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Thursday, December 30, 2010
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45 comments:
- Gill said...
Would Pinky like a trip to England?
Although it's cold and drab at the moment Spring is just round the corner (OK I'm a glass half full kinda gal!)and there's always lots of crafting going on here!
- December 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Selvage Quilter said...
Wow, that was a fast response! I wish I could go to England for the price of mailing a little package. Pinky's all excited. You know who kids are. :)
- December 30, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Amy said...
Very cute. I know a lil critter who needs a friend..hope she likes skunks..thanks for the chance to win. Happy New Year to you!
- December 30, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Lisa Martin said...
Here in the Pacific North West she would enjoy living with a family of 6, the little one of the family would help take care of Pinky, 8 year old Katelyn. Pinky would enjoy quilting, rain (she will learn to love the rain), reading a bed time story, swinging on the swings with Katelyn and making forts in the family room. We would also enjoy trips together as a family to Mt. Rainer, Pacific Ocean and Seattle for a play on 5th ave once in a while and without a thought she would enjoy trips to our local quilt shop that would be... The Parish Quilt shop.
- December 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Carol said...
Does she like snow?? I know my grandkids would have fun with her when they come to visit!
- December 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Luz said...
Le gustará España....estoy segura, y le gustará mi hijo.
Feliz 2011 y mil besitos.
- December 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Helen said...
Oh! Pinky would LOVE coming to Kent, Ohio (land of a HUGE December snowfall). Here she could live with a very special little girl who would love her to pieces.
Have a wonderful 2011!
- December 30, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Angie said...
Oh, if Pinky came to KY she would be played with by our sweet lil 3 year old and Mary-Grace would protect her from her older brothers! Just so happens that Mary-Grace's favorite color is Pink. Her room is painted Pink, Purple and Yellow so Pinky would really fit in. =)
Thanks for the chance for Pinky to come to our house. :)
- December 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- Desert Threads said...
That's so ugly it's cute!
- December 30, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Selvage Quilter said...
Haha, you're right, Desert Threads! Just don't let Pinky hear you refer to her as a Stupid Sock Creature (as in the name of John Murphy's book about making these little cuddlies).
- December 30, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Elsa said...
oh, Pinky is too cute! I know a little girl that would love her! Her cousin got a monster plushy and she just got a little owl. She called me up and asked why she didn't get a little monster. Pinky would fit the bill perfectly!
- December 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM
I have 8 grandchildren~ and am a quilter and knitter! Pinky would be right at home here!
- December 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Char said...
I think Pinky is great. I think my daughter would love to take her to Arcadia when she starts her freshman year in Sept.
- December 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- kerrykatiecakes2 said...
I love Pinky! She is just gorgeous! I have the sock stuffies on my list of things I want to do one of these days...
Maybe Pinky can inspire me!
- December 30, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Bev said...
I think Pinkie would love Utah! My stuffie, Ada, just came home via priority mail this morning. She spent a few months in a wonderful quilt shop enticing quilters to make an Ada for their sewing room. I know she's going to be a bit lonely and would love to have Pinkie as a friend!
- December 30, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Library Gal Quilts said...
Come on Pinky, travel out to Northern California!! Teddy would love to snuggle with you. Promise he doesn't chew up anything!
- December 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Quilting Memories said...
Oh I think it would be neat to have her travel the world like the famous traveling gnome!
If I win her I think I would make her something to add to her outfit and then continue the giveaway on my blog so that she could travel to another spot in the world and hopefully she would be passed on throughout the world :D
- December 30, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- Beth said...
Pinky would LOVE Minnesota this time of year (except for today, because it's raining instead of snowing)! She would be living with two quilters (my husband and I), and helping us through the adoption process. She would be great company on the two plane trips to Ethiopia to 1. meet, and then 2. bring home, our children!
- December 30, 2010 at 2:19 PM
- Melinda said...
I would love to give Pinky a home. She would love the South.
- December 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM
- Quilt Rat said...
Hey.........I think Pinky could use some selvage suspenders! I would make her some for sure!!!!
- December 30, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- lisa said...
if Pinky wants to come to Montana, I have two little girls who will fight to shower her with love. The only problem is she MIGHT get tugged here or there. Think of it as free spinal adjustments! We will be moving to the Seattle area in the summer, so she'd get some good culture there too.
- December 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- The Cozy Quilter said...
Pinky would fit right in with my family in Ontario Canada. My daughter and my nieces always tell us we are weird and Pinky's arrival would just confirm that for them!
- December 30, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Glen QuiltSwissy said...
Pinky would have to live high high high up on the shelves if she wants to stay out of the doggy jaws of death at my house!
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- December 30, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- Vicky said...
Pinky is more than welcome to come to Australia where it is summer at the moment :)
- December 30, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Needled Mom said...
I have lots of little ones to love Pinky around here too.
- December 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Laurie in Iowa said...
I think Pinky would love to live in northeast Iowa with two very active Corgis.
- December 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Patty said...
she is so cute, I'm sure she would love living in Iowa in my sewing room
- December 30, 2010 at 7:19 PM
- Jackie said...
I live in Canada, and think Pinky could keep my 2 young children warm.
- December 30, 2010 at 8:33 PM
- Girltwin64 said...
She can come live with me and even have her own room with a bed and blanket!
I am an eye person and she has very nice eyes!
- December 30, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- Terri in BC said...
Would Pinky like to come to Canada? I promise it doesn't snow very much here but we do get a lot of rain like Seattle. There's also one grandbaby and another on the way who would love to play with her!
- December 30, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- LN in TX said...
Hi ya Pinky!
- December 30, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- trudys_person said...
I love Pinky - especially her striped pants! Thank you for the giveaway!
- December 30, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- Crafty Mommy said...
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- December 30, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Johanna said...
It's sunny in the 70's in South Florida this week! Would Pinky like to warm up and hang out in a quilt shop? She could be the official greeter and inspect the new fabric when it comes in :)
- December 30, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- Linda in PA said...
I have 4 little granddaughters who would love to see Pinky at Grammie's house! Thanks for the giveaway.
- December 30, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- M.McCafferty said...
oh Pinky would love living on the coast! I would be so happy to share my sewing room with her, I'm always looking for someone to show off my quilt blocks too.
- December 30, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- Judy in Michigan said...
I'd like to have Pinky here with us in Michigan. She can look out over the back yard and watch the squirrels and birds. We don't have children or pets but I can still show her a good time.
- December 30, 2010 at 11:06 PM
- JoAnne in southern California said...
