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Fibroids are benign growths that are located in or on woman's uterus. Their development is caused by several factors, such as hormonal imbalance and family history.
So far, the exact cause of fibroids remains unknown. It is known that these growths can become very large and cause symptoms like pain in the abdomen and heavy periods. But It can also exist without any symptoms. The available treating options are medications for regulating level of hormones or surgery in severe cases. Fibroids can gain heavy weight too, so it is necessary to treat it.
How to Shrink Fibroids using Apple Cider Vinegar?
Of course, there are many natural cures for fibroids. One of the most effective and safe remedies for fibroids is apple cider vinegar.
Apple cider vinegar can shrink fibroids and relieve the symptoms for all of those who suffer from this condition. The most important thing about this natural cure is that is absolutely safe and inexpensive. So, if you are looking for an alternative to painful and risky surgery, you should consider this as an alternative solution.
Now, let me try to explain this therapy actually works. First of all, apple cider vinegar in small amounts helps you alkalize your body which is important because it helps your liver to clean the body of toxins and chemicals. Accumulating of toxins and waste can stimulate the estrogen hormone which plays the most important role in development of fibroids. Therefore detoxification of your body helps in the process of shrinking fibroids and reducing the symptoms of this condition.
Why can Apple Cider Vinegar eliminate Uterus Fibroid?
The use of apple cider vinegar has many benefits. It is known that this type of food contributes in weight control, and this lowers the risk of developing fibroids. Apple cider vinegar has also anti-inflammatory effects. Many researches show that the inflammation of the uterus is one of the major risk factors for this condition. The most important way in which the apple cider vinegar helps in removing fibroids is by lowering the estrogen level. Apple cider vinegar can reduce the size of fibroids enough for symptoms to subside.
Fibroids are very common condition among women. If you suffer from this condition there is no need to be afraid. There are many women all over the world that share the same problem as you. You need to know that there is a natural remedy. Before you start thinking about expensive procedures you should consider this completely natural solution-apple cider vinegar. Advantages of this solution are that it is safe, inexpensive, and easily available. It contains vitamins and minerals that our bodies require.
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For the best effect drink two or three tablespoons of apple cider vinegar diluted with water or any other drink, at least twice per day. It is recommended that you drink it diluted. Prolonged use of undiluted apple cider vinegar can damage throat and mouth. Make sure to use the vinegar made of apples, not other kinds of vinegar. A processed apple cider vinegar that is available in most grocery stores doesn't have the complete effect. Organic product where the unprocessed fruit is used has more powerful effect.


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Markus on Development and PublishingThis is Markus Egger's professional blog, which covers topics such as development, publishing, and business in general. As the publisher of CoDe and CoDe Focus magazines, and as the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., Markus shares his insights and opinions on this blog.
Markus on Development and Publishing
This is Markus Egger's professional blog, which covers topics such as development, publishing, and business in general. As the publisher of CoDe and CoDe Focus magazines, and as the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., Markus shares his insights and opinions on this blog.
Friday, December 30, 2005.NET Framework 2.0 Not Enough for ClickOnce Deployment?I like ClickOnce deployment. So far, everything I have created with it has worked very well and it sure makes life a lot easier. However, yesterday, I ran into a bit of a snag: I had never installed any of our ClickOnce deployed apps on a machine that does not have older versions of the .NET Framework installed. In fact, many machines even have .NET development environments (various versions) installed. But yesterday, I tried to install a ClickOnce deployed app on a machine that didn't have any version of the .NET Framework installed. So I started out installing the .NET Framework 2.0, and then I tried to install the ClickOnce deployed app. However, I got the following error message during install:
Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly Microsoft.mshtml Version 7.0.3300.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first.
As it turns out, that assembly is not part of the .NET Framework 2.0. I am not sure if this is anything that has to do with my particular app, but I'd be surprised since the app is completely built on the 2.0 version of the framework. Also, at the point in time the error message appears, I do not think any parts of my app have been accessed yet. Also, there is no reported precondition that the machine is not living up to. So this is pretty odd.
Today, I reinstalled a brand new machine from scratch and I decided to give this a test-run. Same result. With the Framework 2.0, it does not work. Yesterday, I fixed the problem by getting the assembly out of the GAC on another machine of mine and by manually installing it on the target machine (which is a hack that I would only recommend for people familiar with the GAC). Today, I tried to fix the problem more scientifically by installing the Framework 1.1. That did not help either. I then tried to install the Framework 1.0. Still no dice.
So in the end, the only solution I was able to find is the low-level hack: Open a "DOS" prompt and navigate to your Windows\Assembly\GAC. (You can not do this with Windows Explorer, because it shows the GAC directories differently). If you do not have a GAC folder, create it. If you do have that folder, check if there is a Microsoft.mshtml folder in it. If not, copy the contents of the same folder on your original machine (I assume you have a machine that had a working version of the app and thus probably has that folder) onto the target machine. You can do this with the XCOPY command (use the /e parameter). This should fix it.
This is really all a bit odd. I assume that this must somehow be related with my app. I simply can not believe that MS would ship such a serious bug. But on the other hand, I can not find anything special about my app...
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Friday, December 30, 2005.NET Framework 2.0 Not Enough for ClickOnce Deployment?
I like ClickOnce deployment. So far, everything I have created with it has worked very well and it sure makes life a lot easier. However, yesterday, I ran into a bit of a snag: I had never installed any of our ClickOnce deployed apps on a machine that does not have older versions of the .NET Framework installed. In fact, many machines even have .NET development environments (various versions) installed. But yesterday, I tried to install a ClickOnce deployed app on a machine that didn't have any version of the .NET Framework installed. So I started out installing the .NET Framework 2.0, and then I tried to install the ClickOnce deployed app. However, I got the following error message during install:
Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly Microsoft.mshtml Version 7.0.3300.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first.
Unable to install or run the application. The application requires that assembly Microsoft.mshtml Version 7.0.3300.0 be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) first.
So in the end, the only solution I was able to find is the low-level hack: Open a "DOS" prompt and navigate to your Windows\Assembly\GAC. (You can not do this with Windows Explorer, because it shows the GAC directories differently). If you do not have a GAC folder, create it. If you do have that folder, check if there is a Microsoft.mshtml folder in it. If not, copy the contents of the same folder on your original machine (I assume you have a machine that had a working version of the app and thus probably has that folder) onto the target machine. You can do this with the XCOPY command (use the /e parameter). This should fix it.
Friday, December 30, 2005Loading XAML Dynamically
XAML (the declarative markup language used by WPF/Avalon UIs) can be handled in many ways. It can be compiled into a DLL, it can be compiled into BAML (basically binary XAML), or it can be handled as XML and parsed to form the UI. This is a particularly useful option whenever you want to use XAML to define a document rather than conventional UI. The big question then often becomes: How do you load such content dynamically?
Wednesday, December 28, 2005Display Size, Display Resolution, Font Size, Font Smoothing, and much more...
Screen resolutions and monitor sizes seem to be a constant source of confusion, even for relatively technical people. And especially with Avalon (WPF) on the horizon a solid understanding of some of these things is very important (and some things currently considered "common knowledge" really aren't entirely true). For this reason, I decided to sit down and write a few paragraphs about this. This probably isn't a topic that is sophisticated enough for us to print a CoDe Magazine article about, but it is a perfect topic for a blog.
There are a number of measurements that go with computer monitors. In general, the bigger the monitor, the better. However - and this is already where a lot of people go wrong - bigger screens to do not mean that they can show more stuff at once. The amount of information shown concurrently depends on the resolution (at least with current technology). Higher resolution means that more things can be shown at once. Some people confuse "high resolution" with things being larger. Quite the opposite is true. At least at this point, because in the future, screen resolution will not be a measurement of how much can be displayed at once. So things get a bit tricky here. And then of course, there are different screen proportions, such as wide-screen or portrait vs. landscape screens.
