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LAHORE - A gold bullet on top of Islamic stenciling, open sores and festering wounds, life-size sculptures of silenced men whose faces are obscured.
Pakistan's sectarian crisis has grown so acute that it is creeping into the country's contemporary art scene, spurring young artists to question the causes and assumptions behind the violent Sunni-Shi'ite divide.
Hardline Sunni groups have killed hundreds of minority Shi'ites in suicide bomb attacks and shootings.
Shi'ites say they are living in a state of siege, and some call it genocide. Fear has driven some families abroad while others have taken up arms against groups backed by al-Qaida.
Some artists have taken to expressing their anger at the carnage through their work.
Outlet for Fear and Frustration
In the elegant city of Lahore, criss-crossed with colonial-era boulevards and home to a bevy of lively artists, Imran Mudassar balances one of his latest pieces, "Secret Love," on his knees, a diptych of a golden bullet and human heart against interwoven Islamic motifs.
"I've started to incorporate the clashing of the Shi'ites and Sunnis into my work," the 31-year-old artist, who is secular Sunni, told Reuters at Government College University, where he is also a lecturer.
In "Religious Landscape," he decorated a seven-foot (2.1 m)-high white canvas with designs from the Koran, Islam's holy book. Red gashes resembling flesh have been torn across it.
"Both faiths adhere to the Koran, but they fight over the Koran, too,'' Mudassar said of the piece, which sold for 135,000 rupees ($1,400) after being exhibited last month.
The nightmare scenario for Pakistan, a nuclear-armed U.S. ally, would be sectarian war. While Pakistan is not close to one, fear and instability are growing.
"If the violence continues, if the situation doesn't settle down, then more and more will start producing this kind of art," said Mudassar, whose self-portraits of a bullet-riddled torso a year ago earned him an established spot on the art scene.
Strife Makes Artists Look Inward
Pakistani art has been on an upwards trajectory since the 1980s, buoyed by media attention and domestic sales. Galleries have sprung up in cities and the two major art schools - the National College of Arts (NCA) in Lahore and in the city of Rawalpindi - produce a slew of talented artists every year.
The scene was given a boost when another young artist, Imran Qureshi, was named Deutshce Bank's "Artist of the Year" for 2013, celebrating his work addressing religion, terrorism and the mutating relationship between Muslim countries and the West.
Qureshi has talked of the bloodshed in his homeland being the inspiration for an installation of white interlocking bricks, which are splashed with red paint in the shapes of flowers and splotches of blood.
While Pakistani artists have traditionally focused on tumultuous political and social changes, with their work even thriving on them, they are now also engaged in self-examination, say art professors and gallery workers.
"Recent turmoil has sparked a new trend, and artists are now looking inward," said Zahra Khan, curator at the year-old Satrang Gallery, tucked inside the opulent Serena hotel in the capital, Islamabad.
In the leafy capital, art is complemented by black graffiti that has appeared in recent weeks, scrawled on brick buildings and in courtyards, saying "Stop Shia Genocide" in capital letters in English.
"No Fear"
In March, the Satrang Gallery featured a sculpture, "Strained and Sustained," by 28-year-old up-and-coming artist Saud Baloch, of a person curled up in a heap on the floor, encased in a latex russet-colored sack designed to feel like human skin.
The piece is one of several haunting life-size sculptures by Baloch which feature people made blind and voiceless, which he says reflect brutality in his native Baluchistan, one of Pakistan's most volatile provinces.
Baloch is from Nushki, a town not far from the provincial capital, Quetta, which has borne the brunt of violence against Shi'ite communities.
In addition, ethnic Baluch separatists are fighting a low-level insurgency. Rights groups accuse security forces of waging a campaign of abduction and murder to try to subdue them, charges authorities say are exaggerated.
"My inspiration comes from where I belong. Shi'ites are being killed, as are the ethnic Baluch. Religious hatred and racism is affecting the whole country, pitting people against each other," Baloch told Reuters at Lahore's NCA, from where he recently graduated.
In its dappled garden is "No Fear," a statue Baloch says is a self-portrait. Made of fibreglass and fabric, a jeans-clad man with a satchel by his feet stands hooded and bowed, his hands tied behind his back.
"It's about feeling unsafe," he said.
Identity, or the lack of it, is the overriding theme for the January graduates of the NCA in Rawalpindi, a garrison city adjoining Islamabad.
Works at their final-year exhibit at Islamabad's National Art Gallery include glaringly empty white boxes, a Pakistani twist on The Frog Prince fairy tale and faces in masks.
The "white noise" of increasing sectarian violence and "the cluttering of our minds with religious news" led graduate Schezre Syed to create "The Blind Print," which contains 17 lightboxes framing white watercolor sheets, all blank except for a date stamp of the years 2018 and 2019.
"Both sides in the Sunni-Shi'ite issue think they are right, and I took this as a perception of reality. When people look at this piece, they question what is real and what is not," said 23-year-old Syed.
Her classmate, Benazir Hayat, produced a series of three-color self-portraits with her face obscured by masks: one is conical and Venetian, another white and translucent.
"We are not really safe in our own land and we all need a mask to hide our faces," she said.


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This actually isn't new, but it might be new to you. It's called a linked double crochet.
This stitch is for anyone who doesn't like the gaps in between normal double crochet stitches but love how fast it works up (compared with the more dense single crochet).
The linked double crochet does exactly what it's called. It links each previous double crochet with the next to create a completely closed (yet surprisingly thin) fabric.
As you can see in the photo above the linked double crochet is completely closed in between the stitches. The resulting fabric is just as tall as a normal swatch of double crochet and requires just a change in one step so it will work up just as fast as regular double crochet.
This stitch can be used wherever you would normally use double crochet but want a closed fabric. I don't say denser fabric because the resulting fabric is about the same thickness as regular double crochet. This stitch pulls each of the double crochets apart to meet each other rather than bulking them up to close the gaps. It's really a cool stitch that is under utilized.
Check out the video below on how to work it and lefties can click here to see their version.

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Another pamphlet, originally published in 1914 seems to be a review of the process. There is a similar review of the Latin experiment.
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AT ... dblist=638Educational experiments in secondary schools. 3, The teaching of Greek at the Perse School, Cambridge.
Author: Great Britain. Board of Education.
Publisher: London : H.M.S.O., 1914.
Series: Educational pamphlets, no. 28
For those who are interested, there is a 2010 reprint from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/teaching-Greek-Pe ... 1175370916
Also, some may be interested to know that W. H. D. Rouse's first and second year books have been reprinted and his first book thoroughly updated by Anne Mahoney (of Tufts University?) who also updated Morris' Stories in Attic Greek.
First Greek Course, Anne Mahoney 2011 http://www.amazon.com/First-Greek-Cours ... dp_p_img_3. The original book can be found at http://www.letsreadgreek.org/resources. Mahoney's book is several hundred pages longer than the original.
A Greek reader, W. H. D. Rouse 1914 http://www.amazon.com/Greek-reader-W-H- ... dp_p_img_4. The 1907 version can be found at Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/greekreader00rousuoft
A Greek Boy at Home can be found on Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/greekboy ... 01rousuoft. Anne Mahoney also revised it slightly. http://www.amazon.com/Rouses-Greek-Boy- ... pd_sim_b_3


