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I want to take a moment today to share with you a sentiment I have already passed on to the staff members here at the Illinois State Board of Education.
Along with you this past Thursday, many ISBE employees followed the Governor's State of the State message. While many approached the event with some anxiety, I think, it did turn out to be a more pleasurable experience than was the case for ISBE employees last year.
I am appreciative of the positive attention the Governor provided and certainly welcome the kudos the Agency received.
The point that I felt was important to share with the
folks here at ISBE is as follows: Any acclaim or praise we garnered this past
Thursday was due to both the work and dedication of the ISBE staff, and not just
those of us who joined the Agency this past September. Whether it was tackling the
certification backlog, handling Report Card corrections, or just dealing with
individual school and district issues—any successes we've had over the last few
months are due to the hard work and collective effort of a large number of
people at ISBE, both in the
We will continue to get better in our direct service to
you and, indirectly, all children of the State of
Randy Dunn
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Ad Hoc rules committee
Illinois State Board of Education Chairman Jesse Ruiz has established an Ad Hoc Rules Committee to review all suggested revisions to administrative rules during the agency's rules streamlining initiative. All board members will serve on this committee.
The first meeting of this committee will be on Wednesday, February 16, as will be noted in the schedule of meetings when posted
Corrections windows announced for 2005 state assessment
In order that schools/districts can more fully prepare for data corrections for the 2005 state assessments, the ISBE Student Assessment Division has posted a detailed schedule of critical activities and dates at www.isbe.net/assessment. It is imperative that school personnel be available to assist in the correction process during the dates specified.
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Schools administering the Illinois Alternate Assessment
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Measured Progress at 877-732-5306.
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of Education, SAC is made up of 20 or more students representing all regions of
the state. At the expense of the agency, members are invited to
Eligibility to apply for the 2005-2006 SAC will be
limited to public school students. Given the need to hear from students on some
of the more complicated issues faced by our state, special consideration will be
given to applicants from low-performing schools or districts. An application
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Part 1 (Public Schools Evaluation, Recognition and Supervision)
This rulemaking consists almost entirely of technical
corrections that are needed to ensure continuity in certification policy. When the personnel-related portions of
Part 1 were most recently amended (effective
Similarly, in the recent amendment process several long-standing requirements for the assignment of teachers in career and technical education programs were inadvertently omitted. These details chiefly have to do with the requirement for work experience in the field to be taught and need to be added to new Section 1.737. The wording change in the title and in subsection (a) of Section 1.737 is being made only to ensure that it is clear that the requirements expressed apply to grade 9 regardless of the configuration of grades among schools in a district.
The only policy change being made via Appendix A is to re-amend the validity of the provisional vocational certificate. Educators in the field as well as representatives of the regional superintendents who deal with certification issues have indicated that smaller districts in particular will be unable to offer career and technical education programs if they are required to employ different staff for exploration and orientation (grades 7 through 10) than for the "skill-level" instruction in grades 11 and 12.
Affected Sections: 1.720, 1.737, and 1.Appendix A
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of the ISBE website. Performance Descriptors and other resources for the Social/Emotional Learning Standards will also be placed on this site as they become available.
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Applications available for National Youth Science Camp
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Youth Science Camp (NYSC). This
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students to participate in the Black History Month Living Histories
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Each year the ride between floors is made easier when an estimated 90 billion riders use an escalator. Although most of those rides are without incident, the CPSC estimates there were approximately 11,000 escalator related injuries in 2007. The majority of these injuries are from falls but 10 percent occur when hands, feet or shoes are trapped in escalators.
The most common entrapment is to the foot. Soft-sided shoes are the most likely to get stuck and pose the possibility of injury to the rider. CPSC is aware of 77 entrapment incidents since January 2006, with about half resulting in injury. All but two of the incidents involved popular soft-sided flexible clogs and slides.
Here are some steps you can take to prevent escalator injuries:
-Make sure shoes are tied before getting on an escalator.
-Stand in the center of the step and be sure to step off of the escalator at the end of your ride.
-Always hold children's hands on escalators and do not permit children to sit or play on the steps.
-Do not bring children onto escalators in strollers, walkers, or carts.
-Always face forward and hold the handrail.
-Avoid the sides of steps where entrapment can occur.
-Learn where the emergency shutoff buttons are in case you need to stop the escalator.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of
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Hiroo Onoda, whose war lasted decades, dies at 91By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
The New York Times | January 21,2014Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a heros welcome in the all but unrecognizable Japan of 1974, died Thursday in Tokyo. He was 91.
Caught in a time warp, Onoda, a second lieutenant, was one of the wars last holdouts: a soldier who believed that the emperor was a deity and the war a sacred mission; who survived on bananas and coconuts and sometimes killed villagers he assumed were enemies; who finally went home to the lotus-land of paper and wood that turned out to be a futuristic world of skyscrapers, television, jet planes, pollution and atomic destruction.
His homecoming, with roaring crowds, celebratory parades and speeches by public officials, stirred his nation with a pride that many Japanese had found lacking in the postwar years.
As he related in a memoir after he went home, Onodas last order in early 1945 was to stay and fight. Loyal to a military code that taught that death was preferable to surrender, he remained on Lubang Island, 93 miles southwest of Manila, when Japanese forces withdrew in the face of a U.S. invasion.
After Japan surrendered, that September, thousands of Japanese soldiers were scattered across China, Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Many stragglers were captured or went home, while hundreds went into hiding rather than surrender or commit suicide. Many died of starvation or sickness.
Onoda, an intelligence officer trained in guerrilla tactics, and three enlisted men with him found leaflets proclaiming the wars end but believed they were tricks.
Considering themselves to be at war, they evaded U.S. and Filipino search parties and attacked islanders they took to be enemy guerrillas; about 30 inhabitants were killed in skirmishes with the Japanese over the years.
One of the enlisted men surrendered to Filipino forces in 1950, and two others were shot dead, one in 1954 and another in 1972.
