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One of the really great things about the CAD industry is that when it is working right, the industry and its customers support one another. Inudstry makes software that users apply to their businesses, and the users help promote the software to more users, who add resources to the cycle. Everybody wins when we all support one another. As a user or customer, you feel more confident about your decision when more people make the same choices.
So here are some opportunities for users to show a little love for your CAD tool of choice, Solid Edge:
1) Greenpower Greenpower is a chance for young people from around the world to get involved in engineering and racing electric vehicles. It's exciting and interesting to follow a team through their design, fabrication, and qualification events. C'mon, I'll bet you wish you could do this. I know I do. If you are in the UK on October 12, 2014, you can attend the Greenpower finals held at Goodwood. If you don't have a team to root for, we do have a team from the US competing - Huntsville City Schools. Siemens PLM is an ongoing Greenpower sponsor.
2) Henry Ford Foundation Siemens PLM is also sponsoring the Henry Ford Foundation, which includes the Henry Ford museum, the MakerFaire events, and various on-line publications.
The Henry Ford Museum is not just about Ford automobiles, it is much more broadly about American invention. This is stuff that's interesting to a whole family, and it is well worth the trip as a destination for a family vacation. With the theme of American invention, it's easy to see why they are associated with the MakerFaire, which is a gathering of tinkerers, intentors and DIYers.
The Henry Ford Museum is of course located in Detroit, Michigan, but you can find MakerFaire events all over the world.
Great stuff. Definitely think how you can become a part of some of these initiatives globally. Our own Sean Webb (he is attending college and interning for us) is featured in this GreenPower video. Its worth a watch to get inspired by this young man and the program that inspires our future engineers...
"Siemens at this time does not want us to have the addition benefits that growing market share would bring to us as users and the proof is why in the world has Siemens not pursued the huge SW market there for the taking with minimal effort?"
@DaveAultDave I must take issue with this comment.
Just what "additional benefits" would the existing user base see by pursuing the SW market? It's a bit ironic how you claim that a "growing market" benefits the user, yet SW has had what you seem to envy, and yet the product has floundered for the past 5 years, while corporate used all the added revenue to chase a "cloud". In fact I would go as far to say that the arrogance that Dassault has shown to their installed SW base is exactly what none of us want here. To me Solid Edge keeps getting better and better, and from everything I've read or heard from the installed SW community, is that SolidWorks has only gotten buggier and there's very little new stuff.... well unless you consider getting a new Kernel and moving to the cloud progress.
So my suggestion is to be careful what you wish for. Do I think everything Siemens does regarding marketing makes sense... of course not. But I also know what I don't know. And there's were I leave these decisions to those with all the information in front of them. Personally I wake up everyday and make sure Solid Edge is making me more efficient and effective in my job. And when I see how much Synchronous has improved this for me, I have no complaints what's so ever.... Brilliant Technology that proves Siemens IS very interested in making Solid Edge better and is not threatened of it robing sales from NX.
Do I wish that the SEU convention had 2,000 or more attendees... actually NO. This is just my personal opinion and my saying so at SEU14 was greeted with a bit of dismay by many. I prefer an smaller "engaged group" then a large mass of conventioneers having fun. So I believe this big convention style of meeting is throwback to the past, where "company brochures and company swag" are the artifacts of a time long gone. The Internet has displaced the need for such large crowds. It's too bad that the marketplace gets all wet over the number of attendees to these conventions but that was all they had to measure a companies success. Now don't get me wrong I think everyone should attend these events, since they are worth every moment you spend there... But how much money and time do I want Siemens to spend on promoting SE to SW users, versus direct development of Solid Edge and it's responsiveness to it's installed user base? This is what I care more about.
So when you say "why in the world has Siemens not pursued the huge SW market there for the taking with minimal effort?" I think you are fooling yourself as to just how much that really costs, or how long a process it can be... especially given the world economy right now.
But while they're are moving too slow for you, I have nothing but great respect in what Karsten and everyone at Siemens is doing. I'm mostly focused on the progress with the Software that I use every day, and it's definately been moving in the right direction. And for me that's what is most important.
