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- 1 Eclipse Scout (Juno Release)
- 1.1 Scout Release Review Documentation
- 1.2 Planning Document
- 1.3 New and Noteworthy
- 1.4 End-of-Life
- 1.5 Bugzilla Tickets
- 1.6 Target Environment
- 1.7 Compatibility with Previous Releases
- 1.8 Support for Eclipse 3.8 workbench
- 1.9 Build Process
- 1.10 Ramp down Policy
- 1.11 Unit Tests
- 1.12 Current Project Metrics
- 1.13 Previous Release Documentation
Eclipse Scout (Juno Release)
This Wiki page is to cover the relevant aspects to fulfill the release review as described here for Eclipse Scout release 3.8 (Juno).
- Eclipse Scout is a mature and open framework for modern, service oriented business applications.
- Scout substantially boosts developer productivity and is simple to learn.
- User friendly applications are straight forward to implement with Scout's comprehensive set of user interface components.
- Completely based on Java/Eclipse, Scout Applications are easy to integrate in most IT environments.
Useful Links
- Plan: Juno project plan
- Schedule: Juno RT schedule
- Reports: Simrel reports
Scout Release Review Documentation
- Scout Juno Documentation - todo
Planning Document
Link to project plan as [XML document]
New and Noteworthy
With Scout 3.8 (Juno Release):
- Scout integration for Apache Axis (web services) is no longer supported. As a replacement, we implemented JAX-WS integration into both Scout runtime and the Scout SDK. See the corresponding entry in our forum
Bugzilla Tickets
- Tickets in Scout 3.8.0
Target Environment
All of Eclipse Scout is "pure" Java code and has no direct dependence on the underlying operating system. The chief dependence is therefore on the Java Runtime (JRE) itself. For Juno the following JREs are supported:
- Oracle Java 6
- Oracle Java 7
Beside the JRE Eclipse Scout also requires a compatible Eclipse platform. For Juno release of Scout the following Eclipse platforms are supported:
- Eclipse Galileo (3.5) Limited support only: Scout Web UI (RAP) is not supported.
- Eclipse Helios (3.6)
- Eclipse Indigo (3.7)
- Eclipse Juno (3.8 / 4.2)
The RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) UI for Eclipse Scout requires at least the following browser versions:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
- Mozilla Firefox 9
- Google Chrome 16
- Apple Safari 5
Compatibility with Previous Releases
To do (jgu), see [requirements]
Support for Eclipse 3.8 workbench
While Juno plans to provide Eclipse 4.2 as the primary platform, the Eclipse Project will also be providing a 3.8 based version as well. This is done since it is anticipated some adopters may not be able to move to 4.2 right away, and may need to wait for their own "release train" to get lined up.
We will support our adopters in a similar way: Eclipse Scout will support 3.8 as a secondary platform (while 4.2 will be the primary platform). But we anticipate having only one stream of development. Scout will continue to work with the 3.8 and 4.2 platform, using the compatibility layer, and no 4.2 specific APIs. For Juno we will make sure that Scout will also compile against 3.8 to ensure that we do not introduce new API useage that breaks on 3.8.
However, We will not actively test Scout against 3.8. but will focus our Juno testing efforts on 4.2. We will accept bugs as equally valid if they are reported when running on either 3.8 or 4.2. We will provide this type of one-stream, dual-platform support for Juno and its two coordinated maintenance releases.
Build Process
To do (jgu)
Ramp down Policy
We use daily builds. No API changes after M6, no new features after M7. In the RC phase only bugs marked P2 or higher or severity major or higher will be fixed.
Unit Tests
Unit tests are executed during the nightly build of Eclipse Scout RT and Eclipse Scout SDK. The test suites contain simple unit tests as well as GUI tests. The latter are based on Scout's testing support bundles which is built on top of java.awt.Robot. Therefore our GUI tests require a fully-fledged desktop environment. The tests are currently executed on BSI's infrastructure.
Current Project Metrics
project metrics for Eclipse Scout provided on [ohloh]
Previous Release Documentation
- Indigo Overview - Indigo documentation


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Experience a hands-on journey through the fascinating history of the American railroad. Rail travel has united Americans from coast to coast, shaping the destiny of the Kansas City region and the nation. This exhibit shares the sights and sounds from the golden age of rail travel, including a locomotive simulator that offers an engineer's view of the rails. Personal histories and unique artifacts bring to life a great American tradition.

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When children are very young, parents have no shortage of information about how to ensure the safety of their precious offspring. Most know to keep small objects out of reach, vigilantly heed recall notices for cribs and strollers, and research the right child restraint for the family vehicle.
But what happens when those kids, who just yesterday were taking their first steps, reach that other mobility milestone — getting their first car? Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers, and the type of vehicle a teenager drives has a big effect on the degree of risk. Nevertheless, many teenagers are driving — and dying in — the least protective types of vehicles, new studies from IIHS and HLDI show. Parents need more information about which vehicles are the safest choices for young drivers.
IIHS is known for its ratings of new vehicles, but for many families, a 2014 TOP SAFETY PICK or TOP SAFETY PICK+ isn't in the budget for a teen's vehicle. In a national phone survey conducted for IIHS of parents of teen drivers, 83 percent of those who bought a vehicle for their teenagers said they bought it used.
With that reality in mind, the Institute has compiled a list of affordable used vehicles that meet important safety criteria for teen drivers (see below). There are two tiers of recommended vehicles with options at various price points, ranging from less than $5,000 to nearly $20,000, so parents can buy the most safety for their money, whatever their budget.
"A teenager's first car is more than just a financial decision," says IIHS President Adrian Lund. "These lists of recommended used vehicles can help consumers factor in safety, in addition to affordability."
The recommendations are guided by four main principles:
In the survey of parents, the mean purchase price for a teen's vehicle was about $9,800, while the median was just $5,300. There are many options on the recommended list for under $10,000 but just three that cost less than $5,300.
"Unfortunately, it's very difficult to get a safe vehicle for a teenager at the prices most people are paying," says Anne McCartt, IIHS senior vice president for research. "Our advice to parents would be to remember the risks teens take and consider paying a little more."
All of the recommended used vehicles have standard ESC and provide good protection in moderate overlap front crashes. Those considered "best choices" for under $20,000 also have good ratings for side crash protection, good head restraints and seats for rear crash protection, and good roof strength to protect occupants in rollover crashes. Vehicles considered "good choices" for under $10,000 have good or acceptable side crash protection and head restraints rated better than poor.
The good choices list is meant to provide consumers with a wider array of affordable options. However, compared with the best choices, this second-tier list is somewhat limited and includes many low-volume vehicles that may be hard to find.
"For the list of good choices, we compromised on the things we thought we could compromise on. Standard ESC is not one of those things, and that, frankly, is what is keeping this list so short," Lund says. "That's how important we believe this feature is."
ESC is an offshoot of antilock braking systems that prevents sideways skidding and loss of control that can lead to rollovers and other kinds of crashes. The technology monitors how a vehicle responds to steering input and selectively applies the brakes and modulates engine power to keep the vehicle on the right path. ESC reduces fatal single-vehicle crash risk by about half and fatal multiple-vehicle crash risk by one-fifth (see "Stability control reduces fatal crash risk by a third," June 19, 2010).
