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So today Skippy and the goons are going to tell us yet again what we can and can not do. He thinks with a stroke of the pen and his little executive orders we will obey. My bet is we will not. Let our Battle cry ring out.
To that I say Come and Get Them
Molon labe !!! (mo-lone lah-veh)
Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back.
Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh)
They mean, "Come and get them!" They live on today as the most notable quote in military history. And so began the classic example of courage and valor in its dismissal of overwhelming superiority of numbers, wherein the heart and spirit of brave men overcame insuperable odds. Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes all at the site. It reads: "Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie."
We have adopted this defiant utterance as a battle cry in our war against oppression because it says so clearly and simply
towards those who would take our arms.
It signifies our determination to not strike the first blow, but also to not stand mute and allow our loved ones, and all that we believe in and stand for, to be trampled by men who would deprive us of our God-given – or natural, if you will – rights to suit their own ends.


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A note from the author…
The timeless commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves includes the use of good manners…its hard to show "love" , even in life's trifles, when your behavior hurts others or violates thoughtful etiquette with mis-steps that land squarely on another person's toes…
You are warmly welcomed to join us as we take a fresh look at matters and manners that shape the way we live and how we treat others.
Much in etiquette develops from showing people respect, kindness, and consideration and applying the principles to various relationships, actions, and circumstances. Of course, changes in etiquette can occur, but the basics never do. Tried and true inherited rules provide us with beneficial guidance in how to best show love in the trifles.
This blog is for people of ANY age who realize that living and loving well are expressed by etiquette's respectful behaviors and considerate actions. The practice of good manners is an effective antidote to selfishness.
Weeding out self-centeredness and cultivating right behavior in favor of a virtuous character are necessary works in the big picture of loving our neighbor. Passing this onto the next generation is imperative. It begins, by Gods grace, in hearts and homes where love in the trifles grow its deepest roots.
How we behave and what we teach our children matters. Blog along with us as we seek to put our best foot forward and discuss the protocol of etiquette's applications. Your comments, discussion (and questions) are welcomed. They will likely serve as an encouragement to many others.

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Edward Snowden's NSA Revelations Keep Coming
Since June, documents leaked by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden have produced revelation upon revelation about the nation's top-secret intelligence gathering operations. The latest information, about U.S. spying on foreign leaders, has angered even some dependable U.S. allies. New York Times national security reporter Scott Shane, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, discuss the latest Snowden-related leaks.


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Posts Tagged 'Basecamp'
Joel Spolsky and Fog Creek Send 37Signals Passive Call For Help
Joel Spolsky, CEO of Fog Creek Software and author of the popular Joel on Software blog, wrote a post the other day that would piss me off if I was Jason Fried – Jason is one of the founders of 37Signals which publishes a bunch of very successful web-based software applications.
In Joel's post, Where there's muck, there's brass, he starts off talking about how everybody has a "gnarly problem" – spending way too many words talking about bread and his childhood; which he apparently spent making bread.
Work that makes you unhappy is what I mean by "a gnarly problem." – Joel
He goes on to say that the market pays for solutions to "gnarly problems." Apparently, one of Fog Creek Software's gnarly problems is getting their bug tracking product, FogBugz, to run on their customers' own servers. FogBugz is available in hosted and "serve yourself" configurations. Fog Creek deals with the "gnarly problem" of getting FogBugz to run on their customers' own servers because apparently the market is willing to pay for it. This is where Jason and 37Signals come in.
Earlier in the week Jason published a post titled Installable software? – a response to a question re: whether or not 37Signals had plans to produce installable versions of any of their applications. Jason's response – unlikely. You can read his post if you want to know the details of the why. Here's a summary of the why.
If we built installable software we'd have to spend a lot more of our time on technical support, write a lot more documentation, slow down our development process, and lose a fair bit of control over our customer experience. For some companies this wouldn't be a big deal, but for us it would be a real drag. – Jason
I think Jason did a great job of summarizing the benefits of a centrally distributed application with cross-platform capability. I think this is the future of software. I think Jason and 37Signals made a good strategic decision to NOT offer installable versions of their applications. I make my living developing software for Windows systems and we spend a ton of time just making sure it's going work on all the different available flavors of Windows – it's a huge time suck. 37Signals thinks they have better things to do with their time and I agree.
Joel on the other hand, IMO, thinks 37Signals is making a mistake. That 37Signal's customers want an installable version. That 37Signals isn't going to grow significantly if they don't try to solve the same "gnarly" problem Fog Creek is solving by offering installable versions of their products. Joel also seems to think they could start offering installable versions if they simply hired one extra employee – wrong.
So unless they (37Signals) deliberately want to keep the company small, which is a perfectly legitimate desire, they might eventually lose their reluctance to do things that seem gnarly. – Joel
Joel is wrong. Jason is right. 37Signals doesn't need to produce an installable version of their product to grow. I think 37Signals can grow at a healthy pace selling subscriptions to their very functional and useful web-based software.
Joel makes a number of other comments that I'd find insulting if I was Jason. Yes, he throws in a few complements re: Jason's design skills but doesn't give 37Signals credit for producing software that works – there's a major technical accomplishment here above and beyond the great design accomplishment.
The one thing that so many of today's cute startups have in common is that all they have is a simple little Ruby-on-Rails Ajax site that has no barriers to entry and doesn't solve any gnarly problems. So many of these companies feel insubstantial and fluffy, because, out of necessity (the whole company is three kids and an iguana), they haven't solved anything difficult yet. Until they do, they won't be solving problems for people. People pay for solutions to their problems. – Joel
FogBugz began it's life as installable software. Today, FogBugz is available as a hosted solution. More people still buy the installable version over the hosted version but that's starting to change. I think Fog Creek will see more and more of their customers moving to the hosted solution. I think Fog Creek developers will start to favor the hosted version over the installable version. The installable version will eventually go away.
I'm sure Joel – like a lot of software publishers is feeling vulnerable. Maybe that's why he lashed out. Technical barriers to entry are coming down – it's getting to the point where it's pretty easy (and inexpensive) for a few kids and an iguana (Joel's words) to reverse engineer a software application and drop it on a server somewhere. Fog Creek is better off if their customers think "installable" is a requirement – that's harder to copy – there's a barrier there. These days, it's less about the software and more about marketing. That's a hard thing for some software publishers, especially the veterans, to get their head around.
Joel should probably be taking advice from Jason as opposed to sending it in the other direction. I'm in FogBugz (the installable version) and Basecamp hours per week and FogBugz could use a little love from 37Signals. Oh and we're still trying make time to upgrade our FogBugz installation – it's becoming a gnarly problem for us.


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3. Buffers
A buffer is an environment within Hemlock consisting of:
- A name.
- A piece of text.
- A current focus of attention, the point.
- An associated file (optional).
- A write protect flag.
- Some variables (page 23).
- Some key bindings (page 29).
- Some collection of modes (page 35).
- Some windows in which it is displayed (page 41).
- A list of modeline fields (optional).
- An associated NSDocument reference (optional).
3.1. The Current Buffer
current-buffer [Function]
Set Buffer Hook [Hemlock Variable]
After Set Buffer Hook [Hemlock Variable]
current-buffer returns the current buffer object. Usually this is the buffer that current-window (page 41) is displaying. This value may be changed with setf, and the setf method invokes Set Buffer Hook before the change occurs with the new value. After the change occurs, the method invokes After Set Buffer Hook with the old value.
current-point [Function]
This function returns the buffer-poin tof the current buffer . This is such a common idiom in commands that it is defined despite its trivial implementation.
current-mark [Function]
pop-buffer-mark [Function] push-buffer-mark mark &optional activate-region [Function]
current-mark returns the top of the current buffer's mark stack. There always is at least one mark at the beginning of the buffer's region, and all marks returned are right-inserting.
pop-buffer-mark pops the current buffer's mark stack, returning the mark. If the stack becomes empty, this pushes a new mark on the stack pointing to the buffer's start. This always deactivates the current region (see section 4.4).
push-buffer-mark pushes mark into the current buffer's mark stack, ensuring that the mark is right-inserting. If mark does not point into the current buffer, this signals an error. Optionally, the current region is made active, but this never deactivates the current region (see section 4.4). Mark is returned.
