text: Student Profiles Selena McMahan '05 Selena McMahan '05 Hometown: New York, New York Major: Visual and Performing Arts (self-designed) Why did you come to Bowdoin? I came to Bowdoin because I wanted a smaller-sized, liberal arts college. Bowdoin was my first choice. I really liked the Theater and Dance Department when I visited, and I felt like people here were much happier and much saner in the way that they managed their social and academic lives. And I really like Maine. I wanted to get away, but not too far from New York. How did you decide on your major? There was no major [for which] I really wanted to fulfill all the requirements. I didn't want to [study] Shakespeare and all for the English and Theater major. For the Visual Art major, you have to do two semesters of drawing, two semesters of painting, and some art history, and I wasn't interested in that [either]. I just wanted to [study] the overlap between visual and performing arts and focus more on ideas and on art that serves a purpose. So that's how I came to it. What has been your favorite class at Bowdoin? My favorite class of all-time was Observation to Obsession with Nigel Poor, a visiting professor for one semester. She lived at the Coastal Studies Center [Bowdoin's interdisciplinary teaching and research facility on Orr's Island], so our class was at the Coastal Studies Center once a week on Fridays for five hours. The course was about conceptual art and, in a lot of ways, it focused the direction of my major. We did a daily practice, so every student had to do one thing that they repeated every single day. We made reliquaries - traditionally, reliquaries are used to house a body part of a saint, but we made them for different objects that were special to us. [The professor] showed us amazing artists and [the class] had such a great feeling because it was out at the Coastal Studies Center, away from Bowdoin. A class I took this semester with [Assistant Professor of Women's Studies] Kristen Ghodsee called Anarchy, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism definitely ties for first. It was about how different forms of government treat women. It got us to think about the possibility of living under a different governmental structure than a democracy and why other structures, like a monarchy or a theocracy or communism, appeal to people. Have you done any independent studies? I have done three independent studies. I did an independent study my sophomore year with [Professor of Dance] June Vail about different ways of conceiving the body. So I studied Pilates, Alexander Technique, and Contact Improvisation. At the end of the semester I did a final performance called "Skin, Muscle, Bone" to demonstrate the different techniques. It was the idea that Contact Improvisation is [about] skin and sensory reactions, Alexander Technique is [about] your skeletal frame, and Pilates is [about] toning your muscles. Then my two senior-year independent studies are really what my major leads up to, in the way that I designed it. Fall semester, I did an independent study on activist art. And this semester, narrowing in, I did a project about Brunswick. Both of my independent studies focused on the audience experience of the art and on artists [who] become facilitators rather than just creators of something for someone to look at. I did the activist art study with [Lecturer in Theater] Gretchen Berg. I looked at all sorts of different activist art, from poster art to actions to exhibits to things that you wouldn't really consider art, but the fact that the artists are considering it art makes it so. My final project of my independent study, after doing political things around the election, was an interactive questionnaire about life at Bowdoin. I came to that [because I wanted] to focus on something more local that I knew about and because I felt like, for me, the crux of activism was getting people to communicate with each other. So I wanted to foster conversations about this community. It was a really big success and it propelled me to do something still local but a little bit bigger this semester. My independent study this semester is about Brunswick and different ways of perceiving the town through mapping. It has a few different components, some of which are a little bit more interactive than others. People make their own maps and view each other's [maps], and then there's a room where my vision of Brunswick is. It's more my photographic art, but viewing it is more interactive than a typical art exhibit. And then it has an element where people can go out into the town and do chalking. I've always been interested in space, perceiving space, and buildings, and so many of my interests came together in this independent study. What extracurricular activities do you participate in? Do you have an on campus job? I work for the Theater and Dance Department, mainly in the costume shop designing and making costumes, but I also work doing stage management, sound board operation, and backstage crew. And I am an active member of the Democratic Socialists on campus. The way it functions at Bowdoin, Democratic Socialists is a leftist activism group. It doesn't focus so exclusively on the principles of democratic socialism, but the [group's] work ties into the ideology of democratic socialism. So [the group focuses on] labor issues, worker's rights issues, and equality issues. This year, we worked a lot for the election because that was such a big issue, we worked against the tax cut proposal in Maine, we did a campaign on Equal Rights Amendment in Maine, and we did a teach-in on Che Guevara. I'm also a member of Sustainable Bowdoin. Sustainable Bowdoin does different projects to make Bowdoin more sustainable and more "green." So it's split up into different committees. I was on the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Committee, so we focused on getting the college to buy green tag energy, green cleaning products, and green clothes in the bookstore. My parents and my grandparents had never lectured me on the principles of democratic socialism or anything like that, but I had grown up with those kind of values. I felt that at Bowdoin, through working with these two groups, I was able to define better my values, and [doing so] gave me an opportunity to put my values and my thinking into practice. So I've really felt that doing a campaign for something I believe in or trying to get Bowdoin to buy something that agrees with [sustainable] principles was a really great opportunity. Being able to work for those kind of things here, where it's pretty safe, gives you a good jump start go out into the rest of the world and work for those things where it's a little scarier and you might face even more [opposition]. Have you studied abroad during your time at Bowdoin? I did. I studied abroad in the Czech Republic with the School for International Training's Arts and Social Change program. Particularly in the Czech Republic, arts have played a really important role in the revolutions that have happened there, so there's a lot of evidence that you can look at - you read a book or a play that had a really big impact on that country and got people to change their mind-frame or fight the government. For my independent study, I wrote a paper on five contemporary arts organizations in the Czech Republic that are all focusing on making international connections. What is your best Bowdoin memory? I really have enjoyed the contra dances that have taken place [Morrell] Gym and in the [Outdoor Leadership Center], and Chunx in the Pub [in Smith Union]. Chunx is a dance party that Sarah Moran ['05] and Andy Segerdahl ['05] started where anyone could bring music and deejay, everyone could just dance and have a good time, and it wasn't so much centered around alcohol. It was really nice because people ended up dancing crazy and it had a really nice, welcoming feeling. I also worked on a play, Eyes of Persia, sophomore year, and I have really great memories of working with that group of people and, again, dancing at a concert in the Pub with all of them. What are your plans after graduation? I have a Watson Fellowship to travel to Africa, Asia, and South and Central America to do humanitarian clowning. I will be teaming up with Clowns Without Borders, with clowns that travel and do work with doctors, and with one group that's based in Guatemala that does a big festival and does work with local kids based on clowning. I have to stay out of the U.S. for the whole year! I grew up going to a lot of street theater festivals with my parents in France, and I always liked the clowns. In Europe, the clowning tradition is fairly different [from the U.S. tradition]. Here, clowns tend to be more kitschy, circus clowns, and the kind of clowning that I'm interested in, and most of the clowning that I've seen, isn't that kind of garish, scary clowning. It's more of a human interaction. So I grew up knowing about and really enjoying seeing [clowns], and then when I started doing a lot of dance and theater and art, the kind of dance and theater that I gravitated to gradually moved more and more towards clowning. When I actually started taking a couple of workshops in clowning, I [thought] "Oh, yeah, of course, this is all the aspects of performance art that I've connected to, but they're compressed into one form." What advice would you give to a first year about the Bowdoin experience? My advice for a beginning first year student would be to work aggressively to find interest groups on campus that you fit into and to make friends through clubs or any kind of extracurricular where you have something in common with people. Also, if there are aspects about Bowdoin that [you're] not content with, [work to] change them. I think that there is a lot of opportunity at Bowdoin for change and the administration is really welcome to student opinion. That's something that I've discovered more and more. Now that I'm a senior, I feel like I have closer ties to the administration, but I wish I had fostered that earlier, as a freshman. Story posted on June 30, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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|Dendrotriton chujorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo & Brodie, 2010
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|Populations that are now recognized as belonging to Dendrotriton chujorum and Dendrotriton kekchiorum were formerly considered as part of Dendrotriton rabbi in the past, a species now considered to be restricted to Montañas de Cuilco (Campbell et al. 2010).