Hi Bob,
Look, don't confuse my desire to see a large user community with what I am talking about here. While that would be nice it was only a vehicle in my eyes to drive greater market share for SE. Which by the way was what brought me onto this whole scene years ago. The idea that market share must be grown in order to allow for greater opportunities for SE users. I am not going to apologise nor be ambivalent about this deliberate sabotage of SE and it is the direct reason Don Cooper no longer works here.
This has nothing to do with the abilities of Dan or Karsten and I have had nothing but good things to say about them throughout this whole mess. They are qualified, focused and directly responsible for things not being worse than they are. Great software and great leadership prevented from having the success they deserve by those who do not want SE to succeed beyond a certain level.
As you yourself reminded me a while back don't get to excited and fanboi-ish about all this stuff as it is only a tool. As I would say today however get excited about all this stuff because it affects the potential for additional user income and not because of some idea of community which I have certainly given up on.
Finally I would say that above and beyond the personal knowledge I have over the years of what is going on you might ponder the idea that Ralph Grabowski was told basically this very same thing by by people from SE while onstage with them at SEU2014. Comments made to him that Siemens hinders efforts to promote SE and he has said this publicly. Not that they can't do things right or that they don't have the money to do things right but that they have chosen to hinder.
I you want to get excited why not sit down and ask yourself how come a big company with the golden opportunity Dassault has given them for YEARS has refused to capitalise upon this most generous gift. Get mad at the source of the problem and not me.
I figure at this rate Karsten will join Don when his contract is up in leaving unless things change. Can you imagine being in his shoes with all that talent and then be told you can only succeed to this level we impose upon you and not to the level your ability could take you? I most certainly would not stay.
Great software and just like I said five years ago deliberatly hidden under a rock. Full circle after a period of great expectations followed by hope then followed by reality and back to being under a rock.
I have to agree with both of you.
I agree that we don't see much marketing materials, promotional programs and such from Siemens PLM period. That includes the other Siemens PLM products too! I will say that Siemens PLM is doing a better job getting their brands promoted than in the past.
As to internal company pundits and such, well, I'm not on the inside so I can't clearly defend nor oppose those debates.
From a business side you do have to look and manage product cannibilaztion carefully. That is truly what you might be experiencing here. When you have two different products that share a common customer base it is difficult to manage cannibalization. When you introduce a second product the idea is to increase your market share by decreasing your competitors market share. This can burn an organization if it has the effect of moving your existing customers over to your other products.
This is where, I feel, your comments are really focused. We would all like to see a larger user base for the Siemens PLM products. To do this you need to take your competitions market share! Usually, by building brand recognition and exposure. That is coming slowing from Siemens PLM. But building brand is not an easy task either.
I agree wholeheartedly, that to change from one system to another is not a simple process and needs to have some significant ROI numbers for an organization. Add all the passion and resistance to change from current staff and the stakes are even higher. But on the other hand, you can look at many products that were historically better products that faded away. The Marketing 101 course will talk about VHS vs BetaMax video tape.
I believe, that Dave (and I don't want to put words in Dave's mouth for him) is expressing his concern that SE may go the way of BetaMax. And is voicing his concerns. You can't fault people for a passion for something and defending it.
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Ryan, Yes I agree totally. I know Dave well enough to understand his frustrations, and as I hinted, I don't entirely disagree with him. I was just trying to dampen his "conspiracy theory" that Solid Edge is being forced into this by upper powers.
Like you, I can appreciate market powers and the fine line companies such as Siemens need to work within. But to think that they would purposefully let a product like Solid Edge suffer, in "hope" for better sales for NX, is simply hard to fathom. SE and NX serve different markets, and what may appear to us silly from looking in on the outside of these decisions, probably has plenty of data to support it. The problem is that every User and Company has different needs therefore each has their own perspective as to how successful SE is or isn't. Maybe if Dave thinks NX is getting all the good stuff, he ought move on up to NX.... then he can go to PLM World and enjoy the huge but disinterested crowds and tell them what they're doing wrong.