Vehicles that have been rated by NHTSA were included in the recommended lists only if they earned four or five stars in the front and side tests under the agency's original testing regime or an overall rating of four or five stars under the newer, more stringent rating system that began with 2011 models. One vehicle, the Hyundai Santa Fe, was excluded from the list of best choices because its 2012 model had an overall rating of just three stars.
High-horsepower vehicles also were left off the lists, but many of the recommended models have high-horsepower versions that should be avoided. The base engines of all the listed vehicles have adequate power for teens.
Parents who don't find a suitable vehicle from the lists of recommended models should seek out a midsize or larger car, an SUV or a minivan with the most safety they can afford. Besides ESC, specific things to look for in a used vehicle are side airbags and low horsepower. In some cases, it may be possible to find an ESC-equipped vehicle for a model on which the technology was optional. Those models aren't included in the recommended lists because equipped vehicles can be difficult to locate. Keep in mind that SUVs and pickups are particularly risky when not equipped with ESC because they are the most prone to rollover crashes. Information about the availability of ESC and side airbags can be found here.
All of the best choices among the recommended used vehicles and many of the good choices on the list are prior winners of the Institute's TOP SAFETY PICK award.
However, most of these vehicles wouldn't meet the current TOP SAFETY PICK criteria. In addition to good ratings in the moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests, 2014 winners must have a good or acceptable rating in the Institute's newest crash test, the small overlap front test, which replicates what happens when one edge of the vehicle's front hits another vehicle or an object such as a tree or pole. Until recently, few manufacturers designed vehicles with this kind of crash in mind, though many are doing so now because of the IIHS test.
Although there are few affordable used vehicles with good small overlap protection today, in a few years it will be easier to factor in ratings from this new evaluation. Parents whose children still are years away from driving should consider planning ahead for that day. If possible, when buying the next family vehicle, choose one with the most up-to-date safety features, with an eye to giving it to your teenager to drive when the time comes. Look for an IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK or TOP SAFETY PICK+ winner that also earns at least 4 of 5 stars from NHTSA.
BEST CHOICES: Recommended used vehicles for teens starting under $20,000
Vehicles on this list earn good ratings in the IIHS moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests. If rated by NHTSA, they earn 4 or 5 stars overall or 4 or 5 stars in the front and side tests under the old rating scheme. All come with standard ESC.
Prices, rounded to the nearest $100, were taken from Kelley Blue Book on July 1, 2014, for the lowest trim level and earliest applicable model year based on the following criteria: vehicle in good condition, typical mileage and private party purchase in Arlington, Va.
GOOD CHOICES: Recommended used vehicles for teens starting under $10,000
Vehicles on this list earn good ratings in the IIHS moderate overlap front test and good or acceptable ratings in the side test. If rated by NHTSA, they earn 4 or 5 stars overall or 4 or 5 stars in the front and side tests under the old rating scheme. They also have standard ESC and a better-than-poor rating for head restraints and seats.
Note: Some listed models include a "built after" date. This applies when a manufacturer makes changes to improve safety in the middle of a model year. Information about when a specific vehicle was manufactured can be found on the certification label typically affixed to the driver door or near it.
Teens' high risk of crashing is amplified by certain vehicles, and teens are more likely than other drivers to have the least safe types of cars, new studies show.
There are good options under $10,000, but many people spend much less on vehicles for their teens. Parents are encouraged to consider safety in addition to price.
Parents who don't find a suitable vehicle from the lists of recommended models should seek out a midsize or larger car, an SUV or a minivan with the most safety they can afford. Besides ESC, specific things to look for in a used vehicle are side airbags and low horsepower.
Valued at about $7,000, the 2005 Volvo XC90 is the least expensive vehicle on the list of best choices. It also happens to be one of the few vehicles on the list to meet current IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK criteria, thanks to a good rating for small overlap front protection. Only four other best choices have good or acceptable small overlap protection, dating back to the earliest model year listed. They are the Volvo S80, Chrysler 200, Dodge Avenger and Mitsubishi Outlander Sport.
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Containment of Northern California wildfire that destroyed 68 homes increases to 80 percent
REDDING, Calif. – Fire crews have increased containment of a wildfire that destroyed nearly 70 homes in rural Northern California.
Officials say the Clover Fire in Shasta County was 80 percent contained Friday morning. There was no change in the tally of homes destroyed.
That number nearly doubled Thursday to 68, as crews got a better assessment of damaged areas.
One person has been found dead in the fire's perimeter.
Road closures that were preventing some residents from returning home were lifted Thursday. Other evacuations remain in place.
The fire has burned 12 ½ square miles. Full containment is expected by Sunday.


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NASA's MAVEN Mars probe ROARS into orbit. NASA's Mars probe MAVEN has successfully sneaked through its weather window and launched from Cape Canaveral at 13.28pm ET on Monday, before heavy weather could roll in and delay the launch.
Scientists and engineers at the agency and Lockheed Martin have spent the last five years building the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft (MAVEN), a 2.5-ton orbital platform that will probe what remains of the Red Planet's atmosphere to work out how Mars lived, and how we can live on it – as well as carry a small haiku payload.
Add into that was the problem of the recent government shutdown, which temporarily stalled work on MAVEN. There were fears that this would push its launch window back two years, but in the end a modicum of sanity won through and funding was found.
So it was with some relief that the twin-nozzles on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, running on rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen, fired off successfully, producing an estimated 860,200 pounds of thrust that lifted the rocket into orbit around Earth. After a four minute 17 second burn, the liquid hydrogen engines in the Centaur stage of the rocket took over and boosted MAVEN into orbit.
The probe and its rocket are now on a 10-minute coast phase before a second burn before the rocket detaches. If all goes well MAVEN will head off to Mars, getting there on 22 September, 2014 to begin its survey. The spacecraft will begin a series of elliptical orbits around Mars, sliding low into the upper atmosphere to give its instrument package information on the gases and ion data it finds.
At some point in the last few billion years Mars was a relatively fecund place, with liquid water on the surface and possibly the conditions for life to form. But the planet lost its atmosphere, and boffins at NASA want to know why and how. So MAVEN will look at what's left and see how it is escaping from the planet.
As important is understanding what comes in to the atmosphere, and what' if any protection it still provides for the surface. That's going to be crucial to deciding if mankind can safely explore the planet without serious risk to life and limb.
NASA will now focus on stabilizing the craft's course, opening up the solar panels, and firing up the probe's electronics. While the launch is one of the most dangerous phases getting into orbit doesn't give you any guarantees – ask anyone on the Phobos-Grunt team at the Russian space agency.
All systems are go on MAVEN and the probe is currently on course for Mars.
MAVEN successfully separated from its Centaur rocket stage 53 minutes and 18 seconds after launch and the internal electronics package, powered by lithium-ion batteries, started communications with ground control. NASA has successfully deployed the spacecraft's solar cells and all the telemetry is looking on target said the agency.