I love Pinky! She looks like she might be ready to go for a run! Just looking at her cheered me up! If she came to southern California to live, I would ask my DH to make a very special shelf for her so she could watch over my shoulder while I quilt.
I like what "Quilting Memories" that it would be neat to have Pinky travel the world. Maybe we could each take care of her for a month, then send her on her way to the next person and post about her here. I wonder how many U.S. states and other countries she could visit! So much fun!
- December 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM
- Quilting_Chris said...
Oh, it's got to be her pants. They are just too cute. Please let her come to California. I know she would truly fit in here and not one would stare. It's completely normal.
- December 30, 2010 at 11:42 PM
- nrnoodle said...
Pinky is a hoot and would add some great humor to my quilt studio.
- December 31, 2010 at 12:38 AM
- patty a. said...
I bet Pinky would love living with a friend, my sock monkey Ricky Jr.
- December 31, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- Zizophora said...
I don't know which is more delightful, Pinky's stegasaurus thingys or her fancy pants!
- December 31, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- Sherrie said...
Oh my! She is so sweet! I know a little someone who would love her!!
Thanks for another giveaway Karen.
- December 31, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- Marcia W. said...
Happy New Year to You! Pinky, I know a wee one with a dino baby quilt. She would love to introduce you to her pinky friends of stegs, stags, pteros, and t-rexes - in Florida.
- January 1, 2011 at 11:16 AM
You're right, I can't resist those eyes. She should definitely come to Florida!
- January 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM


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The White Sox, in search of a run producer, pursued Lance Berkman, Manny Ramirez and Adam Dunn before the non-waiver trade deadline. Delgado, 38, would require much less of an investment in dollars, and none in prospects.
He feels like Mark Kotsay and Andruw Jones are equipped to fill that role, but just need to start producing.
"Every time we talk about a hitter, we get to the point, we know, I think our production from Kotsay and Andruw is not the one – it has to be better. Those two guys have to start getting better on production. I don't think we will play another 50 or 60 games with that production we got from them. I'm not going to put pressure on them but every time we don't have production from them, this conversation is going to come up how we need another bat, we need another bat. Well, we [don't] need another bat. We need those guys to start producing and do what we think they can do. If those guys produce the way we think, then we won't be talking about any hitter. We need them to start producing, at least to make my life easier, not for you guys, but from Kenny asking me questions about it. I think everyone here feels the same way. We don't need a bat. We need them to start producing."
UPDATE: Bruce Levine says the Sox had "extensive conversations" with Delgado's agent, according to a Major League Baseball source.
UPDATE #2: Delgado signed a minor league contract with the Red Sox.


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Cloud Mate Makes iCloud a Breeze
Oct 15, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Cloud Mate by Red When Excited is available from the developer's website for US$6.99.
For a company that prides itself on creating intuitive applications, Apple stumbled when it created iCloud.
As a Dropbox user, I found little in iCloud that I needed. In fact, finding iCloud on a Mac can be adventurous, although it has a nasty habit of showing up as a default save location when I want to save a file from an app to my hard drive.
Cloud Mate aims to take some of the mystery out of iCloud. It gathers up everything in your iCloud and displays it in a single Finder-like window.
There's a navigation pane on the left side of that window that lists the applications that have stored files in your iCloud. That includes files from iOS apps. (The developer also makes iOS versions of the program that sells for $3.99).
For any app running on your Mac, you can simply click the file in Cloud Mate and it will launch from iCloud.
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Because of iCloud's file structure, Cloud Mate limits the files you can see to the app you've selected in the navigation pane. In other words, you can't see a list of all the files stored on iCloud in one view. You can only see files associated with a particular application.
However, you can move within the folders in an app, so if the app has a folder for data and documents, for instance, you'll be able to peek into those folders.
By the same token, you can create new folders in your iCloud with Cloud Mate, but you can only create them within an app. That contrasts with something like Dropbox, where you can create folders anywhere and store any kind of file in them.
Cloud Mate also uses information from iCloud to divide apps into two categories: Known and Unknown. Known apps are those installed on your Mac or iOS devices recognized by Cloud Mate.
Unknown apps are programs that aren't installed or can't be identified by Cloud Mate. The unknown programs associated with my iCloud were apps that I'd uninstalled from my Mac, iPad or iPod Touch.
iCloud in the Finder
Moving files to and from iCloud can be accomplished by simple drag-and-drops. What's more, you can look at PhotoStream images without opening iPhoto to do it.
Another nice touch to Cloud Mate is it allows you to add a special iCloud drive to the Finder, so files in the Apple Nimbus are treated as any files located on any other device connected to your system.
Better yet, the special iCloud drive added by Cloud Mate isn't just accessible in the Finder, but from any save or open dialog box -- and it lets you save any file to iCloud, not just iCloud-enabled apps.
Don't worry about other devices changing files in iCloud, either. Cloud Mate will alert you when any modifications are made to files in your iCloud.
Apple's iCloud can be an opaque application at times, and Cloud Mate can make the service more transparent. It also makes iCloud easier to use by giving it a familiar face -- the same one used by the Finder. If you shied away from iCloud in the past, Cloud Mate can give you a good reason to dabble with it in the future.
Free App Spotlight
FreeMemory is a free program, by Rocky Sand Studio, available from the Mac App Store.
Maybe it's a neurosis left over from years of working with underpowered Windows personal computers, but I have a compulsion to constantly keep tabs on the memory usage on any system with which I'm working. When the memory tank approaches full, I want to start closing apps and freeing up RAM before my system takes a performance hit.
FreeMemory sits on the Apple bar and gives you a dynamic display of the free memory on your Mac. When you click on the display, a drop-down menu appears, giving you more detail on your memory usage -- memory used for active, inactive and wired purposes -- and access to the app's settings. You can also free memory manually from the menu.
For 99 cents, you can make an in-app purchase that will add a few extra features to the program, although the software is perfectly serviceable without them. They let you add a chart beside the free memory displayed on the Apple bar, create a 3D chart of total memory usage that can be detached as a separate window or shown on the OS X dock and automatically free up memory when it drops below a level set by you.
You may not be as obsessed with memory usage as I am, but adding some elbow room for your running apps with a click can come in handy from time to time, especially when your Mac starts exhibiting poky performance.


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Two years ago, Meg West's focus shifted from graphic design to oil painting, and the inspiration for that change is obvious in every one of her paintings. A resident of Crozet, West paints what she sees and where she lives– the backyard gardens, rolling fields, and undulating peaks of the Blue Ridge.
