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Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Opel is in Decatur Illinois and is claimed to have fewer than 40K on the clock. You'll need to decide if that low mileage is an indicator (see what I did there?) of its five-grand price being a deal or not.
The Hebrews left the Land of Goshen during the time of the Exodus, or so says the legend. Moses supposedly led the Israelites out of the Egyptian desert, the trip taking 40 years and interminable rounds of are we there yet?
It probably would have gone much faster had he had another kind of land, that being yesterday's 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser, which looked like it could tackle damn-near anything. Hell, it even had a snorkel intake so the parting of the Red Sea wouldn't have even been necessary! Unfortunately, according to 61% of you, that Land Cruiser's price was a Crack Pipe of biblical proportions.
You know the Bible is full of notations on relations - he sired such-and-such, and she begat the beguine, yada, yada, yada. Here's a fun car-connection that's strangely enough not found in the Bible- what do the Pontiac Fiero and today's 1970 Opel GT have in common? That's right party people, it's the basic structure of their front suspensions! Wow, you're like the Seattle Seahawks of automotive trivia! Now go riot in the streets or something.
The mid-engine Fiero's rear suspension was based on the FWD X-car (Chevy Citation, et al) but the parts that kept the front end from dragging on the pavement could be traced back to the Chevy Chevette, and that mini bow-tier went back even further, getting its goods from the Opel Kadett.
This GT is also Kadett-sired, although its sexy Brissonneau & Lotz-built body is a far cry from that family-plan Opel. In fact, the GT looks more closely related to the contemporary Chevy Corvette than anything in Opel's lineup. It also shares the American sports car's distain for easy luggage access by providing egress only through the doors and behind the high-back bucket seats.
Those seats look pretty good in this '70, and in fact so does the rest of the interior. One of my favorite parts of these GTs is the console-mounted lever (potentially mistaken for the e-brake) that when pulled rolls the car's eyes just like that girl in the bar did last Friday night when you tried to buy her a drink. Remember that?
With only 38,815 (unverified) miles to its name, the exterior also looks pretty good, with only a mumbly front bumper to mar the overall aesthetic. Aside from that flaw, its great to see the car rolling on its stock steelies and not befouled by any add-ons. When it comes to sports cars, they don't come much cleaner than these little Opels, and it's getting increasingly rare to find one in such original and lovely shape.
This one not only looks good - if its June of last year photo shoot highlights are to still be believed - but the seller says that it runs and drives well too. Don't expect too much out of the 83-bhp 1.9-litre and 4-speed gearbox however. Even though the car tips the scales at a relatively bantam weight 2,138 lbs, that combo is only able to manage a zero to sixty time of around 10.2 seconds, and will a top speed of 116 mph.
Following stints with a Tiger and a Karmann Ghia, Maxwell Smart (Don Adams, not Steve Carrell) ended up driving an Opel GT. This was after Buick - the brand's U.S. foster parent - became the sponsor of the Get Smart TV show. If you want to "get smart" you might too think about driving this mini-Corvette. To do so, you'd need to come up with $5,000, and an appreciation for traveling light.
What do you think about that price for this apparent jewel of an Opel? Should that make for a quick sale? Or, is this a GT with a price that's GTFO?
You decide!
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I think that Washington is a better-than-average place to live. I don't say that casually because I've lived in lots of places that I really liked a lot. Iowa, for example, was quite wonderful. I loved the green rolling hills, the picturesque farms, and the golden corn fields, but I can guarantee that you'll never see a splash like this in any body of water in Iowa.
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The Saw horror movie series is truly desperate to hold on to the title of "Franchise That Is Harder To Kill Than A Terminator," isn't it?
It seems that the seventh entry in the franchise, Saw 3D, may not be the last movie that concerns the wacky adventures of Jigsaw and his master plan - which, at this point, is so ludicrously complicated that it makes the schematics of the psychological heist in Inception or the plot of Lost seem like child's play in comparison.
Moviegoers have taken the "this will be the last one!" promises from the writers of Saw 3D and even Lionsgate executives with, well, a bucket of salt up to now. But money talks in Hollywood and the Saw movies are - if nothing else - excellent proof of that.
Actress Betsy Russell (Jigaw's ex-wife Jill in the films) is the first one to acknowledge that Saw 8 could happen. She even manages to appear genuinely enthused about the idea, as you'll note in the quote below:
"Before we thought it was ending [with Saw 3D], the writers came up with an unbelievable idea [for Saw 8]. It's an amazing story that I would love to see... We want to end near the top, with our integrity in tact and not letting the characters die a slow death, so to speak. But I believe in my heart that someday, somehow, [Saw 8] will happen."
Russell apparently said all this while keeping a straight face - Daniel Day-Lewis, eat your heart out. ;)
What might the plot of Saw 8 entail then? Could the latest Saw victims be trapped in a space shuttle that is orbiting the earth? Maybe a group of scientists will clone Jigsaw, but inadvertently give him bear traps for hands and thus set him off on a new quest for revenge. The possibilities are endless! :-P
The release date for Saw 3D was pushed back a week so that it would not compete with Paranormal Activity 2 on its opening weekend. Those that love gory horror violence, do us all a favor and pass on seeing it anyway, cool?
Saw 3D arrives in regular and, yes, 3D theaters in the U.S. on October 29th, 2010.
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Israel's president has called on the European Union to reconsider its new ban on funding Israeli institutions operating in territories Palestinians claim for their future state.
Shimon Peres' statement on Thursday came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the region, trying to restart Israel-Palestinians talks.
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Peres urged the EU to "give priority to peace" and warned the ban "could cause another crisis."
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Fans of EPL team Fulham knew this day was coming for a little while. But, were they prepared for what greeted them at Craven Cottage today?
Dressed in a a silver jacket, his trademark black trousers, white socks, and iconic glove, the King of Pop was proudly revealed by the club's owner Mohamed Al Fayed ahead of their Barclays Premier League game against Blackpool.
But fans immediately took to Twitter to vent their frustrations over Fulham's latest addition.
"The Michael Jackson Fulham Statue has to be one of the worst things I've ever seen," Joe Roberts said. While Steven Ward added: "That Michael Jackson statue at Fulham looks cheap! I'm a huge MJ fan but it looks tacky."
Al Fayed however, was quick to defend the statue telling fans they "can go to hell" if they didn't like it.
Good P.R. move, guy. Anyway, in Hell and on Earth, Fulham beat Blackpool 3-0 after the unveiling.
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Florence Henderson conquered Broadway before TV
Florence Henderson was a Broadway star at the age of 20 and was chosen by composer Richard Rodgers to tour in "Oklahoma!" while she was still in her teens, but a mid-career TV detour would put those accomplishments in the shade.
Although "The Brady Bunch" was never in the top 10 when it originally aired from 1969 to 1974, it has enjoyed one of the longest afterlives of any pop-culture creation of the past six decades.
"You can't kill it with a stick," Henderson said, laughing, in a recent phone interview from Los Angeles. "It has never been off the air in this country, and it's syndicated in 127 countries."
