VsCodeWindowClass Allows manipulation of a code window.
VsDefaultButtonBarImagesClass Obtains default Buttonbar images.
VsDropdownBarClass Provides control of the drop-down bar at the top of a code window.
VsFinderClass Finds a text image.
VsHiddenTextLayerClass Adds or enumerates hidden text sessions.
VsLocalUserDataClass Allows a caller to use a GUID to set or get user data (properties).
VsMethodTipWindowClass Provides a method tip window for an item in a language service.
VsSmartTagTipWindowClass Controls interaction with a tip window.
VsSyntheticTextLayerClass Handles the addition of and communication with synthetic text sessions.
VsTextBufferClass Acts as the base interface for the VsTextBuffer object and provides general information about the text buffer's properties. Provides read and write access to the text buffer using two-dimensional coordinates.
VsTextImageClass Supports text string matching.
VsTextLineStorageClass Represents the image that is persisted and unpersisted. Represents the range of text that is viewable and editable by text editor views.
VsTextManagerClass Provides general services for anyone wanting information about the active text views.
VsTextPackageClass Provides general services for anyone wanting information about the active text views.
VsTextSpanSetClass Utility for text string matching.
VsTextTipWindowClass Provides a tip when the mouse pauses over a particular context stream in the core editor.
VsTextViewClass Manages the text view of an editor window. Contains methods to manage the text view. The view is essentially the editor window shown in the UI.
VsUndoPackageClass Implements the linked undo stack feature.
VsUndoUnitClass Determines if the undo unit applies to UI items only.
VsUserDataClass Allows a caller to use a GUID to set or get user data (properties).
AtomicText Describes an embedded object within a LINEDATAEX structure.
BUFFERINITEX Represents buffer initialization parameters.
ChangeInput Represents information about a pending change request *before* it has happened.
ExternalError Used to create a new external error.
FONTCOLORPREFERENCES Specifies color table preferences to be used when painting text or markers.
FONTCOLORPREFERENCES2 Specifies color table preferences to be used when painting text or markers.
FRAMEPREFERENCES Provides frame settings that control whether scroll bars are provided for views.
FRAMEPREFERENCES2 Provides frame settings that control whether scroll bars are provided for views.
INITVIEW Specifies view parameters. Used in Initialize calls.
LANGPREFERENCES Used to communicate user preferences with the text manager, views, and language services. View settings follow the text manager's settings unless a specific set of forced settings are specified when Initialize is called.
LANGPREFERENCES2 Used to communicate user preferences with the text manager, views, and language services. View settings follow the text manager's settings unless a specific set of forced settings are specified when Initialize is called.
LINEDATA Used to pass direct-access to line data in a buffer through IVsTextLines. This structure returns all of the information for a single line.
LINEDATAEX Used to pass direct access to line data in a buffer through GetLineDataEx.
MARKERDATA Specifies directional options for locating markers.
NewHiddenRegion Creates a new outline or hidden text region over the specified text span.
NewHiddenRegionEx Creates a new outline or hidden text region over the specified text span.
NewOutlineRegion Specifies the span and state of a new outline region.
NewSpanMapping Used to create a new span mapping.
NewSyntheticRegion Holds information about a synthetic text region.
SELECTIONSTATE Represents the state of a selection so that it can be restored to that state.
SMARTTAGSIZEDATA Holds data about smart tag size.
TabStop Holds information about tab stops.
TextAddress Defines a text address in terms of a character and a line.
TextLineChange Provides settings for tracking changes to any text line in the buffer.
TextSpan Defines a span of text based on character and line index.
TextSpanAndCookie Used to represent a span of code embedded in a document.
TextSpanPair Used to express two corresponding spans in two separate buffers.
TIPSIZEDATA Sets the size and position of a tip window.
VIEWPREFERENCES Supplies settings for all text views.
VIEWPREFERENCES2 Provides additional members for the VIEWPREFERENCES structure.
VsExpansion Provides information about a code snippet.
IPersistFileCheckSum Calculates the check sum for the file representation of the associated text buffer.
IVsAction Actions placed in the undo history of a text buffer expose this interface .
IVsButtonBar Provides buttons at the bottom of a code window.
IVsChangeClusterEvents Bracket a series of changes from an undo manager.
IVsChangeTrackingUndoManager Provides undo management for an editor that supports multiple views.
IVsCodeWindow Represents a multiple-document interface (MDI) child that contains one or more code views.
IVsCodeWindowEvents Allows a VSPackage to listen to certain events associated with the view that contains an IVsCodeWindow object.
IVsCodeWindowManager Allows adornments, such as drop-down bars, to be added to or removed from a code window.
IVsColorableItem Provides default font colors, font style, and item name information for a custom colorable item.
IVsColorizer Implemented by the language client to assign color attributes to a span of text.
IVsColorizer2 Extends a language services colorizer by allowing the environment to suspend and restart colorization.
IVsCommitGestureSink Indicate that some form of UI commit gesture has occurred.
IVsCompletionSet Provides statement completion capabilities for the language service.
IVsCompletionSetEx Allows a completion set to provide various kinds of customization.
IVsCompoundAction Enables the creation of compound actions.
IVsCompoundViewChange Allows the creation of compound view actions.
IVsContainedCode Implemented by a language to support buffer span mapping.
IVsContainedLanguage Provides simplistic contained language service features.
IVsContainedLanguageCodeSupport Provides support for code navigation, event generation, and the like.
IVsContainedLanguageColorizer Provides colorization for line fragments.
IVsContainedLanguageFactory Provides creation of contained languages.
IVsContainedLanguageHost Represents a host for contained languages.
IVsContainedLanguageHostEvents Receives view change notifications from a contained language host.
IVsContainedLanguageStaticEventBinding Provides support for static event generation.
IVsDefaultButtonBarImages Obtains default Buttonbar images.
IVsDropdownBar Provides control of the drop-down bar at the top of a code window.
IVsDropdownBarClient Describes the contents of the drop-down bar combinations.
IVsDropdownBarClientEx Provides additional drop-down bar client functionality.
IVsDropdownBarManager Manages drop-down bars in code windows.
IVsEnumBSTR Enumerates a collection of BSTRs.
IVsEnumBufferCoordinatorSpans Represents a list of text span mappings between two buffers.
IVsEnumCodeBlocks Represents a list of spans of code blocks.
IVsEnumDebugName Enumerates a collection of debug names.
IVsEnumExternalErrors Represents a list of external errors.
IVsEnumGUID Enumerates a collection of GUIDs.
IVsEnumHiddenRegions Enumerates existing hidden text sessions.
IVsEnumIndependentViews Enumerates a collection of independent views.
IVsEnumLayerMarkers Enumerates a collection of layer markers.
IVsEnumLineMarkers Enumerates a collection of line markers.
IVsEnumStreamMarkers Enumerates a collection of stream markers.
IVsEnumSyntheticRegions Enumerates a collection of synthetic regions.
IVsEnumTextBuffers Enumerates a collection of test buffers.
IVsEnumTextSpans Enumerates a collection of text spans.
IVsEnumTextViews Enumerates a collection of text views.
IVsExpansion Provides a way to insert code snippets into a text buffer.
IVsExpansionClient Allows a VSPackage to participate in the code snippet insertion process.
IVsExpansionEnumeration Represents a list of code snippets for a particular language service.
IVsExpansionEvents Represents a connection point that receives event notifications having to do with code snippets.
IVsExpansionFunction Represents an expansion function in a code snippet.
IVsExpansionIntellisenseHost Provides Insert Expansion support.
IVsExpansionManager Represents the expansion manager, which knows how to find and display lists of code snippets for a particular coding language.
IVsExpansionSession Represents the state of a newly inserted code snippet that is being edited by the user.
IVsExternalCompletionSet Enhances IntelliSense completion set functionality for use in a non-text-view editor.
IVsFileBackup Implemented by components interested in being backed up.
IVsFinalTextChangeCommitEvents Notifies clients of the last commit gesture to trigger the event and provides the range of text changed.
IVsFindCancelDialog Use the IVsFindCancelDialog interface to launch a modeless dialog on the background thread that will allow a user to cancel a lengthy background find or find and replace operation.
IVsFinder Finds a text image.
IVsFindHelper Utility for text string matching.
IVsFindScope Defines a custom scope that can be chosen in the Find in Files, Look in combo box.
IVsFindTarget Implements Find and Replace capabilities within your editor.
IVsFindTarget2 Implements Find and Replace capabilities within your editor.
IVsFormatFilterProvider Interface to provide file extension checking for Save As functionality.
IVsFullTextScanner Exposed by text buffers and used by compilers and other components that need immediate access to the entire buffer. Special-purpose interface exposed by text buffers and used by compilers and other components that need immediate access to the entire buffer.
IVsHiColorItem Provides support for returning a full 24-bit color value.
IVsHiddenRegion Manages the hidden region.
IVsHiddenRegionEx Provides additional methods for IVsHiddenRegion.
IVsHiddenTextClient Provides notification of changes to a newly created hidden text session.
IVsHiddenTextClientEx Supports client drawing of glyphs.
IVsHiddenTextManager Determines whether a hidden text session exists for a given text buffer and creates one if it does not.
IVsHiddenTextSession Used to add or enumerate hidden text sessions.
IVsHiddenTextSessionEx Allows adding of regions with "Ex" properties.
IVsHighlight Used to move a dialog box to reveal a selection or highlight.
IVsIntellisenseHost Implemented by clients (including IVsTextView) to provide IntelliSense hosting functionality.
IVsIntellisenseLangTip Used to expose method tips.
IVsLanguageBlock Determines the span of the current language block.
IVsLanguageClipboardOps Customizes copy and paste operations.
IVsLanguageContextProvider Connects context-sensitive help for a language service that uses the Visual Studio core editor. Hooks up context-sensitive help for a language service that uses the Visual Studio core editor.
IVsLanguageDebugInfo Implement to support debugging for your language service.
IVsLanguageDebugInfo2 Provides support for exception handlers in a language service.
IVsLanguageDebugInfoRemap Allows a language service to remap a pending breakpoint from one location to another.
IVsLanguageInfo Retrieves information about a programming or markup language, including language name, associated file extension, and colorizer requirements for code editing.
IVsLanguageLineIndent Determines the number of "spaces" that should be added to the beginning of the specified line.
IVsLanguageTextOps Provides additional IntelliSense features for the language service.
IVsLastChangeTimeProvider Allows an object to tell clients when its last change occurred.
IVsLayeredTextView Helps a view interact with text layers.
IVsLifetimeControlledObject Instructs undo objects to release references to a designer or buffer.
IVsLinkedUndoClient Indicates that one undo manager is blocking another undo manager from executing a linked action.
IVsLinkedUndoTransactionManager Implements the linked undo stack feature.
IVsMethodData Sets method data for the tip window.
IVsMethodDataEx Provides access to the entire text shown for a method in an IntelliSense Parameter Info ToolTip.
IVsMethodTipWindow Provides a method tip window for an item in a language service.
IVsMethodTipWindow2 Provides additional methods for the IVsMethodTipWindow interface.
IVsMouseCursorProvider Allows a marker to alter the mouse cursor when it is over its glyph.
IVsOutliningCapableLanguage Provides support for the Collapse to Definitions command from the outlining menu.
IVsOutliningSession Adds one or more outline regions to a text buffer.
IVsPackageDefinedTextMarkerType Describes how a custom marker type behaves and appears to the user.
IVsPersistentTextImage Represents the image that is persisted and not persisted.
IVsPreliminaryTextChangeCommitEvents Notifies clients of a commit gesture to trigger a text buffer event, and provides the range of text changed.
IVsProvideColorableItems Informs the code editor about custom colorable items proffered by the language service.
IVsQueryLineChangeCommit Determines if an CCG_CARET_ON_NEW_BUFFER_LINE commit event should be fired.
IVsQueryUndoUnit Queries a linked undo set to determine if an undo action would be aborted.
IVsRegisterFindScope Register a find scope for Find in Files.
IVsReportExternalErrors Used to manage a list of error messages associated with a particular project.
IVsSmartTagData Represents smart tag content.
IVsSmartTagTipWindow Represents the window in which smart tag content is presented.
IVsSmartTagTipWindow2 Represents additional functionality for the IVsSmartTagTipWindow.
IVsSplitPane Represents the split pane.
IVsSplitRoot Represents the root of the split pane.
IVsSplitter Represents the split pane.
IVsSyntheticTextManager Immediately stops the synthetic text session.
IVsSyntheticTextSession Handles the addition of and communication with synthetic text sessions.
IVsTextBuffer Acts as the base interface for the VsTextBuffer object and provides general information about the text buffer's properties. Also see IVsTextBufferEx, which adds GetTrackChanges and SetTrackChangesSuppression methods.
IVsTextBufferCoordinator Provides mapping services between two buffers.
IVsTextBufferDataEvents Notifies clients when a text buffer is initialized and when changes are made to text buffer data.
IVsTextBufferEvents Notifies clients when a new language service is associated with a text buffer.
IVsTextBufferEx Adds methods to manage change markers to the IVsTextBuffer interface.
IVsTextBufferTempInit Temporary interface for special initialization.
IVsTextColorState Changes the color state of lines in a text buffer.
IVsTextEditorPropertyCategoryContainer Allows an object to expose a set of text editor properties.
IVsTextEditorPropertyContainer Manages properties of text editors.
IVsTextFind Finds a given block of text in the buffer.
IVsTextHidingLayerModule Implemented by any layer module that hides text.
IVsTextImage Supports text string matching.
IVsTextImage2 Examines end-of-line (EOL) markers.
IVsTextImageEvents Implemented to notify a client of a text image change.
IVsTextImageUtilities Provides utilities for loading and saving text files.
