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Zimbabwe's highest court has received an application from Robert Mugabe's party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks following pressure from regional leaders.
The president has insisted he is merely abiding by a previous court order in holding general elections on 31 July. The prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, a longtime opponent of Mugabe and opposition leader, wants the vote to be held in September.
Zimbabwe's last elections in 2008 were plagued by violence and ultimately forced Mugabe to join a power-sharing government with the opposition.
Officials at the constitutional court said the papers submitted by Mugabe's party asked the court to review the earlier ruling that called for a vote before the end of July.
Wednesday's move comes days after southern African regional leaders met in Mozambique and pushed for an extension until 14 August so key electoral reforms and poll preparations can take place.
The justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, said in the papers filed at the constitutional court that he was directed by a summit of the regional presidents in Mozambique to file an urgent application to postpone the elections and asked for an extension to 14 August, court officials said.
Tomaz Salomão, secretary general of the 15-nation regional, political and economic bloc known as the Southern African Development Community, or SADC, said on Tuesday the presidents had urged Mugabe and all political groups to heed their concerns over early elections. He said the SADC grouping pledged to recognise any new decision by Zimbabwe's highest court.
"If the court does not accept the appeal our task is to deploy our observers to ensure there is at least a conducive environment for elections," he said.
Tsvangirai insists new elections can be called as late as October under the nation's new constitution to allow time for democratic reforms spelled out in both the power-sharing coalition agreement and the constitution to be put into place to pave the way for a free and fair vote.
His party says a two-week extension is still inadequate to complete reforms to sweeping media and security laws, and changes in the police, military and security services, traditionally loyal to Mugabe, to ensure their impartiality.
Mugabe declared the July poll date on 13 June, saying he was obeying the ruling of the constitutional court that linked the need for elections to a month after the automatic dissolution of the Harare parliament at the end of its current five-year term on 28 June.
His announcement on the voting date meant the drafting of amendments to longstanding election laws were frozen on legal and procedural grounds.
No date was set for the appeal before the bench of nine judges at the constitutional court.

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Creating A Custom CatalogPosted by Autocad MEP, Catalog Manager | Categories:
After some time off I have taken up blogging again. This is a first post on creating custom content catalogs in AutoCAD MEP. My thoughts are to expand this topic a little bit to include modifying the catalogs and moving content between them and then finally a large series of posts on creating all kinds of custom content. Additionally, I hope to upload new downloadable content that includes all kinds of manufacturer specific content as well as plugins that will enhance the AutoCAD MEP experience. Enjoy!
Mass Element Elevation in a Property SetPosted by Autocad MEP, Property Sets | Categories:
Recently a question was asked on the AutoCAD MEP forums about how to put the elevation of a Mass Element in a property set definition when neither the location or the elevation was available as an automatic property. You can view the original post here. Since this was very similar to a post that was covered previously on this blog it was an easy solution. First I created a new property set definition that referenced a mass element and then added the automatic property definition OBJECTID. Once that was complete I created a new formula definition and added the following code. Make sure to replace the [OBJECTID] in the code below with a reference to the automatic property!
On Error Resume Next DecimalPlaces = 8 Set acadApp = GetObject(,"AutoCAD.Application") 'ACADVER values: 'MEP 2010 = "18.0s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP 2011 = "18.1s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP 2012 = "18.2s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP 2013 = "19.0s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP 2014 = "19.1s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP 2015 = "20.0s (LMS Tech)" acadVerString = acadApp.ActiveDocument.GetVariable("ACADVER") 'Set ACA application string, based on version running: Select Case acadVerString Case "18.0s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP-2010 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.6.0" Case "18.1s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP-2011 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.6.5" Case "18.2s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP-2012 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.6.7" Case "19.0s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP-2013 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.7.0" Case "19.1s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP-2014 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.7.5" Case "20.0s (LMS Tech)" 'MEP-2015 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.7.7" Case Else aecBaseVer = "Unknown" End Select If aecBaseVer = "Unknown" Then RESULT = "Unknown Version" Else Set aecBase = acadApp.GetInterfaceObject(aecBaseVer) aecBase.Init acadApp Set MassElementObject = acadApp.ActiveDocument.ObjectIDToObject([ObjectID]) Set UtilityObject = aecBase.ActiveDocument.Utility ' Get the Normal of the Object and break down into individual X, Y, and Z parts MassElementObjectNormal = UtilityObject.ConvertToVariantArray(MassElementObject.Location) NormalX = Round(MassElementObjectNormal(0), DecimalPlaces) NormalY = Round(MassElementObjectNormal(1), DecimalPlaces) NormalZ = Round(MassElementObjectNormal(2), DecimalPlaces) 'Return the results RESULT = Cdbl(NormalZ) End If
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Copying AutoTag Settings from Release to ReleasePosted by Autocad MEP, Fabrication For AutoCAD MEP, Sheetmetal | Categories:
If you are like me then you have spent alot of time setting up your AutoTag settings so that your ductwork is tagged the way that you like it. While not 100% perfect the AutoTag functionality of the EastCoast CAD/CAM addin can save you an incredible amount of time during the documentation process of your design. So what do you do if you want to move the settings to another pc or migrate the settings to a more recent version of the software?
Luckily this is as easy as copying a single file from one location to another. First you open up your My Documents folder and navigate to the EastCoast directory and then open the Fabrication For AutoCAD MEP 20XX that corresponds to the version that you are currently using. Find the tags.xml file and copy and paste it into the version of the software that you would like to use the settings in. Please note that some versions of the software use the same version of AutoCAD MEP so you will not have to take any action when upgrading the software. For instance, V6.0 and V6.1 both run inside of AutoCAD MEP 2014. So the Fabrication for AutoCAD MEP folder will be the same for both versions! This means that your settings will automatically appear. However, if you are upgrading from V5.2 to V6.0 or V6.1 then you will need to migrate your settings.
You can also use this same procedure to copy the settings from one PC to another PC. You will just have to locate the appropriate folder location in the users My Documents folder.
Fabrication For AutoCAD MEP V6.1 - Column Reorganization in the PipeFittingAdd dialogPosted by Autocad MEP, Fabrication For AutoCAD MEP, Piping | Categories:
New in Version 6.1 of Fabrication for AutoCAD MEP in the Select a Part dialog box SELECT PART SIZE area, the visibility and order of parameters has been optimized to reduce the need to scroll to the far right to identify differences between fittings. Important information will now list on the first few columns, starting with Part Size Name, Connection Diameters, NamePerMfg, and so on. For example, for elbows, the Angle column has been moved up to the front.
This should allow you to find and select your pipe fittings much quicker and easier!
Fabrication For AutoCAD MEP V6.1 - Duct StatusPosted by Fabrication For AutoCAD MEP, Sheetmetal | Categories:
New in Fabrication for AutoCAD MEP V6.1 Eastcoast has added a new classification called status.
When a new EastCoast duct object is placed into your model this classification will automatically be set by the software to the status defined by your specification. This will allow you to create schedules that can quickly and easily select and filter your duct objects for scheduling.
Autocad MEP Scheduling BasicsPosted by Autocad MEP, Property Sets, Schedules, Tags | Categories:
I get a lot of questions on schedules and property sets and instead of reinventing the wheel I thought I would point out a set of 4 videos by Jay Ayala of Autodesk. Enjoy.
Property Set Definitions
Block vs Parametric based MvPartsPosted by Autocad MEP, Multi-View Parts | Categories:
There are two types of parts in an Autocad MEP MvPart Catalog. A block based MvPart and a Parametric MvPart. Block based parts are created from 3D solids or Mass Elements. Additional sizes that are added to the part are done by creating a new block and adding it to the catalog drawing file. Parametric parts are created using dimensions and constraints. All sizes are modeled from a single part that is 'flexed' by its parameters to create a almost unlimited amount of size combinations. Even though each part type is created using content builder, the interface to do so is decidedly different for a block based part than that for a parametric part. The main advantage of a parametric based part is that it is quite easy to create new custom sizes as long as the model is built correctly.
