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The Hockaday School
Excellence
Location
Dallas, Texas, USA
Information
Founder	Ela Hockaday
Headmistress	Jeanne Preston Whitman
Students	1,020 girls
Faculty	105
Type	Private, Non-sectarian
Endowment	$100 million
Campus	100 acres (0.40 km2)
Mascot	Killer Daisies
Established	1913
Athletics	13 sports
Homepage	www.hockaday.org

The Hockaday School is an independent, non-sectarian, college preparatory day and boarding school for girls located in Dallas, Texas, USA. The boarding school is for girls in grades 8 – 12 and the day school is from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.

Contents 1 History 2 Hockaday today 3 Academics 4 Boarding 5 Campus facilities 6 Tuition 7 Athletics 8 Clubs and organizations 9 Notable alumnae 10 References 11 External links

History

The school was founded in 1913 by Ela Hockaday in response to parental demand for a preparatory day school for only girls. While the school is noted for its students’ continuing on to universities, earlier in its history it sent many girls to Smith College. The first class consisted of only ten students. Sarah Trent was one of the first teachers at the school and was influential in its development.

Hockaday founded her school on four cornerstones that were to form the basis of the students’ educations: character, courtesy, scholarship, and athletics. Today, the Founder’s Day award is the most noteworthy award a graduating senior can receive; the honor is given to the girls who best exemplify these four cornerstones.

Hockaday today

Hockaday has occupied its campus in a residential area of northwest Dallas since 1961. The enrollment is approximately 1000 students from pre-K to 12, about 450 in the Upper School. The student to faculty ratio is approximately 10:1. Hockaday students enjoy also a 100% acceptance rate to college.

The school colors are green and white, and the current school uniform for Upper and Middle School consists of saddle-oxfords, white dress shirts or polo shirts, and a uniform green and white plaid skirt. Green blazers are added on “dress uniform days” for grades 5 – 11, while seniors gain the privilege of wearing white blazers. It is viewed as a rite of passage to earn one’s white blazer, along with the senior ring, at the end of junior year.

The school crest bears a unicorn, but the official mascot is the daisy. Students are frequently referred to as Hockadaisies.

Academics

The minimum graduation requirement for upper school students is 16 course credits, although virtually all students exceed this criteria and pursue additional study in particular areas of interest. Girls must complete four years of English, 3 years of math, 2 years of the same foreign language, 2½ years of history, 3 years of science, and 1½ years of fine arts, as well as a physical education requirement each year.

The faculty consists of 105 full-time teachers and nine part-time teachers, of whom 62 have a Master’s degree and six hold Doctoral degrees. The average tenure of the faculty is 10 years. The school has introduced a laptop program (all middle and upper schoolers are issued laptop computers to use in and out of school for their assignments) as well as the addition of Smartboard technology to each classroom.

The school follows a semester system with 80-minute classes that each meet three times in a six-day rotation. Exams for upper school students take place only once per school year, in mid-March immediately prior to Spring Break.

The ranges of SAT scores for the middle 50% of the Class of 2005 were 600–740 (Verbal) and 620–730 (Math).

Boarding

Hockaday’s Residence Department comprises approximately 60 boarding students from numerous states and as many as 14 different countries. Girls who board live in one of the School’s two dormitories — Morgan and Trent. Hockaday Boarders take advantage of the educational offerings of Hockaday as well as extracurricular activities, including sports, clubs and organizations, and community service. The Host Family Program involves the School’s faculty and parents as surrogate families to a resident, providing support in athletic activities and inviting them to join in family activities.

Campus facilities

The academic classrooms for the Middle and Upper Schools are held in two adjoining and parallel two-story buildings near the center of campus recently renovated in 2005. They house Hockaday’s Middle and Upper School Foreign Language, History, English, and Math classes in addition to two student commons and break-out study rooms.

The Crow Science Building has chemistry, physics, and biology labs as well as a greenhouse and Clements Lecture Hall.

The Horchow Fine Arts wing features a classroom for Hockaday’s art and music history courses; music and practice rooms; a black box theater and rehearsal space; a ceramics studio with kilns; photography labs; and an art studio. It is also home to Hoblitzelle Auditorium.

