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Common Problems Related to DPI Adjustments
Instead of making the DWM scale your applications, you can indicate to DWM that you will take care of scaling your application. However, before I explore the different paths you can chose to make your application scale, you should consider the following list of the most common problems you might face when the application needs to scale, and how you can prepare your application to avoid these problems.
- Blurry text. When applications don't scale, you can use bitmap fonts that look good at a specific size. However, when your application has to scale the text, bitmap fonts will cause blurry or pixelated text. Thus, you should avoid using bitmap fonts. You should use either TrueType or OpenType fonts because they will appropriately scale their size, there by displaying crisp text.
- Blurry images. If you scale up bitmapped graphics such as button icons, you don't take full advantage of all the available pixels to provide crisp images and they will appear pixelated. If you decide to use higher-resolution images and scale them down, you will lose detail. The application will provide the best visual experience if you prepare multiple versions of each bitmap graphic asset to make them match certain preset DPI settings. I'll cover this topic in more detail later.
- Clipped text and/or clipped UI elements. This problem occurs when some elements are resized but others aren't. For example, the text for a button is resized but its container button isn't. When the application scales, it must resize completely in response to the new system metrics. When the application doesn't scale all the UI elements, the UI layout can make it difficult or even impossible for the user to interact with the different elements.
- Inconsistent font sizes. When you use the wrong font APIs, the text that uses these fonts doesn't resize dynamically in response to the changes in the DPI settings. If you use the appropriate font APIs, you will be able to work in a DPI-independent way.
- Incorrect input management. When the application makes a wrong alignment of the coordinate space with the DPI settings, it will affect input. This problem generates controls that don't respond to mouse or touch input, failures to perform drag-and-drop operations, and touch gestures that don't work as expected.
- Extremely thin lines. If you don't scale the line width, lines can be extremely thin and almost invisible at higher DPI settings.
To achieve the best results, you must plan how to scale your content and prepare specific bitmap graphics for the different DPI settings. The following list shows the five most common DPI settings that Windows 8.1 makes available to the user in the Control Panel settings. However, not all the options are available for all displays.
- 96 DPI. Smaller - 100%
- 120 DPI. Medium - 125%
- 144 DPI. Larger - 150%
- 192 DPI. Extra Large - 200%
- 240 DPI. Extra Extra Large - 250%
Thus, if you want your application to provide the best bitmap graphics for any DPI setting, you will need to prepare 5 sets of images. Of course, in some cases, scaling will work OK; but in other cases, it makes sense to prepare the different sets. Icons are the best example of the bitmap graphics that benefit from multiple versions: one for each DPI setting. Obviously, you can provide a reduced set of bitmap graphics (just two or three instead of five) and scale the images with the nearest DPI. For example, you can provide 96, 120, and 144 DPI sets. If the monitor has a 192 DPI setting, you can scale up the 144 DPI bitmap graphics. The results are going to be clearer than with a 96 DPI bitmap graphic scaled up to 192 DPI. In the first case, you just scale 133%; but in the second case, you need to scale 200%, which will result in a very blurry image.
If you want to provide the best visual experience for an application that has to display icons that have a 32x32 resolution in the baseline 96 DPI setting, create icons with the following sizes to target each DPI setting:
- 96 DPI: 32x32
- 120 DPI: 40x40
- 144 DPI: 48x48
- 192 DPI: 64x64
- 240 DPI: 80x80
As I explained previously, Windows 8.1 determines a default operating system DPI or optimal scale level for each monitor based on multiple factors, such as the panel DPI, the display size, the vertical resolution, and the viewing distance. While the optimal scale for a 15.6" QHD+ display is 200% (192 DPI), the optimal scale for a 13.3" QHD+ display is 250% (240 DPI). The 13.3" panel has the same resolution than the 15.6" panel (3200x1800), but the smaller display size increases the 13.3" panel DPI and 240 DPI is a more suitable OS DPI for this panel.
Considering that 3840x2160 displays (also known as 4K, QFHD, Ultra HD, UHD, or 2160p) are already available in laptops and monitors, a pleasant visual experience with high DPI displays can be a good long-term investment for your desktop applications.
The DPI setting for the monitor causes another common problem the change in the effective resolution. Consider the 13.3" display that offers a 3200x1800 resolution and is configured with an OS DPI of 240 DPI. The high DPI setting makes the system use both larger fonts and UI elements; therefore, the elements consume more pixels to render than the same elements displayed in the resolution configured with an OS DPI of 96 DPI. The effective resolution of a display that provides 3200x1800 pixels configured at 240 DPI is 1280x720. The effective resolution can become a big problem because an application that requires a minimum resolution of the old standard 1024x768 pixels with an OS DPI of 96 DPI would have problems with a 3200x1800 pixels display configured at 240 DPI, and it wouldn't be possible to display all the necessary UI elements. It may sound crazy, but the effective vertical resolution is 720 pixels, lower than the 768 vertical pixels required by the application to display all the UI elements without problems.
The formula to calculate the effective resolution is simple: Divide the physical pixels by the scale factor (OS DPI / 96). For example, the following formula calculates the horizontal effective resolution of my previous example: 3200 / (240 / 96) = 3200 / 2.5 = 1280; and the following formula calculates the vertical effective resolution: 1800 / (240 / 96) = 1800 / 2.5 = 720.
The effective resolution would be of 1800x900 pixels if the same physical resolution were configured at 192 DPI. Effective horizontal resolution: 3200 / (192 / 96) = 3200 / 2 = 1600; and vertical effective resolution: 1800 / (192 / 96) = 1800 / 2 = 900. Windows 8.1 considers the physical resolution height to disable certain DPI scale options in order to make sure that the effective resolution isn't lower than the minimum required for the operating system.
Different DPI Aware Options in Window 8.1
If you want to take full advantage of high-DPI displays to provide clearer and more detailed content in your Win32 desktop applications, you can declare your application as either of the following:
- System DPI aware
- Per-monitor DPI aware
A system DPI-aware application takes into account the system DPI configuration and tells DWM that it will make all the necessary adjustments and scale the content based on this setting and will make its best efforts to render with clear and detailed content in the primary display. However, a system DPI-aware application doesn't respond to dynamic changes in DPI settings in a single session. If the user moves the system DPI-aware application window to a different display with a different DPI setting, DWM will scale the content up or down based on the DPI settings difference. As a result, if the user has displays with different DPI settings, your system DPI-aware application might be blurry in the secondary display.
A per-monitor DPI aware application always renders at the DPI setting for each display in which it is being displayed. The application dynamically scales up or down when the user changes DPI settings or moves the application window to a different display with a different DPI setting. DWM never scales per-monitor DPI aware applications, so they always render clear, crisp, and detailed content. The application has to figure out the right scale factor, listen for changes in DPI settings, recalculate, and render again the layout.
As you can see, a per-monitor DPI aware application requires an additional development investment compared with a system-DPI aware application. However, if you want to provide the best visual experience for users who might work with multiple displays, per-monitor DPI-aware is the best option.
In the next article, I'll provide a complete example of both a system-DPI application and a per-monitor DPI-aware application. This way, you will see the different configurations for your application based on the selected mode, and understand the changes in the code required to convert a system-DPI application to per-monitor DPI-aware.
Gastón Hillar is a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's.


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It was a beautiful day today, and I was able to make some more stones for another burner.
From last year.
I was given the chance to do something special today for a burner.
I melt playa dust with a big fresnel lens into small rocks that resemble Indian teardrops.
Today I mixed some ashes into the playa dust and made her a small stone.
If you are bringing out some ashes to the temple or to scatter and would like to stop by and have a small stone made with some ash and playa dust please stop by.
Just a very small pinch of ash is all I need.
I am part of the HomeBrew for Homebrew camp.
goathead is also my playa name.
Thank you for allowing me the chance to do something for you.
A link to last years thread.
These are just BRC stones, no ashes.
