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The Buddy System
By Maya Bell
Dedicated to addressing health disparities in underserved communities, the Jay Weiss Center
champions the community health worker model to break down barriers to effective care, improve outcomes, and save lives.
The daughter of a biracial couple, Sonjia Kenya noticed while growing up in San Francisco that the black side of her family, her father's side, was plagued by preventable health problems that never bothered her mother's white family. In one heartbreaking example, Kenya's paternal grandmother died just six years after she was diagnosed with diabetes.
Now an assistant professor of family medicine at the Miller School, Kenya, Ed.D., M.S., M.A., was shocked to learn after her grandmother's death that diabetes afflicts one of every four African-American women over 55. "I said, 'Oh my God, why is it so bad in black women?''' she recalls. "And my grandmother on my white side said, 'You're in college; why don't you find out?'''
In 2007 Kenya's quest to narrow the well-documented chasm in health status between whites and racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. brought her to the Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine and Health Equity, where she and other center faculty, residents, and students are addressing the higher incidence of chronic diseases, mortality rates, and poorer health outcomes that plague underserved communities.
While researchers debate why such disparities persist, they know the social and economic conditions under which people live often play as much a role as access to and quality of medical care. How, for example, can a person who has no car and lives in a neighborhood without a grocery store eat fresh produce or other healthy foods?
With such social determinants of health in mind, Kenya is leading the center's inaugural study, Counseling on Adherence and Community Health, or COACH, to demonstrate the value of using "community health promoters" to address one of the principal reasons ethnic minorities die from HIV/AIDS at a higher rate than whites: Too often, they aren't properly taking the antiretroviral drugs that have transformed AIDS from a fatal to a chronic disease. In Florida alone, HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death among African-Americans between ages 25 and 44.
Known by different names in different cultures, community health workers, or CHWs, are lay advocates trained to help people in their own communities navigate the health care and social service maze and become partners in managing their own health. COACH's CHWs regularly visit HIV-positive patients with elevated viral loads to educate them about their illness, accompany them on doctor appointments, coordinate available benefits and services, and address their difficulties with drug compliance.
Though CHWs are not yet empirically proven effective, Kenya, director of health disparities programs, and other Jay Weiss scholars believe it's only a matter of time before they are broadly recognized as a vital force in the management of chronic disease in the U.S. That belief is well-founded: As preliminary results from COACH suggest, CHWs save lives and reduce costs.
"Some of our patients are literally on their deathbeds when they are paired with a health promoter,'' Kenya says. "Six months later, their viral load is undetectable. Having a health promoter really has statistically significant clinical outcomes. It changes people's health.''
Indeed, Andrea Bass was near death when Kenya met her at Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2007.
A substance abuser who shunned her HIV medications because they made her feel sick, she had no permanent address nor contact with family. But after a year with health promoter Teikia Williams, Bass's virus was at bay and she moved into her own apartment, resumed relationships with her mother and children, and even became a caregiver to an elderly woman.
"They believed in me so I could believe in myself,'' Bass says of her COACH experience. "They helped me realize there was life after HIV. I could still go places. I could still laugh. I could still live.''
Other Jay Weiss faculty are testing the CHW model in additional realms. With a grant from the NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D., associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, is recruiting Hispanics with uncontrolled diabetes to evaluate whether CHWs can help reduce their blood pressure, cholesterol and risk of cardiovascular disease by addressing their socioeconomic issues.
"You may be able to articulate the pharmacology behind the latest diabetes medication,'' notes Carrasquillo, a national expert on health disparities. "But if your patient isn't taking it because her son is being deported, that knowledge is worthless. Community health workers can help patients with non-medical and other socioeconomic barriers by linking them to resources, such as pro bono legal services, so they can begin to pay attention to their health.''
While Kenya and Carrasquillo enlist CHWs to improve drug compliance, the center's research director, Erin Kobetz, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of epidemiology and public health, recruits them to combat cervical cancer in Miami's Little Haiti. Though preventable with routine Pap smears, the disease kills four times as many women in Little Haiti as in other minority enclaves in Florida.
One reason, Kobetz and her community partners found, is that Haitian women harbor cultural reservations about Pap smears. So, for the past two years, CHWs have been teaching women in Little Haiti to use at-home devices to test for the human papillomavirus that, untreated, can lead to cervical cancer. The project is so successful that Kobetz is expanding it to Haiti.
Jay Weiss, a businessman and philanthropist who championed quality care for the underserved, certainly would have seen the promise of CHWs. His daughters, Jennie Weiss Block and Laurie Weiss Nuell, established the center after his 2004 death to nurture physicians dedicated to serving the poor and to promote the field of social medicine, which recognizes that social factors like income, education, and housing often determine health more than genes do. In addition to projects like COACH and Grand Rounds lectures, the center provides training programs in social medicine and health equity for medical students and residents, each led by tireless role models who work daily to ameliorate health disparities.
The center's medical director, Lee M. Sanders, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, directs the Medical Student Pathway in Social Medicine, which graduated its first class last May. Sanders is an expert in health literacy; his advocacy extends to child-care centers and numerous other community programs.
Stephen Symes, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the internal medicine residency program, directs the Jay Weiss Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine. He has cared for HIV/AIDS patients much of his career. So has his wife, Alexis Powell, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and medical advisor for COACH.
Located in Dominion Towers, the center's modest suite belies its broad reach into nearly every pocket of disadvantaged Miami-Dade and to resource-poor settings around the world. Supervised by Symes and Sanders, residents and medical students can be found in clinics from Miami Beach to Mozambique. And, on many evenings, Kenya, social worker Shelly Baer, LCSW, and health promoters can be found in the community centers, parks, and shelters of Liberty City, Overtown, and other underserved neighborhoods, conducting workshops on topics such as hepatitis and self-esteem.
Such activities are not in their job descriptions, but as CHWs walk the streets of poor Miami, they hear about the needs of residents and try to fill them. Talking to HIV-positive patients at Jackson, they've learned the complicated reasons why so many don't take their anti-viral drugs as prescribed. Maybe the patients can't read and follow the instructions. Or they're supposed to take the pills with food, but often don't have any. Or, to hide their illness, they don't keep prescriptions in the refrigerator, where friends and family members would find them.
Whatever the reasons, preliminary analysis of the randomized study—in which half of the COACH patients are assigned a CHW and half are not—show dramatic results. Within six months of contact with a CHW, patients' viral loads dropped dramatically and their T-cell counts soared—evidence that the relationships are promoting healthier living, better compliance, and fewer hospital visits.
COACH CHWs say their secret is providing support to people who often believe no one cares about them. Bass says she owes her life to Williams's gentle but persistent advocacy, as well as her insistence that Bass record her medications, appointments, and other vital information in a notebook. That simple act proved empowering. "I felt like I was doing important stuff and I wanted to see what else important I could do,'' Bass remembers.
Such testimonials motivate Jay Weiss scholars to pursue new models of care that, one day, will end the health disparities that separate black from white, and rich from poor.
"You need teamwork,'' Symes says. "You need people who can listen and not talk. You need people who can see the barriers to health and say, 'What can we do about them?'''
Maya Bell is senior editor at the Miller School of Medicine.


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(For more resources on Mobile Development, see here.)
iOS, Android, or both?