A monitor's size is measured in inches, even if you are in a metric world (an attempt was made to introduce cm as screen measurements in the European Union, but that just completely confused everyone, because nobody knew what a 43.18cm screen was...). The size in inches is the diagonal dimension of the monitor. So a 19 inch monitor is supposed to be 19 inches from the top-left corner to the bottom-right corner. I say "supposed", because with the old-style tube monitors ("CRT"), the visible area of the screen is less than that. I am currently writing this on a 19 inch CRT monitor, but the visible area is only 17.8 inches. Kind of a rip-off really. Flat panels ("LCD") are different in that the visible size is really the size of the monitor. So when you have a 19 inch flat panel, the diagonal dimension is 19 inches. This is why people often say that a 17 inch flat panel is similar to a 19 inch CRT monitor.
Then there is screen resolution, which is (currently) measured in X and Y pixel counts. A typical resolution might be 1024x768 or 1280x1024. This simply means that the picture is made up of 1280 points horizontally, and 1024 vertically (or whatever the numbers are).
A different way of looking at resolution (and actually the more accurate way) is dpi (dots per inch). This measures how many pixels can be displayed in each square inch of screen real-estate. My 19 inch CRT monitor is 14.3 inches wide and 10.8 inches tall. I run at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. This means that each horizontal inch of my screen gets about 112 pixels, and each vertical inch also gets about 112 pixels. My current system configuration thus has a resolution of 112dpi. My system runs at slightly higher than average resolution. A typical monitor today runs at 96 dpi, meaning that if one draws a square of 96 pixels on the screen, it shows up as exactly 1 square inch. But then Windows today has little knowledge of displays that are different from the 96 dpi standard. For instance, it has no idea that my monitor runs at 112 dpi and thus developers have no way to really create output that is 1 square inch in size. A really pathetic situation when you think about it.
Dpi is a very important measurement in many scenarios. For instance, in the publishing and printing business (as in "printing on paper"), we generally consider 300dpi to be the absolute lower limit of acceptable quality. 600dpi is normal. 1200pdi is great. As you can see, computer monitors have a ways to go.
Then, there are points. Fonts are generally measured in points. Typical font sizes in Windows today are 8, 10, and 12 points. Points are somewhat similar to pixels, but not identical. For instance, a 10 point "T" in Arial font is drawn 10 pixels tall on my system. A 10 point "T" in Times New Roman font on the other hand is 9 pixels tall. A 24 point "T" in Times New Roman is 21 pixels. So there is a significant difference between points and pixels. The difference is that a point is 1/72nd of an inch, while a pixel is 1/96th of an inch. At 8 or 10 point fonts, the difference is minimal, but at larger sizes, the difference is significant. A lot of people get confused because things are so similar, but they are not the same.
Points is a handy measurement, because it allows to specify the size of the font in absolute terms. A 10 point font's upper case letters are supposed to be about 0.14 inches or about 3.5mm tall. This will be true for things printed on paper, and in theory it should also be true for fonts displayed on monitors. However, since we already discovered that Windows has little knowledge about what size things end up on the screen, this is currently only the case if the display happens to be at exactly 96dpi. Otherwise, Windows is supposed to scale things appropriately (in my case, it should use more pixels for each character), but it doesn't. This is one area that Windows Vista will fix.
So let's talk about dimensions a bit more: A lot of people think that when they get a bigger monitor, they can see more things at once. While there is a relationship between screen size and maximum resolution (bigger monitors often support higher resolutions), it is not the physical size of the device that defines how much can be displayed, but it (currently) only is the resolution that is the defining factor. A 22 inch monitor running at 1024x768 can show the same amount of "stuff" as a 15 inch monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. Of course, on the 22 inch monitor, each pixel will look huge in that case, so I would argue that the quality is really lower (the small display would have around 100dpi, while the big one shows a nasty 60dpi or so).
Another aspect of screen dimensions are its proportions (or "aspect ratio"). Most screens have traditionally had an aspect ratio that reminds one of a landscape piece of paper. This is also similar to traditional TV proportions. Lately however, more and more TVs are widescreen, probably because that worked so well in movie theaters where the widescreen really fills one's entire field of vision and thus drastically improves the experience. I have always wondered about widescreen TVs. A lot of people really like it, but I never warmed up to them. For one, the "field of vision effect" that works so well in movie theaters does not happen at all in home setups. And unless you are watching mostly movies optimized for the wide screen format, everything needs to be stretched horizontally to fill the screen. This is nasty because it makes everyone look fat. A lot of people tell me that after a few weeks they don't even notice that anymore. Great! So I'd be paying significantly more money just so after a few weeks I will not notice the poorer quality anymore? Yeah, right! Also, I will let you in on a little secret: Most people think they get to see more horizontally, but in reality, the picture is just cut off vertically. This isn't that easy to notice with TVs, but you can see it well with those "panoramic" photo cameras ("panoramic" is a different word for "wide screen"). If you look at the negative of such as camera's film, you will notice that it is a single frame cut off at the top and bottom. Heck, at the very least I would have expected that they use more resolution vertically...
So anyway: Wide screen is now also available for computers. And my only thought is "why the heck would anyone want a widescreen display"? With movies, it makes some sense, because that is the format that a lot of movies are shot in, but for software?!? Most of the things we work on already suffer by the landscape nature of our screens combined with the portrait nature of content we are working on. Scrolling top to bottom is the most common way of scrolling. Web pages grow from top to bottom. They could greatly benefit from taller displays. The same is true for Word documents. Computer monitors should go "tall screen" (portrait) rather than wide screen for better user experiences.
A typical wide-screen LC display has a resolution of something like 1680x1050 pixels. The people that like it usually say "what I like is that I can view 2 documents at the same time side by side". In other words: They can open a web page and a Word document at the same time side-by-side. But guess what: You could do the same thing if you have a 1600x1200 display, except you would see more of each document vertically without scrolling! So once again, I am better off. Oh, and most of the time you will pay extra for the inferior wide-screen display. But hey, whatever floats your boat...
BTW: One of the features of my Tablet PC I like best is the ability to use it as a portrait monitor. It does wonders to my productivity when I work on articles or other writing tasks (such as writing code, even).
So why do so many people opt for lower resolutions? (Most commonly 1200x1024 and 1024x768... really nobody uses lower resolutions anymore... keep this in mind when designing your apps).The problem is technical. Today, most people look at higher resolution displays and say "boy, can you really read this?". This is understandable today, although most people do not have a good understanding why it is supposed to be understandable.
As mentioned above, a 10 point font is supposed to be of a certain inch/mm size no matter what. So if one looks at a 96dpi monitor with 1600x1400 resolution, then a 10 point font is exactly the size a 10 point font is in a book or magazine. In printing, font sizes of 8 - 10 points are normal. 7 points is even acceptable in terms of readability, but it is usually not used if there isn't a good reason. 12 point fonts are used for children's books and look amateurish for everything else. Most people do not have trouble reading 8 point fonts.
So why is a 10 point font on a computer monitor considered hard to read then? There are a few reasons: Contrast is a problem for instance. The fact that Windows is not capable of scaling fonts properly for displays that are not at 96dpi. And the biggest single problem is resolution. A 10 point font at 96dpi is hard to read, while a 10 point font at 600dpi is easy to read. This is because at 96dpi, fonts are so blurry that the brain/eye combination has a lot of hard work to do to turn it into something the average human can read as a character.
Consider this screen shot of a "W" at 10 point Times New Roman:
Zoomed in, we can see how pixelated it is:
No wonder this is hard on the eyes.
I also created the same character at 10 points (so exactly the same size as before) but at 460dpi. Here it is zoomed in again:
Keep in mind that the original size of this is this: . Of course, the render quality of the small version is no better than the 96dpi version, because you are not likely to have a 460dpi display. However, come back and reread this blog entry a few years from now when you have a better display, and you will see it just as crisp and sharp as the enlarged version.
