diff --git a/recipes/accountancyage.recipe b/recipes/accountancyage.recipe
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--- a/recipes/accountancyage.recipe
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@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008-2009, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-www.accountancyage.com
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class AccountancyAge(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Accountancy Age'
-    __author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description = 'business news'
-    publisher = 'accountancyage.com'
-    category = 'news, politics, finances'
-    oldest_article = 2
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    simultaneous_downloads = 1
-    encoding = 'utf-8'
-    lang = 'en'
-    language = 'en'
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'All News', u'http://feeds.accountancyage.com/rss/latest/accountancyage/all')]
-
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(name='h1'),
-        dict(attrs={'class': 'article_content'}),
-    ]
-
-    def get_article_url(self, article):
-        return article.get('guid',  None)
diff --git a/recipes/blues.recipe b/recipes/blues.recipe
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index 5ed7cef592..0000000000
--- a/recipes/blues.recipe
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@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2011, Oskar Kunicki <rakso at interia.pl>'
-'''
-Changelog:
-2011-11-27
-News from BluesRSS.info
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class BluesRSS(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Blues News'
-    __author__ = 'Oskar Kunicki'
-    description = 'Blues news from around the world'
-    publisher = 'BluesRSS.info'
-    category = 'news, blues, USA,UK'
-    oldest_article = 5
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    language = 'en'
-    cover_url = 'http://bluesrss.info/cover.jpg'
-    masthead_url = 'http://bluesrss.info/cover.jpg'
-    no_stylesheets = True
-
-    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'wp-pagenavi'})]
-
-    feeds = [(u'News', u'http://bluesrss.info/feed/')]
diff --git a/recipes/computer_active.recipe b/recipes/computer_active.recipe
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index c5d128cbb1..0000000000
--- a/recipes/computer_active.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__author__ = 'DrMerry Based on v1.01 by Lorenzo Vigentini'
-__copyright__ = 'For version 1.02, 1.03: DrMerry'
-__version__ = 'v1.03'
-__date__ = '11, July 2011'
-
-'''
-http://www.computeractive.co.uk/
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-import re
-
-
-class computeractive(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    __author__ = 'DrMerry'
-    description = 'Computeractive publishes new downloads, reviews, news stories, step-by-step guides and answers to PC problems every day.'
-    cover_url = 'http://images.pcworld.com/images/common/header/header-logo.gif'
-
-    title = 'Computer act!ve'
-    publisher = 'Incisive media'
-    category = 'PC, video, computing, product reviews, editing, cameras, production'
-
-    language = 'en'
-    timefmt = '[%a, %d %b, %Y]'
-
-    oldest_article = 7
-    max_articles_per_feed = 25
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    recursion = 10
-
-    remove_javascript = True
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    remove_empty_feeds = True
-    remove_tags_after = dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'article_tags_block'})
-
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'container_left'})
-    ]
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': ['seeAlsoTags', 'commentsModule', 'relatedArticles',
-                                       'mainLeft', 'mainRight', 'recent_comment_block_parent', 'reviewDetails']}),
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['buyIt', 'detailMpu', 'small_section', 'recent_comment_block_parent',
-                                          'title_right_button_fix', 'section_title.title_right_button_fix', 'common_button']}),
-        dict(name='a', attrs={'class': 'largerImage'})
-    ]
-
-    preprocess_regexps = [
-        (re.compile(r'(<a [^>]*>|</a>)', re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE),
-         lambda match: ''),
-    ]
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'General content',
-         u'http://feeds.computeractive.co.uk/rss/latest/computeractive/all'),
-        (u'News', u'http://feeds.computeractive.co.uk/rss/latest/computeractive/news'),
