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Sean Kingston says he's feeling better almost a month after crashing his watercraft into a Miami Beach bridge.
On his Twitter page Monday, Kingston posted a message to his fans. He wrote: "Feeling alot better! GOD IS GREAT! Thanks for all the prayers and support! Love you ALL!"
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Kingston also posted a picture of himself, in the hospital, flashing a peace sign. His publicist, Joseph Carozza, says Kingston's condition has been upgraded to fair.
The singer famous for his 2007 hit "Beautiful Girls" has been hospitalized in Miami since the May 29 crash. Carozza says Kingston walked on his own a couple of weeks ago for the first time since the accident.
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Pakistan's ambassador to the United States dropped by for breakfast with The Christian Science Monitor yesterday, and explained why Pakistan simply can't go into its mountainous regions and clear out terrorists the way that Macy's, for instance, can clear out its fall collection to make way for the winter.
The reason, Ambassador Husain Haqqani told reporters at the weekly Monitor breakfast, is that launching the kinds of assaults that it previously conducted in South Waziristan and the Swat Valley tends to stir up local resentment against the government and support for Islamist militant groups like the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-i Islami.
As Monitor correspondent Howard LaFranchi writes:
Haqqani said Wednesday that US officials now understand better Pakistan's internal constraints in confronting some groups. He listed two red lines that Pakistan has laid down with the US concerning what it will and won't do in the battle with terrorism: Pakistan won't act in ways that involve "taking risks with our own internal cohesion," he said, or that would pose "risks to our own national security."
The downside of that approach for Pakistan is that it virtually guarantees that the strikes by unmanned US drones will continue and even increase.
And unfortunately, the downside of speaking too frankly to reporters is that sometimes you make your bosses upset. This may or may not have happened with Mr. Haqqani, who was summoned home to Islamabad just hours after speaking at the Monitor breakfast. Pakistani officials insist this is just a routine visit.
With the US seemingly unable to clear out antigovernment militants in Afghanistan – and Pakistan apparently unwilling to do so in Pakistan – one wonders why a government like Kenya would want to send its troops into Somalia to carry out a very similar mission. On Oct. 16, Kenya's military moved into neighboring Somalia after a continuing string of pirate attacks and kidnappings began to take a toll on Kenya's foreign trade and tourism business.
Many foreign observers have questioned the timing of the attack and whether Kenya had launched the operation with clear goals and with an exit strategy. But Daniel Branch writes in Foreign Affairs magazine that Kenya's military operation may be the result of the ambitions of some of its own senior politicians as well as the growing confidence of Kenya's military leaders in their military's capabilities.
Nairobi's incursion into Somalia was spurred less by the threat of al Shabaab and more by domestic military and political dynamics. Kenya will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its independence in 2013, and so far the country has never once gone to war with another state. But recently, as Washington has funnelled counterterrorism funds into East Africa and underwritten a stronger Kenyan military, the country's military has grown more confident and combative.
And finally, let's consider a very old trend indeed: the sexually straying political male. From the Founding Fathers to President Bill Clinton and his arch-nemesis Newt Gingrich, who both had affairs while in office back in the 1990s, political leaders seem to have difficulty with the whole marital commitment thing.
In Salon.com, historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg compare today's sex scandals – from Penn State's Jerry Sandusky to Republican candidate Herman Cain – to those of American historical figures, particularly Alexander Hamilton. There doesn't seem to be a marked increase in marital infidelity, they write, but what has changed is that today's political environment has become toxic, confrontational, and dangerously dysfunctional.
The voting public has been led to expect spotless candidates, which is a prime reason why negative ads poll so well. The idea that men can behave honorably at all times, and that their secrets should be kept because of some outdated–and frankly, perverted–code of honor, is a dangerous proposition. It sours the political environment, which is in need of a massive overhaul as it is. The idea that candidates are legally bought by corporate interests and association lobbies is a most unrepublican and unAmerican perversion of our founding principles. The lies and attacks, counter-lies and counter-attacks, that course through the election cycle epitomize the difference between the theory and practice of democracy.

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Special Session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry with the FAO European Forestry Commission
17 - 18 June 2013
Room IX, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Contact Point: Paola Deda
The special session of the ECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) with the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC) was held on 17 and 18 June 2013 in Geneva at the Palais des Nations. This session reviewed two important documents:
· The draft Action Plan for the Forest Sector in a Green Economy, which is the outcome of open and extensive consultations. The Action Plan was considered in a series of informal meetings, engaging all stakeholders of the forest sector, including governments, representatives of the private sector and the civil society (25 countries and more than 80 local, national and international organizations). The Action Plan consists of 5 pillars with their respective areas of activity:
o Sustainable production and consumption of forest products;
o A low carbon forest sector;
o Decent green jobs in the forest sector;
o Long term provision of Forest Ecosystem Services;
o Policy development and monitoring of the forest sector in relation to a green economy.
· The draft Integrated Programme of Work 2014-17 for the COFFI and the ECE, the result of a thorough strategic review. The review principles included a broad scope, inclusiveness and open participation of all stakeholders, different means to seek opinions and transparency. This was translated into surveys; self-evaluations of teams of specialists, the joint working party and the secretariat; and a series of formal and informal meetings. The overall goal of the proposed Integrated Programme of Work is to support member countries and other stakeholders in their efforts to sustainably manage and use forests in the ECE Region, so that they provide products and ecosystem services to benefit society. The Programme of Work is expected to be structured around four main functions, or work areas (WA), as follows:
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Delegates to the Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and the European Forestry Commission forwarded both documents for approval to Metsä2013 (Metsä meaning forest in Finnish), the joint meeting of the COFFI and the EFC, to take place in Rovaniemi, Finland, from 9 to 13 December 2013, in conjunction with the European Forest Week (EFW).
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The feelings I don't have I don't have.
The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have.
The feelings you say you have, you don't have.
The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
The feelings people ought to have, they never have.
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Conservation volunteers build their own nature reserve in the Galapagos
Owned by the Director of Projects Abroad Ecuador, William Puga, and partly funded by Projects Abroad itself, a new nursery is well on its way to housing some of the Galapagos' most precious plant species.
Projects Abroads' role with the nursery
Situated in the Highlands of San Cristobal, not far from El Progresso Village, the nursery will be home to endemic plants and trees of the Galapagos.
