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Don't ask us how, but Idolator had a special chance to catch the a live taping of Bieber on Conan (Ed note: HE'S SO TINY!). We can share a few details: Justin spent most of his time backstage in his private dressing room (door closed) off of the green room. We're assuming that JB is taking his first loss — possibly ever — to heart. When he did emerge to greet Conan on stage, the Biebs was gracious but fast on his feet, going joke for joke with Coco. While the Canadian sensation was clearly in on the Peeps joke, it seemed he didn't anticipate what hundreds of sugar dusted candies could do to his signature shag hairdo and swagger coach-approved outfit. Obviously the 16-year-old pop star is on a tight schedule, leaving before the taping was over. So, sadly, we never got to even ask him to be our Valentine.
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I've had pudding cakes on my mind for quite a while now, so when I was leafing through old issues of Gourmet Magazine recently and saw the fabulous Blueberry Pudding Cake on the cover of the July 2005 issue, I knew the time had come. I had fresh blueberries and the other ingredients are kitchen staples. Of course I tweaked the recipe a bit, adding a good hit of lime and a caramel note to the sauce. And then my blueberry sauce didn't sink through the batter as the original recipe said it should, so I tweaked the procedure for the sauce as well. The result was a hit with all four tasters. The only grumbling I heard was over the lack of ice cream accompaniment. Next time, I'll make sure to have that on hand.
Sweet Corn & Black Bean Salsa
Blueberry Cobbler with Maple, Lemon & Sour Cream Cornmeal Biscuits
This Blueberry Cobbler is from a different universe than the soggy, ho-hum cobblers encountered in many restaurants these days. The berries are evocatively enhanced with maple syrup, lemon, and cinnamon. The biscuits are crisp on the top and tender on the interior, with a subtle tang from the addition of sour cream and lemon. And the whole dessert goes together in under 20 minutes.
Cold Green Pea Soup (Green Pea Gazpacho)
The Perfect Vichyssoise (Cold Potato Leek Soup)
If there is one soup that is an absolute must for me in the summer (in addition to Gazpacho of course), it is the cold, silky, incredibly reviving amalgam called Vichyssoise (vih-she-swaz). I have been known to make a gallon at a time and polish it off easily in a week. (Luckily, one can actually survive healthily on a diet of only potatoes supplemented with dairy.)
Sweet Corn & Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Never heard of sweet corn ice cream? Well then, you're in for an ice cream flavor revelation. As my collection of American Southwest and Mexican cookbooks grew over the years, I occasionally encountered this "oddity" in one or another of the dessert chapters. Finally, I searched the web and lo and behold, the word is out.
Tuscan Melon & Blackberry Salad with Prosciutto & Yogurt Chevre Dressing
Like most of the baby boom generation, I grew up on the ubiquitous American iceberg lettuce salad with the usual assortment of dreary bottled dressings. It was only in adulthood that I discovered that fruit could be used to good effect in a salad—beyond those ghastly sweet coconut and marshmallow concoctions that sat high and proud on every family buffet of my youth.
Blackberry Lime Syrup with Star Anise
Ginger-Lime Peach & Blueberry Crisp with Toasted Hazelnut Streusel
Northwest farmers markets were overflowing with fresh peaches this past weekend. And the selection is just beginning.
So far, I've seen Red Rose, Suncrest, Angelus, August Lady, Blushing Star, Snow Giant, Hale, Red Gold, Regina, September Snow, Summer Lady, and Yukon varieties. There are so many choices that making a decision is difficult. I sampled peaches at the Portland Farmers Market on Saturday and then again at the Hillsdale Farmers Market on Sunday.
Hood Canal Manila Clams with Spicy Orange Cilantro Butter
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Mexican Tortilla Soup with Frizzled Tortillas
Over the years, I have eaten this much-lauded soup in every restaurant and café I could find it. I love the concept—toasted chiles, tomatoes, garlic, corn tortillas, and cumin soup base with fried tortillas, avocado, and sour cream embellishments—but not always the execution. Restaurant renditions vary considerably, as do recipes in American Southwest and Mexican cookbooks.
The Green Goddess (Salad Dressing)
Suddenly, Green Goddess Dressing is showing up everywhere. I've encountered it on four menus in the past month. And I can't stop ordering it, even though restaurant versions pale by comparison to what you can make in your own kitchen. Restaurants invariably hold back on the herbs, perhaps to control cost or to appeal to the less adventurous diner. This is a mistake, because this dressing is supposed to be all about the herbs and bold rather than timid.
Sweet Corn Grilled in the Husk
I read about this method of cooking fresh corn some time ago, but the idea really took hold when one of my personal culinary goddesses, Cindy Pawlcyn, of Mustard's Grill and Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen fame (both in Napa, California), described the process in her truly wonderful book, Big Small Plates.
Cindy's version of this dish is called Grilled Street Corn. She brushes the hot grilled corn (the husk pulled back and corn silk removed) with a garlic mayonnaise, dusts with cayenne, rolls in parmesan cheese, and serves with lime wedges. Wow!
Risotto of Sweet Corn with Corn Coulis, Zucchini, Chevre & Green Chile Oil
If there is an easier, quicker, more elegant, more economical, more versatile, more satisfying dish in the world than risotto, I can't think of what it might be.
As long as you keep a premium-quality risotto rice on hand, you will almost certainly have something in the frig to complete the dish. That something can be any thoughtful combination of fresh or cooked vegetables, meats, seafood, fresh herbs, and cheese.
Crostone with Basil Mint Pesto & Roasted Ratatouille
I used to make ratatouille (an aromatic vegetable mélange of eggplant, zucchini, onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, and herbs) the classic way (AKA the Julia Child way), sautéing each vegetable separately in copious amounts of olive oil. Julia says that her recipe is the only one she knows in which each vegetable retains its own shape and character.
Summer Tomato, Sweet Onion & Blackberry Salad with Basil Mint Crema
This salad is the happy result of a recent early morning meander through the Portland Farmers Market. In mid-August, the market is full to bursting and the choices are almost overwhelming.
A huge variety of sweet and chile peppers overflow baskets onto large bunches of just picked basil and mint. Plump sweet onions nestle next to mountains of green and purple beans. Tomatoes are either as small as a marble or as large as your fist and range in color from green, to yellow, to orange, to red. Blackberries, yellow raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries all vie for attention.
Sweet Carrot Bisque with Umami Pesto
When I was a wee bonnie lass, I tolerated raw carrots, but cooked carrots were the kiss of death to my usually robust appetite. In fact, since MauiJim shares my aversion, I began to experiment tenuously with cooked carrots only recently. I usually saute them quickly or add them at the last minute to preserve their crunchy texture.
However, carrot bisque is an exception. The carrots need to be fully tender in order to liquefy them in a blender. And because they are quite sweet by nature, especially when they are young and freshly dug, I treat them in a similar fashion to yams, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash.
