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Lol. Enough of that mumbo jumbo. I stand by it completely when I say that you have the qualities to do this site well and make things take a turn for the better. You dont manipulate others or treat them in any unkind manner or fashion. And that's envious in ways it's a virtue I sometimes lack.
I know you will live up to your word and I know 3/5'th the aguement can agree to that.
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Letter from George M. Modlin to Eloise Severinson
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In this letter president Modlin addresses Dr. Eloise Severinson of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's (HEW) Office of Civil Rights about the university's efforts to recruit black students after receiving recommendations from her in a letter received March 22, 1968. He said that the admission applications for the 1968-69 session lacked efforts for recruiting black students. Modlin listed efforts that UR would take to increase black enrollment such as advertisements of courses in the Richmond Afro-American, a local black newspaper; meeting with high school counselors of Richmond City schools to discuss the programs for recruiting black students; recruiting student athletes without regard to race and UR coaches visiting predominantly black schools. At the time this letter was written black students were enrolled in six of the seven divisions of the university. Modlin noted being "greatly encouraged and pleased at our progress in making effective the equal educational opportunity policy of the University of Richmond."
Letter George M. Modlin to Eloise Severinson, 29 August 1968, RG 6.2.5 Box 25 Folder 1 "US Government: "Civil Rights" HEW 1968 and 1969," University Archives, Virginia Baptist Historical Society
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Monday, June 18, 2012
TKGA Master Knitter - more swatches
These first three are the swatches for Decreases:
For me, the most challenging was the SSK - I do the modified version in my regular knitting which isn't acceptable for the TKGA program. I think I did a fairly good job keeping it somewhat similar in sizing to the K2Tog (as it has a tendency to look bigger than the other)... but we'll wait for the Guild to give feedback for sure.
This next one is swatch #10 which includes basic Yarnovers with no decreases.
All of these still need to get blocked, but all in all, I'm pretty pleased with what I'm getting.
Until I did swatch #11.
I had to redo it a couple of times because I can't count... sigh. Thought I had it finished; but then I noticed my SSK was enormous compared to the other stitches. Since I know that it tends to get bigger because it's pulling some of the slack from the other stitches... I went in with my knitting needle to see if I could remove some of the slack from the SSK and allocated it across the other stitches. Which seemed to work - until I looked at the back. I was creating after-thought gutters in the back of my stitches - LOL! NOT going to be acceptable. Seriously?
So, we will be redoing Swatch #11 again and paying extra special attention to the SSKs while I'm doing it. I've got some references and suggestions for improvement if the extra attention isn't enough.
Bamboo Silk - Yarn yardage concerns.
I finished the body; have picked up the stitches from the waste yarn and am working the sleeves 2-at-a-time... and I have about 120 yards of yarn left. Since they are short sleeves I'm thinking I'm going to be in great shape for this after all!
So, then I got to thinking about my other top made with Bamboo Silk. The striped T has been in a project bag along with it's yarn for about 14 months. The bag has been toppled and picked up, yarn has been scattered and brought back. It's been frogged a couple of times. I realized today that I started off this final attempt with 2 1/2 balls of beige, 1 ball of peachy/pink, 1 ball of white, and 2 balls of medium blue. So about 650 yards. Um... the pattern calls for about 900 yards in my size. LOL. Ummm... might be an issue. I was SO SURE I had the right amount of yarn when I started it ages ago... but who knows what I might have been thinking/looking at... or if the yarn got 'used' for something else when I wasn't paying attention.
The good news is that I have finished the bottom-up to the top part of the body to the place where you set it aside and start working the sleeves 2-at-a-time; then you join all three pieces together and start the decreasing to the yoke all the way to the neck. Which means that the rows are going to get shorter pretty darn quick. The bad news is that I have NO idea where/when I bought this yarn and/or if I will ever find it again easily if I run short.
So, just when I thought I had it figured out and was going to be ok on yardage for one top - the other one started making me nervous. I'm about two days out from starting my vacation... so my plan is to set this aside until I get home. Then dig around under my bed (where my dog frequently hides things she wants) and see if there are a couple more balls of yarn that she had 'buried' for herself. If that doesn't turn up anything - I'll keep knitting away and wait and see. Maybe I'll get lucky and this pattern and the yardage I have will work out in the end. Though, you can bet I might just keep an eye out for it on my vacation and if I spy any (with or without the right dyelot) I will definitely be snagging it!
Friday, June 15, 2012
June Mid-Month Progress
Brioche scarf
Done with Cascade Eco Alpaca yarn - 1 full skein - just did 18 Brioche stitches until I ran out of yarn. Ended up squishy and cosy and really, really soft. I'm sure it will be extremely warm this winter. I had started this in May but just didn't focus on it much and it was my 'when I have a minute knitting'. I ended up frogging it a couple of times... but got it finished on the first of June.
