian Pottery
Majolica Ware
Forms Employed By The Italians
French Pottery
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In the catalogue of fictile wares there are two distinct provinces which are easily confounded by the casual observer. Of similar exterior appearance, attainable through the same general processes, and utilized in forms common to each, it is not strange that they should pass undistinguished. The difference between the two is so marked as to command for each a separate and distinct consideration. Each has its individual character, each its own peculiar properties and history; they are allied to each other only in so far as primitive and imperfect productions are allied to ultimate perfection in the same province. In pottery we find form and color, but the question of a wider sphere of usefulness to be gained by the addition of firmness, hardness and strength, was only to be answered by the discovery of porcelain. In the course of history, pottery has attained, in some instances, such a texture and degree of perfection as to resemble very closely the ordinary porcelain, yet the exterior features of each ware are such that the practised eye can readily determine the province of any piece which may be brought under its observation; one test however is infallible, that is, fracture.
Pottery breaks and exhibits a coarse, rough edge; not having been exposed to heat sufficient to produce vitrifaction, it still retains the granular features of baked clay. Porcelain cleaves off with a smooth, sharp fracture, showing no material difference between the edges and surface, it occupies the intermediate position between pottery and glass. In their historic order and the order which they are generally reviewed, they stand:
1. Pottery-Including Majolica, Fayence, etc.
The word Fayence, or Faenza, according to Fairholt, "is a collective word, or name, for all the various kinds of earthenware and glazed porcelain," though it has come to be considered, and very justly, significant only of pottery. The little town of Faenza, near Bologna, was at one time famous for its production of this ware. Porcelain was then unknown in Christendom, except as a rare article of import from the Orient. The word porcelain is from the Portuguese, porzellana, a cup.
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Building an Excel 2003 Invoice Application Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
This content is outdated and is no longer being maintained. It is provided as a courtesy for individuals who are still using these technologies. This page may contain URLs that were valid when originally published, but now link to sites or pages that no longer exist.
J. Jason De Lorme, Simplesheet, Inc.
Revised: November 2005
Applies to: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Summary: See a demonstration of an Excel 2003 invoice solution written in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. (19 printed pages)
Download OfficeVSTOBuildingExcelInvoices.msi.
Scenario Overview
Architectural Considerations in Designing the Solution
Developing the Excel 2003 Invoice Application
Deploying the Excel 2003 Invoice Application
Code Security
Additional Resources
About the Author
Scenario Overview
As the proprietor of a small consulting firm, I live invoice to invoice. As predominant as that may seem to my well-being, preparing invoices can be one of my least favorite tasks. The reason is the amount of time it can take to compile a single month's invoices. To keep our time organized, my company uses a homegrown Web-based timesheet application. As a good citizen of the Microsoft .NET Framework, I recently added some Web services that made it possible for other business applications to share basic client, project, and time data from the timesheet application. This article presents an invoice solution using Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and built with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. The demonstration uses customer, project, and timesheet XML data sources.
For the purposes of this demonstration, call my company Adventure Works, Ltd. Adventure Works, Ltd is a professional services company that invoices customers on a time and materials basis. Consultants record their hourly time in a timesheet application that supports exporting the data in XML format. Adventure Works always uses Excel to create invoices. The client project manager must review the timesheet entries and determine if they are billable or not based on contract requirements. Sometimes invoice line items must be manually edited, removed, or new items added before sending the invoice to the client.
Business Rules
In analyzing potential solutions, the Adventure Works team compiled the following list of business requirements for the invoicing application.
Client addresses and contact information must be imported from existing business applications.
Only active projects must be imported for the client being invoiced. These projects must be imported from the existing business application.
Consultant time entries must be imported from the timesheet system, then reviewed and edited, including adds or deletes by the client project manager.
The project manager must be able to calculate discounts on the invoice.
While we do not have to tax services in our state, there are certain materials that we must calculate tax on. Because this happens so rarely, Adventure Works does not have any third-party components to manage tax calculation. For these exceptions, the tax is calculated using a formula on the spreadsheet.
The project manager requires the following fields when reviewing work performed:
Resource name
The invoice that is sent to the customer must have the following fields on each line item, in the following order:
Resource name
Hourly rate
Line item total
Invoices are printed and mailed to the customer. The customer never receives the soft copy of the invoice.
Currently, to invoice clients, an Adventure Works project manager uses the Web-based timesheet application to view a timesheet for each consultant and then cut and paste each field available in the timesheet into an Excel invoice workbook. Typically the previous month's invoice is used as a template for the hourly rate and customer information, but this often causes a problem when the data in the business application changes. To mitigate errors the project manager must always double-check the business application to verify the address and hourly rate information. The Excel invoice as shown in Figure 1 is printed and mailed to the client.
Figure 1. Excel invoice
Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, I created an Excel solution using managed, .NET-based code: Visual C# and Visual Basic. This solution uses XML data sources available to us from the existing business applications and eliminates the cut and paste steps. The workbook has two sheets; the invoice worksheet is the final product that is printed and delivered to the client and the Data worksheet is the user's work area. The Data worksheet allows the project manager to perform any editing required and choose which entries are applied to the invoice. When the project manager opens the Excel invoice workbook, a Document Actions task pane (actions pane) appears allowing them to choose the client and project as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Client project selection actions pane
The user can choose a client from the drop-down list in the actions paneand data binding populates the customer name, address, and contact information in the invoice worksheet. Changing the selected client updates the list of available projects in the drop-down list below. Clicking Get Hours retrieves all the timesheet entries to bill for that project and takes the user to the Data worksheet as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Data worksheet
The Data worksheet allows the user to edit any of the entries including adding or removing entries. When the user activates the Data worksheet, the task pane updates to disallow the user from changing the selected client. However, it still allows them to get hours for additional projects for that client. Clicking Get Hours loads hours into to the list. Clicking Add To Invoice on the Data worksheet adds the entries to the invoice worksheet and sets that as the active worksheet.
