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The Eliot South Berwick Wrestling Association (ESBW) was established in 1986 to support the many wrestlers in PreK to Eighth Grade in the communities of Eliot and South Berwick. The Eliot South Berwick Wrestling program provides a supportive and positive learning environment for the youth involved and values sportsmanship, athleticism, self-esteem and the personal growth of over 80 athletes each year. ESBW is a registered, 501 c(3) non-profit and is solely run by volunteer coaches and parents.
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plates are on the table in the form of a square.
An apple is in each
of ten plates.
Find a way of removing all the apples
except one by jumping over one at a time to the next vacant square.
You are not allowed
make any diagonal moves—only moves parallel to the sides of
the square.
You are permitted to transfer any single apple you like to a vacant
plate before starting.
The moves must be all leaps, taking off the
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"Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host."
"And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers."
"You're looking at basically doubling the production amounts, but the impact on Archer Daniels Midland depends on whether they increase their production capacity."
"And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded."
"His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground."
"If Archer is the prototype of the player he (Brown) wants to be, he should know that 'Arch' was in trouble every second week when he was a youngster. But he learned how to turn himself into the most respected, aggressive footballer the game has seen for quite some time,"
"When I was covering them, they had nothing and the league knew it. I mean, in 1986 David Archer led the NFC in passing for the first half of the year and that was it."
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Even though Americans for Prosperity has a diverse donor base of over 90,000, our left-leaning critics usually focus on only two of them. Organizations like the Union of Concerned Scientists and the American Wind Energy Alliance used ad-hominem attacks as a political tactic to distract from the economic facts in its latest hit piece in The Hill by Elliott Negin. Looking past Negin's empty rhetoric, the consistent failures of federal tax breaks for wind power and the overwhelming grassroots opposition to extending them are clear.
The reality is that American taxpayers have seen very little return on their forced investment over the past 20 years. The industry remains woefully dependent on federal tax breaks, state purchase mandates, and wishful thinking. It routinely fails to produce long-term job creation and threatens the reliability of the energy grid. Compared to other forms of energy technology, wind power receives the highest amount of subsidy per amount of electricity produced. Looking at Energy Information Administration data, government support per megawatt hour for natural gas, oil, and coal is 64 cents; nuclear $3.14; wind $56.29. Only solar power has the dubious distinction of being a greater recipient of Uncle Sam's welfare, at $775.64 per megawatt hour.
American families continue to struggle in the down economy, yet each year the federal government sends $12 billion of taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars to special interests in the wind energy industry. Congress should eliminate of these targeted incentives across the board in favor of a market-based energy policy. Allowing the wind production tax credit (PTC) to expire at the end of the year would be a great first step.
Despite PTC's objectively poor performance and this strong opposition, lawmakers repeatedly extend and expand handouts for wind power. As the main tax break for wind energy, PTC was scheduled to expire this past December, but Congress slipped a one-year extension into the Fiscal Cliff deal.
Thankfully this year Congress is poised to break with the past. With the House of Representatives adjoined for the holidays and the Senate focused on nominations, it is unlikely that Congress will extend it before December 31. When they return to Washington in January, members of Congress should resist the temptation to pass a retroactive extension.
Harbin Hanson is Federal Affairs Manager for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy organization.


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Over the past few years, Danyale Patterson has been staking her claim in snowboarding with hard work and really solid style. This Alaskan native is no slouch in the streets and her vision is two-fold: not only has she contributed to pushing the boundaries of what's happening in rail riding, she's concocted a slew of edits and full movies that are garnering more and more attention with each release. All of her efforts are paying off in spades, too. This year, Danyale put out leading parts in Roxy's Wilder and Too Hard's Still Hard, the latter a video that she produced herself. With everything that Danyale is putting her time and effort into, it's even more impressive that she has such a depth of shots from the past season. Watch Danyale's part, because she is one of the snowboarders leading the charge to elevate women's urban riding and we're stoked to be along for the ride.
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love will tear us apart
joy division · love wil tear us apart reissue
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First landlord prosecuted under Rotherham Council's selective licensing schemePublished Wednesday, 23rd March 2016
A Rotherham landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 at Rotherham Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to operating a rented house without a licence.
The house on Avondale Road in the Masbrough Selective Licensing Area was identified in October 2015 by the Council's Community Protection Unit who identified the unlicensed house due to a large accumulation of household waste in the rear garden.
Licensing of private rented housing was implemented in four areas of Rotherham in May 2015 (Eastwood, Masbrough, Dinnington and Maltby South East), with the intention of improving the management standards in the private rented sector.
The aim is to help tackle issues such as poor property standards and high levels of anti-social behaviour which often lead to short term tenancies and put people off wanting to stay in the area.
Graham Adams, the Director of Alvastone Property and Development Limited, was fined £460, on 16 March and ordered to pay the Council's costs of £559.34 with a victim surcharge of £46.
The house is now empty but if it is to be re-let the company has to apply to the Council for a licence which will cost a further £592.
Mr Adams admitted in court that he had failed to licence the house despite receiving letters and warnings that he needed to do so. He also failed to attend an interview with the Council to explain the reasons for not licensing.
Councillor Emma Wallis, Advisory Cabinet Member for Housing said: "This is an important first case in Rotherham where a landlord has paid the penalty for ignoring a licensing regime which is designed to drive up standards in this growing sector.
"This prosecution demonstrates the council's commitment to rooting out rogue landlords, and ensuring that their properties meet the standards we expect.
"This first case shows that the council means business, and will hopefully act as a deterrent to other landlords who may be considering not complying with the scheme."
John Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne and Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, added: "The new Selective Licensing scheme will boost parts of Rotherham and provide much needed support to communities through tackling things like anti-social behaviour and sub-standard property conditions.
"The Council consulted widely in the areas that are affected and found that the vast majority of residents were in favour of the initiative.
"Residents and responsible landlords have long been concerned that some landlords are profiting from renting out properties in very poor condition, which has had a knock-on effect on people's health and quality of life.
"These communities will benefit greatly as the Council takes decisive action against these landlords, making sure they improve conditions once and for all.
"This really is a ground-breaking scheme, which points the way for other councils on how to raise standards for private renters."
Two cases in addition to this prosecution are currently being prepared for court by the Council's Legal Services covering 34 flats and houses. Further cases are being developed for prosecution by the Community Protection Unit as owners have failed to apply for licenses after a series of warnings.


