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We got a sneak peek of the new Somerset Berkley Regional High School building, and it is a sight to behold. The state-of-the-art facility was completed on time and on budget — quite a feat for a large project like this.
We got a sneak peek of the new Somerset Berkley Regional High School building, and it is a sight to behold. The state-of-the-art facility was completed on time and on budget — quite a feat for a large project like this.
School administrators, including newly promoted Principal David Lanczycki, and vice principals Susan Brelsford and Kim DeCouto, began moving into their offices this week. Athletes involved in fall sports will begin to use the athletic facilities in mid-August.
With the school set to open for teachers Aug. 27, with freshmen beginning Sept. 2 and the rest of the students starting Sept. 3, teachers and students will see a major upgrade in their learning environment from the old high school, built in 1936.
The public will get its first close-up look of the building following a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the school on Aug. 25 at 3 p.m. About 40 student leaders will guide the tours of the new school. The new building features three levels dedicated to academics and two stories of common areas. Meanwhile, it's not just students and teachers who will be able to enjoy these facilities. Some of the common spaces will be open to the public, making the new state-of-the-art high school a great resource for the entire Somerset-Berkley regional community.
One of the highlights includes the gorgeous two-story, oak paneled library with natural lighting, making the library a place where students will want to study, work on projects, conduct research and read. Modern technology in the library includes rows of computer stations and media equipment.
The professional-quality auditorium, meanwhile, will offer state-of-the-art equipment and a space for students and the community to showcase their talents and take in the arts and culture. The auditorium, seating 800, will be available for public use via rental fees, a new source of revenue for the school. It also offers a great venue for town meetings.
The gymnasium, meanwhile, can seat up to 3,200 people and with audio and visual equipment, events occurring in the nearby auditorium can be simulcast these. It features a walnut gym floor, with four layers supporting cushioning and play.
The cafeteria, featuring natural lighting, opens out to a patio where students and teachers will be able to dine "al fresco." With the natural lighting available, the school district may be able to save energy and electricity costs.
The $82.38 million project, with 60 percent of the cost reimbursed by the state after the two communities voted to regionalize, represents the end of a controversial 15-year quest to build the new school. The all-volunteer building committee, which has spent the past three years overseeing the new construction, deserves a lot of credit for their great work.
It is clear to see how this new school will be an ideal learning environment for Somerset and Berkley students. Now that the regional high school is set to open in a little over a month, all residents of Somerset and Berkley ought to take some time to appreciate the great investment in their communities' children this new building will represent for generations to come.


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We have all ran into software inconveniences. These are things that you can basically do but for some reason or another are unintuitive, hard or needlessly complex. When you air your concerns on these issues, sometimes they get fixed. At other times you get back a reply starting with "Well in general you may have a point, but …".
The rest of the sentence is something along the lines of these examples:
"… you only have to do it once so it's no big deal."
"… there are cases where [e.g. autodetection] would not work so having the user [manually do task X] is the only way to be reliable."
"… I don't see any problem, in fact I like it the way it is."
"… replacing [the horrible thing in question] with something better is too much work."
"… fixing that would change things and change is bad."
"… that is the established standard way of doing things."
"… having a human being write that in is good, it means that the input is inspected."
These are all fine and acceptable reasonings under certain circumstances. In fact, they are great! Let's see what life would be like in a parallel universe where people had followed them slavishly.
Booting Linux: an adventure for the brave
You arrive to your work computer and turn it on. The LILO boot prompt comes up as usually. You type in the partition you want to boot from. This you must do every time because you might have changed partition settings and thus make LILO go out of sync. You type in your boot stanza sure in the knowledge that you get 100% rock solid boot every time.
Except when you have a typo in your boot command but a computer can't work around that. And that happens only rarely anyways and why would you boot your computer more than once per month?
Once the kernel has loaded, you type in the kernel modules you need to use the machine. You also type in all extra parameters those modules require because some chipsets may work incorrectly sometimes (or so you have been told). So you type in some dozen strings of hexadecimal numbers and really enjoy it in a stockholmesque way.
Finally all the data is put in and the system will boot itself. Then it is time to type in your network settings. In this universe there is no Protocol to Configure network Host settings Dynamically. And why would there be? Any bug in such a system would render the entire network unusable. No, the only way to ensure that things work is to configure network settings by hand every time. Errors in settings cause only one machine to break, not the entire network. Unless you mix gateway/netmask/IP addresses but surely no-one is that stupid? And if they are, it's their own damn fault! Having things fail spectacularly is GOOD because it shames people into doing the right thing.
After this and a couple of other simple things (each of which you only need to do once, remember) you finally have a working machine. You log on.
Into a text console, naturally. Not all people need X so it should not be started by default. Resources must be used judiciously after all.
But you only need to start X once per session so no biggie. Just like you only need to write in your monitor modeline once per X startup because autodetection might fail and cause HW failure. The modeline can not be stored in a file and used automatically because you might have plugged in a different monitor. Typing it in every time is the only way to be sure. Or would you rather die horribly in a fire caused by incorrect monitor parameters?
After all that is done you can finally fire up an XTerm to start working. But today you feel like increasing the font size a bit. This is about as simple as can get. XTerm stores a list of font sizes it will display in XResources. All you have to do is to edit them, shut down X and start it up again.
Easy as pie. And the best part: you only have to do this once.
Well, once every time you want to add new font sizes. But how often is that, really?
The examples listed above are but a small fraction of reality. If computer users had to do all "one time only" things, they would easily take the entire eight hour work day. The reason they don't is that some developer Out There has followed this simple rule:
Almost every task that needs to be done "one time only" should, in fact, be done exactly zero times.

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FREDERICKSBURG, VA – The York College women's basketball suffered a familiar fate as they fell to the University of Mary Washington Eagles 55-49 in the semifinals of the Capital Athletic Conference tournament on Thursday night in Fredericksburg, VA.
The Spartan loss to the Eagles is their 12th straight setback against their foe from Fredericksburg.
The Eagles, who are likely NCAA tournament bound no matter their result in the CAC Championship game at Marymount Saturday, improve to 20-6 overall. The Spartans likely conclude their solid season with a mark of 20-7.
The Spartans were never able to overcome a nightmarish first half that saw them score a mere 12 points on 15% shooting from the floor. The 12 points were their lowest first half output of the season.
The first half saw the hosts sprint out of the gate, barraging the Spartan defense with a variety of jump shots early. The Eagles hit the Spartans with a 12-2 start to the contest as York was poised to get blown out of Anderson Arena only six minutes into the game.
Thankfully for York, the Eagles then went cold from the field, allowing the equally frigid Spartan offense to stay in the game. The Eagles scored just two points over the next 11:33 as York cut their deficit to 14-9 with 2:53 left in the half. The Eagles then scored six straight before junior point guard Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough) hit a three pointer at the horn drawing York to eight at 20-12 at the break.
The Spartans struggled in the opening 20 minutes as they went just 4-for-26 from the floor and 1-for-5 from three. The Green and White also went just 3-for-6 from the charity stripe. The Eagles weren't much better as they went 9-for-23 (39%) from the field and 2-for-6 from the line. Take away the hosts' 6-for-9 start and Mary Washington went 3-for-14 over the final 14:20 of the opening half.
The second half didn't get off to a much better start as the Eagles used the opening nine minutes of the stanza to push the lead to 13 on an Amanda Witmer triple with 11:58 left in the game.
