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If you missed out on the London Knitting and Stitching Show earlier this month then fear not, as there are two more events in November.
Following on from the successful Alexandra Palace exhibition, you can still catch the Dublin event from November 1st to 4th, or alternatively if you're in northern England, why not flock to Yorkshire and check out Harrogate's Knitting and Stitching Show between November 22nd and 25th?
These shows are described as being the definitive and best exhibitions for lovers of textiles in the UK and Ireland, covering not only knitting and stitching but many more craft forms.
This includes crochet, embroidery, patchwork, felt-making, quilting, shibori dyeing, card-making, jewellery-making and felt-embossing, among others.
Each day sees hundreds of exhibitors selling specialist supplies and craft produce, many of which are beautifully unique and unlike anything you're likely to find on the high street.
As well as being a great shopping opportunity, you can visit galleries from leading artists and groups and there are hundreds of different workshops on offer to introduce you to new subjects or hone your existing skills, taking your craft abilities to the next level.
Beginners can also get involved with the First Steps Lounge and the Upcycling Area, where unwanted clothing and fabric can be creatively turned into all manner of items.
The Dublin Knitting and Stitching Show is the 17th annual event held in Ireland and has seen its highest sale in tickets ever, meaning it's essential that visitors sign up soon.
Advanced booking for the show are already up by 30 per cent, according to the Irish Independent, representing the recent demand for creative and practical skills.
Taking place in the RDS at the beginning of next month, it also hopes to capture a younger, style-conscious, audience, following the high profile wool has been given throughout September and October's prestigious Fashion Weeks.


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But after a week of double homicides and right-wing diatribes, a goofy Englishism should have been the least of Mountain View's concerns. Even so, my absurd front-page headline from last week, "More teachers getting preggers," drew several upset comments and e-mails, to the exclusion of all other stories.
My defense for using the word was best put by a Town Square commenter, so I'll just quote her:
"Maybe a cultural thing, but certainly Englishwomen call themselves preggers as a matter of pride. I think Princess Anne started making it more fashionable when she first got preggers with her first, 30ish years ago."
AS REPORTED by outgoing editorial intern Nicole Baldocchi (thanks Nicole), a local literacy group is looking for more volunteers over the summer and fall.
JustREAD tutors students from local schools such as Mountain View High and Crittenden. The organization's primary focus is helping kids who are struggling to keep up in their classes.
Tutors assist students in developing their basic reading and writing skills, along with other skills needed for their diploma and future. Volunteers tutor for a minimum of one hour a week at the program's "Reading Center," located at the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District's main office.
For more information, call (650) 940-7402 or e-mail email@example.com.
WHEN SHE'S NOT winning Soap Box Derby races, young Celeste Greaves of Mountain View is starring in local plays.
Celeste plays the unusually literate spider in Peninsula Youth Theatre's upcoming production of "Charlotte's Web." PYT sent a picture of her in the Charlotte costume, and it's amazing — kind of like a many-armed Michael Jackson, only adorable. It could be worth the price of admission all on its own.
In all, there are 16 Mountain View kids among the production's 100 cast members. I won't list them all here, but you can show your support by attending one of the performances.
"Charlotte's Web" runs July 11-20 at the Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto. For tickets and show times, call (650) 988-8798 or visit www.pytnet.org.
By the way, PYT, a truly great local institution, offers theater classes and camps for local youth. Use the above phone number or Web site to find out more.


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BBC Electric Proms
Various venues, London NW1
Exit the tube on any given night and you'll find that Camden Town, north London, is a giant petri dish where all forms of human life collide, egged on by buskers, indie bands and the odd jazzbo. The presence of the BBC's annual Electric Proms - the Proms for pop, ostensibly - ups the ante, catalysing the process with the full force of the licence fee. This year there is a parallel festival running in Liverpool but the main thrust of the BBC's musical experiment is here.
As in the preceding two years, specially commissioned collaborations and one-off projects form part of the Electric Proms raison d'être. Strings are generally attached. Last year Mark Ronson dragged most of his friends onstage for a singsong, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra. This year living legend Burt Bacharach gets the same orchestral treatment, with Adele, Jamie Cullum and Beth Rowley doing backing-vocal cameos. I'm running around Camden seeing other gigs but catch him later courtesy of my telly's red button. The eightysomething don of popular song is in lush form.
The Streets, meanwhile, get the Heritage Orchestra and a gospel choir. Oasis are paired with the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Getting Oasis to play ball is quite a coup for the Beeb, since the surly Mancunians don't often allow themselves to be co-opted into arts jamborees. Other headliners include Bee Gee Robin Gibb hosting an anniversary celebration of Saturday Night Fever with - wait for it - guest vocalists, and the BBC Concert Orchestra. You could call this cat's cradle of strings a wise deployment of resources - if there's a standing Beeb orchestra, it would be rude not to use them. But the persistent impression after three years of notional electricity is that the Promsquad feels that this young people's music won't be special unless someone, somewhere is playing a cello.
It's a minor gripe, given the range and depth of the programme. A giddy Wednesday night opens with the premiere of a series of short films commissioned by the BBC to accompany tracks by the likes of Roots Manuva and Wild Beasts.
First, though, there is Shoot the Summer, a collage of footage shot exclusively on mobile phones by musicians and random festival-goers last summer. It's scrappy by nature and not big on insight but it gets cameras to places proper cameras don't usually go, putting more meat on the bones of the Beeb's prized interactivity.
Over at Cecil Sharp House, HQ of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, more string players are sharpening their bows. This contingent is from the National Symphony Orchestra, augmenting Goldfrapp's own players. Alison Goldfrapp's last album, Seventh Tree, abandoned her brazen inter-species disco and decamped to a sylvan glade, bringing her sound broadly into line with folk's woozier outlands. White-smocked and animal-masked backing singers the Bellbirds add a welcome Wicker Man shiver to songs like 'Utopia', bolstering her cinematic whisper. Everyone is barefoot, but by contrast, Alison is dressed as a black-clad boudoir Pierrot.
This tiny gig (capacity: 200) feels genuinely special, if a little subdued by the demands of the camera crew filming it. 'Are you feeling rather strange?' asks Alison with a nervous giggle. 'I can't help you, I'm feeling rather strange myself...' After a slow start where many tracks are a bit too highly strung, Goldfrapp's musical army finally hit their stride with terrific widescreen renditions of 'Happiness' and 'Little Bird'.
Camden is, of course, the ancestral home of Blur, where Damon Albarn's first band once propped up bars. If anyone had told the young floppy-haired singer on the eve of Blur's first hit single that in 17 years's time he'd be marshalling Smiths guitar legend Johnny Marr and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea on to a Camden stage studded with pan-African superstars while tootling on a melodica, he would probably have asked you for whatever drugs you were on.
Africa Express is Albarn's ongoing musical exchange programme in which the cream of Africa's musical talent jams with their counterparts from the UK and US. No bands are announced, either beforehand or onstage. There is no set list. Nothing is rehearsed, apart from one or two set pieces. No one is paid, and a genial air of chaos reigns. 'Nice to be in Camden Palace,' Albarn smiles, harking back to a time when this venue - now Koko - saw scenes of Britpop devastation rather than world fusions.
I catch four hours of 'Expression' in the thick of the seven-hour marathon, a cross-section at once brilliant and bewildering. The high points are largely African. Malian pop sensation Amadou and Mariam lead four songs, accompanied by bits of their own band, drummer Tony Allen (the Afrobeat star who is also in Albarn's The Good, The Bad and the Queen) and a rolling cast of indie folk. The Magic Numbers's Romeo Stodart plays guitar, sometimes in a highlife style. Albarn - skinny and energised, looking like a younger version of himself - grabs a tambourine and grins broadly.
Later, Toumani Diabaté and his Symmetric Orchestra take over, summoning as many Africans as will fit on the stage for one vast mantric tune. Holding court at his kora, Diabaté is surrounded by ngonis and balafons, electric guitars and tamas, plus the brilliant Malian singers Rokia Traoré, Oumou Sangaré and their backing vocalists, and percussionists of all stripes. It is sensational.
The concept of this intercontinental jam is laudable but it is a hopelessly lop-sided event. The Africans effortlessly outclass the bottom-feeder indie bands. Everyone raves about Hard-Fi, who I miss, but the Aliens and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly are amusing at best. Flea and Marr pitch in on nearly equal terms and newcomer VV Brown (imagine a cross between Amy Winehouse and Katy Perry) performs an impromptu duet with Rokia Traoré that encapsulates what these jams are all about. But the status gap yawns open a bit too often. Why didn't Adele come down after the Bacharach gig? The gossip columns, meanwhile, report that Razorlight's Johnny Borrell did turn up, but was sent on his way. Why?
Despite the mystery it shrouds itself in, there is a bit of a gang, both African and Western, that recurs at these Africa Express gigs. So it's a real treat to make a genuine discovery: Chicago's Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a nine-strong hip hop horn crew including eight brothers whose dad used to be in Sun Ra's Arkestra. They channel the spirit of Fela Kuti into jazz-hop form, and mesh well with the African percussionists and a marauding phalanx of North African, West African and north London rappers who are never too far from a microphone tonight. Emerging into the Camden night, NW1 really feels like the messy centre of the world, an unstable experiment going just about right.


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Whistleblower Ordered to Pay Toyota $2.6 Million in Damages
A former in-house attorney with Toyota Motor Corporation, has been ordered by a Southern California arbitrator to pay Toyota $2.6 million in damages following the leaking of confidential documents to the public, relating to vehicle rollover accidents and subsequent recalls.
Retired Federal Judge, Gary Taylor said that Dimitris P. Biller, the attorney who worked in house for Toyota for four years, defending the automaker against lawsuits blamed on faulty manufacturing for causing rollover accidents, broke an underlying rule, the safeguard of his client's confidences.
Biller left Toyota in 2007 and subsequently disclosed confidential information regarding these lawsuits on his website, through seminars, media interviews and also to a Texas court hearing without a subpoena.
Judge Taylor stated that by doing so, Biller was acting as a whistleblower and the damage Toyota suffered as a result of the leaked information was "real and extensive." Biller claims that he leaked the information as a matter of public safety.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that, according to the law, Biller still did not have the right to disseminate a client's confidential information and as a result the ruling stands.
The damages awarded to Toyota include $2.5 million for unauthorized disclosures of confidential information as well as $100,000 in punitive damages. Taylor also issued Biller instructions to return the confidential documents he obtained while employed by Toyota.
Generally, most arbitration agreements like this one tend to remain confidential affairs, but in this case, Taylor allowed Toyota to make the ruling public to neutralize the effect the leaked documents had on making a one-sided argument against the automaker relating to the rollover accidents.
In a written statement, Christopher Reynolds, Toyota's group vice president and general counsel stated "Toyota takes its legal obligations very seriously and works hard to uphold the highest professional and ethical standards. We are gratified that the credibility of Toyota's legal organization and the integrity of our legal professionals have been validated."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that, over the last decade, it has received approximately 3,000 reports of unintended vehicle acceleration from Toyota vehicles, causing crashes that resulted in 93 deaths. However, to date, the government has only been able to confirm two deaths and five accidents.
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Labor Department Produces New Approach To PPI
By Ben Leubsdorf and Sarah Portlock
The Labor Department this week will change the way it calculates the Producer Price Index, a gauge of U.S. inflation, to measure a much wider swath of the U.S. economy.
The PPI measures changes in the prices businesses receive for selling goods and services, including products and services they sell to each other. It can be a signal of future inflation as companies pass their costs along to consumers. The report is released monthly just ahead of the closely watched Consumer Price Index, which is also produced by Labor.
Labor has adopted a new methodology for the index, and will use it for the January data being released Wednesday. The index formerly measured prices for finished goods and the materials that went into them, such as parts and raw materials. It now covers 75% of U.S. production, more than double the old index's reach, by including services, exports, government purchases and construction.
The new Final Demand index is the broadest measure, capturing prices for goods and services sold for personal consumption, exports, government purchases and capital investment. The new Intermediate Demand report measures the prices of goods and services sold by businesses to other businesses, such as iron ore, car parts and accounting services.
The new top-line PPI number is Final Demand. Labor will also calculate a "core" figure for PPI Final Demand that excludes food, energy and trade services. Trade services, which represents margins for retailers and wholesalers, is the most volatile service category. The Labor Department also will report a "core" PPI figure excluding food and energy only.
Personal Consumption is the portion of Final Demand going to consumers, and is the closest equivalent within the report to the broader CPI. For some products, it can be a leading indicator of inflation.
Some of the old PPI figures remain while the government also is including a number of new ones. The old headline PPI number is now reported as "finished goods." The old "intermediate goods" category is now reported as "Processed Goods for Intermediate Demand." The old "crude goods" category is now reported as "Unprocessed Goods for Intermediate Demand." A new category, "Services for Intermediate Demand," looks at prices for business-to-business services.
More information is available at http://www.bls.gov/ppi/.