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I've been slightly out of it so far in May. I just wasn't as focused as i couldve been over the past few days. I found myself playing without really thinking about what i was doing. Just opening tournaments because i felt the urge to play even though i knew i was sleepy/tired.
I had a really bad session at 25nl yesterday where i only made 30 cents after a couple thousand hands. I was all over the place, playing very loose and aggressively. opening a wide range of hands from any position... its a wonder i didn't loose money, but i probably shouldve ended that session up like 4 buy-ins.
The aftermath of that session was me taking a hard look at what i was doing and deciding to refocus on my goals for poker this year. Today I probably played my best poker for the month. I won another seat to the Sunday million playing the $3+rebuys satellite and i had a nice 1hr session on Fulltilt 7 tabling 25nl.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Focusing for May
Labels: 25NL full ring, 25nlhe, micro stakes blog
2 comments:
- Pud's Poker said...
Nice ring game result mate! Do you use a HUD when playing cash games and if so which stats do you usually have displayed?
- Game101 said...
hey Pud hows it going...
I use pokeracehud. I keep my display very simple. I have vpip, pf raise %, overall aggression, and number of hands played. Its arranged in a straight line above each player like the gametime display.
I'm not into the whole detailed display because you rarely have enough hands on a micro stakes player for that stuff to be accurate.
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Under Chris Wojcik '96, who is in his second season as The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, the Crimson will host 2011 NCAA tournament participant Hofstra and will visit Duke, Cornell and Penn, who made the NCAA postseason a year ago.
Harvard, which posted a 10-6 overall record, including a 3-3 mark in the Ivy League, reached the final of the Ivy tournament. This year's Ancient Eight tournament will be held May 4-6 at the home field of the regular-season champion. The winner of the tournament will receive the Ancient Eight's automatic berth to the NCAA championship.
"Our players and coaches eagerly await the 2012 season and the opportunity to compete in the Ivy League," coach Wojcik said. "In addition, we have assembled a competitive out of conference schedule, and our program is looking forward to the challenge."
Coach Wojcik and the Crimson makes the trip to Cornell April 7,
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Learning Index >> Ceramic Decoration: a selective guide to pots in the collection of the Crafts Study Centre
No 45: Vase, 1960 (P.74.113)
During the 1960s Lucie Rie made a series of very rugged pots which are in marked contrast to her fine sgraffito porcelains. This bulbous fluted vase one of two distinct types, the other being 'knitted' (or cross-hatched and inlaid) bowls. It is thrown in coarse stoneware clay and squeezed when wet to form an oval at the rim; the widest part of the body is cut with a wide band of deep diagonal grooves and the pot is covered with a flecked grey-white glaze.


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MIDDLEBURY — Several Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) schools are considering new security measures in light of recent acts of violence at schools in Vermont and throughout the country.
Middlebury Union Middle School has already installed a new front-entrance security system, while other schools in the district are considering blinds, alarm systems, reorganized offices that look upon entryways, and/or doors that lock from the inside, as upgrades to better protect teachers and children from would-be attackers.
"We still want people to come to our schools, but we want to ensure their safety at the same time," said Middlebury School Resource Officer Scott Fisher.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury residents at their annual town meeting will be asked to contribute $30,000 toward a new youth center, a number that would be sweetened by $25,000 in private contributions and perhaps other smaller donations from six neighboring towns.
Middlebury selectmen voted 6-0 on Tuesday to place the youth center referendum on the town meeting warning after hearing another pitch from youth center boosters and receiving confirmation that two anonymous donors had offered a combined total of $25,000 to help launch the center this year. The donors extended the offer in hopes that Middlebury voters would match the $25,000 at their town meeting, according to resident Emily Joselson, a leader of the Addison County Teens & Friends (ACT) group that is spearheading the teen center effort.
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After the economy posted an unexpected drop in fourth quarter GDP, its first decline since 2009, CNBC's Jim Cramer called it a "shocker" but also a "one-off number."
"There are way too many companies that reported during this period that saw growth," he said on "Squawk on the Street." Cramer said he simply doesn't see the downward trend in individual companies, for instance Caterpillar, which he said should be trading at $70 if the number were truly indicative of what's going on in the economy.


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The formation of DigitasLBi follows the recent completion of Publicis' £333 million acquisition of LBi.
Luke Taylor, the chief executive of LBi, has been appointed the global chief executive of the new network, which will employ 5,700 staff in 25 countries. The deal will unite Digitas' US power base with LBi's strength in Europe. Critics have suggested that Publicis has struggled to build the Digitas network outside of the US since its $1.3 billion acquisition in 2006.
Roughly half of the network's staff will be employed in the US, with around 700 in London. In the UK, there is unlikely to be an immediate merger of the London office of LBi with Kitcatt Nohr Digitas.
Taylor will report to Bob Lord, the chief executive of Publicis Groupe's Digital Technology Division and global chief executive of the sister network Razorfish. There appear to be few major client conflict situations, but LBi's relationships with Johnson & Johnson and financial services brands such as Lloyds TSB could pose issues for Digitas clients including Procter & Gamble and American Express.
Taylor said: "DigitasLBi represents the first time that insight, content and distribution has been brought together in one agency, providing clients with a truly integrated, best-in-class, global offering." Maurice Lévy, the Publicis chief executive, said: "Advertisers need a truly integrated and global digital network."
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Chemistry students making history with first patents for WBU
PLAINVIEW – As Wayland Baptist University approaches its 100th birthday next August,
the school can add another historic milestone to its bragging list. The first patent
application ever filed in Wayland's name is officially recorded and on its way to
getting full approval.
The brains behind the patent are Wayland chemistry students, many of whom have spent the last several summers doing research projects as part of WBU's summer science research program that allows undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in real, hands-on research and gain valuable experience toward graduate school, professional schools or other career ventures.
Specifically, senior Lori Pretzer of Glendale, Ariz., and Philip Carlson, a May 2007 graduate, developed the technique under patent, filed on the provisional level last October. The full application was completed recently, but according to Dr. Joel Boyd, associate professor of chemistry and the faculty advisor for the project, the process will take another few years to complete, with a patent lawyer working on the university's behalf.
The patent is for a technique of depositing titanium dioxide onto acrylic materials for use as a photocatalyst in the purification process of water. The technique is beneficial, Boyd explained, because the titanium doesn't wash off the acrylic and have to be filtered out of the water after it does its job.
That technique has the potential to be used in various applications for the purification of drinking water, and that, Boyd explained, is one reason why the provisional patent was sought.
"What we're really all about is the academic preparation of our students," he said, noting that the patent protects the work so students can communicate their research through presentations at conferences and on campus. "This project has laid the foundation for lots of additional research in the department."
Indeed, four students spent their summer doing related projects to improve the process created by the initial technique discovery, and, in turn, another provisional patent was filed recently to protect the design of a reactor created by Luke Loetscher, a senior from Wyoming, working in Boyd's research group.
The reactor uses LEDs – light emitting diodes – as the light source to speed the photocatalytic process. The design is positive, Loetscher said, because the LEDs are one of the most energy-efficient light sources, they are available across the ultraviolet spectrum, they are durable and have long life and are relatively inexpensive.
"The biggest challenge is determining how to distribute the light through the reactor for the best effect," said Loetscher, who hopes to become a missionary and take his discovery to countries where poor quality of drinking water is a major problem.
Loetscher and Jonathan Carey, a junior from Hobbs, N.M., are now working on an additional
project to modify the design of the World Health Organization's solar disinfection
system (SODIS) – which uses an ordinary plastic water bottle set in the sun to sterilize
water – and adding the titanium dioxide as a photocatalyst to speed the process. The
titanium dioxide has added benefits, Loetscher noted.
"Not only are you killing bacteria in the water, but the titanium dioxide also removes chemical contaminants, and there's less chance of bacteria regrowth," he said.
To add to their list of accomplishments, Carlson, Pretzer and Boyd recently published an article on the deposition technique in the November issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society. That, Boyd said, is another major milestone since competition to be published in scientific journals is stiff at best.
