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In today's world of email and cyber communications, many email users are emboldened with using poor grammar, non-traditional formatting and using Internet information as their own. Additionally many users feel they can speak or say what they want about any netizen.
This is not the case!
The body of the below blog is taken from my books, referenced below. This will provide the the reader with a basic definition of defamation.For a more thorough understanding, the books are readily available via Amazon.
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My original response was to sue her for defamation of
character but then I realized I had no character.
Barkley Defamation
is easier to do with email than through other mediums. If you quote someone
from an email but only with select certain portions that change the meaning of
what is said or distort the content, it can be a strong case for defamation. If
you do not put the quote into context, and it besmirches their reputation, that
can also be considered defamation. If someone does it to you, there are many
potential avenues of attack and several ways it is actionable in court. Still,
if you are worried about email privacy, put a disclaimer in your footer indicating that the email is
considered private and is not for publication. It really is not necessary for
the most part but is never a bad idea.
If an email is forwarded and part of it is
changed or left out with a negative result or changed meaning, it is
For Example:
When good Netiquette is practiced,
defamation, bullying, libel, and
slander will occur less frequently. Defamation
of character is written or spoken injury to a person or organization's
reputation. Libel is the written act of defamation. Slander is the verbal act
of defamation. Malice means intent to do harm.
What defamation is not
Generally, a statement made about an indefinable group of people or organizations cannot be defamation. Take "lawyers are crooks," for example; there is no name or clearly defined victim. However, "John Law Firm is a crooked practice" indisputably defines a victim. The definition of defamation is "the speaking of slanderous words of a person so as, de bona fama aliquid detrahere, to hurt his good fame."=====================================================================
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Gene Chizik Fired at Auburn Two Years After Winning National Title
Gene Chizik and the Auburn Tigers won the national championship in 2010. Less than two years later, the school announced Sunday that Chizik had been fired after one of the worst declines since the A.P. poll began in 1936.
Under Chizik's leadership, Auburn became the first team in FBS history to go from undefeated in conference play to winless in the conference in just three seasons. The Tigers' 3-9 mark this year was their worst since going 0-10 in 1950. Auburn lost its final three SEC games by a combined score of 150-21, including a 49-0 loss to archrival Alabama on Saturday.
In 2010, the Tigers went 14-0 and won a national title with Heisman Trophy-winner Cam Newton under center, but without him, Chizik was just 19-19 overall and 7-17 in SEC play.
"I'm extremely disappointed with the way this season turned out, and I apologize to the Auburn family and our team for what they have had to endure," Chizik said in a statement. "While we experienced a tremendous low in 2012, I will always be proud of the incredible highs that we achieved, including three bowl victories, an SEC championship and a national championship."
Firing Chizik won't come cheap. Under the terms of his contract, Chizik is due a $7.5 million buyout with another $3.6 million due to his assistants. However, despite several off-field issues with players and NCAA scrutiny over Newton's recruitment, Auburn did not fire Chizik "for cause," meaning they are on the hook for his full buyout.


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Hello Hello Otaku members!
The name is Erin, but I am better known by my username, Akeni Chan.
I would like to welcome you to Akeni's Corner, a totally randomistic world that I will use as a sort of down to earth journal to pass time before I go to college. (The count down is on! I only have 6 Months! [3 until I graduate] :3 )
Anyway, so that you are aware, I like to talk about a lot of things, and I can be quite frank about stuff too. I post about the good and the bad, because as a human, that is natural for us to experience such things. Because this is theOtaku, I made a goal to add a "mini sketch" to each of my posts. c: I hope you all enjoy!
Now for a bit about myself...
I play the violin ( I am going to major in Music Ed, or Music Therapy when I enter college)
The name Akeni goes with many things... I shall make a post about this one day.
I am a Sagittarius (Rooster for those into Chinese zodiacs).
Blue and Gray are my favorite colors.
I use improper grammar as a comical addition to my writing. No worries though. It doesn't get too crazy.
My favorite number is 9.
I am older than most of my friends, but am also the most immature (* u*;; )
I like HUGS. :D
...and emotes :3
Gaiaonline.com is a website I frequent. My username is Akeni Shark.
I have a FRIES!!!! wallet.
I draw in my free time and nap when I can.
I am openly accepting to many things (this includes sexual orientation, religions, beliefs, etc. that are outside of my own) so basically I am not close minded to other people and their cultures. I respect and love diversity. <3
I live in the "center of the US", which is Kansas.
Mac n' Cheese is my FAVORITE food.
and I love you all.
Embedded is a picture of myself and all my current nicknames (drawn of course) for your eyes to enjoy. :D
I think this is the general gist of myself. As time goes by, and I make more posts, you guys should be able to learn more about me. I will be posting drawings most likely in the fan arts area. I've not done a wall paper yet because of inadequate materials, but I shall get around to doing so soon! I plan to do some challenges as time progresses as well. Hopefully you like my world enough to subscribe (or be friends with me, cause friends make the world go round~!). Have a good day!