The 96dpi "W" above is rendered in black color. So why is it shades of gray when we zoom in then? That is due to font smoothing. If only black and white pixels were set, the font would look even worse than it does now. To explain font smoothing, consider a simpler graphic: A straight line. Whenever a straight line needs to be drawn that is not completely horizontal or vertical, it appears pixelated. Here is a zoomed in version of a line:
As you can see, this looks awful. We can achieve a better result by applying anti-aliasing. Using this technique, pixels that should be only half set are drawn in a color that is somewhere between the background color and the foreground color. Here is the same line with anti-alias applied (or as good as I can create such a line manually in Paint):
The second version appears much smoother as we can see when we actually look at it in regular size. Compare the two versions:
The same technique can be applied to fonts and the result is shown further above in the 96dpi "W".
Another technique to smooth lines and fonts and graphics in general is known as ClearType. ClearType takes advantages of the way LC Displays (flat panels) work. On a flat panel, each pixel is really made up of a red, green, and blue sliver. Those slivers are aligned horizontally within each pixel. For instance, let's assume the rightmost third of each pixel is the red sliver (I can not recall the exact order... plus it varies for different displays). We can create the appearance of a third of a pixel being drawn by only lighting the pixel up bright red (or really by lighting up the other 2 pixels and leaving the red one dark (black) depending on what the foreground color is). Therefore, we can create a smooth appearance like so:
To really see what's going on, we need to zoom in further:
Of course, this only works on LCDs, because on all other displays, the same graphic looks like this:
The trick is that each sliver within a pixel is so small that it is impossible for the human eye to see the actual color. Instead, the brain assumes the same color as the neighboring pixels, and thus the line appears to humans like so:
This is by far the best version of all the ones we have looked into so far (keep in mind that I am still showing this zoomed in).
All these font smoothing techniques rely on biology (the human eye) and how the brain processes information received from the eye. Basically, the human eye/brain combination is much better at seeing patterns than it is at seeing individual colors. Due to this fact, the brain can be tricked into thinking a line is smooth. However, it relies on some heavy cognitive processing, and thus it is tiring to read a lot of text on the screen.
BTW: Some people claim ClearType works well for them even on regular monitors. As I said: The goal here is to trick the brain into seeing things differently than they are. If that can be achieved by lack of intelligence on the user's part, rather than based on biological facts, then that's fine with me too. In all seriousness though: ClearType does not improve smoothness on CRT monitors. In fact, quality deteriorates on such displays when ClearType is used. (The same is true for LC Displays that use a nonstandard arrangements of the red, green, and blue slivers).
One of the nastiest things that can happen on LCD Monitors is rasterization. Basically, it is not good to run an LCD display at anything but its maximum resolution. If the maximum resolution of your display is 1200x1024 and you have Windows set to display at 1200x1024 pixels, then each pixel the software puts out maps to a pixel on the screen, and the maximum possible display quality is achieved.
However, let's say you have a LCD Monitor with a resolution of 1200x1024 pixels, but have Windows set at 1024x768, then each pixel rendered by the software is displayed by 1.17 pixels on the monitor's hardware. There is no way to display 0.17 pixels. Therefore, the information has to be rasterized, meaning that it has to be mapped onto the display. Consider this list of pixels:
If this pixel is to be mapped from 1024 (software) to 1200 (hardware) horizontal pixels, then the first hardware (monitor) pixel displays the first 83% of the pixel the software put out. The second hardware pixel displays the remaining 17% of the software pixel, plus a part of the second software pixel, and so forth. Therefore, each but the first pixel pixel has to show an approximation of two pixels combined, with results in a nasty color mixture. Creating this effect manually, we arrive at something like this:
Compare the two versions up close:
Needless to say that the crispness of the previous version is lost. Add anti-alias or ClearType to the mix and you have a serious mess that is next to unreadable.
I often talk to customers and they look at my resolution and conclude they could never read my screen because everything is too small. Then, when I meet them in their office they have their 1200x1024 display set to show 1024x768 pixels, and half an hour later I walk out with a headache. They would be much better off with much better readability of they went with the higher resolution. But I guess since they already can't see things well at the resolution they are at, they conclude that if they increase their resolution, things would get even worse. Quite the opposite is the case.
BTW: It is also possible to go the other way and set Windows to 1600x1400, but only have a display that supports 1200x1024 (this often happens with projectors). Rasterization is applied here too, but with even worse results.
How well rasterization works depends on the overall resolution. If you have a monitor that can display 1600x1400 and then show an 800x600 output, it will look pretty good, because there are a lot of pixels (each being very small) the rasterizer can work with. However, when resolutions are very close (1200 to 1024 for instance), then things turn nasty.
To drastically improve readability and rival print, computer displays need to operate at much higher resolutions. And by that I do not mean that we need to add pixels so everything can get smaller, but instead, we need to add pixels yet keep things at the same size. To do this, Windows needs to be resolution independent, which means that things must not be specified in hardware pixel measurements.
Windows Vista does exactly that. To make things a bit confusing, the new way of measuring screen dimensions is still called "pixel" (earlier versions called it "length", but apparently people didn't like that). A Vista pixel is not the same as a pixel on screen. A Vista pixel is a logical measurement that is 1/96th of an inch. So in my case, where I am running at 112dpi, something that is 96 Vista pixels long will in fact be drawn with 112 "real" pixels. It will also be exactly one inch long. It would also be just a bit crisper than on a 96dpi display. And of course, a 10 point font will be exactly 3.5mm tall.
The goal is to get to resolutions that rival print. 300dpi displays are already available today, although they are really expensive. It is expected that they will be more reasonably priced in the relatively near future. 600dpi would be great, but realistically, that is way off in the future. 1200dpi would be awesome, but that is currently science-fiction. ;-)
And of course, even with a 300, 600, or 1200 dpi display, a 10 point font will still be 3.5mm tall. It just will be much more readable than today, because we do not have to trick the brain into finding patterns within all that smoothing madness. So it will be possible to read large amounts of text on a screen and it will be no more or less exhausting than reading a book in print today.
With resolution independence, we really need to keep track of 2 types of resolution: The overall resolution the display runs at (at 300dpi that could be something like 5000x4000... or, if I get my way with portrait displays, 5000x8000). This determines how big the area of display really is. Then, based on that combined with the physical dimensions of the display, we arrive at the dpi measurement. The more, the better, both in dpi and in resolution.
This change alone will make it worth upgrading to Vista. But there are other side-effects of this too. Since Vista can deal with graphics independent of the display resolution, it has to be able to scale things at a high level of quality and performance (and not the mess we currently have with "large font" settings and such). And since things can scale, they can scale arbitrarily. This means that each window can be scaled to say 250% of its original size (or whatever you want to zoom to), and still completely maintain its layout and proportions.
So here is why I am even writing this blog entry: We have been trying to buy a new monitor. Personally, I really like high resolutions. I find that lots of workspace makes me significantly more productive. I therefore like to use a dual monitor setup where each monitor runs at a resolution of 1600x1200. Or at the very least, I want a single monitor that runs at 1600x1200. In the past, it has not been hard to buy such monitors, but this has changed! I have not tried this in the US yet, but when we just recently wanted to buy a monitor, it was for my second home in Austria (Europe), and it turns out that in Austria, it is practically impossible to buy anything but flat panels (LCDs) anymore. While there is nothing fundamentally wrong with flat panels, the problem is that they are all very low resolution. Most of them are 1200x1024. This is OK for home users who user their system to browse the web, but it is not OK for me as a developer. (Neither is it OK for serious gamers, really). Higher resolution flat panels are available, but stating at $500+, and reasonably good ones (with a fast pixel reaction time... 16ms or less) are only available at the $800+ range as far as I can tell. A rather disappointing situation, considering that a few months ago, one could buy a 19 inch CRT monitor for just over $100 or $150 that supported resolutions much higher than 1600x1400 even. So we are really taking a step back here.
The whole situation surprises me a bit to be honest. I can go to Dell and buy a notebook (which of course has a built in LC Display) for U$ 1,200, and it has a resolution of 1600x1400. However, when I want to buy an external LCD Monitor from Dell with the same resolution, it's U$ 650 and it isn't even a very good display (slow). That just does not make sense to me.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005They Snuck in Some Cider...
