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It's the last all-performance show of the season and it's only an hour long. Let's hit it.
Tom says they've been battling for a grueling nine weeks — feels so much longer doesn't it? This season has felt weird overall, with skipped weeks, non-eliminations, double eliminations.
The first round tonight will be "favorite" dances (aka re-runs!) and the second will be the "supersize" free-style, where they can bring in extra dancers to "enhance" the routine.
Kelly Monaco & Val Chmerkovskiy
Paso Doble
During rehearsal footage, Kelly notes that they made the finals without ever getting a 10. Val rightly points out that her fan base is strong. They're redoing the paso doble because Val feels like it was a "turning point" for Kelly. She says that if you're redoing a routine you don't want to "half-ass" it.
I have to say, one of the main reasons Kelly is the one I'm still rooting for is because of her pottymouth. Swear it up, girl.
I'm not sure, but it looks like they might've missed a hand hold at one point. It could've been a miss or a deliberate piece of "touch me not" choreography. I trust the judges will enlighten us.
Len starts by complimenting the band and musical director. Len says the paso was her best dance to date in Week 3 and her performance tonight is now her best of the season. Bruno talks about her performance covered "a slight mess-up with the hands." Ah, ha! So it was a mistake but they both did a good job covering it and not letting it rattle them for the rest of the routine.
Scores: Carrie Ann: 9.5; Len: 10; Bruno: 10
Carrie had warned them she'd ding them for the slip-up with the hands. Which is fair.
Melissa Rycroft & Tony Dovolani
Melissa and Tony have both overcome injuries, his back and her neck. They're redoing the samba they did in Week 3, because they scored really well on it, but only got three 9s, so there's room for improvement.
Bruno loved it. Carrie loves Melissa's abs. Len says they had great technique and great rhythm.
Scores: Carrie Ann: 9; Len: 9.5; Bruno: 9
Shawn Johnson & Derek Hough
Derek and Shawn are redoing their rule-breaking quickstep. And they're willing to do it again even if it means getting the same lower scores.
Derek says they're more interested in entertaining people than scoring points. YOU CAN DO BOTH, YOU ARROGANT JERK IN A DUMB HAT.
Carrie Ann says, "What can I say? I mean, it's a fan favorite, it's a fantastic routine. I'm sad that you didn't choose to follow the rules because at this point the points do matter. I'm going to give you ... it's pretty much exactly what I saw last time. I have to say I'm a little disappointed but I hope your risk pays off for you two."
Len agrees with Carrie saying that they did break hold and did do lifts and left him "nowhere to go." Bruno talks about how they've taken risks all season and the fact that the judges are bound by certain scoring conventions takes nothing away from their achievement.
Shawn and Derek both come from backgrounds that involve competitive subjective scoring. Shawn knew if she took an extra bounce — points off. Derek knew if he broke hold in a dance when you're not supposed to — points off.
It really galls me that they're both so arrogant to think that they can "game" the system by saying "Screw you, judges' scores, the fans will save us." If they do end up winning the whole thing tomorrow night I hope it encourages the judges to enforce the rules even more with low scores next season, especially when it's not a mistake but a deliberate breaking of the rules.
Shawn makes a point of saying in her interview that she respects the judges and the rules ("I've lived by that my whole life."), but she really wanted to do something for the fans and the audience and "just having fun." Then go on a show that doesn't have scoring. Bah.
Scores: Carrie Ann: 9; Len: 8.5; Bruno: 9.5


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Flat despite strong US data
Asian stock markets were mostly flat yesterday Friday September 30 as cautious traders were unimpressed by strong US growth data and news the German parliament had approved a crucial EU bailout package.
Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul closed flat, after German backing for a beefed-up rescue fund for debt-mired eurozone countries failed to soothe investor fears.
Tokyo stocks closed down 0.01 percent in directionless trade with the benchmark Nikkei 225 index losing 0.94 points to 8,700.29.
The broader Topix index of all first section shares lost 1.13 points to 761.17.
Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings both downgraded New Zealand's sovereign rating, citing the cost of earthquake recovery and the country's worsening external debt position. The New Zealand dollar fell sharply.
Yutaka Miura, senior technical analyst at Japan's Mizuho Securities, said the Nikkei's struggle to find direction may have been because Germany's bailout vote had already been priced in.
"Short-covering at the September month-end, which also coincides with the quarter's end, has been the main driver for the market's rebound in recent days," he said, adding that selling pressure may increase going into next week.
In cautious trade Australia's S&P/ASX 200 closed 0.01 percent higher with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 up just 0.3 points at 4,008.6.
South Korea's KOSPI Composite Index closed up a marginal 0.36 points at 1,769.65. Financial markets in both countries will be closed Monday for a public holiday.
HONG KONG: Shares fell 2.32 percent yesterday as traders remained cautious despite solid US growth data and German parliament approval of a crucial EU bailout package.
The benchmark Hang Seng Index lost 418.65 points to end at 17,592.41 on turnover of HK$90.44 billion.
Traders were unimpressed by news that the US economy had grown at 1.3 percent in the second quarter and German backing for a beefed-up rescue fund for debt-mired eurozone countries, analysts said.
SINGAPORE: The Straits Times Index slipped 1.2 percent to 2,675.16 at the close, extending this week's losses to 0.9 percent.
Among the most active stocks in the market, Cosco Corp Singapore dropped 1.1 percent to 93 Singapore cents and CapitaMalls Asia gained 1.7 percent to S$1.22.
Meanwhile, Koon Holdings, a construction company, surged 9.1 percent to 24 Singapore cents.
KUALA LUMPUR: After two weeks of sharp technical pullbacks, share prices on Bursa Malaysia rebounded over three of the five trading days during the week. The local market closed higher for the week ended yesterday.
The FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (FBM KLCI) posted a week-on-week gain of 21.19 points, or 1.55 percent. It stayed below its overhead resistance of 1,400 over the week.
In other markets:
* Taipei rose 42.77 points, or 0.6 percent, to 7,225.38. Smartphone maker HTC was up 0.88 percent at T$685.0 while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation was 0.43 percent lower at T$70.0
* Manila gained 122.02 points to 3,999.65. Top-traded Alliance Global Group climbed 3.09 percent to 9.35 pesos, while Philippine Long Distance Telephone added 1.76 percent to 2,198 pesos.
* Jakarta rose 11.85 points or 0.34 percent to 3,549.03.
* Mumbai slid 1.46 percent or 244.31 pointsto 16,453.76. The world's largest coal mining firm state-run Coal India fell 5.15 percent to 332.75 rupees while Sterlite Industries lost 4.05 percent at 113.8
EUROPE: European shares opened lower yesterday, on track to record their worst quarterly performance since late 2008, as markets grapple with slowing global growth and a long-running eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
At 0740 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European shares was down 0.5 percent at 928.41 points.
Meanwhile, London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares slid 1.04 percent to 5,143.29 points in late morning trade, Frankfurt's DAX 30 shed 1.74 percent to 5,539.79 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 1.03 percent to 2,996.05 points.
"European stocks have run out of steam and are following Asian stocks lower," said Kathleen Brooks, analyst at trading group Forex.com.
AMERICA: The worst quarter for the stock market since the financial crisis ended on another down note.
Stocks fell broadly Friday on fresh signs that Europe's debt problems and the U.S. economy continue to languish. Makers of raw materials, industrial companies and banks — which would have the most to lose if the economy turns sour — had the biggest losses.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 240.60 points, or 2.2 percent, to 10,913.38. Hewlett-Packard Co. fell the most of the 30 stocks in the average, 5.6 percent. Aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. was close behind with a 4.9 percent decline. JPMorgan Chase & Co. fell 4.1 percent.
The broader S&P 500 index shed 28.98, or 2.5 percent, to 1,131.42. All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 index fell.
The Nasdaq composite index fell 65.36, or 2.6 percent, to 2,415.40.
Markets have been wracked this summer by growing fears about a possible default by Greece and the increasing likelihood of a global recession. Uneven economic data have touched off sudden bouts of buying and selling. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq each lost more than 12 percent this quarter, the first time that's happened since the financial crisis crested at the end of 2008.
The S&P 500, the benchmark for most U.S. stock mutual funds, has lost 14.3 percent since July 1, the start of the third quarter. That's the biggest quarterly drop since the three months ended Dec. 31, 2008, when global financial markets seized up. Excluding that period, the S&P has not dropped that much in a quarter for nine years. The Dow dropped 1,500.96 points, or 12.1 percent, over the same time frame.
