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Hadiya - who was shot in a park near her school in what police believe was a case of mistaken identity involving gangs - was described by the Rev. Michael Pfleger as an "innocent victim of gun violence." Her killing, he said, raised a question: "When did we lose our soul?"
"We must become the interrupters of funeral processions," Pfleger said. "We must become the interrupters of this genocide."
Hadiya's godfather Damon Stewart made a plea: "Don't make this about politics. This should hurt the hearts of every man."
His goddaughter, he said, represents gun violence victims in Chicago and across the country.
Her killing came in the midst of a national debate on gun violence and gun-control issues and as Chicago grapples with its high homicide rate.
"She's important, because all those other people who died are important," Stewart said. People in the audience clapped and shouted, "Amen."
Toward the end of the service, Hadiya's friends - many clad in their black-and-yellow majorette uniforms - shared memories:
During chemistry class she would whisper help with problems. She gave them advice: "Smile, it tells your brain that everything is OK." She always smiled, even after a bullet pierced her back and police loaded her into an ambulance on Jan.
Her funeral at Greater Harvest Baptist Church drew a host of dignitaries: Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and, of course, Michelle Obama.
The back of the funeral program displayed a copy of a handwritten note from President Obama to Hadiya's family, the Chicago Tribune reported.
"Dear Cleopatra and Nathaniel, Michelle and I just wanted you to know how heartbroken we are to have heard about Hadiya's passing. We know that no words from us can soothe the pain, but rest assured that we are praying for you, and that we will continue to work as hard as we can to end this senseless violence. God Bless."


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Fort Rucker soldiers are donating their time to help girls in the Wiregrass. More than 30 soldiers helped build fences, paint and spruce up the Chrysalis home for girls in Dothan.
The home is a place where neglected girls ages six through 18 can take refuge until the courts find a more permanent residence.
The girls stay an average of 14 months, so the soldiers wanted to help make their home more appealing.
Battalion Exec. Officer James Wideman participated in the event and said, "As members of the military we are also citizens of the Wiregrass while we are here, and I think good citizens contribute to the community as much as you can."
Volunteers from around the Wiregrass help twice a year during spring and fall. They clean up and do routine maintenance around the property.
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The Association of Energy Service Professionals Recognized Providers for Excellence in Market Research and Evaluation
Waltham, MA – January 29, 2013 – The Association of Energy Service Professionals (AESP) today recognized energy efficiency program administrators (PAs) in Massachusetts with an Energy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Market Research and Evaluation. The award acknowledged a first-of-its-kind, innovative two-day summit that Mass. PAs hosted in May of 2012 in an effort to engage all Mass. stakeholders in soliciting feedback and ideas that would help shape Massachusetts' 2013 – 2015 energy efficiency plan and beyond. The award was presented during the AESP's 23rd Annual National Conference and Expo being held in Orlando, FL, January 28-31.
The Energy Efficiency PAs are a consortium of investor-owned Massachusetts utilities – National Grid, NSTAR, Western Massachusetts Electric, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, New England Gas, Unitil, Berkshire Gas, Blackstone Gas – and the municipal aggregator Cape Light Compact.
"We are extremely honored to receive such a highly sought after and prestigious award from the AESP," said Edward White, vice president, Customer and Business Strategy, National Grid. "National Grid is committed to providing innovative energy efficiency services that will help our customers save money while reducing their carbon footprint. The Appreciative Inquiry Summit was a great forum for us to connect directly with customers and others concerned with how energy affects our lives. Efforts like this exemplify why Massachusetts leads the nation on energy efficiency."
The Program Administrators worked collaboratively to sponsor and support the Summit entitled "Massachusetts: Leading the Nation in the Energy Savings Revolution--Building a Better Tomorrow Through Energy Efficiency Today." This Summit was designed to provide a forum for business and civic leaders, policy makers, advocates, and residents to engage in highly interactive sessions to generate ideas that could be used to help shape the next 3-year Energy Efficiency Plans, as well as longer-term plans, that will ultimately form a roadmap for Massachusetts' energy efficiency future.
Over three hundred people came together over the course of two days, under the direction of Dr. David Cooperrider, to create eleven specific statements of aspiration – designed to embody their vision of the state's energy efficiency future. They also crafted seventeen specific recommendations that have been used to shape Massachusetts' Energy Efficiency Plans for 2013 – 2015 and beyond.
Since the Summit was held, the PAs have unveiled a new three-year plan to deliver energy efficiency services that will result in nearly $9 billion dollars in benefits to residents and businesses across the Commonwealth. The three-year plan was unanimously endorsed on November 13, 2012 by the Energy Efficiency Advisory Council (EEAC), an eleven member Council established under the Green Communities Act (GCA) and is currently under review by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.
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National Grid (LSE: NG; NYSE:NGG) is an electricity and gas company that connects consumers to energy sources through its networks. The company is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society - to create new, sustainable energy solutions for the future and developing an energy system that underpins economic prosperity in the 21st century. National Grid holds a vital position at the center of the energy system and it 'joins everything up'.
In the northeast US, we connect more than seven million gas and electric customers to vital energy sources, essential for our modern lifestyles. In Great Britain, we run the gas and electricity systems that our society is built on, delivering gas and electricity across the country.
National Grid delivers electricity to more than 3 million customers in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. It manages the electricity network on Long Island under an agreement with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), and owns over 4,000 megawatts of contracted electricity generation, providing power to over one million LIPA customers. It is the largest distributor of natural gas in northeastern U.S., serving more than 3 million customers in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.


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Some of you will recognise me from the many diets I have tried over the few years I have been on this site, I must of tried at least 10 different plans in that time. I am still fighting the same battle and I am currently 44lb less than when I started back in 2009 after the birth of my miracle son who is now over 4 years old!! I do however still have a long way to go!! 66lbs to be exact.
