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(AP) - The price of oil hovered below $96 a barrel Monday, weighed by data released late last week which showed that U.S. industrial production weakened and Europe remained mired in recession.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for March delivery was down 17 cents to $95.69 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.45 on Friday.
Trading volume was lower than usual as floor trading, like U.S. financial markets, was closed for the Presidents Day holiday.
Investor sentiment has been subdued since the Federal Reserve said Friday that U.S. factory production slowed in January, mostly because of a big drop in output at auto factories. Most analysts think the slowdown is temporary, but it was enough to raise concern about the still-sluggish economic recovery.
Traders were also concerned about a deepening recession across the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro. Their combined economic output shrank by 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 from the previous three-month period. The decline was bigger than the 0.4 percent drop expected and the steepest fall since 2009.
Markets were waiting for comments from European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who is meeting Monday with members of the European Parliament to discuss the financial crisis in the eurozone.
Brent crude, used to price many international varieties of oil, was down 1 cent to $117.65 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
- Heating oil fell 0.34 cent to $3.2070 a gallon.
- Wholesale gasoline rose 0.47 cent to $3.3185 a gallon.
- Natural gas added 0.2 cent to $3.155 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Hello friends,
Katie Gehring here. Over the past month, the design team has taken turns posting on the blog to share their final projects and to say goodbye. Today it's my turn.
Over the years, Heather designed lots fabulous background stamps that can be used universally to give your projects that extra bit of pattern and pizzazz With February, right around the corner, I used some of my favorite background sets to make a Valentine. First I stamped the Woodgrain pattern from Grunge onto a rustic cream cardstock. Next I die-cut some hearts and stamped the scroll pattern from Damask Darling onto the large heart.
Next I stamped the sentiment from Pumpkin Seed Sentiments in black ink. I trimmed the stamped panel and mounted it to some patterned paper (Crate Paper) to create a polaroid-type look.
I attached the completed panel with a bit of washi tape to a card base covered with cardstock and patterned paper (Imaginese) that I die-cut and embossed to create even more patterns and texture.
I hope you have enjoyed the inspiration that Heather and the team have shared both over the years and the past couple months. I have been extremely blessed to have the privilege of working with such an amazing group of ladies. Although the blog may be quiet, Heather is planning to leave the store open to continue to sell her inventory and best-selling sets. If you have any questions, just pop Heather an email at madebyme33 (at) hotmail (dot) com, and she will help you out! Also, don't forget that many of our cards and sketches are on Pinterest. You can check out our boards here.
Finally, thank YOU for all your support and love for Skipping Stones Design! Your passion and love for these stamps has been such a joy! So it's goodbye for now, but I am sure we will be seeing each other around!
Creatively yours,

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Hospitals, specialty clinics, and medical offices depend on the reliable and secure transfer and storage of an extraordinary amount of data. Bandwidth demands will continue to grow because tools like EMR, medical imaging, mobile health, and telehealth are booming. These forces are reshaping healthcare IT and increasing the importance of network connectivity. A fiber-based WAN can improve patient care and increase IT flexibility.
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US presidential election is down to the wire!
Next week Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Americans will continue the process of voting for the next president of the United States. I say "continue" because early voting has been taking place for the past two weeks. As things now stand, the race is essentially tied. Many public opinion polls of registered and "likely" voters are pointing to a photo finish with some tilting in favour of a Romney win, at least of the popular vote. Mathematically, the "electoral college" map still favours Obama, but one never knows how so-called "undecided" voters will split at the last minute.
Romney definitely has the momentum going into the election. However, the question on many people's minds is what caused such a sudden and dramatic shift from President Obama and towards Governor Romney since mid-September. Remember, Romney did not get a convention bounce; Obama did. Obama had a clear lead among women - a reliable and key democratic cohort for the president. He was even doing surprisingly well among white men. Romney, on the other hand, was trailing the president up to the first debate and was solidifying what appeared to be his certain defeat.
Well, as they say, a day in politics is like an eternity, and sometimes the smoke is greater than the fire. We now know smoke inhalation is a dangerous thing. Hmm, without intending to be presumptuous, it appears that the smoke from the first debate has caused many to change their views about Romney. For, if one accepts the Latin phrase, Post hoc ergo propter hoc, which essentially means "After this, therefore because of this", then blame the debate.
In other words, because Obama's lead started to dwindle post-debate, one can blame it all on that one event - the debate - for being the cause. However, therein lies the logical fallacy, because while there could be an arguable correlation between the president's lacklustre performance in the debate and his current standings in the polls, no one knows for certain if his performance is really the cause. There are other things at play. It is hard to fathom that Obama's disappointing first debate performance really caused this sudden and extensive swing towards Romney, given the antecedents, which include Romney's penchant for rhetorical vacillation, clumsy utterances, lopsided policy prescriptions and weird "mannequinish" antics. The Obama campaign may very well have a point about the contagiousness of "Romnesia".
It is no secret that from as far back as mid-2009, this column has held the view, though unmaliciously, that President Obama could well be a one-term president and that his presidency was intended to be an important punctuation mark in American history. This column has never believed that the 2008 election of Mr Obama marked any permanent shift in race relations in America - sufficient to make the country a post-racial society. It is my considered view that race is also playing out in this election - it is so unfortunate - but it is the reality in which we live and must survive.
I dare say that some of the visceral comments and racially charged invectives from some quarters, particularly from the "birther movement" and people like former Governor John Sununu and real-estate mogul Donald Trump, are enough to confirm that there is a mighty long way for race relations to go before anyone can declare America to be "post-racial". Trump's recent stunt to pay US$5 million in exchange for Obama's college record is evidence of not only a churlish mind but of a weird state of being for such a person of prominence. And as if that was not disgraceful enough, John Sununu topped it off with rather distasteful, silly, and puerile remarks in reacting to Colin Powell's endorsement of President Obama. Say what you may of Obama, he is not perfect, but he has worked hard and has delivered on most of what he promised in the 2008 presidential campaign.
The 2008 election of Barack Obama, as I see it, presented an impatient desire on the part of a panic-stricken nation to put an end not only to George Bush's presidency; but also to his economic policies, foreign and domestic agendas and for the country to start afresh, having been bogged down by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Individualism and the desire to restore personal wealth influenced many to vote for Obama; hence the vaunted enthusiasm and unrealistic expectations that ushered in his presidency.
President Obama inherited an economic tsunami, and despite the obdurate nature of the economic challenges that confront not only the United States' economy, all things considered, he has done well in steadying the ship. The unfortunate reality, however, is that many are too impatient for better days. Perhaps this is a function of Obama's 2008 "Hope and change" message. But as former president Bill Clinton remarked at the Democratic Convention in Denver, "No president would have been able to fix all the economic problems that Mr Obama inherited in just four years." Yet, as strikingly true as Clinton's summation is, Obama has not done a good job touting his record of achievement, and it may be playing against him now.
