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1969 Plymouth Valiant - Big Fat Steelies!Written by John McGann on August 8, 2007 Behold Bob Schiller's '69 Valiant.
"I hope you didn't mind me getting a little sideways for you." Bob Schiller grinned when we paused to make a U-turn on Chrysler Boulevard in El Toro, California, late on a Sunday afternoon. As we took off for our next run, I was hanging out the back of my station wagon with Bob's friend Dave at the wheel while Bob in his Valiant eased away from the stop sign. He floored it as he shifted into Second gear, and I readjusted my focus and began to fire as the car squatted on its leaf springs and rocketed past us, the 440 bellowing angrily at 5,200 rpm. We were hoping to get at least one photo in focus.
Believe it or not, this '69 Plymouth Valiant was resurrected from backyard-beater status to pavement pounder in little more than a year's time. Bob, an ad agency owner from Orange County, California, towed its lifeless shell out of a backyard in Bakersfield, California. It was missing its engine and transmission and had a back window full of deadhead stickers. Still, it was an unmolested and rust-free Valiant, made even more desirable to Bob and his friends because it was a total stripper-a rubber floor mat, A/C, heater, and radio-delete model. Couple that with the fact it was also a manual-transmission car, and this grocery getter was a deal Bob couldn't pass up.
"I've always been into Mopars, and I like to build the oddball cars. I like the stripped down ones, you know-no radios, no ventilation," Bob says. He and his longtime friends Dave Lindsley and Gary Streuter had built a '68 Valiant several years before. That car had belonged to the Edison electric company and retained its Edison green paint with white top even after being stuffed with a 360ci Mopar crate motor. "That car always got a lot of attention," Bob says. "After I sold it, I began to look for another." Upon settling up with the new car's previous owner, Bob trailered it home and immediately began to work on it.
"I knew it was going to be a big-block, four-speed car; there was never any doubt," he says. Within a couple of weeks, the car was stripped down and at the frame shop for minitubs and subframe connectors followed by a trip to the body shop for panel straightening and a totally cool factory maroon paint job. "It's a Dodge color, actually," Bob says. After months of debating the exterior color with his friends, a decision was made in a junkyard of all places. "Gary and I were getting parts off of this Dart in the junkyard when we noticed it was an interesting color that we hadn't seen before," Bob says. "Almost simultaneously we said to each other that this would be a great color for the Valiant." Paint code in hand, the guys at Quigley's Auto Body mixed the formula and sprayed the straightened and sanded sheetmetal after swapping in a '68 hood, grille, and fenders in place of the original pieces.
While the Valiant was having its sheetmetal makeover, Bob was busy putting together a "healthy" 440. It was bored 0.030-over and stuffed with a billet crank, LY rods, Speed-Pro pistons, and topped with ported 906 heads. Bob's intention was to give his new subframe connectors a serious high-torque beating. And they've performed admirably. At 5,500 rpm, this 440 is making 510 hp at the wheels-more than enough to get this car scary sideways several times during our photo shoot.
Tech Notes
Who: Bob Schiller
What: It's a '69 Plymouth Valiant 100. Though it looks like a '68, it really is a '69. Bob replaced the hood, grille, and fenders with '68 parts. He says he always hated the '69 grille.
Hometown: Trabuco Canyon, California
Engine: The block is a '69 440 that was bored 0.030-over by Dan Benson, owner of Benson's Automotive Machine in Santa Ana, California. Dan performed all the machine work with torque plates installed and align-bored the cam and crank bearing journals. The rotating assembly was blueprinted and balanced to within 2.00 grams. The cam is a Mopar Performance 509, and it actuates Crane roller rocker arms and stainless steel valves. Legendary machinist Vic Roy of Irwindale, California, performed the port job on the cylinder heads and port-matched the intake manifold. Bob assembled the engine himself and sealed it in plastic while he waited for the car to be painted. Though he apologized for its being dirty, you could eat off the engine.
Transmission: Bob stumbled across the '68 A833 big-block trans at a Mopars on the Strip show in Las Vegas. It's an A-Body short-shaft trans that fits the Valiant's chassis. Otherwise, Bob would have been shifting gears from the back seat. Drivelines USA in Lake Forest, California, made the custom driveshaft.
