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And that rude awakening was that I am freaking luddite. Or, more accurately, I'm too poor to afford technology.
Therefore I shun it. (Until I can afford it. Then I embrace it without scruples and promptly judge those who aren't on the cutting edge. But until then, I'm way, way too good for it and never wanted it anyway.)
This realization was reached when we were singing a hymn at church. There I was sitting in a meeting singing along, when I look over and a friend of mine was reading the words of the hymn off a device that looked like it came straight from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Only, instead of being held by some space alien, it was being held by a normal man in priesthood meeting. And instead of being some kind of shooting mechanism that could kill aliens and ugly-looking rodents if they got too close, it was basically a hymnal. A hymnal worth a MILLION DOLLARS.
Word on the street is that this newfangled mechanism is something called an "iPad." And the hymn he was looking at was available because of some "application" (still not positive what those are having never touched an iPhone or iPod Touch, but they sure sound fancy.)
Guys, do you want to know what year I'm stuck in?
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Good news! Justin Bieber didn't throw up while crooning a truncated version of The Beatles' classic "Let It Be" during his guest spot Wednesday on TV's "The X Factor."
That's an improvement over his tour-opening performance in Arizona earlier this month, when the Biebster threw up several times in mid-song (although his pre-recorded vocals continued unabated).
To be fair, Bieber didn't throw up when he sang "Let It Be" this past New Year's Eve in Times Square as part of a live TV special, where he was joined by former Tijuana guitar-slinger Carlos Santana. (Alas, Santana was not subsequently invited to shred on the teen-idol's mega-hit "Baby.")
Bieber has not performed here since his sold-out 2010 show at the San Diego Sports Arena. His current tour appears to be skipping San Diego, possibly (and this is just speculation) because of the paternity suit filed against him in 2011 by San Diego resident Mariah Laci Yeater. (The suit was subsequently withdrawn.)
But back to "Let It Be." Is Bieber singing The Beatles a good idea, or should he take the song's title to heart and leave it alone? And when will Paul McCartney (who wrote and sang the fab ballad not long before The Beatles imploded 43 years ago) reciprocate (or is it retaliate?) by covering Bieber's "Boyfriend" and "Beauty and a Beat?" Let's hope not.


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Today, college facility managers face more than just the day to day tasks of an already busy job. They now deal with staff cuts, budget constraints and increased concerns about the indoor air quality of the many buildings they''re required to clean.
Since ProTeam invented the backpack vacuum in 1987, the company has focused on making the cleaning process more productive, efficient and effective. In fact, ProTeam has helped to pioneer techniques that dramatically improve both the indoor air quality inside college campuses, and the time spent cleaning them.
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Colin Butterfield, a facility manager at the University of Victoria in BC Canada, said, "The ProTeam Super CoachVac is the single greatest advance in cleaning technology I have seen. Cleaning workers are able to cover more area with less fatigue and better results. Using the Super CoachVac, productivity increases and operating costs drop dramatically."
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Studies show that the increased airflow and suction of ProTeam vacuums capture 79% more dust particles than other models, which literally makes the air cleaner.
A recent study by Dr. Michael Berry showed that using properly filtrated vacuums as part of a regular cleaning regimen helps dramatically reduce the levels of allergy and asthma triggers. Schools participating in Dr. Berry''s tests showed a 46% decrease in overall student absenteeism.
This is due, in large part, to ProTeam''s unique Four Level® Filtration system.
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Between showers, bulk of state's corn crop now planted; Severson-sponsored 'apology' bill gets hearing; more state briefs
Almost two-thirds of Wisconsin's corn crop has been planted. Officials say over 20 percent of the crop was put into the ground last week but corn planting is still 21 percent below the average for the past five years.
Wisconsin is the only Midwest state with less than 80 percent of its corn planted. There are reports that growers are thinking about switching some of their normal corn acreage to soybeans, due to the planting delays caused by the extended winter.
A series of rainstorms further delayed field work last week and after the Drought of 2012, soil moisture has gone the other way.
Madison has received almost seven more inches of precipitation this year than normal and Eau Claire is six inches above normal.
Twelve percent of Wisconsin farm fields have surplus moisture.
The rains have helped fill in some of the bare spots in the hay fields. That provides at least a little help for farmers short of forage.
Twenty-nine percent of Wisconsin's soybean crop has been planted, down from the norm of 60 percent. The state's oat crop needs warmer temperatures, as only 55 percent of the crop is out of the ground with 86 percent planted.
-- Bob Meyer, Brownfield Ag News Service
Lawmakers' per diems tally at $775,000
MADISON -- Wisconsin taxpayers spent $775,000 last year to feed and house state legislators while they were in Madison.
Ninety-six Assembly members claimed about $546,000 in per-diem payments.
Thirty-six senators - including some chosen in special elections during the year - claimed $228,000.
Republican Senate Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau received $14,600 in expense checks, the most among the lawmakers in both houses. Assembly GOP leader Scott Suder of Abbotsford had the second-highest claims, around $13,000.
Both lawmakers spent more time at the Capitol than others, as they helped set the agendas for their respective houses.
The Wisconsin State Journal says Democrats claimed more expense money on average than Republicans. Democrats ran the Senate for about six months last year. The GOP ran both houses the rest of the time.
Lawmakers can claim $88 a day for food and lodging expenses while in Madison. Legislators from surrounding Dane County get $44 a day.
Rep. Severson-sponsored bill up for hearing Wednesday
MADISON -- Wisconsin doctors would not be held liable for apologizing to their patients for medical mistakes, under a bill that's up for a public hearing Wednesday.
The Assembly Health Committee will take testimony on a measure which seeks to let health professionals express condolences to patients and families, without fear of losing malpractice suits.
The Assembly's main sponsor is Star Prairie Republican Erik Severson, who is an emergency room physician.
A similar measure was proposed in the Senate by Wauwatosa Republican Leah Vukmir, who's a nurse.
The GOP Assembly passed the bill two years ago, but it did not get through the Senate.
Former Democratic Governor Jim Doyle vetoed the same bill in 2006. Critics said Doyle was showing his bias toward trial lawyers.
A lawyers' group opposes the new bill, saying it goes too far by not holding doctors accountable if they admit fault in their apologies. The state's Hospital Association and Medical Society both support the bill, saying it could reduce the need to for families to file lawsuits to see what really happened to their loved ones.
Also Wednesday, the Assembly Health panel will take testimony on two abortion-related bills.
Elkhart Lake Republican Steve Kestell is sponsoring a bill that calls for civil liability and penalties against doctors who perform abortions just because the mother doesn't like the gender of the fetus.
The other bill would restrict abortions to public employees if any public funds are involved. It also lets health plans use religious grounds to side-step the requirement that contraceptives be included in plans that cover other prescriptions.
Voter ID law sponsor seeks support for revised bill
MADISON -- A chief sponsor of Wisconsin's photo identification law for voting wants his colleagues to support a new bill to address concerns raised by judges who struck the law down.
Assembly Republican Jeff Stone of Greendale is asking lawmakers to co-sponsor his new measure - which would also make changes to other state election laws.
Stone's bill would exempt poor people from having to show ID's if they sign affidavits saying they're poor, cannot get an ID without paying for a birth certificate, or have a religious objection to being photographed. Their ballots would be marked, and their credentials would be checked if there's a recount.
The state continues to appeal rulings from two Dane County judges who struck down the voter ID law last year. Two federal challenges are also pending.
Assistant Democratic Minority Leader Sandy Pasch says the GOP should work to create jobs instead of quote, "pushing a divisive and unnecessary anti-voter agenda."
Stone's bill would also prohibit voters from showing electronic items as proof-of-residence when they register. It also lets lobbyists give to state candidates for a longer period during election years.
