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OSDir.com Project of the Week: Quanta Plus
Last week, Quanta Plus was selected as the Project of the Week on OSDir. In the interview with Eric Laffoon, the project leader of Quanta+ and Kommander, you can read about the past, present and future of the KDE Web Dev module.
The best thing about Quanta+ IMHO is that it does not try to
By Martin at Tue, 2005/04/19 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
>Even better would be a Delphi-like "right-click->go to definition".
Delphi-like? I supose you are talking about some delphi IDE (visual delphi? sorry for my ignorance). Actually kdevelop3 makes that, at least, for C++. I have seen some PHP project templates but I have not tested them. I use quanta for html/php and kdevelop for C++. Quanta looks pretty extensible, may be a ctags hack can make it work with PHP, if it's not doing it already.
>I dont know any PHP editor that can do that, though.
I dont know if kdevelop is a PHP editor, (for me "cat << OEF" is)
Now it's time for certain people to talk about the KDE Great Big Editor One joining quanta and kdevelop. Or simply talk about what emacs/vim/notepad makes for them.
PD: aal spelling mistakes are caused beacuse keyborad vendors ship all keis togeter
By Someone at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
Delphi is a IDE.
As Kylix is on IDE for Object Pascal and C++ for Linux.
more on: http://www.borland.com
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
with respect to php, quanta+ has an outstanding feature that is missing in nearly
By hoernerfranz at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
Well, integration of gubed is nice but there are quite a few people who would prefer an integration of xdebug.
By Andreas at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
We need developers to do it... The debugger interface was designed that way that you can use different debuggers, not just gudeb. But right now only Gubed is supported because...the gubed author did the integration.
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
a tutorial "Debugging PHP scripts with Quanta Plus and Gubed PHP Debugger" can be found here:
By Tom at Fri, 2005/04/22 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
I've been using Quanta+ since... well I don't even know!!
So, the future is indeed more than ever shiny for Quanta. Way to go, and thanks for this great application.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
> The only thing I'm sometimes envious of are Zend Studio's function parameter hints for user-defined functions. You can include a file somewhere with functions you wrote and when you are in the main file it actually tells you what parameters there are. Great!
For built in functions this is stored in the DTEP. I'd have to talk with Andras about this. The new object syntax auto completion was done with an external temporary DTEP file and I don't know if the hooks are still active but the ability to add this should not be difficult as it would only need to follow the XML definition used in the DTEP and Quanta would need to know to read it. In fact... technically you could place or link files into the DTEP files you have currently. I have written a PHP file to parse PHP docs and generate the DTEP files and it can also accept external data input. If you are willing to accept certain limitations like having to create the files and having them be global to all projects this is there now. Ideally we would like to be able to generate files for a project on demand.
I note though that the parameters are included in the structure tree so they should be in the tip. Additional project DTEP files would enable additional information like the version specification we added for 3.4, though I'm not sure how it would be used. In addition to this you can also generate PHP docs for your project and have project documentation in the doc panel.
> Even better would be a Delphi-like "right-click->go to definition". I dont know any PHP editor that can do that, though.
This should be easy enough to add. In fact both things you want are already in the document structure tab. Open a PHP file and click the structure view in the left. You will see groups for functions, variables, inclusions, objects and classes. If you look at a function you will see the parameters. If you see a file address you can expand these are included functions in the file they originate in. Quanta understands the scoped linking and if you click on that function it will open the file and take you there.
So both features you imagine to be unlikely exist, but in the structure tree. As for the rest of it we just have so many things we can do with our resources... and as it turns out those are more than most people expect.
By Eric Laffoon at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
The parameters do not appear unless the function/class is declared in a .tag file in the DTEP. This is what Eric says, that we might generated in the feature project specific DTEP tags from PHP classes and functions. Right now what you can get from Quanta is autocompletion for external functions, classes and class methods:
function includedClass_method2(string s)
function includedClass_method1(int i, int j)
function externalFunc(int i) {
function qmyClass_ctor(int i)
function qmyClass_method2(string s)
function qmyClass_method1(int i, int j)
function qmyFunction(int i, int j)
$test = new [will show the qmyClass and includedClass]
$q-> [will show the qmyClass methods]
Class member variable autocompletion and hints for the function/member arguments will come in the next versions.
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
This is great, but it some what buggy if it not I that do something wrong.
I notice the following:
then start typing:
But the following construction does not work with autocompletion:
I don't know if this is something I can set up or if it is in the code.
(I am using the one that was included in SuSE 9.3 Distro (3.4) If this is dealth with in a later version I appoligy for the ignoranse.)
By Aslak Berby at Mon, 2005/06/13 - 5:00am
Re: PHP
In Zend Studio 4 you can CRTL+click on any user defined function and it will go to the definition itself.
By SaCuL at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
KDE Web Dev future
KDE Web Dev should be integrated with other KDE components to become even more powerful e.g. KDevelop + Quanta + Karbon + Krita + Kast
By Anonymous at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
about katiuska
By Pat at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Not stable
Quanta seems really good at first but I never been able to use it seriously because it crashed every times I tryed to work with.
Am I the only one who think quanta isnt stable enough?
By AC at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable
Some version (especially 3.2.x) were indeed a little unstable, but 3.3.x and 3.4.0 should be much more stable (aside of some strange bug regarding the cvsservice usage which happens only in binary packages, not if you compile from source).
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable
Here same problem. Some version working (when quanta starting) well and latest version I can't use. crash, crash. But Kate is too nice :) Bad taht crashing some syntax highlighting.
By Kristo at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable
If it's crashes like in http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102996 you don't need to report, but read my previous comment and the comments for that bug.
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable, VPL crasher
By Rex Dieter at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable, VPL crasher
Well, as you could see we (Paulo) are working on it.
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable, VPL crasher
We're working on it, though it's a little difficult because I can't reproduce it. I would appreciate if people could tell me other dists where it occurs besides Gentoo.
By Paulo Moura Guedes at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable, VPL crasher
I would appreciate if people could tell me other dists where it occurs besides Gentoo.
Fedora Core 3, Red Hat Enterprise 4 both exhibit the bad behavior. However, RedHat 9, Red Hat Enterprise 3 are fine.
By Rex Dieter at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Not stable
I think if people saying this could actually get perspective they would see the sad humor in such statements. First of all stability in general... People assume because computers are based on logic that they will operate with certainty and consistency rather than inconsistent and uncertain. The first thing you have to ask yourself is this. Do you believe the developers are happy producing a wonderful interface that runs like crap? Seems illogical, right? In fact Quanta almost never crashes for me, and I run the development version.
