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The Online Top-Down Modeling Model
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The Internet has become a major resource for teaching and learning. Educators are innovating methods and strategies to integrate Internet technology effectively into instruction to meet their various needs. Providing learning models and facilitations online for a graduate computer literacy class was a new innovation, and generated interesting issues and insights. Students were impacted by the benefits and effectiveness of this new model. This article uses qualitative action research to explore a new model, or a new approach, to integrating Internet technology into instruction: the Online Top-Down Modeling Model (OTMM). This model combined external online instructional resources and internal online instructional resources to set up models and provide learning resources for classroom instruction. This research yielded overall positive responses from the participants about learning under the OTMM. The students' attitudes toward integrating Internet resources positively changed, and their confidence in integrating Internet technology into instruction increased. Ultimately, the class itself became a model for the class participants in how to effectively integrate Internet technology for instruction.
With the development of technology integration in school settings, the quality of technology used for instruction has become a major issue to educators who are making efforts to innovate education. Bitter and Pierson (2002) assert that there are five stages of integrating technology into education: the entry stage, the adoption stage, the adaptation stage, the appropriation stage, and the invention stage. The final stage, the invention stage, is considered the highest level of integration, where teachers creatively invent their technology methods that are to be effective for learning. The technologyassisted environment expands the implication of learning practices and theories, and offers educators a large arena for imaging, planning, and creating a variety of ways to enhance the quality of learning.
From the social learning perspective, observational learning plays an important role in achieving successful learning outcomes (Bandura, 1977, 1986). To facilitate observational learning, observable models and behaviors must be provided. When the observer's (the learner's) curiosity and interest are aroused, he or she will be engaged in imitating the model's behavior if the model possesses characteristics or traits-things such as talent, intelligence, power, personal values, good looks, or popularity-that the observer finds attractive or desirable (Anderson, 2002b). However, observational learning is not simply a thoughtless imitating behavior. It involves higher-order thinking as the learning process develops, and it rewards the learner when the creativity and inventions are engendered on the learner's side (Tucker-Ladd, n.d.). It depends on how a teacher harnesses this magic to make a difference.
The Internet has been considered an effective tool for delivering instruction. The quality of online interaction with the learning resource is vital to successful teaching and learning as researchers have indicated in terms of learning in distance education classes (Milton, 1998; Muirhead, 1999; Oblinger & Rush, 1997). Learner-content interaction has been frequently discussed (Moore, 1989), but teachercontent interaction has received less attention. To take advantage of the Internet, educators are trying to put learning and instructional resources online to facilitate education. For instance, a Web portfolio is a way of putting students' e-portfolios (i.e., papers, discussions, projects, etc.) online to show what students have learned (Kimball, 2003). Developing a curriculum web enables the teacher to put his/ her instructional materials online and access them anytime they are needed (Cunningham & Billingsley, 2003). Many educational Web sites discuss how to use the Internet to deliver information for distance instruction, but few of them mention how to take advantage of the Internet to create a teacher-prepared resourcerich Web site for traditional classroom instruction. …


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How do I create a photo-realistic planet, say earth, in DAZ Studio 4? Can't seem to get it to look right….
The first thing to think of when designing anything to look realistic is to think about how it's constructed in the real world. The Earth, for example, has an atmosphere which generally gives off a blueish hue. A good way to emulate this in Daz is to wrap it in a sphere which just barely exceeds the size of the Earth itself and invert it so that the polygons face inwards. You can then shade this so that the atmosphere appears behind the planet.
Another tip which often gives better results is to do some post-processing in Photoshop. Render out the planet against a blank background and apply a layer effect over it for a glow. You can then composite it all back into a single image.
Another thing to note is that clouds also cast shadows on the planet surface, so using a separate cloud layer for planets will help add that extra realism.
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sounds good, will try the invert thing. how do you invert the polys?
There used to be a freeware space scene creator out there… maybe eight or ten years ago? Was it Universe? I can't remember.