While Boyd is proud of the students' research and the "firsts" achieved, he said the
patents and publications just prove the well-rounded nature of the education being
provided at Wayland.
"The best indicator of fruitful scientific investigation is that it produces more questions, and this project has done that every year," Boyd said. "As a university, we're not in this for the patents; they are a sign of success, but not the goal. We do it because it would be a shame to let that 'fruit' of research stay on the ground and rot."
Though the classroom work and the lab research are vital to the students' preparation for the future, he said this project has allowed the students to see the full spectrum of research, including communicating it to the scientific community (through the journal article) and protecting it legally.
"What they're having the opportunity to do here is so neat," Boyd said. "These are their projects that they're researching and they're writing; they're not just an extra set of hands for someone else's research."
The students echo that sentiment.
"I don't think there is a better opportunity out there for me to do real research at this level," Loetscher said.
Boyd said once the patent gains full approval, the likely outcome is for the university to license the technique or design to a company who will use it to produce products that will improve the lives of many. The patent protection means WBU can assure that the technology will be put to good use.
"What I love is that this work has real applicability in areas that are so near and dear to the mission of the university," Boyd said, noting that he has appreciated the support of WBU administrators in covering the cost of patent applications and encouraging the student work.
The enthusiasm of Wayland officials, though, is just as vibrant as the students.'
"The emphasis and demonstrated success of the undergraduate research initiative in the Division of Mathematics and Sciences has led Wayland to a unique place in its history," said Dr. Bobby Hall, provost and vice president of academic and graduate services. "The work of our faculty and students in creating patentable research is a tremendous step forward and is a clear indicator of the quality and cutting-edge experimentation present in Wayland's academic program. We are, of course, quite enthusiastic about future developments in this field."


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Saying it was a "day of the advocates, a day of the survivors," President Obama signed an expanded Violence Against Women Act on Thursday in Washington.
"This is your victory," Obama said. "And this victory shows that when the American people make their voices heard, Washington listens."
Originally passed in 1994 and reauthorized since, the act provides support for organizations that serve domestic violence victims. Criminal prosecutions of abusers are generally the responsibility of local authorities, but the act stiffened sentences for stalking under federal law.


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German robotics firm Festo has come up with a unique take on robot locomotion.
Their newest robot is built on the principle of "recovering, storing, and releasing energy based on a natural model" in order to move around. In this case, the "natural model" is a kangaroo, so Festo's robot literally jumps to get from A to B.
Here's what it looks like at speed:
And here's what it looks like slowed down:
The kangaroo's jump process is divided into three phases, outlined in the diagram below. First is the take-off phase, in which the kangaroo leans forward to shift its center of gravity before engaging valves in its legs for take-off. During the flight phase, it moves its legs forward in preparation for landing and raises its tail. Then it finally lands.
Although it looks bizarre, it's actually an efficient method of locomotion. In real kangaroos, the Achilles tendon stores energy from the last jump when the animal hits the ground, and releases it in propelling the next jump. In other words, potential energy created by the jump is continually being stored and harvested for the next jump. Kangaroos actually use oxygen more efficiently when jumping at speed than they do when walking slowly. The implication of Festo's work is that it is possible to create a robot that can move efficiently at speed over rough terrain that may impede a robot using wheels.


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Tanya Plibersek slams Government's contribution to Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria
Opposition Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek has slammed the Government over the amount of money it is donating to an international fund to fight communicable diseases.
Donors to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria have just finished their meeting in Washington and have pledged more money for the next three years.
The fund is a public-private partnership and one of the most successful organisations of its type in the world.
Aid groups had expected Australia would donate $375 million, but it is donating $200 million.
Last year, the then-Labor government committed $100 million to the fund.
"Certainly there was an expectation that the amount would grow," Ms Plibersek told AM.
"The funding next year will be $67 million - a very substantial drop in funding for an organisation that is having success in fighting HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. If we don't invest now we will pay forever."
World Vision Australia CEO Tim Costello says he is very disappointed.
"The truth is that we should have been giving about $125 million a year and it's been reduced to $67 million," he said.
"I know a lot of Australians will say, oh yes, but we've got our own crises. Let's put it in perspective. We are number one out of 215 nations in the median per capita wealth. We're the wealthiest. Switzerland comes second. So we are blessed.
"And to defeat tuberculosis, HIV and malaria, which literally saves lives, is in our interests because we know that drug resistant tuberculosis is jumping from Papua New Guinea to northern Queensland.
"So it's a wise investment because it saves lives of others and it helps protects Australians."
Cutting funding to Australia's region 'not a good look'
Ms Plibersek says maintaining or increasing Australia's contribution to the Global Fund is a sign of being a good world citizen.
"I think it's important that Australia shows leadership. It's very difficult to expect countries poorer than Australia to keep up their commitments when we're cutting our commitments," she said.
Ms Costello says those cuts will affect Australia's standing.
"When you cut aid in the region where most of the world's poor live - our neighbourhood, Asia - it's not a good look," he said.
AM asked Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and Parliamentary Secretary Senator Brett Mason to comment, but neither returned calls.
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From San Jose to London
The new year 2012 brings new expectations and changes. The city of San Jose, for example, enacted a ban on plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailer check outs. In response, residents and approximately 5,000 retailers are all adjusting to this new experience, making San Jose the largest U.S. city to ban plastic carry-out bags. Apparently San Jose, along with many other cities, is determined to avoid perpetuating the history of urban area pollution. The environmental destruction has plagued so many places, including the River Thames in London which was declared "biologically dead" in the 1950s.
From environmental movements (Bring Your Own Bag – BYOB) to business trends (Bring Your Own Device – BYOD), San Jose and London reflect where the world is going. Cisco Live London (Jan 30 – Feb 1, 2012) is in the limelight for the next several weeks with many sessions and demonstrations addressing these top-of-mind concerns:
- How can you execute better today and tomorrow with enhanced network performance?
- How do you prepare for cloud deployments and other new technologies?
- How can you bring down the total cost of owning your networks, while greatly improving business efficiency?
Whether you'll physically attend the event, or you'll join online, this is a great opportunity to connect with your peers on these ideas.
As an example, check out how Nagra-OpenTV accomplishes several critical business goals. This firm enables advanced television services for providers worldwide, providing security for online content delivered to 144 million smartcards. Mr. Andrew Gray, now Director of Global Network Infrastructure of Nagra-OpenTV's parent company, was heavily involved in these efforts. With a Cisco end-to-end network and single-pane management, Andrew and the team reduced IT troubleshooting time by 80%. The result is a high-availability platform that supports efficient and agile product development. The company's Cisco Catalyst 3750-X Series Switches with Flexible NetFlow help them identify where the biggest bandwidth demands are coming from, discover undesired behavior, enforce remediation policies, and analyze traffic patterns for better capacity planning. With a pay-as-you-grow stacking switch solution, Cisco 3000 Series Switches have enabled Nagra-OpenTV to minimize its upfront investment while maintaining the flexibility to quickly ramp up for new business opportunities.
Andrew said that he's thinking about attending Cisco Live London if his schedule permits. You might run into him there. Attend our customer panel event to hear how your peers are thriving in times of change (Tues Jan 31 and Wedn Feb 1, Session Code: BRKSPS-2205). Join us in the World of Solutions to discover how Cisco switching innovations for campus and data center can help you build your intelligent infrastructures.
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23 Feb 2012, 1:02 AM
It is possible to avoid the ugly ValueProvider cast ? TreeStore ModelKeyProvider is ok but the other... :-(
23 Feb 2012, 8:42 AM
All the generics in 3.x do make things a little more tricky. Are you getting a compiler error or is your IDE complaining about the line if you don't have the cast?