That's when the Spartans climbed back into the game. The Green and White went on a 15-4 run that cut the Eagle lead to 36-34 with 6:34 remaining in the game. York eventually cut the lead to one on a Loreta Tonuzi lay up with 3:18 left. That would be as close as York would get as Aubrey Howland pushed the lead back to four with a three-point play.
Junior Brittany Hicks (Dover, Pa./York Catholic) hit a pair of free throws at the 1:15 mark, bringing York back to within two at 48-46 but Aby Diop answered with a huge lay up, pushing it back to four. After the Eagles got a stop, Carol Dye was fould and missed the front end of the one-and-one with 44 seconds left. Hicks corralled the rebound and was promptly fouled. She split the pair and Dye notched the rebound and was again fouled. That began the Eagle parade to the free throw line where they converted five of their final six attempts over the last 40 seconds to salt away the win.
Point guard Sam Partonen led the Eagles as she tallied 15 points, four rebounds, and two assists in 36 minutes of work. Dye notched a double-double with 14 points and a game-high 11 rebounds as the senior center also notched three blocked shots. Howland was the third Eagle in double figures with 14 points while she also collected seven boards.
Hicks paced the Spartans as she matched Partonen with a game-high 15 points. Hicks narrowly missed her 16th double-double of the year with a team-high nine rebounds. Junior Kristen Haley (Silver Spring, Md./Georgetown Visitation) added 11 points and seven rebounds while Wallpher added 11 points, five assists, four rebounds, and two blocked shots as she did not come off the court for York.
The Spartans shot the ball much better in the second half as they converted 14-of-31 (45.2%) but their overall shooting percentage just nudged above 31% for the game. York went a season-worst 1-for-10 from three. It is the third time this season that York has made only one triple in a game and the Spartans were 1-2 in those contests. York went 12-for-17 (70.6%) from the stripe in the game including 9-for-11 in the second half.
Mary Washington shot 36.4% for the game including an uncharacteristic 2-for-17 from three. The Eagles were just good enough at the free throw line to hold off the Spartans as UMW converted 13-of-19 at the stripe.
The Eagles edged York on the glass 41-39 while both teams had 12 turnovers in a very statistically even game.
The Spartans must now wait until Monday to see if their slim chances of getting into the NCAA Tournament becomes reality. The Green and White currently sits seventh in the regional rankings and traditionally the top six teams in the region get selected into the tournament. The NCAA announces the tournament field on Monday morning.
York must say goodbye to seniors Loreta Tonuzi (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan) and guard Megan Lanigan (Staten Island, N.Y./Moore Catholic) who concluded their careers with the loss.
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April 10, 2013
A nasal spray that will make men more faithful, increase generosity toward others, even boost teamwork in athletes? If one is to believe all the recent headlines around oxytocin, a hormone produced in the brain and variously dubbed the "love chemical," the "trust hormone," and, in a new best-selling book, the "moral molecule," one might think scientists have discovered the panacea to everything from adulterous spouses to serious psychiatric disorders. Not to mention the answer to a used-car salesman's dream.
The "world's first trust-enhancing spray," which purportedly contains oxytocin, is sold on a website that greets visitors with a sultry female voice promising increased sales, more love, and greater accomplishments–all for under $30. It's this kind of snake-oil salesmanship that worries scientists like Dana Alliance member Martha Farah, Ph.D., a neuroethicist and director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania, because it takes nuggets of bona fide science and blows them into unsupportable–even outrageous–claims. Farah, having just completed a forthcoming review paper on the ethics of oxytocin, finds the research "fascinating and slightly creepy."
"There is a lot of hype out there," Farah confers. But she is quick to add: "Oxytocin research does deserve the attention it's been getting, because it represents a beautiful example of how neuroscience can illuminate important aspects of psychology and even what one might call the 'human experience.'"
Farah is not alone in her cautious enthusiasm about oxytocin. As research on oxytocin has exploded–more than 40 clinical trials are underway investigating oxytocin as a potential treatment for a range of behavioral and psychiatric disorders–some scientists are ringing a warning bell about how little is really known about the brain chemical everyone suddenly seems to love.
"There's a lot of 'neurojunk' around oxytocin," says Dana Alliance member Patricia Churchland, Ph.D., a neurophilosopher and professor emeritus at the University of California-San Diego. "There is a misperception to the effect that by increasing levels of oxytocin, you make people more pro-social, more altruistic, nicer, kinder, and so forth. The evidence for that is really shockingly thin."
What is clear is that oxytocin plays important roles in reproduction, childbirth, and maternal bonding, roles that have been studied extensively since the 1960's and 1970's. (Oxytocin was discovered and synthesized in the early 1950's, work that earned Vincent du Vigneaud, Ph.D., the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.) In the 1990's, research by behavioral neuroendocrinologist Sue Carter, Ph.D., now at RTI International in North Carolina, added pair bonding to the list of oxytocin roles. She and others have studied prairie voles, a rodent species that is unusual because it pairs for life. Prairie voles, it turns out, have exceedingly high levels of endogenous oxytocin compared to other vole species that are promiscuous.
These findings set off a new wave of research aimed at elucidating oxytocin's role in mating behavior–and likely earned the neurochemical its first nickname as the "love molecule." Then, about 10 years ago, Swiss neuroeconomist Ernst Fehr, Ph.D., published a paper in Nature showing that people who received a sniff of oxytocin nasal spray were more trusting–willing to entrust significantly more money to strangers in a role-playing game. Thus came the "trust molecule" moniker. Since then, many more researchers have dived into oxytocin research, and hundreds of studies have linked it to a wide array of pro-social and altruistic behavior–work that has helped oxytocin earn its latest alias as the "moral molecule."
This research has also caught the attention of psychiatrists and clinicians. Nearly every psychiatric disorder impacts social behavior in one way or another, and there is a dearth of drug therapies that effectively treat these social symptoms. Now, Big Pharma is paying attention to oxytocin as well.
In 2009, Australian researchers published a small study of 16 boys with autism, finding modest improvements in social cognition tasks such as recognizing emotional states from faces. The floodgates were opened, and dozens more studies have investigated the potential of oxytocin administration for improving social symptoms in a wide array of mental disorders, with some promising though preliminary results. Clinical trials are currently underway in autism and other psychiatric conditions, including but not limited to alcoholism, substance abuse, social anxiety, dementia, and schizophrenia.
Most notably, a large, government-funded trial is now recruiting participants for a placebo-controlled, double-blinded study investigating oxytocin's potential for the social deficits of autism spectrum disorders. Led by Linmarie Sikich, M.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the trial seeks to enroll 300 children aged 3-17, who will each receive a daily dose of oxytocin nasal spray for six months.
The study, the largest one to date, is being promoted heavily by autism advocates and has, according to some reports, sent many parents of autistic children–desperate for something that might help their kids–seeking out oxytocin online in order to administer it to their children themselves, outside of a clinical trial. This is a troubling trend, say researchers.
Karen Bales, an oxytocin researcher at the University of California, Davis, is one scientist who has raised a cautionary flag. Her concern is that no one knows the effects of repeatedly dosing children with oxytocin during critical developmental years. Her own research over the last decade in prairie voles has found long-term neurobehavioral effects after even a single dose of oxytocin. Last year, she published a report[1] showing that prairie voles who were administered oxytocin daily during adolescence exhibited abnormal mating behavior as adults. Other work showed that happily mated female prairie voles became promiscuous after receiving oxytocin.
Churchland calls it the "Goldilocks phenomenon." With oxytocin, it seems, "too little is not so great, and too much is not so great; it has to be just right. The problem is, we don't really know what 'just right' is," she says.
