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Exploring ColdFusion Component Runtime Class Properties And Serialization
Yesterday, I came across an interesting post by John Whish on getting an entity memento in ColdFusion. As suggested by Sam Farmer, John was using SerializeJSON() and DeserializeJSON() to serialize a ColdFusion component into a JSON string and then reserializing it back into a plain old ColdFusion struct. Typically, serialization wouldn't seem unusual; but, what struck me as very odd about John's findings was that the SerializeJSON() method was actually able to grab the private properties of the component instance.
I don't know what component serialization is typically used for; but, the fact that it can access private properties just seemed confusing. Now, I don't really care that much about in-house security, but being able to access private properties via serialization seems like a some sort of a security flaw? But again, I really don't care much about the security implications of this - what I do care about is simply understanding how it works. As such, I felt this required a little bit more exploration.
How are these private proprieties of the component being access? Is ColdFusion using the implicit getters defined by the CFProperty tags? Is it simply reaching into the variables scope? Or, is it using some combination of these two approaches?
To test this, I defined a Girl.cfc ColdFusion component with three properties: name, hair, and bust. Of these properties, only the "name" property has a CFProperty tag (which defines an implicit getter). The "hair" property has no CFProperty tag; but, it does have an explicitly defined getHair() accessor method which always returns "Blonde," regardless of what variables.hair actually contains. The "bust" property has neither a CFProperty tag nor an explicitly defined accessor method. With this combination of conditions across the properties, it should shed some light on how the serialization is accessing the component's private properties.
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- <cfcomponent
- output="false"
- accessors="true"
- hint="I am a component with some private variables.">
-
- <cfproperty name="name" type="string" getter="true" setter="false" />
- <cffunction
- name="init"
- access="public"
- returntype="any"
- output="false"
- hint="I return an initialized component.">
-
- <cfargument
- name="name"
- type="string"
- required="false"
- default=""
- hint="I am the name property."
- />
- <cfargument
- name="hair"
- type="string"
- required="false"
- default=""
- hint="I am the hair property."
- />
- <cfargument
- name="bust"
- type="string"
- required="false"
- default=""
- hint="I am the bust property."
- />
-
- <cfset variables.name = arguments.name />
- <cfset variables.hair = arguments.hair />
- <cfset variables.bust = arguments.bust />
-
- <cfreturn this />
- </cffunction>
- <cffunction
- name="getHair"
- access="public"
- returntype="string"
- output="false"
- hint="I return a FALSE hair type.">
-
- <cfreturn "Blonde" />
- </cffunction>
- <cffunction
- name="upgradeProperties"
- access="public"
- returntype="any"
- output="true"
- hint="I upgrade the component meta data that is involved in the serialization of the component properties.">
-
- <cfset local.attributes = [] />
-
- <cfloop
- index="local.property"
- array="#[ 'name', 'hair', 'bust' ]#">
-
- <cfset local.attribute = createObject(
- "java",
- "coldfusion.runtime.AttributeCollection"
- ).init()
- />
-
- <cfset local.attribute[ "name" ] = local.property />
- <cfset local.attribute[ "getter" ] = "true" />
-
- <cfset arrayAppend(
- local.attributes,
- local.attribute
- ) />
- </cfloop>
-
- <cfset getMetaData( this ).properties = javaCast(
- "java.lang.Object[]",
- local.attributes
- ) />
-
- <cfreturn getMetaData( this ) />
- </cffunction>
- </cfcomponent>
In addition to the various properties, the Girl.cfc ColdFusion component also has a method called upgradeProperties(). This method alters the runtime meta data of the component definition to define all three properties as having a "getter". With this component in place, I then created a test script that tried to serialize the a Girl.cfc instance both before and after the upgradeProperties() method was invoked:
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- <cfset girl = new Girl(
- name = "Joanna",
- hair = "Brunette",
- bust = "34A"
- ) />
- <cfoutput>
-
- JSON: #serializeJSON( girl )#

-

-
- <cfset girl.upgradeProperties() />
-
- JSON: #serializeJSON( girl )#

-

-
- <cftry>
- Bust: #girl.getBust()#

-

- <cfcatch>
- getBust() not defined.

-

- </cfcatch>
- </cftry>
- </cfoutput>
-
- <cfdump
- var="#getMetaData( girl )#"
- label="Runtime Meta Data"
- />
As you can see, we're getting the JSON value of the Girl.cfc instance before and after the runtime class definition is altered. We also try to access any newly created implicit getter for the "bust" method. When we run the above code, we get the following page output:
What we have here is very interesting! When we first try to serialize the Girl.cfc instance, the only property ColdFusion accessed was "name" - the one defined explicitly by a CFProperty tag. Of course, this doesn't tell us if the property was access via an implicit getter or directly from the variables scope:
JSON: {"name":"Joanna"}
After we call the serialize the first time, we then alter the runtime properties of the component to set all three properties as being "getter"'able. Once we do that, the situation changes drastically. Now, all three properties are access during serialization:
JSON: {"bust":"34A","name":"Joanna","hair":"Blonde"}
But, let's not jump to conclusions about how these properties are being accessed. As demonstrated by the "Blonde" hair property, ColdFusion is clearly making use of our explicitly defined "getHair()" method which ignores any existing hair value. But what about the "bust" property? We have no explicitly defined getter, so ColdFusion has either created a just-in-time accessor method; or, it has circumvented the component's private scope security.
To test "bust" access, I tried to make use of any newly defined getBust() method. Unfortunately, this results in an exception, which I handle in a CFTry / CFCatch block:
Bust: getBust() not defined.
A quick CFDump of the newly upgraded component meta data confirms that while the properties have been updated, no new getter methods have been defined. This begs the question: are implicit getter methods actually created for CFProperty tags? Or, are implicit getter methods handled in a more "onMissingMethod" type fashion? Well, if you look at the one CFProperty tag that we did define in our component - the name property - you'll see that the getName() accessor is listed as one of the physically defined class methods. As such, I think it's fair to say that ColdFusion handles implicit accessors with physically defined methods.
From this experimentation, I think we can draw the conclusion that component serialization behavior is dictated primarily through the class properties. If a property is defined as having a "getter", that property will be returned in serialization one way or another. If either an implicit or explicit getter method is available, ColdFusion will use that method for data access. If, however, neither of those methods are available, ColdFusion will simply bypass scope security and access the given property directly in the Variables scope.
It should be noted that if you have Template Caching turned on, once you update the properties defined in the component meta data, it will be implicitly updated for any components subsequently instantiated. In fact, if I were to refresh the page used in the above demo, both calls to SerializeJSON() would be the same. For performance reason, the component meta data is only compiled when a particular component class is first instantiated; after that, all new instances of the given component use the pre-compiled meta data.
Reader Comments
Hi Ben, nice to have you back! I already gave up on you, thinking you'll write about jQuery and iPhone for the rest our our lives! :)
Ha ha, you know ColdFusion is my first love ;)
Saving private properties is necessary so that you can "reconstitute" an object on the other side of the wire, or load up a serialized object you saved to disk.
If it didn't save the private state of the object you'd lose that information and possibly end up with an object in an unusable state on the other side.
This is a pretty common way to deep copy objects in other languages too. For instance in ruby you do:
# CF: clone = DeserializeJSON(SerializeJSON(object))
clone = Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(object))
@Ben Very useful analyses. Thank you
@Elliot Thanks for additional clarification
Though, it's quite a shame that getBust() failed...not defined ;)
I guess I've never done Enterprise type architectures where I'm actually passing around full-on objects. I figured I would typically communicate through an API. I can't even think of a system where I would pass around objects.
In my experience, getBust() is *always* shot down :)
@Elliott, according to Ben's experiment, serializeJSON() doesn't access the private data by default - it doesn't even access the getHair() method - so trying to clone a Girl.cfc via serializeJSON/deserializeJSON wouldn't actually work.
@Ben, very interesting approach to modify the component metadata to show that serializeJSON() works from that rather than anything else.
Note that you can easily inject a method into a CFC that returns the entire variables scope so security is a bit squishy in such a dynamic language (and that would then allow you to figure out what needed added to the metadata in order to modify what serializeJSON() did).
After doing this, I wanted to play with the functions listed in the meta data. I thought maybe you could use the meta data to create a sort of run-time prototypal inheritance or fly-weight pattern... but no. If you add a function to the meta data, it'll be sticky to the meta-data, but won't actually be available in the component.