-    ]
-
-
diff --git a/recipes/epicurious.recipe b/recipes/epicurious.recipe
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index da65ad34cd..0000000000
--- a/recipes/epicurious.recipe
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@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2010, Starson17'
-'''
-www.epicurious.com
-'''
-import re
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class Epicurious(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'Epicurious'
-    __author__ = 'Starson17'
-    description = 'Food and Recipes from Epicurious'
-    cover_url = 'http://up6.podbean.com/image-logos/21849_logo.jpg'
-    publisher = 'Epicurious'
-    tags = 'news, food, gourmet, recipes'
-    language = 'en'
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    remove_javascript = True
-    recursions = 3
-    oldest_article = 14
-    max_articles_per_feed = 20
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['mainconsolewrapper', 'videoheader', 'content_unit', 'entry-content', 'see_more_block']}),
-                      dict(name='div', attrs={'id': [
-                           'headline', 'introBlock', 'ingredients', 'preparation', 'articleContent', 'in_categories_block']})
-                      ]
-
-    remove_tags = [{'id': ['printShoppingList', 'addnoteLnk', 'btnUploadVideo', 'enlarge_image']},
-                   {'class': ['subLnk', 'sbmWrapper', 'detail_division',
-                              'entry-footer', 'comment-footer']},
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['tagged', 'comments']})
-                   ]
-
-    remove_tags_after = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'entry-content'})]
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'Recipes: Healthy dinner ', u'http://feeds.epicurious.com/healthy_recipes'),
-        (u'New Recipes ', u'http://feeds.epicurious.com/newrecipes'),
-        (u'Features ', u'http://feeds.epicurious.com/latestfeatures'),
-        (u'Blogs ', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/epicurious/epiblog')
-    ]
-
-    match_regexps = [
-        r'http://www.epicurious.com/.*recipes/.*/views'
-    ]
-
-    preprocess_regexps = [
-        (re.compile(r'/\n', re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '/'),
-        (re.compile(r'_116.jpg', re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '.jpg'),
-        (re.compile('<div class=\"comments\".*</body>',
-                    re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: '</body>')
-    ]
-
-    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
-        for t in soup.findAll(['table', 'tr', 'td']):
-            t.name = 'div'
-        return soup
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diff --git a/recipes/icons/utne.png b/recipes/icons/utne.png
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diff --git a/recipes/juventudrebelde_english.recipe b/recipes/juventudrebelde_english.recipe
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index 336ef7fd97..0000000000
--- a/recipes/juventudrebelde_english.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-juventudrebelde.co.cu
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class Juventudrebelde_english(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Juventud Rebelde in english'
-    __author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description = 'The newspaper of Cuban Youth'
-    publisher = 'Juventud Rebelde'
-    category = 'news, politics, Cuba'
-    oldest_article = 2
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    encoding = 'iso-8859-1'
-    remove_javascript = True
-
-    html2lrf_options = [
-        '--comment', description, '--category', category, '--publisher', publisher, '--ignore-tables'
-    ]
-
-    html2epub_options = 'publisher="' + publisher + \
-        '"\ncomments="' + description + '"\ntags="' + category + '"'
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'read'})]
-
-    feeds = [(u'All news', u'http://www.juventudrebelde.cip.cu/rss/all/')]
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        mtag = '<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="es-CU"/>'
-        soup.head.insert(0, mtag)
-        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
-            del item['style']
-        return soup
-
-    language = 'en'
diff --git a/recipes/linuxdevices.recipe b/recipes/linuxdevices.recipe
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index 565e0b3c6e..0000000000
--- a/recipes/linuxdevices.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'
-
-'''
-Fetch Linuxdevices.