Completed in 2002, the Liza Lee Academic Research Center, known as the LLARC, is a facility that houses Hockaday’s libraries, technology hub, science exploration lab, audiovisual editing bays, and publications rooms.

The Lower School Gym, known as the Small Gym, contains two basketball courts, Hockaday’s indoor pool, and a variety of equipment. Middle and Upper School physical education and wellness classes take place in the Penson Athletic Center.

Adjoining the Penson Athletic Center, Hockaday’s Wellness Center, completed in 2003, includes the 5,000-square-foot Hill Family Fitness Center, a 1,800-square-foot aerobics room with aerobic and resistance equipment, and athletic training facilities that are equipped for the treatment of sports-related injuries.

Hockaday’s athletic fields are located east of Penson Athletic Center. They include five playing fields, a softball diamond and an all-weather six-lane track. The tennis center includes a covered gallery and 10 tennis courts, some of which are lit.

The Ashley H. Priddy Lower School building adjoins the Liza Lee Academic Research Center. The artwork of Lower School students lines the hallways; and a large common room is the stage for special events, such as Pioneer Day and the Medieval Festival. The Lower School building also houses an art room and several music rooms as well as a French café.

The Lower School Addition, which houses pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and primer classrooms, opened in the fall of 2001. Each room features hand-painted tiles created by the Lower School girls themselves and child-height cooking and food preparation areas. The space is finished with a wall of windows that look out on Hockaday’s playground, the duck pond, and the new Wellness Center.

Tuition

The tuition averages $20,745 for each Upper School day student (not including books). For resident students, costs are approximately $33,780. Financial aid is granted on the basis of demonstrated family need and the school’s availability of funds. In 2005-2006, 143 students received financial aid.

Athletics

Athletics are another aspect of student life at Hockaday. The school participates in 14 interscholastic sports as a member of SPC. In the 2006-2007 school year, Hockaday varsity athletic teams captured championships in swimming/diving(repeat), golf(repeat), and lacrosse. In the 2007-2008 school year, Hockaday varsity teams took the championship in all three winter sports departments; swimming/diving, basketball, and soccer as well as field hockey and golf. The school has never achieved this before.

From age four, girls participate in daily PE classes, and even in high school, students must participate in either physical education class or athletics (varsity, junior varsity, or out-of-school with demonstrated level of intensity) during every quarter.

Clubs and organizations

Some of the more popular clubs are Quizbowl, JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society), Fashion/Advertising/Design, Mosaico (the Spanish literary magazine), Crossword Puzzle Club, Environmental Awareness, Video Yearbook, and ROAR (a school spirit booster organization). If a particular club does not exist, students may enlist a faculty sponsor, recruit members, and create a chapter on campus.

Middle School and Upper School schoolers are given the opportunity to contribute to various student-run publications. In Middle School students learn leadership and responsibility in addition to journalism skills as they write, edit and conduct interviews for Newsway, a student-run newspaper that is published several times a year. Currently, Newsway is an option on elective choices. It is not required for Middle Schoolers to attend this elective, but those who choose it may. The Middle Schoolers also put out Banner, a literary magazine which teaches them skills in editing and drawing, layout and design, cooperation, and public speaking. In Upper School, students have the opportunity to experience the atmosphere and process of a professional newspaper while working on The Fourcast. The Vibrato literary magazine showcases the works of upper school students and for the second year in a row has been awarded the Pacemaker Award. The school yearbook, “Cornerstones,” is produced entirely by students and as such, students are responsible for the design, layout, copy, and photographic content.

Beginning in the fifth grade there are areas for extracurricular leadership by serving as a club officer or participating in an elected council. Middle schoolers may participate in student government, community service board, or the honor council; the opportunities expand in Upper School to include athletic board, fine arts board, technology board, form council (grades 9-12 are referred to as forms I-IV), academic council and house council (boarding department governing system) as well.

The school has a community service program, which operates in conjunction with St. Mark’s, and which requires every upper school student to perform at least 15 hours of service every year, although many students far exceed this quota. H-Club, the school’s hosts and tour guide society, is a popular program. Another notable organization is Hockaday’s debate team, which ranks in the top five nationally for secondary schools.