The last holdout, Onoda, was found by Norio Suzuki, a student searching for him in 1974. Onoda rejected Suzukis pleas to go home, insisting he was still awaiting orders. Suzuki returned with photographs, and the Japanese government sent a delegation, including Onodas brother and his former commander, to relieve him of duty.
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Taking a cruise through the Panama Canal allows travelers to witness first hand this marvel of modern engineering. The canal system is made up of three locks and a series of artificial lakes and canals. As ships pass the locks from the east their elevation is gradually lowered and as they pass the final set of locks, the Gatun locks, the ships ascend an amazing 85 feet bringing them back to sea level. The complete journey takes about 8-10 hours in each direction.
Panama Canal cruise itineraries also include wonderful ports of call in the Caribbean, Central and South America and Mexico. Travelers can explore these different ports and enjoy a number of activities including sightseeing, shopping, watersports, beautiful beaches and friendly people.


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The Energy Department on July 24 announced new awards totaling nearly $11 million to help small businesses in nine states develop innovative ideas that could cut carbon pollution, reduce U.S. reliance on imported oil, and boost energy efficiency. The 11 projects—located in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Virginia—will focus on developing clean energy technologies with a strong potential for commercialization and job creation.
Technologies receiving awards include a project led by Applied Spectra, Inc. of Freemont, California, to develop an optical sensor for in-vehicle, real-time measurements of battery materials and chemistry to enable optimum performance and extend the life of lithium-ion batteries. Another project, led by Cool Energy, Inc., of Boulder, Colorado, will test a high-efficiency, low-temperature geothermal power technology that could help develop geothermal energy resources across most of the United States. And Proton OnSite of Wallingford, Connecticut, will lead a project to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of systems that produce hydrogen fuel from renewable energy sources.
Funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy through the Energy Department's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, these awards are for Phase II projects to further develop Phase I projects and produce a prototype or equivalent within two years. Ten awards are for SBIR projects, and one is for an STTR project. See the complete list of awards.


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Did Melo up/down 38% to 44% fg shooting shut anyone up? NO!the problem I have with Kiya is he never gave him any credit for improving as a player this past year, he just looks at Melo's numbers and uses the cliches the media uses and Melo shut that up this past season
Our 5-18 start Felton average 19/7
The 15 games Melo missed we won 12 or 11 (not sure), in the last 2 games of the season Breen did mention we won above 10 without Melo. Stopping the ball and Ball-Hogging (to win the scoring title) throughout a season is not improving our team.
We were a 2nd seed team, and we are replacing 7 players from the 2nd seed team.
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The search is on this morning for dozens of people still unaccounted for after a deadly fire blazed through a senior center in Quebec and killed at least five people. A fire chief called it a "night from hell." NBC's Katy Tur reports.
Rescue crews were carefully combing through the icy rubble of a seniors' home that burned to the ground Thursday morning in a fire that killed at least five people and injured 10 others, authorities said.
About 30 people remained unaccounted for in temperatures near zero Thursday night, and the death toll was expected to rise, Quebec police said. But rescuers were still holding out hope that some of those missing might have been away with their families when the enormous fire ravaged the 52-unit Residence du Havre in the small community of L'Isle-Verte shortly after midnight.
Eight of the 10 people who were injured were being treated at a local hospital for burns, falls, smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning, health officials said, while the two others were flown to a trauma center for emergency treatment.
A massive fire tore through a nursing home in Quebec on Thursday.
Quebec Provincial Police Lt. Guy LaPointe said crews were using Thursday night to get their equipment in place so they could resume the search for victims as soon as daylight broke Friday. The work is likely to be long and hard — both because of the sub-zero weather and because it was important to find everyone who might be buried in the ashes.
"With the weather, just to push the flames, we needed to use water, and it froze," LaPointe said. "Our priority is to work not only in a secure fashion but to preserve the integrity of the victims."
LaPointe said there was no timetable to for how long the search might take. The amalgam of ice, ash and still-smoldering embers made for a dangerous and "very nasty scene," he said.
The fire, which authorities said began about 12:30 a.m. ET, destroyed the three-story wooden complex, lighting up the night sky like a bonfire.
Alphonse Gagnon, 79, and his wife, Yvette Michaud, 73, watched it burn from their home across the street. They didn't see anyone escape, they told NBC News.
"The fire was so red [that] it lit up everything. ... I saw all of the tragedy," Michaud said in French. "We spent the whole night watching."
Michaud said authorities set up a white tent at the site, possibly for the dead. She said a number of the residents, most of them older than 75, used wheelchairs or suffered from illnesses, such as Alzheimer's.
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Firefighters walk past the Residence du Havre after a fire in L'Isle Verte, Quebec, on Thursday.
"It was frightening," said Michaud, adding that she was shaking as she watched the blaze, thinking about her friends inside. "It's so dreadful."
Collette St. Laurent, 77, who lives near the home, said she knew people who lived in the three-story complex.
"It's a village. Everyone knows each other. It's heartbreaking, so heartbreaking," she said.
She hadn't gone by the site but feared for the missing: "They must be in the ashes. ... They couldn't save them," she said.
Witnesses described the chaotic blaze as "spreading fast as gunpowder."
Mario Michaud, a longtime resident who lives across from the complex, told NBC News that he awoke just after midnight to go to the bathroom when he saw the fire from one of his windows.
"It burned. It burned. ... It was so engulfed in fire," Michaud, 78, said in French. "Everything is burned."
Michaud said he saw people trapped in the home, some of whom he said jumped from their balconies.
A man fetched a ladder to try to reach his mother, who was stranded on a balcony, "but he wasn't able to get her down," Michaud said.
Impressionnantes photos de l'incendie à L'Isle-Verte dans un journal local => http://t.co/dQ5BUvk5Ap #CPTT pic.twitter.com/y4yw9Hm5bZ— C'est pas trop tôt! (@Pastroptot) January 23, 2014
The fire's fury raised questions about whether the complex, built in 1997, had functioning sprinklers. According to Residence du Havre's website, the building has a fire alarm zone, sprinklers and smoke detectors in every room.
