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African Americans and Religion
Sylvester A. Johnson
Beginning with trans-Atlantic slavery, which forced hundreds of thousands of people into what is presently the United States, religion among African Americans consistently featured a complex of efforts toward innovation, preservation, and agential intervention rooted in efforts toward survival against structures of racial domination. Social factors including slavery, black responses to a range of political conflicts, influences of immigration, and the varieties of genealogies that have constituted religious formations among African Americans contributed to the creation of formal Christian denominations, intentional communities of Orisha, and transnational movements of Islam. Also important are the insurgent challenges that African Americans have proffered as a rejoinder to social oppression. But this progressive tendency has been paralleled by sharply conservative religious formations that check any easy generalization of African American religions as being predisposed toward social justice movements. Also important are social sources of autonomous church formation, the role of Black Nationalism, anticolonial forms of religion, and Yoruba revivalism of the mid-20th century.
Civil Rights Movements and Religion in America
Paul Harvey
In the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century, black Christian thought helped to undermine the white supremacist racial system that had governed America for centuries. The civil rights revolution in American history was, to a considerable degree, a religious revolution, one whose social and spiritual impact inspired numerous other movements around the world. Key to the work was a transformation of American religious thought and practice in ways that deftly combined the social gospel and black church traditions, infused with Gandhian notions of active resistance and "soul force," as well as secular ideas of hardheaded political organizing and the kinds of legal maneuverings that led to the seminal court case of Brown v. Board of Education.
The civil rights movement had legislative aims; it was, to that extent, a political movement. But it was also a religious movement, sustained by the religious power unlocked within southern black churches. The historically racist grounding of whiteness as dominant and blackness as inferior was radically overturned in part through a reimagination of the same Christian thought that was part of creating it in the first place. In similar ways, the Mexican-American farmworkers' movement drew on the mystic Catholic spirituality of Cesar Chavez and brought to national consciousness the lives and aspirations of an oppressed agricultural proletariat that lacked the most elementary rights of American citizens.
American civil rights movements drew from, and were in part inspired by, the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian independence movement. Gandhi's movement deeply influenced black Americans who visited India from the 1930s to the 1950s and who brought home with them a mixture of ideas and practices deriving from sources as diverse as Gandhi and the 19th-century American progenitor of nonviolent civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau. American civil rights movements subsequently became a model for any number of freedom movements internationally, notably including the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. There, religious figures such as Desmond Tutu became international symbols. Also, the black American freedom struggle based in the American South moved protestors in places as diverse as Czechoslovakia under Soviet domination and Chinese students staring down tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
In the post–civil rights era, some suggested that America had moved into a "post-racial" era, despite the overwhelming statistics documenting racial inequality in American society. Thus, activists who have mined the connection between religion, civil rights, and social justice will have plenty of work to do in the future. The struggle continues through such contemporary venues as the #blacklivesmatter movement.
Class and Religion in America
William A. Mirola
Scholars pursuing questions on the links between religion and social class typically examine several distinct sets of dynamics. A main research focus has addressed how religious beliefs, behaviors, and experiences vary across different social class contexts. Studies in this tradition draw on quantitative and qualitative data to illustrate such differences. Statistical studies have demonstrated economic and educational differences in patterns of an array of religious beliefs, religious service participation, and other religious behaviors, and especially social and political attitudes on everything from gay rights to gun control to political party preference. Qualitative work typically delves into the lived religious experiences of individuals from different classes as well as examining the ways in which religious expression is itself shaped by class cultures.
A significant portion of this type of research examines how religion impacts the life and work experiences of those at the bottom of the class hierarchy, the working and nonworking poor. Here the way that faith shapes how poor people view the challenges of their lives and their views of the larger society are particularly central concerns. Addressing a second related set of questions, researchers also examine how participation in religious communities contributes to forms of social mobility in terms of socioeconomic status indicators. Statistical analyses dominate in this area, illustrating how denominational affiliation and measures of religious belief and practice predict views regarding income and wealth accumulation, educational attainment, and occupational choice. Another distinct area of scholarship examines the role religion has played in shaping the history of capitalism and the dynamics of the traditionally understood industrial working classes and the organized labor movement. Here, too, scholars examine how working-class individuals use religion as a way to understand their work and the evolution of global capitalism. Labor historians in particular have examined historical and contemporary instances in which religious leaders and organizations play active roles in industrial conflicts.
Whichever route one takes to explore religion and social class, studying their intersections has been of longstanding interest to social scientists, historians, religious studies scholars, and theologians for more than a century. This article bridges these approaches and provides an overview of their complex intersections in contemporary social contexts.
Feeling of Emptiness and Religion in America
John Corrigan
As part of a broader turn in humanities scholarship toward emotion since the late 20th century, scholars of religion increasingly have explored how emotion has been a key component in the lives of religious Americans. The relation of emotion to religious ideas has been particularly important in this nascent scholarship. In exploring how emotions and religious ideas are intertwined, scholars have focused on emotions such as love, melancholy, fear, and anger, among others. However, for reasons having to do with the historiography of American religion, as well as with categories that have governed much academic study of religion in America, the feeling of emptiness, which is so crucial to understanding Buddhism, and other Asian religions, has been underestimated for its role in American religions. In America, the feeling of emptiness plays a central role in religious practice, community formation, and identity construction, among Christians (the religious majority) but also in other religious communities. This essay describes some of the ways in which the feeling of emptiness has been expressed in American religions, and in American culture more generally, comments on how it has been joined to certain ideas at various times, and suggests how it has played a central role in shaping relations between religious groups in a society where religion is disestablished. The approach here is eclectic, blending historical narrative with cultural analysis, and the essay proceeds thematically rather than chronologically. Focusing on the feeling of emptiness allows a fresh perspective on religious practice in America, prompts new questions about belief and community, and enables new lines of interpretation for the development of religious ideas in America. Christians, Buddhists, Jews, and other religious communities in America have distinct ways in which they interpret the feeling of emptiness as a spiritual phenomenon. Religious persons often conceptualize it as an emotional experience of great value. Among Christians, it is important as a sign of an emptying of the self of immorality, distractions, and worldly clutter in preparation for being filled with the grace of God. Accordingly, Christians and others in America have developed spiritual disciplines aimed at cultivating the feeling of emptiness and advancing it to a point where deep longing becomes deep fulfillment. Religious practices involving the body include fasting, which is emptying the body of food, and tears, which empty the body of fluids. Bloodletting is also a notable practice, and, for those who do not cut or otherwise make bloody sacrifice (including war and lynching), bloodletting nevertheless is revered as a model discipline of emptying. There are aspects of sexual practices and the performance of work that also are exercises in self-emptying. All such disciplines are expected to prompt and enrich the feeling of emptiness. The severe fast, the deep feeling of emptiness, the desperate longing, the distancing from God becomes, paradoxically, a drawing closer to God. From the earliest settlement of North America, white Europeans and their descendants constructed the emptiness of the land to match the emptiness of their souls. Americans claimed to feel space. They expressed the spiritual feeling of emptiness in ideas about North America as a barren desert, crying to be filled by colonists and their descendants. The Great American Desert, a fiction created in the early 19th century, was one way in which Americans continued to imagine space as empty and themselves, as God's exceptional nation, as the agents of fullness. American fascination with millennialism was a valorization of the fullness of eternity over the emptiness of history. Millennial movements and communities in America felt time as they did space, and when American Christians felt historical time they felt its emptiness. Americans have constructed elaborate and richly detailed depictions of the end as they look forward to a time when empty time will become eternity, fullness. Christian groups in America, populated by persons who cultivate emptiness, have defined themselves largely by saying what they are not. Both persons and communities, invested in the feeling of emptiness, mark personal and collective boundaries not by projecting into the social world a pristine essence of doctrine so much as by pushing off from other groups. Committed to emptiness, there is little to project, so the construction of identity takes place as an identification of Others. Such a process sometimes leads to the demonization of others and the production of identity through the inventorying of enemies.