Rearend: An 831/44 spans the rear wheel openings. It was narrowed 2 inches on each side by RJ at Munoa's in Temecula, California. Munoa's also made the minitubs, relocated the leaf springs 3 inches inboard, and welded in the subframe connectors. A Sure Grip differential with 3.55 gears turns the billet axles. Tire smoke can usually be seen when this happens.
Suspension and brakes: Here, the car is mostly stock with torsion bars up front, Mopar Performance Super Stock leaf springs out back, and KYB Gas-a-Just shocks at all four corners. Bob scrapped the front drums in favor of a set of 10.5-inch discs with stock calipers and swapped big 11-inch station wagon drums in place of the puny stockers.
Wheels: The hoops are big 'n' little steelies painted body color with chrome dog-dish caps-indicative of the car's humble origins. The rear wheels were widened to 10 inches. The front tires are Goodyears, and Bob runs 29x13 Hoosier Quick Time Pro slicks in back.
Exhaust: Giant TTI 2-inch, ceramic-coated headers snake their way through the engine bay and down into a full 3-inch dual-exhaust system. Bob said it took nine hours to fit the big 440 and its headers between the Valiant's shock towers. Flowmaster mufflers tame the roar somewhat, and a corner of the gas tank had to be cut twice to clear the driver-side tailpipe.
Interior: It's bargain-basement cool with no carpet, no heat, and no tunes. Auto Interiors in Mission Viejo, California, reupholstered the stock bench seats.
Paint: The paint and bodywork were done at Quigley's Auto Body in Lake Forest, California. This shade of maroon is a Dodge color from the '68 model year.


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Girls' sub-district basketball pairings were released by the Nebraska School Activites Association on Thursday.
Lourdes, which is seeded No. 3 in the Class D1-1 sub-district at Wilber-Clatonia will open tourney play with a game against No. 2 seed Diller-Odell at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Pawnee City, No. 4, will face No. 5 Johnson-Brock in a 7 p.m. Monday game with the winner to play top seed Friend at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Winners of the Tuesday games will play in the sub-district final at 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca, which is seeded No. 1 in the Class C1-1 sub-district at Johnson-Brock, will play Tuesday against the Monday winner of No. 4 Auburn and No. 5 Conestoga. The Auburn-Conestoga game will tip at 7 p.m. Monday. S-D-A's Tuesday game will tip at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Also playing Tuesday, No. 3 Falls City will take on No. 2 Louisville at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday winners will play in the sub-district final at 7 p.m. on Thursday.
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By JO ROSS
Contributing Writer
What a wonderful week packed with glamorous, intriguing fashion at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Park – and all over the city.
The designers really gave a best effort in creating pretty, beguiling and sensuous ideas for Fall/Winter 2012.
Our favorites: Carolina Herrera, Betsey Johnson, Zang Toi, Pamela Roland and Michael Kors never disappoint, and Naeem Khan, Badgley Mischka and Reem Acra continued in their spectacular red carpet style, as did Herve Leger by Max Azria.
Custo Barcelona was sensational. Very well coordinated daywear, from head to toe, in multiple prints, with wool, leather and metallic applications, and great new shapes like cocoons (jackets with rounded sleeves that envelope the arms with yards of fabric).
Tadashi Shoji created very new, ladylike see-through (lined in nude fabric) chantilly lace gowns and dresses that look fresh, but Old World as well.
Shanghai, the "Paris of the Orient," served as inspiration, and the models were absolutely beautiful, even down to their sheer black hosiery and ankle strap delicate pumps. Chantilly lace in cobalt blue and fire red was unexpected – and exhilarating.
But there were also lots of new, up 'n' coming designers presented from all over the world, and their ideas and inspirations were vast.
Concept Korea presented the concepts of several designers. I particularly thought the Son Jung Wan and Doho were interestingly shaped and used innovative techniques like handcrafted textures and fantasy fabrics of lamé and tinsel sparked fake furs.
Houghton's entire presentation was in winter white and very slight variations to the hue. Houghton's silhouettes were particularly interesting, with emphasis on bare backs, glamorous jeweling and long legged trousers and coats.
There were also several mainstream collections that showed during MBFW, J. Crew, Nautica, and bebe. They presented their viewpoints quite well: bebe had a very crisp, '40's vibe, with nipped waists, back seamed hose, ivory blouses, dark skirts and jackets, and broad shoulders.
Nautica was basically the same tried and true for the manly man, but they made up for it with the most delicious models.
