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Fire fans everywhere drew a collective sigh of relief Thursday afternoon when the club announced veteran defender Gonzalo Segares had inked a multi-year deal to stay with the Men in Red.
"I'm very happy that we could come to an agreement for me to stay in Chicago," Segares said via phone from Costa Rica Thursday night. "The Fire gave me the opportunity to become a professional in MLS and this is the only team that I've played with in the league since the draft in 2005. I'm definitely happy to stay part of the Fire."
READ: Segares hits 200 competitive appearances for the Fire
The reason for consternation came with the league's Monday release of the initial list of players eligible for Friday's Re-Entry Draft Stage 1. An eight-year veteran of the league, the 30-year-old defender appeared on the list after the club declined his option.
While from the outside it looked as if the Fire were turning their back on a longtime fan favorite, Segares tested the early water of the league's free agency mechanism while the two parties continued to work towards a deal.
"At the time I wasn't quite sure how things were going to go. I knew we were trying to work things out but nothing was concrete. It's tough to see your name out there with a possibility of leaving because they definitely weren't going to take my option. That part is hard to see but there was always the hope that we'd be able to get into a new agreement."
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In the end, Segares wanted to stay in Chicago and the Fire wanted their eight-year fixture at left back to return and that's exactly what happened.
While MLS and its clubs do not disclose terms of deals, the latest MLS Players Union salary numbers list Segares as the highest paid full-time left back in the league at $210,000.
With the Fire presumably needing to spend money in other areas of the field, Segares opted out of the Re-Entry process and it's speculated that the Costa Rican international signed for less while adding more time to his contract.
Still, the waiting game from Monday to Thursday seemed like an eternity for some fans who hit to social channels to talk the possibility of losing Segares.
"It was very nice to see how much the fans appreciate me and I'd definitely like to thank all of them for that support. It definitely shows they're really happy with how hard I've worked for this club. It's nice to see that people appreciate you and at the same time I appreciate everyone in the organization and the fans that are always there, especially from Section 8 and Sector Latino."
With his playing future sealed, Segares can now focus full attention on a more personal moment more important than any of his 207 competitive appearances for the Fire: Wedding Day.
Segares returned to Costa Rica earlier this week to finish preparations for his nuptials with his fiancé Rusty, set to take place next Saturday, December 15.
"The official news that I'd be on the first list came two days before I left to Costa Rica to get married. That was a little bit nerve wracking. Now It makes the next week of my life that much easier and we have even more to celebrate."


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Pushing Tin is 1999 Drama movie. Its describes a story of two cocky air traffic controllers that quarrel over proving who's more of a man.
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Having already assured themselves of a spot in the SuperLiga 2010 semifinals, the Revs can clinch first place in Group B with a win or draw against Morelia | MatchCenter >> | Watch Live >>
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution has already secured passage to the semifinal round of SuperLiga 2010, but that doesn't mean that Tuesday night's meeting with Mexican Primera División club Monarcas Morelia is any less important.
The Revs (2-0-0, 6 pts.) claimed a spot in the last four of the competition by winning their first two group games against Pumas UNAM (0-1-1, 1 pt.) and the Chicago Fire (0-2-0, 0 pts.), and now they'll round out Group B play against Morelia (1-0-1, 4 pts.) on Tuesday night, July 20, at Gillette Stadium (8 p.m., Telefutura).
While a spot in the semifinal round is guaranteed, it's still yet to be decided whether the Revolution will finish in first or second place in the group. A win or draw on Tuesday night and the Revs will finish in the top spot; a loss and Morelia will take first place with the Revs in second.
The seeding may not seem important considering there will be just four teams remaining after the group stage, but it could be the difference between playing at home or on the road in the next round. A first-place finish guarantees the Revs will host their semifinal match regardless of opponent, while a second-place finish leaves open the possibility of having to travel to Houston to face the Dynamo.
Then, of course, there's the matter of momentum. New England has now won three straight games in all competitions – all shutouts – and will be eager to continue that form through SuperLiga and back into league play when it resumes in late July.
"We've been playing well the last couple games and we still want to continue that even though (Tuesday night) is not an MLS game," said captain Shalrie Joseph, who was recently named to his seventh career MLS All-Star team. "We still want to come out and give it our all and get a victory, then head toward the playoffs feeling good about ourselves. Tomorrow's very important that we get some points at home."
The Revs have a chance to build on the momentum created in their last three performances – a 2-0 victory over the league-leading LA Galaxy in regular-season action followed by the pair of SuperLiga wins. After going a stretch of 11 games with just one win from April to July, it's been a welcome turnaround in Foxborough.
Head coach Steve Nicol has credited better decision-making as the key reason for the recent success, while Kevin Alston praised the Revolution's ability to repeat their performances from game-to-game.
"Any time you can be consistent it makes everybody's lives easier," said the second-year defender. "The fact that we're kind of replicating what we did and taking it each game is great, but we've got to keep it going. It's not over."
The Revolution will look to keep it going against Morelia, a team which needs just a draw on Tuesday night to assure itself of a spot in the SuperLiga semifinals. The Mexican side has scored seven goals in its first two group games and looked particularly lethal in a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Fire last week.
Nicol and his coaching staff had the chance to watch Morelia take on Pumas live last Saturday night, as the two teams squared off immediately after the Revs played the Fire at Toyota Park.
"Their movement's good and they knock it around pretty sharp, which is no real surprise," said Nicol. "They're sharp, so we're going to have to be on our toes."
According to Joseph, the Revs will need to work as a seamless unit if they hope to replicate the success which has seen them go a perfect 6-0-0 against Mexican teams in SuperLiga play since 2008.
"All the Mexican teams move so well off the ball and if you don't communicate here and there, they can hurt you," he said. "We've just got to learn to follow our man, stay with whoever it is, and just be aware of where the most dangerous player on the field is."
It's possible the Revs could receive a boost against Morelia with Steve Ralston set to return from a dislocated left elbow, although veteran defender Cory Gibbs (L quad strain) won't play until at least July 31 when New England returns to league action against the Philadelphia Union. Ralston was hoping to receive medical clearance on Monday afternoon, and if given, he's likely to see action as a substitute on Tuesday night.
While Ralston could be returning to the field, the Revs will be hoping that a quartet of players can stay on the field by avoiding yellow cards against Morelia. Joseph, Kenny Mansally, Sainey Nyassi and Joseph Niouky were all cautioned in the opening group game against Pumas, and should any of those four receive another yellow card on Tuesday night, they'd miss the semifinal because of caution accumulation.
For that reason – and because the Revs have already clinched their spot in the semifinals – Nicol will have to be smart as he attempts to balance those concerns with the desire to win.
"It's not easy, but we need to do that – we need to try and be smart," he said. "We'll decide between now and then what's going on."


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Apple updated their OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer preview 8 distribution yesterday and with it came a new feature for Notification center -- do not disturb. It looks like a great feature and something that would be very much welcome not only in OS X, but in iOS 6 as well. 9to5Mac's Mark Gurman describes it thusly:
The feature is a toggle accessible at the top of Notification Center that allows users to block incoming alerts and banners. The feature is very important for those who look to focus entirely on the content they are currently working on and do not want to be bothered by new emails, iMessages, calendar alerts, or other types of alerts.
I'd love this for shooting app and accessory videos alone, as nothing ruins a good shot like a spam email or silly tweet showing up right in the middle of a hero shot. For general use, the ability to kill notifications when going into important meetings, when you really need a good night's sleep, or even if you just want to game or watch video without interuption would be fantastic.
Of course, the real solution would be to have location and time based profiles, where "home" could be set up differently from "work", for example, or "day" could have different settings than "night". Third party apps like Tweetbot have allowed time-based notification suppression on their own for a while, but globally that's something only the platform owner, Apple, can address.
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Fire Crews Battle Mobile Home Fire
Few details are yet available from the scene but fire fighters from several Penobscot County communities have been called out to the scene of a structure fire in Chester.