IVsTextLayer Handles layout between a base buffer and a view.
IVsTextLayer2 Adds methods to examine end-of-line markers to the IVsTextLayer interface.
IVsTextLayerEvents Notifies a client that a layer's coordinate mapping is changing.
IVsTextLineMarker Provides access to and manipulates the positioning of a text marker within a buffer. This interface has methods to retrieve or change two-dimensional coordinates.
IVsTextLines Provides read and write access to the text buffer using two-dimensional coordinates.
IVsTextLines2 Adds methods to examine end-of-line markers to the IVsTextLines interface.
IVsTextLinesEvents Notifies clients of changes to the underlying text buffer.
IVsTextMacroHelper Enables macro recording code.
IVsTextManager Provides general services for anyone wanting information about the active text views.
IVsTextManager2 Provides additional methods to the IVsTextManager interface.
IVsTextManagerEvents Informs users about changes in the text manager.
IVsTextManagerEvents2 Informs the user about changes in the text manager.
IVsTextMarker Provides methods for managing text markers.
IVsTextMarkerClient Provides callbacks to the Visual Studio environment and other processes used to manipulate a text marker.
IVsTextMarkerClientAdvanced Extends the functionality available through the IVsTextMarkerClient interface by providing additional callbacks.
IVsTextMarkerClientEx Extends the functionality available through the IVsTextMarkerClient interface by providing additional callbacks.
IVsTextMarkerColorSet Allows a marker type to determine whether other marker types share the same color set.
IVsTextMarkerContextProvider Provides context for text markers in the core editor.
IVsTextMarkerGlyphDropHandler A handler provided for markers whose glyphs (an icon indicating the position of a marker) support drag and drop.
IVsTextMarkerType Provides a uniform mechanism for obtaining information about a given text marker type, whether predefined by the editor or registered by a package.
IVsTextMarkerTypeProvider Returns an IVsPackageDefinedTextMarkerType interface from a service providing a text markers other packages.
IVsTextReplaceEvents Information of a change that is about to occur.
IVsTextScanner A special-purpose interface exposed by text buffers and used to provide fast, stream-oriented, sequential access to the text in the buffer.
IVsTextSpanSet Utility for text string matching.
IVsTextStorage Represents the range of text that is viewable and editable by text editor views.
IVsTextStorage2 Adds methods to examine end-of-line markers to the IVsTextStorage interface.
IVsTextStream Provides reading and writing capabilities using one-dimensional coordinates.
IVsTextStreamEvents Notifies clients of changes to the underlying text buffer.
IVsTextStreamMarker Provides access to and manipulates the position of a text marker in the text buffer. This interface has methods to retrieve of change one-dimensional, streaming coordinates.
IVsTextTipWindow Provides a tip when the mouse pauses over a particular context stream in the core editor.
IVsTextTrackingPoint Establishes and maintains an internal tracking point.
IVsTextView Manages the text view of an editor window and contains methods to manage the text view. The view is essentially the editor window shown in the user interface (UI).
IVsTextViewEvents Notifier of events occurring on the text view object.
IVsTextViewEx Adds functionality beyond IVsTextView.
IVsTextViewFilter Allows further modification of the text view.
IVsTextViewIntellisenseHost Core editor provided intellisense host for standard editor views.
IVsTextViewIntellisenseHostProvider Implemented by a text view which provides IvsTextViewIntellisenseHost.
IVsThreadSafeTextView This is a thread-safe subset of IVsTextView.
IVsTipWindow Provides a tip when the mouse pauses over a particular context stream in the core editor.
IVsUndoRedoClusterWithCommitEvents Fires when an undo or redo cluster is closing.
IVsUndoTrackingEvents An IOleUndoManager client can expose this interface to be informed when the undo stack has returned to an unmodified state (that is, no data-changing modifications exist) by the undo manager.
IVsUndoUnit Determines if the undo unit applies to UI items only.
IVsUserData Allows a caller to use a GUID to set or get user data (properties).
IVsUserDataEvents Notifies clients of changes to the user data.
IVsWebFormDesignerSupport Infrastructure. Implemented by project to provide single-file web form support.
SVsCodeWindow Passed to GetService to return a reference to IVsCodeWindow.
SVsCodeWindowManager Passed to GetService to return a reference to IVsCodeWindowManager.
SVsLanguageFilter Passed to GetService to return a reference to IVsTextViewFilter.
SVsLinkedUndoTransactionManager Passed to GetService to return a reference to IVsLinkedUndoTransactionManager.
SVsRegisterFindScope Passed to GetService to return a reference to the IVsRegisterFindScope interface.
SVsTextImageUtilities Passed to GetService to return a reference to the IVsTextImageUtilities interface.
SVsTextManager Passed to GetService to return a reference to IVsTextManager and IVsHiddenTextManager.
SVsTextSpanSet Passed to the QueryService method to return a reference to the IVsTextSpanSet interface.
VsCodeWindow Allows manipulation of a code window.
VsDefaultButtonBarImages Obtains default Buttonbar images.
VsDropdownBar Provides control of the drop-down bar at the top of a code window.
VsFinder Finds a text image.
VsHiddenTextLayer Adds or enumerates hidden text sessions.
VsLocalUserData Allows a caller to use a GUID to set or get user data (properties).
VsMethodTipWindow Provides a method tip window for an item in a language service.
VsSmartTagTipWindow Controls interaction with a tip window.
VsSyntheticTextLayer Handles the addition of and communication with synthetic text sessions.
VsTextBuffer Acts as the base interface for the VsTextBuffer object and provides general information about the text buffer's properties. Provides read and write access to the text buffer using two-dimensional coordinates.
VsTextImage Represents the image that is persisted and unpersisted. Represents the range of text that is viewable and editable by text editor views.
VsTextLineStorage Represents the image that is persisted and unpersisted. Represents the range of text that is viewable and editable by text editor views.
VsTextManager Provides general services for anyone wanting information about the active text views.
VsTextPackage Provides general services for anyone wanting information about the active text views.
VsTextSpanSet Utility for text string matching.
VsTextTipWindow Provides a tip when the mouse pauses over a particular context stream in the core editor.
VsTextView Manages the text view of an editor window. Contains methods to manage the text view. The view is essentially the editor window shown in the UI.
VsUndoPackage Implements the linked undo stack feature.
VsUndoUnit Determines if the undo unit applies to UI items only.
VsUserData Allows a caller to use a GUID to set or get user data (properties).
__PROMPTONLOADFLAGS Flags to prompt user for an encoding on an open with specified codepage.
__tagVSCOLORDATA Specifies a type of color value: foreground, background, or line color.
__VSFINDBUFFERFLAGS Indicates that a buffer boundary begins or ends a line, without requiring white space characters in the buffer.
__VSFINDERROR Specifies errors in find operation.
__VSFINDHOW Specifies how to find a match.
__VSFINDOPTIONS Specifies text find options.
__VSFINDOPTIONS2 Provides additional members for __VSFINDOPTIONS.
__VSFINDPOS Indicates the search position.
__VSFINDRESULT Indicates the result of a find or replace operation.
__VSFINDRESULT2 Provides additional members for the __VSFINDRESULT enumeration.
__VSFINDRESULTLOC These values denote the window in which the results of a bulk find operation appear.
__VSFINDSTATE Specifies the state of a Find operation.
__VSFTNOTIFY Provides notifications to find targets.
__VSFTPROPID2 Provides additional members for the VSFTPROPID enumeration.
__VSTFF Specifies the format of the text file.
_BufferCoordinatorMappingMode Specifies the buffer coordinator mapping mode for contained languages.
_codewindowbehaviorflags Represents the different behaviors of a code window.
_ExpansionFunctionType Specifies the type of an expansion function.
_ExpansionToken Specifies an expansion path typically associated with code snippet locations.
_HighlightMatchingBraceFlags Represents different options for highlighting matching braces.
_NavigableLocationResolverFlags Specifies how a location path should be resolved.
_QuerySendCommitFlags Specifies whether an ENTER triggers a text change commit event.
_VIEWFRAMETYPE Specifies the view frame type.
_vsIndentStyle Specifies the style of indentation.
ADD_OUTLINE_REGION_FLAGS Specifies how outline regions are added to an existing outline session object (IVsOutliningSession).
AtomicTextProviderFlags Specifies options for the atomic text provider.
BufferCoordinatorReplicationDirection Specifies the direction of buffer coordinator replication for contained languages.
BufferLockFlags Do not use. Deprecated.
BUFFERSTATEFLAGS Sets the state of a text buffer.
CASESELECTION_TYPE Specifies the case of selected text.
CHANGE_HIDDEN_REGION_FLAGS Specifies whether the region is added to the undo/redo stack.
CHANGE_SYNTHETIC_REGION_FLAGS Specifies whether the region is added to the undo/redo stack.
ChangeClusterFlags Provides information about a group of undo/redo operations. Used in IVsChangeClusterEvents calls.
ChangeCommitGestureFlags Flags indicating the type of changes made to text that triggered the commit gesture.
ChangeCommitGestureFlags2 Adds flags that indicate the type of changes made to text that triggered the commit gesture.
CHARFMT Represents the file encoding.
CODEMEMBERTYPE Used to specify the type of code members that are to be returned from a list of code members.
COLORINDEX Specifies the default foreground, background, or line color.
COLORIZER_ATTRIBUTE Specifies color attributes of the text.
COMMONLANGUAGEBLOCK Represents the kind of code block (try,catch, finally) used in QueryCommonLanguageBlock.
ContainedLanguageRefreshMode Used to specify the recompilation mode for a contained language.
ContainedLanguageRenameType Used to specify the type of element is being renamed in a contained language.
DATA_OBJECT_RENDER_HINT Specifies view or action options for the data object being rendered.
DeeperLayerLineIndexToLocalFlags Specifies how to treat deeper layers.
DEFAULTITEMS Specifies default types that identify items in the core editor view for colorizing.
DROPDOWNENTRYTYPE Specifies the drawing protocol requested for a combo. Used in IVsDropdownBarClient calls.
DROPDOWNFONTATTR DROPDOWNFONTATTR is an enum used by IVsDropdownBarClient to describe the appearance of text entries.
ENUMMARKERFLAGS Provides options for enumerating collections of markers.
EOLTYPE Enumerates end of line markers.
FIND_HIDDEN_REGION_FLAGS Specifies options for finding hidden regions.
FIND_SYNTHETIC_REGION_FLAGS Specifies how to find a synthetic region.
FINDMARKERFLAGS Specifies directional options for locating markers.
FONTFLAGS Provides additional marker options for modifying the font used to display text appearance.
GetSelectedAtomFlags Specifies when to match a selected atom.
GLDE_FLAGS Provides information about a line in the buffer.
GLYPHDRAWFLAGS Provides options for drawing the glyph in the widget margin.
HIDDEN_REGION_BEHAVIOR Specifies whether the hidden region is controlled by the client or the editor.
HIDDEN_REGION_BEHAVIOR2 Provides additional members to the HIDDEN_REGION_BEHAVIOR enumeration.
HIDDEN_REGION_EVENT Determines the exact user action taken on the hidden text region.
HIDDEN_REGION_STATE Specifies whether the span of text is expanded or collapsed.
HIDDEN_REGION_TYPE Specifies whether the new region is a hidden (concealed) or outline (collapsible) region.
IntellisenseHostFlags Specifies IntelliSense host flags.
LanguageContextHint Specifies whether the context is an F1 keyword.
LINEDATAEXFLAGS Provides additional information about the line.
LINESTYLE Specifies default line style options.
LINESTYLE2 Provides additional members for the LINESTYLE enumeration.
LinkedTransactionFlags Specifies whether the linked undo transaction is strict or not.
LinkedTransactionFlags2 Provides additional members to the LinkedTransactionFlags enumeration.
LTE_TEXTDATAFLAGS Indicates how a data object is pasted.
MapLocalSpanFlags Specifies mapping conditions for local spans.
MARKERBEHAVIORFLAGS Provides flags that specify marker behavior.
MARKERBEHAVIORFLAGS2 Provides additional members for the MARKERBEHAVIORFLAGS enumeration.
MarkerCommandValues Specifies the integer identifying the item number for a marker type's context menu command.
MarkerCommandValues2 Provides additional members to the MarkerCommandValues enumeration.
MARKERTYPE Sets the characteristics of a text marker.
MARKERTYPE2 Provides additional members to the MARKERTYPE enumeration.
MARKERVISUAL Determines the visual style of the marker.
MARKERVISUAL2 Provides additional members to the MARKERVISUAL enumeration.
MethodTextType Identifies different portions of the method tip to provide information on.
MOVESELECTION_ABS_TYPE Indicates moving a record selection by an absolute amount.
MOVESELECTION_REL_TYPE Indicates expanding a selection by a relative amount.
PANEEVENTS Specifies events for split window panes.
PANEFLAGS Indicates appearance of split window panes.
PANETYPE Specifies the pane to get with GetPane calls.
ParameterTextType Specifies parameter information for the method tip window.
RE_ERRORS Regular expression evaluation errors.
READONLYSTATUS Sets the read and write status of a text buffer.
RelativeSelectionStateFlags Specifies the state of a selection relative to another layer.
REPLACE_TEXT_FLAGS Specifies options for modifying text during a replace operation.
RESOLVENAMEFLAGS Provides flags for ResolveName.
SPLITFLAGS Specifies how a window pane is to be split.
SPLITNOTIFYCODE Represents different changes to the splitter.
SYNTHETIC_REGION_EVENT Specifies a synthetic region event.
TextBufferErrors General definitions for text buffer errors.
TextBufferInitFlags Specifies text buffer initialization flags.
TextFindMode Specifies text find / replace flags shared by both the buffer and view.
TextSelMode Determines whether stream or box selection mode is being used.
TextViewAction Specifies text positioning within a view.
TextViewErrors General definitions for text view errors.
TextViewInitFlags2 Provides additional members to the TextViewInitFlags enumeration.
TipPosPreference Determines where the tip window is placed relative to the context stream.
TipWindowFlags Specifies tip window options.
TipWindowFlags2 Provides additional members for the TipWindowFlags enumeration.
UndoErrors General definitions for undo errors.
UpdateCompletionFlags Specifies completion set flags.
VSEDITPROPID Sets options for text editor property containers.
VSFINDERROR2 Provides additional members for the __VSFINDERROR enumeration.
VSTFF2 Provides additional members to the __VSTFF enumeration.
WORDEXTFLAGS Specifies options for determining the extent of a word.


