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French-born conditioner Christophe Clement, an acknowledged master handler of turf-favoring Thoroughbreds, has won the last two renewals of Arlington's Grade I Beverly D. Stakes but somewhat surprisingly has never saddled a winner of the Grade I Arlington Million.
However, that possible gap in Clement's impressive résumé could be rectified less than two months from now, prefaced last weekend by the dramatic last-to-first score of Castleton Lyons Farm's Gio Ponti in the Grade I Manhattan Handicap on Belmont Stakes Day in New York.
Gio Ponti, an original nominee to the upcoming Million, had already established impressive credentials prior to taking last Saturday's 10-furlong Manhattan Handicap on the turf. In his previous outing March 7, he took down winning honors in Santa Anita's Grade I Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap on the California grass. Last summer, while still a sophomore, the Kentucky-bred captured Colonial Downs' Grade II Virginia Derby at the Arlington Million distance of 1 1/4-miles over the Mid-Atlantic grass, and earlier in the 2008 season he won New York's Grade III Hill Prince Stakes on turf.
Arlington Million XXVII – signature event of the 2009 Chicago Thoroughbred racing season – will go to the post late in the afternoon Aug. 8, preceded by the 20th anniversary edition of the Beverly D. and followed by the 33rd running of the Grade I Secretariat Stakes.
Together, the only three Grade I races contested in Illinois on an annual basis make up Arlington's one-day International Festival of Racing, and this summer's Arlington Million gets added international prestige because the winner will receive an automatic invitation to the Group I Japan Cup when it is run in Tokyo later in the year.
Not long after Gio Ponti won last weekend's Manhattan, Juddmonte Farms' Midships, also an original nominee to the upcoming Arlington Million, came from just off the pace to win California's Grade I Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap at 10 furlongs over the Hollywood Park lawn. Previously, Midships captured Santa Anita's Grade II San Juan Capistrano Handicap April 18 as well as that oval's Grade II San Luis Rey Handicap March 21.
Midships is conditioned by Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, who guided Juddmonte's Chester House to victory in the 2000 Arlington Million and won it a second time with that same owner's Beat Hollow in 2002.
Locally last weekend, Chrysalis Stables' Silverfoot, still another original nominee to the 2009 Arlington Million, was up to be best by a neck in Arlington's $54,100 The Tin Man Stakes. Silverfoot finished fourth in last summer's Million.
Incidentally, Midnight Cry Stable's Einstein, sixth in the 2008 Million, became the only two-time winner of Churchill's Grade I Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on Kentucky Derby Day this spring and is an expected starter in this Saturday's Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap under the Twin Spires in an alternate main track step toward this summer's Million.
However, last weekend in Louisville, significant developments on the road to this summer's Grade I Beverly D. occurred when original nominations to the upcoming sister race to the Arlington Million finished first, second and third in the Grade III Early Times Mint Julep Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 1/16-miles on the grass.
Helen Alexander and Helen Groves' Acoma, third in Oaklawn's Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap on the main track in her previous start April 4, returned to her winning ways over the Louisville lawn by posting a neck tally in Saturday's Mint Julep after taking the Grade II Mrs. Revere Stakes there last November.
Lewis Lakin's Pure Clan, a 2009 Beverly D. nominee and winner of Hollywood's grassy Grade I American Oaks Invitational in 2008, was runner-up in this year's Mint Julep, 4 3/4-lengths in front of the Arlington-based Tizaqueena, trained by Mike Stidham. That Darley Stable color bearer had won her previous four starts, including Churchill's Grade II Distaff Turf Mile on Kentucky Derby Day and Fair Grounds' $60,000 Fortin Handicap March 21.
In New York's Grade I Just a Game Stakes for fillies and mares at one mile on the grass, the eight-furlong favoring Diamondrella, owned by Castletop Stable but not an original Beverly D. nominee, was the clear victress at that shorter distance. However, Just a Game runner-up Forever Together, heroine of the Grade I Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf last fall and Arlington's $53,600 Reluctant Guest last spring, is one of 68 fillies and mares nominated to the 2009 Beverly D.
Arlington Park – the Chicago area's premier Thoroughbred racetrack located in Arlington Heights, Ill. – will run a 98-day meet in 2009 from Friday, May 1 through Sunday, Sept. 27. Arlington Park, whose parent company is Churchill Downs Incorporated (Nasdaq: CHDN), also operates 10 off-track, simulcast-wagering facilities: Trackside Arlington Park (Arlington Heights), Trackside Chicago, Trackside Quad City Downs (East Moline), Trackside Rockford, Trackside Waukegan, Fat Sam's Bar & Grill featuring Trackside OTB in Lockport, Lucky's featuring Trackside OTB in South Elgin, Nicolino's featuring Trackside OTB in McHenry, Tad's Sports Bar & Grill featuring Trackside OTB in South Beloit and Salerno-Pincente Ristorante featuring Trackside OTB in Hodgkins. Information on Arlington Park can be found online at www.arlingtonpark.com.
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I've resisted even looking at MT because of what they did with the licensing.
My content makes money, not my impressive coding. The whole reason I want a CMS so I can concentrate solely on writing (which is what I love to do).
Moveabletype is what I want, simple, functional, stable, static. But I have FAR to many articles to not have unlimited categories.
The way it stands now I'm gonna have to learn php so I can hack and slash Mambo into something like I want, and I am not looking forward to it.
Subcategories: A new category management interface gives you fine-grained control over the organization and display of your posts. You can even easily move a subcategory from one parent category to another.
This release of Movable Type is currently scheduled for release on August 31.
Those could be good, but I need unlimited subcategories, and it doesnt go into detail about if you can have sub-sub-sub categories and such.
If I want to write a new page, identical to another page I already have, I save the old page under a new file name, find&replace any menu items that need to reflect the page being in a different section, delete the copy from the old page and write the copy for the new page.
How exactly does a CMS make that quicker?
When to hand make all your pages (even templated pages) you run into problems of organization and interlinking after a while.
The entire MAIN section of the site has been made by hand (and MT for the blogs). You can see that it is a complete mess because as they added new documents, sections, categories, domains, sites, etc.. they have to go back into their old documents and redo them with the new changes (whether to the main menu, or related items, and such)
CMS also allows for faster publishing. I can open up my site admin, type in my content and press "ok". No need to manually update the homepage with my new document, or add something to the main menu, or anything... Click and POOF it is up.
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 3:17 pm (utc) on Aug. 26, 2004]
Works great for static pages, other than crashing here and there.
As for the complaint that you have to be a programmer- well, these are probably not going to help you folks much. But really, why not just hire a programmer when you need a programming task? A CMS is no trivial piece of software and until that segment matures, it's going to take tweaking.

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Flaming Cranberries A La Mode
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|Finely grated orange peel
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|Orange juice
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In wok combine honey, orange peel, orange juice, and sugar; stir in cranberries.
Boil gently about 5 minutes or till skins pop and mixture is slightly thickened.
In small saucepan or large ladle, heat brandy over low heat till just warm.
Ignite; pour over berry mixture.
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Calories 1253 Calories from Fat 125
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Total Fat 14 g21.4%
Saturated Fat 8.2 g41.1%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 52.8 mg17.6%
Sodium 110 mg4.6%
Total Carbohydrates 257 g85.5%
Dietary Fiber 17.1 g68.4%
Sugars 222.6 g
Protein 7 g13.8%
Vitamin A 19.4% Vitamin C 190.3%
Calcium 21.1% Iron 10.3%
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eip = 0x01735e82 esp = 0xbf9bc5b0 ebp = 0xbf9bc5c8 ebx = 0x03282054
esi = 0xbf9bc61c edi = 0x00000000
Found by: call frame info
3 libxul.so!nsThread::ProcessNextEvent [nsThread.cpp : 618 + 0x16]
eip = 0x0245a965 esp = 0xbf9bc5d0 ebp = 0xbf9bc658 ebx = 0x03282054
esi = 0xbf9bc61c edi = 0x00000000
Found by: call frame info
4 libxul.so!NS_ProcessNextEvent_P [nsThreadUtils.cpp : 250 + 0x1f]
eip = 0x023ebabd esp = 0xbf9bc660 ebp = 0xbf9bc698 ebx = 0x03282054
esi = 0x00000001 edi = 0x0a00e018
Found by: call frame info
5 libxul.so!mozilla::ipc::MessagePump::Run [MessagePump.cpp : 110 + 0x15]
eip = 0x022ca908 esp = 0xbf9bc6a0 ebp = 0xbf9bc6e8 ebx = 0x03282054
esi = 0x00000001 edi = 0x0a00e018
Found by: call frame info
Created attachment 535859 [details]
crash report xp
damn, I didn't notice the address at first.
Operating system: Windows NT
5.1.2600 Service Pack 3
CPU: x86
GenuineIntel family 6 model 44 stepping 2
Crash reason: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ
Crash address: 0xffffffffddddddf1
Thread 0 (crashed)
0 xul.dll!txExecutionState::end(unsigned int) [txExecutionState.cpp : 202 + 0x12]
eip = 0x109e3688 esp = 0x0012d4f4 ebp = 0x0012d4fc ebx = 0x00000001
esi = 0x01987af8 edi = 0x00000000 eax = 0x0012d540 ecx = 0x036a4e80
edx = 0xdddddddd efl = 0x00010286
Found by: given as instruction pointer in context
1 xul.dll!txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc(nsIDOMDocument *,nsIDOMDocument * *) [txMozillaXSLTProcessor.cpp : 718 + 0x11]
eip = 0x10a2ff29 esp = 0x0012d504 ebp = 0x0012d6d0
Found by: call frame info
2 xul.dll!nsTransformBlockerEvent::Run() [txMozillaXSLTProcessor.cpp : 595 + 0x15]
eip = 0x10a2f749 esp = 0x0012d6d8 ebp = 0x0012d6e0
Found by: call frame info
3 xul.dll!nsThread::ProcessNextEvent(int,int *) [nsThread.cpp : 618 + 0x18]
eip = 0x118cb174 esp = 0x0012d6e8 ebp = 0x0012d748
Found by: call frame info
4 xul.dll!NS_ProcessNextEvent_P(nsIThread *,int) [nsThreadUtils.cpp : 250 + 0x15]
eip = 0x1184d113 esp = 0x0012d750 ebp = 0x0012d764
Found by: call frame info
5 xul.dll!mozilla::ipc::MessagePump::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate *) [MessagePump.cpp : 110 + 0xd]
eip = 0x1171161d esp = 0x0012d76c ebp = 0x0012d798
Found by: call frame info
Couldn't reproduce on a Mac Aurora (release, not debug). I doubt we fixed anything in xslt between Fx5 and Fx6. The document is a huge sitemap and takes forever to process, maybe you've got less memory dedicated to your VM?
I was going to zip up the site .xml and .xsl files and attach them, but even zipped they're 6Mb. Uncompressed the sitemap is 50Mb
Yeah, the original vms this ran on are only 1G for xp and 2G for linux. I only reproduced this with beta though, not aurora or nightly. I'll try locally.
I tried to reproduce locally with a 1G vm on WinXP and Linux but have been unable to so far. I can reproduce it in the automation vms though. I'll keep trying. I do have working valgrind on linux now that I've disabled elfhack. I'll try that too.
automation retested with Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux 32bit and 64bit using 2.0.0, beta, aurora, nightly.
signature address os branch
txExecutionState::end 0xffffffffddddddf1 Windows XP beta
0xffffffffddddddf1 Windows 7 beta
0x6cf3 Linux 32bit beta
0x0 Linux 64bit nightly
txMozillaXSLTProcessor::TransformToDoc 0x1 Windows XP aurora/nightly
0x1 Windows 7 aurora/nightly
trying a valgrind run on 64bit linux now.
valgrind on 32bit fedora 14 nightly gave during shutdown
==23727== Mismatched free() / delete / delete []
==23727== at 0x4006951: operator delete(void*) (vg_replace_malloc.c:387)
==23727== by 0x5DD4C77: js::RegExp::~RegExp() (jsregexpinlines.h:133)
==23727== by 0x5DD89EE: void JSContext::delete_<js::RegExp>(js::RegExp*) (in /work/mozilla/builds/nightly/mozilla/firefox-debug/toolkit/library/libxul.so)
==23727== by 0x5DD5C76: js::RegExp::decref(JSContext*) (jsregexpinlines.h:568)
==23727== by 0x5EE5F95: regexp_finalize(JSContext*, JSObject*) (jsregexp.cpp:393)
==23727== by 0x5E498F3: JSObject::finalize(JSContext*) (jsobjinlines.h:141)
==23727== by 0x5E50B61: bool js::gc::Arena::finalize<JSObject_Slots8>(JSContext*) (jsgc.cpp:224)
==23727== by 0x5E47FE2: void js::gc::FinalizeArenas<JSObject_Slots8>(JSContext*, js::gc::ArenaHeader**) (jsgc.cpp:271)
==23727== by 0x5E4DDC6: void js::gc::ArenaList::finalizeNow<JSObject_Slots8>(JSContext*) (jsgc.cpp:1216)
==23727== by 0x5E45AF5: JSCompartment::finalizeObjectArenaLists(JSContext*) (jsgc.cpp:1966)
==23727== by 0x5E46B09: MarkAndSweep(JSContext*, JSCompartment*, JSGCInvocationKind, js::GCTimer&) (jsgc.cpp:2348)
==23727== by 0x5E4743F: GCCycle(JSContext*, JSCompartment*, JSGCInvocationKind, js::GCTimer&) (jsgc.cpp:2643)
==23727== Address 0xfa47268 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 104 alloc'd
==23727== at 0x40078AE: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:236)
==23727== by 0x6047A93: js_malloc (jsutil.h:234)
==23727== by 0x604FB0A: JSC::Yarr::BytecodePattern* js::OffTheBooks::new_<JSC::Yarr::BytecodePattern, JSC::Yarr::ByteDisjunction*, JSC::Yarr::Vector<JSC::Yarr::ByteDisjunction*, 0u>, JSC::Yarr::Ref<JSC::Yarr::YarrPattern>, WTF::Bump
PointerAllocator*>(JSC::Yarr::ByteDisjunction*, JSC::Yarr::Vector<JSC::Yarr::ByteDisjunction*, 0u>, JSC::Yarr::Ref<JSC::Yarr::YarrPattern>, WTF::BumpPointerAllocator*) (in /work/mozilla/builds/nightly/mozilla/firefox-debug/toolkit/libr
==23727== by 0x604D416: JSC::Yarr::ByteCompiler::compile(WTF::BumpPointerAllocator*) (YarrInterpreter.cpp:1461)
==23727== by 0x6047AEE: JSC::Yarr::byteCompile(JSC::Yarr::YarrPattern&, WTF::BumpPointerAllocator*) (YarrInterpreter.cpp:1897)
==23727== by 0x5DD5A80: js::RegExp::compileHelper(JSContext*, JSLinearString&) (jsregexpinlines.h:493)
==23727== by 0x5DD5B2C: js::RegExp::compile(JSContext*) (jsregexpinlines.h:506)
==23727== by 0x5DD5777: js::RegExp::create(JSContext*, JSString*, unsigned int) (jsregexpinlines.h:420)
==23727== by 0x5EE6729: SwapRegExpInternals(JSContext*, JSObject*, js::Value*, JSString*, unsigned int) (jsregexp.cpp:570)
==23727== by 0x5EE6FF9: CompileRegExpAndSwap(JSContext*, JSObject*, unsigned int, js::Value*, js::Value*) (jsregexp.cpp:758)
==23727== by 0x5EE7186: regexp_construct(JSContext*, unsigned int, js::Value*) (jsregexp.cpp:797)
==23727== by 0x5E66063: js::CallJSNative(JSContext*, int (*)(JSContext*, unsigned int, js::Value*), unsigned int, js::Value*) (jscntxtinlines.h:277)
Gal, who should look at a mismatched free/delete in js::RegExp::~RegExp() ?
cdleary knows the code well.
Created attachment 538264 [details] [diff] [review]
Match new and delete.
dmandelin, this was one of the // YYY things from the update YARR patch with the bare delete. What are those // YYYs about?
Comment on attachment 538264 [details] [diff] [review]
Match new and delete.
The YYY was a tag I was using during development to mark things that needed to be fixed up in some way before landing. There would have been some in the intermediate patches, but there should have been none in the final patch. No idea how that one got through.
Hope bc can retest when this patch lands to make sure it fixes the bug he's seeing.
will do.
I'm not going to mark as fixed-in-tracemonkey because I'm unsure this valgrind spew reflects the actual cause of the original error.
cdleary-bot mozilla-central merge info:
Note: not marking as fixed because fixed-in-tracemonkey is not present on the whiteboard.
I'll test the patch on tracemonkey to see if the valgrind issues were related.
Created attachment 539240 [details]
32 bit valgrind run on tracemonkey
I don't crash locally on either 32 bit or 64 bit when just running the browser, but do crash in both (in different places) when running under valgrind.
32 bit crashes just after a use and read of an uninitialized value in nsDOMOfflineResourceList::SwapCache() (nsDOMOfflineResourceList.cpp:543)
Created attachment 539242 [details]
64 bit valgrind run on tracemonkey
64 bit crashes during UnwindBacktrace with js::ExternalGetOrSet(JSContext*, JSObject*, jsid, js::Value const&, JSAccessMode, unsigned int, js::Value*, js::Value*) (jsinterp.cpp:845) on the stack after an invalid read
Jonas, can you look into this? Is there anything XSLT related going on here, or is this something else?
Jonas, ping...
Peter, could you look into this XSLT critical crash bug?
This won't make it for the 6 train.
I can't reproduce this in a trunk build on linux or OS X.
I just retested the url using the automation on Windows XP, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.5, Fedora 14 32bit and 64 bit and could only reproduce crashes on Windows XP and Windows 7 for beta, aurora and nightly. I didn't see the deleted memory in the crash address but Ted's exploitable tool for analyzing the minidumps showed high for aurora and nightly but none for beta for some reason. I'm running it locally under msvc with a slightly differently configured xp but haven't crashed yet. More news as I get it.
Ok, things have changed a bit in terms of how to reproduce. I haven't been able to crash just loading the page either in WIndows XP or Mac OS X 10.5 on beta, aurora or nightly. I can reproduce on Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5 on beta, aurora and nightly at least if I:
1. start browser and attach debugger
2. start loading http://nfomation.net/sitemap.xml
3. exit the browser before the file has completed transferring.
I haven't seen any indication of deleted memory. Not sure if that is meaningful or not. I'll try it out on Linux w and wo valgrind to see if there is anything useful there.
If you need the files from when this bug was first reported I think I have a copy of that state -- let me know and I can put it up on people.m.o or something
I was able to reproduce this in a Windows XP VM using the latest trunk nightly. https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-10f3bb0f-1a61-4bb5-8e90-d4eee2110811 is my crash report.
Created attachment 555522 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't really know how we could make an automated testcase for this, we need to either run out of memory or quit while loading the source file.
Peter, do you think we should just go ahead and take this fix w/o tests given the lack of an environment where we can realistically test this? If so, is this patch ready to review, or are you still working on it? We're running very low on time for fixes for 7, and this would be great to get in there...
Comment on attachment 555522 [details] [diff] [review]
If we stop before we have source and stylesheet then txExecutionState::init fails, but that was leaving mOutputHandler as a dangling pointer.
Comment on attachment 555522 [details] [diff] [review]
Review of attachment 555522 [details] [diff] [review]:
Pushed to inbound:
And I realized I forgot to add r=sicking in the commit message :(
Clearly you must mean no Burrata :)
Comment on attachment 555522 [details] [diff] [review]
This is effectively changing us from accessing uninitialized memory to initializing a pointer and adding a null check. Very safe fix, and a sg:critical bug. We should IMO take this on both aurora and beta.
Comment on attachment 555522 [details] [diff] [review]
Approved for mozilla-aurora and mozilla-beta
We should take this safe fix in 3.6.x as well.
Changing to qa- as this is an assertion.


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Will the Real Excess Burden Please Stand Up? (Or, Seven Measures in Search of a Concept)
It is well understood that a tax which distorts relative prices generates a welfare cost or "excess burden" in addition to any associated transfer of resources, but there remains considerable controversy and confusion with respect to procedures for measuring this excess burden. The purpose of this paper is to clarify matters concerning what is one of the most basic concepts in welfare economics. We describe and evaluate a number of alternative conceptual experiments which might lie behind an excess burden calculation, showing how these notions can be represented graphically and algebraically and how they can be approximated numerically.
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|Jun 1980
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|published as The Fiscal Behavior of State and Local Governments, Rosen, H., ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997, pp. 301-322.
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- Small, Kenneth A & Rosen, Harvey S, 1981.
"Applied Welfare Economics with Discrete Choice Models,"
Econometric Society, vol. 49(1), pages 105-130, January.
- Harvey S. Rosen & Kenneth A. Small, 1979. "Applied Welfare Economics with Discrete Choice Models," NBER Working Papers 0319, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Diamond, P. A. & McFadden, D. L., 1974. "Some uses of the expenditure function in public finance," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 3(1), pages 3-21, February.
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- Wales, T J & Woodland, A D, 1976. "Estimation of Household Utility Functions and Labor Supply Response," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 17(2), pages 397-410, June.
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"The Measurement of Excess Burden with Explicit Utility Functions,"
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University of Chicago Press, vol. 86(2), pages 121-135, April.
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Still pondering which pies to make for Thanksgiving dinner? You don't have to just do pumpkin, you know.
Milwaukee's own Pie Dude, Shan Nelson-Rowe, offered his best picks for Turkey Day. He's the personal trainer who is now in his fifth month of 52 Weeks of Pie, an ambitious project that has him baking at least one pie from scratch each week.
Nelson-Rowe's holiday picks:
Cran-Apple Walnut Pie. He uses equal parts apple and cranberry with walnuts added. "This results in a sweet and tart pie with the earthiness of walnuts as bonus. I don't know if the result is technically umami, but the walnuts add a sort of savoriness to the fruit and creates a fullness in the mouth when eating." Eat slowly to fully appreciate the complexity, he advises.
Pumpkin-Apple Pie. The fresh crispness of a good tart apple such as Granny Smith, combined with the flavor counterpoint of cinnamon sugar sweetness, makes apple pie a favorite. Pumpkin pie brings the creaminess of the pumpkin along with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. "Put these together in one pie and you have something special," says Nelson-Rowe.
Cranberry Pear Pie. "This pie is so beautiful that your guests may feel guilty asking for a piece," he says. One tip: the recipe didn't call for it, but he suggests you peel the pears.
Nelson-Rowe's final recommendation: Paul Prudhomme's Sweet Potato Pecan Pie, which he says is still his all-time favorite pie.
Recipes and descriptions of the first three pies can be found at Nelson-Rowe's blog.
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A whole lot of plates get spinning really quickly in ABC's new mystery "Happy Town." There's murder, political intrigue, betrayal, forbidden love, family drama and enough oddball characters to populate four or five small-town TV shows.
Three episodes in, though, viewers are left with almost no clue as to what all the effort is for. It's not because "Happy Town" is so complex that it requires repeat viewing to catch every nuance. It's because the show is so overstuffed and dancing so fast in its effort to achieve cultdom that it forgets some basic things, like making us care about the characters in the middle of this whole mess or drawing some clear stakes for what happens.
That's the biggest flaw in the series: Heaps and heaps of plot exposition come at us, but the story is happening to characters — and it is happening to them, rather than them making it happen — that are thinly drawn. And even though several of them are played by very strong actors (the cast includes Sam Neill, Amy Acker, Robert Wisdom of "The Wire," Steven Weber and Frances Conroy), they're not able to elevate the material enough to elicit more than a shrug about what is going on.
Briefly, what's going on is this: Haplin, Minn., is one of those charmingly picturesque small towns that exist mostly on TV, particularly since it has a Dark Secret. It's named for and presided over by the owners of a bread factory (Conroy and Weber, who plays her son) and a sheriff (M.C. Gainey of "Lost") who hasn't had to deal with a major crime in five years. But the last time he did, it was a doozy: A faceless criminal known around town as the Magic Man abducted eight people, none of whom were ever seen again.
When a local "skulker" is killed, all the old fears are reawakened. The sheriff starts going off beam, confusing and frustrating his son and deputy, Tommy Conroy (Geoff Stults, "October Road"). Meanwhile, there's a mysterious new arrival in town (Lauren German) who has secrets of her own.
If that were all there was, "Happy Town" might be onto something (and what we hoped the series might be when a trailer released in December piqued our interest). But we also get a Romeo-and-Juliet story involving Weber's son (Ben Schnetzer) and the daughter of a town outcast (Sarah Gadon), who also happens to be like family to Tommy and his wife, Rachel (Acker). And a rivalry between Tommy and Weber's John Haplin. And four no-account brothers who have it in for Tommy. And Neill's character, who has for some reason — not because the business climate is so ripe — decided to move to town and open a movie-memorabilia shop.
We'll grant that we went into "Happy Town" with something of a jaundiced eye. Creators Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg teamed up for "Life on Mars" last season, and dashed a significant amount of goodwill from their adaptation of the BBC show with a series-negating finale that left us feeling like we'd wasted time watching the 16 previous episodes. They'd have to go a long way to re-earn our trust.
So far with "Happy Town," that hasn't happened. In addition to being so very setup-heavy, the show is also overwritten; characters occasionally speak in a sort of sub-"Deadwood" style of flowery speech, which Appelbaum, Nemec and Rosenberg also employed on "Life on Mars." It worked all right on that show because Sam Tyler's reality wasn't supposed to be real, but here, in a place that's supposed to be dripping Americana, it just rings false.
ABC has been looking for an heir to "Lost" almost since the show premiered. "Happy Town," like pretty much every other sci-fi/supernatural/mystery show that's come along post-"Lost" isn't it. And now that "Lost" is only a few weeks away from ending, maybe ABC should stop looking.
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A 5 km. de Murcia
30003 Murcia (Murcia)
The name described the ruins located beside the Monteagudo Castle, dating from the Muslim period. These remains were previously part of a turreted rectangular space which was used as a recreation ground by the rulers of the taifas, or Arab fiefdoms.
- Bygning: Castle
- Stilperiode: Arab
- Historisk periode: 12th century


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The Next Financial Crisis: Credit Cards
The next step in the growing financial squeeze—what the banking community likes to call the "soft landing"—is coming down in credit cards. Take a look at those offers you're getting in the mail. Gone are the promises of permanent low APRs on purchases or balance transfers. Instead, the companies are offering a low rate for 6 or maybe 12 months, and then it shoots up to 15 or 20 percent or higher. And there's usually a 5 percent transfer fee on your whole balance—the ceilings on transfer fees are disappearing. So even if you get, say, a 4.9 percent APR for 12 months, it's really 9.9 percent.
This week, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee, chaired by Michigan's Carl Levin, held hearings with representatives of several large credit card lenders on an even more devious practice: Consumers whose credit scores fall even slightly—due to a single late payment, or a problem that has nothing to do with their credit cards—can have their APRs jacked up without warning. The credit card companies can even apply this high interest rate retroactively to already accumulated debt.
"Interest rates are going up, low teaser rates are disappearing, and the credit squeeze is going to get a lot tighter," Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor and expert on credit card debt and personal bankruptcy, told Mother Jones this morning. She is an advisor to the campaign of John Edwards, who has made an issue of predatory lending practices and proposed a commission to regulate credit card rates.
What happens, I asked Warren, when people struggling to pay their mortgages go deep into credit card debt, and then can't pay? Do the credit card companies get to take their assets, including their homes? "Here's the deal: A credit card company can't seize your bank account or grab your car without going to court,'' she said. "BUT most credit card companies have put arbitration clauses into the fine print of your agreement, so they can go to arbitration, where they know the arbitrators and where they win more than percent of the time. They then take the arbitration award to a court and get a judgment on it, and the consumer can't do anything about it. If the arbitration was unfair, that's too bad—the credit card company wins. It is a scandal." (For another angle on this little-known scam, see my colleague Stephanie Mencimer's recent piece on car loans.)
Warren continues, "Alternatively, credit card companies can go directly to court and they often get a default judgment because the customer didn't receive adequate notice, didn't understand what the notice said, couldn't appear at that time, etc. Many credit card companies have figured out how to turn the court system into a cheap tool to collect from people in financial trouble.'"
So as the subprime crisis deepens, this other crisis is just waiting in the wings. And the new bankruptcy law passed in 2005 serves the interests of credit card companies and other lenders while screwing consumers in additional ways, leaving them no way out of the debt trap.


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Auteur: Thunder
Uitgever: America Star Books
- Engelstalig
- 276 pagina's
- 9781424198139
- oktober 2007
The Spoken Spirit: Thunders Spirit Speaks is a collection of poems written by Tim Leu, writing under the pen name of Thunder. Over the past five years, he has written nearly 300 poems. After sharing them with others and discovering that some of the poems have helped those he shared them with, his friends suggested that he place them in book format and submit it for publication. Thunder has gone one step further than his friends suggestion. He has gone through and selected the ones that have impacted others in a positive way, including himself, to create this book. Preceding each selected poem, he has placed a brief description of what led him to write the verses. Thunder invites you, the reader, to enjoy what you read. He hopes that you or someone you know will be helped by the poems of The Spoken Spirit: Thunders Spirit Speaks.
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Courteney Lowe Wins New Zealand National Championship, Jade Wilcoxson To Race for Team USA at Cyclocross World Championship After Runner-Up Finish at US Nationals
anuary 15th | Minneapolis, MN
Courteney Lowe and Jade Wilcoxson bookended Optum Pro Cycling presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies' phenomenal 2012 season with big results on opposite sides of the globe this weekend, with Lowe being crowned New Zealand's road race national champion and Wilcoxson braving sub-zero conditions in Madison, WI to finish second in the Cyclocross National Championships. (See a photo gallery of the frigid race at optumprocycling.com.)
Lowe becomes Optum p/b KBS' fourth national champion, joining Ken Hanson, Ian Moir, and Denise Ramsden with Kiwi colors in tow for the 2013 season. It is the biggest win of the 20-year-old's career, coming just months after iliac artery surgery forced her off the bike.
Wilcoxson's efforts secured her a spot on the Team USA roster for next month's Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky where she will join 9-time consecutive national champion Katie Compton (Trek), Meredith Miller (California Giant/Specialized), Amy Dombroski (Telenet-Fidea), Kaitlin Antonneau (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld), and Georgia Gould (Luna) to compete for the first-ever world championship on American soil.
"It is incredible that we are able to begin the new year will such big results," said Performance Manager Rachel Heal. "Courtney has worked so hard to quickly recover from a tough surgery so she really deserves this, and Jade's cyclocross season has been phenomenal. Being selected for the world championship team is quite an accomplishment, and is a testament to how hard she has worked all year."
Wilcoxson's runner-up finish in Madison came on a frozen, mud caked course Sunday, where she finished 1:20 behind Compton, who continued a nearly decade long win streak at the race. Wilcoxson and her Team USA companions will go head-to-head against some of the world's best riders on the grueling Louisville course on March 3rd.
"This year was the first time I have raced cross professionally, and I am shocked and honored to be chosen to race in Louisville," said Wilcoxson. "Everyone involved with the team has done an amazing job supporting us all year, Amanda (Miller) has been a great teammate and has showed me the ropes so getting selected for Louisville definitely feels like a team win."


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|Section 1: Nuts and Bolts: The Basics of Android Programming
|Lecture 1
|What we're going to cover in the first section of the tutorial.
|Lecture 2
How to install the free software that you'll need to develop for Android.
|Lecture 3
You'll need an emulator to see your first program running. We'll create one in this tutorial.
|Lecture 4
Finally, it's time to create a "Hello World" application!
|Lecture 5
The EditText "View" lets the user enter text. We'll use it in our application to let the user save some notes.
|Lecture 6
Buttons And Linear Layouts
|Lecture 7
In this tutorial we'll add some code that will get run when the "save" button is clicked.
|Lecture 8
Important Notes
|Lecture 9
In spite of the ferocious-sounding names, DDMS and logcat are very easy to work with and will help you double-check what's going on in your application. In this tutorial we'll use DDMS to double-check that our button click handler is working as expected.
|Lecture 10
There are various options for saving data in Android; search for "android storage options" in Google for more info. We'll be taking a look at some of them in this course, starting with saving files to internal storage in this tutorial.
|Lecture 11
Now that we've written a file to internal storage, in this tutorial we'll move on to reading it.
|Lecture 12
String Resources and Localization
|Lecture 13
|You can, and should, create a nice icon to launch your application with. There are a few little complications to creating graphics for phones, but we'll get the hardest bit out the way right here!
|Lecture 14
Running On Your Phone
|Lecture 15
|Preferences allow you to save small amounts of data -- single boolean values, integers and so on -- in such a way that the data persists between runs of your application.
|Lecture 16
|Toasts are little dialogs which go away by themselves, enabling you to mention something to the user without being too annoying in the process.
|Lecture 17
|Applications often consist of more than one activitiy. Here we'll create a second activity that we're going to use to display an image.
|Lecture 18
|The ImageView view lets you display images.
|Lecture 19
|You can use touch listeners to find out exactly where the user touches the screen.
|Lecture 20
|If you really want a dialog and not a toast, you can have one. Here we use one to make sure the user has absolutely definitely read our information before proceeding.
|Lecture 21
|While not Android-specific, I'll be using the Event-Listener pattern to simplify the code a little bit. We'll cover it here. If you only want to know Android-specific stuff, you can skip this tutorial. But if you want to increase your mastery of Java, stay tuned.
|Lecture 22
|Android incorporates the SQLite database. Here we'll see how to create a database that your application can use to store data. I assume you know basic SQL for this tutorial, or else at least don't mind seeing a bit of SQL from time to time ...
|Lecture 23
Adding Data to a Database
|Lecture 24
|Once we've covered retrieving values from our database, we'll finally be able to check that it actually works ....
|Lecture 25
|Asynchronous tasks let you execute stuff in the background. If you have a task that takes up to a few seconds, it's best to execute it in the background rather than hold up your main application thread, freezing the interface. Note: if you have a task that takes more than a few seconds, you need to look into more general Java concurrency; check out my free tutorials on multithreading on www.caveofprogramming.com.
|Lecture 26
|You can't update the main thread from the doInBackground method of an asynchronous task. So how can you return data from your processing? We'll look at that here.
|Lecture 27
|You can declare the screen sizes your application supports in the manifest file, and indeed you should ....
|Lecture 28
|To tell your phone to do something programmatically, you need to create an "intent". Here we'll use an intent to launch an activity.
|Lecture 29
|You can nest ViewGroups to create quite complex layouts, although this isn't always the most efficient way to arrange your screen.
|Lecture 30
Option Menus
|Lecture 31
|Often you want to start some activity and send it some data at the same time, perhaps instructing it to take some special action.
|Lecture 32
|You can trigger an activity and return later to the activity you triggered it from. This is very useful for stuff like taking photos in your application, as well as about a million other things, so we'll take a look at it here.
|Lecture 33
Taking Photos
|Lecture 34
|How to save the photos you take and use them in your application, plus a first look at permissions in Android.
|Lecture 35
|ListViews allow the user to choose between a bunch of different options. They're one of the commonest Android views, so well worth knowing.
|Lecture 36
|You can populate your lists dynamically at runtime, rather than hardcoding values. We'll also look at retrieving string array resources in this tutorial.
|Lecture 37
Formatting List Items: Custom Adapters
|Lecture 38
Using Icons in Views
|Lecture 39
|You can take style information (fonts, colours, etc) out of your XML layouts and put them in separate stylesheets instead. That way you can more easily re-use a given style, and you can collect all style information together in one place. A style for an entire activity is known as a theme. In this tutorial we'll use styles to style our list demo.
|Lecture 40
|Selectors are drawable items that change depending on your application state. We'll use color selectables here to change the color of list items temporarily when you click on them.
|Lecture 41
|Relative layout is a very powerful ViewGroup that allows you to create complex arrangements of Views by positioning them relative to each other.
|Lecture 42
|How to browse the gallery from your application by launching an appropriate sub-activity.
|Lecture 43
|Once you've browsed the gallery and selected an image, you have to do a little work to convert the URI of the image to a file name ....
|Lecture 44
|All activities have a "lifecycle", which you need to understand and can use to your advantage.
|Lecture 45
|Some things you shouldn't forget to do before attempting to publish your app.
|Lecture 46
|You can use DDMS to take screenshots of your application, which you can then use when you publish your app.
|Lecture 47
|You need to sign your application by creating a digital certificate before you can publish it. In this tutorial we'll see how to create a digital certificate and export the app as an .apk file, signed with the certificate.
|Lecture 48
|Once you've digitally signed and exported your app, it's easy to publish it --- although you do need to pay 25 USD for a developer account before you can publish apps. We'll look at the process here.
|Section 2: More Useful Stuff
|Lecture 49
Using 3rd Party APIs
|Lecture 50
|Action bars are those bars that appear at the top of the screen in Android 3.0 or greater. You can put icons, titles and menus in them. We'll take a good look at menus in this tutorial, as well as how to turn display of the titles and icons on and off.
|Lecture 51
|Once you've created your action bar menu, you'll be wanting to take action when someone selects things from it. We'll see how to do it here.
|Section 3: Communication
|Lecture 52
|In this tutorial we'll start to look at communication by taking the simplest case -- downloading textual data from the Internet.
|Lecture 53
|Let's take a look at how phones can communicate with PCs, with the Internet and with each other. No code in this tutorial; it's just an overview.
|Lecture 54
|In this tutorial we'll create a simple Java servlet program to act as an Internet server for our device to communicate with. You can find more about servlet programming at this url:
The first seven videos are free and cover everything you need to know in detail to get a servlet up and running on the Internet. You could also use something like PHP or Ruby to get a server program up and running.
|Lecture 55
|If you want to send small amounts of data to a server (e.g. an id) you can do it via a HTTP GET (in other words, in the URL).
|Lecture 56
|If you want to send text to a server in a URL, you have to be careful to only send small amounts and you need to take care of special characters. We'll look at the latter here.
|Lecture 57
|Let's take a look at an example of an existing JSON server. You can write your own JSON servers too, of course. JSON is an alternative to XML, and either option is a good way to protect a database while allowing people to connect to it in a controlled way.
|Lecture 58
Decoding JSON
|Lecture 59
|Let's take a look at encoding data in the JSON format.
|Lecture 60
Responding to POST Requests in a Servlet
|Lecture 61
|If you want to send a lot of data to a server, you'll want to send it via a POST request, not a GET. We'll look at how to POST text (JSON) data here.
|Section 4: Layout Techniques
|Lecture 62
|Fragments are self-contained re-useable parts of activities. In this tutorial we'll create a simple example.
|Lecture 63
|ListFragment is a specialised kind of fragment that makes displaying lists very easy. We'll take a look at it here.
|Lecture 64
|It's pretty easy to format items in a list fragment (or anything else that uses ArrayAdapter to format items). Let's do it here, because these items are rather unsightly due to being unduly large.
|Lecture 65
|The key to fragment communication is the Observer pattern, which old hands will recognise at once, while if you're relatively new to GUI programming, you may be left puzzled by it. In this tutorial we'll break it down into steps, and you'll most likely find that once you've typed out the steps yourself a few times, it'll start to really make sense.
|Lecture 66
|You can replace one fragment with another, meaning we can do stuff like showing fragments side by side on a large screen, but replacing one with another in response to user interaction on a small screen. In this tutorial we'll look at how to use the fragment manager to replace one fragment with another.
|Section 5: Games and Animation
|Lecture 67
|Introducing frame-based animation in Android with a very simple game example.
|Lecture 68
|By extending SurfaceView we can create a view that we can use for drawing on.
|Lecture 69
|Just a quick note on the software I used to generate the elementary sound and graphics for this section of the tutorial.
|Lecture 70
|Finally we can draw some images!
|Lecture 71
|Our game is going to start up when the view surface is created, and stop (or pause) when the drawing surface is destroyed; so for that we need to know how to detect surface creation and destruction events.
|Lecture 72
|In this tutorial we'll set up a separate thread that will tell our game when to update and draw itself. It'll contain the "game loop" that's at the hard of all serious animation projects.
|Lecture 73
|In this tutorial we'll create a game class that basically will manage the various entities that will compose our game, drawing them and updating them.
|Lecture 74
|Let's create a class that can represent a sprite (an entity that visually appears in our game). We'll get it drawing something in this tutorial; then we can use it as a base class for specific game entities in future.
|Lecture 75
|In this tutorial we'll make our first sprite actually move.
|Lecture 76
Making the Ball Bounce
|Lecture 77
|In this tutorial I'm just going to show you a little bit of code I added to enable me to position the shadow relative to the main image. We'll also take a quick look at auto-cropping in GIMP.
|Lecture 78
|In this tutorial we'll add a couple of bats to our game. They won't hit the ball or move yet, but at least they'll be there.
|Lecture 79
|Let's use the standard Random class to randomise the direction of the ball when the game starts.
|Lecture 80
|By handling touch events we can control the player's bat, taking a big step towards turning this from an animation into a game.
|Lecture 81
|In this tutorial we'll add a simple random algorithm to control the opponent's bat, giving a sort of vague appearance of a deranged hyperactive intelligence.
|Lecture 82
|Once we've added some collision detection, making good use of Rect.contains(), we can get the ball to bounce off the bats.
|Lecture 83
|It's useful to be able to draw text in games, either to display an entire status screen, or just to show the score.
|Lecture 84
|In this tutorial we add states to our game, so that it can be paused vs running, won or lost etc.
|Lecture 85
|It's time to add sound to our game! In this tutorial we'll look at playing sounds in Android.
|Lecture 86
|In this tutorial we'll look at an efficient way of playing multiple sounds.
|Lecture 87
|Now we can add the finishing touch to our game by allowing the user to adjust the volume, without which our game would be rather annoying.
|Section 6: Map Applications with Android V2 API
|Lecture 88
|The first step to creating a maps V2 application is installing Google Play Services and creating a library project.
|Lecture 89
|Creating and signing a basic application; we'll leave actually getting it working for the next tutorial!
|Lecture 90
|Finally we can get the map demo up and running and actually see a map, if we're lucky.
|Lecture 91
|This is a tutorial on adding markers to maps and making them clickable. Well if I'm honest, it's me blundering through the documentation to figure out how to do this. Hopefully it's entertaining :) It's good to see that Google have simplified this a lot since the last API version.
|Section 7: Appendix 1: Source Code
|Lecture 92
Nuts and Bolts Source Code
|Lecture 93
|Communication source attached. Note, one of these projects is actually a Java servlet, not an Android app. If you prefer to use a PHP server, you can find an example at http://www.caveofprogramming.com/php/php-json-an-example-javascript-json-client-with-php-server/
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Build ID: 20121010231231
Steps to reproduce:
Try filling in a number of days or weeks. Then navigate to a different menu item and navigate back.
Actual results:
The newly filled-in number is gone, and the old one is back.
Expected results:
New number should always be kept when de-focusing the widget, no matter what is selected instead.
What do you mean by "menu item".
Can you please provide exact steps to reproduce this, i.e. if you put in the number via keyboard or mouse and then where do you click exactly.
Account Settings -> (Some account) -> Synchronization and storage : Synchronize the most recent
If you navigate to another menu item in Account Settings, for instance Junk Settings, after changing the value of the "spin button" widget, and then back again to Synchronization and storage, you'll see that the value is back to the old value.
The behaviour is also present if you click OK directly without de-focusing the spin button.
I have tested other fields, and so far I've only found that the issue is in this particular field.
I can't see the problem on Win XP, TB19. But I'll try linux later.
Are you using the TB version from Ubuntu repository or an official build from mozilla.org ?
Do you get anything in Tools->error console after the field is reverted to the old value?
Running 16.0.1 from Ubuntu repositories. No errors in Error Console.
Screencast here: http://overtag.dk/screencasts/tb_account_settings.ogv
(didn't realize the screen cast program included the option of speaking to the mic, should have done that, sry.. first screen cast ever)
So this could be a extension - did you try with extension disabled ?
It seems the value is properly saved on OK, but is lost on switching to Junk settings.
OK, I can reproduce it now writing the exact numbers as in the video. It also needs to be written via keyboard, not clicking the small arrows in the field.
Also mixing into the confusion is that the value is "optimized" when visiting the pane again, e.g. try putting 35 *days* and it gets converted to 5 *weeks* (which you may not notice if you just look at the number field).
I'll see if this "optimizing" code may have a bug that reverts to the older value.
So the bug is this:
We only store the value (into accountValues array) of the field in the am-offline.js::onAutosyncChange() function, that is called in 'onchange' attribute of the textbox. But the current code flow is like this:
1. enter value
2. click Junk settings
3. Offline pane values is saved (onAutosyncChange not yet called, so we save the old value)
4. load of Junk pane
5. call of onAutosyncChange(). But the pane is no longer existing. Even if it would, the new value would not be stored.
6. click Offline settings
7. Junk values are stored (irrelevant here).
8. load of Offline pane with stored values. The old value from step 3. is loaded and shown in the field.
This seems to happen because according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL/Attribute/textbox.onchange , the onchange event is called only when the focus is changed away from the field and that seems to happen only after step 4 (we have a new pane up). I don't think it is a Toolkit bug, we just do strange things with panes in the account manager :)
Expected flow:
Call of onAutosyncChange() must happen before step 3. That is what happens correctly if the value of the textbox is changed via the small arrows, or after the value is entered other setting widget is clicked/focused.
So I need to find out how to force a focus change before step 3 so that onAutosyncChange() is called. I'd like the solution to apply to all panes even though currently this one field is the only one using 'onchange'.