When the invoice worksheet is activated, notice that the actions pane is updated with all the functionality available on the invoice worksheet. The user can click Clear Invoice to clear the contents of all of the customer and line item cells on the invoice sheet.
System Requirements
In order to use the invoicing solution you must have the following software installed:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System
Microsoft Office Excel 2003 or Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
The order in which you install the software is not important. However, installing Excel or Office Professional Edition 2003 is a prerequisite for using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. When you install Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, the installer installs the Office Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) if they are not already installed.
To compile and run the Excel invoice sample file
Perform a complete installation of Office Professional Edition 2003 or Excel
Only a complete installation includes the PIAs.
Install Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office.
Download the package associated with this article, which contains the source code, an Excel workbook, and XML data files.
Extract those files to a directory on your local computer.
Open the Visual C# or Visual Basic project in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office by double-clicking the Invoice.sln file.
Press F5 to compile and run the sample.
Architectural Considerations in Designing the Solution
Using Excel has always been a natural choice for us when creating invoices, however, cut and paste was not a viable solution long-term. Adventure Works has standardized on the .NET Framework and when thinking about how to automate the invoice process, I considered several implementation options that could use our skills with the.NET Framework.
The Managed Code Solution
Writing the solution in managed code offers several advantages. The common language runtime validates code as it compiles. The validation prevents the process from performing illegal operations such as accessing memory that does not belong to it. Rogue buffer overruns and other common security exploits can cause this type of illegal operation. The managed heap is automatically subject to garbage collection. Garbage collection destroys objects when they are no longer needed or accessible, thereby reducing the amount of supporting code we need to write and transparently optimizing memory utilization for our process. Additionally, we have access to the .NET Framework class library, which includes the following technologies:
ADO.NET is the suite of data access technologies included in the .NET Framework class libraries that provide access to relational data and XML. It is the flexible data access layer that provides consistent access to a variety of data sources in a disconnected architecture. Data sources, include SQL databases and data sources exposed through OLE DB data access technology and XML. For the sake of simplicity, the sample included with this article uses local XML files in place of what could be XML returned from Web service calls. By using ADO.NET, you can make replacing the data provider completely transparent to the rest of the application.
ASP.NET is a set of technologies in the Microsoft .NET Framework for building Web applications and Web services. Considering the timesheet application is already a Web-based ASP.NET solution, at first I thought it might make a logical extension to add an invoicing component. The application could read data from the database and produce an invoice in HTML. When I started to think about implementing the Web solution, I was quickly reminded of the myriad of exceptions that can occur when we build an invoice. For example, we occasionally need to bill for materials in addition to time, or apply a discount, balance, or even credits. While this was easy with the Excel workbook, it would probably require a lot more work to implement in a Web application.
Windows Forms
Alternatively, I considered writing a Microsoft Windows Forms solution. Windows Forms is a framework for building Windows client applications that utilize the common language runtime. I conceptualized using a grid control for the invoice area and allowing the users to import the time entries and then enabling them to edit items in the grid. While this would be possible in the ASP.NET solution, the Windows Forms controls may have given me a little more flexibility.
Taking a step back, I realized that what I was about to build was really a fancy spreadsheet, but it did not give us the flexibility we already had with Excel.
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
The choice to use Microsoft Office 2003 Editions, and particularly Excel, was a clear one. Our users are more comfortable using applications they already know and rely on and furthermore, using Microsoft Office programs saves us a lot of code.
Traditionally, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and COM add-ins have been the primary means to extend Microsoft Office programs. While I find that VBA has its place with smaller utilities and common repeatable tasks, we were looking to build a solution with managed .NET code for all the benefits I already mentioned.
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office enables us to build scalable solutions using Microsoft Office 2003 as an application platform. Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, you can build a Microsoft Office Word 2003 or Excel solution written in Visual C# or Visual Basic, using the.NET Framework version 2.0. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2003 was the first time that the Microsoft Office System used the .NET runtime and provided much of the infrastructure we needed to start building reliable Microsoft Office solutions with the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Developing the Excel 2003 Invoice Application
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System provides excellent managed wrappers for some of the Microsoft Office object models, but we must write most of the automation for Microsoft Office programs against COM objects. You can gain access to the COM objects through .NET Interop using the PIAs.
Because Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office supports Visual C# and Visual Basic, the choice of what language you use is up to you. Both languages are first-class programming languages that are based on the .NET Framework and they are equally powerful. Many argue that the difference is merely syntactic sugar and it comes down to personal preference. This is almost correct.
The first significant difference is that Visual Basic supports optional parameters, but Visual C# does not. Visual C# relies on an object-oriented approach of method overloads, which are not supported in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and COM.
Visual Basic supports method overloading, also.
You will find many method signatures in the Office object model that rely on optional parameters. This takes a little trickery in Visual C# that I am going to point out. Compare the following SaveAsDocument method in Word:
Friend Sub SaveAsDocument()
' This overwrites any previously existing
' documents at this location.
End Sub
private void SaveAsDocument()
// This overwrites any previously existing
// documents at this location.
object fileName = "c:\\test\\MyNewDocument.doc";
ThisDocument.SaveAs(ref fileName, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing);
You can see from the previous code example that Visual C# developers must supply values for every optional parameter, and if you do not want to pass a parameter, you must supply a reference to a special object instance of Type.Missing.