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Soak the black-eyed beans overnight in plenty of water. Wash the beans thoroughly then boil them until they're tender and cook them about 30 minutes.
In a large bowl put all the ingredients and then add the black eyed beans. Mix everything together. Stir in the extra virgin olive oil and garnish with paprika.
Black-eyed peas are small beans with a black 'scar' at the point they connect to the pod. They have a distinctive flavor and appearance. They can be cooked in a variety of ways and eaten with some vegetables, oil, salt and lemon. Place the beans in water to soak for a few hours before cooking.


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Beyond COVID-19, Yobe also battles meningitis, measles —Health commissioner
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The Yobe Government says it is investigating reported rising mysterious deaths in some parts of the state.
Commissioner for Health and Vice Chairman, Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control, Dr. Muhammed Gana, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Damaturu.
Gana said the mortality rate could not be easily attributed to Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
He, however, said the state had already commenced investigation to ascertain the actual cause of the deaths, including carrying out autopsies to establish the cause(s) of deaths.
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Gana also pointed out that the state was not only battling with coronavirus, but other diseases, especially at hot season, when meningitis and measles strike.
He explained that during hot seasons heightened number of mortality are usually reported not only in Yobe but in other parts of the country.
"We also know that the weather is hot. As hot as 45 degrees and above, and all these can cause a lot of morbidities and result in mortalities across the states,'' he added.
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"The COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control had been doing its best to contain spread of the virus in the state.
"Soon the committee will make expansion of another 100 bed capacity isolation centre within Yobe State Teaching Hospital.
"The committee will also produce face masks in large quantities for free distribution to the masses, all in an effort to protect Yobe communities,'' he said.
He assured residents that the state government would not compromise their lives, as the administration is working to ensure that they are protected. (NAN)
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opened at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands on 3 May 2000. The two accused, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering the 270 persons killed in the bombing of PanAm flight 101 on 22 December 1988. They also submitted a special defence naming other individuals and organisations as responsible for the crime, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front. A number of television companies sought to compel live television coverage of the trial by way of a petition to the nobile officium of the Court of Session, but this was unsuccessful, although television cameras are transmitting restricted coverage to four remote sites in Dumfries, London, New York and Washington DC for the benefit of the immediate family members of the victims of the disaster (BBC Petitioners 2000 SLT 845, 860). Details of the trial can be followed on two websites: one maintained at the Glasgow Law School, http://www.law.gla.ac.uk/lockerbie, the other at http://www.thelockerbietrial.com/. <


