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Domtar Corporation (UFS)
Q4 2008 Earnings Call
February 05, 2009 10:00 AM ET
Pascal Bossé - Director of Investor Relations
John D. Williams - President and Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Buron - Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer
Richard L. Thomas - Senior Vice-President, Sales
Michael Edwards - Group Senior Vice-President, Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
George Staphos - Bank of America-Merrill Lynch
Richard Skidmore - Goldman Sachs
Stephen Atkinson - BMO Capital Markets
Christopher Chun - Deutsche Bank
Steven Chercover - D. A. Davidson & Co.
Claudia Shank Hueston - J.P. Morgan
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» Domtar Corporation Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
I would now like turn the meeting over to Pascal Bossé. Please go ahead sir.
Pascal Bossé
Alright, thank you. Thank you, Michelle. Good morning and welcome to our fourth quarter 2008 earnings call. Joining me today are John Williams, President and CEO; Daniel Buron, CFO; Dick Thomas, Senior VP of Sales and Mike Edwards, Senior VP, Pulp and Paper Manufacturing.
Management will begin with formal remarks, after which we will take questions. During the call, references will be made to supporting slide and you can find this presentation in the Investor Section of the website. As a reminder, all statements during the call that are not based on historical facts are forward-looking statements subject to number of risks and uncertainties. I invite you to review Domtar's filings with the Securities Commissions for a listing of those.
And finally, certain non-U.S. GAAP financial measures will be presented and discussed and you can find the reconciliation to the closest GAAP measures in the appendix of this morning's release and on our website.
So with that, I'll turn the call over to our CEO. John?
John D. Williams
Thank you Pascal and good morning everyone. This is my first earnings conference call as President and CEO of Domtar and I look forward to sharing my initial thoughts with you this morning.
I have just completed little over a month in the role, but my due-diligence process began in the fall when I spent time reading about our organization, our business, our asset base and the market dynamics. And I think we can all realize these of difficult but dynamic times in the industry.
However, my first impressions are that we've some real opportunities and some great building blocks we can leverage to overcome the economic crises and lead Domtar to the next level of success. This morning, I plan to share some of these early observations and our priorities.
But first I think, the order of the day is to discuss our fourth quarter results and for that, I will now turn the call over to Daniel.
Daniel Buron
Thank you, John and good morning everyone.
Starting with the highlights on slide four; Domtar reported to be a net loss of $1.31 per diluted share for the fourth quarter compared to net earnings of $0.08 per diluted share in Q3, including the result for impairment charges totaling $591 million. Adjusting for impairment charges and other items, are less with $0.04 per share in the fourth quarter compared to earnings of $0.10 per share in the third quarter.
Our results in the fourth quarter suffer from a poor market conditions, especially in our Paper segments where a combined drop in paper volumes and within pulp markets resulted in increased cost of machine down payment slowdown.
In the quarter, we took a total of 197,000 tonnes of paper production procurement and 100,000 metric tonnes of pulp productions procurements. To balance our system and reduce downtime costs, we've announced this morning the closure of paper machine at our Plymouth, North Carolina mill removing about 300,000 tonnes of paper-making capacity. This closure is an addition of our closure or our Dryden driving paper machine in late November, 2008.
Turning to a sequential comparison of earnings on slide five; sales were down $160 million compared to the third quarter, mostly which a lower volume in paper and a decline in prices for pulp. Cost of goods sold, reduced by $39 million due to lower paper and pulp production, favorable foreign exchange and lower energy prices.
Depreciation and amortization decreased $9 million mostly from foreign exchange variation. In the quarter, we took an impairment charge of $387 million to property, plant and equipment mostly related to driving on Ontario pulp and paper complex. This impairment is the result of the decision announced in December to permanently close the paper machine at this location. We also finalized our annual goodwill debt and wrote down the entire goodwill related to our paper business.
In the quarter, other operating income was $8 million mostly related to foreign exchange gains on working capital items. And finally interest expense was $13 million lower and that includes a $12 million gain on some debt buyback that I will cover in a minute.
Turning to our earnings reconciliation; we report a net loss of $676 million or $1.31 per share. This includes the following after-tax items: impairment of goodwill of $321 million, impairment of fixed assets and intangible assets of $270 million, charge of $52 million for valuation allowance on Canadian deferred income tax assets, closure and restructuring costs of $18 million, gain on debt repurchase of $8 million and the final leg of costs related to synergy and integration amounting to $3 million. So excluding these items, we had a loss of $20 million or $0.04 per share.
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New path for pears
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WSU reports on growth in organic tree fruit
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Sliced pears show potential
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Manage pears for higher yields
An experiment demonstrates how to increase yields of close-planted Bartlett pear trees by changing tree management, not the rootstock.
Success with fresh sliced pears and peaches
A Fresno-based, California company is one of the first to bring fresh-cut pears and stone fruit to the retail market.
Fresh-cut path for Woot Froot
Kim Gaarde did the impossible by bringing fresh-sliced pears, peaches, and nectarines to consumers.
Hedging to improve quality
A Washington grower-packer foresees multiple benefits from mechanical pruning.
A pear a day…
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Researchers there studied whether the peel, pulp, and juice of pears could help prevent and manage type-2 diabetes,
Drone ready to work in fruit
FAA approved Yamaha's remote-controlled copter for agricultural use.
Russian closure slows pear exports
Russia had been importing almost half a million boxes of U.S. pears.
Processed pears bring record prices
Growers and canners are pleased with outcome.
Pear production stays stable
Northwest growers forecast another manageable crop.
Organic exemption expected soon
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Northwest pear production remains stable
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Cleveland Browns kicker Phil Dawson and offensive tackle Joe Thomas have been named to the 2013 AFC Pro Bowl squad, the league announced today. The 2013 Pro Bowl will be played on Sunday, January 27 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and televised by NBC in prime time at 7:00 p.m. ET.
In addition, Joshua Cribbs was selected as a first alternative as both a kick return specialist and as a special teamer, D'Qwell Jackson was named a first alternate at inside linebacker and Alex Mack was named a first alternate at center.
"I was happy that Phil and Joe were recognized for having Pro Bowl seasons," said Browns Head Coach Pat Shurmur. "Phil has been one of the most consistent kickers in the NFL throughout his career, and this year he was near-perfect, including many long-range field goals. I believe it is very appropriate that he is getting his due credit after 14 years in the league. Joe has established himself as one of the top left tackles in the game, and he has played at a very high level once again this year. He was a big part of the improvement that I felt we made as an offense."
Dawson is the first Browns player to be selected to the Pro Bowl as a kicker (Lou Groza was selected as tackle). Dawson's 96.6 (28 of 29) field goal percentage this season leads the AFC and he is 6 for 6 on field goals from 50 yards or longer, which is tied for the most in the AFC. With 112 points, he extended his team-record to six 100-point seasons in his career. He also set a career-high with 29 touchbacks this season, surpassing his previous best of 12 in 2008. The longest tenured member of the Browns, Dawson owns an 84.2 career field-goal percentage, which ranks first all-time in NFL history among the 25 kickers with 300 or more field goals.
Thomas has been selected to the Pro Bowl in all six of his NFL seasons. He has not missed an offensive snap since joining the Browns as the third overall pick of the 2007 NFL Draft, starting all 15 contests at left tackle this season. Thomas joins Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown (1958-66) as the only Browns selected to the Pro Bowl in each of their first six seasons in the league. The last Browns player to be named to six consecutive Pro Bowls was Hall of Fame running back Leroy Kelly, who earned the honor for the 1967-72 Pro Bowls. Thomas is one of six Browns to earn Pro Bowl honors six or more times. He joins Richmond Webb (Miami Dolphins, 1991-97 Pro Bowls) as the only NFL offensive linemen to be named to the Pro Bowl in each of their first six seasons since 1970.