The funny thing is that Dave's gripes are purely about the marketing of SE and his desire that SE blow past SW in seat counts. And although I admit that would be great to see, I think we can all admit this would be more of an emotional victory then proving which product is superior. You see there's never any SE users/convention attendees, no matter how many there are, standing behind my back while I work to give me support or comfort. But what we all have when working is the dedication and confidence in the Solid Edge family.
Over the years I've probably spoken to almost everyone at Solid Edge. Karsten, Dan Staples, Jeff Walker, Dan Vinson, Art Patrick, Matt Lombard, etc., all the guys in Development, of course everyone in GTAC, as well as a lot of folks here on this forum. SE users have always had easy access to all of them, and they are all more then willing to listen to our gripes and needs... then do their utmost to follow through and get the user answers.
So I dare anyone to show me another CAD software company with such an impressive lineup, and still the Users have the such easy access to these people.
Anyway I'm going on and on... you see I can get emotional too! But it's my sincere appreciation for all their hard work, that I think everyone needs to be remember. I just felt I needed to take exception to what I feel is Dave's off base conspiracy theory.
Our shop is in hip Brooklyn NY near the Pratt Institute and I meet young ID types all the time. I'm pretty sure I have never met one that has ever heard of Solid Edge. SW is what they have taken classes in and it's what they know. When I tell them about SE they think it must be a dumber version of SW. I don't think this is right. However, belonging to a small club has it's advantages, for sure. I do feel like I have a real voice in the direction the software is developed even if it is a small one.
Along this line - of building a brand - I would like to call your attention to a small but significant change that I just noticed today. In your browser tabs, the Siemens PLM Community always just sported the symbol of whatever browser you are using. But today, we have an S on a teal background. Although I'm sure it's not, it almost looks like a "logo". Regardless, to me, it makes the site more recognizable. I'm sure this thing has another name, but I always called it the "fav.ico" or Fav Icon, because that's the name you give the image by default. I didn't receive any official notification this was going to happen, but it's been something I've been asking for. Hooray for the simple things.
Larry, I think your experience is typical and is one of the things that frustrates Dave and many others... including me. But like the corporations, schools tend to stick with what they know or who they have teaching it..... not that it's the best product.
I got a hoot out of my SolidSmack newsletter this AM when I read what all the SW users are all wet over in SW 2015.... seems like Solid Edge has had most if not all these "new features" for years, Plus we have Synch to boot. Maybe someone who knows more can speak more specifically, but from my reading this, I wasn't too impressed.
Hi Matt, I thought you put the fav icon out there as an administrator. It looks refreshingly good.
The Robot manufacturing company I work for has two departments: software development, where I work and Design - where they use Solid Works.
Whereas Development uses humble 4 GB RAM machines which are sufficient for programming purpose, the Design department has 16 GB RAM machines and their budget for upgrading to more RAM has been sanctioned.
Upon closer inspection I found Solid Works seizes a whopping 6 GB+ of RAM with no documents open yet, while Solid Edge back on my home computer was found happily living in just under 200 MB in the RAM, again with no docs open. @dcstaples and team have definitely scored a home run with the first ball of the match. Such plain facts to begin with, are ample to prove who is dumber. SE Surfacing, Sync Tech and Sheetmetal are distant targets to catch up with for all out there including SW.
In retrospect, the prodigious and brilliant students back in my school were always the silent ones and DID form a small club. They were never seen standing gathered around in unnecessarily large numbers by other fellow students or engage in chatter, nor felt need to bother about what the other who gathered in large numbers were trying to hide behind the noise made.
Also, their counterparts in higher grades were admired and praised by the school management in different ways than they did for the prodigies in my class since both sections had different aspirations and needs.
As a member of the small club of toppers and achievers in school, I never felt being over-shadowed or side lined just because our fellow prodigies in senior classes were praised, appreciated and promoted in their own unique ways.
Tushar Suradkar
Everybody is right as always!
I think the key of the success: Critical Mass!
