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Enforcing Stability in Hackage – Some Thoughts
Some time ago, I wrote a post here about the relationship between Hackage and the Haskell Platform. By key point was this: Hackage is not a mechanism for enforcing stability; it's good that anyone, no matter what they write, can upload it to Hackage. If we try to do quality control as a prerequisite to Hackage, then the only consequence will be fewer packages in Hackage.
That's still true. The recent dicussion here made me think, though. Is there a proper role for quality control in Hackage? I think there might be. I'll start with some basic rules:
- Nothing in such a system should make it harder to upload a package to Hackage. This includes asking package developers to commit to future maintenance. It wouldn't be worth the loss of a convenient way to install packages… even packages that don't work at all, and for which the author is merely sharing a partial proof of concept.
- The system should avoid assigning personal responsibility unless necessary. This means that if someone goes away, the system should still work as well as it can, modulo that the one person isn't contributing. If the community as a whole is waiting on someone specific to get around to something, the system is broken.
- Such a system would have to be symbiotic with the Haskell Platform. The Haskell Platform is working, and a great direction to follow for the future of Haskell. Hackage shouldn't be competing against the platform in any way. This is to me the least justifiable of any ground rule… I'm generally not a believer in being so scared of duplication that we don't try new things… but when it comes to quality assurance, I think a different dynamic is in play versus software development. Quality assurance really is a bit of a chore, a lot less personal, and it's fair to at least work at not wasting anyone's time.
If something could be designed according to these ground rules, it could be a positive direction for Haskell to go.
I see several parts to the effort:
Part 1: Quality of Individual Packages
A lot of thought has already gone into this piece of the equation. Everyone is looking forward to the day when we have Hackage 2.0, which new social networky features. Here's a few of the ideas.
Community rating of software. This is the obvious thing to add, but it also may turn out to be the most difficult, by far, to get right! Everyone wants to do a nice rating system to harness popular opinion and all that… but systems that work tend to be the result of years and years of tweaking by dedicated people who are willing to track down the answers to questions like "why is this recommending X over Y?"
We're going to have to ask ourselves some difficult questions. Is the quality of a Haskell package something that can just be measured on a linear scale? Or does it depend on what packages you're using it with? Does it depend on your API preferences? Or can we say that some APIs are just better than others?
Then we're going to have to ask the hardest question: how do we get people to really rate the software on quality and stability, not level of excitement? There are a lot of exciting Haskell projects out there, which are simply bad ideas to depend on in a stable piece of software! In the Haskell community as it exists today, I suspect many of them would end up rated quite highly. Unfortunately, social ranking systems are very frequently about level of interest rather than level of usefulness. The front page of Reddit is not a source of useful, practical information.
So all in all, there are going to be a few long, hard years of asking ourselves hard questions, both about the best mathematical model to compile all of this data, and also about the social engineering needed to increase the signal to noise ratio of the rating system.
I'll offer this one suggestion now: let's allow users to rank projects on several axes: (a) whether the quality is good and the interface is stable and usable, and (b) how "awesome" the project is. Ask the question about awesomeness first, so we get that out of the way, since that's the place people will be more eager to give their input. Then ask about the quality.
User-visible statistics. Adding to this subjective judgement, it would be nice to see some hard data. A number of data points would be useful in making the decision to use a package.
- How many people have this package installed? Not the greatest question to ask, but an easy one! This is subject to all the same concerns as the community rating idea, though. Packages might be widely installed for a lot of reasons: among them, that the package is useful, and also that the package seemed like a really cool thing to check out.
- How many packages depend on this one? How widely used are they? Definitely a much better question. However, it's biased in its own way. Some packages just aren't meant to be used by other libraries, while others are entirely meant for that purpose.
- How frequently are there build failures in this package? In packages that depend on this one? In packages this one depends on? This could be a very interesting source of information.
- How quickly is the public interface for this package changing? This is a different question from the subjective idea of package stability that Hackage already reports from the package author. Of course, it requires a distance function on public APIs of packages.
User reviews, comments, discussions. As a Sourceforge-esque feature to help Haskell package developers, this would be great! It would be especially great if, instead of two thousand isolated discussion forums, this functioned in some way as a Hackage-wide discussion forum, and certain projects and/or users could tap in by defining filters on tags, keywords, etc. for the discussions interesting to them. Of course, an obvious way to see discussion forums about packages would also have some consequences for quality assurance.
Together, these techniques could hopefully make a lot of progress on the problem of staring at the five packages for doing linear algebra in Haskell and wondering exactly how they differ from each other, and which one you should use. That's a nice problem to solve. It can even be done without a huge risk of violating any of the ground rules mentioned above. All of the ideas mentioned above are done by others besides the package author, we're never waiting on anyone, and it's solving a problem that's a bit removed from the Haskell Platform (though certainly quality decisions that go into the Haskell Platform could be influenced by the statistics and input provided here).
The fact is, though, in the whole quality assurance pictures, it's the easy problem!
Part 2: The Integration/Stability Picture
The far more difficult problem is integration of packages and maintaining a stable collection of functioning packages. Given that packages A, B, and C work independently, how can we be sure that they work together nicely? That they don't have incompatible version dependencies? Or different and conflicting assumptions? Or that their interfaces aren't so wildly conflicting that it's awkward to use them both at once?
It is certainly tempting to back off here, and just say that the Haskell Platform will fix this. (No offense to Don… I agree with most of what he's saying in that link) I think that may be a mistake, however. The Haskell Platform encompasses a few dozen packages. Granted, that may increase over time, but: (a) aren't there certain kinds of packages that won't and shouldn't ever become a part of the Haskell Platform? Do they not need integration testing? Really? Also, (b) what about the problem of whether the Haskell Platform's processes scale to a large number of packages?
I'd argue that it might help to think, in general, about the problem of collections of Haskell packages that are independently developed, but for which there's a community of people that want to use them together. Then the Haskell Platform becomes the limiting case where that community of people is the entire Haskell community. There may, though, be smaller such communities.
Okay, you're being quite fair to ask for an example here. The Happstack community looks like a strong candidate. Happstack itself is written as a collection of loosely coupled packages, such as happstack-server, and happstack-state. There's talk of adding more on top of this: modules to handle authentication, and sessions. Happstack also includes dependencies on other modules… some of which often break with respect to each other (generally a matter of version dependency situations that Cabal can't or won't resolve). Even more to the point, look at web development in many other languages, and you'll notice that there are even larger collections of various frameworks and libraries available, and that very few languages handle the testing of all of those web development tools and libraries as a part of the standard library for the language.
