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ICOMS Scripting
Feb 28 2007, 02:26 PM
Posts: 770
Joined: 21-July 06
From: Las Vegas NV
(not sure if this would go here)
My any chance is anyone here familiar with the billing and operations DB program called "ICOMS"?
if so... are you familiar with automating your work with scripting?
if so... would you happen to know what language their scripting is based off of?
and if you arent familiar with icoms or the scripting in icoms... can you tell me if this looks familiar... and if so what you think it is:
corrently I am thinking it is based on basic. the way that for-next loops works is just like basic so I am workin on figuring it out from there.
rem Recorded script
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenSendKey( "Enter" )
HostScreenSendKey( "F23" )
HostScreenPutString( "022607" )
HostScreenPutString( " 992" )
HostScreenPutString( "MDUAUDT" )
HostScreenPutString( "ACTVTHF" )
HostScreenSendKey( "Enter" )
HostScreenSendKey( "F3" )
HostScreenSendKey( "F3" )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenSendKey( "Field Exit" )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenSendKey( "Field Exit" )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( " " )
HostScreenPutString( "N" )
May 19 2007, 08:44 AM
Posts: 3
Joined: 19-May 07
Yes, I am very familiar with this language, although I use it from an application called PMHS, for health insurance claims payment. It is very much like basic, although it is a bit of a dumbed down version. Here's the most commonly used commands:
ostcursorput(row,column) - places cursor - if your program runs from a gui, see if you have a "show emulator" option, look for coordinates which change when you move the cursor, alternatively you can record a script as above and find the coordinates from the "hostcursorput" it records.
hostscreenputstring("text" or varaiblename
May 19 2007, 08:44 AM
Posts: 3
Joined: 19-May 07
Yes, I am very familiar with this language, although I use it from an application called PMHS, for health insurance claims payment. It is very much like basic, although it is a bit of a dumbed down version. Here's the most commonly used commands:
ostcursorput(row,column) - places cursor - if your program runs from a gui, see if you have a "show emulator" option, look for coordinates which change when you move the cursor, alternatively you can record a script as above and find the coordinates from the "hostcursorput" it records.
hostscreenputstring("text" or varaiblename)
dim variablename as **string for text, integer for whole numbers, double for currency or other numbers that may not be whole numbers
hostscreengetstring(row,column,length,variablename) gets a string variable. for my app all variables grabbed from the program must be strings (text format) which can then be converted into numbers.
doublevariablename=val(textvariablename) --- returns the value of textvariablename and puts it in doublevariablename, necessary for performing math operations on variables.
textvariablename=str(doublevariablename) --- exactly the opposite of the above
messagebox("title","Example : "+textvariablename,#foriconoption,#forbuttonsoption) for the last 2 parameters, play around to find what the options are- using 1,0 will give you a red stop icon and a single "enter" button
integervariablename=messagebox("title","example",3,3) **play around with these last 2 parameters
messagebox("button pressed equals",str(integervariablename,1,0)
will give you idea of how some very basic info can be collected from the user
gosub nameofsubroutine
subroutines are defined like this
blah blah blah
if ...... then
blah blah blah
end if
while ......
blah blah blah
for x=0 to 100
blah blah blah
next x
scriptcall("name of other script case sensitive")
calls another script
this can also be used to send an email
there are also commands for connecting to and commanding excel, but I don't remember them all off the top of my head....
hope this helps!
May 23 2007, 06:24 PM
Posts: 770
Joined: 21-July 06
From: Las Vegas NV
wow! that is great info!
And now that you mention the excel thing...... ooooooh goodness! I mean the things I could do with that! but oh well... this is already enough info to get me started.
I had all but given up on anything that wasnt recorded...
thankyou thankyou thankyou
also welcome to UA
** goes off to print and play around with this stuff **
May 26 2007, 02:48 PM
Posts: 3
Joined: 19-May 07
Just discovered something new that may be of use to you:
One problem I had was that I couldn't transfer info from one script to another. Found I was using the wrong syntax.
if you declare a variable as
global variablename as string (or integer or whatever)
then the variable is saved and useable by other scripts--- I needed to know this because there is a 64kb (ARGH) size limit for my macro files --- I suspect you might as well, we are using basically the same program but with different "shells"- mine is developed by Siebel, and I think your's is too. So to get around the size limit I use the scriptcall command a lot, but variables didn't transfer which was a pain. But now that's resolved!
I'll get you the excel commands soon, I have a report I work which is simply finding specific people and adding or deleting a 2 digit code - but there can be hundreds of people. With excel + macros, it does all of it on auto-pilot, and best of all it completely ties down my computer for 20 minutes or so of pure nothing for me to do time
By the way, if no one else there is writing their own scripts, you should try to parlay your new skills into a promotion before showing others how to do this. Find a Six Sigma Business management book at the book store learn a few buzz words/phrases like "Picking the Dangling Fruit" and "Proactive", wear a tie, and get an office with a window, baby!
Jun 4 2007, 12:36 PM
Posts: 770
Joined: 21-July 06
From: Las Vegas NV
well... my cubicle is up against a wall and I have 2 windows that look out on the landscaping in front of the building so while it isnt an office it does have a window
With promotions, unfortunately I cant really go up without changing departments and I love this department way too much to go anywhere maybe some time in the future though.
most of the people whom would benifit from knowing how to do their own scripting have no experiance coding what-so-ever and would prolly be better off asking me to throw something together for them anyway they pretty much all do already as it is
the good news is I am paid well and there is still plenty more money I can get and my job will stay as laid back as it is
declareing global variables will help alot! I was wondering about file size limits so it's good to have that info up front
ICOMS is made by Convergys... which might or might not be using something that either sibel developed or is using as well... either way so far what I have used from what you suggested has all worked so it's definately using something similar with the platform!
one thing I am curious... since they are similar platforms. do you guys use oracle discoverer as a reporting tool? it would be interesting if you were. I use access and just pull from the server via odbc anyway because discoverer is way too limited... but I was rather curious to find out if it is something that is side by side with this type of billing system or if it is something that my company just decided to use (or Convergys decided to use for that matter)
definately if you find more about those excel functions I am very interested!
thanks again for all the great info!
Jun 6 2007, 10:08 AM
Posts: 770
Joined: 21-July 06
From: Las Vegas NV
I have some new and additional info.
irst I discovered the goto command works (ie "goto thatspot" then identify the spot later with "thatspot:")
and another thing is I put together a refrence list for the messagebox.
yes to all = 10
no to all = 11
(I am not sure why numbers 8 and 9 are missing but it is probably just so that the "to all" options stand seperate...
each option in the types of messagebox are listed as followed:
0 | ok=1 |
1 | ok=1 | cancel=2 |
2 | Abort=3 | Retry=4 | Ignore=5 |
3 | yes=6 | no=7 | cancel=2 |
4 | yes=6 | no=7 |
5 | Retry=4 | cancel=2 |
6 | yes=6 | yes to all=10 |
7 | yes=6 | yes to all=10 | no=7 | cancel=2 |
8 | yes=6 | no to all=11 | no=7 | cancel=2 |
9 | yes=6 | yes to all=10 | no=7 | no to all=11 | cancel=2
10 | no=7 | cancel=2 |
11 | no=7 | no to all=11 | cancel=2 |
12 | yes=6 | cancel=2 |
13 | exit=2 |
I am also attaching a spreadsheet that I put together for easy refrence for myself.
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Jun 6 2007, 03:37 PM
Posts: 770
Joined: 21-July 06
From: Las Vegas NV
something else I have been wondering...
o you happen to know if you can assign a script to a hottkey?