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|Critically Endangered B1ab(iii) ver 3.1
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|IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group
|Cox, N.A. & Bowles, P.
|Angulo, A., Vásquez-Almazán, C., Rovito, S. & Papenfuss, T.
Listed as Critically Endangered on the basis that its extent of occurrence, though unquantified, is certainly less than 100 km2 and it occurs as a severely, and increasingly, fragmented population as a result of the continuing decline in the extent and quality of forest habitat, which now occurs only as isolated patches within the landscape in the northern portion of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes.
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|This species is currently known only from three sites (separated by 7.5 km) in the northern region of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala, ranging from 2,652 to 2,799 m asl (Campbell et al. 2010, T. Papenfuss pers. comm. February 2011, S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011), although the elevational limits are not known with accuracy (S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011). While its range is almost certainly larger than that covered by the known sites, given reasonably large areas of forest in the vicinity of the type locality, it is unlikely to occur outside a small portion of the northern Sierra de los Cuchumatanes (S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011). The known sites are in a straight line along a road, and are at similar elevations in similar habitats, presumably connected by continuous forest in the past, although no longer connected (S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011). Its extent of occurrence, though unquantified, is estimated to be less than 100 km2.
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|Six specimens were found in approximately two hours of search effort, which would suggest that the species may be common within its small range (S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011). It was last seen January 2009 (S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011).
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|It occurs on mountain slopes covered by small remnants of primarily hardwood (pine-oak) forest, which is drier than the forest at higher elevations or on opposing slopes of the mountain range (Campbell et al. 2010, T. Papenfuss pers. comm. February 2011). Individuals can be found in bromeliads 3-10 m above the ground (Campbell et al. 2010). This salamander is believed to be restricted to these pine-oak forests (T. Papenfuss pers. comm. February 2011). It is presumed to breed by direct development.
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The habitat at the type locality is now degraded, being primarily impacted by small-holder farming (mostly corn fields), timber and firewood harvest by local people (T. Papenfuss pers. comm. February 2011, S. Rovito pers. comm. March 2011); habitat destruction was ongoing as of January 2009 (S.Rovito pers. comm. March 2011).
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|The community of San Mateo Ixtatán owns a patch of forest where this species is found, and community authorities are currently interested in the preservation of this area (T. Papenfuss pers. comm. February 2011).An ongoing project focusing on the threatened amphibians of Guatemala spearheaded by Toledo Zoo and University of California at Berkeley, with the participation of the Museum of Natural History of the University of San Carlos, is recording temperatures at the site near San Mateo, to assess temperature fluctuations and variation (C. Vásquez-Almazán pers. comm. March 2011). The Museum and non-governmental organization FUNDAECO are seeking to promote the inclusion of the site into a System of Conservation Areas in the north of Huehuetenango (C. Vásquez- Almazán pers. comm. March 2011). Preservation of the only known remaining habitat is a priority for this salamander's conservation. Further research is needed on this species' distribution, population status and natural history.
Campbell, J.A., Smith, E.N., Streicher, J., Acevedo, M.E. and Brodie, E.D. 2010. New salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from Guatemala, with miscellaneous notes on known species. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 200: 1-60.
IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 30 June 2017).
|IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2011. Dendrotriton chujorum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T194310A8890889. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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What parent of a young child has not experienced the stinging shame of seeing her sweet toddler — who knows all too well that sharing is the right thing to do — yank a favorite toy from a playmate and retreat to a corner where he can have it all to himself?
Take heart, a new study finds. Your admonishments to share have been heard and absorbed. It's just that, at ages 3 and 4, a typical toddler hasn't yet developed the moral decision-making skills that align his behavior with what he knows is right.
In children who are 5 or 6 years old, that moral compass is still a work in progress, according to the study. But by 7 or 8, even the most covetous kid will probably have learned to weigh "I should do the right thing" more heavily than "I really, really, REALLY don't want to share."
The study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, set out to explore the development of children's moral decision-making. Researchers quickly focused on toddlers' long-observed and much-bemoaned penchant for claiming coveted items for themselves.


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Another View: Mass. provides a warning about expanding Medicaid eligibilityBY JOHN STEPHEN
February 13. 2013 5:41PM
In 1989, Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This law says that states that choose to accept IDEA funding are mandated to provide numerous special education services. However, it has resulted in a broken promise that New Hampshire seems ready to repeat.
IDEA suggested that if states took federal funds, and the mandates that go with them, they would receive roughly 45 percent of their special education costs. Here in New Hampshire, with more than 20 years' experience with the program, the federal reimbursement has never exceeded 20 percent. It was a classic Washington bait and switch.
This example of broken promises that hands state taxpayers the bill for big government spending initiatives becomes an important lesson as the folks in D.C. plan to push another soon-to-be unfunded mandate onto the Granite State. The issue in play now is Medicaid expansion, and thanks to a Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, states now have a chance to make their own choice before walking into the budgetary buzzsaw that comes with this program.
Just like IDEA, the federal government has promised large amounts of upfront money to states that bite on the lure of "free" federal money. The political expediency of covering numerous working and middle class residents with government-funded health care to reduce the number of uninsured makes it seem like an irresistible opportunity for New Hampshire to do "good" without initially requiring any state taxpayer money, as if federal taxpayer funds don't come out of the wallets of our very same residents.
While IDEA gives us insight into how the federal government treats its "partners" in providing services, there is a template for Medicaid expansion, and it's right next door. In Massachusetts, the Legislature expanded Medicaid in 2006, and like in Obamacare, they also required all residents to have health insurance or be penalized, so the Bay State should show us how Medicaid expansion would work out here.