I lost the first 44lb by changing my habits, counting calories and working out but I was getting very disheartened when it all slowed down, as at that rate it will be another 5 years before I reach my goal!! That is not acceptable to me so after taking about a year out due to a knee injury, I am back on the sensible plan of diet and exercise but hopefully I now have better knowledge and determination to get me to my goal in a more realistic time frame.
Current Stats
- Where I started : Start weight in 2009 - 258lb = size 24/26 clothes
- Where I am : Current weight Nov 2013 - 213lb = size 18 clothes
- Where I am going: Goal weight - 147lb - size 10/12 clothes
The Plan
I will start with 1500 calories a day made up of good healthy foods, low fat, high protein with good carbs and split into 6 meals -
- Breakfast - 350 cals - 9:00am
- Snack 1 - 100 cals - 11am
- Lunch (main meal) - 500 cals - 1pm
- Snack 2 - 100 cals - 3pm
- Tea - 300 cals - 5pm
- Snack 3 - 150 cals - 7pm
I will exercise 5-6 days a week doing cardio, starting at 60 min which I will increase gradual as my fitness improves. I have just joined a gym so I have an advisor called Michelle who is great!! I am really looking forward to getting going with the exercise properly week commencing 18th November 2013 as she is currently devising a plan for me based on my fit test. As I increase the exercise, I may need to increase my calories too, especially when I start to incorporate weights. So I will address this as and when required and will listen to my body and what it needs. I am also attending an 8 week course with a nutritionist who I am sure will give me fab advice, this commences the week beginning 25th November 2013. Extra calories will be added in the form of protein and carefully placed good carbs to get me through my training as it intensifies. I will be also making a conscious effort to be more active in general
My fit test results were good, however I was told that my body fat is really high and needs to come down as it is currently registering at 45% which was a shock! But I have to start some where, and its here and now!! I cant wait to see my progress and changes. My fit test will be repeated in 8 weeks time.
I will also be looking into taking some supplements to assist with my fat loss such as fat burners which research tells me could benefit me if used in conjunction with my plan.
I will be ensuring I keep hydrating and will be drinking at least 2 litres of water every day but hope to get that to 3 litres as my exercise increases.
Lastly, Sleep!!! I know how important rest is and will be making sure I get a good nights sleep every night. I know my body well and I know I need 9 hours. I am expecting this to change as I get fitter
Well, there is my plan Its not set in stone and I am fully prepared to make changes as I go along but I need to have a strong starting point, and this is it
I look forward to updating my diary as I go and getting to make some new friends on here too
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Following interviews, candidates will participate in a meet and greet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room at the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center, 28 S. Linn St.
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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
There are advanced settings in Windows,
settings which normal users not only shouldn't be messing with,
but which they arguably shouldn't even know about,
because that would give them just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
And no matter where you put that advanced setting,
somebody will tell you that you are an idiot.
Here they are on an approximate scale.
If you dig through the comments on this blog, you can probably find
every single position represented somewhere.
If you implement level N, people will demand that you implement
level N+1.
It doesn't stop until you reach the last step,
which is aggressively user-hostile.
(And then there will also be people who complain that
you went too far.)
From a technical standpoint,
each of the above steps is about ten to a hundred times harder
than the previous one.
If you put it in a configuration file, you have to write code
to load a parser and extract the value.
If you want an Advanced button, now you have to write a dialog box
(which is already a lot of work),
consult with the usability and user assistance to come up with
the correct wording for the setting, write help text,
provide guidance to the translators,
and now since it is exposed in the user interface,
you need to write automated tests and add the setting to the
test matrices.
It's a huge amount of work to add a dialog box,
work that could be spent on something that benefits a much
larger set of customers in a more direct manner.
That's why most advanced settings hang out at level 1
or, in the case of configuring program installation, level 2.
If you're so much of a geek that you want to change these
advanced settings,
it probably won't kill you to fire up a text editor and write
a little configuration file.
Joel's count of
"fifteen ways to shut down Windows"
is a bit disingenuous, since he's counting six hardware affordances:
"Four FN+key combinations... an on-off button... you can close the lid."
Okay, fine, Joel, we'll play it your way.
Your proposal to narrow
it down to one "Bye" button, still leaves seven ways to shut down Windows.
And then people will ask how to log off.
Depending on what version of Windows you're running,
there may be a variety of support DLLs for things that
aren't formal product components, but which are merely along for the ride.
For example, Windows 95
came with MFC30.DLL because the Fax Viewer was written with
the help of MFC 3.0.
But if you look at Windows 98, MFC30.DLL is gone.
What happened?
What happened is that Windows 98 didn't have a fax viewer
that used MFC 3.0.
The fact that some MFC 3.0 DLLs wound up on the machine
with Windows 95 was merely a side effect of the implementation
and not a part of the product specification.
And in fact, if you chose not to install the Fax Viewer
during Windows 95 setup, you wouldn't have gotten
MFC30.DLL at all either,
because MFC30.DLL wouldn't have been needed.
We had a category of Windows 98 compatibility bugs from
programs that assumed that MFC30.DLL was a contractual part of Windows.
If the tester did a minimal install of Windows 95 and then
installed the application,
the application wouldn't run there either.
The application vendor simply assumed that MFC was part of Windows,
even though it wasn't.
In other words, the program didn't work even on Windows 95.
Is it a bug in Windows 98 if the program didn't work on Windows 95?
This problem persists today.
People go scrounging around the binaries that come with Windows
looking for something they can remora.
And then they're surprised when those binaries change or vanish entirely.
