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Creating a Portable Bookmark Library using Java, Part 2
Java Programming Notes # 2408
- Preface
- General Background Information
- Preview
- Discussion and Sample Code
- Run the Program
- Summary
- Complete Program Listing
This is Part 2 of a two-part lesson that will teach you how to write a Java program to create and maintain a portable bookmark (Favorites) library that will follow you from browser to browser, machine to machine, and operating system to operating system. Part 1 of this lesson was entitled Creating a Portable Bookmark Library using Java.
Viewing tip
You may find it useful to open another copy of this lesson in a separate browser window. That will make it easier for you to scroll back and forth among the different listings and figures while you are reading about them.
Supplementary material
I recommend that you also study the other lessons in my extensive collection of online Java tutorials. You will find those lessons published at Gamelan.com. However, as of the date of this writing, Gamelan doesn't maintain a consolidated index of my Java tutorial lessons, and sometimes they are difficult to locate there. You will find a consolidated index at www.DickBaldwin.com.
General Background Information
Part 1 of this lesson provided general background information on creating and maintaining a portable bookmark library. I won't repeat that information here, but will simply refer you to that document.
We need a program
Having suggested how you can use your web mail account as a portable bookmark library, I provided and explained a program that you can:
- Run initially to populate your web mail bookmark library with the hundreds or thousands of bookmarks that you have accumulated in the past.
- Run periodically thereafter to update and consolidate your web mail bookmark library to incorporate new bookmarks that you have created using one or more different browsers on one or more different computers as you do your normal web research.
Firefox, Netscape, and Internet Explorer
The program that I provided in Part 1 can be used to consolidate Firefox, Netscape, and Internet Explorer bookmarks into your web mail bookmark library. The code that is specific to the different browser formats is isolated in two methods. If you use a browser that creates and maintains its bookmarks in a format that is different from the list of browsers given above, you should be able to write a new method to handle the bookmark format for that browser.
My favorite web mail is Google Gmail
Although I occasionally use three different web mail accounts, the one that I use most consistently and the one that I know the most about is Google Gmail. Therefore, most of the discussion in this lesson has been slanted toward the use of Gmail for this purpose. However, this approach should work equally well with just about any web mail account provided that it has sufficient capacity, search capability, and longevity.
As mentioned earlier, this document is the second part of a two-part lesson. Part 1 explained the overall control code, using method stubs for the following two methods in place of the methods that actually extract bookmarks from specific browser bookmark libraries.
- getFireFoxBookmarks
- getIEBookmarks
This part of the lesson provides and explains those two methods in detail. At the completion of this lesson you should have everything you need to create, populate, and maintain your own portable bookmark library.
Discussion and Sample Code
Purpose of the program
The purpose of this program is to:
- Extract bookmarks from one or more Firefox, Netscape, or Internet Explorer (IE) browsers within a specified range of bookmark indices.
- Construct an Email message containing the name and the URL of each extracted bookmark.
- Send the messages to a specified destination Email address.
Email message format
Each Email message is formatted with the name of the bookmark as the Subject and the URL for the bookmark in the body of the message. To use this message as a bookmark later, simply open the message in the archives of your web mail account and double-click the URL.
A bookmark code
The Subject of the Email message may optionally be prepended with a text string provided by the user and identified as bkMrkCode below. The string that is prepended to the subject can be used by the Email client to recognize the message as a bookmark message.
A bookmark history list
The program maintains a list of bookmarks that have previously been sent to the destination Email address. The purpose of this list is to prevent the sending of duplicate bookmark messages to the destination Email address during successive runs of the program.
The history list is maintained in a text file that can easily be edited by the user if such editing becomes necessary. Several backup copies of the file are automatically generated and maintained by the program.
History file is automatically created, backed up, and maintained
The history file is named BkMrkHistory.txt. If it doesn't already exist, it is automatically created (in a folder specified by the user and identified below as dataOutPath) the first time the program is run. Once the file is created, it is backed up at the beginning of each successive run of the program. Then it is updated during that run.
Prevention of duplicate Email messages
Bookmarks identified in the history list are not sent to the destination Email address. This prevents the sending of duplicate bookmark messages during successive runs of the program.
Once all the bookmarks in the Firefox or Netscape bookmark file (or the IE Favorites folder) have been sent to the destination Email address, this program will send only those bookmarks that have been added or changed since the last time the program was run.
Don't overwhelm the SMTP server
Because the number of messages that could be sent the first time the program is run could overwhelm the SMTP server, (causing your ISP to erroneously conclude that you are distributing SPAM email), the program allows the user to specify the index of the first bookmark to be sent and the maximum number of bookmarks to be sent during any particular run.
Controlled by command-line parameters
This program is controlled using command-line parameters making it very easy to run the program periodically using a batch file or a script.
(Once you create the batch file, all that you need to do to run the program is to start the batch file. If you put a shortcut to the batch file on your desktop, you can run the program simply by double-clicking the shortcut icon.)
The required command-line parameters
The following values must be provided as command-line parameters. Although all command-line parameters are provided as strings, several of the parameters must be convertible to the int and boolean types shown below.
- String destAdr: Email address to which bookmarks are to be sent.
- String smtpServer: An SMTP server that can be used to send the messages.
- String bkMrkPath: Path to the folder containing the Firefox or Netscape bookmark file, (which is an HTML file) or containing the IE Favorites files (which Microsoft refers to as Internet Shortcut files).
- String bkMrkFile: Name of the Firefox or Netscape bookmark file. (Provide a dummy file name if you are processing IE Favorites.)
- String dataOutPath: Path to a folder where output files will be stored. (Make sure this folder is on the path for your regular backups because you don't want to lose these files in case of a disk failure.)
- String bkMrkCode: Unique code that is prepended to the Subject of the Email message to identify the message as a bookmark message.
- int lowBkMrkLimit: First bookmark index to process.
- int numToProc: Number of bookmarks to process.
- String browser: Type of browser: F for Firefox, N for Navigator, or I for Internet Explorer.
- boolean sendMsgs: Specify true or false. Messages will be sent on true. Message will not be sent, but bookmark statistics will be displayed on false.
Program testing
This program was tested using J2SE 5.0 under WinXP. J2SE 5.0 or later is required due to the use of generics.
The Bookmarks02 class
The class definition and the main method begin in Listing 1. Much of the code in Listing 1 was deleted for brevity. However, all of the code that was deleted from Listing 1 was explained in Part 1 of this lesson.
Listing 1 picks up at the point in the program code that is significant relative to the explanation of the following two methods in this part of the lesson.
- getFireFoxBookmarks
- getIEBookmarks
class Bookmarks02{ public static void main(String[] args){ //Code deleted for brevity if(browser.toUpperCase().equals("F")){ //Process FireFox bookmarks. thisObj.copyBkMrkFile(bkMrkPath,bkMrkFile, dataOutPath,tempBkMrkFile); theBookmarks = thisObj.getFireFoxBookmarks( dataOutPath,tempBkMrkFile); }else if(browser.toUpperCase().equals("N")){ //Process Netscape Navigator bookmarks. Same format // as FireFox thisObj.copyBkMrkFile(bkMrkPath,bkMrkFile, dataOutPath,tempBkMrkFile); theBookmarks = thisObj.getFireFoxBookmarks( dataOutPath,tempBkMrkFile); }else if(browser.toUpperCase().equals("I")){ //Process Inernet Explorer favorites. theBookmarks = thisObj.getIEBookmarks( bkMrkPath,theBookmarks); }else{ System.out.println("Don't recognize browser"); System.out.println("Terminating program"); System.exit(0); }//end else
Decide among Firefox, Netscape, and IE
The code in Listing 1 uses one of the command-line parameters to decide whether to invoke the getFireFoxBookmarks method or the getIEBookmarks to extract the bookmark information from the browser file(s) and to save the results in an ArrayList object.