The Galapagos National Park, a Projects Abroad partner, will provide plants for the nursery and provide assistance and guidance to volunteers during the development stages at the nursery. However, Projects Abroad will have full control of the nursery, and as an organisation will be able to create a lasting conservation influence in the Galapagos by doing similar work to that of the Galapagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation (based on the island of Santa Cruz).
One of the main tasks for Conservation volunteers is to get rid of invasive plants which are harmful to endemic species. These endemic species are being planted at the new nursery with limited amounts of pesticides. Volunteers have been involved in building, planting and maintaining the nursery from the start.
William is also excited that Projects Abroad volunteers and the local community are included in the final plan to create awareness and to protect the indigenous plant species in the Galapagos. To achieve this, an environmental and conservation awareness centre, along with an eco-camp for all Conservation volunteers, will soon exist.
What is the future for the project?
At present, the nursery section is complete and volunteers regularly help to maintain and plant species such as the miconia (Miconia vesca). William anticipates that the building will be completed in three to six months. 'We have the ecological reserve set up. We also hope to have it as the base for the Conservation project.' Eventually all Conservation volunteers will be housed at the eco-camp and will be able to fully immerse themselves in Galapagos conservation by being steps away from their very own nursery and environmental centre.
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From designing optical equipment to troubleshooting at a pizza factory, Stevens alumnus Matt Ketschke (B.E. 1995, M.S. 1998) acquired many unique work experiences in his path to his current role as director of The Learning Center, Consolidated Edison, Inc.'s (Con Edison) massive training and development facility. Each one brought him something different.
"I got all the free pizza that I wanted, and that made me a very popular guy in the fraternity, but I never want to taste another slice," Ketschke joked about his internship at the Ellio's Pizza manufacturing plant.
A Mechanical Engineering major, varsity baseball player and Delta Tau Delta brother, Ketschke was a member of the Stevens Cooperative Education (Co-op) program, where he held internships at numerous companies during his undergraduate years.
His first position was in a small machine shop where he helped to prototype medical equipment, turning a doctor's scribbles of an idea into a real device. Next he work at Unilever as a controls engineer, and later at Ellio's as a production engineer.
Although he valued each of the internship experiences, it wasn't until his final two Co-op assignments that Ketschke found his calling. He landed at PSE&G, where he did maintenance and outage planning in the company's power plants, and found that he was strongly drawn to the utilities industry.
"PSE&G was my favorite assignment and had the most to do with what ultimately became my career," Ketschke said. "I was basically working to ensure everything went smoothly when generating stations were taken offline for overhaul, capital upgrades or other reasons."
Upon graduation, Ketschke began what was to become a 16-year – and counting – career at Con Edison, one of the nation's largest energy companies. Initially, he secured placement in its 18-month Management Intern Program, which allowed him to rotate between different parts of the organization with other trainees and gain exposure to all aspects of the business.
"Not only did I get to work on the leadership qualities I would need to become a supervisor, but also to learn the hands-on technical skills Con Edison's union utility workers need, such as maintaining electrical equipment and splicing cable," said Ketschke.
Since graduating, Ketschke served in a number of supervisory positions within Con Edison's Electric Operations division. One of his most important roles was as the general manager in charge of the design and operation of the electric distribution system in Brooklyn and Queens. He also served as the project engineer in the reconstruction of Con Edison's infrastructure after the 9-11, as well as spearheaded a program to test all of Con Edison's structures and streetlights for stray voltage. In the meantime, Ketschke earned his M.S. from Management at Stevens and his MBA from Columbia University through Con Edison's continuing education program.
For the past three years, Ketschke has been on a different sort of path as director of The Learning Center, where much of his own training took place immediately after he was hired. Situated on a 9-acre site in Queens, The Learning Center is essentially a college that develops all entry-level Con Edison employees in areas such as operations, safety and leadership, and also conducts proficiency testing. Last year, 8,000 union and 5,000 management personnel passed through its doors.
"It is rewarding to be involved in introducing new employees to Con Edison and kick-starting what will hopefully to long-term careers with the company," said Ketschke, who oversees The Learning Center's 125 instructors and support personnel.
Ketschke is one of the rare people in this day and age who could see himself retiring from the company that hired him right out of college.
"I'm lucky to have had many opportunities to move around, tackle new challenges and get a better understanding of the whole company. I don't see myself ever getting bored," he said.
If he does, Ketschke has plenty to keep him busy outside of work. A father of two who resides with his wife and sons in Cranford, N.J., Ketschke is a distance runner who only recently stopped playing competitive baseball. He is currently training for his first marathon with the hope of checking something off of his bucket list now that he has turned 40.


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We're a full weekend into the baseball season, and NPI still hasn't previewed the most important league! Don't fret, though, John S is here to break it all down for you, and to make sure you don't get fooled by Baltimore's 3-0 start.
AL West
1. Oakland Athletics
2. Texas Rangers
3. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
4. Seattle Mariners
So you're on the A's bandwagon? Yeah, and I'm not even going to pretend like I got on it particularly early. I was really just looking for someone to pick over the Rangers.
Why do you feel the need to mess with Texas? Well, I was early on the Rangers bandwagon, picking them to win the West at the beginning of 2010, so it's not like I'm anti-Texas. This year, though, the defending AL champs are both overrated and underrated. They are underrated because people have inevitably focused on the loss of Cliff Lee this off-season; but while losing Lee is obviously big, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the Rangers were in first before trading for Lee last season, and that they likely would have won the division even without his acquisition (Lee was actually pretty mediocre for Texas in the regular season). Continue reading


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Woman shot in leg at Potawatomi Bingo Casino
MILWAUKEE — Police say one person was injured in an early-morning shooting Sunday at a Milwaukee casino.
Milwaukee Police Sgt. Mark Stanmeyer said a 23-year-old woman was shot in the leg at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino. The Milwaukee woman's injuries were not life-threatening.
Stanmeyer said a 27-year-old man from Wauwatosa was arrested at the casino. No charges have been filed. He did not disclose either person's name.
The casino said in a statement that it closed temporarily after the shooting, but reopened at 9 a.m. Sunday.
Cheryl Anderson of Milwaukee told The Associated Press she was at the slot machines when she heard a shot, which she says was fired near the table games.
Anderson says people started running and screaming.