How do you tell when adding a part if it is parametric or block based? It is quite easy by looking at the icon of the part in the Add Multi-View Parts Dialog. The picture below is worth a thousand words.
Undocumented property set definitions continuedPosted by Autocad MEP, Property Sets | Categories:
In the last post we looked at how to add an undocumented property to a property set definition. This time lets try to add a formula based location property to a space object using the method from the last post.
RESULT="NA" On Error Resume Next Set AcadApp = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application") Set MEPObject = AcadApp.Activedocument.Objectidtoobject("[ObjectID]") RESULT= MEPObject.location
When this property definition is created and made visible there is no information being reported. The property definition is blank. Why is this? This is because a location property is actually made up of three different values (x,y, and z) that are stored as a point object in the system. VBScript does not know how to read point objects so the point object will first need to be converted into an array before it can read. The following code gets the space location and breaks the location point up into its 3 separate values and then concatenates them together as a string so we can read them and returns the result.
On Error Resume Next DecimalPlaces = 8 Set acadApp = GetObject(,"AutoCAD.Application") 'ACADVER values: 'ACA 2010 = "18.0s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA 2011 = "18.1s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA 2012 = "18.2s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA 2013 = "19.0s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA 2014 = "19.1s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA 2015 = "20.0s (LMS Tech)" acadVerString = acadApp.ActiveDocument.GetVariable("ACADVER") 'Set ACA application string, based on version running: Select Case acadVerString Case "18.0s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA-2010 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.6.0" Case "18.1s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA-2011 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.6.5" Case "18.2s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA-2012 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.6.7" Case "19.0s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA-2013 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.7.0" Case "19.1s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA-2014 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.7.5" Case "20.0s (LMS Tech)" 'ACA-2015 aecBaseVer = "AecX.AecBaseApplication.7.7" Case Else aecBaseVer = "Unknown" End Select If aecBaseVer = "Unknown" Then RESULT = "Unknown Version" Else Set aecBase = acadApp.GetInterfaceObject(aecBaseVer) aecBase.Init acadApp Set SpaceObject = acadApp.ActiveDocument.ObjectIDToObject([ObjectID]
) Set UtilityObject = aecBase.ActiveDocument.Utility ' Get the Location of the SpaceObject and break down into individual X, Y, and Z parts SpaceObjectLocation = UtilityObject.ConvertToVariantArray(SpaceObj ect.Location) LocationX = Round(SpaceObjectLocation(0), DecimalPlaces) LocationY = Round(SpaceObjectLocation(1), DecimalPlaces) LocationZ = Round(SpaceObjectLocation(2), DecimalPlaces) 'Return the results RESULT = Cstr(LocationX & ";" & LocationY & ";" & LocationZ) End If
The value of the property definition should look something like this 144.124;1200.375;0. This would place the space object 12′-0 1/8″ on the positive X axis, 100′- 0 3/8″ on the Y axis and at a zero elevation. If you would like to see more or less decimal places in the result then you can change the second line of code from DecimalPlaces = 3 to DecimalPlaces = X where X is the amount of decimal places you would like to see. And finally if you are only interested in the elevation of the space then you can modify the result of the script to instead say RESULT = LocationZ. There is no need to convert to a string in this case as a number would be more preferable as the units of the property definition could then be set to a length value and read as feet and inches.
Undocumented Property Set DefinitionsPosted by Autocad MEP, Property Sets | Categories:
If you heavily use property sets then at one time or another you have found the need to schedule a property that is not readily available via an automatic property definition. For example when creating a pipe system you can assign it a system family (commonly known as group) that will allow different systems of the same family to interconnect. Systems that are not of the same group will not interconnect. This could be a handy property to schedule but how do you do it? System group is not an automatic property of MEP objects.
First start the style manager and then open up the property set that you wish to add the system family definition to. The first thing that needs to be done is to add the automatic property definition ObjectID to the property set. This is needed to access information about the object. Then just add the following code to a formula based property definition:
RESULT="NA" On Error Resume Next Set AcadApp = GetObject(, "AutoCAD.Application") Set MEPObject = AcadApp.Activedocument.Objectidtoobject("[ObjectID]") RESULT= MEPObject.SystemFamily
Make sure to input [ObjectID] by clicking on the definition in the Insert Property Definition section in the lower left portion of the dialog window. Hit Ok and make sure to make your new property definition viewable so you can see it on the property palette's extended tab.
Displaying Tag AnchorsPosted by Autocad MEP, Display Manager, Tags | Categories:
In a heavily populated drawing you can accumulate alot of annotation tags and it can become quite difficult to see what they actually are attached to. You can easily display the link between the tag and the parent object by some simple Display Representation manipulation. Lets get started!
First we need to start the display manager by either typing DISPLAYMANAGER at the command line or by selecting it on the Manage tab of the ribbon. In the display manager expand the Sets node of the tree and scroll down until you come to the current active display set. This will be the text highlighted in bold. Select the active display set and in the right hand side select Anchor Tag to Entity and Anchor Extended Tag to Entity under the General Column as shown in the picture below. Press Ok to update the changes and you now have a drawing that shows the anchor relationships between tags and the objects they are attached to!
Creating a Duct Elevation Tag - Part FourPosted by Autocad MEP, Tutorials | Categories:
In our last post we added to the duct elevation tag by creating an option to include or not include the insulation thickness in the elevation value. This time we are going to add a manual property definition that will allow us to add a custom offset to each piece of duct. This time instead of adding an option to include or not include the offset in the elevation calculation we will instead always add the offset. By setting the value of the offset to 0′-0″ we can effectively turn off the option. So lets get started!
The first thing we need to do is add a manual property set definition called ElevationOffset to our ECCustomData property set. We should set its Type to Real and its default value to 0.0. This will effectively turn if off by default. The visibility box should be checked so we can type in the value of the offset on the property palette. Lastly we should set the order that the visible property set definitions will be displayed. By default they are always displayed in alphabetical order but by giving the property set definitions a numerical value we can change the order in which they are displayed. We are currently only displaying two property set definitions, ElevationOffset and ShowInsulationOnElevationTag. So it will be easy to find in a large list lets make sure that the ElevationOffset is at the bottom of the list. Number the BOD_Tag as 1, ShowInsulationOnElevationTag as 2, and the Offset as 3. Next we need to make sure that the format for ElevationOffset is set to Standard. Setting to anything else could possibly break our formula and the display of the elevation tag. The last thing we need to do to update our tag is to modify the calculation used to calculate the bottom of duct elevation. If you remember in part three we split the calculation into two separate parts. One with the insulation thickness and one without so we will need to subtract the offset to both of parts of the conditional statement. Yes, you did read that correctly, we need to subtract the offset from the elevation. We are subtracting the offset value because a negative offset (think of this as a negative change in floor height) will cause the duct to appear higher than its surrounding pieces. This means that we must subtract the value from the current elevation. Subtracting a negative value is the same as adding a positive value. If you remember your grade school math two negatives make a positive. The picture to the right shows the complete formula.
The hard stuff is now finished and the only thing left to do is to test our manual offset! to do this just select a piece of duct. You should now see a property set definition called ElevationOffset on the Extended Tab of the Property Palette. Inserting a numerical value will now adjust the elevation tag accordingly for the piece of duct.
Below is a video of the entire process that was described in today's post.