I almost missed this but it turns out that the December CTP of the WinFX extensions for Visual Studio are much more than one would expect after having used the previous CTP. While previous versions were mostly a simple collection of templates, this latest build is a full-blown Orcas preview!
Sunday, December 18, 2005Session Material for VS 2005 Conference
I recently presented 3 different topics at the German Visual Studio 2005 Conference in Rosenheim (just outside Munich... relatively speaking). The presentation was in German, but the samples were in English. The slide decks were also in German, but I needed them for some internal training, so I now translated them to English. So this should be good stuff for everyone interested in this subject. Here is a list of topics I presented on and links to materials and related topics.
OK, enjoy!
Tuesday, December 06, 2005My New C# 3.0 Language Features Article
A new online article (eColumn) of mine has just been made available on www.CoDe-Magazine.com. It deals with new features in the C# 3.0 language, including Type Inference, Object Initializers, Anonymous Types, Lambda Expressions, Expression Trees, and even a little bit of LINQ. (I only touch on LINQ in this article... a second eColumn focussing on LINQ, as well as a full printed article on LINQ will appear shortly).
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apparently I'm on a quest to have the largest triangle-scarf stash in knitterville or something. that would explain why I have yet another fingering weight kerchief, frostberries, on the needles.
I've been plugging away at it since last week after binding off my springtime bandit scarf. since these pictures were taken, I've knit a total of eight repeats and still have over 30 grams of yarn left. I still have a ways to go obviously.
what I really wanted to show you was this yarn. it's been sitting in my stash for almost three years, which is just sad. I'm such a hoarder when it comes to sock yarn, the prettier it is the less I want to knit with it. it's almost like people who collect toys and never open the box. I've decided that it was time to rip open all the boxes in my stash and just let it loose. I didn't want to hide this yarn away in my shoes, so a scarf it was.
I was lucky enough to get this gift from liz. ages ago. if I remember correctly, she was testing out different ways of dyeing yarn while getting ready for a swap. this was supposedly a "dud" with "muddy colors"! I don't know how she could think that as I'm completely in love with this yarn. the variegation in this yarn is absolutely perfect, the colors slowly merge from browns, to purples, to greens, to small pops of blues in such an organic way. there isn't any obvious pooling and I wouldn't change the way the colors fell in any way. in short, this is true variegation and it's what I've been looking for, what feels like, ages. I don't think these photos do it justice, but hopefully I can get even better ones when I'm done with the scarf.
the only thing I'm sorry about? waiting three years to wind this up.


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File naming problem
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|11/16/2008 03:50 pm
While downloading the page with project setting Do not download existing file, I noticed that if page is linked to file image232_238aksianyone.jpg then offline explorer download that file as 238aksianyone.jpg.
If this page is linking another file image233_238aksianyone.jpg or image234_238aksianyone.jpg or niceimage_238aksianyone.jpg then offline explorer doesn''t download rest of files while all files are differnet and their names are different. For all these it says Aborted 238aksianyone.jpg already exists. What about the other files? There is some thing wrong with _. I am using lastest version 5.2
|Oleg Chernavin
|11/16/2008 03:59 pm
|I think this may happen with links that have one URL and a different filename. It is so-called, Content-Disposition naming.
Please add the following line to the Project''s URLs field:
This will skip naming files differently from its URL.
Best regards,
Oleg Chernavin
MP Staff
|11/17/2008 02:00 pm
|I tried to do the same as you suggested, but still same thing happening
To clear it more
for following file in url
it says
Aborted testImage_20.jpg already exist
for following file in url
it says
Aborted abced.jpg already exist
for following file in url
it says
image1232.jpg already exist
Specially in file123_testImage20.jpg and filexyz_abced.jpg case, these files must be downloaded.
Hope to get its solution.
> I think this may happen with links that have one URL and a different filename. It is so-called, Content-Disposition naming.
> Please add the following line to the Project''''s URLs field:
> Additional=SkipDisposition
> This will skip naming files differently from its URL.
> Best regards,
> Oleg Chernavin
> MP Staff
|Oleg Chernavin
|11/17/2008 05:23 pm
|Can you give me exact URLs and your Project settings (Export - Project Settings - Copy, then paste to forum), so I could reproduce it myself?
If you don''t want to disclose it here, please send to email@example.com
|11/18/2008 05:53 am
|Thanks Olex,
Right now I am out of station. but to produce is very simple,
Have a simple html page linking to images with the names I stated above and start download the page.
I am using default project setting. I have checked mark Do not download existing files.
I guess there is some thing wrong while downloading an image, Offline explorer might be checking or matching the soundex of file. This is just my wild guess or I am missing some setting out here.
|11/18/2008 05:55 am
|Or it might be maching the part of image ignoring _ like in programming langauges we have indexOf()
|Oleg Chernavin
|11/18/2008 07:24 am
|I checked, it works well. Please give me the URL to reproduce.


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The Christian Call to Social Justice
Christians are called to proclaim the gospel, but what about social justice issues? William Wilberforce is best known for is work in abolishing the slave trade, but was also a deeply committed evangelical Christian with a broad agenda for reforming society.
Throughout the Bible, God used people to have a phenomenal influence on their culture - Joseph, Nehemiah, Esther, Daniel and others.
Likewise today, Peter Saunders, CMF Chief Executive, encourages Christians to be 'not of the world' but to be deeply engaged in it, influencing the direction of culture; to preach Jesus as Lord of the whole universe and ourselves as his servants walking in his footsteps.
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The Electives Handbook
A student elective is a great opportunity to do something different and learn new things. It's a chance to see life and medicine in another setting and to look at the world from a different perspective. For some students, it's an experience that changes the way they live and shapes their future.
Deciding what to do, where to go and how to get there can seem a daunting task. This handbook for medical and other healthcare students has been written to help you think through the options and issues. It gives information and advice to guide you through the process, from finding a placement, to setting off and finally coming home.More Info...
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Good practice guidelines for short visits and mission teams
Short-term medical visits can be a valuable and inspiring learning experience for the visitor and can make a useful contribution to medical work overseas, but trips that have not been well-planned and thought-through can cause problems. This booklet will help doctors planning a short-term visit to think through the issues involved and avoid the pitfalls. It provides guidelines for good medical practice in low-income settings so that visitors are a help and not a hindrance, can make the most of their visit.
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I Could Do That!
I could do that!
Most missionary books leave us feeling that health professionals who work overseas in developing countries are spiritual superheroes, a different breed. In short, 'I couldn't do that!'
These 15 short accounts turn that right round. They include
One story at least must make you say: 'I could do that!'
This title is available to UK & Irish CMF students at a discounted price via the Take and Read pagesMore Info...
Can it be Me?
Already a best-selling author for Honourably Wounded, she gives open, honest and humorous insights into her own life. This fully illustrated book is both moving and inspiring.
Marjory has spent over 30 years as a medical missionary in India and Nepal. Responding to huge needs, she later specialised in psychiatry and became the director of a leading Christian Psychiatric Centre in India.
Since then she has had an itinerant ministry amongst the missionary community in over 40 countries and she continues to inspire and motivate all those she meets - both personally or via her writing.
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Travelling Light
Daily Bible meditations for student electives
Travelling Light - a companion for your elective helping you:
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The Hole in Our Gospel
WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT OF US? Is faith just about going to Church, studying the Bible and avoiding the most serious sins – or does God expect more? Have we embraced the whole gospel or a gospel with a hole in it?
Over ten years ago, Richard Sterns came face to face with that question as he sat in a mud hut in Rakai, Uganda, listening to the heartbreaking story of an orphaned child. Stern's journey there took much more than a long flight to Africa. It took answering God's call on his life, a call that tore him out of his corner office at one of America's most prestigious corporations – to walk with the poorest of the poor in our world.
The Hole in Our Gospel is the compelling true story of a corporate CEO who set aside worldly success for something far more significant, and discovered the full power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to change his own life. He uses his journey to demonstrate how the gospel – the whole gospel – was always meant to be a world changing social revolution, a revolution that begins with usMore Info...