To suggest that Medicaid expansion has been a financial disaster in Massachusetts might be an understatement. In 2006, when the law was implemented, Medicaid represented 25 percent of the state's budget. Now, thanks to this "reform" effort, that figure has grown to a staggering 41 percent, with little chance of relief in sight. That is despite slashing Medicaid reimbursement rates to providers over the past few years to balance an already fragile budget, which in turn means that hospitals, doctors and clinics then have to jack up the rates charged to private health insurance plans, making Massachusetts' already high premiums skyrocket even further.
In part to cover this massive growth in Medicaid spending, Gov. Deval Patrick has proposed a $1.9 billion tax hike, including a 19 percent increase in the state's income tax. However, what should not be lost in this history is that if Medicaid spending has increased its share of the state budget in Massachusetts by 16 percent, other areas have suffered as a result.
A review of that state's budget shows this stark reality. In inflation-adjusted dollars, spending on highways, public safety and education has dropped over the past six years. Setting a budget is about choices, and Massachusetts has chosen to spend its resources on Medicaid and not other priorities.
New Hampshire faces a similar policy question. We must choose whether we want to provide government health care for middle class residents; fund our schools, road and police or keep our taxes low. As a policy matter, we get to pick only two of the three, and if Massachusetts is a lesson, if we expand Medicaid, that could be to the detriment of both other options.
Some state leaders, like Gov. Maggie Hassan and Speaker Terie Norelli, have said they want to implement this part of Obamacare. Unsurprisingly, both in the past have advocated for an income tax in New Hampshire. Expanding the state's Medicaid program would give them a chance to get both of their wishes.
I hope that during this important session New Hampshire's Legislature will block the state from following Massachusetts' ill-fated path to expand Medicaid. We'll be glad to take their tax refugees and businesses that can no longer afford to stay there. The real answer for lowering our health care costs is not expanding a government- run program, but providing for real competition and true cost transparency, and giving consumers meaningful choices.
John Stephen is managing partner of the Stephen Group, a business consulting and government solutions firm in Manchester. A former commissioner of the state Department of Health and Human Services, he was the 2010 Republican nominee for governor.


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Dickie Newbrey, 69 - February 18, 2009
Dickie "Bub" C. Newbrey, 69, of Eustis died Feb. 16, 2009, at his home after a courageous battle with cancer.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, Feb. 19, from 4 until 8 p.m. at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel.
Funeral services will be held on 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 20, at the Banner United Methodist Church southwest of Gothenburg with the Rev. Janie Freeman officiating.
Burial will take place in the Peckham Cemetery southwest of Gothenburg.
Newbrey was born on Sept. 8, 1939, to Grover and Lucille V. (Allen) Newbrey at Cozad. He grew up in Cozad attending Cozad Public Schools.
He worked various jobs as a ranch hand but most of his working days he spent working at hay mills and driving truck.
On Aug. 9, 1958, Newbrey married Arleen DeLosh at Cozad. To this union four sons were born: Alan, Jerry, Brian and Jesse. Newbrey and his family moved to Oklahoma City to be closer to his brother Ted. After about four years they moved back to Cozad.
Newbrey enjoyed music, his family said, playing in country music bands for about 12 years; six of those years he was able to play with his brother. He played the rhythm and bass guitar, drums and sang.
He loved to visit his brother in Arkansas and go trout fishing. He always enjoyed spending time with his boys, according to the family. They enjoyed hunting birds and deer. Newbrey always enjoyed camping and fishing as a family.
?He is preceded in death by his parents, his son Alan, brother Ted, great-granddaughter Marisa, brother-in-law John DeLosh and his mother and father-in-law.
?Newbrey is survived by: his wife of 50 years Arleen of Eustis; three sons—Jerry (Clara) Newbrey of Wheatland, WY; Brian Newbrey of Eustis; Jesse L. Newbrey and special friend Connie Jenner of Gothenburg; brother Steven Newbrey of Melburn, AR; two sisters—Anna (Archie) Chaves of Cozad; Lyla (Robert) Sabin of Del City, OK; two sisters-in-law—June (Jim) Sabin of Gothenburg; Lois (Dennis) Beran of Grand Island; brother-in-law Richard (Kay) DeLosh of Grand Island; eight grandchildren—John, Dan, Shiloah, Chris, Sarah, Shawn, Casey and Adam and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be directed to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blasestrauser.com
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SOLIDWORKS World 2018: New SOLIDWORKS Experiences For The 3DEXPERIENCE
February 8th, 2018 by Jeff Rowe
This week was the 20th edition of SOLIDWORKS World and I think I've been to 17 or 18 of them. Some have been great, some not so great, but every one has provided something interesting that makes the company and its impact on the MCAD community stand out. This year was no exception as it had several significant announcements.
The theme for this years SOLIDWORKS WORLD was "Think," which was a good idea but was really more about "experience," as in 3DEXPERIENCE which is the mantra of Dassault Systemes, and not so much about specific software products. The various experiences that were discussed ranged from 3DEXPERIENCE Design Services to the 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace|Make that include Socual Collaboration and PLM services. I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around all of this because there was little discussion on what all this means and how it's all tied together, but it's an interesting direction that I'll continue to explore and try to understand.
Dassault Systems 3DEXPERIENCE platform continues to play an increasingly prominent role at the annual SOLIDWORKS event, although this is SOLIDWORKS World, not Dassault Systemes Universe. That aside, I heard SOLIDWORKS and CATIA mentioned a couple times in the same sentence on the stage during the event — a first for me.
However, things got much better as the conference commenced in earnest with classes and the exhibition floor in full swing.
SOLIDWORKS World 2018 Day 1 Highlights
Not to be left off the Internet of Things (IoT) bandwagon, SOLIDWORKS is also making a strong charge into this market by including design elements from SOLIDWORKS mechanical, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, and SOLIDWORKS PCB. During the conference, Seebo announced a SOLIDWORKS add-in for manufacturers to plan and deliver smart, connected products. As a new certified Gold Partner for SOLIDWORKS, theSeebo add-in for SOLIDWORKS lets users transform existing 3D product designs into a visual model of the entire IoT system, and get auto-generated specs, simulations, and analytics to make products IoT connected.
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Get Ready For SOLIDWORKS World 2018!
February 1st, 2018 by Jeff Rowe
It's almost time to head to Los Angeles for SOLIDWORKS World 2018 and for many attendees, it will be a welcome relief from winter weather. This year will mark the 20th event and more than 5,000 attendees are expected.
For us, SOLIDWORKS World is all about people, products, and exchanging ideas — reacquainting ourselves with old friends and meeting new ones.
Conference Theme: Think!