The second major difference between Visual C# and Visual Basic is in working with accessor methods. You must preface properties in the Office object models that are accessible as XXXX with Visual Basic with get_ or set_ when using Visual C#, for example:
Dim range As Excel.Range = Application.Range("A1", "B5")
Excel.Range range = Application.Range("A1", "B5");
Creating the Project
The New Project wizard in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office now has a project type of Office underthe language of your choice, which is slightly different from the Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2003.
To create an Excel workbook project
On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
The New Project dialog box appears.
In the Project Types pane, expand the language of your choice and then click Office.
In the Templates pane, select Excel Workbook.
Name the project, and store it in a local directory.
Click Create a new document and name it accordingly.
For this solution, I chose to Use an Existing Document and specified our Excel invoice workbook.
Click OK.
Design Experience
When the project wizard completes, the first new Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office feature you notice is depicted in Figure 4. The new Excel workbook is fully hosted inside Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office as a design surface. Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office merges menus and interfaces with the Excel application.
Figure 4. Excel hosted in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
If you look at the Solution Explorer in Figure 5, you will notice three classes. One code-behind class is created for each worksheet and a single class for the workbook.
Figure 5. Solution Explorer
By default, Excel always creates three worksheets for a new workbook. To delete a worksheet from the workbook you can right-click the tab in the Designer view and click Delete. Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office deletes the class file in the project when you do this. Most of the solutions I worked with have required fewer than three worksheets, and the extra code annoys me, so it is possible to change the Excel default for the next workbook you create.
To change the number of worksheets in a new workbook
On the Tools menu, click Options.
The Options dialog box appears.
If you are doing this while in the Visual Studio environment, on the Tools menu, click Microsoft Office Excel Tools and then click Options. This demonstrates how Visual Studio merged the menus.
On the General tab, change the value of Sheets in new workbook to the number you want.
This setting takes effect for the next workbook you create; it does not delete any existing worksheets you already have.
Code Behind
Clicking the View menu and then choosing Code or pressing F7 displays the code-behind class for the active worksheet. If you started with a new workbook instead of creating the solution from an existing document, your classes will be named Sheet1, Sheet2, and so on. These names do not mean a lot to me and I like to name my worksheets for the function they perform or the data they contain.
There are few steps to renaming a worksheet and it does not really matter which order you perform them.
To rename a worksheet class
In Solution Explorer, right-click the class file name and then click Rename.
Type the new name of the class and press ENTER.
Make sure that you include the file name extension when renaming the file.
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office performs a handful of steps behind the scenes when you do this. It renames the file on your file system, updates the project file, updates the class name declaration, and updates all references to the class name in each of the partial class files, which we will talk about shortly.
Renaming the class updates all the code for that class, but the Excel worksheet name remains the same. Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office keeps track of this discrepancy by displaying the name of the Excel worksheet in parenthesis beside the class file name. This is visible in Solution Explorer as depicted in Figure 6.
Figure 6. Worksheet name differs from class name
To rename the worksheet
Display the worksheet in the designer by pressing SHIFT + F7 or clicking Designer from the View menu.
Right-click the worksheet tab and click Rename as shown in Figure 7.
The worksheet name is highlighted.
Figure 7. Renaming the worksheet
Type the new worksheet name and press ENTER.
If you switch back to the code view you see that there is not much code to start with, but you may notice a new modifier in the class declaration in Visual C# projects:
public partial class Invoice : Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Worksheet
In order to hide much of the auto-generated implementation code, Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office is using partial classes, which are a new feature of the.NET Framework 2.0. Clicking Show All in the Solution Explorer, as shown in Figure 8, shows all the files used in the project.
Figure 8. Show All Files button
If you inspect the Invoice.Designer.cs or Invoice.Designer.vb file, you notice the other part of the partial Invoice class. Partial classes support defining a type across many files. While this may not always be a good design methodology, it can help in team development where several people are working on various autonomous aspects of the class. It can also be extremely helpful for auto-generated code whereby the generator does not need to replace user code because it uses its own designated file.
A physical .cs or .vb file can contain more than one class, and if you examine the Invoice.Designer.cs or Invoice.Designer.vb file, somewhere near the bottom, notice the following code:
Partial Friend NotInheritable Class Globals
Private Shared _Invoice As Invoice
Friend Shared Property Invoice() As Invoice
Return _Invoice
End Get
If (_Invoice Is Nothing) Then
_Invoice = value
Throw New System.NotSupportedException
End If
End Set
End Property
End Class
internal sealed partial class Globals {
private static Invoice _Invoice;
internal static Invoice Invoice {
get {
return _Invoice;
set {
if ((_Invoice == null)) {
_Invoice = value;
else {
throw new System.NotSupportedException();
There is a partial class named Globals in every one of the *.Designer.cs or *.Designer.vb worksheet and workbook classes. When the assembly is compiled, all these partial class files are combined to form a single class. This makes it easy for you to access public or internal properties and methods of other worksheets with code like this:
View Controls
As stated previously, host controls are controls that extend existing Word and Excel objects; however, they include events and data-binding capabilities. The NamedRange host control is an extension of the Excel Range object.
There are several ways to add a NamedRange host control to the document. One way is to drag the control from the Excel Controls section in the Toolbox and drop it on the document. Yet another way is to click the Insert menu, choose Name, and then click Define. Either way, a host control is created that represents that range. You can inspect the properties of the range at design time with the property grid in Visual Studio as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9. NamedRange Properties
Without Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, to capture a change event with a native Excel Range object instead of a host control, you must handle the change event of the worksheet and determine if what changed is the range in which you are interested:
Private EventDel_CellsChange As Excel.DocEvents_ChangeEventHandler
Private Sub CellsChange(ByVal Target As Excel.Range)
' This is called when a cell or cells on a worksheet are changed.