"The market has really seen some damage this quarter," said Mike Hurley, portfolio manager of Highland Trend Following Fund.
The weakness appears to be the start of a longer decline, Hurley said, because bonds are increasing in value and interest rates are low. Traders also are selling commodities such as oil, which would lose value in an economic downturn.
"Lower interest rates and commodity prices are definitely an indication that the market thinks economic activity is going to be weak," Hurley said.
Stocks in France, England and Germany fell on the latest signs of discord among European leaders. Germany and France proposed managing the region's shared currency through meetings of national leaders, rather than by centralized institutions. The head of the European Commission balked at the proposal.
Persistent squabbling over financial policy has been a major obstacle to achieving a lasting solution to Europe's debt crisis. France and Germany, the currency union's strongest economies, want countries to coordinate their spending and borrowing more closely. Other countries see that as a threat to their sovereignty.
Many European leaders and traders believe Greece will default in the coming weeks or months. Greece's lenders and neighbors are preparing as best they can to prevent that from causing a worldwide financial panic.
As a result, traders have reacted strongly to news and rumors out of Europe about how the crisis is being addressed. Markets gyrated wildly this summer in some of the most volatile trading on record. The Dow Jones industrial average swung more than 100 points in more than half of the trading days this quarter.
Traders also have made big moves in response to U.S. economic data, which has mostly suggested a slowdown. A recession in the U.S. looks increasingly likely, mainly because of Europe's struggles and signs of weakness in developing countries like China that have been driving global economic growth.
The government said Friday U.S. consumers spent slightly more in August, but earned less for the first time in nearly two years. That suggests that people are tapping their savings to pay for costlier gasoline and to offset lost wages. The savings rate fell to its lowest level since late 2009.
Micron Technology Inc. plunged 14 percent, the most of any company in the S&P 500 index, after the chipmaker disappointed investors with a quarterly loss. Analysts had expected a profit. Sales were hurt as the company transitions to selling a newer array of memory chips.
Ingersoll-Rand dove 13 percent after cutting its profit forecast for the third and fourth quarters. The machinery maker said North American sales of climate-control and security products have been weaker than expected.
Bank of America Corp lost 3.6 percent after Warren Buffett told Bloomberg Television that the bank's problems will take longer than a year to clean up.
Four stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was above average at 4.7 billion shares.
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Last week I spoke to WPF MVP Michael Latta about his experiences developing WPF applications. Michael is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry with experience on a number of different platforms including Java and Smalltalk. He is also a frequent contributor to the WPF forums. You can download the interview here [4.1 MB].
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A draft set of design guidelines for WPF has been published on the MSDN, to help developers and designers make appropriate design choices when creating user interfaces. In conjunction with the UX guidelines for Windows Vista this should help weilding the enormous power of WPF to create great UIs. The guidelines help developers/designers to consider their UI based on the type of application they intend to create: productiviy application, kiosk app, utility etc. Then it offers prescriptive advice per feature set of WPF detailing what is good, and what to avoid.
[via Andrew Stopford]
WPF's data binding facilities are extremely powerful - sometimes when using this power you may experience BamlParseException with an error message stating that the was a problem converting from a Binding object to some other type. A typical error message might look like this:
Error at element 'RuntimePropertyInfo' in markup file 'Window1.xaml' : Object of type 'System.Windows.Data.Binding' cannot be converted to type 'System.String'
This problem can be confusing at first because Elements with the same DataContext in your Xaml file may be able to bind to the same piece of data without any problems.
<Window.Resources> <XmlDataProvider x:Key="data" XPath="//item"> <x:XData> <items > <item val="foo"/><item val="bar" /> </items> </x:XData> </XmlDataProvider></Window.Resources><StackPanel> <!-- this works --> <TextBlock Text="{Binding
}" />
<!-- this does not --> <TextBlock> <Bold Text="{Binding
> </TextBlock>
If this is the case it can be indicative of a subtle problem not with the source of the data but with the property you're trying to bind the data to. WPF data binding makes use of the dependency property system built into WPF, and the eventual target of the {Binding} markup extension must be a dependency property. Dependency properties are not the same as CLR properties, which are a syntactic convenience which allows a pair of get and set methods for a member to be treated from a code perspective like a member field. Dependency properties on the other hand are objects of type DependencyProperty. Most of the UI-related properties of controls in WPF eventually call dependency properties internally, so it is easy to forget this rule.
It is not easy to know at a glance if a CLR property does indeed call a dependency property or not. The current WPF documentation does not explicity indicate this. The documentation does list the public fields of an object, which typically includes all the dependency properties as static fields. If the property you're trying to bind to does not have a static DependencyProperty member variable with the name of the CLR property, followed by 'Property' (e.g. TextProperty) then the CLR property is unlikely to be using the dependency property system underneath, and thus is not a suitable target for binding. Using Reflector to look inside the property getter and setter methods it is easy to spot the difference between the two.
CLR Property which calls a DependencyProperty (TextBlock.Text)
public string Text{ get { return (string) base.GetValue(TextBlock.TextProperty); } set { base.SetValue(TextBlock.TextProperty, value); }}
CLR Property which does not call a DependencyProperty (Bold.Text), which we cannot bind to.
public string Text{ get { return TextRangeBase.GetTextInternal(base.ContentStart, base.ContentEnd); } set { if (value == null) { value = string.Empty; } TextContainer container1 = base.TextContainer; container1.BeginChange(); try { TextPointer pointer1 = base.ContentStart; if (!base.IsEmpty) { container1.DeleteContentInternal(pointer1, base.ContentEnd); } Run run1 = Inline.CreateImplicitRun(this); pointer1.InsertTextElement(run1); run1.Text = value; } finally { container1.EndChange(); } }}
In some cases it is possible to work around this problem - if you are using data binding to keep two things synchronized and the other thing is a dependency property then swapping the source and target of the binding can solve this problem.
Robert Ingebretsen (WPF program manager) has released a version of his Simple Styles for the Feb CTP of WPF. The styles provide great examples of how to alter the appearance of the common WPF controls including
The styles are well-factored into a single Xaml file for each control type. If you're looking at writing custom styles for any of the built-in controls, or just want some simple and attractive styles to use in your application you should definitely use these as a starting point.
Professional WPF Programming : .NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation from Wrox Press is available for pre-order on Amazon. This title is co-authored by Scott Van Vliet, Shawn W. Livermore and Chris Andrade. The book will be around 650 pages and is due for release in early October 2006. None of the authors are notable figures in the WPF community, however by limiting the number of co-authors to 3 this book will hopefully not suffer from the weaknesses that plague other books in the series that are co-authored by dozens of authors and lack cohesion. The book description raises a number of other interesting questions - frequent mentions of ASP.NET and talk of "built-in server controls" and mention of "Ajax/Atlas" makes the book sound at best like a very web-centric view of WPF, and at worst fundamentally misguided about what WPF is really about. Hopefully the final book will be better written than the current description that appears on Amazon.
Occasionally when developing WPF applications you may experience an inexplicable error regarding duplicate keys in a ResourceDictionary. The wording for the error will be something like the following:
Error at element 'ResourceDictionary' in markup file 'Window1.xaml' : Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'MyItemKey' Key being added: 'MyItemKey'.
This is a perfectly valid error message if you are actually adding a second item to a dictionary with a key that has already been used. What makes this error confusing is that it can occur in simple applications when there are obviously no duplicates in the dictionary in question. The error occurs at run-time, but seems to be caused by some bug in the WPF build process. The problem can be worked around in a number of cumbersome ways such as re-naming the single resource in question, or copying files into a new project. The recommended way to solve this problem is to select 'Clean' from the build menu and then re-build your application. This problem has been noted in versions of WPF including the current Feb 2006 CTP. Hopefully this issue will be resolved as WPF approaches its final release.
Not all of your application's window is actually drawn by WPF - In order to integrate with the underlying operating system the border and title bar of WPF windows are still drawn in GDI like other windows. This means that some operations that can be performed on most elements in WPF (like LayoutTransforms and RenderTransforms) cannot be applied to the top-level window element. This also means the rendering of these areas cannot be customized in WPF in the way that normal elements can be using styles or templates. In order to create customized title bars for your windows you have to create a borderless window, and create a title bar yourself in Xaml.
This gets slightly more complicated on Windows Vista, where rendering of form borders and title bars is handled by the Desktop Windows Manager (DWM) which uses a component called MILCore (MIL stands for Media Integration Layer), which calls into DirectX. It turns out WPF uses this same graphics stack to render. WPF's PresentationCore calls into MILCore (which is unmanaged) which then calls into DirectX. While this implementation detail is interesting to know from a programming point of view the outcome is the same on Vista as XP and Windows 2003 - you can't change the appearance of the title bar or scale, skew or rotate your whole windows from WPF using transforms.
