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Season's First Rainfall Washes Pollutants Into Tel Aviv's Yarkon River
Head of the Yarkon River Authority says impact of pollutants more pronounced because the season's first rainfall had been particularly heavy.
Walkers yesterday in the Seven Mills area of the Yarkon River, on the border between Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, came across a large number of floating dead fish and white froth in the water, an indication that despite recent cleanup work, the Yarkon is still at great risk of pollution.
The latest incident was the result of last weekend's rains that swept pollutants into the river. The head of the Yarkon River Authority, David Pergament, said fish died and white froth appeared every year after rainfalls, and that this week's incident had been more pronounced because the season's first rainfall had been particularly heavy.
"The first rain washes contaminants from urban areas near the stream into the river," Pergament said. "Since there isn't a lot of water in the river at this time of year, there is nothing to dilute the pollution and it harms the fish, among other things."
Pergament added that the white froth was the result of various cleaning materials, remnants of which could be found near the stream, on roads and on the ground. The first rain had also washed oils, fuels and pesticides into the river, he said.
According to the Hydrological Service, the weekend's rainfall was unusually heavy for September - 11 millimeters in the Tel Aviv area.
Pergament said the long-term solution was to allocate more water to the stream throughout the year, particularly high-quality purified sewage from the purification plants of cities near the stream.
A severe contamination incident, which killed almost all the fish in the Yarkon, struck two years ago, due to industrial waste that flowed into the stream following a fire in the Hod Hasharon industrial zone. Last year, the Yarkon River Authority completed construction of a special biological purification system in Hod Hasharon.
Next week, the authority will officially dedicate pedestrian bridges in the eastern part of the stream.
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KRONACH, Germany -- German consumer electronics company Loewe Opta GmbH, has announced plans to further expand a collaboration agreement with Japanese liquid crystal display (LCD) maker, Sharp Corporation for the development and supply of LCD TVs to the European market.
The companies have already been sharing information of European broadcasting technology and marketing and now plan to further extend their agreement by developing products for the thin-profile, flat TV market.
Through the companies' strategy to combine Sharp's expertise in CD display and LCD TV development with Loewe's home cinema and multimedia solutions, they aim to boost competitiveness within the European market through shortening time to market for new products.
"We decided to strengthen ties with Loewe because it provides consumers with high-picture quality TVs," said Toshishige Hamano, corporate senior executive director at Sharp.
Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will jointly develop next generation LCD TVs and supply LCD TV modules with plans to introduce new models into Europe by 2004.
Loewe and Sharp also plan to introduce high-end platforms that correspond to European digital broadcasts. Based on the joint development, both companies intend to develop next-generation large-screen digital LCD TVs, and sell these under their own brand name by 2005.
Sharp said it will supply a large-screen LCD TV module and start with 30-inch and-larger wide-format LCD TV modules for Loewe, which will become the main model in the European market.
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Discussion in 'Racing' started by Anders Green, Sep 26, 2012.
Paid for Deluxe...figured the rate's a Christmas gift
Entry fee paid .
I've just paid up. The annual migration south for a weekend of madness in the sand hills.
I don't remember this stuff from one year to the next. Is my 450 in the medium class? I didn't find any details on the bike classes in the document.
Should be Dakar class, oh beastly one.
Hope the set prices are accurate. I paid for the delux package.
I see my name on the entry list, but not my bike. Is the bike entry manually entered by NASA?
Anders has to go in and manually update the bulk of all of this stuff we enter, so it takes a little time between when it's entered and when it shows up. Best practice is to upload as much data as you can, and check back in a few weeks. And drink a lot.
We have been watering down the course for y'all about once a week. It should be good and soft by March..
That's great news, the damp sand was the most fun to ride on and the traction was excellent. Not many have had the pleasure to ride in the very dry, very deep sand. My poor 400 was not happy in the 3' deep sand ruts
Boats, spoon and I rode the shore of the Hudson during low tide. The wet sand was awesome.
Yea, sliding through the corners under power was a blast!!!
The year that pic was taken was the best by far, just the right amount of moisture but the year before was too much. When they get too much rain, the clay comes out and it's really slippery. That year, I rode the SE and it was a handful:eek1 When it's dry, the bike is really busy and you fight the ruts.
No matter what, it's a great time!
Happy HOlidays, guys
Whatever is in the Supp Regs is what's official. Nothing else is official. Folks will be credited for whatever they actually paid for.
You can add your bike on the 'Register' tab... scroll down a bit and you'll see 'Add a race vehicle'. Then it will show up the next time I update the list. :)
Merry Christmas everyone!
So how do I bring Supp Reg and payment reciept to one place? I imagine there was an error in the payment system - but I was looking for delux package which is reflected in payment reciept from Lina Racing - but now price won't match Supp Regs. Probably I'm not alone with this.
Anders, can this be fixed by paying difference via check or online?
Thank you,
Oh, just mail a check (all details for this in supp regs) for the difference and put "deluxe upgrade' in the memo. I've already switched the prices in the payment system. Easy peasy. :-D
The first time in three years I won't be at sandblast and you get a deluxe room?
"deluxe" is prepayment of shake down. I'll be staying at the luxurious Econo lodge.
Looking forward to riding with you again!
Signed up, paid, mailed the NASA stuff today. Getting closer!
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In the beginning
This will be my first blog entry, even though I have been flying for a few months now. This post will discuss some of how I got into the hobby.
It happened when I was looking on HobbyTron for an airsoft gun gift to give my son for his birthday. While perusing the site I came across their r/c helicopters and a small seed was planted. After ordering the gift, I revisited the site and that seed grew into a small plant. I bought what I thought was a decent copter, and one I thought was mid price. I ended up with a DH9104. I had problems from the get go and barely touch the thing now.
So, I did a Google search for r/c forums and found this place. Having previous experience with message boards getting me through my previous hobby of saltwater aquariums I knew this would be a place I could find help, answers to my questions, and advice I wouldn't be able to find anywhere else.
When my tax return came in this year I visited my local hobby store and left with a Blade CX2 coaxial helicopter.
I had no idea what I was doing and trying to learn to fly in my dining room was not the best choice. I went through more than my fair share of stock blades before making certain changes to the heli with upgraded aluminum parts and hardened blades. Eventually I cleaned my garage out and had enough room to really start learning how to fly this thing.
To date, due mostly to my ego, I have had to replace a few inner and outer shafts and gears. But I am learning and using what I know to take it easy and not get too confident.
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I'm currently building a new data structures that will be used in monte carlo generators (and so will be constructed several milion times) and I'm wondering what's the best way (computer-speed-wise) to pass the data to the constructor.
I am currently doing it using references and passing arrays as pointers like this:
I'm assuming that since using referencies has no need to create a temporary memory slot it's more efficient (if there is a better way, I'm all ears).Code:class particle{ public: particle(double *ar,int &id):IDup(id){ for (int i=0;i<5;++i) Pup[i]=ar[i]; } int IDup; double Pup[5]; };
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Make sure you boot recovery, remove back cover, plug in phone then pull battery when it says.
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Commands' ongoing success in his homeland has seen him selected to shuttle to Japan, and there is every reason to believe that this super-consistent young stallion will prove as effective in getting good winners there as he has proved himself to be in Australia.
It is no surprise that Commands has proved himself to be such a good stallion because he was a very good racehorse – and it was no surprise that he proved himself to be a very good racehorse, because that is exactly what he was bred to be. A son of the hugely influential Danehill, Commands is from the British-bred mare Cotehele House, a tremendous broodmare who hails from a family which has done extremely well in Europe and even better in Australasia.
Cotehele House is a daughter of Eight Carat who, although an undistinguished racehorse herself, was a half-sister to the European champion sprinter Habibti. Furthermore, Klairessa, the dam of Eight Carat and Habibti, was a full-sister to the King's Stand Stakes winner D'Urberville. On the basis of this great pedigree, Eight Carat was exported down under while still a young mare and she enjoyed such immediate success that her daughter Cotehele House followed her. All told, Eight Carat bred five Group One winners while residing in New Zealand (Octagonal, Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and Marquise) as well as becoming ancestress of the likes of the Group One winners Viscount, Tristalove, Viking Ruler, De Beers and Shower Of Roses.
Cotehele House's breeding career in Australasia proved nearly as fruitful as that of her dam. One of her early foals was the winning Imposing filly Theme Song, who would become the dam of the NZ Group One-winning Danehill filly Emerald Dream. Before Emerald Dream was bred, though, Cotehele House herself visited Danehill in his first season and the result was the five-time Group One winner Danewin, champion three-year-old of Australia in 1994/'95. Unsurprisingly Cotehele House went back to Danehill in 1995 – and Commands was the result.
