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Wall Street Journal:
FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny — WASHINGTON—A federal agent who launched the investigation that ultimately led to the resignation of Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus was barred from taking part in the case over the summer due to superiors' concerns …
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire: The Petraeus Scandal Takes a Turn for the Shirtless
Michael Kelley / Business Insider: FBI Agent In Petraeus Case Removed After Allegedly Sending Shirtless Photos To The 'Other Woman' Jill Kelley
Kim Zetter / Wired: Email Location Data Led FBI to Uncover Top Spy's Affair
Taylor Berman / Gawker: An FBI Agent Sent Shirtless Photos of Himself to Jill Kelley, and Other Ridiculous New Details …
Ed Krayewski / Hit & Run: FBI Investigation Leads to CIA Director's Resignation; Nothing to See Here!
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Report: FBI agent who investigated Broadwell sent shirtless photos to other woman in case …
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: FBI Agent Was Barred From Petraeus Email Investigation After Allegedly Sending Shirtless Photos
Imani Gandy / Angry Black Lady Chronicles: FBI Agent Investigating Petraeus Scandal Under Investigation Himself
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Petraeus Scandal Takes a Serious Left Turn
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport: The FBI has some explaining to do
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Why FBI Kept Petraeus Affair From White House — The FBI withheld its findings about Gen. David Petreaus' affair from the White House and congressional leaders because the agency considered them the result of a criminal investigation that never reached the threshold of an intelligence probe, law enforcement sources said today.
Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS and Scared Monkeys
Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
WATCH: Paula Broadwell's Awkward Interview With Don Imus in January — IMUS: Is he married? — BROADWELL: He is married to Holly Petraeus, who is a wonderful Military spouse and done so much for their children and for children of fallen soldiers, I respect her immensely.
Discussion: Associated Press
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
PAULA'S EMAILS REVEALED — Broadwell's notes to Jill Kelley were full of 'cat fight stuff,' a source tells Michael Daly—but there were no overt threats, and Petraeus was barely mentioned. So why did the FBI jump in? — AFP / Getty Images (inset) Barbara Sax — DID BROADWELL LEAK SECRETS?
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run, Gawker, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, Via Meadia, Wired, Hot Air, National Review and ABCNEWS
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal: Broadwell and Benghazi — A sex scandal raises intriguing new foreign-policy questions.
Brian Doherty / Hit & Run: Why Was the FBI Doing the Investigation that Led to the Petraeus Affair Anyway?
Cord Jefferson / Gawker: Did an Anonymous Wikipedia Editor Try to Out the Petraeus Affair Back in January?
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Paula Broadwell's Emails Contained 'Cat-Fight Stuff,' Not Threats, Report Says
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: THIS IS ALL IT TOOK TO GET THE FBI TO TAP INTO A PRIVATE E-MAIL ACCOUNT?
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: Is Philandering A Security Concern?
Patrick Brennan / National Review: Justice Knew about Petraeus's Affair This Summer
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: The Cliff, The Negotiations And The Deadline (The Note)
AP Member Choice Limited / Associated Press:
Petraeus shocked at girlfriend's emails to friend — Leaders of congressional intelligence committees want to know more about the FBI investigation that led to David Petraeus resignation as CIA Director. — Ex-CIA director David Petraeus has told friends he was shocked to find that his biographer …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, New York Times and Wired
Echidne / ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: The Petraeus Puzzle
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: During affair, Paula Broadwell praised the 'wonderful' Holly Petraeus for aiding research
Brian Knowlton / New York Times: Lawmakers Question F.B.I. Handling of Petraeus Affair
Spencer Ackerman / Wired: How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus
Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Petraeus mistress may have revealed classified information at Denver speech on real reason for Libya attack
EXCLUSIVE: Petraeus mistress may have revealed classified information at Denver speech on real reason for Libya attack
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: The Confusing L'Affair Petraeus
Tom McCarthy / Guardian: Petraeus focus turns to Senate investigation
Fox News Insider: Former CIA Director: Petraeus' Mistress Wrong About Libyan Militants' Presence at CIA Annex During 9/11 Attack
Scared Monkeys: General Petraeus' Mistress Paula Broadwell Leaks Benghazi Secret Prison Inside US Annex ... She Would Know this How?
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport: Did Petraeus mistress reveal new Benghazi details?
Ann Althouse / Althouse: "Now, I don't know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually, um, had taken …
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller: The Central Intelligence Agency denied charges Sunday that its annex …
Scott Johnson / Power Line: All In, Benghazi edition [UPDATED with CIA denial]
New York Times:
Motives Questioned in F.B.I. Inquiry of Petraeus E-Mails
Motives Questioned in F.B.I. Inquiry of Petraeus E-Mails
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Verge, DCist, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CBS News and The Raw Story
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Behind the email trail that brought down General Petraeus
Jen Chung / DCist: Holly Petraeus "Not Exactly Pleased" With Idiot Husband's Affair Or His Crazy Girlfriend
Joel Engel / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: The Petraeus Timeline: Will We Ever Again Hear the Complete Truth About Anything?
Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story: Peter King: FBI may have been 'derelict' in Petraeus probe
NY Daily News:
Jill Kelley, social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base, is mystery woman Paula Broadwell harassed …
Jill Kelley, social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base, is mystery woman Paula Broadwell harassed …
Discussion: Gawker, Business Insider, Daily Download, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Poynter and BuzzFeed
Kim Bhasin / Business Insider: The Other Woman In The Petraeus Scandal Has Hired Some 'Very Expensive' Lawyers And Crisis PR People
Howard Kurtz / Daily Download: The Other Other Woman: David Petraeus Plot Thickens
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: David Petraeus's Patriotic Friend Will Help the Nation Through This
Matthew DeLuca / The Daily Beast: Scott Broadwell, 'Adventure Junkie' Husband of Alleged Petraeus Mistress
Caitlin Johnston / Poynter: Media blames itself for 'the cult of Gen. David Petraeus'
Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
Majority Leader Eric Cantor Knew of Petraeus Affair in October
Majority Leader Eric Cantor Knew of Petraeus Affair in October
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politico, Shakesville and Outside the Beltway
Josh Gerstein / Politico: Broadwell spoke of access to classified info
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Petraeus Affair: The Latest
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: FBI, DOJ Knew About Petraeus Affair For Months
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
'We the People' Petitions Filed in Nineteen States Seeking Permission to Secede from the Union — In the aftermath of last week's presidential election, residents in at least nineteen states have put up petitions on the government's "We the People" petitioning website seeking the right to secede from the rest of the country.
Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS: Texas Secession Petition to Obama
Chase Hoffberger / Daily Dot: 20 states petition the White House for secession
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo: Calling their bluff on secession, by @DavidOAtkins
David Martosko / The Daily Caller: Will Texas secede? Petition reaches 25,000 signatures, triggering White House review
Robert Wilonsky / Trail Blazers Blog: Rick Perry's office says he 'believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it'
William Teach / Pirate's Cove: White House Inundated With Secession Petitions
Byron Tau / Politico:
Secession petitions flood White House website
Secession petitions flood White House website
Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette and Outside the Beltway
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Some Respond To Election Results By Advocating Secession
After Obama Victory, A Petition For States To Secede On The White House Website
After Obama Victory, A Petition For States To Secede On The White House Website
Discussion: Hit & Run, DCist, The PJ Tatler and Naked Politics
J.D. Tuccille / Hit & Run: State Secession Petitions: Ticked-Off Americans Want Out
Benjamin R. Freed / DCist: Americans Petition White House to Allow States to Secede
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Texas Secession Petition Crosses 25,000 Signature Threshold
Associated Press:
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema beats GOP's Vernon Parker in Arizona's 9th Congressional District — PHOENIX — Former Democratic state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been elected to represent a new Phoenix-area congressional district, emerging victorious after a bitterly fought race that featured millions of dollars in attack ads.
Discussion: Arizona Republic, Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers, Poliglot, BobCesca.com, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Advocate, GLAAD and msnbc.com
Rebekah L. Sanders / Arizona Republic: Kyrsten Sinema said that she would be a moderate in Congress …
Emily Goodin / Ballot Box: OVERNIGHT CAMPAIGN: Five House races have yet to be called
Justin Snow / Poliglot: Krysten Sinema Becomes First Out Bi Member of Congress
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Kyrsten Sinema Victorious in Arizona House Race; Becomes 1st Openly Bisexual Member of Congress
Neal Broverman / Advocate: Kyrsten Sinema Becomes Nation's First Openly Bi Congresswoman
Gabriela Resto-Montero / msnbc.com: In Arizona, a bisexual congresswoman
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona House Seat, First Out Bi Member Of Congress
Discussion: Feministing and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Democrat Sinema wins Arizona House race
Democrat Sinema wins Arizona House race
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Prairie Weather
Alex Isenstadt / Politico: 5 House races still uncalled
Washington Post:
Obama considering John Kerry for job of defense secretary — President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Taegan Goddard's … and The Gateway Pundit
Press Pass:
White House Grand Bargain offer to Speaker Boehner Obtained by Bob Woodward — Below are documents obtained by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that show a grand bargain proposal the White House was prepared to make in order to reach agreement with the House Republicans last year.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Business Insider, The Incidental Economist, msnbc.com, Taylor Marsh and The Huffington Post
Lucas Kawa / Business Insider: Leaked Documents Show Obama Was Willing To Go Further For A Grand Bargain On The Debt Ceiling
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist: The grand bargain … I've posted them below.
Sarah Blackwill / msnbc.com: Lots of questions, few answers as fiscal cliff nears
Gaius Publius / AMERICAblog:
Leaked deal memo for last year's Grand Bargain: "Obama willing to go quite far"
Leaked deal memo for last year's Grand Bargain: "Obama willing to go quite far"
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, The Agonist and Suburban Guerrilla
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post: Fiscal Cliff Talks Will Likely Target Medicare, Social Security, Programs For The Poor
David Dayen / Firedoglake: Leaked Woodward Memo Offers Road Map on Grand Bargain
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Leaked deal memo from grand bargain talks show threat to Social Security, Medicare, safety net
Steve Hynd / The Agonist: Grand Bargain Blues
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Washington Memo: Legacy at Stake, Obama Plans Broader Push for Budget Deal
Washington Memo: Legacy at Stake, Obama Plans Broader Push for Budget Deal
Discussion: First Read, Reuters, Firedoglake, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, Washington Examiner, ABCNEWS and The Caucus
Mark Felsenthal / Reuters: Obama to meet labor, business leaders for fiscal talks
David Dayen / Firedoglake: Obama Plans to Hit Road With Oh-So-Popular Message of Cutting Social Security and Medicare
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: Boehner 'chastens' his caucus, his caucus demands no compromise
David Kerley / ABCNEWS: GOP Senator Says 'Put Politics Aside' to Avoid 'Fiscal Cliff'
Jada F. Smith / The Caucus: The Early Word: Strategy
Jake Miller / CBS News:
Romney earned zero votes in some urban precincts — President Obama's victory over Mitt Romney in last Tuesday's presidential election was driven, in part, by the president's strength in urban areas, where robust support cushioned the incumbent against electoral deficits in rural America.
Discussion: alicublog
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes
Similoluwa Ojurongbe / theGrio: Mitt Romney reportedly got 0 votes in 59 Philadelphia districts
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org: BREAKING: Romney Got ZERO Votes in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions! Zero!
Jesse Taylor / Wonkette: Fox Nation: Did Obama Voter Fraud All Of Philadelphia?
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Romney Got No Votes In 59 Philadelphia Precincts?