Every day of SOLIDWORKS World starts with a general session with speakers that range from engineers, to industry leaders, to SOLIDWORKS executives and partners on their visions, perspectives, and ideas that provide a present and future context for the company and industry.
Day 1 – THINK: Future
The first general session is focused the future from several different perspectives. While SOLIDWORKS has been keeping specifics of the general sessions secretive, we do know the session feature the following speakers: Gian Paolo Bassi, Bernard Charles, Kishore Boyalakuntla, Richard Doyle, and Neri Oxman.
Day 2 – THINK: Innovation
Day 2 's general session focuses on innovation whay it's obviously important and how to achieve it. There will be a little something for everyone, including "Wearable Robots That Help People Walk Again" presented by Kyoungchul Kong. The other speakers include Suchit Jain, Michel Jagemann, Suchit Jain, Kishore Boyalakuntla, and Brent Bushnell.
Day 3 – THINK: Next Is Now
The final general group session includes one of our favorite parts of the conference, a peek into possible SOLIDWORKS 2019 features and capabilities. It wraps up with speakers that include Suchit Jain, Kishore Boyalakuntla, Mark Schneider, Joseph Hiura, Robert Andrew Johnson, Kurt Anliker, and Gian Paolo Bassi.
New and Improved SOLIDWORKS Products
Several SOLIDWORKS products, both new and improved, will be showcased and demonstrated on the main stage, breakout sessions, and the exhibition floor. Some of the more significant include:
Although the flagship product has been out for a few months, with SOLIDWORKS 2018, the company says its design-to-manufacturing process provides the tools needed to implement a comprehensive design-through-manufacturing strategy, all inside the SOLIDWORKS environment. These tools let you work without having to export and import data from one system to another. With IP embedded in the 3D design model, and at the center of the model-based definition (MBD) process, and thanks to associativity, changes from design or manufacturing are automatically reflected in all related CAD models, CAM programs, drawings, and documentation.
Additionally, all the information for manufacturing, inspection, and simulation and verification is directly linked to the design, so it always reflects the current design iteration (which is always a good thing).
Some of the other major new and improved features for SOLIDWORKS 2018 include:
Inspection for MBD – With the enhancements in SOLIDWORKS 2018, you can now create inspection documentation directly from 3D models with Production Manufacturing Information (PMI), as well as from 2D drawings, PDFs, and TIFFs. SOLIDWORKS Inspection is now integrated with SOLIDWORKS PDM, and supports SOLIDWORKS part and assembly files (*.sldprt, *.sldasm), as well as non-native 3D CAD formats.
3D Interconnect – You can work with more file formats including ACIS, STEP, and IGES, and automatically update your design whenever new files are received. In addition, 3D Interconnect now supports internal file information like custom properties, materials properties and reference axes.
Working With Mesh Data – You can now work directly with mesh data as you would with surface or solid geometry. Combine, intersect, split, move/copy, cut with surface, and check for interference. In addition, you can quickly fit surface bodies to regions of mesh models.
Sheet Metal – SOLIDWORKS 2018 includes tab and slot features for self-fixturing of parts for welding. A normal cut feature ensures that clearances are included for manufacturing, and tools to easily create or flatten corners that include three bends.
Generative Design – SOLIDWORKS Simulation Topology Study tool can automatically optimize the shape of a design based on weight, function, and manufacturing criteria. You can improve performance or reduce product weight based on simulation and manufacturing constraints.
The SOLIDWORKS CAM rules-based technology enables you to integrate design and manufacturing, connecting design and manufacturing teams through a common software tool and 3D model. SOLIDWORKS CAM is an add-on to all versions of SOLIDWORKS CAD that lets you prepare your designs for manufacturability earlier in the development cycle. Manufacturing tasks that had to wait until a design was complete can now be performed concurrently with the design process.
SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard lets you quickly program individual milled parts and configurations without leaving the SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD environment. You have full access to defining rules within SOLIDWORKS CAM to create and build to company standards, as well as Tolerance-Based Machining (TBM).
SOLIDWORKS CAM Professional builds on the capabilities of SOLIDWORKS CAM Standard with increased programming capabilities. The additional features include High-Speed Machining (HSM), configurations, assembly machining, turning, and 3+2 programming to drive four- and five-axis machines.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize
SOLIDWORKS Visualize lets you leverage your 3D CAD data to create photo-quality content in the fastest and easiest way you can–from images to animations, interactive web content, and immersive Virtual Reality. Bring your products to life. SOLIDWORKS Visualize is the "camera" for your CAD data.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize is hardware-agnostic and can leverage one or many GPUs in a single machine or across a network, which dramatically increases rendering performance over CPU hardware.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Standard lets you produce photo-quality images for taking "photos" of 3D data, cutting costs, and accelerating time-to-market with compelling imagery.
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional lets you tell a deeper story with your CAD data by generating photo-quality imagery, interactive animations, 360-degree spins, and immersive Virtual Reality (VR) for communicating complex design details.
SOLIDWORKS Model-Based Definition (MBD) lets you define and organize 3D dimensions, tolerances, datums, notes, Bills of Material (BOMs), and other annotations; customize publishing templates for manufacturing, such as Part or Assembly Specifications, Request for Quote (RFQ), and Incoming Inspection Reports. You can also publish to widely accepted formats, such as eDrawings, STEP 242, and 3D PDF for clear 3D communications.
SOLIDWORKS MBD helps you define feature-based annotations in Parts and assemblies (DimXpert), and import 3D annotations from common CAD formats for more efficient design collaborations.
When there are too many 3D annotations, you can show and hide annotations automatically as a model rotates, capture comprehensive settings with 3D views similar to visual bookmarks, compare 3D annotation differences between revisions to capture subtle but critical differences, and reuse 3D views in 2D drawings when necessary.
SOLIDWORKS Xdesign
I don't know a lot about this product yet, but suffice it to say this could be a real cloud-based game changer for SOLIDWORKS.
SOLIDWORKS Xdesign combines ease of use with innovative design methodologies and cloud collaboration from inside your browser. Create parametric models and assemblies, or let Xdesign's Design Guidance suggest solutions. Share designs and collaborate through communities.
Being cloud-based, with no software to install configure or manage, you are always working with the latest version of Xdesign on all your devices.
With the single modeling environment, there is no need to worry about parts and assemblies. Top-down or bottom-up—Xdesign supports design needs and automatically creates a design structure.
When facing tough structural design challenges, Design Guidance can offer possible solutions. Simply provide the part connection points and force conditions and Design Guidance will give you insight into what your part should look like. Keep it as a guidance reference or use it in your model.
Not too much to discuss here yet, but a preview of what the future might hold will be presented the final day of the show during the morning's general session. More on this and what we might expect to see in the next release will be covered next week.
Partner Products
We'll be on the lookout for innovative companies, products, and services. Next week I will discuss what I considered to be "Best of Show" for hardware, software, and service.