Another implication of this is controls on your WPF forms no longer have a window handle (hWnd), since they are not rendered by GDI. Unless you are hosting controls from Windows Forms or MFC the only hWnd in your typical WPF application will be the hWnd of the top-level window. This means UI automation and testing technologies that rely on hWnds to programmatically drive your UI will nolonger work. Fortunately WPF comes with its own UI automation API.
The other region of your WPF windows that will not actually be rendered by WPF are any controls from other presentation frameworks like WindowsForms or MFC that are being hosting inside an HwndHost - they are still rendered by GDI. This also means you can't scale, skew, translate or rotate them using transforms.
The godfather of Windows UI programming Charles Petzold has been writing a book on WPF programming for some time now. Fortunately the book is available now for pre-order from Amazon. The book will weigh in between 800 and 900 pages with approximately 36 chapters devided into 3 sections: Code, Markup and Applications (which ties back in nicely to the title). The contents of the book are detailed here, and you can read code samples from the book and details of topics covered on Charles' weblog. If previous books from the author are anything to go by this book should give in-depth coverage of the WPF platform. The book is scheduled to ship in Q3 or Q4 2006. Charles has been writing books on Windows UI programming since 1988, which saw his "Programming Windows 1st Edition", and its subsequent editions are considered the definitive works on Win32 UI programming.
WPF attempts to bring the best of rich-client technologies like Windows Forms, and layout techniques from the browser to give a high degree of flexibility when positioning elements on forms.
Rich client technologies like VB6 forms, Access Forms etc were based on absolute positioning. As a developer you specified the top and left values for a control to position it on the form. This allows for a fine degree of control, but often required a large amout of code to handle form re-sizing. This was an imperative approach to layout. Controls like Labels and Panels had no awareness of the size of the content inside them - for example if the content of a label was larger than what could be displayed in the label then the content is clipped, and not shown.
Web UI rendered in the browser typically require no re-sizing code. Instead HTML gives a declarative approach to the layout of elements. You specify a serise of containers like <div> elements (or <table>, <tr> and <td> elements if you haven't become convinced of the benefits of positional CSS-based layouts) and position those by either floating them Left or Right, or positioning them absolutely in your page. Elements like <div> are aware of the size of their contents and will stretch to accomodate their content.
Both these approaches could be equally difficult to achieve the desired layout, although the declarative approach had the advantage of requiring much less code to do so. Recently windows forms has added concepts like Docking and Anchoring, adding a more declarative approach to rich-client development. WPF continues this trend with a declarative approach to layout based on the concept of panels.
Most UI elements in WPF can only contain a single child element - for example the following Xaml code fails to compile with the following error: "The 'Button' object already has a child and cannot add 'CheckBox'. 'Button' can accept only one child."
Xaml Syntax (does not compile)<Button> <TextBlock>Some Text...</TextBlock> <CheckBox /> <ComboBox /></Button>
If the button allowed these two elements to be nested inside it it would be responsible for laying them out somehow. Since there are many possible ways these items could be layed out the button would have to become a much more complicated control to accomodate them all, and would now have two "responsibilities" - allowing the user to click on it, and laying out content. Not only would the button become much more complicated but all the controls in WPF would become more complicated. Instead of taking this approach the WPF team decided to factor out the responsibility for layout to a different control - the panels. There are a number of different types of panels in WPF and each enables a different kind of layout. Panels can be nested wherever regular content can be placed, allowing a fine degree of control over the layout of items. For example to correct the problem in the example above we could nest a StackPanel inside the button, and position the elements inside the StackPanel
<Button> <StackPanel> <TextBlock>Some Text...</TextBlock> <CheckBox /> <ComboBox /> </StackPanel></Button>
This give the following layout:
Having briefly introduced the important role panels play in controlling layout in WPF let's look at the most commonly used panel types and their characteristics.
The StackPanel lays out child elements by stacking them one after the other. Elements are "stacked" in the order they appear in the Xaml file (document order in XML terms). Items can either be stacked vertically (the default) or horizontally.
Xaml Syntax for Stacking Vertically (Feb 2006 CTP):<StackPanel> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Foreground="#58290A"> Items inside a StackPanel</TextBlock> <Button>Item 2</Button> <Border BorderBrush="#feca00" BorderThickness="2"> <TextBlock>Item 3</TextBlock> </Border></StackPanel>
Xaml Syntax for Stacking Horizontally (Feb 2006 CTP):<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Foreground="#58290A"> Items inside a StackPanel</TextBlock> <Button>Item 2</Button> <Border BorderBrush="#feca00" BorderThickness="2"> <TextBlock>Item 3</TextBlock> </Border></StackPanel>
The wrap panel lays out items from left to right. When a row of items has filled the horizontal space available to them the panel wraps the next item around onto the next line (in a similar way to how text is layed out).
Xaml Syntax (Feb 2006 CTP):<WrapPanel> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Foreground="#58290A"> Items inside a WrapPanel</TextBlock> <Button>Item 2</Button> <Border BorderBrush="#feca00" BorderThickness="2"> <TextBlock>Item 3</TextBlock> </Border></WrapPanel>
The DockPanel allows elements to be docked to the edges of the panel's container, similar to Windows Forms docking. Items are docked in the order they appear in the Xaml file (document order). The last Border element fills all the remaining space since no DockPanel.Dock attribute is specified for it.
Xaml Syntax (Feb 2006 CTP):<DockPanel> <TextBlock FontSize="16" DockPanel.Dock="Top" Foreground="#58290A"> Items inside a DockPanel</TextBlock> <Button DockPanel.Dock="Left">Item 2</Button> <Border BorderBrush="#feca00" BorderThickness="2"> <TextBlock>Item 3</TextBlock> </Border></DockPanel>
The Canvas panel is similar to the way old rich-client layout worked where you control the absolute position of things by setting a Top and Left property for them. Additionally, instead of setting the Left to position an item you can instead set the Right, or instead of setting the Top you can set the Bottom. If you specify a Left and a Right the Right value is ignored, the element does not change its size to make both these values correct, and similarly Top takes precedence over Bottom. Elements that are declared earlier in the Xaml file can appear behind elements that are declared later (if their positions over-lap).
Xaml Syntax (Feb 2006 CTP):<Canvas> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Canvas.Top="10" Canvas.Left="20" Foreground="#58290A"> Items inside a Canvas</TextBlock> <Button Canvas.Bottom="25" Canvas.Right="50">Item 2</Button> <Border BorderBrush="#feca00" BorderThickness="2" Canvas.Top="20" Canvas.Left="50"> <TextBlock>Item 3</TextBlock> </Border></Canvas>
The Grid panel is an extremely flexible panel, and can be used to achieve almost everything that can be done with the other panel controls (although often not with the same ease). The grid panel allows you to define rows and columns in the grid using Xaml, and then place controls in calls in the grid using grid-specific attributes. Elements can span multiple rows or columns. The grid will automatically make all its rows and columns the same size (based on the size of the content) but you can specify a proportional size for rows and columns using a star notation, or specify an absolute width or height. The star notation can be seen in the example code below where one of the columns is twice the width of the other column by setting the Width attribute to "2*". The example below also shows the height of one row being set to an absolute value. The differences these introduce can more readily be seen when re-sizing the form containing the grid, as the grid will expand by default to fill the space available to it. The example below also has the ShowGridLines attribute of the grid set to True to help you visualize the space each row and column is taking up. A broader range of layout tricks for the grid panel is beyond the scope of this introduction, but hopefully we'll be able to re-visit this soon in a future article.
Xaml Syntax (Feb 2006 CTP):<Grid Margin="10" ShowGridLines="True"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="2*" /> <ColumnDefinition /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition Height="25" /> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition Height="2*"/> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Foreground="#58290A" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" > Items inside a Grid</TextBlock> <Button Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1"> Item 2</Button> <Border BorderBrush="#feca00" BorderThickness="2" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="2"> <TextBlock>Item 3</TextBlock> </Border></Grid>
We can see from the different examples above that the different Panel controls not only influence the position of the elements they're laying out, but also their size.
Implementing a Custom Panel
The WPF layout system is not limited to the layouts that are included by default. If you need a special layout that can't easily be achieved with the built-in panels you can implement your own. WPF Program Manager Kevin Moore has implemented two custom panels - an animating tile panel and a TreeMapPanel . The source for these built with the February CTP (the most recent at the time of writing) is available here.