A funky collection that was done quite well was Falguni & Shane Peacock. Very supple leather cut outs interworked with tulle and netting to create scrolling patterns that looked downright wicked, and then sometimes embellished with jewels and sparkle. Very well done, but not for the office. Definitely club clothes.
Trends that I thought looked great include sheer high/low hems on dresses, skirts, and jackets where there are panels that flow as you walk. Leggings, textured hose, and tights are a must under these. The Emilio Cavallini collection of printed and textured tights, thigh-high hose and bodices will be the perfect underpinning for these looks.
Shoulder and sleeve emphasis included padded shoulders, fur or textured fabric atop sleeves, and cape and caplet shapes as toppings. A rounded sleeve shape was also in evidence, as were dolman sleeves. I loved the many backless looks; very unexpected and sexy. Beaded tendrils dripped from many sleeves and bodices, a lá the Bob Mackie signature trim, as well as mirrored jeweling on gowns. Metallic trimmings will include all the shades: golden, silver, bronze, hematite, and jet, and they are plentiful.
Fabrics included tweeds, alpaca and velvet as well as chiffon and tulle.
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We all think we know a thing or two about World War II, probably because it's been immortalized in every medium from blockbuster films to fetish pornography. But as we've mentioned before, any popular historical subject tends to resemble a pit of truth at the center of an overripe bullshit fruit. We're talking basic preconceptions like ...
#5. World War II Was the War of Technology
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If the average World War II documentary is to be believed, the Americans single-handedly crushed the Nazis under the mechanized might of our planes, tanks, and automobiles. Then, just to put the icing on the annihilation cake, we loaded up one of said airplanes with our brand spanking new god-bomb and ended the war with the Japanese in one fell swoop (OK, technically two).
After all, this ain't the friggin' War of 1812 we're talking about! Everything "World War II" was mechanized, motorized, and weaponized.
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Even Hitler.
Why It's Bullshit:
Despite the copious stock footage of B-17 and B-29 bombers employed by the History Channel, World War II was still largely about horsepower. Literal horsepower.
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And the Howitzer was powered by trained fire mice.
The Soviet Army had at least 3.5 million horses in service and deployed tens of thousands of mounted cavalrymen. They would have relied even more heavily on horse-drawn transport had the U.S. not played the role of shady wartime used car dealer. Now, you might expect as much from an army that famously didn't have enough guns for all its soldiers, but they weren't the only ones who relied heavily on horses.
The German "war machine" was actually less gears and sheet metal, more flesh and bone. When World War II began, horses outnumbered vehicles in the Wehrmacht by a good 3 to 1, and that figure only got worse as the war progressed and vehicles crapped out. When we think of the German army, we think of panzer and tiger tanks, but even the famous panzer armies had 15,000 more horses than motors. And here you thought those fancy jackboots were just for style.
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If there was such a thing as a "stately" blitzkrieg, you'd be looking at it.
Ironically, even as Nazi propagandists were inventing stories about Polish cavalrymen hopelessly charging German tanks, the German army was busy forming new cavalry units in an attempt to stop getting trampled by their horse-savvy enemies.
The United States had the only army that was mostly motorized, yet U.S. cavalry was responsible for one of the last mounted charges in history. And even though the U.S. was less reliant on horses, the Allied rolls contained thousands of veterinarians, veterinarians' assistants, and blacksmiths who kept animals and wagons on the road. While we firmly believe that Hawk Phoenix: Blitzkrieg Veterinarian and Flint McSteel: Wartime Blacksmith would have made excellent films, the animal-powered nature of the war got little airplay, thanks largely to Soviet and Axis propaganda efforts.
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Armies really, really wanted that Humane Association label in their film credits.
#4. The Nazis Came This Close to Developing an Atomic Bomb
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As documented in such historical works as Captain America and The Official Wolfenstein Compendium of World War II, Nazi Germany was a technological juggernaut -- why, they were neck and neck with the U.S. in the race to develop the A-bomb. It was only blind luck (and the fact that Jesus likes apple pie more than bratwurst) that led to the good guys developing it first.
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"Fuck it. At least we still have that Ark project going, right?"
