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Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) was sworn into office on December 15, 2008. Since then, he's built the office from two people to more than 100 people, now managing $700-billion dollars, and doing it without any political or outside influences.
As the winner of a Causey Award, Barofsky told Federal News Radio, the quick growth of his office is "a result of the great people that work for us." He said every employee is there because they truly want to be there.
I swear in every employee every other week and one thing we see repeatedly is that just about every employee at SIGTARP has sacrificed something to join our mission, whether it's leaving a high-priced job in the private sector, in corporate America, or leaving a much more stable long term agency which is a little less chaotic, a little less controversial, and will be there in 10 years. Everyone has given something up just to join this mission so it actually makes it pretty easy for me to have such incredibly talented and dedicated people.
The diversity of the office, said Barofsky, was crucial to its success. They couldn't afford to be "too junior because there's not a lot of time for on the job training so we needed those senior people" while they also needed the energy and vitality of young people. The SIGTARP said they tried to bring in people from as many different agencies as possible in order not to import any particular agency's culture.
In the end, said Barofsky, the biggest draw for employees is the mission.
We have our mission statement and that everything that we have done has been to fulfill that mission, which is basically to protect the American taxpayers. To stand between $700 billion dollars of taxpayer money and those who would seek to steal, waste or abuse it. When people saw that we were doing that, it's something they wanted to be part of; whether it was people towards the end of their career, coming in to finish up their federal career at our agency, or people just starting out wanting to get involved on the ground floor of something this exciting and this important.
Causey-winner Neil Barofsky said he's also learned a thing or two about surviving in Washington.
It continues to, on a daily basis, to be surprising to me how much politics is just everywhere in this town and on this job. But basically, you just do the right thing. Always tell the truth. When you make a mistake, admit to your mistake and just keep driving towards the mission and everything else, more or less, solves itself.
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Paying for the cost of a college education requires a partnership among parents, students and the college. Each partner has responsibilities to fulfill in meeting that cost. Financial aid is money that helps you pay for the cost of your education (college fees, books and supplies). City College of San Francisco (CCSF) participates in most Federal and State financial aid programs.
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On Tuesday night, some members of the West Point Board of Selectmen crossed that fine line between utter incompetence and gross absurdity.
We've seen this board pull some in the past, but Tuesday night's motion by Ward 5 Selectmen Jasper Pittman, which called for the city to retain an attorney who would be tasked with looking for improprieties in the May 7 election is not only absurd but in this editor's opinion is an insult to the taxpayers of the community.
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Nobody that reads this column would ever believe that I am actually on a diet. Maybe one day I will talk about healthy food, however, today is not that day. Instead, I'm going to talk about cinnamon rolls.
The West Point/Clay County Arts Council will present Noon Tunes at the Bryan Public Library.
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Those who dedicate themselves every year to raising money for the American Cancer Society, are down to the final preparations for the 2013 Clay County Relay For Life. Inclement weather will not put a damper on the event.
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Curriculum vitae
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Present positions
- Director, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (since 1997)
- Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara (since 2002)
Other positions
- Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Leipzig (since 1999)
- Member, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (since 1999)
- Corresponding Fellow, British Academy (since 1999)
- Foreign Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2000)
- Honorary Doctor of Letters, La Trobe University, Australia (2004)
- Member, Academia Europaea (since 2006)
- Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (since 2007)
- Honorary Member, Cercle Linguistique de Prague (since 2008)
- Corresponding Scientist, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research), Argentina (since 2008)
- Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden (2010)
- Honorary Doctor, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Indonesia (2010)
- Honorary Fellow, Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum, Sudan (2011)
University of Cambridge: Modern and Medieval Languages
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University of Cambridge: Linguistics
Professional career
Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Senior Assistant in Research, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge
University Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Leipzig
Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara
Visiting positions (selected)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Linguistics, School of General Studies, Australian National University, Canberra (July-December)
Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan (September 1993 - July 1994)
Courses taught (since 2001)
- Languages of the World (General Education course)
- Linguistic Structures (Tsez)
- Typology and Universals (various levels)
- Introduction to Syntax
- Syntax Beyond the Clause
- Areal Typology
- Languages and Genes
- Languages of Siberia
- Languages of the Caucasus
- Macrofunctionality
- Reference-Tracking
- Typology of Alignment Systems
- Typology of Causative Constructions
- Typology of Ditransitive Constructions
- Typology of Numeral Systems
PhD committees chaired
- Christidis, Anastasios Phoebus (Univ. of Cambridge, 1977): Adverbials: A Study in the Theory and Practice of Transformational Generative Grammar
- Frommer, Paul Robert (USC, 1981): Postverbal Phenomena in Colloquial Persian Syntax
- Randriamasimanana, Charles (USC, 1981): A Study of the Causative Constructions of Malagasy
- Thorpe, Maner (USC, 1983): Ryukyuan Language History
- Bock, Sylvia Martina (USC, 1984): Fronting in Caribbean Creoles
- Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak (USC, 1985): The Grammar of Focus in Korean Syntax and its Typological Implications
- Matsumoto, Keiji (USC, 1985): A Study of Tense and Aspect in Japanese
- Towtong, Pachongkarn (USC, 1985): Syntactic Areal Classification of Southeast Asian Languages
- Bowe, Heather Joan (USC, 1987): Categories, Constituents and Constituent Order in Pitjantjatjara
- Davies, H. John (Univ. of Cambridge, 1987): Kobon Syntax
- Matthews, Stephen James (USC, 1990): A Cognitive Approach to the Typology of Verbal Aspect
- Mutaka, Ngessimo Mathe (USC, 1990; co-chair: Larry M. Hyman): The Lexical Tonology of Kinande
- Shanklin, Michael Trevor (USC, 1990): The Grammar of Negation in Middle English
- Boyle, Mary Patricia (USC, 1991): Variation in Levels of Language: A Study of Politeness Patterns in Japanese
- Müller-Gotama, Franz (USC, 1991): A Typology of the Syntax–Semantics Interface
- Horie, Kaoru (USC, 1993): A Cross-Linguistic Study of Perception and Cognition Verb -Complements: A Cognitive Perspective
- Kim, Jeongdal (USC, 1993): The Serial Verb Construction in Korean
- Petrucci, Peter (USC, 1993): Slavic Features in the History of Rumanian
- Apresjan, Valentina (USC, 1995): Emotions: Linguistic Representation and Cultural Conceptualization
- Kim, Kyungan (USC, 1995): Causativity in Korean: Syntactic Causative, Control, and Purpose
- Paus, Charles (USC, 1997): A Comparison of the Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Reduction in Moscow Russian and Northwestern Mexican Spanish
- Chodorowska-Pilch, Marianna (USC, 1998; co-chair: Carmen Silva-Corvalán): Encoding of Politeness in Spanish and Polish: A Cross-Linguistic Study
- Sadanandan, Suchitra (USC, 1998; co-chair: Alicja Gorecka): Malayalam Phonology: An Optimality-Theoretic Account
- Aldai, Gontzal (USC, 2002; co-chair: John A. Hawkins): The Grammaticalization of Present and Past Non-Imperfective in Historical Basque
- Velupillai, Viveka (Kath. Univ. Nijmegen, 2002; co-chair: Pieter Muysken): The Tense– Mood–Aspect System of Hawai'i Creole English
- Sakel, Jeanette (Kath. Univ. Nijmegen, 2003; co-chair; Pieter Muysken): A Grammar of Mosetén
- Sonnenschein, Aaron Huey (USC, 2004; co-chair: John A. Hawkins): A Descriptive Grammar of Zoogocho Zapotec
- Chan, Angel (U of Leipzig, 2007; co-chairs: Michael Tomasello, Elena Lieven): The Acquisition of the Transitive Construction: Methodological and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
- Pakendorf, Brigitte (U of Leiden, 2007; co-chair: Frederik Kortlandt): Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives
- Khalilova, Zaira (U of Leiden, 2009; co-chair: Frederik Kortlandt): A Grammar of Khwarshi.
