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There is still time to get in to the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy for January 2014. I will be there coordinating the Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum course, and you are welcome to join me as we have opened a second section of the course. There are five other courses that still have a few seats remaining, so select which one is most appealing to you and sign up in the next ten days.
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Researching in Eastern Europe
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Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum (2nd section)
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Utilizing Social History
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Im down for that too.
does anyone know of a all Ford offroad club? Im not talking about mudding. Im more interested in a group that does Trails.
screw it i went and started a Meetup account.. costs me 12 dollars a month but if we can get some members interested in doing some local offroading in their ford truck then its worth it. you can join it here: http://www.meetup.com/SoCal-F-Series...heduleNow=true
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make sure you join up to get the latest details on it...
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im going to setup another meetup/ event for next month if anyone is interested....
Im down! Why has this Site been so "dead"? We need to spread the word out to all the PSD owners out in SoCal. I know theres Alot of guys that dont know about this website.
Theres a bunch of guys that meet up every 1st and 3rd friday of the Month @ 7pm
12645 beach blvd., Stanton, Ca 90680
Then theres a truck club called Redline Truck Club thats on Instagram that meet up as well.
Does SOCAPS have an Instagram?? Maybe they can set one up to get more people onboard
A little late on this one...
I've been on the .org for a while and I made an account here back when I first found the .org. I partially forgot to check in on this one but also thought it was DEAD! as mentioned above. I'd be all over a SuperDuty offroad group. I'm getting into some long-distance trips with my prerunner buddies now after throwing on some Carli suspension. Raul, it looks like you're in Simi? I'm about to move to Thousand Oaks with the fiance. It'd be cool to meet up sometime or go make some dust.
I'm on dezertrangers and the .org all the time but trying to maintain a build thread on 4+ forums seems ridiculous to me, which is why I'm usually not on p.s.nation. But SoCAPS would be badass if people show up!
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Everybody's scrambling to find new approaches to recurring security problems that continue to impact enterprises and individuals alike. Segmentation, the idea of separating sections of an IT system so that an intruder can't roam from level to level, is currently a hot idea here.
Illumio has its own stake in the ground on this, believing that this will become a new standard for securing data center and cloud applications. Segmentation is a way to move beyond reactive breach detection solutions to a proactive model that stops the lateral movement of bad actors.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup contends that its Adaptive Security Platform provides the first continuous delivery system for segmentation security, continually updating and upgrading itself. The ASP programs the correct security policy and auto-manages enforcement across applications, workloads and processes as they are provisioned, operated and moved in any data center or private and public cloud infrastructure.
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Illumio's latest news is that the company has made its segmentation platform into a new foundation for data center and cloud security with support for Cisco and Dynamic Filters on Arista data center network switches, as well as AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups.
The company said that these new capabilities are coming this calendar year; the switch integrations will be demonstrated on the floor of the RSA conference Feb. 13-16 in San Francisco.
"As segmentation becomes the core strategy for data center and cloud security, organizations are now looking at how other elements of their compute environment can be used to enforce these policies," Illumio CTO and co-founder P.J. Kirner said.
"Our customers have asked us to efficiently coordinate policy across their data center and cloud environments, simplifying management of the security control plane. This expansion of our platform builds on our previously demonstrated capability of programming the F5 LTM and AFM and represents our next step towards Illumio's adaptive segmentation."
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--Illumio can now program and control data center and cloud infrastructure, including Cisco, Microsoft Azure, AWS and Arista.
--Users no longer need firewall chokepoints, SDN deployments or upgrade infrastructure to achieve high-end, segmentation-based security.
--The expansion of Illumio's enforcement-point programming gives users a centralized and automated coordination of policy management among hosts; workloads (bare metal, virtual machines, containers); Cisco, F5 and Arista network switches; and public cloud AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups.
--Users can now write uniform security policies for hosts, the network and public cloud, improving security and reducing operational overhead. By extending Illumio ASP's enforcement point ecosystem from the workload (bare metal servers, virtual machines, containerized hosts) to the additional security controls in the network and cloud, Illumio claims that it is ending the need to manage multiple disconnected policy models.
Core Benefits
According to the company, this provides three core benefits:
--eliminates the security gaps generated by the disparate, uncoordinated security policies enforced separately at the workload, in the network and in cloud environments;
--reduces the operational overhead of manual segmentation provisioning by taking advantage of software-driven automation of security policies; and
--stops the addition of unnecessary firewall chokepoints or SDN deployments to achieve robust segmentation-based security.
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"One of the biggest challenges in security is battling complexity, and that's amplified by increasing heterogeneity that we see in customer data centers and cloud environments," Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, said. "Legacy infrastructure combined with virtualization and cloud means there is opportunity for coordinated points of policy enforcement.
"We see segmentation in depth addressing a real requirement for customers who are looking to both strengthen security and simplify operations by centralizing and harmonizing policy and enforcement across different environments."
Three-year-old Illumio counts among its customers Morgan Stanley, Plantronics, Salesforce, King Entertainment, NetSuite, Oak Hill Advisors and Creative Artists Agency.
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Teacher Nathan Strenge, class of 2009, and two colleagues at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists strive to be innovators in the math classroom. Recently, their innovation paid off – winning them $10,000 for their school.
Students Advance in Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival Competition
Seniors Katelynn Kenney (Box Elder, S.D.) and Matt Stoffel (Sherburn, Minn.) and Augustana's student Stage Crew have advanced in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Irene Ryan Acting Competition, held this week at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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Read the Sioux Falls Business Journal report on job opportunities for young professionals in South Dakota and learn about Augustana senior Alex Sproul, a nursing major who will finish his clinicals and an internship in May and will start work as an RN at Sanford Health this summer after passing his boards.
High School Student Artists Recognized
High school student artists from around the region were recognized earlier this month at a reception in honor of the High School Invitational, an exhibit currently on display at Augustana's Eide/Dalrymple Gallery.