I think we should be posing and discussing these questions.
- How much of what the Haskell platform does is specific to it being the Haskell Platform? How much of it could apply to any collection of packages that are developed independently, but have a community of people that want to use them together?
- What features for Hackage might be requested by the Haskell Platform? Can they be generalized to various different communities or package collections?
A proposal might look something like this: in addition to packages, Hackage could track aggregates, which just have a name, description, version, and a collection of other tools and libraries (or other aggregates?) of specific version numbers. Perhaps, as in the case of the Haskell Platform, library authors would need to propose their packages to various aggregates…. perhaps one could let the aggregate owner decide that kind of policy. Many of the part 1 features might be applied here as well.
Or that might be complete bunk, and useless. The point is, perhaps we need to be thinking about how specific subcommunities could do something like the Haskell Platform at the subcommunity level. And that seems like a place where a unified set of tools in Hackage could be a very good thing.
In essence, I think we're moving the right direction here. The answers people are giving are good ones: that Hackage is going to develop some more social moderation features, but that the Haskell Platform is ultimately the answer to stability. But maybe we ought to be asking, not if Hackage should enforce stability or integration, but rather if it should provide more of the tools for more groups to do so.
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moonmaster9000 / Apr 24 2010 7:01 am
hi, i'm a long-time rubyist / budding haskellist. to me, hackage needs a lot of polish, but i don't necessarily recommend giving the hackage site all the bells and whistles you're mentioning.
i recommend checking out the relationship between rubygems and github. rubygems is a beautiful, simple site for finding and publishing gems (a "gem" in ruby is a library of code). gems have versions. 99% of the gems on rubygems have a corresponding repository on github, with links from the gem page on rubygems to github.
github is where the code lives, and where the community discussion takes place.
it's a simple, powerful setup, delivered with style; the combination of these two sites have helped enable an unbelievable explosion of activity in the ruby community.
John Bender / Apr 24 2010 3:35 pm
Mayhaps you mean gemcutter.org?
Either way I share a similar sentiment. Hackage could be a package repository – only – with the code/docs/README.md living in something like github ( I'd personally vote for github ).
does cabal-install support builds from tarball, as you can download tarballs from github based on tags (REST), which normally correspond to releases in the ruby/gems world. I've been tooling around in the cabal-install source to see what support there is but haven't seen anything.
John Bender / Apr 24 2010 4:38 pm
Sorry, I thought (or meant) cabal-install could resolve the dependencies using the package itself (either the tarball in the scenario I described or a package from hackage) in which case pulling a tarball from github wouldn't necessarily be a dependency issue, just another place for the package to reside that has nicer features.
PS I'm an avid reader of your blog, so thank you for publishing!
moonmaster9000 / Apr 24 2010 4:59 pm
hi john. gemcutter.org became rubygems.org a few months ago.
Will Donnelly / Apr 24 2010 11:12 am
Might it be worth considering some sort of "Others who used this package also used…" feature? It seems like such a thing could be really helpful for finding groups of packages that tend to integrate well.
Chris Eidhof / Apr 26 2010 12:26 am
A while ago Tom Lokhorst wrote a script that allows you to install packages directly from github:
moonmaster9000 / Apr 27 2010 1:18 pm
for me, the only things i would change about hackage would be #1 – the style (except for the logo, the site looks like it's from 1997), and #2 – make sure packages have links to a homepage where people could read a README of sorts. i follow hackage on twitter, and see really awesome libraries get uploaded all the time – yet when i go to the package page on hackage, about 80% of the time, i can't find a link to anything that would provide me with a REAMDE that explains the library, how it's used, etc.
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The Congress shall have Power To...coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin....
Teacher's Companion Lesson (PDF)
Congress's power to coin money is exclusive: under Article I, Section 10, the states are not permitted to "coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; [or] make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts...." Whereas the prohibitions on the states are clear and detailed, Congress's grant of power under the Coinage Clause is open-ended.
Nonetheless, certain elements are clear. First, Congress is granted the authority to "coin money," which authorizes Congress to coin money from precious metals such as gold and silver. Under the Articles of Confederation, the power to coin money was a concurrent power of Congress and the states. To create a more standardized monetary system and reduce the costs of running mints, the Constitution granted this power to Congress exclusively. The elimination of the states' power to coin money and the exclusive grant to Congress provoked controversy because the power to coin money was traditionally understood as a symbol of political sovereignty. Second, Congress is empowered to regulate the value of the coins struck domestically and to set the value of foreign coins. Under the Articles, Congress held the former power but not the latter. The Constitution gave both powers to Congress to encourage domestic and foreign commerce by preventing the states from attaching disparate valuations to circulating coins.
Beyond these simple issues, however, the scope of the federal government's powers under the Coinage Clause is unclear. In particular, although the Coinage Clause empowers Congress to coin money from precious metals, it is not clear whether the federal government could also issue paper money. Linguistic and conceptual usage during the Founding era distinguished between several different concepts: the power to "coin" specie money (i.e., money backed by gold or silver), the power to borrow money through the issuance of interest-bearing "notes," and the issuance of "Bills of Credit." Unlike coined money, whose value was inherent in the metal that composed the coin, and unlike "notes" that accrued interest, a bill of credit was non–interest-bearing paper money issued on the good credit of the United States with no tangible backing in precious metal.
Under the Articles of Confederation, both the federal and state governments were guilty of rampant inflationary issuance of bills of credit to finance the Revolutionary War. In response to the revolutionary history, Article I, Section 10, of the Constitution expressly prohibits the states from issuing bills of credit. With respect to Congress's power, however, the issue is not as clear. At the Constitutional Convention, it was proposed to give the federal government the power to "emit bills on the credit of the United States," but the language was defeated as being too prone to abuse. As a result, the Constitution's monetary clauses expressly grant Congress the power to coin money and to borrow money by issuing "notes" (i.e., interest-bearing government bonds), but not to issue bills of credit. Given the Framers' general hostility to paper money (James Madison, for instance, bemoaned its "pestilent effects" under the Articles), it is likely that the Framers' intended to prohibit the federal government from issuing bills of credit, just as they expressly barred the states from doing so. Moreover, the Constitution itself created a government of enumerated powers; thus, absent an express grant, Congress lacked the power to act. In fact, both those who spoke for and those who spoke against the proposed language to grant this power to the federal government understood that striking the language amounted to a prohibition on Congress's power to issue paper money.
