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Runners Worry Prize Purses Could Spoil Trail Running's Integrity
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Highlights from the March 2013 Trail Runner Blog Symposium
The March 2013 Trail Runner Blog Symposium topic of discussion was: Is the introduction of bigger prize purses at trail races a positive or negative thing overall?
Discussion was fiery on both sides, with excellent food for thought offered by all. Our Editor's Choice, "Cotton, Move Over—Money is the Fabric of Our Lives," by Trey Bailey at Uphill Running, breaks down the difference between running on trails and racing on trails. Here are some other highlights from the dialogue stirred up in the blogosphere.
Stay tuned to the March 28 Inside Dirt for next month's Symposium topic.
Far from detracting from the sport, the influx of money allows those elites to make a living doing what they love to do.
—Shameless Runner: Jamie Falk
**Editor's Choice**
Racing isn't for the soul-searcher. Trail races satisfy the need for trail runners to test their ego. Bigger prize purses in trail racing will bring better competition, race support, and will hopefully bring shorter races some deserved cash-flow.
—Uphill Running: Trey Bailey
I find [reading about elite runners] inspirational, and as I continue to build my endurance and flexibility, inspiration is sometimes… necessary.
—Camp Fancy Free: Kali Kirkendell
I honestly don't see our sport getting out of control with more prize money if anything it will make it more exciting from spectators and race director's perspective at the same to giving back to the athletes that consistently push themselves to unbelievable heights.
—Cruising the Mountains: Brandon Williams
To dangle big cash incentives as a carrot at the end of the tree branch takes something away from the purity of the sport, the reasons a lot of us got into trail running.
—Running the Passage: Sarah Young-Macdonald
By having huge prize purses we might override that spirit of freedom, the camaraderie, that is so wonderful in the trail running community
—Runner Chick
While big corporations getting involved in our sport is awesome for gear – shoes – nutrition – and progress in general, It can start to change the culture of the sport we love.
—TrailsRoc: Eric Eagan
I really do want the top trail and ultra runners to be recognized … and compensated appropriately for the hours of hard work they put in training. But I don't want them to become rich, famous a-holes.
—A Little Runny: Tim Mathis
While races such as the Chuckanut 50K and Speedgoat 50K have done an excellent job of using monetary prizes to bring top competition their way, not a few of the best showdowns in recent years have been at Western States, where no prize money is on offer.
—UltraPedestrian Ras
I hope that if trail running prize purses do become larger, that the sponsors, race directors, and trail running community all make a concerted effort to keep the sport pure.
—In the Moment Running: Michael Shilling
While bigger prize money may attract the attitudes I was trying to get away from I just need to be the better person and remember why I'm running … to see these amazing new places, to test my own limits, to push myself.
—CO-Running: Siobhan Pritchard
Locally, the good ol' deserted trail has been taken over by hordes of flashy looking, fast moving two-legged mountain goats. It's getting crowded on the singletrack.
—Stéphane Rodriguez
Amateur athletes who are accustomed to winning these races can be discouraged, since you cannot compete against professional athletes.
—Manuel Lago


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I'm not a big fan of Christmas Pudding. But I am a big fan of traditions. Whether it's keeping them going or starting a new like we did with advent last year, I think it's important to remember the past as we step into the new.
So this year we visited Grandma Sue to make our Christmas Pudding.
The pudding originates in England and was also called Plum Pudding according to this old book. This is because of the prunes that were key ingredients. It's made five weeks before Christmas to let all the flavours mellow and ripen.
Preparing our bowls
Strong, steam proof bowls are essential and Grandma suggested a bit of greaseproof paper to line the base.
Measuring all the ingredients
My girls love measuring and have inherited by accuracy on the scales so this took rather a long time because they wanted it exactly right. traditional the pudding has thirteen ingredients to represent Jesus Christ and his disciples
A welcome distraction
There was a lot of ingredients to measure – sultanas, raisins, currants, sugar, butter, flour….they got a bit side tracked making flies with Granddad for next year's fishing trip!
On to the very important stirring
Families would come home from church on Stir Up Sunday and stir the pudding from East to West in honour of the three wise men who travelled to meet Baby Jesus. As they stirred, they prayed:
"Stir Up, we beseech thee. Oh Lord the wills of thy people. That they plenteously bring forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be pleanteously rewarded, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen."
I'm pretty sure Amber was singing her own mixing song. Maybe one day she'll share it with us all.
Placement of the silver coin for wealth
Many households used to stir silver coins into the mixture for wealth or even an array of other objects with different meanings. Tiny wishbones for good luck, a silver thimble for thrift, a ring for marriage, or an anchor for safe harbor. When the pudding is served at Christmas, whoever got the lucky serving, would be able to keep the charm. I think my girls were hinting at the idea of getting pocket money!
And that was that. We steamed the pudding for a couple of hours and now it's sitting in a secret dark and cool place until Christmas Day. We'll steam it again to warm it through and add a little sprig of holly before digging it.
This is the simplest cooking the children have ever done and even I amlooking forward to trying this pudding. There's something special about making your own.
Do you make your own Christmas Pudding? What are your family traditions on Stir Up Sunday?
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An Olympic wrestler on Thursday accused a University of Michigan doctor of touching him inappropriately during medical exams at the school and said the physician's reputation for such conduct was well known among his teammates.
Andy Hrovat, who competed for the U.S. in the 2008 Summer Olympics, told The Associated Press that the encounters with the late Dr. Robert E. Anderson happened during his freshman year in 1998.
"I would like to let people know that it's OK to come out," Hrovat said in an interview from his attorney's office in Denver. "It's OK to let your voice be heard."
He is the first athlete to make public accusations against Anderson following complaints this week from other former students that the doctor sexually abused them decades ago. The revelations echo high-profile sexual abuse allegations made against sports doctors at other universities.
"I was warned about him from teammates, saying, 'If anything happens and you go see the doctor, he's going to inappropriately touch you, that's just what Dr. A does,'" Hrovat recalled.
He declined to describe the exam, saying he was uncomfortable talking about it.
"To me, the mental part of it of having to go in there knowing that this doctor was going to touch you inappropriately is what sticks out most in my mind," he said.
Hrovat said he did not tell then-Michigan wrestling coach Dale Bahr or anyone in athletic administration about Anderson's conduct.
"In my mind, he normalized what he was doing and made you think that was just a normal part of the procedure," he said. "So why would you tell somebody?"
Also Thursday, the university president apologized to "anyone who was harmed" by Anderson. His comment came a day after the school announced that it had launched an investigation into Anderson's behaviour following abuse allegations from five former patients.
Another former student, Gary Bailey, told the AP that Anderson dropped his pants and asked him to fondle his genitals in a medical exam during Bailey's senior year in 1968 or 1969. Bailey said he filled out a complaint form to the University Health Service within a month or so, writing that the behaviour was "inappropriate."
"I never heard anything about it ever again," said Bailey, now 72.
Officials have acknowledged that some university employees were aware of accusations against the doctor prior to a 2018 complaint that led to a police investigation.
University President Mark Schlissel opened a meeting of the school's Board of Regents Thursday by reading a prepared statement about Anderson, who died in 2008.
"The patient-physician relationship involves a solemn commitment and trust," he said. "The allegations are highly disturbing. On behalf of the university, I apologize to anyone who was harmed by Dr. Anderson."
University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said Thursday that, since the investigation was announced, 22 people have called a hotline to report on interactions with the one-time director of the University Health Service and physician for the football team. Fitzgerald said he did not have detailed information about the individual callers or what they described. He said some of the callers reported having no issues with Anderson.
"It was a traumatic thing at the time," Bailey said of his experience with Anderson. While the abuse has not "ruined my life or anything, it may have other people and that's why I'm bringing my story to light."
Bailey, who is gay, said Anderson "preyed a little bit on people who were gay … because he sort of thought that they wouldn't say anything because, you know, people were pretty closeted back then." He said he told friends about the abuse decades ago.
Bailey, of Dowagiac, Michigan, first publicly spoke to The Detroit News.
Another man, Robert Julian Stone, told the AP on Wednesday that Anderson assaulted him during a medical appointment at the university's health centre in 1971. Stone said he alerted university officials last summer, inspired by the national #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct.
The AP left phone messages with two of Anderson's three children. An e-mail was sent to the third seeking comment.
Fitzgerald said he could not elaborate on investigators' finding that some university employees were aware of accusations against the doctor prior to the 2018 complaint that led to a police investigation.
John Manly, a lawyer for many of the hundreds of victims of now-imprisoned former Michigan State University sports doctor Larry Nassar, said Thursday that half a dozen people have called his California-based firm alleging abuse by Anderson – mostly ex-football players and wrestlers. He said they were fearful of what could happen to their positions on teams or at the school if they reported what he did to them.
"As men in their 30s up to their 60s, there is a real shame associated with this," he said. "Most didn't speak up because they were concerned he wouldn't clear them to play. And if you're not cleared by the doctor, you lose your athletic scholarship. He had tremendous control. These at the time boys and young men were subjected to this stuff knowing that if they said anything, they were fearful he would retaliate."
Manly urged the university to ensure that alleged victims have a neutral third party, either law enforcement or a counselling service, to call to discuss what happened to them. He said he is concerned that the school has asked people to reach out directly through the hotline.
"My experience has been that's much more about liability protection than helping the victims," Manly said. "It's really important that one of America's greatest universities act like it and treat these people not as adversaries but as people that are injured and that deserve support. My fear is that's not happening."
The university said the July 2018 complaint came from a former student athlete who wrote to Athletic Director Warde Manuel alleging abuse by Anderson during medical exams in the early 1970s.
Fitzgerald said he also could not answer questions about the scope of the police investigation, including whether investigators reviewed Anderson's resignation as head of the health service in 1980 or his retirement in 2003.
The university police department referred the AP to the university's Division of Public Safety and Security for questions about the investigation. A spokeswoman for the division did not immediately return an e-mail with specific questions about the investigation.
Washtenaw County prosecutors first received the police department's report in late April or early May of 2019, said Steven Hiller, assistant chief prosecuting attorney.
A prosecutor concluded that summer that no criminal charges could be authorized because the primary suspect had died and none of the offences were within Michigan's six-year statute of limitations, Hiller said Thursday.
The university had said Wednesday in a statement that it was making the information public following a determination on Tuesday by prosecutors that no criminal charges would be authorized. Fitzgerald referred questions about the discrepancy to the county prosecutor's office and did not immediately respond to additional inquiries.


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Japan's Casio is preparing to launch a new Android tablet for businesses that acts as a personal scanner.
The company's new Paper Writer line has a camera that faces downward in front of the screen, to take images of documents placed in front of the device. The tablet has special software for character recognition that works on hand-written notes, and can recognize symbols such as asterisks and dollar signs as tags for where to save digitized documents.
(See a YouTube video of the tablet in action.)
Notes to be scanned are strapped into the inside of the tablet's case, and any paper with reasonable contrast to the ink used will work. The scanning feature also works with business cards, although the character recognition was a bit off at a recent demonstration in Tokyo.
The Paper Writer is mainly meant for businesses, and a basic model will go on sale in Japan next month for ¥200,000, or US$2,500. Casio said that it expects corporate customers to buy the devices in bulk, which will bring down per-unit prices.
The tablet has a 10-inch screen, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, and a rubberized case for resistance to water and shocks. It has a replaceable 7,000mAh battery, on which it will run for about 12 hours.
The tablets will launch in Japan in November, and a spokesman said the they will go on sale outside Japan soon after.
Casio is promising to support the tablets for several years, so that customers won't have keep upgrading their hardware.


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If you decide that this post is shameless self-promotion, you would be half right. The people at Diabetes PowerShow say some nice things about me on their website.
But when they interviewed me last week, somehow I thought that I might have said a thing or two that would interest you. Since I went on and on for an hour and one-half, my message has to contain some meat.
You can go directly to their interview with me here. Fortunately, it's only an audio interview, so you don't have to watch me.
The Diabetes PowerShow team is four people with diabetes doing this work as a labor of love out of their Las Vegas studio. They interviewed me by phone, so I didn't have to go to Vegas in the heat of the summer.
Producer Charlie Cherry, who has type 2, recruited me to the show after we met at the past two Social Media Summits hosted by Roche Diabetes Care. Charlie's partners are a co-hosting couple, Chris Moore, who calls himself type 3, i.e. a spouse of someone with diabetes, and his wife Theresa, type 1. A fourth team member, Chris Daniel, also has type 1, but was missing in action.
When Charlie approached me to do the interview, the hot button that he pressed was for me to talk about my twin passions of photography and hiking. I write about them on my "Fitness and Photography for Fun" blog.
Near the end of the interview he asked me about those passions of mine. Before that we talked about my life with and without diabetes and my other passion, spreading the word about controlling diabetes, which I know can make us healthier and happier than ever before.
You can listen to my interview on your computer. But if you have an iPhone, an iPod, iPad, or other MP3 player, you have a better option. After you get iTunes on your computer, you can subscribe to Diabetes PowerShow for free and get all of the shows delivered automatically. This is better, because you can listen while you are on the go, instead of sitting at your desk.
I hope that at least one of you gets something out of listening. As I told Charlie by email, the Talmud says that "to save one person is to save the world." That's all I want to do with my life.
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Usually browsing Craiglist's 'for sale' section is like wandering through a junkyard, but every once in a while you come across a diamond in the rough. Like finding a Picasso at a yard sale, someone actually wants to sell this breathtaking Transformers-like wine rack sculpture.
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For a mere $7,000 you're not only getting six feet and 1,000 pounds of used transmission parts artistically welded together, you're also getting a piece of Americana, and a truly stunning work of art. But don't forget it's also functional, holding up to 32 wine bottles or the occasional Christmas tree, and serving as a great reason to re-decorate your living room in a matching dull gray motif.
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I have a super fun little project to show you today. Hope you'll like it as much as I do.
Yes, it's a teeny tiny quilted zipper pouch. Pretty adorable, isn't it? Its finished size is 2.75" wide x 2.5" tall x 2" deep, eeek!!!
Of course I had to whip up a few of these little cuties right away. And, to my children's dismay, I squeeled more and more with every finish :).
I used 4" metal zippers and absolutely adore how much personality they add to these cuties. (I buy all my zippers from Zipit shop on etsy, they offer an amazing selection of zippers and super fast shipping)
I hope you'll come back next week. I'll have a free tutorial for you on how to make these mini quilted pouches.
Wishing you all a creative and relaxed weekend. Svetlana
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AMA Race Center includes all AMA-sanctioned events in one location
Members of the American Motorcyclist Association, the country's largest sanctioning body of amateur motorsports competition, now have access to a new online portal for amateur race results.
AMA Race Center, available at http://results.americanmotorcyclist.com, offers a number of enhancements to previously available online motocross results. Although still in beta, the system features several exciting features, including results and advancement points for all classes, cross-linked results by rider or track; rider performance charts; upcoming events; speedy performance; a comprehensive search function; and an easier-to-navigate user interface.
"Phase one of the all-new AMA Race Center is a major upgrade to our race-reporting capabilities," said AMA Vice President of Operations Jeff Massey. "AMA Competition Members can see their complete results in one online location for all AMA-sanctioned motocross events. They can also track their advancement in motocross and enduro competition, using both raw numbers as well as charts."
AMA Race Center includes results for all AMA-sanctioned motocross, Arenacross and ATV motocross races as soon as those results are delivered from the individual event promoters. The platform also includes enduro B-to-A class advancement points.
Massey added that future versions of the AMA Race Center will include results for all disciplines sanctioned by the AMA.
"In addition to results for additional disciplines, we will enhance the functionality over time," he said. "We invite all members to check out the new AMA Race Center and let us know what works, what doesn't and how we can improve it going forward."
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THE Penang Front Party (PFP), a Penang-based political party, is planning to field candidates in at least 10 seats in Penang and Kedah in the 15th general election (GE15).
Its chairman, Patrick Ooi, said according to the party's plan, it will be contesting six state and two parliamentary seats in Penang.
"We may contest for island state seats but we have not decided on the parliamentary seats in Penang while in Kedah, we are looking at the Kulim and Alor Setar parliamentary seats.
"Now PFP has about 5,000 members throughout the country, and we hope PFP will receive support as we want reforms for the people in the north, especially in Penang," he told reporters when met at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) head office in George Town today.
PFP was established in 2014 to oppose DAP in the Bukit Gelugor parliamentary by-election and made its debut in the 14th general election (GE14).
In GE14, PFP contested in 12 state seats and a parliamentary seat in Penang but it lost in all the seats as well as its deposits.
Ooi said the party will be fielding new and old faces in GE15.
He said PFP is also prepared to cooperate with other parties, including Barisan Nasional, Perikatan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan.
"If BN needed a dependable party, there is PFP and we have been working to assist the people even during movement-control order," he said.
Earlier, he handed over several documents and videos to MACC for the commission to investigate a businessman as the projects he acquired from the government were believed to have elements of corruption. – Bernama, June 17, 2022.


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Geocaching Maine Newsletter
September 2008
Volume II Issue 9
I. Planning a Hide?: Must-Have Cache Characteristics
----Side Bar: Maine has 0.5% of the worlds hides
II. Upcoming Events
III. Maine Geocaching News/Media Coverage
IV. Hot Topics of the Past Month
V. Photo of the Month
I. Planning a Hide?: Must-Have Cache Characteristics
What makes a great cache?
--In 2006, brdad posted an article called, Anatomy of a Great Cache Hide highlighting considerations to perfect some of the characteristics of your caches. The discussion is on-going. Every cacher ranks the characteristics differently, but each characteristic is worth consideration when hiding a cache.
--Firefighterjake encourages you to go hide caches, Bringing folks to a new place that they might never have seen or teaching them about some history or geology is part of the appeal to me, and reading the logs (especially the entertaining ones) can be pretty addictive.
--A friendly neighborhood cacher felt the attributes toward the end of the article should definitely be thought-out early on. Before placing a cache, explore geocaching.coms Hide n Seek link to learn whats required of a hide; there are guidelines to become familiar with. The second step would be to explore your GPS and learn how to get accurate coordinates for your hide. Some of us have learned this the hard way, so wed love to help you out with this, and events are great venues for getting help and learning new tricks of the game.
--Last but definitely not least! Remember, hides require commitment. Commitment to maintain the cache, making it enjoyable for others to find. Commitment allowing, and sometimes finding, another cacher to adopt a cache should you ever be unable to continue maintenance. Commitment to having the cache retrieved should the location become unsuitable, such as a new landowner not wishing its presence, so that the geocache does not become geotrash. The commitment is not hard, and often brings great joy, like giving a gift. And to that end, brdad adds, Go for the quality, not quantity.
----Side Bar: Maine has 0.5% of the worlds hides: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/index...ge=maine_stats
II. Upcoming Events
09/06/08 Last Cache Bashe of the Summer 2008: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...9-0a0dd3f58bcd
09/06/08 Apres The Last Cache Bashe of the Summer Event 2008: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...4-c94ed7a2de80
09/13/08 Tread Lightly 2008: I Call Shot Gun!: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...spx?wp=GC1EQ8Q
Discussion: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3341
09/27/08 First Annual Get Useless in Eustis Event: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...4-8b1a9c7b819e
Discussion: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3052
III. Maine Geocaching News/Media Coverage
1. Trailblazing from the left side of the brain: Geocaching gadgets for geeks
Posted: 08/03/08 Trail Hound http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs//?blog=183
Of the several outdoor navigation games, geocaching has got to be the geekiest.
Discussion: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3352
2. The Calais Advertiser had a recent article (print only) regarding a bomb squad decommission of a geocache. Join the discussion at: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ad.php?p=45323
IV. Hot Topics of the Past Month
Need help for workshop: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3374
Ammo can stash notes: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=1618
Another cache idea: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ad.php?p=45269
Caching and gas prices: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3345
Cemetery Caches: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3353
Eustis Cache Challenge: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...?t=3320&page=3
Good Camping: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...?t=2186&page=3
Mt. Kineo (mystery): http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3379
New way to park n grab: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3337
Seattle-type puzzle: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3333
Bearing and projection: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3363
Cache stats into GSAK?: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3334
City Navigator & Topo: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3354
Garmin eTrex?: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3348
Map Source to Garmin: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3338
Map Source unlock: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3380
Photo storage?: http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum...ead.php?t=3360
V. Photo of the Month
Last Cache Bashe 2007 Maine Geocachers By Team2Hunt http://www.geocachingmaine.org/galle.../9999/way/desc
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Papyrus/Papyrus Developer Guide
- 1 Development Environment
- 2 Development Plan
- 3 Getting the code
- 4 Papyrus Generation
- 5 Papyrus Code Standards
- 6 Papyrus Coding guidelines
- 7 How To ...
- 8 Papyrus Bugzilla usage
- 9 How to commit
- 10 Papyrus Log
- 11 Papyrus Build Process
- 12 Papyrus Creation Type
- 13 New plugin Submition Process
Development Environment
To ease the development on Papyrus, each member of the team works with basically the same configuration.
Common Environment
Following is a description of the basic configuration:
Required External Plugins
Papyrus requires some external plugins in order to compile.
The following page maintain a list of Papyrus Required External Plugins
Development Plan
The specifications are available here : http://wiki.eclipse.org/Papyrus_Developer_Guide/Specifications
Getting the code
Connecting to the svn
The code is available under svn at this location http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.mdt.papyrus/
Retrieve code
PSF Following files will allow you to import all Papyrus plugins used during build phase:
- Nightly Builds:
- for subversive plugin user: PSF Subversive PSF
- for subclipse plugin user: PSF Subclipse PSF
Retrieve configuration files
The Papyrus Code Templates and Java Formatter files are available under the Papyrus repository in the plugin org.eclipse.papyrus.doc under the folder "templates"
FAQ How do I control the Java formatter
FAQ How can templates make me the fastest coder ever
Checkstyle : available soon
The note explains how to install the templates in your environment.
Papyrus Generation
- Papyrus generation mechanism is explained here : Papyrus Developer Guide/Papyrus diagram generation
Papyrus Code Standards
- Java Doc - every class, method and field including private ones should be documented with Java Doc
- No abbreviations - the class, methods and variables should have meaningful names
- Formatting - the code should be formatted in accordance with format templates
- Compile - the modified code and other plugins should be compilable. Be sure to use Java 1.5 code compatibility. Check other plugins that could be influenced before commiting!
- Standard Java Rules coding - Unless specified differently, the Java Standard Coding rules should be applied : no abbreviations, variables starting with lower case; class and types with upper case; Composed name separated with upper case; no underscore in names; ...
- In case of doubt - check existing code from those following the rules :-)
Papyrus Coding guidelines
A few points may be a little tricky when coding for Papyrus. Among them :
Papyrus Plugin Naming Scheme and Folders Structure
- Papyrus plugins naming scheme and folder structure used to locate and name plugins is described here: Papyrus_Plugin_Naming_Scheme
Papyrus Command Execution, History, Undo/Redo
- This first document describes the usage of editing domains and gmf/gef/emf commands. See this detailed article Papyrus Developer Guide/Editing Domains and Commands.
- This second document tries to explain how the differents Eclipse Command frameworks work and how they are related. It also explains how commands should be executed in Papyrus, in order to have correct undo/redo.
- http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.mdt.papyrus/trunk/doc/DevelopperDocuments/architecture/commandExecution.doc
- Following UML model with code reverse can also be useful:
- http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.mdt.papyrus/trunk/doc/DevelopperDocuments//architecture/CommandStackFramework.di
- http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.mdt.papyrus/trunk/doc/DevelopperDocuments//architecture/CommandStackFramework.notation
- http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.mdt.papyrus/trunk/doc/DevelopperDocuments//architecture/CommandStackFramework.uml
How To ...
Commit, Report Bugs, patchs (Code Contributing)
How To - related to reporting bugs, patching, commit, ... Papyrus Developer Guide/How To- Code Contributing
Papyrus Code Examples
How to - Related to Papyrus code,Papyrus Developer Guide/How To Code Examples
Papyrus Bugzilla usage
When adding a task to the buzilla, the following grammar should be used:
- '[' Category ']' NameOfTheTask
The category helps to filter the bugs for developers. There are already some existing categories: General, XXX Diagram, Common, Property View, etc.
How to provide a patch
(For further information, see http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf)
When a non-committer wants to contribute to Papyrus, he must create patchs and attach them to a bug. In the comment of each patch, he must write :
- (1) I, Forename Name, wrote 100% of the code I've provided.
- (2) This code contains no cryptography
- (3) I have the right to contribute the code to Eclipse.
- (4) I contribute the content under the EPL.
How to commit a patch
Before commiting a patch, you should verify that the contributor has written the following lines in the comment :
- (1) I, Forename Name, wrote 100% of the code I've provided.
- (2) This code contains no cryptography
- (3) I have the right to contribute the code to Eclipse.
- (4) I contribute the content under the EPL.
If not, he must do that before you commit its patch!
- If the writer is an employee of the same company and if the compagny has signed a Member Commiter Agreement : after the commit, you should comment the attachment writing :
- Here is a contribution from one employee of "the name of the company"
- The company has signed a Member Commiter Agreement.
- The contribution does not need a CQ.
- I've committed this contribution.
- Committed revision xxx.
- Set the field iplog to +
Note : In reality, you should have the autorization of the PMC before doing this commit.
- If the writer is not an employee of the CEA : you need to do a CQ (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf)
- In all other cases, see http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf
How to commit
- Before to commit, you should verify these items :
- your code is formatted using the Papyrus Template
- each file has an header with the EPL licence and your name
- all strings are externalized
- Moreover, if you want to commit a patch, please see the point "How to commit a patch".
- During the commit :
- you should comment your commit and precise the id of the bug
- After the commit
- Write the following comment in the bug : Commited in Rxxx
Papyrus Log
- Papyrus Log is explained here Papyrus Developer Guide/Papyrus Log
Papyrus Build Process
- Papyrus build process on Athena is explained here Papyrus Developer Guide/Build Process.
Papyrus Creation Type
- mechanism of type creation used in the model explorer and in the property view is explained Papyrus Developer Guide/Type Creation
New plugin Submition Process
New plugin should follow the submition process describe here: Papyrus New Plugin Submition Process


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Filter:All Blogs News & Events
November 17, 2017 by George Kiagiadakis | Blog
Earlier this year I worked on a certain GStreamer plugin that is called "ipcpipeline". This plugin provides elements that make it possible to interconnect GStreamer pipelines that run in different processes. In this blog post I am going to explain how…
November 16, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
We're headed to France's southern Occitanie region to attend and sponsor the 6th edition of Capitole du Libre, a weekend dedicated to free and Open Source software!
November 13, 2017 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | News & Events
Linux Kernel 4.14 is out, and once again Collabora developers were very active, contributing nearly 200 patches, reviews & sign-offs combined during this development cycle!
November 10, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
We're very excited to be sponsoring and speaking at the very first Linux Developer Conference Brazil, taking place on November 11 at the Instituto de Computação in Campinas!
November 09, 2017 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog
Running crosvm outside Chromium OS is quite easy, with the only complication being that minijail isn't widely packaged in distros. In these instructions, we hack around the issue with linker environment variables so we don't have to install it properly.
November 08, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
On November 8, we'll be in Düsseldorf, Germany, to take part & exhibit at the 1st edition of the Renesas European R-Car Consortium Forum, a one-day event aimed at bringing together OEMs and Tier1s to discuss the future of car mobility.
November 06, 2017 by Thierry Escande | Blog
Kmemleak allows you to track possible memory leaks inside the Linux kernel. Basically, it tracks dynamically allocated memory blocks in the kernel and reports those without any reference left and that are therefore impossible to free.
October 20, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Following a weekend at the GStreamer Conference, Collabora will be continuing its week-long stay in Prague by sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017.
October 19, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
We're thrilled to be once again a platinum sponsor of the annual GStreamer Conference, taking place this weekend (October 21 & 22) at Node5 in Prague, Czech Republic. Come say hello, or catch one of the five presentations given by Collaborans!
October 17, 2017 by Gustavo Noronha | Blog
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the Web Engines Hackfest, hosted by Igalia at their offices in A Coruña, and also sponsored by my employer, Collabora, Google and Mozilla. It has grown a lot and we had many new people this year.
October 06, 2017 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog
In this post, I will show one more example of how easy it is to disrupt performance of a modern CPU, and also run a quick discussion on why performance matters - as well as present a few cases where it shouldn't matter.
September 25, 2017 by Mark Filion | News & Events
This week, Collabora is heading to the city of lights, Paris, to sponsor and attend the very first (and sold-out!) edition of Embedded Recipes, as well as the 6th edition of Kernel Recipes!
February 11, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog
Check out the new GNOME Programming Guidelines and file bugs in Bugzilla.
February 05, 2015 by Danilo Cesar | Blog
A brief discussion about Crosswalk's JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance
February 03, 2015 by Sjoerd Simons | Blog
Debian Jessie running on Raspberry Pi 2
February 02, 2015 by Marco Barisione | Blog
Raspberry PI 2 release announcement!
December 09, 2014 by Philip Withnall | Blog
Differences between pkg-config variables, the use of AX_PKG_CHECK_MODULES, and what to include in custom variables. automake and autoconf snippets are provided
October 31, 2014 by Philip Withnall | Blog
libnice upstream improvements done at Collabora
October 31, 2014 by Philip Withnall | Blog
Introductory talk on libnice (done as part of Collabora's tea time training)
October 12, 2014 by Javier Canillas | Blog
Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17
October 06, 2014 by Alban Crequy | Blog
Eight security issues were discovered, fixed and attributed a CVE.
October 01, 2014 by Philip Withnall | Blog
A discussion of dynamic relocation, position independent code, the -fPIC flag and how it affects generated assembly. The focus would be on the practical implications of it all, including when to (and when not to) use -fPIC.
September 01, 2014 by Marco Barisione | Blog
Collabora has been working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on various projects including a web browser optimised for the Raspberry Pi. Since the first beta release we have made huge improvements; now the browser is more responsive, it's faster, and…
August 27, 2014 by Nicolas Dufresne | Blog
A team at Samsung (and many core Linux contributors) started adding new type of drivers to the Linux Media Infrastructure API (also known as Video4Linux 2).
August 02, 2019 by Mark Filion | News & Events
This weekend, Collaborans are in São Paulo, Brazil, to take part in the third edition of Linux Developer Conference Brazil, a conference which aims to take the Brazilian Linux development community to the international level.
July 30, 2019 by Lubosz Sarnecki | News & Events
Today, we are very excited to announce xrdesktop, a new open source project sponsored by Valve, enabling interaction with traditional Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR.
July 25, 2019 by Andrej Shadura | News & Events
With DebConf19, the annual conference for Debian contributors and users, in full swing this week in Curitiba, Brazil, what better time to look at the contributions made by Collaborans to the latest Debian release!
July 17, 2019 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | News & Events
With 11 engineers authoring, reviewing and testing nearly 170 patches for this latest release, Collabora ranked 8th in the list of most active employers by lines changed, sharing ranks with some of the prominent employers in Linux kernel development.
June 21, 2019 by Jassie Badion | News & Events
For many, June 21, day of the Solstice, is a day of celebrations. At Collabora, we're also celebrating, as we take a moment to welcome all the newest members of our engineering and administration teams who've joined over the last year!
May 30, 2019 by Mark Filion | News & Events
A few days ago, coding began for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects. Along with four GStreamer and Wayland related projects, this year's edition also includes two Debian projects for which Collaborans will be mentors.
May 09, 2019 by André Almeida | News & Events
Earlier this week, Linux Kernel 5.1 was released, and with it came over 13,000 commits from developers all around the world, including Collaborans. This time around, no less than 12 different developers contributed commits (64), sign-offs (111) & more.
May 06, 2019 by Aaron Boxer | News & Events
After a year-long development cycle, the much anticipated release was made available recently. With it came a number of exciting new features we're especially proud of, including per-element latency tracer and support for planar or non-interleaved audio.
April 09, 2019 by Nicolas Dufresne | News & Events
Collabora contributes elements implementing the RIST Simple Profile to GStreamer. This specification adds retransmissions to RTP streams in a way that it compatible with existing broadcast encoders and decoders.
March 29, 2019 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Next week, Collaborans will be in Bangkok, Thailand, to participate in the 25th edition of Linaro Connect, a gathering of the world's leading open source engineers working on Arm. Tomeu Vizoso and Gustavo Padovan will be in attendance to present Panfrost.
March 18, 2019 by Jakob Bornecrantz | News & Events
Following the release of the OpenXR 0.90 Provisional Specification by The Khronos Group, Collabora is proud to announce Monado, an open source implementation of the newly released OpenXR spec.
March 13, 2019 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Tomorrow, March 14, Collabora will be in Düsseldorf, Germany, to take part and exhibit at the second edition of the Renesas European R-Car Consortium Forum!
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
September 28-29, Paris, France
October 17-19, A Coruña, Spain


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On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In a 5–4 opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the Court broadly held that:
(1) no distinction can be drawn between the First Amendment rights of individuals and corporations in the electoral context, and that
(2) "independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption." Id. at 42.
Accordingly, the Court overruled Austin and part of McConnell, and invalidated all state and federal laws preventing corporations from using general treasury funds for political spending or otherwise regulating corporate independent electioneering expenditures.
The Majority Opinion:
Justice Kennedy found that the Government has
"muffle[d] the voices that best represent the most significant segments of the economy.' And 'the electorate [has been] deprived of information, knowledge and opinion vital to its function." (38)
The Dissent:
Justice Stevens penned a forceful dissent:
"Essentially, five Justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law." (6)
"The Framers thus took it as a given that corporations could be comprehensively regulated in the service of the public welfare. Unlike our colleagues, they had little trouble distinguishing corporations from human beings, and when they constitutionalized the right to free speech in the First Amendment, it was the free speech of individual Americans that they had in mind." (37)
"At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." (90)
The Brennan Center's Amicus Brief
On July 31, 2009, the Brennan Center for Justice – serving as counsel for itself, the Center for Independent Media, blogger Zack Exley, the Editorial Board of political blog Calitics.com, Laura McGann, editor of the Washington Independent, and New York technology and art center Eyebeam – filed a supplemental amicus curiae brief in Citizens United v. FEC. The brief urged the Supreme Court to preserve landmark precedents that support limits on corporate spending in elections. Both institutions and individuals who use new technologies to comment on federal elections joined the brief in an effort to address concerns raised by those seeking to overturn the law regarding the impact that campaign finance rules have on journalists, bloggers and other non-traditional media.
Supplemental Brief of the Brennan Center for Justice and New Media Journalists
Brennan Center Legal Director Burt Neuborne, with four former officials from the American Civil Liberties Union, also submitted a brief (here) that, along with the Brennan Center brief, was noted in the 8/29/2009 New York Times article covering the case.
Background on the Case
In the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, Citizens United, a non-profit corporation, produced a 90-minute documentary entitled Hillary: The Movie. The film criticized Hillary Clinton at a time when she was the top contender in the Presidential Democratic primary. Citizens United intended to show the film by purchasing airtime to run the video using video-on-demand technology.
Section 203 of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (popularly known as "McCain-Feingold") prohibits corporations from using their general treasury funds to fund "electioneering communications" in the 30 days before a primary and the 60 days before a general election. "Electioneering communications" are defined as broadcast advertisements that clearly identify a candidate for federal office and target a significant portion of the relevant electorate. Citizens United filed an as-applied challenge against Section 203 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief holding that Hillary: The Movie could not be constitutionally classified as an electioneering communication.
On June 29, 2009, rather than issuing a decision in the case, the Supreme Court ordered additional argument and directed parties to file supplemental briefs addressing the question of whether, to resolve this case, it is necessary to overturn either or both Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990), which upheld a regulation on corporate treasury fund spending in Michigan state elections, and the part of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), 540 U.S. 93 (2003), which upheld the "electioneering communications" section of BCRA, 2 U.S.C. § 441b.
Related Articles/Media Appearances by Brennan Center Staff
01/28/2010 "Schwarz: Public Financing of Races: If It Can Make It There …", Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., Roll Call
01/22/2010, "Campaign finance ruling reflects Supreme Court's growing audacity", Michael Waldman, Washington Post
01/21/2010, "Bigger Than Bush v. Gore", Michael Waldman, New York Times
01/10/2010, "Giving corporations an outsized voice in elections", Monica Youn, L.A. Times
10/22/2009, "Shareholders Should Hear About Political Spending", Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, BusinessWeek
09/28/2009, "Protect young voters—save campaign finance reform", Nate Frentz, Salon.com
09/08/2009, "McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Law – In Trouble?", Southern California Public Radio
09/03/2009, "Keep My Investments Out Of Politics", Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Forbes
Related News and Analysis
12/03/2009, "Citizens United, Corporate Personhood and the Constitution: CAC Releases Discussion Draft of New Report in Advance of Major Supreme Court Ruling", David Gans, Balkinization
11/07/2009, "Election Spending: Reformers on Flood Watch", Sara Jerome, NationalJournal.com
10/26/2009, "A World Without Rules", Eliza Newlin Carney, NationalJournal.com
09/30/2009, "Campaign Finance Laws Under Siege", Robert Schlesinger, U.S. News and World Report
09/08/2009, "U.S. Supreme Court Eyes Decades of Campaign Finance Laws", Daphne Eviatar, Washington Independent
08/29/2009, "Supreme Court to Revisit 'Hillary' Documentary", Adam Liptak, New York Times
03/22/2009, "Was Hillary Movie a Campaign Attack? High Court to Decide", Bart Jansen, CQ (Congressional Quarterly)
03/05/2009, "Documentary on Clinton Tests Campaign Finance Law", Adam Liptak, New York Times
Case History of Citizens United in the U.S. Supreme Court
November 14, 2008 – the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
January 8, 2009 – Appellant's brief filed. Download here.
February 17, 2009 – Appellee's brief filed. To download the brief, with Edwin S. Kneedler as counsel of record, go here.
March 17, 2009 – reply brief for the Appellant filed. Download here.
March 24, 2009 – the case was argued before the Court. Click here to download transcript of the oral argument.
The Court's order for reargument and supplemental briefing can be found here.
July 24, 2009 – Appellee's supplemental brief filed. Download here.
July 24, 2009 – Appellant's supplemental brief filed. Download here.
January 21, 2010 – The Court issues a ruling and opinion. Download here.
Other Case Documents
For an exhaustive database of court filings at both the appellate and district levels, including access to the 40 other supplemental amici briefs, please visit the Federal Election Commission's Citizens United webpage.


text: As we've seen in recent years, natural disasters can lead to long-term downtime for organizations. Because earthquakes, hurricanes, snow storms or other events can put data centers and other corporate facilities out of commission for a while, it's vital that companies have in place a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.Disaster recovery (DR) is a subset of business continuity (BC), and like BC, it's being influenced by some of the key trends in the IT industry. Foremost among these are:cloud services,server and desktop virtualization,the proliferation of mobile devices in the workforceand the growing popularity of social networking as a business tool.These trends are forcing many organizations to rethink how they plan, test and execute their DR strategies. CSO previously looked at how these trends are specifically affecting IT business continuity; as with BC, much of the impact they are having on DR is for the better. Still, IT and security executives need to consider how these developments can best be leveraged so that they improve, rather than complicate, DR efforts.Here's a look at how these four trends are having an impact on IT disaster recovery.Cloud ServicesAs organizations use more internal and external cloud services, they're finding that these resources can become part of a disaster recovery strategy.Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., provides numerous private cloud services to internal users and customers. It also hosts services for 17 school districts and large enterprise clients."The cloud configuration allows us to perform software upgrades across the multiple tenant systems quickly, easily and without disruptions," says Bill Thirsk, vice president of IT and CIO at the college."Because our storage is virtualized, we can replicate data across SANS [storage-area networks] that we have placed strategically on our campus in numerous locations and in our data center [in Syracuse, N.Y.] A loss of a SAN means only that production operations switches over to another."Because Marist can perform server-level backups across partitions, it can move data from one server platform to another should an event occur, Thirsk says.There's big potential value in cloud-based DR services, says Rachel Dines, senior analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, at Forrester Research in Cambridge Mass.To date, adoption of these offerings has been low, Dines says, "but there is a huge amount of interest and planning going on at end-user companies. Instead of buying resources in case of a disaster, cloud computing and its pay-per-use pricing model allows companies to pay for long-term data storage while only paying for servers if they have a need to spin them up for a disaster or test."Cloud-based DR has the potential to give companies lower costs yet faster recovery, with easier testing and more flexible contracts, Dines says.In a 2012 report from Forrester, the firm says cloud-based DR threatens to shake legacy approaches and offer a viable alternative to organizations that previously couldn't afford to implement disaster recovery or found it to be a burdensome task.Perhaps the biggest downside to the cloud from the standpoint of DR are concerns surrounding security and privacy management."You still see with some major events, such as the lightning strike in Dublin [in 2011] that took out the cloud services of Amazon and Microsoft, that there can be some temporary loss of service," says John Morency, research vice president at research firm Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. "The cloud shouldn't be considered 100% foolproof. If organizations do need that 100% availability guaranteed they need to put some serious thought into what they need to develop for contingencies."A growing number of larger companies with complex IT infrastructures are putting in private clouds and using these as part of their disaster recovery strategies, rather than relying on public cloud services, Morency says. "They worry about being left out in the cold during a disaster" if service providers are not able to provide service, he says.Morency notes that this is only true in the case of DR subscription services that provide floor space and actual equipment at a specific geographical location. "Given the more distributed and virtual nature of public clouds, this is much less of an issue," he says.What the cloud has done for traditional disaster recovery service providers is make testing of their backup capabilities more flexible and less costly, Morency says.Next page: VirtualizationVirtualizationFor many organizations, server virtualization has become a key compnent of the DR strategy, because it enables greater flexibility with computing resources."Virtualization has the potential to speed up the implementation of a disaster recovery strategy and the actual recovery in case of a disaster," says Ariel Silverstone, an independent information security consultant and former CISO of Expedia, who blogs at www.ArielSilverstone.com."It also has the ability to make disaster recovery more of an IT function rather than a corporate audit-type function," Silverstone says. "If you have the right policies and processes in place, [with virtualization] disaster recovery can become part of automatically deploying any server."Virtualization enables companies to create an image of an entire data center that can be quickly activated\u2014in part or in whole\u2014when needed, at a relatively low cost, Silverstone says.For Teradyne Inc., a North Reading, Mass., supplier of test equipment for electronic systems, virtualization has been an enabler for a much improved DR capability, says Chuck Ciali, CIO."We have leveraged virtualization for DR significantly," Ciali says. Using virtualization technology from VMware, Teradyne can seamlessly fail over to redundant blade servers in the case of hardware problems. It can also use the technology to move workloads from its commercial data center to its research and development data center in case of disasters."This has taken our recovery time from weeks [or] days under our former tape-based model to hours for critical workloads," and saves $300,000 per year in DR contract services, Ciali says.Marist College has deployed virtualization, and one of the benefits is avoiding systems unavailability. "We do all we can to avoid any event that would cause users dissatisfaction, loss of access or loss of functionality," Thirsk says. "To do so, we utilize massive virtualization of our processors, our network topology and our storage."Because Marist IT can now provide a virtual server, virtual network and spin out storage, "our systems assurance activities move along at a very rapid rate," Thirsk says."If at any point of testing something goes horribly wrong, we can decide to trash it and start over or continue forward, all without much trouble at all on the system side."On the whole, server virtualization has made DR a lot easier, Dines says. "Because virtual machines are much more portable than physical machines and they can be easily booted on disparate hardware, a lot of companies are using virtualization as a critical piece of their recovery efforts," she says.There are lots of offerings in the market that can perform tasks such as automating rapid virtual machine rebooting, replicating virtual machines at the hypervisor layer with heterogeneous storage, and turning backups of physical or virtual machines into bootable virtual machines, Dines says."Ultimately, virtualization means companies can get a faster RTO [recovery time objective] for less money," she says.On the downside, the popularity of virtualization has led to virtual machine sprawl at many organizations, which can make DR more complex. "Companies have the [virtualization] structure in place that gives them the ability to create many more images, including some they do not even know about or plan for," Silverstone says. "And they can do so very quickly."Another potential negative is that virtualization might give organizations a false sense of security. "People may fail to plan properly for disaster recovery, assuming that everything will be handled by virtualization," Silverstone says. "There are certain machines that for various reasons are not likely to be virtualized, so using virtualization does not replace the need for proper disaster recovery planning and testing."Next page: Mobile devices in the workplaceMobile Devices in the WorkforceFrom a disaster recovery standpoint the growing use of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets facilitates the continuation of IT operations and business processes even after a disaster strikes."People will carry their mobile devices with them," says George Muller, vice president, sales planning, supply chain & IT at Imperial Sugar Co, Sugar Land, Texas, a processor and marketer of refined sugar.More about managing and securing mobile devicesMDM: Part of your mobile security solution? Malware exploding, especially on mobile devices5 questions to ask about tablet security"I might not carry my laptop wherever I go, but if all of a sudden we've got a disaster I've probably got my Blackberry in my shirt pocket. Anything that facilitates connectivity in a ubiquitous way is a plus."One of the positive impacts of the prevalence of mobile devices is that it gives people a greater ability to work remotely and communicate using their devices in an emergency, says Malcolm Harkins, vice president of the IT group and CISO at microprocessor manufacturer Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif.But mobile device proliferation has also made disaster recovery slightly more complex, Dines says. "Along with mobile devices comes more data center infrastructure, such as mobile device management and [products] such as the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which are often very critical," she says. "This becomes one more system that must be planned for and properly protected."Another possible negative with mobility in a disaster recovery scenario is that some critical enterprise applications, such as payroll, might not be available for mobile devices, Silverstone says.Harkins notes that there are potential security risks, such as non-encrypted mobile devices being lost or stolen, and unauthorized access to corporate networks from these devices. But these risks can be overcome by the ability to wipe out data on devices remotely over the internet.Next page: Social networkingSocial NetworkingLike mobile devices, social networking gives people another way to stay in contact during or after a disaster."We've seen instances such as a couple of years ago when we had major snow storms on the east coast and a lot businesses shut down and employees kept in touch with each other via Facebook and Twitter vs. email," Morency says.In some cases it might take days or weeks for a corporate data center to recover after a disaster. And if the company is relying on internal email systems that might put email service out of commission, Morency says."Assuming that either public or wireless networks are still available you can now be using social media to communicate, as an alternative to in-house email which may not be available," Morency says."If you're using a service like Gmail than it's less of an issue. But if you're using an Exchange-based internal email or directory services, than social media may be a more available alternative."During a recent disaster test that Marist College performed, "we were curious to see how social networking would be used in case of an actual event," Thirsk says. Early one early morning the IT department launched an unannounced disaster drill. "While we had warned staff we would be doing this, they had no idea how real we were going to make it," he says.First, Thirsk sent a message that the college was experiencing a massive system failure. Due to building conditions, staffers could not report to their work place or to the data center. "We shut down our enterprise communications systems and then watched how the staff responded," Thirsk says.Managers quickly began communicating to their staff via outside email accounts, chat rooms, Facebook and Twitter. "They even found my personal email account off campus and began messaging me," Thirsk says.In a matter of 20 minutes, all staff had reported to a command center in the campus library, where they were tasked with performing a number of system checks, verifications and processes. "All of this activity occurred using alternate communications methods," Thirsk says. "We documented this exercise and now use it as part of our plan."Forrester says there are several reasons why social networking should play a role in an emergency communications strategy. For one thing, social technology adoption is increasing, and a greater portion of employees and customers have continuous access to social sites such as Twitter and Facebook.In addition, social channels are essentially free. It costs very little to set up a Facebook, Twitter or Yammer profile, recruit followers, and send out status updates.Social media sites can also facilitate mass communication with external parties, the firm says. Typically, during a crisis immediate communication is limited to internal staff. However, companies should also plan for situations that call for communication with partners, customers, public officials and the public at large. Social media sites make it easy to establish these external connections.Finally, the environment of social discussions provides mass mobilization and situational awareness. The value of social networking sites offers unique advantages in the crisis communications arena, Forrester says.One downside of social networks for disaster recovery is that social networking "by its very nature has the ability to increase FUD\u2014fear, uncertainty and doubt," Silverstone says. "So I would advise companies that they need to have a policy in place [on how to use social networks] long before a disaster happens, and think about many different possibilities and manage all access and data sharing on social networks like any other communication effort."


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The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia met Tuesday, but their open disagreements did nothing to suggest a diplomatic solution was near.
Diplomacy was to be taken up again on Wednesday during a meeting in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, whose country currently chairs the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Russia and the West have expressed a desire for the OSCE to play a greater role in defusing the tensions in Ukraine.
Ukrainian military operations that began Monday to expunge pro-Russia forces from the city of Slovyansk were the interim government's most ambitious effort so far to quell weeks of unrest in Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking east.
Four government troops and 30 militants were killed in the gunbattles, Ukraine's interior minister said Tuesday. The pro-Russia militia said 10 people were killed, including civilians. There was no immediate way to reconcile the figures.
In the southwest, Kiev authorities also attempted to reassert control over the region around Odessa, a major Black Sea port, by appointing a new governor on Tuesday.
This nation of 46 million was thrown into a political crisis after its Moscow-leaning president, whose base was in eastern Ukraine, fled to Russia in February following months of protests in Kiev. Across the region in recent weeks, armed insurgents who have seized dozens of government buildings and police stations are now at odds with western and central Ukraine, which seek closer ties with Europe and largely back the government in Kiev.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov gave the death toll on his Facebook page Tuesday, adding that 20 government troops were also injured during fighting in Slovyansk. He said about 800 pro-Russia forces in and around Slovyansk used large-caliber weapons and mortars on Monday.
By Tuesday morning, Ukrainian forces had taken hold of a key checkpoint north of the city, dealing a blow to insurgent lines of communication.
In Donetsk, a major city 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Slovyansk, the airport was closed during the day to international flights following a government order but reopened later.
In the afternoon, about 30 pro-Russia militants armed with automatic rifles and grenade launchers surrounded an Interior Ministry base in Donetsk, demanding that the troops inside not join any government operations against pro-Russia forces. While it was unclear whether they would attack, besieging the base was an uptick in their offensive.
In Odessa, Kiev authorities announced Tuesday they were firing the acting governor and replacing him with a member of parliament, Ihor Palytsya. Odessa's police chief was also fired over the weekend.
Concern that Odessa could be the next region to fall grew after 46 people died Friday, many in a building fire, after a pro-Ukraine march in Odessa turned into a melee of fighting. Two days later, 67 people detained in the rioting were released by police under pressure from an angry crowd.
Opposing sides of the Ukraine conflict have traded bitter recriminations over the Odessa deaths. As residents gathered on Tuesday to lay flowers near the scorched building, they remained confused about exactly what caused the fire and were suspicious of the police forces who did not try to stop the bloodshed, for whatever reason.
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3 hrs
176 m
Moderate track
(0km) West Head road (start) → Int. of Towlers Bay & Bairne Tracks
2.5 km
46 mins
Moderate track
(2.53km) Int. of Towlers Bay & Bairne Tracks → Lookout (end)
1.3 km
23 mins
Moderate track
Maps for the Bairne Track to the Basin Lookout walkYou can download the PDF for this walk to print a map.
These maps below cover the walk and the wider area around the walk, they are worth carrying for safety reasons.
|Broken Bay
|1:25 000 Map Series
|Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Tourist Map
|1:40 000 Map Series
|CMA Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Tourist Map
|CMA Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park Tourist Map
|1:100 000 Map Series
Cross sectional view of the Bairne Track to the Basin Lookout bushwalking track
Analysis and summary of the altitude variation on the Bairne Track to the Basin Lookout
Overview of this walks grade – based on the AS 2156.1 – 2001
Under this standard, a walk is graded based on the most difficult section of the walk.
|7.6 km
|3 hrs
Grade 3/6
Moderate track
|Gentle hills with occasional steps (2/6)
|Quality of track
|Clear and well formed track or trail (2/6)
|Directional signs along the way (3/6)
|Experience Required
|No experience required (1/6)
|Weather generally has little impact on safety (1/6)
|Limited facilities, not all cliffs are fenced (3/6)
Some more details of this walks Grading
Here is a bit more details explaining grading looking at sections of the walk
This whole walk, 3.8km has gentle hills with occasional steps.
Quality of track
This whole walk, 3.8km follows a clear and well formed track or trail.
This whole walk, 3.8km has directional signs at most intersection.
Experience Required
This whole walk, 3.8km requires no previous bushwalking experience.
This whole walk, 3.8km is not usually affected by severe weather events (that would unexpectedly impact safety and navigation).
This whole walk, 3.8km has limited facilities (such as not all cliffs fenced).
Similar walks
6.8 km Return
2 hrs 30 mins
Moderate track
Other Nearby walks
This is a pleasant walk along an old management trail, off West Head Rd. Following the ridge top you will pass through a variety of vegetation types including some dense heath and some tall scribbly gums which occasionally give way to a wide view over the park. There is a nice lookout at the end of the walk with views to Cowan Waters, through the trees.
Total climbing: 127m
3.8 km Return
1 hr 30 mins
Moderate track
This short walk has a great range of scenery, making it a great choice if you have only a short time in this National Park. This track one of two ways to access America Bay – the other is by boat. The track cuts straight through the bush from West Head Rd to pass historic Aboriginal engravings and a large cliff with a small waterfall, which also gives an impressive view of the bay.
Total climbing: 130m
2.2 km Return
1 hr 15 mins
Hard track
This short walk is a great way to see a slice of what Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park has on offer. The track visits some historic Aboriginal engravings, and enjoys water views, heath and forest environments. The America Bay track also throws in a waterfall for your enjoyment – from the top of the fall, walkers won't see much of the fall itself, however the outlook is lovely and the walk very enjoyable.
Total climbing: 76m
1.9 km Return
45 mins
Moderate track
On this walk you will visit the highest point in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. At the top of the hill is an old trig point and some stunning panoramic view. On a clear day, there is an uninterrupted 180-degree view across large parts of the park, including Pittwater to the east and distant glimpses of Sydney city on the horizon, far to the south.
Total climbing: 62m
1.4 km Return
40 mins
Moderate track
This walk explores another ridge of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and heads down a steep hill to the Towler's Bay community. You can explore the village and the ferry wharf before walking past the Youth Hostel on the walk back up. The Youth Hostel is available for an overnight stay, but book ahead. Please remember you are visiting a small community please respect the privacy of the local people.
Total climbing: 402m
8.4 km Circuit
4 hrs
Moderate track
This scenic walk gives an excellent excuse for a ferry ride in Sydney's northern beaches region. The ferry leaves from Palm Beach Ferry Terminal, and crosses Pittwater to The Basin Wharf. The walk then heads around to Mackerel Beach and passes an optional side trip to some historic and interesting Aboriginal engravings. The scenic water views are complemented by the on-water views from a second ferry back to Palm Beach from Mackerel Wharf.
Total climbing: 200m
Note: There is no car transport option to or from this walk.
4.5 km One way
1 hr 45 mins
Hard track
3 km Return
1 hr 15 mins
Moderate track
This walk takes one of two main tracks down to Mackerel Beach. The track leaves West Head Rd, passing some historic Aboriginal engravings before descending to the beach. The track loops around the small community of Mackerel Beach to come back down the beach and return to West Head Rd. A nice An optional side trip to Currawong Beach makes a nice addition to this walk.
Total climbing: 299m
8.2 km Return
3 hrs
Hard track
This walk is a great way to see some popular areas in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The walk from West Head Rd travels to The Basin campsite, and the ferry takes you over to Mackerel Beach. Before returning to West Head Rd, the walk also gives the option to head down to Currawong Beach. There is plenty to do at the beach, with swimming and picnic areas, and clearings for other games.
Total climbing: 226m
5.9 km Circuit
3 hrs
Hard track
The Basin Track is the only land access to The Basin, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park's only campsite. The walk follows mostly management trail and heads across the plateau away from West Head Rd, with a great side trip to Aboriginal rock engravings and The Basin Dam. This is a nice walk, heading through the heath of the plateau and down through the forest to the large campsite and facilities of The Basin. The Basin itself is a great place for a swim or overnight stay. There is a ferry service from the Basin.
Total climbing: 218m
5.6 km Return
2 hrs 30 mins
Moderate track
This walk makes a circuit from West Head Rd around the Salvation Loop track in Ku-ring-gai Chase NP. The walk passes through wet heathland vegetation and around a hanging swamp. The thick heath vegetation along the track means that the views are mostly restricted, however it is still a nice walk with wildflowers in spring, plenty of scribbly gums and some rock outcrops to explore. The full length of this walk is on road or well-defined management trail.
Total climbing: 80m
4 km Circuit
1 hr 30 mins
Moderate track
Plan your trip to and from the walk hereThe Bairne Track to the Basin Lookout walk starts and ends at the West Head road (start) (gps: -33.607808, 151.26982)
Your main transport option to West Head road (start) is by;
Car. A park entry fee is required for driving into the park.
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Fire DangerEach park may have its own fire ban, this rating is only valid for today and is based on information from the RFS Please check the RFS Website for more information.
Weather ForestThis walk starts in the Metropolitan weather district always check the formal BOM forecast or pdf before starting your walk.
Forecast snapshot
Park Information & Alerts
Short URL = http://wild.tl/btttbasl
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There are other downloads I am still working on.
You will probably need to login to access these — still all free.
* KML (google earth file)
* GPX (GPS file)
Special Maps/ brochures
* A3 topo maps
* PDF with Lands Topo map base
* PDF with arial image (and map overlay)
I wanted to get the main site live first, this extra stuff will come in time.
Happy walking
Matt 🙂