Gender, Marriage, and Sexual Purity in American Religious History
Seth Dowland
Throughout American history, religious people and groups have developed, sustained, or challenged cultural norms around gender, marriage, and sexual purity. Beginning with the earliest English Protestant settlers in the 17th century, American Christians have devoted consistent attention to the proper roles of men and women, and to the proper functioning of families. Throughout American history, religious leaders have assigned men as spiritual leaders of their families. Assessments of women's piety—and its importance in maintaining social order—have grown more positive over time. Prophetic radicals and political activists have frequently challenged American Christianity by attacking its traditionalism on issues related to gender and sexuality. The ideal of a "traditional family" has, however, proven quite robust. Even as cultural attitudes around gender and sexuality have shifted dramatically in recent years, the presumption that typical American families are heterosexual, middle-class, and Christian has persisted. This presumption developed over time and has remained dominant owing in part to the contributions of American religious groups.
Hispanics and Religion in America
Kristy Nabhan-Warren
What is today known as U.S. "Hispanic" culture is in reality a diverse array of ethnic, regional, national, and religious peoples and communities. Hispanic Americans trace their lineage back to colonial Spain, and Spanish is a unifying language for Hispanic peoples around the world. When we turn our attention to the United States, from the 16th to the 18th centuries, Spanish colonizers, missionaries, and explorers alike made their mark in American territories such as Florida, California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The focus of this article will be Hispanic religions from the mid-19th century United States to the present. The invention of the designation "Hispanic" by the U.S. government in 1970 was an effort to identify individuals and groups who shared a common language, ethnicity, and cultural heritage. While we can certainly problematize the designation "Hispanic," for the purposes of this essay we will use the ethnic and cultural designation Hispanic as a rubric to unify Spanish-speaking and ethnically related individuals and groups in the United States. What is useful about identifying individuals and groups as Hispanic is that we are able to focus on shared linguistics, ethnic identities, and experiences that emerge out of the lived experiences of colonization. Yet the story of Hispanics and religions is one of triumph and empowerment too as men, women, and children turned to their families, faith, and communities to combat the ethnocentrically driven colonization in the United States that threatened to overwhelm them. What they received from extended families, faith, and communities was support that gave them strength to persevere and prosper in conditions that were sometimes unbearable.
As long as we keep in the mind that there are vast differences among and between Hispanic peoples and groups, the broad rubric of "Hispanic" can help us understand linguistic, ethnic, and cultural continuities among individuals and their larger communities in the United States. Recent global Hispanic events such as the 2014 fútbol World Cup helped bring attention to the ethnic, nationalistic, and linguistic similarities as well as the cultural diversity of Latin, Central, and South Americans. As much as there is a wide variety of Hispanic peoples and communities, so too is there a wide array of Hispanic religions and spiritualities. Latin, Central and South Americans increasingly make homes in the United States and add to the ever-emerging religious and cultural hybridity of U.S. religions. While the majority of U.S. Hispanics still identify themselves as Roman Catholic, there is a growing diversity of Catholic practices as well as broader religio-spiritualities among U.S. Hispanics. In order to understand contemporary lived realities among Hispanics, it is essential that we take a historical approach and study the deeper history of U.S. Hispanic religions and spiritualities. When we do, we are able to understand that openness to hybrid theologies, practices, and ways of being spiritual and religious are central to Hispanics' histories of perseverance and adaptation to a country that has not been overwhelmingly unwelcoming to them. When we study U.S. Hispanics and their religious and spiritual lives from the mid-19th century to the present, we are able to understand three mutually informing and overlapping historical continuities: (1) A legacy of colonization, transculturation and borderlands existence; (2) The creation of a borderlands religion that responds to the legacy of ethnocentrism and inbetweeness; and (3) The centrality of fe, familia, and communidad (faith, family, and community) that work as an organizing and empowering trifecta for U.S. Hispanics.
Liberalism in American Religious History
Matthew S. Hedstrom
Liberalism describes an interrelated set of political and religious frameworks that grew out of the Enlightenment and the English, American, and French revolutions, though the term itself dates only from the early 19th century. Liberalism values individual rights and freedoms, secular rule of law, and reasoned public discourse, and has become the dominant political and economic philosophy of the Western democracies. Critics argue that there are oppressions entailed in this dominance, especially for women and racial, religious, and sexual minorities—members of groups that stand outside liberalism's implicit, normative subjectivity—while proponents contend that liberal individualism has provided the conceptual framework for civil and human rights movements.
Liberalism has shaped religion in the West in two interrelated senses. As a political philosophy, liberalism considers religion to be a matter of personal conscience and free association, and advocates broad (if always imperfectly applied) religious freedoms. The religion clauses of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution represent the quintessential legal forms of liberalism regarding religion. Liberalism has also greatly shaped religious thought and practice, especially among European and North American Protestants. Religious liberals have sought to apply reason, modern scientific and scholarly advances, and notions of minority rights and freedom of conscience to theology and ethics. Religious liberalism has shaped mainline Protestantism and related religious movements such as Unitarianism and Quakerism most especially, but also laid the groundwork for the growth of post-Protestant and post-Christian forms of spirituality. Given the historic dominance of Protestantism in the United States, Protestant liberalism has determined the nature of American secularism and thereby required theological and political adaptation from religious minorities, most notably Roman Catholics and Jews.
Race, Culture, and Religion in the American South
Paul Harvey
The South still commonly appears as the land of the Bible Belt, of evangelical Protestant hegemony. Despite the rapidly increasing immigration from all parts of the world to the region, there is still justification for such a view. To study religion in the South, then, is to examine the influence of a dominant evangelical culture that has shaped the region's social mores, religious minorities (including Catholicism, Judaism, and non-Christian immigrant religions), cultural forms, charged racial interactions, and political practices. In no other widely dispersed region, save for the Mormon regions of the Rocky Mountain West, does one family of religious belief and expression hold such sway over so many people and throughout such a large area. The biracial nature of evangelicalism in the South, as well, lends it a distinctive history and culture that alternately puzzles, repulses, and fascinates outsiders.