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Due to the terrain which is predominately slope, nine goats are used to maintain the grass surrounding the Buford Dam powerhouse at Lake Lanier.
As of Sunday, September 1, 2013
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BUFORD — In the beginning, there was Caesar.
A billy goat bent on breeding with any nanny goat in sight, Caesar was the first of his kind to roam the steep, green hills that rose above Buford Dam.
Caesar was the paterfamilias — the founding member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' "Chew Crew" at the dam site.
It was the late 1970s when Caesar's owner, Wayne Abernathy — a supervisor at the dam — devised a plan to keep contractors from having to trim knee-deep brush and bramble which grew on treacherous slopes above the structure.
Turned out, it was a brilliant notion.
Letting goats graze the grounds kept landscapers from risking life and limb — dangling before the scary precipice — while they moved through the vegetation with weed eaters and hedge clippers (the grade was too steep for mowers).
And as an added bonus, it saved the federal agency some money.
"The amount of savings was a huge benefit to the government," said corps landscape architect Darrell Stone. "They normally had a crew of three or four guys out there mowing it, and now you've got the goats here doing the job more efficiently, more effectively and more safely."
Caesar's grandkids and great-grandkids still roam the hills above the dam, which was built in the 1950s for flood protection, power production, water supply, navigation, recreation and fish and wildlife management.
In total, there's currently 11 goats — all female. The herd walks the grounds with a donkey, which Stone said protects the nanny goats from predators such as wild dogs or coyotes.
"The donkey will defend the goats, and the nanny goats will adopt the donkey as their protector," he said.
The animals have three acres of grazing space, which includes two of their favorite snacks: briers and poison ivy. During periods of heavy rain — like right now — the goats feast on the fast-growing vegetation.
"Water pockets" in the rocks provide plenty of drinking opportunities.
Stone said that in the winter, corps staff will "supplement their diet with a little bit of corn … if we have to perform any veterinary services we can get them to come, and the corn coaxes them on down the hill."
But they prefer it way up there. "It's a natural instinct. They like to have a good vantage point so they can see predators from far away," he said.
Unlike humans, who generally prefer flat ground.
Perhaps that's why three decades ago as he watched landscaping contractors negotiate steep slopes above the dam, Wayne Abernathy had his "aha" moment.
Thanks to his decision, Caesar and his progeny grew fat and happy, grazing on grass above the dam. It was certainly the best thing that ever happened to the billy goat (who lived to be 18 years old), and it worked all right for the corps of engineers too.
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Authorities identify man killed in apartment fire
Authorities this morning identified the man who died following a fire in his Ventura apartment about 1 a.m.
Douglas Huyck, 47, was pronounced dead about 1:30 a.m. at the Ventura County Medical Center, said James Baroni, the county's chief deputy medical examiner.
The fire in Huyck's second-story apartment on the 6400 block of Hummingbird Street was reported about 12:46 a.m.
Huyck's neighbor, Don Holmes III, said he was working on his computer when he heard a loud noise like someone falling and then an explosion.
"It felt like an earthquake," Holmes said.
Huyck called for help about five times, with a voice that grew fainter with each cry, Holmes said. Smoke was coming out from underneath Huyck's locked door, and Holmes pounded on it but got no response.
Holmes then roused his girlfriend and sent her outside with their two-week old baby, while he and another neighbor woke other residents and contacted the police and fire departments, he said.
Two Ventura police officers on patrol in the area were the first to arrive at the scene, said Fire Marshall Brian Clark of the Ventura City Fire Department. The officers forced their way into the apartment through the front door and attacked the blaze with a fire extinguisher.
The officers were able to partly control the fire, but they couldn't determine whether there was someone in the apartment because it was "fully charged" with smoke, Clark said.
Ventura City firefighters arrived about nine minutes after the fire was reported and used fire hoses to put out the remaining flames while searching the apartment for victims, Clark said.
They found Huyck and tried to resuscitate him before he was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy to determine the cause of Huyck's death is scheduled for today, Baroni said.
Fire department investigators determined the fire began in the living room of Huyck's apartment, possibly on a couch, Clark said. The couch and a nearby table were the only parts of the apartment damaged by fire, though smoke and heat blackened much of the unit and caused an estimated $30,000 in damage.
No other apartments were damaged and no one else was injured in the blaze.
The cause of the fire was still under investigation this morning.
The smoke detector in the apartment was disabled. "The battery had been removed," Clark said.
About 15 residents of the seven-unit complex were evacuated and had to stay outside for several hours following the fire, Holmes said.
A faint odor of smoke hung in the air around Huyck's apartment late Monday morning, and his home's broken windows were visible from the street.
A tall, thin man, Huyck had lived alone in the apartment for several years, Holmes said.
He kept largely to himself, but he would sometimes chat with Holmes about his family and camping in Gaviota, north of Santa Barbara. He let Holmes use his internet connection when his neighbor didn't have his own.
Huyck talked fondly about his nieces and nephews and seemed to be close with his mother when she visited him recently, Holmes said.
Holmes described Huyck as a nice man who seemed unhappy but never bothered anyone.
"Nobody here can say anything bad about him," Holmes said. "He's going to be missed."
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Bosque Farms Elementary School is located in Bosque Farms, NM and is one of 14 elementary schools in Los Lunas Public Schools School District. It is a public school that serves 446 students in grades PK-6. See Bosque Farms Elementary School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Bosque Farms Elementary School had 16 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The New Mexico average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
In 2011, Bosque Farms Elementary School had 16 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The New Mexico average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Type: Article | Date: Tuesday, Nov 11, 2014'The Call's' Brad Anderson will direct 2015 drama
Bill Clinton is 'devoted' to 'Grey's Anatomy,' but also watches 'Scandal'
Type: Post | Date: Tuesday, Nov 11, 2014Randy Jackson is done with 'American Idol' after 13 seasons
'Shameless' woos 'Lone Star' lead James Wolk
Type: Article | Date: Friday, Jul 8, 2011Recurring character will interact with Emmy Rossum's Fiona
'Lone Star' lead joins USA's 'Political Animals'
Type: Article | Date: Saturday, Feb 11, 2012Greg Berlanti wrote the six-episode political miniseries
The Crazy Ones
Type: Event | Date: Thursday, Apr 17, 2014Two episodes end the first season.
Lone Star - James Wolk and Eloise Mumford
Type: Video | Date: Sunday, Sep 19, 2010James and Eloise discuss their parts in the new Fox drama "Lone Star"
David Walton to star in 'About a Boy' pilot while James Wolk is one of the 'Crazy Ones'
Type: Article | Date: Thursday, Feb 7, 2013'Iron Man's Jon Favreau directing Nick Hornby adaptation
Take Me To The Pilots '13: CBS' 'The Crazy Ones'
Type: Post | Date: Friday, Jul 12, 2013Time-Traveler Bob Benson upstages Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar
The Crazy Ones
Type: Event | Date: Thursday, Sep 26, 2013Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar star in this comedy.