Commands achieved the rare feat of winning at weight-for-age as a two-year-old, taking the Group Three Missile Stakes at Rosehill over 1100m in the last week of the season, which was his third win from four starts as a juvenile. That preparation continued into the spring of his three-year-old season and a most rewarding preparation it was too, culminating in a close third in one of the greatest ever runnings of the Caulfield Guineas, in which he was narrowly beaten by Redoute's Choice and Testa Rossa, with another future star sire, Pins, back in fifth.
In the autumn of his three-year-old season, Commands further emphasized his merit with an agonizingly narrow defeat in Sydney's premier sprint, the Galaxy (Group One) over 1100m at Randwick, in which he was beaten a short half-head by Black Bean, with the likes of Padstow, Toledo, Guineas, Magic Music and Miss Pennymoney in his wake.
A powerful bay horse, Commands thus retired to stud as a very exciting prospect and he certainly has not disappointed. To date he is the sire of four Group One winners. His first scorer at the highest level was his first-crop son Undue, a top-class sprinter whose victories include the Doomben 10,000 (1350m) at Doomben and the Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield. From his second crop came Paratroopers, winner of the All-Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick. Next in line came Russeting, winner last season of the Tattersall's Winter Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm, while his next crop contained Purple, twice a winner last season at the highest level courtesy of her victories in the Storm Queen Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill and the Queensland Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm.
Impressive though this haul of Group One victories may be, it does not really quite do justice to Commands' position in the Australian stallion ranks. He is as much synonymous for the sheer volume of good winners which he sires as he is for the cream of any particular crop. It is not an oversimplification to say that he just keeps coming up with city winners, week in and week out, all over Australia. Last season he finished sixth in the General Sires' Table with progeny earnings of over $6.7 million and seventh in terms of number of individual stakes winners sired (eight), but second by individual winners (124) and second by races won (222 – only just behind Encosta De Lago's total of 227, and that despite being represented by 53 fewer individual runners than Encosta De Lago).
One could hardly ask for a more solid record of achievement than that posted by Commands since he retired to stud in 2000. On that basis, and on the basis that his is a pedigree which could hold its head high anywhere in the world, Commands looks sure to succeed in Japan.


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Lipstick organizer DIY
A lot of my DIY projects seem to be born out of necessity. I love how lipstick tubes look standing up (as opposed to tossed in a bucket or something) but if you keep them on top of your dresser, like I do, that poses a problem every time you close a drawer and they all tumble over. So I came up with this little lipstick organizer, and it works like a charm! :D
Materials you'll need: Empty nail polish remover bottles* (you only need the caps), spray paint, the lid from a jar (I used a plastic jar from the craft store), hot glue gun, embellishments (optional)
1. Clean the bottle caps and jar lid, and let them dry. 2. Spray paint all of the caps and lid, and let them dry. 3. Arrange the caps in the lid the way you want them to look, and then glue them down one at a time. 4. (Optional) Add embellishments like ric rac or floral cabochons! :)
*If you don't have already-empty bottles, make sure to dispose of the nail polish remover in a safe, environmentally-friendly way! You can find a local recycling center here.
Giveaway: Custom mermaid necklace! [closed]
I Love Crafty is offering one lucky girl a personalized seashell mermaid necklace! You get to choose the color (pink or gold) the words, and the chain color (gold, blue or pink!)
What you'll win: One personalized necklace!
How to enter: Follow I Love Crafty on facebook.* And leave some way for me to contact you if you win (email, twitter, blog, whatever floats your boat!) Also, you must be a follower of this blog to enter! This is mandatory, too! (And, please, none of this follow-and-leave as soon as the giveaway is over jazz.. that's super rude!)
For additional entries: (leave a separate comment for each entry)
1. Tweet this "I just entered to win a custom mermaid seashell necklace on @kategabrielle's blog http://www.scathingly-brilliant.blogspot.com" (Only counts if you use that exact tweet.)
2. Visit I Love Crafty's etsy shop and let me know what your favorite item is!
1. Tweet this "I just entered to win a custom mermaid seashell necklace on @kategabrielle's blog http://www.scathingly-brilliant.blogspot.com" (Only counts if you use that exact tweet.)
2. Visit I Love Crafty's etsy shop and let me know what your favorite item is!
Winner: Comment #10
*If you don't have facebook, you can still enter by doing one of the additional entries instead :)
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who's laughing meow
Well, my macbook came in the mail yesterday and right now I am using it to type this blog post! yay!! I've decided on Margo for the name after all, and thanks to some super helpful comments on my last post, I'm going to get this pink speck case for her :) Thanks!! :D
This shirt says "Who's laughing meow?" on it (I LOVE a good pun. Extra points if it's a cat pun.) although you can't really see the words since I have it tucked in. I was aiming to do some close up shots but by the time my camera's self-timer had started ticking, I was already entranced by two little fluffballs on my bed. I'm not easily distracted by shiny objects, but put something with fur and whiskers nearby and you'll lose my attention completely.
today is a most exciting day...
...for today, my new laptop arrives in the mail! hooray! I've been sans-laptop for almost a month and I just can't wait to have one again. I want to name it but I'm not sure what yet. I'm leaning towards Margo (after the character from The Good Neighbors) but we'll see. Also I really want a hard case for it/her... does anyone have any recommendations? I'm getting an 11" macbook air. Ideally I'd like a pink case (surprise!) but most of the ones I'm looking at on amazon don't have reviews, so I'm wary.
In other news, how amazing are these leggings?! I'm not usually a huge fan of footless tights/leggings so I tried concealing the fact that they don't have feet by wearing black socks underneath lol. I think it actually worked rather well, though. The key was using really thin socks so it looked sort of seamless. Black tights would probably have worked too!
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wishlist wednesday
Actually, it's just one of many best-wishlist-wednesday-finds-ever, all from an etsy shop called The Science Boutique. My favorite is the Tesla Brooch, but my mind can't even comprehend the amount of awesomeness going on in this store. A close runner-up in the favorites category would be this charm bracelet depicting the evolution illustrations from Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Speaking of my hero, they also have two Carl Sagan brooches and a necklace! Best etsy shop ever? I vote "yes!!!!"
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un deux trois
remixed item: urban outfitters dress from trade with Amber
outfit 1: cardigan - forever 21 | belt - old navy | shoes - blowfish
outfit 2: cardigan - forever 21 | shoes - modcloth | tights - target
outfit 3: cardigan - c/o modcloth | shoes - urbanog
This is one of my favorite dresses... partially because it's so pretty and fits like a glove but mainly because me and Amber got to be friends during this trade *aww* :) But seriously, I wear it quite a bit. It's one of my go-to dresses when I don't feel like spending a lot of time putting an outfit together, because it's so easy to style and always makes me feel put together.
It's funny, I always go back and read the old posts when I do these remixes and in the first one I wrote about having a rough time with my move to Canada (which eventually fell through.) I'm actually going through a bit of a rough patch right now, and reading that post reminded me that no matter what disappointments I'm facing, or how much something may be weighing on my mind day and night, I eventually move on and forget. Not moving to Canada seems like a distant memory now and I don't feel even remotely emotional about it anymore. Eventually the things that seem like colossal failures to me right now will fade, and I'm really glad I was reminded of that today.
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a happy hypatia post
Hypatia doesn't really stand still very often for photos, so I was pretty thrilled to get this one last night. It's like she was posing for me, standing in front of my curtains looking all 70's big-eyed-cat cute and everything. And I thought it would be the perfect picture to use for a little Hypatia update in case anyone is interested in how she's doing!
She had another episode of feline herpes about 1 month ago and I was doing a decent amount of worrying (and an un-decent amount of sleeping) but she's doing really well now! *knock on wood!* I keep track of her weight, and I am SO over-the-moon happy to say that right now she's the heaviest she's been all year! I'm seriously giddy about it. And it's been over a month since her last vet visit-- she is usually in there at least every 2-3 weeks! I know it's not a guarantee that she'll remain healthy but at this moment I'm just so happy! She's acting like her usual playful, sweet self and I couldn't ask for anything more!
I know I definitely walk a fine line between cat lady and crazy cat lady (people who know me would probably say I crossed that line a long time ago) when I do posts like this, but I really wanted to share the good news, especially since I know that Hypatia has a lot of people rooting for her :) Every single time someone online asks me how she's doing, my heart feels so full. xo!
Actually, more like quadruplemint lol! I love mint green so much (can you tell?) but I don't think I ever do head-to-toe, it's usually a touch of mint here.. a touch of mint there. I loved this though, especially with my freshly-dyed pink tips. I'm a sucker for mint and pink.