Students Organize Food Drive to Benefit Feeding SD
Four Augustana juniors are hoping to turn a crosstown rivalry into a benefit for those in need. The "Sioux Falls Showdown" will place "Augustana" and "USF" food collection barrels inside Hy-Vee stores throughout Sioux Falls from January 17-24. Food donations will benefit Feeding South Dakota.
Impact Report Celebrates Charitable Giving
Augustana has released its 2012-2013 Impact Report, an annual report of the state of the College and an honor roll of those who made gifts during the last fiscal year (August 1, 2012, through July 31, 2013).
Nominations Sought for 2014 Covenant Awards
Nominations were accepted for the 2014 Covenant Awards, five honors that recognize students who exemplify and illustrate Augustana's core values: Christian, Liberal Arts, Excellence, Community and Service. Nominations were due Thursday, Feb. 20.
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A $125 million gift from philanthropist T. Denny Sanford will establish Sanford Imagenetics, a first-of-its-kind program integrating genomic medicine into primary care for adults. The program will include initial partnerships with Augustana and the University of South Dakota to develop new academic programs which will train the next generation of doctors, nurses and scientists in genomic medicine. Read more in this Argus Leader story.
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The Augustana College campus will be OPEN for normal scheduled events and classes on the first day of Augustana's January Interim, Monday, Jan. 6. College housing re-opened at noon on Sunday, Jan. 5.
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The US Supreme Court will soon decide one of the most consequential cases in years – the challenge to the new federal health care law, often known as Obamacare.
But right behind it comes another blockbuster case.
Next term the court will hear Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Health is still the issue – but this time, it's the health of our multiracial society. Will the public sector – and public universities in particular – finally move beyond a fixation with race, and start treating all people as individuals, not color-coded statistics?
At UT-Austin, admissions directors favor the race-based spreadsheet approach. Race is a criterion in undergraduate admissions – with favoritism for African-Americans and Hispanics – in an effort to achieve a pre-determined mix, or "diversity." Abigail Fisher, a white female, was denied admission, and she's suing because she was not evaluated on an equal basis with applicants from other backgrounds.
The court was correct to take this case. It needs to clarify, once and for all, whether the need for "diversity" justifies universities treating individuals differently because of their race.
When the court last considered this issue, in a pair of University of Michigan cases in 2003, it struck down racial preferences in one case but narrowly upheld them in the other. In the latter, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned, "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary..."
So the court was – rather oddly, to be sure – announcing only a temporary waiver of students' right not to be discriminated against on the basis of skin color and what country their ancestors came from. Since a third of the time allowed for in Justice O'Connor's projection has passed, it makes sense for the court to revisit the matter.
Studies provide ample evidence that universities are not weaning themselves away from this discrimination. To the contrary: A study last fall of the University of Wisconsin by the Center for Equal Opportunity found the most pronounced undergraduate admissions discrimination the center had ever seen. Recent studies show that law school discrimination at UW and elsewhere is severe, too. Studies of medical school admissions have reached the same conclusion.
At one time, affirmative action was designed to benefit African Americans recently subjected to Jim Crow, over whites who had been the segregated system's beneficiaries. But now, more and more, it is Asians (our fastest growing ethnic group) who are discriminated against in favor of Latinos (our largest minority). At the University of Texas, for instance, in 2009, admitted Asians had an average SAT score 197 points higher than the average score for admitted Hispanics.
What's the historical justification for that difference?
As for the "diversity" rationale, it is becoming more and more problematic to justify using race and ethnicity as a proxy for people's perspectives and experiences – or to identify students from disadvantaged backgrounds. There are of course many white and Asian students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and many African Americans and Latinos who do not.
In fact, a frequently cited pro-racial preference book – "The Shape of the River" by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok – acknowledged that 86 percent of the African American students admitted to the schools it surveyed (selective colleges and universities using affirmative action) had "middle" or "high" socioeconomic status. Only 14 percent came from "low" socioeconomic backgrounds.
Even if there are some marginal educational benefits for students from greater "diversity," they are few and thin compared to the substantial costs – costs, that is, from institutionalizing racial discrimination that must be borne by society as a whole, the universities, and the students themselves.
For example, empirical evidence has come to light that among the victims of admission preferences for blacks and Latinos are...blacks and Latinos. That is, by mismatching students and institutions, students are set up for failure. A study by UCLA Law School Professor Richard Sander found there would be more African Americans in the legal profession if affirmative action weren't routing students to schools that aren't a good academic fit – and from which, too often, they don't graduate.
The use of racial preferences is simply wrong, for a host of reasons, including: It is personally unfair; it can stigmatize the so-called beneficiaries in the eyes of their classmates, teachers, and themselves, as well as future employers, clients, and patients; it compromises the academic mission of the university; and it gets states and schools involved in unsavory activities like deciding which racial and ethnic minorities will be favored and how to establish group membership.
One constant is that racial preferences remain very unpopular. A recent Rasmussen poll found 55 percent of Americans saying they were against "affirmative action" in college admissions, with only 24 percent for, and 21 percent undecided. If the question had been about "racial preferences" – a less ambiguous term – presumably the survey would have shown even greater unpopularity.
The face of America is changing, and it is untenable to be sorting Americans by skin color in a nation that is becoming more and more multiracial and multiethnic.
The justifications for such discrimination have grown weaker, and the costs more apparent. And many Americans, to their credit, are fed up with it. The Supreme Court should rule in favor of Abigail Fisher and tell universities that they must stop judging applicants by the color of their skin and their national origin: The nation's long-term health demands it.
Roger Clegg is president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Joshua Thompson is an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation. In the Fisher case, the Pacific Legal Foundation has filed an amicus brief, which the Center for Equal Opportunity joined, urging the Supreme Court to outlaw race-based preferences and discrimination in university admissions.


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I've been scratching my head over this and I'm wondering if this is possible. I want to replace the protocol of the GeoExt.form.FormPanel in the following way:
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2. then "proto" goes inside the formpanel (protocol: proto).
