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- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Just drop by the Davis Public Library next Thursday night.
Pollination ecologist Neal Williams, assistant professor of entomology at UC Davis, will present a public lecture on "Promoting Native Bees for Gardens, Farms, and Native Plants" at the Davis Botanical Society meeting on Thursday night, May 10 in the Davis Public Library, 315 E. 14th St.
Williams, to speak from 7 to 8 p.m., will discuss native bee biology and diversity in the Capay Valley, how bees interact with plants, and the challenges facing native bees as they respond to landscape change in Yolo County. Drawing from his studies on the impact of native plant selections in the re-diversification of agricultural landscapes, Williams also will tell his audience how habitats can be enhanced using native plants.
"Our beautiful state has diverse and unique plants and animals, with many found nowhere else in the world," said Botanical Society spokesperson Ellen Dean, curator of the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity. "This is true of our native bee species, some of which have never been named by science. If you have wanted to find out more about the relationship between native bees and California plants, you are invited to come to a free public lecture."
Williams, who joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology in 2009, was a featured speaker at the International Symposium on Pollinator Conservation, held last January in Fukuoka, Japan. He explored agricultural landscape change and the role of bee life history in predicting and understanding responses of bee communities.
A native of Madison, Wisc., Williams studied botany, history and philosophy of science in 1990-91 at Edinburgh University, Scotland, before receiving his bachelor of science degrees in botany and zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992. He received his doctorate in ecology and evolution in 1999 from the State University of New York, Stony Brook (SUNY-Stony Brook).
And, if you're interested in joining the Davis Botanical Society, the group has scheduled its annual meeting and election of officers at 6:45 p.m., just prior to Williams' talk.
Parking in the library parking lot is free. Further information on the Davis Botanical Society is available from Ellen Dean or Jean Shepard at the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity at (530) 752-1091.


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Winterfell | |
Castle and regional capital | |
Winterfell by Ted Nasmith © | |
Location | Westeros, the north |
Government | House Stark, feudal lord |
Ruler |
Lord Eddard Stark (AGoT) Lord Ramsay Bolton (ADwD) |
Religion | Old gods |
Founded | Age of Heroes |
Notable places | Great Hall, Great Keep, First Keep, broken tower, godswood, crypt, winter town |
Winterfell is the ancestral castle and seat of power of House Stark and is considered to be the capital of the north. It is in the center of the northernmost province of the Seven Kingdoms, on the kingsroad that runs from Storm's End to the Wall. It is situated at the eastern edge of the wolfswood, north of the western branch of the White Knife and Castle Cerwyn. Winterfell is south of the northern mountains and southwest of Long Lake,[1] one hundred leagues (three hundred miles) southeast of Deepwood Motte.[2]
Vayon Poole is the castle's steward, and Maester Luwin advises Lord Eddard Stark. Ser Rodrik Cassel serves as Winterfell's master-at-arms and his nephew Jory Cassel is captain of the House Stark guards. Septon Chayle maintains the castle's sept and Septa Mordane tutors the Stark children. Other servants include the master of horse Hullen, the kennelmaster Farlen, the blacksmith Mikken, the cook Gage,[3] and the brewer Barth.[4]
Winterfell is a huge castle complex spanning several acres and encircled by two massive granite walls.[4] There is a village outside, the winter town. Winterfell has been built around an ancient godswood and over natural hot springs. The water is piped through walls and chambers to heat them, making Winterfell more comfortable than other castles during the harsh northern winters.[5]
Inside the walls, the complex is composed of dozens of courtyards and small open spaces. Weapons training and practice take place in those yards. The inner ward is a second, much older open space in the castle where archery practice takes place. It is located next to the broken tower. Inside Winterfell stands the inner castle, which contains the Great Keep and the Great Hall. Winterfell's towers and halls have diamond-shaped window panes.[6]
Inner Castle
- The Great Keep is the innermost castle and stronghold of the castle complex. It was built over natural hot springs to keep it warm.[5] The Great Keep contains bedchambers for House Stark[5] as well as the solar of Lord Eddard Stark.[7] The building is connected to the armory by a covered bridge.[8] From a window on the covered bridge, one can see the entire yard.[9] Beneath the Great Keep are cellars with narrow windows.[10]
- The Great Hall is used for receiving guests and the place where the household dines together, including the Lord of Winterfell. It is made of grey stone[11] and has wide doors made of oak and iron,[12] which opens to the castle yard, and a rear exit leads to a dimly-lit gallery.[12] Inside it can hold eight long rows of trestle tables, four to each side of the central aisle,[12] and the hall can seat five hundred people.[13] There is a raised platform for noble guests, and the walls are covered with banners.[11] The hall contains the high seat of the old Kings in the North. The seat's cold stone has been polished by the many lords who have sat upon it, and its massive arms are decorated with the carved heads of snarling direwolves.[14][15]
- The small sept was built for Lady Catelyn Tully, a southron, by her husband, Lord Eddard.[16]
Courtyard and Other Buildings
- The First Keep, a squat and round drum tower, is the oldest surviving part of the castle but is no longer in use. Around it lies a lichyard where the Kings of Winter would bury their loyal servants. The keep has gargoyles atop it.[17][6] Maester Kennet determined it was built after the Andals arrived.[18]
- The broken tower, also known as the Burned Tower, was once the tallest watchtower in Winterfell. Over 140 years ago a lightning strike set it afire and the top third collapsed inward, but no one rebuilt it.[19][20] It stands behind the old inner ward. Crows nest atop the broken tower.[19]
- The ancient godswood of Winterfell has stood untouched for ten thousand years, with three acres of old packed earth and close-together trees creating a dense canopy, which the castle was built around. At the center of the grove stands an ancient weirwood with a face carved into it, standing over a pool of black water.[16] Across the godswood from the heart tree, beneath the windows of the Guest House, an underground hot spring feeds three small pools, with a moss-covered wall looming above them. The godswood is enclosed by walls, and is accessed by a main iron gate, or smaller wooden ones.
- The Glass Gardens[21] is a greenhouse heated by the hot springs, which turn it into a place of moist warmth.[5] It is used to grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers.[9][22] The garden has green and yellow glass panes[10] locked in frames.[8]
- The crypt of Winterfell, located near the First Keep, is where members of House Stark are buried. The underground crypts are long and narrow, with pillars moving two by two along its length. Between pillars stand the sepulchers of the Starks of Winterfell, the likenesses of the dead seated on thrones, with iron swords set before them to keep the restless spirits from wandering, and snarling direwolves at their feet. The crypts are deep under the earth, cavernous and bigger than the complex above ground. They are accessed by a twisting stone stair and a huge ironwood door that lies at a slant to the floor. The stair continues below to older levels where the most ancient Kings in the North are entombed.[23][17][10]
- The Bell Tower is connected to the rookery by a bridge. The bridge is covered and runs from the fourth floor of the tower to the second floor of the rookery.[6][8]
- The Library Tower houses the library at Winterfell. A stonework staircase winds about its exterior.[8]
- The Guards Hall is in line with the Bell Tower, and further back, the First Keep.[6]
- Winterfell has undercrofts and cellars.[25] The castle also has dungeons,[25] including tower cells.[26]
Winterfell is a huge castle complex spanning several acres, defended by two massive walls of grey granite with a wide moat between them.[4] The outer wall is eighty feet high, while the inner is one hundred feet high.[4] There are guard turrets on the outer wall and more than thirty watch turrets on the crenelated inner walls.
The great main gates[7] have a gatehouse made of two huge crenelated bulwarks which flank the arched gate[8] and a drawbridge that opens into the market square of the winter town.[27][28]
There is a narrow tunnel inside of the inner wall stretching halfway around the castle, allowing travel from the south gate all the way to the north gate without interruption.[19]
- The Hunter's Gate is close to the kennels and the kitchens. It opens directly onto open fields and the wolfswood, so people can come and go without having to cross through the winter town. It is favored by hunting parties.[4]
- The East Gate[10] or east gate[29] leads to the kingsroad.[10] The Kingsroad Gate[7] may be another name for the same gate.
