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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women's soccer team won two recent NESCAC contests to clinch first place in the league and home-field advantage throughout the league playoffs. The winner of the league postseason clinches an NCAA Division III tournament berth.
The Panthers (10-1-2, 8-1 NESCAC) are ranked No. 14 in NCAA D-III and are unbeaten since a 1-0 overtime loss at Amherst in their season opener. Middlebury returns to action this Saturday at Wesleyan, and will host a NESCAC quarterfinal on Nov. 2.
On this past Saturday, Julia Favorito scored the game's only goal in the 53rd minute as Middlebury defeated host Bates 1-0. The Panthers nearly doubled their total in the 56th and 63rd minutes with shots that went just wide, while the Bobcats (3-7-1, 1-6-1) nearly found the equalizer in the 86th minute.
On the scoring play, Middlebury's Jamie Soroka fired a shot on net from 12 yards away that Bates goalkeeper Anabel Schmelz (eight saves) knocked away. The ball eventually found its way to Favorito, who slotted the ball into the right side of the goal for her fourth of the season. Middlebury goalkeeper Elizabeth Foody made two saves for her fourth shutout of the season.
Tuesday's game with visiting Williams saw first place in NESCAC on the line, and the Panthers prevailed when Scarlett Kirk scored the game-winner with 50 seconds left in a 1-0 victory over the No. 22 Ephs (8-2-2, 5-2-1).
Kirk had a good look in the 38th minute, but her blast from 30 yards out sailed just high. The Ephs threatened late in the half after a cross created a scrum in the goal area, but the ball was eventually cleared away.
The second half featured fewer scoring chances. The game-winner came in transition. Carter Talgo played a ball up the left side to Kirk, who ran onto it just inside the 18. Williams' keeper Hannah Van Wetter came out to challenge the play, but Kirk chipped a shot past her and inside the far post. The goal was her team-leading ninth of the season, tying her for the NESCAC lead. Kirk now owns 40 goals in 64 career games.
Middlebury outshot Williams, 13-4, but the Ephs held a 5-1 edge in corner kicks. Foody made three stops, while Van Wetter also finished with three saves for the Ephs, who saw their unbeaten streak snapped at eight games.
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Those findings mean it's conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia. So all earthlings might—just might—be descendants of Martians.
Again and again across the centuries, cosmic discoveries have demoted our self-image. Earth was once assumed to be astronomically unique, until astronomers learned that Earth is just another planet orbiting the Sun. Then we presumed the Sun was unique, until we learned that the countless stars of the night sky are suns themselves. Then we presumed our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire known universe, until we established that the countless fuzzy things in the sky are other galaxies, dotting the landscape of our known universe.
Today, how easy it is to presume that one universe is all there is. Yet emerging theories of modern cosmology, as well as the continually reaffirmed improbability that anything is unique, require that we remain open to the latest assault on our plea for distinctiveness: multiple universes, otherwise known as the "multiverse," in which ours is just one of countless bubbles bursting forth from the fabric of the cosmos.
The cosmic perspective flows from fundamental knowledge. But it's more than just what you know. It's also about having the wisdom and insight to apply that knowledge to assessing our place in the universe. And its attributes are clear:
The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to everyone.
The cosmic perspective is humble.
The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious.
The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small.
The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told.
The cosmic perspective opens our eyes to the universe, not as a benevolent cradle designed to nurture life but as a cold, lonely, hazardous place.
The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote, but a precious mote and, for the moment, the only home we have.
The cosmic perspective finds beauty in the images of planets, moons, stars, and nebulae but also celebrates the laws of physics that shape them.
The cosmic perspective enables us to see beyond our circumstances, allowing us to transcend the primal search for food, shelter, and sex.
The cosmic perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave—an indication that perhaps flag waving and space exploration do not mix.
The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.
At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth.
Absent such curiosity, we are no different from the provincial farmer who expresses no need to venture beyond the county line, because his forty acres meet all his needs. Yet if all our predecessors had felt that way, the farmer would instead be a cave dweller, chasing down his dinner with a stick and a rock.
During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore—in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their "low contracted prejudices." And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment—until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace the cosmic perspective.


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What is democracy? In the narrowest definition it is popular self-government. It is political, it involves many people, and it requires tallying judgments to record popular decisions. Elections are the crucial element, with the rule that majorities can never eliminate minorities from the electoral process. However, voting is not enough. To make political participation effective citizens need information and public associations to give them access to the system, and they need elected officials to respond.
Democracy is not everything all the time anywhere. It doesn't favor capitalism, socialism, or any other -ism. It does not mean two-party politics, constitutions, a vigorous press, or voluntary associations. Democracy does not contain cures for cruelty or oppression. It has no exclusive claim to compassion or social responsiveness. It has affinity with liberty, equality and fairness, but it doesn't give reliable support for any of these. Democracy, as Robert Wiebe writes, "reveals our humanity not our salvation. We may not like it."
The risks of the modern world make us realize that a collective life defines democratic citizens. Democracy can't rely on private interests and private rights. It is about shared purpose, community and public lives and duties. As we realize limits to growth, we begin to understand that IT must go in SOMEONE'S backyard. "Democracy," Robert Hiskes writes, "presumes a set of ideas about what it takes to accomplish things together and voluntarily as a matter of faithfulness and engagement – not out of force."
The way we understand ourselves as a public is our most critical issue today. There is widespread frustration that money rules, not citizens. Has our American public become a myth? Our democracy was formed during colonial days when people decided what to do about common problems and acted together to implement their solutions. Citizens are powerful when they act collectively. While we may despair of the national picture, we still act locally. When citizens do, they are willing to act at a higher level.
Of course, local interests can be unrelentingly selfish. Well-intentioned leaders, self-styled as "the public's agents," can be very contemptuous of people. It may be because they see the "big picture" and the public through a lens of idealism, which blinds them to community interests. Yet, no argument for self-rule is as compelling as what people experience and how they cooperate with those who hold different values within local communities. If we want democracy to flourish, we need to encourage people to grow where they were planted.
"Society in every state is a blessing," Tom Paine wrote in Common Sense, "but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer…our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." Functioning as private consumers and private property owners, rather than as public citizens with common or community interests would seem to make his point. The state or a few of its leaders do not exercise public reason. It can only occur through deliberative action, and deliberation is a joint social activity. Thus, in the fullness of its meaning, democracy is we the people, acting together to reform or improve our shared public sphere. Increasing participation is its indispensable goal. As Langston Hughes wrote:
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I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
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America will be!"
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"For Me the Story Is Always the Characters": An Interview With Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Check it out here!
"A love letter to the supreme fucked-upness of modern Punjabi families…"
The marvelous Titi Nguyen recently interviewed me for the Ploughshares blog. Read it all here.
Deep Singh Blue Launch at WORD Bookstore, Tuesday, March 15
Join Ranbir Singh Sidhu and Tanwi Nandini Islam for the launch of DEEP SINGH BLUE. Both will read from their debut novels, and discuss the ways they have re-invent the immigrant narrative using their own experiences and by creating first-generation protagonists that defy stereotypes.
Tuesday, March 15, Word Bookstore, 126 Franklin St, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Click here for the Facebook invite.
DEEP SINGH BLUE is work of ferocious bravery, intelligence, and art.
Thank you to Alex Shakar for the incredibly generous blurb, which he assures me is heartfelt.
"This is no picturesque coming of age. In an immigrant family and an adopted land both straitjacketed by denial and rage, it's an open question—and a propulsive one—whether Deep Singh's lashings out to save himself will lead to salvation or destruction. Deep Singh Blue is work of ferocious bravery, intelligence, and art."
—Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium
DEEP SINGH BLUE in Kirkus Reviews
Thank you to Kirkus for the fantastic review! Here's a little of what they say: "Sidhu writes with keen wit and crafts every character with psychological texture, exploring the effects of racism as well as the desire to control a world spinning off its axis… A heart-wrenching coming-of-age tale in which survival depends more on compassion than rebellion."