Notable alumnae

• Barbara and Jenna Bush (attended until their father’s election as Governor of Texas)
• Dixie Carter ‘82. Businesswoman; president of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
• Victoria Clark ‘78. Tony award-winning singer.
• Farrah Forke ‘86. Actress.
• Suki Hawley ‘87. Documentary filmmaker.
• Nasreen Pervin Huq. Prominent women’s activist and campaigner for women’s rights and social justice.
• Lisa Loeb ‘86. Singer-songwriter.
• Laurel Ornish ‘68. First female radio newscaster in Dallas-Fort Worth.
• Patricia Richardson ‘68. Actress.
• Harriet Schock ‘58. Singer and platinum songwriter.
• Amy Talkington ‘88. Filmmaker, The Night of the White Pants.

References

1. ^ Associated Press (2000-04-04). “Bush used private school option”. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. 
2. ^ “Cheryl Hall: Ex-Hockaday girl wrangles wrestlers”, Dallas Morning News (2005-09-27). Retrieved on 2006-08-22. 
3. ^ The Hockaday School (2005-06-20). “Hockaday Alumna Wins Tony Award”, Alumnae News. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. 
4. ^ Mikki Kirby (16 Feb 2007). “Hockaday grad’s focus documented”, Denton Record Chronicle. Retrieved on 2007-04-26. 
5. ^ “About Laurel Ornish”. ClassicalTexas.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-26.
6. ^ NNDB. “Patricia Richardson”. Retrieved on 2006-08-22.
7. ^ “Alumnae Association Presents HAARTS Program”, About Hockaday News (9 May 2005). Retrieved on 2007-04-26. 
8. ^ Chris Vognar (18 Mar 2007). “AFI festival brings in big names, local flavor”, Dallas Morning News. Retrieved on 2007-04-26. 

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Visual Basic .NET

Paradigm	structured, imperative, object-oriented, declarative
Appeared in	2001 (last revised 2008)
Designed by	Microsoft Corporation
Typing discipline	dynamic, strong, both safe and unsafe, nominative
Major implementations	.NET Framework, Mono
Dialects	Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, .NET 2003, 2005, 2008

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) implemented on the Microsoft .NET framework. Its introduction has been controversial, as significant changes were made that broke backward compatibility with older versions and caused a rift within the developer community.

Contents 1 Versions of Visual Basic .NET 1.1 Visual Basic .NET (VB 7) 1.2 Visual Basic .NET 2003 (VB 7.1) 1.3 Visual Basic 2005 (VB 8.0) 1.3.1 ‘IsNot’ operator Patented 1.3.2 Visual Basic 2005 Express 1.4 Visual Basic 2008 (VB 9.0) 1.5 Visual Basic ‘VBx’ (VB 10.0) 2 Relation to older versions of Visual Basic (VB6 and previous) 2.1 Comparative samples 2.2 Criticism 3 Cross-platform and open-source development 4 Hello world example 5 Notes 6 See also 7 External links 7.1 Tutorials

Versions of Visual Basic .NET

As of November 2007, there are four versions of Visual Basic .NET that were implemented by The Visual Basic Team

Visual Basic .NET (VB 7)

The original Visual Basic .NET was released alongside Visual C# and ASP.NET in 2002. C# — widely touted as Microsoft’s answer to Java — received the lion’s share of media attention, while VB.NET (sometimes known as VB7) was not widely covered. As a result, few outside the Visual Basic community paid much attention to it.

Those who did try the first version found a powerful but very different language under the hood, with disadvantages in some areas, including a runtime that was ten times as large to package as the VB6 runtime and an increased memory footprint.

Visual Basic .NET 2003 (VB 7.1)

Visual Basic .NET 2003 was released with version 1.1 of the .NET Framework. New features included support for the .NET Compact Framework and a better VB upgrade wizard. Improvements were also made to the performance and reliability of the .NET IDE (particularly the background compiler) and runtime.

In addition, Visual Basic .NET 2003 was also available in the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition (VS03AE). VS03AE is distributed to a certain number of scholars from each country for free.

Visual Basic 2005 (VB 8.0)

Visual Basic 2005 is the name used to refer to the update to Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft having decided to drop the .NET portion of the title.

