diff --git a/checkstyle_checks.xml b/checkstyle_checks.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
+    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
+
+<module name="Checker">
+
+    <metadata name="com.atlas-sw.eclipse" value="I like Sydney"/>
+
+    <property name="severity" value="error"/>
+
+    <module name="SuppressionFilter">
+        <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.suppressions.file}"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="PackageHtml"/>
+
+    <module name="Translation">
+        <property name="severity" value="${translation.severity}"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <property name="tabWidth" value="4" />
+
+        <module name="GenericIllegalRegexp">
+            <property name="format" value="\s$"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="FileLength" />
+        <module name="Header">
+          <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.header.file}"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <module name="JavadocType">
+            <property name="authorFormat" value="\S"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocMethod">
+            <property name="allowUndeclaredRTE" value="true"/>
+            <property name="allowThrowsTagsForSubclasses" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable"/>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle">
+            <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="LeftCurly">
+            <property name="tokens" value="CLASS_DEF,INTERFACE_DEF,METHOD_DEF,CTOR_DEF"/>
+            <property name="option" value="nl"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="LeftCurly">
+            <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_CATCH,LITERAL_DO,LITERAL_ELSE,LITERAL_FINALLY,LITERAL_FOR,LITERAL_IF,LITERAL_SWITCH,LITERAL_SYNCHRONIZED,LITERAL_TRY,LITERAL_WHILE"/>
+            <property name="option" value="nlow"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="LineLength">
+            <property name="ignorePattern" value="^ *\* *[^ ]+$"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName">
+            <property name="format" value="^m[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="MethodLength"/>
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
+            <property name="tokens" value="DOT"/>
+            <property name="allowLineBreaks" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap">
+            <property name="tokens" value="ASSIGN, DIV_ASSIGN, PLUS_ASSIGN, MINUS_ASSIGN, STAR_ASSIGN, MOD_ASSIGN, SR_ASSIGN, BSR_ASSIGN, SL_ASSIGN, BXOR_ASSIGN, BOR_ASSIGN, BAND_ASSIGN"/>
+            <property name="option" value="eol"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName">
+            <property name="format" value="^a[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="ParameterNumber"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly">
+            <property name="option" value="alone"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName">
+            <property name="format" value="^s[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="TabCharacter"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="MagicNumber"/>
+        <module name="Indentation">
+            <property name="basicOffset" value="4"/>
+            <property name="braceAdjustment" value="0"/>
+            <property name="caseIndent" value="0"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="ArrayTrailingComma"/>
+        <!-- module name="FinalLocalVariable"/ -->
+
+        <!-- Generates quite a few errors -->
+        <module name="CyclomaticComplexity">
+            <property name="severity" value="ignore"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="NestedIfDepth">
+            <property name="max" value="3"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="NestedTryDepth"/>
+        <module name="ExplicitInitialization"/>
+    </module>
+</module>