In the next part of the series we will give the duct even more intelligence by giving it the ability to know where it is located in the project by using AEC Spaces. We will then be able to modify the elevation calculation to take its elevation from the bottom of the space. So if the space itself is lower than its surrounding spaces then the duct will know automatically and adjust its elevation accordingly with no input from the user.
Creating a Duct Elevation Tag - Part ThreePosted by Autocad MEP, Tutorials | Categories:
In our last post we looked at creating the actual tag based on property set definitions that we created in the first post of the series. In this post we will be adding the ability for our bottom of duct (BOD) elevation tag to include or not include the insulation thickness in the elevation display. Not only will we modify the elevation but we will also modify BOD to read instead BOI to indicate that the elevation is from the bottom of insulation and not the bottom of duct. So lets get started!
The first thing we need to do is add an automatic property definition to our ECDuctCustomData property set. You can refer to the first part of the series if you do not remember how to do this. The property we are looking to add is called Insulation Thickness and we should turn its visible property off. There is no need to show it on the property palette as it is already available on the design tab. We will also need a manual property definition called ShowInsulationOnElevationTag. We should set its type to True/False, change its default value to False and leave its visible property on. We will want to see this on the property palette so we can choose to see the insulation thickness elevation if we desire.
Lastly we will need to add some additional items to the BOD_Calculation formula. The formula needs to be modified to show the elevation plus the insulation thickness if the value of ShowInsulationOnElevationTag is equal to TRUE and if the value is false then we can just display the elevation without the insulation thickness added. To achieve this functionality we will have to use what is called VBScript. According to Wikipedia "VBScript is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic." What this basically means is that it is a small programming language that we can use to inside of the formula editor of Autocad MEP. In this particular formula we will be using three different VBScript components to determine our desired result. First we will use a UCASE() formula to convert the value of ShowInsulationOnElevationTag. I prefer to convert all text to upper case before use in a conditional statement. This way there can be no errors due to upper or lower case letters. Forcing everything to uppercase makes it easy to compare different values. Second we will be using the constant RESULT. RESULT is used to return the result of a formula. And finally we will be using an if/then/else statement to determine which result we should return. The final formula can be seen in the picture to the right. Since we are in the calculation formula and not in the actual tag formula we should make sure that the format of each input value should be set to standard. We have already taken care of the final formatting in the BOD_Tag formula that was created in part one of this series.
Once we have closed out of the formula editor and of the style manager our existing tags should be updated to reflect the changes we made automatically. Since we only made a change to the BOD_Calculation and not the BOD_Tag we do not need to do anything to our existing tags. To verify this we can select the piece of duct we added in part two add two inches of insulation to the duct. The elevation tag will not reflect this change immediately. This is because we set the default value of your true/false toggle to false! If we keep the piece of duct selected and then select the Extended Data tab of the property palette we can change the toggle from false to true. Once we change this flag we can immediately see the elevation tag update with the new elevation. It should now be two inches lower than it was before.
You can view a video of the entire process here:
In Part Four we will look at adding an elevation offset to each piece of duct allowing for an elevation change in certain parts of your drawing.
Creating a Duct Elevation Tag - Part TwoPosted by Autocad MEP, Tutorials | Categories:
In our last post we looked at creating the calculations necessary to create a bottom of duct (BOD) elevation tag. In this post we are going to create the actual tag. We will create multiple versions of the tag that has a middle-left insertion point, middle-center insertion point, and a version with a middle-right insertion point. So lets get started.
The first thing that we need to do is create an mtext item to start our tag with. In order for the tag to display correctly with annotation scaling we need to create the text at 1″ tall and with annotation scaling turned OFF. This will insure that the tag will display correctly at all annotation scales. The tag itself will control the annotation scaling process so creating the text with annotation turn on will only compound the scaling. This is something that we do not want. Once we have added an mtext item we need to duplicate it for a total of 3 items and then set the justification for each of the three mtext items. One each for Middle-Left, Middle-Center, and Middle-Right.
Select the text with the Middle-Left justification and start the DEFINETAG command. This will bring up the Define Schedule Tag dialog box. Lets name our tag Aecb_Duct_BOD_Tag_Left. I like to create a naming scheme that is easy to follow. Looking at the tag we can see that it is a building systems tag for duct that defines the bottom of duct elevation and its insertion point is Left. A good naming scheme will allow you to select the correct tag using the property palette without referring to any additional documentation. Now that we have the Define Schedule Tag dialog up and named correctly we can create the tag. To do this select the Text in the Type column and change it to Property. This will allow our tag to read from a property definition instead of reading a static piece of text. Change the Property Set to ECDuctCustomData and choose the Property Definition to be BOD_Tag and then hit OK. We should now define the insertion point of the tag by selecting the insertion point of the text. Lets rinse and repeat for the Center tag and the Right tag making sure to change the name to reflect the justification of the tag.
Here is a video of the entire process.
In the next part of the series we will look at adding an option to show the bottom of insulation.
Creating a Duct Elevation Tag - Part OnePosted by Autocad MEP, Tutorials | Categories:
For my first post I thought that I would start a series of posts on how to create tags and more specifically an elevation tag for duct. The criteria for this tag will be that it needs the following abilities:
- Show bottom of duct elevation (BOD)
- Create the tag using a property set that is automatically attached to duct
- Show the bottom of duct elevation with or without insulation
- Show bottom of duct with or without an elevation offset
- Have the ability to tag a regular piece of duct or a locked piece of duct
- Have the ability to know if the bottom of duct elevation is below the ceiling elevation of an AEC Space
So now that we have a couple of criteria in place we can get started creating the tag. To find the BOD a couple of pieces of information about the duct will be required. In property set terms this information is called automatic properties and for duct the Z elevation is considered an automatic property. In other words, this property is supplied by the program automatically to any property set that wishes to use it. Unfortunately the elevation supplied is not the bottom of duct, it is instead the centerline elevation of the duct. So we will need to know the height of the duct to calculate the BOD elevation. Fortunately the height of a piece of duct is considered an automatic property and returns the depth of a rectangular piece, the minor of an oval piece, or the diameter of a round piece of duct.
So now that we have our two automatic properties we can get started creating our tag but first we need to decide in which property set to calculate our new BOD elevation tag. The ductobject property set supplied by Autodesk already contains our two automatic properties so we could just create the tag there but we want our property set to automatically be attached to each piece of duct and any property sets supplied by Autodesk out of the box do not have this functionality. We could use the ECDuctSystemData which is attached automatically when the DUCTSCHEDULEDATA command is ran or when the duct is set to be automatically broken into sections and tagged but this would not be a good idea. Any information in this property set can be changed or removed from release to release. Instead we will place our information inside of the ECDuctCustomData property set which acts exactly like ECDuctSystemData but will never be modified by EastCoast. This means that when the next release comes out we can be 100% confident that our property set will still work as intended. Since ECDuctCustomData is shipped completely empty we will need to add the automatic properties to it and once we do that we can get started creating our tag.
To add the automatic properties to ECDuctCustomData we need to start the stylemanager and navigate to the property set section. A shortcut for to get to this section is to just type the command PROPERTYSETDEFINE at the command line. This will bring up the property set manager as shown below where we can add our two automatic properties. Since this is the first time we have added anything to ECDuctCustomData it will be empty.
To add an automatic property we just need to select the automatic property button as shown in the picture to the right. This will bring up a dialog where we can select LocationZ. We then need to create another automatic property and select Height. Once we have these two automatic properties created we can start to create our formula to calculate the BOD elevation. To do this we will need to create a formula property definition. The button for this can be found immediately below the automatic property button. This will bring up a dialog similar to the one shown below. As shown in the picture I named the formula BOD_Calculation and I have already entered in the formula to calculate the bottom of duct elevation. ([LocationZ] – [Height]/2). Anywhere you see an item enclosed in brackets you should not type in the value but instead choose it from the list in the Insert Property Definitions: section. In the Enter Sample Values: section make sure that the format is set to standard for each entry.