If Target.ID = "MyInterestingRange" Then
' Do something interesting.
ElseIf Target.ID = "SomethingElseInteresting" Then
' Do something else interesting.
End If
End Sub
But in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, the NamedRange host control is a .NET-based control, complete with its own events. For example, to handle the Change event you could use the following code:
Private Sub myRange_Change(ByVal Target As _
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range) _
Handles myRange.Change
' Do something interesting with this range here.
End Sub
// Assign the delegate.
this.myRange.Change += new
void myRange_Change(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Range Target)
// Do something interesting with this range here.
If you choose, you can double-click the range from within the designer to automatically generate this code.
Table 1. Excel Host Controls
Represents a rich Excel.Range object that has its own events and supports simple data binding.
To read and write the value of this object, use the Value2 property.
An Excel.Range object that is created when a non-repeating XmlNode is mapped to a cell in Excel.
The ListObject is a range that extends multiple columns and rows and supports sorting on any column. The ListObject is the only host control that supports complex data binding, which means it can be bound to more than one value.
An Excel.Application Chart object.
Actions Pane
Smart documents are a new feature introduced with Office 2003. They give users context-sensitive help and functionality using the Document Actions task pane. Smart documents are based on the document being marked up with a user-defined XML schema. Prior to Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, the ISmartDocument interface facilitated programmability of the task pane. All the functionality of a smart document is determined by the user's current XmlNode selection.
The actions pane implementation in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office is a Windows Forms control that is a managed implementation of the Document Actions task pane in Word and Excel. While you are not precluded from implementing similar XML selection functionality in the actions pane, it is not required. TheActionsPane control is a member of the ThisWorkbook class in an Excel project and ThisDocument in a Word project. This control acts as a container for other Windows Forms controls, including user controls and Actions Pane controls that you create. In this solution, I created a user control called ClientProjectsUserControl and added it to the actions pane in the ThisWorkbook_Startup event as follows:
' Load the ClientUserControl into the actions pane.
Dim clientPane As ClientProjectsUserControl = _
New ClientProjectsUserControl(Me.InnerObject)
// Load the ClientUserControl into the actions pane.
ClientProjectsUserControl clientPane =
new ClientProjectsUserControl();
Adding a control automatically shows the task pane as in Figure 2, but you can explicitly show or hide it with the following code:
To remove a control from the actions pane, simply call the Remove method:
' Remove the ClientProjectsUserControl from the actions pane.
// Remove the ClientProjectsUserControl from the actions pane.
Data Binding
Simple data binding exists when a single control property is bound to a single data source value. An example of simple data binding is the Text property of the Textbox control when it is bound to a single data value in a data set. If you update the data set, the text in the Textbox control updates and vice versa. Complex data binding occurs when your control is bound to more than one data element. Such is the case in a ListBox control list where the DisplayMember and ValueMember are bound to different columns in the data source.
This solution uses complex data binding with a ListObject on the Data worksheet to display time entries for a particular project as shown in Figure 3. The data source is an ADO.NET DataSet object. The data set is an in-memory cache of data retrieved from a data source including the tables that contain, order, and constrain the data, as well as the relationships between the tables. For this sample, the raw timesheet data source is an XML file located in the application.
While this sample uses local XML files, you could return the same data from a Web service call and still load it into a data set in a similar fashion.
<Task projectId="101">
<Description>Reconfigured mail server.</Description>
<Resource>Craig Playstead</Resource>
The following code creates a data set and populates it from an XML file on the hard drive:
' Load Timesheet XML into the data set.
Dim timesheetDataSet As DataSet = New DataSet()
// Load timesheet XML into the data set.
DataSet timesheetDataSet = new DataSet();
The data set is loaded from the XML file, including all the tables and relationships implicitly derived from the schema of the XML document. This data source contains all timesheet entries for a specified period. As you saw in Figure 2, the user has the ability to choose a specific client and project for which to get data.
When the user clicks Get Hours, I get the current project from the list box and use the Globals object to access the current instance of the Data class to assign the ProjectId property as shown below.
Private Sub getHours_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles getHours.Click
Globals.Data.ProjectId = _
End Sub
private void getHours_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
Globals.Data.ProjectId =
If I bind the ListObject to the data set, it returns all time entries. Instead, what I need to do is filter this list for only data that applies to the active project. This is accomplished by using another ADO.NET object called a DataView. The DataView is a customized view of a DataTable that we can use for filtering. To create the desired view in my ListObject, I create a DataView, then filter the list based on the current project and bind it to the ListObject:
' Create the DataView to be used for filtering by projectId.
projectView = new DataView(timesheetDataSet.Tables("Task"))
' Only show time for the selected project.
projectView.RowFilter = String.Format("projectId='{0}'", _projectId)
' Data Bind to the ListObject. Notice the 2nd parameter is ""
timesheetList.SetDataBinding(projectView, "", "Date", "Hours", _
"Description", "Resource", "projectId")
// Create the DataView to be used for filtering by projectId.
projectView = new DataView(timesheetDataSet.Tables["Task"]);
// Only show time for the selected project.
projectView.RowFilter =
string.Format("projectId='{0}'", projectId);
// Data Bind to the ListObject. Notice the 2nd parameter is ""
timesheetList.SetDataBinding(projectView, "", "Date", "Hours",
"Description", "Resource", "projectId");
By creating a filtered DataView, we can filter only the relevant rows that are displayed in the ListObject. In addition, the SetDataBinding method of ListObject allows us to specify which columns we want displayed. When you call SetDataBinding with a DataView as the data source, make sure that you set the second parameter to an empty string or the data binding throws an exception.