One charity Hat Of the 3-4 in my goal:
Done with Wool-Ease on size 19 Addi Turbo Circular needles using Brioche. Looks just like many other hats I make. It's fast, it's quick, it's satisfying and it adds nicely to the pile of hats I will be donating to charity in the coming fall.
Double-Knit Hot Pad:
On the Needles:
- Top #1 Striped Bamboo T- about 45% done -
- Top #2 Bamboo Silk T - about 20% done -
- Masters - 9 swatches out of 16 + hat - about 45% done - separate post to follow with some details; planning; emphasis on what I still need to improve.
Still waiting to be cast-on:
- More charity hats
- X-rated Bridal Garter
- Felted Bag
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Bamboo silk T
I set this aside earlier this month because I am nervous about running out of yarn. I bought the yarn at a shop about 150 miles away and know that I can't find it locally... and odds are they don't have this color anymore, let alone the dye lot as the shelf wasn't full to start with and I bought all that I could find. But, maybe.
Wouldn't you know it, I made the trip to that town twice last weekend and did NOT manage to make it to the shop?
I decided to pick it up again and do the best I can with what I have. Worst case I run out and hit the store next month... if that doesn't work I will shop thru folk's stashes on Ravelry... maybe I can get away with extra short sleeves?
This is a top-down raglan sleeve T with a scoop neck. I have about three to four more inches to go before I switch from stockinette to lace.
The photo isn't very true to the color, its really a deep plum color.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Mid-month Progress Post on Striped-T
I have 13 1/2 inches done on the body with all of the ends woven in. The pattern suggests joining the sleeves here, but I know full well that it would end up far too short if I don't add more inches first.
The question is though ... how many more?
If this yarn didn't grow... I would add four more inches. But it does grow quite a bit. So I am currently planning on adding two more inches and give myself a rest from it and see if I end up wanting three.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
June planning
I have a shrug I made with a Caron Simply Soft Paints (still don't have a great shot of it) and I was thinking that a dark brown top half with dark brown & this paints striping in the bottom half would look great paired with the shrug. I already had enough left over after making the shrug. So all I had to do was pick up some brown to compliment it. Picked up the brown and left it in it's bag until this weekend.
Put the two together and - um - no - this is a BIG NO. It's actually a really light brown and paired next to the deep dark brown/bright reds/rich hues? NOT a good match. Duh. Suppose I ought to have held the two colors near each other BEFORE I cast on and started knitting. I took a picture to blog this - but camera is acting up and it fell off my sim card. I'll try to snag another pic tonight & try updating . . . but let's just say that is NOT the top I'll be making in June after all. I don't have anything in stash remotely close to substitute for the brown and just spent a ton on yarn as it was - so it's going to sit in the queue a little longer.
Instead - I'm going to make a Pima Silk Cotton Lace T-Shirt top - Ravelry link in Bamboo Silk in a deep, rich, vibrant Purple.
Other projects:
Finish Brioche scarf
3-4 charity hats
Double-knit hot pad
X-rated Bridal Garter
Felted Bag
Continue working on Striped T and Masters program submission.
May month end progress
- Crocheted Pullover (previously featured)
- Charity Hats - ended up only finishing three total last month
- Adult sized socks:
Used KnitPicks Comfy - ended up a bit too big. Changed to K2P2 ribbing to try to see if that would help them fit better (it didn't help enough - should have customized stitch count).
- Double-knit mini-socks:
Used Sport-weight Hobby Lobby, I Love this yarn.
Didn't love these and the afterthought heel in double-knitting? Hard, hard enough that I'm going back to the drawing board on the design plan for XMas stockings. Which was the point of doing these tiny... to give me some trial and error ideas.
- Last minute add-on:
Quick Crochet Baby Blanket - son's teacher ended up having a baby shower thrown by the kids in her class on the last day of school. I technically gave her a blanket I had made for charity previously - so I ended up putting this one on the Charity pile to replace the other.
(sorry for the poor pic quality - cell phone has a great camera; but it's having some issues lately)
80 stitches - all DC all the way - about 8 stitches / 4 rows = 4" x 4" so super fast.
- Brioche scarf (this got sidelined OFTEN during the month)
- Striped T in Silk Bamboo
- Masters Level 1 knitting


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You'll be able to post directly to Instagram by setting up your Instagram Business Profile as a new service within Sendible. Note: Instagram currently only allows the following formats for direct scheduling: single photo (.JPG and .PNG files) or video (.MOV and .MP4 files).