That West is new to oil painting is also apparent in the exhibit. There is a wide and erratic range of styles and quality in the paintings. Some earlier work– a few of which are almost too recent to call early– show a less confident West. These, mostly of garden scenes, betray the awkward steps of a beginning painter– an emphasis on getting it looking right to the detriment of brush stroke, style, and composition.
Recently, however, West has glommed on to a new aesthetic– a soft-focus hazy lens which gives expanse to her lazy mountain ridges and a cotton-candy lightness to her treetops. Oddly enough, with the shift in style– from hard line to cloudy blur– West has shored up her sense of composition. Her foregrounded objects move from the center of the frame and tend to rest in the lower corners. She has become immediately more aware of shadow, and she drops some nuanced, time-of-day lighting detail into her recent stuff.
West has also been experimenting with painting surface. For her newer works, she has been mounting a glowing orange paper on masonite and using that as a starting point. Leaving the orange exposed in tiny spots gives the late-afternoon/evening Blue Ridge panoramas a bit of a halo, especially in the cream-colored skies tucked up underneath the top of her frame.
One painting on hand, "Rose Hill Study," may show yet another path the quickly evolving West might take. Taken from nearly the same view as another painting, "Rose Hill Farm," this one begins with a tight turn on a back road lined with trees and distills it into a geometry of light and dark. Shady trees form a darkened rectangle at the far right of the frame, and up the center there's a triangle of road at the bottom and its inverse, a slice of blue sky above.
A much more confide nt, pencil-eraser-thick brush stroke has become the new unit of measurement, and much harder angles have crept into the painting, leaving a bit of a woodcut look to it all. Not a bad path to take.
Meg West's "Summer Views: Discovered Landscapes," an exhibit of oil paintings, runs through the end of October at the New Dominion Book Shop. 404 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 295-2552.


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My good friend, David Buck ( DavidBuckWeddings.com ) informed me over diner a few nights ago that I hadn't updated my blog in a while with anything new. So, for him (and the people who want to know what's happening in my world of comics) here is a little update.
I finished up issue 4 of Batman: The Dark Knight this past week. What an experience! This book was one of the biggest labours of love I've ever done. Batman has been my favourite character in comics since I was 5 and to be working on one of the main Batman titles at this time in my career was a dream come true.
The script that Dave Finch wrote was a lot of fun to draw. I've been lucky work with JT Krul and now Dave on my last few books. JT knows how to write for an artist and Dave, being an artist, knows how to really tell a great visual story. This also gave me a chance to work closely with Dave on the layouts and get his final approval on the finished pages. Ryan Winn is inking the book and has been really blowing me away with his skills. I feel this book is really going to look fantastic.
I started issue 5 on thursday and I'm excited about the final issue of the first run. This book is going to be packed with some really insane detail. It's going to be a hard book to pump through but I think the final outcome will have fans excited.
It's also been really great to interact with my editors at DC. I've been blessed to have some really great bosses in my short career. First with Eddie Berganza and Adam Schlagman on my first few jobs, then with Vince Hernandez at Aspen and now with Mike Marts and Katie Kubert at DC. Mike is a great guy and we really get along well. His enthusiasm and passion for Batman and making every comic the best on the shelves really pushes myself to perform at top notch quality.
I've also been doing some signings and appearances here and there. I got to speak to my old High School art class a week ago. That was a blast. My art teacher, Sue Leslie has been a great friend and inspiration to my life and career and it's always cool to go back and see your teachers (and I'm sure they like it when you bring a giant stack of your work to give to them). I also did a signing with my good buddy Tony Gray (The Incredible Conduit) who lives and works in Windsor at Border City Comics.
So far, looking back on the first year of my career, I am really thankful for all of the opportunities I have been given and the trust that Aspen and DC is giving me with their properties. It's now time to get back to work on Batman, but I won't leave you empty handed. Here is a new piece of artwork I did with Ryan Winn that I've been using at signings for promotion. Ryan inked my pencils and I did the colors.


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Firstly, it's good that Slaven has come out and announced that Poco and Barca are no longer viable long-term products. Much as I hate to see them go, it is helpful to know where we stand.
I am looking to migrate away from Barca to something else for Win7. I have my eye on Postbox or Thunderbird as possible options. I get the impression that there's no easy way to export my settings, emails, contacts and appointments from Barca to something else.
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Participant : Minimum 4 person
Duration : 02 Days 01 Night
Starting Port : Labuan Bajo at 14.00 Hrs
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Komodo Sailing Cruise 02 Days 01 Night Aboard
Day 01 : Denpasar-Labuan Bajo-Rinca-Kalong (-/L/D)
Morning flight from Bali to Labuan Bajo in West Flores. On arrival direct transfer to the harbor to get on board and sailing to Rinca. Afternoon trekking in Rinca to see the activities of Komodo dragons and other wild animals. Then leisure sailing to Kalong Island to see thousand of bats flying out from their nets. Overnight and dinner are on board.
Day 2 : Kalong-Bidadari-Labuanbajo-Denpasar (B/L/-)
After breakfast proceed to Bidadari Island for swimming and snorkeling before returning to Labuan Bajo. On arrival in Labuan Bajo transfer to the airport for your flight to Denpasar, Bali.
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Raiders cheerleader lawsuit claims pay is less than $5 an hour
An Oakland Raiders cheerleader says in a lawsuit that the team fails to pay its cheerleaders minimum wage, disregards their travel costs and even fines them from bringing the wrong pompoms to practice, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
"I love being a Raiderette," Lacy T., a stay-at-home mom and cheerleader said in a statement Wednesday. "But someone has to stand up for all of the women of the NFL who work so hard for the fans and the teams."
Perhaps adding insult to injury, the cheerleader's lawyer says NFL teams' male mascots are treated as paid employees with benefits.
Lacy T., 27, whose full name was not released due to security concerns, filed the suit in Alameda County Superior Court as a proposed class-action suit, the report said. She hopes cheerleaders around the league join the fight.
The report said the Raiderettes contract is $1,250 per season, or about $125 each time the team plays at home. But Lacy T. says the figure does not include the amount of practice time, 10 charity events and posing for the team's swimsuit photo shoot, the suit alleges. The suit also claims that Raiderettes are fined $10 or more for failing to bring the right pompoms or a yoga mat to practice.
Raiders officials would not comment on the suit, the report said.
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People with nice personalities are usually friendly, outgoing, smile a lot and are willing to listen to others. On the other hand, people with unpleasant personalities are often sullen, think too highly of themselves and don't pay enough attention to others.