Firefox and Netscape bookmark formats are the same
As near as I can determine, the bookmark file format for Firefox and Netscape are the same. Therefore, the code in Listing 1 invokes the same method regardless of whether the user specifies Firefox or Netscape Navigator in the command-line parameter.
(If I learn later that the Netscape format is different from the Firefox format, I will write a new method to accommodate the Netscape format and reference the new method in Listing 1. This is also the place where you would need to modify the program if you were to develop a method to extract bookmark information from some browser other than the three supported by this program as written.)
The code in Listing 1 causes the bookmark information to be extracted from the browser file(s) and stored as objects of type Bookmark in the ArrayList object that was instantiated in Listing 6. That ArrayList object is referred to by theBookmarks.
Very little browser-specific code
When these methods return, the bookmark information is ready to be processed, independently of the specific browser involved. The only code in this program that is browser-specific is the code in Listing 1 and the two methods named getFireFoxBookmarks and getIEBookmarks. These two methods extract bookmark information from the browser file(s).
At this point, I will set the main method aside and explain these two methods in detail. I will return to my explanation of the main method later.
The getFireFoxBookmarks method
The getFireFoxBookmarks method begins in Listing 2. The purpose of this method is to extract all of the bookmarks from a Firefox or Netscape bookmark file and to encapsulate them in an ArrayList object. Each element in the ArrayList object is an object of the inner class named Bookmark. Each Bookmark object contains the name and the URL for one bookmark.
The Bookmark class
The Bookmark class is a very simple class whose sole purpose is to encapsulate two String objects:
- The name of the bookmark
- The URL for the bookmark
You can view the definition of the Bookmark class in Listing 17.
Some background information on bookmarks
Before getting into the details of the getFireFoxBookmarks method, I need to provide you with some background information regarding the Firefox, Netscape, and IE approaches to bookmarks.
Entirely different approaches
Firefox and Netscape use an entirely different approach to the creation and maintenance of the bookmark library. Therefore, the ability to handle these two different approaches is written into two completely different methods in this program.
A well-behaved HTML file
The Firefox approach is to encapsulate the bookmark information into a well behaved HTML file. This file can have quite a lot of structure, particularly if the user has created a complex system of folders. In the final analysis, however, all of the information of interest for each bookmark is contained in an HTML element named A. The URL for the bookmark is defined by the value of an attribute named HREF. The name of the bookmark is provided as the content of the element.
(If you are unfamiliar with this terminology, see my previously published tutorials in the section entitled XML for Beginners.)
A sample element
Figure 1 shows an example of such an element. Note, however, that all of this material appears on a single line of text in the Firefox HTML file. It was necessary for me to manually insert several line breaks in Figure 1 to cause the material to fit in this narrow publication format.
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The name and the URL are shown in boldface
The information of interest is shown in boldface in Figure 1. The URL (the value of the HREF attribute) is shown in boldface on the first line. The content of the element is shown in boldface near the end.
Other attributes
The element in Figure 1 shows four other attributes that this program ignores:
You may decide that you want to modify the program to also include this information in your portable bookmark library, and it wouldn't be difficult to do so.
In addition, some of the elements have attributes not shown in Figure 1, (such as an ICON attribute), which are also ignored by this program.
Not difficult to parse
Fortunately, it is not difficult to parse this HTML file to extract the URL and the name for each bookmark. The code to accomplish that begins in Listing 2, which shows the beginning of the getFireFoxBookmarks method.
The code in listing 2 declares and initializes some local working variables. It also instantiates the ArrayList object that will be populated with bookmark data and returned when the method terminates.
Read each line of text
Listing 3 shows the beginning of a while loop that reads each line of text from the bookmark file.
try{ BufferedReader bufRdr = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream( dataOutPath + tempBkMrkFile))); String theName = null; String theUrl = null; String data = null; while((data = bufRdr.readLine()) != null){
Does the line contain a URL?
Each line of text will be tested to determine if it contains an HREF attribute. If so, the program will conclude that the line of text contains one (and only one) element named A. The code in the loop will extract the URL from the value of the HREF attribute, and will extract the name of the bookmark from the content of the element named A that is contained in that line of text.
(The fact that one, and only one entire element named A is contained in a single line of text greatly simplifies the code required to parse the file and to extract the name and URL of each bookmark.)
Test for existence of HREF attribute
Listing 4 invokes the indexOf method on the String object that describes the line of text to determine if it contains an attribute named HREF. This method attempts to find a numeric index that defines the location of the following substring:
urlIndex = data.indexOf("A HREF="");
The index value that is returned by the indexOf method is stored in the variable named urlIndex.
The value of urlIndex will be -1 if the line doesn't contain the specified substring. In that case, the program will simply ignore that line of text and read the next line. If the value of the index is not -1, that value will be used later to extract the URL.
Get the URL for the bookmark
The code in Listing 5 extracts and saves the URL for the case where the value of the index is not -1.
if(urlIndex != -1){ //Find the index of the quotation marks at the // beginning and the end of the URL. startIndex = urlIndex+8;//Index of first quote+1 //Index of quotation mark at the end of the URL. endIndex = data.indexOf(""",startIndex); //Extract and save the URL theUrl = data.substring(startIndex,endIndex);
The code in Listing 5, (as explained by the comments), is straightforward and shouldn't require further explanation.
Get the name of the bookmark
The code in Listing 6 gets and saves the name of the bookmark, which is the content of the element named A. You may want to refer back to Figure 1 to gain a better understanding of exactly how this code works.
// Get the index of the beginning of the content. startIndex = data.indexOf(">",urlIndex) +1; //Get the index of the end of the content. endIndex = data.indexOf("",startIndex); //Get and save the content if(endIndex > startIndex){ //The A element is not empty. theName = data.substring(startIndex,endIndex); }else{ //The A element is empty theName = "No bookmark name found."; }//end else
Once again, the code in Listing 6, (as explained by the comments), is straightforward and shouldn't require further explanation. Note, however, that in the unlikely event that there is no content, an artificial name for the bookmark is generated.
Process next line of text
The code in Listing 7 adds the bookmark just extracted to the ArrayList object, and then goes back to the top of the while loop that began in Listing 3 to process the next line of text. As you can see, the name and the URL are encapsulated in a Bookmark object, whose reference is added to the ArrayList object.
theBookmarks.add(new Bookmark(theName,theUrl)); }//end if }//end while
Return the populated ArrayList object
When all of the lines of text in the bookmark file have been processed, control transfers from the while loop to the code in Listing 8.
The code in Listing 8 terminates the getFireFoxBookmarks method, returning a reference to the ArrayList object in the process. This returns control to that portion of the main method shown in Listing 1.
bufRdr.close(); }catch(Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); System.exit(0); }//end catch return theBookmarks; }//end getFireFoxBookmarks
As you will recall from Part 1 of this lesson, the program goes on at that point to invoke the processBkMrks method to process the contents of the ArrayList object.
Processing IE Favorites
As mentioned earlier, the approach that Microsoft uses to create and maintain the IE Favorites library is entirely different from the approach used by Firefox. The IE Favorites library is simply a directory tree structure rooted in a Windows folder at a location similar to the following:
C:Documents and SettingsOwnerFavorites
Each bookmark is stored in a separate text file having an extension of URL.
(The Microsoft properties dialog refers to these files as Internet Shortcut files.)
The name and the URL for the bookmark
The name of the bookmark is simply the name of the Internet Shortcut file.
The URL for the bookmark and some other information as well, is stored in the Internet Shortcut file.
Bookmark library structure
Folders in the bookmark library are created by creating ordinary Windows folders as children, grandchildren, etc., of the folder named Favorites.
A typical Internet Shortcut file
Figure 2 shows the contents of a typical Internet Shortcut file. Note, however, that it was necessary for me to manually insert several line breaks to cause this material to fit in this narrow publication format.
[DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ download/pages/US-NAVCE.html [InternetShortcut] URL=http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/ download/pages/US-NAVCE.html Modified=90C11AFFF005C40124 IconFile=http://securityresponse.symantec.com/favicon.ico IconIndex=1
Figure 2
The BASEURL item
I'm unsure as to the purpose of the item at the beginning of the file identified as BASEURL=http... This item isn't contained in all Internet Shortcut files. When it is contained in the file, it is often a duplicate of the item that begins with URL=http...
The URL item
The boldface item that begins with URL=http..., does seem to be contained in all Internet Shortcut files. Rightly or wrongly, while writing this program, I assumed that this is the bookmark URL that needs to be extracted.
The getTheUrl method
Since one of the obvious tasks of this program is to extract the URL from the Internet Shortcut file, I will begin the discussion with a helper method named getTheUrl. As you will see later, this is a helper method that is called by the getIEBookmarks method. The purpose of the getTheUrl method is to extract the URL from a Microsoft Internet Shortcut file.
This method is shown in its entirety in Listing 9.
String getTheUrl(String pathAndFile){ try{ BufferedReader inData = new BufferedReader( new FileReader(pathAndFile)); String data; //temp holding area while((data = inData.readLine()) != null){ if(data.startsWith("URL=")){ String theUrl = data.substring(4); inData.close();//Close input file return theUrl; }//end if }//end while loop inData.close();//Close input file }catch(Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); }//end catch System.out.println("No URL Found"); return "No URL Found"; }//end getTheUrl
This method is straightforward. Given what you have been told, and given the sample in Figure 2 to look at, no further explanation should be required.
However, it is worth mentioning that the entire URL is contained in a single line of text in the Internet Shortcut file, whereas it was necessary for me to break the boldface URL into two lines for display purposes in Figure 2.
For the unexpected case where the Internet Shortcut file doesn't contain a line that matches the template used in Listing 9, the code in Listing 9 returns a String containing an artificial URL.
The getIEBookmarks method
The code in Listing 1 invokes the getIEBookmarks method to extract the names and the URLs from IE Favorites. The getIEBookmarks method begins in Listing 10.
The code in Listing 10 declares and initializes some local working variables.
ArrayList <Bookmark> getIEBookmarks( String bkMrkPath,ArrayList <Bookmark> theBookmarks){ String theName = null; String theUrl = null; String fileName = null; String pathAndFile = null;
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Connecticut's unemployment rate reached its lowest point since December 2008 last month, falling to 6.7 percent, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday.
The June rate is down two-tenths of a percentage point over May's rate and down 1.2 percentage points over the June 2013 rate of 7.9 percent.
Preliminary estimates of nonfarm employment indicate the state added 1,700 jobs last month, the fifth straight monthly increase.
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The June data show that four of the state's six major Labor Market Areas posted job gains. The Hartford and Norwich-New London areas, however, experienced declines.
Connecticut has now recovered 73,500 positions, or nearly 62 percent of the nonfarm jobs lost during the March 2008-to-February 2010 employment downturn, the labor department reported. The state's jobs recovery is now 52 months old and is averaging approximately 1,413 jobs per month overall since February 2010. The private sector, which has recuperated at a faster pace, has recovered nearly 74 percent of the jobs it lost during the same period.
Don Klepper-Smith, chief economist for DataCore Partners of New Haven, pointed out in a newsletter Thursday that nationally, the jobs-recovery rate exceeds 100 percent.
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Pete Gioia, economist for the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, said Connecticut needs to "pick up the pace" in recovering jobs. He said policymakers need to focus on creating a climate that encourages more private investment.
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The leisure and hospitality sector lost 1,000 jobs, the most of any sector.
Job growth by sector
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Other services —600
Leisure & hospitality —1,000
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Walking is the easiest way to explore the downtown area, as everything is close enough together. Municipal parking garages are available with very reasonable rates ($0.75/hr). Rabbit Transit is also an option when getting around the city but can be fairly expensive if used multiple times for short distances. All day passes are available though for those that want to use the bus to get around. Go to [21] for more information.
Historic Downtown York: Take a tour through downtown York to see the city's historic roots.
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Nearby destinations suitable for day trips include:
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How Cities Handle Social Media During Crises
San Francisco's official Twitter feed reacted to real-time tweets following the Asiana Airlines crash. How do cities manage to provide accurate information during developing stories? Ron Vinson, director of media for the city of San Francisco, joins digits.
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Picture the scene: Italy and Japan are deadlocked at 3-3 with 79 minutes gone and the east Asians desperately searching for a historic victory that would keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013. Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni decides to bring on one of his prize attackers, so off goes Ryoichi Maeda and in his place comes fellow Japanese striker…Mike Havenaar.
Like many of the spectators who saw his name appear on the big screen, you could have been forgiven for thinking that there was some kind of mix-up. The sense of confusion was no doubt heightened by the appearance of the substitute himself, a strapping lad measuring 1.94 metres tall and with distinctly European looks. In fact this was no error, although the intriguing background of this 26-year old Japanese centre-forward is one worth delving into. Which is why FIFA.com sought out the man himself, who provided some insightful and humorous responses in an exclusive post-match interview.
*Choosing between East and West
*Mike Havenaar was born in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 20 May 1987, after his father, Dutch footballer Dido Havenaar, emigrated to the country when he signed for J.League side Mazda FC. Havenaar senior arrived in the Land of the Rising Sun with his wife and daughter on what was intended to be a short-term jaunt. But as the months turned into years, the family settled down to the point that they decided to make the move permanent. Over time, the family welcomed two new additions in Mike and his brother Nikki, who was born in 1995.
So it was that Mike grew up in a typical European household that served as the sole reminder of his distant roots. "When I was little, I spoke Dutch with my parents but Japanese with all of my friends. Initially I felt somewhat torn between the two countries but as I got older, my love for the country where I was born grew. When I had to make a decision about my nationality, there was never any doubt," explains Havenaar, whose accent and gestures seem to combine the two cultures.
Despite Havenaar's love for his adoptive home, he obviously didn't fit the mould of your average Japanese youngster. Nevertheless, this only made him even prouder of his heritage: "I know it sounds strange, but my team-mates understood very well who I was, they listened to me and regarded me as one of their own. The same thing applies today, in the national side. I know that I'm different, but that doesn't prevent me from being equal to everyone else," he says cheerfully.
*A destiny mapped out
*Havenaar realised from a young age that his was destiny would be decided on the football pitch, where he has all the attributes to succeed, not least an imposing physical presence that is unusual among Japanese footballers. "There aren't a lot of tall players in the country, so for sure the fact that I'm big has always been an advantage in my career. You only have to look at the current national squad, with me being the only tall forward," points out Havenaar, who has already hit four goals in 16 appearances for the Samurai Blue.
After a highly successful spell with J.Leaguers Ventforet Kofu, Havenaar decided to try his luck in Europe. There was only ever going to be one destination: the Netherlands. So, he made the reverse journey to that of his parents a quarter of a century earlier and signed for Vitesse, where he has chalked up 16 goals in 46 matches. "At first I had trouble acclimatising, but since then the Dutch side in me — which I had kind of forgotten — has really come to the fore. Today I feel great, just like at home actually."
Thanks to his experience in the Netherlands and Japan, the rangy target man now has a rounded appreciation of the differences between both cultures, both on and off the field of play. "In terms of football, the Dutch league is much more physical," explains Havenaar. "That has also helped me to develop another facet of my game. As for life in general, I can say that I prefer Japanese food, it's the best in the world! And the girls are prettier, smaller and slimmer…wait, that might not be a good thing to say. Dutch girls are very beautiful too!" he adds with a laugh.
The Japanese international gives a more measured response regarding his team's performances in the FIFA Confederations Cup. Despite two defeats in as many outings since the start of the campaign, Havenaar nevertheless retains a positive outlook. "The important thing for us, beyond the results, was to progress as a team. We played against stronger opponents than those we come across normally. From here, the key is to store up a wealth of experience so that we can use everything we have learned a year from now, at the World Cup," reflects Havenaar, the Dutch striker with Japan in his blood. Or is it the other way round?


