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|Trad, Alpine, 2 pitches, 200'
|YDS: 5.5 French: 4b Ewbanks: 13 UIAA: IV+ ZA: 11 British: MS 4a [details]
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By George Perkins
From: The Dungeon, NM
Apr 6, 2007
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
It is reasonable to walk off to the east, if you have a reason to avoid rappelling.
Guidebook dorks will appreciate the names from the Lower Sandias guide for the different variations on the 1st pitch:
By Ryan Smyth
From: Albuquerque, NM
Apr 30, 2008
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
|Nice easy climb thats great for the beginning trad leader. I always take the leftmost flake to the top, increases rope drag and difficulty but not a whole lot. After a trip or two up it it makes a fun freesolo. but bring your rope to rap back down. i would hate to scramble off.
By Jason J Patton
Oct 23, 2008
|I love this route. I climbed it first when I knew almost nothing about climbing. It was a pure, unfettered experience that kicked off and inspired my life of climbing. I wonder how many have been intrigued and inspired by this little piece of excellent granite.
By Bill Lawry
From: New Mexico
Dec 30, 2008
In the winter, the sun has to peek up over the south ridge of the canyon to start warming up the south-facing rock here. On December 21st, the sun reached down to the middle of pitch 1 at roughly 10:30 AM.
Copied comment from Flake n' Bake area page: My impression is that a certain technique (not lieback) in the section just below the flake makes the route Flake n' Bake about 5.5; even so, 5.5 may be a little "old school".
By Robin
From: Albuquerque, NM
Jan 27, 2009
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
|A fun climb. Well worth doing especially for newer leaders. I felt comfy and safe the whole time.
By RiggerMortis
From: Albuquerque New Mexico
Mar 6, 2009
|The left facing dihedral immediately to the right goes at about the same difficulty as flake'n bake, but the pro is a little sketchy in the middle (small pocket in the crack will take a #3-4 stopper, but really shallow placement).
By Keith Thomas
From: Socorro, NM
Aug 17, 2009
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
|One star!? Tough crowd! I found this climb to be extremely enjoyable. Excellent rock, bountiful gear, and a clearly defined line. Fun!
By Orlando
Aug 26, 2009
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
Ditto Jason P's comments; just a great, easy little route that's an excellent intro to climbing trad. And many TR options all around when you're done. Try to score Barry and Rita's "yellow book" - it rocks.
And regarding the grade; there is not a single 5.7-5.8 move on this route, unless you're in stilettos. It's not picky about pro and given the low angle, you can take a rest pretty much anytime you'd like, IMO, and I'm a hack. Defintely 5.5, MAYBE 5.6 at the "roof".
I was up there in the spring and there's a new 2BA at the end of the super easy, 5.4ish 2nd pitch - a nice replacement for all the tat that used to hang up there. Thanks to whoever dropped those in.
By Chris Tucker
Oct 26, 2009
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
Doug and I climbed yesterday 10/25. This was a great route for doing my second and third traditional leads. Didn't go all the way to the top anchors, we treated the (seemingly) optional start from below as the start. If you come in below the canyon there is a reasonably 5.easy slab section to the left, or a more scramble section off to the right. We free'd a portion of the slab to the left then roped in about 80 ft to the first anchors on the "Lunch Ledge". We'll do it differently next time and get to the top.
I agree about the statement you can rap with a 60m rope, but do be careful since it will come up short of the ledge by 6-8 ft.
By adam montoya
From: albuquerque, nm
Apr 10, 2010
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
|yes you can def hike off to the east although you will end up hiking through some brush so dont be like me and wear shorts. .also i would reccommend staging shoes at the top if you plan to fs. . i had to hike all the way back down in my climbing shoes and by the bottom my toes were screaming. .
By ReubenG
Jun 17, 2010
Trad climbing is hard to safely learn. Unfortunately for beginning trad climbers routes below 5.7 are often far more terrifying than those 5.10 or harder. For an individual uncomfortable learning to trad climb on anything >5.7, flake n bake is the best alternative. There are no ledges to hit, no loose blocks to avoid, and no run-out sections to overcome. Flake n bake is the only route below 5.8 where I would be comfortable having an aspiring leader take mock falls.
The first pitch of this is the best starter route I have found in the sandia's. The second pitch is worth doing at least once.
Approaching this route is somewhat tricky. Resist the temptation to approach from below the route. Instead continue up the canyon to a point where the river bends and you are walking on a large slab of rock. Keep going around the corner from the route and stay with the river as it curves left. When you are almost perpinducular from the route (if you could see it thru the slab start up. There used to be cairn's on the slab and there is a trail once you get past the slab. This will take you directly to the base in less time and is much easier than the direct up route.
The rappel is tricky with a single rope. Be sure to look for the ledge on the right that is ~20 feet from the bottom. From here you you can walk off without any problems.
By MJO
Sep 21, 2010
|I climbed this route in the spring of '96. Enjoyable and fun! Unfortunately, I have not been back to enjoy any of the other climbs in the area.
By Asa King
From: Salt Lake City, Ut
Oct 19, 2010
rating: 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
|Great place to teach and learn trad. Second pitch is pretty useless unless you have a newbee wanting to learn to place gear.
By Brian McLaughlin
May 11, 2011
|I used to solo all the routes in this area pretty regularly in the mid 80's. Pure fun every time!
By JoshuaJones Jones
From: Albuquerque
Aug 16, 2012
|Excellent first trad lead with lots of good gear placement opportunities. Led P1 and P2. Left a fixed DMM Wallnut behind at beginning of P2.
By MCampbell
Aug 7, 2013
|I loved this route! The hike to it is great as well. The are literally multiple gear placements in reach at all times. Doubles in 1 & 2 and a few smaller cams. And a pink tricam will get you up this thing just fine.
By Kendrick Dane
Nov 4, 2014
|I can definitely say that Flake it or Make it feels 2 grades harder when it is raining and water is running down the slab. Footjam special!


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Big 5 Sporting Goods (BGFV) is having a good day, its stock up 9% after healthy performance in the first quarter.
For the fiscal 2013 first quarter, net sales increased to $246.3 million from net sales of $218.5 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2012. Same store sales increased 10.5% for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. As anticipated, first quarter sales were negatively affected by the calendar shift of the Easter holiday, during which the Company's stores are closed, out of the second quarter and into the first quarter this year.
Profit of 34 cents a share easily beat the consensus forecasts of 21 cents, while analysts had expected net sales of $239.3 million, according to FactSet.
My colleague David Englander has written two bullish pieces on Big 5 in the past seven months, most recently in late December, when he wrote:
The California-based retailer, which appeals to a value-focused customer base, was hit hard by the recession. Sales fell, and margins contracted. To turn things around, management initiated a new strategy, aimed at expanding its merchandising offerings to higher-priced, name-brand goods, while scaling back on underperforming products...Analysts expect Big 5 to earn 70 cents a share [in 2012], well above the 53 cents the company earned in 2011. In 2013, earnings could increase to 87 cents a share.
We see more upside ahead.
So does Big 5 CEO Steven Miller, who said in the earnings release statement:
We believe these results for the quarter reflect the ongoing enhancements to our merchandise and marketing programs, the continued benefit from the national increase in demand for firearms and ammunition products and more favorable weather conditions in a majority of our markets versus the prior year. Our positive sales trends have continued into the second quarter and we feel well positioned to deliver strong results as we move through the spring and into the summer season.

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The committee plans to produce a standard by 2008 and currently appears to be on schedule. Although end-user demand for wireless is rapidly increasing, participation in the work of SP100 remains sparse.
ISA's SP100 Industrial Wireless standardization committee continues its heavy schedule of teleconferences, email debates and frequent face-to-face meetings. The process control suppliers, meanwhile, continue to introduce wireless transmitters and system products at a rapid pace without any claims of standardization. End-user demand for wireless products is rapidly increasing, but end-user participation in the work of SP100 remains sparse.
In September 2006, at the invitation of SP100, suppliers and other interested parties submitted presentations and supporting white papers proposing their wireless solutions—in-whole or in-part. At the time there was a separation between simple data acquisition applications (SP100.14) and more complex systemwide use of wireless for control networks (SP100.11). Some 25 presentations were submitted, along with 15 white papers. When the issues settled, members of the SP100 committee realized that there were few technical differences between the submitted proposals! In the general meeting following the ISA Expo in Houston, the committee unanimously agreed to end the division between the two types of applications and merge the effort into a single wireless solution for the industrial plant and shop floor.