The South may be the Bible Belt, but, like Joseph's coat, it is a belt of many colors, embroidered with a rich stitching together of words, sounds, and images from the inexhaustible resource of the scriptures. The rigid Bible Belt conservatism associated with the common understanding of religion in the South contrasts dramatically with the sheer creative explosiveness of southern religious cultural expression. Indeed, southern religious influences lay at the heart of much of 20th-century American popular culture. And it contrasts with a rapidly changing contemporary South in which Buddhist retreat centers and Ganesha temples are taking their place alongside Baptist and Methodist churches.
Race, Immigration, Ethnicity, and Religion in America
Russell Jeung and Jonathan Calvillo
In 2010, immigrants represented 13 percent of the United States population, and almost one in four American children lived at home with an immigrant parent. Over half of the population growth in the United States from 2000 to 2010 was due to the increase of Hispanics, and currently, the highest number of immigrants come from Asian nations. This influx of immigrants has not only increased the percentage of people of color in the United States, at 28 percent, but has also dramatically altered the religious landscape of the country. The decline in the number of American Christians signals this shift, as does the growth of the religiously non-affiliated, Hindus, and Muslims. In the past century, sociologists have accounted for religious change by employing theories of secularization, assimilation, and modernization.
For more recent religious change in regard to ethnicity and race, however, four processes are more salient: (1) the religious marketplace, (2) globalization, (3) multicultural discourse production, and (4) racialization. The religious marketplace continues to cater to spiritual consumers who have become increasingly diversified with the influx of new immigrants and the rise of "spiritual but not religious individuals." The United States has thus remained a religiously vital context, with a strong supply of religious groupings. Globalization has spurred more transnational religious networks, which have increased the flow of religious personnel, ideas, and organizations across borders. New immigrants, furthermore, enter an American host society that is segmented economically. Consequently, ethnic groups do adapt to their neighborhoods, but in different contexts and in dissimilar manners. With the increase in multicultural discourse, ethnic groups may choose to retain their ethnicity and religious heritages for symbolic pride. Finally, race, as a central organizing concept in the United States, is a basis by which religious groups mobilize for spiritual interests. As religious groups become racialized, such as how Islamophobia targets persons with similar physical features, they respond with reactive solidarity.
Religion, Charity, and Philanthropy in America
David P. King
Giving to religion makes up the largest percentage of American charity and philanthropy. Religious charities also make up the largest percent of U.S. nonprofits. Beyond the numbers, however, religious charity and philanthropy has shaped America's religious and cultural contexts and served as a bedrock to American civil society. With a more vibrant nonprofit sector than any other Western nation, America's religious and charitable sector is unique in many ways. Under a disestablished church and an open religious marketplace, religious institutions able to raise their own support often grew while institutions or denominations locked into funding models reliant on state support stagnated. In the 19th century, religious voluntary associations competed with one another for dominance even as their growing numbers began to shape a Protestant consensus that sought to guide religious initiatives and moral reforms that defined the young nation while distinguishing themselves from others. Minority religions also had traditions of religious giving, and they employed these traditions and practices not only to care for their own communities but to carve out their own space within the American landscape.
While terms such as charity, philanthropy, and benevolence were often used interchangeably throughout much of American religious history, religious giving primarily focused on charity as care for those within one's religious community as well as a priority of giving to the poor. By the late 19th century, a rise of rationalized, professional, and sometimes secular philanthropy countered the traditional focus of religious giving through more systematic charitable organizations. The rise of major donors and foundations added a new wrinkle as they sought to reshape the focus of philanthropy and garnered increased attention even as small, individual givers still served as the bedrock of religious philanthropy. In addition to congregations, mission societies, humanitarian organizations, as well as parachurch agencies dominated this ever-evolving landscape. Religious giving became a diffuse, competitive marketplace that often shaped the winners, losers, and trends within American religion. The story of religious philanthropy, however, is not simply the one-way transfer of time and money from individuals to institutions. Rather the exchange between how religious individuals and institutions have engaged the shaping of civic society; moral outlooks; and the formation of boundaries, communities, and traditions of charity and philanthropy are an important aspect of American religious history. Religious philanthropy has accomplished great good even if it occasionally promoted distasteful actions. Across history and across a broad religious spectrum, religious philanthropy has always remained a vital part of both American ideals as well as the actual practices of the nation-state and civil society.
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McCain: U.S. has 'no credibility' in Egypt
President Obama and 2008 election opponent John McCain are getting along better these days -- but not over Egypt.
The Arizona Republican senator says it is high time for the United States to cut off $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt's military government in light of its violent crackdown on protesters.
"We have no credibility," McCain told CNN's State of the Union. "We do have influence, but when you don't use that influence, then you do not have that influence."
U.S. military aid is fueling anti-American sentiment, McCain said.
"With Apache helicopters flying overhead (in Egypt), nothing is more symbolic of the United States of America siding with the generals," McCain said.
Also from CNN:
"McCain, along with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, traveled to Egypt earlier this month at the request of President Barack Obama to implore military leaders to begin holding elections and transition into a democracy.
"While McCain voted late last month to maintain aid to Egypt, the longtime senator has since had a change of heart and is now joining others, including Republican Sen. Rand Paul, in calling for the Obama administration to suspend aid.
"Breaking from his vacation in Martha's Vineyard last week, Obama made a statement about the renewed unrest in Egypt, saying the U.S. will cancel its upcoming joint military exercises with the country. But he stopped short of suspending the aid."

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Feds Crack Down on Tech Fix-it Scam
Don't believe callers' claims that your computer has a virus that can be removed, by them, for a fee
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a major international crackdown on "tech support" scammers, those cold-calling con-men who warn users about bogus computer malware infections.
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The FTC said restraining orders were issued against 14 companies believed to have conned consumers out of tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent "fix it" fees typically ranging from $49 to $450.
In the ruse, tech-support scammers cold-called consumers, falsely saying they were employees of computer giants Microsoft, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, or antivirus vendors like McAfee or Symantec (which manufacturers Norton products). They told users that they'd received a notification that their computer was infected with a malware virus.
Online advertisements were also used to recruit would-be victims to scammer-controlled websites, says FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
After extracting the bogus fix-it fee via a credit card payment, the scammer then got remote access to a victim's computer, possibly seizing control of files, passwords and online financial accounts.
This latest FTC action — part of its ongoing efforts to curb scams that also include the sale of phony virus protection — freezes the assets of the 14 companies and prevents them from using web-hosting and phone services.