School boards would be banned from using tax dollars to promote referendums to exceed state revenue limits. Candidates who seek recounts would have to pay more, if they lose by over a half-percent. Recalls of local officials could only be sought for criminal charges or ethics violations - something that's already being considered in a separate bill.
Stone says he'd rather address necessary election reforms in one bill, instead of 25 to 30 measures floating around.
All juniors would have to take the ACT under budget measure
MADISON -- All Wisconsin high school juniors would have to take the ACT college entrance exam, under a budget measure to be considered by the state Legislature's finance panel Wednesday.
Gov. Scott Walker and state public school Superintendent Tony Evers wants to use the ACT and other tests to replace the long-running WKCE achievement exams.
Eleventh-graders would take the ACT and the Work-Keys' test that's designed to test job skills. Elementary youngsters would take a new exam designed by a group of 28 states including Wisconsin.
All of tests are aligned with the state's new education standards. The budget panel is also scheduled Wednesday to take up the governor's plan to expand private school vouchers in up to nine additional school districts.
Senate Republicans had talked about a possible compromise, but no deal emerged as of Tuesday.
Also Wednesday the budget panel will decide whether to clarify a law to require stores with roll-your-own cigarette machines to pay manufacturing taxes.
Wisconsin requires cigarette makers to pay taxes of just over $2.50 per pack. The state began a crackdown on roll-your-own businesses last year, to get them to pay the manufacturing tax.
Wausau store owner Robert Petersen then filed suit, saying it's customers who do the manufacturing - not the machine owners.
Petersen withdrew his lawsuit after President Obama signed a federal law last year which declared roll-your-own machine owners as manufacturers.
Gov. Scott Walker's proposed state budget would put Wisconsin law in line with the new federal designation.
Justice to close Superior field office
SUPERIOR -- The state Justice Department will close its field office in Superior to save money.
Attorney General J.B Van Hollen says two of the four special agents in the office are retiring. The other two will keep working, but their boss will be the agent-in-charge of the Eau Claire office, Jed Sperry.
The current supervisor at the Superior office, Jay Smith, will keep working without his administrative duties - and he's getting a pay cut as a result.
Justice officials did not say when the Superior office would close, or how much money it would save.
GOP at impasse on school vouchers expansion
MADISON -- Top Republican leaders met Tuesday to seek an agreement on expanding Wisconsin's private school voucher program.
Senate President Mike Ellis said the group was at an impasse. Negotiations will continue, but it's not likely they can reach a deal Wednesday - when the Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on Gov. Scott Walker's plan to expand the voucher program.
It gives tax funding to low-income kids so they attend private schools with the goal of getting a better education. It operated in parts of Milwaukee for 20 years before expanding to the Milwaukee suburbs and Racine two years ago.
Now, Walker wants to expand the choice program to Madison, Green Bay, and seven other Wisconsin districts with low-performing public schools. He said parents should have the choice of sending their kids to better schools.
Some GOP lawmakers are concerned about the loss of state aid that the public districts would face. They've been pushing for a compromise.
Ellis said Walker met Tuesday on the issue with him, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, Senate Education Committee chair Luther Olsen, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
Wausau-area girl with heart condition succumbs
WAUSAU -- A Wausau area girl with an incurable heart condition has died, the day after she turned six on Memorial Day.
Kayleigh Gurzynski of Rib Mountain had Turner's syndrome and a rare heart defect known as "Hypo-plastic Left Heart syndrome."
Officials at Milwaukee Children's Hospital said Kayleigh lived longer than any of its previous patients with the same diagnosis.
Earlier this year, Kayleigh had a dream-come-true when she met Lady Gaga. The two chatted on the eve of Valentine's Day in Chicago.
Tony Waitekus of WIFC Radio in Wausau pulled some strings at the request of the girl's family - and Gaga agreed to see her, even though the rock music star could barely walk herself. She had canceled a show in Chicago after developing a hip injury and extreme joint inflammation.
Kayleigh Gurzynski died just before 2 a.m., Wednesday.
-- Larry Lee, WSAU-WIFC, Wausau
Ex-postman who stole rebate catches a break
MADISON -- A former letter carrier in Superior has been fined $2,500 for stealing a $118 Menards rebate check he was supposed to deliver on his walking route.
Brent Olson, 37, told Federal Judge Barbara Crabb of Madison that he didn't know why he stole the check. He said sought counseling to find out why he took the postcard rebate that Ed Nelson never received.
Store video showed Olson using the rebate, and Crabb said it appeared that three checks were involved in the theft.
Still, the judge said she would not send Olson to jail or probation because he's been a "good citizen" except for the incident - which occurred a year ago last Sunday. Olson has already reimbursed Nelson.


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Theatrical and commercial agent, Carry Company, N.Y. and L.A.
ending gimmicks along with your submission—scratch-off tickets, money, pieces of gum, tiny ornaments, totally nude pictures—lessens an actor's credibility. We need to bring you in based on your picture and résumé. A clever cover letter is always a plus. Also, sending demo reels if they are not requested is a waste of money. We receive about 10–25 unrequested demo reels per week.
Theatrical agent, The Culbertson Group, West Hollywood, Calif.
hat my experience has taught me over the years is that mass mailings do not work. An actor should do their homework and research an agency as to types, ages, what they are looking for, etc. Then I would say to maybe choose a dozen or so and submit. I would also include a self-addressed stamped postcard with a couple options: a) We are not setting up appointments at this time, b) Currently we have conflicts to your category, c) We will contact you, and d) Check back in three months. By doing so, it allows the actor a sense of control in an industry where they have no control.
A cover letter should be brief and to the point. If you are being referred by a casting director or by a client of the agency, then use their name. We may follow up with the client or CD to get their thoughts on the actor. Phoning an agency to see "if you got my submission" or "I forgot to put my number on the submission" does not help. Agencies receive hundreds of submissions a day, and agents are not shy; if we are interested, we will call. Follow-ups are not helpful.
If you submit your tape or DVD unsolicited, then enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. I am amazed that actors will call a couple months after the fact wanting to pick up their material. Agents are not a storage warehouse; generally, if material is submitted to us unsolicited, we will write on the envelope "return to sender." I know it sounds a bit harsh, but it is a reality. Enclosing gifts, food, or money is not endearing to us.
Theatrical and commercial agent, Veronica Goodman Agency, Cherry Hill, N.J.
efore you send anything out, be informed about the business. Actors are going to these calls that are not legitimate, and they're listening to a big, encouraging "you can get in the business, anybody can, just pay this amount" type of thing. So they soak them for picture costs and get hundreds or maybe even more out of these Julia Roberts hopefuls. [Actors go down] that road, and then they are sending out their materials to agencies, and they send them out with, "Hey, I'm represented by one of those unfortunate type of companies." They'll call that person their other agent, and they're certainly not a legitimate agent. It's just that they don't know any better, and we know it right away. The innocent ones, who have a love for the business, are misinformed. Unless they know about Ross Reports, which I call the bible of the business, they're just so uninformed. They shouldn't have to pay a dime for any part of this business until they book.
If they're looking for an agent, they should certainly have a clean black-and-white 8x10 headshot—matte finish is preferred—and a résumé. They should have a separate piece of paper with their information as far as getting them by phone or email, and then a little "Hi, how are you" cover letter with "I'm looking for an agent, I'm looking for representation, please call me." The very professional ones will send postcards. The ones who are not professional—and it's a red light immediately—they send a 5x7 comp card, without a back, so the back is blank, and on the front side are three little pictures where they're in the same clothing, or they're in different clothing but they all look the same. They should not send out these 5x7s that they're paying a fortune for. The only people that should have comp cards are high-fashion models and commercial or print people, and those comp cards will look different; they're put together professionally, and they are their tools in the business.