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Mark Leopold is a Philadelphia improviser, sketch comedian, employee, driver-who-talks-on-his-cell-phone-but-is-constantly-scanning-the-road-for-police-officers-because-then-he'll- totally-just-drop-his-phone-into-his-lap-and-pretend-he-was-just-resting-his-head-on-his-hand- and-they'll-never-even-have-a-clue, and a friend. He is a member of the PHIT house team Hey Rube as well as a new addition to the cast of Comedysportz and he does sketch comedy with his group The Hold-up. When he isn't doing one of these things he is busy doing other things, like working and laundry, and so while he sincerely wishes he was able to be a real interviewer, the best he is able to do is interview people in his head while he drives different places. Today, while on 476 north, Mark took some time to sit down in a very quaint coffee shop in his head with Philadelphia comedian, improviser, sketch guy, and Hey Rube teammate Aaron Hertzog.
MARK LEOPOLD: Hey Aaron, it's me Mark!
AARON HERTZOG: (laughing) Hey Mark.
ML: I'm glad you took the time to sit down with me today.
AH: I'm happy to do it Mark.
ML: So let's just dive right in, who are you and what have you done with my son?
Aaron laughs and Mark joins him. Aaron stops laughing and looks at Mark expectantly.
ML: Do you want money? Is that it?
AH: I don't have your son, I didn't even know you had a son.
ML: I don't in real life, but I do here.
AH: Here in your head?
ML: Yes. Here in my head at the coffee shop which, now that I stop and think about it for a second, is just the coffee shop from Inception where Leonardo DiCaprio explains the premise of the movie to Ellen Page.
AH: You want to make everything explode? This is your day dream after all.
ML: Get real Aaron! That would be so derivative.
The coffee shop explodes but, since my memory isn't great, the way it is rendered leaves a lot to be desired.
AH: That was fun.
ML: Eh.
AH: You didn't think that was fun?
ML: The whole thing just felt forced.
AH: …okay then.
There is a moment of uncomfortable silence as Mark looks at a speck of something that is floating in his coffee. He hopes it's just a coffee ground, but with all the explosions and everything, it seems more likely to be a piece of debris. He picks it out of his coffee and wipes his fingers on a napkin. Aaron tries to force small talk.
AH: I don't drink coffee.
ML: No?
AH: No, I don't like the taste.
ML: Yeah, I could see that.
AH: I guess I'm not an "adult."
ML: Do you still like the smell of gasoline?
AH: Yeah.
ML: Me too, but not as much.
AH: That's weird how you grow to like some smells when you grow up and you stop liking others. You always hear about acquired tastes, but you don't hear much about acquired smells.
ML: Like body odor.
AH: I don't think that's true.
ML: I think I read somewhere that Matthew McConaughey doesn't wear deodorant because he thinks women like the way he smells naturally.
AH: I bet he smells like vanilla.
ML: …but like, really manly vanilla.
AH: That wouldn't work out as well for me.
ML: Yeah, me neither, I'm an Old Spice man now. I made the switch. It took a little while for my armpits to stop burning when I put it on, but I think the nerve endings are dead now. So it was tough, but hey, I really like their commercials.
AH: Well you had no choice then.
ML: True. Op! This is my exit Aaron, I gotta run.
AH: See you! Friendship!
ML: Friendship!
The coffee shop re-explodes.

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You've all seen him: on Wikipedia, on blogs, and at the top of almost every mainstream news story that needs an image about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions "movement" (i.e., BDS).
In our lazy journalistic age when an illustration to your story is just a right click away, I've always wondered why this guy seems to have become Mr. Clip Art when it comes to BDS.
The one clue to his identity (or at least affiliation) is the name "FAMSY" which appears on the sign behind Mr. BDS's Israeli flag one (the sign that beings "Gaza Children" and seems to end with "What have you done?" – presumably something terrible that must be laid at the feet of Israel alone).
FAMSY stands for the Federation of Australian Muslim Students and Youth (their web site seems to be under construction, although their Facebook page is available). As far as I can tell, this is a national youth group in Australia for Muslim youngsters whose agenda seems to cover more than holding signs about Israel bombing babies.
It's not clear whether the fellow up front, who looks a bit old to be either a student or a youth, is a member of FAMSY, or just happens to be standing next to one at one of the many anti-Israel rallies that break out around the world (including in Australia) the moment Israel decides to shoot back.
Anyway, if there are some Aussie readers out there who can help me solve this mystery, I would deeply appreciate it. If not, the image above seems ripe for meme-ifying if anyone out there has some Photoshop (or even Microsoft paint) skills and a sense of humor.