Jun 8 2007, 04:18 PM
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Joined: 21-July 06
From: Las Vegas NV
more info:
treat it like a variable that's value is equal to whatever is in the clipboard... useful with clipboardcopy
Mar 28 2008, 03:43 PM
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Joined: 28-March 08
Looks like its been nearly a year since this topice has been updated. I'm interested in doing some macros in our vendr's product (ICOMS) as well. I will read over the conversations and may have some questions later. Thanks in advance for the information.
Apr 8 2008, 08:48 PM
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Joined: 16-March 07
I do a lot of ICOMS scripting with green screen using vba in access. Here is a great link I found detailing how to use it.
It seems to be pretty similar to what this thread talks about using the emulator. I can't figure out how this is done. The commands seem similar to the method I use, but where is it written? VBscript?
Sep 15 2011, 07:02 PM
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Joined: 15-September 11
I work with ICOMS & have found all of the information in this thread to be most helpful.
However, I was wondering if anyone could confirm what the commands are to send data to excel?
Sep 4 2012, 10:23 AM
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Joined: 4-September 12
Sorry for bumping such an old thread, but I really could use some help. So I want to write a script using this too, but I can't find where the system saves these scripts. How can I execute them? I want to transfer certain data from an access database to a J-walk client. I've wrote such scripts with AutoIT before, but I can't figure it out with this client.
Dec 10 2012, 01:46 PM
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Joined: 15-September 11
Rigest, my apologies for the late response but I was certain no one else was going to post so I stopped checking a while back. Regarding your questions, I'll answer them in list format:
. The scripts are saved in in the main program folder as ICOMS.JWU and/or JW9C.JWU (depending on whether you save them as application or global). Also, they only get saved to the hard drive after you close the last J-walk client window. So, if you're going to add/edit any scripts, I recommend closing all but one window and then closing it too as soon as you're finished. Then, any new client windows you open will contain the updated scripts.
2. In order to execute a script you must first unhide the main toolbar. To do that, right click the title bar on the J-walk client window and then click the 'Toolbars...' link. On the next window, highlight the first toolbar (there should only be one listed by default) and click the checkbox beside the word 'Hide'. Then, close that window and the toolbar should be accessible. To execute any scripts you first have to record one and save it as either global or application (I recommend application b/c they can be executed in dropdown list format). Any script can be edited from the toolbar edit button if you want to code it manually.
3. I've found that using a hidden IE window is the absolute best/quickest way to pass large amounts of data to the J-walk client. Unfortunately, the coding language it uses seems to be based on an older version of Visual Basic and is not very user friendly (I've never been able to find any official documentation so my assumption is that the language was custom made by the program designers). So, my approach is to code a separate VBScript file (i.e. C:\Myscript.vbs) and then call it up from the J-walk script using the wscript.shell object's run command. I use that b/c I can manually return numeric values back to the J-walk script which then triggers it to either abort or read the values from the hidden IE window. Your code to open/read the Access database and pass info to the IE window would need to be placed in the VBScript file. For the IE window, I simply tell it to navigate to about:blank and then dynamically write in the HTML which turns it into one or more textarea(s). The trick is to give the IE window a creative title which will most likely not be used anywhere else. That way, I can use the shell.application windows collection to re-acquire the IE window.
If you have any other questions please let me know and I'll do my best to answer them. Below are some of my code examples for reference -
This example shows how to execute one of your VBScript files from the J-walk client and return a numeric value
dim retValue as integer
dim wshell as variant
wshell = createobject("wscript.shell")
' If you wanted to return the value of 1 to the variable
' retValue, use this line in the vbscript file - wscript.quit 1
' Any number you use after the command wscript.quit will be passed
' to the J-walk script.
retValue = wshell.run(("C:\Myscript.vbs")), 0, 1)
This is the html I use in my IE window
<title>Custom Title Here</title>
<style type='text/CSS'>
html, body {
table {
Hth, td {
textarea {
<textarea id='customid'></textarea>
This example shows how to acquire the IE window from the J-walk client and read the data
dim a as integer
dim accessData as string
dim doc, ie, shell, txtarea, win as variant
shell = createobject("shell.application")
for a = 0 to 100
win = shell.windows((a))
if isobject(win) then
if not (win.busy) and (win.name = "Windows Internet Explorer") then
doc = win.document
if doc.title = "Custom Title Here" then
ie = win
exit for
exit for
if not isobject(ie) then
messagebox("Error", "IE window was not found", 1, 0)
txtarea = doc.getelementbyid("customid")
' My advice would be to post the data from Access as one very
' long string using a special delimeter(s) so it can be broken
' up into an array manually by the J-walk script
accessData = txtarea.innerhtml
On a side note, I too have used AutoIt and absolutely loved it.
Jan 4 2019, 12:43 PM
Posts: 7
Joined: 4-January 19
Sorry to revive an old thread. This thread gave me a lot of good information to start on some of this and wanted to add some things I have discovered to it in case anyone else is still looking for some of it.
Here is a tested and working example code to read and write to an excel file.
Dim objExcel,objRange,objSheet,objWB as Variant
Dim cellData,strExcel as String
Dim i,lastLine,xlUp as Integer
'Defining Contstants
xlUp = -4162
'Initializing Excel Object
objExcel = createobject("Excel.Application")
objExcel.Visible = 0 '0=hidden, 1=visible
objExcel.Application.DisplayAlerts = 0 '0=No Alerts, 1=Alerts
strExcel = "C:\myExcel.xlsx"
objWB = objExcel.Workbooks.Open(strExcel,1,0)
objSheet = objWB.Sheets(1)
lastLine = objSheet.Range("A" & str(objSheet.Rows.Count)).End(xlUp).Row 'counts all rows in the sheet and returns the last line as an integer
For i = 1 to lastLine
cellData = objSheet.Cells(i,1).text 'It can read from excel using Text,Value or Formula. I find Text usually works best
If cellData = "" Then
objSheet.Cells(i,1).Formula = Str(i) 'It will only write to excel using Formula
cellData = objSheet.Cells(i,1).text
End If
MessageBox("Cell Data",cellData,4,0)
Next i
This post has been edited by CableGuy931: Jan 4 2019, 12:45 PM
Jan 4 2019, 01:14 PM
Posts: 7
Joined: 4-January 19
This code grabs the name of each field on the current screen and writes it to a file, for use with the "HostField" functions listed below.
Dim fieldNames,fileData,filePath as String
Dim Success as Integer
filePath = "C:\fieldNames.txt"
If FileExists(filePath) Then
Success = FileLoad(filePath,fileData,-1)
fileData = fileData + chr(13) + chr(10) + fieldNames
Success = FileSave(filePath,fileData,1,-1,1)
Success = FileSave(filePath,fieldNames,1,-1,1)
End If
HostFieldCursorSet(Name of Field,Line_Number)
HostFieldGetData(Name of Field,Variable)
HostFieldGetLineData(Name of Field,Line_Number,Variable)
HostFieldListGetData(Name of Field,Variable)
HostFieldSendKey(Field Name,Field_Line,Key_Name)
HostFieldGetProp(Field Name,Property_value,integer_Variable)
Property Values:
Name Value Description
DISABLED 1 The Disabled status of the field (0=No, 1=Yes)
HIDDEN 2 The Hidden status of the field (0=No, 1=Yes)
TYPE 3 The Type of the field
LENGTH 4 The Length of the field (number of characters)
COLOR 5 The Color of the field. Decimal value (0-31) representing the assigned emulator color combination mapped to the field. These mappings can be viewed from the Change colors panel by navigating to:
Here is my script that parses the data, sorts it by x,y coordinates and states whether it is disabled [ (D) ] or not.