"We're currently about 14,000 miles away from Earth and heading out to the Red Planet right now," said MAVEN Project Manager David Mitchell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
At a press conference after the launch NASA said that it hopes – if the targeting was exactly right – to get a close up view of comet ISON, which is currently speeding its way through the Solar System. The ultraviolet detectors on MAVEN will be fired up and should send back useful data about the comet's progress and composition, and other sensors will relay data on conditions during the rest of the trip.
There now remains the piffling problem of successfully making the ten-month, 400 million-mile trip to Mars, then using the planet to slow itself and enter the right orbit, avoiding any software problems and/or hardware failures along the way. NASA has established a 10Mbps connection to the probe and will be updating software and mission data throughout its flight.
The first course correction is scheduled for December 3 and the expected arrival time is September 22 2014, whereupon it will spend five weeks firing up its three main instrument packages and checking they have survived the trip. It will also establish a link with the Curiosity rover to act as a data relay.
After than MAVEN will carry on sending back data for as long as possible, and based on NASA's experience that could be a very long time. The Mars Odyssey spacecraft is still working well after over 12 years in orbit and the pint-sized Opportunity rover will reach its ten-year anniversary of rolling over the Martian regolith in January.
source: www.theregister.co.uk


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Size 14 Is Not Fat Either (Heather Wells Mysteries #2) (Paperback)
William Morrow Paperbacks, 9780060525125, 368pp.
Publication Date: November 28, 2006
Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen—where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for—it's her torso that's AWOL.)
Surrounded by hysterical students—with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls—Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems—and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives—it's all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn't watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!
About the Author
Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana. In addition to her adult contemporary fiction, she is the author of the bestselling young adult fiction The Princess Diaries and The Mediator series. Over 25 million copies of her novels for children and adults have sold worldwide. Meg lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband.


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"Just as there is no perfect family, there is no perfect family vehicle that is just right for all families, all the time," says said Jack R. Nerad, executive editorial director and executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com.
"However, there are many great options available on the market today in various segments," he notes, and fortunately for those in the car-buying market, KBB.com has just provided their annual listing of the cars best suited for transporting families, large or small, and all that comes with them.
Click ahead to see the top 10 cars for families, presented in alphabetical order by brand.
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Posted 24 Feb 2011


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What's your fave Thanksgiving TV episode? Flavorpill has a list, which includes this gem from The Cosby Show. Poor Cliff. The Lucky Stop market probably had bulletproof glass. "Just put some whipped cream on it" is always a good rule to live by.
Another good one: From Buffy! Thanksgiving is a ritual sacrifice. With pie.
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Portland, OR (February 1, 2010) – The NIKE SNOWBOARDING sponsored project creates an elaborate alien structure to house the history of snowboarding. Nike Snowboarding's Brand Director Michael Hernandez commissioned Portland artist Brian Elliot to build a futuristic time capsule with contents curated by NEMO Design co-founder and snowboard photographer Trevor Graves.
Over the last several weeks the trio quietly put the ARIES2010 together in Portland, Oregon and are ready to launch on February 13, just one day after the Olympics opening ceremony.
"ARIES2010 is snowboarding's first time capsule, we want to celebrate snowboarding's history, product innovation and personalities," said Hernandez.
The capsule will house both historical elements and film that have served as the foundation for snowboarding. After being sealed up later this spring, it will reopen in ten years time. The designer of the craft, Brian Elliot relayed, that "Xenon gas inside the pod will ensure its contents are preserved in their original state."
Artists, photographers, iconic riders, and authors have contributed to the collection that tells the story of snowboarding. "The ARIES2010 show is about the nostalgia we all have for snowboarding's history, but also embracing the new things that will give us that same feeling in the future," said Graves.
Vancouver's The Boardroom will host the ARIES2010 physical capsule during its stay in Vancouver. The items to be housed in the capsule will be on display during two special events that connect snowboarding's heritage to its future. The opening and closing receptions of ARIES will include presentations by snowboarding legends Terry Kidwell, Dano Pendygrass, Ken Achenbach and Barrett Christy.
Opening Reception is scheduled for February 13, 2010, 8:00 pm – 12:00 am
Special press reception for the opening will be held from 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm
Closing Reception is scheduled for February 19, 2010, 8:00 pm – 12:00 am
Special press reception for the closing will be held from 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm
In addition, The Boardroom will host the ARIES2010 capsule in its window bank from February 13-19, 2010.
The Boardroom
1745 West 4th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J 1M2, Canada
Music, food, drink, history.
About NIKE SNOWBOARDING
Nike Snowboarding represents Nike's commitment to snowboarding. Through its world-class team of diverse riders and through its premium boots and outwear, the brand builds on the foundation of Nike's innovation heritage and strives to push snowboarding forward with function and style.
About NEMO
NEMO is a Portland-based integrated branding, marketing and design shop. NEMO's capabilities include brand strategy, design, motion graphics, interactive development, film, video, print and photography production. For more information on NEMO visit
About ENDO
ENDO publishing was established in 2006 with a singular goal of publishing books whose authors have a unique perspective about a topic. Publishing works that are true to culture; that inspire, provoke, and entertain.


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text: Elaborately adorned with inlays of bore and ivory, this German "Dag" - as early wheel-lock pistols were sometimes called - had a unique ball-butt feature that not only provided excellent balance for the heavy barrel, but allowed the pistol to be quickly wielded as a club. Cavalry forces armed with similar dags practiced a close-combat drill where mounted troopers discharged their barrels, reversed their pistols and swung them against padded targets. The Ball Butt Dag Pistol can be seen at the NRA National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.


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A Panoramic View of the Sky
A narrow slice of sky near the Big Dipper yielded a goldmine of at least 50,000 galaxies, which were spied by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble view is yielding new clues about the universe's youth, from its "pre-teen" years to young adulthood.
The image at left, taken by Akira Fujii with a backyard telescope, shows the location of the Hubble observations near the Big Dipper. The long, narrow image in the center is Hubble's panoramic view of the area, made by assembling 500 photographs taken over a one-year period. The 50,000 galaxies spied in the image are scattered across a region that is equivalent to the apparent diameter of two full Moons. The dimensions of the final mosaic are 21 images long by 3 images tall.
The image at right is a section of the panoramic photo.
A wide diversity of galaxies can be seen throughout both Hubble images. Some are beautiful spirals or massive elliptical galaxies like those seen in the nearby universe, but others look like random assemblages of material, the leftovers from violent mergers of young galaxies. These resemble some of the most distant, youngest galaxies observed.
The Hubble observation, made with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, is part of the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey, a collaborative effort using major ground-based and space-based telescopes to focus on a narrow swath of sky near the Big Dipper. The region offers a clear view of the distant universe.
Astronomers studying the Groth Strip find that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, such as gas and dust, collapsing under the force of gravity. More massive galaxies form stars early, whereas the smaller galaxies create their stars over longer timescales. Both normal-looking, undisturbed galaxies and those showing signs of catastrophic collisions were forming an abundance of stars 8 billion years ago. This evidence suggests that violent galaxy mergers were not required for rapid star formation.
The Groth Strip is an extension of an original survey of part of the same region executed in 1994 by Princeton University astronomer Edward J. Groth, who created a mosaic of 28 overlapping fields with the Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
The Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys images were taken from June 2004 to March 2005.
NASA, ESA, M. Davis (University of California, Berkeley), S. Faber (University of California, Santa Cruz), and A. Koekemoer (STScI)


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Max (and his boy band) were at LAX yesterday -- and we asked him all about LiLo's problems ... considering he partied with Linds the night she got arrested for allegedly punching that psychic in the face.
Annnnnd some eye-witnesses said the whole fight started because LiLo was jealous that Max was chatting up another chick (a.k.a the "psychic").
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Noriba Bank BSC to open in Bahrain
Noriba Bank BSC, a financial services institution wholly owned by the UBS Group, will open for business in Bahrain in September 2002. Noriba is a Sharia-compliant wealth management firm for private investors and institutions. The bank, which is licensed by the Kingdom of Bahrain, will be the global platform for Sharia- compliant banking products and services.
Mohammad Toufic Kanafani, CEO of Noriba Bank BSC, says, Noriba will follow a Sharia-compliant investment policy geared towards the requirements of institutions and private clients globally. We will offer a wide range of Sharia-compliant investment vehicles including mutual funds, discretionary portfolio management, private equity, Islamic bonds, real estate, leasing, foreign exchange and Murabaha transactions."
Noriba Bank BSC obtained its banking licence in May 2002.
Talk to UBS Warburg employees who work in Stamford and one can easily attest to the enthusiasm they feel for the new trading floor. It's the biggest
it's ours and it is simply awesome," said Equities' Laura Gorman.
We are proud to own the largest trading floor," said John P. Costas, UBS Warburg chief executive officer. But most important, this expansion clearly demonstrates our continued momentum in growing our investment banking and capital markets presence in the U.S. market - a major part of our global strategy." The massive two-year construction effort drew on virtually every function of the firm, from Business Continuity to Information Technology, Corporate Real Estate to Equities and Fixed Income, with hundreds of employees from dozens of business units working on the $100 million project. The undertaking was completed with strict cost discipline and focus, on time, on budget - and with the blessings of both the State of Connecticut and the city of Stamford.
Huw Jenkins, head, U.S. Equities, and Robert Wolf, co-head, Global Fixed Income, manage the largest employee segments on the trading floor. Said Jenkins, It took teamwork and dedication, day in and day out, over the past three years to make this possible. We have a firm of which everyone can feel a part."
Perhaps less visible but equally essential to the project's success has been the strong partnership UBS Warburg has forged with state and local officials, dating back to the mid-1990s when the then-Swiss Bank Corporation relocated its headquarters from New York City to Stamford. To secure the firm's continued growth in Stamford, the State of Connecticut provided financial incentives for the expansion project. Gov. John G. Rowland and Stamford Mayor Dannel P. Malloy deemed the addition an indication of the firm's commitment to the region. Said Rowland, Our partnership with UBS Warburg is a concrete example of the benefits of a successful public/ private endeavor. The firm has made a substantial investment in the Stamford community, and we look forward with enthusiasm to continuing our partnership."
Enthusiasm indeed. The state and city offered a $157 million incentive package to UBS Warburg including $46 million in cash grants, said Mark Bridges, executive director, Management Services, who worked closely with Carol Huff, director, Public Affairs, UBS Warburg, during the one-and-a-half year
negotiations with the state. For its part, the firm provided $1 million for job training programs and committed to donating 4,000 PCs to area schools. All in all, the state will receive the equivalent of $3 for each $1 provided in the incentive package. Said Bridges, This project is exemplary of what is possible when the public and private sectors use their strengths to build business. The result is a win for the state, for the community and for the firm."
About UBS
Wealth management for private clients is one of UBS's core businesses. Its products and advisory services are tailored to clients' specific needs. The bank's end-to-end approach to satisfying these needs involves taking account of each client's individual situation in the context of the applicable legal and regulatory frameworks.
UBS is a global, integrated financial services group and the leading bank in Switzerland. It is the world's premier provider of private banking services and one of the largest asset managers globally.
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The expanded trading floor is approximately the size of two football fields, 25.5 basketball courts, 46 tennis courts or half the deck of the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier.
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One thing I know about this map, you can walk around the cold empty streets however you will always catch a glimpse of a dark figure crouching in the distance... watching everything you do.
The Morning Wood Corporation has a cozy little profit. And it does so without competing with trubstep industries or curious INC
Give it a few generations and I bet The Morning Wood Corperation will create a big boom in the market and their stocks will increase by 600% putting CEO Atlas at the top spot and becoming competition... I guess that will happen xD
I should have known better than to buy that invisibility potion from Trub!
What I have come to expect from Trubstep Industries: inferior-quality goods, high prices, and sweatshops everywhere.I get my bombs from another source. Trub's bombs don't work 10% of the time.
The slums may be an excellent location for the 'McNewmen Corporate of Miners' where we make the best Low-Fat Cookie a human can eat.
My company supplies wood and money to the building of the city, as well as landscaping, tunnel digging, and cross burning to help expand the map
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Paraneoplastic syndrome is an impotant part of the differential diagnosis as we work through unexplained secondary findings in patients with cancer or suspected cancer. In simple terms, paraneoplastic syndrome involves secondary diseases or clinical findings caused by cancer through a systemic mechanism, usually a neuronal or endocrine mechanism where by either the tumor or the body's response to the tumor generates coumpounds that travel to another part of your body to create disease
While many different paraneoplastic syndromes exist, most commonly diseases such as SIADH of small cell lung cancer or hypercalcemia of squamous cell lung cancer, the ones that lead to an expensive battery of testing are generally those syndromes concerned with a suspected secondary neurological disease process. How do we screen for suspected paraneoplastic neurological disease?
It's called the paraneoplastic panel. This very expensive (I've heard some say it's over $10,000) panel of highly specialized labs are often ordered by neurologists in search for an answer to unexplained neurological presentations in a patient with cancer.
Classically, mental status changes in patients with cancer are caused by infections either systemic or local, metastasis of tumor to the brain, electrolyte abnormalities such as hyponatremia or hypercalcemia, central nervous system side effects of chemotherapy or whole brain radiation therapy, narcotic pain medication, hypercapnea, and uremia just to name a few of the many common causes of encephalopathy in cancer patients.
Once we hospitalists have worked through the most likely explanations for neurological changes, the neurologists will often take the work up to the next level with their pareneoplastic panel and an assortment of other labs I've never heard of.
It wasn't until recently that I learned our neurologists have been ordering the wrong panel all these years. Shame on them. Perhaps this is a sentinel event that requires an investigation from The Joint Commission.
And here I thought our neurologists were some of the smartest medical doctors to ever walk this earth. Was I wrong. It took this nursing documented telephone order, probably repeated back in triplicate according the Joint Commission mandated safety initiatives, to finally discover the how these patients are really supposed to be worked up. It's perineal plastic panel. Not paraneoplastic panel. How could we have been so wrong all these years? The perineal plastic panel is really what our confused cancer patients have needed all these years. Not the paraneoplastic panel. You may laugh and think this picture is the funniest bar stool ever. It's not. It's the treatment of choice, the perineal plastic panel, our cancer patients have been missing all these years. Shame on you neurologists. You should have known what our patients really needed all these years.
For those of you that don't know, the perineum is the area between your genitals and your rectum. Hence this picture presentation of the perineal plastic panel. This post is for entertainment purposes only and likely contains humor only understood by those in a healthcare profession. Read at your own risk.


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Khloe Kardashian opened up somewhat about her marital issues with basketball player Lamar Odom in Sunday's episode of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and on social media.
But the reality TV starlet, who married Odom in September 2009 after a month of dating, didn't specify what was troubling their marriage, instead making allusions to greater issues, his depression and emotional issues and her reservations about having a baby.
The 29-year-old also took to social media in the days after the episode aired to defend herself and family.
As rumors of an inevitable divorce, cheating, drugs and a new romance continue to plague their marriage, here are some of the cryptic statements she made during Sunday's episode:
"I'm not ready to continue with fertility treatments. There are some things that not everybody knows and me and Lamar are the only two people that need to know that."
Kardashian Odom's fertility struggles had been chronicled on the show previously and emphasized by her elder sisters' pregnancies. In the episode, which appeared to be filmed over the summer, Kim, pregnant with daughter North at the time, urged her to see an adoption lawyer to explore all her options.
"I don't know if I'm there yet," Kardashian Odom said, also telling the lawyer that she was concerned about mental illness in the child's family and Odom's traveling schedule.
"It's not that I'm against adoption but right now I'm in a place in my life where there are a lot of moving parts. Lamar doesn't know where he's going to play basketball and it's complicated."
Kardashian Odom had previously been told by a doctor that she had no eggs, and decided to return to get checked up after a year. During her visit, she had a repetitive phone conversation with her husband, saying, "He's so weird right now, I have no idea" and that she had "anxiety" because he urgently needed to talk to her.
"I am not someone who really likes to, I guess, bore people with my problems, and I also think no one really understands what someone's going through unless they walk a mile in their shoes," she said in the testimonial.
Then, when it was time for her test, she said she was nervous.
"I'm a little nervous about being examined. I'm scarred from the last time. It was probably the worst time of my life. I'm putting on a brave face, hoping for the best. All we can do is see what happens."
When she was then told she "could be fine carrying a pregnancy," she wasn't exactly leaping for joy in front of the cameras either.
"My results are good, they're positive, but I'm just not at that place right now to get pregnant," she said.
Then later, during lunch with her younger half-sister Kylie while at her mother's house, she had an irritated phone conversation with Odom. Odom called her repeatedly, and she said, "He's so annoying right now; go back to basketball." The athlete, who has been the focus of drug-use and cheating rumors for months, appeared to exhibit bizarre and not "logical" behavior, she said, so she told him, "I think you're tired, you're buggin' just a little bit."
"I mean there's a lot of emotional issues I think Lamar has," Kardashian Odom told the camera. "You know I do want to help or cater to Lamar but there's also only so much anybody could take."
"Lamar, he is a very depressed person, which is sad but understandable for everything he's been through in his life. And I do love Lamar with every ounce of who I am, but it's really scary when someone's in such a deep lull and you know they're relying on you to get them out and you're trying, and you're trying, and you're trying and nothing's really working."
The episode ended there, but Kardashian Odom continued her defense on in a series of tweets after live tweeting during the show's East Coast airing.
"Speculate all you want. The armor I put around MY family can't melt or even scratch. So continue to throw your daggers. (1)" she wrote Sunday, continuing with "You will never cut us, you will just tire yourself out. Strong and united we will still stand."
Then on Tuesday she posted more and sounded like she was standing by her man.
"Not all scars can be seen and not all love can be explained. The deepest love is also the hardest to express. Only those in it, understand," she added Tuesday, saying, "If I love u. Its a deep 4ever love. Ride til the end. Family/friend. Its simply called love. I take it seriously. Dont judge unless u r in it."
"We all have our own journeys in life. So even if u don't accept mine. Be kind....We all have a journey 2travel & I want to walk mine, my way"
"Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."
And if that wasn't enough, she told people not to read too far into things.
"Why do peps take everything so literally?!? Relax...."
"Peps make up whatever THEY want to believe. Would rather stay quiet then have my words twisted," she said, adding, "My motto lately.... [expletive] you"
So will we see more about Kardashian Odom's woes on the show? Perhaps, but they still have the whole saga of her sister's giving birth to North West to deal with this season. It'll be interesting to see which storyline trumps the other.
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As someone in favor of strong gun-safety regulations, surprisingly I find myself in total agreement with Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. I agree with him that the manufacture, sale and possession of assault-type weapons with large ammunition clips should not be prohibited, except for criminals and the mentally challenged.
However, I also happen to think that anyone who believes that they need to own assault-type weapons with large ammunition clips to protect themselves from their own government are, by definition, mentally challenged. So also are any hunters and sportsmen who seem to need these for their sporting activities.
Hence, no one would qualify to own these weapons, and there would be no source available for criminals to buy them. Isn't it amazing how simple some solutions are, once you set your mind to a problem? And while we are at it we should also classify as mentally unstable any elected officials who have these same beliefs. They should have no place in the civic arena of public discourse.
Jamshed Dastur
Newport Beach
Newport shooting
Re. the news stories on the arrest of Stanwood Fred Elkus, 75, of Lake Elsinore, on suspicion of shooting Dr. Ronald Gilbert, 52, of Huntington Beach, multiple times in the torso at a Hoag-associated outpatient facility in Newport Beach.
I'm betting we will be hearing from regular commentator Chuck Cassity, a gun-rights advocate, once again in your Forum pages, advocating that all doctors and nurses carry guns.
Jon Rowe
Costa Mesa
Military-style weapons
To those that keep saying we need to ban military weapons, please do your homework. The firearms used in Aurora, Colo. and Newtown, Conn. are semi automatic firearms just like 90% of all handguns shotguns and rifles sold in America. They are not full-auto rifles that the military uses.
If you really want to ban something, look at vehicles, knives and clubs; they kill more people than firearms do every year.
Michael Liechty
Fountain Valley
N.B. parking tickets
This past week, a friend's car (tourists from Illinois, welcome to Newport Beach) and my neighbor's car have been ticketed for parking on the wrong side of the street or facing the wrong way. Yes, it wasn't a police officer, it was the meter maid!
We have a car go down our street maybe once every five minutes. In other words, it is a very quiet one-block street. We won't let out guests pay the ticket, so we will be out the money. This ticket is worth $55 to the city. Is the city that short of money that this is needed?
Quite an insult to anyone caught in this money trap! Is there not enough work down at the beach parking lots and streets that they need to scrounge the city's streets to make an extra buck?
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Three things from Ole Miss women's tennis head coach Mark Beyers, previewing the 2014 season and the Rebels' first tournament, the Michigan Invitational, which starts Saturday:
1. Rebels Return Top Five Players
Last season, the Ole Miss women's tennis team ended with a 16-14 record and a first-round loss in the NCAA Tournament to No. 15-ranked Duke. This season, the Rebels return their top five players, led by the team's lone senior, Caroline Rohde-Moe.
"A lot of these kids gained a lot of experience and we got better," Beyers said. "Last year, we were a little too inconsistent to really reach all of our goals, but hopefully from the experience they gained from last year, they will be able to apply that this year. We have basically the entire starting lineup from last year coming back and then you add Zalina (Khairudinova) to the mix, so hopefully that will be a recipe for success.
2. Balance Throughout The Lineup
The Rebels begin the spring season ranked No. 35 in the nation, which is ninth among Southeastern Conference teams. Three players -- Mai El Kamash (No. 57), Rohde-Moe (No. 87) and Julia Jones (No. 90) -- are ranked in the top 100 in singles, and Rohde-Moe combines with Marija Milutinovic for the nation's No. 19 doubles team.
"We had different players at difference times play well in the fall," Beyers said. "Julia Jones ended up winning the Little Rock Invitation, which was a great win for her. Marija Milutinovic had a tough year with some injuries, and she really turned things around this fall. Mai El Kamash had some great individual wins, and she's currently our highest-ranked player. Different people stepped up at different times. It shows that we have a lot of depth and experience, and that creates a lot of excitement for us as coaches to see how that is going to work out."
3. Getting Started, Prepping For ITA Kickoff Weekend
Ole Miss kicks off the spring season this weekend at the Michigan Invitational (Jan. 18-20), where it will play singles and doubles matches against players from No. 11 Michigan, No. 20 Georgia Tech and No. 59 South Florida. Each team will play three doubles and three singles rounds, with points allocated to each winning player or team according to the flight position.
"It's getting back into playing team matches," Beyers said. "In the fall, it's all individual stuff, and even though it's a format where it doesn't count from a team national ranking standpoint, it's still a team format, and so to get used to having everyone playing at the same time. It's also getting ready for Jackson State and then the ITA Kickoff Weekend."
After their first home match of the season, Jan. 22 against Jackson State, the Rebels will travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala., for the ITA Kickoff Weekend (Jan. 25-26).
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"The good thing is, you have four good teams there, four teams that finished in the RPI Top 50, so you're guaranteed two good matches," Beyers said. "We want to go 2-0 and quality for the National Indoors in Virginia, but regardless, we're going to get two good matches. Even if you go 1-1, it's going to help from a national ranking standpoint and help you later down the road when it comes to NCAA Tournament time."


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- Premier League
Tevez: I'm Balotelli's mentor
Carlos Tevez says he understands the mentality of Manchester City team-mate Mario Balotelli and insists he has taken on the role of mentor for his fellow striker.
Balotelli, 22, was last week pictured in an apparent physical confrontation with manager Roberto Mancini, the latest in a long line of controversial moments since joining the club from Inter Milan.
Tevez is no stranger to controversy himself, having been out of the City side for a long spell last season after refusing to warm up during a Champions League match against Bayern Munich.
"I try to help Mario," Tevez revealed. "I talk to him personally, on and off the pitch. I've been in that moment like him.
"I'm always keen to help him and keep him going through these kind of moments, so he doesn't make the same mistakes that I did in the past."
Tevez believes the training-ground incident with Mancini, which was sparked by a tackle from Balotelli on Scott Sinclair, was simply blown out of proportion by the media.
"There are these kind of things that have happened at all the clubs I've been, but here at City the spotlight is always on us, as it is always on Roberto and Mario," he said.
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic's 2004 film Innocence is haunting, beautiful, mysterious, unsettling, and maybe bait for pedophiles. Based on some of the reviews I've read, what you think of the movie may depend on how much you blame Hadzihalilovic for her husband.
First, the movie. It's based on Frank Wedekind's 1901 novella Mine-Haha: or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls. Wedekind gave us the controversial works Spring Awakening (recently seen on Broadway) and the Lulu plays, which were filmed as Pandora's Box in 1929 by G.W. Pabst and made Louise Brooks a star.
Knowing this, it should be no surprise that Innocence is a surreal story of a weird boarding school for pre-pubescent girls, and that certain sexual undercurrents are present.
The movie opens with Iris (Zoe Auclair) arriving at the school in a beautiful wooden coffin that is opened by a group of girls who all wear colored ribbons of different colors in their hair. They explain the ribbons as indicating their relative ages, and Iris, the youngest, now gets to wear the red ribbon. Iris is sad and confused at first, and she latches on to one of the older girls, Bianca (Bérangère Haubruge), as a friend and role model, and soon enough she's happily playing games with the girls and only occasionally asking when she'll get to leave and visit her brother (the answer: never).
Though the girls are at a boarding school, there are, apparently, one two types of classes and only two teachers: a class in biology and evolution taught by Mademoiselle Edith (Hélène de Fougerolles) and a class in ballet taught by Mademoiselle Eva (Marion Cotillard). The teachers are generally stern and serious with the girls, but they're also compassionate, and seem concerned for the girls' futures.
During the evenings, Bianca leaves the girls and walks down a forest path lit by lamps. Iris wonders where she goes, and follows her, discovering little other than Mademoiselle Eva getting an injection of some sort from a man. Up to here, the film's point of view has mostly stuck with Iris or people close to Iris, making it seem that she is the protagonist, but the focus begins to broaden, bringing in the perspectives and actions of other girls as well as the two teachers.
Eventually there will be dance performances for mysterious (apparently mostly male) audiences, travels through tunnels, and a train ride. At its most basic level, the film is about cycles of life and learning, growth and maturity, innocence and experience -- the sharp desires both for knowledge and freedom and for a return to blissful ignorance.
The pacing is slow, especially in the first half, with long scenes of girls walking, playing, swimming. Our desire for knowledge is strong: we want to know what this place is, what's beyond its apparently impregnable walls, how people get to it, what the mysterious headmistress wants, etc. -- in short, we want to know what's going on and how and why what's what. We are like Iris: confused and curious. But Iris quickly accepts that this is just the way things are, and she soon accepts the basic conditions and precepts of the school as given. She is attracted to the actions of some of the more rebellious girls, but she is more frightened of the threats of punishment than they are (and threats they remain; we see very little actual punishment in the film, which again seems to mimic a certain type of childhood experience and anxiety). The world is inscrutable, but that doesn't mean you can't still have fun playing games. Indeed, the less you try to figure the inscrutable world out, the more fun you'll have.
Until, of course, the motives and structures of the inscrutable world reveal themselves more clearly and force their way into your life. Knowledge and maturity are difficult to avoid no matter how uncurious you are. Biology has its imperatives, too.
The cinematography, editing, and sound design of Innocence are extraordinary -- languid, yes, but full of strange beauty. Or not exactly languid, for though that suggests a certain casual dreaminess it also suggests a lack of energy, and there's plenty of energy in the film. It an energy masked by dreamy fluidity, though, the feeling of a memory considered on a sultry summer day or the world considered from under water.
The pacing and fluidity have caused some reviewers to dislike Innocence, since some reviewers prefer more narrative in their movies (they would say that languid is, indeed, exactly what this movie is). Others, though, have been more sharply critical, mostly of the film's imagery and premise. For instance, Manohla Dargis:
...the images that some might find troubling - the shots of the girls' legs, those peek-a-boo moments when the camera all but noses under their skirts - are not motivated by any seen character. The point of view here is that of the filmmaker and, by extension, us.I have lots of respect for Manohla Dargis, but here she seems to have spent more time nursing a grudge than watching the movie.
Whether these images leave you cold or make you hot may not be the purpose of this beautifully and painstakingly art-directed provocation, but it is part of the equation. Given the filmmaker's instrumental use of the female body and her fondness for low-frequency buzzing sounds, it was no surprise to discover that the final credits include the dedication "for Gaspar," a reference to Ms. Hadzihalilovic's partner, the filmmaker Gaspar Noé, best known for "Irréversible," his contribution to art-house exploitation. Ms. Hadzihalilovic is a gifted stylist, though when it comes to female desire, she might profit from less time with Mr. Noé's work and more time with Amy Heckerling's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," a film in which girls are allowed to have bodies, brains, boys and self-determination all at the same time, and without that annoying buzzing.
It may just be that my sensibilities have been deadened by too many Guy Davenport stories of Fourierist utopia, but the images of children scampering around in their underwear in Innocence did not seem to me fetishistic or otherwise problematic because they seemed to be expected within the givens of the society depicted in the film -- indeed, I was surprised the children weren't naked. Any implication of a sexual meaning to the children's dress or undress while they are amongst themselves is an implication placed upon them by the viewer. Dargis insists the viewer is the camera and the camera is us and we are playing peek-a-boo with the panties. The subjectivity or objectivity of the shots is clearly up for interpretation, but I wonder about an interpretation that sees nothing but subjectivity and a subjectivity that is adult and possibly prurient.
I can see that interpretation, and even sympathize with it, but I don't accept it. It may be that I do not want to accept it, that I'm reading into Innocence a certain perspective because I am uncomfortable with a world where children's bodies are fetishized and sexualized so thoroughly. A perspective such as Dargis's seems to me hyper-aware of the fetishization -- it seems to be in cahoots with the gaze of the adults in the mysterious audience of the ballets. Her mention of Gaspar Noé is notable as well, and is one that often comes up in the negative reviews of the film: because Hadzihalilovic has collaborated with Noé, been a producer for him, is married to him, and dedicated Innocence to him, therefore her interest in filming the children must contain provocative, and specifically sexual, motives.
And maybe her intentions were to provoke and to exploit. Intentions are important when a work of art is conceived and created, but not very important once it is released into the world, because audiences can have all sorts of ways of responding to and interpreting the work on their own. That's part of the fun of being a reader or viewer. Even if we grant the, I think, shaky premise that Hadzihalilovic intended to provoke and fetishize with this movie*, that does not lead inevitably to the movie being provocative and fetishistic, for a few different reasons: no matter how auteurist a director (or writer-director, in this case), there are still lots of other people involved in making a film; more importantly, it's difficult to translate intentions into material that then communicates those intentions to an audience without noise getting into the equation on either side of the material (otherwise, everyone who intended to make a profound and lasting work of art would be successful).
Intentions may be interesting, they may be fun for conversation, they may even deserve discussion from a cultural and historical perspective as part of the context of the work itself, but there is, finally, the work itself: the images in each frame, the sound on the soundtrack, and how they've all been put together.
My response to the work of cinema that is Innocence, then, is closer to Michael Atkinson's: "In its view of childhood as totalitarian citizenship, Hadzihalilovic's film stands, quietly, in a gender-furious class by itself." I don't know if it's in a class by itself (I haven't viewed everything that might be in such a class, nor would I know how to define and limit that class), but I do know that "its view of childhood as totalitarian citizenship" feels closer to my experience of the film than "an instrumental use of the female body", nor can I understand how anyone who'd actually watched the film from beginning to end could think, as Dargas claims to, that it denies girls "bodies, brains, boys and self-determination all at the same time". Certainly, some characters and systems in the story want to deny some of those things, but the girls are intrepid and sharp within the system they have been thrown into, and though we might not accept Wedekind and Hadzihalilovic's analogy of childhood as a mysterious and cloistered boarding school with strange rules and restrictions, surely no-one would deny that childhood is full of mysteries.
These girls certainly don't have the agency and power of the children in A High Wind in Jamaica, and none of them have become as rebellious as the children in Who Can Kill a Child?, but they are not automatons. The freedom given to the older children at the end of the film is clearly delightful and full of new mysteries, possibilities, and dangers -- the teachers may be sad to see the children's innocence and disappearing and to see them liberated from the structures that kept them ignorant, but the children move in the final scene from trepidation to unbridled joy and, yes, self-determination. The sullen adults who live and work at the school have gone back to the school to recapture their innocence, a time when they were happy, but they have obviously failed: going back is not possible and will only lead to resigned sadness. There is no evidence in the film against, and plenty for, the idea of moving on into knew challenges, new worlds, new games, new knowledge.
*shaky because even if she says that was her intention, it would be much smarter in terms of publicity for her to say that than to say it was not her intention, so the intentions would remain uncertain to me no matter what she claimed when promoting the film, though I have not sought out interviews with her, because I really don't care.


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Julia Spencer-Fleming sent me a link to a blog written by Tor editor Anna Louise, all about how books do or don't make money:
The Reader's Digest Condensed Version: Publishing books costs a lot of money, and it isn't easy to make a profit.
JA's Interpretation: Better get cracking on that self-promotion, or risk never working in this town again.
I know I sound like a broken record, but I really don't understand why some authors think that simply writing a good book is all a writer needs to do, and the rest will be taken care of by the publisher. That's shortsighted at best, suicidal at worst.
But here's an interesting by-product of self-promotion that rarely gets talked about: It goes on in your absence.
I haven't been my usual gung-ho self this past week, have neglected the blog and website, and haven't done any appearances since April 7. But looking at the number of hits my blog and website have been getting, looking at my Amazon rankings fluctuate, and looking at the number of emails I continue to get, you couldn't tell I've been MIA.
People still seem to be dropping by, still seek me out, and still buy my books, even without me playing the cheerleader. I even had some spikes in sales and website hits while being incommunicado.
While I'm sure this would eventually drop off, it's reassuring to think that I can take occassional breaks and not worry about losing everything I've tried to build up. This may sound obvious, but I haven't been on vacation in several years because I'm so paranoid about missing opportunities to promote myself.
Maybe I'll take a vacation this year---after my 500 bookstore tour...
Sunday, April 23, 2006
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How Relevant is the Homeland Security Grant?
Extending a Helping Hand
When the code-analysis firm Coverity announced that it, along with Stanford University and Symantec, were recipients of a Department of Homeland Security grant to improve the code of open source software projects, the expected jokes and critiques flew fast and furious.
Wags promoted ideas such as color-coded bug reports and airport-style searches for faulty code. More serious criticisms were leveled at the idea of the grant, since many in the US are still judging the DHS (in particular its subsidiary agency FEMA) harshly for its performance during and after Hurricane Katrina. On the opposite side of the perception argument, the funding seems to be free of any direct DHS management, which seemed to quell much of the criticism.
But even given a neutral stance by the US government agency, a few questions still remain. How exactly is this money going to be used, who are all the players, and what is the nature of their relationship with existing open source projects?
In open source and free software development, anyone is free to examine the code that makes up a software application. Software developers are welcome to make improvements or additions to the code. Under the General Public License, by far the most prolific free software license, any developer can take code, make changes, and even distribute that code as a new software application (a process known as forking). All the developer has to do is make those changes available back to the original software project.
However, a common misconception about free and open source software projects is that any and all changes made to the code will be accepted. As a matter of practice, this is never done. All open source software projects have a project lead or maintainer who acts as a gatekeeper for all proposed code changes, so the software will not be broken and will acquire features based on the overall notion of how the maintainer wants the code to evolve. Not all code is accepted; usually for technical reasons, though at times licensing or political issues will come into play.
The most famous example of an open source project lead is Linus Torvalds, the founding developer of the Linux kernel. Torvalds keeps a close watch on the integrity of the kernel, accepting or rejecting code changes (also known as patches) as they fit the direction he wants the kernel to go. Assisting him in this endeavor are the kernel maintainers, individual developers who manage various stable versions of the kernel: Alan Cox for the 2.2 kernel, Marcelo Tosatti for 2.4, and Andrew Morton for the current 2.6 version.
In the statements made surrounding the January 11 announcement, there seemed to be an implication that, using the combined resources of three grant recipients, code improvements would be made for "more than 40 open source projects." What was left unspoken was the question: will these open source projects accept the recommended changes that will be found? Are the changes going to be valid or necessary?
To answer this, it is necessary to examine the exact nature of the work the grant recipients will be doing. According to Ben Chelf, CTO and co-founder of Coverity, Stanford University has developed the automated code-checking procedures and will also provide manpower for the project. Coverity has developed the actual code-checking application that will perform the work. Symantec have more of an tangential role, working with the US government to improve the security of its code and endorse the use of open source software.
With these roles in mind, the process will work in this manner, Chelf explained. Money from the grant will allow Stanford to hire personnel who will run the code from various open source projects through Coverity's code-analysis tool. Once the analysis is complete, a report on any defects will be presented for the open source project to use. Chelf hopes that eventually Coverity's results will go straight to any maintainers on the project and fixes will be written and accepted by those maintainers.
But this kind of relationship does not yet exist.
"Are they using Coverity technology? No," Chelf said when asked how maintainers were currently implementing defects found in Coverity's reports. "But we hope to use the funds from the grant to build these relationships."
If Coverity can get open source project managers and maintainers to directly use the code-checking tools, ideally they will be able to analyze patches for bugs before they are applied to the main software code. This, Chelf emphasized, "is the best time to find defects."
For now, Coverity plans to publish the defect reports on a semi-private Web site so that any developer associated with a particular open source project can examine the list, determine if something actually needs to be fixed, and then create a fix and submit it to the project lead. This is currently the model used by Coverity for the defects they published for the Linux kernel.
In that project, Coverity published an unsolicited report in December 2004 indicating the number of defects found in the Linux 2.6.9 kernel to be 984, with six of them labeled as critical. In July 2005, another Coverity report found 1,008 defects--none of them critical. The results are being published on the password-protected site linuxbugs.coverity.com.
In examining recent patches made to the kernel, using patch announcements found on the Linux kernel mailing list, the number of patches based on Coverity-located bugs does not nearly approach the near-1,000 bugs found. This disparity seems to discount Coverity as a code-analysis tool for Linux.
Not quite, according to Torvalds. When asked if Coverity's results were being used, he confirmed that some bug fixes had indeed found their way into Linux patches. More importantly, the issue is not of quantity, but of quality.
"Well, Coverity doesn't send patches, but yes, some people go through the Coverity results and send patches based on them. Sometimes the warnings are bogus--automated checking has very definite limits--but just as a statistic, 'coverity' is mentioned 75 times in the commit messages over the last eight months or so," Torvalds stated, adding: "Not all of them were bugs--some of it was to just shut up a bogus warning, but the point being that it does actually end up being useful."
As a passive source of defect information, Coverity is getting some use in the Linux kernel development process. And it is not the only automated tool being used.
"We have other tools, too, for automated code cleanliness," Torvalds indicated. "Just for fun, I checked how often 'sparse'--one of the other tools--was mentioned, and it got 223 hits, and almost all of those were cleanups rather than any actual bug fix."
Coverity definitely wants to be more than a passive source of information. Chelf wants his company's product to play a more active role in the development processes of Linux and other open source projects. To do that, he hopes Coverity and Stanford can establish direct relationships with open source project managers.
"This is really a great way to reach out to a new community that develops software in a completely different way than commercial software," Chelf said.
Given the non-commercial aspect of many open source projects, however, how does Coverity plan to generate revenue from assisting open source software, beyond the initial government grant? To accomplish this, Coverity seems to be aiming for becoming ubiquitous for code-analysis. While assisting open source is a beneficial thing on its own, Chelf explained, he also recognizes that many open source developers also work with commercial software makers. If Coverity can achieve heavy use amongst the overall developer community as a familiar tool, then the company will be able to generate revenue through commercial software vendors.
In the meantime, Chelf hopes that Coverity's offer to help will be seen as just that, and not as a way to generate negative press for Linux and open source projects.
�We are here to help," he said. �We are not here to stir up the pot and make [open source developers] feel bad."


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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters on Sunday overran a district headquarters in a remote and mountainous region of northern Afghanistan, their latest offensive in an insurgent campaign to regain territory as foreign troops withdraw from the country, according to officials.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said a group of insurgents took over the building after police evacuated the facility in Badakhshan province's Karan wa Munjan district to prevent any civilian casualties.
"This year the enemy is trying to show their existence in northern parts of the country and that is one of the reasons that they are attacking Badakhshan province, "Sediqi said.
He pointed to a successful operation last week to clear insurgents from another district, Wurdoj, and said preparations were under way to retake the headquarters building. Sediqi added that the insurgents are only controlling the single building, which had a very small police presence.
At least 18 Afghan policemen died in the Wurdoj operations along with 47 insurgents, the ministry said last week. Afghan officials regularly report high death tolls from battles in remote areas that are impossible to verify.
"We did have successful military operations in Wurdoj district and now as they have been defeated there and couldn't keep their strongholds, so they made another choice and attacked Karan wa Munjan district," Sediqi said. "There is no doubt that we had fewer police forces in the district, they were not more than 30 policemen there at time the attack. Reinforcements are coming now."
Although attacks are increasingly common as insurgents escalate their campaign against government forces across Afghanistan, they are rare in Badakhshan.
The region is nestled in the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges and bordering China and Pakistan, one of the most remote in the country.
In another incident, two people including a police office were killed and three civilians were wounded when a suicide attacker blew himself up outside a district police headquarters in the Marjah district of southern Helmand, provincial spokesman Omar Zwak said.


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