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When they say this is Black History
Do they mean this is history without the whitewash
Without the grey areas or red herrings – just one big old black hole
For school kids to sink kissing teeth into?
from 'Black History Revisited 2012'
It's the 1st of October and Black History Month is upon us. As I put in a poem I wrote for last Friday's event for Lewisham libraries, "black is infinite and history is never over". Incidentally, it was a really enjoyable night and I feel I learnt a lot and shared a lot with all those present.
The idea of a month to celebrate and learn about black history is at best a temporary solution to the fact that so-called mainstream history has been quick to omit much of what needs to be learnt about the nations and peoples who all too often end up in the chapter about slavery and Empire (turn to your GCSE textbooks and highlight page 364). At worst, it's a way to build up resentment on one side ("Where's our white history month then?") and a quota-filling culture on the other ("Let's pencil you in for October when we have a budget for your sort of thing...") I do, however, like to look on this month in its best light and take it for what it is: one of the only months when local councils and schools like to employ poets for added cultural value (don't worry - I'm pulling my best cheeky face as I write!)
I've a feeling I've said all this before though, so I won't go on much more except to say that I'll be using the month to read as much history as I can, via the stacks of fiction and poetry I have waiting to be opened on my bookshelf. Also, seeing as this summer marked the 50th anniversary of Independence for both Jamaica and Trinidad, there are a couple of events celebrating the two which look very interesting to me, and I'll keep you posted here.
Spoken Word Educators Programme
The most exciting thing for me this month, from this week onwards, is that I begin my course at Goldsmiths in earnest and I also start teaching Spoken Word at a school in East London. This is all for a new programme that will see six of us trained as full-time Spoken Word Educators; the scheme will hopefully soon be rolled out across London and beyond but this is the pioneering year and I expect we'll all learn a lot along the way.
The people I'm on the programme with read are real gems who I'm glad to know: Raymond Antrobus, Dean Atta, Catherine Brogan, Pete the Temp and Indigo Williams. And I see that Ray's posted something up about it, so I'll not say much more!
I shall be doubly busy, however, which means I've had to ask for extra patience from friends... and to forgive any emails not replied to - resending usually helps ;)
Other things...
Guernsey - So yes, being part of the Guernsey Literary Festival was great; yes, I promised pictures ages ago and yes, I have some right here:
Before - and perhaps during - the trip, I imagined my camera would return full of pictures of cows and farms or at least the outsides of the venues where we did workshops, went to festival events and set up the Slam on the final Sunday. But no, thanks to having people with better cameras snapping the juicy stuff from the Festival, I have tonnes of pictures taken near the sea, looking towards the sea, above the sea, in the sea... There seems to be a theme.
|John Paul and Katie
I was lucky enough to travel with Katie Bonna and John Paul O'Neill, who runs the Slam. This is actually a standard snapshot of how we spent the day. We got to work with some enthusiastic people, and some really great kids, who were brave enough to suspend both their misgivings on poetry and their public performance nerves and work on wildly-varying and imaginative poems based around this year's National Poetry Day theme, Stars.
A brief summary of what went down at the Slam - the final event of the Festival - can be found here.
|scary propeller plane going back
The poetry - I've also been writing loads and I expect to be putting a first pamphlet together over Christmas
The gigs - 3 out of my 5 weekday eves are guaranteed busy these days so I have less time to go to gigs. Which means I'll be a bit more picky about where I go. Which can't always be a bad thing.
The rest - Will update here again soon... Next gig is the launch of RTJ's Big Heart at The Albany, Deptford, next week.
Good times!


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Kim McCartney
Town of Milton Historian
The Town of Milton Historian's Office is dedicated to the motto "Preserving the Past—Collecting for the Future." Its primary concern is with the people of Milton and their pursuits and activities from earliest times through the present.
The collection of historical information and materials is arranged by:
- surnames/families;
- churches and cemeteries;
- agriculture. business, industry;
- schools and civic organizations;
- pictures and maps;
- documents;
- narrative materials; and
- books.
Anyone tracing ancestors and/or their location in Milton through the years may contact the Historian with a request for the particular information desired. Such requests need to include specific name(s) with date, place of birth, death, and marriage if known. Inquiries regarding local history in general may also be submitted. Requestes need to include return contact information and may be submitted by one of the following:
- Phone at (518) 885-9220 Extension 135
- Postal Mail at Town of Milton Historian, 503 Geyser Road, Ballston Spa, New York, 12020
- Email at email@example.com
The public is welcome to come to the Historian's Office by scheduleing an appointment to review materials relative to request for information and also to reference the general local history materials that are available.
While most of the Historian's Office activity involves preserving and sharing the past, the Office is equally interested in collecting recent and current information and materials to be available for the future. The Office is very much interested in collecting any information and pictures that would update and extend current records or establish new records that will be available to our younger generations as they seek to learn about family and Milton history in the years to come.
The Historic Structures and Places Committee continue to work on finalizing a DRAFT TOWN OF MILTON HERITAGE PRESERVATION GUIDELINES to be presented to the Town Board for review and action. These Guidelines address and promote the objective added to the 2001 Milton Comprehensive Plan through 2006 Resolution #41: "Strive to protect Milton historic structures and places that are the foundations of the present and future Town of Milton."
Both National and New York State legislation provide municipalities the authority to enact laws and rules to identify and protect historic and cultural resources. The Town of Milton has many such resources that reflect its heritage and in 2005 the Town Board established a Historic Structures and Places Committee to consider and recommend measures to protect these resources. Since that time the Committee has studied this legislation as well as that of area municipalities and numerous reference materials regarding historic preservation.
In April the Committee presented these DRAFT Guidelines materials to the Town Board for consideration and review. Referral to the Planning Board and the Zoning Board for review was requested. The Committee then presented these materials and attended the May meeting of each of these Boards to respond to questions and comments.

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Fringe showrunner Jeff Pinkner has dropped hints about the upcoming third season finale.
He told the New York Post that events will "unfurl in a very unexpected way for the characters and the audience".
"With as much humility as I can muster, I will tell you that I feel like this season start in a really strong place and it continues to delight us," he said. "Some of the stories coming up are really fun and exciting."
He added that viewers will "absolutely" see the Doomsday Machine that is linked to Peter (Joshua Jackson) be activated before the season's end.
"To me, surprise is a good means of storytelling, but sometimes giving the audience what they expect in an unexpected way is more satisfying," he explained. "As an audience member, I love guessing ahead on stories I care about. That's how our minds indicate they're really engaged."
Pinkner also confirmed that the Fringe production team are still planning ahead for future seasons, despite concerns about the show's ratings.
"We have six to eight seasons worth of material," he confirmed. "We see it as having certain chapters that would enrich the overall story, but aren't necessary to tell the overall story. God willing, the network allows us the time to tell our complete story."
Fringe returns to Fox this Friday at 9/8c.