Most instability I observe is introduced in packaging issues. In particular it is easy to encounter binary issues where programs may run, but run terribly. Some packagers hack up the source a fair amount and introduce problems in the process. Also there have been more than a few releases made of Quanta which were not our official release, or where a bug was found and there was a re-release in days that was not picked up. In addition to this people can have entire systems full of cruft causing problems by hacking things together where configuration and package management fails to adequately manage. Finally there are cases where what a user may do will encounter a bug that the developers don't because of the complexity of the program. These bugs we really need to hear about. Packaging bugs are a pain that we can't fix, but if you can't be sure if it is packaging it's better to report it.
> I fill bug reports when I can but the most I can do to help now is to suggest making the app stable before adding new features.
Here's the facts. I sponsor Andras full time to work on Quanta and he keeps it with one of the lowest bug counts of any application in KDE. During every release cycle roughly 1/3 of our anticipated features fails to get done because we are spending time fixing bugs. Your suggestion may be logical but it's not taking the facts into account. The bugs that are not fixed either are not introduced by us or are simply unknown to us.
> Am I the only one who think quanta isnt stable enough?
Sadly I'm sure you are not... but whether it is stable on your system or somebody else's is not solely the result of the source code. Does that make sense now? So I would say you are in a small minority as most people experience Quanta as being very stable.
I have to admit it bothers me when someone says something like this. It operates on the erroneous assumption that we will have a universal experience where too many external factors can break the best of programs. What bothers me is that it implies, however unintentionally, that the developers would intentionally, or through a lack of competence, knowingly produce junk. I doubt you intended to imply that and you should know is that this is not only illogical but not true. Having said that you should know that it is very important to us that you have a good user experience because we are proud of our project. So please help us to root out the problems we can fix and encourage packagers to do likewise.
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2005/04/22 - 5:00am
Kommander is Great
What I really like about kommander is that it allows non-programmers to create useful frontendsto programs (encoders, decoders, etc), like Kaustika, etc.
But I have not found a GOOD KOMMANDER TUTORIAL (for newbies). Without the knowledge of how to create frontends, Kommander is wasted.
As it is said, "You are not cured by just knowing the name of the medicine."
Good Luck to Kommander Developers and users :)
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Kommander is Great
The links at the bottom of this page (in the "Useful Links" section) may help. At least, they helped me get started.
By ltmon at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
BAD Tutorial
The "Set Wallpaper" kommander tutorial is very confusing, I can't understand many things there. And there is NO FORMATTING (BOLD, italic, underline, color etc) to make the tutorial easy to understand. It looks that i'm looking to plain text. I guess lack of formatting is what makes that tutorial unhelpful :(
The Disclaimer says it all ;)
And Certianly it is not fit for learning kommander ;) It's good but lacking formatting.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: BAD Tutorial
Okay, so you don't like the formatting of the tutorial that a user contributed. Maybe you could offer to help them format it? This is community software, which means you get it for free and people in the community (supposedly all of us are) help out... However it often feels like it means that I sponsor Michal Rudolf to develop it and we keep waiting for others in the community to show up. We had some help with docs and we got some help with tutorials.
As far as actually learning it, do you want to? Certainly it takes less effort to point out what we haven't done with our limited resources, but we hope not too much more effort to learn to do something. ;-) First of all there are included "tutorial" examples where you can see how to use each widget in a simple dialog where it's easy to examine in the editor. (We need to make these more obvious for those getting binary packages.) There are docs on http://kommander.kdewebdev.org, though admittedly they are mostly out of date. We will be working on the docs soon I hope and we welcome anyone who wants to help there. However we also have a mailing list...
On the Kommander mailing list you can ask any question and get help from the developers and other users. You can ask about features or make suggestions. You can even submit dialogs you're working on for debugging, analysis and advice. Since most small dialogs are under 40K this is easy. In short, we will do penance for our doc shortcomings by serving you directly and personally consulting you until you understand how Kommander works. Funny how people often don't read docs and just fire off a question with Quanta... I personally would pick the free consultant. Kommander is my baby and I will go the extra mile to see it succeed.
Of course all of this overlooks that fact that once you have the basic theory down you need to know very little. There is a function browser you can call from the widget editor which will enable you to construct virtually every DCOP or scripting statement with a point and click, fill in the blank skill set. I use this all the time so I don't have to use the effort to remember things and not make typos. The basic concepts of Kommander are pretty simple so this means you can be making something pretty quickly.
So if you want to learn how to use Kommander it is in fact pretty easy. Granted it really needs better docs quickly and more tutorials but it is still very easy. I can attest from some of Pat's early emails with Katiuska that he absolutely did not think like a programmer coming to Kommander. After a few "silly" questions Pat was on his way. Interestingly I haven't seen a question from him in some time so to me this means that even though our docs are lacking, you can learn to program an application in Kommander in a matter of days with no more than half a dozen questions if you've never written a program of any sort in your life. It's been done and if someone else can do it so can you.
We are not trusting to luck for you to learn Kommander. We want you to succeed and we are doing our best to make tools available. If you want to succeed join our list and I promise you will be writing Kommander programs in no time. If you want to help that would be nice because we're working hard on what we consider essential improvements to Kommander too.
By Eric Laffoon at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: BAD Tutorial
I'd encourage you to setup a KDEwebdev MediaWiki page, for all KDEWebdev related stuff.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: BAD Tutorial
Mediawiki has turned out really well for amaroK:
Actually the appearance of mediawiki is one of the problems... its complicated to integrate it the rest of site. Mediawiki was written for Wikipedia, so stuff like that isn't such a priority. However, mediawiki's syntax and ability to organize large pages is well polished.
That said, the Kommander people really do give great support on their mailing list.
By Ian Monroe at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Quanta is useless for me
IMHO web developers need a generic XML editor that can:
By Flavio at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
> IMHO web developers need a generic XML editor that can:
> 1. validate documents using *any* DTD or XML Schema.
> 2. suggest and autocomplete tags.
> 3. create instances of documents from a schema
> KDE currently lacks such an XML editor.
Sorry, but aside of point 3 you are spreading wrong information.
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
hi andreas,
By Flavio at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
I agree that it may be hidden. Regarding what it produces: it produces whatever you write. ;-) And what is in the .tag files. I don't say that they have all valid tag descriptions, but unless someone notices us about an invalid tag generation we cannot fix as they are just too many tags (DTEP packages) shipped with Quanta.
By Andras Mantia at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
Not let you save an invalid document? I'm sorry, but that doesn't work in the real world ;) Have you ever tried programming a site that has to work in all the different browsers, including that nasty excuse for one Internet Explorer? There's no way of doing advanced designs and have it work in all of them at the same time without some nasty, non-standard IE conditionals. I would very much not like for Quanta+ to enforce that on me. A box explaining that it's non-standard, with that Don't Show Again checkbox we know so well, would work ok for me for this, but forcing it on the user, that's a very non-KDE way of thinking ;)
By Dan Leinir Turt... at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
Hogwash! Please check http://csszengarden.com/ and learn how to code to standards. It features a single clean xhtml page (no presentation, no tables, images, etc. ) that is entirely styled by css. Choosing a different design from the menu on the left simply changes the css. This shows the true power of css. Using this technique also makes lynx users happy.
