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February 29, 2012 – The Dutchess Community College Foundation's annual Gala - Community's Bridge to the Future - will be held on Saturday, March 24 at the Grandview in Poughkeepsie. The event will honor five local individuals and raise funds for student scholarships. The Foundation awards more than $340,000 per year in scholarships to deserving DCC students.
The black-tie-optional event will begin at 6 p.m. with a social hour, and include dinner, live music and dancing.
Charles Liscum, Michael McCormack and Raymond VanVoorhis from DCC's class of 1978 will be inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame and the Bernard Handel Community Leadership Award will be presented to Steven V. Lant. In addition, DCC President Dr. D. David Conklin will be honored for 20 years of service to the College.
Liscum, McCormack and VanVoorhis are the principal architects in the Poughkeepsie firm that bears their names. They met while at DCC, continued their education together and started their own architectural firm in 1987. Their work includes municipal buildings throughout the Hudson Valley, including the new DCC residence hall and other academic, commercial and health care facilities.
Lant, who has been Chairman, President and CEO of CH Energy Group since 2004, has enhanced quality of life in the mid-Hudson Valley through volunteer service with many not-for-profit organizations.
Dr. Conklin became president of Dutchess Community College in 1992, and for the past two decades his vision and leadership have been instrumental in making DCC the college of choice for residents of Dutchess County. A record number of students are taking advantage of the quality education offered at DCC, while paying the lowest tuition in the state for the 12th year in a row. The opening of the Washington Center for Science and Art, the creation of the President's Scholarship for Academic Excellence, the renovation of the Francis U. and Mary F. Ritz Library and multiple awards for DCC's campus art and green initiatives are just some of the achievements made under Dr. Conklin's tenure.
Gala sponsors include Pamal Broadcasting, Central Hudson, United Country Auction Services, Rhinebeck Savings Bank and The Grandview. Sponsorship opportunities still are available.
The cost for the evening is $150 per person. Call Diana Pollard, DCC Foundation coordinator of special events, at (845) 431-8403 for more information.


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Colorado State University is testing about 600 deer and elk samples each day for chronic wasting disease, a process that will be sped up by robotics. University officials said the new rapid-testing machines could double, and possibly triple, daily testing capacity of lymph and brain tissue. -- Rocky Mountain News
In early November, the state of Florida announced a $2.15 million agreement with OxyContin distributor Purdue Pharma under which a software program will be developed to prevent individuals from "doctor-shopping" for improper narcotics prescriptions. Once the prescription-monitoring program is developed, Florida will make the system available at no cost to any other state that requests it.
Northwestern University hopes to collect DNA samples from as many as 100,000 people for a new gene bank. Officials say the project will use DNA samples and personal health information from volunteers to search out genes that play a role in diseases. Northwestern is the second institution in the United States to announce plans for a large-scale gene bank. -- USA Today
Gov. Mike Foster acted in November to keep campaign-finance reports online, and is proposing a law to mandate that campaign-finance reports be kept online for public inspection. The Louisiana Board of Ethics, which maintains the records, was facing a budget reduction that could have cut the board's Web site and electronic filing of campaign finance reports and other reports. -- The Advocate
Maine formed a partnership with EDS to greatly expand the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, which provides advanced technology learning tools to middle school and high school students and teachers. EDS will supply product life-cycle management software tools to seventh and twelfth graders. The company also will provide software to the Maine Technical College System and the University of Maine System.
New Hampshire
Governor-elect Craig Benson said in November that his transition team Web site received 5,000 visitors during its first three days, and more than 1,000 suggestions or offers to help in the transition effort. He said the Web site's popularity shows New Hampshire residents are ready for state government to make more use of the Internet. -- Foster's Daily Democrat
North Dakota
Four North Dakota school districts are sharing $500,000 worth of wireless technology they received in November as part of pilot projects funded by the Beaumont Foundation. The school districts were selected by the foundation to represent North Dakota in a nationwide project to bring technology to school districts with more than a 60 percent poverty rate or a 50 percent Native American student population. -- The Bismarck Tribune
The Oregon Regional Alliance for Information and Network Security is launching a secure, Internet-based network to link key public and private organizations in Oregon during a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The project, called the Oregon Trial of Emergency and Security Technology (O-TEST) will respond to anything from an earthquake to toxic gas to a computer virus unleashed on the state's Web site. -- The Statesman Journal
Rhode Island
Brown University's medical school in Providence, R.I., is among 50 international universities taking part in "IVMed," a virtual medical school. Medical students at participating universities will complete their first two years of medical school online, in conjunction with real-life tutelage from real professors. -- The Day

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The council will be comprised of up to 15 students who will learn about opportunities and services provided at WMU. Council members are expected to attend bi-weekly two hour meetings. Council meetings will be structured such that during the first hour a presentation will be provided by a guest speaker to speak about a specific campus service or department and what policies and resources currently foster diversity and inclusion here on campus. The remaining time will be reserved for a Q&A amongst the Advisory Council. Following their presentation, the Advisory Council will discuss and share ideas on how to increase awareness of existing diversity and inclusion programs and initiatives along with providing suggestions to help improve our campus commitment to diversity and inclusion. (group project based off what we learned fall semester)
The goal of the Student Advisory Council is to support diversity and inclusion efforts at WMU. The Coordinator of the Office of LBGT Student Services, Jennifer Hsu, will use the information provided by the Student Advisory Council to help improve campus trainings, develop LBGT-inclusive programming and provide insight on LBGT-friendly services. There will also be an opportunity for students to gain leadership experience by becoming executive committee members.
Participation in the LBGT Student Advisory Council is a 2 semester commitment. Dates for the Fall 2013 semester will be determined at our planning meeting on March 21, 2013. Is important, but not required, to attend the planning meeting. We will be discussing possible presenters, meeting dates, and direction for the LBGT Student Advisory Council
We will be conducting group interviews, in the space provided on the form, please be sure to include days and times available for a group interview.
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By Chris Harris
Arsenal and Barcelona have both improved since they met last year, according to Arsène Wenger.
The Frenchman will pit his wits against opposite number Pep Guardiola on Wednesday night in the first leg of a highly-anticipated Champions League tie. For Wenger it's a chance to avenge last season's 6-3 aggregate defeat in the Quarter-Finals.
Barcelona are flying high in La Liga and produced perhaps the most impressive performance of the century when they brushed aside Real Madrid 5-0 in El Clasico earlier this season.
Wenger accepts that Barcelona are better than ever but he insists that the same applies to his own squad.
"We are different because we are in better form going into this game than we were last year and in a better shape physically," said the manager.
"Going into this game last year we had some players who were not available, some who were not 100 per cent going into the game. I believe we are more mature as well.
"Having said that, I concede as well that Barcelona is even stronger than last year. But I think we can give them a very interesting test."
