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Trading Technologies International, Inc.
Overall Rating (4 of 4 stars)
In March of this year, Trading Technologies released the "Algo Design Lab," or ADL, as part of its suite of software tools for the professional trading industry. ADL is a Visual Programming Language and its incorporation by Trading Technologies marks a new and potentially important programming innovation for the algorithmic trading community.
Trading Technologies has a history of bringing innovation to the trading industry. MDTrader (Market Depth Trader), a graphical representation of exchange bid-ask queues as a vertical price ladder, with orders entered by simply clicking a price on the ladder, revolutionized electronic trading over the last decade. Today, market depth price ladders are a must-have order-entry interface for the active trader.
The price ladder is a visual interface to the market and Trading Technologies is taking the visual trading paradigm a large step further with ADL. Traders, frustrated by the need to master a textual programming language in order to participate in automated algorithmic trading, now have a visual, or graphical, means of bringing their trading ideas to life. If ADL Visual Programming can hide enough low-level details of order execution, while giving the trader the flexibility to quickly develop new trade strategies, then ADL may prove to be another feather in the cap of software innovation from Trading Technologies.
What Is Visual Programming?
The idea of Visual Programming is not new. It has its beginnings with the well-known programming flow chart, and its goal is to automatically construct computer programs from flow charts. Visual Programming has been studied and developed for more than 40 years and there are a plethora of attempts at achieving useful visual languages. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Yahoo! Research Labs, has recently compiled a thorough review of the field (see http://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/cursos/vp/todo.html). There, one finds tens of attempts at new visual languages, research articles and PhD theses, and a half-dozen textbooks on the subject. LabView, from National Instruments, is a well-known and widely-used visual programming language for inter-connecting and controlling electronic and mechanical devices. (As an aside, Microsoft's popular Visual Studio portfolio of software development tools does not incorporate visual programming. Visual Studio programming continues to be text based with Microsoft having added graphical tools for completing user interface design and other programming functions.)
There certainly are detractors of the visual programming method. Visual programming is criticized for hiding necessary detail while not maintaining the simplicity and ease-of-use that are its goals. For example, a large visual programming effort often will create many screens of diagrams and interconnections, and in so doing may lose the simplicity originally sought. A thesis on the subject, by Jeffery Nickerson (see www.nickerson.to/visprog/visprog.htm), sums it up well: While visual programming may not be suitable for building large systems, it does appear applicable to domain-specific problems where the visual technique is used to build "programs on top of large libraries of pre-existing routines written in textual languages." This is the approach of ADL, as it gives the algorithmic trader access to complex order-entry and exchange interfaces and a means of interconnecting those components with graphical tools.
When first using a visual environment one's reaction is that the job of programming has been made accessible and greatly simplified. For the algorithmic trader, the core set of application-specific objects used to program hides a tremendous amount of detail and allows the focus to be trade strategy development. This is a unique benefit of ADL. However, the visual programmer does have new skills to master: Learning how to make use of core objects so that a strategy is implemented accurately; organizing the visual diagram so that connections between components do not lead to a bowl of spaghetti; and determining techniques to debug and deploy a program. As with traditional textual programming, visual programmers will need to determine conventions so that program logic is understandable and can be documented.
Product features (4 of 4 stars)
ADL has been integrated and ships with Trade Technologies X_Trader software, and the ADL development environment is opened from the X_Trader toolbar. As an example of the product's integration, the X_Trader Market Explorer can be used to populate the trading instruments (stocks, options, futures, forex) of interest, and then a trading instrument icon is simply dragged-and-dropped into the ADL workspace.
The ADL development environment consists of a "canvas," used to draw trade strategy logic, and a toolbox of system blocks, referred to as "ADL Blocks." Blocks are selected and dropped onto the canvas, and there are easy-to-use block copy, paste, re-size and group features to effectively work on the canvas. Blocks are easily configured with pop-up dialogs and design help is nicely integrated, with video tutorials immediately accessible as part of the block Help. The pre-configured "Order Blocks," used to direct order entry and management, highlight a level of abstraction and support for algorithmic traders that distinguishes ADL. A small set of Order Blocks hides an enormous amount of detail (thousands of lines of text programming). See the figure labeled "Example ADL Program," which gives a screenshot of the ADL desktop with sample strategy graph.
Blocks have pre-defined input and output "ports" that are connected with "edges." Connecting blocks defines the flow of data and control through the visual program, similar to a flow chart. Because ports are pre-defined to take a specific type of input or produce a specific type of output, ADL provides the user with warning and error messages regarding the accurate use of edges to connect blocks. In this way, ADL helps prevent erroneous connections and programs from being designed. This type of high-level error checking can be a real benefit of visual programming applied to trading.
When an ADL program is connected to market data, all values of block output ports and edge flows are automatically updated and displayed in real-time; this is one of the more impressive aspects of the ADL programming environment, as the trader visually monitors the data and control flow through the program. The "Virtual Block" is an example of how ADL incorporates complex trading requirements within the visual programming environment. When a block is declared as virtual it is automatically replicated by ADL as needed. For example, a trader can design a "one cancels other" (OCO) virtual block of profit target and stop loss logic which will be replicated automatically for each market fill event. This is a powerful programming technique that allows the trader to focus on strategy while ADL automatically manages the strategy across multiple fills.
