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HARRISBURG, Pa. - For months, the identity of the boy who was sexually assaulted in the locker room showers by Jerry Sandusky was one of the biggest mysteries of the Penn State scandal. Now, for the first time, a man has come forward to claim he was that boy, and is threatening to sue the university.
The man's lawyers said Thursday they have done an extensive investigation and gathered "overwhelming evidence" on details of the abuse by Sandusky, the former assistant football coach convicted of using his position at Penn State and as head of a youth charity to molest boys over a period of 15 years.
Jurors convicted Sandusky last month of offenses related to so-called Victim 2 largely on the testimony of Mike McQueary, who was a team graduate assistant at the time and described seeing the attack.
"Our client has to live the rest of his life not only dealing with the effects of Sandusky's childhood sexual abuse, but also with the knowledge that many powerful adults, including those at the highest levels of Penn State, put their own interests and the interests of a child predator above their legal obligations to protect him," the lawyers said in a news release.
They did not name their client, and The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sex crimes without their consent.
The university said it was taking the case seriously but would not comment on pending litigation.
University President Rodney Erickson and the board of trustees "have publicly emphasized that their goal is to find solutions that rest on the principle of justice for the victims," a school spokesman said.
The statement from the man's attorneys said Victim 2 suffered "extensive sexual abuse over many years both before and after the 2001 incident Michael McQueary witnessed."
McQueary testified in December at a hearing that he had seen Sandusky and a boy, both naked, in a team shower after hearing skin-on-skin slapping sounds.
"I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on," McQueary said.
McQueary, who estimated the boy to be around 10 years old, reported the abuse to school officials, including longtime coach Joe Paterno, but none of them told police. In a recent report conducted by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and commissioned by Penn State, the investigators excoriated Paterno and the other administrators for not attempting to identify Victim 2, saying it showed "a striking lack of empathy."
Trustees fired Paterno, who has since died, because he failed to do more about claims against Sandusky, and the scathing independent review said several top school officials looked the other way because they were afraid of bad publicity. The NCAA has vacated 112 Penn State wins.
In a pair of voicemails recorded last year, released with the statement and posted online by the lawyers, a voice that's purportedly Sandusky's expresses his love and says he wants to express his feelings "up front."
The voicemails are dated Sept. 12 and Sept. 19, less than two months before the former Penn State coach was arrested on child sex abuse charges. Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 sex abuse counts and awaits sentencing.
The second voicemail asks whether Victim 2 would like to attend Penn State's next game.
Sandusky left "numerous" voicemails for their client that fall, the attorneys said.
Sandusky has said very little publicly since he gave interviews in the weeks after his arrest and did not testify at his trial.
Before the trial, defense attorney Joe Amendola said he had met with a man he believed he might be Victim 2 and the man told him he had not been abused by Sandusky. Amendola said he was not convinced and did not intend to subpoena him, but also said Sandusky himself was insistent they had the right person.
The statement from Victim 2's lawyers leaves many questions unanswered, including whether he had been in contact with prosecutors before or during the trial, whether he remembers McQueary, and whether he is the same person who met with Amendola.
"Jerry Sandusky's abuse of Victim 2 and other children is a direct result of a conspiracy to conceal Sandusky's conduct and the decisions by top Penn State officials that facilitated and enabled his access to victims," the statement read. "We intend to file a civil lawsuit against Penn State University and others and to hold them accountable for the egregious and reckless conduct that facilitated the horrific abuse our client suffered."
The statement did not say when the lawsuit would be filed or contain details on what redress the plaintiff is seeking. The lawyers said they would not have further comment, and messages left for their spokesman were not immediately returned.
Several messages seeking comment from Amendola and Sandusky's other lawyer, Karl Rominger, were not immediately returned.
Prosecutors had said on several occasions they did not know the identity of the boy, and they offered no reaction to the lawyers' announcement Thursday.
"We can't comment, given both our ongoing criminal prosecutions and our ongoing investigation," said Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for the attorney general's office.
The attorneys who released the statement include several based in Philadelphia and in State College, home to Penn State's main campus - where the shower assault took place. They also represent three other young men Sandusky was convicted of abusing but have not filed any lawsuits.
A second accuser has filed paperwork indicating an additional complaint is in the works, while other lawyers also have indicated they represent young men with potential claims.
This week Penn State's general liability insurer sought to deny or limit coverage for Sandusky-related claims. Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance argued that Penn State withheld key information needed to assess risk.
In June, after Sandusky was convicted, the university said it hoped to quickly compensate victims and would reach out to their lawyers. Penn State spokesman Dave La Torre declined to comment on anything related to the victims and any settlement discussions.
Lawyers' statement and voicemails: http://bit.ly/NYmGvl
Associated Press writer Maryclaire Dale in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Dead Men May Tell No Tales, But Wrecked Cakes Sure Do.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Avast, ye lily livered lubbers! Did ye not know it's Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Now raise yer mugs to winsome wench Kia M., whose bilge-water Wreck here is evidence of some focsal swab drinking up and yo-ho'ing a bit too much while on duty. Mayhaps this is why the rum is always gone, eh, maties?
That sea-sick writing and algae-ridden muck creeping up the sides should earn some scurvy swabbie a one-way ticket to Davy Jones' locker - and seriously, what self-respecting pirate keeps giant yellow inflatable flotation devices onboard? It's totally messing with the color scheme, and don't get me started on that neon "rave" ladder...er...wait, I mean...Arrrr! Yellow bad!
Shiver me soul, I'm running out of pirate lingo, me 'arties. I best be gettin' back to the Pirate ride over at Disney for a refresher course.
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Wow...talk about a 'Poop' Deck....
- September 19, 2008 at 3:56 PM
I think sweetie is a bit old for a pirate cake.
- September 19, 2008 at 3:56 PM
There are much better confectionary ways to celebrate talk like a pirate day. Linked are the cupcakes I made for work today :-)
- September 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM
- Carrie Snider said...
ditto... If this was my "20" cake, I think I'd shoot myself, er, walk the plank.
- September 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Yer doom be at hand, ye scurvy bucko...now, where's my bottle of rum?