Yves Desjardins, who helped build the residence, told CBC News that only a newer annex to the complex built in 2002 had a sprinkler system.
A residence certification on file with Quebec's Health Ministry says the home has a partial system. It also says the building was constructed entirely of wood.
The complex was found in violation of fire code regulations in a 2011 inspection, The Montreal Gazette reported, quoting the human resources director for the regional Health and Social Services Agency.
"There were probably some small things that had to be corrected everywhere," the official, René Dumont, told the Gazette — problems like missing signs showing emergency evacuation routes.
The agency fully certified the residence shortly thereafter after it corrected the problems, Dumont said, adding that fire officials noted that "there was a lot of training and practice that was done, with excellent cooperation from the residence."
Quebec's minister for security, Agnes Maltais, said at a separate news conference that the government would review whether all older homes for senior citizens should have full sprinkler systems.
"In fact, we believe they are well-protected, but we always have to tighten the rules each time we see there's a failure somewhere," Maltais said.
Pierre-André Fournier, the Catholic archbishop of Rimouski, said the fire would have ramifications far beyond the small town on the St. Lawrence Seaway about 150 miles northeast of Quebec City.
Those who died probably had many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, he said, meaning "it's all of Quebec that is affected by this tragedy."
The fire comes six months after another deadly blaze in Quebec killed 47 people. An unattended freight train carrying oil derailed, creating a powerful explosion that destroyed the downtown of Lac-Megantic, a community on the Maine-Quebec border.
Alexandra Moe and Erik Ortiz of NBC News contributed to this report.
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Survivors include his wife, Brenda; children, Tara and Casey; his mother, Nancy; sisters, Becky and Kerry; brother, Michael; and many other family members and friends.
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Serving Size 1/6 of recipe
Calories 346
Total Fat 22 g
Saturated Fat 8 g
Sodium 564 mg
Total Carbohydrate 13 g
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 23 g
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Olive oil 2 teaspoons
Garlic, minced 1 clove
Scallions, thinly sliced 6-8
White mushrooms, sliced 5 ounces
Bread crumbs ½ cup
Ground pork 1 pound
Lean ground beef ½ pound
Egg, lightly beaten 1
Flat-leaf parsley, chopped ¼ cup
Reduced-sodium vegetable stock ¼ cup
Salt ½ teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Ketchup 1/3 cup
Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon
Onion powder ½ teaspoon
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Saute garlic, scallions, and mushrooms 5-6 minutes, until tender. Set aside and let cool slightly.
- Combine mushroom mixture, bread crumbs, pork, beef, egg, parsley, stock, salt, and pepper in a large mixing bowl.
- Press mixture into an 8-inch by 4-inch loaf pan (or free form into a loaf on a broiler pan). Combine ketchup, Worchester sauce, and onion powder in a small bowl, and spread over top of loaf. Bake 45-55 minutes, until a meat thermometer inserted into the center of the loaf reads 160°F.
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The 14 most iconic kisses from TV & movies
- Next1 of 15AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: Paramount Pictures/Photofest
- Previous Next2 of 15FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Columbia Pictures/Photofest
- Previous Next3 of 15LADY AND THE TRAMP: Buena Vista Distribution Company/Photofest
- Previous Next4 of 15TARZAN: MGM/Photofest
- Previous Next5 of 15GONE WITH THE WIND: MGM/Photofest
- Previous Next6 of 15A LITTLE ROMANCE: Warner Brothers / Photofest
- Previous Next7 of 15AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: Paramount Pictures/Photofest
- Previous Next8 of 1516 CANDLES: Universal/Photofest
- Previous Next9 of 15GHOST: Paramount Pictures
- Previous Next10 of 15FRIENDS: Warner Bros./Photofest
- Previous Next11 of 15THE OFFICE: NBC
- Previous Next12 of 15TITANIC: Paramount Pictures/Photofest
- Previous Next13 of 15THE NOTEBOOK: New Line/Photofest
- Previous Next14 of 15SPIDERMAN: Columbia Pictures/Photofest
- Previous Next15 of 15TWILIGHT: Summit Entertainment/Photofest
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By Denise Wolfe
A kiss is rarely just a kiss. It may be passionate or innocent, butterfly soft or take-your-breath-away overwhelming. Looking for a little makeout inspiration? Here are 14 famous smooches to inspire you. Pucker up!
Swept Away2 of 15
Forget sand in awkward places or the ocean causing your hair to frizz. Before From Here to Eternity's cinematic clinch inspired a million lampoons, it was the ultimate image of passion overpowering all barriers: lonely officer's wife Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr) embraces enlisted Sergeant Milton Warden (Burt Lancaster), and even the oncoming tide can't cool their ardor.
Whetting the Appetite3 of 15
She's a sheltered pure-bred Cocker Spaniel named Lady. He's a roguish mutt named Tramp, from the wrong side of the tracks. A shared plate of spaghetti leads to an unexpected kiss (lick?) in the animated classic Lady and the Tramp.
Going Wild4 of 15
He may have been less than comfortable with the English language, but Tarzan managed to get his point across to the ultimate city girl, Jane Parker, in Tarzan. Does she tame her wild man, or does he awaken her primal soul?
Scarlett Fever5 of 15
She didn't bat an eye when Atlanta burned or she shot a Union soldier, but the feisty Scarlett O'Hara (in Gone With the Wind) more than met her match in Rhett Butler. Every time the swashbuckling Butler took her in his arms, we swooned.
Young Love6 of 15
"If two people kiss beneath the Bridge of Sighs in Venice at sunset, they will be in love forever." So Lauren (Diane Lane in her film debut) and Thelonious believe in A Little Romance. The 13-year-olds evade parents, police and pickpockets on their trek from Paris to Venice, but, when their lips touch at sunset under the Bridge of Sighs, you'll believe too.