"Obamacare" and the "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act" are two of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in the US since the 1930s; still, hardly anyone is giving the president credit. These two pieces of legislation target women and children, but now polls are showing Romney erasing Obama's advantage among this group - this is a strange coincidence; unless women are voting more on pocketbook-economic issues rather than on social issues.Then again, both issues are almost inseparable, given the excessive cost of health care. Turnout will be critical in next week Tuesday's election. Therefore, I urge everyone of my readers who have family members living in the United States and who can pick up the phone to call Auntie Bettie and Uncle Little-chest and encourage them to vote for the candidate and party of their choice. Their votes could make a huge difference in the outcome of the election. Only 537 votes prevented Al Gore from winning the presidency in 2000. So, we do know that every vote counts, if we didn't before!.
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The Viking River Company has cruising down to a fine art. The people we met on the cruise were fabulous; we enjoyed everyone's company thoroughly. The staff on the cruise deserve a gold star as many do double duty eg. some performed nightly for the passengers. All the staff (including tour guides) diligently work hard in providing good service and try to accommodate the passengers that they serve.
My husband's only complaint wish they had better coffee. The food was good, I heard some rumbling from the passengers regarding being served too much Chinese food -- I have to address this: Why shouldn't they? If you're travelling in a foreign country especially China, you should not be expecting a 'steak' or 'hamburger' for your meals. Travelling to a foreign place means learning about culture and that includes food.
Overall, travelling with Viking was great and we will be travelling with them again in November - Paris/Normandy.


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Yes. There are angels among us.
"In July 2013, I moved into a duplex apartment at the border of Brooklyn and Queens. The plan was to sublet half of my apartment out to stray cats. Not only would they get to stay here as long as they need, but I would try to help them find permanent homes through the power of social media and occasional cat videos. This is a blog about my adventures in fostering, and the struggles of trying to make a living out of something that's never really existed. Oh yeah, and I'm allergic to cats."
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Love Mike Glennon. Always have. Has the kind of intangible I look for when drafting a quarterback. Neck. Im a neck, man. Everybody knows that. I live, breathe, eat, sleep, poop, live, breathe, eat and poop neck stats. Love em. Always have. Always will. Im the Rex Ryan of necks. Thats why my friends call me Necks Ryan. Anyway, Glennon has everything you could want in a neck. Length for days. That's the only thing you want in a neck is length. Lavar Arrington was known for having one of the widest necks in league history. Lavar Arrington was an AWFUL quarterback. He was so bad at Quarterback that they made him play linebacker. Didnt even try him out as fullback first. That's bad. Zach Thomas had a huge neck. Dont see that bro playing Quarterback in the league. Linebacker city.
Glennon has a once in a generation type neck. He can flat out see over everything. Oh, what's that you say, JJ Watt? You wanna jump in the passing lane? That's fine. Glennon will just peer alllllll the way around you. Boom. Touchdown, Blackmon.
The only thing you have to worry about with a guy like Mike Glennon is neck hubris. Ive seen it a thousand times. Guys have all the natural neck talent in the world and the squander it away. Luckily for Mike, Uncle Chaps is gonna give him a sure fire workout program. You all can stop reading now.
Mike. It's me Chaps. Thanks for coming over to BCC. I really appreciate your interest. I have been in touch with some of the finest neck doctors in the world. They are the same ones that injected baby calves in Kobe Bryant's knee. We, along with Doctors Against Borders, have made you a workout to show on your pro-day. Check it out and let me know what you think. Yours truly, Chaps McNealy. Love you.
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ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta police say two men have been arrested in a double shooting that killed a 2-year old girl and left her brother wounded.
Police spokesman John Chafee Wednesday said 21-year-old Montez Thompkins and 23-year-old Jeremy Thompkins were arrested in a shooting that left 2-year-old Ty-Teyanna Motley dead and her brother critically injured in south Atlanta.
Motley's grandmother told investigators she awoke to the sound of gunfire Nov. 3, 2012 and saw that the children - who were lying next to her on a sofa bed - had been wounded.
Chafee says both men were served with warrants for murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and reckless conduct. The men were taken to the Fulton County jail and it is unclear if they have attorneys.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting are unclear.
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He managed to bust out of jail, but was free just a few hours. Now, a Pinellas County inmate is looking at spending a long time behind bars after a jury convicted him Thursday on a felony escape charge.
The jury spent the past three days listening to lawyers, as well as audio and videotape evidence like this.
"Remember, I told you to look for that doctored paper I had," said Nydeed Nashaddai on video.
Prosecutors said while awaiting trial on forgery charges, he used the same skills that landed him behind bars to break out of the Pinellas County jail.
Our investigation last year showed how a phony document, filed with the Clerk of the Court and signed by the chief judge called for the dismissal of all charges allowing Nydeed Nashaddi to walk right out of jail—until he was caught in Pinellas Park just 16 hours later.
In court, prosecutors called the Chief Judge J. Thomas McGrady as a star witness. But the most incrimination evidence was the jail recordings.
"Can you see that signature, that's what I need," Nashaddai is seen on video saying.
"He writes in print, 'Thomas McGrady, I need that document with his signature on it," said prosecutor Kelly McKnight.
His defense attorney argued there was no orchestrated plan, but rather a paperwork a mix-up that let him out. The attorney argued the 45 year old was now being prosecuted to cover up the mistake.
But the jury didn't buy it, and convicted Nydeed Nashaddai after just a few hours of deliberation.
Now that the jury has found him guilty, he'll no doubt be looking at a lot more time behind bars.
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One of the most exciting ways of seeing Ospreys at Rutland Water is to take a guided trip with members of the project team aboard the Rutland Belle. The idea is simple; we sail to the parts of the reservoir where we stand the best chance of seeing fishing Ospreys and, with a bit of luck, are rewarded with spectacular views. On many occasions we have enjoyed breathtaking views of the birds diving for fish very close to the boat, making it a trip to remember for those lucky enough to be on board.
Even on those rare occasions when Ospreys prove elusive, there is always a good range of the reservoir's other wildlife on view. Recent highlights have included Arctic Tern, Fulmar, Sanderling and Knot.
Evening and Afternoon Cruises
Each of these cruises begin with refreshments and an introductory talk at the Anglian Water Birdwatching Centre, Egleton (LE15 8BT). We then ask you to drive to Whitwell, where the Rutland Belle sets sail.
All cruises last 1.5 hours and cost £20 per person (£12 for under 16s). In addition to your cruise ticket you will also receive free entrance to the Lyndon and Egleton nature reserves (normal price £5.65 per adult). Please see www.rutlandwater.org.uk for more information about the reserves.
Dawn Cruises
In addition to the afternoon cruises, we also run dawn cruises. The cruises depart from Whitwell Harbour at 6am for an hour and a half cruise. We'll then arrive back at Whitwell and drive around to the Egleton reserve for a well-earned breakfast at 7:30am. Early mornings are a magical time to be out on the reservoir, and if 2013 dawn cruises are anything to go by, we should be in for some spectacular views of fishing Ospreys. Tickets are priced at £20 for adults and £12 for children (under 16).
