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Josie works at HEB in Houston, Texas and was sampling some guacamole when she saw the Brand Ambassadors start setting up their sampling kiosk nearby. Once she saw the Brand Ambassadors t-shirts, Josie immediately recognized it was the sampling team from the Loaf Love Tour and got very excited! She talked with the Brand Ambassadors and said Tillamook is her absolute favorite kind of cheese and that her son, Jonathan, loved it, too.
She told the Brand Ambassadors, "I wish you had the car from the commercials [here at the store]!" Soon as she looked outside and saw the Yum bus parked near the store entrance, her eyes lit up and said Jonathan had to visit the Loaf Love Tour!
Jonathan has Asperger's Syndrome and is really good with cars, so Josie was excited to bring him to the store to see the Yum bus. She convinced the family watching Jonathan to come to HEB so he could check out the Yum and taste some delicious Tillamook cheese.
Josie and Jonathan had a great time sampling cheese and checking out the Yum bus. Later, as people were reaching to sample some guacamole nearby, Josie told them they need to try some of the best cheese in the world, putting a smile on the Brand Ambassadors faces.
Last year, Willis, a native San Franciscan and food blogger, found the Loaf Love Tour through Twitter last year when he saw a tweet about Tour and the Yum bus being in his area. His love of cars and Tillamook cheese made this an event he can't miss.
Willis met the Brand Ambassadors, ate some award-winning cheese, took his picture with the bus, and stocked up on enough coupons to satisfy his hunger for Tillamook. Willis follows the Brand Ambassadors and Tillamook Cheese on Twitter and comes to visit whenever Loaf Love Tour is in San Francisco.
This year, Willis came to visit the Tillamook Yogurt Tour and the Loaf Love Tour! He met more friendly Brand Ambassadors and shared with them the beauty of national food holidays he likes to write about.
Willis uses Twitter to make every day special by tweeting about each day's national food holiday and he loves to incorporate Tillamook Cheese whenever he can. The day he came to visit the Loaf Love Tour was National Pancake Day and he gave us the idea for cheesy pancakes, which, by the way, are delicious!
Willis has always loved cheese but he fell in loaf with Tillamook after his first visit to the Loaf Love Tour last year. Willis's favorite cheesy quote is from the beloved Claymation series Wallace and Gromit when Wallace says "Gromit that's it…CHEESE!" He loves to quote it whenever he comes across our cheese in the grocery store. So if you're ever in the San Francisco area and hear those words you'll know you're near Willis and that he's found some delicious Tillamook Cheese. But for now Willis is patiently waiting for the next time we roll through San Fran with our cheese, and of course our fleet of Yum buses. Maybe he will make it up to Oregon to tour the Cheese Factory in the meantime!
If you'd like to know more about Willis and national food holidays you can find him on Twitter @pest15.
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Voices of Children & Youth in Business: Empowering the Young to Lead Change
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Children & Youth of today are demanding for systematic and democratic changes around the world using political & economic tools. Participation of Youth in Development is very important and moreover, development without youth cannot be sustained. Due to Globalization, young entrepreneurs play a vital role in building a democratic society through their contribution in political & economic development. Youth empowerment is being recognised as an important aspect of sustainable business prototype.
I often hear company HRs sulk over the lack of skills of graduates who come for jobs. Well, in most cases it's the disconnection of education & employment. Due to increasing unemployment, companies should consider ways to introduce youngsters to the world of business through short term career or long term internships or even mentoring programs. Businesses must develop programs where work experience is fundamental. Promoting youth entrepreneurship in both developing & developed countries is crucial in the fight against rampant unemployment and poverty.
Globally, the vast majority of jobs are created by small businesses. Many businesses have already started to recognize the profits they can develop from connecting with young people and out-of-school projects that support them. Businesses no longer want to simply donate but invest in young people. By investing in young people, businesses receive benefits of financing in potential future customers and/or employees and developing deeper relationships with other business with similar corporate responsibility interests.
Companies should develop CSR in such a way that it reflects the developing inclusive business model with a long term growth perspective that engages children & youth and recognizes their rights while taking initiatives to promote sustainability. CSR activities will help children & youth especially the marginalised ones to overcome the shortcomings of lack of experience by giving them right vocational training through various leadership roles. Being a student of engineering in India, there's constant buzz or rather fears of unemployment after the completion of bachelor's degree. More corporate houses & business should recognise the opportunity & need to invest in young people so that they can help in developing the qualities they need for education and future employment. There are many private sector organizations which are already working to support young people such as the Rockefeller Foundation. Their innovative social enterprises are aimed at digital employment & youth empowerment and are creating ICT related employment in Africa.
That said businesses not only provide financial resources but also impart resilience, motivation, team working, communication skills and visionary leadership to children and youth. They should provide more opportunities for children & youth through entrepreneurship development, demand-driven curricula to improve skills and apprenticeship. Through these opportunities, young people can benefit from other areas of community engagement with support from businesses such as increased motivation, engagement and opportunities to develop new skills.
I think that all business have an opportunity and a responsibility to help create pathways to employment for children & youth (especially the marginalised and disconnected ones) in this hour of global unemployment. The importance of grooming children and youth on business early in life cannot be underscored. I strongly believe that there has to be collaboration between Businesses, Governments and the Academia to prepare young people for future employment. My vision of a sustainable company is to provide the training, research and funding necessary to gain good jobs that pay sustaining wages available to all young people.
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Workshop: Life Drawing, Saturdays @ Kuona Trust
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This Saturday's class will be instructed by Ermias Ekube who is a skilled sculptor, poet, engaver and painter.
Learn how to sketch potraits from one of the best!
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Watch The Wallflowers perform live from the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight at 9 pm EST.
The live streaming concert, which you can watch below, is part of the Live on Letterman series and comes just days before Jakob Dylan and the guys release their latest album Glad All Over on October 9.
This will be your first chance to hear some of their new material like "Reboot the Mission" live, and get a chance to hear them revisit some of their biggest hits too.
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Yan, Pogorilaya snag surprise victories in BeijingMainstays Péchalat and Bourzat, Savchenko and Szolkowy rally for golds
Competition concluded Saturday at the 2013 Cup of China in Beijing, as skaters competed in the free dance, ladies free skate, men's free skate and pairs free skate.
Péchalat, Bourzat dance away with title
France's Nathalie Péchalat and Fabian Bourzat overtook overnight leaders Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev of Russia to dance off with the gold medal. Madison Chock and Evan Bates of Team USA earned the bronze.
Péchalat and Bourzat's dance to "Le Petit Prince et Sa Rose" was highlighted by difficult lifts and smooth footwork. The French team got a Level 4 for the twizzles, lifts and the spin, while the step sequences garnered a Level 3. The two-time European champions scored 102.08 points and totaled 165.68 points.
"We are really happy to have won the third gold medal at the Cup of China, but at the same time, we feel a little sad because this is our last season and the last Cup of China we will do," Bourzat said. "So, it was a great pleasure for us to compete here."
Bobrova and Soloviev put out a strong performance to "Four Seasons" and "Lacrimosa," with four elements registering a Level 4, though a rotational lift received a Level 2. The reigning world bronze medalists earned 97.72 points, which added up to 163.42 points overall, pushing them into second place.
"As for our free dance, we probably just don't have enough mileage on this program and we are not in top shape yet," Soloviev said. "We now will have some time to work before the next Grand Prix in Moscow (Rostelecom Cup)."
Chock and Bates produced Level 4 lifts and Level 3 footwork in their routine to Les Misérables to pick up 93.76 points. At 150.53 points overall, they remained in third place.
"We are very pleased with our performance," Chock said. "We went in with a plan of attack and just to enjoy and put our best skate, and I think that we did that. We are so excited about our first medal at the Grand Prix."
Pernelle Carron and Lloyd Jones of France pulled up from fifth to fourth with 134.12 points, switching places with Alexandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton of the U.S. (132.06 points).
Pogorilaya pulls off ladies upset
Anna Pogorilaya of Russia upset teammate Adelina Sotnikova to claim the gold medal, with Carolina Kostner of Italy settling for the bronze.
Pogorilaya's program to "Mermaids" from the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack featured a triple Lutz-triple toe combination, a triple loop-single loop-triple Salchow combination as well as three more triple jumps and three Level 4 spins. However, she popped an Axel. The 15-year-old from Moscow scored a personal-best 118.38 points for the segment and racked up a total of 178.62 points to win the title in her first senior-level Grand Prix event.
"This was quite unexpected," Pogorilaya said. "I would have been very happy if I had been third. Today, I showed everything I can do, and the judges apparently appreciated it."
Skating to "Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saëns, Sotnikova landed four triple jumps including a double Axel-triple toe combination, but crashed on both flips. The Muscovite earned 108.67 points, and with 174.70 points overall, she slipped from first to second.
"Maybe I just got too nervous, as I had to skate last and I had the chance to win," Sotnikova said. "I tried not to think about it and I don't know why the performance went wrong. But I don't give up. I still have another Grand Prix and I will try very hard."
Kostner landed a triple flip-double toe and a triple Salchow-double toe-double loop combination but made errors on other jumps. She collected 110.65 points in the free skate, which added up to 173.70 points.