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Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko MineSynopsisShe's seductive, she's sweet, she's a killer and a hero. She's whatever she needs to be to steal your heart as well as your fortune. Master femme-fatale and thief, Mine Fujiko, has an insatiable need to steal and acquire riches for herself and she will do anything to get whatever her heart desires. She is the sexy glue that keeps Lupin and his merry band of misfits together-and this is the beginning of her story. ReviewI am not one for long-winded series. A few exceptions come to mind, but generally I find my patience wearing thin if I have to keep up weekly with a series that will drone on and on over one-hundred episodes. This is one of the reasons why I could not get into Lupin III as a whole. I enjoy a few episodes here and there as well as some of the movies, but at best the series is a mixed bag to me. However, my opinion of the show changed for the better when I was given a bite-sized rendition of the saga via the titular character's viewpoint called, Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Here is a perfectly paced and visually enticing anime that takes the original series back to its grownup roots. Way back when, Lupin III was not all about the goofy and episodic capers of a thief, his crew, and the heists which brought them together-but a manga that was a little darker in tone. Published originally in 1967-1969, and featured in the magazine Weekly Action Manga, Lupin III (or Rupan Sansei in Japan) centered around the exploits of Lupin the Third; grandson of Arsene Lupin, master "gentleman" French thief from the series of novels by Maurice Leblanc. Lupin, along with his gunslinging gynophobic partner, Jigen; A stoic, wandering samurai named Goemon Ishikawa XIII; and the lovely female crook, Mine Fujiko; travel the world to amass riches through the use of any sneaky and underhanded tactic imaginable. It is rightfully so that Fujiko would have her own series, since she has become one of the most iconic female characters in anime history. The series peers into the mind as well as the history of her, and starts this character study by showing the viewer one of the most intriguing opening themes I have seen in an anime. The opening sequence, titled "New Wuthering Heights" is a spoken-word piece in which the lead is describing (accompanied by copious amounts of nudity)-or at least attempting to-the basis behind her kleptomania. The entire theme feels retroactive in nature, with a style that reminded me of the sexy spy flicks of the 1960's which, more than likely, is what director Sayo Yamamoto was going for. Speaking of the director, if the name was not a giveaway, Sayo Yamamoto is a woman; which is a bit of an anomaly in the anime industry. Considering the small amount of work that she has directed such as Michiko and Hatchin, she is drawn towards creating female characters that are curvaceous as they are courageous. At the same time, they are very flawed "people" with plenty of their own foibles and glaring faults, in concert with their own strength and beauty. Without putting gender too much into the review, I don't think a man could balance such a dichotomy without focusing too much on the sexiness of an already alluring female character. Interestingly enough, some people have criticized the ample amounts of nudity all throughout the series as being unnecessary, and have even gone on to say that the series is sexist because of it. While the show, does have a lot of nudity throughout I will play devil's advocate by stating that it never seems out of place. Much of the nudity is indicative to Fujiko "baring it all" (no pun intended) in a mental sense and as a talking point as to how she uses her sexual appeal to further her own wealth. Fujiko has always been a sexpot in the world of Lupin, but now, since she is the focus, her sexual wiles can be discussed more frankly. This comes as no surprise since this version of Lupin comes in a darker tone because of the adult roots of the original manga. But I will also concede to the opposing viewpoint by stating that the nudity, at times, is distracting, but-once again-never seems like it is gratuitous. For the readers who expect the silly tongue-and-cheek adventures that have been typified in the other Lupin III series-look elsewhere. Granted, there is still a sense of fun in this series, especially in regards to the clowning around that Lupin does, but it is all tampered by the overall moodier tone and psychological drama. This series picks apart the original cast of characters and gives them a somber makeover. A prime example of this change is that of Zenigata. Once a bumbling buffoon of a gumshoe who always got the short end of the stick; he is transformed into a strong willed and stone faced agent of the law who takes no nonsense. In actuality, it was a refreshing change of pace. Much of the other characters remain somewhat the same, but are given more opportunity to become fleshed out by exploring their motives. Some new characters have also been added into the mix such as Oscar; Zenigata's androgynous and doting little deputy who is madly in love with him. The viewer is given a back story into how he developed his rigid loyalty and sexual desire for Zenigata, as well as his hatred for Fujiko. Another facet that makes this series stand out is the "sketchy" look of the visuals. Much of the character design as well as the backgrounds, apply a manga-like aesthetic with a heavy emphasis on dark shading and pronounced pencil-lines. Characters are designed to look as if they came from the original Monkey Punch manga; with plenty of rough edges and exaggerated facial features. It's as if we are watching a finely tuned, edgy, and visually stunning motion manga. Much of the ambiance of this anime feel like they have been taken from noir films and, as stated earlier on, from 1960's girl's-with-guns spy movies. The series also has moments where it seems like the spectator just took part in an acid binge, with plenty of psychedelic trip-outs that were ubiquitous in certain films from the 60's and 70's. The Woman Called Fujiko Mine walks the fine line of reveling in nostalgia while bringing the viewer something fresh and new. So is this the series which will bring anime back to its roots and save the industry from the current over dependence on slice-of-life anime with cute girls? Not quite, for as much I can praise this series for its aspirant qualities, I can heap a stone or two on its most apparent of faults. Okay, maybe just a pebble. But in all honesty (and lame jokes aside) much of the final arc of the plot becomes bogged down in a series of baffling twists revolving around the troubled past of Fujiko. It is as if the crew decided to throw away everything they have worked hard for and try and force feed the viewer every little emotional and mental nook and cranny in Fujiko's mind, while losing sight of why this series worked. With such as spectacular beginning and middle, it is a shame that the ending is so determined to make our heads spin, that it instead loses itself in its own ambition and becomes so damned focused on trying to quickly tie every loose end and bring about a "satisfying conclusion." The end is not horrible, but it just seems so slapped together and forced that it leaves an overall unsatisfied feeling. Do not let that be a deterrent though, because there is enough action, beauty, and overall awesomeness for fans and non-fans alike to chew on. Especially if you have a Blu-Ray player! A visually stunning character study of one of anime's most iconic female characters with an interesting spin on her love of stealing, as well as her relationship with the other members of the Lupin III crew. Unfortunately the ending loses itself in its desire to form the whole of Fujiko that it becomes confusing. Putting that aside, this series garners a strong four star rating. — Dallas Marshall Recommended Audience: Throw in some bloody gun play, some sexuality, and a whole lot of nudity and you get the adult train rolling! This is not at all for anyone below the age of 17. Version(s) Viewed: Review Status: Full (13/13) Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine © 2012 TMS Entertainment CO.,LTD. |
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Shuttle Columbia Launched July 1st
News story originally written on July 2, 1997
The orbiter Columbia was launched July 1, 1997. This begins a 16-day mission.
The purpose of this mission is to study the micro-gravity of space. Micro-gravity means there is less gravity than on Earth. This is why people float around when they are in space. There is not enough gravity to hold them to the floor. The crew on this shuttle mission wants to do science experiments in this micro-gravity environment.
The shuttle Columbia is the oldest shuttle in the whole shuttle fleet. It has flown 86 million miles!


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New York University physicist Maryam Modjaz will study the explosions of stars using a method she calls "stellar forensics" under a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
CAREER awards are the most prestigious NSF award for junior faculty and are given to those who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Under the 5-year, $500,000 grant, Modjaz will observe the host environments of different kinds of stellar explosions in order to investigate which kinds of stars have exploded and why.
"Astrophysics is entering the Golden Age of innovative time surveys that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the sky," says Modjaz. "Fundamental to this knowledge is the ability to look backward in time to see what conditions led to the explosion of various stars—phenomena that helped shape galaxies, as we know them today and that produced many of the elements vital for our life, such as iron."
Her research will focus on two major types of stellar explosions, long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and stripped-envelope supernovae (Stripped SN), which are both products of collapsing massive stars. Supernovae become as brilliant as a billion suns combined while GRBs are violent explosions that launch particles moving nearly at the speed of light. Thus far, astronomers have been unable to pinpoint the stars that produce each kind of explosion.
Under the NSF CAREER Award, Modjaz's research group will determine what produced Stripped SN by developing an understanding of their host environments as well as their link to GRBs. To do so, Modjaz will use data from the Palomar Transient Factory, which has collected one of the largest samples of stripped SN to date.
By measuring both the metallicities (proportions of matter that do not include hydrogen and helium) and masses of stellar populations at the SN sites—the habitats of the explosions—Modjaz and her colleagues will be able to deduce the make-up of the stellar progenitors that in some cases yielded Stripped SN and in others, GRBs.
"A clear understanding of the stellar progenitors of SN and GRBs is essential to using them as indicators of star formation over cosmological distances—and fundamental to tracing the chemical history of the universe," says Modjaz.