The monetary system that prevailed throughout most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up until the Civil War comprised a hodgepodge of different types of money. Circulating money consisted of specie, coins minted by the government; privately minted coins; certain foreign coins; and paper banknotes issued by state-chartered private banks and backed by those institutions. Congress regulated the weight of gold and silver required to be contained in coins, but these ratios were often manipulated for political purposes. There were also several private mints, which stamped coins whose value reflected their intrinsic weight in specie. The dominant form of circulating money for most of this period was currency issued by state-chartered private banks and redeemable in gold or silver from the banks. Privately stamped "token" money, often made of copper, also circulated as an instrument for low-value exchange.
In general, the federal government did not issue fiat money (paper money not backed by specie) prior to the Civil War. Issuances were usually short-lived and were intended to be temporary solutions for government finance needs during a war or to shore up the bank system during a crisis. They were receivable for payment of government obligations and taxes, but none of these issuances were declared legal tender for private debts, although they did circulate for private transactions to some degree. Issuances usually were interest-bearing and of relatively large denominations that discouraged the circulation of the notes as money. The federal government issued large denomination interest-bearing notes at the outset of the War of 1812, but subsequent issuances declined in denomination and did not pay interest. Interest-bearing notes also were issued in response to the Panic of 1837. Notwithstanding the Framers' opposition to paper money and principles of constitutional interpretation that suggest that Congress is barred from issuing paper money, in Veazie Bank v. Fenno (1869), the Supreme Court held that the federal government's issuance of bills of credit to fund government operations was a valid exercise of the Necessary and Proper Clause.
To fund the Civil War, Congress also passed the Legal Tender Act of 1862. Unlike earlier issuances that were used to pay government obligations (as well as the paper money issued by the Confederate government), Civil War "greenbacks" (for which redemption in gold was "postponed") were for the first time declared legal tender for all debts, public or private. Even if the federal government had the authority to issue bills for payment of government obligations, it was a distinct question whether the federal government could also force private individuals to accept them for private contracts, an issue specifically withheld in Veazie Bank.
The Framers believed that in prohibiting the authority of the federal government from issuing bills of credit, they also were prohibiting their recognition as legal tender by definition. Moreover, they also separately and expressly barred the states from recognizing anything as legal tender other than gold or silver, which was generally understood as further evidence of the Framer's hostility to legal tender laws. Even those at the Constitutional Convention who supported Congress's power to issue bills of credit opposed granting the power to declare them legal tender.
In a series of nineteenth-century cases dubbed The Legal Tender Cases, the Supreme Court addressed the federal government's power to order its bills of credit to be accepted as legal tender for all debts, public and private. In Hepburn v. Griswold (1870), the Court held it a violation of the Obligation of Contract Clause to retroactively alter contract terms by permitting payment in "greenbacks" of an obligation incurred in gold dollars. Greenbacks were not immediately redeemable in gold. Following a dramatic change in membership, however, just one year later in the Knox v. Lee (1871), the Court expressly overruled Hepburn and upheld the Legal Tender Act as applied to both prospective and retrospective debts. Pointing to the crisis occasioned by the Civil War, Knox upheld the power to declare paper money to be legal tender. In Julliard v. Greenman (1884), the Supreme Court extended Knox, upholding the validity of legal tender laws during peacetime. The Court held that the federal government's monetary power was inherent in its sovereignty; thus it need not be enumerated in the Constitution. Justice Stephen Field's blunt dissent declared, "If there be anything in the history of the Constitution which can be established with moral certainty, it is that the framers of that instrument intended to prohibit the issue of legal tender notes both by the general government and by the States; and thus prevent interference with the contracts of private parties." The recognition of Congress's expansive discretion on monetary issues in The Legal-Tender Cases was later used to support the federal government's invalidation of gold clauses in private contracts in the 1930s.

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Advance praise for The Leader's Code
"A refreshing model for leadership, offering convincing principles and motivating examples that are sure to make a difference in a leader's personal and professional life. I can't remember a leadership book that has had more influence on my thinking."—Steve Reinemund, dean of business, Wake Forest University, and retired chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
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|Nick Perry, Jean-Yves Tinevez, Johannes Schindelin
|Jean-Yves Tinevez
|on GitHub
|Initial release
|Development status
|v3.1.0, stable
|Segmentation, Tracking
TrackMate is your buddy for your everyday tracking .
Single Particle Tracking
TrackMate provides the tools to perform single particle tracking (SPT). SPT is an image analysis challenge where the goal is to segment and follow over time some labelled, spot-like structures. Each spot is segmented in multiple frames and its trajectory is reconstructed by assigning it an identity over these frames, in the shape of a track. These tracks can then be either visualized or yield further analysis results such as velocity, total displacement, diffusion characteristics, division events, etc...
TrackMate can deal with single particles, or spot-like objects. They are bright objects over a dark background for which the object contour shape is not important, but for which the main information can be extracted from the X,Y,Z coordinates over time. Examples include sub-resolution fluorescent spots, labelled traffic vesicles, nuclei or cells imaged at low resolution.
Though these objects are solely represented by a X,Y,Z,T coordinates array, TrackMate can compute numerical features for each spot, given its coordinates and a radius. For instance, the mean, max, min and median intensity will be computed, as well as the estimated radius and orientation for each spot, allowing to follow how these feature evolves over time for one object.
TrackMate goals
Its development focuses on achieving two concomitant goals:
For users
TrackMate aims at offering a generic solution that works out of the box, through a simple and sensible user interface.
The tracking process is divided in a series of steps, through which you will be guided thanks to a wizard-like GUI. It privileges tracking schemes where the segmentation step is decoupled from the particle-linking step.
The segmentation / filtering / particle-linking processes and results are visualized immediately in 2D or 3D, allowing to judge their efficiency and adjust their control parameters. The visualization tools are the one shipped with Fiji and interact nicely with others plugin.
Several automated segmentation and linking algorithms are provided. But you are also offered to edit the results manually, or even to completely skip the automatic steps, and perform fully manual segmentation and/or linking.
Some tools for track and spot analysis are included. Various plots can be made directly from the plugin and for instance used to derive numerical results from the tracks. If they are not enough, functions are provided to export the whole results to other analysis software such as MATLAB.