Let's apply this to the fitness industry. Think of personal trainers who always have a lot of business, are friendly to everyone and have ready-made smiles. Now, compare them with personal trainers who primarily interact only with their clients and do not smile or interact with other members. It's easy to see who most people would want to train with.
In today's world of more and bigger competitors, one way the smaller club (or personal trainer) can compete is to have a wonderful personality. So many businesses of all types succeed because of this personality "plus" factor. And so many do poorly because of their poor personality. The successful businesses have better personal relationships with those they serve. They listen more and talk less.
Yet usually the people who make up the personality of a business are too close to the business to see what others see when viewing their club. In other words, those who work in the club every day and see it primarily as a way to make money can view the club quite differently than people from outside the club view it. Whether or not we accept it, most people from outside the industry see the idea of fitness and exercise differently than people inside the industry do. Despite the different views, the feelings and thoughts of those outside the industry are just as valid as ours. They truly believe that those who exercise regularly or who are thinner are inherently different from them.
Recently, a major chain selected five finalists from millions of members for its member of the year award. All five finalists mentioned how important it was to them that no one in the club judged them or made them feel inferior because they were out of shape or overweight.
This openness to all types of people contributes to a club's personality. Unfortunately, not all clubs have this attitude, and it is no wonder that so many unfit people feel uneasy in a club. They can feel the bad vibes of judgment that the fit staff and members give off at clubs like this. Many clubs are more geared to fit people than unfit people — the group they are trying to attract.
A personality assessment is probably one of the most significant things a club owner can do. If your club had a personality, what would it be? In a staff meeting, ask your staff about where their attitudes lie. For example, ask them what they think when they see an overweight person. Ask them if they think overweight people are lazy and weak. If many of them answer yes, they are not as open to your market as you may think, and they are sending out messages that overweight people are inferior. This is counterproductive.
Just as it is difficult for a person to change his or her personality, it is equally difficult for a club to change its personality. It can be done, but there isn't one way to make the change.
A club's personality has to do with how it looks and how those involved with the club interact with members, guests and other staff. Obviously, the club has to have a beautiful, clean energy and a friendly attitude toward everyone — not just a select few.
A key to being a successful club is insuring that employees have a better empathy for others and improved interaction with as many people as possible. A club can change its personality and be a unique home and welcoming environment for those who want to change their lives.
Bruce Carter is the president of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International, a club design firm that has created about $420 million worth of clubs in 45 states and 26 countries.


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For some reason I've ended up with a quart of buttermilk each week for about the past month. A recipe calls for just about 1/2 cup and then you are left with the rest and what do you do with it? Well normally I will make buttermilk pancakes (I have been craving those almost every day for breakfast!), buttermilk english muffins or buttermilk biscuits. Today I decided to try a few new recipes using this wonderful ingredient.
But what exactly is buttermilk? Well a long, long time ago buttermilk was the liquid that was left over after churning butter. Then the buttermilk ferments naturally to a thick, tangy cream. Today bacteria is added to low fat milk and then heated. A common misconception is that is is high in fat, but it is normally made with low fat/skim milk and does not contain any butter. One of these days I plan to make my own butter and then will have this natural buttermilk at my disposal and I wonder just how different it tastes from what I buy at the store.
David Lebovitz who adapted it from Pastries from La Brea Bakery by Nancy Silverton.
I used the basic recipe but substituted the whole raisins for blueberries, replaced the vegetable oil with almond oil and added a crumb topping. Because who doesn't love a little more delicious sugar on top of a muffin? I think next time I will use dried blueberries instead of the raisins and then a combination of fresh and dried blueberries. That sounds just about perfect!
Crumb Topping:
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
1 1/2 T. light brown sugar
1 T. sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3 T. butter, melted
Combine dry ingredients in small bowl. Add melted butter and stir until combined. Sprinkle generously on top of batter just before placing in the oven.
For those of you who think that bran muffins are dry, tasteless and boring then you MUST try this recipe. These are the most moist muffins I have ever had and the addition of blueberries and crumb topping just makes them even more delicious!
The second recipe I tried is from the wonderful book Leslie Mackie's Macrina Bakery and Cafe Cookbook: Favorite Breads, Pastries, Sweets and Savories. This cookbook was a gift from my sister-in-law a few years ago and each and every recipe from this book is incredible! And if you are ever in Seattle, you must make a trip to the Macrina Bakery and try all the delicious pastries and breads.
Delicious baked goods made with buttermilk, what could be better?


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TimeIn seeks to unify a given set of file objects into a unified browsing experience providing mechanisms to Cluster visually similar objects and display objects in a timeline view from a local file system or flickr.com. To navigate this content, users are provided with a variety of mechanisms for filtering the set of objects presented.
For text based objects, TimeIn will analyze the content of the file and attempt to extract a set of descriptive phrases. For image based objects, TimeIn will annotate the object with the most frequently used colors of the image. Users have the option of augmenting these automatically generated tags by defining their own descriptive tags
While providing novel features for browsing and searching content, TimeIn retains many of the original organizational features of existing systems. When content is imported from a hierarchical file system, users can still browse by the original hierarchical structure.
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Sankey, Washington run past BYU
San Francisco, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Bishop Sankey rushed for 96 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries to lead Washington to a 31-16 triumph over BYU on Friday in the Fight Hunger Bowl at AT&T Park.
Keith Price completed 16-of-21 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown with an interception for the Huskies (9-4), who also received a 100-yard kickoff return touchdown from John Ross.
"Bishop's done a great job of carrying us all season," Price said of Sankey. "He's a workhorse."
Washington, which secured its first nine-win season since 2000, was coached by quarterbacks coach Marques Tuiasosopo after former bench boss Steve Sarkisian jetted to USC. The school replaced Sarkisian with former Boise State coach Chris Petersen, but decided to go with Tuiasosopo for the bowl game.
Taysom Hill did just about everything for BYU (8-5), rushing for 143 yards and a score on 29 carries while completing 22-of-40 passes for 274 yards with an interception.
Cody Hoffman hauled in a game-high 12 passes for 167 yards for the Cougars, who have appeared in a bowl in each of head coach Bronco Mendenhall's nine seasons on the sidelines.
"I told my team I was proud of them," Mendenhall said. "I like how hard they played."
Sankey got the Huskies on the board on their first touch of the game, capping a 12-play, 71-yard trek with an 11-yard touchdown run off the right edge to make it 7-0 just over six minutes into the game.
