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'True Blood' Star Rob Kazinsky Put a Spell On Us – The Daily Swoon
Rob Kazinsky is primed to be the next big thing. The actor, who currently stars on the sixth season of 'True Blood' and appears in the upcoming film 'Pacific Rim,' is making us feel all funny inside.
Is it any coincidence that Rob Kazinsky is about to be a big deal, and he looks like Brady Corbet, who, as we said last week, is also about to be a big deal? Dudes who look like these two can get it, apparently.
Kazinsky is a Britsh actor who appears on 'True Blood' as Ben, a fairy dude that Sookie tries to help, but who isn't all that he appears to be. Mysterious! He also stars in 'Pacific Rim,' the giant mech vs. monsters movie that opens this Friday. In that film, he plays an Aussie mech pilot with a bad attitude who kicks some major monster butt alongside fellow cuties Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba.
Oh, and if you're a BBC fan, you might have seen Kazinsky on the soap 'EastEnders,' in which he played Sean Slater for three years.
And if you haven't seen him in anything? Don't worry — you'll be seeing this face everywhere pretty soon.

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I would be grateful for any assistance on simplifying my investing. I have been investing for a while, but just finished reading the Bogleheads Guide to Investing and realized that I hadn't been understanding what I was doing. I'm eager to try a whole portfolio asset allocation, but I'm unsure how to do this, given that I'd like to also replace my current high cost funds with index funds before I do the AA. I would like to have a 70/30 AA (70% US stocks, 30% foreign stocks) using only index funds.
I'm also a grad student with at least 2 more years before I graduate, so I don't have much money to contribute but I'd also like to open a taxable account for short-term goals (~5 year). I'm wondering if I should just stick with these retirement accounts since I'm not even contributing the max to them yet.
Emergency funds are in place
Debt: None
Tax Filing Status: Single
Tax Rate: 15% Federal, 7% State Income, 7.25% State Sales Tax
State of Residence: NC
Age: 29
Desired Asset allocation: 70% stocks / 30% bonds
Desired International allocation: 30% of stocks
Size of total portfolio = mid 5 figures
Taxable Accounts:
9.0% AllianceBernstein Global Thematic Growth A (ALTFX) (1.57%)
4.2% Columbia Mid Cap Growth Fund A (CBSAX) (1.23%)
403b at TIAA CREF
(No ticker symbols because they are not publicly traded)
2.2% CREF Stock (0.49%)
2.2% CREF Equity Index (0.52%)
2.2% CREF Global Equity (0.43%)
2.2% CREF Social Choice (0.46%)
Company match? No
401a at TIAA CREF
8.3% CREF Stock (0.49%)
8.0% CREF Equity Index (0.52%)
7.4% CREF Global Equity (0.43%)
8.8% CREF Social Choice (0.46%)
Company match? Yes, up to 5% (I think)
I stopped contributing once I switched jobs
Roth IRA at Vanguard
45.8% Target Retirement 2045 fund (VTIVX) (0.19%)
(consisting of:
28.8% Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (0.18%)
12.4% Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund (0.22%)
4.6% Vanguard Total Bond Market II Index Fund (0.22%)
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TIAA Bond Index (TBIIX) (0.23%)
TIAA International Equity Index (TCIEX) (0.19%)
TIAA Large Cap Growth Index (TILIX) (0.18%)
TIAA Large Cap Value Index (TILVX) (0.18%)
TIAA Small Cap Blend Index (TISBX) (0.25%)
1. I want to close the AllianceBernstein & Columbia Management Accounts and use that money to contribute to one taxable account that I could use for short-term goals – probably a Vanguard Index Fund like LifeStrategy Growth. What would be the most effective way to do this without triggering capital gains bills/taxes?
2. I realize I should place less tax efficient funds in the tax-free/deferred accounts and need to change my asset allocations overall. How should I go about this? I'd like to do the "whole portfolio" asset allocation that's mentioned in the wiki page on "Asset Allocation in Multiple Accounts", but should I just stick to doing a "mirrored" asset allocation instead?
3. Currently, I've not been able to max out anything while I've been in school – I just contribute $2500 to my Roth. Am I crazy to even consider opening up a taxable account at this time?
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The goal of our staff is to provide the best possible care for you. We are interested in your health and safety, and in your ability to perform to your potential as an athlete and as a person. To this end, we have assembled a very fine staff of athletic trainers and physicians.
Understand that one of the most important components to achieving our goal is good communication. If you have issues which affect your ability to perform (i.e. injury, illness, stress) or any other questions, please let us know. It is a cooperative effort to maintain your health and wellness.
Shaun Toomey, Head Athletic Trainer, came to Westminster in 1987 after stints with Central Michigan University and the Buffalo Bills. He completed his undergraduate work at Miami University in Ohio and attended Indiana State University for graduate school. Shaun's wife Jennifer teaches elementary school. They have two sons, Connor, 20, and Cormick, 18.
Misty Motter, Asssistant Athletic Trainer, joined the Westminster staff in the fall of 2004. She started at Westminster College through Sharon Regional Health System until Westminster hired her full-time. She completed her undergraduate degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Misty and her husband, Mathew, reside in Enon Valley. They have two sons, Nolan, 7 and Noah, 2.