Dress - h&m | Shoes - c/o BAIT footwear | Tie - flapper girl (custom 26" length)
Cardigan - old navy | Belt - asos
Cardigan - old navy | Belt - asos
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it's still me
Last week as part of my grandmom's birthday celebrations we went to Grounds for Sculpture. It's a natural park/sculpture garden, and it's absolutely beautiful! The last time we were there I was about 10 years old and admission was still free (the fact that they charge now is probably why we haven't been back in so long lol) The highlights for me were the gorgeous gardens (some of them felt positively Alice-in-Wonderland-esque!) and the life-size sculptures of impressionist paintings by J. Seward Johnson (who also founded the park). It was like stepping into a Renoir!
It was sweltering hot, so I had my bangs pinned back and took this rare opportunity to wear shorts (although I still wore tights, but they had a really loose weave so it made me feel more covered-up without being overheated.) I didn't feel like me, I'm so used to wearing dresses lol! But it was a nice change for a day ;)
Me and my grandmom pretending to have a dinner party... it's actually a sculpture! Even the tablecloth is made of bronze (something I forgot momentarily and banged my knee! oops)
Shirt - f21 | Shorts - emerging thoughts | Shoes - Dorothy Perkins
Bag - modcloth | headband and belt - f21 | tights - target | sunglasses - asos
Bag - modcloth | headband and belt - f21 | tights - target | sunglasses - asos
the awkward call for sponsors...
August is the last month for my summer sponsorship rates -- they'll be going back to normal for September so if you're interested snag a spot at the discounted price while you can :) For rates, traffic and statistics, or to purchase an ad, click here! Ads go up as soon as I approve them, unless the size is all filled up, in which case they'll go up as soon as there is an opening! Also, I think the featured slot is currently open for August so ... just saying ;)
Also, you can take 10% off any ad booked before August 1st with code AUG10, and if you purchase 3 months at once you can take 20% off with code 3MONTHS :) Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!
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I haven't done one of these in a while so I thought it was about time.. especially since there are some precious cat photos in this batch that I never got to share here lol! ;D
1. fooling around with embroidery (available here)
2. they are killing me with their cuteness.
3. I taped Creed to a pizza box that I shipped to Millie
4. SUCH a weird cat! seriously.
5. free slurpee day! (July 11)
6. on the way to the beach
7. at the beach ;)
8. new brooches in the shop!
9. my new fantastic pink clock
10. hypatia modeling my new pendants (in the shop here)
11. watermelon nails! :D
12. my unicorn dress (more pictures here)
13. the 4th of july (morningstar fake meat = YUM!)
14. Chloe looking cute, with a dose of "I'm going to kill you."
Scalloped edge purse DIY
I saw this scalloped lace trim at the craft store a while back, and although I was positive I wanted to use it for *something* I had no idea what exactly. Then while sorting through some of my old bags, I stumbled upon this tan one from H&M last year and thought it would make for a fun DIY project! It's so nice to revamp an old item that you completely forgot about! :)
1. Gather your materials. You'll need: A bag, embroidery floss, a needle and scalloped (or something equally pretty) trim. 2. Beginning at the corner of the bag, start to attach the trim. I tried lining up my stitches with the existing stitching on the bag, and I matched the embroidery floss to the color of the thread. 3. If you're using lace, it's easy to just thread the floss through the holes in the trim, for consistent stitches. 4. When you get to a corner, gather the trim a bit as you go along. I didn't do this on my first try and had to take out all of my stitches because when I closed the bag, the lace was way too tight on the corners! I think the gathering makes it look even prettier, too :) When you get to the end, just knot your thread and voila! A brand new bag!
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Reminder for school shots
Attention parents and guardians: Students going into kindergarten and sixth grades need additional shots for school compliance before the first day of the new school year. Kindergartners need their last set of childhood booster shots. Students going into 6th grade need a 'Tdap' shot. Please contact your child's health care provider or the Montezuma County Public Health Office (970-565-3056) for information about specific requirements and appointments.
Colorado law has allowances for exemptions. Contact your child's school nurse for more information.
For Pets' Sake summer wine festival to be held
For Pets' Sake will hold its seventh annual Summer Wine Festival from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, at Cliffrose Garden Center just east of Cortez on U.S. 160. The evening will include wines and beers provided by Smitty's Liquors, along with other cold beverages, yummy appetizers and desserts, music by Redneck Synfuny, and a Silent Auction. Tickets are $25 each or two for $40, and are available now at Cliffrose Gardens and at the door. All proceeds benefit the cats and dogs of Montezuma and Dolores Counties. For more information call 565-PETS.
Fox is SCCC law enforcement coordinator
Diane Fox was recently tapped as Southwest Colorado Community College's new law enforcement academy coordinator.
"I'm really excited about bringing my law enforcement experience and my love of instructing together," said Fox. "I will be working hard to maintain the quality of the program and serve the needs of the community."
In addition to coordinating SCCC's law enforcement academy curriculum and instructors, Fox will also teach classes. She replaces Gini England, who retired as coordinator after six years.
Fox worked for the Cortez Police Department for 20 years in patrol, investigations, narcotics, schools and dispatcher. She also served two years as community corrections officer in the Mesa County Sheriff's office in Grand Junction.
Fox is also active in the community, serving on the Montezuma-Cortez school board and on the Cortez Fire Protection District board.
The Law Enforcement Academy is an 18-week program that prepares students for POST certification. Applications are currently being accepted for classes starting Aug. 11.
Proposal would name auditorium for Vavak
Montezuma-Cortez High School band director Rodney Ritthaler has proposed that the new M-CHS auditorium be named the Ralph E. Vavak Memorial Auditorium.
The RE-1 school board asked Ritthaler to solicit local opinions.
Ritthaler solicited opinions on the Ralph E. Vavak memorial Facebook page, and as of July 9, reported 110 "likes."
A commenter identified as former M-CHS teacher David Feela wrote, "He is a role model for all who follow, a spirit that believed in the power of education to change lives."
Michael Hemphill called it an "excellent idea" and "fitting tribute."
Vavak directed the M-CHS band for several years, led the Cortez Choralairs and was a choir director at the First United Methodist Church.
Ritthaler is accepting comments at email@example.com and 24103 County Road T, Dolores, CO 81323.
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Red, White, and Blue Cupcake Tops
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Happy Memorial Day! Whatcha all up too?
Wait, what? You're not reading blogs on your day off?
Well then, you're missing out on probably the easiest Memorial Day treat ever.
To be perfectly honest, I never usually make red, white, and blue treats for Memorial Day. I never thought about it, really, until we went to a BBQ last year thrown by a military family.
Then I kinda got it. I'm slow that way.
Anyway, this is a super simple idea to dress up your dessert table tomorrow. In case you haven't set your menu down to the last morsel.
{I mean, not everyone is as anal as I am. I don't think.}
This idea totally came from two of my favorite blogs, BruCrew Life (Mini Brownie Fruit Pizzas) and Shugary Sweets (Carrot Cake Muffin Tops). In their recipes, they used a muffin top pan to make muffins or brownies. When I saw each of those posts, I was totally sad and ready to throw a fit that I didn't have a muffin top pan.
And then I realized I did have a Whoopie Pie Pan. You know, the one I've never made whoopie pies in?
I was making some chocolate cupcakes and had some batter left over. So I baked it up in my whoopie pie pan.
Then I topped them with blue buttercream, Cool Whip, and strawberries. To make the more patriotic.
And, stop right there young ladies. No need to have a tantrum of your own if you don't have a whoopie pie or a muffin top pan. This method of decoration would work perfectly well with regular cupcakes. I just happen to think making them in a special pan makes them special.
{Blogger Rule #4: Special pans make your treats more magical and glittery.}
Totally easy peasy. Which is perfect for a busy holiday weekend when you have so much to do, like swim and drink cocktails.
Red, White, and Blue Cupcake Tops
- 1 box cake mix (white or chocolate) plus ingredients to make cupcakes
- 1 can of white frosting (or your favorite recipe)
- Blue food coloring
- 1 container Cool Whip , defrosted (you will not need the whole thing)
- 1 package strawberries , hulled and sliced in half
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Spray your whoopie pie or muffin top pan with cooking spray and fill about 1/2 full with batter. Bake about 10-15 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Repeat for remaining batter. Let cool before frosting.
Tint your white frosting the desired color blue. Frost the top of each cupcake top. Top with a dollop of Cool Whip and a sliced strawberry.
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Motel Rocks has launched online this week (how bloomin' exciting!) and to kick start our new friendship with the lovely Motel girls, we decided to bring you an insider look into the life of a Motel girl.
Selina is a the Social Media & Promotions Assistant at Motel and here she talks about what she gets up to everyday in the world of fashion, who floats her boat in the celeb world and who she loves in the blogosphere! She loves nail art, skater skirts and Blythe dolls but she's not a fan of fire alarms, coffee or rain.