Good News to the Poor
How do we respond to the silent appeal in the dark eyes of the child in the charity catalogue, or the blanketed figure in the cold shop-doorway? Should we share the gospel with them, or a bowl of soup?
Throughout history, men and women such as Wilberforce, Shaftesbury, Carey and Booth have recognised a call to help the needy. Others have argued that our first task is evangelism, that Christian should not meddle in politics, that social action is a distraction. Do we serve Christ through preaching his Word, or should we use words only when necessary?
Tim Chester argues passionately that evangelism and social action are inseparable as two arms of the church's mission. He presents a biblical case for truly evangelical social action that is shaped and inspired by the cause of the oppressed, and those involved in social action not to neglect the preaching of the Word.This title is available to UK & Irish CMF students at a discounted price via the Take and Read pages More Info...
Operation World
If you want to have a powerful and meaningful prayer life, if you want to impact the nations for Christ through prayer – Operation World is for you. Join millions of praying people around the world using this book to inform, inspire and ignite their prayers.
When you hear a country mentioned in the news or in a conversation and you want to know more about it and what God is doing there – this book will help you. Engage your heart and mind in global prayer with this thoroughly researched, fully updated seventh edition. It is loaded with clear, concise, accurate information on peoples, languages, religions, denominations, spiritual trends and prayer needs – for every country in the world, from the largest to the smallest.
Operation World's easy-to-follow summaries of every nation include:
Timely challenges for prayer and specific answers to prayer
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Re-tyred not Retired
Subtitled 'Healthcare mission in later life', this slim booklet recounts the stories of eleven very different doctors who retired from professional work in the UK and found rewarding outlets for their skills as they served the needy across the globe. From Africa to Asia, from ophthalmology to obstetrics, from a couple of weeks to a couple of years, these vignettes challenge all approaching or enjoying retirement to consider similar opportunities that perhaps they alone could take up.
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1969 Plymouth Road Runner - Fourth Time's A Charm - Feature
This Road Runner Ragtop Has Seen Some Changes
It's tough to trust your instincts. Especially when no one else shares your point of view. Some people are good at heeding that inner voice, while others succumb to the rantings of the masses. Fortunately, Rodney Carter is a man who recognizes that inner voice. Way back in 1977, while just a lad of 18, Rodney had the good sense to rescue this '69 Road Runner convertible from a junkyard. He was so convinced that this car needed to be saved that he almost hocked his trumpet to raise the cash. Fortunately, mom stepped in to help save both car and instrument.
But Rodney's friends openly laughed at his purchase, which by Rod's own admission was in pretty rough shape. "It didn't run, and some parts were missing, the driver's rear quarter was pushed in about a foot, and the driver's door was wrecked. Most people thought it was junk." Undeterred, Carter and friend John Miller went to the junkyard, installed an oil pump, oil pan, and a starter, and drove the car home. Later, after correcting the bent and broken pushrods, the car actually ran pretty well. As a Texas car, it had been spared from the ravages of rust, but it was still battered and bruised. Rodney and John gave it a quick patch job and started enjoying it.
After marrying his girlfriend in 1978, Rodney painted the Road Runner, replaced the interior, and began showing it at local outdoor car shows. Then in 1982, Carter and another friend, James Baker, stripped it to metal and corrected many of the previous repair evils. It was sprayed with 28 coats of lacquer in preparation for ISCA car show competition, though it was still a street-driven car. That's when a lot of the body smoothing and shaving took place in the quest for points, though Rodney has always kept a stash of stock parts to return things to factory spec if need be (along with the numbers-matching drivetrain).
Later, in 1989, Rodney once again decided that the Runner needed attention. This refurbishment would take the longest, but it's the effort that yielded the result you see today. Even back then, Rodney-thinking beyond the norm of the day-knew that he wanted to create a Road Runner as a "touring car" using upgraded mechanicals and mild street rod-style touches, a practice that has now become commonplace.
So even though that effort wasn't completed until the mid '90s, the final product looks right up to date, even in the midst of the current Pro Touring trend. But the vibe is more than skin deep. Between the Hemi and the Dana is a Tremec five-speed, there are disc brakes behind all four16-inch wheels, and the steering gear had been blueprinted for a contemporary road feel. Plus, it's got modern A/C and sound, and it manages nearly 20 mpg during its annual 2,000-mile jaunts on the Power Tour. When asked when the next phase of the Runner will begin, Rodney claims the car is finally just the way he wants it ... but give him time.
Car Craft: So what was it that compelled you to procure this car?Rodney Carter: I've always liked Mopars, and Road Runners in particular, and I've always liked convertibles, so it was a natural.
CC: Is this your only Mopar?RC: No, I've had at least 30 of them, and this wasn't the first. I started with a '63 Sport Fury and used to buy and sell to fund my musclecar habit back in the early '80s. I let some stuff go years ago that I wish I had now, like the '69 factory Hemi Road Runner I bought in '79, but this car has always been special. I took it from being a $125 piece of junk to something worth having.
CC: Think there's another redo in the Runner's future?RC: It's pretty much done, and even though I keep upgrading stuff, like the Vintage Air system, the Keisler five-speed, and the Firm Feel steering, it's going to stay looking this way. The paint is about 10 years old now, so I'll probably give it a re-spray just to clean it up.
The DetailsCar: '69 Plymouth Road Runner convertibleOwner: Rodney Carter
Engine: '70 Chrysler 426 Hemi, machined by Ed at Arlington Machine to 0.030-over, rebuilt with Ross 10:1 pistons, Mopar Performance stock-stroke forged crank, Mopar Performance pan, Milodon oil pump
Heads: Mopar Performance aluminum heads, ported, 2.25/1.94-inch valves
Camshaft: Comp Cams solid flat-tappet with 269/273 degrees duration (advertised) and 0.577/0.570-inch lift with 106-degree lobe separation angle
Induction: Mopar Performance M1 single-plane, single four-barrel aluminum manifold with 1,000-cfm Holley HP-series carb
Exhaust: TTI headers and TTI 3-inch exhaust system with Flowmaster mufflers
Transmission: Keisler five-speed conversion using Tremec TKO gearbox and Keisler hydraulic clutch linkage
Rearend: Stock Chrysler/Dana 60 with 3.54:1 gears and limited-slip
Front Suspension: Stock '69 Plymouth with Firm Feel Stage II steering box, Mopar Performance 0.096-inch torsion bars, and Koni shocks
Rear Suspension: Stock-type with Mopar Performance Super Stock leafsprings, Koni shocks, and Addco rear sway bar
Brakes: '68 Plymouth GTX four-piston disc, front; Colorado Turf disc (GM Riviera calipers and Lincoln Versailles rotors), rear; 151/416-inch manual master cylinder
Wheels And Tires: Billet Specialties Octane, 16x8-inch with BFG Comp T/A 245/50-16, front; 16x9.5-inch with 275/50-16 rear
Body Modifications: Door handles shaved, side-markers molded in, rear quarters "swelled" around wheel openings, quarter extensions smoothed in
Paint: '93 Lexus Red Garnet Pearl Metallic by Sikkens, applied by National Auto Repair in Addison, TX
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God and the devil are still raging inside of Cody ChesnuTT. He's just making more thoughtful decisions these days.
The crowded lobby of the boisterous Belmont hotel is loud with end-of-happy-hour-chatter. Cody ChesnuTT is offering me a plate of hummus and artisan flatbread that neither of us would even touch. An hour from now, he will sit along a poolside view of Dallas' skyline and headline the final installment of the 2013 KXT Summer concert series, Barefoot At The Belmont. It will be his first Dallas performance in a decade, and he will do it alone with no backing band, which he is uneasy about. Tonight he is just a man, his guitar, and a set list of strictly new material.
After nearly a ten year hiatus, ChesnuTT has hit the road again in support of his latest effort, Landing On A Hundred. While fans anxiously awaited the followup to 2002's 98-minute opus, The Headphone Masterpiece, ChesnuTT was heading in a different direction. He says he'll never play his debut material live again. Few artists work so hard to create such an incredible body of work only to abandon it completely.