The fire was reported to Penobscot County Regional Dispatch shortly after 10 this morning.
The fire's reported at 99 Loop Road in Chester and reportedly involves a mobile home.
Initial reports coming into the newsroom indicated a person or persons may be trapped inside the home, but that has bot been independently verified at this time.
Fire fighters from Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Lowell, and Howland are on scene.


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betiko wrote:rishaed wrote:rishaed wrote:I would like a vote count.
I don't want this thread dying so I'm going to do a small recap.
A. Speed lynching: I feel that even if we decide on a person we should definitely compile our info for the day. Overall we need to use the day to its fullest.
B. Betiko/Mets: this debate has gone on for a few days, and I feel like between the two of the there is a scum.
C. My Take: I'm leaning slightly more Mets than Betiko here. The scum didn't seem to do anything last night, if Mets is scum it's a perfect way to "confirm" his claim. I am betting scum did something to skew Gustafs results last night, they seemed to have blocked him every other night and y wouldn't they block the doc if they were going to NK him, it makes no sense.
Guess I forgot to say, if you don't buy my claim you are more than welcome to try and vig me, it will confirm that I am who I say I am.
nice try godfather!
No really try and NK me, it'll prove my claim. If you don't believe me that's fine the truth'll come out sometime.


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Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court has refused to call the traditional definition of marriage unconstitutional. This spineless government appeal has backfired: the Liberals cannot claim the court made them end traditional marriage.
Marriage is a matter for Parliament, not judges.
It has nothing to do with the charter. This government could have endeavoured to defend the traditional definition of marriage by challenging lower court decisions, but it did not. Instead, the Liberals are attacking Canadian family values.
I firmly believe that Canada's laws and social programs should strive to support and uphold marriage and the family unit. The traditional definition of marriage must be preserved.
The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution. Altering it is a profound step that deserves vigorous, open debate. This is a matter for elected representatives to decide.
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Red Sox should bottle Opening Day win
NEW YORK — To a man, and that includes players, manager, coaches, general manager, equipment manager, trainers, you name it, the Red Sox executed perfectly Monday.
In one 8-2 Opening Day win over the Yankees they accomplished a lot.
They got strong starting pitching (Jon Lester), and great work out of the bullpen (Koji Uehara, Andrew Miller, Andrew Bailey, Junichi Tazawa, and Joel Hanrahan).
They got aggressive base running (Jonny Gomes, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia), patient at-bats (Saltalamacchia and Jackie Bradley Jr.), and small-ball execution (Jose Iglesias).
There was superb defense (Bradley, Iglesias), and the successful introduction of Bradley and the "other'' rookie everyone has forgotten, Iglesias.
Manager John Farrell, making his Red Sox debut, did a good job.
The only thing they didn't do was hit the ball out of the park. They're saving that for later. That is probably first baseman Mike Napoli's role, but he went 0 for 5 as the cleanup hitter.
Undoubtedly, if the Red Sox want to look back and recall how to beat an elite pitcher like CC Sabathia, how to beat the Yankees, or simply how to beat anyone, this should be the game that video coordinator Billy Broadbent should make a few copies of.
Again, it was one game, but all the things one thought could work, did. Even Shane Victorino, who had caused some concern in spring training, delivered a big two-run base hit in Boston's four-run second inning.
Newcomer Gomes contributed two hits. He also scored from second base on an infield single in the ninth.
"We put together some quality at-bats,'' hitting coach Greg Colbrunn said. "We worked the count against a very tough pitcher [Sabathia]. Jackie had a couple of great at-bats, Salty had a couple, and Victorino with a big hit in the second inning to drive in some runs. We really did so many things right. This is the way we want to be as an offensive team.''
Let's start with Bradley. The box score reads 0 for 2. But he walked three times. He fell behind, 0 and 2, to Sabathia in the second inning and then worked a walk, loading the bases and keeping the inning alive for RBI hits by Iglesias, Victorino (two), and Dustin Pedroia.
One could see the plate discipline in Bradley. Sabathia looked surprised the kid hung in that well.
In the fifth inning, the Yankees tried to play the percentages and walked Gomes in front of him. Bradley could have been overeager with two on and two outs. Instead he was patient and turned the tables on the veteran Sabathia, making him work and winning the psychological battle by drawing a walk (although the Sox didn't score in the inning).
Saltalamacchia also walked three times as the Sox drew eight walks and made the Yankee staff throw 190 pitches. The Sox averaged just under four pitches per plate appearance, a very good rate.
It's always a good strategy to lay off Sabathia's curveball and slider, which he tends to throw in the dirt. Saltalamacchia, in particular, has bitten on bad pitches in the past, but he made an attempt in spring training to be more disciplined.
Through five innings, Sabathia had thrown 102 pitches. He was done.
"Just want to see more pitches and not swing at balls,'' said Saltalamacchia, who also doubled hitting righthanded. "The point is to swing at strikes and put the ball in play.''
On defense, Bradley made The Catch of the game in the third inning, robbing Robinson Cano of extra bases with a long run and leaping catch in left field, a game-changer for sure.
The value of Iglesias's quick feet and hands at shortstop is immeasurable. It's not that Stephen Drew couldn't have made the same plays, but let's face it, the pitchers have tremendous confidence in Iglesias's glove.
It'll be even more valuable as the Sox get into the back end of the rotation, where Ryan Dempster, Felix Doubront, and John Lackey need strong defense because they put the ball in play so often.
Right now, the left side of Boston's defense looks stellar with Iglesias, Will Middlebrooks at third, and Bradley.
Farrell has said that Drew will get his job back as soon as he's able to return from post-concussion issues, but the manager did reserve the right to change his mind on Bradley playing left. Shortstop is a key position, and when you have a great defender like Iglesias, who also chipped in with three infield hits, doing what the Sox want him to do — get on base any way he can and move runners along — then what more are you looking for? We are aware the Sox are paying Drew $9.5 million, but . . .
The only iffy play came when Ellsbury let an Ichiro Suzuki fly ball drop in front of him in right-center in the fourth inning. Take a chance and dive for that ball . . . Victorino was right behind Ellsbury, so the ball wouldn't have bounced too far.
Farrell stressed after the game that he wants to put pressure on the opposing defenses. He tried that in Toronto with mixed success, as there were times when overaggressiveness cost the Blue Jays outs and ultimately runs. But that wasn't the case in Game 1 for the Sox.
We saw Saltalamacchia make a heady play in the seventh when he stopped between first and second on a ball Bradley hit off the pitcher that went to Cano. He couldn't turn the double play because Salty's decision created just enough of a delay.
Ellsbury, who had tripled, was gunned down at home in the sixth on Pedroia's hard grounder. That may have been overaggressiveness, and it cost the Sox a run.
All we have to go on is one game against a team that had four All-Star players out of the lineup in Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter, and Curtis Granderson. And let's not forget, the Yankees didn't re-sign Nick Swisher. Sabathia was certainly not at his best. All of those factors matter.
But all you can go by is that on one sunny, mild spring day in the Bronx, the Red Sox' execution was nearly flawless, and it resulted in a team feeling good about itself to start the 2013 season.


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Racist America, Kent State cover-up, Israel propaganda
Published time: 20 Sep, 2012 23:00 Edited time: 21 Sep, 2012 10:29
Abby calls out the corporate media for blaming everything that happens in the Middle East on Al-Qaeda, and goes into the case of Gitmo prisoner Omar Khadr. Abby talks to the director of the NAACP about the pervasive racism that still exists in American society. BTS talks to Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored, about the Kent State massacre and subsequent cover-up. Abby wraps up the show by dissecting America's love affair with Israel.
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MORR Wheels needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 127 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
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MORR Competition Wheels is a designer and manufacture of ultra-high performance wheels for high-end vehicles. We are a company that is based on the latest and greatest technologies, and therefore have a very modern, sleek, and classy image. We want our branding to be same.
We cater to the high-performance automobile industry, and primarily to European cars. So, our customers demand nothing but the best, and we want our image to show the same.