When doing this scene:
I used three spheres. One for the earth surface. One for the clouds, and one for the atmosphere tinted blue. I had to make my own transparency map for the clouds, but I found them on the web ready to wrap around a sphere.
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cool, will try that too…. will post what I render. thanks.
One thing, and I haven't figured this out, because I haven't spent any time on it: if you look at photographs of machines in space (satellites, orbiters, etc) they have very VERY harsh shadows. Pretty sure this is due to the lack of ambient light in space. Now, planets with atmospheres, not so much. The moon, of course, has harsh shadows. But if you look at the earth, it always has fuzzy, soft shadows going to the dark side. The other part is that when something is in shadow, it merges with the background black of space, becoming invisible.
So if you want to make your renders look hyper real, you'll figure this part out… and when you do, you WILL tell me how you did it!
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Outer…a volume shader applied (I'll post the ShaderMixer network later…)
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mjc1016 - 24 November 2012 01:13 PMHere's one…
Inner sphere…texture mapped
Outer…a volume shader applied (I'll post the ShaderMixer network later…)
SUWEEEET!!! I'll be anxiously awaiting that one.
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Apple's Biggest Design Crime
Why can't Jony Ive of all people design a goddamn useable Shift key?
Want to play a fun little game? Okay, great! Which of these iOS 7 keyboards has the Shift key pressed?
Ready? Go!
Did you guess correctly? Congratulations! After almost a year of using an iPhone or iPad running iOS 7, you have somehow internalized the moonman-huffing-paint-fumes UI logic that Jony Ive deployed when he designed the iOS 7 keyboard.
Got it wrong? Don't feel bad. Just like me, you probably know what it is like to waste non-refundable seconds of a short and pointless life bookended by dread expanses of infinity typing and re-typing text into your iPhone.
Here's an example. Let's say I'm tapping in an email. I'm a stickler for proper capitalization on my iPhone, even when I'm writing my wife, so I'm often tapping the Shift key. But here's the rub: if, for example, I lose my train of thought, or look up from typing for a second, or become unsure if I actually hit the Shift key or not, there's no way to tell if the next letter I'm going to type is capitalized or not.
What's going on? The issue here is the way the letters on the keyboard appear: whether the Shift key is pressed or not, the letters on the iOS keycaps are always capitalized. And because the letters are always capitalized, no normal human being using iOS 7 can tell if the goddamn Shift key is on or off without a healthy amount of trial and error.
True, the letters on previous versions of iOS keyboards were always displayed as all caps no matter what the Shift key was doing too. The distinction is that in previous versions of iOS, whether Shift was on or off was given a unique visual affordance: it would glow like a light, when the Shift key was on. In iOS 7, this doesn't happen: when pressed, the Shift key is colored white, just like a regular alphanumeric key. You can't tell what's going on with it except by paying close attention.
This isn't good design. It's not even bad design. This is design crime; a dastardly digital caper pulled off by none other than the company that constantly pats itself on the back for its design. And while it's true that the iOS 7 Shift key used to be worse, there's just no excuse for it, because fixing the iOS keyboard is literally this easy:
But even though iOS 8 just around the corner, its keyboard faux pas is an embarrassment Apple is unlikely to change, except in the most roundabout way possible: finally allowing iOS users to install third-party keyboards.
Any guesses on what one of the most popular third-party keyboard on the App Store will be when Apple finally releases iOS 8? I'll bet it's the one that fixes the fucking Shift key.
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I, somehow, have absolutely NO problems with this. I must be a FREAKIN IDIOT
When the shift key is pressed it stands out due to its boldness. It's a game of spot the odd one out, where your subconscious does the work for you.
The shift key changes colour when activated (and is underlined when caps is on).
The keys on my laptop keyboard are also all uppercase, it doesn't seem to be an issue.
The problem lies with how the shift key is used in each case.
With your laptop, you hold down shift to activate it. There's no need to visually indicate whether the shift key is triggered, since there's kinesthetic feedback.
On the iOS stock keyboard, there's only two colour schemes for regular keys. Shift blends in to either of the groups, depending on its activation. It's not impossible to learn, but wouldn't it be better to make a more intuitive design?