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With this service, you can schedule posts as you would for any other network but you will receive a push notification and email at the time of publishing. It takes only a few taps on the Sendible mobile app to publish the post on Instagram. The caption with hashtags will be automatically copied into your clipboard and you will have the chance to edit the photos or video with Instagram's editing tools.
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The Cold Inside
Chapter Forty-Nine
part three
By AL BRUNO III
Thursday January 26, 1995
Two souls contorted around one another, one trying to squirm away, the other grasping and clenching. They blasted through each layer of reality, their velocity tearing wounds into the psychic landscape. The chaos allowed ghosts to escape into the realm of Dream and nightmares to intrude upon the realm of Matter.
When they breached the barrier between the Realm of Magic and the Husk Worlds they created a shockwave that sent a dozen incomplete realities tumbling into one another. Tristam felt the last of the Soul Fire sputter and dwindle, and with it the strength of Phil and a dozen or so nameless ghosts.
"How could you survive?" Victor Kovach said, "How could you be so strong?"
Maybe you're not so tough.
"Foolish boy! We could share your body and the Monarchs' reward. We could be Lords of Creation."
The Husk Worlds streaked past them; their impossible beauty tugged at the corners of Tristam's peripheral senses. There was a primal seductiveness to them but Tristam knew they were as unreal as any dream and to lose yourself in one was a kind of damnation. Victor grasped hold of a Husk World and tried to lose his consciousness inside. For a moment they were both lost to a world of dust and impossible architecture but then Tristam sent them both careening into the teeming pandemonium of the Maelstrom.
Fucker. I know what you did. My mother- my family-
"You might have done the same thing yourself one day. You could have done anything you wanted- you have to know that. People like us, we're beyond simple morality."
I'm not like that
"Your only blunder was getting between Philip Adorskil and my vengeance. I can tell that you have a taste for revenge as well."
I'll atone for it. I'll atone for it all.
"Atone? Even after all this you still cling to such infantile fantasies? You're no hero Tristam Bloom."
Clusters of light and energy penetrated them like bullets, twisting spirit and memory out of true. Roaring waves of madness washed over them in splintered images and babbling nonsense. When it passed Tristam wondered if could he ever again be the person he has a few days ago? Or had his sins and scars already marked him forever?
"You've always been marked boy. You were marked from the day you were born for this moment, for my purpose. You're only too stupid to realize it."
Shut up.
"You are a monster Tristam, a selfish boy with the might of a godling. You might have changed the world but like Marlowe's Faust you squandered it all."
I'm not –
"And foolish too. You really thought that you could still use Phil's plan? You foolishly believe that I might be unmade by the savage power of this place?"
I'm not a monster.
"Arrogant misguided novice. The Maelstrom holds no terrors or mysteries for me. If anything I seem to be gaining strength, while you on the other hand…"
Tristam felt his grip on his adversary loosening. Every time some shard of chaos tore through him or some blast of energy struck him he felt that much more diminished. There was so much that he suddenly couldn't remember clearly- Phil's lessons, the names of his friends, his mother's smile. He could feel them just out of reach, tantalizing him.
"All your struggling and all for nothing."
I'm not done with you!
There was still momentum left; the Maelstrom spilled past them, a jetsam of failed realities and broken minds. The Husk Worlds might only have been shadows but at least there was a certainty to them, the places here were like empty fishbowls, lifeless and purposeless.
"I've toyed with you long enough."
The Maelstrom boiled; shapes large as moons wafted into their path, knots of illumination were carried along in their wake. Victor struck at Tristam again, tearing at his wounds and opening fresh ones. Tristam found he was barely able to think. All but he knew was what he had to do, and that he was being depended on; that someone had faith in him despite everything.
But who? He wasn't sure, all he had now were rough images of different faces- was one of them his?
"Pathetic. No better than a ghost."
Slowly the Heart of the Maelstrom resolved itself, a seething havoc of the half-formed and half-consumed. Whole worlds- or perhaps it was just the dream of those worlds- crashed against its surface, other impossible shapes were spat free to blunder and float through the chaos. There was a gravity here, drawing them ever closer, ever deeper.
"Let go of me. You are nothing. Let go of me!"
It was impossible to be this close to the Heart of the Maelstrom and not be changed by it. Tristam could feel parts of himself melding with his adversary; he could feel his thoughts seeping from his mind. All around him the Maelstrom was erupting into a self-consuming madness of matter and shadow. Tristam could remember someone warning him not to get too close to the Heart, to throw his enemy inside and flee. But how could he do such a thing when he could no longer remember where he ended and Victor Kovach began?
Kovach? Where do I know that name from?
"Let go! I am the chosen of the Monarchs, this cannot be!"