The standard being developed is now labeled SP100.11a, which will define the OSI layer specifications (e.g. PHY, DLL, etc), security specifications, and management (including network and device configuration) specifications for wireless devices serving application classes 1 (closed loop control) through 5 (data acquisition) and, optionally, class 0 (safety) for fixed, portable and moving devices. The standard is to focus on performance needs for periodic monitoring and process control where latencies on the order of 100 ms can be tolerated with optional behavior for shorter latency.
The standard is to provide consideration for the following:
- Low-energy consumption devices
- Scalability to address both small and large installations
- Wireless infrastructure
- Interfaces to and interoperability with legacy infrastructure and applications
- Security and network management requirements in a functionally scalable manner
- Robustness in the presence of interference found in harsh industrial environments
- Coexistence with other wireless devices anticipated in the industrial work space, such as IEEE 802.11x (Wi-Fi), 802.16x (WiMedia), ZigBee, cell phones, Bluetooth and other relevant standards
- Interoperability of SP100 devices
Suppliers working on the standard have now coalesced into two groups, each advocating a similar field network, but differing approaches to control system integration. The WNSIA (Wireless Networks for Secure Industrial Applications) group includes Honeywell, Adaptive Instruments, 3eTechnologies International, Endress+Hauser, Flowserve, Omnex and Yokogawa. WNSIA proposes a field network centered about a set of field access points to reduce the number of "hops" necessary to get data from sensors to controllers. Its rationale is to minimize latency for feedback control connections. Additionally, WNSIA also proposes a fully integrated protocol linking the field network to legacy control systems through a gateway device.
The Collaborative Initiative (CI) group is centered about a very complete network architecture proposed by Dust Networks with backing from members Emerson, Invensys (Foxboro), Apprion, Certicom, Sensicast, Advanced Industrial Networks, Siemens, General Electric, Software Technology Group, NewTrax, Machine Talker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Texas Instruments/Chipcon. The CI/Dust proposal calls for a self-healing wireless mesh field network using channel-hopping. The mesh network provides greater distances at low power consumption and alternate routing in case of obstructions and interference sources.
Physical Layer and MAC
While the committee acknowledges that radio technology will change rapidly over the next few years, a complete standard must include at least one radio. The debate over the use of a licensed radio frequency for industrial automation has been shelved for two reasons:
- A licensed radio frequency band would require custom radios that would probably cost too much for this narrow market, and
- The time and effort to secure a single worldwide frequency for industrial automation use is both time-consuming and out of the scope of the SP100 committee.
The type of radio selected depends on the operating frequency (band) and is the subject of the Physical Layer subcommittee. The Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer is usually defined in conjunction with the Physical Layer, since it must provide the firmware interface for the radio.
Both groups have proposed networks based on the use of IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee) radios at 868/915 MHz or 2.4 GHz with frequency- (channel-) hopping on top of the base radio's DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) protocol. These radios are designed to use very little power and be included on a battery-powered, solar cell or energy-scavenging device. Working groups are now meeting to decide on the specific physical layer and medium access sublayer protocols to be included in the standard. The committee is also looking at 802.15.4a radios recently approved by the IEEE 802.15.4 committee that use either of two forms of Ultrawideband (UWB) protocol:
- Chirp-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) operating in the 2.4 GHz band, or
- Impulse Radio operating in the unlicensed UWB 3.5 to 10 GHz band.
These radios are expected to become very popular in many applications and will be very low- cost as well as have very low power consumption.
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The 61-year-old Tonks says he volunteered to make the move to alleviate some responsibility associated with leading the overall programme. Another head coach will not be sought.
High performance manager Alan Cotter is expected to take up some of the administrative slack to co-ordinate the coaching team. Tonks will remain a selector.
The decision leaves Olympic champions Eric Murray, Hamish Bond and possibly Mahe Drysdale (on his return from a sabbatical) without a full-time coach. No ill-will is believed to exist between the parties. They're expected to liaise with Tonks for tips on a casual basis.
RNZ is aiming to appoint a new men's sweep oar coach by the end of the month. The Herald on Sunday understands a number of internal candidates have applied, while names such as Noel Donaldson (coach of Australia's 1992 and 1996 Olympic champion Awesome Foursome coxless four) and Mike Spracklen (coach of the Canadian gold medal-winning eight at Beijing) have been floated as potential candidates for the high profile role.
Bond and Murray, who took home the 2012 Halberg supreme award on Thursday, will come under the successful candidate's watch.
"I have no complaints," Tonks said. "It just seemed like a natural thing to do. I'm quite happy to work solely with the women. We want to get a boat in every class for Rio and hopefully we'll even have an eight in there this year."
Tonks has personally overseen five Games gold medals and helped pick other medallists as a selector.
Since being employed full-time by RNZ in 1999, his charges have picked up a gold medal at every Olympics. He has made household names of Rob Waddell, Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell, Drysdale, Bond and Murray.
Tonks' methods are beyond dispute. Perhaps the most telling statistic is the 45 Olympic or world championship medals (23 gold, eight silver, 14 bronze) New Zealand rowers have won since the 2004 Athens Games.
He won yet another Halberg award on Thursday night, as the coach of the year. Tonks was not there, choosing to remain close to the training facilities where rowers were scheduled early next morning.
Still, among the rowers honoured at the Halbergs, including Bond and Murray and Drysdale, was the strange feeling they will not be under Tonks' direction this time.
Murray said Tonks has made his position clear: "We don't know who our coach will be, we're just working within the wider group. Over the next few weeks Rowing New Zealand will probably discuss who might be a good coach for us."
RNZ chief executive Simon Peterson says to retain Tonks they were prepared to accommodate most requests.
"Dick suggested he was keen to focus on the women's programme because he didn't believe being head coach was a long-term option. It was an amicable discussion. We're just happy to have him for another Olympic cycle."
Calvin Ferguson - the coach of Olympic champion double scullers Joseph Sullivan and Nathan Cohen and lightweight bronze medallists Peter Taylor and Storm Uru - will lead the men's sculling programme.
Meanwhile, women's single sculler Emma Twigg wants to join Olympic bronze medallist Rebecca Scown in the women's pair following Juliette Haigh's retirement.
Twigg says she has technical work to do but is determined to persevere. She joined the New Zealand elite programme in the women's sweep oar eight as a 19-year-old in 2006.
"To not get a medal in London was a heartbreaker for me," Twigg said. "I'm committed to racing internationally but it's been great to have had a mental break away from Lake Karapiro."
Lightweight men's double sculler Peter Taylor has switched to the sweep oar programme in a summer squad which includes James Lassche, Curtis Rapley, Armin Svoboda and Alistair Bond. It is a one-season experiment for Taylor while his London Games partner Uru studies for a year at Cambridge University. This year's first World Cup is in Sydney from March 22-24.
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SOUTHERN LEAGUE: Webb's delight as Taylor stays
6:00am Friday 25th January 2013
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6:00am Friday 25th January 2013
By Ned Payne
MANAGER Dave Webb believes Chris Taylor's decision to stay at Swindon Supermarine highlights the ambition of both the club and the player himself.
The midfielder has been in superb form this season which attracted the attention of both Oxford City and Hungerford Town, but Taylor snubbed the increased wages on offer to remain at the Webb's Wood Stadium.
Webb was delighted to have been able to keep hold of the former Maidenhead man having expected him to move on, and believes the decision shows how far the club have come.
"It says a lot about Chris because he was offered more money to go elsewhere, but he's obviously happy here and we're delighted about that," he said.
"He's done so well in the time he has been with us, and he is now starting to get back to full fitness after a bit of an injury which is good for everyone.
"I always had a doubt in my mind over whether or not he was going to stay ever since we signed him, simply because he had played at Maidenhead, but it's great that he has now committed himself to us.
"It could be massive for the club and it shows the dedication that he has, but it also shows how ambitious we are to succeed because we have managed to get him a little bit of extra money to keep hold of one of our best players."
Taylor played a vital role in Marine's superb run of 10 straight league victories, but Webb was quick to insist his side are a lot more than a one-man team.