For this release, Microsoft added many features, including:

• Edit and Continue - probably the biggest “missing feature” from Visual Basic .NET, allowing the modification of code and immediate resumption of execution
• Design-time expression evaluation
• The My pseudo-namespace (overview, details), which provides:
  • easy access to certain areas of the .NET Framework that otherwise require significant code to access
  • dynamically-generated classes (notably My.Forms)
• Improvements to the VB-to-VB.NET converter
• The Using keyword, simplifying the use of objects that require the Dispose pattern to free resources
• Just My Code, which hides boilerplate code written by the Visual Studio .NET IDE
• Data Source binding, easing database client/server development

The above functions (particularly My) are intended to reinforce Visual Basic .NET’s focus as a rapid application development platform and further differentiate it from C#.

Visual Basic 2005 introduced features meant to fill in the gaps between itself and other “more powerful” .NET languages, adding:

• .NET 2.0 languages features such as:
  • generics
  • Partial classes, a method of defining some parts of a class in one file and then adding more definitions later; particularly useful for integrating user code with auto-generated code
  • Nullable Types
• XML comments that can be processed by tools like NDoc to produce “automatic” documentation
• Operator overloading
• Support for unsigned integer data types commonly used in other languages

‘IsNot’ operator Patented

One other feature of Visual Basic 2005 is the conversion of 'If Not X Is Y' to 'If X IsNot Y' which gained notoriety when it was found to be the subject of a Microsoft patent application .

Visual Basic 2005 Express

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As part of the Visual Studio product range, Microsoft created a set of free development environments for hobbyists and novices, the Visual Studio 2005 Express series. One edition in the series is Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, which was succeeded by Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition in the 2008 edition of Visual Studio Express.

The Express Editions are targeted specifically for people learning a language. They have a streamlined version of the user interface, and lack more advanced features of the standard versions. On the other hand, Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition does contain the Visual Basic 6.0 converter, so it is a way to evaluate feasibility of conversion from older versions of Visual Basic.

Visual Basic 2008 (VB 9.0)

Visual Basic 9.0 was released together with the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 on November 19, 2007.

For this release, Microsoft added many features, including:

• A true conditional operator If (boolean, value, value) to replace the IIF function.
• Anonymous types
• Support for LINQ
• Lambda expressions
• XML Literals
• Type Inference

Visual Basic ‘VBx’ (VB 10.0)

Visual Basic 10, also known as VBx, will offer support for the Dynamic Language Runtime. VB 10 is planned to be part of Silverlight 2.0.

Relation to older versions of Visual Basic (VB6 and previous)

Whether Visual Basic .NET should be considered as just another version of Visual Basic or a completely different language is a topic of debate. This is not obvious, as once the methods that have been moved around and that can be automatically converted are accounted for, the basic syntax of the language has not seen many “breaking” changes, just additions to support new features like structured exception handling and short-circuited expressions. Two important data type changes occurred with the move to VB.NET. Compared to VB6, the Integer data type has been doubled in length from 16 bits to 32 bits, and the Long data type has been doubled in length from 32 bits to 64 bits. This is true for all versions of VB.NET. A 16-bit integer in all versions of VB.NET is now known as a Short. Similarly, the Windows Forms GUI editor is very similar in style and function to the Visual Basic form editor.

The things that have changed significantly are the semantics — from those of an object-based programming language running on a deterministic, reference-counted  engine based on COM to a fully object-oriented language backed by the .NET Framework, which consists of a combination of the Common Language Runtime (a virtual machine using generational garbage collection and a just-in-time compilation engine) and a far larger class library. The increased breadth of the latter is also a problem that VB developers have to deal with when coming to the language, although this is somewhat addressed by the My feature in Visual Studio 2005.

The changes have altered many underlying assumptions about the “right” thing to do with respect to performance and maintainability. Some functions and libraries no longer exist; others are available, but not as efficient as the “native” .NET alternatives. Even if they compile, most converted VB6 applications will require some level of refactoring to take full advantage of the new language. Documentation is available to cover changes in the syntax, debugging applications, deployment and terminology.