Defining something in a single place for re-use in multiple places is a common goal for developers. In UI frameworks like ASP.NET or windows forms re-using pieces of UI is typically done by creating user controls or custom controls. Unfortunately the places where you can easily use these is often limited. For example if you create a UserControl in ASP.NET to display an employee there is no easy way to re-use that control when displaying a list of customers in a combo box. WPF allows the display of business objects and other data to be templated like controls, and because of WPF's rich content model these data templates can be used in many different places.
Lets look at the steps we would go through to create a simple data template for displaying employee data. First lets assume that our employee type has the following public properties, all of which are strings:
We might wish to lay out our employee data as shown below: an image of the employee on the left followed by with the employee name, email address and other details layed out as shown.
In order to create the DataTemplate we'll first examine the regular Xaml to display the layout shown above statically (without any data binding) and then add a little data binding code to turn this into a DataTemplate we can use anywhere we want to show employees. The Xaml markup below creates the static layout we want, with appropriate text placeholders for the fields we'll eventually be exposing from the Employee object. To achieve this layout we used a Grid panel, one of the most flexible layout panels in WPF. We created a 3x3 grid of rows and columns by adding the appropriate <ColumnDefinition/> and <RowDefinition/> elements to the Grid. Then we add the actual placehoders to the Grid - TextBlock elements and a single Image element. We control the placement of these elements in the Grid by setting the Grid.Row and Grid.Column attributes. This notation in the form of ParentElement.PropertyName is called Property-Element syntax. This Xaml is actually setting properties on the parent Grid element, placing child elements in the appropriate rows and columns.
<Grid ShowGridLines="True" Background="Transparent"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="55" /> <ColumnDefinition /> <ColumnDefinition /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Image Width="50" Stretch="Uniform" Source="pack://application:,,/Media/head-male-sillouette.gif" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="2"/> <TextBlock FontSize="20" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Foreground="Orange" TextDecorations="Underline" Text="Data Bound: Name"/> <TextBlock FontSize="12" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Foreground="Blue" TextDecorations="Underline" Text="Data Bound: EmailAddress" /> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Margin="10,0,10,0" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0" Foreground="Black" Text="Data Bound: Title" /> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Margin="10,0,10,0" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="1" Foreground="Black" Text="Data Bound: Department" /> <TextBlock FontSize="12" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Row="2" Foreground="Black" Text="Data Bound: JobDescription (this one can span multiple columns)" TextWrapping="Wrap" /></Grid>
To Convert this Xaml into a DataTemplate, all that is required is to change the currently static TextBlock text to something bound to the employee object. This is done with the Binding markup extension {Binding Path=PropertyName}, using the name of the property you wish to mind to in the Path portion of the binding statement. The image source is also just a string, so we can bind the source of the image to that to. We also need to place our Xaml in a DataTemplate element and assign it a DataType. By placing the DataTemplate in the Application resource dictionary in MyApp.xaml we can use this template anywhere in our application we are binding to employee data. The finished data template is shown below. The text in orange shows the changes necessary to convert from static Xaml to the DataTemplate.
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type l:Employee}">
<Grid Background="Transparent"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="55" /> <ColumnDefinition /> <ColumnDefinition /> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Image Width="50" Stretch="Uniform" Source="{Binding Path=ImagePath}" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="2"/> <TextBlock FontSize="20" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" Foreground="Orange" TextDecorations="Underline" Text="{Binding Path=Name}"/> <TextBlock FontSize="12" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Foreground="Blue" TextDecorations="Underline" Text="{Binding Path=EmailAddress}" /> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Margin="10,0,10,0" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="0" Foreground="Black" Text="{Binding Path=Title}"/> <TextBlock FontSize="16" Margin="10,0,10,0" Grid.Column="2" Grid.Row="1" Foreground="Black" Text="{Binding Path=Department}"/> <TextBlock FontSize="12" Grid.Column="0" Grid.ColumnSpan="3" Grid.Row="2" Foreground="Black" Text="{Binding Path=JobDescription}" TextWrapping="Wrap" /> </Grid></DataTemplate>
We don't need to do anything special in our application to use the DataTemplate. Any time an element is bound to an employee, or list of employees the DataTemplate will be used. For this example we added an ObjectDataProvider to the Application resource dictionary (in MyApp.xaml) which returns a collection containing 4 employee objects. We then set it as the DataContext for all the items in our main window. Below is the Xaml for binding the contents of a button to a single employee, and for binding a ComboBox to the list of employees. You can download the full source for this sample here.
<StackPanel Margin="10" DataContext="{StaticResource Employees}"> ... <Button Content="{Binding Path=[0]}" /> <ComboBox ItemsSource="{Binding}" SelectedIndex="0" /> </StackPanel>


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Ever wonder how your favorite features from C#, VB.NET and F# get selected, implemented and finally reach your fingers? We did too and we found a great person to get the behind the scenes story from Building 41 in Redmond. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Luca Bolognese, former Group Program Manager at Microsoft, to discuss how the languages team decides which features to include in the .NET languages. We learn also what is coming in NET 4. Join us for this episode as we uncover some hints on what may be coming in the .NET future, something you don't want to miss!
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NAPLES - The clouds of bankruptcy have been lifted at Naples Bay Resort.
After a long and costly legal battle, Jack Antaramian has officially taken control of the project, at least most of it. He closed on the property late Monday, following a federal bankruptcy judge's February approval of a plan to keep the resort operating and to pay back its creditors. Under the plan, a Texas-based investor, EFO Financial Group, provided a $7.1 million loan to Antaramian to pull the resort out of bankruptcy.
"Clearly, being out of bankruptcy is very positive," he said.
It's not just a positive for him, but for the resort's more than 100 employees, who will keep their jobs, and for individual owners, especially those looking to sell.
"The instability that the bankruptcy has created now has been lifted," Antaramian said. "I think that real estate agents now can bring clients to Naples Bay and they will see there is real value, in the residences and in the hotel units."
Antaramian now owns 11 residences and 26 hotel units, along with 75 boat slips, at the 20-acre project, near Tin City in Naples.
The project has a total of 85 hotel rooms, 30 residences and 97 boat slips.
The bankruptcy excluded parts of the project such as the clubhouse and its promenade of shops. The club isn't owned by Antaramian and is still entangled in a foreclosure case pending in state court.
Antaramian isn't planning on putting any of the residences or hotel units he now controls on the market, at least not now. He doesn't want to compete with other owners who have struggled to sell with the project in legal and financial turmoil.
"I don't want to interfere right now," Antaramian said. "There are people who have been trying to sell their units for a while, and I think they should get the benefit of this."
He plans to move into one of the residences, which wasn't allowed while the bankruptcy case was pending.
He sees values rising at Naples Bay Resort, with the elimination of the bankruptcy.
"I'm told there is a hotel unit that is being sold right now for $699,000, and I think that the fact that bankruptcy is being lifted is very helpful," Antaramian said.
He will be looking for approval to rent out the residences weekly. They're furnished and come with hotel services.
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Jerry McHale, the court-appointed receiver who oversaw the resort's operations during the bankruptcy fight, said similar residences near Fifth Avenue South in downtown Naples are going for anywhere from $700 to $900 a square foot for the air-conditioned living space, as the housing market recovers and prices are getting back to where they should be. That bodes well for Naples Bay Resort.
"It's going to be great for us, certainly," he said, "and maybe helps the existing homeowners. It helps them realize the value that was there."
He was unable to sell any of the 11 residences during his receivership. "The problem is in a receivership you can't get a title company to write policies," McHale said.
He noted that March was one of the best months he's seen at the resort. That has to do with an improving economy and a growing recognition that the bankruptcy hasn't affected guests and that the bankruptcy is now over, McHale said.
"I feel real good," he said. "Things should be looking up from here. I'm just glad it's going to work out for the people that live down there and work down there."