Two souls, locked together and fraying apart, plunged into the heart of the Maelstrom.


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I wrote my first few lines of JavaScript not long after the language was invented. If you told me at the time that I would one day be writing a series of articles about elegant patterns in JavaScript, I would have laughed you out of the room. I thought of JavaScript as a strange little language that barely even qualified as "real programming."
Well, a lot has changed in the 20 years since then. I now see in JavaScript what Douglas Crockford saw when he wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts: "An outstanding, dynamic programming language … with enormous, expressive power."
So, without further ado, here is a wonderful little pattern I've been using in my code lately. I hope you come to enjoy it as much as I have.
Please note : I'm pretty sure I did not invent any of this. Chances are I came across it in other people's code and eventually adopted it myself.
Receive an object, return an object (RORO)
Most of my functions now accept a single parameter of type
object and many of them return or resolve to a value of type
object as well.
Thanks in part to the destructuring feature introduced in ES2015, I've found this to be a powerful pattern. I've even given it the silly name, "RORO" because… branding? 🤷♂
Note: Destructuring is one of my favorite features of modern JavaScript. We're going to be taking advantage of it quite a bit throughout this article, so if you're not familiar with it, here's a quick video from Beau Carnes to get you up to speed.
Here are some reasons why you'll love this pattern:
- Named parameters
- Cleaner default parameters
- Richer return values
- Easy function composition
Let's look at each one.
Named Parameters
Suppose we have a function that returns a list of Users in a given Role and suppose we need to provide an option for including each User's Contact Info and another option for including Inactive Users, traditionally we might write:
function findUsersByRole (
) {...}
A call to this function might then look like:
Notice how ambiguous those last two parameters are. What does "true, true" refer to?
What happens if our app almost never needs Contact Info but almost always needs Inactive Users? We have to contend with that middle parameter all the time, even though it's not really relevant (more on that later).
In short, this traditional approach leaves us with potentially ambiguous, noisy code that's harder to understand and trickier to write.
Let's see what happens when we receive a single object instead:
function findUsersByRole ({
}) {...}
Notice our function looks almost identical except that we've put braces around our parameters. This indicates that instead of receiving three distinct parameters, our function now expects a single object with properties named
withContactInfo, and
This works because of a JavaScript feature introduced in ES2015 called Destructuring.
Now we can call our function like this:
role: 'admin',
withContactInfo: true,
includeInactive: true
This is far less ambiguous and a lot easier to read and understand. Plus, omitting or re-ordering our parameters is no longer an issue since they are now the named properties of an object.
For example, this works:
withContactInfo: true,
role: 'admin',
includeInactive: true
And so does this:
role: 'admin',
includeInactive: true
This also makes it possible to add new parameters without breaking old code.
One important note here is that if we want all the parameters to be optional, in other words, if the following is a valid call…
… we need to set a default value for our parameter object, like so:
function findUsersByRole ({
} = {}) {...}
An added benefit of using destructuring for our parameter object is that it promotes immutability. When we destructure the
object on its way into our function we assign the object's properties to new variables. Changing the value of those variables will not alter the original object.
Consider the following:
const options = {
role: 'Admin',
includeInactive: true
function findUsersByRole ({
} = {}) {
role = role.toLowerCase()
console.log(role) // 'admin'
console.log(options.role) // 'Admin'
Even though we change the value of
role the value of
options.role remains unchanged.
It's worth noting that destructuring makes a_ shallow _copy so if any of the properties of our parameter object are of a complex type (e.g.
array or
object) changing them would indeed affect the original.
Cleaner Default Parameters
With ES2015 JavaScript functions gained the ability to define default parameters. In fact, we recently used a default parameter when we added
={} to the parameter object on our
findUsersByRole function above.
With traditional default parameters, our
findUsersByRole function might look like this.
function findUsersByRole (
withContactInfo = true,
) {...}
If we want to set
includeInactive to
true we have to explicitly pass
undefined as the value for
withContactInfo to preserve the default, like this:
How hideous is that?
Compare it to using a parameter object like so:
function findUsersByRole ({
withContactInfo = true,
} = {}) {...}
Now we can write…
role: 'Admin',
includeInactive: true
… and our default value for
withContactInfo is preserved.
BONUS: Required Parameters
How often have you written something like this?
function findUsersByRole ({
} = {}) {
if (role == null) {
throw Error(...)
Note: We use double equals (==) above to test for both
null and
undefined with a single statement.
What if I told you that you could use default parameters to validate required parameters instead?
First, we need to define a
requiredParam() function that throws an Error.