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On 1 Feb 2011, at 10:13 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > On 1 February 2011 16:04, Ian Jacobs <email@example.com> wrote: > ... >> Still no plans for an external audit. (I don't think that's what >> Danny was >> referring to; I understood Danny's comments to be about site QA.) > ... > > I don't know what kind of audit was under discussion, but what I had > in mind was a check of the markup of every current page on the site to > see if it was of the highest machine-checkable standard possible > (valid against specs, conforming to guidelines as well as best known > practices). There may be exceptions with a handful of pages (e.g. > historic, archived material, demonstrations of how not to do things), > but in these cases there should be appropriate documentation and > markup-corrected versions made available. w3.org has a very large number of pages. I don't expect to fix all of them. I focus on the ones that are brought to my attention. We use some tools internally (and have used more historically, but less so now) to check for validity, for instance. > > I would expect the quality then to be maintained mechanically - > checking frequently (i.e. polling) and/or passing new & modified pages > through a quality filter before publication (event-driven). > > Whether or not these processes themselves should be subject to > external review is probably a matter to leave until the current status > is known. > > I'd leave content quality in the human-readable sense out of scope, > left to the wisdom of the document editors and the crowd outside > (because machine aren't very good at that sort of thing). > >> Another way to say this is: a site-wide review is not as >> interesting to me as fixing real problems that people encounter. > > That nicely captures the problem. An entirely reactive approach means > there's always likely to be more broken than necessary. I agree that a page might be broken and not reported. And tools help us catch some of those. > For an > organisation who's raison d'etre is to improve the Web, their Web > presence should be as good as possible: "good enough" *isn't*. It goes > down to credibility. I agree that we have to maintain high standards on our site. Credibility will be derived from a number of factors. We don't have budget for all of them, alas. Ian > > Cheers, > Danny. > > -- > http://danny.ayers.name > -- Ian Jacobs (firstname.lastname@example.com) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2011 17:57:35 UTC
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Everyone's character looks like their age could be anywhere from 16-60 depending on the race you are. As a blood elf I fall at the younger end of that and I've sometimes wondered about the years "before" I took control of Dakona. Now I'm not much of a role player, but in order to have played this game for so long I've had to relate to Dakona and assume parts of myself are in her. Anyone who knows me, knows that I HATE questing. In fact Kecco my paladin and my original toon was leveled from 50 to 70 from only healing instances since I refused to play Retribution. I currently have every class that a blood elf can play with the exception of a warlock and all are level 85 with the exception of my priest who is level 80. How they each got leveled up is a mixture of "run throughts", which is when a high level friend clears out instances while you stand behind collecting free XP, battleground matches which I'm ashamed to admit were probably mostly afk'd while multitasking and instances when I got near 85. My point is, between six level 85 characters I probably did the same amount of quests that most people do on one toon. Dakona to date is still the only character of mine who did the level 80-85 quests and only because of the reputation I needed to get the shoulder and helm enchants. So again I reiterate, I hate questing.
Fast forward to a few months ago, and I'm sitting here wondering about the adventures that Dakona could of had and I wonder about her story. I don't know why, I guess I was having a weird day but I got this urge to create another Dakona and quest each zone as like a prelude to her life and giving her a past that I could associate with my main Dakona. Sounds like a bad movie I know, and here we have me, someone who hates questing, suddenly wanting to quest each zone while acquiring the Loremaster achievement a long the way. I had been visiting the Petopia web site on a regular bases and knew they had a guild on Nesingwary US that seemed like a good setting to keep me company during my adventures. As I created this younger Dakona I have to admit I did have doubts this sudden motivation would wear off shortly.
Five months later and I now find myself spending more time than ever playing this younger Dakona and having a blast doing so! Baby Dakona is now level 80 and has completed the questing achievements for Eastern Kingdon, Kalimdor and Outlands. I am currently working on Northrend and once finished will only have Cataclysm left. I can safely say I have done more quests on this toon than I have ever done on all the toons I've ever played since I started playing. Playing a baby Dakona has given me a chance to see all the parts of the game I had missed when I use to fly through the lower levels. I have bonded with some new pets and rekindled relationships with some old ones as well. I can't say it's been all roses as some of the zones brought me to my limit but I was able to prevail and now sit less than a dozen zones away from finishing.
I have had some really emotional moments, including being appointed "Queen of the Orges" in Blade's Edge Mountains, which almost brought me to tears one night. After being appointed "Queen" I realized I was a few quests short of the achievement and had to go back and kill Orges to obtain a quest they dropped. I almost didn't make it cause it was so upsetting. Upon killing them they would say things like "Me honored... queen kill me", "Queen think... there really is... an Ogri'la?" I was torn up for weeks! Now I never look at Orges the same way and I take great honor in my Queen status.
For those wondering if I've been neglecting the "adult" Dakona, the answer is no, currently I am focusing on her gear and I've been doing LFR each week. I don't need anything anymore from LFR but I do it for the valor. I got super lucky this week while getting into a 10 man group for the first time I had a tier piece drop on 3 straight bosses and won the legs and shoulders. I also won the crossbow from Warlord Zon'ozz so I've been a happy camper for the last few days. I know this is a lengthy blog entry but this is what happens when I don't check in regularly. I do plan on updating baby Dakona's adventures and hopefully I don't burn out down the home stretch. I've had to turn off the XP option just so I stay focused. Getting near the end, there are certainly more distractions now than ever. Here's to finishing strong!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
New Adventures
Posted by Dakona at 4:06 AM
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Hi Dakona! I really like your blog and have added a link to it in mine. Hope you don't mind! :) http://sesameepets.blogspot.com/
- February 23, 2012 at 9:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
Oh, and consider yourself tagged! :)
- February 24, 2012 at 3:46 PM
- Dakona said...
Thanks Sesamee! I have added your blog to my blogroll and I accept your tag. I don't normally do things like that but I enjoyed your blog and feel honored you thought of me :)
- February 27, 2012 at 2:10 AM
- Saz said...
Neat little project you have going on there! I was kind of heart broken having to go back and kill some Ogres long after I became queen of the ogres as well. Darn Loremaster achievement...
Glad to hear that you're still around and having fun!
- February 27, 2012 at 2:36 AM
- Dakona said...
Saz!! Always love when you make an appearance! I'm super happy you're still around :)
- February 27, 2012 at 6:56 AM
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I am looking forward to the presentation on XML and would really love to be able to bring Josh back to finish out the series. Let's show him a lot of support as he has put a lot of effort into making this presentation series. I know because I have been hounding him about it.
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continued Omar (*1/2) The plight of Palestinians remains an enigma to most Americans, hence the importance of this film. Omar (Adam Bakari) climbs the Israeli-Palestinian Separation Wall that divides the West Bank to visit friends and court his sweetheart Nadia (Leem Loubany). After being abused by Israeli soldiers, he seeks revenge. Retribution comes with complications, a prison sentence and physical torture. A menacing Israeli Agent (Waleed Suaiter) coerces Omar into becoming an informer. A very crafty script and spot-on direction by Hany Abu-Assad leads you down wrong paths to a climax you couldn't fathom. Along the way you discover the power of secrets and deception. Smart. Enlightening. Always engaging.
The Square () A group of Egyptian activists, based in Cairo's Tahrir Square, battle tyrannical regimes in a quest to find democracy and a voice. This immersive documentary takes you inside a revolution that seems to yield upsets but no winners. Egyptian dictatorships, fought and gone. Military rule, fought and gone. Elected Muslim Brotherhood leadership, fought and gone. Still no peace, no justice. Director Jehane Noujaim takes you to the battlefield; you witness police gunfire and killings. You smell the tear gas. You sense the urgency. The jubilant wins and monstrous defeats run in vicious cycles. One of the most searing documentaries ever made.
Films from the New York Film Festival don't always receive a wide release, like 12 Years a Slave. However, with some digging and research you can find the NYFF movies you want to see in local theaters or on VOD. In the case of American Promise, your search will be well worth the effort.
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Hello, my crafty friends! Last summer my daughter got married (Click HERE for wedding pictures) and we served these delicious Pirouline cookies with dessert at her reception. Everyone loved them and my family loved the leftovers. Yum!