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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — A child swimming at Wrightsville Beach was bitten by a "marine animal" according to Wrightsville Beach Police. It happened about 4 p.m. off access number 8 near Moore's Inlet.
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Ford introduces 30 mpg-plus people mover: Transit Connect Wagon
Ford, the most fuel-efficient full-line manufacturer, introduces the first seven-passenger people mover expected to break the 30 mpg-plus barrier with the all-new Transit Connect Wagon. It drives like a car, has the flexibility of a utility and can haul the payload of a pickup truck. more...
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Popular Mechanics has unveiled its 2013 Automotive Excellence Awards, and not only is the Ford Escape among its 10 best vehicles, for the first time the magazine names a Car of the Year and Escape is editors' choice for that award, too. Reviewers point out, "Escape is freshly minted, with a solid new chassis shared with the European Ford Kuga. The driving experience feels like it's two full generational leaps ahead of the old Escape." Click here for the full report.
History in the making at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant
Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant is the only manufacturing site in the world to build vehicles with five different fuel-efficient powertrains on the same line and the only one to build four vehicles that deliver 40 mpg or more in real-world driving. With each new C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid that rolls off the line there, MAP is making history. more...
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IN DEPTH REVIEW: Topfield TRF-2400 Masterpiece HD
As the publicity shot suggests Topfield's new Masterpiece HD is intended to be an object of desire.
Masterpiece HD features most of the mod-cons you'd expect from a
Personal Video Recorder such as dual-HD tuners 500GB hard drive
eSata port for attaching an external drive HDMI and digital audio
outputs. You can easily record two shows at once pause and rewind live
TV and even watch the start of a program while you're still recording
the end. The PVR can extract the Electronic Program Guide from free to
air broadcasts but it's also compatible with the IceTV
subscription EPG service (Topfield throws in a three month subscription). IceTV gives the Masterpiece HD TiVo-like
powers such as remote scheduling and the ability to create a true
Season Pass – which checks the EPG for schedule changes – rather than
the recurring recordings used by most off-the-shelf recorders.
Masterpiece HD is MPEG-4-compatible meaning it will handle the
eventual switch from MPEG-2 broadcasting which will render older
devices useless (although this won't happen for at least five years).
The Masterpiece HD still doesn't get the Freeview tick of approval but
that's only because it offers features the networks frown on – such as
ad-skipping and the ability to copy recordings from the device. You've
still got access to all the new standard and high-def channels.
are rumours that Topfield may release a firmware update to make the
Masterpiece HD compatible with the upcoming Freeview EPG but this is
unlikely as it would require Topfield to license the MHEG-5 platform on which the EPG is built.
It would also require Topfield to disable features such as ad-skipping
which would cause a riot amongst customers who bought the Masterpiece
HD specifically because it's not hampered by Freeview's restrictions.
If the Freeview logo does gain traction amongst shoppers Topfield has already released a Freeview-endorsed 7150 model
with features disabled – similar to the Beyonwiz FV-L1. Right now there's no
advantage in buying a Freeview-endorsed device as Freeview has
confirmed its upcoming EPG will be based on exactly the same data already
embedded in the broadcast signal.
Enough industry gossip is the
TRF-2400 Masterpiece HD any good? It's certainly got a few tricks up
its sleeve for those looking for more features than TiVo offers. For
starters the Masterpiece HD has Flickr and YouTube access complete
with an onscreen keyboard for entering search queries. It's also a
media player handling DivX VOB MKV and MP4 movies as well as MP3 and
JPG files. What's really surprising is that it can't play these files
over your network from a PC or network attached storage. Instead you
need to copy them to the hard drive via FTP browser or USB stick or
else play them directly from a USB device. This is a major
disappointment considering the trend towards networked lounge rooms.
Technically you could use FTP backup software such as Handy Backup to sync your BitTorrent download folder with the
Masterpiece HD but it would still be a hassle compared to using a true
networked media player such as a Beyonwiz PVR.
FTP and web
server access open up some interesting possibilities such as copying recordings to your computer and converting them for a mobile device. If you
configure your router to allow remote access from the web you can
schedule recordings and download them from afar – although they're
bloody big files.
Another feather in the Masterpiece HD's cap is
composite and component video inputs for time-shifting and recording
from external devices. It sounds like the perfect option for Foxtel
subscribers who don't want to pay extra for an iQ or iQ2 personal video
recorder although the catch is that it doesn't handle high-definition
signals only 576i and 576p. That's another major disappointment and
if you're a Foxtel subscriber you'd be better off spending your cash
on an iQ2.
Here's a close up of that Topfield publicity shot so you can really appreciate its features. Before you complain I didn't cut her head off – that's exactly how she appears on the Topfield website. Note that high gloss reflective shine.
When to comes basic PVR features the Masterpiece HD
can hold its own. It automatically buffers up to five hours of video
allowing you to rewind live TV but the buffer is reset if you change
channel. Unfortunately it doesn't prevent you from channel-flicking
whilst time-shifting so if you're watching the footy and forget you're
10 minutes behind the live broadcast changing the channel will throw
you into the present and reset the buffer (in Topfield's defence most
other PVRs suffer from the same flaw). The buffered video is stored in
the recording folder but meanwhile the game is still going so you'd
need to hit record watch what was in the buffer and then start
watching the recording. It sounds like more hassle than it's worth.
Considering the buffer is stored in the recordings folder it's
surprising that if you press record a few minutes into a show it
doesn't add what was in the buffer to the start of the recording. You
can however rewind a live broadcast to the point where you last changed
channel and then hit record.
When it comes to usability the
Masterpiece HD is streets ahead of the painfully clunky Beyonwiz
interface but it still falls short of the idiot-proof TiVo. Channel
changes take around 1 second and the transparent menus are attractive
informative and mostly intuitive. The inclusion of a universal remote
control is also a nice touch although it's got ugly square buttons and
minimal colour coding which would make it hard to use in the dark
especially as it lacks a backlight. The four-way rocker also makes an
annoyingly loud click. I'd leave it in the box and stick with something
like a Logitech Harmony universal remote.
