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Kinetics of the cervical spine in pediatric and adult volunteers during low speed frontal impacts." J Biomech. 2012;45(1):99-106."
Methods for Linking Community Views to Measurable Outcomes in A Youth Violence Prevention Program." Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. 2012;6(4):499-506."
Miles to Go: Monitoring Progress in Teen Driver Safety. Philadelphia : The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute ; 2012.
Passive cervical spine flexion: the effect of age and gender." Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2012;27(4):326-33."
Pediatric providers' self-reported knowledge, practices, and attitudes about concussion." Pediatrics. 2012;130(6):1120-5."
Peer passengers: how do they affect teen crashes?" Journal of Adolescent Health. 2012;50(6):588-94."
Preliminary examination of a cartoon-based hostile attributional bias measure for urban African American boys." Am J Community Psychol. 2012;49(3-4):332-46."
Rates of early intervention referral and significant developmental delay, by birthweight and gestational age." Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2012;16(5):989-96."
Safety belt laws and disparities in safety belt use among US high-school drivers." Am J Public Health. 2012;102(6):1128-34."
Screening for Adolescents' Internalizing Symptoms in Primary Care: Item Response Theory Analysis of the Behavior Health Screen Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidal Risk Scales." J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2012;33(4):283-90."
Telecenter for secure, remote, collaborative child fatality review." Inj. Prev.. 2012;18(6):399-404."
Using Crash Data to Develop Simulator Scenarios for Assessing Novice Driver Performance." Transp Res Rec. 2012;2321:73-78."
Variation in teen driver education by state requirements and sociodemographics." Pediatrics. 2012;129(3):453-7."
After the injury: initial evaluation of a web-based intervention for parents of injured children." Health Educ Res. 2011;26(1):1-12."
Assessment of a three-point restraint system with a pre-tensioned lap belt and an inflatable, force-limited shoulder belt." Stapp Car Crash J. 2011;55:141-59."
Association between weight and risk of crash-related injuries for children in child restraints." Pediatrics. 2011;128(6):1148-52."
Characteristics of Crashes Involving Injured Children in Side Impacts." International Journal of Crashworthiness. 2011;16(4):365-373."
Child coping and parent coping assistance during the peritrauma period in injured children." Fam Syst Health. 2011;29(4):279-90."
Child passenger safety." Pediatrics. 2011;127(4):e1050-66."
Children with special physical health care needs: restraint use and injury risk in motor vehicle crashes." Matern Child Health J. 2011;15(7):949-54."
Community violence exposure and positive youth development in urban youth." J Community Health. 2011;36(6):925-32."
Developing and Validating a New Classroom Climate Observation Assessment Tool." J Sch Violence. 2011;10(2):165-184."
Development of a US Child-Focused Motor Vehicle Crash Surveillance System: A Pilot Study." Ann Adv Automot Med. 2011;55:33-40."
A difference-in-differences analysis of health, safety, and greening vacant urban space." Am. J. Epidemiol.. 2011;174(11):1296-306."
Emergency physicians' knowledge and provision of child passenger safety information." Acad Emerg Med. 2011;18(2):145-51."


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It has appeared Lindsay Lohan's potential comeback on the silver screen has been dealt a blow.
The actress, who was scheduled to play the late porn actress Linda Lovelace in the upcoming Matthew Wilder-directed film, "Inferno," has been replaced by "Watchmen" starlet Malin Akerman, E! News reported.
"We are withdrawing our offer from Lindsay Lohan," the director said. "We are currently in negotiations [with Malin Akerman] and working out the legalities of bringing her onboard."
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Wilder had previously maintained that Lohan would not be replaced from the production when the actress had her relapse. However, he now said : "We have stuck by Lindsay very patiently for a long time with a lot of love and support. Ultimately, the impossibility of insuring her—and some other issues—have made it impossible for us to go forward."
Lohan is in rehab through the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and is required to stay for treatment through Jan. 3.
"Lindsay is dedicated to her recovery and together they decided to move forward without her," her representative told E! News.
Akerman rose to stardom in romantic comedies "Couples Retreat" as Vince Vaughn's better half and "27 Dresses" as Katherine Heigl's dishonest older sister. She is now filming "Wanderlust" where she leads alongside Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A lawsuit accusing two Iowa farms at the heart of a recall of 550 million eggs linked to salmonella illnesses of safely negligence has been filed and is seeking class-action status.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Chicago on behalf of six people who became ill after eating eggs produced at Wright County Egg near Galt, Iowa, and Hillandale Farms of Iowa, near New Hampton.
It said the farms "failed to adequately and properly test, inspect and comply with federal and statutory regulations ... so the eggs were safe."
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The farms have been the subject of scrutiny in recent months after more than 1,500 people got sick from eating eggs from the farms. A Food and Drug Administration inspection found many possible sources of salmonella contamination at both farms, including rodent and wild bird infestations, uncontained manure, holes in walls and other problems. The FDA also found positive samples of Salmonella Enteritidis.
This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said its investigators had obtained records showing Wright County Egg, owned by Austin "Jack" DeCoster, received 426 positive results for salmonella between 2008 and 2010. The committee has scheduled a hearing on the recall for next week. A spokeswoman for DeCoster, Hinda Mitchell, has indicated DeCoster will attend.
Mitchell and Hillandale spokeswoman Julie DeYoung both declined to comment on the lawsuit, saying the companies were reviewing it.
Lawsuit claims farms were negligent
The lawsuit claims Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms were negligent in not producing eggs safe for public consumption and suggests that the actual number of people who became ill could far exceed the number already reported. No dollar amount was specified in the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, the farms "failed to utilize and/or implement a reasonably sterile environment in the manufacture of eggs; and failed to manufacture eggs in a reasonably safe condition for public consumption."
Ken Moll, an attorney for the Chicago law firm representing the plaintiffs, said the court on Thursday granted their request to inspect the farms to gather evidence. Moll said those inspections would occur later this month and the first week of October.
The six plaintiffs include a 69-year-old woman from Orland Park, Ill.; a 48-year-old woman of Gulfport, Miss.; a woman whose age wasn't given from Greensboro, N.C.; a 67-year-old man from New Windsor, N.Y., a woman whose age wasn't given from Pittsburgh; and a woman from Carmel, Ind., whose daughter became ill.
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Moll's firm is seeking class-action status for the case because the claims of the plaintiffs are similar; to avoid the risk of "inconsistent and varying" judgments and establishing incompatible standards of conduct for defendants.
The lawsuit indicates that one woman is receiving medical treatment, while the man from New Windsor, N.Y., who became sick about Aug. 13, remains hospitalized.
Moll said the goal of the lawsuit is to recover damages for illnesses suffered by the plaintiffs, to establish a medical monitoring fund so every consumer may be tested and treated for the adverse side effects of Salmonella Enteritidis and to reimburse plaintiffs for money paid for the contaminated eggs.
Eggs from Wright County Egg were sold to distributors in 22 states and Mexico, the lawsuit states. Eggs from Hillandale Farms were distributed in 14 states.
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'The Avengers' Is The Best Superhero Movie Ever
Get ready to assemble to the movie theater, HollywoodLifers! Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey, Jr. and the rest of the Marvel superhero gang deliver the goods like nothing you've seen before.
Attention, all guys! After your girlfriends have forced you to go see The Lucky One or The Vow, it is time to payback the favor and take your girl to The Avengers. But here is the hook: they will love it too! Whether you have seen the other Marvel films like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America or not, this film puts the best of all those films in one great superhero package!
The best thing about The Avengers is not that it's fun, funny and action packed — but it's all of that combined and mixed with originality, in a sea of movies that are often cookie cutter and the same boring blockbuster. Stars like Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo seem to be genuinely having a blast playing Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. Joss Wheedon's script and direction of Hollywood's heavyweights is amazing, as we never get a shortage of the stars we came to see.