Sweet Cherry & Pea Vine Salad with Basil & Mint
This past Saturday, I walked through the Seattle University District Farmers Market with–gasp–no goal. I let the season's bounty and the culinary muses set the agenda. The muses, aroused by my atypical lack of planning, whispered sweet nothings in my ear: "cherries, cherries, cherries."
Luckily, several growers' tables were piled high with sweet cherries (Bings, Rainiers, and Chelans) and one grower had oh-so-hard-to-find Montmorency pie cherries as well. But at $10 a pound, I will plan what to make with these, perhaps next week.
Fourth of July Independence Day Roundup
Fourth of July festivites are just a few days away, so for this roundup, I selected nine dishes most suitable for an All-American summertime barbecue. These are tried-and-true recipes that I have made again and again to rave reviews. I hope they will become your faves as well.
Fresh Strawberry Roundup
Fresh Blueberry Roundup
Every summer, I work up a few new blueberry dishes and share the best of them with you. To prime your creative juices, here are some of my favorite ways to eat this super juicy, distinctively flavored berry. Check out the Fresh Blueberry Primer first to see the wide range of other ingredients that partner beautifully with blueberries. Maybe try a combination you've never tried before.
Lime-Marinated Steak Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce, Tomatoes, Onions, Feta & Mint
Grilled Prawn, Roasted Baby Tomato & Chipotle Mustard Bread Salad
One fine day, as the song goes, I got a note from Colette Becker of Saucy Mama (@SaucyMamaCafe on Twitter). She invited me to participate in this year's Saucy Mama food blogger contest. Well, it's hard to say no when an invitation is extended so graciously and a promise of a heap of Saucy Mama products is part of the gig. So of course I said, "Count me in."
When the package arrived a couple of weeks later, I ripped into all the bottles and tasted each one. I especially loved the Chipotle Mustard and the humongous Garlic Stuffed Olives, so decided to use them together in some sort of easy summer main course. This flavor packed Italian Panzanella is the result.
Fire & Spice Grilled Burgers with Chipotle Aioli
I'm on a grind-my-own-hamburger kick this summer, so thought I would share another sublime grilled burger that came out of the OtherWorldly Kitchen this past week.
This one is loaded with fire, spice, and smoke, and has got that essential aspect I call Big Taste. For the Summertime Beef & Brew Grilled Burgers posted earlier, I used beef chuck shoulder, but for my Fire & Spice Burgers, I was seduced by a mountain of well-marbled boneless beef short ribs in the butcher case. It was that luscious fat that got me all dreamy eyed.
Torta della Nonna for My Darling Lily
I was pondering how to introduce the newest member of our family to you, dear readers, when my fabuloso sister-in-law, Mary-beth, suggested tying in Torta della Nonna, which truthfully, I knew nothing about. She fell in love with this simple and rich Italian tart in Italy, during a 5-day cooking course, at the beautiful Capezzana Wine and Culinary Center. Mary-beth says she ate a small slice of this tart every day during that stay and wishes she could continue that ritual indefinitely. This is her kind of tart. Let it be known that Mary-beth, former cooking instructor and continuing culinary maven is no slouch in the kitchen. If she says this cake is to die for, I believe it. And I must try it.
However, still unable to utter the "G" word without grimacing, I have been more preoccupied with what my darling granddaughter is going to call me than with announcing to the world that she has, at long last, ARRIVED. Even if that announcement involves a wonderful tart.
Kicky Tomato Strawberry Gazpacho
If you've been following along with me this summer, you know I am enthralled with the tomato and strawberry flavor pairing. Earlier, I created Fresh Strawberry-Tomato Dessert Sauce to accompany Heavenly Parmesan Sour Cream Pound Cake. It was a surprise hit. I have to explore at least a couple more strawberry-tomato dishes before the summer season is over.
While pondering what to cook next and flagging from the 90+ degree heat wave that hit Seattle this week, the inevitable happened. I opened the oh-so-wonderfully-cold frig and saw, at eye level, a large bowl of strawberries alongside a large bowl of grape tomatoes, both of which were intended for salad.
Creamy Romaine Soup with Summer Herb Butter & Garlic Croutons
When we are in Portland, Oregon and heading out on foot to dinner in town, Wildwood in the Northwest district is always at the top of our list of fave destinations. It's a lovely mile walk, or if we are feeling exceptionally lazy, we can hop the streetcar almost to the front door. (You might have seen my earlier article on Wildwood titled, Sweet Briar Farms Pork Chop with Bodacious Corn Hush Puppies. Just looking at the photo of that amazing dish makes me go weak at the knees.)
Italian Giardiniera: Summer in a Jar
What a wonderful Saturday in cool, overcast Seattle. We started early with a 4-mile walk along the east side of Lake Washington and then shot over the 520 bridge to scope out the produce at the University District Farmers Market. By 10:00 A.M., the market was swarming with friendly but purposeful shoppers.
What struck me this week were all the "baby" veggies. One vendor had her large variety of summer squash tagged as "infant" zucchini and "youngster" patty pans. Another vendor had turnips the size of a marble. The carrots were so young and tender they were practically screaming, "Eat me now." There were even baby shallots, as small and tender as green onions.