Churchland recently co-authored a paper[2] (with Piotr Winkielman, Ph.D.) examining research reports on oxytocin, finding troubling methodological problems with many published studies. Untangling oxytocin's role in human social behavior is a challenge, she says, because it is released in the brain but found in many parts of the body, and because it interacts in complex, largely unknown ways with myriad other hormones and biochemicals that modulate neuronal behavior. Moreover, oxytocin is highly unstable and does not readily cross the blood-brain barrier, making accurate measurement of brain levels extremely difficult.
In human studies, investigators typically use intranasal sprays to administer oxytocin, then observe any changes in behavior in the study subjects. This methodology has been used in studies that have variously shown, for example, that after oxytocin administration people tend to be more generous and trusting in role-playing games, men will physically avoid an attractive woman who is not their romantic partner, and members of a sports team play better together. Sorting out whether those behaviors are truly caused by fluctuations in oxytocin levels in the brain is another matter entirely, and Churchland for one is not convinced by the data she's seen.
"It's really important to separate the hype from the science, because the real complexity that's involved in all of the roles oxytocin seems to play has not been entirely researched yet," she says. "There is so much we don't know."
Even with so many unanswered questions, it's clear that oxytocin is an important molecule–maybe even a critical linchpin–in the complicated neurobiology of social behaviors. What's also clear is that it doesn't act in a vacuum, but interacts with many other hormones and peptides to exert its effects in the brain and body.
"Neurochemicals can't do anything on their own," Churchland says. "They depend on the right kind of neurons and the right kind of circuits to achieve certain kinds of effects. It's not a story of oxytocin alone."
Farah echoes this caution. As a neuroethicist she is particularly interested in the potential nonclinical "enhancement" applications of oxytocin, such as to improve child-rearing or marital stability, military interrogations, or business and workplace applications.
"It might be tempting to look at the fascinating results of oxytocin research in humans and call oxytocin 'the moral molecule' or the 'love molecule,' but if you've been paying attention to the last few decades of behavioral neuroscience research, you should be prepared to discover that oxytocin is just one part–albeit an important part–of the physiology of morality and love," says Farah.
"It's frustrating to see the science oversimplified in the media, and even by some researchers," she adds. "You would think we'd have learned our lesson by now."
Published April 2013
[2] Churchland PS, Winkielman P. Modulating social behavior with oxytocin: How does it work? What does it mean? Hormones and Behavior 2012; 61:392-399.
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Back at BlackBerry Jam Americas in May, we talked about the BlackBerry 10.2 SDK that would be available in June. Well, it's June and we now have brand new updates available for you to experiment and build with. These updates include additions to the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK and both our Android and Adobe AIR run-times. We have also been up-streaming core HTML5 BlackBerry 10 support into Apache Cordova and it should be hitting an official Cordova PhoneGap release very soon!
The updates to the run-times have been ones that have had a lot of anticipation. Adobe AIR 3.5 brings with it Stage3D for accelerated OpenGL graphics and the Android run-time upgrade brings it up to Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) compatibility. As with any beta, this is a work in progress as we work our way towards the gold release of the BlackBerry 10.2 SDK. Known issues will be outlined in the release notes for each run-time.
There are also BlackBerry 10.2 SDK OS updates for BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha B and C testing devices as well as the BlackBerry 10.2 SDK OS updates available for those who have BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones. All updates can be performed via the autoloader tool. Again, this is an SDK OS beta that is a trimmed down version of the BlackBerry 10.2 Operating System and is meant to provide a testing environment for you to try out the new SDK and experiment with the added capabilities that have been released. We have also released BlackBerry 10.2 SDK OS updates for the simulator. For this first release, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean testing is not yet supported in the simulator.
If you run into any issues or find bugs, please be sure to report them in the forums and the Developer Issue Tracker to make sure that we have them logged and ensure they are fixed for the BlackBerry 10.2 Gold SDK.We value your feedback as we continue to build the best mobile platform for our users.
There's a bunch of new functionality that's available in the beta and I encourage you to check out the roadmap pages and release notes for your favorite run-time to find out what all has been made available in this release. We have a lot more functionality scheduled to arrive in the BlackBerry 10.2 Gold SDK release as well, so I encourage you to check back often with the roadmap pages to find out more on timing and details.
So with all that said… grab the latest SDKs and development OS and have some fun coding!
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Jan. 28, 2012
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team won 11 of 16 events and defeated visiting Plymouth State, 160.5-121.5, in a dual meet at the Tripp Athletic Center Saturday.
Sophomore Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS) won three events, taking the 200 yard freestyle in 2:04.09, the 50 yard freestyle in 27.39 seconds, and the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:14.04. Senior Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS) and junior Maggie Conlon (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS) each won twice, with Maki taking the 1000 yard freestyle in 11:40.09 and the 200 yard individual medley in 2:26.16, and Conlon winning the 50 yard backstroke in 31.44 seconds, and the 50 yard butterfly in 29.52 seconds. The other winners were senior Kim Moore (Billerica, MA/Billerica HS), who won the 500 yard freestyle in 5:49.83, and junior Lindsay Days(Mattapoisett, MA/Bishop Stang HS), who took the 50 yard breaststroke in 36.27 seconds.
The Corsairs also won two relays, with the team of freshman Amanda Couture (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS), Days, Conlon and freshman Leslie Martin(Pittsfield, MA/Pittsfield HS) winning the 200 yard medley relay in 2:04.59, and the group of Conlon, Cooper, Maki and Couture took first in the 400 yard freestyle relay in 4:03.45.
"We had a very nice meet today," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "Our team and coaching staff are extremely excited about the way we are swimming. Although our team is tired, we are still qualifying people to swim at the New England Championships. It's been a long week, swimming three meets in five days. We are looking forward to our last meet of the regular season next Saturday against Colby-Sawyer."
UMass Dartmouth's women are now 4-6, while the PSU women are also 4-6.
The Corsairs will return to action when they host Colby-Sawyer next Saturday, while the Panthers will host Simmons next Saturday.


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Weight & length - 23 lbs 13 oz & 29.5" long (at 10 months he was 23 lbs 5oz )
Varen 11 months old
Sleeping Patterns - Varen slept in bed with me until about 10.5 months old and then I thought that I should try to get him regularly going to sleep in his crib. So when my mom was in town a few wks ago so that is when I decided to make the switch. (I need the support) I'm still a firm believer in not straight up hardcore CIO until 1 yrs old so I practice the technique of The Sleep Lady based on what a friend told me. Well Varen doesn't have an issue going to in his crib and I don't really believe in the whole self soothing thing, I would nurse him, he would fall asleep I would sort of wake him to burp him and then lay him down, he'd fuss, I'd pop the paci in and place my hand on his chest for a min then leave the room. No lengthy fight, no heartbreaking cries. My issue was that Varen would go down around 830-9pm and wake up around 1-130am to nurse, and after that getting him back into the crib was not an easy task, or maybe I'm just not willing to to give up an hour or two of sleep to get him back in his crib only to have him wake up an hour and a half later to eat again. So my issue is not him sleeping in his crib it's the night feedings. So I've tried since 9.5 mo to try to cut out night feeds but Varen scratches at me and cries, I really think he's hungry, despite what his pedi says I think that for the first yr, those night time feeds are important and necessary. So instead of withholding him of something he clearly wanted (see the scratches on my breast) I thought maybe I can just push the feed back, that will make for longer sessions when he does nurse but also give us longer uninterrupted sleep. I read an article by Dr. Jay Gordon about a less aggressive approach to night weaning and while I'm not practicing that until after a year, I am taking some of the advice and instead of just offering the boob, I'm trying to just hold him tight and push the feed back by an hour or two. That was working out, but once I started dream feeding him before I went to bed I was getting about another hour to hour and a half of uninterrupted sleep in his room in his crib. THEN........ like a like switch turns on and off one day while a friend was playing Varen she notices he had 4 yes 4 teeth coming in at the top. By that night he was a crappy patty and his poor top gums we bright red. He was not sleeping in his crib, in fact he was not sleeping anywhere that wasn't touching or near my breast, and I was not fighting him. I've had many toothaches and I can only imagine the horrible pain he was going through. So I scrapped the routine and until those teeth are all in and he's happy again, he's going to bed with mama again. AND like I said all along, THERE IS NO POINT IN GETTING USED TO ANYTHING WITH YOUR BABY IN THE 1ST YEAR, BECAUSE IN THE 1ST YEAR IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING AND YOU ONLY GET THE SAME BABY FOR 2 WKS AT A TIME, THEN THEY CHANGE.