By Jonathan Dietrich at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
Andras didn't mention but Quanta also enables real time structural validation for any DTD if you open the structure tree while editing. As far as Schema validation goes, our initial attempt at reading DTDs was to go with a Schema reading and DTD to Schema conversion. Our preference was to make Schema, not DTD, the basis of our internal validation. The problem is this... suggest to me a mature and functional library for this that we can access and our users can freely access. The tool must be able to handle all scenarios and operate on a diverse set of frameworks for whatever a user's Schema requirements are. If you know where to turn on this let me know. Everything we found was incomplete, often huge and not very versatile. In fact writing Schema tools for targetted use means deciding what your requirements are and picking a library based on that. I was frankly very dissappointed. Schema holds a wonderful promise but as far as I can tell it is not being realized today because it is splintered into divergent ideas and nobody has produced clean universal libraries. Writing the whole library is not practical, especially as when we looked XML Schema was nowhere near set in stone.
As for your other observation, what version are you running? I noted that into 3.1 and 3.2 our default toolbars reflected old style HTML. That changed in 3.3, but it's still academic as we develop those toolbars with user tools in the interface. All of Quanta has been designed to be completely user extensible... so saying what it is in this regard is reflecting the influence of commercial packaged software to be lazy because when you have it running it's pretty much at it's limits of what can be done with it. Quanta will never reach these limits as most of it's personality is developed at run time.
As far as enforcing validation on save... you can set Quanta up to do this easily with Project Event Actions. We will _never_ force this on you because I think it's fascist and because there are clear and valid reasons I know it will flood us with bug reports.
The big problem a lot of people have with Quanta is that it is "not finished" in the way they would like. If we take all those issues and put them on the wall how many "ways" will we find Quanta should be like? Nearly as many as there are people using it. The potential uses for Quanta are too diverse and given the tools available we have to fill a wide spectrum of uses. The only way such highly personal software can be perfect for you is if you customize it to your perfect ideal. If we do it we will have multiple custom configurations and you will probably still not like one.
By Eric Laffoon at Wed, 2005/04/20 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
"It should not even let you save a document that does not validate."
There is an old saying about unix: "it doesn't try to avoid you making silly things, for if it did, they it would avoid you doing smart things too".
Who do you thing is Lafoon (to name one) to know about YOUR requirements? The program, of course should *suggest* and make proper way to be the easy way, but anything out of this would be stupid ingerence.
Still, you can try Windows: there you surely will find the "This Way Is The One And Only Way" approach.
By devil advocate at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
Adding my two cents here;
What from my perspective would be the perfect solution for this is rigging up the DOM 3 Validation interfaces,[1] which is built for editing Documents while having validness introspection. A large advantage is that it is abstracted from a particular schema language, and allows DTD, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG, or any other schema language to be used under the same roof. Here's a quote from its Introduction:
'This module provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to guide construction and editing of XML documents. Examples of such guided editing are queries like those that combine questions like "what does the schema allow me to insert/delete here" and "if I insert/delete here, will the document still be valid."'
KDE is badly missing a Schema implementation; an implementation which should be generic and not tied to Quanta or any other particular application. Quanta needs it for editing documents, and all "next-generation" XML stuff need it for data typing in the XPath data model. In other words, XQuery, XPath 2.0, XSL-T 2.0 all requires a Schema stack.
Are you up for the task?
All it requires is a bit of C++ knowledge, an interest for XML technologies, and to be the one for bringing KDE to the next generation of XML.
The stack should likely be written against KDOM, kdenonbeta/kdom. There's a design/info doc found at kdenonbeta/kdom/docs/readme.xhtml[2], and folks at #ksvg can help with KDOM specifics. KDOM has everything from XML Catalogs to DOM 3 Load-and-Save, so it is a good base to build upon.
By Frans Englich at Thu, 2005/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: Quanta is useless for me
Great, that's the way! Did anyone already engage in this?
By Martin Honermeyer at Wed, 2005/07/06 - 5:00am
Ruby on Rails
Quanta should concentrate on getting support for Ruby on Rails rather than PHP. Get together with Richard Dale and create a kick-ass framework and development platform from desk application development to the server and to the web. If you want to capture Java developers, do that, and integrate better with KDevelop for end-to-end development.
By David at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
I agree it would be a good idea to do something with Rails support in Quanta or KDevelop. I've only got as far as downloading the Rails gem, but I haven't actually tried it out yet.
I was thinking mainly what's needed is adding a Rails project template to KDevelop, and making the KDevelop ruby debugger work with ruby server code running in the background like Rails does, and rhtml syntax highlighting in Kate.
You create a Rails project dynamically by just typing 'rails ', so I wasn't sure how fit in with the KDevelop way of doing things.
I haven't used Quanta, so I don't know if that would be a better starting point than KDevelop.
By Richard Dale at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
At some point we hope to merge frameworks so features can be shared. If this is a web development framework and you want to do something with it then by all means touch base with Andras an me.
By Eric Laffoon at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
Yes thanks, OK I'll do that once I've got round to trying out Rails. I've never done any web development, other than a few static html tutorials for Korundum, so I know absolutely nothing about how you go about debugging dynamic web apps and so on..
By Richard Dale at Fri, 2005/04/22 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
"Quanta should concentrate on getting support for Ruby on Rails rather than PHP"
Sure it should!
Hey, boys! David orders and you obbey, Arh!
(I'll tell you a secret, David: Quanta+ is distributed under the GPL; you can take the code base and start coding your Ruby on Rails support TODAY!)
By devil advocate at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
"You know better than those that indeed are spending their time coding Quanta+."
Well, since capturing Java developers is a stated goal according to Eric.....
"Hey, boys! David orders and you obbey, Arh!"
Errrrr, no.
"(I'll tell you a secret, David: Quanta+ is distributed under the GPL; you can take the code base and start coding your Ruby on Rails support TODAY!)"
Oh wow. Really?!
By David at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
Again, we need developers for such new features. It might be that for basic support it's enough to write a DTEP like the one for PHP.
By Andras Mantia at Thu, 2005/04/21 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
+1: I fully support this!
Ruby has increase his popularity since Rails is there.
Rails is a simple MVC web framework, with a flexible controller layer (mixins ~"AOP"), responsive UI (AJAX), and a persistent OO model.