Our wheels have a center cap (what goes in the middle of the wheel) and we need a center-cap design that will be included with every wheel we sell. We already have our logo designed, and we just want something built upon that, BUT, feel free to improvise if you have any ways to make it better. Please refer to the attached images for versions of our logos, other companies center caps, and more.
We want something that is modern, clean, and would be versatile among different wheel colors. Our wheels come in several tones of black, gray, gunmetal, silver, and raw aluminum finishes.
We want the center to use the MORR Shield logo (a few versions are attached), and we would like to somehow incorporate the MORR name into the center cap either by using the words "MORR", "MORR Wheels" or "MORR Competition Wheels".
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The police chief of Milwaukee called out Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — an opponent of gun safety regulation — for echoing National Rifle Association talking points about the uselessness of expanding background checks for all gun purchases. The organization argues that the government should enforce existing laws instead.
During a heated exchange at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) proposed assault weapons ban on Wednesday, Edward Flynn pointedly interrupted Graham's claims that the federal government is failing to deter individuals from misrepresenting themselves in the background check process by failing to prosecute people who were rejected from purchasing a weapon as a result of their false claims.
Flynn argued that rather than embark on a "paper chase," law enforcement officials are focused on preventing people from purchasing guns illegally, eliciting loud applause from the audience:
GRAHAM: When almost 80,000 people fail a background check and 44 people are prosecuted, what kind of deterrent is that? I mean, the law obviously is not seeing that as important…. We absolutely do nothing to enforce the laws on the books…
FLYNN: Just for the record, from my point of view, the point of a background check…
GRAHAM: How many cases have you made? How many cases have you made?
FLYNN: It doesn't matter, it's a paper thing. I want to stop 76,000 people from getting guns illegally. That's what a background check does. If you think we're going to do paperwork prosecutions, you're wrong. […] We don't make those cases. We have priorities. We make gun cases. We make 2,000 gun cases a year, senator, that's our priority. We're not in a paper chase. We're trying to prevent the wrong people from buying guns. That's why we do background checks. If you think I'm going to do a paper chase, then you think I'm going to misuse my resources.
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In a separate exchange with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), John Walsh, the United States Attorney for Colorado argued that background checks are designed to deter criminals from purchasing weapons, noting that individuals who fail a check are effectively prevented from buying firearms. He added that "there's no way the Department of Justice could have prosecuted all 1.5 million people who were rejected over that 15 year period."
Indeed, the "low number of prosecutions in 2010, the most recent year for which data are available, is consistent with other years" and is often seen as a poor use of resources. Prosecutors must prove that "the person knew they were lying when they tried to purchase the firearm" in order to secure a conviction which "usually carries a maximum sentence of just six months."
Graham said that limited resources for police departments is a reason to bolster gun ownership, arguing that citizens would have to take the law in their own hands and protect themselves. "What this police chief is facing, is what every police chief is facing, less money so you may have to defend yourself," he explained.


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Note: leftover char siu is good hot or cold. Add it to wonton soup, use it in egg rolls, serve over fried rice.
So cool! Any suggestions on how to turn your recipe from steamed pork buns to baked pork buns?ReplyDelete
It's easy! Just brush the tops with egg yolk and bake for about 18-50 minutes in 350 oven.ReplyDelete
I've always wanted to try some of those steamed buns, but I never have. We don't have a wide variety of dim sum places out here in Denver either. Guess I'll have to make them myself too. They look great!ReplyDelete
I've never tasted this, but it sounds interesting. You know, there is a certain satisfaction in spending part of your weekend making (and eating) something you cannot buy in your area. I think my husband and I need to do that soon. Thanks for the idea.ReplyDelete
that's beautiful. i can never tire of eating these here in singapore. thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
Goodness...what a great idea! I'm always wary of getting pork buns from chinatown here...too sketchy for me (or I'm a wimp *shrug*)ReplyDelete
Very impressive!ReplyDelete
I really need to get a bamboo steamer! These sound great!ReplyDelete
i like those so much! i have never tried to make them though...they have a place in pike place market in seattle that makes them really well, and we just go there when we have a hum bow craving!ReplyDelete
This sounds so interesting. I bet it was good!ReplyDelete
I just came across this blog and I was quite excited to see a recipe for pork buns at the top of the page! My boyfriend and I eat these all the time but we buy them frozen.
We both like the pork and scallion kinds over the bbq pork though. Any ideas on how to make that sort of filling? I was thinking of using the filling from your "pork and ginger dumplings" with a few modifications.
We make our own at home too, even despite having better Dim Sum options here in DC. I love yours though. They are much more authentic and the key is really the night before. Your look absolutely beautiful!ReplyDelete
I miss easy access to dim sum!
Obviously you're making the best of it. These look delicious.
Oh I love these at dim sum.ReplyDelete
This looks amazing. One of my favourite things on the dim sum trolley.
Oh my goodness! I love these things so so much!ReplyDelete
One questions, what exactly is golden syrup? Could I substitute honey or corn sryup?ReplyDelete
Golden syrup is inverted sugar syrup. It is often found near pancake syrup or with British foods. Light corn syrup could be substituted, but I wouldn't use honey, as it has too strong of a taste.ReplyDelete
Thank you sooooo much for this recipe! I have been craving these ever since I got back from Seattle a few months ago. There is this awesome Vietnamese bakery by the Farmer's Market who makes these.
Also, Inland Empire (the David Lynch film) opens at the Charles in B'more on March 12th. (In case you didn't make the Silver Spring showing...)
I made them last night. I have to admit that I used your hated ketchup b/c I couldn't find golden syrup, but they turned out really well! We had the leftovers for our snowed-in luncheon today! Thanks a bunch!ReplyDelete
I have dough for these resting prior to assembly, and they are looking promising. But surely you don't really mean bake 18-50 minutes @350? Isn't it more like 18-20? ...maybe 25...?
Anyway, thx for the recipe. I've been craving them for weeks!
KitchenMage- 18-25 does sound right. I personally haven't baked them, only steamed, I was taking the advice of a friend with those instructions.ReplyDelete
I made humbow using your dough recipe and combined it with the BBQ pork recipe from an old DimSum cookbook that I had purchased over 20 yrs ago in Seattle by Rhoda Yee. Her pork has rehydrated onions rather than mushrooms and more sauce - was also excellent. My goal is too to recreate those humbows at the Pike Place Market or at House of Hong in Seattle. I now live in Memphis where BBQ exists but not the dim sum. Thanks for the great website.ReplyDelete
These sounds great, and it looks like I can achieve that fluffy bun-ness with this recipe. However, I'm not that big of a fan of mushrooms. Any suggestions on another filling? Or how to alter the recipe to do without the mushrooms? Maybe just add more meat?ReplyDelete
To change the recipe to eliminate the mushrooms, just leave them out and use 1/2 cup plain water instead of the mushroom soaked water. They don't add much volumne so I don't think you'd need to add more meat.ReplyDelete
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Choosing the Right Law School / Re: The Tulane Thread on Tulane Greatness: Got Questions?« on: August 22, 2009, 07:16:47 AM »
I've seen what appears to be a good number of 1Ls in and around TLS. Good luck to you. Remember, work VERY hard this year. Have fun and go out, but do this at appropriate times (i.e. the weekend). 1L year for me was one of the best and worst years of my life, but I never regret it. Just do your best, enjoy New Orleans and life a bit. Thats about all I have for a pep talk.


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One thing to say before anything......Other comments on the episode parts.....does Kirino look ever nice in her fashion model dress here Then again her ass with panties got us a good idea how nice it is here=>
Kyosuke you got guts!
From MM episode 3's Sado Tarou to now Kyousuke having guts to protect his sister! Just amazing! To stand up to the father and doing this=>
Just crazy! Going as far as getting punched with bruises like those=>
Wow! Kyousuke your are my #2 this season with guts next to Sado Tarou for being upstanding, courageous and protective of your sister despite the way she treated you. Really incredible episode! I never knew Kyousuke would have so much guts! Also amazing cute family picture=>
Is Kirino in shit at this part with the father. He somehow found out....wonder how? Priceless face of Kyousuke here is priceless of his shock. The intermissions this time look nice especially the front cover one=>
Kirino looks so cute in this picture of the photo album as a top model here=>
GIF time!