3. in the handler function of the button a new variable "proto" is defined. I want to replace this new variable inside the formpanel.
Since extjs, geoext, openlayers are javascript libraries, I've tried things such as "eval" to make the variable "proto" inside the handler accessible in the formpanel but no luck so far. Here it is a simplified example to show this:
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The splendid bay of Portofino is like a jewel set in the lush greenery of the Promontory. With its tall, colourful houses huddled in a semicircle around the Piazzetta, or town square, Portofino, once a typical Ligurian fishing village, is now one of the world's most acclaimed resorts. An exclusive destination attracting international tourism, its atmosphere still offers a taste of bygone days with the timeless traditions connected to the sea and the painstaking artisan crafts which embody the colors and scents of Liguria. Upon arrival you will be offered a tasty appetizer in the small square overlooking the little port. A visit to the Church of San Giorgio or Brown Castle, a stroll down to the lighthouse or a hike along any of the numerous pathways over the mountain down to the village of San Fruttuoso offer delightful sensations, enhanced by the views of spectacular nature drenched in Mediterranean sunshine. Subsequently the boat arrives in San Fruttuoso, a small fishing village located in a splendid bay at the foot of Mount Portofino, reachable only by sea or on foot, following the trails of Portofino Park. The extraordinary spot is dominated by the Abbey of San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte. This splendid monument, now part of the heritage of FAI - the Italian Environment Found - has extremely old origins, dating back to the 8th century. Around the abbey develop a small beach, a church, the tower of the Doria and a few fishermen's cottages that are reflected in emerald blue sea, on a dark green background of pine trees. Here we have free time for a nice relaxing bath in the limpid and crystalline water or sunbathing on the beach. An underwater statue of Christ, known as the Christ of the Depths, protector of divers, stands at the bottom of the Bay.
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Forget power, forget handling, forget even looks or quality or comfort or coolness. Which automaker has the coolest logo, the best visual sign of their brand?
While they may be refreshed from time to time, few automakers completely overhaul their logo. That's because this is the sign on the front (and back) of the car that tells you what it is. Most people wouldn't recognize a new Ford Fusion if it weren't for the blue oval hovering over the grill. It's the most integral part of an automaker's brand image. This isn't the hood ornament, or the font, or something similarly frivolous, but the most basic expression of a car's identity.
If we had to choose one, we'd have to go with a classic: the Alfa Romeo. 14th century crowned snakes with trident tongues, Milanese emblems, and just about every tasteful color under the sun. What more could you ask for? Plus, for the less well informed among us, it even says Alfa Romeo on the badge to avoid any and all confusion.
As logos go, Alfa's is hard to beat. But if you think you've got an idea that might do the trick, or even come in just behind, lay it down in the comments.
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Presenting Ginny Weasley, the Quidditch Player
Nov 20, 2008
Thanks to Oclumencia, we can now see a new photo of Gryffindor Quidditch player (and future hero of the Holyhead Harpies) Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This photo is part of a collections of scans from Brazilian magazine, RECREIO, that also has new photos of Quidditch Ron (Rupert Grint) and more here in our galleries. Courtesy of ScarPotter, we can also see a photo of Quidditch Harry (Dan Radcliffe) and more from the same magazine.
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A new local children's apparel designer has hit the Queens fashion scene with extra horsepower in her sewing machine. Coming from a long line of sewers in her family, it only makes sense that Patricia Gambis took up sewing in her spare time. Her children's clothing line has since taken off into a new direction of beautiful lined dresses and dress-up costumes. Her style and sense of beauty shine through in her vibrant fabrics and clean lines. She creates pieces that are comfortable, classic, affordable (most of her dresses are $50-60) and, of course, made with love.
Another designer whose love bursts through her craft is Dolores Corcuera of Marikit Designs. Corcuera creates fabulous children's hair accessories and jewelry. In addition to juggling a full-time job and motherhood, she somehow finds the time to create a kids accessory line. The pieces are an absolute steal with hair clips starting at just $2. Her one-of-a-kind hair accessories are great for birthday party favors and make adorable gifts.
Speaking of gifts, feel free to donate to the Cookies for Kids Cancer charity group at www.cookiesforkidscancer.org. Lisa Tobin and her team of volunteers from the Forest Hills Parents and Playgroup ganged up on pediatric cancer and raised $1,000 at a local bake sale this past Sunday. Although the bake sale itself was a local initiative, Cookies for Kids Cancer is a nationwide non-profit organization that gives you the tools to throw your own bake sale to raise money for children's cancer research. Check out the website to see how you can donate, buy cookies or use your own recipe to sell in your own bake sale. Buy an organic cotton T-shirt while you're at it for only $8-10. We should be proud to have parents like Lisa and The Forest Hills Parent & Playgroup in our community!
When shopping for children's clothes, at what point do you draw the imaginary "budget" line in the sand? What do you do with your child's overpriced dress or designer outfit once they've outgrown it? The Monkey Exchange (www.themonkeyexchange.com) has the answer! The Monkey Exchange is an online national children's clothing consignment store. Send in your gently worn designer children's clothing via mail to their corporate headquarters and you make some money back on your kids' wardrobes! Keep your offspring stylish and your bank account in a happy state. It's quick and EASY!
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HP has decided it wants to stay in the PC business after all, and will not spin off or sell its Personal Systems Group.
New CEO Meg Whitman said in a news release today that HP would be better off holding onto the group, which last year brought almost $41 billion in revenue to the company in fiscal 2010.
"HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It's clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees," said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. "HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger."
Whitman's predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker, announced in August that the company was considering either selling or spinning off the PC business into its own company. At that time, Apotheker also said that holding onto the division also was a possibility.
Apotheker was ousted a month later and replaced by Whitman, best known for her stint as eBay's CEO. Whitman said the company wanted to make a decision as soon as possible, and Chairman Ray Lane said HP would not sell the group.
Now HP has decided to maintain the status quo. Exactly what it means for Houston's HP campus – where much of the Personal Systems Group is based – is unclear. I suspect not much will change for the moment.