One other caveat with ListObjects is that they cannot extend into merged cells. This is not a limitation of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office, but an Excel constraint. For this reason, we are using a NamedRange on the Invoice worksheet and populating it by iterating through each DataRowView in the DataView in the AddInvoiceItems method which is called when the user clicks Add To Invoice from the Data worksheet.
Because the solution supports appending data to the range, the first thing I need to look for in the AddInvoiceItems method is a blank line in the invoiceItems range:
' Starting row on the Invoice sheet.
Dim row As Integer = 0
Dim lastRow As Integer = Globals.Invoice.invoiceItems.Rows.Count + _
' Determine the first blank row to start appending to.
For row = Globals.Invoice.invoiceItems.Row To lastRow - 1
' Check to see if a value exists in the first cell.
Dim start As Excel.Range = DirectCast(Globals.Invoice.Cells(row, _
Globals.Invoice.invoiceItems.Column), Excel.Range)
' Exit at the first blank row.
If (start.Value2 Is Nothing) Then Exit For
// Starting row on the Invoice sheet.
int row = 0;
int lastRow = Globals.Invoice.invoiceItems.Rows.Count +
// Determine the first blank row to start appending to.
for (row = Globals.Invoice.invoiceItems.Row; row < lastRow; row++)
// Check to see if a value already exists in the first cell.
Excel.Range start = (Excel.Range)Globals.Invoice.Cells[row,
// Exit at the first blank row.
if (start.Value2 == null)
Another point of caution is that I do not want to cause an overflow in the designated invoice items range on the invoice worksheet. The worksheet only holds a certain number of invoice lines. A future expansion capability might be a good idea, but we have not needed to do this so far. The way the code is written, if we needed to expand the number of items, I just expand the worksheet and update the range. To prevent overflow and support future changes in the worksheet, I add a bit of code that ensures the row to insert does not exceed the number of rows in the range.
Dim lineItem As DataRowView
For Each lineItem In projectView
' Ensure we don't overrun the Range.
If (row >= lastRow) Then
MessageBox.Show("The invoice items you are attempting to" & _
" add will overrun the size of the invoice.\nPlease " & _
"clear the current invoice items before running this" & _
" operation again.", "Invoice", MessageBoxButtons.OK, _
addToInvoice.Enabled = False
Exit For
End If
With Globals.Invoice
columnOffset = .invoiceItems.Column
Dim hours As Excel.Range = _
DirectCast(.Cells(row, columnOffset), Excel.Range)
columnOffset += 1
Dim itemDate As Excel.Range = _
DirectCast(.Cells(row, columnOffset), Excel.Range)
columnOffset += 1
Dim resource As Excel.Range = _
DirectCast(.Cells(row, columnOffset), Excel.Range)
Dim rate As Excel.Range = _
DirectCast(.Cells(row, columnOffset + 7), Excel.Range)
hours.Value2 = lineItem("Hours")
itemDate.Value2 = lineItem("Date")
resource.Value2 = lineItem("Resource")
rate.Value2 = lineItem("Rate")
End With
' Increment to the next row.
row += 1
foreach (DataRowView lineItem in projectView)
// Ensure we don't overrun the Range.
if (row >= lastRow)
MessageBox.Show("The invoice items you are attempting to" +
" add will overrun the size of the invoice.\nPlease " +
"clear the current invoice items before running this" +
" operation again.", "Invoice", MessageBoxButtons.OK,
addToInvoice.Enabled = false;
columnOffset = Globals.Invoice.invoiceItems.Column;
Excel.Range hours =
(Excel.Range)Globals.Invoice.Cells[row, columnOffset++];
Excel.Range date =
(Excel.Range)Globals.Invoice.Cells[row, columnOffset++];
Excel.Range resource =
(Excel.Range)Globals.Invoice.Cells[row, columnOffset];
Excel.Range rate =
(Excel.Range)Globals.Invoice.Cells[row, columnOffset+7];
hours.Value2 = lineItem["Hours"];
date.Value2 = lineItem["Date"];
resource.Value2 = lineItem["Resource"];
rate.Value2 = lineItem["Rate"];
// Increment to the next row.
Embedding Windows Forms Controls
The final feature we describe is the ability to embed Windows Forms controls in the Excel worksheet. You generally put controls on the document surface when you want that control present all the time and put controls on the actions pane when they are based on context within the document. To embed a control in the Excel worksheet, you can easily drag and drop it from the Toolbox. Figure 3 shows a button control on the Data worksheet, labeled Add to Invoice, and named addToInvoice.
Adding a Windows Forms control to the worksheet versus a Microsoft ActiveX control gives us the same benefits we discussed earlier with host controls. To respond to the user's button click, we can simply write the following code:
' Add the items to the invoice and show the Invoice sheet.
Private Sub addToInvoice_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles addToInvoice.Click
End Sub
// Assign the delegate.
this.addToInvoice.Click += new
// Add the items to the invoice and show the Invoice sheet.
private void addToInvoice_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
When you add a Windows Forms control to the worksheet, a little magic happens behind the scenes. The embedded data in the document is actually an ActiveX control named WinForms.Control.Host that hosts the managed control. The reasons for this are really outside the scope of this article, but the first is security and the second is COM registration. In order for the Excel application to call a managed .NET-based control, you must register a COM-callable wrapper for each type of control. This requires rather insidious registry entries and is not .NET-oriented, so the WinForms.Control.Host acts as a proxy for Excel.