Eating Habits - Varen has just recently realized he has taste buds. For a while I was wondering if he had any because he would willingly eat anything I offered him. But now he has refused green beans and oatmeal. He's just a great eater over all, it makes me very happy.
New foods he likes - Broccoli
New discoveries - Opening and closing cabinets, emptying out the dvd case.
New Milestones - Super cruiser, but not standing unassisted or walking.
Places baby went - Varen went on an airplane for the 1st time at 10.5 mo and he did great on all 4 flights. We went to visit my mom in CA and I'm very proud of both my boys, who were very well behaved on the plane. :)
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How is older brother - Vashon is getting so smart, smart good and smart mouth. lol. But he's doing great, really misses his daddy. He's also playing with Varen more and I'm sure that once Varen is walking well they will be regular brothers, that play and fight, because they have such different personalities.


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The launch of space shuttle Atlantis on Friday was the end of an era for America's space program. Members of the Texas delegation honored the moment by eagerly praising both NASA and the astronauts abroad Atlantis, and calling on the federal government to continue American's space dominance.
Texas on the Potomac collected the responses below:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas called the launch a "bittersweet moment."
"It should also be a proud moment for the hardworking men and women of NASA who have done so much over the past 30 years to inspire and provide the ultimate example of what America is capable of accomplishing," she said. "But at the same time, it begins a period when this nation will no longer be able to launch humans to space-or to the International Space Station-on U.S. launch vehicles. I am hopeful that NASA will do everything it can to speed up the delivery of Orion Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle, announce plans for the development of heavy lift rockets and work together with Congress so we can embark on a new era of American dominance in manned spaceflight."
Republican Sen. John Cornyn said: "While [Friday] marks the end of the shuttle's chapter, we know this is not the end of human space exploration. I will continue to work with my colleagues in the Texas congressional delegation to ensure our state remains at the helm of a robust human space program, which will help the U.S. maintain its competitive edge and stand as a source of pride for all Americans."
Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, said: "As the final shuttle flight concludes, our nation is again challenged to support a new mission. This is a historic opportunity to support the next generation of American exceptionalism that will ensure our global competitiveness and give science and exploration the opportunity to drive our economy. I am committed to meet that challenge and ensure that Congress steps up to this challenge as well. In NASA, we have the best and brightest in the world on our side and I know together we can achieve even bigger and better things that will maintain our position as global leader."
Rep.Michael McCaul, R-Houston said: "NASA is building the new Space Launch System and Multipurpose Crew Vehicle to return us to space. This should be a priority for Congress to fund in order to minimize our dependency on Russia and avoid losing our leadership in space exploration. The greatest challenge is a lack of a plan and destination for future manned missions. Without this focus, we risk losing the vision that inspires our next generation of scientists and engineers, and the innovations that come along with them. NASA needs to decide on, and the administration should fully support, a goal for human space exploration. Only then can we secure America's dominance in space and inspire future generations."
Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands said: "For three decades, NASA's space shuttles, astronauts, scientists and ground crews have made what was once seen as impossible, look effortless. Like all Americans, I grieved with the NASA family over the losses of Challenger and Columbia, and then watched with pride as our workhorse shuttles returned to flight. To generations of Americans, space exploration is synonymous with hope, because NASA appeals to the explorer in us all."
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas said, "In addition to being an engineering marvel, the Space Shuttle has played a unique role in sparking interest in the fields of science, technology, and engineering. We must continue to provide our children and grandchildren with that kind of inspiration in the future. As the Space Shuttle era comes to a close, we can best honor its legacy by maintaining our commitment to a strong and vibrant human space flight program through productive utilization of the International Space Station and expeditious development of the crewed spacecraft and launch vehicles NASA will need to once again travel beyond low-Earth orbit."
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, who was at the launch, said: "This launch was a tremendous celebration and culmination of the hard work, intensity, and dedication of the people of NASA, and it is my hope that this inspirational opportunity will provide the momentum that our country needs to continue our space leadership and preeminence in the 21st century. While I am extremely disappointed in NASA's decision to retire the space shuttle program, it is my hope that this final launch will inspire a redefinition of NASA's mission to reach the moon again in the 21st century because a focused long term mission will create more scientists, new sophisticated technology, and more jobs."
President Barack Obama released his statement thanking the shuttle team and NASA for its work. He said, "Americans across the country watched with pride as four of our fellow citizens blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in the Space Shuttle Atlantis, and America reached for the heavens once more. [The] launch may mark the final flight of the Space Shuttle, but it propels us into the next era of our never-ending adventure to push the very frontiers of exploration and discovery in space. We'll drive new advances in science and technology. We'll enhance knowledge, education, innovation, and economic growth. And I have tasked the men and women of NASA with an ambitious new mission: to break new boundaries in space exploration, ultimately sending Americans to Mars. I know they are up to the challenge – and I plan to be around to see it."


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just wondering if someone can please help me understand this a bit better. I am reading an article and I am soooo confused about the odds ratios. I'm not very good at all this stats stuff. Any help is much appreciated!
The paper is looking at serum TSH (blood test) and the relationship between risk of thyroid cancer - they found that higher TSH is associated with a higher risk of thyroid cancer.
In the non linear dose response meta-analysis, they said all models tested showed a positive response between TSH and OR for thyroid cancer, all non linear models (showing interaction of the relationship by differing TSH levels) explained the data better than conventional linear models. Spline models (allowing a change in magnitude of thyroid cancer-serum TSH relationship at a given TSH concentration) were the best fitting; with a change occuring at serum TSH = 1mU/L.
**Now this is the bit I don't understand:**
The OR for TSH below 1 mU/L was 1.72 (1.42, 2.07) per milliunit per litre, but above this TSH level became 1.16 (1.12, 1.21) per milliunit per litre of higher serum TSH.
Are they saying that as your TSH is lower than 1, you are 1.72 more times likely to get thyroid cancer per miliunit less than 1?
And as your TSH is greater than 1, for each miliunit greater, you are 1.16 times likely to get thyroid cancer?
But with the conclusion that the greater the TSH, the greater cancer risk, I would have thought that the OR should be greater for a TSH > 1 vs TSH < 1?
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Archive for Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Growth in KCK renews interest in reviving Victory Junction
It's called Victory Junction, but the only thing reminding people about the site now is a shuttered restaurant that at one time bore the same name.