Yes, Sir7 of 15
Who doesn't love a man in uniform? When Richard Gere's Zack "rescues" Debra Winger's Paula from her drab factory-working life, the local girl gets her happy ending—sealed with a kiss—in An Officer and a Gentleman.
A Wish Come True8 of 15
Family forgot your birthday? Sister getting married tomorrow? Geekiest geek in school wants to borrow your underwear? If only we all had a Jake Ryan (in Sixteen Candles) to make turning 16 as sweet.
Magic Moment9 of 15
With the help of shoddy psychic Oda Mae Brown, Molly momentarily reunites with her murdered lover Sam. The strength of their love rips asunder the veil between life and death, all to the haunting strains of Unchained Melody.
Just Friends10 of 15
Talk about letting the tension build! It took Ross and Rachel 31 long episodes before sharing their first real kiss.
Working It11 of 15
After Friends, fans of The Office played "Will They or Won't They?" for a few seasons before these two co-workers finally kissed. Now married with children (on TV, we mean), Pam and Jim proved that enduring love could be romantic, too.
Sail Away12 of 15
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My 13 month old daughter occasionally (over the past couple of months) has been waking with what I think are terrible gas pains. When it happens, it only happens once during the night and after she's been asleep for a few hours.
What happens is, she'll either wake screaming or wake, nurse, and then start screaming (meaning the pain cry). I will try patting her back, rocking her from horizontal to vertical position (worked when she was a little baby), massaging her tummy. Usually I will get breaks in her cry when I try these things.
I think it's gas because I can feel it passing through her system.
Last night, however, nothing worked and she didn't stop crying for about 20 minutes. She just kept writhing in pain until it suddenly went away right when I was ready to call the doctor and rush to the er!
She doesn't eat much solid food and nurses a lot. Yesterday she ate mainly bagel and chicken. This has only happened a handful of times, but I'm concerned and wondering if any of you have experiences anything like this.
I'll see what the advice nurse has to say, too. Thanks much!


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Admit it. It may be Monday, but your mind is already on Thursday — Thanksgiving — the one day of the year where your sole responsibility is to eat yourself into a coma, sprawl out on the couch and watch football for 7 hours while catnapping as necessary.
You get all of that for the small price of being thankful.
And what do I have to be thankful for this year?
I'm thankful for the 2011 Cardinals. For the second time in six years I'm bragging about being a champion. And I got to be a part of it by going to the first two games. HOT DANG!
I'm thankful that, as always, whenever the Cubs triumph (Theo) they also manage to fail (Zambrano).
I'm thankful that Rick Perry has disappointed, that Herman Cain has self-destructed and Sarah Palin has invisiblized.
I'm thankful that I think I can get away with making up words.
But most of all, I'm thankful that I've never been punched by Mike Tyson.
Happy Thanksgiving Week Monday!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you, Jeff. I love your made-up words. You should have a few more after tonight's GOP debate.


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The antivaccine lie that just won't die: The claim that shaken baby syndrome is really due to "vaccine injury"
As I mentioned recently, as hard as it is to believe, this blog is rapidly approaching the end of its fifth year of existence. Our first post was delivered to the anxiously waiting world on January 1, 2008; so thus upcoming January 1 will represent our fifth anniversary. In the blogging world, that's almost the equivalent of a fiftieth anniversary, given how fast most blogs turn over. Something that is even more satisfying than mere longevity is that we really have found a niche in the medical blogosphere to the point where we've become quite influential. People notice us. Our targets notice it when we discuss them. Sometimes even the press notices us. This is all a very good thing.
Unfortunately, even though we've been at this for just shy of five years, there are still topics we haven't covered, or at least haven't covered in sufficient depth. The topic of my post today is one of the latter topics. We've mentioned it before; we've alluded to it before (for instance when discussing the antivaccine website Medical Voices and the Ayn Rand-worshiping Association of American Physicians and Surgeons; but there hasn't been a post dedicated to this particular topic. I find this particularly odd because it was one a piece of misinformation promoted by elements of the antivaccine movement that truly shocked and disgusted me. Before I learned of this particular myth, I was surprised to learn that there are really people who think that vaccines are dangerous and cause autism, but I viewed it as being of a piece of a lot of other quackery I was discovering at the time.
Way back in the day, when I first encountered antivaccine views in that wretched Usenet swamp of pseudoscience, antiscience, and quackery known as misc.health.alternative (m.h.a.), there was one particular antivaccine lie that disturbed me more than just about any other. As I mentioned, it wasn't the claim that vaccines cause autism, which is more or less the central dogma of the antivaccine movement. Even ten years ago, before the series of studies that have been released since then that fail to find a hint of a whiff of causation between vaccines and autism, that wasn't a particularly difficult myth to refute. Indeed, given newer studies, refuting that myth has only gotten easier over the years. Emblematic of how far into the depths that particular myth has been pummeled, I know it's gotten pretty easy when even the mainstream media start to accept that the claim that vaccines cause autism is a myth and report matter-of-factly on issues such as Andrew Wakefield's fraud and don't give nearly as much copious and prominent media time to the likes of Jenny McCarthy. Let's just put it this way. When the hosts of a "morning zoo"-type radio show in Salt Lake City pummel the latest antivaccine celebrity to make a fool of himself, Rob Schneider, you know that, from an informational standpoint at least, the tide appears to have turned from several years ago, when the media took this myth a lot more seriously. That's not to say that we don't still have a problem. After all, "philosophical" exemption rates are going up based on a lot of this sort of misinformation, but at least the media are less insistent on "telling both sides" of a science story that doesn't really have two sides.