TrackMate relies on several different libraries and plugins for data manipulation, analysis and visualization. This can be a pitfall when distributing a complex plugin, but this is where the Fiji magic comes into play. All dependencies are dealt with by through the Fiji updater. Installing TrackMate is easy as calling the Fiji Updater, and the plugin must work out of the box. If this does not work for you, then it is a bug and we commit to fix it.
A strong emphasis is made on performance, and TrackMate will take advantage of multi-cores hardware.
For developers
Have you ever wanted to develop your own segmentation and/or particle-linking algorithm, but wanted to avoid the painful burden to also write a GUI, several visualization tools, analysis tools and exporting facilities? Then TrackMate is for you.
We spent a considerable amount of time making TrackMate extensible in every aspect. It has a very modular design, that makes it easy to extend. You can for instance develop your own segmentation algorithm, extend TrackMate to include it, and benefit from the visualization tools and the GUI already there. Here is a list of the components you can extend and customize:
- detection algorithms
- particle-linking algorithms
- numerical features for spots (such as mean intensity, etc..)
- numerical features for links (such as velocity, orientation, etc..)
- numerical features for tracks (total displacement, length, etc...)
- visualization tools
- post-processing actions (exporting, data massaging, etc...)
You can even modify the GUI, and remove, edit or insert new steps in the wizard. This can be useful for instance if you want to implement a tracking scheme that solves simultaneously the segmentation part and the particle linking part, but still want to take advantage of TrackMate components.
Do you want to make your new algorithms usable by the reviewers of your submitted paper? Upload your extended version of TrackMate to a private update site, as explained here, then send the link to the reviewers. Now that the paper has been accepted (congratulations), you want to make it accessible to anyone? Just put the link to the update site in the article. All of this can happen without us even noticing.
TrackMate was developed to serve as a tool for Life-Science image analysis community, so that new tracking tools can be developed more easily and quickly, and so that end-users can use them to perform their own research. We will support you if need help to reuse it.
Documentation and tutorials
For users
- Getting started with TrackMate is a basic tutorial that explains how TrackMate works on an easy image. You should start here.
- TrackScheme: the tool for the visualization, editing and analysis of tracks.
- Manual tracking with TrackMate
- Manual editing of tracks using TrackMate shows how to manually curate and edit tracking results.
- Track analysis using TrackMate
- TrackMate Algorithms details and documents the automated segmentation algorithms, particle-linking algorithms, etc.. currently implemented in TrackMate.
- Using TrackMate with MATLAB documents the MATLAB functions shipped with Fiji that allows importing data generated with TrackMate into MATLAB.
- TrackMate Performance reports various measures of the performance of its components. Performance reports include execution time and memory usage.
- TrackMate Accuracy reports various measures of the accuracy of its components. Accuracy reports how well TrackMate can generate scientifically correct results, and compare its output to known ground truth.
For developers
- Scripting TrackMate shows how to do tracking using a scripting language, e.g. from the Fiji Script Editor. These example scripts will show you how to use TrackMate as a library and familiarize yourself with the API.
- Using TrackMate from MATLAB shows how to use MATLAB as a scripting language for TrackMate, and benefit from MATLAB facilities.
But the really interesting part for developers is the ability to extend TrackMate.
Do you have a tracking or a detection algorithm you want to implement? Of course you can write a whole software from scratch. But at some point you will have to design a model to hold the data, to write code that can load and save the results, visualize them, have even a minimalistic GUI, and allow to manually correct the outcome of your algorithm. This can be long, tedious and boring, while the part that interests you is just the core algorithm.
We propose you to use TrackMate as a home for your algorithm. The framework is already there; it might not be perfect but can get your algorithm integrated very quickly. And then you can benefit from the other modules.
The subject of extending TrackMate is not completely trivial. However, recent advances in the SciJava package, brewed by the Fiji and ImageJ2 teams considerably simplified the task. It should be of no difficulty for an average Java developer.
The following tutorials show how to integrate a module of each kind in TrackMate. They are listed by increasing complexity, and it is a good idea to practice them in this order.
- How to write your own edge feature analyzer algorithm for TrackMate
- How to write your own track feature analyzer algorithm for TrackMate
- How to write your own spot feature analyzer algorithm for TrackMate
- How to write your own viewer for TrackMate
- How to write custom actions for TrackMate
- How to write your own detection algorithm for TrackMate
- How to write your own particle-linking algorithm for TrackMate
Known problems
TrackMate LoG detector will crash if you have the Mosaic suite update site activated. Apparently they ship something that interferes with the FFT code used by the LoG detector. The bug report can be read on BugZilla.
Who uses TrackMate
We don't know in all honesty, since we did not write a paper specifically for TrackMate. People might use it and cite the Fiji paper, which is fine. A crude search on Google yields this:
- Chen et al. The bacterial carbon-fixing organelle is formed by shell envelopment of preassembled cargo. PLoS ONE (2013) vol. 8 (9) pp. e76127
- Phang et al. POPX2 phosphatase regulates the KIF3 kinesin motor complex. J Cell Sci (2013) pp.
- The influence of dynein processivity control, MAPs, and microtubule ends on directional movement of a localising mRNA. Harish Chandra Soundararajan, Simon L Bullock eLife. 2014; 3: e01596.
- Rabies Virus Hijacks and Accelerates the p75NTR Retrograde Axonal Transport Machinery. Shani Gluska, Eitan Erez Zahavi, Michael Chein, Tal Gradus, Anja Bauer, Stefan Finke, Eran Perlson. 2014
- Homeostatic actin cytoskeleton networks are regulated by assembly factor competition for monomers. Burke TA, Christensen JR, Barone E, Suarez C, Sirotkin V, Kovar DR. Curr Biol. 2014 Mar 3;24(5):579-85. doi:
TrackMate components
TrackMate actually depends on many other Fiji plugins or libraries. The Fiji Build System system and the Fiji Updater ensures that these dependencies will not bother you. We list them here, with their author when they are not obviously linked:
- ImgLib2 is used everywhere we need dealing with pixels. Relying on imglib made it trivial to have a plugin that deals indifferently with 2D or 3D images. In particular, we use code from Stephan Preibisch, Stephan Saalfeld, Larry Lindsey and Lee Kamentsky.
- ImageJA is of course the entry point for the plugin. We use it display the images as 2D slices and in the HyperStack displayer.