Find out more about the lovely Selina here…
Q: What's a typical day like in the Motel office?
We begin the day with a team meeting where we discuss all the fun things we have planned to showcase Motel's current collections, and then I get set to work with creating content for our fans to see across all social media channels. I also work with bloggers to tell them what's hot at Motel and plan fabulous events.
Q: Who is your ultimate celeb style icon?
I love the Olsen twins, Lana Del Rey and Kim Kardashian.
Q: What's your favorite piece of the season?
The Pow and Zap Bonnie Crops Tops are seriously cute with a 90s edge, especially when paired with the Flute Faux Leather Skirt for a texture that's totally on trend.
Q: If you could steal a blogger's wardrobe, which blogger would it be?
I love how Charlene from Strutt wears cute high-waisted things with a gorgeous pop of bright lipstick!
– Thanks to Selina, this week's lovely Motel girl for answering our interview questions! Look out for next week's interview with Natasha, Motel's lovely PR Manager!
Don't forget to check out our brand new Motel collection online!
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Where are the black economics ministers, asks Malema
African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema wants to know why all the security cluster ministers are black while the economics cluster ministers are appointed from minority groups.
"We [black people] cannot just be reduced to security and the very important issue of economy is given to minorities," he told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday.
"Minister of police, minister of intelligence, minister of justice—[they are] all Africans. But in the economics cluster, it's minorities."
Malema was responding to a question on whether the ANCYL welcomed the appointment of Gill Marcus as South African Reserve Bank governor.
"We welcome that ... but we would have expected once again an African child to occupy that strategic position ...
"We need to build confidence in the markets that Africans are also capable of handling strategic positions in the economic sector," said Malema.
Otherwise, black youths will not believe that they could one day work in strategic economic positions.
"[The youth will think], because she [Marcus] is white, they [whites] are born like that, there's no way I can be like that."
Malema said even former finance minister Trevor Manuel first had to prove himself.
"Once, a British guy was even saying Trevor Manuel is white. They never believe a black person can do what he [Manuel] is doing."
Nathi Mthethwa, Jeff Radebe and Siyabonga Cwele are the ministers of police, justice and state security, while Pravin Gordhan and Ebrahim Patel are the ministers of finance and economic development.
Malema said he was planning to take this up within the ruling party.—Sapa


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Grangemouth plant closure raises fear of soaring fuel prices
The closure of part of Scotland's only oil refinery yesterday added to growing fears of a return to record fuel prices.
The Grangemouth petrochemical plant shut down amid a bitter industrial dispute over wages and working conditions, raising fears that the oil refinery on the same site could also close.
The plant's owner, Ineos, warned that it would only reopen if the Unite union agreed not to strike. Drivers on both sides of the Scottish border have so far refrained from panic buying and forecourts have increased stocks of fuel to reduce the immediate impact on pump prices.
Analysts warned, however, that if the refinery at Grangemouth did close and other European refineries went out of business because of a glut of cheap US fuel,…


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Many Hurdles For Bush Plan
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON; David E. Rosenbaum and Robin Toner contributed reporting for this article.
Published: March 2, 2005
President Bush's drive to overhaul Social Security is in trouble, and while it is far too soon to declare it doomed, it faces obstacles on all sides.
After a week at home listening to constituents on the issue, Congressional leaders of Mr. Bush's own party have returned to Washington and immediately begun playing for time, suggesting that they may not meet his goal of passing legislation this year.
Democrats, apparently feeling little political pressure to come up with a plan of their own or work across the aisle, remain remarkably united against the main element of Mr. Bush's plan: his call for private investment accounts to be carved out of Social Security payroll taxes.
A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll published Tuesday showed Mr. Bush receiving his lowest marks on the handling of Social Security since becoming president.
Perhaps most difficult of all for the White House, members of Congress have little sense that voters are demanding that they confront the issue now and make difficult choices that are bound to have political repercussions.
Contrary to the broad-based support that drove the last bipartisan action to overhaul an entitlement program -- the addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare -- the public has not been clamoring for a new approach to Social Security or for confronting the painful steps necessary to meet Mr. Bush's goal of ensuring its permanent solvency.
Indeed, there is no consensus even among Republicans about how to proceed. They are divided, in some cases bitterly, over issues like how big the private accounts should be, whether the nation can afford to borrow trillions of dollars to establish them and whether a tax increase can be part of any solution.
''When a boat springs so many leaks, it only floats for so long,'' said Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, who declared that Mr. Bush was losing the momentum he had picked up after making Social Security the centerpiece of his State of the Union address. ''The Democrats have certainly shot holes in it, but the Republicans have also been shooting holes.''
Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a group that advocates balanced budgets and bringing Social Security's promised benefits into line with what it will be able to pay, said the chances that legislation would emerge from Congress this year now appeared slim.
''The political dynamics just don't seem to be there to achieve a meaningful Social Security reform this year,'' Mr. Bixby said.
White House officials said Tuesday that the president's goal of getting legislation enacted this year was still achievable. But on Capitol Hill, Republican leaders, while maintaining their support for Mr. Bush's approach, appeared intent on dampening expectations of quick action and easing the anxiety within their ranks.
Asked if it was a certainty that Social Security legislation would reach the Senate floor this year, the Republican leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, said the ''pacing'' of that legislation would be ''determined by the American people,'' and added, ''In terms of whether it will be a week, a month, six months or a year as to when we bring something to the floor, it's just too early.''
But to some proponents of taking action along the lines of what Mr. Bush has proposed, the chances of getting something done at all are receding, hurt by missteps and political posturing on all sides.
Charles W. Stenholm, a Texan who was among a handful of Democrats to support private accounts before he lost his House seat last year, said both parties were to blame for not creating an atmosphere in which a deal could be worked out.
''Where we are right now is in deep trouble,'' Mr. Stenholm said. ''The problems associated with the future of Social Security for our grandchildren are still there, but we seem to be even farther away from a bipartisan solution. It's obvious the game plan the administration chose is not working.''
Mr. Bush has been telling audiences that the politics of Social Security have changed, that the appeal of personal investment accounts and what he describes as the urgency of acting before the baby boom generation retires have combined to outweigh the costs, political and economic, of doing nothing.
Some Republicans appear unconvinced. After their weeklong recess hearing citizens' complaints and seeing the organized opposition to private accounts, many Republicans returned with a warning that if Mr. Bush wanted action this year, he would have to do much more to convince the nation that Social Security's projected financial gap required immediate, bipartisan legislation.
The White House promised on Tuesday that Mr. Bush planned to do just that. Administration officials said the president, cabinet secretaries and other aides would blanket the country in coming weeks, redoubling their efforts to generate support for Mr. Bush's proposal.
The officials said they would seek to get across a variety of messages: that older people, a potent voting bloc that tends to be suspicious of any changes to the retirement system, have nothing to fear; that younger workers will get a better deal from private investment accounts than if the solution to Social Security's long-term problems is limited to benefit cuts and tax increases; that doing nothing will inevitably lead to big tax increases or benefit cuts; and that Democrats in states where Mr. Bush is popular will run a political risk if they defy him.


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For the ninth annual Cream Cheese Festival in Lowville, New York, which took place in September 2013, Philadelphia Cream Cheese served up a supersize sweet treat. The colossal cake was made from more than three tons of cream cheese, sugar, graham crackers, and butter, weighed 6,900 pounds, and measured nearly 31 inches deep—which equals approximately 24,533 servings. Celebrity baker Duff Goldman of Baltimore's Charm City Cakes hosted the event, which aimed to raise awareness for the Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign.
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Photo: John Sessa Photography
In May, Bowlmor AMF opened Bowlero, a deluxe 40-lane bowling alley in the Woodlands, Texas, with recreational games and oversize fare. The "Go Crazy" menu includes the Behemoth Burger, a five-pound monster burger with bacon and American cheese, which feeds about 10 people, and the W-O-N-D-E-R Dog, a two-foot-long hot dog covered in Coney sauce and diced onions.
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The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is a commission of the International Mathematical Union.
The International Mathematical Union and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) jointly constituted a Working Group to study the issue of whether and (in the affirmative case) how both organizations should go forward with a Ranking of Mathematical Journals. After discussing the report at ICIAM 2011 in Vancouver IMU and ICIAM decided to start a blog on mathematical journals which became operational on November 18, 2011.
CEIC produced in 2004 a document, see below, listing various recommendations relating to the changing environment of peer-reviewed journals. This document returns to the subject and offers more details on how journals can best serve the mathematical community and it focusses on how a good mathematics journal should be organized and managed.