*buffer-list* [Variable]
This variable holds a list of all the buffer objects made withmake-buffer .
*buffer-names* [Variable]
This variable holds a string-table (page 69) of all the names of the buffers in *buffer-list*. The values of the entries are the corresponding buffer objects.
*buffer-history* [Variable]
This is a list of buffer objects ordered from those most recently selected to those selected farthest in the past. When someone makes a buffer, an element of Make Buffer Hook adds this buffer to the end of this list. When someone deletes a buffer, an element of Delete Buffer Hook removes the buffer from this list. Each buffer occurs in this list exactly once, but it never contains the *echo-area-buffer*.
change-to-buffer buffer [Function]
This switches to buffer in the current-window maintaining buffer-history.
previous-buffer [Function]
This returns the first buffer from *buffer-history* that is not the current-buffer. If none can be found, then this returns nil.
3.2. Buffer Functions
make-buffer name &key :modes :modeline-fields :delete-hook [Function]
Make Buffer Hook [Hemlock Variable]
Default Modeline Fields [Hemlock Variable]
make-buffer creates and returns a buffer with the givenname. If a buffer named name already exists, nil is returned. Modes is a list of modes which should be in effect in the buffer, major mode first, followed by any minor modes. If this is omitted then the buffer is created with the list of modes contained in Default Modes (page 35). Modeline-fields is a list of modeline-field objects (see section 3.3) which may be nil. delete-hook is a list of delete hooks specific to this buffer, and delete-buffer invokes these along with Delete Buffer Hook.
Buffers created with make-buffer are entered into the list *buffer-list*, and their names are inserted into the string-table *buffer-names*. When a buffer is created the hook Make Buffer Hook is invoked with the new buffer.
bufferp buffer [Function]
Returns t if buffer is a buffer object, otherwise nil.
buffer-name buffer [Function]
Buffer Name Hook [Hemlock Variable]
buffer-name returns the name, which is a string, of the given buffer . The corresponding setf method invokes Buffer Name Hook with buffer and the new name and then sets the buffer's name. When the user supplies a name for which a buffer already exists, the setf method signals an error.
buffer-region buffer [Function]
Returns the buffer's region. This can be set with setf. Note, this returns the region that contains all the text in a buffer , not the current-region (page 19).
buffer-pathname buffer [Function]
Buffer Pathname Hook [Hemlock Variable]
buffer-pathname returns the pathname of the file associated with the given buffer, or nil if it has no associated file. This is the truename of the file as of the most recent time it was read or written. There is a setf form to change the pathname. When the pathname is changed the hook Buffer Pathname Hook is invoked with the buffer and new value.
buffer-write-date buffer [Function]
Returns the write date for the file associated with the buffer in universal time format. When this the buffer-pathname is set, use setf to set this to the corresponding write date, or to nil if the date is unknown or there is no file.
buffer-point buffer [Function]
Returns the mark which is the current location within buffer. To move the point, use move-mark or move-to-position (page 5) rather than setting buffer-point with setf.
buffer-mark buffer [Function]
This function returns the top of buffer's mark stack. There always is at least one mark at the beginning of buffer's region, and all marks returned are right-inserting.
buffer-start-mark buffer [Function]
buffer-end-mark buffer [Function]
These functions return the start and end marks of buffer's region:
(buffer-start-mark buffer ) <==> (region-start (buffer-region buffer))
(buffer-end-mark buffer ) <==> (region-end (buffer-region buffer))
buffer-writable buffer [Function]
Buffer Writable Hook [Hemlock Variable]
This function returns t if you can modify the buffer, nil if you cannot. If a buffer is not writable, then any attempt to alter text in the buffer results in an error. There is a setf method to change this value. The setf method invokes the functions in Buffer Writable Hookon the buffer and new value before storing the new value.
buffer-modified buffer [Function]
Buffer Modified Hook [Hemlock Variable]
buffer-modified returns t if thebuffer has been modified, nil if it hasn't. This attribute is set whenever a text-altering operation is performed on a buffer. There is a setf method to change this value. The setf method invokes the functions in Buffer Modified Hookwith the buffer whenever the value of the modified flag changes.
with-writable-buffer (buffer ) &restforms [Macro]
This macro executes forms with buffer's writable status set. After forms execute, this resets the buffer's writable and modified status.
buffer-signature buffer [Function]
This function returns an arbitrary number which reflects the buffer's current signature. The result is eql to a previous result if and only if the buffer has not been modified between the calls.
buffer-variables buffer [Function]
This function returns a string-table (page 69) containing the names of the buffer's local variables. See chapter 6.
buffer-modes buffer [Function]
This function returns the list of the names of the modes active in buffer. The major mode is first, followed by any minor modes. See chapter 8.
buffer-windows buffer [Function]
This function returns the list of all the windows in which the buffer may be displayed. This list may include windows which are not currently visible. See page 41 for a discussion of windows.
buffer-delete-hook buffer [Function]
This function returns the list of buffer specific functions delete-buffer invokes when deleting a buffer . This is setf-able.
delete-buffer buffer [Function]
Delete Buffer Hook [Hemlock Variable]
delete-buffer removes buffer from *buffer-list* (page 10) and its name from *buffer-names* (page 10). Before buffer is deleted, this invokes the functions on buffer returned by buffer-delete-hook and those found in Delete Buffer Hook. If buffer is the current-buffer, or if it is displayed in any windows, then this function signals an error.
delete-buffer-if-possible buffer [Function] This uses delete-buffer to delete buffer if at all possible. If buffer is the current-buffer, then this sets the current-buffer to the first distinct buffer in buffer-history. If buffer is displayed in any windows, then this makes each window display the same distinct buffer .
buffer-document buffer [Function]
This function returns the NSDocument instance associated with the buffer. If the buffer isn't associated with an NSDocument instance, it returns nil.
3.3. Modelines
A Buffer may specify a modeline, a line of text which is displayed across the bottom of a window to indicate status information. Modelines are described as a list of modeline-field objects which have individual update functions and are optionally fixed-width. These have an eql name for convenience in referencing and updating, but the name must be unique for all created modeline-field objects. When creating a modeline-field with a specified width, the result of the update function is either truncated or padded on the right to meet the constraint. All modeline-field functions must return simple strings with standard characters, and these take a buffer and a window as arguments. Modeline-field objects are typically shared amongst, or aliased by, different buffers' modeline fields lists. These lists are unique allowing fields to behave the same wherever they occur, but different buffers may display these fields in different arrangements.
Whenever one of the following changes occurs, all of a buffer's modeline fields are updated:
- A buffer's major mode is set.
- One of a buffer's minor modes is turned on or off.
- A buffer is renamed.
- A buffer's pathname changes.
- A buffer's modified status changes.
- A window's buffer is changed.
The policy is that whenever one of these changes occurs, it is guaranteed that the modeline will be updated before the next trip through redisplay. Furthermore, since the system cannot know what modeline-field objects the user has added whose update functions rely on these values, or how he has changed Default Modeline Fields, we must update all the fields. When any but the last occurs, the modeline-field update function is invoked once for each window into the buffer . When a window's buffer changes, each modeline-field update function is invoked once; other windows' modeline fields should not be affected due to a given window's buffer changing.