"It's family entertainment now. And I say that with a smile, not with like, ugh," ChesnuTT says. He emphasizes his sentiment with an exasperated shrug. He means appropriate for families, but it's also true that he inspires a certain kind of familiarity. During the course of his set, the stage area will be crashed both by an intoxicated man in a yarmulke who insists that he is ChesnuTT's "brother from another mother" and a little boy named Jackson. Both refused to leave the stage area at first, until ChesnuTT gave them a hug and a high five, respectively.
To tour again after a decade out of the game, it's been difficult to be away from his main source of inspiration: His own actual family. His hope is to one day be able to take them all with him during long stretches on the road.
"Just last night, my daughter had a sense that I was leaving again and she wouldn't let me out of her sight. She was all over me until about 12:30 at night. It's an adjustment to make for sure. I tell them where I'm going and why. My wife and I actually borrowed a page from Malcom X's book. Whenever he traveled abroad, he would ask his wife to show the children where he was on the map," says ChesnuTT, whose three young children have only just recently seen him perform live for the first time.
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On the Belmont's lawn, ChesnuTT will perform the touching sonic love letter "Love is More Than a Wedding Day." After almost 19 years of marriage, he wrote the song at a time of disconnect in his relationship, in an attempt to bring the love back into his home. He urges the poolside audience to take the message of the moment with them after the show. "If you ever feel like giving up on love, remember this right here. Come back to this moment we're creating together."
A couple near the front feels compelled to hold hands and affectionately rest their heads on each other's shoulders during the song.
Though he doesn't seem to regret the less wholesome material of The Headphone Masterpiece, ChesnuTT acknowledges that overall it plays more to people's baser instincts. At this point in his evolution as an artist, and as a man, it is important to him that his music create a sense of happiness within people.
"It's about having something that everyone can benefit from. I think back to growing up, and hearing those great classic Motown records at cook-outs and family functions. Everybody, the children were dancing, the adults were dancing. I think that feeling is lost nowadays. ... Good and loving music, music that has genuine joy to it," he says.
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"I know that there are a lot of people who would have liked to hear The Headphone Masterpiece [on this tour]. I just try to be very honest and straightforward with where I am as a person. I trust that their humanity will recognize my own."
ChesnuTT cites his main musical inspirations as Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway, Bill Withers, and the like. It is clear from the juxtaposition of ChesnuTT's two bodies of work that what he has most in common with these influences is the constant struggle to fight one's own demons, the interpersonal struggle between good and evil. Performing new material seems to be a strong motivating factor in keeping ChesnuTT's own baser instincts at bay.
ChesnuTT is the kind of performer who forges a close connection with his audience. In urging the crowd to coo background melodies, and sing back to him mantras like "No turning back," he is able to focus the positive energy that it is so important to him to create in a live setting. After a standing ovation, he will perform an encore a capella, tuning us all into the joy of this music without strumming a single note.


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2014 Oscar Nominations
The 86th Annual Academy Awards
By Dave Campbell | January 16, 2014
Best Picture:
"American Hustle" Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
"Captain Phillips" Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
"Dallas Buyers Club" Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
"Gravity" Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
"Her" Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
"Nebraska" Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
"Philomena" Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
"12 Years a Slave" Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
"The Wolf of Wall Street" Nominees to be determined
"American Hustle" David O. Russell
"Gravity" Alfonso Cuarón
"Nebraska" Alexander Payne
"12 Years a Slave" Steve McQueen
"The Wolf of Wall Street" Martin Scorsese
Leading Actor:
Christian Bale in "American Hustle"
Bruce Dern in "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Chiwetel Ejiofor in "12 Years a Slave"
Matthew McConaughey in "Dallas Buyers Club"
Supporting Actor:
Barkhad Abdi in "Captain Phillips"
Bradley Cooper in "American Hustle"
Michael Fassbender in "12 Years a Slave"
Jonah Hill in "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Jared Leto in "Dallas Buyers Club"
Leading Actress:
Amy Adams in "American Hustle"
Cate Blanchett in "Blue Jasmine"
Sandra Bullock in "Gravity"
Judi Dench in "Philomena"
Meryl Streep in "August: Osage County"
Supporting Actress:
Sally Hawkins in "Blue Jasmine"
Jennifer Lawrence in "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o in "12 Years a Slave"
Julia Roberts in "August: Osage County"
June Squibb in "Nebraska"
Adapted Screenplay:
"Before Midnight" Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
"Captain Phillips" Screenplay by Billy Ray
"Philomena" Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
"12 Years a Slave" Screenplay by John Ridley
"The Wolf of Wall Street" Screenplay by Terence Winter
Original Screenplay:
"American Hustle" Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
"Blue Jasmine" Written by Woody Allen
"Dallas Buyers Club" Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
"Her" Written by Spike Jonze
"Nebraska" Written by Bob Nelson
Animated Feature Film:
"The Croods" Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
"Despicable Me 2" Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
"Ernest & Celestine" Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
"Frozen" Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
"The Wind Rises" Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
"The Grandmaster" Philippe Le Sourd
"Gravity" Emmanuel Lubezki
"Inside Llewyn Davis" Bruno Delbonnel
"Nebraska" Phedon Papamichael
"Prisoners" Roger A. Deakins
Costume Design:
"American Hustle" Michael Wilkinson
"The Grandmaster" William Chang Suk Ping
"The Great Gatsby" Catherine Martin
"The Invisible Woman" Michael O'Connor
"12 Years a Slave" Patricia Norris
Documentary Feature:
"The Act of Killing"Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
"Cutie and the Boxer" Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
"Dirty Wars" Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
"The Square" Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
"20 Feet from Stardom" Nominees to be determined
Documentary Short:
"CaveDigger" Jeffrey Karoff
"Facing Fear" Jason Cohen
"Karama Has No Walls" Sara Ishaq
"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life" Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
"Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall" Edgar Barens
Film Editing:
"American Hustle" Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
"Captain Phillips" Christopher Rouse
"Dallas Buyers Club" John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
"Gravity" Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
"12 Years a Slave" Joe Walker
Foreign Language Film:
"The Broken Circle Breakdown" Belgium
"The Great Beauty" Italy
"The Hunt" Denmark
"The Missing Picture" Cambodia
"Omar" Palestine
Makeup and Hair:
"Dallas Buyers Club" Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
"Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" Stephen Prouty
"The Lone Ranger" Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
Original Score:
"The Book Thief" John Williams
"Gravity" Steven Price
"Her" William Butler and Owen Pallett
"Philomena" Alexandre Desplat
"Saving Mr. Banks" Thomas Newman
Original Song:
"Alone Yet Not Alone" from "Alone Yet Not Alone"
Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
"Happy" from "Despicable Me 2"
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
"Let It Go" from "Frozen"
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"The Moon Song" from "Her"
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
"Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
Production Design:
"American Hustle" Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
"Gravity" Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
"The Great Gatsby" Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
"Her" Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
"12 Years a Slave" Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
Animated Short Film:
"Feral" Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
"Get a Horse!" Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
"Mr. Hublot" Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
"Possessions" Shuhei Morita
"Room on the Broom" Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
Live Action Short Film:
"Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)" Esteban Crespo
"Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)" Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
"Helium" Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
"Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)" Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
"The Voorman Problem" Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
Sound Editing:
"All Is Lost" Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
"Captain Phillips" Oliver Tarney
"Gravity" Glenn Freemantle
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" Brent Burge
"Lone Survivor" Wylie Stateman
Sound Mixing:
"Captain Phillips" Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
"Gravity" Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
"Inside Llewyn Davis" Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
"Lone Survivor" Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
Visual Effects:
"Gravity" Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
"Iron Man 3" Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
"The Lone Ranger" Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
"Star Trek Into Darkness" Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
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Former National back bench MP Amy Adams has been appointed as ICT Minister as Prime Minister John Key announced his new government line up this morning. Adams has also become Internal Affairs Minister and Associate Minister for the Canterbury earthquake recovery.
Former ICT Minister Steven Joyce has picked up the economic development, science and innovation, tertiary education and associate finance portfolios.