Why It's Bullshit:
In what was quite possibly the only good thing anti-Semitism ever did for the world, the Third Reich ostracized the very scientists capable of developing the atomic bomb. In fact, the Reich was so disdainful of that type of work that they considered the whole field of study "Jewish physics." So-called "Jewish physicists" like Erwin "quantum mechanics" Schrodinger and Albert "motherfucking" Einstein booked it out of Germany, and their exit lit the fuse that sent the Nazis' atomic aspirations up in a disappointingly non-mushroom-shaped cloud.
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"Albert E=FU squared."
While the remaining German scientists got the general gist of what it would take to make the bomb tick, the Nazi atomic bomb program was doomed from the get-go due to gross miscalculations in just how much uranium was needed to give the very face of Mother Earth a gigantic shiner. Add to that the fact that Germany had been largely expelled from the world's scientific community (nobody wants genocide-tainted fingers all up in their beakers), and they never stood so much as a snowball's chance of painting that shiny new doomsday device with stylized swastikas.
#3. The Nazis Were an Efficient, Bureaucratic Machine
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Pop culture has consistently depicted the Third Reich as a cruel, coldly calculating computer. Say what you will about the content of their lists, they were, at the least, impeccably organized. (And probably at least five items long, as all good list makers know is necessary.) It's almost impossible to picture Nazi Germany as anything other than a disturbingly efficient bureaucratic superpower.
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So whenever someone insists on competence, feel free to call them a genocidal maniac.
Why It's Bullshit:
It's absolutely true that Germany's government was a well-oiled machine ... before the Nazis came along and threw a big ol' Aryan super-wrench into its gears.
Back when Hitler wasn't much more than a Mussolini fanboy, the German government was ticking along about as well as a post-war, pre-Depression era government could be expected to. They were keeping up with their reparation payments from World War I, their currency was stabilizing -- the I's were dotted, the T's were crossed, and everything was in order. But then the Third Reich came along, slapped all those nerd-papers into the air, and walked away laughing.
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Josef Mengele was also a controversial proponent of titty twisting.
While it's true that the Nazis had a ton of paperwork, no one ever said that they were any good at it. The Nazi government was all about a political agenda and not so much about administration; from its very beginnings, it was a bureaucratic nightmare that completely destabilized itself through extreme politicization, intergovernmental conflicts, and other problems that didn't even exist in Germany until the Nazis came to power. Even the very poster child of unfeeling bureaucracy, the Gestapo, was an absolute mess. They were consistently and embarrassingly understaffed, and if it wasn't for the German public pulling Gestapo horror stories out of their asses, they'd have seen their influence crumble quicker than a certain young artist's career.


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24th Annual Convention for Association for Psychological Science
Children acquire cultural models of appropriate emotion expressions through socialization. Beside parents as socialization agents, children books may provide an important resource of culturally appropriate emotions. Tsai, Louie, Chen and Uchida (2007) demonstrated that the desired positive affective state varied between Taiwanese Chinese and European Americans, and this difference was also reflected in children's books. This study aims to expand the study by Tsai et al. (2007) in three ways: Positive and negative emotions are included, facial and posture features are analyzed, and focus is made on the comparison between Caucasian and Hispanic-American children's books. Caucasians favor an individualistic emotion model, i.e., expressing emotion in a more open way, whereas Hispanics may favor a relational emotion model, i.e., expecting more moderate expressions (Friedlmeier, Corapci, & Cole, 2011). Matsumoto (1993) found that Caucasians compared to Hispanics were more willing to express disgust and fear but no differences in positive emotions. Therefore, we expect that Caucasian books portray a greater variety of emotions and that Caucasian books also display negative expressions more openly than Hispanic children books.
A content analysis was performed on illustrations in 10 popular Euro-American and 10 popular Hispanic children's books to determine facial expressions and body posture. The illustrations were coded according to the action units for six emotions (surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, and sadness) (Ekman & Friesen, 1975). The posture coding system consisted of 31 criteria and referred to ten emotions (Kudoh & Matsumoto, 1985), e.g., shame and pride. Finally, a global emotion expression code was given for each image to test validity. Two independent coders coded all books and interrater agreement was sufficiently high.
Preliminary analyses showed that fear and sadness were expressed more often by the figures in the Euro-American books, while happiness contrary to our expectation was expressed more frequently in the Hispanic books. The images in the Euro-American books displayed surprise and sadness more strongly than those in Hispanic books. Two significant differences of emotion expression by posture occurred: Shame and anger were expressed stronger in the Euro- American books. To conclude, the study demonstrates some differences of emotional displays in children books for these two ethnic groups and the results only partly confirm the ethnic emotion models mentioned above.