Dr. Howard Phillips, M.D., Team Orthopaedic, has been at Westminster since 1992. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Penn State University in 1967. After graduation, he went to the University of West Virginia where he graduated in 1971 with a Doctor of Medicine Degree. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hand Surgery. He has been at Hermitage Orthopedics and Sports Medicine since 2004.
Dr. David Tonnies, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgical Consultant, joined Westminster in 1999. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science Degree majoring in Molecular Genetics. He proceeded to continue his education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine graduating with a Medical Doctorate in 1992. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He manages the Hermitage Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Clinic in Hermitage, Pennsylvania.
We hope that your summer was enjoyable and that you are physically and mentally ready to return to Westminster. If you have had any injury or condition which has affected your ability to train and you have not already contacted us, please do so immediately.
After reading this letter complete and submit the medical forms (consult checklist at the bottom). This information needs to be on file before an athlete can be cleared for competition and practices. The deadline for returning forms: JULY 15. Should there ever be a change in the information (address, phone numbers, insurance coverage/policy numbers) please inform us so that we can keep our records current.
Special notice to all athletes who are on medication for ADD/ADHD: the NCAA rules for verifying the condition have been revised. You must have a letter from your doctor which verifies the diagnosis and includes the testing which was used in the determination. The ADHD Guidelines Attachment can be downloaded and given to your doctor to facilitate the process.
If you have had any changes to your insurance please update the Insurance Information Form. Please include a COPY of your insurance card as well.
If you are CURRENTLY under the care of a physician please access the Release of Information form so that the doctor will be able to forward any pertinent information to us. Remember that if you are using any type of supplement to send me an email with the specifics of the product name, manufacturer & dosage.
Remember that if you are using or considering a supplement then you should use the recording sheet and submit the information to us in order to ensure that there are no banned substances in those products. For additional information you may also consult the REC.
The NCAA has implemented a rule that every student athlete must provide documentation of his/her sickle cell trait status or complete a waiver program in order to be cleared for participation. The NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Fact Sheet provides information about the condition. In the medical information checklist there is a form which explains the procedures/options for the student-athlete.
If you have any questions on any issues then please contact us.
In order to participate in college athletes, you are REQUIRED to complete this paperwork electronically.
Congratulations on your choice of Westminster College! Please take a moment and read the following information thoroughly; it addresses a number of important issues in your transition to college athletics.
After reading this letter complete and submit the medical forms. This information needs to be on file before an athlete can be cleared for competition and practices. The deadline for returning forms: JULY 15. Should there ever be a change in the information (address, phone numbers, insurance coverage/policy numbers) please inform us so that we can keep our records current.
With regards to insurance coverage for athletic injuries, there is a supplemental insurance policy which is provided for student-athletes. This is a secondary policy to cover expenses which are not met by your primary plan. This applies to injuries sustained during NCAA approved practice/competition.
Please note with the College Admission Physical form you received in the admission package, at the bottom of the last page your signature is required under the participation in athletics section.
If there has been any past medical condition, injury or illness which resulted in restricted activity level, surgery or physical therapy then please make a copy of the Release of Information Form. Complete that form and forward it to the doctor that treated the condition so that information can be released to us.
In the event that the student-athlete will not be 18 years of age when he/she reports to campus, the parent/guardian needs to complete the Permission for Treatment of a Minor form.
As an NCAA institution Westminster College supports and participates in the NCAA's drug testing program. This means that any athlete in post-season NCAA Championship competitions may be randomly selected for drug testing. The NCAA List of Banned Drug Classes is included for you to examine. If you are using any prescription or over-the-counter medication please make sure that you list it/them on the medical history form when you complete it. If you are using or considering the use of any type of nutritional supplement then please contact me, either by phone or email. There are many supplements, even those sold over-the-counter, which contain substances which are banned by the NCAA. We want to make certain that you are not, even unknowingly, in violation of NCAA rules. Also, we want to prevent any potentially harmful side effects from occurring; there is a great deal of misinformation circulating with regard to supplements. For more information you can consult www.drugfreesport.com.
Also, if you are on medication for ADD/ADHD in accordance with NCAA rules specific information must be sent from the treating physician which describes the assessment and treatment. The ADHD Guidelines Attachment can be downloaded and given to the doctor in order to facilitate this process.
In accordance with NCAA rules regarding sickle cell trait, intercollegiate athletes must either provide documentation of sickle cell trait status or go through the waiver process prior to being cleared for sport participation. The NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Fact Sheet provides information about the condition. In the medical information checklist there is a form which explains the procedures/options for the student-athlete.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me either by phone or email.
In order to participate in college athletes, you are REQUIRED to complete this paperwork electronically.
We would like to extend the hospitality of Westminster College to you.
At all the athletic events we will provide water, cups and ice on the sidelines. Our training room in Memorial Field House will be open at least one hour prior to any contest. If you have special needs we have a well equipped facility (US, Laser, NMES, vacuum splints, crutches, whirlpool, hot packs, etc.). If your team is not traveling with an athletic trainer we will not be able to perform any modalities prior to the game.