Press Tour: Robin Williams can be serious or silly on 'The Crazy Ones'
Type: Post | Date: Monday, Jul 29, 2013Oscar-winner will improvise, but is happy to read David E. Kelley's dialogue


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I recently went to take a lesson at anotoher barn to gain experience around other horses and get tips from a different trainer/instructor. Well I didn't care for it there because the lady didn't seem to know much at all.
She said one thing that sparked my interest though and it was:
"Never tie a horse with a rope halter because they could seriously hurt themselves around the poll area."
Is this true or was she just coming up with false logic? Because I have been tieing the horses I work with,with a rope halter for a long time and nothing bad has ever actually happened.


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Blog Archives
Virginia Coach Tony Bennett Talks After Loss to Louisville
On Mangok Mathiang's game winning shot
I'll have to take a look at the tape and I don't know if we had anybody getting to him. But we obviously wanted to make it hard for Rozier and Montrezl. I thought we defended the possession pretty well. There's always that could we switch ball screens? Could we do some things? But with the guys we had on the floor and not going with Anthony, we thought we wanted to clean up the rebound if it's there. I don't want to say I expected him to not make it, but I was okay with the way we defended that possession. I don't know if someone was scrambling to at least bother the shot, but good for him. He stepped up and hit a big shot. I don't think that's his forte, but he did it in a big setting and that was obviously the nail in the coffin for us.
Rick Pitino's Post Game Comments After the Virginia Game
Opening statement
I think we messed up defensively on that last play by running into the screen but our guys did so many good things tonight. I'm really happy we won. It would've been a really difficult loss because we got our 35 deflections, we were eight for eleven on the break, we moved the basketball, and their focus on the scouting report was outstanding. I was so happy Mangok made that shot because it was a big lift for our basketball team after playing real well. What we tried to do, obviously we didn't have a lot of time to, was run a lot of motion. We were hoping that Terry could get in the lane, look down low to Montrezl if he couldn't turn the corner. Mangok was the 64th option.
Virginia's Justin Anderson Will Not Play Saturday vs UofL
All signs had been pointing to a possible return this Saturday for Virginia's Justin Anderson. The junior hasn't played since the last time Louisville played Virginia back on February 7 when he broke a finger on his shooting hand. Now, another problem has come up for Anderson and he will not be playing for the Cavaliers on Saturday. On Thursday, Anderson underwent an appendectomy.
Rick Pitino Talks Notre Dame, Wayne Blackshear, Underhanded Free Throws, and More
Opening statement
Well there are times that this season has gone by quick, and times it has gone by slow. It seems like the last month has gone by at the snap of a finger. Now we're faced with two really difficult games to get to a double bye. Our fate is in our hands, and we've got two very difficult teams to go against. One team is, percentage wise, the best offensive team in the country. The other team is the best, well one of the premier defensive teams in the country. So certainly we have our hands full. But I think our guys are up for the challenge. We've got to do a lot of things well to have any chance of beating either one of those teams.
ACC Standings and Schedule for the Weekend 2/27/15
With just three regular season games left, the Louisville Cardinals are looking to keep one of those top 4 spots in the ACC standings, which would earn them a double-bye in the ACC Tournament. Here are the standings entering the weekend and the schedule of games for Saturday and Sunday. When looking at the standings, keep in mind that Syracuse will not be playing in any post-season tournament this year, and that includes the ACC Tournament.
Highlights: Louisville at Virginia
Or lowlights. Whatever you think.
"Beat Virginia" to the tune of "Meet Virginia"
This little gem found its way on twitter today. I thought I had tweeted something clever with my "Beat Virginia" tweet that would remind people of Train's "Meet Virginia." Turns out, Mary Robinson put a little more thought into this than I did. If you need a reminder of the original song from Train, the video is below.
Transcript: Rick Pitino Previews Virginia
Here is the full transcript (Courier-Journal) from Rick Pitino's press conference on Thursday afternoon.
Opening statement: If you look at what they've accomplished this year. They way they've played on the road has been amazing. Apparently they've got one of the best arenas in the ACC and I'm looking forward to seeing it. This is a great basketball team that we have to play twice. Certainly, we're going to have to really execute to come away with a victory.
ACC Football Schedule and Standings: Week 8
The Cards are off this Saturday because of their game next Thursday against Florida State. There are still some other good games this weekend to pay attention to in the ACC division races. The Coastal is obviously all jumbled up as 1 game separates all 7 teams. Boston College needs to get back to their winning ways, so hosting Wake Forest should help that. Can Virginia get back on track against UNC and show that the first half of the season wasn't a fluke?
And it will be good to see if Clemson can go on the road and play in a loud environment…
ACC Football Schedule and Standings: Week 8
Week 8 for the ACC got started on Thursday night as Pittsburgh beat Virginia Tech 21-16 in a Coastal matchup. Obviously, the biggest game involving an ACC team is not a conference game, and that is Florida State vs Notre Dame. Other than that, there are still some good games that should put some separation between teams in the conference. Here is the schedule, followed by the standings.
Pittsburgh (4-3, 2-1) def Virginia Tech (4-3, 1-2) 21-16.
ACC Football Schedule: Week 6
Week 6 is full of ACC Conference games, so things will be exciting today. Duke and Boston College both have a bye, but everyone else plays and they are all conference games. Louisville got the week started with their 28-6 win over Syracuse on Friday night. Here is the schedule of games for this week, along with the standings.
Louisville (5-1, 3-1) def Syracuse (2-3, 0-1) 28-6
North Carolina (2-2, 0-1) vs Virginia Tech (3-2, 0-1) 12:30 GamePlan/ESPN3
Clemson (2-2, 1-1) vs NC State (4-1, 0-1) 3:30 ESPNU
ACC Football Schedule: Week 4
Listed below is the schedule of college football games for ACC teams in Week 4. The highlight of the day is clearly (1) Florida State vs (22) Clemson tonight. If you haven't heard, quarterback Jameis Winston will not play at all in the game. There are some other big non-conference games that would be big wins for the ACC as Miami plays (24) Nebraska, Virginia faces (21) BYU, and Pittsburgh plays Iowa.
Right now, the only ACC teams that are ranked are Florida State and Clemson. However, there are 7 ACC teams that are on the "others receiving votes" part of the rankings. So this is a big week for the conference when it comes to national perception.
- Others receiving votes: North Carolina 82, Duke 55, Mississippi State 55, Virginia Tech 54, Penn State 51, East Carolina 44, TCU 42, Pittsburgh 40, Florida 31, Marshall 28, Boston College 22, West Virginia 14, Washington 14, Cincinnati 10, Virginia 6, Arkansas 3, Arizona 3, North Dakota State 3, Louisville 2
Virginia Tech (2-1) vs Georgia Tech (3-0) 12:00 ESPN
Pittsburgh (3-0) vs Iowa (2-1) 12:00 ESPNU
Justin Time for the Weekend: 9/12/04
This week's edition of Justin Time for the Weekend may be a little shorter than usual. Of course I did not get this done ahead of time, so it is about 6:45 a.m. on Friday as I type this. But the first topic I cover will explain why this post will likely be a little less content than normal. I hope everyone has a great weekend and it is highlighted by a Louisville victory on Saturday in our second ACC football game.
Heading to Virginia
That's right. In about an hour or so, I will be hitting the road and heading towards Charlottesville, Virginia to see the Cards in their first ACC road game. I am hoping I am able to make one road trip a year to check out all of the ACC schools. Not sure I will make it to Syracuse for a football game in the Carrier Dome, because blah. I have a lot of friends going to South Bend for the Notre Dame game, which will be amazing I'm sure. But I can't make it up there this year, so that one would be a while before I could get back. But it will be nice to be able to check Virginia off the list. I hear it is a beautiful campus and town.