Collections of blocks are organized easily into a single containing block, with its own input and output ports, and then used like a function or subroutine by a larger program. The programming environment supports multiple canvases and the usual file operations (save, open, etc.). There is the ability to interface to Microsoft Excel for lengthy computational expressions. These features support a modular design approach and the incorporation of third-party programs. Because ADL has been integrated into the Trading Technologies suite of trade software, an ADL program can be tested quickly against a built-in simulator and deployed within the context of other established Trading Technologies tools. For example, an ADL program can be started from an MDTrader window. A visual debugger allows breakpoints to be set within the visual program and the trader can step through the data and control flow incrementally while testing execution scenarios. The ease-of-use and overall finish of the ADL development environment is very impressive.
Product installation, training, support and user community (4 of 4 stars)
Trading Technologies has been developing professional trading software over the last 18 years. Customers include banks, hedge funds, FCMs, brokers and proprietary trading firms. Product focus areas include exchange servers and interfaces, order entry and management software and automated trade strategy development. ADL has been integrated into the Trading Technologies software suite and benefits from the maturity of its companion products and the Trading Technologies team. There are Partner and University programs. Most recently, X_Trader exchange and order entry interfaces were integrated into MathWorks MATLAB, a best-of-class modeling and simulation program widely used in industry and academia.
X_Trader requires a dual-core late model PC with 4GB of RAM. X_Trader installation was uneventful. Installing X_Trader results in a total of eight programs on the users PC; for example, the trade simulator is a stand-alone program configured independently. This is a somewhat more complex environment than the single, self-contained trading application a user may be accustomed to. ADL Help is well-organized, professionally written and integrated. The integration of Help Videos within the context of individual ADL Blocks was an added bonus. In fact, the entire Trading Technologies website is distinguished with a good collection of professionally authored training videos.
The standard use of Forums supports the user community. The ADL Forum currently contains approximately 600 posts — relatively small but not unexpected as the product launched only recently. The Trading Technologies support of the forum appears good: Many of the posts this reviewer studied had replies made in the same day and often within several hours of the original post. There is a "best practices" forum where ADL examples are shared by the Trading Technologies staff and third-party developers.
The total available market
In this reviewer's opinion, ADL has achieved its goal of providing a powerful graphical interface for the high-frequency algorithmic trader. It is very impressive and complete for a first product release, and it has been well integrated into the Trading Technologies suite of software.
Currently, ADL addresses market-depth-oriented trade strategy development. Perhaps because of Trading Technologies' order entry and management focus and its MDTrader legacy, ADL programming against market depth was a rational next step. In this regard, one can expect ADL to be well received by high frequency and arbitrage traders. But one has to wonder, what is the Total Available Market (TAM) of this sector of the trading ecosystem? ADL will require heavy-lifting evangelizing, training and supporting the product; and ADL, on its own, may not greatly increase the pool of high-frequency algorithmic traders – or will it?
On the other hand, with the majority of traders working off price charts using support and resistance levels, should ADL address price chart trading, its impact may be felt more widely. Price chart traders are notorious for their inability to program textually. Building on the current set of high-quality ADL tools and developing visual programming for price chart traders has the potential to make an even greater impact in the active trading community.
For 20 years Michael Gutmann was a software engineer and manager at Intel Corporation. He recently published the second edition of a popular trading text: "The Very Latest E-Mini Trading: Using Market Anticipation to Trade Electronic Futures, 2nd Edition." Mike can be reached via www.anticipationtrading.com.


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Re: So what happened to Jimijude[quote="White Hat"]Lester, speaking of manifestos, you are due for an insightful Bloviation. Whats taking so long?
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Cboxx, I've "rethunk" my position and more or less feel you are right and I am wrong again. My apologies. But here's what I'll do to make up for it because I kinda feel bad. I will wager you a $150.00 Santa Anita (or HollywoodPark) voucher that Jimijude is NOT Lurker. I just had a hunch that was the case, although I am probably wrong. I will also not post in here for 7 years if JimiJude is Lurker. But you have to do the same if they are NOT the same. I'm probably going to lose this wager, but what the heck, I'm a gambling fool. You in for the $150.00 and the seven year deal? Vince P Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Re: So what happened to JimijudePretty funny that some peeps swear Lurker is JimiJude because their Jim W./Jimi names are similar..LMAO
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Re: So what happened to JimijudeJust what was it that Lurker did that was worth a life-time sentence? Danged if I can remember.
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Me neither. Even though he seemed to disagree with everything I wrote I don't recall that he acted in ways that would put him on my ignore list. Sarcasm:the ability to insult idiots without them realizing it
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I believe Lurker's worst crime was having multiple user names. In my book, he is GOOD PEOPLE..
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I know the answer and I have proof. When one speaks the truth, it can often hurt. This lurker dude quite often had official stats that backed up his summations but when he posted them, they were taken as accusations and incriminating, which is absolutely ridiculous. So he was banned. Then, probably feeling like a victim of the justice system, he attempted to come back under a different name which any normal person might do, and was basically banned for life, which again, is crazy. It would be akin to having your license taken away because you finked on a bad cop and then while driving home without it, you go to jail. Makes no sense to me. On the other hand you have people like me who constantly post BS, but never get banned. The bottom line is that the truth hurts and lies are acceptable. But the real bottom line is like Joel and many of those who really know this Lurker character, all say that he is good people. That probably means a lot more than fooling the public. Vince P Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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Ok, I get your point, but you're kinda going too far.