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Tegra K1 and Windows
Nvidia just unveiled their Tegra K1 in the CES which sports Kepler graphics core. For those who don't know: Kepler is the codename of the architecture used in Nvidia's GTX 600 and 700 line.
My question is very simple. Do you guys think that it will give Windows RT, and in turn Windows Phone a big boost in gaming now that a full DX11.1 GPU is available?


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I've just put up a long overdue update to the site. I put together a list of 100 Common Korean Verbs. It isn't scientific or anything; it's just what I seem to use the most living here in Korea. Take a look and see what you think. Are there any glaring omissions? Any mistakes? Keep checking back soon for the latest updates. Don't forget to utilize the search bars to find words easier. There are probably about 600 vocabulary words so far on the site. Lot's more to come.
I've added some more vocabulary to the Nouns section. It's starting to fill in, but there is a lot more that will be added. This week I've been working on some "time" vocabulary I think you all will find very useful. One of the challenges with this site is thinking of how best to organize and present the information.
With my busy schedule, I've taken a break from watching dramas, but I'll start watching them again and posting vocabulary from the episodes. My goal for this year is to watch 12 complete series and I still have 12 to go. The good news for you all is that should result in some good posts.
So keep checking back, I promise that the site will keep filling in.
Here is some vocab from the 구미호 외전 (Nine Tailed Fox / Forbidden Love) drama that I finished up a few months ago. I really liked the show. It's a little dated and cheesy, but it still has appeal.
I have posted in a while so I'll remind you of the goal. Every episode of a Korean drama that I watch, I jot down a few vocabulary words that I don't know or that I still don't use regularly.
A witness – 목격자
To witness – 목격하다
Evidence – 증거
Peace – 평화
Revenge – 복수
Emotion – 감정
Last chance – 마지막 기회
Courage – 용기
Coward – 겁쟁이
To destroy – 파괴하다
One of the mistakes I made when I first started learning Korean was memorizing unnecessary vocabulary for the level that I was at. This applies to learning any language. I spent a lot of time learning things like all the animals or all the body parts. You should focus on what is essential. When you're a beginner, you don't need to know what "belly button" or "seahorse" is.
If you've browsed around the site you'll notice that it still needs a lot of work. Currently, there are only a few hundred words up. I'm still trying to figure out how to organize everything. One thing I've started implementing are sortable tables with a search option. Make sure to try out the search on the individual vocab pages. I think it's a neat feature. Please be patient as I get the rest of the vocabulary up.
One of the things I was thinking of doing with the tables is having an option to sort it by what level vocabulary it is. If you're a beginner, you'll be able to sort and see what vocab words you should put a higher priority on learning.
I just added the Korean animal vocabulary today. You can see the sortable table. I was thinking if I did implement the level feature, which animal words are the most common and important when learning Korean.
Having lived here for a couple years, I think the most common are as follows:
pig: 돼지
dog: 개
cat: 고양이
chicken: 닭
mosquito: 모기
cow: 소
bird: 새
monkey: 원숭이
fish: 물고기
bear: 곰
wolf: 여우
frog: 개구리
tiger: 호랑이
rabbit: 토끼
ant: 개미
spider: 거미
dragonfly: 잠자리
horse: 말
rat / mouse: 쥐
turtle: 거북의
snail: 달팽이
fly: 파리
snake: 뱀
This is just off the top of the head as to which ones I might mark down for beginners. They are in no particular order. Some are more common than others. I may even break it down further. I think pig, wolf, and dragonfly are used much more than they are in English. I guess it depends on where you live. In Seoul, in the summer time, there are dragonflies everywhere (and mosquitoes!)
Anyway, those are just a few thoughts. Subscribe to the website to keep up with new updates. Lot's more to come.
I started a new drama recently called 내 여자친구는 구미호 / My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. I really like stories of gumihos. I guess you can kind of say they're the equivalent of vampires. It's cool to see the legends of other kinds of monsters and supernatural beings from other cultures.
This one is quite different from the other gumiho drama I recently watched, 구미호 외전 (Nine Tailed Fox / Forbidden Love). My Girlfriend is a Gumiho is very lighthearted so far and very funny. It's an interesting blend of romantic comedy meets fantasy.
This is the Korean Vocab I've jotted down so far.
Celebrity: 유명인 / 연예인
To Count: 세다
Rumors: 소문
Be arrested: 체포되다
To arrest: 체포하다
Still… / even so: 그래도
No way! (in disbelief): 설마
Chilly (weather): 쌀쌀하다
Pretend: 척하다
Yesterday, I was walking home from work when I ran into one of my former elementary school students who just started middle school. I asked her how she liked her new school and middle school life. She said everything was good except that there were a lot of 날라리. I asked her what exactly that meant and she said that there are a lot of girls who have major attitude, wear a lot of make up, short skirts, and dye their hair off colors.
I've asked my Korean friends to get the basic idea. Basically, 날라리 are juvenile delinquents. They are rebellious teenagers who go against the rules. They use a lot of curse words, skip school, smoke, and drink. The guy 날라리 wear skinny pants and tend to have long hair.
You probably didn't even know I was gone. I spent a few weeks back in the U.S. and then I took a nice little tripper over to Cambodia and Malaysia. I'll be back to updating the site now. I'm also working on a sister site over at learn Korean. Both of the sites will be built out slowly, but they'll get there. Subscribe to the feeds to follow the updates.
새해 복 많이 받으세요 or Happy New Year to you all. Here are some more words from the latest episodes of 구미호 외전 (Nine Tailed Fox / Forbidden Love). Well, plastic surgery wasn't one, but I learned it in the process. If you live in Korea, it is a word you should know anyway because it seems everyone has had some work done.
Sword – 검
Knife – 칼
Surgery – 수술
Plastic surgery – 성형수술
With / Together (adverb) – 함께
On the other hand – 다른 한편으로는 / 근데 한편으로는 / 반면에
I learn a lot of Korean vocabulary in the process of teaching my Korean elementary school students. Today, I did a lesson on the environment and learned some new words. I already knew nature – 자연, but I didn't know:
Environment –환경
Recycling –재활용
To Recycle – 재활용하다
Pollution – 오염
Population – 인구수
I was really impressed with them. They did a great job with this lesson and seemed to be very socially aware.
In the future, I'll also make posts from vocab that I learn from my classes. It's always nice to learn the vocab within certain themes.
Alright, so I'm still watching the Korean drama 구미호 외전 also known as Nine Tailed Fox / Forbidden Love. All the Koreans I've talked to say that it was a terrible show, but all the non-Koreans seem to like it. It definitely has some poor acting and elements of cheesiness, but it also has a unique appeal. It's difficult to explain.
For me, sometimes a concept is enough to carry a show or movie and for this show that seems to be the case. I'm intrigued by the folklore of the 구미호. In this show, the 구미호 fox race and the human race struggle to co-exist. I must say, the inter-species love story is quite interesting (the 구미호 creatures appear just like humans).
Anyway, I've still been trying to jot down a few new words every episode. I think you'll find the common words from the show reveal a lot about it. Here is the newest vocabulary for me.
To Fail – 실패하다
Failure – 실패
To Succeed – 성공하다
Success – 성공
Mission – 임무
Persuade – 설득하다
Survive – 생존하다
Warning – 경고
To Hurt – 상처를 입다 / 상처 주다
Hurt – 상처
Suffer – 고통을 겪다 / 고통을 받다
Selfish- 이기적이다
Engagement to be married – 약혼
A superior / senior – 선배
Confession – 자백
Identity – 정체


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For a book-loving child, nothing is more exciting than a row of unread volumes in a newly discovered fiction series. It may sound strange, but it's true: characters in books can become the most reliable friends in a young person's life. A century ago kids were reading the Boxcar Children. Then Tom Swift flew onto the scene with a new invention under each arm. Four generations have cut their teeth on the reckless escapades of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, whose fresh adventures are now packaged to resemble more contemporary favorites, like the Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High.
These days, as everybody knows, the series most young readers are anxiously following is the one featuring the boy with the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. Every Muggle child on Earth, it seems, is walking around with a J.K. Rowling book in his or her hand, talking about Harry and Ron and Hermione as if they sit beside them at school.
Thanks largely to Rowling, who single-handedly inspired the children's bestseller list, fantasy series in general are flourishing. In fact, we've discovered several worthy alternatives to the Potter chronicles. In between updates from Hogwarts, kids can turn to the exciting new series spotlighted below.
Battling the Queen of Elves
Terry Pratchett is the author of, among many other things, the Discworld books, a series set in a crazy world where magic works (sometimes), and children and frogs converse like Monty Python characters. Pratchett's books have sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. An utterly unpredictable author, he seems to have cobbled together Discworld from medieval superstitions, Victorian novels and a host of fairy tales, all of which are filtered through his modern and intelligent sensibility. His books are often both suspenseful and funny. Best of all, he doesn't cushion his satirical punches. In the recent Carnegie Award-winning The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, a cat rants about government, and rats debate what happens after death.
In the latest Discworld volume, The Wee Free Men (HarperCollins, $16.99, 224 pages, ISBN 0060012366), smart young Tiffany Aching finds herself uneasily allied with a wild clan of six-inch-high blue men who help her battle the Queen of the Elves. Along the way, she bests villains, monsters and patronizing adults.
Pratchett's dialogue, as always, is outrageously funny. It's typical of him to put a new spin on classical creatures like fairies and leprechauns. The flying fairies in The Wee Free Men are as scary as the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, and Pratchett's grimhounds are fully worthy of The Hound of the Baskervilles. But the chief delight here is the character of Tiffany, a tough, bright heroine.
A one-of-a-kind hero
Any child who has wearied of the virtuous and heroic Harry Potter will delight in the subversive series about Artemis Fowl, written by Irish novelist Eoin Colfer. Artemis, it appears, is giving Harry a run for his money. The third installment in his adventures, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, has a first printing of 250,000 copies.
Colfer's young hero is a genius, a criminal mastermind who concocts world-class schemes usually involving stolen Fairy technology. It's easy to imagine the pleasure a young reader will have following his newest escapades. The Eternity Code is a wild tale replete with spies, high-tech inventions, unreliable magic and military centaurs. Artemis' adventures occur all over Earth and, not surprisingly, elsewhere. This time around, the young whiz has constructed a supercomputer from Fairy secrets that, of course, he stole. Does he pay for his crimes? In misadventures, yes.
A cross between Han Solo, Harry Potter and Encyclopedia Brown, Artemis is a one-of-a-kind. With such a wild inheritance Colfer's novels seldom veer toward cliché. His books are long and solid and, like Pratchett's, they lack illustrations. These are stories for older readers who are ready to sink their teeth into a meaty novel.
The amazing Graces
Tony DiTerlizzi is the artist responsible for last year's acclaimed picture book The Spider and the Fly. Before tackling children's books, he illustrated games such as Dungeons & Dragons and the trading card series Magic the Gathering. Lately, he has focused his talents on a five-book series co-created with fantasy novelist Holly Black. "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a new series from Simon and Schuster, tell the story of the three Grace siblings—twins Jared and Simon and their older sister Mallory. When their parents divorce, they move with their mother into a relative's decrepit old house. Jared, the trouble-prone underachiever, is the viewpoint character. In the attic he finds a field guide to faeries and soon sees evidence of them all around—the premise upon which the books are based.
The first two Spiderwick entries are The Field Guide ($9.95, 128 pages, ISBN 0689859368) and The Seeing Stone ($9.95, 128 pages, ISBN 0689859376). The first suspenseful volume lays the necessary groundwork and permits the reader to eavesdrop on Jared's initial puzzling discoveries. Packed with misadventures that will inspire sympathy in readers, both books are fast-paced, with line drawings and full-color paintings that are richly detailed. This fall, the Grace kids' adventures will continue with the publication of Lucinda's Secret.
A dreadful scene
The first book in a trilogy by popular children's author Philip Ardagh, A House Called Awful End stars 11-year-old Eddie Dickens. The first sentence will pull in readers who enjoy Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket: "When Eddie Dickens was eleven years old, both his parents caught some awful disease that made them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of old hot-water bottles." The hero is named Dickens for a reason. The story takes place in a kind of cartoon-Dickensian London, and Eddie runs into enough misfortunes and eccentrics for an Oliver Twist or a David Copperfield.
Dreadful Acts (Henry Holt, $14.95, 144 pages, ISBN 0805071555), the sequel to Awful End, has just been published, and the third installment in the series will arrive in the fall. Although it lacks the wit and sophistication of the Discworld and Artemis Fowl tales, the series is endlessly jokey and playful. Many a child will laugh aloud at parenthetical snide remarks, and the illustrations by David Roberts have a very contemporary spookiness. Like the other series, the Eddie Dickens books make the human race look alarmingly freakish, which, as these authors understand, is pretty much how kids view the adult world.
Viking will publish Michael Sims' new book, Adam's Navel, in August. Copyright 2003 BookPage Reviews
Horn Book Guide Reviews 2003 Fall
Artemis and Captain Holly Short are at it again, this time attempting to thwart the evil Spiro's theft of an ingenious device Artemis has designed that (inadvertently) puts the fairy world in danger. There's plenty of snappy dialogue, badass posturing, and blow-by-blow fight scenes, but by the end the characters and story are right back where they started, which means that the next book in the series is completely free to do the same thing all over again. Copyright 2003 Horn Book Guide Reviews
Publishers Weekly Reviews 2003 March #5
Even better than The Arctic Incident, this third fantasy thriller starring Artemis Fowl pits the 13-year-old criminal mastermind against his most cunning adversary yet-American billionaire Jon Spiro, owner of the high-tech firm Fission Chips. Artemis Fowl's father, while recuperating from the brush with death he suffered in the last installment, makes a stunning announcement: he wants the family to turn over a new leaf and hew to the straight and narrow. Fortunately for readers, Artemis has other plans. "One last adventure, then the Fowls could be a proper family," he decides. After all, what could go wrong? Everything, as it turns out. Artemis's scheme to extract one metric ton of gold from Spiro, in exchange for keeping the C Cube-a beyond-state-of-the-art computer he's built using pirated fairy technology-off the market, backfires spectacularly. In order to save Butler, his bodyguard, and set things back to rights in the fairy world, Artemis joins forces with Butler's sister Juliet and drafts the help of the usual suspects (elf captain Holly Short, computer-geek centaur Foaly, flatulent dwarf Mulch Diggums). Once again, Colfer serves up a high-intensity plot involving cryogenics and a mobster mentality as the action hurtles toward the climactic break-in at Chicago's Spiro Needle. Agile prose (Jon Spiro is "thin as a javelin" ), rapid-fire dialogue and wise-acre humor ("Goblins. Evolution's little joke. Pick the dumbest creatures on the planet and give them the ability to conjure fire") ensure that readers will burn the midnight oil to the finish. (The ending leaves the door wide open for yet another sequel.) Ages 12-up. (May) FYI: A one-day laydown on May 6 and a 10-city author tour are planned. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. #
School Library Journal Reviews 2003 July
Gr 5-8-Antihero Artemis Fowl, now 13 years old, is back. He has used stolen fairy technology to create a supercomputer known as the "C Cube," which will render all existing technology obsolete. He meets with Jon Spiro, head of "Fission Chips," with a proposition. For a price, he will suppress his cube, and allow Spiro time to sell his potentially worthless stocks and buy into Fowl Industries. Spiro double-crosses Artemis, and in the ensuing melee he steals the C Cube and Artemis's bodyguard, Butler, is murdered. The scene is totally out of James Bond; one fully expects to hear the familiar theme music and to see the credits as it concludes. The action does not let up as Artemis teams with the fairy policewoman Captain Holly Short and other companions to bring Butler back to life, and then to retrieve the Cube from Spiro's Chicago fortress. The plot is filled with crosses and double crosses, unmarked vans, and impenetrable security systems. It's exciting stuff, but the writing is often clichéd at worst, and merely workmanlike at best. Butler's death scene is particularly hackneyed, echoing every overly dramatic death scene one can think of. Still, this latest adventure is sure to be popular with fans of the series.-Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
VOYA Reviews 2003 October
Thirteen-year-old master criminal Artemis Fowl has promised his father that he will go straight, but not before he has celebrated one last illicit triumph. Fowl wants to make an under-the-counter deal with Jon Spiro, a Chicago businessman with serious mob connections. The boy has created a new super-computer, the C Cube, using illicit fairy technology, and he has convinced Spiro that the machine would do serious damage to his financial empire if Artemis sells it to competitors. Instead, he proposes accepting a bribe from Spiro to keep the new computer off the market. The businessman turns the tables, however, ambushing Artemis, stealing the device, and leaving the boy's faithful and heretofore impregnable bodyguard Butler mortally wounded. To save Butler's life and recover the C Cube before Spiro can use it to dominate the world, Artemis must contact his old enemy and unwilling ally, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, for aid. He must also get help from Butler's half-trained sister Juliet, a decidedly loose cannon, and a foul-mouthed dwarf thief named Mulch. Readers who made the first two Artemis Fowl books bestsellers will also enjoy this latest installment, which again features Colfer's trademark broad humor, engaging if flat characters, and high-speed action, not to mention the unlikely mix of magic and technology. The series continues to be a good read but lacks the depth found in the fantasies of Diana Wynne Jones or J. K. Rowling.-Michael Levy. 3Q 5P M J Copyright 2003 Voya Reviews


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New pictures of what Elvis Presley Boulevard will eventually look
like were released to the public in advance of its planned mid-November
The multi-million-dollar revitalization project has been in the works for a while and still has five years until completion.
"Here are your tax dollars being at work," said Memphis City Councilman Harold Collins. "It's going to benefit everybody immediately and going forward for the next 40-50 years we hope."
Elvis Presley Boulevard will undergo a total redesign with better spots for pedestrians and bicyclists. There will be new roadways and nicer looking and more sturdy traffic signals.
Also part of the renovation city officials seem most proud of is a large design in the middle of the intersection at Presley and Brooks, full of colored pavement. On one side, depending on where you're going, you may see a large W in the road for Whitehaven, and of course in the other direction that flips to a big M for Memphis.
"So that you know that you're arriving somewhere, you get a sense that this is some place different," said John Cameron, city engineer.
Councilman Collins calls the Presley Boulevard upgrade a major step forward.
A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for Nov. 15 with construction to follow soon after.
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According to the latest update from Network Rail, 8 passengers and 2 crew members were on board the train that derailed near Bargoed this morning.
There were 3 reported minor injuries, which were treated at the scene.
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The Behemoth Adds Bears and Shuffle Blocks to Battleblock Theater
Posted on Tuesday, December 27 @ 12:37:48 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff
Never mind that Castle Crashers is still a ton of fun to play with some co-op buddies, I'm ready for the platforming madness known as Battleblock Theater. The Behemoth just makes it harder to wait with this drip-feed updating.
The latest, titled The Bear and the Block, features a new controllable character and a new platforming element called the Shuffle Block. The Behemoth devblog explains:
If you have no idea what I'm ranting and raving about, check out GameRevolution's PAX Prime impressions of the upcoming XBLA title from the minds at The Behemoth.
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Met Police to launch full investigation into missing Madeleine McCann
It's being reported that the Metropolitan Police will launch a full investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
It follows a two-year review of the case by Scotland Yard officers who have already identified around 20 new suspects.
It's not yet been confirmed, but it is expected that the Home Office will fund a new inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine, who was from Rothley, Leicestershire.


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Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer/performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism. He is also a producer/director who spent ten years at the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Producer, Director of New Play Development and co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative.
His plays and performances include Electricidad (Teatro Vision-San Jose, Mark Taper Forum-Los Angeles, Goodman Theatre-Chicago, Borderlands Theatre-Tucson), Downtown (Institute of Contemporary Art-London, XTeresa Performance Space-Mexico City), No Holds Barrio (Goodman Theatre-Chicago), Body of Faith (Cornerstone Theater Company-Los Angeles), Straight As A Line (Primary Stages-NY, Edinburgh Festival-Scotland, Goodman Theatre-Chicago, The National Theatre of Romania [2 year run]) Bitter Homes and Gardens (Latino Chicago, Playwrights Arena-Los Angeles) Ladybird (La Jolla Playhouse), Black Butterfly (Smithsonian Museum, The Kennedy Center-Washington D.C., Mark Taper Forum-Los Angeles) and Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (Taper Too-Los Angeles, Teatro Vista-Chicago and Hartford Stage-Connecticut).
Luis is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, popularly known as a "genius grant," awarded to people who have demonstrated expertise and exceptional creativity in their respective fields. A Rockefeller Fellow and University of California Regents Chair Fellow, he is the only artist to have won two awards in the same year from The Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays. He is also the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, Theatre Communications Group and PEN USA, among others.
He is featured in over 25 anthologies, has an award-winning spoken word CD, and was nominated for a local Emmy for his short film, Chicanismo. He is a member of New Dramatists, an associate artist at Playwrights Arena and Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He recently wrote and sold his first screenplay, a collaboration with filmmaker Fina Torres, and joined the Writers Guild of America.
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Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. The Chinese need energy to continue economic growth. Busch Stadium needs energy to light the stadium, keep the Budweiser cold, and light the Stan Musial statue. The City of St. Louis needs energy to run traffic lights, street lamps, provide electricity. The St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Club, though, does not need energy.
Sitting at the Par Lounge, Bernie could have written an intelligent, researched post about how the Cardinals squandered good pitching performances, how they aren't getting guys on-base, how they are not being patient at the plate, how Pujols being out amplifies the black hole in offensive production that is our middle infield, or some other poignant subject. Of course, Bernie didn't do that. Instead he embarked on the worst kind of sports writing, a column on the stuff of myth and lore--in this case, it's "energy."
Bernie states that the Cardinals need to "energize" their attack, by playing Barton and Ryan more as well as by calling up Memphis Redbirds (apparently because AAA players have more "energy"). Admittedly, since greenies were banned, teams seem a little lethargic. The chocolate-covered espresso beans from Starbucks don't seem to be doing the trick. The problem is that we are swinging more, taking fewer pitches, and walking less. Surely, taking a pitch is the least energetic endeavor in baseball, followed by its derivative--the walk. As LB chronicled in a post that was everything Bernie's is not, this is the problem of our beloved Redbirds since Pujols went down.
I don't think that Cesar Izturis's inability to hit is due to a lack of energy, nor do I think that Kennedy's incredibly slow bat speed is because his energy cells are running low. And, anyone will tell you that Aaron Miles always puts forth 117% in his grit-filled efforts. But energetic scrappiness doesn't mean that Miles should play over Ryan, either. Brendan Ryan should be getting more ABs because Izturis and Kennedy just aren't that good.
The Real Izturis has stood up. It has nothing to do with energy and everything to do with skill, or a lack thereof. An inflated OBP in the early going has fallen to normal and expected levels. And an inflated OPS, especially after his lone HR, has similarly sank like a stone cast into the sea. His BA is also bad. He is not good enough to be penciled into a big league lineup for a team striving to play in October. For the year, Izturis is batting .241/.315/.313, for a horrid .628 OPS that ranks him 20th out of 21 big leaguers with at least 200 PAs as a shortstop. Point blank, Cesar Izturis should not be allowed to dig into a Major League batter's box.
Adam Kennedy has proven himself washed up as well. The question of whether or not Kennedy would be able to rebound from his horrendous 2007 season after surgery has been resoundingly answered in the negative. His slapping weakly proved lucky early this season, but has since evened out, exposing him as a subpar player not fit to button a jersey with Cardinals-on-bat (and, probably not even with a Redbird-on-Memphis). AK's .258 BA might not be unbearable if his OBP weren't worse than even Izturis at .308. To make matters worse, he is slugging only .304 (and that's in the wake of his only HR of the season). All of this makes for an OPS of .637, which is bad for 22nd out of 24 secondbasemen with at least 175 PAs. Kennedy is the new Junior Spivey and should be dealt with accordingly.
Even after today's very good performance, Aaron Miles is on the fringe of being a legitimate big leaguer. He certainly is not good enough defensively to have played SS as much as he has this season. Even one inning is too much. His high BA, for him, of .293 has bolstered his marginal .333 OBP, and today's blasts have propped up a nonexistent slugging percentage. Nonetheless his OPS of .681 is not good and intolerable with the black hole at SS.
I'm not at all stating that Brendan Ryan has been setting the park ablaze with his hitting. That said, in his relatively few ABs, he has hit .276/.321/.314, for an OPS of .636, which sucks. But, last season he put up an OPS of .753 and he did have the best Spring Training of our quartet of slappy middle infielders. He has played a solid defense in his limited playing time, as well, showing good range. It would do the Cards well to see what Ryan can do since it cannot conceivably be worse than Izturis and Kennedy. That way, we know how badly we need to target a middle infielder come the deadline.
What the Cardinals need in the wake of Pujols' injury is not energy, but baserunners and power. In the K.C. sweep, we managed a mere .224 OBP. We also slugged four XBH, one of which was a solo Ankiel homer. With no one on the basepaths and no one driving the ball, runs were not scored. Luckily, power was to be had from some unlikely sources between the hallowed foul lines of Fenway. LaRue, Skippy, and Yadi all homered in Game 1, a game in which we had 13 baserunners. (I tried to calculate the odds of these three all homering in the same game, but my head nearly exploded, so I stopped for safety's sake.) In Game 2, Miles whacked one, as did the sluggers Glaus and Ankiel. We had 17 baserunners in the game.
I paid close attention during these games and I didn't see any great energy differential. I didn't a radiant glow from the Cardinal dugout in Fenway. Nor did anyone seem to be playing harder in Boston than in St. Louis vs. the Royals. The played with the energy that professional ballplayers intent on winning play with--both in St. Louis vs. K.C. and in Boston vs. the Sox.


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The first accident happened on Highway 53 North near Briggs Road.
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End around to Tulsa?
January 22, 2009 10:56 PM
I came across this interesting note tonight involving a potential CHL-IHL flap over a player:
Grand Rapids of the AHL is trying to reassign Flint's Josef Fojtik to Tulsa of the Central League but might not be able to so since the IHL and CHL have reciprocal agreements to honor each other's contracts.
A look at the IHL's transactions listing results in Fojtik's name not listed among Flint's myriad of moves. However, where it gets interesting is on the AHL's transaction ledger:
01/22/2009 Josef Fojtik (LW) Grand Rapids DEL Loaned to Tulsa (CHL)
01/22/2009 Josef Fojtik (LW) Grand Rapids ADD Recalled from loan to Flint (IHL)
The interesting thing to note here is "recalled from loan to Flint." If my understanding of the rules is correct, then the only way Flint retains Fojtik's Double-A rights is if he was signed to an IHL contract first and then signed to a PTO (aka tryout) agreement by Grand Rapids and called up. But if Fojtik signed with Grand Rapids first and was then loaned to Flint to start the year, then technically the AHL team can reassign him to anywhere they want.
A similar situation happened in Corpus in 2003-04 with Ed McGrane, who was Houston property, assigned to Corpus, recalled and then reassigned to Louisiana.
Fojtik has decent stats, so this wouldn't be a bad pickup for Tulsa. And I can imagine Grand Rapids wanting him to play someplace where the players get paid and don't get eviction notices on their doors.
Similar situation happened in 1996 (?) when Jean-Guy Trudel was with the ECHL Peoria Rivermen. Owned by the (old) IHLSan Antonio Dragons, he was sent to the Colonial HL QC Mallards for something like 5 games.
Chaos ensued. He hated it (scored 15 points in five games) and it looked to be a favor from a co-owner of the AHL to the coach (or owner) of the Mallards. Of course, Peoria and QC are less than a two-hour drive from each other down I-74, so words flew in the newspapers.
As an aside, Peoria and QC are huge rivals (Peoria = Caterpillar, QC=John Deere - for a time Peoria=ECHL, QC=CoHL&UHL) even though it doesn't seem to carry over to the AHL as much now.
A few years later, Trudel has a cup of coffee with the Coyotes (iced for one game but was healthy scratch for a few more) and the Mallards were crowing about how this was the first player through their developmental system to reach the NHL.


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Maven-based NetBeans platform development with JRebel 6 – minor update
Some months ago I wrote about how easy it is to use JRebel for development of NetBeans platform module [1]. That article was focused mainly on standard ant-based modules. But recently I started to convert my plugins to the maven-based approach. At the same time I started testing JRebel 6 in an EAP. This combination didn't work as described in one of my previous blog entries [2], but I figured it out and I like to document it using this blog post.
Steps to get maven-based nbms running using JRebel 6
- enable "compile on save"
- generate
/src/mainusing the context menu of jrebel (this way it will be copied to
- alter the properties-section of the
pom.xmllike this
<properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <netbeans.run.params.ide/> <netbeans.run.params>-J-noverify -J-javaagent:e:/tools/jrebel/jrebel.jar -J-Drebel.log=true ${netbeans.run.params.ide}</netbeans.run.params> </properties>
- run the module – JRebel will create a bootstrap file in your temp directory once and will quit the execution
JRebel: Starting logging to file: C:\Users\markiewb\.jrebel\jrebel.log [INFO] JRebel is now building a boot class cache. [INFO] This will only happen on this first run, or after manually deleting the rebel boot folder. [WARNING] JRebel bootclasspath not specified! [WARNING] Make sure to add -Xbootclasspath/p:C:/Users/markiewb/AppData/Local/Temp//rebelboot.jar to jvm arguments [WARNING] Otherwise this warning will appear again, and you won't be able to start your application [INFO] System will exit now, please restart the application to run with JRebel enabled.
- add the bootclasspath argument with the path from the previous output to netbeans.run.params too (please note the "-J" prefix, that is important) (If NetBeans does not start, try to remove ${netbeans.run.params.ide} from the <netbeans.run.params>-parameter
<properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <netbeans.run.params.ide/> <netbeans.run.params>-J-noverify -J-Xbootclasspath/p:C:\Users\markiewb\AppData\Local\Temp\rebelboot.jar -J-javaagent:e:/tools/jrebel/jrebel.jar -J-Drebel.log=true ${netbeans.run.params.ide}</netbeans.run.params> </properties>
- run the module – the application with your module and JRebel should start up
- make changes to your classes and jrebel will pick them up
Tested with Win7 64bit, Oracle JDK 1.7.0u40, JRebel 6.0.0-M3, NetBeans IDE 7.4
- Tested with Win7 64bit, Oracle JDK 1.7.0u45, JRebel 6.0.0-M6, NetBeans IDE 7.4Patch2
- Added comment about removing ${netbeans.run.params.ide}
[1] http://benkiew.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/netbeans-platform-development-with-jrebel-even-more-simplified/
[2] http://benkiew.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/netbeans-module-development-with-jrebel/
NetBeans platform development with JRebel even more simplified
Many things in the JRebel universe have changed in the last months. Several new versions of JRebel were released, Zeroturnaround acquired Javeleon [1] and the JRebel-Plugin for NetBeans IDE got better and better.
Especially the support for developing NetBeans platform/RCP applications has been improved. In my posts [2], [3], [4] I showed you how to configure JRebel to reload your changes within NB platform/NB IDE modules. These are mostly obsolete. The whole process has been simplified, the number of manual steps have been reduced. For example: you don't need to modify any property-file anymore to tell NetBeans to load the JRebel as javaagent.
Please note that the following description only applies to ant-based module development. The maven-based module development still requires some additions to the pom.xml to get JRebel running.
So if you want to use JRebel to "instantly reload" your compiled changes to a fixed- (or locally compiled bleeding-edge-dev-) version of NetBeans IDE (or your own target platform) you have to follow these simple steps:
- install the JRebel-NetBeans-Plugin from the plugin portal and register your license, if not already done
- open your module (or open a module from the checkout sources of NB IDE)
- generate a
rebel.xmlin the source folder of the module – let the JRebel-plugin do this for you (right click on the project node, then "
Generate rebel.xml")
- make sure that the JRebel icon in the toolbar is checked (this is important, because this tells the plugin to add the
-javaagentargument to command line of the next run/debug)
- run the module (you will see the JRebel headers in the output window, which means JRebel is loaded, and the target platform with your module activated will be opened)
- make your changes to the code, compile via
F9(this includes saving – that's the trick)
- go back to the previously started instance of the target platform, repeat your actions and the changes in code are reloaded instantly (Please note that reloads of changes to layer.xml or additions to bundle.properties aren't supported. In this case you still have to "
build" and "
run" the module again.)
This makes it much easier (at least for me) and I hope this simplicity will also attract other developers to write plugins or even to contribute to NB IDE development.
Tested with NB7.3/7.4dev, JRebel-NB-Plugin 1.5.1 and JRebel 5.2.2.
[1] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10543831.htm
[2] http://wp.me/pIpWO-64
[3] http://wp.me/pIpWO-5M
[4] http://wp.me/pIpWO-4n
Update 2013/10/13: To use JRebel with locally compiled bleeding-edge-dev version of NetBeans IDE you still have to set the
tryme.arg.hack property in
nbbuild/build.properties as described in [2]
For example:
tryme.arg.hack=-J-Dnetbeans.full.hack=true -J-noverify -J-javaagent:c:/Users/markiewb/AppData/Roaming/NetBeans/7.4/jrebel/jrebel.jar -J-Xbootclasspath/p:C:/Users/markiewb/AppData/Local/Temp//rebelboot.jar -J-Drebel.log=true
Tested with JRebel 6.0-M3 and NB7.4
JRebel-Plugin 1.3.1 for NetBeans IDE with new configuration UI and remoting
I previously noticed that "JRebel-Plugin 1.3.1 for NetBeans IDE is released. See http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/22254/jrebel-netbeans-plugin
Here some screenshots of the new configuration UI.
Update: The new plugin also allows to configure "JRebel Remoting". See the toolbar icon and the project property page.
Update 2: Now it is even offical – see http://zeroturnaround.com/jrebel/jrebel-for-netbeans-7-2-plugin-released-now-includes-jrebel-remoting/
NetBeans IDE module development with JRebel
This post is mostly obsolete: See http://wp.me/pIpWO-n0 for an updated version.
In my previous post http://wp.me/pIpWO-5M i showed you how to create your own nbm-modules with the help of JRebel. Today i will show you how you can use JRebel to fasten up the development of the NetBeans IDE platform modules.
So if you want to use JRebel to "instantly reload" your compiled changes to a locally compiled bleeding-edge-development-version of NetBeans IDE you have to follow these steps:
- checkout the sources
- run "
ant" to compile the sources and build a NetBeans installation
- open a module to be changed from the checkout sources
- create or open
- add the line:
tryme.args=-J-noverify -J-javaagent:d:/tools/JRebel/jrebel.jar -J-Drebel.log=true(update the path to the correct installation folder)
- create or generate a
jrebel.xmlin the sourcefolder of the module – let the JRebel-plugin do this for you
- run the module against the previously compiled version of NetBeans IDE (now called "target-platform") using the context menu-entry "Run" (you will see the default JRebel headers in the output window, which means JRebel is loaded, and the Target-IDE will be opened)
- make your changes to the code, compile via F9
- go back to "target-platform", do your actions again and the changes are reloaded instantly
FYI: The info about the correct location was taken from http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqNetBeansFullHack
Fast NetBeans module development with JRebel – with screencast
This post is mostly obsolete: See http://wp.me/pIpWO-n0 for an updated version.
Based on a previous post http://benkiew.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/netbeans-module-development-with-jrebel/ i made a small video screencast to show how to use JRebel to improve your productivity when developing NetBeans modules.
1. Preconditions and setup
- NetBeans 7.1.2/7.2.x installed (should work also with other version, but only these two were tested)
- a valid installation of JRebel > 4.5.x (tested with 4.5.x, 4.6, 4.6.2, 5.0.0)
- a valid license for JRebel – can also be the free social one – has to be configured in the JRebel configuration wizard
- JRebel Netbeans Plugin 1.2 installed (use the update center) – required for debugging JRebel-instrumented code and generating rebel.xml
- Change shortcut for "compile" to CTRL-S (Compile includes saving) – the equivalent to eclipse "Build automatically" or NetBeans "Compile on save" (Because "compile on save" is not yet available for module development projects)
2. Step by step
- Follow the instructions to generate a sample project @ http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-code-generator.html
- Select "
Generate rebel.xml" in the context menu of your project, select the root path of your sources
- Add the following line to \nbproject\platform.properties (can be found in the Projects-panel named as "NetBeans Platform Config")
run.args.extra=-J-noverify -J-javaagent:d:/tools/JRebel/jrebel.jar -J-Drebel.log=true
These parameters are taken from the offical JRebel documentation http://manuals.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel-reference-manual/server.html#server-4.6.1
- Run the project -> a new NetBeans instance should be opened
Note the output of the activated JRebel plugin in the output window of the development:
JRebel: Starting logging to file: D:\tools\JRebel\jrebel.log
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] #############################################################
[2012-05-19 12:05:05]
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] JRebel 4.6.2 (201205021440)
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] (c) Copyright ZeroTurnaround OU, Estonia, Tartu.
[2012-05-19 12:05:05]
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] Over the last XXX days JRebel prevented
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] at least XXX redeploys/restarts saving you about X,X hours.
[2012-05-19 12:05:05]
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] Over the last XXX days JRebel prevented
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] at least XXX redeploys/restarts saving you about X,X hours.
[2012-05-19 12:05:05]
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] This product is licensed to XXXX
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] until XXX
[2012-05-19 12:05:05] #############################################################
- Ignore the OSGI-exceptions (JRebel does not yet officially supports nbm-development) – UPDATE: this seams to be fixed in JRebel 5.0.0
- Change the method content, change fields, do some refactoring …
- CTRL-S for compiling including saving (see setup above)
- execute the action in the target IDE again -> JRebel will reload the code
Netbeans module development with JRebel
This post is mostly obsolete: See http://wp.me/pIpWO-n0 for an updated version.
[project]\nbproject\platform.properties add the following line
run.args.extra=-J-noverify -J-javaagent:e:/tools/jrebel/jrebel.jar -J-Drebel.log=true
- This requires a proper installation of jrebel in the path
- Do not forget to generate a
rebel.xmlinto the root of your classpath
- You have to compile the changed java source manually by
Menu->Run->Compile file("Compile-on-save" is not yet available for netbeans modules)
- There will be some OSGI-exceptions when running/debugging the application, but class reloading works properly.
Tested with NetBeans IDE 7.1 RC2 (Build 201111302200)+7.1, JRebel 4.5.3
Other resources: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/mkleint/2009/07/maven-netbeans-platform-javare.html
Update: You can also have a look at Javeleon
Update 2: In maven-based nbms you can run modules the following way (JRebel 4, 5)
- enable "compile on save"
- generate
/src/mainusing the context menu of jrebel (this way it will be copied to
- alter the properties-section of the
pom.xmllike this
<properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <netbeans.run.params.ide/> <netbeans.run.params>-J-noverify -J-javaagent:e:/tools/jrebel/jrebel.jar -J-Drebel.log=true ${netbeans.run.params.ide}</netbeans.run.params> </properties>
- run the module the normal way – you will accounter some osgi-exception as mentioned above
- make changes to your classes and jrebel will pick it up like
[207230] JRebel: Reloading class 'b2s.compare.clipboard.TextDiffer'.
- small issue: the jrebel-messages do not appear on the output-window – but in
Update 3:
@mkleint also blogged about JRebel and NBM-development at http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqMavenPlatformRebel


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Still feeling bleurgh so wont bore you guys with the details of what I've been up to today. Suffice it to say I've not really achieved much.
In other news the one thing I did manage to achieve was updating my photoblog. Theres a few pics out of sequence but given that we've spent 4 days out of thte last 7 in a hospital you'll forgive me for not taking photos every day


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Cambridge Crystallographic Structural Database
The web version of the Cambridge Crystallographic Structural Database (WebCSD) is now available to the McMaster Community.
The database contains hundreds of thousands of published crystallographic data and metadata on organic, organometallic, and metal complex structures whose 3D structures have been determined using X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction.
As with our other e-resources, if you are searching from off-campus, make sure that you are not running a VPN client, and logon via LibAccess. To make this easier, you may wish to install the libaccess bookmarklet on your browser (check out /lab/libaccess-bookmarklet).
Hits from your search can be opened in the Mercury 3D viewer (free download from CCDC at http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/free_services/mercury/downloads/) for analyses.
Further details on access to the database can be obtained from Regina Bendig, Liaison Librarian for Chemistry.
If students would like a workshop on using WebCSD, contact Jim Britten from the Chemistry Department at
email@example.com. Jim previously supported the client version of this database for the department.


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2010 Candidate Interview: David Marks (R-MD)
David Marks is the Republican candidate for Baltimore County's 5th Councilmanic District. The incumbent, Vincent Gardinia is retiring – with a pension on the County's dime of his entire current salary ($54,000). The open seat has attracted 3 Democrats as well, so Marks' general election opponent is still not known. Marks has a background in public policy; his Masters' thesis was written on "how to | Read More »


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