My Mom and Dad made chocolate dipped strawberries! So pretty on the plate with the Pirouline cookie.
Needless to say, I had a LOT of empty Pirouline cookie tins left after the big event.
So, I made a bunch of these fun Halloween tins. The Pirouline Cookie company is hosting a challenge on their blog to create cute, creative Halloween decorations out of their tins. They saw my Halloween tins from last year and loved them! They asked if they could use them to kick off their fun challenge and of course I said YES!
These fun treat containers are Pirouline cans purchased at the Dollar Tree (3.25 oz size) that I have covered and decorated. I used the Tiny Doilies metal dies on the top of each can.
The stamped sentiments, pumpkin, and bat are from the Stamping All Around Fall stamp set.
For this can, I cut the 1 inch spider border for the bottom and tied midnight black crinkle ribbon around the top.
The Spooky Treats sentiment is from the Spooky Treats stamp set.
The cute little spider is from the Stamping All Around Fall stamp set and I tied Toadally Green Crinkle Ribbon around the top.
The "No Tricks just Treats' sentiment is from the Best Witches Stamp Set.
The tags are all cut from the Tiny Tags metal dies set. I think these will make fun gifts. :)
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Ian@ml necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 62 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
The company writes software for embedded devices like routers, car computers and custom electronics. Lots of options for theming. I'll provide regular feedback - I want to get this right first time!
Mutex Labs
Take a look at the current website, mutexlabs.com to see where I'm at.
I want something to replace the existing logo and that I can also use on business cards.
Themes might include:
- 'laboratory' (beakers, chemicals, etc)
- 'electronics' (chips, components, tools)
- 'software' (not sure how to visualise that!)
- 'innovation' (again, no idea how to visualise that)A 'mutex' is a concurrency primitive used in software. If you can think of a way to illustrate it, please let me know!
I'm open to any ideas, even completely abstract designs that just look cool.
- Should approximately fit the blue theme on the website, though I will probably redo the website to fit the logo if I like it enough
- Major colours are blue, light grey and some orange accents (like the RSS icon)
- Layout should be approximately as with the website now: symbolic logo on the left, "Mutex Labs" text on the right. Feel free to augment or accent the Mutex Labs text if you see fit.
- The font is 'BitLow' from http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/6875 . Again, no need to stick with it! Use your own judgment for what looks good.
- Vector output format (Illustrator) or PSD at 300dpi. Let me know if you think this will be a problem for you - I can work with most formats.
- Don't make the symbolic logo too complicated. It needs to look good even when shrunk reasonably small on a business card.
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An iPhone accessory that enables you to capture both 360-degree stills and video before sharing them online will soon be available.
Pocket-lint saw the BubbleScope camera accessory in person at the Digital Summer event in London and - after years in the making - it's arrival in July was confirmed by BubblePix, the company behind the kit
We say years in the making, as way back in July 2011, BubbleScope creator Tom Lawton spoke in depth about the technology used in the accessory. Then it was simply a device that could capture 360-degree photographs, but Pocket-lint can now confirm that the gadget will also be capable of recording video too.
The BubbleScope accessory is small enough to fit in your pocket and, rather than clip on to the case (included with the camera lens) that encompasses your iPhone, it screws on giving it a tighter grip – particularly useful should you be filming while in a moving vehicle, for example..
The lens itself rises out of the tube-like container before being stowed away once you've finished snapping, which should help avoid any accidental scratches to the lens while in your pocket or bag.
The device can be turned to any position, which not only enables you to capture snaps at any angle, but also doubles as a useful desk stand.
Because of the poor lighting in the showroom, it was difficult to get a true feel for how well the BubbleScope captured imagery, but we were treated to a sample shot taken outside earlier which looked great, albeit a tad unusual.
To capture your 360-degree stills and video you only have to press the camera key once, but just be wary of how you're holding the phone to avoid a sudden close-up of your face.
Once you're happy with your snaps (or "Bubbles" as they're known) you can share them online via bubblepix.com (you need to download the free BubblePix app) to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram et al.
Though the BubbleScope accessory will initially be compatible only with the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, BubblePix says it is working on other leading smartphones and platforms.
The BubblePix app is available now free from the Apple App Store (it will be updated once the device lands) while BubbleScope itself will be available for £69.99 from the BubbleScope website as well as other major retailers from July.
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TubeCities.com is raising the bar in the world of online video. If you ask anybody that is familiar with or involved in the world of IT business, you'll come to find that the buzz being generated around our recent launch of the beta website is everything but a joke. With an industry witnessing such an explosion in popularity amongst our consumer culture, it's no wonder why each morning we're reading about yet another company – whether it be new start-up, or a corporate giant – that is trying to jump on that bandwagon and catch the wave into the marketplace of online video. In just the past year, the sheer number of video based media sites has skyrocketed. If you do a little research, however, you'll come to find that a majority of those video sites are identical in what they're offering to their users; that is, a generic service allowing them to upload streaming video so they can share it with others. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that the only real difference amongst most of these sites is a matter of cosmetics, or what the IT industry likes to call their, 'user-interfaces.' They've realized the power of this growing industry, but they're not going to get anywhere if they plan on being just like the rest. That's just how it works. As for TubeCities.com, yes we do share one main recognizable similarity with most 'other' video based websites out there – in that we provide people with a user-based community, where they're able to post videos for friends, family or the rest of the world to see. But, there's a catch!Â
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New research commissioned by Webroot, the first Internet security service company, shows companies are becoming more vigilant when it comes to their employees' use of social networking sites. The survey of more than 1,000 businesses from the United States and United Kingdom with up to 500 employees found most (81 percent) have an employee Internet policy. Half (50 percent) say employees are not permitted to visit any social networks via a company computer or laptop.
"Clearly the potential impact of social networks as a threat vector has hit home for IT administrators," said Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Webroot. "One in six of those we surveyed said a social networking site or Web 2.0 application was the source of an infection or attack and over half of companies said their network was infected with spyware this year. Every company needs to develop a policy for social networking use and should also deploy reliable Web security services for ongoing protection against zero-day threats."
Just as new variants of the Koobface social networking worm continue to evolve, so are company policies - some have made changes as a result of an employee's misuse of these sites:
- 42 percent have implemented an Internet use policy as a result of an employee's inappropriate use of social networking site; more than one-third (34 percent) deployed a Web security product to monitor Internet use and enforce policies;
- Four in ten of those polled (39 percent)have an Internet use policy that prohibits employees from visiting Facebook, 30 percent block access to Twitter and 27 percent from video-sharing sites like YouTube
- Two in 10 SMBs (21 percent) only allow employees to visit social networking sites during specific times (lunch break, after work hours, etc.)
- 16 percent grant certain departments (e.g., marketing) permission to visit specific social networking sites
Additional Findings:
Concern about threats via social networking sites remains high.
- More than half of those polled (53 percent) say they are very or extremely concerned about malware infections via social networks
- Two out of five (42 percent) are very or extremely concerned about data leakage through social networking sites
Many SMBs say they were victims of security breaches in 2010.
- Nearly one-third (30 percent) say Web-based threats caused the biggest security headache for them in 2010
- More than one in 10 (12 percent) say sensitive company information has been released via their employee's use of social networking sites
- 50 percent were victims of a virus or worm; while four in 10 say they experienced a phishing attack this year
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Between October 29 and November 3, 2010, Webroot sponsored an online survey of businesses with 500 and fewer employees. Invitations to participate were emailed by e-Rewards to panel members in the United Kingdom and the United States. Respondents qualified for the survey if they were purchase decision makers for email or Web security. At the 95 percent confidence level the margin of error is ±3.0 percentage points for the full sample of 1,087 respondents, ±3.6 points for the US sample of 751 and ±5.4 points for the UK sample of 336.