Should your team be traveling without a trainer we will be happy to tape your athletes provided they bring the necessary supplies.
A certified athletic trainer will be present at all home events.
Home football games are played at Burry Stadium directly behind Memorial Field House. The surface is Field Turf monofilament. Outside the locker rooms in Memorial Field House there is a coed taping and treatment area. If you have any special needs, our athletic training room is just around the corner.
During football games, the team physician (Dr. Howard Phillips) and an ambulance will be on the sidelines if the event should arise they are needed.
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Students are able to work with our sports medicine staff to supplement their education and gain valuable practical experience. Some students volunteer their time while others who are eligible for work-study can be assigned to the athletic training room as their work setting. Others pursue internships or independent study under our supervision for academic credit.
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Softball Announces the Addition of Thomas to Coaching Staff
September 3, 2013
MISENHEIMER, N.C. – The Pfeiffer University softball team has announced the hiring of Haley Thomas as the team's assistant coach, announced head coach Chris Vullo. Thomas comes to Misenheimer after an outstanding playing career at Youngstown St. in Youngstown, OH.
Thomas' arrival on campus in Youngstown was the first step in turning the Penguins' program around. The team recorded eight wins in her freshman year (2009) but would gone on to record the second most wins in school history in 2012 (29). Thomas, a center fielder, tops the majority of the record books at Youngstown St. She ranks first in career hits and career runs and is second in school history in batting average, home runs and slugging percentage. She also holds the record for most hits, stolen bases and runs in a single season.
In 2012, Thomas was named the Horizon League Player of the Year as well as the Youngstown St. University Female Athlete of the Year. She also garnered NFCA Midwest All-Region Second Team honors and was an All-American candidate, while being the team's SAAC representative. She finished the 2012 season with a .431 batting average, .701 slugging percentage, 42 runs scored, 72 hits, nine home runs and 40 RBI's, while going 15-for-16 in stolen base attempts.
"I am very excited about adding Haley to our coaching staff," said Vullo. "She will be working with the outfields and also coach hitting. She had an outstanding career and her experience and success will only benefit our program."
Thomas, originally from Simi Valley, Calif., earned her bachelor's in Physical Education.


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by Becky Jeffcoat, Editor
After reading several articles, letters, emails, facebook status' and hearing people comment on the subject at hand, it makes me wonder what the outcome will be.
Several small business' or those that started as small business' are faced with the threatening of government changes. A new government healthcare mandate says that a business MUST provide what some would believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of their health insurance. Being a Christian, I don't believe in abortion or drugs that might cause abortions such as the morning-after pill or the week-after pill or even emergency contraception. These items or procedures might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to most important beliefs. It goes against Biblical principles and my principles.
Some companies and small business' could be fined up to $1.3 million per day in government fines if they don't comply.
Does our government threaten to fine job creators in a bad economy? Sure they do. I our government threatening to fine companies that raised wages four years running? Yes. Can we not run our companies according to our beliefs? I'm sure everyone believes that we should all follow the rules, that's its the same for everyone, but that's not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won't exempt them for reasons of religious beliefs.
Families who began a small business in their garage, their shed, the basement or the barn, who worked so hard to provide for their families and lived paycheck to paycheck before their companies took off have lived the American Dream. Is it fair that the government is forcing businesses to choose between following their faith or following the law? No. That is a choice that no American and no American Business should have to make.
Do you have concerns on government mandates or the healthcare reform? Send me a letter, lets get involved. We might be a small area in Northeast Missouri, but believe it or not we have voices and we matter.
My mama always told me, "if you don't vote, don't bitch", well I voted so I'm bitching.
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So first couple of days in Pandaria and I have over 40 screenies with dragons in them. Just dragons – everywhere!! I can't help myself, I would say I am spending almost as much time taking pictures of dragons as I am actually questing! (possible exaggeration)!
I am just amazed at how wonderful the artwork is!
I was tempted NOT to hand in the quest in which you have to collect the 4 little dragons, just so I could have them wth me all the time, but I figured they wouldn't last out of the area or even if I logged out…I didn't want to tempt fate…but I loved having four of them trailing around!!
Here are some more that I got to ride on or past or around!
Seriously, I will stop here, I know it is only 4, but I would bore you all to death with just more dragons! LOL
I am in heaven!! DRAGON HEAVEN TELL YOU!!
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I loved that quest too although I haven't done it on live yet. I don't blame you for all the shots. There's just so much to look at and take in↓
Could we say too much?? LOL it is a massive expansion…↓
I've spent way too much of my time yesterday running around getting screenshots– I was good and managed to avoid a lot of the beta spoilers so everything is NEWZOMG! *bounce*
So many beautiful things to see! And most of them are dragons!! (And instaspawn mobs that slaughter me, but who cares– dragons!!!) hehehe↓
oh the insta mobs are horrid in some places, and others they are just non existant! I am the same with skipping beta stuff, I avoided posts as much as possible because I wanted to see it all new↓
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Diane Kaneb
2013 marks the 27th year of Diane E. Kaneb's extraordinary volunteer leadership at Mass. Eye and Ear. Diane has been a member of the Board of Directors for more than 20 years and served as Chairman of the Board from 2006-2009. She has chaired numerous committees including the Executive, Governance, Nominating and Credentialing Committees and she has served on the Human Studies, Business Development, Community Benefits, Compensation and Development Committees, among others. Diane chaired the 21st Century Fund Campaign ('93-'99) and played a key role in our success in raising $50 million. Since July 2011, she has been a key member of the Campaign Planning Steering Committee.
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Annette Nova
Mrs. Nova immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1976. She obtained her Bachelor's of Science and a Master's of Science for Teaching from Boston College. She taught high school chemistry for three years, before going to work as a product specialist for The Foxboro Company, where she was employed from 1989 to 1994. Since 1994, Mrs. Nova has devoted herself to raising three daughters and supporting a number of worthwhile charitable causes.
The Nova family actively supports Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital, where they established the Charles Nowiszewski Chair of Cancer Biology, funding cancer research with a focus on cancer metastasis and angiogenesis. Additionally, the Nova family supports Partners in Health, working closely with founder Paul Farmer to bring quality care to the rural poor in Rwanda. Their current focus is centered on the construction of a teaching hospital in Northern Rwanda, opening June 23, 2010. The Nova family also supports Cradles to Crayons, a local charity providing gently used goods to underserved families in Massachusetts.
Don Perrin
Don is an active angel investor focusing on startup businesses.
Don is a trustee of Lesley University where he was Chair of the Board for several years. He is also an Overseer of The Boston Museum of Science, Member of the Corporation of Partners HealthCare, Overseer of Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Honorary trustee of Temple Israel in Boston.


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VFW weighs sale of its historic home
Costs of building upkeep main factor forcing a decision
Genna Martin / The Herald
Don Wischmann tends bar at Everett VFW Post 2100 on Friday as a patron tries to roll a "Yahtzee" and win a pot of money. The post, established in 1931, is having financial problems and may be forced to sell its building on Oakes Avenue in downtown Everett.
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Everett VFW Post 2100, established in 1931, is having financial problems, partly because of declining membership and may be forced to sell its building in downtown Everett and find a new location.
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George Brown (left) chats with another patron as Don Wischmann tends bar at Everett VFW Post 2100 on Friday.
Everett's Veterans of Foreign Wars Old Guard Post 2100 may have to sell its building.
The post, chartered in 1931, built its brick headquarters on Oakes Avenue shortly after World War II. The two-story building includes a lounge, a dance floor, meeting rooms, a storage attic and a veterans services desk. It also is the current home of the Seattle Veterans Museum.
At its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26, VFW members plan to vote on whether to sell the building and its parking lot, which together have an assessed value of about $1.2 million.
Post 2100 Commander Don Wischmann, a Navy veteran, hopes to find a less expensive home for the Old Guard.
"Our building is paid for, but its age makes it somewhat difficult to maintain. It's the rising costs of operation and the taxes," Wischmann said. "Our income is down because the older members are dying off. We had 22 who passed away this summer alone."
Even though veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including those still on active duty and those in the reserves, have joined the post, the membership roll is shorter than in past years.
Nationally, the Veterans of Foreign Wars has seen a decline in the total number of its posts, said spokeswoman Randi Law at the VFW's national headquarters in Kansas City, Mo.
"We've seen a steady decline over the last several years, however, that decline cannot be attributed solely to financial difficulties," Law said.
The rise of Internet connections has meant that some posts operate mostly online and no longer need a permanent building, she said.
"And though we are losing our older veterans, it's inaccurate to suggest veterans of the modern era are not joining," Law said. "Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan make up about 10 percent of our overall membership. This is a larger group than any previous war."
Some VFW posts have consolidated or have closed their doors and hold meetings at other places, Law said.
For VFW Old Guard Post 2100, it's definitely not a matter of disbanding, Wischmann said.
"We just need a more economical place in which to operate."
The hope is that, if the building sells, the post will find a place to rent or to buy in the downtown area, with room for a lounge and dance floor, a kitchen and meeting room, Wischmann said. The idea is that the veterans services desk and the museum would move with the post, he said.
Todd Crooks, museum director, said he is waiting to hear what the VFW post plans to do. The museum includes uniforms, combat gear, letters from the front lines and other artifacts from each branch of the military and most U.S. wars. Unable to pay rent at its former space at the Seattle Center, the nonprofit museum was saved from a stuffed storage unit by the Everett VFW post, which offered the space earlier this year.
VFW chaplain Earl Stephens, who was instrumental in inviting the museum to Everett, said he is anxious that the museum stay in Everett. The museum is in the process of renaming itself the Veterans Heritage Museum.
"Our need is to have a permanent home," Crooks said. "Because we don't know if we can move with the post, I have sent letters to the city of Everett and Snohomish County asking for help. Perhaps our museum would be a good addition to the military aviation museums up at Paine Field."
Wischmann tends bar in the post's lounge during lunch time a few days a week. Some of the regulars and many of the members are sad about the potential sale and move, he said.
"It's pretty emotional for those who have attachments to the building," Wischmann said. "Most people would like to stay, but most understand that we really can't. It's a cool old building, and we have had some interest in its sale."
The post also looked at other ways to stay put, he said.
"We even thought about getting the building on the National Register of Historic Places, which would have helped with taxes and the ability to get grants to fix it up, but we were told that building didn't qualify."
In the heyday of veterans organizations -- the 1950s through the 1970s -- VFW Post 2100 hosted dances, bingo games and dinners, he said.
"I've been told that there were nights when a person could not find a place to sit," Wischmann said.
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- Activiti Developers Guide
- Building a distribution from the source
- Setup scripts in the distro
Building a distribution from the source
JDK 5+ : Make sure that you do not use code constructs that require JDK 6 or higher.
Maven 2.0.9
Ant 1.7.1
Source Code
https://svn.codehaus.org/activiti (see http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/activiti/repo for more links including anonynmous access for non-committers).
Building the distribution
- Check out the latest version from trunk: 'svn co http://svn.codehaus.org/activiti/activiti/trunk/'
- Go into the distro subfolder and run the following ant command: 'ant clean distro'
- The distribution can now be found in the target folder.
Setup scripts in the distro
After an distribution is unzipped (or directly in the distro/target/activiti-version directory), a number of scripts are offered to our users as well. Those scripts can be found in [activiti.home]/setup/build.xml [user.home]/.activiti/build.properties As an example, here's the content of my[user.home]/.activiti/build.properties:activiti.home=/Users/tombaeyens/Documents/workspace/activiti/distro/target/activiti-5.0.alpha1-SNAPSHOT
activiti.home, is used in the setup/build.xml. It will work straight from the sources. So you can add the setup from the sources to your ant view in your IDE.
downloads.dir, is used in the setup/build.xml. It allows you to configure a custom location for your directory to download/find tomcat. If you don't specify this, the default is relative to the setup directory (../downloads). So if you use the setup/build from the sources, you might end up downloading tomcat into your sources. If that still would happen, don't check it in!
tomcat.enable.debug is used in setup/build.xml when tomcat is installed. if the property is specified (whatever value), the following line will be added at the beginning of the catalina.sh:
JAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8787"
skip.deploy.activiti.modeler=true set this property if the activiti modeler fetching from net and deployment must be skipped.
Unless before a release or explicitely working on Signavio, it's advised to set this property since sometimes a version matching the current trunk version isn't uploaded yet, causing the demo setup to fail.
mvn.executable=mvn.bat on windows you have to set this property to make the calls from the ant build scripts (distro/build.xml and qa/build.xml) to maven work.
[user.home]/.activiti/tomcat-users.xml To enable the automatic redeployment targets in qa/build.xml, put a tomcat-users.xml in your [user.home]/.activiti directory with the following content:
activiti.modeler.download.url: to work with Activiti Modeler or Activiti Cycle on trunk, set property activiti.modeler.download.url in your ${user.home}/.activiti/build.properties
Eclipse IDE Setup
You'll need to install the maven and svn plugins.
In the "Galileo - [http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo|http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo]" update site, which should be available automatically, install "Collaboration --> Subversibe SVN Team provider". After rebooting and adding an SVN repository, you'll be asked automatically to install one of the polarion connectors for SVN. Just take the latest version of the polarion connectors. In case that doesn't happen automatically install a polarion connector manually from "Subversive SVN Connectors Site [http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/|http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/]"
Install the maven plugins from [http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e|http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e]
First check out the activiti root from svn as one project. Then import existing projects and navigate to the modules directory. All the module projects should then be found and can be imported in one go.
Coding style
- In the eclipse directory of the root activiti source directory are some files that should be imported as eclipse preferences. The filenames indicate the dialog that can be used to import them. Those eclipse files indicate the general coding style guidelines.** indents are 2 spaces (no tabs)** sun style braces formatting
- By default, our member field access should be set to protected
As much as possible try to group all related changes into single commits.
Before committing, run the following check to see if all is OK.
In the commit message, start with the jira issue, a space and then the commit text like in this example
Checkin when test is failing
In some situations, it might be practical to check in while some tests are still failing. In that situation, make sure that the tests are excluded in the modules pom.xml and that you have created a JIRA issue for it. Reference the jira issue from the pom next to the excluded test. And reference to the pom in the jira issue.
Build file qa/build.xml contains a number of targets for driving the QA. It also contains convenience targets for developers to do integration testing.
Demo setup
To run smoke tests on webapps, the quickest way to get started is using the target test.demo.setup in qa/build.xml
That will also startup h2 and tomcat. So to rebuild, you can use the target test.demo.setup.refresh That target will first shutdown tomcat and h2 and then do a full new demo test setup.
Building the javadocs
Use target build.javadocs in qa/build.xml
Test suite modules
The test suites in the maven modules have a specific purpose. Some modules only consist of test suites. If you're writing or searching for a certain test, this section should give an indication in which module a test belongs.
Maven module
Description of the tests in that module
Engine implementation tests
These are the examples that are explained in the userguide. For each new feature,
More advanced testing of features targetted to run in all continuous integration test runs.
Contains tests that involve configuration changes. These tests are not run on a matrix
So the continuous integration test runs should execute test suites activiti-examples and activiti-engine-test-api
Running QA tests
This chapter describes how to run the qa tests for Activiti. After defining the configuration these tests ensure that activiti supports your database environment. Tested database systems so far are:
- MySQL 5.1
Setup / Configuration
The following lines will guide you through running the test suite. For this example we will use MySQL 5.1 as database environment. If you would like to run the test suite against a yet unsupported database environment, consult the Developer Guide - Adding support for new database systems.
- Checkout activiti project from SVN
Before you can run the test suite, you need to checkout activiti. The qa tests are located in the projects 'activiti-engine' and in 'activiti-engine-examples', but you do not need to start them from there separately. You will start the tests from the quality assurance project. But before we have to create a new database schema and user.
- Create a new schema and user
First we need to create a new schema and a new user for the database connection. We set the schema name to 'activiti'.The users name and password are 'qa'! If you need guidance on how to create a new schema and user for MySQL, please consult their documentation. Now we need to make sure that the test suite gets a database connection.
- Create a database connection file
You need to provide databse connection properties for the test suite to be executed. This information goes into a file called 'mysql.properties'. Please create the following folder structure:Within this directoy create a new file mysql.properties like this:
jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://<hostname>:<port>/activiti jdbc.username=qa jdbc.password=qa
Run the test suite
Now we are ready to run the qa script. Navigate to /activiti/trunk/qa/ci and run the script that is suitable for your operating system like this:
run-test-db-standalone mysql
If you would like to run the qa script against H2, then you need to execute this command:
run-test-db-standalone h2
Debugging ant task
See How to build Activiti Modeler from Signavio
GIT pointers
We are considering to switch to GIT. Here are instructions to get started for those that want to try it out.
Currently there is a GIT repository fork from SVN, for experimental purposes. If you prefer to use GIT let Tom know and we can take that into account when deciding whether to stick with it.
To use GIT as a committer you will probably want to use ssh to authenticate automatically. Codehaus requires DSA tokens (not RSA) so you may need to create those first:
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa ... <accept the defaults>
Ensure that your
~/.ssh directory is only readable by you (
chmod 700 ~/.ssh should do it). You will also probably need a
~/.ssh/config that contains these lines:
Typical initial setup:
$ git config --global user.name "My Name" $ git config --global user.email email@example.com $ git config --global core.autocrlf input # All the --global above can be set locally if you prefer $ git clone ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/activiti-git.git activiti $ cd activiti $ git branch -a ... (list of branches)
There are plenty of online resources for git. A good one is [Pro Git|http://progit.org/book]. IntelliJ has good IDE support. Eclipse has some very active development in [EGit|http://www.eclipse.org/egit/], but only basic features currently (things are moving very fast). Most people find
gitx (Mac only) very useful for visualization (launch with
--all for best results).
As a rule with GIT you do not make changes directly to remote branches, but rather you create your own local branch and merge changes from there to the remote branch (via a local mirror). Typical workflow
# create a new local branch to work from $ git checkout -b feature/my-new-idea # edit source code... $ git status ... (list of changes) # add all your changes to local index (N.B. -A might not always be appropriate) $ git add -A . # commit locally $ git commit -m "My nice changes"
Keep doing that until you are happy. If you want to tidy up your commits and send them as a batch instead of individual changes look at
git rebase -i .... Now you are ready to share your work. If you want to stay on a branch and collaborate with someone, push up your branch
# if it is new: $ git push origin feature/my-new-idea # if you already shared it $ git push
To checkout someone else's remote branch for collaboration:
# Make sure you have all the remote changes $ git fetch # Or just make sure the branch is there $ git branch -a ... # Checkout the branch $ git checkout origin/feature/my-new-idea
When you are ready to merge with the remote master (dev trunk):
# get changes from remote repository $ git fetch # merge changes onto master (= dev trunk for everyone else) $ git checkout master $ git merge origin/master # merge master onto your features (assuming you are ready to try and push it # up to the remote repository) $ git merge feature/my-new-idea # push changes up to remote repository and move back to local branch to # continue work $ git push $ git checkout feature/my-new-feature # optionally rebase to keep history clean $ git rebase master
There are many combinations of commands that achieve the same end result as that last sequence. Your preferred workflow might be different, and of course any time there are conflicts it will have to change (GIT is quite good at telling you what it thinks is wrong in a conflict).


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A large contingent of Everett police fill much of Wetmore Avenue as filmmakers, actors and police staff work together Tuesday on the shooting of the movie "Seven Minutes."
The standoff went on for hours.
Wetmore Avenue was on a roll.
A Hollywood roll, that is.
Tuesday's filming of the heist movie "Seven Minutes" attracted a flow of onlookers to downtown Everett. The thriller, produced by veteran director Rick Rosenthal, has a small budget and big names such as Kris Kristofferson.
Stars on Wetmore included actors Jason Ritter, Luke Mitchell, Zane Holtz and Brandon Hardesty and actress Leven Rambin, who played Glimmer in "The Hunger Games."
Spectators came with binoculars, strollers and cameras to watch the same standoff scene shot over and over.
It never got boring.
"It's interesting," said Johnny Martinez of Everett. "It's hometown pride. There's a community factor."
Rusty Bennett, a downtown FedEx driver, spent his 10-minute break standing with a group of looky-loos at the corner of Wetmore and California Street.
"Usually I sit and read," he said.
He'd read up on the movie, which is about the heist of a mortgage broker's stash of money. It's the first feature written and directed by Jay Martin.
Spectators were allowed to get close to the filming. They just had to stay out of the way when cameras were rolling. Try telling that to a Dalmatian named Zippy.
The spotted dog burst into the SWAT set a few times.
"He's a networker," said Marilyn Rosenberg, owner of both Cafe Zippy and publicity hound Zippy.
It's not every day there's a standoff to sniff out next door.
Across the street, Karl's Bakery & Cafe provided a front window view of the officers kneeling on the ground, armed and ready.
Film crew members ran in for fritter and caffeine fixes.
"It has been exciting," bakery owner Derek Morse said. "The bathrooms have been busy."
Landon Szmulewitz, a 21-year-old Everett college student, didn't land a job as an extra as he'd hoped, but he went home happy.
"I got my picture with Leven Rambin," he said. "She was about to hop in the van and drive away. My friend took a quick picture."
Between shoots, some police officers also had their picture taken with the leggy blonde actress.
They were among the nine off-duty officers on the set Tuesday. The film's coffers -- not the city -- paid for their time and stardom.
"The Everett police are just incredible," said Doug du Mas, a Seattle-based location scout and manager who lobbied for getting the film shot in Everett.
Filming continues today on Colby Avenue between California and Hewitt Avenue.
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|Feb 18, 2013, 02:04 AM
I won't abandon my MBA again for a while
So today, I decided to make a jump from a mid-2011 13" MBA to a late-2012 13" rMBP.
Initially, I was sold on my decision. The screen looks incredible. The machine looks fantastic. It's very quiet.
But as the day went on, the more I realized that I had made a mistake. And mostly, for two reasons:
1) The lag on the rMBP. Yes, it's there. I wanted to believe everyone that it was overblown, but it's there. I normally have to have something along the line of 7-8 windows or applications open (unorganized multitasker), and this machine slowed down on my several times, even at the default resolution. My 2011 MBA lags every now and then as well, considering the workload, but I expect that from a less powerful machine that's 1.5 years older. Not the brand new MBP with Retina.
2) I didn't really anticipate this: it's uncomfortable to type. I took the MBA for granted. The thin bezel made typing incredibly comfortable, but the rMBP's front bezel is raised, sharp, and not very pleasant around the wrists.
So, the plan tomorrow is to take the rMBP back to the Apple Store. The screen is fantastic, but it's not enough of a trade-off, in my opinion.
I won't abandon you again, MBA.
|Feb 18, 2013, 02:21 AM
Now that u mention it, my old box-shaped laptop, I popped it up on its hints for comfort, but never gave it a thought, then the MBA, I didn't have to pop it up anymore.
When getting the MBA I had mis-givings about the wedge shape, NOBODY made a wedge shaped laptop before the Air and I was afraid of its weird shape on my hands, but NO, it's absolutely comfortable! Don't you love it when you buy a product and feel that, yeah, SOMEBODY put some thought into it. Brilliant.
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|Feb 18, 2013, 02:22 AM
|Feb 18, 2013, 05:21 AM
The problem is probably that the 13" rMBP still uses the same GPU as the Air, while having 4 times the pixels to push. I'm intrigued by the rMBP too, but in all hosety, it's currently too weak to drive that display. Maybe in a year or two the GPU will have caught up, but for now I agree - MBA is awesome
|Feb 18, 2013, 03:53 PM
I was taking a look at the specs between the two units. It now makes sense, considering both the MBA and rMBP have the same integrated video card. That's mind boggling to me.
|Feb 18, 2013, 04:06 PM
Btw, there are people who don't even notice it....
|Feb 18, 2013, 04:40 PM
I guess that's why Apple makes both lines. I switched from an 11" MacBook Air to a 13" rMBP and, even though I'd been using MacBook Airs since February 2008, I'm happy with the switch and won't go back to a MacBook Air until it gets a Retina Display (which I'm hoping is this year).
|Feb 18, 2013, 05:07 PM
As for lag like some others have mentioned, I see a few hangups here and there, nothing crazy, but yea there is some slight lag from time to time that honestly shouldn't be present on such an expensive machine.
|Feb 18, 2013, 05:35 PM
As you point out, lots of people don't even notice the lag. HD 4000 isn't spectacular, but it's "good enough" so that Apple didn't see the need to wait any longer to release the rMBP.
|Feb 18, 2013, 06:00 PM
Anyway, SJ's Apple has never been a "good enough" company. Others were: HP, Microsoft, Samsung, Acer etc. but not Apple.
Should Apple have forgotten its roots, its impulse to -no compromise- quality, that would means it's only a matter of time before it becomes a Samsung or so.
|Feb 18, 2013, 06:29 PM
The 2012/early 2013 rMBP is a far more refined product than the 2008 MacBook Air.
|Feb 18, 2013, 07:26 PM
|Feb 18, 2013, 09:03 PM
The 2008 MBA was simply a beautiful experiment, as the current Apple TV, but far more expensive and as a result had so little success.
It took two years for Apple to focus on the troubles and release a serious update that set the real standard for ultraportables.
But here we're not talking about an all-new and standard-settings machine as the 2008 MBA. Just a revised, stripped down version of the unibody cMBP along with Retina display. The 15" rMBP, besides some youth troubles, seems to be work quite fine thanks to its second video adapter.
The 13", in my opinion, is simply "good enough". We know that it had serious heating problems that delayed launch for several months.
Then, even without a correct balance between the integrated video card and the retina display, had been put on the market with an extremely high price that backfired, contributing to a serious decrease in Mac sales into the last quarter, the first since a long time.
And yet, it is now in the macbook product line along with MBA11, MBA13, cMBP 13, cMBP15, rMBP15 (in addition, you can still buy a cMBP17 from the refurb store!).
There is a said the Apple is becoming an MBA-company (not Macbook Air, but let by Masters in Business Administration). People who instead doing innovation, just increase their product lines to expand sales.
I just hope it is wrong.
|Feb 18, 2013, 09:30 PM
Apple waited until the 13" rMBP was ready, just as they did with the white iPhone 4. It's more than "good enough." How many other 13" notebooks are there with 4 million pixel displays? It's a lightweight package, has a huge battery, and is cutting edge. And I have been very impressed by the thermals. Unlike my previous MacBook Air, the rMBP has been whisper quiet.
The HD 4000 is more than capable. After all, we were using the Apple Cinema Display with the HD 3000 and even the NVIDIA 9400M IGP.
This romanticizing of Steve Jobs has gotten too extreme. Jobs made plenty of mistakes along the way. The G4 Cube, the ROKR, and the original iPhone pricing (and its lack of 3G) come to mind, along with the original MacBook Air that you mentioned.
If anything, I get the sense that the high pricing of the rMBP was deliberate. Apple couldn't get the yields on the displays. There were a fair number of complaints about image retention as it was, and Sharp's issues with display yields are well known, leaving Apple stuck with Samsung and LG. I'm guessing they probably wanted somewhat higher sales than what they got, but we're probably talking a couple hundred thousand at most. $1699 for the base sounds like an attempt to keep demand in check. Apple's been selling computers long enough to know that a $1699 notebook won't sell as well as an $1199 notebook. $1499 sounds more like an attempt to make it mainstream. I wouldn't be surprised to see it hit the $1299 price point by the end of the year, particularly if they drop the cMBP.
|Feb 18, 2013, 10:10 PM
I'm not a bench junkie, but I still think that managing 4x pixels would require some improvement on graphics hardware, especially for such an expensive product. And that working on performance-conscious design, it would have somewhat been possible to put a dedicate board inside a bit less scaled-down case.
It's obvious they made an historic fail with the iMacs, which probably accounted for 80%-90% of the loss in sales, but very few of the lost sales reverted toward a rMBP. At least for the 13", as we can see by the quasi-immediate price drop (and refurbished availability).
I hope they are not entering into the "squeeze the Macintosh for every penny it is worth" mode. I just couldn't come back to Win....
|Feb 18, 2013, 10:30 PM
I disagree. The HD 4000 is just fine for what I need it to do. Macs aren't gaming machines. They don't need gaming GPUs. And video editors are more likely to use the 15" anyway (and Apple equips that model with a discrete GPU).
As for the size, the 13" rMBP is already stretching the limit. Let's face it. Apple changed the standards. 4.5 lbs is now rightfully considered ridiculously heavy for a 13" notebook, Windows or Mac. The 13" rMBP is about as big as it can possibly be and still be viable. I, for one, wouldn't have considered ditching my Air if it were any heavier.
I think the new rMBP pricing is about right. That amounts to a $200 price drop. The larger price drops on the higher capacity models is mostly a function of Apple's decision to drop SSD pricing across its entire product line. SSDs have been $1/GB or less for a year now. There was no way that Apple was going to be able to get away with charging $2/GB forever. I'm not surprised about the drop, although it did come a little sooner than I expected. I don't think this is a sign of an "epic failure" on Apple's part, though. They probably weren't ready for a massive uptick in demand for the holidays.
|Feb 18, 2013, 10:42 PM
Why the Mac decline?
I think the best way to answer this is if you look at the previous year[s quarter], our Mac sales were about 5.2 million. This year, they were 4.1 million, and so the difference is 1.1 [million]. Let me try to bridge that.
iMacs were down by 700,000 units year over year. As you remember, we announced the new iMacs late in October. And when we announced those, we announced that they would shipthe first one, the 21.5-inchin November, and we did ship it at the end of November. We announced that the 27-inch would ship in December, and we did ship that in mid-December. And so there were limited weeks of ramping on these products during the quarter.
We left the quarter with significant constraints on the iMac. And we believewe knowthat our sales would have been materially higher if those constraints would not have existed. We tried to tell people this on the conference call in October; I think I said that we would have significant constraints on iMac. But I recognize to some folks, this may be a surprise.
|Feb 18, 2013, 10:58 PM
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