Like this:
function requiredParam (param) {
const requiredParamError = new Error(
`Required parameter, "${param}" is missing.`
// preserve original stack trace
if (typeof Error.captureStackTrace === 'function') {
throw requiredParamError
I know, I know. requiredParam doesn't RORO. That's why I said many of my functions — not all .
Now, we can set an invocation of
requiredParam as the default value for
role, like so:
function findUsersByRole ({
role = requiredParam('role'),
} = {}) {...}
With the above code, if anyone calls
findUsersByRole without supplying a
role they will get an
Error that says
Required parameter, "role" is missing.
Technically, we can use this technique with regular default parameters as well; we don't necessarily need an object. But this trick was too useful not to mention.
Richer Return Values
JavaScript functions can only return a single value. If that value is an
object it can contain a lot more information.
Consider a function that saves a
User to a database. When that function returns an object it can provide a lot of information to the caller.
For example, a common pattern is to "upsert" or "merge" data in a save function. Which means, we insert rows into a database table (if they do not already exist) or update them (if they do exist).
In such cases, it would be handy to know wether the operation performed by our Save function was an
INSERT or an
UPDATE. It would also be good to get an accurate representation of exactly what was stored in the database, and it would be good to know the status of the operation; did it succeed, is it pending as part of a larger transaction, did it timeout?
When returning an object, it's easy to communicate all of this info at once.
Something like:
async saveUser({
upsert = true,
}) {
// save to the DB
return {
operation, // e.g 'INSERT'
status, // e.g. 'Success'
saved: userInfo
Technically, the above returns a
Promise that resolves to an
object but you get the idea.
Easy Function Composition
"Function composition is the process of combining two or more functions to produce a new function. Composing functions together is like snapping together a series of pipes for our data to flow through." — Eric Elliott
We can compose functions together using a
pipe function that looks something like this:
function pipe(...fns) {
return param => fns.reduce(
(result, fn) => fn(result),
The above function takes a list of functions and returns a function that can apply the list from left to right, starting with a given parameter and then passing the result of each function in the list to the next function in the list.
Don't worry if you're confused, there's an example below that should clear things up.
One limitation of this approach is that each function in the list must only receive a single parameter. Luckily, when we RORO that's not a problem!
Here's an example where we have a
saveUser function that pipes a
userInfo object through 3 separate functions that validate, normalize, and persist the user information in sequence.
function saveUser(userInfo) {
return pipe(
We can use a rest parameter in our
normalize, and
persist functions to destructure only the values that each function needs and still pass everything back to the caller.
Here's a bit of code to give you the gist of it:
function validate(
email = requiredParam(),
username = requiredParam(),
pass = requiredParam(),
) {
// do some validation
return {
function normalize(
) {
// do some normalizing
return {
async function persist({
upsert = true,
}) {
// save userInfo to the DB
return {
saved: info
To RO or not to RO, that is the question
I said at the outset, most of my functions receive an object and many of them return an object too.
Like any pattern, RORO should be seen as just another tool in our tool box. We use it in places where it adds value by making a list of parameters more clear and flexible and by making a return value more expressive.
If you're writing a function that will only ever need to receive a single parameter, then receiving an
object is overkill. Likewise, if you're writing a function that can communicate a clear and intuitive response to the caller by returning a simple value, there is no need to return an
An example where I almost never RORO is assertion functions. Suppose we have a function
isPositiveInteger that checks wether or not a given parameter is a positive integer, such a function likely wouldn't benefit from RORO at all.
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I think the biggest problem I have with using this approach as a matter of course is that, great, you have a simple signature and can return whatever you want, but unless you put some serious effort into generating and maintaining documentation, it's impossible to use your function effectively without understanding it in its entirety. A signature that enumerates its arguments tells you how to use it, making API docs an improvement rather than a necessity. Primitive return values are similarly easier to process.
It makes sense if you're really dealing in, say, configuration objects, states, and other naturally complex values. But that's because functions that operate on complex objects are understood in complex terms. When you come into
render(), decomposition works great because you're thinking about your
props and your
state. Replacing ordinary arguments and return values is a different story: it may make a function look nicer at first glance, but it's harder to work with in any context larger than the function by itself -- which includes practically every case except the unit tests.
Thank you for your feedback Dian.
I first encountered the concept of receiving a single object rather than individual parameters back when jQuery ruled the world. Some functions in jQuery – especially those related to
$ajax – received a so-called options object.
Back then, I didn't like this pattern at all for the exact reasons you mentioned; I found that it made functions more opaque and added complexity that could only be overcome by adding more documentation.
Since then, two things happened which changed my mind. The first is the advent of destructuring syntax. The second, equally important change, is in the sophistication of our code editors.
For example, here is how VS Code treats my
findUserByRole function. No extra documentation needed.