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Clarke, Ponting to bag the riches in IPL auction?
Australian captain Michael Clarke and former skipper Ricky Ponting are likely to attract most attention when the nine franchises sit for the players' auction of the Indian Premier League 6 in Chennai.
While 101 players will go under the hammer during the auction, which will be only for the next edition, Clarke and Ponting, who are in the highest base price bracket of $400,000 (approx Rs 2.1 crore) will be the sought after players.
In Clarke, some of the franchises like Mumbai Indians see a potential leader after Harbhajan Singh relinquished the post.
Image: Michael Clarke
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Clarke's leadership quality could be handy
According to IPL sources, Mumbai Indians are likely to loosen their purse strings for the current Aussie captain, who played six matches for the Sahara Pune Warriors during the last edition.
Clarke could also be a good choice for the Pune Warriors in case their marquee player Yuvraj Singh decides to only concentrate on his batting.
Warriors have a purse of over $3 million and can indulge into a bidding war for Clarke but according to one of their officials, "It is not necessary that if you have money, you need to spend it."
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Ponting's form has been good
Ponting, who played four matches for Kolkata Knight Riders in first edition of IPL can be an interesting pick considering his performance for Hobart Hurricanes in the recently concluded Big Bash League.
He has couple of 60 plus scores to show for his effort against Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunders.
An official, who has closely been associated with the auctions, felt that Hyderabad Sun Risers might look at Ponting as a potential mentor-cum-captain.
"Since this is a one-season deal, there is no harm in getting Ricky Ponting, who is a thorough professional. Since Kumar Sangakkara hasn't done too well as captain and Cameron White is not an automatic choice either, Ponting can be their Go-To man," he said.
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Daredevils hoping to get Mendis
Delhi Daredevils, who have a team loaded with quality pacers might look at roping in Ajantha Mendis, who is available at a base price of $50,000.
Chennai Super Kings is one team, which has a settled look, barring a new ball bowler.
Among the crop of bowlers available, West Indies' Ravi Rampaul can prove to be a handy customer at a base price of $50,000 as no one has any idea about Jerome Taylor's current form.
India and CSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's close friend Rudra Pratap Singh, who has been released by Mumbai Indians, is available at a base price of $100,000.
Image: Ajantha Mendis
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Kings XI, Royals have big bucks to spent
Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals are two teams who would be going into the auction with highest purses (around $6 million) and would have the luxury of bidding for some of the players of their choice.
Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders also has a tea, that looked settled and may not be very active at the auction which is expected to be a low-key affair.
"We are not going into the auction aiming at a particular player but we will definitely track the proceedings. Let's see how it pans out and may be if we find a player interesting enough to put our money on, we might go for it," a senior support staff of the franchise said.
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Traverse City Attorney is Defender of Global Water
As global demand for water grows, Traverse City attorney and longtime water defender Jim Olson says we need more protections ASAP to keep water clean and plentiful for generations to come. Why is that idea such a hard sell?
It's Friday, May 6, 2011, and a clear and cool spring evening has graced Traverse City amid what's otherwise been a good season for raising lake levels—rainy, that is.
On Front Street, the marquee outside Traverse City's State Theatre shines bright with the words "FLOW for Water, Saving the Great Lakes Forever," while inside, about 250 people settle into the remarkably cushy theater seats to hear some of North America's most esteemed water advocates explain the urgent need to strengthen water protection laws throughout the Great Lakes basin.
The house lights dim and a 60-something man approaches the podium. He's about 5-foot-10, of average build and has a curve to his shoulders that suggests he's spent untold hours reading and writing. He's balding, but wears the hair that's left kind of longish. He seems in no real hurry.
The gentleman has a perplexing presence, a presence that is somehow both modest and commanding at the same time, an effect that is amplified by the richly red velvet theater curtain that drapes behind him and glows vividly under the spotlights above.
The speaker begins by stating what in this theater tonight is the most obvious thing possible. "My name is Jim Olson." The crowd instantly erupts in applause and cheers, like they've all just been waiting for the opportunity. Olson is one of their water heroes. Raised on the shore of East Grand Traverse Bay and now a nationally renowned environmental attorney, he has been working to protect that amazing covalent bonding of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom since his career began in the mid-1970's. The crowd quickly quiets as Olson continues. He explains that he is the chair of the organization FLOW for Water, which coordinated this conference that runs through the next day, and then he gets to the point of why everybody's here.
"It doesn't take much to go on Google or on the Internet to understand that there is a collision between water and forces of privatization—the demands on water from energy, food, access to water for drinking. And it's not gonna get better for water unless we continue something that started 2000 years ago when water was first considered a commons—considered public."
For an introductory speech to this group, Olson can speak in such shorthand, hit the highlights, reference the context, but not delve into it. But for those not so close to the issue, a metaphor helps convey Olson's water-world view.
What he sees could be described as a bunch of hoses snaking their way toward the Great Lakes from distant lands. A hose snaking from tar sands development in western Canada—a hydrocarbon extraction process that demands billions of gallons of water, but is happening in a parched land. A hose snaking from America's High Plains, where farmers are draining the Ogallala Aquifer at a disturbing rate—where will the water to grow food for future Americans come from? A hose snaking from dry but growing cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas—will America tell people they can't move there, or will it be easier to build a pipeline to the Great Lakes? Hoses even snake from foreign nations that might face drought or that just might desire fresh, beautiful Great Lakes water to purchase and drink.
For the other half of the metaphor, picture spigots—business and policy developments within the Great Lakes and globally that could open the faucets to let the water flow. Hook the hoses to the spigots and, well, you get the idea.
For Olson, one spigot is the geographic shift in the nation's population to the arid West. Based on the 2010 census, Great Lakes states will lose seven seats in the House of Representatives; western states gain eight, with Texas (currently suffering severe drought) alone gaining four. But that's just the latest in a century-long trend. In 1900, the Midwest had 35 House seats and the West had five. Today the West outnumbers the Midwest. Will representatives from an ever-growing and ever-thirstier West simply vote to pipe water from the Great Lakes?
Another spigot is the ongoing encroachment of private companies into the water industry. Great Lakes cities are signing long-term contracts with private water companies, giving them the right to provide water to the citizenry, and to set the price for that water. At what point in the world of sliding scales and slippery slopes does the company suddenly claim it is now the owner of the water, not just its custodian?
A third and potentially large spigot, in Olson's view, are protection gaps in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact [the Great Lakes Water Compact for short]. One gap allows water to be shipped out of the basin if it is in containers of 5.7 gallons or smaller. "What's to prevent, say, China from buying a piece of land in Michigan and pumping water into 5.7-gallon bottles and shipping it home?" Olson asks. On its face, that might sound absurd, but in a sense, something not too unlike it is already happening. Consider that Nestle, foreign-owned and the largest food company on the planet, is already pumping Great Lakes–basin groundwater into allowable containers and shipping it where it pleases. The company could, if it so chose, fill a supertanker with water—packaged in allowable containers—and ship it to a parched Mongolia. Totally legal. Right now. Today.
Olson sees another flaw in the compact's wording that allows water to be shipped out of the Great Lakes Basin if it is included in a product (like, say, water in a can of green beans), but then a provision in the law defines water itself as a product. Olson sees that as a legal crack in the door that a savvy lawyer could leverage open to include bulk diversions of water.
There are other hoses, other spigots, but the point is made: at the very time demand for clean water is growing globally, the slide toward privatizing water is speeding up and the protections weakening.
What's needed, Olson says, is a powerful legal protection that is time tested and resilient enough to fend off shifting politics and growing demands that will inevitably come as the decades evolve. Olson had hoped the Great Lakes Water Compact would have provided that protection, but in his view the loopholes mentioned above cause it to fall short. Even the sponsor of the federal legislation, Michigan former House Representative Bart Stupak, refused to vote for its passage because the legislation became weakened during negotiations.