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has released, in cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the report "Citation Statistics" which analyzes the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research. The report discusses, in particular, the impact factor, the h-index, and variants of these that are often employed to rank not only journals but also individuals, departments, or whole institutions.


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Emirates airlines has announced a five-year sponsorship deal with Formula One that will cover most of its races.
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Blouin Artinfo has a report on the Dallas Art Fair's social side, grudgingly admitting that the fair, and the city "maybe — just maybe" has a shot at becoming an international art center. They report a few important sales at the preview on Thursday, both of pieces by artists currently showing at other venues in Dallas: Blouin says that David Lewis Gallery sold a $12,000 painting by Charles Mayton (whose work was recently on view at Alden Pinnell's Power Station), and Jonathan Viner Gallery of London sold a $30,000 painting by Dan Rees, who currently has a show of gloppy, gravel-encrusted paintings at the Goss-Michael Foundation. Although it's generally agreed that the fair looks better than ever, attendance and sales on Saturday, traditionally the fair's biggest day, were spotty– one theory is that potential patrons were busy preparing themselves for Saturday night's enormously swank Untitled: Art Ball fundraiser at the DMA next door, others blamed gorgeous spring weather.
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'Spring' In The Appalachian Language
March 18, 2013
The last few days have felt like Spring here in Southern Appalachia-and according to the calendar Spring arrives for real this week!
As I set in the car waiting on Granny the other day I started thinking about the word spring-and wondering how many different ways we use the word to describe things here in Appalachia. Once I got home I pulled out my Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English-and was pleasantly surprised to see the book has almost 2 pages of 'spring' words. So for the next few days we'll talk about a few of them here on the Blind Pig.
We'll start with the most obvious one: spring-a fountain head or source of a branch/creek.
In days gone by most people who lived in Appalachia got their water from a spring. Pap and Granny's house used a gravity water system-fed by a spring-until I was in 8th grade. The spring Pap used was about a half a mile above the house. Pap dug out the spring (a spring used previously by his Grandfather) placed the end of a length of black pipe in the water, weighted it with rocks, put a screen over the end to keep out trash; ran the pipe along the ground-buried in places-back to our house where it connected with the water system. The fall of gravity along the pipe kept it filled with water-until you turned on the tap allowing the water to flow freely.
While we had spring water fed into our house, in Pap's early days the water stayed at the spring and had to be carried into the house when needed. Pap said in those days getting water and keeping wood cut for cooking and/or for heat in the winter was more than a full time job. (Granny said "That's why there was less meanness-people didn't have time to be mean!")
Spring house-a small building of log or rock built around and over the spring to protect the spring-and to allow for perishable items to be kept safely by the spring where the temperatures were low.
Spring box-a box set in a spring to keep items cool.
Spring run-a trough in a spring house which allowed items to be set in a stream of water to keep them cool.
Drop back by tomorrow for more 'spring' words.
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When driving through the hills of PA, you'll see a pipe sticking out of solid ground running into a ditch or small concrete basin every so often. Those are spring run-offs where people come to fill their jugs and canisters with water, and boy - that is some of the coldest, best-tasting water in the world.
God bless.
I remember hauling water for my Grandmother from a dug well when I was little, but the first time I seen water being piped to the house from a mountain spring was about 24yrs ago I was reading meters for the power company, and I saw this water spring up out of the ground, for what seemed to be for no reason. The family who live there were Terry's and he told me that the water came from the mountain out back of their house (a long way) and he said when he first hook it to his house and let the water flow it had so much pressure for the distance it traveled it blew the fitting a part under the house, so he had to put a (T) fitting in line with the pipe to control the pressure,, I thought that was very smart way of getting water to the house..instead of having to haul it..
Tipper--Tell Kay Dallas I can probably help her if she really wants to find a copy of the "Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English," but it is pricey indeed and has been since it went out of print.
Better news is that there is a new and expanded version in the works from the Univ. of Tennessee Press, but I'm not sure how long it will be before it appears.
Jim Casada
Kay-I believe Miss Cindy got my copy of the dictionary on Amazon. But like you said-they don't have any for sell now. A few years ago, I heard the book was going to be reprinted-but that doesn't seem to have happened either. If I hear any news about the dictionary Ill be sure to let you know!!
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There used to be a (what I called a natural water fountain) spurting up out of a rock at the top of Woody's Gap mountain near Suches. This was right by the side of the road and easy to get at. It came right out of the mountain side and must have been gravity fed because it spurted up several inches constantly. Seeing that water coming out of that rock always made me think of Moses. If that water Moses got out of that rock tasted any better than the water coming out of that rock near Suches, I sure would loved to have had some of it! We always got a cool drink there!
Love Granny's comment! So true that years ago people had so much to do it just naturally kept them out of trouble and limited the meanness. We are ready for spring!!
Mama said they used to keep the wash pot down the hill near the spring. It was easier to take the clothes down than to take the water up. They would be down there all day.
A few years ago we all visited the spring where my daddy had a whiskey still long ago. The money from moonshine bought our first refrigerator, electric stove & wringer washer.
The spring was beautiful but down hill from an old cemetery--I've often wondered if the water ran under the dead folks. One of the headstones is a stone from an old mill--a lovely peaceful place right down the road from my old home.
We used to have a spring house and an outhouse but visitors often got them confused. We would tell them if they could hear water running before they got there, they were either at the spring house or it was too late to matter.
hi tipper: i've searched high and low for Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English. Would you have any suggestions of where to locate. i would love to have this book for my library. thanks so much. a loyal fan
kay dallas
I grew up with 5 natural Springs
on our property. For a long time
the one we used was below the house. And many a time I've carried milk to our supper table.
I've lived in the big city before
and there's nothing like your own
gravity fed, good tastin' water.
Besides, it's FREE!...Ken
Here in northern Appalachia it is sleeting/freezing rain today with snow expected till Thursday. Not very spring-like! I often wish my ancestors would have settled a little farther south!
We have two local springs. One of them is in a private front yard. You've gotta' love a small town, the folks who live there allow people to help themselves to the water and there is a collection box for those who want to donate (probably to repair the wear and tear to their yard).
I used to go with my grandpa to both springs to collect fresh water. Our tap water here is full of lime and tastes like dirt and chlorine. There surely is nothing so delicious and thirst-quenching as spring water.
We had spring water piped into the house and was it good. We used to laugh at my Dad, when he would go visit relatives in Oklahoma he always took water with him. During the last days of his life we carried water to him in the hospital. NO plastic! It had to be in glass jugs and a glass from home not those plastic hospital cups. He said their water tasted like it had peaches soaking in it. I'm so glad I was able to take his spring water to him.
I have a spring house and a spring. When we bought our house the spring was the water supply. We soon had city water put in but I can still hear the spring water running whenever I walk to the mailbox. I think the deer and probably other animals drink from the spring. I often see them in the area by the spring house. I sometimes think that if I could bring the sound of that water into the house I could sleep like a baby. But with my luck it would probably just send me to the bathroom all night.
Great post, and I wonder if "puttin' a Spring in your step"
is in the book. If it will stay spring-like for a while, I think I will have a spring in my step.
Your little dog could put a spring and a bounce in ones step.
Later, thanks Tipper
When I was growing up, I stayed with my Grandparents during the day while mom & dad were working. They didn't have running water and I used to love to go to the spring with them to get water. There was also a big spring box where Grandma kept things cold, even though she had a fridge. She said that it kept things colder. At my parent's house, we got our water from a spring, but it was piped into the house.
There is NOTHING as tasty to drink as cold, fresh spring water.
Both my grandmothers had wells; one with an electric pump and the other with a hand pump in her kitchen. I didn't see a spring house until I was eight or so. Imagine my shock when I spied a small lizard running around the edge of the water. Even though the lady assured me that the lizard kept the water clean, I didn't drink a drop in the home there, but ate every bite of my dinner.
That is a great photo of Ruby Sue... the Rat Terrier. She looks so much like our rattie, Thumper. I love those dogs. Thumper is busy with the softening of the earth releasing all those interesting smells that dogs love. Nose to the ground!
Many people today have never had real spring water. Even what we buy in bottles is often purified tap water, not real spring water. Nothing beats it. Deep, deep well water is close, but the purified, filtered water is like eating winter tomatoes from the grocery store.
We had gravity water from the time I was about 12 until I graduated from high school. Not much pressure, but it sure beat carrying the water!
Two of my aunts lived a half mile apart with a spring in between. It was used to keep milk and butter cold. Everyone for miles around knew the spring was haunted. None of the food ever disappeared, but I have been known to run so fast from one house to the other, it could have been told that I disappeared.
I have a spring that feeds my pond and one that runs out in my gravel road, making a mess year round. Two of my neighbors share the same spring to supply water to both houses. They had eight or ten kids between them and never ran out of water.