- September 19, 2008 at 4:24 PM
- Lisa said...
I agree that a 20 year old might be a bit too old for a pirate cake AND to be called sweetie.
What is up with the "H" in Happy? Was the ship rocking when she decorated it? - September 19, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Natalie, the Chickenblogger said...
amused: I posted about TLAPD and Cake Wreck today!
- September 19, 2008 at 4:29 PM
- Laura ~Peach~ said...
ewwww poop deck indeed! i can't help but wonder is SWEETY 20 months or 20 years old?
- September 19, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Arrrrrgh...did they decorate that during an earthquake?
- September 19, 2008 at 4:39 PM
- Jennifer said...
Cap'n Madd Jenny Kidd says, the scallywag who made that one needs to be keelhauled!
- September 19, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Aaarrrgh me pirate friends... looks like they thought they needed to BLOB the deck instead of SWAB the deck! Ick!
- September 19, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- Hyla said...
LMAO, that is horrible!
http://earthyfinds.blogspot.com - September 19, 2008 at 4:58 PM
- Kopperhead said...
Oh my. OH OH My. That cake has already been pillaged.
Glad you celebrated Talk Like A Pirate Day! http://blackwordswhitepaper.blogspot.com/2008/09/aaaaaargh-ten-things-you-need-to-know.html - September 19, 2008 at 5:05 PM
I got a Miffy-cake, when I turned 20...however, that was on request.
This is a silly exuse for a cake, imho...
Arkarian-Kamui - September 19, 2008 at 5:14 PM
- Funnelcloud Rachel said...
Um, that brown border looks like it's straight from the butt. Hopefully, it's just frosting...
- September 19, 2008 at 5:16 PM
- Kerri. said...
Oh, that is horribly awesome. :)
- September 19, 2008 at 5:16 PM
- Clare K. R. Miller said...
The people saying a 20-year-old is too old for a pirate cake are clearly not anywhere close to 20 themselves. Pirates are quite popular these days, especially with the Pirates of the Caribbean movies--at my college (I just graduated), there's a thriving pirate club! I would love to have a pirate cake for my 22nd birthday... though, er, not one that looks like that.
P.S. I'm not sure fo'c's'le is an adjective. - September 19, 2008 at 5:39 PM
- CaliGirl9 said...
Yarrr! At least "sweetie" was spelled correctly!
That be one fugly poopdeck though with all that poop posing as decoration! Methinks even Captain Jack Sparrow would not make do with that decor scheme.
Methinks the "algae" coming up the sides of the "ship" look like meconium that should be in the baby's diaper in the previous blog entry.
Avast! Hope the cake was edible! - September 19, 2008 at 5:44 PM
- Annette said...
WOW! That is amazing! I work at a restaurant that does this cake quite often, but here's what it's supposed to look like!
http://www.decopac.com/detail_16499__1-1-14.html - September 19, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Sheri said...
Avast, ye mateys! Our ship has been attacked by the dreaded Goo Monster! Run for ye lives!
Just what IS the black goo supposed to represent, anyway? Everything else seems pretty clear but that poo goo has me stumped. - September 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- kas said...
What is that black stuff supposed to be? It looks like the "presents" my chihuahua left in the floor when I was a kid.
- September 19, 2008 at 6:32 PM
"Arrrr, matey, watch yer back! There be a monstrous huge number twenty behind ye! Those scurvy beasts'll rip yer head clean off!"
(In other words... wrong cake for a number candle.) - September 19, 2008 at 6:49 PM
- William Hawkins said...
Arrrrr! This be the funniest blog on the net. I be checking from sunup to sundown. yarrrrgh!
- September 19, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Judging by the link that hyla posted, the gobs of...algae stuff...are the Krakken's tentacles.
Looks pretty believable to me.
[/sarcasm] - September 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM
I think those black blobby things are supposed to be the Krakken's tentacles, lol.
- September 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM
yes that is a sad excuse for what that cake was supposed to look like, thanks for the link annette. I made a pirate ship cake last year FOR MY 4 YEAR OLD! It looked WAAAAAY better and I'm definately no professional!
--Angie - September 19, 2008 at 7:21 PM
whoops! Annette posted the link. My bad.
- September 19, 2008 at 7:27 PM
- Zelmarific said...
What's with all the poop?
I mean, uh, shiver me timbers. That deficatin' 'as got me hurlin'! - September 19, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Thanks for posting what the actual cake is supposed to look like, Annette. It really doesn't look half-bad if you let a TRUE professional do it.
- September 19, 2008 at 10:19 PM
thanks annette for finding what this cake is supposed to look like.
Holy crap, it should have looked GOOD!
The disgusting black smears are apparently supposed to be octopus tentacles. Ooops. - September 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM
ugh, we offer this cake where i work...
trust me, no matter how hard you try, it ALWAYS looks bad. - September 20, 2008 at 12:38 AM
I used to work in a grocery store bakery that carried these cakes (thanks Annette for posting what it "should" look like).
And not only did the cake kit come with every plastic item (the characters, helm, etc.) but it also came with a detailed card for the decorators on how this cake is made. I mean, these cards had everything from what size icing tip to the exact formula for making the colors!
How this cake got so off course is anyone's guess. - September 20, 2008 at 1:41 AM
Just a friendly note: "who's" should be "whose." :)
- September 20, 2008 at 1:58 AM
- Unknown said...
I find something about this cake very endearing. yes, it's a wreck, but i'm sure the mom who made it put a lot of love and effort into it. i'm not sure why i'm having this reaction to it. but i think the consideration behind the pirate theme, and the fact that mom went out of her way to make it for her son that is most likely a little ungrateful and angsty, is really innocent and cute. i don't know what has come over me.
- September 20, 2008 at 2:16 AM
Wow, that's amazing and i like this
- September 20, 2008 at 7:30 AM
- Needless To Say said...
Nothing says Happy Birthday like a lot of brown & yellow!
- September 20, 2008 at 7:48 AM
- V. Nicharico said...
...20??? Hahahahaha!
I wonder if she invited all his freinds over for cake and pirate party games too! - September 20, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- KIM :-) said...