Barcelona have replaced Zlatan Ibrahimovic with David Villa since the teams last met while Yaya Toure has joined Manchester City. But Wenger believes they are collectively stronger.
"They got better as a team, that doesn't mean they produce every week the 45 minutes they produced against us [at Emirates Stadium last season].
"I believe I don't want to deny anything of their quality in their first 45 minutes against us. I believe as well that we were spectators of their game in the first half and that's what we want to stop."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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An authority in beauty following her years as an international journalist, Maria Hatzistefanis founded Rodial in 1999 after seeing a gap in the market for high performance skincare offering targeted, results-driven treatments. The brand has an extensive celebrity following and global reach with a presence in more than 3,000 doors and 35 countries worldwide.
Pairing world-class anti-ageing ingredients with ground-breaking innovation, Rodial products are high-performance skincare essentials to address a range of skin concerns. All Rodial products contain our namesake Pomegranate Ellagic Tannin which naturally helps to firm the skin and boost collagen production revealing a more youthful complexion. Revolutionary contouring make-up is a perfect complement to the bestselling Rodial sculpting skincare. A tightly edited range of luxury products sculpt and define the face for a flawless finish.
Rodial continues to lead the beauty industry with the introduction of a revolutionary sculpting app. The first of its kind, the RodialSculpt app gives customers a bespoke guide to recreate the Rodial contoured look at-home. Autumn 2015 also sees the launch of the MrsRodial YouTube channel –offering fans exclusive, intimate, access into Maria's life with weekly videos and make-up tutorials.


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The sales are of stumpage only; the government does no logging on its own account.
Your tolls for this, that, and the other figured up about as much as stumpage.
stumpage is the cost of standing timber, the purchaser being privileged to leave the stump after cutting down the tree.
Here's your stumpage at a dollar a thousand, and there's your lumber at twenty!
Just like you forgot signing this lease and stumpage contract!
He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.
The cost of logging under the methods of marking adopted is compensated fully in the stumpage appraisal.
It is therefore true that stumpage prices have risen greatly, although conditions new to the American lumbermen are imposed.
At the stumpage rate your million and a half which Radway 'appropriated' would be only three thousand.
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North Central Florida Gives Big for the
The call went out to North Central Florida and you answered in a big way for the big give. Back in March we told you about some military familes that were struggling to recover after making sacrifices in the war in Iraq. All the donations came together Sunday when people made a difference-- for not only the two familes, but a whole lot more.
We started out with $10,000 from ABC in the spirit of "Oprah's Big Give." Then with the help of our business partners we matched it and it grew to $20,000. Then it was up to people in the community, and boy did they come through.
Just over four weeks ago we told you the story of the Mixson family from Williston. Their son Catlin had his legs amputated after an attack in Iraq. We also told you about the Lloyd family. It was a shot, not from enemy fire, but a small pox vaccination that crippled their lives.
Two families who struggled, two families our community was determined to help. "To have that many people out there that care and give it's amazing," says Shawn Lloyd.
It all came together at Golden Ocala Country Club who also donated everything to us in the spirit of The Big Give. That was just the beginning of the giving. Businesses and individuals gave donations for a silent and live auction including everything from trips to autographed Gator memorabila.
When the Lloyd family arrived they were shocked at the response. "I asked Shawn is why do all these people care about us like they don't even know them, it's unbelievable it blew me away," says Angela Lloyd.
The suprises were not over. The Mixson's stunned everyone by bringing their son Catlin who was home for the weekend from the hospital in San Antonio, Texas. He saw in person how the community rallied to help his family.
"I believe it's gonna make a big impact on my parents," says Catlin Mixson. "I still have a lot of therapy to go through but they're going through a lot of stress with me being gone and always worried about me. I believe it's going to have an impact...definitely."
Our ABC "Oprah's Big Give" North Central Florida did what we wanted, change lives and make an impact in the community.
"I just couldn't believe the number of people in the community, the organizations, businesses, individuals who felt the call to reach out and help," says John Mixson.
"We're very overwhelmed by the love and support and we just want to thank everyone so much," says Karon Mixon.
Thanks to Harley Davison of Ocala the money kept pouring in. Now we can help other military families as well.
"We do know quite a few people out there that could still use help so it's a good program," says Angela Lloyd. "I hope I see it keep going on and i hope one day i can repay just half of what we've been given."
We raised more than $56,000. Plus Catlin got engaged over the weekend so he received a honeymoon trip as a gift. And the Lloyds oldest son was offered a scholarship for college.
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Michael B. Jordan isn't surprised that some comic book fans expressed displeasure over the fact that he will play the Human Torch in Josh Trank's upcoming reboot of "The Fantastic Four," but the 27-year-old actor isn't all that concerned about it, either.
The actor, who is black, will be playing a character who has always been portrayed in comic books — and a previous film series — as a caucasian man. That's led to some long-time fans to cry foul, but the reaction wasn't much of a surprise to him.
Also read: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan Attached to Star in Tom Gormican's Heist Movie at Warner Bros. (Exclusive)
"It was expected. You kinda know going into it that people are used to seeing something one way, it's a continuity thing more than anything," Jordan said at a recent event in Rome. "People don't like change too much. But annoyed? Eh, you just kinda accept it, it is what it is. You can't make everybody happy. You just gotta accept that and know. I'm an actor, I have to do my job. I'm going to do my job the best I can and the way I've been doing it my entire life, my entire career.
"I grew up a comic book guy, I read comic books as a kid growing up, and the Fantastic Four/Human Torch is one of my favorite characters so I'm going to give it my everything," the actor, who earned acclaim this year for his turn in the Indie Spirit-winning film "Fruitvale Station," continued. "I can't wait. I don't really let it bother me at all. I just want to go into it and do the best job I can. We'll see what happens."
See video: 'That Awkward Moment' Premiere: Michael B. Jordan Reveals His Most Awkward Encounter With a Fan
It was long believed that Jordan also played a role originally meant for a white guy in the teenage superhero film "Chronicle," but a source told The Wrap that the script said any of the three leads could be of any race.
The post Michael B. Jordan on 'Fantastic Four' Racist Backlash: 'It Was Expected' appeared first on TheWrap.
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Great New Book
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Conversations in Literacy
This book sounds too cute!! Must look for it :)ReplyDelete
A Cupcake for the Teacher
It's so funny you blogged about this book. My son checked it out from the library last week and has read it to me on the way to school every day!ReplyDelete
Teachin' First
Looks like a good that my students would enjoy. I'm always looking for new books.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing! This is perfect for those last few weeks of Treasures where all we do is make inferences/draw conclusions/make judgements! :)ReplyDelete
Stories From Second
My kids LOVE this book, and we just worked on making judgments! I can't wait to snag this :) Thanks so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for sharing that book. It looks great, and I love the writing activity! I will have to break these out sometime the next two weeks when things are getting crazy! It should hold their attention!ReplyDelete
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km : Hindsight
words: Bryan Joslin
22 February 2012
Mercedes-Benz has an all-new SL waiting in the wings, and as part of the pomp and circumstance that comes with the launch of such a storied model, the company has been trotting out pristine examples of its iconic first-generation SL, the venerable "Gullwing." These earliest specimens stir emotions in the hearts of us enthusiasts, but it's worth noting that the original SL was conceived as a world-beating race car, not a luxury roadster. It was, in fact, an exceptionally complex and yet crude machine based on the very mundane mechanicals of post-WWII Benz road cars. In other words, it bears very little resemblance to the modern SL, a car of magnanimous splendor and refinement. So while the Gullwing SL coupe is perhaps the most iconic Mercedes of all time, it's the second-generation "Pagoda" model that established the formula for the SL as we know it today.
The SL designation itself stands for "Sport Light" and those nascent Rennwagens were indeed effective track weapons, placing Mercedes drivers on podiums around the world throughout the early 1950s. Victories came at Nurburgring, Le Mans, Mille Miglia, and Carrera Panamericana, making heroes out of the likes of Moss, Fitch, Fangio, and many others. A tragic crash at Le Mans in 1955 — a horrible event that killed one driver and 83 spectators as the magnesium-bodied 300 SLR of Pierre Levegh erupted into a white-hot incendiary bomb after colliding with a competitor's car — led Mercedes-Benz to retreat from factory-backed racing, relegating future SLs to road duty.
Of course, the popularity of the racing SLs had already created a natural demand for a roadgoing version, a call that was reinforced by Mercedes-Benz's visionary US importer Max Hoffman, who always seemed to have a handle on the pulse of America's well-heeled motoring enthusiasts. More than a year before the tragedy at Le Mans, at the 1954 New York auto show, Mercedes had unveiled the 300 SL gullwing road version, based heavily on the racing cars and sharing their spaceframe construction and three-liter, straight-six engine. A four-cylinder 190 SL roadster concept was shown at the same time and went on sale in 1955; the 300 SL roadster arrived in 1957, the final year for the gullwing coupe.
Production of the first generation SL ended in 1963, by which time the two-seat roadster had become the vehicle of choice for celebrities and other high-profile owners. Gradually, Mercedes ratcheted up the content of the SL to accommodate the needs of its demanding clientele, not that its race car roots didn't still show through in various forms of compromise. A thoroughly new model was in the works, with a new set of priorities that focused on open-air luxury and refinement.
The first all-new SL since its inception was revealed at the 1963 Geneva auto show. While it included styling cues from the previous generation — wide rectangular grille, stacked headlight assemblies, large three-pointed star in the nose — it carried over no pretense of winning races. The new design was elegant and graceful, and immediately less aggressive than its forebear. It was also far less aerodynamic than the streamliner shape of the gullwing body, a clear denial of motorsport ambitions. Featuring unibody construction, however, it not only afforded better crash safety to its occupants — being one of the first cars to employ the safety cell concept championed by M-B engineer Bela Barenyi — but also allowed for full-size doors that weren't possible with the previous space-frame chassis.
Also unlike its predecessor, this new SL was conceived from the outset as an open roadster. A cloth-covered roof dropped behind the two front seats, concealed smartly beneath a hard shell. An optional hardtop could be latched on for cold-weather use, and it's this feature that gave the W113 SL its memorable epithet, the "Pagoda." Barenyi had suggested that adding curvature to the expanse of sheetmetal above the occupants' heads would add strength, and that by curving upwards at the edges instead of in the middle, larger side windows could be used for better passive safety. The resulting silhouette, when viewed from the front or behind, resembled the upsweeping roof profiles of certain Chinese architecture, the resulting pagoda comparisons instantly sticking.
But most SLs rarely wore their tin tops, as the new model immediately became the darling of the wealthy Southern California set. With its low beltline and lean, minimalist bodywork, the SL was the perfect car to be seen in, particularly with the top down. The same holds true for the car today, and the Pagoda SL is at once exclusive and accessible to classic car collectors.
The pristine example shown here is a 1969 280SL from Mercedes-Benz's own heritage collection, housed (no surprise) in Southern California. We spent a little time with it in the western hills of Appalachia — a far cry from Rodeo Drive, but nevertheless a venue setting for such a gracious car.
With nearly 94,000 miles on its vintage VDO odometer, this car is hardly a virgin; it's well broken-in, even if its immaculate appearance belies that fact. I take my position on the driver's seat, a black leather-covered marshmallow with an incredible amount of compliance and no headrest. The seats resemble those found in a good theater — wide and with just the slightest bit of contour to keep you in place, and yet completely supportive and comfortable enough in which to spend a couple good hours.
Pulling the door closed, I'm rewarded with the resonant quality that earned German cars the reputation they still enjoy today. A solid "choonk" meets my ears, accompanied by the precise background song of the door latch moving through each of its individual phases as it secures itself in the locked position. A quick scan of the workspace reveals surprisingly few luxuries by modern standards, but certainly all of the necessary instruments for a serious gentleman driver. Between the two large main dials — speedo on the left, tach on the right — and clearly visible through the large, skinny steering wheel, sits a trio of needles for oil pressure, water temperature and fuel level. A Becker AM/FM radio sits in the center of the dash, a round-faced analog clock just to its right. Sliders for the heater and vent controls live just above the radio, while a separate "Kuhlmeister" air conditioner unit is mounted below the dashboard, a very common arrangement for European cars of the times. The overall appearance is clean, logical and all business. It's also refreshingly simple compared to a modern SL.
Turning the delicate key in the tumbler on the dashboard, the old fuel injected straight-six fires right up. That's really no surprise, but there's genuine delight in the deep, mellow exhaust rumble. It's gentle and smooth, but also surprisingly audible, with a distinct bark on fast acceleration.
Moving the four-speed automatic's simple shift lever forward — yes, forward — from park to drive, the gearbox seems to contemplate this request for seconds before finally engaging with a solid reassurance, the kind felt through the chassis as the engine's torque attempts to push the car from its state of rest. Once under way, 2.8-liter six reveals its true nature as the strong, silent type. While the engine itself has a syrup-like quality to its delivery, the four-speed gearbox punctuates each shift with a mechanical exclamation point.
The Pagoda SL's natural environs are undoubtedly palm-lined boulevards in close proximity to sunny beaches. Winding roads, on the other hand, are best taken at a relaxed pace, as the recalculating-ball steering gear and the steering wheel's thin, large diameter rim demand quite a bit of input to result in actual directional change. Slow though it may be, the experience feels supreme, with a firm, viscous feedback through the wheel. Throw it hard into a corner and the body takes a serious lean, but the car holds onto the road better than its attitude would suggest.
In its day, the second-gen SL competed with the likes of Jaguar's E-Type and BMW's 507, not to mention American "sports cars" like the Corvette and Thunderbird. It straddled the space between the more serious drivers' roadsters from Europe and the boulevard cruisers Detroit produced. Ultimately it proved most popular with buyers who valued style and substance over outright performance. More than 48,000 W113 SLs were built before the third generation came along in 1971. But most importantly, the second-generation Mercedes SL defined a class of cars and established the model as the symbol of open-top luxury.


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The limits to growth (1972)
by Donella H. Meadows, William W. Behrens III, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
No current Talk conversations about this book.
A scholarly, technical treatise on the problems facing the world in the future. The authors wisely place their predictions about 100 years in the future, avoiding the pitfalls that faced Paul Ehrlich when some of his predictions failed to materialize within the time frame he had predicted. Most lay readers will be lost in the technical language, but there is a great deal of good information that can be used productively, though much of it is out of date now, and needs to be updated.
Signet New York Tables, Appendix Notes.
When this book hit the Dutch market in 1972 (was there a market at that time?), i almost immediately bought and read it. Fifteen years old, the only reason i could afford it, was because the publisher priced it at 2,50 Dutch guilders (about a US dollar). This, because it was the fifth hundred publication in the Aula series of Het Spectrum (the publisher). No wonder half of the world sales came from the Netherlands.
And again, fifteen years old, the reason i bought it was because i had read about it in the woman's magazine Margriet. It did some articles on environmental pollution and the world going down the drain. My motives being a mixture of interest in the possibilities of computer modeling and worry about the environment (mainly the first though, although my über-ich sticks to the second).
Now I reread it. So, is this a readable book? It is actually. It is well written and well composed; rhetoric means well used to make sure that its message hits the fan.
----------------------- Reporting on world dynamics --------------------------------------------------
--> Exponential growth, feed-back loops and time delays
It begins by explaining the nature of exponential growth. The story of the water lily in a pond that doubles itself every day is central to this. After some time the pond is filled half by the water lily, how long will it be before it covers the whole of the pond?
Four variables like the world-population and industrial production, it is important to see that exponential growth is caused by positive feedback loops in the system. Population growth causes more population growth and industrial growth likewise. They also positively influence each other.
Another important aspect is time delay in the system. E.g. DDT put in the environment yesterday, will only show up in high levels in our food tomorrow, since it has to travel along the whole of the food chain first.
Uncontrolled growth breeds disaster.
Dennis Meadows and his team construct a 'dynamic systems' world model that takes five main variables as its focus: production, population, food, non renewable resources and pollution. In fact production is specified in industrial, services and agricultural production and available land for agriculture is an important variable too.
As input for the model they use real-life data and reasonably optimistic estimates to create a 'standard run' to see what happens to the variables for the period 1900 – 2100 under the assumption that no changes in policy are made.
The result is shown in diagram 35 of the book.
As non renewable resources are consumed, more investments are needed to exploit them. So less can be invested in future growth. At some point less can be invested than is needed because of deprecation. The system then collapses.
Now this needs some imagination: when industrial investments can no longer be supported, all that's dependent on it will quickly melt into thin air. After the worst wars are fought, we will be living in wooden shacks again (if there is wood still).
--> Technology is not the answer
After this rather dramatic set-up there follows a section on possible 'technological' solutions for this outcome, using the model for 'what-if' scenario's. What if resources are four times as big as the most optimistic predictions, industry gets cleaner and machines more durable, recycling is used? What if there's a dramatic increase in the productivity of agriculture?
The model runs show that this all leads to basically the same diagrams as in figure 35; it's the structure of the feed-back loops in the system that is more important than exact figure's about available resources etc.
So we have to change are values and goals, and stop growing
Now it is time for the grand finale. If in the end technology cannot help us, we have to change ourselves, our values and goals. We have to be prepared to set controls on industrial- and population growth. In fact the growth has to be zero. Putting this in the model shows that it is (only) then that the world system will be in a sustainable situation. The diagram shows 'flatliners' for most variables, whereas the resources are only gradually diminishing.
--> And don't wait too long please
So, only when industrial- and population growth will be zero, disasters like figure 35 won't happen in the 21st century. But not only that, a further analysis shows that when the worlds waits too long to take these measures, the disasters will take place anyway. In fact, taking them in the year 2000 will already be too late!
• One of the main reasons this will happen is because of time delays; the population will keep growing for about thirty years after installment of the measures. Even having perfect birth control where no one is allowed to have more than two children. In this case, in the end there will be a death for every birth and the population will be stabilized. In the period before that a lot of children get born that will live longer. See also the Demographic Transition Model, which is not specifically about sudden birth control measures however.
--------------- Objective science to effective policies -------------------------------
If ever science was used to get a moral lesson home, it's here. After all, the main 'scientific' message – there's no way finite systems can support limitless growth – is almost a tautology. This leaves the 'moral' message – so stop growing – with some firm footage. And if we add if you don't want to die, it's just a matter of enlightened self-interest to do so.
No matter how simple this message, it is far from clear how to get there. The report – which includes a presentation and afterword by members of the Club of Rome itself, does not even begin to suggest this in any concrete way. It just states that we need fundamentally different philosophies for our lives. It also states that customary government systems are failing when confronted with such complex situations.
And the world itself? It would not be to cynical to say that it plunged headway in an orgasmic feast of growth and consumerism by opting for neoliberal economic politics, giving free way to all the forces of darkness that Limits to Growth identifies, not only in its practice but all the more in its ideology. The human being a rational animal? It's just one more count on the dialectics of Enlightenment.
But to be somewhat less cynical; the report warns against just going after the negative feed-backs. Just fighting pollution, malnutrition and building longer lasting machines, will not get us anywhere in the end as long as industry and population are allowed to grow (exponentially). With all the 'green' parties, all effort put in climate conferences and cutting back on environmental pollution, we have just done the less half of what the report told us to do. The most central tenets of the report where disregarded: industry and population growing like never before.
So, do you keep your empty batteries in an old sock?