You mention Caps Lock. It's a great analogy for the phone shift key issue. Imagine a laptop or desktop keyboard that doesn't have a caps lock indicator light.
C'mon! there are many issues but this is NOT a BIG one at all! Shift key is quite intuitive as the autocorrect normally makes the capital letter for you. Trust me that this is just a baby crime :) But fair enough, you are users with right to complain.. stand up for your rights! :)
This is how Jonathan like it - or his team maybe - so they put it that way. It is totally up to you which device and software to use. You can't just say "fixing the iOS keyboard is literally this easy" ... I bet if it was that easy, the team behind Apple would've already done that. Cheers!
Mistakes like these are hard to grasp and on the top of all that people try to justify for ex- by comparing it to actual physical keyboard.
Good points here, for sure. Btw for coming out and saying it out loud like this, this is yours :)
Had the problem with the Shift Key also on my iPhone. Never realised it before though. I talked to my team after reading your article. We were already on an iOS keyboard for a while and we've quickly integrated a working uppercase/lowercase letter changing Shift key in our iOS Keyboard ( http://color-vibes.com/ )
Thanks for pointing this out John. Hopefully this problem is being experience by a lot of Apple users, making our keyboard more popular.
This might be new to some, but it's been there since 2007 and it's the only way I ever use the shift key.
Awesome...just tried this one out...didn't even know!
I solved the shift key problem along with the whole infuriating experience of hunt-and-peck or thumb-typing on a ridiculously small, unresponsive bitmapped keyboard.
I use a physical keyboard.
Folded, it fits in my pocket. If I'm typing more than 2-4 words on my iPhone, I pull the keyboard from my pocket and slide the (physical) ON switch. Then I can type even long messages without a massive number of errors and without shifting every time I want to add a damn comma or period or number. To hell with all that.
Is this solution perfect? No. It means carrying an extra device, of course. Beyond that, many Amazon reviewers criticize the position of the (yes) shift keys. There are some other physical design tradeoffs, including the space needed in middle, between keys, for folding.
It takes some getting used to. Per reviews, some people hate the folding keyboard altogether. I myself find it manageable — especially compared with the nightmare of texting on a smartphone display.
I just had a singularly frustrating experience with the shift key on my iphone yesterday, so was particularly amused when I saw this article!
Do real world actual keyboard jump from lower case letters to upper case when you hit shift? Don't be hilarious.
Have you, or anyone you know, performed any form of usability testing on this theory? Besides your personal experience, and thinking about the issue outside of its environment (ie animated GIFs on the Internet), I would argue that this is a non-issue conjured up by designers.
Apple have statistics (metrics) of usage, and you bet you're ass they're monitoring keyboard usage (mistakes, accuracy etc). If there was legitimately an issue with this, they would have fixed it. There is absolutely no logical reason why they would not have, bar the fact that it's not an issue.
Looking at your above image(s) you could argue it's confusing and difficult to use. On the contrary, I have never once accidentally turned my shift key on, or failed to turn it on in regular use. Period. Maybe I'm the odd one out here? Or maybe someone should do some independent usability testing to actually see if it's an issue?
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So it probably comes with no surprise that if you are working on a long document, a document with multiple pages in it, interacting with the Pages panel is something you are going to be doing quite a bit. It's kind of your view on the overall document. It let's you navigate from page to page easily. It gives you a little representation of each page, a little thumbnail if you will. If we take a look at the Pages panel that I've got set up here, it's been customized quite a bit to look different than what it looks like by default. So, let's start by getting this to look the way it does when you just first launch InDesign for the first time. To do that, I am going to switch from the Power Shortcuts Workspace, which is my custom workspace that I have created for this title, and we are going to switch to one of the default workspaces, in this case it would be Essentials.
Let's go ahead and do that temporarily. And we will go and expand the dock to show you what the Pages panel looks like, by default. So you can see, the page thumbnails are much smaller, and they're arranged in a vertical stack. So that's one of the very first things I like to change about how the Pages panel works. I just think this is an incredible waste of space over here on the right-hand side. I think this is a legacy decision, this was how the QuarkXPress Pages panel arranged its pages from top to bottom in a vertical stack. Let's go ahead and start customizing it. It's doing the same for the Master pages by the way.