"I actually enjoyed performing tonight, although I had quite a bit of mistakes," Kostner said. "Usually, I make mistakes when I am nervous, but today I was not nervous. But that is how I learn every time I compete. Of course, not very pleased about performance, but in the end I am in third place and I can go home with a smile."
Kanako Murakami of Japan remained in fourth place with 165.95 points.
Nikol Gosviani of Russia moved up from sixth to fifth (152.04 points), while Haruka Imai of Japan dropped one spot to sixth at 150.30 points.
Yan claims men's crown for home crowd
Han Yan of China won the men's event in his Grand Prix debut. Russia's Maxim Kovtun, another fresh face on the Grand Prix, earned the silver medal, and the bronze went to Takahiko Kozuka of Japan.
Yan reeled off a quad toe-triple toe combination and four more clean triples as well as three Level 4 spins in his waltz program. However, he stepped out of the triple Axel and doubled the loop. The 2012 world junior champion placed second for the segment with 155.48 points but remained in first place overall with 245.62 points.
"I was nervous in my free skating today, maybe because I didn't skate so late," Yan said. "I didn't perform the complete program. It is very hard, and I didn't show all the difficulty yet. But I am very happy that the judges appreciated my program."
Kovtun's routine to Peter Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1" included two quadruple Salchows, two triple Axels as well as three more triples, but he doubled an intended quad toe loop. Kovtun was awarded 156.81 points and totaled 238.65 points for the week.
"To win the silver medal in my first senior Grand Prix is very valuable for me and a motivation to train harder and to win more competitions," Kovtun said. "I learned for myself that I have to work more on my second mark. Today, it was already higher than yesterday, and I skated more freely."
Kozuka fell on his opening quad toe (under-rotated) and also on a triple flip, but he recovered to land five triple jumps. He scored 145.30 points and accumulated 226.92 points overall.
"Today's performance was the worst in my skating life," Kozuka said. "I am not injured or sick, but I need to concentrate more on my next competition."
Reigning world silver medalist Denis Ten of Kazakhstan finished fourth with 224.80 points.
Richard Dornbush of Team USA wound up fifth with 218.57 points, and Florent Amodio of France slipped from fifth to sixth with 213.39 points.
Savchenko, Szolkowy strike back for pairs gold
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany struck gold, while China's Qing Pang and Jian Tong, and Cheng Peng and Hao Zhang picked up the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Performing to Nutcracker by Peter Tchaikovsky, Savchenko and Szolkowy completed a throw triple flip, a triple toe-triple toe sequence, triple twist and earned a Level 4 for the death spiral, the side-by-side spin and the Axel lasso lift. But Savchenko fell on the last element, the throw triple Axel, and both made a mistake on the side-by-side double Axel. The four-time world champions scored 132.14 points and overtook Pang and Tong with 201.21 points overall.
"Today's program was a little better than the short program," Szolkowy said. "This is our first competition, and it is just one step to Sochi. After all, we are satisfied, but we still can get a lot more points."
Pang and Tong 's program to "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables featured a triple twist, a throw triple loop and Salchow, but Tong struggled with the solo jumps, singling an Axel and doubling the toe loop. The reigning Olympic silver medalists received 124 points and slipped to second with 194.38 points overall.
"We skated like in training, but we had a few problems and we lacked energy," Pang said. "We didn't feel so confident before the competition, as it is our first one, and this is hard for everybody."
"We are not at a 100 percent yet," Tong added.
Peng and Zhang's routine to "Yellow River Concerto" was highlighted by a quadruple twist, triple throws and Level 4 lifts. The Chinese team earned 122.95 points for the free skate and 187.19 points overall.
"We are glad to have won our first Grand [Prix] medal," Zhang said. "We have been skating together for a little over a year only."
Xuehan Wang and Lei Wang completed a strong showing of the Chinese pairs teams by finishing fourth with 172.35 points.
Americans Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim came in fifth with 161.72 points. Their teammates, Felicia Zhang and Nathan Bartholomay, moved up to sixth with 155.52 points.


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'Game of Thrones' queen: Lena Headey lights it up in dark role
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The news is dire: The most feared woman in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros is being held captive by Los Angeles mid-morning traffic. Well, more precisely, Lena Headey, the willowy actress who plays Cersei Lannister on "Game of Thrones," is half an hour late for an interview at the HBO offices in Santa Monica and, when she does arrive, it's in a swirl of charismatic chaos.
"Hectic morning, so sorry," Headey said as she ran her fingers through jet-black hair that is nowhere close to her broadcast blondness. Her aura was more spiky than regal; two fingers were bandaged after home-project mishaps, her off-the-shoulder top revealed a scattering of tattoos and every fourth or fifth sentence was sprinkled with F-words. "I … hate being late. I've lived in L.A. for five years but I forget there's traffic until I'm in it."
No matter, Headey is right on schedule career-wise with "Game of Thrones," which returns Sunday with the second-season premiere after establishing itself as newfound royalty with television critics and fantasy fans.
The singular show is like some Norman tapestry — intricate and huge with its memorable threads devoted to carnage and triumph — and the diabolical Cersei is near the center. A recent widow (ahem), she plotted to have the crown land on the head of her sadistic young son Joffrey (Jack Gleeson in Draco Malfoy mode but with a dash of Caligula ) while her brother Tyrion (Peter Dinklage, the newly minted Emmy and Golden Globes winner) now holds the powerful post of Hand of the King.
For fans who watch "Thrones," Headey's character is one they love to hate. Her crystalline eyes and imperious glare suggest a woman in total control but much of it is facade hiding her self-loathing. She is haunted by a marriage catastrophic joke as well as the longtime incestuous relationship with her twin, Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), and bitterness about the general powerlessness of women in the kingdom of men.
"I think she is deeply, deeply fearful," said the 38-year-old actress. "She sleeps with fear in her soul. She is full of terror and paranoia and insecurity. She hides it with stillness. She does not move much and that's been a real challenge for me. I fidget. She's like a cobra, she's a snake just waiting and waiting… the hard thing is it's freezing where we film [in Belfast] in a shipyard for five months a year and I'm there in a silk dress trying to be totally still."
Shivers aside, the role of Cersei and the success of "Thrones" are "a joy and a gift," says the actress, who this year is celebrating the 20th anniversary of a screen career that began in 1992, the year she appeared in "Waterland" with Jeremy Irons.
"I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses," Headey said. "So where I am now, in this role, it is such a blessing. I'm a parent now, we have a young son, and I lived life and that's all part of Cersei as I sit in there."
Costar and good friend Dinklage says that Headey may not even realize how far her talents go.
"All the great actors, they don't need to do much on screen," Dinklage said. "They have stillness and they resonate so much power. That's what Lena can do. A lot of actors would play that role like a bad seed and Lena would never consider it. She approaches Cersei as a damaged person so it comes from a real place not from a twirling-the-mustache kind of place. No matter what things she does, she's a mother lion protecting her young."
Born in Bermuda — her father, a British lawman, was there as an advisor — Headey grew up in Yorkshire, England, which she calls "the modern-day Winterfell," which might explain why she's wearing a wolf shirt. "I'm a secret Stark," she yelped, which sends your head spinning if you're a follower of "Thrones."
"Thrones" is based on the sword-and-magic books of George R.R. Martin and the show was created by D.B. Weiss and David Benioff. Benioff said that in some ways the role on the pager has tilted toward the actress playing the part.
"We never thought of Cersei as a particularly funny character until Lena read for the part," Benioff said. "We had seen a number of excellent actresses, but everyone had interpreted the character as an emotionless ice queen. Lena took her in a different, stranger and more interesting direction. In her hands, Cersei embodies endless contradictions. The queen can seem both ruthless and fragile, often in the same scene. She can exhibit extreme cruelty but also utter devotion to her own children. And she's damn funny, which is no surprise if you know Lena."
Headey is on a sort of Sigourney Weaver celebrity path — she is specializing in roles in the Comic-Con sector after starring in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and appearing in memorable roles in "300," and "The Brothers Grimm." Up next, she'll be seen with Karl Urban in "Dredd," the adaptation of the ultra-violent British comics about a future-cop called Judge Dredd.
Still, it is the fair-haired queen of House Lannister that may become her signature role.
It was Dinklage that led Headey to the kingdoms of Westeros in the first place. The two became friends back in 2006 when they met on the Toronto set of "Ultra," a superhero television pilot that never got off the ground. (Headey had the title role, a character who sprung from Image Comics stories that were described by one IGN reviewer as "'Sex & the City' with tights.")
The pair were working on another scruffy project when Dinklage announced that he had discovered two interesting things while reading a script for a planned medieval epic: There was a bawdy oral sex scene for his prospective character as well as a very interesting family, including a sister that might present a perfect role for Headey.
"It was all born out of that moment," Headey said as she smoothed out the ragged edge of one bandage. "I hadn't read any of the books and they were mapping out this journey of this queen who… has power and is in control but then, at some point, looks like she might lose pretty much everything. There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost — especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful."