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Alternative hip-hop crew whose sound turned toward dance-pop during the 2000s, transforming them from a cult act into a mainstream phenomenon. On September 7, 2003, Black Eyed Peas started a six-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Where Is The Love.' The best selling single of 2003. (with an un-credited Justin Timberlake on the recording).
The Black Eyed Peas transcended hip-hop to become one of the most commercially successful pop groups of the 2000s. Their career began modestly, with a pair of albums inspired by the positive-minded likes of A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. After adding Fergie, the group's pop instincts reached full flight. Ignited by the Top Ten hit "Where Is the Love?" and the Grammy-winning party anthem "Let's Get It Started," the group scored three multi-platinum albums in 2003's Elephunk, 2005's Monkey Business, and 2009's The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies). While still connected to hip-hop, the group's sound turned toward dance-pop -- a savvy move that transformed them from a cult act into a mainstream phenomenon. The group's earliest connections go back to the early '90s, when high schoolers will.i.am (William James Adams Jr.) and apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo Jr.) were part of Tribal Nation, a breakdancing crew. Eventually the pair focused more on music and split off on their own as Atban Klann, their esoteric name an acronym for A Tribe Beyond a Nation. Eazy-E's Ruthless Records signed the group in 1992, but many in the Ruthless camp were puzzled by the group and the enthusiasm of Eazy, who had no problem reconciling his own gangsta style with the affable, peace-minded spirit of Atban. Although an album was recorded, Ruthless shelved it, unsure how to market a group whose style wasn't dependent on violent braggadocio like that of N.W.A. The death of Eazy-E in 1995 signaled the end of any further deals with Ruthless. Undaunted by the experience, will.i.am and apl.de.ap recruited another dancer/MC, Taboo (Jaime Luis Gómez), and reappeared as The Black Eyed Peas. BEP began playing shows around their native L.A., impressing hip-hop fans with their mike skills and dazzling them with their footwork as well. In 1998 their debut, Behind the Front, was released on the Interscope label to critical acclaim -- not only for the trio of MCs, but also for their live band and backing vocalist Kim Hill. It was a modest commercial success, but it did not leave much of an impact, peaking at number 129 on the Billboard 200. BEP's 2000-issued sophomore release, Bridging the Gap, featured guest appearances from Jurassic 5's Chali 2na, De La Soul, and Macy Gray. "Request Line," a single that reached number two on Billboard's rap chart, helped the album perform significantly better than the debut. A corner was turned soon after the addition of Fergie (Stacy Ann Ferguson). Formerly featured on the television programKids Incorporated and a member of Wild Orchid (a late-'90s all-woman trio pitched somewhere between Lisa Stansfield and En Vogue), she replaced Kim Hill and took on a prominent role with her confident, forthright vocals. BEP's first album with Fergie, 2003's Elephunk, stormed the Top 40 with three singles -- "Where Is the Love?" (a Top Ten hit), "Hey Mama," and "Let's Get It Started." Two years later, the quartet returned with Monkey Business, which pushed BEP into the pop stratosphere courtesy of the hit singles "Don't Phunk with My Heart" and "My Humps." In the U.S., it went triple platinum. Fergie released a solo album, Dutchess, the following year. It was no slouch either, as it racked up three number one singles. The album was executive produced by will.i.am -- by that point an in-demand producer for the likes of Kelis, Diddy, John Legend, Ciara, and Nas -- who reentered the solo game with the 2007 album Songs About Girls. Technically his third solo project, it followed a pair of adventurous, low-key affairs issued on the BBE label earlier in the decade. After the hiatus, The Black Eyed Peas announced their return in March 2009 with "Boom Boom Pow," the first of three number one singles -- which, together, topped the charts for half of the entire year -- featured on The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), an album released that June. They quickly followed it up, issuing The Beginning the following year. Despite a boost from Oprah, who selected the album as one of The Oprah Winfrey Show's Favorite Things for 2010, as well as a Top Ten debut, The Beginning didn't sell nearly as many copies as the group's previous work. "Honor the past, don't just remember it." Dizzie Gillespie https://www.facebook.com/groups/DukeofEarlGroup/ |
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(CNN) -- Greek athlete Voula Papachristou has been expelled from that nation's Olympic team for posting an offensive comment about African immigrants on Twitter, a team spokeswoman said Wednesday.
"With so many Africans in Greece, the mosquitoes from the West Nile will at least be eating some homemade food," Papachristou said on Twitter.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee ruled Papachristou, a triple jumper, would be barred from participating in the London Olympics that begin Friday.
"She made a mistake but it was serious," the spokesman said. "It was unforgivable."
Papachristou apologized for making the remarks about African immigrants but her medal hopes were gone.
"I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless joke I published on my personal Twitter account," she wrote on Facebook. "I am very sorry and ashamed for the negative responses I triggered, since I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights.
"My dream is connected to the Olympic Games and I could not possibly participate if I did not respect their values. Therefore, I could never believe in discrimination between human beings and races."
Papachristou's Twitter post drew public criticism and calls for her to be tossed from the Greek Olympic team.
Two of the three parties forming Greece's coalition government also issued statements on the matter.
The Democratic Left said that "this racist humor and 'jokes' that affect human lives are not tolerated by Greek society, (and) they cannot flourish in Greek athletics."
The socialist PASOK party said "matters that are to do with the human status should not be treated lightly by anyone and especially from the members of the sports community, who are symbols to young people."
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On a quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders.
COST: About $8,000 for industrial models; consumer versions may cost $3,000.
MAXIMUM SPEED: 5 m.p.h. to 17 m.p.h., depending on settings RANGE: About 17 miles per battery charge on level ground; decelerating or going downhill generates electricity, extending its range RECHARGE TIME: One hour of charge for two hours of operation PAYLOAD: Passenger 250 lbs. Cargo 75 lbs. WEIGHT: 65 or 80 lbs., depending on the model |
"Just lean forward," Kamen commands, so I do, and instantly I start rolling across the concrete right at him.
"Now, stop," Kamen says. How? This thing has no brakes. "Just think about stopping." Staring into the middle distance, I conjure an image of a red stop sign--and just like that, Ginger and I come to a halt.
"Now think about backing up." Once again, I follow instructions, and soon I glide in reverse to where I started. With a twist of the wrist, I pirouette in place, and no matter which way I lean or how hard, Ginger refuses to let me fall over. What's going on here is all perfectly explicable--the machine is sensing and reacting to subtle shifts in my balance--but for the moment I am slack-jawed, baffled. It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously observed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, Ginger is advanced indeed.
Since last January it has also been the tech world's most-speculated-about secret. That was when a book proposal about Ginger, a.k.a. "IT," got leaked to the website Inside.com. Kamen had been working on Ginger for more than a decade, and although the author (with whom the inventor is no longer collaborating) never revealed what Ginger was, his precis included over-the-top assessments from some of Silicon Valley's mightiest kingpins. As big a deal as the PC, said Steve Jobs; maybe bigger than the Internet, said John Doerr, the venture capitalist behind Netscape, Amazon.com and now Ginger.
In a heartbeat, hundreds of stories full of fevered theorizing gushed forth in the press. Ginger was a hydrogen-powered hovercraft. Or a magnetic antigravity device. Or, closer to the mark, a souped-up scooter. Even the reprobates at South Park got into the act, spoofing Ginger in a recent episode--the details of which, sadly, are unprintable in a family magazine.
This week the guessing game comes to an end as Kamen unveils his baby under its official name: Segway. Given the buildup, some are bound to be disappointed. ("It won't beam you to Mars or turn lead into gold," shrugs Kamen. "So sue me.") But there is no denying that the Segway is an engineering marvel. Developed at a cost of more than $100 million, Kamen's vehicle is a complex bundle of hardware and software that mimics the human body's ability to maintain its balance. Not only does it have no brakes, it also has no engine, no throttle, no gearshift and no steering wheel. And it can carry the average rider for a full day, nonstop, on only five cents' worth of electricity.
The commercial ambitions of Kamen and his team are as advanced as their technical virtuosity. By stealing a slice of the $300 billion-plus transportation industry, Doerr predicts, the Segway Co. will be the fastest outfit in history to reach $1 billion in sales. To get there, the firm has erected a 77,000-sq.-ft. factory a few miles from its Manchester, N.H., headquarters that will be capable of churning out 40,000 Segways a month by the end of next year.
Kamen's aspirations are even grander than that. He believes the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy." He imagines them everywhere: in parks and at Disneyland, on battlefields and factory floors, but especially on downtown sidewalks from Seattle to Shanghai. "Cars are great for going long distances," Kamen says, "but it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-lb. piece of metal to haul their 150-lb. asses around town." In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make room for millions of "empowered pedestrians"--empowered, naturally, by Kamen's brainchild.
Kamen's dream of a Segway-saturated world won't come true overnight. In fact, ordinary folks won't be able to buy the machines for at least a year, when a consumer model is expected to go on sale for about $3,000. For now, the first customers to test the Segway will be deep-pocketed institutions such as the U.S. Postal Service and General Electric, the National Parks Service and Amazon.com--institutions capable of shelling out about $8,000 apiece for industrial-strength models. And Kamen's dreamworld won't arrive at all unless he and his team can navigate the array of obstacles that are sure to be thrown up by competitors and ever cautious regulators.
For the past three months, Kamen has allowed TIME behind the veil of secrecy as he and his team grappled with the questions that they will confront--about everything from safety and pricing to the challenges of launching a product with the country at war and the economy in recession. Some of their answers were smooth and assured; others less polished. But one thing was clear. As Kamen sees it, all these issues will quickly fade if the question most people ask about the Segway is "How do I get one?"