It could be that you only have an interest in iOS or only in Android. You should be able to easily see where to skip ahead to, unless you're intrigued about how the other half lives! If, like me, you're a capitalist, then you should be interested in both OSes. Far fewer steps are needed to get the Android SDK than to get the iOS developer tools, because of having to sign up as a developer with Apple, but the configuraton for Android is more involved. We'll go through all the steps for Android and then the ones for iOS. If you're an iOS-only kind of person, skip the next few sections, picking up again at the Becoming an iOS Developer section.
Becoming an Android developer
It is possible to develop Android OS apps without having to sign up for anything, but we'll try to be optimistic and assume that within the next 12 months, you will find time to make an awesome app that will make you rich! To that end, we'll go over what is involved in signing up to publish your apps in both the Android Market and the Amazon Appstore.
Android Market
A good starting location would be http://developer.android.com/.
You will be back here shortly to download the Android SDK, but for now, click on the Learn More link in the Publish area. There will be a sign-in screen; sign in using your usual Google details.
Which e-mail address to use?
Some Google services are easier to sign up for, if you have a Gmail account. Creating a Google+ account, or signing up for some of their Cloud services, requires a Gmail address (or so it seemed to me at the time!). If you have previously set up Google Checkout as part of your account, some of the steps in signing up process become simpler. So, use your Gmail address, and if you don't have one, create one!
- Google charges a $25 fee for you to sign up for Android Market. At least you find out about this right away! Enter the values for Developer Name, Email Address, Website URL (if you have one), and Phone Number.
- The payment of the $25 can be done through Google Checkout.
- Using Google Checkout saves you from having to enter in your billing details, each time. Hopefully you won't guess the other 12 digits of my credit card number!
- Finally, you need to agree to the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement.
- You're given an excuse to go and make some coffee…
- Some time later, you're all signed up and ready to make your fortune!
Amazon Appstore
Whereas the rules and costs for the Google Android Market are fairly relaxed, Amazon has taken a more Apple-like approach, both in the amount they charge you to register and in the review process for accepting app submissions. The starting page is http://developer.amazon.com/home.html.
- When you click on Get Started, you will be asked to sign into your Amazon account.
- You are asked to agree to the APPSTORE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT terms before learning about the costs.
- Those costs are $99 per year, but the first year is free. So that's good!
- Unlike the Google Android Market, Amazon asks for your bank details upfront, ready to send you lots of money later, we hope!
- That's it; you're ready to make another fortune, to go along with the one that Google sends you!
Which e-mail address to use?
This feels like déjà vu! There is no real advantage in using your Google e-mail address when signing up for the Amazon Appstore Developer Program, but if you happen to have an account with Amazon, sign in with that one. It will simplify the payment stage, and your developer account and general Amazon account will be associated with each other.
Downloading the Android SDK
Head back over to http://developer.android.com/, and click on the Download link, or go straight to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.
In the book previously mentioned, we're only going to cover Windows and Mac OS X (Intel), and only as much as is needed to make LiveCode work with the Android and iOS SDKs. If you intend to do native Java-based applicatons, then you may be interested in reading through all of the steps that are described in the web page: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Click on the Download link for your platform. The steps you'll have to go through are different for Mac and Windows. Let's start with Mac.
Installing Android SDK on Mac OS X (Intel)
LiveCode itself doesn't require an Intel Mac; you can develop stacks using a PowerPC-based Mac, but both the Android SDK and some of the iOS tools require an Intel-based Mac, which sadly means that if you're reading this as you sit next to your Mac G4 or G5, then you're not going to get too far!
The file that you just downloaded will automatically expand to show a folder named android-sdk-macosx. It may be in your downloads folder right now; a more natural place for it would be in your Documents folder, so move it there before performing the next steps.
There is an SDK Readme text file that lists the steps you will need to take. If those steps are different to what we have here, then follow the steps in the Readme, in case they have been updated since the steps shown here were written.
Open the application Terminal, which is in Applications/Utilities. You need to change the directories to be located in the android-sdk-macosx folder. One handy trick in Terminal is that you can drag the items into the Terminal window to get the file path to that item. Using that trick, you can type cd and a space into the Terminal window, then drag the android-sdk-macosx folder just afer the space character. You'll end up with this line:
new-host-3:~ colin$ cd /Users/colin/Documents/android-sdk-macosx
Of course, the first part of the line and the user folder will match yours, not mine! The rest will look the same. Here's how it would look for a user named fred:
new-host-3:~ fred$ cd /Users/fred/Documents/android-sdk-macosx
Whatever your name is, press the Return or Enter key after entering that line. The location line changes to look similiar to the following:
new-host-3:android-sdk-macosx colin$
Either type carefully or copy and paste this line from the read me file:
tools/android update sdk --no-ui
Press Return or Enter again. How long the downloads take will depend on your Internet connection. Even with a very fast Internet connection, it will still take over an hour.
Installing Android SDK on Windows
The downloads page recommends using the exe download link, and that will do extra things, such as check whether you have the Java Development Kit (JDK) installed. When you click on the link, use either the Run or Save options as you would with any download of a Windows installer. Here we opted to use Run. If you do use Save, then you will need to open the file after it has saved to your hard drive. In the following case, as the JDK wasn't installed, a dialog box appears saying go to Oracle's site to get the JDK:
If you see this, then you can leave the dialog box open and click on the Visit java.oracle.com button. On the Oracle page, you have to click on a checkbox to agree to their terms, and then on the Download link that corresponds with your platform. Choose the 64-bit option if you are running a 64-bit version of Windows, or the x86 option if you are running 32-bit Windows.
Either way, you're greeted with another installer to Run or Save, as you prefer. Naturally, it takes a while for that installer to do its thing too! When the installation completes, you will see a JDK registration page; it's up to you if you register or not.
Back at the Android SDK installer dialog box, you can click on the Back button, and then the Next button to get back to that JDK checking stage; only now it sees that you have the JDK installed. Complete the remaining steps of the SDK installer, as you would with any Windows installer.
One important thing to notice; the last screen of the installer offers to open the SDK Manager. You do want to do that, so resist the temptation to uncheck that box! Click on Finish, and you'll be greeted with a command-line window for a few moments, then the Android SDK Manager will appear and do its thing.
As with the Mac version, it takes a very long time for all these add-ons to download.
Pointing LiveCode to the Android SDK
After all that installation and command-line work, it's a refreshing change to get back into LiveCode!
Open the LiveCode Preferences, and choose Mobile Support.
We will set the two iOS entries after getting iOS going (on Mac that is, these options will be grayed out on Windows). For now, click on the … button next to the Android development SDK root field, and navigate to where the SDK has been installed. If you followed the earlier steps correctly, then it will be in the Documents folder on Mac, or in C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\ on Windows (or somewhere else if you chose to use a custom location).
Phew! Now, let's do iOS…
(For more resources on Mobile Development, see here.)
Becoming an iOS developer
Creating iOS LiveCode applications requires that LiveCode must have access to the iOS SDK. This is installed as a part of the Xcode developer tools, and that is a Mac-only program. Also, when you do upload an app to the iOS App Store, the application that is used is also Mac-only, and is also part of the Xcode installation. If you are a Windows-based developer and wish to develop and publish for iOS, then you will need either a virtual machine that can run Mac OS, or an actual Mac.
The biggest difference between becoming an Android developer and an iOS developer is that you have to sign up with Apple for their developer program, even if you never produce an app for the iOS App Store. If things go well, and you end up making an app for the various stores, then this isn't such a big deal. It will have cost you $25 to be able to submit to the Android Market, $99 a year (with the first year free) to submit to the Amazon Appstore, and $99 a year (including the first year) to be an iOS developer with Apple. Just sell more than 300 copies of your amazing $0.99 app, and it's paid for itself!