23 Feb 2012, 8:51 AM
Its just a compiler warning. The TreeStore constructor has <? super M> to allow supertypes for ModelKeyProvider but the Tree constructor does not allow the same for ValueProvider. I think that is the reason i have to put a ugly cast. Is it planned to refactor ValueProvider declarations to allow supertypes in the same way TreeStore and ListStore allow for ModelKeyProvider ?
public TreeStore(ModelKeyProvider<? super M> keyProvider)
public Tree(TreeStore<M> store, ValueProvider<M, C> valueProvider)
23 Feb 2012, 9:24 AM
I assume the warning is about an unchecked cast?
I created a subclass of Tree that modified the constructor argument to ValueProvider<? super M, C> and everything is happy except for the call to super(...) which expects M and not a parent.
I agree this seems like an oversight considering TreeStore has the <? super M> signature but admit I don't know the ramifications of changing this.
As I do not work for Sencha I cannot speak to the refactoring of the ValueProvider parameter. I would suggest and encourage you to file a bug in the bug forum with a title of something like "Inconsistent constructor signature between TreeStore and Tree" and then go into detail with your example (and solution).
Colin Alworth
28 Feb 2012, 10:14 AM
Many places that accept ValueProvider<T,V> can usually accept ValueProvider<? super T, V> - I have a patch that changes this in many places, but I've had concerns about committing it for the sake of readability, and for actually testing each and every case to be sure it can cause no other issues. As this has an (admittedly ugly) work around, this is a cleanup issue that has been ignored while harder to work around issues are attended to.
If I may ask, how are you creating these that you want the superclass of the model? PropertyAccess types can be made generic as of beta3, letting you define subtypes that make that type concrete. This doesn't completely deal with the issue, but in many cases it can prevent those ugly casts.
9 Mar 2012, 4:40 AM
Thx Collin. I'm having the same problems with ComboBox LabelProvider not accepting supertypes.
In the first post you have a link to the example code im having problems with.
Colin Alworth
28 Mar 2012, 12:03 PM
Thanks for the feedback everyone, in the 3.0.0 RC (www.sencha.com/products/extgwt/download) we just put up for download, you should see generics changes to deal with these kinds of cases - nearly all cases where ValueProvider<M,V>, or LabelProvider<M> is accepted, we've changed it to ValueProvider<? super M, V> and LabelProvider<? super M>. This hurt readability slightly, but makes it flexible to accept any kind of generated provider.
Please update this thread if you find cases I've missed or want to discuss other generics issues.
3 Apr 2012, 7:56 AM
Many thanks Colin for commit this refactor. The application code now is more clean. =D>
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Recruits. By my count, everyone could potentially belong to a faction by now. Some recruits possibly failed. Why?
Black: Jude, Black TBD, Black TBD
Suian: Suian TBD, Madge, N1 recruit TBD, N2 recruit TBD
Elaida: SirGabriel, ahippo, N1 Recruit TBD, N3 recruit TBD
Unaligned: Diemo
TBD: bessie, Carlington, dimochka, Gopher of Pern, matt96, mpolo, Sabrar
Sabrar vs. matt96. If SirGabriel is telling the truth about his night results, Sabrar or matt is scum. Team Elaida has not yet placed any votes. If either Sabrar or matt is on Team Elaida, Team Elaida should be voting for the other guy because they would trust SirGabriel to be telling the truth.
Ter'angreal. No one claimed they received one last night. I'm not convinced that these are good anyway, because I don't know who is giving them out. I know Jude had one, but it was the source of his power, not an extra object he could use instead of his power. Madge claimed she could use hers instead of her power. Sabrar could have a "good" ter'angreal or he could have lied about having one or about his results. Why were the recipients selected? I can't see someone giving Madge a kill unless they were on her team or it was a "bad" ter'angreal.
There should be more ter'angreal out there. This makes me think so:
jimbobmacdoodle wrote:Each night, she could use the One Power to place wards to protect another player. She could either place a ward that protects against One Power-based abilities, or that protects against other abilities.
Carlington, you better have a good reason for investigating mpolo.
Whatever "town" means.Carlington wrote:I have results saying mpolo is town.
I'm not convinced any of you are telling the truth, at least not the entire truth.matt96 wrote:I'm not entirely convinced that SirGabriel is telling the truth


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Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand has four catchers on his roster this season and all have started at least one game. Logan Hostettler and Bennett Smith have each started three games. Brett Teschner has started two and Matt Brewer has started one.
"We have a lot of good options back there," Forehand said. "They are almost interchangeable. Everybody wants to be the starter. We have talked a lot about that.
"Each one does one thing better than the other. We have four guys who are solid and four guys who can help in different areas."
Forehand has his starting rotation set for this weekend when Purdue (5-2) visits with left-hander Richie Goodenow (0-1, 3.36 ERA in two starts) on the mound Friday. Right-hander Connor Sinclair (1-0, 0.00 ERA, two starts) could pass the school's all-time record for consecutive scoreless innings Saturday afternoon. Right-hander Dannie Strable (2-0, 2.77 ERA, two starts) will close out the series Sunday.
Purdue will counter with three right-handers _ Matt Morgan (1-0, 1.86 ERA), Lance Breedlove (0-1, 13.50 ERA) and Brad Schreiber (2-0, 2.25 ERA).
Games times are 3 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at Ken Dugan Field at Stephen Lee Marsh Stadium. The game schedule could be affected by expected inclement weather.
The Bisons, 6-3, enter the game with a three-game winning streak on the line.
Forehand expects to continue to look at all four of his catchers in game situations for at least the near future.
"It is not like it was when I first got here and Caleb Joseph had to catch every game," Forehand said. "We can catch three different guys in a weekend. Spreading it out like this is going to make them better players.
"Hostettler has the most experience of the four, but no one has broken out of the pack yet," Forehand said. "They are all different. Some of them hit better. Some of them throw better. Some of them are better receiving the ball. All four of them are going to have a vital role in what we do."
Goodenow leads the Bisons in hitting with a .429 average. Goodenow and outfielder Ricky Coleman are tied for first in both home runs with two and runs batted in with eight.
Outfielder M.L. Williams has a nine-game hitting streak, the longest on the team, and is a perfect seven-of-seven in stolen bases.
Purdue's Boilermakers have scored in double figures in six of their seven games this season.
Purdue and Lipscomb have met only one other time on the baseball field. Purdue won 1-0 in 2004 at Lipscomb to start the season.
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The Dragon Classic Marching Band Competition will be held on Oct. 5, beginning at 10 a.m. at the South Oldham High School campus. Twelve marching bands from across the state will perform their halftime shows in competition in SOHS's Dragon Stadium. Over 1,500 participants are expected. The event is a fundraiser for South Oldham's band program. For more information, call Sue Bird at (502) 243-1429.
The South Oldham Rotary Club had the pleasure of honoring the South Oldham Rotary September Students of the Month at their Sept. 13th meeting.
La Grange Elementary School cafeteria manager, Linda Ford invited firefighters and police officers to eat lunch with students in remembrance of 9/11.
Honoring the first responders, there were thank-you posters and September 11 remembrance quilts hung in the cafeteria created by Leopard Spot after-school enrichment students. Several classes also went outside to see the fire truck after lunch.
Two Eastern Kentucky University students with local ties took home a second place prize at the 2013 International Graphic Arts Education Association (IGAEA) Conference.
The team of Drew Slone, Lawenceburg; Cynthia Reynolds, Somerset; Dylan Lakes, Cynthiana; Erin Williams, Louisville; Alexa Klusman, Goshen; Jake Reaves, Dry Ridge; Tamara Perry, West Chester, Ohio; Michelle Oudeh, Nichloasville; Joe Segreti, Prospect; and Keith Hardiman, Richmond, took second place in the electronic publishing category group project.
Be sure to say "felicidades" to Alec Johnson on his new role as the English Language Learners program director. Alec joined the Oldham County Schools ELL program last year, bringing with him 15 years of experience in Jefferson County Public Schools.