For example, one customer had reverse-engineered the Kodak image viewer in
Windows 2000 and wanted to keep using it in Windows XP.
those components are not included in Windows XP;
the Kodak image viewer was merely a stopgap solution until the
Windows XP fax and image viewer came along.
(The linked Knowledge Base article has more information on that
I mention this because that customer, a Fortune 500 company,
was trying to copy the files from Windows 2000
and install them onto a Windows XP machine
and actually came to us asking for help in what may very well have
been a violation of the Windows license agreement!
(And certainly a violation of Microsoft's agreement with Kodak.)
(I now predict that everybody will comment on the last two sentences
and completely ignore the point of this article.)
Even without a nitpicker's corner, I have to worry about nitpickers.
I just have to do it in a more subtle way.
Here are some examples of changes I've made to upcoming entries
in order to forestall nitpicking:
What's scary is that I've noticed that I begun pre-emptively
nitpicking my own entries while I'm writing them.
In the balance between writing something that reads more naturally
and something that is more resiliant to nitpicking,
I've unfortunately started preferring the latter.
Observant readers may have noticed that I've slowly introduced
a section called
"Pre-emptive snarky comment" wherein I try to anticipate
drive-by "Hey wouldn't it be hilarious if I
ridiculed Microsoft on a Microsoft employee's blog?" comments.
It seems to be largely successful,
although sometimes people will post the identical snarky comment
that I pre-empted.
These are probably the people who talk just to enjoy the sound of their
own voice.
An extension of this is the "Now that you brought up something that sucks,
I'm going to tell you that it sucks" phenomenon.
This is pretty much guaranteed whenever I bring up anything that
is related to UAC and security,
since it appears that everybody agrees that UAC sucks,
so any blog entry that talks about elevation
invariably leads to comments about
how UAC
There are also popular tangents, such as any article that mentions
installing software turning into a
"post your complaints about setup here" thread.
Some people are more indiscriminate and merely
bash Vista whenever they get a chance,
such as using a story about the psychology of how people fail to process
information that they see to
rant about how it's hard to copy text out of the event viewer.
(That article about how people fail to process information that they see
was indeed an unmitigated disaster.
Everybody got into arguing over how the message should have been presented
so the user would be more likely to see it,
but that completely misses the point.
The user positively confirmed, "I see the yellow warning."
The problem wasn't that the user didn't see the message;
the response confirmed that the user saw the message just fine.
What the user didn't do was process the information.
It's my fault for choosing a bad title.
Instead of "People can't see things that are right in front of them,"
I should have titled it "People see things but don't pay attention to them,"
opting for precision even though it meant I couldn't use the idiomatic
phrase can't see what's right in front of you.
What made it worse is that I fell for the trap.
I responded to the details instead of saying,
"Whether your suggestion would have helped the user see the message or not
is totally irrelevant to the point of the article.")
I also hadn't predicted that my discussion of
how reasonable people can disagree about how a setting should be exposed
would turn into a discussion of how to shut down your computer,
turning a footnote into the primary topic of discussion.
But that's a fairly common occurrence:
People focus on a side detail (which I added for color)
and ignore the point of the story.
Sometimes I think I'd be better off if I didn't give examples.
That way nobody could be distracted by them.
In the beginning, there was one control library,
namely USER,
the window manager itself,
which provided buttons, static controls, edit controls,
scroll bars, list boxes, and combo boxes.
These controls were under the purview of the window manager team.
In Windows 3.1
a second control library known as the shell common controls was added,
but the library really didn't come into it own until Windows 95,
where it consisted
of the list view, header, tree view, tooltip,
toolbar, status bar, track bar, tab, updown, progress, hotkey,
and animation controls.
These controls were originally custom controls
written by the shell team for use in Explorer,
but since they seemed to be generally useful,
time was budged to do the
extra work to make the controls more suitable for general use,
testing the controls in combinations and scenarios
that Explorer itself didn't use,
and putting together formal documentation.
The shell common controls library underwent many changes over
the years, whereas the core intrinsic controls in the window manager
changed much more conservatively.
With Windows XP, the visual design team wanted to give the
look of Windows a new life.
Changing the non-client area (such as the window frame) was comparatively
straightforward, since programs didn't have much
control over that part of the window anyway.
As a result, they get the Windows XP look "for free".
The client area is another story.
Programs are in control of their client area,
where they can place controls that come with Windows,
their own custom controls,
or controls obtained from a third party library.
Making major changes to the core controls or the common controls
would be a high-risk endeavor
since there are thousands upon thousands of Windows program that
not only use them,
but use them in all sorts of crazy ways.
The initial stab at resolving these two conflicting goals
(making major changes to these controls to increase visual appeal
and functionality
while simultaneously not changing them to maintain compatibility)
was to create a new DLL that would contain the "fancy new version"
of the core controls as well as the shell common controls.
The old DLLs USER32 and COMCTL32 stayed
where they were, so that old programs continued to get the behavior
they were expecting,
and the new XP-style controls were placed in a DLL named
UX stands for user experience,
which was the hot new buzzword at the time.
To avoid name collision with the old style controls,
the new controls got new names beginning with Ux.
For example, the UXCTRL version of the button control
was called UxButton.
New features could be added to these new Ux controls with wild abandon
without heed for backward compatibility since they were brand new controls.
There was nothing they had to be compatible with.
Explorer was changed to use these new controls instead of the old stodgy
and everything worked great.
Or so it seemed.
We thought we had cleverly sidestepped the backward compatibility problem
by creating entirely new controls,
but doing that created a whole new category of compatibility bugs.
Even though it's completely undocumented and unsupported,
programs like to
grovel into the internal data structures of other programs
or otherwise
manipulate those programs' windows.
In Explorer's case, it turns out that a lot of programs like to
go spelunking around Explorer's window hierarchy and use functions
like FindWindow and
to find the object of their affections.
