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The Breezy Point Figure Skating Club hosted "Christmas Stories on Ice" on Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Breezy Point Ice Arena.
The skating exhibition featured 40 skaters ages 3-17 and had a holiday theme that included skating performances of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Frosty the Snowman" and several other holiday favorites.
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And this is an act that every law enforcement officer would perform without hesitation. You lived a noble life, Sebastian.
It happens many times a day in communities all over the world and you never hear a word of it, they simply move on to their next call, go home at the end of their tour and hug their own kids a little tighter.
Rest easy Deputy, your watch is done.

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Colt SAA engraved with carved one piece pearl grips Caliber 38-40 Engraved by Phil Quigley Mfg in 1904 Pearl grips are the Mexican style with the eagle and snake Anyone who knows about pearl will know pearl is near impossible to find much less a pair of carved one piece grips like these. I suppose only an engraver would know the time and work involved in stippling a background on this gun. It is extensive as you can see! always open to trades or part trades; Questions 406-754-2512
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Inside RoboVM
Bringing Java to the iOS is somewhat of a mobile holy grail. But there's one developer who wants to give it his all. In this interview, Peter Friese speaks to Niklas Therning, the man behind the RoboVM open-source project and co-founder of Trillian Mobile AB - the main contributor to the RoboVM project – which is aiming to make the Java iOS leap come true.
JAX: Can you tell us a little about yourself?
Niklas Therning: My name is Niklas Therning. I'm 36 years old and I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I've always had an interest in computers and I have been programming since the early 90s when I got my Amiga 500. I have an MSc in computer engineering from Chalmers, Gothenburg. For the past 10 years I have been working in my own company doing contract work, mainly server side Java and web app development. I also co-founded the SpamDrain anti-spam service (http://spamdrain.net) where I have been doing not only frontend and backend coding but also customer support and server administration. For the past 3 years or so I have been working on RoboVM, first as a side-project in my spare time and then full-time for the past 1.5 years roughly.
Who is working on RoboVM?
Mostly me only. There's a small community around the project but except for testing (which is awesome!) it doesn't contribute very much yet. I think this is normal for any young open-source project. It takes time to build a community that is more involved. I must admit that I could probably do more to facilitate for contributors, e.g. by writing proper documentation of the RoboVM internals.
How is it funded?
So far RoboVM has been funded by our company, SpamDrain AB. But since a few weeks back we've managed to secure some seed-funding. This should give us a needed boost and we will soon hire some more developers to work on the project.
How did you come up with the idea for RoboVM?
Back in 2010 we started to build iOS and Android apps for SpamDrain. We did look into the different cross-platform tools that were available at that time. We didn't want to build an HTML5/JS/CSS app so that ruled out almost all of the tools. And since all of us had extensive Java knowledge and this being the native language on Android we would have preferred something based on Java. We didn't find anything to our liking so we went with Xcode and Objective-C for the iOS app in the end. This made me start to think about how one could get Java running under iOS. Xamarin had already shown that it could be done for C# with MonoTouch so why shouldn't it be possible for Java?
How does it relate to Xamarin?
RoboVM is very similar to Xamarin in the way it works except that they let you use C# and .NET technologies while RoboVM lets you use Java and other JVM languages and Java platform technologies and tools.
And how about XMLVM?
At a high level it's quite similar to XMLVM in the way it takes Java bytecode and transforms it into machine code. Their process looks like bytecode->XML->C->machine code while ours is bytecode->Soot Jimple->LLVM IR->machine code. I haven't really looked at it closer than that.
In comparison to Objective-C, Java is a much more verbose language Where do you see the sweet spots for RoboVM?
Before I answer this one I would like to know how you think Java is "much more verbose"? I don't agree with that statement. Please prove me wrong. :-)
RoboVM is not limited to Java. In theory you could use any language that targets the JVM. Scala, Kotlin and Clojure are other JVM languages that are known to work with RoboVM and those fixes many of the shortcomings of the Java language.
The main use case for RoboVM as I see it is the possibilities to share code between Android and iOS apps and for Java developers to reuse their skills, not having to learn a new language and new tools.
Objective-C has a very distinctive method naming pattern that does not translate well to most other languages. How do you translate method names from Objective-C to Java? Do you write the mappings manually, or do you use an automated approach?