There is nothing more refreshing than cool, spring water. As kids when we visited my aunt in northern NJ, we would visit her spring. I haven't heard the use of the included words for a long time. I look forward to more spring words.
Bradly, that's Ruby Sue, a sweeter dog you've never seen and devoted 100% to the family. She is a Rat Terrier. I love animals and Ruby Sue knows it she is always glad to see me when I visit. In fact they tell me I am the only one she doesn't bark at.
There is spring forward in spring and fall back in fall. I would tell you what I think of that time change but there is not enough space here for me to list all my objections to it.
I've seen spring houses, spring runs, and spring boxes at my grandmothers. That is part of the ingenuity of our Appalachian people. They always found a way to make things work. I just love our people!
Spring...and hope renewed:
Spring...a time of beginning again,
With buds and blossoms galore.
With spring's growth hope rises
Pushing our limits aside.
Tipper: Your Post today took me right back to the Mathenson Cove where my Daddy had built a 'Spring House' over our Spring where we stored the milk. It was about a 50 yards from the house and seemed like a real adventure to go get the milk/butter when I was a very young child. Of course there was always a scary something hiding in the bushes any time I got out by myself! Cheers, Eva Nell
Oh to have good spring water to drink instead of this awful city mess that they charge us way too much. Have to filter it before its half fit to drink. Sorry to say I haven't had a glass of spring water in years.
That is a sweet little dog. I'm not sure but, it looks like a Jack Russell. When I was a boy (before I heard of Jack Ressells) there was a little dog and I think it was a Rat terrier. We used to call them Granny dogs. The reason we did was because lots of the older women (Grannies) had one. They were small and made wonderful pets. They could be lifted easily, didn't eat much, would follow her everywhere she went, lie beside her rocker, and were devoted companions in every way. I always loved dogs but I loved the little ones best.
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text: Justin, 1) The extraneous files should not affect things - I just tried adding them to my ~/Maildir to confirm this and still everything works OK. 2) There should be a ~/Maildir/courierimapuiddb file that lists the contents of your INBOX. Does this exist? 3) There should also be a ~/Maildir/courierimapsubscribed file which listed your subscribed folders. 4) All sub-mailboxes should also have the new,cur,tmp directories (i.e. ~/Maildir/.debianlists/new) and they should have there own courierimapuiddb file. 5) Logs show anything? Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:18, Justin Ryan wrote: > Once again, using maildir this shouldn't be an issue. My INBOX has the > least messages of all, compared to ~6 months of debian-* lists, lugs, > etc.. > > I'm wondering if extraneous files in ~/Maildir could be a problem. > There are msgid.lock and msgid.cache files from procmail/formail keeping > track of duplicate messages - should these be moved to ~/.procmail ?


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Creating an HTML Tag Extractor with Visual Basic 6.0
John Clarkson
Microsoft Corporation
October 1998
Summary: Second of two articles on creating the HTML Tag Extractor tool to view and compare HTML tags across large numbers of separate files. (10 printed pages) This article describes how to build the tool using Microsoft® Visual Basic® version 6.0.
This is the second of two articles that look at how you can use Microsoft Office object models to build useful tools—quickly and cheaply. The tool in this case does a bulk extract of HTML tags. It allows the user to point to a folder where HTML files are stored, and to select one of a list of HTML tags. Then the tool walks the folder, opens each HTML file in turn, extracts the content of the tag and pastes it and the file name to an Excel worksheet, and then moves on to the next HTML file.
The first part of this article, "Creating an HTML Tag Extractor," showed you how to build an Office-only version of the tool, using a UserForm for a user interface, and the Excel and Word object models for the file and text work. This version shows you how to build the same tool in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. The key differences between this method and the previous are that you can use Visual Basic file and directory controls for a more complete user interface; and the Package and Deploy Wizard allows you to create an .exe file all nicely wrapped up in a setup package.
Build the Tool
Adding modules and controls
- Open Visual Basic 6.0, select Standard EXE in the New Project dialog box, and click Open.
- On the Project menu, click References. Select Microsoft Excel 8.0 Object Library and Microsoft Word 8.0 Object Library. Click OK.
- On the Project menu, click Add Module.
- If the toolbox isn't already visible, on the toolbar click the Toolbox icon.
- Draw the following controls on the Form:
- two CommandButton controls
- two Label controls
- one DirListBox control
- one DriveListBox control
- one FileListBox control
- one TextBox control
- Arrange the controls as shown in Figure 1.
- Set Name and Caption properties for the form and controls, using the values listed in the following table.
|First command button
|First command button
|Second command button
|Second command button
|First label control
|Select tag
|First label control
|Second label control
|Enter file pattern
|Second label control
|DriveListBox control
|DirListBox control
|FileListBox control
|ListBox control
|TextBox control
Figure 1. TagXtractor UI using Visual Basic 6.0
Adding Code to the Form
Copy the following statements and procedures to the form:
Option Explicit Private Sub cmdEnd_Click() 'Close the application. End End Sub Private Sub cmdOK_Click() 'Sets file specification according to user input in text box. filFile.Pattern = txtFilePattern.Text txtFilePattern.Text = "" Set wrdApplication = New Word.Application 'Initialize the Excel worksheet. Call SetupWorksheet Dim lngCounter As Long Dim strFlNm As String 'This loop walks the selected folder, 'opening each file in turn. For lngCounter = 0 To filFile.ListCount - 1 DoEvents 'Set the current file in the FileListBox control. filFile.ListIndex = lngCounter 'Get the filename from the FileListBox control. strFlNm = dirFolder.Path & "\" & filFile.FileName 'Open the file in Word. Set wrdDocument = wrdApplication.Documents. _ Open(FileName:=strFlNm, Format:=wdOpenFormatText) 'Get tag contents in the file. Call FindTags(lngCounter) wrdDocument.Close Next lngCounter 'Clean up object variables. Set xlApplication = Nothing End Sub Private Sub Dirfolder_Change() 'Set the folder displayed in the FileListBox 'control to the user's selection. filFile.Path = dirFolder.Path End Sub Private Sub drvDrive_Change() 'Set the drive displayed in the DirListBox 'control to the user's selection. dirFolder.Path = drvDrive.Drive End Sub Private Sub Form_Load() 'Load the ListBox control with two items. lstTag.AddItem "title only" lstTag.AddItem "descr only" End Sub
Adding Code to the Standard Module
Copy the following statements and procedures to the module:
Option Explicit Public xlApplication As Excel.Application Public wrdApplication As Word.Application Public xlWorkBooks As Workbooks Dim xlReportFile As Workbook Public wrdDocument As Document Sub FindTags(lngCounter As Long) 'Called from cmdOK_Click. 'This procedure runs the Find to get tag contents. 'The parameter lngCounter is a counter representing 'the file's position in the target folder. 'Declare and set an object variable containing a Selection object. Dim wrdSelection As Selection Set wrdSelection = wrdApplication.Selection Dim bolFound As Boolean Dim strSln As String Dim strDescr As String 'This defines what to look for when we want description tags. 'See how this is used in the With...End With block below. strDescr = "<META name=" & Chr$(34) & "description" & Chr$(34) 'Ensure that formatting is not included 'as a criteria in the search. wrdSelection.Find.ClearFormatting 'Search for either a title or description tag, 'depending on user selection in the ListBox control. With wrdSelection.Find Select Case frmTagXtract.lstTag.ListIndex Case 0 'Search for title tag. .Text = "<title>" Case 1 'Search for description tag. .Text = strDescr End Select .Forward = True End With 'Determine whether the search was successful. bolFound = wrdSelection.Find.Execute 'If successful, parse text and add to worksheet. If bolFound = True Then 'Select the paragraph containing the result. wrdSelection.MoveDown unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdExtend strSln = wrdSelection.Text 'Remove unneeded text. Call RemoveTags(strSln) 'Add results to the worksheet. Call Report(strSln, lngCounter) 'If search is unsuccessful, add a note to the worksheet. Else strSln = "no tag found" Call Report(strSln, lngCounter) End If End Sub Sub Report(strSln As String, lngCounter As Long) 'Called from FindTags. 'This procedure pastes strings into the worksheet. 'The parameter strSln is either the string containing 'the tag, or a "not found" note. 'The parameter lngCounter is a counter representing 'the file's position in the target folder. With xlReportFile.Worksheets(1).Rows(lngCounter + 3) .Cells(, 1).Value = frmTagXtract.filFile.FileName .Cells(, 2).Value = strSln .Cells(, 3).Value = "" End With End Sub Sub RemoveTags(strSln As String) 'Called from FindTags. 'This procedure strips unneeded text from the 'beginning and end of the search result. 'The parameter strSln is the string containing the tag. Select Case frmTagXtract.lstTag.ListIndex Case 0 'The user selected title tag in the ListBox. strSln = Mid(strSln, 8, (Len(strSln) - 17)) Case 1 'The user selected description tag in the ListBox. strSln = Mid(strSln, 34, (Len(strSln) - 36)) End Select End Sub Sub SetupWorksheet() 'Called from cmdOK_Click. 'This procedure opens an instance of Excel and 'initializes the report worksheet. 'Open a new instance of Excel. Set xlApplication = New Excel.Application 'Create a reference to a workbook. Set xlWorkBooks = xlApplication.Workbooks 'Add a new workbook. Set xlReportFile = xlApplication.Workbooks.Add 'Add header text to the workbook. With xlReportFile.Worksheets(1) .Cells(1, 1).Value = "Filename" .Cells(1, 2).Value = "Tag" End With 'Create a reference to an Excel Range object. Dim rngHeaders As Excel.Range Set rngHeaders = xlReportFile.Worksheets(1).Range("a1") 'Widen the 'a' column in the worksheet. rngHeaders.ColumnWidth = 30 'Expand the range to include both 'a' and 'b' columns. Set rngHeaders = xlReportFile.Worksheets(1).Range("a1:b1") 'Format the header text. With rngHeaders.Font .Bold = True .Color = vbRed .Size = 14 End With 'Make Excel visible. xlApplication.Visible = True End Sub
Looking at the Code
We've already seen most of the code in this application in the first article in the series, where we created the same application using Office object models alone. There are three unique elements in the Visual Basic 6.0 version of the Tag Extractor:
- Hooking up the file system controls
- Initializing Microsoft Excel and Word
- Using the FileListBox control as a data source for Word
Hooking Up the File System Controls
The three file system controls are designed to play together. Use the DriveListBox control to select a drive, which sets the context for the DirListBox. Select a folder using the DirListBox control, which sets the context for the FileListBox control, and then of course you use FileListBox to select files. It's very simple in code:
DriveListBox passes the baton to DirListBox in the DriveListBox Change event:
dirFolder.Path = drvDrive.Drive
DirListBox passes the baton to FileListBox in the DirListBox Change event:
filFile.Path = dirFolder.Path
Initializing Microsoft Excel and Word
Both Excel and Word are single-use applications, which means that a new instance is created whenever an object variable referring to them is instantiated. In the Tag Extractor application the Excel and Word object variables are both declared as Public in the General section of the standard module.
