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An end-user or administrator is allowed to couple portlets in a portal through user interface events taking place on the portal display itself. When the portal is displayed, if the user actuates a control corresponding to a property in a portlet, a menu of actions that can be performed with that data by other portlets is provided to the user. In addition to this "conventional" manner, an alternative manner of actuating the component is provided to the user such that if the user actuates the control in this alternative manner, the user is provided the option of making the chosen action "persistent," so that the next time the control is actuated by the user, or the associated property is otherwise produced, the chosen action is performed automatically, without requiring the user to choose an action.
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-recordable medium encode with functional descriptive material that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform actions of:
registering one or more portlet actions corresponding to a plurality of portlets within a portal infrastructure, wherein a first set of one or more of the plurality of portlets are providers of a particular property and wherein a second set of one or more of the plurality of portlets are consumers of the particular property; and
assembling a portal page for presentation in a browser, wherein the portal page includes interfaces from the plurality of portlets, and wherein assembling the portal page further comprises assembling a user interface control associated with the particular property, wherein the user interface control, when actuated in a particular manner of actuation by an end user, allows the end user to associate the particular property from one or more of the first set of portlets with at least one of the portlets from the second set of portlets such that an occurrence of a subsequent event associated with the particular property causes one or more portlet actions to be executed wherein the particular property is provided from one of the associated first set of portlets to the one or more associated second set of portlets.
2. The computer program product of
3. The computer program product of
storing, in persistent storage, an association between the particular property and the at least one of the one or more portlet actions;
retrieving the association in response to an occurrence of an event associated with the particular property; and
executing the at least one of the one or more portlet actions in response to retrieving the association.
4. The computer program product of
5. The computer program product of
6. The computer program product of
7. The computer program product of
allowing the end user to disassociate said particular property from said at least one of the one or more portlet actions in response to a subsequent actuation of the user interface control.
8. A data processing system comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory accessible by the processors;
a persistent storage accessible by the processors; and
a portlet management software tool executed by the processors, the portlet management tool including steps effective to:
register one or more portlet actions for one or more portlets within a portal infrastructure actions corresponding to a plurality of portlets within a portal infrastructure, wherein a first set of one or more of the plurality of portlets are providers of a particular property and wherein a second set of one or more of the plurality of portlets are consumers of the particular property; and
assemble a portal page for presentation in a browser, wherein the portal page includes interfaces from the plurality of portlets, and wherein assembling the portal page further comprises assembling a user interface control associated with the particular property, wherein the user interface control, when actuated in a particular manner of actuation by an end user, allows the end user to associate the particular property from one or more of the first set of portlets with at least one of the portlets from the second set of portlets such that an occurrence of a subsequent event associated with the particular property causes one or more portlet actions to be executed wherein the particular property is provided from the one or more associated first set of portlets to the one or more associated second set of portlets.
9. The data processing system of
10. The data processing system of
store, in the persistent storage, an association between the particular property and the at least one of the one or more portlet actions;
retrieve the association in response to an occurrence of an event associated with the particular property; and
execute, by one of the processors, the at least one of the one or more portlet actions in response to retrieving the association.
11. The data processing system of
12. The data processing system of
13. The data processing system of
allow the end user to disassociate said particular property from said at least one of the one or more portlet actions in response to a subsequent actuation of the user interface control.
This application is a continuation application of U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 10/776,040, entitled "Persistence of Inter-Application Communication Patterns and Behavior Under User Control," filed on Feb. 11, 2004 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,376,739.
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates in general to a system and method for integrating applications based upon a user's actions. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method of integrating portlets so that source portlets are able to automatically provide data to target portlets.
2. Background Art
The portal market is one of the fastest growing markets of computer software. A portal, in the context of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, may be defined as an application that provides a secure, single point of interaction with diverse information, business processes, and people, personalized to a user's needs and responsibilities. A portal, or "Web portal," is a Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and on-line shopping malls. Portals are typically accessed by a user on the Internet using a software application, such as a Web browser. A Web browser, or "browser," is a software application used to locate and display Web pages. Two popular browsers are NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR™ and MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER™. Both of these are graphical browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text. In addition, most modern browsers can present multimedia information, including sound and video, though they often require plug-ins in order to handle some formats.
The demand for portals drives rapid development of new technologies by different portal vendors in order to place their products in advantageous market positions. Not surprisingly, portals have evolved to their current state from a more primitive beginning. Originally, portals were mainly used as access points to different information sources with content being chosen by the portal operator. Next, portal customization provided users with the ability to choose the content that was displayed on the user's view of the portal using a Web browser. In this phase, the user was able to select information according to the user's interests and retrieve information related to his or her interests more expeditiously. Customized information delivery led to the introduction of business, or corporate, portals. Business portals were introduced to provide intra-business data within an organization.
The ongoing evolution of portals also left its footprint in the architecture of portal products. At first, portal-like products were delivered as pre-packaged applications that could be installed out of the box and included standard applications, which provided the portal functionality. As new applications were needed, vendors extended their products in order to satisfy requirements of the new applications. Due to the use of proprietary designs, portal vendors added exclusive functionality to their portals, tying the success of a portal to the applications that the portal included. This led to the decomposition of monolithic portal structures and the creation of portal frameworks.
Portal products offered today employ architectures whereby the portal itself only implements standard functionality, such as security, authorization, authentication, aggregation, caching, user management, enrollment, rendering, and the like. The portal provides the infrastructure to integrate other application components. A typical embodiment of this type of architecture includes APIs for integrating applications so that applications from different vendors can be used so long as they match the portal product's API. According to current computing jargon, these applications are commonly called "portlets." Other synonyms for "portlets" in current use in the art include 'iViews' (a term utilized by SAP AG of Walldorf, Germany) or 'web parts' (a term utilized by Microsoft, Inc. of Redmond, Wash.).
Portlets are components that can be added to portals and are designed to run inside a portal's portlet container. Portlets may provide different functions ranging from simple rendering of static or dynamic content to application functions such as e-mail, electronic calendaring, and the like. Portlets are invoked indirectly via the portal infrastructure and produce content that is suited for aggregation in larger pages.