Your starting point for iOS is http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/.
When signing up to be an iOS developer, there are four possibilites when it comes to your current status. If you already have an Apple ID, that you might use with your Apple online store purchases, or perhaps your iTunes Store purchases, then you could choose the I already have an Apple ID… option. In order to illustrate all of the steps in signing up, we will choose to start as a brand new user.
You can choose to sign up as an individual or as a company. We will choose Individual.
As with any such sign-up process, you will need to enter your personal details, set a security question, and enter your postal address.
Most Apple software and services have their own legal agreement for you to sign. This one is the general Registered Apple Developer Agreement.
In order to verify the e-mail address you have used, a verification e-mail is sent to you, with a link in the e-mail to click on, or you can enter the code manually. Once you have completed the verification step, you can enter your billing details.
It could be that you will go on to make LiveCode applications for the Mac App Store, in which case you would also need to add the Mac Developer Program product. For our purposes, we only need to sign up for iOS Developer Program.
Each product that you sign up for has its own agreement. Lots of small print to read!
The actual purchasing of the iOS developer account is handled through the Apple Store for your region.
As you will see, it is going to cost you $99 per year, or $198 per year if you also signed up for the Mac Developer account. Most LiveCode users won't need to sign up for the Mac Developer account, unless the plan is to also submit desktop apps to the Mac App Store.
After submitting the order, you are rewarded by being told that you are now registered as an Apple Developer!
Sadly, it's not an instant approval, as was the case with the Android Market or Amazon Appstore. You have up to five days to wait for the approval. In the early iPhone Developer days, it could take a month or more, so 24 hours is an improvement!
Installing Xcode
Once you receive the confirmation of being an iOS developer, you will be able to log into the iOS Dev Center, at https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action. This same page is used by iOS developers who are not using LiveCode, and is full of support documents to help someone create native applications using Xcode and Objective-C. We don't need most of that, but we do need to download Xcode.
In the downloads area of the iOS Dev Center page, you will see different Xcode versions for Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and for Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), as well as the link to the older Xcode 3. You can also get code from the Mac App Store, and as of version 4.3 of Xcode, that takes the form of an application instead of a developer folder.
Installing Xcode from the Mac App Store is very straightforward; it's just like buying any other app from the store, except that it's free! It does require that you are using Mac OS 10.7.3 or later. If you are using an older system, then you would download one of the older versions from the developer page.
The older Xcode installation process is much like any other Mac application:
The Xcode installations take a very long time, but in the end, you should have the Developer folder, or new Xcode application, ready for LiveCode to find.
Coping with newer and older devices
In early 2012, Apple brought to market a new iPad. The main selling point of this one compared to the iPad 2 is that it has a "Retna" display. The regular iPads have a resolution of 1024x768, and the Retna version has a resolution of 2048x1536. If you wish to build applications to take advantage of that, you must get the version of Xcode from the Mac App Store, and not one of the older versions from the developer page. The new Xcode demands that you be on Mac OS 10.7.3, or later. So, to fully support the latest devices, you may have to update your system software more than you were expecting! But wait, there's more. By taking a later version of Xcode, you are then missing the iOS SDK versions that are needed to support older iOS devices, such as the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G. Fortunately, you can go into Preferences in Xcode, and there is a Downloads tab, where you can have those older SDKs downloaded into the new version of Xcode.
Pointing LiveCode to the iOS SDKs
Open the LiveCode Preferences, and choose Mobile Support.
Click on the … button next to the Location of developer root for iOS 5.0 and above : field, and you will see a dialog box that asks if you are using Xcode 4.2 or 4.3. If you choose 4.2, then go on to select the folder named Developer at the root of your hard drive. For 4.3, choose the Xcode application itself, in your Applications folder. If you are using an older system that wasn't able to run Xcode 4.2 or 4.3, and had to take the Xcode 3 download, click on the … button next to the Location of developer root for iOS 4.0 and above: field, and again, select the folder named Developer at the root of your hard drive. LiveCode now knows where to find the SDKs for iOS.
Before we can make our first mobile app
Now that the required SDKs are installed, and LiveCode knows where they are, we can make a stack and test it in a simulator or on a physical device. We do, however, have to get the simulators and physical devices warmed up.
Getting ready to test for Android
Simulating on iOS is easier than it is for Android, and testing on a physical device is easier on Android than on iOS, but the setting up of physical Android devices can be horrendous!
Time for action – starting an Android virtual device
You will have to do a little digging deep into the Android SDK folders to find the Android Virtual Device setup program, and you might well want to make a shortcut or alias to it for quicker access.
- Navigate to the Android SDK tools folder, located at C:\Program Files (x86)\ Android\android-sdk\ on Windows, and in your Documents:android-sdk- macosx:tools folder on Mac.
- Open AVD Manager on Windows, or Android on Mac (it looks like a Unix executable - just double-click on it, and the application will open via a command-line window).
- If you're on Mac, select Manage AVDs… from the Tools menu.
- Select Tablet from the list of devices (there are only two when you have first installed the android SDK - you can add your own custom ones here as well).
- Click on the Start button.
- Sit patiently while the virtual device starts up!
- Open LiveCode, and create a new Mainstack, and Save the stack to your hard drive.
- Select File | Standalone Application Settings….
- Click on the Android icon, and select the Build for Android check box.
- Close the Settings dialog box, and take a look at the Development menu.
- If the virtual machine is up and running, you should see it listed in the Test Target submenu.
What just happened?
You have opened up an Android virtual device, and LiveCode will be able to test the stacks using that device, once it has finished loading.
Connecting a physical Android device
Connecting a physical Android device can be extremely straightforward:
- Connect your device by USB.
- Look at the Development Test Target submenu to see it listed.
There can be problem cases though, and Google Search will become your best friend before you are done! We should look at an example problem case to give you ideas on how to solve any similiar situations you may encounter.
Using a Kindle Fire
When it comes to finding Android devices, the Android SDK recognizes a lot of them automatically. Some devices are not recognized, and you have to do something to help Android Debug Bridge (ADB) find them.
ADB is the part of the Android SDK that acts as a go-between from your device to any software that needs to be able to access the device. In some cases, you will need to go into the Android system on the device to tell it to allow access for development purposes. For example, on an Android 3 (Honeycomb) device, you need to go into Settings | Applications | Development, and activate the USB debugging mode.
Kindle Fire comes with USB debugging already enabled; you don't have to do anything, but the ADB system doesn't know about the device at all. You can fix that!
Time for action – adding a Kindle Fire to ADB
It only takes one line of text to add the Kindle Fire to the list of devices that ADB knows about. The harder part is tracking down the text file to edit, and getting ADB to restart after making the changes. Things are more involved with Windows than Mac, because you also have to configure the USB driver, so the two systems are shown here as separate processes:
For Windows:
- In Windows Explorer, navigate to where the file adb_usb.ini is located, at C:\ Users\yourusername\.android\.
- Open the text file adb_usb.ini in a text editor. The file has no visible line breaks, so Wordpad would be a better option than Notepad.
- On the line after the three instruction lines, type 0x1949.
- Make sure there are no blank lines, and the last character in the text file should be the 9 at the end of 0x1949.
- Save.
- Navigate to where android_winusb.inf is located, at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\extras\google\usb_driver\.
- Right-click on the file, and in Properties | Security, select Users from the list, and click on Edit to set the permissions so that you are allowed to write to the file.
- Open android_winusb.inf in Notepad.