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Larsen, Øjvind (Akureyri, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: From their beginning in the 1930s, critical theory and the Frankfurt school had their focus on a critique of disturbed social relations in western society dominated by totalitarian political regimes like Stalinism, Fascism, Nazism, and by capitalism as an oppressive and destructive economic system and culture. Now, 80 years later, this has all become history and thus it is time to leave the concept of critical theory behind us, and instead bring the concept of critique to a broader theoretical framework like hermeneutics. This allows the possibility of retaining the theoretical intentions of the old Frankfurt school and at the same time there will be no boundaries by specific dominant theoretical perspectives. In this paper, such a framework for a critical hermeneutics is discussed on the basis of Weber's, Gadamer's, and Habermas' theories on hermeneutics within the social sciences. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8998
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a redefinition of the strategies of local adaptation and global standardizationKragh, Simon (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7020
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Towards Relational Leadership In the Cultural SectorFriis Møller, Søren (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis is an inquiry into how leadership is performed narratively in the cultural sector. Chapter 1 draws the cultural sector as a narrative landscape, and the reader is invited on a tour around this narrative landscape as seen through the eyes of some of the top guns in the cultural sector. Seen from this vantage, leadership in the cultural sector seems to be predominantly performed by relating narratives with reference to the metanarrative of the Enlightenment. The inquiry, however, draws on Lyotard (1984) to argue that such extralinguistic legitimization is in a crisis of legitimacy, wherefore the inquiry embarks on a problematization of the dominant understanding of leadership in the cultural sector with the activist aspiration of suggesting a postmoderning understanding of leadership in the cultural sector being performatively legitimized. Chapter 2 argues in favor of a relational, non-entitative understanding of narratives and it points to emplotment as a process of finding the best fit. This relational understanding of narratives allows the project to inquire into leadership performed narratively in all kinds of empirical settings, not confining itself to formal leadership contexts. Chapter 3 offers a genealogic approach to what the project has defined as the dominant narrative in the cultural sector, the narrative of art for art's sake (the AFAS narrative), which the project argues function as an implicit standard. This includes notions of aesthetic autonomy such as suggested by Kant in 1790, artistic freedom and art for its own sake such as claimed by artists in the Romantic era, and the arm's length principle as the 'constitution of cultural policies' in the post WW2 Western world. Chapter 4 provides an overview of alternative voices which have challenged the dominant narrative. These include post colonial studies, cultural entrepreneurial studies and consumer behavior studies which in various ways propose alternative ways to lead and support the cultural sector. Chapter 5 links the discussions in chapter 3 and chapter 4 to leadership studies, notably to discussions of leader-centered orientations versus leading relationally orientations. The chapter concludes by suggesting a new sensibility towards understanding leadership and meditates on how this might be achieved, paying attentions to the possibilities of overcoming the putative crisis of legitimacy the inquiry is placed in. Chapter 6 relates a case-study of Malmoe City Library which endeavors into a difficult, yet very promising process of reformulating what a library may become in a contemporary context. This process challenges the dominant narrative and thus the current understanding of what a library should be, and this deviation from the dominant narrative challenges leadership. Chapter 7 assembles three different approaches to challenges the dominant narrative and to make new interpretive resources available to the understanding of leadership in the cultural sector. First, givrum.nu, a social movement working with arts, second, Mogens Holm, a leader in the cultural sector in a transition phase, and third, Copenhagen Phil, a classical symphony orchestra striving to avoid becoming a parallel society phenomenon. These case studies are conducted as written interviews with the cases, in an attempted un-edited form to also introduce relational processes informed by a power with relation to my own research project. Chapter 8 reflects on the case-studies in chapter 6 and chapter 7 in light of the two approaches to leadership discussed in chapter 5. It does so by linking my study to relational leadership theory in order to see how this theoretical field might inform my inquiry and how my inquiry might inform this field. It equally offers five possible reconstructions of the cases before concluding the research project by summing up contributions to the empirical field and the research fields, as well as by pointing to areas which could be further developed in future research. In line with the aspirations of the relational constructionist framework of the project, the inquiry does not offer a conclusion. Instead it encourages further reconstructions, thus submitting itself to the performative legitimization it argues in favor of. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8590
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Political Culture and History in the Nordic CountriesØstergaard, Uffe (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9212
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A Study of CWA Raters' Decision-Making BehavioursLindhardsen, Vivian (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present maps study maps the decision-making behaviors of experienced raters in a well-established Communal Writing Assessment (CWA) context, tracing their behaviors all the way from the independent rating sessions, where the initial images and judgments are formed, to the communal rating sessions, where the final scores are assigned on the basis of collaboration between two rates. Results from think-aloud protocols, recorded discussions, retrespective reports and reported scores from 20 raters rating 15 ESL essays show that when moving from the independent ratings to the communal ratings, there is little, if any, increase in rater agreement levels and the raters' attention to the textual features corresponding to the official criteria become more evenly distributed. However, rather than consulting the scale descriptors directly in resolving insecurities about score assignment, the raters seemed to rely heavily on each others' expertise, thereby reducing the importance of the scale and emphasizing the value of the community of raters. In validating their scores in the communal rating discussions the raters appeared to be critically and equally engaged in the discussions, and through deliberating and refining their assessments the raters believed that CWA practices produce more accurate scores than in independent ratings and lead to professional development. These interpretations support a hermeneutic rather than a psychometric approach to establishing the validity of the present CWA practices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7743
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Anthropology, Fieldwork and Organizational EthnographyMoeran, Brian (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper looks at the relationship between anthropology, fieldwork and what is referred to as 'organizational ethnography'. It starts by distinguishing between fieldwork, which is a method of conducting qualitative research, initially in the discipline of anthropology, and ethnography, which is the writing up of that research. The paper makes use of the author's fieldwork experiences in a Japanese advertising agency to illustrate a number of features that define fieldwork as a methodology. It argues that it is the shift from participant observation to observant participation that enables the fieldworker to move from front stage to back stage in the study of an organization, and thereby to gain information and knowledge that is otherwise available only to insiders. Fieldwork, Anthropology, Organizational Ethnography, Observant Participation URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7038
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Hemlin, Sven; Wenneberg, Søren Barlebo (København, 2002)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6333
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The Commensuration of Sustainability Reporting and the Crowding out of Moralityvan Bommel, Koen; Rasche, Andreas; Spicer, André (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Drawing on extensive case study evidence, this study unpacks sustainability reporting's evolution from a moral values-based practice towards a financialized value-based one. We argue that this transition can be seen as a commensuration project and we examine the dynamics of this process. We find that increased levels of commensuration have moved sustainability reporting away from a focus on moral responsibility (i.e. 'doing the right thing') to a focus on strategic value creation for the firm. We theorize this crowding out of morality as a process of amoralization supported by the rigid cognitive framing of social and environmental issues (objectification) and the monetized coordination of relevant social interactions (marketization). We outline implications of our analysis for the scholarly debate on sustainability reporting and commensuration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9693
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Functional Upgrading and Productivity Growth of Multinational Subsidiaries in European Transition EconomiesBurger, Anže; Jindra, Björn; Kostevc, Črt; Marek, Philipp; Rojec, Matija (Warsaw, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: With economic transformation and European integration Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) have been inserted into European and global production networks. The literature on global value chains (GVCs) suggests that firms' performance in terms of value creation and capture crucially depends upon their ability to 'upgrade'. Apart from product and process upgrading this refers to 'functional upgrading' i.e. the changing portfolio and nature of business functions executed by firms within the GVC. In principal this should hold also for multinational affiliates. They participate in GVCs through vertically integrated and specialized forms of organization. Their ability to upgrade is closely linked with their position, mandate and power asymmetries within the multinational network. Recent case study evidence documents functional upgrading in multinational subsidiaries located in CEECs. Yet, their ability to increase value capture through these processes has been contested. This paper tests the relationship between functional upgrading and productivity growth of multinational subsidiaries. We exploit a unique firm level dataset that matches state-of-the-art survey-based business function indicators with times-series accounting data for a representative sample of multinational subsidiaries in selected CEECs. The estimation results indicate that functional upgrading has a positive effect on foreign subsidiaries' average productivity growth. The effect is higher for subsidiaries with more recent entries of foreign investors. This finding is robust to different measures for functional upgrading. The positive effect of functional upgrading seems to be mainly confined to foreign subsidiaries in manufacturing industries. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9228
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Functional upgrading, relational capability and export performance of vietnamese wood furniture producersHanh, Pham Thi Song (Frederiksberg, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Departing from my interest in finding key factors determining a developing country firms' export success, this research explores two fascinating topics: one is the debate on whether a developing country's producers should become involved in marketing functions where a developed country's firms already hold a strong position, and the other is the very limited attention given in the export literature to the role of relational capability in a firm's export business.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7742