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Those of you who follow this blog have read (e.g., here and here) about conviction integrity units (CIUs): small groups of attorneys in a district attorney's office who have the mission of investigating claims of wrongful convictions in past cases tried by that same office. These units, just like homicide units, major crimes units, or others in the DA's office, are dedicated to one type of work: investigating claims of wrongful conviction. grity work.
The first conviction integrity unit in the country was established by Dallas DA Craig Watkins, in order to have a regular way to investigate the claims of wrongful convictions that his office already faced, and others that might arise in the future.
I support CIUs. They assure that the DA's office has a built-in way to address any substantive claim of wrongful conviction. They can work in partnership with local innocence projects, which can serve as screeners for claims of innocence, in order to point CIUs to cases with real, tenable claims. (This was the arrangement between the Dallas DA's CIU and the Texas Innocence Project when I researched and wrote my book Failed Evidence.) CIUs are far from a perfect solution; they are, after all, part of the DA's office that may have made the alleged mistakes being investigated, and so they lack independence. But without a better alternative — for example, a state-created agency like North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission — CIUs can do the job, and can be created immediately, on the orders of the DA.
CIUs have begun to spread to DA's offices across the country. And with that visibility comes some serious thinking about how best to assure conviction integrity. A conference will take place this Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, called "A Systems Approach to Conviction Integrity," sponsored by the Quattrone Center at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. The event is free, and will be live streamed on the internet for those (like me) who cannot get to Philadelphia to attend.
Take a look at the description of the conference and the agenda. It's designed to help people involved in the criminal justice system learn to use quality control systems from experts in laboratory science, aviation and aeronautics, medicine, public health, transportation and other fields who have created mechanisms and institutional cultures designed to reduce and ferret out errors. Here's a sample of the conference statement, just to give everyone a sense:
The problem of quality control pervades many of the systems in our society. Panelists, each expert in quality control and systems error reduction in a complex, high-risk field, will explore efforts to address quality control in a range of other important areas, such as healthcare, aviation, laboratories, etc., and how maintaining quality in the criminal justice system may be similar to and different from quality control in these other areas.
If you are interested in the problem of reducing wrongful convictions going forward — that is, not just correcting the errors of the past, but avoiding them in the future — I urge you to attend or watch via the web stream. The conference will be a milestone along the road to a better, more accurate criminal justice system, with a ton of information we can all use.


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The expansive Cold War arms race defined the geopolitics of the second-half of the 20th century. When the Cold War got less frosty following the break up of the Soviet Union and tensions diffused, people on both sides of the ideological divide were afforded the opportunity to acknowledge their shared humanity.
The idea that we are not so different from our enemies is one of the undercurrents of Justin Barton's photographs. He shoots former Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) launch sites that were on both sides of the Cold War. The photos are graphically composed, interior details of the sites, a study of the infrastructure humans use to address existential military threats. They're largely free of national identity (until one reads the signage, of course). By zooming in on hardware, control-boards, telephones and airlocks, Barton exposes a common, and surprisingly banal, side of terror.
"I want to force people to look at the detail of these things they dismiss as history and irrelevant to our age," says Barton who points to the fact that the development of ICBMs continues today. "It doesn't matter if you think nuclear weapons are critical to keeping the peace or if you think we need to remove their deadly threat from our planet, you still need to examine the veneer of safety that keeps apocalypse from our front doors."
Massive military spending on ICBMs – missiles with global reach – fed the Cold War arms race. It was a time defined by an unprecedented reality: Human extinction could be just one button-press away. Never before had humans had such a concrete reason to fear (and be paranoid about) the end of the world. The first ICBM launched was the Soviets' R-7 which flew over 6,000 km (3,700 miles) on Aug. 21, 1957. Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite was launched into space later that year by that missile's same systems.
Playing catch up, the United States initiated an extensive ICBM program. Between 1960 and 1967, contractors managed by the Army Corps of Engineers excavated and built 1,180 underground missile silos, 57 above-ground launch sites and more than 100 Minuteman launch control centers. A handful of the sites from that period, including several former Soviet Union silos, are the subjects of Barton's photo series.
"I can't help but wonder at the technical genius that is required to engineer these incredibly complex machines," says Barton, who trained as a scientist before moving into photography. In his mind, that application of genius continues to this day. "The fastest supercomputers are being used to model nuclear explosions with a view to improving efficiency and yield; this is why there have been fewer obvious tests. It's likely the U.S. is spending more on ICBMs than ever before. The Russian Federation are openly developing a newer and bigger missile to replace the older SS-18 they currently use." The SS-18 is already the biggest-yield ICBM in the world.
According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the U.S. and U.S.S.R, at the height of the Cold War, maintained approximately 8,800 warheads on 3,000 ICBMs combined, with the Soviets generally possessing twice the amount of the U.S. at any given time.
The Soviets were gluttons for nuclear megatonnage. In the mid-1970s, the U.S.S.R. possessed the equivalent yield of almost 450,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Massive, publicized reductions have taken place since. The U.S. currently operates 450 ICBMs on three Air Force bases, and Russia has about double that number. Currently, only Russia, China, India and the U.S. are the nations known to possess land-based ICBMs.
The similarities evident in Barton's photographs from opposite sides of the conflict can be explained partly by fundamental engineering requirements, but also, according to him, by espionage.
"You only have to look at the similarity of the Tupolev 144 and Concorde or the U.S. Space Shuttle and the Soviet Buran Spacecraft," says Barton. "I would be most surprised if both sides had not 'borrowed' secrets from one another."
Barton, who lives in the U.K., has thus far photographed silos and the warhead assembly sites in Sevastopol, Pervomaysk and Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine – a relatively easier place to work than Russia due to relaxed visa requirements and national policy.
"Since 1996, Ukraine is one of the very select groups of countries that is voluntarily nuclear free; it is much less concerned about giving away 'secrets' that everyone already knows," says Barton. "When the U.S.S.R. crumbled, Ukraine had 220 strategic weapons carriers on their soil and were the third largest nuclear power in the world."
Barton, who uses amateur online satellite image analysis in his research, also photographed at the Titan II launch site in Green Valley, Arizona.
With a bit of online sleuthing, you'll find countless abandoned sites in the U.S. that are easy to access. Some former launch sites have been listed as high-end fixer-uppers for the property market and sold – from Abilene, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, to Tucson, Arizona, the restorations are legend.
ICBM sites that cost $20 million to construct in 1960 can now go for as less than half a million. Other silos are maintained as tourist attractions such the Minuteman-II missile site in South Dakota.