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30 Nov 2012 7:47 PM #11
I'm also having huge problems with Sencha CMD. From working with other jar files in ANT, I'm used to drop them into my repository structure (under version control) and add put a classpath for them in my build.xml to load their functionality. I'm really not happy with the quite complicated way of Sencha. So of course I also installed Sencha CMD, moved the folder into my project and then tried to setup my build.xml.I want to get it running without setting a PATH and I wonder what I actually need to set!?
It fails at the point where I execute any x-command with:
parsing buildfile D:\project\build\build.xml with URI = file:/D:/project/build/build.xml Project base dir set to: D:\project [antlib:org.apache.tools.ant] Could not load definitions from resource org/apache/tools/ant/antlib.xml. It could not be found. [property] Loading D:\project\build\build.settings [property] Loading Environment env. parsing buildfile jar:file:/D:/project/build/sencha-cmd-3.0.0/sencha.jar!/com/sencha/ant/antlib.xml with URI = jar:file:/D:/project/build/sencha-cmd-3.0.0/sencha.jar!/com/sencha/ant/antlib.xml parsing buildfile jar:file:/D:/project/build/sencha-cmd-3.0.0/lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar!/net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml with URI = jar:file:/D:/project/build/sencha-cmd-3.0.0/lib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar!/net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml [macrodef] creating macro x-make-url-param [macrodef] creating macro x-git-current-hash [macrodef] creating macro x-jsduck-param [macrodef] creating macro x-scp [macrodef] creating macro x-shell BUILD FAILED java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.tools.ant.PropertyHelper.setNewProperty(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V at com.sencha.ant.InitTask$1.each(InitTask.java:38) at com.sencha.util.Configuration.each(Configuration.java:96) at com.sencha.util.Configuration.each(Configuration.java:139) at com.sencha.ant.InitTask.doExecute(InitTask.java:35) at com.sencha.ant.BaseAntTask.execute(BaseAntTask.java:22) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelper2.parse(ProjectHelper2.java:142) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner.parseBuildFile(InternalAntRunner.java:347) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:633) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.core.ant.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:495) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.eclipse.ant.core.AntRunner.run(AntRunner.java:378) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.launching.launchConfigurations.AntLaunchDelegate$1.run(AntLaunchDelegate.java:298) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
3 Dec 2012 10:09 AM #12
Upgrade ant to 1.8.1
I did not see this problem when I used sencha build with ant version of 1.8.1. May be for now if you are ok, just upgrade to ant 1.8.1 for a quick work.
But this needs to be fixed, I am still looking any other alternatives.
3 Dec 2012 1:17 PM #13
Depending on what commands you are using, Cmd will not need nearly all of what it installs, but since we ship Ant 1.8.2 in the box, we do have plenty of code that is probably implicitly depending on at least a 1.8 level of Ant. I don't see that we can reduce this because there are things we use (like "local" variables in macrodefs) that require at least 1.8.
There should be no need to add Cmd to the PATH in this case. Your process of gather the install folder and placing it in a folder of your project should work. I will see if we can add a more helpful Ant version check to x-sencha-init.
We hope to expand the targeted use cases of Cmd to include Maven deployment as an option. In this current version, we do want to hear any specific problems you encounter using sencha.jar directly in Ant. Our generated build scripts go through some steps to "boot up" sencha.jar and deal with its configurations, framework plugins etc. so that can hopefully serve as an example.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
3 Dec 2012 1:17 PM #14Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
3 Dec 2012 1:44 PM #15
Ok, very good to know that ANT 1.8.2 seems to be a requirement. The Eclipse version I use still ships ANT 1.71, so using a newer Eclipse might be a solution. I will try as soon as I find time. I really would appreciate if one could use Sencha CMS just like another *.jar file - the same as I used Sencha SDK, especially after you have an Eclipse Plugin by your own (which is unfortunately not buyable as standalone by the way!)
I understand that Sencha CMD needs to make some internal setup, but I can't see any reason why the Eclipse ANT can't be used (as long as it is the right version). I hope that the future development of Sencha CMD will respect this use case.