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Edwards looks back on his 40 years of coaching
After 40 total years of coaching, Tommy Edwards decided it was time to hang up the whistle.
Edwards announced his retirement on Tuesday as the women's basketball coach at Catawba Valley Community College.
Edwards hopes he achieved one goal in his long tenure as coach.
"You look back and hope somewhere along the line you've helped some kids," he said. "Hopefully, they've benefitted from me being in either their educational or athletic environment. That's what you hope for."
Before making his decision public on Tuesday, Edwards reflected on his long coaching career.
That journey started in 1973.
After graduating from N.C. State with a degree in Mathematics, Edwards started coaching football, seventh- and eight-grade basketball and helped with the baseball team at Grandview Middle School in Hickory.
An avid lover of and competitor in baseball in his youth, Edwards slowly started to drift towards the basketball court.
"As time went on, I got a little older. I guess my love for basketball just sort of took over," Edwards said. "Basketball was inside. You didn't have to worry about it being cold or hot outside. You didn't have to go out and drag the field. With basketball, you might have had to roll the goals down and most of the time, you didn't have to do that. Basketball was lower maintenance than baseball was. I just began loving basketball. I played a lot of basketball with buddies in the evenings."
Edwards stayed at Grandview for one year and moved to Newton-Conover Middle School.
He coached and taught at NCMS for 10 years before making another career jump.
"I had always wanted to teach high school math," he said. "My daughters were going to Bunker Hill (High School). One summer, they told me there was a math opening at Bunker Hill and asked if I would go and apply for the job."
After talking to principal Steve Hylton, Edwards was hired and given the JV boys basketball coaching job.
He would spent a year coaching the junior varsity boys program at BHHS before another interesting opportunity came about.
Terry Sipe decided to retire after the 1982-83 season as the Bunker Hill varsity girls basketball coach.
Edwards was instantly intrigued by the opening and applied for the job.
"I had always coached boys, but I looked at it as an opportunity to get my foot in the door with varsity high school coaching," he said. "When Terry retired, I applied and interviewed for the job. I looked at it as a stepping stone to a boy's coaching job, but I got involved with it. Coaching girls was different from coaching boys. I had success. I had some really good players at Bunker Hill. I just decided that is where I was going to stay with girls basketball."
Edwards would spend the next 23 years guiding the Lady Bears basketball program.
During that time, Bunker Hill was 418-199 on the court, and Edwards won conference coach of the year six times.
Edwards said of all the teams he coached, the 1988-89 Bunker Hill squad has a special place in his heart.
"We did not win the conference and finished third behind Bandys and Newton-Conover," he said of the 1988-89 team. "We got on a roll at the end of the season. That was the year our girls played Bandys in the Western Regional at Lenoir-Rhyne and our boys team played Newton-Conover in the Western Regional finals at Lenoir-Rhyne. We both won and went to the state championship game. My girls team lost to Clinton, who had two young ladies that were just phenomenal. They were both stars for their schools. That year was probably a year I'll never forget."
Edwards retired from coaching high school basketball in 2006, but the love and passion for the game remained.
After finding out about the creation of a women's basketball program at CVCC, Edwards applied for the Lady Bucs' head coaching position.
He spent the 2008 season recruiting for the new program, and started coaching the Lady Bucs in 2009 with his new players.
"Starting a team from scratch was very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed it," he said. "I loved going out and recruiting."
During his four seasons as women's basketball coach at Catawba Valley Community College, the Lady Bucs were 82-30.
The best season for CVCC under Edwards was this past winter, where the Lady Bucs went 30-1.
"This was the dream season here at CVCC," he said. "We won our first 30 games. We beat Louisburg twice during the regular season. We lost to Louisburg in the regional finals. This year was sort of a surprise. We knew we had recruited some good players, but as a coach, part of your job is to get those kids to mesh together into a team. It happened. I guess it was a good way to bow out with a great season."
Despite leaving the program after this season, Edwards is optimistic for the future of the Lady Bucs on the basketball court.
"Whoever the coach is next season, I'm excited for the team because there will be some good players coming back," he said. "I think the potential is there for an outstanding season for next year and down the road."
Edwards is going to spend most of his retirement with his three children, six grandchildren, but also plans to make some time for the golf course.
"You miss a lot of things your own kids did," Edwards said of his long coaching tenure. "Now, I'm at the point where I have grandkids that are athletes. I'm ready to spend more time with my family — my wife, my kids and my grandkids. I feel like with 40 years coaching you know when it is time. I am excited about retirement. I'm hoping to travel a little bit with my wife. I've got some exciting things to look forward to."


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Students Against Destructive Decisions, SADD, brought in Jim Santilli, the executive director of the Traffic Improvement Association of Michigan, to present the dangers of distracted and drunk driving prior to Ionia High School prom this weekend.
Students Against Destructive Decisions, SADD, brought in Jim Santilli, the executive director of the Traffic Improvement Association of Michigan, to present the dangers of distracted and drunk driving prior to Ionia High School prom this weekend.
"I enjoy being a part of SADD because it is important to be a positive role model for underclassman and to show our peers that we are not invincible. The message we are trying to bring with this presentation is to be careful and think about the consequences of our actions," said SADD member Lauren Fuller.
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 20 in the United States. To demonstrate this figure, Santilli brought in video footage of car accidents, rescues and accident victims, as well as photographs displaying the hazards associated with traffic accidents.
The two main causes of traffic accidents among young people in the United States are attributable to drugs, alcohol and distractions. Traffic accidents related to drugs and alcohol kill approximately 16,000 people in the United States annually.
The second leading cause, distracted driving, comes in three forms: Visual, taking eyes off from the road; manual, taking hands off from the wheel; and cognitive, not thinking about driving or the road while operating a vehicle.
"Texting is the most alarming form of distracted driving because it involves all three forms of distraction," said Santilli.
Santilli informed students of a recent study which projected that individuals are 23 times more likely to get into a car accident if they are texting while driving. In addition, those who text while driving take their eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds each 6 seconds; this means, that if one is driving at a speed of 55 mph, it would be the equivalent of driving the length of an entire football field blindfolded.
Michigan law prohibits drivers from manually typing, reading or sending a text message while driving. There is a $100 fine for the first offense and a $200 fine for subsequent violations. Furthermore, anyone receiving a citation for texting while driving can also be fined for careless driving which is a tougher penalty.
In addition to texting violations, Michigan's Kelsey's Law prohibits Level 1 and 2 drivers from talking on a cell phone when driving unless they are using a hands-free device or are calling for an emergency.
In order to bring these statistics to life, Santilli showed pictures of four students who lost their lives recently due to a traffic accident. Many, such as Ally Zimmerman of Michigan, have died from being hit by careless drivers.
"I hope it's a sobering discussion for students. One of the hardest aspects of teaching is watching kids make the same mistakes over and over again," said Ionia High School chemistry teacher Kyle Ondersma.
Manciu also presented to the students the details of an event that impacted his life. While in high school, his close friend and neighbor, Rex, was killed as the result of a traffic accident after he attended the prom. Rex's date was also killed as a result of the accident, which could have been caused due to a variety of factors, such as drunk driving, driving on an unfamiliar road, driving too quickly and not wearing seat belts.
"Whether you're going to the prom or going to a movie, you need to be careful. People love you. And as we saw with some of the victims today, it might not always be your fault," said Manciu.
The event was organized as a way to get students thinking about how their driving may affect others, as well as themselves, as they head into prom weekend and the independence that comes with life after high school graduation.
"This message really applies to all students. For those who are selfish, they will worry about how their driving can cause them to get hurt; those who are unselfish will be afraid of ruining the life of another person," said Ionia High School senior Mike Maiville.


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|Essential CVS
This chapter is a comprehensive reference of CVS topics other than commands. It is intended to be useful as a quick reference, not a tutorial.
If you have never used CVS before, I suggest you read Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 before reading this reference. Those chapters explain the basic concepts of CVS and how to use it effectively.
This chapter contains the following sections:
- Section 11.1
- Describes CVS administrative files in the sandbox on the client computer or in the user's home directory on the server.
- Section 11.2
- Describes CVS administrative files in the repository's CVSROOT directory.
- Section 11.3
- Describes variables you can use in the administrative files in the CVSROOT directory.
- Section 11.4
- Describes date and time formats you can use with CVS.
- Section 11.5
- Describes environment variables on the server or the client that affect CVS.
- Section 11.6
- Describes the keywords CVS uses, the expansion modes that affect how CVS processes the keywords, and how CVS processes line endings.
- Section 11.7
- Describes regular-expression and wildcard pattern matching in CVS.
- Section 11.8
- Describes methods used to access local and remote CVS repositories.
Administrative Files
Each sandbox directory has administrative files in its CVS subdirectory, but it may also have hidden files in the directory itself, with filenames that start with a dot (.). The user's home directory can contain CVS administrative files that affect all of that user's sandboxes; these filenames are also prefixed with a dot.
Dot Files
In client/server mode, all the dot files other than .rhosts should be on the client computer. The .rhosts file should be in the user's home directory on the server computer.
These are the dot files in the sandbox directory:
- .cvsignore
- Contains a list of files CVS should not process. This file uses the same format as cvsignore in the repository's CVSROOT directory and may be checked into CVS.
- .#filename.revision
- If a project file that is not fully synchronized with the repository is overwritten by CVS, the original file is stored as.#filename.revision, where revision is theBASE revision of the file.
These are the dot files in a user's home directories:
- .cvsrc
- Contains a list of CVS commands and the options the user wants as default options for those commands.
- .cvsignore
- Contains a list of files CVS should not process. This file uses the same format as cvsignore in the repository's CVSROOT directory.
- .cvswrappers
- Contains a list of wrappers that affect how a file is stored. The wrappers include a pattern that CVS matches against filenames and a keyword-expansion mode that CVS applies to any file whose name matches the pattern.
- .cvspass
- Used in pserver remote-access mode. This file contains the user's password for each repository they are logged into, stored in a simple form of encoding. Be aware that the file is human-readable and the passwords are easy to decrypt.
- .rhosts
- Used when connecting with RSH. This file should be in the user's home directory on the server machine, and it should contain the client's computer and username.
CVS Subdirectory Files
' CVS creates a subdirectory named CVS in every directory of a sandbox. It stores the following sandbox administrative files in this subdirectory:
- Base
- A directory, not a file, that stores the preediting revision of any files that are being edited with cvs edit.
- Baserev
- Contains the revision information for every file in the Base directory, in the format name/revision/. Later versions of CVS may add to this format.
- Baserev.tmp
- Changes to the Baserev file are written to Baserev.tmp. CVS then renames Baserev.tmp to Baserev, which overwrites the original Baserev.
- Checkin.prog
- Used if the current sandbox was checked out as a module and the modules file in the repository's CVSROOT has a -i option for the module the sandbox was checked out as. This file stores the program to be executed when the module is checked in. Checkin.progis obsolete in CVS 1.11.6 and later.
- Entries
- Contains a line for each file and directory in the relevant sandbox directory. Lines for files have the format:
Lines for directories have the format:
There may be text between or after the empty slashes, but in CVS 1.11.5 this text is ignored. The space is reserved for future expansion.
- Entries.Backup
- Changes to the Entries file are written to Entries.Backup. CVS then renames Entries.Backup to Entries, which overwrites the original Entries.
- Entries.Log
- Used to record planned changes to the Entries file. Lines to be added start withA; lines to be removed start with R. After the A or R comes a space, followed by the line to be added or removed.
Programs that read Entries should also check for Entries.Log. If Entries.Logexists, they should read Entries, apply the changes from Entries.Log, and then rewrite Entries and remove Entries.Log.
- Entries.Static
- If this file exists, CVS did not receive a complete set of files from the repository and the sandbox directory that is the parent to the current CVS directory is static (i.e., CVS will not create new files in this directory). This setting can be cleared by using update -d to download a full set of files and subdirectories for the parent directory to the current CVS directory.
- Notify
- Contains any cvs watch notifications that have not yet been sent to the server.
- Notify.tmp
- Changes to the Notify file are written to Notify.tmp. CVS then renames Notify.tmp to Notify, which overwrites the original Notify.
- Repository
- Usually contains the path from the repository root to the repository directory that the relevant sandbox directory is a reflection of. This file may contain the full path, including the path to the root of the sandbox's repository.
If the current sandbox directory does not have a related repository directory, this file contains the string CVSROOT/Emptydir.
- Root
- Contains the path to the root of the sandbox's repository.
- Tag
- Used to store directory-specific sticky tags and dates, so that CVS can add them to new files that you add to the directory. This file is most often used when the directory is part of a branch sandbox.
If the first character in the file is T, the file refers to a branch tag. N is a nonbranch tag, and D is a date.
- Template
- In client/server mode, this file stores the login template specified in the rcsinfo file in the repository's CVSROOT directory.
- Update.prog
- Used if the modules file in CVSROOT specifies the -u option for the current sandbox's module. Update.prog stores the program to be executed when this module is updated. This file is obsolete in CVS 1.11.6 and later.
CVSROOT Files
The CVSROOT directory in the CVS repository contains several administrative files. Most of these files are editable by the user and are stored in both RCS format (with a ,v suffix) and plain text to be used by CVS. These files can be checked out and committed like any other CVS file.
The history and val-tags files should not be edited. The passwd file should never be checked out; it should be edited in place.
The checkoutlist File
The checkoutlist file is used to designate files to be stored in the CVSROOT directory in both RCS and clear-text formats. Most of the CVS administrative files are stored this way automatically, and the checkoutlist file allows you to store user-created files in the same way. The most common files to be stored like this are scripts executed by the scripting files (commitinfo, loginfo, rcsinfo, taginfo, and verifymsg).
The file format is to simply list the names of the files, one file per line. All files must be in the CVSROOT directory.
The commitinfo File
The commitinfo file defines programs to run before a file is committed. If any of the programs exit with a nonzero exit status, the commit does not proceed. These programs run on the repository computer.
The file syntax is as follows:
name_pattern action
The name_pattern is a regular expression that must match a relative path within the repository. The action is a command-line template or the address of a script, plus any parameters required for that script or template. The full path of the repository and the filenames of all files to be committed are appended as parameters by CVS during processing.
Example 11-1 shows a commitinfo file that calls a formatcheck script with the --style=gnu parameter, for any files committed from the src directory of the wizzard project. The formatcheck script is stored in the repository's CVSROOT directory.
Example 11-1. A commitnfo file
^wizzard/src\(/\|$\) /home/cvs/CVSROOT/formatcheck --style=gnu
Lines starting with the hash symbol (#) are comments and are ignored. The special ALL pattern matches all directories. The special DEFAULT pattern matches directories that do not match any pattern except ALL. CVS uses the script on the first line with a directory-name pattern that matches the directory tree the file is in. If no pattern match is found, the script specified by the DEFAULT line is executed. Scripts specified by ALL lines are always executed.
The commitinfo file is usually used to enforce project standards.
The config File
The config file contains CVS configuration options. Lines that start with a # are comments. All other lines are in the form:
There is one keyword/value pair per line. Each keyword/value pair represents a configuration option. Whitespace is significant, including carriage returns, tabs, and extra spaces.
These are the available configuration options:
- LockDir=directory
- If this setting is present, CVS puts lock files in the specified directory rather than in the repository. You need to create the directory, but CVS creates all the necessary subdirectories.
Do not use LockDir if any of your users are running CVS 1.9 or earlier on the repository server, as users will then be putting locks in two different places and not honoring each other's locks. CVS 1.10 doesn't honor the LockDir setting; it displays an error if you use it and does not work. Versions prior to CVS 1.10 silently ignore LockDir.
- LogHistory=value
- The text in value controls which actions are logged to the historyfile in the repository's CVSROOT directory. The valid values can be any combination of the following:
- Log when a file is added to the repository.
- Log when a file would have been updated in a sandbox, but needed to be merged and there were conflicts in the merge.
- Log when a file is exported.
- Log when a file is released.
- Log when a file is updated in a sandbox with a successful merge.
- Log when a file is modified (a sandbox revision is added to the repository).
- Log when a file is checked out.
- Log when a file is removed from the repository.
- Log when a file is tagged or rtagged.
- Log when a file is updated in a sandbox with no merge required.
- Log when a file is deleted from a sandbox during an update because it is no longer active in the repository.
- RCSBIN=directory
- This option provides the directory in which CVS should look for the rcs program. This option applies only to CVS Versions 1.9.12 to 1.9.18; it is obsolete and ignored in later versions.
- RereadLogAfterVerify=value
- The log message saved during cvs commit might be changed if the verifymsg file is in use. This option controls whether the message is reread after the program listed in the verifymsg file runs.
This option is useful only if the verifymsg file is in use. These are the available options:
- always or yes
- Reread the log message after the verifymsg file has been processed. This option is the default case.
- never or no
- Do not reread the log message after the verifymsg file has been processed.
- stat
- Check whether the log message has been changed, using the filesystem's stat( )command. If it has changed, reread the log message. This option can take up to an extra second per directory to process than the never case, but it may be faster than always if the log messages aren't always changed by verifymsg.
- SystemAuth=value
- If value is yes, the server authenticates the connecting user with the passwd file. If the user fails to authenticate there, the server authenticates the user against the main user database for the operating system. If value is no, the server authenticates the user only against the passwd file. The default value is yes.
SystemAuth=yes weakens security, because CVS transmits passwords using only trivial encryption. The encryption can easily be broken, and a password obtained. The SystemAuth=yes setting uses the operating system's own authentication mechanism, so the obtained password will provide access to the user's shell account.
This option is useful only if you have clients connecting to CVS in pserver mode.
- TopLevelAdmin=value
- If value is yes, a CVS subdirectory is created in the current working directory when you check out a sandbox. If value is no, the CVS subdirectories are created only in the actual sandbox directory tree. The default is no.
- PreservePermissions=value
- CVS 1.11.5 does not support this option. In the versions that support it, the option causes CVS to store sandbox permissions in the repository with other data for each revision and pass that data to the sandbox when a file revision is checked out. The valid values are yes and no.
- UserAdminOptions=value
- This option is available in CVS 1.12.1 and later. If value exists, then any user can run cvs adminoptions listed in value. The contents of value must be a string of letters with no separators or spaces, and the letters must be the command options (without parameters) for cvs admin.
If the cvsadmin group exists on the server machine, then only members of the cvsadmin group are allowed to run commands not listed in value.
The cvsignore File
The cvsignore file contains a list of filenames or filename patterns that CVS should not process. The syntax for this file is a space-separated or line-ending-separated list of filenames or name patterns. cvsignore uses wildcard pattern matching.
The special ! filename causes CVS to clear its ignore list. The special * filename causes CVS to ignore everything.
The cvswrappers File
The cvswrappers file contains a line-ending-separated list of wrappers that control the merge method or keyword-substitution mode of files, based on a filename pattern. The syntax of a wrapper is as follows:
wildcard option value [option value...]
The wildcards are matched to filenames when files are added to the repository.
These are the options and values:
- -m 'mode'
- Indicates the merge methodology to use for files that match the pattern. Valid modes are COPY or MERGE.
- -k 'mode'
- Indicates the keyword-expansion mode to use for files that match the pattern. The keyword-expansion modes are provided in Section 11.6 later in this chapter.
- -f 'path_to_filter'
- Process the file through the filter program every time the file leaves the repository. This option is not available in CVS 1.10 and later.
- -t 'path_to_filter'
- Process the file through the filter program every time the file enters the repository. This option is not available in CVS 1.10 and later.
The editinfo File
The editinfo file is obsolete; it has been replaced by verifymsg and rcsinfo. In CVS versions that use editinfo, this file enforces the use of a specific editor when entering log messages. If CVS is called from a remote client, or if the -m or -F command options are used with cvs commit, the editinfo file is not used. If the editor exits with a nonzero exit status, the commit does not proceed.
The history File
The history file contains the information displayed by the cvs history command. It must be writable by all CVS users and is created by cvs init to be owner-, group-, and world-writable. This file should not be edited manually; all changes should occur through CVS.
If you wish to turn history logging off, a simple way to do so is to rename the history file. The file can also be removed or rotated like any log file, with no effect on any CVS command other than cvs history. (If you do rotate the file, consider whether to lock the repository during the process of moving the file.)
The loginfo File
The loginfo file defines programs to run when the file has been committed successfully. These programs run on the repository computer.
Lines starting with the hash symbol (#) are comments and are ignored. The special ALL pattern matches all directories. The special DEFAULT pattern matches directories that do not match any pattern except ALL. CVS uses the script on the first line with a directory-name pattern that matches the directory tree the file is in. If no pattern match is found, the script specified by the DEFAULT line is executed. Scripts specified by ALL lines are always executed.
The file syntax is as follows:
name_pattern action
The name_pattern is a regular expression that must match a relative path within the repository. The action is a command-line template or the address of a script, plus any parameters required for that script or template, plus a format string. The action is passed the log message on the standard input, followed by the repository path and the results of the format string.
The format string is processed by CVS before being passed to the action's script or command. Before processing, the format string consists of a % , followed by a space, a single variable, or a set of variables enclosed in braces ({ }). These are the variables for the format string:
- s
- Expands to the name of the current file being processed.
- Expands to the file's revision number prior to the commit.
- v
- Expands to the file's revision number after the commit.
When CVS processes the format string, the output passed to the script is a space-separated list of variable expansions, with a variable expansion for each file that was committed. The series of variable expansions is a comma-separated set of strings, such that %{sV} could be expanded to a string like main.c,1.3.
Dollar signs ($), backticks (`), backslashes (\), and quotation marks (") in the repository path or in any filenames expanded from the format string are escaped with a backslash, but the backslash is not visible in the called scripts.
The modules File
The modules file is used to group arbitrary files or directories into a single module. Once a module is defined, the project files and directories it defines can be checked out into a sandbox by either the module name or the name of the repository directory it represents. The modules file can also specify programs to run when files in the module are committed, exported, updated, checked out, or tagged with rtag.
Each module definition needs to be on a line of its own. When adding directories to module definitions, use paths relative to the repository root directory.
An alias module can be used to group files and directories into a single module, regardless of where they are stored in the repository tree. The syntax for an alias module definition is as follows:
module_name -a path [path...]
A path may be a pathname to a file or directory or it may be another module name, and there may be any number of paths. If a path leads to a directory, all subdirectories and files are included in the module. If you wish to exclude subdirectories from an alias module, use an exclamation mark (!) in front of the directory name.
A regular module is used to define options for a project. It can also be used to define subsets of a project or group modules together. The syntax of a regular module is as follows:
module_name [options] [directory [files|subdirectories...]] [&modules...]
The directory should be a path relative to the repository root directory. If filenames or subdirectory names are included, they should be in the directory and the module definition then applies only to those files or subdirectories. You can include a predefined module in a regular module by prefixing the module name with an ampersand (&) and specifying the resulting name in place of directory in the syntax. The module can be a regular module or an alias module.
Most of the options for a regular module define scripts to run immediately after a CVS command on the files in the module. Here is the full list of options for regular modules:
- -d directory_name
- Use directory_name rather than the module name as the name of the sandbox root directory.
- -e script
- Run the script when the module is exported. The script is given the module name as an argument.
- -i script
- Run the script when the module is committed. The script is given the full pathname of the relevant repository directory as an argument. This option is obsolete in CVS 1.11.6 and later.
- -o script
- Run the script when the module is checked out. The script is given the module name as an argument.
- -s status
- Provide a status for the module. This has no meaning internal to CVS, but when the cvs checkout -scommand runs, the status affects the display order.
CVS allocates an 11-character space for the status string when it is displayed, but the string is not truncated if it is longer than 11 characters.
- -t script
- Run the script when rtag is used on the module. This option does not run when tag is used. The script is given two arguments: the module name and the name of the tag.
- -u script
- Run the script when the module is updated. The script is given the full pathname of the affected repository directory as an argument. This option is obsolete in CVS 1.11.6 and later.
Each script designated in the modules file runs immediately after its associated CVS command completes. For example, the -o script runs after a checkout command for the module completes.
If the repository is not on the same computer as the client, the scripts for the -i and -uoptions are copied from their original location in the repository to the client computer and stored in the Checkin.prog and Update.prog files in the CVS subdirectories in the sandbox. These scripts are later copied back to the server computer, where they run. For security reasons, this behavior is changed in CVS 1.11.6 and later.
All other scripts called from the modules file run on the repository server computer.
The sandbox copies of the Checkin.prog and Update.prog files are not changed when the modules file or the repository computer's copies of the scripts are changed. To change Checkin.prog and Update.prog, commit and release the sandbox and check out a new sandbox.
The notify File
The notify file contains the commands to run when conditions exist for cvs watch to notify a user of a change to a watched file.
The syntax of the notify file is a series of lines, each line in the following format:
filename_pattern command
The filename_pattern can be ALL or any wildcard pattern. The command can be any sh shell command, but it must contain %s, which is replaced by the name of the user to notify. The rest of the notification information is provided to the command through standard input (stdin).
CVS does not notify you of your own changes to a file.
The passwd File
The passwd file contains the usernames and passwords for the pserver repository method. This file is usually edited in place, not checked out like the other administrative files. If you wish to check it out, add it to the commitinfo file, but be aware of the security risks explained in Chapter 8.
The format for entries in the passwd file is:
The CVS_username is the name the user sends to CVS. The system_username is the name the CVS programs run under. If these names are the same, you don't need to include the system_username. The system_username must be a valid username on the server; if the system_username does not exist on the server, CVS commands will fail even if the user authenticates with CVS.
The passwords need to be encrypted with the standard Unix crypt( ) function. CVS does not provide a tool to encrypt passwords, so they need to be encrypted elsewhere and then pasted into the file. If the password field is empty, the user automatically authenticates. You can use the Unix and Linux program mkpasswd to encrypt a string for use as a password.
A single system username can be shared by multiple users with different CVS usernames. This can allow several people to work on a project, while recording the changes across multiple users.
The rcsinfo File
The rcsinfo file defines forms to display as the templates for commit log messages. The rcsinfo file is processed before a file is committed.
The file syntax is:
name_pattern action
The name_pattern is a regular expression that must match a relative path within the repository. The action is the path to a template file for log messages.
Lines starting with the hash symbol (#) are comments and are ignored. The special ALL pattern matches all directories. The special DEFAULT pattern matches directories that do not match any other pattern. CVS uses the file on the first line with a directory name pattern that matches the directory tree the file is in. Files in each directory are processed according to the rules given in the first matching line or in the DEFAULT line. In addition, rules given in ALL lines are always applied.
If the repository is not on the same computer as the client, CVS stores a copy of the template (or templates) that matches each sandbox directory in the appropriate CVS subdirectory of each sandbox. This file is not updated with other sandbox files, so if the rcsinfo file or the main template changes, your users should release and recreate their sandboxes.
The readers File
The readers file contains the usernames of people who have read-only access to the repository via the pserver remote-access method. The readers and writers files use the CVS_username, not the system_username, to determine whether a user has access. The file should contain one name per line. The newline character after the last username is significant.
If a user is listed in the readers file, he has read-only access to the repository, even if he is also listed in the writers file.
The taginfo File
The taginfo file defines programs to run before a file is tagged. If any of the programs exit with a nonzero exit status, the tag does not proceed.
The file syntax is:
name_pattern action
The name_pattern is a regular expression that must match a relative path within the repository. The action is a command-line template or the path and filename of a script, plus any parameters required for that script or template. The full path of the repository and the filenames of all files to be committed are appended as parameters.
Lines starting with the hash symbol (#) are comments and are ignored. The special ALL pattern matches all directories. The special DEFAULT pattern matches directories that do not match any other pattern. CVS uses the script on the first line with a directory-name pattern that matches the directory tree the file is in. Files in each directory are processed according to the rules given in the first matching line or in the DEFAULT line. In addition, rules given in ALL lines are always applied.
A string with the following format is appended to the script parameters:
tagname operation repository_path file_revision_pair [file_revision_pair...]
The file_revision_pair is a space-separated filename and revision number, and there is one pair for each file to be tagged. The operation is add, mov, or del. The mov operation is used when tag or rtag is called with -F, and del is used when they are called with -d.
The users File
The users file provides a list of email addresses for users whose mailboxes are not on the same machine as the CVS repository. This file is used by the command given in the notify file, and it becomes the input represented by the %s string.
The format of this file is a separate line for each user, consisting of the username and the email address to send notifications to, in the following format:
If you are using the pserver access method, use the system usernames in the users file.
The val-tags File
The val-tags file contains a list of valid tag names, acting as an internal cache for CVS. It must be writable by all CVS users, and is created by cvs init to be owner- and group-writable. This file should not be edited manually; all changes should occur through CVS.
The verifymsg File
The verifymsg file defines programs to run after a log message has been entered, but before the commit takes place. The programs are passed the log message, which they can modify or parse to ensure that all essential fields have been filled in. The verifymsg file is usually used with the rcsinfo file to manage log messages. If a program called from verifymsg exits with a nonzero error status, the commit is aborted.
The file syntax for verifymsgis as follows:
name_pattern action
The name_pattern is a regular expression that must match a relative path within the repository. The action is a command-line template or the address of a script, plus any parameters required for that script or template. The log message is passed to the script or template on the standard input (stdin), as is the path to a temporary file containing the log message.
Lines starting with the hash symbol (#) are comments and are ignored. The special DEFAULT pattern matches directories that do not match any other pattern. CVS uses the script on the first line with a directory-name pattern that matches the directory tree a file is in.
A script invoked through verifymsg can modify the log message, and the config file in the CVSROOT directory then determines whether CVS reads and uses the modified log message or the original one for the rest of the commit process.
The writers File
The writers file contains the usernames of people who have read-write access to the repository via the pserver remote-access method. The readers and writers files use the CVS username, not the system username, to determine whether a user has access. The file should contain one username per line. The newline character after the last user is significant.
If a user is listed in the writers file but not the readers file, she has read-write access to the repository.
Being listed in the readers file is enough to consign a user to read-only access, regardless of whether that user is also listed in the writers file.
CVSROOT Variables
The administrative files in CVSROOT can use several types of variables: internal, environment, and shell variables. You can use these variables to pass parameters to the scripts in the scripting files, or you can use them as part of command-line templates.
The internal variables allow you to use information CVS stores about the currently running command. The environment variables are used to access information from the environment the command is running in, and the shell variables are used to access information about the shell.
Environment Variables in CVSROOT Files
Three environment variables are set when CVS runs commands or scripts from CVS administrative files:
- This variable is meaningful only with the pserver access method. It refers to the CVS username provided in the leftmost field of the appropriate line in CVSROOT/passwd. If this username does not exist, the variable expands to an empty string.
- LOGNAME and USER
- Both of these variables contain the username of the user calling the CVS process.
In the pserver access method, the username is the third field of the line in passwd. If no username is there, the CVS_USER value is used.
Internal Variables in CVSROOT Files
The syntax for referencing a CVS internal variable is ${VARIABLE}. The $VARIABLE syntax can also be used if the character immediately following the variable is neither alphanumeric nor an underscore (_).
These are the internal CVS variables:
- The path to the repository root directory (not the path to the CVSROOT directory within the repository). This variable contains the path only, not any access method or host information.
- CVSEDITOR or EDITOR or VISUAL
- The editor CVS is using. If you use the -e editor CVS option, CVS uses the editor you specify on the command line. If you don't use -e, CVS reads the environment variables and uses the first editor it finds. CVS uses CVSEDITOR by preference, then EDITOR, then VISUAL.
- The username (on the server machine in client/server mode) of the user running CVS.
With the pserver access method, this is the third field of the appropriate line in passwd. If no username is there, it is the name in the leftmost field.
- This variable applies only to CVS 1.9.18 or earlier. It contains the path to the rcs executable.
CVS permits user-defined variables that can be passed to administrative files from the client. In the administrative files, reference such a variable with the syntax ${=VARIABLE}. On the command line, use the -s variable=value CVS option to pass the variable to CVS. All strings that contain the $ symbol, other than the variable references, are reserved for CVS internal use. There is no way to escape the $symbol.
Shell Variables in CVSROOT Files
Two shell variables are also used in the administrative files:
- ~/
- The home directory of the user calling the CVS process.
- ~username
- The home directory of the user identified as username.
In CVS, all dates and times are processed by a version of the GNU getdate function, which can translate dates and times given in several different formats. Case is always irrelevant when interpreting dates. Spaces are permitted in date strings, but in the command-line client a string with spaces should be surrounded by quotes. If the year is 0 to 99, it is considered to be in the twentieth century.
If a time is not given, midnight at the start of the date is assumed. If a time zone is not specified, the date is interpreted as being in the client's local time zone.
Legal Date Formats
The legal time and date formats for CVS are defined by the ISO 8601 standard and RFC 822 as amended by RFC 1123. Other formats can be interpreted, but CVS is designed to handle only these standards.
The basic ISO 8601 date format is as follows:
year-month-day hours:minutes:seconds
All values are numbers with leading zeros to ensure that the correct number of digits are used. Hours are given in 24-hour time. This produces the structure YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, which is internationally acceptable and can be sorted easily. You can use a date, a time, or both.
If you're using ISO 8601 format with the hyphens, the full date is required in CVS. The YYYYMMDD date format is also acceptable and can be abbreviated to YYYYMM or YYYY.
The HH and HH:MM time formats are acceptable. Times can also be specified without the colon, so HHMMSS or HHMM are usable.
Be aware that HHMM may be misinterpreted as YYYY. Get into the habit of using separators.
In strict ISO 8601 format, a T is required between the date and the time, but CVS understands this format with or without the T. The ISO 8601 standard also states that a Z at the end of the string designates UTC (Universal Coordinated Time), but CVS does not recognize the use of Z.
RFC 822 and RFC 1123
RFCs 822 and 1123 define a precise time format:
These are the terms in the format:
- A three-letter day of the week
- A two-digit date of the month
- A three-letter month
- The year (it must be a four-digit year)
- Hours
- Minutes
- Seconds
- The time zone (can be the text abbreviation, a military time zone, or an offset from UTC in hours and minutes)
Legal Date Keywords
CVS also allows short English phrases such as "last Wednesday" and "a month ago" to be used in placed of actual dates. Case is not significant, and CVS can understand plurals. These are the keywords it understands:
- Month names
- January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December
- Month abbreviations
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec
- Days of the week
- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Day abbreviations
- Sun, Mon, Tue, Tues, Wed, Wednes, Thu, Thur, Thurs, Fri, and Sat
- Units of time
- year, month, fortnight, week, day, hour, minute, min, second, and sec
- Relative times
- tomorrow, yesterday, today, and now
- Meridian qualifiers
- am, pm, a.m., and p.m.
- Modifiers
- a, last, this, next, and ago
- Sequences
- first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth(second can't be used as a sequence term, because it is used as a time unit.)
Time Zones
CVS understands time zones expressed in offsets from UTC, such as +0700(7 hours ahead) and -1130 (11 hours, 30 minutes behind). The format for these time zones is +HHMM or -HHMM, where + means ahead of UTC and - means behind UTC. CVS also understands time-zone abbreviations and ignores case and punctuation when interpreting them.
Some of the time-zone abbreviations CVS recognizes are ambiguous. CVS recognizes only one meaning for each of the ambiguous time zones. However, which meaning is recognized may vary depending on your operating system, and on how CVS was configured when it was compiled.
Table 11-1 shows the valid civilian time-zone abbreviations for CVS. Table 11-2 shows military time-zone abbreviations that CVS recognizes.