Sankey was stuffed for a 9-yard loss on 4th-and-1 from the BYU 3 late in the opening frame, and Hill led the Cougars down the length of the field on the team's ensuing touch to tie the tilt.
Hoffman had three catches on the march, including a 22-yard grab down to the Washington 13. Three plays later, Hill surged into the end zone from a yard out to bring BYU even.
However, Ross broke free down the right sideline and outran everyone en route to a 100-yard kickoff return TD that made it 14-7 Washington.
Justin Sorensen sandwiched a pair of field goals around a Washington three- and-out to get the Cougars within 14-13, but following a 47-yard kickoff return from Jesse Callier, Sankey scored from 11 yards out to put Washington on top, 21-13, with 2:36 left in the half.
Sorensen's 32-yard kick sent BYU into the break facing a five-point deficit.
Washington extended the lead on its opening touch of the second half, as Price broke free for 20 yards on 3rd-and-8 from the BYU 49 before capping the 10- play series with a 16-yard scoring strike to Austin Seferian-Jenkins that made it 28-16 with 11:12 left in the third.
Robertson Daniel picked off a Price pass late in the quarter to set the Cougars up at the Washington 26, but Sorensen missed a 44-yard try to keep the difference at 12.
Travis Coons kicked a 45-yard field goal midway through the fourth to extend Washington's lead and John Timu's interception of Hill with under three minutes left all but sealed the outcome.
Game Notes
Ross' 100-yard kickoff return TD was the second in Washington history. The other was by Paul Arnold in 1999 against Air Force ... Washington made its fourth straight bowl appearance ... BYU racked up 28 first downs, compared to 19 for Washington ... The Cougars compiled 473 yards of offense and held the Huskies to 316 yards.


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The Moderate Soprano cheap tickets and show information. Get discount tickets, special offers on dinner and hotel packages with LondonNet's guide to theatre in London for The Moderate Soprano.
Nobody can doubt John Christie's passion or his formidable will: he wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross. Now, in 1934, this Etonian science teacher's admiration for the works of Wagner leads him to embark on an ambitious project: the construction of an Opera House on his estate in Sussex.
But such is the scale of the enterprise that passion alone may not be enough. It's only when a famous violinist is accidentally fogged in overnight in Eastbourne that Christie first hears word of a group of refugees for whom life in Germany is becoming impossible. Perhaps they can deliver Christie's vision of the sublime – assuming of course they're willing to cast his wife in the lead…
David Hare's new play is the story of an intense love affair between unlikely bedfellows, and of the unrelenting search for artistic excellence in the face of searing scrutiny, sacrifice and war. Hare returns to Hampstead following sell out hit The Judas Kiss, starring Rupert Everett, which transferred to the West End in 2013. His award-winning plays include Skylight, Pravda and Behind The Beautiful Forevers.
Roger Allam returns to Hampstead Theatre following Seminar last autumn. Recent theatre credits includes The Tempest and Henry IV Parts I & II for which he won the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Actor (Shakespeare's Globe) and Uncle Vanya (Chichester Festival Theatre). Films include Girls Night Out, The Book Thief, The Iron Lady, The Woman in Black, The Queen and Tamara Drewe.
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With over 28 years of professional experience, Craig is a design leader at Ballinger. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for a broad spectrum of significant commissions for the academic community including designs for teaching, research, student life, administrative, and campus planning initiatives. His designs have won prestigious national and local design awards. He has been published widely and is a frequent speaker at many academic facility forums cross the country. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree cum laude from the University of Maryland. Craig is accredited by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is a member of both The American Institute of Architects and American Library Association.


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Trichromis salvini© Foto von Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
A new species of Cichla from the Essequibo River described — A new species of Cichla from the Essequibo River channel in Guyana and Venezuela has been described by Mark H. Sabaj Pérez and a group of researchers in the Proceedings of the Academy of... mehr
Kihnichthys ufermanni (Allgayer, 2002) — von Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
Kihnichthys ufermanni was rediscovered in 1985 by Jean Claude Nourissat in the Rio Lacantun, Mexico.
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Aggression is an important and necessary behavior for survival, with strong evolutionary roots. Cichlids and other animals are aggressive and fight for a reason, and fighting is avoided as much as is possible. In this article I deal with aggression in cichlids, how and when it is used, its benefits and costs
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What a great idea – the British Legion has released an iTunes track to raise money for this years Poppy Appeal, and many music experts think it could reach number one in the charts — despite being two minutes of silence.
The track "2 minute silence" is being released by The Royal British Legion on iTunes and contains no music or speaking at all.
A 'music' video has even been produced which features a host of celebrities including Bruce Dickinson, Andy Murray, David Tennant and Mark Ronson, all not singing.
Money raised from the £1 downloads of the single — which each come with the video — will go towards furthering RBL work in supporting serving and ex-Service personnel.
It's hoped the silent single will be a poignant reminder of Remembrance Sunday… and not just make people think their iPod is broken when it comes up on shuffle.
So show your support and purchase your copy now at www.silentsingle.com or from iTunes.
Join us in our mission to make chart history by reaching number 1 by Remembrance Sunday and show your support by joining the official Facebook™ page facebook.com/poppysingle2010.
You can access a preview of the video and behind the scenes footage at: www.youtube.com/user/royalbritishlegion.
So Come on! Download your copy of the single now from itunes and let's get the Legion to Number 1 in the charts! It's got to be better than that dross that is being churned out from Xfactor!?!


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Plus One Lap used to be all about cyclocross, now it's my dumping grounds for anything cycling.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
The adventures of getting my new cross frame
So, the FedEx online tracking showed that my bike frame had made it into Sacramento from Los Angeles on Firday morning at 4:38am and that the package was scheduled for delivery that day. Because FedEx wont leave a package for you at your door, I chose to wait around all day for it to arrive. My large bedroom window looks out on the street and driveway below and I opened the plantation style shutters so that I could see the big white truck pull up when my new cyclocross frame arrived. Throughout the day, whenever a large truck drove past my house I looked excitedly over my shoulder to see if this time it really was my bike that was finally here, but it never was. I checked the online tracking several times that day making sure that it was still on its way. Then, when I checked again a little after 5p, their website said that the driver attempted to make a delivery, but that I was not home. What? I had been home all day long, I had put off doing errands that I needed to get done, just because I didnt want to miss this, my doorbell works very well, and my window was wide open so I could hear anything that sounded like a FedEx truck outside. I called the customer service hotline and asked them what the deal was, and he said that they had tried to deliver it but I wasnt home, and I , not so calmly, told him what I just wrote above---I've been home all the damn day waiting for this stupid box to arrive. I walked downstairs and outside, and asked, "isnt the driver supposed to leave a door tag if he tried to deliver and im not home?"