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Gwynnie credits 'clean eating' regime for improved emotions
Gwyneth Paltrow says her 'clean eating' regime has improved her emotions: 'I had a lot of unexpressed anger. I made everyone else's feelings more important than my own. I'd suck it up and then be alone in my car yelling at traffic, or fighting with hangers in my closet when they got stuck together.' We never hear from her pop crooner husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin. But Gwyneth adds in Stylist magazine: 'Sometimes when you get clear about who you are, others get less comfortable because they liked who you were. It's changed my marriage, too, but he's up for the challenge.' Look out!
Gwyneth says prior to her 'clean eating' regime, she 'had a lot of unexpressed anger. I made everyone else's feelings more important than my own'
Why send Baroness Warsi and Kenneth Clarke to the Pope's inauguration? Minister for Faith and Communities Lady Warsi is a Muslim. Minister without Portfolio Clarke is a jazz enthusiast. Neither is associated with Christianity. Can the Government get anything right?
With the Doctor Who series 50 this year, ex-Time Lords are anxious about being left out of anniversary celebrations. Actor Sylvester McCoy, 69, – the seventh of them – says neither he nor other surviving Doctors (such as Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker) have been contacted by the BBC about the anniversary. McCoy adds: 'The other day Tom asked, "Well, little man (McCoy's 5ft 5in, Baker's 6ft 2in) have you heard anything?" I told him, "No, I haven't heard anything."' Maybe the Daleks will be sent to ex-ter-mi-nate the forgotten old hams.
With Coronation Street star Bill Roache, 80, in trouble for appearing to suggest that sex abuse victims bring it upon themselves, will he continue to be called upon by Conservatives? He has campaigned on the party's behalf in the North in the past. But a party source says: 'He's possibly not quite the vote-winner he once was.' Delicately put!
Falkirk MP Eric Joyce's latest arrest moves his socialist predecessor, Dennis Canavan, 70, to announce: 'The overwhelming majority of the people in Falkirk have no confidence whatsoever in Eric Joyce. The only decent thing he can do now is to step down.' That's telling them! Yet bantamweight Dennis is, says a former Westminster colleague, 'no stranger to a whiff of the cork, nor one to suffer fools gladly'. You don't say.
A terrible stench rose from under the Labour benches in the Commons yesterday. My source says: 'Some wonder if it's connected with their despicably low behaviour during the Press regulation debate but it's probably a dead rodent.'


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Room service, hotel pools and chocolates on your pillow: overrated. How about renting a Crystal Cove Beach Cottage and waking up in the morning to the sound of crashing waves? The once-private cottages, built in the 1930s and '40s, have been restored to their original state and are now protected as part of Crystal Cove State Park. Starting in 2006, the park made these cottages available for overnight use by the public, with reservations taken seven months in advance. Each can be rented for up to seven days. You can rent individual cottages, or if you're feeling adventurous, request one of the dorm-style cottages. Either way, you are staying in a piece of Orange County history—not to mention chick-flick history. At the end of Beaches, the beach house in "San Francisco" was actually one of the Crystal Cove Cottages. So, guys? If, say, you want to avoid watching a Bette Midler schmaltzfest with your best gal, go one better and let her live it instead. (Without the whole terminal-illness thing, of course.)
Founded in 1986, the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen serves meals to more than 300 people, seven days a week. The Costa Mesa-based nonprofit's mission is to feed a daily nutritious meal to the homeless, the unemployed, the working poor, the mentally challenged, the physically challenged, senior citizens and, most important of all, children. 'Cause it's all about the children. They were among those Someone Cares founder Merle Hatleberg noticed were coming to the door for food when she ran an Orange County seniors' program. Those needy folks did not qualify for meals under that program, so Hatleberg would slip them some food when no one was looking. She went on to pool her meager funds to buy a large pot for the first soup she served to the needy on June 15, 1986. Much has changed since then: 30 people were served that first pot of soup, and Someone Cares moved from local churches to a community center in Costa Mesa to, finally, a former Chinese restaurant owned by the parents of the founders of the Wahoo's Fish Taco chain. And there's now a staff, plus more than 150 active volunteers. Unfortunately, the need has grown as well.
If you're one of those people who thinks every month should have its own Oktoberfest, then fret not because there is room for your beer-swilling self over at the Phoenix Club, home to the largest outdoor festhalle in the country. Every May 1, the club opens its doors to the public for a daylong celebration of all things Germanic: sauerkraut, sausage, polka music, maypole dancing—sorry, fellas, not that kind of pole dancing, but rather the medieval-era one involving a tall pole, lots of ribbons and walking in circles—and beer. Lots of beer, and it goes for about half of the ridiculously overpriced Oktoberfest brews they sell at Huntington Beach's Old World Village. Long tables provide plenty of room underneath propeller-size fans hanging from the ceiling of the tent, while a never-ending parade of dancers in folk costumes struts its stuff in front of the white-haired polka band onstage. There's even a lady who stands in the middle of the floor with an unnaturally happy smile and cracks a whip just inches from your face. Achtung, baby!
How could a public radio station be better than KPCC? Okay, we know what you're going to say: by not playing public-radio programming. But that's wrong; KPPC's lineup is consistently fascinating and varied enough that it's worth tuning into at most times of the day. The personalities are who make it, from the nebbishy-but-bold Larry Mantle to the affably anti-jargon Kai Ryssdahl (whose nationally syndicated Marketplace is recorded in the same building as KPCC). But forget everyone else: The rock of the station is afternoon-news anchor Alex Cohen, who manages to be adorable yet authoritative while occasionally poking fun at the national programming or dropping references to her own passion for roller derby. Even KPCC's pledge drives are sometimes entertaining—not that we'd miss those if they were gone.
If you ever listen to classical music on the radio, chances are you've heard the host who sounds how a classical-music host would sound if he were a character on The Simpsons. Get beyond the funny voice, and you quickly realize that KUSC's Jim Svejda is probably the most knowledgeable (and opinionated) radio host in the country when it comes to classical music. His Sunday-evening show The Record Shelf has been around for decades and never fails to break new ground on old music, exposing listeners to both obscure works by well-known artists (okay, Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony isn't that obscure, but you won't find it on most classical stations) and underappreciated gems by also-rans, such as Bohuslav Martinu's Piano Quartet No. 1, which opens Svejda's show. He rules the airwaves weeknights from 7 to 10 p.m., artfully letting the tinkling piano of his theme music fade away before he mellifluously transitions into the night's programming. If Charles Bukowski were alive, he'd purposefully delay his day's work of drinking and writing to take full advantage of Svejda's show.
In Marty Smith's capable hands, Orange Coast magazine continues to improve over the days when the publication was largely content-free. Smith loves a good story and has been sharing them with his readers. Sure, there are all the "best" lists (like, uh, this one), but nowadays, those are leavened with interesting profiles and local crime mysteries. The story of James W. Whitehouse, the husband of Susan Atkins, the convicted murderer from Charles Manson's gang, was one for the history books.