"It used to be quite a busy place," said Jim Masson, a volunteer at the Wyandotte County Museum. "There used to be a doughboy statue right in the middle of the intersection."
In 1929, the placement of the statue brought the intersection -- at Parallel Parkway and Kansas Highway 7 -- special recognition as a memorial to World War I veterans. Located in Wyandotte County, adjacent to the Leavenworth County line, Parallel Parkway then was U.S. Highway 40. And U.S. 40, built to connect New York with San Francisco, was called Victory Highway, in honor of those same fallen veterans.
At the statue's unveiling, one of the speakers was Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf, of Lawrence, a veteran of the Spanish-American War.
"The original plan in Kansas was to have a work of art at every place the highway crossed a county line," Masson said. "They never got all the way across Kansas."
But memorial artworks did get built in Douglas and Shawnee counties. For decades, a sculpture called The Victory Eagle presided at a roadside park near the Douglas-Leavenworth County line at the intersection of U.S. 40 and Kansas Highway 32. Another Victory Eagle was placed at the Douglas-Shawnee County line.
In 1980, the K-32 eagle was moved to outside Kansas University's Dyche Hall, home of the Museum of Natural History. The second eagle was moved to Topeka's Gage Park. A third eagle is in Wamego.
In 1941, the doughboy statue was moved from Victory Junction to the front yard of the Leavenworth County Courthouse.
Victory Junction was once a bustling intersection, Masson said. There were restaurants, bars and gasoline stations. There was even a full-scale model of a Dutch windmill. During World War II, buses loaded with newly inducted soldiers heading to Fort Leavenworth stopped so the men could eat, Masson said.
But sometime in the late 1930s, Highway 40 was moved about a mile south to State Avenue and its current location, which leads into Tonganoxie, Masson said.
"That's the reason the Victory Junction kind of died down," said Masson, who has a bar from one of the drinking establishments in his basement.
Junction revitalization?
Even though Victory Junction has seen better days, western Wyandotte County is booming. The area's growth -- fueled by the Kansas Speedway -- also includes The Legends.
And because of his relationship with the Speedway, NASCAR driver Kyle Petty is interested in establishing a Victory Junction Gang Camp somewhere in the Kansas City area.
In 2004, Petty and his family opened the original Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, N.C. The camp was in honor of son Adam Petty, a driver and who was killed in crash in 2000.
While no one is suggesting that the camp for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses be built at the original Victory Junction, it is possible that the camp could be constructed in the area.
Speedway president Jeff Boerger said metro leaders are working with the Petty family to study the feasibility of a camp in the area, and no site for it has been proposed. No one has suggested that the camp might be at the Wyandotte County Victory Junction, he said.
"I know that the site exists. We've received calls about it; nothing has been proposed," said Boerger, who is also president of the Kansas City, Kan., Area Chamber of Commerce.
A spokeswoman for the Pettys' Randleman camp said she recently received an e-mail telling her of the K-7 and Parallel site, but she referred questions to Boerger.
Since it was established, the Petty camp has served about 7,000 children ages 5 to 17. Campers can participate in a variety of activities, including camping, horseback riding and sports.
"They have a very successful camp in North Carolina, and what they found was a lot of children who visit the camp throughout the year are coming from west of the Mississippi (River)," Boerger said. "They want to do research to see if a victory camp will fit in the metropolitan area."
The Pettys will return to Kansas City in late Nov-ember to discuss the idea further, Boerger said.
Talk about a camp has stirred a lot of interest and phone calls, including one from a private landowner in Douglas County, Boerger said. He declined to identify that person. By the end of the year, requests for proposals could be sent to area communities, he said.
Putting the camp at Victory Junction is worth considering, said state Rep. Kenny Wilk, R-Lansing.
"Anything like that is going to be good for the area," he said.
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Ornithologists generally discover new species by collecting them in the wild. But early in the 20th century, Museum ornithologist James P. Chapin found one on a hat.
In 1913, Chapin, while serving as an assistant to German taxidermist and photographer Herbert Lang on what would become known as the Lang-Chapin Expedition to the Belgian Congo, came upon a native of the Ituri forest wearing a headdress with a distinctive feather. To the young naturalist, it suggested a pheasant or peacock, a strange possibility since these birds were native to Asia. Curious, he took it.
Fast forward to 1936. Chapin was visiting the Congo Museum in Tervuren, Belgium, and, by pure chance, found an odd pair of taxidermied birds atop a cabinet. A label indicated they were familiar Indian or Blue Peacocks, but he suspected otherwise—feathers on these birds matched the one he had collected 23 years earlier. Later that year, in a professional journal, he described Afropavo congensis, or Congo Peacock, a unique species whose closest relatives are the Asian peacocks.
Eager to pursue his discovery in its habitat, Chapin returned to Africa in 1937, and in virgin forest in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he observed the birds on the ground and in flight and heard their nighttime call, repeated syllables of "gowé-gowah," although Chapin wrote that he failed to catch the deep introductory "rro-ho-ho-o-a" also attributed to this bird.
Over the years, for a number of reasons, including the bird's restricted distribution and characteristics that differentiate it from the Asian species, such as lesser ornamentation and a monogamous mating habit, ornithologists hypothesized a closer relationship to African guinea fowls or Old World partridges. However, genetic studies suggest that Afropavo is a sister taxon to the Asian Pavo species or true peafowl and that Chapin's hunch 100 years ago was right.
The recipient of many professional awards, Chapin served as vice president of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1934 through 1939 and as its president from 1939 until 1942. When he died in 1964 at the age of 74, he was a research associate in Ornithology and curator emeritus at the Museum. Dean Amadon, the then-chair of the Ornithology Department at the American Museum, said of him, "He was the best-loved and at the same time one of the most scholarly of American naturalists."
A version of this story originally appeared in the Winter issue of Rotunda, the Member magazine.


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Our game sites and practice venues are on the east and west sides of campus, as well as at nearby off-site locations. You can find more detailed information about each facility at the University's Athletics site.
Sports Complex and Schueler Field & Track
The Sports complex is home to the Mount's football and men's and women's soccer teams. The cross country, track & field and lacrosse teams also compete at the complex. Student-athletes compete on a new all-weather surface and on the new synthetic all-weather, eight-lane track surrounding the field. The complex is on the east side of campus, and has concessions, locker rooms, showers, equipment storage, and facilities for athletic training.
The Harrington Center
The Harrington Student Center houses recreation, fitness, intramural and varsity athletics facilities. The centerpiece 2,000-seat gymnasium hosts the men's and women's basketball, men's and women's volleyball, and wrestling teams. It also a training and practice facility for all of our 22 varsity teams. The Harrington center is also home to Hayden Field.
Tennis Courts
This is where the Lions men's and women's tennis teams play their home matches. Our six, fully lit asphalt courts, also used for intramural play, are on the west side of campus.
Kinder Morgan Softball Complex - Practice Fields
The complex, near River Road, is home to the University's softball program. The grass outfield surface, and dirt infield, is enclosed by a permanent, NCAA regulation style fence, with a full windscreen. We also have state-of-the-art lighting, a wireless, digital scoreboard and a two-story press box.
Jean Dowell Gym
This gym is where you'll play intramural sports. It's also an extra practice court for both the men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams.