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
What's Going on With the Fiscal Cliff? — Zhang Jun/Xinhua/Zuma; Anton Reznikov/Shutterstock — Where did this whole "fiscal cliff" metaphor come from, anyway? — It's the handiwork of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, the same guy who warned us about a "global savings glut" in 2005.
Discussion: The Atlantic Online, FT Alphaville, American Prospect, Washington Monthly and Mother Jones
Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online: How Mitt Romney Can Save Us From the Fiscal Cliff
Cardiff Garcia / FT Alphaville: "Fiscal cliff" was smart branding until it was stupid; and other stuff
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: The Time Is Right to Get Rid of the Debt Ceiling
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: "Fiscal Staircase" Explained
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: The Fiscal Staircase Explained
National Enquirer:
CHER & THE MARRIED TV NERD — Photography by: Getty Images Entertainment — CHER has fallen for a new guy half her age - 33-year-old, married MSNBC broadcaster CHRIS HAYES. — The "Believe" singer, 66, has been gushing to friends about her huge crush on the nerdy rising cable star …
Discussion: Mediaite, Capital New York and The Daily Beast
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite: Cher Has A Huge Crush On Which MSNBC Host?
Justin Green / The Daily Beast: Chris Hayes is a Type?
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Allen West digs in — Florida Rep. Allen West has never been one to back down from a brawl — and he's not starting now. — The freshman tea party favorite is refusing to concede his hard-fought reelection campaign, despite vote tallies showing him trailing his Democratic challenger …
Jeff Wise / Gizmodo:
Exclusive: John McAfee Wanted for Murder (Updated) — Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is on the run from murder charges, Belize police say. According to Marco Vidal, head of the national police force's Gang Suppression Unit, McAfee is a prime suspect in the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull …
Discussion: Wired, Jesus' General, The Verge, The Agonist, The Other McCain, Mashable!, The Raw Story and New York Magazine
Joshua Davis / Wired: Murder Suspect John McAfee: I'm Innocent
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: When You're Down to Your Last $4 Million, Hallucinogens May Seem Fun
Seth Fiegerman / Mashable!: McAfee Antivirus Founder Wanted for Murder [REPORT]
Arturo Garcia / The Raw Story: Antivirus software developer accused of murder in Belize
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: Anti-Virus Founder John McAfee Wanted for Murder in Belize
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
GOP's Red America forced to rethink what it knows about the country — HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — She arrived early to take apart the campaign office piece by piece, just as she felt so many other things about her life were being dismantled. Beth Cox wore a Mitt Romney T-shirt …
Discussion: American Power, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Power Line, Washington Monthly and Shakesville
Donald Douglas / American Power: Red America Forced to Reconcile the Emerging Democrat-Secular Majority
Kaili Joy Gray / Daily Kos: Republicans still having a sad about America's decline into socialism and decay because Obama
BooMan / Booman Tribune: It'll Be Okay, Ms. Cox
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Here Are Some Fun Things to Read
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Romney Political Director: 'The Ground Game Worked Fine' — Rich Beeson, the political director for the Romney campaign, says that the problem wasn't the GOP get-out-the-vote efforts, but the astounding success of the Democrats to turn out groups that generally didn't vote in such large numbers.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The GOP's media cocoon — A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week's shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self defeating.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: The GOP's demographic problem — in 1 chart
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Politico: The GOP's suffering from "Pauline Kaelism"
Michael Walsh / National Review: Tirez Sur le Pianiste
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: The Conservative Political Media Complex
Bette Noir / Rumproast: Tax Cut Kabuki for Dummies
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Quote(s) of the Day: On the Conservative News Media's Politically Self-Destructive Alternate Universe
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard: Liberal Media Takes Aim at Conservative Media
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Politico wants conservatives to stop reading alternatives to Politico
The Lonely Conservative: Politico Thinks Conservatives Have A Fever And The Only Cure Is More Politico
Robert Stein / Connecting.the.Dots: Lessons from FDR's Reelection to Obama's
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: The Business of the Ideological Media Is Business
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Nearly 400,000 People Call On Macy's To Dump Donald Trump — A grassroots campaign for Macy's to end their association with Donald Trump has caught fire. Nearly 400,000 people have added their name to a petition on Signon.org for Macy's, which exclusively sells Trump's clothing line and fragrance …
Discussion: Addicting Info, Feministing, The Moderate Voice and Truthdig
Wendy Gittleson / Addicting Info: Sign Petition Asking Macy's To 'Dump Trump' (VIDEO)
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Petition Drive Gains Steam Demanding Macy's Dump Trump
George Skelton / Los Angeles Times:
GOP might never again hold power in California — After last week's bludgeoning, Republicans remain too weak to affect the legislative agenda and challenge Gov. Jerry Brown for reelection. — Allan Hoffenblum, a former GOP consultant who publishes the California Target Book, said …
Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Washington Monthly, American Power and PolitiCal
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: In California, Say Goodnight, GOP
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Jerry Brown To Replace California GOP?
Donald Douglas / American Power: Prop. 30 Won't Quench California's Big Government Thirst
Chris Megerian / PolitiCal: Skelton: California Republicans teetering on irrelevance
Robert Burns / ABCNEWS:
Panetta: Admin Deciding on Post-2014 Troop Levels — ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT OVER THE PACIFIC November 13, 2012 (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday the Obama administration is nearing a decision in the next few weeks on how many U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan …
Donovan Slack / Politico: Panetta signals he's staying on, at least for a while...
Ballot Access News:
Only Four U.S. House Elections in the Last Hundred Years Gave One Party a House Majority, Even Though the Other Major Party Polled More Votes for U.S. House — Some analysts have already looked at the U.S. House elections from last week's election, and determined that Democratic candidates received …
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Fix
Stuart Shapiro / Alan Colmes' Liberaland: Gerrymandering Matters — The 2010 elections were rightly celebrated …


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A New Day, A New SEOmozBlog Post: September 02, 2010
Just got back from holiday and thought I'd log into my favourite website and...WOW It's all changed. After the shock and realisation that I was in the right place :) I'm really taken with the changes.