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Minutes Joint meeting 2013
Minutes Joint meeting of the St Sébastien and Porthcawl Town Twinning Associations.
Town Council Offices, Victoria Avenue, Porthcawl at 9.30 am Monday 6 May 2013.
The meeting was opened by Rob Chick, Chairman PSSTTA who welcomed all to the meeting. He took the opportunity to remember Dominique Revol from SSSL, a good friend of the Association, who sadly passed away this year, as well as Doreen Owen, a supportive member of PSSTTA who has recently passed away. We send our best wishes to Phillipe who continues to be in poor health.
2. Mayor's welcome. Alana Davies welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked all for attending.
3. Minutes of meeting in August 2012: The minutes of last year's joint meeting were summarised by RC and VS.
4. Matters arising: There were no matters arising.
5. Chairman's report SSSL: Valerie introduced the 2 youth councillors from SSSL, Clemence and Zoe, and sent greetings from the Maire. Georges Normant sent greetings from Marie- Christine Laurent, the councillor responsible for Town Twinning. Clemence spoke about projects for the Youth Council in SSSL and about the Web radio which started 6 months ago. They broadcast on Sunday mornings and will be including Porthcawl in future broadcasts. AD talked about the Youth Council in Porthcawl and the possibility of a project on Kati. MH suggested we place an advert in the local paper requesting a volunteer. AD suggested a column could be appropriate. MH stated that he had been in contact with Port Talbot Wheelers about a cycling tour from SSSL and that there was a possibility of European funding. More details to follow.
6. Chairman's report Porthcawl: RC reported that we had had a successful year with various activities organised. DB reported that membership was slightly up due to several new corporate members being recruited by RL, who confirmed that we currently have 45,000 hits on our website. ME-L added that her daughter would now be joining as she had been very impressed with the ambiance between the 2 organisations. RC stated that the raison d'etre had diminished over the years and he wanted to review our objectives. AD agreed that we should revisit the Constitution. VS stressed that both Associations needed new blood. It was suggested that we make an effort to contact other TT associations.
7. Programme 2013/2014:
a. Reindeer Project: AD expressed concerns about how it was going to work. VS to ask Joel the Maire if it would be possible to have the book translated into English. ME-L suggested a synopsis on flyers /web for schools for children to see. Anne Plaude is our contact in SSSL.
b. Wind Band: Nothing has been arranged so far. AD will contact Department of
Performing Arts, Bridgend.
c. School Exchanges: MW reported that attempts have been made but with little success.
VS stated that there was a possibility of an exchange with 20 pupils next year and will
keep us informed. MW will contact Anne Rees at Porthcawl Comprehensive to make
enquiries.
8. 15th Anniversary celebrations 2014: VS stressed that they would have to wait until
after the local elections in France in March/April as there could be a new Maire.
9. Date of next visit to SSSL: Several dates were discussed with a view to keeping the
gap between visits to approx 12 months. Further discussions required at this stage.
10. AOB: KM requested a contact in SSSL to assist with WW1 Centenary celebrations.
KM handed information to Councillor GN who will find the appropriate contact in
SSSL. KM also handed over information to GN to hand out to French members on the
coach tomorrow. There was also a brief discussion about holding a car boot sale in
Porthcawl to raise funds just as SSSL does.