Flow for Water's primary mission is to forward the solution Olson envisions, a solution that draws upon principles Olson has been advocating for in courts, writing about in books and journals, and stumping for at conferences around the United States for more than three decades. Boiled to its essence, Olson and Flow for Water want state and federal laws passed that clearly state all Great Lakes waters (groundwater and surface water) should be considered a commons and protected through public trust. They must also state clearly that Congress did not intend for water to be considered a product, as Olson feels the existing Great Lakes Water Compact does.
By "Water should be considered a commons," what Olson means is that the rights to Great Lakes waters—surface and groundwater—should be shared by the citizenry. Each person would have a right to use the water, but because everybody else would also have a right to use the water, no individual would have the right to export water, wreck the water, or use up the water so that others can't use it. "It's based on the idea that some things are so essential to life, like air and water, that nobody has the right to own them, that everybody has a right to access them subject to the limitation that no matter what the use, it will be preserved for future generations," Olson says.
"Protected through public trust" is also a simple idea. Essentially it means that Great Lakes waters—surface and groundwater—would be protected for both today's generations and all future generations. Navigable surface waters of the Great Lakes basin are already protected under public trust principles, but water in small streams and groundwater are not.
In Olson's opening remarks at the conference, when he refers to a 2000-year tradition of water as a commons he's referring to ideals first expressed in Roman law, expanded upon in England's Magna Carta, incorporated into colonial law and eventually United States federal and state law over the years, mostly through a set of court decisions, but also some limited legislation.
One might think it would be hard to argue against the plain rationale that we should protect the water for future generations and ourselves, but we're in a time of message twisting and anti–big government activism. [Recall that when Michelle Obama encouraged moms to feed kids healthier food to combat an epidemic of childhood obesity, Sarah Palin attacked her because the advice represented government interference.] The idea of water owned by the people was a juicy target for the property rights activists.
"What people didn't understand is that these principles don't grab or diminish people's access to water, they protect everybody's access. The farmer will always have access to water because nobody else can take it away," says former Michigan House Representative Dan Scripps—himself an environmental attorney, speaking from his office in a Washington, D.C., law firm.
In September 2009, when Scripps introduced legislation that would establish water as a commons protected by public trust principles, legislation that was based on consultations with Olson, Republicans rose up strongly against it based largely on private-property-rights objections. The message: this is a government power grab for water.
Democrats, frightened by their sense of a broad public backlash to government regulation (Tea Party noted) also refused to put their force behind it. The bill never even earned a hearing in the House, and the man who beat Scripps, Ray Franz, used the proposed legislation as his central weapon against Scripps. Click on Franz's website today and his most prominent video shows him boasting, "I'm not an environmental attorney." Listen to the applause.
Jim Olson knows that Flow for Water has a large hill to climb. To strengthen the Great Lakes Water Compact, identical legislation must pass in eight states and then identical federal legislation must also pass—the same gauntlet the original legislation had to run. And he knows the political climate is not right at the moment for passage, so for now, public education is the goal—convince people that we owe it to ourselves and our descendents to keep water clean because clean water is essential to life and business.
When Olson first began to write about water and public trust principles, however, the hill loomed even larger, and he was even more alone. Thirty years ago he submitted an article to a law journal about water and public trust and they rejected it, saying it was too much about values and not just about law. But Olson wouldn't give up and submitted it to another law journal that eagerly published it.
Even just ten years ago, only two mainstream environmental groups—Clean Water Action and Food and Water Watch—supported Olson when he built a case for public trust protection of Great Lakes groundwaters during the Nestle bottled water case. But following Olson's victory, many of them have come to agree with his point of view, says Olson's law partner Chris Bzdok.
"The public trust is one of those rare legal principles that protects common values, in the same way the first amendment protects free speech," Olson says. "It embodies Aldo Leopold's Conservation Ethic."
When Olson reflects back on his decision to become a lawyer, he says, "I wanted something that, if I failed at it, I wanted to fail because I tried so hard I failed knowing that I couldn't do it. I didn't want any excuses. Do it as hard as I can and see where it leads." Over three decades later, that tenacity has not abated.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A Defense Of Injury
"I had an injury, as I always do."
- Jerry Moffatt, explaining what kicked off a great training cycle
We should change our outlook on injuries. We think they're bad because they keep us from doing what we want at a given time. But they also force us to change, which with the right outlook is almost always a good thing. Change forces adaptation and, as any trainer knows, the specificity of adaptation is the key to making progress.
So just after training camp, during a full-swing translation towards building biking and running fitness back up, I hit a snafu. Or rather it hit me, as one of my dogs decided a snowy downhill run was a good time for some impromptu tackle football. Regaining my footing from her cross-body block wrenched something connecting to the old L5S1 injury and, voila, I'm back to traction exercises and back care yoga while my endurance training gets shelved a few weeks.
It's not my first rehab rodeo and before I'd even assessed the damage I'd refocused my training schedule. A couple of years back, in the midst of recovering from the injury highlighted above, I took one of Kristen Ulmer's seminars on the mental aspects of sport. Part of this was focusing on the beauty of injuries and how the changes they force on your life give you a new lease; license, or an excuse, to re-focus on something new. Reflection during this lesson confirmed it; many of my best performances have come in the wake of an injury.
The serendipity of this story is that Ben and I had become overly enthusiastic about sending a new route in the Coop. We were fit enough to get close but consistent redpoint attempts tend to make you weaker over time. Training makes you stronger, meaning if we stopped trying to climb and trained we would simply be able to do the route without all the fuss. When I called Ben to inform him that it was time to get serious about training he said, "I know what you mean. During one go (redpoint failure) I landed on the floor and just happened to be looking at The Beastmaker. I swear it was saying 'Buddy, if you want to do that route you're staring at the answer.'"
Fingerboard (hangboard) training is almost perfect traction for the back. It's also the single best way to get seriously strong for climbing. Its only downside is that it's hard to focus on because it's not necessarily fun. I haven't had a meaningful climbing road trip, where I was peaking strength-wise, since sometime last century. Granted I've been focused on other sports but still; The Year of the Van beckons. My injury being the key to great success.
9 comments:
- D Faye said...
Amen, Brother. Way to turn a negative into a positive!
- Daniel Lewis said...
Thanks Steve! Great perspective. It's hard at times not to look back on injuries with regret, but you reminded me that in every instance, I gained something new that I wouldn't have otherwise.
- Micah said...
Its like Elijah and I joked about when we were both on crutches and still training 20+ hours a week...
Luckily we only broke our legs/ankles, because we could still do all the important stuff. A middle finger injury would have been WAY worse.
The outcome of my first 9 months of hangboards/campusboard only "climbing" was 1-5-8 on bigs and 1-4-6 two fingering mediums.
Elijah was doing laps on 1-4-7 like he was British. Had he focused on power rather than volume (he was logging 300 move workouts on the campusboard I believe), he would have probably been putting up even bigger numbers.
Enjoy the Beastmaker like a fine wine...
- Steve Edwards said...
Not that anything but campusing matters but you two also both did your hardest climbing last year. I love that the year The Shed gets taken down, leaving you with only hangboard, leads to your best climbing season. One of the most obvious lessons about training for climbing I've seen.
Bullshit. An injury requires dope.
C'mon, Jan, get real. Everything requires dope. To the gills.
But, Big Tex, you've never once tested positive. It was only everyone you ever beat who tested positive.
- Captain Granitic said...
Have you done a post on training with dogs? You could write a book, I bet... lots of dogs are genetically bred to 'close' on passing livestock to slow them. I know of several cycling and running injuries resulting from this behavior; sounds like your pal forgot you weren't livestock. Certain breeds (i.e. cattle dogs) seem to do it more, so runners/riders beware!