Adams is the MP for the Selwyn electorate, and worked in the Christchurch lawfirm Mortlock McCormack before running as the National party candidate for Selwyn in 2008.
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Reiter Engineering continues to be the technical and commercial partner for the Gallardo FL2 GT3
Germany-based Reiter Engineering is and has been the exclusive partner of Lamborghini in developing the Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 car and will be also in the future the reference for all Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 aspects in terms of technical assistance, continuous further development and commercial matters, i.e. sales of race cars, spare parts.
Reiter Engineering has started its partnership with Lamborghini with the GT1 version of the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT in 2003 and continued its expertise on the Gallardo back in 2006 contributing to sell more than 100 race cars and to achieve with numerous customers and its own racing team more than 200 wins and countless podiums in GT racing worldwide enhancing the winning soul of the car and establishing Lamborghini as a successful and serious contender in GT racing.


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Who is Carl Hainsby?
Chingford born Carl is an 18 year old singer/songwriter and one third of the boy band Franklin Lake (formerly 11:11) who works as a Strategic Housing Officer Apprentice with Waltham Forest Council.
Carl left school at 16 with 5 A-C GCSEs and knew then he wanted to be an estate agent. He attended Harlow College studying plumbing and quickly realised that it wasn't right for him. "I was labelled the worst top 10 plumber that ever went to college" explained Carl.
After dropping out of the plumbing course at 17, Carl was introduced to the idea of an apprenticeship by his dad and came along to the apprenticeship open day at Leyton Neighbourhood Learning Centre. He passed the assessments and was sent to an interview with Waltham Forest Council Strategic Housing Department. Carl started his apprenticeship at the Council on 2 September 2013.
You are working as a Strategic Housing Officer Apprentice, what does the job involve?
At the start the job involved creating spread sheets, taking minutes and being involved in the day-to-day administration of the department. After three months of working and gaining experience, I was transferred to Ascham Homes, which was more suited to me. I am learning everything to do with housing within Letting Waltham Forest, I am able to talk to tenants and take part in property visits, which is what I wanted to do from the start. I bounce with other teams like the Customers Service team and Temporary Accommodation team to get as much experience as I can.
What is the wage like?
It started off at about £400 per month and went up every 4 months so now I am on the highest wage of about £1000 per month, which is great as I still live with my parents and don't pay bills. So it's really good money.
What will you do after the apprenticeship?
My apprenticeship is now coming to an end. I have handed in my application for the job that I am doing and am now waiting to hear if I can continue in the role. I feel confident that I will get the job, but if I don't, I will be guaranteed an interview in another department.
How is the apprenticeship benefiting you?
This apprenticeship has given me work experience that I can take into the future and has opened up opportunities for me. It has taught me to be professional in the work place and enabled me to grow as I was still in a student mind set. Harpal Rull is my Work Placement Officer, she helped me to get on my feet when I started the apprenticeship and guided me in the right direction. Now my apprenticeship is nearly at an end she explains to me what to do after my apprenticeship and how to go forward with my career plan.
If you didn't go down the apprenticeship route what would you have done?
I would have gone to college doing sport or music but I didn't feel they would have been worthwhile qualifications to get a job.
What would you say to any young person who is unsure about the direction they want to go in? Would you say go to college or take on an apprenticeship?
It really depends on what the young person is like. Personally I think that the apprenticeship is the best thing to do because you are getting the best experience in the working world and getting paid for it. You are learning everything you need to get a proper job and that is what everyone wants. I am now ahead of anyone leaving college at 18.
How are you able to combine your working life with your band?
For an 18 year old, I feel I have so much on my plate. I know anyone taking on an apprenticeship has a lot on their plate with work and studying, besides that, I have a fully managed band called 11:11, which I have to put in full time as it is not a hobby, we are really busy gigging at the moment. Luckily in music they work at weird hours so we may work from 8pm till midnight and I won't get home till 1am and still make it to work.
How do you juggle everything in your life?
I am very realistic, I know music is really hard and you need a backup plan, I know what to prioritise. My job is my main security, so I prioritise everything around my job. Luckily with my band I can work at nights and weekends.
I hear you are going to be the Apprenticeship Ambassador for Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service. Do you think it is something you would be good at?
I would love to be an ambassador as I don't think I got off to a good start with the apprenticeship. I had just left college and felt it was unfair that we don't get half term breaks or holidays, but as it went along I got used to it and realised I had to put in a lot of work. I have learnt a lot and improved since I have started my apprenticeship, I was nominated for Waltham Forest Council Apprentice of the Year Award, so it would be good to be the Apprenticeship Ambassador for the Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service.
Do you think the young people will listen to you?
Yes definitely. I feel I have a voice that is listened to, I live in the borough and have a following on social media, which is a good way to advertise and with people leaving school now it's a good time to get the word out. I think you need one person to guide the apprenticeship in the right direction; I am the right age and know people of my age looking for an apprenticeship.
Carl has successfully secured permanent employment with Waltham Forest Adult Social Services.


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FMC Corporation's Paul Graves to Speak at The BMO Capital Markets 27th Global Metals & Mining Conference
Feb 19, 2018, 07:00 ET
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) today announced that Paul Graves, executive vice president, chief financial officer, will speak at The BMO Capital Markets 27th Global Metals & Mining Conference in Hollywood, Florida, on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 9:45 a.m. ET. Mr. Graves will be joined by Tom Schneberger, vice president and global business director of FMC Lithium. A live webcast will be available on the FMC Investor Relations website.
About FMC
For more than a century, FMC Corporation has served the global agricultural, industrial and consumer markets with innovative solutions, applications and quality products. On November 1, 2017, FMC acquired a significant portion of DuPont's Crop Protection business. FMC employs approximately 7,000 people throughout the world and operates its businesses in two segments: FMC Agricultural Solutions and FMC Lithium. For more information, visit www.FMC.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Act of 1995: Statements in this news release that are forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties concerning specific factors described in FMC Corporation's 2016 Form 10-K and other SEC filings. Such information contained herein represents management's best judgment as of the date hereof based on information currently available. FMC Corporation does not intend to update this information and disclaims any legal obligation to the contrary. Historical information is not necessarily indicative of future performance.
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Whether it is spring cleaning or your weekly cleaning routine, every health conscious individual wants to make sure they are cleaning with the safest product where their health and the environment are concerned.
Green commercial cleaners today are the new hype, but they are not usually the healthiest way to go. So most of us revert to baking soda and vinegar, not knowing that there might be some other truly natural and great products out there.
This is where I was thrilled to be introduced to the Universal Stone. This product cleans, polishes and preserves all smooth surfaces. In fact it has so many amazing qualities, some of which I am excited to share with you in this review!
The Universal Stone is made in Germany by Zielinsky Universal-Stone, from six natural ingredients. It is a polishing and cleaning stone that is all natural, biodegradable, child and pet friendly, completely non-toxic, acid-free, phosphor free, gentle on the skin, non-abrasive and non-allergenic.
The stone has been tested by the allergy and asthma research center and was found to be safe for use by allergy and asthma sufferers.
It works on all smooth surfaces including metals, tubs, sinks, cabinets, granite, tiles, marble, stoves, toilets, glass, crystal, painted wood, acrylic, bikes and most other indoor and outdoor equipment.
Each tub of the product comes with at least one cleaning sponge to be used with the product. Cleaning with the stone was very easy. Upon opening the tub, there is a white, solid material. One simply needs to wet the sponge and rub across the product a few times, then rub the sponge to create a foam and clean the desired surface. To finish you can wipe the cleaned object with a wet, damp or dry cloth for the final polish.
I have to tell you, this is as good as it gets. Cleaning with the stone is easy, safe and effective. My favorite items to clean with it were stainless steel and ceramic sinks, and tubs. It works so great and leaves a beautiful sparkle! It is hard to imagine that it can literally be used on almost anything, so I have not had a chance yet to explore its use on so many items, but I look forward to doing so!
