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| James J. Gavan 2006-02-24, 3:55 am |
| docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> In article <RWqLf.65807$H%4.56395@pd7tw2no>,
> James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> I, too, enjoy dairy products - to the point where I have been known to
> declare 'What a friend I have in cheeses!' - but I do not limit my
> enjoyings to the great ones... oh, wait... you mean that *you* are a great
> lover of French cheeses, not that you love the great French cheeses...
> strange thing, this English...
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> ... but anyhow, there's a Danish cheese called a 'Blue Castello' that I
> find to be almost what you describe as a less-than-enjoyable combination
> of a blue and a brie, it is 70% matiere gras... errrrr, fat... and pleases
> my palate rather well.
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> (see http://www.cheese.com/Description.a...Blue%20Castello )
Never thought to check the Web on cheeses and that there would be a site
like above.
Of the Danish list the ones I know and have eaten are Danish Blue,
Danbo, Esrom, naturally Havarti (including with caraway seeds), Samso.
DD - ever eaten Gejtost ? (Had to check, see they spell it Geitost). The
Norwegians rave about it apparently. Just not my taste - orange/brownish
colour from memory and *very* sweet flavoured - like eating fudge.
Jarlsberg - there's one I like.
Of the 'blues' that I know of, and obviously there are more, a real
toss-up as to which is king - Stilton, Roquefort, Gorgonzola. Like it,
but Danish Blue has to be down the list - the cheaper price tells you
that anyway.
Recall we were writing once about Canadian Black Diamond Cheddar ? You
were unimpressed; not surprised. Some two months later I was in the
Co-Op supermarket and CBD Cheddar came in three packs, mild, medium and
old - each suffocating in a cellophane wrap, and all the same price -
what does that tell you ? If I blind-folded you for a tasting session,
you wouldn't know the difference.
You might remember I was with Unigate back in UK some 40 years ago.
That's when cheese was *real* cheese. While pre-packaging is useful in
our current society, back then we were talking 'wheels' of cheese.
Cheddar for instance came at a nominal weight of 56 lbs per wheel. The
grocer would use a 'piano-wire' with wooden handles at each end, to
slice off what you wanted. You could see the texture, still creamy but a
little crumbly, (where it had partially dried and matured), as he cut.
Even in UK, marketing boys have got inventive, (and Unigate I might add
no longer exists). We see on sale here 'Three Countries Cheese'; "Ahem",
I said, "Change your price ticket - you mean 'Three Counties Cheese'".
Or the cute one, "Anglo-Saxon Cheese". Can't remember the combination on
that one - one definitely was from one of our southern 'Anglo-Saxon'
counties, (possibly Gloucester), but the other two were from Midlands or
North - that kinda makes them 'Viking' *not* Anglo-Saxon. None of those
I refer to are mixed; they are layered like cheesecake, using their
different colours to give appeal.
Interesting thing I picked up on food from the UK (Overseas) W ly
Express - from a UK Nutritional Survey. To-day you would have to eat 5
oranges to get the same nutrition from 1 orange in 1940. Same concept
applies to most foods. We work the soil to death, and as yields decline,
we continue the process by artificially rejuvenating by adding fertilizers.
As that little Welsh songstress, Mary Hopkins, sang big time in 1968 and
then disappeared from showbiz :-
'Those were the days my friend........'
Jimmy
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| Thanks for all your answers
i can't do the mass-mailing using a sub in VBA so i try to do it by an
other way
i scan the word document and i replace merge fields by values
it works
i'd like to change words or expressions but to do this i have to
specify the paragraph
i give you an example of code :
move z'"Titre"' to unevar
invoke theDocument "getParagraphs" returning theParagraphs
invoke theParagraphs "item" using by value 1
returning theParagraph
invoke theParagraph "getRange" returning theRange
invoke theParagraph "finalize" returning theParagraph
invoke theParagraphs "finalize" returning theParagraphs
invoke theRange "getFind" returning theFind
invoke theFind "setForward" using by value 1
invoke theFind "setText" using by content unevar
invoke theFind "execute"
invoke theFind "getFound" returning found
invoke theFind "finalize" returning theFind
invoke theRange "select"
invoke theRange "setText" using "second"
this part of code search the text *"Titre"* in paragraph 1 and replace
it by *second* if *"Titre"* has been find
paragraph 1 is specified in this line : (invoke theFind "setForward"
using by value 1), if you want paragraph 2 you put (...using by value
2) and the same way for all other paragraphs
but what i'd like to do is to search the text in all the document and
not only in the paragraph, i think that i have to change this line : (
invoke theDocument "getParagraphs" returning theParagraphs ) and
replace getParagraphs by something else like "getDocument" but it
doesn't work...