Theatrical and commercial agent, Top Cat Talent Agency, N.Y.
veryone knows you should not call or visit an agent without a request from said agent, but at least five times per day, I get calls that sound like this: "Hi, hello, how are you?" Already I know this is a novice—someone who hasn't a clue. Or, "Hi, it's John, I sent you a picture. Did you get it?" I know 57 Johns, 67 Marys, 78 Sandfords, 46 Arturos, etc. This is a business: If you're going to call an agent and bend the rules, be businesslike. State your name in full and get to the point. We don't want to sound rude, but agents are the busiest people in the world, and sometimes I'm on the phone with two or three casting directors at a time. This is show business, not show show. All actors should take a sales course; after all, they are selling themselves.
The best way is to keep sending your headshot or a miniature version as a postcard. Believe it or not, after a while I know the actor's face from the repetition of the mailings.


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A failure to include Spanish shipbuilder Navantia in the alliance building Australia's new destroyers and the designs it supplied to Australian shipbuilders have been substantially blamed for delays and cost over-runs on the $8.5 billion project.
A 320-page report by the Australian National Audit Office found the seven-year Adelaide-based project to build three 6500-tonne destroyers for the Royal Australian Navy is running two-and-a-half years late and more than $300 million over budget.
It stresses there could be further cost blowouts and delays beyond the revised five-year schedule to complete the three ships.
"Significant immaturity in design documentation, major block construction problems and substantially lower-than-anticipated construction productivity . . . have led to extensive, time consuming and costly rework,'' the report says.
The Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance involves US systems integrator Raytheon, government-owned shipbuilder ASC and government weapons purchaser the Defence Materiel Organisation.
Spanish based Navantia was the ships' designer and construction of hull blocks is carried out at BAE's Williamstown shipyard in Melbourne and Forgacs shipyard in Newcastle along with ASC.
Navantia should have been included – report
The report finds the challenges of reestablishing a shipbuilding capacity in Australia after a hiatus in projects of some years was underestimated and the failure to make Navantia a partner in the alliance was also critical.
"Notwithstanding the risk mitigation strategies applied by the DMO the selected design did not exist in built form . . . defence and its industry advisers underestimated the risks associated with incorporating the design changes to Navantia's F-104 design, exporting that design to Australia and adapting the designers' build strategy and accommodating a distributed build at shipyards that lacked experience,'' the ANAO report says.
Design documentation provided by Navantia at times swamped the Alliance's engineering and planning departments and revised drawings were still having to be provided as late as 2013.
"This process has led to costly and out-of-sequence rework in cases where construction work already undertaken no longer matched the design.''
The report says there were "major hull block construction issues'' at BAE and Forgacs.
In the case of BAE systems this resulted in the rework and reallocation of hull blocks between shipyards and occurred early in the program.
The multiple challenges have led to a continuing decline in construction productivity, the report says singling out ASC.
"By November 2013 the programs earned value management system revealed it was costing ASC, the lead shipbuilder, $1.60 to produce work that was originally estimated to cost $1,'' it says.
The report singles out the DMO for a lack of leadership.
It says while the DMO had reminded the contractors of their contractual obligations it remains incumbent on the DMO as the owner participant, to make full use of the alliance structure to inform itself of program risks and provide guidance.
"The DMO faces an immediate and continuing challenge in acting to mitigate the risks faced by the AWD program so as to achieve the timely delivery of capability to the RAN and to limit the overall costs to the Commonwealth.''
The Australian Financial Review


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Downstream projects (flume, hive, pig, etc) depends on hbase, but since the hbase binaries build with hadoop-2.0 are not pushed to maven, they cannot depend on them. AFAIK, hadoop 1 and 2 are not binary compatible, so we should also push hbase jars build with hadoop2.0 profile into maven, possibly with version string like 0.94.2-hadoop2.0.
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There're test failures such as TestImportExport against hadoop 2.0
Would that affect the use of HBase on top of hadoop 2.0 ?
Enis Soztutar Officially 0.96 supports hadoop2, not 0.94. How would we publish the different jars to mvn repo? Those built for h1 and those for h2? The artifact is hbase-X.X.X.jar? You suggest adding a hadoop1 and hadoop2 to the name? Even then, we're breaking the mvn model of an artifact per module. Maybe hbase-X.X.X.jar becomes a meta jar under which you can slot in hbase-h1 or hbase-h2... but that sounds like ugly work w/ an explosion in hbase maven modules?
Officially 0.96 supports hadoop2, not 0.94
I saw a bunch of fixes for hadoop-2.0, but did not check whether 0.94 it works. Let me go over the fixes that went in to see whether 0.94 can also officially support 2.0. Although not officially production-ready, 0.94 builds with hadoop-2.0, and there are some interest in downstream projects to build and run tests with h2, publishing the artifacts might be justified.
How would we publish the different jars to mvn repo?
We do not need to break the current setup for h1. Since the binaries are different we can publish h2 artifacts with either naming it smt like hbase-hadoop2-X.X.X.jar, or using maven classifiers.
Agreed that this is ugly, but if we do not publish the artifacts, downstream projects cannot easily consume hbase jars build with hadoop-2.0 in their hadoop-2.0 profiles.
Lars Hofhansl, as the RM, do you have any feedback on this?
I think this is a more general discussion than just 0.94.
The question is: Do we force folks to take the HBase "singularity" in order to use Hadoop-2? Since Hadoop-2 breaks a bunch of stuff, the answer might well be "Yes".
That said, we have been using 0.94 with Hadoop-2 here and there (no actual testing or a lot of load) on our test cluster and everything seemed fine.
Personally I'd like to see 0.94 tested on top of Hadoop-2.
I think this is a more general discussion than just 0.94.
Agreed. Since H2 is labeled alpha, we can just release the binary labeled with suffix hadoop-2-alpha, and document this as not production ready. I don't see any reason why we might wait instead of publishing 0.94 with H2 as long as it is clear that it is not tested enough.
Personally I'd like to see 0.94 tested on top of Hadoop-2
Our folks are doing some testing on that, and the tests for hive/pig/flume on hadoop-2 with hbase-0.94 are blocked by this. Getting this out will definitely help with testing.
@Enis Seems fine by me. We'd have to backport h2 fixes. It'd be 0.94.3? Or would a snapshot do (qualified with a maven classifier?)
Were there many Hadoop-2 related fixes in 0.96? I would prefer not to de-stabilize the 0.94 code base at this point.
If these are simple pom fixes and some reflection here and there I am all for it. If we have backport the Hadoop-2 module... Forget it
@Lars Yes. Wondering if a snapshot would do? Could do it w/o even changing the pom?
If these are simple pom fixes and some reflection here and there I am all for it. If we have backport the Hadoop-2 module. Forget it
Agreed. We should identify the changes, and only backport if they are not intrusive.
Wondering if a snapshot would do?
I think that would do for now.
Lars Hofhansl If you do mvn package, it will install the build into your local mvn repository (see under ~/.m2/repository). Notice how the suffix is -SNAPSHOT. The suggestion is to push one of these snapshots up to apache (Apache maintains an area where you can publish mvn snapshots; see https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/hbase/hbase/).
You know how to fix this Enis Soztutar?