What I love most about this product is that it is made in Europe, under very strict standards for cleaning products and toxic ingredients compared to anything close to it, in North America. And unlike so many commercial cleaners, it is not just safe for the environment, thus "green" or "eco-friendly", but safe for our health – which should be the first priority.
There are no sprays, or thick liquids dispersing molecules of various chemicals into the air. The product itself actually barely has a scent, which I love, even though there is the natural citronella ingredient.
I cannot yet attest as to how it would clean heavily stained items or other surfaces, but if one is doing their weekly cleaning, this product works flawlessly. It dissolves grease and truly has more usage ideas than I can list here!
Thus, I am so excited to get to know this product and also introduce it to any of you who are health conscious and looking for a fantastic all natural and super versatile cleaner.
To read more about the Universal Stone, check out UniversalStone.ca or UniversalStone.us
- Vegetable-based green soaps (green soap and soap flakes)
- Vegetable Oil
- Glycerin
- Clay (Earth Polishing)
- Natural Scent (Citronella)
The stone comes in a small plastic tub, that is recyclable when product is finished. Some of the smaller sizes come packaged with the sponge in a box, which is also recyclable. The bigger sizes come in big plastic buckets.
Price (as of this posting)
- $29.95 CAD/US for 500g(17.6oz) includes 1 sponge [lasts 6-8 months]
- $39.95 CAD/US for 800g(28.22oz) includes 1 sponge [lasts 8-12 months]
- $149.95 CAD/US for 8kg (8.8lbs) includes 5 sponges [lasts 12-24 months]
- For Canadian Customers, orders can be placed online through UniversalStone.ca or through a local distributor like Jolanta Interiors in Toronto, ON
- For US Customers, orders can be placed through GreenBuildingSupply.com or by visiting their store in Iowa – 1-800-405-0222
- For European Customers, orders can be placed directly through the Zielinsky Manufacturer of the Universal Stone
- Aviva Online Store also carries the Universal Stone for Canadian and US customers
- Grass Roots Online Store out of Toronto, also carries the Universal Stone for Canadian and US customers
- Green Moose Boutique out of Canada, also carries the Universal Stone for Canadian orders
The Good
- Truly all natural
- Non-toxic
- Biodegradable
- Excellent cleaning ability
- Excellent polishing ability
- Suitable for most surfaces
- Non abrasive
- Gentle on the skin
- Non-allergenic
- Safe for asthma and allergy sufferers
- Safe for kids and pets to touch and be around
- Acid-free
- Phosphor-free
- Unlimited Shelf-life
- Vegetarian Friendly
- Fair price
- Great packaging
The Bad
- Not available in most local stores, but can be easily ordered online or through a local wholesaler


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Remapping Command keys to Ctrl in VMWare
On the Mac itself, I have remapped the caps lock key (does anybody actually use that thing these days?) to Command (that's the key with the weird symbol… ah well, one of the keys with weird symbols <g>) . I had always done the same thing on Windows, where it required registry changes, so I was positively surprised to find that on the Mac it's just a system preferences option… Microsoft, here's how you do that kind of thing:
Now, while I've found it useful on the Mac to have the Command key easily accessible (although Ctrl is still used in too many places, like terminals and things… gotta find a solution to that), that key is recognized as a Windows key in VMWare. So I changed one of the registry trickery files so that the Windows keys get remapped to Ctrl for use in Windows. Works like a charm. Here's what the content of that .reg file looks like:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,5B,E0,1d,00,5C,E0,00,00,00,00
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For almost two weeks (May 16-27) Cannes Film Festival 2007 was also a runway show bringing up an army of stars on the French coast. The film festival highlighted many of this spring trends but also launched others – my favorite being beautiful draped gowns in golden yellow and silvery grey. Angelina Jolie arrived at "Ocean's Thirteen" premiere dressed in a wonderful canary yellow silk gown by Ungaro Haute Couture. Helen Mirren wowed the crowd once again; she wore a flowing yellow freesia chiffon dress and Bar Rafaeli, Leonardo Di Caprio's ex girlfriend, looked like a golden goddess.
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The circuit described here is mostly aimed at development engineers who are looking for an economical step-down converter which offers a wide input voltage range. As a rule this type of circuit employs a step-down converter with integrated switching element.
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Esther Loayza
Ester began her time with MassCOSH in 2013 when she came to the Workers Center after being hurt on the job. She joined the board after becoming truly inspired by its ability to help workers in need, including its ability to link workers with attorneys to help them achieve workplace justice. As part of the Workers Center International Women's Committee, Ester is helping to spread MassCOSH's message of 'safe secure jobs for all' within immigrant communities as well as leading workshop to educate these workers on their rights on the job. As an injured worker, Ester has proven to be especially skilled in serving as a connector between workers hurt due to dangerous work and health professionals.


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By Chris Birk of Veterans United Home Loans
Tight credit, tougher mortgage lending and flat-lining wages have all breathed new life into the historic VA loan program. Veterans and military families are turning to these flexible, no-down payment loans like never before.
The Department of Veterans Affairs backed a record number of loans in fiscal year 2015, with volume expected to increase 36 percent over the next five years. Created originally to help World War II veterans get a foothold in the housing market, this hard-earned benefit has evolved into one of the most powerful mortgage options on the market.
A handful of key benefits have spurred the program's emergence as a lifeline for today's military homebuyers.
Here's a look at five of the biggest.
No Down Payment
This is the signature benefit of VA home loans. Qualified buyers can purchase up to $417,000 in most parts of the country before needing to put money down. That figure is even higher in costlier housing markets.
Conventional loans often require a 5 percent down payment, while FHA loans require a minimum 3.5 percent down payment. On a $244,000 loan, which was the average VA loan amount last year, buyers would need $12,200 for a conventional down payment or $8,540 for FHA. It can take years for veterans and military families to save that upfront cost.
No Mortgage Insurance
This is another big expense that VA buyers don't face. Conventional borrowers who can't muster a 20 percent down payment often get stuck paying for private mortgage insurance. FHA buyers pay both an upfront and an annual form of mortgage insurance. These expenses can add $100 or more to your monthly mortgage payment and linger until you've built sufficient equity in the home. FHA buyers now pay mortgage insurance fees for the life of their loans.
VA buyers don't pay for mortgage insurance, but they do have an upfront funding fee that most choose to roll into the loan. The VA Funding Fee is paid to the VA and helps keep the loan program running. Buyers who receive compensation for a service-connected disability are exempt from this cost.
Flexible Credit Guidelines
This loan program's financial flexibility is matched by common-sense credit underwriting. VA loans were created to boost access to homeownership for those who serve our country, and the government urges lenders to take a more holistic look at a buyer's credit and financial profile.
In fact, the VA doesn't set a credit score requirement for these loans. But the private companies actually making these loans typically will have a score cutoff, albeit a lower one than conventional lenders often require.
Would-be buyers can also bounce back faster in the wake of a bankruptcy or foreclosure. Veterans can often obtain a VA loan just a year removed from filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy and two years following a Chapter 7 discharge or a foreclosure.
For conventional mortgages, the "seasoning period" can be considerably longer four years following a Chapter 7 discharge, two years after a Chapter 13 discharge and seven years after a foreclosure.
Interest Rates
Veterans and military members also have access to the lowest-rate loan product out there.
VA loans have had a lower average interest rate than both conventional and FHA loans for the past 23 consecutive months and counting, according to data from mortgage software firm Ellie Mae.
That benefit helps boost buying power. Rates will ultimately vary depending on your credit, the lender you're working with and more.
Closing Costs
VA buyers can ask a seller to pay all of their loan-related closing costs and up to 4 percent of the home's value in concessions. Those concessions can cover a host of costs, from prepaid property taxes and homeowners insurance to paying a buyer's funding fee and even paying off collections or judgments at closing.
The VA also limits what costs and fees lenders can charge, and there are a few that buyers aren't actually allowed to pay.
To be sure, VA loans aren't the right fit for every military homebuyer. But these flexible government-backed loans continue to make a critical difference for millions of veterans and military families.
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