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9520 W. Forest Home Avenue
Hales Corners, Wisconsin 53130
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Parish Staff
School Office: 414-425-3100
Individual phone extensions can be found below.
Pastoral Staff
|Fr. Brian Mason
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|John Burns
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|Bill Goulding
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|Dan Hansen
|Director of Administrative Services
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|Daniel O'Connor
|Director of Liturgy & Worship Director of Pastoral Care
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|Anne Van Deusen
|Director of Liturgical Music
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|Jeff Kacala
|Director of Catholic Formation
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|Pam Lownik
|Director of Social Concerns & Outreach
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Administrative Staff
|Marvin Kiefer
|Parish Accountant
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|Vivian Roe
|Parish Accountant
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|Lisa Fox
|Parish Administrative Assistant
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|Anne Wycklendt
|Bulletin Editor/Administrative Secretary
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|Dolores Sikora
|Admin. Asst. for Lifelong Faith Formation
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|Peggy Holmes
|Financial Administrative Assistant
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|Jacque Kelnhofer
|Admin. Assist. to Liturgy/Web Manager/Safe Environment Coordinator
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|HollyAnn Kulmann
|Liturgy Secretary
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|Tom Chojnacki
|Maintenance Director
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|Jim Kotras
|Building Grounds and Maintenance, Supervisor
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|Jake Kotras
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|Paul Fisher
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|Sybil Grandeck
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School OfficeView full list of school staff
|Mrs. Maria Schram
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|Mrs. Angelia Vogt
|Director of Curriculum and Learning Support
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|Mrs. Kim Jones
|Parish School Administrative Assistant
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|Mickie Mroczenski
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Fr. Brian Mason
Fr. Brian grew up in Menomonee Falls. He graduated from Pius XI High School in Milwaukee and from Marquette University with a double major in history and philosophy. He attended St. Francis Seminary and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on May 22, 1993. Since ordination, Fr. Brian has served at a number of parishes in Milwaukee, Waukesha and Racine. He served the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from 2005-2008 as the Associate Vicar for Clergy overseeing the work of the Priest Personnel Office and the Priest Placement Board.
He has also served on the Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission, the Archdiocesan Planning Commission, the Archdiocesan Building Commission and the Archdiocesan Council of Priests.
As a parish priest, Fr. Brian enjoys presiding at Eucharist and other sacramental celebrations, preaching and teaching. Two strong interests are Church history and the Christian spiritual tradition. Fr. Brian is also passionate about applying the 12 Steps of Recovery to his own life and to helping others to do the same. When not doing ministerial work, Fr. Brian enjoys cooking, gardening, getting together with family and friends and playing with his Black Labrador, Molly.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x242 E-Mail: email@example.com
John Burns
John was ordained in 1988. He served at St. Veronica prior to coming to St. Mary fifteen years ago. His ministry includes baptism instruction and baptisms, preaching, visiting hospitals and nursing homes, and funeral services.
He graduated from St. John Cathedral High School and entered a Steamfitter apprenticeship. He worked and taught in the trade until retirement twenty years ago.
He and his wife, Joanne, have been married 64 years and have four children, six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
Phone: 414-425-2174 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Bill Goulding
Bill and his wife, Jeanne, have been members of St. Mary Catholic Faith Community since moving to Wisconsin in 1995. Bill has an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology and his vocation is primarily focused on training and supporting therapists in Skilled Nursing Facilities. He attended St. Francis Seminary and was ordained as a Permanent Deacon in 2002. Besides doing preaching, baptisms, and weddings, Bill's ministries have included the RCIA program, Returning Catholics, Prison Ministry, and starting our "Gay and Straight in Christ" (GASIC) group.
Phone: 414-425-2174 E-Mail: email@example.com
Dan Hansen
Director of Administrative Services
Phone: 414-425-2174 x216 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Daniel O'Connor
Director of Liturgy & Worship Director of Pastoral Care
Daniel is the director of Liturgy and Music. He has held this position September of 1982. Daniel continues to enjoy the liturgical preparation that goes with the every day challenges of a parish which has grown from 3,500 members to over 10,000 members during his time at the parish. Daniel received his Bachelor of Music Education from Clarke-Loras Colleges in Dubuque, IA. In 1999 he completed course work in choral conducting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned his Master of Arts degree in Pastor Liturgy and Music, with an emphasis in Liturgy, from St. Josephs College Rensselaer, Indiana. Daniel is proud to be a national board member of the National Pastoral Musician's Director of Music Ministries Division. He has previously served as a member of the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission for Archbishop Dolan, as well as the liturgist and primary musician for the prestigious Dehon (Neumann) Institute held at Sacred Heart School of Theology.
Daniel's primary responsibilities for the parish deal with the prayer life of the community. His works to insure that the liturgical life of the parish is true to the expectations of the Second Vatican Council; providing full, active and conscious participation of the assembly while upholding the mission statement of the parish. While at St. Mary, he has grown very passionate about the pastoral care of the families and individuals dealing with death and preparing for funerals.
He has two children and three grandchildren. Music and liturgy continue to be his passion. In his spare time, he also enjoys owning and touring vintage homes and gardening.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x240 E-Mail: email@example.com
Jeff Kacala
Director of Catholic Formation
Jeff and his wife Laura are returning to the Milwaukee area after spending the last 15 years in Northeast Wisconsin's Fox Valley. After graduation from Pulaski high school in Milwaukee, Jeff spent 30 years in the bowling industry as pinsetter mechanic/lane installer. Soon after moving to the Fox Valley, he served as a parish catechist and began to discern a ministerial vocation. Jeff was commissioned through the Diocese of Green Bays Lay Ministry Formation Program in 2003, recently received his Bachelor of Arts in Theology from Silver Lake College of the Holy Family in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and is in his fourth year of Diaconate Formation. He also serves as an Adjunct Program Director for Just5days service trips during the summer.
St. Katharine Drexel in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, was the site of Jeffs most recent ministry where he served first as Youth Minister, and then Director of Catholic Formation. He is looking forward to working with the vibrant community at St. Mary and discovering the great spiritual energy that resides in the young church.
Jeff and Laura have been married for 34 years and have four adult children who reside in the Milwaukee area, as well. They enjoy spending time with family and friends, volunteering and exploring woodworking together.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x235 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Pam Lownik
Director of Social Concerns & Outreach
Pam began her involvement in Human Concerns ministry when she joined the Jubilee 2000 committee. Through that initiative she became active in building the relationship between St Mary and our sister parish in Latiboliere, Haiti. After eight years of active involvement in many parish outreach ministries, in July of 2008, Pam joined the staff as our part-time Social Concerns Coordinator.
Pam received her BBA in marketing and worked in medical sales and marketing for 18 years before retiring to become an almost full-time volunteer here at the parish. Dave (husband) and Pam have been parishioners for 32 years and have been active in many aspects of parish life. They have two adult children who grew up in this community and attended our parish school. Pam is passionate about parish social ministry. Her greatest reward is when a connection is made, with mutual respect and joy, between those who need help and those who can provide it.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x256 E-Mail: email@example.com
Marvin Kiefer
Parish Accountant
Marv and his wife, Margaret, have been parishioners since the early 70's, and have been actively participating in the parish activities since then. They have three grown sons, all of which graduated from St. Mary Parish School. Both Marv and Margaret graduated from Marquette University.