Why did we set the format to standard? We really want the elevation to display in an architectural format so why didnt we set it here? Well the answer is that this is not the property that we are going to read with our tag. This property is just being used to calculate our elevation. We will format the elevation correctly in our next property which we will call BOD_Tag. This should also be a formula property set and in this case we will name it BOD_Tag. Enter in the formula "BOD: [BOD_Calculation]" this time typing in "BOD: " and then selecting BOD_Calculation from the list under ECDuctCustomData. Make sure to set the format correctly this time to Unit-Distance Feet Inches – No Comma.
One last thing to do today is to look at all of the properties of ECDuctCustomData and turn off the visibility of all property definitions except for BOD_Tag. This will insure that the only property definition that will show on the property palette will be just the one we are interested in. Below is a video of the entire process.
In Part Two we will show how to create the actual tag itself and save it in the correct style drawing.
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A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb offers a prayer for victims of the world's first atomic bombing at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, on August 6, 2012.
Arata Yamamoto, NBC News reports from Tokyo — As dignitaries from 71 countries joined a crowd of 50,000 on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, Japanese officials vowed to revamp energy policies in the wake of the devastating Fukushima nuclear accident.
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Paper lantern floats are released into the water during a ceremony for the victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 5, 2012. The ceremony was synchronized at the same time as 8:15 am Japanese time - the hour that the bomb exploded over Hiroshima 67 years ago. According to the Brazil Hibakusha Association for Peace, 115 victims are said to live in Brazil.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook calls a shareholder lawsuit against the company a "silly sideshow" but says he is open to looking at the shareholder's proposals for sharing more cash with investors.
Last week, investor David Einhorn sued Apple Inc., saying a proposal slated for a vote at the company's annual meeting in two weeks would make it more difficult to enact his plan to reward shareholders by distributing a new class of shares.
Cook says the proposal puts more power in the hands of shareholders, making it difficult to understand why a shareholder would fight it.
Repeating previous statements, Cook says the company is "seriously" looking at ways to hand out more cash to shareholders.
Cook was speaking at a Goldman Sachs investor conference in San Francisco.


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Yep more bookends, lol. I got these the first time I went to the sale, but forgot to post. These have MMA engraved in them. I don't know what that stands for, maybe they're just engraved initials for someone's name and not any indicator of a maker. These didn't have any paper labels attached, but still nice and heavy of course.
And amazingly enough, there was not a single book at this sale, lol. I don't know if the lady kept them for herself or maybe her mother just used bookends alone as decorative pieces. Just my guess.


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For a man who never really considered himself a politician, Edwin L. Miller Jr. left a lasting mark on one of San Diego's top elected offices, spending 24 years as the county's longest-serving district attorney.
Mr. Miller died Sunday at his La Jolla home from complications caused by liver cancer, his son said. He was 87.
Friends and colleagues remembered him Monday as an honest and innovative prosecutor, whose six-term journey as the county's top prosecutor came to an end after missteps in a couple of high-profile cases, most notably the prosecution of Dale Akiki, who was acquitted in 1993 of physical and sexual abuse charges.
But he was also recognized nationally for his many accomplishments, including setting up programs to prosecute career criminals, insurance fraud and street gangs. And he had a lasting impact on the many prosecutors he hired and mentored, even after he left office.
"He had always managed to bring out the best in those prosecutors," said his son, Stephen Miller, an assistant U.S. attorney in San Diego. "They loved him and admired him" he said.
District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis was hired by Mr. Miller and worked for him for 15 years.
"He was an acclaimed prosecutor, dedicated public servant and generous boss," she said in a written statement. "Ed Miller was a close friend and mentor to many of us in the District Attorney's Office for years."
Richard Huffman, who was once Mr. Miller's top assistant and now serves as an associate justice with the state 4th District Court of Appeal, said his former boss made the District Attorney's Office a career destination instead of a stop en route to private practice.
"He turned the office into a long-term professional place instead of a pass through kind of place, which is what it was," Huffman said.
Peter Hughes, a longtime criminal defense attorney and neighbor of Mr. Miller's for more than 50 years, called him a "class act."
"When he told you something, you could go to the bank on it," Hughes said. "He never played any games."
Thomas Warwick, also a defense lawyer, recalled hearing Mr. Miller speak to a class at the University of San Diego School of Law in the early 1970s, when Warwick was a student.
"He was a model for the way a professional prosecutor should be," Warwick said.
Mr. Miller, a Democrat, was elected district attorney in 1971. He had previously been a deputy city attorney and later assistant city attorney. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson appointed him the first U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California. He spent a brief stint in private practice.
Born in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1926, Mr. Miller went on to graduate from Dartmouth College in 1947. He married in 1953 and the couple moved to California, where Mr. Miller enrolled at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law. He completed his law degree in 1957.
As district attorney, Mr. Miller turned the office's small economic crime unit into a major fraud division, established the first anti-trust unit in any local prosecutor's office in the country and created a professional bureau of investigation.
His influence spread throughout the state and across the country when he served as president of the California District Attorneys Association and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve on his Commission on Organized Crime.
Some of his office's most noteworthy prosecutions included the death penalty case of Robert Alton Harris, who in 1992 was the first person executed in California in 25 years, and Cleophus Prince, who was convicted in 1993 of fatally stabbing six women.
His office also prosecuted then-Mayor Roger Hedgecock, now a talk-radio host and host of a show on U-T TV. He was convicted in 1985 of conspiracy and perjury charges related to campaign contributions.
Hedgecock's convictions were overturned on appeal, and in a plea bargain to avoid another trial he accepted the felony conspiracy verdict, which was later reduced to a misdemeanor and eventually expunged.
It was a quick succession of problematic prosecutions that dealt a blow to Mr. Miller's hopes for a seventh term in 1994.
It started with Jim Wade, a Navy man who was charged with molesting a relative. Prosecutors eventually dropped the case in light of DNA evidence that pointed to another man. But the Akiki case is widely viewed as Mr. Miller's downfall.
Akiki, a former Spring Valley church day care volunteer, was acquitted of felony charges after awaiting trial in jail for 2½ years. The trial lasted seven months.
Mr. Miller was defeated in the June 1994 primary, beating only one of his four challengers at the polls. Paul Pfingst, who had worked as a prosecutor under Miller for four years, won election that November.
Pfingst said Monday that those "two unfortunate cases" shouldn't overshadow Mr. Miller's contributions to San Diego, the state and the country.
"He clearly loved his job, loved being D.A.," Pfingst said. "He was a formidable presence."
Mr. Miller did not campaign for another office after his defeat. Instead, he retired.
His wife of 59 years, Barbara, died at their La Jolla home on Dec. 31. He is survived by his son, Stephen; daughter-in-law, Jennifer; and two grandsons, Jason and Corbin.
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Is Peninsula Bound St. Petersburg Getting a Raw Rays Deal?
I am one of those people who just sit there and shakes my head when Major League Baseball or one of the Tampa Bay Rays front office head honchos talk about the fan base within 30 miles of their current home in the downtown section of St. Petersburg, Florida. I understand the logic that Rays Senior Vice President of Development and Business Affairs was trying to convey that only "600,000 people live within a 30-minute drive of the Trop". But you have to remember the founding Fathers of Rays baseball knew the Trop would be surrounded by water on 3-sides and still they built it because they believed "If you build it, they (baseball) would come".