- The 3D Viewer is used for 3D display.
- Internally, the tracks are represented by a mathematical graph. To manipulate it, we take advantage of the excellent JGraphT library.
- TrackScheme, the TrackMate component that is used to visualize and edit tracks uses JGraphX for its UI.
- To display plots and histograms we use JFreeChart.
- Some algorithm in TrackMate rely on the JAMA matrix package.
- Exporting visualizations and analysis results to SVG, PDF and other formats are made through the Batik and iText libraries.
- The TrackMate file format is plain XML, and is generated or loaded using the JDom library.
- For the icons, as almost every ImageJ plugin with a GUI, we used the silk icon set, by Mark James.
We are extremely thankful for the support of Khuloud Jaqaman while we were implementing in Java a stripped down version of her work on robust LAP tracker, following her seminal paper published in the Danuser group[1].
JYT acknowledges funding from the European commission FP7 ICT (project "MEMI") at the beginning of this project. NP was a visiting student thanks to funds provisioned by the Stanford University. JS acknowledges funding from the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation at the UW-Madison and National Science Foundation award #1121998.
- ↑ Jaqaman et al. Robust single-particle tracking in live-cell time-lapse sequences. Nat Methods (2008) vol. 5 (8) pp. 695-702


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Martyr Anastasius the Fuller at Salona in Dalmatia
The Martyr Anastasius the Fuller lived at Salona in Dalmatia during the third century. He was arrested and brought to trial because of his missionary activity in Salona. Saint Anastasius, boldly and without fear, confessed Christ as the true God and Creator of all. He even painted a cross on his door during the persecution of Diocletian (284-311).
Saint Anastasius was sentenced to death by the decision of the court, and the pagans tied a stone around his neck and threw his body into the sea. A righteous Christian, the rich matron Ascalopia, found the body of Saint Anastasius and reverently buried him in her estate church. The relics of the holy martyr were glorified by many miracles.
Saint Anastasius the Fuller is also commemorated on December 5.


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Ahhh the GoPro – the little camera that could. I've talked here about this camera before, and some of its wonderful features (or potential enhancements under development.) That's because it is a damn fine, action sports oriented camera. I've shown a small subset of my cycling life as seen through the time-lapse view it provides, and I even caught my own crash in high definition glory.
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TYNGSBOROUGH — The Rev. Ronald St. Pierre is moved by noted wood carver Johannes Kirchmayer's interpretation of the eighth Station of the Cross, which depicts Jesus encountering the women of Jerusalem.
"I have never seen a child in a Station of the Cross before," said St. Pierre, pastor of Saint Mary Magdalen Church, admiring the ornate carving. "It's very interesting that he is reaching out, as he, himself, is going to the cross. It's such a tender moment."
The 14 Stations of the Cross, illustrating the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, are an essential part of Catholic worship during Lent and Easter. Kirchmayer's stations, carved 100 years ago for a church in Boston, are a sacred treasure for Saint Mary Magdalen, the newest church in the Archdiocese of Boston.
"He's probably the best known carver of the American Arts and Crafts period," said Nonie Gadsden, the Katharine Lane Weems senior curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. "He was extremely skilled in his carving ability."
Kirchmayer, who emigrated from Bavaria to Boston in 1880, became a prominent carver whose work is found in churches and museums across the country. The MFA's furniture collection includes a child's bed Kirchmayer carved for Ralph Adams Cram, a prominent early 20th-century architect of academic and church buildings.
Kirchmayer was commissioned to carve the stations, along with a pulpit and life-sized statue of Jesus, for Blessed Sacrament Church in Jamaica Plain. After that church closed in 2004, the pulpit was installed at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's South End, but the stations and statue were stored in a warehouse, waiting to be placed in another church.
The Stations of the Cross are a fine example of Kirchmayer's style, Gadsden said.
"His work is extremely detailed and nuanced," said Gadsden, who said she viewed the stations at Blessed Sacrament. "I'm thrilled that it's been saved, and now again has a home, for people to see it."
St. Pierre hopes the stations make the church a destination for Kirchmayer disciples. "There are a lot of people who follow his work," he said. "They're welcome to visit, as are the former parishioners of Blessed Sacrament. We're blessed to have these here."
The 100-year-old stations help to create a blend of old and new culture at Saint Mary Magdalen. The $1.3 million church, which held its first Mass a week before Christmas in 2011, was dedicated by Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley in March 2012, according to St. Pierre.
The spacious building replaced a tiny church, located near Lake Mascuppic in Dracut, where Saint Mary Magdalen was established in 1959, according to parish history. Over time, the parish outgrew the church. In 2006, a parish center was built down the road in Tyngsborough, with room for a church to be built on top, St. Pierre explained.
"We wanted to preserve the past while moving to the future," St. Pierre said, his voice laced with excitement.
A 75-car caravan, led by an antique convertible Chevrolet carrying a cross, transported the old church's most sacred items to the new church. A 5-foot crucifix, the pascal candle, the tabernacle, and other items filled cars, pickups, and even a flower car from a funeral home.
The old church's oak benches were carved up and remade into an altar, pulpit, baptismal font, and frames for the Stations of the Cross in the new church. "We wanted to bring memories from our past," St. Pierre said.
Along with the Kirchmayer stations and statue, religious items from other closed parishes found a new home at Saint Mary Magdalen. Pews believed to be 120 to 140 years old came from Saint Catherine of Siena in Charlestown.
Stained-glass windows from that church — including one depicting the patroness St. Mary Magdalen on Easter morning — are a blessing for the ages, St. Pierre said.
"She was on a journey that Easter morning," St. Pierre said. "We are on a journey, too."
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so it turns out I could be ****ed, its for both. phew.
Isn't that exactly the same as it is now? Confused.
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I just had to get out of bed this is keeping me awake. yeah that is the way it is now. or was. it mustn't have been the same for hitting the pad though. and I just remembered that system sucks
It's been so long since I watched a match with drs I'd forgotten.
No chance I'm bothering to learn what the fielding restrictions are any more. It's time I'll never get back and it'll be redundant in six months.
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The ODI fielding restrictions just makes the game even more farcical. Why have fielders at all? Why not replace all fielders with Cheerleaders and just let them gyrate their hips whilst batsmen thump the ball into the stands. ODIs need to die.
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on the lbw drs change, sleep made me see that they have made it even worse.