' ==================================================
' Prints out all fields for the current screen
' Read only fields are marked with (D) for Disabled
' ==================================================
Dim SGB,char,strUser,tmp,tmpSGB,toClipboard,fldData,vbCrlf,genScreenData as String
Dim l,i,j,chrCnt,x,y,ubCounter,strLength,fieldLength,fieldDisabled as integer
Dim userProfile,wNet,WshShell as Variant
wNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strUser = wNet.UserName
WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
userProfile = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%")
vbCrlf = Chr(13) & chr(10)
genScreenData = "true" 'true: prints copy of screen for comparison. false: only prints the fields + location + contents
Dim icomsField(1) as String
Dim iFieldX(1) as String
Dim iFieldY(1) as String
Dim iFieldData(1) as String
Dim iFieldDisabled(1) as String
icomsField(0) = ""
iFieldX(0) = ""
iFieldY(0) = ""
iFieldData(0) = ""
iFieldDisabled(0) = ""
ubCounter = 0 'Upper Bound Counter for array
PanelNameGet(10,SGB) 'This pulls the Field names from the current window.takes values of 1-10
tmpSGB = SGB
For i = 1 to Len(SGB)
char = Right(Left(SGB,i),1)
chrCnt = chrCnt + 1
If char = ";" Then
tmp = Left(tmpSGB,chrCnt - 1)
If Len(tmp) > strLength Then
strLength = Len(tmp)
End If
j = j + 1
ReDim Preserve icomsField(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldX(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldY(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldData(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldDisabled(ubCounter + 1)
icomsField(ubCounter) = tmp
chrCnt = 0
iFieldX(ubCounter) = Str(x)
iFieldY(ubCounter) = Str(y)
iFieldData(ubCounter) = fldData
HostFieldGetProp(icomsField(ubCounter),1,fieldDisabled)'0=No, 1=Yes
If fieldDisabled = 0 Then
iFieldDisabled(ubCounter) = " "
ElseIf fieldDisabled = 1 Then
iFieldDisabled(ubCounter) = "(D)"
End If
tmpSGB = Right(SGB,Len(SGB) - i)
ubCounter = ubCounter + 1
ElseIf i = Len(SGB) Then
j = j + 1
tmp = Right(SGB,chrCnt)
If Len(tmp) > strLength Then
strLength = Len(tmp)
End If
ReDim Preserve icomsField(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldX(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldY(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldData(ubCounter + 1)
ReDim Preserve iFieldDisabled(ubCounter + 1)
icomsField(ubCounter) = tmp
iFieldX(ubCounter) = Str(x)
iFieldY(ubCounter) = Str(y)
iFieldData(ubCounter) = fldData
HostFieldGetProp(icomsField(ubCounter),1,fieldDisabled)'0=No, 1=Yes
If fieldDisabled = 0 Then
iFieldDisabled(ubCounter) = " "
ElseIf fieldDisabled = 1 Then
iFieldDisabled(ubCounter) = "(D)"
End If
ubCounter = ubCounter + 1
End If
Next i
GoSub arraySort
For i = 0 to ubCounter - 1
If Len(icomsField(i)) < strLength Then
For j = 1 to strLength - Len(icomsField(i))
icomsField(i) = icomsField(i) & " "
End If
l = Len("(" & iFieldX(i) & "," & iFieldY(i) & ")")
If l < 7 Then
For j = 1 to 7 - L
End If
toClipboard = toClipboard & icomsField(i) & " (" & iFieldX(i) & "," & iFieldY(i) & ")" & SGB & iFieldDisabled(i) & ": " & iFieldData(i) & vbCrlf
Next i
If LCase(genScreenData) = "true" Then
GoSub GetScreenData
End If
GoSub LogEvent
tmpSGB = ""
For x = 1 to 24
If x = 24 Then
tmpSGB = tmpSGB + SGB
tmpSGB = tmpSGB + SGB + vbCrlf
End If
Next x
toClipboard = toClipboard + vbCrlf + "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
toClipboard = toClipboard + vbCrlf + tmpSGB
toClipboard = toClipboard + vbCrlf + "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------" + vbCrlf
Dim ForReading, ForWriting, ForAppending as Integer
Dim shell, txtfile as variant
ForReading = 1
ForWriting = 2
ForAppending = 8
shell = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If Not shell.FileExists(userProfile & "\Desktop\iWrite.txt") Then
txtfile = shell.CreateTextFile(userProfile & "\Desktop\iWrite.txt")
txtfile = shell.OpenTextFile(userProfile & "\Desktop\iWrite.txt",ForAppending)
End If
txtfile.write(toClipboard + vbCrlf)
Dim tempD,tempDisabled,tempF,tempX,tempY,tempXY,tempXYP1 as String
Dim a as Integer
For a = ubCounter - 2 To 0 Step - 1
For j = 0 to a
If Len(iFieldY(j)) = 1 Then
tempXY = iFieldX(j) & "0" & iFieldY(j)
tempXY = iFieldX(j) & iFieldY(j)
End If
If Len(iFieldY(j + 1)) = 1 Then
tempXYP1 = iFieldX(j + 1) & "0" & iFieldY(j + 1)
tempXYP1 = iFieldX(j + 1) & iFieldY(j + 1)
End If
If val(tempXY) > val(tempXYP1) Then
tempF = icomsField(j + 1)
icomsField(j + 1) = icomsField(j)
icomsField(j) = tempF
tempX = iFieldX(j + 1)
iFieldX(j + 1) = iFieldX(j)
iFieldX(j) = tempX
tempY = iFieldY(j + 1)
iFieldY(j + 1) = iFieldY(j)
iFieldY(j) = tempY
tempD = iFieldData(j + 1)
iFieldData(j + 1) = iFieldData(j)
iFieldData(j) = tempD
tempDisabled = iFieldDisabled(j + 1)
iFieldDisabled(j + 1) = iFieldDisabled(j)
iFieldDisabled(j) = tempDisabled
End If
I have also attached a text file that contains the entire list of functions that was pulled from the .exe file of icoms. Unfortunately it only gives the function name. There are no descriptions or parameters.
I am working on putting together a file with all of the ones I have figured out by trial and error and will post it once i get it finished.
This post has been edited by CableGuy931: Jan 4 2019, 01:58 PM
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IcomsFunctionList.txt ( 6.5K )Number of downloads: 12
Jan 15 2019, 01:19 PM
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Joined: 4-January 19
Here is the function reference sheet I made with the functions I currently know how to use. It provides, Descriptions, syntax, parameters and examples. I have also provided the file that got me started with scripting, the icoms scripting guide. Someone else in my company made the original, but I have added some things to it as I have discovered them. It is a bit thrown together as i've never taken the time to clean it up and organize it too much, but it should help you get started with the basic syntax for loops, statements and sub routines, etc.
Attached File(s)
ICOMs_Scripting_Function_Reference.zip ( 71.54K )Number of downloads: 11
Icoms_Scripting_Guide.zip ( 25.79K )Number of downloads: 11
Mar 4 2019, 12:25 AM
Posts: 7
Joined: 4-January 19
Here is a script I put together to convert a julian day number back into a readable calendar date. This really helps with scripts that use scheduling options. I can pull today's date with the CDate() function, convert it to julian day number using the JulianDayNumber() function and add lets say 7 days. Then use this code as a subroutine to convert it back into a calendar date so the script can schedule it. There is no built in function to convert it back from the julian day number.