By Veton at Fri, 2005/04/22 - 5:00am
Re: Ruby on Rails
This is less than strategic advocacy statement. I've used PHP since 2x and am moving to 5x and it is the most widely supported scripting language on the net today. However good Ruby may be it is absurd to suggest we change our focus. Think about it. Fortunately we were smarter than to design Quanta where we had to make such choices. Let's deal with facts. Quanta's support for PHP is NOT hardcoded. In fact it is part of our general parser. Support for other languages can be added by writing a Document Type Editing Package and if you collaborate with us we will tune the parser if we need to.
Having said all that my policy has always been that nobody works on features they don't actually use. My reasoning is simple. One key of FLOSS is that it scratches a developer's itch. When I try to guess where you itch odds are good I'll miss and end up with a mediocre result and we don't do mediocre. Since implementing support for languages is little more than XML and some Regexp, which we can help with, the question is if you are using Ruby on rails and why you aren't adding support? Well?
I realized early on that we would never be able to cover the diversity of needs in the community so I specified that Quanta should be user extensible. It is frustrating that somehow people fail to get the point that asking others to do more and more just because they want it is NOT how FLOSS started and not how it will grow.
Andras very politely said someone needs to step up. I will be a little more blunt. If you want to see a more feature rich program we will need less people saying "you should do such and such" and more people getting off their ass and saying "I want to help add this feature into your framework". My personal efforts have absorbed enough time to force me to put up a virtual barrier to sucking more time out of my business and with donations in 2005 running 1/3 as many as in 2004 and one less major sponsor I'm looking at thousands of dollars out of my own pocket for the project this year. I look at community like jury duty. Sometimes you have to step forward to make sure something happens. It's getting tiring that seemingly very close to 99.9% of people in the community seem to see work to make things happen as something somebody else should do more of. There are limits to what a few people can give of themselves.
I'm happy to make our project address everyone's wishes, but it would be nice to get a little help doing it. Instead of suggesting we drop work on what we use maybe somebody else could drop some of their free time for a few weeks and help?
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Most parents can't think of anything more frightening than being told their child has cancer. Fortunately, most kids with Wilms tumor, a rare kidney cancer, survive and go on to live normal, healthy lives due to the highly treatable nature of the disease.
Also known as nephroblastoma, Wilms tumor can affect both kidneys ― but usually develops in just one. Doctors believe that the tumor begins to grow as a fetus develops in the womb, with some cells that are destined to form into the kidneys malfunctioning and forming a tumor.
Before being diagnosed with Wilms tumor, most children do not show any signs of having cancer, and usually act and play normally. Often, a parent may discover a firm, smooth lump in the child's abdomen. It is not uncommon for the mass to grow quite large before it is discovered ― the average Wilms tumor is 1 pound at diagnosis.
Some children also may have nausea, stomach pain, high blood pressure (hypertension), blood in the urine, loss of appetite, or fever.
Even though Wilms tumors often are large when found, most have not spread to other areas of the body. This makes it easier to successfully treat than if the cancer cells have spread (metastasized) to other parts of the body.
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The chance of Wilms tumor being hereditary ("running in the family") is so rare that there is no test to screen those who may pass the disease onto their offspring. However, certain genetic factors like birth defect syndromes can increase the likelihood of developing the disease. Those with a family history or personal history of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (a condition associated with larger-than-normal internal organs), WAGR (marked by defects of the iris, kidneys, urinary tract, or genitalia), or Denys-Drash syndrome (a defect of the genitalia) are at risk.
Kids with risk factors for Wilms tumor should be screened for the disease through an ultrasound every 3 months until about age 6 or 7. Those at high risk may get undergo screening until they're a little older.
Treatment is determined by many factors, the most important being the stage of the cancer at diagnosis, and the condition, or histology, of the cancer cells when observed under a microscope. "Favorable" histology is associated with a good chance of a cure; tumors with "unfavorable" histology are more aggressive and difficult to cure. About 95% of Wilms tumors have favorable histology.
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Surgery is most often used to treat Wilms tumor. For stages I through IV, a radical nephrectomy ― removal of the cancer along with the entire kidney, ureter (tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder), adrenal gland (hormone-producing gland that sits on top of the kidney), and surrounding fatty tissue ― is done.
Since stage V patients have cancer involvement in both kidneys, removing both kidneys would result in kidney failure and the need for a kidney transplant. As a result, surgeons usually take out as much of the cancer as possible and preserve as much healthy kidney tissue as they can to avoid an organ transplant.
Regardless of the stage and histology, all treatment plans usually include both surgery and chemotherapy, and the more advanced stages also may require radiation therapy. Chemotherapy uses drugs (administered either orally or intravenously) to enter the bloodstream, circulate throughout the body, and kill cancerous cells wherever they may be. Radiation uses high-energy X-ray beams to kill specific cells in different areas of the body.
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Long-term effects may include the development of secondary cancers (like leukemia) or the weakening of some internal organs, such as the heart. However, these risks are minimal ― the benefits of treatment far outweighs potential risks.
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Depending on the treatment regimen (and a child's general health and the doctor's recommendations), appropriate at-home care can vary. Treatment for most children with Wilms tumor is not as intensive as treatment for other cancers (except for more advanced stages) so most kids won't have tremendous restrictions on them.
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Thursday, August 27
San Diego Summer: Time For Creamy Corn and Zucchini Soup
Last week I was shopping in Marshall's when someone tapped me on my shoulder. I turned around to find a petite woman wearing a sleeveless black mini-dress and flip-flops; she was visibly shivering. "Excuse me," she said, "Do you know where they sell leggings?" I instantly thought, tourist.
I directed her towards the leggings (and the jackets), and asked her, "Are you visiting?" She replied, "Yeah. And I'm freezing! I thought San Diego was supposed to have perfect weather all the time? I'm from New York, and it's warmer there than here!" She thanked me, then scampered away, vigorously rubbing her arms for warmth.
That's the thing about San Diego. Our summers aren't like the rest of the country's. Although we have occasional heat spikes, the temps usually hover in the 70's and dip in the morning and evening. Most people aren't expecting such cool temps in August, and they're certainly not expecting overcast or drizzly weather like we had last week.
If you're feeling envious, don't worry. Hot weather will strike in September and October. That's when hot, dry desert air will turn most of Southern California into a pizza oven. Just as the rest of the country starts wearing sweaters and eating stews, we'll be in spaghetti straps and eating salads.
We certainly won't be making soup, so I have decided to enjoy my fall soup season now. It may not be chilly enough to wear my fleece, but it's just the right weather for a bowl of Creamy Corn and Zucchini Curry Soup with Corn Relish. Summer time staples such as sweet corn on the cob, tender zucchini, and fragrant cilantro are warmed up with earthy potatoes, hot curry, and soothing coconut milk for a soup that transitions deliciously from summer to autumn.
Apparently I'd better hurry up and finish my soup. We're expecting one of those occasional heat spikes this weekend. So much for wearing my fleece.