Bob, Just tuned in here again and read what has been posted. I have spent some time with Ralph and he is not against SE nor is he a mindless Autodesk guy. It just happens to be what he has earned some money with just like Matt did with SW. Ralph is very interested in SE and spent some significant time with me two years in a row at the universities talking about SE and SW. Kind of like when I met Matt just before the release of ST3 and you BBS guys were wondering why I was consorting with "the enemy". Not any of what we talked about made it into press but it was the kind of conversation you have with another software user who likes to keep informed and is genuinely interested in the topic at hand. Ralph accurately reported what was said on stage whether you like it or not. It has been a puzzle to him why SE was being muzzled too and so he asked and was told. He figured as I did a couple of years ago that history was in the making as we watched and expected an SE rising star to prevail over SW.
Ralph in the past did have a bad feeling towards the old UGS and or Siemens ( I forget which now) bunch because they did not pay their bills from him for advertising at one time. I suspect it was under the old Bruce Boes regime.
About conspiracies and seeing things where there are none. Got an email today for PLM World regional Summits in Atlanta 11-06 but SE was not in there. Have not received my SE ST7 Summit regional roll-out notice as of yet. Karsten joins Don in leaving SE and Siemens entirely. I don't know about you but to me knowing these guys are gone says smoke does mean fire. True driven qualified and dedicated guys like this do things for a reason. And actions speak louder than words and so does lack of action. There is a lot of behind the scenes stuff you do not know Bob and don't get so excited. SE is just a tool of the trade as you reminded me some time ago. Whether it sinks or swims does not matter since we personally still have a best in class tool to use.
Dave, You seem to have fallen into the "Jon Banquer" realm of commenting about CAD.... if it doesn't meet your standards or perception of what should be happening, you immediately go into this overwrought reaction as if the SE world is coming to an end.
Your impulsiveness and disregard for the people you call out just seems misplaced, since you are not in the "inner circle" to know first hand what truly is going on. As the old saying goes there's 3 sides to every story. Yours, mine, and somewhere in the middle you'll find the Truth.
But although I don't disagree with some of your premonitions and concerns, I don't understand your insistence on accusing everyone is involved in some sort of conspiracy to kill Solid Edge. The point is you are basing all your feelings and emotions based on things that fit your viewpoint.... which is fine, but again I feel your going public with this in this manner over the past few years is totally misplaced. This is the same subtle behavior I've seen from Ralph over the years.... and learning his bitterness was based on NOT getting paid from UGS, speaks volumes as to his credibility. And it must be true because you just said it, and why would you lie?
Point is you waste more **bleep** time speculating on the future of Solid Edge then maybe you should. But what really befuddles me is just what is your goal here. Do you really think when you switch over to AC Inventor you'll be done with type of stuff. There will be the same politics and poor decisions being made there too... in fact if you ask me Inventor has been stalled for 3 or 4 years and is riddled with old AutoCAD mindsets that I doubt will ever move beyond the same turf battles so seem to despise at Siemens.
Again I just wish I could figure out what you see as the goal here. Again it's starting to remind me of those Jon Banquer opinionated rants, that seem to be written simply to boost his own self importannce. After awhile it just becomes irratating.
OK you hate something about Solid Edge management... fine. But If you're that convinced Siemens Management is impacting your business, then why are you willing to waste so much time speculating and writing about "things other people said" then running your business. I'm sure you'd just love to have someone speculating on everything you've done wrong with running your business.
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Man, this place was so calm and peaceful lately.
just kidding ice, welcome back!
Man, this place was so calm and peaceful lately.
just kidding ice, welcome back!
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a bit late, but hi ice!
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wow, someone with less posts per day than me.
Stuff is good. Most stuff anyway. ^_^
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And then came silence !!!
I'm sure you will hear from others, but dredging up old dead posts, especially when you have nothing new or informative to add, is frowned upon here.
Nice to see you back Ice.
I love these forums for many reasons, but one of the main reasons is that much of the greatest emulator developers I have ever heard of also participates on it.
It so pleasant to me hear the voice of such as great developers among lots of people that loves emulation and emulator developing. I think this keeps these forums alive and with high activity. Ice, Jabo, Zilmar, Smiff, Lemmy, Rice, Schibo, Orkin, Hacktarux, ... and a long list of others. Thanks for your work and for the time you dedicated to emulation and emulators.