Kirino's crying and frustration were and depressing to watch. Going to be hard too with subs.
Kyousuke's hand chop with counter hit of Kirino....nice part!
Episode is 10/10! Kyousuke we love your determination and guts in this one!
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So yeah. If an older brother admits to his father that he is playing games where you develop illicit relations with your little sister on his little sister's computer in his little sister's room and probably while his little sister is in there too, a punch would be on the low end of the punishment spectrum.
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Well, the best part of Novel Book 1 finally comes...even though this is the third time I saw this (Novel -> Manga -> Anime), I still can't stop laughing at perhaps the most classic line of Kyousuke in the series (At least the early part...). And IMO at the scrolling choice part, guess Kyousuke already play too much eroge. Of all the good parts, though, cutting the part Kyousuke trying to stop his dad from entering Kirino's room does make the whole argument somewhat incomplete.
From the title of next ep, seems like they'll jump to Natsu Comi...ehh...no Siscalv and the Kirino flag #1? That and it would mean even less Manami...
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I love how expressive characters are in this show. The otaku-talk may feel old but it still felt pretty natural, maybe not deep but not shallow either.
Mm, deffo one of my favorite anime this season ; ]
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I get the feeling that we'll get more "Kyousuke expressing his love for otaku things" moments. And they will all be hilarious.
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Also, Kyousuke's mom is a bro. In a good way.
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After watching episode 3 my faith of this series was restored.
This episode is very well done and while the first 1/2 of this episode were completely original, it helps to set up the main event of this. It also made me to further stand by my statement that the opening scene in episode 2 should have use in later episodes such as this one instead wasting time in episode 2.
The conversation between Kirino and Kuroneko is great, and I love how Kirino plays the game while on the phone and Kirino was frustrated with 99%. Akiba scene is great as well and all of these really helps to set up that main event,
Kyosuke showed his manliness against his cop father. My favorite part is definitely the Bishojo game-like choice menu and the lines after. The whole scene make it like you're playing a visual novel game.
Overall I gave it a 9/10.
The point off been that I feel the content is a bit light overall and I feel a bit weird with the actual ending animation after getting used to the ending theme as the background music for the ending scene. But I have to say that I like the ending animation better than opening animation.
All shops in Asian cities are like that. Depart store and Malls will have pop music blasting. Anime/manga specialty store will have anime theme that can be heard form outside, videogame store with have game music or game demo out loud. Stores in cities are like a little community gathering and you hear people talk about their favorite brands and items all the time. You'll have to yell to talk to an employee, unless you're at a high-end mall. Even then, you'll still need to speak fairly loud to get a conversation going. That's just how a large, busy city is.
Simply put, unless there is a sign on the door saying the area needs quiet (and not many place other than high-end bar or cafe), you won't see a quiet spot in cities like Tokyo.
As for having the R18 stuff to begin with. Kyousuke is 2nd year high school and 17. while the law says 18 is the limit, any guys know that you can get those stuff somehow and most parents won't care and pretend not to they don't exist as long as you don't gfet caught openly and jack off too much....
I mean, how many people you know who never took a sip of beer or alcohol before their 21? and how many people you know waited to have sex until 18? and how many guys you know don't have porn somewhere in hiding? Don't tell me that your parent didn't knew you have sex, beer and porn, they just didn't want to get on you ass and want to give you a little bit of freedom. And they know that those stuff don't really have bad influence on you unless you go overboard. and most parent shift from preventing to educating because they know threw them away and forbid you from doing it won't solve anything.
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This episode was a really fast paced adaptation of chapter 4 of the first volume. They should have added more details like the inner thoughts of Kyousuke which give more drama in the novel. Anyway at least we got to see a picture of them when they were kids. The part where Kyousuke imagines the choice he has to pick was hilarious.
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Chris Brown Incorporating Dubstep Into 'Fortune' Album
Chris Brown is hard at work on his forthcoming album, 'Fortune,' and now the singer is dishing on what's in store, including finding inspiration in dubstep.
On Jan. 7, Breezy was taking time out of his busy schedule for a photo shoot for his 'F.A.M.E.' follow-up, and just one day later, he wrote: "LAST TWO WEEKS of me finishing FORTUNE! I'm excited for all the fans to hear my real music."
According to Just Jared, Brown also added, "Dub step records on my album sounding crazy!!!!" but the R&B star has since deleted the post. Perhaps he regretted revealing too much?
Over the past couple of months, the 22-year-old has released several songs — including 'Strip' and 'Mona Lisa,' along with collaborations like 'Another Round' with Fat Joe and 'International Love' with Pitbull.
Brown is set to release 'Fortune' this spring. Until then, the star will be working on his role in the upcoming breakdancing film 'Planet B-Boy.' If they're lucky, fans may be able to catch the singer at the Grammys. Not only is the star nominated for three awards this year, but he's also rumored to be a performer.


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[private]Duke fell to 1-4 in the ACC and 4-5 overall with a disappointing loss to neighboring rival N.C. State on Saturday afternoon. When it counted redshirt freshman quarterback Russell Wilson and the Pack executed while Duke couldn't do the same.
Well, actually Duke did execute between the twenties, but once again the red zone offense failed to take advantage of key opportunities. One was a bungled exchange from center to quarterback which caused the timing for a wide open touch down to be just a second off.
Then there was a running play where the back stopped moving his legs and driving. But it wasn't all on the offense. Time and time again, the Duke secondary got beat when the chips were on the table. In fact, they made the talented Wilson look even better. The frustrating thing for our coaches is that they were in position to make the plays, but either jumped too soon or had their back turned to the play.
In short, all that could go wrong did on this day. Duke went into the game expecting to win, but the Pack seemed to have an edge or sense of urgency early on and it took the Devils a few series to match the intensity. If you were to point to one play of the many which could have made the game closer, it would be the return of a kickoff for a touchdown after a field goal knotted the game at 3-3.
As disappointed as many fans were leaving the game as the fourth quarter started, Duke was a lot closer than it looked early on. In fact a look at the stats makes one realize that things just didn't click, for Duke rolled up 400 yards of offense and Thad Lewis was incredibly accurate.
Perhaps the most painful thing from a fans standpoint, was that N.C. State red was all over the place. IMO, Duke fans didn't turn out as I would have expected. I can't give the students a pass in this one for the stands were empty save the hard cores and band at games start.
Much has been made of late about student apathy in Cameron and on Saturday it carried over into Wade. For the first time this season, I visited the students party in the parking lot on the west side. It was quite the party, and they were second to none in their revelry. I thought to myself, if we have this crowd of wild ones in the stands in their various outfits, we'll be ready.
As game time came around, very few of the of the crazily Christmas outfitted under grads made it over. Some were obviously too toasted. While they in no way had a part in the loss, they did remind many how far we have to go to change the culture. On a day when we were playing a rival, the message seemed lost in the mail and too many were into the extra curricular activities to be bothered by supporting the team. I mean, I thought that is why they were partying, but I now know I am wrong.
That said, I hope the students realize how much the players need them there in the future. Heck, I need them there as a fan. I can't tell you how much they added to the James Madison game, but the reasoning for not showing up on Saturday obviously perplexes me. And it was not only at the game, but the Blue Devils Walk where I counted a grand total of 40 students throughout the quad.
Despite all of the disappointments, Cutcliffe still has the program on the right track. A big part of the puzzle will be recruiting success and the many who were there should see not only the direction the program is going in, but the opportunity to make a mark early.