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Born in Wolverhampton, England, Holland taught himself how to play stringed instruments, beginning at four on the ukulele, then graduating to guitar and later bass guitar. He quit school at the age of 15 to pursue his profession in a top 40 band, but soon gravitated to jazz. After seeing an issue of Down Beat where Ray Brown had won the critics' poll for best bass player, Holland went to a record store, and bought a couple of LPs featuring Brown backing pianist Oscar Peterson. He also bought two Leroy Vinnegar albums (Leroy Walks! and Leroy Walks Again) because the bassist was posed with his instrument on the cover. Within a week, Holland traded in his bass guitar for an acoustic bass and began practicing with the records. In addition to Brown and Vinnegar, Holland was drawn to the bassists Charles Mingus and Jimmy Garrison. After moving to London in 1964, Holland played acoustic bass in small venues and studied with James Edward Merrett, principal bassist of the Philharmonia Orchestra and, later, the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Merrett trained him to sight read and then recommended he apply to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Holland received a fulltime scholarship for the three-year program. At 20, Holland was keeping a busy schedule in school, studios and Ronnie Scott's, London's premier jazz club, where he often played in bands that supported such touring American jazz saxophonists as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Joe Henderson. He also linked up with other British jazz musicians, including guitarist John McLaughlin, saxophonist Evan Parker, reedsman John Surman, South Africa-born, London-based pianist Chris McGregor, and drummer John Stevens, and performed on the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's classic 1968 album Karyobin. He also began a working relationship with Canada-born, England-based trumpeter Kenny Wheeler that continues today.MORE LESS
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At the Canucks' season-ending press conference in May, Mike Gillis repeatedly emphasized the idea of a reset and stressed the need for youth. "We need to have a different look," he told reporters, "We need to get younger."
That message continued during the summer, as Gillis reiterated, "I want to have opportunities for young players on this team."
Now, after a busy weekend, those opportunities have disappeared. None of the Canucks' highly-touted young prospects will be on the ice in San Jose as the Canucks face the Sharks to open the season. In fact, only two players under the age of 25 is expected to be in the lineup: Chris Tanev and new acquisition Zac Dalpe. For Canucks fans excited to see homegrown prospects make the team, the Canucks' current roster has to be a disappointment.Continue Reading —›
For some reason, Canucks fans have been exceedingly worried about Chris Tanev this off-season. The number of tweets and e-mails that I've received asking about Tanev is mind-boggling, particularly considering he has only played one full season with the Canucks and it happened to be one shortened by a lockout. Tanev is certainly a good young player, but he's not worth all the fuss and bother that has been raised over the past month.
The concern is particularly overblown when you consider that Tanev doesn't have arbitration rights and therefore has minimal leverage in contract negotiations. The Canucks will re-sign the cool, calm, and collected defenceman eventually — it'll just take time to sort out the particulars.
Meanwhile, as Canucks fans eagerly await a new contract for Tanev, Mike Gillis has quietly gone about re-signing a quartet of other restricted free agents to new deals.Continue Reading —›
If the Vancouver Canucks' plan was to quell the surge of negativity that began to surround Roberto Luongo after 2011, and somehow redirect public opinion squarely back into his corner, then the events of Sunday afternoon were the final, remarkable moments in one of the most brilliantly orchestrated long cons in the history of the game.
When the Canucks' goaltending disaster finally saw its coup de grace and it turned out to be not Luongo on the way out but Cory Schneider getting an Amtrak ticket to Newark, nearly everyone in Vancouver saw Luongo as the pitiable victim of a raw deal.
That he completely is. And considering the last two years have been a raw deal borne of another raw deal — his contract — this thing is three raw deals deep. That's a raw deal with a capital R, like The Score's broadcast contract with the WWE.Continue Reading —›
With all that nonsense about the Stanley Cup done and over with, hockey fans can turn their focus entirely to the entry draft, which will be happening in its entirety on Sunday, June 30th. Pass it to Bulis will be all over the draft from a Canucks perspective, from both myself "in studio" and Harrison, who will actually be in New Jersey providing on the ground coverage.
I'm assuming that means he'll be spending most of his time actually lying on the ground, listening for Luongo trade rumours being broadcast by the reptilian Mahars that dwell within the hollow earth.
The draft is usually more exciting for those teams picking near the top, particularly this year, where potential franchise players like Seth Jones, Nathan McKinnon, and Jonathan Drouin are expected to be the top-three picks. The Canucks, both fortunately and unfortunately, have picked late in the first round for quite some time due to their regular season success.
So what can we expect from the the Canucks this year? To find out, I took a look at the common factors in every draft since Mike Gillis was hired. While Gillis has adjusted his drafting strategy over time, there are definitely certain patterns and tendencies that give us a pretty good idea of what to expect come Sunday.Continue Reading —›
In New York City, Alain Vigneault is being touted as an upgrade over John Tortorella. This, in itself, isn't a surprise. After all, Tortorella's abrasive style had worn out its welcome in the Big Apple, particularly with the media, and Vigneault comes with some impressive credentials to his name.
What is surprising, however, is that one of the big reasons he's being touted as an upgrade is because he's an offensive coach. In fact, Glen Sather specifically said that Vigneault "loves the offensive game" in the press conference introducing the new head coach. That will come as a shock to Vigneault's biggest detractors in Vancouver, who bemoaned his tendency to lapse into boring, defensive hockey at the drop of a hat.
Meanwhile, the coach for whom Sather considers Vigneault an offensive upgrade is on his way to Vancouver to coach the Vancouver Canucks.Continue Reading —›
Oilers' General Manager Craig MacTavish originally went out shopping for an associate coach — a little first anniversary present for his man, Ralph Krueger. But, like a husband walking the mall in search of a gift for the wife, only to find himself drawn less to the jewelry stores and more to the family law offices on the second floor, MacTavish soon realized that what he really wanted was a divorce.
And so he fired up his Skype account and he fired Krueger in a flash. (It was a more fitting gift anyway. The first anniversary is the paper anniversary, so walking papers are more in line with the hierarchy than a shiny new associate.)
Now coachless, MacTavish did what any newly single man would do: he hit the market hard. Having keyed Dallas Eakins as his next target, and not long after hearing that Eakins had gone in for a second interview with the Vancouver Canucks and they might soon be getting serious, MacTavish sprung into action, got Eakins in the room, and made his best pitch.
When he left the room, Eakins was his. The next time Mike Gillis logged into Facebook, he saw that Eakins had changed his status to "in a relationship", and then Eakins wouldn't return any of his text messages, it was horrible.
Or something like that. In any case, if the Canucks were interested in Dallas Eakins to replace the recently-dismissed Alain Vigneault, he's off the market. And now they have to look elsewhere.Continue Reading —›
Earlier this morning, Harrison asked just how long Mike Gillis was going to drag out the decision on what to do with Alain Vigneault. Apparently the answer was "this long." Louis Jean from Quebec outlet TVA reports that Vigneault, along with associate coach Rick Bowness and assistant Newell Brown, has been fired by the Canucks.
I, for one, am shocked.Continue Reading —›
If you wanted to hear that Mike Gillis was going to blow up the Canucks' roster and mass-fire the coaching staff during his press conference last Thursday, you were likely gravely disappointed. Gillis has never been one to make a hasty, emotional decision and he was disconcertingly calm as he answered questions about the Canucks' disappointing season and the unceremonious four-game sweep that ended it.
Gillis stayed away from drastic words like "rebuild" and instead pushed the far less dramatic "reset" repeatedly. Which is silly, because everyone knows you only need to push reset once. Pushing it repeatedly is pointless. Besides, sometimes you have to take the cartridge out and blow on it before it will work properly.
"Five years ago, we came in here and reset this organization, and it's time to do it again," said Gillis, referring to 2008, when he was first hired to be the General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks.
Looking at what Gillis did then may help us know what to expect during the coming off-season. How much of a "reset" did Gillis institute when he joined the organization?Continue Reading —›
It's officially the offseason for the Canucks, who crashed out of the playoffs in a four-game sweep at the hands of the San Jose Sharks. It was decidedly not awesome.
On the bright side, the rough end means that Gillis's year-end press conference will be a little more heated than, say, if the Canucks had won 1) the Stanley Cup or 2) one game. Watch the fireworks here, and chat along with us below.Continue Reading —›
The real story of the trade deadline was the trades that weren't made, particularly when it came to two big-name goaltenders in the Northwest Division. Both Miikka Kiprusoff and Roberto Luongo were rumoured to be heading to the Toronto Maple Leafs at various points throughout the day. Neither did.
The attitudes of the two goaltenders as rumours swirled couldn't have been more different. Kiprusoff simply didn't want to be traded. He might even retire in the off-season. Luongo clearly wanted nothing more than to be traded so that he could start playing hockey again, leading to one of the most honest and blunt press conferences in recent memory.
So why, exactly, didn't Luongo get traded? Luongo himself seemed to think that it was because of his contract, while Mike Gillis said it wasn't a stumbling block and that discussions have centred around picks and players. Exactly what picks and players is unclear, though one particular rumour quickly spread after the trade deadline had passed. Darren Dreger initially reported that the Canucks were looking to acquire Ben Scrivens and two second round draft picks in return for Roberto Luongo, a report that was echoed by Pierre LeBrun, Jason Botchford, and Kevin McGran, among others.