However, consumers must still be cautious. With other tech support scammers still in operation, neither Microsoft nor manufacturers of computers or antivirus software will call users warning of an infection. When new viruses are found to be circulating, security companies send updates or warnings en masse to all subscribers of antivirus software.
So if you get a call from a tech support trickster, hang up — even if the phoning fraudster knows your name, address or your computer's make or operating system.
The Tech Support Scam, also known as the Computer Repair Scam, was first reported by Scam Alert in 2009. Sporadic waves have occurred every few months since then.
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has said that in recent months his office had received twice as many inquiries about this ruse than in all of 2011. And since summer began, several Scam Alert readers in other states — including New York, Arizona and California — have reported getting phone calls from self-described Microsoft employees who offer to "fix" their PCs or Macs.
Here's what you need to know to protect yourself:
- Microsoft and its partners do not make phone calls or send personal email warnings about an infection of a particular computer. Nor do manufacturers of computers or antivirus software. When new viruses are found to be circulating, security companies send updates or warnings en masse to all subscribers of antivirus software.
- Don't be fooled if a phoning tech support hacker knows your name, address or even the operating system you're using. Cybercrooks glean their targets through public phone directories and often simply guess your operating system by citing popular ones.
- These crooks sometimes claim the alleged virus is connected to recent well-publicized scams. But this is just another case of scammers playing on news headlines. Earlier this year, for instance, following warnings about bogus Better Business Bureau notifications that contained viruses, scammers started mentioning this ruse in their calls.
- Never follow instructions in an unsolicited phone call or email to download new programs, click on links to websites, provide usernames and passwords, or agree to any "security subscription" services.
- For legitimate tech support, Microsoft users should call 800-642-7676 and Mac users should call 800-275-2273. Do not trust other phone numbers provided in calls or emails (they may connect you to scammers).
- In some cases, legitimate tech support specialists may ask you to follow steps to temporarily provide them with remote access to your computer as they troubleshoot a problem that you've contacted them about. They will not ask for passwords to online banking or other sensitive accounts.
- If you believe you've already fallen for this scam, you may need a reputable local computer repair company to remove any program that the hackers tricked you into installing. Ask a computer-savvy friend or relative to recommend one. AARP members can get discounted subscriptions offering tech support and other services from the Geek Squad.
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling.
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U.S. Grabs Dramatic 2-1 Win Over Korea, Led by 19-Year-Olds
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PASADENA, Calif. (Saturday, January 19, 2002) - The United States Men's National Team opened the 2002 Football Confederation Gold Cup in dramatic fashion, scoring an injury-time goal to defeat the Korea Republic 2-1 before 42,117 fans at the Rose Bowl. Landon Donovan opened the scoring in the 35th minute, and DaMarcus Beasley scored his first international goal two minutes into extra time to put the U.S. on top in Group B play.
With the victory, the U.S. improved it's all-time record in Gold Cup group play to 13-0-0. The win also ends the USA's winless record against South Korea, improving their mark to 1-3-1 lifetime. The team next faces Cuba on January 21 at the Rose Bowl, with a win or draw guaranteeing a place in the quarterfinal round.
"It wasn't a pretty game today, for sure. Korea is a very difficult team to play against, they are very physical and very aggressive," said U.S. head coach Bruce Arena. "I'm happy that there weren't any rule requirements that you couldn't play teenagers today, because we'd be in trouble if that were the case. It's been such a long layoff for a number of players, it's nice to get back on the field and start moving forward as a group. I'm pleased with the win today. Maybe a point would have been a fair result, but we're going to take it."
The match began in similar fashion to the December 9 meeting in Seogwipo, with the Koreans applying pressure and forcing the U.S. backline into early mistakes. In the 8th minute, defender Danny Califf was forced to pull down Choi-Yong Soo as he broke free in the penalty area. Like so many times in the past, U.S. goalkeeper Kasey Keller rose to the occasion, correctly anticipating a down-the-middle penalty taken by Korea captain Yoo-Sang Chul to keep scoreline even. Keller would make another brilliant save in the 30th minute, lunging to his left to save a bending shot off the foot of Korean forward Cha Doo-Ri.
Despite a lack of possession and clear chances for most of the half, the U.S. would strike first. In the 35th minute, Ante Razov came back into the midfield and spotted a deep-lying run from Donovan. Striking a cleverly-weighted pass with the outside of his left foot, he hit Donovan racing past a Korean defense desperately searching for an offsides call. None was forthcoming, and Donovan was clear through one-on-one, lofting a first-time shot over the charging Korean 'keeper to net his second goal in a U.S. kit.
The Koreans would waste no time leveling terms, the equalizer coming just three minutes later. Song Chong-Gug found space 35 yards from goal and struck a wicked bending ball that left Keller helpless as it settled into the far right corner.
The first ten minutes of the second half looked much like the first, as the U.S. faced consistent pressure. The match took a major turn in the 56th minute when Korea was reduced to ten men. Landon Donovan again took center stage, starting another well-timed run deep from midfield. Brian McBride, sitting in the center of the park, clipped a ball over the back of the Korean backline to send Donovan on a clear break-away. Defender Choi Jin-Cheul saw no alternative but to pull Donovan down, and referee Samuel Richard was equally left with no choice but to issue a red card. After moving Donovan into a more central role, the U.S. began to find space, especially down the right flank. The Koreans began to tire, and Arena added speed to the U.S. attack by inserting Jeff Cunningham, Cobi Jones, and DaMarcus Beasley as the second half progressed. McBride earned a golden chance in the 72nd minute, cutting across the penalty area and firing a low volley that nearly snuck through the legs of goalkeeper Lee Won-Jae. While the U.S. had clearly grabbed the initiative in the final stages of the match, a draw seemed inevitable until Beasley would come through with last-minute heroics.
The play began with an alert thrown-in from Cobi Jones that found Brian McBride behind the Korean defense. He quickly flicked onto Donovan, the 19-year old immediately playing a pass inside to Jeff Cunningham. With Beasley racing down the left side, Cunningham chipped across the box, hitting Beasley in stride. His clean first-time volley skimmed under the crossbar, sealing the U.S. victory.
With the win, Keller earned his 11th-straight victory on U.S. soil. His last loss came almost four years ago, a 2-0 loss to Holland on Feb. 21, 1998.
The U.S. now sits atop Group B with three points. They next face Cuba on January 21 at the Rose Bowl. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, and the match is available on pay-per-view through local cable outlets.
Participants: United States vs. Korea Republic
Competition: 2002 FC Gold Cup
Venue: Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.)
Attendance: 42,117
Weather: 60 degrees, fair
Scoring Summary: 1 - 2 - F
United States 1 - 1 - 2
Korea Republic 1 - 0 - 1
USA - Landon Donovan (Ante Razov), 35.
KOR - Song Chong-Gug, 38.
USA - DaMarcus Beasley (Jeff Cunningham), 92.