Meet Us At SOLIDWORKS World 2018!
We'll be at SOLIDWORKS World 2018 in Los Angeles, February 4-7, 2018 conducting video interviews. If your company is interested and you haven't signed up yet, click on this link to schedule a video interview. If you have any questions, contact me at 719-221-1867 or email@example.com. Stop by and say "hello" during the conference in exhibit booth #302. Hope to see you there!
Point Clouds Moving Beyond Surface Representation To 3D Modeling
January 25th, 2018 by Jeff Rowe
For quite some time, I've been saying to my peers and detractors that 2018 might finally be the year the "cloud" takes off, whether we're talking storage in the cloud, CAD in the cloud, simulation in the cloud – whatever in the cloud. I also think that another "cloud" innovation that will get its just attention is the point cloud that will grow far beyond its traditional role for representing surfaces to becoming an integral component of 3D modeling and maybe even virtual reality.
So, exactly what is a point cloud? Technically, a point cloud is a data base containing points in a 3D coordinate system. A point cloud is a very accurate digital record of an object or space. It is saved as a (very) large number of points that cover surfaces of a scanned/sensed object. The points in a point clouds are always located on the external surfaces of visible objects, because they are the points reflected from scanned objects.
In a three-dimensional coordinate system, these points are usually defined by X, Y, and Z coordinates, and intended to represent the external surface of an object.
Point clouds can be created by several methods, including 3D scanners and photographs. These devices measure a large number of points on an object's surface, and often output a point cloud as a data file. The point cloud represents the set of points that the device has measured.
Reality Capture – Converting Photos Into 3D Models
The key factor in acquiring point cloud data is the access/visibility to scanned surfaces. It is important to remember, that point clouds are created with visible access to real objects. Regardless of the method of acquisition (scanner or photos). It is impossible to obtain points on the surfaces that are not visible from the position from which data is collected. This means that to cover entire objects, many scanning positions must be combined.
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Forging Ahead With Autodesk's Cloud-Based Development Platform, Developer Program, and Investment Fund
January 18th, 2018 by Jeff Rowe
In November, Autodesk announced several updates to its Forge platform, including new cloud application development tools, the Forge Application Framework, and several new investments at Forge DevCon, the company's event for Forge developers held immediately before Autodesk University.
Since its inception in December 2015, Autodesk claims that rapid progress has been made with adopters of the Forge Platform in changing both what and how things are made, and at transforming "the future of making things."
The cloud-based Forge Platform features APIs and SDKs developers can use to create design, engineering, visualization, collaboration, and other types of enterprise applications. The Forge developer program aims to bring together a community of cloud application developers by providing application development resources.
The Forge Program consists of three main components:
What is Autodesk Forge?
The Forge DevCon event is part of a comprehensive Forge developer program that provides learning, support, and business development resources for Autodesk's community of cloud developers. This community includes developers representing industries that include architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and manufacturing, as well as emerging areas such as augmented reality (AR), additive manufacturing (AM), and the Internet of Things (IoT). The majority of Forge developers are using multiple APIs to create services and solutions that fuel how software products are designed, built and used.
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Blockchain For The Manufacturing Supply Chain
January 11th, 2018 by Jeff Rowe
In 2017, bitcoin value surged from just under $1,000 at the beginning of the year to nearly $20,000 by mid-December.
While some industry leaders are skeptical of bitcoin, others are eagerly investing, confident in projections that bitcoin value will reach $1 million by the end of 2020. I don't know if I'd go that far, but then again, I'm no financial expert.
However, many financial pundits and industry observers see bitcoin's supporting technology, blockchain, as the true star with the greatest potential in coming years, and manufacturing could prove to be one of its biggest successes.
What Exactly Is A Blockchain?
According to Investopedia, "A blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Constantly growing as 'completed' blocks (the most recent transactions) are recorded and added to it in chronological order, it allows market participants to keep track of digital currency transactions without central recordkeeping. Each node (a computer connected to the network) gets a copy of the blockchain, which is downloaded automatically.
Originally developed as the accounting method for the virtual currency Bitcoin blockchains – which use what's known as distributed ledger technology (DLT) – are beginning to appear in a variety of commercial applications, including manufacturing. Currently, the technology is primarily used to verify transactions, within digital currencies, though it is possible to digitize, code, and insert practically any document into a blockchain, including those found in the manufacturing process. Doing so creates an indelible record that cannot be changed and the record's authenticity can be verified by an entire community (supply chain) using the blockchain instead of a single centralized authority.
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2018: The Year of MCAD Cloud Computing?
January 4th, 2018 by Jeff Rowe
For as long as I can remember, cloud storage and computing have offered two things – endless (unrealistic) promises and perpetual (unrealistic) growth. For some time that was true, but several things have occurred in the past couple of years that temper those claims and portend what may happen in the future for technology providers that become increasingly reliant on the cloud – reliability, accessibility, and security.
Cloud computing, or internet-based computing provide shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. From the beginning, it was intended as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.
Proponents have always claimed that cloud computing allows companies to avoid upfront infrastructure costs, and focus on projects that differentiate their businesses instead of on infrastructure. Proponents have also claimed that cloud computing allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, with improved manageability and less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust resources to meet fluctuating and unpredictable business demand. Cloud providers typically use a "pay as you go" model. This can lead to unexpectedly high charges if administrators do not adapt to the cloud pricing model. Even so, the potential for premium MCAD with minimal computing hardware cost make the prospect attractive and compelling.
To a large extent most of these claims have proven true, and I have been a proponent for many aspects of cloud computing, but there is also a downside – generally, you just don't need as many people to run and maintain a cloud-based organization.
A Conversation with Grant Imahara at Arm TechCon 2017
December 12th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Grant Imahara at the Arm TechCon 2017 Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
Grant is the celebrity engineer spokesperson for Mouser Electronics, the leading global New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor. Grant is an electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host. He is best known for his work on the television series MythBusters, where he designed and built numerous robots and specialized in operating the various computers and electronics that were utilized to objectively test myths. More recently, Grant has partnered with Mouser Electronics in launching its Empowering Innovation Together program, where he hosts webisodes and contributes blog posts and articles.
Grant visited our EDACafe exhibition booth at Arm TechCon for an interesting interview that covered many topics, including his relationship with Mouser Electronics.
Interview with Grant Imahara at Arm TechCon 2017
EDACafe: Can you discuss your relationship with Mouser Electronics and what you do with the company?
Grant I: I am Mouser's celebrity engineer spokesman, which is kind of funny because generally speaking, engineers are not the rock stars and don't often get the recognition we deserve for all the amazing things that we do. Mouser said, "Let's take a person who is a known face from TV, who is also an engineer and make them our spokesperson." So, here I am.