Creamy Corn and Zucchini Curry Soup with Corn Relish
Makes 4 servings.
Print recipe only here.
Note: This soup tastes even better the next day. So it's a good meal to make over the weekend for a quick and easy mid-week dinner.
Corn Relish:
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 cup fresh corn kernels (or canned)
1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
2 green onions, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
salt, to taste
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup yellow onion, chopped
2 cups Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and chopped
3 cups vegetable broth
2 cups fresh corn kernels from 2 ears (or canned)
3 cups chopped zucchini (2 medium)
1 jalapeno pepper, diced (the more the seeds, the hotter the flavor)
2 tablespoons fresh minced ginger
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon hot curry powder
1 (15 ounce) can regular or light coconut milk
juice of 1 lime (3-4 teaspoons)
1/4 cup each finely chopped fresh cilantro and mint
1. To make the relish, heat 1 teaspoon olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the corn kernels, red pepper, and green onions, cooking until slightly browned, about 5 minutes. Turn off heat, and add fresh cilantro and salt, to taste. Set aside.
2. In a deep pot over medium-high heat, melt butter. Saute onions for 5 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add potatoes and broth, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; add corn kernels, zucchini, jalapeno, ginger, salt, and curry powder, and stir well. Cook until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes. Add the coconut milk, lime juice, and herbs. Turn off heat and cool for 10 minutes.
3. Puree soup in two batches until smooth, and return to the pot over medium-low heat.
4. Taste it, and adjust seasonings accordingly. Garnish each serving with a spoonful of corn relish.
You might also enjoy these soups:
New England Clam Chowder
Curried Red Lentil, Chickpea, and Kale Soup
Here are more soups featuring corn and zucchini:
Chilled Corn Soup at Cooking With Amy
Thai Chicken and Corn Chowder at Slashfood
Cream of Zucchini Soup at A Veggie Venture
Zucchini Pear Soup at Bitten (NYT) with Mark Bittman
32 comments:
- Beth said...
This looks amazing- I love curry, coconut milk, and cilantro, but I'll wait a while until a dip in the temperature in Nashville before trying it out! I'm snickering about the misconception of SD weather- when I lived there I would always have my friends and family visit in October becuase it's the best month of the whole year. Never let them come during June gloom, that's for sure!
- August 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- whitneyingram said...
I made something really similar to this, but with yellow squash. Even though my summer is much hotter than San Diego (think 90 and above), soup still was quite welcome. Makes me excited for autumn. Butternut squash soup makes my belly smile.
Brilliant idea with the relish, btw.
- August 27, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- Katie @ goodLife {eats} said...
That looks fantastic. I love all the ingredients and I bet it's so comforting on a cold day.
- August 27, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- The Duo Dishes said...
San Diego and San Francisco are funny places for weather in CA. LA's somewhere in the middle...which probably makes sense. ha Regardless, we get cravings for soup year round, although sweet corn season is the best time for this one.
- August 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- londonfoodieny said...
yum-that looks so comforting. still to hot here but I shall save it for a months time when I'll be desperate for the flavours of summer but feeling the need for something hot!
- August 27, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Beautiful and different! This summer soup is really appetizing!
- August 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Stephanie Appleton said...
Where was this recipe when I was knee deep in zucchini? Just pulled my last plant out today!
- August 27, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Juliana said...
This soup sounds and looks so hearty...love the idea of adding cilantro and mint...yummie!
- August 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- nora@ffr said...
vat a perfect soup!! love it and love the pretty colors :D:D
- August 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- Jennifer said...
Many of the flavors I covet are at play in this soup---ginger, coconut milk, curry, corn, cilantro and mint---now I may look forward to the cooler weather.
- August 27, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm bookmarking this yummy looking soup, Susan!I love all these ingredients from the Yukon Gold Potatoes, to the corn relish.
Our August has been quite strange; 85 degrees instead of 100! I'm not complaining though!
- August 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
beth-Nashville? Oh, yeah. You should definitely wait for soup! You're sweltering enough already. I know what you mean, people are often surprised at SD's weather.
rookiecookie-"Butternut squash soup makes my belly smile." I love that.
katie-Thank you!
duodishes-Yeah, that's about right. I agree, soup always tastes delicious.
londonfoodieny-It really is a bowl of comfort.
rosa-I appreciate that!
stephanie-Seriously? I thought you'd still be going strong through Sept!
juliana-The herbs really add some punch!
nora- Vy, thank you!
jennifer-I think you may too.
lynda-I really love the corn relish too. It adds delicious texture.
- August 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- Leslie said...
Of course you post this recipe today when many areas around San Diego hit the century mark. I was going to bake some eggplant pasta today, but it was just too dang hot. I'll save this recipe for the perfect cool SD day though, looks yummy.
- August 27, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- Jane said...
Hello Food Blogga
I don't have a food blog but I love everything about food. I felt it was about time that I told you that I've dropped by your blog on n off for quite a while now - it's the chicken soup to my soul. You're very humourous and your food looks amazing! Keep up the great inspiring recipes and all the best for your upcoming Sandwich book - not sure if we'll get it here in India but will keep a look out for it. Take care.
- August 28, 2009 at 3:17 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Gorgeous photos - the corn relish just pops, and looks so hearty!
- August 28, 2009 at 3:26 AM
Oh, I love the flavors going on in this soup. Yum. And I could eat it in spite of it still being so hot here!
- August 28, 2009 at 5:44 AM
- Deeba PAB said...
Saving this for when we have cold weather Susan. It's delish, & your pictures are gorgeous!
- August 28, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- Cara said...
Wow - I thought I was looking at a picture of just another corn soup, but as I read on and discovered zucchini, curry, and coconut milk - well, I'm totally sucked in!
- August 28, 2009 at 6:44 AM
- Christine said...
I had no idea that San Diego weather is much like ours up here, Susan. The main difference being that our avg. temps hover in the low 60s, making anytime of year soup time. Your delicious looking soup will go into my recipe files right now!
- August 28, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Michelle @ Find Your Balance said...
Oh that's perfect. I have no less than 12 ears of corn sitting around from our CSA. And zucchini too!
- August 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Parita said...
Delectable! i think my just skipped a beat :) love the corn relish on top :)
- August 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Jackie at PhamFatale.com said...
Looks delicious. Love the way you photographed the soup. it's a great angle.
I made something similar with just plain fresh corn. I love infusing the cobs in the broth for extra corn flavors. Check it out at http://www.phamfatale.com/id_462/title_Corn-Chowder-Recipe/
- August 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM
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- August 29, 2009 at 7:22 AM
- Hornsfan said...
I would kill to have the weather San Diego's getting...it's been almost 70 days of 100+ temps here in Austin! Somehow I'm still eating soup though :) This looks so tempting!