A quick question though... its taking around a week for the data in a campaign to be populated. Will this always be the case or is it likely to speed up in the future.
Keep up the good work.

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Review of ZWCAD Mechanical
ZWCAD Mechanical is easy to install. It installs the vanilla ZWCAD+ version along with the Mechanical add-on. The ZWCAD Mechanical workspace is set up automatically by the installation, based on the default profile name zwcadm_ENU. The suffix (ENU = Europe, in this case) represents the localised environment where ZWCAD Mechanical is installed. Note that ZWCAD is a 32-bit application, and so might not take the full advantage of 64-bit computers.
ZWCAD Mechanical User Interface
The learning curve seems easy for operators already familiar with CAD environments. For instance, the graphical user interface and the function names are similar to those of AutoCAD; AutoCAD users would hardly require any training to get used to ZWCAD Mechanical.
In addition to the ZWCAD interface, ZWCAD Mechanical has a library of commonly used mechanical parts. The mechanical CAD-related functions are accessed from two specially designed ribbon tabs – Mechanical Design and Mechanical Drawing. See figure 1.
Figure 1: A sample project in ZWCAD Mechanical
The Design tab contains the functions related to drawing set up and other drawing representation entities, such as leaders, annotations, surface textures, weld symbols, and hole markings. The Mechanical Design tab also provides access to the BOM (bill of materials) function.
Functions on the Drawing tab are used to build up mechanical parts and to do additions or modifications, as necessary, including accessing its exhaustive library of mechanical parts. A variety of 2D views can be generated, according to the job requirements.
In addition to the ribbon, mechanical CAD related functions can also be accessed from tool bars; these can be customized to user preference.
To review the functions of ZWCAD Mechanical in greater detail, I decided to concentrate on the following areas:
The Parts Library
I was pleased to see that ZWCAD Mechanical comes with an exhaustive library of mechanical parts. The library has an interface that is easy to understand: on the left side, the explorer view lists all the parts available with ZWCAD; on the right hand side, the view shows the part dimensions. (See figure 2.)
Figure 2: The user interface of ZWCAD Mechanical, showing its parametric parts library
The preview window shows how the selected part looks in 2D. Many parts have more than one view associated with them, and so the user can choose which one to use.
There is a set of tabs along the bottom. This provides access to part descriptions, properties, and the scripts used to draw the parts in ZWCAD Mechanical. The bottom right side offers a very useful set of options of how to draw the part, such as setting the drawing scale and toggling the display of dimensions.
Once sent to the drawing, the representation stores the part's information in xdata. (Xdata = extended entity data, which stores information about entities in the entities – like attributes, but available only to programmers.) To edit the part, the user just double-clicks it; this action brings up the part library to edit any of the part's properties.
The Shaft and Gear Generators
There are separate parametric tools for build up shafts and gears; they are named Shaft Generator and Gear Generator, respectively. See figure 3 for a typical shaft designed with ZWCAD Mechanical.
Figure 3: A sample shaft drawn using Shaft Generator
With the Shaft Generator, the user builds up shaft parts of different lengths and diameters. There are options to specify chamfers and keyways. As data is entered, the built-up shaft can be previewed in the same dialog. (See figure 4.) Once the shaft is drawn in the drawing, it retains its properties and so to edit, the user double-clicks the part to invoke the same dialog. The user may modify the dimensions, as required to change sizes. This is a very useful tool, because change is quite normal during actual design and execution phases.
Figure 4: The Shaft Generator dialog box in ZWCAD Mechanical
The Gear Generator is partially parametric, building up different types of gears in a manner similar to what is available with the Shaft Generator. The only difference I found is that once the gear is drawn, double-clicking to edit it does not invoke the Gear Generator dialog box. This is because the generated gears' parameters are not saved; once gears are drawn, the only way to edit them is by editing their individual line and arc entities. It is probably faster just to erase the gear, and then go back to the Gear Generator dialog box to re-specify the options.
The Part Builder
Next to the Part Library control is an option labeled the Part Builder. When invoked, it lists parts commonly used in mechanical drawings, such as bolts, screws, and fasteners. This tool is used to quickly add relevant accessories to parts without the need to search through the entire part library or draw them from scratch.
A customizable tool palette is also available where users can add their own parts and entities for quick, drag'n drop addition to drawings.
Figure 5: A sample mechanical part drawn in ZWCAD Mechanical
I found that the easiest way to draw parts was to follow these steps:
It is important to note that none of these parts are drawn in 3D; rather, ZWCAD Mechanical produces 2D representations of mechanical parts, just like AutoCAD Mechanical. To get 3D objects, the user would have to use ZWCAD's native 3D commands, or else acquire ZWSOFT's ZW3D CAM/CAM software. For simple day-to-day work, these 2D representations should be sufficient, especially when used with the extensive Parts Library.
Overall, I found that creating and modifying parts with ZWCAD Mechanical was easy to learn and use. The part library is very effective in providing commonly-used mechanical parts. I could not, however, find any way to add custom parts to the library. The workaround would be to create my own ZWCAD blocks with attributes, and then reuse them.
Bills of materials can be generated from the drawing with proper part referencing. The BOM data can be exported to text files or to ERP systems using separate plug-ins.
Drawing Representation
ZWCAD Mechanical supports many commonly used drawing standards, such as ISO (international), ANSI (American), DIN (German), JIS (Japanese), and GB (Chinese). To support these standards, it has an exhaustive library of symbols, which can be accessed through the ribbon's Mechanical Drawing tab (see figure 6). Another option configures a variety of drawing representation styles.
Figure 6: Symbols Library provided with ZWCAD Mechanical
Once the drawing representation styles are set up, they can be readily used for representing individual elements, such as welds. For example, the weld representation for different instances of weld in the same drawing can be changed as per user requirement.