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Industry Insights
Robotics Industry Poised for Another Banner Year in 2012
POSTED 01/06/2012 | By: Bennett Brumson, Contributing Editor
"2012 will be a great year for the robotics industry. All industries are up and new market areas are growing. Food, assembly, and automotive took off during 2010 and continued into 2011. Expect to see the momentum of 2011 to carry over into 2012." This optimistic view of the robotics industry's 2012 outlook by Mick Estes, General Manager of Distribution, Sales, and System Integration with FANUC Robotics America Corporation (Rochester Hills, Michigan) is the consensus perspective of many industry leaders.
In most applications and regions around the globe, the robotics industry can look forward to a prosperous 2012.
Continued Growth
Led by the automotive sector, robot orders in 2012 have the potential to surpass the mark set in 2011 which marked the beginning of a major rebound in the industry. "I see continued growth in the robotics industry. With the freeing up of pent-up demand, and more automotive programs being retooled, the automotive sector continues to lead the charge in general industry recovery," says Dean Elkins, a Senior General Manager at Yaskawa America Inc.'s Motoman Robotics Division (Miamisburg, Ohio). "I see continued growth in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and laboratory applications."
Elkins does not see any sectors declining in 2012. "I am watching solar with great interest because of the political ensnarements. I see steady growth in most applications."
Echoing Elkins, Estes says, "The automotive industry will continue to be the hub that will thrive in 2012. Offshoots of the automotive industry such as battery assembly applications for electric cars and hybrids will help grow the robotics industry. With the new fuel efficiency standards, expect to see more carbon fiber lay-up processes to help reduce vehicle weight."
Estes goes on to add, "We have seen tremendous growth in the automotive market and expanding into new segments such as battery assembly and carbon fiber. Those areas continue to be where all robot companies will see growth."
Elkins and Estes' sentiments are shared by Joseph Campbell, Vice President of ABB's Robots and Applications Group (Auburn Hills, Michigan), who says, "2012 will be a good year for the robotics industry, better than 2011. We see growth in many automotive programs, from new domestics in the Big Three to tier-one suppliers. New models are coming on-line and car makers need to invest in the robotics needed to build them." Campbell also anticipates growth in the general industry sector as well as seeing increases in aerospace applications.
Likewise, John Burg, President of Ellison Technologies Automation (Council Bluffs, Iowa) says, "I think the robotics industry will have a good year in 2012. The aerospace sector is very good and getting better and I hear picking, packaging, and palletizing end-users are busy as is our customer base." Ellison's customer base includes makers of agricultural implements. "Agriculture equipment manufacturers are on fire right now and cannot build fast enough. Prices to their customers are going through the roof but farmers are still buying their equipment."
Continuing, Burg says, "Construction equipment is extremely positive, but could be affected by another slow-down in construction. The Bobcat Company (Bismarck, North Dakota) is very busy and cannot fulfill customer orders fast enough. Bobcat is one of Ellison's biggest customers, making skid-steer loaders." The construction sector is driven by housing starts, which is not very active, adds Burg.
Through the grapevine, Ellison's John Burg hears that robotics in food applications are on the rise globally. "An agricultural implement maker told me that people in the Third World recently had their first taste of really good food and want more of it. World-wide demand for good food is growing very briskly and farm equipment manufacturers are getting orders from all over the world so that people in Third World countries can grow their own good food." Burg sees continued proliferation of food-related robotic applications in 2012 and beyond.
Burg agrees that the automotive sector will shine in 2012. "Automotive is extremely brisk, with new models of cars and other vehicles planned, with new engines and transmissions."
Palletizing applications within warehouses promises healthy growth in 2012, says Nino LaDuca. "We will see more business focusing on end-of-line palletizing. We go after that application because we see huge growth in those processes. Tech-Con recently provided integrated palletizing systems for food and beverage companies in Ontario. Two were first-time buyers of robots." LaDuca is Tech-Con's General Manager, located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. "Based on what I saw from our robotic suppliers and our customers in 2011, 2012 will be a strong year," LaDuca concludes.
Meeting the robotic needs of warehouses and similar applications in 2012 was on the mind of John Dulchinos, President and Chief Executive Officer of Adept Technology Inc. (Pleasanton, California). "We see exciting programs for mobile robotics to intelligently move goods to and from production lines. In warehouses, robots are moving product from docks to shelves. In hospitals, robotics move goods from and around laboratories, such as medicines from pharmacies to nursing stations."
Dulchinos says possibilities for mobile robotics in warehouse logistics will increase in 2012. "Logistics within warehouses have not been largely automated yet. Opportunities for robots in warehouses, clean-rooms, hospitals and laboratories, where goods must be moved dynamically, with traceability and predictability, will increase in 2012. Robots are a very good solution to applications in warehouses and laboratories."
Elkins shares Dulchinos' excitement of robotics potential in warehouses and distribution centers in 2012. "I am excited about robots in warehouse and distribution applications, where three-dimensional vision can find randomly arrayed boxes and cases on pallets. The countless number of distribution centers in the world can benefit by implementing robotics." Elkins says tactile feedback, force-sensing technology and vision enables the placement of robots into applications not successfully done until now.
Related to warehouse distribution are food and beverage applications. "The food market for robotics has taken off in recent years. Robots are handling raw food, doing high-speed picking of product and doing secondary packaging as well as palletizing," says Estes. Similarly, Campbell says, "In 2012, we see continued growth in food applications which have solid market motivators. The food market has labor availability issues and food processors continually drive to remove the human touch from food processing."
The push to increase the awareness of robotics in education will continue into 2012 say several leaders in the robot industry. "Robotics are growing in education. The Robotic Industries Association (RIA, Ann Arbor, Michigan) pushes to get robots into university classrooms," says Estes. "We see educating young people as an area with growth potential. As we look to grow the robot industry, educating engineering students about new and emerging robot sectors is important."
LaDuca has a similar take on the importance of education to the robotics industry. "Education is a big thing and robot companies donate robots to technical schools, universities, and local colleges as part of their training curriculum. Our customers go with what they know and if students are taught with a particular make of robot, they will stick to that brand when moving onto the shop floor."
ABB's Campbell concurs. "At Vincennes University (Vincennes, Indiana), I see students programing welding robots, learning how to make parts. Vincennes' robot laboratory has students lined up learning how to program the two dozen robots." According to Campbell, "Vincennes has a fantastic robot education program." In fact, ABB, FANUC Robotics America Corporation and several other RIA member companies have stepped forward to further robotics education by sponsoring educational institutions through membership in the association (program details: www.robotics.org/EduSponsor).
Robots Going Global
The robotics market in Japan, Western Europe, and North America has been mature for several years. Markets in less developed countries will see significant growth over the course of 2012, says Robert Little, Chief Operating Officer of ATI Industrial Automation (Apex, North Carolina). "The automotive sector is very big in the United States and internationally. Growth of robotics in Brazil, China and India, are heavily tied to automotive growth and these countries see exponential growth in their automotive markets."
Little focuses on China. "2012 will be a good year for Brazil but I am a little worried that China's automotive market might be a bit of a bubble that could burst."
Little does see interest in non-automotive applications picking up in China. "Non-automotive applications will become more popular in China, which is interesting because labor is so inexpensive there. I did not expect growth in non-automotive applications in countries with low-cost labor, but interestingly the trend is towards more non-automotive robotic applications in China." 2012 could be a record year for non-automotive robots in China, added Little.
Dulchinos also sees opportunities continuing for the robotics market in China during 2012. "China is the fastest growing robotics market and I am confident China will emerge as the largest robot market in the next year or two. The robot market in China will become larger than the robotics market in Brazil, India, and Eastern Europe combined."
The robotics market in China, Eastern Europe and Latin America, largely driven by Brazil, will flourish in 2012 for similar reasons robots spread through Japan, Western Europe and North America, says Dulchinos. "Robotic applications will increase in China, Eastern Europe and Latin America as wages go up. Labor shortages and quality issues drive the mechanization of China."
Campbell agrees with Dulchinos' analysis. "The robotics market in China is explosive. Five years ago, I would not have said China will be a big robot market because of its huge labor pool. That paradigm is starting to change because China's labor pool is stressed, has a very high job turnover rate and sees high wage growth." Campbell cited a recent article that predicts wage parity between the United States and China in a matter of years. (http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-75973)
"The robotics market in Latin America is on fire," says John Burg. "The growth in those markets as a percentage will outstrip the very sophisticated North American market. I see huge growth for the robotics industry in Latin America over the next five years."
Despite expansion of manufacturing into Eastern Europe, India, Latin America and China, businesses see robotics as a means to keep production at home or even bring industry back in 2012. "I see more on-shoring, production processes coming back to the United States from offshore. On-shoring only works through robotics," says Campbell.
Like Campbell, Burg thinks robotics enable bringing production back home. "Many manufacturers found the answer was not to send production offshore. Off-shoring production has pitfalls such as quality and consistency."
Motoman's Dean Elkins brings numbers to justify investing in robotics rather than moving production offshore. "Operating a medium or small robot cost about 15 cents an hour, compared to the labor rate in China of $3 per hour."
Notes of Caution
The rapid expansion of the robotics industry could have its own pitfalls, says Little. "The robotics industry has doubled its output of units since 2009. I cannot expect that level of growth to continue into 2012 but a growth rate of 15 percent in 2012 is likely. A high growth rate makes some nervous because a bubble might be created. I have concluded that the large run the robotics industry is going through now is not completed."
Dulchinos also expresses a hint of wariness. "My only caveat is that robots are a capital asset. 2012 could be negatively affected by the economic environment due to factors outside the control of the robotics industry. Aside from that, 2012 will be a very strong year for the robotics industry."
Prognosis: Good
2012 looks like another banner year for the robotics industry across all sectors. Joe Campbell sums up the opinions of his peers in the industry. "I do not see any place where robotics fails to gain a foothold. Robotics will have traction in all markets in 2012."