If a shout is given not out, and the fielders opt for a review, over half the ball has to be hitting the pad in the line of the middle of the stumps. it's not a situation where there is any prediction even. so more than 3/4 of the ball needs to be hitting the pad in line with the outer edge of the stumps to overturn. stupid imo.
I don't hate the rule, but think the fielding team definitely shouldn't lose a review if the ball clips even the absolute outside of leg stump.
Also, having both boards decide on the make of ball seems unusual, it could cause some issues. Reckon the home team should make the decision, unless of course the Bangladesh board decide to use a green Kabbadi ball or something.
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FFS. Spydercam isn't even that good to be allowed to cause such a detriment to the game.
I wouldn't mind seeing Tests here run til say 8 or 8:30 at night in the summer months. It's pretty much light til nearly 8pm over the Christmas-New Year period anyway.
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Not that Kate Middleton needed a day to feel special (well, more special), but here it is all the same: so happy birthday to the Duchess of Cambridge, who turns 31 today!
And this has certainly been a year of celebration for Prince William's royal missus...and while we hope she'll be raising a glass at some point today, it certainly won't be of champagne.
So how will she be ringing in her own new year? And what will she be getting from Wills?
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As for the first one, the pregnant royal will be spending her birthday much the same as she conducts herself the rest of the year (well, save for her mega high-profile appearance schedule): out of the public eye.
A source tells E! News that the duchess will be celebrating privately, though no further details, including whether she'll spend the day in London, Wales or even her parents' Bucklebury home--let alone with Prince William--were revealed.
Find out what Prince Charles had to say about his impending grandfatherhood
As for possible gifts, while last year Wills made good by surprising her with puppy Lupo, rumors surfaced last week that he was pulling out some major stops and buying her (and thus them) a house. However, a palace source shot down that report to E! News, denying that there was any truth to it.
In any case, Kate will be hard-pressed to top the last year, highlights from which included her pregnancy announcement, Diamond Jubilee presence, Olympics ambassadorship and first royal tour abroad, but something tells us her 31st year will probably be her best yet.
Certainly her most exciting, when baby makes three later this year. Happy birthday, Kate!
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Washington Junior High student flown to hospital for treatment
The investigation into a crash involving a 12-year-old boy who was struck by a car in Bentonville on Oct. 18 has been completed.
The boy was hit by a car at the intersection of Central Avenue and Jay Court before 4 p.m., said Bentonville Police Chief Jon Simpson.
According to the police report, the driver, Stephanie Reese, 30, of Bentonville, was traveling eastbound on Central Avenue.
While westbound traffic was stopped at the intersection with NE J Street, the boy crossed between two stopped vehicles, police said.
Witnesses said the boy ran in front of the Bentonville School Bus No. 207 and behind a Jeep Wrangler.
The boy is a student at Washington Junior High.
"We had a seventh-grade student that was hit by a car and has severe injuries," said Michael Poore, Bentonville superintendent.
Fawn Kazmierczak, a witness to the accident, said, "I saw a lot of scared kids. the kids were frightened, the bus driver that was right behind the accident couldn't even drive her kids. She was that shaken up."
Kazmierczak said the street and intersection where the student was hit is very dangerous.
The child was flown by helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo., police said. His treatment is continuing.
An investigation found the boy failed to cross the street in a marked crosswalk or in an intersection, and Reese did not have time to react before hitting him.


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We had only just recovered from the joys of Diablo III and its over-the-top demon head USB key, when the World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria collector's edition turned up at Pocket-lint towers.
Sadly there wasn't a mad USB key in sight - which is a disappointment, as both StarCraft II and Diablo III include one - instead here we get just a simple mouse mat. Then there is a copy of the game for both PC and Mac, a behind-the-scenes Blu-ray and DVD, collector's edition soundtrack and - best of all - a big, thick Mists of Pandaria artwork book.
On top of this there is special in-game content, such as a World of Warcraft in-game mount and pet. You can fly about in-game on the Imperial Quilen mount or wander about with a Quilen Cub. There are also some special Starcraft II portraits and a new banner to use in Diablo III
The collector's edition is priced at around £55, making it one of the cheaper ways into the world of Blizzard collectibles. It also has enough WoW gubbins inside to satisfy even the biggest fan of the game. We have to confess, we haven't exactly left the included soundtrack playing 24 hours a day, but the game artwork book has had plenty of flick throughs. It just looks great.
The actual box is also rather nice and matches the size of all the other Blizzard box sets, so should save you from any imperfections in your nicely maintained game library. As for the game, World of Warcraft fans will already know what's coming, with its release set for 25 September. We haven't yet had enough time to play through, so expect an opinion on the expansion to come a bit later.
We particularly like how Blizzard gives you a PC and Mac copy of the title. The same applies with Diablo III, which we play through on our PC and then pick at every so often using our MacBook Pro. The included Blu-ray is also quite fun, especially for those wondering just what sort of work goes into maintaining and building something as vast as World of Warcraft.


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Connor reviews 'R.I.P.D.'
"Men in Black" + monsters + Jeff Bridges in a cowboy hat + Ryan Reynolds - aliens - Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones - clever writing and nifty action sequences = "R.I.P.D."
By Connor Smith
Starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds
Directed by Robert Schwentke
Rated PG-13
96 Minutes
Do the math. Despite its likable cast, "R.I.P.D." fails to deliver anything that hasn't already been seen in films like "Men in Black" and "Ghostbusters." The action is poorly directed, the script is illogical, and Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds have about as much chemistry as a doorknob and a fence. Actually, that movie idea almost certainly would've had more potential than the tepid "R.I.P.D."
After failing to capture the spirit of the "Green Lantern" comics in the film adaption, Reynolds returns in this adaption of the comic book "R.I.P.D." by Peter M. Lenkov. Reynolds stars as Boston cop Nick Walker, who is killed in the line of duty and once dead, he is recruited to work for the Rest in Piece Department.
Assigned to be partners with veteran Civil War soldier and longtime R.I.P.D. officer Roy Pulsipher, (Bridges) the two must kill runaway monsters that roam the Earth.
From the director of the excellent thrillers "Flightplan" and "Red," "R.I.P.D." isn't as bad as it is formulaic and archetypal. It's not a difficult film to sit through, but it doesn't have enough fresh material to justify the process of actually sitting through it.
