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The Breakers made light of a 24-hour turnaround to complete a Sunshine Swing sweep with a 73-54 win over the Taipans in Cairns last night.
The night after a nine-point victory over Townsville, the Breakers played as fresh as they have all season to record their sixth straight victory and take top spot in the Australian NBL.
The twin victories over the pair of north Queensland sides made the Breakers the first team since 2007 to manage two wins in two nights on the roadtrip known as the Sunshine Swing.
Coach Andrej Lemanis has said he thought the trip would do wonders for his side's chemistry and, after lifting their record to a league-leading 6-1, it would be hard to disagree with that assessment.
Last night's triumph was relatively comfortable as the Breakers belied the difficulty of the short rest. They streaked out to a double-digit advantage in the opening quarter and, aside from a poor five-minute spell in the second, the lead remained that large throughout the contest.
Cedric Jackson followed up his double-double from Friday night with another dynamic effort, finishing with 20 points and 12 assists, while fellow American Will Hudson chipped in with 14 points and nine rebounds.
The Breakers showed few signs of fatigue early in the game, making use of a 9-0 run midway through the first quarter to lead by 12 at the first break.
A night after their best shooting performance of the season, the Breakers' accuracy appeared to have also made the trip north as they shot 53 per cent from the floor in the opening period.
Cairns came out the stronger side in the second, slowing the Breakers' scoring and steadily chipping away at the deficit. The Breakers' shooting percentage began to plummet as they managed only four points in the opening six minutes of the period, with their lead eventually whittled away to one.
But Jackson, as he so often does, provided the spark with a few assists in quick succession, and an alley-oop to Tom Abercrombie on the buzzer saw the visitors lead 39-31 at the major break.
The Breakers were doing it easily and kept the Taipans at arm's length throughout the quarter, and the 11-point edge they took into the last break appeared almost insurmountable the way they were playing.
And that proved to be the case, with the defending champions outscoring Cairns 18-10 in the final period.
Breakers 73 (Jackson 20, Hudson 14, Pledger 11)
Cairns 54 (Tragardh 16, Wilson 13, Loughton 6)
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LAS VEGAS — First the power went out Wednesday night, and when it came back up, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer did little to add to the electricity.
Ballmer's keynote address here the night before the International Consumer Electronics Show opens Thursday morning was highly anticipated after The New York Times quoted unnamed sources as saying Ballmer would announce a radical new tablet computer, which would be developed with Hewlett-Packard Co.
The speculation was that it would be the Courier, a miniature Internet device, or MID. Purported images of the Courier created a major buzz when they emerged in September — the Courier would be unlike any other MID on the market, boasting two iPhone-like multi-touch screens in a book-like 7-inch package.
Instead, Ballmer announced that Microsoft would partner with H-P on a touch-screen slate PC running the Windows 7 operating system, which he called "the biggest hit of the year for us and for our industry partners."
In fact, the biggest news from Ballmer's characteristically energetic presentation was that Project Natal — a module announced last year that will allow players to control the company's Xbox game system with their bodies — would be released later this year.
The news, or lack of it, was an anticlimax for tech enthusiasts as well as journalists spoiling for a Microsoft showdown with Apple Inc., which is expected to announce a tablet computer of its own later this month. Bloggers tracking the presentation in real time derided Microsoft during a power failure onstage, which delayed Ballmer's presentation for 25 minutes and trashed his plans to demonstrate a PC built into a large-screen television because "it blew the tube," he said.
(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
Company fighting on many fronts
This year's CES is an important one for Microsoft, whose year-over-year revenue fell 14 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2010, with even larger declines in income and earnings. Worse, the company finds itself squeezed on all sides by competitors offering advances in platforms it has long considered its domain.
Windows 7, a cleaned-up and streamlined follow-up to its poorly received Vista release, was welcomed when it was released last year, but it wasn't a major rethinking of a core platform, as Apple's tablet OS is expected to be. Against it, Google Inc. is working on its own OS, Chrome, which is designed to power netbooks and other Internet-centric machines.
The Mozilla Project's Firefox Web browser, meanwhile, has crept up to claim a quarter of the market from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Google's Web browser, also called Chrome, is making itself heard from, as well, having eclipsed Apple's Safari to reach third place, albeit with only about 5 percent of the market, in Net Applications' December browser share survey.
Microsoft's mobile software has run well behind Apple's platform since the iPhone was released, but in recent months it has also been eclipsed by another Google product, Android, which runs the hottest new smartphones on the market.
Android got a rocket boost this week with the announcement of the Nexus One, a Google-branded and -marketed "superphone" that is being positioned as an iPhone killer, with little notice even being taken of Windows Mobile and its long-delayed upgrade.
The flexible Android platform will also be running full-power netbooks in direct competition with Windows XP, Vista and 7 machines. Already, major manufacturers like Dell Inc. and Archos are planning tablets running Google's software.
And later this month comes Apple's slate, which is being characterized as a complete overhaul of the tablet form, exporting something like the iPhone experience to a full-powered miniature Internet device.
Microsoft Courier remains under wraps
But with the drums beating for Apple's expected Jan. 27 tablet announcement, Microsoft for now appears content to promote Windows 7, Project Natal and several other incremental advancements, including:
- A new agreement that will make Windows 7 the default OS, MSN the default home page and Bing the default search engine on dozens of new Hewlett-Packard computer lines.
- Microsoft's entry into the e-book market with Blio, a free software package boasting deals that will make more than 1 million volumes from major publishers available when it launches.
- Mediaroom 2.0, an upgrade of the company's Internet Protocol television platform that Ballmer said would allow users to stream live and on-demand content to televisions, PCs and phones.
Ballmer also promised advancements in in-car computer technology products it has created for its partnership with Ford Motor Co. Those were to be announced Thursday morning by Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally, he said.
And even that was undercut somewhat Wednesday when OnStar Corp. announced that its Mobile Experience app for Chevrolet's electric car, the Volt, would be offered on the iPhone, Motorola's Android-driven Droid and the Blackberry Storm — with no mention of a Windows Mobile version.
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Mining Tweets for Cash: Dataminr Raises $30 Million
Dataminr, the New York City startup that mines Twitter for tradable news, has raised an additional $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms. Telis Demos joins digits.
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The rise to power of Japan's new prime minister, Naoto Kan, holds important lessons for Asia's development model, particularly rapidly urbanizing China.
More than anyone else in Japanese politics, Prime Minister Kan has led the democratic revolt of the urban consumer and citizen against the powerful bureaucracy allied with the old rural politics of the Liberal Democratic Party that ruled Japan for decades. That alliance, which once fostered the "Japanese miracle," ended up strangling the nation's potential and miring it in stagnation because it didn't adapt to the very conditions of prosperity it had produced or to a world transformed by globalization.
Back in 1999, when the Democratic Party of Japan had first gained a majority in the upper house of the National Diet (Japan's bicameral legislature), I sat down for a long talk in Tokyo with Mr. Kan. In those days, he was hailed as Japan's "Tony Blair" because of his "third way" approach that embraced globalization and sought to reform the overbureaucratized state.
"What Japan needs is a party of the consumer and taxpayer," Kan said then, "not one whose power rests on the rural constituencies and big construction companies and then is subordinate to the bureaucracy. It is the politicians that are elected who should govern, not the bureaucrats."
I asked if he agreed with Taichi Sakaiya, who headed Japan's Economic Planning Agency, that it was time to end the system of "administrative guidance" that had built Japan into an industrial giant because such a system was not flexible enough to compete in the globalizing economy.
Kan went further than agreeing with Sakaiya. He agreed with Japan's chief foreign critic. "I have long agreed with Karel van Wolfren's book, 'The Enigma of Japanese Power' that criticized the shadow power of the bureaucracy and the lack of a center of political accountability," Kan said controversially. "Eighty percent of the policies in Japan are made by bureaucrats and only 20 percent by elected political leaders. In our current system, a minister, including the prime minister, has no final power. Can you even call that a government?"
Unlike Japan, China does have a powerful political center: The Communist Party Politburo that directs the bureaucratic elite from its Forbidden City compound of Zhongnanhai. But is a strong, one-party center in China that lacks accountability any different in the end from Japan's unaccountable bureaucracy?
Will this modern mandarinate that has competently moved China from a peasant economy to the factory of the world be able to transcend its Maoist roots and respond to the new conditions and constituencies it is creating any more than did Japan Inc.'s Ministry of International Trade and Industry? Unless it shifts its policies toward more democracy and tends to the interests of the rising urban middle class, it risks ending up in the same cul-de-sac as Japan.
To be sure, China's rural population remains massive. But China is urbanizing at a speed and on a scale never seen before. In Mao's time, only 20 percent of the population lived in cities. Today it is 40 percent and is predicted to reach 80 to 90 percent in the coming decades.
With more than a billion inhabitants, yet lacking less arable land than India and short on energy, China has embarked on a colossal effort to organize its immense population into megacities with tens of millions of people. The McKinsey Global Institute projects at least 15 such megacities with 25 million residents – each the population size of a major country.
Since the revolution concentrated land ownership in the hands of the state, the Chinese authorities have vast leeway in shaping these cities that must accommodate so many people, planning the urban infrastructure with high-speed connecting trains, state of the art airports, deep subways, industrial parks, universities, and seas of skyscrapers.
"Although politics in China will change radically as the country urbanizes, " said Singapore's foreign minister George Yeo, "the core principle of a bureaucratic elite holding the entire country together is not likely to change. Too many state functions affecting the well-being of the country as a whole require central coordination. In its historical memory, a China divided always means chaos."
Because of its lack of a center of political accountability, Japan was unable to prevent its formidable momentum from morphing into inertia as Japanese society and the world around it evolved. That is what has made change so difficult. "Even if we want change, where is the lever?" Kan asked a decade before the Democratic Party of Japan finally pushed the Liberal Democratic Party from power last September.
Will China be different?
"When working properly, the mandarinate is meritocratic and imbued with a deep sense of responsibility for the whole country," Yeo said hopefully. And, certainly, there is a kind of systemic accountability of the Communist Party since its legitimacy is anchored solely in keeping economic growth going.
But without the civic software that complements the infrastructure hardware, will the Chinese bureaucratic elite be responsive enough to the needs, expectations, and aspirations of its burgeoning, ever more prosperous urban masses?
The mandarinate is already being tested on many fronts, from the need to raise domestic consumption as American demand for Chinese exports weakens, to endemic environmental crises, to the striking workers at Honda, to the suicides at Foxxconn Technology Group this year.
For the first time in its postwar history, Japan has a vigorous system in which two major parties alternate power. Kan now possesses a tenuous lever to hold the bureaucratic elite accountable so Japan can change course.
China's authorities are unlikely to adopt Western-style parliamentary democracy as a means of greater accountability. But they nonetheless need some meaningful feedback mechanisms to effectively negotiate China's transition from the world's shop floor to a society with a large, globally integrated, urban middle class. Administrative guidance from the top alone cannot work as such a society grows more complex. At the lowest levels of government China is experimenting with democracy as a useful check against abuse by local officials. How far up the ladder democracy will climb is the big question now.
Economists used to liken the export-driven development model in East Asia to the V-shaped formation of a flock of geese, with Japan showing the way and others following. Japan is demonstrating to the rest of East Asia today just how hard it is to change once the course has been set by an unchallenged bureaucratic elite. China should be paying close attention once again to the lead goose.
Nathan Gardels is editor in chief of the Global Viewpoint Network of Tribune Media Services. His most recent book, with Mike Medavoy, is "American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age."
© 2010 Global Viewpoint Network/ Tribune Media Services. Hosted online by The Christian Science Monitor.


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Although not the fastest, most exciting, or most important game from the Worlds this year, I think it's the best.
The game has character, narrative and skill. The Guardians and Clobber Politics' different personalities and styles make for a classic sporting match-up. But ultimately, The Guardians' patience and composure wins out.
The Guardians play a low-tempo game, retaining energy for the rest of the tournament. There are positive knock-on effects from this confident strategy: it gives you time to become acclimatised to the often alien courts and it leaves your team in a slightly deeper position that absorbs attacking play and creates counter-attacking opportunities.
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I have a confession: During my early dating years, I preferred to be The Seduced, not The Seductress. I was chicken. Like many women, I worried that if I put myself out there and got a "no thanks" in return, I'd never recover from the humiliation. And while my path of least resistance didn't score me the hottest sex, I was happy at least that it kept me in possession of my ego.
Then, during college, I met George,* an art major with rosebud lips and a slow-as-molasses sexiness, who, despite my silent pleas for his affection, didn't give me the time of day. Just as I was about to abandon my George fantasy, I ran into him at a bar after the Senior Streak, a ridiculous, drunken tradition where every senior runs around campus, sans pants. I was naked as a newborn, except for the words THE BOMB scrawled across my butt with a Sharpie. And, for reasons I still don't totally understand, I went for it--walked right up to him, threw my arms around his neck and asked him to dance. Soon I was headed back to his place, wearing his jacket.
Even though I'm happily married now, my dalliance with George remains among my favorite pre-aisle memories--because I'd pounced and it worked. That night didn't turn me into some raging Jessica Rabbit, but it did teach me that sometimes the boldest, most out-of-character move is the one that gets you results. Lately I wonder if I've lost my game. Perhaps I need to dredge up some of that old naked courage with the man I love. For inspiration, I talked to 16 women and guys who shared their own brave stories of past seductions that went oh-so-right.
"After a dinner party, where my husband and I had been served a special soup that was full of cloves, we went home tipsy and tired. But even exhausted, we only dozed lightly before we woke up, spontaneously got naked and jumped each other. We tried to go back to sleep, but it happened again...and again! We couldn't believe it--it had to be the clove soup. Of course I called my friend for the recipe. A few weeks ago I made the soup, and it worked all over again. Maybe it's the placebo effect, but who cares?" --Kristen, 33
"Out on a blind date with a nice but otherwise kind of bland guy, I happened to notice that one of the bartenders at the restaurant was incredibly hot. On my way to the ladies' room, he bumped me slightly and coyly said, 'Please stop running into me.' I spent the rest of dinner making eyes at him, and after another sangria or two, I excused myself again to go to the bathroom. The bartender came over and said that he'd been waiting for me. I held the bathroom door open and said, 'Well, come on then.' He did, and moments later we were making out like bandits. Periodically I would stop the action and say, 'Wait, I am on a date!' which would just make us more excited. We exchanged numbers, and I went back to the table to thank my poor, patient date and explain that we just weren't compatible. I went home alone that night, but man, was I ever happy!" --Amy, 29
"A former boyfriend and I were in a two-month-long sexual dry spell. Desperate, I waited until he was asleep one night, stripped down to absolutely nothing, jumped on top of him, pinned him down with my arms and said, 'If we don't do it right this second, I'm going to become a nun.' He was like, game on! It was a little bit humiliating, but hey, it worked." --Christina, 26
"A friend and I were on a girls' vacation together when two good-looking guys approached us. Making conversation, they asked me what I did for a living, and out of nowhere, I made up a story and said I was the founder of a certain online company. Well, it turns out they were the founders of that company--really, the exact company--and were on vacation celebrating a recent merger. We spent the night talking about how funny it was that I had picked the exact wrong lie! Or maybe it was exactly the right one: I ended up going home with one of the guys." --Andrea, 35
"I once surprised my boyfriend with a lap dance in a sexy Santa outfit...in the middle of the summer. Sure, it wasn't seasonal or even relevant, but what's the fun if he sees it coming?" --Kirsten, 25
"I work the late-night shift at a TV news station. After weeks of flirting with a hot new coworker, I left an anonymous note on his desk saying he was needed in the studio first thing in the morning. When he got there, I was waiting for him in the dark, sitting on top of the anchor's desk, showing the type of cleavage that even the most flexible of human resource managers would deem inappropriate. Now we regularly hook up before everyone comes in for their shifts--let me tell you, it guarantees a very productive day at work." --Jen, 29
"After an awful fight with my boyfriend, I really wanted to make up, so I asked him if he'd come over and fix my leaky faucet. When he let himself into my apartment, I was waiting for him in a bubble bath. Corny, but all was forgiven!" --Jennifer, 28
"My college boyfriend Tyler and I were playing pool with a jerk who kept mouthing off about how bad we were. I looked the guy in the eye and said, 'I don't like you, you're an asshole, stop bothering us.' Later that night, in the parking lot, Tyler suddenly kissed me and said, 'That was amazing, the way you told him off. I knew right then.' I said, 'Knew what?' He kissed me again and replied, 'That I'm in love with you.' I'd seduced him without even knowing it!" --Renee, 25
"One weekend this guy Rob and I ended up both being invited to a friend's house. I'd met him only once before but was smitten. When it was time to go to sleep the first night, he insisted that I take the guest bed and he'd take the couch. But while he was washing up, I got settled on the couch. When he saw me there, he exclaimed, 'I said I'd take the couch!' So I said, 'If you're so hell-bent on sleeping on the couch, then why don't you join me?' And he did." --Nancy, 33
Even the smoothest woman can stumble on the way to seductionville. proof: these real-life tales of whipped cream, rashes and repercussions (at least they're laughing now!).
"After my boyfriend and I had hours of exhausting fun with some 'chocolate body fondue,' we fell asleep and forgot about the (open) bottle we left on the pillow. The next day, I woke up and my hair was one big chocolate mess. It would have been funny, but I had a job interview that very morning! I couldn't get the goo out, so needless to say, there was some wicked styling involved." --Christine, 21
"One night I decided to channel my inner seductress and showed up at my boyfriend's house wearing nothing underneath my coat. I didn't own a trench coat (the classic for this scenario), so I subbed in my wool winter jacket. Halfway through my taxi ride to his house, I started itching. By the time I showed up at his door (after accidentally flashing my cab driver--lovely), my entire body was a big, red, blotchy mess!" --Sarah, 30
"On my birthday my boyfriend surprised me with a home-cooked dinner, complete with strawberry shortcake, my favorite. We got a little silly with the whipped cream and moved things to his bedroom where, on a whim, I gave myself a whipped-cream bikini. One step, though, and my bikini 'top' fell to the floor in two distinct splats. He was laughing hysterically, and the seductive mood was, alas, dead. After further research (I couldn't help but wonder how they stay on in the movies), I discovered that film pros use shaving cream instead. Good to know!" --Rachel, 29


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Sterci has announced it has earned Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Optimized status. (Read full announcement here) "GTExchange from Sterci is a high-performance multi-network and multi-standard financial messaging solution that provides a comprehensive connection hub to SWIFT and other networks, as well as handling internal message transfer. It supports high volume and complex message flows from multiple counterparties, delivering control, transparency and proven efficiencies. By achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized and Oracle Exalogic Optimized status, Sterci has shown that its GTExchange solution has achieved a 3.8 x greater throughput (nearly 4 million messages an hour), than any previous tests on comparable x86 systems."


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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, pronounced "ching" and sometimes known as the Manchu dynasty, was the last dynastic house to rule Imperial China. The Qing dynasty succeeded the Ming in 1644, and was itself replaced by the Republic of China in 1912.
Origins of the Qing
|Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty had its origins in the area north of the Great Wall in what is now NE China, known in the west as Manchuria. A local semi-nomadic Jurchen tribal leader, Nurhachi (1559-1626), amalgamated a number of tribes and reorganised them along state lines, with an army divided into Banners; in 1625 he established a capital at Shenyang (Mukden). In 1635 Nurhachi's successor Abahai (1592-1643) decreed that the nation be known by the name Manchu, and in 1636 named his dynasty Qing and proclaimed himself emperor. As Manchu power grew north of the Wall, to its south the Ming government was in terminal decline. The Chinese empire was ravaged by revolt, and in 1644 one rebel leader, Li Zicheng, occupied Beijing and declared himself emperor. The last Ming emperor, Chongzhen, hanged himself on Coal Hill, overlooking the Forbidden City. Horrified by the rebel success, the Ming commander of the garrison at the strategic pass of Shanhaiguan - where the Great Wall meets the Bohai gulf - allowed Qing forces to pass through the Wall, and they quickly occupied Beijing, establishing the new dynasty as rulers of China. Resistance to the Qing persisted in southern China (under the so-called Southern Ming) for another decade and a half, and all resistance was not stifled until 1681.
|History of China
|Xia c. 2070–c. 1600 BC
|Shang c. 1600 – 1046 BC
|Zhou 1045–256 BC
|Qin 221–206 BC
|Han 206 BC – 220 AD
|Three Kingdoms 220–280
|Jin 265–420
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|Sui 581–618
|Tang 618–907
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Ten Kingdoms 907–960
|Song 960–1279
|Yuan 1271–1368
|Ming 1368–1644
|Qing 1644–1911
|Republic 1912–1949
|People's Republic 1949–present
High Qing
The Qing reached its zenith of power, prestige and cultural achievement under the emperors Kangxi (reigned 1662-1722), Yongzheng (r. 1722-36) and Qianlong (r. 1736-99). China experienced peace, prosperity and safety and grew wealthy through the trade of cotton, silk and tea. The Qing became so contemptuous of outsiders that foreign traders were forced to kneel when Emperor Kangxi had his laws read.
Basic reading
- Eberharad, Wolfram. A History of China (2005), 380 pages' full text online free
- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, and Kwang-ching Liu. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (1999) 352 pages excerpt and text search
- Fairbank, John King and Goldman, Merle. China: A New History. 2nd ed. Harvard U. Press, (2006). 640 pp. excerpt and text search
- Gernet, Jacques, J. R. Foster, and Charles Hartman. A History of Chinese Civilization (1996), called the best one-volume survey; excerpt and text search
- Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yueh. The Rise of Modern China, 6th ed. (Oxford University Press, 1999), highly detailed coverage of 1644-1999, in 1136pp. excerpt and text search
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott. The Development of China (1917) 273 pages; full text online, by a Christian historian
Advanced studies
- Fairbank, John K. and Liu, Kwang-Ching, ed. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 2: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2. Cambridge U. Press, 1980. 754 pp.
- Peterson, Willard J., ed. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800. Cambridge U. Press, 2002. 753 pp.
- Rawski, Evelyn S. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (2001) complete text online free
- Struve, Lynn A., ed. The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time. (2004). 412 pp.
- Struve, Lynn A., ed. Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers' Jaws (1998) excerpt and text search


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SALT LAKE CITY – The World Cup brings one thing to Major League Soccer: expectations. The expectations are that the domestic league will see increased interest and growth on the heels of the excitement around the sport's premier tournament.
Salt Lake City sports media personality David James believes that while you may not be able to draw a direct line between the World Cup and MLS, the impact will be seen in other ways.
James, who has a young son who is an avid soccer fan, explains that there are many youngsters who have grown mesmerized by the vuvuzelas, along with the action on the pitch in South Africa. His son is an avid soccer fan himself.
"When he's 40 and has disposable income, he'd like to own an MLS franchise," James said of his son. "That's just going to happen slowly over time."
James explains his own personal introduction to the game of soccer. He knew kids who played soccer in high school and was aware of the 1990 World Cup, but there were lots of roadblocks to him becoming a fan of the game, including the lack of television coverage.
"I didn't like it, I didn't hate it – I just couldn't see it," James said. "The '94 World Cup sucked me in, and specifically the US vs. Colombia game. It moved so fast. It was over in two hours. There were no commercial breaks, and the action was constant."
From there, James became more acquainted with the game when Real Salt Lake came to town in 2005.
"Now there's a team here, and I know the guys here," he said. "And you watch a little bit more and figure some stuff out."
He explained that between his drive time sports radio show and late night TV sports show, he saw a rise in the interest surrounding the game that lasted for a couple of years after Real Salt Lake came into existence. However, there came a point where the honeymoon feeling wore off.
Then in 2008, Rio Tinto Stadium opened its doors, renewing the excitement that was there at the start. The fact that the team had started to become competitive was the real story.
"The more they win, the more people get into it, especially with a sterling home record," James said. "When people pay money, they get their money's worth."
And of course, last year's MLS Cup championship pulled in those potential fans hiding in the shadows and brought them out into the open.
Today, James says he'd like to see more World Cup stars and US National Team personalities continue to make their way into the league. From his vantage point, this will be the next critical step in continuing the growth of the game.
"I do think soccer has established its niche, and is continually broadening its niche," James said. "They need to figure out a way to get some of the world's best players here."


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Goodbye Osama?
"Al-Qaida has been groping in the dark" – "The Arab popular uprisings have disappointed al-Qaida" – "Al-Qaida merely watches as history flies past." These and similar headlines found in the international press in recent weeks offer a brief analysis of the current state of the terrorist network.
The media reports all concur in one respect: Al-Qaida has played no significant role in these revolutions. The events of the past months has demonstrated an unbridgeable gap between what al-Qaida propagates and what Arabs have demanded during the demonstrations.
"This is a gap that has always existed," says the Hamburg Islamic scholar Albrecht Metzger. "Yet, on account of some partially successful terrorist attacks in Arab countries and in the West, we have believed that the al-Qaida organization is more powerful than it is in reality."
The recent developments show even more so, continues Metzger, that al-Qaida represents a minority in the Arab world and that they are unable to convince a majority of the population in their ideology of a holy war.
Deprived of the ideological raison d'être
Mohammad Abu Rumman is also convinced that in addition to the dictators, al-Qaida will emerge as the biggest loser in this historic transformation. He is a researcher and Middle East expert at the Centre for Strategic Studies at the Jordanian University in Amman.
Al-Qaida, says Abu Rumman, has never spoken for Arab youth. "Al-Qaida offered its own answers to the general political crisis of Arab regimes. This crisis was characterized by the assumption that a peaceful, democratic transformation was not a possible option."
Yet, the desire for democracy among the Arab people and the demand for social justice, equality, and pluralism are diametrically opposed to the principles of al-Qaida, says Abu Rumman. This has deprived the terrorist network of its ideological raison d'être.
Experts have also found Osama bin Laden's silence to date as remarkable, considering that he is usually not sparing with his commentaries via video recordings.
It appears as if he has not found the appropriate words in light of the recent massive upheavals, wrote Yassin Musharbash recently, al-Qaida expert with the German news magazine "Der Spiegel". According to Musharbash, "Al-Qaida has not been at the head of the avant-garde, but rather urbane, Internet-savvy young people throughout the Arab world." The result is that the head ideologist of the terrorist network no longer fits in the picture.
Vague video messages
Despite the inability of al-Qaida to come to grips with modern social networks like Facebook and Twitter, the terrorist network has not remained completely at a loss for words after the events in Egypt. In a Youtube video, Ayman Al-Sawahiri attempts to reinterpret the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt according to his world view.
The number two man in al-Qaida sees the events as Islamic revolts against un-Islamic despots. Sawahiri rejects democracy as a secular form of government in which "everything depends upon the mood of the majority".
This form of government, therefore, is for him un-Islamic. Such an understanding of democracy is far removed from the demands of the demonstrators in Libya and Egypt.
As a whole, most experts on al-Qaida and the Middle East agree that the irrelevance of the tired and familiar slogans of the terrorist network could prove the undoing of the organization and relegate al-Qaida into insignificance. Real democratization and the establishment of rule of law would make the group superfluous once and for all.
Yet, this might not occur to the same extent everywhere, warns Muhammad Abu Rumman. The influence of al-Qaida is not equal in all states. "In Libya, for example, where tribal culture plays a strong role, or in Yemen, where social differences are great, the situation is quite different from that in Tunisia or in Egypt."
No reason for complacency
A political vacuum in these countries might also allow al-Qaida to establish itself and win popularity. And should the rulers of Libya and Yemen refuse to allow a peaceful and democratic transformation and thereby plunge their countries into chaos and civil war, al-Qaida could capitalize from the situation.
The Islam expert Albrecht Metzger also does not advocate complacency. The role of Islamist groups in countries where no democratic structures exist should not be underestimated.
Pakistan, for example, is a country that has recently moved out of the spotlight. "This is a very important country for jihadism, because radical Taliban there are attempting to take over power and, in principle, determine social and political structures. I believe that this will be a significant battlefield for al-Qaida. The Arab world, for the moment at least, will not be."
Nader Alsarras
© Deutsche Welle/Qantara.de 2011
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
Qantara.de editor: Lewis Gropp
The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian Uprising
Political Grey Areas
The Muslim Brotherhood remains an important factor in Egyptian politics. If free and fair elections do eventually take place in Egypt, it would certainly garner a large number of votes. Is this a cause for concern? Answers from Albrecht Metzger
Al-Qaeda in Yemen
Renaissance of Terror
Yemen has recently become a haven for al-Qaeda. Yet a few years ago the organisation had seemingly petered out, the leaders of the old guard either in prison or dead. Albrecht Metzger has background details
Al-Qaida's Third Generation on the Web
Terrorist Franchising
Al-Qaida has launched its first online magazine in English: Inspire. With Islamist propaganda and instructions for do-it-yourself bombs, it is aimed at supporters from the west. Emad M. Ghanim reports


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By way of background, I left my job at a law firm in Cabot in February, 2017. We had a parting of the ways. It ended fine, no hard feelings, but, I was on the job hunt for a few months, when James told me for the one-hundredth time, why are we still in Cabot?
Rachel has graduated. Samantha has graduated. Charlotte will be starting high school in the fall. I have no job. Now is the perfect time for a break. Let' go.
But should we? We have so many friends in Cabot that I found it so hard to imagine our family living anywhere else. The kids had essentially grown up here. We came to Cabot after Hurricane Katrina and we were welcomed like royalty. The crime rate is low; we never lock our doors. The doctors are good, and the big city of Little Rock is easily accessible. Again, so many good friends to James and me, but, also to our kids. Why move? James loved his calling; his Dad was close by. Why leave that?
Because we should. Because it's time. Because there's a whole world out there and we have only been in one corner of it. So here we go.
I looked on Craigslist and found a solo practitioner who was advertising for help. I knew the town where he practiced because I had gone to college there. It was forty five minutes south of my mom's house and an hour north of my brother's house. I applied. They called and said, so I have your resume and I'm interested but there's one big elephant in the room - you are in Arkansas. I said, yes, sir, I am. But, I can be in Maryland, just give me two days. That was a Monday, we set up an interview on Friday and on Wednesday, James and Charlotte, Josephine, JMichael and I all left for Maryland. Samantha could not miss school (she couldn't even be late) and she had to work, so we left her home. We arrived at Mom's, I interviewed on Friday and he said, you are great and I would hire you and you could start on Monday, but, again, you live in Arkansas.
I said here's what I think. I think I drive back to Arkansas with my family. I will fly back here alone on Wednesday. I will work for you for two weeks and then I'll leave for my daughter's graduation, to pack a house and move my family, then I'll be back here by June fifth to start permanently. The leave and come back was James' idea. It also allowed me time here to look for a place to rent. Win/win!
And my new boss said, that works for me. You're hired.
And so, after having three of my first five weeks of work off, I am now working full time in Chestertown. We are living a little north of here until we decide where we want to buy a house.
I'm making more money; the kids are excited about the new scenery. JMichael is just excited. He's a happy kid. Charlotte left behind the horrible end of the year drama she had in Cabot, saying good riddance and I'm off to conquer new worlds. Josephine was excited to get the GT placement letter in hand and leave town, though for her saying goodbye to friends was a lot harder than anyone saw coming. Lots of tears from her and her sweet group of buds. Samantha was excited to get here and is loving not working, just tanning and relaxing. She misses JonBoy, her boyfriend, who plans to come see her for her eighteenth birthday next month. Leaving was harder than she thought. JonBoy was there for every stage of it and she had a group of about five friends there with her until we pulled away from the house. She cried until we got to Tennessee, then, though still sad, she started to look into the adventure and move on. She still misses AR.
Rachel, meanwhile, stayed in Arkansas. She and her boyfriend, Evan, will be coming out here in mid-July, after they have all their loose ends wrapped up. Out of respect for his parents, Evan wanted to give them more time to accept his decision to move east, and they have both given notice at their jobs and have started packing. We miss them. I understand how Evan's parents must feel, but, the kids are 22 and 19, so they can decide. I'm just thrilled they will be here soon.


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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
World Premier: Gilroy Garlic Festival Movie Starring the Stamp of Shame
The vocalist's wailing in the soundtrack perfectly captures and conveys the pain I feel thinking about how great this film was going to be. I'm pretty sure it would have won awards at Sundance, Cannes, etc., and now it's just a four-minute eyesore I didn't even bother to narrate. Enjoy!
Soundtrack: Pink Flyod's "The Great Gig in the Sky" from the album, Dark Side of the Moon
Photo credit (c) Flickr user lowjumpingfrog
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when life gives you lemons...
You still managed to make this entertaining. I'm sure it was annoying, but it made for a post and vid I got a chuckle from, so thanks anyway!
Btw, love the "sensible shoes" shot. ;)
- July 30, 2008 at 2:57 PM
3IVX Trial
- July 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM
You know after a few seconds I barely noticed the stamp on the screen. I think the video turned out great!
Ok- I'm lying. :)
- July 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM
it was totally worth it for the slo-mo rosemary broom slapping the meat. I watched that part 3 times - I need help.
- July 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM
- Chef John said...
well said Bill
- July 30, 2008 at 5:54 PM
I've always wanted to go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival as it is always on my birthday weekend, but never have. Now I don't feel short-changed (okay maybe a little). Thanks anyway.
Going to the DeYoung to see Chilhuly Glass instead this year.
- July 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM
- Chef John said...
That sounds great, I should check that out myself.
Those of you that aren't familiar with Dale Chilhuly's work, here is a link to some samples.
- July 30, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Better link to see the glass artwork:
- July 30, 2008 at 9:59 PM
- The Warner Family said...
What is this mystery spy camera you were using? The quality was great!
Jim W
- July 31, 2008 at 12:44 AM
- Chef John said...
its a Flip cam. If you google Flip you will see their site.
- July 31, 2008 at 12:57 AM
I caught The glass exhibit when it was at the STL botanical garden. *3IVX* LOVED IT. (both times) It's a shame that the garlic shrimp was bad. One of the things I miss about Cali, *3IVX* good shrimp was easy to find. It's a little harder in the midwest. May I ask, how did they ruin those *3IVX* shrimp?
John T. Rhoe
- July 31, 2008 at 1:59 AM
- Chef John said...
it was not garlicy and soggy cornmeal breading.
- July 31, 2008 at 2:07 AM
- Hao said...
not sure what your needs are for video-converting, but I find ffmpegx to be rather easy to use and free:
- July 31, 2008 at 4:08 AM
- Stephanie said...
I just had flashbacks from when I went to the Gilroy festival a few years ago. I got the worst sun burn I've ever had in my life. :(
The garlic ice cream was free when I went... I'm glad it was because now I know that I don't like garlic ice cream :)
- July 31, 2008 at 11:13 AM
The stamp wasn't annoying at all (in my opion - which is worth a lot, lol)! After less than a minute of watching, I barely noticed it.
Thanks, as always, for sharing!
- July 31, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- PrimeBrit said...
Chef... Not one to slap a back for no reason but... You ROCK!
- July 31, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- milkshake said...
Looks just like you got some lipstick stamp on your camera, Chef.
I wonder what happens to people who gorge up on all that garlic - I mean are they admitted back into the society?
- August 1, 2008 at 2:19 AM
- Chef John said...
Yes, they (we) are welcomed back!
- August 1, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Connie T. said...
That little camera takes great video shots.
- August 2, 2008 at 12:41 AM


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PARMA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE:GTI) will report earnings for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 on Thursday, October 25, 2012.
GrafTech's webcast and conference call with investors and analysts will be held on the same day at 11:00am Eastern Time.
The live webcast will be available at www.graftech.com, in the Investor Relations section. The dial-in telephone numbers for the live audio are:
Domestic – (877) 736-7716
International – (706) 501-7465
The rebroadcast webcast will be available following the call, and for 30 days thereafter, at www.graftech.com, in the Investor Relations section.
GrafTech International is a global company that has been redefining limits for more than 125 years. We offer innovative graphite material solutions for our customers in a wide range of industries and end markets, including steel manufacturing, advanced energy and latest generation electronics. GrafTech operates 19 principal manufacturing facilities on four continents and sells products in over 70 countries. Headquartered in Parma, Ohio, GrafTech employs 3,000 people. For more information, call 216.676.2000 or visit www.graftech.com.
GrafTech International Ltd.
Kelly Taylor, 216-676-2000
Director, Investor Relations
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Sesame Seed Chicken
(Susamli Tavuk)
500g chicken wing drummettes
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, ground
Place the milk in a small bowl. Place sesame seeds, bread crumbs, crushed pepper, salt and pepper in another cup and mix. First soak the chicken drums in the milk, then cover them with the sesame seed mixture. Arrange them on the oven tray on top of parchment paper. Don't let them touch each other, otherwise they won't be crispy.
Preheat the oven 400 F (200 C) and cook for about 45 minutes until they take a golden colour. Sesame Seed Chicken is a great party dish, especially in the summer, enjoy :)
Makes 3-4 servings.
Meal Ideas:
- Apricot Couscous, Mixed Salad with Brine Dressing and Creamy Pudding.
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The publication of Richard Price's sermon on "A Discourse on the Love of Our Country" in November 1789, in which he praised both the American and the French Revolutions, prompted Edmund Burke to write his critique of the French Revolution Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790. This began a debate about the nature of the French Revolution which continues to this day: was it a step towards individual liberty and constitutional government or towards chaos and tyranny? Burke's critique was quickly replied to by supporters of the Revolution such as Thomas Paine (1791) and William Godwin (1793). Burke, in turn, returned to the topic in numerous other writings.
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The following statement was issued today by the Los Angeles Dodgers:
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"There is no rational explanation for this senseless act which resulted in Jonathan's death. The pain that this has caused his family and friends is unimaginable. Words are not enough to describe our sadness. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family during this extremely difficult time."
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INDOOR TRACK: Both Thomaston and Shepaug competed well at Class S State Championship
NEW HAVEN >> With stiff competition all around the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven, The Thomaston girls were able to score 22 points and pick up a third place finish at the Class S Championships.
In the 1600's, the Golden Bears' Sabrina Olson finished fourth with a time of 5:19.20.
Shepaug's Logan Ross surprised North Branford's Matt Edwards by finishing just ahead of him in the 600 (1:25.14) winning the event.
Edwards said Ross ran the better race.
"(Logan) just out kicked me (at the end)," Edwards said
For Old Saybrook's Cori Reid, it was not too long ago that she was dribbling a basketball for her Rams' basketball team.
A year later, the senior traded in her sneakers for spikes and gave indoor track a try. The switch has paid off for Reid and the Rams. Thursday night at the Class S Championships at the Floyd Little Athletic Center, Reid took first place in the 600 meters as Old Saybrook finished in third place with 42 points.
The Bloomfield girls and boys both took first place.
"I did outdoor (track), I just wanted to change it up and have fun my senior year," Reid said.
Reid is having quite the debut indoor season. After placing second in the Shoreline Conference meet last week in the 600, she ran a smart and strong race and broke the Rams school record with a blistering time of 1 minute, 40.57 seconds. Indoor head coach Pete Capezzone thinks she's just getting started.
"She's really just starting to get into shape I think," he said.
Reid's performances come from her natural speed and athleticism. She said she was a little nervous and ill-prepared coming into the meet because of lack of practice due to the blizzard.
"We've been off for six days, so for her to prepare like that was huge," Capezzone said.
Along with Reid, the girls' sprint medley relay team took first place with a time of 4:26.10. North Branford's Rachel Boyers captured first in the 55 meter hurdles (8.83) and teammate Emmy Dulak finished in second in the 600 (1:40.98). Old Saybrook's Katherine Beezer was second in the 55 hurdles (8.95).
"We were hoping for top four. Just looking back we did as well as could. The boys we came up a little short. All in all I'm very, very happy," Capezzone said of the team results.
Weston's Emily Savage was one of the meet's top performers, shattering the state girls' pole vault indoor and outdoor record, jumping 12 feet, 7 inches.
"It is a weight off my shoulders," Savage said. "Making 12-7 on the first attempt was an amazing feeling."
For North Branford's Matt Edwards, there were some concerns coming into the meet. He said he spent a few days on the treadmill and had limited practice time to prepare due to the snow storm. But Edwards managed to score second-place finishes in the 600 (1:25.25) and 300 (36.42), both personal bests for him.
"(The) 600 was the best race I've ever run," he said. "The race didn't come to me like I expected it to, but it was a solid race and I was happy with it."
Edwards was also part of the winning 4x400 relay (3:33.43), while teammate Alex Raffone finished in third place in the 300 (36.82). North Branford finished in third place as a team with 33 points.
Seymour's Austin Fraser finished third in the long jump (20-5) and Old Saybrook's Nicholas Sumby was second in pole vault (12-0).
The State Open is set for Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the athletic center.


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Italy's Supreme Court has agreed to reopen the trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder and sexual assault of Meredith Kercher in Perugia six years ago. WSJ's Gilles Castonguay reports. Photo: Getty Images
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Say what? "Disco Pigs," Enda Walsh's blast of live-from-Cork color, has the audience on about a three-second dialect delay, but, blessedly, that's part of the point. Energetically directed by Dan Brick, this 1996 play is a bloody skid through the private world of Pig (a boy) and Runt (a girl), two friends with a private language made up of Irish slang, ancient in-jokes, and plain old nonsense. Pig's violent shenanigans are probably a little too much at times, but why gripe? This is about as much theater as you can get out of two actors and a shopping cart.
Like James Joyce in full-blown triple-entendre mode, Walsh knows you won't understand him right off, so he repeats himself and repeats himself, while Brick gives his actors a dozen innovative tricks to illustrate what they are describing in their pidgin English.
This gives Pig (Rex Daugherty) and Runt (Madeleine Carr) a distinct advantage over Finnegan: we can see what they're talking about, even if we're only getting prepositions and the occasional verb from lines like, "An da liddle baby beebas a Pork Sity take da furs bread inta da whirl." For that line, we get the spectacle of Pig, balanced on the play's only prop (a now-upturned shopping cart), poking his head out from between Runt's legs as if he's being "born" as she narrates.
Pig and Runt are inseparable, even when one of them isn't giving birth to the other. They were born on the same day, to neighbors, 17 years ago, and have been best pals ever since, which is one of the reasons they're so hard to understand: they only really talk to one another. It's like a regional dialect from a very strange country, population: two.
For Walsh, the theater's foremost comedian of poisonous relationships, the conceit is irresistible. And, of course, doomed.
The playwright's last Gotham outing, "The Walworth Farce," had a controlling father forcing his kids to act out his alibi for murdering their mam. Here, the damage is done the old-fashioned way — with a first kiss. Pig discovers he loves Runt; Runt discovers she's spent enough time in their private country and wants to study abroad. As they wander through Cork, starting fights with everyone from barkeeps to the Sinn Fein, the two start to grow apart, which would be elegiac and sad in anyone else's play and is kinetic and scary in Walsh's.
The marketing problem with Walsh's plays — also true of "Walworth" — is that there's no way to stop them from sounding like total downers when the truth is that they're usually a lot of fun. Pig is "da bes an da worse pal in dis bad ol whirl," as Runt points out, and their adventures are peppered with deceptively smart dialogue and jokes that range between horrifying and hilarious, sometimes scoring both sensations at once.
It's a brave, brief, funny piece that uses linguistics to venture into an emotional territory few people have ever explored. Or, as Joyce himself put it, "One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot."


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Delves into the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires, known as Death Dealers, and the barbaric Lycans (werewolves).
A young Lycan, Lucian (Michael Sheen), emerges as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king who has persecuted them for hundreds of years.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The nation's first statewide ban on the sale of crib bumper pads is taking effect in Maryland this week, the state's health department said Thursday.
The ban begins Friday and was adopted in November after 18 months of expert and public consultation, the health department said.
"Pediatricians in Maryland support the new ban on the sale of crib bumpers. Far too often in our state, healthy infants are dying in unsafe sleep positions," said Dr. Scott Krugman, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center and president of the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Health officials say crib bumper pads offer no meaningful benefit and pose potentially serious risks to infants, including suffocation.
The ban is part of an ongoing public health effort to educate parents about safe sleep practices for babies. Health officials say the key message of the effort is that babies sleep best alone, on their backs in a crib free of blankets, pillows, fluffy toys, crib bumpers or stuffed animals.
"The ban on the sale of crib bumpers promotes safer sleep for infants, and safer sleep will mean fewer tragedies for Maryland families," said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, the secretary of Maryland's health department.
The department notes that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health all advise against their use.
The department will issue a warning to someone who ships or sells crib bumper pads to a purchaser in Maryland. Further violations can bring a fine of up to $500 for each crib bumper shipped or sold. The ban doesn't apply to vertical bumpers that wrap tightly around each crib rail or mesh crib liners, but the health department doesn't endorse them.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The nation's first statewide ban on the sale of crib bumper pads is taking effect in Maryland this week, the state's health department said Thursday.


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File filters are an easy check to see if a file meets some specific criteria. Generally, these are used to limit the available list of files to open when the user is shown a file chooser dialog (JFileChooser). While there is no limit to see if a file is to be displayed (it could even be random), the most common kind of filter is to filter by the file extension. In this tip, I'll go through the basics of creating your own file filters and how to use them with your JFileChooser.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium. I'm assuming you have some experience with the Java language syntax, but extensive knowledge is not necessary. I will only discuss portions of JFileChooser that pertain to the file filters feature.
Creating the File Filter
To create your own file filter, all you need to do is extend the FileFilter class and implement the two abstract methods accept() and getDescription().
public class TextFileFilter extends FileFilter { public boolean accept(File f) { if(f.isDirectory()) { return true; } return f.getName().endsWith(".txt"); } public String getDescription() { return "Text files (*.txt)"; } }
The accept() method
This method takes in a file, then using whatever logic you want to put in, determines if the file is to be displayed in the JFileChooser file list. Generally, you'll want to keep the check fairly simple because this method is called on every file in the current directory to see if it's going to be displayed in the list or not.
Note: The file passed is not necessarily guaranteed to be an actual file, it could be a directory. If you want the user to be able to see the directory so they can navigate through them, you must return true if the file is indeed a directory.
The getDescription() method
This method is called by the JFileChooser to get the description of the file filter that is currently being used. Basically you can return whatever string you want. Note that while you can return empty or even null strings, it is strongly advised that you don't.
Using the filters
To use the file filter, you must first instantiate it and then add it to the list of choosable file filters for your JFileChooser object. If you want the JFileChooser to have a certain file filter active, use the setFileFilter() method (note: this method will add the file filter to the choosable file filters list if it's not already there).
JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser(); chooser.addChoosableFileFilter(new TextFileFilter()); chooser.setFileFilter(new RandomFileFilter());
The above code will add the text file filter first in the list, then it will add the rich text file filter and set that as the active filter.
The "accept all" file filter
There's a default file filter that accepts all files and directories. You can enable/disable choosability of this filter using the setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed() method. You can also get the filter if you wish to set the accept all file filter as the filter you want to use.
chooser.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed(true); // we can select the accept all file filter chooser.setFileFilter(chooser.getAcceptAllFileFilter()); // set the active file filter to teh accept all file filter
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If you decide you don't want the user to be able to use a certain file filter anymore, you can remove it using the removeChoosableFileFilter() method.
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Morenci Elementary School students will get a close-up look at the fire department's big aerial truck Tuesday when Morenci Fire Department members make their annual Fire Prevention Week visit.
Smoke alarms and fire safety will also be a big part of the visit, said coordinator Jeff Ort.
"We'll emphasize smoke alarms because they do save lives," he said. "It would be a really good time to check your smoke alarms at home."
Ort said that after children learn about the importance of smoke alarms at school, they need to see their parents reinforce the value of the life-saving device at home.
"Show your kids it's valuable," he said.
Ort said it's still common for department members to find dead batteries and inoperable smoke alarms when they're fighting fires.
The Morenci Fire Department still has smoke alarms to give away to those in need, through a donation from the Morenci Kiwanis Club.
Alarms will be given free and also installed for free, if desired. In addition, department members will install alarms that residents buy on their own.
When at the school next week, department members will show a DVD that demonstrates what it's really like inside a burning house—not the version that kids might have seen in movies and on television shows.
"It shows how dark it really is in a smoky house, it shows the real dangers involved," Ort said.
Students will also receive coloring books and magnets promoting fire safety and emergency phone numbers.


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Chaos – Disruption – Spontaneity
Be in the Moment – Think out of the Box
Chaos. A sudden re-ordering of things.
A breakdown of structures, patterns and beliefs.
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Short attention span. Scatterdness.
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Struggle. Being too serious.
Insensitivity, sarcasm and misuse of humor. Projection.
Personal sensitivities stemming from unresolved childhood wounds.
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#RSL man Ned Grabavoy celebrates w/ @Wingert17 after 1 of tonight's 2 goals in 4-1 road win at CHV http://instagram.com/p/Zhc4AaMFbY/
Another away win. Big performance as a team but Nedinho #20 was the MVP. Excited to play the next 4 home games. #RioTinto
HIGHLIGHTS: #RSL 4 : 1 at CHV … //www.realsaltlake.com/video/2013/05/19/highlights-rsl-chivas-usa-may-19-
The Fox with a brace, @RobbieFindley and @JoaoPlata10 add 2 more- a great win on the road for us. Thanks to the RSL faithful who came out!
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Grabavoy had a fantastic night, obviously. Also: 37/43 in passing, 4/4 tackling, 2 interceptions and was everywhere. pic.twitter.com/WGNEjTTnCv
Latest MLS West standings - #RSL alone in 2nd, hosts SJ, LA & SEA in next month at #RioT http://instagram.com/p/ZhU7PaMFVI/
Not sure what's better... the 4-1 win or my roommate for the night, no offense @kylebeckerman . Well… http://instagram.com/p/Zhe1CIqYyv/
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The Salt Lake Tribune: RSL routs Chivas 4-1 to end road trip
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ABC4.com: Grabavoy scores twice as RSL beats Chivas USA
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MLSsoccer.com: Take away Gonzo: Tim Cahill calls for set-piece pick and Theirry Henry delivers in New York Red Bulls win
MLSsoccer.com: Bruce Arena speaks plainly after gaffe costs LA Galaxy a road point: "That's 90 percent goalkeeper ball"
MLSsoccer.com: Two months after slide began, DC United finally earns point but hard work is just beginning: "It beats losing"
MLSsoccer.com: Sporting KC struggle with wrongly disallowed goal vs. DC United: "Can they give us the two points? No"
Goal.com: Monday MLS Breakdown: Place Seattle-FC Dallas in the potential game of the season column
Goal.com: Keith Hickey: MLS observers see improving quality of play
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