-'''
-import re
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class LinuxDevices(BasicNewsRecipe):
-
-    title = u'Linuxdevices'
-    description = 'News about Linux driven Hardware'
-    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner'
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    timefmt = ' [%a %d %b %Y]'
-    max_articles_per_feed = 50
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    language = 'en'
-
-    remove_javascript = True
-    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables': True}
-    encoding = 'latin1'
-
-    remove_tags_after = [dict(id='intelliTxt')]
-    filter_regexps = [r'ad\.doubleclick\.net']
-
-    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'bannerSuperBanner'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'bannerSky'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'border': '0'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'footerLinks'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'seitenanfang'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'class': 'mar5'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'pageAktiv'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'xartable'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'wpnavi'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'bgcontent absatz'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'footer'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'artikelBox'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'kommentare'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'pageBoxBot'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'td': 'height="3"'}),
-                   dict(name='table', attrs={'class': 'contentpaneopen'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'nowrap': 'nowrap'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'align': 'left'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'height': '5'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'class': 'ArticleWidgetsHeadline'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={
-                        'class': 'artikelBox navigatorBox'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'similar-article-box'}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'videoBigHack'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'class': 'artikelDruckenRight'}),
-                   dict(name='td', attrs={'class': 'width="200"'}),
-                   dict(name='span', attrs={'class': 'content_rating'}),
-                   dict(name='a', attrs={
-                        'href': 'http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php'}),
-                   dict(name='a', attrs={'href': '/news'}),
-                   dict(name='a', attrs={
-                        'href': '/cgi-bin/survey/survey.cgi'}),
-                   dict(name='a', attrs={
-                        'href': '/cgi-bin/board/UltraBoard.pl'}),
-                   dict(name='iframe'),
-                   dict(name='form'),
-                   dict(name='span', attrs={'class': 'hidePrint'}),
-                   dict(id='ArticleWidgets'),
-                   dict(id='headerLBox'),
-                   dict(id='nointelliTXT'),
-                   dict(id='rechteSpalte'),
-                   dict(id='newsticker-list-small'),
-                   dict(id='ntop5'),
-                   dict(id='ntop5send'),
-                   dict(id='ntop5commented'),
-                   dict(id='nnav-bgheader'),
-                   dict(id='nnav-headerteaser'),
-                   dict(id='nnav-head'),
-                   dict(id='nnav-top'),
-                   dict(id='readcomment')]
-
-    feeds = [(u'Linuxdevices', u'http://www.linuxfordevices.com/rss.xml')]
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        match = re.compile(r"^Related")
-        for item in soup.findAll('b', text=match):
-            item.extract()
-        for item in soup.findAll(re.compile('^ul')):
-            item.extract()
-        for item in soup.findAll('br', limit=10):
-            item.extract()
-        return soup
-
-    def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
-        for tag in soup.findAll(name=['table', 'tr', 'td']):
-            tag.name = 'div'
-        return soup
diff --git a/recipes/mac_video.recipe b/recipes/mac_video.recipe
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index e8ccab8248..0000000000
--- a/recipes/mac_video.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__author__ = 'Lorenzo Vigentini'
-__copyright__ = '2009, Lorenzo Vigentini <l.vigentini at gmail.com>'
-__version__ = 'v1.01'
-__date__ = '14, January 2010'
-
-'''
-http://www.macvideo.tv/
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
-
-temp_files = []
-articles_are_obfuscated = True
-
-
-class macVideo(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    __author__ = 'Lorenzo Vigentini'
-    description = 'MacVideo is an independent journal not affiliated with Apple Computer, It is a publication of IDG Communication focusing on video production and editing.'  # noqa
-    cover_url = 'http://www.macvideo.tv/images/shared/macvideo-logo.jpg'
-
-    title = 'MacVideo '
-    publisher = 'IDG Communication'
-    category = 'Apple, Mac, video, computing, product reviews, editing, cameras, production'
-
-    language = 'en'
-    encoding = 'cp1252'
-    timefmt = '[%a, %d %b, %Y]'
-
-    oldest_article = 30
-    max_articles_per_feed = 25
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    recursion = 10
-
-    remove_javascript = True
-    no_stylesheets = True
-
-    def get_obfuscated_article(self, url):
-        br = self.get_browser()
-        br.open(url + '&print')
-
-        response = br.follow_link(url, nr=0)
-        html = response.read()
-
-        self.temp_files.append(PersistentTemporaryFile('_fa.html'))
-        self.temp_files[-1].write(html)
-        self.temp_files[-1].close()
-        return self.temp_files[-1].name
-
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'mainContent'})
-    ]
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['submissionBar', 'mpuContainer']}),
-        dict(name='p', attrs={'class': 'articlePag'}),
-        dict(name='ul', attrs={'id': 'articleIconsList'})
-    ]
-
-    feeds = [
-        (u'News', u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/macvideo-news.xml'),
-        (u'Reviews', u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/macvideo-reviews.xml'),
-        (u'Interviews', u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/macvideo-features-interviews.xml'),
-        (u'Features', u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/macvideo-features-features.xml'),
-        (u'Rick Young', u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/blog100140.xml'),
-        (u'Matt Davis', u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/blog101658.xml'),
-        (u'Adrian Miskelly',
-         u'http://www.macvideo.tv/rss/feeds/blog101750.xml')
-    ]
-
diff --git a/recipes/moneynews.recipe b/recipes/moneynews.recipe
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index 323c2813a1..0000000000
--- a/recipes/moneynews.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2009-2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-www.moneynews.com
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class MoneyNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Moneynews.com'
-    __author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description = 'Financial news worldwide'
-    publisher = 'Newsmax.com'
-    language = 'en'
-    category = 'news, finances, USA, business'
-    oldest_article = 2
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    encoding = 'utf8'
-    extra_css = 'img{display: block} body{font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}'
-
-    conversion_options = {
-        'comment': description, 'tags': category, 'publisher': publisher, 'language': language, 'linearize_tables': True
-    }
-
-    feeds = [
-
-    (u'Street Talk', u'http://www.moneynews.com/rss/StreetTalk/8.xml'),
-    (u'Finance News', u'http://www.moneynews.com/rss/FinanceNews/4.xml'),
-    (u'Economy', u'http://www.moneynews.com/rss/Economy/2.xml'),
-    (u'Companies', u'http://www.moneynews.com/rss/Companies/6.xml'),
-    (u'Markets', u'http://www.moneynews.com/rss/Markets/7.xml'),
-    (u'Investing & Analysis', u'http://www.moneynews.com/rss/InvestingAnalysis/17.xml')
-    ]
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'copy'})]
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(attrs={'class': ['MsoNormal', 'MsoNoSpacing']}),
-        dict(name=['object', 'link', 'embed', 'form', 'meta'])
-    ]
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        nodeid = url.rpartition('/')[2]
-        return 'http://www.moneynews.com/PrintTemplate?nodeid=' + nodeid
diff --git a/recipes/open_left.recipe b/recipes/open_left.recipe
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index 91f3f0d425..0000000000
--- a/recipes/open_left.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class OpenLeft(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    # Information about the recipe
-
-    title = 'Open Left'
-    description = 'Progressive American commentary on current events'
-    category = 'news, commentary'
-    language = 'en'
-    __author__ = 'Xanthan Gum'
-
-    # Fetch no article older than seven days
-
-    oldest_article = 7
-
-    # Fetch no more than 100 articles
-
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-
-    # Fetch the articles from the RSS feed
-
-    feeds = [(u'Articles', u'http://www.openleft.com/rss/rss2.xml')]
diff --git a/recipes/richmond_times_dispatch.recipe b/recipes/richmond_times_dispatch.recipe
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index a202295538..0000000000
--- a/recipes/richmond_times_dispatch.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-import re
-from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class RichmondTimesDispatch(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'Richmond Times-Dispatch'
-    description         = "The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, \
-                            the capital of Virginia, United States, as well as the Virginia cities of Petersburg, \
-                            Chester. Hopewell, Colonial Heights, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Waynesboro, \
-                            and is also a default paper for rural regions of the state.  \
-                            The RTD has published in some form for more than 150 years."
-    __author__ = '_reader'
-    __date__ = '17 October 2012'
-    __version__ = '1.6'
-    cover_url = 'http://static2.dukecms.com/va_tn/timesdispatch_com/site-media/img/icons/logo252x97.png'
-    masthead_url = 'http://static2.dukecms.com/va_tn/timesdispatch_com/site-media/img/icons/logo252x97.png'
-    language = 'en'
-    oldest_article = 1.5  # days
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    ignore_duplicate_articles = {'title', 'url'}
-    needs_subscription = False
-    publisher = 'timesdispatch.com'
-    category = 'news, commentary'
-    tags = 'news'
-    publication_type = 'newspaper'
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    encoding = None
-    simultaneous_downloads = 20
-    recursions = 0
-    remove_javascript = True
-    remove_empty_feeds = True
-    auto_cleanup = False
-
-    conversion_options = {
-        'comments': description,
-        'tags': tags,
-        'language': language,
-        'publisher': publisher,
-        'authors': publisher,
-        'smarten_punctuation': True
-    }
-
-    remove_tags_before = dict(id='hnews hentry item')
-
-    remove_tags_after = dict(name='hr')
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': ['mg_hd', 'mg_ft', 'sr_b', 'comments_left', 'comments_right']}), dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['bottom_social', 'article_bottom']}), dict( name='table', attrs={'class': ['ap-mediabox-table', 'ap-htmltable-table', 'ap-photogallery-table', 'ap-htmlfragment-table']})  # noqa
-    ]
-
-    preprocess_regexps = [
-        (re.compile(r'<table class="ap-story-table hnews hentry item".*?<td class="ap-story-td">',
-                    re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),
-        (re.compile(r'<p>\s*http://www2.timesdispatch.*?</p>',
-                    re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),
-        (re.compile(r'<p>\s*<img src="http://static2.dukecms.*?</p>',
-                    re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),
-        (re.compile(r'<p>\s*<a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.*?</p>',
-                    re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),
-        (re.compile(r'<hr.*?>', re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE),
-         lambda match: ''),  # strip <hr /> line break
-        (re.compile(r'<a\s*rel="item-license.*?Use</a>.', re.DOTALL |
-                    re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),  # strip <hr /> line break
-        (re.compile(r'<small>\s*Richmond Times-Dispatch.*?</small>', re.DOTALL |
-                    re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),  # strip <hr /> line break
-    ]
-
-    feeds = [
-        ('News',        'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/news-archive'),
-        ('Breaking News',   'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/breaking-news'),
-        ('National News',   'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/national-news'),
-        ('Local News',      'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/local-news'),
-        ('Business',        'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/business'),
-        ('Local Business',  'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/local-business'),
-        ('Politics',        'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/politics'),
-        ('Virginia Politics',
-         'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/virginia-politics'),
-        ('History',   'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/special_section/news/history'),
-        ('Sports',      'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/sports2'),
-        ('Health',      'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/lifestyles/health_med_fit/'),
-        ('Entertainment/Life',  'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/entertainment'),
-        ('Arts/Theatre',
-         'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/entertainment/arts_theatre/'),
-        ('Movies',      'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/movies'),
-        ('Music',       'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/music'),
-        ('Dining & Food',   'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/dining'),
-        ('Home & Garden',   'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/home-and-garden/'),
-        ('Travel',     'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/travel/'),
-        ('Opinion',     'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/news/opinion/'),
-        ('Editorials',      'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/editorial-desk'),
-        ('Columnists and Blogs',
-         'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/news-columnists-blogs'),
-        ('Opinion Columnists',
-         'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/opinion-editorial-columnists'),
-        ('Letters to the Editor',
-         'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/opinion-letters'),
-        ('Traffic',     'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/list/feed/rss/traffic'),
-        ('Drives',     'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/feed/rss/classifieds/transportation/'),
-
-    ]
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        article_num = re.sub(r'(^.*)\-([0-9]{4,10})\/$', r'\g<2>', url)
-        ap_pat = re.compile('http')
-        # print '\nDEBUG>>>>>>>>: article_num: ', article_num
-        # print 'DEBUG>>>>>>>>: ap_pat.search(article_num): ',
-        # ap_pat.search(article_num)
-        if ap_pat.search(article_num):  # AP article, no print url
-            # print 'DEBUG>>>>>>>>: AP URL: ', url
-            return url
-        else:
-            printURL = 'http://www2.timesdispatch.com/member-center/share-this/print/?content=ar' + article_num
-            return printURL
diff --git a/recipes/sinfest.recipe b/recipes/sinfest.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index e7be9e4bad..0000000000
--- a/recipes/sinfest.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2010, Nadid <nadid.skywalker at gmail.com>'
-'''
-http://www.sinfest.net
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class SinfestBig(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = 'Sinfest'
-    __author__ = 'nadid'
-    description = 'Sinfest'
-    reverse_article_order = False
-    oldest_article = 5
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = True
-    encoding = 'utf-8'
-    publisher = 'Tatsuya Ishida/Museworks'
-    category = 'comic'
-    language = 'en'
-
-    conversion_options = {
-        'comments': description, 'tags': category, 'language': language, 'publisher': publisher
-    }
-
-    feeds = [(u'SinFest', u'http://henrik.nyh.se/scrapers/sinfest.rss')]
-
-    def get_article_url(self, article):
-        return article.get('link')
diff --git a/recipes/statesman.recipe b/recipes/statesman.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index 36f36a26ae..0000000000
--- a/recipes/statesman.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class AdvancedUserRecipe1278049615(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'Statesman'
-    pubisher = 'http://www.statesman.com/'
-    description = 'Austin Texas Daily Newspaper'
-    category = 'News, Austin, Texas'
-    __author__ = 'rty'
-    oldest_article = 3
-
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-
-    feeds = [(u'News',
-              u'http://www.statesman.com/section-rss.do?source=news&includeSubSections=true'),
-             (u'Local', u'http://www.statesman.com/section-rss.do?source=local&includeSubSections=true'),
-             (u'Business', u'http://www.statesman.com/section-rss.do?source=business&includeSubSections=true'),
-             (u'Life', u'http://www.statesman.com/section-rss.do?source=life&includesubsection=true'),
-             (u'Editorial', u'http://www.statesman.com/section-rss.do?source=opinion&includesubsections=true'),
-             (u'Sports', u'http://www.statesman.com/section-rss.do?source=sports&includeSubSections=true')
-             ]
-    masthead_url = "http://www.statesman.com/images/cmg-logo.gif"
-
-    remove_javascript = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    language = 'en'
-    encoding = 'utf-8'
-    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables': True}
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': 'cxArticleOptions'}),
-        {'class': ['perma', 'comments', 'trail', 'share-buttons',
-                   'toggle_show_on']},
-    ]
-    keep_only_tags = [
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'class': 'cxArticleHeader'}),
-        dict(name='div', attrs={'id': ['cxArticleBodyText',
-                                       'content']}),
-    ]
diff --git a/recipes/utne.recipe b/recipes/utne.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index 946cf361d3..0000000000
--- a/recipes/utne.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2008, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
-'''
-utne.com
-'''
-
-from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class Utne(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'Utne reader'
-    __author__ = 'Darko Miletic'
-    description = 'News'
-    oldest_article = 7
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    language = 'en'
-
-    cover_url = 'http://www.utne.com/images/template/logo.gif'
-
-    remove_tags = [
-        dict(name='a', attrs={'id': 'ctl00_blankmaster_lnkBanner'}), dict(
-            name='object')
-    ]
-
-    feeds = [
-
-    (u'Politics', u'http://www.utne.com/rss/Politics.xml'),
-    (u'Environment', u'http://www.utne.com/rss/Environment.xml'),
-    (u'Media', u'http://www.utne.com/rss/Media.xml'),
-    (u'Great writing', u'http://www.utne.com/rss/Great-Writing.xml'),
-    (u'Science & Technology', u'http://www.utne.com/rss/Science-Technology.xml'),
-    (u'Arts', u'http://www.utne.com/rss/Arts.xml')
-    ]
-
-    def print_version(self, url):
-        raw = self.browser.open(url).read()
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(raw.decode('utf8', 'replace'))
-        print_link = soup.find(
-            'a', {'id': 'ctl00_defaultmaster_Blog_tools1_lnkPrint'})
-        if print_link is None:
-            return url
-        return print_link['href']
-
-    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        mtag = '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">'
-        soup.head.insert(0, mtag)
-        del(soup.body['onload'])
-        return soup
diff --git a/recipes/winter_olympics.recipe b/recipes/winter_olympics.recipe
deleted file mode 100644
index c533e656e6..0000000000
--- a/recipes/winter_olympics.recipe
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env  python2
-
-__license__ = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2010, Starson17'
-'''
-www.nbcolympics.com
-'''
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-
-class Olympics_2010(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title = u'NBC Olympics 2010'
-    __author__ = 'Starson17'
-    description = 'Olympics 2010'
-    cover_url = 'http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/1/2/1/i/4/7/6/o/WinterOlympics2010-logo.jpg'
-    publisher = 'Olympics 2010'
-    tags = 'Olympics news'
-    language = 'en'
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    remove_javascript = True
-    # recursions = 3
-    oldest_article = 7
-    max_articles_per_feed = 10
-
-    keep_only_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class': ['Article ', 'ArticleGallery']}),
-                      ]
-
-    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id': ['RelatedTagsBox', 'ShareBox']}),
-                   dict(name='div', attrs={
-                        'class': ['DateUtilities', 'PhotoGallery BoxRight', 'Frame', 'ToolBox']}),
-                   ]
-
-    # RSS feeds are at: http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/index.html
-    feeds = [