"in the end they will hire some murderers and will kill the GPL/kernel people just to make sure the coporatism-Nazi system works. "
Ok, I'll guess such parts are joking.
No need for insults. Btw, preferring to use the blob, doesn't mean I hate the open one. What if in my case the open one is practically unusable. And no, I'm not talking about performance even yet.
We should be able to do whatever we want with Linux, as long as it is within what GPL V2 permits, isn't that right?
If it permits using blob one way or another, why not?
And no, I don't like BSD in any way.
Also, fanaticism of any kind is bad, including fanaticism about opensource. I'm not talking about any devs, I'm sure Linus knows what he's doing, and hope that he and Alan will make sure that Optimus users can properly use Optimus eventually(I have no optimus laptop, and will probably not get one any time soon if ever, I don't really benefit).
And they say the far right and far left are pretty close in politics, practically much more than mid right and mid left.(not me saying, just some people who spent lots of their lives study sociology etc). Maybe the same applies here ..
The fact I don't want to use the open drivers over the proprietary, doesn't mean I hate the open ones. Neither the fact I acknowledge their problems(like I do for proprietary ones, but many seem to falsely say that open ones are almost perfect, to which I very much disagree, after lots of "research", cause who knows, maybe it's my pc's fault, right?).
Seeing things as black and white is bad, BAD.
I'd love everything to be open, but I'd like to be realistic, it's not like any company will suddenly release all their specs. And cursing won't help doing so. I trust Linus and the kernel devs can think more strategically than some people here who'll just say no to anything with nvidia string on it ..
Otherwise it won't happen.
I'd find much more logical personally that Linux would dominate and then global openness would come than the other way around. In fact, I have many doubts about the possibility of the second one happening. So one must think how to help Linux dominate. Even if you have to use "evil" to defeat greater "evil", which as always is apple. 0_o (ok, j/k here)
Thanks for calling me nazi because I don't agree, real smooth. This attitude WITHIN our community is one reason why Linux still has chances of staying in the shit, at least as far as desktop goes.
Yes, there's serious problems in many aspects of the desktop, it's just fact, and this attitude doesn't seem to work .. 20 years now, is it?


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This week on Q&A, our guest is Michael Hill, author of "Elihu Washburne: The Diary and Letters of America's Minister to France During the Siege and Commune of Paris." Mr. Hill reflects on his early career in politics and the transition he made into independent research. He talks about the 20 year partnership he has developed with author David McCullough and the various books he has researched for him. He details the research he did for a wide variety of other authors including Evan Thomas, Nathaniel Philbrick, Jon Meacham and Michael Korda, to name a few. Hill's own book introduces us to Elihu Washburne, the American ambassador to France whose private diary entries and correspondences provide a window into life in 19th century France during the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War, as well as the Paris Commune that followed. Washburne remained in Paris after the outbreak of war with Prussia despite being given the opportunity to leave, an opportunity almost every other foreign minister in the city had taken. Hill also tells of how Washburne and his son Gratiot helped Americans in Paris escape through the siege lines and how Washburne helped protect Prussian civilians in the city.
Michael Hill earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Kent State University, his JD from the University of Akron School of Law, and a Master of Public Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He then became an independent researcher. He has worked for authors including David McCullough, Evan Thomas, Jon Meacham, Nathaniel Philbrick, Michael Beschloss, Jeff Shesol, Michael Korda, and Dorie McCullough Lawson. He is the co-author of "Will the Gentleman Yield?" with Bill Hogan. "Elihu Washburne" is his second book. Hill is married and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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So the sweatiest nerd has been chosen. My condolences to his family.
perseverence111 this guy afked in Hon striaght 33,1667 days since he registered in 23-sept
I don't like how S2 and XFire determined the winners.
They should've checked that the those who were chosen actually at least played some games and not just idle in HoN.
I actually played 273 hours during the competition (with my alt and this account together), but I guess AFKing in HoN, more hours = more publicity to HoN, shrug.
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I had over 500 hours in HoN and didn't even make it. Grats to the winners, you guys are true robots!
This is stupid.
I play HoN since beta, I have 1400 hours ACTIVE gameplay on HoN.
I knew the first prize was for US only... but I was hoping to get AT LEAST 2 000 silver coins
So lame
700 hrs first place 500 second place is just lame. My friend on Xfire has 4 000 hrs and YET he didnt get nothing as well
US only. Pfft, gettin' sick of that BS. Come to Canada ye damn U.S. bastards
Ill be sure to show ye a good time
i got over 2k hours before this stupid event and dont even got a single coin
Sorry but now Im angry... S2 WHAT IS THIS S**T?
Thats my profile, it has more HoN hours played then at least 2 people from the third place(clo0ud99 - 527 hours and demky1 - 558 hours).
According the the offical rules only people from US can win the GRAND PRIZE. So thats why i decided to enter under the nickname of Geralt(which can be seen on my profile page). Because I knew I'll have a chance to win something from 2nd/3rd place.