There's a conference call with analysts at 4 p.m. CDT, and I'll update this post after that.
Update: An HP spokesperson told me "there's no news today" regarding any particular campus.
Update 2.0: During the conference call, CEO Whitman said she heard from many of HP's customers that the uncertainty created by the Aug. 18 announcement of a possible PC division spinoff was hurting the company.
"Uncertainty is not your friend here," Whitman said she was told by one of HP's biggest customers."We confused the market pretty dramatically on Aug. 18."
She also said she had been repeatedly asked, "What is HP?"
With today's decision, HP should be able to answer that question more definitively, she said, and "once we nail it, we have to execute against it consistently."
The decision to keep the PSG was the work of 18 different committees, studying every aspect of the division's impact on HP as a company. In the end, she said, executives and the board decided that "HP and PSG would be better together."
Spinning off the company would have required substantial costs to create new corporate infrastructure from scratch. The division would have lost some of the leverage it has with suppliers, as HP is one of the largest buyers of electronic components in the world.
HP's CFO, Cathie Lesjak, said the PSG group brings $1 billion in profit annually to HP, and that spinning it off would require an expenditure of more than $1.5 billion for marketing, IT systems, support and finance.
"The costs and risks of a spinoff would be far greater than any value we could create," Whitman said.
Update 3.0: Whitman and PSG chief Todd Bradley also talked about webOS' future and the HP's tablet strategy.
Sorry, webOS TouchPad fans: Don't expect a rebirth of that particular product. HP will re-enter the tablet business, but it will likely be via Windows 8 tablets once the new OS is released, probably sometime next year. A decision on what will happen with the webOS software will be made this year, Whitman said.


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Total Fail !
...trying to copy original Ronnie Barker show, and failing miserably ! Total pony & trap.
FrankN 9:00pm Fri 13 Oct Report Abuse
Because Alex is 6.. that's why. Stick with Sponge Bob.
Yaspaa 12:10pm Sun 3 Feb Report Abuse
Great stuff!
RIP Ronnie Barker, comedic genius indeed.
WinstonStanleyGaylord 11:14am Tue 29 Dec Report Abuse
"comedy at its best"
'cos it comes from the west :)
me myself and Iman 1:32pm Christmas Day Report Abuse
humurous comedy classic worth watching for comedy genious of ronnie barker
mj 2:45pm Christmas Eve Report Abuse
How Ironic.
This really is the best thing on Saturday evening TV, it's also 35 years old. Says a lot for the tripe our TV companies now try to spoon feed us.
Mr Mackay 7:17pm Sat 14 Nov Report Abuse
You What!!
How can anyone say this is Bad!! Alex you are a Joker - this is a classic and one not to be missed...
Joker 12:35pm Tue 23 Dec Report Abuse
Stirring Stuff....
Classic comedy....why can't we have something like this nowadays(note to American comedy writers:-lots of shouting and running about don't count)
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Page Maps published a Basic Grey contest to create a LO using this sketch:
I used my SIL pictures. They were in Breckenridge (Colordao) and did snow sled.
I wasn't sure about the colors of the papers I chose (I'm an old fashioned - love blue & white combination for snow LO's) - but I love the result:Because it's a LO I created for their album - I don't journal myself, I just leave some empty lines so they can do it when they're home...
I used:
Autumn Leaves Designer printed papers
Doodlebug Expressions stitches rub ons
Scrappy Cat clear stamps Designer Flourishes
Fiskars Treading Water border punch
i used my QuicKutz Silhouette to cut the title (font: choco)
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The soft colors really complement the black & white photos. Great job!
Lovely layout - love it and it looks so peaceful - well done - Tania
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My father immigrated to New York from Ecuador in 1990. It was a myth in Ecuador that everyone who went to the U.S. returned to Ecuador a wealthy person. My dad knew it wasn't exactly true, and that he would have to work hard to achieve financial stability. But he also knew that even menial jobs in the U.S. paid more than most professional jobs did in Ecuador, and that there were minimum wage laws here that would guarantee he earned a certain amount.
He arrived with reasonable hopes, yet when I look at him 20 years later, I see my dad still struggling financially. I wanted to know how that happened and what he had to say about the recession taking away any stability he had, so I interviewed him for this story.
In Ecuador, my dad studied architecture for three years. Before he'd completed his degree, my grandmother stopped paying his tuition, and he couldn't afford to complete college on his own. So when he applied for and received a visa to the U.S., he thought, "What do I have to lose?"
Arriving in New York, he moved in with his cousins in Brooklyn. He had $3,000 that his mother had given him, but to his dismay it went quickly in this expensive city. After about three weeks he was almost broke after paying for food, rent, and other expenses.
He quickly understood that pay was higher here because prices were so much higher. In fact, the ratio of expenses to pay was about the same as in Ecuador. My dad began to wonder if he should have stayed in Ecuador, but he didn't have enough money to travel back.
Although he'd studied architecture, he had to settle for a menial job here because his partially completed degree meant nothing in the U.S. He spent four months working at different factories, wishing he didn't have to work so hard. His hands had blisters at the end of the day and the pay was poor.
Eventually, a friend found him a job at an electric company; my father was glad to be working at something he was at least interested in. For the next five years he worked as an electrician's assistant, eventually gaining enough knowledge to become an electrician. He wired buildings during the hot summers and freezing winters. He wasn't happy with the workload, but he did what he had to do.
After a year working there, my dad met my mom and two years after that, I was born and he met me. My mom already had two children who lived with us, but she was working too, so for a while we were fine financially.
Then one day my dad had an argument with a supervisor, who fired him. There was a lot of racism, he explained: His supervisor was Caucasian, as were his coworkers, and my dad felt discriminated against. "They would tell me to work harder, while the others weren't told to work harder," he said.
My mother didn't make enough money at her factory job to support all of us. My dad had no choice but to work at a factory again. "I did it to support my family, not because I wanted to," he told me. After three years of working at a quilt factory, he received a call from the electric company asking him to work for them again, and he accepted.