' ===================================================
' julian day to calendar day converter
' ===================================================
' Adapted from the javascript code from http://www.onlineconversion.com/julian_date.htm
' ===================================================
Dim gregJD,tmp as Integer
Dim j1,j2,j3,j4,j5,julianDate as Double
' Call the sub routine to set julianDate to today's date
GoSub GetTodaysDate
' uncomment the following line to set the date manually
'julianDate = 2458500
' you can add/subtract any number of days to get a date
' that many days from the original date specified
'julianDate = julianDate + 10
' drops the decimals from the date
julianDate = Round(julianDate,0)
gregJD = 2299161
If JulianDate >= gregJD Then
tmp = RoundDown(((julianDate - 1867216) - 0.25)/36524.25,0)
j1 = julianDate + 1 + tmp - RoundDown(0.25*tmp,0)
j1 = julianDate
End If
j2 = j1 + 1524
j3 = RoundDown(6680.0 + ((j2 - 2439870) - 122.1)/365.25,0)
j4 = RoundDown(j3*365.25,0)
j5 = RoundDown((j2 - j4)/30.6001,0)
d = RoundDown(j2 - j4 - RoundDown(j5*30.6001,0),0)
m = RoundDown(j5 - 1,0)
If m > 12 Then
m = m - 12
End If
y = RoundDown(j3 - 4715,0)
If m > 2 Then
y = y - 1
End If
If y <= 0 Then
y = y - 1
End If
If y < 0 Then
y = -y
'Era is AD
'Era is BC
End If
MessageBox("Calendar Date","Julian Day = " & Left(Str(julianDate),Len(Str(julianDate)) - 2) & chr(10) & Str(m) & "/" & Str(d) & "/" & Str(y),4,0)
' This sub Routine Sets julianDate to today's date
Dim d,m,y as Integer
Dim success as Double
d = Val(Right(Str(CDate()),2))
m = Val(Left(Right(Str(CDate()),4),2))
y = Val(Left(Str(CDate()),4))
success = JulianDayNumber(y,m,d,julianDate)
May 14 2019, 08:24 AM
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Joined: 4-January 19
Here is an updated version of the Icoms Function Reference. I have updated the formatting, fixed a couple of typos, added a contents section and added usage information for these functions: ArrayElementDelete(), ArrayElementInsert(), CountGet(), CountInc(), CountSet(), SortArray(), and StrArray().
There are 2 attachments, a pdf and a docx. They are exactly the same, but I have found that the format can get messed up in the docx depending on the version of MSWord/libreoffice being used.
Attached File(s)
ICOMs_Scripting_Function_Reference_UAF.2.docx.zip ( 80.3K )Number of downloads: 5
ICOMs_Scripting_Function_Reference_UAF.2.pdf.zip ( 395.17K )Number of downloads: 3
Jul 27 2019, 10:57 AM
Posts: 2
Joined: 27-July 19
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Starting a career on a path often travelled is tough, especially when you are the son of a notary punk rocker such as Steve Dior. Bridging the gap in the music industry and infusing R&B and hip-hop with alternative is the daring Jez Dior, a rising LA-based artist. Referred to as an 'Artist to Watch' in 2013 by MTV, Jez takes a minute to chat with Splash Magazines and let us in on how he challenges the music industry, his idols, inspiration, and the road ahead!
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Sargent: Being the son of punk rocker Steve Dior, did you get your want to be in music industry from him?
JD: I definitely got my talent from him. I had grown up listening to all the music he brought around me. It wasn't until my cousin got me into rap and hip-hop at the age of 12, and I fell in love with it.
Sargent: How would you describe your sound?
JD: I'm a lot more alternative than the hip-hop out there now, with that said I am guitar driven, and I like to incorporate melody in my music. You'll notice the verses are very melodic. This stems from inspiration from my father!
Sargent: What's it like gaining recognition from MTV as an 'Artist to Watch in 2013'
JD: That was awesome! Very funny, I had no clue they were writing that because they didn't tell me anything about it, so I was super surprised! It was definitely a big moment, and the biggest recognition we've got so far!
Sargent: Your mixtape, Scarlett Sage, recently released whats the meaning behind the name?
JD: Scarlett Sage is my little sisters' name. The album is built up with all my emotions with the last three years of creating it. Her and my mom are all that I have and care about. The material [on the mixtape] is based off of real life situations and everything is really about me!
Sargent: If you could collaborate with anyone who would it be?
JD: The lead singer of Kings of Leon.
Jez Diors' artistic flow and unique sense of style is breaking barriers in the music industry, he is definitely one you want to keep on your radar!
Jez recently released his new video "Hide" which garnered buzz among fans, media and key industry tastemakers – check out the video below!
Also check out the links for a sneak of his mixtape, Scarlett Sage!
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It's Depressing to Watch a Last Place Team
By Mike Marino
After falling into another three game losing streak, the Knicks have dropped to last place in the Atlantic Division. Their record now stands at 29-40 and they're 8.5 games back of first. Sadly, they're only 5.5 games out of the eighth spot in the playoffs, but let's be realistic. It's almost depressing to turn on MSG and to listen to the Knicks gamenight theme music, it's depressing to watch the Knicks go through the motions, knowing that once again, for another season, the games don't matter.
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Chicago – As she tells it, Michelle Obama's first reaction when she heard her husband talk about running for president was, "Absolutely not! Please don't do this!"
She was wary of the nastiness of politics, of the grueling nature of such a campaign, and, above all, of the toll that it all might take on their two young daughters.
But these days, Barack Obama has no bigger cheerleader than his wife, and Ms. Obama has developed into an able, dynamic campaigner. She'll be speaking at the Democratic National Convention Monday night.
When her husband's run for the nation's top office looked to be a reality, "She said, 'Let's sit down and think it through analytically,'" remembers Valerie Jarrett, Obama's close friend and a senior adviser to the campaign. "'Let's talk about the downsides and risks, and let's have a plan for how we'll manage that.'"
That thorough approach to problems and her all-out commitment once the choice is made are hallmarks of a woman who excelled in her own careers long before gaining the media's attention as potential first lady.
But while she's been gaining attention for her accomplishments and poise, she's also drawn notoriety, serving as a lightning rod for those who see her as angry, abrasive, and didactic. Her now infamous comment last winter, calling Barack's candidacy the "first time in my adult life that I've been really proud of my country," has drawn particular criticism, even after her subsequent explanations.
"Since she is so public, and so willing to express her views and be blunt, it draws attention," says Charles Ogletree, Obama's Harvard Law School professor and an adviser to the campaign. "But I think the more the public gets to know her in more intimate settings, the more they'll appreciate what an asset she'll be in the White House."
In many ways, Michelle Obama's story is the American dream, a classic tale of a supportive family, a working-class background, and success in school and career.
She grew up on Chicago's South Side, in a small bungalow where her mother still lives. Her father, Frasier Robinson, was a pump operator for the city and was diagnosed at a young age with multiple sclerosis. Her mother, Marian, stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother, Craig. Whenever possible, the family ate dinner together.
While both Robinson children were high-achievers, Craig Robinson, now head basketball coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis, says there was never any pressure from his parents.
"The way our family worked, you kind of naturally did the best you could," he says in a phone interview from Oregon. "I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that we saw [our father] get up every day and go to work with an affliction like MS and never complain or feel sorry for himself and always be supportive of what we were doing."
Obama attended Whitney Young High School, a prestigious magnet school that required a 90-minute commute by public bus every day, and she followed her brother to Princeton University in 1981.
At Princeton, Obama had suddenly entered new cultural territory, and her senior sociology thesis – on "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" – reflects some of the questions it raised for her.
"My experience at Princeton has made me far more aware of my 'Blackness' than ever before," she wrote in the introduction, talking about her fears that she would always remain at the periphery of white society, and also her awareness that an Ivy League education had instilled in her many of the same values and goals as her white classmates.
The thesis, for which she surveyed black alumni about their Princeton experience and their subsequent involvement with the black community, hints at an internal struggle over her identity.
But her friends say she was self-assured, interacted well with both white and black students, and had little interest in politics.
"Unlike most college kids looking for themselves, she was not unsure of who she was," says Angela Acree, her roommate for three years and still one of Obama's best friends. "She had a really good sense of self."
Ms. Acree and Obama spent a summer working at a Fresh Air Fund camp for girls in the Catskills. At Princeton, Obama started an after-school program for children of university workers. At Harvard Law School, she worked in a program in which students gave legal services to indigent clients.