There are various representation styles available for commonly-required drawing entities, such as construction recesses, surface textures, break lines, and holes. (See figure 7.) These drawing representations are stored as xdata, and so the user can double-click them to edit the representations at later stages.
Figure7: Symbols displayed visually in ZWCAD Mechanical
There is a functiony for generating bills of materials, and then placing them in the drawing with appropriate annotations. (See figure 8.) These annotations can be customized, based on drawing requirements.
Figure 8: Sample bill of material inserted in a drawing
Drawing representations normally found in CAD, such as dimensions and leaders, are customized using the DimStyle function. A large number of dimension styles are included, of which users can choose to customize by modifying existing ones. See figure 9A and 9B.
Figure 9A: List of dimension styles provided with ZWCAD Mechanical
Figure 9B: Customizing dimension styles
Overall, a large number of options are available for users to customize and finish drawings as per their office's drawing standards.
One of the first questions that may well comes up in your mind is, "How does ZWCAD Mechanical compare to similar offerings from companies like Autodesk or Bentley?" A comparison table with AutoCAD Mechanical is provided by ZWCAD in their website. https://www.zwsoft.com/products/zwcad_mechanical.html#!tab=3.
Every software product has its own identity. Because Autodesk and Bentley were two companies that spearheaded CAD software on microcomputers, it is obvious to draw comparisons with their product lines. It is true that many of the features in ZWCAD Mechanical look and feel similar to AutoCAD Mechanical. With the training overhead being low for users migrating from other products, then the other big plus is the lower cost of the software package itself.
Design firms often rely on specialized vertical products built on top of CAD applications. There are a quite a number of partner products already available for ZWCAD Mechanical. You can view these at the ZWCAD Website, http://zwcad.org/zdn/plus/list.php?tid=7&keyword.
ZWCAD Mechanical performs adequately the job it is meant to do. ZWCAD has come a long way since its inception, and ZWCAD Mechanical is a mature product that can be used effectively for drafting 2D mechanical drawings.
Ron Green has written extensively about computer-aided design for nearly three decades. He was a professional engineer for a number of years and has his degree in engineering.
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Cazenovia High School artists' work on display at New Woodstock Library
New Woodstock >> Cazenovia High School Student art will be showcased in a month long exhibit at the New Woodstock Free Library located at 2106 Main Street (Route 13) in the hamlet of New Woodstock. A reception will be held at the library on Monday, March 25, from 7-8:30 p.m. The student art will be on display from March 18 to April 20.
The exhibit will feature Cazenovia student art entered in the Central New York Scholastic Art Awards event held recently at Onondaga Community College. The library has hosted the Cazenovia High School art exhibit for nearly two decades.
Eleven Cazenovia students won prizes in the 2013 CNY Scholastic Art Awards, which drew 4,600 works of art from around Central New York. The honorees included three Gold Key winners: Amara Kattrein, Courtney Parisou and Colleen Stalder. Silver Keys went to Kate Godiers and Tori Meade. And honorable mentions were awarded to Becky Marris (2), Courtney Parisou (2), Emily Willard, Abbie McEntee, Tori Meade (2), Rachel McLaughlin, Sarah Christiansen (2) and Morgan Croft.
In all, 32 Cazenovia students participated in this year's competition, submitting a total of 121 works of art. Of these, nine seniors submitted portfolios - eight-piece collections that represent their hard work, dedication and growth as artists throughout their Cazenovia careers: Becky Marris, Courtney Parisou, Tyler Dunkle, Emily Willard, Emily Murphy, Morgan Croft, Gaevin Froio, Sarah Christiansen and Sam Medbury.
Students who submitted individual work are: Kate Godiers, Amara Kattrein, Alexis King, Caitlin McCauley, Abbie McEntee, Rachel McLaughlin, Danielle Mevec, Danny Phillips, Julia Raleigh, Sydney Schnabl, Matt Mistur, Grace Wheeler, Colleen Stalder, Mitch McCullough, Tori Meade, Natalie Roszel, Alexis Simko, Gillian Brod, Jess McDonough, David Martellock, Delanie Spangler, Samantha Marti, and Brittany Doherty.
The Central New York region has conducted an annual Scholastic Art Awards program for more than 65 years. The Central region covers 13 counties and almost 400 eligible schools.
Gold Key winners' work will now go on to the National Scholastic Art Show.
The New Woodstock Free Library is open Monday through Friday 1-5 p.m., Monday and Wednesday evenings 7-9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.. The library is also open whenever the blue library symbol flag is flying out front. Children's hour is every Tuesday at 11 a.m.
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App Review: Notae Mihi by Pearapps
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December 22, 2010
Filed under General, Utility, iPhone Apps
Notae Mihi is the best replacement for the built in notes app on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
It provides many advanced features that the built in app does not have, such as tags, todos, passcode lock and a lot more.
Notae Mihi is hands down the best Notes and Todos app in the app store to date. It has an amazingly slick UI, that is fast and efficient and is very simple and minimalist, so anyone can use it well.
When you open Notae Mihi you are presented with three options. Notes, Todos, and Settings. In Todos it presents you with the list of todos that you have created. There is a pane for tags, new todo, and a special calendar view in which you can view all of the due dates of your todos in a special calendar view that looks similar to the built in calendar app. When you click the plus button up pops up a nicely designed view in which you can enter text for todo title, and it also lets you add a note to the todo. You can also add a date to the todo, by clicking "Add Date".
If you click the "Notes" option on the main screen you get presented with a screen similar to the todos page, but with your notes. A nice thing that is not included in the built in notes app is that the number of characters in a note is provided right next to the note title. This page also gives you an option to create a new note by tapping the plus button on the top right hand corner on the page. If you click on a note, you can edit your note. On the new or editing a note page, you have the option to send to email or you can add tags. Both of which I find very useful.
If you tap the settings icon in the bottom right corner, you get the settings screen which allows you to lock the app to portrait or to use the passcode lock.