While portlets allow separation of application components from each other and from the underlying portal, a challenge of using portlets is the difficulty in transmitting data that appears on one portlet to another portlet. For example, if one portlet displays orders for an organization and another portlet displays details for orders, vendors would have to "couple" the portlets to allow the user to send data from one portlet to another. In a business system, many portlets may be driven from the same pieces of information, such as order numbers, account numbers, and customer numbers. Closely coupling portlets to one another increases development requirements and maintenance of each portlet. In addition, coupling portlets may require activation of each of the coupled portlets even though the user only wants to view a subset of the coupled portlets.
In commonly assigned and copending application U.S. Ser. No. 10/448,968 (CHOUDHARY, ET AL.) May 30, 2003, entitled "System and Method for User Driven Interactive Application Integration," a manner of using information from a first portlet in performing an action in a second portlet, referred to as "Click-to-Action" is disclosed. When a user selects one of the "Click-to-Action" icons or controls displayed in a Source portlet, he or she sees a menu of actions invocable with respect to target portlets on the page that can process the properties (i.e., data items) that the icon or control is associated with. The user selects one of the actions from the menu, which results in a request being delivered to a Target portlet to perform the given action. The "Click-to-Action" feature described in the CHOWDHURY, ET AL. patent application, however, does not provide a way to persistently couple portlets.
In another commonly-assigned copending patent application, U.S. Ser. No. 10/292,074 (DUNNE, ET AL.) Nov. 12, 2002, a tool for allowing a user or administrator to couple portlets through a web-based interface was described. The DUNNE, ET AL. application describes the creation of "wires." A wire, as the term is used in the DUNNE, ET AL. application and herein, is a persistent association between a property in a source portlet and an action in a target portlet. When an event occurs that affects the property of a wire, the action associated with that property is triggered.
Although DUNNE, ET AL. tool significantly enhanced a user's ability to custom-configure a portal interface, one drawback to the tool was that a user would have to first interact with the portlets on the portal page itself, or in complex cases read additional documentation, then navigate to a separate tool interface display in order to couple or de-couple portlets. In a moderately complex portal, a user might have to switch back and forth between the portal and the tool interface a number of times in order to complete the user's configuration of the portal, which can be inconvenient.
What is needed, therefore, is a system and method for allowing a user to couple portlets without having to switch back and forth between a tool interface display and the portal itself.
The present invention provides a method, computer program product, and apparatus for allowing an end-user or administrator to couple portlets in a portal so that information may be shared between the portlets. In particular, a preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a simplified interface through which portlets may be coupled through user interface events taking place on the portal display itself. A database stores information about the data items (called "properties") produced and consumed by the portlets.
When the portal is displayed, if the user actuates a control corresponding to a property in a registered portlet, a menu of actions that can be performed with that data by other portlets is provided to the user. In addition to this "conventional" manner of actuating the component, an alternative manner of actuating the component is provided to the user such that if the user actuates the control in this alternative manner, the user is provided the option of making the chosen action "persistent," so that the next time the control is actuated by the user, or the associated property is otherwise produced, the chosen action is performed automatically, without requiring the user to choose an action.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objectives and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
Turning now to
Web application server 210 is shown serving a portal page (portal interface 212) generated via portal server 218. Portal server 218, is a specialized application to which requests for a portal (indicated, in a preferred embodiment, by URLs having a certain prefix) are handed over for processing. Since, from the perspective of web application 210, portal server 218 is an application like any other web application, web application server 210 may invoke portal server 218 through any of a number of standard web application interfaces, such as the widely-used JAVA� servlets interface standard, for example. Portal server 218 processes portlets (such as portlets 214 and 216), aggregates their markup, adds additional header/footer/formatting markup, and returns a resulting portal page 212 to web application server 210. In a preferred embodiment, portal server 218 is implemented as WEBSPHERE PORTAL SERVER, which is also a product of International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, N.Y., and which is executed on a WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER platform. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize, however, that various portal servers are available from a number of vendors, and that the present invention is not limited to the use of any particular portal server, web server, or web application server.
Portlets 214 and 216 are two portlets that make up a portal served by web application server 210. In a preferred embodiment portlets 214 and 216 are implemented in the form of specialized servlets. However, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or extensible HTML (XHTML) pages with embedded server-side scripting code and/or server-side includes (SSIs) may also be used in alternative embodiments of the present invention.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention makes use of what is known as the "servlet" paradigm of web application development, where "servlets" house the program control logic. A servlet is a piece of code that follows certain standard APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow it to be invoked by a web application server. Usually, the term "servlet" is used in conjunction with the JAVA� programming language of Sun Microsystems, Inc., although those skilled in the art will recognize that the term may be applied in the context of other programming languages and run-time environments, as well, and it is in this more general sense that the term "servlet" is used in this document. In a typical JAVA� based implementation of a web application, however, servlets are used to house the program control logic of the application, JAVA� Server Pages (JSPs) are used to create the view (i.e., what is displayed to the user), and JavaBeans are created and passed to the JSPs by the servlets in order to allow the JSP-generated view to reflect the computational results and/or the computational state of the servlets.
Servlets, JSPs, and JavaBeans allow the design of a web application to be decomposed cleanly according to a model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. MVC is a manner of partitioning the design of interactive software into conceptual levels of abstraction that fall into the three categories of "model," "view," and "controller". In general, the "model" represents the internal data of the program and the relationships between the data, the "view" represents how a user views the state of the model, and the "controller" is represents the manner in which the user changes the state or provides input. The data and code encapsulation provided by servlets, JSPs, and JavaBeans simplifies the design of web applications by allowing the applications to conform to an MVC design pattern.