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Pre-study activities:
To learn about Roald Dahl and his writing. Roald Dahl was born in Wales on the 13 of September 1916 by Norwegian parents.His mother used to read to him in Norwegian. Roald Dahl wrote a letter to his mother each week from his school days and until she died 32 years later.
- Listen to Garrison Geller talk about Roal Dahl on "the writer's almanac" and read "there is no knowing what we shall see" a poem from James and the Giant Peach (Penguin). (he starts to talk about Roald Dahl after 1:20 minutes!)
- Roald Dahl's short stories are often used in schools. Look here for his website.
- Pre-reading do these tasks before you read the short story The Landlady
Lesson plan:
- Read the short story "The landlady"
- Do these tasks connected to the story and watch the tales of the unexpected here
- Word work – language in context – do the tasks here
- The landlady – tasks after reading
- Read the short story The man from the south.
- Watch Hitchcock version here
- Visit Roald Dahl virtual tour
- Read "Lamb to the Slaughter"
- Make some good questions to ask and answer and post them here. Wallwisher
- Write a short blogpost where you answer 2 of the questions.
- Do exercises found here!
Paragraph writing –
- Either write a paragraph (between 70 and 100 words) as if continuing the
story telling what you think happened next
- Write about what you think happened next and what the consequences of
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Poll / Survey – Baronial Heirs – Pick Your Candidate
Greetings to the Barony of Rowany,
After much discussion the time has come to select the baronial heirs. Below you will find a link to a brief survey which will inform their Majesties of the preferred candidates of the populace. The Poll will remain open for 14 days closing on the night of the 27th of Feb (11:59 pm). Their Majesties will announce their decision shortly there after.
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TAMPA, Fla. - The Flyers took a major step toward shakier playoff ground Thursday night at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, slipping up on a late power play and soon letting the Lightning walk away with a 4-2 victory.
Coupled by a New York Rangers win over Buffalo, the Flyers (41-30-9, 91 points) were assured they would start the playoffs on the road next week. They can't catch the Rangers (45-31-5, 95), who have a tiebreaker edge in regulation wins, and the Flyers now are deadlocked with the Columbus Blue Jackets for third in the Metropolitan.
The Flyers have a slight edge in the regulation win tiebreaker there, with both teams having two games remaining. Philadelphia will move on to Pittsburgh for a game Saturday and then host the Carolina Hurricanes in the regular season finale Sunday.
The Blue Jackets (42-31-7, 91) are here now for a working vacation, taking on Tampa Bay Friday and Florida Saturday.
It didn't take long for the Lightning to start building toward what would be a sixth straight victory over the Flyers in this building. It came on a shot by Tyler Johnson, a one-timer after a Steve Downie turnover and Steven Stamkos set-up exactly two minutes into the game.
The Flyers would carry much of the play after that, but Lightning backup goalie Anders Lindback (34 saves), playing in place of an injured Ben Bishop, was simply dynamic.
He made stop after stop through the balance of the first period and to the waning moments of the second period. But finally, with just 1:21 left in that middle frame, Wayne Simmonds was allowed to dig the puck out in the slot, take a full turn and squeeze a shot off Lindback's shoulder and in for a power play goal and 1-1 tie.
Despite gaining that momentum, the Flyers lost it when they flopped on another power play in the third. Soon thereafter, seldom scorer Richard Panik was allowed to roam free enough to take a backhanded whack at the puck. It hit somebody in front and Panik attacked it again, putting home the second backhander for a 3-1 lead.
But the Flyers weren't quite finished, as Sean Couturier threw a 90-degree backhander toward Lindback's crease, and it took a detour off Tampa winger Ondrej Palat's stick and bounced over Lindback and in to cut the gap to one again with better than 7 minutes left.
That barely done, Downie again drifted away from the puck while Lightning defender Eric Brewer found it alone in the slot and he easily beat Ray Emery with a shot to restore the Lightning's two-goal lead for good.


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Commissioner of Recreation and Parks
The Parks Department operates 15 diverse parks and trails throughout the Town of Perinton. The various parks feature a wide variety of fields, courts, open space, buildings, shelters, and other amenities. We work closely with the Crescent Trail Association to administer a vast network of hiking trails. Take advantage of the wonderful opportunities we provide for people of all ages and abilities to get out and enjoy nature.
You may contact the Perinton Parks Department Monday thru Friday; 7:30am – 3:30pm at 223-5050. The Parks Operation Center is located at 50 Cobb's Lane.


text: How to install ubuntu on the Droid 4 Huge thanks to zacthespack for creating the ubuntu installer app and original boot script and to zeroktal for modifying the script to work on the D4 and helping me get it working on my device. I decided to take my experience in setting this up and put it into a how-to so that others could enjoy the experience of having ubuntu on the Droid 4. If zackthespac or zeroktal have any problems with me making and putting this guide up, please let me know and I will remove it. Knowledge Required: working knowledge of command line working knowledge of vi OR the ability to learn how to use both Tools Required: A rooted Motorola Droid 4 BusyBox (Android Market) Terminal Emulator (Android Market) Android VNC Viewer (Android Market) Ubuntu Installer App (Android Market) zeroktal's ubuntud4.zip file (mediafire) Vi Cheat Sheet (lagmonster.org) Step by Step: Install BusyBox, Terminal, and Android VNC Viewer Install and run Ubunutu Installer App Follow the on-screen instructions and click next Download either the Small or Large image to your phone, (use zeroktal's ubuntud4.zip file instead of the boot script provided in the guide) after the image downloads (will take a while because the file is HUGE) click next For this screen, the instructions differ from the app. 1. With your D4 plugged into your PC in USB Mass Storage, create a directory (folder) called ubuntu in the EXTERNAL sdcard's root* 2. Extract the image you downloaded to that directory 3. Download and extract the attached .sh (ununtud4.zip) to that directory 4. Disconnect your phone from your PC 5. Open terminal and run the following commands: su [ENTER] mount -o remount,rw,exec,suid /dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/sdcard-ext [ENTER] cd /mnt/sdcard-ext/ubuntu [ENTER] sh ubuntud4.sh [ENTER] 960x540 [ENTER]** If you get an error message: ubuntud4.sh: 45: syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then") see troubleshooting section below. killall -TERM Xtightvnc [ENTER] vncserver :1 -geometry 960x540 [ENTER]** 6. Open androidVNC app and enter the following settings: Nickname: Anything you want Password: ubuntu Address: localhost Port: 5901 Color Format: 24-bit color (4 bpp) 7. Hit connect 8. Hit your menu soft button and then set input mode to touchpad 9. You have ubuntu on your Droid 4! To "shut down" ubuntu: press the menu button, select disconnect in VNC In terminal type this command 3 times (terminal will close itself when you are done): exit [ENTER] To "start up" ubuntu again: Follow steps 5-8 above Troubleshooting: If you get the error message: ubuntud4.sh: 45: syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then") you are about to have fun with vi at the command line. Do the following from inside terminal: su [ENTER] cd /mnt/sdcard-ext/ubuntu [ENTER] vi ubuntud4.sh [ENTER] If you see ^M or ^ at the end of any line (remember to scroll all the way to the right to see the end of long lines) remove it. once you do that, everything should work just fine. (See the Vi Cheat Sheet above for help with Vi) Note: Vol Up + E is [ESC] by default in this terminal emulator Notes: * It does not have to be on the external SD, but if you put it on the internal SD you will have to modify things as needed-- if you dont know what needs to be changed, just put it on the external SD. ** Screen size can be whatever you want it to be, but 960x540 is the size of the D4 screen. *** This is a fairly involved process... especially when it comes to editing the .sh file in vi things can get very frustrating and hard, but just take your time and you will get it. As always, doing anything with root access on your phone, especially on the command line has risks. I am not responsible if anything goes wrong with your phone... proceed at your own risk!


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Happy Wednesday everyone!
But I have a new tutorial from and Belinda at BKC Designs and Shawna at Jagged Creations using new PTU kit "Freakshow". The kit is available in all my stores.
Belinda's tutorial for the tag below can be found HERE
All tags below can be found on Shawna's blog HERE
Thanks so much Belinda and Shawna! I love love love them all!
Stay Safe and Happy Scrapping!


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Our scientists had 4,715 participants complete the study. Half trained with Lumosity, while the rest did online crossword puzzles to control for placebo effects.
After 10 weeks, the Lumosity group improved more than the crosswords group on an aggregate assessment of cognition.
These results are promising, but we need to do more research to determine the connection between improved assessment scores and everyday tasks in participants' lives. That's our next focus.


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'Mamma Mia!' Revisits The Greek Wedding
'Mamma Mia!' Revisits The Greek Wedding
Mamma Mia!
- Director: Phyllida Lloyd
- Genre: Musical Comedy
- Running Time: 108 minutes
Rated PG-13: Middle-aged women crack jokes about their sex lives — sound familiar?
'Your Mother Knew Quite A Rebel'
'Mamma Mia, Here I Go Again'
'The Winner Takes It All'
A big fat Greek wedding is in the offing, with guests arriving by the boatload on an island in the Aegean. Love is in the air, as is the music of ABBA. It's not on the radio, but it's on the tip of everyone's tongue. Among the cantors is Meryl Streep, who plays Donna, a super-trouper single mom who has met her Waterloo and is sending up an S.O.S.
What Donna doesn't know just yet is that her bride-to-be daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has sneaked peeks at a 20-year-old diary. Having done a little math, Sophie sends wedding invitations to three mentioned men in three different cities, on the theory that one of them pretty much has to be her father. They all show up, of course, and Donna is less than thrilled.
As you're probably gathering, this plot is not being taken terribly seriously. It's mostly a pretext for songs that are mostly a pretext for acting silly.
The folks directing, scripting and producing Mamma Mia! are the same ones who did the show on Broadway. They are not movie people, and it shows at times: The performers have been encouraged to overdo, play to the back row, and belt songs into each other's faces in ways that are more suited to Broadway than to widescreen close-ups. But then, subtlety isn't really what this musical is about.
The women sing more comfortably than the men: Pierce Brosnan looks like he's in pain during his vocals, but Streep can really belt. Most of them, though, are obviously not trained musical performers, which means there's a lot of extra pushing and gesticulating. Sometimes — though not always — that's on purpose. If you're going to take an ABBA song and turn it into a one-scene Greek tragedy, for instance, you have to build emotion pretty quickly. On the way to the wedding, Donna conversationally tells off an ex-love, and 23 seconds later, we're in grand opera territory.
This would all be more persuasive if you'd felt any real chemistry between Streep and Brosnan. But how could you? They've been singing ABBA songs at each other for two hours. None of this will matter to the 30 million or so baby boomers who made Mamma Mia! a stage hit.
Make no mistake: Brides and grooms notwithstanding, it is the film's older folks who are central. They carouse and act like kids, while their children are so conventional and responsible that they're kind of a snooze. It's the boomers' revenge: a second childhood, complete with an end-credits curtain call in goofy outfits.
Correction July 28, 2008
The introduction to this story says that the musical has been "a hit on Broadway since 1999." It opened in London in 1999, and on Broadway in 2001.