Comparative samples

The following simple example demonstrates similarity in syntax between VB and VB.NET. Both examples pop up a message box saying “Hello, World” with an OK button.

Classic VB example:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    MsgBox "Hello, World"
End Sub

A VB.NET example:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles Button1.Click
    MessageBox.Show("Hello, World") 'MsgBox("Hello, World") can be used as well
End Sub

• Note that all procedure calls must be made with parentheses in VB.NET, whereas in VB6 there were different conventions for functions (parentheses required) and subs (no parentheses allowed, unless called using the keyword Call).
• Also note that the names Command1 and Button1 are not obligatory. However, these are default names for a command button in VB6 and VB.NET respectively.
• There is a function called MsgBox in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace which can be used similarly to the corresponding function in VB6. There is a controversy about which function to use as a best practice (not only restricted to showing message boxes but also regarding other features of the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace). Some programmers prefer to do things “the .NET way”, since the Framework classes have more features and are less language-specific. Others argue that using language-specific features makes code more readable (for example, using int (C#) or Integer (VB.NET) instead of System.Int32).

The following example demonstrates a difference between VB6 and VB.NET. Both examples unload the active window.

Classic VB Example:

Private Sub cmdClose_Click()
    Unload Me
End Sub

A VB.NET example:

Private Sub btnClose_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles btnClose.Click
    Me.Close()
End Sub

Note the ‘cmd’ prefix being replaced with the ‘btn’ prefix, conforming to the new convention previously mentioned.

Visual Basic 6 did not provide common operator shortcuts. The following are equivalent:

VB6 Example:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Me.Height = Me.Height - 1
End Sub

VB.NET example:

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles Timer1.Tick
    Me.Height -= 1
End Sub

Criticism

Many long-time Visual Basic users have complained about Visual Basic .NET because initial versions dropped a large number of language constructs and user interface features that were available in VB6 (which is now no longer sold), and changed the semantics of those that remained; for example, in VB.NET parameters are (by default) passed by value, not by reference. Detractors refer pejoratively to VB.NET as Visual Fred or DOTNOT. On March 8, 2005, a petition was set up in response to Microsoft’s refusal to extend its mainstream support for VB6 at the end of that month.

VB.NET’s supporters state that the new language is in most respects more powerful than the original, incorporating modern object oriented programming paradigms in a more natural, coherent and complete manner than was possible with earlier versions. Opponents tend not to disagree with this, instead taking the position that although VB6 has flaws in its object model, the cost in terms of redevelopment effort is too high for any benefits that might be gained by converting to VB.NET. Independent developers producing software for Internet distribution have also taken issue with the size of the runtime.

It is simpler to decompile languages that target Common Intermediate Language, including VB.NET, compared to languages that compile to machine code. Tools like .NET Reflector can provide a close approximation to the original code due to the large amount of metadata provided in CIL.

Microsoft supplies an automated VB6-to-VB.NET converter with Visual Studio .NET, which has improved over time, but it cannot convert all code, and almost all non-trivial programs will need some manual effort to compile. Most will need a significant level of code refactoring to work optimally. Visual Basic programs that are mainly algorithmic in nature can be migrated with few difficulties; those that rely heavily on such features as database support, graphics, unmanaged operations or on implementation details are more troublesome.

However in 2005 ArtinSoft, the company that developed the VB6-to-VB.NET converter for Microsoft that comes with Visual Studio .NET, developed a migration tool called the ArtinSoft Visual Basic Upgrade Companion. This tool expands upon the migration wizard included in Visual Studio .NET by providing some automated code refactoring, such as type inference for late-bound variables—producing explicitly typed variables—and conversion to structured error handling, among many other tweaks that improve code quality.

Using artificial intelligence algorithms, it is possible for this new tool to recognize certain code patterns that can be reorganized into more structured versions, potentially yielding a higher quality .NET code. For example, the tool is able to automatically recognize commonly used patterns of “On Error GoTo”, analyze them, and convert them to code blocks that use “Try ... Catch” instead of the legacy error handling model—in many cases with no human intervention.