"Yes" said the customer service guy. "Well he didnt, there's no door tag here" And thats when I realized that the guy never showed. Maybe he wanted to get off early this friday, maybe he was drinking a beer with his buddies, but whatever he was doing, he hadnt tried to deliver my package. The CS guy told me there was nothing he could do and that it they would deliver it tomorrow and I hung up. Dissatisfied with the answers I got from him, I called back. I was thinking maybe I could go right now or early in the morning to pick up my box in person and not rely on a shotty incompetent FedEx driver. When calling back, the woman at customer service informed me that she would give a note to the driver to not deliver it so that I could pick it up, but she assured me that he wouldnt get this note in time, he would still try and deliver and that I could pick my frame up on Tuesday. Tuesday! WTF! It took 2 days ti get from Los Angeles to Sacramento (a 7 hour car ride) but its going to take 4 days to get from Sacramento to my hands? Fine, I'll live with that.
I spent the night at my girlfriend's house on friday night and drove back to my place at 9am the next morning, as I was about 5 blocks from my house, I saw a FedEx truck going to opposite direction. No! I figured he already tried to deliver it and no one was home. So i jammed it back to my house, flew up and into the driveway, ripped the door tag off of the door, hopped back into my car and drove speedily through the neighborhood as if I was trying to find a lost dog in order to catch the FedEx truck and get my bike frame. Finally, I saw the truck pulled over at the side of the road about 1 half mile away from my house, and I got my new cyclocross frame. And, as you'll see in a later post, it was well worth it.
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Jeremy!! calm down my friend. We still have over 7 months until cross season is here. :). I don't blame you though, i get ancy about these sort of things too. Cant wait to see the finished ride.
Chrissakes. Reading this, I see myself. I admit it. This site is like therapy...or maybe co-dependence. I would have beat the crap out of that fedex driver with a crank arm.
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Gap extrusion
The process by which seal material is forced into the clearances between components is called gap extrusion. The dimension of this clearance gap is referred to as the extrusion gap, or "e-gap" (fig. 1).
The resistance of a given seal component to gap extrusion is mainly determined by the material composition and quality. Materials of greater hardness and stiffness typically also have improved resistance to extrusion. Therefore, full-face anti-extrusion or back-up rings of materials harder than the seal material may be used to prevent seal extrusion into the e-gap (fig. 2).
Pressure is the main driver of extrusion, but the e-gap size and application temperature are also major factors. Diagram 1 shows the pressure resistance of different materials as a function of temperature. The values were measured on an SKF test rig. The tests were carried out with a rectangular sample, dimensions 38,7 x 49 x 5 mm under static pressure and an extrusion gap of 0,3 mm. The pressure values were taken at an extrusion length of 0,5 mm (fig. 1). While these sample values illustrate the differences in extrusion resistance for standard grades of typical seal materials, there are many variations of each basic composition that impact the extrusion resistance of seals. In addition, the profile design and the seal friction affect extrusion. For maximum allowable pressure, temperature and e-gap of each seal profile, refer to the profile data for each profile in the relevant sections.
The maximum e-gap in a hydraulic cylinder cylinder occurs when the cylinder components are at the maximum radial misalignment of components. This misalignment is affected by:
- external forces acting upon the cylinder assembly (e.g. acceleration forces, frictional moments from rotation of cylinder end connections)
- the weight of the cylinder components (especially when used horizontally)
- deformation of cylinder components (rod flexing, guide ring radial deformation under force)
- the tolerance stack up of multiple cylinder components
Therefore, it is necessary to calculate the e-gap at the maximum misalignment at minimum material conditions of the cylinder and guide components.
For rod seals, the maximum e-gap should be calculated with the following conditions (fig. 3):
- guide ring groove at maximum diameter D
- rod at minimum diameter d
- guide ring cross section at minimum thickness t (considering tolerances and any radial deformation of the guide ring under load)
- rod seal housing throat at maximum diameter h
For piston seals, the maximum e-gap should be calculated with the following conditions (fig. 4):
- bore at maximum diameter D
- guide ring groove at minimum diameter d
- guide ring cross section at minimum thickness t (considering tolerances and any radial deformation of the guide ring under load)
- piston seal housing at minimum outside diameter OD


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Coldfusion, Flex, and SSL
So I want to start off this post by stating that I'm a computer programmer. I don't consider myself a computer scientist, and I generally prefer my IDEs and other software just work. I don't want to have to think too much about the configuration, etc. That being said, I have been itching to try Flex for a long time. I finally have an opportunity at work, and the process I had to go through to get it all working was daunting to say the least. But now that I have it in place, everything seems to be going smoothly.
So here's the situation, I work on a website that resides totally in SSL, it's an application we've developed with some sensitive information in it, so I wanted to make sure everything stays in that realm. Also, I used ColdSpring and Model-Glue (version 2, the sites been around a while now) to get it all running. In order to use the Flash Builder 4.5 wizards to generate the RemoteObjects for ColdFusion, Flash Builder needs to do introspection. I can't find any other way to actually connect them together.
So the first thing that has to be covered is creating the RemoteObject using ColdSpring. This isn't as intuitive as I would have first thought, but didn't seem too difficult. You create a coldspring.aop.framework.RemoteFactoryBean and you have to make sure you instantiate it or else it doesn't get created. This just means a simple application.remoteFactory.getBean('ServiceRemote') call and you have your remote bean file. All looks good.
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<bean id="ServiceRemote" class="coldspring.aop.framework.RemoteFactoryBean" > <property name="target"> <ref bean="Service" /> </property> <property name="serviceName"> <value>ServiceRemote</value> </property> <property name="beanFactoryName"> <value>remotingBeanFactory</value> </property> <property name="relativePath"> <value>/model/RemoteObjects/</value> </property> <property name="remoteMethodNames"> <value>method1,method2</value> </property> </bean>
The first problem then comes if you try to use the CFC Explorer to go to this file. You'll find that the CFCExplorer doesn't trigger the application's OnApplicationStart or anything else, so you don't have your bean factory. I'm not sure how others have handled this, but I added in a line like this to the bottom of my application.cfc:
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<cfif not isDefined('application.remotingBeanFactory') and (FindNoCase('cfcexplorer',CGI.SCRIPT_NAME) neq 0 )> <cfscript> this.onApplicationStart(); </cfscript> </cfif>
The second part of the CFIF being to keep that onApplicationStart from firing every time I went to it.