I use a semi-automated process. I have a tool that reads ObjC header files and a config file and spits out Java class files. The config file can contain things such as method rename rules and info on where a global function should end up (there's no global scope in Java). Method names are changed slightly to look more natural to Java programmers and shortened (usually by cutting before the first : in the selector name).
Most apps that have been published on the app store seem to be games. Is this a sweet spot for RoboVM?
Not really. When I started working on RoboVM I thought that games would be the least likely type of apps to use it due mainly to the garbage collection and potential "stop the world" pauses. But then the libgdx community showed a great interest in the project and I started to help them out to get a working RoboVM/iOS backend. Using libgdx one can now use a single code base to write games for Android, Blackberry, desktop, HTML5 and iOS. Even with 50+ libgdx based games already in the App Store I have heard very few comments about the GC being a problem. The libgdx community has been awesome by testing the code at a very early stage. I'm very grateful for their help.
What are your plans for IDE integrations and other developer tooling? Currently, you have an Eclipse integration, but people have been asking for IntelliJ integrations.
IntelliJ integration is the most commented issue on our Github page. At some point we will have to look into it if no one in the community jumps in. We already provide Maven integration and people in the community have done Gradle, sbt and Leiningen plugins. The JavaFX community and Oracle have done Eclipse and Netbeans JavaFX plugins that facilitate building JavaFX apps for iOS.
In the future we will have to provide a debugger and JUnit integration. It would also be nice to have some kind of Interface Builder integration.
What is the roadmap for RoboVM?
The goal is the have a stable version (1.0) sometime late Q3 or early Q4. Apart from being reasonably bug free this should include completed and tested CocoaTouch bindings and have proper documentation. We will start to offer some kind of commercial licenses around the project similar to what Xamarin does with the big difference that RoboVM has a fully useable open-source core which you can use to develop apps without any limitations.
Niklas Therning is the founder of the RoboVM open-source project and co-founder of Trillian Mobile AB - the main contributor to the RoboVM project. He has made it his mission to bring Java to iOS and do it properly. Before starting RoboVM Niklas co-founded the SpamDrain anti-spam service and worked as a contractor, mostly doing Java EE and web app development. Niklas holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.


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My first glimpse of Turkey. The city of Kusadasi looks tightly packed as I peer out of the veranda door, and the pink of the dawn sits atop surrounding hills. There's a tugboat taking our cruise ship into port and I watch it work for a few minutes. I'm not sure what Turkey will be like, but I'm pretty excited. Alan and I are here to see Ephesus, the ancient city about 20 minutes from Kusadasi. We have one day.
We meet Ali, our guide, outside the terminal. I want to confirm the tour price. "For you," he says very seriously, "just sixty four thousand dollars" and then laughs. I feel comfortable. It's hot, but that's nothing unusual for Turkey is summer. The memory of walking to school in heat like this in tropical Australia pops into my mind, but I didn't seem to care so much about the weather then. Thankfully, our car is air-conditioned and glimpses of Kusadasi reassure me as we inch our way through the streets. I'm not sure why. Maybe I expected something akin to the chaos of Asian cities? This is clean, well laid out, with orderly traffic. I feel more comfortable.
The omnipresent roadside souvenir stall, the same the world over, greets us at Ephesus. "Cross the road" says Ali. We dash across, just a bit fearful that a car will appear too quickly for us to get out of the way. Ali deals with the tickets, and we join a mass of people merging to pass through the narrow entry gate.
The smaller of two amphitheatres at Ephesus appears in view. Already the scale of this place is clear. The Agora holds piles of small, red clay water pipes, gutters and plumbing remains and the first of many temples and intricately carved arches. A glimpse of the two story Library Building in the distance now appears, but our eyes are drawn to the people. The cobblestone road is a moving mass of almost solid colour.
Walking down the hill, I hear snippets of conversation in many languages, some loud, some quiet, some bored, some animated. Travel is great for bringing strangers together for a few moments in places like this, all of us drawn to see and feel the power of ancient civilisation.