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In a Dream, Photographs and Meditations, is a collection of David Garnand's photography accompanied by words evoked from his photographs. People who love Dave's work appreciate the spiritual quality of his view of the world. His photographs are taken in beautiful U.S. and Canadian locations; from Skeleton Lake, two hours north of Toronto, to the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island, to his home state of Oregon and its spectacular coast. The "meditations" herein reflect Dave's appreciation of the inner workings of the universe and how those inner workings manifest themselves to us, both physically and emotionally. Dave reminds us that we need but pause for a moment to be deeply touched by the sheer beauty which comprises this dream we call reality.
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PetrolWatch – February 2013: Fuel prices reach 6-month high
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PetrolWatch – February 2013: Fuel prices reach 6-month high
Motorists received a rude shock during late January and February, with petrol prices rising 11 cents a litre, or over 5 percent, in the space of a fortnight.
After increasing 4 cents on 31 January, petrol prices climbed another 7 cents to end February on $2.21 per litre in the main centres. This was the highest price since August 2012 and just 2 cents shy of the highest price ever recorded. Diesel prices rose 5 cents to finish on $1.55 per litre at most service stations, some 37 cents below the record diesel price in July 2008.
"Despite the strong exchange rate, retail prices rose sharply due to increasing commodity prices, with crude oil prices reaching their highest level since April 2012," says AA PetrolWatch spokesperson Mark Stockdale.
"The last time oil prices were this high, we were paying $2.20 per litre for petrol, when the Kiwi dollar was worth 82 US cents and taxes were 2 cents lower," Mr Stockdale added.
According to AA PetrolWatch, the imported cost of petrol rose 11 cents per litre, and diesel 7 cents, between 18 January and 13 February.
"However, at the end of February the imported cost of petrol fell nearly 4 cents per litre, and diesel 2 cents, despite a reduction in the exchange rate. At current commodity prices, the fuel companies' importer margins have risen above average, so the AA would expect retailers to cut pump prices shortly," Mr Stockdale said.
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THE Brunhilda of Melbourne, Brynne Edelsten, has undergone a ''shock transformation'', proclaims New Idea. It was a change she had to have, apparently, and the mag has never before seen photos of it. Alas, it's neither a sex change nor a change of heart.
Clearly the 28-year-old and the magazine with her startled cleavage on its cover have never read Peter Mayle's helpful guides to human reproduction and puberty: Where did I come from? and What's Happening to Me?. If they had, then they probably wouldn't have found Edelsten's ''transformation'' quite so shocking.
The photos are of the Dancing With the Stars contestant as a baby, child and teenager. Her shock transformation has been to comply with the various developmental protocols outlined in the laws of nature - in a loose, silicone-loving sort of way - and grow from baby to child to adolescent to physically mature adult. Also, Edelsten was shy as a teenager and now she's not.
Elsewhere, the magazine has loads of photos of the famous, infamous and unknown who have lost weight - by dropping fat cells or babies - and now look liked dropped trifles. We learn the cast of the 1978 musical Grease are 33 years older than they were 33 years ago and that Suri Cruise's wardrobe is worth $3.1 million.
LeAnn Rimes points out that she is ''not too thin'' - but no one seems to have asked the obvious question: not too thin for what? To be used to drill fence-post holes?
Woman's Day, reveals that J.K. Rowling has brought a property in Tasmania and it has rooms on the inside and a garden on the outside. Given that, according to the mag, Rowling earns $1.6 million every three days it seems frugal of her not to have bought the whole island and the big lump to its north while she was at it


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Is this burning feeling common? I am 3 weeks post op. I feel great with little swelling. But my torso feels like it has severe sunburn all the time. I have read that is from the nerves being stretched and they have to adjust. Any advice... READ COMMENT
You can certainly still swell and probably are. I don't like the view from behind! I'm 3 weeks post op and still not completely standing straight. The tightness in front pulls my back side in so my butt looks bad! Scares me! I think... READ COMMENT
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So sorry this happened to you Nikki. I'm feeling a little discouraged and frustrated at 3 weeks. I tend to think I'm going to bounce back so quick from everything. This is a slow process. I'm just anxious to feel normal and to be able... READ COMMENT
Wow! That's wonderful! So nice to be encouraged by someone who's farther along! I am 11 days post op. I can see how feeling better each day is going to be great but also a struggle. I want to do things but my body isn't ready yet.... READ COMMENT


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You can access your Council Tax and Business Rates accounts online and set up a direct debit.
- Make an online payment (Please note that a surcharge of 1.5% will be added to payments made by credit card. Debit cards are free)
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The Vancouver Canucks are keeping defenceman Lee Sweatt on their roster and moving him to the long-term injury list after it was discovered he had suffered a broken foot at practice last week.
The Canucks originally had designated the 25-year-old from Illinois to be sent to the Moose today after playing in his first three NHL games last week.
Injured players are not permitted to be assigned to the minors.
The Moose said today it's likely Sweatt will be out betweeen four and six weeks, making his return about mid-March at best. He has played 41 AHL games so far this season.
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After events in Chile, Scotland, France and Italy, the Enduro World Series headed to Winter Park, Colorado for its 5th round. At 9,000 feet, oxygen debt was already in play at the start line. The first two stages consisted of Trestles Bike Park's fast and flowy trails, with a good dose of techy tests thrown in for good measure.
Young phenom Richie Rude took top honors in both of day one's stages, besting Yeti teammate Jared Graves and Specialized's Mitch Ropelato on Stage 1 and Giant's Yoann Barelli and Graves on Stage 2.
Specialized Bicycles' Anneke Beerten won Stage 1 for the women, ahead of Anne Caroline Chausson and Tracy Moseley, who started the event with the number-one plate. Stage 2 re-shuffled the order, with Chausson taking top honors from Moseley and Beerten.
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What is this thing? This thing called love, that is. For answers, we explore the romance novel industry, a $1.5 billion empire run almost entirely by and for women. Plus, relearning the rules of romance from the other side of the gender line. And Sarah Vowell tells the story of the Greatest Romance of the 20th Century.
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Tree House, Clapham
If you imagined a place where someone would build a zero carbon house, you'd probably picture a woodland glade or a quiet corner in the country. You wouldn't think of a neglected wilderness on an otherwise built up street in Clapham. But this is where you'll find Tree House, the brainchild of Will Anderson and Ford Hickson.
From September 2004 when the clearing of the site began, a dedicated team of workers helped to create their vision of a house which would work in harmony with the nature already in residence.