Virginia was picked to finish last or at least close to last in nearly every ACC projection that I saw. Now whether they will or not remains to be seen. But that was at least the perception of them heading into the season. In saying that, I am way more excited to see us play Virginia than someone like Temple, SMU, Houston, Memphis, and other teams in our former conference. The middle of the pack and lower tier teams of the ACC are just way more exciting to me than what we are used to. Not to mention, this is just a big game in general as the Cards will try to start out 2-0 in the conference, with the next conference game being against Wake Forest at home.
Opponent Breakdown: Virginia Cavaliers
Special to CardinalSportsZone.com from Andrew Ramspacher.
The following breakdown of the Virginia Cavaliers was sent to me by Andrew Ramspacher, who is the beat writer for the team for the Daily Progress in Charlottesville. Who better to get information from than the guy who covers the team daily? Here you go!
UVa Offense
As of three weeks ago, this was clearly going to be Greyson Lambert's team. The redshirt sophomore quarterback had been with the first team since day one of spring ball, was named co-captian in April and appeared on the cover of the media guide. He would take over from the brutal David Watford experiment (eight touchdowns, 15 interceptions as the starter in 2013) and was destined to break the on-going QB carousel that defined the Mike London era.
But then came the 2014 season opener in which Lambert was intercepted twice for touchdowns in the second quarter and the UVa staff threw in little-known Matt Johns. All Johns did was immediately lead a touchdown drive and nearly rally the Cavaliers to an upset of the then-No. 7 Bruins.
Depth Charts for Louisville and Virginia
The depth charts for both the Louisville Cardinals and Virginia Cavaliers are listed below. The first thing that sticks out about Louisville's, and it isn't a surprise, is Michael Dyer listed as the backup running back. Hopefully this means he is finally healthy. He showed flashes of what he could do in the first game last season and then this spring, but that's it. Other than that, he has been hampered by injuries. A healthy Michael Dyer gives the Cards a huge weapon for ACC play.
There aren't really any other surprises on the rest of the depth chart, which is good. Let's keep continuity and stay healthy. And when you see someone listed as a backup and not a starter, it really isn't a big deal. We know the main guys who will get to play, whether they start or not.
With Virginia, they will go with two quarterbacks during the game, as they have in the first two games this season.
Louisville Cardinals
11 Will Gardner 6-5 226 So.
7 Reggie Bonnafon 6-3 206 Fr.
12 Brett Nelson 6-4 220 Sr.
Virginia Head Coach Previews Louisville
On Monday, Virginia head coach Mike London met with the media for his weekly press conference. He talked about the upcoming game against the Cards as well as the state of his own team, and VirginiaSports.com has the full transcript, which you can read below.
COACH LONDON: We'll start with a brief comment about Louisville, our ACC opponent this week. I've had a chance to meet Coach Petrino over the last couple of head coaches meetings. I've known him over the years and his coaching accolades and things that he brings to his team. Their team is playing very well. This will be a great challenge for us. We're excited about the challenge as these guys come into Charlottesville. So I'll take any questions.
Q. You guys are second in the country in turnovers forced through two weeks. What does it say about the players? What's it say about the schemes that you guys have been able to bring in two years ago, basically, alter everything sort of two years ago. Was there a missing piece of this defense, and now two years later you're tops in the country two weeks into the season?
COACH LONDON: It's been a mindset, a concentrated mindset on turnovers and how it changes the game. Obviously we had success last week with the seven turnovers and if you look back – has led to about 31 points. I don't think we had that all of last season. The guys defensively are doing a pretty good job with Eli, and Max Valles coming off the edge and some of the other things that are happening, they're causing havoc. And the strip sack, cause fumble, the interceptions, all those things that have been geared towards playing better defense. The players have bought into that. We have to continue that. We have to continue. It's great that we had it in two games, but we need to do it particularly this game because this team we're playing is a very good team. But the mindset defensively has been to create turnovers and give yourself a chance to win.
ACC Football Schedule: Week 2
There aren't too many exciting games (on paper) in the ACC today, or in college football for that matter. There are a couple of ranked games around the country, but honestly, it's college football. So of course it's still exciting! The ACC should have a pretty good day today, and carrying the flag for the conference will be Virginia Tech as they try to take down Ohio State.
There are some other games of interest to me. I'd like to see Virginia have a win since we play them next week. After the performance last week, Wake Forest needs a win anytime they can get one, so hopefully today is it for them. Troy usually has a good team, so Duke could be challenged. I would like to see Miami have a dominant game, anything to make our win look even better! San Diego State is usually a solid program, so North Carolina could have a decent game on their hands. Then obviously the big one with Virginia Tech and Ohio State. I guess you could say I am very wrapped up in this whole ACC thing. College football is fun. Oh, and Go Cards!
Here is the full schedule of games for the ACC. It looks like it is ESPN3 day for the conference.
Sporting News ranks Louisville Basketball in the Top 10
This years College Basketball preseason edition of Sporting News ranks the Cards at #7. Sporting News also has 3 other ACC teams (Duke, UNC, and Virginia) in the top 10. IMO anywhere between 7-12 is a fair ranking for Louisville this season. Regardless of ranking there is no doubt that this will be one of the best conferences we have seen in awhile. #ACC


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The WB network college drama "Felicity" lasted four seasons from 1998 to 2002 and gained a loyal following. In honor of star Keri Russell's 39th birthday on Monday, catch up with the stars of the show.
Scott Foley played Noel Crane, who developed a romantic interest in Felicity and complicated the relationship between her and Ben.


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text: More from SI Report: Dodgers release pitcher Freddy Garcia Report: Dodgers release pitcher Freddy Garcia Marshawn Lynch sports gold cleats for Super Bowl Marshawn Lynch sports gold cleats for Super Bowl Louisville vs. FIU: Game time, live stream, TV coverage Louisville vs. FIU: Game time, live stream, TV coverage Pittsburgh-area high school football player dies after... Pittsburgh-area high school football player dies after... Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More SI Wire Manchester United's Robin van Persie out a month with injured thigh by Chris Mascaro Email Posted: Fri Dec. 13, 2013 Robin van Persie (left) has scored seven Premier League goals and 10 overall this season. (Michael Steele/Getty Images)Manchester United striker Robin van Persie will be out for a month with a thigh injury, manager David Moyes announced on Friday.The 30-year-old was injured while taking a corner kick that led to the only goal in United's Champions League match against Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday."That is a big blow to us," Moyes said. "It is unfortunate, because I think if you look at our record with Wayne Rooney and Robin in the team it is actually very good, and we have not had them for quite a period recently."SI WIRE: Cristiano Ronaldo is most-followed athlete on TwitterVan Persie has battled toe and groin problems this season and only last weekend returned from a month-long absence.After scoring 26 goals and leading United to the Premier League title last season, van Persie has seven Premier League goals this year.But United is only in ninth place with 22 points. The club is 9-3-4 this season with van Persie in the lineup and 4-2-2 without him. SI WIRE: Jurgen Klinsmann, U.S. soccer agree on four-year extension Promoted Stories Comments


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Movable Type Now GPL'd
The blogging software Movable Type is now available under the GPL, where it is dubbed MTOS (Movable Type Open Source).