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We might be living in an age of irony and snark now, but there is still a deep longing for the warmth and stability of the Bradys.
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Henderson spent the first decade of her professional life on the stage, where she starred in the original production of "Fanny" and was handpicked by Rodgers for the first major New York revival of "South Pacific" in 1967.
Fortunately, Henderson's work on those shows (and several others) was preserved on original cast recordings that still delight Broadway fans. (You won't hear a stronger version of "A Wonderful Guy" than the one she belts out on the "South Pacific" CD.)
"I did think that would be my career," the performer said of the success she found so quickly on Broadway. "I loved living in New York and I never thought I would live in L.A."
Henderson is still thrilled by the fact that she got to work with such theater titans as Rodgers and his partner, Oscar Hammerstein. The performer was also chosen by Noel Coward to star in his final Broadway musical, "The Girl Who Came to Supper."
"Oh, and Ezio Pinza; how about that?" she said of getting to work with the great Italian singer and actor in "Fanny."
"I learned so much from all of them," she said, adding the name of director Joshua Logan to the list of Broadway legends who guided her through shows during the 1950s and '60s.
It all began for Henderson at an open-call audition for "Oklahoma!," which landed her the lead in the last national touring company of the original Rodgers and Hammerstein production.
Rodgers would go on to cast her in the "South Pacific" revival, "The Sound of Music" and a major new production of "The King and I" at the Los Angeles Music Center.
"Those shows are still absolutely amazing to me. The material was just so strong -- the music, the libretto. I was so privileged to be a part of that," she said.
All of those years spent doing eight shows a week stood Henderson in good stead when she was asked to participate in ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" two years ago.
"The whole thing reminded me of working on Broadway. Rehearsing and then all of a sudden it's show time and you just gotta get up there and do it," she said.
Henderson was part of the now-vanished "show must go on" mentality of Broadway in the Golden Age, when stars, featured players and chorus members performed no matter how they were feeling.
"The whole time I was in `Fanny' I never missed a performance," she said of the show's two-year run. "I had bronchitis, a broken rib, broken toes. You only stayed out if you literally could not talk."
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Sadly, her breaks in TV production were never long enough for her to come back to New York for a new show.
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The Lykoi breed of cat is blowing up for fans of both cats and werewolves. A group of breeders who originally worked with hairless cats started breeding a mix of hairless and haired kitties, thus creating a half-haired cat that kind of looks like a werewolf. And they are super adorable. Just look at their little faces!
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WASHINGTON – Mailing a letter is about to get a little more expensive.
Postal regulators on Tuesday approved a price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter.
The independent Postal Regulatory Commission said the change was justified by severe mail volume decreases since 2008.
The new price is effective Jan. 26 and will last no more than two years, allowing the Postal Service to recoup $2.8 billion in losses.
Regulators rejected a request to make the price hike permanent.
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ii) Let $p$ be a prime number and let $q = p^f(f \geq 1)$ be a power of $p$. Let be an algebraically closed field $\Omega$ of characteristic $p$. There exists a unique subfield $F_q$ of $\Omega$ which has $q$ elements. It is the set of roots of the polynomial$X^q-X$.
iii) All finite fields with $p^f$ elements are isomorphic to $F_q$.
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Assertion iii) follows from ii) and from the fact that all fields with $p^f$ elements can be embedded in $\Omega$, since $\Omega$ is algebraically closed.
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If ever there was a worse preseason game than Dallas Cowboys-Oakland Raiders, these eyes didn't see it. It was the same old (recent) story for two of the league's most storied franchises: a pair of clubs that just can't seem to get out of their own way.
The Cowboys suffered through dumb penalties on Monday night, while the Raiders' offense continually undermined big plays by stalling ... then going backward. Terrelle Pryor took a late-game sack on a screen pass, of all things, ultimately leaving the Cowboys' fate to be decided from fourth-and-26 (Freddie Mitchell, anyone?). Dallas' offensive line looked as tough as Dallas' offensive line normally does, which is to say like Kenny Chesney in one of his sleeveless man-salmon tank tops and a seashell choker.
Two of the most-penalized teams in the NFL eventually brought the sordid 3-0 affair to an end (Dallas "won"), but in the process inspired no confidence in our latest rankings -- our first since taking the league's temperature after April's draft.
(Note: Arrows reflect change in standings from the most recent power rankings.)
OFFSEASON POWER RANKINGS: Post-Draft | Post-Free Agency
How the Giants keep David Wilson off the field is anyone's guess, as "starter" Ahmad Bradshaw has been afflicted with a healthy share of foot/ankle problems over the years. Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz were a dynamic duo at wide receiver last season, but Nicks has a checkered injury history of his own, while Cruz has set the bar awfully high for himself. There's not enough uncertainty to knock the Giants from the top post they've rightfully held since winning Super Bowl XLVI, but there's enough to wonder about the look of Kevin Gilbride's 2012 offense.
Plax the Patriot? Recently read a copy of Tom Callahan's The GM, which chronicles the Giants' 2006 season -- former general manager Ernie Accorsi's last in the NFL. One of the interesting tidbits I pulled from this solid read was the fact that Plaxico Burress has a high football IQ. From a distant view, he sure looked to be more reliable than Santonio Holmes with the New York Jets last season. But the thought here coincides with that of others around the league: He's a last resort. Getting Logan Mankins back (off the PUP) is a boost.
The questions surrounding this team always begin and end with Alex Smith. But Randy Moss and Frank Gore are also worth investigating early in 2012. The early bird says Moss will start and could surprise a few folks at 35 (the same age as Burress.) Meanwhile, Gore has logged nearly 2,000 career touches and is 29. Expect a committee look in The City by the Bay -- a headache for fantasy owners, but a sensible approach for a team with plenty of depth at running back.
Losing Desmond Bishop for the season hurts. Green Bay's defensive struggles were well-documented last season, and opposing tight ends might find easy pickings in D.J. Smith (or whoever starts in Bishop's stead). Last year, Erik Walden represented a big hole in The Big Cheese at outside linebacker. Now inside 'backer becomes an issue.
Texans defense ain't no jive, to quote colleague Dave Dameshek. Carolina accumulated all of 137 yards of total offense against Houston on Saturday. The Panthers averaged three yards per offensive play. Keep chatting up Arian Foster and Andre Johnson, and we'll stay with Wade.
Losing Terrell Suggs for a prolonged period of time obviously affects a defense with a new coordinator and some aging players. While Paul Kruger will likely replace T-Sizzle, the important SOLB job could fall to a rook. Courtney Upshaw, it's your baby now. No pressure.
Everyone is so sure Brandon Marshall is going to a) play lights-out, b) not be a knucklehead and c) catch 120 balls. Based on what? Because he's teamed up with Jay Cutler and Jeremy Bates again? Cutler is not a third-year quarterback; he's a seventh-year veteran who won't be forcing throws just to Marshall. Moreover, there's little guarantee Chicago's pass-protection problems have been solved. Throw in the fact that we didn't get to see Cutler, Matt Forte, Julius Peppers or Brian Urlacher ( who just went under the knife) in the preseason opener, and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the Bears ranked this highly.
Nice to see (and hear) Eagles fans show outward support for Andy Reid. Rarely in the 92-year history of the NFL has such a successful head coach been so frequently maligned, even by his own fans. The bottom line: Reid is 126-81-1 (Donovan McNabb didn't know ties existed before that one). The second bottom line: Philly is in contention once again. Five NFC Championship Games, a Super Bowl and continuity mean something ... even in today's NFL.
What to make of the Saints as a whole? Going deeper, what should we make of the running back situation? Drew Brees has been the most productive quarterback in the NFL over the last six years, but it sure would be a boon to this club if Mark Ingram could stay healthy and add a thump to the running game. Yes, we're aware of Darren Sproles. But the Saints could really help a Jonathan Vilma-less defense by rushing more and keeping the clock burning.
Big news from Broncos-Bears on Thursday night: Caleb Hanie went 7-for-14 for 79 yards in his "revenge" game. He played Hanie-esque: just good enough to get you beat. (OK, the score was actually 31-3 in the Broncos' favor, but you get my drift.) If I'm a Broncos fan, I'm strongly encouraged by one particular thing I saw at Soldier Field. No, it was not Peyton Manning's play. Pass protection. Can the offensive front keep this up?
One of the more underreported guys coming off a major 2011 injury has to be cornerback Leon Hall. Don't forget, he was one of the best corners in the AFC before hurting his Achilles. So far, he's held his own in camp. If Hall comes back 100 percent, Cincy could be a tough out. This is a well-balanced team that just needs a confidence-building win over Baltimore or Pittsburgh.
Julio Jones or Roddy White? Which one do you take in fantasy? Good luck. In this space, we want to know what Asante Samuel provides the Falcons, and whether William Moore and Thomas DeCoud can give the club a little more from their safety spots. Atlanta allowed 12 touchdown passes of 20 yards or more last year, third-most in the league. Moore and DeCoud combined for six interceptions, which is OK but won't make up for the long-ball hemorrhaging.
Boy, Dick LeBeau is going to have to do one of his best coaching jobs ever this season. Rule changes have already caused the middle of the field to be gravy for tight ends across the league. Troy Polamalu can be a liability in coverage, while the jury is out on safety Ryan Clark at this stage of his career. Meanwhile, 10-year veteran Larry Foote isn't exactly posting the kind of Darrell Green-esque times necessary to keep up with athletic tight ends from his inside linebacker spot. Todd Haley had better give this team three touchdowns and a Shaun Suisham chip shot each Sunday if Pittsburgh hopes to play in the postseason.
How will the secondary fare? Can Matt Stafford stay upright for a second straight season? Who else will emerge at wide receiver besides Megatron? Despite the question marks, I took a stand for the Lions last month. Lions faithful, let's hope I'm right.
Dez Bryant can screw up off the field all he wants. ... Miles Austin and DeMarco Murray can play 16 games, unlike last season. ... And Tony Romo can play out of his mind once again. ... But none of it will mean diddly-poo if the interior of the Cowboys' offensive line continues to suck. Right tackle Doug Free isn't much better.
Whether the Chiefs can escape the forthcoming 8-8 melee to win the AFC West rests on more than just Matt Cassel's right arm. The quarterback has been the focus of much talk regarding Kansas City's fortunes, but the Chiefs must get better play at the point, i.e., nose tackle. Rookie Dontari Poe needs to win the job over Anthony Toribio (who?). There's also room for improvement at outside linebacker; second-year man Justin Houston could do a lot for this team by taking a load off Tamba Hali on the other side.
The secondary looked good against Tennessee in Week 1 of the preseason. Former Titan Jason Jones helps shape a solid front four for Seattle. Ah, but the linebackers are the question mark, especially in a division with the run-focused 49ers and Rams. Second-round pick Bobby Wagner could start alongside Leroy Hill and K.J. Wright. Those guys are going to have to play ball for the Seahawks to have any hope in the NFC West.
Santonio Holmes will miss a second preseason game with bruised ribs. Jeremy Kerley has a tear in his hamstring. Stephen Hill is a rookie and dropped a ball in Cincinnati. Chaz Schilens is Chaz Schilens. Patrick Turner played at USC, but at least he was on the practice squad last season. The Jets' passing attack is more "gangrene" than "Gang Green."
Perhaps the most relevant storyline at Raiders camp is the progress of the receiver corps. Can Denarius Moore take a step forward from last season? At this stage of his career, has Darrius Heyward-Bey already reached his ceiling? Is there anyone on the roster that is a surefire target on third-and-7? Not right now.
If Ryan Mathews misses six weeks, he'll miss his first two starts of 2012. That means he'll have missed 12 of his first 34 possible career starts. If he's the fantasy stud everyone thinks he is, it's definitely of the soft-core variety.
Can't wait to see what Fred Jackson does this season. People forget what a great year he was having before a broken leg landed him on IR (1,376 yards from scrimmage in 10 games). Many folks seemed ready to anoint C.J. Spiller as the starter over the spring. No freaking way. In fact, as Around the Leaguer and colleague Gregg Rosenthal astutely pointed out, Spiller had a drop and costly penalty against the Redskins last Thursday night. That's not good. (Well, good for Gregg, not C.J.)
Like the Lions, the Panthers (no pun intended) are a tough team to project. Carolina was in a lot of games last year, and could be a surprise playoff club. Then again, the defense is somewhat devoid of difference makers. Having Jon Beason healthy is nice. Offensively, what if Cam Newton has a sophomore slump? What if Steve Smith hits the career wall? Carolina has to play the loaded NFC East this season, as well.
Of all the teams in the NFL, none seem to be as stunted by a quarterback quandary as Arizona. It really is all anyone talks about when it comes to the Cardinals. Kevin Kolb certainly isn't doing himself any favors. And regardless of how the team played when he started last year, is John Skelton really the answer? Neither QB has separated himself from the other this summer, although Kolb has looked more terrible.
Shanahanigans seem to be on again, as Evan Royster runs with the 1's and Roy Helu with the 2's. The coaching staff prefers Royster's inside running ability, but you can't blame Redskins faithful if they aren't exactly salivating. Meanwhile, there should be no shenanigans on defense, with the same starting front seven returning from 2011. The Bills gained just 219 yards in the preseason opener.
How's this for roster evaluation: Greg Schiano squeezed 82 Bucs into Friday night's preseason opener. Tampa came out and scored touchdowns on its first two drives, while backup Dan Orlovsky went 8-for-8 for 91 yards. Speaking of backups, a staggering 15 guys caught passes for the Bucs. Schiano is evaluating everybody. As well he should, seeing as this franchise carries a 10-game losing skid into 2012. It would be nice to see Arrelious Benn and Mike Williams take steps forward.
Chad Johnson is gone, though head coach Joe Philbin said the decision had to do with more than just his recent run-in with the law. Definitely not what this Dolphins team needed. One look at the receiver position on the depth chart is an ugly one. Legedu Naanee, Davone Bess and Marlon Moore are the first three names listed -- that just might be the worst 1-2-3 batting order in the league. Brian Hartline might be on the final roster. Perhaps Roberto Wallace can make some noise without Johnson stealing valuable reps. No matter how you slice it, wideout is a mess in Miami.
If Jeff Fisher's Rams are going to run the football as much we anticipate, then Isaiah Pead needs to grow up fast. Steven Jackson can't be a 300-touch guy forever, and the second-round draft pick has certainly shown flashes. Pead needs to give Jackson what Jackson gave Marshall Faulk late in his career: an effective breather. Not to mention a shot in the arm for Sam Bradford and the offense.
Blaine Gabbert's pocket awareness continues to be an issue, as evidenced in his final drive against the Giants last week, when he held the ball too long and fumbled on an Adrian Tracy sack. That said, the bigger concern was Mel Tucker's defensive unit, which allowed the Giants to score points on four straight possessions in the first half. Trust Tucker to turn that around, but a healthy pass rush sure would help.
Cleveland's first touchdown of 2012 was scored by Brad Smelley. If a team's season outlook was ever reflected by a name ...
The 49ers ran for 198 yards in the first half on the Minnesota defense. The Christian Ponder-led Viking attack fared well, but this club won't be in any ballgames if it lets teams run on it like the Niners did. You never want to make too much of the first week of the preseason. Still, allowing 69 yards rushing on the opening drive was an ominous start.
Andrew Luck looks good. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, how about Donald Brown's explosiveness? We've seen this before -- like last year against the Titans. But then Brown gets hurt, or does something to disappoint. Luck needs more than Reggie Wayne, Coby Fleener and Austin Collie this season, and can't save the franchise by himself.
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This document describes how to set up a development environment suitable for working on the EMF, SDO and XSD components. It is not intended for people who just want to use these tools: the target audience are those who want to contribute to their development by adding features, fixing bugs, etc.
We assume some familiarity with CVS concepts and some experience working with the Eclipse workbench.
Experienced EMF & CVS users may want to skip to Using Team Project Set File (.psf).
- 1 Intricacies of working on EMF components
- 2 Software Environment
- 3 Setting up the Eclipse Workspace
- 4 Understanding the CVS Structure
- 5 Checking Out Code as an Anonymous User
- 6 Checking Out Code
- 7 Resolving Dependency Problems
- 8 Synchronizing your Local Sandbox with the HEAD Branch
- 9 More Info
Intricacies of working on EMF components
This section discusses some special considerations that need to be taken into account when working on EMF tools.
Workbench instances and workspaces
In order to discuss the intricacies of working on EMF, some definitions are in order:
- An Eclipse platform installation is a location on your disk that contains a distribution of the Eclipse IDE. When you unpack an Eclipse distribution to a location on your disk, you effectively create a local platform installation at that location. The installation contains a set of tools that were packaged together by the organization that created the distribution. Each of the tools in the platform installation contributes some functionality to the IDE. You may have several platform installations on your machine, each of which may contain a different set of tools.
- An Eclipse workbench intance is a runtime instance of the IDE. Every time you launch the Eclipse IDE, a workbench instance is created, making the tools in the platform installation from which the instance was loaded available for use.
- An Eclipse workspace is a location on your disk that is associated with a running workbench instance. It contains the resources (files, folders, etc.) that comprise the projects you work on. The tools contained in the platform installation from which the workbench instance was launched can be used to work with the projects in the workspace. Each workbench instance has exclusive access to its associated workspace: concurrently running workbench instances can not share the same workspace.
Developing eclipse tools
The Eclipse IDE can be used to develop new tools for itself. In such a scenario, you use your platform installation to launch a workbench instance and then create in its workspace projects that implement new tools for the platform.
Assume you've just created a new tool and want to test it. Your running workbench instance only has the tools of the platform installation from which it was launched available. In order to test the new tools you must launch a new workbench instance, in which the newly developed plug-ins from your workspace are included. You have two options:
- Create a platform installation to which you add the tools from your workspace. Then you may launch a new workbench instance from that installation, which will have your new tools available for testing. It is typical to exit a workbench instance, update the platform installation used to launch it with the newly created/updated tools from your workspace and then launch a new workbench instance.
- Create a launch configuration that will launch special nested workbench instance from within the workbench instance used to develop the new tools. Eclipse has the capability of launching nested workbench instances that have both the tools from a platform installation as well as those in the workbench instance's workspace.
The second option is more convenient, because you don't have to package your tools, update the platform installation and re-launch it. In addition, it allows you to easily set breakpoints in the source code of your tools and debug them, stepping through the code as needed.
The notorious bug 109137
Although the most convenient approach towards developing and testing new tools is to use a nested workbench instance, a known limitation of Eclipse (filed as bug #109137) prevents one from doing so. This section is a brief discussion of the situation. If you would like to learn more details, read through the bug report and take a look at this thread of the EMF newsgroup.
The basic problem facing EMF developers is that EMF is both an Eclipse tool, as well as runtime library. As an IDE tool, EMF can (for example) be used to generate code from an Ecore model. You may then use the generated model code in your applications.
One would expect that while working with EMF, the following setup would be sufficient:
Basically, you install the IDE in your machine (e.g. in C:\eclipse) and launch workbench instance A. In that instance's workspace, you check out EMF's code and modify it to add features / remove bugs, etc. Then you launch a nested workbench instance B and in its workspace you create an EMF model, using the newly modified EMF tools to generate code. You have just tested the modified EMF tools.
However, the generated code depends on some EMF runtime libraries (which must be included with your application at runtime). These may also have been modified and may require testing. To check the new EMF runtime, you must launch the test project from within the nested workbench instance and see if any problems arise at runtime.
Unfortunately, Eclipse can not currently link code that resides in the nested workbench instance's workspace with code that resides in the parent workbench instance's workspace. This means that if you launch your test project from the nested workbench instance B, it can not run using the modified runtime from the workspace your parent workbench instance A.
As a result, the only viable approach to is to exit the Eclipse IDE, update the platform installation with your new EMF tools and runtime, then launch a new workbench instance. You can then place your test project in your EMF workspace (alongside EMF itself) and launch it to test the runtime. Whenever you modify the tools, you have to go through all this again so that the workbench instance picks up the new EMF tools. If however you just modify the runtime, you can skip updating the platform installation as Eclipse will link your test project against the EMF runtime in the workspace.
The rest of this page discusses how to set up a development environment with the compromises needed to work around bug #109137.
Software Environment
In order to develop on the EMF, SDO and XSD projects, you need Eclipse and an appropriate JRE.
When specifying directory paths on your system, remember to compensate for any difference between the environment presented in this article and your development environment.
Setting up the Eclipse Workspace
Workspace location
To minimize the inconvenience caused by bug 109137 and work against both the EMF IDE tools and runtime, we use the following trick: we create our workspace inside an extension location. Effectively, what this means, is that our workspace must be a location on the disk that adheres to the layout expected of extension locations (See: FAQ Can I install plug-ins outside the main install directory?).
For example, assume you want to keep your EMF work in C:\emf-dev. To create an extension location in that directory, you would create the sub-directories C:\emf-dev\eclipse\plugins and an empty file called ".eclipseextension" in C:\emf-dev\eclipse. This would produce the following layout:
C:\ emf-dev\ eclipse\ .eclipseextension plugins\
To link the extension location to your base Eclipse SDK installation, you must create a "links" directory within your Eclipse installation and then create a file inside it with the name "emf.link". Assuming you've installed the Elipse SDK in "C:\eclipse" this would produce the following layout:
C:\ eclipse\ plugins\ ... base installation plug-ins ... features\ ... base installation features ... links\ emf.link
The contents of the "C:\eclipse\links\emf.link" file must point to the path where you've decided to place your EMF extension location. For example:
As a result, when you launch Eclipse from this installation, it will scan c:\emf-dev\eclipse\plugins to find plug-in JARs and make them available in the created workbench instance.
You will then have to use c:\emf-dev\eclipse\plugins as your workspace location and check out the EMF sources in that directory as described later in Checking Out Code as an Anonymous User. After you have reached that stage, you will finally have this layout:
C:\ emf-dev\ eclipse\ .eclipseextension plugins\ org.eclipse.emf\ plugin.xml ... other EMF project directories ...
When working with this layout, to change the EMF tools for the IDE, you would make your modifications to the source code and then exit the workspace, create plug-in JARs in the extension location (c:\emf-dev\eclipse\plugins) and restart the workbench instance to load the new version of your tools. Your base installation will remain clean and all your work will be inside the extension location. Create a test project within the workspace to check the modified toolset.
When you only make modifications to the EMF runtime, you can simply launch code (JUnit tests, test applications, etc) that uses the EMF runtime, as Eclipse will link against the EMF runtime in your workspace (and not the JARs you created to test the tools).
The following script will create JARs in the extension location when you want to test modifications to the EMF tools. You will need Cygwin to run it if you are working on Windows:
#!/bin/sh function createJar { local jar="$1" local dataDir="$2" local cvsIgnore="$3" local jarDir=`dirname "$jar"` if [ ! -d "$jarDir" ] ; then { mkdir -p "$jarDir" } fi #if [ ! -f "$cvsIgnore".bak ] ; then # cp $cvsIgnore $cvsIgnore.bak #fi #cat $cvsIgnore.bak > $cvsIgnore; #echo ".cvsignore" >> $cvsIgnore; #echo ".cvsignore.bak" >> $cvsIgnore; echo "$jar" cd "$dataDir" #echo "$jar" >> $cvsIgnore; zip -rq "$jar" * } function copyBin { local dir="$1" local dataDir="$2" local cvsIgnore="$3" if [ ! -d "$dir" ] ; then { mkdir -p "$dir" } fi #if [ ! -f "$cvsIgnore".bak ] ; then # cp $cvsIgnore $cvsIgnore.bak #fi #cat $cvsIgnore.bak > $cvsIgnore; #echo ".cvsignore" >> $cvsIgnore; #echo ".cvsignore.bak" >> $cvsIgnore; echo "$dir" cd "$dataDir" #ls >> $cvsIgnore; cp -r * "$dir" for i in $(find . -name "*.html"); do rm $dir/$i; done } dir=$1 if [ "0$dir" == "0" ]; then dir="plugins" fi rootDir=`readlink -f "$dir"` # Change this line to select the plugins you want to create the jar for. plugins="org.eclipse.emf* org.eclipse.jet* org.eclipse.xsd* org.eclipse.uml* org.eclipse.draw2d* org.eclipse.gmf* org.eclipse.gef*" #plugins="org.eclipse.emf* org.eclipse.jet* org.eclipse.xsd*" subdirectories=`for i in $plugins; do ls -d "$rootDir"/$i; done` for directory in $subdirectories do ( if [ -d "$directory/bin" -a -f "$directory/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" ] ; then ( jarName=`grep -e '^Bundle-ClassPath: ' "$directory/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" | sed 's/^Bundle-ClassPath: //'` jarName=`echo $jarName | sed 's/\.jar.*/.jar/' | sed 's/[;,].*//'` if [[ $jarName == "." || $jarName == "" ]] ; then copyBin "$directory/" "$directory/bin" "$directory/.cvsignore" else createJar "$directory/$jarName" "$directory/bin" "$directory/.cvsignore" fi if [ -d "$directory/bin.tasks" ]; then ( antJarName=`echo $jarName | sed 's/\.jar/.tasks.jar/'` createJar "$directory/ant_tasks/$antJarName" "$directory/bin.tasks" "$directory/.cvsignore" ) fi ) fi ) done
You should place the above script in the "eclipse" folder of your extension location (in this example c:\emf-dev\eclipse).
Configuring the plug-in environment
You need to specify where Eclipse should look for required plug-ins if they do not exist in the current workspace. To do this:
- In the Preferences dialog (Window > Preferences), with Plug-In Development expanded, select Target Platform.
- Click Select All so that all the plug-ins are selected.
- Click OK to close the Preferences dialog.
Configuring the the Eclipse CVS preferences
It is highly recommended to prune empty directories when extracting the code from the CVS repository. This is how you can set Eclipse to do that:
- Select Windows > Preferences > Team.
- Open CVS and select the Files and Folders tab, then select Prune empty directories.
- Click OK to close the Preferences
Configuring Code Templates, Code Formatter, and Import Order
Want to code like the EMF team? Here's how to use the same templates, formatting, and import order as the pros. If you're looking to submit a patch to the EMF team, this is a MUST.
- Select Windows > Preferences > Code Style.
- Select Code Templates > Import... Browse for this file: EMF_codetemplates.xml
- Select Formatter > Import... Browse for this file: EMF_codeformatter.xml
- Select Organize Imports > Import... Browse for this file: EMF_imports.importorder
Understanding the CVS Structure
If you are unfamiliar with CVS concepts, there is a good list of resources on the CVS repository page.
Modules structure
The EMF, SDO and XSD sources are divided into three modules in CVS.
|CVS Repository
|contains the EMF plug-ins
|contains the EMF features
|contains the EMF documentation plug-ins and features
|contains the EMF, SDO and XSD automated tests plug-ins and features
|contains the EMF examples
|contains the SDO plug-ins
|contains the SDO features
|contains the SDO documentation plug-ins and features
|contains the XSD plug-ins
|contains the XSD features
|contains the XSD documentation plug-ins and features
|contains the XSD examples
EMF and SDO are components of the EMF Project. XSD is a component of the MDT Project.
Build tag and branch naming conventions
For each build, a new CVS tag is created. The name of the CVS tag follows this convention:
build_<build id>
where <build id> is usually the build timestamp in the yyyyMMddhhmmss format (for example, 20040211140643).
The HEAD branch always contains the latest file versions, which are currently under active development. If a fix is required for a particular past build (typically a release), a branch will be created. The branch naming convention is:
branch_<build id>
The structure of the CVS repository is shown below:
If for some reason you need to get files from a certain build, look under "Versions" for the tag that identifies that build.
Checking Out Code as an Anonymous User
An anonymous user has access only to check out files from the CVS repository. This user does not have the privileges to check in files.
Configuring the CVS client to check out files
- Open the CVS perspective in the Eclipse Workbench by selecting Windows > Open Perspective > CVS Repository Exploring.
- Right click on the CVS Repositories view as shown below, and select New > Repository Location...
- Enter the information as shown below in the Add CVS Repository dialog and click Finish. This will establish a connection with the /cvsroot/modeling repository located on dev.eclipse.org, using the anonymous user ID. Make sure you set the connection type to pserver and use the default port, as shown.
Checking Out Code
If you followed the instructions in the previous section, you should see a new repository entry in the CVS Repositories view.
To check out code, you have two options. Either check out the projects automatically using a Team Project Set File, or manually.
Using Team Project Set File (.psf)
- Download the PSF file and save it somewhere memorable, like your desktop. You might also want a PSF for SDO or XSD.
- Back in Eclipse, switch to the Java perspective.
- From the File menu or Project Explorer context menu, select Import.
- Choose Team > Team Project Set, then click Next.
- Browse for the .psf file you want to use. Click Finish.
- Each feature & plugin will then be checked out as a project in the workspace.
Manual Checkout
- Switch to the CVS perspective if not already there.
- Expand the repository node.
- Expand the HEAD node, as shown below, to view all the modules in the repository.
- Scroll down and expand the
org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emfmodule, as shown below. Select the subdirectories of the features, plugins, docs, tests, and examples directories that you want to retrieve.
- Repeat for
- Right click and select the Check Out menu option.
- Each selected directory as is checked out as a project in the workspace. Once the operation is complete, you can switch to the Java perspective to work with the projects.
Resolving Dependency Problems
You may find that the projects have compilation errors after you check them out. To resolve these, update the classpath. Right click on the project and select the PDE Tools > Update Classpath... menu option as shown below. The Java Classpath dialog appears.
Ensure that any projects with dependency problems are checked in the list of available plug-ins and fragments, and then click Finish.
In addition, the performance tests (plug-in org.eclipse.emf.test.performance) have a dependency on the org.eclipse.test.performance plug-in which is part of the core Eclipse platform. You will have to manually check out this plug-in from repository location dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/eclipse.
Finally, some EMF projects have a dependency on a JAR library with custom ant tasks. The source of the library is located in plug-in org.eclipse.emf.ant and in order to create the JAR file you must right-click on the MANIFEST.MF file of the project and select "PDE Tools->Create Ant Build File".
This will produce an Ant build file called build.xml. Right click on the file and select "Run As->Ant Build" to create the JAR library.
Synchronizing your Local Sandbox with the HEAD Branch
- As described above, the HEAD branch contains the latest version of the code. To synchronize your local changes with the HEAD, right click on the resource that you want to synchronize, and then select:
Team > Synchronize with Repository
- This opens the Synchronize view. For more on using this view, see CVS Workspace Synchronization.
- You can merge in the changes from the HEAD manually or automatically. To merge automatically, right click on the resource you want to merge. Select:
Team > Update
- If there are conflicts that cannot be resolved automatically, CVS will insert special markup in the file to indicate that those lines could not be merged. You will need to resolve the conflicts manually. See also Resolving conflicts
More Info
- For more information on CVS, see:


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nocturnalia, 2018
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sarah poland was born in inverness in 1974 and graduated with a ba [hons] from edinburgh college of art before completing a mfa at aberystwyth school of art in 2015.
her recent work - a series of paintings, lithographs and drawings entitled the intimacy of liminal spaces - is inspired by her years living off-grid in an eighty-acre welsh oak woodland. poland's practice is very much about the materiality of paint and the act of painting. in painting she seeks something of the immediacy of drawing: its explosiveness, brevity, rawness and also a type of mark-making that is not consciously directed and informs both the beginning and the final stages of making an image. paintings can be weighty, at the same time possessed with a lightness of spirit – both of which are inescapably a part of nature. she believes that nature and landscape can be a metaphor for human experience and that this can help to create a depth of perception
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Vocational counselors help injured workers and employers identify return to work options including job modifications. If no appropriate return to work options can be identified with your employer, the vocational counselor will assess your ability to work or need for further services. If you are eligible for vocational services your counselor will help you develop a rehabilitation plan aimed at helping you return to the workplace.
Questions workers have
Where can I read more about L&I's "Voc" program?
See pages 11 and 12 of the Workers' Guide to Industrial Insurance Benefits (F242‑104‑000).
What if I'm not qualified to do any available jobs in my area?
If L&I determines that you don't have the transferable job skills necessary to work in your labor market, you may be eligible for training for a new line of work.
Will L&I pay for me to attend college or a training school?
Workers' compensation may cover the cost of a college course or program, combined with some on-the-job training, or a technical program.
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Vocational services may continue depending on your ability to participate.
Your benefits could stop if you move while you are in an approved retraining plan and you aren't available to participate. Relocation is strongly discouraged until after the completion of your plan.
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Alex Rider
It's official!
I'm excited to announce that next year I'll be diving into the world of Alex Rider as the artist on the graphic novels. ^_^
Details can be found by clicking the link above. I'm very excited to be working with Antony Johnston on the books, and they are of course adapted by him from Anthony Horowitz's fantastic novel series. There are already graphic novels of the series out there, and I do urge you to go check them out because they're really lovely books, but I'll be jumping in at Scorpia; book five in the series.
I'm thrilled to be joining Walker Books on this series - what a great team I'm getting to work with! ^_^


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As I was preparing to write this article, I commented to the staff that I certainly wasn't going to write about what I did on my summer vacation. But as I thought about it, I realized that that was just what I should write about. Taking time away from ministry and really resting is not exactly my strong suit and, blessedly, this summer has brought some needed renewal and refreshment for me.


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Is there a proof of the Hurewicz theorem $\pi_1(X)^{ab} = H_1(X, \mathbf Z)$ ($X$ a connected topological space) expressing $\pi_1(X)$ as the "Galois" group of $X$, i.e., group of deck transformations of the universal cover?
(as opposed to a proof using the construction of $\pi_1$ as the group of paths up to homotopy).
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This is not your great-great grandfather's Dracula.
It's NBC's — and that means in this lush, re-imagined world, the mysterious count made famous in Bram Stoker's 1897 classic now has washboard abs, is posing as an American (vampire) in London, and is a complicated antihero. The new series, which premieres Friday and seems to have shed any lingering gothic inhibitions about sex, blood and gore, stars the brooding Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
"I guess it was inevitable with my looks I would be asked to play a vampire one day," Rhys Meyers says with a laugh on the phone from his North London home.
The 36-year-old actor is no stranger to playing long-dead historical characters who suddenly return to life looking better than ever. From 2007 to 2010, he portrayed a decidedly fit, vigorous and boil-free Henry VIII in Showtime's historical drama "The Tudors."
While rarely taking on big-budget historical productions for ongoing series, NBC has to compete in an increasingly Comic-Con-driven universe overrun by witches, vampires and zombies. In fact, NBC executives are hoping the retooled gothic classic will expand the unexpected and durable success they've enjoyed on Friday nights with the fairy-tale drama "Grimm."
"We wanted to reinvent Dracula the way we reinvented Henry VIII at Showtime," says Robert Greenblatt, NBC Entertainment chairman, who previously headed up programming at the premium cable channel.
In the 10-episode series, which was shot in Budapest, Hungary, Dracula pretends to be Alexander Grayson, an American inventor and entrepreneur. Including flashback scenes, Rhys Meyers straddles three characters.
"Vlad is who he is," he says. "Grayson is the mask, a type of Howard Hughes figure, as the American who represents the new world posing a threat to Victorian society, and Dracula is the monster in him that is like an open nerve."
While retaining many of the characters from the Stoker novel, the series gives one of the book's main characters a twist: Van Helsing is friend, not foe. In the opening moments of the series, Van Helsing revives — in a very "Raiders of the Lost Ark" moment — an entombed and decaying Dracula.
Soon the pair band together against a common enemy, the Order of the Dragon, an evil conglomerate bent on political domination and pushing the world's addiction to oil. Not coincidentally this is the same shadowy group that cursed Vlad Tepes and turned him into the vampire Dracula centuries ago. When as Grayson, Dracula makes a splash with a theatrical presentation of wireless electricity, the battle lines are drawn in the cobbled streets of Victorian London.
"We loved the idea that a man that lives in the dark is bringing light to the masses," says executive producer Tony Krantz. "We thought this was a fascinating time in society at the birth of the 20th century and gives the story an interesting revenge angle."
Stepping into Dracula's skin wasn't easy, particularly since so many other actors have been there before, says Rhys Meyers, who was glad the part didn't call for capes, bats and a stake through the heart. He did recall, though, a Muppets Count von Count moment when he first tried on the blood-sucking dental ware.
"You do feel a bit ridiculous. It's really hard to speak, and then you find yourself talking with a lisp," he says. "You have to be careful you don't end up sounding like a cliché Count Dracula."
With an Irish lilt and a self-mocking, jovial manner, Rhys Meyers seems very different to the intense characters he so often portrays.
"I think I'm seen as more an antihero or villain. People find something a bit threatening in me. I have quite direct eyes so that lends to the scariness I can portray. It's quite funny, because I am not like that at all — I'm just perceived that way," he says. "I've done some good things and a few knucklehead stupid things in my life, but that brings you experience and what I like to call a world wariness to what I play."
Greenblatt has a long working history with Rhys Meyers that includes the CBS TV movie "Elvis" and then Showtime's "The Tudors."
"I thought Johnny would be perfect because he is compelling and sexy in a way that Dracula needs to be but he also feels 'old world' and modern at the same time," says Greenblatt. "There's no Bela Lugosi to this performance — yes, he needs to be powerful and frightening, but he also brings a vulnerability and haunted quality to the show."
Australian actress Jessica De Gouw (last seen in CW's "Arrow") plays a spiced up Mina Murray, who is now a reincarnation of Dracula's long-dead wife. Naturally, this leads to a complicated triangle as Dracula tries to woo her away from her fiancé and journalist, Jonathan Harker.
Her role, along with other major female characters such as loyal friend Lucy Westenra (played by "Merlin's" Katie McGrath) and Lady Jane (played by Irish actress Victoria Smurfit), vampy socialite and secret vampire hunter, are given a decidedly femme twist.
"It's a very different Mina to the original story," says De Gouw. "She is a brilliant woman — strong, independent and well educated. Making her a medical student makes her much more interesting. I think all the women in the show are relatable modern women, but just in a different world."
Though it may not play to the "Twilight" crowd, Rhys Meyers is still hoping the show will attract audiences with an appetite for good-looking, complex bloodsuckers.
"The original 'Twilight' crowd is getting older now anyway," he says with a laugh. "They've probably put away their Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner posters, so they might be looking for something else."
Where: NBC
When: 10 p.m. Friday
Rating: TV-14-V (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with an advisory for violence)


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This is Soda Drinker Pro. For those days that games about guns and murder are too much.
You drink soda. In a gripping first-person perspective, from which you can really feel the can in your hand and really taste the fizz as you quench that thirst.
The challenge comes not from the foes you will face, but from the mechanics of drinking the soda. You don't just hold the left mouse button to drink. That simply brings the straw to your mouth. It's the right button that drains/sucks, meaning you have to work in tandem if you're going to really slam one down.
Considering it's the middle of a blisteringly hot summmer outside, this is just about the most perfect game ever.
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Just before taking the ice for last night's game against the Kings, Patrick Kane learned that his grandfather had died. Kane played in the game, finishing with two goals and one assist. After scoring his first goal, seen above, Kane kissed his fingers and pointed skyward.
Kane was asked after the game if that motion was directed at his grandfather. That's when the tears came:
Later, Kane talked to NHL.com about his relationship with his grandfather:
He lived next door to me my whole childhood. We'd do things like play cards and hang out by the pool throughout the summers. He came to a lot of my hockey games, but more importantly, for him, he was worried about grades and being a good kid. It was a tough day, for sure.
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~$10 at Safeway Pretty nice For the price. Let it breathe for 20 min. 5/10
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The U.S. Supreme Court ordered California prisons to present a plan by Thursday to get rid of 9,000 prisoners to aid in the overcrowding problem, officials said Monday.
Federal courts stated that that population of prisoners should be no more than 137.5 percent of capacity. California prisons are at 149 percent capacity now, so either the prison capacity must be increased or the prisoners must be released.
"If we built two prisons overnight, we wouldn't have to reduce prisoner population," said Jeffrey Callison of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The plan could possibly include "rehabbing" an older prison to house the prisoners, giving prisoners good credits to end their sentences early with time served, or to contract with out-of-state prisons to house the inmates.
"We don't know what the plan is because it's still being worked on," Callison said.
The California state prison population has been reduced by approximately 25,000 since a court-ordered reduction in 2006. But Callison said it's "not enough according to the federal courts."
Callison also said progress must be made immediately, so if the courts approve the rehabilitation of an older prison, the Department of Corrections must take action.


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I like the photo of my parents. It reminds me of AMERICAN GOTHIC by Grant Wood.
On Monday I hope to take a road trip to New Castle PA to the Pennsylvania Department of Vital Statistic. That is where the deaths and birth since 1908 are located. I have a list of several I would like to have.
Last year I found, and it was quite a surprise, four of my great grandfather siblings had emigrated to the USA around the time of 1890-1906. I want to request their death certificates and see if their parents are listed. I decided to go for the earliest one first because there were remaining sisters and, hopefully, they will have listed my great great grandparents.
It is only about an hour drive and perhaps I can get myself in gear to get things done.


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Creative Ideas for Edible Gifts
'Tis the season to give gifts and eat delicious food—so it makes perfect sense to combine the two! Edible (or drinkable) gifts are an inexpensive way to thank all your holiday hostesses.
Here are some fun gift ideas that will satisfy everyone's holiday cravings.
- Wine is obvious choice when it comes to hostess gifts. Make your bottle stand out from the rest with a personalized wine label. At sites like MyOwnLabels.com, you can create holiday-themed wine labels starting at just 50 cents. Personalize their templates or create your own, and even add a picture.
- You may need a baby in the house to pull this one off, but a hot cocoa snowman is sure to delight. Take three baby food jars, fill one with peppermints, one with cocoa mix, and one with mini marshmallows. Hot glue them on top of each other to create a snowman. Paint on a face, use ribbon to create a scarf and hat, and glue on buttons to finish it off.
- If your hostess is more into savory than sweet, create homemade BBQ rubs. This requires no cooking, all you have to do is find a recipe online and mix together the spices. You could even make three different kinds (one for pork, beef and chicken) and turn it into a macho snowman.
- You can't go wrong with ooey, gooey, delicious popcorn balls, especially when you transform them into edible ornaments. Use the recipe of your choice. Once they've cooled, drizzle with melted chocolate and sprinkle with crushed peppermint or the candy of your choice. Use a greased skewer to create a hole in the popcorn ball, then stick in a candy cane until just the hook is showing.
- Spending the night with family or friends? Bring along breakfast in a basket. After a busy day of cooking, cleaning and entertaining, the last thing a hostess needs is to worry about what to serve in the morning. Line a basket with a holiday-themed towel then stock it with homemade scones or muffins and coffee, tea or the makings for mimosas.
- It's okay to take shortcuts, especially this time of year. Buy a refrigerated sugar cookie dough and you'll have more time to spend on the best part— decorating! We love these melted snowmen cookies.
- Give your hosts a hoot with Santa hat brownies. They're bound to be popular with the kids and the bright pop of red will bring out warm holiday feelings. Vegan Strawberry Santa's are another yummy and easy treat that fit the season.
Final Tip: If your hostess has little ones, give them a cookie decorating kit. Put together a basket with plain gingerbread or sugar cookies and all the fixings—sprinkles, icing and little candies. It will keep kids entertained during the party and provide another option for the dessert table.


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Iraq still thirsting for water that's safe to drink
BAGHDAD — Every day, a man driving a tanker truck filled with water comes to Nashat al Chamamla's village in southern Iraq, and every day the people line up to fill their jugs and jerry cans.
"The water we buy from the tanker isn't clean. You can see the dirt in it," Chamamla said. "But we drink it anyway."
Violence has dropped dramatically across Iraq in recent months, but the fight for a better life is just beginning. From electricity and health care to education and the economy, Iraq has many needs, and safe drinking water is among the most urgent.
"The water situation in Iraq is a crisis," said Bushra Jabbar al Kinani, an Iraqi lawmaker and a member of the parliament's services and public works committee. "We see the consequences in the health of our people, and they are very bad."
Waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid are endemic. A cholera outbreak this summer sickened hundreds in Baghdad and Babil province. Diarrhea is among the leading causes of childhood illness and death in Iraq, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, a nonprofit aid agency.
"Everywhere there is not clean water there is disease," said Jalil al Shimari, a doctor with Baghdad's health directorate. "We see a steady number of people still getting sick from the water problems."
No one in Nashat al Chamamla's village about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad has running water. Until an enterprising man started showing up with the tanker truck a couple of years ago, everyone drank from the Euphrates River. Most people in the village still use river water to bathe and wash their clothes, and some still drink it.
"I hear it's dangerous," said Chamamla, who's unemployed. "But I haven't been sick from the water yet, so I think it's OK."
Though estimates vary, most say that nearly half of Iraq's people don't have reliable access to safe drinking water. In a national survey that questioned 8,700 people in August, 58 percent said they can get clean water at least some of the time, according to a Defense Department report.
For the rest, every sip is a gamble.
About 40 percent of Iraqi households still don't have running water, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Even before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, a large portion of Iraq's population lacked access to safe drinking water. The 1991 Gulf War and the sanctions that followed it took a toll on the country's ability to deliver clean water and properly handle sewage. The violence and the widespread looting that accompanied the fall of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship aggravated the problems.
Some families without running water buy it from stores and tanker trucks, but others who are too poor collect it from rivers, canals and wells that often are badly polluted.
In Baghdad, about two-thirds of the city's sewage still flows untreated to rivers and other waterways, said Lt. Col. Jarrett Purdue, the head of the water sector for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Gulf Region Division.
Even for those who have it, running water isn't consistently available, and its safety is questionable.
"People can simply smell the water and know it's bad. I hear this all the time," Kinani said. "And often they turn on the tap and there is nothing."
Haider Hussein, a 35-year-old father of two, said that his house in Baghdad's Sadr City district rarely has water. "Especially in the mornings, you turn on the sink and nothing comes out," he said. "If it does it smells of sewage . . . . I am afraid to give it to my children, but we can't afford bottled water every day."
In Baghdad and outlying provinces alike, water purification plants use inconsistent and often ineffective methods, said Dorothea Krimitsas, a spokeswoman for the ICRC, which is working to improve clean water delivery in Iraq.
"Sometimes it's a lack of expertise in the people staffing the plants and sometimes it's a lack of chemicals and equipment," Krimitsas said. "But whatever the reasons, we know steps do get missed."
Contamination after water leaves purification plants is a bigger problem, she said. Pipes across Iraq have been damaged by the war. Others have gone years without maintenance. That's especially dangerous in the many areas of Iraq that also lack operational sewage lines.
"When you literally have sewage flowing down the streets and the pipes for the clean water are broken, it's easy to imagine how it all ends up mixing back together," Krimitsas said.
Muslim Khalaf, a 38-year-old English teacher from Basra, won't let his four children drink water from their faucets. Instead, he drives two or three times a day to a nearby shop to fill an empty water can.
"We know the pipes are all broken, and we know sewage gets in," Khalaf said. "We are fortunate that we can afford to buy something safer."
International aid organizations, the U.S. and the Iraqi government are all working to improve clean water delivery. Since 2003, the U.S. has spent about $2.4 billion on water projects here, according to an October report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
Most of that has gone to building and repairing pipe networks, water purification plants and sewage pumping and treatment stations. The U.S. also has launched programs to train plant operators and develop the Iraqi government's capacity to manage its own water projects, said Purdue, the Army Corps official.
"We've definitely come a long, long way," he said. "Millions of people here have water who didn't have it before."
But there's a long way to go, too.
Most estimates put the total cost of delivering clean water across Iraq at more than $10 billion, and that number goes up every time insurgents target pipelines, pumping stations and other facilities. This week, a homemade bomb broke a water main in Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood, cutting service to hundreds of thousands of people, the U.S. military said.
Kinani, the Iraqi lawmaker, said that progress also has been slowed by corruption and incompetence in Iraqi government ministries.
"They don't understand the significance of the problem because they don't go out to meet the people and see the suffering," Kinani said. "This is unfortunate, because the suffering is everywhere."
(Reilly reports for the Merced (Calif.) Sun-Star. McClatchy Special Correspondent Laith Hammoudi contributed to this article.)
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