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Hey!!! How's everyone doing? School and work have taken over my life...again. But don't worry, I still seek refuge in nail polish!
Back in February, I talked about Hard Candy Sky...guess what, Hard Candy is now available at select Wal-Marts! For those of you fairly new to nail polish, Hard Candy was a huge trend back in the '90s with their out-of-the-ordinary pastel polishes. Urban Decay also came to prominence around the same time (coincidentely, UD has also released new polishes, albeit minis).
I heard the news back in August, so I started stalking a few local Wal-Marts. Sorry for the low quality pics, I only had my Blackberry on hand.
The rings suck. I think it was just thrown in for familiarity with the old brand. They're made of hard plastic and do not stay on the cap securely. I'm guessing they added shrink wrap to secure the rings and to keep those pesky tweens from "sampling" the polish on the display or on themselves.
The makeup line looks REALLY tempting but I'm on a strict no-buy. I told myself if I won Chanel Holographic on eBay, I would be on a 2-week no-buy and on restriction for another two weeks. This is my only indulgence for now! I hope you find Hard Candy at your local Wal-Mart; I hear it was only released in 3000 stores. Keep your eyes peeled!


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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Jan. 29, 2014) - The 2014 GRAMMY® Nominees album – jointly released by Atlantic Records and The Recording Academy®'s GRAMMY Recordings® - has debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200/SoundScan album chart. This marks the highest-ever debut in the 20-year history of the annual GRAMMY collection. In addition, the album has hit No. 1 at iTunes and Amazon. On the international front, the album debuted today at No. 1 in Canada, while topping the iTunes charts in numerous countries around the world.
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During the past 40 years, the cellphone has gone from a bulky, heavy luxury item used solely to place phone calls to a sleek, ultralight computer used for everything from taking pictures to monitoring health.
( Read More: 10 Cool Things You Can Do With Your Smartphone)
Here's a look at how mobile devices have evolved over the past four decades and at the companies who built the items that manage our lives.
By Cadie Thompson and Jermaine Taylor
Posted 3 April 2013