In accordance with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) signed in 1991, most launch silos in America have been sealed.
"Most ICBM sites have been left abandoned but stripped of all the details that interest me. I'm looking for the traces of of their use so the viewer can imagine the objects' lives," says Barton.
Access is a constant negotiation. Lugging around his 8x10 large format camera, Barton benefited hugely from the assistance of experienced fixers in Russia and Ukraine.
"I have never attempted to shoot anything that I don't have clearance for, it would be impossible with a camera that's pretty much 19th-century technology," he says.
With a good body of work from the CIS, Barton believes he in a better position to negotiate access to U.S. sites.
"I'm only half way through the project and I'm currently applying for a number of other places including Vandenburg in the U.S.," says Barton. "If the Russians and Ukrainians appear to be more open to photographers than the 'Land of Freedom' then, surely, that will raise some questions [for U.S. administrators]."
Barton says he observed missiles as monuments to military might "everywhere" in Russia and believes the military is even more fundamental to Russians' sense of place than it is to that of Americans. The Cold War may be over but balanced foreign relations and suspicions remain. The Russian citizens Barton met were not surprised by Mitt Romney's description of their country as America's "No. 1 political foe"; they saw it as a diplomatic fact more than as the political kick-ball it became for the presidential debates.
"Putin is largely able to stay in power due to people's perception that he will take the West to task [if tensions escalate]. A change in their ideology does not mean the Russians feel they totally lost a political war. The current proxy war in Syria shows that Russia is not going to hand over influence to anyone right on their doorstep. And, the rise of the capitalist oligarchs has not led to true freedom [in Russia] as the West would see it either," says Barton. "It still feels pretty cold out there to me."
Barton has spent nearly two years on the project, mostly on his own dime.
"It is an undertaking that Don Quixote would have been proud of," says Barton. "Atomic War In Details is a personal project that has not seen one penny of funding and has cost me many thousands of pounds in travel, hotel rooms, film, processing, phone calls and even expensive 'tips.' But it is a story that needs to be told."


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"Friday Night Lights" star Aimee Teegarden is going to "Prom" – but it won't be East Dillon High's.
Teegarden's switching on-screen schools (she was also recently enrolled in "Scream 4's" Woodsboro High) as one of the stars of Disney's "Prom" – but she warns don't let the Mouse House brand lead you to expect anyone to break into an elaborate song-and-dance number.
"It's about a group of high schoolers and the last couple weeks of their senior year leading up to prom – but it's definitely not anything like 'High School Musical,' glossy or bright," Teegarden tells PopcornBiz. "There's no song and dance or singing or anything like that – it's an overthrow back to a John Hughes '80s movie."
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Teegarden says she got a kick out of the prom-organizing archetype she plays. "She's a very type-A personality: she's the class president, she's the type of girl that everybody knew in school that was Miss Goody Two-Shoes," she says. "We see her at the beginning of the movie with her perfect life, so organized and structured, and how she's friends with everybody and wants to make everything perfect, and is so obsessed with prom about being the be-all, end-all moment of her life."
Her own prom wasn't a be-all, end-all for Teegarden, 21 – but she didn't experience any life-altering epiphanies either. "I went with some friends and we actually went to the House of Blues and had a good time," she recalls. "It was kind of what I had expected because I had been to Winter Formal and Homecoming, and it was kind of like that. But they had caricatures! You could get caricatures at the prom I went to, so that was fun."
Meanwhile, despite a wealth of new roles, she's as sad to see "Friday Night Lights" conclude its five-season run as the show's small legion of intensely devoted fans are.
"I've gotten a lot of people that have Tweeted me or contacted me through mail saying 'I can't believe it's the last season. What can I do? How can we change this?'" she says. "And I'm kind of right there with them. It's a bit bittersweet. It's sad that we're kind of wrapping five years of my life, because it's a family at a certain point."
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Happy Thanksgiving week! So I thought I would show some pictures from Market... yes I know a little late but oh well. I am updating the coming soon page slowly but surely. I had someone helping me with online things but she was having trouble working it around the family so I am on my own again.
Here are some things that are coming to the shop soon (in alphabetical order)
Alchemy Quilting Cotton and Voile:
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Les Amis De Foret (My Sally made that cute little mini quilt)
Sally also made that little mini hanging on the table
We spent a lot of time with Patty can you tell?
Salt Water
I want to do this (below) as a club block of the month in the shop :)
I downloaded tons of pictures yesterday so I should be able to get the coming soon page updated in the next couple days. I am taking Wednesday and Thursday off and wanted to spend a good part of Wednesday working on the website. Then we will have a Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale... and all heck will break lose :)
So if you read this far.... lucky you... if you leave a message here telling me what you are thankful for I will send you a fun pack of Market goodies if you are the winner of the random drawing. This drawing ends tonight at midnight PST. So comment away.
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Production is currently underway on Michael Bay's (relatively) small dark comedy Pain and Gain, and just the other day we got our first look at Rob Corddry and Mark Wahlberg on the set. Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in the Fargo-esque true story of two bodybuilders who got caught up in an extorition ring and kidnapping scheme that went terribly wrong. We got a glimpse of Wahlberg doing some harness-enhanced wall sit-ups in the first batch of set photos, but today we get a great look at Wahlberg and Johnson together. We already know that the two have proven comedic chops, so I'm eager to see how they play off of each other. If the goofy costumes are any indication, we may be in for a really fun ride.
Hit the jump to check out the images. The film also stars Ed Harris, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shaloub, Rebel Wilson, and Bar Paly.
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"Student loans." These words are usually said with a sigh and accompanied by stress and anxiety.
What type of loan should I take out?
How will I pay this off as a young educator?
Where do I start?
It seems overwhelming right now, but it doesn't have to be.
It seems overwhelming right now, but it doesn't have to be.
Between choosing a college and preparing for your education, you have enough on your plate already. To save you a substantial headache, we've put together a crash course in student loans. Understanding the features of each type of loan will make it easier when the time comes for you to take out a loan.
Generally speaking, there are two types of loans: federal and private. Federal loans typically have more flexible payment plans and lower interest rates. Young educators often benefit the most by maxing out federal loans and only using private loans to close the gap between what has been borrowed and what is still needed. Let's take a closer look at each one.