But I see that this event was a bull...
Waiting for explanation S2...
Another thing is, do the math. Check out when people made their accounts for the first time and how many hours they have played. Amusing that we have robots playing this game 24/7 that DONT ACTUALLY NEED TO SLEEP!
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mad nerds are mad, congrats to all winners!
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The tragedy of this is this woman put her own depravity ahead of her kids well being. They´re the losers in this,no longer having a mom.Traveling 10 miles to meet a stranger on the internet is risky enough without flying halfway around the world to do it. Click Here if you Like this Comment
After trying to read the article, whose quality made me skeptical of content, I was only left with a sense of the tragedy of loss for this family. The true story will out soon enough, but what we know now is that a family has been plunged into a dark well of misery. My heart goes out to them. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I´m sorry for the family, especially the children but for some reason I can´t muster up one bit of sympathy for this woman. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Not a very likely story...and of course, she is no longer here to defend herself. Many a professional woman has traveled alone. No one would think twice if a male professional traveled for 3 weeks on business and left the wife and kids at home. That doesn´t make such women tramps. I would hope that Westerners don´t fall for these sorts of accusations about women travelers. This is the sort of stuff that keeps Arab women behind the veil and chained to male family members. Click Here if you Like this Comment
So, was the sexual encounter "worth it"? Sad story, but an old one. Led astray, and by what and by whom? Click Here if you Like this Comment
This poor woman might have had sex with a Muslim but for sure it wasn´t consensual. Click Here if you Like this Comment 2 persons like this.
My fellow posters aren´t reading between the lines here and are reacting to the misleading implication of a sexual liaison. This is most likely a drug deal gone bad. Nobody flies to Turkey "to take pictures" with only an iPhone and iPad as cameras. And nobody in her financial circumstances flies to Turkey for a wild fling. The part of Istanbul she went to is known for criminal activity and drug dealing. Sex may have been involved as a secondary factor, or it may just be the alibi of the murderer, but the likely primary factor is drug dealing. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I wonder if they issue Concealed Carry permits in Turkey. Might have come in handy for this woman. Click Here if you Like this Comment
She was most likely a drug smuggler. How many scenic photos do you have to sell to make a trip to Turkey profitable? Click Here if you Like this Comment
Unfortunately, #4, she was ´unemployed´, had known money problems (bankruptcy in 2005), and apparently was seen primarily with criminal elements. My guess is she was either lured there for romance with this guy, and if she was it could well have been consensual before the killing, but he also could well be the or a killer; or she really was involved in drug trafficking. Unemployed married mothers of young children don´t generally travel alone to such dangerous places in her circumstances otherwise. Click Here if you Like this Comment
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Interesting story. I first suspected she was spying.... but on whom, and for whom, I hadn´t decided.But a nice, neat, foreign drug-sex-murder story always works to wrap things up and be done.But things in that area of the world have escalated dramatically since Midnight Express. And that should be known to everyone. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Passionate about her photography? Really????She was using an iPad and iPhone to take pictures.That is an excuse! Hello???No photographer would use and iPad, give me a break.She was there to meet this guy she met online, he talked her into running drugs, after she did that, they had sex and he or his friends killer her. Click Here if you Like this Comment
When you have children, you have a responsibility to make decisions based upon their welfare. They did not ask to be brought into this world but when they are, they deserve parents who will give them a stable environment and put the children´s health and happiness above their own. It appears that the children will be the ones who suffer for a decision made by this mother. Click Here if you Like this Comment
#8 -- Yea, this is the part of the story that STUCK out like a sore thumb to me:Her family, including her devastated husband Steven Sierra, have said she went to the country because of the photo opportunities. They say she used her iPad and iPhone to shoot the images.I´m sorry but amateur or professional photographers do not take pictures with their iPhones or iPads. Sounds like a drug deal gone bad. I´m suspect of the claim that she had consensual sex w/the guy. Makes me think he raped and murdered her and that the consensual sex story is to cover his tracks via DNA evidence that they will most likely find.Why this woman, who had been married for 14 years, decided to travel alone to Amsterdam, Munich and then Istanbul as her VERY FIRST trip abroad is highly suspect. The only thing I can possibly imagine is the lure of easy cash for a cash-strapped family. You almost have to think that her husband knew exactly why she went on the trip even after her friend (or was it her sister or sister-in-law) backed out at the last minute. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Sounds like the Turkish govt. trying to make HER the villain....plus it would be very easy to see if she had sex the day she died, consensual or not, via an examination of the body and an autopsy----was THAT done? The poor children and husband.......... Click Here if you Like this Comment
Poster #4 has VERY valid points! Plus, we have to consider the sources of the allegations. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Right on #8 and I find it hard to believe that the husband was not involved. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I think it´s more likely money laundering...Too many nations visited for drugs. Wonder why her mom went on tv to stress she was a Christian? Just seemed odd. Click Here if you Like this Comment
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...attractive young western woman...traveling around a muslim country... by herself...in shady neighborhoods...having sex...."taking pics" ...ends up dead...sounds like we have a Darwin Award Candidate Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Stitching together a story about a dead woman that is based upon pure speculation and imaginations run wild.Can no one wait for real evidence? Click Here if you Like this Comment