We used this for my sons Pirate birthday party a few months ago (he's 3). I hated it, but it sure tasted good! HAHA
- September 20, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- fug estate said...
What on earth is the black stuff oozing down the side? Combined with the doody-brown "walls" built up along the edge, I see an Ex-Lax inspired moment that I don't want to be a part of. Poor Sweetie.
- September 20, 2008 at 9:36 AM
- ~ Keara said...
We had this same cake from a grocery store and they did a MUCH better job on it. That "algae" supposed to be grayish-blue Kracken tentacles with little black spots on them, wrapping around the ship. This example was certainly poorly executed, for sure!!!
- September 20, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Er..that looks like algae or mold (?) growing up the side of the ship. Perchance it's just been dredged from the bottom of the sea, and the two on it are actually members of a pirate reenactment club?
It could happen! LOL
~Amy B - September 20, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Uh, is it just me, or does that "Happy 20th" at the top look more like "hHpasdy pf20d"? than anything else?
- September 20, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- Kat Mortensen said...
I sincerely hope Sweetie told him to "Walk the plank"!
Kat - September 20, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Bethany Scott said...
Oh my God, I discovered your blog today and I nearly had a cardiac arrest. Of course I had to go back and read every one of your posts from the beginning... what can I say? Thank you so much for this hilarious, disturbing, worrying and nauseating site!!! LOVE YOU!! :D
(Bethany Dean) - September 20, 2008 at 11:23 AM
There used to be a Saturday morning cartoon when I was growing up called The Pirates of Dark Water. Black globs of water would attack their ship and try to kill them and such. I thought this was just an old picture of a cake made for that cartoon. But nope, those are tentacles. This cake would have made perfect sense to me growing up believe it or not.
- September 20, 2008 at 12:23 PM
- Nauntie Lush said...
I think that someone just threw up all over the cake and someone else tried to arrange the nuclear waste nicely to make it look like a presentable "poop deck." However everyone in this scenario failed to win. Especially sweetie...poor poor sweetie. I can still hear her sobs now!
- September 20, 2008 at 1:42 PM
- Juliet said...
Shiver me timbers! When I saw what the cake was supposed to look like, I was quite impressed at the execution of this cake. Maybe there are octopus tentacles that colour... it was like the decorator didn't have all the materials he/she needed and had to make do.
One thing I have learned from this blog is how easy it is to make icing realistically resemble poo. The colours, the texture... it seems so easy you almost have to try *not* to make it look like poo. :-) - September 20, 2008 at 3:57 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
My kids could have made that cake.
Why the heck does Sweetie get so many bad cakes anyway? - September 20, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Phil: what's come over you is that you forgot Cake Wrecks is about professional cakes, not Mom cakes. I'd cut a Mom a break too, but someone paid for this.
Janet: until you said that, I actually had not realized there was an icing "20" in there. I just thought the "H" was REALLY out of control.
Everyone: go look at the link Annette posted, for the company that makes the plastic pieces. There are two sample pictures. I kept looking at the second one, wondering what was up with it. Why did it have scalloped edges? Ships usually do not have scalloped edges. (Ok, they usually aren't rectangular, either, but you know what I mean.) Then I looked again.
... The second picture is a cupcake cake. These people are encouraging cupcake cakes. They must be stopped. - September 20, 2008 at 8:39 PM
- Threeundertwo said...
mmmmm - I wouldn't mind licking the frosting off Capt. Jack Sparrow's boots though. . .
(did I say that out loud?) - September 21, 2008 at 1:22 AM
- Debster said...
Why are they called pirates?
Because they ARR! - September 21, 2008 at 4:03 AM
- HennHouse said...
I just love your site! So, I left you an award over at the HennHouse!
- September 21, 2008 at 7:54 AM
- Dea said...
EEEK! I've seen that topper set/decoration setup done WAY WAY better than that!!! :O Not to mention it being for a 20 year old....:{
- September 21, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- corinne said...
wait wait wait! my friend catie just got this cake friday for her 24th - http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v336/225/71/114501824/n114501824_30958027_7951.jpg
my mind is blown - September 21, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- Yerba Buena said...
Man, I'd love a pirate cake for my 23rd birthday. Just, you know. A good one.
- September 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Nothing with Jack Sparrow on it is bad. Nothing. And I am 43 and would welcome a POTC cake any year!!! I'm a'thinkin' though, that those black...things...creeping up the side are tentacles of the Kraken.
- September 22, 2008 at 10:37 PM
I feel compelled to comment that this is a poorly done version of an already tacky cake design available in grocery stores- the greenish poop is supposed to be the tentacles of the craigon as it attempts to climb on board and eat orlando bloom or Johnny Depp. and perhaps this picture's a little old and Sweetie was planning to celebrate his 20th by seeing the newest POTC movie....
- September 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM
I know I'm necroing the heck out of this but I just have to say that you're NEVER too old for a pirate cake.
- April 1, 2010 at 1:49 AM
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Breaking News: Heeeere's Bobby!
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Bob is blue.
Bob has one eye.
Well, he looks like this:
This is the "official" Bob cake, made by Sugar Butter Flour and served at DreamWorks yesterday to celebrate the movie's release. Fortunately Jessica G.'s hubby works there, which is why we get to share in the gelatinous joy.
Speaking of gelatinous, though, wouldn't it have been awesome if they'd made him completely out of Jello? Sure, I'd rather eat cake, too, but Bompass & Parr (creators of the infamous burger-on-a-donut) have some nifty "Jelly" creations, some of which even glow in the dark:
Cool, huh? Plus, slap an eyeball on that sucker and you've got yourself a Bob!
Heck, now I'm inspired to go make some blue jello mounds with eyeballs. Then I'll bring them to the IMAX theater, and chuck 'em at the candy-wrapper-crinkling, seat-kicking, cell-phone-answering, talking-the-ENTIRE-TIME pests who sit behind me. "Who's 3D now, jerk-faces? Huh? HUH? SHWA-POW! Bob in the face!"
Hm, maybe John's right. Maybe I'm not ready for the movie theater again yet.
Oh, and before anyone gives me grief, this is just Cake News, mmkay? Not Wrecks; Cake News.