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If you ever tell yourself you need to do more with your marketing, yet never find time to do it, I have an excuse for you. Mind you, I'm not saying you should use this excuse. Rather, I'm bringing it to light so that you can identify whether it applies to you. Identifying what might truly be stopping you from making more time for marketing is the first step to finding a resolution.
I came across this particular excuse when a business associate shared something in a book called Switch, written by Chip and Dan Heath. The two authors analyze "how to change things when change is hard." What intrigued me was the tenet, proven by psychologists, that "self-control is an exhaustible resource." It means that when you're highly focused on a task, you're using up your supply of self-control. And as you do that, you're becoming mentally exhausted, thereby increasing the difficulty of changing behavior.
An interesting example of mental exhaustion given by the authors involved two groups of students together in a room. One group was served radishes to eat. The other group received chocolate chip cookies. Afterward, both groups were asked to solve a puzzle. The radish-eaters, who had relied on self-control to keep from eating the cookies, spent less time trying to solve the puzzle. They gave up early because, mentally, they were more tired than the cookie-eaters.
Think about the times during a day when you're highly focused. Planning inputs for the next growing season, attending a meeting with your lender and figuring out the cost-benefit analysis of a new piece of equipment – these are just a few examples.
What else requires focus? Marketing does.
Becoming a consistent, strategic and disciplined marketer takes time and forethought. It requires willingness to regularly prepare for whatever the market may do. Or, another way to look at it: marketing done well can be mentally exhausting. This is one reason we always recommend that, to take your marketing to a higher level, you need to either become an expert or hire one. When you're an expert at something – like growing crops – you're going to retain the ability to think or to push forward in the face of a challenge long after a person struggling with the same task gives up.
So there, for the taking, is your excuse: mental exhaustion. You may be mentally wiped out and thus unable to do more with your marketing. It's legitimate. When mentally exhausted, doing anything that requires focused thinking is difficult.
Of course, the book isn't about making excuses. It's about how to change things. If you truly want to do more with your marketing, something may need to change. The good news: usually, the more difficult the change, the bigger the eventual reward.
There are many ways to take a tiny first step that can put you on the path to improvement. For instance, do a self-assessment of your marketing strengths and weaknesses. Or attend a workshop, where you can pick up useful marketing strategies (you also might decide it's time to become an expert or hire one). However you go about it, honestly assess how much time, energy and discipline you have. If you can make the necessary commitments, you can do marketing well.
Scott Stewart is president and CEO of Stewart-Peterson, a commodity marketing consulting firm based in West Bend, Wis. You may reach Scott at 800-334-9779, email him at [email protected].
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I'm here just for a coffee, as per my Sunday ritual, and am on my way to the counter to order when I get stopped by a server.
"Table for how many, ma'am?" is the question.
"Are you serious?" The words are out of my mouth before I know it. Don't mean to be rude but I'm stupefied. The server smiles benevolently. She's obviously been through this rigmarole before. "Yes ma'am, we're a bistro and we'll bring your order to you."
Wide-eyed and with my jaw to the floor, my Bin takes my arm and leads me to a table, plopping himself down happily in a chair. He's very much into interior design and is absorbing the store's aesthetics. Truly arresting in its wood accents done in a palette of browns, a fabricated metal ceiling with a floral motif mimicked by the ceiling fans' design, and a very slick coffee counter, it's a mesh of modern and rustic. I, for one, can't get over the place settings complete with sophisticated tableware. And these tables and chairs, I want to buy a set and bring one home!
I'm obviously still in shock when they hand the menus over and I ask for both an Americano and a Caramel Macchiato. (I desperately need something sharp and sweet). Then I'm told that only a single size is served at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Bistro, the 12-ouncer, a far cry from my wimpy 8-ounce daily coffee habit. But I order both anyway.
All the photos you see here are taken with my phone. The plan was to just dash in and get coffee so no point and shoot was planned. Or brought along. The coffees arrive in their familiar CBTL-emblazoned vessels, together with a graceful ceramic "boat" holding milk.
This Bistro is the first of its kind for CBTL in the country, closely following a similar concept in Singapore. A second Bistro is opening soon at the Shangri-La Mall in Ortigas. The menu states that the bistro idea spins off from their "… heritage of innovation and impeccable standards … a gustatory experience you won't normally get in a[n] everyday atmosphere. Call it elevated casual cuisine. Call it your new foodie haven." Nicely put.
There's a full-fledged brekkie menu (P225-P395) consisting of Yogurt & Granola; French Toasts (Stuffed or Classic); Croque Madame; Eggs Ben; Steak & Eggs; and Filipino –silog breakfasts. Main entrees for other times of the day include everything from soups, salads, sandwiches like Portobello Mushroom on Ciabatta, to heavier mains (P335-P525) like Hanging Tender Steak with Potato Gratin & Marsala, Chicken Pot Pie, and Pesto Fusilli with Toasted Pine Nuts.
You'll forgive me that I only order the Rum Caramel with Toasted Pecan Pancakes. It's just one of the five pancake selections on offer, aside from the equally scintillating sounding Toblerone with Salted Caramel or Blueberry Pistachio. I'm still shell-shocked from this bistro discovery and even more so once my order arrives. "Floored" and "stupefied" are looking to be the words of my day but add "astounded" once this plate of pancakes is presented. Pancakes are my benchmark for a good breakfast place worth waking up for, and these are about six inches each in diameter and a good inch-thick. Massive and marvelous and capable of feeding three (easily!) able-bodied breakfast lovers, I love and tumble into them. Each cut of my knife sends up steams of complaint from the cakes, each forkful into the mouth is thick and heavy, but not unappealingly so. These are macho pancakes for men, and women like me with manly appetites.
One day soon, maybe next week, I'll come back here and I'll be ready. With my camera. Shaken out of my stunned state, I'm going to storm in and make this my weekly breakfast place. What an engaging environment with laudable service. For now, Maple is forgotten and Early Bird Breakfast Club (been there twice already) will stay on my back burner.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf 26th St Bistro
G/F Net Lima Building, 5th Avenue corner 26th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig (It's across the Mini Cooper showroom and is in the same building as Wildflour).
From 7-10am, a free 12-ounce cup of coffee comes with all brekkie items.