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The International Monetary Fund and Policy Reform Surveillance in Small Open EconomiesSeabrooke, Leonard; Broome, André (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The International Monetary Fund spends most of its time monitoring its member states' economic performance and advising on institutional change. While much of the literature sees the Fund as a policy enforcer in "emerging market" and "frontier" economies, little attention has been paid to exploring the Fund's bilateral surveillance of its Western member states. This article proposes that "seeing like the IMF" provides a dynamic view of how the Fund frames its advice for institutional change. It does so through "associational templates" that do not blindly promote institutional convergence, but appeal for change on the basis of like-characteristics among economies. Many Western states, particularly small open economies, consider the Fund's advice as important not only for technical know-how, but because Fund assessments are significant to international and domestic political audiences. This article traces the Fund's advice on taxation and monetary reform to two coordinated market economies, Denmark and Sweden, and two liberal market economies, Australia and New Zealand from 1975 to 2004. It maps how the Fund advocated "policy revolutions" and "policy recombinations" during this period, advice that coincided with important institutional changes within these small open economies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7323
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A Study of a New Economy Firm's Powers of PersuasionElgaard Jensen, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The article is an empirical analysis of how a Scandinavian new economy firm was able to persuade a number of business journalists that it represented 'the future'. It analyses how visitors to the firm were met with a specific and persuasive combination of rhetorical and material ressources. It suggests that the persuasive power of the firm was based on its ability to evoke and articulate a series of pointed contrasts between the attractive working life within the firm and the ordinary and problematic work life elsewhere. The article suggests that this strategy of drawing contrasts together differs from the mode of persuasion usually described by STS. Keywords: Sociology of expectations, Sociology of futures, Sociology of anticipation, New Economy, dot-com, persuasion, power, actor-network theory, materialised contrast argument. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6690
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Rai, Sudhanshu; Kuhn Pedersen, Mogens (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8024
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On the strategification of time in organisationsFrankel, Christian (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6723
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A Third-Generation Prediction MarketHallin, Carina Antonia; Juul Andersen, Torben; Tveterås, Sigbjørn (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article theorizes a new way to predict firm performance based on aggregation of sensing among frontline employees about changes in operational capabilities to update strategic action plans. We frame the approach in the context of first- and second-generation prediction markets and outline its unique features as a third-generation prediction market. It is argued that frontline employees gain deep insights when they execute operational activities on an ongoing basis in the organization. The experiential learning from close interaction with internal and external stakeholders provides unique insights not otherwise available to senior management. We outline a methodology to agglomerate these insights in a performance barometer as an important source for problem finding and innovation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8815
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Brier, Søren (København, 2014)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9052
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Frankel, Christian (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
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Østergaard, Uffe (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Er Færøerne en nation uden stat? Det mener næsten alle færinger. Mange – muligvis et flertal – ønsker at gå skridtet videre til en helt uafhængig national stat med økonomisk og muligvis også fuld politisk uafhængighed af Danmark. At en sådan vil skulle klassificeres som mikrostat i lighed med øriger i Stillehavet bekymrer tilsyneladende ikke nationalt selvbevidste færinger. Hvordan danskerne i den danske del af Rigsfællesskabet ser på Færøerne er mere uklart. Modsat holdningen til Grønland er det først og fremmest uvidenhed der præger forholdet. Forholdet mellem de to rigsdele i den konstruktion der i grundloven kaldes "Rigsenheden", også selv om vi i praksis er gået over til at tale om rigsfællesskabet, er i øjeblikket mere end nogensinde til forhandling. Forhandlingerne foregår på baggrund af den aftale om hjemmestyre der blev vedtaget i 1948 efter en afstemning der endte med et meget snævert flertal for uafhængighed. Fra officiel dansk side har man hidtil kviet sig ved at anerkende Færøerne som en egen nation, da nation i dansk politisk sprogbrug normalt antages at være identisk med stat. Det er ikke helt urimeligt som det fremgår af navnet de Forenede Nationer, der som bekendt ikke består af folk, men af stater. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7360
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En indsigt i hyggefænomenet og de relaterede fødevarepraksisserBoye, Heidi (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A lot of attention has been given to health-related issues worldwide, especially since the World Health Organisation declared obesity epidemic in many countries. Overweight and obesity impose a serious threat to economic welfare and the health and quality of life of the individual consumer (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet, 2007). Paradoxically in continuation of the increased overweight, obesity and nutrition-related diseases research stresses there is an escalating concern about health issues such as eating and living healthy (ATV, 2007; Nordic Plan of Action, 2006). However consumers find many different obstacles to integrating healthy food products in their daily lives, including the compelling need for hedonic food consumption which often involves less healthy or unhealthy food (Luomala et al., 2004, 2006). Hedonic food consumption is often associated with social gatherings and "hygge42", where everyday "health-rules" are replaced with unrestricted "pleasure-rules"...... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8050
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Etablering af en ekspressiv kategori, eksemplificeret på russiskHäuser, Ivan (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandling placerer sig i forlængelse af forskningen på området følelse og sprog. Det undersøges, hvordan følelser udtrykkes af den talende og vækkes hos andre gennem sproglige midler. Antagelsen er, at der kan identificeres fællestræk, som udgør et særligt lingvistisk system for følelsers interaktion med sproget. Systemet forsøges afdækket inden for det moderne russiske sprog og beskrevet som en ekspressiv kategori. Følelser, herunder behov og motiver, driver menneskers handlinger, herunder også deres sproghandlinger. Følelser ligger ikke kun bag ved og under sproget, men kommer ofte også op til overfladen og bliver synlige i form af lingvistiske udtryk. Følelser er ikke kun private, men de er et socialt fænomen; de er integreret i sproget og spiller en rolle i dialog. Det er følelsers funktion i sproget, der undersøges i denne afhandling. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8375
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i'm grace edwards
i make stuff. i feel giddy around boxes, glitter and yarn. i walk dogs. i knit. i think pinterest and ravelry are brilliant. i like strawberries. i love dark purple and bright lime colors. i have an amazing husband and a wonderful dog.
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Follow me on Instagram.Day 53/100. For today's card I used another technique shown by @jennifermcguireink . I cut a piece of patterned paper from the @simonsaysstamp Beautiful Butterflies Card Kit into 4 squares. I used my stitched square die to cut the squares. Then I made a top folding card that was 5 1/2" square and placed each of the squares with space in between each square. I diecut the word "You" and found the words "are wonderful" in a @tim_holtz sentiment sticker book. I attached foam tape to all the elements and finished the card with some sequins. #100daysofhandmadecards #greetingcards #papercrafts #stampersofinstagram #handmadecard #cardmakersofinstagram #sharehandmadekindness #cardchallenge #simonsaysstamp #diecuts #mftdienamics #patterenedpaper #jennifermaguireink #timholtz #dienamics #100dayproject2020
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Fifty Days to 50: DIY Sticker Book
My day ended up being a bit of a rabbit trail today… all because of a YouTube Video ;-). There are a few things in life I can't seem to get enough of… boxes, glitter, yarn, dogs and stickers. … Continue reading
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Make Madness 2018 – Day 24-31 | Knit and Crochet All-The-Things
For the last week of Make Madness, I decided to work a little bit each day on the variety of knitting and crochet projects I have in progress. While these won't necessarily be completed by the end of March, they … Continue reading
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Make Madness 2018 – Day 23 | Bath Fizzies
While yesterday's Make Madness was a lot of fun, it was also a long day on my feet and took a toll on my back. All I could think that I wanted to make today were some bath fizzies so … Continue reading
Make Madness 2018 – Day 21/22 | Hand Dyed Yarn
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Andy Dunn is the founding CEO of Bonobos, a clothing company that launched online in 2007 with the introduction of a line of pants that promise a more flattering fit for men. The company has since expanded, and it now sells a full line of menswear through its e-commerce "guideshop" stores and online. Dunn graduated from Stanford GSB in 2007.
In 10 words or fewer, what is the big idea behind your business?
Clothing brands can now be built via e-commerce.
What is the best advice you've ever received?
As a first-time founder, I became a boss all of a sudden; it took a while to learn how to lead people. I was 28 when I co-founded Bonobos, and I searched for a while to find my authentic personal leadership style. My co-founder, my housemate from Stanford and I had diverging approaches to how to build the company, and he left the company in 2009 with a lot of grace. After his departure, there was no one blame but me when things weren't working.
Joel Peterson, a Stanford GSB lecturer and our first angel investor, once told me, "You catch more flies with honey." There are some schools of management that tell you to set a high bar and withhold praise, or to motivate by fear; I have come to believe more in Joel's approach. It's like plants leaning into sunlight. You condition people to embody the very qualities you are praising. When I started to do this, it created an environment where it is OK for people to offer recognition to their direct reports. Slowly, the culture began to flourish.
What was the most difficult lesson you have learned on the job?
One, "it's all your fault," and two, "nobody cares." "It's all your fault" came from Mark Leslie. "Nobody cares" is from Ben Horowitz. As CEO, when things go well, your job is to pass the credit on to someone else. But when things go wrong, it's your fault.
Our site crashed on Cyber Monday of 2011 and stayed down for two weeks. It was a traumatic time for our company. We have a great customer experience, but that obviously doesn't matter if you can't shop on our site. Our customer-service ninjas are all energetic, empathetic people, and they were working day and night with phone calls and monitoring and responding to Facebook and Twitter. Our new head of engineering had just joined. He had the weight of the world on his shoulders four weeks into his new job.
How did it come to this? It was my fault. We had an engineering team when we started, but we dismantled it and outsourced our technology for two years. We should not have completely outsourced it. After that it took me too long to hire our head of engineering. If I could go back in time, I would have retained some of that initial team and been less extremist about the transitions to create more continuity.