Deploying the Excel 2003 Invoice Application
The invoice solution presented here can be deployed in several ways. There are three standard deployment options for Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office solutions, depending on your requirements:
The Excel document and the associated assembly are deployed to a user's local computer.
The Excel document is deployed to a user's local computer. The associated assembly is deployed to a network share (UNC) or Web server (HTTP).
The Excel document and the associated assembly are deployed to a network share (UNC) or Web server (HTTP).
For more information, see Deploying Office Solutions.
Code Security
No matter which option you choose for deployment, Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office solutions require full-trust .NET code access security to run. When running from your development computer, Visual Studio 2005 takes care of granting full-trust code access security to your application so you don't need to worry about it. If you deploy the document to an end user computer, or run it from another location, you must ensure that location is trusted on the computer running the solution.
The sample code referred to in this article is intended for instructional purposes, and should not be used in deployed solutions without modifications. In particular, you must consider code security.
To illustrate the simplicity of this sample solution, a list of potential threats are identified using the threat modeling process and tools described in the Threat Modeling section in the Microsoft Security Developer Center.
The following is an example of an identified threat that you should take into consideration before expanding or deploying this solution.
Table 2. Example of Threats
Threat effect
Entry point
Known mitigation
The XML data files have been compromised and contain invalid data.
Mark the XML data files as read only.
For more information on code security, please visit the Microsoft Security Developer Center.
Additional Resources
The following links can provide more information.
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
Microsoft Office Developer Center: Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
Visual Studio Tools for Office newsgroup: microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office
Code Security
About the Author
J. Jason De Lorme is a principal consultant with Simplesheet, Inc., a software architecture and development firm specializing in solutions built with the .NET Framework and Microsoft Office 2003 Editions. As an early adopter, he enjoys the opportunity to work with new products, especially when it involves the .NET Framework. When he's not meeting with clients or writing code, he's probably cycling, hiking or skiing.


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"Do you have a publication on eligibility and dismissal from speech language (S/L) services?" This question is frequently received by the speech initiative here at PaTTAN. Today's blog post is meant to help those in the field to further understand eligibility for S/L. Future posts will address service delivery models and dismissal.
To answer the question simply, we do not have a specific standard criteria publication outlining qualifications for S/L. Qualifications are outlined through IDEA and Chapter 14. Qualification for speech language services falls under IDEA qualifications as a child with a disability. In Pa, please refer to Chapter 14 for eligibility for special education in general. S/L is one of the 13 categories. It should be determined through your speech language pathologist (SLP) and the student's educational team. Eligibility for S/L services falls under the three prong approach for special education.
1. Is the child a child with a disability (in this case specifically a speech language disorder/disability)?
2. Does the disability have adverse effects on educational performance?
3. Does this child require specifically designed instruction in order to have access to FAPE?
Speech language disabilities may include articulation, phonology, receptive language, and expressive language, fluency, and voice disorders. A discrepancy from typical communication skills in one of the above areas of speech/language/communication should be determined and documented. Disability status is determined through a comprehensive speech language evaluation. This evaluation must be comprehensive including qualitative data sources from educators, parents and other service providers, multiple measures (i.e., authentic dynamic assessment measures, norm-referenced assessment, criterion-reference measures, developmental profiles) and assessment in customary environments which may include language sampling. The evaluation should not rely one method of assessment like a standardized test. The evaluation needs to identify the following items: current assessment of student's communication skills with identification of strengths and weakness in communication and determination of disability versus difference. Teams need to keep in mind additional considerations when looking at the results of the assessment. These include the normative sample on standardized tests need to match the profile of the student, students who are English language learners need to qualify as having a disability in their primary language, and psychometrics regarding specific norm referenced tests like test/retest, inter-rater, and consistency. Also, IDEA does not require a significant discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement for a student to be eligible for speech/language services. During the evaluation, the team must consider if the difference is a disability or a difference which is the result of other influences like cultural, second language learning, environmental and/or economic influences. Here are examples of students who may not qualify:
1. A child with an articulation impairment that are consistent with developmental sound errors.
2. A student with dysfluencies in which rate is the only affected area with no impact on education.
3. A child with an articulation impairment secondary dental abnormality or prosthetic.
4. A student with language difficulties that result from a second language unless the impairment is also in the primary language.
5. A student with age appropriate developmental language errors.
6. A student with only low vocabulary scores and no other indicators of speech/language impairment.
Again, all of the students above would need to be assessed with the impact on academics in mind. These students may qualify for other intensive services or interventions but not directly through your SLP or speech therapy.
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ALBANY — Thousands of protesters swarmed in front of the Capitol Thursday, protesting new gun legislation and fighting against what they say are infringements on New Yorkers Second Amendment rights.
ALBANY — Thousands of protesters swarmed in front of the Capitol Thursday, protesting new gun legislation and fighting against what they say are infringements on New Yorkers Second Amendment rights.
About 7,000 people slogged through thick mud and light drizzle at West Capitol Park to call for repeal of the NY SAFE Act that passed quickly in the late hours of Jan. 15.
National Rifle Association President David Keene spoke to the crowd and said the NRA would do "whatever's necessary" to defend gun owners, get rid of those in government that don't support gun rights and help repeal the gun legislation.
"We all have a special interest in our future," said Keene, speaking on the future of gun ownership.
The crowd was awash in American flags, Don't Tread On Me flags and anti-Cuomo signs, some going as far as comparing him to Adolph Hitler. It eclipsed an Albany protest on Feb. 12 that drew about 600 protesters.
Richard Baum, an attorney from Sullivan County, said he supported repeal because the law infringes on basic Constitutional rights.
"It's about rights; it's not about hunting," said Baum. "Private property and self-defense define liberty."