I alerted everyone yesterday not to get prematurely blubbery over this woman.Some preferred to blubber anyway - - but hey - - if blubbering makes someone happy, they should fit in well with leftist demonrats. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Okay children -- the Ole Lady is gonna say what she feels...When a woman decides to have children -- that puts her life on hold as she raises them. When they are off to college -- there´s plenty of time for travel and careet...Now -- I know that´s not popular with all you boomers and off/spring of the boomers -- but that´s how I feel...My heart goes out to these kids who will never know this woman who gave them life....because "she" had to do "her" thing....LZK Click Here if you Like this Comment
It´s a sad commentary on today´s society when the headline is ´Married New York Mother´. I infer from that unwed mothers are the norm in NY so the aberration must be pointed out in the headline.No matter how upset some seem to be that she is somehow slighted because males travel alone to foreign countries all of the time on business, her actions weren´t professional. Having sex with someone she met on the Internet in a place like Turkey is dangerous and irresponsible. I´ve been there and some places are a no no for any foreigners. I mean would you wander through some of the slums in the USA after hours, by yourself, no matter what your sex is. Some Mother. Click Here if you Like this Comment
As said from Day 1... This is not what it seems.Because she has been unemployed since 2005 doesn´t mean she has had no job. Just not where they want you to know.FBI took 4 months to got to Benghazi with a dead Ambassador...yet flew over immediately for this private citizen? Right...Family let´s the host country cremate her? No evidence then.Friend had never planned to go it´s reported...certainly are in a hurry to sell this sex story ...who flies over for three weeks and as many countries yet cannot afford a burial so sells pics... that same images can be found all over the Internet ..they are building a cover story...This is either cartel business, clandestine or arms dealing.IMOThere is a David Jimenez (same name as her brother) listed who works in Global Intelligence, Homeland Security and the Millitary university...and another woman by the same name who made the Khalid Said video that started the Arab Spring riots in Egypt...We know only that the global alert to find her means they really wanted to save this woman. Ever see that happen before? Other than that nothing is what it seems. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Doesn´t anyone watch Locked Up Abroad? This was definitely a case of drug smuggling. She most likely smuggled drugs to those other countries and then when she wanted to collect her money, they killed her. I guarantee the husband sent her to do the drug deal. This is quite common. Click Here if you Like this Comment
#7 get real Click Here if you Like this Comment
More poor journalism skills portrayed here. Did she have sex with a Turk she met on the Internet the day before, or did she have sex the day before with a Turk she met on the Internet?Girl´s Hubby Click Here if you Like this Comment
#26, agree with you. Children come first, before anything else. They are kids for a short time, and that is time you can never get back. My dear mother used to say that the only thing you can´t get more of in this life is time.I don´t know what this woman was up to, but I find it hard to believe that she was "taking pictures." She lives in New York, one of the greatest places on earth to take photographs--there is everything from skylines to bridges to monuments to beaches.She didn´t need to go to Turkey, with side trips to Amsterdam and Munich, when she was supposedly broke, and the mother of two little boys, to take pictures. One story I read said that she and her husband had been rocky because she had an affair.This story has been suspect to me from the beginning. Why was her body released to a church? Wouldn´t the medical examiner´s office have kept it until her husband claimed it? The quick attention of the FBI, as #28 points out, is strange, too. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I don´t buy the original story.I don´t buy the updated story, either. Still too many details seem not to fit with reality.I don´t have time or brain space to follow the ongoing revelations, though. Click Here if you Like this Comment
#32, I´d have to disagree with you about NYC. I´ve been to both NYC and Istanbul and Istanbul wins hands down; I can´t stand NYC.Istanbul has thousands of years of history, it was the capital for the Ottoman Empire. It is also dangerous. All the clubs are run by the mafia. I was on holiday from studying abroad in Cairo when I visited Istanbul on a school sponsored trip. The locals warned us off from going down certain areas because of the "criminal element" and I was on the European side.This story is not what is seems. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Just Muslims having fun with loose Western women, nothing unusual. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Sounds like it´s ripe for coverage by, say... Greta on Fox.How soon will it become a book, movie, TV miniseries, etc... ?Not to be cynical, but look at the interest that the "mystery" element generates here.Has the makings of a tragic thriller.Watch for the dollar value from the media for this... seems inevitable.Sad... but all too true, also. Click Here if you Like this Comment
The man she met on the internet wasn´t looking for sex, he was looking for a mule (drug smuggler). Oh wait, in that part of the world...oh never mind. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Who paid for her trip ? Click Here if you Like this Comment
I love all the speculation... It could have been drug smuggling...it could have been for an affair...it could have been that she just wanted to go somewhere exotic and also meet her new "friend" (who might have turned out to be a creep who raped and killed her), or she just wanted a vacation and really did like taking pictures (she just couldn´t afford a new camera and so she used what she had) which she thought she could sell for a little extra income...Who knows??...maybe we will find out the truth. I am interested to know what the truth is. Speculation is just opinion. Click Here if you Like this Comment
#36 -- Just rent Taken 2 -- it´s a close enough story and it has Liam Neeson kicking butt all across Istanbul. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Have any of you taken a look at her Instacanvas photos of Manhattan and Istanbul? They indicate to me a passionate amateur not without a bit of flair. One can do a lot with an iPhone camera.She obviously went astray and was probably reckless. But there is something likeable and sincere about her face, and I agree with #24 - let´s withhold the condemnations based on speculation for now. Even her family would probably want that. Click Here if you Like this Comment