For example, a program might use EnumChildWindows to
enumerate all the child windows of an Explorer browser,
and then use GetClassName
and lstrcmpi(szClassName, TEXT("button"))
to look for a specific control.
In this example, the target was a button,
but it could have been a list view or a tool bar.
Since all the new XP-style controls were named
things like UxButton and UxListView,
these programs which looked for a button by comparing against
the string "button" stopped working.
lstrcmpi(szClassName, TEXT("button"))
Of course, there was no guarantee that Explorer would even use
buttons at all;
Explorer was completely within its rights to revamp its user interface.
But that's not much consolation to the customers who paid good money
for these programs,
especially since magazine columnists are the types of people most
likely to be running (or indeed even writing!)
strange off-the-wall programs that pull these
sorts of nasty stunts in the first place.
Okay, so it is now a compatibility requirement that all the new window
classes have the same names as their old counterparts.
This created an impasse, since these controls needed to be created
by dialog boxes, and therefore they had to be globally-registered
window classes.
But you can't have two global window classes with the same name,
because that would create ambiguity over which one the caller was
asking for.
More brainstorming ensued, and a Plan C emerged.
The common controls library would take advantage of
side-by-side assemblies
and use the application manifest to control which
DLL a given window class name would resolve to.
Thus was born a new DLL also called COMCTL32,
but with a new version number—version 6.
Old programs would get version 5.82 just like they did
in Windows 2000.
New programs would have to use a manifest to specify that they wanted
version 6.
Once again, the solution came with a new problem.
Since the entire COMCTL32 library got split
into two versions,
this meant that there were two versions of the image list code.
Whole new scenarios emerged, such as
putting a version 5 image list in a
version 6 tree view, or vice versa.
(As the linked thread notes illustrates, not all of the problems with
cross-version scenarios were caught in the initial release and had
to wait for a service pack for the fix to become available.)
Here are some subject lines I've seen over the past few years
(suitably redacted):
Sure, using exclamation points, all capital letters, or
strange eye-catching punctuation marks makes it easier for you to
spot replies to your message in your inbox,
but it's also rude to your readers,
who almost certainly do not consider your message as important
as you do.
Imagine if everybody did this.
If it's that important that it easy for you to spot replies to your message,
set up a mail filter rule that highlights them.
And, just because I collect these things, here are some
unhelpful subject lines that I've seen in the past six months:
Sometimes, the people who commit the sin of the useless subject line
also follow up with the second sin of
repeating their question verbatim because nobody answered it.
Nobody answered it because the subject line was not obviously in anybody's
specific area of expertise.
A bug report came in:
When I go to the Power Options control panel and select
Edit Plan Settings,
the Turn off display combo-box is disabled.
Is this a bug?
Shortly thereafter, this response was submitted:
Do you see a big yellow warning over the
Turn off display that says that some settings
are managed by your system administrator,
and a link called
Why can't I change some settings?
The reply:
Yes, my machine is joined to a domain, and I see that yellow warning.
This is a fact of life.
People can't see what is right in front of their face.
Even though there's a warning right above the disabled item
explaining that it can't be changed due to an administrative setting,
even though there's a link on the page whose text directly
addresses the issue they are asking about,
even though they
confirm the existence of the explanatory text when asked,
they still don't read it or understand it.
It's another case of
inattentional blindness.
You are so focused on the task of clicking on the combobox that
you completely disregard any other information because you simply
aren't expecting it to be there.
The Windows calculator percent sign works the same way as those
cheap pocket calculators (which are often called four-function calculators
even though they have around six function nowadays).
What you first have to understand is that the percent key on those
pocket calculators was
not designed for mathematicians and engineers.
It was designed for your everyday person doing some simple calculations.
Therefore, the behavior of the key to you, an engineer,
seems bizarrely counter-intuitive and even buggy.
But to an everyday person, it makes perfect sense.
Or at least that's the theory.
Let's look at it from the point of view of that everyday person.
Suppose you want to compute how much a $72 sweater will cost
after including 5% tax.¹
Pull out your handy pocket calculator² (or fire up Calc if you don't
have a pocket calculator) and type
72 + 5% =
The result is 75.6, or $75.60,
which is the correct answer, because 5% of 72 is 3.6.
Add that to 72 and you get 75.6.
Similarly, suppose that sweater was on sale at 20% off.
What is the sale price?
72 − 20% =
The result is 57.6 or $57.60.
This is the correct answer,
because 20% of 72 is 14.4.
Subtract that from 72 and you get 57.6.
You can chain these percentage operations, too.
For example, how much will you have to pay for that 20%-off sweater
after adding 5% tax?
72 − 20% + 5% =
The result is 60.48.
A mathematician or engineer would have calculated the same result via
the equivalent computation:
72 × 0.80 × 1.05 =
Okay, now that we see how the calculator product designer intended the
percent key to be used,
let's look at what the calculator engineer
it has to do in order to match the specification.
When the user enters A + B % =,
the result should be
A × (1 + B/100) or
A + (A × B/100) after you distribute the multiplication
over the addition.
Similarly, when the user enters A − B % =,
the result should be
A × (1 − B/100) or
Aha, the calculator engineer says,
we can achieve this result by defining the percent key as follows:
When the user enters a value, an operator, a second value,
and then the percent key,
the first two values are multiplied and the product divided by 100,
and that result replaces the second value in the ongoing computation.
Let's walk through that algorithm with our first example.
If you watch the display as you go through this exercise,
you will even see the number 3.6 appear in the display
once you press the % key.
The percentage is calculated and replaces the original value
in the ongoing computation.
This algorithm also works for the chained percentages.