Dreger appeared on TSN 1050 on Monday, however, and threw a big ol' wrench into the works, apparently revealing what the Canucks were originally seeking in a trade with the Leafs and throwing his original report into doubt in the process.Continue Reading —›
Roberto Luongo's press conference on Wednesday was fascinating, yielding the delightful, and sure to be misinterpreted, soundbite "My contract sucks." But the more interesting aspect for me came later in the press conference, when he was asked whether he could have made it easier for the Canucks to trade him.
Luongo flatly denied that he was ever asked to waive his no trade clause and never vetoed any trades, contradicting rumours and reports that have been floating around since the 2012 draft that the Canucks had a deal in place with the Maple Leafs, only to have it scuttled by Luongo exercising his contractual right to scuttle it.
It also seemed to contradict what Mike Gillis had to say about 20 minutes later. A closer look at what the two of them actually said and in what context, however, should clear up the contradictions.Continue Reading —›
It wasn't a terrible NHL trade deadline for the Canucks. After all, they acquired Derek Roy, a skilled player that adds a very important element to their attack: a centre. They really haven't had one of those all season.
Still, the 2013 trade deadline won't be remembered in this city for what Mike Gillis did — it will be remembered for what he didn't do. A big part of that is because he acquired Roy the day before the deadline, which is like giving a child a present on Christmas Eve. It's exciting, but there had damn well better be something else under the tree on Christmas. But a bigger part is because Roberto Luongo wasn't traded, leading to the the most indelible moment of the deadline, when Luongo told the world he had a sucky contract. That'll stay with us, just like Luongo will.
All of this in mind, let's take a look at the winners and losers of the deadline from a Vancouver perspective.Continue Reading —›
For a few brief, merciful days, all the talk of a Roberto Luongo trade in the media had been replaced by talk of a goalie controversy in Vancouver. We complained about the hype, questioned what would actually constitute a goalie controversy, and scoffed at how Alain Vigneault giving a world-class goaltender consecutive starts while he's on a hot streak could even be called controversial.
But really, it was a relief.
For once, we could stop the endless speculation about potential Luongo trade destinations, returns, and whether he would even get traded at all. Instead, we could focus on a rather pleasant problem: which of the Canucks' two fantastic goaltenders should start each game?
Unfortunately, it couldn't last. Eventually the rumour mill would start up again; this time around, it was kicked into gear by a visit by Mike Gillis and Laurence Gilman to the Verizon Center for a game between the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins. This, of course, immediately led to speculation from every corner of the media landscape that the Canucks were working on a trade with the Capitals, with Luongo the centrepiece. That included Sports Illustrated, who need to pay closer attention to their photo captions.Continue Reading —›
It went unnoticed by almost everybody, what with actual hockey being played all weekend, but for a brief moment, all was quiet on the Luongo trade front. It began the moment Tyler Bozak and Nazem Kadri scored a goal each in the Leafs' opener and Canuck fans did the math, realized both were on pace for 48-goal seasons, and deduced that Toronto would never trade them now.
Suddenly, all that Funny Bob-to-Toronto chatter went silent. And then the Canucks crapped the bed, so there were more pressing things to speculate about, like whether Roberto Luongo should start the game he was always scheduled to start.
But on Monday night, the Luongo trade frenzy picked right back up when, in an interview with Cam Cole of Pass it to Bulis (and sometimes the Vancouver Sun), Mike Gillis suggested that the team was making some progress in bringing this saga to a close.
"We have a potential deal in place with one team that has to do something with another player that they have — and it's not who anybody thinks it is — and so we have to wait," Gillis said.Continue Reading —›
The long awaited, much-ballyhooed meeting between Mike Gillis and the Aquilini Ownership group has taken place, and we have news to report: the Canucks' General Manager has emerged from this meeting … still the Canucks General Manager.
The team announced Monday that Gillis's contract as president and GM of Canucks Sports and Entertainment has been extended, although the duration of the new contract was not announced.
(This leaves the door wide open for endless speculation over the term. Is it a two-year extension? If it a 50-year extension!? There's simply no way of knowing.)
I don't have much to say about Gillis's extension by itself. I've gone on record many times as saying I like the guy, so I'm happy to see him remain in charge. He's made some mistakes in his time — with two years to evaluate it, we can safely say the Keith Ballard trade has been a bust, and the David Backes/Steve Bernier offer sheet scenario was a bit of a fiasco, in retrospect — but I like the way he runs the team overall, from the emphasis on advanced stats and other metrics, to the way the team manages the cap, to the way he and his assistants are always scheming bend the rules of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.Continue Reading —›
The NHL's General Managers recently wrapped up three days worth of meetings in Boca Raton, Florida, at which rule changes and other innovations to improve the game were suggested. Here at PITB, we were a little surprised to hear about Mike Gillis's proposal, an initiative to outlaw hand-passing in the defensive zone.
It makes sense when you think about it, but the fact that the suggestion came from Mike Gillis, General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks, was strange. If anyone in the NHL was to suffer from this rule, it would be defensive specialist Manny Malhotra, who wins a great deal of faceoffs in his own zone by way of the hand pass. Why was Mike Gillis trying to spoil Manny Malhotra's party?
As it turns out, it wasn't solely about Malhotra. Gillis was trying to bring down the entire Canucks' system from the inside — to bury his group in a sea of red tape and rule changes. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. But, considering Gillis continues to employ Alain Vigneault, despite the Canucks having only the second-best record in the Western Conference, it's obvious he's setting this group up to fail.
And now we have further proof. PITB has produced a very real, super authentic and totally not made up at all transcript of Gillis's time on the floor, and Canuck fans should be thanking their lucky stars that most of these ideas were vetoed outright. What follows are 11 alarming excerpts from Mike Gillis's speech:Continue Reading —›
Manny Malhotra has been much-maligned for his play this season. The defensively-minded centre is on pace for his lowest point total since 2002-03 and has been relegated to a fourth line role, drawing criticism over what some feel is a deserved demotion. Personally, I feel that the criticism ignores the unique role that Malhotra plays in the Canucks lineup. As Thomas Drance suggested, Manny Malhotra is the Penny to the Sedins' Inspector Gadget: he plays the tough minutes so other Canucks don't have to.
What everyone can agree on, however, is that Malhotra remains a faceoff wizard. Now, it seems, Mike Gillis wants to take even that away from him.Continue Reading —›
If your main source of Canucks news is Pass it to Bulis, you're probably under the impression that the Canucks are incredibly witty, clever, and fond of silly jokes. After all, the Canucks give silly animal nicknames to each other, photoshop each other naked, and ruin each others' interviews. Meanwhile, Kevin Bieksa is one of the best quotes in the NHL and Keith Ballard has unparalleled self-deprecating dry wit, and Roberto Luongo is surprisingly willing to joke around.
Since Alex Burrows and Maxim Lapierre are two of the best chirpers on the team, it would be completely understandable if you thought that all French Canadians are great at chirping. Unfortunately, Alain Vigneault proved that wrong.Continue Reading —›
One of the reasons NHL teams sign veteran players to Professional Tryout Offers (PTOs) is to give an unsigned free agent a chance to make the team, but this is not the only reason. For Mike Gillis, it's likely not even the primary reason. Coming off the shortest off-season in team history, Gillis and Vigneault clearly had no interest in icing a lineup in either Calgary or Vancouver last night that bore any resemblance to the actual Canucks.Continue Reading —›
Some actual player personnel news in Canuckistan today, as the club announced the signing of Victor Oreskovich to a one-year, two-way contract worth $605,000 in the NHL and $105,000 in the AHL. Oreskovich was the last remaining free agent from the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks.