There are three different types of federal loans: Stafford (or Direct) loans, Parent PLUS loans and Perkins loans. Federal loans have a few things in common: They're more flexible than private loans because there are more options for repayment and forgiveness, and they include fixed interest rates and grace periods. Repayment for most federal loans doesn't start until 6 months after graduation. This is called a "grace period".
Stafford loans can be either subsidized or unsubsidized, which is just a fancy way of saying that interest can start accruing before or after graduation.
Simply put, a subsidized loan doesn't start charging you for borrowing money until after you leave school.
Simply put, a subsidized loan doesn't start charging you for borrowing money until after you leave school.
An unsubsidized loan starts charging interest from the time the loan is taken. Generally speaking, interest rates are low on Stafford loans, and repayment options are much more flexible than private loans. This is the most common type of federal student loan today.
Parent PLUS loans are available for parents of undergraduate students who are enrolled at least half-time at an approved educational institution. The maximum amount that can be borrowed is set by the school's financial aid office and will depend on the cost of the student's attendance and any other financial aid the student is receiving. One thing to remember when looking into Parent PLUS loans is that there is no grace period, so repayment will start sooner than other loan types.
In a Perkins loan, your school is the lender. The interest rate for Perkins loans is low, and they're available for both graduate and undergraduate students. If you're uncertain about your ability to start paying back your loan after graduation, this loan gives you a 9-month grace period before you have to start repayment.
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The first notable difference of private loans is that they may require payments while you are still in school.
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So when might a private loan be a wise choice? If you have already borrowed the maximum amount in federal loans but still need more to cover the costs of school, a private loan can be used to bridge the gap and get you the money you need to earn your degree. An added benefit is that private loans offer flexible duration selections, meaning you can choose different payment durations, such as five, 10, 15 or 20 years, to repay.
Navigating the loan landscape for first-time borrowers can be overwhelming at first, but the more you know about the different kinds of loans, the more prepared you are to borrow responsibly and set up a prudent payment plan.
It's important to make the right decisions for your future. Be sure to talk to someone about the right loans for you. To find out more about the right loans for you, head to studentloans.gov.
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I missed the 22nd, but this is worth posting for the next several months. We continue to pray for all our service men and women, and those from other countries in the coalition. Thank you to zombietime for hosting the commemorative site – be sure to go HERE to read more.


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Allyson Camp found her home in Cleveland County. Chris Bailey says the same for himself.
Both attended schools in the county.
Both left.
Only one came back.
�Sometimes you get ideas in your head about how things should be,� Camp said. �I have family here. I don�t regret it.�
She can�t imagine not being here.
By 2025, the 65 and older population will increase by more than 27,000 people.
They�re expected to outnumber youth aged 0-16 by 13 percent.
Why are people leaving?
Camp is a county native. Her family lives in Shelby. She lived in other places such as Greensboro before returning to the county in 1997.
She attended Gardner-Webb University and teaches third-grade students at Springmore Elementary.
She travels. She appreciates the feel of a big city and its lights.
But for Camp, nothing compares to coming back home to grass and the sound of crickets at night.
�I could�ve gone anywhere to be a teacher,� she said. �But it was a plus to have the university at my fingertips. I had been gone so long from my family.�
That wasn�t enough to keep Bailey in Shelby. The 1990 Shelby High graduate moved to Georgia.
Supporting his family, a wife and a daughter, became first priority for Bailey.
His position as a digital editor for a newspaper wasn�t available in Cleveland County.
The same could be said of the job his wife holds, a portfolio manager.
He lives in Smyrna, a short commute from Atlanta.
�Shelby is just far enough outside where it�s not getting those opportunities for the younger crowd," he said. "The younger generation likes to be closer to their cities and metropolitan areas."
Camp wants that changed.
�A great place to live�
Camp said, despite concerns of a generational gap, Cleveland County has grown over the years.
Alive After 5 and the Don Gibson Theatre promote music alongside other art-related events such as art societies in Shelby and Kings Mountain and the Uptown Shelby Association.
And Boiling Springs is home to GWU.
�We can show we have other attractions here. It makes people look at our community, and that it�s up and coming,� she said. �If we keep expanding, people will want to come.�
Still, Bailey said the county is competing with a �technologically savvy� workforce.
He said headquarters of large industries aren�t nestled in smaller cities.
Some of Bailey�s friends have found success in other careers in Cleveland County, such as law enforcement or in teaching.
Not everyone can.
�Cities and counties outside a metro area find their niche, find segments of the economy that are outside of the big city to make your economy work,� Bailey said.
Work may not bring Bailey back to the county, but something else does. His family lives nearby. Family visits always include a trip to Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge. He never fails to see a familiar face.


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How twitchy are people about the issue of school violence right now? Very, very twitchy. So much so, that a high school principal who made a silly video of himself as the Terminator, complete with imagery from the James Cameron films, could be suspended or fired.
Erick Naumann had recently become principal of Everett High School, and he decided to introduce himself by making a funny video in which he walks the hallways of the school looking like the Terminator. "Was he sent to save us or destroy us?" the video asks. There are some images from Cameron's films, including a playground on fire. The video was played during school announcements, and most of the high school kids who saw it seem to have understood it was a joke and not really a threat that their principal was going to turn out to be have a metal endoskeleton and a penchant for time traveling in the nude.
But adults... not so much. The superintendent, Frederick Foresteire, told WCVB: "I thought it was inappropriate. It sent wrong message. Messages in that video were kind of disturbing. A woman terrorized in the hallway. They showed four empty classrooms. Where have the students gone?"
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Max user interface objects are more complex than normal non-user-interface objects.
If you have nothing in particular to display, or do not need to create a unique interface for user interaction or editing, it would be better to avoid writing one. However, if you want the details, we have them for you!
In order to create a user interface object, you'll need to be familiar with Attributes, as they are used extensively. If you examine a toggle object in the inspector in Max, you will see a few attributes that have been defined as belonging to the toggle class, namely:
We'll show how attributes are defined and described so that the inspector can edit them properly.
In addition to attributes, user interface objects draw in a box and respond to user events such as mouse clicks and keyboard events. We'll show how to implement drawing an object's paint method as well user interaction in the mousedown, mousedrag, and mouseup methods.
This chapter only covers basic drawing of lines and filled rectangles. But you can take advantage of a complete graphics API called jgraphics, intended to be used in a user interface object's paint method. We discuss JGraphics in more detail in a separate chapter. You may also find the jgraphics.h header file descriptions of the set of functions helpful.