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- Title
- Quality in use : addressing and validating affective requirements
- Author(s)
- Bentley, B. Todd
- Abstract
- From a user's perspective, product quality has typically been equated to usability, where the primary focus is performance (i.e. efficiency and effectiveness) and user satisfaction. This view on quality has been adequate to validate the 'fitness for purpose' for many products. However, many other products, such as computer games or at-home-technologies, are not based solely on performance-based qualities. By defining and validating the quality of these non-performance-based technologies using the same measures as performance-based technologies fails to address a key quality - the ability of the product to create fun, enjoyment, or other user affective experiences. This thesis investigates system quality issues in non-performance-based technologies, primarily addressing affect. It explores what affect is in relation to system quality, how can affect impact quality in use, what product characteristics can aid in the creation of positive user affect, and how to validate whether a product successfully created the desired user affect. To begin, current knowledge about the relationship between systems development, quality in use, and affect is summarised. Concepts used synonymously with affect were studied (e.g. satisfaction, user experience, emotion). It was found that these are related to affect, but are not affect themselves. Following this, a broad survey asking users to identify product characteristics that create positive affect during use is reported on. Results showed that the system characteristics of learnability, feedback, curiosity, and user cooperation can each increase and enhance positive user affect experienced. If it is an aim for the system to create an affective experience in a user then this should be considered a requirement of the system; and as a requirement, it is necessary to validate that it achieves this aim. To this end, a laboratory study exploring psycho-physiology and cued-recall debrief as methods to evaluate user affect was conducted. Results revealed that both methods show promise for evaluating user affect. Cued-recall is capable of identifying specific user affects, but is limited because it relies on the user to report these affects. Physiological measures can objectively identify when a person is experiencing affect, but is limited because it is not possible to determine what affect is being experienced. Combined, these methods represent an optimal and viable evaluation method for user affect.
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- Thesis (PhD)
- Publication year
- 2006
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- Computer systems; Human-computer interaction; Industrial design; Psychology; Testing; User interfaces
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- Australasian Digital Theses collection
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- Copyright © 2006 B. Todd Bentley.
- Thesis Supervisor
- [Lorraine J. Johnston]
- Thesis Note
- [Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.]
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China's Pingyao forms yoke of friendship with Provins of France
Pingyao city of north China's Shanxi Province signed an accord of friendship ties with Provins of France, as part of the on-going concluding ceremony ...
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Coming Up...
Posted 30 July 2013 - 09:11 PM
i'm not very confident when it comes to 99% of the other things i do in life, but when it comes to my music i just know i'm better than so many of these whack "rappers"...
one of my buddies downtown is friends with this kid (who shall remain nameless) that is starting to blow up. and it's not because he put in the time and effort to build up a unique, distinct style that sets him apart from the rest- it's because he's got enough $ to get studio time, write stuff mid-session to "meh" wannabe mainstream beats, and then spends more time marketing his stuff than actually making the music.
& its not like his marketing campaign is that clever, he just lies and puts stuff like "#1 radio single", "Attn: DJ's & Strippers --- Request this Song", and "Grammy-Winning" to get the dullards from the WSHH crowd to listen to it...as well as pestering the personal emails of celebs by spamming them with his shit all day. doesn't this piss any of you guys off that actually try and release a quality product that ends up getting shelved in place of this?
Posted 30 July 2013 - 09:19 PM
Posted 30 July 2013 - 09:33 PM
Give him his props, ignore him and give yourself more time to develop your craft and your marketing strategy.
yeah, you're probably right. i think today has just been a tad overwhelming with hearing JW raise the bar and then seeing this kid get 100K on his views while in the mean time i have 20 views and 0 subs on my new channel lol. there definitely is an element of bitterness to how i feel, i'm not denying that at all...but i guess you gotta let people do what they will though. it's gotta be similar to the way struggling indie directors feel about films like Sharktopus or something, i imagine.
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Posted 01 August 2013 - 07:06 AM
yeah, you're probably right. i think today has just been a tad overwhelming with hearing JW raise the bar and then seeing this kid get 100K on his views while in the mean time i have 20 views and 0 subs on my new channel lol. there definitely is an element of bitterness to how i feel, i'm not denying that at all...but i guess you gotta let people do what they will though. it's gotta be similar to the way struggling indie directors feel about films like Sharktopus or something, i imagine.
When people raise the bar, it's a way for everyone to reinvent, push what you do already, it is not for going oh my god that is amazing I can't. Your belief will carry the whole thing, if a little part of you is saying "nah" that will make it crumble. (right here was going to post a vid of the Incredible Mr goodman rolling a car over, but I can't find it, he basically got blokes one by one, to try and lift the car, it took 6 to get it off the ground, he had one go failed, then sat stared, and literally changed, ran at the vehicle and toppled,)
Everything is Mind over Matter, everything!
It has to be conceived in the mind before it can occur, which brings me back to belief, if you believe in yourself to make a beat, you will, but apply that to everything, how ? look at the thought process behind a beat, that moment you connect with what you have chosen, what bit will you take, what can you do with it etc, apply it to everything you do, and you won't feel like you suck at everything else, you prob don't, your a right brain thinker by the looks of things so it's just boring as hell for you, not that you suck or are not good, it's all about preparation, with intent. This guy has both maybe not for the same reason's the rest of us would go about it, but he has, depends what you want at the end of it, Also what you set out positive or negative will always come back to you, he'll probably end up quite unhappy, and lonely, when he realizes everyone around him is just like him, that he has gone to so much trouble to surround himself with these types of people. don't sweat it holmes just make another dam good Doom battle and win this one!
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Posted 01 August 2013 - 07:20 AM
don't sweat it holmes just make another dam good Doom battle and win this one!
haha, i feel ya ODK. i think we all just need to figure out how to promote ourselves better, because this whole process of "coming up" really is a snowball effect...i've seen it time and time again, even with people around me who are starting to get their shine (yourself included).
it always starts out slow and meandering, and it's hard just getting 4 people to listen to your shit; then one day you have 200 people following you, and if you can capitalize on that then those 200 turn into 400, then 800 and eventually 1,000+. then from there it starts getting to the point where you can just record yourself farting on a beat and people will dig it because you've built a repetoire with your "fanbase" you've accumulated...and then one day you wake up and realize you're there (that's how i assume it felt like for cats like Knx. and JW).
but i don't think anyone's arguing that the very beginning stages of this cycle aren't shitty, even if you maintain positive vibes about it like i do for the most part haha. but yeah, solid advice once again coming from the jedi knight.