It's putting them in a vertical stack as well. You can of course, split the divider here and move it up or down to see more or fewer master pages and so forth. To customize the Pages panel, and any panel for that matter that has options, you go to the flyout menu of the particular panel, it's in the upper right-hand corner, and we will choose Panel Options here down at the bottom, and this brings up its own special dialog where you can control certain aspects. So the pages themselves, the default Size is Medium, I'm going to change that Large. And I don't want to show them vertically, and by default the thumbnails are displayed, so you actually get a graphical representation of each page.
I find that very useful. Some people have complained that they notice a slight decrease in performance. Personally, I think that's not always the case, but if you change a page, InDesign behind the scenes does have to update that thumbnail from time to time. So if you really want to run InDesign as fast as possible, there is some credence to be able to turn that off. I just think that the usefulness of the thumbnails outweighs that performance gain. So, I like to turn that on and keep it on. For the Master pages, you have the exact same options. I don't really need to see thumbnails per se, most of the time, so I usually keep my Page thumbnails for Master pages either Small or Extra Small.
Go ahead and leave it Small for now. I don't like to have them vertically as well, I think that takes up too much space, so I want them show horizontally. Then I can turn thumbnails off if I wish. There's some other adornments that can be turned on. By default, some options are available. I think transparency is the default, but maybe it's not, because it's not checked here. Anyway, depending on the size of the thumbnail you choose, these icons may or may not show up, and there is a little hint there that kind of gives you that information. Transparency is if you've added, it's certainly sort of Opacity effect or a drop shadow or changing the blend mode of an object on a page.
This puts a little badge on the thumbnail to let you know that that that's been applied to that particular page. If a spread has been rotated, a new feature introduced in CS4, the ability to rotate spreads in 90 degree increments, you can have that noted, because sometimes if you've, for instance, flip a page 180 degrees, you won't necessarily know it's rotated. Or the person who gets your document may not know that you rotated that. So the flag with a little icon there is very helpful. And I'll go ahead and turn all three of these on. I think to show all three your page thumbnail size has to be extra large, to show all three.
So we will go ahead and change that for now. We can always go back and change it again. And then lastly, you can also change the Panel Layout so that the Master pages are on top, the default, or the pages are on top, and again, it's totally your choice. I am going to go ahead and click OK, and you see the Pages panel changes quite a bit. I get much larger thumbnails. Now because the width of the panel isn't wide enough to show you more than one page, it still looks like they are vertical. Let me go ahead and drag the Pages panel out to float it. You just click on its tab to float it, and let go, and now when I resize this to be wide.
You can actually see that they're not stacked vertically. I actually love this arrangement. If you have a second monitor, it's kind of interesting to use the Pages panel. Let's make it a very wide panel, and you can kind of get more of a left to right arrangement, kind of like you would in a book or magazine, where you are seeing spreads from left to right, instead of vertically arranged. You still have to scroll down to see the next row, but again, depending on the size of your monitor you can always show one or two rows at a time, depending on how much screen real estate you want to dedicate to the actual Pages panel. It's completely up to you.
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County's fifth facility eases transportation burden
Angie Hernandez had battled diabetes and high blood pressure, but when the 32-year-old was pregnant with her son last year, it was too much for her kidneys.
Her son was delivered two months early last September. By November, Hernandez had started dialysis.
Although the Oxnard resident would rather be home with her son, Hernandez now heads to the Kidney Dialysis Center of Ventura three times a week for about four hours a day for her dialysis treatment.
The whole experience has been overwhelming, she said, even with the support of her husband and 13-year-old twins.
"My life is a lot different now than it was a year ago," she said.
The Ventura dialysis center opened in April. For those trekking to other centers in Camarillo or Santa Paula, the new center brought its services closer to home.
Kidney Center Inc., based in Simi Valley, runs five kidney dialysis centers in Ventura County, as well as other centers in Southern California.