Now, this still didn't seem to fix the whole problem, and I ended up finding this post on Application Introspection by Terrence Ryan. Boy did that help. I have found that if I add it to the RemoteObject after generation, I get my cfcexplorer to fire up every time. Like so:
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<cfset bfUtils = createObject("component","coldspring.beans.util.BeanFactoryUtils").init()/> <cfset test = new Application() /> <cfif not len(variables.beanFactoryName)> <cfset bf = bfUtils.getDefaultFactory(variables.beanFactoryScope) /> <cfelse> <cfset bf = bfUtils.getNamedFactory(variables.beanFactoryScope, variables.beanFactoryName) /> </cfif>
Now we get into the really fun stuff. Thanks to Joshua Curtiss' post on Flex Remoting over SSL I found that you have to make changes in the remoting-services.xml file in your flex folder in order to actually use the secure channel.
After that, if you're doing your local development like I am with a self-signed certificate, you have to remember to import that certificate into the JVM keystore for your Flash Builder installation. You can see some samples on this here: http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=210
The last step, is to make sure that your template file that you're using is a .cfm instead of a .html when you're running your testing. Thanks to Mike Morearty's ASP.NET example: Changing the filenames in Flex Builder html templates, I found this pretty simple too. Just make sure you use a format of ${application}${build_suffix}.template.cfm for your CFM pages.
And Flash Builder seems to launch in the html page anyway, so you could probably do a url relocate meta tag in that template to forward over to your cfm page and not have to change it every time you launch.
UPDATE: So if you add this line under the openingtag in your index.template.html, it'll launch your templated CFM page:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=${application}${build_suffix}.cfm">
Pshew! That was a lot of work to get introspection to work for your Data Service Objects. But once you're there, it does seem to come together very nicely!


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Five Steps to Windows 7 Application Readiness
Streamlining Your Application Analysis and Testing Project
What's our next project? Test our applications to get ready for Windows 7? No problem, boss. We just have about 950 that we need to look at…
How thoroughly you've conducted the application compatibility portion of the migration project will determine if your OS roll-out is reasonably smooth, or if you're about to throw your IT team into a firestorm of help-desk calls, finger-pointing and numerous late nights.
When companies began evaluating Windows Vista a few years back, application compatibility was the issue that stopped some dead in their tracks. In many of these cases, critical applications an organization relied upon for key business functions simply were not available for Windows Vista. In other cases, organizations did not have the budget, nor desire, to license the new version that was designed for Windows Vista. Finally, in some instances, key applications were custom or in-house development efforts where the original developers were either no longer around or otherwise not available to re-engineer the code base.
If you are looking to migrate to Windows 7, you'll find the situation isn't as challenging as it was a few years back—most applications designed to work with Windows Vista will work fine with Windows 7, and most ISVs have updated their applications to work with this new generation of Windows operating system. So whether you're migrating from Windows XP or Windows Vista, the situation isn't quite as tough as it was in the past.
That said, getting your application portfolio ready for an OS migration can be a major undertaking, but taking the right sequence of steps and making some tough choices to reduce the scope of testing can make the chore a little less daunting.
Why do applications break in Windows Vista and Windows 7?
So what changes were made in Windows 7 (and Windows Vista) that caused applications designed for Windows XP to 'break?' To be sure, the engineering teams responsible for Windows Vista and Windows 7 didn't take the issue lightly.
The changes to Windows were made to improve security, reliability, performance, and usability, and in some cases to remove legacy components that have simply reached the end of their useful life. We won't take the time to catalog all of the changes in this article, but those most significant to application compatibility include:
User Account Control (UAC)/Standard User accounts. In the development of Windows Vista, the engineering team set out to enable most organizations to deploy their users as standard users, and reserve administrator privileges for those who need them—IT professionals. Adopting the principle of what we used to call 'least-privileged user account' for client PCs helps prevent intrusive malware, reduces end user configuration errors, and prevents unauthorized applications from being loaded on the machine. In the past, an application had the ability to write to the registry settings, modify the kernel, and other similarly invasive actions. Unfortunately this level of freedom came with a price—namely security. Windows now restricts the parameters of the OS an application is able to change—limiting the impact any malware can have—but applications that were written with this behavior will need to be modified or shimmed to function in Windows 7.
Applications performing hard version checks for the Windows XP operating system version are also affected. While it makes some sense for a developer to lock support and functionality for the application with the version of the operating system the developer originally used in testing, it also assumes that users will never attempt to install that application on a newer OS, or install a newer Service Pack to the same OS. While this is a relatively easy issue to mitigate with compatibility modes or fixes, you will see this surface frequently when coming from Windows XP to Windows 7.
The five steps to managing application readiness for Windows 7
Like most big undertakings, the challenge isn't insurmountable if you take the time to deconstruct the problem into logical, manageable tasks.
An application readiness project falls into three major sections: Collecting, Analyzing and Mitigating. However, there are a couple of additional steps we would like to call out: consider virtualization technologies before you commence the testing regimen, to help reduce the testing process and potentially help improve your desktop infrastructure to make future migrations more manageable; and sequence the testing phase to align to your roll-out strategy.
If you're ready to dive in, let's get started.
Step 1: Collect an application inventory
The first step is to take an application inventory to understand exactly where you stand—and believe us; at this point you've probably just realized the problem is bigger than you thought. But more importantly, you've just turned an 'unknown' into a 'known' and are in a better position to scope the testing and readiness program and understand the challenges ahead.
Fortunately there are a number of tools available that can help automate the process. Your client management software might have this capability built-in, or you can also use the Application Compatibility Toolkit, available for free download. If you already have another inventory mechanism like System Center Configuration Manager, Asset Inventory Service or other, you can use that as a starting point.
To make the inventory most useful downstream, capture more than just a list of applications—you'll want to understand more detail on who is using an application, what their role is, and how important that application is to the user. With this information, you can prioritize those mission-critical applications and eliminate unused or redundant applications (more on that in the next step).
Also, there's a side benefit—identifying widely-used applications that you don't currently manage. You'll want to get these into your orbit so you can ensure they are properly managed, on the approved version and have the required software updates.
Step 2: Analyze your applications
How many applications do you currently support that have been replaced or have otherwise fallen out of favor with business users? If you're like most organizations, a sizable number of them—in some cases most of them. So once you done your assessment and have a good 'lay of the land,' the next step is to scrub your supported application list and filter them down, before you undertake the time consuming—and costly— process of regression testing.