It stemmed, in part, from a desire to please her father, believes Professor Ogletree. "She was going to prove to him that she was going to keep her commitment to be like her brother – a college graduate and a professional-school graduate and someone who gave something back to the community," he says.
Still, when she graduated in 1988, Obama first went to work at a large law firm – Sidley Austin, where she met Barack – when she was assigned to mentor him as a summer associate. She seemed to be on track for a successful corporate law career.
Several years later, she shifted back toward public service, first working for the city of Chicago in the mayor's office and the planning department, and later running the first Chicago chapter of Public Allies, a nonprofit that encourages young people in public service. Eventually, she took a job at the University of Chicago Hospitals managing community and external affairs, from which she's currently on leave.
Those who have worked with her describe a woman who is competent and organized, who expects a great deal from both herself and those working for her, and who is able to cut through bureaucracy and quickly find solutions to tough problems. In her job in the planning department, Obama often fielded complaints from the business community.
"Michelle was extraordinary at figuring out what the problem was, how many different departments were involved, and pulling people together," says Ms. Jarrett, who hired Obama for her first city job, offering her the position on the spot after a 20-minute interview that turned into a 90-minute conversation. "She's totally analytical, practical, and insightful. Add to that these extraordinary people skills."
At the University of Chicago Hospitals, she helped smooth the sometimes acrimonious relations between the hospitals and the South Side communities they serve. She started bus tours to introduce new employees – and the board of trustees – to the community, began a program to steer construction projects to local female- and minority-owned businesses, and dealt with crowded emergency rooms by setting up a counseling system that connected people to primary care providers who could offer preventative care.
"She will talk about difficult issues openly, and it's very disarming, because she is direct," says Susan Sher, her boss at the Medical Center. "But she's also kind and approachable, so people are more likely to talk about what's really going on." Still, that bluntness has gotten her into trouble on the campaign trail.
Her humor – in particular, her attempt to humanize Barack by pointing out his domestic foibles – doesn't always translate well, especially in print.
Comments like her one to Glamour magazine that he is "snore-y and stinky" when he gets up in the morning can come across as glib and disrespectful.
Her campaign speeches – in which Obama often focuses on the difficulties facing Americans today, sometimes telling her audience that Barack "will demand" such things as shedding cynicism or engaging in the political process – strike some as overly negative and didactic.
"Almost every time the candidate's wife speaks extemporaneously she seems to offer some bon mot consistent with that bleak assessment" of America, wrote Mark Steyn in a National Review cover story this spring that dubbed her "Mrs. Grievance."
An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll a month ago showed that 31 percent of Americans held a negative view of Obama, compared with 16 percent who hold a negative view of Cindy McCain. (In the same poll, 34 percent expressed a positive opinion of Obama, and 28 percent gave a positive reaction to Mrs. McCain.)
Since the oft-quoted remark about her pride in her country, Obama and others have said she was referring only to the political process. But she has also been more careful and guarded in her comments since then.
Her friends, meanwhile, shake their heads at the "angry black woman" caricatured in right-wing media and blogs, saying it bears no relation to the woman they know. "She's had a magical life," says Ms. Acree, who recently traveled with Obama for several days of campaigning. "What does she have to be angry about?"
Ogletree, her former professor, says, "They've been focused on trying to create a Michelle Obama who doesn't exist."
Jose Rico, the founding principal of the Multicultural Arts High School in Chicago, and a Public Allies fellow under Obama more than a decade ago, is particularly surprised at those who question her patriotism. He notes that at Public Allies, Obama was the one who helped him become less disillusioned with America and showed him the value of taking part in the political process.
Originally an undocumented immigrant who had just received his legal residency, Mr. Rico felt alienated and was set on not becoming a US citizen.
"She was the one who really challenged me to think about that, in terms of the change I wanted to make, and how that would translate not just to my community, but on a broader scale," remembers Rico, who went on to earn his citizenship and to achieve his dream of starting a high school, in which Obama also encouraged and challenged him.
Rico and others say that although Obama is an exacting boss with high expectations – and is a fairly strict taskmaster at home as well, where her children and husband all know the chores they're expected to do – she is also warm and cares about the personal lives of friends and colleagues.
Acree remembers when their mutually close friend from Princeton University, Suzanne Alele, was dying of an illness at a young age in 1990. Obama had just begun working at the law firm Sidley Austin and was trying to prove herself; Acree and Alele were both in Washington. "If Suzanne or I picked up the phone and needed or wanted anything, she was here in a heartbeat," says Acree. "Suzanne's death was the first time I really got to see the depth of her love for her friends, how loyal she is."
Her staff also speak highly of her, and say she exhibits great concern for them and their personal lives – not always a trademark of harried political candidates and their families.
While she has alienated some on the right, Obama has also grown into an able campaigner and public speaker, drawing large crowds.
Rather than pushing her to the background, the campaign has tried to give her a fresh introduction to counter the negative image.
Earlier this summer, she hosted a segment of ABC's "The View," riffing with Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg about her daughters, her fashion choices, and her decision not to wear pantyhose.
This week, in addition to the speech Monday night, she'll be holding one of her trademark "roundtable discussions with working women" in Denver and will kick off a service day on Wednesday with the Governor's wife.
In the roundtable discussions, which she's held around the country, Obama focuses on the topic that seems closest to her heart: the challenges facing working mothers.
"There isn't a moment that goes by that I'm not thinking about my little girls," she told a packed audience in Pontiac, Mich., at one of these discussions. "The role I hold most dear is being mom."
Despite the unavoidable craziness of a presidential campaign, Obama has made a monumental effort to minimize the disruptions to Malia and Sasha, scaling back her own campaigning when she can and taking as few overnight trips as possible.
Saturdays – when she and the girls engage in a weekly ritual involving ballet, tennis or soccer, McDonald's, and a movie – are sacred.
"Above all else, she is a great parent," says her brother. "Family comes first to her. It comes first naturally, and honestly."
Talking about parenting – and about the challenges and choices that working mothers face – seems to come naturally as well, and it's a topic that Obama riffs on easily, usually speaking without notes, in a relaxed, conversational style.
She gets nods from other women as she talks about the multiple hats most mothers are expected to wear, the guilt they feel when not spending time with their children, and the many directions in which they're pulled.
And she tries to give listeners a window into her husband by talking about the three strong women in his life – his grandmother, his mother, and herself – and the ways in which their stories have helped him understand the issues important to women and mothers.
"These stories have really shaped who he has become as a man," Obama told the Michigan audience, describing Barack's grandmother hitting a glass ceiling in her job at a bank, and his mother's effort to raise two children alone.
Obama has also been holding discussions with military spouses – speaking earlier this month with spouses in Norfolk, Va. – and has become interested in the particular challenges they face.
Both areas, say friends, are likely to continue to be Obama's policy focus if she becomes first lady, though they're hesitant to predict how active a presence she would be in the White House, since her daughters will continue to be her top priority.
"Michelle will create a new mold, and it's too soon to say what it will be," says close friend Valerie Jarrett.
Obama's brother puts it even more simply: Obama would be a great first lady, Robinson says, because "everything she has ever done, she has done very well."


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VICTORIA — The B.C. government has paid more than $1.5 million over the last three years to house a team of testers in Victoria tasked with fixing the province's frequently troubled internal computer system.
The travelling test squad of as many as 24 ministry employees works to troubleshoot the government's social and child welfare computer software, which crashed almost two weeks ago and continues to run at limited capacity.
The government has paid an average of $514,000 annually for hotels, meals and flights for testers to commute when needed to the capital since 2011, out of money earmarked for the system's operating budget.
The employees get a per diem of $48 for meals, and stay in different Victoria hotels depending on the season.
The general government rate for hotels in Victoria is around $90 a night.
Many of the workers — who live as far away as the Interior and the Kootenays — fly back home for weekends, a provision that's part of their collective agreement.