Here is what I ran: stack:0.94 stack$ mvn -DskipTests -Dhadoop.profile=2.0 -Dclassifier=hadoop2 install ...and I got this: ... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 1:12.527s [INFO] Finished at: Tue Oct 09 12:11:41 PDT 2012 [INFO] Final Memory: 28M/81M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.1:build-classpath (create-mrapp-generated-classpath) on project hbase: not found in any repository: aopalliance:aopalliance:java-source:hadoop2:1.0: Could not find artifact aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:hadoop2:1.0 in apache release (https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/) [ERROR] [ERROR] Try downloading the file manually from the project website. [ERROR] [ERROR] Then, install it using the command: [ERROR] mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=aopalliance -DartifactId=aopalliance -Dversion=1.0 -Dclassifier=hadoop2 -Dpackaging=java-source -Dfile=/path/to/file [ERROR] [ERROR] Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there: [ERROR] mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=aopalliance -DartifactId=aopalliance -Dversion=1.0 -Dclassifier=hadoop2 -Dpackaging=java-source -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id] [ERROR] [ERROR] [ERROR] aopalliance:aopalliance:java-source:1.0 [ERROR] [ERROR] from the specified remote repositories: [ERROR] apache release (https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/, releases=true, snapshots=true), [ERROR] apache non-releases (http://people.apache.org/~stack/m2/repository, releases=true, snapshots=false), [ERROR] java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2/, releases=true, snapshots=false), [ERROR] codehaus (http://repository.codehaus.org/, releases=true, snapshots=false), [ERROR] repository.jboss.org (http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/, releases=true, snapshots=false), [ERROR] ghelmling.testing (http://people.apache.org/~garyh/mvn/, releases=true, snapshots=true), [ERROR] apache.snapshots (http://repository.apache.org/snapshots, releases=false, snapshots=true), [ERROR] central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2, releases=true, snapshots=false) [ERROR] -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
We were discussing this internally, and there'd be interest for us to have 0.94 working with Hadoop-2. Is there a top-level jira that I can check out to see the magnitude of the changes needed?
@Stack, I think -Dclassifier causes the problem.
mvn clean install -Dhadoop.profile=2.0
Works for me on 0.94. There should be a pom.xml change for deploying the local jar with a classifier. I'll look into that.
@Lars, I did not see an umbrella issue, but I think we have to compile a list, and see what comes out of it. If I have some time by the end of week, I'll try to do that.
I would like to support this ticket as Sqoop project also have issues with missing hbase jars compiled against hadoop 2. I would greatly appreciate if this will happen
Maven makes no sense (I know no one will read and register the statement I just made because all have same opinion).
-Dclassifier just doesn't work on mvn command line. Maybe hadoop pom needs an amendment so all is just optional or some such voodoo but if you specify -Dclassifier and try to deploy, it doesn't matter what combination seemingly (at least going by my hours spent trying to figure mvn vagaries), it just tries to include dependencies w/ the classifier attached...e.g. randomjar-yourclassifier.jar, and so on. This fails.
The attached patch modifies the hadooop 2.0 profile so the hbase jar built has an hadoop2 suffix (also ups the version of our apache pom from 8 to 11). It does not decorate the test, source or javadoc jars w/ the classifier suffix.
I went ahead and uploaded 0.94.3-SNAPSHOTs to maven repository, w/ the hadoop2 classification: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT/. Is this all that is needed? If so I'll commit this patch as is (I think you'd depend on the hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT but would reference explicitly hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2.jar if an hadoop2 dependency).
Hi Sir,
thank you very much for your time on this issue. Would you mind also providing test artifact compiled against hadoop 2?
I can add hadoop2 to the name of the target artifact but not to the test jar. When maven-jar-plugin makes the jar, it uses a hard-coded 'tests' classifier. I cannot override it w/o changing plugin code (adding a classifier to maven-jar-plugin is just ignored).
I tried various other things. I tried getting build-helper-maven-plugin to attach the test jar at package time but only seemed to end up doubling the test jars installed (a variant of this suggestion http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8499266/maven-deploy-source-classifiers). They still didn't have the right name on install. I think the maven-jar-plugin attaches the test jar before I can intercede later w/ the build-helper-maven-plugin.
I tried setting the finalName to hadoop2 when we are using the hadoop2 profile. This gets pretty far. See below:
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install (default-install) @ hbase ---
[INFO] Installing /Users/stack/checkouts/0.94/target/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2.jar to /Users/stack/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/stack/checkouts/0.94/pom.xml to /Users/stack/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT.pom
[INFO] Installing /Users/stack/checkouts/0.94/target/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2-tests.jar to /Users/stack/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/stack/checkouts/0.94/target/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2-sources.jar to /Users/stack/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar
I cannot get install though to write the local repo w/ the names I told it to use. Looking at the install plugin, it uses maven itself copying artifacts (The above logging is the output of a repository 'event' as artifacts are copied in). I cannot put config on the install plugin to have it use my final name rather than the one it composes from base pom attributes.
Anyone else have a suggestion?
Is the test jar really needed? The hadoop1 built one doesn't work w/ hadoop2?
Since I believe the minicluster code is in the test package, I'm fairly sure any project that depends on this hbase+hadoop 2.0 (flume, sqoop to name a few) will want them.
Maybe look at how bigtop deals with the different versions?
I can confirm that Sqoop needs this testing package to test hbase import feature.
@Stack I cannot agree more on maven not making any sense
It seems from your tests, classifiers just does not work for tests, sources, etc with hadoop2. Then the only remaining option is to change the version string I guess.
I am attaching a patch which does that. It seems it can work:
mvn install -DskipTests -Dhadoop.profile=2.0
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3:install (default-install) @ hbase ---
[INFO] Installing /Users/enis/projects/hbase-0.94/target/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2.jar to /Users/enis/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/enis/projects/hbase-0.94/pom.xml to /Users/enis/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2.pom
[INFO] Installing /Users/enis/projects/hbase-0.94/target/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2-tests.jar to /Users/enis/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2-tests.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/enis/projects/hbase-0.94/target/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2-sources.jar to /Users/enis/.m2/repository/org/apache/hbase/hbase/0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2/hbase-0.94.3-SNAPSHOT-hadoop2-sources.jar
The downside is that the version changes, which can bring it's own set of problems. Wdyt?
Aren't you guys already publishing secure/unsecure bits? Adding a dedicated version would make it 4 then.
Since classifiers did not work, I could not find another way other than changing the version number for publishing the jars. I think we haven't published secure jars yet.
So, isn't the lack of secure jars as much a problem as the lack of the ones compiled against different versions of Hadoop? I'm just trying to understand the scope of different 'twists' of HBase that one would have to know/care about.
@Roman yes, linked
HBASE-5341 for this. Specific to 0.94, we have incompatible jars for main, security and hadoop-2. Which should give us 4 jars:
- main
- security
- hadoop-2
- hadoop-2 security
although the last one, I am not sure we care at this point. For trunk, there is no security jar, since we require at least hadoop-1 compatibility.
Note that apache releases and maven repo are related but slightly different. For the release, we released the tarball and sources for main and security. We do not need to release the binaries compiled with hadoop2, since it can be obtained by just compiling the source with hadoop2. At future, we can decide to release the bits with h2 as well.
Another possible solution would be to provide artifact hbase-test that would have classifier either hadoop1 or hadoop2 based on for which version it was compiled. This solution would be probably step back as for example hadoop was using it in the past and has moved to classifiers, but it should be working without need to have special version for testing artifact compiled against hadoop2.
Long time ago I filed HBASE-4850 but haven't had much time to devote to it since then. Is there any chance that somebody can help me working on it?
Another possible solution would be to provide artifact hbase-test that would have classifier either hadoop1 or hadoop2 based on for which version it was compiled
We should not do this for h1, since that would break maven compatibility that our previous artifacts (0.94.0, 0.94.1, etc) was released with artifact name hbase, and classifier tests. However, maybe we can do it for hadoop2, not sure how easy it would be to create hbase-tests artifact with classifier hadoop-2. Since maven-deploy hardcodes "tests" classifier, this might not be possible at all.