One of the film's problems is that through its feeble cinematography and direction, it tries to feel almost too much like an actual comic book. Most of the time though, this isn't a bad thing. The "Spider-Man" and Tim Burton "Batman" films are so treasured and esteemed because when watching these films, it almost feels like you're reading a comic book. Hence, the subgenre name "comic book movie."
But in the case of "R.I.P.D.," it's overflowing with personal space invading wide-angle lens shots and long tracking shots. In attempting to replicate the atmosphere and experience of reading a comic book, the overly stylistic shots become repetitious, distracting and tired. Unlike the above superhero films, its effort to feel like a comic book is excessive.
Like a multitude of other buddy cop films, Bridges and Reynolds come off as awkward and incompatible because the script doesn't give them enough material to work with. Co-written by the writer of the cinematic atrocity "Clash of the Titans," it's a shame the two leads only have trite dialogue to work with. They don't have those crucial moments where they bond and connect. Instead, their scenes together are mostly clumsy and gauche. It almost feels as if someone was miscast somewhere down the line because Bridges and Reynolds are such an odd pairing.
In the film, there is a scene where Bridges gets a monster to reveal his true form by disgustingly eating Indian food. It's not that watching Bridges chomping with his mouth open isn't engaging, but like the rest of the film, it's weird, off-putting and it's not really known what the filmmakers are trying to express. Is it meant to be funny? Or are they trying to be disturbing?
With "R.I.P.D.," the film is neither funny enough to be a comedy nor action-packed enough to be an action film. The action sequences it does have are hectic and full of strange camera angles.
Another issue is that the films comedy mostly centers around a single joke. On Earth, R.I.P.D. agents appear to humans as different people. Bridges takes the form of a hot blonde woman while Reynolds appears as an old Chinese man (played by the hilarious James Hong).
The joke runs out of steam after awhile, but to be fair, Hong brightens up the film whenever he's on screen. It's sad that a man with maybe two minutes total screen time in the entire film is funnier than the headlining stars.
"R.I.P.D." is a mostly tedious film for which its existence will soon be forgotten. The film had promise, but its gifted actors are squandered with a lifeless script and overly frantic direction and cinematography.
If a film was ever destined to find a home buried at the bottom of the Wal-Mart $5 DVD bin, this film was it. Only there will "R.I.P.D." find its rightful place among films like "Pulse 2," "Kong: Return to the Jungle" and "Power Rangers Samurai: The Team Unites Volume 1."


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What are Noise Phobias?
Fourth of July is a perfect example of a situation where a dog may exhibit fearful behaviors in response to a noise-related event. He may do so when he actually hears the fireworks, when he's in places where he's heard the sound previously, or when he sees an object or person who has been associated with a noise. Noise phobia is not a training issue or an obedience problem. Noise sensitivity and phobias are medical conditions that are diagnosed and for which you may need to seek the help of a veterinarian or veterinary behaviorist.
Some dogs may pant or salivate excessively, destroy property, tremble, soil the house, hide or escape when they hear a noise that upsets them. Stephanie Borns-Weil, DVM, of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University provides insight into what owners can do to reduce the intensity of frightening sounds that may be causing your dog problems.
Treatment of Noise Phobias
Treatment includes behavior modification techniques like desensitization, counter-conditioning or a combination of both. These techniques involve eliminating or controlling the dog's exposure to the stimulus. There are also some nutritional and pharmaceutical products that can be employed.
1) Desensitization to Sounds
This can be done using an audio recording of the sounds that the dog fears. There are tapes, records, CDs and internet sites that mimic all sorts of noises, including exploding fireworks, car backfires and even gunshots. You can initially start by playing the tape at full volume once to confirm that the simulated noise is what is actually frightening the dog. If it is, you start by turning the volume low enough that your dog will no react. Reward him with praise and treats for his calm behavior. Once he is comfortable with that low volume, you may increase the volume incrementally over successive days, as he adjusts to each increase. Continue to rewarding him/her for relaxed behavior with yummy food treats that are only given during your desensitization exercises. Your dog will set the pace for this process. If he or she starts to show anxiety, go back a few steps to a tolerable lower volume.
Desensitization will not be effective if your dog is exposed to the actual source of the frightening sound during this process. Therefore, all efforts should be made to avoid anything that will trigger the dog's panic response.
2) Counterconditioning
Counterconditioning, another approach often used in conjunction with desensitization, involves teaching a new behavior that is inconsistent with the undesirable behavior. For instance, when your dog is anxious, you would tell him/her to "lie down" in his/her "safe place." During this time provide your dog with something to do, for example, providing a long-lasting treat. This treat would only be given when he/she is in the safe place and responding to your "sit-stay" or "down" command. Keep in mind that punishment with either behavior modification or counterconditioning is not appropriate for managing noise phobia as it will make the anxiety worse.
3) Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Treatment
Some dogs may benefit from the use of nutritional supplements or medication as a part of their treatment. Anxitane (L-theonine) and 5-HTP tryptophan are amino acids that may be helpful in decreasing a dog's anxiety, fear and reactivity. Alternatively, medications such as SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, etc.) may be an appropriate part of a noise phobic dog's treatment.
Consult with an Animal Behavior Specialist
If you have made an effort to get your animal's phobia under control and your dog is still running scared, you may find an animal behavior specialist to be helpful. These doctors of veterinary medicine have received added and specialized training in the psychology of animals and can advise you on how best to address your dog's fear. You can reach the Foster Hospital for Small Animals Behavior Clinic at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University at 508-839-5395 to make an appointment.


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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.108 no.1-2 Pretoria Jan. 2012
Building a nation one project at a time: peply to 'on human evolution, Australopithecus sediba and nation building'
Lee R. Berger
The Institute for Human Evolution, School of GeoSciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Although I am pleased to note the positive tone of your news and views article by Alan Morris1 discussing the scientific merit of our recent papers,2-3-4-5-6 I would like to address some misconceptions regarding the composition of the Malapa team. These misconceptions are best summarised by the statements that, 'paleoanthropology still lags behind the transformation of South African society in general'1, and that, 'only a few [authors] are South African and even fewer are from previously disadvantaged South African groups'1. While I agree that this is, in general, true of our and other sciences in this country, it is perhaps unfair to use my team and these authors as illustrative of this apparently widespread social issue. It is true that of the 21 authors only 4 are South African citizens (2 of whom are Black people), while 1 other hails from another African country, but 6 of the authors hold full-time positions and a further 3 are former students and/or faculty members at South African universities. An additional 5 of the 21 authors are officially affiliated with South African institutions of higher learning. Of the authors having no South African affiliation, 6 were brought onto the project because they possess highly specialised training, laboratories and equipment not presently available in South Africa (e.g. the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France). Importantly, in terms of leadership, two of the lead authors of the five recent papers are South African citizens5,6 while one is Kenyan.3 From a gender equity perspective, five of the authors are women, two of whom are lead authors on these papers.4, 6 An additional aspect is that of the 21 authors, 16 are under the age of 45. The international nature of the Malapa team is also important, for we must vigorously encourage the best and brightest scientists to collaborate with us, bringing South Africa to the forefront of the international scientific community.