- Steve Edwards said...
"Don't bite the sheep!" is what I say when they get too forceful. An Aussie lass told me heelers are losing their jobs to shepards because they are too forceful and bite the sheep too much, for sure, it's a issue. When they get focused they lose their minds a bit. They train easily though. They just need constant work in this area. Course all breeds need training of some kind. Seen shepards biting heels of ski boots and trying to bite bike tires.
I would love to have time to write about training with your dog. Can't seem to find the time to write books on training humans right now though.


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I don't know if this has any significance, but I seem to be overly allergic to Leni. I break out in very itchy hives every time I touch her. I can take a Loratidine to take care of that.
I have the same issue you do. I am extremely allergic to Harlow, and Degan barely bothers me at all. Anywhere Harlow licks me, or if her teeth touch me I will immediately break out in hives.
Harlow used to get bumps like Leni's all the time when she was a pup, and we switched from solid gold, which is bison based, to Wellness core, which is grain-free... and although she does still get the bumps it's very rare, and nothing a little benadryl won't clear up.
Gotta love white dogs!


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My Niece
Wanda L Maradik, b: 10 Oct 1959 – 4 Jul 2001
My choice for this weeks Tombstone Tuesday is my niece Wanda…….she lost her battle with breast cancer 8 years ago. Her beautiful little girl was only 14 year old. We were devastated to lose her at such a young age and we will never be the same.
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness month and also October 10th is Wanda's birthday……..get involved….. and perhaps one day a cure for this horrible disease will be found!
Some people come into our lives
and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us
to new understanding
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make
the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
leave footprints on our hearts
And we are never, ever the same.
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Two new potato varieties just released by Oregon State University are likely to catch the eye of Oregon's potato processing industry and the gourmet market.
A red fingerling called 'AmaRosa' is likely to be popular with the upscale potato specialty market, said Solomon Yilma of the OSU breeding program. A small fingerling potato with smooth, deep-red skin, AmaRosa has red flesh also and when sliced looks like pepperoni. The tasty tubers retain their color even as they are baked, fried or cooked in the microwave."
"AmaRosa tubers are also loaded with high level of antioxidants," Yilma said.
The fingerling potatoes are smaller than others and pack easily. They also are resistant to scab, a harmless but unsightly bump on the skin that can make them less marketable. "In fact, AmaRosa could become popular with organic growers because it resists both scab and tuber late blight," Yilma said.
The other potato variety, the light-brown 'Sage Russet,' can help supply the needs of the Oregon market for processed potatoes.
The flattened, long shape of Sage Russet makes it the right size to slice and freeze as French fries for commercial and home use. Seventy-five percent of Oregon potatoes are made into food products such as frozen shoestring fries for fast food restaurants, hash browns and chips, and nearly 25 percent of all French fries exported from the United States come from Oregon, according to the Oregon Potato Commission.
"Visual defects can be a problem for the consumer, but Sage Russet has minimal internal flaws," Yilma said. "Its eyes are evenly distributed and lack distinctive 'eyebrows' — tiny scars left by leaves." When dropped into hot oil, the fries keep their light color because of their low sugar levels.
Sage Russet also is suitable to sell fresh, and as it was evaluated during breeding trials, it earned high scores in yields, high protein content and vitamin C.
Potato breeding can take 10 to 15 years, and Sage Russet began with a cross made in 1996, Yilma said. It was grown and selected over the years for qualities such as storage time, high yields, taste, nutritional content and disease resistance.
The tubers go through a vigorous evaluation system that begins in Oregon with Tri-State trials that eventually include Idaho and Washington; the first trials for Sage Russet were in Powell Butte, Hermiston, Klamath and Ontario, Oregon. The evaluation process ends with Western Regional trials in California, Colorado and Texas.
Plant Variety Protection, an intellectual property statute that gives breeders up to 25 years of exclusive control of propagation, will be filed for Sage Russet and AmaRosa. The potato varieties will be licensed to the Potato Variety Management Institute, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of the Tri-State Potato Breeding Program. Disease-free small tubers grown from tissue culture are available from the University of Idaho Tissue Culture Laboratory.
Breeding of AmaRosa began with a cross made in 2000 and was selected from seedlings planted at Madras, Ore. in 2001. It went through six years of public trials in the western United States.
OSU led the release of AmaRosa and was joined by the experiment stations of Oregon, Idaho and Washington and the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
In 2010, potatoes were the sixth largest agricultural product in Oregon. Growers planted 38,315 acres of potatoes and saw sales of $150.7 million, according to a report by the OSU Extension Service.


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Lindenwood University has hired a new director of alumni affairs. Whitney Fraier started the job on Monday, April 7 and is based in the university's Development Office.
Fraier worked most recently as special events manager at the Magic House in Kirkwood. Prior to that, she worked for the St. Charles Convention Center in 2005.
Fraier has a bachelor's degree in organizational communications with a non-profit emphasis from Murray State University in Kentucky, and she is currently pursuing a master's in nonprofit administration in Lindenwood's LCIE (accelerated evening) program.
Fraier said her goal is to continue to improve alumni participation in the university and to get more alums reconnected with Lindenwood.
"I plan to put together more alumni events to help accomplish that," she said, adding that her experience as a student lent to her decision to try for the job. "I love the faculty and staff, the culture and what the university stands for."


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Slave Bill of Sale, Thomas Johnson
Author: Burge, David
Date: May 24, 1856
A bill of sale issued by David Burge to Thomas Johnson as a receipt for Johnson's purchase of an African American slave named Martha for $800. Thomas Johnson was a Methodist minister and the founder of the Shawnee Methodist Mission. Johnson County, Kansas Territory was named for Thomas Johnson.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Miscellaneous Collection, Alexander and Thomas Johnson
Item Number: 102891 Number of images: 1
Keywords: African Americans; Bills of sale; Burge, David; Johnson, Thomas; Slave bills of sale; Slaveholders; Slavery; Slaves; Westport, Missouri
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{ Air Plant in Blue Bird Cage } and { Vintage Glass Brass Box }
{ Antique Composition Doll } and { Vintage Wooden Chairs }
{ Vintage Industrial Metal Paperweight } and { Clay Horse Head Bookends }
I'm rather an impatient shopper. Once I decide that I want something, I want it right then and there. New shoes, a coat, a good cup of coffee, pancakes, a different bedspread... whatever. Yes, I realize this is not the most admirable of qualities. But I fear at this stage in the game, I'm probably stuck with it.
This kind of a desire to have something right away is a problem when it comes to home design though. For most things I really prefer vintage pieces, but it's not as though you can run to Target and find that great antique bookcase that you've been pining for.
It takes time. Sigh.
Working part time at an antique store helps with a bit of expediting, but for everything else there's ETSY. In the last year of so, a pretty incredible crop of sellers of great vintage design pieces have popped up. I'm always cooing over some strange.precious little porcelain doll or metal.wood industrial furniture.
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I'll give the fundies this: They never seem to run out of ways to fleece the credulous. Pat Boone is helping push a new Christian scam, selling one square foot pieces of property in Galilee to believers who want to feel like they own a piece of the holy land:
As part of the Jewish collective, and especially as the writer of "This Land Is Mine," he said, he wanted to buy a plot of land in the Galilee that could be his in a real, rather than an emotional, sense.
This and a conversation with some Israeli friends led to the idea of selling 1-square foot plots and their GPS coordinates to American supporters of Israel in order to give them a stake in the land.
Even though most of those who buy will not come in person, he said, "you can go online and see it through Google Maps." Those who do come in person can use their personal GPS units to find their spot and stand on it.Boone said the Galilee region, between Nazareth and Lake Kinneret, was his favorite place in Israel because "Jesus as a young man walked between the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth," and the plots are situated where he passed.
That would go really well with some of that "holy water" from the Jordan river (really from a municipal water system in the US, of course) given out by "faith-healing" frauds like Peter Popoff. PT Barnum was right.