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The March Of Industrial Robots Continues
December 7th, 2017 by Jeff Rowe
If you think there are a lot of industrial robots out there, you're right. But, by 2019, more than 1.4 million new industrial robots will be installed in factories around the world – that's the latest forecast from a report published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
The number of industrial robots deployed worldwide will increase to around 2.6 million units by 2019. That's about one million units more than in the record-breaking year of 2015.
Broken down according to sectors, around 70 percent of industrial robots are currently at work in the automotive, electrical/electronics and metal and machinery industry segments. In 2015, the strongest growth in the number of operational units recorded was registered in the electronics industry, which boasted a rise of 18 percent. The metal industry posted an increase of 16 percent, with the automotive sector growing by 10 percent.
New Technology Enhances Industrial Robots
The US is currently the fourth largest single market for industrial robots in the world. Within the NAFTA area (US, Canada, and Mexico), the total number of newly installed industrial robots rose by 17 percent to a new record of some 36,000 units (2015). The leader of the pack was the US, accounting for three-quarters of all units sold where 5 percent growth was recorded. With a comparatively much smaller number of units, the demand in Canada increased by 49 percent (5,466 units), while that in Mexico grew by 119 percent (3,474 units). With a stable economic situation, it is expected that North America will see average annual growth of 5 to 10 percent in sales of robots through 2019.


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BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Finds Investors Bullish on Global Growth as They Look Beyond Fiscal Cliff
Optimism About Chinese Growth Reaches Survey High
Confidence in a recovering global economy is extending into 2013 as investor fears surrounding the fiscal cliff eased, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for December.
A net 40 percent of investors believe the global economy will strengthen in the year ahead, a rise of six percentage points month-on-month and double the reading two months ago. The number of investors viewing the U.S. fiscal cliff as the biggest tail risk has fallen to 47 percent, down from 54 percent in November. Despite this fall, however, the fiscal cliff remains the number one worry.
Emerging markets are the preferred region for the panel. Optimism about Chinas economy has reached the highest level recorded by this survey. A net 67 percent of the regional survey respondents say Chinas economy will strengthen in the coming year, up from a net 51 percent in October. A net 38 percent of asset allocators are overweight emerging market equities, double the level of Septembers survey.
The bulls are back in China, while policy makers elsewhere put bears onto the back foot. If the bulls are to claim a decisive victory, we need hard evidence that the economy is reaccelerating, Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research said. Growth expectations and positioning are converging to mid-range levels, but many still think earnings expectations are too high. When these concerns subside, its likely that cheap valuations of European stocks will attract global fund managers, said John Bilton, European investment strategist.
The number of asset allocators overweight U.S. equities has fallen since November. But allocations to the eurozone are outweighing U.S. allocations for the first time since November 2010. The net percentage of asset allocators overweight eurozone equities has risen to seven, up from a net 1 percent in November. In terms of sector, investors have maintained a broadly risk on stance allocations to cyclical sectors Consumer Discretionary and Industrials have increased, and the market is firmly overweight both. But the number one sector remains Pharmaceuticals.
Third successive month of rising sentiment towards corporate profits
The outlook for corporate performance has improved for the third successive month and more investors are calling for companies to raise capital expenditure. A net 11 percent of investors believe profits will improve in the coming 12 months a 22-point swing from October when a net 11 percent were forecasting lower profits.
Pessimism about corporate margins has lessened for the third successive month. The proportion of investors predicting worsening margins has fallen to a net 27 percent, down from a net 33 percent a month ago and a net 44 percent in October. Similarly, Decembers survey shows reduced skepticism over corporates ability to deliver double-digit profit growth. A net 37 percent believes global corporate earnings growth will be less than 10 percent, down from a net 52 percent in November.
A net 64 percent of the panel believes that companies around the world are under-investing, the highest reading in the history of the survey and an increase from a net 59 percent month-on-month. Investors are less worried about dividends and buybacks the proportion saying that payouts are too low has fallen to net 28 percent from a net 34 percent.
Emerging market corporates have consolidated their position as the panels favorite. A net 38 percent of investors say that Global Emerging Market equities have the best outlook for corporate profits in the coming year, up from a net 32 percent in November.
Japan sentiment rises at home and globally
Global investors caution towards Japan has eased, while domestic optimism has strengthened. The proportion of global asset allocators underweight Japanese equities has fallen to a net 20 percent, down from a net 34 percent a month ago.
A net 17 percent of the global panel would like to underweight Japanese equities in the coming year, but thats less than the net 30 percent taking that view in November. A net 90 percent of Japanese investors expect the economy to strengthen in the coming year, compared with a net 18 percent in November, while a net 81 percent is forecasting improved earnings in the coming 12 months.
Liquidity conditions improve
Investors say that liquidity conditions are at their best since May of this year. The proportion of respondents rating liquidity conditions as positive rose to a net 23 percent, up from a net 13 percent in November. This marks the third successive month of improving liquidity ratings and follows efforts to support market liquidity by central banks, including recent rounds of quantitative easing by the Fed.
Survey of Fund Managers
An overall total of 255 panelists with US$664 billion of assets under management participated in the survey from 7 December to 13 December. A total of 193 managers, managing US$503 billion, participated in the global survey. A total of 135 managers, managing US$305 billion, participated in the regional surveys. The survey was conducted by BofA Merrill Lynch Research with the help of market research company TNS. Through its international network in more than 50 countries, TNS provides market information services in over 80 countries to national and multi-national organizations. It is ranked as the fourth-largest market information group in the world.
BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research franchise covers nearly 3,500 stocks and 1,100 credits globally and ranks in the top tier in many external surveys. Most recently, the group was named Top Global Research Firm of 2012 by Institutional Investor magazine; No. 1 in the 2012 Institutional Investor All-Asia survey for the second consecutive year; No. 2 in the 2012 Institutional Investor All-China, All-Europe, All-Japan and All-Latin America surveys; and No. 3 in the 2012 Institutional Investor All-America survey. The group was also named No. 2 in the 2012 Institutional Investor All-America Fixed Income survey and in the 2012 Emerging Markets Equity and Fixed Income survey, covering Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Additionally, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was named the No. 1 Global Broker by Financial Times/StarMine, as well as ranked No. 1 in the U.S. and Europe and No. 2 in Asia. The group was also named No. 1 in Asia and No. 2 in the U.S. in the Wall Street Journal Best on the Street 2012 Analysts Surveys. The group was also the winner of the Emerging Markets magazines EM Research Global Award for 2010 and 2011.
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Suri Cruise is a Crying Cutie
Suri Cruise cries like a maniac after parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes strap her into a life jacket and take her for a dip in the water earlier this week in Sardinia, Italy.
Baby Suri looked flat out scared to death, holding mommy Katie for dear life. Tom, 45, and Katie, 28, also spent some fun in the sun, taking turns driving each other around on a jet ski.