In addition, the required runtime libraries for VB6 programs are provided with Windows 98 SE and above, while VB.NET programs require the installation of the significantly larger .NET Framework. The framework is included with Windows Vista, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows Server 2003. For other supported operating systems such as Windows 2000 or Windows XP (Home or Professional Editions), it must be separately installed.

Microsoft’s response to developer dissatisfaction has focused around making it easier to move new development and shift existing codebases from VB6 to VB.NET. Their latest offering is the VBRun website, which offers code samples and articles for:

• completing common tasks in VB6, like creating a print preview
• integrating VB6 and VB.NET solutions (dubbed VB Fusion)

Cross-platform and open-source development

The creation of open-source tools for VB.NET development have been slow compared to C#, although the Mono development platform provides an implementation of VB.NET-specific libraries and a VB.NET 8.0 compatible compiler written in VB.NET, as well as standard framework libraries such as Windows Forms GUI library.

SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop are open-source alternative IDEs.

Hello world example

The following is a very simple VB.NET program, a version of the classic “Hello world” example:

Public Class ExampleClass

        Public Shared Sub Main()
                System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")
        End Sub

End Class

The effect is to write the text Hello, world! to the output console. Each line serves a specific purpose, as follows:

Public Class ExampleClass

This is a class definition. It is public, meaning objects in other projects can freely use this class. All the information between this and the following End Class describes this class.

Public Shared Sub Main()

This is the entry point where the program begins execution. It could be called from other code using the syntax ExampleClass.Main(). (The Public Shared portion is a subject for a slightly more advanced discussion.)

System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!")

This line performs the actual task of writing the output. Console is a system object, representing a command-line console where a program can input and output text. The program calls the Console method WriteLine, which causes the string passed to it to be displayed on the console.

Notes

1. ^ Option Strict can be used to switch between safe and unsafe type checking.
2. ^ What’s New with the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard in Visual Basic 2005
3. ^ Defining and Using Generics in Visual Basic 2005
4. ^ Operator Overloading in Visual Basic 2005
5. ^ Real Software slams MS IsNot patent application | Reg Developer
6. ^ Real Software Slams Microsofts Patent Effort
7. ^ http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959 United States Patent Application: 20040230959
8. ^ Microsoft Brings Programming to the Masses With Visual Studio Express: Company brings the power of code to growing community of hobbyist programmers who seek to integrate technology and software into their everyday lives
9. ^ Migration - Upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 MSDN - Developer Center - Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center - Migration -
10. ^ Redirect
11. ^ Microsoft Basic: 1976-2001, R.I.P
12. ^ Microsoft Basic: 1976-2001, R.I.P
13. ^ Petition to Microsoft
14. ^ Product Family Life-Cycle Guidelines for Visual Basic 6.0
15. ^ Mono Project: VisualBasic.NET support

See also

• CLR, and Platform
  • Common Language Runtime
  • Mono, an open source implementation of .NET
• Environments and tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio, IDE for .Net languages
• Microsoft Visual Studio Express
• Comparison of programming languages
  • Visual Basic 6 to .NET Function Equivalents
  • Comparison of C# and Visual Basic .Net
  • Comparison of C# and Java (Relevant since many of the comparisons are really comparisons of the platform, and not the actual language.)
• Visual Basic for Applications

External links

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Visual Basic .NET

• Microsoft’s VB.NET website
• Visual Basic Team
• Startvbdotnet
• Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition website
• VBRun website - legacy VB6 resources from Microsoft

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Frederick Johnstone “Jack” Bigg (born: May 26, 1912, Meskanaw, Saskatchewan, Canada - died: April 16, 1975) was a police officer who had obtained the rank of Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was also a lawyer, and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1958 to 1972.

Bigg first ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1958 federal election. He defeated 3 other candidates to win the Athabaska electoral district. Bigg ran for re-election in the 1962 federal election, once again he defeated 3 other candidates in a closely contested race to win a second term in office.

Parliament was dissolved a year later after the minority government fell forcing the 1963 federal election. Bigg won the popular vote in a landslide. He was re-elected in yet another landslide in the 1965 federal election. Bigg then ran in the new Pembina electoral district in the 1968 federal election. He won the largest plurality of his career and was re-elected to his fifth and final term in office. He retired in 1972.