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2006 Media Releases
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today announced that the City's annual 4th of July celebration will remain at Oak Lake Park, 1st and Charleston streets, for 2006. The Mayor and other City officials considered key issues such as public safety, traffic, parking and access in determining the site. The celebration was forced to move from Holmes Lake Park to Oak Lake Park in 2003 due to the Holmes Lake Restoration Project.
"The necessity to dredge Holmes Lake forced the City to seek out an alternative celebration site," said Mayor Seng. "What we found was an alternative location for a celebration of this size that provided even more accessibility."
"The annual Independence Day celebration has really helped show the potential uses for Oak Lake as an event venue," said Lynn Johnson, Director of the City Parks and Recreation Department. "There is abundant parking near Oak Lake Park and more available across the pedestrian bridge in the Haymarket area and downtown. The fact that it's located close to arterial streets and bike trails lends itself to good park access."
Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady said traffic control at Oak Lake Park has been relatively smooth. "At Holmes, we had to funnel all of the traffic onto two roadways," he said. "We really have more ways to get folks in and out of the Oak Lake Park area. We've had very good experiences the past couple of years with the 4th of July festivities being at Oak Lake Park."
"Oak Lake Park is not in a high-density neighborhood, so access and traffic flow are more efficient," said Karl Fredrickson, City Public Works and Utilities Director. "The area also offers a good bus route from the downtown parking garages to the park."
Specific plans and activities for the City's 4th of July celebration will be announced in June.


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An apparent domestic dispute left three people dead and a child injured Thursday night at the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant in Brooklyn.
Police Chief Scott Mielke said a woman at the restaurant called police about 8:40 p.m. to say she felt threatened by her husband. She said she had just told her husband she was leaving him.
Police arrived just as a man was exiting the restaurant with a "long gun," the chief said.
Officers ordered the man to drop his weapon, then fatally shot him when he didn't comply. Mielke said a woman and a girl were found dead inside, and another girl was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center with unknown injuries.
Mielke said he believed all of the victims were from the same family. He would not provide names or ages of the shooter and the female victims.
Shooting at Cracker Barrel in Brooklyn
Listen to the 9-1-1 emergency call placed on Thursday night from inside the restaurant located on Tiedeman Rd.
Jody McIntosh, a waitress at the restaurant, said she had finished her shift and had gone home when a co-worker telephoned to say that someone "had shot up the place."
McIntosh returned to check on a friend who was still inside, but couldn't get past the police tape. "I hope she's OK," she said of her friend.
Plain Dealer reporters Pat Galbincea and Tonya Sams compiled this report.
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Today I'm proud to present to you the un-official Mortal Kombat Armageddon font! It has been a while since I worked on a font, but this one came up pretty quick, most of the letters were extracted from the official site for MKA, except for the J, Q, W, X and Z. The rest of the fonts I've made (and some others I haven't) are available in the Fonts section. As a note: the letters used in the official logo are a little bit wider than this one, but it's barely noticeable. Anyway, without further ado, here it is!
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And in other news, the site's RSS feed has got an upgrade, now you can subscribe easier by clicking the feed icon on the right of this news update, there you'll have to choose your favourite feed-reader and you'll be done to stay in touch with the latest updates of the site.
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16 responses to "MKA Font Released!"
It's alright
Sweet… a good update… yay… new font… new/old backgrounds… this is great…
Wow. Hey, I'm impressed. Looks quite good. Despite the fact that you made some of them, they all look like they belong in the same font. I see no real awkward letters. Good job.
u did not make much of an update, you should try to update more often, put more sprites please. (maybe sheeva, cyrax, or sektor?)
MK:A will be realy the best Mortal Kombat chapter!
No it won't… mk2 was… unless they put in armageddon some kind of way to play it like the old games… but that would take too long… mk2 and mk3 had the greatest guys… even stryker… he was the only real mortal… the others all had powers… he had a gun and grenades… but enough about him… Mk: Armagedon won't be the best, but it will be one of the best… it will sure beat oher fighting games… except tekken…
Except tekken? Mortal Kombat is the best! If Jin Kazama find on his way Scorpion, well that will be a realy bad day for Jin, even if he morp into EvilJin. And the other idem! Mayby only Hwoarange can make some trouble, but even him will go down! Btw, that's true… Stryker is the only one without some special power… And how Kung Lao say "A gun are useless in the outworld"…
Jin kazama verses a chair the chair wins… rolf rolf rolf… tekken can kiss a donkey's hairy, shit infested, ass, with coarse hair on there 2! u no… coarse… that curly type hair… thats infested with chappelle's "dookie twinkle".
the maker of tekken should break the tekken ps2 disk in half and slit his wrist's with the pieces.
sorry tat i made the pill popping fans of tekken sad,u prolly have a pill for saddness 2.
lol case settled
How about being a bit more subtle when you are dissing Tekken?… I like Tekken more cause the graphics are not choppy at all, while the 3-d mortal kombat games are choppy at parts, the backgrounds are cool and the wussy fighters can't instantly kill you if they are about to lose, you get to beat up your foe after the fight instead of getting one hit or a failed fatality, it shows your win in slow motion, most of the mk characters are overrated: Liu kang, Scorpion, and sub-zero… some kind of sub-zero named character is in each game, along with frost in DA, he needs to stop in being so many games… Scorpion first is trying to kill sub-zero, then the younger guy, but can't once he remembers he swore an oath to protect him, but he still tries to kill him in mk4, then in DA he is trying to kill Quan Chi, fails, totally disregards avenging his family in Deception, and goes after Onaga instead, and he'll probably have a more twisted storyine in mk: armageddon, or Midway and Boon can change back to his old story and find out Noob is the one he needs to kill… Liu Kang is always the champion of Mortal kombat, he was cool in mk1,but his story stayed the same, and got boring, but at leasy midway and Boon didn't mess it up like scorpion… when I say except Tekken, I meant MY opinion, not yours… of course you guys are going to like Mortal kombat more… I like tekken more, I grew up Tekken in my family… my two brothers played it when I was a baby, and as I grew up they kept playing it, so I liked it more than other fighting games… I know mortal kombat would kick tekken's ass, but I just like tekken more… so you guys should next time be more respectful of how I feel, even if you barely know me… please, to have Tekken be torn down so harshly almost made me snivel… I like tekken more than mk… my opinion… not yours…
When I say how I feel, I mean how a person whio likes tekken would feel…
subtlety is not my talent… check this out!!http://www.friendsoffoamy.com/index.php?id=155
THAT WAS HILARIOUS!… Subtlety is not my talent either, but i can be subtle when I want to.
Good Font, anyway :)
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justinvl needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 268 designs submitted by 63 freelance designers.
jvlphoto.com | JVL Photography
I'm a Canadian portrait photographer with a good sense of humour. I'm fun and easy going, years of customer service have taught me more about getting along with people than selling myself.
I've run my photoblog for a few years now at jvlphoto.com and I'm expanding more into the professional side of photography. While I dabble in all sorts of imaging, my preference is portraiture (I'd love weddings but I don't have enough for my portfolio yet).
You can read more about me here: http://jvlphoto.com/pixelpost/index.php?x=about
Families, Business Portraits, Fundraising events, and Social Media head-shots seem to be the most work I'm getting - I would like to pull strongly with this audience as my name is slightly established. However I find my last name is tricky for some people to spell (Van Leeuwen) and I've often gone by initials JVL.
I would eventually like to tap into a wedding crowd so a certain level of sophistication and elegance (though not flowery) would be great.
I want a logo - preferably icon based (easier to recognize and "spot") that I can use as a banner to my website, and placed on business cards. I would like the logo to incorporate my initials 'JVL' and feel free to play with their symmetry.