- The Battlements Gate is a small arched postern in the inner wall. It crosses the moat between the walls but does not have a passageway through the outer wall.[7]
Winter Town
The winter town, so called because it is mostly deserted during summer, is where smallfolk gather in winter. It is outside the walls of Winterfell. Its market square is filled with wooden stalls for merchants, and its streets are muddy and lined with rows of houses made from logs and undressed stone. Less than one in five are occupied during the summer, but they fill up when winter arrives.[27] The kingsroad, which runs east of Winterfell,[30] is beyond the winter town.[31] There is an inn in the winter town, the Smoking Log.[27]
Older History
According to legend, Winterfell was built by Brandon the Builder, who was aided by giants,[32] after the Long Night ended eight thousand years ago.[18] Maesters believe it was built in pieces over different eras, since the ancient Starks did not level the ground and plan it as a single structure.[18] Some scholars have suggested there were once linked ringforts where Winterfell now stands.[18]
For most of recorded history Winterfell was the seat of House Stark, the Kings in the North and later Wardens of the North after King Torrhen Stark bent the knee to Aegon the Conqueror and his dragons. During the wars between the Kings of Winter from House Stark and the Red Kings from House Bolton, Winterfell was burned by Kings Royce II and Royce IV Bolton of the Dreadfort before the coming of the Andals to Westeros.[33]
Maester Kennet determined that the First Keep, the oldest surviving part of the castle,[19] was built some time after the Andals came.[18] Winterfell's inner walls were raised approximately two thousand years ago, and the outer walls were built during the reign of King Edrick Snowbeard.[18] The heads of some giants are said to have been displayed on Winterfell's walls.[8]
According to free folk legend, Bael the Bard once entered Winterfell under the guise of a singer named Sygerrik. Leaving behind only a winter rose, Bael supposedly disappeared with the daughter of Lord Brandon Stark after tricking the lord. The daughter eventually reappeared with an infant, a future Lord Stark, the story claiming that they had been hiding in the crypt of Winterfell.[22] The legend is not recorded in the chronicles of Winterfell, however.[18]
Harvest feasts have been hosted in Winterfell.[34]
House Targaryen
King Torrhen Stark called the banners to Winterfell during Aegon's Conquest, but the King Who Knelt eventually submitted to Aegon the Conqueror at the Inn of the Kneeling Man on the Trident.[35] King Aegon I visited Winterfell in 33 AC during the last of his progresses throughout the Seven Kingdoms.[36]
King Jaehaerys I Targaryen and Queen Alysanne Targaryen visited Winterfell in 58 AC. Lord Alaric Stark took Alysanne hunting in the wolfswood and allowed her to explore the castle library. Lord Stark showed Jaehaerys the tomb of his brother, Lord Walton, in the crypts.[37]
Dance of the Dragons
During the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Jacaerys Velaryon visited Winterfell and gained Lord Cregan Stark for the cause of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen and the blacks. According to Mushroom, Jacaerys slept with Sara Snow and wed her in the castle's godswood, although the fool's story is doubted by Gyldayn. The archmaester is also skeptical of Mushroom's claim that Vermax left a clutch of dragon's eggs at Winterfell.[38]
As the war progressed, Lord Cregan gathered hosts to Winterfell, Barrowton, and White Harbor before marching south toward King's Landing.[39]
After the war ended in 131 AC, blizzards descended on Winterfell. Lord Benjicot Blackwood travelled to Winterfell for the wedding of his aunt, Black Aly, to Lord Stark in the godswood.[40]
Eddard Stark
At the start of Robert's Rebellion, Lord Eddard Stark left the Eyrie and crossed the Mountains of the Moon and the Bite to return to the north, where he raised the northern banners.[41] His younger brother Benjen Stark remained in the castle for the war's duration as the Stark in Winterfell.[42]
Mance Rayder once accompanied Lord Commander Qorgyle in a visit from the Wall to Winterfell to see Lord Eddard.[43] When Alys Karstark was six, her father, Lord Rickard, brought her to Winterfell to meet Eddard's heir, Robb. Alys danced with a courteous Robb and a sullen Jon Snow during the feast.[44] Lord Yohn Royce visited the Starks when his son, Ser Waymar Royce, joined the Night's Watch, and Bronze Yohn defeated Eddard and Ser Rodrik Cassel in the yard.[45] The Cerwyns often visit Winterfell because Castle Cerwyn is only half a day away.[34][46]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Lord Eddard Stark hosts King Robert I Baratheon and the royal family at Winterfell after the death of Lord Jon Arryn. They visit the crypt so Robert can pay his respects to Lyanna Stark.[23] While climbing toward the broken tower, Bran Stark is pushed from the First Keep after finding Ser Jaime Lannister cavorting with his sister, Queen Cersei Lannister.[19]
Robb Stark remains in the castle when Eddard travels south to King's Landing to serve as the new Hand of the King. A fire is started in the Library Tower in order to distract the guards during the catspaw's attempt on Bran's life.[47]
When Robb hears that Eddard has been taken prisoner in King's Landing, he raises the northern bannerman and marches south to rescue his father. Bran remains as the Stark in Winterfell. The direwolf Lady is buried in the lichyard of the First Keep.[15] Lady Catelyn Stark appoints Ser Rodrik Cassel as castellan of Winterfell.[48] While at Riverrun, Robb is proclaimed King in the North by northern and rivermen alike.[49]
A Clash of Kings
Bran, the Stark in Winterfell in Robb's absence, hosts numerous northern lords for the harvest feast.[12] Songs performed during the festival include "Iron Lances", "The Burning of the Ships", and "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".
During the War of the Five Kings, Winterfell is captured in a surprise attack by the ironmen led by Theon Greyjoy.[26] He rules the castle for several weeks, but he lacks the manpower to hold it indefinitely against the Stark bannermen. Asha Greyjoy refuses to help her brother hold the castle, which is far from the Sunset Sea.[13]
Ser Rodrik Cassel assembles nearly two thousand northmen to retake Winterfell from Theon. Ramsay Snow, the castellan of the Dreadfort, leads the Bolton soldiers in betraying their fellow northmen, however, and Rodrik's army is destroyed in a battle outside Winterfell's gates. Ramsay then double-crosses Theon, takes him prisoner, and has the Dreadfort men sack and burn Winterfell.[28] The ceiling of the Great Hall and one whole side of the First Keep collapse during the sack of Winterfell. A steaming lake forms at the bottom of the Library Tower, while the Maester's Turret and the bridge connecting the Bell Tower to the rookery are destroyed. Bran and Rickon Stark, undetected in the crypts, make their escape from Winterfell in the aftermath.[10]
A Storm of Swords
The surviving women and children of Winterfell are taken to the Dreadfort by Ramsay Snow,[50][51] who also holds Theon Greyjoy as a hostage.[52]
Due to the alleged deaths of Bran and Rickon Stark, Sansa Stark is now considered the heir to Winterfell. For this title Lady Olenna Tyrell plots to have Sansa married to the heir of Highgarden, Willas Tyrell. When Lord Tywin Lannister is informed of this he has his son, Tyrion, marry her instead, to both Sansa and Tyrion's reluctance.
After King Robb Stark marries Jeyne Westerling, he tells his mother, Catelyn Stark, that he plans to legitimize his brother, Jon Snow of the Night's Watch, and name him heir of Winterfell and King in the North should he and Jeyne not have a child. Due to Sansa's marriage to Tyrion, Robb fears that Sansa will give Tyrion a son and thus control of Winterfell which Robb wants to prevent. Catelyn pleads that Robb consider naming his other sister, Arya, as heir, but Robb insists that no one has seen Arya since his father Eddard's death and that Arya is likely also dead. Robb signs the decree naming Jon his heir,[53] but the whereabouts of the will are unknown after Robb's death in the Red Wedding.
As Sansa hides at the Eyrie after the murder of Joffrey I Baratheon, she reminisces fondly about Winterfell and makes a castle of snow in its likeness with the aid of Petyr Baelish.[8]
At the Wall, in exchange for Jon Snow recognizing Stannis Baratheon as king, Stannis offers to legitimize him, which would make him Lord Jon Stark of Winterfell. However, Jon refuses Stannis and he instead becomes the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.
A Feast for Crows
Asha Greyjoy informs Lord Rodrik Harlaw that when she and her ironborn searched Winterfell for Theon they found only scattered bodies scavenged by wolves.[54]
A Dance with Dragons
King Stannis Baratheon reminds Jon Snow that he had hoped to bestow Winterfell on him, and that his offer was thrown in his face. Jon replies that by right Winterfell should go to his sister, Sansa Stark. Stannis asks Jon if he is eager to see the Imp, Tyrion Lannister, perched on Eddard Stark's seat. He promises Jon that as long as he, Stannis, is alive that will not happen.[55]
Lord Roose Bolton, the new Warden of the North, moves the wedding of his newly-legitimized son, Ramsay Bolton, to "Arya Stark", who is actually Jeyne Poole, from Barrowton to Winterfell.[56] When the Boltons arrive at Winterfell, Roose finds the ruined castle a refuge of more then two dozen squatters. When he tells them he will be merciful if they serve well, they are used as labor to partially restore Winterfell. They rebuild burned gates and raise a new roof over the Great Hall. After the work is completed Roose has them all hanged; true to his word he is merciful and does not flay one.[21]
Ramsay marries "Arya" in the godswood and becomes Lord of Winterfell, with Theon Greyjoy giving Jeyne away. Lord Wyman Manderly furnishes the wedding feast and asks the singer Abel to sing of the Rat Cook.[21]
During a winter storm that hits Winterfell, squires build snowmen on the battlements. A dozen snowy lords are built to command them, including depictions of Lord Manderly, Lord Harwood Stout, Lady Barbrey Dustin, and Whoresbane Umber on the battlements. Theon and Barbrey discover that swords are missing from the crypts.[25] Tensions heighten during the blizzard as several Freys and northerners are found dead.[7]
After Freys fight with Manderly men, Roose sends the Freys out the main gate and the Manderlys out the east gate. They are to march on Stannis's army, which is said to be three days march from Winterfell. Amidst the commotion, Theon and "Arya" flee the castle by passing through the Battlements Gate, climbing a stair to the battlements, and leaping into the snow.[29]
It is believed among Stannis's army that Arnolf Karstark, castellan of Karhold, would receive Winterfell should it be taken from the Boltons.[57]
The Winds of Winter
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Roose has sent out the Freys and Manderlys, as well as Ramsay and his men, but he has kept much of his own strength behind in Winterfell. According to Theon, who has been brought to Stannis by Mors Umber, Roose is keeping his own men back as a reserve, as he once did in the riverlands, to weaken potential rivals.[58]
Mors had his troops built pits outside the main gate. The Freys ride into them, causing Aenys Frey to break his neck.[58]
Bran could perch for hours among the shapeless, rain-worn gargoyles that brooded over the First Keep, watching it all: the men drilling with wood and steel in the yard, the cooks tending their vegetables in the glass garden, restless dogs running back and forth in the kennels, the silence of the godswood, the girls gossiping beside the washing well. It made him feel like he was lord of the castle, in a way even Robb would never know. It taught him Winterfell's secrets too. The builders had not even leveled the earth; there were hills and valleys behind the walls of Winterfell. There was a covered bridge that went from the fourth floor of the bell tower across to the second floor of the rookery. Bran knew about that. And he knew you could get inside the inner wall by the south gate, climb three floors and run all the way around Winterfell through a narrow tunnel in the stone, and then come out on ground level at the north gate, with a hundred feet of wall looming over you. Even Maester Luwin didn't know that, Bran was convinced.[19]
—Bran Stark's thoughts
He remembered Winterfell as he had last seen it. Not as grotesquely huge as Harrenhal, nor as solid and impregnable to look at as Storm's End, yet there had been a great strength in those stones, a sense that within those walls a man might feel safe. The news of the castle's fall had come as a wrenching shock.[59]
—Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
—Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
"The Prince of Winterfell." Of Winterfell burned and tumbled, its people scattered and slain. The glass gardens were smashed, and hot water gushed from the cracked walls to steam beneath the sun. How can you be the prince of someplace you might never see again?[60]
—Bran Stark's thoughts
The weirwood was the heart of Winterfell, Lord Eddard always said ... but to save the castle Jon would have to tear that heart up by its ancient roots, and feed it to the red woman's hungry fire god. I have no right. Winterfell belongs to the old gods.[61]
—Jon Snow's thoughts
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover's kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.[8]
—Sansa Stark's thoughts, at the Eyrie
Petyr: May I come into your castle, my lady?