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September 28, 2014 MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan Wildcats faithful were hit with an emotional swing Saturday night at the Superior Dom. more »»
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September 27, 2014 MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan Wildcats football team was able to rack up 386 total yards on offense last weekend against Hillsdale. more »»
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September 24, 2014 MARQUETTE — Dominic Yoder set a Northern Michigan University women's volleyball coaching record Tuesday night with his 94th career GLIAC victory. It wasn't easy, howeve. more »»
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September 22, 2014 SOUTH HAVEN — Northern Michigan University's men's golf team placed 11th out of 14 squads Sunday at the GLIAC Fall Invitational. more »»
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September 21, 2014 HILLSDALE — They posted 386 yards of total offense and carried a 3-0 lead into the fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough for the Northern Michigan University football Wildcats Saturday. more »»
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September 19, 2014 CEDARVILLE, Ohio — Dropping the final two sets following a 1-1 tie, the Northern Michigan University women's volleyball team lost to host Cedarville (Ohio) University 3-1 (25-18, 24-26, 25-23, 26-24... more »»
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September 18, 2014 MARQUETTE — A half-dozen weightlifters from the Olympic Training Site at Northern Michigan University earned distinction at an intrasquad meet held in the Superior Dome on Wednesday afternoon. more »»
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Hi - I love hollyhocks, but in the past few years have been very disappointed in the colors I get from my self-sown ones, which are mostly light yellow, and some very pale beige-ish pinks. What I really love are bright pinks and roses, all the lovely red shades, and a few dark purple-blacks. I have tried re-newing my gene pool by introducing newly bought seed, but my colors don't seem to improve. I have tried buying plants from garden centers, but they just seem to finish blooming and then shrivel and die, without producing seed. I'd really like to be able to get hollyhock seeds by individual color, but cant find them. Can anybody give me a source for this? (Or is it impossible to get hollyhocks to come true to a single color?) My first choice would be singles, but I'd live with the doubles, too, if the colors were right. Many thanks! |
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- Posted by MudPlayingFamilysMom z8b SC (My Page) on Mon, Jan 3, 05 at 2:27
What about putting a "Wanted" post on the seed or plant exchange forum? That's where I've gotten my hollyhock seed. Can't tell just what they'll look like when they are blooming, though. Right now their just cozied up in their little containers waiting 'til they decide it's time to sprout. I hope you have luck finding them. I love a pretty hollyhock, too. |
- Posted by Tracey_NJ6 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 3, 05 at 14:56
I have some double burgundy if you're interested in them for postage (see my trade page for a picture-Alcea rosea). Someone also sent me some called "Show Stopping Red", which I had sown, but they haven't bloomed yet, so I don't know if they're red or not. I can't find any reference of that name on the internet. I have plenty left over to share. I also have plenty of "black" left over from last year/commercial purchase. I'd forgotten to sow those, but I'll be sowing some this year. You're more than welcome to them, along with anything else on my list, if you'd like to send a SASBE... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tracey_NJ6's Trade Page
Try this link: http://www.wuvie.net/hockcolors.htm They have a lot of individual colors of single hollyhocks. Packets are $2.50 but I couldn't figure out how many seeds are in a packet. However, they have some auctions on eBay and there is says the hollyhock packet has 50+ seeds, so I would assume all packets are around 50 seeds. Carol T. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Wuv'n Acres Gourden
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White House condemns Kenyan tribal violence
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The White House condemned on Sunday "in the strongest terms" a tribal attack in south-eastern Kenya that left 45 dead, amid fears of growing tensions between rival communities.
Villagers were hacked to death and their homes were torched in Friday's attack on the village of Kipao in the Tana delta region, an area where deadly tribal violence killed another 100 people earlier this year. The victims included women and children.
"The United States condemns in the strongest terms the renewed violence in Kenya's Tana River region," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement.
"This latest incident represents a disturbing escalation of the tragic violence witnessed by these communities in August and September." Police attributed the killings to a disarmament operation that stoked long-simmering tensions between the rival Orma and Pokomo communities in the Tana river delta area.


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OTMN Lab Scope: The Biophotonics and Nanobiophotonics field includes many emerging biomedical technologies that are increasingly being applied in various vast areas of life sciences and biomedicine ranging from minimally invasive optical diagnostics and therapeutics to development of novel nanobiotechnologies and nanobiomaterials. Minimally invasive, cost-effective and rapid biophotonics techniques and devices have been recently developed as potential alternatives to conventional medical methods for diagnostics, monitoring and treatment of a variety of diseases, drug discovery, proteomics, and environmental detection of biological agents. These techniques offer a noncontact, effective, fast, and painless way for sensing and monitoring various biomedical quantities. Medical devices utilizing minimally invasive biophotonics technology are rapidly finding their way into the mainstream for early disease diagnosis and improved patient acceptance and comfort. Optical therapeutics approaches are being proposed that use ultrashort laser radiation pulses, precise delivery fiber optics and near/mid-infrared biosensing and monitoring. Currently, CDRH is faced with the need to prepare to evaluate devices being developed to optically diagnose and threat various diseases including pre-cancer and cancer conditions.
The Optical Therapeutics and Medical Nanophotonics Laboratory of CDRH/OSEL's Division of Physics is responsible for providing and maintaining state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise in the areas of biophotonics, nanobiophotonics, biomedical optics and medical lasers. The OTMN Lab assists the Center and Agency in evaluating the safety and effectiveness of new optical therapeutics techniques and devices as well as in developing test protocols, guidances and standard test methods for evaluating critical fundamental parameters and features of recently developed optical therapeutics and nanobiophotonics techniques and devices. The OTMN Lab research and regulatory related projects are focused in the following key areas:
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The 2015 Meeting will take place May 21-22, 2015 in Washington, DC.
Meeting Place: Radio Free Asia headquarters, 2025 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
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Agenda Topics: A.J. Janitschek of Radio Free Asia is expected to talk about "Green Engineering." There will be a panel discussion about the future of shortwave broadcasting, as well as an update on DRM (Digitial Radio Mondiale) developments and other talks and presentations about various aspects of shortwave radio. Dr. Jerry Plummer of WWCR will speak about German radio during World War II. As we confirm specific presentations, we will update this web page.
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Hotel Amenities: Refrigerator, coffee maker, iron, ironing board, hair dryer, CD player, high speed Internet, two telephone lines with voice mail, in-room safe. The St. Gregory Hotel has a 24-hour accessible state-of-the-art fitness center for hotel guests and a 24-hour self-serve business center.
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On my 18th birthday, the day that I was officially declared an adult, I suddenly knew how Peter Pan felt. I didn't want to grow up; I wanted to stay a child. I wanted to suddenly press "rewind" and go back to when I was still a little girl, more worried about how I would pay for another Polly Pocket than getting into college. Don't get me wrong — I was happy that I was a full-fledged adult, but I was also a little sad that my childhood was officially over. Well, actually, according to my grandmother, my childhood, "was over a long time ago." Whatever what means. Here are 5 reasons I'm happy I'm now a grown up, as well as 5 things I'll miss about being a child.
Freedom To Do Whatever I Want 1 of 10
I'm excited to do whatever I want (as long as it's not against the law, of course) without having to ask my parents first. Spur of the moment road trip? Yes! (Well, I'll have to get my license first, but still, theoretically, it's possible). Stay out all night? Yes! (Not that I really want to, because I either have school or work the next day, but again, theoretically, it's possible). Go to Melbourne tomorrow, just my friend and I, no parental supervision whatsoever? Yes! (I actually am doing this one tomorrow. So excited— we're seeing One Direction!).
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Finishing School 2 of 10
Oh my gosh, I cannot wait to finish school. Six and a half weeks until I graduate, and counting. I've loved school, and I've hated school, and I wouldn't trade my time at school for most things, but I am so glad that I'm an adult and I'm going to be getting out of there. I wouldn't turn back the clock and be a child again if I had to do school again — it's just time to move on. Becoming a grown-up is just one more awesome reminder that in six and a half weeks I will no longer have to wear a uniform that resembles something out of Madeleine.
Or spend most of my school holidays attempting to write (emphasis on attempting) a 3,000 word essay on the impact of Freud's theory of id, ego and super-ego and Derrida's theory of phallogocentrism, within the novel The Age of Innocence, because I was apparently stupid enough contract for school saying that I would be "happy to write the whole thing during the only two weeks of freedom I get before school dictates my life again, because if not I may as well kiss my chances of having a good future good-bye" (quote may or may not be paraphrased).