I use options objects myself in Massive -- it's the only way to keep signature size under a sane maximum when you have a dozen different things that can affect the shape of your results and don't want to move to a builder-style pattern. The tradeoff is that I have to be very careful with documentation; that and the fact that the options are a known set applied consistently across the API are why it's usable at all.
Destructuring is more a convenience than a compelling argument for working like this. You could always pass objects and return objects; now you can express it a bit more elegantly, but it's still the same concept. What really enables you is your editor, and that's not something I'd be willing to depend on. People use other editors with different featuresets, and even if everyone standardized on VSCode, syntax tree analysis isn't available when you're reading diffs or browsing an open source codebase on the web. Readability as plain text is critical, and sacrificing that to achieve an architecture that actually increases local complexity seems like a bad trade for most cases.
Thanks again for your feedback.
I would argue that we are actually increasing plain text readability rather than diminishing it.
In terms of reading the function signature, I don't think the extra curly braces impede readability. And, in terms of reading code that consumes our function, I think a destructured parameter object has the advantage.
Imagine coming across the following examples in plain text...
findUsersByRole('admin', true, true)
role: 'admin',
withContactInfo: true,
includeInactive: true
...isn't the second one clearer? Especially when we are in a plain text environment that can't easily navigate to the function's signature.
Essentially what you have with this example is a criteria object. This is another instance where the idea works out okay, because you're approaching the unary argument as criteria, not as a discrete role and flags. You don't even really need destructuring to work with it: you can just iterate
Object.keys and pop the values into your prepared statement parameters or analogous structure.
Where the real problems start to pop up is when you bundle information that shouldn't be bundled. Think
dispatchMessage('channel', 'message', true) versus
dispatchMessage({channel: 'channel', message: 'message', emitOnReceipt: true}). It's true that you can make an educated guess as to what
emitOnReceipt does without having to look at
dispatchMessage's signature. But are there other behaviors? Can
message itself be a complex object? What happens if I pass a "meta-message" object that contains x, y, z other fields (even if the function destructures arguments immediately,
arguments is still around to make things interesting)?
A well-formed signature does as well with some of these kinds of questions as what's arguably an abuse of anonymous objects, and does better with others; notably, the possibility of pollution is obviated. If you're going to operate on a "meta-message" concept that ties these disparate values together, it should be a proper class. And sometimes it's worth doing that! But throwing anonymous objects around is something that really needs to be considered carefully.
These kinds of API usage issues can be avoided by using flow or TypeScript and a suitable editor. Code completion will tell you exactly what you can put into the options argument, and what to expect from the result. The actual downside in this approach lies elsewhere: constructing these additional "message" objects takes time. So I would not advice using this technique too excessively, especially in performance-critical regions of the code.
Great to have you here Bill!
I love this pattern and use this almost all the time. It's obviously informative and clearer to read.
The only time it causes problem is when we have to write same arguments over and over in different lines.
I really like this article, it is pretty good explained and the examples are very clear and easy to understand :)
Not sure I'd use it in many places but definitely interesting. But how did I not know about that required parameter pattern?? Definitely adding that everywhere.


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I took this picture of the Oneida County Courthouse when I went over to do a signing of some estate planning documents in Malad, Idaho on 2 February 2019.
When I sprayed lawns in Malad I used to admire the design of the building. There have been updates that have not held true to the character of the building. But as a student of art deco, it was always a happy sight. The above picture was a Saturday so the building was not open.
This is another example of a WPA and is a sister building to another building I used to frequent, the Jerome County Courthouse. Now the Jerome County Administration Building.
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Match Preview: Brighton v West Ham
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Blast from the past
Today's blast from the past features a 1-0 victory at the Goldstone Ground, West Ham United's first ever win away to tomorrow's opponents, Brighton. It arrived nearly 106 years ago, on the 13th December 1913 in front of 6,000 spectators. H. H. Asquith was Prime Minister and, the day before, the stolen Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after Vincenzo Perugia was arrested while trying to sell it. Music hall singer Alec Hurley had died the previous week – Hurley was the second husband of music hall singer and comedienne Marie Lloyd, who was best known for her performances of 'My Old Man (Said Follow The Van)'.
22-year-old Lincolnshire-born forward Dick Leafe (pictured), formerly of Boston Town, Grimsby and Sheffield United, scored the only goal of the game as the Hammers ran out 1-0 winners – it was Leafe's tenth goal in 15 games since making his debut three months earlier. When Leafe retired from playing in 1922, having scored 44 goals in 106 appearances for West Ham United, he took on the job of assistant secretary at the club until the management was forced to reduce the staff at the outbreak of World War Two.