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The Lutheran High School of Milwaukee was a Lutheran high school operated by congregations of the Missouri and Wisconsin synods in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, area from 1903 to 1955. Started in an unused classroom of Immanuel Lutheran School with 18 students, it moved in 1904 to the former site of the Wisconsin Synod's seminary at 13th and Vine streets. Enrollment increased to 340 in 1929 and led to construction of additional buildings at the site. The Great Depression caused enrollment to decline to 265 in 1938, but with the end of the depression, enrollment steadily increased to 848 in 1948. Plans were initiated to build a larger school at a new site, but doctrinal differences between the two synods resulted in the decision for each synod to build its own separate high school and dissolve the joint operation. The Missouri Synod congregations opened Milwaukee Lutheran High School in September 1955, while the Wisconsin Synod congregations used the old campus for their school, Wisconsin Lutheran High School, until their new building opened in September 1959. The enrollment in the final year of joint operation, 1954–1955, was over 1,100. Both of the successor schools consider 1903 to be their founding date.

History

Beginnings
In 1902, Pastor August Pieper of St. Marcus Lutheran Church in Milwaukee proposed establishing a high school for Lutherans at a pastoral conference of the Wisconsin Synod, but the immediate reaction was discouraging. However, two of the pastors in attendance became supporters and recruited two like-minded Lutheran businessmen to form the Evangelical Lutheran High School Association in July 1903 and solicit for additional members.

In September 1903, Milwaukee Evangelical Lutheran Akademie for girls was opened in an unused classroom of Immanuel Lutheran Church's grade school building on the southeast corner of North Avenue and Twelfth Street. The high school used volunteer instructors consisting of teachers from the local Lutheran grade schools, pastors, pastors' wives, and Pieper (who had become a professor at the Wisconsin Synod seminary), and was not officially under the control of the High School Association. The first class consisted of 18 girls from Milwaukee and the surrounding area. A separate evening school for boys, using a separate faculty and curriculum, was opened that same year.

The first year of the high school ended on Palm Sunday because that was when eighth grade pupils in the local Lutheran grade schools were confirmed, and the second year of the high school began immediately after Easter 1904; the start of the school year was changed to September in 1909. To accommodate the second class, a room across the street from Immanuel's school was rented. At this time the High School Association formally took over operation of the high school. Recognizing that more space would be needed, it rented the frame building at 13th and Vine streets that had formerly housed the Wisconsin Synod seminary. The fall 1904 semester opened in the new location with 48 students, of which 10 were male, thereby making the high school co-educational.

The old seminary building was quickly outgrown and the association decided to build a new school on the same  site, which they had by then purchased. The new brick building was dedicated in the autumn of 1908 and contained three regular classrooms and several other rooms, allowing for an enrollment of about 150. The cost of the land and the new building, along with a director's home on the same site, was about $40,000. The school faced financial difficulties during the next decade, and in September 1914, still owed $23,700 on the debt incurred to build the new school building.

Growth and Depression
In 1918, ownership of the school and its property, along with debt that in 1921 amounted to $12,000, passed from the association to the Evangelical Lutheran High School Conference. The conference consisted of a group of 18 congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference, whereas the association had consisted of individual Lutherans. It was hoped that the direct congregational support would stabilize the financial situation.

In 1921, enrollment jumped from 128 to 170, severely overcrowding the school. In January 1922, The conference approved plans to build a large addition and borrowed $32,000 to start construction immediately while fundraising was conducted. Enrollment increased to 209 in September of that year, and the contractors was pressed to finish construction. The addition was dedicated on June 10, 1923 and cost $50,199.35. It contained three classrooms, offices, an assembly hall, and a new heating plant. In 1926–1927, a frame gymnasium measuring  long and  wide was also constructed.

From 1908 to 1920, the faculty consisted of three full-time permanent teachers plus several part-timers. A fourth full-time teacher was added in November 1920, and a fifth in October 1922. By the 1927–1928 school year, faculty staffing had increased to 12, of which eight were full time instructors. Enrollment had also increased to 327 in 1928.

The continual increase in enrollment again led to overcrowding. Several solutions were considered: transferring one class to the south side of Milwaukee, thereby establishing a second Lutheran high school; rebuilding the assembly hall; or finding classrooms elsewhere in the neighborhood. All three were rejected as unfeasible. In October 1927, Herman Feihube of Immanuel Lutheran Church offered to build a north wing to the existing facility provided that the congregations of the conference would liquidate the existing debt. By January 1928, the congregations had promised $23.000, and that spring, construction began. On September 30, 1928, the new wing was dedicated, providing two regular classrooms, a science room, and a chemistry/physics lab. The wing also contained the school's first cafeteria, lunchroom, and bookstore. By October 1928, the total debt had been reduced to $19,425.

Enrollment increased to 340 in September 1929, leading again to consideration of a second high school, but the Great Depression led to enrollment declines thereafter, reaching a low of 265 in 1938. Faculty salaries were reduced, and sometimes delayed. Nevertheless, the high school received state accreditation from the University of Wisconsin in 1937.

Post-Depression growth
The end of the Depression led to increasing enrollment: 305 in 1939, 359 in 1940, 408 in 1941, 509 in 1942, 635 in 1943, 713 in 1944, 803 in 1945, and 848 in 1946. To handle the increase, the gymnasium was converted into four classrooms, and physical training and some athletics were transferred to the Lutheran Center, which was a mile away. Then two temporary long barracks were built next to the existing buildings, providing six classrooms. The school schedule was rearranged to allow for two, and later, three, lunch periods. Two classrooms in the main building were used to provide a larger faculty room (the faculty having grown to 37 full- and part-time teachers), more office space and a library. Nevertheless, it was necessary run the school day in shifts starting at 7:00 am and ending at 5:30 pm to handle the numbers.

At the April 16, 1943, meeting of the Lutheran High School Conference, three options for handling the increased enrollment were discussed. The first was to remodel and expand on the current site. The second was to relocate and build an entire new school. The third was to acquire property and build the first phase of a new high school. The second option was adopted. In June 1946, the conference recommended the purchase of a  site on Story Parkway, but the purchase was not completed because the city's planned expressway system would make the site unusable for a high school. In November 1948, the conference authorized the board of directors to find a new site and proceed with the building program.