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Quartz 2.0 for Java
I recently spoke with Mike Allen of Terracotta about the new release of Quartz for Java developers. In a sentence, Quartz is a open-source job scheduler for Java developers, and can be used to schedule tasks that range from simple to complex; from few to thousands. Although the UNIX CRON utility comes to mind, Quartz differs in some significant ways. First, it's built for Enterprise Java application developers, with a well-thought out API. Second, it's built to scale across many nodes, and works in clustered environments to ensure jobs execute even when nodes fail. Third, it has a built-in rich GUI application to make it easier to schedule jobs, and gain visibility into existing jobs. A sample screenshot is shown here:
In my experience, Quartz can be used to perform the important, but often neglected, tasks such as triggering email messages based on events and other triggers, calculation of key statistics at important points during the day (i.e., in financial applications), as well as log and other file maintenance. Given that an open-source version is offered, it's used in Java applications at about half of the Fortune 500 companies.
Creating a Quartz Java application is as simple as this sample application:
import org.quartz.Scheduler; import org.quartz.SchedulerException; import org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerFactory; public class QuartzTest { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Scheduler scheduler = StdSchedulerFactory.getDefaultScheduler(); scheduler.start(); // ... scheduler.shutdown(); } catch (SchedulerException se) { se.printStackTrace(); } } }
The New Quartz 2.0
Allen described a series of enhancements that have been grouped together for the new 2.0 release of Quartz, which include:
1) Simplification of the API: Terracotta have moved to what they call a "fluent" API, which is a more natural way to program tasks, create triggers, and fire events. Here's an example of how to use the API:
JobDetail job = newJob(SimpleJob.class) .withIdentity("job1", "group1") .build(); Trigger trigger = newTrigger() .withIdentity("trigger1", "group1") .startAt(futureDate(2, IntervalUnit.HOURS)) .withSchedule(repeatHourlyForever()) .modifiedByCalendar("holidays") .build(); // Tell quartz to schedule the job using our trigger scheduler.scheduleJob(job, trigger);
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LONDON, April 18 (UPI) -- John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon says he objects to the re-release of the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" in honor of British Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
Lydon quickly voiced his disapproval after Universal said this week it would re-release the 1977 punk-rock, anti-establishment anthem in time to mark the queen's 60 years on the throne, the BBC reported Tuesday.
"I would like to very strongly distance myself from the recent stories and campaign to push 'God Save the Queen' for the No. 1 spot, [on the record chart,]" the singer said in a statement. "It is certainly not my personal plan or aim. I am proud of what The Sex Pistols achieved and always will be but this campaign totally undermines what The Sex Pistols stood for. This is not my campaign. I am pleased that the Sex Pistols recordings are being put out there for a new generation; however, I wish for no part in the circus that is being built up around it."
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Italian giants Juventus are chasing Tottenham centre half Younes Kaboul.
The Bianconeri are looking to add a new defender and the White Hart Lane stopper is being considered as an option, according to the Daily Mail.
Kaboul moved back to Tottenham nearly two years ago from Portsmouth for £9.5million, joining his former Pompey boss Harry Redknapp at White Hart Lane.
Redknapp has been pleased with the young Frenchman's performances, picking him to play for every minute of every one of Spurs' Barclays Premier League fixtures this season.
Juventus are currently sitting pretty at the top of Serie A, but feel they need defensive reinforcements come January to continue their good form.
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The 25-year-old may also be reluctant to move to a club where he was not guaranteed playing time, especially when his place in the France squad is by no means guaranteed leading up to Euro 2012.
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Liturgy is at the heart of study at Aquinas Institute of Theology. These gatherings of the Aquinas community serve to unite students, staff and faculty through prayer, and shape us more intimately into the Body of Christ.
The Aquinas community welcomes guests to its liturgical celebrations, which are held in the Aquinas Institute Chapel and are scheduled as follows when classes are in session:
Prayer at Midday is celebrated as a modified format of the Liturgy of the Hours. On occasion, the Aquinas community will gather to celebrate morning or evening prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours. Typical components are liturgical songs, psalms, and a scripture reading with preaching, prayer intentions and the sign of peace. Preaching at these services is typically done by a vowed religious or lay person-among the faculty or students-in order to give them a rarely afforded opportunity to utilize their gifts. Students who have taken foundational courses in liturgy and homiletics can hone their preaching and liturgical leadership skills in our community worship.
On Tuesdays the Aquinas community celebrates the Eucharist. The ordained faculty of Aquinas Institute rotates on this schedule so that all have an opportunity to preside with the community.
The Sacrament of Penance is offered on an individual basis. Several of the priest-faculty are willing to administer the sacrament. Please contact a priest to schedule an appointment. Daily Eucharist and Reconciliation is celebrated at St. Francis Xavier (College) Church on the campus of Saint Louis University and at the Catholic Student Center at Washington University during the school year. The Archdiocese of St. Louis also maintains a list of parishes and their liturgical schedules.
Friends of Aquinas Institute are also invited to join the friars of St. Dominic Priory for the Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharistic celebrations. The St. Dominic Priory Chapel is located at 3407 Lafayette Avenue - St. Louis, MO 63104. When Aquinas Institute is in session the schedule is as follows:
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It is with great pride and pleasure that I welcome you to the School of Science and Technology (SST). Since the school's founding in the 1960's, SST has encouraged scientific and educational excellence. Nine academic departments - Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Science, Geology, Kinesiology, Mathematics & Statistics, Nursing, and Physics & Astronomy - together with other outstanding programs including the NASA Education and Public Outreach group form the foundation of our school. With about 1700 majors supported by about 150 faculty and staff, our school provides high-quality academic programs, superior laboratory and research facilities accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students, and challenging yet supportive environments for student achievement.
As described in our school's mission statement, "the School of Science and Technology is dedicated to the creation and application of knowledge in our disciplines and to communicate scientific understanding to students, peers, and the communities we serve." In service to our mission, SST values faculty-student interaction much of which is cultivated in small majors courses and a rich hands-on curriculum. We support a spectrum of experiences for our students ranging from traditional chemistry and biology laboratories to field studies in our Galbreath and Fairfield Osborn preserves and other locations including Geology's overnight trips to geologically significant areas. Our Nursing program offers traditional and distance programs that include important clinical assignments at regional healthcare sites. Kinesiology students study human movement in the biomechanics lab and astronomy comes alive at the SSU campus observatory. With more than 200 machines, our computing laboratories are well equipped for computer programming and mathematics and statistics computation. Our Engineering Science complex houses equipment for the investigation of electronics, communications, networking and many other technology areas. The School of Science and Technology's News and Accomplishments webpage provides additional highlights of our school.
Each year our school's exceptional graduates go on to contribute to their disciplines, meet the workforce needs of our state in science, technology, healthcare, education, engineering, and many other high-demand fields, and continue the legacy of excellence established by our many outstanding alumni.
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Specifying Search Criteria
The change from instance to class methods has probably the greatest impact on usage, so let's look at a pair of examples illustrating the old and the new. To search for all the font files in the Windows directory and its subdirectories with the old recls 1.x .NET mapping we'd write:
using recls; foreach(FileEntry entry in new FileSearch(@"C:\Windows", "*.fon|*.ttf", RECLS_FLAG.RECURSIVE)) { Console.WriteLine(entry); }
With recls 100% .NET, you would write:
using Recls; foreach(IEntry in FileSearcher.Search(@"C:\Windows", "*.fon|*.ttf")) { Console.WriteLine(entry); }
With such a simple example the differences are not huge, which is a good thing. Nonetheless, two of the most significant changes are illustrated:
- Recursive search is now the default, so the RECLS_FLAG.RECURSIVE flag is not needed (or available)
- Search sequences are now obtained via static methods on a static class
A search is conducted from a specified directory, in which all entries (files or directories) that match the given pattern(s) and correspond to the given search options, up to a given depth, are retrieved. A directory may be absolute or relative, but must exist. If null (or the empty string) is specified, the current directory is assumed. A pattern may be a file (or directory) name, or may use wildcards, as in "*.ttf". Furthermore, the library supports multi-part patterns, allowing discovery of entries matching different wildcards within the same string, as in "*.fon|*.ttf". A null argument for the patterns parameter is interpreted to mean the "everything" pattern for the given platform (i.e. "*" on UNIX, and "*.*" on Windows).