He came to Oldham County as an ELL resource teacher, instructing students and also guiding the ELL PLC and collaborating with school and district staff. He has also served as a KTIP mentor.
Two seniors from LaGrange enrolled at the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky at WKU have been recognized as semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program, an honor that potentially opens the door to college scholarship opportunities.
The Camden Station Walkathon, which is hosted by the PTA, is an annual fundraiser that takes place at the South Oldham High School track that was held Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade receive pledges from friends and families per lap or for an overall goal with all money being donated to the PTA.
Money raised is used to fund the purchase of iPads, online subscriptions, teacher supplies, computers and various other materials that otherwise, we might not be able to attain.
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With Kobe Bryant in Germany and Pau Gasol and Steve Nash on the bench, the Lakers turned to a collection of newcomers to pull out their first preseason victory in three seasons. The Lakers defeated Golden State, 104-95, at Citizen's Business Bank in Ontario.
Xavier Henry, a fourth-year guard from Kansas, provided the Lakers with plenty of highlight footage amid his 29 points on 9-of-15 shooting.
He buried a 3-point shot at the buzzer from beyond the half-court line to put the Lakers ahead at halftime, 60-57. He missed another long-range shot in the third quarter, but came up a timely 3-pointer to tie the game at 81 with 7:11 left in the game.
Nick Young chipped in 17 points, whil Jordan Farmar added 12 points and Chris Kaman had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Jim Buss, executive vice president in charge of basketball operations, watched the Lakers' end their preseason futility from a courtside seat across from the Lakers bench. The victory ended a streak of 10 preseason losses, dating back to 2011.
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San Francisco, grappling with the exploits of the Riddler and the Penguin, will call upon a pint-sized crusader: Miles, a 5-year-old cancer-stricken boy, a.k.a. Batkid.
What started out as Miles' wish to be Batman has turned into an all-out extravaganza in San Francisco as word spread and thousands of people volunteered to pitch in and help transform the bayside metropolis into Gotham City.
Coordinated by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the effort will include Miles' own Batmobile, a personal call from Police Chief Greg Suhr for help, the apprehension of the Riddler and then a flash mob involving hundreds of people in Union Square alerting Batkid to the fact that Penguin has kidnapped Lou Seal, the San Francisco Giants mascot.
Batkid will then chase the Penguin around AT&T; Park, rescuing Lou Seal and earning a key to the city during a presentation at City Hall.
All of these exploits were kicked off by a live television news bulletin carried by KGO-TV and covered in the "Gotham City Chronicle," 1,000 copies of which were printed by the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday, the top A1 story penned by -- who else? -- Clark Kent.
The day's feats would be a tall order for even the mightiest superhero, let alone a 5-year-old whose been battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia since he was 20 months old, the Chronicle reported.
Miles' cancer is in remission, and with the last of his chemotherapy in June, "he wanted to be Batman," Patricia Wilson, the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Bay Area executive director, told the paper.
The organization began making plans and before long, thousands of volunteers had signed up to cheer on Batkid. The mayor, police chief and local media also got in on the action, turning it into a citywide spectacle.
"Follow #SFBatkid adventure and have your faith in humanity restored," tweeted @shalynpughdavis.
"I couldn't be more proud to be living in such a great city and witnessing #Batkid dream come true," @purplerinne tweeted.
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Canadian Respiratory Journal
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 242-242
Pulsus Respirology News
Norman L Jones Award
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Gronkowski's status remains murky in New England as the Jets get hot with a conference showdown looming on the horizon ... plus 10 musings on matters throughout the league going into Week 6
The Jets are riding high at 3-2 after Monday night's road upset of the Falcons. A victory on Sunday against the winless Steelers, coupled with a Patriots loss at home to the undefeated Saints, would set up an AFC East showdown at MetLife Stadium between the 4-2 Jets and Patriots on Oct. 20.
Who would have thought that was possible at the beginning of the season?
The Jets' surprising success isn't the only reason why Ryan has had accolades (instead of arrows) thrown at him this season. His defensive coaching tree is off to a promising start. Bob Sutton (Chiefs) and Mike Pettine (Bills), both former Ryan lieutenants with the Jets, have unquestionably improved their units. At this point, the Jets ranked second in yards allowed per play, the Chiefs are seventh (20th last season) and the Bills are 15th (22nd in '12).
"The strength of the system is the ability to make it player-driven, as we've done here," Pettine said before taking on his former mentor in Week 3. "I wouldn't say we're significantly different from where we were in New York, but we are different based on the personnel that we have here—just as his personnel has changed slightly in New York and he's adjusted his system accordingly."
Sutton, 52, had a long college coaching career before joining the Jets in 2000 under Al Groh; he then worked under Herm Edwards and Eric Mangini. Prior to Mangini's final season, in '08, the Jets' defensive staff was tasked with studying the system Ryan used as defensive coordinator of the Ravens.
"It's so ironic," Sutton told The MMQB during training camp. "We broke down every Baltimore game, trying to figure out what the heck this was—not quite understanding it; guessing. And then one year later (after Ryan was hired by the Jets) you're saying, 'Oh, this is what that was.' It has been a great system for a number of years."
Sutton says two factors stand out about Ryan's system. It's certainly complex, especially for opposing quarterbacks, but it's commutable from player to player.
"When Rex got there, we watched the previous four years of cutups," Sutton said. "I was thoroughly impressed by the number of players that played in the system and the results didn't change. And then I said, 'This is really good.' "
And then there is the proven ability to get the best out of the defensive linemen who are needed to key the system, from the Jets (Muhammad Wilkerson, Sheldon Richardson, Damon Harrison) ... to the Chiefs (Dontari Poe, Mike DeVito, Tyson Jackson) ... to the Bills (Kyle Williams, Marcell Dareus, Alan Branch).
"One of (Ryan's) best traits is his defensive linemen do a great job playing the ball, playing the blocker and getting off the blocks," Sutton said. "That sounds like a simple thing, but I think that's one of the things that goes unnoticed in Rex's system. He's had all these players go through the system—every year it seems like it's somebody new—but every one of them does the same thing up front."
How Ryan and his former understudies do that exactly remains a mystery.
"Can't tell you," Sutton said with a laugh.
But the results speak for themselves. Ryan's coaching tree is growing well—he'd tell you that himself.
"I just think the proof is in the pudding," Ryan said before facing Pettine and the Bills. "When you look at it from a statistical standpoint, it'll bear out at some point. We lead the AFC in defense and Kansas City is second and it won't be long before Buffalo joins those ranks. So the system is good, but the players make it, and you focus on what the players can do—and obviously Mike knows it. But there's a lot of work involved. It's a challenge to the players, but any player that plays defense wants to play in this system.
"That my defense, that's his defense. Certainly we were together a long time. He's somebody that I'm extremely proud of."
First ...
This week, Mike Petraglia of WEEI-AM in Boston had the most detailed report on the status of Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski. The highlights: the surgery for the forearm he injured on Nov. 18 might not have been needed, but the team and Gronkowski decided to do it anyway, hoping it would give him a chance to play in the postseason; there's "serious concern" about the integrity of the bone, which is holding up Gronkowski's return. Dr. James Andrews was brought in, at some point after team doctor Thomas Gill performed the surgery, as an independent party to determine when Gronkowski can be cleared.
ESPN reported that Andrews was brought in by Gronkowski and the team. What happened in the past, and who ultimately brought Andrews in, can be debated because both sides have their versions. (I doubt the Patriots invited another party into a matter regarding one of its players; it's more likely that it was a final compromise between the two sides.) But what I'm most interested in is that Andrews was even consulted at all. I think it is a brilliant idea to have an independent party determine what medical steps are in a player's best interest; it should be done more often and earlier in the process. Every procedure should be done this way. Every player on every team—this example just happens to be the Patriots—should know there's at least one doctor in the equation who is unquestionably looking out for his best interest.