Oreskovich, an RFA, received his qualifying offer at the end of June, at the same time as fellow RFAs Maxim Lapierre and Jannik Hansen. Lapierre re-signed immediately, and Hansen re-signed just one month later, but negotiations with the Oreskovich camp lasted the entire summer. Clearly, Oreskovich wanted a one-way deal and held out until just a week before the start of training camp in hopes of getting one. That he didn't means this is a clear win for Mike Gillis.Continue Reading —›
Here's an unfortunate incident that will likely cause you to shake your head: the Toronto Star has come under fire for an unfortunate error in their August 16 report on the passing of Rick Rypien in which they misquoted Gillis referring to Rypien — whose struggles with mental illness are now coming to light — as "crazy".Continue Reading —›
Canucks news comes fast and furious, and sometimes we find ourselves playing catchup. Thankfully, the Dreaded Two Goal Lead–often called "the worst lead in hockey"–is super easy to come back from. Everybody knows it's a guaranteed death sentence for those that hold it. Well, much like an ice hockey team coming from two goals down, PITB will now effortlessly catch up.Continue Reading —›
The NHL Awards are tonight and it's an exciting time for Canucks fans as Daniel Sedin, Ryan Kesler, Roberto Luongo, Alain Vigneault, and Mike Gillis are all up for awards. It's a fun time when all the hockey players dress up in fancy suits and take awkward red carpet photographs. Personally, I'd love to tune in and enjoy the show, but since Jay Mohr is hosting it, I won't. I won't enjoy it, so I won't tune in. I know I will just get angry that they brought back the painfully unfunny Mohr for a second time hosting, when it appears that he doesn't know anything about hockey. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy (actually, I'm not sure of that at all, but I'll assume), but it's awkward hearing someone tell jokes about hockey when it seems like he doesn't actually understand the jokes. Also, he's terrible.
Did they ask anyone else to do it? Could they not think of anyone else to ask? Because I can think of a few people who would be better than Jay Mohr. Here are 10 better options:Continue Reading —›
When Mike Gillis was hired as the general manager of the Vancouver Canucks, he immediately expressed an agenda to build a organization with integrity and character throughout. He worked to change the culture inside the dressing room, seeking players with positive reputations and a commitment to community-building. Outside the dressing room, he did the same, stressing an organization that valued its players, and recognized and honoured the division between hockey and personal life. There is no greater example of this than the case of Manny Malhotra, whose devastating eye injury and subsequent recovery has been perfectly handled by the Canucks organization.Continue Reading —›
Almost every playoff-bound team makes minor moves and trades throughout the season, with the most significant usually made in the time leading up to the trade deadline. Each time looks to add that one missing piece that will push the team over the top. Each of the four teams remaining in the Stanley Cup playoffs made some significant mid-season moves that have helped carry the team to this point in the playoffs, but which GM improved their team the most?Continue Reading —›


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Editor's Note: Press Staff Writer Becky Campbell is reporting live from attempted murder trial for three people accused of running down a Washington County sheriff's deputy more than a year ago. Follow her on Twitter @CampbellinCourt.
4:55 p.m. - court will adjourn for the day; testimony will resume Tuesday morning.
4:55 p.m.- Paramedics had to forcibly rotate the arm down to be able to treat him, get him into ambulance.
4:50 p.m. - EMS paramedic who responded to scene on stand now; said Daugherty had open compound fracture on arm, which was lying in unnatural position.
4:33 p.m. - Prosecutors show the video from Cross' cruiser to jury; video clearly shows Daugherty get hit, fly through air and land several feet away.
4:30 p.m. - Cross' cruiser had video running during the pursuit and it recorded Daugherty get hit; Daugherty had been attempting to throw out a spike strip when he got hit.
4:27 p.m. - Testimony has been slow; Deputy Lee Cross on stand now; he was pursuing Stephens' car, said it was passing other vehicles, top speed of 72 mph; Cross saw Daugherty get hit.
3:23 p.m. - Attorney Gene Scott pressed McElyea and Hylmon hard, especially about drugs being in the house and being sold there. Both denied that.
3:20 p.m. - Hylmon said Smith put the gun "right against my forehead. I said please don't shoot me.'
3:18 p.m. - Next witness is Daniel Hylmon; he's the one who answered the door when Smith arrived; he and McElyea denied knowing Smith and Stephens; he said he never saw drugs sold at that house.
3:02 p.m. - Redirect from Ken Baldwin, reiterates who came to house, who was in the red Cavilier; McElyea couldn't identify the two in the car but knew one was a woman.
3:00 p.m. - Scott got McElyea in a lie, asked him if he's ever possessed any drugs other than marijuana, McElyea said no, but he'd pleaded guilty in 2011 to possession of cocaine.
2:58 p.m. - On cross examination by Gene Scott, McElyea admits knowing about an incident at his trailer sometime prior to the Jan. 2, 2012 incident in which a friend was "robbed" of drugs by Stephens.
2:56 p.m. - Eric McElyea is first witness; he's testified Smith came to his house, asked to use phone then pulled a gun and demanded money and drugs; McElyea said there were no drugs there, Smith left without anything.
2:50 p.m. - Lots of technical problems with Internet access in the courtroom today; updates may be sporadic.
2:34 p.m. - Scott says it was Stephens who knew where to go get the pot, but that he couldn't go in because he had gotten pot there before but not paid for it.
2:33 p.m.- Attorney Gene Scott says case has been hard on everyone, but hardest on Gary Daugherty. "He was out there doing his job and he got run over."
2:30 p.m. - Fabus said the video, in his opinion, shows his client was trying to avoid the spike strips and the officer; says the officers lost balance, took three steps back into car.
2:29 p.m. - Fabus said his client is "absolutely guilty of" assaulting Daugherty, but not of planning to kill him.
2:27 p.m. - Stephens got scared when police got after him, that's why he fled.
2:26 p.m. - Fabus says Stephens had no knowledge of a robbery, no knowledge of a gun.
2:25 p.m. - Defense attorney Jerry Fabus; reminds jury they won't like his client; said Stephens and McGraw were home that day, Jan. 2, 2012 when Smith came over and asked if they had marijuana; they didn't but said they knew where they could get some.
2:24 p.m. - Defense attorney Debbie Lonon tells panel to remember to listen to all the proof, that her client was just there, didn't participate.
2:20 p.m. - Baldwin tells jury that 13 days later, an intoxicated inmate was put in same cell with Stephens, who with out anyone asking said" (Expletive) the police. That's why I ran over one of them."
2:17 p.m . - Car kept going after hitting Daugherty; eventually wrecked, Stephens and Smith end up surrendering; McGraw runs, Baldwin says "think about mere presence," as defense has claimed.
2:20 p.m. - Baldwin says Daugherty was "hurt bad, bones sticking out of his skin...he didn't come back to work for over a year."
2:15 p.m. - Assist. District Attorney Ken Baldwin gives state's opening statements; tells the story of attempted robbery on Sand Valley Road Jan 2, 2012, high speed chase, how Deputy Gary Daughterty was putting out spike strips when he got hit.
12:20 p.m. - Jury selected, now attorneys will choose two alternates.
12:10 p.m. - Selection still going; been through several who have conflicts with being here this week;
11:51 a.m. - Next juror called said she has opinion that would require proof to change it; she's excused; next juror hasn't read or heard about it, but he's excused for child care issues.
11:50 a.m. - Third round of challenges by attorneys; 1 booted - it's the local defense attorney who was called for jury duty; one called to box, but he's excused because of opinion he's formed. He was doing an internship at the sheriff's office when the incident happened.
11:45 a.m.- Questioning continues; one jury released because she's formed opinion, another for doctor's appt.
11:30 a.m. - Second round of challenges; 3 excused, 3 more to box.
10:50 a.m. - Questions for 3 new jurors called to box; Fabus tells panel Stephens will plead guilty to two of his charges, doesn't say which ones. He is charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted aggravated robbery, reckless endangerment, evading arrest and leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries.
10:35 a.m. - Blackwood takes short recess;
10:34 a.m.- Attorneys present first round of challenges to jurors in box; 3 excused.
10:23 a.m. - Gene Scott is last to ask questions; asks panel if they will treat Smith any different because he's African American.
10:22 a.m. - Fabus asks panel to not convict Stephens just because he was there, to make sure state proves all elements of crime.
10:18 a.m. - Attorney Jerry Fabus now talking to jury; he represents Stephens, who was driving the car. "You will not like my client," he tells panel.
10:12 a.m. - Lonon tells panel they'll see the video of Daugherty getting hit, they must set aside emotion of that during deliberations.
10:10 a.m. - Lonon asks jury if they can look at what each defendant knew about what the other was doing; prior to the car hitting Daughterty, her client, McGraw, was yelling for Stephens to stop the car;
10:05 a.m. - At this point, one of the potential jurors is a prominent attorney in the area; I can't identify him; doubt he'll end up on final panel.
10:03 a.m. - Atty Debbie Lonon talks to jury about burden of proof, presumption of innocence. All three defendants are presumed innocent at this point, state must prove charges beyond reasonable doubt.
10:00 a.m. - Attorneys are conducting voire dire, the time when they get to ask potential jurors all kinds of questions about their experiences that may or may not affect their serving.
9:46 a.m. — Smith is the one accused of robbery while Stephens ,McGraw waited in car; Stephens was driving when car hit deputy as they fled.