Marv spent years in public accounting and in positions with a number of legal and nonprofit firms. After working part-time in various capacities, the position of part-time accountant with the Parish was presented to him and he gladly accepted.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x221 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lisa Fox
Parish Administrative Assistant
Lisa is thrilled to be here to serve/assist the St. Mary community. She comes to St. Mary with a lifelong presence in the Milwaukee area, having grown up in West Allis where she attended St. Aloysius Parish and grade school, followed by membership at St. Matthias Parish. Her degree in Architectural Engineering from MSOE led her into the design and project management fields, working primarily in the energy industry, focusing on energy efficiency.
Although an engineer and admitting to having a geeky side, she loves interacting with people and sharing stories/experiences. She treasures time spent with family, walks with her dog, Tater, gardening, and reading. She looks forward to getting to know all of the wonderful parishioners of St. Mary and hopes she can make your day bright!
Phone: 414-425-2174 x220 E-Mail: email@example.com
Dolores Sikora
Admin. Asst. for Lifelong Faith Formation
Dolores Sikora is a part-time secretary in the Christian Formation office.
Dolores attended Alverno College for business Management and Computer Science. She retired from Rockwell Automation after 38 years. She provides secretarial and clerical support for the Christian Formation programs.
She and her husband, Jim, have been parish members for 17 years. They have two adult children and four grandchildren. They have been married 45+ years and enjoy traveling, relaxing at their lake home near Rhinelander, and spending time with family and friends.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x247 E-Mail: email@example.com
Peggy Holmes
Financial Administrative Assistant
Peggy and her husband, Russ, have been parishioners since 1987. They have three adult children. She enjoys the parish spirit and working with the entire St. Mary community!
Her primary roles are support of the parish finance department and back up to the Faith Formation Office. Some of her duties include recording of stewardship pledges and contributions, setting up and maintaining electronic payments, creation and distribution of monthly mailing of statements, and support of finances for school tuition.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x223 E-Mail: email@example.com
Jacque Kelnhofer
Admin. Assist. to Liturgy/Web Manager/Safe Environment Coordinator
Jacque is a former student of St. Mary and celebrated the sacraments of Eucharist, Reconciliation, and Marriage to her husband, Dave, as well as the sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist, and Reconciliation of her children, Grace and Connor, with this community. Growing up, she was active in the youth programs, and enjoyed playing flute and cantoring at weekend liturgies.
Jacque began working with engaged couples as the Liturgy Coordinator in 2001. She joined the staff as part-time Administrative Assistant to Liturgy in 2008. This grew into a full-time position, handling the clerical needs related to liturgy calendaring, ministry coordination, and preparation for liturgies, as well as cantor scheduling, and preparation of practice materials and books for liturgy.
In 2010, additional hours were added as she assumed the responsibilities related to being the Coordinator of the Engaged Enrichment Program. In 2012, she relinquished some of the duties related to the Liturgy Department as she assumed the role of Web Manager and picked up hours to balance support of the Liturgy Department and the growing use of the Parish website and social media. In 2015, she was asked to fullfill the role of Safe Environment Coordinator for the St. Mary campus.
Jacque currently serves as Administrative Assistant to Liturgy, Safe Environment Coordinator, Web Manager, Engaged Enrichment Ministry Coordinator, and Wedding Liturgy Coordinator.
Phone: 414-425-2174 x246 E-Mail: email@example.com
Tom Chojnacki
Maintenance Director
Phone: 414-425-2174 x243 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Jim Kotras
Building Grounds and Maintenance, Supervisor
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Jake Kotras
Building Grounds and Maintenance
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Sybil Grandeck
Sybil serves as the St. Mary Archivist--a continuation of her duties while employed in the Parish Office some years ago. She researches inquiries from people interested in their families connection with St. Mary, usually commencing with a question if an ancestor is among the 1100+ burials in our historic cemetery; this leads to tracing families for generations and often finding formerly unknown connections. Among the major projects she initiated and maintains is the indexing of all available sacramentary records from 1844 to the present day and completing the index of our cemetery for the Archdiocese. She also serves as a Eucharistic Minister, weekday lector, an Information Center coordinator and staffer, parish office volunteer, festival worker, fish fry hostess, and prayer shawl minister among others. She especially enjoys spending time with her husband of 41+ wonderful years Michael Jedrzejewski, their cats, friends, raising Monarch butterflies, and gardening. She highly encourages you to see our Archive Case near the Communication Center for a very interesting chronicle of our wonderful Church.
Phone: 414-425-2174 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mrs. Maria Schram
Welcome! I am delighted to continue my role as principal of St. Mary Parish School. I enjoy working with the faculty, staff, students, and families of this Exemplary parish school community. Together, we will maintain our status as one of the finest Catholic schools in the archdiocese by continuing to provide academic excellence enhanced with faith, compassion, and encouragement.
I earned my undergraduate teaching degree in Broad Field Social Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. After graduation, I was proud to instruct social studies at various archdiocesan schools. During this time, I began my pursuit of a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Cardinal Stritch University. Over the past 19 years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to lead three Catholic elementary schools and one Catholic high school. I am thrilled to utilize those positive experiences, along with my knowledge and compassion for education, to St. Mary Parish School.
The importance of family can never be underestimated. My greatest gift is the time I spend with my husband David and children, Nicholas and Phillip. Although our children are grown, we still make time to travel and get together in Door County.
Phone: 414-425-3100 x227 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mrs. Angelia Vogt
Director of Curriculum and Learning Support
It is my pleasure to continue my role as the Director of Curriculum and Learning Support. I am thrilled to work with the principal and staff to ensure we have a rigorous curriculum that serves all of our students needs.
Learning has always been a large part of my life. I first obtained my B.S. in Elementary Education from Alverno College. After graduation I taught in Milwaukee at a new charter school for a year. I soon relocated to the south side, where I became a 5th (1 year) and 3rd grade classroom teacher for eight years at General Mitchell Elementary School in Cudahy. It was then in 2012 that I began at St. Mary teaching 4th grade. In 2014 I received my M.A. in Administration and Curriculum. I look forward to continuing to learn and grow in the years ahead.
One of the best components of St. Mary is the community and our families. I am proud to say that St. Mary is the school in which my own two children, Ellieana and Mckenna, attend. I love that my husband, Chris, is able to volunteer and be a part of the school too. When not at work or school, we love hanging out together as a family around home or at the lake.
I look forward to working with all the families at St. Mary.
Phone: 414-425-3100 x118 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mrs. Kim Jones
Parish School Administrative Assistant
I am excited to be part of the St. Mary Parish School Staff as the school's Administrative Secretary. I have been an avid volunteer for over 14 years and have been a parishioner for over 20 years. Both my daughters have attended St. Mary Parish School.
I have volunteered on many committees as a board member: Endowment, Home and School, Principal Advisory, Parish School Board. I have volunteered as a Girl Scout Leader, aid in the classroom, room mom, playground and lunch room duty, as well as office helper. I enjoyed every minute,
being able to be with the girls and work with some amazing families and staff.
My husband, Jeff, and I have two children: Jenna (20) and Julia (16). I enjoy attending the girls sporting events and activities they are involved in. I also enjoy baking, gardening and walking.
Phone: 414-425-3100 x225 E-Mail: email@example.com
Mickie Mroczenski
Administrative Assistant
I am thrilled to continue my role as Administrative Assistant at St. Mary Parish School. I have been a parishioner for over 25 years and all 3 of my children have attended St. Mary School. I take pride in being part of a hard working, dedicated staff and having the pleasure to meet so many wonderful families and their children over the last 13+ years.