The Masterpiece HD's
onscreen EPG displays 7 channels by 2 hours or 5 channels by 5 hours
and you can easily jump 24 hours forward or back. Pressing record lets
you schedule a recording or recurring recording and specify pre- and
post- padding in case it starts late. You can also set global
post-padding in the menus. The program is now flagged in the onscreen
EPG as scheduled to be recorded. Unfortunately if you want to create a
proper Season Pass you need to do it via IceTV which means you lose
the ability to adjust the pre- and post- padding. IceTV is looking to
improve this in future versions but meanwhile the process isn't as
smooth as using a TiVo or Vista Media Centre.
When it comes to
picture quality both SD and HD broadcasts looked just as smooth as as
our TiVo with both PVRs set to 1080i and connected via HDMI to our our
46 inch 1080p Sony Bravia. The TiVo perhaps still featured slightly
less compression articfacts when the picture quality was poor. DivX and
VOB files also played smoothly although for some reason 192 kbps MP3
files were downscaled to 128 kbps.
The big question concerning
the Masterpiece HD is reliability and here there is still work to be
done. The PVR features seem solid as does the IceTV integration –
something which has been unstable on previous Topfield models.
Unfortunately the TRF-2400's media player features
still seem flaky. It refused to play many YouTube clips
refused to display most of the JPGs I threw at it and offered choppy
audio on some VOB
files. The files were copied to the Masterpiece HD via FTP and HTTP so
I copied them back to the computer see if they were corrupted by the
transfer process. The VOB file's audio played fine but some of the JPGs
didn't. When I copied the originals to a USB stick and stuck it into
the player they played fine.
Of course such bugs can be fixed with a firmware update but
the very thought should strike fear in the hearts of longtime Topfield users – something we'll get back to in a minute.
what's the verdict? The Masterpiece HD gets a tick in almost every box
although the fine print is frustrating – such as no LAN-based playback
and a component input which only handles 576i/p. The media player
features are a bit buggy and a cloud also hangs over Topfield in terms
of general reliability.
The high-def Topfield TF7100HDPVRt was met with rave reviews a few years ago until it became apparent the unit had
major stability issues. The situation wasn't helped by Topfield's habit
of using customers as unwitting beta testers of new
firmware. Owners of the 7100 were forced to suffer through months of
flaky firmware
releases before it became stable and even now problems persist.
The forums at itopfield.com.au were full of unhappy 7100 owners until
the forums were mysteriously taken offline a few months ago. Topfield
assures me that the forum is only temporarily offline while it
negotiates moving to a new website but the timing would seem designed
to quash complaints about the new Masterpiece HD.
Even when the forums were up and running Topfield was generally less
than forthcoming and helpful.
Enough of such talk let's take another look at that Topfield promo shot because it actually speaks volumes. Don't ask questions don't complain about bugs – just look at the pretty pictures. What are you looking over here for worried about silly things like reliability when you should be looking at the sexy hardware over there?
The Masterpiece HD is only
just hitting the shelves so there are few
user reports to go by at this stage although it was amazing how
several new forum members sprung up at Whirlpool
people who miraculously managed to get early units and absolutely loved
them. Eventually the forum moderators stepped in and removed many of
these posts – labelling them as spam. The same users turned up on other
forums and in the comments section of online reviews gushing about the
Masterpiece HD.
Even if the TRF-2400 Masterpiece HD seemed absolutely flawless I'd still recommend
potential buyers hold off for a few months to see if problems emerge
and more importantly how Topfield responds. It will take time for Topfield to earn
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At Spirit Mountain we pride ourselves in providing an environment for safe skiing snowboarding and fat biking. Ultimately, ski, snowboard and fat bike safety on the mountain is each person's responsibility and each person plays a key part in the safety of our recreation area. Ask any Patroller, and they will tell you that they are happy to be of assistance on the slopes... but they would prefer to be ON the snow, skiing/riding/fat biking and keeping a watchful eye, than in the Patrol Room providing first response care. Nothing ruins a great day of fun on the slopes as much as an accident that didn't have to happen.
Following the Skier Responsibility Code will help ALL skiers and snowboarders have a safer mountain experience. For freestyle skiers and riders, the Smart Style Guide is a must-read before you enter any of our parks or freestyle terrain. These ski safety tips can help keep yourself and others out of harm's way.
Always ride or ski in control and within your ability. Do not ride or ski too fast or recklessly. Do not ski slopes too difficult for your ability.
When walking or climbing always keep to the side of the trail or slope.
If you have a collision resulting in an injury to another person it's your responsibility to stay at the collision site until the Ski Patrol arrives. All injuries must be reported before leaving Spirit Mountain.
Inverted aerial maneuvers (flips) are not recommended.
It is your responsibility to control your body on the ground and in the air. Always clear the landing area quickly. Never jump blindly. Use a spotter when necessary. Look before you leap! One user on a terrain feature at a time. Inspect terrain before using and throughout the day.
Do not ride or ski beyond CLOSED AREA signs into a closed area.
Do not build up jumps, schuss, or ski out of control. Schussing means skiing straight down the hill extremely fast and/or recklessly.
Do not jump out of chairlifts.
Snow Passes/Lift Ticket must be permanently attached by wire wicket to the skier, so that the passes are easily visible to lift operations.
Your Season Pass must be worn on the outermost body and visible at all times.
A skier/rider who is alone when entering the lift line should call out "single" so that others may ride the chairlift with him on double, triple or quad lifts.
Remove pole straps from wrists before loading on chairlifts. Stand close together in the loading area.
Absolutely no cans or bottles are to be taken on ski lifts or ski slopes.
Do not cut lift lines. Only Spirit Mountain Patrollers and Instructors are allowed to enter the lift line ahead of those already waiting.
Get on and off lifts only at loading and unloading areas. Do not swing or bounce chairs while riding chairlift. Do not cross operating rope tow tracks.
Be courteous to and respect of others. Do not use rude language and/or behavior.
No carry-in beer and alcoholic beverages will be allowed on Spirit Mountain premises. Such beverages may be confiscated.
Do not bring skis, snowboards or poles into the lodge.
"Brown Bagging" is allowed only in restricted areas.
Snowboarders must follow Your Responsibility Code. Do not sit at the top of the run in such a way as to block the starting area or otherwise obstruct any area of the slope.
Do not abuse rental equipment. Do not go on dry pavement with skis on.
Snowball throwing will not be tolerated at Spirit Mountain.