There is nothing "obvious" about this woman´s story except that she is now dead. The rest is speculation, some of it ugly and reckless in light of the absence of facts and evidence. Some guy´s remark that he didn´t and then did have sex with that woman is not evidence. Neither is a woman - married with children - traveling abroad alone (when her friend drops out) prima facie evidence that she isa bad person. Sometimes the things that I see posted here make me wince. Click Here if you Like this Comment
The only judgement I´m going to make about this woman is based on what facts are obvious. A business trip is one thing. But why on earth would she go on a vacation overseas alone & leave two children at home. Who does that ?Prayers for her family. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I hate to break it to some folks but some men who say they had sex with a woman are actually lying. Likewise, some men who say they had consensual sex with a woman are actually lying. For some, an allegation that a woman had consensual sex is accepted without question. Click Here if you Like this Comment
If she was there to run drugs it didn´t work out very well since she ran nothing nowhere.More likely that she went there for what she thought was romance and adventure that turned out to be murder. Poor fool. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Well I hope it was REALLY GOOD SEX. After all, she cheated on her husband, flew halfway around the world and then DIED for it.What an idiot. Click Here if you Like this Comment
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Language Acquisition (Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health)
Language acquisition is defined as a natural progession or development in the use of language, typified by infants and young children learning to talk. It is an unconscious process that occurs when language is used in ordinary conversation. Language acquisition is distinguished from intentional study of a language by its informality.
Theories of language acquisition
Developmental psychologists are not agreed as to how humans acquire the ability to speak their first language. It was only in the 1950s that the availability of portable tape recorders made it possible for researchers to record children's speech patterns for later analysis in the laboratory. One early theory of language acquisition was based on imitation, which is the notion that children learn to speak by imitating adults and older children. The difficulty with the imitation theory is that it fails to account for the ability of even small children to form new sentences from words they know. A second theory, associated with the behavioral school of psychology, maintains that language acquisition is explained by reinforcement. Children learn to speak because their parents give them positive reinforcement when they speak correctly and negative reinforcement (correction or criticism) when they speak ungrammatically. This theory does not hold up under the findings of recent research that parents reinforce the meaning of what children say rather than its grammatical correctness. In addition, children often chatter to themselves or to no one in particular for the sheer pleasure of talking. This activity is hard to explain in terms of the reinforcement theory.
A third theory of language acquisition is called nativism. This theory holds that humans are neurologically "programmed" from birth with the capacity to acquire language as soon as their nervous system reaches a certain point of maturation. Noam Chomsky maintained that the human brain has a built-in language acquisition device, or LAD, that analyzes the parts of speech in the language that a child hears. The phases of language acquisition and the age at which children begin to acquire language are similar enough across different cultures and different languages to give some support to the nativist view.
Biological and neuroanatomical features of language acquisition
EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN VOCAL TRACT AND NERVOUS SYSTEM. Language is, as far as we know, unique to humans. Chimpanzees are able to learn a rudimentary sign language, but they cannot combine vocalized sounds into meaningful structured combinations as humans do. The human mouth and throat appear to have been modified over the course of evolutionary history for speech. The human larynx is situated low in the throat, and the sharp right-angle bend at the back of the mouth divides the human vocal tract into two resonant cavities (the mouth and the throat) that allow for the production of a large range of vowel sounds.
The maturation of certain neural circuits in a child's brain may explain why language development proceeds most rapidly in young children after the first year of life. Although babies are born with most of their nerve cells already formed, their head size, brain weight, and junctions between nerve cells (synapses) continue to increase in the first year after birth. The long-distance connections in the child's nervous system are not complete until nine months of age, and the rate of metabolism in the child's brain reaches adult levels by ten months. There appears to be a neurologically determined critical period for language acquisition. Children acquire language easily until age four, or six at the latest. After puberty, it is rare for humans to learn to speak if they have not done so earlier.
AREAS OF THE BRAIN ASSOCIATED WITH LANGUAGE. The areas of the brain that govern the interpretation and production of language were discovered in the nineteenth century by physicians studying patients with speech disorders. In 1861, Pierre Paul Broca, a French physician, was able to demonstrate from post-mortems of patients who had lost the ability to speak, that the loss of this ability is associated with damage to an area of the brain toward the front of the left hemisphere. In 1876, a German physician named Karl Wernicke found that damage to an area in the posterior part of the left temporal lobe of the brain is also associated with language disorders. This area, now called Wernicke's area, is connected to Broca's area by a group of nerve fibers called the arcuate fasciculus.
When a person reads aloud, information from the eyes travels along the optic nerve to the primary visual cortex of the brain. From the primary visual cortex, the information is transmitted to Wernicke's area, where it is interpreted. From Wernicke's area, it is carried by the arcuate fasciculus to Broca's area, then to the primary motor cortex. When a person repeats a word that is spoken, the information is carried from the nerves in the ear to the primary auditory cortex in the brain. It is then transmitted from the primary auditory cortex to Wernicke's area, then to Broca's area via the arcuate fasciculus, then to the primary motor cortex.