Created attachment 674358 [details] [diff] [review]
WIP patch
How ugly is this? :) I use opacity=0 for now, because hidden, collapsed, visibility=hidden didn't work. Gecko was probably smart enough to ignore focus for such invisible elements.
I've left some debugging in the so that the flow of function calls can be seen in the Error console.
Comment on attachment 674358 [details] [diff] [review]
WIP patch
The problem in the particular case of clicking on the tree is that the tree's XBL changes its selection on mousedown, but that's actually before it's got the focus, since that happens last as part of mousedown default behaviour.
So the thing to do would seem to be to explicitly focus the tree itself. It's probably easiest to do it from the select handler, otherwise you will find it hard to get it to run before the select handler does.
Created attachment 676293 [details] [diff] [review]
Yeah, using a suitable existing element is much better ;) Thanks for the tip.
Good stuff for my test-account-settings-infrastructure.js test file ;)
Comment on attachment 676293 [details] [diff] [review]
Good comment, and I can confirm this fixes the bug. Account manager is a funny beast.
Thanks aceman!
Created attachment 687515 [details] [diff] [review]
WIP test
So this should be the test. However, it does not work. I use amc.type() to write the new value into the field. But onchange is not run after that. Maybe this is not equivalent to writing the value by the user. What should I use in a test to simulate that?
*** Bug 816450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment on attachment 676293 [details] [diff] [review]
[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #):
User impact if declined: user may not notice that his entered value was ignored.
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.):
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): while this is a new element in the code, it should be trivial to take out if it causes any problems.
Comment on attachment 676293 [details] [diff] [review]
[Triage Comment]
We should take this onto aurora and beta as well so that SM can use it.
I landed this on beta now, so that I could get it in SeaMonkey's beta I'm spinning in moments.
Comment on attachment 676293 [details] [diff] [review]
Unfortunately this doesn't apply cleanly to the ESR branch. Aceman, can you take a look at a clean patch for there please?
Comment on attachment 687515 [details] [diff] [review]
WIP test
Review of attachment 687515 [details] [diff] [review]:
I like the look of this.
(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) from comment #22)
> Review of attachment 687515 [details] [diff] [review]:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> I like the look of this.
But have you seen comment 15? The test does not work.
Standard8, the patch seems to have landed on comm-release, but not on comm-esr17 (as you noted), so are these branches different now?
(In reply to :aceman from comment #24)
> Standard8, the patch seems to have landed on comm-release, but not on
> comm-esr17 (as you noted), so are these branches different now?
That was part of the SeaMonkey merge of beta -> release for the next SeaMonkey releases, it won't be in the next Thunderbird releases.
(In reply to :aceman from comment #23)
> (In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) from comment #22)
> > Review of attachment 687515 [details] [diff] [review]:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I like the look of this.
> But have you seen comment 15? The test does not work.
Hm. So, according to the spec[1], the onchange event fires after a form element is changed and then blurred. That might be something to consider.
Where is the test breaking down?
[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-htmlevents
I amc.type() the new value "35" into the field and click on other pane "am-junk.xul". Then the onchange should fire (as the fix is already landed). But that is not true, the field still contains the original value 30. So I think amc.type() does not work somehow. Or does the test work fine for you on Windows?
Created attachment 698803 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for TB17
[Approval Request Comment]
Standard8, will this apply to TB17?
Comment on attachment 698803 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for TB17
Not sure which flag we should use for the TB17 branch that is the release branch, not ESR.
It is my understanding that whatever lands on 17.0 ESR should also land on the 17.0 release branch. But, since bug 815302 should be fixed before 17.0.3 is due (i.e, with the 19.0 cycle), pushing it onto the separate branch in comm-release may be redundant now. Your patch should have landed on the regular comm-release already with the recent beta/release merge on the default branch (thus for SeaMonkey 2.15), but won't be included in the 17.0.x comm-release branch in this way.
Standard8, can you sort out the flags and check in where needed?
Yes, I'll sort them out in the next flag triage that I'll do.
Comment on attachment 698803 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for TB17
Just comm-esr17 is enough.
Comment on attachment 698803 [details] [diff] [review]
patch for TB17
Now we could move the test. Mconley?
Created attachment 716136 [details] [diff] [review]
test v2
Patch updated after bitrot. It does pass for me sometimes under linux. If it works fine for you under Windows then we could maybe land it.
Comment on attachment 716136 [details] [diff] [review]
test v2
Review of attachment 716136 [details] [diff] [review]:
I'm happy with this. r=me with some commentary (see below).
::: mail/test/mozmill/account/test-account-settings-infrastructure.js
@@ +332,5 @@
> + click_account_tree_row(amc, accountRow);
> +
> + let iframe = amc.e("contentFrame").contentDocument;
> +
> + let autoSync = iframe.getElementById("autosyncValue");
Please put a comment in here explaining the magic number 30 (it's the default value).
@@ +336,5 @@
> + let autoSync = iframe.getElementById("autosyncValue");
> + assert_equals(autoSync.value, 30);
> +
> + let autoSyncInterval = iframe.getElementById("autosyncInterval");
> + assert_equals(autoSyncInterval.value, 1);
Same as above - 1 represents "Days", which is the default value.
@@ +351,5 @@
> +
> + iframe = amc.e("contentFrame").contentDocument;
> +
> + autoSync = iframe.getElementById("autosyncValue");
> + assert_equals(autoSync.value, 5);
Explain why this should be 5 (because we translate 35 days into 5 weeks)
@@ +354,5 @@
> + autoSync = iframe.getElementById("autosyncValue");
> + assert_equals(autoSync.value, 5);
> +
> + autoSyncInterval = iframe.getElementById("autosyncInterval");
> + assert_equals(autoSyncInterval.value, 7);
Explain why this should be 7 (7 == weeks)
Comment on attachment 716136 [details] [diff] [review]
test v2
Hm - just ran this test locally, and it failed:
SUMMARY-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | test-account-settings-infrastructure.js | test-account-settings-infrastructure.js::test_account_onchange_handler
EXCEPTION: a != b: '30' != '5'.
at: test-folder-display-helpers.js line 2831
assert_true test-folder-display-helpers.js 2831
assert_equals test-folder-display-helpers.js 2818
subtest_check_onchange_handler test-account-settings-infrastructure.js 355
Runner.prototype.wrapper frame.js 577
WindowWatcher_notify test-window-helpers.js 332
Can you please send this to try? Until further notice, r- due to test failure.
That is what I say in previous comments:) It does fail for me sometimes and I don't know what is the problem.
Created attachment 716744 [details] [diff] [review]
test v3
Thanks for the debugging. Let's try this.
Comment on attachment 716744 [details] [diff] [review]
test v3
Review of attachment 716744 [details] [diff] [review]:
Yes, this looks good to me - and they pass locally. r=me.


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