UPDATE: Just learned from SuperPunch that Bob also visited the DreamWork's campus "in the flesh," as it were. Check out pics here.
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- Lizzy Leigh said...
Why would Pixar celebrate a movie that's being done by Dreamworks? Me thinkith you have the wrong movie studio.
Either way, he sure looks like the character! - March 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Glory von Hathor said...
Jen, the world would be a better place if you started using your powers for evil.
- March 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- Tiff said...
Wow, that glow-jello is awesome! The Bob cake is pretty sweet as well, looks just like him - being a Saturday, I was expecting some horrible rendition, but I'm pleasantly surprised! Monsters vs. Aliens is a DreamWorks movie, though, not Pixar - just representing the art school nerdy demographic ;)
- March 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Truly Hideous Gifts said...
That cake rocks!
- March 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- sendingtheclowns said...
Wow! That LED Jello is so mesmerizingly, bluely glowy!
I want one to put beside the bed
(spoons optional).
Nightlight/midnight snack combo--what could be cooler?
WV: ruddias--"Get your ruddias outta here!" - March 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Much as I hate to admit it, my Mother was right: There is no place on earth that deserves to have blue food.
I will admit the Blobby is sort of cute and that glow-in-the-dark Jello is cool and a half, but as food? No. - March 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Melanie said...
shwa pow! LOL crack me up!
- March 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Hayley said...
I think a Jello Bob would have been awesome...
- March 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- michelle said...
This jello thing is opening up a whole new world for me.
- March 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM
"pests who sit behind me"
You're lucky then, they tend to sit all around me! - March 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- joyce said...
wonder what kinda cake was inside...
something that ooozzeessss??? - March 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Love the cake! And glowing jello? Wowzers!
My husband is insisting upon seeing this one at the IMAX theatre for his birthday. He's 27. I'll have to listen to some crying and whining and talking during the movie. The kids'll probably be loud, too. - March 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Jen said...
Sorry, sorry - I keep getting my animation studios mixed up. It's been corrected, though, so I hope y'all forgive me for removing the 17 comments-in-a-row pointing out the error. :)
- March 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- My Big Fat Super Super Obese Blog said...
looks like there are a few more to remove Jen.
- March 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- AJ said...
My hubby always has to keep me under control in the theatre...stupid gaggle of middle schooler ruining my Batman Imax experience...Im OK.
I love Bob, aka Seth Rogan, and his awesome Jewish hair! - March 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Dorci said...
I love Bob already. Anybody who can hug a person, ingest them right through their...blobbiness..and then vomit them back out again is alright by me.
- March 28, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- Deirdrea said...
Ohh Our theater has started removing people who answer their cell phones or even text during a movie. Its WONDERFUL!
- March 28, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- MarieA said...
ok.. so I EAT the fluorescent jello when it ummmm leaves me... and I happen to have black lights around will THAT glow in the dark too?
just askin...
oy! - March 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM
- sendingtheclowns said...
drgns4vr said...
"Much as I hate to admit it, my Mother was right: There is no place on earth that deserves to have blue food."
As I remember reading/hearing somewhere many moons ago, the reason the folks invented blue food coloring in the first place was BECAUSE there were no blue foods (blueberries aren't blue, so they don't count).
Blue is cool. Blue is pretty! Blue evokes a lovely summer sky, or a languid, tropical sea...a dawn...a twilight...a kitten's eyes...
We do BLUE because we CAN. (!!!)
I have to respectfully disagree with your mother.
WE THE PEOPLE deserve blue food.
* hand on heart and tear in eye*
I don't have a soapbox, so I have to stand on my son's case of blue Focus.
>^~~^< - March 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM
- the ginabean said...
I really dig the Bob cake.
And I'd be a bit nervous to eat glowing jello... - March 28, 2009 at 11:39 AM
- Kara said...
Ewwww Jello is the most disgusting food on earth and this may nave been the only way to make it worse.
- March 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- julie desmeules said...
Please change Pixar for Dreamworks/PDI! Beautiful Bob...
- March 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM
That glowing blue Jell-O is the most beautiful foodstuff I have ever seen--and I've seen a lot of it. It's otherworldly!
WV: fabil. Tell me a fabil. - March 28, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- ~j said...
oh! i want to go to the movies with you....pick me, pick me!!!!!
"who's 3d now?" hahahahahaha - March 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- Unknown said...
That glowy jello looks a bit obscene. LOL
~Amy B - March 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
Want's a glow party now. with glow in the dark jello shot molds (moulds? I dunno).
wv guastlai ordinary jello is guastlai - March 28, 2009 at 1:15 PM
At the risk of sounding off-color, am I the only one to note that Bob looks startlingly like a condom with one eye and a big grin? It's a little unsettling. Also, puts me right off the notion of eating cake (and that takes a lot).
Still, I really love the idea of hurling tiny Jell-O blobs at talkers and cellphone abusers in movie theatres. That's a big Go You! in my book. - March 28, 2009 at 1:18 PM
and dreamworks celebrates with cheeseburgers/gardenburgers and mcdonalds fries??? written in chalk on a green board! how positively retro of them!
- March 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Kae said...
Is it bad that I'm more fascinated with the menu on the chalkboard BEHIND the cake than I am with the cake itself?
But...they're pointing out (in chalk) that they have MCDONALD'S french fries. That's funny to me... - March 28, 2009 at 1:30 PM
I can't handle the movie theater either. It's more fun to wait for dvd releases and watch at home in my own comfy chair anyway.
I thought the blobs might be Bobs, but now we've confirmed, they're just blobs.
Word Verification: porstsk
That's not really a word now, is it? - March 28, 2009 at 1:52 PM
"SHWA-POW! Bob in the face!"
HAH! that made my day :] - March 28, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- Jules said...
Heston Blumenthal on his recent series screened here in the UK made and an amazing glowing jelly and used and *cough* "interesting" way to make it wobble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2pfhD1Bu4g - March 28, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- emilee said...
LOL! "I'm bringin' blobby back"
- March 28, 2009 at 2:54 PM
- Molly said...