- Add these three lines to the [Google.NTx86] and [Google.NTamd64] sections, and save the file.
;Kindle Fire %SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006&MI_01
- You will need to set the Kindle to use the Google USB driver that you just edited.
- In the Windows control panel, Device Manager, find the Kindle entry in the list that is under USB.
- Right-click on the Kindle entry and choose Update Driver Software….
- Choose the option that lets you find the driver on your local drive, navigate to the google\usb_driver\ folder, and select it to be the new driver.
- When the driver is updated, open a command window (handy trick: Shift+right-click on the desktop and select Open command window here).
- Change directories to where the ADB tool is located, by typing the following:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\
- Type these three lines, with pressing Enter after each line:
adb kill-server adb start-server adb devices
- You should see the Kindle Fire listed (as an obscure looking number), as well as the virtual device, if you still have that running.
For Mac (MUCH simpler!):
- Navigate to where the file adb_usb.ini is located. On Mac, in Finder, select the menu Go | Go to Folder…, and type in ~/.android/.
- Open the file adb_usb.ini in a text editor.
- On the line after the three instruction lines, type 0x1949.
- Make sure there are no blank lines; the last character in the text file would be the 9 at the end of 0x1949.
- Save.
- Open Utilities | Terminal.
- You can let OSX know how to find ADB from anywhere, by typing this line (replace yourusername with your username, and also change the path if you installed the Android SDK to a different location):
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/yourusername/Documents/android-sdk- macosx/platform-tools
- Now, enter the same three lines we did with Windows:
adb kill-server adb start-server adb devices
- Again, you should see the Kindle Fire listed.
What just happened?
I suspect that you're going to have nightmares about all those steps! It took a lot of searching on the web to find some of those obscure hacks. The general case with Android devices on Windows is that you have to modify the USB driver for the device to be handled by the Google USB driver, and you may have to modify the adb_usb.ini file (on Mac too) for the device to be considered as an ADB compatible device.
Getting ready to test for iOS
If you carefully went through all those Android steps, especially on Windows, you will hopefully be amused by the brevity of this section! There is a catch though; you can't really test on an iOS device from LiveCode. We'll look at what you have to do instead in a moment, but first, here are the steps required for testing an app in the iOS simulator.
Time for action – using the iOS simulator
The first steps are much like those for Android apps, but then it gets quicker. Remember, this only applies to Mac OS,and you can only do these things on Windows if you are using Mac OS in a virtual machine, and doing that is most likely not covered by the Mac OS user agreement! In other words, it's best to get a Mac if you intend to develop for iOS.
- Open LiveCode, create a new Mainstack, and save the stack to your hard drive.
- Select File | Standalone Application Settings….
- Click on the iOS icon, and select the Build for iOS check box.
- Close the settings dialog box, and take a look at the Development menu.
- You will see a list of simulator options, for iPhone and iPad, and different versions of iOS.
What just happened?
I suspect that you're going to have nightmares about all those steps! It took a lot of searching on the web to find some of those obscure hacks. The general case with Android devices on Windows is that you have to modify the USB driver for the device to be handled by the Google USB driver, and you may have to modify the adb_usb.ini file (on Mac too) for the device to be considered as an ADB compatible device.
Getting ready to test for iOS
If you carefully went through all those Android steps, especially on Windows, you will hopefully be amused by the brevity of this section! There is a catch though; you can't really test on an iOS device from LiveCode. We'll look at what you have to do instead in a moment, but first, here are the steps required for testing an app in the iOS simulator.
Time for action – using the iOS simulator
The first steps are much like those for Android apps, but then it gets quicker. Remember, this only applies to Mac OS,and you can only do these things on Windows if you are using Mac OS in a virtual machine, and doing that is most likely not covered by the Mac OS user agreement! In other words, it's best to get a Mac if you intend to develop for iOS.
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That was it, all it takes to get going with testing using the iOS simulators! Testing on a physical iOS device requires that we create an application first, so let's do that.
(For more resources on Mobile Development, see here.)
Appiness at last!
By this point, you should be able to create a new Mainstack, save it, select either iOS or Android in the Standalone Settings dialog box, and be able to see simulators or virtual devices in the Development/Test menu item. In the case of an Android app, you will also see your device listed, if it is connected via USB at the time.
Time for action – testing a simple stack in the simulators
Feel free to make things that are more elaborate than asked for in these steps! The instructions will be making the assumption that you know how to find things for yourself in the object inspector palette.
- Open LiveCode, create a new Mainstack, and save it to a location where it's easy to find in a moment from now.
- Set the card window to a size of 1024x768, and uncheck the Resizable checkbox.
- Drag a label field into the top-left corner of the card window, and set its contents to something appropriate. Hello World could do nicely!
- If you're developing on Windows, skip to step 11.
- Open the Standalone Application Settings dialog, click on the iOS icon, and select the Build for iOS checkbox.
- Under Orientation Options, set the iPhone initial orientation to Landscape.
- Close the dialog box.
- From the Development/Test Target sub-menu, choose the iPad Simulator.
- Select Test from the Development menu.
- You should be now seeing your test stack running in the iOS simulator!
- As discussed earlier, launch the Android virtual device.
- Open the Standalone Application Settings dialog box , click on the Android icon, and select the Build for Android checkbox.
- Under User Interface Options, set the initial orientation to Landscape.
- Close the dialog box.
- If the virtual device is running by now, do whatever is necessary to get past the locked home screen, if that's what is showing.
- From the Development/Test Target sub-menu, choose the Android emulator.
- Select Test from the Development menu.
- You should be now seeing your test stack running in the Android emulator!
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All being well, you just made and ran your first mobile app, on both Android and iOS! For an encore, we should try it on physical devices, if only to give Android a chance to show how easy it can be to do that. There is a whole can of worms we haven't yet opened to do with getting an iOS device configured so that it can be used for testing. You could visit the iOS Provisioning Portal at https://developer.apple.com/ios/manage/overview/index.action , and look at the How To tab in each of the different sections.
Time for action – testing a simple stack on devices
Get your USB cables ready, and connect the devices to your computer. Android first…
- You should still have Android selected in Standalone Application Settings.
- Get your device to its home screen, past the initial lock screen if there is one.
- Choose Development/Test Target, and select your Android device. It may well say Android and a very long number.
- Choose Development/Test.
- The stack should now be running on your Android device.
Now iOS…
- If you have not have not installed certificates and provisioning files, then you will have to skip this test for now.
- Change the Standalone Application Settings back to iOS.
- Under Basic Application Settings of the iOS settings is a Profle drop-down menu showing the provisioning files that you have installed. Choose the one that is configured for the device you are going to test.
- Close the dialog box, and choose Save as Standalone Application… from the File menu.
- In Finder, locate the folder that was just created, and open it to reveal the app file itself. As we didn't give the stack a sensible name, it will be named Untitled 1.
- Open Xcode, which is in the Developer folder you created earlier, in the Applications sub-folder.
- In Xcode, choose Organizer from the Window menu, and select Devices, if it isn't already selected.
- You should see your device listed. Select it, and if you see a button labeled Use for Development, click on that button.
- Drag the app file straight from Finder to your device in the Organizer window.
- The small colored circle will turn orange for a moment, and then back to green. You can now open the app on your iOS device!
What just happened?
In additton to getting a test stack working on real devices, we also saw how easy it is, once it's all configured, to test a stack straight to an Android device. If you are developing an app that is to be deployed on both Android and iOS, you may find that the fastest way to work is to test with the iOS Simulator for iOS tests, but to test directly on an Android device instead of using the Android SDK virtual devices.