This even works for multiplication and division, but there is
much less call for multiplying or dividing a number
by a percentage of itself.
500 × 5 % =
The result of this is 12,500 because you are multiplying 500
by 5% of 500 (which is 25).
The result of 500 × 25 is 12,500.
You aren't computing five percent of 500.
You're multiplying 500 by 5% of 500.
(It appears that the authors of
this Knowledge Base article didn't consult
with the calculator engineer before writing up their analysis.
The percent key is behaving as designed.
The problem is that the percent key is not designed for engineers.)
What if you want to compute 5% of 500?
Just pick a dummy operation and view the result when you press
the percent key.
500 + 5 %
When you hit the percent key, the answer appears: 25.
You could've used the minus key, multiplication key, or division key
instead of the addition key.
It doesn't matter since all you care about is the percentage,
not the combined operation.
Once you hit the % key, you get your answer,
and then you can hit Clear to start a new calculation.
¹In the United States, quoted prices typically do not include
applicable taxes.
²In my limited experiments, it appears that no two manufacturers of
pocket calculators handle the percent key in exactly the same way.
Casio appears to handle it in a manner closest to the engineering way.
TI is closer to the layman algorithm.
And when you get into cases like 1 ÷ 2 %,
calculators start wandering all over the map.
Should the answer be 50, since 1/2 is equal to 50%?
Or should it be 0.005 since that is the numeric value of 0.5%?
Should that answer appear immediately or should it wait for you to hit the
equals sign?
I don't know what the intuitive result should be either.
1 ÷ 2 %
Commenter BryanK notes that
only already-technical people (re)install Windows;
commenter Stu estimates the percentage at 99%.
That may be true in the steady state,
but the hard part is getting to that steady state.
When a new version of Windows is released,
the steady state is disrupted.
At that point, most people installing Windows aren't technical.
They're your technology columnist who is installing Windows and
viewing it through the eyes of a non-technical user,
then writing a column about it.
They're your average consumer who wants to check out
this new operating system.
These are the crazy people who stayed up late to buy
the product at the stroke of midnight,
and they're going to kick off an upgrade install
once they get home.
These initial impressions are crucial,
and innundating the user with
geeky questions they can't answer is not going to generate good buzz.
The steady state is also disrupted every year at Christmas.
The technology columnists are not as big a part of the picture,
but the non-technical end users are still around,
and Christmas is a common trigger for upgrading one's system.
So even though non-technical people rarely install Windows,
the steady state is upset every year.
What's more, whenever a new release of Windows comes out
all¹ the people who are installing Windows are non-technical.
That's why it's important for the installation process
to be as friendly to non-technical users as possible.
¹The word "all" here is about as accurate as the word "only"
in the original comment.
computer I bought not a year and a half ago
decided to keel over last week.
When I push the power button, the power light goes on,
the drives spin up, but there is nothing out the video card
and not even a reassuring beep from the power-on self test.
I've disconnected all the external peripherals as well as all the
IDE devices, and no change.
The problem might be a fried motherboard connection or something.
I'm not a hardware person, so I'm not sure how to diagnose it.
This is easily the shortest life for a computer I've owned
(not counting the ones that were dead on arrival).
I feel kind of bad buying a replacement for a computer that's
barely fifteen months old,
but I also can't think of what else I can do.
All the stuff I can easily swap out I think I've already swapped out.
And I don't know if I can find a new power supply or motherboard
that fits the custom case.
So it's back down to Fry's to buy some random bottom-feeder computer
just so I can whack my hard drives into it and get back in business.
But man, is that machine going to inherit a lot of memory!
(Then again, maybe my problem is that I keep buying bottom-feeder computers?)
One of my colleagues has a degree in economics,
and sometimes it manifests itself in strange ways.
My colleague moved to a new apartment building and rented
a parking space in the building's garage.
After a month of noticing that there was
usually an empty parking space or two on the street,
my colleague made the economic calculation that
the risk of not
finding a parking space nearby was outweighed by the savings
of not paying for a monthly parking space.
After a few more months, my colleague started experimenting
with the
alternate side of the street
parking rules
and noticed that they tended not to be enforced early
in the morning.
Once again, after some mental calculations, the extra few
hours of sleep were deemed worth the additional cost of the
occasional parking ticket.
The saga continues.
My colleague then determined that the city doesn't really care
that much if you don't pay your parking ticket.
(I personally find this hard to believe,
but that's how my colleague described it,
so there you have it.)
The unpaid tickets piled up.
And then something happened to put an end to this little scheme:
The prospect of home ownership.
My friend planned to move out of the apartment building and buy
a house in a different part of the city.
While the city may not care about unpaid parking tickets,
banks definitely do,
and it was adversely affecting the interest rates on the home loan offers.
My colleague sat down and did the math and calculated that
the time-discounted savings over the life of the loan
outweighed the present cost of paying off all the parking tickets.
Off to the parking ticket payment office we go.
"Hi. I'd like to pay my parking tickets."
The person at the desk took down the pertinent information and
went to the computer to print out the tickets so they could be paid.
This was back in the days of
dot matrix printers
tractor-feed paper,
so the printer buzzed noisily and could be heard throughout the room.
The tickets printed.
And printed.
People in the office started to take notice,
wandered over to the printer to see what was going on,
and then, once they realized what was happening,
began to clap and cheer.
Handing over the check to pay for the tickets earned
my colleague a standing ovation.
(By the way,
today is
a parking holiday in Seattle.)
[Note: An incomplete version of this article was
mistakenly published a day early.
It has been updated to the finished version and
moved to its correct publication date.]


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Square's iOS mobile payments go live
After a long run-up and a last minute design adjustment, Square has begun taking payments. The combination of apps for the iPad and iPhone (free, App Store) or Android gives stores and individuals a way of taking credit card payments on the spot without to use a relatively expensive credit card processing machine or service. Square's system takes a 2.75 percent cut of the sale price along with a separate 15 cent fee.