Syd King's Hammers ended the 1913/14 season sixth in the Southern League First Division; Leafe finished the season as the club's top scorer with 21 goals in 37 matches. Brighton were to finish seventh. Swindon won the Southern League First Division, Blackburn won the league title and Burnley won the FA Cup.
West Ham United: Tommy Lonsdale, Tom Brandon, George Irvine, Tommy Randall, Bill Askew, Dan Woodards, Herbert Ashton, Syd Puddefoot, Bertie Denyer, Dick Leafe, George Hilsdon.
Club Connections
Players who have appeared for both clubs include:
Defenders: Len Young, Dennis Burnett, Mauricio Taricco, Tommy McAteer, Matthew Upson, Keith McPherson, William Kelly and Wayne Bridge.
Midfielders: Sebastien Carole, Bertie Lutton, John Payne, George Parris and Tony Stokes.
Strikers: Brian Dear, Sam Baldock, Tommy Dixon, Justin Fashanu, Greg Campbell, Paul Kitson, Sam Jennings, Sam Small, Herbert Lyon, Bobby Zamora, Dave Sexton and Mike Small.
In addition, Alan Curbishley played for both clubs and managed West Ham. Ex-Hammers Archie Macaulay, Chris Hughton and Liam Brady have managed Brighton.
This week's focus though is on a goalkeeper who was with the Hammers either side of the Second World War before ending his playing career with the Seagulls. Harry Medhurst was born in Byfleet, Surrey on 5th February 1916 and started his career at Woking. At the age of 20, he agreed to turn professional by moving to Charlie Paynter's Second Division West Ham United in 1936. Medhurst had to wait two years to make his Hammers debut, finally appearing between the posts in a 1-0 win over Fulham at Upton Park on Christmas Eve 1938. He took over from established custodian Herman Conway for all but one of the remaining 27 matches of the 1938/39 campaign, which saw the Irons finish 11th. Medhurst kept nine clean sheets in his 26 appearances during his first season of competitive football in east London – he is pictured below, claiming the ball in a 3-3 FA Cup fourth round draw with Tottenham at the Boleyn Ground on 21st January 1939, a match played in front of an official attendance of 42,716.
Medhurst played in the first three games of the 1939/40 season before the Football League was suspended due to the outbreak of World War Two. Medhurst rose to the rank of Sergeant PTI (Physical Training Instructor) in the Army, having served with the Essex and Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1946. The regiment was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army – during the war, it defended the approaches to London in the Blitz and Operation Diver (the codename for countermeasures against the V-1 flying bomb campaign launched by the Luftwaffe in 1944, 'Diver' being the codename for the V-1 itself) before becoming a garrison unit in the liberation of Norway.
Medhurst played 134 matches for West Ham during hostilities, in the War League South, War League South Cup, London League, London War Cup and the Football League War Cup. The Hammers would indeed win the Football League War Cup in 1940, with Medhurst keeping a clean sheet in a 2-0 win at Chelsea in the second leg of the first round to see the side safely through to the next round against Leicester. Wartime service requirements restricted Medhurst to just this one outing in the competition, with Conway keeping goal as the Irons defeated the Foxes, Huddersfield, Birmingham and Fulham en route to a Wembley Final victory over Blackburn. Paynter successfully lobbied for Medhurst and Norman Corbett, who arrived at Wembley in his soldier's uniform in time to take part in the post-match celebrations, to receive winners' medals for their contributions to the cup run. Medhurst also guested for Sheffield Wednesday while based in Yorkshire during the conflict.
Medhurst stayed with the Second Division Hammers when the Football League resumed in 1946/47, and played the first three games of that season, his final outing for West Ham coming in a 2-0 home defeat to Leicester on 7th September 1946. The presence of George Taylor and Ernie Gregory in the Hammers goalkeeping ranks led to the 30-year-old Medhurst being allowed to depart for First Division Chelsea in December 1946 in exchange for England international centre-forward Joe Payne (Payne still holds the Football League record for the most goals scored in one game, bagging ten in a 12-0 win for Luton over Bristol Rovers in a Third Division South match in April 1936). Medhurst had made 170 appearances for the Irons, although only 27 were in official Football League matches, with a further nine in the FA Cup.
Medhurst made 157 appearances for Chelsea during his six years in west London before joining Brighton in November 1952. He made 12 appearances for the Seagulls, helping them to a seventh-placed finish in the Third Division South in 1952/53 before retiring from playing at the end of that season, aged 37. Medhurst was also a keen cricketer, playing as a right-handed batsman for Cambridgeshire in the Minor Counties Championship from 1950 until 1953.