- Forker, Diana (U of Leipzig, 2011): A Grammar of Hinuq.
Guest lectures and conference presentations in the following countries
UK, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania,
Russia, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Tunisia, Sudan, Cameroon, USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea.
Membership of professional associations
- Association for Linguistic Typology (first President, 1995–99)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (German Society for Linguistics)
- Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (Society for Endangered Languages)
- International Association of Maltese Linguistics (Vice-President)
- International Pragmatics Association
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain
- Linguistic Society of America
- Philological Society
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (President, 2008)
- Société Finno-Ougrienne
- Society for Caribbean Linguistics
Membership of editorial boards
- Bespis´mennye Jazyki Dagestana, Serija "Nacional´no-Russkie Slovari" [Unwritten
- Languages of Daghestan, Series "National-Russian Dictionaries"] (Russian Academy of Sciences)
- Cambridge University Press: Studies in Linguistics
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin) (co-editor)
- Ilsienna (International Association of Maltese Linguistics)
- Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies (Honorary member)
- Language and Linguistics (Academia Sinica)
- Letopis (Sorbian Institute)
- Lingue e Linguaggio
- Linguistics
- Logos and Language
- London Oriental Language Library (Benjamins, Amsterdam)
- Mouton Grammar Library (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin) (co-editor)
- North-West European Language Evolution
- Serie Lingüística (Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico)
- Studies in Language (co-managing editor 1991–2011)
- Studies in Language Companion Series (Benjamins, Amsterdam)
- Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics (Rodopi, Amsterdam)
- Typological Studies in Language (Benjamins, Amsterdam)
- Understanding Language (Hodder Education) (co-editor)
Former editorial board memberships include: Australian Journal of Linguistics, Corpora, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Language, Routledge Descriptive Grammars, and Second Language Research.
Externally funded research projects
- "Linguistic Typology of the Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union". Principal
investigator. King's College, Cambridge. Funded by Social Science Research
Council, London. 1975-78. £13,209.
- "Description of the Wiyaw Language of Papua New Guinea". Principal Investigator.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Funded by National Science
Foundation. 1985-86. $83,861.
- "A Framework for Descriptive Grammar". Co-Principal Investigator (with William Croft, University of Michigan). University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Funded by National Science Foundation 1990–93. $64,893.
- "A Descriptive Grammar of Tsez". Co-Principal Investigator (with Maria Polinsky).
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Funded by National Science
Foundation 1993–96. $139,228.
- "Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project (Tofa Project)". (Researchers: David Harrison, Gregory Anderson, Sven Grawunder.) Funded by the Volkswagen-
Stiftung 2002–2005. €588,300.
- "Documentation of Cashinahua: Animacy and Mythology in Huni Kuin (Cashinahua), a Study of Linguistic and Cognitive Categorization in a Panoan Language".
(Researchers: Eliane Camargo, Philippe Erikson.) Funded by the Volkswagen-
Stiftung 2006–09. €299,800.
- "Ditransitive Konstruktionen in den Sprachen der Welt" ["Ditransitive Constructions in the Languages of the World"] Co-Principal Investigator (with Martin Haspelmath). Part of Forschergruppe [Research Consortium] "Grammatik und Verarbeitung verbaler Argumente" ["Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments"]. University of Leipzig/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences. Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2006–09.
- "Documentation of Enets: Digitization and Analysis of Legacy Field Materials and Fieldwork with Last Speakers". (Researchers: Olesya Khanina, Andrej Shluinsky) Funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2008–11. £128,188.
- "Syntaktische Verbklassen in den Sprachen der Welt" ["Syntactic Verb Classes in the Languages of the World"] Co-Principal Investigator (with Martin Haspelmath). (Researchers: Andrej Malchukov, Søren Wichmann.) Part of Forschergruppe [Research Consortium] "Grammatik und Verarbeitung verbaler Argumente" ["Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments"]. University of Leipzig/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences. Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2009–12.
Major administrative assignments
- National Science Foundation Linguistics Panel, Fall 1987–Spring 1990.
- Linguistic Society of America Nominating Committee, 1988–1990 (Chair 1990);
Honorary Members Committee, 1995–1997 (Chair 1997).
- University of Southern California, Department of Linguistics, Chair, 1990–93, 1994–96.
- European Science Foundation, Program in Language Typology, Scientific Advisory
Committee (1990–94); also Chair of Core Group (1993–94).
- Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, International Advisory Board, 1997–2001.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Comité National, Section 34, France,
- Linguapax Institute (International Advisory Board, since 2001).