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Hey Bill, why am I still getting spam?
Junk mail outlives MS mortality prediction
Two years ago today Bill Gates predicted that spam email would be eradicated as a problem within 24 months. The Microsoft chairman predicted the death of spam in a speech at the World Economic Forum on 24 January 2004.
Gates outlined a three-stage plan to eradicate spam within two years. Microsoft's scheme calls for better filters to weed out spam messages and sender authentication via a form of challenge-response system. Secondly, Microsoft wants to see to a form of tar-pitting so that emails coming from unknown senders are slowed down to a point where bulk mail runs become impractical.
Lastly, and most promisingly as far as Gates is concerned, is a digital equivalent of stamps for email, to be paid out only if the recipient considers an email to be spam. Blocking spam email would appear to be a simple problem but in practice is far trickier than Gates, or indeed the industry, first thought. In fairness, Microsoft realised this soon after Gates' speech and the firm has modified its strategy. The digital payment plan has been quietly shelved while the software giant has focused its efforts into building up a competency in email filtering, largely through acquisition, and chasing bulk mailers through the courts, where it has had a number of notable successes.
Mark Hanvey, chief security officer at Cable & Wireless, said the spam threat has changed over the last two years with the use of compromised (zombie) computers to send out spam becoming the biggest headache for service providers.
"We no longer see spam issuing from one central mailbox, instead we see viruses that hijack innocent computers and create an army of zombies sending out emails on the spammers behalf," he said.
"Today trying to flog knocked off boxes of Viagra at £5.99 a pop is passé. Instead we see criminals extorting tens of thousands of pounds out of web retailers by threatening to overwhelm their sites with a flood of spam that prevents real customers from getting through. At Cable & Wireless we've seen the scale and number of these attacks climb 50 percent over the last six months."
The US remains the leading source of spam messages, according to a Q4 2005 survey by security firm Sophos published this week. Although the US continues to head up Sophos's chart of spam-sending nations there have been significant reductions, and for the first time the US accounts for less than a quarter (24.5 per cent) of all spam relayed.
China (22.3 per cent), South Korea (9.7 per cent), France (5.0 per cent) and Canada (3.0 per cent) make up the remainder of Sophos's top 5. The UK, responsible for relaying a relatively modest 1.6 per cent of spam, has slipped out of Sophos's top 10, and is currently in 14th position. ®


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This Plugin is Fur Maker.
It is convenient to glowing grass etc.
How To Use: Select Menu From "PLUGINS"-"Fur_EN"
I am not good at English.So Please look at the appended image.
NOTICE::This plugin make too much polygons so model will be large size.(Worst case It can not open.)Please use carefully.
General disclaimer
I MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY about this script.
Please use this script at your own risk.
Get the latest version from the PluginStore: http://sketchucation.com/resources/plug ... pln=fur_en
or AutoInstall from within SketchUp using the SketchUcation Tools
Since : 2010-04-21--- v0.0
....many revisions...
Rev : 2010-0624 -- v1.4c(test webdialog for mac)
- fixing webdialog problem on mac os.
(referred to forum "[Web dialog] switch snippet for pc / mac" and jim's "protrude.rb")
Russian translation by blajnov(Thanks)
- I wish this work on mac.Thanks Oxer and Mario.
- Remove from context menu.
"Crowd" Problem on mac do not fix yet.
- Add preview button.(preview only points of density.)
in the case of using Inputbox,
first ,preview points,Press Enter or select "make fur" from context menu.
Width of some buttons in webdialog increased.
"Preview Fur"and"Back to Dialog" added to translation word
"Crowd" Problem on mac do not fix yet.
I change filename to "fur_en.rb".
remove older fur rubys from plugins folder.
fur_lang_**.txt is parameter name translate.
the usage like this.
This converts "Density" to "DENSITY".
language translate file copy to sketchup plugins directory.
If language file is not exist in plugins dir,then parameter name do not rewrite.
and select it from menu.
Rev : 2014-03-23-- v2.1.0 : Bugfix.Slider did not work when units are "inch" or "feet".
- Fit to Extension class.
Improve UI.
Add function "edit preset list"
Add function "select language file"
Including language files.
- include language file for persian by majid.Thanks!
- include language file for czech by pepa.Thanks!
- UI Slider value optimized when units is not "mm".
- include language file for Spanish by Oxer.Thanks!
include new language file for Chinese by hebeijianke.Thanks!
- include language file for Serbian by srx.Thanks!
Tutorial Video
Spanish translation by Oxer.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=210#p247640
Franch translation by Daredevilhttp://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=195#p247400
Persian translation by Majidhttp://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=320%26amp;t=28179
Viet nam translation by ktslambieng(100608updated)http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=300#p250660
Portuguese-BR (Brazil) translation by Paulower.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=285#p249923
Chinese translation by hebeijianke.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=300#p250314
Russian translation by blajnov.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=315#p253618
German translation:Thanks Burkhard.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=330#p255389
Czech translation:Thanks Pepa.http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=480#p478540
Serbian translation:Thanks Srx.http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=28092%26amp;start=480#p480168
Zieios makes New ICON for fur.Thank you very much!
Fur grown Very Thick!
How to Use.
add crowd mode.