It's easy as a leader to point fingers and blame people because you have power and authority. The reality is, you can't blame employees, because if they aren't doing well, it is your responsibility to move them out. Not only can you take responsibility, but you have to take responsibility. Everything the company does is in your purview. As the CEO, you are responsible for everyone who is there, and as founding CEO, you can't even blame it on your predecessor. You can make all the excuses you want about how the world changed, etc., but if you fail, no one cares why it didn't work. It can feel psychologically daunting to think of things this way — it's all your fault and nobody cares why it didn't work if it doesn't work — but it's also empowering. If you recognize you have agency in creating problems, then you can solve them, too.
What advice would you give other entrepreneurs on how to build a great business?
Passion is a prerequisite. So is an unfair advantage. This world is intensely competitive. It's not so much a question of whether you are a high-potential entrepreneur or whether your idea is great, but are you a high-potential entrepreneur for that great idea?
Before Bonobos, I worked on an idea for a personalized content magazine, similar to Instapaper. There was no reason I was the right person to build that business, and therefore I didn't. People say great companies are built by great teams. I think that's true. But I look for more than just great teams and great ideas; I like ideas that are uniquely authentic for that particular team.
What inspires you?
Creating something people love. We have around 350,000 Facebook fans. I think of all the people who clicked our "like" button because they think our brand is cool. I'm inspired by that. I love this world that makes it possible for people to imagine something should exist and then conspires to enable them to create it.
What is your greatest achievement?
The most proud I've ever felt was when Bonobos was named by Crain's as one of the top 50 places to work in New York. Building a company that customers love already puts you in the top decile, but building a company that employees love is the most elegant challenge in business. That's the top 1%. So many people don't like their jobs or their bosses.
It is especially meaningful to me coming from 2007, when I felt like I had no idea what I was doing or how to build an organization where humans could be motivated and engaged. I once thought "company human values" were things people wrote on posters with pictures of an eagle soaring in the sunrise. I always thought that was a cliché.
I have learned there is actually something to it. What helped me was when we had about 30 employees, I took stock of the 10 best people I had ever hired and made a list of the five attributes that I believe unified them and all the great people we have hired since. Those are self-awareness, judgment, positive energy, intellectual honesty and empathy. I worked those five values into how we hire, fire, promote and retain people; we have gotten pretty empirical about it. That process of being thoughtful about how to create and protect our culture has been more important than I would ever have imagined when we began.
What do you consider your biggest failure?
At the beginning of 2010, I gave a presentation to the company saying that we have a lot to do and we were not working hard enough. It demoralized the company and was the apex of my flawed thinking of how to inspire people. I had thought about myself and what motivates me, and I wrongly thought that applied to everyone. Many founders work out of fear of failure. But most other people work hard out of joy and love and inspiration. Soon after my presentation, our head of engineering quit. He cast a vote of no confidence in my leadership. After he left, we had to dismantle his team because they didn't have confidence in me, either. That is what led to our outsourcing our technology, which led to that Cyber Monday site crash.
Like I said, it was all my fault.
How do you come up with your best ideas?
Our e-commerce showroom model is pretty innovative. It is 1,000 square feet of personalized service. We got rid of everything that clutters the experience. Most stores send you to the fitting room on your own, and they have lots of inventory. We wanted our showroom to be more like the Apple Store's Genius Bar for clothes.
For me, the best way to come to generate a lot of bad ideas and filter for the good ones is with [limited] experiments. Stanford GSB author Peter Sims calls these "little bets."
What values are important to you in business?
Self-awareness, empathy, positive energy, judgment and intellectual honesty.
What impact would you like to have on the world?
I'd like to get the Cubs to the World Series. I don't know how to be helpful on that.
My mom was born in South Asia, a part of the world where women's education is just beginning to be appreciated, and in some cases not. I'd love to move the needle on educating women. I've learned a little about education as the founding board member of a New York-based social enterprise called the Blue Engine. My dad's a retired high school history teacher, so maybe it's in my blood.
What was your first paying job?
I worked in a darkroom of a hospital, developing X-rays. I was in the dark eight hours a day. My mom, who immigrated to the U.S. when she was 20, became an X-ray and ultrasound technician; I worked near her. It was my first exposure to hard work. No pun intended.
What is the best business book you have read?
Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It is about intellectual honesty and the value of data in addition to intuition. It's about baseball, but it's also about hubris. If you understand business, you shouldn't read business books; you should read about human nature.
What businessperson do you most admire?
Joel Peterson, the chairman of JetBlue. He approaches business from a really weird place: love. He talks about treating people with profound grace and dignity, even when things are difficult. I think he's got a unique view of how to meld caring into capitalism; it personally inspires me.
What do you think is the greatest innovation in the past decade?
Lime tortilla chips. Just kidding. The social graph! It's a funny thing how this digital tool is making the world a more personal place. Our brand wouldn't be possible without social media. And because of the power of digitally driven brand-building, we are now creating an in-person store experience, which is arguably more personal than anything else in retail. It's ironic when you think about it.


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Can someone help me understand what is the root of my application?
I would like to use vim and create a one line procfile in the root of my application.
Then I can test the procfile using a gem called foreman with the following command in my terminal: foreman start
I have tried sudo vim /procfile and created the file and saved it in what I thought to be the root. Then I typed: foreman start and the response is that Procfile does not exist.
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Big Cartel WordPress Plugin
About the Plugin
The Big Cartel WordPress plugin offers a simple way to include your products from a Big Cartel shop on your WordPress site, in posts, pages and widgets.
The plugin provides two shortcodes to use within a post, page or text widget. Additionally there is a Big Cartel Widget available to show a number of products in the order from your Big Cartel Shop as a link list for sidebars.
Big Cartel Product Shortcode
[ bc_product permalink="product-name-permalink" size="small|medium|large" css_class="sample" target="_blank" show_title="yes" show_price="yes" ]
The shortcode is simple to use and has several options for displaying products within a post. The default setting simple requires you to insert the permalink for your product page and that product's main image will be displayed in the large format from Big Cartel, which is max length of 300 pixels. You can set the size if you want the small or medium photo to be used. The image will automatically be linked to the store's product page.
We just added in version 0.0.5 the ability to include product images from stores not in your main plugin settings by using the subdomain attribute for the shortcode.
[ bc_product permalink="product-name-permalink" size="small|medium|large" subdomain="tonkapark" [
How to find your product permalink:
Typically your product permalink is your product title with hyphens in place of the spaces. Browse to the product you want to embed and grab the last portion of the url.
If your product is at http://subdomain.bigcartel.com/product/your-best-product, you would use 'your-best-product' in your shortcode.
Displaying Multiple Big Cartel Products
If you want to show a product grid or gallery you can use a shortcode to display any number of your products using the bc_products shortcode. This code allows you to show 10 or 300 products nearly replicating the all products view on your shop.
[ bc_products products_count="10″ size="small|medium|large" show_title="yes" show_price="yes" ]
Big Cartel Products Widget
The Big Cartel Plugin includes a widget that will display any number of products from your Big Cartel shop. Just head over to the widgets section to add it to your widget ready sidebars.
Ideas for use
When blogging about your products simply insert the shortcode with the product permalink and your blog posts will now have the product photos to bring in more shoppers. Keep in mind this now means if you ever update your product photos on the shop, your blog posts will be updated automatically as well.
Please use the contact form with details on any errors or feature requests. We are considering adding a premium version of this plugin if you are willing to pay for more features.
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We pulled it off! John had no idea we were throwing him a surprise 60th birthday party.
Of course it helped that it took place almost three weeks before his birthday. There was a nice turnout at the grange and we had a very nice afternoon visiting with friends and family. There was a makeshift quartet that sounded great!
John and Jessica compared bellies!
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Put simply, propagation is about creating new plants either from seeds (sexual reproduction) or cuttings (vegetative reproduction).
Propagating from seed means there will be some genetic variation and a decreased likelihood of disease and pests. The start of this process is called germination, where the seed splits and the first leaves and tap-root appear. As long as the propagating media is suitably sterile and can hold sufficient water, the seed should germinate in a few days. Expanding plugs and ROOT!T Natural sponges are ideal!
Propagating from cuttings enables you to produce a plant with the same genetics as the mother plant (as long as the growing conditions are replicated). This is a rapid method of propagation and generally offers a higher success rate because the quality of seeds can vary greatly. There are a number of different cutting methods, dependent on the plant type – stem cutting, leaf cutting, air cutting, splitting, from runners and tissue culture. It is important that you control the moisture, humidity and temperature as this will help to prevent disease that could occur otherwise.