Can you help me?
2jo
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| Alistair 2006-02-24, 7:55 am |
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James J. Gavan wrote:
> docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> Even in UK, marketing boys have got inventive, (and Unigate I might add
> no longer exists). We see on sale here 'Three Countries Cheese'; "Ahem",
> I said, "Change your price ticket - you mean 'Three Counties Cheese'".
> Or the cute one, "Anglo-Saxon Cheese". Can't remember the combination on
> that one - one definitely was from one of our southern 'Anglo-Saxon'
> counties, (possibly Gloucester), but the other two were from Midlands or
> North - that kinda makes them 'Viking' *not* Anglo-Saxon.
The last 'English' king, Harald Godwinson, was in fact a viking (the
clue is in the suffix
'-son' on his name indicating Nordic ancestry). Even good king Cnut was
a viking. When the Normans came visiting, they were Franckisized
vikings. The vikings seem to have got everywhere in the UK and Eire
with settlements not confined to the north-east.
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| In article <8IvLf.66555$B94.42509@pd7tw3no>,
James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
[snip]
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>Never thought to check the Web on cheeses and that there would be a site
>like above.
Truth be known I found it by doing a Google search on 'castello blue' (no
')... and there it was. There's also a Castello Black... I forget what
criteria they use to differentiate between the two but I preferred the
blue.
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>Of the Danish list the ones I know and have eaten are Danish Blue,
>Danbo, Esrom, naturally Havarti (including with caraway seeds), Samso.
>
>DD - ever eaten Gejtost ? (Had to check, see they spell it Geitost). The
>Norwegians rave about it apparently. Just not my taste - orange/brownish
>colour from memory and *very* sweet flavoured - like eating fudge.
A goat cheese, if I recall correctly, a kind of brownish mini-brick. It
struck me as more smoky than sweet.
>Jarlsberg - there's one I like.
I used to like it more when I was younger... now I prefer it as an accent,
as part of a well-constructed sandwich. (tooth-cracking rye, easy on the
caraway seeds, two parts sliced ham, one part Jarlsberg and a thin layer
of mustard-with-a-personality, a Dijon 'ancienne' isn't bad... but not
something to pack in Junior's lunchbox for school, no)
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>Of the 'blues' that I know of, and obviously there are more, a real
>toss-up as to which is king - Stilton, Roquefort, Gorgonzola. Like it,
>but Danish Blue has to be down the list - the cheaper price tells you
>that anyway.
For Stilton I've yet to find anything to best the Neal's Yard Colston
Basset, for Roquefort I prefer the Societe... Gorgonzola I've not studied
too closely, I'll use a bit of it, well-crumbled, as an accent on a
salad... and set it off with a drizzling of a proper balsamic, I tend
towards the Reggio Emilia versions (the Cavalli Silver) instead of the
Modenas.
[snip]
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>You might remember I was with Unigate back in UK some 40 years ago.
>That's when cheese was *real* cheese.
.... and don't get me started on what those kids are calling 'music'
nowadays, neither!... buncha durned noise, if ya ask me... an' the
clothing they wear, ain't they got no mothers to look after 'em?... and
another thing!... zzzzzzzzz....
DD
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| In article <1140788392.625959.134380@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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>James J. Gavan wrote:
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>The last 'English' king, Harald Godwinson, was in fact a viking (the
>clue is in the suffix
>'-son' on his name indicating Nordic ancestry).
.... like Johnson, Peterson, Frederickson, Waterson, Bishopson, Smithson,
Cooperson, Wagonson, Chiefson and all the rest.
DD
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