People go on dialysis when their kidneys stop doing the work they were made for — filtering waste products out of the blood and helping the body eliminate excess fluid.
The dialysis machine takes blood from the body, filters it and sends the filtered blood back into the body.
Hernandez said she feels better than she did when she was first diagnosed.
"By prayer and staying on top of everything I need to do, I know I'm going to get a lot better," she said.
At the center, technicians and nurses check the patients every half an hour, noting information from computer screens on their dialysis machines. Patients have call buttons to use if they need assistance.
The center also offers services for patients with kidney disease, such as nutritional guidance, help with transportation, transplant information, finding in-home caregivers and locating dialysis clinics for treatment while on vacation.
The care depends on patient input.
Clinical area manager Pratiksha Rajani said patients often bring in questions or information from things they have heard in the news or researched online.
"I can't think like a patient," she said. "They bring a wealth of information from home."
It's important to take the time to listen, which is part of offering individualized care, she said. Often, a lot can be learned while a patient is being checked in, weighed and tested before the dialysis begins.
"I think we get a lot of ideas listening to our patients, talking to our patients," Rajani said.
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One question that has come up recently is the dosing and safety of anemia drugs, which are often prescribed to patients to boost their red blood cell counts and help fight fatigue.
The drugs have been under scrutiny since studies found that they could be dangerous if administered at higher than recommended doses. It prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to put warning labels on anemia drugs.
Rajani said the drugs haven't been an issue at the Ventura center because the staff sticks to dosage guidelines.
The clinic still seems new, with its 20 overstuffed chairs. It sounds a bit like Las Vegas, with the machines buzzing and beeping to get the attention of nurses or technicians — and then going off like a slot machine jackpot when a patient finishes dialysis.
Most strides made with dialysis machines in recent years have been improving their ease of use through computer monitors, touch screens, safety features and simpler controls, Rajani said.
She said the most important advance has been providing an additional machine to monitor each patient's blood as it cycles through the dialysis machine. It means that instead of having to rely on a patient's monthly blood tests to determine finer details of dialysis treatment, a nurse can adjust by seeing what is going on the day of treatment.
Televisions are set up for patients to watch while they're undergoing dialysis, although some, like Hernandez, bring along an iPod to listen to music. Others often read or take a nap.
Michael Guillen of Oxnard has spent time getting to know the people at the center. It's pretty common for close relationships to form between the staff members and patients.
"You're with them three times a week, so you get to know them not just as nurses, but as people," he said.
Every morning that he has dialysis, Guillen said he is greeted with a "Good morning, Michael."
"It's like the TV series Cheers,' " he said. "It's a very pleasant and enjoyable atmosphere here."
Guillen has been on dialysis since September 2006. The 35-year-old had kidney problems, but he was taking his medications, so it didn't dawn on him when he went to the hospital that he was experiencing end-stage renal failure.
He stayed in the hospital from September to May. When he was released, Guillen started going to the Ventura dialysis center.
"When I came to this clinic, it was like a breath of fresh air," he said.
A social worker sets up his transportation to the center and home, while nurses work with his doctor to keep him informed about his treatment and medications.
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Guillen said each visit to the center provides perspective as he sees patients who are doing better than him and patients who are doing worse.
He eventually will seek a transplant, which he said would give him some of the spontaneity back in his life.
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He's not in a hurry because of the support he finds at the center.
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Hernandez said she would love to go back to work after the transplant.
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Ginza Weekend Walk
Ginza on a Sunday is one of the few places left to experience Hokousha-tengoku (歩行者天国), literally meaning 'pedestrians paradise', on a major Tokyo street area. There used to be a very popular one at Harajuku until some years ago when the cars beat the pedestrians out.
The Wako Building is a landmark in the Ginza with its clock a symbol of the area.
5th Street, 五番街, is a stylish street for shoppers.
Once I get well again I will hit the Ginza streets and show you some of the fashions and hot spots. If you are in Tokyo and want to get a feeling of openness and shopping in a large outside mall, then Ginza on a Sunday is worth a visit.