The method that you use, very much depends on what you want to achieve from your propagation. The key to successful propagation is maintaining consistent optimal conditions which is why we suggest the use of propagators.


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How to load and save documents in TWebBrowser in a Delphi-like way
- Why Do It?
- Requirements
- Implementation
- Conclusion
- Demo Program
- Acknowledgements
Why do it
I use the TWebBrowser control quite a lot. But, since the control is simply a wrapper round the Microsoft® control, it doesn't really do things the "Delphi way".
If, like me, you've found yourself saving dynamically generated HTML code to disk just so you can access it using TWebBrowser.Navigate() you probably know what I mean. You wouldn't have to do such a thing with a native Delphi control such as a TMemo – you would simply access a relevant property like TMemo.Lines[] or use a method like TMemo.LoadFromStream. You can also do this with TWebBrowser, but its not straightforward – not very "Delphi" – you have to query and manipulate interfaces and all sorts of stuff. It's all so very COM!
So, I decided to create a wrapper class for TWebBrowser that makes navigating, loading and saving a whole lot easier and more intuitive. This article walks through the development of that class and examines some of the key techniques for working with TWebBrowser along the way.
A word of caution before we get started. The code I'll present here is for illustration purposes only. Don't expect it to be perfect for production code, although you should be able to use it as a basis. Please feel free to take the core unit from the demo and modify, specialise or generalise it for your own purposes. It's open source and licensed under the MPL / GLP / LGPL tri-license which should suit most open-source hackers.
The approach we will take is to develop a wrapper class for TWebBrowser rather than derive a new class from it. Let's first decide of the main functions of the web browser we want to be able to access easily – these will be our requirements for the wrapper class. Here's the list I drew up:
- Load HTML code into an existing document from a local file, a stream or a string.
Navigate to a URL (as now) but without worrying about remembering the
file://protocol when loading an local file and with easy access to HTML resources using the
- Programmatically save the browser's content as HTML source code. We should also be able to store the content in a string or write it to a stream or file.
- Provide access to the underlying TWebBrowser object so that we can use it directly to access any functionality not provided by the new code.
Now we're living in a Unicode world the following extra requirements will be added:
- Be able to read and write HTML code in ANSI or Unicode encodings. And be able to specify the encoding used when saving a document or when loading from a string.
- Get the encoding (character set) used by the browser object for the current document.
From this list you can see we are focussing on navigating, loading and saving documents.
Now we have our specification we will approach implementation in two stages:
- Stage 1: Basic implementation of the first set of requirements. This code will be suitable for most Delphi compilers.
- Stage 2: Add on the required Unicode support. This will require Delphi 2009 or later.
Stage 1: Basic Implementation
This first stage won't worry about Unicode support other than that needed to make the code compile and work with Delphi 2009 and later.
Here is an outline of a class that, once implemented, meets our basic requirements:
type TWebBrowserWrapper = class(TObject) private fWebBrowser: TWebBrowser; // wrapped control protected procedure InternalLoadDocumentFromStream(const Stream: TStream); procedure InternalSaveDocumentToStream(const Stream: TStream); public constructor Create(const WebBrowser: TWebBrowser); procedure LoadFromFile(const FileName: string); procedure LoadFromStream(const Stream: TStream); procedure LoadFromString(const HTML: string); overload; function NavigateToLocalFile(const FileName: string): Boolean; procedure NavigateToResource(const Module: HMODULE; const ResName: PChar; const ResType: PChar = nil); overload; procedure NavigateToResource(const ModuleName: string; const ResName: PChar; const ResType: PChar = nil); overload; procedure NavigateToURL(const URL: string); function SaveToString: string; procedure SaveToStream(const Stm: TStream); overload; procedure SaveToFile(const FileName: string); overload; property WebBrowser: TWebBrowser read fWebBrowser; end;
The first thing to notice is the WebBrowser property that enables access to the wrapped control. The public methods fall naturally into several groups and, rather than explaining the purpose of each method now, we will look at them in groups. The protected "helper" methods will be discussed along with the public methods they service.
The constructor is very simple – it just stores a reference to the TWebBrowser control that the object is wrapping. This control reference is passed as a parameter to the constructor:
constructor TWebBrowserWrapper.Create(const WebBrowser: TWebBrowser); begin inherited Create; fWebBrowser := WebBrowser; end;
Navigation Methods
We have declared three different methods for navigation:
- NavigateToURL – A thin wrapper around the existing TWebBrowser.Navigate method that only deals with standard URLs and intelligently sets the cache and history flags. The main difference between this method and the underlying control's method is that our method blocks until the required document has completely downloaded.
NavigateToLocalFile – This convenience method simply
adds the required
file://protocol to the URL before calling NavigateToURL.
- NavigateToResource – Loads HTML code from the program's (or other module's) resources into the browser. Overloaded versions of this method allow resources to be accessed by instance handle (like the TResourceStream constructors) or by providing the name of the module containing the resources.
NavigateToLocalFile and both versions of NavigateToResource work by creating the required URL from the parameters passed to them and then calling NavigateToURL to do the actual navigation. Let's first look at how NavigateToURL handles the navigation then come back to look at how the other routines put the URLs together.
This method essentially falls into two parts. Firstly we decide whether to use the browser's cache to access the document. The decision is based on whether the document is stored locally or is on the internet. We simply check the start of the URL string for some known local protocols etc. and don't use the cache if the URL conforms to one of these types. It would be a simple matter to adapt the method by adding a default parameter to let the user of the code specify what if any caching should take place (this is left as an exercise). The final part of the routine simply uses the browser object's Navigate() method to load the resource into the document. We then go into a loop and wait for the document to load completely. The local Pause procedure does a busy wait, polling the message queue for about 5ms at a time.
Now let us review the specialised navigation methods. The simplest of these
is the NagivateToLocalFile method. This method simply checks if
the file exists and, if so, prefixes the given file name with the
file:// protocol then calls NavigateToURL. If the
file doesn't exist no action is taken. A boolean value indicating whether the
file exists is returned. You may prefer to modify the method to raise an
exception when the file does not exist.
function TWebBrowserWrapper.NavigateToLocalFile( const FileName: string): Boolean; begin Result := FileExists(FileName); if Result then NavigateToURL('file://' + FileName) end;
NavigateToResource is slightly more complicated in that we need
to create the required URL using the IE specific
protocol URL. We discussed this protocol in article #10 where we also developed some functions to return
formatted URLs. (We will re-use these functions later).
Two overloaded methods are provided. Both methods create the required URL for
a given module, resource name and an optional resource type. They then call
NavigateToURL to do the actual navigation. The overloaded methods
vary in the way the module is described. The first method accepts the handle
of a loaded module (pass HInstance to access the current program).
The second method is simply passed a module name as a string. If the resource
type parameter is omitted then it is left out of the URL – the
res:// protocol simply defaults to expecting an
RT_HTML (=MakeIntResource(23)) resource in such cases.
Here are the methods:
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.NavigateToResource(const Module: HMODULE; const ResName, ResType: PChar); begin NavigateToURL(MakeResourceURL(Module, ResName, ResType)); end; procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.NavigateToResource(const ModuleName: string; const ResName, ResType: PChar); begin NavigateToURL(MakeResourceURL(ModuleName, ResName, ResType)); end;
As can be seen, the methods simply rely on overloaded versions of the MakeResourceURL function. The implementation of these functions is described in article #10. In both cases we could improve the methods by checking that the required resources exist and raising an exception or returning false if not. This is left as an exercise (hint: use the Windows FindResource function to check for the resource's existence).
Document Loading Methods
There are three methods that load new content into an existing document:
- LoadFromString – Replaces the current document with the HTML code stored in a string.
- LoadFromFile – Replaces the current document with the HTML code read from a file.
- LoadFromStream – Replaces the current document with the HTML code read from a stream.
At first sight LoadFromFile is similar to NavigateToLocalFile, but NavigateToLocalFile reads a file into the browser, creating a new document whereas LoadFromFile requires that a document already exists and replaces it's HTML code – i.e. the HTML is changed dynamically.