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Talk about starting early. Jordan Casey made his first game a couple of years ago, and he's only 13. He isn't old enough to formally incorporate his business, Casey Games, yet. But he has published multiple titles and is hard at work on his next big release, My Little World.
To all of you overachievers in the video game industry out there — Jordan has got you beat. By the time he's your age, he'll probably be running a gaming empire. He is already on the publicity circuit, giving talks at game events and at one of the prestigious TedX conferences. The baby-faced resident of Waterford, Ireland, gets help from his parents, who are the directors in his company and the ones who incorporated it.
Most other kids his age are playing games, but Jordan thinks that making them is more fun.
"I love when people enjoy playing my games," he said. "I love when I see people playing the games and just enjoying the experience."
I had dinner alongside Jordan at the Casual Connect Europe event in Hamburg, Germany, where he gave a talk on his business. He has a high voice and a thick Irish accent, but he was quite comfortable as the only kid at the dinner. He answered questions and politely listened to unsolicited advice about game development.
Jordan taught himself programming four years ago when he was nine. He read books, watched videos, and checked out online forums to learn. A couple of years ago, he did the same, so that he could figure out how to make games.
His first title was the Adobe Flash-based Alien Ball, but that was just practice. In February 2012, he made an iPhone version of the game, dubbed Alien Ball vs. Humans. It was his first commercially released offering, and it remains his most popular. It also got him a lot of attention because it went to the top of the Apple iTunes store in Ireland.
He followed that up with a seasonal version, Alien Ball vs Humans 2. He also created Greenboy Touch, a puzzle-adventure game about a boy lost in a forest. And he created Save the Day, in collaboration with the South American ad agency Fabrica, as the official game of National Children's Day in Brazil.
In addition, Casey created Food World, an online multiplayer game for kids. He came up with that idea in early 2011, but he put it on hold. The title is currently in its pre-beta stage. And he is working on the aforementioned adventure-puzzle game, My Little World, about a tiny creature who lives in a backyard and is the only one of his kind. The creature wants to know what the big world is beyond the backyard, and he sets out on an adventure to make his way there.
"I have a good feeling about this one," he said. "I'm putting a lot of time and effort into it to make it perfect."
He hopes to finish that project by June.
Jordan even hired his first employee, a boy named Aidan Blackett, as his lead artist for Food World.
"I do most of the business stuff," he said. "My parents come to conferences with me, and my mom checks my emails while I'm at school."
Louise Casey, Jordan's mother, said, "At the moment I suppose its fun, but we try to keep the balance with his age and the fact he's still at school…. But generally once school work is done, we are happy for him to have fun … during the evenings and weekends to do his business thing."
She added, "Jordan works hard in school and does after school study, so I feel he can have the time to work on his games and coding. As long as it does not affect his school work, I'm generally OK with it. We help him out with emails and events as much as we can, but he does most of the business stuff himself. He wanted to be a businessman from an early age, so this is all exciting for him. And he really enjoys it. He has attended some amazing events and met great people, so this in itself is life learning."
He has spoken at the Cannes Lions Festival, TedX@NewDelhi, Gamecity 7, BETT 2013, the Smartphone and Tablet Games Summit, and the Casual Connect Europe event. That speaking circuit has made him famous, and publications have featured him such as Silicon Republic, Adobe's blog, The Irish Examiner and the Pioneer in India. And he has been on television on TV3 and RTÉ in Ireland. He got the business for Save the Day after a Brazilian representative of Fabrica saw his talk.
Jordan said he is staying in school.
But he said, "It can be difficult, considering I go to conferences regularly. After school I go to the study hall in school and take a two-hour study course, to catch up on homework, exams, etc. Then, when I get home, I can do some work or watch TV."
And he is giving some of his proceeds to charity.
For the long-term, Jordan said, "As I'm still young and can't really get an office, I want to stay small and indie. But, when I'm older I would like to get an office and expand. My goal is to create the most fun and high-quality games out there."
via VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi


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Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Quickie Model
Applicable Blender version: 2.57. |
In this module, you'll learn how to extrude and merge vertices of a mesh and how to save a model. This module also introduces the File Browser window type.
Your first model will be a house, which we will develop over the course of several modules. Here we will start with four walls and a pyramidal roof. Simple! Since you're going to use the default cube as a base, all you actually need to build is the roof!
Editing in Blender generally involves four steps:
- Selecting an object to edit.
- Activating Edit Mode on that object.
- Selecting part(s) of the object to act upon.
- Specifying the action(s) to be performed on those parts.
Bring up the Default Cube edit
- Launch Blender.
- Load the factory settings using File → Defaults → Load Factory Settings.
This should give you a perspective view of a scene containing three objects:
- a cube,
- a light source,
- a camera.
Setting up the Viewport edit
It will be easier to work on the roof of your house in a perspective side view:
- Press Num3 to switch to a "perfect" right side view.
Num5 puts the viewport into perspective only if it's not already in perspective. Otherwise, Num5 switches the viewport back to orthographic view. |
"Right Persp" will be shown on the top left of the 3D View. The "up" (Z) direction in the scene is now "up" on your monitor as well.
It will also help to zoom in a bit:
- Make sure the 3D View window is active (which means your mouse cursor is in it).
- SCROLL or press Num+ a few times until the cube is about 1/3 the height of the viewport.
Because you just loaded the factory defaults, the 3D transform manipulator will be enabled. For mesh editing, it will help to turn the manipulator off:
- Make sure the 3D View window is active.
- Press Ctrl + Space to toggle the manipulator on or off.
Press Tab once. This puts you into Edit Mode on the selected object, i.e. the cube.
If the lamp and/or camera were selected instead of (or in addition to) the cube, you wouldn't be able to enter Edit Mode. (Cameras and lamps are edited in a different fashion.) |
Here's how the cube should look at this point:
The Occlude Background Geometry button is only visible when Blender is in Edit Mode and the draw type is Solid, Shaded, or Textured. |
The default cube is constructed as a mesh. Now that you're in Edit Mode, you can access the individual vertices, edges, and faces that make up the mesh. The default cube consists of eight vertices, twelve edges, and six faces.
Adjusting the Height edit
Right now, all eight vertices are selected, so any vertex edits you make will affect them all. For instance, if you were to move a vertex, the other seven vertices would follow. In order to build a roof peak for the house, you need to alter just the four top vertices of the cube. To do that, you must change the selection so that only those vertices are selected.
- Turn 'Occlude Background Geometry' off, so you can see all vertices. Note, in newer versions, this button is called "Limit Selection to Visible." It is one of the buttons to the right of transform orientation which is to the right of the mode select which should be currently set to "edit mode".
- Deselect the bottom four vertices, one by one, using Shift + RMB .
The picture to the right shows the cube (in right perspective view and occlude background geometry "off") with the correct vertices selected.
Remember, if you make a mistake, you can undo your work step-by-step by pressing Ctrl + Z . |
Now you'll adjust the height of your house's ceiling. Activate the grab tool:
- Make sure Blender is in Edit Mode, with the relevant part(s) of the object selected.
- Make sure the 3D View window is active.
- Press G .
The 3D View header will be replaced by numbers: "Dx: 0.0000 Dy: 0.0000 Dz: 0.0000 (0.0000)".
You want to lower the ceiling without making the walls crooked. This is hard to do freehand, but happily the grab tool provides an option for doing just that.
With the grab tool activated:
- Press Z to limit movement to the global Z-axis.
When your ceiling is the height you want, confirm the grab with LMB (or Enter ).
Extruding edit
Now you're going to "add on" to your house by extruding. Extrusion begins by duplicating selected parts of an object. Then the new parts are pulled away from the old ones, with new faces and edges created as necessary.
To add an attic to your house:
- Make sure Blender is in Edit Mode, with the top four vertices selected.
- Make sure the 3D View window is active.
- Press E to activate the extrude tool.
- Restrict movement to the Z axis and move the mouse pointer upward.
- When the attic is the height you want, confirm the extrude with LMB or Enter .
- Keep the extrusion visible: you will need it for the next exercise.
At the end of this process only the four new vertices (the upper corners of the attic) will be selected. The others (including the four that were originally selected) will not be selected. |
If you cancel an extrude operation without confirming it, duplicate vertices and edges have already been created. If this isn't what you wanted, use Ctrl + Z to undo the duplication. |
Merging edit
You can change the roof from a flat one to a pyramidal one by merging the vertices of the roof:
- Make sure that you still have the extruded roof from the previous exercise visible.
- Make sure Blender is in Edit Mode, with the four top-most vertices selected.
- Make sure the 3D View window is active.
- Press W to bring up the Specials menu.
- Select Merge. (You can also access this by pressing Alt + M .)
- The Merge menu should pop up, select At center.
A message should appear on the Info header saying that 3 vertices have been deleted, this is because in order to merge four vertices into one, three vertices must be deleted.
Saving your Work edit
We will be developing the house in later modules, so save your work now. To save the current scene in a .blend
- Press F2 (or select File → Save As). The active window temporarily changes into a File Browser window.
- Navigate to the directory (folder) where you want to write the file by clicking LMB on directory names in the File Browser window. (Clicking on ".." will take you up one level.)
- If you wish to name the file something other than "untitled.blend", type a filename in the text box to the left of the "Cancel" button. (The .blend suffix will be added automatically.)
- Click LMB on the "Save As Blender File" button. As soon as the save operation is complete, the window will automatically revert to its former type.
Saving Further Changes edit
Once you have saved your work to a file for the first time, you can save subsequent changes to the same file name by pressing CTRL + S and confirming you want to overwrite the existing file.