The search options can select
Directories, or both; absence of both is interpreted as
Files). Other options allow for tailoring the search policy, as follows:
- Searching of Hidden and/or System files, both of which are not normally listed
- Ignoring access-denied conditions, which would otherwise cause the search to be terminated, by specifying
IgnoreInaccessibleNodes; this option is ignored if an exception handler is specified. This is often necessary when specifying Hidden and/or System.
- Marking of the
Fileproperties of entries that are directories (via
MarkDirectories) with a trailing slash
- Preventing the automatic translation of per-platform pattern separators -- ':' for UNIX; ':' for Windows -- into the platform-independent pattern separator '|' (via
Exceptions that interrupt the processing may be filtered by specifying an exception handler (see Listing 4).
enum ExceptionHandlerResult { PropagateException = 0, ConsumeExceptionAndContinue } interface IExceptionHandler { ExceptionHandlerResult OnException(string path, Exception x); }
Listing 4: Exception Handler Interface.
PropagateException causes the exception to be rethrown, causing the search to be cancelled and the caller to receive the exception. Returning
ConsumeExceptionAndContinue consumes the exception (perhaps after logging the condition) and continues the search, skipping the offending directory. Naturally, the purpose of this callback is not to allow users to attempt to suppress unrecoverable conditions, and the library does not invoke the callback in some such cases. Unfortunately, because the .NET exception hierarchy is such an abject mess, discriminating between logical errors, practically unrecoverable conditions, and recoverable runtime conditions is not a simple task, and it is likely that the set of exceptions made suppressible in this regard will change in future implementations. Users are expected to consume only specific expected exceptions; for instance,
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException, rather than doing anything as unwise as consuming
Finally, processing a large directory tree with highly-specific pattern(s) can lead to a user experience with discernible pauses, due to filesystem latencies. Consequently, a progress callback mechanism is also provided, in the form of the
IProgressHandler interface (see Listing 5), which allows callers to be notified as each new (sub-)directory is searched, perhaps to log the directory traversal changes to console, status bar, etc. It also affords the opportunity to apply search policy on a location basis, via return of a control code from the
ExceptionHandlerResult enumeration:
CancelDirectory causes the given directory and all its sub-directories to be excluded from the search;
CancelSearch causes exclusion of all remaining directories, even those at a higher level in the tree.
enum ProgressHandlerResult { Continue = 0, CancelDirectory, CancelSearch } interface IProgressHandler { ProgressHandlerResult OnProgress(string directory, int depth); }
Listing 5: Progress Handler Interface.
Given this richness in search specification -- directory, patterns, depth, options, exception-handler, progress-handler -- there is clearly a conflict between flexibility and discoverability [4, 5] in the possible overloads for the file search functions. Ignoring parameter ordering and ambiguities caused by some parameters (directory and patterns) sharing the same type, there are 64 possible combinations of the six parameters. If we add in parameter ordering, it becomes 121. To get a handle on the problem consider the case for just three parameters, directory (dir), patterns (ptns) and depth, with and without parameter ordering considerations. (In both lists, type ambiguities are marked with a <-X->.)
Without considering parameter ordering, we have eight combinations, of which six are viable:
() (dir) (ptns) <-X-> (dir) (depth) (dir, ptns) (dir, depth) (ptns, depth) <-X-> (dir, depth) (dir, ptns, depth)
If we add in parameter ordering, we get 16, of which nine are viable:
() (dir) (ptns) <-X->(dir) (depth) (dir, ptns) (ptns, dir) <-X->(dir, ptns) (dir, depth) (ptns, depth) <-X->(dir, depth) (depth, dir) (depth, ptns) <-X->(depth, dir) (dir, ptns, depth) (ptns, dir, depth) <-X->(dir, ptns, depth) (dir, depth, ptns) (ptns, depth, dir) <-X->(dir, depth, ptns) (depth, dir, ptns) (depth, ptns, dir) <-X->(depth, dir, ptns)
You can imagine the complexity when permuting all six parameters! Clearly we need to make some judicious cuts. Since none of the parameters obviate the need for any of the others, the obvious must-have overload is one in which all six are present. The order is somewhat moot, but I'd suggest it should be either of the following:
(dir, ptns, options, depth, progressHandler, exceptionHandler) (dir, ptns, options, progressHandler, exceptionHandler, depth)
Let's leave that decision for the moment while we consider the other options.
Another obvious decision is that we can throw out all permutations that don't have both directory and patterns parameters (and in that order). The utility of being able to specify only directory (to search for all files) or only patterns (to search in the current directory), rather simply specifying null in the stead of the omitted argument is vanishingly small. Not to mention the detraction from discoverability. So we can treat them as a mandatory unit. Furthermore, I think we can also stipulate that they'll always come first in the parameter list.
A further simplification that I felt was justified was that, as "advanced" options, we could treat the two handler arguments as a pair. The cost is a slight extra effort in specifying null for whichever is not needed, at the gain of reducing the overload set.
Given that it can make sense to specify depth independently of options, and them both independently of progress+exception, we can now cut the list down to eight (which ignores parameter ordering for the moment):
(dir, ptns) (dir, ptns, options) (dir, ptns, depth) (dir, ptns, progressHandler, exceptionHandler) (dir, ptns, options, depth) (dir, ptns, options, progressHandler, exceptionHandler) (dir, ptns, depth, progressHandler, exceptionHandler) (dir, ptns, options, depth, progressHandler, exceptionHandler)
Another concern is that, so far, we've discussed the handlers in terms of the interfaces
IExceptionHandler and
IProgressHandler. But C# allows a different callback construct, the delegate, which is particularly useful with the advent of C# 2 and (even more so) with C# 3. recls 100% .NET defines two delegates, for handling exceptions and progress (see Listing 6).
public delegate ExceptionHandlerResult OnException(string path, Exception x); public delegate ProgressHandlerResult OnProgress(string directory, int depth);
Listing 6: Handler Delegates.
So, even if we thought eight was a survivable number of overloads (which is in doubt), providing for the delegate forms (which are highly convenient, as we'll see later on) would push this out to a minimum of 12. Unequivocally, this is too much choice, one of the enemies of discoverability.
Consequently, some hard decisions had to be made, and I made the necessary (and somewhat arbitrary) decisions to give the following overload set (where
{D} designates a delegate form, as opposed to an interface form):
(dir, ptns) (dir, ptns, options) (dir, ptns, depth) (dir, ptns, options, depth) (dir, ptns, options, depth, progressHandler, exceptionHandler) (dir, ptns, options, depth, progressHandler{D}, exceptionHandler{D})
Although six may still feel like a lot, the fact that C# discriminates between int and enumeration types makes it pretty easy to live with it without ambiguity. We couldn't do the same in C++.