No, of course I'm not bitter, and no, of course I'm not mentally slapping myself for wanting to be in this subject. Let's just say I'm really glad to be finishing school soon.
A Little Financial Responsibility 3 of 10
As a child, I faced very little financial responsibility. I had few expenses, and what expenses I had were for my own fun: books, DVDs, music, etc. Bills are one of the things I am least looking forward to facing. Right now, the only bills I have to face come in the form of my mother — I just need to pay her for my phone bill, and my credit card bill every other week.
I'm not looking forward to having to pay real actual bills, for things like electricity and water. I also had more money when I was a child, because my parents paid for some stuff. I just had a taste of real financial responsibility with my Melbourne trip — I have to pay for flights, accommodation, tickets, food and spending money all on my own, and as I learned, it's not cheap.
People Treating Me Like A Child 4 of 10
You know when you're at a buffet, and you're looking at the children's table, and they have macaroni and cheese, PB&J, pizza, fries, etc and like at the adult's table there's all these vegetables and all this fancy food which doesn't really look edible, and just for a minute you wish that you were under twelve so you could go eat off the children's table without being judged by the other adults?(No? Maybe it's just me, then. I have the dietary preferences of an eight-year-old).
Anyway, my point is, sometimes you just don't want to act your age. Sometimes, you just want to do something immature, and get away with it, without someone saying "seriously, act your age". Sometimes, you just want to stay in your pajamas all day, eating cereal from the box and watching cartoons, without someone telling you to put real clothes on, and brush your hair, and for goodness' sake, eat from a bowl. That stuff is expected from children, they can get away with it, because they don't know any better. I think becoming an adult is kind of a catch-22: on one hand, you get the freedom you always craved when you were a child, but, along with that, comes the expectation that you'll act with mature, most of the time. I think that sometimes, I'll miss being able to get away with stuff because "I just didn't know any better".
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Childhood Friendships 5 of 10
As a child, your friends are basically chosen for you. They're the people that come up to you on the monkey bars at recess, and you bond over your love of the Powerpuff Girls. They're the people that your parents make you play dates with. They're the people that you sit next to in class and "share" math homework, and bond over your love of colorful stationery. As an adult, though, those easily made friendships are gone- you have to put in the effort, engage in small talk. There's no parent to make the friends for you.
Dreaming Without Having To Put In The Effort 6 of 10
This one is a little strange, but you know how when you're a child, you spend a lot of your time dreaming about what your life as an adult will be like? Like, how you'll live in a house with blue shutters and a white picket fence, be a famous actress, or Belle in the Disneyland Parade (because, duh), and have your own plane? Well the adult time is here — and, you actually have to work at your goals.
For some reason that I don't know, you can't just click your fingers and your 'perfect' future will be there, all wrapped up in a pretty bow. The 'dreaming' now has to be combined with 'doing', and I think I'll miss just being able to expect things to all work out without putting work in.
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Being Able To Go To Gold Class Movies Without An Adult 7 of 10
Gold class is the holy grail of a cinematic experience; you get comfortable reclining arm chairs, instead of chewing gum infested, popcorn littered, itchy seats. You get waited on by your own personal servers, and you're exempt from watching the people in front of you make out the whole time, because there's only, like, 20 seats in a theater, and they're far away so that you can't really see each other.
The tickets also cost about four times more than a normal movie ticket , and you can't go if you're under 18 without an adult accompaniment because they offer alcohol (I think the true reason is because they're trying to avoid the whole teenagers-making-out-thing and trying to keep the place classy, but, sure, let's go with the "alcohol" excuse). I've only ever been twice, and both times with my mother, but now that I'm 18, I can possibly go more often (if I win the lottery, that is) and with friends.
Photo Courtesy of [scottchan/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net]
$2 Per Hour Pay Rise 8 of 10
I am actually super excited about this one. For my retail job, I get a $2-per-hour pay rise! That means for a seven hour shift I'm making an extra $14 — that's basically the cost of a movie ticket! (I'm actually not being sarcastic; I can make an extra $14 go a long way). This is probably one of the things I am most excited about turning another year older.
Photo Courtesy of [kraifreedom/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net]
Adventure 9 of 10
The unknown is scary, but it's also a little thrilling, in an adventure type of way. I'm a little excited to find out what will happen in the rest of my life. Even in the past year, so much has changed- I have three more best friends, my Dad turned out to be gay, I started my job in retail, and I started my job here (one thing that hasn't changed- I still don't have a boyfriend, but whatever, let's not let bitterness ruin this post). It's been an amazing year, and I'm kind of excited to find out where I'll be, and what I'll be doing, and what has changed this time next year. It's a little scary, but it's also a thrilling adventure.
Photo Courtesy of [artur84/FreeDigitalPhotos.net]
Booking Your Own Hotel 10 of 10
I am really excited to go to our hotel, because it is the first booking I've ever made solely under my name, with my credit card. That's one of the perks of becoming an adult, in my opinion; getting to book your own hotel room, and feeling like a "grown-up" as you do so.
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On The Feet Of New York: VIBE's Weekly Kick Picks (Soho)
Check out this week's edition of VIBE Kick Picks.
There's more to Spring Street than just a random block in the Soho district of New York City. Fashionable bystanders, artsy-cool wall murals, and most importantly, fly footwear make up this block. On a deep journey up, down, and all over this interesting street, we found sneakerheads from all walks of life rocking some hot stuff—even in yesterday's drizzly weather.
Let's start it off with our first guy:
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This is a video effort released by O'Reilly that strikes an interesting balance between theory and practicality. It touches more on the theory of algorithms than you'll normally get if you just go looking to learn about how algorithms are implemented in a particular language, but it dwells more on implementation and language features than you'd typically get from a course intended to teach the theory of algorithms.
It's definitely not intended for an audience who has no grasp of Python at all yet. If you're a good general program, of course, you can probably tell what's going on (especially since Python is a relatively readable language) but your time would probably still be better spent doing a quick run through how the language works so that you can focus on the algorithm and not the syntax. (O'Reilly has some excellent books and videos on the topic, of course, but you can also go to sites like Khan Academy, Codecademy, Coursera, and edX as well).
The videos themselves are basically a mix of watching the instructor work in IDLE, seeing the instructor himself, and seeing screens that look like PowerPoint slides.
My personal view is that the videos have a lot of value to offer, because they walk you carefully through some extremely key algorithms. Even if you don't ever have to implement something like MergeSort personally (and you probably won't), understanding how it's implemented is good for your ability to understand how your own algorithms should work and how to write them cleanly.
I would recommend, of course, that you watch some of the sample video that O'Reilly Media has made available on the Working With Algorithms in Python product page. The videos are well done, but my experience has been that even good teachers don't necessarily 'click' perfectly with every student. You might as well see how well you follow his train of thought before you hand over any money!