Cruise has been was in Berlin, Germany filming his new WWII movie Valkyrie.
Looks like Suri could use some of those chocolates right about now!


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Bernie Marsden is something of an unsung legend of British rock guitar. He's played with U.F.O, Paice Ashton and Lord, written/collaborated with Joe Bonamassa, and famously played with Whitesnake 1978-'82.
Alongside him all the time has been the 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard that he calls The Beast. Numerous tracks have been recorded on this fabled guitar. Whitesnake's massive hits "Fool for Your Loving" and "Here I Go Again" were written and recorded on The Beast.
Now, The Beast is back as #8 of Gibson Custom's Collector's Choice™ series. It's an exact replica of the guitar that helped Marsden make his name, and here Bernie explains the original and replica's colorful history.
When did you buy your '59 'burst?
"I got The Beast in 1974. I bought it from a guy I only met again recently. I went to the Classic Rock Awards in London, December 2012, and he came over to me. He said, 'you won't remember me, but I sold you that Les Paul, The Beast.' His name is Mark Henderson. And I do remember him, because his name is still on the scratchplate.
"After all these years, it was great to talk to him. At the time, it was just a great guitar. I was 22 or so, and it was a lot of money to me back then. I couldn't originally afford it, but he stalked me around – in a nice way – and we eventually did a deal. He brought it to (London venue) The Marquee when I was playing with the band Wild Turkey, and for the encore he was in the dressing room. I still don't know how he got in there.
"But, anyway, he gave me the guitar to play for the encore… All I remember is our organist saying afterwards, 'how much did you turn your amp up just then?' I hadn't touched my amp. The tone was stupendous, and so I had to buy it. I found the money somehow, trading other guitars. And to this day, it's never been more than an arm's length away from me."
And did he tell you the story about where it came from?
"He did, but only when we met in December 2012. He'd bought it from Andy Fraser of Free in the 1970s. And he said Andy had bought it from Paul Kossoff. And Paul Kossoff had bought it from Eric Clapton… there you go. But in those days, there was no big deal about all this. People were trading guitars between each other all the time. Back then, no-one cared about the provenance of guitars, you just wanted a great one."
Were you playing Les Pauls before?
"Oh, yeah. I had a few when I was with UFO and then with Wild Turkey. The one I traded to get The Beast was a black Custom. I'd kinda Peter Frampton-ized it, with cream pickup surrounds. The cream surrounds were original, I believe, so they themselves are probably worth about 10 grand now. But that's what I traded to get The Beast."
When did you first start playing it regularly?
"With Cozy Powell's band, Hammer. Cozy, of course, had played with Jeff Beck and Cozy liked The Beast because it looked like Jeff's early 'burst. And Jeff came to a gig Hammer played. Jeff immediately said when he saw and heard it: 'is that Eric's?' I just said, 'it might have been.' I didn't know."
But there were rumors for a long-time that The Beast and Eric Clapton's Beano Les Paul were, in fact, the same guitar?
"Mark Henderson had told me, back in 1974, that he thought there was a Clapton connection with the guitar. But I knew it couldn't be the one. The Beano Les Paul was stolen, and was a '60, according to Eric. The Beast is a '59, and had never had the pickup covers removed. It's got a fatter neck, so wouldn't be a '60. So it wasn't the Beano Les Paul. But it did have that Clapton connection, as I only found out in December 2012. But it's always been a strange rumor. Whenever I play something off the Blues Breakers album, people always say – 'that sounds like Eric Clapton's guitar.'
It's another faded finish. Was it always like that?
"When I first got it, it was more cherry. There's video of Whitesnake on the BBC. If you can find that, you can see it more in its original form. It just seems to have faded over the last 20 years… almost beyond recognition from when I first got it. Then again, I've had it 40 years.
Has the original Beast served you well?
"Oh, yes. The first thing I recorded with it was "Na Na Na," Cozy Powell's single which was Top 10. I did a lot of sessions in the '70s, including Hot Chocolate singles. The Beast is on all those, including "You Sexy Thing."
"You can hear it really well on the first album I did with Babe Ruth, on the album Stealing Home. And later, of course, I joined Whitesnake. And I wrote "Here I Go Again" and "Fool For Your Loving" on that guitar. I've played The Beast on more songs than I can remember, as well as every gig going."
Do you still play the original Beast?
"I do. But who plays it most is Joe Bonamassa! Whenever he plays the U.K. he has charge of it, from the moment he wants it. I keep it safe, now. I play it in the studio regularly, but Joe's always been very nice to me over the years so he is always welcome to borrow it. And I love hearing him play it. Obviously, I've rarely heard someone else playing it – it's usually in my hands. So to hear Joe Bonamassa play it, when I can just listen, is great. After all these years, I got to hear the guitar properly. Joe always says, 'Man, that thing is sick.' It does sound amazing."
What's special to you about The Beast?
"If I knew, I'd have been building them for years! It's a 'mojo' thing, guess. I've got quite a few Les Pauls and they all play and sound great, but this one is something else. I'm lucky. I have many friends who have '58s, '59s or whatever, which always sound great… but they always say mine sounds fantastic."
How did you feel about Gibson wanting to make a Beast replica?
"It was quite emotional, actually. Being in the Gibson factory and seeing people hand-carving my guitar, with all my dings in it… I was taken back to when I was 15, sending away to get Gibson catalogs. And here I am, excited, at my age! It was a bit like seeing your child graduate, or something like that."
And you must have A/B tested the Custom Collector's Choice™ with the original Beast?
"Of course. It's as close as it can be. If anything, there's a bit more tone on the replica with the modern pickups… and my original '59 is now an old guitar, and I think it's unique anyway. I've played many other '59 originals that are not quite the same. But the look and feel of the Gibson Custom is spot on, astonishingly so. Gibson have done a great job on this.
"There's a screw missing, for example, out of the jackplug socket on my Beast. It never bothered me. But the replica is exactly the same – only three screws! But, I think, you get a spare screw in the case, also! Lovely detail.
"I'll be taking the repilcas out on the road, don't worry. It's a great guitar. I'm knocked out by the whole thing. Credit to Joe Bonamassa for keeping The Beast alive. After he played it a few times, he was saying on his website 'I've just played one of the greatest Les Pauls ever.' And he was onto Gibson to help this all happen. So thanks to Joe for all this.
"I'm just honored to be part of a small club of Collector's Choice™ players. I'm #8, and that's good enough for me. Billy Gibbons is apparently looking out for one. He said, 'maybe The Beast and Pearly should get married,' haha!"
Bernie Marsden – with The Beast on-hand – is currently recording a new album at Abbey Road Studios in London.
Updates on his career from BernieMarsden.co.uk.