- August 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Emily said...
This soup sounds delicious! ~ Bookmarked.
When we were just in San Diego it felt warm when we got there (from winter) but so cold once we got back from AZ & UT! I found myself liking the cooler mornings though, as they are so perfect for a good breakfast and coffee. And no doubt a run, but I didn't get one of those in ;)
- August 30, 2009 at 1:59 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
This soup would be perfect right about now Susan.
- August 30, 2009 at 5:51 AM
I made this soup yesterday and my family loved it! I wasn't sure about the cilantro and the mint but it was fantastic! Not overpowering. Just right. Thanks for a great recipe! It's going in my recipe book. -Amy
- August 30, 2009 at 6:13 AM
- kickpleat said...
This soup looks amazing! I wish I was one of those with bountiful zucchini gardens, but instead I'll just have to pick up a few at the market.
- August 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Giff said...
love that relish! Soup is a wonderful finish to a summer day, when the temperatures turn cool again (can you hear our cicadas all the way out there?)
- August 31, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
leslie-I know! the heat wave struck practically as I hit "publish."
jane-You have no idea how much you have warmed my heart. Thank you dearly for taking the time to write me.
teah-Well, that's a vote of confidence!
deeba-I hear ya!
cara-That's awfully sweet of you to say. thanks!
christine-Yeah, it is similar, though SF stays chillier than here.
michelle-Then get your soup on!
parita-Are you feeling OK now? ;)
jackie-Yes, that does infuse it with so much flavor. Sounds delicious!
hornsfan- I love Austin but not its heat.
emily-That's why so many people exercise outside here. Though I understand. You were on vacation! :)
amy-I'm so happy to hear it! Thanks.
kickpleat-I bought mine at the market too. So you're not alone. ;)
giff-Yup! I can hear them now. ;)
val-Thank you!
- September 1, 2009 at 5:36 PM
- Nanette said...
That looks incredible and I just may have all the ingredients on hand. Thanks Susan!
- September 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- farida said...
This looks and sounds absolutely delectable! I will save it to make when I buy zuccini, hopefully soon:) thank you for sharing!
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Die School Reunion
This dish is a ravishing spread of hot passions, juicy secrets and dark deeds. You are invited to a lavish High School Reunion which quickly goes sour in a dramatic turn of murderous events. Soon everyone gets their claws into each other, and their teeth into a meaty past.
This sizzling offering is cooked up by 5 of LCP's gorgeous actors.
Die School Reunion
There are no booking fees for this production.
Die School Reunion Access
Access Booking line: 0800 912 6971
In conjunction with the National Autistic Society based here in Milton Keynes, we've put together a Social Story for those on the autistic spectrum.
Please contact our Box Office to request the Social Story.Access Performances
- Audio Description None scheduled
- Sign Language Interpreted None scheduled
- SUR Titles None scheduled
- Relaxed Performances None scheduled
There are six wheelchair spaces available in the Stalls. There is lift access to all levels of the theatre.
All areas of the Theatres are accessible to customers with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. There is level access from the top of Margaret Powell Square, through into the foyer, with level access into the auditorium at both sides of the stalls. Ramped access is provided to backstage areas. The building features wide corridors and doors, and additional toilet facilities for disabled people. Two front of house lifts provide access to the circle and upper circle, with appropriate seating positions available on all levels. Similarly, a lift backstage provides access to all levels with mobility lifts cited at split-levels between front of house and backstage areas. All lifts are fitted with voice commentary and tactile aids.
The Box Office, Piano Bar, Business Bar on the ground floor and circle bars all have low level counters and accessible levels for transactions. Front doors to the foyer areas can be operated automatically by push button with tactile aids.
Hearing enhancement aids are available at our theatre kiosk.
Induction Loop Necklaces
Available for patrons already wearing a hearing enhancement aid. By putting the necklace around your neck and switching your hearing aid to the 'T' setting, the sound will be amplified.
Infra-red Headsets
We have infra-red Sennheiser sound amplification headsets which amplifies sound through earpieces similar to regular headphones. This is suitable for patrons without a hearing aid.
Both the induction loop necklaces and infra-red headsets are available from the theatre kiosk.
Box Office
We have a hearing loop at our box office counter and by switching your hearing aid to the 'T' setting, the sound will be amplified.
Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome at Milton Keynes Theatre and they can stay with you while you are in the Theatre. If you wish to bring your guide or hearing dog to the Theatre, please advise the Box Office when booking your tickets and a seat next to the aisle will be reserved for you. Alternatively a member of staff will care for your dog during the performance. We can also provide drinking water for your dog.
There are public toilet facilities on the ground, first and third floors of the foyer areas. There are separate, fully accessible, male and female facilities on the ground and first floors, and fully accessible facilities for both men and women on the third floor (by door 10). Backstage there are accessible facilities on all levels. There is an emergency call-point in all accessible facilities, should you need to call for a member of staff.
Baby changing facilities are located in fully accessible toilets on the ground, first and third floors.
Milton Keynes Theatre Information
500 Marlborough Gate
Central Milton Keynes
From the M1: Leave the M1 at Junction 14, head for Milton Keynes and at the next roundabout (Northfield), go straight on to Childs Way H6. Also carry on straight across the Fox Milne, Woolstone and South Overgate Roundabouts. Turn right into Enmore Gate at the South Enmore Roundabout and left into Avebury Boulevard at the Enmore Roundabout. Turn right at the Bankfield Roundabout and the Theatre car park is immediately on your left.
From the A5: Leave the A5 at the A509 Portway Junction following the signs for Central Milton Keynes. Go straight ahead on the A509/H5 Portway at the North Grafton, North Witan, North Saxon, North Secklow and Belvedere Roundabouts. Turn right into Skeldon Gate at the North Skeldon Roundabout and right into Silbury Boulevard at the Skeldon Roundabout. Turn left into Marlborough Gate at the Campbell Park Roundabout. The Theatre is on your right hand side after the Midsummer Boulevard Junction.
By coach: There is a coach park at the end of the centre:mk and immediately opposite the Theatre on Marlborough Gate.
By bus: From the Central Rail Station to bus stops on Midsummer Boulevard. For full local timetable information call TraveLine on 0870 608 2608 (7am-8pm, 8am-8pm weekends and Bank Holidays).
By train: Milton Keynes Central Station is on the London Euston to Birmingham main line. For full timetable information call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950 (24 hrs) or visit Network Rail. Buses will take you from the Central Rail Station, to bus stops on Midsummer Boulevard outside the Theatre. There is also a taxi rank outside the station. Journey time 5 mins.
Highways England are closing certain areas of the M1 between March and May, listed below. Please check before you travel.