The union representing government employees says it's an example of the hidden expenses not included in the problem-plagued Integrated Case Management (ICM) system's $182-million capital budget. But the government says it's a fair expense to keep the complicated software up-to-date using testers that represent front-line workers from communities across the province.
Critics, including the province's independent child and youth watchdog, say the ICM crash has left vulnerable clients at risk because government employees and social workers aren't able to get up-to-date information on critical issues like domestic violence cases and income assistance for unemployed.
The government hired private firm Deloitte Canada to build the ICM system on a six-year contract in 2010. The province insists the performance clauses in that contract mean taxpayers aren't on the hook for the system's current crash, though no one appears sure of the cause of the crash and how much it will ultimately cost to fix. The software's main phase launched in 2012 to replace existing 30-year-old computer programs and link information across ministries on thousands of social assistance and child welfare clients, including sensitive details on child abuse, custody disputes and welfare payments.
But front-line workers immediately criticized it as clumsy and inadequate software that hid safety bulletins behind multiple tabs, slowed down to unusable speeds and required significantly more work than previous systems to do simple tasks.
The government appears to have gone to extraordinary expense to test the system for problems, dating back to 2011, before it's biggest phase was launched.
Provincial civil servants from as far away as Kamloops, Prince George and Cranbrook have been routinely flown into Victoria for an average of two weeks a month — some for longer — to work with the private contractors who built the system and test its many problems, fixes and phases, said Doug Kinna, chairman of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union committee that represents ICM workers.
The testing teams are slated to continue until as late as March 2015 to iron out problems in ICM's last phase later this year and provide help-desk-type support and training to other government staff, according to the union.
The average $514,000 in annual costs do not include the salaries of full-time employees devoted to the task for several years.
"The staffing costs are huge," said Kinna.
The travelling employee testing team, which can include at least 24 people on government travel status from the Ministry of Social Development, is complemented by at least as many greater Victoria and Vancouver Island employees, as well as a mass of private contractors and subcontractors employed by Deloitte Canada, which holds the six-year government contract to build ICM.
Social Development Minister Don McRae said the money for testers comes from the $13.4 million spent annually to operate all ministry computer systems, including ICM, and not the $182 million in capital costs still being spent to finish building the ICM software by the end of 2014.
"If you want to characterize it as hidden costs, you know what, anybody is able to do that, but the reality is we're going to continually inform and improve the ICM process and we're going to use the workers on the front line to help us to get there," said McRae.
"And right now there's probably about 24 workers in Victoria assisting in that."
McRae said the computer system needs to be continually tested, and the government brings in front-line ministry staff from different communities when necessary to get input on the best ways to upgrade the software for the workers who actually use it.
"If we don't listen to our front-line staffers along the way, either now or going forward, I think we're not being fair to them," he said.
The BCGEU and Opposition NDP say the government's touted $182-million budget for the project doesn't accurately reflect the true cost to taxpayers, which they argue is likely more than $200 million.
NDP critic Carole James called the travel testing squad "wasted money" and a departure from the long-held government line that all ICM costs are coming from the project's budget.
"I'm all for making sure field staff have tested the information technology system, but don't you do that when you implement it?" she asked.
"I think it's just another example of government not putting in place a process that actually provided that kind of training, not being clear with what they wanted when they implemented ICM, and now they are trying to deal with it. That's a huge cost."
James noted the government already bumped up the project's budget once, by adding $73.7 million in 2010.
McRae said the government intends to use its full $182-million budget by the time it launches ICM's final phase later this year.
But he also admitted the final version will have fewer services and do less that was originally promised years earlier when the system was announced.
The province curtailed plans to expand ICM into other areas as problems mounted and complaints stacked up after 2012. Yet the $182-million budget was unchanged.
"It cost taxpayers more for less service, less supports, and less of a system than they paid for in the first place," said James.
Internal records show the system wrestled with a serious security breach and slowdowns during its development between 2008 and 2011.
The government says it has largely addressed the concerns outlined in a 2012 consultant's report, which described problems faced by social workers due to poor leadership in the children's ministry during the software's development. That report also noted a similar system in use in Australia was abandoned by that government.
B.C. poured $12 million into fixes in 2012, but said it found that funding from contingency budgets and administrative savings.
Despite all the work and money, the source of ICM's many problems — including its latest crash — remain unclear.
"It has functioned perfectly well in the past, and the issue is what has triggered this change," said Technology Minister Andrew Wilkinson.
"We're looking into any issues of interaction of software, interaction of databases, that may have changed to trigger this."
There's "no intention" of spending more than the $182-million budget, according to Wilkinson.
British Columbians looking for income assistance or other government services should now be able to get service in offices across the province, said Wilkinson, though there may still be some delays.
"They can continue to downplay it all they want, but it's taxpayers dollars they spent on a system that doesn't work," said James.
"If they haven't figured out what the problem is, we could see the same problem in a week, two weeks, [or] three weeks. What kind of computer system is that?"


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The ability to ask questions is critical to learning, and well-framed questions elicit better answers that further understanding and dialogue. However, learning to ask the right questions is a difficult skill to develop. In this lesson, students learn how to create effective questions by examining survey questions and creating their own survey on reading habits.
Chuska, K.R. (1995). Improving classroom questions: A teacher's guide to increasing student motivation, participation, and higher-level thinking. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.
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For those who may not recall "What's Happening"… Back then this was one of the hottest shows along with "Good Times", "Different Strokes" etc. This was a show that was part of my childhood and enjoyed very much.
Because of "Rerun" we have a dance that was named after him for his unique moves.
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Would you like fries (or onion rings or chicken tenders) with that?
For decades we've been beaten over the head with the mantra "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." I've never quite bought into this, because it works better in theory than in practice. I don't dispute the importance of eating something in between the end of sleep and the beginning of toil; I'm not a nutritionist, but the logic seems clear. The reason I worry about the breakfast-or-bust indoctrination is that the breakfast zealots often neglect to mention that it matters what you eat, not just that you eat.
Next time you're chatting up a friendly stranger in a bar or an elevator and the talk turns to breakfast, casually mention that some days you just don't feel like eating until lunch. Your new enemy's eyes will go wide and his throat will go hoarse as he excoriates you for neglecting our most universally agreed upon lifestyle truism. Tell the same guy you like to start the day with an elaborate feast of human entrails and he'll respond, "Sure, need your morning protein. Don't forget the appendix. Useless in a living body but essential in a stir-fry."
Don't get me wrong. I love breakfast, what with it being a meal and all, but I just think we should follow one simple ground rule before declaring dietary victory every morning that we remember to shovel some food in with the coffee. For your breakfast to live up to its true potential, it needs to be either substantially healthy for the body or exceedingly pleasing to the soul. Either carrot juice and a banana or a 4-egg, 3-meat, 2-beer omelet, for instance. I don't care which circle you fill in, just make sure it's one or the other. Don't half-ass it down the middle with a bodega bagel or a Special K bar.
My favorite breakfast on mornings when I opt to let my corporeal heart fend for itself while I feed its metaphorical counterpart is the sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich. I'll take my cholesterol on whatever bread's handy—English muffin, bagel, fistful of saltines—but I prefer biscuits. Fast food places and coffee shops have nearly perfected this art, but sometimes I need to soothe my soul before I can bear to wear my pants, so last week I headed for the frozen food section in search of a reasonable home-based version of the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit.
There are fewer options than I'd expected. Jimmy Dean and Aunt Jemima were the only two major national brands I could find with the good sense to explore the frozen sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit market. OK then, it's a head-to-head battle to see who, if anyone, gets to stock my freezer full of good-bad-decision breakfast treats.