- European Science Foundation, Program "Origin of Man, Language and Languages",
Chair of Scientific Forum, 2003–2008.
- Sorbian Institute, Bautzen, Germany, Scientific Advisory Board, 2004– (Chair 2009–).
- European Research Council, Advanced Investigator Grant, Chair of Panel SH4 (The
Human Mind and its Complexity: Cognition, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy
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ATHENS, Ohio - Miami University's men's basketball team suffered a hard-fought, 58-54 loss at Ohio University (23-8; 14-2 MAC) on Saturday afternoon at the Convocation Center in the regular-season finale for both teams. The RedHawks (8-21; 3-13 MAC) will be the No. 11 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament and will travel to No. 6 seed Bowling Green for a first-round game on Monday.
Junior forward Will Felder led all players with 20 points, the second 20-point scoring effort of his Miami career. Junior forward Jon Harris finished with 13 points and a career-high nine rebounds, while junior guard Quinten Rollins tallied nine assists, one more than the entire team total for the Bobcats.
Ohio jumped out to a quick, 7-2 lead by the 16:15 mark. A bucket by Felder and a pair of free throws from junior guard Josh Sewell pulled the RedHawks within one, 7-6, but the Bobcats pushed their lead to three, 9-6. Ohio led by as many as six, 15-9, in the first half, but Miami used a 6-0 scoring spurt to even the game at 15-15 off a three-point play at the 8:14 mark. The Bobcats again pulled ahead, but a jumper by Harris gave the RedHawks their first lead since the opening bucket, 19-18, with 5:52 to play in the period.
A jumper by Ohio's D.J. Cooper gave the Bobcats a 20-19 lead, however a Felder triple handed Miami a 22-20 lead with 5:15 to go in the first half. The Bobcats closed within one off a made free throw at 3:33, but Felder tossed in three unanswered buckets to give the RedHawks a 28-21 advantage with 20 seconds remaining in the half. Ohio hit one of two free-throw attempts with under a second left to make the halftime score, 28-22.
Felder led all players at the half with 14 points.
Five points from freshman guard Reggie Johnson and four from Rollins helped the RedHawks extend their lead to 12 points in the second half, 41-29, by the 14:06 mark. A free throw from freshman guard Geovonie McKnight kept the Miami lead at 12, 44-32, with 11:58 to go. Ohio went on a 15-0 run over the next five minutes however, to claim a 47-44 lead, which it would not relinquish.
Sophomore guard Will Sullivan knocked down a bucket at 6:23 to halt the Bobcat flurry and put the RedHawks within one, 47-46. It was Miami's first points in nearly six minutes. The teams went back and forth over the final minutes, but Miami was unable to pull out the win.
Cooper paced the Bobcats, who earned the No. 2 seed in the MAC Tournament, with 17 points.
Tip-off against the Falcons on Monday is set for 7 p.m. The winner of Monday's first-round match-up will face the winner of seventh-seeded Eastern Michigan and No. 10 seed Northern Illinois on Wednesday, March 13 at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena at 9 p.m.


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Birds are vertebrates, with a backbone and skeleton, although some of the bones are hollow to keep the bird light. Their forelimbs have the same bones as the human arm, but they are highly modified to form the structure for wings. Some of the bones in the wrist and fingers are fused together for extra strength.
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Bruce, you're in top form. Whether you like it or not, I suspect that the thoughts you express are appreciated by quite a few stark, raving atheists. I could be mistaken, however.
Morality is simply a teaching tool, Andy, as with anger and other punishments. They can tend to spiral out of control, of course, which you refer to. Sometimes the loss of control and its attendant chaos ends up being beneficial and sometimes terribly destructive and, yes, quite evil. The e-word is not something I use often, but I certainly do use it.
I'm not sure what else to say, other than that my goal with my dissection of morality was to distance myself, as well as anyone reading my words, from morality as it's commonly understood or misunderstood. I appreciate the simplicity of duck morality, cat morality, and mentally-retarded human morality, as it makes better sense to me, overall, than the type I grew up with and continue to be surrounded by.
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Kormend's hopes of reaching the Last 16 of the EuroChallenge were brutally ended as they ran into the EWE Baskets buzzsaw in their final Group F clash, losing 90-67.
After beating Szolnoki Olaj last time out, Kormend put themselves in charge of their own destiny but the unbeaten EWE Baskets had other ideas.
Kormend's crushing defeat, coupled with a 77-71 victory for Szolnoki over BC Timisoara, sees Szolnoki follow Oldenburg into the Last 16.
EWE Baskets had wasted little time in killing off Kormend hopes, with a 22-4 run in the first quarter helping them take a 27-9 lead, and Kormend never showed any signs of recovering from.
Rickey Paulding then hit a three-point to start the second period and Jannik Freese added a lay-up that made it 32-9.
Kormend could not get anything going and the merciless Oldenburg made them pay as Julius Jenkins' three-pointer put them 46-18 up before half-time.
Kormend would stem the bleeding in the second half, but the result they needed was already beyond them.
Paulding led Oldenburg with 22 points while Freese added 21. Adam Chubb collected 15 points with eight rebounds, and Kevin Smit scored 10.
EWE Baskets had to do without the injured trio of Ronnie Burrell, Konrad Wysocki and Robin Smeulders, making the big win an even more impressive statement.
Zvonko Buljan led Kormend with 25 points while Matthew Shaw added 18 with eight rebounds. Csaba Ferencz scored 10 points.
Lami-Véd Körmend head coach Tamás Hencsey"Congratulations to Oldenburg, who was the favourite of our group and showed how the favourites must play. The game was decided in the first quarter. We shot very poorly and we could not only make it more difficult the job of the vistor team."
Oldenburg head coach Sebastian Machowski"We knew it will be a difficult game. Then last night three of our players got injured. In addition they are all playing in the same position, making the situation even more difficult. My team had to show that they still can play well. I am very happy that, in spite of the big difference between the two teams the fans could create a great atmosphere in this small hall."
Lami-Véd Körmend player Ferencz Csaba"We are disappointed because we hoped for a little miracle tonight but it did not work. Congratulations to Oldenburg. We faced a defense today which we are not accustomed to. For this reason we were not able to play our plays and we shot very poorly so the result was obvious. We would like to thank our fans for the support."