When I was in 1st grade I barely saw my dad during the week, only at night when I watched movies with him. My father seemed happy, as was I, but that happiness soon faded. My mom died in 2000, when I was 6, and my dad was left with not only me to support, but also my half-brother and half-sister. He knew he couldn't take care of the three of us alone, so he sent my brother and sister to the Dominican Republic to live with their father.
My mom had been the one to drop me off at my babysitter's, but now I had to wake up at 4 a.m. every day to be dropped off because that's when my dad went to work. I slept there until school, and after-school I went back to my babysitter's house until 7 p.m. when my dad arrived home from work.
I was excited when my father came home. He spent as much time with me as he could. I knew my dad not working wasn't an option, but I wished he didn't have a job just so we could spend more time together.
In spite of all the hours he worked, my dad made just about enough money to support us. In 2001 my uncle moved in with us, since he was having financial problems and he and my dad figured that sharing expenses wouldn't hurt either of them. But eventually my uncle moved out to start his own family, and soon after that the electrical company made cutbacks and laid off my father. He was unemployed and scared, living off odd jobs.
Luckily, a few months later he was hired by Hal's Electrical Company and after that, my stepmother (whom he married on a trip to Ecuador) and her son moved in with us. With my stepmother working and taking care of us part of the time, we were OK for about five years.
Then came the recession. With the TV full of bad news, my parents prayed all the time, asking God to help them keep their jobs. But in May 2009, my dad was laid off again, and my step-mom joined him on unemployment two months later. Now, my parents worry all the time.
Luckily there are benefits for laid-off workers, and with those benefits, we've been able to get by. My step-mom cleaned homes for a while; now she has a temporary job as a census worker on weekends, while my dad submits resumes to hundreds of employers. My parents put their faith in God, hoping he'll help them.
"It's hard to get a job nowadays; every job requires you to know English and have a college degree," my dad tells me. He understands English but speaks very little, while my step-mom doesn't speak or understand English.
"It saddens me when my children come home from school and there's nothing to eat. That's why I work hard so I can put food on the table; every little bit of money I make, I spend it on food and bills, not clothes or purses for myself," my step-mom told me in Spanish.
My father has been working hard for the past two decades to become financially stable, but he's not where he thought he would be. The recession has taken away most of what he worked for.
Even in good times, immigrants have it hard. They come to the U.S. alone and poor and often can't speak or understand English. Most come with illusions of wealth but frequently they end up returning to their native countries. Those who stay usually do so knowing they may never have financial stability, but they hope that their children will be successful. (I know my parents feel that way about me; they've always told me so, and as I get older, I'm a little nervous because I know how great their expectations are.)
In a bad economy, immigrants often feel the worst effects. "Isn't it ironic how greedy business owners are the cause of the recession, yet we're the ones suffering?" my dad said to me. "I've done what I can to support your growth and education. You're my hope, and I look forward to seeing you succeed."


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I believe there is an uncanny valley in portraying the young and erudite. I want to see witty movies about the UHB, but only a select few—led by Woody Allen—can write the dialogue without it seeming so stilted. Whit Stillman is one of the masters. It's not that the banter isn't stiff, rather that is part of the point. And it helps when you have stars like Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, and Analeigh Tipton voicing the characters as Stillman does in his latest, Damsels in Distress. Gerwig, Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, and Carrie MacLemore star as a group of coeds whose friendship is threatened by a series of romances, "including smooth Charlie (Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker), the mad frat-pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf), and Thor (Billy Magnussen)." Damsels in Distress opens in limited release on April 6. Hit the jump to watch the trailer.
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I eat this stuff up. At the same time, I can totally how somebody could hate this—that same allergic reaction I've had to a couple Wes Anderson projects. But if you are one of the converted, be sure to check out Steve's interview with Stillman at TIFF. And if you'd like to see more, I have embedded a few clips that dropped awhile back:
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Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group, which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men – including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker), the mad frat-pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen) – who threaten the girls' friendship and sanity.


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Even at tea party debate, Perry likely to be on hot seat
The tea party movement is officially welcomed into the Republican mainstream on Monday as the first presidential debate sponsored by a tea party group takes place in Tampa, Fla.
Monday night's nationally televised encounter at the Florida State Fairgrounds, co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express and CNN, is likely to highlight the anti-government, anti-spending issues dear to the insurgent conservative movement. The debate also is likely to feature stepped-up attacks on the new front-runner in the GOP primary race, Rick Perry.
The candidate most likely to take the offensive is Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who has been displaced as tea party Republicans' favorite candidate by the Texas governor. And libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, will continue his verbal assault on Perry as a party-switching opportunist who once worked for Al Gore and has not been shy to use government power to suit his political purposes.
The beneficiary of any piling on Perry would be former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the early front-runner who has slipped to second in nine GOP presidential polls released in the past three weeks.
"The field will attack Perry, and Romney can enjoy that," said Steven E. Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College. "But he will make his own distinctions in the debate, too."
Romney is poised to step up his criticism of Perry's position on Social Security - the Texas governor calls it a "Ponzi scheme" while the former Massachusetts governor promises to restore its financial solvency - while taking advantage of the focus on Perry to push his own policy proposals.
"Having others attack Perry means Romney is not getting attacked," said Jim Granato, director of the Hobby Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston, "and it means he can spend his time on further sharpening his own message about why people should vote for him. There is a benefit to not being the frontrunner."
Romney, a former Winter Olympics CEO and venture capitalist, hopes to use the debate to establish his economic policy credentials with tea party supporters, who strongly favor spending cuts, tax cuts and less government regulation but are suspicious of the health-care reform plan he implemented in Massachusetts. To sway skeptics, said Carleton's Schier, Romney "will need to emphasize private sector solutions to economic problems as a way to gain their support."
In many ways, the Tea Party Express involvement in the debate works to Perry's benefit. He was an early supporter of the movement in 2009 and made headlines at an April 15, 2009, tea party event when he suggested that Texas could secede from the Union. Perry won a landslide renomination victory over challenger Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2010 with the backing of tea party GOP.