Both LoadFromString and LoadFromFile simply create a suitable stream and call LoadFromStream, which in turn uses the protected InternalLoadDocumentFromStream method to perform the actual loading of the code. Let's first look at the stream and string methods, which are very similar:
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.LoadFromFile(const FileName: string); var FileStream: TFileStream; begin FileStream := TFileStream.Create( FileName, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyNone ); try LoadFromStream(FileStream); finally FileStream.Free; end; end; procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.LoadFromString(const HTML: string); var StringStream: TStringStream; begin StringStream := TStringStream.Create(HTML); try LoadFromStream(StringStream); finally StringStream.Free; end; end;
As can be seen this is all quite straightforward if you're used to using TStreams. LoadFromFile opens a read-only TFileStream onto the file and passes the stream to LoadFromStream. Similarly LoadFromString uses the very useful TStringStream class to open a stream that can read the HTML code string.
LoadFromStream itself is quite straightforward because it hands most of its work off to InternalLoadFromStream:
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.LoadFromStream(const Stream: TStream); begin NavigateToURL('about:blank'); InternalLoadDocumentFromStream(Stream); end;
The main thing to note here is that we must ensure there is a document
present in TWebBrowser since, as we will see in a moment, we need
it in order to load the code from the stream. We do this by navigating to
the special
about:blank document, which simply creates a blank
document in the web browser control. Once we have our blank document we load
the stream into it using InternalLoadDocumentFromStream, which
is defined below:
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.InternalLoadDocumentFromStream( const Stream: TStream); var PersistStreamInit: IPersistStreamInit; StreamAdapter: IStream; begin if not Assigned(WebBrowser.Document) then Exit; // Get IPersistStreamInit interface on document object if WebBrowser.Document.QueryInterface( IPersistStreamInit, PersistStreamInit ) = S_OK then begin // Clear document if PersistStreamInit.InitNew = S_OK then begin // Get IStream interface on stream StreamAdapter:= TStreamAdapter.Create(Stream); // Load data from Stream into WebBrowser PersistStreamInit.Load(StreamAdapter); end; end; end;
And this is where it gets more complicated – for the first time we have to mess around with the COM stuff.
We check that the web browser control's document object is available and bail out if not. We then check to see if the document supports the IPersistStreamInit interface, getting a reference to the supporting object. IPersistStreamInit is used to effectively "clear" the document object (using the interface's InitNew method). If this succeeds we finally load the stream's content into the document by calling the IPersistStreamInit.Load method.
IPersistStreamInit.Load accepts a stream object, but the stream
it expects is a COM one that must support the IStream interface.
Since TStream does not natively support this interface, we have
to find some way to provide it. TStreamAdapter from Delphi's
Classes unit comes to the rescue here – this object
implements IStream and translates IStream's method
calls into equivalent calls onto the TStream object that it
wraps. We create the needed TStreamAdapter object by passing a
reference to our stream in its constructor. Finally, we pass the adpated
stream to IPersistStreamInit.Load, and we're done.
If you're wandering why we don't free StreamAdapter and PersistStreamInit it's because they are both interfaced objects and will be automatically destroyed at the end of the method by Delphi's built in interface reference counting. Note that even though the stream adapter class is freed, the underlying TStream object continues to exist, which is what we want.
Note that the browser control interprets the encoding of the stream sets the document's character set accordingly. However, the character set can also be specified in HTML code.
Document Saving Methods
There are three methods that are used to save a document's code. They complement the three LoadXXX methods as follows:
- SaveToString – Returns the document contents in a string.
- SaveToFile – Saves the document contents to a specified file.
- SaveToStream – Saves the document contents to a given stream.
Like their LoadXXX counterparts, the SaveToFile and SaveToString methods simply map down onto SaveToStream, after creating suitable output streams. Their operation is quite simple and needs little explanation:
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.SaveToFile(const FileName: string); var FileStream: TFileStream; begin FileStream := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmCreate); try SaveToStream(FileStream); finally FileStream.Free; end; end; function TWebBrowserWrapper.SaveToString: string; var StringStream: TStringStream; begin StringStream := TStringStream.Create(''); try SaveToStream(StringStream); Result := StringStream.DataString; finally StringStream.Free; end; end;
The only thing of note in the above methods is the use of TStringStream's DataString property to read out the completed string after writing to the stream.
The SaveToStream method follows. It's as simple as it could be, it simply calls InternalSaveDocumentToStream.
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.SaveToStream(const Stm: TStream); begin InternalSaveDocumentToStream(Stm); end;
Finally, we get to see how the protected InternalSaveDocumentToStream method is implemented. It interacts with the browser control to save the whole document to a stream.
procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.InternalSaveDocumentToStream( const Stream: TStream); var StreamAdapter: IStream; PersistStreamInit: IPersistStreamInit; begin if not Assigned(WebBrowser.Document) then Exit; if WebBrowser.Document.QueryInterface( IPersistStreamInit, PersistStreamInit ) = S_OK then begin StreamAdapter := TStreamAdapter.Create(Stream); PersistStreamInit.Save(StreamAdapter, True); end; end;
Note that, like in InternalLoadDocumentFromStream, we again try to get the web browser document's IPersistStreamInit interface and then use its Save method to write the document to the stream. We also use TStreamAdapter once again to provide the required IStream interface for the TStream.
Note that the browser control writes the stream in the correct character set for the document.
Stage 2: Adding Unicode Support
Since the browser control supports different character encodings we need to add support for this to our code. For much of this we're going to rely on the encoding support built into Delphi 2009 and later, so get ready for some conditionally defined code.
When we discussed requirements we decided we needed to be able to specify an encoding when writing to files and streams and when reading from a string. To handle this we define new overloads of the SaveToStream, SaveToFile and LoadFromString methods.
The second requirement was to provide access to the encoding used for the browser control's current document.
Taking these into account the definition of our TWebBrowserWrapper class becomes:
type TWebBrowserWrapper = class(TObject) private fWebBrowser: TWebBrowser; // wrapped control protected procedure InternalLoadDocumentFromStream(const Stream: TStream); procedure InternalSaveDocumentToStream(const Stream: TStream); {$IFDEF UNICODE} function GetDocumentEncoding: TEncoding; {$ENDIF} public constructor Create(const WebBrowser: TWebBrowser); procedure LoadFromFile(const FileName: string); procedure LoadFromStream(const Stream: TStream); procedure LoadFromString(const HTML: string); overload; {$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure LoadFromString(const HTML: string; const Encoding: TEncoding); overload; {$ENDIF} function NavigateToLocalFile(const FileName: string): Boolean; procedure NavigateToResource(const Module: HMODULE; const ResName: PChar; const ResType: PChar = nil); overload; procedure NavigateToResource(const ModuleName: string; const ResName: PChar; const ResType: PChar = nil); overload; procedure NavigateToURL(const URL: string); function SaveToString: string; procedure SaveToStream(const Stm: TStream); overload; {$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure SaveToStream(const Stm: TStream; const Encoding: TEncoding); overload; {$ENDIF} procedure SaveToFile(const FileName: string); overload; {$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure SaveToFile(const FileName: string; const Encoding: TEncoding); overload; {$ENDIF} property WebBrowser: TWebBrowser read fWebBrowser; {$IFDEF UNICODE} property Encoding: TEncoding read GetDocumentEncoding; {$ENDIF} end;
Encoding Property
We provide access to the browser's current document encoding via the read only Encoding property which has a read accessor method named GetDocumentEncoding, defined in the following listing.
{$IFDEF UNICODE} function TWebBrowserWrapper.GetDocumentEncoding: TEncoding; var Doc: IHTMLDocument2; DocStm: TStream; begin Assert(Assigned(WebBrowser.Document)); Result := TEncoding.Default; if WebBrowser.Document.QueryInterface(IHTMLDocument2, Doc) = S_OK then begin DocStm := TMemoryStream.Create; try InternalSaveDocumentToStream(DocStm); Result := GetStreamEncoding(DocStm); finally DocStm.Free; end; end; end; {$ENDIF}
To get the document encoding we need to examine the structure of the stream that is generated when then the document is saved. We first record the default encoding to return if we can't examine the document for any reason. Once we have a reference to the current document in Doc we create a memory stream object and save the browser content into it by calling InternalSaveDocumentToStream. The resulting stream is then examined by Mauricio Julio's GetStreamEncoding function to get the encoding. Listing 14 shows the implementation GetStreamEncoding.
{$IFDEF UNICODE} function GetStreamEncoding(const Stream: TStream): TEncoding; var Bytes: TBytes; Size: Int64; begin Stream.Seek(0, soFromBeginning); Size := Stream.Size; SetLength(Bytes, Size); Stream.ReadBuffer(Pointer(Bytes)^, Size); Result := nil; // must initialise Result to pass as var param below TEncoding.GetBufferEncoding(Bytes, Result); end; {$ENDIF}
This routine simply copies the provided stream into a TBytes array then uses the GetBufferEncoding class method of TEncoding to determine the encoding.