Public xlApplication As Excel.Application Public wrdApplication As Word.Application
Word is opened in the cmdOK Click event.
Set wrdApplication = New Word.Application
Excel is opened at the top of the SetupWorksheet procedure.
Set xlApplication = New Excel.Application
Using the FileListBox Control as a Data Source for Word
One advantage of the Visual Basic version of the Tag Extractor over the pure Office version is that the file system controls provide some UI features not available with Office object models. In the Visual Basic version users can point and click their way to the target folder. Then, once the OK button is clicked the FileListBox control acts as a progress indicator as focus changes from file to file, as well as provides file names to Word.
In the Office version of the Tag Extractor the FileSearch object provides access to the files in the target folder, with the Count property of the FoundFiles object returning the number of files in the folder and setting the end point for the For...Next loop:
With Application.FileSearch For intCounter = 1 To .FoundFiles.Count . . . Next intCounter End With
In the Visual Basic version we use the ListCount property of the FileListBox control to set the end point for the loop:
For lngCounter = 0 To filFile.ListCount - 1 . . . Next lngCounter
To get Word to open a file you need to provide it a file name, which is easy to build by concatenating the current values of the FileListBox and DirListBox controls:
strFlNm = dirFolder.Path & "\" & filFile.FileName Set wrdDocument = wrdApplication.Documents. _ Open(FileName:=strFlNm, Format:=wdOpenFormatText)
The Tag Extractor application is a good example of how effective Visual Basic and the Office object models can be when used together. We saw in the previous article how you can build this tool solely with Office components. You could also build it with Visual Basic alone, but when you can easily harness Word's text search capability and display your results on an Excel spreadsheet it's silly to pass up the chance.
In this case the combined Visual Basic/Office approach has two advantages over the Office-only approach. First, with the combined Office/Visual Basic solution you can compile the solution into an .exe file, and use the Page and Deployment Wizard to create a custom setup package. With Office you can use the Setup Wizard available with the Office Developer Edition, but you can't compile your application into an .exe file.
The second advantage of the combined approach described here is that Visual Basic's file system controls allow us to build a more complete user interface. In the Office-only solution the user has to enter the path to the target folder in a text box. In the combination solution we have the advantage of Visual Basic's file system controls, allowing the user to point and click their way to the target folder. Also, at least partly because of the extra power we get from Visual Basic's controls, it takes less code to deliver the combined solution—3.41K against 3.91K for the Office-only version.
Visual Basic and Office are great partners. Office provides world-class document management and office productivity tools exposed for Automation. Visual Basic offers a great forms package, lots of controls not available in Office, and professional development features like control creation support for multithreading, and lots of new Web development features. Use Visual Basic and Office together to build better applications, faster!


text: On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 09:45 -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 at 18:06, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:> > > INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6d4b80) overlaps the address of the> > > wrapper(0x400000)> > > INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000)> > > Building modules, stage 2.> > > MODPOST 24 modules> > > ------------> > > > > > I started to see these messages in January (around Linux 3.2.0), but never> > > investigated what it was since the produced kernels continued to boot just> > > fine.> > > > The above change was added by me. The message is printed when the 'wrapper'> > script finds that decompressed kernel overlaps the 'bootstrap code' which does> > the decompression. So it shifts the 'address' of the bootstrap code to the> > next higher MB. As such it is harmless.> > OK, good to know that it's harmless. Thanks for the explanation.I think I found it :-)can you test the patch below ?From 08f1ec8a594c60bf3856e3c45b6d15fd691d90bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <email@example.com>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:21:35 +1000Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix page fault with lockdep regressioncommit a546498f3bf9aac311c66f965186373aee2ca0b0introduced a regression on 32-bit when irq tracingis enabled by exposing an old bug in our irq tracingcode for exception entry.The code would save and restore some GPRs around thecalls to the C lockdep code, however, it tries to betoo smart for its own good and restores some of theGPRs from the exception frame (as saved there onexception entry).However, for page faults, we do replace those GPRs witharguments to do_page_fault before we call transfer_to_handlerand so restoring from the exception frame is plain wrong inthis case.This was fine as long as we didn't touch the interrupt statewhen taking page fault, but when I started doing it, it wouldtrigger the lockdep calls and the bug.This fixes it by cleaning up that code a bit. It did createa small stack frame for the sake of backtraces, so let'smake it a bit bigger and use it to save and restore thestuff we care about.Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <email@example.com>--- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.Sindex 3e57a00..ba3aeb4 100644--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S@@ -206,40 +206,43 @@ reenable_mmu: /* re-enable mmu so we can */ andi. r10,r10,MSR_EE /* Did EE change? */ beq 1f - /* Save handler and return address into the 2 unused words- * of the STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD (sneak sneak sneak). Everything- * else can be recovered from the pt_regs except r3 which for- * normal interrupts has been set to pt_regs and for syscalls- * is an argument, so we temporarily use ORIG_GPR3 to save it- */- stw r9,8(r1)- stw r11,12(r1)- stw r3,ORIG_GPR3(r1) /* * The trace_hardirqs_off will use CALLER_ADDR0 and CALLER_ADDR1. * If from user mode there is only one stack frame on the stack, and * accessing CALLER_ADDR1 will cause oops. So we need create a dummy * stack frame to make trace_hardirqs_off happy.+ *+ * This is handy because we also need to save a bunch of GPRs,+ * r3 can be different from GPR3(r1) at this point, r9 and r11+ * contains the old MSR and handler address respectively,+ * r4 & r5 can contain page fault arguments that need to be passed+ * along as well. r12, CCR, CTR, XER etc... are left clobbered as+ * they aren't useful past this point (aren't syscall arguments),+ * the rest is restored from the exception frame. */+ stwu r1,-32(r1)+ stw r9,8(r1)+ stw r11,12(r1)+ stw r3,16(r1)+ stw r4,20(r1)+ stw r5,24(r1) andi. r12,r12,MSR_PR- beq 11f- stwu r1,-16(r1)+ b 11f bl trace_hardirqs_off- addi r1,r1,16 b 12f- 11: bl trace_hardirqs_off 12:+ lwz r5,24(r1)+ lwz r4,20(r1)+ lwz r3,16(r1)+ lwz r11,12(r1)+ lwz r9,8(r1)+ addi r1,r1,32 lwz r0,GPR0(r1)- lwz r3,ORIG_GPR3(r1)- lwz r4,GPR4(r1)- lwz r5,GPR5(r1) lwz r6,GPR6(r1) lwz r7,GPR7(r1) lwz r8,GPR8(r1)- lwz r9,8(r1)- lwz r11,12(r1) 1: mtctr r11 mtlr r9 bctr /* jump to handler */-- 188.8.131.52


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Maoists kill four persons in West Bengal (Lead)November 8th, 2010 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Four persons, including two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists and the mother of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper, were killed Monday by suspected Maoist guerrillas in West Midnapore district of West Bengal, police said.