Stages of language acquisition
A young human's acquisition of language takes place in a series of six stages:
- Prelinguistic stage (birth to six months): The baby cries, coos, laughs, and makes other sounds.
- Babbling (six to 12 months): The baby makes nonspecific sounds from all human languages.
- One-word (holophrastic) stage (1 years): The child speaks single words in isolation, in his or her first language.
- Two-word stage (240 months): The child forms two-word phrases or strings that reflect the language being acquired. The vocabulary increases; the child begins to learn words at the rate of one word every two waking hours.
- Telegraphic speech (306 months): Children begin to utter short phrases like telegraph messages, without formal grammatical structure.
- Fluent speech (three years +): The child learns grammar and syntax (patterns of sentence formation) with surprising rapidity and accuracy; sentences increase in length and complexity.
Human language functions as a means of interpersonal communication, to convey thoughts, feelings, and many other forms of information. It is necessary to human social life as well as to intellectual development. Language also stimulates the expression of human creativity: poetry, drama, novels, short stories, vocal music, and similar forms of art are based on language.
Role in human health
The fact that language is unique to humans implies that language acquisition is necessary to full psychosocial as well as intellectual development. People who lose the ability to speak normally in later life because of a stroke or a condition known as primary progressive aphasia often become depressed because they feel cut off from others. Children and adolescents with dyslexia (a learning disability that affects reading and is sometimes related to problems understanding spoken language) often have additional difficulties learning to interact
with others and feeling comfortable in social situations.
Studies of "wild" children and children reared by emotionally disturbed parents who did not talk to them indicate that children who do not learn to speak by age eight never achieve normal fluency. This feature of language acquisition implies that language is an important component of the social dimension of human nature. Humans who have never acquired the ability to communicate with others cannot be completely socialized.
Common diseases and disorders
Aphasia refers to the loss of a previously held ability to speak or to understand written or spoken language. Aphasia is most often the result of a stroke or head trauma, but it can occur in relation to other neurological disorders. Primary progressive aphasia is a disorder of the nervous system in which the person's ability to speak gradually deteriorates. In Broca's aphasia, caused by damage to Broca's area, the person can understand what words mean, but has trouble with speech output. Broca's aphasia is sometimes called motor or expressive aphasia. In Wernicke's aphasia, caused by damage to Wernicke's area, the person cannot understand spoken language. They can speak, but their speech is ungrammatical and incoherent. Wernicke's aphasia is sometimes called fluent or receptive aphasia.
Dyslexia is a disorder that affects the ability to read. Its symptoms may include problems with spelling, difficulty recognizing the sounds in words, problems processing visual information, and difficulty saying words quickly when asked to do so. Present dyslexia research is focused on studying the parts of the brain that process speech sounds and relate them to vision and other language areas in the brain.
Williams syndrome
Williams syndrome is a rare congenital disorder that occurs once in every 20,000 births. It results from a deletion of the genetic material on human chromosome 7 that makes a protein called elastin. Although children with Williams are usually mildly retarded, they often have normal language abilities. The dissociation of language acquisition from general intelligence in Williams syndrome suggests that human speech is not simply a byproduct of intelligence as such.
Specific language impairment (SLI)
Specific language impairment, or SLI, refers to a group of inherited syndromes in which children with normal intelligence and hearing are slow to acquire and use language. SLI is thought to affect 5% of children starting school. A cross-cultural study done in 1999 suggests that SLI may differ from other language disorders in that the number and specific types of problems the children had were related to their specific first language. The study showed that children learning Italian or Hebrew had fewer difficulties with verbs, for example, than children learning English.
Aphasiahe loss of previously held ability to speak or to understand written or spoken language, caused by disease or injury to the brain.
Arcuate fasciculus group of nerve fibers in the brain that connects Wernicke's area with Broca's area.
Broca's arean area in the left hemisphere of the brain associated with the motor impulses necessary for speech. It is named for Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880), a French physician.
Dyslexia reading disorder associated with impairment of the ability to integrate auditory and visual information, or to process sounds accurately.
Holophrasticn early stage in language acquisition in which a single word serves the function of a phrase or sentence.
Nativismhe theory that humans have neural circuits that are genetically programmed to acquire language.
Specific language impairment (SLI) developmental disorder of childhood characterized by significant delays in language development in the absence of deafness, autism, mental retardation, or similar handicaps.
Wernicke's arean area in the left hemisphere of the brain that is important in the reception and interpretation of speech. Wernicke's area is connected to Broca's area by the arcuate fasciculus.
Williams syndrome rare congenital disorder caused by a deletion of the elastin gene on chromosome 7. Children with Williams syndrome have normal language skills even though they are usually mildly retarded.
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American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA). 10801 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-3279. (301) 897-5700 or (800) 638-8255. Fax: (301) 571-0457. <http://www.asha.org>.
International Dyslexia Association. 8600 LaSalle Road, Chester Building, Suite 382, Baltimore, MD 21286-2044. (410) 296-0232. Fax: (410) 321-5069. <http://www.interdys.org>.