Movable Type is a widespread and comprehensive blogging platform for which a number of extension modules are available. It includes OpenID, can handle large numbers of users, and has been deployed by global players such as Boeing, American Express, and the Washington Post. The previous version was available free of charge to private users, but a license fee was charged for commercial use.
The authors of Movable Type point out in their announcement that this step is more of an evolution than a revolution. The founders of the software always supported the publication of an open source version of the platform. The license has always allowed users to modify Movable Type's source code.
MTOS is currently available as a nightly build, but work on a stable version is in full sway. This step by the people behind Movable Type is similar to the strategy adopted by Red Hat or Novell: the commercial products, Movable Type Community Solution (MTCS) and Movable Type Enterprise Solution (MTES), which mainly generate revenue through support, will continue to exist. Parallel to this there will be a free variant with developments flowing into the commercial versions.
Issue 180/2015
Buy this issue as a PDF
Dyreza Malware is Back
Powerful man-in-the-middle attack is now targeting online shopping.
Kernel Developer Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel
Another high-profile coder says the kernel team needs a kinder, gentler culture.
Bugzilla Bug
Bug database has a bug of its own that could allow an intruder to create an unauthorized account.
US Launches New Strategy for Broadband Access
Report focuses federal resources on achieving universal Internet access.
RC4 Finally Gets the Fork
Leading browser makers say "no" to porous encryption algorithm
IBM Says TOR Network a Vehicle for Ransomware
Report from the X-Force group says attackers are using TOR to hide their crimes
Mozilla Announces new Firefox API
Future Firefox extensions will be compatible with Chrome.
Weird Security Flaw Affected Intel Chips for 16 Years
Better read this if you bought your computer before 2011
OpenSSH 7.0 Secure Shell Arrives
Users should upgrade to the new version as soon as possible
Qemu Flaw Lets the Guest Escape
Xen project announces a privilege escalation problem for Qemu host systems


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Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) May 13, 2013
Around the Corner Dental Health Spa and Dr. Kanani offer free consultation to his first time patients to help them get a better understanding of their oral health. Although many dental patients believe that flossing will prevent tooth decay, the real purpose is more complicated. Essentially, says a cosmetic dentist in Woodland Hills (Dr. Kaveh Kanani), flossing is a barrier between the patient and gum disease, which can lead to loose or damaged teeth. After teeth fall out, he says, it's time for dental implant costs.
What is concerning about the misunderstanding, in keeping with a November 22, 2012 article by the Daily Mail of the United Kingdom ("Is Flossing Your Teeth A Waste of Time?..."), is that patients who brush and floss may be disappointed by instances of tooth decay. This can lead them to think that flossing is especially a waste of time, when in reality, flossing done properly can keep tooth bacteria from turning into gum disease. Since gum disease can take many months (or years) to develop, the long-term effects of neglecting flossing or brushing can keep patients from seeing the loss of progress.
While the book Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye may be helpful in some respects, says Dr. Kanani, it may give the wrong impression to dental patients who read it quickly. (For instance, the book's phrase "not every tooth with decay necessarily needs a filling" is true, but patients without dental knowledge may not know the difference between a tooth that does and does not need a filling.) Essentially, according to the Daily Mail, Dr. Ellie Phillips of "Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye" maintains that tooth decay is not
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Blatz, Strobel, Klaif lead in Ojai City Council election
Incumbent Paul Blatz, former city clerk Carlon Strobel and challenger Leonard Klaif were ahead in the race for three Ojai City Council seats, according to returns this morning.
In the city clerk race, interim clerk Cynthia Burell held a commanding lead over her one challenger, with all precincts reporting as of 2:30 a.m.
Blatz had 1,338 votes, or 25.3 percent. Strobel was second with 1,151 votes, or 21.7 percent.
While incumbent Carol Smith had been ahead of Klaif for the third seat Tuesday night, Klaif had 932 votes this morning to Smith's 902.
Trailing were Demitri Corbin with 532 votes and Dennis Leary with 422 votes.
Interim City Clerk Burell had 1,353 votes, or 70.9 percent, while challenger Shari Herbruck had 543 votes, or 28.5 percent.
Two incumbents and four challengers were vying for three seats on the Ojai City Council, with a common promise to residents to maintain the town as an unspoiled haven. Ojai Mayor Steve Olsen did not seek re-election.
Despite the bucolic surroundings, the city has been wracked by political turmoil during the past year. The council voted to terminate city manager Jere Kersnar during the summer, offering little explanation for the firing. A search is ongoing for a replacement.
Blatz was elected in June to fill the unexpired term of former Mayor Joe DeVito. Smith has been on the council for eight years and hoped to win one last term.
Corbin said he wanted to bring his fervor for the arts to the council. Klaif is an attorney who lost to Blatz in the June election. Leary is a local activist, and Strobel is a former city clerk who wanted to transition to the City Council.
Blatz said he would push for an ordinance that would require property owners to clean up abandoned sites around town. Corbin said he decided to run for office as an extension of his involvement with the Ojai Valley Youth Foundation.
Klaif said his priorities include housing, looking at the Golden State Water Co.'s proposed rate hikes, hiring a new city manager and environmental issues.
Leary accused the City Council of trying to exclude the public from discussing the Libbey Bowl lease agreement, which was signed with the Ojai Music Festival Foundation. He also condemned the Mallory Way affordable housing project.
Smith, who is mayor pro tem, said if elected to a third term, she would push to keep the trolley running by trying to get people to ride it once a week.
Strobel said transparency is important for the council, and one of the priorities will be hiring a new city manager that will help set the tone for the city.
Burell was city clerk until she retired in 2000 and then was appointed as the interim replacement in June after Strobel retired. Herbruck is a planning and building technician for the city of Ojai.
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Four books by Francis Chan are on sale (not sure how long this will last):
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A conversation with Jared Wilson
What If the Worst Happens?
Vaneetha Rendall:
The uncomfortable truth is, any of those things could happen. No one is free from tragedy or pain. There are no guarantees of an easy life. For any of us. Ever.
I was considering this sobering reality a few months ago. Over the course of several days, I had brought numerous longings and requests before the Lord. I wanted them fulfilled. But the unthinkable question haunted me: What if my inmost longings are never met and my nightmares come true?
Can Facebook Really Ruin Your Marriage?
Aimee Byrd:
I remember hearing on the radio that employers will one day use "Facebook scores" to evaluate whether or not someone is worthy to hire as an employee. Yep, the compilation of your posts, friends, and likes say something about you that technology turns into a number, just like a credit score. Facebook exposes what is already there.I often have to remind myself that things are not as they seem. That's a major theme we find in Revelation. In fact, the title Revelation explains an unveiling of something that is already true. In this era of technology, we have a small taste of this reality. People are not always as they seem.
Does God Let His Kids Lie About Him?
Derek Rishmawy:
Does God let his kids lie about him? That's the question I found myself asking after reading this interview of Pete Enns by Rob Bell. Enns has a new book on the Bible coming out, and it promises to be the new progressive-Evangelical handbook for scrapping your old doctrine of Scripture, so, of course, Bell pulled him onto the blog to chat. Unsurprisingly the issue of ancient science and Old Testament violence came up. I'll quote Enns said about it at length, because why not?
10,000 Little Moments and the Minute Particulars
Lore Ferguson:
A friend and I have been talking about the little moments, the decisions we make with each movement, namely that necessary organ we generally consider the seat of our emotions: the heart. He quoted Paul Tripp the other day: "The character of your life won't be established in two or three dramatic moments, but in 10,000 little moments," and I couldn't help but think of the 9,999 little moments in my life and day that seem to careen me completely opposite from where I want to go.