The SDK examples contain two user interface projects – the one we'll discuss in this chapter is called uisimp and is a version of the toggle object with a more complicated check box and user interaction. The second project is called pictmeter~, a more advanced object that uses audio as well as image files.
The uisimp object differs from the toggle object in a couple of ways:
Otherwise, it acts largely as the toggle does.
The first thing we suggest you do is build the uisimp object and test it out. Once the object is properly building, type "uisimp" into an object box and you can try it out.
UI objects require that you include two header files, jpatcher_api.h and jgraphics.h:
The header file jpatcher_api.h includes data structures and accessor functions required by UI objects. The header file jgraphics.h includes data structures and functions for drawing.
The first part of a UI object is a t_jbox, not a t_object. You should generally avoid direct access to fields of a t_jbox, particularly when changing values, and use the accessor functions defined in jpatcher_api.h. For example, if you change the rectangle of a box without using the accessor function jbox_set_rect(), the patcher will not be notified properly and the screen will not update.
Following the t_jbox, you can add other fields for storing the internal state of your object. In particular, if you are going to be drawing something using color, you will want to create attributes that reference fields holding colors in your object. We'll show you how to do this below. Here is the declaration of the t_uisimp data structure.
The t_jrgba structure defines a color with four doubles for red, green, blue, and alpha. Each component ranges from 0-1. When red, green, and blue are all 0, the color is black; when red, green, and blue are 1, the color is white. By defining color attributes using t_jrgba structures, you will permit the user to use the standard color picker from the inspector to configure colors for your object.
The structure members u_mouseover and u_mousedowninside are used to signal the code that paints the toggle from the code that handles mouse interaction. We'll discuss this more in the "interaction strategy" section below.
Once you've declared your object's struct, you'll write your initialization ( ext_main() ) routine to set up the class, declaring methods and attributes used by UI objects.
The first addition to the class initialization of a normal Max object you need to make is a call to jbox_initclass(). This adds standard methods and attributes common to all UI objects. Here's how you should to it:
The line c->c_flags |= CLASS_FLAG_NEWDICTIONARY is required, but the flags passed to jbox_initclass – JBOX_FIXWIDTH and JBOX_COLOR – are optional. JBOX_FIXWIDTH means that when your object is selected in a patcher, the Fix Width menu item will be enabled to resize your object to its class's default dimensions. We'll specify the default dimensions in a moment. JBOX_COLOR means that your object will be given a color attribute so that it can be edited with the color picked shown by the Color... menu item. This is a way to edit a "basic" color of your object without opening the inspector. If neither of these behaviors apply to your object, feel free to pass 0 for the flags argument to jbox_initclass().
Next we need to bind a few standard methods. The only required method for UI objects is paint, which draws the your object's content when its box is visible and needs to be redrawn.
We'll discuss the paint method in detail below. It makes use of the JGraphics API, which is described in more detail in its own chapter.
Our uisimp toggle will respond to mouse gestures, so we will define a set of mouse handling methods.
mousedown is sent to your object when the user clicks on your object – in other words, when the mouse is moved over the object and the primary mouse button is depressed. mousedrag is sent after an initial mousedown when the mouse moves and the button is still held down from the click. mouseup is sent when the mouse button is released after a mousedown is sent. mouseenter is sent when the mouse button is not down and the mouse moves into your object's box. mousemove is sent – after a mouseenter – when the mouse button is not down but the mouse position changes inside your object's box. mouseleave is sent when the mouse button is not down and the mouse position moves from being over your object's box to being outside of it. mousewheel is sent when information about the scrollwheel on the mouse (or scrolling from another source such as a trackpad) is transmitted while the cursor is hovering over your object.
You are not obligated to respond to any of these messages. You could, for example, only respond to mousedown and ignore the other messages.
It might be helpful to summarize mouse messages in the following "rules" (although normally it's not necessary to think about them explicitly):
We'll look at the actual implementation of mouse handling methods below.
After the declaration of standard methods, your object will define its own attributes. By using what we call "attribute attributes" you can further describe attributes so that they can be appropriately displayed and edited in the inspector as well as saved in a patcher (or not). You can also set default values for attributes that are automatically copied to your object when it is instantiated, and mark an attribute so that your object is redrawn when its value changes.
As a convenience, we've defined a series of macros in ext_obex_util.h (which is included when your object includes ext_obex.h) that reduce the amount of typing needed to define attributes and attribute attributes.
Most UI object attributes are offset attributes; that is, they reference a location in your object's data structure by offset and size. As an example, uisimp has a char offset attribute called trackmouse that specifies whether the object will change the object's appearance when the mouse moves over it. Here's how this is defined:
The first line, CLASS_ATTR_CHAR, defines a char-sized offset attribute. If you look at the declaration of t_uisimp, you can see that the u_trackmouse field is declared to be a char. The CLASS_ATTR_CHAR macro take five arguments.
The fourth and fifth arguments are used to calculate the offset of the beginning of the field from the beginning of the structure. This allows the attribute to read and write the memory occupied by the field directly.
The second line, CLASS_ATTR_STYLE_LABEL, defines some attribute attributes for the trackmouse attribute. THis macro takes five arguments as well:
The category attribute attribute is used to organize your object's attributes in the inspector window. For the trackmouse attribute, we use the "Behavior" category, and for the color attributes discussed below, we use "Color" – look at the inspector category tabs for a few UI objects that come with Max for suggested standard category names. You're free to create your own.
To define a category for a single attribute, you can use the CLASS_ATTR_CATEGORY macro:
To define a category for a series of attributes, you can use CLASS_STICKY_ATTR, which applies the current value of a specified attribute attribute to any attributes subsequently defined, until a CLASS_STICKY_ATTR_CLEAR is set for an attribute attribute name. CLASS_STICKY_ATTR is used in uisimp to apply the "Color" category to a set of three color attributes.
Color attributes are defined using CLASS_ATTR_RGBA. The uisimp object defines four color attributes. Here is the first, called bgcolor:
The difference between CLASS_ATTR_RGBA and CLASS_ATTR_CHAR for defining an attribute is that CLASS_ATTR_RGBA expects the name of a structure member declared of type t_jrgba rather than type char. When set, the attribute will assign values to the four doubles that make up the components of the color.