Posted 01 August 2013 - 12:48 PM
get some of these blogspots to post some of your work and your downloads will increase a little... at this point its like this; just make good music and the people its meant for will get to it... in the mean time try to figure out a promotion strategy. not to mention the net is flooded with beat tapes and shit! im gonna check your stuff out when i get off! keep on pushin! just know that anything real and different from the bubble gum shit will struggle to get much recognition in these times but if 10 people dig it thats who its for!
when i had a facebook i would post some dope ass shit (loops n beats) even some madlib and dilla shit and nikkas wouldnt fuk wit it, even my close friends wouldnt support but i noticed they would always like or post some whack azz shit it used to make me mad as hell to the point i got off n shit... shit does piss me but it is what it is! i feel your pain
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Lodi defeats East Troy 54-46
Stoughton falls to Wisconsin Lutheran
Lodi didn't want to end their season here again, not after last year's State Semifinal loss. So, they dug deep and won the game at the line as time ran out on East Troy. The Blue Devils advanced to the Division Three Final with a 54-46 win.
The Blue Devils almost let the game slip away in the final minute.
Leading 46-44, Jordan Shea threw an errant inbound pass that was stolen by Will Ilociae, who scored to the the game at 46.
Shea more than made up for his mistake. He responded with a pair of free throws at the other end; and finished with a game-high 21 points. As a team, the Blue Devils shot 9-9 from the free throw line.
Lodi will play Aquinas Saturday in the Division Three Championship. That one tips at approximately 5:00 p.m. at the Kohl Center.
In Division Two, Stoughton made its first appearance at the state boys basketball tournament since 1939, but the Vikings fell behind early and Wisconsin Lutheran came away with a 54-38 win.
Nick McGlynn led Stoughton with 8 points and 9 rebounds, but the Vikings committed 20 turnovers as Wisco had 14 steals in the game.
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Author of "Culture Making" will speak at Dordt College Lecture Series
March 17, 2011
Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and senior editor at Christianity Today International, will visit Dordt College on Monday, April 4, as part of the First Mondays Lecture Series.
Crouch will present "Live More Musically: Clues from the arts for the Christian life" at 11 a.m. in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. The lecture looks at how music shapes experience, explores the difficulty of sustaining creativity and discipline in a consumer culture, and examines the difference between consumer religion and the Christian faith.
His evening lecture, "Playing God: Creativity and cultural power," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in S101 of the Science and Technology Center. Crouch will examine how Christians may use their creativity to become image bearers of the true God instead of creating play gods. He will incorporate art and music into his lecture to focus on what he calls "the oldest human temptation and the highest human calling."
Crouch's book Culture Making has won Christianity Today's 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and was named a best book of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach, and Leadership magazines.
In addition, Crouch serves as editorial board member of Books & Culture and works with the Equitas Group, an organization working to end child exploitation in Haiti and in Southeast Asia. He studied at Cornell University and has earned an M.Div. from Boston University School of Theology in Boston, Mass.
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Peace Corps History
Main article: History of the Peace Corps in Romania
After the 1989 revolution in Romania (cynically referred to as "the events of December 1989" by some Romanians), U.S. economic assistance to the country focused on aiding Romanian street children and children who had been institutionalized during the Nicolae Ceausescu regime. Peace Corps programming began in 1991, when 18 trainees arrived to initiate an orphanage project. Peace Corps/Romania now has four program sectors: community economic development; environmental management and education; institutional development; and teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).
Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyle
Main article: Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyles in Romania
Peace Corps Romania no longer places volunteers with host families after swearing in, unless the volunteer requests it. This change has occurred beginning with Group 25 in May 2008.
Your host organization will identify housing for you that meets Peace Corps standards for safety, privacy, a healthy environment, and proximity to shopping and work. The Peace Corps asks host organizations to provide housing, but contributes part of or even the entire rental cost, if necessary. The populations of towns and cities where Volunteers live range from 1,000 to 300,000, and the type and availability of housing varies accordingly. Volunteers serve throughout Romania except in Bucharest, and there are regional differences in housing as well. The most common accommodation is a small, one-room apartment in a large building.
In rural communities, there are often only single-floor houses and privacy can become a difficult matter. If assigned to a rural community, you may need to live with a host family for the entire two years of your service.
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If you choose to move into your own housing, Peace Corps must ensure that it meets our housing criteria. This includes safety, private space, healthy environment, proximity to shopping and work, basic furniture with cooking space, and a private bathroom.
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The Peace Corps provides 11 weeks of training that begins immediately upon your arrival in Romania. The schedule is Monday to Friday. Pre-service training contains five major components: technical training, language training, cross-cultural training, health training, and safety and security training. Training is a time for you to reexamine your commitment to becoming a Volunteer in Romania and a time for Peace Corps staff to get to know you and be assured that your skills and attitude are a good match for the program in Romania. Throughout the training period, self-assessment as well as assessment by Peace Corps staff will measure your progress toward meeting training objectives.
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The Peace Corps' highest priority is maintaining the good health and safety of every Volunteer. Peace Corps medical programs emphasize the preventive, rather than the curative, approach to disease. The Peace Corps in Romania maintains a clinic with two full-time medical contractors, a part-time assistant, and an office assistant to take care of Volunteers' primary healthcare needs. Additional medical services, such as testing and basic treatment, are also available in Romania at local, American-standard clinics and hospitals. If you become seriously ill, you will be transported either to an American medical facility in the region or to the United States.
Diversity and Cross-Cultural Issues
Main article: Diversity and Cross-Cultural Issues in Romania
In Romania, as in other Peace Corps host countries, Volunteers' behavior, lifestyle, background, and beliefs are judged in a cultural context very different from their own. Certain personal perspectives or characteristics commonly accepted in the United States may be quite uncommon, unacceptable, or even repressed in Romania.