It is quite understandable that the consolidated population number quoted by Kalt would be low considering to the West of St. Petersburg there is about 7-8 miles of fans before you hit the Gulf of Mexico. To the South of the Trop's current location there are some 7 miles of fans then you splash into the estuary that is Tampa Bay or travel over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to a small segment of people in the Palmetto and Ellenton. If Rays SP David Price threw a stone due East he would hit about 2 miles of potential or actual fans, then his rock would hit only water until you venture over to the other side of Tampa Bay towards Apollo Beach and possibly a few dozen faithful Rays manatees by the TECO power plant.
If you journeyed North from Tropicana Field you would get the second biggest segment of the fan base within that 30-minute trek as Pinellas County forms a bit of a lower case "b" from the St. Petersburg area and narrows considerably until you get up in the Palm Harbor and Oldsmar areas which then you can travel eastbound on solid soil. If you travels Northeast over either the Gandy or Howard Franklin Bridges you get a minority of the fan base population not situated in the heart of St. Petersburg with the 30-minute window and on a good driving day might find that 30-minute stopping point about halfway through Tampa possibly basically near 50th Street just a short tad short of historic Ybor City.
Kalt is right that St. Petersburg and the lower half of Pinellas County are cut off a bit from the population core that has sprung up over the last 10 years venturing North, East and South of the metro Tampa area. With water on our 3-sides it makes sense we might not have the fan base of some Triple-A teams. I would love to have the luck of landlocked cities like Atlanta and Cincinnati who have their Triple-A squads within a car ride away from the MLB Clubhouse, plus do not have a water trap like we do here in St. Petersburg to act as a deterrent to some fans beyond the 30-minute drive window.
I understand totally the logic and slanted numbers here that show that the current Trop location doesn't have the ample 30-minute availability of some more centrally located areas in the Tampa Bay region. But I wonder if anyone has done any research to see if the numbers show a more positive swing if the stadium was situated in the Carillion Park region of Pinellas, or if the numbers are staggering to show a Tampa slant, possibly more in the Dale Mabry/Raymond James Stadium region than in the Tampa Channelside or downtown region. Of course the farther you go East, the higher the population base would be as you are going farther away from the St. Petersburg situation of water on 3-side and venture into other cities like Brandon, Seffner, Plant City and maybe a sliver of Lakeland, Florida.
Bashing the Trop's current location is the modus operandi of Major League Baseball and the Rays right now because it shows a negative population impact compared to some other areas within the land-based regions of Tampa. It bothers me when numbers that are slanted and made to swerve left and right into the plans of the Rays and other factions. St. Petersburg and its citizens do not deserve the negativity. I understand the numbers, concur with the Rays logic, but if the stadium had been placed in mid-Pinellas where a majority of us Rays Republic fans had hoped back in the 1980's, this mumbo-jumbo of stats would not be thrown into the ring at all.
Some times people forget this region was so baseball hungry back in the 80's, way before the Rays expansion team was awarded we built a stadium hoping baseball would come. Tried to buy,relocate and even got stonewalled by MLB before we got our team via expansion. Sure the old St. Pete Gas Plant location might not have been the most feasible location even back in the 1980's, but the site was decided by some people who felt it was a centrally located area at that time. It is a foregone conclusion baseball has a limited shelf life in the confines of Tropicana Field, but to downgrade a region that can not expand horizontally because of H2O to me is just wrong. The reality of it all is the initial site that became the Trop was the wrong spot and that was decided way before the building was rigged for baseball and was home to large concerts, huge Home Shows and even a high-caliber of NHL Hockey and Arena Football.
Sure Kalt is right about his numbers, but why should we give more ammo to the already negative outside National media to our stadium's present location and attendance when even in its current Rays mindset of being an illogical location, it still has some of the best sight lines in baseball and is home to a high-octane MLB team.
The proposed new Rays home will logically be some distance from the Trop's current location, but why throw so much negativity about the current stadium location when we all know deep down and in our hearts will be plucked from the St. Petersburg region. The first 15 years of this franchise has seen huge changes across the board, 2 championships, a Wild Card berth and 21,059,547 proud Rays fans have ventured through the rotunda at Tropicana Field the last 15 seasons most not afraid of a 30 minute drive to watch quality MLB baseball.


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Kitchen is the power house of your home. Saving energy in your kitchen will surely have an impact on your overall home's energy usage. A greener kitchen means saving energy. The appliances, their usage and even the paint color of your kitchen is directly proportional to it energy consumption. A neutral colored kitchen is supposed to more energy efficient than the one with a vibrant color palette. Kitchen appliances make up about 30% of the total home energy consumption.
By adopting these simple habits into your daily life, you can save energy while working in your kitchen –
1) Use microwave when necessary.
2) Use a pressure cooker, it helps you cook faster and saves energy.
3) Cover your pots to help food cook faster.
4) Use the burner/hob which fits your pan to avoid wastage of energy.
5) Use a solar-box cooker.
6) Using an electric kettle? Boil water that is needed.


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I knew something was up when Chevy initially announced its 2014 Spark electric car at something like 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon—that's not how you get the best out of the news cycle.
General Motors bet just about everything on its Volt plug-in hybrid—and it's working. Last month, GM sold a respectable 2,961 Volts nationwide, and the trajectory is up. The car's sales have been helped by massive publicity and marketing investment. But now the Spark is on the stand at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and it's rolling out quietly, with a price and marketing plan that's likely to keep it in a small niche.
Two EVs shown in LA, the 2014 Spark and the Fiat 500e, tell the story of "compliance cars." GM and Chrysler need zero-emission cars to comply with California's rules for major manufacturers selling vehicles in the state. They don't have to sell them elsewhere, so the programs can be small, and they're building them on existing cars, so the investment isn't too big. The only problem is that there's not a huge reason for consumers to seek them out, when companies like Nissan (which sold 1,579 Leafs in October) are putting in so much more effort.
The Spark (left), a plug-in version of GM's cute Korean-designed mini-car, is initially aimed only at California, Oregon, Canada and South Korea. It has a 130-horsepower, 100-kilowatt electric motor and a 20-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack. GM isn't being specific about range, though it claims numbers "among the best." A bright spot is that the car could be the first on the market set up for 20-minute fast charging using the new American SAE "combo" standard—just one plug for 240- and 480-volt charging.
There were some breathless stories about the Spark EV selling for $25,000 (approximately the price of the new Smart Electric Drive), but that's misleading. In fact, the car is around $33,000, and the $7,500 federal income tax credit takes it down in that ballpark. Since you can gain entry to the gas Spark at $13,000, that's quite an electric premium.
The Fiat 500e will probably be scarce nationally, too. They're talking about 80-mile range, with a 111-horsepower electric motor and 24-kilowatt-hour li-ion battery pack. Like the Spark, it's rolling out first in California, and we'll see what happens after that. Chrysler/Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said—maybe he was joking—that his company will lose $10,000 on every 500e.
Information on the 500e (interior at right) has always been hard to come by, and Fiat execs often looked exasperated when you brought the car up. But it's finally on our doorstep, as a compliance car. Expect the first California deliveries in the second quarter of 2013.
Now Fiat is talking. "The Fiat 500e offers iconic Italian design and a great combination of performance and range, with battery technology that delivers consistent performance across all weather conditions," said Tim Kuniskis, head of the Fiat brand in the U.S. But the 500e is not enabled for fast charging, as far as I can tell.
Here's some nice video footage of the 500e on the road:
2013 Fiat 500e Running Footage by AutoMotoTV
Brad Berman, who (like me) writes for the New York Times and PlugInCars.com, is more sanguine than I am about these gritted-teeth rollouts. "I have a somewhat contrary view about the entire issue of 'compliance cars,'" he said. "I see California's zero emission mandates as a good thing, and see nothing wrong with carmakers complying with it. Each carmaker is obviously free to draw its own conclusions about how active they want to be in the emerging plug-in market.