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Pacific Lutheran University: The Leadership Challenge Opens Minds, and Doors, for Tomorrow's Leaders
When Dr. Catherine Pratt began looking for materials for her new leadership course, she knew she wasn't searching for a typical textbook. Pratt wanted something to reach the students on their level, something that would integrate personal experiences with the concept of leadership.
A professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, Pratt had read The Leadership Challenge (TLC) several times herself, and had found the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) personally useful. Based on her vision for the course, and the fact that the Student LPI is a research-based 360-degree development tool, Pratt chose to wrap her course around TLC—with tremendous success.
Her students read the book and use the Student LPI Participant Workbook, the Student LPI Self, and Student LPI Observers when they take "BUSA 387: Leaders and Managers in Action." The course was offered for the first time during last winter's 4-week intersession and she just finished teaching a second installment of the short, intense format. Starting this fall, the forecast is for the course to be offered as a traditional, semester-long session.
In addition to using TLC materials, students hear from a number of "live case studies" via guest lecturers—all exemplary leaders in the community. They also engage in service to the community, interview a local leader one-on-one, and, using all of the course material, create a "Personal Leadership Development Plan."
"Linking students to The Leadership Challenge and introducing them to leaders who serve through their values helps students realize that what they read relates to what they see and hear, enabling them to learn instead of memorize," said Pratt.
Shane Richins, 21, a senior majoring in finance/accounting, took last month's class as an elective. "I wasn't sure what to expect," said Richins, "but I really liked coming to class. The book is a great read—and with the concepts woven into the stories, I know I'll retain the information. I even did the suggested exercises in the book, like identifying who my role models are, and thinking about the ways I am like them. It's made me much more self-ware."
The Leadership Practices Inventory's 360-degree component has also been an incredible learning tool for the students, often resulting in surprises. An athlete from last year's course was extremely confident that because of all his team experience, leadership was "his thing," and therefore he was particularly adept at two of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership—Enable Others to Act and Encourage the Heart. Upon reviewing his observers' analysis, he was humbled to realize that perhaps he wasn't as good of a leader as he thought. This lead to incredible insight and reflection and caused him to start doing things differently in his interactions with others.
Self-discovery abounds in Dr. Pratt's classroom. One admittedly-shy student had her "aha" moment when she realized that she doesn't have to be an extrovert to be a leader. "You don't have to be in charge to be a leader," she wrote in a recent quiz.
Students also learned a heartfelt lesson from a guest speaker who had recently been laid off from his high-level management position. "The students observed first-hand that it's not failure that derails people, it is the failure to learn." said Dr. Pratt. As one student reflected on this session, she mentioned she did not realize people could recover from mistakes. She always thought she had to be perfect.
The course and The Leadership Challenge materials have even led three students to their dream jobs. In one example—upon hearing the CEO of Bargreen-Ellingson speak, one student was so touched by their values, and so excited that they matched hers, that she decided she absolutely had to work for them. (The 47-year-old company specializes in food service supply and design.) The student was extremely persistent in her communication with the company, so much so, that the Human Resource manager finally went to the CEO and explained that this young woman thinks so highly of us, and is so sure that she needs to work for us, but we don't have a position for her. The CEO decided that if the student was that determined, then she should be working for him—and they hired her. The match has been made in TLC heaven.
"I love all my classes," said Pratt, "but this one is special. Here, connections are made, values are clarified, possibilities are imagined, and the desire to make a difference is energized. Students connect with TLC material on a personal level, and as they start to internalize it, they start making life choices that will make a difference.
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Since the 2010-11 basketball season, the Monticello Buckaroos and San Juan Broncos have had some great games.
Both teams have won at home and lost on the road, splitting the series at three games apiece.
To give you a better idea of just how close these games have been, San Juan has averaged 53.33 points per game and Monticello 52.8.
The latest installment of this rivalry would lead one to believe we're in for a few more great games from these teams.
Monticello got off to a hot start in the first quarter, scoring 20 points. San Juan played a solid first quarter as well, knocking down 14 points. After the first eight minutes of play, the Bucks had a six-point lead, 20-14.
In the second quarter, Monticello added another 17 points to their total. San Juan managed to double up their first quarter score, adding an additional 14 to their total. At the end of two quarters, the Bucks took a 37-24 lead at the half.
San Juan stumbled a bit in the third quarter scoring just 10 points. Monticello on the other hand continued to roll, dropping in 15 points and extending their lead to 18, 52-34, heading into the final period.
Just when it looked like the Bucks might walk away with the victory, the Broncos saved their best for last.
In almost an exact reversal of the first quarter, San Juan scored 20 points, while Monticello had their lowest output of the night, scoring 13.
But it was enough for Monticello to hold off the Bronco's run and the Bucks claimed a 65-58 victory on the road.
Austin Maloy paced the scoring for both teams with 20 points. Dillon Maughn wasn't far behind, adding 14 points of his own.
Sheldon Black had 10, while Easton Nielson finished with eight points on the night.
Also scoring for Monticello are Matt Freestone with six, Everett Hatch with four, Eli Johnson with two and Makade Maloy had one point.
San Juan was led by Tyrel Pemberton with 12 points. He was just ahead of DiQuan Lopez, who scored 11 points and Max Slavens, who chipped in nine.
Matthew Castiano added seven points and Eli Beck had five. Javen Ivins, Max Morley and Jordan Blake each contributed four points and Terrance Tate had two points for the Broncos.
Monticello's next game will be January 3 against the Grand County Red Devils. The game will be played in Moab and is set for a 7 p.m. tipoff.
San Juan takes the court December 27-28 at the Cowboy Classic Tournament in Kanab. Game time and opponent TBD.


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November 15, 2016
Official Press Release from Good Food Awards11.14.2016
Representing 14 categories and 38 states, all Finalists rose to the top in a blind tasting of the 2,059 entries from nearly every state and passed a rigorous vetting to confirm they met specific Good Food Awards standards around environmentally sound agriculture practices, good animal husbandry, sourcing transparency and responsible relationships throughout the supply chain. Amongst their ranks are Nadia Hubbi in California, a Muhammara crafter keeping her Syrian family�s tradition alive; Nacxitl Gaxiola in Brooklyn, whose company was created to honor the traditional salsas, moles, escabechese and adobes of Mexico; Paul Lieggi in Oregon working with the fishermen and women of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Yakima and Warm Springs tribes to source hoop caught Chinook Salmon for his aromatic hardwood smoked salmon; and Ann and Dan Trudel, a husband and wife farmer and preserver growing and pickling organic brussels sprouts in the heart of rural Ohio. These 291 Finalists - and the hundreds of farmers, ranchers, fishermen and colleagues they collaborate with - are actively building the sort of world we want to live in.2017 VERMONT FINALISTSCHEESE


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Mount Pulaski High School
Illinois State Scholars announced
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[December 21, 2012]
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Mount Pulaski High School is pleased to announce
that six students have been recognized as Illinois State Scholars
for 2013-14. The prestigious award, given annually by the Illinois
Student Assistance Commission, recognized 18,863 high school
from across the state as this year's State Scholars.
Illinois State Scholars rank in the top 10 percent of high school
seniors from 749 high schools across the state. Selection
is based on SAT, ACT and Prairie State Achievement Exam scores,
as well as class rank at the end of the junior year.
The students named as Mount Pulaski High School Illinois State
Scholars are:
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Just when you thought it was safe to celebrate the holidays, something rises from deep out of the comments section, something cold, something predatory, something strangely festive. That's right, people, best catch it now, because Sharkmas comes but once a year.
Today, we surveyed the upcoming television scene for the week and, with one voice, asked a question: Where is our pan-holiday shark programming? Right here, folks, right here:
Sharkukkah: Eight Nights of Terror.
"Last night the sharks attacked as a school, why did just one attack tonight?"
"Well, the sharks understood that yesterday was about Umoji, or unity. Tonight they're displaying Kujichagulia or self-determination."
There's a built in sequel for Passover.
"Why is this night different from all other nights?"
"Other than Bobby getting bitten in half by a Great White? —DL Thurston
What about a soundtrack, do we have a soundtrack?
"It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Sharkmas" — jegrouchy
Shark, The Herald Angel, Stings —MagicKenny
I'm dreaming of a Great White Christmas — fullsoul
More to add to the holiday programming schedule? Post it into the comments now!
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text: Mark Penn decries the rates of male incarceration, alcoholism and educational attainment. Then he whines about the gain in female life expectancy over men's since 1900, failing to note it probably has something to do with the 99% drop in maternal mortality in that time. Fail. [Wall Street Journal, CDC]