Full repeal of the gun law and anti-Cuomo sentiment were both played up big at the event organized by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association. Chants of the crowd ranged from "Cuomo's got to go," to "no deal, repeal" and "we will not comply."
The new law sets a seven-bullet limit on magazines, tightens the definition of illegal "assault weapons" and requires owners of formerly legal semi-automatic guns to register them.
Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, D-Forestburgh, said she was happy to see so many women at the rally and criticized what she said is an economic hit from the legislation.
"This is a $4.5 million economic impact to the state of New York," said Gunther.
Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, said the legislation supported criminals and gangbangers instead of making people safe. He called the law "a piece of crap."
Many criticized the way the law was passed, with a "message of necessity" issued by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to skirt the three-day waiting period and past 11 p.m.
"We believe Gov. Cuomo jumped on the bandwagon to become president of the United States," said Tom Moriarty, a retired New York City police officer from Orange County. He said the criminal laws already on the books should be enforced to the fullest, rather than infringing on people's Second Amendment rights and guns they have for hunting and security.
"There's a lot of people here. There's more people coming right now," said Moriarty, who arrived with 125 members of the Black Rock Fish & Game Club in Cornwall on two buses.
Orange County has passed a resolution affirming Second Amendment Rights. Ulster County has opposed the process and certain provision of the NY SAFE Act. Sullivan County has tabled a resolution opposing the act.
Eleven-year-old Lene Fornino of the Town of Rochester arrived on one of seven buses along with 300 people from Ulster County. She sang "God Bless America" toward the end of the rally, with the crowd chanting "USA" back to her when she finished.


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If you like True Blood, then you're going to really like it this summer.
That's what we get out of this new teaser for the fourth season, an "invitation to the set" feature courtesy of creator Alan Ball and several members of the cast.
One key topic of discussion? The impact of witches on Bon Temps.
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August 28, 2007
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How To Slash Divorce Rates
by Mike McManus
Pollster George Barna released a new poll noting that during this presidential campaign that the biggest issue is being missed by every candidate. Some 82 percent responded that it is "absolutely necessary" to improve "the well-being of America's children."
What single factor most undermines the lives of children? The choice by millions of their parents to not marry or to divorce. Since 1970, 35 million children have been born out-of-wedlock and 40 million more witnessed their parents' divorce.
Many children are scarred for life. They are three times as likely as those from intact homes to be expelled from school or to have a baby out-of-wedlock as those from intact families, five times as apt to live in poverty or to commit suicide and 12 times as likely to be incarcerated.
I was asked to make a speech at "Family Preservation Day" at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday as President of Marriage Savers. I charged, "All Presidential candidates say they are committed to "Family Values." What does that mean? For example, would they support steps that could slash the American divorce rate in half? If elected President, here are three reforms they might support to do so, giving our children a better future:"
1. Replace No Fault Divorce with Mutual Consent Divorce
All states actually encourage divorce because the law allows one person to file for divorce, when 80 percent of their spouses want to save the marriage. It is called "No Fault Divorce" because no major fault must be alleged, such as adultery or abuse. "What was entered into by two people are now being ended by one spouse unilaterally. No Fault should be called Unilateral Divorce. This is tragic if children are involved," I stated.
"This is a profound moral issue, Yet church leaders were either silent or ineffectual in fighting No Fault when it swept the nation in the 1970s. And they have made no effort in the 30 years since to change the law. The result is that there has been one divorce for every two marriages every year since 1970. Jesus said, `What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.' Since 1970, America has put asunder 42 million marriages," I asserted.
"Presidential candidates ought to be asked if they support replacing state No Fault laws with a federal Mutual Consent law, if children are involved and no major faults are alleged. They could say, `Government has an interest in the future of children, and they would be best served if their mother and father worked out their differences.'"
2. Require Shared Parenting
If parents agree to a divorce they should have equal access to the children – Joint Custody or Shared Parenting. Sole custody virtually removes one parent from the lives of their children. However, of the six states which passed the strongest Joint Custody laws, five also enjoyed the largest drops in the divorce rate: Montana, Kansas, Connecticut, Idaho and Alaska. Why? "If a parent knows they will have to interact with the child's other parent while the child is growing up, there is less incentive to divorce," says David Levy of the Children's Rights Council.
Therefore, I asserted, "A federal law that required Mutual Consent and Shared Parenting could cut divorce rates in half. That could save $40 billion to $50 billion of the $150 billion cost of broken families. This is based on the fact 53% of all single parents with children had a divorce or separation – a failed marriage. That costs taxpayers $79.5 billion. If the divorce rate fell 50%, there would be a savings to taxpayers of $40 billion."
3. Set Aside 2% to 5% of State Welfare Surpluses To Strengthen Marriage.
When Welfare Reform was passed in 1996, the $16 billion federal payment was frozen even if welfare rolls fell. They did plunge 61%, giving states a annual welfare surplus of $9.8 billion. That law mandates states to reduce "out-of-wedlock births," and to "increase two-parent families." Both trends have gotten worse. However, Ohio set aside 1% of welfare, $12 million in 2006, to strengthen marriage.
Why not ask Presidential candidates, "Do you support a law requiring all states to set aside 2-5% to promote marriage?"
"We at Marriage Savers have worked with the clergy of 220 cities to launch a Community Marriage Policy to better prepare couples for marriage, enrich existing ones or save troubled marriages. An independent study by the Institute for Research and Evaluation of our first 114 cities reported a 17.5% drop in divorce in seven years. In fact divorce plunged 50% in Kansas City, Austin, Salem, OR, Modesto, CA, El Paso –quite different places. Cohabitation also fell by a third in CMP cities vs. similar cities over a decade."
