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Buying Guide for Modern Table Lamps
Modern table lamps do not just illuminate the room; they also add to the appeal and charm of the place. They are an important lighting fixture in just about any room in both modern residential or commercial settings. However, it is important that the table lamp you choose blends in with the interior décor of the place.
You can find a wide variety of table lamps that are suitable for different settings. The right table lamp can make your interior stand out, and give it a modern look. Here we will look at some of the things that you need to consider to select the perfect table lamp and the lights for your place for both task and accent lighting.
What factors should I consider when selecting a Table Lamp?
Table lamps come in different style, size, shape, color, and finishes. There is no one perfect table lamp. Your taste and personal preference will determine what type of lamp will be ideal for the place. Having said that, the style of the table lamp should match the interior home décor.
The goal should be to match the finishing of a table lamp with the furniture on which it will be placed. So, if your table has chrome finishing, you should select a table lamp with the same finishing. At the same time, you should avoid selecting a table lamp based on looks alone.
You should consider other factors when selecting a table lamp. If the table lamp is placed in a room where you watch TV, you should consider buying one with a dimmer. Also, a table lamp with a controlled and focused beam would be suitable here. By this, we mean a lamp with at least 30-degree beam that will direct light on the required surface and avoid sending stray light that will affect other activities. Generally, LED table lamps have the most directional and controlled beam since the LED lights are directional sources of light.
The LED table lamp will also be preferable when it will be on for more than 8 hours in a day. The reason is that LED bulbs do not burn out easily when used for a long period. They also consume less power that makes them a perfect option if you want the lighting fixture to be turned on for a long duration. The cost to run an LED table lamp would be a lot less using about one-fifth of the power as compared to halogen lamps.
Lamp shade shape is another consideration when buying a table lamp. You have a large variety when it comes to selecting the shape of the lamp shade. You can buy a table lamp with Abstract, Conical, Cylindrical, Dome, Drum, Globe, Multipoint, Rectangle, Round, and Square shape.
Lastly, the color of the table lamp should also be considered when buying the table lamp. The color of the table lamp must suit the interior design and décor of the house. Make sure that the lamp color blends in with the place otherwise it would look out of place and ungainly in the room.
How can I decide the right size and height of the table lamp?
The size of the table lamp for the room will depend on the size of the desk. If you have a large table, you should select a table lamp with a long arm so that it can reach across it.
An important consideration regarding the height of the table lamp is that the light source should be at the line of sight when sitting. To determine the right height, you should sit next to the table or the place where the table lamp will be placed and then measure the distance from the surface of the table to your eye level. The table-to-eye distance should be greater than the base-to-bottom of the shade length of the table lamp.
What is the Ideal Position to Place the Table Lamp?
A table lamp can be placed just about anywhere in the room on top of a table. You can place the table lamp on the dining table, reading table, side table, computer table, and even on the mantelpiece. Just make sure that you position the lamp in a way that you don't get glare in your field of vision.
You can place the table lamps to illuminate areas of the room where there are shadows. When placing the table lamp, make sure that the area to be illuminated is about 36 inches away from the table lamp. However, in case the table lamp is tall, you need to allow for a distance of about two feet.
In case the lamp will be placed on a table containing a desktop computer, you must buy a table lamp whose light will reach the entire area. It is suggested that you buy a lamp with a clamp base such as the Tolomeo classic table lamp from Artemide. You can clamp this table lamp on your table top perfectly illuminating the work area.
How much light wattage do I need?
Table lamp comes in different wattages: the more the wattage, the more is the illumination. A question arises, what wattage is suitable for a room. The answer again depends on your personal preference. That being said, younger people generally require less wattage as compared to older people. So, if the lamp is placed on a desk used by younger people, you should use a less wattage table lamp. Older persons over the age of 50 require a table lamp that offers twice the brightness as compared to a younger person.
Below is a table that can help you determine what wattage of the table lamp is ideal for different age group.
What is the Difference between Task and Ambient Table Lamp?
Proper lighting is important for any room whether at work or in the home. The two main types of table lamps include task table lamps and ambient table lamps. A good lighting design is composed of both task and ambient lighting.
Task table lamps are used to provide lighting for a specific task such as reading, cooking, sewing, and performing work. These lighting fixtures have either adjustable or fixed arm. The task table lamp provides localized lighting directing the light to a specific location. It offers the correct amount of light exactly at the place where it is needed in a room. The beam of light of the task table lamp is directed on the surface highlighting the area where you are working, reading, sewing, cooking, or using a computer.
The beam spread is an important thing to keep in mind when selecting a table lamp. If you want to use the task table lamp on a table where you read a book, the beam spread can be smaller. However, if you use the table lamp on a table where you draw floor plans, the beam spread should be larger. The best option in this regard is the LED table lamps that allow you to select the beam spread as required.
At this point, you should not confuse task lighting with task table lamp. Task lighting can be anything from vanity light, spotlight, pendants lights etc. Task table lamp are a type of task lighting that relate to lamps placed on a table, desk or cabinet.
The other main type of table lamp includes the ambient table lamps. These table lamps are not used for a particular task. Instead, they are used for general illumination of the room. The lamps serve as a background light supplementing the main room lighting. These lighting are mainly used for display purposes instead of fulfilling illumination needs.
What about Color Temperature of the Table Lamp?
Color temperature describes the visual appearance of the light. It is measured in Kelvin and ranges from about 1,000 K to 10,000 K. Generally, the temperature in the range of 2,500 K to 3,000 K looks warm/soft white, 3,500 to 4,100 K appears bright or cool white, and 5,000 K to 6,500 K is considered daylight.
Warm or soft color temperature feel soothing and make the room appear nice. Bright or cool colors are suitable for areas where there is a need for increased productivity as it stimulates the brain. This color is ideally suited for office desk lamps. For desk lamps placed in bedrooms, living rooms and dens the ideal color range is 2,500 K to 3,000 K. Table lamps with a color range of 3,500 K to 4,100 K are suitable for kitchens, bathrooms, and workspaces. For reading areas the perfect color temperature is 5,000 K to 6,500 K
What are the different types of Table Lamp light bulbs?
You can buy table lamps with halogen, incandescent, fluorescent, and LED bulbs. These light bulbs differ in the amount of brightness as well as the power consumed to generate the illumination.
Incandescent bulbs generate light when an electric current is passed through a wire filament. These bulbs get heated up easily if used for a long duration.
Halogen bulbs are similar to the incandescent bulbs but use less power. The bulbs consist of a filament that is heated to the point where it starts glowing. Similar to the incandescent bulbs, they get hot when used for a longer period of time.
Fluorescent bulbs emit light when electricity is applied through a tube filled with mercury vapor. The tubes have a coating inside that converts the ultraviolet light into visible light.
Finally, there are the LED light bulbs that emit light when electrical current is passed through a light emitting diode. Since the heat is absorbed into a heat sink, the LED bulbs do not get hot even when the lamp is on for long durations.
Of the above, fluorescent and LED light bulbs is the most energy-efficient. These light bulbs consume far less power as compared to incandescent and halogen bulbs. A fluorescent and LED bulb can save up to 75 percent to 80 percent in energy bills, respectively. These bulbs also last for years without needing replacement.
What is the best bulb type in terms of value for money?
When it comes to value for money, LED bulbs are the best option. A LED bulb only emits one-fifth of the heat of an incandescent or halogen bulb. Since the LED bulb generates less heat they require less energy thereby saving on the energy bill. Also, you won't burn yourself if you accidentally place the hand on the bulb.
Another reason why LED table lamps are the best choice is that LED bulbs generally have a greater lifespan. A typical LED bulb lasts for about 50,000 hours. This means that if the table lamp is on for 7 hours every day, you need to change an LED bulb every 20 years. In contrast, halogen bulbs that have a typical lifestyle of about 2,000 hours will need to be replaced every year.


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It starts with a trickle. A drip here. A drop there. And before you know it the tide is rising, the heavens are heaving and WHOOOOOSSSHHH!!!!! You end up knee-deep, and then suddenly you're desperately trying to avoid boxing yourself in with a metaphor that's very similar to the name of ^this^ website...
January is always filled with treats. There are some 'big things' that 'big names' (Brooooooce!) didn't want to unleash amongst the greatest hits and year end lists. Many a fresh new face can be spotted eagerly flinging themselves in the ring to be your most-favourite bestest new band-slash-friend (Femme, Thumpers, Temples, Menace Beach, East India Youth, Angel Haze and the not-so small matter of Chino from Deftones' superb side-project Crosses who debut album is a work of genius, but we'll have more about that in the coming weeks). Then there are those canny indie labels sneaking out records in January's relatively quiet period, hoping to catch you with renewed enthusiasm or even resolutions to keep up with the year's best music as it comes out, rather than playing catch up when it feels like the party is already over (hello Mogwai and Mr Malkmus, we see you!) (actually, major labels do it too, as there's new a Broken Bells record dropping this month) (and to be honest, with my label that I run alongside DiS, I'm guilty of doing this with Ed Harcourt too).
The best thing about January is all of those acts you already know and love teasing out tracks from forthcoming albums. There's that-there St Vincent, those Metronomy ladies & gents, them Liars chaps and the double-underscored in the diary new Wild Beasts album. It's perhaps "interesting quite" how many
groovy synth-snaps you'll hear on these acts new tracks (ok, so so unexpected for Metronomy, we'll give you that...), not least on the new I Break Horses album (they've gone a bit early M83) and Liars' glitchy Battles-having-fun material, which both haven't been off of the DiS stereo so far this month. And blimey, if that wasn't enough, there's a new album from DiS-favourite Marissa Nadler that will caress all the places Lana Del Rey tried to reach and sweep all of you Chelsea Wolfe fans into a dark dreamland when July comes out in February.