I hate to call you out, Jen, but I'm pretty sure that burger was invented by Luther Vandross. It's even called the Luther Burger!
Maybe the difference is the bacon. LOL
[comment captcha: "tator" haha] - March 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- TT said...
Hi there!
- March 28, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- stonesoupjewelry said...
That blue jello has a strangely hypnotic effect. I must have some.
- March 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM
The glow in the dark jello looks like a meeting of (insert you favorite word for a phallic symbol here). I guess you COULD keep this on your nightstand....
- March 28, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Glow in the dark...food? Ugh. Any chemical that makes an edible item glow in the dark...you probably wouldn't wanna ingest.
- March 28, 2009 at 7:01 PM
I'm a US ex-pat living in Australia (20 years now). Those pop-eyed sailor blobs are definitely frog-cakes which originated in Adelaide. http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=244
Now you can put your hands over your ears (or eyes) and go "lalala things only happen in the US", but wouldn't you rather just eat the cake? :) - March 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM
This has nothing to do with this post, but I'd just like to say that your site inspires me. Should the college thing work out, I could always go into grocery store cake decoration, as it seems that there is absolutely no talent or training required! (Though perhaps graduating high school makes me overqualified for the job.)
Thank you for alleviating my career-related anxiety. - March 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Alison said...
When you're allowed back in the movie theater, I want to go with you. I'll even pay for popcorn, k?
Flartus - March 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- Susanne said...
If you hate noise in the theater, don't see this one in 3D! We went to the first show Friday with our 5 kids and the theater was full, kids of all ages there with their parents. It was Awesome! No inappropriate noise, just lots of jumping and shouting out at the moment things are about to hit you in the head or land in your lap. I think the 3D is so fascinating to the kids, they pay attention to watch for the next thing coming at them. I love it!
- March 29, 2009 at 1:36 AM
- epergne said...
The glowing jelly is very easy to make and it totally food safe. Quinine's the magic ingredient. Drop me an email if you would like the recipe and the full story. It would be a pleasure to help out.
email@example.com - March 29, 2009 at 4:20 AM
- Meghan G said...
so wait...they're serving cheeseburgers and veggie burgers with mcdonalds fries? forget the cake -- i'm more intrigued by the menu! is mcdonalds a sponser or something?
- March 29, 2009 at 4:29 AM
- Cara said...
No, madrobins, you're not the only one to have that off-color thought. Although, rather than a condom, I think Bob looks like a sex toy. Couple that with the fact that his name is BOB (aka, Battery Operated Boyfriend)....and, well....I refuse to believe that no one at Dreamworks made that connection.
- March 30, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Thanks for the link to Bompass and Parr...love it! Also, you should definitely venture out to the movies again, but only if you bring a BOB with you, just in case...
-Michelle - March 30, 2009 at 6:49 PM
I just talked to our chef here at Dreamworks/PDI and was told that Butter Sugar Flour did the cake(http://www.sugarbutterflour.com/) Not only did it look great, but the taste was fantastic; moist, rich, and a decent fondant on the outside.
- March 31, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- meauxjeaux said...
the glow jello is super cool but looks more like another kind of b.o.b., if you ask me.
- March 31, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- bombaygirl said...
My 4 yr old son took a look at the first picture and said "HEY! That's a BOB CAKE! That's a FUNNY cake!"
He loved it, needless to say... - May 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM
- Angelina said...
BWAHAHAHA! SHWA-POW! Very funny image being put into my head this early morning. I love you guys!
- June 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM
- mm said...
I really like the Bob cake, it looks very cute.. any new cakes from cartoon characters?
- August 22, 2010 at 5:26 AM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
shwa pow! lol...I just burst out laughing in the office. ;) xx
- October 13, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Sugar Butter Flour - is that not the same company that made the famous Swastika wedding cake. Wow, they sure get around. I can understand why you took the famous wedding cake off if you have a relationship with the company. Shame.
- December 17, 2010 at 3:14 PM
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What if the next big thing in tech does not arrive on your smartphone or in the cloud? What if it lands on your plate? That idea is enticing a wide group of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley into making big bets on food. [Reproduced from NYTimes.com] By JENNA WORTHAM and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Published: April 28, 2013 In some cases, the goal is to connect restaurants with food purveyors, or to create on-demand delivery services from local farms, or ready-to-cook dinner kits. In others, the goal is to invent new foods, like creating cheese, meat and egg substitutes from plants. Since this is Silicon Valley money, though, the ultimate goal is often nothing short of grand: transforming the food industry. "Part of the reason you're seeing all these V.C.'s get interested in this is the food industry is not only is it massive, but like the energy industry, it is terribly broken in terms of its impact on the environment, health, animals," said Josh Tetrick, founder and chief executive of Hampton Creek Foods, a start-up making egg alternatives. Some investors say food-related start-ups fit into their sustainability portfolios, alongside solar energy or electric cars, because they aim to reduce the toll on the environment of producing animal products. For others, they fit alongside health investments like fitness devices and heart rate monitoring apps. Still others are eager to tackle a real-world problem, instead of building virtual farming games or figuring out ways to get people to click on ads. "There are pretty significant environmental consequences and health issues associated with sodium or high-fructose corn syrup or eating too much red meat," said Samir Kaul, a partner at Khosla Ventures, which has invested in a half-dozen food start-ups. "I wouldn't bet my money that Cargill or ConAgra are going to innovate here. I think it's going to take start-ups to do that." In the last year, venture capital firms in the valley have funneled about $350 million into food projects, and investment deals in the sector were 37 percent higher than the previous year, according to a recent report by CB Insights, a venture capital database. In 2008, that figure was less than $50 million. That money is just a slice of the $30 billion that venture capitalists invest annually, but it is enough to help finance an array of food start-ups. The venture capital firms helping to finance these businesses are some of the valley's most prominent names, in addition to Khosla: SV Angel, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures and the Obvious Collection. Celebrities from Hollywood (Matt Damon), pro football (Tom Brady) and the tech world more broadly (Bill Gates) have also joined in.