16 Dec 2012 1:53 PM #16
I have the same requirement as described in this thread. I want to be able to commit the sencha.jar file (and its dependencies) into our repository, and execute it as part of our Ant build. Reasons being are:
- Going through the process of getting new software installed on our production deployment server is more than anyone can stand (and with no guarantees of permission), and
- I would like for all of my developers to be able to simply check out the project and run a build without having to install the Sencha Cmd utility separately.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <project name="SenchaCmdTestApp" default="page"> <target name="init"> <property name="cmd.dir" value="lib" /> <taskdef resource="com/sencha/ant/antlib.xml" classpath="${cmd.dir}/sencha.jar"/> </target> <target name="page" depends="init"> <x-sencha-command> compile ... </x-sencha-command> </target> </project>
I get the same NullPointerException as the OP, until I add a sencha.cfg file into lib/. This file can even be blank. It seems that this sencha.cfg file should not be required for this use case.
I suppose what I'm asking for are two things:
- Don't require a sencha.cfg file to exist in ${cmd.dir} (I'm glad to have found this thread just to know that this was the cause of the NullPointerException), and
- Support the use case of being able to execute Sencha Cmd directly from Java / Ant as much as possible without having to install 3rd party utilities, such as Ruby for Sass compilation. Perhaps JRuby can be used?
16 Dec 2012 2:49 PM #17
I will have to look at the consequences of not having sencha.cfg.
On the JAR interface side, you can already "just execute the jar" The main class is specified in the manifest. Are you having other issues with "java -jar sencha.jar" ? That is what the CLI wrappers are doing (well, that and some version checking and JVM argument extraction from sencha.cfg).Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
16 Dec 2012 2:51 PM #18
As for the Compass, Ruby, SASS dependency... You can disable this piece of the build by setting "skip.sass=1". Of course that will just move the SASS build problem to some other location but you can check in the CSS results of that build step as long as you keep it updated when the SASS changes (like when the framework is upgraded).Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
16 Dec 2012 7:49 PM #19
Right, I'm not really having any problems executing the jar itself for a compile task, except for the NullPointerException when a sencha.cfg file doesn't exist in the directory of the jar And this would be something that you just had to know needed to exist, which is obviously a problem for developers who are setting this up.
But, it would be great to be able to compile SASS without the Ruby dependency. That's why I mentioned perhaps including the JRuby jar and invoking it from the Sencha Cmd utility. I'm not sure what exactly that might entail (or if it's even possible to get the SASS compiler to be packaged and execute this way), but might be worth looking into.
Unfortunately, installing Ruby is a big hurdle to get over, at least in the corporate world where your development machine is on lockdown and only approved applications may be installed. And I'm sure the next hurdle to get over after that would be talking them into allowing the gem installer to have access to the repositories... (I've had problems like that in the past with similar package manager utilities.) But, all in all, most shops have Java, and if we could write our build process where all one has to do is simply check out the branch and run the build without first having to install a bunch of 3rd party utilities, then we'd most prefer that.
23 Apr 2013 9:48 AM #20
[SOLVED] Sencha Touch and Maven
1. Define some properties
<properties> <sencha.cmd.ver>188.8.131.524</sencha.cmd.ver> <sencha.cmd.dir>${user.home}/bin/Sencha/Cmd/${sencha.cmd.ver}</sencha.cmd.dir> </properties>
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <phase>generate-sources</phase> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals> <configuration> <tasks> <echo message="Sencha Cmd Version: ${sencha.cmd.ver}" /> <echo message="Sencha Cmd Home: ${sencha.cmd.dir}" /> <exec dir="${basedir}/src/main/webapp" executable="${sencha.cmd.dir}/sencha"> <arg value="app"/> <arg value="build"/> <arg value="package"/> </exec> </tasks> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin>


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- The SUNY Geneseo Department of Music will present a performance by prize-winning chamber music group !Voila! on April 11 at 7: 30 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. !Voila! seeks to provide audiences with a fresh understanding of the possibilities that the viola has to offer. The event is free and open to the public.
On the program are Robert Davidson's "Spiral 1;" Beethoven's "Trio Op. 87;" Derecskei András "Könnycsepp a tükörben;" "Cancionero Musical De Las Casa De Medinaceli" adapted by Benjamin Magruder; Scott Slapin's "Capricious;" and Astor Piazzolla's "Sens Unique" arranged by Michel Michalakakos.