"California, and the states that follow California rules, are making sure that every auto manufacturer at the very least begins the process of producing and selling vehicles that have no tailpipe emissions. That's good for consumers, ultimately good for carmakers in my opinion, and especially good for everybody that breathes air in California. No harm, no foul. Who knows what lurks in the heart of product planners at Fiat, GM and Honda [which produced an electric "compliance" version of the Fit]? It doesn't matter. The EV market is in its infancy, and is very likely to grow with more product offerings and more volume. It's early days."
It is indeed, and the electric car market is still forming and shaping. It's fascinating to watch, because new entries are coming fast and furiously. For instance, in Los Angeles BMW unveiled its i3 Concept Coupe, a styling exercise that complements the similar i8 convertible I saw (with Uma Thurman!) in New York.
The carbon-fiber-bodied i3 four-door is going into production next year, but this concept coupe is a big maybe. It's cute enough, but I need the four doors.
The BMW i3 is definitely not a compliance car. The company is really serious about inventing a new form of urban mobility, and has invested a fortune in lightweight carbon fiber as part of that effort. It will put the company's full clout behind the marketing of its new eDrive cars (the i8 plug-in hybrid is slated for 2014), and that will be readily apparent.


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Who doesn't love the 1950s? It's a national nostalgia that has flourished since, well, since the 1960s.
Who doesn't love the 1950s? It's a national nostalgia that has flourished since, well, since the 1960s.
No small part of that fondness is the romantic figures cut by the era's teen stars, with their bright smiles, neat haircuts and cool nicknames, sweet but verging on dangerous in a cute way.
All of that is wrapped up in "Forever Plaid," the story of four friends who meet in high school, drawn together by a dream of becoming American idols long before there was a show of the same name.
Tragically, a bus accident takes their lives. But perhaps if a band really wants success they can overcome any obstacle, right?
Find out for yourself at an upcoming production at Theatre III in Acton.
After all, teen idols are nothing if not immortal.
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"Forever Plaid" is on stage at Theatre III, 250 Central St., West Acton, with performances Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2, 8 and 9 and 15 and 16 at 6 p.m., and Sunday, May 3 at 3 p.m. Tickets $21 adults and $18 seniors and students.For more information, call 978-263-9070 or visit www.theatreiii.org. Margaret Smith is Arts and Calendar editor at GateHouse Media New England's Northwest Unit. E-mail her at email@example.com.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Gruden has completed his interview for the Washington Redskins' coaching job.
The team confirmed Wednesday that Gruden met with general manager Bruce Allen at Redskins Park, making the Cincinnati Bengals' offensive coordinator the sixth known candidate to interview as a possible replacement for Mike Shanahan.
Gruden has ties with several people within the Redskins' organization. He worked under Allen as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and with defensive coordinator Jim Haslett in the UFL.
Gruden has drawn interest from at least three other teams seeking to fill a head coaching vacancy. He interviewed with the Tennessee Titans on Tuesday.
Up next on Allen's list could be Vanderbilt coach James Franklin, although Franklin has also been courted by Penn State and other NFL teams.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org


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We Ochwats have an unfair advantage in the irony department. For some, it takes until graduate school in the humanities to learn about the floating signifier (i.e., the sign that doesn't point to an actual object, or an agreed-upon meaning). In fact, we Ochwats not only float the signifier, we get it lost at sea.
For the last name Ochwat, not only is the referent sometimes lost, but the spelling is also a little free-floating. I have collected over 30 misspellings, which I grouped by relative ineptitude (bonus points, for example, went to getting more than half the letters correct).
I've also answered to innumerable mispronunciations, and I once even accepted an award when the emcee said "John … uh …" (Yeah, they meant me.)
Now my children get to experience the same thing, and generate new and different mismanglings of the old, venerable and difficult name. For example, one of my kids recently got Ochwutat. Would you like some Ochwutats with that hamburger? Or, Nice ink, dude. I really like your Ochwutat.
This weekend, my son was looking through a Pokemon book, and turned a page to reveal: Oshawott. No, I'm not kidding. That's his name, and it even gets 4 out of 6 letters in the correct order (O, H, W, T), which is far more than other inept humans have managed with mine.
What is this thing? He looks like a depressed love child of a panda and an otter, cursed to wear a frilled sweater containing an extremely unfortunate illustration of a penis.
In search of answers, I consulted "Bulbpapedia," the Pokemon encyclopedia, and found an entry for him.
Turns out Oshawott, aka ミジュマル Mijumaru, is one pathetic-sounding bulbaped, especially because his "gender ratio" is slightly hazy 87.5% male, 12.5% female, and his Breeding is "field group," and "21 cycles (5355 minimum steps)" … which, if true, means Cosmo is going to have to come up with another 5,000 or so steps to help sad little Oshawott get it on.
There's even a breeding chart with an entire column labeled "father," and icons for 75 potential fathers in categories like "Night Slash," "Brine," and "Screech." Well no wonder Otter Boy is looking a little down in the mouth. If you ask him "Who's your daddy?" he needs to consult a frickin' chart, and hope its not someone from a Pokemon biker gang.
And what's with that doinker logo on his sweater?
Oshawott's torso is light blue, and decorated with a pale yellow seashell feature in the center. Made out of keratin, this appendage, called a "scalchop", can be removed and used in various ways; mainly, as a weapon.
Oh, it's a weapon! I followed the link, and there's Ash Oshawott, proudly displaying it:
In this image, the weapon looks a lot less inappropriate. Like a little dirigible, maybe, or a football of doom. Anyhow. The sweater is a disaster, and we're not going anywhere near the whole oedipal/father thing, or what "12.5% female" might mean, but at least he has a little keratin weapon thingy.
And I like that expression on his face, like he's got it out because looking to start some shit.
Alright then. He must be one of us.


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Is Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac? (0 messages)
With the Java Virtual Machine(JMV) supporting an increasing number of languages capable of running applications on the same infrastructure, a very valid question can be formulated with respect to the Java language. Not to question the pervasiveness of the JVM, but will Java 'the language' (java/javac) be as pervasive running applications in the long term ? In this post James Strachan makes a case for Scala being a long term replacement for java/javac. Read James Strachan's post 'Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac?': http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html
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Another item from the "just plain cool" department: here is a website with a neat little application that shows the motions of bodies in our solar system: the Solar System Visualizer. You can just watch it spin and spin and see how fast we go around the sun compared to the outer planets, then zoom in and see how Mercury outpaces us. You can zoom to individual planets to see solar systems in miniature, and get a sense of how truly weird it is that Triton orbits Neptune backwards compared to all the other large moons and planets in the solar system. Then you can zoom elsewhere, following the menus to show you the orbital motions of planets in extrasolar planetary systems. My favorite aspect of this visualization is how orbital speed scales with zoom level, so you never need to fiddle with temporal controls. Kudos to the student team of Michael VanDaniker and Andrew Lund, who developed the visualizer with rings researcher Doug Hamilton as their advisor. Here's two screen caps, one of the whole solar system and one of the inner part of the Saturn system.A peculiarity of the site is that the planets and moons are dropped in at random locations when the simulation starts, so it is not representative of any actual point in time. Where that becomes most significant is in the comparative positions of the moons of the outer planets. Many of the moons of the outer planets have orbital resonances -- for instance, Io orbits Jupiter four times for every two times that Europa goes around and for every single Ganymede orbit. For another instance, several of Saturn's moons have co-orbitals, smaller moons in 1:1 orbital resonances that should be located exactly 60 degrees ahead and behind the moon. The relative orbital speeds are correct for all these moons, but the relative orbital positions don't work out correctly because of the initial randomized location. The same goes for the positions of Pluto and Neptune -- the two are in a 3:2 orbital resonance and never get anywhere near each other (which is what makes Pluto's orbit a stable one), but depending on where the randomizer places them at the start, they sometimes approach uncomfortably close. Still, peculiarities aside, it is a really neat simulation, extremely easy to use, with few controls, and I think would be a great aid for teaching about the orbital motions of bodies in the solar system.