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The lovely sites of Ginza. Is'nt ginza a Red Light district after dark or am I wrong? I don't know why the big city of Dallas could'nt do the same thing for the people there. Do all the districts in Japan do this on Sundays? yeah get better and will look forward to the indepth reporting that you do.
Take care and do whatever it takes to get you through this. Can't imagine what that feels like="Big Ouch!"
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Thanks a lot for your pictures, not just Ginza but also Shibuya and other areas. I had a couple of extended stays in Tokyo, working from my company's Tokyo office in the Cerulean Towers, so I spent a lot of time walking around Shibuya after work. Your pictures bring back great memories. Thanks!
Cracking pictures, and nice to see that the pedestrians are winning out for a change! Get well soon by the way, hope it's nothing too horrible.


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Hurricane Caroline
I consider myself to be pretty capable when it comes to caring for Caroline alone, so I try not to write posts like this, but tonight it really can't be helped. Buckle up, buttercups. This evening was rough.
Caroline has been sick and so I was up with her for most of last night. I went home after school today and laid down to take a nap, because she was supposed to be with Tyler tonight. The second I fell asleep, the phone rang. It was Tyler, saying that he was bringing her here instead because she wasn't feeling well and wanted to go home. I stumbled out of bed and answered the door. He handed her to me, accused me of loving the fact that she only wants to be with me, and stormed off. Caroline and I looked at each other for a minute and then I shook the sleep out of my eyes and told her we were going to the store to get medicine.
I dragged the poor sick kid out in the rain to pick up a filter for her humidifier and medicine and chicken soup. Got her home and set up with the soup. She wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink, wouldn't do anything but scream and beg to be held. I picked her up and carried her around, still screaming, while trying to run a bath for her and dose her with medicine and set up the humidifier and wade through the piles of laundry and toys that were covering my floors. This went on for about a half hour and by the end of it, I was near tears as well, and my arms were really tired from carrying her, and she was still howling. And I don't do well at all, running on no sleep.
I got mad. At Tyler. Which is totally stupid. But I was just mad that he thought I wanted to do all this alone, that I was happy about it all. I'm not. I want them to have a relationship and I don't want all of this responsibility to fall on my shoulders, every single time. I set the screaming Caroline down on the couch, gritted my teeth, squeezed my eyes shut, pressed my hands over my ears, took a deep breath, and counted to ten. (Moms. Single or otherwise. You've been right there with me. Don't deny it!) Then I got a grip and got to business.
I put Dora the Explorer on my laptop for Caroline to watch and stuck a binky in her mouth. (Judge me for the binky and die, betches.) I really try to avoid putting TV on to keep her busy, but this was an emergency for real, and anyway I suppose Dora is somewhat educational, even if she is super annoying and always wearing that little belly shirt, I mean what is up with that? There are kids watching, girlfriend, you think you could tone it down a little? I mean we get it, you're cute and all, we get it, but it's kind of inappropriate, no? Anyway did I mention I haven't slept, and where was I?
Oh right. So I put Dora on and whipped into supersinglemommy mode. Cleaned the place up at lightning speed, set up the humidifier in her room and closed the door, ran a steam bath, set up everything to put her to bed, and measured out her meds. Grabbed Caroline off the couch, turned off that annoying chick Dora, bathed her (uh, Caroline, not Dora), dosed her with meds, brushed her teeth, read her a book, rocked her, and laid her down in her crib. Oh, and collapsed myself onto the couch.
Now she's coughing up a storm in her bed but at least she's asleep and not crying, so the rest of my evening includes plans for a hot shower, a glass of wine, some mindless TV, and early to bed because I'm pretty sure I'll be up all night again.