Table 11-1. Civilian time-zone abbreviations
|+0000 Greenwich Mean
|-0100 Middle European
|+0000 Coordinated Universal Time
|-0100 Middle European Winter
|+0000 Coordinated Universal Time
|Middle European Summer
|+0000 Western European
|-0100 Swedish Winter
|+0000 British Summer (ambiguous with Brazil Standard)
|Swedish Summer (ambiguous with South Sumatra)
|+0100 West Africa
|-0100 French Winter
|+0200 Azores
|French Summer
|+0300 Brazil Standard (ambiguous with British Summer)
|-0200 Eastern Europe, USSR Zone 1
|+0300 Greenland Standard (ambiguous with Guam Standard)
|-0300 Baghdad, USSR Zone 2
|+0330 Newfoundland
|-0330 Iran
|+0330 Newfoundland Standard (ambiguous with North Sumatra)
|-0400 USSR Zone 3
|Newfoundland Daylight
|-0500 USSR Zone 4
|+0400 Atlantic Standard
|-0530 Indian Standard
|Atlantic Daylight
|-0600 USSR Zone 5
|+0500 Eastern Standard
|-0630 North Sumatra (ambiguous with Newfoundland Summer)
|Eastern Daylight
|-0700 South Sumatra, USSR Zone 6 (ambiguous with Swedish Summer)
|+0600 Central Standard
|-0700 West Australian Standard
|Central Daylight
|West Australian Daylight
|+0700 Mountain Standard
|-0730 Java
|Mountain Daylight
|-0800 China Coast, USSR Zone 7
|+0800 Pacific Standard
|-0900 Japan Standard, USSR Zone 8
|Pacific Daylight
|-0930 Central Australian Standard
|+0900 Yukon Standard
|Central Australian Daylight
|Yukon Daylight
|-1000 Eastern Australian Standard
|+1000 Hawaii Standard
|Eastern Australian Daylight
|Hawaii Daylight
|-1000 Guam Standard, USSR Zone 9 (ambigous with Greenland Standard)
|+1000 Central Alaska
|-1200 New Zealand
|+1000 Alaska-Hawaii Standard
|-1200 New Zealand Standard
|+1100 Nome
|New Zealand Daylight
|+1200 International Date Line West
|-1200 International Date Line East
|-0100 Central European
Table 11-2. Military time-zone abbreviations
Environment Variables
Several environment variables affect CVS. Some are read only when CVS is the client, and some are read only when CVS is the server. In local or fork modes, both sets are read.
Client Environment Variables
The environment variables in the following list are read and used by the process that runs on the client computer and must be in the calling user's environment:
- OS/2 only. This variable sets the command interpreter and defaults to CMD.EXE.
- Used for debugging CVS in client/server mode. If set, everything sent to the server is stored in the CVS_CLIENT_LOG.in file, and everything received by the client is stored in CVS_CLIENT_LOG.out.
- Used to set the port the client uses to connect to the CVS server in kserver, gserver, and pserver modes. By default, the client uses port 2401 (gserver and pserver) or port 1999 (kserver) to connect to the server.
- A whitespace-separated list of filename patterns that should be ignored. See Section 11.2.4 earlier in this chapter.
- Obsolete since CVS 1.10. When set, it prevented CVS from overwriting the CVS/Root file if the -d repository_path option was set. CVS no longer overwrites the file.
- CVSEDITOR or EDITOR or VISUAL
- Used to set the editor CVS calls when it opens an editor for log messages. On Unix and Linux systems, the default editor is vi. Using CVSEDITOR is preferred over EDITOR and VISUAL, as other variables may be used by other programs.
- Used to change the file CVS uses to store and retrieve the password in pserver remote-access mode. The default file is HOME/.cvspass.
- Not currently in use. It used to be set to the port number for the server's rcmd (remote command) daemon if the port was nonstandard.
- If set to 1, CVS tries to check out your sandbox in read-only mode. (CVS actually checks whether this variable is nonnull, so it works regardless of the setting. This behavior may change in the future.)
- Contains the full pathname of the CVS repository, as described in Chapter 3. When you're working in a sandbox, this variable is not needed. If you're working outside a sandbox, either this variable must be present or the -d repository_path option must be used.
- Used to set the program CVS calls to connect to a remote repository in ext mode. The default program is rsh.
- If connecting to a CVS server using rsh, this variable is used to determine which program is started on the server side. In ext and server modes, this defaults to cvs. In fork mode, this defaults to the path to the CVS client program.
- May contain one wrapper but no more than one, as explained in Chapter 3.
- HOME or HOMEPATH or HOMEDRIVE
- Used to determine where the user's home directory is, to enable CVS to locate its files. On Unix, Linux, and related systems, only HOME is used. On Windows systems, HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are used. Some Windows operating systems (Windows NT, 2000, and XP) set these variables automatically. If yours doesn't, HOMEDRIVE should be set to the drive letter (e.g., C:) and HOMEPATH should be set to the path (e.g., \home\jenn).
- Used to locate any programs whose path is not compiled with the CVS program. This variable is still used, but it is less important now that the rcs, diff, and patch programs CVS uses are all distributed with CVS.
- Obsolete in CVS 1.9.20 and later. It was used for the path to the external rcs executable, before rcs was added to the CVS distribution.
Server Environment Variables
The following variables are read when CVS is operating as the server (or in local or fork modes). They must be in the calling user's environment on the server computer.
- Used only when debugging the server in client/server mode. This variable delays the start of the server client process by CVS_SERVER_SLEEP seconds to allow the debugger to be attached to it.
- Used to set the default permissions of files in the repository. See Chapter 6 for information on securing your projects.
This variable may be added to the client code in a later version of CVS.
- Used to locate any programs whose path is not compiled with the CVS program. This variable is still used, but it is less important now that the rcs, diff, and patch programs CVS uses are all distributed with CVS.
- Sets the temporary directory CVS stores data in. This variable defaults to /tmp.
CVS creates temporary files with mkstemp (BSD 4.3), if possible. If mkstemp is not available when CVS is compiled, it tries tempnam (SVID 3), mktemp (BSD 4.3), or tmpnam (POSIX), in that order. If it uses tmpnam, it cannot use the TMPDIR environment variable and files are created in /tmp.
Keywords and Keyword Modes
CVS contains keywords that can be included in nonbinary project files. When CVS finds a keyword in a file it is checking out, it expands the keyword to provide metadata about the latest revision of the file. You can set keyword-expansion modes on a file to tell CVS whether (and how) to expand the keywords it finds.
Keyword-expansion modes also control line-ending conversion. Unix, Macintosh, and Windows operating systems use different sets of codes to signal the ends of lines. (Linux uses the same codes as Unix.) When you commit a file from an operating system that doesn't use Unix line endings, CVS converts the line endings to Unix style. If you are storing binary files, this conversion can corrupt the file. Use the -kb keyword-expansion mode to tell CVS not to convert line endings.
CVS keywords take the form:
All keywords except Log expand to the format:
$Keyword: value$
These are the keywords and the information they show about the file they are in:
- Author
- The username of the user who committed the last revision.
- Date
- The date on which the last revision was committed, in UTC.
- Header
- A header containing information about the file, including the author, date and revision number, path and filename of the RCS file (project file in the repository), file status, and whether the file is locked. See Chapter 5 for information about file locking.
- Id
- A header like the one given by the Header keyword, without the path of the RCS file.
- Name
- The tag name the file was checked out with. This keyword can display a branch or provide a more meaningful identification of a revision than the revision number alone. See Chapter 4 for more information about tags and branches.
- Locker
- The username of the user who locked the file with cvs admin -l (empty if the file is not locked).
- Log
- The commit messages, dates, and authors for the file. This keyword instructs CVS to store this information in the file itself. Any characters that prefix the keyword are also used to prefix log lines; this enables comment markers to be included automatically. Unlike most keywords, existing log expansions are not overwritten with the new ones; the new log expansions are merely prepended to the list.
The cvs log command displays all the information that the Logkeyword provides.
The Log keyword is best used at the end of a file, to avoid users having to go through all the log messages to get to the important parts of the file.
The log created by the Log keyword does not merge neatly when CVS merges a branch back to the trunk. If your file is likely to be branched and remerged, it is better to use the cvs log command than to store a log within the file.
- RCSfile
- The name of the RCS file (the project file in the repository).
- Revision
- The CVS internal revision number of the file. This number is specific to the individual file and does not identify a stage within the project.
- Source
- The name and path of the RCS file (the project file in the repository).
- State
- The current state assigned to the current revision, set with cvs admin -s. See Chapter 7.
The keyword-expansion modes in the following list are used in commands and CVS wrappers to control keyword expansion and line-ending conversion. The syntax differs slightly for each use. In commands, you use the mode without a space between the option and the mode (e.g., -kb). In wrappers, you need a space and may need to quote (e.g., -k 'b').
- b
- Inhibit keyword expansion and line-ending conversion. Use this keyword-expansion mode to signal that a file is binary.
CVS can convert line endings from the form appropriate to the server to the form appropriate to the client. This causes obvious problems when working with binary files.
- k
- Generate only a keyword name, not a name and value. Use this option when merging different (nonbinary) versions of a file, to prevent keyword substitution from creating spurious merge errors. This option can corrupt binary files.
- o
- Generate the version of a keyword string that was present just before the current file was last committed, rather than generating a version with the modifications of the last commit. This option is similar to -kb, but with line-ending conversion.
- v
- Generate only the value of a keyword, rather than the name and value. This is most useful with cvs export, but do not use it for binary files. Once any keyword is removed from a file, further expansions are not possible unless the word is replaced.
- kv
- Generate the name and value of a keyword. This is the default mode.
- kvl
- Generate the name and value of a keyword and add the name of the locking user if the revision is locked with cvs admin -l.
Pattern Matching
CVS uses two different forms of pattern matching, depending on which aspect of CVS is attempting to match the pattern. Most CVS functions use sh-style wildcards, but the scripting files in the CVSROOT directory use regular expressions.
This section is not a comprehensive study of regular expressions or wildcards. For a more complete discussion of regular expressions, I recommend Mastering Regular Expressions (O'Reilly) by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl.
Wildcards are used by most CVS functions, including wrappers and ignore files. The wildcards are evaluated by a version of the fnmatch standard function library distributed with CVS.
The wildcards are sh-style, and the symbols used in CVS include:
- ?
- Matches any single character.
- \
- Escapes the special symbols, so they can be used as literals.
- Matches any string, including the empty string.
- [ ]
- Matches any one of the enclosed characters. Within the brackets, the following symbols are used:
- ! or ^
- If either of these characters is the first character after the open bracket, the brackets match anything that is not included in the brackets.
- char1-char2
- Denotes the range of characters between char1 and char2.
Regular Expressions
CVS supports regular expressions in the scripting files in the CVSROOT directory. In CVS 1.11.5, the scripting files are the only files that support regular expressions; all other files and functions use pattern matching. The scripting files are commitinfo, editinfo, loginfo, rcsinfo, taginfo, and verifymsg.
CVS regular expressions are based on the GNU Emacs regular-expression syntax, but they do not implement all of the Emacs operators. The regular expressions are parsed by a version of the regex standard function library distributed with CVS.
The CVS regular-expression operators include:
- ^
- Matches the beginning of a line. Use ^foo to match foo at the beginning of a line.
- $
- Matches the end of a line. Use foo$to match foo at the end of a line.
- .
- Matches any single character, except a newline character. The expression foo.bar matches foosbar and foo:bar, but not foodiebar.
- *
- Repeats the previous element zero or more times. The expression fo*bar matches fobar, foobar, fooobar, and any other string in that pattern.
The pattern matcher tries to match the longest string possible. If the next part of the expression fails to match, the pattern matcher rolls back one character at a time in an attempt to match the string. If it is parsing the regular expression fo*obar against the string fooobar, it initially matches the expression fo* against fooo. It then rolls back to matchfo*against foo, thus freeing the obar in the string to match the obar in the expression.
- +
- Repeat the previous element one or more times. This operator is similar to the * operator and is processed the same way.
- ?
- Repeat the previous element zero times or one time. The expression fo*bar matches fobar or foobar, but nothing else.
- \
- Escape the next character (\^ is a literal carat). Also used as part of some operators.
- \|
- The OR operator. Match the element on the left or the element on the right to the end of the string, enclosing parenthesis, or another OR operator.
- +? or *? or ??
- The same as the+, *, and ? operators, except that they attempt to match the shortest string possible rather than the longest.
- [...]
- A character set. Any of the characters in the character set can be matched. The [fba] character set matches any one (and only one) of f, b, or a. With the *operator, the expression[fba]* matches any sequences composed of zero or more f, b,'or acharacters.
The only special characters or operators inside a character set are -, ], and ^. To include a ] in a character set, use it as the first character. To include a -, use it as the last character or just after a range. To use a ^, use it anywhere except as the first character.
A character range can be specified inside a character set. Create a range by using a hyphen between the start and end of the range. a-z and 0-9 are common ranges. Note that the behavior of a mixed-case range such as A-z is undefined; use [a-zA-Z] instead.
- [^...]
- A complemented character set. This operator matches everything except the characters or ranges inside the set.
A ] or - that immediately follows the ^ is treated as the literal character.
- \(...\)
- Group expressions together so that an operation works on the set. The expression ba\(na\)+ matches bana, banana, bananana, and similar sequences.
Repository Access Methods
CVS provides a variety of ways to access the repository. These methods are briefly described in the following sections, and Chapter 8 explains them in more detail.
Client Side
On the client side, you specify the access method as part of the repository path. If you don't declare one of the following methods, CVS assumes either the local or ext method:
- local
- Connect to a repository on the same computer as the sandbox, but do not use client/server mode.
- ext
- Connect with an externally defined rsh or rsh-like connection method (such as ssh). If you use anything other than rsh, the CVS_RSH environment variable must be set on the client computer.
- fork
- Connect to a repository on the same computer as the sandbox as if it were a remote machine. This method is useful if you are trying to diagnose problems with client/server mode.
- gserver
- Connect to the repository using the GSS-API and Kerberos 5.
- kserver
- Connect to the repository using Kerberos 4.
- pserver
- Connect to the repository using CVS's internal password server.
- server
- Connect to the repository using CVS's internal rsh server (not always available).
Server Side
The kserver, gserver, and pserver access modes require a server to run on the repository computer. For these modes, the server is started with inetd or xinetd. The inetd configuration must be on one line and should call CVS with the --allow-root and -foptions and the pserver or kserver command.
The parameter to the --allow-root option is the path to the repository root directory. If you intend to have several repository root directories, add more --allow-rootoptions.
If your version of inetd doesn't allow you to use port numbers in inetd.conf, add appropriate lines to /etc/services and use those service names instead of the port number in inetd.conf.
These are the two commands the server can use:
- kserver
- Accept Kerberos 4 connections.
- pserver
- Accept pserver (password server) and gserver (GSS-API) connections.


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I will start with some bad news: you need to go and prepare your websites for the new ecosystem.
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Less than a year after the release of Kisses on the Bottom, Sir Paul McCartney is already at work on one, or maybe two, new albums. The singer has apparently linked up with two different producers, Ethan Johns and Mark Ronson, recording songs with each.
"This is very different to the last album," Johns admitted in an interview with NME. Describing the sound as "classic Paul", the producer of records by acts including Kings of Leon and the Vaccines said they have already finished two sessions together, with another in "a few weeks".
"It's sounding great," said Johns. "He's still one of the most extraordinary recording talents. There's a song on the record called Hosanna which is absolutely heartbreaking – just Paul and an acoustic guitar. It's gorgeous."
McCartney has also allegedly been working with Ronson, who has helped produce records including Lily Allen's Alright, Still and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. "I know he's also been in the studio with Mark Ronson," Johns said, "which I imagine is going to be quite current-sounding." According to a report this summer, Ronson was on DJ duties at McCartney's wedding to Nancy Shevell in 2011.
Despite the news of these recording projects, it isn't clear what McCartney is working on: one album with several producers? Several albums? The former Beatle may also be recording material for a video game: earlier this summer, he revealed that he has a deal with Bungie, the creators of the game Halo. "I'm not sure what [the plan] is," Johns said. "I'm simply a guy in his phone book he calls up every now and again and asks if I want to do something. And you don't say no to McCartney."
Kisses on the Bottom, McCartney's 15th solo album, reached No 3 on the UK album chart.


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Here's who is on the board for the Broncos in draft's second and third rounds
With the Broncos poised to make three picks Friday in the NFL draft, here is a look at the player pool they have to choose from as they work through the draft's second day.
At No. 36 — the fourth pick of the day — they will likely be looking at a pool of candidates that could include Connecticut defensive tackle Kendall Reyes, Stanford tight end Coby Fleener and Georgia Tech wide receiver Stephen Hill. Fleener and Hill, in particular, may already be gone having carried first-round grades from most teams into this draft.
The Rams, in particular, who will pick at No. 33, are on the hunt for a wide receiver and had A.J. Jenkins targeted in that spot, but Jenkins went in the first round Thursday night. Fleener is likely the best player on the board for some teams when they open things up today and if he were there when the Broncos were on the clock he would certainly test the team's best-player-available mantra there.
LSU wide receiver Rueben Randle, who the Giants considered with the No. 32 pick Thursday night, is also still available and is one of the more polished receivers on the board.
In the defensive front Reye is an athletic player who has tested better in workouts than he played at times in his career with the Huskies. But he has flashed plenty of potential and performed well at the Senior Bowl, winning many 1-on-1 battles with some of the best offensive linemen on this draft board during the practice week in Mobile, Ala.
Clemson's Brandon Thompson is also a candidate in the second round as well and projects into either a nose tackle in a 3-4 or an interior anchor in a 4-3 like the Broncos play. Thompson was one of the strongest players on his team.
The Broncos figure to take a hard look at ASU quarterback Brock Osweiler today too and will come out of this draft with a developmental passer. At cornerback Central Florida's Josh Robinson is worthy of a second-round pick as is Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin. Boykin could also give the Broncos a potential top-shelf returner.
And at linebacker Miami's Sean Spence and Nebraska's Lavonte David have the kind of instincts and athleticism to fit the Broncos' scheme. Spence is one of the most savvy players on the board while David is a non-stop, high effort player. Utah State's Bobby Wagner deserves a look as well.
Miami of Ohio guard Brandon Brooks, a massive prospect at 346 pounds who also ran a 4.99 40-yard dash at his pro day, is just the kind of power player head coach John Fox likes in the Broncos front as well.