"Server-side scripting code" is program code that is directly embedded into the content of an HTML/XHTML document through the use of special markup tags. When a web page with server-side scripting code is served by a web server, the web server identifies the presence of server-side scripting code and causes the code to be executed before the web page is transmitted to the client. Typically, server-side scripting code is used to place dynamic content into a web page before the page is transmitted to a web client. A number of server-side scripting languages and programming tools are available in the art. Java Server Pages (JSP), for example, is a technology (available from Sun Microsystems, Inc.) that allows Java program code to be embedded in an HTML document for server-side execution. Other server-side programming systems include Active Server Pages (a product of Microsoft, Inc.) and PHP, which is a popular open-source programming language and interpreter for producing server-side scripting code. "Server-side include" (SSI) is a similar mechanism for placing dynamic text in web documents in which the web server replaces special tags in a source HTML/XHTML document with other text and/or markup (such as a time/date stamp or the contents of another HTML file, for example). The popular Apache open-source web server provides SSI capabilities. Server-side scripting and server-side includes were designed as a simplification over previous forms of providing dynamic web content, such as CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripting, which are less commonly used today as a result. One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that although a preferred embodiment of the present invention utilizes servlets, one may also practice the teachings of the present invention using other forms of dynamic content production, including server-side scripting and CGI, without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention.
Portal server 218, in a preferred embodiment, combines the data and program content of portlets 214 and 216 by simply consolidating the raw source HTML/XHTML (including any server-side scripting code or SSIs) into a single HTML/XHTML document with some additional "glue/wrapper" HTML/XHTML markup to specify the arrangement of portlets on portal page 212. The additional markup may itself be quite significant to the operation of the portal, and can include (in addition to markup for arranging portlet views and in a non-limiting sense), headers, footers, portal navigation links, links to common services, search bars, client-side executable code (such as JavaScript, q.v.), and the like.
Portal page 212 is served to browser 202 (via web/application server 210 in this preferred embodiment) as if it were a monolithic page. Since server-side scripting code for both portlets 214 and 216 is included in portal page 212, web application server 210 may execute whatever server-side scripting code is present in portal page 212 as if the page were originally written as a single HTML/XHTML page with server-side scripts. Web application server 210 then serves the resulting page (with server-side scripts processed) to browser 202. Alternatively, the server-side scripting code may be executed prior to assembly of portal page 212 from its constituent portlets. For example, in a preferred embodiment utilizing WEBSPHERE PORTAL SERVER, portal server 218 runs as an application within web application server 210 and utilizes the JSP processor of web application server 210 to execute the JSP scriptlets for portlets 214 and 216 individually prior to the assembly of portal page 212, so that no post-processing of the assembled portal page 212 by web application server 210 is necessary.
One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that an alternative method of serving dynamic portal content would be to execute each of portlets 214 and 216 as a separate process (for example, as separate CGI scripts) to obtain HTML/XHTML output and then consolidate the output of the two portlets into a single HTML/XHTML page for serving to browser 202. One of ordinary skill in the art will also recognize the content served to browser 202 need not be HTML/XHTML content, but may comprise any of a number of content types presently in existence or developed in the future. For example, the content produced by portal 214 may be in a format based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), such as eXtensible Stylesheet Language-Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), or Wireless Markup Language (WML). In addition the content types produced by the different portlets need not be homogeneous. For example, portlet 214 may produce an SVG graphic while portlet 216 produces a document in PDF (Portable Document Format). PDF is a published document format produced by Adobe, Inc.
The present invention is directed to a method, computer program product, and data processing system for allowing a user to couple or "wire" a pair of portlets to allow information to be shared between portlets on a portal page in the context of using the portlets.
When a portlet control is actuated in the "alternative" manner, the user is given also provided with a menu of action choices, but prior to dispatching the selected action, an additional dialog is shown. This additional dialog asks the user whether or not to "persist" the selected action (i.e., by wiring the property corresponding to the actuated portlet control to an action to be performed by a target portlet). According to our terminology, a "property" is a data item that is produced by, consumed by, stored by, or otherwise associated with a portlet. For instance, in the example provided in
Once the user has made a selection of an action, the user is then prompted to specify whether to make that action "persistent." That is, the user is given the option of having that action be associated with the user interface control or property in the future. In
Returning now to
Other options are provided by dialog box 400 in
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the reverse operation, namely deleting a wire, may be executed in a similar fashion, as shown in
The "on-the-portal" user interface for creating and deleting wires, depicted in
The depicted process begins with browser 801 requesting the portal page from web application server 803 (message 802). Web application server 803 then determines from the URL of the request that a portal page is requested (message 804). This causes web application server 803 to pass the request on to portal server 805 (message 806). Portal server 805 then queries a database 807 to determine a list of portlets present on the requested page (messages 808, 810). Database 807 (described in more detail in
The process of invoking the portlets themselves then begins. If a particular action for a portlet is specified in the URL of the request, an identification of that action is then delivered to the portlet (e.g., portlet 809) (messages 814, 816). Portal server 805 then requests the markup for each portlet in the page (messages 818, 820). To the obtained portlet markup, portal server adds additional markup for footers and other features that are located after the portlet markup itself in the portal page (message 822). This portal page is then returned to web application server 803 (message 824), which then serves the generated portal page as a monolithic page of markup (message 826).
As can be observed from
The E-R (entity-relationship) approach to database modelling provides a semantics for the conceptual design of databases. With the E-R approach, database information is represented in terms of entities, attributes of entities, and relationships between entities, where the following definitions apply. The modelling semantics corresponding to each definition is illustrated in
Entity: An entity is a principal object about which information is collected. For example, in a database containing information about personnel of a company, an entity might be "Employee." In E-R modelling, an entity is represented with a box. An entity may be termed weak or strong, relating its dependence on another entity. A strong entity exhibits no dependence on another entity, i.e. its existence does not require the existence of another Entity. As shown in
Attribute: An attribute is a label that gives a descriptive property to an entity (e.g., name, color, etc.). Two types of attributes exist. Key attributes distinguish among occurrences of an entity. For example, in the United States, a Social Security number is a key attribute that distinguishes between individuals. Descriptor attributes merely describe an entity occurrence (e.g., gender, weight). As shown in
In some cases, an attribute may have multiple values. For example, an entity representing a business may have a multi-valued attribute "locations." If the business has multiple locations, the attribute "locations" will have multiple values. A multi-valued attribute is represented by concentric ovals, as shown in
Relationships: A relationship is a connectivity exhibited between entity occurrences. Relationships may be one to one, one to many, and many to many, and participation in a relationship by an entity may be optional or mandatory. For example, in the database containing information about personnel of a company, a relation "married to" among employee entity occurrences is one to one (if it is stated that an employee has at most one spouse). Further, participation in the relation is optional as there may exist unmarried employees. As a second example, if company policy dictates that every employee have exactly one manager, then the relationship "managed by" among employee entity occurrences is many to one (many employees may have the same manager), and mandatory (every employee must have a manager).