There's one final refinement to the overloading. Even though a search involving progress and/or exception handler may not usually require depth, I chose to keep the parameter ordering consistent (i.e. depth follows options) as this is an established principle of interface design [4, 6, 7]. It also fits in better with Visual Studio's Intellisense: when scrolling through the list of options the additional parameters appear naturally at the end of the list, rather than jumping around confusingly. Because of these reasons, I decided to remove the third overload -- (directory, patterns, depth) -- giving a final five. You may demur, but I think these five overloads represent an appropriate balance between flexibility and discoverability.
The class interface for
FileSearcher is shown in Listing 7.
public static class FileSearcher { // Properties public static int UnrestricedDepth { get; } public static string WildcardsAll { get; } // Search Operations public static IEnumerable<IEntry> Search( string directory , string patterns ); public static IEnumerable<IEntry> Search( string directory , string patterns , SearchOptions options ); public static IEnumerable<IEntry> Search( string directory , string patterns , SearchOptions options , int depth ); public static IEnumerable<IEntry> Search( string directory , string patterns , SearchOptions options , int depth , IProgressHandler progressHandler , IExceptionHandler exceptionHandler ); public static IEnumerable<IEntry> Search( string directory , string patterns , SearchOptions options , int depth , OnProgress progressHandler , OnException exceptionHandler ); public static class BreadthFirst { . . . // Search() x 5 same overloads } public static class DepthFirst { . . . // Search() x 5 same overloads } // Utility Operations public static IEntry Stat(string path); public static long CalculateDirectorySize(string directory); public static long CalculateDirectorySize(string directory, int depth); }
Listing 7: FileSearcher class interface.
The first thing to note is that there are 15 search functions, in three groups of five, representing depth-first, breadth-first, and mechanism-agnostic search; each returns an enumerable type implementing the
IEnumerable<IEntry> interface. It would certainly have been possible to include
BreadthFirst and
DepthFirst flags in the
SearchOptions enumeration, but it's unlikely that a choice between depth-first and breadth-first search is one you will need to make at runtime, and expressing design-time choices at runtime is best avoided because it detracts from discoverability.
Rather than define 15 methods (5 x
Search(), 5 x
BreadthFirstSearch(), 5 x
DepthFirstSearch()) in the same class, they are segregated them into three groups of 5, with the algorithm-specific overloads associated with the nested (static) classes
BreadthFirst and
DepthFirst. Obviously this transgresses the accepted wisdom that class names be nouns, but in this case it's acceptable because it engenders transparency of client code in the form of human-readable statements, as in:
foreach(IEntry in FileSearcher.BreadthFirst.Search(@"C:\Windows", "*.fon|*.ttf")) { Console.WriteLine(entry); }
This is a technique that will be familiar to many .NET programmers. The provision of (static)
Write()/WriteLine() methods of the
Console class offers a syntactic convenience over calling them via its
Out (static) property. Similarly, the notionally algorithm-agnostic
FileSearcher.Search() methods simply call corresponding
FileSearcher.DepthFirst.Search() methods. (This is consistent with recls 1.x, where depth-first was the only algorithm.)
We've now discussed the nuances of all parameters, with the exception of depth. There are two special values for depth:
FileSearcher.UnrestrictedDepth and 0. The former places no restrictions on depth. The latter causes the search to be non-recursive, i.e. it searches only in the specified directory.


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QualiFire theme features many convenient options that will make customization easy and fun. The theme is widgetized and offers 9 preset styles to choose from.
- This theme is Internationalized (translation ready) – the theme has been updated to support translations in more than one language. We have included a (.pot file included to have the theme localized)
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- An additional "No slider" option has been added with the ability to add custom text in the place of the slider
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Sidebar position
Could be set as left or right at any time from the theme's Options page for each section (e.g. Portfolio, Blog, Contact page, etc.) independently.
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- Multiple portfolio sections.
- Thumbnail images are automatically generated
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- Automatic pagination
- Option to include/exclude date, post metadata and comments from the portfolio item's individual post
- Sidebar position control
Refer to the Typography page for examples.
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With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. This driver is for the 3D Vision IR emitter, either the USB emitter or built-in notebook emitter. If you are using 3D Vision, you need to install the GeForce Release 260 graphics driver which now contains 3D Vision core driver features.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I am thinking about Cookies and Ice Cream
25 comments:
- Meghan @ Domestic Sugar said...
I love the ice-cream cone! Such wonderful piping! the colours on all the pieces are so cute!
- January 11, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Maria Elena said...
Que bonitas te han quedado...y que ricas!!!!
- January 11, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Hil said...
These. are. adorable!!! Great job! And thanks for sharing so many fun links. Can't wait to check them out.
- January 11, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Mari said...
Awesome, Kathia, I love Sweetopia, The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Bell, Cookies and Cups and Karen cookies. They are all so great and generous with us showing all their techniques.
Have a wonderful week :)
- January 11, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- TidyMom said...
AWESOME! these are so cute!!
- January 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- The Cooking Photographer said...
How the heck do you do this? You are an artist my friend. So perfect and adorable. I would have to hang these on my wall.
- January 11, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- GummyLump.com said...
Wow! These are fantastic! Very impressive!!
- January 11, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
These are just darling! The colors and the detailing are so beautiful.
- January 11, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- Manni said...
I absolutely love them. The detailed work and colour combo is beautiful : )
- January 11, 2011 at 3:21 PM
- notyet100 said...
thanks for the links,..;-)
- January 11, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Sue said...
These cookies are darling! Is that an ice cream truck? :) So cute!
- January 11, 2011 at 11:39 PM
- bridget {bake at 350} said...
Oh my gosh....these are SO fun! I LOVE them!!!
{and thanks for the sweet shout-out!} :)
- January 12, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Darla said...
Awww! These are the sweetest! I love cookies shaped like other food for some reason! Love how you decorated them!
- January 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
Love your *fun* cookies. When I started, I learned to decorate cookies from Bridget's wonderful tutorials as well. She made it seem like it would all be possible and took the fear out of attempting it for me.
- January 12, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- faithy, the baker said...
these cookies are so pretty! :D love it..and your icing so shiny too!
- January 12, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Samantha said...
I love your little cookie truck! So cute! I also adore Bridget's blog! So many clever and helpful tips and recipes! She's fabulous!
- January 12, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Hannah said...
These are completely darling! And thank you for the frosting complements. They certainly weren't close to something you'd do, but my one-year-old thought they were pretty great.
Thanks for being such a wonderful friend.
- January 12, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- Chic Cookies said...
Awwww, thanks for including li'l ole moi in your roundup :)!! And all those other fantastic cookie decorators? Tops to me, too!!
- January 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Sweetie's said...
These are adorable! I've looked everywhere for a good ice cream cone cutter.
- January 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- OvenDelights said...
Wow! I think these are your best so far! They are beautiful! I need to stop making excuses and learn!
- January 13, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
I adore your ice cream cone cookies. They have just the perfect amount of detail and swirls and pink. So cute!
(Oh and I learned how to decorate cookies from books at my local library. So low-tech, I know!)
- January 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- cookies and cups said...
these are so cute!! I love the colors :)
- January 14, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- Avanika [YumsiliciousBakes] said...
These are so adorable!! I'm off to check out some of the links I hadn't seen before!
- January 18, 2011 at 2:45 AM
- SweetThingsTO said...
how cute!
- January 18, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Maranda said...
Oh these are so cute! I did a lot of looking at Bake at 350, Sweetopia and I am Baker as well. Such talented ladies...as are you my dear!
- January 18, 2011 at 9:05 AM