... and 10
1. The Packers' 22-9 victory over the Lions last Sunday can be viewed a little skeptically because receiver Calvin Johnson didn't play, but what can't be discounted is the work of Green Bay's offensive line and its coach, James Campen. Detroit entered 10th in our Pressure Points Rate (29.4%) but the Packers held them to 18.1%— a No. 30 ranking for the week. The performance was keyed by how well left guard Josh Sitton blocked Lions tackle Nick Fairley, mostly one-on-one. The Packers' pass protection apparatus (it really includes the line, backs, tight ends and quarterback Aaron Rodgers) is now our sixth-ranked unit after years of struggling. The Packers shouldn't slap themselves on their backs too much. The Ravens, this Sunday's opponent, are our fifth-ranked pass-rush unit and have been much better than the Lions.
2. Not to take anything away from the job that Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib did against A.J. Green last Sunday, but the Bengals receiver has now been shutdown in consecutive weeks by Sam Shields (Packers), Joe Haden (Browns) and Talib. They are talented players, but if Green can't get back on track against the Bills, it may be time to worry. There doesn't seem to be a physical issue with Green, but the Bengals may have to invent ways to free him up.
3. The Patriots' rushing attack will determine whether or not they can knock off the unbeaten Saints at Gillette Stadium this weekend. New Orleans uses almost all nickel and dime defensively—with rookie safety Kenny Vaccaro playing as a pseudo linebacker. If the Patriots can't force the Saints to commit to stopping the run, it will be a very long day for Tom Brady in the pocket. Surprisingly, the Saints don't do a whole lot of scheming in Rob Ryan's defense, probably because of the newness of the scheme. They do, however, get creative on third down. Expect the Saints to have a tough time fooling the Patriots. Brady and his line are the best combination New Orleans will have faced through six weeks—even if center Ryan Wendell can't go because of a concussion. (His backup, Dan Connolly, won that job in 2011, after Dan Koppen had been cut, so Connolly can get it done). Also working against the Saints: the Patriots' line is coming off its worst performance in quite some time. In their 13-6 loss to Cincy last Sunday, the Pats finished with just 248 total yards (a mere 82 on the ground). This was likely a long week of practice under the glare of veteran line coach Dante Scarnecchia.
4. Speaking of the Saints' pass rush, it was puzzling to watch the Bears struggle so much last Sunday. It wasn't as much physical as it was setting the protection. Does Jay Cutler not have much responsibility in that area? Was center Roberto Garza off his game getting the line set? Whatever the reason, it wasn't good and it needs to be cleaned up for the Bears to be successful this season.
5. Stat of the week from Pro Football Focus: The Bears defense has averaged 79 missed tackles in each of the previous five seasons. After beating the Giants on Thursday night, they have 55 through six games.
6. The Chiefs will win a lot of games with their current formula: good defense that takes the ball away (15 times so far) and an offense that doesn't turn it over (just five) for an NFL-leading plus-10 in giveaways/takeaways. But to beat the good teams, they're going to have to start stretching the field. Defenses know QB Alex Smith is overly conservative, so they're dropping a safety down and playing a lot of man. The Chiefs have a big problem with receiver Dwayne Bowe. Not sure what has happened to him, but he lacks explosion and can't beat man coverage anymore. Defenses don't fear him at all.
7. Add this to Newton's laws: The Panthers struggle, and quarterback Cam Newton takes the heat. It always happens. He is certainly limited in his read progressions and has a tendency of locking onto one receiver, but his teammates have to help him out. Carolina's pass protection has bordered on awful—the Panthers are fifth-worst in our ratings—and dropped passes by receivers have been huge. Steve Smith (two) and Brandon LaFell had drops that would have been big plays or touchdowns against the Cardinals last weekend.
8. The job that Bengals defensive end Wallace Gilberry did against the Patriots in place of injured starter Michael Johnson last Sunday can't be overstated. After 1.5 sacks on Sunday, he now has nine in 19 games since joining the Bengals as a free agent prior to Week 3 in 2012.
9. The Raiders likely won't have center Stefan Wisniewski (knee)—one of the better players in the league at his position—for the second straight game when they go to Arrowhead Stadium this Sunday. You can get away with Andre Gurode starting against the Chargers, as Oakland did in a 27-17 win last week, but the center position is very important when playing the Chiefs. Kansas City nosetackle Dontari Poe has been terrific this season, and he keys everything the Chiefs do up front. If you don't neutralize Poe, your offense is going to have a tough time moving the ball. He's been that good.
10. If you had any doubt that money and promotion rules the NFL more than actual football—we really hope you didn't—then the league's decision to mandate a team do HBO's Hard Knocks every year should end that debate.


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Deschamps: It's time we wrote a new story
01 Nov 2013
Didier Deschamps is anxious to see history repeat itself. The captain of the first French club to win the UEFA Champions League, back in 1993 with Olympique Marseille, the former midfielder that night became the last *l'OM *player to hold a major trophy aloft for 17 years, a drought came to an end when the Southerners won the French title in 2010.
Their coach on that long-awaited occasion was none other than Deschamps himself, his part in those two triumphs prompting the fans to carry banners with the legend: "Player or coach, you make us happy, Deschamps."
When the former Bleus midfield general was appointed national team coach in July 2012, France fans had every reason to be optimistic. After all, Deschamps the coach has enjoyed success wherever he has gone.
Aside from his spell with Marseille, where he won three consecutive League Cups to go with that Ligue 1 crown, the ex-Nantes man also took Monaco to the final of the Champions League in 2004 and Juventus to the Serie B title three years later.
While his first year in charge of Les Bleus was not all plain sailing, the Basque tactician got the basics done, steering his side to second place in a group dominated by reigning world and two-time European champions Spain and booking a place in the play-offs for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ in the process.
Ukraine are the team now barring their path to Brazil, where Deschamps will hope to see another French player emulate what he did 15 years ago by holding the World Cup Trophy aloft. Following the draw for the European play-offs, the France coach spoke to FIFA.com about the final stage in his side's qualification push.
FIFA.com: Is it an advantage to be favourites against Ukraine and to be playing the second leg is at home?
Didier Deschamps:That's the way it's turned out. We didn't have any say in the matter. But obviously it would have been tougher to play Portugal, Croatia or Greece, who've got more international experience and world-class players. Ukraine rely more on their strengths as a team. Playing the return leg at home is also a good thing. We've got every reason to be confident, though we should be wary of our opponents. We can't afford to think that all we have to do is just turn up. We need to fight to qualify.
What's the difference between sudden-death games like these and group matches?
You need to have character for sure. It's all or nothing in two matches, with not much time at all between the first and second legs. It's a long trip. It'll be cool, chilly even, and we'll need to be well prepared and well organised to make sure we recover properly. For my part I'm going to try and get as much information as I possibly can on them. You have to remember, though, that Ukraine were seeded, they have a better ranking than us and they've been in very good form since EURO 2012. So respect and caution is the name of the game.
You need to have character for sure. It's all or nothing in two matches.
France have just found some form after a rocky patch, beating Belarus 4-2, Australia 6-0 and Finland 3-0. Have things just clicked?
No, there are just times when you're confidence is up, which no doubt explains why the team's doing better right now. The last time we got together I had some players who were on top form and we had a few people back from suspension and injury. I hope nothing happens before I name my squad and we play those two matches because we'll need all the strength we've got. And we'll really need to be together as one, because it's in every French person's interests to see Les Bleus in Brazil.
You had a reputation as a winner in your playing days, a reputation you enhanced in Italy. Is that something you use with your players in the dressing room?
A national team coach has to get messages across and transmit all their experience. In my case I was lucky enough to play with some real competitors, who were used to competing at very demanding clubs where results were everything. Here it just so happens that we're in a specific situation, a two-legged play-off, where experience counts. We'll have to handle the emotion of the occasion, focus just on what's happening on the pitch and put everything else out of our minds.
You skippered the France side that won the FIFA World Cup in 1998. Do you speak to your players about the thrill of playing in and winning the competition?