Have a go hero – Nook
Until recently, the Android support for the Nook Color from Barnes and Noble wasn't good enough for LiveCode apps to be installed. It seems to have improved though, and could well be another worthwhile app store for you to target.
Investigate the signing up process, download their SDK, and so on. With any luck some of what you learned in signing up for the other stores will also apply to the Nook store. Here is your starting point:
Further reading
The SDK providers, Google and Apple, have extensive pages of information on setting up their development environments, creating certificates and provisioning files, and so on. The information does have to cover a lot of topics that don't apply to LiveCode, so try not to get lost! These would be good starting pages:
Signing up for programs, file downloading, command-lining your way all over the place, and patiently waiting for the Android emulator to launch, means that it could take the best part of a day to work through what we've covered in this article! Fortunately, you only have to go through it once.
We did work through the tasks that you have to do before you can create a mobile app in LiveCode:
- Download and install the Android SDK
- Sign up as an iOS developer
- Download and install Xcode and the iOS SDKs
- Configure devices and simulators
We also covered some topics that will be useful once you are ready to upload a finished app:
- Signing up for Android Market
- Signing up for Amazon Appstore
Further resources on this subject:
- Creating, Compiling, and Deploying Native Projects from the Android NDK [Article]
- Introducing Xcode Tools for iPhone Development [Article]
- Geolocation and Accelerometer APIs [Article]


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What economic policies were in effect in the years between World War I and World War II (1918 to 1938)?
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Economic policies in the years 1918 to 1938 varied widely. Much of the world was thrown into a recession following the end of World War I and, while the United States and parts of Europe saw periods of economic growth during the 1920s, the Great Depression of 1929 would see serious problems in all the major industrialized or industrializing countries. Germany witnessed economic expansion during the 1930s as a result of war preparations and the total control of industrial production maintained by the government, ruled after 1933 by Adoph Hitler.
In the United States, "laissez faire" economic policies that spurred economic growth during "the Roaring Twenties" were dealt a serious blow by the collapse of the stock market on October 25, 1929, which marked the onset of the Great Depression. The "New Deal" ushered in by President Roosevelt to put Americans back to work resulted in a far greater level of direct govenment involvement in the economy than had heretofore been the case.
One of the causes given for prolonging the depression was the protectionist policies practiced by the major economic powers. These policies saw countries closing their borders to international trade. In the United States, Congress passed the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, which raised tariffs, or taxes, on foreign imports so high that imported goods became too expensive for American companies and individuals to purchase. The intent was to protect American industry from foreign competition.
By shutting out foreign imports, countries were able to establish domestic industries to provide goods no longer coming from abroad. Carried to an exteme, protectionism actually hurt these countries by institutionalizing inefficiencies into domestic production -- in other words, rather than adopt the most economically efficient business practices, which might include importing goods from other countries at a lower price, countries were spending money to build those same components at a higher price -- and by closing off export markets to each other that could have facilitated economic growth. Consequently, each country's intended acts of economic self-preservation ended up hurting everybody.
In Russia, the October 1917, lead by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks, saw the beginning of a level of political and economic turmoil that would not end for many years. From the early days of the Bolshevik Revolution until the consolidation of power by Joseph Stalin, Russian economic policies vacilated between greater and lesser levels of dictatorial control.
Because of the economic devastation resulting from World War I, the revolution, and the ensuing civil war that followed, Lenin determined that the key to Russian economic growth, and to the survival of the Bolshevik regime, was to allow for greater economic freedom than had been the case. From 1921 until 1928, therefore, Russian economic policy was known as "the New Economic Policy." Lenin and his allies in the government believed that capitalist economic practices would be useful in the short term in building up the country's economy.
Stalin's consolidation of power in 1928 resulted in one of the most drastic and deadly economic developments in history: the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture. Millions died as a result. Stalin would henceforth rule with an iron fist and would dictate economic policy.


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Coming up on Current TV's Say Anything tonight, host Joy Behar will discuss topics few would ever admit to wanting to know. Like whether the Romneys have sex.
"Whose marriage is the best?" Behar asks her guests, Susie Essman of the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm and author Logan Levkoff. "The Obamas,'" Essman says without hesitation. "You get the sense that they have sex. You get the sense that there's a relationship there."
"Whereas the Romney's don't?" Behar asks.
"Oh, no. they don't. He's a Ken doll. Ken didn't have a penis," Essman says.
Levkoff tells Essman the next time she sees them, to check with the Romney's whether they have sex. "We don't travel in the same circles," Essman says.
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A lot has been revealed about NHL 13's improvements, but EA Sports and EA Canada aren't done delivering new info in advance of the game's September 11 release.
Today we've got a pair of videos that cover improvements to the title's defensive game and presentation package. The defensive video in particular shows multiple examples of how player-controlled and AI defenses are tougher through better poke-checking, back checking forwards, better positioning, and sticks in passing lanes.
And if that's not good enough of a defense performance, you'll be even more impressed that developer EA Canada managed to get Chris Pronger healthy enough to take the ice again.
For more on the game's GM improvements, check out Bertz's previous preview.
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Bolt Defends Olympic Title and Status as World's Fastest Man; 'I'm Still the Best'
LONDON—Usain Bolt faced plenty of questions in the buildup to the men's 100-meter final Sunday at the London Games. Was he healthy? Was he capable of regaining his old form? Would he recapture the athletic brilliance that catapulted him to Olympic gold and international stardom at the Beijing Games four years ago?
As it turned out, he was ready to provide some answers. Bolt, the 25-year-old Jamaican, defended his lofty status as World's Fastest Man by winning the 100-meter title in an Olympic-record time of 9.63 seconds. Jamaica's Yohan Blake finished second in 9.75 seconds, and Justin Gatlin of the U.S. was third in 9.79 seconds.
"This is where I wanted to become a legend," Bolt said.
When he approached the starting blocks at 9:52 p.m. local time, thousands of flashbulbs framed the scene. Bolt, whose 6-foot-5 frame is packed with fast-twitch muscle fiber, made an elaborate series of hand gestures, and the crowd roared. More than 2 million people applied for tickets to the session, with 80,000 winning the lottery. What they witnessed was something remarkable.
The stadium practically shook as Bolt, running in lane seven, streaked away from his competition. Afterward, he raised his right index finger in the air as he jogged around the perimeter of the track. He embraced Blake, his 22-year-old training partner. He also took part in what surely will be one of the most indelible moments from the London Games: He struck his trademark "lightning bolt" pose alongside Wenlock, the strangely endearing, one-eyed Olympic mascot.
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It was an indication of the race's quality that American Tyson Gay, the second-fastest man in history and a former world champion, finished fourth in 9.80 seconds. He was inconsolable minutes after the race. "There was nothing else I could do," said Gay, who was seeking vindication after a hamstring injury prevented him from even advancing to the final in Beijing. He also underwent career-threatening hip surgery last year. Still, Gay said, "I feel like I let a lot of people down."
Sunday was a mixed bag for American track-and-field athletes. Four years after settling for bronze, Sanya Richards-Ross won gold in the women's 400. She held off Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu, the defending champion, to win in 49.55 seconds. American teammate DeeDee Trotter was third. "I just kept saying, 'You can do this. You can do this,'" Richards-Ross said. "The run was phenomenal. It's very, very challenging to come to the Olympic stage and give your best performance."