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/newscenter/mostpopular.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - News - Top Stories',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/newscenter/topstories.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - News - Latest Headlines',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/newscenter/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Photos', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/photos/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Photos - Editorial Picks', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/photos/editorialpicks.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Photos - Latest Slideshows', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/photos/latestslideshows.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Team USA - Latest news',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/countries/team-usa/index.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Team USA - Latest Slideshows', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/countries/team-usa/photos/index.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Team USA - Video', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/countries/team-usa/video/index.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Alpine Skiing - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=AS/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Alpine Skiing - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=AS/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Alpine Skiing - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=AS/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Biathlon - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=BT/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Biathlon - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=BT/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Biathlon - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=BT/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Bobsled - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=BS/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Bobsled - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=BS/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Bobsled - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=BS/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Cross-Country - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=CC/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Cross-Country - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=CC/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Cross-Country - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=CC/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Curling - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=CU/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Curling - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=CU/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Curling - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=CU/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Figure Skating - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=FS/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Figure Skating - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=FS/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Figure Skating - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=FS/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Freestyle Skiing - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=FR/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Freestyle Skiing - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=FR/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Freestyle Skiing - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=FR/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Hockey - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=IH/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Hockey - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=IH/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Hockey - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=IH/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Luge - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=LG/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Luge - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=LG/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Luge - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=LG/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Nordic Combined - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=NC/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Nordic Combined - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=NC/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Nordic Combined - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=NC/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Short Track - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=ST/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Short Track - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=ST/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Short Track - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=ST/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Skeleton - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SN/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Skeleton - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SN/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Skeleton - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SN/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Ski Jumping - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SJ/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Ski Jumping - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SJ/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Ski Jumping - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SJ/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Snowboarding - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SB/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Snowboarding - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SB/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Snowboarding - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=SB/latestnews.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Speed Skating - Most Popular News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=AS/mostpopular.xml'),
-        # ('NBCOlympics.com - Speed Skating - Top News', 'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=AS/topnews.xml'),
-        ('NBCOlympics.com - Speed Skating - Latest News',
-         'http://www.nbcolympics.com/rss/sport=AS/latestnews.xml'),
-    ]
-
-    extra_css = '''
-                    h1{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:bold;font-size:large;}
-                    h2{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight:normal;font-size:small;}
-                    p{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
-                    body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
-        '''