The user should note that modelines can be updated at any time, so update functions should be careful to avoid needless delays (for example, waiting for a local area network to determine information).
make-modeline-field &key :name :width :function [Function]
modeline-field-p modeline-field [Function]
modeline-field-name modeline-field [Function]
make-modeline-field returns a modeline-field object with name, width, and function. Width defaults to nil meaning that the field is variable width; otherwise, the programmer must supply this as a positive integer. Function must take a buffer and window as arguments and return a simple-string containing only standard characters. If name already names a modeline-field object, then this signals an error.
modeline-field-name returns the name field of a modeline-field object. If this is set with setf, and the new name already names a modeline-field, then the setf method signals an error.
modeline-field-p returns t or nil, depending on whether its argument is a modeline-field object.
modeline-field name [Function]
This returns the modeline-field object named name. If none exists, this returns nil.
modeline-field-function modeline-field [Function]
Returns the function called when updating the modeline-field. When this is set with setf, the setf method updates modeline-field for all windows on all buffers that contain the given field, so the next trip through redisplay will reflect the change. All modeline-field functions must return simple strings with standard characters, and they take a buffer and a window as arguments.
modeline-field-width modeline-field [Function]
Returns the width to which modeline-field is constrained, or nil indicating that it is variable width. When this is set with setf, the setf method updates all modeline-fields for all windows on all buffers that contain the given field, so the next trip through redisplay will reflect the change. All the fields for any such modeline display must be updated, which is not the case when setting a modeline-field's function.
buffer-modeline-fields buffer [Function]
Returns a copy of the list of buffer's modeline-field objects. This list can be destructively modified without affecting display of buffer's modeline, but modifying any particular field's components (for example, width or function) causes the changes to be reflected the next trip through redisplay in every modeline display that uses the modified modeline-field. When this is set with setf, update-modeline-fields is called for each window into buffer .
buffer-modeline-field-pbuffer field [Function]
If field, a modeline-field or the name of one, is in buffer's list of modeline-field objects, it is returned; otherwise, this returns nil.
update-modeline-fields buffer window [Function]
This invokes each modeline-field object's function from buffer's list, passing buffer and window. The results are collected regarding each modeline-field object's width as appropriate, and the window is marked so the next trip through redisplay will reflect the changes. If window does not display modelines, then no computation occurs.
update-modeline-field buffer window field-or-name [Function]
This invokes the modeline-field object's function for field-or-name, which is a modeline-field object or the name of one for buffer . This passes buffer and window to the update function. The result is applied to the window's modeline display using the modeline-field object's width, and the window is marked so the next trip through redisplay will reflect the changes. If the window does not display modelines, then no computation occurs. If field-or-name is not found in buffer's list of modeline-field objects, then this signals an error. See buffer-modeline-field-p above.


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Another problem I have (and that I'm sure I share with other dog owners) is getting Bo in and out of the front door in a calm way. To have a dog who tries, or succeeds, to pull you out of the door before you get out poses two problems. Firstly, that he is starting the walk excited and his mood will continue in that way. Secondly, that your dog is showing that he is more dominant than you.
My plan with Bo was, after working on getting ready last week and to put his lead on nicely, I have him sat in the doorway. However, for me to unlock the door, we need to be closer. And he knows this, so Bo does move, so I tell him immediately to sit just by the door. Which he does, eventually. I unlock the door, repeatedly telling him to wait. I use the command wait here instead of stay. For Bo, stay is when I am going to come back for him and then release him, wait is when I need him to wait until I have done something, like unlocked the door, and then he can follow me. These commands work well. Until we switched to differentiating between the two, Bo would always be itching to move when I told him to stay. Now, when I say stay he is better, he still twitches on wait though!
So, I tell Bo to wait, and then unlock the door, and slowly walking backwards (carefully) I move out of the door first whilst holding onto his lead and telling him to wait. A couple of times he followed me too quick, but I just moved him back to where he was and told him to wait again. Which he eventually gets. Then, I go out the door, once I am out I release him by saying ok and he comes out after me.
After our walk Bo is far more willing to do what I say, which makes coming back into the house easier. I want to go through the door first, so upon getting to the door I tell him to sit and wait. I then unlock the door and continually tell him to wait until I am in, then he comes in. Once in, I tell him to sit in the same spot where he waits while I get ready to go out. I want him to know that he has to wait calmly on either end of the walk. He sits in the spot, and I tell him to stay. I put my shoes on the shoe rack, take off his lead and take my coat off. Only then do I give him a treat and say ok, and he tends to go to his basket and sleep!
It is always important to remember to keep hold of your dogs lead when coming back into the house, otherwise if he gets distracted, he could fly off and into the road. It is also important to remember that if your dog moves before you tell them to, you need to put them back where they were and do it again.
When doing either stay or wait, Bo gives tell tale signs that he is about to break the command. He twitches once, then moves. If I see it happening, before he moves I release him and praise him. It is far easier for them to learn by doing this than by putting them back and starting again. Bo can only stay or wait for a certain time period, which is different in different places with different distractions. So, it is important to look for your dogs capability and not to push them too far. Bo's timings are short at the moment, but have been improving as we do the exercise more and more.
Bo is slowly getting the hang of going in the door, coming out is a little harder, but we will get there in the end I am sure!
Happy Training!


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Amidst the economic downturn, companies are outsourcing primarily to cut costs, but there are also long-term benefits in terms of productivity, service integration, and growth potential. It is not just about call centers anymore; organizations are also ramping up outsourcing of back office functions, research and development (R&D), and finance and accounting. The economic downturn has also accelerated the maturation of the outsourcing industry by prompting the evolution of new outsourcing models, pricing structures, and contractual arrangements.
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Elizabeth Smith-Mao, '71, reflects on her experience as a college-educated woman. "I never sensed any prejudice or any discrimination until the time I decided to go to graduate school. And, maybe we were just totally unaware, but I never perceived it and I did very well at Bucknell. And I was thinking about going to graduate school in anthropology and a professor said to me, 'But Liz, you know that you'll be discriminated against when you apply to graduate school . . .' It hit me like a ton of bricks. It was the very first time." The professor thought that one of the male candidates would be accepted before a woman despite her better qualifications.
Liz says, "We didn't have harassment, we didn't know what it was, you know, we just experienced it. I had that happen but I never felt discrimination. The women, in general, were very bright."
Among the wave of women applying to law school in the early seventies, Liz was one of the first women to be admitted. She also has the distinctions of being the second professional woman hired by the Texaco Company, and the first woman vice-president of Texaco.
WRC Interview, June 1996
Sally Nyquist, Associate Professor of Biology and Head of the Biology Department, was hired in 1972. She recalls those earlier times at Bucknell:
"I interviewed about a week or two after the big flood everyone still talks about. I came actually under rather strange circumstances. I interviewed here for a job for which I was not selected. But Wendell Smith was the provost at the time, and he was very interested in affirmative action and increasing the number of women on the staff. And so, the Biology Department got an additional position or slot, so to speak, if I would be hired. So that's how I arrived, in compliments, I guess, of Wendell Smith. At the time, well for most of my time here at Bucknell, we were in Taylor Hall that existed prior to the recent remodeling. So I had an office down in what we affectionately called "The Dungeon" in the basement there in Taylor Hall. They eventually put in an outlet at the end of the hall for safety reasons and so on, but it was always pretty dark. The word dungeon was somewhat apropos. But, I had my office space and research down in the basement there. And then, somewhat later, my office was moved to a better location in the basement of the Botany Building. It was a major improvement.