The central inspiration for the design was the sycamore tree on the site. The aim was for the building to work like a tree, being an adaptable and beautiful timber structure taking its energy from the sun. The timber clad staircase curving up the front of the house creates a trunk-like form and at the top of the house exposed branch-like trusses hold up the roof.
The house was built using many reclaimed, recycled and second hand materials and products. Sustainable timber was used for the main structure and the roof tiles were made using recycled plastic. Recycled newspaper forms the wall insulation and reclaimed teak the flooring material. Even the paints used were environmentally sound, being fully organic and therefore containing none of the toxic ingredients of more traditional products.
The house was designed to be as insulated and airtight as possible. What heating and hot water is needed is supplied by the solar thermal panel on the roof and the ground source heat pump in conjunction with the underfloor heating system. Electricity comes from photovoltaic panels, also on the roof.
To cut down on water needs, ultra-low flush toilets were fitted along with efficient taps, showers and appliances. Rainwater fills an underground cistern and is used in the garden.
The aim was for more energy to be generated by the house than it consumed, with the surplus being exported to the grid. This was achieved in the first year, with a net total of 25KWh going to the grid. In year 2 this increased to 104KWh. Water consumption was calculated as being 90 litres less per person that the national average, a total of 62 litres per person per day instead of 152 litres.
Although energy efficiency and function were central concerns in the design of the house, purely decorative elements were added as well. Both contemporary and reclaimed stained glass was used in the house itself and reclaimed metal was used to make the fire inspired garden fence (pictured).
The house takes up only a third of the plot, leaving plenty of room for the existing animal residents in an organic garden with flowers to attract bees, butterflies and other insects and places to nest for birds, bats, bees and wasps. A small pond was also built to bring even more wildlife into the garden.
For more information on the house go to www.treehouseclapham.org.uk . The site includes Will Anderson's diary notes detailing the whole project, information on suppliers and photos and drawings to inspire your own self build ambitions.
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Hello friends!
Man I cannot believe its Friday before a three day weekend and I am at home sick as a dog :-/. Everyone in my office was sick all last week and the beginning of this week, so I knew in the back of my mind I was going to catch the bug too, but I was still hoping it would skip me! No such luck. So here I am blogging from my couch praying that this sickness goes away before this weekend!
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For 18-years Lori Jordan Isley has excelled in her career as a public service attorney. She has worn numerous advocacy hats and she is currently the managing attorney at Columbia Legal Services (CLS) – Yakima where she represents the economically underprivileged ranging from individual clients fighting for basic needs to a class of more than 600 farm workers in ground-breaking class action litigation. She participates in farm worker outreach, contributes to legislative advocacy, and serves as a mentor to young attorneys and law students. Ms. Isley is best described as a relentless advocate for the underprivileged, a strong and giving leader, and a keeper of the spirit of selfless service.
Early in her education Ms. Isley switched her major from computer science to political science. She then dedicated herself to earning a degree in law and becoming part of a sustainable organized effort to empower underrepresented people. As an attorney, Ms. Isley has done just that and is equipped with not only the legal tools necessary to help others, but a life's journey that connects her to her clients. She comes from a large family, second generation Irish on her mother's side. Her forbears did the work familiar to many immigrants; working in mines, as janitors, cleaning and serving food, and taking in laundry to make ends meet. She knows what hard work is and witnessed selfless sacrifice in her own home. Her grandfather was an immigrant from Ireland who proudly shared his birth date with the celebration of our nation's Independence Day. Along with Ms. Isley's parents, he instilled in their family a profound work ethic, value of education, and gratitude for opportunity. Their family legacy is that of sacrifice and opportunity – the legacy of an American family – making it possible for their children and grandchildren to become educated and enjoy a better life.
Knowing the challenges her grandparents faced in life without a college education, Ms. Isley's choices were greatly influenced by her family background. She possesses a deep-rooted belief that one should always give back to the community. Ms. Isley believes that if an individual has the opportunity to get an education, it is great to be able to use it in service of others. She has done just that by utilizing her career as an advocate to open doors of opportunity for others, and by using her legal training to bring a voice to the many who are silenced by poverty and oppression.
During Ms. Isley's first grueling year of law school she began to lose perspective and questioned her decision to pursue a legal career. She discussed this with her father, who reminded her that those who face severe economic challenges needed her heart and logic to voice the injustices they suffer. This talk gave her a new resolve to continue with law school. Northeastern School of Law was a good fit for Ms. Isley. Northeastern offered students the opportunity gain practical skills by the end of the first year of law school. At the conclusion of the first year, students begin working in clerkship-type positions in law firms in rotations of three months. During these "co-op" experiences, Ms. Isley worked for various law organizations and found her passion in fighting for the poor.
Ms. Isley's first co-op placement was with California Legal Rural Association (CRLA) in Salinas, California. During her time at CRLA, she was introduced to the practice of public interest law and, impact litigation, by working on a housing class action. Her stay at CRLA laid a foundation for what later became her career with a similar community in a similar city, where her focus has turned to class action lawsuits aimed at benefiting low-wage workers.
Following CRLA, Ms. Isley worked for a Federal District Court Magistrate, where she read attorney memoranda, wrote memos to inform judicial opinions, and experienced the courtroom from the inside. As an advocate today, these are the skills she taps into as what she described as being an ambassador or a diplomat working to resolve issues for low income people within our legal system.
As she continued her legal studies, she felt she found a home working for civil legal services, and so she decided that working in the criminal area for her next legal adventure would help her to figure out if she was correct in her preference. This next co-op experience, working for a criminal defenders organization in Alaska, provided exactly the experience she had hoped to have. During her stay in Alaska, Ms. Isley was able to participate in trial work. She second-chaired a criminal jury trial and worked closely with the attorney. This attorney involved her in jury selection soliciting her opinion and strategically using her skill to benefit the client. Ms. Isley was also able to be part of the trial itself in addition to its preparation. From observing the attorney's skill in using her as a law student, she gained perspective that has positively influenced her work with law students today. After this experience she was certain that, while there is great need for indigent representation in criminal matters as well as civil, she could best use her talents to address poverty from the civil side of things.
Back in her preferred legal field, Ms. Isley's final co-op was working with DNA – Legal Services on the Navajo Reservation. At the reservation Ms. Isley walked into a local grocery store and was the only white person present. She then understood for the first time in her life what it was like not to be in the majority. This experience strengthened her resolve to represent all persons in need, and Ms. Isley worked hard to gain the trust and respect of the Navajo people in order to advocate on their behalf. Overall, this opportunity provided a foundation for what later became her career in the Yakima Valley working with different groups, cultures, and in different languages.