Outside of Romania's capital and other large cities, people have had relatively little direct exposure to other cultures, races, religions, and lifestyles. What people view as typical American behavior or norms may be a misconception, such as the belief that all Americans are rich and have blond hair and blue eyes. The people of Romania are justly known for their generous hospitality to foreigners; however, members of the community in which you will live may display a range of reactions to cultural differences that you present.
To ease the transition and adapt to life in Romania, you may need to make some temporary, yet fundamental compromises in how you present yourself as an American and as an individual. For example, female trainees and Volunteers may not be able to exercise the independence available to them in the United States; political discussions need to be handled with great care; and some of your personal beliefs may best remain undisclosed. You will need to develop techniques and personal strategies for coping with these and other limitations. The Peace Corps staff will lead diversity and sensitivity discussions during pre-service training and will be on call to provide support, but the challenge ultimately will be your own.
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- How much luggage am I allowed to bring to Romania?
- What is the electric current in Romania?
- How much money should I bring?
- When can I take vacation and have people visit me?
- Will my belongings be covered by insurance?
- Do I need an international driver's license?
- What should I bring as gifts for Romanian friends and my host family?
- Where will my site assignment be when I finish training and how isolated will I be?
- How can my family contact me in an emergency?
- Can I call home from Romania?
- Should I bring a cellular phone with me?
- Will there be e-mail and Internet access? Should I bring my computer?
Packing List
Main article: Packing List for Romania
This list has been compiled by Volunteers serving in Romania and is based on their experience. Use it as an informal guide in making your own list, bearing in mind that experience is individual. There is no perfect list! You obviously cannot bring everything we mention, so consider those items that make the most sense to you personally and professionally. You can always have things sent to you later. As you decide what to bring, keep in mind that you have a 100-pound weight limit on baggage. And remember, you can get almost everything you need in Romania if you look long enough to find it.
When choosing luggage, remember that you will be hauling it in and out of taxis and trains and often lugging it around on foot. It should be durable, flexible, lightweight, and easy to carry. Duffel bags and sturdy backpacks are good choices.
Do not bring anything that is so valuable or precious that you would be heartbroken to lose it.
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All MIDlets are derived from the abstract base class
javax.microedition.midlet.MIDlet, which contains methods that the MIDP platform calls to control the MIDlet's lifecycle, as well as methods that the MIDlet itself can use to request a change in its state. A MIDlet must have a public default constructor (that is, a constructor that requires no arguments), which may be one supplied by the developer if there is any initialization to perform or, when there are no explicit constructors, the empty default constructor inserted by the Java compiler. This is what a skeleton MIDlet class might look like:
public class MyMIDlet extends MIDlet {
// Optional constructor
MyMIDlet( ) {
protected void startApp( ) throws MIDletStateChangedException {
protected void pauseApp( ) {
protected void destroyApp(boolean unconditional)
throws MIDletStateChangedException {
At any given time, a MIDlet is in one of three states: Paused, Active, or Destroyed. A state diagram that shows how these states are related and the legal state transitions is shown in Figure 3-4.
When a MIDlet is loaded, it is initially in the Paused state. The usual class and instance initialization is then performed--that is, static initializers are called the first time the MIDlet class is loaded, all instance initializers are invoked when the MIDlet instance is created, and its public, no-argument constructor is then invoked. If the MIDlet throws an exception during the execution of its constructor, the MIDlet is destroyed. If the MIDlet does not throw an exception, it is scheduled for execution at some later time. Its state is changed from Paused to Active, and its
startApp( ) method is called. The MIDlet class declares this method as follows:
protected void startApp( ) throws MIDletStateChangeException;
That this method is abstract means that you must implement it in your MIDlet, and that it is protected implies that it will be called either from the MIDlet class itself or from another class in the
javax.microedition.midlet package. In the reference implementation, the MIDlet lifecycle methods are called from a class in this package called
Scheduler, but there is nothing in the MIDP specification that requires this class be used. Licensees may provide their own scheduler implementations, provided that it supports the MIDlet lifecycle as described in this section. It is very common for MIDlet developers to redefine the
startApp( ) method as public, which is certainly a safe option, but this should not be necessary because vendor implementations must continue to work even if these methods are declared as protected.
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startApp( ) method may complete normally, in which case the MIDlet is allowed to run, or it may inform the MIDP platform that the MIDlet does not want to run at this point. There are several ways to achieve the latter:
If the
startApp( ) method detects an error condition that stops it from completing, but which might not exist later (i.e., a transient error condition), it should throw a
MIDletStateChangeException. This moves the MIDlet back to the Paused state, so that another attempt to start it can be made later.
If the
startApp( ) method detects an error condition from which recovery is likely never to be possible (a nontransient error condition), it should call its
notifyDestroyed( ) method, which is described a little later.
Finally, the MIDlet may throw an exception other than
MIDletStateChangeException, either deliberately or because a method that it invokes throws the exception, and the
startApp( ) method does not catch it. In this case, it is assumed that a fatal error has occurred, and the MIDlet is destroyed by calling its
destroyApp( ) method (described later).
If the MIDlet does none of these things, it is in the Active state and will be allowed to run until it is either paused or destroyed. A MIDlet returns after completing its
startApp( ) method, and it does not have a method that contains the main logic to which control could be passed, so where is the MIDlet's code placed? Usually, a MIDlet has a user interface and executes code as a result of events generated by key presses or pointer movements. MIDlets can also start separate background threads to run code that does not depend on the user interface, or they can use a timer to schedule work periodically, as will be shown later. If you take these approaches, it is important to manage the background threads and/or timers appropriately when the MIDlet itself is paused or destroyed.
At any time, the MIDP platform can put a MIDlet into the Paused state. On a cell phone, for example, this might happen when the host software detects an incoming call and needs to release the phone's display so the user can answer the call. When a MIDlet is paused, its
pauseApp( ) method is called:
protected abstract void pauseApp( );
As with
startApp( ), a MIDlet is required to provide an implementation for this method. The appropriate response to this state change depends on the MIDlet itself, but, in general, it should release any resources it is holding and save the current state so it can restore itself when it is reactivated later.