Medhurst returned to Stamford Bridge fulfilling various roles as a trainer, head first-team coach and physiotherapist until his retirement in 1975. Chelsea awarded him a Testimonial match against West Ham the following year. Harry's assistant physio in the 1960s and '70s had been his son, Norman, who went on to work with England at European Championships and World Cups, including Italia '90. Harry Medhurst died in Woking on 9th April 1984, at the age of 68. His son, Norman, passed away in June 2017.
The referee on Saturday will be 40-year-old Anthony Taylor – his most recent Irons appointment was for our 1-0 win at Tottenham in April. He also refereed our 4-2 FA Cup fourth round defeat at Wimbledon in January last season, as well as our 3-2 home win over Crystal Palace in December and our 4-0 opening-day defeat at Liverpool last August.
Controversy and incident are never far away when the Cheshire-based official is the referee for a West Ham United match. Taylor was in charge for our 2-1 opening-day defeat at Chelsea in August 2016, awarding the home side a penalty and later controversially failing to issue a second yellow card to Diego Costa for an awful lunge at Adrian – Costa remained on the pitch to score the 89th-minute winner. Taylor also awarded a controversial and ultimately match-winning penalty to Liverpool at Upton Park in April 2014, while there was also controversy surrounding Guy Demel's equaliser for West Ham in that game. Taylor is also the referee who had not one, but two red cards rescinded from the same game after he had sent off Carlton Cole and Darron Gibson in the Hammers' 2-1 home defeat to Everton in December 2012. He sent off the home side's Kevin Mirallas against the Hammers at Goodison Park in March 2016 and awarded the Toffees a penalty which Romelu Lukaku saw saved by Adrian.
Possible line-ups
Brighton are likely to be without right-back Ezequiel Schelotto, midfielder Yves Bissouma and winger Jose Izquierdo – alongside Glenn Murray, Izquierdo has often been the scourge of West Ham United in recent seasons. The Seagulls have won three and drawn one of the last four meetings between the two sides.
West Ham United are without the injured Mark Noble. Jack Wilshere should be available but Felipe Anderson and Sebastien Haller are doubts.
Possible Brighton XI: Ryan; Burn, Duffy, Dunk; Montoya, Stephens, Propper, March; Gross, Locadia; Maupay.
Possible West Ham United XI: Fabianski; Fredericks, Balbuena, Diop, Masuaku; Rice; Antonio, Wilshere, Snodgrass, Lanzini; Haller.
Enjoy the game – Up The Hammers!
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'Put women in positions of power and set a great example' @photomatt on the role of women in WordPress and technology #wceu
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@photomatt Appreciated the way you (gently) called out the 'I love woman' guy. That was good #wceu
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You shouted out ›We love women‹, but […] if you're a woman how would that make you feel? […] We have to be conscious of even the things that we might say subconsciously. (applause) […] Even subconsciously we could say things that might make people feel more or less welcome. And so I think that for every single person in the room, if you can put yourself in someone else's shoes and also just think how do I help this other person feel more comfortable, that's probably a great foundation that we then can build things on in the future.
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Helen Hou-Sandi wrote about this topic with own experiences:
Let's be better. As an open source community, I do believe that the WordPress one is generally friendlier, more welcoming, and more diverse than many others. But we can't rest on that – we need to keep being the best people we can be, and that includes taking a moment to think about the effects your words and actions might have on the people who are exposed to them.
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Zamalek have parted ways with former Orlando Pirates head coach Milutin Sredojevic.
Reports emerged on Monday night Sredojevic was as good as gone after he was reported to have missed training on Monday.
While Zamalek are yet to release a formal statement to confirm Sredojevic's departure, the Serbian mentor changed his Twitter bio on Tuesday by removing the 'head coach of Zamalek SC' title.
He then listed some of the teams he previously coached and listed Zamalek as one of them.
Several media houses reported Sredojevic was fired but South African broadcaster Robert Marawa, quoted the coach, saying he is actually the one who asked to be relieved of his duties.
"Starting the journey with honeymoon winning Egyptian Cup & looking for much better in the season all got stucked with players not being paid for 4 months & after today refusing to train I requested my agent to part ways with Zamalek & move on in new upcoming challenges." ~MICHO— robertmarawa (@robertmarawa) December 2, 2019
The 50-year-old mentor joined the Egyptian giants from the Sea Robbers in August after two seasons in South Africa.
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Sredojevic, under immense pressure from both the club and fans alike, failed the test as Zamalek lost 3-0 to the Lubumbashi-based side on Saturday.
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– December 14: Voices of Inclusion Choral Ensemble VOICE, Cecily Dodge, and Emily Horner; Special Performances: Eliza Rush and Tolu & Toyo Adebayo
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