Moreover. When I first discover emulators (few years ago), PJ64 was already starting. N64 emulation impressed me very much. I inmediatly sent an email to Jabo and Zilmar to thank them for such a wonderful thing. I had no response (and I understand it) but I consider these forums to be the response of many people interested in emulation to all "emulation fans"
Thanks everyone for participating, Long life to Emutalk!
EDIT: Sorry for the long post. This matter touched my heart!
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The economy in the United States is in a collapse. The Capitalist system does not work anymore; banks have become more powerful than our politicians. The government now has a policy based around
Fear and Greed. The rich are getting
richer and more powerful, while the great masses of America wallow in poverty.
Must we continue to exist in this passive state, only living to serve the rich and powerful? Or do
we, the great masses, stand up against the policies of Fear, and Greed, and
God? We must break the bonds that
separate us, we must pull down the centers of Greed and Fear and we must pull
down the houses of God.
These borders are created to separate us into individuals where we can be controlled easier.
We must stand up, against the tyranny of the centers of Greed, and Fear, and God; quoting John Adams: "People should not fear
government, government should fear people."
Once we stand up to Fear, to Greed, to God, we will become united!
This being said, I advocate the collapse of the Capitalist system and the foundation of the United Socialist Federal Republic, in which
the government will exist to serve the people.
Capitalism is Dead. We must put
it out of it's misery and move on toward Socialism.
http://www.thinkatheist.com/forum/topics/the-united-socialist-feder... (to view the 19 pages of discussion)
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What I want to establish is more socialistic nation. Less government control and more power to the people, and the people will assist each other.
My head a splode.
Less government control and more power to the people is not socialism. That is classic liberalism. Socialism is an economic model and, as an economic model, "less government control and more power to the people" is its antithesis.
Words like socialism and capitalism have strict and established definitions.
What you're talking about it is the marriage between social-libertarianism and socialism. What you've described isn't socialism, it's the first incarnation of Neo-conservatism, or classic neo-conservatism, an anti-Stalinist leftism that supported social programs and advocated for active confrontation with oppressors.
NO where has it ever been written that socialism requires BIG government. Our BIG governments are products of capitalists' obsession with getting their greedy hands into every pie, skirting all the rules, then forcing government to hire ridiculous numbers of enforcement agents to try and curtail their illegal activities. In a just society, governments would be much smaller. Government would take care of education, health, communication standards, we'd abolish private ownership beyond single person ownership, dismantle corporations completely and encourage small scale free enterprise. We'd remove all corporate representatives from all government infrastructrures and limit electoral spending... Get out of professional armies and return to a system where every citizen is responsible to the defense of the country... and either make all borders open for all people or shut down the ridiculous cheap foreign labour policies forced down people's throats around the world... and stop stealing resources from poorer countries... Yep, that would be a small government socialist society.
Sweden came quite close to this kind of system a few decades ago, but then their PM was murdered and everything went downhill since then as corporations regained their hold on power.
Just going to reply here so the text isn't as clumped.
What you described is classic socialism, Pre-Marx socialism. Socialism as an economic model not a political one. Classic socialism is ownership of the means of production by the workers. It's sort of what's going on in GM now that the UAW owns a sizable portion of the company. This socialism doesn't care about government or who gets to say what to whom, it doesn't say anything about a social safety-net, this just promotes ownership of the means of production by the ones doing the producing. It is that coop you're talking about. If you own your own business, you are, in effect, a kind of micro-socialist.
There's a fusion of socialism and capitalism called market-socialism where coops compete in a market economy.
When you start talking about socialism as a means of balancing power, you're no longer talking about socialism, you're talking about Marxism.
When you start talking about achieving Marxism by instigating violent revolt and establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat, you're talking about Leninism.
When you start talking about imposing Leninism on the rest of the world while crushing dissenters at home, you're talking about Stalinism.
When you start talking about government guarantees of standards of living, you're talking about welfare state.