And we never get tired of caring about how they all deal with saving the world from the evil Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Speaking of Tom Hiddleston, he may have the best and most important part in the film, since he is the sole bad guy. He irks all The Avengers in his own certain way, which also allows every one to have a different reason to kill him or keep him alive. The main reason: he is Thor's brother, who obviously wants to reason with what his brother is trying to do in killing Earth as we know it.
Now I know I haven't really addressed any spoilers, and I will not because everyone should go into the theater expecting an amazingly good time. Most likely what you will get when you leave the theater is a ticket to the next showing. This film is for everyone and everyone should go see it.
So HollywoodLifers, If you don't have tickets to The Avengers this weekend you are simply doing the wrong thing. I can't stress enough how awesome this movie was to watch. I can't wait to see it again multiple more times. Trust me, you will not be disappointed!


text: Leaks of the next Ice Cream sandwich update have been circulating since early February, and Moto's Xoom was given the first taste today. Now Jean-Baptiste Queru, an engineer on the mobile OS, has posted over at the Android Open Source Project forums to let us know that the appropriate files are being pushed as we speak. Of course, this doesn't mean that 4.0.4 will hit your handset any time soon... or ever, for that matter. But, it does mean that more custom ROM devs will be incorporating its pile of bug fixes into their products. Watch the source links to be alerted the moment it goes live.


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New rules banning TV ads for junk food during programmes aimed at the under-16s will force firms to punt their wares to kids via mobile phones and the internet, the Children's Food Campaign has warned.
The new regulations came into force yesterday, and the campaign's Richard Watts claimed that purveyors of unhealthy fare are already "marketing to children through chat and social networking websites and online games".
He told the Telegraph: "We are seeing a general growth in the way the internet and text messaging is used to target children with ads. There are a lot of websites springing up where there is an interactive feel. Companies have 'kid zones' where children can play games with their friends."
Ed Mayo, chief executive of the National Consumer Council, recently said: "Parents should be aware that the internet is highly commercial. Every hour that a child spends in front of the computer is like letting them run loose in a shopping centre."
This latest warning about the unhealthy effect technology can have on kids' health come a few months after The Sleep Council found that electronic gadgets were the primary cause of the UK's youth not getting enough kip.
In a poll of 1,000 young 'uns, almost a quarter admitted to falling asleep "watching TV, listening to music or with other equipment still running, more than once a week". Specifically, a third of 12 to 16-year-olds quizzed said they slept for "between four and seven hours a night", while experts say eight hours is required.
The Centre's Dr Chris Idzikowski warned: "This is an incredibly worrying trend. What we are seeing is the emergence of 'Junk Sleep' - that is sleep that is of neither the length nor quality that it should be in order to feed the brain with the rest it needs.
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Strict ordinance keeps Aspinwall sidewalks snow-free
Borough issues 81 citations to residents
Just about all of the sidewalks are snow-free in Aspinwall this winter, and that's largely due to a strict removal ordinance that seems to be paying off.
"I'm all for it," said business owner Debbie McManus. "Aspinwall is the most awesome neighborhood. They take care of their streets and sidewalks. The crews are out here plowing the streets, and they count on us to keep the sidewalks clean, so it's a nice place to walk around."
But not all of the borough's 3,000 residents complied right away, so the borough issued 81 citations.
"Our sidewalk laws are more for the safety of our residents, so we don't have people falling," said Aspinwall Police Chief John Sabol.
In Aspinwall, residents are also given a warning and a $25 fine if sidewalks are not cleared.


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Spring Break
Ok! I'm finally here to talk about Spring Break! Of course you understand that it can't be a completely comprehensive entry because I'm a little hazy on all the good times (they mix and mingle like people at a good party, you see) but I'll try to give you the highlights! Just remember that between those highlights were... more highlights!
My flight to France was uneventful- all four of the gates at the Florence were abuzz, but I still managed to get to the airport and make it through check-in and security in about 20 minutes. That should be no surprise in an airport where there is a TICKETS desk across from the checkin so people can waltz in, buy a ticket, and then hop on board. Oh, Italy!
So... I arrive in France and my cute mom sneaks in to the arrival part of the airport and grabs me while I'm waiting for my bag! She and my dad had arrived about 20 minutes before so that ended up being PERFECT timing! We bussed in and arrived at our hotel- REALLY nice! We were literally two blocks from the Louvre- on the corner of the Jardin de Tuileries- so great! We got settled in that night, walked around, enjoyed some free champagne and eachother's company- great.
We did all the sites- we saw the Louvre, the Musee D'Orsay, the Picasso Museum, the Eiffel Tower, the Arch de Triumph, we shopped on the Rive Gauche, and even ate at the Grand Colbert (which you may remember from the movie "Something's Gotta Give")!
The Louvre was really neato- probably my least fave room of the ones we saw was actually the one with the Mona Lisa (La Giocanda we call 'er in Italia)- it was so crowded- people were all trying to get pictures of the portrait, but guess what? You can't take pictures! Part of the protection of the picture is the special film/glass they have over the painting so that foos can't ruin it with flashes of idiocy! So you've got all these tourist-types taking picture after picture, baffled at why their photos aren't showing up! Aye! But it was an amusing scene- I don't really care for that lady myself, so we "touched base" and then went to see other stuff, like Titian, Raphael, Napoleon's chambers etc. I think if I lived in Paris I'd hang out at the Louvre fairly frequently- and though super pricey, the food in the cafeteria was certainly the best cafeteria food I've had to date!
The Musee D'Orsay (my apologies for omitting the accent but, see, I'm not smart enough for that sort of thing!) was REALLY neat- it is housed in the old train station, and they have done such COOL things with it! It houses Monet, Manet, Rodin, Klimt, etc etc... on and on. It was really cool- lots of open space, and really pleasant natural light, hooray!
The Eiffel tower was, well... HUGE! I know that is a silly thing to say, but really, it is a LOT bigger than I expected! Of course you can see it from any given place in the city, but still! When you get right up to it it's REAL big! And as you are going up in the elevator, trying to pretend like this ascent won't scare you to death, you realize that you can see out of all sides of the elevator, cause this thing's made of metal and doesn't have walls! And then you're thinking "please God, let everyone back home know I love them, and I pray Ma and Da get a refund for my tuition" cause you know you're gonna die. And right before you lose control of your bladder and knees, there you are, on the first level! I'm sure you can use your imagination for how well things went going up to the next level! and then NEXT level! AHH! Man, once we were up there though, totally worth it. I'd highly recommend it!
Sacre Coeur is a church on the top of a hill in Paris, and it is the second highest point next to the metal beasty. It was REALLY lovely, and the area around it, Mont Martre, was SO great! We didn't spend a ton of time there cause we had things to do, places to see, but you know- we had a great time while we were there- imagine a little square filled with artists just painting, surrounded by sidewalk cafes and cobblestone! It was a pretty romantic little place, so next time you're on a date in Paris, consider dinner by the big white glowing church on the hill!
SO... unfortunately leaving out several wonderful things (well, honestly, more than several) as we move on to Cannes, which is the home of the Cannes Film Festival, and my favorite restaurant on the PLANET names Ville de Lys. Absolutely lovely! The place is full of designer shops and a great beach, plus some good non bank-breaking shopping on the off-streets. We stayed in a great hotel, took a day trip to Monte Carlo, Monaco, and of course, as I mentioned, had the meal of our lives! Think the PERFECT meal, including service, presentation, fun, taste (brought me to tears twice... not joking)... and you'll have a glimmer into the perfection!
We trained from Cannes to Florence (a long day, believe you me), and my parents got settled in their hotel. We had some GREAT dinners, which, who knew could actually happen in Florence (ok ok, I've had some great food here...). We did it up right- we had 4 or 5 courses every night! We shared some of them, and enjoyed some good house wines etc. We spent most our time shopping and eating- hard life!
They left on that Tuesday- it was SOOOO hard to see them go! I actually said goodbye the night before because their flight was at 6:30am the next morning! They made it home safe, though not without a few trials, and now they are back in the groove of Mountain Time, I was really bummed when they left- it was SO fun having them here! I can't imagine people I'd rather be with than my parents! TRULY! I'm so lucky to have two such amazing people as parents, and to have such great relationships with both of them! I felt really homesick when they were gone, but by the time I post this March will be nearly done, and I'll be but weeks away from the homecoming of 2005! Should be fun- but don't worry, I'll still enjoy myself in the mean time!
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Spring Break
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
HELLO everyone!
Yes! I'm back from France and I had an AMAZING time! I have been so on-the-go this week that I have yet to write it all down here in the blog, but don't you worry! It will not be neglected! SO! For now I'm off- Amsterdam tomorrow until Monday morning (no school on Easter Monday!), and then next week I should have a chance to update about ALL my adventures! I'm still working on getting all my france pictures up too, so just hold your horses another few days and then you'll be richly rewarded (in that creepy you're-looking-at-someone-else's-life way... hehe, just kidding, of course!)
I'll eat a pancake for you!
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Thursday, March 10, 2005
Hey y'all!
Just a quick note to say that I'm off to meet my parents in Paris for a few days, then headed down to Cannes, and then I'll be back here a Firenze to show those folks around this town! So! E-mail, write, call- do what you like- or just continue on in your silent ways peeping at my thoughts without a word, that's just fine! Haha... anyway... talk to you all soon! There will be many pictures of France, fear not!
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If you don't have a mason jar in your kitchen, then it's about time you invest in this multipurpose container. There's no need to invest in fancy kitchen equipment when mason jars are able to do (and store) so much, plus they'll only cost you about a dollar a jar. From preserving fruits to shaking up salad dressings, take a look at the major uses for this glass canning jar.
- Preserve: Jams, jellies, and pickled vegetables require this special air-locked seal to stay fresh and bacteria-free.
- Store: Transport smoothies and lunch, store leftovers, or keep dry beans and grains airtight. A mason jar is also an easy way to store a sourdough starter. Or take the lid off and serve an adults-only refreshment.
- Shake: Emulsify salad dressing and cocktails by shaking them up a tightly sealed mason jar. Even shake up a batch of whipped cream.
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BETHESDA, Md., April 25 (UPI) -- There were 219 million cases of malaria and 660,000 malaria-related deaths globally in 2010, World Health Organizations officials in Switzerland said Thursday.
The majority of the malaria deaths were among children in Africa age 5 and younger, said Dr. B.F. Hall and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Fifty countries were on track to reduce malaria incidence rates by 75 percent by 2015, in line with established global health targets, the officials said.
"Although these data are encouraging, these countries account for a mere fraction of the world's malaria burden, which is concentrated in 14 other countries where 80 percent of malaria-related deaths occur," Hall and Fauci said in a statement. "While wider provision of proven malaria prevention and control interventions has had a significant impact in curbing the number of new malaria cases, particularly in countries with high transmission rates, much more must be done to rid the world of this scourge."
NIH-supported researchers from 16 institutions around the world recently identified a new class of anti-malaria compounds that target multiple stages of the malaria parasite's life cycle. One compound in particular -- ELQ-300 -- inhibited parasites at the stage in which they cause human infection and disease as well as at the stage responsible for transmission by the mosquito.
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It's official: the money people are rallying to the crowd-funding cause.
President Obama signed the American JOBS Act of 2012 into law on April 5, and broker-dealers are already looking for opportunities to fund entrepreneurial startups. In fact, more than 100 broker-dealers, most of which specialize in private placements, signed up to participate in a new crowdfunding portal, www.ConfidentCrowd.com, this week at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) 2012 Annual Conference in Washington.
Michael Dinan, founder of ConfidentCrowd and chief executive of Phoenix-based investment bank Dinan & Co., said in a phone interview on Tuesday with AdvisorOne that ConfidentCrowd will be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the deals made available through the portal will be sold exclusively to FINRA-registered broker-dealers.
The idea of the portal is to screen companies seeking funding to minimize investor risk. ConfidentCrowd will provide a meeting place for member broker-dealers, businesses in need of capital and investors seeking opportunities. For investors, crowdfunding offers an opportunity for portfolio diversification, with starting investments of as much as $10,000 a year, but they should be vetted and structured by securities experts, according to Dinan.
Gary Whitehill, founder of Entrepreneur Week and a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, said he hadn't yet heard of ConfidentCrowd but said its financial sophistication could help it rise above other crowdfunding startups in the offing.
"One hundred broker-dealers at FINRA signing up. Wow," Whitehill said. "Every crowdfunding platform built so far has been built by an entrepreneur, not an established company. This is the first one I've seen that's from an actual corporation. It's all about timing the market, and if this guy has already built it, why would you create another platform? I know a lot of people who are trying to rush into this space, but it's the first time I've seen a broker-dealer come into this. I think it's smart. What's interesting about this is that you're leveraging a network of broker-dealers."
'Crowdfunding Itself Is a Private Placement'
"We introduced the portal yesterday at the conference and we've had almost 100 broker-dealers who have signed on already," Dinan said Tuesday. "They are mainly smaller independent broker-dealer firms that specialize in private placements. That's important, because private placements are security transactions that must be approved by FINRA, and in fact, crowdfunding itself is a private placement."
Since ConfidentCrowd announced the news of its launch on Monday, the site has received about a dozen inquiries from entrepreneurs. "From the responses we've received, we believe health care is going to lend itself well to crowdfund investing," Dinan said.
ConfidentCrowd is now building its infrastructure and membership base of broker dealers and investors, while waiting for the SEC to make regulatory decisions about the JOBS Act during a nine-month rulemaking process.
In addition to broker-dealers, also stopping by the ConfidentCrowd booth at the conference in Washington are FINRA staff members, lawyers and wealth management firms, Dinan said.
"The JOBS Act and crowdfunding ARE clearly one of the hot topics. In every breakaway session I've been to, crowdfunding was mentioned either by the speakers or in the Q&A afterward," he said. "While FINRA has not been named the self-regulating organization (SRO) to oversee crowdfunding, we believe it will be."
According to FINRA BrokerCheck, Dinan is a broker currently employed by Ceres Capital Advisors, also headquartered in Phoenix. He is also still employed by Dinan & Co., which was founded in 1988. The firm specializes in middle-market mergers and acquisitions, with more than 300 transactions closed since its founding with a total transaction value of more than $20 billion.
Kickstarter and Regulatory Restrictions
To be sure, ConfidentCrowd is not the only player in the crowdfunding game. Before the JOBS Act's passage, nonprofit and philanthropic fundraising efforts such as Kickstarter were legal under U.S. law. And since the beginning of May, at least two new investment-oriented crowdfunding initiatives have been announced: a partnership between EarlyShares.com and Navocate, and one by the U.S. Crowdfunding Exchange LLC, according to Reuters.
Along with the excitement come concerns about investment risk and financial literacy, said R. Paul Herman, a registered investment advisor and chief investment officer of HIP Investor, a San Francisco-based wealth manager focused on sustainability.
In the San Francisco area, "the land of Kickstarter," crowdfunding is an active conversation, Herman said. One such conversation, he noted, revolves around the Kiva crowdfunding site co-founder Jessica Jackley and her failed attempt to launch a for-profit site, Profounder.com, due to securities law restrictions.
"What Jessica experienced before the JOBS bill's passage and the SEC rulemaking wasn't easy," Herman said. "The SEC is out to protect investors, so unless you're accredited, it's difficult to invest in local companies. The core risk is: does the every-day investor understand all the risks of what will go wrong in a small or medium-sized enterprise? For investors to have a successful positive return will require them to act like more sophisticated or experienced venture capitalists."
The SEC can't kill the JOBS Act, but it can choose how many rules to put around it, Herman pointed out—which can be a good thing, considering that "there is no driver's license for being an investor."
Facebook and Failure
On the subject of risk, ConfidentCrowd's Dinan said there is a risk that naïve investors will pour money into startups that they hope will become the next Google or Facebook. "The failure rate among early stage and seed entities, which are the groups that will principally use crowdfunding, is exceedingly high," Dinan pointed out.
Worse, he said, scam artists are certain to find ways to use crowdfunding for investment fraud.
Whitehill, the New York Entrepreneur Week founder, said he isn't worried about isolated instances of fraud, so much as that "America doesn't understand the value of this weird quasi-French word 'entrepreneurship'."
The question remains whether crowdfunding can withstand the public, political and regulatory pressure that it will surely encounter, Whitehill said.
"Will mainstream America understand why crowdfunding is important? Will it hold up to regulatory pressure when something goes wrong and we need to implement a law so it never happens again? I see crowdfunding as a platform that is free and open, and there will be challenges along with it, but anybody who's passionate about something should have the realistic opportunity to follow their passion," he said.
Read JOBS Act Is a Dangerously Flawed Product of a Rush to Legislate by NASAA President Jack Herstein at AdvisorOne.


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heart pine. There are 4 fireplaces in The Schooler House, all restored with antique tiles. Two fireplaces are located in the common areas of
The Schooler House and each room has its own gas log fireplace. Most of the trim throughout The Schooler House
is original to the home.
A full breakfast is served in the dining room, which is furnished in period furniture. The large front porch, furnished with antique wicker furniture, provides a perfect view of the Rising Sun Tavern, where youll see
the wenches greeting tourists, the trolley or horse drawn carriage as it passes by on its way through the city.
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Engage discussion with your student:
- Did you know CMC has a program in...?
- Besides traveling, what are your goals?
- How will you market this experience to a graduate school interview committee or to a future employer?
- Would you be more comfortable in a university setting or an island program where you do not speak the local language?
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Folder and File Sizes Explained
File Size Units
As for everything else there is a unit that measures the size of a file in order to determine how much space it occupies on the storage. The smallest unit is the Bit and it has two states – 0 (Zero, Off, False) or 1 (One, On, True). Of course having only two states can hold information whether an option is enabled or disabled, but it does not help in expressing numbers or letters. This is the reason why the bits are grouped together in order to form the next larger unit – Byte.
The Byte is a group of 8 Bits and can represent a number in the range of 0 to 255 – it is limited by the count of all the possible combinations that the 8 bits can have and they are 2 to the power of 8 which equals 256. In order to represent digits and letters every symbol is assigned a number from 0 to 255 – those are determined by the ASCII table. So a byte can represent a character, digit or a symbol according to its value. Nowadays a Unicode or UTF-8 standard is more popular, where 2 bytes represent a single symbol – this helps to support multiple languages, alphabets and special characters.
The next larger unit after the Byte is KiloByte and contains 1024 bytes. Click this File Size Information link for a table representation and a free file size calculator / convertor.
- 1 B = 1 byte;
- 1 GB = 1000 MB or 1 000 000 000 bytes.
- 1 byte = 8 bits
- 1 KiB = 1,024 bytes
- 1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes
- 1 GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
- 1 TiB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
1 MiB = 2 ^ (to the power of) 20 bytes = 1024 kibibytes = 1048576bytes
Mebi is a prefix derived from the words mega and binary, indicating its origin in the closeness in value to the SI prefix mega. One mebibyte (MiB) is 2 ^ (to the power of) 20 (i.e., 1024 x 1024) bytes or 1048576 bytes. Megabyte (MB) means 10 ^ (to the power of) 6 (i.e. 1000 x 1000 = 1000000) bytes and differs from MiB.
Download a free tool that can Analyze Directory and File Sizes. While the size of every file is displayed next to every file in Windows Explorer, such information is missing for the folders as it has to be calculated by analyzing the content of the directory – all its files and sub-folders. This free tool visualizes this information in a neat table and provides nice charts in order to easily check the distribution of the drive space. It also provides reports for the largest files and largest folders and helps with the disk cleanup process.


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The Science of Love [Video]
Happy Valentine's Day! So, what is love?
The great philosopher and poet, Ke$ha, once said, '...Your love, your love, your love is my drug'
That line couldn't be anymore true, in fact the brain of someone in love resembles that of someone on cocaine! Those in love also experience symptoms to someone who has OCD.
Check out the video for the full explanation, it really is pretty cool!
With that said, I'll wrap things up with more inspiring words from Ke$ha:
"Wooooah, wooooah, wooooah, Wooooah, wooooah, wooooah."


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(CNN) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross is trying to negotiate a cease-fire between Syrian authorities and the opposition so the humanitarian agency can deliver food and medical supplies to the besieged city of Homs and other locations, a spokesman said Monday.
Negotiations are "happening now," said Bijan Farnoudi, a spokesman for the ICRC in Geneva, Switzerland.
"We have been in Syria for a while now, based in Damascus, so we want to reach some of the hardest-hit areas," he said. "We have been to some places like Homs and so on from time to time, but it is very crucial to have a cessation of fire to provide humanitarian services."
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama's top military adviser said it is premature to aid in arming the Syrian opposition, reinforcing the belief of a rebel commander that the uprising is an "orphan revolution" without the international support prevalent in other Arab Spring revolts.
The claim follows opposition reports Monday that Syrian forces began a 17th day of shelling of opposition strongholds in Homs.
The opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said at least 18 people had been killed across the country Monday, including 13 in Homs -- among them a whole family made up of three women and a young man. The group also said security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators around the university in the city of Aleppo.
The opposition network estimates almost 9,000 people have been killed since the start of the uprising.
Elsewhere in the country, hundreds of protesters marched through the heart of Damascus on Monday, just steps from security buildings in a bold show of strength, the LCC said. Thirty people were detained in the central Damascus neighborhood of Kafarsouseh, it said.
Demonstrators in the capital blocked a main road with burning ties, said Ahmed, a protester, who characterized the action as "a big thing."
"This is part of our resentment against the regime," he said.
In Hama, government forces stormed various neighborhoods and erected checkpoints, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, another opposition group. Snipers took up positions inside a building under construction to monitor movements in the neighborhood of Hamidiya, it said.
Meanwhile, state media reported two soldiers were killed and one was wounded in a clash with "armed terrorists" near Hama. Funeral services were held Monday for 12 security workers killed throughout the country, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said.
CNN cannot independently verify opposition or government reports of casualties.
Diplomatic efforts have all but failed to end the brutal crackdown, with two powerful nations -- China and Russia -- vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on President Bashar al-Assad's to relinquish power, and the Arab League suspending an observer mission amid escalating violence.
Representatives from various countries are expected to meet in Tunisia this week to discuss the conflict.
"The goal of this conference is to increase pressure on the Syrian regime. There are indications coming especially from China, and to some extent from Russia that there may be a change in position," Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby told reporters Monday.
In one rural village in the north, farmers, carpenters and university students are among the face of the opposition, according to CNN's Ivan Watson, one of the few reporters in Syria, whose government has placed strict restrictions on international journalists and refused many of them entry.
Watson said the men of village of Binnish describe themselves as members of the rebel Free Syria Army, "but it would be much more accurate to call them an impromptu village guard. Many of them are defending the olive groves that surround their community, with little more than hunting shotguns."
The rebel commander in Binnish -- who defected from the Syrian army six months ago -- said the men don't have enough guns or ammunition.
He called the Syrian uprising an "orphan revolution" because unlike the revolt in Libya, the Syrian rebels have not received foreign support.
Like many members of the opposition, the commander covered his face during the interview to hide his identity out of fear of reprisals by Syrian forces.
There has been a growing call among some in the international community to arm the opposition, best described as a network of faceless activist and opposition groups that include a loosely organized rebel army and militias.
But not everyone, including the United States, is in agreement.
"I think it's premature to make a decision to arm the opposition movement in Syria, because I would challenge anyone to clearly identify for me the opposition movement in Syria at this point," Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."
Dempsey, an Army general who served two tours of duty in Iraq, warned that Syria is "an arena right now for all of the various interests to play out."
Those interests include neighbors such as NATO ally Turkey; the region's Sunni and Shiite Muslim powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, which is Syria's leading ally; and al Qaeda, the terrorist network that has shown signs of interest in the conflict, he said.
"There's a number of players, all of whom are trying to reinforce their particular side of this issue. And until we're a lot clearer about, you know, who they are and what they are, I think it would be premature to talk about arming them," Dempsey said.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona said Monday he believes "there should be no option left off the table."
"The massacre goes on," McCain said. "There's risk of stalemate. ... There's lots of ways of getting weapons and assistance to the resistance there besides U.S. direct shipment of arms. There's a contact group that the U.S. is joining with in Tunisia this Friday. And I believe they need medical, technical, all kinds of assistance, and every option should be on the table, including a way to get weapons to them."
He noted the United States previously intervened in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo because "massacres were taking place."
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who is with McCain in Cairo, said Monday he believes it's in Americans' best interest to break Syria away from Iran.
"I do believe that al Qaeda tries to fill vacuums wherever they exist, but I don't buy the narrative that the Syrian people are risking their lives ... to become a branch of al Qaeda," he said.
Graham said he believes "the idea of trying to arm the opposition forces needs to be considered, very much considered, and at the end of the day, what happens in Syria really can change the course of the Mideast."
Syria's uprising began in March amid the "Arab Spring" demonstrations, when longtime autocrats fell in Tunisia and Egypt and other nations found themselves battling popular revolts.
Syria's government responded by unleashing police and troops on anti-government protesters calling for more political freedoms, a movement that quickly spiraled into the opposition calling for al-Assad's ouster. The president has blamed "terrorists" and foreigners for threatening the stability of Syria.
Nearly all other reports from within the country, however, tell a different story.
Amateur video and opposition reports released via social media and telephone calls from Homs have documented 17 days of bombardment, with explosions from mortars and tank shells launched by Syrian forces every few minutes, people bleeding to death in the streets for lack of medical attention, and snipers picking off civilians running for cover.


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where $USER is your user name. Then you can load in Firefox (not Safari!) the HTML file '''unxmacxi.pro.build.html''' via the in Mac OS X included Apache web server or diretctly form the directory ''/Users/$USER/Sites/''. This file is automatically being updated and is showing the status of the build and also the time needed since the build started.
where $USER is your user name. Then you can load in Firefox (not Safari!) the HTML file '''unxmacxi.pro.build.html''' via the in Mac OS X included Apache web server or diretctly form the directory ''/Users/$USER/Sites/''. This file is automatically being updated and is showing the status of the build and also the time needed since the build started.
== '''Installing, preparing and running OpenOffice.org''' ==
== '''Installing, preparing and running OpenOffice.org''' ==
Revision as of 10:56, 9 June 2010
This document tries to wrap-up the build process for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X using the native windowing-toolkit of the platform named Aqua.
- 1 Prerequisites
- 2 Get the source and prepare to build it...
- 3 Doing the build (about 4,5 GB)
- 4 Installing, preparing and running OpenOffice.org
- 5 Contribute by finding, isolating, debugging or solving issues
- 6 Current Work in progress (Aqua specific work only)
- 7 Known build issues
- 8 External links
This document was derived from the description of the X11 build thanksworthy provided by Eric Hoch in this document: MacOSXBuildInstructions.
Here we would like to outline the things you need to build the Aqua Version (besides the OS).
Mandatory Requirements
- Mac OS X version 10.4 (aka Tiger) or later (if using 10.5 aka Leopard, have a look at User:Dyrcona/LeopardBuild#flex
- XCode version 2.4.1 or later. If you want to use a newer version that is shipped with your Mac OS X installation media, you need to register at the Apple Developer Connection site (free of charge) to be able to download it
Notes on Java: The Aqua version of OpenOffice.org does not build yet using Java SDK 1.6.0. If you didn't configure Mac OS X for a 1.6, you don't need to do anything - the default (1.5) is OK. To change the default Java version go to Applications/Utilities/Java and modify accordingly
Of course patches to make it build with 1.6 are very welcome :-) Feel free to submit your patches to the mac@porting mailing list or file issues.
Recommended tools
- ccache
If you intend to build OpenOffice.org several times, you probably can benefit of ccache since it will speed up your future builds. The first time you make a build with ccache you won't notice it, but the next time the build will go up to five times faster.
You can install it using Fink. It is simply named "ccache". For MacPorts users the package is called "ccache".
If you don't use fink, you can download and build it yourself using the source provided at http://ccache.samba.org/
There are two ways to enable ccache - one is to set environment variables, the other way is to use symlinks.
Using environment variables:
export CC="ccache gcc" export CXX="ccache g++"
Using the symlink approach:
# create a directory for the links mkdir ~/bin # create the symlinks pointing to ccache with the name of the compiler ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/gcc ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/g++ ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/cc ln -s /path/to/ccache ~/bin/c++ # no all you need to enable ccache is to prepend ~/bin to your PATH $ export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
for both methody, you can add the "export ..." lines to your ~/.profile - that way you don't need to manually set it when building. You can still temporarily disable ccache (export CCACHE_DISABLE=1) in case you don't want to use it.
Since OOo is rather huge, you should increase the cache-size to 1 GB or more
ccache -M 1G
- subversion version 1.5.4 or later
Since OOo's source code is managed using Subversion currently, you also need the svn client to checkout sources (otherwise you would be bount to source-tarballs that aren't generated that frequently). You can either compile yourself or use the subversion universal binaries from the subversion project Version 1.5.4 or later is required because of important fixes related to the merge-feature.
Get the source and prepare to build it...
Get the source from HG:
You need about 3GB for a checkout from the HG repository: The full source itself has about 1.6GB and HG needs another 1.5GB. Building the source requires another 5GB.
- check out the latest source from HG
hg clone http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/ ooo_source
Get the source from SVN:
You need about 3.2GB for a checkout from the SVN repository: The full source itself has about 1.6GB and SVN doubles that by its internal copy. Building the source requires another 5GB.
The directory name should not contain any spaces, otherwise building it might be troublesome.
- check out a milestone from SVN (if the milestone is older than DEV300_m63 and newer than DEV300_m31)
svn checkout svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_m46
- check out a an old ChildWorkSpace from SVN
svn checkout svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/cws/CWSNAME
- checking out milestones or ChildWorkSpaces from CVS (if they are older than DEV300_m32)
Have a look at the SVN for OOo documentation for more details, e.g. if you want to do complex tasks like merging several CWS into a single build
Additional dependencies for current milestone builds
prebuilt Mozilla archives (based on seamonkey1.1.13)
To enable the use of macros (disabled by default for security reasons), you'll have to put the prebuilt archives of mozilla binaries in moz/zipped directory after renaming them properly.
Note: archives are Intel only for now. UB will be proposed later
=> FIRST : apply the following patch to your tree : patch for moz2seamonkey zipped archives (else, you'll have a breakage in connectivity)
cp moz2seamonkey_connectivity.diff DEV300_m46 cd DEV300_m46 Fake the patch application : patch --dry-run -p0 < moz2seamonkey_connectivity.diff And if nothing wrong occurs, apply it for true : patch -p0 < moz2seamonkey_connectivity.diff
Archives to be downloaded :
or from
- http://tools.openoffice.org/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIinc.zip
- http://tools.openoffice.org/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIlib.zip
- http://tools.openoffice.org/moz_prebuild/OOo3.2/MACOSXGCCIruntime.zip )
One-Time preparations and scripts
Work in progress: since DEV300_m42, config_office no longer exist, and what follows needs update, or might contain error(s)
OpenOffice.org's build environment is configured using the popular open-source configuration-management package 'autoconf'. So you can do your beloved './configure' command, is now done in the ROOt source directory. To save the configure parameters and use them with different milestones I used to link-in my shellscript to fire up the ./configure line.
My directory-structure looks like this:
bin/ DEV300_m42/ DEV300_m40/ DEV300_m0/ SRC680_m248/ ...
Now I go to the ROOT sources subdir and link in my startscript:
cd DEV300_m46
Create 'build.sh' (to be written) :
Note: excepted important changes in configure, this has to be done once only.
#!/bin/sh export BASE=`pwd` export OOVERSION=`echo $BASE|sed 's/^\/.*\///'` echo Building from : $BASE echo OpenOffice Version: $OOVERSION ./configure \ --with-lang="en-US de fr" \ --disable-odk \ --disable-pasf \ --disable-gtk \ --disable-headless \ --disable-build-mozilla \ --with-build-version=$OOVERSION-`date +%d-%m-%y` \ --disable-fontconfig \ --without-nas \ --with-use-shell=bash \ --with-jdk-home=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home \ --with-stlport=no \ --disable-mediawiki \ --enable-werror \ --disable-vba
Put this script into ~/bin and make sure it is executable :
chmod ug+x ~/bin/build.sh
Note :
--disable-vba since CWS sb87 (was building by chance only)
--disable-mediawiki because ant version requirement to build the swext is now 1.7.0
--disable-neon has been removed since m217 resync. See Issue 78206 --disable-neon breaks aqua build
--disable-odk : disables SDK build, and will avoid you to download some windows dll which is not needed for aqua-build.
--disable-pasf : pasf stands for Portable Audio System file. As we want to use system library rather than portable ones, we disabled this. However, at this time not all functionality will be available with pasf disabled. You might willing to use --with-pasf if you want working audio in your build.
--without-nas : nas stands for Network Audio System, it uses X11, if you want to use it in your build, just remove this flag. You will need to install the X11 package provided in your CDs/DVD Mac OS X installation. X11 SDK from xCode tools is not required for build this.
--disable-build-mozilla: will disable the mozilla build (in the moz module), but mozilla pre-built archives will be used instead (they are mandatory to enable the macro security configuration dialog (see Issue 79885 ).
--enable-dbgutil: add this option to enable assertions and other functionality useful for debugging
--with-jdk-home must be set as above with XCode 3.0
--with-stlport=no uses Apple's built-in STL, but will cause some warnings
We used the bash shell in all example, since to our belief users of the C-shell are smart enough to figure out the differences anyway. If you want to dig deeper into the build process, please have a look at the description OpenOffice.org's Build Environment.
Doing the build (about 4,5 GB)
Fine, now we have a (hopefully) working 'build.sh' in the ROOT sources dir. We need to run it beforehand:
cd DEV300_m46
link the existing build.sh with the current milestone :
ln -s ../bin/build.sh ./build.sh
Run it to complete the configure step :
This will setup the necessary includefiles and create a couple of files in the parent directory (bootstrap, MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh, MacOSXPPCEnv.Set). If you are using the sh, ksh or bash you only need to take care for 'MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh'.
Now we need to get back to our base-directory, run the bootstrap script, source our Enviroment (MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh) and finally start the build-process:
On Mac Intel
./bootstrap source MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh cd instsetoo_native export TMP=/tmp export SYSTEM_OPENSSL=YES
build --all -P4 --dlv_switch -link --dontgraboutput or build --all -P4
if you run into trouble with --dlv_switch (see: Issue 77360 )
On PowerPC
./bootstrap source MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh cd instsetoo_native export TMP=/tmp export SYSTEM_OPENSSL=YES
build --all -P2 --dlv_switch -link --dontgraboutput or build --all -P2
Comments on above
if you run into trouble with --dlv_switch (see: Issue 77360 )
The main purpose of the bootstrap script is to build (if necessary) the dmake utility used. Dmake once was a unix make-clone made by wticorp but got incorporated into OpenOffice since it was orphaned. For more information about dmake, it's history and manpage have a look here: http://tools.openoffice.org/dmake/index.html
Sourcing MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh is very important not only for building but also for running svdem later on. Here all the Environment-Variables for the Build will be set up. For a detailed description see Environment_Variables. Please note that on Intel machines, 'MacOSXPPCEnv.Set.sh' should be substituted with 'MacOSXX86Env.Set.sh'.
This Build process takes on my box (Dual 1.8 GHz G5, 1.5GB RAM) roughly 10 hours, and 3 to 6 hours on Mac Intel (3:30h on a 2GHz DualCore INTEL iMac). Be patient.
If you want to see how the progress on that build is you can use two build options to get a comfortable view:
build ... <see above> ... --html --html_path /Users/$USER/Sites
where $USER is your user name. Then you can load in Firefox (not Safari!) the HTML file unxmacxi.pro.build.html via the in Mac OS X included Apache web server or diretctly form the directory /Users/$USER/Sites/. This file is automatically being updated and is showing the status of the build and also the time needed since the build started.
If you build on Snow Leopard (aka Mac OS X 10.6): Set DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES to point to the correct libsqlite3.dylib:
Installing, preparing and running OpenOffice.org
Find the Bundle
Once the build completed, the final product ( en-US version ) is named : OOo_3.0.0_*_MacOSXIntel_install.dmg ( for version 3.0beta e.g.)
And is located in instsetoo_native/unxmacxi.pro/OpenOffice/dmg/install/en-US directory ( replace en-US with your locale )
Install the new Build
- double click on the *.dmg icon
- drag the OpenOffice.org icon into a folder of your choice
Run the new Build
- double click the application icon in that folder
Now you can start to work with this amazing productivity suite.
Contribute by finding, isolating, debugging or solving issues
Isolate a problem
Reduce a problem
- make a problem reproducable
- reduce it to a test case that is as small and simple as possible
- if a problem is specific to a document then please attach it to the issue. A mininal excerpt of the document that still shows the problem is even better.
- a screenshot of is a good idea if it clearly shows the problem
Using application switches
Application switches are often valuable for isolating a problem. Most of OpenOffice.org's options can be found its Tools->Options menu.
Some switches are so special that there is no user interface to change them. They are only useful for debugging and isolating a problem, but they are very valuable a that. So a developer might suggest to isolate a problem by setting an environment variable before running the application. E.g. for isolating problems with the menubar a developer might suggest to set the environment variable AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS to false. This is done by typing these commands into a terminal:
- cd <INSTALL_DIR>/OpenOffice.org/Contents/MacOS
- export AQUA_NATIVE_MENUS=false
- ./soffice.bin
Provide a call stack for crash problems
Please note that bugs involving crashes should provide a description of how to reproduce the problem and a callstack. There are several ways to provide the callstack:
- the preferred method is to use OOo"s builtin crash reporting tool
- developers may provide a gdb backtrace of the problem
- if the above two methods don"t work then please attach a file with the details provided by the AppleCrashReporter
Check against known issues
Check the list of open issues
Report a new issue
Report new issues after you have isolated the problem
Debug a problem
Debugging problems is often easier in an development environment:
- With XCode: MacOSX_Debug_OpenOffice.org_using_XCode
- With Xemacs: Michael Sicotte's blog entry
Please note that XCode still has some problems with the executable named soffice.bin (because of the dot in the name). The issue has been reported to xcode-users list.
Current Work in progress (Aqua specific work only)
With OOO300 the Aqua port became a mainstream port, so most Aqua issues are handled in regular GSL-Layer childworkspaces instead of dedicated Aqua CWSses. Other CWSses that are purely Aqua specific are being tracked below:
- CWS DEV300 ogltrans4mac : Implement the 3D (OpenGL) transitions in Impress ( see : OpenGL transitions on Mac OS X )
Child WorkSpaces in development
- CWS DEV300 appleremote03 : use the contextual menu in presentation mode with Impress. preliminary step
- CWS OOO300 hotmac : fix memory deallocation problems in exit()
- CWS DEV300 macosxscanner01 (planned)
All patches that developers have that need testing or peer review should be added here.
Child WorkSpaces in testing (closed for development)
- CWS macmiscfixes : misc fixes for mac
- CWS maccrashrep : support crash reporting for OSX builds
- CWS quicklookplugin01 : a plugin for the QuickLook system available in MacOSX from versions 10.5 onwards
Child WorkSpaces waiting for integration
- CWS DEV300 appleremote02 : improve the Apple Remote use with Impress (use MEDIA_COMMAND stuff, improve code robustness, and portability )
Child Workspaces integrated into OpenOffice.org's trunk
A historical overview of old Aqua specific ChildWorkspaces.
Known build issues
- Tiger: no known issues
- Leopard: no known issues
External links
- OpenOffice.org's Issuezilla : a database of bugs, changes and enhancements
- The porting mailing list is archived here. Send a "subscribe" mail to firstname.lastname@example.com to participate.
- Developers hang out on the freenode.org IRC in the #ooo_macport channel
- There are regular meetings on IRC (archives are available).
- OpenOffice.org has a complicated code base. Here is an overview.
- OpenOffice.org related blogs get aggregated on the OOo Planet
- OpenOffice.org's Environment Information System (EIS) tracks all details of the development progress
- Nakata Maho provides an invaluable package build service
- Cocoadev provides great resources to get up to speed in Cocoa development
- Pierre Chatelier's excellent Objective C for C++ developers is available in both english and french versions
- Details about OSX's Cocoa API are available in the XCode documentation


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The Hawkeye State is ditching its 1970s-era human services eligibility system in favor of a more modern system that prepares them for ACA requirements.
Come October, Iowa expects to have a new human services eligibility system online — less than a year out from starting the project.
The timeframe is ambitious, as eligibility system rollouts can often take years to fully implement. Just ask Texas, which spent eight years getting its project done. But as Iowa Department of Human Services Administrator Ann Wiebers explained, the rapid overhaul is a necessary step for the state to meet some of the requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The ACA requires states to have online health insurance exchanges established by January 2014, so that citizens can purchase health coverage. But Wiebers said Iowa's eligibility system wouldn't be able to provide the real-time Medicaid determinations needed so that an exchange can work properly. Built in the late 1970s, the front end of the current system was installed in 1983 and isn't easily upgraded.
"It is very difficult to change and it takes a significant amount of effort … and we knew that in order to do a seamless integration with the exchange that we had to replace it," Wiebers said. "There was no discussion about trying to put a [new] front end onto the mainframe because it was so old."
Iowa chose Accenture to handle the new eligibility system implementation. Debora Morris, managing director for integrated services for Accenture, said the age of the state's current system isn't necessarily a challenge for the company, but in order to meet Iowa's Oct. 1 project deadline, the company had to forgo a phased implementation process.
Accenture will instead install the new system and have it running immediately. Then in the months and years to follow, they'll add enhancements based on the state's RFP as well as suggestions from workers using the system.
Morris added that the major challenge on Accenture's part is working without final details from the federal government on the health benefit exchanges.
"We're doing this at a time when the feds are still getting out some of the guidance to states and building out their federal exchange," Morris said. "So there are a few unknowns out there that we're working a little blind on."
From Iowa's perspective, they've been prepping for quick turnaround of the eligibility system for a while. The state got its RFP out for the project last January and in December, they announced that Accenture was awarded a six-year base contract through 2018 with four one-year extension options. The total value of the contract over 10 years is approximately $77.7 million and includes software, hardware, maintenance and training.
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Weibers said that Iowa also spent the latter part of 2012 evaluating how its current eligibility mainframe connected to its separate Iowa Automated Benefits Calculation (ABC) System. She called ABC a "workhorse" that interfaces with more than 100 different subsystems. State personnel were identifying all those connections to make sure all functions were accounted for so Accenture had no surprises when starting the transition.
Given the short timeframe, Iowa is also supplementing its support staff in the Department of Human Services. In addition to hiring Accenture, the state has hired a project oversight, management and implementation contractor and a quality assurance and independent verification and validation contractor. Another "seven or eight" positions were also built into the project budget to augment state staff.
Wiebers added that the contractors hired have worked on other eligibility system projects in the past and are sharing lessons learned with the staff. Iowa is also in close contact with California and Idaho, who operate the same Accenture system and are willing to share their experiences.
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Four top European Union officials on Thursday set out a blueprint for a closer financial union in a move that will clash with some member states' cherished national interests.
EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy unveiled a report that called for the EU's 27 member countries to pool their financial and monetary policies even more than they had done so far to combat the region's financial crisis.
He made the proposal alongside the leaders of the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the Eurogroup, the gathering of the finance ministers from the 17 EU countries that use the euro.
The report said there was "a need to go further and to put in place a stronger framework for coordination, convergence and enforcement" of policies.
The report will be used as a starting point for debate at next week's summit of EU government leaders as they seek a way out of the financial crisis by further increasing control over banks and the national budgets of member states.
But the ambitious scope of the integration it proposed is likely to rankle defenders of EU nations' sovereign powers who fear a transfer of more authority to Brussels.
The report charts the development that Europe's financial and economic backstops should take over the coming years. It said Europe should have after 2014 a centralized authority that can absorb economic shocks in countries.
The report, which was vague on details, suggested the system would evolve out of Europe's current financial backstops, which include a bailout fund, a nascent banking supervisor and budget checks.
For three years now, the EU has been slumping from one crisis meeting to the next to deal with the problems of debt-ridden countries like Greece. That's because the original setup for the euro currency zone left far too much independence to nations that could piggyback on the initial success of the joint currency and its richer member nations.
Several measures to keep wayward national budgets from undermining confidence in the common currency have already been taken. But the initial flaw of the eurozone - having no way to enforce sound financial and economic decision-making among national authorities - has yet to be fully addressed, the 15-page report said.
After 2014, the 17 nations that use the euro should `'also build on an increasing degree of common decision-making on national budgets and an enhanced coordination of economic policies, in particular in the field of taxation and employment," the report said.
While the report seeks to step away from the stop-gap measures that have marked the EU reaction to the crisis, by proposing much closer integration - even beyond the 17 eurozone nations - it pose prickly political questions.
The report, for example, suggests chipping away at the powers of national parliaments, especially when discussing the common interests of the eurozone.
It says `'national parliaments are not in the best position to take (the interest of the eurozone) into account fully," and calls for more involvement of the 27-nation European parliament.
That is unlikely to go down well in Germany, the biggest contributor to EU financial bailouts, which has throughout the crisis insisted on the need for parliamentary approval of important decisions.
Britain, meanwhile, has been traditionally opposed to yielding more authority to EU headquarters, and has been joined recently in that call by some of the richer eurozone nations, like the Netherlands and Finland.
The report sets tight deadlines for fundamental progress, something which the EU has found tough to keep to.
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Four blasts in and around Baghdad killed at least three people and wounded 16 on Wednesday, police said, CNN reported.
Violence has persisted in recent days in the lead-up to Iraq's provincial elections scheduled for Saturday.
The latest attacks included a car bombing of an Iraqi army convoy, a car bombing near a police station, a roadside bomb that struck a politician's convoy and another roadside bomb, police say.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad released a statement on Tuesday condemning the ongoing violence, some of which has targeted people running for office.
"These attacks have killed more than a dozen candidates and injured many others." the statement said. "Such terrorist acts are a cowardly and unacceptable attempt to undermine Iraq's democracy and a desperate effort to intimidate Iraqis and deter them from participating in the democratic process."
About 45 miles (75 kilometers) west in Falluja, the chief prosecutor of the city's civil court was assassinated on Wednesday night, Ramadi police officials told CNN.
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Acquired a smaller LCD which has a vastly improved screen. Howsoever, the bottom line was not visible to type on, (rudimentary bios maybe with that cabling.) (without Tmux loaded that is, but tmux somehow messes up using editors etc on that screen.) Changing the input, Bios menus have more options, but Xorg fails to start with a good enough resolution. Chance googling (xorg.conf structure or something) found a xorg.conf from scratch
linux manual which explained each part (first one i'd every seen) As I had / have
numerous xorg.conf's accumlated with names such as...
xorg.conf.WKG xorg.conf xorg.conf.crt.2006 xorg.conf.lcd.broken xorg.conf.v7_2008
unused options. So finding the above document, I wrote from scratch an
xorg.conf, which automagically worked. (typing a long !xinit ) line from
history without seeing the typed line); Or with the other cabling to the
lcd, its resolution was lesser (the typing line visible), X stuck at 800x600 or
less. So everything was perfect with workarounds but not as it should be
Decided to upgrade the xorg.conf to one which would accept the second cabling,
made the Xorg.log verbose, added a few arcane options to the xorg.conf ( google
searches for Xorg errors ninety percent have other person's "issues" not
"answers", indeed unanswered posts, so it is very hit and miss.
More exprerimentation, recompiling, and editing resulted in:
a vesa xorg.conf-- which only shows 20 percent of the screen
a nv xorg.conf-- which segfaults and logs the session out of Freebsd
Accumulate error logs, saved with diffuse names, which are more verbose,
but end in a non-verbose segfault.
So what was a perfectly usable AS IN ... 90 percent of windows/linux/bsd users will never experience such a pretty lcd... workaround but hardly recommendable for
hardware which should be highly recommendable, became a entirely-unusable
Xorg which loads to not usable, or segfaults entirely. As that is not my
primary system, I can restore from backups of a few weeks ago, but does
anyone have any better idea? The only thing I can think of besides an
entirely different way of setting up xorg.conf written from scratch, is if
every registered BSD user on the other forums were to post their xorg.conf
in a long thread (if used), and one could pick and choose...
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Not wanting to waste other's time with this, but a slight chance someone
else has a working configuration based on the above or knows a more
timely way to solve it.
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On a hunch, I restored one of the eight or so xorg.conf's with long names
from a different local backup subdirectory. Worked out-of-the-box to
restore the nice screen (not the alternate cabled one), "nouveau" ...
meaning I should probably keep the current working workaround (initial
bsd logon, no visible type, but many VERY_usable xterms's) until .... ???
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The four musicians who have backed Paul McCartney for nearly a decade have become an important power source for the former Beatle, giving his music energy and zest that keep his spirit as youthful as his appearance. On a tour that has been announced only a few shows at a time — many more are expected — McCartney is rolling out a marathon perf: 38 songs over the course of two hours and 45 minutes. There are no breaks for him to rest his voice, no theatrics beyond some videos filled with arty or nostalgic imagery, and none of bouncy pop that earned his critical complaints in the 1980s and '90s. It's as raw as we have ever seen McCartney.
Toughness of the band is complemented by the material, elevating a good number of second-tier songs to top-shelf status. "Let Me Roll It," from the best-represented album of the night, Wings' 1973 release "Band on the Run," is thunderous and still grounded — the central guitar riff delivering tension, the soothing vocal chorus providing release. It works on Beatles' material, too, as "I'm Looking Through You" and "I've Got a Feeling," songs that will never make any fan's top 10, sounded like essential moments from the canon. "Sing the Changes," one of two songs from McCartney's experimental project with producer Youth, the Fireman, was also among the tunes to benefit from the hard-charging approach.
The moment when the efficacy of the musicians met the elegance of the material, though, arrived on a softer moment with McCartney at the piano. "Let it Be," delivered at a peaceful pace with no attempts to manufacture an added emotional response, was the strongest performance of the night.
The Bowl performances mark only the second time McCartney has returned to Cahuenga Pass since the landmark 1965 Beatles show at the Bowl. He paused twice to reflect on those heady times, mentioning well-known details such as the band's inability to hear and that they felt like grown men then instead of the youths they actually were.
There was not a lot of depth in McCartney's remembrances, but elements cropped up that have been missing from so many of his shows over the last 40 years — a bit of soul baring, agenda-free reminiscing. He told a few stories about Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison — "Blackbird" is based on a Bach piece they played together as teens — and at the age of 67, Paul seemed more human than usual, though if he has opinions beyond vegetarianism, he still is not sharing them.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday strongly criticized a proposal in the country's parliament that would ban Americans from adopting Russian children.
Sergey Lavrov's comments — along with criticism of the proposal by other ministers — appeared to indicate pressure from the highest level for the State Duma to reject the proposal or eliminate it from discussion.
The proposal comes after President Barack Obama signed into law last week a bill that imposes sanctions on Russians who are deemed to be connected with human rights abuses.
A retaliatory measure that passed its first reading in the Russian Duma last week calls for establishing a blacklist of Americans judged to have violated the human rights of Russians. Officials had said that would include those who abuse adopted Russian children.
But some legislators then proposed that an amendment calling for an outright ban on adoptions of Russian children by Americans. Although news reports said the measure would come up for second reading on Wednesday, it was not clear late Tuesday what version of it would be on the agenda.
"It's not right, and I am sure that the State Duma will make the right decision in the end," Lavrov was quoted as saying by the state news agency ITAR-Tass. "International adoption as an institution has a full right to exist."
Russians have bristled at reports about the abuse of adopted Russian children. After long delay, an agreement on regulating adoptions was ratified by the Duma in July. The agreement was aimed at addressing concerns galvanized by the scandal over an American woman who in 2010 sent back a 7-year-old Russian boy she had adopted, saying he had behavioral problems and she didn't want him anymore.
But lawmaker Elena Afanasiyeva, a co-author of the proposed new amendment, said the new adoption deal has not eliminated serious problems, especially the poor U.S. communications with Russian authorities about cases of abuse by adoptive parents.
"Frequently, they hear about it from the mass media," she told ITAR-Tass.
Afanasiyeva also called sentences for abusive adoptive parents in the United States too light and said they were inconsistent from state to state.
The proposed law is named the Dima Yakovlev Bill, after a 21-month-old Russian boy who died after his American adoptive father left him alone in an automobile in the baking heat for hours. The father was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.
Along with Lavrov, other high Russian officials have warned against an adoption ban.
"The logic is to be 'an eye for an eye,' but the logic is incorrect because it could harm our children who cannot find adopters in Russia," Education and Science Minister Dmitry Livanov commented on his Twitter account.
President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov refused to comment directly on the Russian amendment Tuesday but said "I understand the reaction of our lawmakers."
"What did the Americans hope for — did they hope we would just swallow it? It causes indignation," he said of the U.S. human rights law.
The U.S. law is named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was arrested by the officials he accused of a $230 million tax fraud. He was repeatedly denied medical treatment and in 2009 died in jail. Russian rights groups have accused the Kremlin of failing to prosecute those responsible, and the officials that Magnitsky accused of fraud went on to be promoted.