Both brands cost a bit more than a buck a biscuit: $4.99 gets you a 4-pack of Jimmy Dean, and $2.50 brings a pair of Aunt Jemima. Jimmy Deans offering is a smudge bigger—4.5 ounces each to Auntie J's 4.1 ounces—but they're basically different versions of the same food: cheap, greasy breakfast sandwiches consisting of a sausage patty, an egg disk, and a slice of cheese in the middle of a biscuit. They're both nutritional train wrecks, but that inconvenient fact aside, they sound pretty promising, no?
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Aunt Jemima (shown at right) emerged from the microwave looking a little sharper than Jimmy Dean due to superior biscuit topography. Crags are supposed to taste good, aren't they? In fact, both top biscuits tasted the same, like plain white bread, with the Dean losing points for being a little too dense and also a little too little in relation to the ingredients entrusted into its care. But Aunt Jemima surrendered the biscuit lead with a tragically hard bottom biscuit, whereas the mediocre top layer of Jimmy Dean's at least didn't get any worse down below.
The cheese was basically the same, with both slices lacking style and the Aunt Jemima also lacking substance: Jemima mailed in the same half-size effort you find on a Filet-O-Fish. Jimmy Dean cheese won by default—it wasn't very good, but at least it bothered to put in a full biscuit's worth of work. Aunt Jemima delivered a better egg puck; Jimmy Dean's was ultraspongy and totally devoid of yolk character, whereas Aunt Jemima's had a similarly disconcerting texture but at least had the decency to taste like an egg.
The Jimmy Dean sandwich had far better sausage. The texture was on the squishy side of reasonable but it tasted better than fine, with a nice pepper kick accenting the porkiness. Aunt Jemima's sausage (also pork) tasted better than it looks, but everything tastes better than that sausage looks. It was the blander of the two patties, with no distinguishing pig characteristics, but the texture was the real crime. It felt like neoprene, a delightful material for a beer koozie but not for the headline ingredient in a solace-seeker's breakfast sandwich.
Although these breakfast biscuits weren't as good as I'd hoped, I recommend stashing a box of Jimmy Dean's in the back of the freezer for those mornings when a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit is the only way to fill the void in your stomach or your soul.
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Police arrested a mother and her boyfriend after they found an 8-year-old girl with a brain disorder locked in a homemade cage at their New Mexico home. KTSM's Jessica Munoz reports.
Police in New Mexico found an 8-year-old girl locked in a cage in a darkened mobile home, authorities said on Tuesday, adding that they charged the girl's adoptive mother, who had gone to the movies, with child abuse.
Cindy Patriarchias, 33, and her boyfriend, Edmond Gonzales, 37, were arrested after police found the caged girl on Friday evening, Las Cruces Police Department spokesman Dan Trujillo said.
He said police, acting on a tip from the woman's estranged husband, found the girl in the corner of a bedroom locked inside the cage, about 4 feet high, slightly more than 2 feet wide and about 5 feet long.
The homemade wooden structure had two latches and a baby crib mattress on the floor, Trujillio said.
He said Patriarchias had been charged with one count of negligent child abuse while Gonzales was charged with one count of negligently permitting child abuse. Patriarchias was released on bond on Tuesday but her boyfriend was still being held Wednesday, authorities said.
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Cindy Patriarchias, 33, and Edmond Gonzales, 37, are charged with leaving Patriarchias' 8-year-old adoptive daughter in a cage while they went out to see a movie.
The girl was seen by medical personnel but showed no visible signs of physical abuse. She apparently suffers from microcephaly, a condition in which the head or cranial capacity is abnormally small, Trujillo said.
He said detectives did not know why the girl was left locked in the cage. She and three of Patriarchias' other children had been placed in state custody, he said.


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"Britain's Got Talent," the show that launched the career of Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle last year, begins tonight on UK Television, but it might be judge Simon Cowell's last season on the program.
In an interview with Britain's The Sun newspaper to promote the show, Simon revealed that sometimes, those who audition, make him want to quit.
"There are times when you watch these horrific acts and you genuinely think you can't go on," he told the paper. "I like doing the show but it takes a hell of a lot of time.
"Eventually something has to give," he added. "Can I see it working without me? Yes."
In fact, in a clip from the show, Simon threatened to quit after checking out a woman who auditioned with a penguin puppet, The Sun reported.
"What the hell?" the judge said after viewing the woman's act. "I'm not going to be back next year. I'm not kidding. I can't do this anymore. I'm 50 years old."
This season's winner, however, may involve an animal.
"Chandi is my favorite," Simon said of one the "Britain's Got Talent" contestants – a dog. "She is one of the best dancing dogs I've ever seen. She does ballet."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, next fall, Simon will launch stateside another of his reality competition offshoots, "The X Factor," and the result may mean less time for "Britain's Got Talent."
"What we're looking at is whether I come in at a later stage. It's something I'm considering for next year," he said.
Another thing Simon is working on is his wedding to fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy.
"Everything's fine but I've spent the last six weeks in LA working flat out," he told the paper.
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Google 'Not-Office' Finally Completed
We don't think it's a competitor to Microsoft Office. It's casual and sharing, and a better fit to how people use the Web."
—Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Google Docs and Spreadsheets, April 2007
We are not in this to get Microsoft. We are in this to offer more compelling choices for consumers and businesses."
–Dave Girouard, general manager of Google's business software division, April 2007
Soldiering on in its quest not to compete with Microsoft's (MSFT) core office-productivity software business, Google (GOOG) last night added another component to its Web-based productivity suite—Google Sites. Created from JotSpot, the hosted wiki platform Google acquired back in 2006, Sites is essentially a lightweight version of Microsoft's business-collaboration program SharePoint. It offers organizations a means of instantly creating a wiki-style group workspace, in which employees can collaborate.
It's another powerful addition to the Google Apps suite, which already includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Spreadsheets and Page Creator. And it's free. And if you think of "free" as a euphemism for "not robust enough for enterprise use," you best think again. At least that's what Google says, anyway. "The so-called lightweight cloud application isn't for the non-power user," Matt Glotzbach, product management director for Google Enterprise, told News.com's Dan Farber. "It's actually for the power user. Today's power users aren't writing macros. They are 'power collaborators,' grabbing content from six different places in the cloud and putting [it] on a site and sharing it."
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Female comedies are notoriously painful to watch. In a year that's already seen "No Strings Attached" (Really, Natalie Portman? Really?) and "Something Borrowed" (Wait, are we actually supposed to call that a comedy?), not to mention "Sucker Punch," which isn't a comedy but had moments that were laughably bad, "Bridesmaids" has a lot of bad publicity to slough through.
Written by and starring Kristen Wiig, who, along with producer Judd Apatow, assembled a cast of some of the strongest female comedians in recent memory, including Maya Rudolph and the epically scene stealing Melissa McCarthy, the film defies everything audiences have come to expect from movies that bear the cross of "Chick Flick."
Centered on a wedding, the film takes moments like dress fittings, bridal showers and engagement parties and turns it into a schmaltz-free throwdown of unrelenting hilarity that throws the stigma of female-led comedies in the incinerator and screams "Burn, baby, burn!"
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Sitting down to speak with Rudolph and Wiig, both "SNL" alums whose time of the show translates to a language of songs and dialects they say makes them "like the twins in Escape from Witch Mountain," we asked what they felt their role was in championing funny women.
"I don't really feel I have a role," Wiig began.
"You're the treasurer," Rudolph corrected.
"You're the secretary," Wiig replied, grinning.
"It certainly didn't feel like any conscious decision," Rudolph continued. "But when you ask that question, I think it's really cool. It's such a compliment."
"It's not like we wrote this movie as a reaction to anything," Wiig added. "Like, 'Boys get to do this stuff so let's do it!' We weren't thinking that way. We were just thinking, 'Let's write a hopefully really funny movie with a lot of roles for women in it.'"