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|Will Newcomb
|Northern Trail (Standard)
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2016
|Day 3 of our troop's Lassen Backpacking trip took us from Swan Lake to Butte Lake with the iconic Cinder Cone as a pit stop. Once we reached the Northern junction, we stripped our packs and eagerly raced up the steep slope. It only took 12 minutes for me to get to the summit, and the we also spent time exploring the inner crater. It's such a surreal experience and definitely a once-in-a-lifetime hike.
|Posted Aug 22, 2016 1:49 am
|Larry Laverty
|Standard Route
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2013
|Made the trip early enough to have the top to meself for a long while. Then one by one, two by two, others came,and I realized what a popular destination this place is. Glorious views of Mother Nature's handy work.
|Posted Sep 4, 2013 1:16 pm
|To view Solar Eclipse
Date Climbed: May 20, 2012
|Summited at the end of a short backpack through the area (Rainbow, Twin, Swan, Horseshoe, and Snag Lakes). We stayed for ~ 3 hours on this interesting summit to view the solar eclipse (Peak 6:30 PM)
|Posted May 21, 2012 11:06 am
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2011
|My "Moon" guidebook (which I think is usually pretty accurate on the scenery rating) has this down as an 8/10, but its better than that.
|Posted Jan 4, 2012 7:55 pm
|fun slog
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 1991
|Hiked up Cinder Cone with my Scout Troop (232) back when I was in my early teens. Fun hike; I remember two steps forward, one step back.
|Posted Jul 19, 2011 12:11 pm
|I did it myself!
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2011
|Well, almost... It was too hot. My father had to carry me for two short stretches. Amazingly, my new freind Heidi, who is only two and a half, did walk the whole way to the top!
Walking down into the crater was fun. I liked playing with big rocks, which seemed heavy but were not heavy at all.
|Posted Jul 5, 2011 1:03 pm
|Linda Breton
|Unique hike
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2010
|Fantastic views and powerful winds. The cinder material of the trail makes for a quick descent.
|Posted Jun 7, 2011 4:41 pm
|surreal landscape
|The painted dunes were most impressive
|Posted Jan 27, 2011 11:53 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2009
|length 5.3 mi, elapsed time 2h 48m
|Posted Aug 10, 2010 8:48 pm
|David Naylor
|Incredible location.
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2008
|Slow going up the trail due to cinder rocks....incredible views of this volcanic wonderland! Photos: http://www.meetup.com/SuperFab/photos/400946/
|Posted Jul 27, 2010 2:01 am
|Great geology
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2002
|Drove around to the cinder cone the day after Lassen Peak. Great views of Lassen, Painted Dunes, Lava Beds... makes me wish I was a geologist...
|Posted May 9, 2010 3:07 am
|Rinat Shagisultanov
|Hiked with sons
|Hiied up after an overnight backpacking with 5 y/o and 13 y/o sons. The younger one made it to the top in his own. Strange and beautiful place. Running down on the cinder path is funny.
|Posted Dec 15, 2009 10:53 pm
|Learning curve
Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2007
|This mountain was great for teaching me about the effects of elevation and the result of climbing in the afternoon. The deep gravely substance that makes up Cinder Cone made it very hard to climb. This combined with hot afternoon temps made my ascent less than enjoyable; however, when I reached the top the feeling of success far outweighed any hardship. This is a beautiful day hike that is a must do for anyone visiting Lassen. Might I suggest a 2-3 day backback trip in from Summit Lake ranger station.
|Posted Feb 23, 2009 5:00 pm
|Wonderful Loop
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2000
|We summited Cinder Cone during a wonderful hike around Snag Lake and Butte Lake. Traversed the Painted Dunes as well. Strange, impressive landscape.
|Posted Jan 29, 2009 11:46 am
|Cinder Cone Trail
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2008
|The first day of fall. What a view. Not a soul around. Wonderful!
|Posted Sep 24, 2008 11:37 am
|Great hike!
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008
|34 sixth-graders, 1 teacher, and 8 chaperones from John Morse Waldorf Methods School in Sacramento, climbed to the top on a gorgeous day. Many explored the inner crater as well. What a stunning view.
|Posted Sep 13, 2008 4:33 pm
|Little Mountain Goat
|Age five and six
|i first climbed it when I was five, my dad carried me some on his shoulders. We descended the back trail through the lava beds.
I climbed it again when i was six. this time, my dad didn't carry me. we also visited the crater, which was just like climbing the mountain again when coming out. descended back side again.
|Posted Jun 13, 2008 11:07 am
|Trail, Good View From Top
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2004
|Hiked up trail with family. Excellent view of painted dunes and Mt Lassen. Cool wild flowers.
|Posted Dec 1, 2007 6:18 pm
|from trail
|The views are great and this is pretty easily climbed. Did this and Prospect Peak (has no one put up a page for that?) in one half-day.
|Posted Jul 9, 2007 9:35 pm
|First Camping Trip
Date Climbed: Oct 10, 1984
|I did this when I was about 8 on the first family camping trip in the custom VW camper my dad still has almost 25 years later. I remeber my first experience of pain from hiking being the soreness in my calves the next day after the struggle up the loose cinders. From what I read from the others postings, I'll be sure to revisit.
|Posted Jun 30, 2007 5:14 pm


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Chandler Park Academy (MI) junior point guard and Michigan commit Derrick Walton participated in a seven-team scrimmage at Macomb Dakota high school this past weekend. The 6'0, 175-pound four-star prospect used the exhibition as a chance to polish up his skills for the upcoming season. Walton was able to get to the rim at will throughout the event, resulting in a number of high percentage baskets or creating opportunities for others. That, however, is a skill the future floor general has always had. He has used his time in the preseason to improve on another aspect of being a point guard.
"Just being a vocal leader… you know picking and pointing guys into the right spots," he said. "Being an encourager and leading my team to wins," he said.
The talented youngster is well on his way in that regard, as you will see in this video interview. Stay tuned to GoBlueWolverine for a full highlight package from Saturday's scrimmage action in the hours to come.


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A recent study by Washington-based Corporate Women Directors International shows the impact of quotas on increasing the diversity of company boards in Europe.
France has already beaten the schedule set by the October 2010 quota law, which demands that women comprise 40 per cent of the boards of France's largest 40 companies within six years.
The law set a halfway target: boards should be 20 per cent female at the three-year point. France has already beaten that, attaining 20.1 per cent, the report says. In 2004, only 7.2 per cent of French corporate board seats were held by women.
Irene Natividad, chairwoman of CWDI, says:
"Something is happening, and it's driven by Europe. The momentum for more women on boards will change the face of the biggest companies in Europe, in the midst of the region's ongoing financial crisis. They are ahead of the ball game."
However, where quotas lead, cries of "tokenism" tend to follow. France, in particular, has seen a number of controversial board appointments. First, there was Bernadette Chirac, the 78-year old former French first lady, appointed to the board of luxury goods retailer LVMH.
Other members of the French first wives club include Nicole Dassault, the 80-year old wife of controlling shareholder, Serge Dassault, who sits on the board of Dassault Aviation; Florence Woerth, a supervisory board member of luxury goods company Hermès, and wife of Eric Woerth, previously France's labour minister; Brigitte Longuet, non-executive director of broadcaster Canal Plus, and wife of Gérard Longuet, the French minister of defence; and Amélie Oudéa-Castera, a director of media group Lagardère, who is a former tennis professional and wife of Frédéric Oudéa, the chief executive of Société Générale, the bank.