When I first came, we didn't have many women faculty. Hulda Magalhaes was there, and I think at the time I came she might have been the only woman faculty member in the natural sciences, although I think Sally Morrison, Professor of Mathematics, came about the same time I did. So there have always been at least two of us, but not a whole lot."
At the completion of the interview, Dr. Nyquist shared a story that she wished she'd put on tape. Her first year here at Bucknell (1972-73), she was invited to the Engineering Department picnic, as the natural science professors often were. When she got to the picnic, a big truck pulled up and delivered a large cake out of which a woman popped. Dr. Nyquist recalled that it was an awkward situation being that she and the cake woman were the only two women there. That was the last time she attended the picnic.
WRC Interview 6/96
The Alumni Chair for Distinguished Service is awarded to Trennie Eisley, '31, Master's '34, "for eminent and meritorious service and demonstrated loyalty to Bucknell University" at the annual Alumni luncheon on May 27. The citation accompanying the award honors her as "an alumna who yields to no alumnus in the intensity of her devotion to Bucknell University . . . recognized for candor in her private and public comments, she has long been an advocate of honesty as the best policy in accentuating the positive about the University." She is pictured here with University President Charles Watts.
Public Relations News Release 5/27/72
Shirley Chisholm runs for President, the first African-American and first woman to campaign for the nomination of a major political party. She won 152 delegate votes at the 1972 Democratic National Conventional which Senator George McGovern was nominated. She was the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first Black to serve on the House Rules Committee. She retired from Congress in 1982.
The Feminization of Power
"Women and Contemporary Society" is the theme of the annual fall Colloquy
held October 26-29. Among the 60 invited guests are Robin Morgan, editor
of Sisterhood is Powerful, presenting "Radical Feminism," and the Chicago
Women's Liberation Rock Band. Workshops include: growing up in America,
the feminist movement, women and the law, sexist rock culture, women from
minority groups, abortion, alternatives to marriage, sex roles and sex
images, anatomy of a sex discrimination case, and the importance of lesbianism
to feminism.
The Bucknellian includes coverage of many Colloquy discussions and prints the Affirmative Action Report on women at Bucknell. The Women's Colloquy sparks much dialogue and some controversy on campus.
The Bucknellian, 9-11/72
A Special Bucknellian Report on Women's Lib is published in the March 15 issue. Articles address the black aspect of women's liberation, the ratio of men to women students which is 5 to 3, stereotypes that stifle women, discrimination in hiring practices, and profiles of professional women graduates.
The Bucknellian, 3/15/72
The school paper carries a three-page report on "An Affirmative Action Plan for Women at Bucknell University" prepared by members of the Women's Equity Action League: Dee Ann Finkel, Zoya Jenks, Amy Kaminsky, Patricia Longley, Maura Marchand, Maureen Murphy, Bonnie Nelson, and Patricia Rom.
The report begins, "Affirmative action is the taking of positive steps to end sex discrimination. It is important to emphasize that the desire not to discriminate does not constitute positive action. The obligation of the university is to integrate women into all parts of the academic community..."
The piece also cites supporting data, saying "one can conclude that" 1) Recent efforts to improve the balance have made little progress toward an acceptable goal. 2) There is clear discrimination in salaries for women. 3) In 1972-73 women have presented more academic preparation than their male counterparts for the same position and ranks. Bucknell discriminates against women students in its admission policies. This year women comprised only 37 percent of the freshman class. Yet, according to class standings, the women were more qualified than the men. Forty-eight percent of the men and 78 percent of the women ranked in the top tenth of their graduating class."
The report concludes with 12 proposals ranging from the actie recruitment of women; equal opportunity for admissions, scholarships, professional advancements, and job placement services; a pregnancy and parental leave policy; a codification of job descriptions with standard starting wages and increases for clerical staff; the establishment of a women's studies program; the hiring of a gynecologist at the infirmary; and the founding of a child care facility.
The Bucknellian 10/27/72
Carol Noel Hawley,'73, Associate Director of Financial Aid at Bucknell University recalls her time as a student. "When women got pinned or engaged on campus, it was very common for their sororities to have something called a candlelight. What would happen is the women would call into the sorority's phone number, which was in the president's room right there in the suite and say 'I want to schedule a candlelight for tonight or tomorrow night.' There would be signs posted that there would be a Beta Gamma candlelight or a Kappa candlelight. The candlelight itself is when they would go into a room, and the candlelight would be passed around. The first time nothing would happen, but the second time, if you were the person pinned, you would blow it out. If it went around twice it meant someone was engaged. Then the third time around you were engaged. It was kind of funny because my husband and I got together very early on my freshman year. We were lavaliered which used to be the pre-pinning. It was the little fraternity letters on a necklace. I have a story about losing my lavaliere when I was kidnapped by a bunch of people, losing it at midnight behind Trax, and then the guys coming out to help me find it the next morning. Then we found this lavaliere in the slush the next morning.
My husband and I were lavaliered in October. We were very serious. Spring time used to be the time for candlelighting, everyone got pinned or got engaged. The seniors got engaged and the underclassmen got pinned. The guys that did the pinning used to get thrown in the river over by May's Landing. So they never pinned in the winter time because they didn't want to get thrown in the river in winter. So we had gone through a number of candlelights. Every time there was a candlelight people would say, 'Carol is it yours?' I wanted to be pinned but it wasn't mine and I was just getting frustrated, 'No it is not mine, you will know when it is mine.' So what my husband did unbeknownst to me was he called and scheduled a candlelight a couple of days before the actual candlelight and didn't tell me we were getting pinned. So these people were still asking me and I was getting furious, "No!" I was obviously believable because I didn't think it was my candlelight. Finally, on our six month lavaliering anniversary, April 29, he gave me the pin. I believe he scheduled a candlelight for that night. He told me when he gave me the pin, you have a candlelight for tonight. It was very believable. Nobody thought it was my candlelight because I was so sincere that it was not my candlelight, but it was. So it was a bit of a surprise on my husband's part. It was kind of a romantic thing. He sometimes is that romantic, but I thought that was really romantic."
WRC Interview, 10/95
Over 500 students sign a petition in April urging the University to retain a course entitled "Women in Literature," taught by instructors Amy Kaminsky and Suzanne Juhasz. Provost Wendell Smith cites lack of funds to pay part-time faculty as the reason for not offering the course in the fall. The course, which is currently offered as a University Course, rather than an English course, was over-enrolled this spring; ten students were dropped and told they could take it when it was offered again.
The Bucknellian, 4/10/73
Students attend a lecture by feminist Betty Friedan at Susquehanna University in April. The author of The Feminine Mystique calls for women and men to participate in a "massive unfinished revolution which will restructure society." Calling women "the last proletariat," Friedan remarks that "society was rigged against us."
The Bucknellian, 4/13/73
Dr. Maureen Murphy receives her Ph.D. from Catholic University and is appointed as assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on a part-time basis. Her new duties include academic advising for freshmen, coordinating institutional resources for advising women students, and coordinating the University's Affirmative Action Program.
Maureen recalls that at the time there was some resistance to affirmative action, and she was the first person to have responsibilities for reviewing hiring practices. She told the president that a single individual could not deal with overseeing job searches and so a group was formed which became the Equal Opportunity Employment Committee. "One of the biggest changes was that people realized that the searches had to be open searches," Maureen remembers. "It wasn't enough just to pick up the telephone and get a name of a male Ph.D. student from an old friend and then hire him . . .I think what the committee did was say that, 'hey, your pool isn't large enough. We need to see the people who are in your pool, what their resumes look like, what their credentials look like,' . . .We began to push them a little bit to open up the doors. I think that the number of women and minority faculty members began to increase."