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BISC 219/F10: Assignment Series3 Reverse Genetics Paper using RNAi
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Scientific Research Report on Reverse Genetics Project using RNAi 50pts
Write a full scientific research report on your Reverse Genetics Project. Use other genetics studies published in high impact factor journals such as Genetics or Cell as models for how to structure your paper. Use the journal Genetics for reference format. Refer to the BISC_219/F10:Resources section of this wiki to download a copy of "Guide to Scientific Writing in BISC219".
Writing a Full Scientific Paper on Reverse Genetics Project 50 points
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|1 pt. Gives accurate & appropriate content information to reader, stressing answer to experimental questions over tools or techniques. Lists your lab partner(s) as second author(s).
|0-0.5 pts. Did not give enough content information, or too much, or inaccurate information.
Does not include authorship.
|3 pts. Concisely summarizes in appropriate format: topic, experimental questions, general methods, major findings (strongest evidence leading to conclusions), conclusions & implications of study.
|0-2.5 pts. Omits key information; includes tangential information; misinterprets information and/or implications; uses incorrect format.
|7-10 pts. Identifies topic & central experimental questions; includes appropriate background information; uses a level of detail appropriate for novice audience. Includes a brief outline of methods. Writing style uses correct vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and is clear and concise. Source citations in proper format (Genetics style) are included for all information not common knowledge
|0-6.5 pts. Does not correctly topic or identify experimental questions. Missing appropriate background information, an outline of methods, or reference citations for information not common knowledge. Inappropriate level of detail (either too much or missing information needed for target audience). Writing style is not clear or concise and/or uses incorrect vocabulary, grammar, spelling, or punctuation.
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|0-4.5 pts. Procedures incorrectly or unclearly described or omitted; uses too much detail.
|13-15 pts. Uses figures and tables formatted for maximum clarity and ease of interpretation. All figures & tables are numbered & have correctly formatted legends with appropriate information; all data is labeled. The text portion describes accurately, clearly, and succinctly the major findings & analyzes the data appropriately to show reader how conclusions are drawn.
|0-12.5 pts. Not all key figures and/or tables included. Figures &/or tables are difficult to read or to interpret due to missing information and/or poor design. The text portion omits key findings, describes the data inaccurately or unclearly, includes irrelevant information, or is repetitive.
|10-12.5 pts. Discussion focuses on experimental data & refers to it directly by fig. or table number. Major findings from results are referenced appropriately. Importance of findings, broader significance & context are adequately explained. Connections are made among experimental findings, background information & relevant research from outside sources. Appropriate conclusions are drawn and related to larger context. Writing style uses correct vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and is clear and concise
|0-9.5 pts. Not all major findings evaluated for meaning & importance, or are incorrectly interpreted. Connections among experimental findings missing or incorrectly applied. Relationship between experimental findings, background information & relevant research missing or incorrectly interpreted. Conclusions incorrectly drawn, and/or not related to larger significance. Writing style is not clear or concise and/or uses incorrect grammar, spelling, punctuation & vocabulary.
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Beer Pairings: What to Eat with Saison
Beer and food are better together.
It's hot! I don't want to sound like I'm whining, but really, it's hot. Even here in chilly Minnesota this season has been one for the record books. I think I need a beer; something crisp, light, lively and refreshing to ease the oppressive summer swelter.
Saison is the perfect choice. Its roots as a farmhouse ale, traditionally brewed with whatever ingredients were at hand on the farmstead, make it a notoriously difficult style to pin down. Saisons can be black, amber, or nearly white. Some are strong, some are not. More than a few have the flavor twist of added spices, fruit, or wild yeast. The range is huge, but most modern saisons display a few common characteristics. They are almost universally very dry and super effervescent. Bitterness is fairly high. Pronounced spicy hop flavors complement the peppery spice and stone fruit notes of Belgian and French yeast strains. They are also superbly refreshing.
All of those factors help make saisons especially well-suited to pairing with food. They're robust enough to take on full flavored dishes, but are still light enough for a hot day. The complex blend of yeasty fruit and spice complements a wide range of dishes from spicy Asian and Middle-Eastern to grilled red meat. The high fizz factor and sharp bitterness make them awesome palate cleansers. But one word of caution: don't go too light with the food or this beer will blow it away.
Farmhouse Ales for Farmhouse Foods
Rustic beers call for rustic foods, and French provincial cuisine is a great choice. A simple roasted chicken with garlic and herbs calls out for an easy-going table saison like Dupot Avril. At just 3.5% alcohol it really is a lightweight. It won't get in the way of the dish. Grassy and floral flavors latch into the herbs in the dish.
Bouillabaisse and saison are another highly recommended matchup. From shellfish to fennel to saffron, the flavors of this classic French stew find harmonic convergence with Saison Dupont Vieille Provision, the classic Belgian saison. Peppery yeast and spicy/floral hops work with the dish's spicier side, while overtones of citrus and stone fruit pick up the orange zest that seasons the soup.
Wine is notoriously tough to pair with salads because of the vinegar involved, but saison has no such trouble. Try Goose Island Sofie with a salad of mesclun greens and arugula. The beer is delicate enough that it won't overpower the salad, and the yeast-derived spice nicely complements the peppery greens.
Funky Fromage
Saisons are delicious with creamy, bloomy-rind cheeses. Try Ommegang Hennepin with Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. This gentle but still full-flavored beer harmonizes well with this delicate ripened goat cheese. Spicy, fruity, and earthy flavors in the beer latch on to the herbaceous, earthy tang of the cheese. And saison is fizzy enough to tackle the gooey cheese and clean your palate as you go.
Try a Brettanomyces-inflected saison like Fantôme Saison, Jolly Pumpkin Bam Bière, or Boulevard Saison Brett with funkier cheeses like Meadow Creek Grayson, an aromatic washed-rind cheese from Virginia that is reminiscent of Italian Taleggio. It's funk meets funk.
A Little Bit of Spice
The spicy side of saison makes it a great partner for aromatic Asian or Middle-Eastern dishes. The peppery and fruity yeast character along with spices that are sometimes added to these beers provides both complement and contrast to these cuisines.
Try Saint Somewhere Saison Aethene with pad thai. Lemongrass, ginger, and clove in the beer provide an extra layer of complementary flavors to the pairing. Don't be afraid to add some chili paste to the dish. The flavors meld beautifully with the yeast and the bubbles will wash away any lingering heat and oil.
Middle Eastern foods are built on complex combinations of flavors like honey, mint, cumin and coriander. The spicy/sweet/fruity profiles of Boulevard's Tank 7 Saison or Unibroue Blonde de Chambly complement and brighten shawarma with hummus and tahini. Spicy cumin and pepper notes in the beers tie in perfectly with similar flavors in the dish. Flavors of honey and fruit like apricots and pears give a sweet contrast.
Give Me the Meat
Though light and refreshing, saison is beefy enough to stand up to grilled red meat. Try The Bruery's Saison Rue with a cracked-pepper encrusted steak. It's all about the pepper in this pairing. The peppery notes of the saison yeast get an extra boost from rye malt in the grist.
You can't go wrong pairing saison with charcuterie. Saison Silly and Blaugies Saison d'Epeautre both have a balance of spice and fruit with underlying honey sweetness that will complement a wide range of smoked, cured, and confited meats. The fizzy finish will scrub your palate clean.
With a beer so food-friendly, the pairing possibilities are wide open. Tell us: what is your favorite food to eat with a nice saison?
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Megastars headed to Broadway Legendary singer-actress Diahann Carroll and two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington will light up Broadway next year when they co-star in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic "A Raisin in the Sun."
Carroll has not been on the Broadway stage in three decades. Washington's earliest stage work was the off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production "A Soldier's Play" in 1981. He returned to the stage in 1990 in the title role in Shakespeare's "Richard III," a Public Theater production, and in 2005 in another Shakespeare play, "Julius Caesar," in which he portrayed Marcus Brutus. Carroll, who enjoyed a new surge of popularity in the mid-1980s as Dominique Deveraux on television's "Dynasty," has extensive stage experience, including "House of Flowers" (1954), "No Strings" (1962), "Same Time, Next Year" (1977), "Agnes of God" (1983), "Love Letters" (1990), "Sunset Boulevard" (1995) and "Bubbling Brown Sugar" (2004).


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Former Vikings defensive end Jared Allen joins Seahawks
Jared Allen wanted to join a team with a good chance to win the Super Bowl. It's no surprise he is on the verge of signing with one that just did.
ESPN.com reported Thursday that the defensive end, who played the past six seasons for the Vikings, is finalizing a deal to join the Seattle Seahawks. The 10-year veteran went to Seattle on Thursday, his second visit with the team.
Allen, 31, made the Pro Bowl four times and was first-team all-pro three times with Minnesota. His agent, Ken Harris, notified the team March 8 he wouldn't re-sign.
Allen is 12th on the all-time sack list with 128.5. He has spoke often about wanting to move up on the list and last season updated a copy of the rankings weekly that was taped to his locker.
After making $14.3 million last season, Allen will have to take a pay cut. The ESPN.com report did not mention contract terms he is expected to get from the Seahawks.