"Chris has been an instrumental player in everything we have done, there can be no doubt about that, especially during our run of 10 straight wins," he said.
"But it wasn't just him, he was part of a team and all of the rest of the players made big contributions too and deserve a lot of praise.
"Chris has shown faith in what we are doing, and now we need to follow that through because we want to be back in the Premier next year, and we have some big matches to play in the next few weeks."
Having kept hold of Taylor, Webb has now made approaches for two young players, a defender and a forward who can play wide, and is hopeful of concluding deals in the coming days.
"We haven't got the biggest squad in the world, and if possible I would like to add to that in the next few days and we have a couple of targets," he said.
"We have made approaches for them, and hopefully that can be sorted soon. We have an experienced core to the team and we want to add to it to ensure we get a good mix and balance in the squad."
Supermarine's Southern League Division One South & West game at North Leigh tomorrow remains in doubt due to the lingering snow, but Webb believes the match has a chance of going ahead if the Oxfordshire side can remove all of the snow from the pitch.
"Obviously if there is still snow on the pitch and it is allowed to thaw then in will be waterlogged, and if that happens we certainly won't be getting a game," he said.
"We want to play because we have been two weeks without a game, and if we can it is a good chance for us to get back on track after not winning any of our last three games."
Elsewhere in the division, Cirencester travel to Evesham tomorrow searching for their first league win since mid-November.
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Hudson supports the "master/slave" mode, where the workload of building projects are delegated to multiple "slave" nodes, allowing single Hudson installation to host a large number of projects, or provide different environments needed for builds/tests. This document describes this mode and how to use it.
How does this work?
A "master" is an installation of Hudson. When you weren't using the master/slave support, a master was all you had. Even in the master/slave mode, the role of a master remains the same. It will serve all HTTP requests, and it can still build projects on its own.
Slaves are computers that are set up to build projects for a master. Hudson runs a separate program called "slave agent" on slaves. There are various ways to start slave agents, but in the end a slave agent and Hudson master needs to establish a bi-directional byte stream (for example a TCP/IP socket.)
When slaves are registered to a master, a master starts distributing loads to slaves. The exact delegation behavior depends on configuration of each project. Some projects may choose to "stick" to a particular machine for a build, while others may choose to roam freely between slaves. For people accessing Hudson website, things works mostly transparently. You can still browse javadoc, see test results, download build results from a master, without ever noticing that builds were done by slaves.
Follow the Step by step guide to set up master and slave machines to quickly start using distributed builds.
Different ways of starting slave agents
Pick the right method depending on your environment and OS that master/slaves run.
Have master launch slave agent via ssh
Hudson has a built-in SSH client implementation that it can use to talk to remote sshd and start a slave agent. This is the most convenient and preferred method for Unix slaves, which normally has sshd out-of-the-box. Click Manage Hudson, then Manage Nodes, then click "New Node." In this set up, you'll supply the connection information (the slave host name, user name, and ssh credential). Note that the slave will need the master's public ssh key copied to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. (This is a decent howto if you need ssh help). Hudson will do the rest of the work by itself, including copying the binary needed for a slave agent, and starting/stopping slaves. If your project has external dependencies (like a special ~/.m2/settings.xml, or a special version of java), you'll need to set that up yourself, though. [Where is this documented?]
This is the most convenient set up on Unix.
Have master launch slave agent on Windows
For Windows slaves, Hudson can use the remote management facility built into Windows 2000 or later (WMI+DCOM, to be more specific.) In this set up, you'll supply the username and the password of the user who has the administrative access to the system, and Hudson will use that remotely create a Windows service and remotely start/stop them.
This is the most convenient set up on Windows, but does not allow you to run programs that require display interaction (such as GUI tests).
Note : Unlike other Node's configuration type, the Node's name is very important as it is taken as the node's address where to create the service !
Write your own script to launch Hudson slaves
If the above turn-key solutions do not provide flexibility necessary, you can write your own script to start a slave. You place this script on the master, and tell Hudson to run this script whenever it needs to connect to a slave.
Typically, your script uses a remote program execution mechanism like SSH, RSH, or other similar means (on Windows, this could be done by the same protocols through cygwin or tools like psexec), but Hudson doesn't really assume any specific method of connectivity.
What Hudson expects from your script is that, in the end, it has to execute the slave agent program like java -jar slave.jar, on the right computer, and have its stdin/stdout connect to your script's stdin/stdout. For example, a script that does "ssh myslave java -jar ~/bin/slave.jar" would satisfy this.
A copy of slave.jar can be downloaded from http://yourserver:port/jnlpJars/slave.jar . Many people write scripts in such a way that this 160K jar is downloaded during the script, to make sure the consistent version of slave.jar is always used. The SSH Slaves plugin does this automatically, so slaves configured using this plugin always use the correct slave.jar.
Launching slaves this way often requires an additional initial set up on slaves (especially on Windows, where remote login mechanism is not available out of box), but the benefits of this approach is that when the connection goes bad, you can use Hudson's web interface to re-establish the connection.
Launch slave agent via Java Web Start
Another way of doing this is to start a slave agent through Java Web Start (JNLP). In this approach, you'll interactively logon to the slave node, open a browser, and open the slave page. You'll be then presented with the JNLP launch icon. Upon clicking it, Java Web Start will kick in, and it launches a slave agent on the computer where the browser was running.
On Windows, you can do this manually once, then from the launched JNLP slave agent, you can install it as a Windows service so that you don't need to interactively start the slave from then on.
If you need display interaction (e.g. for GUI tests) on Windows and you have a dedicated (virtual) test machine, this is a suitable option. Create a hudson user account, enable auto-login, and put a shortcut to the JNLP file in the Startup items (after having trusted the slave agent's certificate). This allows one to run tests as a restricted user as well.
Launch slave agent headlessly
This launch mode uses a mechanism very similar to Java Web Start, except that it runs without using GUI, making it convenient for an execution as a daemon on Unix. To do this, configure this slave to be a JNLP slave, take slave.jar as discussed above, and then from the slave, run a command like this:
$ java -jar slave.jar -jnlpUrl http://yourserver:port/computer/slave-name/slave-agent.jnlp
Make sure to replace "slave-name" with the name of your slave.
Other Requirements
Also note that the slaves are a kind of a cluster, and operating a cluster (especially a large one or heterogeneous one) is always a non-trivial task. For example, you need to make sure that all slaves have JDKs, Ant, CVS, and/or any other tools you need for builds. You need to make sure that slaves are up and running, etc. Hudson is not a clustering middleware, and therefore it doesn't make this any easier.
Example: Configuration on Unix
This section describes my current set up of Hudson slaves that I use inside Sun for my day job. My master Hudson node is running on a SPARC Solaris box, and I have many SPARC Solaris slaves, Opteron Linux slaves, and a few Windows slaves.
Scheduling strategy
Some slaves are faster, while others are slow. Some slaves are closer (network wise) to a master, others are far away. So doing a good build distribution is a challenge. Currently, Hudson employs the following strategy:
If you have interesting ideas (or better yet, implementations), please let me know.
Transition from master-only to master/slave
Typically, you start with a master-only installation and then much later you add slaves as your projects grow. When you enable the master/slave mode, Hudson automatically configures all your existing projects to stick to the master node. This is a precaution to avoid disturbing existing projects, since most likely you won't be able to configure slaves correctly without trial and error. After you configure slaves successfully, you need to individually configure projects to let them roam freely. This is tedious, but it allows you to work on one project at a time.
Projects that are newly created on master/slave-enabled Hudson will be by default configured to roam freely.
Master on public network, slaves within firewall
One might consider setting up the Hudson master on the public network (so that people can see it), while leaving the build slaves within the firewall (because having a lot of machines on the internet is expensive.) There are two ways to make it work:
Note that in both cases, once the master is compromised, all your slaves can be easily compromised (IOW, malicious master can execute arbitrary program on slaves), so both set-up leaves much to be desired in terms of isolating security breach. Build Publisher Plugin provides another way of doing this, in more secure fashion.