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Sarah Blasko is a performer of untouchable talent. Currently touring in Europe where the pan-European release of her phenomenal third album, "As Day Follows Night" has been welcomed with open arms and to serious acclaim, Sarah returns home in October for a five week tour across the nation – from Albury to Townsville and everywhere in between – including major performances at theatre venues in all capital cities.
Promising a retrospective program revisiting her whole repertoire, Blasko's live shows always deliver more. Her previous tours have seen fellow musicians Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens, Glenn Richards of Augie March and Tim Rogers join her on stage. And who could forget the startling costumes of last year's national tour?
Her inimitable music, glowing reviews from Stockholm to Paris to London and her beguiling charm and humility have also secured Sarah releases in the USA, Canada and South Africa later this year.
"A monumental release and one that offers something new with every listen ... imagine a whole world compacted into twelve songs and you're some part of the way there."
**** MAVERICK, UK (March 2010)
"Wry, understated tales of redemption and disorientation ... lovely and thoughtful"
**** Q MAGAZINE, UK John Aizlewood (May 2010)
"'As Day Follows Night' …is a delight for connoisseurs of assertive pop. Majestic."
**** LE METRO, France (April 2010)
Following a tour in the UK through April and May with The Temper Trap, Sarah will head to the USA in June and back to Europe for the festival season through July and August and then back to the USA for headline shows in September, before returning to Australian shores.
"As Day Follows Night" is out now through Dew Process/UMA. Sarah Blasko is the winner of the J Award, The Rolling Stone Award for Best Female and the ARIA for Best Female. All three of her albums have far surpassed platinum sales.
Sarah Blasko
Supported by triple j, Yen Magazine, Street Press Australia & Groupie
Wed 6 Albury Entertainment Centre, NSW
Tickets from venue: Swift St, Albury www.alburycity.gov.au/entertainment or 02 6051 3051
Thu 7 Theatre Royal, Castlemaine, Vic
Tickets from venue: 30 Hargraves St, Castlemaine or www.theatreroyal.info
Fri 8 The Palais, Melbourne, Vic
Tickets from ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com.au or 136 100
Sat 9 Meeniyan Town Hall, Vic
Tickets from Lyrebird Arts Council: www.lyrebirdartscouncil.com.au or 03 5664 9239
Wed 13 Cairns Civic Centre, QLD
Tickets from venue: Florence & Sheridan Sts, Cairns or http://www.cairnscivictheatre.com.au/
or1300 855 835
Thu 14 Riverway Arts Centre, Townsville. QLD
Tickets from venue: Village Boulevard, Thuringowa Central
or www.tickets.com or 07 4727 9797
Fri 15 Mackay Entertainment Centre, QLD
Tickets from venue: Alfred St, Mackay
or www.mackayecc.com.au or 07 4961 9777
Sun 17 Pilbeam Theatre, Rockhampton, QLD
Tickets from venue: Victoria Pde, Rockhampton or www.pilbeamtheatre.com.au
or 07 4927 4111
Mon 18 Moncrieff Theatre, Bundaberg, QLD
Tickets from venue: 177 Bourbong St, Bundaberg or http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/moncrieff
or 07 4130 4100
Tue 19 Nambour Civic Centre, QLD
Tickets from venue: Centenary Sqr, Currie St, Nambour or www.nambourciviccentre.com.au
or 07 5475 7777
Thu 21 QPAC, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets from venue: Level 1, QPAC, Southbank
or www.qpac.com.au or 136 246
Fri 22 Stereo, Southport, QLD
Tickets from www.thestereo.com.au
Sat 23 Byron Centre, Byron Bay, NSW
Tickets from venue: 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay or www.byroncentre.com.au
Sun 24 Byron Centre, Byron Bay, NSW
Tickets from venue: 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay or www.byroncentre.com.au
Tue 26 Capitol Theatre, Tamworth, NSW
Tickets from Tourism Tamworth, Cnr Peel & Murray St, Tamworth or www.capitoltheatretamworth.com.au
or 02 6767 5300
Wed 27 Glasshouse, Pt Macquarie, NSW
Tickets from venue: Cnr Clarence & Hay St, Port Macquarie or www.glasshouse.org.au
or 02 6581 8888
Thu 28 Civic Theatre, Newcastle, NSW
Tickets from venue: 375 Hunter St, Newcastle or www.civictheatrenewcastle.com.au
or 02 4929 1977 or Ticketek: www.ticketek.com.au
Fri 29 Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW
Tickets from venue: 118 Enmore Rd, Enmore or www.enmoretheatre.com.au
or 02 9550 3666
Sat 30 Playhouse, Canberra, ACT
Tickets from venue: Civic Sqr, London Circuit, Canberra or 02 6275 2700 or www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au
Thu 4 Norwood Concert Hall, SA
Tickets from all BASS outlets or www.bass.net.au
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Fri 5 Astor, Perth, WA
Tickets from venue: Cnr Beaufort & Walcott Sts, Mt Lawley or 08 9370 1777
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Tickets from venue: Cnr Beaufort & Walcott Sts, Mt Lawley or 08 9370 1777
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Bernard Fanning offers up 'GROW AROUND YOU' lifted from his latest #1 album Departures. Berneard and his band will be stopping by the Fotty Show AFL Grand Final show on Thursday 26th September for a special televised headline-performance.
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According to the publication, readership growth has been explosive, and with it, subscriber demand for added coverage of news focusing on public transportation authorities, often referred to as "transits,"
In response, Fleet News Daily has introduced a new section, aptly named "Transit News," which is updated continuously throughout the day. As the publication notes, the topics are timely and directly impact the bottom line of virtually all transits across the U.S. and Canada. From sequestration to funding cuts, from natural gas exploration to propane applications, from new tax proposals to top management changes, from DOT decisions to extreme weather conditions, Fleet News Daily is proving to be the place where fleet and transit news rolls 24 x 7.
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OpenGL 4.3 Specification Released
Khronos Group releases a new version of the OpenGL specification for cross-language, multiplatform graphics development.
The Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL 4.3 specification. According to the announcement, OpenGL 4.3 maintains full backward compatibility and enables applications to use new features incrementally, while portably accessing state-of-the-art GPU functionality across diverse operating systems and platforms.
The OpenGL 4.3 specification contains many new features, including:
* Compute shaders that harness GPU parallelism for advanced computation.
* Shader storage buffer objects that enable vertex, tessellation, geometry, fragment, and compute shaders to read and write large amounts of data and pass significant data between shader stages.
* Texture parameter queries to discover actual supported texture parameter limits on the current platform.
* High-quality ETC2/EAC texture compression as a standard feature.
* Debug capability to receive debugging messages during application development.
* Increased memory security that guarantees an application cannot read or write outside its own buffers into another application's data.
