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First off I would like to say I suck at writing tutorials. I am a knowledge retainer, not a giver. Hence why I will never teach anything tech. I have a difficult time explainging how things work to people so please, be gentle but critical when reading this. This tutorial is actually a part of an essay I am writing for my finals soon in my systems security course . The topic is Network infliltration from the attackers standpoint - how understanding methodology can be your best defense. So with out further adue I give you my tutorial on information handling on covert channels.
Once attackers have installed backdoor listeners on a system and cleaned up their tracks in the logs, they need to communicate with their nefarious programs on the victim machine to control them. To avoid detection, an attacker will utilize stealth mechanisms to communicate with the backdoor system across the network. Such disguised communication mechanisms are refered to as "covert channels". Covert channels are essentially an excercise in hiding data while it moves. While encryption mathematiclly transforms data into cipher text so an adversary can not understand it's contents, covert channels hide the data so the advasary doesn't detect it in the first place. A truley paranoid attacker will hide data and use cryptography together.
The techniques we will discuss for establishing covert channels across the network require a client and a server. The server must be installed on a victims machine, acting as a sentinel, ready to exchange data with the client. The client packages up the data using stealth techniques, while the server unpackages the data and reacts to it. The covert channel can be used for remotley controllig a system, secretly transmitting files, or any other application an attacker wants to keep secret.
How does the covert channel get installed on the victims computer in the first place?
Attackers have employed countless techniques in real-world cases, including these scenarios:
* An attacker can take over system and place a backdoor listener on it through a vulnerbility such as a buffer overflow.
* The attacker could email an unsuspecting internal user an executable program, or virus, witch implementes a covert channel server.
* The attacker may be an ex-employee who had system administrator privlages before being terminated. The attacker could leave the covert channel server as s way to keep unauthorized, lingering access.
* The attacker may have been a temp or contractor, who signed on for a brief stint with your organization for the sole purpose of installing a backdoor agent on your internal network (and hell, to make a couple bucks on your payroll while doing so.)
Any of these mechanisms can be used to gain access. Once access is obtained, the covert channel will help the attacker carry on his/her work in stealth mode remotely.
Covert channels often rely on a technique called tunneling, wich allows one protocol to be carried over another protocol. Any communications protocol can be used to transmit another protocol. Consider a hypothetical protocol called TCP/CP. TCP/CP marries a moderen-day computer protocol to an ancient mechanism for delivering messages, resulting in a slow, yet remarkably effective communication tool for intermediate distances.
What is TCP/CP? The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), transmitted via Carrier Pigeon, of course. The higher-layer application (which could be web browsing, telnet, FTP, or any other TCP-based application) passes data down it's protocol stack. The TCP layer formats the packet, and instead of sending it to the IP layer, it prints each TCP packet on a tiny sheet of paper. Each packet is then wrapped around the leg of a carrier pigeon. The pigeon is released, carrying the printed sheet to it's destination. At the destination, the data is retyped into a computer, passed up through the TCP layer, and sent to the reciving application. Pigeons are then fitted with responses, and interactive communication occurs. Although not terribly efficent, TCP/CP shows how any protocol, no mater how bizzare or awjward, can be used to carry another protocol through tunneling.
In a real-world example of tunneling techniques, the secure shell (SSH) protocol can be used to legitimately to carry other TCP-based services. While originally secure shell focused on providing strongly authenticated, encrypted command line access across network, through tunneling, it's use has been greatly expanded. With a rock solid session in place, any other TCP services, such as telnet, FTP, or even X-window session, can be transmitted securely over SSH. This SSH tunneling technique is frequnetly used to create VPN-like access across untrusted networks for TCP services.
The power of these tunneling techniques has been harnessed by attackers to remain undetected as they communicate with their back-door listener. Several tools are widely exchanged within the computer underground based on these techniques. We'll look at a few of the most widely used.
Reverse WWW shell: Covert channels using HTTP
Reverse WWW shell allows an attacker to access a machine with a command line prompt on your internalnetwork from the outside, even if it is protected with a firewall. The attacker must install (Or get one of your users to install) a simple program on a machine in your network, the Reverse WWW shell server.
On a regular basis, usually every 60 seconds, the internal server will try to access the external master system to pick up commands, essentially calling home. If the attacker has typed something into the master on the external system, theis command is retrived and executed on the internal system. The next communication from the internal agent will carry the results of this command, and a request for the nxt command. This is the reverse parrt of it all: the server goes to the master to pull commands, executes them, and pushes the results. From a network perspective, the internal machine (victim) appears to be surfing the web. The Reverse WWW shell server uses standard HTTP messages sent to the attackers external system across the network, where the master is running. When it access the master, the Reverse WWW shell server pushes out the command line prompt from the server, tunneled in HTTP request and responses. So, the internal agent looks like a browser surfing the web. The external master looks like a web server. All outgoing data is transmitted from a high numbered source port, to a destination TCP of 80. All responses come back from TCP port 80 on the high numbered port.
Ok so, the packets have HTTP characteristics. But, even worse, the shell data is formated as HTTP GET commands. Therefore, even a proxy firewall that enforces the use of HTTP on TCP port 80, carefully combing the protocol to make sure it's HTTP, is befuddled. The firewall and other network components view the traffic as standard outgoing HTTP, something that most networks allow. In fact, the covert channel is incoming shell access, allowing the attacker to execute any command on the internal system.
From an attackers point of view, using Reverse WWW shell is rather annoying; the cascade of entering commands, waiting for the server to come and retreive them, and send the responses can be cumbersome and frustrating. The attacker types in a command, waits 60 seconds, and then gets a response. The attacker can then enter another command, wait another 60 seconds, waits and so on and so forth. To make it even more stealthier though the atacker can set access to random times.
Unfortunatley, you are still not safe if you require HTTP authentication with static passwords to get out through your firewall. Many organizations only allow outgoing web browsing is a user authenticates to a web proxy with a userID and password. Reverse WWW shell allows the attacker to program the system with a userID and password that will be given to the outgoing web proxy firewall for authentication.
From an implementation perspective, the Reverse WWW shell client ad server are the same program with different command line parameters. The single client/server program is written in perl, so an interperter is required on both the inside and the outside machines. A suffciently motivated attacker would rewrite the tool in C, to run it on a system with out perl. Additionally, several folks have developed similar funcionality for tools that use HTTPS.
Let the TCP and IP headers carry the data
While covert channels created by embedding one protocol entirely in a different protcol can be quite effective, covert channels can also be constructed by inserting data into unused or misused fields of protocol headers themselves. The TCP/IP protocol suite is a particularly useful in carrying cover channels.
One particularly intersting tool that illustrates exploiting TCP/IP headers to create covert channels is called Covert_TCP which runs on Linux. Covert_TCP shows how data can be secretly carried in TCP headers be implementing a simple file transfer routine using the technique. Covert_TCP allows for transmitting information by entering ASCII data in the following TCP/IP header fields:
* IP identification
* TCP sequence number
* TCP acknowledge number
Of course, other components of the TCP and IP headers could be used to transmit data, such as the reversed, window, code bits, options, or padding fields, but only three components are supported by Covert_TCP. These components were selcted because they are often left unaltered as packets transverse a network. Even though only three different fields are supported in the tool, Covert_TCP is still remarkably effective in creating a covert channel.
A single executable program implements both the client and server. An attacker configures Covert_TCP to run in a particular mode, depending on the field to be used to carry data. The command line arguments used to initalize Covert_TCP indicate whether it is to transmit data over the IP identification field (" -ipid" mode), TCP inital sequence number (" -seq" mode), or TCP acknowledgement sequence number (" -ack" mode). These modes are mutually exclusive, and the client and server must use the same mode to communicate with each other.
The IP identification mode is quite simple. ASCII data is simply dropped into that field at the client and extracted at the server. A single character is carried in each packet.
The TCP initial sequence number mode is somewhat more complex. The first part of the TCP three-way handshake set to represent the ASCII value of the first character in the file to be covertly transferred. The Covert_TCP server sends back a RESET packet, because the itent of the communication is to deliver the character in the sequence number field, not to establish a connection. The client then sends another session inititation ( again, this is part of the 3-way handshake), containing another character in the initial sequence number field. Again, the server sends a RESET and the 3-way handshake is not completed. Although not terribly effcient in transferring data, this Covert_TCP mode is quite useful.
The most complex mode of operation for Covert_TCP uses the TCP acknowledgement sequence number, which applies in a so called "bounce" operation. For scenarios where the acknowledgement mode is used, three systems are involved: the server, the client, and the bounce server. In this mode the attacker essentially sends data from the client and bounces it off the bounce server using spoofing techniques, thereby transmitting it to the receiving server. TO accomplish this, the attacker first establishes a Covert_TCP server on the receving machine, putting it in ack mode. The attacker also selects a bounce server, which can be any accessible machine on the internet. No attacker software is required on the bounce server. ALl the bounce needs is a TCP/IP stack and a network connection. The attacker will send the file over a covert channel fromt he client system to the recieving system via the bounce server. The beauty of this, from an attackers point of view, is that a trace of the packets at the server will show that they came from the bounce server. A forensics investegator must trace the spoofed connection back from the recieving server to the bounce server and then to the client. Which can be a truley difficult task. The bounce operation can even be distributed. A single client could bounce a single file off dozens or hundreds of bounce servers, with a single receiving server getting the file to confound investigators. Each character of the file being transmitted could come from a different bounce server, resulting in a much more complex investigation.


text: Sustainable Design Page ContentAs the Facilities Management Department, we are proponents for energy efficient design and green buildings. We are encouraged in the changing design trends, evolving technologies and environmental issues such as resource availability, transportation, density and air quality, etc. We are challenged to find architectural solutions that become interactive work and study settings while being on the leading edge of the sustainability issue. As an educational entity, we take seriously our role as stewards of the environment. In addition, the Cedar Valley Campus is presently planning to form an educational program through the creation of the Energy Efficient Green Building Institute. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) provides standards that support construction through integrated, whole-building design practices throughout the industry (striking a balance between established practices and emerging technologies). Categories addressed in LEED include sustainable site, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality. Buildings have a significant impact on the environment, accounting for one-sixth of the world's freshwater withdrawals, one-fourth of its wood harvest and two-fifths of its material and energy, leaving a large negative impact on the environment and health. The resources required to create, operate and replenish this level of infrastructure are enormous and are diminishing. This is not possible without radical change in the design, construction, operation and location of buildings that seek to mimic the way nature operates; running on renewable energy, using materials in a complete cyclical fashion, eliminating the concept of waste, using renewable nontoxic materials, and fitting in with natural systems. Studies have demonstrated life cycle operation cost savings as well as gains in employee productivity and higher student test performances. As an entity that is supported by taxpayers, we feel that integrating green design, smart design and universal design is paramount as we plan the future infrastructure of our campuses while considering the health, diversity and safety of the workforce and student body that will continue to inhabit them.

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public class Card { private int value; // value of card (1-10, ...) // return String representation of Card public String toString() { return face + suit; } // end method toString public int getValue() { return value; } } // end class Card
Sooo this Card object gets used multiple times and put into an array. But my problem is that I can't get figure out how to get to the Value of the card..
I've been using this to print out the card i get from the array
System.out.println(myDeckOfCards.getDeck()[ 0 ]);
But, as you can see from the toString() Method up there it will only return the face and the suit. How do i get it to return the Value (on its own)? Or how can I access the Value for that particular element in the array?
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MUSCODA TOWNSHIP, Wis. — A Grant County man is arrested on suspicion of ninth offense operating while intoxicated after a rollover crash in Muscoda Township Sunday, according to the Grant County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said Aron Hogan, 32, or Boscobel, was driving his SUV south on County Road G shortly after midnight when he failed to negotiate a curve, causing the vehicle to roll several times and coming to rest in a corn field.
Hogan fled the scene when a Muscoda police officer discovered the crash and detained him, according to deputies.
Hogan received minor injuries in the crash.
He was also arrested on suspicion of second offense operating after revocation, an ignition interlock device violation and on a probation hold.


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New Mexico on fire
New Mexico is burning. Again. In June 2011, winds gusting up to 40 miles per hour propelled an aspen into a power line in the Jemez Mountains, near Los Alamos, igniting a 156,593-acre blaze that became known as the Las Conchas Fire. It was the biggest wildfire in the New Mexico's recorded history, until the next year, when lighting struck the Gila National Forest in the southern part of the state, sparking the 297,845-acre Whitewater-Baldy Fire. Now, in its third year of drought, northern New Mexico is burning anew. Two fires started late last week, one in the Santa Fe National Forest east of Santa Fe, and another in the Jemez Mountains, quite near the Las Conchas burn scar. Both were kindled by trees falling on power lines.
Many people are probably bummed to see the forests of northern New Mexico, freshly battered by a blaze that was much bigger and hotter than fires past, get licked again, even though the current fires appear far less severe than Las Conchas. But no one should be surprised. Stocked with fuel from a century of fire suppression, and with soils, grasses and trees seasoned by the ongoing drought, these hills are the forested equivalent of Match Light charcoal. Add the low humidity and gusty weather of last week, and one could argue it would have been more surprising if a fire or two didn't ignite.
These twin blazes could be just the beginning of a much wilder wildfire season in New Mexico, which, along with Arizona and California, was named most likely to burn big by U.S. Forest Service chief Tom Tidwell earlier this spring, thanks to severe drought. But the drought is deeper in New Mexico than anywhere else in the West, and it's steadily worsened in recent months. At the end of April, just under 25 percent of the state was experiencing "exceptional drought," the worst category the U.S. Department of Agriculture has got. Now, about 45 percent of the state is "exceptionally" dried out, and the drought's effects don't stop at wildfires.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the toll that hot, dry year upon hot, dry year is taking on New Mexico's river basins. The visible impacts on the state have multiplied since. There are the fires. And there are the hundreds of emaciated cattle that were recently seized by the state Livestock Board from a ranch in southern New Mexico and moved to a feedlot; the owner of the ranch was charged with animal cruelty for letting 25 animals starve to death. Wildlife are also hungry. In Española, the Wildlife Center, a rehab facility, is reporting an uptick in the number of hungry and thirsty birds, bobcats, foxes and bunnies it's receiving.
"We are seeing an increase in birds that are coming in way underweight, without any injuries, which is unusual," the center's executive director Katherine Eagleson, told the Associated Press. "We are finding no evidence of disease or injuries, they are just starving." Of the drought, she added: "It's probably worse than fires in terms of long-term effects on wildlife."
Dan Williams, a spokesman for New Mexico Game and Fish, expects it will be a tough year for bears, too. "Without water, there are less grasses and forbs that come out in the springtime that bears mostly subsist on until the acorns, nuts and berries come on later," he says. "Last year, we had a pretty good spring and early summer. There was plenty to eat up high. That resulted in a pretty good crop of cubs. This year, they're kind of in trouble. The grasses and forbs are simply not there. So they're having to come down to look for food elsewhere. It's likely to get worse later on."
It's a sad state of affairs. But Williams warns against letting emotion get the best of us. "People often overreact to things," he says, citing a woman who picked up a bear cub she thought was abandoned outside of Albuquerque recently. Game and Fish ended up with the bear, but Williams says chances are its mother was foraging nearby and would've been back to share her bounty with the cub. "People pick them up and basically steal them from their mother," he says, robbing the cub of vital survival skills it would have learned. "That bear cub will have a really hard time when they're released into the wild," he says. "It's going to have to fight for its own territory with other bears that will probably kill it. With the drought, we'll probably be seeing more of (these incidents)."
Cally Carswell is HCN's assistant editor. She tweets @callycarswell.


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I will wear it as a beach skirt in the summer, but now I wear this skirt with leggins. It's a really cute skirt! You can order it in my Etsy shop.
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The experienced genealogists know from my previous post, Found after 7 Years and 100 Years that there was much more research to be done regarding finding information on John Scramlin, the adopted boy. Since that post, I spent much of one afternoon trying to track down where I could get help explaining the legal notice which appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper Feb. 9, 1978. I was led on a wild goose chase, 4 helpful people tried to connect me with the right person at the First Judicial District Court. At last, I had Jill, since she was the one who could help me. Within minutes, she found the record, his probate. Yes, the probate! After giving her the information and asking a few meek questions as I held my breath, were, can I get a copy? Yes. How much are the pages? Each page was .25. The next day I called, and I was told she had printed the 32 pages and it came to $11.55 (she was certain I wanted them). I had to get a money order, and send a self-addressed stamped envelope. All easy, the worst part was the waiting for the record. I love doing business in New Mexico.
I called my cousin and shared this with her. My imagination went wild. Why would a state ward have a 32 pg. probate. Jill, the employee told me she thought if John, the adopted son, was in her family she would want the papers. So naturally, I thought he must have murdered his father, not his natural, nor his adoptive, but his step-father. Of course, that is why he was in the hospital. Finally, when my envelope arrived, I couldn't even open it, it was so tight, picture 32 pages in a #10 envelope, taped on 3 sides, and with a large stamp saying postage due, I owed $1.66.
After going through the nicely typed pages, I discovered a few interesting things. The state of New Mexico wanted to be reimbursed for John's care for 40 years, because he had an estate of $12,981. He was hospitalized from 1934 to 1974...40 years, and it took three years to get to probate. There were no known heirs. (He had a living sister and quite a few nephews and nieces.) John died August 11, 1974, there was no will, personal property valued at $1,751 and real property valued at $6,000. I learned where John's property (2 lots) on Candelario Street was, and looked up the site on Google Earth. The month following his death, his home was rented for two years at $25 per month. John's two lots were sold for $12,100 to Albert Gonzales and John Tena of Santa Fe.
Upon further investigation, I found discovered his step-father, William G. Hockman, was the father of three sons, Marvin Hockman, Edward Hockman and Albert Hockman. His adopted son, John Scramlin was the same age as Edward. There are things I don't know, like where did John receive his money to buy the lots, did his step-father die and leave him some money? But one thing I do know, is, he didn't kill his step-father.
My blog has been changed to make it more appealing for those who have New England ancestors and want to see the area through photos. Things I'll include are typical white New England churches, libraries showing their genealogical collection, historical societies, cemeteries, war memorials, in general, anything to do with history.
For four years I've blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can't forget my own roots.
Please check out the labels on the right side for articles. The header tabs at the top are a work in progress.
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(Reuters) - Chevron Corp posted earnings on Friday that were much lower than expected as maintenance exacerbated a decline this year in oil and natural gas production, and shares of the second-largest U.S. oil company slid 2.5 percent.
Third-quarter production fell to 2.52 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from 2.60 million bpd a year earlier. With a fourth-quarter bounce expected, Chevron expected 2012 production to average about 2.6 million bpd, or 97 percent of its original 2.68 million bpd target.
Increasing output from the wellhead is a struggle for many big oil companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell. With oil and gas assets tightly controlled by the countries where they are located, the majors are left to drill in pricier areas on land and offshore.
Smaller U.S. oil company Hess Corp, on the other hand, delivered on Friday a strong increase in profits and production owning to its interest in the Bakken oil basin in North Dakota, and a resurgent Libya operation.
For Chevron, the third quarter was marred by a huge fire at its Richmond refinery in California that damaged the crude unit there and now expected to be repaired in the first quarter. However, the company said this had a limited impact on third-quarter earnings, which were hit hard by weak marketing margins.
Overall, third-quarter net income fell to $5.25 billion, or $2.69 per share, from $7.83 billion, or $3.92 per share, a year earlier. Earnings dropped 17 percent to $5.1 billion in the oil and gas production business and plunged 65 percent to $689 million in the refining, or downstream, operation.
"Downstream was the primary culprit behind the miss," Simmons & Co analysts said in a note to investors.
The reported profit included about $600 million from an asset sale gain, offset by a negative foreign exchange impact, they said. Leaving out certain items, Chevron earned $2.55 per share, compared with the analysts' average estimate of $2.83, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Chief Executive Officer John Watson said that, apart from heavy planned oilfield maintenance, pricing for its output was also weaker. This was in part because of the oversupplied U.S. market for natural gas liquids, while the average Brent oil price of $110 per barrel was down $2 from a year before.
A storm cut into Gulf of Mexico production, while planned maintenance in Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom caused the majority of the production decline outside the United States, according to Chevron.
One downstream bright spot was that Chevron's smaller North American refineries in British Columbia and Salt Lake City were running discounted crude piped in from the Bakken, said Mike Wirth, executive vice president for downstream and chemicals.
A large spread between U.S. oil prices and international benchmark Brent has emerged due to the combination of a surge in North American oil production along with subdued U.S. demand and the limited ability to ship it out to international markets.
"On this crude disconnect, it is like real estate," Wirth told analysts on a conference call. "It is location, location, location, and our large coastal refineries are distant from where these advantages really are."
More broadly, Wirth said he was pessimistic about near-term demand for refined products based on the sales figures he saw in Asia and elsewhere.
Shares of Chevron were down 2.5 percent at $108.67 in early afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Braden Reddall in San Francisco; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Lisa Von Ahn and Tim Dobbyn)


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The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018)
A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family's every limit as they struggle to survive.
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If you've been told in the past that you couldn't have LASIK surgery, it's time to come to Emory Vision. During the last five years, LASIK technology has made a huge leap forward—and you may find that you're now the perfect candidate. I'd like to take a moment to address two reasons you may have been told you can't have LASIK.
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- 1 Functional Specification: [JPA Metadata Conversion]
- 1.1 Document History
- 1.2 Feature overview
- 1.3 Requirements
- 1.3.1 High-level Use Cases
- 1.3.2 Prototype 1
- 1.3.3 Prototype 2
- 1.3.4 Prototype 3
- 1.4 Design
- 1.5 Questions
- 1.6 References
- 1.7 Notes
Functional Specification: [JPA Metadata Conversion]
bug 138622- Convert annotated JPA metadata to orm.xml
Document History
|Version Description & Notes
|Nan Li
|Add initial prototypes, use cases, and questions we have to collect requirements
|Nan Li
|Update with the feedback got from PM and the team
|Nan Li
|Update with design related content
|Nan Li
|Update with the feedback got from planning meeting
|Nan Li
|Update with phase 1 JUnit test information
Feature overview
The main purpose of this feature is to provide the ability to convert annotated and XML JPA metadata back and forth to let us get different behaviors. With this feature, users could
- move annotations in both Java sources and jar files to XML
- move XML to annotations
- move global elements, such as generators and queries, to XML
Phase 1 Move globals to XML 353149
- Move can only be performed at project level considering the objects being moved are globals
- We will do nothing if a global has duplicates in Java sources or is overridden by globals in XML. A front warning will be given.
- Globals will be removed from Java after being converted to XML globals
- Separate menu items will be provided for query, generator and converter
JUnit Test:
- The test cases of query and generator metadata conversion are in the class named Generic2_0JpaMetadataConversionTests
- The test cases of converter metadata conversion are in the class named EclipseLink2_0JpaMetadataConversionTests
Phase 2 Move globals to Java
Phase 3 Type Mapping Annotation to XML
- Move annotations of type mapping(s) of the same package or different packages to XML
- Overwrite the existing type mapping(s) in XML - remove the old type mapping(s) and add the new ones
- Merge the existing type mapping(s) to XML - update the existing type mapping(s) with new metadata
Phase 4 Attribute Mapping Annotation to XML
- Move annotations of attribute mapping(s) to XML
- Move annotations of all the available attribute mapping(s)
- Move annotations of selected attribute mapping(s)
- Available attribute mapping(s) depends on the access type of the corresponding type mapping
- Field: ignore the annotated properties
- Property: ignore the annotated fields
- Default: field access type
Phase 5 Binary Annotation to XML
- Convert binary metadata
Phase 6 Rest of Work *
- Move XML mappings to annotations
High-level Use Cases
Use Case 1: Convert into new orm.xml file
The user has a JPA project with a list of annotated Java sources (from same/different source folder(s)) and requests to convert annotated metadata to mapping XML metadata. The user creates a new mapping file, selects the annotated sources from the list of Java sources, and chooses add the mapping file to the persistence.xml. A mapping file is added to the persistence.xml and opened with the metadata from the selected Java sources.
Use Case 2: Convert and merge into existing orm.xml file
The user has a JPA projecct with a list of annotated Java sources (from same/different source folder(s)) and requests to convert annotated metadata to mapping XML metadata. The user specifies a mapping file and selects the annotated sources. The user confirms merging metadata to the existing mapping file. The specified mapping file is updated and opened with the metadata from the selected Java sources.
Use Case 3: Convert global element to orm.xml file
The user has generators/queries/converters defined in Java sources and requests to move them to a mapping file as global elements. The user selects a JPA project, creates/selects a mapping file, and chooses to move. All the generators/queries/converters are moved to the mapping file as the mapping XML global level metadata and wipt off from the Java sources.
Note: Different menu items will be added for moving generators, queries, and converters separately.
Prototype 1
Use Cases
Use case 1-1
- User selects several classes from same or different packages and chooses Metadata Conversion
- The selected classes are listed and user can select/deselect the classes he wants to convert
Use case 1-2
- User selects several classes from same or different packages and chooses Metadata Conversion
- All the valid mapped classes in the selected project are listed with the pre-chosen ones be selected, and user can select/deselect the classes he wants to convert
Use case 2
- User selects one or more package(s) and chooses Metadata Conversion
- All the valid mapped classes in the selected package(s) are listed and user can select/deselect the classes he wants to convert
Use case 3
- User selects a project and chooses Metadata Conversion
- All the valid mapped classes in the selected package(s) are listed and user can select/deselect the classes he wants to convert
Prototype 2
Use Cases
Use case 1
- User selects a class(es)/package(s)/project and chooses Metadata Conversion
- The project hierarchy tree shows up with all the available projects and the pre-chosen ones be selected
- User can navigate the tree to select the mapped classes he wants to convert
Use case 2
- User selects a class(es)/package(s)/project and chooses Metadata Conversion
- User selects "Save as the default mapping file" checkbox, the combo box and Browse button will be disabled.
- User hits Finish button, the generated mapping file will be saved to META-INF folder named orm.xml.
Use case 3
- User selects a class(es)/package(s)/project and chooses Metadata Conversion
- User clicks Browse button for specifying mapping file
- User select "Excluded from persistence.xml" and hit Finish
- The generated mapping file won't be written to the persistence.xml as a mapping file refer entry.
Prototype 3
"slush bucket wizard" could be used to manipulate the possible selections and selected items. The possible selections could be shown with project hierarchy tree.
Design Options
- Delegate conversion behavior to a big conversion manager class or a group of converter classes. [Class Diagram]
- Build up converison behavior through creating new constructors to context model objects. E.g. we could create a factory method called like convertEntity making it return an OrmEntity through new constructor.
OrmEntity convertEntity(OrmPersistentType parent, JavaEntity javaEntity) { return new GenericOrmEntity(parent, javaEntity); }
- Delegate conversion behavior to context model objects
- Add convertTo method to Java context model objects, like javaPersistentType.convertTo(ormPersisentType)
- Add convertFrom method to Xml context model objects, like ormPersistentType.convertFrom(javaPersistentType)
Design Decisions
- Metadata conversion will be conducted on single JPA project basis due to no way to specify the project related information in a mapping file.
- Considering the pros and cons of the design options above, the last one would be the best. It integrates the conversion behavior to the XML context model while keeping the independence of the Java context model and avoiding the unexpected behavior that could be introduced by adding new constructors. The detailed design could be
- EclipseLink ORM XML is required for migration in either direction when using EclipseLink platform.
- Conversion will not perform if compiling errors or malformed XML exist.
- Warning message will be given at the front to inform users these metadata that we don't yet support, if exist, will not be converted.
- Warning message will be given at the front to inform users these duplicate or overridden annotated globals, if exist, will not be converted.
Note: Discussion of the questions goes to page Discussion
About Prototypes
- Prototype option 2/3 would work better when lots of Java sources exist in the workspace since it may tiresome for users to select one by one with option 1.
- With prototype option 2, all the resources in the selected node would be shown in the right side window considering our uses are developers. Validation message should be given when invalid conversion resources are selected. Should we prevent invalid resources from being shown up?
- 'Save as the default mapping file' option. For an EclipseLink project would we want it to be the default eclipselink-orm.xml file? Would orm.xml with the EclipseLink namespace and schema location be sufficient?
- By default the generated mapping file would be automatically included in the persistence.xml since mapping files except the default ones (META-INF/orm.xml and META-INF/eclipselink-orm.xml) won't take effect unless they are listed in the persistence.xml. Uses can exclude the generated mapping file from persistence.xml by selecting the "Exclude from persistence.xml" checkbox. Is this a proper consideration?
About Annotated Sources
- We assume users would want to convert all the metadata in a Java source so we only give the option to choose classes. Do we want to provide the ability to let users go a level deeper to choose the attribute mappings they want to convert?
- Should we remove the annotations from java and replace them with orm.xml?
- What about package-info.java files? Generic case doesn't need to support this, maybe adopters have feedback on this one?
- What about JPA annotated binary files?
About Generated Mapping Files
- What do we want to do when specified mapping file already exist? Do we want to just delete the old one and generate a new one? Do we want to support merge operation?
- What if a class is already listed in another orm.xml file?
- What if users want to convert a Java source with EclipseLink metadata to a generic mapping file? Should we give a warning and convert all the metadata to the mapping file? Should we give a warning and filter out the EclipseLink metadata?
- Do we want to use the xml-mapping-metadata-complete flag? and exclude-default-mappings flag in eclipselink? or just convert the specified annotations in java? If we use xml-mapping-metadata-complete we will need to use the access flag in the orm.xml where it is only denoted by annotation location in java.
- If the chosen classes are not listed in the persistence.xml should they be removed to avoid the Dali warning?
- Discussion goes to page Discussion. It would be better to leave your name along with your feedback to facilitate our discussion.
- Feedback about anything on this wiki page is very welcome.


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When an Aspirant becomes purified, his/her higher faculties would consequently open, as the former veils that block access to the higher spheres and the higher mind are dropped off.
So was it contended by the Perfected Ones, in Sloka 8 of Stanza 1, Book of Dzyan, the following: "ALONE, THE ONE FORM OF EXISTENCE STRETCHED BOUNDLESS, INFINITE, CAUSELESS, IN DREAMLESS SLEEP (a); AND LIFE PULSATED UNCONSCIOUS IN UNIVERSAL SPACE, THROUGHOUT THAT ALL-PRESENCE WHICH IS SENSED BY THE "OPENED EYE"* OF THE DANGMA (b).'
The explication of the Mahatmas of the Brotherhood, working through the chela HPB, is seen in the excerpt on the subject culled from Volume I, Secret Doctrine, to note:
(a) The tendency of modern thought is to recur to the archaic idea of a homogeneous basis for apparently widely different things—heterogeneity developed from homogeneity. Biologists are now searching for their homogeneous protoplasm and chemists for their protyle, while science is looking for the force of which electricity, magnetism, heat, and so forth, are the differentiations. The Secret Doctrine carries this idea into the region of metaphysics and postulates a "One Form of Existence" as the basis and source of all things. But perhaps the phrase, the "One Form of Existence," is not altogether correct. The Sanskrit word is Prabhavapyaya, "the place, or rather plane, whence emerges the origination, and into which is the resolution of all things," says a commentator. It is not the "Mother of the World," as translated by Wilson (see Book I., Vishnu Purana); for Jagad Yoni (as shown by FitzEdward Hall) is scarcely so much "the Mother of the World" or "the Womb of the World" as the "Material Cause of the Universe." The Purânic Commentators explain it by Karana—"Cause"—but the Esoteric philosophy, by the ideal spirit of that cause. It is, in its secondary stage, the Svâbhâvat of the Buddhist philosopher, the eternal cause and effect, omnipresent yet abstract, the self-existent plastic Essence and the root of all things, viewed in the same dual light as the Vedantin views his Parabrahm and Mulaprakriti, the one under two aspects. It seems indeed extraordinary to find great scholars speculating on the possibility of the Vedanta, and the Uttara-Mimansa especially, having been "evoked by the teachings of the Buddhists,"whereas, it is on the contrary Buddhism (of Gautama, the Buddha) that was "evoked" and entirely upreared on the tenets of the Secret Doctrine, of which a partial sketch is here attempted, and on which, also, the Upanishads are made to rest.* The above, according to the teachings of Sri Sankarâchârya,† is undeniable.
(b)Dreamless sleep is one of the seven states of consciousness known in Oriental esotericism. In each of these states a different portion of the mind comes into action; or as a Vedantin would express it, the individual is conscious in a different plane of his being. The term "dreamless sleep," in this case is applied allegorically to the Universe to express a condition somewhat analogous to that state of consciousness in man, which, not being remembered in a waking state, seems a blank, just as the sleep of the mesmerised subject seems to him an unconscious blank when he returns to his normal condition, although he has been talking and acting as a conscious individual would.
The 'dreamless sleep', as far as we habitués of the dense sphere is concerned, translates to the meditative state. Such a state, which in psychology goes by the category of 'states of consciousness beyond the normal' or 'paranormal', is the normal state of awareness of the Dangma.
Note that an Aspirant must focus the eyes on 'trikuti' alone (as a Radha Soami declared), while learning to perfect meditation through practice. Such practices are part of the overall purification works, constitutive of the overall goal of self-realization or nirvana. In no way should an Aspirant aspire to open the 3rd Eye as the goal, for the untimely opening of such astral faculties is immaterial to the purification in a state of nirvana or the bliss of a Self-realized one.
As the Aspirant or chela reaches the threshold of self-realization, the mystical faculties (4th plane faculties) will activate, enabling the chela to intuit on higher truths, gain access to the Akashic records, and broaden the powers to engage in creatives (power of genius).
Upon the purification of the Aspirant, the perceptual access to higher truths, inclusive of observing the higher planes or dimensions, take place. Hundreds of energy veils drop off, thus clearing the higher faculties for observing even the spiritual planes, depending on the level of spiritual awareness achieved.
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Ravel Morrison will spend the rest of the season trying to help QPR get out of the Championship - a move he does not believe will put a late call-up to England's World Cup squad beyond him.
Having seemingly overcome a troubled start to his professional career, the 21-year-old midfield livewire finally came to the fore for the right reasons this season.
Morrison shone for West Ham after breaking into the first-team, scoring a fine solo goal in the 3-0 win at Tottenham, and quickly became an important player for the England Under-21s.
Such performances saw the Manchester United academy graduate's stock rise markedly, with England boss Roy Hodgson saying just before the turn of the year that he had "great faith" in him and "enormous admiration" for his ability.
However, less than two months on, Morrison's lack of playing time has seen him step down to the Championship to join QPR in a 93-day emergency loan and looks to have seen any World Cup chances go up in smoke.
The attacker, though, is not giving up and when asked if he can still make the plane to Brazil said: "Hopefully. It is a bigger step than it was, but hopefully it can happen, yeah."
To do that Morrison will need the game time denied to him at West Ham, with speculation rife as to why that dried up under Sam Allardyce, especially having rejected overtures for him from Fulham in January.
"I just want to help QPR get to the Premier League - that's my only objective during my time here," he told the club's official website,www.qpr.co.uk.
"If we manage to do that, it would be great for everybody connected with the club.
"All I want to do is play football. I just want to show everyone what I can do week in, week out.
"The aim here is to get the club promoted and I want to contribute in helping QPR to get there."
Morrison will wear the number four shirt for QPR and is in line to make his debut against Charlton on Saturday.
His arrival may well prove a timely shot in the arm for Harry Redknapp's side, whose tilt at an immediate return to the Premier League has begun to stutter.
The Hoops' 3-1 home defeat to Reading on Sunday leaves them four points off the automatic promotion spots, while their loan move from Morrison covers the possibility of the play-offs.
West Ham do have the option to recall their player after 28 days, but Redknapp hopes to keep him for the entire loan period as he believes he can make a "big difference" for the Rs.
"Ravel is fit and ready to play and I'm hoping he can come in and make an impact," the Rangers boss said.
"He's got fantastic ability, there's no doubting that. He's got great pace, can dribble and score a goal.
"If we can get the best out of him, he could make a big difference."
Getting the best out of Morrison is not always easy - just ask Sir Alex Ferguson - but Redknapp is confident of doing just that.
The QPR boss has spoken in length to Birmingham counterpart Lee Clark about how to utilise the livewire's talents, having spent the 2012/13 on loan at the second city club.
"I spoke with Lee and he absolutely loves him," Redknapp said. "He said he'd take him back tomorrow if he could.
"He's certainly a talented footballer - he's just got to step up now. He's got to come here and show what he can do consistently. He's got everything. We're pleased to have him here."
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If you're an American and you're not having fun, it just might be your own fault. Our long national expedition is entering its 238th year, and from the start, it was clear that this would be a bracing place to live. There would be plenty of food, plenty of land, plenty of minerals in the mountains and timber in the wilderness. You might have to work hard, but you'd have a grand time doing it.
That promise, for the most part, has been kept. There would be land rushes and gold rushes and wagon trains and riverboats and cities built hard against cities until there was no place to build but up, so we went in that direction too. We created outrageous things just because we could--the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, which started to rise the year after the stock market crashed, because what better way to respond to a global economic crisis than to build the world's tallest skyscraper? We got to the moon 40 years later and, true to our hot-rodding spirit, soon contrived to get a car up there as well. The tire tracks left on the lunar surface (tracks that are still there) are the real American graffiti.
All human beings may come equipped with the pursuit-of-happiness impulse--the urge to find lusher land just over the hill, fatter buffalo in the next valley--but it's Americans who have codified the idea, written it into the Declaration of Independence and made it a central mandate of the national character. American happiness would never be about savor-the-moment contentment. That way lay the reflective café culture of the Old World--fine for Europe, not for Jamestown. Our happiness would be bred, instead, of an almost adolescent restlessness, an itch to do the Next Big Thing. The terms of the deal the founders offered are not easy: there's no guarantee that we'll actually achieve happiness, but we can go after it in almost any way we choose. All by itself, that freedom ought to bring us joy, but the more cramped, distracted, maddeningly kinetic nature of the modern world has made it harder than ever. Somehow there must be a way to thread that needle, to reconcile the contradictions between our pioneer impulses and our contemporary selves.
Those impulses are very deeply rooted: pilgrims to the New World were a self-selected group. Not every person suffering under the whip of tyranny or the crush of poverty had the temperamental wherewithal to pick up, pack up and travel to the other side of the globe and start over. Those who did were looking for something--pursuing something--and happiness is as good a way of defining that goal as any. Once that migrant population started raising babies on a new continent, the odds were that the same questing spirit would be bred into or at least taught to the new generations as well.
And it has been. It took us 100 years to settle the continent and less than 200 to become the world's dominant power. We snatched and grabbed and extracted, yes, but we gave back too. Happy people don't just accumulate fortune; they invent things--the lightbulb, the telegraph, the movie camera, the airplane, the mass-produced automobile, the polio vaccine, the personal computer, social media, the iPhone. And happy people are also generous people, rebuilding other nations (hello, Marshall Plan) and donating to charities; the U.S. still ranks No. 1 among all nations in per capita charitable giving.


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UBS publishes Annual Report 2010
UBS is today publishing its Annual Report for 2010. The report is available at www.ubs.com/annualreporting.
Zurich/Basel, 15 March 2011 - UBS's Annual Report for 2010 provides comprehensive information on the firm, its strategy, business, governance and financial performance. It contains both audited and unaudited information.
• UBS's net profit attributable to shareholders for 2010 was CHF 7.5 billion
• 2010's diluted earnings per share were CHF 1.96
These results differ from those presented in UBS's fourth quarter 2010 report issued on 8 February 2011 as a result of adjustments made subsequent to the publication of that report.
The net effect of the adjustments, which are explained in Note 33 to the financial statements included in the Annual Report 2010, was an increase in UBS's net profit attributable to shareholders of CHF 373 million (equivalent to an additional CHF 0.10 earnings per share).
The Annual Report 2010 consists of five sections:
Strategy, performance and responsibility: This section provides a description of UBS and its strategy, organizational structure and financial performance for the last two years. It also discusses UBS's standards for corporate behavior and responsibility, outlines demographic trends in its workforce and describes how personnel is managed and developed.
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Leah Mennies, Senior Food Editor at Boston Magazine
Leah Mennies joins Boston magazine after spending a year covering the local food scene for NBC's lifestyle site The Feast. Her writing has appeared in The Improper Bostonian, The Boston Globe and Blackbookmag.com, among other publications. She also interned at Lucky Magazine, where she learned the high art of lugging garment bags around town in the pouring rain. She prefers beer to wine, icing to cake and Hebrew National hot dogs to Fenway Franks (sorry, guys).


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You debate an odd bill, you hear some odd testimony. But this…
The Georgia House Judiciary Committee took up a bill last week that would "prohibit requiring a person to be implanted with a microchip," and would make violating the ban a misdemeanor. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, one exchange from the hearing could have been ripped right from Dr. Strangelove.The Journal-Constitution reports that things started getting weird when a woman who described herself as a resident of DeKalb County told the committee: "I'm also one of the people in Georgia who has a microchip." Apparently no lawmaker took this as a warning sign, and she was allowed to continue her testimony.
"Microchips are like little beepers," the woman told the committee. "Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body. And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city. All done without your permission."
"Ma'am, did you say you have a microchip?" state Rep. Tom Weldon (R) asked the woman.
"Yes, I do. This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area," she replied.
No one laughed. State Rep. Wendell Willard (R), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked her who had implanted the chip.
"The Department of Defense," she said.
Willard thanked the woman for her input, and the committee later approved the bill.
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By Pam Bernard, CFCA printer pool attendant
Whenever sponsors decide to end their sponsorship, we mail them a letter, survey and card inviting them to stay in touch. This is an opportunity for them to tell us about their sponsorship experience.
I take this information and enter it into our database, except for any personal information they may share, keeping just the comments about their sponsorship.
It is really amazing, the gamut of comments and stories that come in from all over. Some are very emotional.
So many people are suffering from all kinds of problems out there, but they still feel so much more blessed when they are able to help someone in need.
Because we have sponsors who have been sponsoring for years, the sponsored child becomes a part of their family, even if they have never met them.
There was one letter from a lady who sponsored a 3-year-old girl and continued helping her until the girl graduated from college to be a school teacher.
The sponsor told about how she had made a book with all of the letters and pictures from her "goddaughter" through the years. The girl's mother had written until her daughter was old enough to write her own letters.
The sponsor said she called her sponsored friend "goddaughter" because God had brought her to her.
When she was looking at the sponsorship folders following a CFCA presentation at her parish, for some reason this little girl spoke to her through her picture. They had a connection of the heart and spirit.
I have read so many stories over the years, and so many have made such an impact on me.
I have had several comments on the surveys saying that no one probably even reads these comments or surveys, and I want to respond, "Oh yes, there is someone reading them!"
When sponsors have questions or requests concerning their sponsored†child or anything that will help them, I either take care of it myself or make sure it is passed along to our Sponsor Services department.
Every time I come across a story that really hits me in the heart, I try to share it with the whole CFCA organization in our weekly community meetings.
I feel like they all should be shared, but there are special ones that pull at your heart strings. One 93-year-old sponsor said her sponsored child is what gave her reason to keep on living because she wanted to see him through college graduation.
One lady had lost everything in a house fire but knew she was still better off than her sponsored child, so she did everything possible to keep sponsoring him through everything, until she lost her job after being out on medical leave following two surgeries.
Stories like these just make me want to make a difference in sponsors' lives because of all the sacrifices they have made for their sponsored children and aging friends.
These are the stories that need to be told.


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What is Pixelizer?
Pixelizer is a component based framework for writing games in AS3. That means that you have base entities and that you write little components for them. Components can be anything from game logic to rendering to whatever you can imagine. As all standard components and entities are already in the package, it is very easy to get started and getting your game on to the screen should be a breeze. I am aiming to make Pixelizer really flexible, reusable and extendable. The main rendering technique in Pixelizer is currently blitting. Blitting is a fast way of displaying hundreds of objects with virtually no slow down. However, as Pixelizer is very extendable, writing another type of renderer should be easy - it that's what you want.
- easy extendable component based framework
- nestable entities for easy manipulation of groups
- lots of premade components and entities
- fast 2D rendering
- automated collision detection and response
- spritesheets, animations and tilemaps
- recording and replaying of input streams
- prerendering of movieclips
- automatic panning and volume of moving sounds
- exact mouse and keyboard input
- fancy text rendering
- handy math routines
- effective object pools
- useful logging
As Pixelizer becomes more and more mature, I hope to add build a library of examples that explains how to use it. At the moment there are only a few examples available (including a game) but more will come. Please check out the examples here.
License & Distributon
Feel free to look at the code and use it in your projects. If you do however choose to use Pixelizer, please give me some credit somewhere. I'd also be happy to get feedback if you see something crazy or want to improve it.