22 March for 2 nights - 10pm-5am - Full closure of M1 junction 14-15 Northbound
25 March for 4 nights - 10pm-5am - Full closure of M1 junction 14-11a Southbound
23 April for 2 nights - 10pm-5am - Full closure of M1 junction 14-13 Southbound
15 May for 3 nights - 10pm-5am - Full closure of M1 junction 15-15 Northbound
Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge.Groups Bookings : 0333 009 5393
Calls charged at local rate.Access Bookings : 0800 912 6971
Stage Door / Admin:* : 01908 547500
ATG continues to make the safety and security of its customers and staff a priority. As such, please bear in mind that we may undertake bag checks, so recommend you leave extra time to avoid queues, and refrain from bringing suitcases rucksacks and large bags into the Theatre. Many thanks for your cooperation.
12.00pm – 15 mins after the final performance commences.
12.00pm – 16.00pm on dark days
Open 1h 30m before curtain up on Sundays and Bank Holidays
Enjoy the sumptuous surroundings of our new Piano Bar, open from 6pm where you can enjoy an array of delights including;
• Live piano music
• A selection of premium wines
• Barista coffee
• A Delicious food menu served from 6.00pm prior to evening performances
To pick your own seats for Die School Reunion at Milton Keynes Theatre simply find the performances you'd like to see from the listings below and you'll be given the option.
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At the back end there is usage in NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, as well as other languages including Go, Haskell, and Ocaml. Codio comes with some common languages and developer tools preinstalled and allows additional components and stacks to be installed with single commands. Each Codio project is preinstalled with NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Java, and C compilers as well as Git and Mercurial.
The software itself comes from Application Craft UK. The firm says that unlike web-based code editors, Codio automatically creates a dedicated virtual server for each individual coding project.
A project (and its development stack) are clonable, so each stack, once installed and configured, can be shared with other people, reducing setup time each time other developers want to create the same stack.
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The changing landscape of the Android marketplace creates unique challenges and opportunities, many of which are tied to the individual hardware specifications of devices. Hardware optimization has become a consideration for mindful application development. When testing software across a variety of devices and architectures, virtual devices are the go-to tools for agile development. This article will guide you through building customizable emulators and setting up the appropriate environments for developing applications. Tips and best practices will be offered for creating and porting versatile applications and using the Android SDK's tools and platform components to their full potential.
Overview of Android Virtual Device Emulation
Android runs on a variety of form factor devices with different screen sizes, hardware capabilities, and features. A typical device has a multitude of software (Android API) and hardware capabilities like sensors, GPS, camera, SD card and multi-touch screen with specific dimensions.
The emulator is quite flexible and configurable with different software and hardware configuration options. Developers can customize the emulator using the emulator configuration called Android Virtual Device (AVD). AVD can be thought of as a set of configuration files that specify different Android software and device hardware capabilities. The Android emulator uses these AVD configurations to configure and start the appropriate Android virtual image on the emulator.
As documented on the Android website, a typical AVD configuration has:
- A hardware profile that specifies all the device capabilities (examples: camera, sensors).
- A System image, which will be used by the emulator for this AVD (API level to target, such as Gingerbread or Honeycomb).
- A Data image that acts as the dedicated storage space for user's data, settings, and SD card.
- Other options including emulator skin, the screen dimensions, and SD card size.
Developers are encouraged to target different API levels, screen sizes, and hardware capabilities (such as camera, sensors, and multi-touch devices). The AVD configuration can be used to customize the emulator as needed. Developers can create as many AVDs as desired, each one targeting a different Intel architecture–based Android device: For example, a developer can create an Intel architecture–based Gingerbread AVD with a built-in skin like WVGA800, or a custom one manually specifying the screen resolution to be used.
The Android SDK has supported Intel architecture–based Android emulation since version r12. The SDK integrates this support into all developer tools including the eclipse ADT plugin. Figure 1 is a sample screenshot of the Android emulator for x86 running Gingerbread. The model number is highlighted and shows "Full Android on x86 Emulator."
Figure 1: Android emulator.
For detailed instructions on how to use the emulator, please refer to the Android documentation.
Which Emulator Should You Use
At the time of this writing, there are two emulator images available for Intel architecture (x86): one for Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread), and one for Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
While there are many advantages to developing for the latest Android operating system release, many developers prefer to target Android 2.x, as a majority of Android phones in use today do not yet run Android 4.x or higher (in the US, only 1 in 5 Android phones run ICS or higher at the time of this writing). This percentage will change over time, so it is strongly suggested that you keep market conditions in mind when determining your target operating system. For more Gingerbread-specific operating system information, this article may prove useful. For Ice Cream Sandwich information, use this article.
Why Use an Emulator?
First of all, it's free. The Android SDK and its third-party add-ons cost absolutely nothing and allow developers to emulate devices that they do not own and may not have access to. This is important as not all phones acquire the latest Android OS versions via Over The Air (OTA) updates, and it may not be feasible for developers to purchase every device that is expected to support their software package(s).
- Development and testing. Developers can use the SDK to create several Android Virtual Device (AVD) configurations for development and testing purposes. Each AVD can have varying screen dimensions, SD card sizes, or even versions of the Android SDK (which is useful for testing backward compatibility with prior Android builds).
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Jellyfish live in the ocean and usually don't bother anyone. They just float around and look weird, sometimes washing up on the beach.
A jellyfish jiggles like gelatin, and some just look like small, clear blobs. But others are bigger and more colorful with a bunch of tentacles that hang down underneath them, kind of like an octopus.
Beware those tentacles! Jellyfish need to eat in the ocean, so their sting helps them catch other sea creatures. Unfortunately, that sting can be turned on people. Jellyfish can sting with their tentacles if they brush against you when you're swimming in the ocean. You also can get stung if you step on a jellyfish, even a dead one.
Usually, jellyfish stings will hurt, but are not emergencies. Most cause pain, red marks, itching, numbness, or tingling. But a few types of jellyfish (mainly found in Australia, the Philippines, the Indian Ocean, and central Pacific Ocean) are very dangerous, and can cause people to get very sick quickly.
If you get stung, take these two steps right away:
See the lifeguard next, if there's one at your beach. He or she may be able to help and also can warn other swimmers. It's helpful to know what kind of jellyfish stung you. Your lifeguard might be able to tell you what type is usually at that beach.
Jellyfish stings aren't like bee stings when it comes to the stinger. A bee sting leaves behind a single stinger that you can usually see and pull out.
When a jellyfish stings a person, it leaves thousands of very tiny stingers called nematocysts in the skin. These stingers can continue to release jellyfish venom (poison) into the person's body. Sometimes, they can be rinsed off with seawater. They also can be scraped off using something like a credit card, not your hand.