The latest CWDI study on the status of women directors examines the Fortune Global 200, a ranking of the world's largest companies by revenue.
The report says:
"Overall, the countries with quotas saw a higher percentage of women's board appointments when compared to the average female representation among other companies in the Fortune listing."
After Norway – which was the first country to institute compulsory quotas – Spain, France, the Netherlands, Iceland, Italy and Belgium have all introduced legal minimum quotas for women directors on public company boards. In June this year, Malaysia also introduced quota legislation.
The leader board is still topped by US companies, with women holding 20.8 per cent of board seats. However, the CWDI report warns that unless the US can improve its glacial rate of increasing diversity (3.3 per cent since 2004), it is likely to be overtaken by faster-moving European countries with the wind of statutory compulsion behind them.


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Integrating WebSphere CloudBurst capabilities in an iPhone solution, Part 1
Architecture, decision model, and tools for a simple Web 2.0 application
The IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a self-service cloud management device that can deliver immediate return on investment through decreased IT operations costs and increased hardware utilization. It is a new class of hardware appliance that sits in a data center and dispenses IBM WebSphere Application Server topologies into an external pool (cloud) of virtualized hardware. Using the vast REST-based APIs provided, WebSphere CloudBurst offers many integration opportunities for a Web 2.0 environment.
One WebSphere CloudBurst integration possibility, for example, is with an Apple iPhone. Web browsing with an iPhone is easy, but for a better user experience a full-client application solution is more desirable. You would be able to retrieve information from the appliance and format it for a user interface on the device.
This series of articles walks you through the process of creating a full client application for an iPhone device that collaborates with WebSphere CloudBurst using a REST API. To that end, Part 1 is a high level introduction to the various pieces involved and architectural make-up to help you prepare your development environment.
This article series assumes a general familiarity with Web2.0 technologies including Rest, ATOM, JSON, and Objective-C. The sample application described in these articles is realized in Objective-C using the Apple iPhone SDK 3.x to be run on an iPhone (or iPod Touch) device with a 3.x firmware. To perform the steps and run the examples from this article, you will need a computer with the Apple SDK 3.0 or higher installed, running a compatible version of Mac OS. You also need access to a WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance running in your environment.
WebSphere CloudBurst overview
IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance helps you create, deploy, and manage WebSphere virtual systems within a private cloud. The appliance ships with IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, which is a virtual image of IBM WebSphere Application Server packaged according to the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard. This package includes the operating system, WebSphere Application Server profiles and binaries, and IBM HTTP Server. All are pre-installed and ready to be deployed into a hypervisor.
WebSphere CloudBurst can be used by private or on-premise cloud computing environments -- and also by service providers providing hosted public clouds and software-as-service environments -- to simplify and standardize repeated deployments. It is part of a powerful and comprehensive set of cloud computing and virtualization solutions for intelligently deploying and managing SOA applications, services, and environments to achieve smarter business outcomes. Figure 1 shows the WebSphere CloudBurst big picture.
Figure 1. WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance big picture
WebSphere CloudBurst provides both a command line interface and REST APIs for data center automation and integration with automated resource provisioning solutions. For example, WebSphere CloudBurst deployments can be automated into service management automation solutions, such as IBM Tivoli® Service Automation Manager, to provide additional process automation and control over the end-to-end provisioning process.
This article applies these concepts in creating a collaboration between an iPhone client and the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. Specifically, the client will issue an API request to display the list of the clouds managed by WebSphere CloudBurst. For each available cloud, you will be able to retrieve information such as:
- Cloud description
- Cloud name
- Cloud status
- Cloud start time.
With this application, the WebSphere CloudBurst admistrator will be able to see the status of these clouds using only his smartphone. Figure 2 illustrates the overview architecture of this solution.
Figure 2. Architectural overview diagram
The iPhone client data will be retrieved on demand. The data will be retrieved using a REST call; the REST invocation is simply based on an HTTP GET request. (The REST protocol can manage the other HTTP collaboration protocols, such as POST, DELETE, and so on, but in this example the client is used for inquiry only.) The request will be caught by WebSphere CloudBurst, and a JSON response file containing the requested cloud status data is returned to the device. Optionally, you can store the retrieved data on the iPhone using a local SQLite database integrated in the iPhone environment.
iPhone client: Fat or thin client
An example of a thin client is a generic Web browser. A thin client is considered light from a coding point of view, but it is also light from an interface functionality standpoint as well. Of course, PHP and related technologies can increase the capacity of a Web browser GUI. If you want to get the maximun benefit out of your user interface, then you want a solution based on a fat client.
A fat client is essentially an application that runs on the client. If portability is a major concern to you, then this might not be the best solution. In this case, however, because the application is being built for a smartphone, GUI functionality is arguably more of a priority than portability. A fat client is robust from a coding point of view, but a thin policy can then be applied to the data application.
Remember, because your client is not a PC, you really can't store all your data on the client, and so the application data will be retrieved on demand. The data will be retrieved using a REST call, based on an HTTP GET request. The request will be received by the back end, which in turn will send back a JSON response file containing the requested data to the device. To store the necessary file on the iPhone, you can use a local SQLite database integrated in the iPhone environment.
REST API overview
Each WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance exposes a REST API; there are no special configuration settings to be done in order to enable or disable this interface. The REST API is available on the same IP address or hostname that you use to access the appliance GUI and command line interface (CLI). The REST API is only supported over the HTTPS protocol on port 443. The appliance uses a self-signed certificate for its SSL sessions. The same certificate is used for GUI, CLI, and REST API sessions. The REST API only supports the sending and receiving of UTF-8 encoded data.
The sample application described in this article will use the REST API to manage your virtual systems information with the data that is shown in Table 1. The REST API returns data in JSON format. The URI patterns for all the HTTP GET requests shown in the first column will be prefixed with "/resources/" (for example, /resources/virtualSystems).
Table 1. REST API for virtual system cloud information
|URI pattern
|Success codes
|Error codes
|200: Returns the list of virtual systems that are visible to the client.
|403: The requester has not been assigned the cloud
administration role.
500: CloudBurst Appliance internal error while processing the request.
|200: Returns the virtual system associated with the given ID.
|403: The requester does not have access to the
requested virtual system.
404: requested virtual system is not defined.
500: CloudBurst Appliance internal error while processing the request.
A virtual system has these attributes:
- created: Creation time of the virtual system, represented as the number of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. This value is numeric and is automatically generated by the appliance.
- currentmessage: Message associated with the current status of the virtual system.
- currentmessage_text: The textual representation of currentmessage.
- currentstatus: String representing the current status of the virtual system.