In retrospect, each of Ms. Isley's experiences in law school was a stepping stone along the path to the career in which she excels today. She works for the good of those in need. She is an example of zealous advocacy for low-income people: fighting for payment of wages earned, adequate housing, access to healthcare, equal opportunity to receive an education and dignified treatment. When asked what she sees as the solution to the restriction on resources in the face of daunting need, Ms. Isley gives a very simple response: end poverty.
Ms. Isley is a unique gift to the clients she represents, the attorneys she mentors, and the community she calls home. As her journey continues, she challenges advocates dedicated to justice – those like herself – to continually ask: "Is what we're doing getting at the underlying issue – poverty?" It is for this reason she believes her public service is two-fold: engaging in legal battles on behalf of the less fortunate and opening doors of opportunity for others so that they might find their voice and continue the fight for justice.
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JAMESTOWN – Two Jamestown men were jailed after a multi-agency drug raid on four apartments at 6 Winsor Street here about 6:40 a.m. Tuesday.
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I was in a wheelchair but using it only due to a spinal cord injury. I only used the chair for getting out of my home. At the time I was able to walk and at this point would no longer need a chair. However due to gross negligence a constructio...
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"And Verny is going to keep hers here for the summer," added Julie.
"Most of us know all the stars by heart, Verny," said Betty.
Yes, I proposed lots of them but Verny seemed to think they were meaningless.
But she had not been with the scouts when they camped at Verny's Mountain the foregoing summer.
"I'd rather sleep out under the trees, Verny, when the weather is so fine," suggested Julie.
Your idea is all right, Verny, but what will the rules cover, and why have punishments?
Why not have Verny and Betty, the two tender scouts of the troop, stay and strike camp?
Verny, do you know of any places one might choose for an objective on a hike?
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Issue No. 31, July 2011
I see myself as a man, not an autistic man.
ValedictorianThomas A. Edison High School Class of 2011
This is the picture that's worth ten thousand words, and this is the rare newsletter wherein pictures and words other than mine will tell the story. In the past month Bryce has achieved what we are affectionately calling his Trifecta—prom, graduation, and his first solo trip across the country. Typical of him, he did not arrive at any of these academic, social or emotional pinnacles in a typical way. He is no genius, nor he is the most well-spoken, outgoing, adventurous or activist student in his class. Rather, he built his achievements through plain old hard work, hour after painstaking hour, months upon years. His is the triumph of a man who understands and embraces responsibility, and places his highest premium on perseverance and integrity.
At graduation, Thomas Edison High School Assistant Director David Pontious offered this tribute to Bryce:
"Valedictorian is conferred upon the student with the highest grade point average and record of academic rigor. Before bringing this student forward I would like to state a few words about his character. He was a scholar-athlete in track and field for three out of four years during his high school career. He registered to vote on his eighteenth birthday, and he went to jury duty. How many of us can say that? He is not only a scholar, but an outstanding citizen who is an example to all of us.
"More than anything, I want to tell you that this student is humble and classy. When I approached this young man about his accomplishment, he stated with enthusiasm and sincerity, "Mr. P, I want you to know that other students worked hard too. Even though I am being recognized for this award, all of us have worked extremely hard to be here tonight and graduate."
"This speaks to his heart, which could easily fill this auditorium.
"Please congratulate Bryce Notbohm on this extremely important honor."
And in Bryce's own words:
"Thomas Edison High School has given me strength I never would have found at another school. Before I came to Edison, I thought I was mature for my age, but I had no idea how big of a challenge high school was going to be. Asking for help—aka, self-advocacy—and being a good listener were my biggest struggles, along with needing and finding social support. At Edison, everything changed into a much more positive environment.
"I'd like to thank my mom, dad, grandparents and my aunt and my uncle for getting me into and supporting me while at Edison. I thank the new friends I've made for respecting my learning difference, and my teachers for teaching me all the things that used to be hard for me, but aren't anymore. To me, graduating doesn't mean you know everything already but you've learned more about yourself while gaining in strength and responsibility, and figuring out how you can improve more in the real world as you get older.
"I'd like to offer a quote from a movie that describes my experience with my learning difference. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Sidney Poitier says to his father, 'Dad, I love you but you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.' This quote describes me. I think of myself as a man, not an autistic man.
"Once again, I would like to thank everyone at Thomas Edison High School for giving me the confidence that has made me believe in what skills I have to offer and what I can do to see more of who I am as an independent adult. To future students, I say: Don't let people use you. Never give up. And especially never let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you really want. Heath Ledger said that in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. It's still great advice."
Proud parents
Ellen and Bryce
Bryce and Brianne met in kindergarten, where she lit a warm spot in his heart that never cooled. They hadn't seen each other in four years when he decided to ask her to his school's prom, citing our family motto, "Always ask; the worst you'll get is a no." She said, "I would love to," and it was a night to remember.
Chicago, Chicago!
His cousins hosted him in style. He looks so at home in the Windy City—and he should. This is the city where his grandparents and great-grandparents were born.
Next adventures: college (he completed two courses while still in high school), driving, job-hunting. Stay tuned. . .
This Month's Reads
Autism Asperger's Digest - Perspective: Rethink, Reframe, Relate
Children's Voice - Exceptional Children: Navigating Learning Differences and Special Education
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Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, 2nd edition
The Autism Trail Guide: Postcards from the Road Less Traveled
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Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today : Comments
April 23, 2007
Why not simply:
var FLAGS = { w3: !!(document.getElementById && document.createElement), ie: !!window.ActiveX,
That's a great set of techniques!
I have a few questions, not necessarily about the techniques, but about a few JS features that I don't yet fully understand and which are covered here.
Firstly, why:
var w3 = !!(document.getElementById && document.createElement);
and not:
var w3 = (document.getElementById && document.createElement);
I don't see how the double boolean 'not' helps. Doesn't a double not have the same affect as no not at all?
Secondly, and taking the asyncRequest function as an example, I notice that the variable asyncRequest is defined as a function that contains some functions and variables – how does this relate to OOP? Is this the JS way of creating classes?
I've oft wondered how I can create class-like structures in JS such that I can make calls such as:
instead of:
Following on from this, taking the asyncRequest function as an example again, how would you call asyncRequest and how do you reference the functions within it?
If I wanted to use asyncRequest to create an AJAX-handling object, would I do something like:
var myVariable = asyncRequest();
I can see how that would be the way to go about it if asyncRequest returned an XMLHttpRequest object, but as far as I can tell asyncRequest returns a function which itself returns an XMLHttpRequest object (or MS variation thereof).
I'm a bit hazy on these areas of JS and wondered if you could clarify things a little.
Jon: (document.getElementById && document.createElement) is document.createElement, not true. I don't know how much damage you can do keeping old references around, though; maybe you can cause memory leaks in old versions of IE. I recommend installing Firebug and using it to test simple expressions.