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The Ultimate Truffle Cupcake experience begins with the smell – as the cupcake comes close to your sniffer, a waft of truffle – the fungi kind – hits you hard (Yes, I called it a sniffer; I have a five month old.). You begin to wonder, "Is this a dessert or an Italian entree?" As you take a bite, you reach the rich dark chocolate first. The truffle flavor isn't quite as strong as you would have guessed. Then, the cake itself makes you pause. You realize that while it's a chocolate cake, it's clearly sweetened with honey. It starts to feel like comfort food. But, wait… there is that truffle flavor making it different than anything you've ever tasted before. Did you save the chocolate truffle on top as a chaser? It's not in a box, so you don't know what the flavor is. Here goes nothing… oh yeah!!
The Ultimate Chocolate Truffle Cupcake Recipe
The Ultimate Truffle Cupcake
Cake Ingredients
- 1 T apple cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 C milk any kind will work - I used soy
- 2 C flour
- 1 1/4 C sugar
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/4 C white truffle oil
- 1/4 C vegetable oil
- 1/4 C truffle honey
Ganache Ingredients
- 5 oz dark chocolate
- 1/2 C heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 C truffle honey
Optional Toppers
- 2 oz white chocolate
- Chocolate truffles I used Vosges truffles
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Mix apple cider vinegar and milk in a medium-sized bowl. Let sit for five minutes. (This causes it to act like buttermilk.)
- Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
- Add the truffle oil, vegetable oil, and honey to the apple cider vinegar/milk mixture.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir well.
- For the ganache, mix the truffle honey and heavy whipping cream in a small bowl.
- Melt the chocolate on the stove or in the microwave.
- Pour the melted chocolate over the truffle honey/heavy whipping cream and mix well.
- Mix 1/4 cup of the ganche into the cupcake batter.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the cupcakes bounce back when touched lightly.
- When the cupcakes are cool, frost with the remaining ganache. The easiest technique for this is to dunk the top of the cupcake into the bowl of ganache and to twist your wrist slightly as you pull the cupcake out of the bowl. If necessary, microwave the ganache for about 20 seconds to make it easier to work with.
- Optionally, drizzle some melted white chocolate on top of the dark chocolate and top with a chocolate truffle.
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Sometimes it's too hard to pick a favorite photo, so here are some more!
Cupcake Project newbies may not realize that all of the photos here are taken by my Valentine, Jonathan. To see more of his work and/or find out about booking him for your wedding photos (he is willing to travel), family photos (for those in St. Louis), corporate photos, or to take artistic photos of your dinner, become a fan of J. Pollack Photography on Facebook. Be sure to tell him I sent you!


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(3 semester hours) An introduction to the concept of cultural tradition
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and visual art. Emphasis on the relations among various forms of cultural
expression and developing students' ability to interpret complex
artistic works in their historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Gold had a week for the history books but ended with a whimper. However, gold bugs remain confident.
Although the CME April gold contract (currently the benchmark "nearby" contract) had a record-high close on Wednesday of $1,438, and the London PM fix achieved a record level on Thursday of $1,447, both Thursday and Friday saw steep declines in the New York afternoon (after European markets had closed). So, for the week, April gold GCJ11 closed quietly with a gain only $10.10 (0.7%).
Naturally, the faction I call the "Radical Gold Bugs" — who believe that gold is constantly subject to covert, malign influence by the U.S. authorities and their chosen instruments — were neither whimpering nor quiet.
A correspondent on Bill Murphy's LeMetropleCafe site snarled: "The Gold Cartel showed up for the second day in a row, late, and punished both gold and silver in a similar manner. … It will surprise no veteran Café member that gold was bombed the past two days going into an option expiry on Monday … same tricks (tactics) time and time again."
(It is a fact that CME gold-option expiries seem to attract heavy selling pressure.)
Dan Norcini at his new Trader Dan's Market Views website had a reasoned analysis of Friday: "…the U.S. dollar's technical-chart picture is horrendous. It had broken through a critical support level near 77 on the USDX DXY, +0.33% last week and had further descended down towards the tremendously important 75 level. … The ugly truth is that the dollar was on course for a major crisis if it violated the 75 level."
"Enter the Fed officials today and yesterday. Apparently the strategy was to get several of the FOMC governors to hit the airwaves talking about ending the QE program. … Result? Up goes the dollar and down goes the precious metals market. Coincidence? I hardly think so."
The specter of a determined official-sector effort to cap the gold price is alarming for the gold bulls — especially as a credible rumor of it is likely to attract opportunistic profit-motivated sellers and be self-fulfilling.
But this time the fear may be overblown.
For one thing, gold shares are optimistic. The ARCA Gold Bugs Index HUI, +0.00% managed to gain 5.45% last week, six times gold's rise. And while gold shares generally are still below their highs of early December, the HUI does appear to have broken its downtrend since then. Gold bugs believe that the shares do sometimes display predictive powers.
For another thing, physical-market premiums as tracked on Le Metropole Café have improved lately. Partly this stems from the U.S. dollar decline, and partly from the recent start of a rally in emerging-market equities. This is firming up such currencies as the Indian rupee, and consequently strengthening their bid to the global gold market.
Consequently, the assessment posted Friday on the Jesse's Café Americain website deserves attention: "I do not know what it is going to take to move gold over that neckline in the big inverse head and shoulders formation, or how long it might take. But I suspect strongly that when it does break out, we will see another fast move higher, because so many in the markets are not positioned for it. After at least one serious 'gut check' on the longs, gold will most likely move fairly quickly to $1,590."
"Depending on what happens, I will not be surprised to see gold hitting $2,000 by year end."