The main consequence of being moved to the Paused state is that the MIDlet no longer has access to the screen; any threads that it created are not automatically terminated, and timers remain active. A MIDlet may choose to terminate any open network connections or background threads and cancel active timers when told to pause, but it is not obliged to do so.
If the host platform decides to resume a paused MIDlet, because the incoming call has terminated, for example, the MIDlet's
startApp( ) method is invoked again to notify the MIDlet that it has access to the screen. As a consequence, a MIDlet's
startApp( ) method should be written carefully to distinguish, if necessary, between the first time that it is called, which signifies that the MIDlet is being started for the first time, and subsequent calls notifying resumption from the Paused state, to prevent resources from being allocated multiple times. Of course, if a MIDlet reacts to being moved to the Paused state by releasing all of its resources, it would probably be appropriate to execute the same initialization code in
startApp( ) to reallocate the resources upon resumption. However, a properly written MIDlet would still take special action in the
startApp( ) method to restore the user interface and its internal state to the way it was before it was paused, rather than show the initial screen again.
The fact that the
startApp( ) method can be invoked more than once in the lifetime of a MIDlet raises the question of whether initialization should be performed here or in the MIDlet's constructor. The developer is free to choose the more convenient location to allocate resources and prepare the MIDlet's state. In general, resources that will be released in
pauseApp( ) should be allocated in
startApp( ). Other resources can be allocated in either
startApp( ) or the constructor, with care being taken to ensure that allocations performed in
startApp( ) are not repeated following resumption from the Paused state.
An important difference between the
startApp( ) method and the constructor is that, according to the MIDP specification, the MIDlet is guaranteed to be able to access the
Display object that corresponds to the screen (see Chapter 4) only from the point at which
startApp( ) is invoked for the first time. Under a strict interpretation of the specification, therefore, initialization that involves a
Display object cannot be performed in the constructor. Of course, actual MIDP implementations may not enforce this apparent restriction, but portability may be compromised if the MIDlet accesses the
Display object in its constructor.
A MIDlet may refuse a request to be resumed from the Paused state by throwing a
MIDletStateChangeException when its
startApp( ) method is called, as described earlier.
When the host platform needs to terminate a MIDlet, it calls the MIDlet's
destroyApp( ) method:
public abstract void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) throws
In the
destroyApp( ) method, the MIDlet should release all the resources that it has allocated, terminate any background threads, and stop any active timers. When the MIDlet is terminated this way, the
unconditional argument has the value
true, to indicate that the MIDlet cannot prevent the process from continuing. Under some circumstances, however, it is useful to give the MIDlet the option to not terminate, perhaps because it has data that it needs to save. In this case, the
destroyApp( ) method can be invoked with the argument
false, in which case the MIDlet can indicate that it wants to continue by throwing a
MIDletStateChangeException. The following code illustrates how this technique can be used to implement the conditional shutdown of a MIDlet:
try {
// Call destroyApp to release resources
// Arrange for the MIDlet to be destroyed
notifyDestroyed( );
} catch (MIDletStateChangeException ex) {
// MIDlet does not want to close
This code might be used to respond to an Exit button in the MIDlet's user interface. It begins by directly invoking the MIDlet's own
destroyApp( ) method so that resources are released. If the MIDlet is not in an appropriate state to terminate, and
destroyApp( ) is called with argument
false, the MIDlet should throw a
MIDletStateChangeException. The calling code should catch this exception and do nothing, as shown here. On the other hand, if the MIDlet is prepared to be terminate, it should complete the
destroyApp( ) method normally, in which case the calling code uses the MIDlet
notifyDestroyed( ) method to tell the MIDP platform that the MIDlet wants to be terminated.
This example also illustrates the use of the
notifyDestroyed( ) method, which is used by a MIDlet to voluntarily terminate. It is important to understand the relationship between the
destroyApp( ) and
notifyDestroyed( ) methods and when they are used:
When the MIDlet is being destroyed by the platform, most likely because the user has requested it, the MIDlet's
destroyApp( ) method is called with the argument
true, and the MIDlet is destroyed when this method completes. It is not necessary in this case for the MIDlet to invoke its
notifyDestroyed( ) method.
When the MIDlet itself wants to terminate, typically because it has no more useful work to do or the user has pressed an Exit button, it can do so by invoking its
notifyDestroyed( ) method, which tells the platform that it should be destroyed. In this case, the platform does not call the MIDlet's
destroyApp( ) method; it assumes that the MIDlet is already prepared to be terminated. Most MIDlets invoke their own
destroyApp( ) method to perform the usual tidy up before calling
notifyDestroyed( ), as shown earlier.
Note that calling
notifyDestroyed( ) is the only way for a MIDlet to terminate voluntarily. MIDlets cannot terminate by calling the
System or
exit( ) methods, because these throw a
There are two other methods that a MIDlet may invoke to influence its own lifecycle:
public final void notifyPaused( );
public final void resumeRequest( );
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notifyPaused( ) method informs the platform that the MIDlet wishes to be moved to the Paused state; this has the same effect as if the platform had invoked the MIDlet's
pauseApp( ) method. When the MIDlet calls
notifyPaused( ), the platform does not invoke its
pauseApp( ) method, in the same way that it does not call
destroyApp( ) in response to
notifyDestroyed( ), because it assumes that the MIDlet has prepared itself to be paused. A MIDlet often, therefore, precedes an invocation of
notifyPaused( ) with a call to
pauseApp( ) so that the appropriate steps are taken before the MIDlet is suspended.
resumeRequest( ) method is the reverse of
notifyPaused( ); it tells the platform that a MIDlet in the Paused state wishes to return to the Active state. At some future time, the platform may resume the MIDlet by calling its
startApp( ) method. The
resumeRequest( ) method typically is called by a background thread or from a timer that the MIDlet left active while it was paused, an example of which is shown in the next section.
Next time, you learn how to develop MIDlets.
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