USA (4-4-2): 18-Kasey Keller; 2-Frankie Hejduk, 26-Danny Califf, 12-Jeff Agoos (capt.), 17-Carlos Bocanegra; 21-Landon Donovan, 14-Chris Armas, 19-Manny Lagos (27-Jeff Cunningham, 64), 7-Eddie Lewis (4-DaMarcus Beasley, 79); 20-Brian McBride, 11-Ante Razov (13-Cobi Jones, 75). Substitutes Not Used: 1-Tony Meola, 8-Richie Williams, 9-Brian West, 25-Pablo Mastroeni.
KOR (3-4-1-2): 12-Lee Woon-Jae; 15-Choi Jin-Chul, 18-Yoo Sang-Chul (capt.), 4-Kim Tae-Young; 16-Park Ji-Sung, 7-Song Chong-Gug, 5-Kim Nam-Il, 13-Lee Eul-Yong (3-Hyun Young-Min, 72); 11-Lee Chun-Soo (17-Lee Young-Pyo,72); 9-Choi Yong-Soo, 20-Cha Doo-Li (24-Kim Sang-Sik, 87). Substitutes Not Used: 1-Kim Byung-Ji, 8-Kim Do Hoon, 10-Hwang Sun-Hong, 21-An Hyo-Yeon.
Statistical Summary: USA - Korea
Shots: 9 - 15
Saves: 4 - 3
Corner Kicks: 4 - 4
Fouls: 14 - 21
Offside: 7 - 2
Misconduct Summary:
KOR - Kim Nam-Il (caution), 11.
USA - Danny Califf (caution), 17.
USA - Eddie Lewis (caution), 27.
KOR - Lee Chun-Soo (caution), 29
USA - Landon Donovan (caution), 37.
KOR - Choi Jin-Cheul (ejection), 56.
Referee: Samuel RICHARD (DOM)
Assistant Referee #1: Erick MORA (CRC)
Assistant Referee #2: Michael RAGOONATH (TRI)
Fourth Official: Peter Prendergast (JAM)
Chevrolet Man of the Match: Landon Donovan
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By Avik Das and Ashutosh Pandey
Oct 11 (Reuters) - Shutterstock Inc soared 34 percent in its market debut, valuing the company at more than $700 million, as investors bet on strong demand for the company's stock images from multimedia customers, especially online.
Shutterstock, which has more than 35,000 approved image contributors, offers more than 20 million photographs and illustrations that customers can license and download through subscriptions.
Growing demand for online images has raised interest in companies that provide such services, with Carlyle Group LP
snapping up Getty Images for $3.3 billion in August.
Shutterstock said in its IPO filing that a sponsored study showed that the market for pre-shot commercial digital photographs would grow by nearly 50 percent to $6 billion in 2016.
Investor interest in Shutterstock and its subscription-based model helped the company raise $76.5 million at $17 per share, 21 percent above the midpoint of the expected range.
"It's a well-established brand. It has a lot of users and half of its revenue comes from subscriptions," Francis Gaskins of IPO Desktop.com said. "It has a positive cash flow and top-line revenue is increasing."
The company, which recorded revenue of $78.1 million for the six months ended June 30, had more than 550,000 customers as of 2011, Shutterstock said.
Chief Executive Jonathan Oringer, who founded Shutterstock in 2003, will now hold about 57 percent of the company following the offering. Private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners will own 21 percent.
Shutterstock competes with other online providers of images such as iStockphoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime, Getty Images and Corbis Corp.
Shares of the company closed up 27 percent at $21.66 on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Avik Das and Ashutosh Pandey in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
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"Over the holiday break, I stumbled upon this article from OSNews stating that there was a need for something like Paint.NET for Gtk," Pobst writes on his blog, "Having some experience with porting Paint.NET to Mono Winforms before, I knew that that was a massive task. But it still got me curious about Cairo and creating a layered canvas, since I had never played with Cairo or Gtk."
"After playing around for a few hours, I actually had a working paintbrush and canvas," he continues, "Intrigued by my success, I played around with it for a few more days. By the end of the week I had a nifty little paint program with a few features. Now, a month later, it's time to open my little project up to the world."
It's called Pinta, and it's currently at version 0.1 - in other words, a number of features are still missing. Its interface is very reminiscent of Paint.NET's, but other than the code for adjustments and effects (which is taken straight from Paint.NET), Pinta is original code. It's Gtk+, so it already runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
You can obviously build the release from source yourself, but a SUSE .rpm is also provided. Using
alien, it's relatively straightforward to convert the .rpm to a .deb for those of us using Debian-based systems (like myself). The .deb package created by
alien works flawlessly on my machine.
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sudo dpkg -i pinta.deb
Be sure to match the names of the packages, of course.
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Biography: Born in Moscow (Russia) in 1969. My father, an amateur photographer, was the one who introduced me to the magic world of photography when he gave me simple camera "Smena-8M" (very manual one) for my 10-th birthday.
My real dive into photography began in early 90-th when my friends invited me on wild trip around siberian beauty - lake Baikal. Since then I never traveled without camera, taking pictures of places and people around the globe.
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New Car Review
2014 Honda Civic Hybrid: New Car Review
When hybrid cars became popular in the early 2000s, two 4-door models quickly joined the fray: the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid. While the Civic Hybrid never saw the same sales success as Toyota's highly popular Prius, it still boasts a lot of the features that shoppers love about hybrid cars. That's especially true of the 2014 Honda Civic Hybrid, which offers fuel-efficient engines and a long list of equipment.
Unfortunately, the Civic Hybrid doesn't offer one item that many hybrid buyers especially appreciate: a unique design. Instead, it has largely the same appearance as a standard Civic, with only a few minor detail changes. For a totally new look, you'll have to consider instead the hybrid-only Honda Insight, which boasts a streamlined appearance that's much more similar to the Prius model's look.
Still, for shoppers who don't need to stand out while they're saving gas, the Civic Hybrid offers an excellent alternative to more popular models.
What's New for 2014?
After updates for 2013, the Civic Hybrid is largely unchanged for 2014. The only revisions are three new options: a 7-inch touchscreen, Honda's LaneWatch blind spot camera and keyless access with push-button starting.
What We Like
Fuel efficient; well equipped; lots of desirable options; surprisingly roomy interior
What We Don't
Looks a lot like the normal Civic; interior could be nicer; pricey for a Civic; Prius gets better mileage
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The Honda Civic Hybrid offers one engine: a 1.5-liter hybrid 4-cylinder that makes 110 horsepower. The only transmission is a fuel-saving continuously variable automatic. Fuel economy is rated at 44 miles per gallon in the city/47 mpg on the highway.
Standard Features & Options
The Civic Hybrid comes in just one trim level, which starts around $25,300. Standard features roughly mirror those of the Civic EX, which means 16-in alloy wheels, keyless entry, a rearview camera, power accessories (mirrors, locks, windows), Bluetooth and a USB/iPod interface. Civic Hybrid models also include lane departure warning and forward collision warning.