Currently fascinated – no, obsessed – with ancient columns, I take more photos for my collection. We enter the Terrace Houses, a new excavation into a hill, its roof a welcome respite from the heat. It costs more money to go in here, and the people in front see the fee and murmur "too expensive, let's leave" and head outside.
"No", I want to yell to them, "spend the money, you'll regret it later if you don't". Just like we regret not spending the money on a side trip to Tibet when we went to China in the 1980s.
But, I keep quiet and head up the first flight of stairs into an expanse with houses so well preserved, for once I don't feel like I'm kidding myself trying to imagine living here in ancient times. A series of metal stairs and platforms keep us moving up and through the ruins. Each level brings a new and wider perspective. We pass houses with murals still colourful, more plumbing, and bathrooms this time, entrance arches and mosaics that make you stop and stare. This is…spectacular. Outside again – did I mention it's hot?
"I will leave you here" says Ali. "Spend as much time as you want, then walk along the path through the shops and I will meet you in the parking lot". We nod, and Ali disappears into the crowd.
We stand for a few seconds, and Alan says "Come with me. I want to show you something".
He takes me back up the hill, weaving through the mass of people to the building that houses the toilets. He has been here once before, and this is what he remembers? These communal toilets in a grand building are impressive, with the same amount of attention to detail and structure here as in the surrounding temples and houses. I feel a sense of personal relief that civilisation has moved on from this particular form of sharing!
Reaching the Library, I climb the stairs and enter a space that does feel like libraries today. There are fewer people in here, the conversations are quieter and there's seems to be a quiet reverence happening.
Shade under a porch that separates the library from the main ampitheatre beckons. We squeeze into a space at the side and stare. Buildings today are bigger and bolder, but lack the subtlety and the detail of these structures. Here you can sense a story about the people who built them, what mattered to them and how they lived. I realise I'm feeling a sense of connection with people past, and I'll take that with me with we leave. I felt the same at Pompeii, but somehow it's feels stronger, more intimate here.
The main amphitheatre is big and draws you towards it, but we keep walking. Did I mention it's hot? On the path leading out of Ephesus, we are stopped by trumpet fanfare. People in Roman costume – soldiers with red flowing cloaks and gold helmets, important men in long flowing white robes, slaves with those large feather fans, and women in bright colours dancing for the men. I take some photos while some sort of ceremony is re-enacted, but feel a sense of unease that this event is too forced, too artificial and somehow detracts from my Ephesus experience.
Suddenly, we return to the present. The path turns into a covered street of souvenir sellers, with the ubiquitous 'genuine fake watches' signs. And then, our first experience of Turkish selling.
"Turkish delight miss?"
"No, thank you."
"Oh, it's really good. You must try some."
"No, really, thank you."
"Really cheap, just for you."
"No," I say, giving him my best 'I mean it' glare. He heads off, only to meet us again a few steps along the street.
"Turkish delight miss?", he says and looks up.
"Oh, it's you again", he mutters with disgust, spins on his heel and goes to find another tourist.
The selling is intense, every few seconds there is another offer, another bargain. We smile, shake our heads and keep moving. We find a stall where no one seems interested in selling and buy some water. I look at souvenirs but don't want any. The images and thoughts in my head seem enough.
We emerge into the heat of the car park, find Ali chatting to other guides, and return to Kusadasi. We stop at a bank to get some lira to pay Ali and say goodbye. The town beckons, but it's hot. We return to the ship.
That night watching the sunset from the veranda, I decide one day is enough to get a strong sense of Ephesus, but it's not enough time to spend in Turkey.
I like this place.
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The progressive metal band Cynic have uploaded their 3rd studio album in its entirety! The album was released on the 14th of February 2014. The current line-up of the band includes Sean Reinert on drums (also is/was a part of Death, Gordian Knot, Aghora and Æon Spoke), Sean Malone on bass (Gordian Knot, Aghora) and Paul Masvidal providing the vocals and guitars (Death, Gordian Knot and Æon Spoke).
Reinert had this to say prior to its release: "It's a bold new sound for Cynic and marks a gigantic leap in the band's progression. We've had a lot of time to let this material develop and gestate, and it finally feels ready to be unleashed on the world. I've been in trio mode with Malone and Masvidal flushing out a zillion and one details, and couldn't be happier about what's happening with these songs. They are truly alive!"