National Aphasia Foundation. 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 707, New York, NY 10010. (800) 922-4622. <http://www.aphasia.org>.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 31, Room 2A32, Bethesda, MD 20892-2425. (301) 496-5133 or (800) 370-2943. <http://www.nichd.nih.gov>.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 31, Room 3C35, Bethesda, MD 20892-2320. (301) 496-7243. <http://www.nidcd.nih.gov>.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Building 31, Room 8A06, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. (301) 496-5751. <http://www.ninds.nih.gov>.
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD) P. O. Box 8923, New Fairfield, CT 06812-8923. (203) 746-6518 or (800) 999-NORD. Fax: (203) 746-648. <http://www.rarediseases.org>.
Williams Syndrome Association. P.O. Box 297, Clawson, MI 48017-0297. (248) 541-3630. Fax: (248) 541-3631. <http://www.williams-syndrome.org>.
Rene Jackson, R.N.
Rebecca Frey
Source: Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Don't stomp on Sam Rasoul's hard-earned primary win
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Sam Rasoul speaks after win.UPDATE: Sunday – Dave Trinkle posted on his Facebook page that he has no intention of running as an Independent for the HOD. (See post at the end.) It was confirmed by a paid supporter who asked to remain anonymous that Trinkle earlier had planned to wait and make up his mind on running as an Independent by next Wednesday.
Saturday: The third time was the charm for Sam Rasoul, a small business consultant. Rasoul ran for two years in an effort to unseat Congressman Bob Goodlatte. He challenged Mayor David Bowers in a primary. This time he squeaked out a win over the anointed Democrat Councilman Dr. Dave Trinkle.
Rasoul was CFO of Kissito Healthcare Inc. bef


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Kathy Meehan was promoted to Associate Vice President for Athletics in June 2001. Meehan is now in her 36th year of service at the University, dating back to her days as a women's basketball student-athlete in the early 1970s. As Associate Vice President for Athletics and Senior Women administrator, Meehan oversees Internal Relations, Title IX compliance, human resources, strategic planning and enforcing the student-athlete Code of Conduct. She is the sports administrator for the Red Storm women's basketball, tennis, softball and volleyball teams, and the men's tennis team. She served as the University's representative to the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association from 2001-05.
Meehan was the driving force behind the development of the Community Service Program and the LifeSkills program (now Student Development) at the University for all student-athletes. She has served and chaired numerous NCAA and BIG EAST Committees, including the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Committee from 2005-09 and the NCAA Division I Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Cabinet. Presently she is a member of the Division I Women's Basketball Committee. As the Senior Women's Administrator, she is a member of the Big East Championships Committee.
Meehan graduated from St. John's in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in education, and earned a master's degree in counselor education from St. John's in 1979. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the first women's basketball team at the University (1974-75) and won the first Outstanding Female Student-Athlete Award that same year.
Upon graduation, she was hired as an Assistant Athletic Director for women's athletics, Women's Intramural Director and assistant basketball coach. She held those positions until 1980, when she was named Women's Athletic Director. In just five short years, Meehan made her mark and was promoted to Associate Athletic Director in 1985. In 1993, she was appointed Senior Associate Athletic Director.
Meehan was inducted into the St. John's University Hall of Fame in 1991. Her dedication and desire, plus long-tenured years of service did not go unnoticed, and in 1995 Meehan received the prestigious Vincention Mission Award, which is presented to an employee who embodies, "the mission of the University through purposeful and sustained service to others," while "manifesting her social consciousness with the University, as well as to the community and beyond." In 2001, she was honored for her 25 years of service to St. John's when she received one of the highest honors the University gives to its employees – the Pietas Media for her life's work at the University. During the 2000-01 academic year, she was also honored with the "Women of Distinction" Award.
She was the recipient of the Woodruff Award in April 2003, presented annually by Adelphi University for excellence in coaching, teaching and educating young adults, while stressing that the athletics experience enhances the educational experiences and quality of life. In addition, she was inducted into the Phi Eta Sigma Society as an Honorary Member. In 2005, in honor of women's history month, she was given the "Legacy Award" for her advocacy work with women's issues. She presently serves on the Board of Directors for Our Lady of Mercy Academy High School in Syosset, NY.
In April of 2008, she graduated from the inaugural class of the Vincentian Mission Certificate (VMC) Program – an 16-month program that reflects dedication to the Vincentian Mission and commitment to education that exemplifies the values of St. Vincent de Paul and partnership of St. John's ongoing service to the poor. She is also a member of the St. John's Chapter of the Ladies of Charity. Meehan and her husband, Lou, live in Jackson Heights, N.Y., and have two sons. Brian (29) and Timothy (27).
Why St. John's? I did not know it for quite a while –but I was destined for St. John's—my parent and my uncles all are graduates, and my Grandfather George Krygier rec'd the St Vincent de Paul from the University in 1967-which was actually my first time on campus. Marillac auditorium. Of course I had no idea who St. Vincent was or that Marillac was named after Louise. I met my husband at St. John's (36 yrs of marriage), and both my sons have their undergraduate and graduate degrees from here. St. John's is home! Why VMI? This was such an easy yes to the commitment. After serving in the first cohort for the Vincentian Mission Certificate program I was awaiting the follow-up program that would enable me to continue to educate and engage my colleagues in what it is to be Vincentian in Higher Education and to continue to "spread the word" by thoughts and deeds. It is a blessing and an honor to be asked to serve.