Hailing from Rochester, N.Y., and the Eastman School of Music, ¡Voila! is an innovative viola trio devoted to the expansion and awareness of ensemble repertoire for the commonly left out 'middle child' of the string family - the viola. !Voila! recently took home second place from the MTNA String Chamber Music Competition and are in the finals of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition.
Inspired by the 20th International Viola Congress, !Voila! members Benjamin Magruder, Alexander Peña, and Samantha Rodriguez seek to provide audiences with a fresh understanding of the soloistic possibilities that the viola has to offer.
Peña was recently granted a teaching position at the prestigious Harley School and the Eastman Community Music School in Rochester, N.Y., where he teaches and conducts pre-K through high school. Rodriguez is an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Geneseo, faculty coach in the Geneseo symphony Orchestra and a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Magruder also is a member of Rochester-based Gibbs and Main Quartet, which focuses on educational outreach.
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Is there any source for the practice of not only dipping one's fingers into the Havdalah wine that was used to extinguish the fire and rubbing the eyes with it, but also spreading it around onto other parts of the body, and/or clothing, such as the forehead, the back of the neck, pockets, and any place with aches and pains?
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Not sure about sources for most of these (although see Madeleine's comment to the related question).
But about the back of the neck, it may be related to the idea that this is the location of the luz bone (specifically, the protrusion where the knot of the head tefillin is placed - Arizal, Likkutei Torah to Judg. 4:5*); it is from this that the body will be reconstituted at the resurrection of the dead (Bereishis Rabbah 28:3). There are various opinions about what food (if any) the luz is nourished by; one is that it is from the havdalah wine (Maavar Yabok 2:6). So someone may have gotten the idea that some of that wine should be applied to the luz directly.
* Although several Rishonim (including Aruch and Rashi) identify it as the vertebra at the base of the spine.
I have a book with all the Libyan customs- Nahalat Avot and on pg. 74 it brings down this custom. However, some of the sources are unavailable. However, this book has a Haskama from: Rav Ovadia Yosef Shelita, Rav Mordechai Elyahu, Rav Eliyahu Bakshi Doron, and Rav Shelomo Amar.


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Take a look at Immortal Curse by Bronwyn Green
Witch Way, Book 1
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Cursed by a witch, Ian O'Meara has been trapped between the world of the living and the spirit realm for the last hundred and fifty years. Annoyed by having his eternity interrupted by amateur ghost hunters, he reaches through the veil to Emma Boulton knowing she can see and hear him even if the others can't. When he discovers she can also feel him, he decides Emma is the most exciting thing to happen to him in the last century. Suddenly, escaping his miserable curse isn't quite so appealing.
Much to her dismay, Emma has been able to see ghosts ever since she was a child. Most of the time she ignores them, but Ian makes that all but impossible. With his dark, good looks and his brooding personality, he's a gothic novel hero come to life...so to speak. She knows she should help him toward the light, but the only place he seems to be interested in is her bed. Falling in love with the charming spirit is all too easy, but is a future together possible between the living and the dead?
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Ali: Is there an author that makes you go all "fangirl?"
Bronwyn: I definitely have my fangirl moments – luckily, a lot of my very favorite authors are my very dearest friends. Brynn Paulin and Jennifer Armintrout top that list. I'm also a complete and utter fangirl for Maggie Stiefvater, Charles deLint and Becca Fitzpatrick.
Ali: If you could co-write with another author who would it be and why?
Bronwyn: Honestly, I don't think I would. I have a hard enough time keeping my own head straight. I can't imagine putting someone else in the mix. However, I love to brainstorm with other authors. That's a blast.
Ali: What are you looking forward to most about AADNola?
Bronwyn: Not getting thrown in jail with Jennifer Armintrout – although, I fear that may already be a foregone conclusion. However, if I can keep Jen out of jail, I'm really looking forward to visiting some historic graveyards, getting a tarot reading, seeing friends I don't get to see often, hanging with readers and our super awesome karaoke party!
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Bronwyn: Ahhhhhhhhhh – can I take my iPad? No? Okay…then, I'm going to go with The Wild Wood by Charles deLint. It's the book that reminds me of why I wanted to be a writer in the first place.
Ali: Who are your favorite literary characters? (Yours or someone else's)
Bronwyn: So, so many…let's see…I love James from Maggie Stiefvater's Ballad, Raf from Abigail Barnette's Bride of the Wolf, Alaska from John Green's Looking for Alaska, Remy from Amanda Hocking's Hollowland, Micah from my Overlord's Chosen and Ian from my Immortal Curse (clearly, I could go on and on, but I'll stop. For now.)
Ali: Are there any of your secondary characters you would like to give more life to?
Bronwyn: Let's see… right now, my answer would have to be Meaghan and Rowan from the Witch Way series and Joseph from the Dark Destinies series.
Ali: If you friends were asked to describe you in one word what would it be?
Bronwyn: Quirky
*Favorite color: rusty brown and forest green (I know. That's two – I'm difficult. ;)
*Favorite food: Um…all of it. Specifics? Let's go with Greek food. :)
*Boots or heels: Neither I'm a barefoot girl
*eReader or Print: Ereader
*Beer, Liquor or Wine: Wine
*Favorite place to get it on besides the bedroom: Outside
*Favorite TV Show: Supernatural, baby!
*Favorite Book series (besides your own): Brynn Paulin's Taboo Wishes for erotic romance and Maggie Stiefvater's Gathering of Faerie for YA.
*Pj's or Lingerie: Nekkid ;)
*Vampires vs. Shifters: Shifters!
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Elizabeth Louden has been chosen to provide Micah Bleddyn, the Overlord of Maelgwn, with an heir. However, she's not interested in the honor. In a land where only men are allowed to use magic, women found to possess supernatural abilities are punished—often by death. She knows it's only a matter of time before her secret is revealed.
Micah has no desire to rule his father's empire, but after his older brother vanishes, he has no choice. Faced with invading forces, treachery among his own people, and now, a mate hell-bent on escape, he's had enough. Realizing they have no allies but each other, Micah and Elizabeth reach a reluctant truce in their bid to stay alive and keep Maelgwn safe.
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My parents are still on dial-up Internet service. I don't think of myself as an impatient man, but dial-up is enough to make you want to throw your monitor out the window waiting for that bleedin' progress bar to inch its way across the screen. That means I can't post any photos right now.
I made the Cranberry Glazed Tofu for the members of family who were at my parent's house on Christmas Day. It was a smashing success. My grandmother looked at it warily, and said something to the effect of "what the heck is this?,"but gobbled it right down and enjoyed it. I made crispy tofu this time (instead of baking it) to save time and oven space, and it opened up a discussion about how close the texture was to those chicken balls they serve at Chinese restaurants. I will chalk this recipe up in the "win" column.
On Boxing Day the whole family was here and I made the Holiday Stew for the vegans among us. We ran out of chick peas so I used cubed extra firm tofu that had been thawed and frozen. It worked really well. The meat-eaters had roast beef, which, quite frankly, was disgusting. The smell of cooking flesh and fat was bad enough, but the sight of sliced, bloody meat affected me more than I thought it would. The stew was really tasty, though.
My Mom has been catering to our needs all week, and we love her for it. She made a vegan Swedish Tea Ring for Christmas morning, which turned out way more tender and tasty than mine. Ah, the mother's touch . . . . She also made Chickpea Pot Pie with a mashed sweet potato topping instead of crust, which is a great low-fat option.
Thanks to all for the D.C. restaurant recommendations! I will bring my camera and blog from the road.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Greetings from the Land of Dial-up
My parents are still on dial-up Internet service. I don't think of myself as an impatient man, but dial-up is enough to make you want to throw your monitor out the window waiting for that bleedin' progress bar to inch its way across the screen. That means I can't post any photos right now.
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2 comments:
- Krys said...
Hi. I stumbled upon your site thanks to PPK. I like it. I am a vegan mother/wife and we have a 15 month old. We live in Texas, so you can imagine the not so friendly vegan offerings here. It is great to see other vegan families like us. Your recipes are quite lovely and I plan to try them out. Thanks.
- December 27, 2007 at 12:34 PM
- Bandana Mama said...
I'm right there with you at the sight of bloody flesh. I hosted Thanksgiving this year and allowed my cousin to cook the dead-animal at my house even though we're vegan. As it was heavy, she asked if I'd hold one end of the pan as she loaded it in the oven. My hands started to shake as I tried to touch that pan. I backed away and insisted if she was going to cook a corpse in my house, then SHE was going to cook it. I was amazed, and at the same time 'proud', of my reaction to even getting near that turkey.
- December 28, 2007 at 10:20 AM


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