When you talk about government imposing private morals and insecurities on society, you're talking about a nanny state.
Yes, those are broad summaries, but I feel they are honest. Talking about socialism in terms of political power does a disservice to socialism. I'm not trying to be a stickler for definitions, but if we want to have a discussion on this, the definitions need to be clear. Otherwise we throw around concepts inappropriately and end up with profound words like "socialism" and "theory" losing all meaning.
If we had any kind of serious socialism in this country we would not have jobs going overseas, I guarantee you that. There would still be a distribution of wealth as coops that make computers would almost certainly earn more than coops making bread; the breadth of this distribution just wouldn't be as dramatic as it is now.
As for this new name for the proposed country it honestly looks like four words were chosen that ran sort of alright and were stitched together.
A Federal Republic with more power to the people... how does that even work?
Perhaps I used the term "socialism" in a different sense... please, let me try to explain.
Socialism, as I see it, is the formation of classless society, where the people will help each other and the government only steps in to see the transfer of goods.
You grow potatoes and I make chairs. You need chairs and I need potatoes. The Government only steps in to ensure that the transfer is complete.
It's true, that my idea has advanced since I first proposed it. I have absorbed much information in a short time. Those that are wealthy are also among those who are powerful. They now control the government. American Capitalism has turned into Totalitarian Corporatism. The Republicans and Democrats are just the lap dogs for the wealthy 1-2% of America. That is where the real power lies.
We are spoon-fed our entire lives that 'America is a democracy'. It isn't, well not anymore.
America was founded as a Republic, then we formed into a Democracy, after the industrial age America became Capitalist, and now it is Totalitarian Corporatism.
What I want is for my country to be free, more than anything. I want the people to live and work and play without having to fear the world. I want the people to help each other and to live without worrying about whats around the corner or up the hill. It may sound naive of me, but I want a utopia society, or as close as we can get.\
As I have stated before, if I can get this society without a war, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
But I won't... those with the power won't allow it. It will turn into a war.
I will be there to fight and I will be there to defend and, if need be, I will die to see America truly free.
People have said that I'm an idealist. Perhaps that is true. I want America free, I want America to choose its own path, without bowing to the Corporate Masters, I want the world to see that America, itself, is not arrogant; but it is the Corporations that have taken it over.
I will continue to support and defend my ideas. I will not sit by while the flames of freedom get snuffed out over the world.
The day is coming. There will be a war between the United Socialist Federal Republic and the Totalitarian Corporations, and I will be there to fight and die for what I believe.
Thank you for your time.
I don't think a revolution is any longer feasible in the conventional sense of the term in our modern society.
Our "New and Improved" advanced technological society now enslaves us. Have you tried recently to purchase a plain ticket with cash? We have video surveillance on public ways, we have electronic monitoring of private citizens via RFIDs, all government agencies, both domestic and international, now share their databases, words said on the internet, even tho they are no longer visible to us or in our minds, are kept and/or well logged and accessible to powers that be (think Canadian scientist denied entry into USA this decade for scientific research done on LSD in 60s, without any criminal past, simply due to a publication, think Facebook, whom in their privacy statements state that any words exchanged on Facebook can be used by Facebook anytime in the future, anything 'said' on Facebook 'belongs' to Facebook). We have facial recognition software on our home laptops, this technology has arrived to us peons long after the military/CIA/FBI has compiled it's databases. How many of you turn off your cookies when traveling the internet??? What percentage of society have not been fingerprinted by the law or donated their private fingerprint to corporations for the sake of lazy ID systems... Biometric identifiers are no more secure than a signature, they simple require a little more technology. We're now implanting tracking chips into children who's parents don't have time to be proper parents...
It really makes me sad when people say technology is freeing us... We have never been so enslaved. Our future may include more World Wars, but I do think we'll ever see revolution again, unless the system colapses due to a technological glitch. Big Brother is now, and has been for some time. We have traded freedom for comfort and ease.
We don't 'need' any of that shyte. They are strictly tools of social repression. In the USA, more people die of food poisening due to an inefficient FDA EVERY SINGLE YEAR, than were killed in on 09/11.