Analysts say Perry's economic record in Texas, where he balanced the budget this year without raising taxes, gives him a leg up in the debate.
"Perry's top-line claim is that the Texas economy, and especially job creation, has been dynamic on his watch," said Southern Methodist University political scientist Cal Jillson. "Romney and others will have a tough time attacking this without seeming to attack the small-government, low-tax, deregulatory model that underlies it."
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24-30 Strawberries
Margarita Mix
1 box Strawberry Jell-O
8 ounces tequila, preferably reposado or blanco
6 ounce Cointreau
Salt for garnish
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Cut the bottoms of the strawberry flat to get them to stand upright. When you do so, make sure that you do not cut off so much that there is a hole at the bottom.
Use a huller or apple corer to empty out the strawberry.
Once the strawberries have been emptied, use a towel to pat the outside of the strawberries dry.
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Boil one cup of hot water in a saucepan, then add in Jell-o powder and whisk until powder is completely dissolved, about 2 minutes. Set aside. Measure out 1/4 cup of cold water and set aside.
Combine tequila and Cointreau, in cocktail shaker filled with ice. Add liquour mixture to cold water and stir to combine. Then add cold liquour mixture to hot Jell-o mixture and stir to combine.
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Having touched on the Regency libraries at Stourhead and Ickworth, I could not fail to show some of the Regency interiors at Castle Coole, in Co. Fermanagh.
The house was built by James Wyatt for Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl of Belmore, between 1789 and 1797. The cost of building turned out to be so high that initially the house was only sparsely furnished.
But when Somerset Lowry-Corry succeeded as 2nd Earl in 1802 he set about decorating Castle Coole in lavish Regency style, using the Dublin cabinetmakers and dealers John and Nathaniel Preston.
They supplied the massive gilt and mahogany furniture in the principal rooms, and also many of the curtains and upholstery materials.
Apart from the goût grec running through much of the decoration, there is also a discernable strand of chinoiserie.
Although classical decoration is predominant in the more 'serious' rooms, and chinoiserie was used more in the 'feminine' areas of the house, the division was not absolute, as the japanned bookcases in the Morning Breakfast Room show.
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VATICAN CITY — A Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide that Pope Francis put up for auction went for a hefty $326,500 today, demolishing its pre-sale appraisal of $16,000.
The record sale was the hit of the day as hundreds of bidders and spectators attending the Paris auction "erupted into applause when the hammer came down," according to the Bonhams auction house.
Bidding was fierce, Bonhams said, and lasted a full six minutes. The 2013 autographed bike went to "a private European buyer" who was bidding over the telephone.
A leather Harley jacket, also signed by the pope, sold for $77,644 to someone "overseas," meaning, not in Europe. A pre-bid estimate had put the 110th anniversary special edition XL jacket at between $1,400 and $2,000.
Seems appraisers didn't factor in how much papal Harley gear was really worth!
Ben Walker, head of motorcycles at Bonhams, said: "It has to be a world record for a twenty-first century Harley-Davidson and certainly for a Harley-Davidson leather jacket."
— Bonhams press release
All proceeds will go to benefit the renovation of Caritas Rome's Fr. Luigi di Liegro shelter and soup kitchen. The money looks like it will provide the final funding needed for the project, which had been $270,000 short of its target.
Msgr. Enrico Feroci, head of Caritas Rome, told Bonhams:
"We are delighted with the results of the sale, which far exceeded any of our expectations.
"We would like to thank Bonhams for their professionalism with handling the motorcycle and for all their efforts in helping us to achieve such an amazing result."


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Let $X$ be a complex, projective, nonsingular variety. We also understand it as a Kähler Manifold. My question now is, when people say $c_1(X) < 0$, what exactly do they mean? Let me elaborate. In this paper, it is said that Yau's inequality
$$ (-1)^n c_1^n \le (-1)^n \frac{2(n+1)}{n} c_2 c_1^{n-2} $$
holds under the condition that $c_1(X) < 0$. I would have thought that this is equivalent to $K_X$ being effective. In the original paper, Yau requires $X$ to have ample canonical class, however. Now, I am wondering: For the above equality to hold, do I need $K_X$ to be ample or does it suffice for $K_X$ to be effective?


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Peter Laker: "Excellent article, loads of detail and nice format."
Ed Price: "Great introduction! I love how this incrementally takes you through the process."
Abhijit Mahato Implementation of Routing slip pattern using ESB Toolkit 2.1 and BizTalk Server Mandi Ohlinger: "Great example of use ESB! The screen shots are a nice addition."
Ed Price: "Great formatting with the different sections! The images help visually explain everything."
Peter Laker: "Nice tip with lots of detail"
Mohit Gupta Complex FlatFile Conversion using Biztalk schema and Map Peter Laker: "Details, code and images make this a great article"
Ed Price: "The code blocks are very helpful!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Great FlatFile example. We need more of these."
SharePoint 2010 Technical Guru - June 2013 Matthew Yarlett Uploading (and Resizing) Images to a SharePoint Picture Library via a Webpart Margriet Bruggeman: "Handy to have this code!"
Peter Laker: "Nice article. Who's the mugshot of?"
Ed Price: "It's very clear! It's great how you take us through this, with the code and image for clarity."
Tom Van Gaever: "Please do not set AllowUnsafeUpdate to true http://hristopavlov.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/what-you-need-to-know-about-allowunsafeupdates/"
Sunny Dasgupta SEO Friendly SharePoint Sites/Pages Margriet Bruggeman: "Good to know!"
TVG: "SharePoint 2013 PG has invested a lot in making SharePoint a better WCM solution. I would create a series that lists all the improvements for public facing websites (image rendition, device channels,...)"
Peter Laker: "Top tip"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet! Good use of images!"
Sunny Dasgupta New! SharePoint 2013: Branding Solutions as an App! Showcase your solutions now! TVG: "I like the showcase idea"
Ed Price: "This is an important business lesson! It would be great to follow this up with technical "how to" examples, with all the details."