As shown in
We now turn to the semantic content of
Turning now to portlet entity 1212, a portlet produces (relationship 1214) properties (entity 1216) and performs (relationship 1218) various actions (entity 1220) that consume (relationship 1222) properties (entity 1216). A wire (entity 1224) maps a single "producer" (entity 1228) to a single consumer (entity 1234) (relationships 1226 and 1232). A "producer" (entity 1228) is (relationship 1231) a portlet (entity 1212) that produces (relationship 1230) a particular property (entity 1216), while a "consumer" (entity 1234) is (relationship 1236) an action (entity 1220) that consumes (relationship 1222) the property (entity 1216) produced by the corresponding producer (entity 1228), as associated by wire entity 1224 and relationships 1226 and 1232. A producer and consumer may be able to share a property based on some criterion associated with the property, such as a data type. A user (entity 1200) may make use of (relationship 1238) a number of wires (entity 1224).
PCI bus 1314 provides an interface for a variety of devices that are shared by host processor(s) 1300 and Service Processor 1316 including, for example, flash memory 1318. PCI-to-ISA bridge 1335 provides bus control to handle transfers between PCI bus 1314 and ISA bus 1340, universal serial bus (USB) functionality 1345, power management functionality 1355, and can include other functional elements not shown, such as a real-time clock (RTC), DMA control, interrupt support, and system management bus support. Nonvolatile RAM 1320 is attached to ISA Bus 1340. Service Processor 1316 includes JTAG and I2C busses 1322 for communication with processor(s) 1300 during initialization steps. JTAG/I2C busses 1322 are also coupled to L2 cache 1304, Host-to-PCI bridge 1306, and main memory 1308 providing a communications path between the processor, the Service Processor, the L2 cache, the Host-to-PCI bridge, and the main memory. Service Processor 1316 also has access to system power resources for powering down information handling device 1301.
Peripheral devices and input/output (I/O) devices can be attached to various interfaces (e.g., parallel interface 1362, serial interface 1364, keyboard interface 1368, and mouse interface 1370 coupled to ISA bus 1340. Alternatively, many I/O devices can be accommodated by a super I/O controller (not shown) attached to ISA bus 1340.
In order to attach computer system 1301 to another computer system to copy files over a network, LAN card 1330 is coupled to PCI bus 1310. Similarly, to connect computer system 1301 to an ISP to connect to the Internet using a telephone line connection, modem 1375 is connected to serial port 1364 and PCI-to-ISA Bridge 1335.
While the computer system described in
While particular embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that, based upon the teachings herein, that changes and modifications may be made without departing from this invention and its broader aspects. Therefore, the appended claims are to encompass within their scope all such changes and modifications as are within the true spirit and scope of this invention. Furthermore, it is to be understood that the invention is solely defined by the appended claims. It will be understood by those with skill in the art that is a specific number of an introduced claim element is intended, such intent will be explicitly recited in the claim, and in the absence of such recitation no such limitation is present. For non-limiting example, as an aid to understanding, the following appended claims contain usage of the introductory phrases "at least one" and "one or more" to introduce claim elements. However, the use of such phrases should not be construed to imply that the introduction of a claim element by the indefinite articles "a" or "an" limits any particular claim containing such introduced claim element to inventions containing only one such element, even when the same claim includes the introductory phrases "one or more" or "at least one" and indefinite articles such as "a" or "an"; the same holds true for the use in the claims of definite articles.
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2. Combine milk and the 6 tablespoons sugar in a large skillet; heat very slowly just to scalding.
3. Using a teaspoon, scoop about half of meringue into large petal shapes; float on hot milk. Don't crowd pan; cover; turn off heat. Let stand 5 minutes.
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After 15 years in the league, Ryan Dempster has become a savvy veteran.
Not much bothers him when he's on the mound, and that was seen in last night's 8-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. The 35-year-old wasn't annoyed with the rain. He didn't feel any jitters making his Fenway Park debut as a member of the Sox. And he didn't panic when his defense committed errors leading to unearned runs.
Instead, Dempster showed the composure that he's added to his repertoire since making his debut with the Florida Marlins in 1998.
"It really is a part of the game. I think inning management is a huge thing no matter what you're doing," Dempster said. "Whatever the situation is, whether you're giving up walks or giving up hits, you've just got to learn how to manage and navigate around that inning. I was able to do that for the most part."
Before the rain ended his start, Dempster, for the most part, baffled the Orioles hitters. In five innings, he allowed three runs (only one earned) on three hits, walked two and struck out seven.
Baltimore did the most damage thanks to a pair of miscues in the first and fourth innings.
In the first, Jacoby Ellsbury called off Shane Victorino too late, allowing a Manny Machado fly ball to drop. The error allowed Nate McLouth to score the game's first run. But with Machado on second with no outs, Dempster settled in and retired the next nine batters in a row.
The fourth didn't start well. Dempster let up a leadoff homer to Nick Markakis and a single to Adam Jones, who moved to second on a wild pitch. Jackie Bradley Jr. misplayed a Matt Wieters liner, bobbling the ball and allowing Jones to score.
It didn't get easier as Dempster walked J.J. Hardy. But he escaped without any more runs.
"I thought overall, once again, Ryan has the ability to pitch and control damage," Sox manager John Farrell said. "Multiple times tonight, with his split and slider, he got key strikeouts in some moments. . . . He would've come back out for that sixth inning."