I mean. Whatever. I can do the single mom thing. I've been doing it a long time now, starting from way back during my marriage. But when the plans change and you throw a very sick and very loudly screaming inconsolable toddler in there, things fall apart for me a little bit. It's okay though. I got this. We moms are tough. Right?Add a Comment
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by Bobbi Janay
On May 4, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Hugs. I feel your pain and I am not a single mom.
by Anonymous
On May 4, 2011 at 8:06 pm
I'm sorry, but that just shows Tyler's true colors. What a whimp (actually I am thinking of a word that begins with a D and ends with an H)…things got tough and he didn't want to deal with a sick kid? So he dumps her back on mom and walks away, but not before he turns it around on you to make it look like it's your fault for caring for her and making her dependant on you. UGH! I'm sorry, you don't deserve that. I'd like to cyberpunch him in the nads for you, Julia!
by Merks
On May 4, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Another reason we all need to move to our cul-de-sac…or Lithuania.
by Anonymous
On May 4, 2011 at 8:22 pm
You are an amazing Mom. I hope you enjoy that glass of wine and get more sleep then you expect tonight. Hang in there!
by Emily
On May 4, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Ugh. I hope you get some sleep tonight Jules! And I don't know if you've tried it yet, but we swear by Hylands Cough and Cold here, it's pretty much the only thing that will touch Toph's cough. I hope both you and Caro are feeling better soon!
by Anonymous
On May 4, 2011 at 8:55 pm
I thought it started with a "D" and ended with an "E" or with a "bag"? Am I spelling things wrong? You're awesome Jules. Loves you!xo.
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On May 4, 2011 at 10:09 pm
My sister's ex-husband does the same thing. He is a good dad, but when there is a sick kid, he brought them all straight back to my sister, not bothering to first fill a prescription or stop to get some supplies. I think maybe they don't have it in them. At the same time, maybe Caroline really was begging for you and it broke Tyler's heart to see her so miserable and just wanting her mommy. My boys are around their dad all the time, every day, but when they are sick all they want is their mommy.
by Julia
On May 4, 2011 at 10:15 pm
This is it, really, if I'm being honest, and that's why I said it was stupid of me to be mad. She asks for me and he is trying to be sensitive to her needs by bringing her back to me, because he doesn't want to force it. And yet, as I mentioned in another recent post, they will never have a relationship if he ships her right back to me every time she asks… it's a tough situation. I don't think there's an easy answer. It's all part of coparenting post-divorce, I guess.
by Julia
On May 4, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Not that I don't appreciate the supportive comments, because I totally do.
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Good Morning! At Smithville, MS, the current temperature is 61 and it feels like 61. Highs will continue to range between 85 and 92 with lows between 63 and 69. No rain this week. At the Regional Rehab Center in Tupelo, MS, the current temperature is 66 and it feels like 66. Today's high is 92 with a low of 64. Fridays high is 91.
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I know it's a very big question to ask :), I'm just asking out of curiosity. Is it possible for someone to build a phone OS? Can someone guide me through this please. For example, how to choose a H/W and how should you test your code, is it possible buy some device (eg HTC) and just try the code with it? The good thing here is Linux Kernel is there so one won't start from scratch.
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In short: hardly possible, unless you restrict yourself.
Google "OpenMoko" and "Neo FreeRunner", learn from their extremely open platform. Maybe reuse parts of it.
I suggest that you don't want to develop a kernel of the OS, but rather adapt an existing OS for smartphone use and create the userland somehow akin to iPhone's or Android's. This alone is a giant task.
While it is certainly possible to build a phone OS by personal effort, it will take so much time that the OS is going to be long obsolete by the time it's usable. A group effort is preferable in this very fast-paced field.
Also, state your goal. Building a "phone OS" for academic purposes is one thing. It takes simplicity, transparency, small list of conceptions well demonstrated. Developing a commercially usable "phone OS" is totally different: it needs hardware adaptability, maintainability, heavy (and probably ugly) optimizations, very serious UI work.
Commercial hardware is mostly closed, and getting specs requires money and signing of NDAs. This limits the ability of enthusiasts to target off-the-shelf smartphones; it yields to reverse-engineering sometimes, sometimes it doesn't. Take a look at Cyanogen and Android modders community in general. They have a mature open-source software stack (Linux, Android) already targeted for phones, and phones developed with this stack in mind. It still takes significant efforts to create a custom build for a particular phone. Doing this with your own immature stack should prove much harder. Address the Neo instead :)


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The St. Louis based pharmacy benefits manager Express-Scripts told the Center for Media and Democracy today that it had terminated its relationship with ALEC. The move was confirmed by Express Scripts head of Communications David Whitrap.