Public Relations News Release, 6/12/1973; WRC Interview 2/95
Trennie Eisley, Director of Public Relations, is awarded the John E. Wilkinson Award for Administrative Excellence at commencement. President Charles Watts notes that Miss Eisley "for many years has sought with great success to capture the changing facets and very human people of this university for many audiences." He continues "many of us owe a debt not only of thanks for her skills and her understanding of our ambitions, but also praise for her charity in rendering our blemishes less telling than they would otherwise appear." Established by friends and associates of John E. Wilkinson, the award is given each year in recognition of outstanding achievement and service in the administration of higher education.
She is pictured here with another honoree, Arthur Brandon, who received his master's degree in 1927.
Public Relations News Release 5/31/74
Two Bucknell sophomores - Terry and Sherry Grant - are the first couple in the nation to enlist in the Army's Reserve Officer Training Corps. Five-foot-two-inch blonde Sherry, 18, and her 19-year-old six-foot husband will receive their degrees, commissions and assignments in 1977. An Education major, Sherry hopes to integrate her training with her military assignment.
Bucknell's top cadet last year, Cpl. Terry Grant outranks his wife, who is a recruit. He attends the University on an ROTC Scholarship which he applied for as a high school senior. The Army pays all of his college costs except room and board. "ROTC is a good way to get an education when money isn't in oversupply," says Terry. At present there are 19 men attending Bucknell on full tuition scholarship awarded by the military.
Bucknell University Archives
In January, two women's groups, Indigo and Women for Change merge to form Amicae, a group interested in achieving equal rights for women. Derived from the feminie flural of the Latin word, "friend," Amicae is "committed to the creation of free academic and social inequities on campus.
Members include independents, sorority members, and non-student members of the Bucknell community. In its founding year, the group hosts the big/little sister reception for the first year women, holds various get togethers, publishes newsletters which are distributed to all Bucknell women and produces a Women's Guide to Bucknell which was distributed to all freshwomen. The women have formed task forces to study areas in depth. They examine Bucknell's curriculum and encourage the development of women's studies classes. A women's dorm, Martin House, serves as a women's center, housing a library where Amicae's task force findings can be found. Meetings and classes are held there, although one need not be a member of Amicae to live in the house.
The Bucknellian, 10/11/74
The L'Agenda issues a second volume focusing primarily on women at Bucknell.
Aside from featuring faculty women in the academic departments, the book
also champions Women's Studies and Black Studies. Ken Bloom, who joins
Penny Smith and Marian Wolbers as co-editor, writes in the introduction:
Our purpose is to reaffirm personal freedom by our exposure of positive images. We do this in hopes of helping to actuate the concept of a community committed to the free exchange of ideas and the free interaction of personalities. In this kind of environment our images and illusions will be constructive and not stereotypic."
The book includes sections on women as individuals, friends, mothers, daughters, partners, and professionals. It also offers commentary on issues of choice, the Greek system, race concerns, and creativity.
L'Agenda 1974, Volume 2
Judy Becker became Assistant to the Provost in 1974 on a part-time basis. Over time, Judy's role increased in responsibility where her position became more of an Assistant Provost. At the time there were very few women in administration and faculty. During Judy's tenure, she noticed an increase in these numbers.
In the 1970's, a group of women faculty and a few administrators formed WEAL, Women's Equity Action League, a group dedicated to affirmative action. Wendell Smith spearheaded the committee that drafted an affirmative action plan that expanded in the late 1970's. In 1980, Judy Becker was named affirmative action officer, and Wendell Smith stepped out of that position. During the same time, Judy served as coordinator of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. Both Judy and Wendell drafted an affirmative action hiring plan for Bucknell that came out in 1980 and was used until 1991.
Together with the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Judy developed a strategy for increasing faculty diversity which became known as the Shinn-Becker plan. The first part involved the hiring of one black faculty member for each of five years. The second was the hiring of a replacement for a retiree three or four years before the time of the retirement. This was an advantage to the departments because they were able to utilize that extra person to expand the curriculum. Also, Bucknell didn't have to hire from a pool that was available at the time. The third part of the plan was the hiring of permanent replacement faculty for departments that were seven or more. Departments were able to hire someone to cover for leaves from other members of the department.
WRC Interview, 9/6/96
Eugenia Gerdes, who came to Bucknell as an assistant professor in Psychology and later became Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, recalls when a now-retired member of the faculty came to her and asked her to be secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter. "I guess I was uppity enough to ask him if he was asking me just because I was a woman. He was a full professor, and he said 'no, I was the secretary last year.' So, I learned not to assume the worst and to take things on fact value."
Genie also thinks it is important to realize that a college experience in this type of campus centers around what happens outside the classroom as much as it does inside the classroom. "We know from our own surveys that men and women feel that there is a level playing ground in the classroom, however, they are more hesitant about support for women's efforts and achievements among their peers [outside the classroom], and for eighteen to twenty-one year-olds how they're thought of by their peers is tremendously important."
WRC Interview, 1/30/95
Jean Schackelford came to Bucknell in 1974 for an interview and accepted the postition as a professor in the Economics department. As one of the few women professors on campus at the time, she was involved with many progressive ideas that put an emphasis on women at Bucknell.
"I think it was around 1980, late 70s, early 80s. Karen Gartner and I had gotten a grant from Women's Educational Equity Fund. We put on a program called Women in the Workplace; we brought in a series of speakers and did a series of events . . . part of what was going to happen was the development of a course called Women in the Workplace. So that was a course that I'd been teaching for a couple of years." Jean was also involved with a group of like-minded faculty, teaching in the women's studies area within departments. The group asked "Well, do we do enough? What should we be doing about this? Is there a way that we can meet and talk about some of these kinds of things?"
She later joined with a group of faculty who were interested in creating an environment where both women's issues and racial issues would be supported, which led to the beginning of the Race/Gender Resource Center and later the Women's Resource Center.
"The Race and Gender Resource Center was really to help people who were teaching courses in race and gender, but really didn't have the time to necessarily go out and work up programs and necessarily find the most recent scholarship in those areas . . . I guess that was turning point as well . . . When suddenly you could actually do women's studies, or you could do issues in race. We were also moving ahead with the Women's Resource Center because we realized there needed to be something parallel, a support unit for students."
WRC Interview
While Sherry Grant and her husband Terry are making history as ROTC's first couple-enlistees, two other Bucknell women became "firsts" when they enrolled in ROTC this fall. Both freshmen, they are Susan Delaney, of Hornell, NY and Kathleen B. Mitchell, of Derry, NH. Sherry Grant is shown in the center and Susan Delaney [right] are pictured above.
Bucknell University Archives
Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Maureen Murphy remembers an exciting period of women's activism on campus. She recalls that in the 1970's there were consciousness-raising groups that involved the Bucknell and Lewisburg community and that women at the university got together to draft their own affirmative action plan. "People thought that everything was possible, that people could change things, that things could be different. We didn't have a Race/Gender Resource Center. We had a few courses in Women's Studies, and that was just the beginning. But the students the students themselves were the force behind changes. And, I think they in turn sought out the faculty women that were here to help. And they really were movers" In citing the 1974 special edition of the yearbook with its emphasis on women, Maureen says, " I think they really did get this place thinking, and moving along and probably if it wasn't for some of the women students of the time, we never would have had a Women's Studies minor. At that time students were saying 'what about?' or 'why can't we do this?"' Maureen's first Women's Studies course came about because of a woman student who came in and asked her to sponsor her for an independent study on women and religion.
WRC Interview, 2/15/95
In an interview, Professor of English Emeritus Jack Wheatcroft explains that Alice Rousseau, an employee of the University, was the prototype for Edie Dougan in his 1975 novel Edie Tells: A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Cleaning Woman.