I don't speak very much about the past. It's part of my life, but it was another time and with different people. What we have to do here is write a new story together, and if we're going to do that we have to make it to Brazil. We knew for a while that we were heading for the play-offs. Now that we know who we're playing, all we have to do is focus on what lies ahead.
With the 2014 World Cup being played in Brazil, the home of football, do you feel any extra motivation?There's nothing better for a professional player than to play at the World Cup full stop. Even if you're at a big club, playing in the biggest competitions, nothing feels better than pulling on the national team jersey at the world finals. I'm here in a different capacity here as the coach, and I've accepted the mission of taking Les Bleus to Brazil. We are all going to do what it takes to reach our objective.
Let's imagine the play-offs go well. How do you think Les Bleus might do in Brazil?
We're not there yet. We need to qualify first. Then we'll talk. To be frank, if I start talking today about what the World Cup might be like for us, I'd be showing a lack of respect to Ukraine. Let's take it step by step and concentrate on qualifying.
How do you think you'll need to approach the two games against the Ukrainians?
We'll need to be ambitious and try to impose ourselves. I know the Ukrainians are well organised as a defensive unit, but we have to make sure we take control and cause them problems, while also keeping our wits about us. It's up to us to go and make sure we qualify.


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I'm still new to this whole, "hey take a pic of my outfit babe!" So I was feeling a little self conscious at first.
This got me thinking about insecurities and assumptions in general.
It's something I've battled before in my life, but recently what I've learned is that beyond that, I battle with assuming. Like I assume I know what someone is thinking. I assume people will think I'm dumb or look ridiculous. Or I assume I'll be rejected...You get the point. Basically I assume too much. And it plays into my insecurities.
I trap myself.
I've learned it really doesn't have much to do with my confidence. I know who I am and I'm learning more of who that is each day.
More importantly I know who God says I am.
But it doesn't keep those nagging insecurities from trying to creep in.
Sometimes we just gotta get out of our own head and go do something. When I'm caught up in my thoughts, insecurities and assumptions, it tells me I need to go do something for someone else.
Maybe with an encouraging word, or a compliment or helping them in some way...
It gets my focus back in line.
And honestly? Most of the time? People are thinking a lot less about you than you think. I have to remind myself of that when insecurities start trying to creep in.
Like when B was taking these pictures and I was having all these thoughts about looking dumb and worried the neighbors would see me, and on and on....Pretty sure he was really just thinking about getting inside to turn a game on ;)
What about you? Have you ever struggled with this?
So about this outfit....


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I want to host a spring party now just so I can make these floral chair backs. This would be beautiful for a baby shower, a bridal shower or a spring garden party.
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My artwork explores humanity's inherently indulgent nature. The thick, oozing sauces, jellies and jams represent gluttony and guilty pleasures. By using a photorealist painting style I have been able to study and capture the colour, texture and reflective properties of viscous liquids and sweet foods. Inspired by Audrey Flack and Janet Fish, I have enhanced these images with extra droplets and glistening surfaces to tempt and mesmerise the audience. Consumption brings a sense of freedom and content, yet I invite the audience to consider the effects of over-indulgence slowly seeping in and disrupting our health, bodies and desires.
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
An Illinois Story-Local Connections in Rarified Air
Stickney, IL--Virginia and Rudy Tarra certainly hope so. It's not often that an Illinois-owned 3-year-old is mentioned among the elite sophomores in the game. It's far rarer when that runner was foaled in Illinois. Why this might be is a matter of conjecture but, needless to say, four leaf clovers are abundant in comparison.
Rudy Tarra was kind enough to talk about Giant Oak, the Virginia H Tarra Trust, and the state of racing in Illinois. I get a chance to run in a prestigious race like the Illinois Derby, you have to be excited. I consider him to be the best horse that we have ever had. I just hope we can do well Saturday.
"I take care of the breeding. I try to match the right stallions with the right mares but my wife is the head of the show. This is a tough business. With the way the economy is, with dwindling purses and such, sometimes it's a blessing to just break even. But, we've done pretty well. We've had some reasonable horses over the years. Too many things can happen. Sometimes you spend money and breed the best and you don't get anything. Sometimes you have a horse with a ton of potential and they get injured. You do have to get lucky to even get into this position. It takes money, it takes luck, and you have to be good on the right days. We've had three champions the last three years. Apple Martini, Linked to My Heart, and Giant Oak.
"This field came up with quite a few more horses that we thought would be here. That could work in our favor. Sometime s the size of the field will help. He's a big, long striding horse and he likes to come from behind. The long stretch at Hawthorne will help but he does need an honest pace ahead of him and he's more likely to get that if there are more horses. It's hard to catch the lone speed.
"We have to see him pull away at the end to even consider sending him to Kentucky. He has to finish up strong. He might need to win the Illinois Derby to get the earnings he needs to even be eligible to enter that race.
"There are a lot of horses out there right now that aren't in the limelight but that are sitting on big races. I think that he's one of them. But, he still has to prove that he belongs.
"We've changed riders a couple of times but felt that the riders didn't fit the horse. That wasn't a knock against the riders. In last, James Graham just happened to catch a bad track. He said Giant Oak didn't like the surface at all in the Louisiana Derby. That off track was something new to him. Shaun Bridgmohan will be riding this time. We just felt that Shaun would have a little stronger finish."
Many have asked why Eusebio Razo wouldn't be riding since this colt ran his eyeballs out the three times that Razo was in the irons. Was he given any consideration?
"If he didn't already have a mount in this race, Chris (Block) would have probably put him up. We hadn't made up our minds where Giant Oak would race next. It was only about a week ago that we decided to come here. Eddie's (Razo) agent called Chris and told him that they already had a mount in the race. Eddie's an outstanding person, from a great family, and a great rider. He might not have the experience in the big races as some of the riders but every one of them started someplace else. They just got the breaks sooner. There are a lot of great riders around that still ride in the second tier. It wasn't because they didn't have the ability. They just were never given the chance.
"Our whole family loves racing. Winning a race has to be the biggest high you can get. It doesn't matter if it's a $5,000 claimer or a stakes race, the feeling is incredible.
"We give Chris full rein. He'll call us and give us the game plan and run it by us but we leave all the major decisions up to him. He's a good person, a great trainer, and he gives you a fair shake. He's treats us like royalty. Any of his owners will tell you the same thing. At least they should. He and his family have done a lot for Illinois racing.
"We have a lot of Illinois people rooting for us. We need all the help we can get. With the help of the Lord and a good safe trip, we're going to have a good performance. We have the opportunity to do something for Illinois racing. Racing in this state has been on a spiral downward and a successful homebred might be able to give it a much-needed boost. It would be great if we could bring renewed interest back to the sport.
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One of the quieter developments in Sunday's "Mad Men" was the introduction of a funky new logo for Sterling Cooper & Partners, the hybrid agency formed earlier this season with the merger of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and Cutler Gleason Chaough.
Given how much was going on in the episode -- Sally's boarding school misadventures, Ken getting shot, Pete confronting Bob, and Don impersonating a baby -- one could be forgiven for missing the logo, which made its television debut during a heated confrontation between Don and Ted.
Thankfully, the publicity team at Sterling Cooper -- uh, we mean AMC -- sent out a press release announcing the new branding efforts after the episode aired.
The mock statement even included a quote attributed to Don that cheekily referred to his secret past: "A name can mean a new beginning, a chance to see yourself as you would dream to be, and to leave the baggage you have accumulated over the years behind. At least that's been my observation."
The release didn't include much explanation of the eye-catching logo, though the odd, inscrutable Jim Cutler did note the "funky" ampersand.
This being "Mad Men," no design choice can be made without intense scrutiny, especially when it comes to typography; font geeks are a notoriously nitpicky bunch. With that in mind, we checked in with a few design experts to get their thoughts on the agency's makeover.