text: Traditional works refer to music which was probably collectively composed by a group of people, normally without formal music training, and passed on orally from one generation to the next. The exact origin of works regarded as 'traditional' is often unknown and is usually undocumented/unpublished in manuscripts/sheet music dating from the time of composition, which in turn is often not precisely known. This particularly refers to folk, ethnic, indigenous or native music, such as folk-songs and folk-dances, which are sometimes referred to as 'world music'.


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Fall is in the air at Newk's Express Café, which has launched its new seasonal soup schedule.
The new schedule includes the following soup options: Broccoli Cheese, Chicken Noodle, Tomato Basil, White Bean Chicken Chili, Lobster Bisque, Loaded Potato, Newk's Signature Chili, Lobster Crab Bisque, Mushroom Bisque, and Ultimate Crab.
Monday and Wednesday feature Broccoli Cheese, Chicken Noodle, and White Bean Chicken Chili, while there is also Tomato Basil on Monday and Ultimate Crab on Wednesday.
Tuesday and Thursday offerings are Loaded Potato, Newk's Signature Chili, and Mushroom Bisque. There is also Lobster Bisque on Tuesday and Chicken Tortilla on Thursday.
Friday features Lobster Crab Bisque, Tomato Basil, Broccoli Cheese, and White Bean Chicken Chili.
Loaded Potato, Ultimate Crab, Newk's Signature Chili, and Chicken Noodle are the Saturday options, and the Sunday soups are Lobster Bisque, Tomato Basil, Chicken Tortilla, and Mushroom Bisque.
"The soups at Newk's are all made from scratch and have acquired quite a loyal fan base over the years," says Chris Newcomb, founder, president, and CEO of Newk's. "We like to switch the schedule and offerings as the seasons change. This fall we have brought back some fan favorites for the cooler weather."
Newk's Express Café provides an express casual-dining experience and features a variety of made-to-order choices, including fresh-tossed salads, oven-baked sandwiches, California-style pizzas, made-from-scratch soups, and homemade cakes baked by Newk's Bakery Company.
A selection of wines by the glass and beer is also available at select locations.
Since opening its first location in Oxford, Mississippi, in 2004, Newk's Express Cafés have expanded its presence to 11 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Newk's has approximately 50 restaurants and more than 40 are franchised. Five new restaurants opened in 2010 and 15 opened in 2011.
Projections call for seven restaurants to open in 2012 and 10 to open in 2013.


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The administration updated Performance.gov with a variety of data to highlight progress against each agency's goals and the cross-agency goals. OMB's Shelley Me...
wfedstaff | April 17, 2015 4:28 pm
The Obama administration is exposing the results of its four-year push to create a data-driven government.
The Office of Management and Budget today updated its Performance.gov portal, highlighting the progress, or lack of progress, of dozens of agency specific and cross-agency goals.
This third iteration of the portal is a major facelift with more data for the public to analyze OMB's management agenda. "What we've now done is we've given you information about those goals," said Shelley Metzenbaum, OMB's associate director for performance and personnel management, during a press conference Thursday. "We've explained why the goals were chosen, the strategies for each goal. We've explained the progress we've made for each goal, if there are problems. We've explained why we think they are arising and what we plan to do about it."
Metzenbaum said the site also now lists short term and long term plans, and a series of indicators that are specific to the progress on the goal or give context or other data about what's happening.
"We also provide information about contributing programs," she said. "It's much greater depth and it really takes that next level of accountability up."
A major milestone
OMB launched Performance.gov in August 2011 after several months of delay. It updated the site in February 2012 with information from the fiscal 2013 budget request, including information on the 14 cross-agency goals, each with a goal statement and a goal description as well as some tools to sort by agency or theme.
This third version is providing the level of information many thought the dashboard would have when OMB initially released it.
Metzenbaum said pulling together all this data and putting it up on the portal is a milestone down the path of improving how the government is managed, and how they meet the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization (GPRAM Act). President Barack Obama signed the GPRAM Act in February 2011.
The new data on Performance.gov is a result of the changes OMB has been seeking in the way agencies focus on priorities over the last four years. Metzenbaum said OMB has been laying the foundation for agencies to make data-driven decisions, and Performance.gov is a key piece of that effort.
Meeting the renewable energy goal
The Interior Department's goal to increase the amount of renewable energy produced on federal land is one example of the change that OMB says is occurring across government.
David Hayes, the deputy secretary of Interior, said the total amount of renewable energy that came from federal land was about 2,000 megawatts during the first 163 years of the agency's existence. Interior set a goal of producing 6,000 megawatts of power through renewable energy in two years starting in 2010. Hayes said they not only hit the goal, but surpassed it because of the discipline the performance management process brought to the agency.
He said Interior found some level of success among all its high-priority goals.
"What we did was set up quarterly reviews where the teams responsible for each of these goals with the coordinated help of our policy, management and budget team would come in and report to me as the deputy secretary every quarter on how we are doing with metrics against the goal," Hayes said. "As we found out we were being short on the goal, what we need to do to get back on track. As we found that we hit the goal, what's our next goal? This had never been done before at the Department of the Interior, and the performance is pretty amazing."
Data drives school turnaround program
The Education Department had a similar experience with Interior in how data impacted its high priority goals.
Tony Miller, the Education deputy secretary, said the goal to turn around poorly performing schools is one of the agency's best examples of how data has driven change.
"That was the first time, at least in a long time, that we had literally systematically done the complete profile of the whole portfolio of resources that we had available to [improving school performance], and aligned it in a programmatic way with strategic outcomes," he said. "Now once we set the goal, we say we will hold ourselves accountable, and …as we update these on a quarterly basis, while as much as there is accountability are you making or not making the goal, what we are finding is the real value is saying what do you do, it's the interventions you are taking."
Miller said what Education realized they didn't have enough organizational focus, so they created an office of school turnaround. The office is ensuring ongoing accountability across the agency to make needed changes to meet their goals.
He said the process governing how they oversee their progress against the high priority goals has transferred in to the next level of Education's goals. The agency includes these mission-related objectives during their quarterly reviews, and the management infrastructure around the data-driven decisionmaking is modeled after Performance.gov.
Data quality matters
As with any program or dashboard, the accuracy of the data always is tough to get 100 percent correct. This administration seems to publicly side with releasing imperfect data and asking for help from experts and others in the public.
Metzenbaum said OMB vets all the agency data before putting it on Performance.gov.
"There's data quality information we are putting it in there. We are very concerned about that," she said. "At the same time, we want to make the data useful and sometimes you don't need a 100 percent accuracy rate." Metzenbaum said the issue is to figure out how to improve the information, and how the data will be used.
"Part of the transparency, we hope, will tell us if there are errors in it, but we also look at it ourselves," she said. "Every one of our budget offices, the budget offices at OMB, the Resource Management Offices, they have a lot of expertise in this information. They are very engaged with the agencies on all of the information you are seeing on Performance.gov. So if they have a question, they will ask that question."
Education's Miller said the goal across these programs is to improve so overstating the data doesn't bring them any benefits.
"How we measure ourselves against the goal in essence is very definitional and it is very rigorous. We have a clear definition of what is a comprehensive evaluation system. We have a systematic way in which we evaluate states against that and whether districts meet that," he said. "Because we link to some of our programs and it's conditional upon funding and some legal flexibilities, it's very binary, either you meet it or you don't. It is verifiable for us and it's verifiable to the public. We can literally go back to each state that we would list or each district and point to the document and/or the process by which we would verify that number."
Interior's Hayes said most of their goals and how they are doing is transparent. He said for the renewable energy goal on Performance.gov there is list of projects, the status of them both in terms of permitting and development and how much renewable energy they are expected to produce.
OMB's Metzenbaum said her office is aggressive in getting agencies to use Performance.gov to change the way they manage programs and in using the evidence to improve them.
OMB finally launches Performance.gov portal
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Twitter Inc has invested about $70 million in Berlin-based music service SoundCloud, technology website Re/code reported citing people familiar with the deal.
Twitter confirmed the investment, but did not provide any financial details.
"Earlier this year we made an investment in SoundCloud through Twitter Ventures to help support some of our efforts with creators," Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said.
Soundcloud, a platform that enables people to upload and share music and other audio files, also confirmed that Twitter had made the investment.
Twitter's investment was part of a funding round expected to be in the range of $100 million, which would value SoundCloud at about $700 million, the Re/code report said.
The microblogging site has previously attempted to make a foray into music with the launch of Twitter Music in 2013, which was closed a year later. At the time, the company said that it would look for new ways to bring music based content to the service.


