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It's natural for companies and their investors to be happy, even complacent, when their earnings per share (EPS) and share prices rise. A falling share price may not be a sign of poor performance, however: The Home Depot's fell from 1999 to 2003, yet the company created more value than every North American retailer except Wal-Mart Stores by continuing to grow and improve its return on capital.
After the extreme ups and downs of financial markets during the past decade, boards of directors, senior managers, and investors are rethinking the way they define and assess corporate performance. There's nothing wrong with good accounting results and rising share prices, but they don't necessarily indicate whether a company is fundamentally healthy, in the sense of being able to sustain its current performance and to build profitable businesses in the future.
Nonetheless, a company can construct a comprehensive performance assessment that measures the value it has created and estimates its ability to create more. As a way of judging how well a company is doing, such an assessment is far superior to any single performance metric. It can also help management to balance the short- and long-term creation of value and board members and investors to determine whether management's policies and the company's share price are on target.
Testing for fitness
Since only a company's historical growth and returns on capital—not its future performance—can be measured directly, the potential for future growth and returns must be inferred. To do so, it is necessary to devise metrics that gauge the longer-term health of companies and that complement the metrics for their short-term performance. A patient visiting a doctor may feel fine, for example, but high cholesterol could make it necessary to act now to prevent heart disease. Similarly, a company may show strong growth and returns on capital, but health metrics are needed to determine if that performance is sustainable.
A company's cash flow and, ultimately, its market value stem from its long-term growth in revenues and profits and from its returns on invested capital (ROIC) relative to its cost of capital. A discounted-cash-flow (DCF) analysis, based on projected performance, can be linked to key performance and health indicators in order to demonstrate the links between shareholder value, as measured by stock markets, and the drivers of value (Exhibit 1).
Factors that drive value in a company
With these links in mind, it is possible to organize performance measurement according to three different perspectives. The economic value that a company has created historically can be explored through its financial statements. This set of metrics gauges what we call a company's performance. Metrics can also gauge a company's ability to create economic value in the future and the risks that might prevent it from doing so. These metrics assess what we call the company's health.
The third set of metrics assesses the capital market performance of the company, including the expectations factored into its share price and the way they have changed, as well as a comparison between a company's market valuation and its valuation on the basis of its business plans. An understanding of its performance and health provides the context for developing this accurate assessment of its share price performance.
In using all these metrics, it is important to understand the impact of factors outside management's control: consider, for example, the case of an oil company whose improving profitability comes from rising oil prices rather than better exploration techniques or of a bank whose stock price rises because of changing rates, not increased efficiencies. To use any metric that assesses how a company is doing, you must strip out the impact of such factors.
Performance: Value delivered
Assessing a company's historical financial performance would appear to be straightforward, but even these metrics are subjective. Accountants and managers decide when to record revenues and costs, and personal motives can color this judgment—a boss may want the current quarter to look good, for example.
Some ways of measuring a company's financial performance are better than others. Metrics, such as ROIC, economic profit,1 and growth, that can be linked directly to value creation are more meaningful than traditional accounting metrics like EPS. Although growing companies that earn an ROIC greater than their cost of capital generate attractive EPS growth, the inverse isn't true: EPS growth can come from heavy investment or changes in financial structure that don't create value. In fact, companies can easily manipulate EPS—by repurchasing shares or undertaking acquisitions, for example.
The true drivers of value—growth and ROIC—are a better place to start measuring the performance of a company. Specifically, how does its ROIC compare with its cost of capital and with the ROIC of its peers? Has its ROIC been increasing or decreasing? How fast has the company grown, absolutely and relative to its peers? Is its growth accelerating or slowing?
Home Depot's average ROIC from 1999 to 2003 was 15.6 percent—higher than its 9.2 percent cost of capital during that period and the highest among large US retailers. From 1999 to 2003, its revenue rose by an average of 16.5 percent annually, at the high end of the range for such companies. This performance was exceptional for what was already one of the largest US retailers.
One disadvantage of ROIC and growth, however, is that neither incorporates the magnitude of the value created, so a small company or business unit with a 30 percent ROIC seems more successful than an enormous company with a 20 percent return. We use economic profit to convert ROIC into a dollar metric so that we can incorporate the size of the value created into comparisons with other companies.
By adjusting for size, economic profit provides a better assessment of value creation than do metrics based on ROIC and growth. Exhibit 2 shows the economic profit of large retailers. Home Depot—second only to Wal-Mart—generated $7.1 billion in economic profit over the five years through 2003. Viewed from this angle, it and Wal-Mart constitute a class of their own. Although other highfliers, such as Best Buy, also have superior ROIC and growth, they are much smaller.
Comparison of the corporate performance of 14 retailers
Health: Scope to create additional value
Health metrics supplement those for historical performance by providing a glimpse into the future. It's important, for instance, to know whether a company has the products, the people, and the processes to continue creating value. Assessing the risks a company faces and the procedures in place to mitigate them is an important dimension of all efforts to measure health.
To identify a company's key health metrics, we start with a value creation tree illustrating the connections between a company's intrinsic value and the generic categories of health metrics: the short-, medium-, and long-term factors that determine a company's long-term growth and ROIC (Exhibit 3, on the next spread). This approach shares some elements with the "balanced scorecard"—popularized in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article2 by Robert Kaplan and David Norton—whose premise was that financial performance is only one aspect of total performance. Kaplan and Norton pointed to three equally important perspectives: customer satisfaction, internal business processes, and learning and growth.
Our concept of health metrics resembles Kaplan and Norton's "nonfinancial measures," but we differ in believing that companies should develop their own metrics tailored to their particular industries and strategies. These metrics should be based on rigorous analytics and linked, as explicitly as possible, to the creation of intrinsic value: product innovation is important in some industries, for instance, while in others government relations, tight cost controls, and customer service matter more.
Every company will have its own health metrics, but the eight generic categories in Exhibit 3 can ensure that it systematically explores all the important ones.
Generic metrics for a company's health
Short-term metrics
Short-term metrics explore the factors that underlie historical performance and help indicate whether growth and ROIC can be sustained at a given level or will probably rise or fall. These metrics might include costs per unit (for a manufacturing company) or same-store sales growth (for a retailer). They fall into three categories:
- Sales productivity metrics explore the factors underlying recent sales growth. For retailers, these metrics include market share, a retailer's ability to charge higher prices than its peers, the pace of store openings, and same-store sales increases.
- Operating-cost productivity metrics explore the factors underlying unit costs, such as the cost of building a car or delivering a package. UPS, for example, is well known for charting out the optimal delivery paths of its drivers to enhance their productivity and for developing well-defined standards on how to deliver packages.
- Capital productivity metrics show how well a company uses its working capital (inventories, receivables, and payables) and its property, plant, and equipment. Dell revolutionized the personal-computer business by building products to order and thus minimizing inventories. Because the company keeps them so low and has few receivables to boot, it can operate with negative working capital.
Home Depot's short-term health was strong across a number of fronts. It increased its store count by 13.4 percent a year from 1999 through 2003 while simultaneously increasing its same-store sales by 3.5 percent a year. Its ROIC increased to 18.2 percent, from 14.9 percent, during the same period thanks to improved margins, largely resulting from improved purchasing and from the development (with manufacturers) of exclusive product lines.
Medium-term metrics
Medium-term metrics go beyond short-term performance by looking forward to indicate whether a company can maintain and improve its growth and ROIC over the next one to five years (or longer for companies with extended product cycles, as in pharmaceuticals). These metrics fall into three categories:
- Commercial-health metrics, indicating whether a company can sustain or improve its current revenue growth, include the metrics for its product pipeline (the talent and technology to market new products over the medium term), brand strength (investments in brand building), regulatory risk, and customer satisfaction. Metrics for medium-term commercial health vary widely by industry. For a pharmaceutical company, the obvious priority is its product pipeline and its relationship with governments—a major customer and regulator. For an online retailer, customer satisfaction and brand strength may be the most important considerations.
- Cost structure health metrics gauge a company's ability, as compared with that of its competitors, to manage its costs over three to five years. These metrics might include assessments of programs like Six Sigma, which companies such as General Electric use to reduce their costs continually and to maintain a cost advantage relative to their competitors across most of their businesses.
- Asset health metrics show how well a company maintains and develops its assets. For a hotel or restaurant chain, to give one example, the average time between remodelings may be an important driver of health.
In the quest for growth during the 1990s, Home Depot temporarily lost sight of its medium-term health, as measured by its customer service and the quality of its stores. Recognizing the problem, in 2001 the company began to reinvest in its existing locations, with the intention of making them more appealing to customers, and to refocus on customer service—for example, by raising its incentives for employees. It also offered installation services and do-it-yourself clinics and set up sales desks specifically for professional customers. Continued success will depend on Home Depot's ability to go on satisfying its customers by carefully measuring and monitoring its customer service, its customer traffic, and the age and condition of its stores.
Long-term strategic health
Metrics of long-term strategic health show the ability of an enterprise to sustain its current operating activities and to identify and exploit new areas of growth. A company must periodically assess and measure the threats—including new technologies, changes in public opinion and in the preferences of customers, and new ways of serving them—that could make its current business less attractive. In assessing a company's long-term strategic health, specific metrics are sometimes hard to identify, so more qualitative milestones, such as progress in selecting partners for mergers or for entering a market, are needed.
While Home Depot's leading position in the home-improvement business appears to be solid in the medium term, a longer-term threat comes from Wal-Mart, which sells many of the same fast-moving items, such as lightbulbs. The cost base of Wal-Mart is lower because it provides less in-store help than does Home Depot, which must therefore ensure that store associates focus on higher-margin areas where support is critical (such as plumbing) rather than on products whose price doesn't incorporate assistance to customers.
Besides guarding against threats, companies must continually watch for new growth opportunities in new geographies or in related industries; many Western companies, for example, have begun preparing to serve China's enormous, fast-growing markets. Adding new services helped Home Depot to squeeze more profits from its existing stores, but it has been less successful at expanding abroad and at developing new store formats. By 2003, only 7 percent of its revenues came from outside North America, and though it has experimented with new formats, such as its Expo Design Center, only 4 percent of its stores used them as of 2003.
Organizational health
Metrics are also needed to determine whether a company has the people, the skills, and the culture to sustain and improve its performance. Diagnostics of organizational health typically measure the skills and capabilities of a company, its ability to retain its employees and keep them satisfied, its culture and values, and the depth of its management talent. Again, what's important varies by industry. Pharmaceutical companies need deep scientific-innovation capabilities but relatively few managers. Companies expanding overseas need people who can work in new countries and negotiate with the governments there.
Given the rapid growth and substantial size of Home Depot, one of its core challenges continues to be attracting and retaining skilled employees at a competitive cost. When it took on lower-cost part-time workers who often knew much less than its traditional store associates did, customers began to wonder what made the company special. Even holding on to its store managers became a problem, since the drive for efficiency through centralization had stifled its original entrepreneurial spirit. To address the long-term challenges, the company began offering incentive programs for managers and added more full-time staff in stores—moves that have been credited with helping to improve same-store sales.3
Stock market performance
The final step in assessing a company's performance is examining its stock price performance. In an ideal world, we would need only to examine a company's stock market performance to see how well it was doing. But its performance there is anything but easy to interpret.
The most common approach to measuring the stock market performance of a company is to calculate its total returns to shareholders (TRS), defined as share price appreciation plus dividend yield, over time. This approach has severe limitations, however, because over short periods TRS embodies changes in expectations about the future performance of a company more than its actual underlying performance and health. Companies that consistently meet high performance standards can thus find it hard to deliver high TRS: the market may think that management is doing an outstanding job, but this belief has already been factored into share prices.
One way to understand the problem is by way of analogy with a treadmill whose speed represents the expectations of future performance implicit in a company's share price. If managers beat them, the market not only raises the share price but also accelerates the treadmill. As the company's performance improves, the expectations treadmill turns more quickly. The better these managers perform, the more the market expects from them; they must run ever faster just to keep up. This effect explains why extraordinary managers may deliver ordinary short-term TRS; conversely, managers of companies with low performance expectations might find it easy to earn high TRS. This predicament illustrates the old saying about the difference between a good company and a good investment: in the short term, good companies may not be good investments, and vice versa.
One way of overcoming the limitations of TRS is to employ complementary measures of stock market performance. One of them is market value added (MVA): the difference between the market value of a company's debt and equity and the amount of capital invested. A related metric, expressed as a ratio, is the market-value-to-capital ratio—the ratio of a company's debt and equity to the amount of capital invested.
Market-value-to-capital ratios and MVA complement TRS by measuring different aspects of a company's performance. TRS measures it against the financial markets' expectations and changes in them. Market-value-to-capital ratios and MVA, by contrast, measure the financial markets' view of the future performance of a company relative to the capital invested in it, so they assess expectations about its absolute level of performance.
Let's examine Home Depot and the other large retailers in terms of their stock market performance. The market value of Home Depot's debt and equity (including capitalized operating leases) was $88 billion at the end of 2003, when it had invested $29 billion in operating capital (working capital, the capitalized value of operating leases, and property in plant and equipment). Home Depot's MVA was therefore $59 billion and its market-value-to-capital ratio was 3.1.
The MVA of Home Depot was the industry's second highest, behind only Wal-Mart and far ahead of the rest. Home Depot's market-value-to-capital ratio was in the middle of the pack among large retailers, since the company isn't expected to generate as much value per dollar of capital as did other highfliers (such as Best Buy) but made up for that with size.
What about TRS? Over the five years ended 2003, Home Depot's—at -2.3 percent annually—was near the bottom of the group. So the company delivered a strong economic profit, the second-highest MVA, and a strong market-value-to-capital ratio but also had very low TRS. Evidently, Home Depot's performance over recent years wasn't up to what the market expected at the start of the measurement period (1999).
By reverse-engineering the current and past share prices of Home Depot, we can develop a perspective on why its TRS was so low. An investor using a DCF model might infer that at the end of 2003 the stock market expected the revenue growth of Home Depot to decline gradually, to 5 percent annually, from 12 percent, over the next decade while it maintained its current margins and ROIC. Given the share price of Home Depot at the end of 1998, an investor would have had to believe that it could grow by 26 percent a year for at least ten years. Such high growth expectations would have required the company to triple its store count over that period—far beyond the estimated saturation level for its markets. It is tempting to conclude that Home Depot's poor TRS since 1999 resulted more from an overly optimistic market value at the start of that year than from ineffective management.
Measuring the historical performance of a company is difficult though doable. But coming to grips with its historical performance isn't enough; the assessment must also address the company's health—its ability to sustain and improve its performance in the future—and its share price performance.


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The MUD Puma Switch Panel provides a factory looking solution for mounting extra control switches for your aftermarket accessories within the late model (Puma) Defender dashboard.Each MUD Puma Switch Panel is supplied with a Carling 6-Gang switch mount, fixing screws and a cut-out template. Switches are not supplied. Panel fits both RHD and LHD vehicles.The Puma dashboard has an abject lack of space for extra switches. The traditional method is to mount switches into any spare flat surface on the dashboard which normally results in an ugly and untidy spread of aftermarket switches. The Puma dashboard doesn't help with its large empty spaces to the left and right having a compound curved profile preventing traditional gang mounts from sitting flush with the dashboard.The MUD Puma Switch Panel creates a smart OE looking switch mount creating space for up to six Carling Technologies switches. The Carling 6-Gang switch mount included is recessed within the Puma Switch Panel for a neat unobtrusive appearance to your switch installation.
The tooling for the MUD Puma Switch Panel mount was created using 3D scanning technology to ensure the switch mount perfectly follows the dashboard profile. A CNC trimming process is then used on the finished moulded product to ensure a quality factory appearance.Carling Technologies are a high quality switch and used as original equipment by many of the world's top manufacturers from DAF trucks, JCB and Caterpillar to high end marine applications. ARB uses Carling switches to control its air-locker and compressor kits so the Puma Switch Panel provides a convenient switch mount for this popular off-road upgrade.
Carling Contura XIV and Carling Contura II can be used in combination with the Carling Legend Stickers to create sideways operating switches. Carling switches night-time illumination perfectly matches the green of the dashboard illumination. Alternatively we've created a range of custom laser etched Carling V Rockers specifically for horizontal mounting within the Puma Switch Panel. With a large selection of different rocker options this provides the neatest solution to mounting additional switches to the Tdci dashboard.
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There Will Be No Friday This Week In Samoa
What's happening in Samoa on Friday?
Nothing (sort of).
Officially, the day won't exist.
As Eyder previewed back in May, the tiny island nation in the South Pacific has decided to move from one side of the very near International Dateline to the other.
People in Samoa (population 193,000) want to be closer time-wise to Australia, New Zealand, China and Tonga because they do so much more day-to-day business with those relatively nearby nations than with the rest of the world. And the problem until now, for example, has been that when it's 8 a.m. Monday in Samoa it's 8 a.m. Tuesday in Tonga. Business people in Samoa have kind of been losing a working day when it comes to dealing with their nearest neighbors.
Now the time, literally, has come. When 11:59:59 p.m. strikes Thursday in Samoa, the next tick will take folks there to Saturday.
And no one will be born or die on Dec. 30, 2011, in Samoa. Weird.
Samoa has been on the eastern side of the dateline since 1892, The Australian notes, "following lobbying by merchants who did most of their business with America and Europe. ... The world has changed. Australia and New Zealand provide half the country's imports and buy 85 per cent of Samoa's exports."
Right now, Samoa is five hours behind the U.S. East Coast. Which means, if we have this right, that when it crosses to the other side of the dateline it will be 19 hours ahead.
American Samoa, "100 miles to the east, will not be making the switch," as MSNBC says.


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The meeting on the Historic Urban Landscape Action Plan will be organized by the World Heritage Centre, Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage (CECH) in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and hosted by the Durham World Heritage site authorities. The meeting is scheduled for 26 and 27 October 2012 as part of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.
The objectives of the meeting are to raise awareness of the new Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and its associated Action Plan, to develop and evaluate Steps 1 to 4 of the Historic Urban Landscape Action Plan for Durham World Heritage site, to integrate the findings into proposals for collaborative stewardship and its feedback to conservation management and local community participation, and finally to assess the ethical implications of stewardship and the ethical framework of conservation management of heritage sites.


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Friday, August 7, 2009
Mediterranean Chocolate Cake with Lemon and Olive Oil
This is the finished cake, warm and waiting to be cut.
A single slice of this delicious, but different chocolate cake.
Light olive oil is lighter only in color and taste. It is not a diet version of olive oil.
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This cake is unusual in its simplicity and the ingredients that are used to make it. It's flavored with unsweetened cocoa, olive oil and lemon zest. It's a great family dessert and because it does not require an electric mixer, the youngest members of the family can help make it. Light olive oil, seen in the picture above, is lighter in color and flavor than regular or extra-virgin olive oil, so it's perfect for baking certain desserts and dishes in which the taste of olive oil is not desired. It can be purchased in any well-stocked grocery store. This cake tastes best when served warm. It should be glazed just before serving. I hope you're willing to experiment and give this cake a try. You will not be disappointed.
Mediterranean Chocolate Cake with Lemon and Olive Oil...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 large eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
2/3 cup light olive oil
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons water
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Pich salt
1 tablespoon light olive oil
1 to 2 teaspoons water
1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch springform pan or a deep 9-inch round cake pan with light olive oil. Set aside.
2) Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and cinnamon in a medium-sized bowl.
3) Place eggs and salt in a large bowl. Whisk to combine. Gradually whisk in sugar and lemon zest.
4) Sift flour mixture into egg mixture. Fold in until the mixture is smooth.
5) Gradually fold in olive oil. When mixture is smooth, fold into prepared pan.
6) Bake in center of oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
7) Cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan and continue to cool on a rack.
8) For glaze, combine confectioners' sugar and water in a small saucepan and stir until smooth.
9) Mix cocoa and salt in a small bowl. Stir into sugar mixture and blend well. Add olive oil and stir until combined.
10) Place pan over medium heat and cook, stirring, until mixture is just warm. Add 1 to 2 teaspoons water to thin mixture to glaze consistency.
11) Drizzle glaze over top of cake. Let stand for 10 minutes before slicing. Yield: 8 to 10 slices.
Recipe courtesy of North American Olive oil Association
This recipe is being linked to Designs By Gollum - Foodie Friday
48 comments :
- Dee said...
WOW! you are one busy lady! i wish i had your culinary stamina haha
this cake sounds really interesting! this weekend i am planning to bake something in a cake pan i found a while ago, it looks so pretty! maybe this will be the recipe i finally get to use with it - August 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM
- Creative Classroom Core said...
What an amazing photo!!!
- August 7, 2009 at 12:22 AM
- La Cuisine d'Helene said...
Unusual but I'm sure it's yummy. What a beautiful picture.
- August 7, 2009 at 1:31 AM
- Gracie said...
Any thing mediterranean...I am so there.
Gracie - August 7, 2009 at 3:00 AM
- My Little Space said...
Yummy cake! Is Zach helping you as well?
- August 7, 2009 at 4:54 AM
- Martha said...
This WILL be the next chocolate cake I bake. I love olive oil cakes. Thanks for sharing.
- August 7, 2009 at 6:09 AM
- Through My Kitchen Window said...
I must say that although I already make a chocolate cake using olive oil, I have never seen it used in the glaze. How fascinating. Perhaps that's why the glaze has such a lovely sheen. Terrific photo.
- August 7, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- susan said...
Mary-The picture with the lemon zest is beautiful. It is an unfamiliar combination to me, but I love lemon and imagine that it is a good addition to anything. I may have to give this a try!
- August 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- petite nyonya said...
Oh my goodness! Your cake looks extremely inviting! I also really like the way you let the chocolate icing to flow freely on the sides. Very beautiful!
- August 7, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- Debbie said...
What a delicious cake. I have made a blueberry olive oil cake that is delicious. Olive oil really does work so well in cakes. I will try yours. Thanks for the recipe!
- August 7, 2009 at 7:21 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
What a most beautiful picture of the cake. How intriguing are those ingredients.
- August 7, 2009 at 7:26 AM
- Selba said...
I like the idea of using olive oil, instead of butter or margarine :)
The chocolate cake totally looks delicious! - August 7, 2009 at 8:53 AM
- g.suzie said...
That cake looks so delicious, I love your recipes, you are an amazing cook I can tell!
- August 7, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- Prasukitchen.blogspot.com said...
wow this cakes sounds intresting and yummy ...
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please stop by at my blog if u get a chance - August 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Joyce said...
Sounds different with the light olive oil. I love chocolate and I adore lemon so I will bookmark this one for my cooking club. Thanks for sharing.
Joyce - August 7, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- a quiet life said...
looks beautiful i can almost smell it, but gosh i think i need sugar...
- August 7, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
Love this idea! It looks so beautiful!
- August 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Ann said...
Lovely pictures adn it looks soo mouth watering!
- August 7, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- honeysuckle said...
Your picture made me frool, and it's only 8 am! Sounds and looks wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Have a happy day!
- August 7, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- Gaby said...
yummmy! I love chocolate cake and this sounds so delicious!
- August 7, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- Cami @ Creating Myself said...
Your photos are incredible!!!!
I've been wanting to try an olive oil cake for a while now...your's looks delicious! - August 7, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Hootin Anni said...
Oh Mary, you don't know how often I crave chocolate. And this recipe is no exception. Gonna make this. My dear man will be so pleased with me....heck, he may buy me a diamond after serving this up for him! [ya, right!! In your dreams Anni]
Have a joyous day today. - August 7, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Susan said...
Wow, this looks and sounds absoulutely wonderful. I have become intrigued by olive oil in sweet baking and will think of this the next time I need to bake a cake.
- August 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
MLS, Zach is, indeed, helping. His younger brother Drew is helping me make cookies this morning.
- August 7, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- NKP said...
I have always wanted to try an olive oil cake, looks delicious!
- August 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM
I love cakes without butter! This looks fabulous.
- August 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Lynne (lynnesgiftsfromtheheart) said...
Wow... this looks delicious... you bet I'm going to try this one.. I love anything with chocolate.. and the strawberry the crowning touch.. hugs ~lynne~
- August 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Karen said...
I bet this was a very moist cake. Gorgeous pictures!
- August 7, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- La Bella Cooks said...
Your photos are amazing! This cake is right up my alley with loads of chocolate. Looks wonderful.
- August 7, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Cathy said...
Unusual, but interesting and very beautiful. The chocolate glaze and lemon zest create a lovely cake. I'm so curious, I have to try this one.
- August 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- Puna said...
This looks divine...
- August 7, 2009 at 6:58 PM
- Katy ~ said...
I have long been intrigued by olive oil in a cake. The picture of yours convinces me I must try this. It looks so good.
- August 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Those shots are so cool! It's like the cake is floating!
- August 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Such a pretty cake--it sounds unique and good!
- August 7, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Unknown said...
WOW!!! this cake looks to good to eat. THANKS!!! for the recipe. Geri
- August 7, 2009 at 11:24 PM
- Kathleen said...
That looks fabulous, Mary!
- August 7, 2009 at 11:27 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
It looks amazing and sounds delicious! I've never seen Light olive oil actually. Will keep an eye out for it!
- August 8, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- Heather S-G said...
This sounds really great...I may have to try it next time I bake a chocolate cake :D
- August 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- The Cooking Photographer said...
I use olive oil in almost all my baking. I'm not sure why, but I'm emotionally attached to doing so.
This cake looks wonderful Mary, but I just wonder who gets to eat all your amazing food! - August 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Fifi Flowers said...
That looks DIVINE... I guess it would be good with a glass of lemonade! THough I prefer my chocolate with a glass of red wine... YUM!
- August 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM
- theUngourmet said...
Terrific shot of your cake! I have used olive oil in other baked goods but not a cake. This recipe sounds delicious!
- August 9, 2009 at 11:13 AM
- noble pig said...
This sounds absolutely delicious!
- August 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- Unknown said...
You make such beautiful food. It would be a I hope to see you at Crock Pot Wednesdays at diningwithdebbie.blogspot.com this week. Mr. Linky is up and ready for you. to be seated at your table.
- August 9, 2009 at 9:08 PM
- Megan said...
Great pics and I'm always a sucker for food with unusual ingredients. Looks beautiful.
- August 10, 2009 at 12:33 AM
- Pam said...
Oh my goodness - this looks amazing Mary. I love the dripping frosting.
- August 10, 2009 at 12:40 AM
- Chef Fresco said...
Yum! Beautiful pic! And that frosting looks delish
- August 10, 2009 at 8:10 PM
- Lisa said...
Fabulous looking cake. I really like the addition of lemon and olive oil. It keeps things interesting!
- August 11, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- free online adventure games said...
I've been following your blog for some time, and I love how simple you make "complicated" dishes become. This is another great example. Can't wait to try it.
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The Onion's original tweet brought some calls for the fake news organization to publicly identify the writer of the tweet, vows to refuse to retweet its material, and requests from outraged consumers to email The Onion to complain.
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane also joked about the young star during the ceremony. Some found the quip offensive, albeit not to the degree of the outrage over The Onion's tweet. MacFarlane joked that "it'll be 16 years before she's too old for" George Clooney.
Despite the attack, Quvenzhane had some reason to stay positive Sunday. By the time she'd arrived at the Oscar telecast, she could boast that she had been cast to play Annie in a contemporized adaptation of the Broadway musical and the "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip to be directed by Will Gluck.
It wasn't the first time The Onion has gotten into hot water for trying to push its humor. Last year, the site attracted public ire for an image that showed an airliner about to crash into Chicago's Willis Tower. Despite an outcry, the Onion's marketing director refused to back down.
Last year, the joke site made international headlines when the online version of China's Communist Party newspaper hailed an Onion report naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" — apparently unaware it was satire.
In 2011, U.S. Capitol Police released a statement refuting tweets and an article claiming members of Congress had taken a group of schoolchildren hostage. It included a doctored picture of Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner holding a gun to a child's head.
The Chicago-based publication was founded in 1988 by two students in Madison from the University of Wisconsin. Starting as a local college newspaper, it became a national comedy institution and went online in 1996, and has since developed a television news parody.
The publication is distributed weekly in cities, but it has also embraced Twitter and has an app for the iPad and other tablets. It says it averages 40 million page views and roughly 7.5 million unique visitors per month.


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This article describes what to do if you get a tab named "Firefox Updated" or see the message "You've been updated to the latest version of Firefox." every time you start Firefox even if you haven't updated Firefox.
There are two possible causes for this. You may have that tab saved accidentally as your home page (which Firefox opens each time you start) or Firefox may be having trouble saving to your settings file which results in it not realizing you have already seen the "You've been updated" message.
"Firefox Updated" tab saved to your home page
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .
- Select the panel.
- In the Startup area, highlight the text in the Home Page:Home page box.Highlight the text in the text field in the Home page area.
- If it includes something similar to
then you have accidentally added the "Firefox Updated" page to the sites that Firefox loads on startup. - You can fix this by clicking How to set the home page article.
Firefox is unable to save your preferences
Firefox changes a setting in its preferences file to determine whether you've seen the "Firefox Updated" tab. If you are having problems with that file then Firefox will be unable to save this information and will show you the "Firefox Updated" tab each time you start it. You may also notice that optionspreferences you select in your Settings tab are not kept after you close Firefox. To correct this, use the steps outlined in the How to fix preferences that won't save article.


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With the help of my lovely fiance I filmed the following short demo video of Bodhi running on the device:
Anywho - installing Bodhi on the Nexus 7 follows the same process as installing Ubuntu on the device. I don't have an automated installer finished just yet so you will need to install the Bodhi images using a manual install process. This can be done using the following steps:
Step 0 - Getting the Tools
Installing Bodhi on the Nexus 7 can be done from any Linux distribution so long as you have the proper android tools installed (if you are using Bodhi on your desktop the Android tools can be found in our repositories). Namely you need the fastboot command.
Step 1 - Unlocking your Nexus 7
The bootloader on the Nexus 7 needs to be unlocked to accept other operating systems. Start with your device off, then while holding the volume down button power the device on - you will soon see the bootloader screen. Attach the Nexus 7 to your computer with a micro USB cable and run the command:
sudo fastboot oem unlock
After you run this command your Nexus 7 will ask you to confirm you want to unlock the bootloader - do so. Then run:
sudo fastboot reboot-bootloader
to finish the unlocking process.
Step 2 - Get the Bodhi Files
You need to download and then extract both the tarballs found here.
Step 3 - Writing the data to the Nexus 7
Open a terminal to the directory where you extracted both the files you downloaded above. Then run the following commands in order:
sudo fastboot erase boot
sudo fastboot erase userdata
sudo fastboot flash boot boot.img
sudo fastboot flash userdata rootfs.img
sudo fastboot reboot
After you run the last command your Nexus 7 will reboot and automagically extract and install the Bodhi file system on your device (this will take a few minutes). When it is finished it will boot right into the Bodhi desktop for you.
User Information
Default username:
Default password:
The default user has sudo rights.
Getting Support
Please, please, please do not make a comment on this post asking for support with an issue you encounter with installing/running Bodhi on your Nexus 7! Comments asking for support will be removed from this post. Instead please open a support request thread in the Nexus 7 section of our user forums. It is much easier to manage/search/solve issues in a message board format than a comments section.
Other Notes
I do consider this an alpha quality release. As noted above the sound still doesn't work by default and I am sure there are some other minor niggles that need to be worked out.
~Jeff Hoogland


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When I began reading food blogs (many months before starting my own) I noticed that many people had a love/hate relationship with two ladies: Nigella and Martha Stewart. I did not know much about them but soon became a huge fan of both. That is why I chose a recipe by Nigella as the first recipe ever posted on my blog in Portuguese.
That was a long time ago and I felt like baking these muffins again – they are really good. I did not have this blog in English back then, that's why I post these here right now.
Baklava muffins
from here
scant ½ cup (50g) chopped walnuts
1/3 cup (67g) sugar
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 tablespoons (42g) unsalted butter, melted
1 cup + 7 tablespoons (210g) all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ cup (50g) sugar
1 large egg
3 tablespoons (42g) unsalted butter, melted
1 cup + 2 tablespoons buttermilk
about ½ cup honey
Preheat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper baking cups.
Mix all the filling ingredients in a small bowl, set aside.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda; add sugar.
In a wide-mouthed measuring cup, whisk the egg, melted butter and buttermilk. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the liquid. Mix lightly and gently, remembering to keep it bumpy – I used a fork to mix it.
Fill the cups 1/3 full, add a scant tablespoon of filling, then cover with more muffin batter until 2/3 full.
Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove the muffins from the pan and place them on a rack. Drizzle with honey.
Makes 12 – each well in my muffin pan holds 1/3 cup batter and I got 11 muffins


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What types of celery are there?
There are two types of stalk celery: green and yellow. Green is the most commonly eaten type in the U.S. Yellow resembles green celery but has a milder taste. Celery Nutrition Info
Celeriac is the root variety of celery. It can be prepared and consumed in the same way as other root vegetables such as potatoes and parsnips. Celeriac Nutrition Info
Smallage is a wild variety of celery. The stalks are not generally eaten but the leaves are used in soups and salads.


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Shipping & Returns
At Candace & Basil, we believe in creating an stress-free shopping experience for our customers. That's why we offer free standard delivery on local orders in the GTA and surrounding area (all "M" and most "L" & "N" postal codes). Shipping charges for remote/and or out of province orders are calculated at checkout prior to purchase (excludes the Territories).
Standard Shipping
All C&B products are carefully and professionally shipped using our own delivery team, Loomis Express or our freight forwarding partner Frontier Supply Chain Solutions (depending on your location) right to your ground level door. Standard shipping includes free delivery to the front door of your house or condo/apartment building lobby for local Ontario orders. Shipping charges will apply to all non-local deliveries. Contact us for freight pricing inquiries or proceed to checkout to calculate freight costs for your order prior to completing your purchase.
Out of stock items are usually re-stocked within 8-10 weeks, however, further delays are possible during the pandemic. Please contact us for inquiries on ETAs.
Delivery times will vary based on location. Add 3 business days for remote regions. See below for details (business days):
- Ontario: 3 - 6
- Quebec: 4 - 6
- British Columbia: 10 - 12
- Alberta: 7 - 10
- Manitoba: 6 - 8
- Saskatchewan: 6 - 8
- Nova Scotia: 5 - 7
- New Brunswick: 5 - 7
- Newfoundland & Labrador 8 - 10
- Prince Edward Island 6 - 8
*Please note that delivery windows provided are reliable estimates based on vendor-partner order processing times and courier transit times and cannot be guaranteed. Delivery time windows are typically weekdays from 9am to 5pm. Evening deliveries and in-home deliveries in the GTA can be arranged by special request contact us for details.
C&B Local Delivery Scheduling
Depending on your order and delivery region, our local delivery team will complete your delivery. Our Customer Care team will contact you to arrange a delivery date and our local drivers will follow up with a 30 minute notice on the day of delivery.
Courier Deliveries & Tracking
Please track your shipment using the tracking number provided and ensure that someone will be available at your shipping address to receive the delivery. If you miss your delivery, your package(s) will be held at the courier's nearest depot for pickup for 5 business days. If you know you will not be available to receive your shipment ahead of time, you may leave a signed note at your door instructing the delivery driver to leave your package at any secure location on the property (ie. your backyard or with the front desk). In some cases, small parcel orders may be left at your front door without a note so if you prefer to sign for the delivery, please leave a note to not leave the package outside. Please note that if you leave written and signed permission for the packages to be left on the property, neither Candace & Basil nor the courier is responsible for any lost or damaged items. Please call the appropriate courier with any questions or concerns.
Loomis Express: 1(855) 256-6647
Frontier: 1(877) 704-3727
Returns & Exchanges
If you wish to exchange or return an item, please let us know within 30 days of receiving your order. Once we have reviewed and approved your request, we will schedule a return pickup with you. Finally, the package(s) will be picked up from your location by our local delivery team or by courier (depending on your location). Please note that the entire return process of scheduling the pickup, return transit and inspection typically takes 2-3 weeks. Ontario return shipping is free for local orders. Return shipping will be equal to the delivery shipping paid on the order and will apply to all returns outside of our local area. All shipping charges are non-refundable.
In order for us to accept your return, the item must be:
- Packed (or repackaged) securely in its original packaging
- Free of any and all damages
- Unassembled (and was never assembled)
You may remove the contents of the item out of the packaging as long as they are not assembled and are placed back into the original packaging for return.
Please note that if an item is received damaged, it must be reported prior to assembly and within 3 business days of delivery.
If Candace & Basil stores the item for you for a deferred delivery, a $20/week storage charge will be deducted from the refund in the case of a return or cancellation.
*All made to order items, custom items, display items, open box items, pillows, duvets, bedding, mattresses and mattress protectors are non-refundable and are final sale.
Cancellations & Modifications
Customers may cancel or modify pre-orders and stock orders at least 2 business days prior to shipping. If you wish to cancel or modify an order, please notify us immediately. Once the order has shipped, it cannot be cancelled or modified. However, a return pickup for a full refund or exchange can be arranged after delivery as long as the return criteria mentioned above are met.
Order modification can cause delays in shipping as the shipping & processing time will typically start from the modification date (ie. if the estimated delivery is 4-6 business days from the date of your order, this will restart at the date of modification). Modifications include but are not limited to changes in delivery address, contact details, product changes, etc.
Made to order and custom orders are final sale but can be modified or cancelled for a full refund up until 5 business days after the order is placed. After 5 business days, cancellations will not be possible. Modifications to custom item(s) after this time frame may not be possible and can cause delays to the lead time, although delivery and contact details can be modified without causing delay up until 2 business days prior to shipping.
We reserve the right to cancel any order at our discretion. If an order is believed to be fraudulent/high risk, it will be cancelled without notice and a full refund will be issued to the cardholder.
If Candace & Basil stores the item for you for a deferred delivery, a $20/week storage charge will be deducted from the refund in the case of a return or cancellation.
Warehouse Pickup & Return
In the local area? We offer free pickups from our warehouse at 565 Otto Rd., Mississauga. Simply place your order online and select the pickup option. We will contact you once your order is ready for pickup (typically 1-3 business days for in stock items). A valid ID is required at the time of pickup. For a faster return/refund, you may also drop your order back at our warehouse.
Our warehouse pickup hours are:
- Mon - Fri: 10am - 5pm
- Sat - Sun: Closed
We ask that our customers inspect their order prior to use/assembly. In the off-chance that you receive a damaged item, we require notice within 3 days of delivery. Once we're notified, we will replace the affected part(s) or send a complete replacement, if necessary. Report a damaged order.
*Candace & Basil is not liable for any damage to property resulting from special delivery requests including but not limited to inside delivery.


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The Bee Single bike trailer for kids enables family bike adventures on a budget without sacrificing safety or durability. This lightweight, bike-only trailer features comfortable seating for one child, tinted windows, and plenty of space for cargo. Share your love for the outdoors with your little one in the Burley Bee, Single.
Bee-specific features
- Compact fold flattens the trailer for easy storage and transportation
- 20" push button wheels for quick removal
- Tinted side windows
Standard features on all Burley kid trailers
- Ready To Bike: includes hitch, tow arm, and safety flag
- Designed and tested to meet or exceed ASTM F1975-09 safety standards
- Flex Connector allows bike to lay flat while trailer remains upright
- Five-point harness system
- Full internal aluminum roll cage for protection in an accident
- Hammock-style seat provides passive suspension for rider comfort
- Heat-treated 6061-T6 aluminum frame tubes and hinges
- Included Steel Hitch
- Wheel guards for protection from unforeseen obstacles
- Side battens create structured barrier between wheels and passenger
- Water-resistant 600D polyester cover and seat fabric
- Front-to-rear fold provides increased strength and stability
- Reflective materials and reflectors for visibility (front, rear, and wheels)
- Recessed helmet pocket for extra headroom
- UV protection windows are rated UPF 50+ and block 98% of UV light
- Safety flag for visibility
- Interior pockets in both cargo area and child seating area
- Spacious rear cargo area
Burley Bee
Honey Bee, Single is built for one child and is a bike trailer with tinted windows, and plenty of space for cargo. Share your love for the outdoors at Cedar Creek Outdoors in Cedarburg, WI


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These functions all manipulate strings in various ways. Some more specialized sections can be found in the regular expression and URL handling sections.
For information on how strings behave, especially with regard to usage of single quotes, double quotes, and escape sequences, see the Strings entry in the Types section of the manual.


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Notice: This Wiki is now read only and edits are no longer possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.
This page contains a list of common questions related to the use of ATL. It gives hints towards solutions as well as links to some concrete examples.
- 1 How do I launch transformations programmatically?
- 2 How do I generate text from models?
- 3 How do I declare/use external parameters in ATL transformations?
- 4 How can I handle arbitrary XML documents?
- 5 How can I tune the XML output of ATL?
- 6 How can I implement my own injector or extractor?
- 7 How can I transform UML models?
- 8 How can I retrieve tagged values from stereotyped UML model elements?
- 9 How can I specify a Virtual Machine operation in Java? (Deprecated)
How do I launch transformations programmatically?
ATL-specific launch configurations and ANT tasks
The ATL development environment provides several base ways of launching transformations:
- by specifying a launch configuration,
- by writing an ant script using the ATL-specific ANT tasks.
ATL API & Services
However, notably for integration purposes in Eclipse solutions, it is necessary to launch transformations by mean of Java code.
This is why ATL directly provides in addition a dedicated API and core services enabling to run ATL transformations programmatically, including the loading (injection) and saving (extraction) of corresponding required metamodels and models.
How do I generate text from models?
There are several possibilies. We only detail some of them here.
Using ATL
You can specify a query over your model in ATL. An example of this is available in the UML-to-JavaCode transformation.
The atlanticRaster zoo is also using this technique. It first transforms KM3 metamodels into DOT models with a KM32DOT.atl transformation. It then uses DOT2Text.atl to query a string, corresponding to the generated DOT code, from the DOT model. These two ATL transformation/query can be found from here.
Then, an ANT script makes use of the atl.saveModel task with an ATL extractor pointing to the DOT2Text.atl transformation.
Using other tools
The Xtext framework in Eclipse Modeling is dedicated to this kind of tasks.
TCS (Textual Concrete Syntax) is also a tool enabling the specification of textual syntaxes for metamodels.
How do I declare/use external parameters in ATL transformations?
Using an XML file
A solution is to save transformation parameters in a extern XML model. In the transformation, you will use an helper to get parameters from your model.
To inject and/or extract XML models (and to get the simple XML metamodel in Ecore), you can check out and install the org.eclipse.m2m.atl.projectors.xml plugin with your ATL Eclipse install.
The following code is a simple parameters XML file:
<parameters> <param name="param1" value="valueX"/> <param name="param2" value="valueY"/> </parameters>
In the transformation header, you add the parameters model and its XML metamodel:
module AMW2ATL; create OUT : XXX from IN : YYY, parameters : XML;
From parameters model, the following helper is used to get value attribute select in the param entities according to the given name:
helper def : getParameter(name : String) : String = XML!Element.allInstancesFrom('parameters')->select(e | e.name = 'param' )->select(e | e.getAttrVal('name') = name )->first().getAttrVal('value');
To use the previous helper (due to the getAttrVal call), you need to use XMLHelpers.asm ATL Library and add in the transformation:
uses XMLHelpers;
The following code is a simple example to show how to use the getParameter helper:
helper def : sourceValue : String = thisModule.getParameter('source');
How can I handle arbitrary XML documents?
Arbitrary XML documents can be used as source or target of ATL transformations. However, this cannot be done directly (see next section) but rather through specific injectors and extractors.
Injecting XML files as XML models or extracting XML models as XML files can be performed thanks to the the org.eclipse.m2m.atl.projectors.xml plugin and ATL-specific ANT tasks.
A version of this plugin built for the Juno ATL version can be downloaded from here and has to be copied to the dropins folder of your Eclipse install before starting. For other ATL versions, the plugin sources first have to be checked out into your workspace in order to re-export the plugin as a compatible deployable one (to be then copied to the dropins folder similarly as mentioned before).
How can I tune the XML output of ATL?
The ATL Virtual Machine can write target models to XML files in two different ways:
- XMI writing is delegated to EMF.
- Target models can be extracted into XML files using custom XML Schemas.
To do this, the target model is first transformed into a model conforming to a specific XML metamodel. The resulting XML model can then be extracted into an XML document. An example can be found in the Table2SVGPieChart transformation scenario: the target SVG model is transformed into an XML model that can then be extracted (see documentation of scenario for more details and README.txt in zip file for directions). The process of transforming a model to XML then extracting it can be automated using ATL-specific ANT tasks and the org.eclipse.m2m.atl.projectors.xml plugin (see previous section).
How can I implement my own injector or extractor?
An injection/extraction is a transformation from/to another Technical Space (e.g., XML, Grammarware) to/from the Model Engineering Technical Space. An injector/extractor is a component implementing an injection/extraction.
Injectors and extractors may be then used programmatically or via ATL-specific ANT tasks atl.loadModel and atl.saveModel.
To be usable in practice, an injector/extractor must implement the IInjector/IExtractor interface (cf. ATL Core API documentation), as shown by the XML injector/extractor example for instance. It must also declare explicitly the use of the specific org.eclipse.m2m.atl.core.injector/extractor extension points, as shown by the same example than before.
How can I transform UML models?
There are several implementations of UML. The one we consider here is the de-facto standard implementation from Eclipse: the UML2 project.
ATL allows to transform such UML models as any other EMF models.
The UML2 metamodel must be loaded from the EMF registry (i.e., by namespace URI). This can be done using the "EMF Registry..." button of the ATL launch configuration, or using the nsURI attribute of the atl.loadModel task.
Usage of content assist (i.e., code completion) is especially useful with big metamodels like UML2.
How can I retrieve tagged values from stereotyped UML model elements?
In ATL, a profiled UML model used as source model is viewed like any other UML model. You generally (i.e., when the profile is referenced with a valid relative path) do not have to specify the profile used with the model. So, in the header of the ATL module you just have:
module uml2something; create OUT : targetMetamodel from IN : UML;
If atl seems to ignore your stereotypes, you can add your profile as source model. You obtain the following header:
module uml2something; create OUT : targetMetamodel from IN : UML, INPROFILE : profile;
After that you can use operations like:
- getAppliedStereotype(sterotypeName : String) on a UML element to get the stereotype with the name "stereotypeName" applied on this element. This operation needs the fully qualifed name of the stereotype so it looks like: profileName::sterotypeName.
- getValue(stereotype : Stereotype, propertyName : String) to get the Value of the tagged value with name "propertyName" on the stereotype "stereotype" (the sterotype can be retrieved by getAppliedStereotype).
A helper like:
helper context UML!Element def: hasStereotype(name : String) : Boolean = not self.getAppliedStereotype(name).oclIsUndefined();
can also be useful to check if a stereotype is applied on the UML element before trying to retrieve it or to get a tagged value from it. As it uses getAppliedStereotype, it needs the fully qualified name of the stereotype (e.g., profileName::sterotypeName).
How can I specify a Virtual Machine operation in Java? (Deprecated)
It is possible to add new Java operations to the ATL Virtual Machine (VM). These operations can then be called like helpers.
The org.eclipse.gmt.atl.oclquery.core plugin offers the org.eclipse.gmt.atl.oclquery.core.ATLVMTools class to create instances of org.atl.engine.vm.Operation and to register them in the ATL VM.
This is used in org.eclipse.gmt.atl.oclquery.core.OclEvaluator to redefine the dumpASM method of ASMEmitter. The process to register operations on OCL primitive types (e.g. Boolean, Integer, String) is similar.