Find out more about Collector's Choice™ #8 1959 Les Paul "The Beast" here.


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Robert Pattinson: Fan Reveals Actor's Location In Australia — New Pic
Rob may be trying to hide from the paparazzi while in Adelaide, Australia, but a fan just gave away his location — against his wishes! See the pic.
Robert Pattinson is one hot commodity. The sexy Brit is busy filming The Rover in Australia, but he still manages to find time for his fans! Unfortunately, Rob's generosity may come back to bite him in the rear end!
Trance Tyler, a fan who ran into Rob while filming, tweeted a series of messages, saying, "Sitting on the footpath watching Robert Pattinson and his crew film his new film The Rover. Got pictures with Robert Pattinson, he was drinking a beer and we had a chat with him for about 30 minutes! He is so down to earth. Rob asked that we keep [the pictures] off the [internet] for a few weeks to help against the [paparazzi] sorry. He asked me not too post them."
Trance seems like such a nice fan! That is, until R-Patz, 26, fans went ballistic and accused him of lying. Putting his integrity before his respect for Rob, Trance ended up posting the photo and revealed where Rob is currently filming — in Adelaide, Australia.
"Okay, I'll post one [photo] with him and my sister just to prove it to you guys. OK, the Rob thing is getting a little out of hand. Please calm down, people. He is filming his new film The Rover in the town I live in, in Australia. The other night, me, my mum and sister were walking home from the pub and ran into him out the front, eating and having A beer. We stopped and chatted and got two pictures with him. He asked us to try and keep them off of [Facebook] to not cause issues with the [Paparazzi]. So I've posted a picture to prove it and that's it haha, they are filming for three nights in the main street."
This is why we love Rob. He took the photo even though there was a chance the fan would post it on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets — which he did. Rob is such a lover of his fans.
Heck, at least Kristen Stewart, 22, will know where to find him!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Was it wrong for this fan to post the photo?
Watch: Kristen Stewart Has More Chemistry With Jim Sturgess Than Robert Pattinson
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The Halsewell was one of the East India Company's grand merchant ships. Its logbook reveals fascinating details about life on board the ship: men overboard, repairs and cleaning jobs, deaths and punishments, treacherous weather conditions. One of its pages records an incident in which Captain Nelson forces the ship to anchor, and proceeds to poach the Company's experienced sailors, recruiting them into the Royal Navy.
During its lifetime the East India Company sent its trading ships on thousands of journeys around the world. Crews of hundreds lived on board in cramped and unhygienic conditions. The crew members all slept below deck, and lived on a poor diet. But the greatest danger to the seamen was shipwreck. About one in twenty of the Company's ships was wrecked or lost at sea. Considering the distances they travelled, this is not very surprising. The


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Rubik's 7x7x7 Cube
From Alexandre Borovik I find this video of someone solving the "order seven" Rubik's Cube.
I'm not about to sit down and work up a solution like we did before, but it shouldn't be impossible to repeat the same sort of analysis. I will point out, however, that the solver in this video is making heavy use of both of our solution techniques: commutators and a tower of nested subgroups.
The nested subgroups are obvious. As the solution progresses, more and more structure becomes apparent, and is preserved as the solution continues. In particular, the solver builds up the centers of faces and then slips to the subgroup of maneuvers which leaves such "big centers" fixed in place. Near the end, almost all of the moves are twists of the outer faces, because these are assured not to affect anything but the edge and corner cubies.
The commutators take a quicker eye to spot, but they're in there. Watch how many times he'll do a couple twists, a short maneuver, and then undo those couple twists. Just as we used such commutators, these provide easy generalizations of basic cycles, and they form the heart of this solver's algorithm.
Alexandre asked a question about the asymptotic growth of the "worst assembly time" for the cube. What this is really asking is for the "diameter" of the th Rubik's group . I don't know offhand what this would be, but here's a way to get at a rough estimate.
First, find a similar expression for the structure of as we found before for . Then what basic twists do we have? For we had all six faces, which could be turned either way, and we let the center slices be fixed. In general we'll have slices in each of six directions, each of which can be turned either way, for a total of generators (and their inverses). But each generator should (usually) be followed by a different one, and definitely not by its own inverse. Thus we can estimate the number of words of length as . Then the structure of gives us a total size of the group, and the diameter should be about . Notice that for this gives us , which isn't far off from the known upper bound of quarter-turns.
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To answer Borovik's question — I think the answer, for large n, is something like Cn2/log(n). I may try to explain this in more detail but the computation's kind of confusing.
But to give a sketch: to estimate |G_n| sufficiently precisely to get the sort of estimate you're looking for (which really is not that precisely at all), you have to consider:
– first, the orbits of indidivudal cubicles under the action of the various generators of the group;
– second, the orientations that cubicles within each orbit can take.
For example, in your previous analysis there are eight corner cubicles, which can be placed in the eight corner spaces in 8! different ways; there are then 38 ways to orient them.
Then there's a factor that we have to divide by (12 in the n = 3 case) which is the number of orbits that you mention here. I'm assuming this factor doesn't grow too quickly with n, for no good reason.
It turns out that for large n, "most" of the multiplicative factors in the upper bound one obtains for |G_n| in this way come from cubicles which are in the interior of one face or another, and not on any of the symmetry planes of the cube. In particular, there are roughly n2/8 different orbits of face cubicles; each of them is of size 48. So the number of possible positions |G_n| is in some sense "like" (48!)^(n^2/8); so log |G_n| is n2 times a constant. The log n in the denominator comes from the fact that your estimate of the denominator is the base-O(n) log of |G_n|.
The constant C which I mentioned above is log(48!)/8, which is about 18 if you use natural logs — but don't try to test it on known results for n = 3, because the 3-by-3-by-3 cube looks nothing like the general case. In the traditional cube the faces have no interiors!
This might turn into a post on my blog… but I've really got other, more important things I should be writing about!
Comment by Isabel Lugo | February 20, 2008 |
The 2008 Abel Prize has been awarded to Thompson and Tits:
The announcement specifically mentions Rubik's Cube as an example of the utility of symmetry groups.
I see the award to Tits— for his theory of buildings, which in a sense realizes the other half of Klein's proposed duality between groups and geometries— as further evidence of a resurgent appreciation of the importance of Klein's legacy.
Chris Hillman
Comment by Chris Hillman | March 27, 2008 |
[…] Abel Prize As Chris Hillman just pointed out in a comment, the 2008 Abel Prize went to John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits "for their profound […]
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Where can I get this cube "Rubik´s 7x7x7????
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The benchmark 10-year note yield rose two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 2.145% at 10:22 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. It climbed to 2.29% on June 11, the highest since April 2012. The price of the 1.75% note due in May 2023 declined 1/8, or $1.25 per $1,000 face amount, to 96 1/2.
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