"Consumers are interested in sophisticated experiences that are beautifully delivered, which we've seen happen on the Web and with products like the iPhone," said Tony Conrad, a partner at True Ventures, which was an early investor in the coffee company Blue Bottle. "Now, we're seeing that happen with food and beverage." Still, some tech analysts and venture capitalists are skeptical that these companies, with their factories and perishable products, can reach the scale and market valuations of big Internet companies. "I don't see a multimillion-dollar business coming out of any of these companies," said Susan Etlinger, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, a firm that advises companies on how to use technology. "The majority of Americans will not likely be able to participate, they're simply too expensive for them." Venture capitalists have strayed from pure technology to food before. Restaurant chains like Starbucks, P. F. Chang's, Jamba Juice and, more recently, the Melt, were backed by venture capital. Recipe apps and restaurant review sites like Yelp have long been popular. But this newest wave of start-ups is seeking to use technology to change the way people buy food, and in some cases to invent entirely new foods. Investors are also eager to profit from the movement toward eating fewer animal products and more organic food. They face a contradiction, though, because that movement also shuns processed food and is decidedly low-tech. "It's not Franken-food," Mr. Kaul of Khosla Ventures said. "We're careful not to make it sound like some science experiment, but there is technology there." Hampton Creek Foods, based in San Francisco, uses about a dozen plants, including peas, sorghum and a type of bean, with properties similar to eggs, to make an egg substitute. Mr. Tetrick, its founder, started the company after working on alleviating poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. He hired a protein chemist, a food scientist, a sales executive from Heinz and a contestant from the television show "Top Chef." Two large food companies are using the egg substitutes in cookies and mayonnaise, and he said he planned to sell them to consumers next month. Unreal, based in Boston, makes candy that the founders say has no artificial colors or flavors, preservatives, hydrogenated fats or genetically modified ingredients, with at least 25 percent less sugar than similar candy on the market and added protein and fiber. The candy is sold in stores including CVS and Target. Lyrical Foods makes cheese from almond milk and macadamia milk under the name Kite Hill, which is the first nondairy cheese to be sold by Whole Foods. Nu-Tek Salt uses potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride to lower sodium. Beyond Meat and Sand Hill Foods are making veggie burgers that their investors say taste and grill more like beef than others on the market. Yet some investors say the projects have a better chance of success if they steer clear of selling actual food. "The food category has been a hard nut to crack because it's a perishable item," said Mark Suster, an investor at GRP Partners. "The No. 1 thing V.C.'s are looking for are scalable and repeatable, high-margin businesses. You can create those in food, it's just harder." His firm, for instance, is tapping into the food industry by investing in Internet services like ChowNow, an online restaurant ordering company. GoodEggs, another Web service, is a marketplace for local farmers and chefs who make artisanal goods like cheese, honey, jam and olive oil. Another company, Farmigo, is taking a similar strategy. Kitchensurfing is a site that lets people hire private chefs to give pasta-making lessons or prepare an authentic Thai meal, just as one might book a room on Airbnb. "Chefs spend all of their time working and at farmer's markets," said Chris Muscarella, a chef in Brooklyn who helped to found the site. "They aren't sitting in front of a computer. So the fact that you're finally getting more chefs online through mobile devices is actually a big deal for the culinary world." Still, food start-ups have their own challenges that are unfamiliar to tech entrepreneurs and investors, like a broken-down delivery truck or a bad oyster. These setbacks can be more difficult to recover from than a software malfunction. In the early days of Plated, for instance, which sells ready-to-make dinner kits for recipes like Greek lamb burgers with cucumber salad, the founders sank $15,000 into building a customized refrigerated warehouse in Queens. Then they discovered that it would not cool lower than 70 degrees, unsuitable for food handling and preparation. "We just had to walk away from that investment," said Nick Taranto, one of the founders. Bill Maris, a partner at Google Ventures, the search giant's investment arm, has not yet put money into any food-related companies. But he said he was closely watching the trend. He said, "Start-ups are unpredictable and all these companies are trying to take advantage of new technology and markets that are changing." But, he added, "in 2000, the same questions were asked about YouTube and no one knew how it would even work, let alone become a business." Leave a Reply. |
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text: In March 1962, James Webb, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, suggested that artists be enlisted to document the historic effort to send the first human beings to the moon. John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art, was among those who applauded the idea, urging that artists be encouraged "…not only to record the physical appearance of the strange new world which space technology is creating, but to edit, select and probe for the inner meaning and emotional impact of events which may change the destiny of our race."Working together, James Dean, a young artist employed by the NASA Public Affairs office, and Dr. H. Lester Cooke, curator of paintings at the National Gallery of Art, created a program that dispatched artists to NASA facilities with an invitation to paint whatever interested them. The result was an extraordinary collection of works of art proving, as one observer noted, "that America produced not only scientists and engineers capable of shaping the destiny of our age, but also artists worthy to keep them company." Transferred to the National Air and Space Museum in 1975, the NASA art collection remains one of the most important elements of what has become perhaps the world's finest collection of aerospace themed art.


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Hilarious Hollywood spoofs were a beloved feature on many classic Jack Benny radio shows. Regular cast members and guest stars alike were recruited to send up cinema classics like Casablanca, High Noon, and Sunset Boulevard. Celebrities could count on large laughs - and, looking good next to Jack's lovably vainglorious and miserly self - while poking fun at their most famous films.
Even without guests, the movie mockery continued. Jack would simply announce a sketch and proclaim that he would be playing the lead! The rest of the cast, of course, was not to be out done - note Rochester's rendition of As Time Goes By and Mel Blanc's "Sleepy Mexican" routine.
A treasure trove for both Benny-philes and film fans, this set includes 12 digitally restored and remastered episodes, performances by the likes of Bob Hope and Edward G. Robinson, and a Program Guide by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.
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Michelle Obama has officially unveiled the 2012 Christmas decorations at the Whitehouse, including 54 different designer-decorated trees and a 300-pound gingerbread replica of the Whitehouse to commemorate this year's holiday theme of "austerity."
No, just kidding! It's the same wretched excess as usual, but the official holiday theme is "Joy To All." They would have included "...And Peace On Earth" in the theme, but didn't want to discourage anyone from celebrating the holidays by firing rockets at Israel.