The platform is also designed to bring the advantages of Internet access and mobile apps into paying for items. Buyers can leave notes and have their visit frequency tracked for get-one-free deals and similar offers. Conscience-focused stores can also donate parts of their payments to charities.
The app should work with the iPad, all iPhones and second-generation or later iPod touch players. Android releases are also relatively focused and include HTC's Desire, Droid Incredible, Evo 4G, Hero and Nexus One along with the LG Ally, Motorola's Droid and Droid X as well as the Samsung Galaxy S and Intercept. Google-based devices need Android 2.x or later.


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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, and Matt Sussman. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. For complete film listings, see www.sfbg.com.
Big Miracle Three gray whales trapped beneath the Beaufort Sea ice near the tiny town of Barrow, Alaska become an international cause célèbre through the uneasily combined efforts of an Anchorage reporter (John Krasinski), a Greenpeace activist (Drew Barrymore), a group of chainsaw-toting Inupiaq fishermen, a Greenpeace-hating oilman (Ted Danson), a Reagan-administration aide (Vinessa Shaw), a U.S. Army colonel (Dermot Mulroney), a pair of Minnesotan entrepreneurs (James LeGros and Rob Riggle) with a homemade deicing machine, and the crew of a Soviet icebreaking ship. The magical pixie dust of Hollywood has been sprinkled liberally over events that did indeed take place in 1988, but the media frenzy that blossoms out of one little local newscast is entirely believable. Everyone loves a good whale story, and this one is a tearjerker — though the kind that parents can bring their kids to without worrying overly much about subsequent weeks of deep-sea-set nightmares and having to explain terms like "critically endangered Western North Pacific gray whale" if they don't want to. The film makes clear that the weak-on-the-environment Reagan administration and Danson's oilman stand to gain some powerfully good PR from this feat, with potentially devastating ecological results down the line, and Barrymore's character gets to recite a quick litany of impending oceanic catastrophes. But this kind of talk is characterized as less useful than a nice, quick, visceral pull on the heartstrings, and while offering us the pleasurable sight of whales breaching in open water, the film avoids panning out too much farther, which may be why the miracle looks so big. (2:03) (Rapoport)
*Carol Channing: Larger Than Life See "Hello, Carol!" (1:27) Opera Plaza, Shattuck.
Chronicle A group of teens develop superpowers — fun times, until one of them turns to the dark side — in this sci-fi film shot in the ever-popular "found footage" style. (1:23)
*Come Back, Africa See "On the Township." (1:24) Roxie.
*Coriolanus For his film directing debut, Ralph Fiennes has chosen some pretty strong material: a military drama that is among Shakespeare's least popular works, not that adapting the Bard to the screen has ever been easy. (Look how many times Kenneth Branagh, an even more fabled Shakespearean Brit on stage than Ralph, has managed to fumble that task.) The titular war hero, raised to glory in battle and little else, is undone by political backstabbers and his own contempt for the "common people" when appointed to a governmental role requiring some diplomatic finesse. This turn of events puts him right back in the role he was born for: that of ruthless, furious avenger, no matter that now he aims to conquer the Rome he'd hitherto pledged to defend. The setting of a modern city in crisis (threadbare protesting masses vs. oppressive police state) works just fine, Elizabethan language and all, as does Fiennes' choice of a gritty contemporary action feel (using cinematographer Barry Ackroyd of 2006's United 93 and 2008's The Hurt Locker). He's got a strong supporting cast — particularly Vanessa Redgrave as Coriolanus' hawkish mother Volumnia — and an excellent lead in one Ralph Fiennes, who here becomes so warped by bloodthirst he seems to mutate into Lord Voldemort before our eyes, without need of any prosthetics. His crazy eyes under a razored bald pate are a special effect quite alarmingly inhuman enough. (2:03) Embarcadero. (Harvey)
Domain This moody French drama about the co-dependent relationship between a middle-aged-yet-still-glamorous alcoholic (Béatrice Dalle) and her just-coming-out teenage nephew, Pierre (Isaïe Sultan), had the distinction of topping John Waters' list of favorite movies in 2010 (Enter the Void was number two; Jackass 3D was number six). It's unclear if the Bordeaux-set Domain (released in 2009) would be hitting theaters now without Waters as its champion, but first-time feature director Patric Chiha — who wrote the screenplay especially for Dalle, a cult favorite for her role as a mentally disturbed beauty in 1986's Betty Blue — keeps the melodrama to a minimum, instead relying on subtle hints that cool, sophisticated Aunt Nadia's life is slowly disappearing into a bottle of white wine. Sultan is a little one-note, but Dalle proves heartbreaking as a good-time gal who doesn't quite have the strength to face her illness. (1:48) SF Film Society Cinema. (Eddy)
*The Innkeepers Horror fans who haven't yet discovered writer-director Ti West (2009's The House of the Devil) best get on it — this is a guy with an offbeat sense of humor who recognizes that formulaic stories and crappy CG are not necessary scary-movie ingredients. His latest concerns a rambling, Victorian-relic hotel about to shut its doors after one last weekend in business. Staffers Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) are soon to be jobless, but they're more concerned with compiling evidence that the inn is haunted — as suggested by local legend and Luke's paranormal-themed website. Though there are some familiar tropes here (why is there always a creepy basement, and why won't scary-movie characters stay the hell out of it?), The Innkeepers does deliver a handful of genuine frights. Its main pleasure, though, is its tone, which is neither too jokey nor trying to take itself too seriously. Alongside the slacker duo played by Paxton and Healy are Kelly McGillis (last seen fighting zombies in 2010's Stake Land), who lends gravitas as a cranky psychic; and indie darling Lena Dunham (2010's Tiny Furniture), who has a brief but funny cameo as a neurotic barista. (1:42) Lumiere. (Eddy)