Division
About the same time that the need for a new high school had become a priority, doctrinal differences between the Missouri and Wisconsin synods were surfacing. These differences would eventually lead to the Wisconsin Synod to leave the Synodical Conference, but more immediately they made the pastors of the Wisconsin Synod congregations in the Lutheran High School Conference reluctant to support a building program for a joint high school. After much discussion, the conference decided on December 11, 1951, that the best solution would be to divide into two associations, one for each synod, that would each build a new school.

Twenty-seven Missouri Synod congregations formed "The Lutheran High School Association of Greater Milwaukee" on January 23, 1952. The association obtained approximately  of land at 97th Street and West Grantosa Drive for the new Milwaukee Lutheran High School. The cost was projected to be about $2 million, and pledges for that amount were raised by June 1953. Ground was broken on August 22, 1954, and construction of the main building was sufficiently complete to accept students on September 12, 1955, on which date 806 students and 27 faculty members entered the facility. By May 1956, the music rooms and the gymnasium with its swimming pool had been completed, and the formal dedication occurred during the senior graduation ceremonies on May 6.

The Wisconsin Synod congregations formed "The Wisconsin Lutheran High School Convention" also in 1952. The convention conducted a study that found that 60% of Wisconsin Synod members lived north of the Menomonee Valley and 40% lived south of it. This meant that either one high school in the middle of the city or both north and south high schools would be needed. Accepting a donation of acreage north of Capitol Drive at about 100th Street would have required the latter option, so the offer was rejected and the convention looked for land in the middle of the city. Eventually the convention obtained  on Glenview Drive near Blue Mound Road. The Wisconsin Lutheran High School facility, including equipment, cost $2.25 million and was dedicated on September 21, 1959. Until then the convention rented the old Lutheran High School facility after the departure of the Missouri Synod contingent.

The old high school was subsequently sold to the city of Milwaukee, who built a fire station there, and the proceeds were divided equally between the two groups. Enrollment during the final school year (1954-1955) of the jointly-operated Lutheran High School was over 1,100.

Athletics
Although students of Lutheran High School had played in the Lutheran Young Men's Baseball League starting in 1910, the team was not sponsored by the school. In 1920–1923, alumni formed a basketball team that played in the Lutheran League, leading to the school formally sponsoring a boys' basketball team in 1924–1925, and both boys' and girls' teams starting in the fall of 1925. In 1940, Lutheran was a founding member of the Wisconsin Prep Conference. That conference disbanded in 1953 and was replaced by the Midwest Prep Conference.

Besides basketball, the school offered football from 1929 to 1938, initiating it again in 1945. Baseball was added in 1945. A track team had also been fielded by 1955.

Notable alumni

 Harvey Kuenn, former player and manager, Major League Baseball
 Edgar E. Lien, Wisconsin State Assemblyman

Footnotes

References

 The first section of the book (pp. 3–28) is a reprint of  the article of the same name published in two parts in Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 33 (4), January 1961, and 34 (1), April 1961.

High schools in Milwaukee
1903 establishments in Wisconsin
1955 disestablishments in Wisconsin
Educational institutions established in 1903
Educational institutions disestablished in 1955
Defunct Lutheran schools
Private high schools in Wisconsin
Secondary schools affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Secondary schools affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
Defunct Christian schools in the United States

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From Di Ellis, ARA Chairman:
"It was with great sadness that the ARA learnt of the sudden and tragic death of Scott Rennie on Friday 6th March.
Scott was a talented and committed young rower who had represented Great Britain at both European and World University level. As a student of Imperial College he won a Silver medal in the IC 4- in Brive and narrowly missed out on a Bronze at the World University Championships in Belgrade last summer.
He will be sadly missed by all who coached and rowed with him. Our sincere condolences to his family, to all his friends at Molesey Boat Club, Imperial College and the rowing community."
Friends of Scott may like to go to the Molesey Boat Club website where there are further tributes.


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Flying Carpets, Flying Wings The Biography of Moye W. Stephens
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Aviation history documents the Flying Carpets, Flying Wings book as the first factual narrative of a world flight. It is more than just a biography about the pilot Moye W. Stephens, however. It is about his friends and the strength of their bonds.
Pilot Stephens
Moye earned his pilot license at Rogers and Clover Fields in 1924. Eddie Bellande taught him to fly. Flying jobs during college kept him in the cockpit. Maddux Airlines hired him as a captain for their Ford trimotors. Following that, he transitioned to Transcontinental Airlines and TWA. Moye promoted Lockheed's Electra after the world flight. In 1939, he helped found Northrop Corporation. Besides being a member of the board, he flew as a prototype test pilot.
The World Flight Makes Aviation History
Moye received a call from adventure author Richard Halliburton in 1930. He wanted Moye to fly him around the world. Moye agreed and selected a Stearman C -3B for the journey. The flight took them to Timbuctoo, Mt. Everest, and Borneo. They gave rides to princesses and the king of headhunters. Eighteen months after departing Grand Central Airport, they returned from an accident-free world journey.
As in all Little Buttes aviation history books, there are loads of images to highlight the factual text. Paperback, 350 pages.


So, I walked into wild horse country thinking that I was on a tourist trip; confirming what I already knew. I could not have been more blind. I could not have been more wrong. They were much, much more than I had ever imagined. I thought I was ready, but what I saw literally blew me away. I have worked on thousands of horses, all over the world. I spent six years of my life in the saddle from daylight till dark. I've had the privilege of working on some of the finest horses, for the finest horsemen in the world. Understand that after two minutes with the wild ones, I knew that I had never seen a true horse. I literally had no idea of their potential.
Ivy and I observed, videoed, and photographed at least sixty horses. All of them, from the foals to the aged horses moved effortlessly and efficiently across this unbelievably harsh terrain. They were doing collected, extended trots across this obstacle course that would shame the best show ring work of any dressage horse, with their tail high in the air and their heads cocked over their shoulder looking at us!!! I have never known a horse I would attempt to ride in this terrain. We had to literally watch every step. On the third day we got a half inch of snow (as if we weren't having a difficult time already). We could barely walk at all. It was exactly like trying to walk in a slimy, rocky stream bed. The movement of the horses was not affected by the slippery dusting of snow on the rocks. In fact, they got around much better than the mule deer and the pronghorns. The only animal I saw that rivaled the pristine fluidity of their movement was a lone coyote. The entire time we were there, we did not see a limp, or even a "give" to any rock, or a single lame horse and not one chip or split in any of their hooves. It was an unbelievable sight.
These horses were all visions of health, but this soon after the snow melt, they should look their worse, I would think. I can't wait to see the same horses in the summertime. I will do that, too.
One day, we took a road trip to a BLM holding facility. Some of the horses there had arrived from the wild only six weeks ago. We were eager for the opportunity to get some close-up photos of them, but they were not even remotely similar to their brothers and sisters in the wild. The care of the horses at the facility was great by domestic standards. They were kept in herds, with clean, dry, hard packed footing, and were fed free choice grass hay. They had "plenty" of room and reason to move. In spite of this, the glow, the vigor, the energy and the startling health was gone, and so were the perfect hooves………. After only six weeks of domestication in what I would've considered a "natural boarding" situation, the spell was broken. There were nice horses there, don't get me wrong, but they were only shadows of their former selves. The magic was gone. This proved to me beyond all doubt that these "magical creatures" are not a "super breed" or a separate, genetically selected species. It is the diet, the environment and the movement alone that makes them so special.
Thanks so much to Pete and Ivy for taking the time to write about their experiences with Mustangs in the wild. As I digested the account, the stories I've read about Dr. Joel Wallach's research for zoos and wild animal parks catapulted to the surface, because it was the very same story. A tiger would come in from the wild looking robust, healthy and strong but in a very few short weeks he would be just like the horses Pete and Ivy saw at the BLM facility. Listless, lifeless, without the glow, the energy, the magic. And gone was his healthy robust immune system.
After thousands of before-and-after blood tests and some 17,000 autopsies Dr. Wallach's results were always the same. The animals came in loaded with minerals in their systems but after being cooped up and placed onto domestically grown feed it took only a short time for their bodies to have very few if any minerals left. In the wild, where man has never planted, pillaged, and plundered, the essential minerals still exist in the soils because the plants and animals all eventually return their minerals to the soil, one way or another. The bodies of all animals, including humans, are designed to have access to those minerals in order for the bodies to work as they are genetically designed to work. And when the minerals are taken away, things change for the worse.
This is why the horses at the BLM facility were as Pete and Ivy saw them. In most zoos and wild animal parks the problem has been solved. Dr. Wallach and his associates have restored these exotic animals to good health with robust immune systems and removed over 900 diseases from their lives by placing the minerals that they once had in the wild into their feed. A few large farmers are now using these minerals on their crops and in the feed of their dairy and beef cattle, sheep, chickens, pigs, goats, etc. But, still, so few understand the concept and the logic involved. Especially in the horse world. And like so many things that we've discovered about horses, when all the noise is removed from the subject, the answers are really not rocket science. They are pretty simple. Let the horses live like horses are genetically designed to live, and eat like they are genetically designed to eat. Begin every relationship with trust offered freely by the will of the horse. And ensure that they are getting their 71 essential minerals, either through supplementation for the horses, or by introducing the minerals to the pastures and/or the hay fields. Do all this and you will have very healthy, happy, and willing partners who will never stop trying for you.