A ski area representative (including any employee in uniform, not just Ski Patrollers) upon finding a person skiing/riding in a careless, inappropriate or reckless manner, could dispense consequences ranging from a one-on-one Safety Awareness Seminar with a Ski Patroller to a lifetime suspension from Spirit Mountain. So take it easy out there. Give people some space!
These actions may not be construed to create an affirmative duty on the part of the ski area operator to protect skiers from their own or from another skier's carelessness or recklessness. If you do not agree with the above, then do not use the facilities at our ski area.
Skiing in its various forms, including the use of snowboards and snow skates, is a dangerous sport with inherent risks. These risks include loading, riding and unloading from ski lifts, variations in snow, steepness and terrain, ice, moguls, rocks, trees and other forms of forest growth and debris (above or below the surface), bare spots, lift towers, utility lines an poles, fencing, snowmaking and snow grooming equipment, and other forms of natural or man-made obstacles on and off designated trails, as well as collisions with equipment, obstacles or other skiers. Trail conditions vary constantly due to weather changes and skier use. Inherent in the sport is the risk of permanent, catastrophic injury or death.
Accepting these risks is a part of the challenge of man against the mountain and the elements. To enjoy skiing, you must also know and be willing to accept the limits of your ability. Skiing challenges your physical condition and may cause stress. You will reduce the risk of skiing and enjoy it more if you are in good physical condition.
The National Ski Areas Association established "Your Responsibility Code" in 1966 as a code of ethics for all skiers on the mountain. Today, the code reflects not only skier safety, but snowboarder and lift safety as well. The points listed in the Your Responsibility Code are the rules of the road when you are on the mountain. So, whether you ski with one board or two, or use other specialized equipment, always show courtesy to others so that your paths don't cross.
It is important to remember that there are elements of risk in mountain activities that common sense and personal awareness can help reduce. Please note, violations of Your Responsibility Code, and the following additional rules, ordinances and/or guidelines may result in criminal prosecution, civil liability and/or loss of lift privileges without compensation or refund:
Smart Style is a terrain park specific safety program that you should check out before using terrain parks. Be sure you Know the Code, too: Your Responsibility Code provides safety tips while on the slopes.
Please visit the NSAA Park Terrain Safety Page for additional information & details on terrain park usage, safety and best practices.
It's up to YOU to be SNOW SMART & PARK SMART - ENJOY!
Always utilize the IMBA RULES OF THE TRAIL when riding at Spirit Mountain Bike Park, and please follow the Code & Rules as well while enjoying our trails!
KNOW the CODE & RULES to RIDE
Please Note: Summer Operations: On days when the lift is not running & trails are open; Happy Camper is the uphill return trail. Use caution when ascending & descending Happy Camper on these days. On days when the lift is running, there is no uphill trail usage as safety is our utmost priority for all guests.
Winter Operations: Mountain Biking is only allowed during Mountain Bike Operations which is listed on our Fat Biking Page.
Please Note II: Trails may open and close at various times during operations due to conditions and/or maintenance.
Know the Code – Be Safety Conscious
It is Your Responsibility
Park Privileges Revoked for Breach of this Code
Bike Park Rules
Mountain biking and bike terrain expose you to risk of serious injury or death. Prior to using the trails and terrain, it is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with all instructions and warnings and to follow your responsibility code.
Bear Aware
The slopes of this resort are a forested environment. These slopes are home to many bears and other wildlife. Please use caution during your visit and obey the following:


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- Asami Sato
- Year Completed:
- 2012
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- Costume worn at:
- Otakon 2012
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
Goodwilled. I found all the essential pieces of clothing I needed for Asami's casual look at my local GW, except the wig of course, and all for just over $20. That place never lets me down! I did need to alter a few things, such as the blazer, which I chopped up at the bottom and hastily proceeded to cut in my own button holes. I also chopped the under layers some just to try and not be so hot in the summer sun.
Used a long wavy black wig from eBay, however, I chopped off more than I would have liked due to nerves while changing into her on Saturday. And sadly, the green circle lenses I ordered didn't come in on time for the con.
- Personal Thoughts:
- My love for Avatar knows no bounds, so when the highly anticipated Legend of Korra finally came out, it's no surprise I was hooked from beginning to end of season one. I'd been meaning to cosplay a character from the Avatar-verse for a while now, but it just didn't happen (haha). However, following Asami's character on the show, I just instantly knew I had to cosplay her.
Photographer: Merry Wu
With Becki as my Korra
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Chandigarh, June 12 (IANS) Creator of Chandigarh's famous Rock Garden, Nek Chand, died at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here early Friday following cardiac arrest, his family members said. He will be cremated here on Saturday.
Chand was 90 years old and was suffering from diabetes, hypertension and cancer. He was hospitalised for the past few days.
The Chandigarh administration has declared a holiday in its offices on Friday as a mark of respect to the world-acclaimed architectural genius.
His body has been kept in the Rock Garden for the people to pay tribute, the family members said.
The master creator celebrated his 90th birthday last December.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the death of Nek Chand.
"Nek Chand-ji will always be remembered for his artistic genius and fabulous creation that is cherished by many. May his soul rest in peace," Modi said in a tweet.
Nek Chand was the most exhibited Indian artist ever with his creations being part of leading cities like Paris, London, New York, Washington and Berlin, and numerous books in different languages being written about him. He had also been offered honorary citizenship in various countries.
He was a road inspector in a construction project in Chandigarh in the 1950s and 60s. At that time the city, popularly called "City Beautiful", was being designed by French architect Le Corbusier.
Nek Chand developed the art of creating figures from waste material discarded by people and secretly set up his laboratory in a forested area in north Chandigarh.
It was only in the mid-70s that Nek Chand's art was recognised and Chandigarh's 'Rock Garden' came into being. The Rock Garden was officially inaugurated in October 1976.
He was honoured with the Padma Shri award in 1984 but the Nek Chand Foundation believes his contribution to Indian art deserved a greater award.
Waste material like broken bangles, cutlery, chinaware, electrical fittings like switches, plugs and tubelights, marbles, tiles, household junk, stones, building material waste and other things have found their way into art creations by Nek Chand.
The Rock Garden, located in Chandigarh's Sector 1 on a sprawling 35-acre campus, can be best described as a "kingdom" which depicts the life and ecology of India, comprising features of both rural and urban settings.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh expressed shock and grief over Nek Chand's death.