Sansa: Don't break it. Be ...
Sansa: No. It was always warm, even when it snowed. Water from the hot springs is piped through the walls to warm them, and inside the glass gardens it was always like the hottest day of summer.[8]
Petyr: ... gentle? Winterfell has withstood fiercer enemies than me. It is Winterfell, is it not?
Sansa: Yes.
Petyr: I used to dream of it, in those years after Cat went north with Eddard Stark. In my dreams it was ever a dark place, and cold.
—Sansa Stark makes a snow castle of Winterfell with Petyr Baelish
Winterfell was full of ghosts for Theon Greyjoy.[21]
—Theon Greyjoy's thoughts
It was my home, though. Not a true home, but the best I ever knew.[7]
—Theon Greyjoy's thoughts
Chapters that take place in Winterfell
- A Game of Thrones: 2. Catelyn I
- A Game of Thrones: 4. Eddard I
- A Game of Thrones: 5. Jon I
- A Game of Thrones: 6. Catelyn II
- A Game of Thrones: 7. Arya I
- A Game of Thrones: 8. Bran II
- A Game of Thrones: 9. Tyrion I
- A Game of Thrones: 10. Jon II
- A Game of Thrones: 14. Catelyn III
- A Game of Thrones: 17. Bran III
- A Game of Thrones: 24. Bran IV
- A Game of Thrones: 53. Bran VI
- A Game of Thrones: 66. Bran VII
- A Clash of Kings: 4. Bran I
- A Clash of Kings: 16. Bran II
- A Clash of Kings: 21. Bran III
- A Clash of Kings: 28. Bran IV
- A Clash of Kings: 35. Bran V
- A Clash of Kings: 46. Bran VI
- A Clash of Kings: 50. Theon IV
- A Clash of Kings: 56. Theon V
- A Clash of Kings: 66. Theon VI
- A Clash of Kings: 69. Bran VII
- A Dance with Dragons: 37. The Prince of Winterfell
- A Dance with Dragons: 41. The Turncloak
- A Dance with Dragons: 46. A Ghost in Winterfell
- A Dance with Dragons: 51. Theon I
- ↑ The Lands of Ice and Fire, Westeros.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 42, The King's Prize.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Appendix.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 6, Catelyn II.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 4, Bran I.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 46, A Ghost in Winterfell.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 7, Arya I.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 69, Bran VII.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 5, Jon I.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 21, Bran III.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 56, Theon V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 24, Bran IV.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 53, Bran VI.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 2, Catelyn I.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 66, Bran VII.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 The World of Ice & Fire, The North: Winterfell.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 8, Bran II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 35, Bran V.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 37, The Prince of Winterfell.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 51, Jon VI.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4, Eddard I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 28, Bran IV.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 41, The Turncloak.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 46, Bran VI.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 37, Bran V.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Map of the North
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 13, Tyrion II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The North: The Kings of Winter.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon I.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 9, Davos I.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: ConQuest (Kansas City, MO; May 27-29), May 27, 2005
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 7, Jon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 44, Jon IX.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 30, Arya VII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 14, Catelyn III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 55, Catelyn VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 71, Catelyn XI.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 35, Catelyn IV.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: Readers and Realism, June 28, 2001
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 49, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ George R. R. Martin's A World of Ice and Fire, Robb Stark.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 11, The Kraken's Daughter.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 3, Jon I.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 32, Reek III.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 62, The Sacrifice.
- ↑ 58.0 58.1 The Winds of Winter, Theon I
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 54, Tyrion XII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 9, Bran I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 79, Jon XII.

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- [SYNCOPE-511] - Enhance synchronization report information
- [SYNCOPE-519] - Report default values for connector properties
- [SYNCOPE-520] - Move reset sync token to resource actions
1.1.7 (April 11th, 2014)
This release contains a security fix for CVE-2014-0111, upgrade from previous 1.1.X versions is strongly suggested.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.6.
- [SYNCOPE-484] - Reports and Content export fails over HTTPS connection
- [SYNCOPE-487] - make Velocity tools available in templates for notifications
1.1.6 (February 22nd, 2014)
This sixth maintenance version fixes several important bugs and introduces few interesting improvements: more details below.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.5.
- [SYNCOPE-452] - Generated project not starting in embedded mode
- [SYNCOPE-453] - Propagation problem with role virtual attribute mapped in user mapping
- [SYNCOPE-454] - Update user without password specification involving resource with "Generate password if missing" enabled, sends password out anyway
- [SYNCOPE-455] - Role child implicit delete won't be propagated during parent delete
- [SYNCOPE-459] - Read-only virtual attribute cannot be added for a user by admin console
- [SYNCOPE-462] - Upgrade Spring to 3.2.7
- [SYNCOPE-465] - Selected items lost browsing paged results
- [SYNCOPE-466] - Server error when updating an existing policy to its global counterpart
- [SYNCOPE-474] - forbidden error when tried to change password
- [SYNCOPE-475] - After session expired, console shows split screen
- [SYNCOPE-476] - NPE opening Roles tab
- [SYNCOPE-477] - Alert popup appears through page navigation after modal window closing
- [SYNCOPE-460] - Default datasource uses BasicDataSource
- [SYNCOPE-468] - Add information to what components refer to a certain policy
- [SYNCOPE-469] - Group policies and logs under configuration
- [SYNCOPE-463] - Update notification docs after SYNCOPE-423
- [SYNCOPE-478] - Upgrade to Wicket 6.14.0
1.1.5 (November 28th, 2013)
This fifth maintenance version fixes few important bugs and introduces some interesting improvements: more details below.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.4.
- [SYNCOPE-419] - Meaningless error message when attempting to delete user owning role
- [SYNCOPE-423] - Improve notifications
- [SYNCOPE-426] - UserService#update and RoleService#update require entity id to be specified twice
- [SYNCOPE-433] - Counting search results fails with MySQL when OR condition is used
- [SYNCOPE-434] - Users can log in the admin console despite of their status
- [SYNCOPE-435] - Password not mandatory when subscribing external resource
- [SYNCOPE-436] - Read-only virtual attribute values not retrieved from external resource
- [SYNCOPE-437] - Wrong ID generation for new Notification instances
- [SYNCOPE-440] - Timestamp based synchronization miss events
- [SYNCOPE-420] - Provide user / role pre-processing mechanism
- [SYNCOPE-422] - Improve audit info
- [SYNCOPE-424] - Resolve OpenJPA dependency overlap
- [SYNCOPE-427] - Add CSV report format
- [SYNCOPE-431] - Provide debug logging for controller methods' input and output
- [SYNCOPE-432] - Replace role action labels with icons
- [SYNCOPE-441] - Index on Activiti table boosts overall performance
- [SYNCOPE-442] - Use cached virtual attribute values with offline resources
- [SYNCOPE-448] - Provide build instructions
- [SYNCOPE-449] - Fix support for Eclipse IDE
1.1.4 (September 27th, 2013)
This forth maintenance version fixes few important bugs and introduces some minor improvements: more details below.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.3.
- [SYNCOPE-404] - LDAP Roles lose entitlement upon LDAP synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-412] - Audit tables are reset after restart
- [SYNCOPE-417] - Users are made active when updating in NoOpWorkflowAdapter
- [SYNCOPE-418] - Special chars break REST URLs
- [SYNCOPE-402] - Inconsistent status of user edit form after exception returned by bad propagation on primary resource
- [SYNCOPE-403] - Enrich PropagationStatusTO to report possible propagation exception message
- [SYNCOPE-408] - Add index on task.executed
- [SYNCOPE-409] - Allow notifications with empty about field
- [SYNCOPE-410] - Make username pattern configurable via account policy
- [SYNCOPE-411] - Perform retries on failed notifications
- [SYNCOPE-413] - Clean activiti history for unused variables
- [SYNCOPE-415] - Reduce log level of bean validation errors
- [SYNCOPE-416] - AttributableSearchDAOImpl / Avoid query construction with string concatenation
1.1.3 (July 12th, 2013)
This third maintenance version fixes few important bugs and introduces some minor improvements: more details below.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.2.
- [SYNCOPE-370] - HTTP Status 404 adding a role to a user with IE8
- [SYNCOPE-394] - Scheduled tasks are executed without transaction support
- [SYNCOPE-396] - removeAll and retainAll in PropagationByResource dont evaluate correctly boolean expression
- [SYNCOPE-397] - Double update propagation with virtual attributes on already associated resource when changing password and adding new resource
- [SYNCOPE-398] - secretKey does not get resolved during archetype:generate
- [SYNCOPE-399] - Role attribute mapping for user mapping item doesn't result in a multivalue property
- [SYNCOPE-400] - Poor search performance on MySQL
- [SYNCOPE-401] - Deploying syncope.war with MSSQL server settings to Tomcat on Windows results in Error listenerStart
- [SYNCOPE-395] - Role Reportlet
1.1.2 (June 11th, 2013)
This second maintenance version fixes several bugs and introduces some minor improvements: more details below.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.1.