The American men's 400-meter contingent knows all about that. They had a disastrous weekend. After gold-medal favorite LaShawn Merritt pulled a hamstring in Saturday's preliminaries, Tony McQuay and Bryshon Nellum took to the track Sunday for their semifinal heats. Neither was able to advance to Monday's final, which will be absent an American for the first time in Olympic history.
Expectations can be tough. Sunday's 100-meter final fulfilled them. The race featured one of the most impressive collections of sprinting talent the world has ever seen. Seven of the eight finalists ran sub-10-second sprints in their semifinals heats earlier Sunday. It certainly was history's deepest field, featuring three former world-record holders in Bolt, Gatlin and Jamaica's Asafa Powell. (Gatlin's record comes with an asterisk, since it was wiped away amid a four-year doping suspension.)
Adding to the intrigue, the track itself had produced super-fast times through the first three days of track-and-field competition. That was apparent in the first of Sunday's three semifinals. Gatlin won the heat in a blistering time of 9.82 seconds. More of a surprise was the performance of Churandy Martina, a 28-year-old Dutchman who set a national record in 9.91 seconds.
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Yet the spotlight was always on Bolt, and has been for four years. After winning gold in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay in 2008, he lowered his world record to a preposterous 9.58 seconds at the 2009 world championships.
Since then, however, Bolt has had some issues. He was disqualified at the 2011 world championships for false starting, and Blake soundly beat him this summer in both the 100 and 200 at the Jamaican Olympic trials. Last week, Bolt acknowledged that he has been affected by a lower-back injury and by stiffness in his hamstrings. It was disconcerting, track's most charismatic star sounding almost mortal.
"There's a lot of people been doubting me, a lot of people saying I didn't look good," Bolt said Sunday. "So it's an even greater feeling to come out and show the world that I'm still No. 1—that I'm still the best."
Before his semifinal heat Sunday, Bolt blew a kiss and then shadowboxed to the delight of the crowd. He looked like a man in total control, and he was: With about 20 meters left, he took a glance to his right, a quick glance to his left, and came to the conclusion that no one was near him. He cruised through the finish in 9.87 seconds.
It was a statement he punctuated a few hours later in the race that counted: The old Bolt was back.
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"While walking on the beach you stumble on a valuable object buried in the sand – say, a piece of jewelry or an envelope full of cash. What do you do with it? Under what circumstances would you keep it?"
I'd like to believe I'm the type of person that would say – "Oh yes, I would immediately take the found item to the nearest local authority and turn it in". But I'm honest enough to say that it depends on what I find. If I did find a piece of jewelry, an exorbitant amount of money in an envelope, or a phone I would try to find the owner or turn it in. But if I found a dollar or something small and there was no one around, I'd probably keep it or give it to someone as a "gift from the universe".
Doesn't that sound like a wonderful idea? You're walking along the beach. Lost in thought, when you come across something. You pick it up, look around to see if someone in sight may have dropped it. When you don't see anyone, take a closer look at the object. Inspecting the surface and contents of the object. It's a sign or gift from the universe. It has given you the exact thing that you didn't know you wanted but once you find it, it's the exact thing you needed.
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We are officially in our 8th month on Savvy Sexy Social and I'm so pleased to report some spectacular growth.
As most of you know, I have been publishing blogs at least daily since August 1st. This change in my editorial calendar resulted in August being our best month EVER with an increase in pageviews of 53% and an increase in absolute unique visitors of 74%.
To give you an idea of how much that affected the blog, prior to blogging daily our average monthly increase since the start of the blog in page views was 4% while unique visitors were only increasing by on average by 9%.
September was also a spectacular month for traffic as the daily blog posting schedule continued with an increase in monthly page views of 18% and an increase in monthly unique visitors of 20%.
And, of course, as traffic increased, I've also seen a great increase in my e-mail subscriber list. A 160% increase in subscribers for the month of August and 55% increase in September.
Goals for Savvy Sexy Social: As we continue to grow, we definitely have some things we need to improve on. Our bounce rate is just a couple percentage points too high at 67%. Ideally, sites should be lower than 65%. Also, I'd like to see my Pages Per Visit stat increase as it has not touched its record high of the first month we launched (when you're new, people are more likely to surf around I suppose).
Takeaway: If you learn anything from the great success that I have seen from Savvy Sexy Social in the last couple months, it should be that you stay in contact with your community and promote the heck out of your content. Blogging on a consistent basis not only keeps your site fresh, but gives you something new to share frequently. This makes promotion easier and more interesting for your social networks. Daily posts may not be the answer for you, but you never know until you test.
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"I've always said I'm not an artist, I'm a craftsman," Ward asserted on a cold December afternoon. "I guess I'm coming to terms with being a reluctant artist, but making something that just goes on display never appealed to me. It has to be functional -- and if it looks good, that's candy."


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During the past year the papers of William D. Workman, Jr., and Walt Lardner were opened for research. Work continued or was begun on the papers of Rembert C. Dennis, Ernest F. Hollings, Harriet Keyserling, Isadore Lourie, and Modjeska Simkins.
The division received additions to the papers of Ernest F. Hollings, Olin D. Johnston, and the Democratic Party of South Carolina. The Johnston material forms a fascinating and valuable addition to the Library's collection as it includes over one hundred letters, ca. 1920-1958, between Johnston and his fiancee, later wife, Gladys Atkinson. Mrs. Johnston was a strong woman with a quick intellect who played a significant role in furthering her husband's career. Before this addition, donated by daughters Liz Patterson and Sallie Scott, the collection contained little evidence of Mrs. Johnston and her influence.
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|Several emerging markets with large Muslim populations combine low bank penetration and a high return on assets with a relatively small market share for Islamic banking, and thus provide further opportunities for growth in the Islamic finance sector. In a speech in the US at the end of September 2011, Islamic Development Bank president Ahmad Mohamed Ali restated the theme he has emphasised ever since the financial crisis took hold in 2008. "The principles of Islamic finance are capable of minimising the severity and frequency of financial crises by introducing greater discipline into the global financial system and requiring the financier to bear or share in the risk," he told his audience...............................................Full Article: Source


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New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes
University of California - Berkeley
New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes
A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by an international team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de Valparaíso Chile, is able to process whole blood samples without the use of external tubing and extra components.
The researchers have dubbed the device SIMBAS, which stands for Self-powered Integrated Microfluidic Blood Analysis System. SIMBAS appeared as the cover story March 7 in the peer-reviewed journal Lab on a Chip.
"The dream of a true lab-on-a-chip has been around for a while, but most systems developed thus far have not been truly autonomous," said Ivan Dimov, UC Berkeley post-doctoral researcher in bioengineering and co-lead author of the study. "By the time you add tubing and sample prep setup components required to make previous chips function, they lose their characteristic of being small, portable and cheap. In our device, there are no external connections or tubing required, so this can truly become a point-of-care system."
Dimov works in the lab of the study's principal investigator, Luke Lee, UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering and co-director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center.
"This is a very important development for global healthcare diagnostics," said Lee. "Field workers would be able to use this device to detect diseases such as HIV or tuberculosis in a matter of minutes. The fact that we reduced the complexity of the biochip and used plastic components makes it much easier to manufacture in high volume at low cost. Our goal is to address global health care needs with diagnostic devices that are functional, cheap and truly portable."
For the new SIMBAS biochip, the researchers took advantage of the laws of microscale physics to speed up processes that may take hours or days in a traditional lab. They note, for example, that the sediment in red wine that usually takes days to years to settle can occur in mere seconds on the microscale.