"I have to say I'm impressed with how weird the logo is," said Scott Stowell, proprietor of Open, a New York City design studio.
"My prediction was that they would keep the old logo and just replace the D for Draper with an ampersand," he continued. "That would have been economical, both for SC&P and for 'Mad Men.' And that switch would refer to Don's ongoing lack of connection to the agency. But what they did is more surprising."
Mark Simonson, a font designer who has paid more attention to the graphics on the show than just about anyone, was not quite as impressed: "It looks perfectly plausible for the period but not something that would be seen as a classic later on."
Both men agreed the font used for the initials was probably custom-made, though Stowell called its "modular structure" reminiscent of the work of Dutch modernist Wim Crouwel, who, we can only hope, will provide some fashion inspiration for Harry Crane next season.
As for that "funky" ampersand, Simonson identified it as a font called Pistilli Roman, developed in 1964, while Stowell disagreed, saying it was an extra bold Caslon, a font "originally designed in the 18th century, but popular in the 1960s with some New York designers like Herb Lubalin." (Let the debate begin!)
Whatever the case may be, the combination of these two fonts was unexpected, said Stowell:
"I've never really seen those two flavors of design -- super-futuristic modernism and super-nostalgic traditionalism -- put together that way. The result is an uncomfortable clash between looking forward and looking backward that is pretty much the whole point of 'Mad Men.' "
Now if someone could just tell us where to get one of those sweet Sterling Cooper & Partners mugs, we'd be all set.


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GateHouse News ServiceA Rasmussen poll says 44 percent of Americans believe political conventions are a waste of time and money.
What the poll doesn�t say is that 4 percent say they are fun because it is the only time they get to wear their American flag bedazzled cowboy hat, and the other 52 percent said, �What is a political convention?�
After last night�s GOP convention speeches, that question seems more legitimate.
Ann Romney spoke to women about her family and her husband. Chris Christie spoke mostly about himself and New Jersey.
Like every reality show on television, the Republican National Convention is overly predictable and poorly scripted.
Some of the delegates looked like they had just come from the set of Duck Dynasty. Ann Romney made cookies for the press in homage to Sweet Genius. And many were left wondering if there was a big �Survivor�-style team swap on the horizon where Romney announces he is pro-choice again.
Fox News analysts spent the time leading up to the two main speeches describing what the �surprise� reactions would be.
�Don�t be surprised if Mitt Romney comes on stage beaming about Ann�s speech and brings this house down,� said Chris Wallace.
Amazingly enough, after his wife finished the speech designed to �humanize� Mitt Romney and show the fairer sex how female-friendly this GOP ticket would be, Romney came on the stage, beamed at his wife, and brought the house down - figuratively.
Ann Romney said she was going to talk about love. Boy did she.
More than a dozen mentions were enough to make you wonder if you had accidentally changed the channel and ended up on �The Bachelor� instead of Fox News.
In many ways she probably touched on some valid points. But as a guy who was single until he was 27, I can tell you that most women know false praise when they hear it, and pandering gets you nowhere.
She may have crossed that line when she said, �You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you. Tonight, we salute you and sing your praises.�
Ann Romney may have gone too far, but the best reality show star of the night may not have gone far enough.
Chris Christie created a different kind of �Situation� when he flew in from the Jersey Shore and showed why so many people were concerned when he was tapped to give the keynote address. It took Christie more than 15 minutes to even mention Mitt Romney.
Christie said �we� a lot for a guy who wasn�t asked to be on the ticket. His speech sounded more like a guy blazing a trail for 2016 than helping a colleague in 2012.
As the convention winds down and the rabid Republicans give way to dogged Democrats we will hear more speeches, more promises and more people will be ready to tell pollsters that conventions are a waste of time and money.Kent Bush is publisher of the Augusta (Kan.) Gazette.
Kent Bush: Republican convention like every other reality show
GateHouse News ServiceA Rasmussen poll says 44 percent of Americans believe political conventions are a waste of time and money.


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"American Sniper" had a tough act to follow Tuesday night at AFI Fest.
Clint Eastwood's latest film was announced this week as the festival's secret screening just as "Selma" director Ava DuVernay decided to preview her entire Martin Luther King Jr. picture that same evening. Initially, only 30 minutes of the civil rights drama had been slated to play, but festival-goers were treated to the whole movie instead -- and they loved it.
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With us today is Matthew Rechs, Executive Vice President at Schematic, the firm that designed and built the video player for NBC's Olympics.com using Silverlight 2 that made it possible for more than 42 million fans to watch 8 million hours of coverage, making it the largest Web event ever.
Q: Matthew, can you give us an overview of what Silverlight 3 is all about?
A: There are enough major new features in Silverlight 3 that it's difficult to pick which are the most important. Let me discuss the few that I think are most relevant to the kinds of projects we work on for our clients.
First, there are a number of major enhancements related to video which is a very important area for us. The "Smooth Streaming" capability that Microsoft started developing in SL2 has been significantly enhanced for both live and on-demand streams and now supports full HD resolution. Smooth Streaming technology automatically measures the performance of video playback in real time and makes on-the-fly adjustments at the transport layer to ensure a snappy user experience.
The Silverlight player we built for NBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympics showed us how big of an impact this technology has on player usability. The new generation of players built with this technology will feel to users more and more like watching a DVD or cable TV.
Another important advance is in support for 3D effects with hardware acceleration. 3D is useful and important for a number of reasons. At Schematic we will make extensive use of this technology to enable more elegant, powerful and engaging content discovery and navigation.
We've long used 3D techniques on game consoles and in consumer electronics devices to do things like zooming and skewing of thumbnails or menu elements, or the creation of 3D spaces that contain content or application functionality. We have been able to approximate these effects in the browser (see www.schematic.com for an example) but only with a lot of very tedious programming and worrying about the run-time performance.
Silverlight 3 has much more robust capabilities for 3D and supports hardware acceleration to ensure that 3D effects render and perform much better than before. The toolset also makes these interfaces easier to design and develop in a fashion that's more familiar to our people. So look for much more cinematic, motion-oriented interfaces from us and from others in the coming year.
Q: Okay, so what's the biggest difference between Silverlight 2 and Silveright 3?
A: The biggest difference with Silverlight 3 is probably the maturity of the platform. When we were working on last years' Silverlight projects, we were doing a lot of things with it that had never been done before -- exciting but also painful at times. We've worked through a lot of those issues in partnership with Microsoft, sometimes working with nightly builds of the Silverlight run-time as our clients are preparing to release their Silverlight-powered products.
So SL3 has the benefit of being battle-tested, and also includes a big palate of pre-built customizable controls that will make development go much faster. A lot of the interface controls that we had to do from scratch last time around will now be there out-of-the-box.
Q: How do these changes affect developers?
A: Developer productivity is going to be tremendously higher with SL3, because of the maturity of the platform and the inclusion of a much larger set of pre-built controls and components. Also, crucially, the line of Expression tools that are part of the .Net framework have matured and are being updated for compatibility with Silverlight 3. These tools are going to be new to most developers, and of course there's going to be a learning curve to bring new team members up to speed with the development environment. But this is a much more robust, stable and efficient way to work than it was even 9 months ago.
Q: Having these capabilities would have meant what to you when you were developing, say, olympics.com for NBC?
A: Obviously the most significant advances for video applications are in Smooth Streaming, support for HD and for H.264 and other codecs. I think now that we have the perspective 3D capabilities, we will almost always make some use of 3D effects that we might have avoided before.
But overall, the biggest impact will be on developer productivity. We will be able to get more code written and tested, it will run faster, and it will ultimately cost a lot less.
Also, just to be clear, only the video player application that we built for NBC and Microsoft -- not the entire Olympics Web site -- was created using Silverlight.
Q: Thanks for that clarification. Is there a web site where readers can find out more about Silverlight 3 in general and Schematic in particular?
A: Of course, theres Silverlight.net and Schematic.com. Microsoft produced a video case study on the Olympics player: