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Even after Fox News called the presidential election for Barack Obama, one man was still holding out for a Mitt Romney win. Karl Rove didn't hesitate to butt heads with the network on camera, rejecting Obama's projected win of Ohio and thus the election. read more
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Former two-term Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm would quite possibly have been on the list for future Presidential candidates — had she been born in the U.S. Instead the Canadian-born Democrat is going on TV. Starting tonight at 9/8c on Current TV, she will host The War Room With Jennifer Granholm, a live political show based in San Francisco. Her first guests: consumer advocate and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. TV Guide Magazine caught up with Granholm to find out what battles The War Room will pick.
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What is your favorite era of her career? Thoughts on this year's new album?
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What is your favorite era of her career? Thoughts on this year's new album?
Wow I can;t believe I've made so many Cher threads lol
I love Cher. It would be impossible for me to pick a specific era/label, but I'm a big disco/pop/dance music fiend so I'd probably pick 70's and late 90's/00's as my favourites. I love all the club mixes.
I didn't know she had a new album - haven't heard a single thing about it. Has it been released yet?
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The only thing I've heard is that the new album is coming out later this year and she's supposed to be doing a duet with Lady Gaga.
I can't wait !!!!!!
its not a duet....gaga just wrote it and gave her the song
i dnt know her well but all i remember of her is how she lipsynched during divas live (turn back time song)
I cant wait for the new album
Cher's new single
Sounds like one of those songs the circuit boys will eat up.
Wow that single she sounds very manly (in a good way!)
I'm not her biggest fan but I absolutely love Believe. All or Nothing is also a nice track but Believe is one of my favorite songs ever from the late 1990s.
The song written by Gaga is a duet. Im a Cher fan for 20+ years and have been following all of the information Cher has been tweeting about the new album. It will be released some time in the next 2-3 months.
Great new song from Cher. Excellent production. Hoping to see a full on music video.
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Hi, i am having problems connecting my nexus 10 tablet to the internet, it was no problem when i connected my laptop. when i click on my service provider name i get the answer "authentication problems"on plusnet wireless. hope someone can help derek
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See if your problem is mentioned Hear on the Google page sorry I cant be more helpfull.
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Does your Nexus Tablet support the type of encryption used by your router? If the router is using WEP, you might need to change to WPA or WPA2 for the tablet to connect. Also make sure the router isn't set to use Channel 12 or 13, because some adapters are designed not to connect to these channels which, in certain countries, are not legal.
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Thank you everybody for your advise, the problem was identified as being one of passwords. derek
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HoopsHype.com RumorsRoger MasonVisit the HoopsHype Forums to discuss the latest news and rumors in the NBA. |
» Friday, December 2 2011 |
"I got to honestly tell you, around 12:30 in the morning [last Saturday], we got a call and the guys didn't know if we were able to get a deal done. We were that close to the league keeping things shut out and us missing a season. So, when it came down to was compromise," Mason said. "Our owners deserve credit. They stepped up. They gave us 10 of the 12 items we needed. Obviously, the players gave $300 million a year back, $3 billion over 10 years, so we did our part and we were able to compromise. Nobody is thrilled with it on either side, but we're happy to be working again." "I think we saved a lot of people's jobs," he said. "Not just the guys playing ball, but the people that were affected by this lockout, the workers, and the fans were able to enjoy basketball again." Washington Post |
» Wednesday, November 30 2011 |
Multiple league sources confirmed the #Celtics have expressed interest in the following players: Shane Battier, Kwame Brown, Marquis Daniels, Aaron Gray and Roger Mason. Other reports have linked the C's with Carl Landry and Chuck Hayes. Twitter Mason, who was working out in a Washington Wizards T-shirt, would only smile when asked if his choice of attire was significant, and if a return to D.C. might be in the works. "I have nothing but love for the Wizards. If it works out, it sure would be good," Mason said. Washington Times |
» Monday, November 28 2011 |
So when the two sides actually reached a tentative agreement to have a 66-game season beginning on Dec. 25, Mason arguably had one the best responses on Twitter while showing that he had a sense of humor about his earlier mishap. He wrote, "I Love Christmas! How U?" "You can't take yourself that serious," Mason, the former Good Counsel and Virginia standout, said in a telephone interview. "The fans, they appreciated it, too. I'm just glad we're having a season. Ego is never involved." When asked how he felt to have his mistaken tweet become the catch phrase of the past two months, Mason laughed and said, "That's funny. People have been saying that." Washington Post |
» Saturday, November 26 2011 |
While Mason was briefed on the deal but wouldn't specify which system issues were resolved to the players' liking, he expects it to be ratified by the players. "I think the deal will be received well," he said. "I hear from the guys all the time -- that's my responsibility. And everyone that I have spoken to, their tone has been, 'Get us a fair deal.' So we went back and a lot of the issues that we had were rectified and I think the guys will be satisfied and ready to get back to work. "It's a good feeling, but we still have the B-list issues to tackle. But the main issues we've agreed on, and that's a good feeling." SI.com Roger Mason: I Love Christmas! How U? Twitter Sam Amick: Just spoke with NBPA Exec Committee member Roger Mason, who says there were two conference calls with his group during the long night. Twitter Sam Amick: The news of a breakthrough came on the second call, around 2 am EST when Mason says "They let us know that we had the NBA come back with the majority of the issues that we had and we just had to tackle the split." Twitter Sam Amick: Mason wouldn't offer specifics on which issues resolved: "We went back and a lot of the issues that we had, (the owners) rectified and I think the guys will be satisfied and ready to get back to work." Twitter |
» Wednesday, November 23 2011 |
The lockout continues to gain momentum, and the idea of playing games by Christmas Day is fading fast. The NBA has already cancel ed games through Dec. 15, and with the sides no longer talking it is likely that there won't be any more games in 2011. "I'm optimistic but I have no idea when we'll play again," said Mason, the Knicks player rep. "I haven't taken a job in Europe because I'm optimistic. But my optimism has been let down up to this point." New York Daily News |
» Thursday, November 17 2011 |
Roger Mason: I grew up watching the game of basketball. At 10, my Dad died, and NBA gave me something to watch and dream about. I'm feeling for the kids Twitter |
» Wednesday, November 16 2011 |
Roger Mason: Nobody is winning with the NBA lockout. When you lose time, its gone forever... Twitter |
» Tuesday, November 15 2011 |
Roger Mason: We've done a bad job stating our position to the public. It's impossible to get fan support when you're talking about millionaire athletes. … Fans talk of NBA players being greedy. But what about the guys willing to sacrifice their big pay day for what's fair and just for others. Yahoo! Sports Roger Mason: Fans talk of NBA players being greedy. But what about the guys willing to sacrifice their big pay day for what's fair and just for others. Twitter |
» Thursday, November 10 2011 |
» Monday, November 7 2011 |
Alan Hahn: FWIW: #NBPA VP Roger Mason Jr tells Newsday "There will be no vote" on #NBA proposal at player rep mtg. Details will be outlined, tho. Mason's comment is not to suggest that player reps won't be able to voice their opinions in the meeting. But no plan to put proposal to vote Twitter |
» Thursday, November 3 2011 |
As the National Basketball Players Association's negotiating committee convenes Thursday to plot its next move in the labor talks, the union and representatives of the owners will meet Saturday afternoon in in New York, union official and Knicks guard Roger Mason Jr. told The Associated Press. The weekend meeting will be yet another attempt at ending the lockout, which entered its 126th day Thursday. ESPN.com Roger Mason: After a marathon session, we are still hopeful. The simple fact is that this is a complex issue. After speaking with numerous members of the press, I want you all to know that we will be back into negotiations this weekend. The goal remains as strong as ever: #EndTheLockout There are a lot of misconceptions about what's really going on here. I really wish it were as simple as people fighting over 2 percentage points. That number is an important one, but it's not the beginning and ending of the issues. No matter what, I know in my heart what really matters and I want more than anything to see this work out for all involved (especially for the fans!). Roger Mason J. Michael Falgoust: Mason says sides will meet Sat #Nbalockout Twitter Ken Berger: Roger Mason emerges from @TheNBPA meeting and confirms talks with league resume Saturday. Twitter |
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In what has become a weekly helping of delicious schadenfreude, "The Jay Leno Show" has yet again fallen to a glorious new low in the ratings.
Guess Who Beat Jay Leno! Last week it was SpongeBob's 10th-anniversary special "SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square" on Nickelodeon. Not only did SpongeBob log more viewers than Jay on Friday — 8 million to Jay's 5 million — but he also copped more of the 18-to-49-year-old audience Jay targets so assiduously and SpongeBob does not. [WaPo]
I think I finally understand how torturers can enjoy what they do. The pain and agony of suffering is far more entertaining than death. If Leno got canceled, that would be a single joyous blog post. But these new and spectacular failures are seemingly endless. I mean, NBC gave this show a two-year contract. By the end of its run, Leno's guests will be whichever corporate executives pay the most to be a guest, and the ad rates for a commercial will be so cheap you'll be able to buy a 30-second spot to run the YouTube video of your choice. I recommend this one.


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Stormy Saturn
Image courtesy SSI/ISA/ESA/NASA
A vortex of storm clouds swirls around Saturn's north pole in this November 27 image taken from about 250,000 miles (about 400,000 kilometers) away by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Cassini's cameras have revealed a cyclone-like pattern at the pole before but only in infrared wavelengths because the north pole was in darkness during the planet's long winter. As Saturn slowly orbits the sun, light has finally begun to reach the north pole.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and has been orbiting the Saturnian system since 2004.
(Read about extreme weather here on Earth.)
Published November 30, 2012
Goodnight, Tokyo
Photograph courtesy NASA
Tokyo's bustling streets resemble a fragile, glittering web when viewed from the International Space Station. The nighttime shot was captured by an Expedition 33 crew member on November 14. The dark area in the upper left is Tokyo Bay.
Published November 30, 2012
Solar Swirl
Image courtesy SDO/NASA
A luminous eruption of gas, called a prominence, swirled just behind the edge of the sun for about a day beginning on November 18. (Read more about solar storms in National Geographic magazine.) Magnetic fields above the area make such events fairly common, but this stunning profile view was captured in extreme ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Published November 30, 2012
Herculean Proportions
Image courtesy NASA/ESA/RIT/NRAO/AUI/NSF
Hercules A, the largest galaxy in the constellation Hercules, is flanked by spectacular plumes shot from a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's core.
The optically invisible plumes—jets of high-energy plasma beams, subatomic particles, and magnetic fields—were revealed by combining the imaging power of Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico. (More Hubble pictures.)
Hercules A is roughly a thousand times more massive than the Milky Way and emits nearly a billion times more power in radio wavelengths than our sun. It is about two billion light-years away.
Published November 30, 2012
Desert Dazzler
Photograph by Babak Tafreshi, TWAN
Jupiter twinkles above a desert mesquite tree in Death Valley, California, in this November 2012 image. Toward the right of the frame, the constellation Taurus is visible. (Related: Best Night-Sky Pictures of 2012.)
Published November 30, 2012
Icy Rings
Image courtesy Caltech/SSI/NASA
A steeply inclined orbit gives NASA's Cassini spacecraft a spectacular view of Saturn's rings, composed of ice and rock.
This newly released image was taken at a distance of about 1.5 million miles (2.4 million kilometers) on August 19, 2012, with a wide-angle camera.
Published November 30, 2012
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In the past, when I used to have throw parties for my two daughters… I would do the same thing. I surveyed the kids, gave them two or three choices for movies, and sat them down after we did some games. Sure, the games were fun, I figured a movie was a great way to close the party after we were done — Boy was I wrong! Recently, my husband suggested that we investigate into a new outlet for our children's friends. Jumpers!
Movies Are not Fun
Movies are great for a Friday night, afterall… I do run a movie blog. But for kids, they are boring. Movies take way too long, they lose their attention. Especially not at a birthday party. For girls, you might get away with a movie, but not for your little men! This party, I rented jumpers in the bay area.
My Experience with Party Jumpers
This was the first time I rented a party jumper. Without saying much, I suggest you take a look at The Jumper Guys to see top notch deals on kids birthday party jumpers for the next time you throw a birthday party for your kids. The Jumper Guys can deliver to Palo Alto and surrounding areas. Kids love birthday party jumpers! I mean look at them, inflatable bouncy houses are easy to set up and are great for both kids and adults!
Pros of Jumpers:
- Easy to set up
- Fun for the entire party
- Kids get tired after a while! (Thats a good thing!)
- They stay active and healthy.
The other day, my son visited a 21st birthday party. These are not exactly young kids! But this didn't matter, they had not two but five inflatable bouncy houses at the event!
The Jumper Guys supplies a wide selection of of kids games for events too! I first found them at a party last week. I spoke with the owner I am confident they strives in delivering the peak quality event rental jumpers. Again take a peek at their website for one of a kind promotions on kids inflatable bouncy houses for the next party. Keep in mind, www.TheJumperGuys.com provides bounce house services to the entire bay area. Kids love party inflatables! I mean look at them, bouncy houses set up easily and are great for both kids and adults! Some people refer to them as bounce houses and rentals, and others call them party bouncers of some type. Regardless if you call them bounce inflatables and rentals, bounce houses are amazing and fun for everyone!


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when I was young we had cambels soup
my siblims and myself
At no time did I feel undernurished.
-- Yet you obviously suffered brain damage.
The point I'm trying to make is I wanted to make sure my life would be better.
I worked my butt off and saved everything I made.
I had goals and ambitions that my family never had.
I could not have money for my lunch at school,so I washed cafeteria dishes.
I never ever felt I was poor. I only wanted to better myself well beyond what my parents provided.
-- Because, as outlined immediately above, you knew perfectly well that you were dirt poor. Endeavor to cohere.
All trhis due to a gun shot to my dad while we were hunting rabbits. I was 9 years old.
-- And you're still feeling guilty for shooting your dad. Cheer up: bagger hero Cheney shoots people, too.
I had all three things and did very well for myself and my family.
-- Financially, perhaps. But judging from what you display here, in every other way you're definitely a failure.
How many patsies does Hillary have in her entourage
She doesn't need any. Unless a serious adult comes forth for the GOP in the next year or so, it's hers. And even a serious GOP adult might not do the trick -- s/he can't win the nomination without pandering to the lunatic far right (think Huntsman; intelligent, reasonable, genuine conservative, but not crazy), and pandering to the lunatic far right turns off all the decent folk.
Political suicide
Take your meds. You're hallucinating again.
Remember how shocked Mitt and Mrs. Mitt were when they lost so badly? Not to mention the little punk Ryan.
unless she decides to run, in which case, it's hers, no contest. Who could the repubs run against her? Ditzy Bachmann? Nine-nine-nine Pizza Man? Governor Oops?
Are they hate-filled rightwingers because they're loony kooks?
Are they loony kooks because they're hate-filled rightwingers?
Or is it just a hopeless toxic tangle of both?
Fake news! "We distort - you swallow hook, line and sinker!" (If you're enough of a simpleton and a bit of a hatemonger to begin with.)
To have an IQ smaller than your shoe size?
He worships and is envious no end -- yet somewhat distrustful -- of the bagger intellectual elite: those with IQs at room temperature.
What waste of Tax Payer Dollars will darrell "The Dimwit" issa focus his stupidity on next???????
Doesn't matter all that much. Two basic requirements:
a) It must be something that can be twisted to appeal to the simpleton bagger base.
b) It must occupy enough time that it totally blocks getting anything done what would actually be good for the country.
It is the scandal that never was
Yep. Poor pathetic bastids.
Next up in Rightwing Separate Reality: alarmed House repubs hold breathless hearings on blocking importation of green cheese from its source on the Moon.
Law enforcement has to start taking these right wing dooshbags seriously. They have to be stamped out like the traitorous cockroaches they are. Of course, republicans will oppose cracking down on these dirtbags because the GOP is desperate for support even if it's found in the extreme right wing sewer..
Lately it's more like "the GOP is desperate for the support found in the extreme right wing sewer." A few empty words about no longer being The Party Of Stupid, but when push comes to shove they need the stupid vote. Desperately -- more and more decent conservatives have come to their senses and abandoned the hijacked GOP.
rupert murdochs says it's all about ratings...
and keeping The Ignorant Rightwing Base a) ignorant, b) distracted from anything of true importance.
"much of the root cause of violence that's been happening here in Mexico, from which so many Mexicans have suffered, is the demand for illegal drugs in the United States"
"we also recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States."
bagger hatemongers don't like truth. Truth ruins their dishonest little fiesta.
So much for the GOP's Family Values meme. Hypocrisy on parade yet again.
I hear that they were Occupy trash.
You hear from the myriad voices in your own head. Back in reality, the reports make it clear that guy's a classic rightwing mutant -- Beck-Limbaugh acolyte gone extreme even for those traitors.
No. And neither did you.
Is lying a lifestyle choice for you or can you really just not help but lie? A genetic defect?
Another day, another loony skmbg taken down. So many more to go...
FBI Says Terror Attack Was Disrupted In Minnesota Raid
MINNEAPOLIS — FBI officials said Monday they foiled a terrorist attack being planned in a small western Minnesota town, but they offered no details about the exact targets of the attack – or the motive of the man accused of having a cache of explosives and weapons in a mobile home.
The FBI said "the lives of several local residents were potentially saved" with the arrest of Buford Rogers, 24, who made his first appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Rogers, of Montevideo, was arrested Friday after authorities searched a mobile home he's associated with and found Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms, according to a court affidavit.
"The FBI believed there was a terror attack in its planning stages, and we believe there would have been a localized terror attack, and that's why law enforcement moved quickly to execute the search warrant on Friday to arrest Mr. Rogers," FBI spokesman Kyle Loven said Monday.
Montevideo Police Chief Adam Christopher said a homemade sign in front of the mobile home that bore the letters "BSM" refers to a local anti-government militia group called the Black Snake Militia.
Yeah, the ongoing Obama Recovery from The Great Neocon Financial Disaster is bad news for short a-holes. So sad.
Why wasn't he laser-focused on American jobs? Why did he ruin the economy and run debt up to $11 trillion?
Incompetent, that's why.
it was even covered on CBS.
LOL!!! "Look!! Look!! We finally got a legitimate news outfit to mention our wingnut smear campaign!!"
No, but the Foxliars are sure desperate to try to bring it back. ANYTHING to bludgeon Hillary with, because even they know that the White House is hers if she wants it. Poor pathetic bastids.


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I am a super keen traveler when it comes to traveling the world and discovering new places in a whole new world. Haven't been on a Contiki tour yet, but have traveled extensively across Europe and North America, including Alaska and Hawaii. I am currently learning Spanish in university and can speak and understand quite a bit of it. Still on my bucket list is Africa, Asia and South America
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Spanish Spree 2 countries \ 14 days
22 Jul 2012 - 05 Aug 2012 \ If I was to describe this trip in 1 word - perfect! I traveled solo for the first time and was amazed by how many people I met. Lots of places we saw, excellent tour guide who was funny and made our trip amazing, great people and unbelievable sights! Contiki changed me - now I want to travel on Contiki with travelers my age who want to explore the places and party at night rather than with family members every year. I would recommend anyone to try Contiki!
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Summer's officially here, although with highs topping out at 57 this week in SF, it doesn't feel like it... In any case, we were able to score a super hot weekend recently and decided to camp on Angel Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Incredible views, the island practically to yourselves, and its close proximity to the city make it one of the best and easy camping trips you can have. Here's a lil' photo essay.
I declare Angel Island as the best beering destination... On the very hot days, swimming is required.
2.5 mile hike to our camp. Not bad. Travel light. Strong beer/ wine suggested. If hard booze your thing, do it. Watery beer best left at home.
Drinking wine, BBQing food with solid views.


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xwt support
Add support to MonoDevelop for XWT user interfaces.
A visually designer would be nice.
https://github.com/mono/xwtXwt is a new .NET framework for creating desktop applications that run on multiple platforms from the same codebase. Xwt works by exposing one unified API across all environments that is mapped to a set of native controls on each platform.
Xwt works by creating an engine at runtime that will map to the underlying platform. These are the engines that are supported on each platform:
- Windows: WPF engine, Gtk engine (using Gtk#)
- MacOS X: Cocoa engine (using MonoMac) and Gtk engine (using…3 votes -
NotImplementedException occurences in Task list
Monodevelop contains a kind of TODO list that lists all comments marked as TODO. It would be gratly beneficial to allow including NotImplementedException occurences on the list - such as Resharper's TODO list does.
This feature would be VERY helpful in doing test-driven development, since it allowsquickly answer the question "what next?"
Another reason is that you don't want to have NotImplementedExceptions in your final production code, so it's good to keep track of them.
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Move debug cursor backward or forward. Ability to skip code blocks.
Ability to grab and move debug cursor to any possible location.
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Improve Immediate Window / Expression Evaluator + Linq Support
The existing immediate-window and expression evaluator should be improved:
- Add full code-completion and syntax highlighting
- Make the evaluation engine more robust (currently many statements can`t be executed)
- Allow Linq-Statements to be executedMaybe it would be the best to integrate the Compiler-as-a-Service to accomplish the above improvements.
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F# Support
Full support for F# from within MonoDevelop
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Reshaper like context actions
Context actions & code analyzation like R#
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163 votes
107 votes
Improve git support
git addin works great but there are some things missing:
- stash and stash-pop a changeset
- git submodule adding/updating/removing
- Revert (to) revision $foo (in the git log view) doesn't work (throws a NRE)45 votes -
Turn MSBuild/XBuild build support by default
Polish the MSBuild/xbuild support so it can be the default since 2.10 onwards.
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VIM Support
Better vim support within IDE similar to ViEmu for visual studio.
104 votes -
VS2010-like box selection when using Alt key
This is a really productivity booster:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vseditor/archive/2009/05/25/the-new-box-selection-now-with-multi-line-editing.aspx61 votes -
Improve autocompletion behavior
The autocomplete experience in MonoDevelop is great 95% of the time. The other 5% of the time, I won't get good auto-complete inside a lambda or delegate body, or I'll be missing classes/methods in a reference that I just added until I restart MonoDevelop. Good start--it just needs some significant investments in quality/completeness.
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Provide Tear off tabs
Provide tear off tabs, like VS 2010 does, for use on multiple monitors.
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Stop adding features and focus on stability
MonoDevelop already has too many features many of which just add to the general instability of the app. I propose a complete moratorium on new features until MD can be used for a full day of development without a single crash.
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Support to import Visual Studio Color Settings
I would like support so I can import the Visual Studio settings file for at least my Colors and Font settings and perhaps overtime even more. This file format is xml based and there is no reason it can not be easily supported. Most MonoDevelop users are coming from Visual Studio or we go back and forth between the two, having the same look & feel is very important.
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LINQ code completion a-la LINQPad
Allow connecting to a DB and getting full LINQ code completion to query it.
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Bugzilla integration!!
Many bugs goes underreported because of the hassle of creating a bug report on bugzilla.xamarin.com that is both complete and accurate.
MonoDevelop should integrate a "Post a Bug Report" button on every crash or error message that pops up when compiling on running our projects.
Ideally it should automatically:
- if the error is already present on Bugzilla, it should show it and its description, to see if it match. Clicking on it shoud allow to read the bug report, and automatically add the user to the counter of the users affected by the bug. In this way the team…27 votes -
32 votes
Add the Azure Cloud project templates + development environment
This is really the only thing holding us back from using MonoDev on our Mac's full-time. The hard part here, of course, is the development fabric simulation environment - not sure if that's even possible, but I figured I'd throw it out here.
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This episode starts with a flash back with Yin running in on her mom on the phone. Her mother tells her that her father died in a plane crash. Back in the present Yin is still headed towards her home town on a train with her teacher and the detectives. Yin is still insisting that she won't go back. The two contractors Itzhak and Berta are headed the same way as the train Yin is on. They easily get by a police checkpoint and continue towards where Yin is going.
Meanwhile Yin notices that they are being followed by the contractors and tells her teacher. So they get off the train with the detectives are oblivious to what has happened. Yin and her teacher make it to an abandoned house and they find a piano inside. Yin begins to play and she starts to have visions of her mother, there is an image of her mother saving her life from an oncoming truck. While this is going on Hei is on his way there on a train.
Hei runs into Gai on the way to Yins position and tells him to get lost; Gai thinks that he is a stalker. Hei wants nothing to do with him and shocks him unconscious. Yin senses Hei coming and her teacher goes to intercept him. Hei asks her teacher why he took her but he realizes that she left by herself. Yin's teacher says that Hei is working with Yin doing some shady things. He confesses and Yin starts to run towards him but the building started to shake. They run outside and it's Berta and Itzhak attacking.
Hei runs towards Berta who is about to take down the house and he stops his heart with vibrations, he fight back by using his power to restart his heart. He then shoots out his belt cable and proceeds to kill her with electricity. Itzhak starts to run towards the car and is shot down by Huang who was waiting with a sniper rifle off in the distance. Huang takes aim at Yin but can't pull the trigger. After they die Yin starts to cry and her teacher is still trying to get her to go back home. She puts her finger on his lips and Hei shocks him. The episode ends with Yin using her finger to push up her face to make a smile.
I didn't like this episode too much, although I did enjoy how more of Yin's back story was shown. I also enjoyed how they're showing her and Hei having real emotions, like there some kind of special contractor or doll. I still don't like those detectives, they need new comedy relief! Next week November 11 is back!


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Friday, January 13, 2012
Carrabba's Champagne Chicken
I saw a commercial for Carrabba's new Champagne Chicken dish and it looked delicious. I stumbled across the recipe on our local Fox station's website and decided to give it a try. I did make a couple of changes to the original recipe. I used some red pepper flakes instead of roasted red peppers, and I left out the crabmeat. I was going to use crabmeat, but it was too expensive ($12 for a small cup). I decided to leave it out since it only used a small amount. This tasted fantastic! We both thought it was restaurant quality. Try it this weekend with with some crusty bread and our version of Carrabba's bread dip.
Carrabba's Champagne Chicken
adapted myfoxal.com
(Printable Recipe)
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp butter
4 chicken cutlets
1/3 cup flour
2 Tbsp parmesan cheese
1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
1/4 cup champagne (Dry)
2/3 cup heavy cream (or evaporated milk)
pinch Kosher Salt
pinch Fresh Ground Black Pepper
1/8 tsp red peper flakes
1/4 tsp tarragon
6 oz angel hair pasta, cooked and drained
Mix together the flour, salt, pepper, and grated Parmesan. Rinse the chicken pieces in water. Dredge them thoroughly in the flour mixture, until well coated.
Heat olive oil and 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet on medium high heat. Add half of the chicken pieces, do not crowd the pan. Brown well on each side, about 3 minutes per side. Remove the chicken from the pan and reserve to a plate. Cook the other breasts in the same manner, remove from pan. Cover with aluminum foil and keep warm in the oven while you prepare the sauce.
Add the champagne and mushrooms to the pan. Use a spatula to scrape up the browned bits. Reduce the sauce by half. Whisk in cream, kosher salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes and tarragon. Heat until sauce thickens to a creamy consistency. Serve chicken and sauce over angel hair pasta.
34 comments:
- aims said...
Thanks for posting. I can't wait to try this!
- January 13, 2012 at 6:21 AM
- BigSea said...
Ahhh this looks amazing! Can't wait to try it.
- January 13, 2012 at 7:18 AM
- Snowmanlover said...
Oh my Steph, this looks so great!
- January 13, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- The Japanese Redneck said...
Sounds good, crab has gotten out of sight!
- January 13, 2012 at 8:14 AM
- Big Dude said...
Super sounding dish, even without the crab, and you took great shots of it.
- January 13, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Aimee said...
OMG totally giving this a try this weekend. Was looking for a creamy chicken comfort food dinner, and I found it. New follower :)
- January 13, 2012 at 9:49 AM
- Lil' Nigglet said...
I can't affords no Champagne.
Cans you put up a recipe for Mad Dog 20-20 Chicken insteads ? - January 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM
- Britt @ The Magnolia Pair said...
Ooh this has got to be my favorite post of yours now! Looks delicious & so happy to have the famous recipe!!
xo.Britt The Magnolia Pair
:) - January 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- Tia the Baker said...
do you mind if i feature this in my copycat club for Feb/11? will be linked to your site. thanks! it looks SO good!
- January 13, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Sure Tia! Thanks!
- January 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Andrene said...
This sounds and looks delicious!! I too love anything Carrabba's. I did find a recipe for taglianini picchi pacchiu (you reference it on the page with the bread dip). Link is:
http://www.food.com/recipe/carrabbas-tagliarini-picchi-pacchiu-315874 - January 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM
- Nadia said...
This looks so delicious,I love it!!!
- January 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM
- tt.scraps said...
I have to try this...it looks delicious!!
- January 14, 2012 at 6:23 PM
- tt.scraps said...
I have to tell you that I found you this week and am loving your blog! You are so personable and sweet and your recipes are AMAZING! I love how they are not complicated, don't have a lot of weird ingredients and are easy. Thank you for sharing!!! We had your apple dumplings tonight after big bowls of bean soup. I made them with cherry 7up cause that's what I have and YUMMMMMO!!! Thanks!
Tammy - January 14, 2012 at 6:28 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
tt.scraps - cherry 7up on the apple dumplings sounds delicious! I'll have to try that!
So glad you found the blog and are enjoying the recipes! - January 14, 2012 at 6:51 PM
- Chris said...
I haven't tried the Carrabba's version but yours sounds creamy and great!
- January 14, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- There's no E in Blog said...
What was the amount of roasted red pepper?
- January 15, 2012 at 7:10 PM
- email@example.com said...
It was three slivers
- January 15, 2012 at 8:12 PM
- spinthemeal said...
YUM!!!! I'm practically licking the screen, this recipe looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing...I think I'll try it without the crab, too...rich enough as is...
- January 16, 2012 at 4:10 PM
- Lynn said...
Steph - I've been following your blog for a couple months now, and have tried a few of the recipes - love 'em! I'm a fellow B'ham-er, and FYI - I've never been to Carraba's, but made this recipe last night and it was AWESOME! I used thyme instead of tarragon, and it was fantastic. Thanks for the great stuff - can't wait to try more!
- January 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM
- The Ludlam Family said...
I made this tonight and it was DELISH!!! My entire family was wanting more!
- January 17, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- Dawn said...
This was fabulous. We had it and tried gluten free pasta made with corn I had bought from Trader Joes. So so good a real do-over meal. And I'd like to try it with the crab too.
- February 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM
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- Mollie said...
My son's girlfriend pinned this on Pinterest and I thought it looked delicious. I made it tonight and it was! I doubled the mushrooms & sauce. Thanks for posting this recipe!
- March 4, 2012 at 8:57 PM
- Paige's Blog said...
What kind of champagne did you use?
- March 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- email@example.com said...
Paige - I like to use Cook's dry champagne
- March 5, 2012 at 12:32 PM
- Kim Mills said...
So if I was to use the crab meat how is it applied?
- March 28, 2012 at 10:14 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Kim - just toss it in when you make the sauce.
- March 29, 2012 at 9:59 AM
- Amber | Bluebonnets and Brownies said...