- [SYNCOPE-369] - Wrong error message on failed login
- [SYNCOPE-371] - Console RuntimeException with multiple sessions for the same user
- [SYNCOPE-372] - Connector error before save
- [SYNCOPE-373] - 500 when self reading admin user
- [SYNCOPE-375] - QUARTZ tables are not written into an innodb mysql DB for an mvn generated and created project
- [SYNCOPE-376] - Console webapp does not start on Glassfish
- [SYNCOPE-377] - Exporting configuration via console causes exceptions to be thrown
- [SYNCOPE-380] - Deleting a role from admin console throws an exception
- [SYNCOPE-381] - Adding and saving roles with resources during save
- [SYNCOPE-382] - Core hangs for a very long time (1h+ and then resumes) after a CLI role create and list
- [SYNCOPE-383] - Failure assigning resource to an existing user
- [SYNCOPE-384] - Issues with CXF and Glassfish
- [SYNCOPE-385] - NPE when reading user assigned to resource with no mapping
- [SYNCOPE-386] - Database sync (no full reconciliation) fails with "Unsupported object class"
- [SYNCOPE-387] - Unable to synchronize deleted objects from OpenDJ
- [SYNCOPE-374] - SyncopeUser tokens do not use secure random strings
- [SYNCOPE-390] - Default Reportlets improvements
1.1.1 (April 29th, 2013)
This first maintenance version fixes several bugs and introduces some minor improvements: more details below.
Please follow these instructions if you are upgrading from 1.1.0.
- [SYNCOPE-351] - Errors when editing role membership assignment in notifications (About and Recipients)
- [SYNCOPE-352] - No connectors available on clean install
- [SYNCOPE-353] - UserTemplate evaluation generates unjustified attributes to be removed
- [SYNCOPE-354] - LDAP Membership propagation does not remove memberships
- [SYNCOPE-356] - Unable to set resource for role via the console
- [SYNCOPE-357] - When deleting role on external resource, also remove from there users with resource assigned only via that role
- [SYNCOPE-358] - ConnectorService#list invocation with null parameter actually calls ConnectorService#readByResource
- [SYNCOPE-360] - Removing Role mapping from External Resource fails
- [SYNCOPE-361] - When creating new report, the modal window does not close and an exception is logged
- [SYNCOPE-363] - ApacheDS not available since second run of the standalone distribution
- [SYNCOPE-364] - Rejected users are anyway propagate to associated resources
- [SYNCOPE-365] - External attribute disabled in case of schema info not available
- [SYNCOPE-366] - Uniform constraint violation building
- [SYNCOPE-367] - ConfigurationTestITCase#browseAccountPolicy Selenium test fails
- [SYNCOPE-368] - Cannot add 'RoleOwnerSchema' mapping item via console
- [SYNCOPE-359] - Ignore propagation if no schema mapping is provided
- [SYNCOPE-362] - Disable mapping tab when the underlying connector does not support correspondent ObjectClass
- [SYNCOPE-126] - Database import / export and related tasks
- [SYNCOPE-340] - Translate items of Syncope UI and config files labels for Portuguese language
1.1.0 (April 5th, 2013)
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the general availability of Apache Syncope 1.1.0 Ad libitum.
Besides a considerable amount of fixed bugs and improvements, the major changes introduced with this release can be summarized as follows:
- New JAX-RS, Apache CXF based, REST interface is available. (SYNCOPE-231 and related)
In order to maintain compatibility with 1.0.X, the Spring MVC REST services stay in place in this version and the CXF based services are added using a different base URI: this allows users of the API to already start migrating to the new service layout. For more details see REST API upgrade. In Apache Syncope 1.2.0 the Spring MVC REST services will be dropped. Role provisioning. (SYNCOPE-171 and related)
Apache Syncope is now able to manage users (e.g. accounts) and roles (e.g. groups) on external resources. Many user-related concepts are now also available for roles: schema mapping, propagation, synchronization, workflow, and so on.Portions of this software are developed by the support of the SURF, the higher education and research partnership organization for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in The Netherlands. For more information about SURF, please visit http://www.surf.nl.
- New standalone distribution is provided. (SYNCOPE-206).
For helping evaluating Apache Syncope, a new standalone distribution is linked from the downloads page; instructions on how to work with it are also available.
Upgrading from 1.0.X? There are some notes about this.
We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website.
- [SYNCOPE-26] - Membership propagation / synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-172] - Role propagation / synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-173] - Role workflow
- [SYNCOPE-227] - Role virtual attributes
- [SYNCOPE-251] - Fix Dependency issues with ConnID Bundle deployment
- [SYNCOPE-252] - Update LICENSE / NOTICE files for any added or removed Maven dependency
- [SYNCOPE-256] - Update Rest exception mapper to Apache CXF
- [SYNCOPE-282] - Implement JAX-RS exception mapper for server side
- [SYNCOPE-287] - Information for release notes
- [SYNCOPE-288] - Make setters of Transfer Objects (TO) compatible to CXF and JAXB
- [SYNCOPE-289] - Prepare CXF Rest integration tests migration
- [SYNCOPE-335] - Use correct wrapper names for returning lists
- [SYNCOPE-182] - LICENSE & NOTICE: duplicated entries
- [SYNCOPE-183] - 'Enforce mandatory constraints' not working
- [SYNCOPE-185] - Could not delete an user with LDAP resource
- [SYNCOPE-187] - When deleting an user, REST error doesn't bring error message to display
- [SYNCOPE-191] - UI Error when sorting Synchronization Task executions
- [SYNCOPE-192] - With trace level NONE notification tasks don't get updated
- [SYNCOPE-193] - LDAP test connector status management does not work with synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-194] - User attributes not sychronized properly from LDAP resource
- [SYNCOPE-196] - Change Display Attributes button misaligned
- [SYNCOPE-197] - TaskModalPage Refresh button misaligned
- [SYNCOPE-202] - MySQL and Oracle integration test hangs
- [SYNCOPE-208] - Resources: schema mapping form shows incorrect external field names for SyncopeUserId and Password
- [SYNCOPE-211] - Test org.apache.syncope.core.persistence.relationships.derAttrFromSpecialAttrs not enabled
- [SYNCOPE-214] - Error when trying to change readonly attribute
- [SYNCOPE-217] - SyncopeUser.hasTokenExpired() can easily cause nullpointer exception
- [SYNCOPE-220] - When running in embedded mode, CSVDir configuration shows unresolved ${urlencoded.csvdir.path} property
- [SYNCOPE-224] - ActivitiWorkflowLoader called by SpringContextInitializer even when ActivitiUserWorkflowAdapter is not selected
- [SYNCOPE-226] - Invalid passwords might fill up user's password history
- [SYNCOPE-228] - When updating a role, assigned entitlements get lost
- [SYNCOPE-230] - Sync user attributes using a long schema attribute as accountId
- [SYNCOPE-232] - "Connection is read-only" during initialization
- [SYNCOPE-233] - Authentication failure using password with special characters
- [SYNCOPE-234] - Failures upgrading OpenJPA
- [SYNCOPE-235] - CSVDir connector fails during check connection
- [SYNCOPE-236] - Username and password not evaluated from user template during synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-237] - Users with no entitlements cannot edit their own profile via console
- [SYNCOPE-238] - With an high number of users, the admin console's 'TODO' tab is extremely slow
- [SYNCOPE-260] - Update propagation with null virtual attribute values
- [SYNCOPE-261] - Role visualization error
- [SYNCOPE-262] - Create sync policy fail
- [SYNCOPE-267] - Possible NullPointerException into SchemaMappingUtil.getAccountIdValue()
- [SYNCOPE-269] - AES encryption key defined in source code
- [SYNCOPE-273] - Role deletion inhibits notification update
- [SYNCOPE-274] - Sync: during update with user template existing memberships break update
- [SYNCOPE-284] - Broken export
- [SYNCOPE-292] - NPE when accessing Configuration page with no global sync policy
- [SYNCOPE-294] - User data not refreshed before edit
- [SYNCOPE-297] - External Attributes are showing up for AccoundId/Password in Resource User Mappings
- [SYNCOPE-301] - Status is not updated when synchronizing existing users
- [SYNCOPE-302] - Error when accessing the Resources page as non-admin
- [SYNCOPE-305] - Can't create Sync or Sched Task in Console
- [SYNCOPE-306] - 'Mandatory' error in Console when propagating Virtual Attributes
- [SYNCOPE-307] - Virtual Attributes don't propagated in case of update during synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-308] - When trying to update an user in status 'rejected', an error 500 is returned
- [SYNCOPE-309] - Enter key not bound to user form submit
- [SYNCOPE-310] - Palette elements get translated
- [SYNCOPE-312] - Introducing UserWorkflowService
- [SYNCOPE-314] - User list sort based on username fails
- [SYNCOPE-315] - "Persistent" feedback messages
- [SYNCOPE-316] - Exception when creating connector instances with no bundles available
- [SYNCOPE-317] - Error executing SyncTask twice or more
- [SYNCOPE-318] - No way to see Connector help message for multi-valued property
- [SYNCOPE-320] - Support synchronizing role memberships from LDAP groupOfNames
- [SYNCOPE-321] - Wicket error adding new derived/virtual attribute
- [SYNCOPE-322] - Can't create a new Role in Chromium
- [SYNCOPE-323] - REST: create turns into update for some entities
- [SYNCOPE-325] - Stacktrace when accessing the Configuration page on JBoss
- [SYNCOPE-327] - Error messages during Tomcat shutdown
- [SYNCOPE-328] - NPE with no global password policy defined
- [SYNCOPE-329] - Wrong CSS deleting execution task
- [SYNCOPE-330] - noopworkflow profile not succeeding
- [SYNCOPE-332] - User List sorting via Derived attributes column doesn't work
- [SYNCOPE-334] - Can't delete a role from a user in the console
- [SYNCOPE-336] - Use a auto-complete textfield to chose for external attribute to be mapped during schema mapping creation
- [SYNCOPE-338] - Some CXF REST services can be accessed by anonymous
- [SYNCOPE-339] - enum schema multivalue doesn't work
- [SYNCOPE-341] - When deleting user schema, user list attributes head don't get updated
- [SYNCOPE-342] - Console might fail to connect when core is deployed on virtual host
- [SYNCOPE-343] - REST methods returning implementation classes might fail when there are no available
- [SYNCOPE-344] - Error in the console when you try to assign to an user a resource without CREATE or UPDATE capabilities
- [SYNCOPE-347] - User schema mapping error for Username
- [SYNCOPE-14] - Solve some warnings and verify if generated projects still work
- [SYNCOPE-44] - Add ability to search for Roles via the REST API
- [SYNCOPE-51] - Remove MD5 as a supported password cipher algorithm
- [SYNCOPE-67] - Display all Execute Tasks (Propagation, Notification and Scheduled) and related Execution history items sortered in descending order
- [SYNCOPE-79] - Simplify Maven project structure
- [SYNCOPE-93] - Upgrade Quartz to latest 2.X stable version
- [SYNCOPE-100] - Add more password encryption options
- [SYNCOPE-124] - Prevent task execution request for running tasks
- [SYNCOPE-130] - Avoid propagating useless update operations
- [SYNCOPE-134] - User, role and membership properties for derived schemas
- [SYNCOPE-136] - Password required for resource subscription
- [SYNCOPE-137] - Support more than one local connector bundles directory and zero or more ConnId's connector servers
- [SYNCOPE-144] - Provide Task entities with a name and an optional description
- [SYNCOPE-146] - Provide asynchronous refresh of tasks and reports list
- [SYNCOPE-147] - Provide refresh button in task and report modal windows
- [SYNCOPE-148] - Provide cancel button for all modal windows
- [SYNCOPE-154] - Virtual attribute cache
- [SYNCOPE-184] - LDAP test connector should provide status information
- [SYNCOPE-195] - Make default sorting order consistent
- [SYNCOPE-198] - Add checkboxes to tables headers and rows
- [SYNCOPE-199] - Refocus on user deletion page
- [SYNCOPE-200] - Improve rat-plugin configuration
- [SYNCOPE-201] - AbstractSchema enumerationValues and enumerationKeys too short
- [SYNCOPE-203] - Add OSGi support
- [SYNCOPE-206] - Create standalone distribution
- [SYNCOPE-207] - Clear test configuration in order to avoid AccountId/Password mapping explicitely valued
- [SYNCOPE-209] - DB Table connector does not see changes in underlying table until restart
- [SYNCOPE-210] - Provide suggestions / help / examples for JEXL-based input fields
- [SYNCOPE-212] - Provide Validation Error message to user
- [SYNCOPE-215] - ReadOnly option for virtual attributes
- [SYNCOPE-216] - NotificationJob is hardcoded to run every 2 minutes
- [SYNCOPE-218] - User Workflow visualization
- [SYNCOPE-221] - Let user explicitly choose to give value for AccountLink (when defining resource schema mapping)
- [SYNCOPE-222] - Check for mandatory condition on Virtual / Derived attributes
- [SYNCOPE-225] - Role owner
- [SYNCOPE-229] - Allow to change the bundle version associated to an existing connector instance
- [SYNCOPE-231] - Using Standard JAX-RS API in Syncope (Introducing Apache CXF WS Stack)
- [SYNCOPE-241] - Move persistence and persistence impl into separate modules
- [SYNCOPE-242] - Resolve dependency cycles between persistence and the rest of syncope core
- [SYNCOPE-243] - Extended org.apache.rat exclude list for eclipse IDE
- [SYNCOPE-244] - Make external property file usage possible
- [SYNCOPE-245] - Improve UserTestITCase, RoleTestITCase and TaskTestITCase
- [SYNCOPE-248] - Consolidate task execution in TaskTestITCase
- [SYNCOPE-249] - Implement RoleOwnerSchema for role propagation and synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-250] - Improve error handling in NotificationTest
- [SYNCOPE-253] - Upgrade Activiti to 5.11
- [SYNCOPE-254] - Provide build profile for skipping any test-related activity
- [SYNCOPE-255] - Hide Global Password/Account/Sync policy in security resource selections
- [SYNCOPE-257] - Schema Mapping for propagation and synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-258] - Java class as sync policy correlation rule
- [SYNCOPE-259] - Create transitional Service interfaces and switch tests and console to use them
- [SYNCOPE-263] - Inject Recipient and Event variable in Velocity Email Notification Template
- [SYNCOPE-264] - Email Notification Templates Documentation
- [SYNCOPE-266] - Password should be provided again at resource subscription time if a "Password" schema mapping for that resource exists
- [SYNCOPE-268] - Enable Rest IntegrationTests to run more than once (per build)
- [SYNCOPE-275] - Upgrade Spring to 3.2.1
- [SYNCOPE-277] - Improve archetype resource population from core and console
- [SYNCOPE-279] - Connector instance timeout
- [SYNCOPE-280] - Update some checked exceptions to runtime ones
- [SYNCOPE-281] - Refactor client module: Move common classes into common module
- [SYNCOPE-283] - website edits
- [SYNCOPE-291] - Move NotFoundException to core.persistence.dao
- [SYNCOPE-293] - Show information (version, license, ...)
- [SYNCOPE-295] - If AccountId is selected when creating a Resource Mapping, then make it mandatory
- [SYNCOPE-296] - Align search botton
- [SYNCOPE-299] - Add "row to display" selector in resources
- [SYNCOPE-311] - View user details during approval
- [SYNCOPE-319] - Provide feature for reloading all connectors
- [SYNCOPE-324] - Return User instead of Boolean from REST username + password query
- [SYNCOPE-331] - Provide access to user / role data on external resources
- [SYNCOPE-348] - Email address validator regexp
New Feature
- [SYNCOPE-121] - Policy-compliant random password generation
- [SYNCOPE-122] - Password change on an external resource only
- [SYNCOPE-138] - Scripted SQL connector bundle
- [SYNCOPE-171] - Role provisioning
- [SYNCOPE-125] - Derived and Virtual attribute use cases
- [SYNCOPE-127] - Workflow: concepts, how to customize and how to trace
- [SYNCOPE-128] - Self-registration
- [SYNCOPE-186] - Build reference flows for propagation and synchronization
- [SYNCOPE-188] - Upgrade to Apache Wicket 1.5.8
- [SYNCOPE-189] - Close Modal Window on keypress (ESC)
- [SYNCOPE-190] - Automatic page refresher for task and report
- [SYNCOPE-205] - Upgrade to latest Apache Wicket 6.X.Y
- [SYNCOPE-265] - Ensure that Syncope test data is consistent
- [SYNCOPE-276] - Upgrade instructions from 1.0.X to 1.1.0
- [SYNCOPE-278] - Verify export / import
- [SYNCOPE-326] - Check console style (CSS) on Internet Explorer
- [SYNCOPE-350] - Provide Getting started / Standalone distribution


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When it is time for your children to learn to sew, you have two choices:
We here at Show Me Sew .com believe choice #1 to be the preferred method. That's why we developed the DIRECTIONS - SHOW ME SEW series of easy sewing lessons for kids. [Although paying for lessons in a private sewing school that uses DIRECTIONS - SHOW ME SEW is an excellent second choice)
Sewing is not difficult, but neither is it easy. Learning to sew, however, is a fairly straightforward process. Our goal is to close the gap between what you KNOW how to sew (such as nothing at all in the beginning), and what you WANT to sew (such as the cool clothes you really desire) - one stitch at a time. To do that requires a method that starts at the beginning, and moves ahead one step at a time - like our DIRECTIONS - SHOW ME SEW lesson modules. Standard commercial patterns, even the ones marked "easy", believe you and your kids already know something about sewing before you begin. "Easy" means something different to them and is based on the complexity of the project, not on how easy it is to figure it out. I want you to be able to open a DIRECTIONS - SHOW ME SEW lesson book to page one, read it, say "Hey, I can do that!", and then go do it. Turn to page two, read it, say, "Hey, I can do that!", and then go do the steps on page two. Next thing you know, you are DONE with your project!
I'm Carol Hawkey, and I specialize in breaking down complex tasks into simple steps. Like learning to sew. [If you're interested, there's more about me under "About" in the left column]
Perhaps you've heard of the task where the students are asked to write down "how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich", which then the teacher attempts to follow the instructions to the successful completion of said sandwich. And perhaps then you have also heard of the hilarity as the instructions just aren't up to being followed correctly. For example, "put the jelly on the bread" will lead to the teacher putting the jar of jelly on top of the bag of bread.
I was always really good at that task.
When I discovered many years ago that kids learning to sew were being deprived of some basic and simple concepts, I chose to do something about it. I started to use my skills at simplicity to teach kids to sew. It wasn't long before I found myself saying the same things repeatedly as that was just the sentence the kids understood and took action on. I wrote all that down, and it became the "SkillCards" that are included with every lesson and pattern. I also discovered that regular patterns aren't very good for educational purposes - there's just too much to figure out all at the same time. I wanted the kids to follow along on their own, so I developed patterns that were easy to understand.
The Unit 1, Lesson 3 Tote makes a great group project for these four young'uns, just like the other two easy-easy-easy Unit 1 Lessons. Fun for all, and a useful project, too.
No more guessing, no more missed steps, no more sloppy construction, no more mis-understanding - - just a simplified method of teaching kids to sew that can be easily done by anyone. Especially kids aged 6-12 which is our primary market. [See the article "How Old To Start Sewing?" in the left column] You may be interested to know there's an underground movement of adults picking up our program to teach themselves to sew. [note to adults: it's OK, I won't tell]. Then there's also the parents who are learning right along with their kids. Some nice side benefits!
I don't blog about sewing, I don't send out newsletters, I don't send emails every week asking you to buy something. I don't spent time on facebook, twitter, digg, or other social media. I also [gasp] do not have a myspace page. Everything is right here on the website. Besides, I'd rather spend my time actually creating new patterns and lessons rather than talking about doing it. And I'm personally available about 25% of the time over the phone and 95% of the time via email to answer your questions and discuss sewing in general. How about you? Do you want to talk about teaching your kids to sew, or do you actually want to teach them to sew? ! ! ACTION - ACTION - We Want ACTION - A - C - T - - I - O - N ! ! I recommend starting at the beginning, with one of our Unit One sets. Click on "Unit One" at the top of the column to your left.
Just so you know, our incoming phone line has been seriously on the fritz for the last couple weeks. The techs can't figure it out (yet) as it is intermittent and has no (apparent) cause and effect. So if you aren't able to get through to a person or the answering machine, drop me an email with your number and a good time to reach you, and I will call you as the outgoing works perfect. You should see these techs scratching their heads over *that*! And thanks for understanding!


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England soccer star Walker sorry after 'lockdown party'
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — England defender Kyle Walker is facing disciplinary action from English Premier League team Manchester City after appearing to break lockdown conditions during the coronavirus pandemic.
The 29-year-old Walker apologized on Sunday after it was widely reported he held a party involving two sex workers at his home last week, breaking the government's rules on social distancing. The country is in the middle of a three-week lockdown.
"I want to take this opportunity to issue a public apology for the choices I made last week which have resulted in a story today (Sunday) about my private life in a tabloid newspaper," Walker's statement read.
"I understand that my position as a professional footballer brings the responsibility of being a role model. As such, I want to apologize to my family, friends, football club, supporters and the public for letting them down."
He added: "My actions in this matter are in direct contrast to what I should have been doing regarding the lockdown. And I want to re-iterate the message: Stay home, stay safe."
City said it will now look into Walker's conduct.
A club statement read: "Manchester City FC are aware of a story in a tabloid newspaper regarding the private life of Kyle Walker in relation to a breach of the UK lockdown and social distancing rules.
"Footballers are global role models, and our staff and players have been working to support the incredible efforts of the NHS (National Health Service) and other key workers in fighting the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in any way we can. Kyle's actions in this matter have directly contravened these efforts.
"We are disappointed to hear the allegations, note Kyle's swift statement and apology, and will be conducting an internal disciplinary procedure in the coming days."
Walker, who has made 48 appearances for England, is the second high-profile EPL player to have been caught flouting the government's guidelines after Aston Villa's Jack Grealish.
The Villa captain went to a party last weekend and was pictured next to a road in slippers, just hours after he posted a video urging fans to stay safe at home on social media.
As of Sunday, Britain has recorded more than 4,900 virus deaths overall among nearly 48,000 reported cases.
More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports


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Lyrics to Kids In Da P.J.'s
[chorus] To the kids in the p.j.'s ghetto children i know it ain't easy ya'll wanting millions sunshine turns to rain its ghetto pain when a one time raise sometimes the young is slain To the kids in the p.j.'s black babies brought up in this world where it's wild and crazy child of the Nile future lifestyle looks hazey dreams to drive a Mercedes with a pile of ladies [NAS] Third grade singing star spangled banner using proper manners learnt to handle anger animal behavior later on my block rocking with my jocks on eating Bon Ton chesse popcorn humming a KISS rock song socks long to my knees summer breeze running through the leaves playing freeze tag can I stay out please dad can I hang out with my little gang out hearing shots rang out heard my moms call my name out come upstairs run up stairs take a bath shit stained underwear wipe yourself with paper bad little ass in my bed at 8:30 wash my plate ate dinner up late gazing at the wall praying basketball was my future for this young one hooping in the sun proud to be where I come from later shooting guns fantasizing fascinated by gold rope chains looking back at my hood days but things aint changed [chorus] [Millenium Thug] In my hood niggaz smoke wood nothing is good look at my eys and see what I could living my life and feel what I felt the hand that I was dealt drama that my uncle Shabazz had I was a little lad niggaz shooting through my Grams window shattering glass had the chicken pox on that toy horse that rocks my moms grabbed me down to safety everybody in the crib was going crazy that was in the 80's and now im 17 money cash dreams niggaz be slave I be brave spit like A.K.'s and S.K.'s close range niggaz see brains Millenium Thugs the name but now it's slash cocaine blast niggaz in vaine satch yo' chain cherrish the life my niggaz got a fetish for ice turn out the lights I bust so I could spar up the night uniting the pipes Queensbridge niggaz is sheist need no price body yall dudes on spite who knew I would of spazzed out little Nayshawn owner of the crack house get my papes on tired of 'friderators all the steaks gone [Wiz] Now picture this shit with six Aunts five Uncles thugging a double apartment out kids, cousins, and brothers there I go in the pamper by the radiator cursing eatin first little nigga with a appetite that got worst firs day of school ten man cliq all i'm learning is how to extort shit 'cuz class i forefit graduated on another level selling birds busting birds fuck with the herbs never we fuck up the herbs make 'em pay like you stick 'em up get down since ten was taught to turn 'em around rip they pockets out bust two the way they run I ain't give a fuck that's how I was I was young [chorus] [Horse] Horse was born as a brave child big for my size a bully to little guys with chocolate miks and apple pies the playground was mine I stayed scarred up all the time from shopping carts flipping now we race to the finish line hated playing cooties 'cuz that shit wasn't fun all the honey's say i'm it then they little ass run I was sweared to put a hickey on the ones that I caught I was a nasty little nigga I learned to hump before I walk kept a sling shot on my side to shoot squirrles and cats wanted to be Captain America with the Shillinger hat I started getting older fell more in love with the streets infactuated by the ropes and the shiny gold teeth I was to big to break dance fuck spiining on my back my role models now run numbers and sell crack this project child blessed chasing ghetto success he needs a name for himself to ge the same respect
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(1) General .— Property subject to forfeiture under this section, any seizure and disposition thereof, and any administrative or judicial proceeding in relation thereto, shall be governed by subsections (b) through (p) of section 413 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 ( 21 U.S.C. 853 ), except that any reference under those subsections to— (A) "this subchapter or subchapter II" shall be deemed to be a reference to section 229A(a); and (B) "subsection (a)" shall be deemed to be a reference to subsection (a) of this section.
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"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity."
—Lee Child
"Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider's reality."
—Noah Boyd, author of The Bricklayer and Agent X
Matthew Dunn knows his spycraft—and he proves it once again in Sentinel, his second electrifying Spycatcher novel. A former British M16 field officer trained in all aspects of intelligence collection, small-arms and explosives, military unarmed combat, and more, Dunn has an addition talent most other spies lack: he can really write! In Sentinel, Dunn brings back Agent Will Cochrane—whom Kirkus Reviews calls, "a Nietzschean hero who looks poised to give Lee Child's Jack Reacher a run for his readers"—and sends him to Avacha Bay in eastern Russia, where he must infiltrate a top-secret submarine base, decode a cryptic message from a deep undercover operative, and quite possibly prevent a devastating war. Espionage fiction fans who regularly devour the works of Daniel Silva, Robert Ludlum, Alex Berenson, Ted Bell, Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Barry Eisler will discover there's a new ace on the international thriller scene.
As an MI6 field officer, Matthew Dunn recruited and ran agents, coordinated and participated in special operations, and acted in deep-cover roles throughout the world. He operated in environments where, if captured, he would have been executed. Dunn was trained in all aspects of intelligence collection, deep- cover deployments, small arms, explosives, military unarmed combat, surveillance, and infiltration.
Medals are never awarded to modern MI6 officers, but Dunn was the recipient of a rare personal commendation from the secretary of state for work he did on one mission, which was deemed so significant that it directly influenced the success of a major international incident.
During his time in MI6, Matthew conducted approximately seventy missions. All of them were successful. He currently lives in England, where he is at work on his next novel.
"An in Spycatcher, Dunn's action scenes are vividly drawn. Lovers of derring-do will love this series." — Booklist on Sentinel
"Dunn delivers insights into a world most of us will never experience—except between the covers of a book, or maybe someday in a movie as good as the best of the Bond and Bourne sagas." — Oakland Tribune on Sentinel
"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there, done-that authenticity. . . Highly recommended." — Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of The Affair
"Dunn, a former M16 officer, fashions a Nietzschean hero who looks poised to give Lee Child's Jack Reacher a run for his readers. . . . This is [a] twisty, cleverly crafted work." — Kirkus Reviews on Spycatcher
"Matthew Dunn is [a] very talented new author. I know of no other spy thriller that so successfully blends the fascinating nuances of the business of espionage and intelligence work with full-throttle suspense storytelling." — Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of Carte Blanche
"Terse conversations infused with subtle power plays, brutal encounters among allies with competing agendas, and forays into hostile territory orchestrated for clockwork efficiency but vulnerable to deadly missteps. . . . A stylish and assured debut." — Washington Post on Spycatcher
"[Dunn] has created a plot with plenty of action and lots of twists and turns . . . nonstop action and relentless danger." — Associated Press on Spycatcher
"Spycatcher makes a strong argument that it takes a real spy to write a truly authentic espionage novel . . . [The story] practically bursts at the seams with boots-on-the-ground insight and realism . . . Dunn is a gifted storyteller." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Spycatcher
"Like le Carré and Fleming before him, [Dunn] is the real thing, a former member of SIS turned fictional chronicler of the secret world. . . . Meet Will Cochrane, a one-man weapon of mass destruction; 007 is a cocktail-sipping lush compared with Cochrane." — The Telegraph (UK) on Spycatcher
"A real spy proves he is a real writer—and a truly deft and inventive one. This is a stunning debut." — Ted Bell, New York Times bestselling author of Phantom


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(The Pacific Northwest vs the North of England)
Kaleide is the second record we've made in Seattle, Washington. This return visit reinforced my notion that the North of England and the Pacific Northwest are rainy, melodic, kindred spirits. When we went to record The Golden Spike my suspicions were raised on our first shopping trip in the college district; five stores in a row were playing The Smiths. It was pretty spooky. Meeting Michael Benjamin Lerner gave my theory a face. Michael is the man behind the band Telekinesis, he assisted the recording of our first album (including dutifully putting lots of drums Nestor broke back together) and when Telekinesis play live he sings lead vocals and plays drums AT THE SAME TIME (ultimate musical voodoo). He and I are kind of like a pair of musical exchange students. I, a Yorkshire lass, followed my ears to Seattle (via John Goodmanson), and he, a Seattle-ite, followed his to Liverpool to study at LIPA, also spending a lot of time in The Lake District. I decided to put my theory to him...
KH: As a northerner arriving to the PCNW, I was struck by a familiar kind of friendliness; laid-back but with an underlying outdoorsy toughness, can you relate to that?
MBL: Absolutely! The North of England, and the North West of America are not so different at all! I think the landscapes really can depict the general vibe of the city. For instance, in New York, and most major East Coast cities in America, there is a completely different vibe. It's so very similar to the North / South divide in England. The laid back friendliness factor in Seattle is for sure in direct correlation to the terrain. And I think I am guilty of that LBF (laid back friendliness) due to my upbringing. It can become an issue when I visit cities like New York, I think I get eaten alive from my PacNW sensitivity sometimes! I'm not built for a city like that.
KH: We came to Seattle to work with John because we admired PCNW bands he'd worked with like Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater Kinney and Blood Brothers. Would you say there are any specific bands that directly led you to the north of England?
MBL: Absolutely. I was so obsessed with Field Music from Sunderland. They had this S/T record that I thought was just amazing. And the video for the single just so reminded me of Northern England.
And The Futureheads, who are also in with the whole Sunderland scene. And then, Leeds! Sky Larkin will always remind me of Northern England for sure. And Wild Beats, from Leeds as well. They are making some incredibly British music right now. And it's amazing. I'm so fond of them. I met you all in a recording studio in Seattle just a little while after I got home from living in Liverpool. It was like immediately seeing old friends. We talked about Marks and Spencer, and Iron Bru.
KH: How did the northern reality compare with its self-generated musical portrait?
MBL: It was so accurate! Like for example, I got way into The Cribs, I watched this documentary about them, and they just seemed lighthearted and had this great Northern sense of humour. London, and much of the South is just so busy busy, go go go, that I think it's harder to get the friendly vibes from people. I don't think people in London aren't friendly, because I've met so many great people from there, I think it's just inherently so crazy and everything is so fast paced. In the North, it just doesn't seem like that. Even in big cities like Manchester. That city really felt like an accurate picture. When I listen to Joy Division, I totally get it now. Manchester has this incredibly amazing vibe to it, and it really reminds me of Joy Division. I feel lucky to have that perception.
KH: There's certainly post-industrial similarities between our neighborhoods, your plaid loggers vs our factory towns. And of course there's the rain…
MBL: The rain is very similar! It rains a whole lot in both countries. But it's not just the rain!
KH: I think it'd be fair to say that Manchester and Leeds, like Portland and Seattle, have 'secondary city' statuses in national terms. That relative seclusion seems like a blessing and curse for music, bands have the freedom to develop away from immediate scrutiny... but it's sometimes hard to get heard beyond city limits. Would you say that's a common tension that propels a lot of music from our regions?
MBL: Yes, and no. I think for sure it's much cheaper to be an artist in these cities. The cost of living is so much less, and we all know how important that is in this industry. But I think that leads to a saturation of amazing bands in small cities, all struggling to get heard, or migrate to the bigger cities to get discovered. For instance, I'm in Portland, Oregon as I type this, and walking around, it seems like everyone is in a band. Or an artist. And that's good, and bad. There are so many incredible bands coming out of this city, but sometimes it can be a little much. There can be this sort of passive competition. It's weird. In major cities it's much more a struggle. Financially for certain. I think that can really influence the sound of bands musical output. I think in the indie scene that I am involved in, it just seems like a big family. And I love that about it. It makes it feel really great to be involved.
KH: Sounds like the theory that every band or musician in Leeds has lived in (cheap housing estate) The Harolds at some point. Everyone from Hadouken to Henry Rollins, including us. I guess that sheer proximity to like-minded folk breeds creativity. The epicentre is the pinball machine in The Brudenell Social club.
Watch a video of the Seattle tour Michael gave us under familiar grey skies…


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Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and research professionals will gather for the seventh annual Collaborating for Education and Research Forum from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday (March 1) in the Jordan Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame.
The forum, which will focus on the theme "Developing STEM Commercialization-Education Connections," will showcase opportunities for collaboration. Throughout the daylong forum, presenters will describe regional efforts to forge industry-education connections. Speakers will include Vince Bertram, executive director of Project Lead the Way; Jeff Rea, president and CEO of the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce; Brian Wiebe, executive director of the Horizon Educational Alliance in Elkhart; and Brad Bishop, executive director of OrthoWorx in Warsaw.
"Previous forums have focused on building STEM connections between university and K-12 communities," said Thomas Loughran, who directs the forum from the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center. "This year's five-county Project Lead the Way initiative offers Michiana STEM professionals an opportunity to consider together an important STEM workforce development possibility spearheaded by business and industry. Our forum this year will focus on forging more commercialization-education connections of this sort."
"We are pleased to bring local community leaders and STEM educators together to form collaborations that will strengthen our local community," said Greg Crawford, dean of the College of Science. "This broad-based community partnership has a long history here at Notre Dame. We are proud to support this forum, which will help K-12 students develop the skills they will need to succeed in the global economy."
Local K-12 STEM teachers and administrators are encouraged to register for free online. They will receive breakfast and lunch and earn certificates for five professional growth points. The event is sponsored by the University of Notre Dame College of Science, College of Engineering, Center for STEM Education, QuarkNet Center and the Office of Public Affairs as well as the Northern Indiana Science, Mathematics and Engineering Collaborative.
Contact: Marissa Gebhard, 574-631-4465, firstname.lastname@example.com
Originally published by Marissa Gebhard at news.nd.edu on February 24, 2014.


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Nikki Sixx on the final days of Mötley Crüe
Nikki Sixx on the final days of Mötley Crüe
Given the lives enjoyed and endured by Sunset Strip hair metal veterans Mötley Crüe, it was always going to take something unusual to signal the demise of the band. We really didn't see the Crüe ending their near 35-year career with a formally written contract though.
But that's exactly what they did at last month's glitzy LA press conference, where they announced the Final Tour, a run of shows set to stretch from this summer up to the end of 2015. And, just to pre-empt all those questions about reunions, the band signed a cessation of touring agreement that forbids them from ever going back out on tour as Mötley Crüe.
Musicradar spoke to bass player/band leader Nikki Sixx about calling it a day, staying away and regrets...
Going out swinging
"We've talked about how to end it for so long. We said why not sign a contract where we can never do this again and everyone said 'I'm in, I'm in, I'm in!'
"Ok, that's the easy part, now go make it legal. It was the easiest decision ever. We want people to know that we came in swinging and we went out swinging. It's exciting and emotional, it's mind boggling."
Legacy secured
"We wanted to go out and secure our legacy together. We wanted to go out when we were on top.
"There are bands out there that are just cool, and we wanted to be one of those bands. I like that better than hearing Mötley Crüe is playing at a local bar with two original members. We were talking about when the [The Dirt] movie is going to be getting made, that's the time to do it.
"We'd do a tour and then have the movie and we'll be at our peak and take our final bow with the original band members, and fans will go, 'F**king awesome!'"
Is this really it?
"We're saying we're not coming back, come see us now, this is a celebration.
"And by the way, for any of you bands out there now reading this, you better think twice about your farewell tour because the press is going to say to you, 'Are you doing a farewell tour like those other guys, or do you have a cessation to cease ever touring together again contract that you've all signed, like Mötley Crüe?' When they say they don't have one, you guys are going to call bollocks."
We did it!
"The thing is that I've known the guys from Mötley Crüe longer than just about everybody.
"After the press conference, I came home and took my dog into the back yard and the stars were so bright. No one was home and I was standing there quietly looking up at my mom, dad, grandma and grandpa and my sister who have all passed away. I have a sister in Seattle but besides her that's it. I've known the guys in this band longer than I've known anybody else. I looked up and said, 'We did it!' I started laughing out loud like a mad man. My dog looked at me like, 'What's wrong with you?'
"There's all kinds of emotions coming out. There's pride, realisation that this is the end. What's going to happen when I have the ability to look at my calendar and realise that I have nine months out of every year that I don't have to be on the road? I can take SIXX AM and tour, I can do photography, there's a lot I can do.
"Right now because of touring and my radio show, time wise I'm doing more street photography and I just did a piece for Addiction in Canada. I did that during the tour because I don't have time to do proper studio photography. All of a sudden there's all these opportunities. I'll have more time to write books, to work with SIXX AM, I'm working on a Broadway play. All of the guys have stuff to do. In that sense this is a gift. But I'll miss it."
The Final Tour
"This tour has to top everything we've done before and it will. It has to, we have no choice. We're just in preliminary conversations and looking at things we want to involve with the show.
"I call them shapes. When you look at our sets you think, 'That's a little bit off.' We always start with the shapes. Like Carnival of Sins, when you walked into the arena you went, 'Everything seems a little bit titled.' Everything was a little bit titled, just enough to make you realise something was off and then we started building it from there.
"We're just getting all of our ideas together, and then we plug the songs in. Nobody wants to see Mötley Crüe for the last time and not hear every single hit. That would be the worst thing. Can you imagine a band on their final tour, like going to see Aerosmith for the final time and they don't play Dream On? They'll be none of that, we'll be playing all of the hits."
"It would be easy to get a piece of paper out and write down all the bad things we did and try to make amends.
"That would probably make some people reading this interview happy that we've said we're sorry. But to be honest with you, all your mistakes make you who you are. I can only speak for myself, I know I hurt my family and a lot of people through drug addiction. I can't take it back. Now I just learn from it."
Only one Mötley
"It's going to be a blast and emotional and we'll walk away. There's still enough gas in the tank for each guy to go out and do other stuff. Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Mötley Crüe? It's impossible.
Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin, there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.
There'll only ever be one Mötley Crüe. I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones. We're not stupid. We're doing this with our eyes wide open."


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I've written a couple of short stories. I'm really satisfied with some of them, and I would like to turn them into full-length novels. They were meant to be short stories from the beginning, but I feel I can still add more stuff to them (e.g. some part needed more details, and I didn't develop the characters enough).
Is it a bad idea to turn a short story into a full-length novel? (Is there any author who has been doing this?)


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Three Zurich-based bankers face conspiracy charges in the U.S.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Three Swiss bankers have been charged with helping American taxpayers hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan announced Tuesday.
Michael Berlinka, Urs Frei and Roger Keller face up to five years in prison for their roles in the scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. They are accused of helping more than 100 clients hide assets between 2005 and 2010.
The indictment identifies the defendants' place of employment only as the Zurich branch of "Swiss Bank A," though Albena Bjoerck, a spokeswoman for the Swiss bank Wegelin & Co., confirmed Wednesday that the accused were employed there.
"Wegelin & Co. remains committed to assisting in the clarification of matters regarding former U.S. clients and has authorised its lawyers in the United States to negotiate with the U.S. justice authorities to the extent possible under Swiss law," Bjoerck said.
She added that Wegelin has been examining its business with U.S. clients "in minute detail" since April of last year, and "has in the meantime ceased all dealings with U.S. clients." The employees in question, she said, "have taken on other tasks within the bank."
The three accused currently reside in Switzerland, according to the indictment, and it wasn't clear Tuesday if or when they might face extradition. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment on the matter, and the Swiss Embassy in Washington did not return a request for comment.
In 2009, the U.S. government settled a tax fraud case involving American customers with Swiss banking giant UBS that proved diplomatically challenging due to Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws. UBS ultimately paid $780 million in fines and restitution and agreed to hand over the identities of a number of its U.S. customers.
Tuesday's indictment alleges that as UBS and another unidentified Swiss bank stopped handling undeclared U.S. accounts in 2008 and 2009 amid scrutiny from American authorities, the defendants' firm attempted to scoop up their business.
"As part of their sales pitch to U.S. taxpayer-clients who were fleeing UBS, [the defendants] told U.S. taxpayer-clients that their undeclared accounts at Swiss Bank A would not be disclosed to the United States authorities because Swiss Bank A had a long tradition of bank secrecy," the indictment states.
The case has been assigned to Judge Jed Rakoff, who has made headlines for his hard-charging approach to financial crime in cases against firms like Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) and Citigroup (C, Fortune 500).


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The sections in the menu on the left give you direct e-mail and phone access to the officials and staff of the World DanceSport Federation - WDSF.
If you have problems reaching a certain person due to an invalid e-mail address or a wrong phone number, please contact us and we will try to solve the problem.
Please, do also contact us if you would like to add a certain contact to the directory.
World DanceSport Federation - WDSF is registered as a non-governmental international organisation in Swizerland and has its Siège Social at the following address.
World DanceSport Federation
Maison du Sport International
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FROM: Vanessa Penã-Araya & Alexandre Bergel
Roassal was presented at the ESUG 2012 conference, where it received a lot of positive feedback. In its current version Roassal works well to represent polymetric views, however this hardly cover all the need expressed by the community. Because of this, ESUG attendees also asked for desired features to be included in future versions. To polish this list of needed features, we conducted a survey in the Pharo community were its members were asked to reply with scenarios and features they needed. We recollected the replies to this survey and use them to construct this proposal.
The features above will be implemented in 3 milestones as described in the follow- ing sections. Each milestones includes releasing the features to the community, receiving feedback and with this, fixing bugs or improving the feature. Across the process of implementing the new features, we will write a dedicated chapter on Roassal for Pharo by Example 2 6.
FROM: Hilaire Fernandes & Esteban Lorenzano
Tablet like the iPad are becoming an important computing medium, a lot of end user applications are developed for this plate form, educative institution are experimenting its use. In the other hand, Pharo Smalltalk makes writing end user graphic applications easy, fast with a good portability across different OS. Moreover the project is aim at reliability, constant improvement in bug fixes and new features. En user application like Dr. Geo takes the best of the Pharo & Smalltalk environments to deliver innovative software in the educative context. It is a nice demonstrator of the Smalltalk capabilities. We need a reliable, feature complete, Smalltalk VM to extend the portability of Pharo & Squeak applications like Dr. Geo to the tablet environment. Therefore we address the following points in the VM iOS support:
The works will be done by Esteban Lorenzano, Mac OSX VM specialist, and tested by myself with the Dr. Geo application. The funding will go entirely to Esteban Lorenzano. The works will be delivered to be useful to the whole Pharo and Squeak communities, and if possible merged in the Squeak VM repository.


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Latest findings from this study released (7/29/2015). Click on S-CAFH Publications & Reports on the left-hand navigation menu to read the latest briefing reports, or directly access by clicking on these links: the PLACE report, and the PERSON report. Read the press release here.
Catastrophic storms of the magnitude of Superstorm Sandy can contribute to significant and enduring health, economic, environmental, and social impacts. In recognition of this fact, the New Jersey State Department of Health has funded a joint research team from Rutgers University and Columbia University to conduct the Sandy Child and Family Health (S-CAFH) study.
This research will examine the potential long-term effects of Sandy on the health and well-being of New Jersey residents exposed to the storm. It will also shed light on what has helped or hindered people in their ongoing recovery.


text: Call for Papers =============== 14th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2012) http://research.microsoft.com/~crusso/padl12 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 23-24, 2012 Co-located with ACM POPL'12 Conference Description ====================== Declarative languages build on sound theoretical bases to provide attractive frameworks for application development. These languages have been successfully applied to many different real-world situations, ranging from data base management to active networks to software engineering to decision support systems. New developments in theory and implementation have opened up new application areas. At the same time, applications of declarative languages to novel problems raise numerous interesting research issues. Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments. Thus, applications drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarative systems, and benefit from this progress as well. PADL is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present original work emphasizing novel applications and implementation techniques for all forms of declarative concepts, including, functional, logic, constraints, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Innovative applications of declarative languages * Declarative domain-specific languages and applications * Practical applications of theoretical results * New language developments and their impact on applications * Declarative languages and Software Engineering * Evaluation of implementation techniques on practical applications * Practical experiences and industrial applications * Novel uses of declarative languages in the classroom * Practical extensions such as constraint-based, probabilistic, and reactive languages. PADL'12 welcomes new ideas and approaches pertaining to applications and implementation of declarative languages. In this occasion PADL is co-located, as traditionally, with ACM POPL, which will be held immediately following PADL, January 25-27. The symposium will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Important Dates and Submission Guidelines ========================================= Abstract Submission: September 10, 2011 Paper Submission: September 17, 2011 Notification: October 22, 2011 Camera-ready: November 5, 2011 Symposium: January 23-24, 2012 Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in PDF using the Springer LNCS format. The submission will be done through EasyChair conference system. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. All submissions must be original work written in English. Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. PADL'12 will accept both technical and application papers: * Technical papers must describe original, previously unpublished research results. Technical papers must not exceed 15 pages in Springer LNCS format. * Application papers are a mechanism to present important practical applications of declarative languages that occur in industry or in areas of research other than Computer Science. Application papers will be published in the Springer-Verlag conference proceedings, and will be presented in a separate session. Application papers are expected to describe complex and/or real-world applications that rely on an innovative use of declarative languages. Application descriptions, engineering solutions and real-world experiences (both positive and negative) are solicited. The limit for application papers is 6 pages in Springer LNCS format. Program Committee ================= Marcello Balduccini, Intelligent Systems Department, Kodak Research Labs Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, Scotland Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA John Hughes, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; Quviq AB Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales, Australia Lunjin Lu, Oakland University, USA Marc Pouzet, École normale supérieure, France Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal Andreas Rossberg, Google Germany GmbH, Germany Claudio Russo, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK (co-chair) Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden Satnam Singh, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Zoltan Somogyi, University of Melbourne, Australia Eijiro Sumii, Tohoku University, Japan Terrance Swift, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Johns Hopkins University, USA Andrew Tolmach, Portland State University, USA Jan Wielemaker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Roland Yap, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University, Korea Neng-Fa Zhou, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA (co-chair) Contacts ======== For additional information about papers and submissions, please contact the Program Chairs: Claudio Russo Microsoft Research Cambridge,UK Email: crusso <AT> microsoft <DOT> com Neng-Fa Zhou Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA Email: zhou <AT> sci <DOT> brooklyn <DOT> cuny <DOT> edu With the Cooperation of ======================= The Association for Logic Programming (ALP) ACM SIGPLAN Microsoft Research, Cambridge =================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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