The full OpenGL4.3 specification is available for immediate download.
Additionally, the Khronos Group announced the immediate release of the OpenGL ES 3.0 specification. According to the company, OpenGL ES 3.0 brings "significant functionality and portability enhancements to the industry-leading, royalty-free 3D graphics API that is used on the majority of the world's smartphones and tablets."
The full specification and reference materials for OpenGL ES 3.0 are now available for download.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
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The Linux New Media Awards have honored the most significant products, projects, people, and organizations for open source/Linux every year since 2000.
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There is a server run by the Windows team called scratch. Its purpose is to act as a file server for storing files temporarily. For example, if you want to send somebody a crash dump, you can copy it to the scratch server and send the person a link. The file server is never backed up and is not designed to be used as a permanent solution for anything.
The Windows team likes to use the server to test various file server features. For example, the scratch server uses hierarchical storage management and migrates files to tape relatively aggressively, so that the HSM development team can get real-world usage of their feature.
The file system team will occasionally wipe the hard drives on the server and reformat them with a new version of NTFS, so that they can put the new file system driver through its paces in a situation where it is under heavy load.
When these sort of "mass extinction events" takes place, you can count on somebody sending out email saying, "Hey, what happened to the sprocket degreaser? It was on \\scratch\temp\sprocket_degreaser, but now I can't find it. I have an automated test that relies on the sprocket degreaser as well as some data files on \\scratch\temp\foobar_test_data, and they're all gone!"
— Um, that's a scratch machine. Why would you put important stuff on it?
"Um, well..." (scratches forehead)
— Okay, well before we reformatted the hard drive, we copied the data to \\scratch2\save, so try looking there. But remember, the scratch server is for temporary file storage and comes with no service level agreement.
"Oh, phew, thanks."
You'd think that with the name scratch, people wouldn't expect it to be around for a long time. Maybe they could call it can_be_reformatted_at_any_time.
[Raymond is currently on his way to sunny Hawaii; this message was pre-recorded. Mahalo.]
Aaargh! wonders why Windows doesn't just steal the concept of bundles from Apple and package up each application with all its libraries and everything else it needs into a single directory.
This is such a great idea, it's been around since the early 1990's. It's just that Windows didn't give it a cute named like bundle. It just gave it the boring name directory. In other words, it's a victim of bad marketing. Maybe we should have given it a cute name like... elfgrass.
The first directory searched by the LoadLibrary function is the directory containing the application. If you put all your supporting libraries in the same directory as your EXE, and if you access non-library data via paths relative to your application directory, then then you have successfully packaged up your application with all its libraries and everything else it needs into a single directory. Congratulations, you pre-invented the bundle.
Indeed, Microsoft's guidance for over a decade has been to discourage copying files into the System32 directory.
If this facility has been around for nearly twenty years, why do people still copy files into the System32 directory?
Probably inertia. "We've always installed that way, and we're not changing it because we don't know what would stop working."
There may be some people concerned about disk space. "We have a bunch of applications which share some common libraries, and by putting the common libraries in a shared location (instead of in the application directory), we avoid wasting the user's disk space." Which raises the troublesome question: Is disk space still an issue nowadays?
Some people would say that no, disk space is no longer an issue. Hard drives are hundreds of gigabytes in size. Increasing the size of each application by a few dozen megabytes is just noise.
Other people would say that yes, disk space is still an issue. (Note how many people got excited when Snow Leopard took up less disk space.) Solid-state hard drives are still limited in size, and even for people with large hard drives, you see them freaking out about the disk space used by things like Windows Update, volume snapshot services, and System Restore. (Nevermind that at least for volume snapshots and System Restore, the disk space is automatically released when disk space starts to run low. It's like getting upset that the disk cache uses so much of your memory even though the computer is not under any memory pressure.)
Bonus reading: Disk space and Windows 7.
I always forget how to do this, so I'm going to write it down so I can look it up later.
When a video is playing, right-click the volume control slider and select Enhancements, then Play speed settings. (Actually, it also works if you right-click the speaker icon, the Stop button, the Replay button, or the Shuffle button, but the volume control slider is the biggest target.)
On the Play speed settings dialog, the single-step controls are at the bottom; they look like triangles.
Update: There's an even easier way.
A customer wanted to know whether there was a way to compress files and directories (in the sense of NTFS compression) from a script or from the command line. They knew about the Properties dialog, but they wanted something scriptable.
The command-line tool for this is COMPACT.EXE. Type compact /? for usage information.
compact /?
The customer liaison was grateful for this information.
Thanks for the prompt response, and yes, this will meet our customer's need to compress specific files such as *.docx under a particular directory and all its subdirectories.
Um, *.docx files are already compressed. Compressing them again gains you nothing.
Bonus reading: Functions for manipulating documents which follow the Open Package Conventions are available in both managed and unmanaged versions. Check out the Packaging Team Blog for more information, including a comparison of the managed and unmanaged versions.
For quite some time, Windows has had a setting officially called active window tracking but which informally goes by the name X-Mouse, because that was the name of the PowerToy which first exposed the feature. (The PowerToy was in turn so-named because it made the mouse behave in a manner similar to many X window managers.) The setting is exposed to end users in Windows 7 on Make the mouse easier to use under Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse.
If you want to write your own PowerToy to control this setting, you can do so by calling the SystemParametersInfo function. There are three settings which collectively control the X-Mouse feature:
Note that X-Mouse is a user preference. Applications should not change the setting without the user's permission.
A customer reported that the MessageBox function was wrapping text "at the wrong location."
Our program displays a message with the MessageBox function, and we use the '\n' character to force line breaks at positions we choose. But we've found that starting in Windows Vista, the line breaks we placed are not working. The MessageBox function is inserting its own line breaks, which interferes with our custom text layout. It used to be that the width of the message box would expand to fit the longest line in the message.
The MessageBox function is one of those "leave the driving to us" type of functions. You give it a string to display, select which buttons you want, and sit back and relax while the MessageBox function does the work. The trade-off for the simplicity is that you also lose control over the experience. The MessageBox function decides where to place the dialog and how big to make it, which in turn determines where the line breaks go.
The algorithm used by MessageBox to determine the size of the message box has changed many times over the lifetime of Windows. In Windows 3.1, it was the width of the longest line, or 5/8 of the width of the screen, whichever was smaller. Windows 95 chose the smallest of the following which resulted in a dialog box that fit inside the working area:
Notice that even in Windows XP, the dialog box was not guaranteed to be the width of the longest line. If the longest line was more than 5/8 of the width of the working area, the MessageBox is probably going to insert its own line breaks beyond ones you inserted explicitly.