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On the Job Tales From the Trenches
By Dave LaMontaine
During a recent conversation between Executive Director Orlowski and myself, we were lamenting the lack of interest of deputy sheriffs' in politics. I had previously discussed the situation we had in Monroe County, and Larry asked me to tell the story.
Well friends, I do believe it is a story worth telling. It has been over three years now since the Monroe County Deputy Sheriff's Association was forced to "go to war" to save jobs for deputies. At the time, our association had an on-again off-again political relationship with some local politicians. We had three county commissioners out of nine who were friendly to our needs. The then Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, in an unprecedented move, basically demanded millions of dollars in budget cuts from the sheriff. The sheriff advised that he would have to cut personnel in order to meet the unrealistic demands of the chairman.
I was the VP of the MCDSA at the time, and took the lead in the defense of these jobs. At the time, we had no political operation, no PAC, and no previous experience in this field. What we did have was an active and supportive membership, and an executive board that was willing to do whatever it took to save these jobs.
Monroe County is a largely rural community, basically split 50-50 democrats and republicans. Most folks here are conservative in nature and support the police. The Sheriff's Office handles 90% of the calls for police service in the county, and calls for service were on the rise, along with the population.
The MCDSA engaged in a multi-media campaign to educate the community to our plight. The first thing we did was to establish a website. The thought behind that was that everything we did would reference the web site, where it would be relatively cheap to disseminate information. Next we made approximately 10 signs that read, "stop deputy layoffs" "call your commissioner". At the bottom of the sign was our website address. On the website was the photograph, name and phone number of each Commissioner. Voicemail boxes filled. We launched an ad campaign in the local newspaper. We included facts, figures, staffing levels, calls for service etc. Every time there was a County Commissioner meeting, we were there. Every time there was an opportunity for public comment, we spoke. Soon letters to the editor began, and not only were we writing letters, public support began to swell in our favor. Ultimately, we were able to avert any lay-offs.
The next step was to target those on our County Board who were behind the cuts. The Monroe County Deputy Sheriff's Association actively sought out candidates to run against those who sought to do us harm. We were able to find five candidates to run for seats. One of our opposition passed away, and another chose not to run if he was going to have to expend money to do it. Each candidate had at least one deputy sheriff on his or her campaign committee. We held a fundraiser, opened a PAC and gave money to candidates.
We did not win all those seats, but we won three. We also tied a 10-year incumbent in the primary and lost that race by pulling a name out of a coffee can. We were able to switch the tide from three in our favor to six in our favor. This was unprecedented.
The last stage of the battle was contract negotiations. Often overlooked, it was never our intent to use the relationships we formed with our board for monetary gain. The opposition could not wait for us to "cash in" with the new commissioners. Instead our requests were in line with comparables, and negotiations went very smoothly.
Many of us gave up our summer to campaign for those candidates we picked to run. Many of us spent our own money attending their fundraisers, all of it absolutely necessary.
As President of the MCDSA now, I often speak about what we did here, and I still get guys who say "I hate politics." Well, so do most people. Politics is all about relationships. We have formed many over the years, some of those still bear fruit for our association. I once heard someone say that we plant the seed today so future generations can enjoy the shade. That is how I see the necessary involvement in politics of Deputy Sheriffs' Associations. We cannot always depend on excellent organizations like DSAM, POAM and GCSI to do all the heavy lifting for us. Forge those relationships, and you will reap what you sow.
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Dating in China [Part 4]
on November 24, 2016 November 30, 2016 By ZhendeGender
Guy uses Chinese whispers to ask for a date. Remedies for dating in inauspicious circumstances. Women tell true stories of their dating experiences in China.
image from: universia
Back in high school they tell us, "you cannot date anyone, because you have to focus on school." The moment you get admitted to undergrad they're like, "clock's ticking! You have to get married or at least start dating as soon as possible before you become too old."
During my sophomore year, my parents started to introduce all these random guys to me, saying, "my friend has a son who also studies in Nanjing", or "my co-worker's cousin's nephew is from Nanjing and he's studying to be a doctor, do you want to meet him?" I kept saying "no thanks," and "not interested."
But in the end, I think it was junior year, my parents set me up with a guy who was like 29 years old, and I was only 22. This guy was doing a PhD in Australia and he was also from my town. The thing is, he was 29 but he had never dated anyone. For me, that was a huge signal. But my parents liked that about him. My mom said, "Oh my god, he's never dated any girl before, that's really good!" I thought there must be something wrong with him but my mom loved it. He'd been living in Australia for a couple of years, so it just didn't make any sense to me. I thought maybe he was gay and couldn't tell anyone.
In high school, and in university, I was always a top student. And typically, Chinese guys like girls who are top students, so a lot of guys would hit on me. But the way they did it! They would just tell others they like me, and tell people to ask me out. Only after graduation would they actually talk to me, telling me how much they liked me. I told them to shut up. This guy was exactly like that.
I went out with him on one blind date and I didn't dislike him, so we went on two or three more dates and my mom loved him. I teased my mom saying, "why don't you go marry him?" His whole family liked me too. But the thing is, he was such a mommy's boy. He would tell every single detail of our date to his mom, even what I said, every single sentence, he would tell his mom.
On my end, whenever my mom asked how the date went, I would only say, "it was fine." "What did you guys do?" mom asked, "talk" I replied. "What did you talk about?" "I don't remember," I told her. But on his end, he told his mom every single thing.
There was another problem. Whenever this guy wanted to ask me out, he could have wechatted me, messaged me, or called me. But he didn't. He would first tell his mom, who told her sister, who told her cousin, who knows my cousin, who told my aunt, who told my mom, who would tell me. The families are distantly connected, and that's how he asked me out on a date. This happened twice or three times. I hated it. I hate guys who can't take the initiative. I stopped seeing him.
After that my aunt kept trying to set me up. I only ever said no. Whenever I said no, she would say, "you're so picky, and you're already 25 years old. If you keep saying 'no' like that, you will be single forever." Actually it was not just my aunt; it was my mother, and my grandparents on both sides, and my cousins, my parents' cousins, even my parents' friends, and their coworkers, people I barely know. Every time, they would say, "When are you going to start dating? You don't want to be leftover forever!"
I really hate that phrase, 'leftover woman'. But I'd rather be single and stay happy.
– People's Republic of China, 25
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When I was studying in Beijing, I planned to spend a few days at Harbin ice festival with a guy I was dating. We weren't even officially dating, but we didn't know how to say, 'we're just sleeping together' in Chinese. We went just before Chinese New Year, we were in our early twenties and having fun discovering China one day at a time.
When I told my boss my holiday plans, she told me there were rules: I must not let moonlight touch my skin. I had to wear red underwear on the night of the spring festival. "Do you have red underwear?" she asked. "Do you know where to buy some? Do you need my help?"
Once we'd made it to the northern city of Harbin for the ice festival, wrapped up in thick clothing and prepared for temperatures of -11 °F, we spent time chatting to locals. One day we met a group of local men, who praised our Chinese ability and asked a lot of questions about us. They asked the guy I was dating whether I was his girlfriend. He said "yes", telling a little white lie in an attempt to avoid further clarification. This led to a bunch more questions: "why aren't you married? How old are you? When are you getting married? You should get married this year."
When we finally got a word in edgeways, we said "we're both 24." This demanded intervention: "when exactly did we turn 24?" We were both currently 23 and would turn 24 in the coming year. This was our zodiac year, the year of the Yang.
This launched a tirade of angry warnings: "you cannot get married this year!" Suddenly, we found ourselves in dangerous territory: your zodiac year is supposed to be unlucky, and you have to do as much as you can to counter your fate and appease the ancestors. Hence wearing red underwear on the night of spring festival. One man shouted at us: "curse on both your families!" Apparently, if we got married and had a child that year, our family would be cursed.
My date turned to me, taking my mittened hand gently in his own. "If I can make one promise to you this year, it's that I will ask you to marry me." Under the circumstances, it was the most romantic thing anyone had ever said to me.
– United States of America, 27
Previous instalments:
Learning that an ex is married. Walking away from a Tinder date. Getting set up by your boyfriend. [part 1]
Humiliation by comedy in a Beijing bar. Parents say, "break up with him" because boyfriend is not Chinese. [part 2]
A Chinese first boyfriend who ruined dating for years. Suffering through sleep apnea on a first date. Offered money for sex with a stranger. [part 3]
Date says more attractive with clothes on. Does an open relationship translate to open dates? Getting an I.O.U. for accepting a drink. [part 5]
These stories are shared by the women who experienced them in their own words. All stories took place in Beijing, China, unless otherwise stated. Identities are kept secret out of respect for the individuals in the stories.
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A widely used surgical procedure in which cement is used to fortify cracks in the spine is no better than a sham operation, two groups of researchers independently reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings shocked clinicians because the procedure, first introduced in the early 1990s, is now widely accepted and assumed to be very effective at relieving pain and improving mobility. About 80,000 such procedures, called vertebroplasties, are performed in the United States each year, primarily in the elderly. The total has doubled in the last six years.
The spinal cracks typically are a result of thinning of the bones caused by osteoporosis. The operation typically costs as much as $3,000, although Medicare pays only about two-thirds that amount.
The procedure is so widely accepted that researchers had a hard time enrolling patients in the clinical trial because patients feared being placed in the placebo group.
The findings come at a time when President Obama has been calling for increased use of comparative effectiveness research, in which medical procedures are tested against one another to determine which is best or most cost-effective. The findings should provide powerful support for increased testing, Dr. James N. Weinstein of Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., wrote in an editorial accompanying the reports.
In one of the new studies, supported primarily by the National Institutes of Health, Dr. David F. Kallmes of the Mayo Clinic -- one of the originators of the procedure -- and his colleagues enrolled 131 patients; 68 received a vertebroplasty, and 61 received a sham procedure in which the back was numbed, surgeons pressed on it as if they were injecting cement, and the patients were exposed to the distinctive odor of the cement.
Both groups of patients reported a significant reduction in pain and improvements in quality of life and functional status during the follow-up period.
Epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder of Monash University in Australia and her colleagues performed a similar study on 71 patients, with identical results. That study was funded by the Australian government and an American company that manufactures the cement. Buchbinder received a grant from the company for conducting the study.
Kallmes suspects that the improvement in pain may have come from prolonged effects from the drugs that were used to numb the back in both groups. He is beginning a second trial to test the benefits of such numbing.
It is also possible that many or all of the benefits derive from a placebo effect -- simply from patients' perceptions that something is being done for them.
Despite the disappointing findings, surgeons are unlikely to stop performing the procedure any time soon because it does relieve pain, even if it is through a placebo effect, said Dr. Ty Thaiyananthan, a spinal surgeon at Chapman Medical Center in Orange.
"But it changes the way we will do an informed consent," he said, because patients must now be told about the similar benefits of sham surgery.