Options include Honda's LaneWatch blind spot camera, keyless access with push-button starting, leather upholstery, automatic headlights and heated front seats. A navigation system is also available.
The 2014 Honda Civic Hybrid comes standard with a rearview camera, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes, stability control, side curtain airbags, front side airbags, forward collision warning and lane departure warning. Safety-related options include Honda's LaneWatch blind spot camera and automatic headlights.
In government crash testing, the Civic Hybrid received a perfect 5-star overall rating. That score consisted of 4-star ratings in frontal and rollover tests, along with a 5-star rating in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's side impact assessment.
Behind the Wheel
It won't surprise many shoppers that the Honda Civic Hybrid drives a lot like the regular Honda Civic. That's because it is a regular Honda Civic in many ways, from the body and platform to all of the interior components. The only big changes are under the hood, where the Civic Hybrid's fuel-efficient hybrid powerplant replaces the standard Civic's more conventional 4-cylinder.
The result is that our feelings here roughly mirror our take on the standard Civic. Performance isn't earth-shattering, but we enjoy the Civic's effortless driving feel: It seems simple and easy to pilot. That feeling extends to the Civic Hybrid's braking and handling performance, as well, and we find the Civic to be among the sturdier, better-built compact cars.
Other Cars to Consider
Chevrolet Volt -- If you're willing to consider going the plug-in route, the Volt boasts a 30-mile electric-only range and a backup gasoline engine. Prices are steep, but tax credits can bring the Volt into the Civic Hybrid's range.
Honda Insight -- The Civic drives better than the Insight, offering improved performance over bumps and around corners, but the Insight offers more cargo room and a much lower base price.
Toyota Prius -- The Civic Hybrid's biggest rival remains the best-selling Toyota Prius. Despite similar pricing, the Prius is far more practical than the Civic Hybrid, and fuel economy is better, too.
AutoTrader's Advice
We'd take our Civic Hybrid with leather, navigation and the latest convenience options added for 2014. Those features only add around $2,500 to the sedan's base price, but they give it the feeling of a luxury car.


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For a long time Latin America has been completely off the Magic world radar. The economic situation in Latin America makes Magic a very expensive pastime. Prohibitive travel costs kept the best players from showing off their skills at Pro Tours. The removal of the Latin American Championships was a disaster for their pro community. Their Grand Prix were seen as hunting grounds for North American pros, but always a Latin American would take the title. They were the only Magic Community not to have made their mark after Japan put Tsuyoshi Fujita in the Top 8 of Pro Tour - Tokyo.
As if the potential for a Latin American World Champion wasn't enough, Argentina ended the singles competition in second place on the Team Leaderboard, just one point behind Germany. If their Rochester Drafting skills match the rest of their repertoire, Ostrovich could appear in both final matches.
Romao, too, recognizes that the enormity of his accomplishment extends beyond the personal. He and Ostrovich have put Latin America on the map. Respect may be hard to earn, but two in the Top 8 of an eighteen round event is nothing short of remarkable. He hopes that this will not only build Latin America's reputation, but also encourage its players to reach for the highest level of competition, developing Latin America's pro player base. Success on the Tour has always been Romao's dream, and he's accomplished it this weekend. He wants players to know that it is possible.


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Katharina's Food Revolution
Name: Katharina
Location: Coral Springs, Florida
I remember when I was studying I had left my parents in charge of my garden (the tiniest garden ever, in fact). The next time I came back home it was dead. My parents obviously had not cared for it. Now, years later, when I come back home I am inspired by what has become of my parents' yard. With a food revolution going on, my dad has been inspired to take matters into his own hands.
He's been growing his garden organically and it's been thriving. I swear, he has learned so many tips (even how to fortify soil naturally with things like pennies) that he could write a book. Actually, he's working on writing one! It's funny because my parents live in a suburb, where you'd be hard pressed to find such an organic garden. He's cultivated heritage fruits and veggies, from berries, papayas, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, greens, exotic fruits, to rare herbs. Next step, he plans on housing a bee hive. They help us, and we help them by providing a varied and pesticide-free diet! It's been wonderful just stepping outside and picking what we want to cook or simply eat. Our neighbors and friends also get to enjoy what the garden produces, and hopefully in the future we can share with the community as well.
Thanks, Katharina!
Check out her blog: Katharina's Food Adventures
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ModCloth Handmade Contest - Mini Tricorne Hat
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This holiday season, I am going to see The Nutcracker Ballet with four of my girlfriends. I am 25 and have never seen the ballet before, despite six years of ballet lessons and a lifelong love of theater. To say I am excited is an understatement! To pay homage to ballet's French roots, I created a festive accessory for myself that I'll be wearing to the show: a miniature tricorne hat! It complements the lush color of ModCloth's "She Wore Blue Velvet Dress" (link below).
Instead of felting a hat from scratch, I used a miniature straw hat — a doll's hat, actually! I folded the brim into three corners and used silver brads to hold the folds in place. Next, I covered the brim, inside, and top of the hat in a rich gold striped upholstery fabric. I trimmed the brim with pleated pink iridescent wired ribbon. I had to fold the ribbon in half and then pleat it, which was tricky! The last step was to add a cockade: a decoration pinned on the side of the hat, usually a circle of ribbons. I chose a strip of sky blue satin with an ivory lace flower on top. On the center of the flower, I glued a single pearl to complete the look. To attach the hat to my head, I sewed a comb underneath the back brim.
I can't wait to wear my dainty little hat to the ballet! I might even sport a bouffant! Bon chance!
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Bristol Palin: Yes, I Got Surgery, And My New Face Looks Awesome
Political prop and fecund fameball Bristol Palin has admitted to getting surgery on her jaw: "I had corrective jaw surgery." Like a starlet "correcting" a deviated septum, Bristol insists that the alteration was a medical necessity.
As a side effect, she has an awesome new face: "I am absolutely thrilled with the results. I look older, more mature, and don't have as much of a chubby little baby face!" America's most successful unsuccessful abstinence advocate tells Us she would never get plastic surgery: "I don't obsess over my face."
Gawker broke the story of Bristol's new face. (Dear Pulitzer committee: We're ready.) Here are the lessons we learned:
- Plastic surgeons who give quotes to tabloid magazines know nothing.
- Corrective jaw surgery is also a great weight loss supplement.
- Now that Bristol's a career reality star, she has no choice but to indulge the prying public's questions. Her livelihood depends on it! This is good news, because it means if we ask her enough, she will eventually tell us how she really feels about her mother.