Oldenburg guard Drew Joyce"The start was very important for us. Our defense was good and our shooting accuracy as well and we were able to build up a gap against Körmend. Then we were able to control the game, we were focused and did not let Körmend come closer."
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Features I have found to be most important are the unread tweet counter. Instapaper integration. and the number of tweets when loading.
Simplytweet is the only client I've found that does all these things correctly.
If I don't get a chance to read Twitter during the day I'll have about 300-500 unread tweet tk go through. Echo phone and tweetie will only load about 200 tweets so then you have to start reading your timeline backwards which is frustrating. Simplytweet will load up to 2000 unread tweets, which I understand is the maximum in the API.
When reading a tweet that is a video not viewable on the iPhone, or a really long article you don't want to read at that time, InstaPaper is the key to keeping track of those items in one nicely organized place until you can get to your computer to view them. The problem with tweetie's integration of InstaPaper is that you have to click the link wait for the page to start loading before you can add it to instapaper. In Simplytweet you can the tweet to instapaper.
How have all the clients not included an unread tweet counter by meow. It seems natural to want to know whether or not you have 50 or 500 unread tweets.
iPhone Twitter app roundup
So you have an iPhone and you use Twitter, but with the plethora of Twitter applications available in the App Store (including one that just went official), which do you chose? TiPb is here to help with a Twitter app roundup! Now this is not your typical top 5 or top 10 must-have, best Twitter app list. This is about options and alternatives, and Ally, Leanna, and guest writer Alli Flowers have chosen the following 12 to review and help narrow your search:
- Twitter for iPhone
- Twitbit
- Tweeterena
- Osfoora
- HootSuite
- SimplyTweet 3
- Tweetdeck
- Twitterrific
- Twitbird Pro
- Twittelator Pro
- Echofon
- Fluttr
To see what we had to say, follow us after the break!
Twitter for iPhone
Previously known as Tweetie, Twitter for iPhone [Free - iTunes link] is the official Twitter application from Twitter. It is full featured and easy to use. Swiping a tweet will get you reply options, and tapping the tweet will allow you to view attached photos or url's. The swipe to reply seems so natural, and it's uncluttered. Likewise with Tweetie's settings - you know exactly what you're looking at and what will happen if you turn something OFF or ON.
— Alli
If you're looking for a Twitter client with fast and reliable push, Twitbit [$2.99 - iTunes link] is the app for you. However, an excellent push notification system isn't the only thing appealing about Twitbit. The UI is very clean and clutter free. On the bottom toolbar, you will find tabs for your timeline, mentions, messages, lists, and more. Twitbit comes with 4 themes: Gradients, Dark, Plain, and Chat.
The two main complaints about Twitbit is the lack of "quick reply" from the timeline and no option to "reply all". The most impressive feature is how quickly notifications are pushed to your iPhone. Notifications are received within seconds of them being sent.
The developers of Twitbit regularly release updates and do an excellent job of replying to users and adding requested features.
— Leanna
Tweeterena Series
Tweeterena currently comes in 3 flavors; Tweeterena Lite [Free - iTunes link], Tweeterena [$0.99 - iTunes link], and Tweeterena Pro [$3.99 - iTunes link]. The free version is ad-supported while the $0.99 version is sans ads. Tweeterena Pro will get you the following features, which the cheaper versions leave out:
- Multiple Account Support
- Facebook integration
- Custom Backgrounds
- Quick watch user functionality
- Friend grouping
I spent most of my time with the Pro version. As far as I'm concerned, Tweeterena (Pro version or not) has little improvement since I last evaluated it. In terms of functionality, it doesn't offer anything some other clients offer for a lower price or even free. My biggest issue with Tweeterena was honestly the general layout and color schemes. They just don't work well. You get funky shading that just doesn't look right over the backgrounds. Also, custom backgrounds are somewhat very misleading. You don't get to customize your background throughout the entire layout, only in the compose screen. So to me, that just doesn't cut it when several other clients that offer that allow it through the entire thing. And lastly, the settings are split up. Part are found in-app and part are in settings, which to me makes no sense. My honest opinion is that there are much better clients out there for cheaper that are a much better value.
— Ally
Osfoora for Twitter
Osfoora [$2.99 - iTunes link] offeres a clean UI with all the features anyone could want. "Borrowing" from Tweetie, Osfoora allows you to pull down to refresh in any view. While Osfoora has been my primary Twitter client for about a month, my main complaint is that you must tap on a tweet in order to Reply All. Otherwise, tap/hold will get you the typical reply options. I have two favorite things about Osfoora. One: it does a super job of showing conversation threads. Two: the Osfoora developer is extremely active on Twitter, and very responsive to user requests.
— Alli
HootSuite [$2.99 - iTunes link] is a cute little twitter app that also supports Facebook integration. If you use ow.ly to shrink your links, HootSuite will display your stats of shared links.
Unlike most Twitter clients, HootSuite uses columns instead of tabs as method of switching between your timeline, mentions, DM's, etc. To switch between columns, just swipe left or right from your current column. The advantage to columns is that you can add and remove and organize custom columns so you can taylor your experience Twitter to you.
HootSuite is missing one important feature: conversation view. Reading conversations is a huge part of my Twitter experience, so I find the lack of support very disappointing. HootSuite also does not support push notifications. Other than those two missing things, HootSuite is an excellent Twitter client.
— Leanna
SimplyTweet 3
SimplyTweet 3 [$4.99 - iTunes link] was honestly one of my favorite clients I reviewed. It's drop dead simple to navigate around and very similar in style to Tweetie 2. Along the bottom you have all of your essential functions.
One thing I really enjoyed about using SimplyTweet 3 was how fast it was. SimplyTweet also supports all your essential functions. A major plus of SimplyTweet is built-in push. I was a little skeptical at first, but it was extremely quick. And the conversations view is something I really wish other clients would start implementing.
Final thoughts on SimplyTweet 3? It's an extremely decent twitter client. At $4.99, it's a bit steep compared to some other respectable options. Either way – if you'd like built-in push bundled with a twitter client with a great UI and easy to navigate interface, SimplyTweet may just be for you.
— Ally
If you like TweetDeck on your desktop, you might very well be happy with TweetDeck [Free -iTunes link] on your iPhone - especially since it's free. I love being able to view my tweets in columns (similar to Twitter lists). It can save you time when you don't really want to look through your entire follow timeline - especially if you follow a large number of people. All the basic features of any Twitter client are included in TweetDeck, and I really can find no fault in it. Columns begin zoomed out so that you can scroll left and right between them, and when a column is chosen, it zooms in so that you can scroll up and down through the tweets. TweetDeck's columns work the same way as the views on every other client, but with a little more flexibility in that you decide exactly who you want in each column. Not much variety in design - you can choose from "dark" or "light."
— Alli
Twitterrific was the first Twitter application released with the launch of iPhone OS 2.0. So it has been around for a long time and has seen many improvements and won many design awards. Twitterrific is available in two versions: a free, ad supported version [iTunes link], and a premium ad-free version [$4.99 - iTunes link]. Neither versions include push.
Those design awards were well earned as style is what Twitterrific does best. The UI is beautiful and you can easily change font size with a tap of a button on the timeline. Twitterrific includes 3 themes: Raven, Snowy, and Basic. It also offers the unique option of left-handed controls. Twitterrific is an excellent full-featured Twitter client with a wonderful design.
— Leanna
Twitbird Pro
Another client that showed up on the Twitter scene not too long ago that pleasantly surprised me is Twitbird Pro [$2.99 - iTunes link] Not only is Twitbird Pro rich with features, there are tons of customization options, including changing your wallpaper throughout the entire app, which I enjoyed. Twitbird Pro has a very unique conversations view which was implemented extremely well. Twitbird Pro also has built-in push services. There's a slight catch though. The push that comes with Twitbird Pro only supports push between Twitbird Pro users. If you'd like global push from all Twitter users, that'll cost you $2.99 for the upgrade in-app. I did not buy the push service, so if anyone has any hands-on, sound off in the comments about the reliability/speed. Boxcar supports Twitbird Pro, so I just set Boxcar to open Twitbird Pro and had no issues. My verdict is that TwitBird Pro has tons of potential. The implementation and layout is almost there, but not quite.
— Ally
Twittelator Pro
Twittelator Pro [$4.99 - iTunes link] was the first truly great Twitter app for iPhone. There are so many options it can sometimes be confusing. Perhaps when iPhone 4 is released, there will be a real purpose to having sounds on new tweets, but for now it's a feature that you can't take much advantage of, and due to the lame nature of the sounds… you probably wouldn't want to. Nonetheless, Twittelator Pro does everything: sounds, themes, conversations, photos, geotagging, you name it. For some reason, scrolling quickly to the top in Twittelator Pro is disconcerting. One tap goes up a page, two taps goes straight to the top. It just seems like one option too many. Replying to a tweet in Twittelator Pro can be a trial. Double tap the time shown on the right to quick reply, tap the avatar for the full set of options beneath the user's profile.
— Alli
Echofon for Twitter is one of the few Twitter clients that offer push notifications. The free, ad-supported version [iTunes link] only pushes mentions and DMs from other Echofon users. The "pro" ad-free version [$4.99 - iTunes link] sends notifications from all Twitter users.
If you are looking for reliable push notifications, Echofon is not for you. I highly recommend test-driving the free version before purchasing the ad-free version to see if push meets your standards. If you're a FireFox or Mac (or both) user, one great feature of Echofon is that it syncs unread tweets across all platforms.
One thing that some people may love and others may hate is that conversations are viewed with oldest on top. This is obviously the most natural way to read a conversation, but I find it a bit awkward because it goes against the Twitter style.
Other than my disappointment with push notifications, I view Echofon to be a great Twitter client.
— Leanna
My last client was Fluttr [$2.99 – iTunes link]. I somewhat decided to review Fluttr last minute. I was browsing the app store and the layout looked pretty slick.
Unfortunately, I don't have too much to say at this time. Every time I tried to test it out, I got tons of API errors and it never wanted to load my mentions (see screenshots).
From what I could get out of it, it had the same problem TwitBird Pro has with mentions. You have to click back to the home screen in order to access anything. To me, it's a bit redundant, as you shouldn't have to do that for main functions. They should be easily accessible all along the bottom. The UI is put together very nicely and I think it's a client to definitely keep an eye on. A few good quality updates and it could be a good contender. It does have several features including lists. If I could have used them without getting errors, I may have been more willing to give it more time on my main iPhone home screen. The bugs are what keep me from recommending it as of now. Either way – jump down for screens!
— Ally
Given the packed field of competition amongst Twitter clients, the winner will have to have something very special. Something way beyond push notification or themes. I know several people who continue using the first Twitter client they tried when they got their iPhones. Some of us (like the three of us bringing you this roundup), keep trying new Twitter apps in search of that je ne sais quoi. We'll know it when we see it, I'm sure. But we have to keep trying them all, and discovering which tiny things we love and which we dislike, waiting for that one perfect app that puts all our favorites together in one beautiful package. Which one is right for you? Heck if we know - we can't even decide which is right for ourselves. But this is truly a case of it being the trip and not the destination that makes it all worth the ride.
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iPhone Twitter app roundup
Features I have found to be most important are the unread tweet counter. Instapaper integration. and the number of tweets when loading.
One major feature of HootSuite not mentioned in the article is HootSuite's ability to pre-schedule tweets...a great use of Twitter for my needs (publishing announcements for a high school choir). I don't know if any other Twitter app does this. Not that HootSuite is my favorite app--that would probably fall to TweetDeck. I also keep Twittelator Pro on my device for those other options the other Twitter apps don't have.
I use Twitbird which I think is easily the best - tried most of them, stuck with them for about a week - and the one I keep coming back to each time is Twitbird - has everything, go to last unread, clear identify what I have read or not - nice integration in the users so you want to follow someone and find out who they follow and all that jazz - overall IMHO the best!!
Other than notifications I am interested to know what it does not do that the other do have - I am aware it's notifications are not great but there is an option which I have also not paid for.
Echofon all the time
that new update to tweet2 is absolutely ugly Aka official
how do I go back to tweet 2
I have 3 that i like Tweetie aka Twitter for Iphone, Twitterrific, and Echofon. Im not really concerned about the whole Push Notification cause i use Boxcar and it has not failed me yet. The one thing i wish for is that Twitter for Iphone will bring more Themes. Im bored of the regular white theme and have always been a fan of the Black Theme.
Need to review the newly added Tweetaholic app as well.
Once upon a time when Ally and I did the initial comparison chart, we all pretty much liked Twittelator Pro.
Since the official Twitter app (formerly Tweetie 2) was released...it's awful. It's like they took all the stuff we didn't want and shoved it in. The stupid slot machine was only the beginning.
Obviously there are a LOT of Twitter clients we didn't look at, and a few features we left out. Did you really want this article to be longer, or have more than the 90some screenshots it already has? ;)
gah. so much effort, so little help. um, so which ones allow creation of drafts? which ones have instapaper support? which ones support geotagging? which ones support twitlonger? which ones have notifications? the whole purpose of a "roundup" is to make choosing one easier, but if you're not going to be comprehensive or consistent, what's the flipping point?
i use Echofon on my iPhone and Mac but echofon is kind of buggy still on the iPhone. I also have tweetie 3 , i didn't update yet , but i dont use it as often. I dont like how it handles RTs and other things i cant think of right now. I used it to upload videos because echofon was not uploading videos for me.
I use Twitbird Pro, and I totally lucked into it. I had paid for the pro version of Echofon, but then someone retweeted an announcement that Twitbird Pro was free for the day only, so I downloaded it and loved it, and it was no problem paying the upgrade fee for the push notifications. IMO, I get the mentions/DM's fast - I've never had a problem with it. I have never sat and tested it out with another friend, but as soon as I open Twitbird after receiving a notification, my mention/DM is right at the top, the most recent tweet, which means I must have just gotten it and been notified of it at the same time. I understand what the author was saying about having to tab back a page to go see just your mentions, but it's not a dealbreaker for me, since it's integrated right into the timeline. I very rarely need to go just look at my mentions - I see it in my timeline, reply back, and I'm done until the next time. I also LOVE the bubbles and the customizable wallpaper.
And also, in my opinion, it does a great job of giving you the amount of new tweets, and the amount unread. I also like how it's very obvious which tweets haven't been read, since they're a light yellow color, while the read tweets are white.
I have tried many different twitter apps, but I always keep coming back to this one. I love it!
@JNGold I'm actually working on that right now!
I keep telling people...SimplyTweet is the way to go. :)
What about Tweetings? I'd like to see it added to your list. Scheduling Tweets... Facebook posting... Multiple themes... Push notifications... Augmented Reality nearby Tweets... custom link shortening API... more!
A couple other newcomers to take a look at include Tweets and Icebird.
Twittelator Pro w/ Boxcar hands down best Twitter client.
here is an option to tap status bar to bring you to top too. Image attachments appear in the tweet as the image, not a link thereby allowing you to save time instead of clicking links. Instapaper integration. Drafts. Geotagging. Customizable themes. Option to change the number of unread tweets loaded. It even translates tweets for you!
Use with Boxcar and you have push notifications.
What else do you guys want? Chances are Twittelator Pro does it.
Totally and completely overlooked Tweets (http://www.prime31.com/tweets) which blows away the other apps. I couldn't live without one touch links, mentions and hashtags. It feels so '90's to have to go to a separate screen to be able to follow a link....
@Jason Fixed! Thanks!
Great comparison. I've tried just about all of these Twitter clients and the only one I use faithfully is SimplyTweet. It just does it all and well. Give it a try if you haven't already. And what makes it stand out even more is the developer. He listens to what the users want and does his best to implement requests.
I had the global push notifications for Twitbird Pro, and they stunk on ice. They rarely loaded even a few minutes after I got a mention online. Every night at 3:00am I would get a barrage of my last 10 or so notifications. The Twitter for iPhone/Boxcar combination has been working MUCH more efficiently. I have also used Twitbit but the amount of features available didn't match Twitbird or Twitter for iPhone. I just wish Twitter would include a dark profile.
I use Echofon (free version) but it has never once notified me of a DM or Reply even though I have push notification turned on. In addition, I have it installed on Firefox and it never syncs the read/unread tweets. I have to bring it up on both Firefox and my phone to mark tweets in both places as read. I would never buy the paid version due to these issues. Seriously, they have NEVER worked for me. I don't know why I seem to be the only one with these issues.
Since SimplyTweet 3 updated to include List support, I find no reason to use more than 2-4 twitter clients on my iPhone to get what I want. Push notifications are excellent and very fast. Plus, the fact that if I don't check for some time, or for a day or so, I will have all my unread tweets (up to 2000 I hear - never got that far up) - and that rocks! Version also offers supper fast switching between multiple accounts.
Twitterific would be my #2 if they had list support and push (can live without push (by keeping SimplyTweet) - but always have been very fond of twitterific.
It's amazing how Apple took Tweetie and made it less. I tried it for about 10 minutes, and that was enough to know it won't be used again anytime soon. The lack of features is pathetic. Why can every Twitter Client developer realize that people need 3 different twitter themes? Dark, gray-scale, and white? This handles every ones contrast viewing pleasures the best!
Great work on the review! Don't add anymore to the list, unless they become more popular. I also say remove any, that have not had any updates in past 4 to 6 or even 12 months. Not sure how many that may be. I don't want to see a review of every twitter app - I don't want you guys spending your time reviewing 30+ twitter apps. Spend your time on the good stuff, getting the podcasts out, news, hacks, etc. Thx!
@nicole: Echofon does have iPhone/Firefox sync. Make sure you go into the Firefox settings, click the account you want to sync and click "Sync with iPhone" and that should take care of that.
Also some changes to your chart for Echofon 1) It does support multiple accounts 2) It has built in Push 3) It has Instapaper and Read It Later 4) It supports lists. You can view lists, subscribe to lists and create lists.
I really like Echofon. I wish the push was faster, but that isn't a deal breaker for me.
What is missing from Twitter for iPhone now? I know the removed the stupid slot machine, but isn't it really just themes and push that it doesnt' have? I got it when Tweetie 2 came out, and have enjoyed it immensely.
But I want to try something new. I can't decide between TwitBird, TwitBit, and SimplyTweet.
I use Twitbird Pro, and I totally lucked into it. I had paid for the pro version of Echofon, but then someone retweeted an announcement that Twitbird Pro was free for the day only, so I downloaded it and loved it, and it was no problem paying the upgrade fee for the push notifications. IMO, I get the mentions/DM's fast – I've never had a problem with it. I have never sat and tested it out with another friend, but as soon as I open Twitbird after receiving a notification, my mention/DM is right at the top, the most recent tweet, which means I must have just gotten it and been notified of it at the same time. I understand what the author was saying about having to tab back a page to go see just your mentions, but it's not a dealbreaker for me, since it's integrated right into the timeline. I very rarely need to go just look at my mentions – I see it in my timeline, reply back, and I'm done until the next time. I also LOVE the bubbles and the customizable wallpaper.
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February 17, 2010
MISENHEIMER, N.C. – The Pfeiffer University women's golf team kicked off the 2010 spring season with a 14th place finish at the Newberry Invitational held Monday and Tuesday in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Chelsea Demers paced the Lady Falcons with a 47th place finish totaling 184.
Newberry won their own event finishing at the top of the 16-team field concluding nine strokes better than in-conference foe Carson-Newman. University of Montevallo's Emily Gibson took home individual medalist honors with rounds of 78 and 79 for a two-day total of 157.
For Pfeiffer, led by Demers' rounds of 93 and 91, Alison Cowles finished tied for 49th with a first round of 86 and two-day total of 186. Jackie McMenimon concluded 54th at 187 while Rene Kelly capped her tournament 67th shooting 196. Elizabeth Johnson withdrew from the competition in round two.
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Grossman rides past the bluff at Legion Park in Everett on a sunny day in early February.
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Art Grossman stops along Marine View Drive in Everett earlier this month. He plans to log 13,000 miles this year, and he's off to a good start.
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Dr. Art Grossman stops along Marine View Drive in Everett on a sunny day earlier this month. He plans to log 13,000 miles this year, and he's off to a good start.
Yes. That is the correct number of zeros.
And just to wow you even more, think of 13,000 miles as more than halfway around the world.
So the obvious question is: Why?
It's a two-part answer.
Number one: Cycling for Grossman means a healthy lifestyle.
"Biking really is very relaxing. It's good for your joints, and it's not particularly hard to do," Grossman said.
Number two: He bikes to have an answer for the many, many times he's asked how many miles he's done.
"I'm trying not to be compulsive about it, and for many years I never even kept track. Then somebody asked me once and that's what started me on it. Otherwise, I really don't care."
But hold on, there's a caveat to that statement.
"Even if I weren't keeping track of the miles," Grossman said. "I'd still want to ride as much as I'm riding"
To reach this 13,000 mileage marker, Grossman has to ride more than 1,000 miles a month. If he had nothing else to do, no problem. But Grossman's an active 66-year-old.
Very active.
He still sees patients part-time at his family medicine practice for the Western Washington Medical Group. He also teaches cycling classes at the Y in Everett and at LA Fitness. And he's been a soccer coach for more than 20 years for North County Soccer League.
Add in family obligations and you've got an overflowing plate.
Grossman bikes to most places he needs to go: soccer games as far north as Burlington in Skagit County to as far south as Woodway High School in Edmonds; to cycle classes he teaches in Mill Creek and north Seattle; to see two of his kids in Seattle; and to family gatherings at his beach house on Whidbey Island.
Grossman also will do 100-mile rides on the weekends and local endurance rides throughout the area.
This year he plans on doing the McClinchy Mile in Arlington, the Ride Around Mount Rainier in One Day (RAMROD), the Seven Hills of Kirkland ride and the Seattle to Portland ride, nicknamed the STP.
Oddly, Grossman has never done the STP before, and if he does the 200-mile ride, he will do it in one day, as opposed to the two days most riders take.
That's just how Grossman rolls.
What started this passion for pushing the pedals?
Grossman said he started riding a little in his 20s. About 12 years ago, he had to take a short leave from running because of an injury.
"And I realized how much fun biking was. So then ? it just sort of exploded."
But all those hours on the bike, what does he do?
"Think," Grossman said. "I think about everything, and I solve all my problems."
Grossman generally rides alone -- most people don't have the kind of time it takes to join him on his long rides. He usually takes a camera along but doesn't listen to music because he believes that is unsafe.
So yes, he thinks.
"It's really pleasant," Grossman said over coffee at a local Starbucks. "Most of my life there are interruptions, and it's really nice not to have any interruptions."
Over the years, Grossman has developed many of his own routes because getting to the places he needs to go means getting off the recognized bike paths such as the Interurban Trail or Centennial Trail.
Grossman speaks passionately about cycling and its health benefits, especially for families. He can't hide his disappointment that the city of Everett has yet to implement major parts of its bike plan for the city.
For two terms, Grossman served on the city's park board with the goal of updating the city's bike plan, specifically connecting the city's bike paths. That goal has yet to be achieved.
"Most people discover which routes are the best ones for them to do and what's safe, but that still doesn't make up for the fact that you can't go through the city on designated bike routes or anything like that for the average family," Grossman said.
Because Grossman has had to pencil out many of his own bike routes, he sometimes talks like a seasoned urban planner, rattling off roads and highways while describing where his next ride might take him.
His trips usually involve a treat: a stop for frozen yogurt.
In 2012, Grossman biked more than 12,000 miles. He was aiming for 13,000. 2013 could be his lucky year.
"Also, I bike because wherever it is that I'm going, I get there in a better mood."
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When we read about a person's triumphs it's usually after the fact. This time, we can watch a triumph unfold.
Dr. Art Grossman of Everett plans on riding 13,000 miles on his bike in 2013.
Every month, The Herald will check in on Grossman's mileage to see if he's on track. Grossman's miles so far this year are XXXXXX.
Remember, these are all road miles. Though Grossman teaches several cycle classes, he doesn't count those indoor miles.
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March 23, 2011 -- Cocoa, used throughout history as a folk medicine, may actually have significant health benefits, according to a new study by Harvard researchers.
Their analysis of 21 studies with 2,575 participants shows that cocoa consumption is associated with decreased blood pressure, improved blood vessel health, and improvement in cholesterol levels, among other benefits.
Eric L. Ding, PhD, of Harvard Medical School says the apparent health benefits come from polyphenolic flavonoids in cocoa that have the potential to prevent heart disease. Flavonoids are antioxidants that are commonly found in fruits, vegetables, tea, wine, and coffee.
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In addition to decreasing blood pressure and improving blood vessel health, consumption of flavonoid-rich cocoa decreased "bad" LDL cholesterol among people under age 50, and increased good HDL cholesterol, the analysis showed.
Flavonoid-rich cocoa consumption also was linked to reductions in risk factors for diabetes -- a major risk factor itself for cardiovascular disease.
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This page will address the sixth concept of maven : the repositories
It will talk about the factorisation of hard disk and the purpose of repositories
It will talk a little of development cycle and the fact that the artifact must be stored somewhere
This page is currently under construction. I expect to have it done no later than 2006-11-05 - Mykel
Maven repositories are arbitrary and acessible locations designed to store the artifacts that maven builds produce. Over the course of the development process, a project will produce versions of its output for consumption by other projects. Ultimately, applications are assembled by combining various artifacts and packaging them together into usable software. These artifacts to be packaged have to reside somewhere, and that's where the maven repository comes in. Maven repositories are the central location for maven artifacts, and maven itself knows how to traverse the structure of maven repositories in order to acquire artifacts that the current build needs but does not have direct (and local) access to.
Defining Repositories
Overriding Defined Repositories
Mirroring Repositories
Classifying Repositories
Maven repositories come in a variety of forms, and there are a number of different means for classifying them. Some repositories are stored locally, so remotely. There are diffferent sorts of repositories for storing fixed versions of artifacts, known as releases, as opposed to versions that are currently being developed (snapshots).
Local vs. Remote repository
Maven may use two different types of repositories in the course of a build.
Remote Repository
Remote repositories are the ones most often discussed during a maven build. At its simplest, a remote repository is a file system hosted by a web server that provides download access to the artifacts it contains.
A single repository is defined in the Maven Super POM as "central". This repository is hosted at Ibiblio, and is noted in the Super POM as http://repo1.maven.org/maven2. Also accessible is http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2, which is or at least was an alias for the URL defined in the Super POM.
TODO Could someone determine what the exact situation is as of now?
Local Repository
Ultimately, all artifacts used in the course of a build are retrieved from the local repository, because any required artifact is downloaded into the local repository where it becomes accessible by the build. Thus, effectively, maven never really uses the artifacts that are stored remotely. Instead, it makes a copy of the remote artifact into the local repository and uses that. This distinction is often lost on manen newbies.
By default, the local repository is located in the HOME/.m2/repository directory of the user invoking the maven build. For unix users, the HOME is usally dented by "~". For Windows users, it's very often in C:\Documents and Settings\insertusername
Release vs. Snapshot repositories
A further segregation of remote repositories is the separation of Release repositories and Snapshot repositories. Note that release vs snapshot repos are always remote, since the local repository has effectively no concept of differentiation between releases and snapshots.
Also note that remote repositories can be set to release both snapshots and releases simultaneously.
Release repositories are designed to hold artifacts that have fixed values and released versions, hence the name. Given the lack of control on artifact version names, a release is effectively any artifact whose version does NOT end in the magic string "-SNAPSHOT".
A release repository is denoted in by having the releases tag in the repo definition set to true, indicating that a given remote repo is capable of serving releases.
Snapshots are defined as artifacts that whose version ends in "-SNAPSHOT"
Snapshot repositories are denoted by having their snapshots tag set to true in the repository definition.
TODO More on snapshots in snapshot repositories
Internal vs. External repositories
In the course of various forms of development, repositories can be further segregated into those which hold artifacts you produce (internal) and those which hold artifacts that others produce (external).
Internal repositories hold artifacts that your project or projects produce. In a solo or very small team environment, this distinction usually applies to repositories one finds on the Internet (central, the codehaus repos, the jboss repos, etc). However, in an enterprise environment, or really any sort of distributed production, we might need to distinguish what we mean by "artifacts you produce".
For instance, if your software staff is working on a product (P) and that product consists of two components (A and B), then you might just have a single repository to handle all your deployment needs. However, if A actually consists of 27 sub-components, each of which may have sub-components, and B consists of another 15 subs, then you may want to think about segregating your repositories into multiple different repositories. See Enterprise Maven Repositories below for fiurther clarification.
This is any repository that does not meet the criteria for an internal repository. To paraphrase, one project's internal repo is another project's external. So one groups internal repositories might be considered the external repos for another group within the same enterprise.
Repositories in Enterprise Development Environments
Why is it so hard to do Enterprise maven development? The whole purpose of maven is to provide structure and support to produce effective, repeatable builds
One reason is that developers usually use IDEs to do development, and maven plays marginally well with those environments.
Another reason is that in the course of development, developers will often be deploying artifacts on top of each other. This is a rather compelling argument for segregating repositories into groups.
Barring any security issues, there can usually be a single release repository where all the artifacts of the enterprise. If two separate projects are going to depend on org.mydom:DefaultArtifact:1.0 then you probably don't want both of them to reference the same instance of that artifact. One very easy way ensure that is to only keep one copy of the dependent artifact.
However, for snapshot repositories, often there's a different picture. Suppose a software production team consists of 100 members, divided into 4 teams of 25 and numbered 1-4. Group 1 is responsible for the business services, which consists of 40 inter-related components. Group 2 does data access, with another 20 components. Group 3 handles external interfaces, with 20 components. Group 4 does a simple gui with 20 components. This brings the total to 100 components.
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So how do we manage this? Group 1 has 25 members working on 40 components. In the course of the normal maven lifecycle, the head of the TRUNK for each project would produce SNAPSHOT versions of the artifacts. Not always, but Groups 2 and 3 might depend on those SNAPSHOTs and they might now. But even if they do, then if group 3 depends on group 1 SNAPSHOTS, then if the snapshot is bad then group 3 is forced to fall back to a previous version. This sounds simple but in practice can be incredibly arduous and requires meticulous management of the POMs and constant vigilance. But we don't want to force group 1 not to deploy SNAPSHOTS for testing within group 1.
One answer is to have seperate SNAPSHOT repositories for each group, where the artifacts for a given group have definitions for that groups snapshot repo, probably within a group parent POM. Another repository defined in all repositories, maybe in an enterprise parent POM, is the general release repository. Thus, group 1's internal development could internally depend on group 1's snapshots and then when artifacts are capable of being released, they could then be released to the general release repo and thus accessible by the other groups.
TODO Explain this better