Other than that, we need to continue to work on the culture collectively and despite the Thanksgiving break versus North Carolina, I hope the students who stay commit themselves to their classmates for the last home game. Duke needs your support and we all want you to help us with this pursuit of a true ACC Football atmosphere.[/private]


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Groundbreaking of Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy at Fort Hall
By LESLIE MIELKE
FORT HALL — The festivities to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy (CTEA) on Thursday included warriors, drums, speakers and a friendship dance.
Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy will be a language immersion public charter school for grades kindergarten through sixth grade. Chief Tahgee is designated as its own school district, No. 483.
Ninety students have already registered for school that opens Wednesday, Sept. 4. The total number of students who will be accepted at this school is 114.
Modules for the school are coming in about mid-July, said board chair Nancy Eschief Murillo. The school will be located north of the Sho-Ban Junior/Senior High School.
The ceremony started with two warriors coming from the east.
"Our warriors are protecting us," said Escheif Murillo. "Our language will help us carry on our culture and help carry forth the values that are so dear and valuable to us."
Keynote speaker Zelphia Towersap said, "In today's world, there is nothing but technology.
"I never talk about my family," she said. "I don't know how they will grow up or what they will do. There's drugs, alcohol, violence, gangs.
"That's not our way," said Towersap. "Kids need to learn Indian values.
"All we need are teachers who will be dedicated; Indians will be challenged," she said.
"I travel around the country and I know of very few Shoshone speakers and most of them are 50-plus years old, said CTEA kindergarten teacher Nancy Eschief Murillo. "We are preserving and salvaging our language.
"I have taught government for many years," she said. "The foundation of sovereignty are a unique language, a unique religion and a unique culture.
"if we lose our uniqueness, there is no reason to have a separate political entity," said Eschief Murillo. "We have to save our language."
Alexandria (Alex) Alvarez, CTEA vice president, said the board started the process for a charter in April 2010.
Alvarez listed the objectives of CTEA. These are:
° To provide a quality education for our youth.
° To give the community control and a voice and say about the education of their students.
° "We must protect our Shoshone, Bannock languages," she said.
"People have asked why we choose to become a charter school," Alvarez said.
"There is more freedom with the curriculum," she said. "We have greater accountability.
"We will accomplish the A, B, Cs that stands for Academic excellence, Bi-lingualism and Cultural Enrichments by using the power of two," said Alvarez.
The school was named for Chief Tahgee who was a Bannock leader from 1863-1871.
"He was known as a peacekeeper who kept agreements," said Velda Racehorse. CTEA board member. "He wanted a large reservation for all his people so they could go to and from buffalo country.
"In 1867, a 1.8 million acre reservation was established by executive order," she said.
"This school will reverse the damage done by the U.S. through the 1930s, 40s and 50s," said Fort Hall Business Council Chairman Nathan Small. "The school will be teaching language and cultural traditions of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes.
The Fort Hall Business Council named May 30, 2013, as Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy Day.
"In a hundred years, this date will still be celebrated," said Small.


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Using Java to Clean Up Your Bookmark Library
Java Programming Notes # 2410
- Preface
- General Background Information
- Program Preview
- Discussion and Sample Code
- Run the Program
- Summary
- Complete Program Listing
Many of us who have been using browsers on the web for many years have accumulated vast bookmark libraries containing many broken bookmarks. In my own case, before I embarked on my bookmark cleanup campaign, I had accumulated more than 5,200 bookmarks, many of which had probably been broken for years.
In this lesson, I will show you how to write a program that will identify potentially broken bookmarks so that you can either delete them from your library or repair them. The program works for Firefox and Netscape bookmark libraries as well as Internet Explorer Favorites libraries.
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
A Firefox bookmark library
Firefox and Netscape use the same technique for creating and maintaining a bookmark library. In particular, by default, the bookmarks are stored in a file named bookmarks.html that you will find somewhere on your hard disk in an area that is dedicated to the browser.
(Internet Explorer, on the other hand, uses a completely different approach to creating and maintaining its library of Favorites. This program is compatible with the approaches used by all three programs.)
Path to the Firefox bookmark file
For example, here is the path to the Firefox bookmark file on my computer running under Windows XP:
C:Documents and SettingsOwnerApplication
Note that by default everything in and beyond the folder named Application Data is hidden. You must select "Show hidden files and folders" under Folder Options in order to be able to see the bookmark file. Depending on your operating system, your bookmark file may or may not be similarly located on your hard disk.
Also note that the folder named athy94h2.default appears to be a random folder name that is established when you install Firefox.
A browser view of a Firefox bookmark file
Figure 1 shows a cropped rectangular section of the Firefox browser window when it has been loaded with its own bookmark file named bookmarks.html.
Figure 1
The Firefox Bookmarks Manager view
Figure 2 shows a screen shot of the Firefox Bookmarks Manager screen, adjusted so as to view the same set of bookmarks shown in Figure 1. You should be able to correlate the material in the upper portion of the left pane and all of the material in the right pane in Figure 2 with the material in Figure 1. As you can see, the general structure of the browser view and the Bookmarks Manager view of the file named bookmarks.html are very similar. As you will learn later, this is a very fortunate circumstance.
Figure 2
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 and Netscape. 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 Favorite item (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 the name of the Internet Shortcut file.
The URL for the bookmark along with some other information is stored in the Internet Shortcut file.
Bookmark library structure
Folders in the IE Favorites library are created by creating ordinary Windows folders as children, grandchildren, etc., of the folder named Favorites.
The Windows Explorer view
I'm going to show you three views of the IE Favorites, which unfortunately bear little resemblance to one another. Figure 3 shows a screen shot of an ordinary Windows Explorer window in which the files have been sorted according to the Name by clicking the sorting bar at the top.
Figure 3
With the exception of the file named aacmd.bat, each of the files in Figure 3 represents an item in the Favorites library (a bookmark). There are, in addition, other bookmarks in the folders named Adobe Studio, HP Recommended Sites, Links, and Media. The order of the files and the folders in the view shown in Figure 3 depends on which of the sorting bars at the top has most recently been clicked.
Connecting to a server via an Internet Shortcut file
Double-clicking one of the Internet Shortcut files shown in Figure 3 will cause the default browser to attempt to connect to the server whose URL is contained in the Internet Shortcut file.
The IE Favorites view
The view shown in Figure 4 is the view taken from inside the IE browser after having clicked the button with the large gold star near the top.
Figure 4
The order is controlled by the user
As you can see, the order of the items in Figure 4 doesn't match the order of the items in Figure 3. In fact, the user can change the order of the items in Figure 4 by selecting an item and dragging it up or down to a new location. The user can also change the order of the items by clicking the button labeled Organize and making use of tools that are found there (see Figure 12). Note, however, that neither of these approaches to rearranging the items in this view has any effect on the order of the actual files in the folder.
This ability to rearrange the items is very useful from the viewpoint of making the Favorites library useful, but as you will see later makes it more difficult to clean up the library by deleting or repairing broken links.
The view with the most natural order
The view that shows the Favorites items in the most natural order is the view shown in Figure 5. This view is the result of opening a command window and executing a DIR command in the Favorites folder.
In Figure 5, you can see the names of the individual files having an extension of url. These are the Internet Shortcut files. The names of these files match the names of the Favorites items that appear in the view shown in Figure 4.
Figure 5
Will use this order
The order of the Internet Shortcut files shown in Figure 5 matches the processing order of the program that I will explain later. The program processes the Favorites directory listing recursively. Thus in the case shown in Figure 5, the program begins by processing the following three files having the url extension in the order shown:
- .NET Development.url
- .NET Framework Home Page.url
- ACC WebMail Login,baldwin,ACC Email Pwd...
Then the program makes a recursive call and process all of the files in the directory named Adobe Studio.
Once all the files in directory named Adobe Studio have been processed (along with the files in its sub-directories, if any), the program returns to the level shown in Figure 5 and processes the file named Antivirus daily download.url. It will continue processing files in the order shown until it encounters the directory named HP Recommended Sites. At that point, it makes a recursive call to process the files in that directory and its sub-directories.
IE Favorites can be difficult to locate
What you will see later is that even when you have identified a Favorites item with a broken link, it can be difficult to locate it in the IE Favorites view shown in Figure 4 in order to delete or repair the item. As near as I have been able to determine, that view does not provide a mechanism by which you can search for a specified item (but perhaps I overlooked that capability).
Let me see the headers ...
Generally, this program operates by attempting to contact the server specified in the URL for each bookmark and asking that server to send back the response header lines for the resource specified by the URL.
(The program requests that the server send only the response header lines and not the entire resource in order to preserve bandwidth and improve speed.)
HTTP requests
According to Wikipedia, whenever an HTTP client contacts an HTTP server, it can send one of the requests shown in Figure 6.
HTTP request methods
HTTP servers are supposed to implement at least GET and HEAD methods
and, whenever possible, also OPTIONS method.
Figure 6
Response header lines
When this program contacts a server, it sends a HEAD request using the HTTP 1.1 protocol, requesting that only the response header lines be returned.
(You can view request and response headers for any URL at http://web-sniffer.net/.)
For example, the entry of HTTP://WWW.DICKBALDWIN.COM/ABC into the web sniffer page shown above produced the output shown in Figure 7.
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:56:02 GMT Server: Apache Content-Length: 320 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Figure 7
Ignore all but the status line
This program ignores all but the first response header line, taking the content of that line as an indication of the quality of the bookmark.
According to HTTP Made Really Easy, the initial response line, often called the status line, has three parts separated by spaces:
- The HTTP version
- A response status code that gives the result of the request
- An English reason phrase describing the status code
Typical HTTP 1.1 status lines
Typical HTTP 1.1 status lines from different servers are shown in Figure 8.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily HTTP/1.1 302 Found HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required HTTP/1.1 403 Access Forbidden HTTP/1.1 403 Invalid method HTTP/1.1 404 Not found HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed HTTP/1.1 405 HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error HTTP/1.1 501 Method Not Implemented HTTP/1.1 501 Method Not Supported
Figure 8
As you can see in Figure 8, the reason phrase for the same response status code varies from one server to another.
The status code
Also according to HTTP Made Really Easy,
- The status code is meant to be computer-readable; the reason phrase is meant to be human-readable, and may vary.
- The status code is a three-digit integer, and the first digit identifies
the general category of response:
- 1xx indicates an informational message only
- 2xx indicates success of some kind
- 3xx redirects the client to another URL
- 4xx indicates an error on the client's part
- 5xx indicates an error on the server's part
Program output
This program processes a specified bookmark library (Firefox, Netscape, or IE) and produces seven separate reports that indicate the quality of each bookmark in the library.
(For cases where the bookmark library is large, the user is allowed to specify a subset of bookmarks to process based on the positional indices of the bookmarks in the library.)
Six of the seven reports contain the status line plus additional information about the bookmarks. The reports are written into text files named 000.txt through 600.txt.
Why do we need seven different reports?
The file named 000.txt contains information about every bookmark in the subset of bookmarks being processed.
In addition, the bookmarks are partitioned into five categories based on the first character in the status code. The files named 100.txt through 500.txt contain information about bookmarks where the first character in the status code matches the first character in the file name.
(For example, only those bookmarks that produced a response status code beginning with the character 4, indicating an error on the client's part, are contained in the file named 400.txt. Furthermore, those bookmarks are not contained in any other report other than 000.txt, which contains all bookmarks.)
A report on exceptions
The file named 600.txt contains information about bookmarks for which the program was unable to successfully communicate with the specified server. Figure 9 shows some typical examples in this category.
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable: connect
Figure 9
Most important results for cleanup effort
Referring back to the meaning of the different status codes, it is apparent that the contents of the files named 400.txt, 500.txt, and 600.txt are the most important with regard to the task of identifying and either deleting or repairing broken bookmarks.
Sample output
Figure 10 shows an example of the type of output that is provided for the bookmarks in the files from 000.txt through 500.txt.
57 Portfolio Rules www2.austin.cc.tx.us./ftfac/PPportfolio.htm HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Figure 10
The position, name, and URL
The number at the beginning shows the position of the bookmark in the library, beginning with an index value of 0. This number is followed by the bookmark name on the same line. Then, the URL for the bookmark follows the bookmark name on the same line separated by a space.
(Note that in Figure 10, it was necessary to move the URL from the first line to the second line to cause the material to fit in this narrow publication format.)
The status line
The last (second) line of output for each bookmark is the status line from the response header. This is the information that is used to categorize the bookmarks and to place the information for each bookmark in the files with names ranging from 100.txt through 500.txt.
The exception output format
The format of the information in the file named 600.txt is somewhat different from the other six files. Figure 11 shows a typical entry in this file.
1048 WebTk Download Page redsonja.sunlabs.com/research/tcl/ java.net.UnknownHostException: redsonja.sunlabs.com
Figure 11
The number at the beginning shows the index of the bookmark in the bookmark library. This is followed on the same line by the bookmark name.
The second line in Figure 11 shows the URL for the bookmark.
The bookmarks in this file are those for which an exception was thrown when the program attempted to connect to the server and to request a resource. The third line shows the error message encapsulated in the exception object. In the case of Figure 11, for example, the exception occurred when the program contacted the Domain Name Server in an attempt to resolve the IP address for the server named redsonja.sunlabs.com.
Using the information in the reports
Before getting into the program code, I want to make a few comments about how you can use the information contained in the various reports to clean up your bookmark library.
Not a silver bullet
To begin with, this program is not a silver bullet that resolves all of your bookmark library problems when you run it. Rather, while this program is extremely useful in helping you to identify broken bookmarks, it is still up to you to either delete those bookmarks from your bookmark library, or to repair them.
As mentioned earlier, for the purpose of cleaning up your bookmark library, the information contained in the files named 400.txt, 500.txt, and 600.txt is probably the most important. These are the files that contain information about bookmarks that are potentially broken. In addition, the file named 000.txt contains information about all of the bookmarks in the order that they appear in the bookmark library. This information is sometimes useful for reference purposes.
Firefox bookmark problems are the easiest to deal with
As I mentioned earlier, it is easier to deal with the problems in the Firefox and Netscape bookmark libraries than it is to deal with problems in the IE Favorites library. Therefore, I will begin my discussion with Firefox. Since Netscape uses the same approach to creating and maintaining the bookmark library, these comments apply also to Netscape.
I recommend that you begin your cleanup effort with the file named 600.txt. After you deal with all the bookmarks for which you are unable to connect to the server, you can process the information in the file named 400.txt. After that, you can finish up with the file named 500.txt.
However, if you prefer a different order, you can process the files in any order that suits your needs.
Three windows on your screen
Regardless of the order in which you process the files, my recommendation is that you open three windows on your screen.
The bookmarks in browser view
The first window that you should open provides a browser view of the bookmark file named bookmarks.html. Locate this file on your disk and copy it into another folder. Then open the copy in your favorite browser producing a screen output similar to that shown in Figure 1.
When your library contains hundreds and possibly thousands of bookmarks, it can be very difficult to locate an individual bookmark in the library. This view of the bookmarks is very useful in helping you to locate a bookmark that has been identified by the program as potentially broken. You can use the search feature of the browser to search and find a bookmark with a given name in this view.
The bookmarks are hyperlinks
Also note that the bookmarks are hyperlinks in this view. All that is needed to manually test the quality of a bookmark is to click on the hyperlink with your mouse. That will cause the browser to attempt to connect to the server and to download the requested resource.
The bookmarks in Bookmarks Manager view
The second window that you should open on your screen is the Firefox Bookmarks Manager, producing a screen output similar to that shown in Figure 2. This is the view that you should use to either delete or to repair bookmarks.
(While it is possible to edit the Firefox bookmark file directly, that is a bad idea unless you are very skilled at editing HTML. It is probably also a bad idea to modify that file while Firefox is running even if you are skilled at editing HTML.)
Deleting a bookmark
You can delete a bookmark in the Bookmarks Manager view by highlighting the bookmark in this view and clicking the large red X in the top of the window (not shown in the cropped image in Figure 2).
Repairing a bookmark
You can repair a bookmark in this view by right-clicking a bookmark and selecting Properties. This will produce a dialog in which you can edit the URL, changing it from a broken URL to a good URL.
Locating a specific bookmark
Recall that the order of the bookmarks in the browser view of Figure 1 is the same as the order of the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Manager view of Figure 2. Once you get used to the formats involved, there is a strong visual correlation between the formats of Figure 1 and Figure 2. Thus, once you have used the search feature of the browser to locate a bookmark in the browser view of Figure 1, it is usually an easy task to manually locate that bookmark in the Bookmarks Manager view of Figure 2.
(The Bookmarks Manager also has very respectable search capability. However, once you have searched for and found a bookmark in the search view of the bookmark manager, you have access to the bookmark (or more probably a copy of the bookmark) itself, but you can neither delete nor repair the bookmark in the search view. Author's update: While that was true in the version of Firefox being used by the author when this lesson was originally written, with version 1.5, a bookmark that has been located in the search view can be deleted or can be repaired by accessing its properties. Further, the result of a search doesn't provide any information about the actual location of the bookmark in the library. Therefore, if the number of bookmarks in the library is large, something like the browser view of Figure 1 is needed to locate bookmarks in the Bookmarks Manager view.)
The broken bookmarks window
Depending on which type of problem you are addressing, the third window that you should open is one of the text files produced by the program. If you open the files named 400.txt or 500.txt in a text editor, you should see something similar to Figure 10. If you open the file named 600.txt in a text editor, you should see something similar to Figure 11.
Potentially broken bookmarks
Regardless of which type of problem you are addressing, each text file contains information about potentially broken bookmarks.
The order of the bookmarks in the text file is the same as the order of the bookmarks in the browser view of Figure 1 and the order of the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Manager view of Figure 2. Thus, you can easily start at the top of the broken-bookmarks list and work your way down, or start at the bottom and work your way up.
The basic approach
The basic approach is to copy a bookmark name from the broken-bookmarks window, paste it into the search field of the browser view, and search for the bookmark. Then scroll the Bookmarks Manager view to the same bookmark and either delete or repair it.
Since it is possible to have two or more bookmarks with the same name in the library, once you locate the bookmark in the browser view, you should compare its URL with the URL shown in the broken-bookmarks window to confirm that you have located the correct bookmark.
(In Firefox, if you point to a bookmark in the browser view, the URL for that hyperlink appears at the bottom of the browser window.)
Dealing with exceptions
My recommendation for dealing with exceptions is that you manually test each bookmark for which the program threw an exception when the attempt was made to connect to the server. (The server may simply have been down for maintenance when the program was run.) All that is necessary to manually test the bookmark in browser view is to click on the hyperlink identifying that bookmark.
If the manual test with the browser view indicates that a problem still exists, scroll the Bookmarks Manager view to locate the same bookmark in that view. Then either delete or repair the bookmark.
Dealing with 400-series errors
As shown in Figure 8, there are several different kinds of errors that you are likely to encounter in the 400-series. You will need to interpret the meaning of the different kinds of errors to determine what to do about them.
My experience is that the occurrence of a 404 error, (indicating that the requested resource could not be found), is usually pretty reliable. After manually testing a number of errors of this type in the browser view, I concluded that unless the bookmark is one that I considered to be very important, it was not worth the effort to manually test them. After that, whenever I encountered a 404 error, I simply scrolled the Bookmarks Manager view to that same bookmark and deleted it.
However, the true meaning of the other errors in the 400 series seems to be less definitive. For those cases, I manually tested each bookmark before deleting it from the bookmark library.
Dealing with 500-series errors
For the most part, I found the exact meaning of the 500-series errors to be very unreliable. For the most part, I manually tested all 500-series errors in the browser view before deleting them.
Dealing with IE Favorites
I wish that I could give you similarly helpful suggestions as to how to deal with IE Favorites that show up in the reports as being potentially broken. Unfortunately, I don't have quite as much to offer in this regard.
(Although Microsoft doesn't refer to their Favorites as bookmarks, for simplicity of writing, I will often refer to them as bookmarks in this lesson.)
Finding a specific IE bookmark
As near as I can determine, the only way to find a specific bookmark in the IE bookmark view shown in Figure 4 is to search for it visually and manually.
(The IE bookmark view shown in Figure 4 is exposed by clicking on the button with the large gold star and the word Favorites at the top of an IE browser window.)
Apparently no search capability is available
If the IE bookmark view provides any way to automatically search for a specific bookmark, I have been unable to find it.
(I confess, however, that I rarely use IE and therefore may have overlooked a search capability.)
Deleting a problem bookmark
Therefore, after you run the program and identify bookmarks that are potentially broken in your IE bookmarks library, you may need to manually and visually search the bookmarks view to locate those bookmarks if you want to delete them.
(I will show you another possible but somewhat questionable way to delete IE bookmarks later in this lesson.)
The IE Favorites organizer view
You can delete bookmarks from the IE Favorites library shown in Figure 4 by clicking the Organize link shown at the top of Figure 4 in order to produce the organizer view shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12
You can select a bookmark in the organizer view and click the Delete button to delete it from the Favorites library.
Repairing an IE bookmark
Having located a bookmark in either the IE Favorites view shown in Figure 4 or the organizer view shown in Figure 12, you can right-click on that bookmark and select Properties to expose a dialog that you can use to repair the bookmark.
However, if you just want to repair an IE bookmark, it may be easier to use the standard Windows Search tool shown in Figure 13 to find the Internet Shortcut file that represents the bookmark of interest.
Figure 13
If you are an IE user, you are probably already aware that you activate this search tool by clicking the button with the picture of the magnifying glass and the word Search at the top of a standard Windows XP Explorer window.
Searching for Internet Shortcut files
To search for a specific Internet Shortcut file representing an IE bookmark, open an Explorer window on the Favorites folder, which will probably have a path similar to the following:
C:Documents and SettingsOwnerFavorites
Then open the search tool and enter the name of the file, (which is also the name of the bookmark), in the search dialog that appears in the left pane of Figure 13. Click the Search button. If the file exists in the Favorites folder or one of its sub-folders, a link to the file will appear in the right pane of Figure 13 when the search is complete.
Double-click to test the bookmark
At this point, you can double-click the link in the right pane to manually test the bookmark that the file represents if such a test is needed. You can also right-click the link and select Properties to expose a dialog that will allow you to edit the URL in order to repair it.
Deleting the file to delete the bookmark
You could also delete the file showing in the right pane of Figure 13 to delete the bookmark. However, I'm not absolutely certain that is a safe thing to do. Because Windows has the ability to maintain the order of the bookmarks in the IE bookmarks view (Figure 4), according to the arrangement that you create by dragging the bookmarks up and down, the Internet Shortcut files don't exist in a vacuum. There is some linkage (possibly an index file) between the existence of the Internet Shortcut files and IE. It is possible that deleting those files outside of IE could cause a problem with IE's ability to manage the bookmarks represented by those files.
(However, I frequently drag shortcuts onto the Links toolbar and delete shortcuts from the Links toolbar with no apparent ill effects. The Links toolbar is apparently just another view of the Links folder shown in Figure 4. On the basis of that experience, I suspect that it is probably safe to delete an Internet Shortcut file in order to delete an IE bookmark. However, you might want to be a little cautious in this regard. For example, it might be a good idea to make certain that IE isn't running when you delete the files.)
Program Preview
This section provides a preview of the program named Bookmarks10.
The purpose of this program is to help you to clean up your bookmark library by identifying potentially broken bookmarks. The program is compatible with bookmark libraries for the following browsers:
- Firefox
- Netscape
- Internet Explorer
Processes HTTP bookmarks only
This program does not attempt to connect to secure web sites using the HTTPS protocol. Also, it does not support FTP and protocols other than HTTP. If the bookmark library contains bookmarks that specify a protocol other than HTTP, those bookmarks are simply ignored.
The program attempts to connect to the server using the HTTP 1.1 protocol and to retrieve the response headers from the server for each bookmark within a specified range of bookmarks in the bookmark library.
The program uses the first line in the response header to categorize the response into one of five categories as described at http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/.
According to the source given above, the initial response line, often called the status line, has three parts separated by spaces:
- The HTTP version
- A response status code that gives the result of the request
- An English reason phrase describing the status code.
The HTTP version is in the format "HTTP/x.x".
The status code is meant to be computer-readable.
The reason phrase is meant to be human-readable, and may vary.
Format and meaning of the status code
The status code is a three-digit integer, and the first digit identifies the general category of response:
- 1xx indicates an informational message only
- 2xx indicates success of some kind
- 3xx redirects the client to another URL
- 4xx indicates an error on the client's part
- 5xx indicates an error on the server's part
Some typical status lines follow:
- HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
- HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
- HTTP/1.1 302 Found
- HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
- HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
- HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
- HTTP/1.1 403 Access Forbidden
- HTTP/1.1 403 Invalid method
- HTTP/1.1 404 Not found
- HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found
- HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
- HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
- HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
- HTTP/1.1 501 Method Not Implemented
- HTTP/1.1 501 Method Not Supported
Note that the reason phrase does vary from one web server to another. Also note that I haven't seen any status lines that show a status code in the 1xx range.
Program output
The first header response line along with additional information about each bookmark within the specified range is stored in a set of output text files named 100.txt through 500.txt. The user can examine the information provided in those text files to determine the quality of each bookmark.
For those bookmarks that appear to be broken on the basis of the web server response, the user can either delete the bookmark from the library, or attempt to repair it.
The program produces two more output files in addition to the five output files described above. A file named 000.txt contains information about every bookmark within the range of specified bookmarks. A file named 600.txt contains information about each bookmark for which the program threw an exception when trying to connect to the server. Some sample exceptions follow:
- java.net.UnknownHostException: www.BadBookmark.com
- java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
- java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable: connect
Program input
The following five values must be provided as command-line parameters. All command-line parameters are provided as strings, but must be convertible to the types shown below.
- String bkMrkPath: Path to the folder containing a Firefox bookmark file or containing a multitude of IE url files.
- String bkMrkFile: Name of the Firefox bookmark file. Use a dummy name for this parameter when processing IE favorites.
- int lowBkMrkLimit: Index of first bookmark to process. Indices begin with 0 for the first bookmark.
- int numToProc: Number of bookmarks to process.
- String browser: Type of browser: F for Firefox, N for Netscape, or I for Internet Explorer.
Figure 14 shows the contents of a typical batch file used to process 200 bookmarks beginning with bookmark index 100 in an IE Favorites library.
java Bookmarks10 "C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Favorites/" DummyFileName 100 200 I
Figure 14
Note that it was necessary to display each of the command-line parameters on a different line in Figure 14 to force this material to fit in this narrow publication format.
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.
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That's big news because the F series is Ford's biggest selling vehicle by far, and MyFord Touch has been the company's biggest headache.
Ford's truck customers will get something that customers of other MyFord Touch vehicles don't get: four real climate control and radio knobs, and numerous audio preset and climate buttons. Those will serve as an alternative to the touch screen and Sync voice commands that MyFord Touch offers.
The lack of such knobs and buttons on other MyFord Touch-equipped vehicles has been one big consumer complaint about the controversial system. MyFord Touch has hurt Ford in consumer surveys such as those by Consumer Reports and J.D. Power.
MyFord Touch will come as a standard feature on the upper-range Super Duty series models including the Lariat, King Ranch and the newly announced top-of-the-line Platinum series.
Glove concession
Ford says it is offering the large knobs and buttons because truck customers are often wearing work gloves and the knobs make the controls easier to use. What Ford didn't say is that many customers who buy Ford cars, SUVs and crossovers and who do not wear work gloves while operating their vehicles also would like knobs and buttons.
Asked if Ford was considering offering the knobs and buttons on other MyFord Touch-equipped vehicles, Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president of U.S. marketing, sales and service, said: "This time it's only with Super Duty."
The 2013 F-150, also debuting later this year, will get MyFord Touch as an option.
The new Super Duty trucks will feature the latest version of the MyFord Touch system, which features a host of improvements over the much-complained-about first generation. Those improvements include larger fonts, less cluttered screens and quicker response times.
Ford did not reveal prices for the 2013 Super Duty. Brian Rathsburg, F-series marketing manager, said the Super Duty models account for about 30 percent of F-series sales.
Platinum pickups
With the Platinum series, Ford takes a step up in the luxury pickup wars. Platinum customers will get heated and cooled seats -– with 10 separate settings -- and a wood-and-leather heated steering wheel.
Truck customers tend to be loyal. Their loyalty helped return Ford to profitability after the dark days of 2009. By offering them a choice of real knobs, a touch screen and voice commands on its pickup trucks, Ford has shown that it isn't willing to put that loyalty at risk.


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AutoQA - add support for detecting false positives
|python, searching best solutions, working with big data-sets
|Generally this task would be about going through all the false positives AutoQA reported and figuring a method how not to run into the issue again and how to detect, if something changes. AutoQA needs to filter out this issues and not report them.
Take a look at these issues (for example):
- https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-results/2010-April/013933.html
- add some black/white-list
- "explicit-lib-dependency liberation-mono-fonts" thinks that liberation-mono-fonts is a library, but it is IMO OK to depend on the specific font
- https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-results/2010-April/013903.html
- see the "libgnome" issue - somebody could add names of all packages and their's files into the dictionary
- problem "doc-file-dependency /usr/share/doc/gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.28.1/async-xfer.py /usr/bin/env" could be reported directly as a bug. Could some Python-guy confirm that "/usr/bin/env python" was obsoleted by "/usr/bin/python"?
- https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-results/2010-April/013908.html
- migth ignore conflicts like this - like if I have conflicting basepackage-subpackage1-ver1 and basepackage-subpackage2-ver2 - I can determine, that the conflict is only theoretical, because if I have updated system, there will be only one of the packages.
- https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-results/2010-April/013919.html
- I do not know exactly what is the purpose of the test as the conflicts are valid properties of the rpm. On the other hand, file
conflicts are bad. But take a look at the items found. It looks like there are just files moved from one sub-package to the
another, like this (check different versions):
libmlx4-devel-1.0-4.fc12.x86_64 libmlx4-static-1.0.1-5.fc12.x86_64 /usr/lib64/libmlx4.a or sub-package were renamed:
openscada-Special-FLibSYS-0.6.4.1-9.fc12.x86_64 openscada-Special-FlibSys-0.6.4-4.fc12.x86_64 /usr/lib64/openscada/spec_FLibSYS.so
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Double Lemon Tart
8 comments :
- That Girl said...
I feel like anyone who wants to cook, can. I think some people may not want to cook - and that's okay too!
- April 13, 2012 at 8:18 AM
I've never made a tart before but I think I might have to make this my maiden tart voyage! :)
Thank you for sharing.
- April 13, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- Lexie said...
Ladies and gentlemen, this dessert was amazing!. Not only was it a beautiful presentation, it was so delicious. The tartness or the lemon curd matched with the sweetness of the cheesecake layer was fabulous. The crust was buttery and light. It's the perfect end to a wonderful meal.
- April 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Bridget said...
I think Dorie Greenspan has it right when she says it's best to just pat tart dough into the pan. It's just too soft to roll!
- April 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM
- Ryan said...
Ahh I'm bad with crusts, but this looks sooo amazing!
- April 13, 2012 at 7:49 PM
- Nicole said...
What a beautiful tart! I don't always feel comfortable with cooking things (I'm a baker) but I try to always be trying new things and I get better because of it.
Good job!
- April 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM
- Natalie said...
what a perfect Spring dessert! bookmarked!
- April 16, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Jessica said...
I adore this photo and the tart sounds fantastic!
- April 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM