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Firefighters have burned down the home where five members of a central Illinois family were beaten to death in 2009.
Ten members of the Beason Fire Department on Thursday set the small, white, one-story house where Rick and Ruth Gee and three of their children were killed ablaze. Beason is about 30 miles south of Bloomington.
Beason fire Chief Jim Hubrich told The Pantagraph in Bloomington that the Gee family asked him for help demolishing the house. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency signed off on the plan.
Gee's mother, Judi Stogdell, took photos of the house before the fire.
Rick Gee's former son-in-law, Christopher Harris, was convicted of murder last year in the killings. Harris' brother, Jason Harris, pleaded guilty to concealing a homicide and is also in prison.

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While national political campaigns and politicians are regularly
featured in the news for their accomplishments on the right, one small
state-based think tank is quietly grinding away victory after victory.
The Goldwater Institute was already a leading state-based think tank
when libertarian lawyer Clint Bolick came on board five years ago to
launch a litigation division. Since then, Bolick has greatly expanded
the reach of the right-leaning think tank, filing lawsuits against all
levels of government to protect taxpayers and businesses from government
overreach. Bolick's favorite line, which he says with a grin, is, "I
get paid to sue government bureaucrats."
Bolick's litigation against government dates back to his days at The
Institute for Justice, the libertarian public interest litigation firm
he co-founded with Chip Mellor in 1991. Between his tenure at the
Institute for Justice and the Goldwater Institute, Bolick served as
President and General Counsel of the Alliance for School Choice, where
he became a hero of the school choice movement, aggressively defending
tuition voucher programs around the country. Bolick has successfully won
landmark precedents defending school choice, freedom of enterprise,
private property rights and challenging corporate subsidies and racial
Phoenix Magazine calls the Goldwater Institute "a ninja-lawyer
squad." Conservative writer George Will wrote in 2010, "Pound for
pound, the Goldwater Institute is the best (state-level) think tank in
the country." The Goldwater Institute was launched in 1988,
appropriately named after Arizona's famous conservative, the late Barry
Goldwater. Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ) was the Executive Director, and
left a few years later to run for Congress. The Institute built up a
respected reputation as a public policy think tank, issuing exhaustively
researched policy reports about local government. Darcy Olsen, a bright
young visionary, became President and CEO in 2001 and wisely expanded
the organization by bringing in Bolick to start a litigation center, the
first of its kind for a state-based policy group.
One of the Goldwater Institute's first most notable victories was
taking down Arizona's publicly-funded political campaign system, Clean
Elections. Clean Elections is funded by traffic tickets and taxpayers
who choose to contribute $5 on their taxes, which reduces their taxes by
$5. Implemented by voters through a ballot initiative in 2000, the
agency immediately began aggressively targeting conservative candidates.
In 2002, Matt Salmon, the Republican candidate for governor, was harshly penalized
by Clean Elections through its "matching funds" provision. Salmon was
the only major gubernatorial candidate who declined to run using Clean
Elections funding. Anytime he raised private funds, Clean Elections
would award a matching amount to his opponents, including Democratic
candidate Janet Napolitano.
Even more grossly unfair was that Salmon was essentially penalized by
Clean Elections for his expenses. When President Bush came to Arizona
and raised $750,000 for Salmon, Salmon only received $500,000, since
$250,000 went to expense the fundraiser. Yet Napolitano and another
opponent were each awarded a full $750,000 in matching funds. Another
way Salmon was penalized was by matching independent expenditures. When
Republicans spent $330,000 to help Salmon, Clean Elections wrote checks
for that amount to both of Salmon's opponents. Yet when the Democrats
spent $1 million to help Napolitano, no such matching check went to
Salmon. Napolitano narrowly won the race, no doubt aided by Clean
The Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit in January 2004 spearheaded
by its other top litigator, Nick Dranias, against the state, alleging
that the matching-funds provision was unconstitutional. In June 2011,
the Supreme Court struck down that provision, significantly dismantling
the program. Now, what remains of Clean Elections has been reduced to
mostly voter education and outreach.
The Institute has aggressively started going after unions in Arizona,
which are bankrupting the state. Bolick filed a lawsuit against the
City of Phoenix last year over its practice of paying police officers
"release time," which allows officers to spend thousands of hours
performing union work while getting paid by the taxpayers. The trial
court has issued an injunction prohibiting the practice while the case
winds its way through the legal system.
In 2010, the Goldwater Institute championed the Save Our Secret
Ballot constitutional amendment, and it was subsequently voted into law
in four states. That same year, the Institute sued the City of Phoenix
over a $97.4 million subsidy to the real estate developer CityNorth to
build a high-end retail development. Bolick argued in front of the U.S.
Supreme Court that the subsidy violated the state constitution's gift
clause, and although the court did not disallow the incentive, it ruled
that in the future there must be additional considerations when
providing subsidies to private entities. CityNorth proved to be an
unsuccessful venture, and today stands mostly vacant.
The Institute has not been shy about taking on powerful, moderate
Republican politicians. It successfully sued Republican Tom Horne,
Arizona's Attorney General, when he tried to restrict the ability of
charter schools to choose their own curriculum. Bolick stood up to
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) when McCain backed the City of Glendale's
attempt to subsidize the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team with government
bonds, in order to entice the team not to leave the state.
One of the Institute's biggest lawsuits currently is against
Obamacare. challenging the creation of an Independent Payment Advisory
Board—the all-powerful healthcare rationing agency that is set to launch
in 2014. Concurrently, the Goldwater Institute drafted the Healthcare
Freedom Act, which has been adopted by 10 states and will be on the
ballot in four more this fall.
The Goldwater Institute has successfully sued over government
transparency. When a school board in the little town of Congress, AZ,
tried to prohibit taxpayers from filing public records requests, the
Institute sued on behalf of taxpayers and won, setting a precedent
around the state ensuring this would never happen again. The Institute
filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Corporation Commission in June 2008
challenging its efforts to require renewable-energy standards. The
Institute stood up for free speech and won a lawsuit to allow voters to
wear a Tea Party shirt into a polling place.
Bolick goes around the country helping similar public policy groups
start litigation divisions modeled after the Goldwater Institute's
model. Local governments in Arizona now turn to the Institute first when
planning new funding schemes, in order to avoid lawsuits later. While
some on the right are critical of using the courts to effect policy,
labeling it "judicial activism," Bolick would argue that we don't have a
choice. These kinds of issues are ultimately being decided by the
courts whether we like it or not, so why not choose the best cases now
for the maximum advantage, instead of being blindsided by them later?
The number of people whose lives have been touched by the Institute
keeps increasing. One mother discovered the Educational Savings Accounts
advocated by the Institute, and was able to put her special needs child
in a private school that could properly educate him. Parent Katherine
Visser said, "It allows parents to have a choice they wouldn't have had
otherwise. It's been a Godsend."
The Goldwater Institute may not receive the media coverage that
Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker does when he takes on the unions, nor
is it a favorite juicy target of the unions, but perhaps that is why it
is so successful. Respected by everyone on the right, with an impressive
record of raising funding, Bolick and Olsen have developed the
Institute to a level that should be emulated by right-leaning
organizations everywhere.
Reprinted from Townhall
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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John Ely (3-1, 3.41) vs. Ted Lilly (1-4, 4.30).
COMMENTS: The Doc Savage-esque Ely brings his nifty 7.00 K/BB rate to Wrigley today, and if form holds, he will be good for at least six innings. That's not all: It's a homecoming for Ely, but fear not — he grew up a White Sox fan. "I had no other choice," he said. "My dad would have disowned me if I was a Cubs fan." Hopefully this fistful of incentives will be enough to keep the Elymaniacs satisfied. Let the Man of Bronze do right to all Dodgers and harm only Cubs!
UPDATE 9:10a (SoSG Sax): It's much too early in the morning for any sort of coherent wit, but given DB made the Ely-Lilly comment last night and J Steve reminded us this morning, here's your morning dose of pharmaceutical references. Take two of these, and call me in the morning. Or in a couple of hours, when first pitch happens.


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There was one big exception to this, though: halflings. I hope John Adams will forgive me, because I'm not a big fan of halflings in D&D. I like hobbits, which I think are an absolutely terrific creation of Professor Tolkien. However, in my opinion, they belong in Middle-earth, or at least I think they don't belong in many D&D campaign settings, Dwimmermount chief among them. I was explicitly trying to evoke a pulp fantasy feel and decided that halflings simply ran counter to that. (Why didn't I think the same thing about clerics? That's a post for another day)
But I didn't just eliminate halflings; I replaced them. Their replacements were goblins, which I presented in an earlier form in this post from 2008 (and where I again talk about my reasons for not including them -- I am repetitive, aren't I?). That post, though, was written prior to the start of the Dwimmermount campaign and, by the time the first session began in January 2009, I'd already changed my approach to goblins as PCs and I'd change it several more times over the course of the months that followed, in large part because there was an important goblin henchman, Brakk, whose ignominious death by slapstick still has repercussions to this day.
The first volume of the upcoming Dwimmermount Codex series is a kind of 32-page "Player's Guide to the Dwimmermount Campaign Setting." It includes all the rules additions and modifications I've made to Labyrinth Lord over the course of the campaign. Among its contents are the current rules for goblin PCs, which I've reproduced below, along with an illustration by the always-terrific Steve Zieser.
The material in the quote box below is hereby designated Open Game Content via the Open Game License and subject to the Designation of Product Identity.
Requirements: NonePrime Requisite: Strength and DexterityMaximum Level: Fighting Man 4, Thief (Unlimited)Goblins are short humanoid beings standing between 3 and 3½ feet tall. They possess skin ranging in color from yellow to orange to red (and everything in between), while their eyes are usually reddish in hue and are visible even in the dark. Though many goblins live underground, not all do so, especially those most likely to interact with Men and join adventuring parties. Those that do live underground possess infravision to 90 feet but suffer a —1 penalty to attack rolls in full sunlight. Goblins who lives on the surface only have infravision to 60 feet but suffer no attack penalties in sunlight.Most Men see goblins as inherently Chaotic beings, enemies of human civilization who delight in theft and destruction. While it's true that many goblins fit that description, not all of them do, particularly the surface-dwelling variety who often establish settlements near those of Men. For their part, goblins see Men as interlopers and invaders. Goblins believe — largely without evidence, it should be noted — that they are the only intelligent race native to Telluria, all others being either from "somewhere else" or artificial beings magically created from beasts or from themselves.Consequently, goblins can be somewhat surly and resentful when interacting with Men, dwarves, elves, or even their own kin, like bugbears and hobgoblins. These attitudes are only heightened by the fact that the lot of goblins in the world are not aligned with Law (let alone Goodness). Except underground, where they often lead miserable existences, goblins rule no realms of their own, instead being the subjects of others. That being said, there are places where Men and goblins live amicably side by side, even if goblins are always the junior partner in any such relationship.Like all other nonhumans, goblins, as a rule, have no belief in the gods. They do not, however, deny the supernatural, being animists who believe that all living things are possessed of imperishable spirits. They also believe in metempsychosis, the transmigration of souls after the death of the body. Perhaps for this reason they cannot be raised from the dead by means of any magic.Similar to elves, goblins advance simultaneously in two classes, though in this case it is fighting men (4th level) and thieves (unlimited). They divide all their experience points between their two classes, each of which has a separate pool. Bonuses due to high prime requisites only apply to the appropriate class's experience pool. Experience points continue to be divided even after reaching maximum attainable level in a class.Their saving throws and attack values are equal to the best values available for their classes and levels. New hit dice are gained only for levels attained in fighting man, meaning that no new hit points are gained after reaching 4th level in that class. However, the player of a goblin character may re-roll the hit point total every time his character attains a new level in thief and use the new total if it is higher.Because of their small size, goblins may not use large or two-handed weapons, but they may use any other weapons. They may wear any armor, but cannot use their thief abilities while wearing anything heavier than leather. Their small size does have benefits, however. Normal and large-sized creatures suffer a –2 penalty to hit them. Goblins are also quick, granting them a +1 bonus to their effective Dexterity, when it comes to determining initiative.


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One additional not regarding odbc_pconnect and possibly other variations of pconnect:
If the connection encounters an error (bad SQL, incorrect request, etc), that error will return with be present in odbc_errormsg for every subsequent action on that connection, even if subsequent actions don't cause another error.
For example:
A script connects with odbc_pconnect.
The connection is created on it's first use.
The script calls a query "Select * FROM Table1".
Table1 doesn't exist and odbc_errormsg contains that error.
Later(days, perhaps), a different script is called using the same parameters to odbc_pconnect.
The connection already exists, to it is reused.
The script calls a query "Select * FROM Table0".
The query runs fine, but odbc_errormsg still returns the error about Table1 not existing.
I'm not seeing a way to clear that error using odbc_ functions, so keep your eyes open for this gotcha or use odbc_connect instead.


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UK bank Natwest releases Windows Phone app, boasting a solid feature set
Natwest has released an app for Windows Phone. Owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the UK bank was confirmed to be working on an app for Microsoft's mobile platform along with its parent. The mobile banking app is a gateway for account holders to travel through to manage accounts while on the go. Has the wait been worth it?
First impressions are positive. The official app looks like a well-developed offering that integrates well into the Windows Phone experience with a clear focus on typography. Utilising the Natwest colour palette, the official app offers functionality that one would expect to see in such a solution.
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- View your transaction history for most of your accounts, search for historical transactions on your current accounts and savings accounts
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- Pay bills or people – just set up and make your first payment in Online Banking beforehand
- Transfer funds between your accounts
- Find your nearest cash machine or local branch
- Top up your pay as you go mobile phone and up to four others (service not available on the 3 network).
That's quite an offering, and one that Windows Phone desperately needs. To begin and set up your account in the app, you'll need your online banking customer number, some personal details and your debit card. Once submitted, Natwest will confirm your identity and fire you an SMS when the account is set up and ready to go.
You have to be above the age of 11, own a debit card and a mainland UK mobile number starting with 07 to use the app. Be sure to read the full terms and conditions found over on the Natwest website. Customers who own Windows Phones will feel right at home with this official app to ensure that their accounts are only a tap away while on the move. We just need other banks to follow suit.
You can download the Natwest app from the Windows Phone Store. Thanks, Benjamin, for the tip!
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Several months ago I told you how much I wanted to see "The Reader" – back then, there wasn't even a release date for the movie in Brazil. Time went by, the movie premiered here, Kate got all the awards and I had not watched it. It's now been released in DVD, I've finally seen it and knew that the beautiful poster was just the tip of the iceberg – the movie is sublime and so is Kate. I should not have waited so long to see it.
I bought Donna Hay's Flavours almost three years ago and have had an eye on her triple choc brownies ever since. Now I've finally made them and it was pretty much what I felt about the movie: I should not have waited so long.
Triple choc brownies
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¾ cup + 1 tablespoon (185g) unsalted butter
185g dark chocolate, chopped
3 eggs
1 ¼ cups (250g) sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup (94g) all purpose flour
½ cup (45g) cocoa powder
pinch of salt
¾ cup (116g) roughly chopped white chocolate
¾ cup (116g) roughly chopped milk chocolate
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF; line a square 20cm (8in) baking pan with foil, extending foil over the edges of pan. Butter foil; set aside.
Place the butter and dark chocolate in a saucepan over low heat and stir until just smooth. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Place the eggs, sugar and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until light and creamy. Fold through the chocolate and butter mixture.
Sift the flour, cocoa and salt over the mixture and mix to combine. Add the white and milk chocolate chunks, mix well then pour into the prepared pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until just set.
Allow to cool, unmold using the foil "handles" and cut into squares.
Makes 16


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1-15. ……, when she augustly appears, no one can keep pace with her, …… glowing in the night, …… with awe-inspiring splendour. The great gods are filled with fear at her ……. Her …… utterances are as grand as those of An, and as weighty as those of Enlil. Inana is supreme, with multifarious divine powers surpassing the other divine ladies. She perfected the divine plans of kingship, so as to re-establish it, and she made up her mind and truly yearned to provide justice for the black-headed and to give them stable governance. From among the numerous people she summoned Ur-Ninurta to be the shepherd of living beings. She made the king whom she took by the hand humbly enter into the …… where destinies are determined, where the good divine powers are assigned to the great gods -- the E-kur, the holy dwelling of An and Enlil that is imbued with terrifying awe. There the goddess without whom no destiny is determined in heaven or earth sits on the dais with An and Enlil, taking counsel with them. 16. 1st kirugu. 17-26. (Inana speaks:) "Great An, your commands are great indeed: who can revoke them? Father Enlil, no one knows how to dissipate the great destinies that you determine. Both of you, bestow permanently the role of shepherd of living beings, of the numerous people, upon Ur-Ninurta, the youth who knows how to carry out your orders. He has brought with him from the holy womb a knowledge of how to build homes and cities, and how to strengthen the Land. He knows how to direct all countries: let him give great commands. May his shepherd's crook make the rebel lands bow low; may he let them have stable governance. From the south to the uplands may he clamp down upon the Land like a neck-stock. May his utterances ……. May he search out food for them to eat as if for sheep, and may he get them …… water to drink." 27. 2nd kirugu. 28. "May Ur-Ninurta shine forth like Utu over the people for long years!" 29. Ĝišgiĝal. 30-39. The god who made human seed come forth (An) , the father of all that is, spoke favourably to the king, determining his destiny: "Chosen cedar, ornament of the courtyard of E-kur! Ur-Ninurta, may the Land refresh itself in your shade. May you be the good shepherd of all lands. May they attend as if to Utu when you deliver a just verdict. As you take your seat upon the royal dais with its firm foundations, may you hold your head high, Ur-Ninurta. May the good crown be your glory. Inspiring fear and trembling, O lion of kingship, may you wear the royal robe!" 40. 3rd kirugu. 41-42. "May you establish the divine powers of E-ana! Ur-Ninurta, I am your great wall permanently and forever!" 43. Ĝišgiĝal. 44-55. "You howl like a storm upon your enemies. May your splendour cover like a heavy raincloud the lands that are disobedient to you. Let the great sovereigns and powerful ones (?) tremble …… like solitary reeds. 56. 4th kirugu. 57-66. The lord who has the decisions of heaven and earth in his hands, the Great Mountain Enlil, has made the king's fame extend as far as the boundaries of heaven: "Ur-Ninurta! In authority and youthfulness may your neck be as fat as a wild bull's. Like the warrior Erra, ……, may my avenging son, Lord Ninurta, a furious storm against the enemy, be your helper on the battlefield, and may you put your trust in him. …… the enemy land, and may he spread out in heaps for me ……. The holy purification rites of E-kur ……, serving daily. May your offerings on the august table in my great dining hall be everlasting. May you lift your head and raise your neck to the heavens. Life is yours, irrevocably." 67. 5th kirugu. 68-76. The Anuna, the great gods, said "Let it be so!" to the destiny determined by great An and by Nunamnir, the lord of all living beings. In order to strengthen the black-headed in their dwelling-places, to keep the foreign lands on the track, to put …… the people in unison, and to make them bow down at his feet, Inana, the great daughter of Suen and Ur-Ninurta's beloved spouse, gathered together …… all the divine powers and placed them in his hand. Together the two of them went forth joyfully from Enlil's presence to take their seats in the palace, the dwelling-place of sweet honey. …… her king …… does not cease, as she speaks truly to him: 77. 6th kirugu. 78-87. "Youth with beautiful and well-formed limbs, …… radiantly and proudly lifting his head, full of charm and beauty, fitted for lordship, worthy of the holy dais, Ur-Ninurta: I have decided to give you your precious divine powers. I called to you when you lifted your faithful gaze: you are the one whom I called by name. Great An has made you forever pre-eminent, as far as the outer limit of the mountains. To prolong your days, O youth, in E-kur Enlil has commanded my …… holy life-giving embrace. You shall not cease to sit on …… the dais which I care for. May the foreign lands rejoice at you, my Ur-Ninurta, as at Nanna when, admired by the Land, he appears in the holy heavens." 88. 7th kirugu. 89. "My Ur-Ninurta, Enlil has called you truly to be the shepherd of the Land." 90. Ĝišgiĝal. 91-93. "…… my holy ……, at my good decision which cannot be changed, …… may impressive strength be with (?) you." 94. 95. A …… of Inana. |
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Common Build Infrastructure/Athena Progress Report
- 1 Recent Changes
- 2 2010-04-15
- 3 2010-03-28
- 4 2010-02-01
- 5 2009-11-27
- 6 2009-10-13
- 7 2009-09-01
- 8 2009-08-07
- 9 2009-07-23
- 10 2009-07-15
- 11 2009-07-10
- 12 2009-06-05
- 13 2009-05-26
- 14 2009-05-18
- 15 2009-05-09
- 16 2009-04-22
- 17 2009-03-30
- 18 2009-03-15
- 19 2009-03-05
- 20 2009-03-01
- 21 2009-02-26
- 22 2009-02-22
- 23 2009-02-16
- 24 2009-01-16
- 25 2008-11-26
- 26 2008-11-19
- 27 2008-11-06
- 28 2008-10-28
Recent Changes
- Bugs changed: this week, this month
- RSS feed: weekly changes
- Ease of use / documentation
- bug 309389 New, simpler method for bootstrapping a build: Common Build Infrastructure/Getting Started/Bootstrapping. Now, like with Tycho/Maven, you need only check out the project from the repo, and run it.
- Ease of use
- build.xml is now simpler. Sample project template updated. You can now use the same build.xml script to run a build in Eclipse or in Hudson from an Ant-based job. Note that the page Build In Hudson/Ant Script is no longer current. See also bug 304800.
- You can now run
rather than requiringbuild.steps=buildZips
- You can now run
- Publishing support will improve thanks to bug 306854... anyone want to contribute to writing a Hudson job, please feel free!
- Packaging Support
- bug 306300 Athena removes .jar files and only contains pack 200 files in update site - new default setting (keep both artifact types) is
, but can revert to old behaviour (and smaller update site) withremoveUnpackedJars=true
- bug 306300 Athena removes .jar files and only contains pack 200 files in update site - new default setting (keep both artifact types) is
- bug 307016 SDK and Runtime zips produced with buildZips target are missing {notice,epl-v10}.html files; if root files exist they will now be copied into the SDK, Runtime, Examples zips; ${allZip} will also include this so it can be copied from there too (custom packaging in buildExtra.xml#extraPackaging task)
- Testing Support
- bug 296352 Can't connect to vnc server - fixed using Xnvc option in Hudson job and improvements to testLocal task
- Publishing Support
- bug 302170 Work around Hudson's missing lastS*Build folders - promote.xml will now recurse into Hudson job tree looking for correct build to publish
- Publishing support will improve thanks to bug 306854... anyone want to contribute to writing a Hudson job, please feel free!
- Bug Fixes
- bug 304800 Temporary regression caused by adopting new build.xml script with too-aggressive cleanup default
- bug 307016 SDK and Runtime zips produced with buildZips target are missing {notice,epl-v10}.html files; if root files exist they will now be copied into the SDK, Runtime, Examples zips; ${allZip} will also include this so it can be copied from there too (custom packaging in buildExtra.xml#extraPackaging task)
- Documentation & Branding
- EclipseCon 2010 Presentation, "Dash Athena Exposed" is available here.
- Sample project template & generic build.xml updated.
- bug 272723 Logo design contest for Athena under way: vote early, vote often!
There are now 63 Athena jobs on build.eclipse.org, building 41 projects using 6 job templates (Bash/Ant, CVS/SVN, Nightly/Integration).
- Infrastructure Changes
- bug 287013 - Support generation of Helios .build files - see Common Build Infrastructure/Publishing/Helios
- bug 272991 - Support user-defined site.xml for p2 metadata generation in Update zip
- Cross-Platform / Ease of Use
- bug 294927 - Remove hard coding of /tmp directory
- getCompilerResults.sh is now getCompilerResults.xml, so that this information can be generated on Windows now too. No more perl and egrep, just loadfile, replaceregex, and linecontainsregexp.
- Bug Fixes
- bug 296326 - subprojectName should == projectName if projectid only contains 1 part (foo, not foo.bar)
- Documentation
- Getting Started - Build In Eclipse updated w/ more .releng project example links
- Testing/VMArgs How to configure VM args and define a custom library.xml for your tests
- Infrastructure Changes
- bug 295394 - Headless UI tests are broken on build.eclipse.org! See workaround here.
- Cross-Platform / Ease of Use
- bug 282987 Can now define Eclipse platform as a p2 repo + required features/plugins. Can also use platform, SDK, or RCP zip, as before. See also Defining Binary Dependencies.
- bug 292589 Support building from Ant in Hudson (instead of via Bash script)
- bug 295670 Support running JUnit tests run from Ant script instead of Bash - tests can now be run on Linux and Windows (and to a lesser extent on Mac OSX) using new
build step
- bug 295670 Support running JUnit tests run from Ant script instead of Bash - tests can now be run on Linux and Windows (and to a lesser extent on Mac OSX) using new
- Bug Fixes
- bug 292486 Allow builds to fail if unit tests fail using
- bug 292486 Allow builds to fail if unit tests fail using
- bug 294678 Categories don't show up with IBM 1.6 JDK - implemented workaround so a different JDK can be used for p2 operations than for compilation of sources: use
- bug 294678 Categories don't show up with IBM 1.6 JDK - implemented workaround so a different JDK can be used for p2 operations than for compilation of sources: use
- bug 295773 Non-incubating projects no longer need to set "incubation=" in their build.properties
- bug 292235 Included pre-compiled binary features/plugins are now included by default using PDE's runPackager property; can disable this behaviour with
- bug 292235 Included pre-compiled binary features/plugins are now included by default using PDE's runPackager property; can disable this behaviour with
- Documentation
- Testing - Different ways to run or re-run tests, including as a secondary process after a build (so they can be run on a different platform or by a different user)
- Defining Binary Dependencies - All four types of repos are now currently supported: remote zip, remote site, local zip, local site.
- p2 does not natively support remote repo zips; to workaround this the zip is fetched and the URL is rewritten from
- Build In Hudson - Ant Job, Ant Script - new, simpler way to run builds in Hudson using pure Ant
- Build In Hudson - Bash Job - updated & refactored
- Infrastructure changes
- There are now 43 Athena jobs on build.eclipse.org! Of those, 30 are green, 1 is yellow, and 6 have not yet been enabled. These jobs represent 29 different projects' builds! 6 of them use SVN sources instead of CVS.
- bug 257074 comment 12 build.eclipse.org now has SVN 1.6.5 on it; if your map files no longer work (your build complains it can't resolve plugin or features sources) then read this.
- Bug fixes
- bug 291446 Provide hook for extra actions after fetching code from repo and before compiling it (e.g. code generation, parser generators, etc.)
- bug 275529 Athena is now a full Project rather than a Component! Now if we could just get someone to design a logo... Do I need to offer up prizes?
- Documentation
- Tips for Building on Windows - community contributed! Thanks to Nicolas Bros!
- New category created for User-contributed build stories: Category:Athena Common Build Users
- Bugzilla updated to move
; all old bugs moved too.
- Bug fixes
- bug 284593 improved documentation and sample code for setting up a crontab script for publishing your project's bits.
- bug 285359 Add option to ignore existing test.xml file if it exists.
- bug 287240 Add more entries ${JAVA14_HOME}/lib/*.jar entries to J2SE-1.4 to support a wider audience
- bug 284968 SDK zips do not include sources - they do now!
- In the past, to install extra Orbit bundles into the base Eclipse platform before building, you needed a buildExtra.xml (and/or testExtra.xml), with a task like this:
<target name="getDependencies"> <mkdir dir="${buildDirectory}/../eclipse/plugins/" /> <get dest="${buildDirectory}/../eclipse/plugins/org.apache.xalan_2.7.1.v200905122109.jar" src="http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20090825191606/bundles/org.apache.xalan_2.7.1.v200905122109.jar" /> </target>
- Now you can now install plugins (not just features) into the target platform prior to building. For example, to install orbit jars for which there are no features, you can add the following into your build.properties file. Note that the update site MUST BE A p2 REPO, not simply a "Classic" Update Site.
repositoryURLs=http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20090825191606/updateSite pluginIDsToInstall=org.apache.xml.resolver+javax.xml+org.apache.xml.serializer+org.apache.xerces+org.apache.xalan
- If you want to install features and their included plugins, simply use the
- If you want to install features and their included plugins, simply use the
repositoryURLs=http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo/ featureIDsToInstall=org.eclipse.emf+org.eclipse.gef
- Ease of use / inter-build dependencies
- bug 285519 support static URLs for "latest build" zips in Hudson so builds can depend on each other's output -- set the
- bug 284959 hudson shell script should be completely generic
When launching your build via shell script in Hudson, use this instead of your own custom shell script. You'll get N-SNAPSHOT.zip instead of N200908071234.zip so that others can more easily depend on your latest stable build.
export SNAPSHOT="true" . /opt/public/cbi/build/org.eclipse.dash.common.releng/hudson/run.sh
- New builds
- Modeling now has 8 builds
- PDE Visualization
- Ease of Use
- bug 283776 create dir2svnmap task to generate a map file from checked out SVN sources (use with build.steps=dir2svnmap in build.properties)
- bug 284055 Build seems not to unpack all dependencies - see FAQ
- bug 284516 make optional pre-build dependency unpacking and post-build packaging more optional
- Better testing support
- bug 284331 Support test plugins as jars, not just folders
- Better documentation / error handling
- New Getting Started FAQ
- bug 284509 warn users of possible linux + SVN problems when checking out
- New builds
- EMF Query, Validation and Transaction now have a 3-part build
- Ajax Tools Framework has been rebooted with its first nightly build - tests coming soon.
- Improve signing recovery w/ better log output and better trapping for errors; also, using Ant-Contrib we can avoid the stack overflow issue w/ tasks that call themselves indefinitely.
- bug 280642 Improve recovery from infinitely long signing queue
- bug 254205 Signing should fail more gracefully
- Also updated GEF releng example to build from Eclipse 3.5.0 w/ latest map sources, individual source plugins, and these properties in build.properties:
flattenDependencies=true parallelCompilation=true generateFeatureVersionSuffix=true individualSourceBundles=true
- Some minor bug fixes:
- bug 280747 testPluginsToRun property doesn't ignore whitespace
- bug 282593 Signing should not be default-enabled for non-eclipse.org builds
- bug 282910 start.sh help says one can pass projRelengName but the arg is not parsed
- Several non-Eclipse.org build examples are available, including maps and generated psfs (using map2psf build.step):
- Discussion starting re: different ways to build - using RCP vs. SDK, using default-specified SDKs for user's platform (rather than needing to be explicit in dependencyURLs)
- bug 272991 Documented generating custom update site categories and hiding unwanted features.
- bug 279056 Added support for excluding some jars from packing or signing; solved issue w/ VE's "corrupt" uninstallable jars.
- bug 278687 Added a new optional build.step for generating Project Set Files (.psf) from PDE .map files.
- Documented p2 repo and SDK zip input options.
- buildExtra.xml and testExtra.xml are now optional; by default all zips will be unpacked, all repos+features will be installed w/o explicitly needing to direct the build how and where
- bug 252774 improve support for CVS/SVN repo dumps so building from local sources is easier/smarter (to ease local setup when repo tree is non-standard): testing complete; released to HEAD.
- Started Hudson Management Documentation. Includes HOWTO for restarting server to install updates.
- Started Jar Signing Documentation. Includes code sample.
- SWTBot builds added to Hudson
- bug 276574 generate default test.xml if not present in test plugin (to ease migration to Athena builder - less boilerplate crap you have to write/maintain)
- bug 252774 improve support for CVS/SVN repo dumps so building from local sources is easier/smarter (to ease local setup when repo tree is non-standard)
- bug 273518 Support building against p2 repos using both Eclipse 3.4 and new 3.5 versions of p2.director (work in progress in
- Began testing Athena for use with projects outside the org.eclipse namespace.
- Builds now using Athena in Hudson include: GEF, Linux Tools, Visual Editor (VE), Voice Tools (VTP), and Nebula: https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/view/Athena%20CBI/
- Wiki docs refactored to use Category:Athena Common Build category.
- Other closed bugs since 2009-04-22:
- bug 273299 index.php should link to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/path/to/files/ to use mirrors
- bug 253277 Local build should warn/fail gracefully in the absence of specific tools
- bug 266374 design process for publishing builds from Hudson to download.eclipse.org
- bug 273302 Create crontab'able script for rsync/copy, fix perms, and unpack update zip
- bug 251926 support setting feature/plugin qualifiers to buildId (instead of map tags) when running nightly builds
- bug 272965 support packaging for namespaces other than org.eclipse.*
- The 'buildZips' step is now optional; you can omit it entirely and still run your tests from the generated update site. This will also verify that your update site can be installed into Eclipse SDK + your runtime requirements using the p2 director (bug 272403).
- As with PDE SVN support and ant4eclipse, Athena can now fetch ant-contrib from Sourceforge if it's not already installed (bug 253277).
- Working on a way to input a custom site.xml so that your own categories will be used in the generated p2 repo / update site (bug 272991).
- Anonymous access to Hudson on build.eclipse.org is now available! Log in using your committerid for more control. To create a new job, you must be in the callisto-dev group (or ask someone who's in the group to create the job and add you to its ACL).
- Nebula and VE are now building using the Athena system (bug 237588, bug 270849).
- Other closed bugs since 2009-03-30:
- bug 272404 build.step "cleanup" should purge Master + All zips
- bug 252401 Make unpacking doc.isv optional
- bug 252030 standalone buildserver-in-a-box (vmware/vbox/qemu/kvm)
- bug 252049 Separate exploded SDK and sources to build
- bug 256212 verify default & extra packaging steps are producing correct zips
- bug 271145 Document build types
- bug 271211 optional lib folder in project.releng should be optional
- bug 271322 Need another bootclasspath location
- bug 271524 run (not runEclipse) task can't find ant4eclipse
- bug 271549 Should we be able to run tests w/ an archived p2 repo instead of an SDK zip?
- bug 271661 if map contains svn ref and pde-svn plugin not found in basebuilder, spit out a smarter error message
- bug 271849 Document requirement to have version variable in script launching build
- bug 272906 Features with fragments don't build properly
- bug 252035 Provide a p2 repo after the master feature is built
- bug 256192 build folder's index.php contains broken links
- bug 264579 define a better workflow for build steps
- Had a great week at EclipseCon '09 talking to people about Athena, particularly during Hands-On: Using the new Common Builder for Push-Button PDE Builds. Slides (supporting material & exercise instructions) + exercises are posted here, which include sample properties files for building on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Two build projects are included along with one simple PDE feature build as an appetizer before the main course. :)
- Due to popular demand, we'll be adding support for simple product builds (bug 271186) using the Athena system. Anyone want to help beta-test it?
- progress made on building locally in Eclipse on Mac OS X 10.5 and on Windows XP. Tests do not yet run on these platforms due to shell script and Xvfb/Xvnc requirements.
- prototyping work done using ant4eclipse to fetch org.eclipse.test and org.eclipse.ant.optional.junit from a .psf file so they need not be included in project's map file
- progress made on building from local sources. It's a hack for now, but it's workable (bug 252774)
- working on a virtual server image on which Hudson and Eclipse can be run for testing
- Signing in Hudson now works (bug 264633)
- verify build can run in Hudson via shell script
- verify build can run in Eclipse via build.xml (bug 253269), or commandline via start.sh, including signing
- refactor relative paths to absolute so build can be configured to run in more ways
- verify alternate path options: /tools/gef/d/d/$v/$bid/ vs. in /$bid/; /opt/public/cbi/build vs. /tmp/build
- verify cleanup step actually works for eclipse/ and testing/ folders, locally and in Hudson
- bugzilla cleanup (previously completed items are now closed); currently 27 closed Athena bugs, 39 open
- Getting Started Guide updated with details about running in Eclipse, running commandline, and running in Hudson.
- signing works when run from local build (headless, in Eclipse) and Hudson build
- build directory path is more configurable than ever, with (hopefully) no more relative paths
Numerous items in progress this week thanks to help from Andrew O and Bjorn F-B, including:
- test running build system on Mac OS X (problems with bootclasspath & JVM still to be solved)
- Getting Started Guide now includes information about running in eclipse (bug 252041
- run build in Eclipse / convert start.sh to build.xml (bug 252028, bug 253269)
- it seems that the new branch won't run in Hudson, so this is still in progress
- investigated SVN tagging and SVN change tracking in Hudson; the former does not seem to be working, but the latter is
- reported Hudson problems w/ CVS checkouts and use of Xvnc for UI testing (bug 265750, bug 265751)
- Defined a better way to control flow of build steps, so ant targets "runWithoutTest" and "runWithoutBuildTest" are now obsolete (bug 264579)
- Improved startup process for build. Migrated several chunks of bash script to Ant (bug 253269)
- Started working with Hudson on build.eclipse.org for controlling and administering builds' logs and artifacts (bug 251945)
- Installed several new plugins and got server updated to latest version (bug 264778)
- However, Hudson cannot currently sign jars (bug 251945)
- See also next week's workshop plans
Due to other commitments, not much is new.
- Plan doc updated with target milestones
- Linuxtools is now running scheduled builds using Dash Athena CBI via crontab
- Building with PPC Eclipse, GEF's automated JUnit tests PASS. See bug 253114 for followup problems on another server.
- Build System Test Cases document started to capture tests, invocations, and problems
- Getting Started Guide drafted
- Tests (for GEF project build) are working with some success locally, but fail with "Java Result: 13" when run on build.eclipse.org
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-gtk-3448 or swt-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar file
- More refactoring and simplification (less shell, more Ant)
- System now uses ant-contrib for looping and conditional processing
- bug 256379 opened to optionally clean cvs exports out of the log (using <cvs reallyquiet="true">)
- SVN support implemented in setup script (to get svn-pde-plugin into the cached copy of basebuilder), startup script (to get a .releng project from svn repo or cvs repo), and generated fetch scripts (map files can specify cvs and svn entries interchangeably) (bug 251923).
- Signing now works for GEF (bug 253286).
- clean up customTargets.xml (for both ALL and Tests builders) (bug 251879).
- Support for archived update sites and SDK zips as input to build :: in progress (bug 252423).
- Testing code refactored and almost working for GEF.
- Server config simplified on build.eclipse.org; documented and scripted for reproduction on localhost. Testing through cygwin on Windows TBD.
- basebuilder.releng from both 3.4 (tag: RC2_34) and 3.5M2 (R35_M2) checked out on build.eclipse.org; builds work equally.
- GEF build on build.eclipse.org and localhost has succeeded in producing GEF "Master" zip, as well as SDK, runtime, and examples.
- Signing fails, but can be skipped by running an N build.
- Test assembly fails; test run fails because tests are not yet built. builder/tests/customTargets.xml needs to be updated/fixed.
- Creation of Update site, p2 metadata, site digest, etc. still TBD.
- Web UI to run builds has been decoupled from the build system in case we decide to use Hudson or Cruise Control instead. Paths in web UI still broken (expect /gef/ but have /cbi/gef; downloads page shows builds on download.eclipse.org, not local builds on build.eclipse.org)
- To set up a build, run this script.
- For example:
cd /opt/public/cbi/build/org.eclipse.dash.common.releng_HEAD; \ cvs up -Pd; cd tools/scripts;./start.sh -projectid tools.gef -version 3.4.0 -buildType N \ -projRelengRoot ':pserver:email@example.com:/cvsroot/technology' \ -projRelengPath 'org.eclipse.dash/athena/org.eclipse.dash.commonbuilder/org.eclipse.gef.releng' \ -basebuilderBranch R35_M2 -javaHome /opt/public/common/ibm-java2-142 \ -URL http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz \ 2>&1 | tee /opt/public/cbi/logs/buildlog_`date +%H%M%S`.txt
- To run locally, see examples in start.sh.


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Gabon visa for Cambodian citizens
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- Applicant: not required
- Max stay: 90 days
- Visa validity: 30 days
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- Stay: short term
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Hurley™ was born out of a love for the ocean that continues more than three decades later. Bob Hurley founded Hurley Surfboards in 1979 in Costa Mesa, CA. Within a few years, he was shaping boards for some of the world's best surfers. By the 1990s, Bob began to realize that surf culture was intertwined with fashion, music, and art. He sought to capture the ever-changing spirit of the ocean in the company's beach apparel. Bob founded Hurley with the intention of redefining what it meant to be a surf brand.
Today, Hurley remains true to its beach roots as one of the leading producers of surf gear, boardshorts, and swimsuits. Hurley's most popular items for both men and women include the "Phantom" and "Puerto Rico" swimwear lines. The company also features rashguards, bags, and other accessories for the avid surfer.
But Hurley products are not just for lovers of the water -- the brand's apparel takes the spirit of surfing into all facets of life. Hurley features popular lines of t-shirts, hoodies, backpacks, tote bags, hats, pants, and dresses. Despite having become one of the biggest names in surf and swim gear, Hurley remains passionate about the ideals of inclusion, positivity, and freedom of expression that go hand-in-hand with beach culture.


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POPLARVILLE – Women's health will take center stage on Saturday, Jan. 26, when Pearl River Community College hosts the seventh annual Women's Health Symposium.
The doors to Crosby Hall will open at 7:30 a.m. for early birds to enjoy a continental breakfast and the art walk featuring the work of area artists. Following a welcome at 8:15 a.m., the symposium begins with a panel discussion and question-and-answer period about women's health concerns.
Panelists will be Dr. Andrea Carter with the Women's Pavilion of South Mississippi, Dr. Lara Otaigbe with Wesley Primary Care of Hattiesburg, Dr. Melissa Holland with Hattiesburg Clinic and Dr. Angela Jones with The Poplarville Clinic.
"One of the primary purposes of the Pearl River Community College Women's Health Symposium is to raise the awareness of women in this region regarding the need for changes in lifestyles in order to improve the personal health and fitness of our citizens," said Dr. Becky Askew, PRCC vice president for planning and institutional research and chair of the symposium steering committee.
The symposium health fair begins at 10 a.m. and provides blood pressure, blood glucose, bone density, hearing, posture and vision screenings. Because a limited number of screenings are available, guests will receive wrist bands when they check in for the screenings they choose.
The health fair also will include manicures offered by students in PRCC's cosmetology program and informational displays from a variety of health-care providers, including the PRCC dental hygiene clinic.
Lunch begins at 12 p.m. with entertainment by The Voices, 12 PRCC students selected by audition for the elite ensemble. Guests will also be presented with special favors.
Barb Bancroft of Chicago, a widely-acclaimed presenter, will be the luncheon speaker. Executive director and president of CPP Associates Inc., a consulting firm and continuing education provider for healthcare professionals and corporate seminars, she is a pediatric nurse practitioner, an educator and author.
Her books include Medical Minutiae, a humorous look at the fields of medicine and nursing; An Apple a Day: The ABCs of Diet and Disease; Live a Little, Laugh a Lot; and Kiss My Asparagus: An Essential Guide to Nutrition's Role in Health and Disease.
In addition to her clinical experience as a pediatric and adult neurology nurse, she has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia, the University of Arkansas, Loyola University of Chicago and St. Xavier University of Chicago.
The annual presentation of dozens of door prizes will conclude the symposium by 1:30 p.m. although the art walk will re-open as guests leave.
Grand sponsor of the symposium is Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation through a grant of $17,000.
"Through this event, hundreds of women receive information which will be beneficial to each of them and to their families," Askew said. "We greatly appreciate the support and contributions of our major sponsor, the Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation."
The symposium would not be possible in its current format without the foundation's assistance, she said.
"The evaluations of symposium activities by participants are indicative of this important assistance," said Dr. Ted Alexander, foundation chief executive officer. "We are pleased to be a part of what the symposium has to offer."
The registration fee of $20 is due by Wednesday, Jan. 16, and includes all of the above events. For registration material, email email@example.com or telephone 601-403-1317.


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NBC's Saturday Night Live staff does it again with this hilarious segment featuring Star Trek's Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine (Spock and Kirk respectively) making an appearance on SNL's "Weekend Edition" to address the concerns of Trekkers who were upset that the J.J. Abrams-directed blockbuster didn't follow "Star Trek history."
(Ha. Which includes me. Well, I was only mildly concerned, and not so much so that I didn't enjoy the movie. It was excellent!)
At any rate, Pine starts opens with an apology of sorts and Quinto follows up by explaining how they did incorporate some well known Trek lore like the "Vulcan PonFar" ritual. Then Pine stumbles on his words while trying to explain the technology of the "Transporter" and just as all seems lost for the two new megastars, Leonard Nimoy walks in to an ovation and saves the day, expaining "Any Trekker who doesn't like the movie is..." something I can't print here but they can say on live television.
What's so funny are the two "Trekkers" in costume in the audience making "We're watching you" faces at the stars during the segment.
All of this fun causes me to wonder if we will see a "Star Trek Blooper Video" with outtakes from the film, much as we enjoyed the Star Trek Blooper Real of the past with some funny errors caught on tape as the cast of the television show was at work.
Stay tuned!
Hollywood Suprised At "Star Trek" Boxoffice
Meanwhile, Nikke Finke, who's "Deadline Hollywood" blog is the best source for inside information on Hollywood, revealed that not only did Star Trek surprise Hollywood, earning 76.5 million for the weekend, but the audience was 60 percent male, 40 percent female, which surprised me as I expected a 70 percent / 30 percent split based on the demographics for Star Trek videos on YouTube.
Finke writes:
To put that in perspective, a domestic weekend total under $50M would have meant the pic didn't attract a new and younger audience and relied instead on the franchise's older but loyal fanbase of Trekkies. It was risky for Paramount to market the movie as "not your father's Star Trek". But the critical reviews for JJ Abrams' reboot are 96% positive.


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Sun's JRE6 install now comes with the Yahoo! Toolbar. We can't get clear confirmation as to whether this is an entirely new deal but it's a mistake either way.
Surely, this is a misguided attempt at making money from a free download. The tech crowd will deplore it as an attempt at tricking them into installing something they don't want while the rest of the world might actually be fooled into clicking 'next' and ignoring the pre-ticked check-box only to find out later that a new toolbar has taken over their browser.
The tactic isn't a good one. How many people are genuinely going to see a bundle and think to themselves "ah yes, I want the Yahoo! Toolbar". The general consensus is that people despise such tactics. I wouldn't call it outright deception, but a pre-approved message with a clear 'next' button tells me that someone, somewhere hopes you won't notice and just press it. While the bundle is bad for Java's image to start with, the sneaky pre-approval will truly offend. Not a good idea when you need developers to champion your development platform. This isn't some free webcam software we're talking about, this is the Java Runtime Environment.
Personally, I feel this is detrimental to both brands. Sure, it will get the search-bar onto browsers, but how valuable are these new installs. They look great on a chart but
When the Macromedia did something similar with Flash I voiced my concern (Google cache page) and was quickly contacted by the team who assured me that they were going to change it (which they did, kinda). I understand the immediate financial sense of bundling but think it's a terrible mistake to make your flagship download look like cheap freeware.
Thanks to ninja Java-developer Anthony for pointing this out (and sharing some anger).


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It is here again and I am doing jigs of joy in sheer bliss.Yeah,I am crazy that way once in a year[if not throughout,hehe].I am overwhelmed by the birthday wishes through mails,Facebook messages,sms's,calls-especially from a dear reader of this blog Neena,who called me from US.She made me feel so special that for sometime I was behaving like a celebrity!!
Majority of the messages were wishes + queries as to what I was baking today.A cousin even told me not to cook at all-and Mads wanting to serve me her Dark Chocolate Orange Gateau since I was craving so much for it!!Thank you so much people--you sure made me feel special!!
As to what was to be the star attraction for today,my birthday cake-Surprisingly,I didn't put much thought into what I was going to bake and at one time it looked as though I might even skip baking it.Thank God,I chose against it.Thought of baking an eggless sponge since I didn't stock up on eggs.I had a pale orange sitting inside the fridge and immediately decided that it was going to be an Orange flavored Cake.Baked the cake first thing in the morning and started cooking up lunch all the while thinking of the frosting.
Fell back on my tried and tested recipe for buttercream-this time with cocoa and orange juice with some zest thrown in.It was going to be a Chocolate+Orange combination in a plain cake,I was getting excited.As always,while frosting,I lost my cool and was getting impatient.Finally dressed up the cake in chocolate cigars and curls and decided that "too much chocolate can never go wrong"!!
Eggless Orange Cake with Orange Cocoa Buttercream Frosting
Recipe minimally adapted from Anushruti
Flour - 225gms[about 1 1/2 cups + 2 tbsp]
Baking Powder - 2 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Butter - 100 gms,at room temperature
Condensed milk - 400gm/1 can
Milk - 200 ml
Yogurt - 4 tbsp
Vanilla extract - 2 tsp OR 1 tbsp freshly grated Orange zest
For the Orange-Cocoa Buttercream frosting
Butter - 1/2 cup,softened
Icing sugar - 2 cups
Cocoa Powder - 3 tbsp
Orange juice - 4-5 tbsp
Orange zest - 1 tsp
Grease and line the bottom of a 9" round cake tin with greaseproof paper/baking parchment/butter paper.
Preheat the oven at 150 degrees centigrade.
In a mixing bowl, assemble the flour, baking powder and baking soda, mix with a spoon and sieve once to make the mixture uniform.
In a bowl assemble the butter and the condensed milk and beat (with a hand mixer or a wire whisk) until the mixture is combined, about a couple of minutes.
Mix in the yogurt and beat again.
Pour in the milk and beat until the mixture is well mixed.
Stir in the flour mixture and mix with a spoon, whisk or the legs of the hand mixer before starting to beat again. This will prevent the flour from getting dispersed outside the mixing bowl.
Beat until the mixture is uniform and smooth and there are no lumps.
This shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes with an electric hand mixer/beater. Be careful not to over beat as this tends to make the batter stiff which might result into a harder textured cake.
Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for an hour at 150 degree centigrade.
For the Buttercream - Beat together Butter and cocoa powder.Mix in the icing sugar and orange juice alternately till you get a smooth glossy frosting.Mix in the zest and refrigerate till required.
To assemble the Cake-
Place the cake on a cooling rack and trim the top[mine was crowned a bit].Moisten with a few tbsps Orange juice[optional].
Apply the frosting on the sides and top evenly and cover with Chocolate curls and Chocolate cigars.
Remove carefully to a serving plate.
Chill and serve!!
Verdict- As always,the combination of Orange and Chocolate made me go weak in the knees.Loved every bite of it,but due to the arrival of the 5-star Birthday cake my thoughts were diverted there.I was actually confused which one to finish first!!I love Birthdays!!
Here's the Birthday gift from Ajay I was talking about.I have my own copy now,amen.
A big Thank You to my dear friend Mary,who sent me a Chocolate Cake from The Muffin Tree,Courtyard Marriot.My birthday is getting more and more surprising!!
Once again,Thank You all for making my Birthday so exciting and full of surprises!!


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A.J. Stewart Smith, who has served as Princeton University's first dean for research since 2006, will assume a newly created position as vice president for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to serve as the University's primary liaison with DOE.
Smith is expected to begin his new role on Jan. 1, 2013. A national search for his successor as dean for research will begin immediately (see sidebar).
During his tenure as dean, Smith has significantly enhanced Princeton's research enterprise by unifying and expanding the University's research administration operations, which has helped to attract increased funding from governments, corporations and other sources.
The move will enable Smith, who currently oversees PPPL as dean, to dedicate more time to the lab, which the University has managed for more than 60 years. In turn, his successor will be able to focus on other areas of the dean's portfolio that have grown during Smith's tenure, including corporate and foundation relations, technology licensing, and regulatory compliance.
"Stew Smith has done a terrific job and really has built this position to take us into the 21st century in terms of our research support functions," said Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman. "Stew has been a great advocate for research at the University and will continue to be in his new role. Through his exceptional service to Princeton as the founding dean for research, he leaves a strong platform for his successor."
"We welcome this change, which will enable Stew Smith, with his understanding of physics research and his long experience of working with DOE, to devote his efforts to PPPL," said William F. Brinkman, director of DOE's Office of Science, which oversees the laboratory for DOE. "He is a great choice to help guide PPPL through scientific and economic challenges as its researchers continue to work toward the goal of producing fusion energy."
Smith, who is Princeton's Class of 1909 Professor of Physics, is a leading researcher in high-energy particle physics and a nationally respected figure in science policy. He was appointed chair of the University Research Board in 2005 and a year later assumed the new role of dean for research, beginning a major restructuring of Princeton's research administration.
As dean, Smith took on oversight of several key research support functions that had been dispersed throughout the University, including the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations, the Office of Research and Project Administration, the Office of Technology Licensing, PPPL, and the University's animal research, biosafety and research integrity programs.
The transition in Smith's role comes as both PPPL and the University face ongoing challenges in attracting research funding from governments, corporations and foundations in the current economic climate, Provost Christopher Eisgruber said.
"Supporting the research conducted at PPPL is very important to us, as is our relationship with the Department of Energy, so we are delighted that Stew can devote his time to these responsibilities," Eisgruber said. "We have been very fortunate to have in Stew someone who had the expertise and talent to lead the University's research enterprise and also to provide effective oversight of PPPL.
"One of the principal areas of emphasis for the next dean for research will be expanding corporate and foundation partnerships, and improving our already very strong competitiveness for government grants," Eisgruber said. "Stew has made tremendous progress in those areas already. By moving responsibility for PPPL into his new office, the University ensures that his successor will both be able to take on existing management and oversight responsibilities, and also cultivate new initiatives that will help Princeton's research program to secure the funding that it requires."
Smith said that his new role in focusing on PPPL is particularly important as the American fusion research community contends with domestic budgetary challenges, as well as U.S. commitments to support a major international fusion energy project known as ITER.
Smith noted that research at PPPL is at an exciting stage with the recent approval of funds for a significant upgrade of the lab's major test facility, the National Spherical Torus Experiment, to pursue the development of nuclear fusion as a clean, safe and abundant fuel for generating electricity. At the same time, he wants to continue the trend of increasing collaborations between PPPL and University researchers on the frontiers of plasma physics.
"We have a beautiful new project going at PPPL with the upgrade of our flagship experiment," Smith said. "University oversight is going to be needed as much, if not more, as we move into the next phase of research at the lab."
PPPL Director Stewart Prager, who manages the lab and works closely with Smith, agreed: "A dedicated University position to oversee PPPL and facilitate links to other parts of the University is a wonderful idea, and there is no one who can better meet these challenges than Stew. This will maximize the benefits that PPPL derives from the considerable management expertise and scientific prowess within the University. It will also assure that the University benefits from strong scientific links to the lab."
Supporting the research community
Smith said he is proud of the enhancements to Princeton's research administration that have been accomplished during his tenure, particularly in assembling a strong senior management team within his office to oversee the multifaceted operations that support the efforts of the University's researchers.
In the 2011 fiscal year, Princeton and PPPL researchers conducted $280.8 million in sponsored research, up from $226.2 million in the 2005 fiscal year, the last year before Smith began his role as chair of the University Research Board.
"The rise in sponsored research speaks to the competitiveness of our researchers, but also to Stew's success in putting a good research structure in place," Eisgruber said. "He has appointed excellent people to his staff, and he has increased the funding that exists within the Office of the Dean for Research. Support for innovation, technology transfer and seed grants all have grown under Stew's leadership. He also has made important improvements to our compliance structures."
Smith cited the benefits of moving the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations into his portfolio — more closely aligning its operations with partners in the Office of Technology Licensing and the Office of Research and Project Administration — as a key factor in bolstering support for Princeton researchers.
"It's very important to our faculty, who really want to make useful their intellectual property," Smith said. "Corporations are looking for the most important product we have, which is our people — new Ph.D.'s and postdocs who are trained here and have unique knowledge. They want people partnering in their research, so they can gain the expertise from us and also have a pipeline for their next generation of scientists and engineers. They also want to learn about interesting inventions and patents they might develop."
Princeton researchers also have benefited from increases in innovation funds during Smith's tenure, including: the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund, which enables researchers to explore novel ideas that traditional funding sources might consider too risky to support; the Intellectual Property Development Fund, which supports early-stage projects that have the potential to transform lives and improve the world; and an endowed research fund that provides the dean with flexibility to support projects at various stages.
Also, in keeping with the University's efforts to enhance its international presence, Smith has worked to forge partnerships with institutions across the globe, including member organizations of Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences representing astrophysics, fusion science and biology.
Smith said the creation of his new position will enable his successor as dean to continue to advance these efforts, as well as foster the increasing interdisciplinary connections in Princeton's research community.
"The Princeton vision is to help the country and the world with new knowledge and new minds," he said. "When people have good ideas, you have to support them. We want to be the best at what we're doing and choose new things that would be the very best for us. That's what I hope the new dean will do — to use the time I have been using on PPPL to think about new directions and strengthening what we have."
The transition also will allow Smith to devote more attention to his own research, as he will dedicate 50 percent of his time to oversight of PPPL and 50 percent of his time to his research.
Smith joined the University faculty in 1967, a year after earning his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1966. He served as chair of the physics department from 1990 to 1998.
During his career, Smith has carried out a succession of major experiments in particle physics at U.S. national laboratories. Since 1995, he has served as scientific team leader of an international collaboration of 600 scientists from 10 countries involved in a project based at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. A fellow of the American Physical Society, Smith has been a member of the experiments committee for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, and he has served on boards for many other organizations, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council of Canada. In 2011, Smith was awarded the American Physical Society's W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for his contributions to the field.


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BNY Mellon's Kumar Uses Metrics To Make Better Business Decisions
For Suresh Kumar, executive VP and CIO at Bank of New York Mellon (New York, $1.4 trillion in assets), technology serves two main functions in his professional life: to help the bank's clients be successful, and to mine data analytics to help the business make better decisions. Indeed, Kumar is a man who loves metrics.
"For me, it's not as much about the technology as it is about changing the culture to create a culture of excellence and culture of measurement," says Kumar, who manages about 13,000 IT professionals and oversees a division that has a $2 billion annual budget. "We have made tremendous progress in goal-setting and identifying measures of success and how we track progress. We want that to be institutionalized and become part of the DNA of our organization."
Kumar says that ability to track and measure is the real potential of big data. Regarding big data, he says there is a tendency "for companies to do a project here and project there because this is the hot new thing. But we want to take advantage of technology and use data insight to make better decisions. I call it decision science, rather than big data."
With the substantial number of transactions BNY Mellon processes on a daily basis, Kumar believes there is a "tremendous opportunity" to take advantage of new data analytics tools available. He believes this is applicable not only to client data, but employee data, as well.
To that end, Kumar spearheaded BNY Mellon's Digital Workplace initiative, which was designed to improve and enhance the employee experience, productivity and knowledge. The goal of the initiative was to reduce downtime, complaints, failures and help desk calls, and increase collaboration across the company, innovation, productivity and satisfaction.
"Our focus was to use the technology and analytics capabilities we have to figure out what our employees are trying to get done and how to help them do it better," he says. "We thought, 'How do you measure the employee experience and improve that?'"
So the bank launched a massive campaign to garner employee feedback on every aspect of their jobs. Kumar and his tech team also used big data analytics software from Splunk to analyze unstructured internal data to understand behaviors and user actions.
Tools To Drive Collaboration
One finding was that employees were seeking more tools for collaboration, and BNY Mellon is working on enhancing internal collaboration tools. Kumar and his team also discovered which applications were used more or less frequently than others, and how to improve the user experience for some internal tools.
For example, Kumar says that Microsoft Outlook applications were taking a longer time to launch than should be expected. Analyzing the data received as part of the Digital Workplace initiative, Kumar and his team discovered that there were "a whole bunch of add-ins that people didn't really use" associated with Outlook, and so they were disabled. Since then, Kumar reports, the time to launch Outlook applications has been reduced by 63%.
Kumar has a long history of bringing innovative technologies to bear for institutional clients. He was a pioneer in creating online brokerages. In the late 1980s, while working at Pershing, a provider of securities services that's now a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, he helped create an online brokerage system for the Prodigy online service. Later, in the 1990s, he worked on creating online brokerages systems for AOL. Kumar has essentially been with one company his whole career, but as he puts it, "with many different parents." In 2000, Credit Suisse acquired DLJ Securities Corp., which at that time was the parent company of Pershing. Also that year, Kumar helped Pershing form a new company, iNautix India, a reseller of technology. In 2003, Pershing was acquired from Credit Suisse by the Bank of New York, which itself merged with Mellon in 2007. At that time, Kumar was already CIO of Pershing.
Another data-related initiative in which Kumar has been involved was the 2012 launch of BNY Mellon Xtreme Computing Platform to harness innovations ranging from big data and mobility to virtualization.
The platform is the third generation of a constantly evolving architecture Kumar developed at Pershing in 1994. It has evolved into a consolidated technology architecture and platform approach that dramatically streamlines and improves the bank's systems and lays the groundwork for future advances that, ultimately, will save time and money.
At the foundation of this platform, notes Kumar, is Data Center as a Service, which is BNY Mellon's private cloud. This service allows for auto-provisioning and efficient use of computing resources, he says. On top of that are common services, such as workflow management tools, and business services, including business-specific capabilities such as cash services, trade services and collateral management, which can be bundled to provide a more customized user experience.
Bryan Yurcan is associate editor for Bank Systems and Technology. He has worked in various editorial capacities for newspapers and magazines for the past 8 years. After beginning his career as a municipal and courts reporter for daily newspapers in upstate New York, Bryan has ... View Full Bio


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Good morning. I'm Renée Montagne. The mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska is celebrating his 15th year on the job. No worries about term limits for this mayor. Stubbs, so named because he's missing half a tail, is as popular as the day he was elected. Townspeople voted for him as a write-in candidate even though he's a cat out of disappointment with the human candidates and Stubbs has been mayor ever since - honorary mayor.
He's helped the economy, though. Tourists flock the town just to see him. It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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