Preferably, the logo would have the full web domain jvlphoto.com in it, and easily identifiable, so that if it was seen alone the audience would still be able to find it. I have no colour restrictions or requirements, except I hope that it could look good as a silhouette (monotone) as it would with colour (if you choose to use colour).
As an artist I completely respect and support your artistic direction (that doesn't mean I'll always like it though!). I'm here to tap into you as a resource afterall - feel free to visit my website and make your own opinions on what you'd like to see my logo displayed as.
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Huawei Ascend p6
The Huawei Ascend P6 is the new star smart phone Huawei. The Chinese company will release so far is the slimmest device, with just 6 mm chunky.
Design and Display
Definitely one of the strongest points of the Huawei Ascend P6 is its design. Its rugged metal body is quite elegant appearance and finesse of only 6.18 mm makes it the thinnest smart phone to date.
Of course, at this point you have to ask the real impact of two or three millimeters in design and ease of operation of the smart phone. The overall design team has a rod-shaped, with a more rounded on the bottom design slightly evocative of smart phones Xperia from Sony.
Body structure
It enclosed in a metal body, with the latest version of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and own software layer of Huawei to customize the use of this smart phone. The Asian company will have to compete with heavyweights like the Samsung Galaxy S4 or the iPhone 5.
You will be able to have screen of a considerable size of 4.7 inches, about the size that has the Samsung Galaxy S4. Another aspect that will stand out against other smart phones is the quality of the front camera with a powerful resolution of 5 mega pixels.
Moreover, Huawei has announced that the device will have a screen of 4.7 inches with a resolution of 1,280 x 780 pixels. This resolution is more than enough to see the contents of the smart phone in detail.
The total weight of Ascend P6 is 120 grams. This makes for a very manageable.
Power and memory
This chip will achieve remarkable performance through Android menus and the time to run both applications and games. It also has a memory of 2 GB RAM very useful to run several applications at once without slowing down the system.
In terms of memory, we will have 8 GB of space to store your files. This is one of the points in the least has worked Huawei, and we may need to dip into extra space. This capability is achieved through purchasing a Micro SIM memory card, which can be up to 32 GB.
Huawei Ascend P6 claimed as a mobile phone that will enter the ranks of the best mobile phone cameras. To support the fixed bias camera photographing beautiful moments, pinned a type of battery with Li-Po 2000 mAh. The battery is certainly bias makes this phone quite a turn on and will require power supply within 2 or 3 days on normal usage.
Camera configuration
Many of you may have headed directly here, or at least held a particular interest given the P6's unusual camera configuration. With a generous five megapixels on the front-facing camera, Huawei has given the P6 a standout feature that many will be drawn to. The rear-facing camera, on the other hand is a rather less-notable 8-megapixel affair. Naturally, we gave both of them a spin to see how they fared.
Whether you are happy with the results of your self-portrait or not, Huawei's there to offer a helping hand with a facial-enhancement feature to help "Beautify" your assault. We certainly do, and the P6 sounds great.
One of the negative points that come in its way is that Ascend P6 is not dust proof and water resistant as compared to the Ascend D2.


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If you're an IM-hound, it's time for you to head over to iTunes and lay down $15.99 for BeejiveIM. The multi-client software can handle AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, MySpace, ICQ, and Jabber all in one little app. The whole services works via Beejive's own servers which allows them to include a couple of neat features. The first -- they'll cache your messages so if you go out of service or quit the app your messages will be waiting when you return. The second -- if you have an Exchange or MobileMe account, you can punch in your email address in the preferences and Beejive will shoot you a quick email letting you know that you've just received a message. Nice. Hopefully that feature will be unnecessary once Apple offers push notifications, but in the meantime it's a clever stopgap solution.
The only real downside is that the price, $15.99, doesn't really seem in line with the current $9.99 default price on a lot of apps. I'm of two minds on this issue. Come read the pros and cons with us after the break!
On the one hand, $15.99 really is a fair price to pay for an application of this quality, especially since Beejive is incurring costs on their end by maintaining a server. Server-proxy-type IM apps in the past have often been based on a subscription model, so at least we're not looking at that. The price is also more in line with what apps tend to cost on other mobile platforms. Given all that, $15.99 seems more than fair.
On the other hand, it's not like App developers who manage to crack the top tiers of apps (which I expect BeejiveIM to do) are exactly hurting for cash when they sell apps at the $9.99 level. Not to mention that, as I said above, $9.99 is the 'default price' right now in the App Store, so going above it will ruffle some feathers -- just take a look at what Ruben had to say in our forums to see what I mean.
If nothing else, it will be interesting to see whether or not the mindshare effect of all those other apps clocking in at $9.99 will eventually drive BeejiveIM's price downward, or if Beejive is a harbinger of $10+ prices to come.
How about you? $15.99 seem fair?


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Independenceprevious next
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Freedom or independence means that our lives are shaped by personal priorities rather than external constraints or social pressures. It means we are able to follow our own deepest values and exercise our judgment even when others disagree or disapprove.
To maintain independence, we must recognize our natural human tendency to assimilate--to gradually conform our ideas to those of groups or leaders that we like.
Because group dynamics encourage conformity, independence can create situations that are uncomfortable. Though sometimes awkward, the presence of independent thinkers is a gift to all because it keeps a group from falling into shared illusion or error.
- What does independence look like in a person? (3 responses)
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The Indiana Pi Bill, 1897
This is Indiana House Bill No. 246, 1897, known as the Indiana pi bill. Towards the end of section 2 it says plainly that "The ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four," which means pi is 3.2. The section goes on the criticize (ungenerously, I'd say) past values of pi as "wholly wanting and misleading." Click here to return to "Indiana Pi."
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL No. 246
A Bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the Legislature of 1897.
Section 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: It has been found that a circular area is to the square on a line equal to the quadrant of the circumference, as the area of an equilateral rectangle is to the square on one side. The diameter employed as the linear unit according to the present rule in computing the circle's area is entirely wrong, as it represents the circle's area one and one-fifth times the area of a square whose perimeter is equal to the circumference of the circle. This is because one fifth of the diameter fails to be represented four times in the circle's circumference. For example: if we multiply the perimeter of a square by one-fourth of any line one-fifth greater than one side, we can in like manner make the square's area to appear one-fifth greater than the fact, as is done by taking the diameter for the linear unit instead of the quadrant of the circle's circumference.
Section 2
It is impossible to compute the area of a circle on the diameter as the linear unit without trespassing upon the area outside of the circle to the extent of including one-fifth more area than is contained within the circle's circumference, because the square on the diameter produces the side of a square which equals nine when the arc of ninety degrees equals eight. By taking the quadrant of the circle's circumference for the linear unit, we fulfill the requirements of both quadrature and rectification of the circle's circumference. Furthermore, it has revealed the ratio of the chord and arc of ninety degrees, which is as seven to eight, and also the ratio of the diagonal and one side of a square which is as ten to seven, disclosing the fourth important fact, that the ratio of the diameter and circumference is as five-fourths to four; and because of these facts and the further fact that the rule in present use fails to work both ways mathematically, it should be discarded as wholly wanting and misleading in its practical applications.
Section 3
In further proof of the value of the author's proposed contribution to education and offered as a gift to the State of Indiana, is the fact of his solutions of the trisection of the angle, duplication of the cube and quadrature of the circle having been already accepted as contributions to science by the American Mathematical Monthly, the leading exponent of mathematical thought in this country. And be it remembered that these noted problems had been long since given up by scientific bodies as insolvable mysteries and above man's ability to comprehend.
Read first time January 18th, 1897
Referred to Committee on Canals
Reported and referred to Committee on Education January 19th, 1897
Reported back February 2nd, 1897
Read second time February 5th, 1897
Ordered engrossed February 5th, 1897
Read third time February 5th, 1897
Passed February 5th, 1897
Ayes - 67 - Noes -0-
Introduced by Record
Read first time and referred to
committee on Temperance, February 11th, 1897
Reported favorable February 12th, 1897
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