I am a graduate of the University Of Wisconsin LaCrosse with a BS degree in Recreation and a minor in Psychology.
Family and friends are extremely important to me, and I especially value the time spent with my husband Mo and 3 daughters, Katie, Courtney, and Makenzie. In addition, I enjoy traveling, reading, exercising, and shopping.
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"Terri is a truly self-made woman. With 12 albums in release on her own label since 1996, she makes me jealous. Playing mostly in the Texas-Louisiana cradle, she eventually moved on out and has traversed the US many times now. I love this track ["Slow Down"] – great song with a fine backing track featuring plenty of mandolin (one of my fave instruments)." — Al Kooper (Guitarist, Writer, Producer), #6 Track of the Year "Slow Down," Boston Herald
Part of the beauty of Terri Hendrix's music is she's among the best at recognizing, writing about and celebrating resilience and common ground, the things we can all cry, and laugh, about." — Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express-News
" ... She is the consummate triple threat, excelling as a songwriter, performer and recording artist. With more than a dozen albums in her catalog, she seems equally comfortable with blues, folk, story songs, ballads, folk-rock, country and a surprisingly fresh take on New Orleans-style jazz and jazz swing." — Jim Lipson, Feature: Owning Her Own Universe, Tucson Weekly
"With a stylistic sweep that encompasses country, blues, jazz and practically everything in between, Texan Terri Hendrix has created a flourishing cottage industry with a consistent string of albums hailed by fans and critics alike." — Lee Zimmerman, M: Music & Musicians
USA Today spotlighted the song "Einstein's Brain" as a "Playlist" top 10 pick of the week, calling it "a bittersweet reflection on life's limits, rendered with Hendrix's usual rootsy grace."
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TR10: Engineered Stem Cells
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The cell factory: James Thomson (above) and Junying Yu
first transformed adult cells into stem cells called iPS cells
in 2007. Credit: Kevin Miyazaki
James Thompson
(Cellular Dynamics) Engineered stem cells could revolutionize drug discovery
Fate Therapeutics, San Diego, CA
iPierian, South San Francisco, CA
George Daley, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Mimicking human disease in a dish
This article is part of an annual list of what we (MIT TR) believe are the 10 most important emerging technologies.
MIT Technology Review, May/June 2010, by Emily Singer – The small plastic vial in James Thomson's hand contains more than 1.5 billion carefully coddled heart cells grown at Cellular Dynamics, a startup based in Madison, WI. They are derived from a new type of stem cell that Thomson, a cofounder of the company, hopes will improve our models of human diseases and transform the way drugs are developed and tested.
Thomson, director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute at the University of Wisconsin, first isolated human embryonic stem cells in 1998. Isolating these cells, which are capable of maturing into any other type of cell, marked a landmark in biology–but a controversial one, since the process destroys a human embryo. A decade later, Thomson and Junying Yu, then a Wisconsin postdoc, reached another milestone: they developed a way to make stem cells from adult cells by adding just four genes that are normally active only in embryos. (Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka simultaneously published a similar approach.) Dubbed induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), they have the two defining characteristics of embryonic stem cells: they can reproduce themselves many times over, and they can develop into any cell type in the human body. Because no human embryos are used to create them, iPS cells solve two problems that had long plagued researchers: political protest and shortages of material.
Much of the excitement over iPS cells, and stem cells in general, arises from the possibility that they could replace damaged or diseased tissue. But Thomson thinks their most important contribution will be to provide an unprecedented window on human development and disease. Scientists can create stem cells from the adult cells of people with different disorders, such as diabetes, and induce them to differentiate into the types of cells damaged by the disease. This could allow researchers to watch the disease as it unfolds and trace the molecular processes that have gone awry.
In the nearer term, iPS cells may revolutionize toxicity testing for drugs. The cells are "the first unlimited source of any type of human tissue," says Thomson, who founded Cellular Dynamics to put stem cells to practical use. The company sells heart muscle cells derived from its iPS cells to pharmaceutical giants such as Roche, which are using them to screen experimental drugs for harmful side effects. Thomson hopes those cells will help uncover problems early in the drug development process, saving billions of dollars on research and testing. For instance, since the iPS-derived heart cells will beat in a dish, scientists should be able to detect which drugs alter the heart's rhythm. Scientists can also use the cells to study how the heart functions at a molecular level. And the company is developing other cell types, including brain and liver cells. The latter are of particular interest to pharmaceutical researchers, since drug toxicity often shows up in the liver. "Having a model that would predict toxicity before going into humans is incredibly valuable," says Chris Parker, vice president and chief commercial officer of Cellular Dynamics.
By generating iPS cells from people with diverse ethnic backgrounds and genetic conditions, and from those who have reacted poorly to certain drugs, scientists can also gain a better picture of how compounds will affect different people. Thomson and others have already created iPS cells from people with ALS, Down syndrome, and spinal muscular atrophy, among other disorders. While it's not yet clear how well those cells reflect the specific diseases, early research is promising. If it succeeds, researchers hope to use iPS cells to study other disorders and develop drugs to treat them. "That's the thing that would fundamentally change the way drug development happens," says Kyle Kolaja, director of early safety and investigative toxicology at Roche, which has partnered with Cellular Dynamics.
The last decade brought many difficult years for Thomson. His work on embryonic stem cells was a breakthrough, but it also brought intense controversy and media attention, turning him somewhat reclusive. With the rise of iPS cells and Cellular Dynamics, Thomson is beginning to come back to the limelight. "I think the legacy of embryonic stem cells will be that they gave rise to iPS cells," he says. "These cells will be used in creative ways we can't even imagine."
Selecting Embryos
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MIT Technology Review Editors, May/June 2010 – Doctors who perform in vitro fertilization typically rely on a visual assessment of the embryos when deciding which ones to transfer into the uterus, but two-thirds of such embryos fail to implant. A new test analyzes the proteins and small-molecule metabolites in the fluid surrounding each embryo and compares the resulting metabolic profile with that of a healthy embryo. The test improves implantation rates up to 30 percent. That means doctors can transfer fewer embryos, reducing the chances of an undesired multiple pregnancy.
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Combing Medical Records for Research
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The vast data housed in electronic records and genomics databases could reveal new insights
MIT Technology Review, April 22, 2010, by Emily Singer – When the stimulus bill passed last year–allocating $20 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)–many scientists were excited about the possibilities for medical research. EMRs provide vast amounts of medical information that can be combed automatically and used to ask questions that are too expensive or perhaps unethical to study in traditional clinical trials, such as whether newer, more expensive treatments are more effective than older ones.
"There is a lot of federal funding right now supporting the development of the infrastructure to do that kind of work, as well as to look at comparative effectiveness research using databases," says Richard Tannen, a physician at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. "But it's a complex and difficult problem, in some ways more difficult than people appreciate."
While the idea of using electronic medical records for research has been around for more than a decade, it's only recently started to take off. Scientists and physicians are now scouring the growing number of electronic medical records and genomic databases to figure out how to use this vast medical resource to answer a number of questions in medicine, such as why patients can respond so variably to treatment, and how genetics or other factors might contribute to this.