She was a custodian in Vaughan Literature Building, and we got to be friendly. She would use my office to sit and read when she was to be doing other things that didn't seem to her to be so important. And, it never bothered me that I'd come back from class and find her sitting there reading, having pulled a book down from the shelf. And, the next thing I knew, (I was writing a little bit of poetry in those days) she'd write a little note: "This is dreadful! You can do better than that!"
The next thing I knew, she began to make suggestions. And, the next thing I knew, she was writing some poems of her own. She was not an educated womean, but she had qualities that a poet needs. She had imagination. She had passion. She was perceptive, observane, and she actually had a good ear. And so she wrote some lovely little poems.I can remember one in particular for the son she never had. She had two daughters, but no sons. It was a very moving poem indeed. In the novel I don't giver her any children at all--just a way of changing things of course; I didn't want to get children involved in what I was doing in the novel.
Well, it got out that we had a custodian who was also a poet and the students asked Alice to give poetry readings. And before you know it, she was giving poetry readings in coffee shops. She also began to act. She had a part in one of my plays that was done by Cap and Dagger, the Theater Department at Bucknell. And she had quite a coterie of students who formed around her. She invited them to her house. I didn't know anything about her private life; that's all made up in the novel. But the custodian who is a poet, a portrait of the artist as a cleaning woman, a middle-aged cleaning woman, which is the subtitle of the novel--that's factual.
WRC Interview, 4/96
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New to the PlayStation 3? We're sure you are in the market for the perfect controller, fighting stick, and headset. PSU has you covered. With December hitting us faster than we thought it would, the time is right to figure out what PlayStation 3 accessories are the best to buy. Sure, it's a big undertaking to go through the countless terrible controllers, headsets, or other garbage that gets released each year, but we're doing it for you!
Controller – Sony DualShock 3
This is the classic first-party controller, but for PlayStation 3 veterans, it's simply old faithful. Best in class, best in show, Sony has kept the classic controller top in both, and no one has seemed to catch up to this beauty. Now that it's relatively easy to find different color options for the DualShock 3, there's no reason not to pick one up.
Controller Accessory – Nyko Charge Base 2
With your new controller, you might want a place to hold it and keep it charged. The Nyko Charge Base 2 works out quite nicely. It'll hold two DualShock 3 controllers, and charge them at the same time. For us, this accessory is more about having a nice place to keep your controllers–charging is just an added benefit.
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Headsets have always been a favorite of ours, they not only enhance the gaming experience, they can also provide a decent microphone as well. If money if no object to you, then there is no way you can go wrong with the Astro A50s. This $300 option is wireless, features Dolby Digital 7.1, and feels fantastic on the head. In our testing, the wireless technology behind this headset is flawless, pumping out game audio with no distortion, drops, or otherwise unwanted attention. The A50s also have built-in Bluetooth, meaning you'll be able to connect it to your PS3 for microphone use relatively easily. And don't forget: This headset is universal, working on consoles and PC.
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For those with a budget in mind, we suggest the Ear Force DP 11 by Turtle Beach, which costs $119.95. It features full size 50mm speakers, and Turtle Beach's proprietary DSS2 surround sound processor for all your fine tuning needs. This headset will also work with your PC.
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You'Ll Love Me Yet
You'll love me yet!—and I can tarry
Your love's protracted growing:
June reared that bunch of flowers you carry
From seeds of April's sowing.
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American Classics: Chocolate 'Crack'
Lost classic desserts from our wide and varied past.
Editor's Note: You may know Alexandra Penfold as Brownie from the popular blog Blondie and Brownie. She'll be stopping by weekly, digging up long-lost classic desserts and regional favorites.
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With just five ingredients: saltine crackers, butter, brown sugar, vanilla and chocolate, this sweet and salty dessert couldn't be easier or more addictive. But beware, it's one of those low effort, high reward recipes that will have your friends, family and co-workers coming back for thirds.
I first encountered this crispy, crunchy bark-like treat at a cookie bake off. I don't even remember what recipe I entered, only that it took what seemed like an eternity to prepare and at the end of the day I was bested by a chocolate covered saltine cracker. Seriously? A cracker?! Wounded pride aside, one bite of this bark was pure bliss. The butter and brown sugar come together to create a rich caramel reminiscent of buttercrunch. Top that with chocolate and it's a winner for sure. Not to mention a must-make recipe to add to your own cookie arsenal.
Variations on this recipe abound. You can add slivered almonds, chopped pecans, pumpkins seeds or even bits of toasted coconut. You can also substitute matzo for the saltines to make a Passover treat. Whatever special touches you add to the recipe, one thing is certain, once you start, it's near impossible to stop eating it until every last morsel is gone.
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The accolades keep rolling in. With its exclusive, state-of-the-art available Uconnect® system, the Dodge Dart has been named Connected World magazine's 2014 Connected Car of the Year.
The award was presented on stage at the Connected World Conference Pavilion at the 2014 Chicago Auto Show. Basing their selections on what they describe as "the ideal mix of safety, convenience and infotainment technology, " the magazine's editorial team presented the award in six vehicle classifications: small, midsize,


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University of Illinois to Study Health Effects of Common Chemicals on Kids
The National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency have awarded $2 million to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The grant will be used to create a new research center to study how exposure to common chemicals may affect childhood development.
Center director neurotoxicologist Susan Schantz said studies will focus on bisphenol A (BPA), which is widely used in plastics, and phthalates, which are components of many scented personal care products, like lotions and shampoos.
"We know from laboratory animal studies that both of these chemicals are endocrine disrupters," Schantz said, "so they can mess with certain hormonal systems in the body."
One study will involve pregnant women volunteers from local health clinics. "We're going to follow their health and take urine samples during their pregnancy so we can assess their exposure to the two chemicals, and then from the time their babies are born we're going to follow them developmentally," Schantz explained.
A related study at Harvard University will examine how exposure to BPA and phthalates relates to cognitive development in adolescents.


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GEF/New and Noteworthy/3.7
- 1 New and Noteworthy for Previous Versions
- 2 New and Noteworthy in GEF 3.7
New and Noteworthy for Previous Versions
New and Noteworthy in GEF 3.7
New and noteworthy items are subsumed under the respective components of the GEF project. No distinction between end-user and developer-relevant changes has been made. Instead, everything that was regarded to be of interest is mentioned here.
Refactoring of Geometry API
Geometry API was refactored to guarantee consistency between integer-precision and double-precision version of
PrecisionDimension, and
PrecisionRectangle. Synchronization between the still exposed integer-precision fields (x, y, width, height) and the no-longer exposed double-precision fields (preciseX, preciseY, preciseWidth, preciseHeight) is performed automatically by precision classes now, so clients may use the precision versions transparently, being no longer forced to perform a manual update of the respective fields. See 124904, 142628, and 271235 for details.
Refactoring of Layout Edit Policies
Layout edit policies have been refactored to remove duplicate code and allow better extensibility.
LayoutEditPolicywas enhanced by adding methods relevant for translations, used in all layout edit policies (removed duplicate code from subclasses):
- Added
getLayoutOrigin()(pulled up from
- Added
translateFromAbsoluteToLayoutRelative(Translatable t)(synthesized from duplicated code spread throughout different layout edit policies)
- Added
translateFromLayoutRelativeToAbsolute(Translatable t)(synthesized from duplicated code spread throughout different layout edit policies)
- Added
ConstrainedLayoutEditPolicywas changed as follows:
- Added
createAddCommand(ChangeBoundsRequest request, EditPart child, Object constraint)as a replacement for
createAddCommand(EditPart child, Object constraint), which was in turn deprecated (this is now handled similar as in case of change constraint commands).
