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Official Records Databases
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This is a listing of databases of records, mostly official, kept by states and their political subdivisions that provide historical information on individuals. Some of the types of information you'll find here include birth and death records, war pensions, cemetery markers, etc. This list was last checked for broken links on March 28, 2015.
Return to the State Agency Databases databases page.
- Alabama
- Alabama Church and Synagogue Records Collection Database - This is an index to the Alabama Church and Synagogue Records Collection.
- Arizona
- Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates - Database of images of publicly accessible birth and death certificates issued in Arizona. Birth coverage currently (1887 - 1931 ) and Death coverage currently (1878 - 1956 ). Searchable by name, years and county. Search results indicate birth and death dates when known as well as parents. All this for free. Great for genealogists.
- Delaware
- Probates Records Database These indexes are the primary finding aid to Delaware Public Archives holdings of manuscript probate records for all three counties from c. 1680 to c. 1925.
- Hawaii
- Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections - Access to a number of digitized collections including Japanese and Portugese passenger manifest lists, the Mahele Book and World War I registration records.
- Kansas
- Civil War Veterans in Kansas - From the web site: "This database is a work in progress. It currently contains over 28,000 names of Union veterans of the Civil War who lived in Kansas after 1865."
- Death Notices of Members of Fraternal Orders - From the web site: "This index includes over 50,000 individuals for whom a notice of death was published in the proceedings of a fraternal order."
- Kansas Adjutant General's Report, 1898-1899 - From the web site: "The 12th biennial Kansas Adjutant General's Report lists the names of all soldiers who served in the Kansas volunteer troops (the 20th through 23rd Kansas Regiments) during the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine Insurrection (through Oct. 28, 1899). This index to the report includes the company and regiment in which the individual served."
- Kansas Physicians and Midwives, 1881-1900 - From the web site: "This index is a compilation of the names of Kansas medical practitioners from two sources, the Kansas Board of Health reports for 1887-1900 and Dickman's Medical Directory published in 1881."
- Necrology of the Grand Army of the Republic - From the web site: "This index includes over 13,000 individuals for whom a notice of death was published in the encampment proceedings of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Kansas."
- World War II Kansas Veterans Index - "This database contains more than 227,000 entries of male and female Kansas veterans of the armed forces who served between September 16, 1940 and June 30, 1946. This comprehensive data comes directly from Adjutant General Selective Service Board lists."
- Kentucky
- Kentucky Vital Records Index - Allows the search of: KENTUCKY DEATH INDEX FOR 1911-1986, KENTUCKY DEATH INDEX FOR 1987-1992, KENTUCKY MARRIAGE INDEX FOR 1973-1993 and KENTUCKY DIVORCE INDEX FOR 1973-1993. Database will not be updated as funding is not available. Bulk access to data is not available.
- Revolutionary War Warrants database - From the website "Access information on 4748 Revolutionary War Warrants issued to Virginia veterans or their assigns prior to 1792 on the Revolutionary War Warrants database. View color images from the Warrants Register and all Kentucky patent files authorized by Revolutionary War Warrants."
- West of Tennessee River Military Patents database - From the website "Research and view color images of 242 patents in the Jackson Purchase authorized by warrants issued to Virginia Revolutionary War veterans or their assigns."
- [Certificate of Settlement and Preemption Warrants] - Database of 1778/1779 land settlements. Includes some property in modern day Virginia and West Virginia. Some document images are available.
- Louisiana
- Confederate Pension Applications Index Database - This database consists of alphabetically arranged pensions granted from 1898 for veterans and widows. The pensions may include service information, occupation, place of residence, and number of children. The collection also contains a few applications for individuals other than veterans or widows that were not granted.
- Maine
- History Search - Searchable index of most records between 1892 and 1996. Database can be searched by Brides Name, Brides Town, Grooms Name, Grooms Town, and Marriage Dates. Records provide names, location and date of marriage and certificate number. Actual certificates must be ordered in paper from the Archives.
- Death History Search - Database of death records from 1960 to 1996. Searchable by Last Name, First Name, Middle Name, Town of Death and date range. Results include name, date and town of death, age at death and death certificate number. Actual certificates must be ordered from the Maine State Archives.
- Massachusetts
- Passenger Manifest, 1848-1891- Record of immigrants who arrived by ship in Boston, MA from 1848-1891. Search by first or last name, name of ship, or date.
- Vital Records 1841-1910 Birth, death, and marriage records for all of Massachusetts from 1841-1910. Search by first or last name and/or town. Note: searching alternate spellings, e.g., Smith and Smythe recommended.
- Missouri
- Coroner's Inquest Database - The database contains records from various counties, the City of St. Louis, and the St. Louis Medical Examiner. It is an abstract of records that have been indexed and are available for online research. The original records are available on microfilm at the Missouri State Archives. These inquests are not made available until 72 years after creation. The database search engine allows searches by county, name of deceased, cause of death, and/or year of death (or range of years). A keyword search function is also available.
- Land Patents Database: 1831 - 1969 - This database contains over 35,500 transcribed patents containing information from the state-issued land patents which can be useful in placing an individual in a specific location at a specific time. The information contained in the land patent database includes name of purchaser, county, date of purchase, legal land description, and microfilm location for copy of full entry (reel number, volume and page number). Searchable by name of purchaser or section of land.
- Local Records Inventory Database - This database, produced by the Missouri Local Records Preservation Program, is a compilation of inventories of local government records identified as having permanent or enduring value and housed primarily in county and municipal offices, but includes some libraries, museums, and historical and genealogical societies that maintain government records. Searchable by county or keyword.
- Missouri Birth and Death Records, Pre-1910 - This searchable database contains birth, stillbirth, and death records recorded in Missouri before 1909.
- Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1956 - This is a searchable database that links to a digitized image of the original death certificate.
- Missouri's Judicial Records - Includes records for Greene County Circuit Court (1856-1873, non-inclusive), Jasper County Circuit Court (1860-1876, non-inclusive), New Madrid County Probate Court (1805-1830), Saint Charles County Circuit Court (1805-1835), Saint Louis City Probate Court (1876-1900, separated from county in 1876) and Saint Louis County Probate Court (1804-1876). Database is searchable by name of party, name of county and year of filing.
- Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database - The Missouri Supreme Court database provides an index and abstract of the criminal and civil court cases that were appealed to the territorial and state Supreme Court of Missouri up to 1868, and a partial listing of cases to 1883. A number of documents in the earliest cases date from the 1780s to 1790s.
- Missouri's Union Provost Marshal Papers, 1861-1865 - This database is simply an index to assist researchers in locating information found in the original microfilmed records, available at the Missouri State Archives. The records are not available online. Although these are records of the Union Army, they were associated with Confederate records in the War Department because they relate, in part, to Confederate citizens and sympathizers. The microfilm collection contains thousands of pages of documents detailing the way the provost marshal affected the lives of Missouri citizens who came into contact with the Union Army.
- Naturalization Records, 1816-1955 - This database contains immigration information from record books from various counties and the Supreme Court of Missouri. This is an ongoing project between the Missouri State Archives and the St. Louis Genealogical Society.
- Soldiers Database: War of 1812 - WWI - This database covers the War of 1812 to World War I and lists more than 576,000 Missourians who served in the military. It is abstracted from individual service cards. The database is searchable by name or unit and can be limited to a particular war. Images of the original service records are linked to most database records.
- Ohio
- Ohio Death Certificate Index 1913-1944 You can now purchase photocopies of Ohio death certificates online. Use the Index to find and select your certificates, save them to your list and click on purchase to checkout through the . Copies cost $7 per certificate (Ohio residents pay 6.75% sales tax). You can now request copies of death certificates for the years 1909-1912 and 1945-1953 by completing an online request form and checking out through the Ohio History Store.
- War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers 3/27/2015 - had an "unavailable" message. Search the full text of the roster from the Adjutant General records. Ohio furnished 1,759 Officers and 24,521 enlisted men for this war.


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The challengeSwitching from a geared motor to a direct drive, gearless elevator design, China's Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevators faced a serious design challenge. With no gearbox and no gear oil, the open bearings supporting the rotating shaft would have to be regularly lubricated – a difficult and costly regimen that could potentially jeopardize brake function due to grease leakage.
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Wisconsin judge puts same-sex marriages on hold
After a whirlwind of confusion and rushed marriages across Wisconsin, a federal judge on Friday put same-sex marriages in the state on hold.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's ruling in Madison came late Friday, exactly one week after she struck down the state's 2006 prohibition against same-sex marriages. Last week, she didn't direct local clerks on how to handle the ruling, leaving interpretation to individual county clerks that largely issued licenses.
"After seeing the expression of joy on the faces of so many newly wedding couples featured in media reports, I find it difficult to impose a stay on the event that is responsible for eliciting that emotion, even if the stay is only temporary," Crabb wrote. "Same-sex couples have waited many years to receive equal treatment under the law, so it is understandable that they do not want to wait any longer."
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen had requested that Crabb's ruling be put on hold pending his appeal.
Nearly 600 licenses were issued in the 60 counties that allowed them. Another 12 counties in Wisconsin declined to issue licenses to same-sex couples.
MONDAY: Judge lets gay marriages continue in Wisconsin
JUNE 6: Judge strikes down Wisconsin same-sex marriage ban
Some clerks who said they would issue licenses decided to stick to a five-day waiting period. Now those couples in the middle of the waiting period are limbo.
After Friday's ruling, Roger Bertschausen, senior minister at Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Appleton, Wis., said he had to cancel 10 weddings planned for Monday.
"It's not fair for these couples. They're being punished for living in the wrong county," Bertschausen said. "As a county resident, I'm embarrassed and I'm ashamed of our clerk."
Throughout the week, same-sex couples in nearby Winnebago and Calumet counties could be wed without a wait period, but Outagamie County stuck by its five-day delay, creating frustration. Outagamie County Clerk Lori O'Bright said Friday that she relied on legal advice from the county attorney but took responsibility for the decision to adhere to wait times.
"The waiver is my decision, and I feel that I'm applying my policies fairly," O'Bright said. "It's unfortunate that certain sides of this issue don't see it as fair, but I'm continuing with my policies in the office."
O'Bright processed 27 requests for licenses and granted just one, because of a sick family member that qualified under the clerk's waiver provision.
Van Hollen said he was very pleased with the new ruling.
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"County clerks do not have authority under Wisconsin law to issue same-sex marriage licenses," he said in a statement. "Judge Crabb's stay makes this abundantly clear."
Wisconsin state officials are appealing the judge's June 6 ruling to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
In Portage County, where the clerk refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples, Allen Rasmussen and Keith Kitsembel asked nine times since Monday for a marriage license. They were part of a silent protest Friday outside the courthouse in Stevens Point, Wis., before the federal judge issued her stay.
Back in Appleton, the waiting period created the same result: no marriage license.
"We're all heartbroken because none of us in this county stood a chance to get married," said Kathy Flores, Appleton's diversity coordinator who planned to get a license this month. "Clerks can waive the waiting period for no reason at all. She could have changed her rules."
Couples that paid the $100 filing fee in Appleton planned to demand refunds Monday morning, she said.
Among them are Sam Tassoul and Sara Rabideau of Appleton. Rabideau said she anticipated a dispute over the fee and that the couple instead would be wed in Minnesota this fall.
"It's utter disappointment and complete frustration right now, mainly with the clerk," Rabideau said. "We've waited almost 11 years, and this appeal is going to take more than a few months."
Crabb's order Friday did not address whether same-sex marriages completed in the past week are valid.
Wisconsin's constitutional amendment, approved by 59% of voters in 2006, outlawed gay marriage or anything substantially similar. The American Civil Liberties Union said the ban violated the constitutional rights of eight gay couples to equal protection and due process, and Crabb agreed.
Gay-rights activists have won 15 consecutive lower court cases since a landmark Supreme Court ruling this past summer with Wisconsin being the latest. The state is among 13 with same-sex marriage cases pending before appeals courts.
The issue also could be settled in the next session of the Supreme Court.
Nick Penzenstadler also reports for The (Appleton, Wis.) Post-Crescent. Contributing: The Stevens Point (Wis.) Journal; The Associated Press.


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Super ONM's Two Year Anniversary
The 20th October 2016 is SONM's 2nd anniversary! Join us in our birthday celebrations as we reflect back on two whole years as our own standalone community, and look forward to what is coming next...
As much as we have to celebrate, this is also the perfect opportunity to look to the future, and I am very pleased to announce our newest affiliation with ScreenGurus. More than simply being listed amongst our friends, our hope is to develop and grow a long lasting partnership between our two sites, offering more great content and providing our community with a fantastic outlet for its skill and creativity. You can read more about ScreenGurus and our affiliation here!
We've also taken on board much of the feedback we have received in recent months regarding SONM, and are pleased to announce that the site will be benefiting from an upgrade and facelift in the coming weeks, bringing notifications and dynamic, mobile-friendly layouts amongst other improvements, while still retaining the classic look and feel that SONM can be recognised by. Stay tuned for more news on that shortly!
Finally, as per last year's anniversary celebrations, we also have our Halloween and Bonfire Night banner competition over in GAAW. Join in and your design may well be featured across the forum!
Thank you for being part of the SONM community. Here's to another great year!


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oday visitors stroll around a peaceful hilltop overlooking shade trees and row houses. A soaring granite obelisk rises where once stood an earthen fortification. A fiveacre park with stone markers is all that remains of the ground that became a raging battlefield and the site of the first fullscale battle of the American Revolution.
It was in June 1775 that the pentup anger and hatred between the British and many American colonists exploded into brutal fury at the top of this hill, while the nearby town of Charlestown, Massachusetts, burned from redhot cannon balls fired by British warships into its wooden buildings.
This Revolutionary War battle, which was supposed to have been fought on Bunker Hill, but which in fact took place on nearby Breed's Hill, gained the British a narrow victory. At the same time it encouraged the colonists to continue to fight. Now often dotted by school groups eating lunch or resting after they have climbed the 294 steps to the top of the 221foot monument, the battleground continues to evoke a sense of wonder at the story of one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
Boston National
This lesson is based on the Boston National Historical Park, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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Stars glowed there and the sun shined its light
A full moon sailed over the Dinor River in the sky at night
A child laughed there, he knew no fear
With an angelic smile he wove his dreams.
And amidst the greenery in its serpentine form
Flowed the river, reflecting the sky's brightness
Covered by the shadows among the thickness of the forest
Drawing its mysteries into its depths with its whispers
And hills surround the city, enveloped in greenery
A secret is murmured in the breeze of the branches,
And flowers in the gardens in seductive shades
Changing their colors after the light has burst forth.
The flowers decorated the wheat fields
The buzz of the bees in the wild flower meadow
A rooster disrupts their buzzing by calling
A man has cast his shadow over the green of the poppies.
Quiet and serenity, a man's longing
Carried across a horizon, touching the mountains,
Healing the soul like the morning dew,
The soul is at peace; attained salvation.
This is a thriving border town,
Filled up by its settlers, generation after generation-
Friendship; extending a hand to one another-
And labor, each man bringing home his prey.
Young and old toiled from dawn-
Lights and shadows in the gardens, in the homes-
Working to create, and for money.
Hatred and resulting quarrels and so forth.
One world opposite another in the houses, the wide streets
Since paved with granite.
A church opposite a synagogue, both looking to the heavens-
One world opposite the other in the houses, the streets
All believing in the same God,
Some through Moses, some through Christ.
And neither baited Moses nor Christ
To bring ruin upon the other side.
There were wars as the generations passed
Between vengeful peoples and between states,
And there were peaceful years, void of quarrels among peoples,
And the waters of the rivers flowed peacefully.
The candle light on the holy Sabbath eve
Lit the streets from the homes of the Jews,
There a child and mother sat at the table,
And a father made kiddush facing the street.
His neighbor- be he worker or peasant-
Wished him a hearty "Good Shabbos"
Wished him and his household a "Happy Holiday".
Without deceit, living together in truth.
They believed in mankind, and the belief, like fresh air
Filled the lungs of the believers in Moses
And the believers in Christ. The fire of dispute did not erupt
Even if there was a small spark once in a while.
There was no antagonism there, they did not demand our blood,
There was no trouble or instigation, we knew not of murders.
When a man left his home in the morning to earn his bread
He was secure that he may labor undisturbed.
No one was troubled by thoughts of murder
No one feared the day.
Until the arch-murderer arrived
No one dreamed the nightmare of death.
Profound thoughts enveloped the culture
Directing silent prayers above
Writing "Love one another" on its banner
Only Good and Beauty were its source.
This world belongs to those of the past,
A world of great ones, and lesser ones as well,
A world filled with the spirit of the family of nations
Enveloping a rainbow of cultures.