In separate condolence messages, they said Nek Chand would be long remembered for his creative contributions.


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Utah-based brand 1-800 Contacts has tapped indie San Francisco shop Duncan/Channon as its new advertising agency of record. You might know D/C as the agency behind the recent Esurance and StubHub ads. Anyhow, 1-800 Contacts is said to have chosen its new AOR after a "comprehensive selection process." Before picking Duncan/Channon, the brand had been handling advertising efforts internally for some time.
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Along with the usual AOR responsibilities of leading strategic branding and creative efforts for 1-800 Contacts, Duncan/Channon will help the company launch its recently announced Glasses.com brand. According to Nielsen figures, 1-800 Contacts spent nearly $40 million across all media in 2010.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Progress. It's what Florida fans expect to see this fall. It's what they hope to see in Saturday's spring game.
Everyone is under much more scrutiny after the Gators' 4-8 record last season, but mostly the microscope will be on a brand-new offense that has been installed in just 14 spring practices. It's just one of several aspects of the scrimmage that fans and the media will be analyzing.
The game, at 1:30 p.m ET at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, will be divided into four, 12-minute quarters with a running clock. Teams were drafted by honorary alumni captains on Thursday night, but fans will get to see a lot of first-team offense against first-team defense in the mix.
Here's what to watch for:
New and improved quarterback: All eyes will be on Jeff Driskel, the junior who hasn't exactly lived up to his status as the top QB prospect in 2011. He's coming off surgery and six months of rehab for a broken bone in his lower right leg. The injury, which cost him most of the 2013 season, ensures that he'll be a non-contact participant (as will all of the QBs). Driskel has had an excellent spring. He's clearly the starter and is a respected leader. His teammates have been raving about how good and comfortable he looks in an offense that is much closer to what made him a star in high school. Driskel said he just wants to show the fans that he is confident and having fun. But nothing pleases a crowd like putting points on the board. He can create a lot of goodwill if he finds receivers in stride and generally commands a smooth-looking offense.
Mr. Roper's offense: Some success by Driskel and backup quarterbacks Will Grier and Skyler Mornhinweg would go a long way in showing off the new scheme that offensive coordinator Kurt Roper brought from Duke. The No. 1 thing that fans want to see is a very different-looking offense. Roper has the potential to deliver with his no-huddle, shotgun spread attack. At the very least, the tempo will be much faster than in any of Florida's last three seasons of taking a clock-chewing, run-heavy, pro-style approach.
Young secondary: The Gators have Vernon Hargreaves III at cornerback, Jabari Gorman at safety and little certainty throughout the rest of the defensive backfield. Yes, there is a ton of talent, but it's young and inexperienced. There are three starting jobs open because UF operates so often in a nickel formation. Early enrollee freshmen Jalen Tabor and Duke Dawson have had their expected ups and downs in competing with junior Brian Poole for the starting spot opposite Hargreaves. Poole is also in the mix at nickel corner, along with Marcus Maye. Keanu Neal might have the edge for the other starting safety spot, but keep an eye on Nick Washington and Marcell Harris. Don't be surprised if the DBs struggle on Saturday as Florida's offense looks to win fans and influence coaches.
O-line vs. D-line: This one is a toss-up. The Gators' offensive line has not been good in pass protection, but the defensive line isn't exactly loaded with pass-rushing demons. The uptempo offense should help Florida's O-line, as there is a new emphasis on getting the ball out of the quarterback's hand in three seconds. The marquee matchup to watch is defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. against left tackle D.J. Humphries. They're two of the Gators' most talented players, and they've been going at each other throughout spring practice. The rest of Florida's starters are veterans, but fans might want to cover their eyes when the second units come on. Coach Will Muschamp has not been pleased with the development of his young linemen on either side of the ball.
The B-position: Tight ends and fullbacks have been largely overlooked in recent years, as blocking has been the top priority. That's changed under Roper, who said on Thursday: "It's going to be an important position and it's going to be a playmaking position for us, so we're counting on them." Roper said he's seen growth out of veterans such as Tevin Westbrook, Clay Burton and Hunter Joyer. He also said early enrollee freshman DeAndre Goolsby is more comfortable in a pass-catching role based on his experience in high school.
Playmakers at WR: It bears repeating that this spring has been all about the new offense. Fans were screaming for dramatic changes by the end of last season, and no position needs it more than wide receiver, where the Gators haven't had anyone crack the 600-yard mark in a season since 2009. As the spring wore on, playmakers began to emerge. Senior Quinton Dunbar is the unquestioned leader of the group and a certain starter. Sophomores Demarcus Robinson, Ahmad Fulwood and Chris Thompson appear to be developing as reliable targets. Slot receivers Valdez Showers and Latroy Pittman have had solid spring camps as well. If the offense clicks, it will be a treat for fans to finally see these athletes make catches in space and show what they can do with the ball in their hands.


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Youth Convention calls for a federal constitution
The declaration adopted by the Youth Convention calls for a federal constitution with the inclusion of the Charter of Fundamental Human Rights, which would be legally binding, a clearer division of competencies and a renewed institutional structure of Europe, in which the youth of Europe have a stronger say. They also say that a fully democratic framework should be established on a federal parliamentary system. The Youth Convention demands that their recommendations be included in the working group discussion of the EU Convention, as otherwise this gathering will have been little more than a PR stunt.
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The vice-president of the Convention Jean-Luc Dehaene said that the EU Convention will take the necessary time to study the document. "I think there is a parallelism on what is currently carried out in the Convention, although the Youth Convention has taken a radical approach. I don't think this document will be lost," Mr Dehaene said. The President of the Youth Convention Giacomo Filibeck said, "we did not want to reproduce the same speech and political games like the Senior Convention," he said.
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Although the Youth Convention is stressing that there should be a follow up session where the conclusion of the EU Convention could also be analysed, there seems to be a problem of funding to organise a second session. "Three days is not enough. This document should not be the final and only one", Giacomo Filibeck said. Vice-president Jean-Luc Dehaene failed to give a definite reply, saying simply "We have to see if we will do other initiatives."
More power to the EU on Foreign Policy
The Constitution as pictured by the Youth Convention, should have a merging of the three pillars of the EU "to ensure an integrated EU-policy in all fields of politics." Foreign Policy must become an exclusive competence of the EU, where decisions are taken democratically by the European Parliament and the Council. Their declaration also states that there should be a single Commissioner for Foreign Affairs who will execute the common policy.
The Youth Convention also urges the development of a defence identity. However, they clearly point out that no member state should be forced against its will to participate in any European defence structure and say that the EU should respect the right of any member state to participate in international co-operation agreements external to the Union.
Radical change of EU institutional set-up
The Declaration adopted by the Youth Convention, also declares that the European Parliament, seen as the only directly democratically elected body, should co-decide in all fields of politics, with full budgetary competence and the right of initiative. It also demands that Brussels be the only residence of the European Parliament and calls to bring to an and the Strasbourg plenary sessions. Furthermore, the European Parliament should have the right to propose and elect the President of the European Commission, and should have the power to remove individual Commissioners and to impeach the Commission President.
Council: right of veto should be banned
The Youth Convention proposes that the Council should meet in public and should include the participation of the constitutional regions, in agreement with the member states. Moreover, they propose that the Council should be reformed in a second chamber and decide jointly with the European Parliament on EU-legislation. A controversial point highlighted in the text is that when decisions concern sensitive areas, they should be carried out with a double majority of states and people. They also propose the banning of veto rights in the decision-making system of the Union.
More transparency
It is proposed that the European Commission be transformed into a true European executive, fully accountable to the Parliament and Council. All matters within the competence of the Union should be subject to the Court of Justice, where every citizen would have the right to approach it. Moreover they demand that the results of the Convention be ratified through a European referendum.
Clear and transparent distribution of competencies
The Youth Convention also calls for a clear distribution of competencies between the Union and the national level in the European constitution, so as to make the people understand where and which responsibilities are located and how they can contribute to the political process. This distribution of competencies should be guided by the principle of subsidiarity. They also demand that special attention should be paid to respect the impact of less populous member states.


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HST 137 – Survey of Asian Civilization II
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Course Number and Name: HST 137 Survey of Asian Civilization II
Credit Hours: 3.0 Contact Hours: 3.0 Lecture: 3.0 Lab: N/A Other: N/A
Prerequisites: Grades of "C" or better in ENG 096 and RDG 096 or placement; it is recommended that HST 136 be taken before HST 137
Co-requisites: None Concurrent Courses: None
Course Description: This is a continuation of HST 136, bringing China, Japan, and India into perspective in the modern world.
General Education Goals: HST 137 is affirmed in the following General Education Foundation Categories: Historical Perspective and Global and Cultural Awareness of Diversity. The corresponding General Education Goals are respectively as follows: Students will understand historical events and movements in World, Western, non-Western, or American societies and assess their subsequent significance; and Students will understand the importance of global perspective and culturally diverse peoples. HST 137 also addresses the General Education Integrated Course Goal: Information Literacy, which is as follows: Students will address an information need by locating, evaluating, and effectively using information.
Course Goals: Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:
- demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental concepts and theories of historical events in Asian societies including but not limited to China, India, Asia, Korea and the South Pacific islands since European colonization in the nineteenth century;
- investigate the global perspectives, cultural diversity and philosophical/religious contributions of various Asian civilizations from European colonization to the present; and
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An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s.
A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results.
With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
Psychedelic sixties. God knows whatever that means it certainly meant far more than drugs, though drugs still work as a pretty good handle to the phenomena.
I grabbed at that handle. Legally, too, I might add. Almost patriotically, in fact. Early psychedelic sixties...
Eight o'clock every Tuesday morning I showed up at the vet's hospital in Menlo Park, ready to roll. The doctor deposited me in a little room on his ward, dealt me a couple of pills or a shot or a little glass of bitter juice, then locked the door. He checked back every forty minutes to see if I was still alive, took some tests, asked some questions, left again. The rest of the time I spent studying the inside of my forehead, or looking out the little window in the door. It was six inches wide and eight inches high, and it had heavy chicken wire inside the glass.
You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted.
Patients straggled by in the hall outside, their faces all ghastly confessions. Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me. but rarely did we look at one another. It was too naked and painful. More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear, face-to-face.
Sometimes the nurse came by and checked on me. Her face was different. It was painful business, but not naked. This was not a person you could allow yourself to be naked in front of.
Six months or so later I had finished the drug experiments and applied for a job. I was taken on as a nurse's aide, in the same ward, with the same doctor, under the same nurse—and you must understand we're talking about a huge hospital here! It was weird.
But, as I said, it was the sixties.
Those faces were still there, still painfully naked. To ward them off my case I very prudently took to carrying around a little notebook, to scribble notes. I got a lot of compliments from nurses: "Good for you, Mr. Kesey. That's the spirit. Get to know these men."
I also scribbled faces. No, that's not correct. As I prowl through this stack of sketches I can see that these faces bored their way behind my forehead and scribbled themselves. I just held the pen and waited for the magic to happen.
This was, after all, the sixties.
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Sketches by Ken Kesey vii
Introduction by Robert Faggen ix
Part One 1
Part Two 127
Part Three 173
Part Four 223
"A glittering parable of good and evil." —The New York Times Book Review
"A roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the Rulers who enforce them." —Time
Kesey's new introduction to this anniversary edition could very well be the last thing he worked on before shuffling off this mortal coil in 2001. Additionally, 25 sketches he drew while working at a mental institution in the 1950s, the inspiration for the novel, are littered throughout. Critics are divided on the meaning of the book: Is it a tale of good vs. evil, sanity over insanity, or humankind trying to overcome repression amid chaos? Whichever, it is a great read. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.


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Bad Bad Santa! He will have yellow nicotine stained beard and fingers.. ewwwww
i never saw a santa who's smoking!
I'm glad too, and I almost fainted when I saw this one. Imagine Santa smoking! Were we dumb or what!
I'm glad at least we've made some progress in this area! Thanks, for the fun puzzle, TS!
That's a new on for me, too, lyndee! :D
LOL lyndee. Never heard of that either.
I had a masseur who told me that he once gave a person a massage who smoked a lot and you could smell it coming out of the tissues when he massaged them! I remember getting my teeth cleaned and it tasted horrible from all that nicotine. Thanks, Lyndee, I did it the hard way! To this day I can't stand to smell cigarettes, but I still want them sometimes.
Did anyone else ever played where if you stepped on an empty Lucky Strike pkg, you got to hit the person you were with?.........probably not!
Like wise Nan. Smoke cigars at one time.
I tried to smoke but kept forgetting to take my cigarettes with me, or I would misplace them and forget where I left them. So I gave up...must not have liked them enough to keep up with them. LOL! Needless to say I didn't smoke long enough for it to become an addiction.
Bad Santa!
Haha - too funny chickie!!!
When I had my own dog grooming business, I could smell cigarette smoke on the dogs of smoking owners. YUK!
Wow Tex, what a story. Glad you quit but what a way to do it!
They have the old ashtray smell going. YUK is right, chookies!
"Lucky Strike Green has gone to war." So this ad must be early 'forties. It was my dad's brand.
Don't you just hate sitting next to someone that's just had a ciggie - YUK!!!
I remember they were 25 cents a pack out of the machine.
We sell packets of fags now in plain packets - no brand name and no advertising - under the assumption that it'll stop people from smoking!!
I don't know if they do or not, but the cost is so prohibitive I don't know how anyone could afford to smoke now.
Du they still sell Luckys?
Chickie, I smoked menthol, too. That way, if I ran out and panicked, I could lick the Vicks bottle! I would never go to bed if I didn't have a full pack. Now that's addiction at its finest.
Almost everyone went through that phase, thought we were cool.
Good find tex! My cigarette of choice was Cools for a year and a half in the 60's. Never enjoyed it. Don't know why I did it. LOL
Strong cigarette, I used tu get a buzz off of luckys!


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Type: Improvement
Status: Patch Available
Priority: Major
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: build
This was brought up here (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1363) as a much wanted feature for our build system so we can build against branches. I have two approaches to doing this that I'll be posting up Patch files for and seeing which approach everyone likes better.
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BIGTOP-1375 Add support for patch series to the Gradle build
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BIGTOP-1527 Allow to fetch package's source code from Git
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BIGTOP-848 Allow to build stack on top of an arbitrary Hadoop SHA
- Resolved
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BIGTOP-1375 Add support for patch series to the Gradle build
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Any updates on ticket? Has been staling for a couple of months now.
I will, in a few days.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Konstantin Boudnik (JIRA) <firstname.lastname@example.com
Not really sure. Is any one of original champions for this can take a look?
Not really sure. Is any one of original champions for this can take a look?
Konstantin Boudnik it seems that the gradle side of the patch is all stubbed out. Is there actually anything to apply here?
So, what's the consensus here? The patch was provided a long time ago and it should either go in or else.
One other comment on the patch - let's add a description of the functionality into README.md
I think the argument is about a non-issue. There's no limitations on how many stacks one can produce using some variance of the definition files (aka bigtop.mk). All one needs to do to produce a stack then is to create a tailored definitions and run build with that particular file, instead of the standard bigtop.mk. Will the custom file override bits and pieces of the base one, or will be a separate full stack definition - is up to the particular implementation. It doesn't matter for this discussion IMO. The only functionality we need to support, as Roman Shaposhnik pointed out, is to be able to download bits from more protocol URLs than just http and ftp, supported right now.
Are we all talking about the same thing, btw?
Thanks, Roman.
Here are my thoughts:
we already agree that Makefile-based builds are getting removed in 0.9.0. No point in massaging that functionality.
That'd be fine by me but since we have the change made to Makefile as well, I can't see it hurting if we commit that.
in our current Gradle-based infrastructure everything is keyed-off of the URL and hence is trivial to add custom logic to handle different types of protocols (even imaginary ones).
The reason I have favored a separate .mk from day 1 is because of my personal desire to make Apache Bigtop a better integration platform for the ecosystem. I think given that we currently bundle released apache components prevents us from catching Integration issues in other projects before they are released.
Here is what I am thinking and maybe there are other ways of achieving the same and if you have alternatives, I'd love to hear.
I personally would like to see this change being done in a backwards compatible manner which means nothing in the way we build or test our Bigtop stack should change. If we were to override existing bigtop.mk with new protocols, then we can either do the regular Bigtop build that downloads the existing releases of Apache projects and packages/tests them, OR we can do a Bigtop build of projects pulled down from the trunk of their github repos. But, more importantly, to switch between the two, one would have to make code changes to bigtop.mk. I think it would be great to have the ability to build both the status quo builds and the component trunk based builds using the exact same code in the repo. I can think of 2 ways we can possibly do that:
1. We can introduce new properties in the existing bigtop.mk file but that's more than just an extra _SITE variable because we would also need to update the PKG_VERSION etc. based on what the trunk is pointing to.
2. We can introduce a separately bigtop.mk file and add functionality in our Makefile/Gradle scripts to override which .mk gets used. That way we could have a jenkins job that would build every night off of component trunks and nothing in the existing workflow changes for building off of released apache artifacts.
So, I preferred #2, which is what I think this JIRA intends to do. Does that make sense?
Sorry for coming to the party rather late, but here's what I'm confused about:
- we already agree that Makefile-based builds are getting removed in 0.9.0. No point in massaging that functionality.
- in our current Gradle-based infrastructure everything is keyed-off of the URL and hence is trivial to add custom logic to handle different types of protocols (even imaginary ones).
Based on the two points above, shouldn't the point of this JIRA be about making sure that whatever URL you put in bigtop.mk as a _SITE/_ARCHIVE that the protocol gets handled correctly? Today we only handle http:// and file:// but there shouldn't be any reason not to add things like git:// as first class citizens.
Am I missing something?
Guo Ruijing, the download and build parts are already decoupled. The latter clearly depends on the former. However, it is done by different tasks of the build system. Your 2nd point is actually incorrect: current logic is using ASF releases as default, but there's a way to switch to a BOM that uses github (or something else) if desired. I fill like I am getting confused more and more. If someone see a flaw in my comments - please point out.
download.sh try to resolve to 2 issues:
1) decouple source code download/checkout and build
2) existing download functionality is to download source code from github. download.sh try to check out from any SCM or download source code.
Wait, but download functionality is already implemented in both gradle and make. And the source URLs are expressed in bigtop.mk BOM. What problem download.sh with hardcoded URLs will be solving?
1. gradle/makefile can call download.sh $component
2. vendor can change download.sh according to their needs.
download.sh example:
case $1 in
cd components; wget http://apache.osuosl.org/hadoop/common/hadoop-2.5.0/hadoop-2.5.0-src.tar.gz; tar xzvf hadoop-2.5.0-src.tar.gz
cd components/; git clone https://github.com/apache/zookeeper.git; cd zookeeper; git checkout -b branch-3.5
cd components/hbase; wget https://github.com/apache/hbase/archive/0.98.zip; unzip 0.98.zip
echo Componnet Not Found
I'd like to propose to decouple SCM and bigtop build (makefile or gradle)
1) more and more components come into bigop and some components may not be in github.
2) more vendors can use bigtop as distribution reference (different vendor uses different SCM)
Proposal detail:
1. bigtop directory layout as:
2. makefile or gradle can directly build from the above directories
3. download.sh will download source code from apache release or github or svn or git
Seems like we are all leaning towards the bigtop-github.mk patch. Julien, is there anything else that needs to be changed there or is this good to go?
I noticed that it only had the github values for HBase, all other components had rather dummy values copied from bigtop.mk. It would be good to update them to be github based as well. Apart from that, it's looking good to me.
Thanks again for working on this!
I think my comment wasn't too clearly expressed. I am not advocating for having in-line changes in the existing bigtop.mk. In fact I am all for the 'separation of concerns' approach. What I said is that we don't need to fully duplicate bigtop.mk => bigtop-github.mk and then forever make two set of changes we need to update a release version of a component.
Instead a way more surgical and elegant way of doing things is to only put those components into bigtop-github.mk that one wants to pull off of github. During build defines from bigtop-github.mk will override bigtop.mk producing expected BOM. Did I expressed it better now?
BTW, JIRA isn't a right way to gauge communal preferences, IMO.
I see that only a few components in the new bigtop-github.mk will be taken off github
I believe the intention was to see which approach the community preferred before fully implementing that approach. Right? on that note, I agree with Mark's preference for the separate Makefile.
Ah, right - I see it now: missed on the first sight. Yup, looks legit.
One improvement suggestions - might be done later: I see that only a few components in the new bigtop-github.mk will be taken off github. And the rest of the are still being downloaded from Apache site/mirrors. Hence and obvious improvement is to only keep github specific parts of the BOM in the new .mk file and simply use it to override definitions from the main bigtop.mk. Thus we'll avoid quite a big or unnecessary duplications and maintenance. What do you think?
No, I was just using that as an example. The patch implements both gradle and make changes so both are supported.
Does it mean that functionality isn't going to work in Gradle build?
Thanks Julien, I much prefer the separate make file. That way people who download Bigtop source and build a released version of, say HBase, can build it without making any code changes to the .mk file, while Bigtop jenkins, on the other hand, could hook on to HBase github and do a nightly build a different version of HBase, without any code changes as well.
If we went with same Makefile, code changes will definitely be required across these 2 use-cases because the BASE_VERSION is shared with them.
Your patch looks good to me, I will wait for a day or two for anyone to post their opinion and then go ahead and commit it.
Thanks for doing this! This is super valuable to the Bigtop community and goes a long way in helping us find integration problems in the ecosystem sooner!
This is the other method of implementing this patch where you modify bigtop.mk to download the source of the project from Github. Both of these patches (noextrafile and extrafile) both work, it is up to the communities preference on which method they like more.
This is one method of implementing this feature request where you have an extra file called bigtop-github.mk that when you do make hbase-deb-git, it will include bigtop-github.mk instead of bigtop.mk
I am not particularly worried about having something in ASF git that isn't mirrored to github. What I am saying that I don't want to be tighten up to github It's ok, I guess, to have it this way as the first pass, but let's think how we can advance it to the support of a more generic git backend. Makes sense?
Also, I agree with mark - duplicating the whole set of entries in the BOM file looks too excessive. Can we devise a better way of doing this?
Konstantin Boudnik I am confused by what you mean by Apache git. Do you mean that there are projects repo's hosted on Apache git that are not mirrored to Github? From what I'm seeing, all components in Bigtop are mirrored onto Github from their Apache git or svn repo's like https://github.com/apache/hbase
The reason why I use Github is their download commit as .zip feature which allowed me to quickly write this up and not make large changes to package.mk to handle actually doing git and svn checkouts. We simple wget the .zip and treat it like any other release of a project. This is really useful where if someone forks lets say HBase and applies a bunch of patches on top of a release and they want to try and build Bigtop using that fork, they can just specify the repo and branch they want to build and it will do it. The other useful use case is if we want to build against various branches in a projects repo for the future where we want to test builds against master and stuff like that. Since the projects repo is mirrored to Github, you can build against master or anything else easily.
Do you know of a project that is not mirrored to Github or any other use case that this patch won't support?
As a small not: I think limiting this functionality to github won't fly. A lot of Apache projects are now using Apache git, and I think it is important to be able to use it.
Thanks for this Julien!
I took a look and here is what I think. I think the 'steady state' use case of this is going to be that bigtop trunk would support building a HBase package that was based off of a recent release of HBase (use case #1) but also building from an arbitrary branch of HBase from it's github repo (use case #2).
Now, today, if someone has use case #1, they don't have to make any changes, they clone the bigtop repo and issue a command to build a package. I want to be able to do something similar for use case #2, so for that, if the user is happy with the github branch that Bigtop currently builds against, then all the user has to do is issue a simple command.
So, what follows is we can't clobber the existing variables in bigtop.mk, right? I personally don't want users to switch between flags or change code to be able to build from a github branch instead of an hbase release. That kinds leaves us with just one option in my opinion, that's to introduce new commands like 'make hbase-github-rpm' in addition to the 'make hbase-rpm'. For that we will need a new set of properties that we would need to set for HBase.
Again, we can't clobber existing properties, we have to introduce a completely additive set of new properties, which we need to set for every component. That new additive set can reside in bigtop.mk, but could also reside in another .mk file like bigtop-github.com. I think I have a slight preference to the latter i.e. using bigtop-github.mk. What do you think?
Also, I think the patch is incomplete but i suppose that was intentional since you are just getting our thoughts
Put up a review for one method of doing this here: https://reviews.apache.org/r/23457/
There is an unfinished effort earlier to do the same.
If you think ticket takes over
BIGTOP-848, let's close the latter.