Note how the anonymous function used to define asyncRequest is called immediately with the () at the end. It would be more explicit to define a function makeAsyncRequest() {...} then say var asyncRequest = makeAsyncRequest(), but this would leave the function around after running it.
Personally, I would say var asyncRequest then assign it in one of the tests, for more obvious code. I'd also use Tobie's code for the map.
Carey: Thanks for your comments – that certainly helps and I'll take a peek at Firebug and see how that can help.
In general, is:
var w3 = !!(document.getElementById && document.createElement);
the same as:
var w3 = (document.getElementById && document.createElement) ? true : false;
The same, that is, with respect to the value assigned to 'w3'. I'm assuming it is as I can't see why it isn't.
Given this, I'd be inclined to opt for the latter as, for me, it's more clear what value is being assigned to 'w3' and why.
That's correct, Jon, although I'd imagine that there is a tiny processing overhead in performing the if…else operation instead of a simple type conversion.
I'm sure Dustin himself will be along to field these questions as soon as he's awake. :)
Great tips. Love the scope comments, I'm a big fan.
Event delegation is especially useful if you're scripting complex things which are being added and removed to the page. When you modify the DOM, some event handlers can vanish. Event delegation can help solve this problem. I did a blurb on it a while back.
Thanks again – your insights are always inspiring. I was not surprised (maybe a little) when I reached the bottom of the article and saw your face. Few people could of written this article.
You hear stories about a Google employee exodus. It appears they're still attracting the best.
It would be great if you could take your recommendation on encapsulating entire javascript applications inside of a closure to the next level. Possibly providing working examples and best practice patterns!
Thanks for the great article. I'm a little unclear about the advantages gained by encapsulating functionality inside a closure. Is this akin to the "data hiding" concept we all were taught back in object-oriented kindergarten?
another great one from digital-web
queued @ tweako
Hello all, I'm awake now. Nice to see the article is up. In regards to the closures that you might see in odd spots, this is essentially regular practice for me. Anytime I have bare logic sitting around, I move it into a function for safeguarding purposes. That even goes for the flags, and the asyncRequest examples.
Re: asyncRequest, that's not a function that returns an instance but rather I've encapsulated the logic to get the XMLHttpRequest object, and use asyncRequest as a function that allows you to make the calls to the server. It is essentially like using YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest. The Connect object is a singleton in that case.
Re: Event Delegation; I would encourage some folks to check out Christian's article if you haven't poked around with that technique yet. It can really speed up your applications when speed is critical. This technique is used all throughout the new Yahoo Mail beta.
@Jon: Yes, those two are essentially the same. Getting into a preference of style is usually where I take a step back and allow others to do what suites them best. Nobody is right or wrong here ;)
I try to use as less closures as possible, as they are know to have big memory leaks.
Chris: That's the biggest misconception of closures. None of the closures I've demonstrated in this article create a memory leak.
Dustin, great article! I really like #7, especially in the browser scripting environment.
Awesome article Dustin. Resources like this are so valuable in tying together how modern Javascript is written. If there is one glaring missing piece of JS knowledge out there, its best practices for how to write this stuff. Thanks for your insight.
As regards the Selector example you gave, it might be much easier to simply use the generic Array methods in the new Firefox versions (and add them for other browsers)
var ids = Array.map(document.getElementsByTagName(*), function (e) { return e.id;});
I believe this method (map/reduce) is more flexible than adding arbitrary callbacks
Although the branching-technique is quite useful I think the examples are somewhat flawed.
As for the asyncRequest() example, what will happen when I want to do this:
asyncRequest('GET', 'foo.php', function(obj) { alert(obj.responseText); });
asyncRequest('GET', 'bar.php', function(obj) { alert(obj.responseText); });
And could someone please explain why this example is using an interval instead of the onreadystatechange event handler? Is there some compelling reason to do so?
As for the addListener() example, first of all be aware that addEventListener is not formally defined for the window object. Secondly try this in IE and in some other modern browser:
function clickHandler() { alert('you clicked!'); }
addListener(document, 'click', clickHandler);
addListener(document, 'click', clickHandler);
Funny how IE alerts twice right?
now let's try to create a removeListener function (I'll leave that as an excercise) and add the following line:
removeListener(document, 'click', clickHandler);
Funny how IE is still alerting twice right, while other browsers don't alert at all anymore?
@Chinnay: Callbacks are not arbitrary. The example is actually targeted for custom element collectors, and not the native implementation of getElementsByTagName. Regardless, the collector stills returns a collection that you can use later (caching). You can then use a forEach (or map for your case) to batch more functionality on it a later time.
@Tino: That's actually a good catch. It's flawed in the sense that you'd need to watch for two requests happening at the same time. To avoid that, we'd probably want to branch the object creation method which will give us new instances on each request :)
In regards to the addListener function, I don't see why having something alert twice is a problem, especially when you've assigned two listeners to it… however the removeListener function would require a little more inner-working trickery since we've created a wrapped function. You can dig into YUI's addListener function and see some of the logic they've done to work around this.
Great comments everyone! This is all very positive feedback.
Dustin: I actually use queueing in my own little Ajax framework for async requests.
Also I have seen async requests failing in Opera when reusing the XHR-instance (even when the previous request was completed). It seems to be fixed in 9.2 though so I will need to check which versions were affected. Or maybe that is why you are using the interval iso onreadystatechange?
As for addListener: the problem is that it is different behavior from the W3C event model (and thus in this example different behavior in different browsers). The DOM event specification states that "If multiple identical EventListeners are registered on the same EventTarget with the same parameters the duplicate instances are discarded." so IE's eventmodel is also lacking in this area.
I did however use the branching technique to improve the addEvent solution Dean and I came up with ;)
And sorry, I don't really like YUI – it's way too bloated and complicated
Hi Dustin,
That was a great article; I really enjoyed and appreciated it. It was refreshing to read an article with regard to best practices; I think I have only read one other thus far, and the other was more concerned with code maintenance than best practice techniques to get the most from your code.
I found it fairly easy to follow, coupled with what I have already read of the O
@Tino: You're definitely entitled to a preference in libraries, but YUI is one of the least bloated JavaScript libraries out there. It sounds like someone just never dug into the docs ;)
Thanks for digging up that info on addEventListener. I would have never known about the duplication issue that it's supposed to ignore them. I guess I've never ran into it because I have never added two duplicate listeners to the same object. If that's the case, that's an issue with IE that many addEvent functions don't take into account.