Between wars, innocence reigned,
They knew respect, dignity and nobility.
Demons and murder belonged to the foulness of the front-
Those behind the lines never dreamed of them.
Except for the Ghengis Khans and the Chmielniskis
Ahashderpani-Persians and the Inquisition,
Except for the arrogant Egyptian Pharaohs-
There were no predators there, no wild beasts,
The likes of those who pierced our generation,
Turned into the jungle of human civilization,
Their face had been hiding the face of the beast for generations
To nurture the most heinous of criminals the world has known.
Who could ever had imagined
Such a powerful thirst, buried in hearts,
Such a thirst for blood pushing upward like a volcano
Erupting into a devouring inferno.
Erupting and devouring lands near and far,
Imprinting a passion for cruelty in the blood of men,
Losing its human face in the shadows of the crematorium-
His own and that of his sons forever more.
Who could ever imagine
That the nation of Goethe, Shiller and Kant- the German people,
Who will go down in infamy
As a nation of criminals, and gang of murderers.
Who could have imagined
That the language of Heine would be loathed
That the German people would force others to their knees
While following the Fuhrer.
Who could have imagined
That no language could find the words
To describe the atrocities
To describe the victims' pain, the echo of his screams.
The pain of a helpless mother, the pain of a child,
The choking pain of the German Cyklon B gas,
The pain of a man's body burning, while he is alive
The pain of corpses strewn about.
Who could have imagined
That the winds would carry their ashes throughout the world
Who could detect in the breeze
The stench of the corpses it carries.
Torture of prisoners, death from torture-
These are the symbols of Hitler's rule.
People standing naked in the frost.
Their picture turning into the symbol of repression.
Who could imagine a Gestapo officer
Murdering innocent unarmed people in the heat of the day
Changing his colors when amongst his own,
Playing Mozart with blood on his hands.
Who could imagine that railroad cars
Cattle cars- would transport to ruin,
Transport a person to a horrible death, to choking;
So that his blood will drench the pages of history.
Who could imagine that that they would find refuge
Among men of the cloth and ministers,
Eating holy bread among their own,
Without revealing that they murdered, had anything to do with it.
They will be silent, covering the human blood stains,
Harboring heinous murderers
Making music and teaching song
Or proudly wearing the scientists' robes.
Who could imagine that a river of human blood
With agony that no words could describe,
Had not been heard of by the rulers of Paraguay
In defense of all mankind in the world.
Who could imagine that in the home of a daughter of Hungary
The criminal Mengele would hide in peace
Living off of gold he stole wildly
From Jews who were his victims, among Jews in Brazil.
Who could imagine that in this deceitful world
The life of a human being would be worthless,
His agony as trivial as a garlic peel.
Only brute force will prevail.
Your day will yet come, your day of terror,
Despair will descend upon your peaceful home,
As our mothers cry an eternal cry of despair
Your proud nation will collapse, the vain will go asunder.
In the land where crime raised its head
Your children will seek protection
In their mothers' breasts, refuge from their fathers
On God's day, the day of vengeance, which has yet to come.
Remain in Europe, for tomorrow he will come to you
The judge of all the earth will judge you,
The Defender of men who remembers our misdeeds
Will obliterate your evil and destroy you by flood.
I am no prophet, I believe in G-d's vengeance
Utinam falsus vates-ich-sim
The sinful city of Rome also fell
And since then the sword of Damacles still hangs
Above the head of those who extended their hands to crime
Against a nation of the world to obliterate it completely
Ramming forth from the devastation to the summit of evil
They stood as saints, protesting their innocence.
They lifted up their eyes, in their home they laughed,
They cheered their victory over Russia,
They bowed down before the altar of Allah
When they fell, they extended their hand to crime.
The hand of G-d determined the fate of Israel
To bring upon it indescribable suffering
To leave but a remnant, of the chosen people,
To save the remnant from the Nimrod of its generation.
On the Judgement Day he will strike them,
For they spilled human blood, which cried out to the heavens,
Damned from the earth, which opened up
To take the blood from their hands, believe in G-d's vengeance.
What is their life after war
In which they sinned, they now wander in a strange world
Sleep escapes them as they lie at night,
They will be afraid of their shadows as they live their daily lives.
Hiding in fear they will cry bitterly,
For skeletons will march in the night behind them,
Looking at them with their eye sockets,
They will not let them alone, they will prove their guilt.
The fate of man out there will be determined,
Out there the map of nations will certainly be illuminated,
Out there the rafters will calculate the power of the earth
Each day, another spark will be granted.
Luck will determine a man's future
For nation's it will be determined over generations.
Nothing can abolish the decrees of the stars in secret.
The wise man will believe in it, the ignorant will believe it false.
Compare it to a couple living together,
Out there, some time a man was meant for a certain woman,
They formerly did not know each other,
They did not know that as things seem
On earth, their meeting was by chance,
Joined by an idea or a feeling.
She had dreamed a dream that was an idea of his,
They knew each other's secrets by glancing into their eyes.
How great is the strength of the Almighty,
He determines the strength of all, the life of man,
The hand of G-d works in far off galaxies,
In the whole universe as it does on earth.
And now I bid you farewell, those who lie in the pits,
Those riddled by bullets of murderers by the river,
At the close of a night's slumber my eyes burn,
I think of myself: am I alive?
When I saw the bodies fall one by one,
The eyes looking helpless, in despair,
Their eyes shining with life for the last time;
Seeing people who are lost, although they are innocent.
Each day, each night in a night mare
I see the murderers with a skull,
Chasing us in the field and in the city
Not tiring of the chase, fearing no retribution
We were the prisoners of the death camps
We are the refugees of the ghetto surrounded by barbed wire,
You must answer our charge
Replete with terror and the desire for revenge and reckoning-
We went into the forests to pay you your dues,
We joined the army starved and worn down,
We went to act, retaining our honor,
"To die with the Philistines", and not alone.
We marched with arms as others do,
Our arms strong and our hearts heroic,
We reached Berlin thirsty
For the vengeance of our relatives, and their suffering.
We went as one, ready
To sacrifice our souls as explosives,
To obliterate Hitlerism from the map of tomorrow,
To spill his last drop of blood.
To ignite in the heat of the battle in the hearts of our allies
The fire of vengeance that would burn undaunted
To heal their frazzled nerves
With an enemy's defeat in bloody battle.
Blind and deaf to what was happening behind us
Forging onward to the borders of the land of evil
Until the bombs and the last bullet will force out
The rule of wickedness and rot its creations.
Forging onward for the death of millions
Of my people and of other peoples
Innocent, yet painfully tortured;
Because they were human to an inhumane death.
For the heroic deaths of the sons of Russia and Poland,
Like the sons of Denmark who fought bravely
Like the sons of America, France and Britain,
Like the death of the partisans carrying many different flags
For the deaths of the tortured in the prisons
For the death of the executed in the jails,
For the death which reached every corner
I see them finally licking their boots
When their masses were taken prisoner,
At the gates of Berlin freezing cold,
Trembling with the question, "What will the day bring them?"
It is a pity that we took them prisoner
It is a pity that we did not kill every last one of them
How can one share human rights
With someone who feels no pain at the death of a human being?
These criminals should have been judged without a trial
For crimes against humanity in front of the whole world,
Sentenced to a bullet or a noose
To be tied around the defendant's neck.
For those who evaded punishment
And in exchange for the gold teeth which they extracted
Wander among the known hypocrites of the world,
Bearing the brand of "wanderer"
Until the day will come that their stench will make them tremble
Too shoot the sinful agate head they would not dare
A German head. Each one of them whispering
From his mouse-hole hiding place, with no poison.
The world must build them a giant tombstone
To remind the world how they murdered innocent people,
Their children will learn from the first steps
To rectify in the future the horrors of the past.
They will learn of human rights and the sanctity of life,
The torturers will be presented to them
With the eye sockets burned by their hand.
To root out the evil for tomorrow.
We look forward to a future that is all good...
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We have been having "the troubles" for the past couple of months but initially we had snippets of usage during the day (if we unplugged the modem, counted to ten then replugged it). But for the last week? Lights flashing. Nobody home.
I have come to realise that blogging without the internet is pretty hard. I know! I am a genius!
I can't publish stuff that I write*. I can't read stuff that you write. I can't comment. I can't get my emails.
But I still kept recording things in my head, and writing blog post titles in lists in my phone and wondering how the Conference went and wondering what I should do about this blog of mine.
The service provider is scratching their head about what the problem is, so I won't be back at this gig regularly any time soon. But I really miss it. And I miss reading your blogs too.
In the meantime, I am hanging with the Geege and kids, reading (I can recommend "Freedom" by Johnathon Franzen for a big American novel and "King of the Cross" by Mark Dapin for a gritty underbelly-esque read) and watching TV. I really hope to be back soon.
What do you do when you can't blog?
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Tattoos and Judaism
The Question:
Why can't people with tattoos be buried in a Jewish cemetery?
The Answer:
There is no such rule.
It is true that Jews are prohibited from getting tattoos under Jewish law; the rule in question is in Leviticus 19:28. With that said, violating this law does not disqualify one from burial in a Jewish cemetery.
While this alleged rule was a central plot point in a 1996 episode of The Nanny, it is a complete myth, of unknown origin. But you don't have to take our word for it. Here are opinions by an Orthodox rabbi and a Conservative rabbi.
-The Editors
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text: adam, if i were going to trap out ferals or catch their swarms, i would try to locate them early in the season. that way, i would at least know they made it through the harsh winter up there. i think that would be a good starting point to getting some hearty bees.


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The Creative Process
The Creative Process: Interviews & Portraits of the World's Leading Authors & Creative Thinkers
Inspiring Students – Encouraging Reading - Connecting through Stories
The Creative Process exhibition is traveling to universities and museums. The Creative Process exhibition consists of interviews with over 100 esteemed writers, including Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Neil Gaiman, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tobias Wolff, Richard Ford, Junot Díaz, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Faber, T.C. Boyle, Jay McInerney, George Saunders, Geoff Dyer, Dave Eggers, Etgar Keret, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Lipsyte, and Yiyun Li, among others. Artist and interviewer: Mia Funk.
Do you have an idea for an essay, story or poem linked to the writers featured in The Creative Process? Have ideas discussed in this interview inspired your own creative works? We're happy to review audio and short video pieces. We welcome submissions from all genres and disciplines.
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I think many of my stories work on this principle: everything is just as it is in our world (they physicality, the psychology, etc) except for one distorted thing. The effect, I hope, is to make the reader (and me) see our "real" world in a slightly new light.
I do develop my books in scenes, and write a lot of dialogue – though book dialogue is different from stage dialogue, which is different from TV dialogue – and that is different from radio dialogue – I've explored all these facets. I think I am covertly a playwright and always have been – it's just that the plays last for weeks, instead of a couple of hours.
The idea that anything could be a door, the idea that the back of the wardrobe could open up unto a world in which it was winter and there were other worlds inches away from us, became just part of the way that I saw the world, that was how I assumed the way the world worked, when I was a kid that was the way that I saw.
I think part of what I was thinking about with this project was to build the fact that [my character] Yunior is a writer and that with Yunior being a writer we get to check in with his maturing and changing perspective. [...] Therefore built into the story there's a perspective that might not otherwise be available if I was writing far more closely to the events he was narrating. These are the weird nerdy decisions one makes as one writes where one has to decide the events that are occurring in your text. You have to decide what's the distance between the event and the point of telling where the narrator stands, looking upon and reflecting and retelling those events.
In the course of writing a novel I will sometimes lock myself away. During most of my previous novels there comes a point where I just go to the country and hide for 5 or 6 weeks. Sometimes it's the first draft, sometimes it's the second. There are periods when I feel like you just have to cut out the world and listen to the voice in your own head. In the course of writing a novel I will sometimes lock myself away. During most of my previous novels there comes a point where I just go to the country and hide for 5 or 6 weeks. Sometimes it's the first draft, sometimes it's the second. There are periods when I feel like you just have to cut out the world and listen to the voice in your own head.
I've written a number of short stories from a first-person POV but I guess with novels I felt that this was too restrictive. What worked for me was a third-person approach that was somewhat suffused with the personality of the character.
All artists are seeking to create a modified world that conforms to their emotional and artistic expectations, and I am one of them, though, of course, as we grow and age those expectations are continually in flux. [...] Yes, like all of us, I have experienced disillusionment with the limits of human life and understanding.
I don't start off to create a moral in telling a story, but there are certainly consequences to the decisions that we make and some of those will inevitably have what we call a moral dimension. I don't respond enthusiastically to fiction when I can see a thumb on the scales, when I can see that it's a sermon in disguise. I'm more interested in writing that explores rather than proclaims.
Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet-- out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.
In a way, I sometimes think that it's when the divergences from what really happened are quite small that it calls for the services of a very scrupulous and clever biographer. Certainly the stuff you get about me from my books it's not–how can I put it?–it's not reliable as evidence in any court of law. I'm very conscious that I'm not under oath when I'm writing.
When I compare novelists to short story writers or very short story writers, I can't compare them, but one thing for sure, the purpose is different. I think that someone who writes tries to create or document a world. And when you write very short fiction you try to document a motion, some kind of movement.
Je suis devenue écrivain parce que dans ma famille ce n'étaient pas seulement les rêves, les étoiles et les animaux sauvages, qu'on passait sous silence, mais tout. Il y a deux choses surtout qu'on cache aux enfants : la mort et le sexe. Les zones du grand secret. Chez moi, la présence d'un enfant mort réunissait ces deux zones d'une façon dramatique. Ce chagrin silencieux de mes parents, et la folie de plusieurs personnes dans ma famille, ont déterminé l'écrivain que je suis.
I sort of think we're all kind of a swirl of everything we've read, the art we've looked at or heard, the life we've led, the people we know, the stories we've heard, the stories we've lived through and the stories we've heard secondhand, the fears we've had, the desires we've had, it's kind of just swirling around, so when you're writing it's not that you're channeling it in a completely unthinking way, but when I write I'm just sort of moving fence to fence and seeing what bubbles up.
The artificial beginning is interesting to me. There is a clear-cut: old life, that's old country, and here's there's new life, new country. It is an advantage. You are looking at life through an old pair of eyes and a new pair of eyes. And there's always that ambivalence––Where do you belong? And how do you belong? And I do think these are advantages of immigrant writers or writers with two languages or who have two worlds.
I hear the slamming of a door, bolted shut, which belongs to a house with a weather-beaten chimney. On the street tinkles the sour moaning of the windows' metal bars. Street lamps are shining in a depressive state. A seventy-two-year-old helpless loner walks past me.


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Garner State Park to Add 177 Acres in Land Purchase
AUSTIN — One of Texas' most beloved outdoor recreation destinations — Garner State Park near Concan — will be adding a 177-acre tract that includes the iconic bluff known as Old Baldy as the result of a land deal struck with a willing, conservation-minded landowner.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission at its Jan. 28 meeting approved the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's acquisition of the tract owned by Barbara Muennink, whose family has owned the property for more than 80 years. She is selling the tract to TPWD at a bargain price to help keep the land in its natural state.
Over the years, Muennink has never tried to restrict public access to the rocky bluff overlooking the scenic Frio River that most park visitors assumed was part of state park property. In reality, only a very small part of the bluff is state-owned.
Texas Parks and Wildlife staff and real estate broker Morris Killough with Texas Land & Ranch Company in Utopia, TX worked closely with Muennink and her family to structure the deal that will result in the addition of this tract.
When the TPWD completes the pending land purchase, Garner State Park will encompass almost 1,600 acres. The new tract at the southernmost end of the park includes a hiking trail that climbs the 400-foot river bluff and an additional 210 feet of riverfront property.
Funds for the Garner State Park land acquisition comes from monies allocated last year by the 81st Texas Legislature and a matching grant from the National Park Service's Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Garner State Park records approximately 400,000 visits each year. It ranks No. 1 among 93 Texas state parks in the percentage of park visitors who stay overnight in one of the park's many campsites, screened shelters or 17 cabins built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Garner State Park is open seven days a week. Entry fees are $6 per person 13 years and older visiting for day use only and $4 per person for individuals 13 years and older who are staying overnight. For camping fees and other information, contact Garner State Park at (830) 232-6132.
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Joan Fontaine and
Judith Anderson in the 1940 Academy Award-winning "Rebecca,"
directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
An Oscar-winning
actress (for Hitchcock's "Suspicion"), Fontaine appeared in more than
30 films and numerous TV appearances during a career spanning nearly six
decades. Fontaine died at her Carmel,
Calif., home on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. She was 96.
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
Credit: RKO
Joan Fontaine made an uncredited appearance in the period film, "Quality
Street." (1937), which starred Katharine Hepburn.
Fontaine was born Joan de
Havilland in 1917 in Tokyo, where her British parents lived. Her family moved
Joan and her younger sister, Olivia de Havilland, to California in 1919.
After appearing in a play in Los Angeles, Joan
was signed to her first film, "Quality Street," taking as her name
that of her mother's second husband.
Credit: MGM
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Credit: Warner Brothers
Credit: Paramount PIctures
Credit: Paramount Pictures
Credit: Universal Pictures
Fontaine's most
daring role was in the 1957 film "Island in the Sun," about an
interracial romance. Several Southern
cities banned the movie, which co-starred Harry Belafonte, after threats from
the Ku Klux Klan.
Joan Fontaine (with Leonard Rossiter) discovers that black
magic cultists have taken up in a quiet English village in the Hammer horror
film, "The Witches" (1966).
In later years
Fontaine returned to the stage, appearing on Broadway in "Tea and
Sympathy" "Forty Carats." She made numerous TV appearances, including
"The Love Boat," ''Cannon," and the soap opera, "Ryan's
Hope," for which she received Emmy nomination.
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Do your attitudes toward your career advance your career development? Are your beliefs and behaviors positive, growth-oriented, or negative, constraining? Are they in harmony with the real you, and the 2030s?
Career Advancement Attitudes
Answer "yes" or "no''
- I learn from my mistakes.
- I'm too old to compete with younger job applicants.
- I know and accept myself.
- I prefer the tried and true ways of doing things.
- Career success is defined personally.
- I do what I "should" rather than what I want.
- I welcome criticism as a way to grow.
- I won't consider relocating for an attractive job elsewhere.
- My successes are the result of hard work, determination and some ability.
- I'll accept a promotion to a job I don't like for money or prestige.
- My job gives my life meaning and direction.
- I'm looking forward to retirement so that I can do what I want.
- I'm flexible, self reliant and optimistic.
- Career success means having social standing and money to buy the good things.
- I'll take a salary cut to further my career.
Scoring: 1 point for each "yes" to odd numbered statements, and each "no" to even numbered ones. The higher your score, the more you possess positive, growth-oriented career attitudes. If you scored less than 6, consider reevaluating your career attitudes.
Advancing Your Career
Reevaluate your definition of career development. View career growth as a lifelong process of personal and professional development -- a continuing quest to maintain harmony between who you are and what you do. Also see career as an opportunity to express yourself and pursue your mission. This gives you a sense of direction, inner peace and joy.
Know yourself and options. Identify your skills, major accomplishments, needs, purpose, and other attributes. Specify your ideal job; include field or industry, title, tasks, type of company and location.
Don't choose an occupation because experts predict it will be in demand or to please others. Rather, select alternatives that are in harmony with personal qualities. If you follow your heart instead of "shoulds," money may be a by-product.
Take charge. Restructure your thinking to that of creating a job rather than applying for one. Reevaluate your career goals periodically. Modify these as you learn more about yourself and your changing environment. Embrace and grow with change. Be flexible, resilient.
Recognize you do have options. Testing your options may mean tradeoffs, but usually they're worth the inconvenience.
Continue to learn. Welcome opportunities to discover new technologies and enhance transferable skills, such as computer literacy and verbal communication.
Know how to market yourself (your product) to prospective buyers (employers).
Think out of the box. Develop and use your intuition. Take quiet time dally to tune into your inner self. Meditate on an object, such as a candle flame or mantra. Ask your dreams for direction before going to sleep. Keep a journal. Communicate with nature.
Enhance optimism. Believe good things will happen. Every time you hear your inner voice criticize, stop and think of something positive to say such as "I'm making progress." Write down things you like about yourself such as "I'm flexible and creative." Post the list where you can see it often.
Strengthen courage to risk. Start with small risks in daily activities. Then proceed to more challenging ones. Think of an important risk you'd like to take. What's the worst thing that would happen if it turned out badly? Where could you get information and support to make the goal less risky? Break the goal into small steps. When can you take the first step.
Live in the present. Don't worry about what might happen. Depersonalize failure. View setbacks as learning experiences. Persist.
Believe you'll attain your goal. Questers Dare to Change Your Job and Life offers numerous examples of Questers who are living their goals well into their 90s; https://www.amazon.com/Questers-Dare-Change-Your-Life/dp/1508408963
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Carole Kanchier, PhD, is an internationally recognized newspaper/digital columnist, registered psychologist and author of the award-winning, Questers Dare to Change Your Job and Life and the forthcoming Arouse the Force Within You! Dr. Kanchier has taught at University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz and University of Alberta, and served as visiting fellow at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, and other institutions of higher learning. Dr. Kanchier is known for her pioneering, interdisciplinary approach to human potential.


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But the Lipscomb Lady Bisons basketball team has not been on the court in a game since a Dec. 9 loss at Evansville. They get back in the swing of things Sunday and Monday at the second annual Dayton Flyer Classic at the UD Arena. The Lady Bisons will face host Dayton at 2 p.m. Sunday. Bowling Green State and Gardner-Webb play in the other game. The finals are scheduled for Monday.
The Lady Bisons enter the tournament with three straight losses. Dayton has won its last three games.
"Dayton is really playing well," said Bennett. "Bowling Green is a quality team. Gardner-Webb is also doing a good job."
Sophomore guard Jenna Bartsokas leads the Lady Bisons with 13.3 points per game. She has scored in double figures in eight of nine games this season.
"From an offensive standpoint Jenna as been pretty consistent," said Bennett. "But I think she can be even more aggressive offensively because she can do so many different things."
In an effort to increase the scoring of the team overall Bennett has made some changes in the playbook.
"We are doing more set things and not so many motion-decision type things," said Bennett. "I think that has helped us a little bit."
Freshman guard Anna Bowers scored 14 points, a season-and-career high, at Evansville. She was four-of-four from 3-point range.
"Anna has been shooting well in practices," said Bennett. "She had her best game against Evansville. Her shooting stroke and her shot selection are both better."
The extra time away from game preparations gave the Lady Bisons an edge in studying for final exams. But for coach Frank Bennett the extra time was a challenge as he attempted to keep his team focused on practice.
"We went pretty hard for a couple of days," said Bennett. "We really tried to up the intensity level in practice. We charted a lot of offensive and defensive rebound responsibilities. The players ran when they didn't meet those.
"We also worked on transitions and offensive and defensive execution. The practices were very hard."
Assistant coaches Katie Beth Allen and Lynsie Blau both worked extensively with the post players. Assistant coach Billy Snell also concentrated on specialty work for the guards.
The scrimmages provided a chance for players that aren't getting regular time in games to show what they can do.
"We played 10-minute periods with the last two minutes in a game situation," said Bennett. "It was a chance to see everybody." The Lady Bisons left for Dayton at 7:30 a.m. Saturday. This is the only regular season tournament for the Lady Bisons this season. It will be their final non-conference games before the Atlantic Sun schedule opens again in January.
"In addition to Bartsokas,sophomore forward Cree Nix is also playing well, especially on the boards. She is coming off a season-and-career high with 11 boards against Evansville.
"Cree is playing harder more consistently," said Bennett. "We are trying to get her to finish more by using the glass. She has made big strides and will continue to improve. She has the potential to be a double-double player a lot of nights."
Senior forward Jilian Partin also is continuing to improve both offensively and on the boards.
"She is going to the offensive boards a lot better," said Bennett. "She is shooting threes pretty well. She needs to use her judgment as to when she can get to the basket and not force shots."
Bennett would also like to see Miriam McAlister and Katie Rollins do a better job of finishing shots.
"If we can get a little bit better in a few areas we will be a different team," said Bennett. "Rebounding, shot selection and shotting percentage are all areas we need to work on. We need to consistently make transitions both ways."


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A buildout recipe to install and configure OpenERP
Project description
This is a Buildout recipe that can download, install and configure one or several OpenERP servers, web clients, gtk clients and addons modules, from official or custom sources, or any bzr, hg, git or svn repositories. It currently supports versions 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0, with gunicorn deployment and an additional cron worker. It works under Linux and MacOs. It might work under Windows but it is untested.
For a quickstart you can jump to the howto section.
A "Buildout recipe" is the engine behind a Buildout "part". A "buildout part" is a part of a larger application built with the Buildout sandbox build system. Using Buildout is harmless for your system because it is entirely self-contained in a single directory: just delete the directory and the buildout is gone. You never have to use administrative rights, except for build dependencies.
- Recipes
- Default options from zc.recipe.egg
- Specific options
- How to create and bootstrap a buildout
- Example OpenERP 6.1 buildout
- Example OpenERP 6.0 buildout
- Other sample buildouts
- Contribute
- Changes
- 1.5.0 (14-02-2013)
- 1.4 (16-01-2013)
- 1.3 (21-11-2012)
- 1.2.2 (11-11-2012)
- 1.2.1 (08-11-2012)
- 1.2 (07-11-2012)
- 1.1.5 (14-10-2012)
- 1.1.3 (26-09-2012)
- 1.0.3 (24-08-2012)
- 1.0 (24-08-2012)
- 0.17 (07-08-2012)
- 0.16 (29-06-2012)
- 0.15 (14-06-2012)
- 0.14.1 (17-05-2012)
- 0.14 (17-05-2012)
- 0.13.1 (14-05-2012)
- 0.13 (14-05-2012)
- 0.12 (02-05-2012)
- 0.11 (18-04-2012)
- 0.10 (02-04-2012)
- 0.9 (23-03-2012)
- 0.8 (20-12-2011)
- 0.7 (14-09-2011)
- 0.6 (11-09-2011)
- 0.5 (10-08-2011)
- 0.4 (09-08-2011)
- 0.3 (08-08-2011)
- 0.2 (08-08-2011)
- 0.1 (07-08-2011)
You get 3 recipes at once. The recipe to use is the following:
For the server:
recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:server
For the web client:
recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:webclient
For the gtk client:
recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:gtkclient
Default options from zc.recipe.egg
This recipe reuses the zc.recipe.egg:scripts recipe, so the options are the same (eggs, interpreter, etc.), and some changes, documented below.
Consult the documentation here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.egg/1.3.2
The main useful ones are below:
Starting from version 0.16 of the recipe, you don't need to put anything in this option by default. But you may specify additional eggs needed by addons, or just useful ones:
eggs = ipython openobject-library
The behaviour of this option is slightly modified : by default, no script other than those directly related to OpenERP are generated, but you may specify some explicitely, with the same semantics as the normal behaviour (we simply set an empty default value, which means to not produce scripts):
scripts = change_tz
In the current state, beware to not require the same script in different parts or rename them. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/anybox.recipe.openerp/+bug/1020967 for details.
This is the default interpreter option of zc.recipe.egg that specifies the name of the Python interpreter that shoud be included in the bin directory of the buildout:
interpreter = erp_python
Specific options
The recipe also adds a few specific options:
Specifies the OpenERP version to use. It can be:
The version number of an official OpenERP (server, web client or gtk client):
version = 6.0.3
A custom download:
version = url http://example.com/openerp.tar.gz
An absolute or a relative path:
version = path /my/path/to/a/custom/openerp
A custom bzr, hg, git or svn branch or repository. The syntax is the same as the addons option (see below):
version = bzr lp:openobject-server/6.1 openerp61 last:1
A nightly build:
version = nightly 6.1 20120814-233345
or (dangerously unpinned version):
version = nightly 6.1 latest
or even more dangerous:
version = nightly trunk latest
Specifies additional OpenERP addons, either a local path or a repository.
addons = local ../some/relative/path/for/custom_addons/ local /some/other/absolute/path/for/custom_addons bzr lp:openobject-addons/trunk/ addons0 last:1 hg http://example.com/some_addons addons1 default git http://example.com/some_addons addons2 master svn http://example.com/some_addons addons3 head bzr lp:openerp-web/trunk/ openerp-web last:1 subdir=addons
When using local paths you can either specify a directory holding addons, or a single addon. In that latter case, it will be actually placed one directory below.
Never name one of these addons directory simply addons. It leads to obscure and blocking install errors for addons in other directories, claiming that some files don't exist while they do.
For remote repositories, the syntax is:
- TYPE can be bzr, hg, git or svn
- URL is any URL scheme supported by the versionning tool
- DESTINATION is the local directory that will be created (relative or absolute)
- REVISION is any version specification supported (revision, tag, etc.)
- OPTIONS take the form name=value. Currently, only the subdir option is recognized. If used, the given subdirectory of the repository is registered as an addons directory.
Repositories are updated on each build according to the specified revision. You must be careful with the revision specification.
Buildout offline mode is supported. In that case, update to the specified revision is performed, if the VCS allows it (Subversion does not).
This option allows to further precise what has been specified through the addons and version options by fixing VCS revisions.
The main use-case it to apply it in an extension buildout configuration file:
[buildout] extends = base.cfg [openerp] revisions = 4320 ; main software addons-openerp 7109
As you can see in that example, the first token is the target filesystem path, as in the addons option, the second one is the revision, except in the case of the main software (if VCS based), for which there's no filesystem path.
Some interesting use-cases:
- temporary fixing some revision in cas of upstream regression with no impact on your main development configuration (no risk to commit an unwanted freeze if the main configuration is itself versionned).
- freezing satisfactory revisions in a release process (the recipe can do that automatically for you, see freeze-to option below).
OpenERP startup scripts are created in the bin directory. By default the name is: start_<part_name>, so you can have several startup scripts for each part if you configure several OpenERP servers or clients. You can pass additional typical arguments to the server via the startup script, such as -i or -u options.
You can choose another name for the script by using the script_name option
script_name = start_erp
Specifies a delay in seconds to wait before actually launching OpenERP. This option was a preliminary hack to support both gunicorn instance and a legacy instance. The Gunicorn startup script (see below) itself is not affected by this setting
startup_delay = 3
Allows to load development and install useful devlopment and testing tools, notably the following scripts:
- test_openerp: a uniform test launcher for all supported versions. See test_script_name option below for details.
- openerp_command: see openerp_command_name option below for details. Not installed for OpenERP major versions less than or equal to 6.1.
This option is False by default, hence it's activated this way:
with_devtools = true
It will also add some dependencies that are typical to development setups (tests related packages etc.) and automatically load where needed helpers, such as anybox.testing.datetime (allows to cheat with system time).
If the with_devtools is set to True, the recipe will create a test script, which is named by default test_<part_name>. You may override the name in the configuration as in the following example:
test_script_name = test_erp
The test script takes the same arguments as the regular startup script:
bin/test_openerp --help bin/test_openerp -d test_db -i purchase,sale
At the time of this writing, all this script does compared to the regular startup script is to bring uniformity across OpenERP versions by tweaking options internally.
URL from which to download official and nightly versions (assuming the archive filenames are constistent with those in OpenERP download server). This is a basic mirroring capability:
base_url = http://download.example.com/openerp/
Allows to share OpenERP downloads among several buildouts. You should put this option in your ~/.buildout/default.cfg file. It specifies the destination download directory for OpenERP archives. The path may be absolute or relative to the buildout directory.
[buildout] openerp-downloads-directory = /home/user/.buildout/openerp-downloads
Gunicorn integration is only supported on OpenERP >= 6.1. Any value of this option makes the recipe generate a script to start OpenERP with Gunicorn and (new in version 1.1) a dedicated script to handle cron jobs.
For OpenERP 6.1, the only accepted values are direct and proxied. Any value is suitable for OpenERP >= 7
Proxied mode
For OpenERP 6.1, a special value of the gunicorn option is to be used if you plan to run Gunicorn behind a reverse proxy:
gunicorn = proxied
This behaviour has been kept for OpenERP >= 7 to keep backwards compatibility, but the option is now superseded by the general proxy_mode option of the server. In the buildout context, that'd be:
options.proxy_mode = True
Gunicorn options
Gunicorn-specific options are to be specified with the gunicorn. prefix and will end up in the the Gunicorn python configuration file etc/gunicorn_<part_name>.conf.py, such as:
gunicorn.workers = 8
If you don't specify gunicorn.bind, then a value is constructed from the relevant options for the OpenERP script (currently options.xmlrpc_port and options.xmlrpc_interface).
Other supported options and their default values are:
gunicorn.workers = 4 gunicorn.timeout = 240 gunicorn.max_requests = 2000
The recipe sets the proper WSGI entry point according to OpenERP version, you may manually override that with an option:
gunicorn.entry_point = mypackage:wsgi.app
Finally, you can specify the Gunicorn script name with the gunicorn_script_name option. The configuration file will be named accordingly.
OpenERP Command Line Tools (openerp-command for short) is an alternative set of command-line tools that may someday subsede the current monolithic startup script. Currently experimental, but already very useful in development mode.
It is currently enabled if the with_devtools option is on.
This works by requiring the openerp-command python distribution, which is not on PyPI as of this writting. You may want to use the vcsdevelop extension to get it from Launchpad:
[buildout] extensions = gp.vcsdevelop vcs-extend-develop = bzr+http://bazaar.launchpad.net/openerp/openerp-command#egg=openerp-command
As for other scripts, you can control its name of the produced script, e.g:
openerp_command_name = oe
the name defaults otherwise to <part_name>_command. Note that oe is the classical name for this script outside of the realm of this buildout recipe.
Do not use to launch production servers, especially in an automatic way, openerp-command is really unstable and that may damage your installation.
This option is meant to produce an extension buildout configuration that effectively freezes the variable versions and revisions of the current configuration.
supported VCSes for this feature are currently Mercurial and Bazaar only.
It is meant for release processes, and as such includes some consistency checks to avoid as much as possible issuing a frozen configuration that could be different from what the developper or release manager is assumed to have just tested. Namely:
- it works only in offline mode (command-line -o flag). This is to avoid fetching new revisions from VCSes or PyPI
- it fails if some VCS-controlled addons or main software have local modifications, including pending merges.
The recommended way to use it is through the command line (all buildout options can be set this way). Here's an example, assuming the part is called openerp-server-1:
bin/buildout -o openerp-server-1:freeze-to=frozen.cfg
This produces a buildout configuration file named frozen.cfg, with notably an openerp-server-1 part having a revisions option that freezes everything.
For configurations with several openerp related parts, you can freeze them together or in different files. This gives you flexibility in the distributions you may want to produce from a single configuration file:
bin/buildout -o openerp-server-1:freeze-to=server.cfg openerp-server-2:freeze-to=server.cfg gtkclient:freeze-to=client.cfg
In that latter example, server.cfg will have the two server parts, while client.cfg will have the gtkclient part only.
in DVCSes cases, nothing is done to check that the locally extracted revisions are actually pushed where they should.
Also, if the buildout configuration is itself under version control (a good practice), it is not in the recipe scope to commit or tag it. You are encouraged to use an external release script for that kind of purpose.
the recipe will also freeze python distributions installed with the gp.vcsdevelop extension but cannot currently protect against local modifications of these.
Following the same kind of logic as freeze-to, this option allows to turn a buildout that aggregates from various remote sources (tarball downloads, VCSes) into a self-contained buildout archive directory that can be packed for easy distribution.
Actually it extracts only the downloaded elements into a target directory and issues a buildout configuration with local references only. If that target directory has been itself initialized first with the fixed elements (buildout configuration files, bootstrap scripts, local addons), then it has all the needed elements, except eggs to be downloaded from PyPI or the specified index site.
Here is an example, assuming the fixed elements are themselves versioned with Mercurial:
hg archive ../test-extract && bin/buildout -o openerp:extract-downloads-to=../test-extract
The produced buildout configuration in the target directory is release.cfg. So, for instance, from our test-extract archive, the buildout can be executed like this:
python bootstrap.py && bin/buildout -c release.cfg
or further extended for system-dependent options such as port, db connection, etc.
The extract-downloads-to options can be used for several parts with the same target directory (same as freeze-to).
Furthermore, a default freeze-to is issued, producing a buildout configuration called extracted_from.cfg in the target directory, for later reference (local modification tracking) or a more developper-friendly reproduction configuration (ready-made setup to derive bugfix branches from).
This implication of freeze-to also has the side effect to enforce the same rules with respect to uncommitted changes.
Python distributions managed with gp.vcsdevelop are taken into account.
OpenERP options
You can define OpenERP options directly from the buildout file. The OpenERP configuration files are generated by OpenERP itself in the etc directory of the buildout during the first Buildout run. You can overwrite these options from the recipe section of your buildout.cfg. The options in the buildout file must be written using a dotted notation prefixed with the name of the corresponding section of the OpenERP config file. The specified options will just overwrite the existing options in the corresponding config files. You don't have to replicate all the options in your buildout.cfg. If an option or a section does not natively exist in the openerp config file, it can be created from there for your application.
For example you can specify the xmlrpc port for the server or even an additional option that does not exist in the default config file:
options.xmlrpc_port = 8069 options.additional_option = "foobar"
It will end-up in the server config as:
[options] xmlrpc_port = 8069 additional_option = "foobar"
For the web client you can specify the company url with:
global.server.socket_port = 8080 openerp-web.company.url = 'http://anybox.fr'
It will modify the corresponding web client config:
[global] server.socket_port = 8080 [openerp-web] company.url = 'http://anybox.fr'
Note that for security reason, the superadmin password is not set by default. If you want to create a database you should temporary set it manually in the etc/openerp.conf file
How to create and bootstrap a buildout
To create a buildout and run the build, you just need 1 file and 2 commands:
- Create a single buildout.cfg file.
- Be sure you installed all your build dependencies
- Bootstrap the buildout with: python bootstrap.py
- Run the build with: bin/buildout
The same with more details below :
Creating the buildout
Create a buildout.cfg file in an empty directory, containing the configuration of the example 6.1 section.
Installing build dependencies
You basically need typical development tools needed to build all the Python dependency eggs of OpenERP. You can do this by yourself with your system or Linux distribution.
Or if you're using a Debian system, we provide a single dependency package you can use to install all dependencies in one shot:
Add the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://apt.anybox.fr/openerp common main
Install the dependency package:
$ sudo aptitude update $ sudo aptitude install openerp-server-system-build-deps
You can uninstall this package with aptitude after the build to automatically remove all un-needed dependencies, but you need to install run dependencies before that
$ sudo aptitude install openerp-server-system-run-deps $ sudo aptitude remove openerp-server-system-build-deps
Please note that these package will have your system install the client part of PostgreSQL software only. If you want a PostgreSQL server on the same host, that's not in the recipe scope, just install it as well.
Bootstrapping the buildout
Bootstrapping the buildout consists in creating the basic structure of the buildout, and installing buildout itself in the directory.
The easiest and recommended way to bootstrap is to use a bootstrap.py script:
$ wget https://raw.github.com/buildout/buildout/master/bootstrap/bootstrap.py $ python bootstrap.py
As an alternative and more complicated solution, you may also bootstrap by creating a virtualenv, installing zc.buildout, then run the bootstrap:
$ virtualenv sandbox $ sandbox/bin/pip install zc.buildout $ sandbox/bin/buildout bootstrap
Running the build
Just run
$ bin/buildout
Starting OpenERP
Just run
$ bin/start_openerp
Example OpenERP 6.1 buildout
Here is a very simple example for a latest OpenERP 6.1 nightly and a custom addon hosted on Bitbucket:
[buildout] parts = openerp versions = versions find-links = http://download.gna.org/pychart/ [openerp] recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:server # replace '6.1' with 'trunk' to get a 7.0 current nightly: version = nightly 6.1 latest addons = hg https://bitbucket.org/anybox/anytracker addons-at default [versions] MarkupSafe = 0.15 Pillow = 1.7.7 PyXML = 0.8.4 babel = 0.9.6 feedparser = 5.1.1 gdata = 2.0.16 lxml = 2.3.3 mako = 0.6.2 psycopg2 = 2.4.4 pychart = 1.39 pydot = 1.0.28 pyparsing = 1.5.6 python-dateutil = 1.5 python-ldap = 2.4.9 python-openid = 2.2.5 pytz = 2012b pywebdav = 0.9.4.1 pyyaml = 3.10 reportlab = 2.5 simplejson = 2.4.0 vatnumber = 1.0 vobject = 0.8.1c werkzeug = 0.8.3 xlwt = 0.7.3 zc.buildout = 1.5.2 zc.recipe.egg = 1.3.2 zsi = 2.0-rc3
with OpenERP 6.1 the web client is natively included in the server as a simple module. In that case you don't need to write a separate part for the web client, unless that's what you really want to do.
Example OpenERP 6.0 buildout
Here is a sample buildout with version specification, 2 OpenERP servers (with one using the latest 6.0 branch on the launchpad) using only NETRPC and listening on 2 different ports, and 2 web clients:
[buildout] parts = openerp1 web1 openerp2 web2 #allow-picked-versions = false versions = versions find-links = http://download.gna.org/pychart/ [openerp1] recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:server version = 6.0.3 options.xmlrpc = False options.xmlrpcs = False [web1] recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:webclient version = 6.0.3 [openerp2] recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:server version = bzr lp:openobject-server/6.0 openobject-server-6.x last:1 options.xmlrpc = False options.xmlrpcs = False options.netrpc_port = 8170 [web2] recipe = anybox.recipe.openerp:webclient version = 6.0.3 global.openerp.server.port = '8170' global.server.socket_port = 8180 [versions] MarkupSafe = 0.15 Pillow = 1.7.7 anybox.recipe.openerp = 0.9 caldav = 0.1.10 collective.recipe.cmd = 0.5 coverage = 3.5 distribute = 0.6.25 feedparser = 5.0.1 lxml = 2.1.5 mako = 0.4.2 nose = 1.1.2 psycopg2 = 2.4.2 pychart = 1.39 pydot = 1.0.25 pyparsing = 1.5.6 python-dateutil = 1.5 pytz = 2012b pywebdav = 0.9.4.1 pyyaml = 3.10 reportlab = 2.5 vobject = 0.8.1c z3c.recipe.scripts = 1.0.1 zc.buildout = 1.5.2 zc.recipe.egg = 1.3.2 Babel = 0.9.6 FormEncode = 1.2.4 simplejson = 2.1.6
Other sample buildouts
Here are a few ready-to-use buildouts:
(Be sure to install system dependencies first)
OpenERP with the development branches of the Magento connector addons:
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/anybox/openerp_connect_magento_buildout $ cd openerp_connect_magento_buildout $ python bootstrap.py $ bin/buildout $ bin/start_openerp
OpenERP with the development branches of the Prestashop connector addons:
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/anybox/openerp_connect_prestashop_buildout $ cd openerp_connect_prestashop_buildout $ python bootstrap.py $ bin/buildout $ bin/start_openerp
Other examples are available in the archive of this recipe, and used in the anybox buildbot which is powered by anybox.buildbot.openerp.
- Christophe Combelles
- Georges Racinet
- Yannick Vaucher
The primary branch is on the launchpad:
- Code repository and bug tracker: https://launchpad.net/anybox.recipe.openerp
- PyPI page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/anybox.recipe.openerp
Please don't hesitate to give feedback and especially report bugs or ask for new features through launchpad at this URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/anybox.recipe.openerp/+bugs
1.5.0 (14-02-2013)
- works with zc.buildout 2.0
- launchpad #1115503: now it's possible to apply extract-downloads-to for a buildout configuration that uses the revisions option: the produced configuration resets revisions if needed.
- launchpad #1122015: soft requirements problem if offline on zc.buildout 2.0
- quality: now entirely flake8 compliant
1.4 (16-01-2013)
- launchpad #1093771: extraction feature of downloaded code (notably vcs)
- launchpad #1068360: new 'revisions' option to fix VCS revisions separately
- launchpad #1093474: freeze feature of revisions and versions of python distributions
- launchpad #1084535: finer behaviour of with_devtools option: load testing hacks only in tests launcher script
- launchpad #1095645: missing devtools loading in openerp-command scripts
- launchpad #1096472: forbid standalone (single) local addons. A local addon must always be a directory that has addons inside.
- launchpad #1096472: trailing slash in a standalone addon directory name led to error.
1.3 (21-11-2012)
- launchpad #1077048: fix gunicorn startup script for OpenERP 7
- launchpad #1079819: take into account newly introduced hard dependency to PIL in OpenERP 7
- launchpad #1055466: refactor version logic by providing major version tuple for comparisons.
- launchpad #1081039: introduced soft requirements and made openerp-command one of these.
1.2.2 (11-11-2012)
- Nothing but fix of changelog RST
1.2.1 (08-11-2012)
- Fixed an error in user feedback if openerp-command package is missing but needed
1.2 (07-11-2012)
- launchpad #1073917: separated test command (bin/test_openerp)
- launchpad #1073127: support for openerp-command
- major improvement of test coverage in server recipe
- included buildout configurations for buildbotting of the recipe in source distribution
1.1.5 (14-10-2012)
- Improved documentation (bootstrap and sample buildouts)
- Re-enabled support for trunk nightly (and maybe 7.0 final)
- fixed a packaging problem with openerp-cron-worker in 1.1.4
1.1.3 (26-09-2012)
- launchpad #1041231: Resilience to changes of bzr locations
- launchpad #1049519: openerp-cron-worker startup script
- launchpad #1025144: By default, admin passwd is now disabled
- launchpad #1054667: Problem with current dev nightlies for OpenERP 6.2
- fixed a packaging problem with openerp-cron-worker in 1.1.2
1.0.3 (24-08-2012)
- no actual difference with 1.0 (only changelogs and the like)
1.0 (24-08-2012)
- launchpad #1040011: works with current OpenERP trunk (future 7.0)
- launchpad #1027994: 'base_url' option, to download from mirrors
- launchpad #1035978: restored 'local' version scheme for OpenERP itself. Also implemented the 'url' version scheme.
- removed deprecated renaming of 6.1 to 6.1-1
- Refactored the documentation
0.17 (07-08-2012)
- launchpad #1033525: startup_delay option
- launchpad #1019888: Gunicorn integration.
- launchpad #1019886: installation of 'openerp' as a develop distribution, and full python server startup script.
- launchpad #1025617: Support for nightly versions in 6.1 series
- launchpad #1025620: Support for latest version
- launchpad #1034124: Fix interference of buildout options with gtkclient recipe
- launchpad #1021083: optional development tools loading in startup script
- launchpad #1020967: stop creating scripts by default
- launchpad #1027986: Better handling of interrupted downloads
0.16 (29-06-2012)
- launchapd #1017252: relying on Pillow to provide PIL unless PIL is explicitely wanted.
- launchpad #1014066: lifted the prerequirement for Babel. Now the recipe installs it if needed before inspection of OpenERP's setup.py
0.15 (14-06-2012)
- launchpad #1008931: Mercurial pull don't take URL changes into account. Now the recipe manages the repo-local hgrc [paths] section, updates the default paths while storing earlier values
- launchpad #1012899: Update problems with standalone vcs addons
- launchpad #1005509: Now bzr branches are stacked only if
- bzr-stacked-branches option is set to True.
0.14.1 (17-05-2012)
- launchpad #1000352: fixed a concrete problem in Bzr reraising
0.14 (17-05-2012)
- launchpad #1000352: option vcs-clear-retry to retrieve from scratch in case of diverged Bzr branches. Raising UpdateError in right place would trigger the same for other VCSes.
- Basic tests for Git and Svn
- Refactor with classes of VCS package
0.13.1 (14-05-2012)
- launchpad #997107: fixed vcs-clear-locks option for bzr, that requires a user confirmation that cannot be bypassed in older versions
0.13 (14-05-2012)
- launchpad #998404: more robust calls to hg and bzr (w/ unit tests), and have exception raised if vcs call failed (break early, break often).
- launchpad #997107: vcs-clear-locks option (currently interpreted by Bzr only)
0.12 (02-05-2012)
- launchpad #993362: addons subdir option, and made repositories being one addon usable by creating an intermediate directory.
0.11 (18-04-2012)
- Faster tarball inspection (see lp issue #984237)
- Shared downloads and more generally configurable downloads directory, see https://blueprints.launchpad.net/anybox.recipe.openerp/+spec/shared-downloads
0.10 (02-04-2012)
- fixed the sample buildouts in the readme file
0.9 (23-03-2012)
- Clean-up and refactoring
- Removed url option (download url supported through version)
- Support OpenERP 6.1 and 6.0
- Added an 'addons' option allowing remote repositories and local directories
- Improved error messages
- Updated the documentation
- Handle bad Babel import in setup.py
- Support offline mode of buildout
- Create gtk client config without starting it
0.8 (20-12-2011)
- handle deploying custom bzr branches
0.7 (14-09-2011)
- handle new sections in openerp config
0.6 (11-09-2011)
- Overwrite config files each time
- Make the "dsextras" error more explicit (install PyGObject and PyGTK)
- fixed some deps
- improved the doc
0.5 (10-08-2011)
- Use dotted notation to add openerp options in the generated configs
0.4 (09-08-2011)
- Added support for the web client and gtk client
0.3 (08-08-2011)
- fixed config file creation
0.2 (08-08-2011)
- Pass the trailing args to the startup script of the server
0.1 (07-08-2011)
- Initial implementation for the OpenERP server only
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