Passcode lock is the killer feature in Notea Mihi, and it woks almost exactly like the built in device lock, but only asks you for your password when you launch the app (if you enabled the passcode lock).
Overall this app is defiantly a must have, especially only at 0.99$. Defiantly a 5/5 in my book.
What I like about the app: Very simple to use and includes a password lock unlike the basic notepad on the device!


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Langdon, Hagan, Jones, Krawiec Winners at Pomona
Langdon beat out Doug Kalitta in the final round of Sunday's 49th Annual Auto Club Nationals to claim his seventh win of the season, capping off his season just one day after clinching his first career Top Fuel title in the final event in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona .
Jeg Coughlin, Jr. clinched the Pro Stock title for his fourth NHRA championship, joining fellow 2013 champions John Force (Funny Car) and Matt Smith (Pro Stock Motorcycle) who clinched their titles in last month's event at Las Vegas.
Langdon's 2013 championship was the third in the last four seasons for Al-Anabi Racing, after winning the 2010 title with Larry Dixon and again in 2011 with Del Worsham.
Entering this weekend's event with a 102 point lead over defending champion Antron Brown, Langdon needed only to out-qualify Brown to clinch the title and managed to race to a second-place qualifying effort during Saturday's sessions, easily beating out Brown, who qualified fifth.
Not content to just rest on his laurels, Langdon showed up to win on Sunday, setting the low ET in two of the first three rounds with victories over Steve Torrence, David Grubnic and Clay Millican to advance to the money round for the tenth time this season.
Going up against Kalitta in the finals for just the second time in his career, Langdon was off the line first and never looked back, going 3.784 at 323.58 mph over Kalitta, who went 3.808, 323.04 but a car-length back at the finish line.
"This is the top of the cake this weekend," said Langdon. "It's an absolutely special weekend for everybody involved with Al-Anabi Racing. This is what I envisioned as a kid wanting to be a professional drag racer. When you're living a dream and being part of something special, it almost puts you at a loss for words. I'm very fortunate to be a part of a great team. I still have to keep pinching myself."
Jones, who has started in just 15 events this season, scored round wins over Matt Hartford, Greg Anderson and Buddy Perkinson to advance the final round for the first time this season and his first-career final round face off against Johnson, who was making his 44th final round appearance.
At the start of the finals, Jones hit a .015 light to get out front first and held it to the finish, running 6.584 at 210.28 mph over Johnson, who ran a quicker 6.581, 211.03 in a losing effort.
"Man, it was so emotional," Jones said. "You work for something so long, driving the race truck across the country, and keep beating on it. This is what I've always wanted since I was racing junior dragsters when I was 10. It seemed like it took forever for the win light to come on, and when it did, there were so many tears in my eyes that I almost couldn't see the turnoff road. To get my first win at the Finals at Pomona, which is one of the biggest races of the year, is really awesome."
Coughlin, who entered the weekend with a 71-point lead over Jason Line, clinched the title after Line lost out to Perkinson in the second round, ending up finishing 58 points ahead of Johnson, who managed to jump past Line in the final standings.
"In this day and age, it is so tough to win out here. We've seen a lot of races won and lost by just a few thousandths of a second," Coughlin said. "I think this is one of the tightest, and one of the most intense championships I've ever won. This ranks right up there with 2007 when we had the two cuts to the Countdown to One in the first year of our playoffs."
In Funny Car, Matt Hagan spoiled John Force's season-ending celebration with a victory over the newly-crowned 16-time champion in the final round, capping a month-long points battle between the two that has swung back and forth over the final three events in the Countdown.
Hagan, who lost the points lead to Force following Force's win at Reading in early October, beat out Alexis DeJoria, Johnny Gray and Cruz Pedregon to face Force for their fifth-career final round matchup. It was the 225th-career final round for Force and just the 24th for Hagan.
Despite hitting an identical .047 on the tree, Hagan pulled out in front at the 60-foot mark and led the rest of the way, taking the win with a 4.018 at 320.66 over Force's 4.057, 317.94.
The victory was the tenth-career NHRA victory for Hagan, who won despite the absence of crew chief Dickie Venables, who missed the race after being hospitalized earlier this week.
"I'm on cloud nine that our assistant crew chief stepped up and was able to fill some big shoes," Hagan said. "Dickie Venables was sick this weekend, and Mike Knudsen has never tuned a race car and had to jump in here, and there hasn't been a crew chief [from another team] up in our lounge. I mean, this guy has done a phenomenal job. It just shows you when something happens someone else can step up and take the reins and run with it."
Defending Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion Eddie Krawiec collected his second Wally of the season and 22nd of his career with a victory over Scott Pollacheck.
Making his sixth-straight appearance in the finals for this event, Krawiec rode his Harley-Davidson to a run of 6.918 at 192.41 mph over Pollacheck's Buell, which ran 6.963 at 193.57.
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Unitarian Universalists Witness for Peace, Economic Justice, and Marriage Equality During 2006 Election Season
The 2006 midterm elections blew winds of change through the U.S. Congress and the President's Cabinet, but for people of faith across the country, the elections were about issues of human dignity and civility. Unitarian Universalists (UUs) responded to the call for action and witness as they worked for peace, marriage equality (and against so-called "Defense of Marriage" state amendments), and worker justice in the days leading up to the election.
While the results weren't always what they hoped for, members of congregations involved in social witness on key issues made their voices heard in the media and in their communities while finding new synergies with other Unitarian Universalist congregations in their states.
In Colorado, Unitarian Universalist congregations worked to support a change in the minimum wage by backing Amendment 42. Rev. Jann Halloran, minister of the Prairie UU Church in Aurora, Colorado co-authored an Op-Ed piece which ran in the Denver Post speaking to the merits of the Amendment: "So often in life, decisions seem to be either economically or morally right, but not both. Amendment 42 is one of those rare occasions when both those goals unite in a single action. Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do for Colorado 's economy, and it is the right thing to do for Coloradans who work hard to support their families with dignity."