The next line uses the CLASS_ATTR_DEFAULTNAME_SAVE_PAINT macro. This sets three things about the bgcolor attribute. First it says that the color attribute bgcolor can be assigned a default value via the object defaults window. So, if you don't like the standard white defined by the object, you can assign you own color for the background color of all newly created uisimp objects. The four values 1 1 1 1 supplied as the last argument to CLASS_ATTR_DEFAULTNAME_SAVE_PAINT specify the "standard" default value that will be used for the bgcolor attribute in the absence of any overrides from the user.
The SAVE aspect of this macro specifies that this attribute's values should be saved with the object in a patcher. A patcher file saves an object's class, location and connections, but it can also save the object's appearance or any other attribute value you specify, by using the "save" attribute attribute.
The PAINT aspect of this macro provides the ability to have your object redrawn whenever this attribute (bgcolor) changes. However, to implement auto-repainting on attribute changes, you'll need to add the following code when initializing your class:
The function jbox_notify() will determine whether an attribute that has caused a change notification to be sent has its paint attribute attribute set, and if so, will call jbox_redraw(). If you write your own notify method because you want to respond to changes in attributes or other environment changes, you *must* call jbox_notify() inside of it.
At the beginning of our initialization routine, we passed JBOX_COLOR as a flag to jbox_initclass(). This adds an attribute to our object called color, which uses storage provided in the t_jbox to keep track of a color for us. The color attribute is a standard name for the "most basic" color your object uses, and if you define it, the Color menu item in the Object menu will be enabled when your object is selected, permitting the user to change the color without opening the inspector.
If you use JBOX_COLOR, you don't need to define the color attribute using CLASS_ATTR_RGBA – jbox_initclass() will do it for you. However, the color attribute comes unadorned, so you are free to enhance it with attribute attributes. Here's what uisimp does:
Another attribute defined for your object by jbox_initclass() is called patching_rect. It holds the dimensions of your object's box. If you want to set a standard size for new instances of your object, you can give the patching_rect a set of default values. Use 0 0 for the first two values (x and y position) and use the next two values to define the width and height. We want a small square to be the default size for uisimp, so we use CLASS_ATTR_DEFAULT to assign a default value to the patching_rect attribute as follows:
The UI object new instance routine is more complicated than that of a normal Max object. Each UI object is passed a t_dictionary (a hierarchically structured collection of data accessed by symbolic names) containing the information needed to instantiate an instance. For UI objects, data elements in the dictionary correspond to attribute values. For example, if your object saved an attribute called "bgcolor" you will be able to access the saved value in your new instance routine from the dictionary using the same name bgcolor.
If the instance is being created from the object palette or by the typing the name of your object into an object box, the dictionary will be filled in with default values. If the object is being created by reading a patcher file, the dictionary will be filled in with the saved attributes stored in the file. In most cases, you don't need to work with the dictionary directly, unless you've added proprietary non-attribute information to your object's dictionary that you want to look for and extract. However, you do need to pass the dictionary to some standard routines, and initialize everything in the right order.
Let's take a look at the pattern you should follow for your object's new instance routine.
First, the new instance routine is declared as follows:
We will get the dictionary that defines the object out of the arguments passed in argc, argv. (The symbol argument s is the name of the object.) If obtaining the dictionary fails, we should return NULL to indicate we didn't make an instance.
Next, we allocate a new instance of the object's class:
Then we need to initialize the options for our box. Our object uses the options that are not commented out.
Here is some more detail about each of the box flags.
We pass the flags along with a pointer to our newly created instance and the argc, argv arguments to jbox_new(). The name is a little misleading. jbox_new() does not instantiate your box. As we explained above, your UI object has a t_jbox at the beginning. jbox_new() just initializes the t_jbox for you. jbox_new() doesn't know about the other stuff in your object's data structure that comes after the t_jbox. You'll have to initialize the extra items yourself.
Once jbox_new() has been called, you then assign the b_firstin pointer of your t_jbox header to point to your object. Essentially this assigns the object that will receive messages from objects connected to your leftmost inlet (as well as other inlets via inlets or proxies you create). This step is easily forgotten and will cause most things not to work until you remember it. jbox_new() will obtain the attributes common to all boxes such as the patching_rect, and assign them to your object for you.
Next, you are free to initialize any members of your object's data structure, as well as declare inlets. These steps are the same for UI objects as for non-UI objects.
Once your object is in a safe initialized state, call attr_dictionary_process() if you've defined any attributes. This will find the attributes in the dictionary your object received, then set them to the values stored in the dictionary. There is no way to guarantee the order in which the attributes will be set. If this a problem, you can obtain the attribute values "by hand" and assign them to your object.
Note that you do not need to call attr_dictionary_process() if you have not defined any attributes. jbox_new() will take care of setting all attributes common to all UI objects.
As the last thing to do before returning your newly created UI object, and more specifically after you've initialized everything to finalize the appearance of your object, call jbox_ready(). jbox_ready() will paint your object, calculate the positions of the inlets and outlets, and perform other initialization tasks to ensure that your box is a proper member of the visible patcher.
If your object does not appear when you instantiate it, you should check whether you do not have a jbox_ready() call.
Finally, as with any instance creation routine, the newly created object will be returned.
Drawing anything to the screen must be limited to your paint method (this was not the case with the previous UI object API in Max). If you want to redraw something, you need to call jbox_redraw() to cause the screen to be redrawn. This is necessary because your object is part of a compositing user interface that must be managed by the patcher as a whole to avoid screen artifacts. The jbox_redraw() routine calculates the area of the screen that needs to be redrawn, then informs the Mac or Windows "window manager" to mark this area as invalid. At some later point in time, the OS will invoke the patcher's paint routine, which will dispatch to all of the boxes inside the invalid area according to the current Z-order of all the boxes. Boxes that are in the background are drawn first, so that any transparent or semi-transparent boxes can be drawn on top of them. In addition, unless you specify otherwise, the last drawn image of a box is cached in a buffer, so that your paint method will only be called when you explicitly invalidate your object's content with jbox_redraw(). In other words, you can't count on "global patcher drawing" to invoke your paint method.
The basic strategy you'll want to use in thinking about redrawing is that you will set internal state in other methods, then call jbox_redraw(). The paint method will read the internal state and adjust its drawing appropriately. You'll see this strategy used in the uisimp object as it tracks the mouse.