Dempster said his command felt better after allowing four walks to the Yankees last week Five of his seven strikouts came from his splitter, all were swings and misses. He got two more batters to chase his slider and froze Chris Davis with a fastball in the first inning.
"He looked good. Really mixed it up. Didn't give in," catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. "He did a good job of picking us up."


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MADISON, Wis., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Sandwiches remain the most frequently packed brown bag lunch for affordability and convenience(1) – but everything from the bread to what's in between is evolving. Current sandwich trends(2) include unique flavor combinations, hot sandwiches and updated takes on classic combinations. To help brown bag aficionados spice up their routines and stay on trend without breaking their budgets, Oscar Mayer enlisted ten creative and cost-conscious mom bloggers to develop flavorful sandwich combinations. Their creations are available on the Oscar Mayer brand brown bag envy channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/OSCARMAYERDELIFRESH.
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Joe Flacco threw a 66-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones, Justin Tucker kicked four field goals and the Baltimore Ravens shut down the sputtering offense of the New York Jets in a 19-3 victory Sunday.
Boston College beats Maryland 29-26 on second chance at final play
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Situated in the historical district, this romantic hotel is 0 mi (0 km) from Nynashamns Golf Club and within 9 mi (15 km) of Railway Museum and Nynashamn Ferry Terminal. Botkyrka Golf Club and Toro Pebble Beach are also within 20 mi (32 km).
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Along with 2 restaurants, this smoke-free hotel has a golf course and a restaurant. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include an indoor pool, a fitness center, and a sauna.
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In addition to a golf course, Körunda Golf & Konferenshotel features an indoor pool and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of limo/town car service and meeting rooms. Event facilities include a conference center and conference space. This romantic hotel also offers a fitness center, a steam room, and barbecue grills. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Körunda Golf & Konferenshotel is a smoke-free property.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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By Derrick Mahone
Last season, Miranda Cantrell and her North Clayton teammates had the experience of playing their first round Class AAAA playoff game on the road.
Friday, the Lady Eagles will play host to a first round playoff game after finishing second in the Region 4-AAAA tournament.
Hosting a first round game is something the Lady Eagles are looking forward to the familar scenery of their gym.
"When you are playing at home, you have your fans screaming for you," Cantrell said. "It sure beats going on the road and having the opposing team fans screaming and booing you."
Of the 17 teams from the Southern Crescent in the state playoffs, eight will host a first round game. Drew was granted permission by the Georgia High School Association to host a doubleheader Friday since both its boys and girls teams are first-round hosts.
Teams that won region championships or finished runner-up earned the right to host first round games. Second round games will be hosted by the highest seeded team.
The tournament moves to neutral sites for the quarterfinals and final four.
But to the teams that are fortunate to play host, they will not take it for granted that there's no place like home.
The Forest Park girls team, ranked No. 6 in the state, was undefeated at home this season. The Lady Panthers, the Region 4-AAAA champion, did not lose to an in-state team this season.
"We are real comfortable playing at home," said junior guard Cydni Bivins said.
They are hoping to make the situation uncomfortable for visiting Ware County on Friday. The Lady Gators (11-16) will be making the five-hour trek from Waycross for the 6 p.m. start.
"I'm glad we are not having to travel, especially five hours," Bivins said. "That is a lot."
Union Grove will host its first state playoff game on Saturday. The Wolverines have one of the most vocal student sections in the area that has coordinated chants.
Players say it is the energy from the home crowd that gets them pumped to play.
"If you get down, you can feed off the energy from the crowd," Cantrell said. "It is definitely a big plus to play in front of your home crowd during the season, and especially in the playoffs."
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At the OpenStack Grizzly Summit in October 2012, Rackspace announced our Java Software Development Kit (SDK) for the open cloud. The Java SDK is powered by jclouds, an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud and employ your Java development skills. The jclouds Application Programming Interface (API) gives you the freedom to write portable code that works with many cloud providers or write code that utilizes cloud specific features. It also works with both public and private clouds, enabling hybrid cloud workloads. <!-- more --> To get started head over to the Rackspace Cloud SDK for Java. If you're looking for an SDK for another language, please have a look at the Introduction to all of our SDKs.
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It's also worthwhile to note that many of the jclouds APIs that you would use to work with the Rackspace open cloud are actually using the OpenStack API under the hood. This is because many of the Rackspace open cloud services are powered by OpenStack. For example, Rackspace Cloud Block Storage is powered by the OpenStack Cinder project, hence when you get an instance of the VolumeApi to create a block storage volume, you first access it via the CinderApi with
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Start with the rackspace package. There you will find general purpose examples of things that are useful across all services.
The cloudfiles package demonstrates how to accomplish common tasks for putting files in and getting files from the cloud.
The cloudservers package demonstrates how to accomplish common tasks for working with servers in the cloud.
The cloudblockstorage package demonstrates how to accomplish common tasks for working with block storage (aka volumes) in the cloud.
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Two forward-thinkers in West Jefferson will combine their passions to create a unique community service opportunity during the Ox Roast parade next weekend.
Susan Maggard, director of the Good Samaritan Food Pantry, was selected by the West Jefferson Community Association to be grand marshal for the annual Ox Roast parade on Saturday, Aug. 30.
The pantry, which operates out of the West Jefferson United Methodist Church, provides food supplies for hundreds of families in the West Jefferson and Galloway areas.
Maggard said it was "overwhelming" to be selected for the honor.
"I guess everyone thinks they don't do that much. You just do things because they need done, not for recognition," she said. "We have all these people who work and volunteer their time to operate the food pantry. I'm just the face of the pantry."
Upon hearing Maggard had been selected as grand marshal, resident Marci Darlington decided to get involved. Each year, Darlington coordinates a "Make A Difference" project benefiting the West Jefferson community.
This year, in honor of Maggard, the project will benefit the Good Samaritan Food Pantry.
Darlington is asking parade watchers to line the route along the curbs with non-perishable food items. During the parade, volunteers with decorated grocery carts will collect the donations and take them directly to the pantry.
"What a wonderful tribute to Susan to be riding in her convertible waving and seeing all of her efforts applauded by the blanketed curbside's full of loving donations," Darlington said.
Maggard said she was ecstatic to hear of the project.
"It's such a wonderful service," Maggard said. "Anything we can get for the pantry is great and this is free."
Darlington will follow up the Ox Roast parade food drive event with a Make A Difference Day event on Saturday, Oct. 25 at the West Jefferson United Methodist Church. She is arranging to secure the church's basement and parking lot for the event will which feature food, music and a raffle for an Ohio State football fan basket including two OSU vs Illinois football tickets for the Nov. 1 game.
Tickets will be sold for $2 each or 6 for $10 and will be available beginning Sept. 1. Those interested in getting tickets can contact Marci Darlington at email@example.com, (740) 490-8317 or they can find Noodle's Network on Facebook.
Paula Nance, the adviser for the West Jefferson Middle School student council, is assisting Darlington with the project for the fifth consecutive year, she said. They're considering another "pantry parade" through residential areas as part of the festivities.
This will be the eighth year Darlington has coordinated a Make A Difference Day project for the area.
In 2009, her project at Arbors West was selected as one of the top 10 projects out of over 1,000 projects in the state of Ohio. She has been contacted twice by the contributing writers/judges from USA Weekend Magazine for her community projects. Three years ago, her project made the cut to be in the top 100 at the national level, and last year her project raised nearly $10,000 for the Good Samaritan Food Pantry.
Make A Difference Day is sponsored by USA Weekend Magazine and the Points of Light Foundation. It is the largest national day of service in the United States.
Kevin Dye is a contributing writer for The Madison Press covering the West Jefferson area.


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The Indian comic industry is taking steps to revive its popularity and comic makers are entering newer spheres of media like e-comics, television, mobile, social networking, merchandise and DVDs.
Unlike earlier, when the target group consisted of kids only, market leaders are now promoting graphic novels to attract adults too.
"At the age of 25, 35, 40… you can still enjoy reading comics. People still enjoy reading Tintin, Green Lantern. My mother is twice of my age and she still loves reading comics and likes Tintin," says 27-year-old Arhan Sett who has been reading comics since childhood.
Pran Kumar Sharma, creator of the popular comic character Chacha Chaudhary, said that Indians comics are popular with readers abroad.
"Our Indian comics are being sold in Great Britain, Sri Lanka, UK, Malaysia, Singapore. I get mails telling me that when my friends visit India, they take back our comics for their young ones," Sharma said.
Cashing in on the popularity of the Internet, Indian comic publishers have come up with online editions.
According to estimates, the Indian comic publishing industry is worth over $100 million and is expected to grow more in the coming years.
Currently, the country is home to sales of five million English comic books annually, and together with all the regional languages, the figure is around $30 million.
Publishers are now looking forward to expand the industry through digital platforms like Internet, television, Direct-to-Home (DTH) and mobiles.
Diamond Comics is making an investment of $94.42 million to launch a 24X7 cartoon channel based on its popular characters, and even Amar Chitra Katha has ventured into animation and merchandising.
In 2008, Vimanika Comics had launched its e-comics, which have been well accepted by online readers. The company is now looking to clinch deals with telecom players for mobile downloads.
"In terms of companies growing, there's a lot of potential. Again I would take the example of Amar Chitra Katha—they have now expanded their business from comics to other merchandise," said Jatin Varma, founder of a media house called Twenty Onwards Media.
"Now we have different genres to experiment with, you don't have to restrict yourself to just books," he said.


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The blue sea, the white houses of the old town and the forbidding walls of the medieval fortress crowning a rocky spur combine to make Líndos a spectacular site where three civilisations - Ancient, Byzantine and medieval Greek - have left their mark. Líndos also has an attractive beach in one of the two sheltered bays which contain the Great Port and St Paul's Port.
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Stacks docklet V2
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Does anyone have the Stacks Docklet with DLL version 220.127.116.114? Please email/message me if you do. Been trying to find that version, and cannot find it on this site or on the web and I've tried searching a lot!
Great news for the Stacks lovers !
for the very first time the Stacks meet with the Animated Icons !!
now and here it's Double Passion >>
Already have it thx !
Cannot install it. I got this message box.
Error Retreving File :
Is there any solution ?
I love it !
Hi. I could really use a bit of help here.
I am using 'RocketDock' as a portable app on a pendrive. I want to try 'Stacks Docklet v2' but I can't find the files to copy to the RocketDock 'Docklets' folder. I try to run the 'Stacks Docklet' installer but it can't find any 'Running Dock', then I tried the manual install and that didn't work.
How about the files so that I can install it simply by copying the files to the 'Docklets' folder ?,
Is there any way to make the grid background box transparent, or to change the color? And is there any way to remove the file name, so that only the icon appears?
Stacks gone after restart? Here's the solution folks:
Log in as admin to have the administrative rights.
1. Navigate to the RocketDock folder under program files...C/Program Files/RocketDock.
2. Right click on the RocketDock folder, and select properties, click the security tab at the top.
3. You should see a list of groups and user names of your pc, click edit...
4. Click on your user name..should be called "Users(your name)"
5. Check the box underneath to give yourself "Full Control", click Ok, Ok..
6. Done, your user account now has full permission to this folder...try it close the application or restart and you settings should be saved.
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I can't download it. Please help me!
TO THOSE OF YOU GETTING AN ERROR when you start up RocketDock with the Stack Docklet - it happens, I haven't found any way of dealing with it (and believe me, I looked). You just need to keep resetting it every time. Sorry...
- Commander Crowe
Rocketdock gets an error every time I turn on my computer and windows loads, but only when I have the stack docklet on my rocketdock. Is there any way to fix that? I don't want to not use this docklet because I love it.
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Jim's Tree
I know many of you have heard the story of the lonely tree at Eagle Summit.
This year we plan on a bit of maintenance.
I'll start with the history.
Just went back into the archives and stumbled on to this.
Ca$h Register, along with Jim Coleman and myself are the original founders of the Dust To Dawson (D2D) "gathering" back in 1992. It was hatched over a few beers in the Dawson's Midnight Sun where we first met.
A little pre-history.
In Spring of 1990 the Alaska Last Frontier BMW Club here in Alaska receive a letter from an Oklahoma rider by the name Ca$h Register. In that letter Ca$h related this story:
Ca$h and his long time riding buddy Jim had planned a mega-trip to Alaska for 1990 and were going to attend our little local rally. They had pre-paid their entry fee and about a month prior to lift-off Ca$h collapsed in a restaurant. Heart attack.
Jim was with him at the time and tried in vain to resuscitate his best friend. Paramedics on the scene weren't having much luck either. At Jim's insistence they hit the go button on the paddles a third time and Ca$h's heart lit back up. Obviously their much anticipated trip to the North was on hold. OBTW, to this day... Ca$h's business cards include the phrase "You only live twice" Our local club, upon reading that tearful letter and hearing the story, sent a refund to Ca$h and Jim and included for each of them a club license plate frame.
Fast forward to June of 1992.
I was on a solo run to Dawson City, YT and saw two well decked out PD's parked in front of the Midnight Sun. The Oklahoma plates with the LFMC frames caught my attention immediately. It didn't take me long to determine who owned those two GS's. Ca$h and Jim had finally made it to the North country after an extensive rehab. Doctors to this day are at loss to medically explain what had happened.
I introduced myself to these two holligans and another chapter or two was written.
That evening over a few adult beverages the three of us hatched a plan to tackle the Dempster and try to make the 500 mile run to Inuvik. The road had been closed for several days due to high water on the Peel River. Lack of gas at Eagle Plain was most definitely our main issue. We waited a day or two for the road to re-open and made our break. The three of us had a wonderful ride. I remember Ca$h standing on his head at the Arctic Circle. It was his 60th birthday. Both Ca$h and Jim were excellent riders as I later substantiated on my visit to Ca$h's hometown of Dill City, Oklahoma... the summer after we all met. Two walls of Cash's shop were smothered with trophies and plaques that both of them had earned.
Jim's life was tragically cut short on Halloween eve 1994 while returning home from Cash's place...... his R100GS was no match for the Suburban.
On the original 1992 Alaska trip Jim and Ca$h had taken a side trip to Eagle and both were so taken by the beauty and solitude that they made a pact with each other. The deal was struck that when either of them died, the survivor would return to the North Country with the remains of the fallen. A year later Ca$h gave me a call from Whitehorse.
"Fite... I'm on my way! Got Jim with me in the tank bag. We were doin' a hundred on the Casiar and Jim was laughing his head off".
I will never forget that call, nor the one I had received on the previous Halloween night.
Ca$h was retracing the exact route the two of them had taken in '92. He camped in the same places, hit the same cafes, took pictures from the same vantage points. Had a beer at the "Sun". Jim's final ride with his life-long riding partner Ca$h was just as it was the first time they came north.
Ca$h (with Jim in the tank bag) rounded a hard right hander about 10 miles south of Eagle and there on that windswept mountainside stood a single tree. The anemic looking black spruce, that had survived a myriad of brutal winters, stood tall against all odds. The view was spectacular. Ca$h later told me that when he rounded that right-hander, thoughts of Jim were so vivid that Ca$h began to weep uncontrollably. The thoughts of his lost riding partner were so intense... and the pain so near.... he could barely keep his PD upright. It was on that lonely road with its breath-taking view and scrawny tree that Ca$h said his final good-byes to Jim Coleman. An emotional two man private ceremony gave way to the Jim's final send off and a plaque being posted on the tree. Ca$h turned around and headed back to Dill City.
For many of us it has been a long time D2D tradition to make a side trip into Eagle, Alaska (on our way to/from Dawson City) and to stop at Jim's Tree. We do it for Jim AND Ca$h. You can see in the photos where a brush fire has swept through the area. That fire, along with brutal weather conditions wouldn't dare "mess around with Jim" The tree has been visited and annointed by many of us and the memories of both Jim and Ca$h are alive and well. It is my hope as "keeper of the Tree".... that the tradition continues.
Carry On.
Go long... go fast... take no prisoners.
Ride hard or stay home!
Team Pterodactyl Northern Command
Thanks to Dapman (Action Graphics) for his beautiful workmanship.
These pieces will officially be posted on Thursday of next week, on the way to Dawson.

This is what the combo will look like when mounted to the tree.

It's going here.

As you head to and from D2D take a second and think about those who came before us.
Please note that none of the riders listed on the tree lost their lives as a result of being at D2D. We simply choose this time/place to remember them.
See you in Dawson!
Absolutely beautiful man....
:clap :clap :clap :clap
Great way to remember! :clap:devildog
See you in a few days Fite.:freaky
:clap That's Awesome, Fite. :clap
Well done.
:devildog :thumb
Copy That!
Wheels up Sunday AM.
I've had a few PM's asking if this latest "posting" at Jim's tree is a private/invite only deal.
Absolutely not!
Several of us will be heading to the tree out of Chicken (Downtown) Thursday AM. We have no set depart time but I'm guessin' about 30 minutes after we land at Susan's place. I wish I could be more exact on lift-off time ... but I've been rolling with Team Pterodactyl/Gruvers too long to promise anything that foolish! :huh :huh
Keep your ears on and your gas tank full. I'm not sure fuel is available in Eagle ... so probably best to top off in Chicken. Round trip from the junction to the tree is about 110 miles.
We'll be coming from Tok that morning. Maybe we get there in time to hook up with y'all for the ride to Jim's tree.
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"Remember to be thankful not just for the turkey, but for the spices that made it special."
Hello everyone! Did you all have a wonderful long weekend? I know it's been too long. After an unscheduled hiatus, I am back. A lot have happened while I was away. Between another death in the family (the 3rd one in less than 2 years!) and a much welcomed visit from friends and family, this girl has been pretty busy. It felt good not to worry about my blog during that time though, I must admit, it was liberating.