Revised Document Loading Methods
As noted already we will provide a new overloaded version of LoadFromString that takes a TEncoding parameter that determines the encoding that will be used to load the string containing the HTML. We will also need to re-implement the original LoadFromString method. Here's the new code:
{$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.LoadFromString(const HTML: string; const Encoding: TEncoding); var HTMLStm: TMemoryStream; begin Assert(Assigned(Encoding)); HTMLStm := TMemoryStream.Create; try StringToStreamBOM(HTML, HTMLStm, Encoding); HTMLStm.Position := 0; LoadFromStream(HTMLStm); finally HTMLStm.Free; end; end; {$ENDIF} procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.LoadFromString(const HTML: string); {$IFDEF UNICODE} begin LoadFromString(HTML, TEncoding.Default); end; {$ELSE} var StringStream: TStringStream; begin StringStream := TStringStream.Create(HTML); try LoadFromStream(StringStream); finally StringStream.Free; end; end; {$ENDIF}
The first thing to note is that, on non-Unicode compilers, the original version of LoadFromString is unchanged. However the Unicode version now calls the new overloaded version of the method, passing the default encoding in the Encoding parameter.
The new, Unicode only, overloaded method first writes the the string to a temporary memory stream, encoded according to the Encoding parameter. The stream is prefixed by any byte order mark required by the encoding. All this work is done by the StringToStreamBOM helper routine that is shown in Listing 16. Once we have the stream we simply call the existing LoadFromStream method to load the stream into the document.
{$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure StringToStreamBOM(const S: string; const Stm: TStream; const Encoding: TEncoding); var Bytes: TBytes; Preamble: TBytes; begin Assert(Assigned(Encoding)); Bytes := Encoding.GetBytes(S); Preamble := Encoding.GetPreamble; if Length(Preamble) > 0 then Stm.WriteBuffer(Preamble[0], Length(Preamble)); Stm.WriteBuffer(Bytes[0], Length(Bytes)); end; {$ENDIF}
StringToStreamBOM, described above, first converts the string into a byte array according the required encoding. It then writes any required byte order mark to the stream (stored in the Preamble variable) followed by the byte array.
Revised Document Saving Methods
In addition to providing new overloaded versions of SaveToStream and SaveToFile we must re-implement SaveToString when compiling with Unicode compilers to take account of the browser document's encoding.
We will first look at the revised SaveToString method before discussing the new overloaded methods. Here is the new implementation of SaveToString.
function TWebBrowserWrapper.SaveToString: string; {$IFDEF UNICODE} var MS: TMemoryStream; Encoding: TEncoding; Bytes: TBytes; begin MS := TMemoryStream.Create; try SaveToStream(MS); // This stream may have a pre-amble indicating encoding Encoding := GetStreamEncoding(MS); MS.Position := Length(Encoding.GetPreamble); SetLength(Bytes, MS.Size - MS.Position); MS.ReadBuffer(Bytes[0], Length(Bytes)); Result := Encoding.GetString(Bytes); finally MS.Free; end; {$ELSE} var StringStream: TStringStream; begin StringStream := TStringStream.Create(''); try SaveToStream(StringStream); Result := StringStream.DataString; finally StringStream.Free; end; {$ENDIF} end;
Just like with LoadFromString the non-Unicode version of SaveToString remains unchanged.
The Unicode version of the method writes the browser's document into a temporary memory stream. This is done because we need to interpret the output stream according to its encoding. So we call GetStreamEncoding to find the encoding used to generate the stream. Next we set the memory stream's position to skip over any byte order mark (preamble). The remainder of the stream is then copied into a byte array that we can pass to the GetString method of TEncoding which, in turn, returns the required string.
Having disposed of the most complex method we now turn to the new overloaded versions of SaveToFile and SaveToStream:
{$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.SaveToFile(const FileName: string; const Encoding: TEncoding); var FileStream: TFileStream; begin FileStream := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmCreate); try SaveToStream(FileStream, Encoding); finally FileStream.Free; end; end; {$ENDIF} {$IFDEF UNICODE} procedure TWebBrowserWrapper.SaveToStream(const Stm: TStream; const Encoding: TEncoding); var HTML: string; begin HTML := SaveToString; StringToStreamBOM(HTML, Stm, Encoding); end; {$ENDIF}
SaveToFile is very similar to the version that does not take an Encoding. It creates a stream onto the file then passes the stream and the encoding to the overloaded version of SaveToStream.
In contrast the overload of SaveToStream is very different. First it calls SaveToString to retrieve a string containing the document's content as HTML. It does this because SaveToString handles the document encoding correctly. We then save the string to the stream using the encoding provided in the Encoding parameter, prefixed by any required byte order mark.
So there we have it, a class that makes TWebBrowser a lot more friendly to use when loading and saving documents.
There is obviously a lot more we could do. A couple of things immediately spring to mind.
- We retro-fit some of the Unicode functionality and support for non-ANSI encodings to the pre-Unicode compiler code. The present code when compiled with anything earlier than Delphi 2009 will not save document content to strings correctly if the document character set is not ANSI.
Although this code checks input and output streams for preambles that
identify HTML file and document encodings, it does not check any encoding
(character sets) included explicitly in the HTML. Hint: check the
IHTMLDocument2.charset property or the
<meta>tag with the
I hope the code will be useful and has shared some insight into the way this large and often obscure control works.
If you think I've missed anything major, please feel free to add it to the code. If you add anything really useful, please let me know.
Demo Program
A demo program that can be used to test and exercise the code presented here is available for download. The demo contains:
UWebBrowserWrapper.pas– contains the TWebBrowserWrapper class and helper routines presented in this article along with other required routines.
- A test application that exercises the code. Instructions for use are displayed in the application.
- Some test HTML files using various different encodings.
The code was developed using Delphi 7 Professional (non-Unicode) and Delphi 2010 (Unicode) and tested with both those compilers and Delphi 2006. The code requires the TWebBrowser component. The demo may compile with earlier versions of Delphi but this has not been tested.
As noted above, the code presented in this article does not work correctly when loading and saving in Unicode (or UTF-8) when built with a non-Unicode version of Delphi. These limitations are also present in the demo. Choosing Unicode or UTF-8 examples when loading strings into the demo will fail when it is built with compilers earlier than Delphi 2009.
UWebBrowserWrapper.pas is licensed under
the MPL / GPL / LGPL tri-license and other code can be re-used as
required. See the source files for full details. If you agree to all
this then please download the code using the following link.
Several people's ideas and code samples have been used in developing this code. In particular I'd like to thank Christian Schwarz, Nick Hodges and Babur Saylan for writing some very useful tips on working with TWebBrowser at the now defunct "Delphi Pool" website. Various useful articles can also be found on the Microsoft Developer Network
Thanks are also due to Mauricio Julio for his ideas and code.
This article is copyright © Peter Johnson 2004-2011
Licensed under a Creative Commons License.


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Mekki Leeper is a comedian from Philadelphia now living in Los Angeles. He was a New Face at the 2018 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, and also recently named one of the 2018 Comedy Central "Up Next" comics to watch. He has written for the White House Correspondents' Dinner hosted by Hasan Minhaj, as well as the Lovett or Leave It podcast. His work has been featured on NPR, College Humor, and he can be seen in the Comedy Central digital series he co-wrote and directed, Resolutions. He's performed at Bridgetown, the Big Sky Comedy Festival, Clusterfest, and was a regular at Good Good Comedy Theater and Helium in Philadelphia.


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Cruising the Mekong River is one of the most popular activities in Vietnam. In fact, those who travel to Vietnam are recommended to partake in a Mekong River cruise. The river cruise is accompanied by a tourist guide who will walk you through the history of the river and its cultural and political significance. Therefore, it is a truly enriching experience for tourists who want to get to know the culture when they visit Cambodia, Vietnam or Thailand. To appreciate the experience, you need to know some basic Mekong River facts so you will gain a bigger appreciation for what you are about to experience.
1. The Mekong River is the 12th longest river in the world. It stretches over 4,000 kilometers in length that flows through six countries: China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
2. Although the Mekong River is known throughout the world as one of the most important river systems, it is called by different names. It is also called Lancang Jiang, Cuu Long and Mae Nam Kong.
3. The Mekong River basin is habited by people. In fact, there is an estimated 60 million people who live along the basin.