Your object's paint method uses the jgraphics API to draw. The header file, jgraphics.h, provides a description of each of the routines in the API. Here we will only discuss general principles and features of drawing with uisimp's relatively simple paint method. There is also a jgraphics example UI object that contains a number of functions showing how various drawing tasks can be performed.
Drawing in Max is resolution-independent. The "size" of your object's rectangle is always the pixel size when the patcher is scaled to 100% regardless of the zoom level, and any magnification or size reduction to the actual screen is automatically handled by matrix transforms. Another thing that is handled automatically for you is drawing to multiple views. If a patcher is invisible (i.e., a subpatcher that has not been double-clicked), it does not have any views. But if it is visible, a patcher can have many patcherviews. If your UI object box is in a patcher with multiple views open, your paint method will be called once for each view, and will be passed different a patcherview object each time. For most objects, this will pose few problems, but for objects to work properly when there are anywhere from zero to ten views open, they cannot change their internal state in the paint method, they can only read it. As an example, if your object had a boolean "painted" field in its structure that would be set when the paint method had finished, it would not work properly in the cases where the box was invisible or where it was shown in multiple patcher views, because it would either be set zero or more than once.
The first step for any paint method is to obtain the t_jgraphics object from the patcherview object passed to the paint method. The patcherview is an opaque t_object that you will use to access information about your box's rectangle and its graphics context. A patcherview is not the same thing as a patcher; as mentioned above, there could be more than one patcherview for a patcher if it has multiple views open.
After obtaining the t_jgraphics object, the next thing that you'll need to do is determine the rectangle of your box. A view of a patcher may be in either patching or presentation mode. Since each mode can have its own rectangle, it is necessary to use the patcherview to obtain the rectangle for your object.
The t_rect structure specifies a rectangle using the x and y coordinates of the top left corner, along with the width and height. However, the coordinates of the t_jgraphics you'll be using to draw into always begin at 0 for the top left corner, so you'll only care about the width and height, at least for drawing.
The first thing we'll draw is just an outline of our box using the value of the outline color attribute. First we'll set the color we want to use, then make a rectangular path, then finally we'll stroke the path we've made.
With calls such as jgraphics_rectangle(), the rectangular shape is added to the existing path. The initial path is empty, and after calling jgraphics_stroke() or jgraphics_fill(), the path is again cleared. (If you want to retain the path, you can use the jgraphics_stroke_preserve() and jgraphics_fill_preserve variants().)
You do not need to destroy the path before your paint method is finished. This will be done for you, but the fact that the path does not survive after the paint method is finished means you can't make a path and then store it without copying it first. Such a strategy is not recommended in any case, since your object's rectangle might change unpredictably from one paint method invocation to the next, which will likely cause your path to be the wrong shape or size.
The next feature of the paint method is to draw an inner outline if the mouse is moved over the box. Detecting the mouse's presence over the box happens in the mouseenter / mouseleave methods described below – but essentially, we know that the mouse is over our object if the u_mouseover has been set by these mouse tracking methods.
To draw a rectangle that is inset by one pixel from the box rectangle, we use the rectangle starting at 1, 1 with a width of the box width - 2 and a height of the box height - 2.
Some similar code provides the ability to show the highlight color when the user is about to check (turn on) the toggle:
Finally, we paint a square in the middle of the object if the toggle state is non-zero to indicate that the box has been checked. Here we are filling a path instead of stroking it. Note also that we use the call jbox_get_color() to get the "standard" color of our object that is stored inside the t_jbox. As we've specified by using the JBOX_COLOR flag for jbox_initclass() in our initialization routine, the color obtained by jbox_get_color() for the "check" (really just a square of solid color) is the one the user can change with the Color... item in the Object menu.
Clearly, a quick perusal of the jgraphics.h header file will demonstrate that there is much more to drawing than we've discussed here. But the main purpose of the uisimp paint method is to show how to implement "dynamic" graphics that follow the mouse. Now we'll see the mouse tracking side of the story.
When the mouse is clicked, dragged, released, or moved inside its box, your object will receive messages. In the uisimp example we've defined methods for most of the mouse gesture messages available, and we've implemented them to change internal state in the object, then call jbox_redraw() to repaint the object to reflect the new state. This strategy produces a "dynamic" appearance of a gadget users associate with a typical graphical interface – in this case a toggle checkbox.
All mouse gesture methods are declared in the same way:
Let's first look at the most commonly implemented mouse gesture handler, the mousedown method that responds to an initial click on the object. As you can see, it is very simple; it merely sets u_mousedowninside to true, then calls jbox_redraw(), causing the box to be repainted. We've defined this toggle not to change the actual state until the mouse is released (unlike the standard Max toggle object), but we do want to give the user some feedback on the initial mouse down that something is going to happen. If you look back at the paint method, you can see that u_mousedowninside is used to change the way the object is painted to give it a "pending state change" appearance that will be finalized when the mouse is released inside the box.
If we test the mouse position to ensure that it is inside the box when it is released, we provide the opportunity for the user to cancel the act of toggling the state of the object by moving the cursor outside of the box before releasing the button. To provide feedback to the user that this is going to happen, we've implemented a mousedrag method that performs this test and redraws the object if the "mouse inside" condition has changed from its previous state. The mousedrag message will be sent to your object as long as the mouse button is still down after an initial click and the cursor has moved, even if the cursor moves outside of the boundaries of your object's box.
Note that, as with the paint method, we use the patcherview to get the current box rectangle. We can then test the point we are given to see if it is inside or outside the box.
Our mouseup method uses the last value of u_mousedowninside as the determining factor for whether to toggle the object's internal state. If u_mousedowninside is false, no state change happens. But if it is true, the state changes and the new state value is sent out the object's outlet (inside uisimp_bang()).
Finally, we've implemented mouseenter, mousemove, and mouseleave methods to provide another level of "mouse over" style highlighting for the object. Rather than changing u_mousedowninside, a u_mouseover field is set when the mouseenter message is received, and cleared when the mouseleave method is received. And again, after this variable is manipulated, we repaint the box with jbox_redraw().
If your object has created any clocks or otherwise allocated memory that should be freed when the object goes away, you should handle this in the free routine. But, most importantly, you must call the function jbox_free(). If your UI object doesn't need to do anything special in its free routine, you can pass jbox_free() as the free routine argument to class_new() in your initialization routine. We chose not to do this, since having an actual function permits easy modification should some memory need to be freed at some point in the future evolution of the object.