In the first lady's official comments, she mentions the "many joys of the holiday seasons" and then defines those joys as "giving and service to others," and "sharing our blessings with one another." Which are lovely sentiments when contained in scripture, but are considerably less so when turned into hundreds of pages of new tax codes.
With so many Christmas trees festooning the Whitehouse (every one of which will be abandoned December 17th, when the Obamas leave on their $4 million Hawaiian vacation), we can't help but wonder if there's one in the Situation Room...where Barack Obama may have given the order not to send aid to the four Americans murdered by terrorists in Benghazi.
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A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with diggers and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities have announced.
The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said on Tuesday that the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial centre dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.
"It's a feeling of incredible disbelief because of the ignorance and the insensitivity … they were using this for road fill," Awe said. "It's like being punched in the stomach, it's just so horrendous."
Nohmul was in the middle of a privately owned sugar cane field, and lacked the even stone sides frequently seen in reconstructed or better-preserved pyramids. But Awe said the builders could not possibly have mistaken the pyramid mound, which is about 30 metres (100ft) tall, for a natural hill because the ruins were well known and the landscape there was naturally flat.
"These guys knew that this was an ancient structure. It's just bloody laziness," Awe said.
Photos from the scene showed diggers clawing away at the pyramid's sloping sides, leaving an isolated core of limestone cobbles at the centre, with what appears to be a narrow Mayan chamber dangling above one clawed-out section.
"Just to realise that the ancient Maya acquired all this building material to erect these buildings, using nothing more than stone tools and quarried the stone, and carried this material on their heads, using tump lines," Awe said. "To think that today we have modern equipment, that you can go and excavate in a quarry anywhere, but that this company would completely disregard that and completely destroyed this building. Why can't these people just go and quarry somewhere that has no cultural significance? It's mind-boggling."
Belizean police said they were conducting an investigation and criminal charges were possible. The Nohmul complex sits on private land, but Belizean law says that any pre-Hispanic ruins are under government protection.
The Belize community action group Citizens Organised for Liberty Through Action called the destruction of the archaeological site "an obscene example of disrespect for the environment and history".
It is not the first time this has happened in Belize, a country dotted with hundreds of Mayan ruins, though few as large as Nohmul.
Norman Hammond, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Boston University who worked on Belizean research projects in the 1980s, wrote in an email that "bulldozing Maya mounds for road fill is an endemic problem in Belize (the whole of the San Estevan centre has gone, both of the major pyramids at Louisville, other structures at Nohmul, many smaller sites), but this sounds like the biggest yet".
Arlen Chase, chairman of the department of anthropology at the University of Central Florida, said: "Archaeologists are disturbed when such things occur, but there is only a very limited infrastructure in Belize that can be applied to cultural heritage management.
"Unfortunately, they [destruction of sites] are all too common, but not usually in the centre of a large Maya site."
Chase said there had probably still been much to learn from the site. "A great deal of archaeology was undertaken at Nohmul in the 70s and 80s, but this only sampled a small part of this large centre."
Belize isn't the only place where the handiwork of the prolific Maya builders is being destroyed. The ancient Mayas spread across south-eastern Mexico and through Guatemala, Honduras and Belize.
"I don't think I am exaggerating if I say that every day a Maya mound is being destroyed for construction in one of the countries where the Maya lived," wrote Francisco Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University's anthropology department.
"Unfortunately, this destruction of our heritage is irreversible but many don't take it seriously," he added. "The only way to stop it is by showing that it is a major crime and people can and will go to jail for it."
Robert Rosenswig, an archaeologist at the State University of New York at Albany, described the difficult and heartbreaking work of trying to salvage information at the nearby site of San Estevan following similar destruction around 2005.
"Bulldozing damage at San Estevan is extensive and the site is littered with Classic period potsherds," he wrote in an academic paper describing the scene. "We spent a number of days at the beginning of the 2005 season trying to figure out the extent of the damage … after scratching our heads for many days, a bulldozer showed up and we realised that what appear to be mounds, when overgrown with chest-high vegetation, are actually recently bulldozed garbage piles."
However small the compensation, bulldozing pyramids is one very brutal way of revealing the inner cores of the structures, which were often built up in periodic stages of construction.
"The one advantage of this massive destruction, to the core site, is that the remains of early domestic activity are now visible on the surface," Rosenswig wrote.


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By John Davidson, The Cannabist
As the subject of medical-marijuana treatment for pets is bandied about in the veterinary community, Dr. Robin Downing comes down squarely on the side of orthodoxy. She agrees with the American Veterinary Medical Association that studies are needed before pot therapy is practiced.
And Downing, a Windsor veterinarian who is one of the top animal pain-management specialists in the country, isn't afraid to swim against the tide of veterinary dogma. She has little patience for vets who settle for euthanasia and don't go the limit for animals. But where pot is concerned, she goes with the conventional flow.
"There's more we don't know about this therapy than we do know," she explained recently.
"Marijuana therapy for animals is untried, unproven, unregulated medicine," Downing says. "Any time you use untested therapy, there are increased risks … We have good (pain) tools already."
Downing says she doesn't rule out eventual use of pot therapy, but she sees too many troubling knowledge gaps to support it today.
"We know dogs and cats have cannabinoid receptors," she says. So there is a scientific basis for supposing that marijuana can play a medicinal role for them. "But we don't really know at this time how we get to this receptor in pets. We have no knowledge of how pot metabolizes in them; how many milligrams of pot we need to treat them; what form we should administer it in; and how long it stays in the body. Are we going to create new problems to solve?"
Downing says that liability is another issue that her colleagues need to take seriously. While physicians in states where medical marijuana is sanctioned are legally allowed to recommend the drug, that's not true of veterinarians.
Still, some vets — Downing puts it at "a handful" — have come down in favor of using marijuana medicinally as an alternative to watching animals wasting away in pain. It's hard to pin down just how many.
Prominent among them was the late Los Angeles veterinarian Doug Kramer, who died of cancer in August. Kramer developed a special tincture called Canine Companion, made with marijuana for dogs and cats, designed to treat pain, inflammation and end-of-life health issues. Kramer himself said research on pot therapy was still needed.