Minimum wage ballot initiatives were put to a vote in six states and won in all of them. UUs were also active in support of the initiatives in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio. The victories achieved in support of economic justice have brought new energy to the Let Justice Roll campaign, of which the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a participant.
Several UU congregations have become involved in an ongoing Declaration of Peace campaign, which seeks a nonviolent end to the war in Iraq. The Declaration of Peace campaign was endorsed at the 2006 General Assembly. Among those were the UU Fellowship of Bremerton, Washington, clergy and lay leaders from the greater Washington, DC, area, and the UU Church of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Dozens of UU congregations are continuing to show two excellent films on Iraq, "The Ground Truth" and "Iraq for Sale," are utilizing the Citizens Tool Kit from Win Without War, and the UUA Washington Office for Advocacy's Resource on Welcoming Veterans and Military Families in our Congregations.
UU Congregations in states where so-called "Defense of Marriage Amendments" appeared on the ballot were very active in working to educate the public and their legislators to the Unitarian Universalist Association's position in support of equal marriage.
State ballot amendments on marriage were voted on in nine states, and eight of the amendments passed—but the amendment on the ballot in Arizona (Proposition 107) failed—thanks to strong advocacy work by interfaith coalitions and public opposition by elder advocacy groups. All major newspapers in the state opposed the legislation, and UU congregations were also active in their advocacy against Prop 107.
In South Carolina, several Unitarian Universalist congregations went on record in opposing the state's constitutional amendment, and congregations in Beaufort, Charleston , Columbia, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Spartanburg joined a coalition of organizations working to defeat the legislation. The Unitarian Church in Charleston screened The Color of Fear 3 (a documentary exploring the fears, stereotypes, and moral issues that are dividing our country). The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Columbia was featured in an article on The State for their resolution against the amendment, saying it "will jeopardize the physical, emotional, legal and financial well being of same-sex couples and their children."
In Tennessee, the Oak Ridge and Westside (Knoxville) congregations took out ads to try and educate the electorate around the proposed constitutional amendment, while the Tennessee Valley (Knoxville) and Nashville congregations were active in local election organizing and education efforts. In Colorado, the Lafayette congregation took out an advertisement in the community's local voter registration guide.
In Beaufort County, the only opposition to the amendment came from the fifty-member Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort with Rev. Nan White providing leadership for her small congregation.
In Wisconsin, UUs witnessed with dedication against the proposed marriage amendment. The First Unitarian Society, based in Madison, expressed its opposition with a banner hung in front of their church.
In Virginia, the fight against the DOMA was ferocious, and UU congregations have been in the forefront of the opposition for years.
In Norfolk, UU Will Frank was featured in the local paper's coverage of grass roots opposition to the ballot amendment. "He may be a Unitarian, but on a sun-drenched autumn Saturday, Willard C. Frank Jr. carried a message door to door in Norfolk 's Colonial Place neighborhood with an evangelical's conviction" reported Steven Vegh in the Norfolk Pilot. The story continues, "Have you heard about the marriage amendment?" asked Frank, an active member of the Unitarian Church of Norfolk. "We think this is very discriminatory and breaks up families." Through screen doors and on front stoops, he encouraged residents to "consider voting 'No.'"
The Bull Run Unitarian Universalists were also active. Their banner promoting marriage equality was stolen in the days leading up to the election, and members of the congregation were then interviewed in a local NPR affiliate's coverage of opposition to the marriage amendment.
In Charlottesville, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church—Unitarian Universalist voted in August to oppose the proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution. Members of the church's Gay-Straight Alliance worked tirelessly to ensure that the issue was kept front and center in the congregation and the community. In late September, the congregation hosted a Day of Advocacy called "No, No, A Million Votes NO!" to provide training and a rallying point for opponents to the amendment. As one member of the congregation said, "I need you to speak in opposition to this amendment because I need you to feel the power that belongs to being an ally. I want you to enjoy the thrill of changing minds and hearts. You actually know gay and lesbian couples. We've sat in church with you, served on committees here, taught your children, furnished and enjoyed auction dinners, and attended your weddings and memorial services. And you have attended ours. Our kids have played with your kids. You know that the rhetoric about gays and lesbians and our alleged inability to remain faithful is simply a distraction from the utter lack of need and sheer inequity of this amendment."
The Rev. Leslie Takahashi Morris, co-minister of the Charlottesville congregation said, "The effort began what the church expects to be an on-going commitment as many members found their voice in witness."
In Massachusetts, marriage wasn't on the state ballot, but a Constitutional Convention which convened two days after the election to consider whether the state's equal marriage law should be put to a popular vote was recessed by legislators without a vote on the matter. The Constitutional Convention will reconvene on January 2, 2007, the final day of the current legislative term. This legislative action will likely result in the defeat of efforts to put equal marriage on the state ballot in 2008.
In some congregations and states, advocacy wasn't focused on a ballot amendment but on civil discourse. In Iowa, Rev. Roger Butts, minister of the Unitarian Church of Davenport, joined an interfaith effort to denounce negative political campaign advertising. The congregation joined in issuing an interfaith plea for positive campaigns and received media coverage for their effort. A group of forty-five students from Iowa City 's local high school also became involved in the election when they produced a fifteen-minute video highlighting the views of the state's second congressional and gubernatorial candidates and decrying negative campaigning.
The California-based UU Legislative Ministry (UULM) was also involved in raising the awareness of the electorate. UULM Director Rev. Lindi Ramsden encouraged Unitarian Universalists to find out which organizations were funding ballot initiatives, and the organization offered a chart comparing the recommendations of the UULM Action Network, the ACLU, Chamber of Commerce, California Labor Federation, League of Women Voters, Sierra Club, Council of Churches and the Friends Committee on Legislation to help inform voter decision making.