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I have gone to almost exclusively using a vacuum packer to wrap meat for good long term storage and easy defrosting.The old Foodsaver is starting to act up so I was considering purchasing a more commercial type sealer in hopes it would last longer and theoretically do a little better job. Overall I have been happy with the Foodsaver but thought I would see if anybody here has had good luck with any other brands???
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Will do JP. I take my crow call anytime I go out in case of boredom. blow into that a little and watch them fly in.
Send them to Brian or Iddee!...JP
I love rutebegas! :-D When the day care kids would ask what's for lunch I'd always say "dog barf & beans, slugbutt muffins & goose poop salad"! Specially when I was making something they really liked! I know...I warped the leaders of tomorrow... :roll: J


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820 E 67th StIndianapolis, IN, 46220
Learn a variety of handbuilding and texture-making techniques to help you sculpt the human figure, animals, and imaginary characters with clay! You will become familiar with various sculpting methods and take home one-of-a-kind creature creations!
All materials are provided for youth & teen classes.
Expect a welcome packet to arrive in the mail one week prior to the first day of camp.
Family Membership Discount
Indianapolis Art Center members receive many benefits year-round, including discounts on programs and member-only perks at exhibition openings! To purchase a membership please visit our website.
· Members enjoy a special 10% discount on classes and camps.
· Membership includes exclusive early access to course registration.
· Members receive a $5 discount on Creative Aftercare.
· Memberships are non-transferable and non-refundable.
· Membership Discount does not apply to Make It Take Its.
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· 100% refunded with seven or more days notice.*
· No refunds, full or partial, will be made after this time, for any reason, including illness.
· If a camper is not available for the entire week of camp, we highly recommend that the parent chooses a different week. Camps are designed to be a full week-long learning experience and projects are not designed to be completed on a day-by-day basis. We do not prorate camps.
· Transfers may be made through Guest Services with no additional fees up to seven days before the initially scheduled camps.
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Children's literature lost a legend today: Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, died. He was 83 years old.
If you've never read any of his books (or have and would like to re-read them today in his honor), you'll be glad to know the City Tech library has multiples copies of Mr. Sendak's books. Find these books in the children's collection across from the Circulation Desk on the 4th floor:
Mr. Sendak was considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century. He died today, May 8, 2012, after complications after a stroke he suffered four days ago. For more information on his life and accomplishments, see today's piece in The New York Times. If you have some time, consider listening to his interviews on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. (Warning: The interview from September 2011 is a tear-jerker. I recommend having tissues nearby.)


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You're Not Alone
Here's a little song to help you get along.
It will see you through when you're feeling blue.
And though it's not profound when you're feeling down, so down,
Sing this little tune, and you'll feel better soon.
You're not alone, even when you're feeling on your own,
You are loved in ways that can't be shown; your needs are known;
You're not alone.
And when you cry, you're just letting go of heartache deep inside,
And tomorrow there'll be sunshine and sky and love close by;
You're not alone.
And we know that it's not easy, but we know that it won't last,
'cause one that loves you more than me is sending blessings fast.
You're not alone, say it one more time,
"I'm not alone,"
And even when it's hard to find the words, our prayers are heard;
We're not alone.
You're not alone.
Text: Michael McLean
Music: Michael McLean
Artist: McLean
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1984-01-01
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Michael Morgan
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Michael Morgan
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Home: Atlanta, GA
Age: 51
Diagnosed: May 1987
Meds: Epzicom (abacavir/3TC, Kivexa) + Reyataz (atazanavir)
Michael Morgan has been making art since he was a little boy. He says he always wanted to be an artist, he just had to figure out how. As a young man, he was lucky enough to attend the North Carolina School of Performing Arts in Winston-Salem. In 1976 he moved to Atlanta to study painting at the Atlanta College of Art (now known as the Savannah College of Art and Design). Since then Morgan has won numerous awards for his artworks.
His work is inspired by his life as an HIV-positive black man living in Atlanta. Morgan strives to shed light on the human drama he sees played out every day: "I see so many things ... little kids playing in the yard to drug dealers on my front steps." It's a world that many people never enter, but Morgan wants them to be aware of it. He wants to show the world how "[we're] dealing with substance abuse and AIDS in my neighborhood [because] I deal with some of the brothers from day to day -- I know them personally. They come from all walks of life. Many of them are very intelligent ... and what happened to them could happen to anyone."


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U.S. Route 33
|Route information
|709 mi[1] (1,141 km)
|1937[1] – present
|Major junctions
|East end:
|US 250 / SR 33 at Richmond, VA
| I‑81 at Harrisonburg, VA
US 219 / US 250 at Elkins, WV
|North end:
|US 20 at Elkhart, IN
|Highway system
U.S. Route 33 is a United States Numbered Highway that runs northwest–southeast for 709 miles (1,141 km) from northern Indiana to Richmond, Virginia, passing through Ohio and West Virginia en route. Although most odd-numbered U.S. routes are north–south, US 33 is labeled east–west throughout its route except in Indiana where it is labeled north–south.
As of 2008, the highway's northern terminus is at U.S. Highway 20 in southeastern Elkhart, Indiana. Its eastern terminus is in Richmond, Virginia. The route formerly extended northward through South Bend, Indiana, to St. Joseph on Lake Michigan in Michigan. In Virginia, "Route 33" continues east as State Route 33 to Stingray Point, on the Chesapeake Bay near Deltaville, Virginia.
Route description
Beginning with its terminus at US 20 on the southeast side of Elkhart, US 33 is a winding road that cuts diagonally from northwest to southeast through Northeast Indiana and serves as Main Street or a portion of Main Street in several cities and towns, including Elkhart, Dunlap, Goshen and Churubusco.
The road is the main overland link between the Fort Wayne metropolitan area and South Bend metropolitan statistical areas.
From Elkhart, U.S. 33 continues southeast passing through the suburbs of Dunlap and Midway before crossing State Road 15 and State Road 4, then continues southeast toward Benton as Lincolnway East.
Southeast of Benton, U.S. 33 intersects State Road 13 before joining with US 6 to become an east–west rural highway running for a few miles between just north of Lake Wawasee near Syracuse to Ligonier at the intersection of State Road 5, where US 33 splits from US 6 and turns south, joining SR 5 as a north–south road for a few miles before splitting off to the southeast toward Kimmell as it enters Noble County.
US 33 continues southeast through Noble County until it reaches Wolf Lake, where it serves as the northern terminus of State Road 109 before continuing until its intersection with State Road 9 at Merriam just north of the Whitley County line. In Whitley County, the road curves eastward to bypass Blue Lake before intersecting with State Road 205 in Churubusco near the county line with Allen County as it heads toward Fort Wayne.
On the west side of Fort Wayne, US 33 joins US 30 near Interstate 69, then follows the interstate south, intersecting with SR 14 and US 24 before turning east to follow the Interstate 469 bypass around the southwest side of Fort Wayne. At the intersection with SR 1 south of the Fort Wayne International Airport, I-469/US 33 turns to the northeast until it intersects US 27 at the Fort Wayne suburb of Hessen Cassel, where US 33 splits off to the southeast to follow US 27 as a combined highway toward Decatur.
At Decatur, US 33/US 27 becomes a north–south road before it intersects with US 224 and continues as such until US 33 splits off from US 27 south of Decatur and heads east toward the Ohio state line, intersecting SR 101 at Pleasant Mills along the way.
US 33 enters Ohio from Indiana, to the west, near Willshire in Van Wert County as a two-lane route, continuing southeast through Mercer County, crossing US 127, then entering Auglaize County, joining limited-access SR 29 briefly near St. Marys, continuing east as a four-lane parkway, then a controlled-access highway near Wapakoneta, where it intersects I-75.
East of I-75, the road once again becomes two-lane as it continues to Lakeview and Russells Point south of Indian Lake. At the terminus of SR 117 near Huntsville, US 33 becomes a limited-access multi-lane highway before reaching US 68 at Bellefontaine where it resumes as a controlled-access freeway, passing Campbell Hill, the highest point in Ohio, and continuing around Marysville. Entering Franklin County, the road becomes multiplexed with State Route 161, then intersects I-270 in Dublin.
After I-270, the route loses its controlled-access status and passes though the Dublin Historic District and crosses the Scioto River. The multiplex with Route 161 then ends, and US 33 heads south on Riverside Drive towards downtown Columbus, following the Scioto River along the western border of Upper Arlington, where it passes Griggs Reservoir, one of the main sources of water for Columbus. The road changes names two times in this area, first to Dublin Road at the intersection with Trabue Road, and then to Spring/Long Streets at State Route 315. The route continues south on 3rd/4th Streets and then east on Livingston Avenue, heading towards the Columbus neighborhood of Driving Park.
In Bexley, US 33 veers southeast onto College Avenue, then intersects Interstate 70. After Petzinger Road, the route becomes a controlled-access highway, subsequently intersecting State Route 104, I-270 (for the second time), and State Route 317 (Hamilton Road). Following the Ebright Road near Blacklick Estates, the highway continues to the southeast as a non-limited-access expressway.
Beginning at Carroll, U.S. 33 bypasses Lancaster as a limited-access freeway completed in 2005.[2] Continuing southeast, the highway enters Ohio's scenic Hocking Hills region near Sugar Grove as an expressway. East of Logan, the highway again becomes limited-access for approximately 13 miles (21 km). As the route approaches Nelsonville, traffic continues on the limited access four-lane bypass that opened October 1, 2013.[3] Further southeast towards Athens, the expressway design resumes, followed by a brief limited-access section around Athens, where it joins the concurrent U.S. Route 50 and State Route 32 for about 3 miles (4.8 km). South of Athens, US 33 continues as a limited-access highway, bypassing Pomeroy, intersecting State Route 124 and State Route 7, and continuing to the Ohio River in Meigs County, crossing the Ohio on the two-lane cantilever Ravenswood Bridge, and entering West Virginia in Ravenswood.
In total, U.S. 33 traverses 237.1 miles across the Buckeye State.
|Browse numbered routes
West Virginia
US 33 extends 248 miles (399 km) in West Virginia, from the Ohio River at Ravenswood to the Virginia state line atop Shenandoah Mountain west of Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Shortly after entering West Virginia and crossing the Ohio River, US 33 turns south, joining Interstate 77 to Ripley. The route then turns east from I-77, joining US 119 at Spencer, then passing through extremely rural areas of Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, and Lewis counties.
US 33 Intersects Interstate 79 at Weston, West Virginia. From Interstate 79 east, US 33 is a four-lane highway, part of Corridor H of the Appalachian Development Highway System. The four-lane segment continues on through rural areas of Upshur, and Randolph counties, to just a couple miles past Elkins.
At Harding, US 250 joins US 33 for several miles after Elkins, where US 33 joins SR 55 and returns to a two-lane road, except for a seven-mile (11 km) section of four-lane across Kelly Mountain between Canfield and Bowden. Passing through the Monongahela National Forest, US 33 crosses the Eastern Continental Divide between Harman and Onego at about 3,240 feet (990 m) elevation, entering Pendleton County, then descends the Allegheny Front along Seneca Creek, skirting the north end of Spruce Mountain, at 4,861 feet (1,482 m) the highest point of the Allegheny Mountains.
US 33 then joins SR 28 at Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, and continues south in the Potomac River headwaters through scenic forest and farmland landscapes. Turning eastward from SR 28 at Judy Gap, US 33 crosses North Fork Mountain at about 3,600 feet (1,100 m), with a turnout on the western slope offering a scenic view of the Germany Valley below and the more distant Allegheny Front from Spruce Knob to Dolly Sods. US 220 joins US 33 for about half a mile in Franklin. After Franklin, US 33 continues eastward through rural areas, then climbs steeply to cross Shenandoah Mountain at Dry River Gap at about 3,450 feet (1,050 m) into Rockingham County, Virginia.
U.S. Route 33 extends 139 miles (224 km) in Virginia from the West Virginia state line west of Harrisonburg across the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains, and Atlantic Piedmont to Richmond.
From Richmond, "Route 33" continues east as Virginia State Route 33 across the Atlantic coastal plain through the Tidewater region of the Middle Peninsula to reach the Chesapeake Bay at Stingray Point just east of Deltaville.
US 33 formerly ended in St. Joseph, Michigan, at the junction of the old U.S. Highway 12, was extended to a junction with Interstate 196 near Lake Michigan Beach, Michigan, north of St. Joseph, but later truncated south of Niles, Michigan (junction U.S. Highway 12), then in April 1998 at Elkhart, Indiana.[4] Before its second truncation, it passed through Mishawaka and South Bend, Indiana.[5][6] Former segments of US 33 are now known as M-63, M-51, and State Road 933. Between South Bend and Fort Wayne, US 33 was part of the Lincoln Highway.
Various segments of US 33 have been improved to limited-access freeways. These include Ohio segments from St. Marys to Wapakoneta; Huntsville (near Bellefontaine) to Dublin (a northwestern suburb of Columbus); and bypasses around Lancaster, Nelsonville,[7][8] and Pomeroy.
In West Virginia, US 33 from Interstate 79 near Weston east nearly to Elkins is four-lane, built as part of Corridor H of the Appalachian Development Highway System. The route's steep grade up Shenandoah Mountain is easternmost West Virginia has been widened, with some sharp curves improved.
Proposed improvements
The State of Ohio plans to eventually make US 33 a controlled-access freeway from the Interstate 75 interchange near Wapakoneta to Athens, Ohio, except for the section inside I-270, the Columbus Beltway.[citation needed]
Major intersections
- Virginia
- US 250 in Richmond. The highways travel concurrently through the city.
- I‑64 in Dumbarton
- I‑295 northwest of Glen Allen
- US 522 in Cuckoo. The highways travel concurrently to north-northwest of Cuckoo.
- US 15 south of Gordonsville. The highways travel concurrently to Gordonsville.
- US 29 in Ruckersville
- US 340 in Elkton
- I‑81 in Harrisonburg
- US 11 in Harrisonburg. The highways travel concurrently around the Rockingham County Courthouse.
- West Virginia
- US 220 in Franklin. The highways travel concurrrently to north of Franklin.
- US 219 / US 250 in Elkins. US 33/US 219 travels concurrently to north of Elkins. US 33/US 250 travel concurrently to north of Norton.
- US 119 in Buckhannon. The highways travel concurrently to Spencer.
- I‑79 southeast of Weston
- US 19 in Weston. The highways travel concurrently through the city.
- I‑77 in Ripley. The highways travel concurrently to Silverton.
- Ohio
- US 50 in Athens. The highways travel concurrently to east of Athens.
- US 22 southwest of Lancaster
- I‑270 in Columbus
- I‑70 in Columbus
- US 23 in Columbus. The highways travel concurrently through the city.
- US 62 in Columbus. The highways travel concurrently through the city.
- US 40 / US 62 in Columbus
- I‑670 in Columbus
- I‑270 in Dublin
- US 42 northeast of New California
- US 36 in Marysville. The highways travel concurrently to west of Marysville.
- US 68 in Bellefontaine
- I‑75 in Wapakoneta
- US 127 southeast of Rockford
- Indiana
- US 27 in Decatur. The highways travel concurrently to south-southeast of Fort Wayne.
- US 224 in Decatur. The highways travel concurrently through the city.
- I‑469 / US 24 / US 27 south-southeast of Fort Wayne. I-469/US 33 travels concurrently to east of Roanoke. US 24/US 33 travels concurrently around the southwestern side of Fort Wayne.
- I‑69 east of Roanoke. The highways travel concurrently to Fort Wayne.
- I‑69 / US 30 in Fort Wayne. US 30/US 33 travels concurrently through the city.
- US 6 in Ligonier. The highways travel concurrently to northeast of Syracuse.
- US 20 in Elkhart
See also
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Droz, Robert V. U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830). URL accessed 02:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC).
- ↑ Lane, Mary Beth (October 28, 2005). "Bypass is a smooth move for commuters on Rt. 33". The Columbus Dispatch.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Lane, Mary Beth (October 2, 2013). "Rt. 33 motorists save time as Nelsonville bypass opens". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved May 12, 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Portion of U.S. 33 is now Indiana 933". South Bend Tribune. April 18, 1998. Retrieved December 29, 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Christopher J. Bessert (January 1, 2008). "Historic US-33". Michigan Highways. Retrieved March 14, 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Charles Sarjeant. "US 33". Indiana Highway Ends. Retrieved March 14, 2008.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>[dead link]
- ↑ Lane, Mary Beth (October 2, 2013). "Rt. 33 [sic] Motorists Save Time as Nelsonville Bypass Opens". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved October 3, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "US 33 Nelsonville Bypass". The Ohio Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 23, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>


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== Installing Git ==
== Installing Git ==
Revision as of 09:05, 18 April 2013
- 1 Browsing the Source Code
- 2 Installing Git
- 3 Downloading the Source Code
- 4 Building Stardust
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Importing projects into Eclipse
- 7 Binary Distribution
- 8 Compliance
Browsing the Source Code
For initial quick browsing of the source code please go to http://git.eclipse.org/c/?q=stardust .
Installing Git
To checkout the source code you need to install git first. You have different options:
- git scm installs a minimal environment to run Git. It comes with a Bash,a Perl interpreter, the Git executable plus dependencies.
- msysgit installs a build environment for Git on Windows. It includes git scm.
After installtion you can open a git shell to run git commands (git bash or git-cmd.bat).
Downloading the Source Code
- Create a new folder where you like to download the sources (e.g. C:\stardust\git)
- Create a new file, e.g. cloneStardust.cmd, and copy the following commands
git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.build.tools.git build.tools git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.components.git components git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.deploy.jee.git deploy.jee git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.documentation.git documentation git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.engine.git engine git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.examples.git examples git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ide.git ide git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ide.simulation.git ide.simulation git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ide.wst.git ide.wst git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.git org.eclipse.stardust git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.product.git product git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.reporting.app.web.git reporting.app.web git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.reporting.rt.git reporting.rt git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.reporting.ui.git reporting.ui git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.repository.git repository git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ui.common.git ui.common git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ui.web.git ui.web git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/stardust/org.eclipse.stardust.ui.web.git ui.web.mobile
- Save the file
- Go to your git installation and open git shell (e.g. execute git-cmd.bat on windows)
- Change to your just created download folder and execute cloneStardust.cmd
The above mentioned commands will checkout the master branch per default. Please note that the currently active branches are I_4_3 for Kepler and master for Helios driven builds. Please checkout one of these branches. You can do that by adding the "-b <branch-name>" parameter to the above mentioned commands, except for master.
If you run git clone behind a HTTP proxy specify proxy details first.
git config --global http.proxy http://<user>:<password>@proxy:port
Building Stardust
Build Tools
After check out as described above you can build Stardust source code. You need Apache Ant and Apache Maven. If you do not already have those tools installed please download them from their official website and install them accordingly to their installation instructions in a location of your choice, later called ANT_HOME and M2_HOME. We suggest Ant 1.8.4 and Maven 3.0.4, but other similar versions should work as well. After those preparations are done perform the following steps ( also see the readme.txt in the product folder).
Environment-specific Changes
Make sure your environment variables ANT_HOME, M2_HOME and JAVA_HOME are set correctly. Also add ant and maven to your %Path% environment variable. Create a file called private.properties in the folder [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/etc. Modify the file with a text editor and add the following content:
java16.home=[your java home path] m2.home=[your maven home path]
for instance:
java16.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_32
If you don't want to use the preconfigured Maven settings file [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml then you have to specify the path of the actual settings file in your [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/etc/private.properties file, e.g
mvn.settings=C:/Program Files/Maven/conf/settings.xml
Make sure that you use forward slashes in property files!
Maven ConfigurationIf you don't want to use the preconfigured maven settings.xml file in [your stardust git dir]/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml then you have to add some credentials in your settings file (this can be e.g. your settings file in your user home\.m2 folder or in maven_home\conf folder). Open your settings file in an editor and add this entry in the<servers> tag:
<server> <id>stardust-3rdparty-repo</id> <username>stardust.contributor</username> <password>\{DESede\}BKab8uCs+3KRLHy/l2AeHQ==</password> </server>
Running the Builds
Make sure your machine is connected to the internet, open a command line in your build folder and then execute these two commands replacing [build_tools_home] with the absolute path to your build.tools sub folder:
set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx768m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
mvn -f product/components-pom.xml -s [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/settings.xml -P stardust-build -Dbuild.tools.home=[build_tools_home] install
For instance:
mvn -f product/components-pom.xml -s c:/stardustbuild/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml -P stardust-build -Dbuild.tools.home=c:/stardustbuild/build.tools install
Depending on your connection speed and other factors the completion of the second command can take up to several hours.
After build of components finished successfully, you should find the resulting artifacts in your local maven repository at [build_tools_home]/build/m2-repo.
Now the eclipse p2 repository with the Stardust eclipse plug-ins can be built. Run the following command replacing [build_tools_home] with the absolute path to your build.tools sub folder:
mvn clean install -f product/pom.xml -s [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/settings.xml -P force-overwrite,stardust-build -Dbuild.tools.home=[build_tools_home]
for instance:
mvn clean install -f product/pom.xml -s C:/stardustbuild/build.tools/conf/m2/settings.xml -Pforce-overwrite,stardust-build -Dbuild.tools.home=C:/stardustbuild/build.tools
This will trigger the build of the p2 repository.
The above mentioned commands assumes that you're using the Maven settings file which is located in [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/. If you like to use the one of your user home folder or the one of your Maven installation folder (in this case please add the mvn.settings property in [build_tools_home]/etc/private.properties which is described above) then you can remove the "-s [build_tools_home]/conf/m2/settings.xml" parameter from the build commands.
After the build has finished successful, you will find the repository in the sub folder :
[your stardust git dir]/repository/org.eclipse.stardust.modeling.repository/target/repository/
and zipped as an update site:
[your stardust git dir]/repository/org.eclipse.stardust.modeling.repository/target/stardust-offline-site-9.9.9-SNAPSHOT.zip
Where to go from here?
Now you can use the build result, a local eclipse update site, to install Stardust. Follow the instructions in the section Local Eclipse Update Site (offline)
Next check out the resource in the Stardust Knowledge Base, especially the Getting Started section. You may also want to check out the Forum to post questions or just exchange thoughts with the community.
If you experience any problems downloading the source code or building Stardust then please contact us via the Forum.
Error retrieving BIRT Runtime
If you get the error below or something similar while running the p2 repository build (step 2) then this is caused by an instabilty of the connection with the Eclipse server. Retrying the same build command at a later point in time should resolve the issue.
[ivy:retrieve] Server access Error: Read timed out url=http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/drops/R-R1-2_6_2-201102191842/birt-runtime-2_6_2.zip
Errors fetching Dependencies
If you encounter errors during the build that indicate missing dependencies which could not be fetched from the repositories then try cleaning the ivy cache folder .ivy in your user.home (e.g. C:\Users\your.name\.ivy, if it exists) and the maven repository (check settings.xml in M2_HOME/etc and/or user.home/.m2 to determine the location).
If your are using Maven 3.0.4 behind a proxy please see here on how to fix the issue.
Importing projects into Eclipse
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Recipe from John Tussey Jr. of Mililani, HI
1 package of boneless chicken thighs
3 cloves of garlic (minced)
1 red bell pepper (sliced)
2 onions (sliced)
3 stalks of Bok Choy (diced)
1 carrot (sliced)
1 stalk of celery (diced)
1 can of water chestnuts (cut in halves)
1 eggplant (diced)
1 jar of Hoisin sauce
cooking oil
Sauté the chicken and garlic together in hot oil on medium high heat. Remove the cooked chicken from the pan. Add more oil if it is needed then add the red bell pepper, onions and carrot to the pan. After they are partially cooked, add in the bok choy, celery, eggplant and water chestnuts. When all these ingredients are almost done cooking, lower the heat level and add the chicken back in along with the jar of Hoisin sauce. Cook for about one more minute to ensure the vegetables are crisp before removing from heat. Enjoy!
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The Ethical Treatises, being the Treatises of the First Ennead, with Porphry's Life of Plotinus, and the Preller-Ritter Extracts forming a Conspectus of the Plotinian System, translated from Greek by Stephen Mackenna (Boston: Charles T. Branford, 1918). 6 vols. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1861,
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Unlimited Sprint Data Not Going Anywhere Once LTE Arrives
You may be close to reaching saturation when it comes to news about Sprint's LTE network and the first phones that will operate on it; at least, it's certainly seemed like a good portion of the news and rumors we've been looking into lately have dealt with either the Galaxy Nexus, LG Viper, or the Sprint LTE network in general.
Soon enough, we'll be back to business as usual, but for the time being we've still got plenty of questions left about these launches. One very relevant question is what the deployment of LTE will mean for Sprint's unlimited data. The carrier has now been confirming that unlimited data will not be affected by the start of LTE service.
This is fantastic news, at least if you happen to live in one of the markets where Sprint will first have LTE coverage. Every time we hear about a big change coming for Sprint, we end up worrying about what effect it would have on unlimited data; the same concern arose when the carrier first got its hands on the iPhone. So far, unlimited data has proved resilient to these bumps, and Sprint looks like it will be remaining the last major carrier continuing to offer such service. Granted, we could see this policy change if the carrier underestimates LTE data consumption, but it sounds like things will at least be off to a good start.
Source: Tech Hog
Via: Engadget
This article originally published at Pocketnow here


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D.C. United are accustomed to long odds this postseason, and that will certainly remain the case after Houston used three second-half goals to take the first leg of the Eastern Conference Championship 3-1 in front of a record crowd at BBVA Compass Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
In a game littered with injuries and perhaps defined by a controversial no call, the Dynamo used goals from Andre Hainault, Will Bruin and Kofi Sarkodie to cancel out Nick DeLeon's opener in front of 22,101 orange-clad fans.
Houston started out on the front foot, Luiz Camargo blazing over from a tight angle and Brad Davis lining up over a series of attacking free kicks, but soon injuries became the primary theme of the match.
United's Chris Pontius was the first to exit, straining his left groin in the ninth minute while taking a free kick before being subbed out for Lewis Neal in the 12th minute.
OPTA Chalkboard: Houston's switch to 4-3-3 pays second-half dividends
Neal nearly opened the scoring five minutes later, but Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall was there to swat his shot at the back post away after DeLeon's cross made it all the way across the box. Hainault nearly grabbed the lead for Houston in the 23rd minute, but his header from Boniek Garcia's quickly taken free kick flashed wide of Joe Willis' goal.
Just minutes later, Adam Moffat was the second casualty of the match, finally succumbing to a chest injury in the 25th minute after a collision with Robbie Russell kept him down earlier in the match. Midseason signing Giles Barnes entered for the Scotsman to shore up the Dynamo midfield.
WATCH: No call on Hainault challenge
United's Marcelo Saragosa was the also removed in the 40th minute with a left hamstring strain. Raphael Augusto, 21, came on for the veteran, making his first-ever MLS appearance.
But it wasn't Houston's players in the center of the park who were to blame for the opening goal in the 27th minute. That fell to Garcia and Sarkodie, who lost the ball to DeLeon on the left flank, splitting the Houston defense open. DeLeon slipped the ball in behind Bobby Boswell to a streaking Lionard Pajoy, who drove in from the left flank and smacked Hall's post with a terrific effort.
Fortunately for D.C., DeLeon was trailing the play and the rebound fell directly to the rookie, whose low effort caromed off Hainault and into the back of the net for his second goal in two games, giving United a 1-0 lead.
That, perhaps, should have been Hainault's last positive contribution to the match, as he appeared to haul down Augusto on the edge of penalty area just before the halftime whistle. Referee Ricardo Salazar waved play on, however, ruling it was not a denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity. United goalkeeper coach Pat Onstad was ejected at halftime after an animated discussion with Salazar.
United's complaints became especially relevant just six minutes into the second half when Houston tied the game. After Barnes was fouled on the left flank, Davis took the spot kick quickly, slipping Garcia in behind a sleeping United defense. The Honduran drove a low ball across the six-yard box, which was dummied by Kandji before Hainault buried it at the back post.
Five minutes later, United were forced to use their final substitution, as Brandon McDonald exited with a left calf strain for Emiliano Dudar. That's when things got really interesting.
The drama started in the 66th minute when it appeared D.C. would take the lead, only for Boswell to pop up on the goal line to head away Pajoy's goal-bound effort. Just a minute later, Bruin made the Black-and-Red pay.
Barnes drove past Dejan Jakovic on the endline and tried to slip a cross under Willis, but the D.C. netminder dove to push the effort away. It only got as far as Bruin, however, and he bundled it in off the post for a 2-1 lead.
With D.C. looking gassed, Houston put the game, and perhaps the series, away in the 80th minute. After United failed to clear a Davis corner kick, Sarkodie and Camargo played a nifty one-two, opening up the right back to find the far corner with a low, driven shot, a goal that sent the sellout crowd into hysterics.
Houston will take that two-goal lead to RFK Stadium for the series' second leg next weekend. That game will be Sunday at 4 pm ET on NBC Sports Network.
Houston Dynamo (14-9-11, 3-1-0) vs. D.C. United (17-10-7, 1-1-1)
MLS Cup playoffs Eastern Conference Championship – Leg 1
November 11, 2012 – BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston
Attendance: 22,101 (sellout)
Scoring Summary:
DC: Nick DeLeon 2 (unassisted) 27
HOU: Andre Hainault 1 (Boniek Garcia 1, Brad Davis 2) 51
HOU: Will Bruin 4 (unassisted) 68
HOU: Kofi Sarkodie 1 (Luiz Camargo 1) 81
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Kofi Sarkodie, Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Corey Ashe; Adam Moffat (Giles Barnes 25), Luiz Camargo, Brad Davis (Warren Creavalle 88); Boniek Garcia, Will Bruin (Brian Ching 88), Macoumba Kandji
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Cam Weaver, Nathan Sturgis, Je-Vaughn Watson
D.C. United: Joe Willis; Robbie Russell, Brandon McDonald (Emiliano Dudar 56), Dejan Jakovic, Chris Korb; Nick DeLeon, Perry Kitchen, Marcelo Saragosa (Raphael Augusto 40), Chris Pontius (Lewis Neal 12)
Substitutes not used: Maicon Santos, Hamdi Salihi, Andrew Dykstra, Daniel Woolard
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Macoumba Kandji (caution) 76
Referee: Ricardo Salazar
Referee's Assistants: Craig Lowry, Peter Manikowski
4th Official: Geoff Gamble


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2012 Agricultural SymposiumJanuary 5, 2015
Agriculture is notorious for its cycles of boom and bust. Past farm booms quickly faded as economic and financial market conditions changed. Today, farm incomes are swelling because of record high exports and strong demand for biofuels. At the same time, with historically low interest rates, farmland values reached record highs.
Although these current conditions mirror the past, farmers have hesitated to take on debt in financing new investments, raising the possibility that this time could be different. The 2012 Agricultural Symposium will reflect on agriculture's past, explore its future, and assess whether agriculture can escape its historical cycles of boom and bust.
The Main Street Economist article, "Is This Farm Boom Different?", explores the foundations of the current and past farm booms.
The Economic Review article, "Agriculture's Boom-Bust Cycles: Is This Time Different?", provides a more in-depth examination of agriculture's boom-bust cycles, including a look at the 1940s when export demand was sustained and debt accumulation was limited.
2012 Agricultural Symposium agenda
|Monday, July 16, 2012
|12:30 - 1:15 p.m.
|1:15 - 1:30 p.m.
|1:30 - 2:15 p.m.
|Keynote Address: Reflections of the Past
|The keynote speaker will reflect on agriculture's past and explore the market and policy drivers of previous farm cycles and the implications for today.
|Ambassador Clayton Yeutter
Former U.S. Trade Representative and Secretary of Agriculture
|2:15 - 3:30 p.m.
|Session 1: When do Farm Booms Become Bubbles?
|This session will explore the fundamental drivers of farmland value booms.
A speaker will describe current farmland market conditions.
In addition the speaker will examine the characteristics of asset value booms,
define asset bubbles and explore their occurrences in various real estate markets, including farmland.
|When Do Farm Booms Become Bubbles? Presentation | Paper
|Speaker: Brent Gloy, Director for Commercial Agriculture, Purdue University
|3:30 - 5 p.m.
|Session 2: What Lies Beyond the Horizon for Farm Income?
|This session will investigate the prospects for sustained farm prosperity.
A speaker and discussant will explore the economic and financial market conditions
that drive future farm profits. The speaker will describe the market forces shaping today's lofty expectations for farm profits. The speaker and discussant will also explore
the key risks to agricultural supply and demand projections that could alter agriculture's profit expectations.
|What Lies Beyond the Horizon for Farm Income? Presentation | Paper
|Speaker: William Hudson, Principal and Founding Partner, The Pro-Exporter Network
|What Lies Beyond The Horizon For Farm Incomes: The Case For Volatility With An Upward Bias
|Discussant: Sterling Liddell, Vice President, Rabobank
|5 - 6:30 p.m.
|6:30 - 8 p.m.
|Dinner and Speaker: Macroeconomics and Farmland Values
|Esther George, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
|July 17, 2012
|7:30 - 8 a.m.
|Continental Breakfast
|8- 9:30 a.m.
|Session 3: Who Leveraged the Farm?
This session will examine the relationship between farm debt, leverage and farmland values.
|Who Leveraged the Farm? Presentation | Paper
|Speaker: Allen Featherstone, Professor, Kansas State University
|Industry Panel: Edward Cooper, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank
|Don Reynolds, CEO, Regional Missouri Bank
|Daryl Oldvader, CEO, FCS Financial
|10 - 11: 30 a.m.
|Session 4: Who Bought the Farm?
|This closing panel will discuss the future for farmland values and structure of farmland ownership. A diverse panel of farmland managers, lenders and investors will describe U.S. and international farmland market conditions and consider future prospects for farmland values. The panelists will explore the factors driving the ownership of farmland in the 21st century.
|Who Bought The Farm?
|Jim Farrell, President and CEO, Farmers National Company
|Chris Erickson, Managing Director, HighQuest Partners
|Tim Hopper, Managing Director, Global Private Markets, TIAA-CREF
|11: 30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
|Luncheon and Symposium Rapporteur
|A conference rapporteur will summarize the highlights of the conference and discuss whether this farm boom is different from agriculture's historical boom and bust cycles.
|Is This Boom Different? Presentation | Paper
|Michael Boehlje, Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Commitment to Agricultural and Rural Research
With the heavy concentration of agriculture across the Great Plains, research on agricultural enterprises and rural economic issues has been a long-standing area of expertise for our Bank. Economists publish a wide variety of research and analysis on agricultural and rural issues.
- The Main Street Economist
This bi-monthly electronic newsletter provides analysis on economic opportunities and challenges facing agricultural sectors and rural areas in the Tenth District and throughout the nation.
- Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions
The Bank's quarterly survey of agricultural bankers provides current indicators of the financial performance of Tenth District agriculture. The accumulated results also help trace longer term trends. Survey results summarize several indicators of farm financial conditions, including farmland values, interest rates on farm loans, credit supply and demand, and farm income.
- Agricultural Finance Databook
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City oversees this quarterly compilation of national and regional agricultural finance data. Each release includes national data on term lending to farmers, quarterly Call Report data on national agricultural lending and agricultural bank failures, and data on agricultural land values and credit conditions from quarterly Federal Reserve Bank surveys. A publication summarizing the data is also produced.
- Economic Review
The Economic Review is a quarterly research publication with articles by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City staff on issues of relevance to the Federal Reserve. Areas of focus include macroeconomics and monetary policy, agricultural and rural economic issues, regional and international economics, banking, financial markets and payments systems.
- TEN Magazine
This quarterly magazine for business and banking leaders highlights the Bank's research, events and programs, and frequently focuses on agricultural and rural issues.
The District's agricultural and rural research is based out of its branch office in Omaha, Nebraska. Economists are available to speak on a variety of issues affecting farms and rural areas with organizations and the news media.
For speaking inquiries, please e-mail email@example.com. To receive notification of new research and publications on agricultural and rural issues, sign up for email updates.


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Barbara Yaffe has spent more than 35 years living and working from one end of Canada to the other.
She attended McGill University and the University of Toronto, reciving her B.A. degree in 1974. She then took the journalism program at Carleton University, receiving her B.J. in 1975.
Her first job was at The Montreal Gazette. Within a year she made the switch to The Globe and Mail where she worked in the Toronto newsroom, the Queens Park Bureau and then, the Altantic Bureau. While at the Globe, Yaffe was co-recipient, in 1977, of the Roland Michener Award for a series of articles on children's services in Ontario.
In 1981, she accepted a job as CBC TV National news reporter for Newfoundland and Labrador, and later covered the province of Alberta for CBC.
She returned to The Globe in 1984 becoming parliamentary reporter in Ottawa. From 1985 to 88 she worked again in Newfoundland, as a freelance magazine and newspaper reporter and later for the weekly Sunday Express.
She joined The Vancouver Sun in 1988, becoming Lifestyles Editor. In 1991, she accepted the position of B.C. editor, in charge of provincial news. In 1993, she took on her current role as national political columnist.
In 2004, she won Columnist of the Year award given by the Jack Webster Foundation. The same year she won an award of distinction from the International Fund for Animal Welfare for her writing on animal welfare.


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Opinion: How Wall Street's Reputation Died
Yale University law professor Jon Macey on how SEC regulations have reduced the importance of financial firms' reputation. Photo credit: Associated Press.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the route to the topic of Wall Street now and ... as everybody knows Wall Street's reputation isn't exactly stellar these days ... I'm really not for the reasons that you might think ... Yale University law professor John may see as a new book out called ... the death of corporate reputation ... he's here to explain this thesis on that welcome ... thank you very much Mary Street in the year but to what is Wall Street care about its reputation and more ... well starting with of the nineteen thirties really ... the government has continually been telling people ... that time that the government will protect people ... the most obvious example this of course is deposit insurance ... bank uses just and huge resources in developing ... credibility and a good reputation the bill these ... myths in Greek Gothic buildings that ... that exuded confidence ... melody which Elaine Avakyan FDIC insurance regulation ... has demonstrably replace reputation ... this is the only true with with with that in an obvious example ... with the SCC says do you take a big swipe at the ICC in this book but a lot yet and it really is I mean severance was the only buy into their own desires of some jams that some books you that's right ... and and and basically the story is ... the SCC said is ... we need our job is investor protection ... no one who was come within a thousand miles of the Burnie made up scandal ... can see a he or ... she you know they're doing a great job of investor protection what's really awful ... is not subject to regulation the problem is ... that people were drinking the koolaid people are actually believing ... that these bureaucracies with a baby ... the FDIC who are the FTC ... now we have been due ... I start to the Dodd Frank ... consumer protection bureau ... under Mr. Korber all you know so I say I'll have I care about my reputation anymore because the SEC's can protect the skies but it's not just the bank's rate on it's it's it's the law firm's the credit rating agencies to isn't that right while the credit rating agencies are probably ... the the the strongest example the worthy of a chapter Chapter all to themselves in this book ... HAL ... in industry was built on reputation ... now could care less of it so it is so I'm looking for example for about a great tax lawyer ... I don't go to a certain firm because it's the great it's a great firm and a great reputation ... I go to guy because he's the text taxman in town I follow him around is that ... in the yard art and ... the Corporation is ... no Corporation the U S has a law firm anymore ... he'll take ... she's a tax lawyer from for May ... in in in a guy from from the regulatory guy in NCC guy he always has the seal on this of course ... you know to to represent them so ... the upshot of this is is nobody goes down with the ship and by that I mean ... you were to Lehman Brothers and Lehman Brothers fails ... in the next week you looking at Barclays in the air Arthur Andersen it fails because of the fraud at Enron ... you're working Italy ... if you are and do we firm that day when bankrupt ... you know you the professionals move seamlessly asylum issue thirty seconds left this sounds like developing countries where you can trust institutions ... seem to have to trust that God the you know my ... mom and I ... you can't resist attention so you either stay out of the market ... Warren you you believe as too many hapless investors have done ... that they are smart enough to figure things out for themselves ... the only bright side of the Brunson of this the mayor is that ... that ... if we get to a point where people don't ... okay Josh from Scott and they're unfortunately you can just read the book everybody a law professor John Casey thank you so much for being with us thanks


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After hundreds of armed police stormed through the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects in West Harlem last week, arresting more than 40 people in the city's largest ever raid on gangs, longtime anti-violence advocate Derrick Haynes was torn.
"I'm not saying it's good and I'm not saying it's bad, but we had to do something to deescalate the situation," he said about the raid.
A resident of the Manhattanville Houses on West 126th Street, Haynes' brother was killed more than 40 years ago—the first casualty of the violent feud between the three gangs indicted in the police investigation last week. He has since worked to provide youth with enrichment programs that mitigate violence.
Although he said last week's raids were not most ideal of responses, Haynes and other anti-violence advocates are now seeking to create neutral areas to defuse tension and direct more funding to community organizations.
"What's going to happen is, we're going to stay the course," he said.
Last week, police raided the Grant and Manhattanville public housing complexes in the culmination of a three-year investigation into gang violence in the area. Over 100 individuals are indicted in the investigation, three of whom are juveniles.
The indictment includes allegations of retaliatory murder and violence between rival gangs in the housing developments—including the 2011 high-profile killing of basketball star Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy—and attempts to recruit and encourage pre-teens to partake in the violence.
Anne Morris, president of the Manhattanville Houses tenants association, acknowledged the necessity of the raid.
"It makes it safer for the residents here, because it's been a horror story," she said.
Several residents of both housing projects—many of whom refused to give their names for fear of retaliation by the gangs—echoed a sense of relief after the raids. Others, however, questioned why the police didn't act sooner and why the arrests had to be as dramatic as they were.
"The most devastation seems to come from the younger kids," Haynes said. "Seven, eight, nine, ten year old kids who don't understand police coming in and handcuffing kids, laying them down on the floor."
"They raped our village, they destroyed our village," Nicole Campbell, a 12-year resident of the Grant Houses, said.
Morris said that recent youth violence is the result of longstanding issues like the lack of after-school programs and youth employment opportunities.
"It's been a continual problem with not enough jobs, not enough for kids to do," she said.
She said that although construction projects in public housing must give employment preference to residents, youth often need to undergo training before they can begin work—which ultimately means that contractors hire outside employees instead of local workers.
Another part of the employment problem, Haynes and Morris said, was that fewer Grant and Manhattanville houses youth had been selected to participate in this year's city Summer Youth Employment Program—in 2013, only 27 percent of applicants received a placement. Job assignments for this summer are still being announced.
Morris also said that the lack of regular police patrols is a factor in persistent gang violence.
"If something happens then you get a rash of coverage for a few days," she said. But "these situations seem to reach epidemic stages because we don't have continual coverage."
The Thursday after the raid, Columbia Vice President for Public Safety James McShane announced support for increased NYPD and Public Safety patrols along 125th Street and Broadway. In the meantime, however, residents of the housing projects said that police presence hasn't changed in recent days.
"There's no police here," Campbell said. "They came, they left."
In a statement following the raid, District 7 City Council member Mark Levine called police enforcement "critical." He added, however, that "PSA6 and the 26th Precinct can't protect safety alone. The long-term solution to the gang violence issue lies in a dramatic increase in youth development programming in Grant and Manhattanville."
Iesha Sekou, another longtime anti-violence advocate and the CEO of Street Corner Resources, said that while plenty of community organizations are willing to work with youth, it has been difficult to secure adequate funding.
She said that obtaining funds is a "long and arduous" process, and emphasized the importance of quick intervention in anti-violence work.
"We can't play around with young people's lives," Sekou said. "We should be able to intervene at the time we see the problem."
In light of the recent increase in arrests among youth in public housing, Sekou called for a look into truancy enforcement and into teens' home lives. Parents, she said, should not have to feel hopeless.
"It doesn't mean that we criminalize the parent or that we criminalize the young people, but that we provide supportive services," Sekou said.
In addition to the city government, advocates are turning to Columbia for funds. Sekou is currently seeking funding from Columbia to create a mobile violence intervention unit.
Meanwhile, Haynes plans to ask for money from Columbia's Community Benefits Agreement to open a "play street" on Old Broadway between 125th and 126th Street, which would act as a neutral zone for youth from both developments to interact.
Neutral space is essential but hard to find, Haynes said—the Grant Houses' community center is closed, while a busy commercial area surrounds the two projects.
As of now, Haynes hopes to debut the play street at a community function on June 28. He plans to invite community based organizations and residents from both developments.
"Hopefully, they'll start talking and playing and communicating with each other," Haynes said, so that they can share the Manhattanville community center by the time temperatures drop.
"Once the fall comes in and it starts to rain, and it starts to snow, we will have broken the ice," he said.
Channing Prend and Christian Zhang contributed reporting.