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British Waterways Targets and Renumeration, 2004-2009
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1. Yes - this information was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and published for a time at www.britishwaterwaysfitforpurpose.blogspot.com - the site has been taken taken down due to threat of copyright and libel action
2. British Waterways is a UK public corporation and part of DEFRA and is responsible for 2000 miles of inland waterways including the third largest collection of listed buildings and property in the country (behind The National Trust and Church of England). However, unlike the National Trust, British Waterways directors pay themselves large large salaries which ,including bonuses, which are disproportionate to responsibilities. For example, BW's Chief Executive for the year 2007/8 received 284,041 pounds (including a bonus of 61,500). His counterpart in the National Trust who has more responsibility earned just 175,000 and the Prime Minister 194,250.
The file shows that the targets that BW sets themselves are not challenging or measurable. It also shows a case of a director receiving an incentive to alter the outcome of a public consultation and another receiving an incentive to deal with criticism of its management
3. The main audience is the British Taxpayer who foots the bill via government grant-in-aid and boaters whose costs accross the board have risen significantly above inflation so that BW's directors can enjoy inflated salaries.
4. Allan Richards (firstname.lastname@example.com) can verify that this information was made available to him under the freedom of information act. Sarina Young (firstname.lastname@example.com) should also be able to verify these documents.
5. These documents were leaked because they are in the public interest but British Waterways are attempting to prevent them being made publically available.
6. The event that requires that this information be published urgently is a meeting of BW's remuneration committee in May (exact date unknown). At this meeting bonus payments will be allocated for last years performance and targets set for next year. Subsequent to provision of the information BW has announced that they consider it to be inappropriate that any bonus should be paid for last year performance. However, as they have managed to suppress the FoI information which may have led to that decision it is possible that it will be reversed. Also, the remuneration committee is considering giving directors a 15% pay rise to already inflated salaries.


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Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.
— Lemony Snicket


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Yes, that is a clam. Yes researchers are using them as batteries. Yes, that quip about the matrix and clam-Neo that is bubbling up into your temporal lobe is appropriate. While keeping a clam as "happy as a clam" might not necessitate a virtual world, they don't really produce much electricity either. Researchers were able to siphon almost 29 millijoules over the course of an hour. This was enough to turn their electric motor one quarter of a turn.
Wether you find this kind of biological hacking ethical or not, you'll probably agree that the following quote is, at least a tiny bit, creepy.
The researchers tried different ways to connect three clams at a time as a collective living battery. A serial circuit boosted the battery's voltage (electric potential), whereas a parallel circuit increased the current (rate of charge flow) — but the overall electricity available often changed depending on each clam's health.


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In Elven Lands
In Elven Lands is an album by The Fellowship, released on 31 January 2006. The Fellowship take a musicological approach to imagine how the ancient cultures described by J.R.R. Tolkien might have sounded, performing on an all-acoustic array of ancient and modern instruments that includes harp, lute, hurdy-gurdy, krumhorn and gong among a wide variety of others.
The subject matter for the songs on In Elven Lands are drawn from aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, including stories from The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. The album title, In Elven Lands, is taken from the lyrics of their song 'Beware The Wolf':
...let us ride before the break of day, through woven woods in Elven lands, to find the starry-jeweled hand...
Track Listing of the First Edition[edit | edit source]
- Tîr Im
- Dan Barliman's Jig
- Silver Bowl
- Man in the Moon
- Verse to Elbereth Gilthoníel
- Eléchoi
- Beware the Wolf
- Oromë: Lord of the Hunt
- Creation Hymn
- When Dûrin Woke
- Eala Earendel
- Sacred Stones
- Battle of Evermore
- Blood of Kings
- Verses to Elbereth Gilthoníel
- Evening Star
Second Edition[edit | edit source]
On 5 November 2012 a digitally remastered Second Edition of the album was released by Oglio Records. The Second Edition corrects some Quenya and Sindarin lyrics, and includes a performance of Tolkien's original version of Namárië as well as Silmesse, a song with Elvish lyrics by Tolkien linguist Helge Kåre Fauskanger. In all, it includes five previously unreleased songs and two alternate versions of works from the first release.
Legally downloaded versions of the In Elven Lands Second Edition also include fully illustrated a 50-Page booklet in PDF form, with lyrics and album notes.
- Tîr Im
- The Longbottom Leaf
- The Silver Bowl
- The Man in the Moon
- A Verse to Elbereth Gilthóniel
- Elo Elleth
- Beware the Wolf
- Oromë: Lord of the Hunt
- Creation Hymn
- Silmesse
- Elechoi Mirnu Aglaron
- When Dûrin Woke
- Eala Earendel
- Namárië
- The Battle of Evermore
- The Blood of Kings
- Canticle to Elbereth Gilthóniel
- The Evening Star
- Terra Beata
Languages[edit | edit source]
The songs on the First Edition of In Elven Lands are written in Modern English, Anglo-Saxon, and a kind of Neo-Elvish consisting of intentionally corrupted versions of Proto-Quenya (the so-called "Elf-Latin") and Noldorin/Sindarin.
The Second Edition also introduces Helge Kåre Fauskanger's Neo-Quenya in the song Silmesse. With the departure of guest artist Jon Anderson from the Second Edition, two of the songs in Modern English have been removed, leaving only three songs in Modern English, as opposed to eight in Elvish dialects.
According to the album notes in the Second Edition, the language usage was intended to create the impression of a corrupt later text, such as Tolkien described in the Introduction and Appendices to The Lord of the Rings. In order to create the illusion of a corrupt text (or in this case, a series of corrupt texts), the authors used Proto-Quenya and Proto-Sindarin vocabulary taken from The Book of Lost Tales (Volumes 1 and 2) and Unfinished Tales. They then intentionally mutated words to account for the shifting palate, used loan-words from other languages from Arda, and in one case simply mangled the pronunciation and re-transcribed the results to show the effects of the "folk music process" that often occurs over time.