"A CPI-M leader of Patashimul village was shot dead in the afternoon, while the bodies of Sandhyarani Mahato, Rashbihari Mahato and Owahed Ali of Ganakkata village in Jhargram sub-division were found in the morning," said Jhargram Police district superintendent Praveen Tripathi.
A group of four-five Maoists, riding on motorbikes, attacked former CPI-M rural body member of Patashimul panchayat - Kanai Rai - at his residence Monday afternoon, he said.
"The group dragged him out and shot him at point-blank range. His wife Basanti Rai tried to prevent the attack, and sustained a bullet injury on her left hand," Tripathi said.
She was rushed to Jhargarm sub-divisional hospital in critical condition.
"Kanai, who was away from home for over six months fearing Maoist attack, had returned this (Monday) morning," he said.
In a separate incident, a group of Maoist guerrillas attacked Ganakkata village in Jhargram sub-division Sunday night and dragged out Sandhyarani Mahato, Rashbihari Mahato and Owahed Ali from their houses. Their bullet-ridden bodies were recovered Monday morning.
Rashbihari was a CPI-M supporter while Owahed Ali was an employee of the local block office.
"During preliminary investigations, it was learnt that Sandhyarani was killed because her son is a jawan (trooper) of the CRPF," said additional superintendent of police (operations) Mukesh Kumar.
CRPF is involved in the ongoing anti-Maoist operations in Lalgarh and adjoining areas.
"Owahed was shot dead as his brother joined the state police as an assistant sub-inspector in Howrah district. Rashbihari was shot dead for allegedly working as a police informer," he said.
"It is a matter of concern as six people were killed in Jhargram by the Maoists in the last 48 hours. We are suspecting that the squad operating in the area, led by Sashadhar Mahato and Suchitra Mahato, is involved in the murder," he said.
Maoists are active in three western districts of the state - West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia.
- Maoists kill three people in West Bengal - Nov 08, 2010
- Maoists kill three villagers in West Bengal - Nov 09, 2010
- Maoists kill former CPI-M supporter in Bengal - Apr 02, 2011
- Suspected Maoists kill two CPI-M supporters in Bengal - Sep 01, 2010
- Maoists kill CPI-M leader in Bengal - Feb 13, 2011
- Maoists kill CPI-M worker in West Bengal - Feb 19, 2011
- CPI-M leader shot dead by suspected Maoists - Apr 28, 2010
- Suspected Maoists kill two in West Bengal (Lead) - Jul 23, 2010
- Two activists of pro-Maoist group killed in Bengal - Oct 23, 2010
- Suspected Maoists kill two CPI-M supporters (Lead) - Nov 22, 2010
- Folk singer arrested for being Maoist linkman - Sep 18, 2010
- Suspected Maoists kill two in West Bengal - Sep 02, 2010
- Maoists kill CPI-M leader, two others in Bengal (Lead) - Oct 13, 2010
- CPI-M leaders' houses torched in Bengal's West Midnapore - Jun 16, 2011
- Suspected Maoists kill CPI-M leader - Nov 03, 2010


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Alcatel says 0.35-micron high-voltage technology will boost automotive IC integration
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BRUSSELS -- Alcatel Microelectronics here today announced a new 0.35-micron high-voltage IC technology, which is capable of integrating mixed-signal blocks, logic, embedded 32-bit microcontroller, and circuits with up to 80-volt functionality for automotive applications.
"The I3T-based circuits will fit the requirements of the new 42-V battery concept perfectly," said Tony Denayer, general manager of Alcatel's automotive and peripherals semiconductor business. "I3T will be incorporated in automotive equipment for powertrain, body and safety applications, as well as motor and head drivers for the printer market," he predicted.
I3T is the successor to Alcatel's current I2T series, which is based on 0.7-micron mixed-mode CMOS. The I2T technology is used in automotive and computer peripheral ICs but it is limited to 30-K gates of logic. The new 0.35-micron technology increases the logic integration capability to 150-K gates, including a RISC processor core from ARM Ltd., according to Alcatel.
The new high-voltage technology is modular, and it will come in several versions, Alcatel said. The first version of I3T will be optimized for 80-volt functions. It will be available in the first quarter of 2002. Alcatel said it plans to release optimized versions for other circuit functions in the next six months.
The release of the I3T technology is part of Alcatel's efforts to increase its automotive chip business. The semiconductor arm of communications giant Alcatel S.A. in Paris is rolling out new standard automotive ICs as well as offering its existing custom and ASIC products. It is also attempting to break into the North American automotive market after establishing itself in Europe during the past decade (see Oct. 10 story).
Alcatel said its I3T-based circuits can incorporate a 32-bit microcontroller, memory blocks, bus protocol controllers, I/O features and high-voltage functions, such as motor controllers. The technology features improved HV DMOS switches with lower on-resistance (80 milliohms/mm2 at 40 volts to 160 milliohms/mm2 at 80 V). Embedded flash, high-density ROM, RAM, and one-time programmable EPROM are also available in the I3T technology, said the company.


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Westminster Williamson Voices Performs Annelies in New York on April 26
The Westminster Williamson Voices, conducted by James Jordan, will perform the New York City premiere of James Whitbourn's Annelies, the first major choral setting of The Diary of Anne Frank, on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 8 p.m. at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. They will be joined by soprano Arianna Zukerman, The Lincoln Trio and clarinetist Bharat Chandra.
The ensemble's recording of the work was nominated for a 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance. Annelies is the first authorized musical setting of the Diary of Anne Frank. It exists in two scorings: soloist, choir and orchestra or soloist, choir and chamber ensemble. "Melanie Challenger's libretto distills the diary into this sequence of beautiful and mature, spiritually-charged texts," says composer James Whitbourn.
The concert on April 26 will feature the chamber version. Whitbourn recalls the first orchestral performance: "Bernd (Buddy) Elias, Anne Frank's first cousin, introduced the new work and said: 'if Anne could be with us tonight, I know she would shed tears of joy and pride, and she would be so happy - happy the way I remember when I saw her last.'"
The Washington Post has praised Arianna Zukerman as one of the most compelling vocal artists of her generation, thanks to "a remarkable voice that combines the range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos that would make any soprano jealous," Her extensive career includes performances with an impressive group of conductors including James Levine, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Pinchas Zukerman, and Marin Alsop. In addition to her work in concert and opera, she is an avid chamber musician, and she has made multiple appearances at leading chamber music festivals including the Vail Valley Music Festival and the Savannah Music Festival.
The Lincoln Trio, composed of Desirée Ruhstrat, violin; David Cunliffe, cello and Marta Aznavoorian, piano, has been praised for its polished presentations of well-known chamber works and its ability to forge new paths with contemporary repertoire. The trio has performed throughout the United States, including appearances at Carnegie's Weil Hall, Ravinia Festival, the Indianapolis Beethoven Chamber Music Series, Lane Concert Series, University of Chicago, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Music in the Loft and Poisson Rouge. It is an ensemble-in-residence at the Music Institute of Chicago.
Bharat Chandra's performances have frequently earned generous reviews, and he has been featured in special chamber music tours across the northeastern United States, Monte Carlo, and Vienna. Each summer he serves as principal clarinetist with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, led by Marin Alsop.
Westminster Williamson Voices, has quickly established itself as a voice of composers of our time and has been acclaimed for its creative programming and collaborations with other art forms.
James Jordan is the author of more than 30 books and DVDs on all aspects of the choral art. He is acclaimed for his two books, Evoking Sound and The Conductor's Gesture, among others, as well as his Naxos recording Living Voices: The Music of James Whitbourn. Dr. Jordan is professor and senior conductor at Westminster Choir College, where he conducts Westminster Schola Cantorum and the Westminster Williamson Voices.
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ROME, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- The granddaughter of Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini confirmed Friday she will be running for prime minister in next year's elections.
Alessandra Mussolini made the announcement after former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi decided he would not run, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. She will be the center-right People of Freedom's candidate.
Mussolini, 50, said she will fight to improve conditions for children and mothers who "live a hellish life" while parliament "doesn't give much of a hoot about them, by and large."