Small Basic Technical Guru - June 2013 Nonki Takahashi Small Basic: How to Make a Turtle Maze Game RZ: "This is very cool. Nice layout, screenshots, and details instructions."
Ed Price: "I love this article! It's fun, and it takes you through the whole process in a fun and clear way, complete with great formatting, images, and code. Great job!"
Jibba Jabba a Development Map for Becoming a Good Programmer using Small Basic and MSDN RZ "Very useful information. Content is nicely structured."
Ed Price: "This is an incredibly valuable resource!"
Nonki Takahashi Small Basic: Did You Know? RZ: "Very useful information. Especially concerning known issues."
Ed Price: "Chances are that you didn't know that... which makes this article very valuable!"
SQL Server Analysis Services Technical Guru - June 2013 Yogish Bhat Aggregations in SSAS Peter Laker: "Excellent subject. Excellent detail. Nice formatting."
Ed Price: "Great explanations, clearly written, and good job breaking up the sections so that it's easy to read and to use the TOC."
Yogish Bhat MOD Function in MDX Peter Laker: "Useful tip. Thanks!"
Ed Price: "Great solution!"
SQL Server Reporting Services/Power View Technical Guru - June 2013 Tim Pacl Sorting Elements of a Concatenated String Peter Laker: "An excellent article with some useful tips"
Ed Price: "This is a great article! You have a lot of code samples and a clear overview."
Tim Pacl Adding Links in SSRS Reports Peter Laker: "Images really help to explain the procedure"
Ed Price: "The images help make the steps very clear!"
Tim Pacl Concatenating Data Column Values Into a Single String Peter Laker: "Useful tip, common problem"
Ed Price: "Good formatting on the code in this article."
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - June 2013 Naomi N How SQL Server Determines Type of the Constant Richard Mueller: "A good recommendation to explicitly CAST values, with an example of possible consequences if you don't." Naomi N SET ANSI_PADDING Setting and Its Importance Samuel Lester: "Outstanding contribution! I love the process of walking us through the debugging you performed. People who read this article gain an understanding of not only the SET ANSI_PADDING setting, but also how you arrived at discovering this as well as the technical resources available to ask in the MSDN forums. Very, very good!"
Ed Price: "Very in depth article with great code formatting!"
Richard Mueller: "This explains an issue I was not aware of. Well researched. Good to include a script to correct the situation."
Johnny Bell Jnr SQL Server Result Set In An HTML Email Richard Mueller: "Very instructive. I like this because similar techniques can be used for other applications."
Samuel Lester: "Great article and very handy for sure. I'm a big fan of code generation through T-SQL as you're doing with the @HTML parameter. I use similar tricks often to generate code for other programming languages. Very good!"
Ed Price: "The text does a great job setting up the code blocks!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - June 2013 Reed Kimble How to Communicate with a Microcontroller or Other Serial Device in VB.Net Richard Mueller: "A well written article with great information and a detailed code example. The explanation should allow someone to adapt this for many applications."
MR: "Well written and very descriptive."
Anthony D. Green: "This article has the most interesting topic but I wish it had a more concrete example like making a robot dance or something. Serial port communication is a common forum question as the writer points out - I'd be great if the user had something in the sample to run against/debug. Another suggestion I'd make is that the author break up the very long code sample into discrete steps with the paragraph describing the code following the code immediately. Right now a reader is confronted with a wall of text and has to try to grok it all at once before proceeding to the prose or scan back and forth to get it."
SB: "I like the article - I've seen many issues in the past with serial communication and its always a bit of a vague topic so any article is a positive in my opinion. It would be nice to link this to Micro-framework which added VB support and is another way of working with microcontrollers. Article is well written with good clean examples."
Ed Price: "Incredibly in depth with beautifully formatted code!"
Paul Ishak Bitmap.Lockbits De-Mystified .Net Richard Mueller: "This was a difficult decision to rate these Wikis. This is a well researched article with good explanation of the steps required."
Mark Rideout: "Great details, though formatting makes it hard to read."
Anthony D. Green: "This was well written and well factored for reading. My only complaints are the lack of syntax colorization and the noisy line numbers. The topic is just obscure enough that it would have helped a lot to have a paragraph or two at the beginning to tell me what Lock bits is and why it's interesting rather than just jump into a deep dive. It links to another article which gives the motivation but it would have been great to have that inline."
SB: "Rather than an article I felt this was more a series of code snippets. Although very useful I prefer a narrative explaining things. I think that the content is OK but it alludes to the fact of performance improvements but would like maybe a bit more info as to how much more performance improvements can be made using this. Presentation wise I'd like to code colorized correctly as well as it helps tremendously in reading."
Ed Price: "I love how the article has its own banner image! Good code samples. Great job!"
Visual C# Technical Guru - June 2013 Dan Randolph Named Pipes IO for Inter-process Communication CW: "Well, rating this time around is pretty straightforward, what with there being one article. The only real dig I have against the article is that it brings up a GUI for this and I never see it. I know it isn't remarkable, but when you mention a GUI, I sort of expect to see it. Otherwise, this article provides a simple sample of using named pipes in c# code between two components."
Christian Lukito: "Good proof of concept showing how to use the API. But it will be more better if can provide real worlds example in what way this is more useful."
Peter Laker: "Only entry! Win!"
Ed Price: "Very clear and easy to read! Great code snippets with good formatting!"
Windows Phone Technical Guru - June 2013 Tiziano Cacioppolini Maps and clusters Peter Laker: "Excellent subject, nice detail!"
Ed Price: "Great code and explanations! It could benefit from code blocks and headers/sections to break it up a little more. Great article!"
isenthil How to Launch Windows Phone 8 Emulator without using Visual Studio 2012? Peter Laker: "Thanks for the tip!"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet. Great formatting with the TOC and sections."
Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - June 2013 Sachin S Building an App using the DataviewModel from external XML Peter Laker: "Nice introduction to the subject. Excellent example and explanation."
Ed Price: "The image at the top catches your interest, and then the code blocks are great as well!"
Sachin S Basic ColorPicker Control inside Settings Pane Ed Price: "Great job breaking up the article with the different sections! The different sections, code headers, links back to the top, the image... it all helps make a better experience."
Peter Laker: "Very useful code. Commonly needed."
Sachin S Insert ComboBox item separator which is filled through Data Binding Peter Laker: "Top tip. Will no doubt come in very handy."
Ed Price: "Great formatting on the code snippets!"
WPF Technical Guru - June 2013 Gaurav Khanna Set Brush for ScrollViewer Thumb Peter Laker: "Good to know if you're not adept at Blend"
Ed Price: "Great formatting on the code blocks!"
XAML guy WPF: How to manage available/selected lists. Simple examples. MVVM and Code behind Ed Price: "It's beautiful. A work of art! From the TOC, to the image at the top, the breakdown of sections, the code snippets, and all the way down. It's easy to read and easy to follow. Great job!"
Peter Laker: "A common problem, and a tidy solution :)"
Magnus (MM8) Event handling in an MVVM WPF application Peter Laker: "Nice event/command primer, lots of detail"
Ed Price: "Good formatting on the code, and the image helps you visualize it! Good article!"
A great big thanks to EVERYONE who contributed an article to last month's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in this month's listings?
If you have not yet contributed an article for this month, and you think you can produce a more useful, clever and better produced wiki article than the winners above, here's your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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Congrats to all the winners! FIM is a new category for July!
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Here's the problem, however: "Variables don't; Constants aren't"citation?
Or, put another way:
1. One man's constant is another man's variable.
To make a constant sometime down the road, as it were, in languages that have logic variables is simplicity itself: once a variable is unified with a value, it keeps that value throughout that proof.
In "pure" functional languages, that is, languages that do not have side effects, the same can be said.
What about the rest of the world? Take Java, for example. One can make a variable keep its value by declaring that variable
final, but that is not helpful if we do not know what our constant value is to be at the time of object creation.
In what scenario could this possibly occur? We need a constant value, but we do not know what it is?
Actually, this situation arises quite frequently. Let's take a concrete example. You have many databases in your database management system, and at compile time you do not know on which port your DBMS is running nor do you know which database the user wishes to query. That's fine, you can lazily create the database connection and access the value through a method:
2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
But what's not fine is this: the user is data-mining, examining chunks at a time, occasionally calling for the next chunk. How does one know that one has fallen off the end of the table? A simple
SELECT on the maximum indexed key will tell you that, but to do that with every query? This seems wasteful. So, once we do the query once, let's just store that value in a variable with a flag to say we've already looked it up.
That sounds suspiciously like a lazily initialized constant, right?
But here's the rub: code that sets a flag allows for other code to unset it, just as code that sets a constant value allows other code to unset that. Using just plain-old regular variables gives no guarantee that the variable, once set, stays set at that constant value.
What to do?
Well, what is the work-flow of this process? We perform an action, checking that we are still within the bounds the valid domain, but the domain only becomes valid after program start, so we cannot make the bounds constant using the
final keyword on the variable. This is a very common programming action ... sort of like ... dare I say ... a design pattern. Gee, I wish there was one invented that did all this.
In fact, there does exist such a pattern, and it comes from us via Category Theory. The programming language Haskell has incorporated elements of Category theory in its use of monads and arrows, but the downside of these ways of thinking about computation is that one must "lift" the entire computation into that domain, transforming the original computation to work in that regime.
No, what is needed is something less intrusive, and I found that less intrusive thing when I read an article by sigfpe on comonadic plumbing. In this article he describes three different ways of looking at constants: 1. as a constant, 2. as the Reader Monad, 3. or as the Reader Comonad.
The first one is sometimes untenable, given the programming need, and doesn't work for our case.
The second one is useful if one is already programming in a monad. Umm ... how many OO programmers use monads? Hands up.
[sound of crickets] ... thought so.
The third one allows one to use the constant on demand. And here's the thing, the comonad is very easily comprehended: it has a value that can be
extracted "down" from the comonad, it allows a value to be
extended over the comonad.
This sounds, in OO parlance, very much like an object. Let's ignore the extentionability of the comonad for now and simply look at extraction (this narrowed functionality is a thing in and of itself. Objects of this type are called Copointed, but let us not be too dogmatic here). Creating such a type is simplicity itself:
> public interface Comonad<T> { public T extract(); }
Um, yawn?
But that is the power of pattern language: not the ability to create these incredibly complex things in a controlled way (they do do that), but the ability to recognize that such and so is a pattern and then encapsulate behavior into the pattern.
Using the comonad pattern, we need simply to make our "maximum row number of Table x" an implementation of the Comonad interface, and then, when we do have enough information to create the database connection (that is, we now have our domain in which our constant resides), we instantiate the comonadic object (which is that domain). Whenever
extract is called, it simply returns the constant value required, with the implementation that it does a database look up the first time, then it does the internal constant value look up all other times. Since the Comonad interface does not have methods to change its internals (here), so long as one has the copointed object, the value
extract has a guarantee that it remains constant.
This article examined a commonly recurring problem: one needs to constify a value at some point during a program run and guarantee that it remain constant after being created. A simplification of the comonad was offered as a pattern that is simple to define and to implement.


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Alien vigilante Garrus is not pretty. He wasn't pretty before his face got shot up, and now, he's even less pretty. Lucky for the kids, then, that this plush based on the Mass Effect gunslinger is so adorable.
Sadly, this isn't an official piece of merchandise from developers BioWare. It's instead a hand-crafted piece, so if you want one, you're going to have to contact craftster eitanya and pay for one yourself.
She takes commissions, though, so if you don't want Garrus — or Mass Effect villain Saren — why not pay her to whip you up a plush reporter getting punched in the face instead?
[eitanya @ DeviantArt, via Game Informer]


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