It has been necessary to invent new analysis methods to glean useful data from often disparate databases, and to make sure that the results produced aren't biased. Studies based on data from EMRs are subject to the same concerns as observational studies, in which scientists look for links between an individual's natural behavior and their health. It was observational study that suggested that hormone replacement in postmenopausal women reduced risk of heart attack, while subsequent clinical trials found that the treatment increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
Dan Roden, a clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN, is beginning to address some of those challenges in a pilot project linking EMRs to genomics databases. While he ultimately wants to use EMRs to better understand why different patients can react so differently to the same drug, the project is starting with the most basic questions. "We wanted to ask what genetic information would you want to access to take care of someone, what are the informatics challenges, and what are the ethical challenges in storing people's information?" says Roden.
His team began by building a DNA database in 2007, extracting DNA from clinical samples collected for other research projects. (Thanks to the way the Vanderbilt medical system is organized, researchers can use such samples for multiple purposes and link that information to the patient's medical record, while the patient's identity remains hidden.) The team analyzed DNA from 10,000 people, searching for 21 specific single-letter variations that had been previously linked to different diseases. Using a technique called natural language processing–a sophisticated way of analyzing information–researchers developed a method to reliably identify patients with specific diseases solely from their medical records. The task is more challenging than one might expect; for example, someone may see a rheumatologist for evaluation without actually having rheumatoid arthritis.
By searching for genetic variations that are more common in people with specific diseases, the team confirmed a number of previously identified gene-disease links. The findings, published last week in the American Journal of Human Genetics, show that this type of research can yield useful results.
The team has now expanded the database to 81,000 samples and plans to use it to ask more complex questions. Roden will to try to find genetic predictors of drug response–specific variations that predict whether a patient is unlikely to respond to a specific drug, or more likely to suffer a dangerous or debilitating side effect. "The outcome will be a set of genetic variants that we think will be important to incorporate into medical record," says Roden. "We want to be able to say, 'Here's a person who won't respond to beta blocker, so they should get a diuretic.' "
According to Penn's Tannen, it will likely take years to build up the databases needed to conduct broader clinical research. He estimates that a database of about 50 million people is necessary to ask the types of questions he is most interested in, such as whether patients older than 75 react the same way to a particular therapy as do those who are in their 40s. "That's the potential great power of database studies," he says.
For the Grace of Genes
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Science may consider fundamentalism a threat, but our study shows that most scientists are spiritual—suggesting both sides may have more in common than they think
The-Scientist.com, April 2010, by Elaine Howard Ecklund and Conrad Hackett – When President Barack Obama appointed Francis Collins, a geneticist and evangelical Christian, to head the National Institutes of Health in 2009, a cry went up. The problem? Collins is a theist. A religious believer, the critics said, was not the right choice for the public face of science.1
While the majority of scientists are not evangelicals, there are several well-known scientists—like Ken Miller, John Polkinghorne, and Freeman Dyson—who are engaged in public efforts to persuade believers that they do not have to choose between their faith and science.
What do the country's leading scientists really think about religion? Scientists have investigated the question, but have asked only a small number of narrow survey questions about religion.
To get a more definitive answer, we reviewed responses from 744 tenured and tenure-track scientists (chemists, biologists, and physicists) working and teaching at the top 21 US research universities, according to the University of Florida's "Top American Research Universities" report. The data were collected between 2005 and 2007 as part of the Religion Among Academic Scientists study (RAAS), which uses extensive state-of-the-art measures of religious identity, practice, spirituality, and belief, and can compare the answers to those given by the general public.
Not surprisingly, scientists differed from the general public in several key ways. Compared with 34% of all Americans, only two of the natural scientists we surveyed agreed that "the Bible is the actual word of God and it should be interpreted literally." When it comes to belief in God, 63% of the general public agrees with the statement, "I know that God exists." Yet only 5% of physicists, 7% of biologists, and 10% of chemists say the same. On the flip side, 39% of biologists, 36% of physicists, and 24% of chemists say they do not believe in God, while only 2% of the general population identifies as atheist.
But our findings also uncover surprising areas of common ground. Eighty percent of scientists who teach and do research at top US research universities were raised in a religious home and 55% were raised in a home where religion was important. Scientists show the most overlap with the general public in the realm of spirituality, with 62% of scientists considering themselves spiritual. A surprising 38% of atheist scientists say they are somewhat spiritual, as do 61% of agnostic scientists. Nearly half of all surveyed scientists say they attended religious services at least once in the last year.
Although scientists who work at elite universities are less religiously conservative—and less committed to organized religion generally—than the public at large, most scientists think religion has some degree of truth. Many individual scientists have a positive attitude toward the idea of religious truth and think their colleagues have a positive or neutral attitude toward religion. Only a minority believes there is an irreconcilable conflict between religious knowledge and scientific knowledge. Since a majority of scientists are interested in spirituality, this may be an area where they will find fruitful terrain for talking about issues of science and faith with the public.
Awareness that many scientists are not hostile to religion and emphasizing areas of overlap between scientists and the general religious population might help to advance constructive engagement between science and faith, lessening the threat factors on both sides.
Ecklund is a faculty member in the sociology department at Rice University, where she is also associate director of the Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life.
Hackett is a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
1. S. Harris, "Science is in the details," The New York Times, July 26, 2009.
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Minnesota-Duluth Pulls Off Improbable Run To WCHA Title
March 22, 2009
Thirty three teams have tried and 33 teams have failed. Then along came the 2008-09 University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs, buoyed by another stellar puckstopping performance by Alex Stalock and a three-goal night from MacGregor Sharp, shut down the University of Denver 3-0 Saturday in the WCHA Final Five title game. In the process, the Bulldogs became the first play-in game participant in the 17-year history of the Final Five to capture the championship trophy.
The victory, before a crowd of 16,749 at the St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center, concluded an unprecedented WCHA playoff run for UMD and earned the Bulldogs an automatic berth in next weekend's NCAA tournament.
"I'm extremely proud of our team," said head coach Scott Sandelin after his Bulldogs claimed their third WCHA playoff crown in school history, but first in 24 years. "Our kids really came through and played better and better as the weekend went on. To see the players hold that Broadmoor Trophy at the end of the game is an exciting thing for our program."
UMD, which was making its first WCHA Final Five title game appearance, cashed in on its initial power play opportunity of the game at 10:45 of the first period when senior center MacGregor Sharp scored off a centering feed from sophomore right winger Justin Fontaine. It marked the third straight night that Sharp provided the Bulldogs with an early 1-0 lead.
Sharp struck again at the 9:13 mark of the second period by tapping in Mike Connolly's backdoor pass past Denver goaltender Marc Cheverie. Just under three minutes later, rookie center Jack Connolly put the Bulldogs up 3-0 on the power play by sneaking a shot near the left side of the crease between the pipe and Cheverie's right arm. Sharp completed the scoring, and his second collegiate hat trick with an empty net goal with 2:32 left in regulation -giving him six goals and an assist on the weekend.
Denver, which came into the night sporting the WCHA's most potent offense (3.42 goals per game), met its match in Stalock, who turned aside all 20 Pioneer shots while becoming the first Bulldog to ever post back-to back shutouts. Stalock blanked WCHA regular season champion North Dakota 3-0 in the semifinals Friday and is now 5-0-0 in the postseason, allowing just three goals and compiling an jaw-dropping .981 saves percentage (155 saves on 158 shots).
"I have been seeing the puck pretty well, but I need to give credit to the 18 guys who play in front me," said Stalock, who took over as the Bulldogs' all-time leader in shutouts with nine and equaled a single-season mark in that same department with five. "The defenseman have been unreal and the forwards are doing a great job of getting back. These last five games we knew we needed to buckle down from where we were at the end of the season (when the Bulldog went went winless in their last five games)."