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Ian David Hunter (born September 11, 1979) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.

Hunter first played for Durham during the 1997 Second XI Championship, taking a wicket in a draw against Hampshire’s Second XI. He played consistently in the Second XI for six years. Hunter was released by Durham in 2003 and played briefly for Cumberland in the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division, before being given a two-year contract by Derbyshire.

Hunter is colourblind and has admitted he finds playing cricket indoors to be a struggle.

In 1999 Hunter played in three youth Test matches against Australia Under-19s.

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Blaich is a small settlement near Fort William, in the Ardgour area, Highlands of Scotland. 1817 Church (no longer used).

Blaich is located on the southern shore of Loch Eil on the A861 road.

Coordinates: 56°50?N 5°12?W? / ?56.833, -5.2

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Categories: Villages in Highland | Highland geography stubs

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SS8

Power type	Electric
Builder	Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works
Model	SS8
Build date	1994 –
UIC classification	Bo’Bo’
Gauge	1435 mm
Length	17 516 mm
Locomotive weight	88 tonnes
Electric system(s)	25kV 50Hz
Power output	3600 kW
Tractive effort	208 kN starting 126 kN continuous at 100 km/h
Locomotive brakes	Air and dynamic

The SS8 is a 25kV 50Hz AC electric locomotive used on the Peoples Republic of China’s national railway system. They are only used on the Jingguang line, the railway line linking Beijing West Railway Station with Guangzhou, Guangdong.

The SS8 is based on predecessor SS5 and was developed and built by CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works. A total of 245 (0001-0243, 2001-2002) SS8s have been built since 1994. Batch production commenced in 1997

On June 24th, 1998, the SS8 broke the Chinese rail speed record by achieving a top speed of 240 km/h on a test run between Xuchang and Xiaoshangqiao. The locomotive used was fleet number 0001.

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Nathaniel C. Comfort is an American historian specialising in the history of biology. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and he previously was employed in the history department at The George Washington University. He is currently working on the history of human and medical genetics in America.

Comfort is best known for his 2001 biography of Barbara McClintock, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. He has published several journal articles on the same topic, and was widely praised for his reinterpretation of the response to McClintock’s work on controlling elements.

Publications

• The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Harvard University Press, 2001

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Mar Joseph Perumthottam (b. July 05, 1948, Punnathura, Kerala, India) is a Roman Catholic archbishop representing the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. He is the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Changanassery.

Education

He did his education in St. Joseph’s High School, Punnathura and St. Berchmans’ College, Changanassery. He completed his seminary studies at St. Thomas Petit Seminary, Changanassery and St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary, Vadavathoor, Kottayam.

In 18th December 1974 he was ordained priest by Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil, then auxiliary bishop of Changanacherry. After his ministry as assistant parish priest for a few years he was appointed in 1979 as Director of Sandesanilayam, the Catechetical Centre of the Archdiocese and Chaplain of Catholic Workers’ Movement of the Archdiocese. In the Catechetical field, he introduced many training programmes, including Catechetical Leaders’ Training (CLT), which is being continued to this day by Sandesanilayam.

In 1983 he was sent for higher studies, at Gregorian University Rome where he took doctorate in Church History. Back from Rome, in 1989 he was appointed professor of St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary Vadavathoor and Missionary Orientation Centre, Manganam, Kottayam and vicar of St. Sebastian’s Church, Kodinattumkunnu. During this period he was instrumental in starting Marthoma Vidyanikethan at Changanacherry, the higher institute of religious sciences for the laity at the initiative and active support of Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil. This institute is a unique venture affiliated to Paurastya Vidyapitam, Vadavthoor, conferring P.G. degree recognized by the Congregation for Catholic Education, Rome and Joseph Perumthottam has been at its helm for the last one decade.

Simultaneously he has been vicar of Mar Sleeba Church, Ponga. He was nominated auxiliary bishop on 24 April 2002 and was ordained bishop by Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil at St. Mary’s Metropolitan Church, Changanacherry, on 20 May 2002, the 116th anniversary of the Archdiocese.

Bishop Perumthottam was appointed Archbishop of Changanassery on January 22nd, 2007 and he assumed charge on March 19th, 2007

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