Your Gospel Probably Lacks Judgment
Joey Cochran:
Recently, I wrote an article about how "Your Judgment Probably Lacks Gospel." Essentially, I said that we live in a critical world that often lacks gospel in our approach to handling social media, personal relationships, and rebuking sin. I argued that in the gospel you have this indelible link between justice and grace. You can't really biblically define one without the other because they always come paired. Really, justice and grace are like peanut butter and jelly, Mickey and Minnie, or Simon and Garfunkle. You can't have one without the other, and if you do, you intuitively know that there is a gaping rift in the cosmos.
Which leads me to this point: just as your judgment probably lacks gospel, there is a solid chance that your gospel lacks judgment. And I'm not the first to say this. Multitudes of pixels have been published (that's right folks, we're not spillin ink anymore) on this subject.


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The May 2010 Release (build 18.104.22.1689) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.
Mostly bug fixes and the ever expanding scope of Smart View. I've added parsing for PT_LONG as a date, enabling parsing of a number of props I couldn't parse before. I also added parsers for Web View Persist Objects (PR_FOLDER_WEBVIEWINFO) and Recipient Row Streams (dispidApptUnsendableRecips).
Here's a change list - see the Issue Tracker on Codeplex for more details, or look at the code:
We got a number of reports of crashes using the MAPI download we shipped in December (6.5.8147, also republished with minimal changes in January as 6.5.8153). I'm pleased to announce that we've updated the MAPI download with a fix for these crashes.
Details about the MAPI Download:
The new MAPI Download fixes a few problems the December/January builds had:
An item not fixed by this release:
If I identify other issues fixed by the updated MAPI download, I'll add them in here.
This is a tool/sample I've had sitting on my drive ever since the DST changes back in 2007. Until recently, this tool used internal MAPI properties and algorithms, which meant I couldn't share the source. The Exchange Protocol docs have changed that, so I thought I'd clean the tool up and publish it so everyone can benefit.
The problem to solve here is how to deploy Auto Accept settings across a large number of mailboxes. These settings are typically used to configure the Outlook direct booking feature for resource mailboxes. It's easy to set these for one mailbox. Tools/Options/Calendar Options/Resource Scheduling will bring up this dialog:
From there, just check the settings you want and Auto Accept is configured. Suppose you want to do it for a bunch of mailboxes? We don't have a way of deploying these settings. That's where SetAA comes in. The SetAA sample shows how to modify the properties that store the settings:
PR_SCHDINFO_AUTO_ACCEPT_APPTS - "Automatically accept meeting requests and process cancellations" PR_SCHDINFO_DISALLOW_OVERLAPPING_APPTS - "Automatically decline conflicting meeting requests" PR_SCHDINFO_DISALLOW_RECURRING_APPTS - "Automatically decline recurring meeting requests"
In addition to dealing with these properties, SetAA gave me a chance to try implementing the "Finding the Free/Busy Message" algorithm from [MS-OXOPFFB]. I talked about this algorithm here, but this is the first time I've tried implementing it.
I decided to post both the sample code and a compiled copy of setAA in case anyone wants to try it out but doesn't want to deal with building it:
As usual, all caveats and disclaimers for samples apply. You can run SetAA from the command line (use –? to get help) to control the settings for a single maibox, or even every mailbox on a server. If you want to run SetAA against a targeted group of mailboxes, you could run it in a for loop. For instance, suppose you want to disable all three Auto Accept settings on a set of mailboxes. You'd put a list of legacy DNs for the mailboxes in a file (here called legdns.txt), and run it like this:
for /F "delims=" %i in (legdns.txt) do @SetAA -p "Outlook" -m "%i" -Z
for /F "delims=" %i in (legdns.txt) do @SetAA -p "Outlook" -m "%i" -Z
Where "Outlook" is the name of the profile and –Z is the switch to completely disable Auto Accept settings for the mailboxes listed in the text file. Note also that if you put this command in a batch file, you'd need to use %%i instead of %i.
In honor of Outlook 2010 being released to manufacturing last week, Angela posted an article discussing the new Outlook 2010 PIA reference. It covers a wide variety of common tasks, from dealing with multiple Exchange accounts to the new conversation view. This is a great place to start if you're writing Outlook solutions using managed code.
The March 2010 Release (build 126.96.36.1998) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.
Two big changes in this release: a debug viewer and right click context menus in Hex Editor and other dialogs. The debug viewer is really nifty. MFCMAPI has had debug output available for years now. You can turn it on from Other/Options. However most people never find it there, and when they do find it, they're unsure how to see the output. With the Debug Viewer (shortcut: Ctrl+D), you can see debug output directly inside MFCMAPI! Here's some sample output (click for larger view):
Even though I tend to run MFCMAPI under the debugger anyway, being the developer, this new way to view debug output has already pinpointed the root cause of a couple bugs. Next time you're chasing down a problem where you don't understand what's happening in MFCMAPI, try turning on the debug output and see if it sheds some light on the situation. And let me know if you see problems with the debug output itself.
[This is now documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625288.aspx ]
One of the long standing requests for Outlook development is for documentation around the format for the nickname cache. A couple months ago, development asked if I'd be interested in hosting a preview of documentation for the NK2 file. Of course, I said yes. I didn't write this doc, but I did assist in the tech review. Down the road, you can expect to see a version of this documentation show up in the MSDN. I'll link back to it here when it does.
This documentation applies only to Outlook 2003 and 2007 (despite mostly saying only 2007 throughout the article). There are differences in the format used by Outlook 2010 and we do expect to document them, most likely when this information is incorporated into the MSDN. For now, if you use this to mess with Outlook 2010's nickname cache, you're on your own.
Finally, I've uploaded a PDF of this document here, which includes the parsing for a sample NK2 file.
As always, let me know if you find any problems with this documentation.
[Edited 5/25/2010 to incorporate minor updates based on user feedback]
This post explains how Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 interacts with the nickname cache file, also known as the ".nk2 file." The .nk2 file is where Outlook 2007 persists the autocomplete list, which is the list of names that displays in the To, Cc, and Bcc edit boxes while composing an e-mail. This post also discusses the binary format of the file and the recommended ways for interacting with the .nk2 file.
This blog post should contain sufficient information to support reading and modifying the .nk2 file.
You can use any programming language to write your application because there are no dependencies on the Outlook object model or MAPI APIs.
When a user logs on to Outlook 2007, Outlook reads the user's MAPI Profile. Later, when the autocomplete list is shown, the .nk2 file is loaded. The .nk2 file has the same name as the profile that was used to log on, typically outlook.nk2, in the default scenario.
This file can be found here:
Outlook 2007 interacts with the .nk2 file in two ways:
1. Loading the .nk2 file.
2. And, later, saving the .nk2 file.
Outlook 2007 loads the .nk2 file when any item with addressing functionality gets initialized. For example, e-mail addresses are used in a new mail, a mail reply, a contact item, a meeting request, etc. To load, Outlook 2007 reads all of the contents of the file as a binary stream into a structure in memory.
For autocomplete operations, Outlook interacts exclusively with this in-memory structure for the duration of the outlook.exe process lifetime. Outlook 2007 does not interact with the .nk2 file in any additional ways until it saves the in-memory structure back to disk on shutdown.
Outlook 2007 saves the .nk2 file on shutdown if the autocomplete list has changed in any way.