Running Multiple Slaves on the Same Machine
It is possible to run multiple slave instances on a Windows machine, and have them installed as separate Windows services so they can start up on system startup. While the correct use of executors largely obviates the need for multiple slave instances on the same machine, there are some unique use cases to consider:
Follow these steps to get multiple slaves working on the same Windows box:
When you go to create the second node, it is nice to be able to copy an existing node, and copy the first node you setup. Then you just tweak the Remote FS Root and a couple other settings to make it distinct. When you are done you should have two (or more) Hudson slave services in the list of Windows services.
Troubleshooting tips
Some interesting pages on issues (and resolutions) occurring when using Windows slaves:
Some more general troubleshooting tips:
Other readings
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Jun 29, 2007
Anonymous says:You should consider expanding on the section about launching slaves via Java Web...
You should consider expanding on the section about launching slaves via Java WebStart. Took me a bit to figure it out. I'll even write it up of you like.
Jun 29, 2007
Kohsuke Kawaguchi says:Yes, please! Much appreciated.
Yes, please! Much appreciated.
Aug 01, 2007
Anonymous says:Can someone give me a hint please how to open the slave page (url) ? thx!&n...
Can someone give me a hint please how to open the slave page (url) ?
Sep 20, 2007
Anonymous says:On my master (Linux) node I have added an Ant instance which points to the /opt/...
On my master (Linux) node I have added an Ant instance which points to the /opt/ant-1.7.0 directory. Now, some build can be performed only on Windows so I've defined a Windows slave spawned via JNLP. But every build will fail, because Ant is not in /opt/ant-1.7.0 but somewhere else (c:\ant or whatever).
Same question about JDK path.
Sep 20, 2007
Anonymous says:Ok, I have found that if I put Ant into c:\opt\ant-1.7.0 it seems to work. Never...
Ok, I have found that if I put Ant into c:\opt\ant-1.7.0 it seems to work. Nevertheless I think that such things could be configurable per slave. Of course plugins could be able to contribute paths to slave configurations
Oct 24, 2007
Anonymous says:If the Hudson master is running at http://hudsonmaster:8080/hudson then you w...
If the Hudson master is running at
then you would login to the remote slave server, open a browser and enter the above URL. On the left-hand menu, you will see Build Executor Status section with "Master" and your remote slave listed below. Click the slave name link and on the resulting page you will see the "Launch" button for Java Web Start.
Oct 10, 2007
Daniel Pike says:Something very useful in corporate networks in the ability to run slaves as a wi...
Something very useful in corporate networks in the ability to run slaves as a windows service. After a fair bit of playing I have been able to achieve this using the Tanuki software's Java service wrapper. I am happy to write something up and send it through if it would be useful?
Oct 10, 2007
Kohsuke Kawaguchi says:Yes, by all means!
Yes, by all means!
Oct 18, 2007
Daniel Pike says:Done, sent through to Kohsuke's address
Done, sent through to Kohsuke's address
Oct 16, 2007
Jeff Black says:Second that!
Second that!
Jan 07, 2008
Anonymous says:When hudson tries to launch a slave it complains that it cannot find maven-agent...
When hudson tries to launch a slave it complains that it cannot find maven-agent.jar I don't know what maven is. What do I need to do to make hudson happy?
Jan 25, 2008
Anonymous says:Within a *nix system, you might be able to view top or uptime - looking for ...
Within a *nix system, you might be able to view top or uptime - looking for load average on a that host. Weighting it then scheduling work based on that value.
Feb 13, 2008
Anonymous says:If I have 2 slaves build machines building the same project, is there a way to c...
If I have 2 slaves build machines building the same project, is there a way to configure Hudson to utilize the build machines at the same time? for example, if machine 1 is already building and Hudson detects a change in the source code repository, can machine 2 start the build for the new checkin? That way there is no need to wait for machine 1 to finish to get feedback on the last checkin.
Jun 18, 2009
Thomas Guieu says:I would appreciate this feature too ! Is there a way to do that ? Or to man...
I would appreciate this feature too !
Is there a way to do that ? Or to manually start several builds of the same job ?
May 23, 2008
Michael Manz says:An idea for a further rule for the scheduling strategy: 4. If a build depends o...
An idea for a further rule for the scheduling strategy:
4. If a build depends on another build, try to build it on the same node that previously build the parent build.
Dec 01, 2008
Leon Franzen says:Our organization uses Maven2. We deploy a master POM that nearly all projects d...
Our organization uses Maven2. We deploy a master POM that nearly all projects directly or indirectly inherit from. The POM project is a job in Hudson. We intend to deploy the SNAPSHOT build when changes committed to the POM are picked up and when all downstream jobs pass. Does Hudson provide a mechanism for synchronizing successful slave artifact SNAPSHOT builds so that all downstream builds on different slaves use the CI-installed (as opposed to deployed) artifacts?
Optimally I would like to do the following:
1) Hudson job "master pom": mvn install
2) Do all downstream jobs (triggered by Hudson)
3) If step 2 successful perform snapshot deploy "master pom" to primary repository.
4) Deploy downstream projects
Or, because we are using various (identically configured) slaves to perform the jobs, do we have to install a Hudson dedicated repository and do the following?:
1) Hudson job "master pom": mvn deploy to Hudson repository.
2) Do all downstream jobs
3) If step 2 successful, mvn deploy "master pom" to primary repository.
4) Deploy downstream projects
Dec 12, 2008
Kin Namier says:Is it possible to have a slave authenticate as a certain user? I've finally got...
Is it possible to have a slave authenticate as a certain user? I've finally got a nice master/slave network up and running, but in order to do so, I had to grant read access to the "Anonymous" user on my main Hudson server, which opens up the site to anybody who wants to browse our projects, download build artifacts, etc. I would really prefer to have the anonymous user have no rights at all, and require usernames/passwords for all of our users, but then this would break our slaves...
So, is it possible to tell the slave to log into hudson with a given username and password? I've looked through the documents here on the wiki, the config XML, and tried passing "-help" to all available programs, but I can't seem to find anything.
Oct 13, 2009
Stefan Bäumler says:I agree this is a defect (still exists in version 1.323); the whole authenticati...
I agree this is a defect (still exists in version 1.323); the whole authentication is less worthy when I must grant read access to Anonymous only to enable build slaves connecting to the master. Does there already exist an issue on it, or is it already planned for fixing in any further version?
Sep 29, 2010
Thomas Johnson says:It looks like slave.jar accepts the following arguments: -jnlpCredentials USER:P...
It looks like slave.jar accepts the following arguments: -jnlpCredentials USER:PASSWORD
Providing Overall Read Access to the user seems sufficient to get a slave up and running. This means that you can run the slave with the following command:
java -jar slave.jar -jnlpUrl http://build.example.com/computer/188.8.131.52/slave-agent.jnlp -jnlpCredentials builder:12345
If you're running the Windows service, you can tweak the "arguments" node inside c:\hudson\hudson-slave.xml to contain this option. This does leave the issue of securely storing the password in the launch script, but it does achieve the "no rights for anonymous" objective.
Jan 29, 2009
David Multer says:If you configure a Windows slave using Cygwin for sshd, I recommend not using th...
If you configure a Windows slave using Cygwin for sshd, I recommend not using the CVS client that's part of Cygwin. I noticed that it was munging CRLF line terminations on DOS format files. It's possible that some combination of settings could avoid the problem, but I decided to uninstall Cygwin CVS and install TortoiseCVS (with CVSNT) instead. Once CVSNT is added to the PATH, everything worked perfectly.
May 22, 2009
Chris Hines says:I have a working Master (Linux) / Slave (Windows XP) setup. I use the WMI ...
I have a working Master (Linux) / Slave (Windows XP) setup. I use the WMI interface to launch the slave.
Getting the master to successfully connect to the slave and launch Hudson remotely required some configuration changes on the Windows machine that were not documented here. The exception message returned during the initial failed attepts provided just enough information for me to find this useful page on the J-Integra site that solved my problem. Maybe others will find this information useful too.
Sep 21, 2009
sheilly agrawal says:All the posts seem to indicate that the Master has to be a Linux machine. Can Wi...
All the posts seem to indicate that the Master has to be a Linux machine. Can Windows (Windows XP) be used as a Master? I wanted to have windows XP as master that would trigger builds on slaves (windows machines again). Is that possible? Where can I find detail instructions on this one?
Oct 26, 2009
Saniya Chopra says:M using Linux master and Windows slave. I used JNLP to launch the slave on ...
M using Linux master and Windows slave. I used JNLP to launch the slave on Windows. When I used the services.msc command this opened services window and from there I tried to start HudsonSlave service and there it gave the following error
Could not start the HudsonSlave service on Local Computer
Error1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
Plz help me solve this error
Jan 21, 2010
prashanth says:When I use the windows 2003 Master and windows 2003 slave I am having a issue wh...
When I use the windows 2003 Master and windows 2003 slave I am having a issue while running the build on slave, it fails with (Fatal : Unable to build script). I think it is adding an extra slashes \, how to eradicate this without this it is not working. Started by user anonymous
Building remotely on testing1
[DIMENSIONS] Removing 'file:/C:/Hudson/workspace/PROJ1_DEV1/'...
[DIMENSIONS] Checking out project "Test_DEV:PROJ1_DEV1"...
[DIMENSIONS] (Note: Dimensions command output was -
[DIMENSIONS] SUCCESS: Operation completed
[DIMENSIONS] Operation completed
[DIMENSIONS] Dimensions project was successfully locked
FATAL: Unable to find build script at C:\Hudson\workspace\PROJ1_DEV1\\proj1\build\build.xml
[DIMENSIONS] Dimensions project was successfully unlocked
Finished: FAILURE
Apr 14, 2010
Bobbi Newman says:I am using Hudson to launch a distributed build for automated test purposes.&nbs...
I am using Hudson to launch a distributed build for automated test purposes. The master Hudson server is a Linux box; the slave, which only runs this set of tests, is a Windows box. We use ant on the Windows box to launch the automated tests. The slave is set up using JNLP and autologon. The process works fine; the only question is that sometimes in the error logs I will find that ant returned a non-zero exit code from the automated test process (the exit codes are for the automated tests, for example, informing us that exceptions occurred during the automated tests) on the slave machine. This is printed in the console output for the build, but the build still succeeds. I'd like to be able to use that exit code to send descriptive email, but I can't seem to find any way to access that information. Am I missing something?
May 07, 2010
Sven Oppermann says:Are there plans to add another distribution build like: 1. the hudson master wi...
Are there plans to add another distribution build like:
1. the hudson master will get the source code changes from the SCM
2. rsync this with a slave node
3. finally builds it on the slave node
Im asking because, i'm using Synergy as SCM and a Synergy Project can only exists once. So if a build runs initially on node 1 and next time on node 2, synergy is moving the complete project to node 2.
May 17, 2010
meenu says:I am working on distributed builds from hudson. One window NT node is ...
I am working on distributed builds from hudson. One window NT node is being used as slave. I am trying to perform build on mounted drive on window node. But hudson does not understand the drive names as say U:\ or any other name. But it recognises the absolute path.
My requierement is to use the network drive with out giving absolute path.
Please guide if we can perform this functionality from hudson
Aug 19, 2010
Alex Lea says:We managed to get this working by adding a subst command to the build subst U: ...
We managed to get this working by adding a subst command to the build
subst U: C:\mydir
The service should then be able to see the U: drive. You may also need to configure the Hudson slave to run as a process with network access rights (not sure whether this is strictly necessary).
Jun 28, 2010
Norbas says:Lets assume that we have Master M and slave A, B and C. How can we execute on d...
Lets assume that we have Master M and slave A, B and C.
How can we execute on demand the Job Z, only in one of the slaves?
For example: I want to run Job Z on Slave C. and later I want to run Job Z in Slave B.
Jan 13, 2011
arya ahmadi-ardakani says:goto Hudson, Select the job Z, click on configure. at the job configure page cli...
goto Hudson, Select the job Z, click on configure. at the job configure page click on "Restrict where this project can be run" and in the "label expression" input box enter the name of the slave (ex: salve A). and then save this job.
create the same job (job Z: job Z-1, Z-2) for other slave (ex: slave B and C) however set the Restrict where this project can be run" to slaves B and C.
I think you get the idea from here
Jan 14, 2011
arya ahmadi-ardakani says:I was wondering once the build is done (using an script that calls gcc and make ...
I was wondering once the build is done (using an script that calls gcc and make and all sorts of thing) on an slave, how can I use those files to package them?
example: I have 3 builds that are being run on 3 different salves (Slaves A, B, C) and the resultant of all three needs to be packaged as one. how does master handle this situation?
Please let me know.
Thannk you
May 13, 2011
Yang Chen says:I setup one Windows slave for one Windows master, they are two physical machines...
I setup one Windows slave for one Windows master, they are two physical machines. The "Remote FS root" is set to "E:\hudson". I want to create one job named TEST to run a bat script aaa.bat on the slave. The content of aaa.bat is:
cd F:\project
call bbb.bat
The bbb.bat is in F:\project. But when I run the job, hudson try to find and run the bbb.bat in E:\hudson\TEST. The "cd F:\project" is not used. If I added "echo %cd%" after "cd F:\project" to print the current directory, it prints something like "E:\hudson\TEST". Can anybody tell me how to resolve this? I want the "cd" command takes effect. Thanks.
Jul 07, 2011
Laurent Tardif says:I got a "funny" error starting a slave on Windows XP, the service failed immedia...
I got a "funny" error starting a slave on Windows XP, the service failed immediately, without logging anything. When launching the slave from the command line, everything works fine (with same user as the service, ...).
After investigation, it appear the "event logs" was full. The service was failing with : can not add logs ... system is full ....
So, i clean the log, and the service works again.
TIP : running the client on the command line with the "test" parameter may help :)
Mar 21, 2012
Akilan Paulraj says:i have my master in one server (hudson installation), slave insalled in another ...
i have my master in one server (hudson installation), slave insalled in another server. unable to run build. its looking CVNT in global installation. (path is different from slave),
how to set CVSNT path for local machine?
"java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "D:\cvsnt\cvs.exe" (in directory" - errror
kindly help me i am struggling for one week


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But you do hear all coaches talking about their teams playing style... We are just the only ones claiming smashmouth...
And I think you are taking the wrong impression from the term smashmouth in general... Smashmouth is not literally "We're gonna smash your mouths!"... Ex. Rodman
It's just means we're gonna be physical, score inside (needs improvement), Rebound, play tough D, and above all else... HUSTLE!.. Ex. Roy
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Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
Judge something as it is presented, defined and/or intended.
To arbitrarily redefine the term in this context is pointless because then you're not talking about reality anymore.
Do you remember playing pick-up ball as a kid? Sometimes you played against dirty players and just wanted to understandably pop them in the mouth. But other times, you played against guys that were just plain tough. They were masters of gamesmanship. They bellied up to you and made you work for everything. They knew when to give you that little nudge before going up for the rebound or just before that pass was coming to you into the post. You hated playing against them and probably felt like popping them too before the day was done. But not because they played dirty. They were just tough-minded tough-nosed physical players who, more often than not, could make you have to work much harder than you really wanted to work. In short, they could usually impose their will on you.
That is really what Vogel means by "smash mouth". That's a team that is physically on the edge, but within the rules, that is capable of imposing it's will on the opposition.
Smash mouth means nothing different today than it did 20 years ago. The only thing that is different are the rules of the game that happen to define it's limits.
Just because I start a conversation calling a peach an apple doesn't mean that everyone is obligated to follow my definition. Yes this is one of those cases of being absurd to demonstrate absurdity that you don't like but play along.
Frank Vogel, as much as I love him, does not get to be the final arbiter of the definition of Smash mouth basketball. That is up to anyone's personal interpretation.
Had Frank just said "we're going to play inside out, look to take good shots and play hard every play" then your point would be more valid, but he chose to give it a name. It just so happens that it is a name that has been used in the past in several different ways and in several different sports.
BTW I want to say again, I love the phrase smash mouth basketball & I have zero problem with them using it as long as they are actually doing it. By Vnzla's standard, admittedly they are not, but this is the newer kinder gentler NBA so I think by today's standards they probably are.
So then just say he's misusing the phrase.
And even in this case, just say, "He's misusing the phrase, but going by his own wacky definition he's right and that's what they're doing."
Why can't people be upset about it if they want to be?
Once again making sure we are clear here, I am NOT upset with his use of the phrase or his definition. I'm totally with you & him on this.
But if people want to be upset about it, they can be.
However to be fair, you also would be entitled to being upset about them being upset (or something like that)
What is it about me that suddenly makes you such an active and argumentative poster all of a sudden? ***** Christ!
That said, the term is definitely teetering on being overused. It's becoming empty rhetoric, and that's what getting annoying.
More to the point of the OP -- football pads during practice to work on setting good, hard screens as a direct result of something Coach V noted during the playoffs as a weakness? Yes, please. This is a great bit of coaching, and it's very encouraging to me. We may be returning the same starting five, but it doesn't mean we're content with how we played.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
This.That said, the term is definitely teetering on being overused. It's becoming empty rhetoric, and that's what getting annoying.
This thread has done more to make the phrase annoying than anything Frank Vogel, the media, other teams, other players, or anything else has said or done.
Why would somebody who generally really sucks at setting a screen excel in doing so just because he has some pads on? I bet they had to yell at Tyler to quit leaving the screen before the contact is made.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
When Danny Granger got up into Lebrons face, it wasnt just about intimidating. It was also about not accepting whats become acceptable. Which is, King James and crew running rough shot on everyone. It was about the lack of respect our team and city as a whole continues to get, especially with this basketball team, despite having a great team and a great year last season. It was about just letting the world know that we WILL matter, whether you like it or not. It was about " Yah, you are the heavy favorites to win the title. You are the best player in the NBA. We are the small town market who's suppose to get stomped. We are so insignificant to the most basketball aficionados and experts, that we were'nt even on national television, despite winning 42 of 62 games, but WE WILL MATTER. WE WILL HAVE YOUR RESPECT. "
Incase you havent notices, Lebron, Wade, Bosh...They are suppose to win the next few titles. In everyone's minds, we dont exisist in there world. We dont matter. Smashmouth isnt just about throwing shoulders. It's about making people give a damn when they step into our building. When they step on the same court. These teams know they have more talent. They know they're suppose to win. However, they wont know whether they'll be long for a season, or series after they step off the court with us. Because we're going to hustle for every ball, we're gunna bang. We wont back down. Thats smashmouth. It's not about throwing people around and hurting people. It's simply the only way, short of having 3 superstars, that people WILL RESPECT US. And its also the equalizer because we have really good talent. We may not have 3 superstars, but we have great players. This is one of the most talented teams in Pacers history to be quite honest. It might be scewed a bit, because when you hold this team to the 3 superstar teams, they dont measure on paper, but on the court, they will because they're going to play harder, tougher and they wont bow down to the norm. Which is, Lebron and Co. being penciled in for the next few titles.
And one last thing. You can play smashmouth and be talented team and draft good and run an excellent organization. And i have a firm belief as a life long Pacer fan, that Frank Vogel is going to take this team to an NBA Finals and eventually a title. I think he's 2 steps ahead of everyone else. It's just tough for some of us on here to realize this, because all we see now is these Superstar-laden teams.
I'm excited.
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." - Voltaire
"Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others." - William Greider
Forget Smash Mouth, just be happy we're not playing Limp Bizkit basketball.
Nash is definitely smashmouth.
It's just another bowl of cheerios to **** in.
Targeting "physical" players gets you Tyler, and it's just as flawed as trying to get a bunch of similar guys (Isiah's Quick), or shooters, lengthy teams, all quick guys, etc. It's the idea of falling in love with one aspect of the game. And in the case of physical play it's not really in the top 5 of skills that contribute to winning, and worse yet it's one of the easiest for the refs to remove from the game via calling tight fouls.
Everyone loves the idea of a tough team, and certainly you need a level of toughness. But simply tough as an identity doesn't cut it in basketball. Given the choice I'd rather have a team of pure shooters, and to emphasize that look at West vs Tyler. Tyler is certainly more "physical", often out of control, but West has pure post scoring skills mixed with enough toughness to stand tall.
Smashmouth implies an idea of focus on physical play reminiscent of the mid-90s Cavs that aped the Knicks style of hard fouling, slow down defense. It won a tiny bit but mostly it resulted in poor, very ugly basketball.
Setting a firm screen isn't "smashmouth", it's fundamental basketball. Having 5 specialists that each play their position very well without being a superstar is fundamental basketball. That's the Pacers true identity and what many people have in mind when they think of items like clean, hard screens held to completion. Get to a spot in time, establish a good position, hold your base, and keep your arms down. That's not smashmouth, it's just the right way to execute that aspect of basketball.
And the biggest irony of all of this is that most fans think of Tyler as the most smashmouth player on the team and he's guilty of the absolute worst picks and screens on the team. His entire PnPop style is to NOT ENGAGE with the defender in order to better come clear for the FGA look, leaving the ball handler in a tough double team much of the time.
You do need to be tough, and given players of similar skills you would prefer the tougher of the two. But you also want the quickest. You also want the one who holds his focus the best and who can maintain crisp intensity and attention to the DETAILS of the game. Setting a good screen, running crisply off of those screens, keeping in range of your man to avoid being caught in a spacing trick, these are the details that win games. That's NOT smashmouth, and a lot of physical guys don't really do these things well and consistently anyway.
They just turn to hard fouls when they struggle rather than chucking up bad shots or overdribbling.


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Since I saw a computer for the first time, I knew it would influence my life in a big way. This was like 17 years ago...Especially when I also found out about this thing called the Internet a couple of years later.
About web design, I was fiddling with the computer day and night and I wanted to create my own web pages, that was the time when I found out about HTML, CSS, etc. Back then there was no WordPress or jQuery, just plain and dirty HTML, CSS and IE6.
What I love about web design, that as with everything, not everybody can do it, because design is a subjective matter. The process from designing something and seeing it used by somebody else, in sometimes unexpected ways, is awesome.
That's very inspirational to me man!
I always think that web design is something i can't handle. But when i start to work as a seoer, i realize the importance of the it. I am still working on it.
When you kick butt at doing web design you will feel really happy that you kept working on it for sure!
For me, it was also the creative aspect. Originally, I learnt the basics of programming as a 12 year old back in 1998 by making mods/levels for games of the time. I needed somewhere to showcase my mods so naturally got into web programming/design. I learnt the basics of HTML and CSS in no time but quickly developed an interest PHP (And to a lesser extent, perl, but I found that a lot more difficult). The knowledge I gained by essentially messing around creating sites for various game mods and guilds/clans I was part of grew and grew. By the time I left university almost 10 years later I had a very firm grasp of web development and found a job doing exactly that. Somewhat worryingly, this means I've been programming for almost 15 years now.
I love both game design and web design, but I always keep those things like a hobby because I have soooo many other interests too.For now I'm studying communication, so i'll see where I end up
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Well I love the profile of web designing because I can show my creativity in it . I love to do this work
Huh? You started doing webdesign because you got screwed by a friend?
What was the first time you were like; Yes webdesign is my thing!
What do you like so much about webdesign
When i first made a website in 1999. Our family friends had a local business for apartment rent and i made the website to advertise it on the internet. I added 10% to their prices and it was "my commission". I was a high school student back than and there i think i made enough money to buy a car in less then a year (which was something i could never even dream about). At that point it was like a dream come true — answering your second question — i always wanted to do something creative but creative is rarely well payed and web design seemed like a combination of both: creative+fun and well payed.I am doing it since then.
I would be happy if I could make money with webdesign. Now I get sales and advertisement income with one slow website. But one day I will be the greatest!!
^^ you will! =)
When I started using internet facility I felt that creating website is hard but while I entered into the web designing field I gathered lot of information. This makes me to enter into web design.
Yes the learning proces is actually enjoyable because I'm a nerd like that! Nice to see your comment vijaykumarA!
I got into webdesign seeing all the creativity that is out there, i mean you get to see so much of the world just by going through so many varied sites..Oh ! the other important factor is the money that goes along with it..
I like figuring out things for myself.
You could say I'm a control freak but in a healthy way.
I am in Web Designing because i love to create new designs , I loved Photoshop when i was a student , and edited alot of my pictures and got appreciated. So u can say designing is my Love.
Web design or designing the web graphics is the most vital and colorful aspect of a website.Web design is the prime process which makes the site colorful and attractive to the users.Anyone who got creative blend of mind along with knowledge of web graphics can pursue a career in web designing .Being web crazy and having creative skills made me web designer
simply I want to get more experience of designing web.


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Don`t Want it to Be Too Late
My daughter just turned 21. She has been with a boy her age for about 4 years. Things have always seemed tumultuous, but we recently found it he has been verbally abusing her for much of that time. She recently told me has has started pushing her down, too. They have broken up time and again but always gotten back together. He gives the song and dance that he will change, or he says he will kill himself, and back she goes. She has attempted suicide twice with breakups with him. She now seems to realize that he is abusive (she moved back home after living in an apt with him for just two weeks), and she says things like "I can`t be with him any more" and "he`s so mean." But then she says she loves him and will never find anyone else. We all try to be very supportive, tell her we love her and will always be here for her, build up her self-esteem how we can, and trying to help he see the problems and make the decision herself. But now she is seeming suicidal again (they are in another bad phase of the cycle, apparently). When is enough enough? Why should we all have to continue to endure this? Isn`t there something else we can do to wake her up?
Dear Parent,I know this must be frustrating for you. It certainly seems as if you're doing a lot of the right things--i.e., being a supportive base, not passing judgment, helping her feel good about herself. Many have struggled with the question as to why women/men stay in abusive relationships. It certainly seems as if she is beginning to recognize that this is not a healthy relationship. She realizes on some level that this type of treatment is not good.However, he is playing a role in this process as well. It is quite common for men to become very charming and loving after an abusive event; this oftentimes convinces the woman that he will be different. He may make promises to her, tell her how much she means to him and how he would never do anything to hurt her, etc. She then becomes certain that he will be different. She may become convinced that he is demonstrating those behaviors that he once did, and that her "old boyfriend is back". And unfortunately, she may be unaware that she is only being set up for another round of abuse.In terms of next steps, discussing with your daughter the benefits of seeking professional support would be in order. Her history of suicidal attempts is of concern. A therapist will provide a supportive base for her, as well as serve as a good resource on battering relationships. She will learn more effective methods of coping with loss and distress and this will decrease your worries as a parent, knowing that she is receiving professional care. I would work very hard to find a therapist for her immediately.
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Staples has appointed Faisal Masud as its new EVP of global e-commerce. In the newly created role, Masud will be responsible for leading online and digital growth. He will report to Demos Parneros, president of North American stores and online for Staples.
"Faisal brings deep experience at some of the world's most innovative e-commerce companies, including eBay, Groupon and nine years at Amazon," Parneros said. "His background managing and developing large-scale digital businesses will play an important role at Staples as we rapidly expand our product assortment and grow our online business as part of our strategic plan."
Masud will be charged with building Staples' digital channels and leading e-commerce efforts across the company, as Staples invests heavily in digital commerce. Masud will also lead the continued development of Staples platforms and sites, including staples.com and the company's mobile assets.
Masud has more than a decade of digital experience, building end-to-end, global e-commerce solutions that have driven growth and improved the customer experience. He joins Staples from Groupon, Inc., where he was VP and GM, responsible for managing Groupon Goods' strategy and execution in more than 35 countries, and directly managed all functions for his business unit, including merchandising, inventory, marketing, engineering and operations.
Prior to joining Groupon, Masud was head of global shipping and cross-border trade for eBay-PayPal, where he designed and managed a global shipping platform, which made eBay's marketplace selection available worldwide, and improved delivery experiences and cost. He also created a cross-border trade logistics solution, while leading large cross-functional teams driving shipping efficiency and increased volume. Previously, he was GM of worldwide warehouse deals and global sourcing at Amazon, where he led the development and implementation of a new retail storefront and managed the overall strategy for Amazon's trade-in platform traffic generation, customer acquisition and pricing policy. Masud has a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Southeastern University.


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Mumbai: The Tata group, India's largest conglomerate by revenue, will invest Rs.45,000 crore in the next two years across businesses and regions, newly appointed chairman Cyrus P. Mistry told employees in his first letter to them on Wednesday after taking over from Ratan Tata, who retired on 28 December.
Analysts said the investment plan announced by Mistry may be the first phase of realizing 75-year-old Ratan Tata's vision of increasing the group's turnover fivefold to $500 billion (around Rs.27 trillion today) by 2020, which the latter had elaborated on a few days before his retirement.
Mistry, chairman of Tata Sons Ltd, the flagship holding firm of the conglomerate, told employees that "plans for additional investment in excess of Rs.45,000 crore over the following two years" were already put in place. His purpose is "long-term stakeholder value creation".
Mint reviewed a copy of the letter.
The corpus of planned investment will be utilized by the different entities under the Tata umbrella towards their "path to globalization" with "differing approaches to the spreading of risk, acquisition of technology, access to talent, and investment in long-term growth markets".
Mistry added that over the last three years, the group had invested Rs.50,000 crore across businesses in India alone, creating primary employment for over 85,000 people and further secondary and tertiary jobs.
The 44-year-old son of Pallonji Mistry, Tata Sons' single largest individual shareholder, said the conglomerate will remain committed to India, especially now that the emphasis on policy clarity and "a renewed thrust on economic reforms" were encouraging signs.
In addition, the group will also look at emerging countries such as those in Asia, Africa and parts of Latin America, adding to its existing presence in Europe and America.
Shishir Bajpai, senior vice-president at IIFL Private Wealth Management Ltd, said that the intention to invest Rs.45,000 crore over the next two years was a "big task that won't be easy", and that most of the investment may be for new acquisitions—of companies and resources such as raw materials for steel and power generation.
"I don't think the Tatas are going to invest significantly further in Tata Steel and Tata Motors for now," Bajpai said.
The conglomerate's debt amounts to $26 billion. On the other hand, its 29 listed entities have a combined net worth of Rs.1.43 trillion, and cash and cash equivalents of Rs.36,289.38 crore, according to Capitaline data.
The Tata group's closest competitor in India, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), intends to invest Rs.1 trillion in five years to diversify into new businesses, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani had said during the company's last annual general meeting in June. At the end of fiscal 2012, RIL had cash and cash equivalents to the tune of Rs.70,252 crore.
Tata Steel Ltd, which acquired European steel maker Corus Plc in 2007, is struggling to come to terms with the weak economic situation in Europe and the resultant slack in steel demand. The company had borrowed heavily to fund the acquisition.
Tata Motors Ltd, which acquired British car maker Jaguar Land Rover Plc (JLR) in 2008, has in contrast, reaped the dividends of the purchase. Robust JLR sales in emerging markets such as India and China have offset the weakness in the firm's domestic passenger car division.
"The majority of this new investment may be directed towards Indian Hotels (which runs the Taj group of hotels), which has emerged as India's largest hospitality chain. The idea may now be to make Indian Hotels one of the largest chains globally," Bajpai said.
If global sentiment in the information technology sector improves, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd may also acquire some firms in emerging markets, he added.
Mistry spoke of "winds of change" that come along with the change of guard at Bombay House, the group's headquarters in Mumbai, but reiterated that the core of the Tata group "must and will remain unchanged".
He extolled the culture of innovation, quality and collaboration, and the "uncompromising adherence to a resilient value system", which were fostered during Ratan Tata's stewardship.
The new chairman also cautioned employees about the fate that meets corporations that are "happy with resting on their laurels" and "are weeded out by nimble competition that have sensed the pulse of customers with an emphasis on innovation".
Mistry urged the group to be "relentless" in its pursuit of improving competitiveness and addressing the small issues that are often overlooked, but end up making a significant difference in the value proposition of our products and services.
In his farewell letter to the group's 456,000 employees on 28 December, Ratan Tata had said that there would be "great pressure" on the conglomerate to reinvent itself in terms of business processes, to dramatically reduce costs, be more aggressive in the marketplace and to widen its product range to better address consumer needs.
He had also outlined some operational challenges that will face the group and his successor in coming days such as containing debt and working hard to retain margins.


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We had previously reported on the much maligned, original Android SDK which could only be seen as a step in the right direction. Luckily, after months of silence from Google, the Android SDK is now in 0.9 and includes a complete overhaul of the user interface.
From the looks of it, Android is looking closer and closer to becoming a reality and a lot of the features look fun to use, if not useful. I'm eager to get my hands on an actual Android device but for now the screenshots, video, and SDK will have to do. Gizmodo has a great video introduction to the 0.9 Android SDK, feel free to check it out!


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Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Announces 2013 Season
The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, presented by the Yale School of Music, celebrates its 72nd season this year with performances and residencies by six internationally esteemed string quartets alongside students and young professionals from around the world. From June 22 to August 17 Norfolk will host a roster of string quartets including: the Artis Quartet, the Brentano Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet, the Jasper String Quartet, the Keller Quartet, and the Tokyo String Quartet. The Tokyo String Quartet, which is retiring this year, will play its last concert on July 6 at the festival. And on August 3 the Emerson String Quartet will perform its New York area debut concert with the group's new cellist, Paul Watkins.
Norfolk director Paul Hawkshaw says, "Our mission at Norfolk is to cultivate the performance and teaching of chamber music at the highest level. We always want our audiences, students, and performing artists to have fun exploring the chamber music repertoire, and this year we are especially fortunate to have a truly international group of performers for our audiences to enjoy."
Opening the 2013 festival on Saturday, June 22 is a choral program by the Yale Choral Artists, a new ensemble of 24 professional singers from around the country under the direction of the Yale Glee Club's Jeffrey Douma. The Choral Artists will perform All Night Vigil (Vespers) by Sergei Rachmaninov along with a shorter work by Pavel Chesnokov, Salvation is Created.
From July 5 to August 17 Norfolk will host a six-week Chamber Music Session. Among the twelve concerts each Friday and Saturday night in July and August is a presentation of Franz Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise performed by pianist Peter Frankl and baritone Randall Scarlata on Friday, July 12.
The Norfolk Festival, under the leadership of Paul Hawkshaw since 2004, includes a New Music Workshop led by composer Martin Bresnick, a Lecture series, a Young Artists' Performance Series, Festival Artist concerts (Friday and Saturday nights), and a Family Day on July 14 that includes a performance of Yale's Javanese ensemble, Gamelan Suprabanggo. This year's festival concludes on August 17 with a performance of works for chorus and orchestra from the Renaissance to the contemporary by the Norfolk Festival Chorus and Orchestra directed by Simon Carrington.


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Techie kills self after tiff over wedding photos on FB
By Express News Service | Published: 28th October 2013 07:34 AM |
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A software engineer working in a reputed MNC allegedly committed suicide in his house at Mylapore on Sunday, upset over his newly-wed wife's refusal to remove Facebook posts of their wedding photos.
Chandan Kumar Singh (29) from Jharkhand, and Sandhya from Chennai, got married in a church in the city in July against the wishes of Singh's family. They both were working in the same branch of the IT company when they got introduced and were in love for the last few years.
Singh's family, which opposed the marriage as Sandhya belonged to a different religion, stayed away from the ceremony. The wedding was arranged with the blessings of Sandhya's family.
Police said Sandhya had posted photos of their wedding on Facebook and tagged Singh in the photos. "His cousins in Jharkand had noticed the photos and informed his parents who lived there. His parents were apparently upset over this as they felt their son's marriage in a church would not be welcomed by their relatives. They had asked Singh to remove the photos from Facebook. This created bitterness between the couple," a police officer said.
From Singh's suicide note, police said it was apparent that his wife had refused to remove the post as she felt there was no reason to conceal their legitimate marriage. "He had been asking her to remove the photos to respect the sentiments of his parents. On Saturday night, after a heated exchange of words, they slept in separate rooms," said a police officer.
On Sunday morning, as Singh did not come out of his room, Sandhya checked on him and found him hanging. A note left by him said that he still loved his wife, but was upset over her refusal to remove the posts.
The body was sent for autopsy. Further investigations are on.


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I am performing live this weekend in Linz, Austria. The event is called Independance and the other main headliner is Pet Duo from Brazil. It will be a mostly hard techno night but I will play a few slow weird songs to freak people out some. Since they put me in an Ibis Hotel I am sure I won't have internet access. My contract states 4 stars and above only but rarely does an Ibis fit that bill. The rooms are usually one large piece of molded plastic. You shower and the entire bathroom gets wet. It's slightly futuristic but in a really cheap way. Another feature of the Ibis chain is a bunch of heavy smoking/beer drinking groups of 30-50 year old men hanging in the lobby which yes doubles as the bar. You can check in/out and order a beer from the same person. The groups of dudes all wear the same shirts although I don't think it has anything to do with sports. It's more like some weekend group escape thing they do. Any Europeans can chime in and let me know why I always see this weird phenomenon. This show should be a little different because my friend Gabri (who records under the name Richter) will be on stage with me. He's an incredible keyboard player and I've loaded him up with samples. The event is in the Cembrankeller which is a giant wooden wine cellar. I've played there before (photos: here) and it sounds quiet good.
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Three tiny unmanned airplanes equipped with sophisticated instruments are buzzing over the Arctic sea ice near Barrow, Alaska, providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with new atmospheric and environmental data.
Known as aerosondes, the diminutive 30-pound planes are helping researchers monitor conditions like temperature, humidity and wind speed, said CU-Boulder aerospace engineering Professor Judith Curry. In addition, the tiny planes are packing digital cameras to assess changes in sea ice and coastal erosion that may be associated with Arctic warming. The flights started April 8 and run through April 20.
"We want to map the coastal sea ice changes with the cameras in order to document conditions in the spring before the ice breaks up," said Curry. "We also are extremely interested in how potential climate change in the region might affect the native Inuit subsistence living, including fishing and whale hunting."
Since the aerosondes have the ability to fly far out over the Arctic Ocean - a dangerous place for full-sized aircraft - they can collect hard-to-get meteorological data. They are able to collect real-time data on frigid air outbreaks over the Arctic, for example, that may be heading south and impacting weather of the continental United States, she said.
The aerosondes have the potential to be workhorses in the pole regions, said Curry. In 1998, an aerosonde - which can fly more than 1,500 miles on a gallon of fuel --completed the first unmanned flight across the North Atlantic Ocean.
"The planes could be used for a variety of purposes, including searching for changes in ice cover, monitoring for environmental hazards such as oil spills, surveying for coastal erosion, wildlife studies and other projects," said James Maslanik. An associate professor for research in aerospace engineering and co-investigator on the aerosonde project, Maslanik is currently in Barrow directing aerosonde operations.
CU-Boulder students have been working for the past several years to improve the effectiveness of the three-foot-long planes, said Curry. Two of the planes vanished north of Barrow in 1999, apparently from wing icing.
One group of students has been testing ways to mitigate aerosonde wing icing by using various techniques in the "cold room" of Recreational Equipment Inc. in Denver, which dips below zero. Other students designed a new catapult launch system equipped with a rail in lieu of the previous launch system -- sending the planes skyward from the tops of fast-moving ground vehicles.
In addition, students are using computer models to improve the stability of the aerosonde aircraft in order to stabilize sensitive instruments onboard.
Although the aerospace engineering department owns three of the $35,000 planes, they are used only for research and development on campus. The three planes now flying around the Arctic are leased from Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft, Inc.
A closely related aerosonde project on Alaska's North Slope headed up by assistant CU-Boulder Professor Amanda Lynch is aimed at helping North Slope residents better understand climate changes that affect their communities, marine mammals, marine transportation and offshore resource development.
One of the key issues affecting humans on the North Slope is coastal erosion caused by storm surges, changes in permafrost, flooding and sea rise.
"This is an interdisciplinary project involving engineers, physical scientists and social scientists," said Curry. "It is up to us to put together our data and translate it into something the people can understand and use to make decisions."
Examples include providing data to coastal villagers on the location and movement of sea ice near villages, as well as long-term weather forecasts. "We need to educate them about the probabilities and uncertainies of events that could threaten their communities, then let them make decisions like moving barges or other structures and additional ways to mitigate potential problems from sea ice and bad weather."
Future missions could include flights over Greenland, Antarctica and even into hurricanes and other atmospheric and meteorological hotspots around the globe, said Maslanik. CU-Boulder's aerosonde missions are expected to continue through 2006 with funding from the National Science Foundation.
The planes are produced by Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft with facilities in Victoria, Australia and Boulder. Jpeg images of the planes can be downloaded at: http://www.aerosonde.com/gallery.htm. Photos courtesy Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft.


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