Some fun things to watch for: zoom in to where you can see Mars and Earth, and see how often the two line up on the same side of the Sun. Keep track of where it happened last time, and where it happens the next time. Now do you understand why Mars launch opportunities happen 26 months apart? Zoom out to where you can see the outer solar system, and muse on how rare it is for the outer planets to line up with Jupiter a little behind Saturn, Saturn a little behind Uranus, and Uranus a little behind Neptune, to permit such a thing as a Voyager 2 grand tour. Look at how bodies at the same distance from the Sun in the asteroid belt can be going at very different speeds, depending on how elliptical their orbits are and whether they're near aphelion or perihelion or in between. See if you can notice how Mars' relatively elliptical orbit makes it go much faster at one part of its year than at another part.


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Catalan Salt Pinch Cake
This Catalan Salt Pinch Cake doesn't have any salt in it at all. I know, the name is a bit misleading; but, there is a rational explanation. According to the baking book, the name was derived partially from the recommended way of eating it i.e. pinching out pieces of the fluffy cake between your fingers. The most exquisite of all the versions is called Salt because it was created by Miquel B. Costabella, a baker and patissier of Salt Bakery, which was named after the village of Salt, close to Girona, Spain. Naming semantics aside, this cake is very soft and fluffy. The texture is quite similar to a chiffon or an angel cake. If you like cottony soft and nutty cakes, then I am sure you will thoroughly enjoy this cake.
Recipe adapted from Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Catalan Salt Pinch Cake
(Printable Recipe)
112 g (1 Cup + 2 Tbsp) Slice Almonds, preferably unblanched
181 g (3/4 Cup + 2 ½ Tbsp, divided) Superfine Sugar
6 Large Eggs, whisk lightly in a cup
2 Large Egg Whites, at room temperature
1 tsp loosely packed Lemon Zest
56 g (½ Cup + 1 Tbsp) Cake Flour, or Bleached All Purpose Flour, sifted
Equipment: One 9 x 2 ½ to 3-inch spring form or cake pan.
Coat the pan with shortening, bottom and sides and line with parchment paper. For sides cut a 33 x 3 inch band of parchment, overlapping an extra piece if necessary to make long enough. Wrap and press it against the inside wall of the pan. Use some extra shortening to coat the overlapping ends to hold them in place against the first strip of parchment.
Preheat the oven to 325˚F or 160˚C.
Spread the almonds evenly on a baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes, or until pale golden in color. Stir once or twice to ensure even toasting and avoid overbrowning. Cool completely. In a food processor, pulse the almonds and 2 ½ Tbsp of the sugar until as fine as possible. Stop before the nuts start to become pasty.
Using a stand mixer fitted with the whisk beater beat the egg whites on medium-low speed until foamy. Increase the speed to medium high and beat until soft peaks form and gradually beat in the remaining sugar, stopping the mixer once to scrape down sides of the bowl. Continue beating until the meringue is very thick and glossy, but will not be smooth. Detach the whisk from the mixer and use it to stir the almond mixture into the meringue until evenly incorporated.
Reattach the whisk beater and with the mixer on medium speed, add the beaten egg to he meringue 2 Tbsp at a time, beating for 2 minutes between each addition. It should take a total of 20 to 25 minutes, but be sure to beat for a minimum of 20 minutes. Beat in the lemon zest. Remove the bowl and beater from the stand. While the mixture is beating, weigh or measure out the flour.
Sift the flour onto the batter and, using a large whisk, fold in the flour until fully incorporated. Reach to the bottom of the bowl and be sure that no white specks of flour remain. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake the cake for 25 to 35 minutes, or until a wire cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean and the cake spring back when pressed very lightly in the center. The cake will rise just a little and then sink slightly in the center.
Set the pan on a wire rack and immediately loosen and remove the sides, leaving the parchment attached to the cake. Allow the cake to cool until it is warm or at room temperature, about 1 hour. Slice the cake or eaten in the traditional way by pinching out pieces of the fluffy cake. The cake keeps wrapped airtight for 1 week at room temperature, for 10 days refrigerated, and for 6 months frozen.
Serves 8 to 20
8 comments:
Looks like a gorgeous cake. Shame there is no salt in it. I love salted desserts. But never the less this is yumm!ReplyDelete
I've never heard of this cake before. I think I'd be one of those pinching out pieces of cake since it looks so delicious.ReplyDelete
Sounds delicious! With such a small amount of flour used, I am sure this cake is fluffy and light!ReplyDelete
the name is so misleading, I still thought is a salty cake :P. The cake looks soft and fluffy, sound delicious too.ReplyDelete
Loved the crispy looking crust around the cake and I would love to pinch and eat this cake like how I did with Chiffon CakeReplyDelete
ohhh...that looks so good.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2010 at 8:39 AM
Hi all!!ReplyDelete
I'm really glad to say, that i live in Salt, Girona, Spain, just a few streets away from Costabella bakery. The only thing I can tell you, is that cake is reeeaaaally good.
I've been eyeing this cake from the book too.ReplyDelete
I've read that other bloggers could only pinch it to eat, and you could slice it!!!


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DOVER — It was another sterling field hockey fall with three local teams pushing it to the brink. All three nearly made championship berths to highlight the 2012 season.
St. Thomas Aquinas, led by Foster's player of the year Michelle Trainor, lost to Windham in the Division II semifinals in double overtime, 3-2. Marshwood, which won the 2011 Western Maine Class A crown as the fifth seed, fell this past year in the semis to Cheverus, 1-0, in Cape Elizabeth, and Traip was ousted in the Western Class C semis by No. 1 Lisbon, 2-1.
Also making the playoffs, but losing in the opening rounds were Dover in Division I, Kingswood in D-II and Somersworth in D-III.
How the team was picked: Area coaches nominated players from their teams and offered in put on player of the year and coach of the year. The sports staff made the final selections.
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The senior sweeper anchored an STA defense that allowed just 10 goals in 16 games. Trainor was named D-II all-state first team for the second straight year, leading the Saints to a 13-3 mark and a second straight trip to the D-II semis. She plans to play field hockey at Wheaton College (Mass.).
In the mix for the award with Trainor were teammate Gabbi Dodier and Marshwood's Sammy Crosman.
"She coached the team out there," said STA coach Sara Carpenter. "She was my eyes on the field, the last line of defense."
Coach Truesdale guided the Hawks to a second straight trip to the playoffs, which included a quarterfinal win over Sanford and a semifinals loss to Cheverus. Over two years, she has led the team to a 27-7 record. Truesdale was named SMAA coach of the year.
"Now that she has established her program, she has continued with consistent success over the past few seasons," STA's Carpenter said. "She is to be commended for the terrifc coach that she is."
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The junior forward was named D-II first team all-state and scored a school-record 21 goals in leading the Saints to the D-III semis for the second straight season. "The spark plug of our offense that scored 41 goals on the season," said coach Carpenter.
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Once upon a time this was a knitting blog. Today I am (briefly) returning to my roots.
Many moons ago I dyed this sock blank:
I finally finished the socks on Saturday night:
I have to admit that I didn't really like the socks when I finished them. They didn't turn out at all how I expected. However, I wore them all day Sunday and we made peace.