Read the full review here.
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DEEP SINGH BLUE in Sunday Guardian Best of 2016!
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Leblanc process is used for the manufacture of sodium carbonate from limestone, coal, sulphuric acid and salt. First, sodium chloride reacts with sulphuric acid in Mannheim process. This results in sodium sulphate and hydrogen chloride.
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You've probably already seen this article about race and the 2008 campaign. Supposedly, if people in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and NY hadn't been such ignorant bigots, Obama would have won by bigger margins. That's assuming that there was nothing more important on the electorate's mind.
It's an interesting study but I can't imagine why this would be of any particular interest to anyone. Obama won. That means enough people were either able to overcome the conditioning of their culture or they were scared shitless about the market collapse. What it *doesn't* mean is that the people who were googling racist jokes would have voted for Obama if they had been more enlightened people. For those of us who realize that race is a social construct and not a biological one, Obama's skin color did not factor into our decision. If you're really post-racial, you evaluate the candidate by criteria that is important for successful presidents. A candidate who weaponizes racism, whether real or merely convenient, against hard working people who are concerned for their own livelihoods, is not that much different than the guy who is googling the N word. If anyone is being prejudiced here, it might be the Obama campaign who assumes that everyone in Appalachia is hiding an ignorant redneck heart.
There are some questions I'd like the answers to about this study, which I have only glanced at briefly. For example, what about the people in these states that don't have computers and have never used google. I have relatives who fall into this category. They're more likely to google a recipe for halushka, if they had a computer or any interest in using one. They were not fans of Obama but hardly racists, considering the diversity in their own families. The study makes me think of Gallup polls that report on people the surveyers contacted by phone. Presumably, that means landline. But what if you don't have a landline? How would Gallup contact you to know what you think? A phone survey might oversample older people who may not believe in evolution while showing a drop off of people who do because younger people don't need landlines. Or, the study could be finding that race was part of the general atmosphere of 2008 and people were following up on stories they had heard. It might be a voyeur effect. And how do you account for NJ turning up ranked #17 on the list? I've never met any racists here in NJ and I've lived here for 2 decades.
Then there are the unanswered questions about whether Obama's ill-timed remarks about bitter, gun-totin', church goers before the Pennsylvania primary might have had any effect on the primaries in that state or the subsequent one in West Virginia. Obama seemed to go out of his way to insult everyone in Appalachia long before a single vote was cast for him there. Why aren't we questioning his stereotypes and prejudices towards the voters in these states? If you listened to the Obama campaign, you'd think that Appalachia consisted of nothing but toothless, moonshine smuggling rednecks. I don't doubt that there are some places in central PA where those people exist but I never spoke to one when I was phone banking or canvassing there. Did the study author bother to explore the effect of Obama's snubs on these primary outcomes? Another question that I'm dying to have the answer to is how many searches of the form "hillary, bitch" came out of lower Manhattan or "redneck" from Chicago, Illinois? Why don't we find out whether making the men of this country less sexist would have lead to the first female presidency?
Or would we hear howls of protest? Hillary must be judged by a completely different set of criteria. She and her husband were centrists, they'll say.
Ok, I'll bite. Would a guy who wanted to appoint the first female attorney general, who raised taxes on the wealthy, appointed two of the most liberal judges on the supreme court we have today, put health care reform at the front of his agenda, got the Family Leave Act passed, protected children's health care with SCHIP, stared down Republicans when they shut down government and was in favor of having gays serve openly in the military years before Obama kinda sorta got around to reversing DADT, would that guy be considered centrist today?
I have a lot of differences with my own party even though I consider myself solidly liberal. But one of the most striking differences has to be how history is remembered. It is illogical to judge the Clintons as more "centrist" than Obama. In fact, the only way that the word centrist becomes negative against the Clintons is when it is taken out of context and when the comparison to Obama is not made. Instead, centrism is mapped to the Americans Elect, Thom Friedmanesque monstrosity, that thing without a soul. It ignores the fact that centrism in 1993 was a primarily a description of where the Clintons were on the left. On a scale of 1=>10, leftiest Democrat to rightiest Republican, the Clintons were about a 3.8. Now that the scale goes to 15, it is Obama who is centrist at about an 8 and the Clintons look solidly liberal when the issues and voting records are compared.
Lefties seem disgusted by DADT and DOMA that were implemented in Clinton's terms but forget (or were too young to pay attention) that it was during the Clinton administration when the topics first landed on the national scene and in the case of gays in the military, it was Clinton who brought it up in the first place and wanted to allow gays to serve. I'm betting that many young Democrats don't know that and their lefty elders aren't setting the record straight.
What I think bothers lefties the most about Clinton was not his "centrism", although he probably referred to himself as a centrist back then. It was that he was not dogmatic in his lefty beliefs. Dogmatism plagues both ends of the political spectrum. When people complain about partisanship, they're really complaining about dogmatism, that persistence in believing in theories in spite of all evidence to the contrary. Dogma has relatively little to do with politics and has almost everything to do with identity. It also has little to do with rationality and a lot to do with emotion.
I was more than a little disappointed to see Charles Pierce jump on lefty revisionism in one of his latest Netroots Nation posts. One of the reasons I stopped going to these events was because I wasn't willing to empty my brain so that it could fully absorb the dogma saturated atmosphere. Plus, I find crunchy granola, anti-vaccine, anti-nuclear energy, anti-genetically modified everything really irritating, not to mention that people who can't differentiate between corporate shareholders and stakeholders have no idea what they're talking about when they wail against all "corporatism". Netroots Nation is not much different than a CPAC convention. Both entities have solid beliefs that they base their solutions on but they have little to do with observation, data collection, careful analysis, construction of a model, proposing policies and evaluating the effect of those policies on the model. Dogmatists don't usually like to have their beliefs evaluated.
If there is a recent surge in interest in the Clintons, it's probably because voters realize that one is still available. And it's not voters, specifically the working class and women, who are looking forward to Hillary in 2016. No, voters would prefer to have her now. It is the party leadership who wants to create the expectation of a Hillary 2016 run. They're hoping that delayed gratification will help focus voter attention on the here and now where they have presented Obama as the only choice. But I don't think that's going to work this year. And it's great that Obama is finally getting feisty but I don't think he's trustworthy. It's not just his actions that make him suspect. It's primarily his contempt for voters in general.
Maybe quality doesn't always triumph over mediocrity. But I think that when people have had experience of both, without a dogmatic filter, their brains are able to synthesize an evaluation based on information they have gathered, whether consciously or not. I made this point in 2008 about presentation and how a speaker who does his or her homework will shine over someone who has baffled the audience with bullshit. The political consultant class who thinks that voters don't know the difference may be indulging in wishful thinking. Sure, there are the Fox News viewers who are suffering from acquired stupidity syndrome but what about the other half of the population? They now have the kind of information about Obama that wasn't available to them in 2008.
It's not the dogmatists at Netroots Nation that will decide the election this year. It's going to be the base that the Democrats blew off in 2008. I'm sure the Democrats aren't happy about that but calling them racists is probably not going to work this time. They gave Obama a chance and he has come up severely wanting. This upcoming performance evaluation is based on actual performance. And if the working people are chattering about Clinton, it's not because Mark Penn has anything to do with it.
What we might really be seeing is frustration on the part of the party loyalists, Obama fan base and self-described intellectuals towards the electorate that refuses to eat its poison mushrooms. Those working class idiots don't know what's good for them, they want a "centrist", they're racists, they're stupid. But mostly, those working people and women and independents have way too many votes. There's a lot of howling going on right now from the lefty dogmatists who simply want to believe what they want to believe, damn the facts and life and imminent poverty staring people in the face everyday. But might I suggest that calling people racists and politically naive is not the best way to win friends and influence people. Since the great unwashed masses are the ones who are going to determine this election in the fall, whether the lefties like it or not, a much better idea would be to give them what they want before they go to the polls.
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The only thing more awkward than Dan Mullen's recent attempts at trolling is an article ($$) trying to justify Dan Mullen's recent attempts at trolling.
Then there was the comment Mullen made about player transfers. He was asked a general question about players receiving more waivers for immediate eligibility. This was in March, before the start of spring practice and after Fields had left Georgia for Ohio State.
"I'd think we did a poor job recruiting if guys were coming in and then immediately walking out the door because it was something different than what they thought it would be and we lied to them during recruiting, or we sold them on a dream that wasn't true," Mullen said.
Fans from rival schools were quick to revive the quote after Florida players entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, but, to be fair to Mullen, he was specifically discussing being truthful in recruiting pitches and didn't make it seem like the Gators would be immune to attrition…
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A federal judge dealt a severe blow Tuesday to Google's plans for making millions of out-of-print books available online, part of an ambitious plan to create the world's biggest digital library, after concluding that a tentative legal settlement was anti-competitive and unfair to some authors.
U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin cited a litany of objections to the proposed settlement of a 2005 class-action lawsuit by major book industry groups, which raised groundbreaking issues of technology and copyright law. At the same time, he acknowledged the social value of what Google co-founder Sergey Brin has called an effort to "unlock the wisdom" of countless authors whose works are no longer widely distributed.
"The creation of a universal digital library would benefit many," Chin wrote in his 48-page decision. But in rejecting the agreement, he said it "would give Google a significant advantage over competitors, rewarding it for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission."
The New York-based judge did not kill the Google Books project outright; instead he left the door open to further negotiations and encouraged Google to consider using only the works of authors and other copyright holders who have "opted in" to the project, rather than putting the burden on them to "opt out" if they don't want to participate.
Google has previously said that approach was unworkable. The company said Tuesday that it was disappointed in the decision, adding that it will review the ruling "and consider our options."
Legal experts said the options may include an appeal or an attempt to further revise the agreement. A spokesman for a group of major book publishers, which had sued Google and was a party in the $125 million settlement, said it was prepared to discuss a narrower agreement along the lines the judge suggested.
The ruling was applauded by the Justice Department, which had opposed the tentative deal on several grounds, including antitrust concerns. Other critics praised the judge for rejecting a plan they viewed as sharply contradicting the nation's copyright laws.
"That's what copyright law stands for. Nobody gets to use your work without your permission," said Pamela Samuelson, a UC Berkeley professor of law and information management who argued against the pact in a letter to the judge last year.
Google has already scanned more than 12 million books since it announced in 2004 that it had negotiated agreements to digitize the collections of several major university libraries and make those works available online. Google users may currently search its online collection and view short excerpts of those books, if they are still under copyright, or full versions of old books whose copyrights have expired.
The Mountain View Internet giant also has agreements with numerous publishers to let people search online for newer books and buy electronic versions of them.
But as the judge noted in his ruling, "millions of the books scanned by Google, however, were still under copyright and Google did not obtain copyright permission to scan the books." That prompted a 2005 lawsuit from the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and other book industry groups.
After two years of negotiations, Google and the book industry groups presented a tentative settlement, which they later modified in the hope of meeting legal objections from the Justice Department. But even after the judge accepted the pact on a preliminary basis, it drew a firestorm of criticism from several quarters.
The pact would have allowed Google to continue scanning books, while making money from several methods, including selling online access to full texts and placing ads on pages from those texts. It also would have created a mechanism for Google to share the proceeds with copyright holders.
But under the pact, Google had the right to scan and distribute books unless their copyright holders objected. While the company has said that's necessary to create a critical mass of books for the project to work, critics said that was unfair to many copyright holders — including the authors or heirs of the authors of an estimated 5 million books that are out of print, and no longer represented by publishers, but still covered by copyrights.
The judge agreed, saying the agreement would unfairly "place the onus on copyright owners to come forward to protect their rights when Google copied their works without first seeking their permission."
The judge also endorsed arguments by a group representing Microsoft, Amazon and other tech companies, which said the settlement gave Google an unfair competitive advantage, since other companies might still be forced to negotiate with copyright holders before creating rival archives.
In addition, Chin said the agreement went beyond the scope of the original lawsuit and would amount to court-approved changes in the copyright laws, which the judge said should be done in Congress.
He gave less weight to complaints from privacy advocates who feared Google may compile information on the reading habits of its users. Those concerns are real, the judge said, but they can be addressed by various safeguards.
Google said in a statement that it's not abandoning its plans to make books available online.
The tentative settlement offered "the potential to open up access to millions of books that are currently hard to find in the U.S. today," said Google managing counsel Hilary Ware. "Regardless of the outcome, we'll continue to work to make more of the world's books discoverable online through Google Books and Google eBooks."
Stanford University, which had participated in the library project, said it was disappointed in the decision. In a statement, the university added: "We will be consulting with other participating libraries in the project as well as with Google before we determine next steps."
Mercury News staff writer Mike Swift contributed to this report. Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022; follow him at Twitter.com/BrandonBailey.
Time line of book plan
2004: Google announces the "Google Print" Library Project, which plans to digitally scan an estimated 15 million volumes. Google later renames the project "Google Books."
Sept. 2005: The Authors Guild files a lawsuit against Google contending that the company cannot digitally scan the authors' books for commercial use without permission.
Oct. 2005: The Association of American Publishers also files a lawsuit claiming the project would violate copyright laws.
Oct. 2008: Google announces a $125 million settlement to the class-action lawsuit, subject to review by a federal court.
Sept. 2009: The U.S. Department of Justice files papers saying the settlement deal "raises significant legal concerns" and that the agency was likely to conclude the agreement breaks federal antitrust law.
Nov. 2009: Google and the plaintiffs file an amended settlement agreement.
Feb. 4, 2010: The U.S. Department of Justice issues another filing saying that Google's amended settlement still risks giving the company a monopoly in the digital books market and threatens to undermine federal copyright law.
Feb. 18, 2010: The court holds a Fairness Hearing on the amended settlement.
March 22, 2011: A federal judge rejects the 2008 settlement between Google, authors and publishers. The parties can submit a revised agreement that would better protect copyright owners.
Source: Mercury News research
What it's about
What's at issue: Google wanted to create a digital library and bookstore out of millions of old books scanned from the world's libraries.
What's the dispute: Scholars, consumer advocates and business competitors argued that the plan gives Google too much control over the books, essentially rewriting copyright law.
What's next: Google could appeal or negotiate a new settlement with plaintiffs, including the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.


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Interesting one this. I do have the one question though, Samsung where are you hoping to get your new customers from?
Would they be the same ones you're taking the piss out of here?
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To be honest, even though I am of course a most stylish of individuals, elegantly attired at all times - Today I am writing in an emerald green smoking jacket and velvet slippers - I do find the whole world of fashion a little too up it's own arse.
And then I saw this, fun, stylish and rather wonderful ad campaign for Mulberry.
As the great Stefan G Bucher so rightly pointed out to, the more hidden the monsters the better, the less you see of them, the more personality they seem to have.
You can see the rest of the ads in the campaign and read about how they took the look through to the catwalk during LDN fashion week here at the Stylist.
Mawh mawh. Air kissy kissy.
Posted on 18 September 2012 in creativity, fun, good work | Permalink
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I don't know too much about this charity, other than this is obviously a worthy cause and the 'ad' is a hugely shocking piece of communication.
My biggest question having viewed this though is one that I have to ask of myself, why do I find it so powerful?
Is it simply the power of the film making? ( I'm pretty sure it's not, as I actually don't find them that believable). Or is it the context, as ads don't usually push things this far? Or has the media desensitised me to such an extent that I accept it from black people? Or do I not have enough empathy for someone who doesn't look or live like me? Or is it simply that deep down I'm just racist? Could that be it?
I honestly don't know yet. I'm going to give it some more thought. In the mean time do go sign their petition, even if you can't stomach the film. Please
Oh and I think their website has been nicely thought through with the tone of voice spot on.
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A lovely execution of a famililar idea.
Korean Emart recently placed 3D QR code
sculptures throughout the city of Seoul that could only be scanned between noon
and 1 pm each day — consumers who succeeded were rewarded with discounts at the
store during those quiet shopping hours.
Dubbed "Sunny Sale," Emart's effort involved setting up a series of what it
calls "shadow" QR codes that depend on peak sunlight for proper viewing and
were scannable only between 12 and 1 pm each day.
The video below explains all this in more detail in a frankly, pretty chee-zee way, pity.
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I love ideas like this. Even if it is a little niche.
I truly believe a bunch them, linked together with a single cohesive message, tailor-made to the medium and reflective of a brand truth, is one of the most effective ways for a brand to build relevance with its consumer today. A helluva lot more work for an agency and client, and a need for restructuring your renumeration/ROI calculations, which is why we probably won't be seeing campaigns like that anytime soon.
Still lovely thinking,
Full explanation here.
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In order to effectively lead collaborative teams, architects would do well to downplay possessing specialized knowledge. Knowledge acquired in school and practice should be thought of as the price of admission, not their "Advance to GO" card, as so many on the team in this connected age have access to and share this same knowledge. Along with specialized knowledge, as a professional duty of practice, architects will also need to reevaluate the role of professional judgment, design intent, responsible control, direct supervision, and serving as the hander-down of rulings in the shape-shifting required from working simultaneously on collaborative teams.
Recognizing that nothing incites a non-architect's derision, ridicule and ire swifter than to start a sentence "The architect is uniquely qualified to…" here are six qualities that make architects ideally suited to lead collaborative, integrated teams:
1. Architects can lead collaborative teams by tapping into their ability to maintain two or more opposing thoughts until an amenable solution arises. Roger Martin's The Opposable Mind, on the problem-solving power of integrative thinking, describes the human brain's ability "to hold two conflicting ideas in constructive tension." Like F. Scott Fitzgerald's test of a first-rate intelligence as "the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function," architects need to become even more comfortable working with and maintaining two or more opposing thoughts earlier in their careers. Architects famously can simultaneously maintain two lines of thought – e.g. their own and their client's; their client's and that of the public-at-large; the paying client and the non-paying client; the 99% and the 1%; the circumstantial and the ideal; science and art; reason and intuition; evidence and the ineffable; HSW and aesthetics; practical and dreamer. In an interview with the author, Phil Bernstein described the difference between young designers and older designers as the ability to manage an increasingly larger set of variables: "When I was working for Cesar Pelli, that was one of the amazing things about him – he could keep so many things in his head and he could balance them and weigh one against the other, and he could edit out what he called the systematic generation of useless alternatives. He would prevent us from going down that avenue."
2. Architects are problem identifiers. Not only problem solvers, architects recognize that identifying the right problem to solve is often 80% of the solution. Frequently, the problem assigned is not the one that truly requires addressing. Architects work to make sure that everyone is focused on the most pressing, pertinent problem.
3. Architects see the big picture. Solution-oriented engineers sometimes have a difficult time seeing the forest from the trees. Malcolm Gladwell in Blink called this ability to see information in its wider context coup d'oeil, court sense or "giss," the power of the glance, the ability to immediately make sense of situations. Architects, by the end of their formal training, have begun to develop this ability, by thinking laterally and simultaneously – not linearly. Neither exclusively right- nor left- – architects are whole-brain thinkers. In the midst of prolonged analysis, architects can help to keep things whole.
4. Architects draw by hand, mouse and wand. Creatively ambidextrous, flexible and agile, architects are not stuck on any one means of communication or delivery. Architects make the best use of available technology to get the point across. Because architects envision what is not there, they help bring nascent ideas to life. Today, we cannot talk of leadership without the technology. We lead from the technology and the tools we use. In this way, architects lead collaboration from the middle by leading from the model.
5. Architects can lead collaborative teams by thinking like other team members, anticipating their concerns and questions before they arise. Architects see through other's eyes, empathize and understand what is important to others. They have both deep skills and wide wingspan breadth. Architects are the only entity who serve not only the paying but non-paying client (society-at-large.) In trying to predict the consequences for any course of action, the architect needs to anticipate the responses of each of the integrated team members. To do this, an architect must know enough about each discipline to negotiate and synthesize competing demands.
6. Architects don't lead collaborative teams because of their specialized skills, technology know-how, or privileged knowledge, but rather because of their comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty. Architects are best suited to lead collaborative teams by being able to extrapolate from incomplete information, and won't let the lack of complete information stop them from moving forward.
The architect leading collaborative teams has implications for education in that independently trained professionals are inclined to remain independent in practice. According to NCARB's contribution to the NAAB 2013 Accreditation Review Conference (ARC), over 80% of architects rated "collaboration with stakeholders" as important/critical, yet only 31.5% of interns and recently licensed architects indicated they had performed collaboratively prior to completion of their education program. This would need to change.
Let the Team be the Architect
The single most important issue confronting AEC leadership is, as Michael Schrage asked, how to pose problems and opportunities in forms that will elicit and inspire a collaborative response. Consultant Ed Friedrichs describes this as the ability "to inspire an entire team of participants to collaborate, to contribute the best they have to offer, in order to bring value to a client."
Concerning collaborative teams, leaders need to ask of themselves – as well as prospective hires – are you the glue or the solvent? If architects are to be respected as leaders, their challenge is to communicate with their collaborators as equal partners in design.
In his book Architecture by Team, CRS's William Caudill wrote: "The so called 'great man' approach must give way to the great team approach. From now on the great architects will be on great interdisciplinary teams."
That was written in 1971. Buried on page 288 is the title of Chapter 109:
"Let the team – designers, manufacturers and builders – be the architect."
So let the team be the architect, and the architect be the facilitative leader. And act soon, for we may not have another 40 years to see this out.
This post is an excerpt from Randy Deutsch's article How We Can Make Collaboration Work: How architects can decentralize rather than be marginalized in the Jan-Feb 2014 Trends issue of DesignIntelligence journal.


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At this year's «Components Special Trade Fair by Interpack», the automation company Pilz will be focusing on flexible and economical solutions for packaging machines.
The key areas will be solutions around the Smart Factory. Also new in Düsseldorf: the electrically activated E-STOP pushbutton PITestop active, which provides safety and productivity in the spirit of Industrie 4.0, particularly in the packaging sector.
Whether you need machines with an elementary function range or interlinked plant and machinery: Pilz offers manufacturers and operators of packaging machines complete solutions for safety and automation. These include universal solutions from the fields of sensor, control and drive technology, plus visualisation.
A modular plant construction is the key to greater flexibility in production: At Components, Pilz will be using a model of the Smart Factory to demonstrate how individualised products can be manufactured in a way that's flexible, cost-efficient and user-friendly. The model is composed of three modules in a network, manufacturing personalised products in an intelligent assembly line.
New to the Smart Factory is the electrically activated E-STOP pushbutton PITestop active. It indicates by illumination whether or not it is active. It can be used to safely activate or deactivate machine and plant sections as required, in accordance with ISO 13850.
PITestop active is beneficial for plant and machinery in which plant sections are moved. It enables flexible safety concepts, such as those required primarily in the packaging industry, to be implemented simply. The electrically activated E-STOP pushbutton contributes to greater flexibility and modularisation, even on packaging machines.
With PITestop active, it is no longer necessary to maintain power to the complete plant in order to preserve the emergency stop function, so users can also benefit from reduced energy costs.
Pilz is exhibiting in Hall 18, Stand B16.


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Retinoblastoma is a type of eye cancer that develops in the light-sensitive lining of the eye, called the retina. Retinoblastoma can occur at any age but mainly occurs in children younger than 5 years of age and most often in those younger than 2.
Retinoblastoma may occur in one or both eyes, but rarely spreads to other parts of the body. Although it is the most common eye tumour in children, it is a rare childhood cancer and accounts for about 3-4% of childhood cancers.
There are 2 Types of Retinoblastoma:
- Inherited: Retinoblastoma is sometimes inherited from the parent; this is known as hereditary or germline retinoblastoma and is usually bi-lateral (in both eyes).
- Non-Inherited: This type of Retinoblastoma generally occurs in only one eye (unilateral)
The main challenge of treating Retinoblastoma is the prevention of blindness, however approximately 98% of children with retinoblastoma are cured.
Causes of Retinoblastoma
Hereditary or germline retinoblastoma is caused by a gene mutation within the q14 band of chromosome 13. This abnormality can either be passed on from parent to child or it can develop for the first time at an early stage of development in the womb.
Not all children of a parent that has this abnormal gene will inherit it and get retinoblastoma, but all children of such a parent(s) should be screened for signs of retinoblastoma soon after birth. This screening should be repeated every 6 months until the child is 5 years old.
Children with hereditary retinoblastoma have an increased risk for developing pineal tumours in the brain, known as trilateral retinoblastoma and other cancers such as bone or soft tissue sarcoma or melanoma in later years
Although the genetic abnormality in hereditary retinoblastoma is understood, the cause of non-inherited retinoblastoma is unknown.
Signs and Symptoms
Some of the typical signs and symptoms of Retinoblastoma are:
- White Pupil: There is a whitish colour behind the pupil that does not reflect light. This can easily be seen in photographs taken with a flash; the pupil will look white instead of dark
- Crossed Eyes: A squint or problems with eye movements (crossed eyes)
- Red Eye: A red painful irritation may persist if the tumour is large
Tests and Diagnosis
Retinoblastoma can be diagnosed using the following tests and procedures:
- Physical Exam and History: The doctor will perform an physical examination, checking your child's general health as well as checking for anything unusual or signs of cancer, and a complete medical history will be taken
- Eye exam with dilated pupil: Medicated eye drops will be put into the eye(s) to make the pupils open wide and allow the doctor to look through the lens to the retina. This may be done under general anaesthesia, depending on the age of the child
- CT scan (CAT scan): A CAT scan takes a series of detailed pictures of the inside of the body from different angles, using a computer linked to an x-ray machine; a dye may also either be swallowed or injected into a vein to allow the organs and tissues to show up more clearly on the pictures.
Other tests that may be done if retinoblastoma is detected, may include an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), a lumbar puncture, bone scan, bone marrow sample, blood test, or an ultrasound.
Treatment Options
Treatment options for retinoblastoma differ, depending on the position, size and number of tumours in the eye. The first aim of the treatment is to get rid of the cancer and the second is to retain sight in the eye.
Treatment options consist of:
Smaller Tumours
Smaller tumours are treated locally (in the eye itself) while the child is asleep under general anaesthetic.
- Cryotherapy: The tumours are frozen. If more than one session is required they will be done at monthly intervals
- Laser therapy: This is the opposite of cryotherapy; the tumour is removed by heating it. This may take several sessions, which will take place with intervals of 3-4 weeks
- Plaque: In the case of larger tumours or tumours which could not be successfully treated by other methods, a small radioactive disc is placed over the tumour on the outside of the eye with stitches. This disc must stay in place for up to four days while the tumour is destroyed by radiation.
- Thermotherapy: Heat is produced by a laser and used to destroy the cancer cells, usually  combined with chemotherapy
Larger Tumours
- Chemotherapy: The use of a combination of anti-cancer drugs to destroy or shrink cancer cells is the preferred treatment for children, and may be done prior to and after surgery
- Surgery: If the tumour is very large and vision has already been lost, surgery may be necessary to remove the eye and replace it with an artificial eye. This is only done in the most extreme of circumstances
- Radiotherapy: High-energy rays that destroy the cancer cells but do minimal harm to normal cells. Radiotherapy is normally only used for retinoblastoma when other treatments have not worked
Some of the treatment options may result in after-effects such as nausea, vomiting, irritation or soreness of the skin from radiation, hair loss, a risk of infection, fatigue, bruising and bleeding or diarrhoea. The doctor should explain all of this to you, but if they do not, please ask them about side effects.
Awareness Ribbon Colour
The awareness ribbon colour for Retinoblastoma is White
This article was researched and written on behalf of Little Fighters Cancer Trust by Billi du Preez of Red Feather Scribe.
Academic Editing by Dr Marc Hendricks MBChB (UCT), DIP PEC (SA), DCH (SA), FCPaeds (SA), CMO Paeds (SA) Senior Specialist, Paediatric Oncologist Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
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Xcode 9 (beta 2), xcodebuild plugin 2.0
Since Xcode 9, builds that use manual code signing require that a provisioning profile is specified in the exportOptions.plist when performing an export operation.
The help for xcodebuild in Xcode 9 states:
provisioningProfiles : Dictionary
For manual signing only. Specify the provisioning profile to use for each executable in your app. Keys in this dictionary are the bundle identifiers of executables; values are the provisioning profile name or UUID to use.
It would probably require an extra field in the xcodebuild plugin config to allow a profile to be specified by name orUUID, and if specified, include it in the generated exportOptions plist. Or, possibly allow the option of specifying your own exportOptionsPlist that is used instead of the generated one, if specified.
Without this option, projects that use manual code signing cannot build with jenkins and this plugin.
the console output for a failing build:
$ /usr/bin/xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath "/pathto/app.xcarchive" -exportPath "/pathto/export" -exportOptionsPlist "/pathto/ad-hocTEAMIDExport.plist"
2017-07-13 12:02:52.196 xcodebuild[5043:2359795] [MT] IDEDistribution: -[IDEDistributionLogging _createLoggingBundleAtPath:]: Created bundle at path '/var/folders/sh/pathto/logs'.
2017-07-13 12:02:53.262 xcodebuild[5043:2359795] [MT] IDEDistribution: Step failed: <IDEDistributionSigningAssetsStep: 0x7fc0fdfd8720>: Error Domain=IDEDistributionSigningAssetStepErrorDomain Code=0 "Locating signing assets failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Locating signing assets failed., IDEDistributionSigningAssetStepUnderlyingErrors=(
{{ "Error Domain=IDEProvisioningErrorDomain Code=9 \"\"MyApp.app\" requires a provisioning profile.\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=\"MyApp.app\" requires a provisioning profile., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Select a provisioning profile for the \"Default\" build configuration in the project editor.}"}}
error: exportArchive: "MyApp.app" requires a provisioning profile.Error Domain=IDEProvisioningErrorDomain Code=9 ""MyApp.app" requires a provisioning profile." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription="MyApp.app" requires a provisioning profile., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Select a provisioning profile for the "Default" build configuration in the project editor.}** EXPORT FAILED **
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JENKINS-48256 Unable to create ipa for iOS project with Xcode 9, While it is successful for Xcode < 9
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- relates to
JENKINS-47744 xcodebuild export step fails due to empty exportPlist
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This particular part of the plugin seems to be problematic with each Xcocde upgrade. I finally made a script that is invoked after the Xcode build step using something like:
${WORKSPACE}/Common/Scripts/archive.swift ${EXPORT_METHOD} ${TEAM_ID} "${WORKSPACE}/Build" "${WORKSPACE}" "${PROVISIONING_PROFILE_NAME}" mv "${WORKSPACE}"/*.ipa "${WORKSPACE}/${APP_NAME}-${BRANCH}-${CONFIGURATION}-${MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION}-${SHORT_VERSION}-${FULL_BUILD_DATE}.ipa"
Where I have parameters for EXPORT_METHOD, TEAM_ID, and PROVISIONING_PROFILE_NAME. (The other parameters are ones specific to my jobs that I use to build up the resulting ipa file name.) You also have to make sure you check the Create archive option in the Xcode build options.
I hope this helps others.
I'll give a try to the workaround suggested by Scott, however a real solution for the problem would be highly appreciated.
Same issue here. Can't get Jenkins to properly make a build with or without manual signing at this point.
Create a plist file for export options like this:
# Create .plist file for exporting echo " <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>method</key> <string>enterprise</string> <key>provisioningProfiles</key> <dict> <key>"$BUNDLE_ID"</key> <string>"$TARGET_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER"</string> </dict> <key>signingCertificate</key> <string>"$SIGNING_CERTIFICATE"</string> <key>teamID</key> <string>"$TEAM_ID"</string> <key>signingStyle</string> <string>manual</string> </dict> </plist> " > ${WORKSPACE}/export_options.plist
Use this export_options.plist file for export_options in fastlane gym command build
# Using for Xcode 9 fastlane gym --workspace Example.xcworkspace \ --scheme ${SCHEME} \ --sdk 'iphoneos' \ --configuration Staging \ --output_directory ${BUILD_FOLDER} \ --output_name app_name.ipa \ --codesigning_identity "$SIGNING_CERTIFICATE" \ --xcargs "PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER='${TARGET_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER}' \ --export_options "${WORKSPACE}/export_options.plist" \ --verbose \ --buildlog_path ${WORKSPACE}
Give it a go.
Thanks to the nguyenhoang I was able to work around the problem. Here is what I did:
- Turn off "Pack application, build and sign .ipa?" and turn on "Generate Archive?" under general build settings
- Add an Execute Shell build step after your Xcode step to generate the export_options.plist as above. The environment variables there aren't provided by Jenkins, so you'll have to fill in your own values. Also, I think "signingCertificate" needs to actually be "installerSigningCertificate" and I had to add a "compileBitcode" key with value of <false/>
- Add another Execute Shell build step to generate the ipa. It will look something like this
xcodebuild -exportArchive \ -archivePath [path to the archive you generated in step 1, it will be in ${BUILD_DIR}] \ -exportPath [the folder where you want your IPA stored] \ -exportOptionsPlist [the file you created in step 2]
That allowed me to get an IPA built with manual signing. Good luck!
On the same boat here!
Since I have a bunch of targets and configurations to be building and archiving, I created a script to extract the signing settings from the build configuration (plus some parameters can be tunned/added too) to automatically create an exportOptions.plist.
With that, I "simply" ran xcodebuild -exportArchive to get my ipa.
But let me share a big bump in my experience, just in case it may help somebody out there:
When executing xcodebuild -exportArchive through an ssh session, it failed with a segmentation fault. The logs clarified nothing by failing with an "unknown error -1=ffffffffffffffff". Same executed locally just works. As far as I could understand codesign fails because xcodebuild can't reach the keys on the keychain while running on ssh. Will try to really know why, but meanwhile, just run your experiments on the machine itself .
BTW, I've seen there is a PR on Github for an update to the plugin that would solve us having to workaround the signing like this.
But, as far as I understand, it is just able to ask for an explicit configuration rather than taking one from the build settings. Even though I have 0 experience on the internals of this Xcode plugin I may be able to help to get this included somehow. Let me know if you'd be interested in such feature, and scream loudly if you know about the Xcode plugin guts, and want to collaborate on doing it.
Hi All,
What was the final solution to set up the jenkins for xcode 9? Can you please help me with the export plist creation and setting up export_options?
Also, will it require fastlane also to be installed on ci server?
please help, thanks in advance.
alkesh_f, please see the my comment above. That helps creating export plist file used in exporting ipa file in Xcode 9.
Installing fastlane on CI server is definitely required if you wanna use fastlane to build an iOS application.
nguyenhoang, I am using Jenkins and I followed all the instructions given in your comment, but the jenkins still fails to generate the build, I have attached screenshots of my export_options file and the error given in jenkins console. Any help appreciated.
Also, further to this, I have jenkins setup for multiple provisioning profiles using multiple bundle ids in xcode 8.3, so for xcode 9 should I make multiple export options files? or I can specify array of bundle id, provisioning profile, team id in the same file?
alkesh_f If you're using multiple provisioning profiles for multiple bundle id(s), make sure you include those in exporting plist file like following:
# Create .plist file for exporting echo " <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>method</key> <string>enterprise</string> <key>provisioningProfiles</key> <dict> <key>$BUNDLE_ID_1</key> <string>"$TARGET_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER_1"</string> <key>$BUNDLE_ID_2</key> <string>"$TARGET_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER_2"</string> <key>$BUNDLE_ID_3</key> <string>"$TARGET_PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER_3"</string> </dict> <key>signingCertificate</key> <string>"$CODESIGNING_IDENTITY"</string> <key>teamID</key> <string>$TEAM_ID</string> <key>signingStyle</string> <string>manual</string> </dict> </plist> " > ${WORKSPACE}/export_options.plist
In your case:
CODESIGNING_IDENTITY='iPhone Distribution: XXXXXXX'
CODESIGNING_IDENTITY is name of certificate that you're going to use to sign the app. Using command
security find-identity -v -p codesigning
to find appropriate signing identity.
Thanks for you help, I am successful at configuring the CI set up now..
nguyenhoang I have followed the steps that you have mentioned in this ticket. Also, I have followed alkesh_f's comments as he is also using Jenkins to build his ios apps.
I am using xcode plugin (version 2.0.1) with jenkins to generate builds for our multi-targeted app.
With Xcode 9, our jenkins build configuration is able to generate the archive but fails to create the ipa. The error message is as follows:
Error Domain=IDEProvisioningErrorDomain Code=9 ""test.app" requires a provisioning profile." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription="test.app" requires a provisioning profile., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Add a profile to the "provisioningProfiles" dictionary in your Export Options property list.}
I have already added the provisioning profile inside Jenkins Custom xcodebuild arguments*section by passing the PROVISIONING_PROFILE, PROVISIONING_PROFILE_SPECIFIER, CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY, CODE_SIGN_STYLE and DEVELOPMENT_TEAM however, it still shoots the same error message. Besides, I also pass the ExportOptions.plist file in the Build phases Run script option but it seems that Xcode generates its own ExportOptions.plist(*enterpriseTEAMIDExport.plist) and ignores mine. When I open enterpriseTEAMIDExport.plist file it only contains the teamid and the method of export and so, it doesn't find the provisioning profile.
So, how can I tell xcode to use my ExportOptions.plist file instead? I have followed the image here but unable to find it inside Xcode 9. Also, this post doesn't relate to me.
Another important thing is that I am able to generate the ipa using my own ExportOptions.plist file from command line xcodebuild tool using this command as follows:
xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath archive.xcarchive -exportPath /my/export/path -exportOptionsPlist options.plist
So, I don't know why it doesn't work with Jenkins Xcode plugin.
Any help is much appreciated.
Hey ronakpatel786!
It looks like it's problem of the plugin not of Xcode or they do have a option for using custom plist file that you don't know yet. I don't use Jenkins Xcode plugin for iOS build so can not give it a try with my Jenkins.
Which version of Xcode integration plugin are you using? Is it the latest one? I do think it has a option for using custom plist file when exporting ipa executable.
Hello nguyen,
Thanks for your prompt response. I am using the latest version of xcode plugin (2.0.1).
I have read their documentation but can't find a way to use my custom plist file. If you can't find anything, that would be a great help.
Also, if there is way to pass my custom plist file as a custom argument, it would be a great thing to know.
Thanks again.
Hey ronakpatel786!
- Suggest a workaround in your case: Set to skip export .ipa and manually export ipa with custom plist file with xcodebuild command line: xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath archive.xcarchive -exportPath /my/export/path -exportOptionsPlist options.plist
- Do you wanna use Faslane for your iOS builds? It's easy to setup a build.
Hi Nguyen,
Thanks, once again.
- At present, I am using the same approach to generate builds using xcodebuild command line. However, I have a project with 15 targets. So, don't you think it is time consuming to generate build for each target one by one? This leads to my other question which is:
- 2. Would it be much easier to setup up multi-targeted builds using Fastlane? It's because I already have a Jenkins setup running so..
Looking forward for your help.
Seems that in your case, you wanna have 15 ipa executable for 15 targets I've never tried it before but found that Fastlane does support that. Give it a go.
https://docs.fastlane.tools/faqs/ (Multiple targets of the same underlying app)
Yes, very true . I will take a look at these docs and see how it goes.
Thanks a lot, nguyenhoang.
_How to Add a profile to the "provisioningProfiles" dictionary in your Export Options property list through jenkins.?? _
Command shell:
xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath ${WORKSPACE}/build/YourProject.xcarchive -exportPath ${JENKINS_HOME}/jobs/${JOB_NAME}/builds/${BUILD_NUMBER}/archive -exportOptionsPlist
Getting error:
2018-02-01 17:11:04.046 xcodebuild[57285:71980734] [MT] IDEDistribution: Step failed: <IDEDistributionSigningAssetsStep: 0x7fe61c53aff0>: Error Domain=IDEDistributionSigningAssetStepErrorDomain Code=0 "Locating signing assets failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Locating signing assets failed., IDEDistributionSigningAssetStepUnderlyingErrors=(
"Error Domain=IDEProvisioningErrorDomain Code=9 \"\"MobileXXXXX.app\" requires a provisioning profile.\" UserInfo=
error: exportArchive: "MobileXXXXX.app" requires a provisioning profile.
Error Domain=IDEProvisioningErrorDomain Code=9 ""MobileXXXXX.app" requires a provisioning profile." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription="MobileXXXXX.app" requires a provisioning profile., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Add a profile to the "provisioningProfiles" dictionary in your Export Options property list.}
gauravborole You need to mention provisioning profile in ExportOptions.plist file.
Code changed in jenkins
User: Kazuhide Takahashi
Merge pull request #86 from lampietti/xcode9
add xcode9 new signing support JENKINS-45509
Compare: https://github.com/jenkinsci/xcode-plugin/compare/7172a7c67279...5d4f52127ccc
scm_issue_link so, now we should be able to use jenkins to create our build successfully, right?
scm_issue_link what version of jenkins will have this change? nguyenhoang jamesrantmedia
ronakpatel786 I haven't used Jenkins plugins for iOS builds so have no idea about this.
ronakpatel786 , Currently kazuhidet just merged updated code on github repository of [xcode-jenkins plugin|https://github.com/jenkinsci/xcode-plugin.]
Still, the release of that code is pending. Once they release this update for this plugin will be available.
I just updated to Jenkins 2.122 and xcode-plugin 2.0.2. We run several test slaves with MacOS, one of the having the version 10.11.6 (El Captain). After the update, the builds on this machine failes (the machines running newer MacOS versions work just fine) with the following message:
$ /usr/bin/xcodebuild -scheme "App" -workspace /Users/user/Jenkins/BuildWorkspace/App.xcworkspace -configuration Release clean build -allowProvisioningUpdates
xcodebuild: error: invalid option '-allowProvisioningUpdates'
This fix seems like a probable culprit. Is it in 2.0.2? If so, is there a work around?
-allowProvisioningUpdates seems to be an option added with xcode 9
kapten_perk: Which xcode version do you use?
stephanwezelps: The machine runs Xcode 7.3.1. That seems to be the last version of Xcode from the App store in El Captain.


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Welcome to "Ask the White House" -- an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to Administration officials and friends of the White House. Visit the "Ask the White House" archives to read other discussions with White House officials.
Welcome to "Ask the White House" -- an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to Administration officials and friends of the White House. Visit the "Ask the White House" archives to read other discussions with White House officials.
July 19, 2007
Steve McMillin
Hi all Good to be with you this afternoon. Today, the President is in Nashville, Tennessee talking about the good news on deficit reduction, and the importance of spending restraint in Washington so we can continue our progress towards a balanced budget. We are meeting the governments most pressing needs, while ensuring that American families can keep more of what they earn.
The Administrations mid-year budget update showed that were making good progress in driving down the deficit to half of what it was three years ago - and just 1.5 percent of our total economy. The Federal budget deficit is now estimated to fall to $205 billion in 2007, a reduction of $43 billion or 18 percent from last year.
Pro-growth economic policies, including tax relief, has been good for American taxpayers and the American economy, allowing small businesses, entrepreneurs and American workers to save more of their hard-earned money. And, this has helped fuel our economic growth, resulting in higher than expected tax receipts and driving down the federal deficit.
We are on a path to achieving the Presidents goal of a balanced budget by 2012, with a $33 billion surplus. Achieving this goal, though, is dependent on Congress exercising spending restraint. Right now, Congress is not on track to hold spending to reasonable and responsible levels. The President is committed to keeping spending in check and will veto spending bills if they jeopardize deficit reduction and a balanced budget.
I look forward to answering your questions.
Sam, from Downingtown, PA
Steve McMillin
Frank, from Stratford Ct
Steve McMillin
Under the last budget President Clinton signed into law (FY 2001), non-security discretionary spending rose by 15%. The President's Budget would allow this category to increase by less than 1% in his FY 2008 Budget.
Under the Clinton Administrations policies, tax collections peaked in 2000 at 20.9% of GDP. The only other time taxes reached this high a level relative to our economy was in 1944, during World War II. Under President Bushs policies, including reductions in marginal tax rates, the marriage penalty, capital gains and dividend tax rates, and increased incentives for small business investment, taxes are estimated to be 18.8% of GDP this year, above the 40-year average of 18.3% of GDP.
Whitley, from San Pablo, CA
Steve McMillin
For the U.S., it will open new opportunities in Korea that American companies have never had. It will allow American manufacturers, farmers, banks, insurance companies, a whole array of companies to sell into Koreas fast growing markets. We estimate that the US economy will benefit to the tune of $17 to $44 billion a year.
What is more, the KORUS FTA will help the United States deepen and strengthen its trade and investment ties to one of the most economically dynamic parts of the world.
The agreement was concluded and signed in time to be taken up under Trade Promotion Authority, which is designed to streamline Congressional consideration of free trade agreements. So, the expiration of this authority for future trade agreements will not affect this one. This is the most commercially significant FTA the United States has concluded in nearly 20 years. The more public and their elected representatives know about KORUS FTA, the more likely they will be to support it.
Michael, from NYC writes:
Steve McMillin
Treasury auctions occur regularly and have a set schedule, and the rates and yields are set through competitive bidding.
Because Treasury securities are universally recognized as being the lowest-risk, highest quality, and most tradeable securities in the world, a wide variety of investors, including individuals, banks, businesses, pension funds, the Federal Reserve banking system, state and local governments, and foreign institutions hold Treasury Securities.
Even individuals like you or I can directly purchase U.S. Treasury securities through http://www.treasurydirect.gov.
Frances, from NY writes:
Steve McMillin
The financing comes from a variety of sources, including the general treasury -- your tax dollars -- and specific charges on the users of that infrastructure. For user-financed infrastructure, such as highways, the federal government needs to carefully monitor and restrain growth in spending in order to avoid gas tax increases and disruption of our construction program.
John, from Texas writes:
Steve McMillin
Michael, from Powell, Tn
Steve McMillin
The 2008 Budget builds on this record of spending discipline by holding the growth in non-security domestic spending to one percent, well below the rate of inflation. It proposes terminations or reductions of 141 discretionary programs, which would reduce spending by $12.0 billion in 2008.
The biggest challenge to our nations long-term fiscal health is the unsustainable growth in important programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Without reform, these entitlement programs will crowd out all other spending by 2040, including for defense, education and other domestic priorities. The President also proposed sensible changes to important entitlement programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, which would save $92 billion over five years and $301 billion over ten years. More importantly, the Presidents mandatory spending proposals would begin to address the long-term problem of entitlements by reducing Medicares unfunded obligations by 25 percent.
Kelly, from Boston writes:
Steve McMillin
While the Budget eliminates funding for programs that are not results-oriented, like the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), the President continues to support many programs that aim to reduce poverty, such as TANF, Head Start, and WIC. The average grantee does not rely on CSBG as its primary funding source and CSBG dollars make up less than 10% of the average grantees budget. CSBG funds are distributed on a formula basis with the same static group of grantees receiving dollars each year. For this reason, most grantees are not challenged to maximize their performance.
The President remains committed to the national nutrition programs by providing funds to serve all eligible people who apply for Food Stamps, free or reduced price school meals, and WIC. Funding for the Commodity Supplemental Food program (CSFP) was eliminated because this program provides the same services as the nations two largest and most effective nutrition programs Food Stamps and WIC. Its worth noting that Food Stamps and WIC have two important advantages over CSFP. Food Stamps and WIC are available to all eligible people who apply nationwide, while CSFP only operates on a limited basis in select areas.
In addition, Food Stamps and WIC provide generally larger, more flexible benefits than CSFP. To help move CSFP participants onto Food Stamps and WIC the President has proposed increasing funding for these programs. For WIC, there is a $183 million increase over 2007 to serve all eligible individuals who apply, including those exiting CSFP, and there is an additional $24 million for outreach and temporary benefits to move more elderly CSFP participants onto Food Stamps.
Steve McMillin
For further information on the Mid-Session Review Report or any other questions you may have, visit our website at www.omb.gov.


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It's all pumpkin, all the time right now. It was fine and dandy last week when *gasp* it was below 70°F and I contemplated turning on the heat. Today it was 97°F and it's expected to be in the high 80's for the next week. Even though it's not pumpkin weather, I've decided that this week will be Pumpkin Week on Pink Stripes. All posts, with the exception of one, will be pumpkin posts.
This week's Sweet Melissa Sundays selection–Spiced Pumpkin Cookie Cakes–starts off the week with a fantastic bang. It's a cookie! It's a cake! It's a cookie cake! This cinnamon-nutmeg spiced treat reminds me of a whoopie pie. It may actually be a whoopie pie, 2 round cakes sandwiching a creamy filling. Yup, I think this fits the bill.
Thanks to Debbie of Every Day Blessings of The Five Dee's for hosting this week. If you would like the recipe, visit her blog or buy the book.


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Tagged: research
Meeting maker researchers – the DENs DIY researchers colloquium
I've organised a RCUK Digital Economy CDT Network- funded workshop leaning on the principles of a barCamp for researchers across the UK who are interested in making/crafts/hacking and maker culture on the day before MakerFaire UK 2014 last weekend (if you want more information about it, either ask me or check out the webpage), and the feedback I've received was quite good – My aim for this workshop was to get a feel of what "maker research" in the UK is focussing on and what the topics of interest from an academic perspective are, and I do think that goal has been achieved, thanks to everyone who participated and shared their thoughts on the subject!
We've had quite a lively mix of participants, from hardware hackers to documentary makers, creative communities such as the comic maker scene to crowdsourcing topics, textile crafters and many many more.
The entire event was organised in a very ad-hoc manner, with only two weeks time from registration opening to the event happening, the turnout turned out to be very good, and we're going to keep the conversations we've started alive, so I'm as happy as I can possibly be!
MakerFaire itself was awesome too, had good chats with awesome folks, among those the EPIK project, who are enabling kids to learn programming in Java by developing mods for Minecraft, and the always-inspiring Nottingham Hackspace as well as the Hackspace Foundation folks, who are trying to connect all hackspaces across the UK to share knowledge within these.
A big thank you for everyone involved in making this happen, especially David Green and the Digital Interaction Group at Newcastle University's Culture Lab, who provided us with their workshop area to set the proper scene for our gathering!
[edit: the RCUK Digital Economy Network now has its own website, therefore I updated the link]


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by Jonah Goldberg | December 30, 2011 12:03 am
You'll recall that 2011 began with the oafish actor celebrating his own narcotic and sexual crapulence like a victorious gladiator working the crowds. He was egged on by a media with as much decency as the cons on the top tiers of the prison who chant "fresh fish" as the new inmates walk into general pop, their eyes stinging from delousing powder.
Sheen succeeded at turning his own debasement into a national pseudo-event by calling the very definition of losing "winning."
And that's what 2011 was all about: pretending to be winning while really losing. Sheen's Hollywood compatriots played the same game. Kim Kardashian, fresh from the "success" of her sex tape, parlayed her celebrity into a "classy" wedding that netted her millions and 72 days of marital bliss. Poor Lindsay Lohan, meanwhile, merely found victories in reduced jail time.
Speaking of jail time, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich started the year by trying to translate his crimes into a lucrative career as a reality-show star and ended it with a prison sentence.
In January, a deranged madman killed a bunch of people in Arizona and horribly wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. It was a true tragedy, disgustingly exploited by liberals who saw it as the perfect opportunity to demonize political opponents. Against the weight of logic, facts and decency, allegedly serious people claimed that a map on Sarah Palin's Facebook page inspired the shooter.
The Tucson tragedy also let Barack Obama deliver perhaps the best speech of his presidency — on the need to tone down the extreme rhetoric on both sides. Alas, when liberals lecture "both sides," they mean, "Everyone who disagrees with me should shut up."
By summer, Democratic operatives and liberal New York Times columnists alike (a subtle distinction, I know) were decrying Republicans as "hostage takers" (Obama) and "terrorists" (Joe Biden) and the Tea Party as "the Hezbollah faction" of the GOP (NYT columnist Tom Friedman) with nary a peep of protest from the champions of civility.
Speaking of protest, consider the Occupy Wall Street movement. Not since the Hebrews killed themselves at Masada has there been a group that more obviously won by losing. Of course, the Jews at Masada were freedom fighters battling Roman imperialism. The Occupy Wall Streeters think they're fighting imperialism when they throw a tantrum about having to pay their debts.
The Occupy movement's meager tangible accomplishments (We recycled our own urine!) are inversely correlated with their lavish press coverage. The protesters were named Time magazine's person of the year. Though in fairness, Time diluted its sycophancy by including the Arab Spring protesters who've (so far) ushered in a glorious new era of Islamism in places like Egypt. Winning!
(Though perhaps not as clear cut a "win" as President Obama's decision to declare political victory and pull our troops out of Iraq prematurely, so we can lose a war we sacrificed so much to win.)
Back home, Tea Party politicians who truly won historic midterm election victories are cast as dangerous losers. The Occupiers lost their bongs and yurts to bulldozers in cities across America, but museums around the country are nonetheless desperate to acquire authentic Occupy movement artifacts to commemorate their glorious but unspecified successes. Unfortunately, the tea parties cannot work the refs of history this way, because they clean up their mess after they get together.
No word if the Smithsonian collected some genuine Occupier scat to be preserved next to the alleged specimens from the Yeti and Sasquatch. Lord knows they left enough behind for others to scoop.
And so it goes. The economy continued to languish while the president declared victory over a Depression that never was and touted himself as the most legislatively successful president ever — with the "possible exceptions" of FDR, LBJ and Lincoln.
Meanwhile, we are approaching the third year of the long winter Obama once celebrated as a "recovery summer." Its chief selling points are an unemployment rate statistically lowered by more Americans giving up hope of finding a job, and the claim that millions of jobs have been "created or saved." This bogus locution allows Obama to claim every job he doesn't destroy as a win.
And let us not forget the Republicans, whose feckless squad of A-Team candidates stayed on the bench for fear of joining the mosh pit of cannibalism the primary has become, setting the stage for a potential loss in 2012 that not even Charlie Sheen will be able to spin as a victory.
(Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. You can write to him in care of this newspaper or by e-mail at [email protected], or via Twitter @JonahNRO.)
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