- Made
createChangeConstraintCommand(EditPart child, Object constraint)concrete (empty body) and deprecated it to indicate that clients should instead
createChangeConstraintCommand(ChangeBoundsRequest request, EditPart child, Object constraint)
- Added
getConstraintFor(Request request, GraphicalEditPart child, Rectangle rectangle), which subsumes the duplicate code fragments located in
getConstraintFor(ChangeBoundsRequest request, GraphicalEditPart child)and
getConstraintFor(CreateRequest request)before (both of these methods now delegate to the new method).
- Added
XYLayoutEditPolicywas changed to overwrite the
- Replaced overwritten version of
getConstraintFor(ChangeBoundsRequest request, GraphicalEditPart child)with an overwritten version of the newly introduced
getConstraintFor(Request request, GraphicalEditPart child, Rectangle rect).
- Replaced overwritten version of
See 320852 for details.
Refactoring of Primary Drag Edit Policies
Primary drag edit policies were refactored to allow clients to easier provide custom handles and related select/drag/resize trackers.
NonResizableEditPolicywas changed by introducing hook methods to allow clients to customize the creation of handles and drag/select trackers used by them:
- Added
createDragHandle(List handles, int direction)
- Added
createMoveHandle(List handles, int direction)
- Added
createDragTracker(), which is used by
createDragHandle(List handles, int direction)to construct the drag tracker for the created drag handle.
- Added
createSelectTracker(), which is used by
createMoveHandle(List handles, int direction)to construct the select tracker for the created move handle.
- Added
ResizableEditPolicywas similarly changed by introducing the following methods:
- Added
createResizeHandle(List handles, int direction)
- Added
createResizeTracker(int), which is used by
createResizeHandle(List handles, int direction)to create the resize tracker for the constructed resize handle.
- Added
The refactoring was performed in combination with the enhancement of
ResizeTracker and
CreationTool with support for constraints on resize and size-on-drop. See 67541 for details.
Enhancement of ResizeTracker and CreationTool
ResizeTracker and
CreationTool so that they now offer means to enforce certain constraints (by default, minimum and maximum size constraints) during resize as well as size-on-drop (dragging during creation). This was realized by adding methods to enforce size constraints:
which are called whenever the source respectively target request is updated. By default, both ensure that minimum and maximum size constraints, which are inferred via respective hook methods:
Clients may overwrite the respective hook methods to infer maximum and minimum sizes for certain requests, or overwrite and adjust the enforcement of constraints as a whole (in case additional constraints have to be ensured). While the
CreationTool could already be easily exchanged with a customized subclass by specifying a tool class upon construction of a
CreationToolEntry, the
ResizableEditPolicy was now enhanced to allow clients to specify a custom
ResizeTracker as well, which will be used for all resize handles.
The logic example was enhanced to demonstrate how the new features can be used. See 67541 for details.
MarqueeSelectionTool was enhanced to now offer the following default marquee behaviors:
- BEHAVIOR_CONNECTIONS_TOUCHED (supported since 3.1)
- BEHAVIOR_NODES_CONTAINED (supported since 3.1, default behavior)
- BEHAVIOR_NODES_CONTAINED_AND_RELATED_CONNECTIONS (supported since 3.1, formerly known as BEHAVIOR_NODES_AND_CONNECTIONS, which was in turn deprecated).
It was furthermore refactored to allow clients to customize marquee selection behavior via subclassing and overwriting one or more of the following methods:
The following methods are now also exposed (protected visibility) so clients can use access the current tool mode and the selection rectangle in their customization code:
The logic example was enhanced to demonstrate all new marquee behaviors. See 67991 for details.
MarqueeToolEntry has been enhanced to use different icons dependent on the marquee behavior of the tool.
- BEHAVIOR_NODE_TOUCHED and BEHAVIOR_NODES_CONTAINED
- BEHAVIOR_CONNECTIONS_TOUCHED and BEHAVIOR_CONNECTIONS_CONTAINED
- BEHAVIOR_NODES_TOUCHED_AND_RELATED_CONNECTIONS and BEHAVIOR_NODES_CONTAINED_AND_RELATED_CONNECTIONS
See 185960 for details.
Similar to
MatchWidthAction and
MatchHeightAction, a concrete
MatchSizeAction was now made available.
The logic example was enhanced to demonstrate use of the new action. See 107916 for details.


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Gombrich wrote:There is a famous verse in the Taittiriya Upanishad:
This describes the salvific experience according to the Vedanta, in which the individual self is felt to merge into brahman. It is not, I think, well known that there is a short poem in the Pali Canon (SN 1.27) which begins by asking
- Before they reach it, words turn back,
together with the mind;
One who knows that bliss of brahman,
he is never afraid.
"From what do words turn back?"
The answer (by implicated) is nibbana. This has probably been overlooked because the tradition has misinterpreted the question. The pali word used here for 'words' is sara (Sanskrit svara); but the commentator seems to have interpreted it as a homonym which means 'streams' and assumed a reference to another metaphor, that of rivers merging into the ocean (swee Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.8).


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Honoring Julia Dibner
Science is remarkable. Throughout history, its impact on the lives of billions is evident, whether we are talking about the time of Aristotle, Dalton, Newton, Einstein or… Dr. Julia J. Dibner.
With nearly 30 years of experience in poultry research, Dr. Dibner is a pillar in the animal agriculture industry. Her formal training is in Cellular and Developmental Biology (Ph.D. Washington University, 1980). She takes a different perspective than many animal scientists, focusing less on drugs and products and more on nutrition and health issues. Dibner champions proper nutrition as the best way to grow healthy animals. Her dedication to animal research has resulted in several patents, as well as the development of groundbreaking products.
In the world of scientific research, it can be easy to forget the joy of the scientific process; the strategic hypothesizing and creative investigating that it takes to uncover a new, innovative, and impactful contribution to your field— but not for Julia.
Julia said the biggest charge she gets from her work is when she views cells or tissues under the microscope and immediately forms a three-word hypothesis: "That isn't right." She then goes about figuring out how to make it right.
Much like the science greats, many are in awe of Julia, a woman who has been held in such high regard while working in the industry. She has served as a mentor to many and always made time to offer advice and support. She is brilliant and makes the balance of academia and industry look easy. She has served as a mentor to many and always made time to offer advice and support.
Down-to-earth, fun and honest are just a few words that are often mentioned when others are asked to describe Julia. Her ability to connect with academia and non-academia, as well as effectively deliver technical information to any audience is what sets her apart.
Julia's scientific achievements have been repeatedly recognized with nomination to Novus International's first Distinguished Fellow. Her record of accomplishments has been an example of a creative and productive scientist, applying her ideas to support many endeavors and pioneering new areas of research all around the world.
About Novus International, Inc.
Novus International, Inc. is headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. and serves customers in nearly 100 countries around the world. A global leader in developing animal health and nutrition solutions, Novus International's products include ALIMET® and MHA® feed supplements, ACTIVATE® nutritional feed acid, ACIDOMIX® preservative premixture, CIBENZA® enzyme feed additive, MINTREX® chelated trace minerals, SANTOQUIN® feed preservative, AGRADO® feed antioxidant and many other specialty ingredients. Stratum Nutrition, a division of Novus Nutrition Brands, LLC, focuses on human nutrition through specialty and functional ingredients for manufacturers of foods, beverages and dietary supplements (www.stratumnutrition.com).
Novus is privately owned by Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. and Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. For more information, visit www.novusint.com. ©2014 Novus International, Inc. All rights reserved.


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Here is where you can truly live self sufficiently on this lush northern Arizona land. With a mild four season climate and rich sandy loam soil base, the land is ideal for growing a wide range of vegetables and fruit trees.