What could hardly be regarded as shocking news, Stalock was selected as the WCHA Final Five Most Valuable Player and joined Sharp, Mike Connolly and senior defenseman Josh Meyers on the seven-member All-Tournament Team.
UMD, now 21-12-8 overall, will find out its NCAA playoff fate Sunday morning (10:30 CST on ESPN2) when the 16-team tournament is announced.


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Colin and Lucy know how to live life, they embrace it with every part of their being. Their wedding day was full of excitement from the moment I arrived at the hotel where everyone was getting ready. Their daughter Sophia was racing around the room, bouncing off the bed, twirling around. She couldn't sit still, there was so much energy flying around everywhere!
Later, I got to the church and typical BBC got the weather wrong (this is exactly why I never check anymore!) and soft rain started falling hours before it was due. Lucy arrived with her father with the top down in a beautiful Bentley, totally not worried by the rain. We discovered the flowers had been left at the hotel (oops!!) so her amazing friend Leanne drove the half hour round trip so that Lucy had her sunflowers to walk down the aisle with. Despite the ceremony starting late, everyone was so chilled out, the church were amazing, everyone was just so happy to be there!
Following the service, we beelined to the venue as the rain started falling a lot harder, I managed to arrive before the guests and had a bit of a wow moment when I found my way through candle lit caves and large stone archways to the marquee. It was so beautiful! Despite the rain, everyone was laughing and having an amazing time. Lucy was beaming and so very happy to have her parents sharing the day with her and Colin after a long arduous journey all the way from Brazil.
Later that evening, after the icecreams and speeches, the jaeger bombs came out (non alcoholic for the littles!). These guys know how to party. I left them that night getting up to all sorts on the dance floor!
It was a pleasure to photograph such a happy wedding. xx
Flowers- Sharon Sawford
Cake- Kirsty Lund (friend)
Bride's dress- Maggie Sottero from the Ivory Wardrobe
Ice cream cart- Shake n Scoop (OMG YUM!)
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After winning 23 Grand Slam titles, there is nothing Serena Williams isn't capable of. And now she's decided to focus on her personal life by having a fairytale wedding.
The tennis star wed Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Thursday in a princess-style wedding at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center surrounded by friends and family.
The guest list was star-studded and included names like Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria, Ciara, and of course, her sister Venus.
The theme of the wedding was "Beauty and the Beast," there was even a performance of "Be Our Guest" at the beginning of the celebration.
The wedding took place just 3 months after the couple welcomed their first child together, a baby girl named Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., who was obviously the guest of honor at the ceremony.
Insiders report that the couple held a rehearsal dinner at Emeril Lagasse's Meril restaurant on Wednesday. The guests were served, among other exquisite things, world-famous beignets from Café Du Monde.
The newlyweds met by chance sometime in 2015, when Ohanian approached Williams in a hotel in Rome before the Italian Open. After dating for almost a year, the couple returned to the very same hotel where Ohanian proposed.
Williams announced the happy news in a sweet little cartoon the couple shared on Redditt
"I came home/ A little late/ Someone had a bag packed for me/ And a carriage awaited, Destination: Rome/ To escort me to my very own 'charming'/ Back to where our stars first collided."
"And now it was full circle/ At the same table we first met by chance/ This time he made it not by chance/ But by choice/ Down on one knee/ He said 4 words/ And I said yes."
Within a month or two of the engagement, Williams learned that she was with child, but kept her pregnancy a secret. She went on to win The Australian Open in January when she was 4 months pregnant.
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Your presence in Municipal Court may be your first experience in any court. The following information has been prepared to help you understand the court proceedings and to inform you of your rights and duties. Every person should leave this court feeling that he or she has had a fair and impartial trial or hearing.
Before Court Begins
As the Judge enters the courtroom, please rise. Afterwards, please be seated. Talking, drinking, smoking, and talking on the phone are prohibited while court is in session. Please be sure your phone is turned off or on silent mode. When your name is called, come forward and wait to be summoned before the Judge. The violations that you are alleged to have committed will be read and at that time you should be prepared to plead either:
If you signed a citation in front of an officer, you did not plead guilty, but only signed a promise to appear in court on your appearance date.
Your decision on what plea to enter is the most important decision you will have to make. We suggest that you read the following explanations before entering your plea. If you decide that you would like to seek the services of an attorney, please inform the Judge and you will be given time to do so.
Plea of Guilty
By a plea of guilty, you admit that you committed the act as charged, that the act is prohibited by law, and that you have no defense for your act.
Before entering a plea of guilty, you need to understand the following:
You are URGED not to plead guilty if you do not feel that you are guilty.
Plea of Guilty with an Explanation
This plea has the same effect as a plea of guilty, but says that you would like to explain to the Judge the circumstances surrounding the offense with respect to the punishment only. The Judge cannot find you not guilty without a trial, the effect of a plea of guilty with an explanation is only to mitigate your punishment.
You should plead guilty with an explanation if you are currently in compliance with the law. For example, you have obtained your driver's license, automobile insurance, registered your vehicle, or have corrected your housing violation.
In both cases of a plea of guilty, a fine may be assessed. The explanation to the Judge may or may not have an effect on the amount of the fine assessed.
Plea of Not Guilty
A plea of not guilty means that you deny guilt and that the city must prove its charges against you. Your case will be set for trial and you will be given a date to appear. You will receive no other notice regarding your trial date.
At the time of the trial, the city will be required to prove all the allegations against you as contained in the formal complaint "beyond a reasonable doubt", before a verdict of guilty can be reached.
The Trial
Under Missouri law, you can be brought to trial only after a formal complaint has been filed. The complaint is the document that alleges what you are supposed to have done, and that your action was unlawful.
Presenting the Case
As in all criminal trials, the city will present its case first by calling witnesses to testify against you. After each prosecution witness has finished testifying, you will have the right to cross-examine him or her. Your examination must be in the form of a question. This is not a time to make a statement and you must not argue with the witness. You will have an opportunity to make a statement later in the trial.
After the prosecution has presented its case, you may present your case. You have the right to call any witness who knows anything about the incident, present your evidence and testify if you so choose.
The Verdict
If the Judge finds that the prosecutor has proven its case against you beyond a reasonable doubt, the Judge will find you guilty of the offense charged. If the Judge does not find the prosecutor has proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, you will be found not guilty.
You have the right to appeal any guilty verdict within 10 days of the Judge's ruling.
The amount of fine assessed by the court is affected by the facts and circumstances of the case. Mitigating circumstances may lower the fine. However, aggravating circumstances may increase the fine. In no case may the fine exceed $1,000 plus costs for serious violations and $198.50 for minor violations. All fines are deposited in the General Fund of the City of Flordell Hills.
Court Costs
If you are found guilty of an offense, court costs will be added to the fine. Court costs are required by state law and are remitted both to the General Fund of the city and to the State Department of Revenue. Court costs are currently $26.50 per case.
Right to Appeal
If you are not satisfied with the judgment (verdict) of the court, you have the right to appeal the verdict to the St. Louis County Circuit Court. You will be notified of a new court date by St. Louis County, and your case will be heard again by another judge in its entirety. You must file this appeal within 10 days of the judgment and the filing fee is $30.00 and must be paid at the time of the appeal request. If you are indigent, you will be required to complete an affidavit under oath regarding your income and expenses to determine if you are indigent. If the judgment is not appealed within ten days, it becomes final and you must pay the fines and costs assessed by this Court.
The Municipal Court
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If you are not a citizen of the United States, a plea of guilty to certain offenses may affect your immigration status. It is advisable that you seek the advice of an immigration attorney before pleading guilty to any offense.
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You will have a business trip to Ho Chi Minh City next time, and are wondering which hotel to choose for your trip. Here are some suggestions for choosing your hotel in the center of District 1 HCMC.
Choosing The Hotel
This is the first step in your booking process, choosing a hotel with good quality, nice style and price that suits you, or your boss, is very important. A relaxed mood will support a lot for your work. When choosing a hotel, you need to consider factors such as quality of rooms and furnishings, attached services such as swimming pool, relaxing spa, gym, laundry service, and especially Is it convenient to travel? It would not be nice if you were in a beautiful hotel, but it took a long time to get to the company, or to work with a partner. Take an example, when having a business trip in HCMC, you need to know where the company is located or where you will have meeting with your partner, if this big company in district 1, you should start choosing with hotels in central of district 1.
Booking as soon as possible
As soon as you get the information about the time and place of your trip, you should plan your booking immediately. Unless you have a business trip, you should book your hotel room 30 to 45 days prior to the trip. Although there are a lot of hotels in Ho Chi Minh, but this is considered to be the most ideal time to book a room with many benefits as there are many options for different room types, get more incentives, promotions, sometimes you can also book the weekend with the price is cheaper than ordinary days.
Minimize late hotel reservation, or bookings at the last minute, close to public holidays and weekends, you may not be able to choose the room you want, the price is more expensive and the most important is prone to errors, omissions, there may not be room for you.
Hotel include a restaurant
You may have a stressful meeting all day, so you just want to rest as soon as you return to the hotel. Going out and finding a restaurant for dinner really takes time and makes you more tired, so choose a hotel with a restaurant right inside it to easily enjoy dinner and return to your room to take a rest is good ideal. There are many hotels in central of District 1 that include dining service, you can find Singapore Hotel or 4-star hotels to experience.
Promotions and preferences
As mentioned above, you get a lot of promotions and offers when you book early. In addition to the price of your room, you can use many other services with cheaper price like the spa relaxation, massage, sauna, free breakfast, or meals during the day…
In HCMC, hotel industry is very develop, so the competition is so fierce. They usually have attractive promotions to seduce customers. Therefore, you should make enquiries about promotions of hotels in district 1 HCMC to get many profit.
Check service information
Although information about the hotel's services is usually available on the hotel's homepage, or the famous booking pages, but for a full business trip, do not be embarrassed without checking again the services that you will enjoy.
You can take a phone call to the hotel to ask for important information you want to know, such as: Is laundry service free or not, if not how much? Does the hotel have free breakfast? Can I use a hotel computer? Does Wifi connect well?… There is a lot of information you want to know.


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July 6, 2011, 9:15 p.m.
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Implementations are the data objects used to store collections, which implement the interfaces described in the Interfaces section (page 295). This section describes the following kinds of implementations:
As you can see from Figure, the Java Collections Framework provides several general-purpose implementations of the Set, List, and Map interfaces. In each case, one implementationHashSet, ArrayList, and HashMapis clearly the one to use for most applications, all other things being equal. Note that the SortedSet and the SortedMap interfaces do not have rows in the table. Each of those interfaces has one implementation (TReeSet and treeMap) and is listed in the Set and the Map rows. There are two general-purpose Queue implementationsLinkedList, which is also a List implementation, and PriorityQueue,[38] which is omitted from the table. These two implementations provide very different semantics: LinkedList provides FIFO semantics, while PriorityQueue orders its elements according to their values.
Each of the general-purpose implementations provides all optional operations contained in its interface. All permit null elements, keys, and values. None are synchronized (thread-safe). All have fail-fast iterators, which detect illegal concurrent modification during iteration and fail quickly and cleanly rather than risking arbitrary, nondeterministic behavior at an undetermined time in the future. All are Serializable and all support a public clone method.
The fact that these implementations are unsynchronized represents a break with the past: The legacy collections Vector and Hashtable are synchronized. The present approach was taken because collections are frequently used when the synchronization is of no benefit. Such uses include single-threaded use, read-only use, and use as part of a larger data object that does its own synchronization. In general, it is good API design practice not to make users pay for a feature they don't use. Furthermore, unnecessary synchronization can result in deadlock under certain circumstances.
If you need thread-safe collections, the synchronization wrappers, described in the Wrapper Implementations section (page 350), allow any collection to be transformed into a synchronized collection. Thus, synchronization is optional for general-purpose implementations, whereas it is mandatory for legacy implementations. Moreover, the java.util.concurrent package provides concurrent implementations of the BlockingQueue interface, which extends Queue, and of the ConcurrentMap interface, which extends Map. These implementations offer much higher concurrency than mere synchronized implementations.
As a rule, you should be thinking about the interfaces, not the implementations. That is why there are no programming examples in this section. For the most part, the choice of implementation affects only performance. The preferred style, as mentioned in the Interfaces section (page 295), is to choose an implementation when a Collection is created and to immediately assign the new collection to a variable of the corresponding interface type (or to pass the collection to a method expecting an argument of the interface type). In this way, the program does not become dependent on any added methods in a given implementation, leaving the programmer free to change implementations anytime that it is warranted by performance concerns or behavioral details.
The sections that follow briefly discuss the implementations. The performance of the implementations is described using words such as constant-time, log, linear, n log(n), and quadratic to refer to the asymptotic upper-bound on the time complexity of performing the operation. All this is quite a mouthful, and it doesn't matter much if you don't know what it means. If you're interested in knowing more, refer to any good algorithms textbook. One thing to keep in mind is that this sort of performance metric has its limitations. Sometimes, the nominally slower implementation may be faster. When in doubt, measure the performance!
Set Implementations
The Set implementations are grouped into general-purpose and special-purpose implementations.
General-Purpose Set Implementations
There are three general-purpose Set implementationsHashSet, treeSet, and LinkedHashSet. Which of these three to use is generally straightforward. HashSet is much faster than treeSet (constant-time versus log-time for most operations) but offers no ordering guarantees. If you need to use the operations in the SortedSet interface, or if value-ordered iteration is required, use treeSet; otherwise, use HashSet. It's a fair bet that you'll end up using HashSet most of the time.
LinkedHashSet is in some sense intermediate between HashSet and treeSet. Implemented as a hash table with a linked list running through it, it provides insertion-ordered iteration (least recently inserted to most recently) and runs nearly as fast as HashSet. The LinkedHashSet implementation spares its clients from the unspecified, generally chaotic ordering provided by HashSet without incurring the increased cost associated with TReeSet.
One thing worth keeping in mind about HashSet is that iteration is linear in the sum of the number of entries and the number of buckets (the capacity). Thus, choosing an initial capacity that's too high can waste both space and time. On the other hand, choosing an initial capacity that's too low wastes time by copying the data structure each time it's forced to increase its capacity. If you don't specify an initial capacity, the default is 16. In the past, there was some advantage to choosing a prime number as the initial capacity. This is no longer true. Internally, the capacity is always rounded up to a power of two. The initial capacity is specified by using the int constructor. The following line of code allocates a HashSet whose initial capacity is 64:
Set<String> s = new HashSet<String>(64);
The HashSet class has one other tuning parameter called the load factor. If you care a lot about the space consumption of your HashSet, read the HashSet documentation for more information. Otherwise, just accept the default; it's almost always the right thing to do.