The SIMBAS biochip uses trenches patterned underneath microfluidic channels that are about the width of a human hair. When whole blood is dropped onto the chip's inlets, the relatively heavy red and white blood cells settle down into the trenches, separating from the clear blood plasma. The blood moves through the chip in a process called degas-driven flow.
For degas-driven flow, air molecules inside the porous polymeric device are removed by placing the device in a vacuum-sealed package. When the seal is broken, the device is brought to atmospheric conditions, and air molecules are reabsorbed into the device material. This generates a pressure difference, which drives the blood fluid flow in the chip.
In experiments, the researchers were able to capture more than 99 percent of the blood cells in the trenches and selectively separate plasma using this method.
"This prep work of separating the blood components for analysis is done with gravity, so samples are naturally absorbed and propelled into the chip without the need for external power," said Dimov.
The team demonstrated the proof-of-concept of SIMBAS by placing into the chip's inlet a 5-microliter sample of whole blood that contained biotin (vitamin B7) at a concentration of about 1 part per 40 billion.
"That can be roughly thought of as finding a fine grain of sand in a 1700-gallon sand pile," said Dimov.
The biodetectors in the SIMBAS chip provided a readout of the biotin levels in 10 minutes.
"Imagine if you had something as cheap and as easy to use as a pregnancy test, but that could quickly diagnose HIV and TB," said Benjamin Ross, a UC Berkeley graduate student in bioengineering and study co-author. "That would be a real game-changer. It could save millions of lives."
"The SIMBAS platform may create an effective molecular diagnostic biochip platform for cancer, cardiac disease, sepsis and other diseases in developed countries as well," said Lee.
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Hopefully the last thing I'll have to say to Michael Nugent.
I'd like to say that I understand Michael Nugent's claims that he's been misrepresented. But I don't. He's been represented.
I don't know why you need to keep posting your CV. We get it, Michael, you've done all kinds of good. Nobody ever said otherwise. But we still get to criticise you if we want. We want. We want because you are failing to take a stand on horrible behaviour. Bewilderingly, you insist on claiming that our criticisms are about you, your past and your achievements rather than about your blind – and repeatedly pointed out to you – ignorance. You deliberately and repeatedly fail to see that we don't need or want heroes; that we admire the good things people do and deplore the bad.
That seems to me the essence of what it means to be an atheist. Christopher Hitchens was admirable in many ways and I mourn the fact that he is dead. But let's be clear, he was a dick about some things. Richard Dawkins was responsible for my becoming a scientist. I devoured The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype. The enthusiasm with which Richard communicates science is infectious. He's always been one of the biggest influences of my life and probably always will be. I've met him. He's utterly charming. But he's clueless about several important things.
Michael, this is how we do hero worship, if we're smart: we celebrate the good and deplore the bad. Personally, I celebrate the things Darwin was wrong about. They seem stupid in hindsight, but they were honest and fairly – at the time – reasonable attempts to solve a problem his theory predicted. That is hugely impressive, more than I'll ever do. There should be a movie about how and why he was wrong about what came to be genetics. It's one of the most interesting and human stories there is.
And there's another side to this hero business, isn't there? We know that great responsibility is a consequence of great power. Geeks like us are only just learning what that means. To be an atheist or to be a skeptic has a social consequence that I don't think we can ignore. To be a putative leader in the atheist/skeptic movements, moreso.
So, Michael, worship heroes if you like, but recognise their failures and limitations. Worship heroes all you want but don't be afraid to criticise them when they're wrong. Don't tell other people that they're wrong to criticise your personal heroes. Don't let clueless rhetoric blind your otherwise good instincts for social justice.
And for fucks sake stop crying about smears.
Some people – including me – think you've done lots of good things for the atheist movement but have utterly disgraced yourself by tacitly endorsing horrible views and insisting that criticisms are smears. Your cluelessness was first evident to me when you insisted that victims of abuse ought to talk genially with their abusers. Lots of people explained why you were wrong but you didn't listen. In this new case, there are at least two sides. One side constantly reinforces you because it likes what you say, whatever you say since you're now a champion of horrible people. The other side criticises some of the things you've done.
Criticisms are not smears, Michael. I can tell you about smears. I can tell you that some of the people commenting on your blog have made entirely untrue and public accusations about me. Those are smears. Criticisms of you are not.


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Increasing acceptance of same-sex marriage among African American voters could propel Maryland to become the first state to legalize same-sex marriage through a ballot referendum.
Maryland voters are being asked to uphold or reject an act signed into law this year that grants same-sex couples the right to marriage licenses. Maryland is one of four states with same-sex marriage on the ballot next week.
Initially, opposition among African American churches presented a formidable obstacle in a state whose population is almost one-third black and is among the nation's most reliable Democratic states.
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But recent polls have revealed a shift in African American attitudes, which could have implications for same-sex measures around the nation, including those in Minnesota, Maine and Washington state. Support for marriage rights from President Obama has contributed to a growing acceptance among blacks that parallels evolving attitudes in the population as a whole.
Maryland's measure - known as Question 6 - was put on the ballot as a referendum by opponents of the Civil Marriage Protection Act signed into law in March. Its passage would uphold the law and mark the nation's first endorsement of same-sex marriage from voters.
A Washington Post poll this month showed the measure ahead by nine percentage points, though a Baltimore Sun poll released last weekend showed it a dead heat. If approved, the law will go into effect on Jan. 1.
Same-sex marriage has been rejected in all 32 states in which it has been on the ballot, including in California, where voters approved a ban on such unions in 2008 through Proposition 8. Exit polls found that a strong majority of black voters had supported a ban.
A Pew Research poll in 2010 found that 30 percent of African Americans nationwide supported same-sex marriage. The poll found that support had jumped to 39 percent by July.
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ANCHORAGE - A record-tying number of bears were killed this year in Anchorage.
Most of the bear deaths were the result of people leaving out trash and other edibles, according to wildlife biologists.
The high number of nuisance bear deaths occurred despite another aggressive campaign by state biologists and wildlife groups and citations handed to chronic offenders for leaving out trash.
Two black bears were struck by vehicles, bringing to 21 the total number of bears killed in Anchorage. Also included in that count were 15 black bears shot or captured near town plus two brown bear sows that were shot after they charged hunters in Chugach State Park. Two cubs also died.
The deaths are a tie with the 21 bears killed in 2000.
The city's boundaries include the half-million-acre Chugach State Park. This wilderness area overlaps suburban areas and city parks, bringing bears into residential areas.
Most of this season's bear deaths can be traced to the same problem that has bedeviled these neighborhoods for years: People keep leaving out stuff that bears like to eat.
"I think some people aren't getting it," said assistant area biologist Jessy Coltrane, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
At least 250 black bears are thought to live between the Knik River and Turnagain Arm, with one-third of them foraging in or near populated areas. Sixty brown bears overlap the area, with at least a dozen thought to live close to people.
Most of these animals never get into trouble. But with the spread of housing, more black bears have learned to seek food near people.
During the past 11 seasons, 129 black bears have been shot by residents or hit by vehicles. In that same period, 29 brown bears have died for the same reasons, 14 in the past three years.
The totals don't include a dozen black bears killed yearly in legal hunts in remote areas of the municipality.
"This was the worst year ever for bears in Anchorage, by almost any measure," said biologist Rick Sinnott, who manages state-approved hunts and wildlife conflicts within Anchorage for the state Department of Fish and Game.