One of the most interesting things about "Bridesmaids" is that, unlike most movies focused on women, it isn't about who's prettier or who's gonna get the guy, but who can be a better friend. It's not a message movie, but that's not a bad one to glean from it.
McCarthy—whose work on "Mike and Molly" does little to prepare the audience for her stellar, fearless, hilarious turn here—agreed, saying, "Usually the plot is, 'There's three women and they're fighting over SHOES! And nail polish!' And I'm like. 'Who are these women?' I don't know them. It's not me. And this is a real thing. Yes, women have insecurities, but it's usually over a real thing like friendship [or] am I doing okay? Real topics."
The fact that "Bridesmaids" is grounded in reality is one of its great strengths, but director Paul Feig was unprepared for the level of honesty he found on-set. It's contended that women are actually much more foul-mouthed and sexually explicit (yes, guys, women do talk about everything) and their sense of humor goes much further than men's and, if you ask, Feig, that's absolutely true.
"Who knew?" he said. "There's a lot of frank talk in the movie but we never pushed for it. We would say, 'Maybe you have a sex talk,' and the stuff that would come out of their mouths, I'd be like, 'Oh my goodness. I'm blushing.' But I love that. That's what I love about the movie; it's women actually getting to talk like women and joke around like they do that men aren't privy to see."
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With Oscar night in the not-so-far-off distance (it's Sunday, by the by), the awards season is swiftly coming to a close. Last night, the stars gathered at the International Ballroom of The Beverly Hilton for the 15th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, hosted by Community's Joel McHale. The ceremony, which recognizes and honors TV and film's (often underrated, given how much time we spend thinking about their creations) costume designers. Though the event may not be as publicized as the Oscars, the fashion celebrated on and off the carpet was pretty lovely.
Anne Hathaway, who has recently been doing more avant-garde, dramatic offerings, gave us a youthful refresher in a custom Gucci cocktail dress with a crystal cut-out neckline and open back. Short and spunky, Hathaway seems to have shaken the Fantine-induced gloom she channeled for her Oscar-nominated role. Her '60s-inspired look was amplified by a subtle cat-eye and a neutral makeup palette that didn't distract from the shiny Gucci. The Les Misérables star kept her jewelry simple, opting for Julieri studded earrings and Kwiat bangles. While she rocked her short bob with confidence, it is clearly in the growing-out stage, and the shiny (like, we can see ourselves in her coiff) side-swept hair makes that tricky in-between length look almost enviable. Here's betting the doe-eyed starlet will reign supreme come Sunday night's red-carpet soirée.
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The Rescuers (Hardcover)
MISS BIANCA IS A WHITE MOUSE OF GREAT BEAUTY and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador's son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle (we all know, don t we, that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere). Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now by diplomatic pouch to Norway. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. It will take everything they ve got and a good deal more to escape
with their own lives, not to mention the poet.
Margery Sharp's classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams.
About the Author
Margery Sharp (1905 1991) published fifteen novels for adults before writing The Rescuers (1959), her first book for children. Born Clara Margery Melita Sharp in Salisbury, England, she spent part of her childhood in Malta before returning to England for high school. By the time she graduated with honors in French from the University of London, she had already begun publishing short stories; her work would later become a fixture in such American and British magazines as Harper s Bazaar, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Punch. Several of Sharp s novels were serialized and a number became successful films, including Cluny Brown (screenplay by Ernst Lubitsch) and Britannia Mews (written by Ring Lardner, Jr.); the Rescuers series eventually numbered nine volumes and inspired two animated feature films from Disney. Garth Williams (1912 1996) illustrated nearly one hundred books for children, including Stuart Little and Charlotte s Web by E.B. White, A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Born in New York City to English artist parents, Williams lived in New Jersey, France, and Canada before moving to England in 1922. He had plans to be an architect but ultimately studied painting, design, and sculpture at the Westminster Art School and the Royal College of Art. Having returned to the United States after World War II, Williams found work at The New Yorker, where he met E. B. White just as the latter was finishing Stuart Little. Williams also wrote and illustrated several books of his own, including The Chicken Book: A Traditional Rhyme, The Adventures of Benjamin Pink, Baby Animals, and The Rabbits Wedding."
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"Margery Sharp's mouse-centric 1959 adventure, The Rescuers, has only been out of print for a decade, but it is well worth revisiting. For one thing, it has just been reissued in handsome hardback as part of the New York Review Children's Collection, with drawings by Garth Williams. For another, this new incarnation provides an excuse to rescue the story for a generation of children who might otherwise know only the animated 1977 Disney movie of the same name. As with most children's classics, Ms. Sharp's original work is much funnier and more interestingly textured than the high-fructose movie version." -- Megan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal
"Miss Sharp's delicate and sophisticated humor is good fun for wise children from age 10 to 100." —Jerome Cushman, Los Angeles Times


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Another proposal for Army engine plant
STRATFORD -- The federal government has green-lighted yet another proposal from a company seeking to purchase, remediate and develop the long-vacant Army engine plant property.
Point Stratford Renewal, a collaboration of at least three separate Connecticut companies, won approval from the General Services Administration on Monday to enter into a purchase and sale agreement to redevelop the sprawling waterfront brownfield. The companies joined on the project include Plainville-based Loureiro Properties LLC, Hartford-based Development Resources LLC and Greenwich-based Sedgwick Partners LLC.
The pending deal is the latest in a long line of proposals to get the 78-acre parcel back on the town's tax roles. If the current developer is successful, the project could be a major turnaround for Stratford, a town that for years has sought a renewal of what was once the site of one of the region's biggest employers.
Neither Mayor John Harkins nor his staff have met with the selected developers or had an opportunity to review their proposal.
"We are excited, but we don't want to jump the gun," said Marc Dillon, Harkins' chief of staff. "When they announce the sale, we'll have something to talk about."
Point Stratford Renewal has until Nov. 6 to execute a purchase and sale agreement for the property, according to an approval letter from the GSA.
At this point, it's unclear whether the site would be developed for housing, retail or industry. But Dillon said it's his understanding that it would be developed for light industrial use.
"It's not going to be affordable housing or a 500-square-foot museum or something like that," he said. "It's going to be light industrial use, but from my understanding (the developers) are somewhat flexible. It's going to be based on what the market will bear."
One failed development plan after another has been proposed for the Army plant, a site littered with an undetermined amount of contamination. The Army stopped manufacturing there nearly two decades ago, turning the property over to the town. But the town made no progress, so the federal government took it back in 2007.
The biggest obstacle to the property's sale has been the federal government's unwillingness to detoxify the property. The cost of cleaning up the factory grounds has been estimated in the millions.
In 2008, the GSA tried to sell the property in a live online auction. The result was a $9.6 million deal to transform the site into a campus of multimedia production studios under the name Hollywood East. The sale ultimately collapsed because investors couldn't secure enough funding.
Last year, the federal government rejected a local real estate developer's proposal to build a destination resort at the plant. Milford-based developer Bob Hartmann of Hartmann Development submitted the only bid in the GSA's third attempt that year to auction off the brownfield. The two prior auctions drew no bidders.
The plant has a long history in aviation and military history. It was built in 1929 by Sikorsky Aircraft for construction of seaplanes. The seaplanes, including the "Flying Clipper," were used during the two world wars, pioneering international routes across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
During World War II, the plant constructed military aircraft, including the Corsair, a fighter-bomber aircraft.
The plant closed in 1998 when production was shipped out of state, resulting in thousands of jobs lost.
Meanwhile, it sits virtually unused while the taxpayers foot the multimillion dollar bill for utilities and a maintenance crew to tend to the property.
In a prepared statement, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said he looks forward to a renaissance at the Army property that will bring jobs and economic growth to the town and the rest of the state.
"Better late than never -- this step is a breakthrough for beneficial use of an historic site," he said.
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