If you accept the default load factor but want to specify an initial capacity, pick a number that's about twice the size to which you expect the set to grow. If your guess is way off, you may waste a bit of space, time, or both, but it's unlikely to be a big problem.
LinkedHashSet has the same tuning parameters as HashSet, but iteration time is not affected by capacity. TReeSet has no tuning parameters.
Special-Purpose Set Implementations
There are two special-purpose Set implementationsEnumSet[39] and CopyOnWrite-ArraySet.[40]
EnumSet is a high-performance Set implementation for enum types. All of the members of an enum set must be of the same enum type. Internally, it is represented by a bitvector, typically a single long. Enum sets support iteration over ranges of enum types. For example, given the enum declaration for the days of the week, you can iterate over the weekdays. The EnumSet class provides a static factory that makes it easy:
for (Day d : EnumSet.range(Day.MONDAY, Day.FRIDAY)) System.out.println(d);
Enum sets also provide a rich, typesafe replacement for traditional bit flags:
EnumSet.of(Style.BOLD, Style.ITALIC)
CopyOnWriteArraySet is a Set implementation backed up by a copy-on-write array. All mutative operations, such as add, set, and remove, are implemented by making a new copy of the array; no locking is ever required. Even iteration may safely proceed concurrently with element insertion and deletion. Unlike most Set implementations, the add, remove, and contains methods require time proportional to the size of the set. This implementation is only appropriate for sets that are rarely modified but frequently iterated. It is well suited to maintaining event-handler lists that must prevent duplicates.
List Implementations
List implementations are grouped into general-purpose and special-purpose implementations.
General-Purpose List Implementations
There are two general-purpose List implementationsArrayList and LinkedList. Most of the time you'll probably use ArrayList, which offers constant-time positional access and is just plain fast. It does not have to allocate a node object for each element in the List, and it can take advantage of System.arraycopy when it has to move multiple elements at the same time. Think of ArrayList as Vector without the synchronization overhead.
If you frequently add elements to the beginning of the List or iterate over the List to delete elements from its interior, you should consider using LinkedList. These operations require constant-time in a LinkedList and linear-time in an ArrayList. But you pay a big price in performance. Positional access requires linear-time in a LinkedList and constant-time in an ArrayList. Furthermore, the constant factor for LinkedList is much worse. If you think you want to use a LinkedList, measure the performance of your application with both LinkedList and ArrayList before making your choice; ArrayList is usually faster.
ArrayList has one tuning parameterthe initial capacity, which refers to the number of elements the ArrayList can hold before it has to grow. LinkedList has no tuning parameters and seven optional operations, one of which is clone. The other six are addFirst, getFirst, removeFirst, addLast, getLast, and removeLast. LinkedList also implements the Queue interface.
Special-Purpose List Implementations
CopyOnWriteArrayList[41] is a List implementation backed up by a copy-on-write array. This implementation is similar in nature to CopyOnWriteArraySet. No synchronization is necessary, even during iteration, and iterators are guaranteed never to throw ConcurrentModificationException. This implementation is well suited to maintaining event-handler lists, in which change is infrequent, and traversal is frequent and potentially time-consuming.
If you need synchronization, a Vector will be slightly faster than an ArrayList synchronized with Collections.synchronizedList. But Vector has loads of legacy operations, so be careful to always manipulate the Vector with the List interface or else you won't be able to replace the implementation at a later time.
If your List is fixed in sizethat is, you'll never use remove, add, or any of the bulk operations other than containsAllyou have a third option that's definitely worth considering. See Arrays.asList in the Convenience Implementations section (page 352) for more information.
Map Implementations
Map implementations are grouped into general-purpose, special-purpose, and concurrent implementations.
General-Purpose Map Implementations
The three general-purpose Map implementations are HashMap, treeMap, and LinkedHashMap. If you need SortedMap operations or key-ordered Collection-view iteration, use treeMap; if you want maximum speed and don't care about iteration order, use HashMap; if you want near-HashMap performance and insertion-order iteration, use LinkedHashMap. In this respect, the situation for Map is analogous to Set. Likewise, everything else in TheSetInterface section (page 301) also applies to Map implementations.
LinkedHashMap provides two capabilities that are not available with LinkedHashSet. When you create a LinkedHashMap, you can order it based on key access rather than insertion. In other words, merely looking up the value associated with a key brings that key to the end of the map. Also, LinkedHashMap provides the removeEldestEntry method, which may be overridden to impose a policy for removing stale mappings automatically when new mappings are added to the map. This makes it very easy to implement a custom cache.
For example, this override will allow the map to grow up to as many as 100 entries, and then it will delete the eldest entry each time a new entry is added, maintaining a steady state of 100 entries:
private static final int MAX_ENTRIES = 100; protected boolean removeEldestEntry(Map.Entry eldest) { return size() > MAX_ENTRIES; }
Special-Purpose Map Implementations
There are three special-purpose Map implementationsEnumMap,[42] WeakHashMap,[43] and IdentityHashMap.[44] EnumMap, which is internally implemented as an array, is a high-performance Map implementation for use with enum keys. This implementation combines the richness and safety of the Map interface with a speed approaching that of an array. If you want to map an enum to a value, you should always use an EnumMap rather than an array.
WeakHashMap is an implementation of the Map interface that stores only weak references to its keys. Storing only weak references allows a key-value pair to be garbagecollected when its key is no longer referenced outside of the WeakHashMap. This class provides the easiest way to harness the power of weak references. It is useful for implementing "registry-like" data structures, where the utility of an entry vanishes when its key is no longer reachable by any thread.
IdentityHashMap is an identity-based Map implementation based on a hash table. This class is useful for topology-preserving object graph transformations, such as serialization or deep-copying. To perform such transformations, you need to maintain an identity-based "node table" that keeps track of which objects have already been seen. Identity-based maps are also used to maintain object-to-meta-information mappings in dynamic debuggers and similar systems. Finally, identity-based maps are useful in thwarting "spoof attacks" that are a result of intentionally perverse equals methods because IdentityHashMap never invokes the equals method on its keys. An added benefit of this implementation is that it is fast.
Concurrent Map Implementations
The java.util.concurrent[45] package contains the ConcurrentMap[46] interface, which extends Map with atomic putIfAbsent, remove, and replace methods, and the ConcurrentHashMap[47] implementation of that interface.
ConcurrentHashMap is a highly concurrent, high-performance implementation backed up by a hash table. This implementation never blocks when performing retrievals and allows the client to select the concurrency level for updates. It is intended as a drop-in replacement for Hashtable: In addition to implementing ConcurrentMap, it supports all the legacy methods peculiar to Hashtable. Again, if you don't need the legacy operations, be careful to manipulate it with the ConcurrentMap interface.
Queue Implementations
The Queue implementations are grouped into general-purpose and concurrent implementations.
General-Purpose Queue Implementations
As mentioned in the previous section, LinkedList implements the Queue interface, providing FIFO queue operations for add, poll, and so on.
The PriorityQueue class is a priority queue based on the heap data structure. This queue orders elements according to an order specified at construction time, which can be the elements' natural ordering or the ordering imposed by an explicit Comparator.
The queue retrieval operationspoll, remove, peek, and elementaccess the element at the head of the queue. The head of the queue is the least element with respect to the specified ordering. If multiple elements are tied for least value, the head is one of those elements; ties are broken arbitrarily.