4. Mekong River is the 14th in the world in terms of water discharge from a river. It discharges around 475 square kilometer of water to the West Philippine Sea in an annual basis! Of the total water discharge, 35% of that is coming from Laos and 18% is from Thailand.
5. The annual flow or water discharge from the Mekong River to the West Philippine Sea typically happens during the monsoon season, which is from July to October.
6. One of the most important Mekong River facts that a lot of tourists don't know about is that the river is more than just a cultural and historical gem. It is also being utilized for a number of industries and applications today such as fishery, power generation, domestic supply, irrigation, industrial and transportation. In fact, the Vietnamese rely on the river primarily to irrigate their crops. About half of their irrigation supply comes from the Mekong River.
7. The Laos government has expressed their plans on building a hydroelectric dam along the Mekong River. This has been highly protested because of its possible drawbacks to the river's ecosystem.
8. Vietnam isn't the only country to benefit from the river; Cambodia also gets 80% of their protein supply from the fish that are caught from the river.
9. Historically, the Mekong River is known for its role in the trading industry. To this day, it is still used significantly as the transport channel for traders, particularly in Vietnam.
10. The Myanmar-Laos Friendship Bridge is constructed along the international border of the river. The construction for the bridge commenced in 2013 and is one of several friendship bridges built for by the two countries.
With these Mekong River facts, you are now ready to explore the river on a cruise. Whether you choose a full day or half-day cruise, it is going to be one of the most amazing experiences you will ever have.


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"Empire State Building"
Neo-Urban XII as King Kong
Brick McGole as Planes's Attacking King Kong
Honey Bunny as Hostage
Hi Kobojo Forums ! Here Is My Mutants Invaded On Real World. Hope You Like ♥:love_heart:.
Title:- Mutants Vs Heroes.
Story:- 1} Neo Urban Boss Leader Of Pack And He Is Attacking White House With Time Square Building.
And Our Heroes Super Man
And Hulk Are Stopping Him.And Tank And Jet Fighter Is Help Them.
And Robots Are Help Them.{From Iron Man He Is Busy In Work.}
2} Triple -B Was Throwing Rugby Bomb On White House Rooftop.And Batman Throw Batrang To Destroy It in Air.
3} Cured Rider Want To Stomp A Kid.But Our Hero Spider Man Was Stopping Him With His Web.
4} Honey Bunny Was Trying To Stop A Robot.But Black Window is Kicking Honey Bunny.
5} Brick McGole Was Destroying White House Roof With Laser .But Thor Have Hammer.
So He Thowed His Hammer To Brick McGole Space Ship.Bump....:devilish:
Is Heroes Defeat Mutants Or Mutants Take Control Over The White House.???
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Player Ratings: Liverpool 5 Swansea 0
Coutinho (6′), Firmino (52′, 66′), Alexander-Arnold (65′), Oxlade-Chamberlain (82′)
An early stroke of magic from Philippe Coutinho looked to set the tone but the majority of the first half was slow and lethargic, with the Reds looking like they were nursing a Christmas hangover. The second half though, snapped into life.
A Roberto Firmino volley smashed in before a peach from Trent Alexander-Arnold was followed up by a second from the Brazilian just a minute later. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain capped off the win with a lovely lofted finish.
Up the Reds.
Simon Mignolet- 6/10
Had nothing to do bar one save right at the end.
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Trent Alexander-Arnold- 10/10
Brilliant performance. Loads of lovely work down the right hand side, some delectable balls in. Showed good intelligence and anticipation for his goal, and what a goal it was.
Joel Matip- 7/10
Didn't really have anything to do, was sound. Didn't get injured.
Ragnar Klavan- 8/10
Same as above but an extra point for being the worlds best centre half.
Andrew Robertson- 7/10
Did well. Seemed to spend a lot of time at left wing. Some nice balls in and was generally sound.
Georginio Wijnaldum- 8/10
Don't think he was great first half but was very good in the second.
Emre Can- 6/10
Was clearly carrying a knock in the first half but was slow and ponderous, and in my opinion was responsible for a lot of the lethargy felt in the first half. Loads of three or four touches then a turn then rolling it back to Matip. Played a couple of good balls and was improved in the second.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain- 8/10
Was good at linking the midfield and the attack. Had a couple of efforts on goal and produced a sublime piece of football and a cracking finish for his goal. Lovely goal in front of the Kop and then goes home to Perrie Edwards, not a bad evening.
Mohamed Salah- 7/10
Had a 'quiet' game and still notched two assists. Really unselfish for Firmino's goal but perhaps could've passed in one or two other situations.
Roberto Firmino- 10/10
His pressing that creates the first goal and then scores the second and the fourth. The second is a brilliant finish. The fourth is just cheeky. Oh, and there were two chances he should've done better with.
Philippe Coutinho- 10/10
Gorgeous finish for his goal, wrapping it round the defender. I've ran out of superlatives to describe him.
Dominic Solanke- 7/10
Will he ever score a senior goal? Got into loads of good positions but fell short with the finish.
Adam Lallana- 7/10
Full of gorgeous turns inside and out. I've missed that.
James Milner- N/A
Imagine his face when at 5-0 up against Swansea he's asked to play left back for ten minutes.


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About Manoj SinhaA Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament (MP) from the Ghazipur constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Manoj Sinha is, currently, Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Communications. Sinha has been included in the union cabinet recently during the cabinet expansion by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Early Life of Manoj SinhaBorn on July 1, 1959 in Mohanpura in the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, Sinha did his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. Later he also completed his M.Tech in Civil Engineering from the same Institute. Before joining active politics, he was a member of the General Council, School of Planning during 1999-2000. He has also been a Member of Committee on Energy and another Committee on Government Assurances.
An agriculturist at heart, Sinha has been actively involved in working in backward villages where his interests primarily lie. Travelling is his another area of interest. His wife Neelam Sinha belongs to Maghara Bihar Sharif in Bihar's Nalanda district and the couple is blessed with a son and a daughter.
Travelling has been a passion of Sinha and he has widely traveled. Social work also has been his another passion in life.
Political Career of Manoj SinhaPolitical career of Sinha had an impressive start when he became the president of the Banaras Hindu University Students Union in 1982. And then in 1996 and 1999, he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He has been a member of BJP national council too from 1989 to 1996. In the recent 2014 elections, he has been elected to Lok Sabha and it's his third term in the national politics. Earlier he was elected to Parliament in the years 1996 and 1999. Sinha has been among the best performing members of Parliament and in the 13th Lok Sabha he was praised for a very high attendance and for asking several questions pertaining to various topics of public interests.
Recently, the leading magazine India Today has counted him among the seven most honest members of Parliament. Significantly, Sinha has set a rare example amongst his counterparts when he successfully utilised all the money allotted to him as an MP for public welfare.
Manoj Sinha as Railway MinisterSignificantly, Sinha announced Rs 250 crore package for the improvement of facilities and the expansion of Cantt Railway Station in Varanasi. Unlike most of the earlier railway ministers, he places great emphasis on completing the old projects first before announcing any new venture . While speaking at a recently held event, he showcased his strong willingness of speeding up reforms in railways and that he would not hesitate taking some tough steps for its restructuring work.
Another area of concern for the Sinha in railways has been the paucity of manpower in the light of his upcoming plans of introducing various new trains year on year. As per an estimate that he brought into light, over 2.25 lakh vacant posts in railways are required to be filled immediately.
According to Sinha, his reform measures are focused at induction of new technologies in the railways so that its capacity can be augmented with increase in freight share and improvement in passenger facilities.
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I woke up this morning noticing a bunch of new messages at strange Beijing hours, plus a new contact invite.
Another student director contacted me to fix his thesis short.
After collaborating with two student directors there, their program chair and the other screenwriting professor who's no feminazi seem to approve of my craft.
This third director is someone I've been dying to work with.
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I love his personal story as well as the short film he pitched me. Just like that, I landed my third short film project within a month.
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If I had 20% chance to get myself back in the US within a year and half, now that number can at least beat Trump's latest approval rate.
But most of all, I love discovering the differences of people's creative minds. I used to roll my eyes when a director started to describe how he would frame a scene, and how much in love he was with the color, the tone, the mood… "Dude, those are fine, but they don't help me to move the story forward!!" Now I relish their visual talent which I haven't yet developed.
I finally began to appreicate when Prof. Howard Suber told us that film is a collaborative business. Because when the right people meet their right match, things just start to click and work. UCLA helped me make my tool. But these collaborations make a skeleton key out of that tool.
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