Set appropriate goals for your application portfolio. How many total apps do you want to support? At what point does an app elevate to "managed" status?
After you set your goals, it's now time to find the low hanging fruit and narrow down the applications that need testing.
- Eliminate redundant and unused applications.You'll undoubtedly find that you have several applications that perform the same function. Now is a good time to standardize on a single application per function, and eliminate those that have been made obsolete. One tip here is to try and map application dependencies, as you may need to support a legacy version of one application to keep another one supported by the ISV.And of course drop those that are rarely or never used.Not only will you make testing easier, you might save on licensing expense as well.
- Remove multiple versions of the same application and standardize on the most current.In almost all cases, the newest version performs best and is the most secure and reliable. Again, watch for application-to-application dependencies.
Collect information from business users to help prioritize those apps that are mission critical, and determine which departments are using which apps. This will be useful when you sequence your testing process; you'll want to align the timing of your testing to your staged roll-out of the new desktop image.
Step 3: Assess incompatibilities and mitigation options
No doubt you will find some applications that need some work to get them ready for Windows 7. At this point you have several options:
- You can replace the non-compatible application with a new version.Certainly the most reliable method, but unfortunately, the most expensive as well.If the application is mission-critical or otherwise strategic to operations, this is the way you'll want to go.
- Create shims for your existing applications.Shims are small pieces of code inserted between the application and Windows to modify calls to the underlying OS—for instance, to trick your application into thinking the user is running as an administrator, while still maintaining standard user mode.You will have some management overhead, since you'll need to maintain a shim database, but this approach will remedy many application problems.This is the more cost effective route, and might be the only option if the application vendor is no longer around.One caveat—many vendors will not support shimmed applications.
- You can use Group Policy to change the offending behavior of the application.Like shimming, this will usually take care of the compatibility problem but carries some downsides as well.Essentially this approach uses policy to disable a particular feature or function that is causing the application to falter.Unfortunately, in many cases these functions involve the security of the underlying system, so the trade-off is significant.Likewise, the application must have Group Policy settings to enable this manageability.
For custom or in-house developed applications, you can of course modify the code. This isn't always an option, but if it is, there are great resources to help—the Application Compatibility Cookbook for changes made from Windows XP to Windows Vista, and the Application Quality Cookbook for changes made from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Both are free guides that help developers recode an application for native compatibility.
Step 4: Prepare for the OS deployment and new application delivery options
The start of an OS migration project is a great time to rethink how you package and deliver applications to your end users. Virtualization technologies have opened up options that simply weren't available for the last major OS migration; you should consider different models for desktop image and application delivery before beginning the testing process. You might find that the savings in application testing and readiness more than offsets the cost of implementing a virtualized environment—while providing a more flexible and easier-to-manage environment for future efforts.
There are two major forms of virtualization that can address application compatibility issues—application virtualization and OS virtualization. Application virtualization separates the application layer from the OS, including the applications files and registry settings, and packages the application for streaming. OS virtualization come in a few different forms, but essentially creates an OS image independent of the native image on the machine.
Virtualizing your application portfolio provides a number of benefits for manageability and flexibility, but one key advantage is that you minimize application-to-application conflicts. This type of conflict arises, for instance, when you need to run two versions of the same application simultaneously—common in training situations where you want to compare the process of conducting a specific task in an old versus new application, or when the finance department is migrating to a newer version of their accounting software but needs access to the old one to close the fiscal year.
A more general use of virtualization to overcome application compatibility is to create a virtual image that contains a critical application and the operating system it is designed to run on. There are several tools to enable OS virtualization, from Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 Professional and higher SKUs (an unmanaged virtual image that will run applications intended for Windows XP but not compatible with Windows 7) to Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which enables a virtual machine to be easily provisioned, configured and managed using policies to determine how the physical and virtual environments interact with one another.
Of course, adopting an alternative computing model for your client PCs is an undertaking in its own right, but this would be the time to assess whether the benefits to your organization—greater flexibility and manageability—outweigh the additional effort to adopt this model for PC provisioning.
Step 5: Sequence your testing, piloting and deployment efforts
Use your prioritization from step 2 to sequence your testing efforts, so you can begin the staged roll-out with and conduct subsequent testing in parallel.
As you begin the testing process, you can use two approaches—static and dynamic analysis; while static analysis is relatively new, a thorough testing regimen will use both.
- Static analysis looks at the structure of the application and identifies issues that will undoubtedly arise, either in installation or runtime.There are a number of tools and services that can help automate this process, and will quickly highlight the obvious problems.
- Dynamic analysis looks at the behavior of the application at runtime, and is what is traditionally done in regression testing.Here, you are "smoke testing" the application in your specific environment—replicating the experience a variety of users will have with their hardware and the other key applications and drivers.
- Finally, you will want to get a handful of real users running the applications and looking for any strange behavior that hasn't surfaced in the structured testing.The promise of keeping the new PC for participation can be a great motivator here!
Once you are ready to start rolling out into production, identify the people for whom a migration makes sense first—based on specific capabilities they need, or to minimize business disruption. Migrating a group of expert users will be easier than dealing with the help desk calls from task workers who now are looking at an unfamiliar screen and don't know what to do with it. Next, identify which applications these groups will need to perform their work. Start with groups that are minimally or unaffected by application compatibility based on the applications they use, this will enable you to validate the deployment process and the operating system. As you work through your application portfolio and more groups become unblocked from incompatible applications, then target those groups.
One final word of caution—avoid taking the process too far. If you let the scope creep from application compatibility to a full-blown application quality project, you might never finish. Accept the goal of fixing bugs that prevent work from being done, and avoid trying to eliminate every bug that exists—you undoubtedly have better use for your time!
More resources
Readying your application portfolio for a migration to Windows 7 is a major undertaking, but fortunately there are a number of tools and an abundance of guidance to make the process more streamlined and manageable. We have just scratched the surface in this article; if you're ready to dive deeper and get the process rolling, a great next step is to visit the Application Compatibility zone on the Springboard Series on TechNet, download the Application Compatibility Toolkit, and start building your project plan!
You can also find helpful information and guidance on Chris Jackson's Blog, and in the Windows 7 Application Compatibility white paper, which covers Understanding Application Compatibility and Understanding Application Compatibility in Your Environment. You can learn more on the virtualization technologies mentioned above at www.microsoft.com/mdop and on the MDOP TechNet page.
To learn more about Windows 7 or any of the Windows Client technologies, please visit www.microsoft.com/springboard for the latest in information, guidance, and community connections.


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