The New Metropolis Andrea Torrice's pair of half-hour docs explore an important yet oft-overlooked topic: America's "first suburbs," communities that sprang up just outside large cities in response to the post-war baby boom. Now that these towns are aging, and in need of infrastructure repair, they're finding that states would rather fund brand-new "inner rim suburbs" — where homebuyers reap the tax benefits of government-subsidized roads, for example, while enjoying their pre-fab McMansions. Both parts of the made-for-PBS doc offer hopeful solutions, particularly part two, The New Neighbors, which studies a multi-racial New Jersey community that is working together to insure "stable integration" in its neighborhoods. The results are remarkable, and inspiring. Both docs screen as part of a free event, "The New Metropolis: Building a Sustainable and Healthy Bay Area in the Age of Global Warming," featuring a post-film dialogue that frames issues raised by the films in a local context. Panelists include filmmaker Torrice; El Cerrito Councilmember Janet Aelson, a transit policy expert; regional design specialist Carl Anthony; and other community leaders. For more info and to register, visit el-cerrito.org/eqc/newmetropolis. (:54) Cerrito. (Eddy)
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami's global best-seller — a melancholic, late-1960s love story — hits the big screen thanks to Tran Anh Hung (1993's The Scent of the Green Papaya). Kenichi Matsuyama (2011's Gantz, 2005's Linda Linda Linda) and Rinko Kikuchi (2006's Babel) play Watanabe and Naoko, a young couple who reconnect in Tokyo after the suicide of his best friend, who was also her childhood sweetheart. There's love between them, but Naoko is mentally fragile; she flees town suddenly after they sleep together for the first time. Meanwhile, Watanabe meets the vivacious Midori (Kiko Mizuhara) — who is also already involved, though not quite so deeply as he — and they spark, though he's devoted to Naoko, and visits her at the rural hospital where she's (sort of) working through her emotional issues. Tran is an elegant filmmaker, and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood contributes an appropriately moody score. But amid all the breathless encounters, the uber-emo Norwegian Wood drags a bit at over two hours, and the film never quite crystallizes what it was about Murakami's book that inspired such international rapture. (2:13) Sundance Kabuki. (Eddy)
The Right to Love: An American Family This earnest doc springboards off the YouTube fame of the adorable, Star Wars-obsessed Leffew family, who started beaming videos from their Santa Rosa home (channel name: "Gay Family Values") as a response to attacks on marriage equality. Director Cassie Jaye wisely uses quite a bit of Bryan and Jay's own footage, which depicts a loving family going about their business under normal (family dinners) and special-occasion (excitedly plotting to leave tooth fairy loot under their young daughter's pillow) circumstances. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows, with the ugly reality of Prop 8 and, most troublingly, Bryan's own family members, staunchly set in their disapproval of same-sex marriage despite the highly functional example in their midst. This world-premiere Castro screening features in-person appearances by The Right to Love's director and subjects; visit www.R2Lmovie.com for additional information on the event. (1:30) Castro. (Eddy)
The Woman in Black Daniel Radcliffe plays a lawyer turned ghost buster in this Hammer Films thriller, adapted from Susan Hill's best-selling (and previously-adapted for stage and screen) novel. (1:36) Shattuck.
Albert Nobbs The titular character in Rodrigo Garcia's film is a butler of ideal bone-stiff propriety and subservience in a Dublin hotel whose well-to-do clients expect no less from the hired help. Even his fellow workers know almost nothing about middle aged Albert, and he's so dully harmless they don't even notice that lack. Yet Albert has a big secret: he is a she, played by Glenn Close, having decided this cross dressing disguise was the only way out of a Victorian pauper's life many years ago. Chance crosses Albert's path with housepainter Hubert (Janet McTeer), who turns out to be harboring precisely the same secret, albeit more merrily — "he" has even found happy domesticity with an understanding wife. Albert dreams of finding the same with a comely young housemaid (Mia Wasikowska), though she's already lost her silly head over a loutish but handsome handyman (Aaron Johnson) much closer to her age. This period piece is more interesting in concept rather than in execution, as the characters stay all too true to mostly one-dimensional types, and the story of minor intrigues and muffled tragedies springs very few surprises. It's an honorable but not especially rewarding affair that clearly exists mostly as a setting for Close's impeccable performance — and she knows it, having written the screenplay and produced; she's also played this part on stage before. Yet even that accomplishment has an airless feel; you never forget you're watching an actor "transform," and for all his luckless pathos, Albert is actually a pretty tedious fellow. (1:53) Shattuck. (Harvey)
The Grey Suicidally depressed after losing his spouse, Ottway (Liam Neeson) has to get pro-active about living in a hurry when his plane crashes en route to a oil company site in remotest Alaska. One of a handful of survivors, Ottway is the only one with an idea of the survival skills needed to survive in this subzero wilderness, including knowledge of wolf behavior — which is fortunate, given that the (rapidly dwindling) group of eight men has landed smack in the middle of a pack's den. Less fortunate is that these hairy, humongous predators are pretty fearless about attacking perceived intruders on their chosen terrain. Director and co-writer Joe Carnahan (2010's The A-Team, 2006's Smokin' Aces) labors to give this thriller some depth via quiet character-based scenes for Neeson and the other actors (including Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts and Dermot Mulroney) in addition to the expected bloodshed. The intended gravitas doesn't quite take, leaving The Grey and its imposing widescreen scenery (actually British Columbia) in a competent but unmemorable middle ground between serious, primal, life-or-death drama and a monster movie in wolf's clothing. (1:57) 1000 Van Ness, Sundance Kabuki. (Harvey)
Miss Bala You want to look away, but aided and abetted by director-cowriter Gerardo Naranjo's sober, elegant perspective on the ugly way that innocents get pulled into the Mexican drug wars, you must see it through. That's the case with Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman), a naive Tijuana beauty contestant who signs up for the Miss Baja pageant with a friend, who almost immediately decides to game the system by partying with the police and DEA agents who could possibly help their chances of winning. Laura instantly falls into the hands of Lino (Noe Hernandez), a mafia boss in the process of crashing the party, and with his gang, killing all assembled. Desperately trying to find her friend, Laura takes a wrong turn that lands her back in the arms of Lino, who vows to help the would-be beauty queen and entangles her in his increasingly closed-in criminal world. Naranjo's cool-headed, almost stately compositions come as almost blessed relief as he pans slowly from the shadows, where you really don't want to know what's going on, to a girl, almost completely out of the frame, desperately wedging herself out a second floor window. His detachment undercuts the horror, while angel-faced, perpetually anguished-looking lead actress Sigman simultaneously compels and frustrates with her fatal errors in judgement as she grows more complicit and is literally caught in the crossfire between the rough gangsters who terrorize her and the government soldiers unafraid mete out punishment. The toughest part is watching Sigman's infuriatingly passive protagonist be used like a sexual puppet, but this raw and refined film — loosely based on the story of 2008's Miss Sinaloa, Laura Zuniga — doesn't pull many punches in indicting the pageant machine and the corrupt system that supports it. (1:53) Sundance Kabuki. (Chun)


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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) spoke out against drug reimportation today, citing the worldwide counterfeit threat. The comments appear to come in response to those healthcare reformists seeking legalization of such importation.
"It is critical that we maintain our focus on comprehensive health reform to help all Americans access high-quality and affordable healthcare coverage and services," said PhRMA senior vice president Ken Johnson. "The Congress should not pursue policies that could expose Americans to counterfeit and substandard drug products and potentially weaken the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by crippling their ability to fulfill their mission in protecting public health and safety. The worldwide counterfeit threat is knocking at America's door and will soon be greeted if prescription drug importation proposals move forward."
Johnson says that "public statements by DHS suggest that there has been a significant increase in seizures of counterfeit imports at U.S. borders. For this reason, PhRMA believes that Congress should continue to maintain – not weaken – FDA's relatively closed drug supply system and also ensure that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and FDA have the resources to seize potentially dangerous and counterfeit products at our nation's borders."
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GLOSUP, EDGAR DEAN [EDDIE DEAN] (1907–1999). Eddie Dean, country vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and actor, was born Edgar Dean Glosup on July 9, 1907, in Posey, Texas, eleven miles southeast of Lubbock. He is best remembered from the 1940s as the golden-throated cowboy with a smooth, melodic voice. Dean appeared in more than thirty Western films and was the first singing cowboy to star in color films.
Edgar Dean Glosup was the son of a farmer and school teacher. His mother taught him to sing and harmonize. In 1926 he moved to Chicago in hopes of pursuing a career in radio. By 1927 after making only a few radio guest spots, Glosup shortened his name to Eddie Dean and moved to Shenandoah, Iowa. Dean joined his brother Jimmy, not to be confused with country artist Jimmy Dean, in 1929, and the two began their singing careers together. From 1930 to 1932 the brothers spent time singing on radio station WTBW in Topeka, Kansas, before they returned to Chicago. There, Eddie and Jimmy were featured on the WLS National Barn Dance for three years and recorded with labels ARC and Decca. Eddie Dean made his screen debut with a small part in Manhattan Love Song in 1934.
By 1937 Dean moved to Los Angeles and began appearing in small film roles opposite big named actors, including Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Don "Red" Berry, and William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy). Dean wrote many of his film songs. From 1941 to 1942 he released eight singles, including "On the Banks of the Sunny San Juan." Dean's big break came in 1944 when he starred and sang in the musical Western Harmony Trail with Ken Maynard. Dean went on to star in some twenty more Westerns until he retired from the industry in 1948. At the height of his career, Dean was listed among the top ten cowboy stars of the 1940s.
After retiring from the film industry, Dean focused more on his singing career. In 1948 Dean co-wrote, with his wife, the single "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)," which was also recorded by Jim Wakely and later revived by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1969. In 1955 Dean wrote and recorded his best-known hit "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven." Six years later, Tex Ritter's recording of the song scored a major hit on the country and pop charts and sold more than ten million copies. Dean was on radio's Town Hall Party in the 1950s.
Dean was a founding member of the Academy of Country Music, and he won that organization's Pioneer Award in 1978. He was an inductee into the Western Music Association's Hall of Fame in 1990 and was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1993. In the later years of his life, Dean played primarily in clubs. He continued to perform well into his eighties and often appeared at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood. On March 4, 1999, he died at the age of ninety-one in Thousand Oaks, California, as a result of lung and heart disease. Dean was survived by his wife of sixty-eight years, Dearest, daughter Donna Knorr, son Edgar Dean Glosup, sister Lorene Lacuata, eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild. Dean is buried at Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, Los Angeles County, California.
Shortly after his death, Dean received a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Fame on March 20, 1999. Most critics agree that his singing was the best part of his films, including Gene Autry, who once said Dean had the best voice of all the cowboy singers. Today, Dean is considered to be a Texas music pioneer who made a significant contribution to the art and business of music, as well as his place of birth.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Jennifer Cobb, "GLOSUP, EDGAR DEAN [EDDIE DEAN]," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgl22), accessed November 29, 2015. Uploaded on August 7, 2014. Modified on October 24, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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