As a Sierra Highlands Ranch property owner you will have access to northern Arizona's largest and most abundant water aquifer, with depths that are economical for drilling.
This land of tranquility, quiet and privacy can be a unique home for those with the foresight and the vision to acquire their part of it.
Your investment in this northern Arizona land at Sierra Highlands Ranch can not only fulfill today's dream to possess your own high country ranch, it can also secure a legacy of land ownership for your family for generations to come.
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It took a while but Angry Birds Space has been released for Windows Phone today.
The game is only for Windows Phone 8 devices though, but includes all 150 levels and everything that the iOS and Android versions do:
After a giant claw kidnaps their eggs, the Angry Birds chase it into a wormhole and find themselves floating in a strange new galaxy – surrounded by space pigs! Luckily the Angry Birds have super powers of their own…
Angry Birds Space features 150 interstellar levels on planets and in zero gravity, resulting in spectacular gameplay ranging from slow-motion puzzles to lightspeed destruction. With regular free updates, brand new birds, brand new superpowers, and a whole galaxy to explore, the sky is no longer the limit!
150 Interstellar levels!
Regular free updates!
Brand new birds!
Brand new superpowers!
Zero-gravity space adventures!
Trick shots using planets' gravity!
Hidden bonus levels!
Beautifully detailed backgrounds!
Available for $0.99 over at the Windows Phone Store.
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How did the new mom pull off what is one of the greatest achievements ever in endurance sports? Dedication, planning, consistency – and plenty of mental fortitude. We interviewed Debi and her coach (and husband) John to find out what made her tick - and keep ticking.
We know it was hard – but what was the hardest?
Debi: Illness, injury… and rain. I caught a virus from Ryder [Debi and John's one-year-old son] and that really knocked me back. Days 50–56 I was battling through a foot injury, but by day 60 I was 100% pain-free again. Other than that – rain! We had one super rainy week at the beginning, including a day with up to 85mm. There was often water up to the axles of my bike! Then of course there were the days with 40°C heat.
Debi during one of the sunnier bike legs.
Speaking of the bike, how did it survive?
John: Actually, we took it for a tune-up before the big official race day here in Port Macquarie – he took one look and said 'what the hell have you been doing to this thing?'. Debi was really only using two gears so those were totally worn while everything else was quite clean. The bike did better than the shoes – she went through about eight pairs of shoes!
So you ran first at home in Sydney, then finished in Port Macquarie.
Yep - days 1 – 94 were at Centennial Park near our home. Then we hopped in the camper for a 5-hour drive to Port Macquarie, where she did the last six. The transition was tough – especially with a short night of sleep. But the final day – one which I did a full Ironman, not just a half.
John is Debi's husband, coach and a fellow triathlete.
That's… not how to taper.
John: Talk about coming in with tired legs! Debi still did great – fourth in her age group and 18th overall. Not bad for a cumulative 99 days of half-distance triathlons preceding.
Debi: Yeah, the course was tough – the road is big chips, not smooth at all – but having all the people out there helped. There were about 3,000 people out on the course, and tons of spectators. That made a huge difference!
What kind of pace did you keep?
John: Well below race pace – we knew we were in for the long haul. Debi became addicted to heart rate and time. It was nothing to do with the distance – if she kept the heart rate and time, she'd finish. It was about 125–130 average running, and on the bike 110 average. That's versus 160 during the run and 150 with the bike when fresh, tapered and race-ready.
Debi post ride with Ryder.
Other major highlights?
Debi: Breaking the world record on day 31 was a blast. We had about 70 people out with us that day. (You can read more about that day here!)
How much of it is physical vs mental?
John: After a certain point, your body adapts and the physical impact is the same. Debi went on autopilot – you can see it in her Movescount times. Her average speeds are so consistent. After that it's all mental. Most people run on emotion, not intelligence. When you use intelligence for endurance events, you become a lot more successful – it's a three-way conversation between body, intellect and emotion. As long as everything is going well, the body responds accordingly. When your emotional level suffers, your body suffers. You have to reason your way out of a difficult situation. We've likened it to the body being a computer. The software is the emotion. The processor is the intellect.
What's next?
Debi: Lots of other ideas! John would love another go at the 100-day challenge – he's got a couple tendons in the shoulder that need surgery first. But we feel that we work best as a team, so it's going to be something together. There's definitely another adventure in the works!
Watch Debi, John and Ryder cross the finish line on the final day
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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Matthew 13:45-46
Living in the Ozark's can be a hard ordeal when families are trying to make a living. It can bring out the grit of those determined to settle its' region. In 1907, there were meager rations when it came to rain; 1908 did no better. For those who planted crops, another venue of making money was the only alternative.
The answer: Pearl fishing in the White River.
Besides fishing for pearls in the waters of the White River, the shells were also collected and made into buttons at the button factory in Cotter, Arkansas.
I remember as a child, my Granny Anderson had an ornate tin containing buttons. Inside was a multi-colored array of small & large buttons. Fishing around in its' contents, there were a few pearl buttons from the White River. In the summer, whenever other cousins were around Granny's house, we would gather in a circle for a simple & fun game of bluff called, "Button, Button…Who's Got the Button!" Discovering who had the button or where it was hidden brought squeals of joy & laughter. I don't know who all won in finding the button. Nevertheless, we all won in growing together as a family.
Today, many try to obtain a temporary prize, to only see it fade by the wayside. Yet, all the while, they have discarded other blessings that was once in their hands but never realized its' value or potential.
I ask you Dear Reader. Look about your circumstances, and you too may find a discarded or hidden treasure of great price. It may seem that you are going through a great drought of your life or you are flooded by circumstances that you no longer able to control or understand. Just as it is in the above parable, a man had given all to obtain the prize; we must also evaluate what we are giving our all & lives for. Life is filled with many buttons & pearls. Just as the Ozark pioneers adapted to every hardship in order to survive, it was their faith in God that gave them stability & wisdom.
Below are a few articles that testify to the resourcefulness of those in our Ozarks' History.
Pearl Fishing Has Begun on White River.
With the low waters the past two weeks, many have gone to their summer work of pearl fishing and some pretty good pearls have been found. It is doubtful whether this line of work will follow to the extent that it was last year in this county. Last year the drought and poor crops forced many to take up this occupation to make their living and many valuable finds were made. This year, crops are good, with but few exceptions. The largest sale made was reported this week from Norfork where Ed Plant, the depot agent at that place, bought four pearls, paying an aggregate of $132.50 for the four. The largest one brought $106.50.
A Big Pearl.
One of the largest pearls we ever run across taken from the rivers of this section we saw last week at Buffalo. It is owned by Col. Buie of that place and was taken from the White River. This pearl weighs 75 grains and is as big as a medium -size marble. It is almost round but it is rough and will have to be peeled before it goes to market. Buffalo is one of the pearl centers of this section as well as being one of the best zinc camps. C. E. Pond of Buffalo is also showing some fancy pieces in pearls. He is the principal buyer of that place.
Works Cited:
"A Big Pearl." The Baxter Bulletin 8.20 (May 21, 1915) 1. Baxter County Microfilm Archive. Donald W. Reynolds Library, Mountain Home, AR. 15 Nov., 2010.
The Holy Bible: King James Version. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Messick, Mary A. History of Baxter County: Centennial Edition 1873-1973. 110. Mountain Home, AR: Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce. International Graphics, Inc. Little Rock, AR, 1973.
"Pearl Fishing Has Begun on White River." The Baxter Bulletin 8.30 (31 July, 1908) 1. Baxter County Microfilm Archive. Donald W. Reynolds Library, Mountain Home, AR. 15 Nov., 2010.