Long time ago I filed HBASE-4850 but haven't had much time to devote to it since then.
What versions of hadoop? If between hadoop1 and hadoop2, then I don't think we can resolve this easily without creating a shim layer for pretty much everything.
If between hadoop1 and hadoop2, then I don't think we can resolve this easily
It is not super trivial, but it isn't insurmountable either. Besides, we can borrow generously from some of the projects that did some of it already. In short – it definitely can be done, but it requires more than just yours truly
Yes, we have not published a secure jar to maven. We should have. We just shipped two tgz bundles, secure and insecure.
Yes, this is a problem we need to fix.
On changing the version being the only way around this issue, I agree. Jon Hsieh and I talked w/ a Maven'y fellow who suggested similar – Andrew Bayer. Even if we could make it work w/ classifiers, it would probably be a deceit; I would not trust that downloaded, maven would pull in the proper dependencies.
The hadoop-api-evolution table made me violently sick.
Roman, on HBASE-4850, I don't think we can do what is suggested there (Commented to that effect).
I like the patch you suggest Enis.
What do we do in hbase 1.0, say, where minimum required is indeed h2. Don't we want our version to be hbase in that case and not hbase-
hadoop2? You think w/ your patch, maven repo will have hbase-hadoop2 and it will be just fine when hbase itself moves to hadoop2? (We'll have a hadoop3 version around this time too?)
Oh, we don't need to do a security artifact in maven for 0.96. We should have published one for 0.94 and before.
Another idea - version number can contain string. So instead of creating special dot release, what about creating release "${normalversion}
What do we do in hbase 1.0, say, where minimum required is indeed h2. Don't we want our version to be hbase in that case and not hbase-hadoop2? You think w/ your patch, maven repo will have hbase-hadoop2 and it will be just fine when hbase itself moves to hadoop2? (We'll have a hadoop3 version around this time too?)
If Hbase moves to hadoop2, and drops support for h1, then we can just call the main version hbase without the hadoop2 suffix. As long as which version of HBase requires which version of hadoop, it should not be too confusing, wdyt?
Another idea - version number can contain string. So instead of creating special dot release, what about creating release "${normalversion}-hadoop2"?
This is what I did in the patch. We will release for example hbase-0.94.3-hadoop2.
Enis Soztutar I see, I originally thought that you want to increase the version number. Adding "-hadoop2" suffix seems as a reasonable workaround to me, but it's up to you HBase guys to agree on the final solution
if HBASE-4850 is not an option I believe you guys are on the right track. You definitely don't want to use classifier for this so that leaves mucking with the version string. As long as you come up with a reasonable encoding strategy for pointing at various artifacts (e.g. hadoop2-secure, etc.) you can append that to the version string. Watch out for things in the pom.xml that need to be tweaked for each of these combinations – I got bitten by default settings in specially versioned pom files a couple of times.
I don't think hbase-4850 possible as of this writing. It may become so by the time we release (you might just have to shuffle the CLASSPATH if we move all h1 and h2 mannerisms successfully back into their respective compatibility modules). Meantime, messing w/ version string seems the way to go.
Is there a hurry on solving this one? I'd like to do a bit of testing and leave the decision on what we'll publish till close to release if that is ok w/ bigtop and other downstreamers.
Hmm... then again this issue wants 0.94 artifacts. Should we go ahead and commit the Enis patch and publish 0.94 snapshots w/ the hadoop2 versions published with a version that has a hadoop2 suffix? Patch looks good. Should we publish even though all tests do not yet pass against 0.94?
As of now, Sqoop is simply skipping HBase tests on Hadoop 2, so we do have working workaround and we could potentially wait. But I would personally prefer to solve it as soon as possible as I do not like current situation :-/
Having also HBase 0.92 test jars compiled against Hadoop 2 would be nice, so that we could test against them as well and make sure that everything is working as expected.
What is the status of this issue? Right now, even Flume requires that the user builds hbase locally before building Flume. We'd like to avoid this, so it'd be great if this is committed soon. Thanks!
Jarek Jarcec Cecho and Hari Shreedharan I thought Roman said this is not necessary? That it not necessary we publish an hbase 0.94 artifact built against hadoop2? You fellas still need it? If so, we'll publish one but it'll be a version of 0.94.2-hadoop2. Would that work for you?
Stack If there are no maven artifacts available, then it would require a user building flume/sqoop against hadoop2 to build hbase against hadoop2 first - which is not something we really desire. If it is possible to push the artifacts it would be great. I can update the Flume pom to point to the hadoop2 version of hbase in the hadoop2 profile - so 0.94.2-hadoop2 would work fine. Also, could you give an ETA, since Flume-1.3.0 is currently being voted on, I'd like this to go into the release - so if this does not take too long, it'd be great, I will ask for another RC.
Hari Shreedharan What if I did it as hbase-0.94.2-hadoop2-SNAPSHOT? Would that work? i.e. SNAPSHOT? I'm wary making a hbase-0.94.2-hadoop2 release since no testing of 0.94 against hadoop2 done really.
I definitely agree with Hari - forcing users to build their own HBase in order to test Sqoop do not seems as a good way to go, so I would prefer available upstream jar if possible. I don't mind having version hbase-0.94.2-hadoop2-SNAPSHOT with the "SNAPSHOT" part. I'll properly document why we're depending on SNAPSHOT and link this issue for better understanding...
Stack I agree with Jarcec. A snapshot is fine - we shall document it.
A couple of points
- I was saying that if HBase project would not want to get into the business of certifying that HBase is known to work against Hadoop 2 it can safely NOT publish the artifacts and expect downstream projects to build local copies of HBase
- Bigtop 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 do fair amount of testing of the HBase 0.94.X and Hadoop 2.0.X combination
- If you keep #1 and #2 in mind – you might be interested in outsourcing the management of the hadoop2 HBase artifact to the Bigtop project. If that is an attractive option – lets talk.
Roman Shaposhnik I just tried deploying an hbase artifact built against hadoop2 and its a PITA; the pom needs a bunch of work it seems to get it to work (mvn trying to pull in hadoop-core-2.0.2-alpha and ditto w/ hadoop-test).
We want to certify 0.96 against hadoop2, not 0.94.
So, I'm up for talking Mr. Roman.
checking to see if hbase is still planning to have hadoop2 binaries published for 0.96 ?
Roshan Naik Here is our attempt: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/hbase/hbase-client/ What do you think? Will it work for you? We publish two artifacts, one named w/ a hadoop1 suffix and the other with a hadoop2. Would be interested in feedback. What I have so far is that this scheme will not work (our Elliott has it our hadoop dependency is resolved before we have a chance to influence it – profiles).
Stack, This should work for Flume. We have different mvn profiles for hadoop-1 and hadoop-2. So we can just change the hadoop-2 profile to pull in the correct artifact (we already do this for hadoop-common/hadoop-core).
there will be a little complexity ..
Hbase jar has been split up in 0.95.. so in addition to the hadoop2 profile flume (and others such prjs) will now additionally need a profile for hbase0.95.
the complexity is that neither the hadoop2 profile nor the hbase0.95+ profile can independently conjure up the full name and dependencies list for hbase.
let me give it a try.. will get back.
Roshan: we should not need anything more than the HBase client jars (I believe - not sure where the minicluster classes for tests are and what we'd need to handle that though). So we should have to do only what we do hadoop-common v/s hadoop-core.
I think Flume needs at least the hbase-server tests jar to use the minicluster. We currently do not have hbase-minicluster kind of module.
Hari: it looks like flume needs these .. hbase-client, hbase-common (HBaseCommonTestingUtility.. at compile time), hbase-server (HMaster,MiniZooKeeperCluster.. at compile time) and hbase-server-test (HBaseTestingUtility..when running tests)
Yep, we could define those in the hadoop-2 profile as dependencies.
these are not hadoop2 specific.... these are hbase0.95+ specific which comes in both hadoop1&2 flovaours. So it seems we will need to support the following combos...
1) building against hbase 0.94x .. in this case there will be no -hadoop1 suffix on hbase deps
2) building against hbase 0.95+ with hadoop 1 .. in this case the -hadoop1 suffix will be used with the newer dependencies list
3) building against hbase 0.95+ with hadoop 2 .. in this case the -hadoop2 suffix will be used with the newer dependency list
This came up again today over on phoenix#286: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix/issues/286 . Looking for HBase 0.94 artifacts built against Hadoop 2.
We could do something like
HBASE-8224, a script that creates a pom.xml.hadoop2 from the original pom.xml w/ interpolated version – e.g. 0.94.12-hadoop2 – and that does other search and replace. We'd then use this new pom to publish SNAPSHOTs and for wrestling with mvn release plugin. Should be easier in 0.94 than in 0.96 since we are not modularized in 0.94. I could help out w/ this after 0.95.2 goes up if folks interested still.
Would it help to give the hadoop2 based hbase project a different name instead of sufix ? something like hbase-hadoop2-XX.YY.ZZ
sort of like win32 v/s win64
Roshan Naik A different version – a version with -hadoop2 in it – worked over in hbase-8224.


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- mojomills TAPE Pill Bottle
(pill bottle used as shaker)
- mojomills TAPE Shaker
(shaker in the shape of an avocado)
- mojomills TAPE Slide Guitar
(six string Stratocaster DI using ceramic slide)
Download to your hearts content and check out my other sounds while your at it.
Thanks and have fun!
- Jordan Mills
mojomills Sample Packs
The 2nd Collab Dare - the lost and found tapes
Very nice stuff.
Will be using it in the future.
Your efforts are worthy of a medal. You are a great Freesounder, keep up the good work!
Have to agree, I've already used El Guitar and Piano in our latest dare piece. Wonderful submissions, thank you so much mojo.
Thanks guys!
I had a lot of fun recording these samples.
It was not as much fun organizing and describing them,
but well worth the trouble.
Knowing that people are getting good use of the sounds makes me smile!
The Tascam Porta 02 mkII was the first machine I started recording with.
It sure brought back some memories.
I load my samples into an NNXT in Reason and fine tune them to feel more natural.
The piano samples are particularly useful as they sound like an old 70's horror soundtrack.
Have fun and make some music!
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It was not as much fun organizing and describing them,
I can imagine
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News, tips, and practical insights about technology for student affairs practitioners by Eric Stoller.
A Letter to Career Services Professionals
It's time to embrace social media.
Dear Career Services Professional,
Let me begin by stating that I have the utmost respect and empathy for your office. There will always be more students at your school than there will be of you. Understaffed and often under-funded, your office has a monumental amount of responsibility. As the frontline for employment for your students, you have a task that is exceptionally challenging. Helping students with everything that's related to a job search takes patience, knowledge, empathy, networking, and a tolerance for ambiguity. Seniors show up to your office during their final term of school and hope that you can make magic happen. Employers give you feedback that your students aren't fully prepared. And you absorb their critiques and continue doing amazing work. You put on workshops throughout the year, a career fair every now and then, and do your best to educate and inform your students. It's a sisyphean task. The majority of your students are using your institution as a stepping stone to their future careers.
Career services is a pressure cooker of a functional area in student affairs. Perhaps the most anxiety-ridden and exciting aspect of your department is that you have to be engaged in lifelong learning so that you are ready to fully serve your students.
For example, let's look at social media. Social media channels are frequently used by students as conduits for networking, research, and job acquisition. What does this mean for you as a career services professional? Well, I think that it means that you no longer have a choice about being "on social media." It's not an option. Is email an option? How about having a phone in your office? Do you talk with students? Social media is part of the job. If you don't want to increase your fluency and competency with Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc., you're basically telling me and your students that you are okay with limiting the way in which you help them. That's unacceptable. It's like someone saying "that's not my job" when asked to do a task that could help their office. That type of behavior isn't tolerated in the workplace and it surely shouldn't be okay in your office.
So where do you go to find out more about how career services offices are using social media. Here, let me Google that for you…sorry, I couldn't resist. But, seriously, if you can't search for examples, you're basically starting from square one. And, square one is not where students need us to be. A couple of quick queries on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn result in a plethora of higher education career services accounts.
- Facebook + Career Services
- Twitter + Career Services
- YouTube + Career Services
- LinkedIn + Career Services
And, if you're thinking about exploring what your career services office can do with Google+, go ahead and check out how Syracuse University is connecting SU alumni with current graduates on G+ Hangouts.
I realize that the hardest part about being great at using social media is that it takes a bit of time to get over that initial learning curve. However, when you're better at using social media, you'll be better at using it with your students. And, at the end of the day, being fully-equipped to help your students is the raison d'être of your work. I know that you can be better at using social media. Get your entire team on board. Maybe you will take the lead in your office. Showing your colleagues how this "stuff" works. Take your time, experiment, and continue to do great work.
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Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has announced plans for a nationwide audit of speed limits to ensure that all speed restrictions are both safe and sensible.
The Department of Transport will engage with the National Roads Authority and local authorities to conduct the nationwide audit.
Speed limit bands are set by the Minister for Transport, however the limits applied on particular roads are determined by local authorities in consultation with gardaí.
In the case of national primary and secondary roads, local authorities also consult with the NRA.
According to the Department, the aim of the audit is to start overhauling inconsistencies between different counties and regions, and to put an end to confusion among drivers.
The audit is the first step in a process that is expected to take some time.
Minister Varadkar is encouraging members of the public to highlight their concerns about speed limits with their local authorities.
Speaking at a sod turning on two road schemes in Co Westmeath, Mr Varadkar said: "We all know of cases where speed limits are inappropriately low or inappropriately high.
"Recent road safety measures like speed cameras and new drink-driving laws have gone a long way towards improving road safety.
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Independent Israeli journalists flew to Turkey to immerse themselves in the action, staying with friends of friends and filing reports by smartphone.
When Avi Blecherman arrived in Turkey on Thursday morning, he posted on his Facebook page: "In Istanbul on my way to Taksim. Bring it on!" In...
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Where can I find help for the official NWN1 campaign ?
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Where can I find help for the official NWN1 campaign ?
April 15th, 2008, 23:25
Hello, everyone,
I just would like to learn about web pages where I can find bits & pieces about the NWN1 OC.
I don't want really spoilers but rather … things I can't just make up in my mind. Hints, secrets, the like.
There are a few things I've found so far (mostly items), which i can't quite understand. That's why.
I don't need a game solution, I think everything is mostly self-explanatory … - except a few details.
Are there any pages you can recommend me ? And which ideally don't spoil me too much, but still give me some secrets at the same time ?
Thank you in advance,
Edit: I've seen that Gamebanshee has a nice site about it … But it doesn't tell my anything about multi-classing, for exammple.
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TOKYO, April 12 (UPI) -- Sony has introduced a "smart" Android-based watch it says will let users read social updates, handle text messages and manage calls directly from the wrist.
The watch does all this by communicating with the owner's Android phone using Bluetooth, Sony said.
The watch features a 1.3-inch organic light-emitting diode display and can alert users to an event or an incoming call by vibrating, Cnet.com reported Thursday.
The watch could be useful for those who don't want to repeatedly pull their smartphone out of their pocket, it said.
The handset can run four days on a single charge, Sony said.
Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the $150 SmartWatch is available on Sony's online marketplace and in its stores and will soon be available at other retailers, the company said.
This is Sony's second try at a "smart" watch; in 2010 it launched LiveView, another watch capable of interacting with Android phones that sold poorly, Cnet.com said.


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MAHS Junior High choir concert
The Morris Area Junior High boys and girls choir performed with the high school groups on Monday, May 19 for the last choir concert of the school year.
The boys choir opened up the concert with a traditional American Folk song "Two in the Middle". They also sang "Runaway" - the 1961 #1 hit by Del Shannon (See video). Tyler Reimers belted out the beginning solo while Zach Hughes accompanied on the guitar during the piece.
The junior high girls choir directed by Stacy Erdal sang six pieces, including "A Pebble in the Water" that featured her daughter Lily Erdal on the clarinet (See video). The song was about the rippling effect of your actions, both positive and negative. The group also sang "Can You Keep a Secret?" a delightful original that captured the fun and also the challenge of keeping a secret between friends.


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Tamiya TT-01 DRIFTER
Tamiya TT-01 set up as an AWESOME drifter. Used for about 6 months of relatively infrequent use. The Mamba Max system and radio system in the pictures have sold seperately, so the stock motor and esc will be included. (This is still plenty of power for fun drifting, the MM system was WAY overkill) It has an upgraded aluminum drive shaft with a custom one way bearing on the front end that I made for it (I am a cnc machinist). What this one way bearing does is lets the front wheels keep turning when you lock up the rear brakes, which lets you keep steering control while braking for drifting. It made a HUGE difference in the way the car drifts and handles. It has a black Dodge Charger body on it that I did a purple and blue flame job on. Looks really nice. The rear window is signed by Samuel Hubinette (a full scale world champion drift car driver who drives a Dodge Charger) who I met last summer at a drifting event in West Virginia. I will also include the original Mercedes 190 Evo body that came with the kit, and a Nissan 350Z body that I was turning into a cool looking convertible. The conversion to a convertible is almost done. The wheels on it have pvc pipe used for drifting. Also included will be a 3600 mah Duratrax nimh battery , a 3000 mah Venom nimh battery, a Prophet Plus LCD charger and a second set of wheels with the original street tires on them. Here is a list of everything included and it's value.
**I am asking $125 for everything in the pictures (minus the radio and Mamba Max sytem, but including the stock motor and esc)**
******I will consider splitting it up. If you want a portion, let me know what you want and make me an offer. I REALLY want to unload this thing for cash guys. I need it for a helicopter project! Make me a cash offer! I may just accept it!!*****
Original Costs:
Tamiya TT-01 road car $99
Spektrum DX3.0 radio system $259
Two batteries $70 (roughly)
Prophet Plus LCD charger $69
Dodge Charger body $25
Nissan 350Z body $25
Two sets of custom wheels $25
** roughly $600 originally invested!!
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I just updated the ad.... I forgot to list the price the first time... Kind of an important detail!
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Why is buying bottled water a problem?
It costs you money. Australians spend more than half a billion dollars a year on bottled water. Although people consistently complain about the price of petrol we spend more per litre on bottled water. If you were to buy enough bottled water to drink the recommended intake of 8 glasses per day this would cost you approximately $3650 a year (based on $2.50 for a 500mL bottle). The same amount of tap water would cost you just $0.98 per year. So save the cash and tap it...it's free!
It uses lots of energy. Our use of bottled water in Australia generates more greenhouse gas emissions in a year than 13,000 cars over the same timeframe. This is because of the extraction of water, manufacturing of plastic bottles, transportation, refrigeration and recycling/disposal all use electricity and fossil fuels such as diesel and petroleum.
The production of bottles wastes finite materials. Plastic is a petroleum based product. Petroleum is a resource that is in limited supply and fast diminishing. We should be using this for essentials not disposables.
Our natural environment and communities are impacted when the water intended for bottling is diverted away from its natural route.
Bottled water creates large amounts of waste. Plastic bottles are among the 10 most common rubbish items picked up on Clean up Australia Day. Australia recycles only 36% of PET plastic drink bottles, so around 373 million plastic water bottles end up as waste each year.
Make a pledge
Take the challenge and make a pledge to use a reusable water bottle for a week, a month, a year or all the time. Visit the 'Pledge to Refill' site to make a pledge today!
What sort of water bottle should I use?
Thinking about plastic bottles?
Some research has shown that Bisphenol A (BPA), a key component in polycarbonate plastics, has been found to leach into the water of bottles that are made from it. Most manufacturers now produce BPA-free plastic drink bottles. Keep a look out for these when purchasing a reusable plastic drink bottle.
Can't I just re-use the disposable water bottle that I bought some water in?
Some tests have shown that the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic used to make disposable plastic bottles can leach Antimony, a heavy metal, which may leach if the bottle reaches high temperatures for example: after being left in the sun for prolonged periods. Some online articles also state people should be careful of bacterial building up in these bottles as PET is a porous plastic and can be difficult to clean thoroughly.
What about other options?
Stainless steel drink bottles are made from food grade materials and do not leach any chemicals into the water. They are lightweight, have a long life span and can be recycled at the end of their life.
Aluminium drink bottles are also lightweight; however they need to have a lining to ensure the aluminium doesn't leach into the liquids.
What about for exams?
UOW requires that all students use a completely clear (uncoloured) water bottle with no labels or writing for exams. To avoid single use bottles it is best to choose a clear reusable drink bottle that meets the exam requirements and you can use it all the time .
Where can I refill my water bottle on Campus?
There are many locations on campus where water bottle refill stations and bubblers are provided. The UOW 'Beta' interactive campus map illustrates all the locations.
Refill Campaign "Refill it's that simple"
UOW Creative Arts students in 2012 were assigned the task of coming up with marketing material and concepts for a reusable drink bottle campaign. The Environment Unit along with a group of students selected the strongest ideas for this campaign. 'Refill...it's that simple' and 'Tap It...It's Free'.
For more information on the 'Refill...it's that simple' campaign contact the Environment Unit at: firstname.lastname@example.com
The information presented on this page has been sourced from the following sites. For more information please visit their links:
Clean Up Australia (Bottled water fact sheet)
Go Tap Campaign accessible via the Do Something website
Sydney Water's Campaign
Where does tap water come from?
What does tap water taste like?
Bottled Water: A summary of the facts
1 out of 6: the number of people worldwide that do not have access to safe, reliable drinking water.
1: one of the ten most common rubbish items collected on Clean Up Australia Day.
3: the quantity of water used to produce a plastic bottle as a factor of the amount required to fill it.
5: the number of ways that energy is used to produce bottled water: extracting, manufacturing, transporting, refrigerating and recycling/disposing.
64: the percentage of PET plastic drink bottles end up as waste.
98: the cost in cents to drink eight standard glasses of tap water per day for a year.
3650: the number of dollars per year it would cost you to drink 8 standard glasses per day of bottled water.
13000: the number of cars that create the same amount of green house gas emissions per year as our use of bottled water in Australia.
500,000,000: the number of dollars spent annually in Australia on bottled water.
783,000,000: the number of people worldwide that do not have access to safe, drinking water.


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United Air Lines invites you to fly "The Chicago Executive" A Club In The Sky For Men Only
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By Meghan Hurley
OTTAWA — The wife of convicted sex killer Russell Williams has filed a statement of defence against a lawsuit launched by one of her husband's sexual assault victims.
"We're vigorously defending any claim against her," said Mary Jane Binks, the lawyer representing Mary Elizabeth Harriman. "All I can say is my client is a very good and courageous woman and is attempting to carry on despite these devastating events."
The statement of defence filed at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice disputes claims made by Laurie Massicotte.
Massicotte, who was bound and sexually assaulted by Williams — a former commanding officer at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario who has been now expelled from the military — is suing him, his wife and the Ontario Provincial Police for $7 million in damages that include pain and suffering, infliction of mental distress and loss of economic advantage.
On March 26, 2010, Williams transferred title of his Ottawa home to his wife. At the time, he was in jail awaiting trial on two counts of first-degree murder and two sexual assaults.
In her statement of claim, Massicotte said the transfer of the home into Harriman's name was fraudulent. Massicotte's allegations have not been proven in court.
"There is nothing untoward or suspicious about the transfer," Harriman's statement of defence reads. "Harriman denies the plaintiff's claim that the transfer was not made in good faith."
The statement of defence said Massicotte should have no reason to believe that Harriman would "dispose of or dissipate her assets."
Harriman is an executive director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
"Her stature in the community is exemplary," the statement of defence reads. "Harriman is secure in her employment, has strong ties to the Ottawa community and there are no grounds to believe that she is going to abscond from the jurisdiction."
Massicotte is the second victim to file suit against Williams, who continues to receive his military pension.
In 2010, an unidentified victim filed a $2.45-million lawsuit against Williams and his wife.
Williams is serving a life sentence for the sex slayings of Jessica Lloyd, 27, and Marie-France Comeau, 37.
In 2010, he also pleaded guilty to two sexual assaults and 82 break-ins, including many in Ottawa, in which he frequently photographed himself wearing stolen women's underwear.
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Dr. Barrett and Fuller students participated in research for a NATO project
Dr. Justin Barrett, professor and director of Fuller's Thrive Center for Human Development, spoke at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels, Belgium last week as part of a briefing for a research project which brings together the work of military experts and social scientists to advise some of NATO's future activities. This was Barrett's fourth meeting as part of the project.
The October 10, 2013 briefing on the topic of "Human Aspects of the Operational Environment" was the capstone event of a multi-year research project initiated by NATO's Human Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Oradea, Romania. The project was in response to NATO leaders who recognized future activities would largely be security-stability operations in partnership with local populations instead of invasion-conquest operations, Barrett explained.
The main aim of the project is to encourage NATO decision-makers to better understand and cooperate with local populations so that traditional use of military force to kill and destroy can be minimized. As a result, the Human Intelligence Centre of Excellence reached out to military experts and social scientists to collaborate on a report and resource document.
"I was persuaded to participate because I saw an opportunity to save lives of civilians and our soldiers, and to improve peacemaking strategies," said Barrett, who was recruited to the project while he was a faculty member at the University of Oxford. "I am cautiously optimistic that this project will make positive differences around the world in the decades to come."
Barrett, who is regarded as one of the founders of the cognitive science of religion field and is researching cognitive approaches to the study of culture and archaeology, served as the leader for a research panel concerning the basic drivers and motivators of human action. The resulting paper included contributions from Fuller students Christian Keys, Matthew Jarvinen, and Ross Lisman, and explored the subject of fundamental physiological and psychological needs, and how they are shaped by social, moral, and religious dynamics. The paper was then combined with six others into a resource document for NATO leaders.
Barrett noted that the work done on the project also resounds with the mission of Fuller's Thrive Center, which serves to identify what allows young people to develop into thriving adults, and translates that research into tangible resources.
"We have tried to persuade NATO leaders that security goes beyond physical safety and includes promoting an environment that allows for basic social, religious, and moral expression, as well as biological needs," Barrett said. "In short, if people do not have space to thrive, they aren't truly 'secure'. And the thriving of young people is at major risk in traditional warfare, whether they are violence-produced orphans or 19-year-old soldiers."


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We're pleased to announce the release of a disc by the Assistant Organist, Timothy Wakerell, recorded at St. Paul's Cathedral whilst he was Sub Organist there, shortly before he came to New College. Entitled The St. Paul's Gem, it is the premiere recording of the latest addition to the organs of the cathedral - the William Drake (2012) organ in the OBE Chapel, which was in fact Drake's last completed instrument.
For the tracklist, sample track, and to buy the disc, click here.
A wonderful programme to introduce this new organ.
Lark Reviews
...[a] more than agreeable border-crossing, centuries-spanning recital...
Wakerell plays an eclectic programme that spans the stately sobriety of [John] Bull's 'Goodnight' and Georg Böhm to the robust sincerity of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in F (BWV 540) and the dancing brio of C. P. E. Bach's Sonata in F (Wq 70/3, 1184). Bringing things more up-to-date are Saint-Saëns's delectable 'Allegro giocoso' from the 'Seven Improvisations' and Niels Gade's luxurious Mendelssohn-indebted Moderato in F.
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A fire inside a bin sparked a fire in a flat in Harborough town centre this afternoon (Wednesday).
A woman was led to safety from the flat by a firefighter and was treated by paramedics for smoke inhalation.
A fire crew from Harborough station and one from Kibworth were called to the Northbank flats in Coventry Road at 2.20pm. Firefighters used two breathing apparatus and one hose reel to put out the flames.
The suspected cause was a bin fire inside the home, a fire control room operator from Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said on its media voicebank earlier today.
Paramedics from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) were also called to the scene and treated the woman.
On the offical Harborough Fire Station Facebook page, they said: "Harborough fire crews were called to Northbank today at approx 2.20pm; a reported building fire.
"A breathing apparatus team were sent into the property. Firefighter Craig Headley and firefigheter Nick Loomes aided a woman from her flat which was partially smoke-logged and handed her to a paramedic from EMAS.
"The flat was then ventilated by the fire crews. A Kibworth fire appliance was also in attendance at this incident.
"The lady was treated for smoke inhalation."
Meanwhile, town firefighters were also called to Nelson Street on a 'late fire call' at 4.10pm today.
The fire was reported as out, but fire crews were sent to investigate. The flames had caused partial damage to an upstairs bathroom and bedroom.
The station's Facebook page said: "A visual investigation was carried out by the incident commander and three firefighters.
"The firefighters also used their thermal image camera to look over the area effected by fire to check for sources/traces of heat."
Story by Alex Blackwell
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by Christopher Freeburn | August 6, 2013 10:15 am
[1]The Chevrolet Volt just got more affordable[2].
With other manufacturers trimming electric vehicle prices, General Motors (GM[3]) is cutting $5,000 off the Volt's base price. The car will now start at $34,995. Including a $7,500 federal tax credit, a 2014 Volt can be had for as little as $27,495, the Associated Press notes.
From the beginning of this year through July, GM says it sold 11,643 Volts. That marks a 9.3% increase over the same time last year.
However, rival electric cars are doing better. Nissan's (NSANY[4]) Leaf, whose base price was also recently trimmed, saw its sales rise threefold to 11,703 during the same period.
The Volt has struggled to gain a foothold with consumers. GM has disputed reports that it loses a significant amount of money on each Volt[5].
Last month, Ford (F[6]) dropped the price of its 2014 Focus EV[7] by $4,000.
Shares of GM slid more than 1% in Tuesday morning trading.
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Library Research a Week of Workshops
Spend some time with a librarian, learning how to become a better researcher! Pick one or more workshops. No need to sign up in advance, just show up at 11:00 a.m. in L-244 in the Library/Learning Resource Center
|Monday October 21 11:00 a.m. Finding Articles
|Tuesday October 22 11:00 a.m. Primary Sources
|Wednesday October 23 11:00 a.m. E-books & Books
|Thursday October 24 11:00 a.m. Lexis Nexis / Academic
|Main Campus Chula Vista orientations in Room L-244 in the Library/Learning Resource Center
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