Terrorism is the government's mantra to keep people fearful, and willing to accept supression of rights.
Do you know there have long been areas in Canada where public phone booths are shut down at night "to prevent illegal transactions"?...
The day Western civilisation stops dumping it's garbage policies onto the rest of the world, we'll be safer. Terrorism is the consequence of our own inaction to make our governments listen behave responsibly.
White people should just GET OUT OF AFRICA, in body, in finance, in corporate. WE have fucked up Africa and now you blame Africa for terrorism... that is almost funny, if it were'nt so sad.
You have bought into the fearmongering... simple as that.
Brits are pretty much a secular society now, all that's needed now is to tear down all religious institutions... the muslims/christians that are there can just to their worshipping at home, in small groups, to prevent them from gaining power.
I want the same thing here, once tax breaks are completely removed from religion, they won't survive and will have to get rid of many churches. Let the French Revolution Dereligification come again.
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Did y'all do anything for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics last Friday? Any themed festivities? Or are y'all not as cheesy as I am?
Well, I had a few people over for some English themed noshing and beering. We had a ploughman's, complete with pickled onions, Stilton, Sweet Red Onion Chutney, and Colman's mustard. I got some English beers. One brewed in North Yorkshire where my mom is from. For dinner, my boyfriend fried up some fish and I baked up some potato wedges until crispy for fish and chips. And for dessert I made a traditional English trifle, using Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry pursuant to my mom's instructions. It was awesome and festive, and I loved it.
I've sort of come to terms with my cheese ball tendencies, especially when they result in epic themed meals and an excuse to drink leftover sweet sherry for dessert.
My boyfriend's mom was also in town. And she brought with her a bunch of peppers and potatoes and two huge bags of gorgeous heirloom tomatoes of all sizes from her garden in Virginia. Such a nice mom!
We used the potatoes for the chips in the fish and chips, and a bunch of her tomatoes were quickly gobbled up off the ploughman's.
Needless to say, I've been eating tons of tomatoes. Sprinkled with leftover Stilton. Some with a bit of balsamic. And some just popped in my mouth for a walking-through-the-kitchen snack. I also made gazpacho and pasta sauce and these tartlets! [As I said, I have a thing for themes...]
My boyfriend made bacon jam last week, which is stupidly delicious in an incredibly obvious way. Bacon and sugar. Yeah. Duh. So since the basil on the balcony has gotten crazy huge, and since we have an abundance of tomatoes, I thought I better use them all.
Heirloom babies + bacon jammin' + massive basil + tartlet obsession = BLT tartlets! You're welcome.
And about this tart crust. It's all butter. It's tender and flaky yet crisp and appropriately sturdy. It's simple. It's easy to make, easy to work with. It keeps well. It works with sweet and savory fillings. It's pretty fantastic. You'd be a fool not to take it, run with it, fill it, bake it, eat it, etc.
BLT Tartlets
makes six, 4.75-inch tartlets (I use these pans)
Pâte Brisée (recipe below)
Bacon Jam (recipe below)
fresh basil
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Roll dough out to 1/8-inch thick. Cut out circles a bit larger than the tartlet pans (you won't end up using all the dough). Shimmy dough into the pans, lightly pressing into the corners. Trim excess overhang dough. Place in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
Remove pans from the freezer and arrange on a baking sheet. Using the back of a spoon, spread about 1 1/2 Tbsp. of bacon jam onto each tartlet until evenly covering the bottom. If it's too thick to spread, you can heat it up a bit to loosen it. The jam is pretty intensely bacony, so don't overdo it. A little goes a long way.
Arrange tomatoes over the jam cut side up, fitting as many as you can without overlapping them. Brush tomatoes lightly with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Bake for 1 hour, until crust is golden and tomatoes are wrinkly and collapsed.
Let tartlets cool until pans can be handled then remove tartlets from the pans and let cool completely on a wire rack. Stack about six large basil leaves on top of one another, roll up long ways, and chop into 1/4-inch strips. Sprinkle confettied basil over the tartlets and and top each with one whole basil leaf (or more, if you're so inclined).