Asst. District Attorney Ken Baldwin begins state's voire dire; talks about criminal responsibility, an issue in case.
9:45 a.m. — 8 jurors have knowledge of case; only one said formed opinion, couldn't change.
9:27 a.m. — 12 potential jurors in box for voire dire, or jury questioning; Blackwood's asks who has read or heard about case
9:24 a.m. — Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood presiding; Gene Scott represents Smith, Jerry Fabus represents Stephens; Debbie Lonon represents McGraw.
9:22 a.m. — 1/2/12 incident that started with a robbery, led to a police pursuit and ended with Deputy Gary Daugherty being hit.
9:18 a.m. — Dalvin Stephens,Reginald Dewayne Smith, Ashley Nicole McGraw, charged with attempt1st degree murder, attempt robbery.
9:15 a.m. — Two jury panels have been called in for jury selection, which just started.
Dalvin Stephens, 20; Reginald Dewayne Smith, 43; and Ashley Nicole McGraw, 19, all of Johnson City, are charged with attempted first-degree murder and attempted aggravated robbery.
Smith faces additional charges of unlawful possession of a weapon and tampering with evidence. Stephens faces additional charges of reckless endangerment, evading arrest and leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries.
The charges stem from a Jan. 2, 2012, incident that police say started with a robbery, led to a police pursuit and ended with Deputy Gary Daugherty being hit by the car driven by Stephens.
The trial was last scheduled to begin in January, but was delayed because the state thought it was missing a witness. It turned out that the man in question, Daniel Hylmon, was in custody at the Washington County Detention Center after he turned himself in on a violation of probation charge. the same day as the hearing to continue the trial.


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Argentina's Cueva de las Manos (the Cave of Hands)
Dating from around 7370 b.c., the oldest paintings represent hunter-gatherers from immediate postglacial times, but the more abstract designs, which are fewer, are more recent. Oddly enough, nearly all the hands from which the site takes its name are left hands.
Along with Parque Nacional Perito Moreno, this is one of La Cuarenta's finest detours, with two main access points. From Bajo Caracoles in the south, gravel RP 41 goes directly to the site, where the municipality of Perito Moreno operates a small confitería and a rocky campground, and charges US$4 admission to the caves. Metal bars now block close access to the paintings, to discourage vandalism and prevent repeated touching that could damage the paintings, but they do not obscure the view.
Another access point is the Pinturas drainage itself, with two separate alternatives (both of which also offer accommodations). From Estancia Casa de Piedra, 45 kilometers north of Bajo Caracoles, there's a 12-kilometer access road, at the end of which it's a three-kilometer hike to the paintings; from Estancia Cueva de las Manos, another 23 kilometers north and seven kilometers east, another 15-kilometer access road permits a close approach. By either the northern or southern route, mountain bikers can avoid backtracking to RN 40 by hauling their bikes over the river (there's a footbridge) and out the other direction.
On the east side of RN 40, ideal for cyclists, the bucolic Estancia Casa de Piedra (tel. 02963/43-2199) allows camping for $6 pp, plus US$2 for showers; it also rents basic but passable rooms for US$131–139 s or d with shared baths. It's not always dependably staffed, however.
Estancia Cueva de las Manos (tel. 011/5237-4043 in Buenos Aires) has four modern carpeted rooms with private baths (US$90 s, US$100 d, with breakfast) as well as fine hostel accommodations (US$26 pp, without breakfast). Restaurant lunches and dinners cost about US$18, and afternoon tea is US$8. It's open November–March and sometimes for Semana Santa. Staff will also arrange other excursions in the area.
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This improved once speeds increased on faster and wider sweeping turns when the suspension could take a set and accept loading. I found by slowing my corner entry and preparing my hands on the wheel, I could get the Nova around and through, "looking" out of the turn earlier, and me on the throttle sooner. This wasn't easy, mind you, as sliding the car wasn't an option. I was making use of every inch of track and had no room for error.
If a way could be found to stuff a decent sized tire underneath a Nova, this model of Chevrolet would be the new Camaro. The lack of rubber was the primary factor limiting overall performance and quick times for the Church Boys Nova, and to get even tenths off the clock it meant every turn, each apex, my braking had to be spot-on. Any mistake or lapse in concentration meant precious seconds lost and none gained.
The secondary factor was this little nagging thought that if I got stupid and dropped a wheel off the track, there was a good probability it would suck to be me. No roll bar, a bench seat with little adjustment, lap belts with nary a shoulder harness, and an open-top car does not a good track combination make, and I made sure I didn't overstep my welcome here. Ten-tenths wasn't sought nor achieved, as this little Nova wasn't built for racetrack use. On a cross-country cruise, however ... a resounding yes!
My recommendations for Church Boys would be to tighten up the steering feel, add a light rear bar so the car can respond as a single mass o' metal again, and get the brakes a bit more linear in transition from initial application to smoke-producing lock-up as i walked a fine line here at times. All of these improvements would make this car a delight to drive on any twisty back road.
- Mary Pozzi
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This was by far the best car Church Boys has ever brought to our Suspension & Handling Challenge. From a driving standpoint, the steering wheel was just the right diameter, the custom-reupholstered bench seat was supremely comfortable (though not as supportive as race seats for athletic maneuvers), and the powertrain combo (LS1/4L60E) was pretty hard to beat if you don't mind an automatic transmission—and we don't (except on track).
Everything about the Church Boys Racing entry just felt right. The ride was supremely comfortable. They've happened upon a near ideal combination of spring rates and shock absorbers, etc. On the street portion of our test, we found a truly awful section of road that was smooth on one side of the lane, but broken up for a few hundred feet on the other. Driving with one set of wheels over the rippled, choppy pavement, the Nova never lost its composure. Was it as good as the IRS-equipped '13 Camaro SS in this regard? No, but it was about a hundred times better than a stock deuce.
The full-size steering wheel allowed the latest rack from CBR to shine. Unlike a too-small wheel, this one showed the rack to be not too fast, not too slow—just right. Praise can also be offered for the coilovers, which delivered an ideal combination of ride comfort and control.
We were very pleased with the way the car performed for us on the street. It was a delicious combination of ride and grip. While it lagged behind the new F-body on the road course, this former econo-box surpassed the Camaro SS on the skidpad (0.89g vs. 0.88g) and equaled it on the slalom (45.5 mph), a testament to the inherent goodness of the parts Church Boys Racing is offering. Were the car equipped with shoulder harnesses and either a roll bar or hard top, Super Chevy's Stig (Mary) would have gotten a lot more aggressive with her driving. She probably could have lopped seconds off her lap times.


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7 a.m. Oakland school police had to intervene to help custodial staff cross a picket line at Piedmont Avenue elementary school early Thursday.
Police estimated that before 7 a.m. there were 10 strikers at McClymonds High School Complex in West Oakland, 60 at Oakland Technical High School, 5 at Piedmont Elementary, and between 25 and 35 at Skyline High School.
More school police intervention:
7:25 a.m. Food service workers hassled at Castlemont High, 8601 MacArthur Blvd.
7:50 a.m. Custodians hassled at Melrose Elementary on 53rd Avenue.


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No room for Hinckley failure for Workington Reds
Published at 13:11, Friday, 22 February 2013
WORKINGTON Reds' heroics against promotion-chasing Altrincham and Chester will count for nothing if they lose to stricken Hinckley.
The league's bottom side have won just once this season, and are cast adrift at the foot of the table.
With a points deduction for failing to control their finances, their on-the-pitch problems have seen them concede 95 times in just 28 matches.
On nine occasions, teams have scored five or more goals against them, with Altrincham winning 8-0.
Reds boss Darren Edmondson said: "After the heroics against Chester, there were smiles on faces in the dressing room, but the lads were shattered.
"But we have to put the same effort in.
"Picking up four points from teams going for promotion will mean nothing if we go to Hinckley and lose.
"The performance must be right, and we cannot go there expecting to win.
"Hinckley have brought in reinforcements in recent weeks.
"They are fighting, but it's a game we have to win to make sure we keep looking up the table, instead of down."
Gari Rowntree was Workington's star man against runaway leaders Chester.
Rolling back the years with a solid defensive performance, it was higher up the pitch where Rowntree really made his mark.
Scoring a sensational goal to level for the 10-men of Reds, Edmondson admitted he was hoping the fullback, who is not known for his goal scoring exploits, would pass to a team-mate.
He said: "The whole dug out was praying he'd pass it.
"All his team-mates too, but we know Gari has a great left foot, and thankfully, it went into the roof of the net."
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