2014, despite the weather, you're already a joy to behold... And if you lot don't believe us, shove on this Spotify playlist (we've exported it to RDIO too) - or below on SoundCloud - that we've made for you and try to deny that the year ahead isn't going to be the best year for music since, oooh, 2013...
Related Reads
1) Interview: St Vincent on her forthcoming self-titled album.
2) Album Reviews: Bruce Springsteen, Mogwai, Angel Haze, East India Youth, Menace Beach, Stephen Malkmus, Mark Lanegan + more.
3) Interview: Barry from Mogwai on Rave Tapes.
4) Live Review: Dom Gourlay witnesses the return of Wild Beasts, and hears some of the new tracks.
5) Interview: DiS chats with new Sub Pop signing Thumpers about their forthcoming debut album.
6) Stream & Discuss: Mogwai's Rave Tapes or I Break Horses' new album Chiaroscuro.
7) Share: Your picks of January 2014.
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MESA, AZ (CBSMiami/AP) — It was a tough comeback for Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps as he went up against rival and fellow Olympian Ryan Locthe Thursday.
Phelps lost his first race since the 2012 London Olympics.
The swimmer who owns 18 Olympic gold medals in middle and longer distance races is going to try sprinting. Phelps will compete in the 50-meter freestyle at the Arena Grand Prix on Friday, except he plans to swim his morning heat using a butterfly stroke.
It's allowed under the rules, and Phelps is doing it to work on his stroke under race conditions, something he hadn't experienced until beginning his comeback this week after a 20-month retirement.
"If I can get into the rhythm of my normal stroke again in the 50, I'll be pretty happy," he said.
Also competing in the 50 free are former Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin, Nathan Adrian, and Michael Andrew, a 15-year-old from Lawrence, Kan., who has already broken over 30 national age-group records.
A relaxed Phelps was smiling Thursday after losing in the 100 butterfly to Lochte.
Lochte touched first in 51.93 seconds, second-fastest in the world this year. Phelps was second in 52.13, fourth-quickest in the world. He lowered his time of 52.84 from the morning heats.
Coach Bob Bowman said Phelps was better technically in the morning than at night.
"He missed a whole stroke on the turn," Bowman said. "My expectations were he would come and maybe enjoy it and not be terrible, so all those were met. That's a really good time to start with."
Lochte beat him to the first turn and Phelps said "that may have been the worst turn that I have ever done in my entire life."
It didn't matter to the sellout crowd of 1,200, which loudly cheered Phelps.
"Everyone is happy that he's back in the water," Lochte said. "It's good for the sport."
Natalie Coughlin took her own extended break after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She returned to earn a relay bronze medal in London and at 31 is making a push toward the 2016 Rio Games. Phelps turns 29 in June.
"When he started talking about coming back, I thought it was so good for him," she said. "He's so young and he's enjoying it, so why not?"
Lochte said he and Phelps hadn't seen each other since London, but they picked up where they left off, joking with each other before trying to beat each other.
"I'm going to do everything I can to try to get my hand on the wall before him in every single race; I don't care what it is and it's the same for him," Phelps said. "We bring the best out of one another."
Phelps' times were easily good enough to surpass the qualifying standard of 54.79 for the U.S. national championships in August. That meet will decide the team for next year's world and Pan Pacific championships.
But he's not rushing to commit to anything.
"I'm not saying yes or no yet," he said. "I'm not putting any pressure on myself to say I'm doing this or doing that in the future. I'm just enjoying myself right now."
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Arizona Highways Hiking Guide
52 of Arizona's Best Day Hikes for Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
52 of the best day hikes in Arizona -- one for each weekend of the year, organized by seasons. Robert Stieve, editor of Arizona Highways magazine and an experienced backwoods trekker, selected hikes ranging from easy walks in the woods to challenging journeys to Arizona's highest peaks and deepest canyons -- including the Grand Canyon.
In-depth trail guides, descriptions, warnings and GPS coordinates are included with each hike, along with the magazine's classic fine photography.


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Unable to find an NBA team to sign with for the upcoming season, Tracy McGrady is going overseas to play basketball. The former star will join the Qingdao Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association, immediately making him one of the biggest stars in China. He's on a one-year contract, and Chinese media reports estimate he will get at least $1 million. What a good guess.
McGrady announced the move in a letter on his official site:
As I enter this next chapter, I am excited to play for Qingdao Eagles in China. I have been to China several times in the last few years and I love the people and the country. It will be an honor to play for them. Thank you to every fan that has followed me and believed in me. Injuries and all, I wouldn't have changed a thing. I am proud of the mark I left on this game and am grateful to have been a part this league. It was a dream to play in front of all of you, each night, in every stadium. Thank you.
Now, here's an even more interesting part of his letter:
Steven [sic] A. Smith, you gave us players a voice and for that I thank you.
You sure it wasn't the other way around, Tracy?


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'A first-round draft pick by Buffalo in the 2002 NHL draft, Paille has yet to sign a contract with the Sabres. If he fails to do so by June 1 he will go back into the draft, but he says he's not overly concerned about it right now. "I spoke to some members of the Buffalo organization in Finland, but other than that I haven't really had much contact with anyone except to get tickets to some games,'' said Paille.
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Back in August, we wrote that the forthcoming ESPN book, Those Guys Have All The Fun, will make many ESPN employees crap their pants. Well, here comes the onslaught: The book's publisher has lifted the embargo on releasing details from the book. You'll certainly hear more about the "rowdiest frathouse in sports TV" in the next few days, but this is what we have so far:
"A lot of drugs ... quite a bit of screwing" | John Skipper, ESPN's executive vice president of everything, said yesterday: "I can tell you categorically, we do not have a frat-boy culture." Which doesn't quite match up with the words of ESPN's former general counsel: "The company would have Christmas parties up at some horrible place in Bristol. A couple of them were drunken orgies…. It became like a big frat party. There were a lot of drugs being done in the bathroom." And prostitution in an ESPN-owned apartment, too. READ »
"I've never seen anybody do SportsCenter as well as Olbermann. Nobody." | Keith Olbermann was the best, but he was also the worst. He once estimated that he deserved an 887 percent raise. "Everything he did was personal. And that was what made him great," Dan Patrick said. Said Suzy Kolber: "He made a lot of people unhappy around him. I'm sure he made me unhappy." READ »
Those guys have all the fur | An excerpt excised from the book tells us of a disgusting pastime, "rug racing," from Bristol's glory days. More hookers abound, naturally. Some of the inveterate rug racers still work for the Worldwide Leader, though, like so many others at ESPN, they'll get some weird looks in the hallways should their names leak out. READ »


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The blow that the Mount Polley mine tailings-pond collapse has dealt to the confidence of B.C. First Nations in mine safety may be the biggest challenge facing the industry following the incident. Mine owner Imperial Metals Corp. experienced an immediate financial hit — its share price plummeted about 40 per cent on news of the failure and of the mine's indefinite closure, slashing the market value of the company to $760 million from $1.26 billion before the spill.
Mining is a key pillar of Premier Christy Clark's economic platform, and one new mine slated to be opened later this year is Imperial's $500-million Red Chris copper-gold mine in B.C.'s remote northwest.
But a statement posted on the website of the region's Tahltan Central Council late Wednesday suggested Imperial could also be facing trouble on the Red Chris front as a result of the Mount Polley situation.
The online message from Tahltan Central Council president Chad Day states that Red Chris does not have all necessary permits to open, and that an impacts-and-benefits agreement with the Tahltan First Nation has yet to be signed.
"This latest news obviously means we have new questions and concerns that we must discuss with Imperial Metals about the tailings ponds at Red Chris," Day said.
Red Chris — the first mine to tap into the province's Northwest Transmission Line — is in the final stages of construction, and one of the last items Imperial needed to check off was a benefits agreement with the Tahltan.
Even as mining industry groups expressed confidence that the market hit to the industry will be short-term, representatives of other First Nations organizations denounced what they view as an eroded regulatory regime and vowed that the co-operation of their communities on resource development will depend on shoring that up.
"The hill has become much, much steeper," said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, head of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.
"Clearly (the aftermath) is going to focus attention on the environmental protection dimension of any and all (development) proposals in the long term."
And First Nations believe they are holding a much stronger card following the recent Supreme Court of Canada's Tsilhqot'in decision that more closely defines exactly what aboriginal title is and how governments, along with industry, must accommodate the title interests of First Nation communities.
"It's not just up to governments anymore to make decisions," said Ed John, Grand Chief of the First Nations Summit.
John said the Supreme Court's Tsilhqot'in decision requires that consultations between governments and First Nations over development end up with an aboriginal community's consent.
And if governments can't demonstrate a stronger commitment to environmental protection, "they're not likely to get consent for any development project."
He said agreements in the future will require that First Nations see evidence that actions are taken to increase environmental enforcement and monitoring, "not just words."
"They can't simply brush (the Mount Polley disaster) aside," Phillip added. "There needs to be serious consequences."
Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett acknowledged that "we are going to have to show some action very quickly."
"If you were an opponent of mining, you couldn't have chosen a more effective (way) to undermine the confidence in mining in British Columbia than to see what's happened here today," he said.
"Not that it's human caused, I'm sure it's not."
From an industry perspective, the Mining Association of B.C. said the dam breach at Mount Polley is a serious concern, but it will wait for the results of the investigation into the event before commenting whether further actions are needed.
"It's too early to say," said Angela Waterman, the mining association's vice-president for environment. "There has definitely been a reaction in the market, but I don't think that's going to have any long-term reputational issues for the industry."
Waterman added that mining companies recognize that Canada's dam-safety guidelines and B.C.'s regulatory framework are "among the most stringent and comprehensive in the world."