Another supporter is Darlene Arden, a certified animal-behavior consultant as well as a noted author lecturer and journalist.
"The AVMA hasn't endorsed it, saying it needs to be studied. But why should animals suffer in the meantime?"
One thing appears likely: The wait for research could be a long one.
Leaders at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biological Sciences at Colorado State University say such research is not being contemplated at CSU, one of the top veterinary schools in the country. And they didn't know of any veterinary school in the country doing it.
Downing said that the veterinary association, though calling for studies, is not likely to do them because its role is making policy, not research.
Meanwhile, Duncan Lascelles, a professor of surgery and pain management at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, told the website Mother Nature Network that such research could take a decade to ensure that marijuana-based animal drugs would be effective and free of side effects.


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One day I needed to send keys to another application in order to automate a task from my C++ program, but after some research, I found no easy way to do that in C++ and all what was found is reference to VB's or C#'s SendKeys. However, one of the search results returned sndkeys32.pas which is a Delphi code version of the SendKeys() written by Ken Henderson back in 1995.
Since I know Delphi and wanted this same functionality in C++, I decided to port and enhance the code to make it fit my needs. The remainder of the article will explain the concept of sending keys in Win32 and will show you how to use the code in order to send keys in just two lines of code!
Hope you find this article useful.
The core functionality of sending keys in CSendKeys revolves around the usage of the keybd_event() Win32 API function.
The keybd_event() produces a keystroke, however the keyboard driver's interrupt handles the calls to this function, which means we can send almost any key combination with less limitations.
In brief, it allows you to send a virtual key, defined in winuser.h as VK_XXX, and a flag which denotes a KeyDown, KeyUp or state to tell if the VKey is an extended key or not.
Normal characters are translated into virtual keys using the VkKeyScan() which takes a CHAR and returns a WORD denoting a VK.
When you send a key, it will be depressed until you send it again with the KEYEVENTF_KEYUP flag.
Here is a small snippet that allows you to send the ALT-TAB sequence:
// press DOWN "Alt-Tab" keybd_event(VK_MENU, 0, 0, 0); keybd_event(VK_TAB, 0, 0, 0); ::Sleep(1000); // stop pressing "Alt-Tab" keybd_event(VK_MENU, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0); keybd_event(VK_TAB, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
As you see, in order to send this simple keys combination, 4 lines of coded were needed. Here is where CSendKeys comes to simplify this task.
#include "SendKeys.h" . . . CSendKeys sk; // Send "Hello world!" sk.SendKeys("Hello world!"); . . . . . . // Run notepad sk.SendKeys("{DELAY=50}@rnotepad{ENTER}"); <P> </P>
CSendKeys is designed in a way to maintain certain compatibility with C#'s SendKeys while also adding more functionality. So if you used C#'s SendKeys.Send() or VB's before then using CSendKeys becomes easier.
Each key is represented by one or more characters. To specify a single keyboard character, use the character itself. For example, to represent the letter 'a', pass in the string "a" to the method. Naturally to represent a string of characters just pass them in order as "hello".
If you want to send modifier keys such as the SHIFT, ALT, CONTROL or WINKEY keys in addition to normal keys, you might want to use any of the characters defined in Table 3.
For example, if you want to send "A" you usually press Shift+A, which is equivalent to sending these key strokes: "+a" , similarly to send the "~" you would press Shift+` which is equivalent to key strokes "+`" or simply "{TILDE}" (Table 1.b).
All characters in Table 3 are reserved and have special meaning in addition to the left/right parenthesis/braces.
The parenthesis are used to associate a given modifier or modifiers with a group of characters, for example to send the "HELLO", you would describe as "+(hello)" which informs CSendKeys to depress the SHIFT key while sending the following keys group. Whereas the braces are used to enclose any of the keys displayed in Table 1 and 2.
The sent keys are sent to no specific application, instead they are just pressed and whatever application has the keyboard input will take the keys.
In order to send the keys to a specific window/application please use either of the methods:
// 1. activate an application using its handle sk.AppActivate(hWnd); // 2. activate an application given its window title sk.AppActivate("Title"); /// 3. activate an application given either or both of its window title/class sk.AppActivate(NULL, "TheClass"); // NULL means this criteria is not avail // 4. via SendKeys method sk.SendKeys("{appactivate Notepad}hello");
The following table is a slightly modified version of the MSDN/SendKeys help:
The following are my additions:
In addition to this, I have added some special keys that act like commands:
Very useful if you don't want to recompile CSendKeys and add new Vkey to the hardcoded special keys table.
For example, {VKEY 13} is equivalent to VK_RETURN.
Example: {DELAY 1000} <-- delays subsequent key stroke for 1 second.
If a value is already set and you specify {DELAY Y} you will have your following key delay Y ms but the subsequent keys will be delayed X ms.
Example: {DELAY=1000} <-- all subsequent keys will be delayed for 1 second.
Very useful if you want to send different keys to different applications.
Here are some examples:
For more examples see the accompanying sample code.
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Carl Jacob Jonsson
Carl Jacob Jonsson
Jacob C. Jonsson got his Ph.D, in Solid State Physics at Uppsala University in 2004 under supervision of professor Arne Roos. That work was split on two different fields: Measurement of miniature optical elements and translucent sheets for daylighting applications. In addition to measurement techniques the translucent panels were also studied by ray tracing. After leaving Uppsala he went to work at LBNL with Mike Rubin developing measurement techniques for light scattering glazing products. In parallel to the measurement effort a path through ray tracing was pursued.
In the Windows and Envelope Materials group Jacob is responsible for the fenestration optical properties measurement laboratory where solar spectral transmittance and reflectance is measured as well as complete bi-directional scattering distribution functions.
Since 2011 Jacob has been chair of the optical properties subcommittee at the National Fenestration Rating Council and he is heavily involved in maintaining the integrity and accuracy of the International Glazing Database. In 2012 Jacob joined the ASTM and helped in development of the ASTM E903 standard which has also led to being involved with similar CEN and ISO standards.