The disclosure comes at the end of a busy week for corporate defections from ALEC. On Tuesday, Express-Scripts competitor CVS announced it was cutting ties, along with four other corporations, including Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Buy, and MillerCoors LLC. In a statement, PFAW Foundation President Michael Keegan applauded the news:
The decision by these five companies to leave ALEC is an important step to do right by their customers. Their competitors who have yet to quit should know that the American people won't forget who continues to underwrite ALEC's agenda at our expense. Fortunately, more and more corporations, nonprofits and organizations are withdrawing their memberships. As a result, ALEC's ability to push its dangerous agenda through our statehouses diminishes every day.
As more companies follow their competitors out of ALEC, the campaign to get corporations to ditch ALEC gains even more momentum. Those who stay with the organization will have to justify their support of an extreme anti-consumer agenda to their customers.
PFAW Foundation has taken an active role in exposing ALEC's stealth role in promoting conservative legislation at the local, state, and federal level.
A comprehensive list of the corporations who have cut ties with ALEC can he found here.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has created damage-control web site, "I Stand With ALEC," asking people to submit a letter to members of ALEC's Private Enterprise Board and member legislators in support of the ultra-conservative, secretive organization. The form letter is here:
Stand With ALEC
Dear [Decision Maker],
As our economy continues to struggle, the need for strong leadership that promotes free markets and free enterprise is more crucial than ever. It's through limited government and a stronger private sector that we can create jobs and grow our economy. As a member of ALEC, I expect you to work on these types of solutions.
But I've seen in the news that these values, and groups that support them, are under attack by extremists. Groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are important defenders of these free market ideals. You should know that this is exactly the kind of organization I expect you to work with. Don't let extremists sway you any other way.
It is through free-market, limited government and pro-growth principles that we can get the states and whole nation back on the right track. As a customer, I'll be watching closely to ensure that you represent those views in your decisions.
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After the massive outrage sparked by revelations that ALEC's Public Safety and Elections Task Force was responsible for the proliferation of "Stand Your Ground" laws in the wake of the death of Trayvon Martin, ALEC tried to disavow that committee and claimed that it was "refocusing [its] commitment to free-market, limited government and pro-growth principles."
ALEC's portfolio of harmful policies goes much farther than that, including model bills that disenfranchise voters, destroy public education, block access to healthcare, damage the environment, weaken public safety and harm working families. So far, 19 corporations, 4 non profit organizations and 54 state legislators have left the organization for these reasons.
If ALEC thinks it can repair its reputation by asking the American people to send reassuring letters to its members, it should think again. A petition drive and phone campaign led by People For the American Way Fundation, Color of Change and other organizations has already directed over 500,000 signatures and calls to ALEC's corporate members demanding that those companies end their ALEC memberships immediately. The American people have already spoken on this one, and they don't stand with ALEC.
This afternoon, Johnson & Johnson announced that it would discontinue its membership in ALEC, making it the 19th corporation to do so.
The running tally of organizations and legislators leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council, as of today:
• Corporations: 19
• Non-profits: 4
• State Legislators: 54
ALEC's agenda is as secretive as it is extreme, but the American people are sending a loud and clear message that legislation drafted by corporate lobbyists has no place in our statehouses.
PFAW President Michael Keegan said the following after Johnson & Johnson's announcement:
"The extreme ALEC agenda harms all of us on a daily basis. It's disturbing that so many American companies still have a hand in advancing legislation that suppresses the right to vote, impedes access to health care, weakens public education and jeopardizes public safety. I commend the persistence of the hundreds of thousands of activists who have demanded accountability from corporations supporting the ALEC agenda. Johnson & Johnson's departure from ALEC is a big victory, and the other corporate funders who have yet to leave ALEC should take note."