I wholeheartedly agree that there are substantial inequities in South African science that must be addressed, although I disagree with his belief that palaeoanthropology, as evidenced at Malapa, lags behind that of other fields of scientific inquiry in relation to South African society. Educational inequities exist across the sciences; these inequities require focused efforts to redress and deserve significant attention from all segments of society. The 21 authors listed in the recent Malapa papers represent only a fraction of the more than 70 scientists currently involved in this project. I would go so far as to state that at present the majority of active South African palaeoanthropologists and quaternary palaeontologists are directly involved in some aspect of the Malapa research -for we have certainly attempted to be inclusive -and thus rather than being an example of the ills bestowed upon us by the past, the Malapa project is in fact a fine example of a young team attempting to 'link this research to building a team of South African scholars, including those who come from previously disadvantaged backgrounds'1. Even now, there are growing numbers of young South Africans, many from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, studying the Malapa fossils, both at Wits and other universities. We hope these remarkable fossils will attract more students. But we as a country must provide funding for these students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. We must ensure that upon graduation they are not forced to leave South Africa to continue in their chosen field. We must create employment opportunities in South African universities and museums. Malapa presents us with a unique opportunity to inspire the dreams of future generations into the exploration of human origins. A successful, integrated, representative scientific community that produces both leadership in chosen fields and collaborates internationally with scientists of the highest calibre should, in my opinion, be the goal of South African research institutions.
1. Morris A. On human evolution, Australopithecus sediba and nation building. S Afr J Sci. 2011;107(11/12), Art. #957, 3 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.957 [ Links ]
2. Carlson KJ, Stout D, Jashashvili T, et al. The endocast of MH1, Australopithecus sediba. Science. 2011;333:1402-1407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1203922, PMid:21903804 [ Links ]
3. Kibii JM, Churchill SE, Schmid P, et al. A partial pelvis of Australopithecus sediba. Science. 2011;333:1407-1411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1202521, PMid:21903805 [ Links ]
4. Kivell TL, Kibii JM, Churchill SE, et al. Australopithecus sediba hand demonstrates mosaic evolution of locomotor and manipulative abilities. Science. 2011;333:1411-1417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1202625, PMid:21903806 [ Links ]
5. Zipfel B, DeSilva JM, Kidd RS, et al. The foot and ankle of Australopithecus sediba. Science. 2011;333:1417-1420. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1202703, PMid:21903807 [ Links ]
6. Pickering R, Dirks PHGM, Jinnah Z, et al. Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of the genus Homo. Science. 2011;333:1421-1423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1203697, PMid:21903808 [ Links ]
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Rutgers reviewed almost 70 studies and found that 40 percent of a typical American family's food budget is spent eating out — and since restaurant food tends to be higher in fat, salt and calories than food prepared at home, obesity and public health experts believe it's fueling children's risk of obesity and nutrition deficiencies.
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In Honor of National Nurses Week, Online Family History Leader Adds More Than 300,000 Cadet Nursing Corp Files to Its Military Collection
PROVO, UTAH – (May 7, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history resource, announced today a collection of more than 300,000 WWII Cadet Nursing Corps Card Files is now available at www.ancestry.com/nursing. The records date between 1942 and 1948 and detail the history of the Corps, providing personal information about Cadet Nursing Corps members, offering a glimpse into the backgrounds of the young women who joined this important program.
Ancestry.com is the exclusive location to search the entire Cadet Nursing Corps collection online, making it easy to review this piece of American history and discover personal connections to former Corps nurses.
Upon the United States' entry into World War II, the Cadet Nursing Corps was established to increase the number of nurses available for war efforts. This collection tells the story of more than 124,000 young women between the ages of 17 and 35 who committed to serve in the nursing profession during this time. As a part of the program, cadets went through an accelerated training that fit a 36-month course into a 30-month period. Senior cadets then served their last six months in civilian, military and veteran hospitals and other public health agencies, which freed up registered nurses to help with the war effort. All cadets received a scholarship and a monthly stipend, effectively giving these young women an education they otherwise may not have been able to afford.
"As a former member of the Corps, I am excited to have this important part of our history not only acknowledged, but made available for more people to learn about this unique wartime effort," said Thelma Robinson, RN MSN PNP (retired). "I consistently speak with fellow Corps members who are trying to find information about this period of their lives. Putting these records online provides an invaluable resource for them and their families."
The Cadet Nursing Corps not only served to meet the needs of the United States during World War II, but also promoted the profession of nursing among women. There was a unique social aspect to the program for this period in history – the Corps was non-discriminatory and trained nurses from a wide variety of backgrounds including Native Americans, African Americans and even displaced Japanese Americans. Unlike other professions, where women left to pursue other interests after the World War II, 85 percent of all nursing students in the United States were a part of the Cadet Nursing Corps.
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OAKLAND -- The A's and Rangers have done a bit of poaching from each other in recent years on the waiver wire.
In the latest move, Oakland claimed infielder Andy Parrino from the Rangers off waivers on Monday, sending him to Triple-A Sacramento and adding him to the 40-man roster. Parrino spent Spring Training in A's camp before being designated for assignment by the club on Feb. 27.
The Rangers picked him up on March 3 but then designated him for assignment on Friday after he batted .189/.271/.245 with no homers and five RBIs for Triple-A Round Rock. Parrino spent the 2013 season in the A's organization and played 14 games with Oakland.
"We do seem to maybe target the same type of players," Melvin said. "I'm not part of the front-office dynamic as far as claiming players and so forth. But a guy that we've had, we did have a 40-man roster spot open and a guy that we know a lot of about, so it made some sense to claim him."
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