However, only 40 of the 220 cities have full-time staff. If $200-$500 million were available to strengthen marriage, all 3,000 counties could get a $100,000 start up grant to create a Healthy Marriage Initiative that could include a Community Marriage Policy.
Why not ask Presidential candidates if they support slashing the divorce rate, reducing the federal deficit by $40 billion?
Mike J. McManus is a syndicated columnist and president and co-chairman of Ethics and Religion.
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Five years ago, I did something I thought I'd never do: I said "yes" to marriage again.
It goes without saying that things didn't pan out so well the first time I said "yes" to marriage. Then, part of the problem was that I didn't really think through what exactly I was saying "yes" to. Marriage was just something I expected in my Midwestern, middle-class life. I expected it the same way I expected to go to college, and to always have a roof over my head. I willingly took marriage at 22, like a magic pill that was certainly good for me and would produce the life I had always imagined for myself.
When that marriage (along with its so-called "ideal" life) crumbled around me, my belief in the institution of marriage crumbled with it. Sometimes, when you're standing in the rubble of your life, the first step toward figuring out what's next is figuring out what isn't next. I decided I could definitely rule out marriage, and not just in my near future. The form, I reasoned, had failed me. Being free meant walking away from it, toward something completely different. After all, the definition of insanity is trying the same thing again and again but expecting a different outcome, right?
That no-marriage stance suited me just fine as I recovered from the trauma of divorce and focused on my two young children. It was like a protective armor I wore through my days, providing the sense of security I craved. Even when I eventually began dating (the wrong people, I might add), my decision never to marry again was comforting -- something in my life I could control.
Meeting Jason a few years later didn't instantly change my perspective, but it did broaden it. I began to loosen the cinches on my battened-down hope, and to bravely stick my neck out and look around, taking a longer view. I began to wonder about life again -- to ask "What if?" about possibilities I had never dared to consider before.
I had never imagined, for instance, that someone like Jason existed, let alone lived right in my city. I had also never imagined that I could be more myself with someone, rather than less myself. And I had certainly never imagined that love could feel positively exhilarating, without feeling the least bit scary. What if these surprises were signs that something as old as marriage itself could surprise me as well?
It's tricky, five years after our wedding day, to trace the exact logic that led me to saying "yes." After all, I was in love, so the calm voice of logic could hardly be heard over the din of happiness. But I know these guiding thoughts were at play -- even if they weren't fully articulated at the time -- and I know they continue to inform how I live out my marriage, and my life, today.
- I want to actively shape and define the institutions in my life, rather than passively allow them to shape and define me. Walking away from the idea of marriage would have meant allowing it to have the final word on that part of my story.
- I want to act, decide, and live my life based on hope and courage, not defeat and fear. While ending my first marriage was a brave act, avoiding marriage as a whole, at all costs, would be nothing more than a protective response to fear.
- I want to broaden, not narrow, my children's understanding about commitment and love. In other words, by marrying again, I've given them a full, honest picture: Yes, sometimes marriage looks like that -- broken and painful -- but sometimes it also looks like this -- full of forgiveness, support, trust, and wholeness.
- I want to live a life that is focused on constructing, not deconstructing. I want, in every way possible, to see what I can create from the scrap heap before me, recycling and upcycling the valuable parts and pieces of my life, rather than adding them to the landfill and starting from scratch. Because there is value in what I have already experienced -- there's potential to use it to create something new. Recreating my understanding of marriage is a constructive, creative act.
This is not to say that a second marriage is the best option for every divorced person, or that they will find the right person to partner with as they work to redefine marriage. My basic hope is that others can have the courage to shed some of that protective armor, and to avoid backing themselves into those "safe" corners we gravitate towards post-divorce. Because ultimately, our efforts to protect ourselves often end up holding us back. The corners confine us with our pasts, and the armor weighs us down, keeping us from openly exploring what might lie ahead, waiting for your "yes."


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Commissioner Ruperto S. Sangalang of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines visited SEARCA on 5 September 2014 to explore how SEARCA can assist in capacity development of state universities and colleges (SUCs) and other higher education institutions (HEIs) in the country so they can be competitive with others in Southeast Asia in light of the regional integration in 2015. Dr. Sangalang is the CHED Commissioner in charge of agriculture.
In a meeting with Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit, Jr., SEARCA Director, and Dr. Maria Cristeta N. Cuaresma, Program Head for Graduate Education and Institutional Development, Dr. Sangalang said he was concerned that in the rankings of top universities in agriculture in Southeast Asia, only the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) appeared in the list. Whereas he could identify the top 10 SUCs in agriculture, he said these universities can further be supported and capacitated to be strong in research and publications.
Dr. Sangalang opened the discussion on the possibility of tapping SEARCA to implement a CHED program consisting of scholarships for regular master's and doctoral degree programs as well as by research, and non-degree scholarships/training such as sandwich programs, internships, and study tours in universities overseas. The program could run for five years, with only three universities to be assisted in the first year, and two universities to be added in the second year, and so on.
Part of the output of the program that Dr. Sangalang envisions is to build in each participating university a research center that will focus along their comparative advantage, i.e., specializing on the major commodity in their locality.
Dr. Saguiguit informed the CHED Commissioner that SEARCA has collaborated on a similar program with the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) to develop agriculture professionals and executives. He said the proposed program may be patterned after the DA capacity building program with 25% degree scholarships and 75% non-degree training activities.
CHED is an agency created in 1994 that is attached to the Office of the President. It is mandated to "promote relevant and quality higher education—i.e., higher education institutions and programs are at par with international standards and graduates and professionals are highly competent and recognized in the international arena."
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