Today we published AppBeat 1.3.0 which implements support for third-party notification providers (from Account / Integrations). We are also happy to announce that first provider to be implemented in AppBeat is PagerDuty (available to all users, even those on Free Plan).
Congratulations! You have successfully integrated your PagerDuty service! From now on, when your service fails, you will automatically receive incident report directly to your PagerDuty!
We will soon add support for more third party incident management tools. Stay tuned!


Each new year breeds new resolutions, new endeavors, and new expectations.
It's easy to get swept up into the "new year, new me" mania. Packed gyms, new planners, trying out new apps to organize your digital life. For many, this passes, only a fleeting moment that's usually long gone by the end of February and definitely by March. Now in April, where do we go next?
For creatives and entrepreneurs, inspiration isn't just some resolution that we make with friends over cocktails. It's the crux of what we do. It's what moves us, day by day. It's how we keep our businesses afloat.
But what if you are uninspired? What if you cannot see your goals coming to fruition? What do you do when you feel your business goals are out of reach?
For some, it seems less about resolutions and more about willpower. But willpower has a limited battery life. So instead of questioning your self-determination, question the clarity of your goals.
When you're feeling uninspired, stuck, or frustrated - that's when you need to get extremely clear on your goals.
When you have clarity, you'll find inspiration everywhere. Clarity helps you see the path necessary to take your goals from a vision to execution. When your vision is crystal clear, you'll know exactly what you need to do. Your new goal, for now, if you feel stuck: Develop a real, tangible vision that you can absolutely execute.
But what's real vision? Start by focusing on one thing.
Since the start of the year, I haven't been blogging as much as I normally would because I wanted to get a clear focus on the trajectory of my business. As a blogger who brings in revenue through advertising and partnerships, I'm looking to take things to the next level. I have a vision, I revamped my business plan, but I was missing the one thing that I need to focus on to get to the next level of success. And I finally found it.
I must send out one email, once a day, to the subscribers of my newsletter. No matter what is going on with my day, even if I'm feeling uninspired, bored, or too busy, my one thing is sending out my email to my subscription list. This is a lesson I picked up from reading The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, and it's been a game changer for me.
Recently I was talking to my friend who just launched an online store. She was lamenting about how she feels uninspired and stuck. Her stress centered around creating enough fresh content for her blog. She was convinced she needed editors, a content manager, and writers to make it work. I pointed out that she was looking to hire an entire staff to pursue a vision she wasn't even clear on yet. I told her to find her one thing.
Since she just launched her shop, which should bring in more revenue than her blog, I suggested that her one thing could be promoting her store via social media. That's a goal with clarity and purpose. No matter what, her goal is to promote her online store with a tweet, an Instagram video, a Facebook post, or an email each day. She only needs to focus on promotion.
Finding the place where your vision and one thing meet is the ultimate sweet spot. It's the intersection of purpose, priority, and productivity. It will determine your success. And once you have your goals in place, trust your trajectory!
Sometimes I'll get upset that I'm not at the level of success I strive for yet. I get angry and jealous at others who are seemingly more successful than me.
So often as creatives and business owners, we look at the destination of our dreams and we lose sight of the fact that success is not the destination, but the journey.
I'm learning that success means being appropriate for each moment of my life. Being appropriate means living in the present and enjoying every day. I strive to do the best with each day that I face. I've stopped judging the process and I'm learning to enjoy the little victories. The little victories are beautiful and they should be acknowledged.
In the past, I'd look at other bloggers sitting front row at a show during Paris Fashion Week in awe, thinking I'd never get to that level. But now I'm here. I am in Paris for Fashion Week, representing my own brand, my own blog, and on my own assignment. And it's sweet.
I don't always get what I want, but I'm learning that the process is what makes a business owner. It's what makes me happy or sad - and at times, uninspired - but I cannot wait until I get a little further on this journey, in my life and my businesses, to step back and look at what I've created.
Being uninspired but full of ideas is a real feeling. But when you get into this feeling that's when you must get clear on your goals and your one thing. Set the goals, be mindful of your goals, do the work, and enjoy your journey. That's what life is really about. Don't look for the end game, be a starting player now. Get busy.