- currentstatus_text: The textual representation of currentstatus.
- id: ID of the virtual system. This numeric value is automatically generated by the appliance.
- name: Display name associated with this virtual system.
- owner: URI of the user that owns this virtual system.
- updated: Time the virtual system was last updated, represented as the number of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. This value is numeric and is automatically generated by the appliance.
JSON response data model
Listing 1 shows a REST response example for a /resources/clouds request that returns the list of the clouds managed by the appliance.
Listing 1. GET /resources/virtualSystems example
[ { "created": 1245041940730, "currentmessage": null, "currentmessage_text": null, "currentstatus": "RM01036", "currentstatus_text": "Queued", "desiredstatus": "", "desiredstatus_text": null, "id": 6, "name": "futurevs", "owner": "/resources/users/1", "pattern": "/resources/patterns/1", "updated": 1245041940730 }, { "created": 1245356439153, "currentmessage": "RM07045", "currentmessage_text": "The virtual system has been deployed and is ready to use", "currentstatus": "RM01006", "currentstatus_text": "Started", "desiredstatus": "", "desiredstatus_text": null, "id": 9, "name": "test virtual system", "owner": "/resources/users/1", "pattern": "/resources/patterns/6", "updated": 1245357249316 } ]
The response data is in JSON format. JSON is popular in the Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript™ and XML) community because it is simple to manage this data format within a PHP program. JSON objects are constructed in a key:value pair format. The elements of the object are separated by commas, and each object is contained within curly braces {}. An array of objects is contained within square brackets []. This is a common approach used to transfer a series of rows from a database to an array of objects in which each array element corresponds to a database row, and each property of the object represents a column of data.
In your client, you will be managing this data format using C. One simple way to convert this data is to create general parser code that converts JSON data into an Objective-C application data object. The array is normally stored in an Array native data object, supplied by any OO language (in Objective-C, the NSMutableArray class declares the interface to objects that manages a modifiable array of objects), the key:value data is normally stored in a dictionary (in Objective-C, the NSMutableDictionary class declares the interface to manage a generic data object associated with an arbitrary key). The parser code receives a JSON file as input and returns a data dictionary (or an array) containing all the objects described inside the JSON file.
If you prefer not to write this parser yourself, there are many open source projects available that have these functionalities embedded in a set of classes. Whichever way you decide to manage the JSON to Objective-C data conversion, you must include this set of classes inside your project. For the purpose of this article, the JSON conversion is assumed to occur outside the steps described here.
SQLite overview
If you want a fast and easy way to store a simple set of data, SQLite is a good way to do this. You can store all your necessary application data inside an SQL database, resulting in a single file that is easy to maintain. The iPhone offers native support for SQLite, a simple but complete database engine that requires no special configuration to set up, and enables all database data to be stored in a single file. SQLite support is available in native mode on Mac OS X, and on the iPhone and iPod with no additional libraries.
To create an SQLite database for your new application:
- Open a command window and create a new folder to store the database, using the commands shown in Listing 2.
Listing 2. Create SQLite database: MyDataBase.sql
cd /Users/<myUser>/Documents mkdir SQLiteTutorial cd SQLiteTutorial sqlite3 MyDataBase.sql
- At the SQLite command line prompt, enter the SQL commands shown in Listing 3 to create a database table for the application variables:
- Table name: configValueTable
- Columns: key, tag, value, description.
Listing 3. Create configValueTable table
CREATE TABLE configValueTable ( key INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, tag VARCHAR(50), value VARCHAR(255), description TEXT ); INSERT INTO configValueTable (tag, value, descrption) VALUES ('tag', 'value', 'description');
- Make sure that the table has been created by entering the command
SELECT * FROMconfigValueTable; It should return the table with the columns that were created. When you are confident that the database is properly configured, type
quitto exit the command window.
Detailed information on working with SQLite is beyond the scope of this article. See Related topics for more information.
iPhone app development
Apple's SDK (software developer's kit) is a set of tools and APIs that enable you to develop native applications for Apple devices, such as the iPhone. You will need some knowledge of Cocoa (Objective-C) to get started. Although this article does not provide a deep dive into the programming language, some Objective-C fundamentals are provided below. If you are already familiar with C/C++/Java™, you will notice many similar concepts with respect to classes, methods, and basic expressions. The SDK also includes tools such as Xcode, Interface Builder, iPhone simulator, and more.
To install the SDK:
- Download the .dmg SDK file (see Related topics) to your machine that is running Mac OS.
- Double-click on the downloaded file in the User > Downloads folder to open the disk image.
- Double-click on the installer package inside of the disk image. The installer will launch so you can install the SDK. Follow the on-screen instructions. Remember that the SDK installation requires up to 3GB of hard disk space.
- When the installation is complete, a new Developer folder will display at the top of your directory structure. This directory contains the main tools and libraries that you need to create iPhone applications.
Before you begin developing, you should know about the fundamental design patterns you're going to use in developing your iPhone app:
- Delegation: A pattern where one object periodically sends messages to another object that is specified as its delegate.
- Model View Controller: A paradigm of breaking an application into three parts: the user interacts with the view, the controller handles the input event from the view, the controller notifies the model of the user action.
- Target-Action: The mechanism that enables a view object to present a control in response to a user event; for example, a click to send the action message to the target object.
Create an iPhone project
You are now ready to create your first iPhone project using Xcode:
- On your Mac OS machine, launch Xcode (located in /Developer/Application by default).
- Select File > New Project and make sure iPhone is selected for Product (Figure 3).
- Select View-based Application. This template provides a
starting point for an application that uses a single view icon. Then
Choose (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Create new project
- Name your project
HelloWorldand click Save. The tools will create all the required classes for your application. Each class is in a file with a .m extension and includes a header file with a .h extension (Figure 4):
- main.m: Main file.
- HelloWordAppDelegate.m: Application delegate class.
- HelloWordAppDelegate.h: Application delegate header file, included in the .m file.
- MainWindow.xib: Object that defines your main window application.
- Other files: Other project configuration files.
Figure 4. Application files
- Select the Build and Go icon. The tool compiles and installs your
application in the iPhone Simulator, which starts with your
application automatically. At this point, you should only see a
simple white screen. In the end, you should have the project classes shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Application project classes
Adding SQLite framework
To manage the SQLite access from the iPhone application, you need to include the SQLite libraries in the tool. To do this:
- Right click on the Frameworks folder in the left pane, then select
Add > Existing Frameworks... (Figure 6).
Figure 6. Adding SQLite framework
- Navigate to /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS2.0.sdk/usr/lib/ from the main system root directory. Double-click on the libsqlite3.0.dylib file.
- Click Add in the dialog, and the library will be added to your project.