Pâte Brisée
adapted from Bo Friberg (his recipe uses lard, my version is all butter)
makes two full size tart shells
285 g bread flour
170 g cake flour
1/2 Tbsp. salt
228 g butter
1 egg
40 ml ice water
1/2 Tbsp. lemon juice
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix flours, salt, and butter on low speed until they begin to come together. In a small bowl, lightly stir the egg, water, and juice with a fork then pour into the flour-butter mixture. Continue to mix on low speed just until dough forms. Be careful not to over mix. Dump dough onto a counter, gather all the bits together (do not knead or overwork), wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before use.
Dough may be stored wrapped tightly in the refrigerator for about two weeks and in the freezer for up to two months.
Bacon Jam
from Dale Donchey
makes almost 1 pint
12 oz. bacon, chopped into large chunks
1/2 large onion, roughly chopped
1-2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1/2 cup brandy
1/4 cup raspberry blush vinegar
1/2 cup muscovado sugar (or dark brown sugar)
1 Tbsp. maple syrup
In a medium sauté pan, cook bacon until browned on the edges. Pour off fat into a heatproof container to reserve for other use (do not wipe pan). Add onion and garlic to pan, season with a bit of salt and pepper, and cook over medium heat until onions are translucent.
Add brandy, vinegar, and sugar, reduce heat to low, and cook until thickened, about 20 minutes. Let cool slightly then transfer to food processor. Add maple syrup and process for a few quick pulses until bacon breaks up a bit, and the texture is uniform. You still want it to be a bit chunky, not smooth. Store in a mason jar in the refrigerator.


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BOSTON, Mass. – With a combined .293 hitting percentage UMass Boston volleyball (5-4) defeated non-conference opponent Colby-Sawyer College (2-5) by the final of 3-0 (25-14, 25-8, 25-16) Tuesday evening in the Clark Athletic Center in the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
Combined the Beacons drove home a total of 35 kills on 82 attempts, while only surrendering a mere 11 errors. At the end line the Beacons recorded 11 service aces, with Brooke Nemethy (Oviedo, Fla.) scoring six of them.
Senior Shannon Thompson (Moorpark, Calif.) paced the Beacons offense with her season-high .593 attacking percentage. On 27 attempts, the three-time AVCA All-American scored 16 kills and was not charged with an attack error all night. . Junior Amber Clemons (Simi Valley, Calif.) finished second on the team with five kills and a .571 attack percentage.
Setters Emma Rocha (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Megan Pollock (Wilton, Calif.) combined for 28 assists respectively, with Rocha also scoring two service aces. Defensive, Corrine Porter (Huntington Beach, Calif.) tallied 10 digs, with senior Kayla Wilson (San Jose, Calif.) right behind her with eight.
At the net UMass dominated with a combined seven team blocks. Thompson tallied six block assists, while newcomers Molly Witzmann (Encinitas, Calif.) and Briana Sousa (Swansea, Mass.) each recording three block assists. Kirsten Morrison (North Reading, Mass.) recorded the only Beacons solo block of the night.
For Colby-Sawyer Courtney O'Hara recorded a team-high six kills and seven digs. Ally Le-Bruno finished with eight digs and Laura Smolinski posted 17 assists.
The first two sets of Tuesday's match belonged to UMass Boston from start to finish. In the opener, the Beacons quickly took control of the momentum as they jumped out to a five point lead (6-1). Colby-Sawyer would cut the lead to four, but they would never get any closer as the Beacons gained some breathing room as the set continued to eventually take a 25-14 victory.
In set number two UMass held the Chargers to a mere eight points, which was the fewest points scored by an opponent since the Beacons held Southern Maine to just six points in last year's conference match.
The final set was a back-and-forth affair in the early on-goings. It was not until the Beacons went on a 6-0 run that they were able to break the set wide open. UMass went on to earn the 25-16 victory and their first regular season home win.
Volleyball returns to action on Thursday when they host Eastern Connecticut State University at 6 p.m. in a Little East Conference opener for both squads.


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