I don't know about your part of the world, but over here, it seems as if Fall is starting to poke its head. You can certainly feel the cooler morning breeze. On our way to the Thousand Islands on Sunday, I swear I saw some of the leaves have already turned red and yellow.
The image above is from my archive, taken during the peak of Fall last year. I figured, well, the coming of Autumn is inevitable so instead of fighting it, I might as well welcome it with open arms. I have a few photos from the Thousand Island trip, but those will have to wait till tomorrow, although if you've "liked" my Facebook page, you've probably have seen a few already.
I've realized something very important while I was away, that I am in love with the matte look on photos. If you noticed, the image above was processed that way. It took me a while to figure out how this was done. It was sort of an "aha!" moment when I finally found the correct way to do it, and I've re-processed some of my previous photos this way. If you check my portfolio site (opens on a new window), you'll see what I mean. Expect most of the photos on this site to be done this way moving forward because I think I have finally found my personal stamp.
Pardon me for posting another Autumn landscape, but I was going through some photos that I took last Fall and I realized there are a few that had some potential. This is a shot of Village Tremblant, which was taken as I was standing at the Summit.
You must know that the fog on this image was added during post, since my purchase of the Topaz Bundle some time ago, I haven't had the chance to play with Topaz Lens Effects and I thought this was a good candidate. I knew I wanted to add "veil" to the landscape, so, after the adjustments on Lightroom 4, I fired up Topaz Lens Effects in Photoshop and added the "Fog" effects" to the water and a little bit to the ground.
This was the original image after Lightroom 4. As you can see, the landscape was pretty clear with no fog in sight. I do like the original, but I'm sure a little creativity never hurts anyone.
So, what do you think?
Surely, I am not alone in thinking that Autumn is the best season ever! The dramatic change from the lush green landscape to the brilliant hues that is gold, yellow and red is enough reason to love the season.
This post is my entry to the Weekly Photo Challenge's Changing Seasons theme.
I cannot believe we're in December already. You know what that means, right? Winter is just around the corner. We had a taste of ol' man winter just a few days ago, I'm so not ready for it yet…so please allow me to feast on the remaining colors of Fall.
Photo taken at Old Port, Montreal | ISO - 100 | Focal length: 28 mm | F-stop: f/11 | Exposure time: 1/180 sec
I had an irresistible urge to get up early last Saturday. The goal was to head to the park before the sun rises to capture some macro shots of the morning dew on the grass. Well, when I got to the park, the sun was starting to rise, and the ground was bone dry, no morning dew in sight! I walked around more, went closer to the river hoping to find some…none…nada!
I wasn't going to leave the park without shooting anything, so I figured, I'd have some fun capturing the remaining traces of Fall.
ISO - 100 | Focal length: 90 mm | F-stop: f/4 | Exposure time: 1/250 sec
ISO - 100 | Focal length: 90 mm | F-stop: f/4 | Exposure time: 1/180 sec


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Beachfront, Large, Three Master Bedroom Suite Home with Pool and Jacuzzi (The Palms).
This Gulf-Front condo is located on Redington Shores Beach, one of the loveliest white sandy beaches in Florida, centrally located- only 25 minutes from Tampa and 90 minutes from Orlando.
3 Master suites, 3 Full Baths, Heated Pool,Jacuzzi Tiki-Huts, Charcoal grill, Elevator, Large L-shaped balcony, High Speed internet, sleeps 10.
This 3-bedroom condo offers a large home away from home, feeling very spacious with large bathrooms- with tubs and showers. When sitting in the living area you can enjoy the beauty of the Gulf of Mexico and never leave your leather recliner. A large balcony off the living room and the master bedroom offers you breathtaking Sunsets or just relaxing and enjoying the sea breezes. Our pool is heated and beautiful. Next to the pool are tiki-huts and picnic tables. A large set of charcoal grills are there for your use when enjoying lunch or dinner on the beach.
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Redington Shores is a charming beach community with quaint little shops and local restaurants. Our area offers upscale dining and a variety of activities on and off its pristine beach. This building is only five stories tall, not like a high rise, however offers all the amenities such as an elevator, lobby with baggage carts, security and very well maintained pool and grounds. For the activity minded there are many other active sports like parasailing, jet skis, scuba diving, deep sea fishing, just minutes away, or just taking long peaceful walks on the white sandy beach or enjoy spectacular sunsets, sun bathing, or reading a favorite book in a beach chair.
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This beautiful condo was everything promised and more. My family came to visit from New York and now want to move here. The 3 suites gave us all the privacy we needed and the meals together were great. The kitchen was well equipped and we cooked a number of dinners for our group. The place was very clean and the beach, pool and hot tub were great. We were close to great restaurants like Sea Breezes and The Pub. The staff was very helpful and friendly. We are definitely coming back again. Thank You
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How can I remove my Skype Name from the sign-in screen in Skype for Linux?
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When you sign in to Skype, your Skype Name is added to the drop-down list on the sign-in screen.
To remove your Skype Name from the sign-in screen:
- Quit Skype.
- Go to /home/YOURLINUXUSERNAME/.Skype
where YOURLINUXUSERNAME needs to be replaced with your Linux user account name.
- In the .Skype folder, delete the folder with your Skype Name.
If you can't find the .Skype folder in your home folder, press the Ctrl+H key combination on your keyboard to make sure you can see the hidden files and folders.
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Children's LiteratureMrs. Connor starts the class with a poem about Groundhog Day but some of the kids need more explanation. She explains that winter began six weeks ago and will end in another six weeks, so Groundhog Day is right between the two seasons. There is not a groundhog handy, but Chester the hamster will do. Chester does not see his shadow, so Spring cannot be far away. The illustrations are cheery and Chester is a winner. As Mrs. Connor explains Groundhog Day, she walks past calendars adorning the classroom walls, which allows the reader to review the seasons and holidays from December to March. A Level 1 book in the "Ready-To-Read" series, for those just starting to read. 2006, Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, Ages 4 to 6.
—Dr. Judy Rowen