Here are the ways that the autocomplete list gets changed:
· A new nickname entry is added through resolving a name, picking a recipient from the address book dialog, or sending mail to a recipient that was not already in the list.
· An entry is modified by sending mail to an existing recipient in the list.
· An entry is removed by the user through the UI.
· Other minor scenarios not relevant to this blog post
Outlook 2007 does not save the .nk2 file on shutdown if the autocomplete list has not changed. The save involves writing the in-memory structure to the .nk2 file as a binary stream.
If the size of the .nk2 file contents shrink during an Outlook session (for example, the user deletes some entries), Outlook saves the new contents to the file, but the file itself will not shrink in size.
· Never partially modify the .nk2 file. The supported interaction is to 1) read the entire file into memory, 2) modify the memory structure, and 3) write out the entire file when the modifications are finished.
· We recommend locking the file from modification by other processes while you're reading it and writing it using standard Windows file locking APIs (e.g. LockFile in C/C++ and FileStream.Lock in C#).
· Don't interact with the .nk2 file while Outlook is running. If Outlook is running while you modify the file, Outlook will likely overwrite your changes when it shuts down.
· Do not write properties of type PT_MV_UNICODE and PR_MV_STRING8 into an .nk2 file to be consumed by Outlook 2003. These properties are only understood by Outlook 2007.
· Do not write properties of types that are not mentioned in this document.
In addition to knowing how Outlook interacts with the .nk2 file, you must also understand the binary file format of the .nk2 file.
The .nk2 file is a set of recipient property rows that are saved as a binary stream along with some bookkeeping metadata that is used only by Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003.
The metadata is relevant to Outlook's interactions with the .nk2 file sothird parties must preserve what is in each metadata block when saving a modified .nk2 file. In other words, third parties should modify only the row-set portion of the binary format and preserve what was already in the metadata blocks of the file.
When creating a new .nk2 file from scratch, use the metadata values from the binary example to populate the metadata in the new file.
The high-level layout of the file looks like this:
Metadata (12 bytes)
Number of rows n (4 bytes)
Number of properties p in row one (4 bytes)
Property 1's property tag (4 bytes)
Property 1's reserved data (4 bytes)
Property 1's value union (8 bytes)
Property 1's value data (0 or variable bytes)
… (property 2 through property P-1)
Property p's property tag (4 bytes)
Property p's reserved data (4 bytes)
Property p's value union (8 bytes)
Property p's value data (0 or variable bytes)
Number of properties q in row two (4 bytes)
… (row two's properties)
… (row 3 through row n-1)
Number of properties r in row n (4 bytes)
… (row n's properties)
Broadly speaking, this is the layout of the .nk2 file:
Value Data
Number of Bytes
The row-set layout is as follows:
Number of rows
The number of rows identifies how many rows will come in the next part of the binary stream sequence.
Each row is of the following format:
Number of properties
The number of properties identifies how many properties will come in the next part of the binary stream sequence.
Each property is of the following format:
Property Tag
Reserved Data
Property Value Union
0 or variable (depending on the prop tag)
The Property Value Union and the Value Data are to be interpreted based on the property tag in the first 4 bytes of the property block. This property tag is in the same format as a MAPI property tag. Bits 0 through 15 of the property tag are the property's type. Bits 16 through 31 are the property's identifier. The property type determines how the rest of the property should be read.
Some properties have no Value Data and only have data in the union. The following property types (which come from the Property Tag) should interpret the 8-byte Property Union data as follows:
Prop Type
Property Union Interpretation
short int
Other properties have data in a Value Data block after the first 16 bytes that contain the Property Tag, the Reserved Data, and the Property Value Union. Unlike static values, the data stored in the 8 byte Property Value union is irrelevant on reading. When writing, make sure to fill these 8 bytes with something, but the content of the 8 bytes doesn't matter. In dynamic values, the property tag's type determines how to interpret the Value Data.
Number of bytes n
Bytes to be interpreted as an ANSI string (includes NULL terminator)
Bytes to be interpreted as a UNICODE string (includes NULL terminator)
Bytes to be interpreted as a GUID
Bytes to be interpreted as a byte array
Number of binary arrays X
A run of bytes containing X binary arrays. Each array should be interpreted like the PT_BINARY byte run described above.
Number of ANSI strings X
A run of bytes containing X ANSI strings. Each string should be interpreted like the PT_STRING8 byte run described above.
Number of UNICODE strings X
A run of bytes containing X UNICODE strings. Each string should be interpreted like the PT_UNICODE byte run described above.
As mentioned above, the binary blocks that represent properties have property tags that correspond to properties on address book recipients. For properties that aren't listed here, you can look up the property description at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc433490(EXCHG.80).aspx.
The properties below are the minimum set of properties necessary for a row to be valid. Therefore, new rows added to the .nk2 file must be populated with the properties below.
Property Name
Description (see MSDN for more details)
PR_NICK_NAME_W (not transmitted on recipients, specific to .nk2 file only)
This property must be first in each recipient row. Functionally serves as a key identifier for the recipient row.
The address book entry identifier for the recipient.
The recipient's display name.
The recipient's e-mail address (e.g. firstname.lastname@example.com or /o=Contoso/OU=Foo/cn=Recipients/cn=johndoe).
The recipient's address type (e.g. SMTP or EX).
The recipient's MAPI search key.
The recipient's SMTP address.
PR_DROPDOWN_DISPLAY_NAME_W (not transmitted on recipients, specific to .nk2 file only)
The display string that shows up in the autocomplete list.
PR_NICK_NAME_WEIGHT (not transmitted on recipients, specific to .nk2 file only)
The weight of this autocomplete entry. The weight is used to determine in what order autocomplete entries show up when matching the autocomplete list. Entries with higher weight will show before entries with lower weight. The entire autocomplete list is sorted by this property. The weight periodically decreases over time and increases when the user sends an e-mail to this recipient. See the description below for more information about this property.
The set of rows in the .nk2 file is sorted in descending order by the PR_NICK_NAME_WEIGHT property and the .nk2 file should always preserve this sorted characteristic. Therefore, any changes to a row's weight should also ensure that the row's position retains the sorted order of the entire set of rows. Any additions to the row-set should be inserted to the proper position to maintain the sorted order.
The minimum value of this weight is 0x1 and the maximum value is LONG_MAX. Any other values for the weight are considered invalid.
When Outlook 2007 sends a mail to or resolves a recipient, it will increase that recipient's weight by 0x2000.
Angela has posted an article with the reg key you'll need to figure out if Outlook is installed via Click-to-Run. I still haven't figured out a good way to get MFCMAPI running against a C2R environment, but when I do, I'll post it here. :)
From Austria came the report that the Unicode build of MFCMAPI wasn't working right for non-English builds of Outlook. They had already debugged and narrowed the problem down to FGetComponentPath not working, even though it worked in the non-Unicode build of MFCMAPI. This was bizarre, since all the parameters should be the same in both builds, having been obtained from the registry, and there's no flag passed to FGetComponentPath to indicate we're in a Unicode build. So – how could we call the same function, on the same system, with the exact same parameters, and get different results?
I looked at what was different between the two scenarios. In the ANSI build of MFCMAPI, we request these strings using RegQueryValueExA, then pass the strings directly to FGetComponentPath. In the Unicode build, since FGetComponentPath only takes ANSI strings, after we request the strings using RegQueryValueExW, we convert the results from Unicode to ANSI using WideCharToMultiByte. I confirmed in the debugger that the strings in both cases were the same, yet we still got different results!
So I debugged FGetComponentPath itself and found, to my surprise, that the strings were indeed different. In the ANSI case, after the NULL terminator was another string, and FGetComponentPath was reading this string. In the Unicode build, we lose this extra data during our conversion because we stop at the NULL terminator!
The registry keys in question here are MSIComponentID, MSIApplicationLCID, and MSIOfficeLCID, which I last talked about here. When we look at them in the registry, we can see the problem – MSIApplicationLCID and MSIOfficeLCID are not REG_SZ after all. Instead, they are REG_MULTI_SZ, so these internal NULLs separating the strings are actually expected.
The fix here was to just make sure any reg keys I read for FGetComponentPath's consumption were read using RegQueryValueExA. Then I don't have to deal with converting the data, and FGetComponentPath gets everything in the format it expects. This fix will be in the next build of MFCMAPI.
I somehow missed when we posted this (here is Paul's announcement), but the PST File Format Specification has been published. This should be everything you need to know to write parsers capable of reading and writing PST files without involving any pesky MAPI providers. Enjoy!
Angela posted an overview of the Outlook Social Connector yesterday. In addition to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Myspace providers, you'll also be able to write your own. And the best part, which I don't think we've announced before, is that we'll be shipping the OSC as an add-in for Outlook 2007 and 2003, so you can get all that social goodness even if you're not yet on Outlook 2010!
My team will be providing support for developers writing these providers. We're very much looking forward to supporting this new platform.
The January 2010 Release (build 188.8.131.527) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com.
I added some more Smart View parsers and fixed a few bugs, notably an issue with named props and some GDI leaks.
This came up in a case and the cause wasn't immediately obvious. The customer used MAPI to open a number of mailboxes using OpenMsgStore. They found that if they tried to multithread their code, they'd open a few mailboxes, then they'd start getting MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER. The odd thing was the same code running against Exchange 2007 did not experience this problem.
It turns out what they were running in to was Exchange 2010's new client throttling feature. The purpose of this feature is to prevent a single client from causing a Denial of Service on the Exchange server by throwing commands at it and dominating it's time. You may find that for certain applications, the default throttling policy isn't appropriate. You can build a new policy using New-ThrottlingPolicy. For MAPI applications (whether they use Outlook or Exchange's MAPI), the settings starting with RCA (RPC Client Access) are the ones you want to set, particularly RCAMaxConcurrency. Once you've created a policy, you can apply it to a user using Set-Mailbox.
An important note: In the policy, you'll see a CPUStartPercent setting. This setting only applies to EWS, as confirmed by David Sterling in his comment to this post.
We recently had a customer who was copying messages around using CopyTo. They found that for certain messages, if the target message store was a PST, they'd get MAPI_E_NO_ACCESS (0x80070005). They saw this for the same messages every time, when other messages would copy to the same PST just fine.
When I debugged the failure, I found the root of the problem was that the source message had an attachment with the property 0x67100003 set on it. The PST provider does not allow this property to be set on a messages in its store, so any attempt to set it returns the error MAPI_E_NO_ACCESS. When they did the CopyTo of the message properties, because PR_MESSAGE_ATTACHMENTS was not excluded, one of the side effects was that MAPI looped through the the attachments and copied them, using calls to CopyTo at the attachment level. These CopyTo calls did not use an exclusion array at all, so every property on the source attachments were copied to the destination. When CopyTo reached the property 0x67100003, the PST provider returned an error, which caused the attachment level CopyTo to fail, which in turn caused the customer's CopyTo call to fail.
By the way, 0x67100003 isn't the only property that causes this problem. In fact, most properties in the service provider defined non-transmittable range (0x6600-0x67FF) caused the same problem.
The fix we used was to add PR_MESSAGE_ATTACHMENTS to the exclusion list for CopyTo, then copy the attachments manually using OpenAttach, CreateAttach, and CopyTo, passing an exclusion array specifying that the non-transmittable properties should be excluded. Since this is the same logic CopyTo uses to copy attachments (without the exclusion array), doing the copy like this doesn't have a performance hit.
It used to be that if you wanted to track a message through various Object Model events such as NewInspector and ItemSend, one way to do it was to grab PR_SEARCH_KEY. A customer recently discovered that this doesn't always work after applying a recent hotfix. Before applying the hotfix, PR_SEARCH_KEY would remain unchanged during the various events. After applying the hotfix, if they were in cached mode they would see the search key change during the send event, but only if the user saved the message, or autosave kicked in, before submitting.
The hotfix in question is 973404. More specifically, the change that broke the customer's code was to address the issue outlined in 974413. This issue is in how Outlook relates Read Receipts to the sent items using PR_SEARCH_KEY. In this issue, if a user created an item as a draft, perhaps to use as a template for commonly sent mail, then copied the message before sending, the draft item and the new item would have the same search key. This in turn broke the read receipt logic.
The fix we made was that whenever we copy a message in the Drafts folder, we don't copy the search key, which allows the copy to get a new search key and allows the read receipt logic to function. Couple this with the user saving the message to Drafts while they're working on it – under this new behavior the saved message now has a new search key. Some of the object model events the customer's code would see would be for the message actually being submitted, and some were for the item in the draft folder. Before the read receipt fix, these different message objects would all have the same search key. But after the fix, the search keys can be different.
The fix here is not to rely on PR_SEARCH_KEY at all. In the customer's scenario, they were using PR_SEARCH_KEY to ensure they didn't "stamp" a message with their properties more than once during the submission process. However, since they were already stamping data on the message, it made sense to just look for their stamp before stamping again.
We just announced a new release of the MAPI Download that's pretty much mandatory if you want to work with Exchange 2010. You'll also need to get and apply Rollup 1 (RU1) for Exchange 2010.
The new MAPI Download fixes a number of problems MAPI had with Exchange 2010:
[Update: 12/14/09] Forgot to mention that you'll still need these tweaks for your profile, but you don't have to disable encryption anymore.[Update: 12/21/09] Added information about admin access to PF.


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A homeowner in suburban Minneapolis sits at the computer on a blustery January night. In the background, a meteorologist on the TV offers that tomorrow's high temperature will be (-8) degrees. The five-day forecast doesn't show any signs of improvement. The homeowner, flummoxed at the thought of another winter trapped indoors, visits a real-estate website to check home prices in Tampa. Low-60s in January? Now that sounds like a great way to live, she thinks.
It has been a truly cold winter, not just in Minnesota, but across the country. Homeowners in northern climates have had their limits tested several times over, and it's not even February yet. It has been enough to make some toy with the idea of moving south, even if it's just a fantasy.
If you happen to be a building professional who operates in a warmer climate, real-estate website Trulia says this bitter-cold winter has probably been good for business. During these cold spells, more homeowners in cold climates are researching the real-estate markets in warmer climates. But are you taking advantage?
According to the Wall Street Journal,
"Trulia analyzed online searches originating from metro areas where the average daily January temperature was below 41 degrees Fahrenheit between Dec. 1, 2013, and Jan. 21, 2014. Those cold weather metros are in the Northeast, the Midwest, Plains and Mountain states and even some of the South. Trulia used temperature data from the National Climatic Data Center.
"In those areas, for every 10-degree Fahrenheit drop in temperature, searches for warm regions increase 4.4%, according to Trulia. In comparison, searches for properties nationwide increase roughly 2.6% for every 10 degree-drop in temperature in cold places."
Several markets have been particularly warm — pun intended — as it relates to real-estate searches during cold snaps. Trulia shared this data from its survey:
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