Kenneth Green, director of energy and resource programs at the Fraser Institute, said the industry accepts that there is a level of risk in its operations, and in this case it is important to figure out what failed and why.
If it was a failure of regulatory oversight, Green said, then that needs to be dealt with.
New legislation that puts a lot of new requirements on mining companies would be an overreaction that would hurt B.C.'s reputation with the industry, he added.
John, however, said First Nations communities have been worried about declining levels of environmental monitoring for several years.
"This is the disaster we've been warning against for years," he said.
With files from Gordon Hoekstra and James Kwantes, Vancouver Sun
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Frankly said I really miss tossing the records(Mostly CDs in my case) around. That adrenalin rush that you have exactly 13 Sec. window to match beat and key and feel euphoria from the crowd below before all goes down to drain.
I started early in 90's and obtaining quality LPs in Serbia was equal to 0 so I mostly used CDs or borrowed LPs after '98 I was mostly working as Radio DJ. Maybe you are right. Programer in me tells me that then it was more interesting and unpredictable, today with right set of tools you can make miracles but it really sound cold especially as you know that someone created weekend 48h playlist and no one is in studio, where I remember that even in night shifts there was at least 5 people to satisfy your listeners heartbeats.
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See http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=7181 and along with trixmoto scripting capabilities I would be in DJ Heaven. Than again it would kill the thrill of mixing itself.
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The Austin businessman who sold Gov. Rick Perry on his controversial "Seven Solutions" for higher education has sent a mass email calling UT regent Wallace Hall, who faces possible impeachment by the Texas House, a "profile in courage."
Jeff Sandefer, who runs the Acton Business School in Austin, encouraged the email recipients to read a column by Texas Public Policy Foundation analyst Thomas Lindsay suggesting that Hall is being attacked because by lawmakers because he is ferreting out corruption at the University of Texas at Austin. Last week, Hall's attorney sent a letter to the co-chairs of the committee investigating him saying he had uncovered correspondence from two lawmakers to UT officials securing admission for under-qualified students.
Key lawmakers have accused Hall of using his position as regent to harass UT-Austin with incessant and voluminous open records requests in an attempt to find an excuse to fire UT-Austin president Bill Powers. Powers has openly criticized some regent decisions, including one turning down a request for a tuition hike.
Sandefer, a major contributor to the TPPF, had a falling-out with UT-Austin when the business school favored tenure-track professors over a program he created utilizing successful executives, instead of academics. He then famously conducted a 2008 Higher Education Summit for Perry's regent appointees touting "Seven Solutions" for higher ed, including, the idea that professors should be rated on how much money they "earn" for a university through tuition. The concept created a firestorm on Texas university campuses; Professors protested that Sandefer's simplistic formula undervalued research and smaller, high-level classes.
Now, Sandefer is urging like-minded conservatives to support Hall:
If more people took courageous stands – especially when they are unpopular – we'd have fewer Enron's, Penn State's and IRS style scandals.
Yet how many people do you know who will press ahead, against all odds, to ask hard questions and demand answers? If you are like me, the answer is "too few." (though if you are on this email, it's because I know you are someone who is brave enough to take such a stand.)
If you want to celebrate bravery under fire. I hope you'll read this article: "The Campaign Against Wallace Hall"
Then drop Wallace an email at: email@example.com and tell him "thanks." (But be careful what you write, because the same people who want to prevent Wallace from asking hard questions, keep monitoring his email through Open Records requests. Ironic, isn't it?)
Then ask yourself: Why has simply asking hard questions resulted in such savage attacks from those supporting the status quo? Why are a handful of powerful Texas politicians threatening Wallace with impeachment, for only the third time in our state's 168 year history – simply for requesting information that is supposed to be available to the public? What exactly are so many people, working so hard to hide?
Perhaps it's something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_clout_scandal If there's a chance that there's been some sort of political influence peddling, then we need a full and unhindered investigation. We Texans should have a zero tolerance for political corruption in our institutions.
If you agree, it wouldn't hurt to thank UT Chairman Gene Powell for defending Wallace and urge him to stay the course and not give into political threats: firstname.lastname@example.com (And yes, his email is being monitored too.)
Thank you for being the kind of person who isn't afraid to stand up, even when it may not make you the most popular person at the country club or the neighborhood BBQ.
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Step by step building guides for different platforms
- 1 Ubuntu 14.04
- 2 Ubuntu 12.04
- 3 CentOS 5
- 4 Fedora 21
- 4.1 Autoconf
- 4.2 Configure the build options
- 4.3 Bootstrap the build
- 4.4 Source the environment
- 4.5 Start building
- 4.6 Cleanup the build tree
- 4.7 Build breaker
- 4.8 Needed packages
- 4.9 Building a release version
- 4.10 Performance results
- 5 Fedora 19 and 20
- 6 Fedora 10 and 14
- 7 Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
- 8 Mac OS X
This page is intended as a collection of simple step-by-step recipes to build Apache OpenOffice from source code. A more thorough explanation of what the individual steps do and why they are necessary can be found in the building guide.
Ubuntu 14.04
The basic building steps under Ubuntu 12.04 (see below) are to be followed in Ubuntu 14.04 as well; however, there are some minor build issues that any developer, using this OS, needs to be aware of, if he gets stuck while building. The following is the list of issues, with their fixes, that a developer may face with:
- Issue 124712 (build broken in svl); see the link https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124712 for detailed information.
If you are building trunk, the patch is already applied; if you are building from a release tag or tarball, the patch needs to be applied for all releases <= 4.1.1.
- Issue 125475; see the link https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125475 for detailed information. This happens if you explicitly upgraded your GCC and related tools to version 4.9; it will not appear if you use GCC 4.8.x.
As the BZ says, it is because of buggy toolchain g++4.9. So for now in Ubuntu Linux 14.04, build the source using g++4.8.2, gcc4.8.2; these are the default compilers in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 anyway; please check it using the following commands:
g++ -v gcc -v
if not, you've to download them.
sudo apt-get install g++-4.8 cd /usr/bin rm gcc rm g++ ln -s gcc-4.8 gcc ln -s g++-4.8 g++
- Failed to find ./solver/420/unxlngx6.pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 error.
cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 ./solver/420/unxlngx6.pro/lib/ rm ./solver/420/unxlngx6.pro/lib/libstdc++.so.6 ln -s ./solver/420/unxlngx6.pro/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.20 ./solver/420/unxlngx6.pro/lib/libstdc++.so.6
- No such file or directory - connectivity/virtualdbtools.hxx while building svx.
if you get an error like this, then that means connectivity is not built properly. Build connectivity using build --all:connectivity and this error will go away.
Ubuntu 12.04
- Setup VirtualBox with Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit on Windows7 64bit host. A native installation is of course fine, too.
- Let updater update ca. 380 packages. Restart.
- Get the source. You can start with the source release or by checking out from SVN:
|Source release
|Build from source release if you want to build OpenOffice once but don't want to do any development.
|Build from SVN if you want to development work with OpenOffice.
and verify the source tarball with
gpg --verify apache-openoffice-4.1.3-r1761381-src.tar.bz2.asc \ apache-openoffice-4.1.3-r1761381-src.tar.bz2
Note that you have to have the keys already imported to your key chain. The keys can be found on the download page:
cd /tmp tar -xjf ~/Downloads/apache-openoffice-4.1.3-r1761381-src.tar.bz2 cd aoo-4.1.3/main
sudo mkdir /source sudo chown <your-user-name> /source cd /source
sudo apt-get install subversion svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk aoo-trunk cd aoo-trunk/main
- Install requirements (this will also install packages that are not listed):
sudo apt-get install g++ gcc bison flex libarchive-zip-perl libcups2-dev \ libpam0g-dev gperf libfreetype6-dev libxaw7-dev libfontconfig1-dev \ libxrandr-dev patch libgconf2-dev libgnomevfs2-dev ant libgtk2.0-dev \ junit junit4 libidl-dev liborbit2-dev openjdk-6-jdk libwww-perl \ libxml-parser-perl autoconf libssl-dev
- Run autoconf to generate configure script:
- Configure (see the building guide section on configuration for further options):
./configure \ --with-dmake-url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 \ --with-epm-url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/epm-3.7.tar.gz \ --disable-odk \ --disable-binfilter
- Finish configuration and download missing tarballs and extensions:
- Include the configured environment:
source LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh
- Build:
cd instsetoo_native/ build --all
This may take a while to complete. Several hours are not uncommon. To speed things up you may want to run 'build' like this
build --all -P<n> -- -P<n>
to start a parallel build. Replace <n> with the number of CPU cores.
- Install:
sudo dpkg -i unxlngx6.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/*.deb sudo dpkg -i unxlngx6.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/deb/install/en-US/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice4.2-debian-menus_4.2-9800_all.deb
- Start Apache OpenOffice:
CentOS 5
CentOS 5 is our reference environment for build through the 4.1.x series. As it is a very old environment, it is not recommended to use it for your first build. But is important to document how to build on CentOS 5 since this is where the release through 4.1.x are built.
Setup a VM
KVM given here as example.
$ wget -O /tmp/CentOS-5.iso http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CentOS/5.11/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.11-x86_64-netinstall.iso $ fallocate -l 61440M /vms/centos5_64.img $ sudo virt-install --boot cdrom --name centos5_64 --memory 8192 -f /vms/centos5_64.img --cdrom /tmp/CentOS-5.iso
- Install the system; installation will start with the above command and use the following values when asked:
- Installation method: HTTP with website mirror.centos.org and CentOS directory /centos/5/os/x86_64
- Partitioning: 60000M for /, rest swap (you will need ~55 GBytes for a full build with all languages and langpacks)
- Setup Base system only
- Reboot the VM and configure it
- You'll probably want a non-root user with sudo access and you may want to disable some services.
$ sudo yum update -y
$ sudo reboot
Setup repositories and packages
EPEL is needed for dpkg (to build DEBs):
$ wget http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm $ sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum update -y
Now you can install all dependencies:
$ sudo yum install \ gcc \ expat-devel \ openssl-devel \ autoconf \ gcc-c++ \ cups-devel \ pam-devel \ java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel \ rpm-build \ dpkg \ gperf \ freetype-devel \ libX11-devel \ libXt-devel \ fontconfig-devel \ libXrandr-devel \ bison \ flex \ GConf2-devel \ gnome-vfs2-devel \ gtk2-devel \ gstreamer-devel \ gstreamer-plugins-base-devel \ mesa-libGLU-devel \ subversion \ ccache
Configure ccache:
$ ccache -M 2G
This leaves out Ant and Perl.
Download Ant
Ant 1.7.1 is now available in the CentOS repositories:
$ sudo yum install ant17 ant17-apache-regexp
However, this will still cause configure to fail, so a manual download is needed. Ant will live in ~/ant and we need to download it manually.
$ cd $ wget http://mirrors.nxnethosting.com/apache//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.7-bin.tar.bz2 $ tar xvf apache-ant-1.9.7-bin.tar.bz2 $ ln -s apache-ant-1.9.7 ant
Install Perl modules
We can use the system Perl and standard packages on CentOS 5, see https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127120
$ sudo yum install \ perl-libwww-perl \ perl-Archive-Zip \ perl-Digest-SHA \ perl-XML-Parser \ perl-Crypt-SSLeay
$ sudo cpan File::Path
See http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/devtools/build-scripts/ for the configure options for a release build.
Fedora 21
Work directory
You need to create the "configure" command in order to start:
$ autoconf
Configure the build options
You need to configure the build options to tell the build command what to use or to ignore:
$ ./configure \
--with-dmake-url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 \
--with-epm-url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/epm-3.7.tar.gz \
--disable-odk \
--disable-gconf \
--disable-gnome-vfs \
Bootstrap the build
You need to prepare the build environment. This will download missing source code tar balls of external libraries, download missing external dictionary extensions and pre-build needed tools:
$ ./bootstrap
Source the environment
You need to setup environment variableas and other things in the terminal window where the build should run.
$ source LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh
It depends on the respective terminal window/tab. The build will not or unpredictable run in a different one.
Start building
Work directory
The following command will use all available CPU cores to build most as possible in parallel:
$ build --all -P8 -- -P8
The following command build and redirect all output to stdout and stderr into a single log file. Perfect for forwarding to someone else in case of build problems:
$ build <options> > build_error_log_yyyy.mm.dd_hh.mm.txt 2>&1
The following can be used when you want to know how many hours the build took to complete:
$ time build <options>
The following is to clear things up when a project didn't build successfully before starting again:
$ build --prepare --from <prj_name>
When the same error occurs exactly again, then maybe the "--prepare" option doesn't work for projects that were changed to gbuild. Then the respective solver directory needs to be deleted manually. Either from the following directory or in another sub-dir. Example:
$ rm -rf main/solver/420/*.pro/workdir/CxxObject/<prj_name>
Cleanup the build tree
Work directory
The following command needs to be executed to cleanup all build artefacts to be able to start again a clean build:
$ dmake clean
This will delete the "dmake" command itself. Therefore it's needed to run configure, bootstrap and source again (see above).
Build breaker
1. Module "svx"
2. Module "dbaccess"
The file
main/svx/source/fmcomp/fmgridif.cxx and
main/dbaccess/source/ui/uno/ColumnControl.cxx should be compiled with enabled compiler optimization. However, this doesn't work on the Intel x86-64 platform due to this GCC 4.9.3 bug (should be fixed with 5.0):
The workaround is to disable the optimization for both files in the respective makefiles
main/svx/Library_svxcore.mk and
main/dbaccess/source/ui/uno/makefile.mk. The following short patch should work:
1. Makefile "main/svx/Library_svxcore.mk"
<patch start>
--- Library_svxcore.mk.orig 2016-09-04 15:32:07.305410023 +0200
+++ Library_svxcore.mk.new 2016-09-05 20:16:33.411649496 +0200
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@
svx/source/engine3d/viewpt3d2 \
svx/source/fmcomp/dbaexchange \
svx/source/fmcomp/fmgridcl \
- svx/source/fmcomp/fmgridif \
svx/source/fmcomp/gridcell \
svx/source/fmcomp/gridcols \
svx/source/fmcomp/gridctrl \
@@ -452,6 +451,23 @@
+# the following source file can't be compiled with "-Os" by gcc 4.9 as it
+# because of a bug in devirtualization optimization (#i125475#):
+# <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58678>
+# <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65009>
+# Compiling with "-O2" or
+# "-Os -fno-devirtualize -fno-devirtualize-speculatively" is sufficient to fix.
+ifeq ($(COM),GCC)
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_cxxobjects,svxcore,\
+ svx/source/fmcomp/fmgridif \
+ , $(gb_COMPILERNOOPTFLAGS) $(gb_LinkTarget_EXCEPTIONFLAGS) \
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_exception_objects,svxcore,\
+ svx/source/fmcomp/fmgridif \
$(eval $(call gb_SdiTarget_SdiTarget,svx/sdi/svxslots,svx/sdi/svx))
$(eval $(call gb_SdiTarget_set_include,svx/sdi/svxslots,\
</patch end>
2. Makefile "main/dbaccess/Library_dbui.mk"
<patch start>
--- Library_dbui.mk.orig 2016-09-04 15:28:55.200594932 +0200
+++ Library_dbui.mk.new 2016-09-06 00:34:05.241638508 +0200
@@ -260,7 +260,6 @@
dbaccess/source/ui/tabledesign/TableRowExchange \
dbaccess/source/ui/tabledesign/TableUndo \
dbaccess/source/ui/uno/AdvancedSettingsDlg \
- dbaccess/source/ui/uno/ColumnControl \
dbaccess/source/ui/uno/ColumnModel \
dbaccess/source/ui/uno/ColumnPeer \
dbaccess/source/ui/uno/DBTypeWizDlg \
@@ -313,4 +312,21 @@
+# the following source file can't be compiled with "-Os" by gcc 4.9 as it
+# because of a bug in devirtualization optimization (#i125475#):
+# <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58678>
+# <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65009>
+# Compiling with "-O2" or
+# "-Os -fno-devirtualize -fno-devirtualize-speculatively" is sufficient to fix.
+ifeq ($(COM),GCC)
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_cxxobjects,dbui,\
+ dbaccess/source/ui/uno/ColumnControl \
+ , $(gb_COMPILERNOOPTFLAGS) $(gb_LinkTarget_EXCEPTIONFLAGS) \
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_exception_objects,dbui,\
+ dbaccess/source/ui/uno/ColumnControl \
# vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4:
</patch end>
Needed packages
The following packages (incl. their dependencies) that need to be available or installed additionally:
- ant
- autoconf
- bison
- cups-devel
- flex
- gcc
- gcc++
- gperf
- gtk2
- gtk2-devel
- hamcreast
- java-1.8.0-openjdk
- java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
- junit
- libtiff
- libXt-devel
- make
- ORBit
- pam-devel
- patch
- perl-CPAN
- perl-Env
- rpm
- rpm-build
Java 1.8 JDK has to be installed due to dependencies for ant, hamcreast and junit.
Building a release version
Additional things that need to done when building a release version out of a SVN branch (e.g., AOO 4.1.3 from "AOO413").
The following packages (incl. their dependencies) that need to be available or installed additionally:
- dpkg
- dbus-glib-devel
- GConf2-devel
- gnome-vfs2
- gnome-vfs2-devel
- gstreamer-devel
- gstreamer-plugins-base-devel
- mesa-libGLU-devel
- ORBit2
- ORBit2-devel
- perl-Archive-Zip
- perl-Crypt-SSLeay
- perl-Digest-MD5
- perl-Digest-SHA
- perl-libwww-perl
- perl-LWP-Protocol-https
- perl-XML-Parser
The configure options for a release build can be found here:
Performance results
- Intel Core i7-4710HQ 2.5 GHz (8 cores)
- Fedora 21 x86-64 (Kernel 4.1.13-100.fc21.x86_64, glibc 2.20-8)
- Build command:
$ build --all -P8 -- -P8
- Time for a full build: 01h 05m 41s (as of 2016-10-09
AOO413 branch
- Build command (with P8 and only "de en-US fr ja pt" as languages):
$ build_aoo64bit_on_centos5.sh
- Time for a full build: 00h 50m 32s (as of 2016-10-09)
Fedora 19 and 20
Build Instructions
The build procedure is the same as for other Linux systems.
Required packages:
$ yum install tcsh perl-Archive-Zip gcc gcc-c++ cups-devel \ pam-devel java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel gperf freetype-devel \ gtk2-devel libIDL-devel libXaw-devel bison patch GConf2-devel \ gnome-vfs2-devel ant make tar rpm-build flex junit4 \ perl-LWP-UserAgent-Determined perl-XML-Parser \ perl-Digest-SHA ORBit2-devel perl-LWP-Protocol-https
Build notes:
- The perl-Digest-SHA dependency is not caught until bootstrap
- The ORBit2-devel dependency is not caught until building the "shell" module
- Build breaks in "hsqldb": to build with Java7, you need to apply the patch at https://issues.apache.org/ooo/attachment.cgi?id=80961&action=diff
- Build breaks in "moz": configure with --disable-mozilla to work around it.
Fedora 10 and 14
Build Instructions
The build procedure is the same as for other Linux systems.
Required packages:
$ yum install tcsh perl-Archive-Zip gcc gcc-c++ cups-devel \ pam-devel java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel gperf freetype-devel \ gtk2-devel libIDL-devel libXaw-devel bison patch GConf2-devel \ gnome-vfs2-devel ant make
Quick start guide
Still valid?
$ yum -y install mono-devel perl-Archive-Zip ant bison \
flex pam-devel cups-devel gperf libxslt-devel openldap-devel \ firefox-devel xorg-x11-devel gstreamer-devel \ gstreamer-plugins-base-devel db4-devel unixODBC-devel \ xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-apis xalan-j2 boost-devel \ unixODBC-devel qt-devel subversion autoconf automake \ gtk2-devel gcc-c++ gnome-vfs2-devel rpm-build \ expat-devel python-devel curl-devel
$ ./autogen.sh -with-distro=SUSE \
--with-jdk-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj \ --with-ant-home=/usr/share/ant \ --with-system-mozilla=firefox \ --disable-Xaw \ --disable-kde \ --disable-mono \ --enable-opengl --enable-ogltrans \ --disable-neon \ --enable-debug
Another list:
Blog about building ooo-build on Fedora 7:
Fedora packaging
Fedora 14
The Fedora 14 spec file can be found at http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=276232 (download the srpm, and uncompress it (rpm2cpio <file> | cpio -idv) ); you'll see the single spec file openoffice.org.spec ; note that it doesn't build cleanly, you need to apply the patch from https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=114999
Fedora 19
- HSQLDB does not build with Java 7: see https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121754 for the relevant patches.
- Spec files for dmake and epm by Fred Ollinger are at https://github.com/fredollinger/aooo-fedora-rawhide
- A note from Ariel about dictionaries: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201303.mbox/%3C20130329145345.GC2969%40localhost%3E
Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
Complete requirements found at General Build Requirements and Building on Windows.
This is a sample step-by-step guide - check the complete requirements and report on email@example.com, if problems with this step-by-step guide occur.
- Install Cygwin, 32bit version
- Browse to http://www.cygwin.com and click on the setup-x86.exe link to download the most recent 32 bit version (the most recent Cygwin DLL at the moment is 2.9.0) or use this direct link
- Run the installer and click through the questions
- On the "Choose A Download Site" select a nearby download server
- Expect a "Setup Alert" dialog box on the first cygwin install on the computer: click OK to close it
- On the page that allows you to select additional packages select:
From the Archive category:
zip, unzipFrom the Devel category:
autoconf, gperf, gcc-g++, bison, flex, patch, subversion, makeFrom the Net category:
rsyncFrom the Perl category:
perl, perl-XML-SAX-Expat, perl-Archive-Zip, perl-LWP-Protocol-https, perl-XML-parser, perl-libwww-perl, perl-Digest-SHA, perl-Net-SSLeayIf you will use git, you need in addition from the Devel category the packages:
git, git-svn(If you prefer to install packages with a Linux kind of touch, you can skip selecting the packages and instead select just the package lynx (enter lynx in the Search box and select the lynx entry in the Web/Default section). You would then install the other packages from the cygwin command line using lynx as explained ahead. However, selecting the packages from the Cygwin interface is recommended.)
- Click Next to finish package selection.
- Click Next to resolve dependencies.
- After installation is finished click the Finish button to close the dialog.
- Start Cygwin bash in a terminal
- In Windows 7 and later you can just type "cygwin" into the Start Menu search bar and then click on the Cygwin App. Or you can:
- Press WindowsKey-R
- Type "C:\cygwin\Cygwin.bat" (if that's the path you installed Cygwin to)
- Hit Return.
- (If you haven't installed the necessary packages from the Cygwin interface yet because you would prefer to install them using lynx from the Cygwin command line, then you should do so now. First install apt-cyg from the Github repository:)
cd /cygdrive/c/temp(or any other temporary directory of your choice)
lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg chmod +x apt-cyg mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin/Use apt-cyg to install missing cygwin packages:
apt-cyg install perl zip unzip gperf autoconf rsync gcc-g++ bison flex patch subversion make(You must also provide to install the missing perl packages, for example with "cpan -i Archive::Zip LWP::UserAgent LWP::Protocol XML::Parser" etc. however there can be some dependency conflicts, the recommended method is installing the packages from the cygwin interface)
- In Windows 7 and later you can just type "cygwin" into the Start Menu search bar and then click on the Cygwin App. Or you can:
- Replace symlinked awk with copy of gawk.exe:
rm /usr/bin/awk mv /usr/bin/gawk.exe /usr/bin/awk.exeNote that if the
rmcommand fails then the
mvis not necessary.
- Install Java, 32bit version
- Choose between JDK or OpenJDK. Versions 1.7 and 1.8 are known to work.
- (We need the 32 bit version because JNI requires the JVM's bitness to match the C/C++ bitness).
- Install Apache Ant
- Browse to https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
- Chose a mirror near you.
- Download the zip archive (currently that is apache-ant-1.9.9-bin.zip or apache-ant-1.10.1-bin.zip).
Note that Apache Ant 1.10.1 will only work with Java 8.
- Open downloaded archive in file explorer and unzip it to a location of your choice, eg
c:\. Note that
C:\Program Files (x86)will not work due to problems of quoting the spaces and parentheses.
- Install Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5. SP1 (recommended by Microsoft. Note: later versions of the Windows SDK will not work. AOO can not be built with MSVC 2010 or 2012 - MSVC 2008 is needed and is found in the Windows 7 SDK)
- Browse to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138.
- Download winsdk_web.exe and run the web installer. You can use the default values in the installation dialog, except when prompted with the installation path use a path that has no spaces or parentheses (e.g. "C:\Microsoft_SDKs\Windows\v7.0"), because otherwise the build process will choke on those spaces or parentheses.
- Alternatively download the iso image http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18950. Burn it to a dvd or unzip it.
- Download MS Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26368 (There have been security updates, which are not included in older versions)
- Download files vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe
We need both 32 and 64 bit versions because we build 64 bit shell extensions. If you download the most recent version of Apache OpenOffice and unpack it, you will find the files vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe in folder redist. You can use them as well.
- Optional: Install DirectX SDK (for graphics hardware support in the slide show)
- Browse to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=6812
- Download and run DXSDK_Jun10.exe. Choose to install to a custom path, and use a path that has neither spaces nor parentheses (e.g.
C:\Microsoft_DirectX_SDK_June_2010), because otherwise the build will not be able to parse the path and will choke on the spaces or parentheses. (If you receive an S1023 error towards the end of the installation, the fix is simple. The issue occurs because a newer version of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is present on the computer. The June 2010 DirectX SDK installs version 10.0.30319 of the Visual C++ Redistributable. To resolve this issue, you must uninstall all versions of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable before installing the June 2010 DirectX SDK. You may have one or more of the following products installed: Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable x86, Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable x64. You can use Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel to uninstall the products. Or, you can run the following commands from an administrator command prompt:
MsiExec.exe /passive /X{F0C3E5D1-1ADE-321E-8167-68EF0DE699A5} MsiExec.exe /passive /X{1D8E6291-B0D5-35EC-8441-6616F567A0F7}and then run the DirectX SDK installer. After installing the June 2010 DirectX SDK, you may then reinstall the most current version of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.)
- Optional: Install Windows Driver Kit 7.1.0 (for enabling activex)
- Download WDK 7.1.0 (is an ISO image). Cannot use later versions of Windows Driver Kit because they do not have ATL which is needed to build AOO with ActiveX. (I recommend to download using Internet Explorer, otherwise the install may fail a Windows Authenticity test, whereas this does not happen using Internet Explorer to download the ISO image.)
- Mount the ISO image and install.
- Optional: Install NSIS installer (for creating the EXE installer)
- Browse to https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/files/
- Download and run the installer (note that versions of NSIS >= 3.* are only compatible with branch 4.1.3 or later! otherwise you will have to install at most NSIS 2.51). Recommended to install to custom location, choose a path without any spaces (e.g. "C:\NSIS").
- For Asian languages (ja, ko, zh-CN, zh-TW) the language files have to be edited, otherwise the graphics in the first installer windows don't fit. In "{NSISDIR}\Contrib\Language files\Japanese.nlf" (Korean.nlf, TradChinese.nlf, SimpChinese.nlf accordingly) change:
Font and size - dash (-) means default {font-name} {font-size}to:
Font and size - dash (-) means default - -
- Optional: Install the Mozilla Build Tools. These are needed to build the nss ("Network Security Services") module. Download from here. Install to a custom path without any spaces, such as
C:\mozilla-build. It is recommended to use version 2.2.0 or older. OpenOffice is not yet compatible with version 3.0 or newer.
- Get AOO source code. You can use the source release or check out from SVN. Build from source release if you want to build OpenOffice once but don't want to contribute patches. If you will contribute patches, you need to generate them against an actual version of trunk. In this case check out from SVN to be able to rebase before generating patches. You can work with subversion or with git-svn. Do not use a tool that changes line endings, such as the default configuration of TortoiseSVN. NOTE: Do not place the source directory under the Cygwin file system. This means that placing it, for example, at '/home/aoo/source' is not recommended.
- Source release
- Browse to http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#tested-sdk and locate the table row that starts with "Source code"
- Download source code in an archive format of your choice (note that tar.bz2 is typically smaller than tar.gz and zip)
- Optional: Verify the archive - following given link or instructions.
- Unpack source (in cygwin-terminal). Use the file name exactly as downloaded.
cd /tmp tar -xjf <download-location>/<downloaded-source-release.tar.bz2> cd <unpacked-source>/mainDo not use Windows unpacker, they might cause access right problems.
- Checkout from SVN using subversion
- (If you haven't installed the subversion package from the cygwin interface, please do so now by re-running the cygwin installer, or if you used lynx and apt-cyg then:)
apt-cyg install subversion
- Start with creating a parent directory for the source code:
mkdir /cygdrive/c/source cd /cygdrive/c/source
- Check out source from Apache SVN repository
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk aoo-trunk cd aoo-trunk/main
- Checkout from SVN using git-svn
- (If you haven't installed git and git-svn from the cygwin interface, please do so now by re-running the cygwin installer, or if you used lynx and apt-cyg then:)
apt-cyg install git git-svn
- Get the actual revision number from http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/OpenOffice/trunk/, e.g. 1234567
- Create an empty directory and change to it, e.g.
mkdir /cygdrive/c/source cd /cygdrive/c/source
- Check out source from Apache SVN repository
git svn clone --revision 1234567:HEAD https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk cd trunk/main
- Remember the source path (this is optional, it makes for an easy reference):
SourceMain=`pwd`[Why? I have not used it. Regina (talk) 21:42, 24 February 2013 (UTC)]
- [Added explanation above Andre]
- Optional: Get dbghelp.dll (for using the
--enable-dbgutilconfigure option)
- This dll is part of MS Visual Studio. If you do not have it installed, download and install "Visual Studio Community" from https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx
- Copy file to
main/external/dbghelp. Use Windows file manager or in cygwin terminal
cp /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/dbghelp.dll $SourceMain/external/dbghelp
- Copy vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe (see above) to main/external/vcredist.
- Use Windows file manager or in cygwin terminal
cp <download-location>/vcredist_x86.exe $SourceMain/external/vcredist cp <download-location>/vcredist_x64.exe $SourceMain/external/vcredist
- Use Windows file manager or in cygwin terminal
- Get GDI+ redistributable:
- Browse to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18909
- Download WindowsXP-KB975337-x86-ENU.exe
- Run WindowsXP-KB975337-x86-ENU.exe
- Enter a temporary path (eg c:\temp\gdiplus) in the dialog and click OK to extract files
- Copy gdiplus.dll to main/external/gdiplus
cp /cygdrive/c/temp/gdiplus/asms/10/msft/windows/gdiplus/gdiplus.dll $SourceMain/external/gdiplus/
- Remove the temporary path
rm -fr /cygdrive/c/temp/gdiplus
- Get msvcr100.dll:
- We need the 32 bit dll (latest version: 10.0.40219.325)
cp /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/msvcr100.dll $SourceMain/external/msvcp100
- We need the 32 bit dll (latest version: 10.0.40219.325)
- Make sure that you are in the main source directory:
cd $SourceMain
- Run autoconf to create the configure script:
- Call configure
- For those paths that do have spaces, use the cygpath tool to get a shortened version without any spaces, which you can then use in the configuration directives without any trouble (adapt paths as necessary):
$ cygpath -m -s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_73" C:/PROGRA~2/Java/JDK18~1.0_7 $ cygpath -m -s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC" C:/PROGRA~2/MI1DCA~1.0/VCRun configure (again adapt paths as necessary)
SDK_PATH="/cygdrive/c/Microsoft_SDKs/Windows/v7.0" ./configure \ --with-frame-home="$SDK_PATH" \ --with-psdk-home="$SDK_PATH" \ --with-midl-path="$SDK_PATH/bin" \ --with-ant-home="/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.8.4" \ --with-jdk-home="C:/PROGRA~2/Java/JDK18~1.0_7" \ --with-csc-path="C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v3.5" \ --with-cl-home="C:/PROGRA~2/MI1DCA~1.0/VC" \ --with-asm-home="C:/PROGRA~2/MI1DCA~1.0/VC/bin" \ --with-dmake-url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2" \ --with-epm-url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/epm-3.7.tar.gz" \ --disable-pch \ --disable-atl \ --disable-activex \ --disable-nss-module \ --without-junitIf you have installed the optional DirectX SDK then you can add the switch:
--with-directx-home="C:/Microsoft_DirectX_SDK_June_2010"If you have installed Windows Driver Kit 7.1.0 and would like to build with ATL and ActiveX functionality then remove the
--disable-activexand the
--disable-atldirectives, and add the atl home directives:
--with-atl-include-dir=/cygdrive/c/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/inc/atl71 \ --with-atl-lib-dir=/cygdrive/c/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/lib/ATL/i386 \ --with-mfc-include-dir=/cygdrive/c/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/inc/mfc42 \ --with-mfc-lib-dir=/cygdrive/c/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/lib/Mfc/i386If you have installed NSIS you can use the relative directive
--with-nsis-path="C:/NSIS"If you have installed Mozilla Build Tools you can use the relative switch:
--with-mozilla-build="/cygdrive/d/mozilla-build"You may also enable a few more switches (used for official releases: --enable-win-x64-shellext):
--enable-win-x64-shellext \ --enable-wiki-publisher \ --enable-category-b \ --enable-bundled-dictionariesand if you would like to build for different locales you can use the lang switch (in this example, for English United States and for Italian):
--with-lang="en-US it"If you have copied over the dbghelp.dll and would like these extra features you can enable the debug switch:
- For those paths that do have spaces, use the cygpath tool to get a shortened version without any spaces, which you can then use in the configuration directives without any trouble (adapt paths as necessary):
- Finish configuration and download missing external source tarballs and extensions
- Include the configured environment
source winenv.set.sh
- Build
cd instsetoo_native/ build --allDepending on your computer this will take one or more hours to finish. You may want to experiment with the -P options for multi process builds to reduce the build time.
build --all -P<m> -- -P<n>tells build to use
mprocesses (build up to
mmodules in parallel) and
nthreads for each module.
- Install
There are three options:
- Regular install with integration into Windows.
This allows only one instance of AOO to be installed.
- Start setup.exe and click through dialog:
- Apache OpenOffice can be started via the Windows start menu.
- Start setup.exe and click through dialog:
- Install without integration into Windows.
This allows several instance of AOO, based on the same version, to be installed side by side.
It still requires Administrator permissions.
- Start
setup.exewith option
$SourceMain/instsetoo_native/wntmsci12.pro/OpenOffice/msi/install/en-US/setup.exe -a
- Enter an installation path into the dialog and click through the dialog to finish installation.
- Start AOO by running
- Start
- Unpack archive without installation.
This does not require Administrator permissions
- Go to installation directory:
cd <installation-target>
- Unzip archive:
unzip $SourceMain/instsetoo_native/wntmsci12.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/msi/install/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.4_Win_x86_install-arc_en-US.zip
- Start AOO by running:
- Go to installation directory:
- Regular install with integration into Windows.
- (Change the version number in the file name to match the version you built)
Testing build with Cygwin 64 bit
There seem to be a few difficulties in building OpenOffice using the 64 bit version of Cygwin. Perhaps they can be resolved. So this paragraph is an area to be developed as these obstacles are removed.
- Install Cygwin, 64bit version
- Browse to https://www.cygwin.com and click on the setup-x86_64.exe link to download the most recent 64 bit version (the most recent Cygwin DLL at the moment is 2.9.0) or use this direct link
- Run the installer and click through the questions
- On the "Choose A Download Site" select a nearby download server
- Expect a "Setup Alert" dialog box on the first cygwin install on the computer: click OK to close it
- On the page that allows you to select additional packages select:
From the Archive category:
zip, unzipFrom the Devel category:
autoconf, gperf, gcc-g++, bison, flex, patch, subversion, makeFrom the Net category:
rsyncFrom the Perl category:
perl, perl-XML-SAX-Expat, perl-Archive-Zip, perl-LWP-Protocol-https, perl-XML-parser, perl-libwww-perl, perl-Digest-SHA, perl-Net-SSLeayIf you will use git, you need in addition from the Devel category the packages:
git, git-svn
- Click Next to finish package selection.
- Click Next to resolve dependencies.
- After installation is finished click the Finish button to close the dialog.
- Start cygwin bash in a terminal and follow all the steps for 32bit cygwin up to and including './configure' with relative parameters
- Finish configuration and download missing external source tarballs and extensions
./bootstrapseems to choke up after unpacking dmake:
making and entering D:/source/aoo-trunk/main/solenv/wntmsci12.pro/misc/build/ unpacking /cygdrive/d/source/aoo-trunk/ext_sources/266d817492d8259a640fad075461080e-dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 entering dmake-4.12 checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type This script, last modified 2005-07-08, has failed to recognize the operating system you are using. It is advised that you download the most up to date version of the config scripts from http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess and http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please send the following data and any information you think might be pertinent to <email@example.com> in order to provide the needed information to handle your system. config.guess timestamp = 2005-07-08 uname -m = x86_64 uname -r = 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) uname -s = CYGWIN_NT-10.0 uname -v = 2016-08-31 14:32 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = hostinfo = /bin/universe = /usr/bin/arch -k = /bin/arch = x86_64 /usr/bin/oslevel = /usr/convex/getsysinfo = UNAME_MACHINE = x86_64 UNAME_RELEASE = 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) UNAME_SYSTEM = CYGWIN_NT-10.0 UNAME_VERSION = 2016-08-31 14:32 configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify oneAnd yet, if you try to download a more recent version of config.guess and of config.sub from github for example, then the ./configure script starts to choke up and can't run 'config.sub'. Perhaps config.guess needs a patch?
[I tried using the build directive for the configure script to force recognition of the system, I used
--build=i686-pc-cygwin. The configure script recognized this parameter and this value, but
./bootstrap still chokes up saying it can't guess the system... --Johnrdorazio (talk) 01:06, 24 September 2016 (UTC)]
Mac OS X
In order to build OpenOffice on Mac OS X see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Building_on_MacOsX


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The room for press conferences at baseball's winter meetings was actually two ballrooms turned into one.
Spacious, yes. And wasted.
The microphone at the podium was used for only two baseball-related news conferences — and neither to announce a blockbuster trade or major free agent signing.
They could write a good country song about aching, breaking hearts of general managers as they left Nashville empty-handed. In essence, nothing happened at what is usually the highlight of the Hot Stove League.
"I thought there would at least be an announcement or two (Thursday morning)," one general manager said before leaving town.
Last year, there were two on the final morning — Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson, both with the Angels. Combined total: $317.5 million.
Not much was spent on this Thursday, except for minor leaguers in the Rule 5 draft, making the White Sox signing of Jeff Keppinger the day before (three years $12 million) one of the biggest deals of this four-day winter confab.
"Different than it used to be," said one general manager. "I only talked face-to-face with one general manager while I was here. Talked to some others on the phone, but it just seemed like not much was getting done."
While the 2011 winter meetings were waiting on Pujols and Wilson to break the logjam, this year's version waited on free agents Zack Greinke and Josh Hamilton.
The Rangers are the key to breaking up the jam because they are bidding against the Dodgers for Greinke. If they win that war, they may not re-sign Hamilton (who could wind up with the Mariners) and instead be part of a complicated trade with the Diamondbacks for Justin Upton.
All of that will have to wait for later. And so will the signings of the second tier of free agents, such as former Cub Ryan Dempster, and any trades that have been talked about.
So the workers dismantled the podium at the sprawling Opryland Hotel Thursday, probably taking the cobwebs with the pieces.
The major "announcements" involved Yankees' GM Brian Cashman announcing Alex Rodriguez's left hip surgery and Mets' GM Sandy Alderson announcing a contract extension for David Wright.
Cashman was left explaining to New York media outside the press conference room why his team did nothing while it was here. But, then, no other GM did either.
Cubs' GM Jed Hoyer made one significant move — the signing of outfielder Nate Schierholtz — which he couldn't announce officially pending a physical exam. Like his cohorts, he had wanted to do more. Later Thursday it was announced the club had re-signed third baseman Ian Stewart.
Hoyer left Nashville like the others, hopeful that the days ahead would allow him to spread around his owners' cash reserves.
"There's a long way to go until we get to (spring training in) Mesa," he said. "We have to remind ourselves there are still a lot of players out there and still a lot of time (before spring training).
"When you're leaving here, sometimes you feel like this is closer to the end of the offseason than the beginning, but it's actually a lot closer to the beginning. There's a lot of time left, we still have resources left and we'll continue to work all winter."
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AmpliTube 2.5 for iPad and iRig Stomp Review
IK Multimedia, a company well known among readers of my product reviews, has continued to release new all-encompassing products that serve the musician and audio engineer markets. Having already enjoyed great success with their original release of AmpliTube (and plenty of praise from reviewers like me), IK Multimedia has been hard at work expanding the features of AmpliTube. They have also made a hardware add-on called the iRig Stomp that represents the physical manifestation of the virtual on-screen stomp box representations in AmpliTube. How well do these two products work together? Read on to find out. AmpliTube offers an expansive collection of multi-effect processing for guitar and bass, as well as offering multi-track recording and playback functionality. Anyone familiar with the physical world corollary knows that if you were to assemble everything that AmpliTube simulates in actual hardware effects boxes and desktop recording software, the costs would be in the hundreds of dollars. And yet, even with decking out AmpliTube with the initial purchase plus all the in-app purchase add-ins (which include the effects found in AmpliTube Fender and AmpliTube Slash) would still cost under a hundred dollars for one of the most comprehensive guitar effects collections available on the iPad today. Assembling the on-screen stompboxs, amps, miss and cabling is as easy as touching and dragging the graphic representations of the real-world counterparts. What I find most impressive is that even a first generation iPad can keep pace with processing all these effects in real-time. This makes AmpliTube a terrific replacement for what used to be an unwieldily expensive collection of hardware stapled to a pedalboard. And with the addition of iRig Stomp, you don't even have to say goodbye to the ever helpful foot switch. AmpliTube 'just works with iRig Stomp, making it a killer combination.
What sets AmpliTube apart from other guitar effects and audio processing apps for the iPad is its rich set of add-ons available for selective in-app purchasing. As mentioned previously, both the AmpliTube Fender and AmpliTube Slash effects can be purchased. Forward-looking musicians will be best served by purchasing AmpliTube for iPad, and then deciding which effects they prefer versus buying the stand-alone Fender and Slash apps. In addition to minimizing the amount of application functionality duplication from the purchase of two separate apps that do much of the same thing, the AmpliTube in-app purchase approach allows you to mix Marshall amps with Fender stompbox effects and vice versa. Another AmpliTube in-app purchase incorporates a several vocal effects available in another popular IK Multimedia iOS app, VocaLive. Combining all of these abilities under a single umbrella app makes a lot of sense, especially when dealing with the limited multi-tasking capabilities of iOS (of course, the built-in mixer/recorder with its tap tempo, visual metronome and loop points is more than adequate for recording licks and even entire songs). Not only is everything in one unified, easy-to-use interface, but you also don't have to bounce from app to app tweaking settings while hoping not to run out of system resources.
Other improvements made to the 2.5 update include MIDI and digital audio in/out support (hooray!), the ability to export and upload recorded works to FTP or the rapidly growing SoundCloud service, and thankfully for users of the new iPad, graphics are presented in crisp retina display quality imagery. I was very impressed with AmpliTube Fender for iPad when it was released a little more than a year ago, and this latest AmpliTube for iPad takes everything great about that earlier release and makes it better user, resourcing and purchasing experience. Guitarists and bassists will absolutely rock out with AmpliTube 2.5 for iPad. Product: AmpliTube 2.5 for iPadManufacturer: IK MultimediaPrice: $19.99Rating: 5/5 stars
iRig Stomp
While AmpliTube performs a stellar job for dialing in 'that sound', doing so during a live performance could bring the sonic energy generated to a standstill. And forget about adding new effects in real-time while rocking out on that killer solo (unless you're intending to perform a series of hammer-ons with one hand while manipulating Amplitube settings with the other). Fortunately, the musicians and design engineers at IK Multimedia have just the fix. iRig Stomp plugs into your iOS's headphone jack to act as a real-world toggle for a virtual AmpliTube stompbox configuration. An additional standard jack input for the guitar or bass and stereo outputs for headphones (to keep the neighbors happy) and speakers complete the musical circuit. Need more volume? Dial up the single gain knob on the unit, something you can do fairly easily with the side of your shoe. This gain requires power, either from an electrified pedalboard or, more conveniently, a 9 volt battery. This power is also used to illuminate the single red LED to tell you when the stompbox is enabled or not.
iRig Stomp is also portable. It is roughly the size of a deck of cards (and twice as thick), but solidly constructed so that it can withstand a hefty foot pounding. And because it uses standard jacks, it can be used with AmpliTube running on an iPad, iPhone or even an iPod Touch.
While the iRig Stomp does a respectable job of toggling AmpliTube virtual stompboxes and presets, I would love to see IK combine the iRig Stomp with a foot pedal to make it an even more versatile hardware accessory. Of course, this would require IK to make some tweaks to the AmpliTube interface to virtualize support for such gear. While a spare foot pedal can manipulate AmpliTube via a MIDI controller (see my earlier review of iRig MIDI), it's not as elegant as it could be. That said, the iRig Stomp is a natural fit for AmpliTube fans, especially those who perform live. Another feature I would like to see added to the AmpliTube/iRig Stomp combination is the ability to trigger different audio preset configurations based on the number of toggles in a defined duration of time. For example, I could have two preset stompbox configurations stored in AmpliTube, one for a standard iRig Stomp toggle and the other for a double-tap. That would take a little more effort on IK Multimedia's part, but it would allow a lot more flexibility, especially during songs with expressive guitar solos! Overall, iRig Stomp is a natural and, especially for live performances, essential accessory that any discerning AmpliTube fan will benefit from. The size and price are right, as are the hands-free freedom that the iRig Stomp has to offer. Product: iRig StompManufacturer: IK MultimediaPrice: $59.99Rating: 4/5 stars


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You Are 76% Ready to Be a Parent
You are totally ready to be a parent. You pretty much have your life in order.
In fact, there's a good chance you've been thinking about starting a family.
You are financially and emotionally stable. You would provide a good home for a kid.
It's also likely that you understand kids well. You've spent a fair amount of time around children.
If you're already a parent, you are doing great!
Keep it up. More kids wish they had parents like you.
Am I? (a very timely quiz :))
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jogos de meninas e jogos para meninas
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Alien Bio Lab
Help Flubby to create new and rare alien species in one of the zaniest free online games! Alien Bio Lab is like some of the other free matching games such as Candy Crush or Bejeweled, except with a nice little twist. Instead of swapping gems or other items, you have to move and shift paired aliens around the board via tetris style gameplay. Combine aliens 3 of a kind to morph them into a new species à la traditional match 3 games! Be careful though, because if you fill up the board with clutter it's game over! How many different aliens can you make in this charming online puzzle game?
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Create a beautiful Zen Garden with friends or family. Craft a unique landscape using tiles representing meadows, mountains, forests, and water. Illuminate it all with magical lanterns that let you transform tiles and perfect patterns. Win by being first to create your secret pattern twice!
ZEN GARDEN is an artful struggle.
Seek your hidden pattern to victory while blocking and parrying your clever foes. Find your Zen quickly and claim victory!
Play the simple, elegant standard game or seek greater depth with the ever-intriguing advanced game variant.
Two games in one! The basic game is a fast and simple tile-matching game where you attempt to form patterns on the board before your fellow players that plays in less than thirty minutes. The first player to form their signature pattern on the board twice without wilds and with their special symbol scores maximum points.
For players seeking more of a challenge, there is also Rock Garden, where players receive 12 cubes and play them on sets of tiles matching their pattern tiles. The goal in Rock Garden is to play those cubes before their fellow players.
Copyright © 2012 Mayfair Games, Inc. "FUNFAIR" and "ZEN GARDEN" are trademarks of Mayfair Games, Inc. All rights reserved.
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• 12 lantern tiles
• 48 wooden cubes
• 1 cloth bag
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Polish industrial glue distributor acquired by German glue manufacturer
Polish industrial glue specialist Termolan has been sold to Germany's Bühnen Group in a deal advised by BCMS.
The deal includes all of Termolan's business activities in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, and follows an earlier Buhnen acquisition of Aerden Group in Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia in mid-2015.
Slawomir Lange and Bodgan Lukaszuk, both of whom founded Termolan in 2002 are delighted to have found an ideal candidate in Buhnen. Both companies are family-run and share the same values and corporate culture. Having sold their shares, the former owners are in a position to give their full attention to their core business Lange Lukaszuk Company.
Following the acquisition, Buhnen will be able to strengthen its market presence in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia by offering all customers in these markets a more extensive product range, with additional services such as technical consultancy from its in-house laboratory.


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Peter uses his usual common sense in talking about a myriad of issues. While I agree with about 95% of what he's saying, the one line I don't necessarily agree with is that Asia, and in particular China, has strong fundamentals. In fact they have self-induced bubble fundamentals.
But I did like his take on the "cash for clunkers" debacle and was just thinking last night how ridiculous that program is. Americans should be outraged that the government is handing over OUR MONEY so that our neighbors can go out and buy a new automobile that is inflating the PRICE of both new and used autos while giving billions to automakers and indebting all of America and in particular those who are trading in their "clunkers." And Schiff brings up even more distortions that are created by such a lunatic program.
We have definitely entered the realm of Wonderland, that's for sure. Economic Mass Psychosis abounds, but Schiff does a good job of pointing out the lunacy of it all.
GDP, cash for clunkers, dollar, debt, depression (10 minutes):
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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Excerpts from the soon to be published The Calm Book , by Tzirelchana,mom and writer devoted to promoting world calmness.
We recently started a new year. Yes, according to the Mishna, Rosh Hodesh Nissan, the first day of the month of Nissan is the new year for festivals and kings and aren't all we Jews royal, all of us Jewish women princesses. To me, the idea of starting the year during the spring feels intuitively right.
Aside from Pesach cleaning, a great way to celebrate is to de-clutter. . De-cluttering is like dieting except you can eat as much as you like while your house loses the weight. And you find such interesting stuff. Calendars from 2006, and 5 and 4, math tests, going back at least a decade, and not to mentional ties of any size, jackets with shoulder pads to fit a linebacker, expired medicines…
Right now, I'm preaching but I'm not practicing. Decluttering just doesn't seem so royal. Does Queen Elizabeth go round Balmoral or Windsor filling giant hefy bags? Still I know its what I need to do and though the prospect makes me yawn—I'd rather be writing or painting, So here's a start. A procrastinator's prayer.
: Dear G-d, make we want to get the junk out of my house and out of my soul. And then help me to do it.Amen.
The Calm Book- Post #2
You heard it through the grapevine, that your niece or sister or first cousin became a Kallah or a mother…None of the baalei simcha the primary parties, who happened to be your very closest relatives actually phoned to inform you..
Though you are happy, your primary emotion is hurt. You sulk. You feel sorry for yourself. You may even speak badly of the people who didn't tell you—what kind of a family is this anyway? And how did you end up in it?
You know that you have to give them the benefit of the doubt so you think up excuses, reasons why they didn't call, the time difference, telephone troubles, too overwhelmed, but the hurt has settled in your heart. You can't seem to pry it lose.
You unload to your journal or your therapist or your friend and you have a good cry.
Families. We have expectations. Of how things should be. Of how we should be treated..
Lets reframe. Consider, really consider that the ba'alei simcha aren't out to get you. That they have good reasons for not phoning yet.
Before my own nieces's shidduch was finalized. I heard about it through a third party. I figured that my brother didn't care about me enough to call and I hurt, needlessly.The shidduch wasn't final yet. He didn't want to tell anyone until it was a done deal and he was quite right to keep quiet.
Now, I'm going to do teshuva,. Whenever something like this happens, I will just keep still and wait. More shall be revealed.
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Monday, November 30, 2020
Israel practices "apartheid worse than South Africa," say activists and leaders at UN forum
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On Friday, a UN-sponsored two-day forum,
Ending the Occupation: The Path to Independence, Justice and Peace for Palestine
, took place with anti-zionist activists and Palestinian political leaders, who collectively denounced the Israeli occupation, comparing its policies to apartheid South Africa.
"Whether it's two states or one state, that doesn't matter," said Mustafa Barghouti, secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative. "The Zionist plan has failed. There are more Palestinians than Jewish Israelis. They could not get us out of Palestine," he added.
The forum was held by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), which is led by Ford Seck, Senegal's Ambassador to the UN.
The event was advocated by the Division for Palestinian Rights that supports CEIRPP, which is funded by its member-states, and was established in 1975 by the General Assembly to address the "
question of Palestine
Although, the recent forum received backlash from Israeli officials for inviting Wesam Ahmed Al Haq, a supporter of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and presenters working with Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, which associates with Hamas –an organization considered as terrorist by the US and the EU, as well as Israel.
Danny Danon
, Israeli Ambassador to the UN, the inclusion of such presenters was highly contentious, "[i]t is beyond comprehension that UN funds are supporting organizations which aid terrorists and incite against Israel. We call on the secretary-general to intervene immediately and prevent these individuals from appearing at the UN," he said prior to the event.
Comparisons to apartheid in South Africa
Through presentations and panel discussions, Palestinian NGOs and BDS activists voiced their narratives of life under "
Fifty Years of Occupation
," among which the prominent topic of discussion was the continued silencing of criticism of Israel based on the argument that is connected to anti-Semitism.
A representative of the Zochrot (an Israeli anti-Zionist NGO), Jessica Nevo, who came to Israel in 1976 after her and her family escaped the military dictatorship of Argentina, offered an apology by stating, "I want to apologize for making use of the Law of Return." Nevo also praised the moderator of the final panel discussion, Helena Cobban, a pro-Palestinian activist, for mentioning the word "
" in her opening statement in reference to the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 due to the Israeli occupation - a word often censored or undermined because of its historical significance in contributing to the Palestinian history and humanitarian crisis.
Furthermore, during this panel discussion with Cobban, Barghouti declared the Israeli occupation to be "a much worse form of apartheid than what prevailed in South Africa." He also continued on to discuss the "psychological terror" BDS activists are subjected to, and advocated for focus on the intransigent nature of Israeli policies, which are overlooked by the mainstream discourse regarding the occupation, whose premise tends to pertain solely to the outcome of Palestinian statehood rather than the current fragmented reality that Palestinians experience.
Comparisons to the apartheid in South Africa are legitimized by analyzing the socio-political relevance of the Israeli wall or barrier - often referred to as the "apartheid wall" - whose erection was approved in 2002, and has been significant in physically dividing the Palestinian population from Israelis. It resembles the separated residential territories called,
, which were designated to the black population under apartheid in South Africa. In addition, according to B'Tselem, Israel has banned Palestinians from using forty-one roads throughout the West Bank under the
Forbidden Roads Regime
that extends 700 kilometers.
Earlier this year, Richard Falk, a former investigator for UN human rights concerns in the Palestinian territory, published a
for a UN agency, which also categorized Israel as an "apartheid regime."
According to Tali Shapiro, BDS activist for Boycott from Within, told Palestine Monitor, Falk's report "was a huge success, but it was also scratched by the UN. So it's a great example of the changing of discourse in the higher echelons of power, but it also shows us that we still need to work to make Israel's whitewashing pressure less effective in the UN."
Future for BDS
With the strides being made by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement in
Hewlett Packard (HP), SodaStream, and Caterpillar, along with many others, the momentum seems to be picking up for the movement especially due to international solidarity shown for it at the recent UN forum.
One of the participants at the forum, Rebecca Vikomereson, head of the BDS group Jewish Voice for Peace, called the movement a "set of tactics" that aim to "tip the balance of power."
The movement initially gained support after the attacks on Gaza in 2008, especially among
university campuses
that chose to pass bills asking their respective academic institutions from divesting from any companies or organizations that fund Israel.
For Tali Shapiro, "the main challenge currently is Israel's tightening crackdown on the movement. Arrests of Palestinians are specifically made around BDS now, there's also the Anti-Boycott Law, and the movement and its members are vilified constantly in the Israeli press." She added, "abroad Israel is exerting its diplomatic connections to create anti-democratic laws to target international human rights defenders and outlaw criticism of the state of Israel in general and BDS, in particular. So now we are not only appealing to corporations, artists, and civil society representatives, but we're also paying higher prices for it."
In November 1975,
resolution of 3379
was passed by the General Assembly that declared, "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination." The resolution was repealed in 1991 due to US and Israeli pressure, along with the fall of the Soviet bloc. Hence, the BDS movement is now a continuous target of the anti-Semitic rhetoric thrown towards its political action and its criticism for Israel. States like North Carolina in the United States, have
passed bills
that allow it to refuse to do business with companies that support the BDS movement and boycott of Israel.
According to Shapiro, "I think the future of the BDS movement is less a relevant topic for me than the future of the indigenous Palestinian people. For us as a movement, these kinds of statements [Barghouti's comments] are milestones on the way to achieving our stated goals and we celebrate our successes and analyze our next steps accordingly."
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