I probably won't ever love them, but I do like them. And they're a perfect fit.
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On Sunday I dyed the blank for the my next pair of socks:
I cannot wait to knit these. It's tough to see in the picture, but it's a subtle tonal effect that I think will make gorgeous socks.
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After focusing last week on Eastern N.C. grown Christmas trees, in this week's column Peg Godwin discusses those trees best grown in the western part of the state.
The North Carolina-grown Fraser fir is the most popular Christmas tree in North America and is shipped into every state in the U.S.
Fraser firs have been chosen for the official White House Christmas tree more than any other species. You can also find this soft needled tree used as a Christmas tree in the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Canada, Bermuda and Japan.
Fraser firs (Abies fraseri) are popular native trees and represent more than 96 percent of all the species grown in North Carolina. Fraser firs are an attractive species with soft glossy dark green foliage, strong supportive branches and long lasting aroma. The needles are flattened, one-half to an inch long, and are attached individually to the twigs.
This species is among the most aromatic of Christmas tree species, and the pliable branches are known to hold especially heavy ornaments. The trees have a natural Christmas-tree shape and symmetry as well as incomparable needle retention.
Fraser firs grow naturally in the high elevations (higher than 5,000 feet) of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Production in the far western North Carolina counties includes Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga and Yancey.
North Carolina has an estimated 50 million Fraser fir Christmas trees growing on more than 25,000 acres by 1,600 growers. Fraser firs grow slower than several other species and bring the highest market price for N.C.-grown trees.
Blue spruce (Picea pungens), Norway spruce (Picea abies), White fir (Abies concolor) and Douglas fir also are grown in North Carolina. Spruces grow slowly and may require from 10 to 15 years to grow to a harvestable size. In addition to slow growth, several pests can increase the cost of production.
Canaan fir is a relatively new Christmas tree variety that is rapidly gaining acceptance. It will grow on many sites where Fraser fir and Douglas fir will not. Similar to the Fraser in appearance, Canaan fir trees generally have somewhat longer needles (one-half to 1 1/4 inch or longer), are more blue-green on the upper needle surface and have less distinct silver bands on the lower needle surface. They generally have more upswept branches near the top of the tree.
Like Fraser fir, the Canaan has attractive, relatively soft foliage, relatively stiff branches and is available in a wide range of densities. Canaan fir�s needle retention appears to be good to very good, and it also has the balsam aroma.
Once your Christmas tree has been selected, it needs to be cared for like fresh cut flowers. It should be placed in water immediately. If the tree is not placed in water within 12 hours, a fresh cut should be made on the trunk.
Remove half an inch of wood from the base of the trunk before placing the tree in a stand or bucket of water. The stand should be kept full of water throughout the season. A Christmas tree may take up more than a gallon of water initially and several pints each day thereafter.
Keeping the tree in water is the most important part of caring for your Christmas tree. Clean tap water is needed to keep the base of the tree covered at all times. Christmas trees are best located in a cool area away from drafts and potential sources of warm air. Avoid placing a tree near a fireplace, heater, heating vent or television set.
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Penn State celebrates Earth Hour
Penn State celebrates Earth Hour
This Saturday night, at 8:30 p.m. March 29, the exterior lights on Penn State's Old Main will go out for Earth Hour 2014. Penn State will participate in this global call to action by turning off decorative lighting at key campus landmarks.
"We feel it is symbolically important to join in this worldwide effort to show the effect that many people, working together, can have on climate change," said Steve Maruszewski, assistant vice president of Penn State's Office of Physical Plant. In addition, decorative floodlights at the Lion Shrine, the Nittany Lion Inn, and the Information Sciences and Technology building will be shut-off.
-- March 29 at 8:30 marks Earth Hour 2014 at Penn State University Park
Penn State's EcoAction student organization is sponsoring this year's event on the Old Main patio. Jeanette Wiley, sophomore in community environment and development in College of Agricultural Sciences, is the Penn State student in charge of the celebration. There will be a countdown to the event with the Penn State Taiko Drum Club. The members carry on the ancient Japanese tradition of Taiko drumming and will entertain attendees during the event. Additional entertainment on the Old Main patio will include: Blue in the Face, NOMMO, Belly Dance, the International Dance Ensemble, Swing Dance, and the RAM Squad. EcoAction also will provide plant potting activities, trivia, and will be giving away a solar powered phone charger. As the lights of Old Main are turned off, candle lantern luminaries will light up the night in honor of sustainability. This will be a community-wide event and all are encouraged to attend the event and leave their lights off at home.
The goal of Earth Hour is to bring awareness to climate change and environmental conservation by turning off lights. Astronomers have watched light pollution increase for decades and Earth Hour hopes to bring attention to this international problem. Many urban children have never had a chance to see the Milky Way or ever seen the stars. Not only does unnecessary lighting inhibit astronomy, but it also wastes energy, disturbs animals and ecosystems, and has health implications. To learn more about light pollution, visit the International Dark-Sky Association.
Penn State will be joining over 1 billion people in this event sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Other cultural icons that will go black include Chicago's Sears Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, New York's United Nations and EmpireState Building, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. What began as an effort in Sidney, Australia seven years ago has grown into a worldwide celebration of people power to turn off unnecessary lighting.
For more information about Penn State's sustainability initiatives, visit http://sustainability.psu.edu/
For further Earth Hour information, contact Jeanette Wiley or Paul Ruskin or via phone at 814-863-9620. To learn how you and your organization can participate, visit http://www.earthhour.org.


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Simple Italian Salad
Homemade croutons star in this easy Italian salad, filled with grape tomatoes, olives and pepperoncinis. "I like to serve it with fresh Italian or focaccia bread," Nancy Granaman suggests from Burlington, Iowa.
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 3 slices Italian bread, cubed
- Butter-flavored cooking spray
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 bunches romaine, torn
- 2 cups grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 can (2-1/4 ounces) sliced ripe olives, drained
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 small red onion, thinly sliced and separated into rings
- 8 pepperoncini
- 1/2 cup fat-free Italian salad dressing
- For croutons, spritz bread cubes with butter-flavored spray; place in a bowl. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning and garlic powder; toss to coat evenly.
- Transfer to a 15x10x1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 450° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown, stirring once or twice. Cool.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the romaine, tomatoes, olives, Parmesan cheese, onion and pepperoncini. Drizzle with salad dressing; toss to coat. Top with croutons.


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BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's leader said in remarks posted Wednesday that a prisoners' hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay has revealed the "odious" face of America and claims that the terror network will spare no effort to free prisoners held at the U.S. military-run detention centre in Cuba.
Ayman al-Zawahri spoke in a 22-minute audio message posted on the Internet.
"The strike by our brothers in Guantanamo reveals the real odious and ugly face of America," he said. Some of the 166 prisoners there began a hunger strike earlier this year to protest conditions and their indefinite confinement.
"We pledge God that we will spare no efforts to set them free along with all our prisoners, on top of them Omar Abdel Rahman, Aafia Siddiqui, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and every oppressed Muslim everywhere," he said.
Militants have in the past tried to free Abdel Rahman, a blind Egyptian sheik convicted of plotting to blow up New York City landmarks, and Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist convicted of shooting at two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, by offering to free hostages in exchange.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is at Guantanamo. The other two are at civilian prisons in the United States.
The message's authenticity could not be independently confirmed but the message was posted on a militant website commonly used by al-Qaida.
Al-Zawahri's last message, urging Sunni Muslims to devote their lives, money and expertise to battling Syria's President Bashar Assad, was delivered in June. Assad's regime is dominated by members of a Shiite offshoot sect.
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