PriorityQueue and its iterator implement all of the optional methods of the Collection and Iterator interfaces. The iterator provided in method iterator is not guaranteed to traverse the elements of the PriorityQueue in any particular order. If you need ordered traversal, consider using Arrays.sort(pq.toArray()).
Concurrent Queue Implementations
The java.util.concurrent package contains a set of synchronized Queue interfaces and classes. BlockingQueue extends Queue with operations that wait for the queue to become nonempty when retrieving an element and for space to become available in the queue when storing an element. This interface is implemented by the following classes:
Wrapper Implementations
Wrapper implementations delegate all their real work to a specified collection but add extra functionality on top of what this collection offers. For design pattern fans, this is an example of the decorator pattern. Although it may seem a bit exotic, it's really pretty straightforward.
These implementations are anonymous; rather than providing a public class, the library provides a static factory method. All these implementations are found in the Collections class, which consists solely of static methods.
Synchronization Wrappers
The synchronization wrappers add automatic synchronization (thread-safety) to an arbitrary collection. Each of the six core collection interfacesCollection, Set, List, Map, SortedSet, and SortedMaphas one static factory method:
public static <T> Collection<T> synchronizedCollection(Collection<T> c); public static <T> Set<T> synchronizedSet(Set<T> s); public static <T> List<T> synchronizedList(List<T> list); public static <K,V> Map<K,V> synchronizedMap(Map<K,V> m); public static <T> SortedSet<T> synchronizedSortedSet(SortedSet<T> s); public static <K,V> SortedMap<K,V> synchronizedSortedMap(SortedMap<K,V> m);
Each of these methods returns a synchronized (thread-safe) Collection backed up by the specified collection. To guarantee serial access, all access to the backing collection must be accomplished through the returned collection. The easy way to guarantee this is not to keep a reference to the backing collection. Create the synchronized collection with the following trick:
List<Type> list = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<Type>());
A collection created in this fashion is every bit as thread-safe as a normally synchronized collection, such as a Vector.
In the face of concurrent access, it is imperative that the user manually synchronize on the returned collection when iterating over it. The reason is that iteration is accomplished via multiple calls into the collection, which must be composed into a single atomic operation. The following is the idiom to iterate over a wrapper-synchronized collection:
Collection<Type> c = Collections.synchronizedCollection(myCollection); synchronized(c) { for (Type e : c) foo(e); }
If an explicit iterator is used, the iterator method must be called from within the synchronized block. Failure to follow this advice may result in nondeterministic behavior. The idiom for iterating over a Collection view of a synchronized Map is similar. It is imperative that the user synchronize on the synchronized Map when iterating over any of its Collection views rather than synchronizing on the Collection view itself, as shown in the following example:
Map<KeyType, ValType> m = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap<KeyType, ValType>()); ... Set<KeyType> s = m.keySet(); ... synchronized(m) { // Synchronizing on m, not s! while (KeyType k : s) foo(k); }
One minor downside of using wrapper implementations is that you do not have the ability to execute any noninterface operations of a wrapped implementation. So, for instance, in the preceding List example, you cannot call ArrayList's ensureCapacity operation on the wrapped ArrayList.
Unmodifiable Wrappers
Unlike synchronization wrappers, which add functionality to the wrapped collection, the unmodifiable wrappers take functionality away. In particular, they take away the ability to modify the collection by intercepting all the operations that would modify the collection and throwing an UnsupportedOperationException. Unmodifiable wrappers have two main uses, as follows:
Like synchronization wrappers, each of the six core Collection interfaces has one static factory method:
public static <T> Collection<T> unmodifiableCollection(Collection<? extends T> c); public static <T> Set<T> unmodifiableSet(Set<? extends T> s); public static <T> List<T> unmodifiableList(List<? extends T> list); public static <K,V> Map<K, V> unmodifiableMap(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> m); public static <T> SortedSet<T> unmodifiableSortedSet(SortedSet<? extends T> s); public static <K,V> SortedMap<K, V> unmodifiableSortedMap(SortedMap<K, ? extends V> m);
Checked Interface Wrappers
The Collections.checked interface wrappers are provided for use with generic collections. These implementations return a dynamically type-safe view of the specified collection, which throws a ClassCastException if a client attempts to add an element of the wrong type. The generics mechanism in the language provides compile-time (static) type-checking, but it is possible to defeat this mechanism. Dynamically type-safe views eliminate this possibility entirely.
Convenience Implementations
This section describes several mini-implementations that can be more convenient and more efficient than general-purpose implementations when you don't need their full power. All the implementations in this section are made available via static factory methods rather than public classes.
List View of an Array
The Arrays.asList method returns a List view of its array argument. Changes to the List write through to the array and vice versa. The size of the collection is that of the array and cannot be changed. If the add or the remove method is called on the List, an UnsupportedOperationException will result.
The normal use of this implementation is as a bridge between array-based and collection-based APIs. It allows you to pass an array to a method expecting a Collection or a List. However, this implementation also has another use. If you need a fixed-size List, it's more efficient than any general-purpose List implementation. This is the idiom:
List<String> list = Arrays.asList(new String[size]);
Note that a reference to the backing array is not retained.
Immutable Multiple-Copy List
Occasionally you'll need an immutable List consisting of multiple copies of the same element. The Collections.nCopies method returns such a list. This implementation has two main uses. The first is to initialize a newly created List; for example, suppose you want an ArrayList initially consisting of 1,000 null elements. The following incantation does the trick:
List<Type> list = new ArrayList<Type>(Collections.nCopies(1000, (Type)null);
Of course, the initial value of each element need not be null. The second main use is to grow an existing List. For example, suppose you want to add 69 copies of the string "fruit bat" to the end of a List<String>. It's not clear why you'd want to do such a thing, but let's just suppose you did. The following is how you'd do it:
lovablePets.addAll(Collections.nCopies(69, "fruit bat"));
By using the form of addAll that takes both an index and a Collection, you can add the new elements to the middle of a List instead of to the end of it.
Immutable Singleton Set
Sometimes you'll need an immutable singleton Set, which consists of a single, specified element. The Collections.singleton method returns such a Set. One use of this implementation is to remove all occurrences of a specified element from a Collection:
A related idiom removes all elements that map to a specified value from a Map. For example, suppose you have a Mapjobthat maps people to their line of work and suppose you want to eliminate all the lawyers. The following one-liner will do the deed:
One more use of this implementation is to provide a single input value to a method that is written to accept a collection of values.
Empty Set, List, and Map Constants
The Collections class provides methods to return the empty Set, List, and MapemptySet, emptyList, and emptyMap. The main use of these constants is as input to methods that take a Collection of values when you don't want to provide any values at all, as in this example:
Summary of Implementations
Implementations are the data objects used to store collections, which implement the interfaces described in the Interfaces section (page 295).
The Java Collections Framework provides several general-purpose implementations of the core interfaces:
Each of the general-purpose implementations provides all optional operations contained in its interface.
The Java Collections Framework also provides several special-purpose implementations for situations that require nonstandard performance, usage restrictions, or other unusual behavior.
The java.util.concurrent package contains several collections implementations, which are thread-safe but not governed by a single exclusion lock.
The Collections class (as opposed to the Collection interface), provides static methods that operate on or return collections, which are known as wrapper implementations.
Finally, there are several Convenience implementations, which can be more efficient than general-purpose implementations when you don't need their full power. The Convenience implementations are made available through static factory methods.
Questions and Exercises: Implementations
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