- Speaking of Sarah Palin, we finally found the only thing that can silence her: Bristol's rising (surgically enhanced) profile. Sarah has been uncharacteristically silent throughout this affair. Not a single anti-media tweet about Bristol's new face, job, or Hollywood life—although she did tweet about Bristol's Dancing with the Stars partner today.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — When Dell Inc. completes its $24 billion management-led buyout, investors wonder what the company will do once it is out of Wall Street's glare.
Many believe that Dell US:DELL will use its time as a private company, with the help of Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -1.42% , to morph itself into a better rival to IBM Corp. IBM, -0.53% Read: Dell to go private in $24.4 billion deal
For one thing, Dell could embark on some additional acquisitions, which it can integrate without worrying about the immediate impact on earnings. While the company has expanded into computer services and software over the past few years, its results are still dominated by PCs, notebooks and servers. In the fiscal third quarter ended Nov. 2, services and software were about $3 billion, out of total revenue of $13.7 billion in the quarter.
"They want to separate themselves from the financial analysts who can't spell strategy to save their lives," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They are not really interested in properties that are going to decline in value. That's what often happens (in leveraged buyouts)."
The possibility of Dell pursuing more acquisitions while private is a contrarian notion, because the company is expected to take on a huge amount of new debt in order to finance what is expected to be one of the biggest deals since the financial crisis of 2008. Toni Sacconaghi of Bernstein Research wrote last week that he expects Dell to "try to focus its capital and operational efforts on migrating its business towards enterprise solutions," or corporate computing services, and that he suspects Dell might do "fewer midsize to larger deals" given its debt load.
Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee, also wrote about how an LBO would make it harder to do acquisitions.
"But on the negative, not having publicly traded stock could make it more difficult to make larger, transformative acquisitions as the company will likely spend the majority of its cash flow servicing debt interest," Wu wrote a couple of weeks ago in a note to clients.
Still, if Dell is to grow its corporate services and software business, it is going to have to do more deals, and what better time to do that then when it is away from Wall Street's quarterly earnings obsession?
And as Enderle pointed out, with Microsoft as an expected major investor in the deal, the software giant's backing could help it get additional financing for any future deals it seeks to pursue.
"They are already following the IBM model," Enderle said. "Where they are light is on the hosting side, to provide cloud services." He believes that Dell could acquire Rackspace Hosting Inc. US:RAX or another company of similar focus and magnitude.
One key mitigating factor, however, is how much of the deal will be financed by private equity, in this case Silver Lake. Private equity investors typically have a timetable for a return on their investment and could pressure Dell to spin off parts of its business or go public again soon.
The company could also use its private time to try again and enter the smartphone arena, since its previous efforts were lackluster at best. Whether it would do so with a Microsoft Windows Phone effort or whether it has the wherewithal to acquire BlackBerry Inc. US:BBRY are some interesting ideas to ponder. While BlackBerry would fit with Dell's focus on the corporate customer, Microsoft might be opposed to such a deal. (However Microsoft will not have a seat on Dell's board of directors, according to The Wall Street Journal).
So while the prevailing notion is that Dell will be constrained from doing any more mergers because of its heavy debt burden, it could surprise investors with some interesting moves as a private company.


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New Car Review
2014 Chevrolet Impala: First Drive
If you're shopping for a full-size sedan, here are a few things you should know about the Impala. First, it's all-new, new structure, new body, new interior; nothing about this car is the same as the 2013 model. Second, you should know that this redesigned Impala is about the same size as a Toyota Avalon. The Impala is a little longer and has more legroom in the front and back. The Impala also has three engine choices a 305 hp V6, a 196 hp 4-cylidner engine and a 182 hp eAssist engine. The eAssist version is similar to a hybrid and should get up to 35 mpg on the highway. We expect the V6 version to get about 19 mpg in the city and close to 30 on the highway.
No matter which engine you choose, the car has more than enough power. Obviously, the larger V6 engine is the quickest and the most fun, but even the 4-cylinder version feels adequate. Initially, only V6 versions of the Impala will be available. However, when the time comes, you will be able to get the smaller, more fuel-efficient engine in the most luxurious LTZ trim level.
From behind the wheel, the Impala doesn't feel big. Large windows make it easy to see what around you and the slightly firm suspension gives the car a real "light-on-it's-feet" feel; this Impala is actually fun to drive. Cornering is confident with sharp responses yet the ride doesn't feel too firm. The interior is also very quiet, similar to a Buick or Chrysler.
The exterior of the Impala looks great, the interior is equally impressive. Again, compared to the Toyota Avalon, the Impala doesn't look as interesting, but the materials, buttons, switches and available tech are all more substantial. The rear seat is more spacious than a Town Car and the large interior means lots of head room.
To access the navigation and entertainment features like XM radio, Pandora and a connected iPod, the Impala uses Chevrolet's MyLink system. That means an 8 inch touch screen and smaller color display screen placed right in front of the driver. The driver can select which features will display in which area. One really cool thing about the Impala's MyLink is that you can build a comprehensive favorites list. Anything from radio stations, to locations, to phone numbers or even songs are all kept in one place on one list which takes the place of the old radio station presets.
There's plenty of new safety tech too. The 2014 Impala has 10 airbags and now has features like forward collision warning, lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control. The price can go above $40,000 for a loaded V6 LTZ. But many features come standard on the LS and that's priced at about $27,000.


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Querrey, Isner to lead U.S. against Djokovic-led Serbs
Boise, ID – When the United States faces visiting Serbia in a Davis Cup quarterfinal next week, Sam Querrey and John Isner will play singles for the hosts in the best-of-five affair, from April 5-7.
U.S. captain Jim Courier decided to go with the same squad that beat Brazil in the first round last month in Jacksonville, Fla. The 20th-ranked Querrey and 6-foot-9 Isner, ranked 23rd, will be joined by doubles greats Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan. The 6-foot-6 Querrey beat Brazilian Thiago Alves in a fifth and deciding rubber last month in Florida.
Serbia will be led by world No. 1 superstar Novak Djokovic for the showdown on an indoor hardcourt at Boise's Taco Bell Arena. The reigning Australian Open champ will be joined by Viktor Troicki, Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac.
The 2010 champion Serbs topped the 32-time titlist Americans 3-2 in Belgrade in an opening-round tie three years ago in their lone Davis Cup meeting.
The USA-Serbia winner will meet the Canada-Italy victor in the semifinals in September.


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We wanted the SolidWorks user to have all of the available machining strategies right at their fingertips...
Clearwater, FL (PRWEB) January 17, 2013
Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing software BobCAD-CAM, Inc has gone through the rigorous qualifications checklist as a SolidWorks CAM solution and has met all SolidWorks qualifications in becoming an official Gold Partner. SolidWorks design software is focused on optimizing core design functions so users can work smarter and faster to transform new ideas into tangible business results. This is exactly why the new release of the BobCAM for SolidWorks gold partner CAM add-in modules are a critical piece to the overall efficiency in manufacturing as it streamlines and allows the user to maximize productivity.