Wow, what a response Ian. I must have been posting while you were writing your story :)
I am flattered that you found it so useful. I guess unemployment got the best of me so I decided to do something practical and write something up.
re: closures; they are very powerful in many different aspects. However don't get into the habit of using them just for the sake of doing it. There are good places, and bad places, and even some that cause memory leaks (as someone pointed out (but in a completely different context)).
Reinventing the wheel (or as I like to say "innovate the wheel") is a philosophy that many developers shudder at. In one sense, it may be a bad business practice, but I rarely see the case when it's a bad engineering practice. You never know if your implementation is going to be better (eg: performance, maintenance, elegance, better API, etc). Plus, sometimes it's best just to recreate something purely for educational purposes. You can gain invaluable experience this way.
Dustin: yui_2.2.2.zip is a whopping 8MB, and even events.js is still 75KB and going through that doesn't really give me much insight in how YUI is actually solving the problem – it will take me some time to figure it out. At first glance it does a lot of things that I don't regularly need. Note that I even find prototype or Dean Edwards' Base too bloated for my needs, although they do match up to what I expect in a library ;)
Without people "reinventing the wheel" we will never have improvements over our current techniques, and I'm just a sucker to reinvent the wheel over and over again :P
Anyone not getting "branching" should check out Oliver Steele's great article on Memoization in Javascript. Essentially you can overwrite a function that does work with one that just has to return the result, and you can rewrite the function within itself!
Tino, YUI 2.2.2 is not 8MB. That zip file includes much more than just the JS files (documentation, examples and three versions of each lib). A good look at how big each YUI utility actually is can be found here: Weighing in on Pageweight.
Dustin: "unemployment got the best of me so I decided to do something practical and write something up" – I'd wholeheartedly recommend taking things one step further and get a whopping 500 page book written up on this topic!
cool stuff.
Not sure about the !! trick. Sure it's nifty, but it's often well worth the effort to streer clear of such "nifty tricks" – who ever else is reading the code is sure gonna get confused. Unless of course your enlighten them, and that isn't always possible.
@Dustin: No worries; and I know I tend to have a tendency to use an nth power of words when only n would do. Looks around innocently.
I understand that closures should not be over used, but I figure excessive in R&D and moderate in practice should work. If I think a closure might help, try it; if it doesn
Regarding your flags:
var FLAGS = { w3: function() { return !!(document.getElementById && document.createElement); }(), ie: function() { return !!window.ActiveX; }()
A couple things I'd like to ask:
1) Since JS has truthy/falsy values is the !! required at all? I don't see how you would need to cast it to a boolean in any case – if you're &&'ing two values then the result's always going to be a boolean value.
2) Why did you chose to use function()'s to get the value, rather than set the variable once? Surely this would save cycles if the function's called multiple times.
@Ian: It's good that you bring up the topic of comments and documentation.
It only takes a small amount of experience of working with code written by others to really appreciate the benefits of comments.
Well commented code significantly reduces the time it takes for another developer to understand what is going on and from this perspective a consistent commenting process should be encouraged by all companies employing more than one developer – it simply hammers down the 'What does this code do?' portion of maintenance, cutting down maintenance time and increasing productivity over a given period. Developers are happier as the work flows more evenly and companies, quite simply, save money.
UML documentation is spot-on for modelling and describing object-oriented systems, but there's no standard I'm aware of for documenting procedural code, much of which occurs in JS and much of which occurs inside OOP methods.
For purely procedural processes i.e. the internal goings on of JS functions and OOP methods, I find the following design process to be very good. This assumes you've already determined what a function needs to achieve.
1) Produce a flowchart for the logic processes.
Do this for every single function. It doesn't have to be fancy Visio, a simple pen and paper rough sketch will do, which can be computerised later if you need to share it with other developers (which, eventually, you will).
Go through the flowchart with some sets of test data, determining the values of various variables and the result of various operations as they occur. Doing this highlights logic errors that might not otherwise be apparent. Testing doesn't have to be exhaustive, just go through a set of inputs for which you can be sure of the output. Repeat until the flowchart correctly models your function logic.
2) From the flowchart, produce a set of numbered steps the function goes through.
1. Validate user name 1.1 More than 8 and less than 12 characters long? 1.2 Contains no spaces? 1.3 Doesn't start with a number?
2. Validate date of birth 2.1 …
3) Pop your list of numbered steps at the start of your function/method. Another developer can scan through this and tell what your function does without having to get near the code.
4) Pop your list of steps in again, following each step with the required code.
This let's you easily keep track of how complete your function is and is great for debugging and understanding your code.
Without comments, you can determine what a line of code does, but that on it's own is pointless without also knowing what the code should do. What it does compared to what is should do is crucial. This focuses on looking at what code should do not how it does it.
Ultimately, you don't really care how the code works (assuming the developer has used one of a selection of solutions of equal merit), you just care about what it does and how this compares to what it should do.
And the end result?
A function that:– uses comments to explain what it should do – uses code to show how it does it and what it actually does
Comments should be written such that a non-developer can scan through them and understand the working of the function without needing to know how the code actually does it.
This makes maintenance a breeze, allows developers to switch roles and code any portion by being able to see what is going on without much effort, and facilitates easy testing by allowing someone to compare what the function should do with what it actually does.
I think every company should have a strict commenting policy such as this.
Excellent article Dustin…once again.
One thing I was unclear on was the benefit of using a bridge in your example.
Dustin, FYI: I filed a bugreport concerning YUI's event-handling. YUI's model has merits but downsides as well; the fact that is doesn't adhere to the DOM level 2 event specification being one of them.
As for the 'weight' of the library: it is still 8MB I will need to read and sift through since it dictates it's own approach. I guess I just don't belong to the audience for these kind of libraries ;)
Great overview of these techniques.
In regards to #5, including a callback in a selector engine has the potential to really hurt performance. However, no one can deny the added power it would provide to filter the results by other criteria. This is why jQuery provides a filter method. You can find the docs for it here: http://docs.jquery.com/DOM/Traversing#filter.28_filter_.29
Thanks for the great article!
im really interested in the frameworks like scriptaculous and all that as an alternative to flash… even better some let you split scripts into non-intrusive code which is brilliant!
Hi Tino,
If you're going to file a bug with YUI, you might want to look into filing the same bug against Prototype, Dojo, jQuery, Mochikit, etc. I can guarantee that none of these take that bug into account.
@Brandon, I don't follow where it actually hurts the performance when adding a callback. You can always omit the callback function, and you should always cache that collection if you don't intend on adding or removing elements. As I mentioned in the article, the point is to avoid redundant looping.
@Mark: I'm not sure I follow… but it sounds like you're excited about something cool. I hope you enjoyed the article.
I understand that closures should not be over used, but I figure excessive in R&D and moderate in practice should work. If I think a closure might help, try it; if it doesn


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