You should now see the included framework inside the iPhone SDK when you select the Frameworks folder in the left pane (Figure 7).
Figure 7. Included framework
Objective-C fundamentals
Let's examine a very simple Hello World program in Objective-C. This is not an iPhone-specific example, just a small piece of the code to illustrate show how Objective-C is similar with the C++ language. This example will be helpful if you are already familiar with C++ principles.
Listing 4 shows a common Hello World program in C++.
Listing 4. Hello world sample program
#include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello, World!"); return ; }
To create a class called "Sample" in Objective-C, you need to create an header file named Sample.h (Listing 5).
Listing 5. Header file - Sample.h
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> @interface Sample : NSObject { int a; } - (void) printValue; @end
This is only the class declaration. You are establishing which methods and attributes will have the Sample class. The class inherits from the Cocoa base class, NSObject. The class declaration begins with the @interface directive and ends with the @end directive. Following @interface is the class name, name of the parent class, instance variables of the class (also called ivars) declared in a block delimited with braces, and then the list of methods that you will implement in the class.
Now, you can implement the class in the main file, as shown in Listing 6.
Listing 6. Implementation file Sample.m
#import "Sample.h" @implementation Sample - (void) printValue{ NSLog(@"The value of the sample parameter is: %d\n",a); } - init { if(![super init]){ return nil; } a = 7; return self; } @end
The class generally has a constructor that is prefixed with "init." When the header file and the implementation file are ready, you can create an instance with the code in Listing 7.
Listing 7. Class instantiation main.m
#import "Sample.m" ... void myFunction(){ Sample *mySample = [[Sample alloc] init]; [mySample printValue]; }
Before you can work with an object in Objective-C, you need to create an instance of the object. In doing so, you also need to allocate memory and create the object. This is done in Listing 7 with the alloc parameter.
Next, let's look at how an array can be used in Objective-C. The required class in this example is NSMutableArray. In Objective-C, you can put anything into array -- even mix and match objects. Listing 8 shows an example of creating an array and then adding three elements to it.
Listing 8. Array creation
//Array creation NSMutableArray *arr = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; //Add three elements [arr addObject:@"Object 1"]; [arr addObject:@"Object 2"]; [arr addObject:@"Object 3"];
Listing 9 shows an example of retrieving an object from a specific element in an array.
Listing 9. Retrieving objects from an array
//Retrieve an object NSLog([arr objectAtIndex:0]); NSLog([arr objectAtIndex:4]);
Listing 10 shows how you can retrieve the last element from an array.
Listing 10. Retrieving the last object from an array
//Retrieve the last object in an array NSLog([arr lastObject]);
Listing 11 shows how to implement a for-each loop to repeat the same action on every object in the array.
Listing 11. Loop on an array
for (NSString *s in arr) { //<actions> }
If the array is not yet required, then you must release it, as shown in Listing 12.
Listing 12. Releasing an array
[arr release];
Some points to remember about using Objective-C:
- As in C++, remember that the header file declares only methods and parameters; classes must be implemented in the .m file.
- There are two types of methods in Objective-C. Execution of an instance method is scoped to a particular instance of the class; you must create an instance of the class before you can invoke the method of the class. In contrast, class methods do not require you to create an instance.
- Methods that are preceded by a minus (-) sign are instance methods. The colon characters declare the presence of a parameter. If a method has no parameters, the colons after the first can be omitted.
This article provided some very basic fundamentals to get you ready to work with the Apple SDK, create an iPhone project on a Mac, and code in Objective-C. This information will help set the stage for the next installment of this series, which will describe the view component of the sample application and the class skeleton of the controller class.
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|Li, Ming
|Macdonald, Gordon
|Wise, Thomas
|Ford, Johny
Submitted to: Biology of Reproduction
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/8/1998
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) plays a primary role in regulation of sperm production. The objective of the current research was to define in greater detail factors that control FSH secretion in boars. Anterior pituitary glands were obtained from two groups of mature boars that differed in their blood concentrations of FSH. Gene expression for FSH-beta asubunit, activin beta-B subunit, calmodulin, follistatin and receptors for gonadotropin releasing hormone was quantified. From these evaluations we determined that gene expression of both FSH-beta subunit and activin beta-B subunit was significantly greater in boars with high blood concentrations of FSH, and gene expression of these two subunits was positively correlated with pituitary concentration of FSH. No differences in expression of the three other genes were related to blood FSH concentrations. We conclude that activin beta-B produced from the anterior rpituitary gland is at least partially responsible for the differences in F secretion that existed between these two groups of boars. These observations are important in the design of subsequent studies as scientists seek better technology to maximize sperm production of boars.
Technical Abstract: This study tested our previous hypothesis, developed from comparison of Meishan (MS) to White Composite (WC) boars, that inhibin/activin (I/A) betaB-subunit gene expression in the anterior pituitary gland relates positively to plasma FSH concentrations. Mature crossbred boars (n = 12) were selected for divergence in plasma FSH concentrations, and their anterior pituitary glands were evaluated for expression of the follicle-stimulating hormone-beta (FSH-beta), inhibin/activin betaB (I/A betaB), follistatin (FS), calmodulin and gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor (GnRH-R) genes by semi-quantitative RT-PCR and/or RNase protection assays (RPA). Expression of the I/A B-subunit gene was positively correlated to that of the FSH-beta gene (RT-PCR: r = 0.96; P < 0.01; RPA: r = 0.68; P < 0.05). In contrast, expression of the FS, GnRH-R and calmodulin genes was not correlated significantly (P > 0.10) with that of the FSH- gene (FS: r = 0.43; GnRH-R: r = 0.46; calmodulin: r = 0.19). Additionally, expression of the FSH-beta gene was correlated positively with pituitary and plasma FSH concentrations (r = 0.69 and 0.88, respectively; P < 0.05). These results support the hypothesis that activin B is partially responsible for elevated FSH concentrations in boars; plus the expression difference of the calmodulin gene previously observed between MS and WC boars represents a breed difference unrelated to FSH.


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Volume 11 of the series Studies in Global Justice pp 83-94
Modernity and Fear
- Elena PulciniAffiliated withDipartimento di Filosofia, Universita' Degli Studi Di Firenze Email author
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This chapter argues that to respond to this question, it is necessary to make a preliminary comparison with Hobbes's reflection, as the representative paradigm of modernity. Here fear performs, albeit with sacrificial results, a productive function: namely it is capable of promoting the preservation of life and the social and political order. The fear of death, or rather the fear of the other as causing death, for Hobbes becomes a source of reasonableness that leads individuals to build a civil and political society to guarantee security. The certainty and proximity of the danger cause a self-preserving reaction which, despite requiring man to relinquish his rights and passions, frees him from conflicts and ensures, through the construction of an exonerating and protective artifice, a safe life and social and political order.
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