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Ancestors of MARY STODGHILL who married WILLIAM HERRING
Hello Herring Cousins... I have found a ship-load of info and would like to have it verified. It's astronomical, in my opinion. I descend from William Herring and Mary Stodghill through their son William. Listed below are the ancestors of Mary Stodghill/Stodgill/Sturgill. Couples are listed starting with the husband, although the line might branch off with the wife...
William Herring married Mary Stodghill
James Stodghill married Ann Williams Blackstone
Argyle Blackstone married Elizabeth Armstrong
Argyle Blackstone married Alice Hawkins
Thomas Blackstone married Sarah __________
William Blackiston married Jane Lambton
John Blakiston married Elizabeth Bowes
George Bowes married Muriel Eure
Ralph Bowes married Elizabeth Clifford
Henry 10th Baron Clifford married Anne St. John
John 9th Baron Clifford married Margaret Bromflete
Thomas 8th Baron Clifford married Joan (Joanne) Dacre
John 7th Baron Clifford married Elizabeth Percy
Henry "Hotspur" Percy married Elizabeth Mortimer
Edmund Mortimer married Philippa Plantagenet
Lionel of Antwerp Plantagenet married Elizabeth de Burgh
King Edward III Plantagenet married Philippa of Hainault
King Edward II Plantagenet married Isabella of France
King Wedward I Plantagenet married Eleanor of Castile
King Henry III married Eleanor of Provence
King John Lackland Plantagenet married Isabella of Taillefer
King Henry II Plantagenet married Eleanor of Aquitaine
Geoffrey of Anjou Plantagenet married Empress Matilda of Normandy
King Henry I of Normandy married (Edith) Matilda of Scotland
William the Conqueror of Normandy married Matilda of Flanders
Robert I of Normandy did not marry Herleva de Falaise
Richard II of Normandy married Judith of Rennes
Richard I of Normandy married Gunnora de Crepon
William I of Normandy married Sprota
Rollo of Normandy married Poppa
NOTE: I also have where this branches off and shows we descend from Alfred the Great (which includes the sister of Cleopatra).
Through research in BOOKS, I know that everything I posted is correct from the Cliffords to Rollo and Poppa. I'd like confirmation on the info from Elizabeth Clifford who married Ralph Bowes down to William Herring who married Mary Stodghill. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!
Many thanks!
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The foundation of all basic human rights, regardless of any 'isms' or any variable ideological cloak that a factor may be draped in, is the right to live. Beneath this right to live lies the uppermost important criterion of the availing of the means to livelihood.
There-under, again, the number one issue is the availing of the sustainable means to the all-important matter of existence.
In a nutshell, the affordability of basic necessities that sustain life is what each and every Somalilander (just as any human being elsewhere) has the right to. When the basic cost of the necessary commodities that are imperative in sustaining livelihood is beyond reach, technically and practically for that matter, there is no life in any given society.
Over the past several years we have witnessed the sky rocketing of the costs of basic necessary commodities due to subsequent and permanent monthly hiking of the prices of the same. The overall situation is indeed grim and need serious surgical operation to overhaul and reverse it.
Day after day, week after week and gradually and perpetually have this nation been bitten again and again with high-cost fangs and subjected to irredeemable pains due to the severe lack of economical means to sustain life.
The inflation of the currency may be an issue people may pick as a culprit.
As we hail the President for forming a task force to delve into matter, our prayers and hopes are however that the real problem that they would palpate should be fully addressed promptly thereafter.
Other than pointing a finger on the inflation rate as assumed aspersions of many a people are caste, we beg to logically deal with real aspects on the ground.
SL'S home currency change to the dollar have more or less remained averagely the same for a long while.
Price of commodities, apart from places like the US and some western countries who have or undergoing recession for one or other reasons hence (since last economic crash) have not experienced any other effect on world economy, have largely been on the descent.
This is because the past seven years have seen perennial drop in global oil prices.
The world oil prices which directly has effects on all economies anywhere and everywhere have further nose-dived in the past several months due to complex western pressure on Saudi and other Arab producers, who are currently over producing, to step up the momentum .
This should naturally have had its impact reflected on our economy and we should have seen or experienced gradual and constant drop in our own petroleum products.
In effect, the same descent in prices and costs should have naturally been reflected in the normal basic commodities of necessity hence should similarly have come down, again gradually.
The irony is that in SL the opposite have been largely happening for a long time.
May be the local entrepreneurs have been manipulating the increases of local taxation to exploit the situation.
As unscrupulous sharks, their increases do not correspond, tally nor proportionally match our local taxation. Theirs is extortion. Their prices are exorbitant. Their reasons are illogical. Their arguments do not hold any water at all.
The government should have reined in on these entrepreneurs and save the masses from their fleecing.
Perhaps some public services may have not been let out to them.
From water, electricity, public transport, health to educational and associate services which have now become out of reach to the commoners, the afflictions are quite stark.
The common folks have barely celebrated the past two or so Eid celebrations for lack of the power of purchasing.
We plead to the committee charged to delve into this issue to be diligent with thoughtfulness, sincerity and faithfulness to both the masses and the President who have appointed them in good faith.
We hope that whatever they come up with will really be more than a creamy topical smear but shall usher in a real anti-dote to what is plaguing the economy.
We thank the President for addressing this issue. Many members of the public have had their morale boosted by the task force.


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First of all I LOVE this app and how helpful it's been in organizing my wedding details! My mother-in-law is planning the Rehearsal dinner but she's not as tech Savvy as this app requires. I do also believe that it would save a lot more time as well by having an option to print the guest list out without having to download the entire spreadsheet on Excel and having to work on the cosmetics for it. I hope to see this feature soon! I know it will be very effective! Keep up the great work!
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Totally agree, You should be able to print/view and save all Yes RSVP's or have some options for doing so.


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Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns 36 today. He began acting as a child and started to become well known for a pair of roles he played as a teenager, Tommy Solomon in 3rd Rock from the Sun and Cameron James in 10 Things I Hate About You. He scaled back his acting career for a few years while studying at Columbia University, but eventually dropped out and returned to film and television. One of his first films after doing so was a film noir pastiche set in a high school:


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Ausmus named coach of Israel for Classic
Green, Kapler commit; team hopeful for Braun, Youk, Kinsler
The former All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner said he has already received commitments from former Major Leaguers Shawn Green and Gabe Kapler. Ausmus also hopes to recruit other Jewish big leaguers, such as Ryan Braun, Kevin Youkilis and Ian Kinsler.
World Baseball Classic rules permit countries to field players who are eligible for citizenship in that country, regardless of whether they are actual citizens or not. For Israel, that means it could potentially land Major Leaguers like Braun, Youkilis and Kinsler, as well as Ike Davis, Jason Marquis, Sam Fuld, Danny Valencia and Scott Feldman.
In November, Israel will compete in the WBC Qualifiers in Jupiter, Fla., as part of a four-team group that also includes France, South Africa and Spain. The winner of that group, along with the winners of three other groups will join 12 already qualified countries to make up the 16-team field for the 2013 competition.
As for the two players already committed to Israel, Green last played in the Majors in 2007, while Kapler retired in 2010. Green, a two-time All-Star, hit 328 career home runs, breaking the 40-homer plateau in three separate seasons. Kapler, meanwhile, hit .268 with 82 homers over 12 Major League seasons with six different teams.
Ausmus retired as a Dodger in 2010 after 18 big league seasons, 10 of which were spent with the Astros. He currently works as a special assistant for the Padres.
Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella.