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Child porn or art? Topless teenage Moss gets mixed reviews
Art Gallery of NSW visitors on Monday asked if pressure had been applied to a 15-year-old Kate Moss to expose her breasts in a photo shoot now on display.
One British couple visiting the gallery, both aged 65 and who previously lived in the London borough of Croydon when Moss attended the local Riddlesdown High School in 1989 when the picture was taken, considered the image a problem.
"[Moss] did talk about how she felt exploited when she was young and she had a nervous breakdown about it," said the woman.
"You don't know how much pressure she was under to do a topless photo. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable if it was my child."
But most art lovers were not offended by the image, entitled Kate 1989, pointing to the context of more than 30 other photos of "androgynous" subjects aged 16 to 20 now on show in the Modern Lovers exhibition by French photographer Bettina Rheims.
The Sydney-based Arts Law Centre of Australia's executive director, Robyn Ayres, who has seen the image, said she believed it was "being shown in an artistic context and has artistic merit", and while it was no longer a defence in NSW child pornography laws for those aged under 16, artistic merit was still a relevant factor.
Rebecca Van Vlasselaer, 34, of Canada, visiting the gallery with her father Jean-Jacques, said of the Rheims image of Moss: "I find that it's almost inappropriate because she looks so young there, even younger than her age. But it doesn't bother me.
"She's naive and pretty in the picture. I don't think the series sexualises people.
"They're almost like blank canvasses. It's not pornography."
Jean-Jacques, 70, said he was already familiar with the work of Rheims, and had no problem with the Moss image.
"I think [Moss] was more beautiful there than she was afterwards. Its got a great innocence and extraordinary beauty to it."
Roie Cook, 72, said she didn't find the image offensive.
I think [Moss] was more beautiful there than she was afterwards. Its got a great innocence and extraordinary beauty to it
"I find it in keeping with the exhibition. Some people might come and look for it because of the Herald article and relate it to [photographer] Bill Henson's work."
Cook looked up at another image in the top row and said: "That's more offensive [than the Moss image] - he looks like he's about to masturbate."
Her friend Carole Tarlington, 74, said: "It's only in the last 10 years that people have become hysterical about paedophiles. People should stop being hysterical.
"It's fabulous photography and that's what counts."
Moss herself was not happy with the result.
"I hated it!" Moss told a London newspaper paper last year. "I hated my boobs more than anything as a teenager. I'd do anything not to take my top off.
"I see nudity as empowering now. Before I didn't. I cried for years!"
Gallery visitor Claudia Alamein, 19, said: "I feel like the context is totally different now. Maybe at the time it was acceptable, although now I would probably have a problem if it was my 15-year-old sister.
"I can see the androgyny thing when [Moss's image] is put next to the guy with the long hair, and in context as an artwork it's not really a big deal."
Tom Harvey, 19, who was with her, said: "There's a fine line between child pornography and art, but I don't think this crosses it."
Randall McMullan, 68, of Auckland, said: "I don't think it's controversial.
"Nature intended us to reproduce at 15 and be dead by 20, so we're beyond our sell-by date."
Given Moss's face was still unknown and her pioneering of the fashion waif look yet to come, Rheims's image of a nude Moss at age 15 did not cause the stir that Corrine Bailey's subsequent photo shoot of a topless 16-year-old Moss for The Face in 1990 did.
The Modern Lovers series was purchased by Lord Alastair McAlpine and donated to the Art Gallery of NSW in 1995.
The gallery has defended exhibiting the Moss photo, which has been exhibited and reprinted before.
"We exhibit art, not pornography," a spokeswoman said.
Photographer Rheims has said of the image: "At the time [Moss] was a little girl and she was showing herself this Thursday afternoon in a London agency, trying to become a model."
Rheims has said she was documenting androgyny, which was then a response to rising cases of HIV-AIDS.
"Androgyny was one of the ways of seduction, maybe, but inventing a new attitude towards the impossibility to have sex," she said.
In 2010 the NSW Government changed its child pornography laws after community concerns about the depiction of children in art, removing the defence of artistic purpose.
Under the NSW Crimes Act, child abuse material is "material that depicts or describes, in a way that reasonable persons would regard as being offensive, the private parts of a child who is under the age of 16 years".
But Ms Ayres said that, while artistic merit had been removed as a defence, in the event charges were ever laid against the gallery or the artist, "artistic merit has not been completely removed as a relevant factor".
In determining any prosecution case, the court would still have to "take into account the literary and artistic and journalistic and educational merit of any of the material as well as community standards".
Ms Ayres said Rheims's image of Moss would probably receive a PG rating if submitted for classification, the same rating applied to some images by photographer Bill Henson, but this seemed unlikely given material was only required to be submitted for classification if it were likely to be refused classification or restricted.


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September 11, 2013. By Denise Deveau
In a perfect world of universal health care, a dollar spent would be a dollar put to good use. Yet rankings of Canada's health care performance paint a less than ideal picture.
Aging populations and the prospect of lower tax revenues, years of escalating costs that far exceed GDP growth, and outdated funding and management models are putting greater pressure on the sector as a whole.
It's not for lack of funds. When it comes to per capita spending, Canada is second only to the U.S. and sixth in OECD rankings.
In a recent Conference Board of Canada report, Canada ranked lowest (10th) for health-care performance among 17 countries in the "B" category. (The only "A" rankings were awarded to Japan, Switzerland and Italy.) The Commonwealth Fund places Canada sixth among seven OECD countries, with the U.S. occupying last spot. "Our per-capita spending for universal health care is not doing very well," says Mark Stabile, director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
The last decade has been particularly demanding on the sector, he adds. While it had gone through a period of severe cutbacks during the Chrétien government, "The last decade, the provinces spent it all back. So we ended up where we would have any way."
Despite the dollars being poured into the system, the driving question for many observers is whether that money delivers value. Answers are not that easy to come by since defining the right value measurements is a matter of constant discussion. And as the debates carry on, health care continues to consume an ever-larger piece of provincial budgets.
Depending on the jurisdiction, health care can account for up to 45% to 50% of an provincial government's expenditures and growing. "As such, it is crowding out other spending priorities, including tourism and education, which are stagnant or decreasing," says Jason Sutherland, assistant professor at UBC's Centre for Health Services and Policy Research in Vancouver.
An added burden is the fact that the whole system is structured around impossible measures of productivity that have been in place for 50 years, contends Louis Theriault, director of research for the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Healthcare at the Conference Board of Canada. "It is designed for a type of medicine that doesn't exist today. There have been monumental changes in chronic disease management, communications and diagnostic tools that are transforming the way health care is being delivered. Productivity needs to be measured and paid for based on outcomes rather than input."
As it stands today, the system is grappling with issues relating to physical infrastructure, servicedelivery models, provider incentives, labour contracts and information flow, among others. Since the 1960s, much of the available care that once took place only in hospital can now be delivered in the community or at home, yet the current system is illequipped to support newer healthcare delivery methods.
When the question of productivity is brought to the discussion, one of the biggest challenges is establishing a sense of priorities, Mr. Theriault says. "We've had 7% annual growth in health-care costs over the last 20 years so the gap is building pretty quickly. Some of that is tied to factors we cannot change, such as an [increasingly] aging population generating less tax revenue, and population growth. Those two account for 2.2% growth that health care can't do anything about."
Even if the system could pay for everything and sustain it, the question remains, are we still getting value for our money? "There needs to be more thinking around how the system should be modified to maximize health value for every dollar spent. Right now the solution is more money and more money. But poor service doesn't buy you outcomes," Mr. Theriault says.
There are a number of opportunities to improve efficiencies without having to spend much more, Mr. Sutherland believes. "Some corners of the health-care system are incredibly ill managed. For example, 12% of hospital beds are filled with patients already discharged but [who] have no place to go home to. That's one of the largest factors contributing to hospital inefficiencies." Payment models are another area of opportunity. Ontario and B.C., for example, are switching from global budgets in which ministries "pay and hope for the best" to payment systems based on specific services provided, Mr. Stabile says. "That's something we need to strive for because it will drive productivity and efficiency gains. It's not necessarily a cost reduction. Rather, targeted budgeting is focused on doing more with what you have. A lot of Europeans have moved that way."
Canada could also spend more time assessing the economic efficiency of new procedures and drugs, he notes. "We need to be more rigorous. New innovation is great, but let's make sure we focus on the ones that reduce costs and improve outcomes. With proper evaluations, we can determine if it will either deliver better results at the same cost, or the same result at a lower cost."
Given the economic climate, the system appears to be reaching a tipping point that is prompting stakeholders to seriously rethink business models and generate productivity measures that make sense. In some cases, that could mean turning to international best practices, although one needs to understand the nuances involved since the U.K., Scandinavia and the U.S., for example, have different funding mechanisms, regional structures and social contracts.
"There are good lessons to be learned," Mr. Theriault says. "But they need to be contextualized. But at least you can get the conversation going."
Expanding the scope beyond acute care will also play a critical role in creating a more productive system. According to the Conference Board report, a dollar invested in improving economic and social factors affecting population health has more impact than an additional dollar invested in a health-care system that is mainly focused on the acute care aspect.
Perhaps the biggest element that is missing in the discussions is the voice of business, Mr. Theriault argues. "Business has a lot to gain by having a healthy workforce. After all, labour is a key input in the production process. Not one document published in the last 15 years talks about that. But they need to play a role in facilitating the process."
While it's sometimes difficult to draw a straight line between quality and productivity, the fallout from inefficiencies can extend beyond the circle of care, Mr. Sutherland confirms. "The toll on employers and families is high. What are the [additional] costs that are not borne by the health-care system?"
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VivoMini UN45H also comes with one audio output jack, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort++. * I/O ports may vary by model (VGA or Mini DisplayPort++) Quality you can trust Fully-tested for extreme reliability, wide compatibility and assured safetyYears of engineering expertise have gone into each VivoMini UN45H, with each unit being subjected to a series of reliability and quality tests to ensure they meet our exacting standards. It can cope with temperature extremes and is robust enough to withstand bumps and knocks during shipping. Power Consumption Test Port Test Power Consumption Test Noise Test Line Voltage and Frequency Test Drop Test ASUS Desktops – most recommended Windows desktop brandInnovation, design and reliability are at the heart of all ASUS computers. ASUS Desktops have won the PCMag Readers' Choice for Overall Satisfaction for four years in a row. * Reprinted from www.pcmag.com with permission. © 2015 Ziff Davis, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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ACSM, ACE, NASM, NSCA, AFAA, CEC Workshop in Vegas! Become an NPI Certified Posture Specialist & Certified Resistance Training Professional at UNLV (Las Vegas) Oct. 18-19, 2013. Register Now: http://www.npionline.org/workshops/unlv
Visit the NPI Booth at Club Industry Conference in Chicago Oct 23-25, 2013. Executive Director of NPI, Ken Baldwin will be presenting a Lecture on TH-Oct 24th titled "Postural Alignment and Core Strengthening" http://
Visit the NPI Booth at Club Industry Conference in Chicago Oct 23-25, 2013. Executive Director of NPI, Ken Baldwin will be presenting a Lecture on TH-Oct 24th titled "Postural Alignment and Core Strengthening" http://
Reminder-The WFBOS: World Fitness Business Owners Summit 2013 starts on September 14! Professor Ken Baldwin and Executive Director of the National Posture Institute will be presenting a Post-Workshop Webinar in Nov-2013 for WFBOS. Register Now: http://wfbos.com/a/wfbos/kbaldwin1
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Pastor Matt Chandler Mentions Church Member Lauren Scruggs' Accident
Young Texas megachurch pastor Matt Chandler talked about one of his church members, Lauren Scruggs, and her highly publicized airplane accident while speaking to some 8,000 pastors and church leaders at the Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Ky., this week.
Chandler, who is fighting brain cancer, shared that pastors are in a unique position where they see the glory of God but also they are the "spiritual first-responders" to the chaos of the world. He talked about having to lead the funeral ceremonies for several children within a month's time earlier this year, and then mentioned Scruggs' story.
Scruggs, the 23-year-old fashion blogger and model who lost her left eye and left hand when she walked into a moving air plane propeller in December, is a long-time member of The Village Church in Texas, where Chandler is the lead pastor.
Chandler shared the story of "Lo" – Scruggs nickname – who was saved at a time when her parents were divorced for seven years already. It took Scruggs another seven years to reconcile her parents and they came to Christ and remarried each other, he said.
"She had done some modeling, she had started a magazine and done some really cool things and was doing well in her relationship with Jesus Christ and sharing the Gospel," he said. But then one day the girl and her friends decided to board a small plane to look at Christmas lights and she got disoriented and walked into the plane's propeller.
"Literally, I'm funeral, funeral, preach and proclaim God's glory and I go home and I'm sitting on the coach with my wife, catching up where I am emotionally and where she is emotionally," Chandler said. "I do the funeral of an 8-year-old; I have an 8-year-old at home. I do the funeral of a 3-year-old; I have a 3-year-old in my house. That does something."
In the middle of that, the Texas pastor said, there are church discipline issues and people who "hate" his preaching to also deal with.
"This is a front row seat to the fallenness and brokenness of the world. And most times, pastors, we are in right after the paramedics, and sometimes we are in first," said Chandler
"It is unbelievably important for the man of God who shepherds the people to have his hope anchored where it should be anchored," he said.
His messaged, titled "The Fulfillment of the Gospel," focuses on Revelations 21:1-8, where God lays out a picture of a world renew – a new heaven and new heart. Chandler stated that God promises He will fix "this mess."
At the beginning of his talk, the Texas pastor said he also attended the T4G conference two years ago, when the prognosis from doctors at that time was not good. They had predicted he would not live long and even him getting on stage to speak at the 2012 T4G is a miracle.
The Together for the Gospel conference is a biennial event that started in 2006 with the purpose to encourage pastors to stand together for the same Gospel, and offers them an opportunity to connect and build pastoral friendships and networks.


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Sustainable building design and construction
Delivering value to our customers in the most effective and efficient ways possible is fundamental to us. As SKF is expanding to meet the constantly evolving needs of our diverse global customer base, we are constructing new manufacturing and warehouse facilities in different regions.
Irrespective of the location, we have made the commitment that all new facilities must be designed and constructed to world-class standards in terms of environmental performance; and we do so by adopting the US Green Building Council's (USGBC®) 'Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design' (LEED) standard for all our major constructions.
Certified facilities
In December 2017, SKF had received 21 LEED certified sites around the world, these are presented at LEED.com
- Test centre, Schweinfurt, Germany (Gold)
- Manufacturing, Villar Perosa, Italy (Gold)
- Manufacturing, Chodov, Czech Republic (Platimun) press release
- SKF Solution Factory, St Cyr, France (Silver)
- SKF Solution Factory, Gothenburg, Sweden (Gold)
- Manufacturing, Tver, Russia (Gold) press release
- SKF Solution Factory, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France (silver)
- Logistics centre, Shanghai, China
- Office, Pune, India (Platinum) press release
- Manufacturing, Dalian, China (Gold) press release
- Office, HQ Shanghai, China (Gold)
- Manufacturing, Jinan, China (Gold) press release
- Manufacturing, Ahmedabad, India (Gold) press release
- Technical Centre, Bengaluru, India (Gold) press release
- Manufacturing, Mysore, India (Gold)
- Office and manufacturing, St Louis, MO, US (Gold)
- Manufacturing, Zapopan, Mexico (Gold)
- Office, Tortuguitas, Argentina (Gold)
- Office, HQ Lansdale,PA, US (Platinum) home page
- SKF Solution Factory, Cleveland, OH, US (Gold)
- SKF Solution Factory, Birmingham, AL, US (Gold)
The LEED standard is a 'points based' system, with some mandatory categories, and others where it is possible to gain points by applying a specific environmental technology or solution. A certain number of points are required to achieve basic certification. However silver, gold and the highest level, platinum, are also possible if sufficient points are verified by the USGBC.
Main credit categories
- Sustainable sites credits encourage strategies that minimize the impact on ecosystems and water resources.
- Water efficiency credits promote smarter use of water, inside and out, to reduce potable water consumption.
- Energy & atmosphere credits promote better building energy performance through innovative strategies.
- Material & resource credits encourage using sustainable building materials and reducing waste.
- Indoor environmental quality credits promote better indoor air quality and access to daylight and views.
Two bonus categories
- Innovation in design or innovation in operations credits address sustainable building expertise as well as design measures not covered under the five LEED credit categories. Six bonus points are available in this category.
- Regional priority credits address regional environmental priorities for buildings in different geographic regions. Four bonus points are available in this category.
Read more on LEED at U.S. Green Building Council >>
SKF Sustainable Factory Rating (SFR)Because LEED is a generic standard, inevitably it does not cover all the environmental issues specifically related to typical SKF manufacturing processes. As the financial, environmental, social impacts of these processes can be significant, the company is developing an SKF specific category – referred to as the 'Sustainable Factory Rating' (SFR) which will follow the format and general approach outlined in LEED, but addresses specific SKF process related aspects. The criteria are grouped in 11 categories:
- Health and Safety
- Process Media and Process Pump Systems
- Compressed Air Systems
- Process Cooling / Heating
- Metering, Monitoring and Targeting Capability
- Pollution Control
- Process Waste Management
- Manufacturing Equipment
- Water
- Heat Treatment
- Commissioning Phase
All major constructions to be undertaken by or for the Group are required to apply SFR in conjunction with LEED.


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Paul Ryan's Sub-Three – Er, Make That Over-Four-Hour Marathon
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's recent admission that he hadn't really run a marathon in under three hours, as he fraudulently claimed in a national radio interview, but in fact didn't even break four hours, puts him in fast company when it comes to politicians who exaggerated or lied about their feats of athleticism.
Ryan's forced confession, after being confronted by evidence uncovered by Runner's World magazine, puts him in the same league as Bill Richardson, a former New Mexico governor, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary whose official biography once stated he had been drafted by the Kansas City Athletics to play pro baseball.
Richardson, who before Barack Obama's rise considered seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, also had let it be known that he had been drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles, but finally had to issue a lame mea culpa when reporters could not turn up any evidence of major league interest in signing the one-time college baseball star.
Richardson's bogus explanation that he thought baseball scouts put him on "a draft list of some kind," has the same phony ring of untruth as Ryan's excuse: "I literally thought that was my time. It was 22 years ago. You sorta forget these things."
Memo to Paul Ryan: You may forget the date of your anniversary, or the year you went to a Grateful Dead concert, or your S.A.T. score, but if you're a runner, you NEVER forget your best marathon time. (Gratuitous boast: I've run 2:55 twice, but wouldn't be stupid enough to brag that I've run, say, 2:30, nor would any of the marathoners I know.)
Compounding Ryan's dishonesty was that he originally claimed to have run a "2 hour and 50-something" marathon, which is quite different from a more innocent and easy-to-understand mistake of simply saying he ran "under four hours."
After some investigative reporting, Runner's World discovered that Ryan had completed only one 26.2-mile foot race, Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minn., in 1990 with a time of 4:01:25, a respectable but middle-of-the-pack time.
Ryan later feebly tried to walk back his claim in a published report.
"I hurt my back when I was in my mid-20s, so I had to stop running. And so obviously, my perception of races and times was off. I thought that was an ordinary time until my brother showed me a 3-hour marathon is, you know, very – crazy fast. I ran a 4-hour marathon."
Democrats, naturally, are off and running with Ryan's stumble.
Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, noted that his mother, Jill Biden, ran the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., with a time of 4:30:02 in 1998.
"So I guess he can compete with my mom. Maybe not. I think my mom could take him," Biden said.
Good for Jill Biden, but while we're on the topic of the second lady, I have to get something off my chest. Ever notice that every news account refers to her as "Dr. Jill Biden"?
It implies that she's a noted neurosurgeon, or at least an M.D.
Now I have nothing but utmost respect for people with advanced degrees, but Jill Biden's title comes from having earned a doctor of education in educational leadership. Good for her, but most of the PhDs I know – and more than one M.D. and D.V.M. – don't insist on being called "doctor."
Anyway, Ryan's bogus story pales by comparison to the hilariously fanciful tale woven by then-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford in 2009, when after disappearing for six days claimed he had been hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Never mind that the Appalachian Trail doesn't pass through his state.
In fact, Sanford, married at the time, had been in Buenos Aires with his mistress (What is it with politicians and Argentine women – remember Wilbur Mills and Fanne Foxe, "the Argentine Firecracker" who jumped into Washington's Tidal Basin after a drunken spree with the Arkansas Congressman?)
Incidentally, Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur, his one-time mistress, are now engaged, so an old-fashioned scold would say he is finally making an "honest" woman of her.
Maybe Paul Ryan should start running – with his feet – again. At 42 he's still a young guy, and a sub-three-hour marathon shouldn't be beyond his reach.
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Quilmes Metal Bottle-a Beer Packaging Design by Adrián Gustavo Pierini
Adrián Gustavo Pierini Presents The Quilmes Metal Bottle a Beer Packaging Design
Adrián Gustavo Pierini, the project leader of the award winning project Quilmes Metal Bottle - A beer packaging design by Adrián Gustavo Pierini demonstrates, This packaging changes its graphic under an ultraviolet light, when the "spirits of fun" appear. The ghaphic proposal consisted on covering, with a texture of little silver mosaics, the body of the bottle. The coldness of the material was counteracted and its lightness was taken to the extreme. These mosaics alter the chromatic palette in the central part creating, with different blues, the letter "Q", synthesis of the beer logo. The ink used imposed that no other ink can touch it. This limitation was overcome thanks to the "kaleidoscope" design; its internal lines form the silhouettes..
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See: Capital expenditures
Capital Expenditure
Payments made in cash or cash equivalents over a period of more than one year. Capital expenditures are used to acquire assets or improve the useful life of existing assets. An example of a capital expenditure is the funding to construct a factory. In accounting, capital expenditures must be capitalized; that is, the expenditure is recognized on a balance sheet gradually over the course of an asset's useful life. Capital expenditures are recorded as liabilities on a balance sheet. They are also called capital outlays. See also: Capital asset.


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This an an archived version of the documentation for SonarQube version 4.5 & 4.5.x LTS.
See https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SONAR/Documentation for current functionality
This page lists all the plugins hosted on our forge.
Developer Cockpit* - Enables each developer to identify their individual contributions to a project, and fosters best practices in code quality self-management.
Eclipse - See defects gathered by SonarQube directly in Eclipse and fix them on the spot. (Limited language compatibility).
IntelliJ - See defects gathered by SonarQube directly in IntelliJ and fix them on the spot. (Limited language compatibility).
Issue Assign - Automatically assigns new issues raised in the current analysis to the SCM author responsible.
Issues Report - Run local analyses on your source code. (Compatible with all languages).
Branding - Adds your own logo to the SonarQube UI.
Build Breaker - Makes the build fail if the quality gate fails.
Fortify - Imports reports from Fortify: Fortify Security Rating, number of issues, and vulnerability issues. Vulnerability issues are recorded as SonarQube issues.
Google Analytics - Adds the Google Analytics tracking script to the SonarQube web application.
Hudson - Enables launching SonarQube analysis from the Hudson CI engine.
Jenkins - Enables launching SonarQube analysis from the Jenkins CI engine.
JIRA Issues - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from JIRA. Enables the creation of JIRA issues from the issues view of the component viewer.
Maven Report - Adds a link to the Maven site to reference the project's SonarQube dashboard.
Piwik - Submits usage of a SonarQube instance to a Piwik server.
Oracle Forms PL/SQL Extractor - Extracts PL/SQL source code from Oracle Forms to feed SonarQube.
Redmine - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from Redmine. Enables the creation of Redmine issues from the issues view of the component viewer.
SCM Activity - Collects and reports information on commits using SCM data.
SonarQube Android Application - Provides access to your SonarQube instances from your Android devices.
Issue Assign - Automatically assign new issues to the developer responsible.
Doxygen - Generates the documentation of the application using Doxygen and Graphviz.
Motion Chart - Displays projects measures using the super sexy Google Motion Chart Gadget.
SCM Stats - Generates reports based on SCM change log information.
Tab Metrics - Adds a new tab to the component viewer containing information about all metrics for the file.
Timeline - Displays the history of multiple metrics using a Google Timeline Chart to replay the past.
Widget Lab - Adds new ways to look at existing data through new widgets.
Portfolio Management (Views)* - Enables aggregation of projects. Projects can be grouped into applications, applications into teams, teams into departments, etc.
PDF Report - Generates PDF report from project analysis. Note that report is not configurable and cannot be sent by email and the plugin is limited to Java Maven projects.
Report* - Reports information by sending customizable PDF reports by email. Information can come from project or/and global measures.
Technical Debt Evaluation (SQALE)* - Adds an implementation of the SQALE Methodology to compute technical debt, which supports the evaluation of a software application's source code in the most objective, accurate, reproducible and automated way possible.
Crowd - Enables delegation of SonarQube authentication to Atlassian Crowd.
LDAP - Enables the delegation of SonarQube authentication and authorization to LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory.
OpenID - Enables user authentication and Single Sign-On via an OpenID provider.
PAM - Enables the delegation of SonarQube authentication to the underlying PAM subsystem.
Abacus - Estimates the complexity of each file in order to help you use the "abacus methodology".
Artifact Size - Reports on the size of the artifact generated by a project.
Build Stability - Reports on stability of project build using data from your Continuous Integration engine.
Issues Density Plugin - Provides technical-debt related metrics removed from the core platform.
Generic Test Coverage - Imports coverage data for any combination of languages.
JMeter - Displays JMeter test results in SonarQube.
Mantis - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from Mantis.
Pitest - Integration with PIT, which is a mutation testing tool for Java.
Thucydides - Reports on Thucydides (acceptance tests tool) metrics.
Trac - Retrieves and reports the number of project issues from a Trac instance.
Useless Code Tracker - Reports on the number of lines that can be reduced in an application.
*: Commercial plugin
Tempted to write your own plugin and share it on the forge? Want to contribute your plugin back to the community? Just follow the instructions on the Hosting on the Forge page.
Other plugins
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Derek Bellman (died 3 September 2003) was a comic book artist specializing in colors and a painter.
He began in the comics industry in the mid-1990s working as a colorist with Malibu Comics on titles such as Ultraverse Premiere, Prototype, and Solitaire. When Malibu was acquired by Marvel Comics, he worked on titles including X-Men, Weapon X, and Wolverine. In the latter half of 1997, he moved on, but continued to work on titles such as Deity and Chassis.
His only Star Trek contribution was color separations for a pinup in "Field Trip" by Malibu.
Bellman was also a musician, playing bass in the band "The Aliens" (aka "The Aliens That Ate Hollywood"), and one of their songs appears on the sixth volume of The Desert Sessions series.
In September 2003, soon after selling a painting, he was beaten to death in his apartment in Los Angeles. [1]


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Antenna Types
Available antennas in the current release include planar and wire dipole, rectangular and elliptical patch, pyramidal, sectoral, and conical horn, rectangular and circular waveguide, planar and conical spiral, tapered slot, log-periodic, inverted-F, bowtie, and biconical antennas. These antenna types are used in many commercial, biomedical, and defense applications which require the use of broadband or resonant radiators.
The Antenna Design Kit increases productivity by automating the creation of geometrically complex antennas defined using equations such as Archimedean, logarithmic, and sinuous spirals and exponentially tapered slots. Users simply select the antenna type, enter the physical dimensions or desired operating frequency, and the Antenna Design Kit generates a complete HFSS model including all necessary boundary conditions, frequency sweeps, and reports.
Parametric Modeling
The Antenna Design Kit describes the antenna geometry parametrically, enabling a design to be easily modified in HFSS after the initial model has been generated using the design kit. Parametric modeling also allows the use of Ansoft Optimetrics to perform automated optimizations and design studies in order to determine relationships between physical dimensions and performance. Post-processing reports are automatically generated for viewing input impedance and far-field radiation patterns.
Synthesis Feature
The Antenna Design Kit includes the capability to synthesize the physical dimensions of each antenna for a desired operating frequency or frequency band. This feature can be utilized to provide a starting point for new antenna designs or to quickly evaluate various antennas for a given application.
Custom Antenna Designs
Users can add their own custom antennas to the library of designs available in the Antenna Design Kit. Any parameterized HFSS model can be easily imported into the user interface, which allows the tool to serve as a library for easy re-use of common designs.
Help Documentation
Complete documentation is included with the Antenna Design Kit. The user documentation provides information on how to use the design kit, a description of the parameters for each antenna type, design references for each antenna, results for the nominal design parameters, and guidelines for designing antennas using HFSS.
The Antenna Design Kit is compatible with HFSS version 11.2 and above installed on Microsoft Windows operating systems.


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Obama studies Senate election strategy
It turns out that the November congressional elections dominated President Obama's meeting Monday with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
In addition to Nevada's Reid, the meeting included Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Guy Cecil, the committee's executive director.
Democrats already face an uphill effort in seeking to regain the House majority from the Republicans in November. Some party members are also concerned about being able to hold onto the Democratic majority in the Senate after the elections.
The Democrats currently enjoy a 55-45 advantage in the Senate, including two independents who caucus with the majority. Republicans will need a net gain of six seats to win a new Senate majority.
Of the 35 Senate seats that are up in November, Democrats are having to defend 21 of them.
That includes races in red states like Arkansas, Alaska, Louisiana and North Carolina, and other states where Obama lost in his own 2012 re-election campaign or is otherwise unpopular.
So one strategic question for this year's Senate elections: How often — and where — will Obama campaign for fellow Democrats?


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Brock Grain and Feed Bins
Taking Feed Bin Performance to the Next Level
When it comes to feed bins, Brock has built a reputation for offering customers more models, more built-in quality and more outstanding features. The result is a feed bin that lasts longer, is more convenient to use and does a better job over its lifetime.
Brock's feed bin product line offers you choices to help you get the bin you need to do the job:
- Diameters ranging from 6 to 15 feet (1.8 to 4.6 m) – larger bin diameters are also available.
- Three hopper angles: 67°, 60° or 45°.
Brock reinvented the feed bin with the introduction of its next generation of hopper bins. Brock's ALL-OUT® Feed Bin System:
- Raises a new industry standard for excellence and value.
- Provide solutions for better productivity in your poultry or livestock operation.
Added together, the innovative features of Brock's ALL-OUT Feed Bin System:
- Solves common feed bin problems that producers have experienced over the years.
- Improves on all previous generations in feed storage.
- Sets a new standard for feed storage excellence.
These are just a couple of the reasons why BROCK® Feed Bins continue to be the leading choice for feed storage.


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Friday, July 17, 2009
Offerings to the angry mob
In a time and at a moment when we should be howling with rage at the very notion of Roy Halladay being traded elsewhere, we've been generally circumspect about the whole thing. Maybe that's just the way we deal with these things. We shut down emotionally, and analyze the whole ordeal until we've distanced ourselves from it just enough to function normally. Swallow the rage, the notion goes, and let it fester inside. Keep up appearances.
Which probably explains the ulcers. (Well, that and the bourbon.)
Of course, trying to take the high road and the dignified path through all of this will get you called all sorts of nasty names: A Rogers apologist; a heartless bastard; not a true fan. Joanna from Hum and Chuck even called us stupid on Twitter last night. (We actually had to check her blog this morning to see if she still wanted to be "respected" like us.)
It leaves us feeling like the Helen Mirren version of Elizabeth II in The Queen. We want you to know that we feel your pain, but we don't feel like we can show it. So let's just go fox hunting.
Ok, we'll play along. It's all J.P.'s fault
As much as we might try to not to fly off the handle and hurl accusations, we're left with this thought: If the Jays go ahead and trade Halladay, then J.P. Ricciardi's legacy will be the team's inability to win a postseason berth with the best pitcher in baseball on their roster.
We've defended J.P. for two years now, and we've gone along with the logic of many of his signings and moves. There's still a possibility that this Next Great Jays Team that we've spoken of recently may well be the work of Ricciardi and could be solidified with the players they receive in exchange for Halladay.
But if you're a bottom line kinda guy, you have to look at the past eight years and ask yourself if there weren't short term opportunities on which the Jays should have capitalized . As we noted before, the Ricciardi years will go down as the Era of Vague Optimism. The Blue Jays' margin for slipping past the Red Sox and Yankees is razor-thin at the best of times, but the measured approach that the Ricciardi regime has taken has always left us an arm's legnth away, with the prospect of next year always dangled as Our Time.
Fortune favours the bold, and opportunity is an ephemeral thing in baseball. (Especially in the American League East.) There have been ever-so-brief opportunities for this team in recent years, but the Jays have preferred to stay the course and stick to their program rather than risk the future for a slim possibility. It's an emminently reasonable strategy, but one that seemingly overlooks the fact that a slim possibility is the best that the Jays will be able to hope for given their particular context.
Maybe it's a bit much to call the Ricciardi era an abject failure. But as the decade closes, we're left with little to show for it other than ugly black ballcaps and a whole lot of frustration.
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I wouldn't limit the criticism of management to JP, but he probably deserves most of it:
reactionary signings = failure
- July 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Hey Tao, so if the Ricciardi years will be the Era of Vague Optimism, how will you titling your book on the mid-late 90s Jays? The "What the hell are the ghosts of Frank Viola and Danny Darwin doing on the Jays?" era?
According to Griffin, all the Jays need to do is hire a Canadian GM and then we'll instantly win.
- July 17, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- Voodoo Matt said...
TL, dr, (OK I read it but forget all that anyway.)
Marcum's rehab start in NH yesterday: 4.2 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 0 R!
One N, one A, one I, one L, one S!
- July 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM
What's next, a diversion from drinking ?
- July 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Might as well blame the GM. He neither turned water into wine, nor did he feed a multitude with five loaves and two fishes.
Crucify him and develop a taste for the CFL!
- July 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
But he sure knows how to find ways to make money disappear
- July 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Not as well as Omar Minaya! Hallowed be his name.
- July 17, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Oh and another thing, wouldn't it be more prudent for the Jays to try to package Wells with Halladay for fewer prospects? The Jays would need the receiving team to take on all of Wells' contract, of course. That might be worth more than a passel of prospects right there.
- July 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- Ian Gray said...
See, that's enough for me. You have the best pitcher in baseball under a reasonable contract for eight years, and you never come close to the playoffs, that's that. Sure, he was unlucky in some things, but everybody is. And so while I agree with you that JP Ricciardi isn't the worst GM of all time or anything, the much ballyhooed trading of Doc is about as good a time as any to draw a line under his tenure as you're going to find.
As many people have pointed out, what's frustrating here is that after clinging to faint hopes when they should have cut bait in years past, NOW, with this guy of all guys they're being flinty-eyed and looking at the long term. It's backwards, I think, but it also feels like we've been sold a bill of goods. JP already had a reputation as a used-car salesman-presiding over the most spectacular firesale in team history a year before he said the team was due to compete puts the seal on that reputation, for better or for worse.
So while I realize and accept that part of me is being emotional, I really think there's not much of a case rationally for not making JP walk the plank after he officially gives up on this incarnation of the Blue Jays by trading Doc, Rolen et al. What reason is there to think that this rebuild is going to go any better than the last one he did? He had his shot, he did some things right but ultimately he failed. And as a result, he has to go. I don't see the argument to the contrary.
- July 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Joanna said...
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- July 17, 2009 at 5:08 PM
- Joanna said...
You aren't stupid, you are dumb. Dumb isn't as bad as stupid. And you aren't even dumb, just part of something you wrote.
- July 17, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- Unknown said...
Let's not beat around the bush.... the Riccardi era has been an abject failure.
8 years and not even a faint sniff of the post season? If that doesn't say failure to me, I don't know what does.
- July 17, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Who knows what Joanna means?
- July 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM
@DP, on OMar, I'm in the NYC area and I can't stand him BUT they made the playoffs once in his duration and missed it by two games two years in a row. JP has never even sniffed the playoffs with the Jays!
DP, I see where you stand on Wells BUT the Jays need to have to have a grand haul to justify the Halladay trade. To get relative garbage AND riding the Wells contract is not enough. They need to get something for Doc, not b prospects
@ Kevin ,great call. Enough of the dicision powerhouses excuse etc so on. He built this team and had 8 years to do it and not even one playoffs appearance? OUT!
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BOSTON � Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev texted a friend 90 minutes after the deadly explosions and said, "Don't go thinking it's me," a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday during opening statements at the friend's obstruction trial.
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Obama visits the Great Buddha in Japan
Posted by Ram Kumar Shrestha on July 15, 2012
[Obama related news that is going to be re-posted here is not new, however; Hilary Clinton related news is new. These news under priority in this blog as these news show that US leaders are loyal to Buddha and Buddhism can play very important role to World Peace in the present world context. Some Buddhists from different countries and Nepalese (as Lumbini, Nepal is the birthplace of Buddha) are sharing and circulating these photos through social medias. And this is Global brotherhood. ]
By David Jackson, USA Updated 2010-11-14 12:48 PM
President Obama is winging his way back to Washington, but not before receiving some spiritual nourishment in Japan.
Obama visited the 44-foot-high Great Buddha statue of Kamakura, returning to a spot he visited when he was 6 years old.
"The first time I was here, I was this big," Obama said, putting his hand up to his waist.
The copper Buddha statue, constructed in 1252, weighs 93 tons, and is seated in the lotus position, meditating. The statue is a sacred site.
"It is wonderful to return to this great treasure of Japanese culture," Obama wrote in the guest book. "Its beauty has stayed with me for many years."
From the pool report by Scott Wilson of The Washington Post:
POTUS walks up a central path lined with pines, other trees, his shirt collar open, toward the Great Buddha. He is greeted by a man and woman in traditional Japanese robes, whom he greets with a handshake and small bow, and tells them he visited years ago. Can't hear much else.
The Japanese couple are Michiko Sato, director of the Kotoku-in Temple, in cream-colored robes; and, Takao Sato, the 15th chief monk of the temple, in purple robes.
They walk together the remaining 50 feet to the base of the Buddha (you can see why it made a lasting impression on the 6-year-old Obama — it's enormous, with a lovely green hilltop as background flanked by two trees with yellowing fall leaves.)
The three walk around the site — the Buddha is surrounded on three sides by low, tile-roof buildings.
The three enter what looks like a gift shop, and a few minutes later, POTUS emerges carrying a small bag (pool told he purchased two bracelets for the girls.) Then poses sitting on a bench for some pictures with his guides. He also bought an ice cream bar inside, which he eats while sitting on the bench. Pool told it is the green-tea flavor he has mentioned as a highlight of his childhood visit.
POTUS then walks back to the Buddha, takes a long gaze up at its face, then shakes hands with his guides and walks back toward the entrance and waiting motorcade. In all, about 25-minute visit.
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Hillary Clinton Placing Lotus Flowers On A Buddha Statue
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placing lotus flowers on a Buddha statue at Ho Phrakeo. She is now in Laos, the first visit by an American secretary of state here in 57 years. Photo; U.S. Embassy Vientiane.
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DWTS 14 Week 6 – Motown Week Song Predictions!
So next week is Motown week, and I could not be more pumped! Seriously guys…I love me some Motown, so this was a fun list to compile 😎
Here's the deal: so far, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, and The Temptations have all been confirmed as acts that are going to be singing live as the couples perform on Monday night. I'm not sure if they're going to be singing for every couple or not, and I'm not sure if the songs the couples are dancing to are going to only be songs by those particular acts – the deets are a bit murky as of right now. We also don't know for sure what dance Gladys has yet – our reader Magnolia (@TristanDWTSFans on Twitter…follow her, she's cool :-)) has promised to let us know as soon as she finds out. There's been speculation that it's jive, so I went ahead and compiled a list of Motown jive songs just for the hell of it 🙂 Since TPTB have also expressed an affinity for recycling songs in the past few seasons in particular, I've pored through music from previous seasons and pulled out previously used Motown songs that we might see again. I've bolded the songs that are my "best guesses" for what we might see on Monday night, based on all the info above. If we get confirmation on any more songs, we will reveal it in Heidi's "Who's Dancing What?" post on Sunday, and I may update this post with other pertinent info as it comes out.
But for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy the cool sounds of Motown – DWTS style! 😀
ETA: According to Donald's Twitter, there's supposedly a "Motown Marathon" dance to be done on Tuesday…take it with a grain of salt as we wait on the press release for next week to confirm. As for a possible song? Not sure what dance this Motown Marathon is going to be, but I imagine that the music will have to be something that can be looped continuously until the marathon ends, and it probably will be instrumental only. So in other words – I have no idea 😛 In the meantime, send me your soul food recipes at email@example.com!
Foxtrot (Donald & Peta and Maria & Derek):
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" – Marvin Gaye (Laila & Maks' foxtrot in season 4)
"Baby Love" – The Supremes (Monique & Louis' foxtrot in season 3)
"My Guy" – Mary Wells (Joey & Kym's foxtrot in season 4)
"Jimmy Mack" – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (Mel & Maks' foxtrot in season 5)
"Pride & Joy" – Marvin Gaye (Jason & Edyta's foxtrot in season 6)
"I Hear a Symphony" – The Supremes (Marie & Jonathan's foxtrot in season 5)
"I Just Wanna Make Love to You" – Etta James (Vivica & Nick's foxtrot in season 3)
"My Girl" – The Temptations (could also be a rumba, if slowed down)
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