Yum! I like Carrabba's food, but I always feel like their ambiance leaves much to be desired. I'll make this at home and skip the craziness!
- June 8, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Cassandra said...
We don't drink alchohol or buy it, is there something I could substitute in it for champagne? Would a white cooking wine work or does it really need the bubbly?
- August 7, 2012 at 3:13 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
You could use chicken broth in place of the champagne.
- August 7, 2012 at 3:22 PM
- Mary said...
I cooked this recipe today using vegan cultlets! It was so good. I used white wine instead of champagne! My husband and i loved it!!! Thanks!!
- September 21, 2012 at 2:34 PM
- dhillis said...
thanks for the recipe. It's my anniversary today and I now know what's for supper
Thanks again - December 30, 2012 at 7:11 AM


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Break new ground but revisit old
THE WWE have given fans a taste of their new-themed PPV idea with Breaking Point.
Borrowing from TNA's hugely successful all-cage match Lockdown event, Vince McMahon's company are starting to introduce shows where the headline bouts are all under variations on a gimmick.
At Breaking Point it was all about submissions, for the main events at least, and there will be TLC and Hell In A Cell focussed PPVs to follow.
And we are pleased to say the changes actually made for a very good event.
The WWE's way of doing the concept – keeping the lesser contests using standard wrestling rules – means fans don't get burned out.
And the submission idea, at least in the awesome John Cena v Randy Orton I Quit contest, made match-ups we'd seen before so much better this time around.
In fact the problem at Breaking Point was not the new ideas introduced by the WWE, but their constant need to revisit an old one.
Back in 1997 – for those old enough to remember – Vince McMahon screwed Bret Hart for real in Montreal, Canada.
Bret was leaving for WCW but refusing to drop his world title to Shawn Michaels, so Vince ordered referee Earl Hebner to "ring the bell" when HBK had a Sharpshooter locked on - meaning a furious Bret 'lost' the match without his knowledge.
Since then the WWE – and to be fair WCW and TNA too – seem to want to repeat the same feat whenever in Montreal, although scripted this time.
And so it was that CM Punk retained his world title against The Undertaker in the night's final submission bout, via a tap out that never happened.
The fact that Teddy Long and Scott Armstrong were in the McMahon/Hebner roles says all you need to do about how cheap this copy was.
What made Montreal so special the first time around, and still talked about today, was the fact Bret was screwed for real.
We can't imagine anyone will still talk about Taker v Punk next week, unless it's to complain about another BS finish in a PPV main event.
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Breaking Point opened with Chris Jericho and Big Show retaining their tag titles against the new duo of MVP and Mark Henry.
As you'd imagine this was great when Jericho and Montel were in together and not so good the rest of the time. Victory came via a Big Show punch.
Next up was our new favourite WWE talent – Kofi Kingston.
Kofi is quickly turning into one of the best high-flying talents in the industry and was so impressive yet again in his US title match with The Miz.
A fast-paced contest full of near falls, this was easily both men's best ever bout in the WWE.
The crowd ate up all the reversals, especially a kicking contest, before Kofi put Miz to bed with his Trouble In Paradise finisher.
It was simply a must watch match for any wrestling fan.
Triple H and Shawn Michaels took on Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase next in the night's first themed bout – a Submissions Count Anywhere contest.
The references to Hart and the "you screwed Bret" chants at Michaels weren't surprising, but the result was.
Legacy dominated D-Generation X for much of the arena-wide brawl – with Michaels tapping out to a double submission hold before a badly beaten Triple H could save him.
It wasn't quite a passing of the torch, but will certainly have WWE fans seeing Rhodes and DiBiase as another rung up the ladder.
Kane v Khali in a Singapore Kane match was as dreadful as it sounds on paper. The only good thing was the weapons meant less grappling. The crowd's "boring" chants and commentators' admissions that "this won't be pretty" made us chuckle.
Christian beat William Regal with the Killswitch to retain his ECW championship next in a good but short contest before Randy Orton proved why he is the best in the business today.
He may have lost his WWE championship in I Quit match to John Cena, but provided a masterclass in storytelling.
Orton methodically and deliberately took Cena apart, with facials as evil as the beating he was dishing out.
Introducing handcuffs heightened the tension and the more Orton slowed the match – cuffing Cena to the ropes and then the ring post – the more we actually enjoyed it.
When John turned the tables – escaping, handcuffing himself to Randy instead and winning with a metal-enhanced STF – the place came unglued.
But why, when putting on matches like that, the WWE feel the need to keep revisiting events from 12 years ago almost has us at Breaking Point.
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