"Integration between key product design applications can shave precious time off of the development process and increase productivity," said Nick Iwaskow, SolidWorks Manager, Alliances. "Integrating BobCAM directly within the SolidWorks environment helps designers and engineers improve designs and deliver the products their customers are looking for."
At this year's annual SolidWorks World in Orlando Florida, BobCAD-CAM will launch its next generation BobCAM for SolidWorks Version 3 series of CAM modules that range from 2 Axis to full simultaneous 5 Axis CNC machining. SolidWorks users who machine parts can now take advantage of new milling toolpaths and wizards that remove the guesswork by stepping you through the machining process.
Major revisions to the software include an all new Stock Wizard, Tool Crib and Material Cutting Conditions. A significant addition to the software this year is the High Speed Adaptive Roughing machining strategy that is now added to the 2 Axis pocketing functionality for open and closed shape pockets as well as the PRO modules. The new High Speed Adaptive Roughing is the first in the world for multiaxis CNC machining. This new high speed feature focuses on toolpath generation and takes tool engagement into account, improving tool life and maximizing material removal. Roughing can also differentiate climb and conventional cuts and allow different step-overs to be applied for each cut direction. Proven benefits of this type of milling include reduced tool wear and shortened cycle.
More new features include Tool Patterning, a new and improved face milling strategy and a newly added tool holder library all of which are dedicated to increasing efficiency in programming time and, in the end allowing SolidWorks users the ability to perform simple or complex machining operations without ever having to leave the SolidWorks environment.
"We wanted the SolidWorks user to have all of the available machining strategies right at their fingertips and then added advanced wizards that step them through the process of creating programs which literally removes the guesswork from the process altogether," commented Greg Myers who heads up the development division of BobCAD-CAM.
The latest BobCAM for SolidWorks software also includes multiaxis CAM modules for full 4 & 5 Axis CNC machining. This includes the addition of 3+1 for 4 Axis rotary and 3+2 machining, surface based machining, multiaxis roughing strategies, optimized SWARF milling strategies, as well as full machine simulation. Full machine kinematics can be defined to allow multiaxis posting and simulation support.
Users can also now create their machine with separate STL files to see the machine in motion if they have purchased the Mill 4 Axis Pro, Mill 5 Axis Standard, or Mill 5 Axis Pro modules. These are just a few of the newly added machining features in the new BobCAM for SolidWorks V3 release.
For more information on the new BobCAM for SolidWorks CAM add-In contact BobCAD-CAM directly at 877-262-2231 or 727-442-3554 or visit http://www.bobcad.com for a free trial download.
Visit BobCAD-CAM at SolidWorks World 2013 Booth #401 for details.
Copyright © 2013 BobCAD-CAM, BobCAM. SolidWorks is a registered trademark of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. Copyright © 2013 Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.


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Glimpsed at Work: Adam Ashley
As Chief Technology Officer for M-Edge, Adam Ashley is accustomed to traveling the globe for work. While on these trips, Ashley also makes time to pick up some dapper duds. "It's important to feel comfortable in what you wear," the 34-year-old Crownsville resident said. "Your clothes should reflect who you are. When I go to conferences and trade shows, I know I'm going to be noticed. I want to look put together." His purple coat and lavender shirt were purchased at a boutique on a trip to Hong Kong in March. His Joseph Abboud tie was purchased in Las Vegas. The rest of the outfit was purchased from less exotic locations. His Johnson & Murphy black dress shoes were purchased locally. His watch was from Macy's and his slacks were purchased at Men's Warehouse. His sweater was from the Calvin Klein outlet store on his way to the Eastern Shore. "I have a casual and conservative sense of style," he said.
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Two Icons, One Roof: Bauer and Russel Wright
I love vintage pottery, but the prices? Not so much. You can imagine my excitement when I found out that the L.A.-based Bauer Pottery is not only manufacturing "Bauer 2000," styled after Bauer pottery from the '30s and '40s, they're also reproducing Russel Wright's iconic American Modern dinnerware.
A little background on the original designers of Bauer and American Modern:
The J.A. Bauer Company pioneered the idea of mix-and-match dinnerware. Founded by Andy Bauer, who originally hailed from Kentucky, where he opened his first factory, the company took off when Bauer moved to L.A. and became part of the Arts and Crafts movement. Bauer hired innovative designers and his company, which also had a plant in Atlanta, made everything from vases to dinnerware in vibrant colors. Though Bauer died in 1923, his company continued to produce pottery until 1962. Among the most famous is the company's "Ringware" line, but all original Bauer is very collectible.
Today, the L.A.-based Bauer Pottery manufactures pieces based on vintage Bauer pottery from the '30s and '40s. Sure, they aren't collector's items like the originals, but they are brand-new (no chips!) and totally affordable. So you can actually, y'know, eat off them without worrying.
Russel Wright
American industrial designer Russel Wright helped make the idea of modern design palatable to the general public. But it wasn't just a product he peddled — it was a laidback lifestyle full of beautifully designed details. Some have called him the original Martha Stewart.
From the '20s through the '60s, Wright designed everything from furniture to flatware, textiles and art pottery, but it was his dinnerware that made him an icon.
Wright felt the dining table was the heart of the household, and thus the tablescape became a place for chic yet casual plates and pitchers and gravy boats. In 1937, the designer created his American Modern line, originally produced by Steubenville Pottery in Ohio.
The everyday pieces, made of inexpensive glazed earthenware, were sculptural — biomorphic, really &mdash and came in mix-and-match hues that were both subtle and statement-making.
American Modern — made available at a middle-class price point — became enormously popular, selling 250 million pieces between 1939 and 1959. Mint vintage Wright pieces are highly sought after.
The relationship between Wright and Bauer goes dates to 1946, when Wright created art pottery for the company. A few years ago, Wright's daughter Annie approached Bauer about reissuing her father's American Modern line. Bauer currently produces 20 different styles in six of the original glazes and four Bauer colors. And, as Wright would have wanted, the prices are quite reasonable.
Check out both collections at Bauer Pottery (the company's Home by Sunset line is also fabulous). Also, for those of you in the L.A. area, Bauer hosts a monthly sale of factory seconds at its showroom near Atwater Village. The next one is the first weekend of August.
Images (all courtesy of Bauer, unless noted):
Row one:
1. Russel Wright American Modern Pitchers in Bauer colors 2. Bauer cookie pots, 3. A Bauer tablescape (photo: John Phillips), 4. Bauer mixing bowls, 5. Bauer grill plate
Row two:
1. RWAM double lug bowls, 2. RWAM salt and pepper shakers in original glazes (photo: Mike Berkofsky), 3. RWAM coffee setting, 4. Vintage Russel Wright ad (Photo: courtesy of Patrick Dickson & Russel Wright Studios), 5. A U.S. postage stamp commemorating Russel Wright as one of America's "Pioneers of American Industrial Design"