Windows Vista changed the algorithm again, in recognition of two things. First, monitors are now much larger than they were in 1995. And second, the consequence of these larger monitors is that the 7/8 rule resulted in message boxes that were unreadable because they were 10 inches wide and half an inch tall. The old algorithm did not age well, but then again, it was written back in the days when the really cool kids had 1024×768 screens. Nowadays, even the kids from the wrong side of the tracks have screens that are regularly 1400 or even 1600 pixels wide.
The new algorithm merely adds another option to the table of choices:
Note that the details of the MessageBox line breaking algorithm are provided for historical purposes only. Do not write code which relies on them, because who knows, they may change again in the next version of Windows.
The algorithm was changed at the request of the visual design team; after all, it's the job of the visual design team to make these sorts of visual design decisions. If you don't want some black-turtleneck-wearing designer in Redmond to decide where your line breaks go, then don't use MessageBox. And you don't have to go and convert every single message box to its own dialog template; just write a function called MessageBoxWithLineBreaksExactlyWhereIPutThem function that takes the same parameters as MessageBox but lays out the text exactly the way you want it. (The DT_CALCRECT flag will be useful here.)
I'm stealing this story from one of my colleagues.
I remember one app from a long time ago that had a feature where you could hit a global short cut key (or something like that) to launch the dictionary. It was also smart in that it would detect the current selected text and immediately search the dictionary for that term. One day I was running a Perl script that took several hours to run. It was nearly done and for whatever I decided to launch the dictionary. It sent a Ctrl+C to my Perl script and killed it. And that's why you don't send Ctrl+C to arbitrary applications.
I remember one app from a long time ago that had a feature where you could hit a global short cut key (or something like that) to launch the dictionary. It was also smart in that it would detect the current selected text and immediately search the dictionary for that term.
One day I was running a Perl script that took several hours to run. It was nearly done and for whatever I decided to launch the dictionary. It sent a Ctrl+C to my Perl script and killed it.
And that's why you don't send Ctrl+C to arbitrary applications.
Active Accessibility gives you access to the text under the cursor. There's also a newer interface known as UI Automation which has a handy method called ITextProvider::GetSelection. (On the managed side, you have System.Windows.Automation.TextPattern.GetSelection.)
Update: Commenter parkrrrr points out the ITextProvider::GetSelection. is the provider-side interface. The interface for applications wishing to read the selected text is IUIAutomationTextPattern.
A customer wanted to prevent users from pinning their application to the taskbar.
I have an application that is launched as a helper by a main application. Users shouldn't be launching it directly, but rather should be launching the main application. But since the helper shows up in the taskbar, users may be tempted to right-click on the taskbar icon and select "Pin to taskbar." Unfortunately, this pins the helper program to the taskbar instead of the main application, and launching the helper program directly doesn't work. Is there a way I can prevent users from pinning the helper program?
It so happens that there are a number of ways of marking your helper program as Don't pin me. Given the description above, the most direct way is probably to set the System.AppUserModel.PreventPinning property on the window created by the helper program.
Take our scratch program and make the following changes:
#include <shellapi.h> #include <propsys.h> #include <propkey.h> HRESULT MarkWindowAsUnpinnable(HWND hwnd) { IPropertyStore *pps; HRESULT hr = SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow(hwnd, IID_PPV_ARGS(&pps)); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { PROPVARIANT var; var.vt = VT_BOOL; var.boolVal = VARIANT_TRUE; hr = pps->SetValue(PKEY_AppUserModel_PreventPinning, var); pps->Release(); } return hr; } BOOL OnCreate(HWND hwnd, LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs) { MarkWindowAsUnpinnable(hwnd); return TRUE; }
I set the PROPVARIANT manually instead of using InitPropVariantFromBoolean just to emphasize that the boolVal must be VARIANT_TRUE and not TRUE. In real life, I probably would have used InitPropVariantFromBoolean.
Run this program and observe that "Pin this program to taskbar" does not appear on the menu when you right-click on the taskbar button.
Even better would be to permit pinning, but set the System.AppUserModel.RelaunchCommand, .RelaunchDisplayNameResource and optionally .RelaunchIconResource properties so that if the user tries to pin the helper, it actually pins the main application.
Start with a new scratch program and make these changes:
#include <shellapi.h> #include <propsys.h> #include <propkey.h> #include <propvarutil.h> HRESULT IPropertyStore_SetValue(IPropertyStore *pps, REFPROPERTYKEY pkey, PCWSTR pszValue) { PROPVARIANT var; HRESULT hr = InitPropVariantFromString(pszValue, &var); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { hr = pps->SetValue(pkey, var); PropVariantClear(&var); } return hr; } BOOL OnCreate(HWND hwnd, LPCREATESTRUCT lpcs) { IPropertyStore *pps; HRESULT hr = SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow(hwnd, IID_PPV_ARGS(&pps)); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { IPropertyStore_SetValue(pps, PKEY_AppUserModel_ID, L"Contoso.Scratch"); IPropertyStore_SetValue(pps, PKEY_AppUserModel_RelaunchCommand, L"notepad.exe %windir%\\system.ini"); IPropertyStore_SetValue(pps, PKEY_AppUserModel_RelaunchDisplayNameResource, L"C:\\full\\path\\to\\scratch.exe,-1"); // optionally also set PKEY_AppUserModel_RelaunchIconResource pps->Release(); } return TRUE; } // resource file STRINGTABLE BEGIN 1 "Open system.ini" END
I'm pulling a fast one here and pretending that Notepad is my main application. Obviously you'd use your actual main application. (I'm also hard-coding the path to my scratch program.)
When you run this program, right-click on the taskbar button. Observe that the option to run a new copy of the program is called Open system.ini and if you pick it (or use the middle-mouse-button shortcut), Notepad runs. If you pin the program, the pinned icon runs Notepad.
Even if you don't need to redirect the pinned item to another program, you can use this second technique to pass a custom command line for the pinned icon.
Josh points out that Group Policy settings often employ double-negatives (and what's the difference between turning something off and not configuring it)?
Group Policy settings are unusual in that they are there to modify behavior that would continue to exist without them. They aren't part of the behavior but rather a follow-on. Suppose that the default behavior is to do XYZ automatically, but due to requests from corporate customers, a Group Policy is added to alter this behavior. The Group Policy for this might look like this:
Don't do XYZ automatically Enabled Disabled Not configured
Don't do XYZ automatically
Enabled Disabled Not configured
The template for boolean Group Policy settings is
Blah blah blah Enabled Disabled Not configured
Blah blah blah
Consequently, every boolean Group Policy setting is forced into the above format, even if the setting is reverse-sense, as our sample one is. In general, the three settings for a Group Policy mean
The difference between Disabled and Not configured is that when you disable a Group Policy, then you're saying "Restore default behavior." On the other hand, if you don't configure a Group Policy setting, then you're saying "I have no opinion about whether this Group Policy should be enabled or disabled, so keep looking, because there might be another Group Policy Object that does express an opinion."