Here's what a parent or other adult can do to help you feel better if a jellyfish stings you:
Someone needs to call for an ambulance right away if a person who's been stung:
You may have heard people say you should pee on a jellyfish sting. First, ew! Second, experts say that's not necessary. Seawater and sometimes vinegar are recommended instead. Yes, vinegar — the same stuff you might use in a salad dressing.
Why does vinegar work sometimes? Vinegar is a weak acid. For some kinds of jellyfish stings, that chemical makeup may keep the nematocysts from "firing," or releasing venom. Remember that nematocysts are the tiny stingers the jellyfish leaves behind in someone's skin.
That's why seawater is best for rinsing off. Seawater — the jellyfish's home environment — doesn't seem to cause the stingers to fire or not fire. But fresh water (like the kind from your tap or in bottled water) is unfamiliar and may cause the stingers to fire.
Reduce your chances of getting stung by a jellyfish by swimming only at guarded beaches. You're more likely to get a warning about jellyfish at a beach that has lifeguards. They might post a sign or fly a warning flag.
Some beaches fly a purple warning flag whenever there's "dangerous marine life" in the water. So if the purple flag is flying, find out why!
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Exercises that can help when a young child loses a parent, grandparent or other close relative or friend
Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies. By Janis Silverman. Fairview Press, 32 pp., $9.95, paperback. Ages 5–9.
By Janice Harayda
Normally, I don't review children's books that offer only bibliotherapy or help with problems. But Help Me Say Goodbye has so much to offer grief-stricken 5-to-9-year-olds that I've decided to break my self-imposed rule.
Teacher Janis Silverman designed this activity book for families with young children who will be visiting a friend or relative who is dying. But the book could also help children who have recently lost someone important. Each page describes something a child could do to "say goodbye" and provides space for it. One page says: "When you visit your friend or relative, what can you bring? Draw or write about your ideas." Other pages suggest ways children can express their feelings after a loss. One says that when someone dies, people may feel angry: "Draw or write what you can do when you feel angry. Circle the things that won't hurt anyone else." And while the book is designed for children in grades kindergarten through three, it describes a few activities for younger ones, such as, "Use a toy phone to talk about what happened."
Recommended … for children who are coping with the death of a parent, grandparent, sibling, teacher or friend. The exercise in this book could be adapted for children whose pets have died.
Published: January 1999.
Furthermore: At this writing, this book is in stock on Amazon www.amazon.com. Many libraries also have it.
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What are you doing, dog? You're not people!
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and, well, gosh, that's awful nice of our canine pals—sorry, we meant our best friends—to show us just how much they care. Although you guys do look a bit silly. (We mean the outfits, not the walking-upright thing. The walking is pretty impressive actually.)
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Experience the ease of cotton diapering with modern diapering techniques and supplies demonstrated by Parent Diapering Experts who have logged hundreds of diapering hours and are excited about passing along their "tips and tricks of the trade." The workshop is from 10am to 11am and includes a time of guided "hands on" practice and Q & A's. There will also be a diaper cover review, door prizes and more.
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Dear Miss Snark,
Your blog keeps me connected and energized and writing - and I'm hoping you can help now.
I've finished a novel, edited it extensively, gotten lots of great feed back from other writers and a couple of agents I deeply respect. I've started a rewrite. I'm plugging away...
Now, suddenly, I feel overwhelmed by the whole damn thing. For the last few weeks, the thoughts of approaching the work in any way or form just seems to be the last thing I want to do. I've lost my momentum. I've lost confidence. I can't seem to decide how to tell the story...where it REALLY should begin...whether or not it even matters...or why it matters that I try again.
I've had moments of thinking the work is brilliant - and I know for a fact that its my best writing ever. Even now, LOGICALLY, I believe it to be a pretty good bit of fiction, with an interesting hook and decent, well-edited line tension on many of its pages.
But I just can't do it...
Its a horrible feeling.
Have you any advice for a writer who feels defeated by her own imagination?
Stop writing for a while.
Recharge your imagination coils.
Go look at art.
Go stand in front of great paintings for more than three seconds.
Then go look at some really bad art. You can find that in museums too.
Sometimes right next to the really good stuff.
Really really look.
Keep doing it for a while.
You don't need to "know" anything about art.
Just experience it.
What makes art great is that you can feel it, as well as appreciate the skill of the artist.
You cannot do this with mass produced things, so no "retail therapy".
You can't do it with novels.
You can do it with poems but you have to read them aloud, outside, really really loudly.
Every single great artist I know (and I know more than one and fewer than ten) spends time recharging.


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If you're hung over, a bit groggy and have a sudden taste for the flesh of the living, you're not alone. It's just another "Zombie Friday."
The term denotes the workday after a Thursday holiday, when companies like to dump depressing news on the populace, hoping you're still sleeping it off from prior festivities and won't notice.
Marek Fuchs runs through a number of examples of this plodding and brain-dead behavior on The Exchange.
"There has been a long, sordid history of bad news released on Zombie days — from presidents pardoning controversial criminals to companies admitting to stock backdating or firing thousands of employees," Fuchs notes.
The United States Mint goes down in market lore as one of the most egregious examples.
"Only the heartless would have fired workers at the time surrounding Sept. 11, but that's just what happened when the Mint determined the slowing economy was lowering demand for coins," he relates. "They didn't want to be seen as cold, however, so they took advantage of a Zombie Day."
The Mint timed the firings so that, on the day after Thanksgiving when "everyone was zonked out on tryptophan," The New York Times ran with the headline: Facing Decreased Demand for Coins, Mint Starts Layoffs."
Firing hundreds when headed into the first Christmas after a national tragedy sounds outrageous, and would have been had more people known.
In 2006, Corinthian Colleges, a provider of health care training, admitted on the Friday after Thanksgiving that it did, in fact, backdate its options after all. It was news they had to release but few saw, thanks to Zombie Day.
Ironically, a portion of those options were originally backdated in the days after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
"Talk about a company with a tendency toward operating under cover of night," Fuchs concludes.
Check out When RIA Zombies Attack, Money Manager Has Survival Guide on AdvisorOne.


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On April 17, 2010, UFC lightweight Kurt Pellegrino and WEC bantamweight Miguel Angel Torres engaged in a five-hour PhotoShop and insult war that divided the Twitterverse as fans sought to create the best one-liner to offend the rival fighters. On Saturday, these superstars will butt thumbs again as they guest tweet from the @UFC account during UFC 113.
On October 24, 2009, champion Lyoto 'The Dragon' Machida and challenger Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua engaged in a five round war that divided the mixed martial arts world. On Saturday, these 205-pound superstars will settle the score once and for all in the main event of UFC® 113.
Both men are live on site in Montreal and will be sharing behind-the-scenes photos, commentary and hilarity for at least as long as they get cell phone reception in the Bell Centre. Follow @KurtPellegrino and @MiguelTorresMMA on Twitter; look for both of them to return to the cage this summer.