Also, please do not redistribute Pixelizer.
Latest version & Documentation
Pixelizer is on GitHub! All the latest code is there, just make sure you get the master branch unless you want to see the absolutely latest. Get get it: https://github.com/johanp/Pixelizer
GitHub is also a good place to see where Pixelizer is going, what the next version will hold, ask for changes and report bugs.
The latest docs can be found here.
All though Pixelizer is quite stable and shouldn't change too much, it is still under development. If you have any ideas on how to make it better or any feedback at all - please let me know!
This is amazing! Two small suggestions:
1) Please put this on github, a lot more people will have access to it.
2) Also, a HaXe port would be much appreciated.
It's funny because I have been working on my own component engine in HaXe for about a month once I stumbled over Pixelizer. Let's trade ideas and concepts later when I publish mine :3
Cool engine! I'll definitely dive in this code and want to help port it to HaXe.
I'll write you in a week or two about it.
Hey, looking great. I'd love to give this a try. But I have no clue how…
Hi Johanp!
I made first commit to repository with the haxe port (https://github.com/Beeblerox/PixelizerHX)
All examples are successfully compiles to flash target. And almost of them are working on C++ target (currently there is the problem with spriteSheets which uses movieClip assets).
Hi johanp, I've read about the API document, but find
little information about Tilemap format.
Can Pixelizer read tilemap files created by other editors, like DAME or Tiled?
Nice! I'll take a look at it!
Btw, I am missing a 'subscribe to this blog' widget here
Wow this is really amazing!
I love all your allegro games like spacehog, alex, klabutong. These were the games that made me want to create my own. I finally released my game "bungluwa" last year (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/545717). It was written in AS3 and so it will be a real pleasure for me to try your new framework as well!
Keep on rocking johan!
Hey, I'm just starting to work on a Flash game after meaning to get around to it for ages, and downloaded Pixelizer first thing – absolutely loving it, and thanks so much for providing this great framework!
I've found one thing that's stumped me a bit so far. On first loading up the engine, you have to offer a scale. I've set this to 1, as I don't want my images to be scaled up from their current size. However, this has made the PXGUIButtons tiny!
I tried scaling one of the buttons up, like this:
rollButton = new PxGUIButton( "Roll!", onButtonClicked );
rollButton.transform.setPosition(320, 200);
rollButton.transform.scale = 4;
The button scales up, but the collision box doesn't, so the button only works if you click the upper left corner. I had a look in the PXGUIButton class and I *think* this is because the PXBoxColliderComponent is only called in the constructor of PXGUIButton, so the box is getting created at the button's original size, and then isn't getting set to the new size.
Is there a better way I could be doing things to avoid this issue, or a simple way to fix Pixelizer so that it scales up the collision boxes appropriately when a transform is carried out?
Thanks again – I'm pretty sure without your framework I wouldn't have managed to get my game partially running today.
Definitely need some benchmark on entity frameworks, Ember, Ash, Xember and now Pixelizer…
Is Pixelizer still moving on? Or it is given up.
Thanks! I'd go with 0.5 as it is much more future proof and just as stable. It's using blitting, but the render system is set up to be exchanged with stage 3d in the future with little to no code changes in the games.
Hi Johan,
I've been looking at Pixelizer's collision management and resolution routines and am wondering why in the boxToBox solver method in PxCollisionManager you only push in the "smallest direction."
I'm imagining two boxes hitting each other (both having x and y velocities) and the resolution not being correct if the separation only happens in the smallest direction. If you could explain why this separation works it would be very helpful.
Hi Johan,
I'm learning to work with Pixelizer and have a few questions. I guess you should to update asdoc for new version (0.5) and write a few basic tutorials to understanding how to organize game with Pixelizer
1. If I understood right PxScene is a thing where game happens, isn't it? Can I have multiple scenes and in what cases it is need for me?
2. What is PxSystem? Can I organize logic modules of game (like game loop, collision interactions, different screens (splash, choose level, game over etc.)) in different PxSystem classes? Or what PxSystem is?
Thanks a lot
P.S. Can I write questions about Pixelizer here or exist more appropriate place?
Hi. A lot of time since the last questio. I find out this project really nice to code, but I really interesting in a "get started" doc or similar. There is it?
Hey! I love this idea and website! This is great!


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Brantley Gilbert Wants to Make His Music Global
After playing in Europe for the first time, Brantley Gilbert came back with a passion for making his music global, discovering that the message of music can make it a small world after all.
The ACM New Male Vocalist of the Year explains what sparked his interest in touring with his passport, saying to GAC TV, "When somebody that I really respected and looked up to came to me and said that one of my songs had made a difference in his life, and helped him understand some situations he's going through in his life, it really set in for me that there could be a message in what I do through writing songs and performing songs."
Gilbert continues, "So I'll take that anywhere. Even if they don't speak English, they can get a translator to tell them what the words say. I could care less as long as they get the message and they dig it, I'm all about it." Sounds like he wants to see 'More Than Miles' in his rear-view mirror -- the fast-rising star wants to see lives changed due to the songs he sings.
The 'Halfway to Heaven' hitmaker may have to bring his soon-to-be wife and fellow country artist, Jana Kramer, along for the ride if he decides to continue his worldwide travels. For now, he's getting ready to tour with the iconic Tim McGraw on his Two Lanes of Freedom Tour in May.


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Head Start's 12th National Research Conference on Early Childhood – Collaboration and Coordination: Understanding Systems Supporting Young Children and Their Families
Head Start's 12th National Research Conference on Early Childhood (HSRC12) was held July 7-9, 2014 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C. This 3-day event featured plenary sessions, symposia, poster symposia, poster sessions, and informal events.
The conference
- identified and disseminated research relevant to young children (birth to 8 years) and their families and
- fostered partnerships among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
The conference focused on research that considers low-income families with young children.
The 2014 theme of HSRC12 was collaboration, coordination, integration and alignment of systems supporting young children and their families. There are substantial recent shifts in the early childhood service landscape, the result of collaborations that strengthen early childhood care and education services at the local, state and national levels. Successful integration and partnering of various early childhood services are critical to advancing the effectiveness of supports for young children and their families, especially for those most at-risk. The 2014 Conference presented the latest research examining service integration, coordination and alignment, while continuing to showcase evidence-based best practices and new research surrounding child care, Head Start, Early Head Start, home visiting, and other early childhood programs.
Please visit the following link for information regarding all of Head Start's previous National Research Conferences on Early Childhood:
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The Hero's parents sent me a text message yesterday afternoon. It said Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest. I immediately felt sick to my stomach. I checked a few websites before I clicked over to TMZ. The headline read...
Like everyone else, I was stunned. I grew up listening to Michael. His videos were in constant rotation on MTV. He could sing. He could dance. He could put on a show like no other. He was one of a kind. As a fan, I will miss his presence in today's Pop Culture. It's a shame he couldn't have the comeback he so deserved.
Lyrics from my favorite Michael Jackson song...
Hey pretty baby with the high heels on
You give me fever like I've never, ever known
You're just a product of loveliness
I like the groove of your walk, your talk, your dress
I feel your fever from miles around
I'll pick you up in my car and we'll paint the town
Just kiss me baby and tell me twice
That you're the one for me
The way you make me feel
You really turn me on
You knock me off of my feet
My lonely days are gone
What's your favorite Michael song?
"The world has lost one of the greats, but his music will live on forever." -- Madonna
"We have lost a genius and a true ambassador of not only Pop music, but of all music." -- Justin Timberlake
"His music will be remembered forever and my memories of our time together will be happy ones." -- Paul McCartney
"I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I've ever known." -- Elizabeth Taylor
"He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever." -- Quincy Jones
"He was one of the most gifted and original talents the world has ever known. He inspired a generation of young people and amazed the rest of the world. There has never been anyone like him. There will never be another Michael Jackson. I can't wrap my mind around this terrible news." -- Barry Manilow
"A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn't predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened. I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now. The world is in shock, but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right." -- Lisa Marie Presley


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Please note that iPads are not able to actually run WoW. What they can do, though, is virtually control a full-sized computer that is running Warcraft using the internet or a local network. This information is current for iPad 1 and iPad 2.
Related Post: Game Review: Warcraft-Like Game Apps for the iPad
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I. In Which The Seed Of Desire Is Planted
I recently was overcome with an overwhelming desire to buy an iPad, and I'm not ashamed to say that my almost-sole motivation in doing so came from a WoW Insider giveaway article for a free app, EveryAir, which promised to allow you to play World of Warcraft on your iPhone or iPad. I didn't win the giveaway, but for a download price of $4.99, what did I have to lose?
I ordered one from the Apple site, filled with monetary guilt and illicit excitement in equal measure.
The big day arrived, and the iPad came in. I tore through the packaging, agonized during the drawn-out initial set-up, and snatched it up the moment the upload was finished.
App store… EveryAir… downloading… downloading… success! I had already installed the EveryAir app on my computer, and it was already running.
I started the app, entered my IP address, and… and… and…! Nothing. The app couldn't find my computer. I tried turning the computer on and off, turning the iPad on and off, rechecking the IP address, everything. It was- as a friend put it later- made of poo.
I was incensed and, I'm not going to lie to you, near tears.
II. In Which I Spend Far More Money Than Necessary On Apps (So You Don't Have To)
Over the next few days I tried out a variety of other apps which would at least stream your desktop to your iPad. I had the most success with Splashtop Remote, which was ridiculously easy to set up and fantastically crisp. Unfortunately Splashtop had no built-in mouse or joystick features, so even though I could start Warcraft, and look at it, movement was agonizingly slow and clunky. I never did figure out how to turn around.
In desperation, I tried the EveryAir app one last time… and it worked perfectly! I wish I could tell you what I did differently, but I fear I never did find out. I mined six nodes, Huzzah'd in guild chat and flew into lots and lots of cliffs. Oh, so many cliffs.
I needed to better understand the workings of the mouse/joystick interface.
III. In Which I Stop Flying Into Cliffs
At the top right of the EveryAir screen, there exist three buttons: A keyboard, what looks like an Xbox controller (the joystick), and a min/max button.
The min/max button centers whatever window is open to full screen.
Tapping on the keyboard icon brings your keyboard up; touch the icon again, and it vanishes. The same works for the controller icon. Tap it to show or hide the movement/joystick pads.
On the bottom left, you have a movement pad. This works exactly like the 'WASD' keys on your keyboard, and will move you front, back, and strafe left and right. You cannot turn your character using the movement pad.
On the bottom right, you have a joystick pad, which basically mimics your mouse.
Touching and moving the red dot will swivel your view back and forth. You can touch-move, release, and then touch-move again in the same direction to swivel your view further.
Tapping on the red button mimics a mouse click.
If 'left' is selected, moving the red dot will change your view, but not the way your character is pointed. To select friendly NPCs, and enemies without targeting them, get into 'left' mode, touch them with your finger, then tap the red button.
If 'right' is selected, moving the red dot will change the way your character is facing. Tapping on an enemy in 'right' mode will also auto-attack them, so watch out for that.
To interact with objects like mines or herbs, touch the mine briefly with your finger (it won't light up, you must just have faith your mouse is hovering over it), ensure that 'Right' is selected, then tap the red button.
You can select 'left' and 'right' simultaneously to mimc holding down both buttons on your mouse; doing so moves and swivels your character, which I personally found rather difficult to control despite the fact that that's how I move in the game normally.
IV. In Which The Warcraft UI Becomes iPadded
Now it was time to clean up the mess that was my full-sized desktop version of WoW and create an iPad profile that would work with my regular game play.
I intended to use my iPad Warcraft for farming, not fighting, and didn't want to have to reset my UI every time I switched over from playing on the iPad to my regular computer.
Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to take a screenshot on my iPad, but the joystick controls cover the bottom left and right sections. This is what worked for me:
– Pull up a new Quickslot bar and put the bare minimum of spells- two healing, two fighting- in the center. Leave the edges blank (I still have a few icons to the bottom left, but I don't need to use them so I left them as-is).
– Change the resolution to 1024×768, the resolution of an iPad
– Increase the UI Scale, under Options > Video >Advanced
– Turn on Auto Loot (Options > Interface)
– Turn on Sticky Targeting (Options > Interface)
My UI enhancements were very minimal; lots of people have cleaned up their UI to play with EveryAir. Some examples are
– Sean, featured on the EveryAir blog
– The EveryAir developers on their WoW Insider interview
– The official YouTube video (also includes gameplay in action)
V. In Which You Attempt To Play Warcraft On Your Own iPad
To play WoW on your own iPad (or iPhone, but that would be very hard to see), you will need:
1. An iPad, iPhone, or 4.0+ iPod Touch
2. The EveryAir app installed on your iPad and installed (and running) on your home computer
3. To be on the same wi-fi network as your home computer; that's right, you can't play this sucker at work … yet.
4. (Optional) A wireless iPad keyboard. Not necessary, but it sure would help. This will certainly be my next purchase.
5. In the future, an iPad mouse. Hey, it's inevitable that they'll come out with one!
VI. In Which I Conclude
Because you can only play Warcraft on your iPad, for now, while you're on the same network as the computer that is running the Warcraft you're streaming, the delights of the iPad WoW are somewhat muted. I imagined myself fishing through meetings, mining during conference calls, and crafting while waiting for print-outs, but was disappointed to find out this is not yet A Thing.
Undoubtedly it's only a matter of time before someone comes out with cross-network capabilities for remotely controlling your computer from your iPad, and until then it's still pretty dang fun.
I mine while we watch TV, fish when I'm stirring the soup, craft as I'm taking a… er… watching TV also. It's fun, it's silly, and my fishing skills have never been better!
Good luck with your own iPad Warcraft adventures, noble heroes, and godspeed!


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Mixed Media - featuring Cozy Classics
Imagine all those dense novels you had to read in high school, boiled down to 12 words. With pictures.
That's the idea Jack Wang, chair of the writing department at IC, came up with. But his target audience isn't made up of high school kids. It's babies.
After his daughter was born in 2008, he read a lot of board books and they left him, in a word, bored. There wasn't a lot of variation in the books, which typically feature the names of colors or shapes.
He thought, "What if there were a board book that appealed to both babies and their parents?"
Hence, Cozy Classics, a series of books that take the stories from literary classics like Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and tell them in 12 words. Once he had the concept, his brother, Holman, came up with a way to illustrate the books that would give them a signature look, like Eric Carle's collage technique.
For each of the first two books, Holman created 9-inch, wool, needle-felted figurines, which he posed and photographed for different scenes in the books. Each photo has a natural background, which gives the images a hyper-realistic quality.
The challenge comes in taking works that are inherently adult in nature, and recasting them for a young audience. And taking a book that's more than 200,000 words long and reducing it to 12.
"You can't have any subplots. You have to focus on the main narrative arc. Simplicity is the key," Wang says. "Moby Dick is fundamentally about a captain chasing a whale."
He uses words like "sink" and "float" teach opposites.
Wang is hoping his books will catch on, and that well-read parents will derive a certain "shelf esteem" from having the books on display.