Recall that multiple Group Policy Objects can apply to a specific user. For example, a typical user may be subject to a Local Group Policy, a Non-Administrator Local Group Policy, a series of other Group Policies depending on what security groups the user belongs to, and then a User-Specified Group Policy. You can use the Resultant Set of Policy snap-in to see how all these different Group Policy Objects interact.
The upshot of this is that Group Policy settings often end up using double negatives if the policy is to disable a default behavior. You "Enable" the setting to disable the default behavior, you "Disable" the setting to enable the default behavior, and you leave the setting "Not configured" if you want to let some other Group Policy Object decide. Even when there is a more clever way of wording the options to avoid the double negative, the people who write Group Policy descriptions are so used to double-negatives that it doesn't even occur to them that a particular setting setting permits an optimization. (Either that, or they figure that system administrators are so used to seeing double-negatives, that when it's not there, they get confused!)
A customer requested assistance with their shell namespace extension, and the request worked its way to me for resolution.
Unhandled exception at 0x76fab89c (shell32.dll) in explorer.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000. shell32.dll!CShellItem::_GetPropertyStoreWorker() + 0x44 bytes shell32.dll!CShellItem::GetPropertyStoreForKeys() + 0x38 bytes thumbcache.dll!CThumbnailCache::_GetMonikerDataFromShellItem() + 0x8b bytes thumbcache.dll!CThumbnailCache::GetThumbnail() + 0x11c bytes shell32.dll!CSetOperationCallback::_LookupThumbnail() + 0x8d bytes shell32.dll!CSetOperationCallback::_PrefetchCachedThumbnails() + 0xb6 bytes shell32.dll!CSetOperationCallback::OnNextBatch() + 0x4f bytes shell32.dll!CEnumTask::_PushBatchToView() + 0x68 bytes shell32.dll!CEnumTask::_IncrFillEnumToView() + 0x2ca5 bytes shell32.dll!CEnumTask::_IncrEnumFolder() + 0x8da5a bytes shell32.dll!CEnumTask::InternalResumeRT() + 0xa6 bytes shell32.dll!CRunnableTask::Run() + 0x92 bytes browseui.dll!CShellTask::TT_Run() + 0x2d bytes browseui.dll!CShellTaskThread::ThreadProc() + 0x87 bytes browseui.dll!CShellTaskThread::s_ThreadProc() + 0x21 bytes shlwapi.dll!_ExecuteWorkItemThreadProc@4() + 0xe bytes ntdll.dll!_RtlpTpWorkCallback@8() + 0xaa bytes ntdll.dll!_TppWorkerThread@4() + 0x274 bytes kernel32.dll!@BaseThreadInitThunk@12() + 0x12 bytes ntdll.dll!__RtlUserThreadStart@8() + 0x27 bytes
The customer was at a loss because the customer's code was nowhere on the stack. What is wrong?
The customer didn't provide a dump file or any other information beyond the stack trace. (Hint: When reporting a problem with a shell namespace extension, at least mention the last few method calls your namespace extension received before the crash.) I was forced to use my psychic powers to solve the problem. But you can, too. All the information you need is right there in front of you.
The shell faulted on a null pointer in the function CShellItem::_GetPropertyStoreWorker, which from its name is clearly a worker function which obtains the property store from a shell item.
At this point, you put on your thinking cap. Why is the shell taking a null pointer fault trying to retrieve the property store from a shell item? Remember that the problem is tied to a custom namespace extension.
My psychic powers tell me that the namespace extension returned S_OK from GetUIObjectOf(IPropertyStoreFactory) but set the output pointer to NULL.
(It turns out my psychic powers were weak without coffee, because the initial psychic diagnosis was GetUIObjecttOf(IPropertyStore) instead of IPropertyStoreFactory.)
As a general rule, if your function fails, then you should return a failure code, not a success code. There are exceptions to this rule, particular when OLE automation is involved, but it's a good rule to start with.
The customer reported that fixing their IShellFolder::BindToObject to return an error code when it failed fixed the problem. The customer then followed up with another crash, again providing startling little information.
Unhandled exception at 0x763cf7e7 (shell32.dll) in explorer.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x000a0d70. Call Stack: shell32.dll!CInfotipTask::InternalResumeRT() + 0x2e bytes shell32.dll!CRunnableTask::Run() + 0x92 bytes browseui.dll!CShellTask::TT_Run() + 0x2d bytes browseui.dll!CShellTaskThread::ThreadProc() + 0x87 bytes browseui.dll!CShellTaskThread::s_ThreadProc() + 0x21 bytes shlwapi.dll!_ExecuteWorkItemThreadProc@4() + 0xe bytes ntdll.dll!_RtlpTpWorkCallback@8() + 0xaa bytes ntdll.dll!_TppWorkerThread@4() + 0x274 bytes kernel32.dll!@BaseThreadInitThunk@12() + 0x12 bytes ntdll.dll!__RtlUserThreadStart@8() + 0x27 bytes
The customer reported that IQueryInfo::SetInfoTip is getting called. The customer liaison added, "Raymond, I'm looking forward to your psychic powers again."
Apparently, some people don't understand that psychic powers are not something you ask for. It's my way of scolding you for not providing enough information to make a quality diagnosis possible. You don't come back saying, "Hey, thanks for answering my question even though I did a crappy job of asking it. Here's another crappy question!"
I reported back that my psychic powers were growing weary from overuse, and that the customer might want to expend a little more time investigating the problem themselves. Especially since it has the same root cause as their previous problem.
[Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.]


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Dr. Stephen I. Goodman graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada in 1963. He works in Aurora, CO and specializes in Medical Genetics. Dr. Goodman is affiliated with University Of Colorado Health Memorial Hospital and Childrens Hospital Colorado. He speaks English and Spanish.
Gender: Male
Years in Practice: 52 Years
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Medical School: McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada
Graduation Date: 1963
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Optimized Data Security Protect your company's data with self-encrypting drives, Password Manager, and remote BIOS port lock capability. RapidBoot HDD AcceleratorStart your system 30 percent faster; spend your time working instead of waiting. Fast Data TransferMove data quickly between your PC and other devices with USB 3.0 SuperSpeed it's up to 10 times faster than previous USB technologies. Or share wirelessly with optional Bluetooth®. |
Optional WiDi Video Out Stream wirelessly to larger displays or televisions. Optional Discrete GraphicsEnjoy beautiful, lifelike visuals from your PC. Optional 10-Point Capacitive Multitouch TechnologyInput confidently with touches and gestures on an intuitive, responsive touchscreen. |
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Warranty provided by: Lenovo
Limited Warranty: 12 months parts; 12 months labor
Mfg Part No: 3414D3U
UPC No: 887456218346
Box Size: ( Length:20, Width:8, Depth:27)
Shipping Weight: 25.4500 pound(s)
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