The 2006 elections brought sweeping change to the U.S. Throughout the country, UUs were part of that change, deeply engaged in educating, organizing, and advocating for public policies that uphold Unitarian Universalist values.
For further information:
- "Why Raise the Minimum Wage?" on the UU Service Committee blog, written by Johanna Chao Rittenberg
- Watch Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd, minister of Bull Run Unitarian Universalists, in a Washington Post video interview on the proposed Virginia ballot amendment.


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Resin transfer molding (RTM) is a closed mold manufacturing process. Finished parts are made by introducing polyester, vinyl ester, epoxy or polyurethane resins into closed molds containing fiberglass, carbon or other reinforcements.
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The Movie:
A fairly obscure film directed by the great Samuel Fulller in 1957, China Gate is interesting not only because it features a legitimately unusual cast but because it's one of the first Hollywood productions to deal with the Vietnam War. The film follows a woman nicknamed Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson), a woman of European and Chinese descent who runs an opium den. Legs has got a good little business going, she also serves up booze and, for the right price to the right customer, women as well. She's got a kid (Warren Hsieh) who, early in the film, tries to save his puppy from a Saigon local who wants to steal it and cook it up. There's a food shortage going on and that dog is looking mighty tasty. This sets the type of mood, atmosphere and political tone for pretty much the rest of the movie.
Soon enough, Legs is approached by one Colonel De Sars (Maurice Marsac) who has a proposition for her - he wants her to lead his group of special forces soldiers out of Saigon to the so called China Gate, an area where the Chinese and Vietnamese borders meet that is rumored to be the location of a massive Viet Minh ammunition stash. In exchange for this, De Sars will use his connections to get Legs' son safe haven in the United States - Saigon is too dangerous a place for even someone like her to be raising a kid these days. Legs knows where this place is, in fact she even has a relationship with the man who is in charge of it, one Major Cham (Lee Van Cleef). This is all well and good until Legs meets Johnny Brock (Gene Barry), the American soldier picked to lead the mission and her husband, who has been absent for some time now. He split when their kid was born, not sure what to do about the fact that he was obviously of mixed race. Brock puts his team together, highlighted by the inclusion of a tough talker named Goldie (Nat King Cole), and off they go to save the day, a group of soldiers lead through dangerous enemy territory by their leader's grumpy wife in hopes that they'll be able to get there alive, blow up the ammunition stash and make it back to safe territory in one piece.
China Gate is a pretty melodramatic action picture that paints in very broad strokes indeed. Every 'commie' in the movie is a weasel, the Asian characters eat dogs and have 'Asian eyes' that cause their whitebread fathers to panic and abandon them and only the brave Western mercenary soldiers are able to save the day. Fuller's politics are a bit sloppy here, you get the impression that he was out to prove his own patriotism with this film. It's an angry picture, nasty at times, really but evaluated as a product of its time, the film is entertaining enough. Dickinson's foxy character is able to sweet talk pretty much every communist soldier she comes across by flirting with them, allowing easy take downs at the various checkpoints that she and the crew has to pass through along the way to their final destination. We never really get a serious sense of danger, but there are a couple of impressive action set pieces here and there. A few of the group are taken out as they get closer to their destination but we're not given enough in the way of legitimate character development to really care all that much when it happens.
The movie is very nicely shot, however. Though the American locations and soundstages used to double for Asia aren't always effective the black and white cinematography has a gritty, sweaty quality to it that fits the tone of the story well. Dickinson is plenty easy to look at here and seems to be having fun in the role, while Gene Barry is grouchy and tough. Nat King Cole steals most of the scenes he's in, bringing Goldie to life with far more conviction and screen presence than anyone else in the movie bothers to bring to the picture. Lee Van Cleef is unintentionally funny as an Asian communist though he and Dickinson have some interesting dialogue together, the kind that makes it obvious Fuller is wearing his politics on his sleeve. If you don't have to take this movie seriously, it's enjoyable enough. Fuller certainly made much better films but this one is just weird enough to be worth a watch. Cole's rendition of the theme song used not once but twice in the movie is impressive and as a relic of this has quite a bit of interest. Fuller also gets full marks for an unexpected but wholly appropriate ending and Victor Young's score, his last, is also impressive.The Blu-ray:
For a film from 1957, presented here without a whole lot of restoration (if any), China Gate looks quite nice on Blu-ray in AVC encoded 1080p high definition framed at 2.35.1 widescreen. There's a nice amount of natural looking film grain present that results in a very film like presentation without the picture ever looking deteriorated or dirty because of it. Texture is good and black levels are strong, with very nice shadow detail making the photography stand out here. Contrast generally looks dead on and while some minor print damage does show up in the form of some occasional small specks and a scratch or two here and there, overall the elements used for the transfer were obviously in excellent shape. Take note that the frequent use of stock footage in the film itself does result in a couple of transitions that go from nice, slick looking material shot for the movie itself to less than perfect looking inserts from stock sources, but you can't really fault the transfer for that. Overall, this image is a strong one.Sound:
The no frills English language DTS-HD Mono track is problem free. Though there are no alternate language options, closed captioning options or subtitles provided the track is nice and clean. Properly balanced from start to finish there are no problems with any hiss or distortion though the explosions that occur during some of the action scenes are a bit on the weak side. The range is a bit limited, as any mono track would be, but the score sounds really good and there's a fair bit more depth here than you might actually anticipate. A couple of times, again during the action scenes, a few lines of dialogue get a bit buried but overall, the movie sounds pretty good.Extras:
Aside from a static menu and chapter selection, there are no extra features at all on this Blu-ray disc from Olive Films.Final Thoughts:
China Gate isn't going to be remembered as a highpoint in Fuller's directorial career but it's got a pretty interesting cast and in spite (or maybe because) of its goofiness, it's pretty entertaining if really only on a surface level. This is an obscurity, a curiosity item for Fuller fans and those curious about seeing one of the first pictures to deal with the Vietnam War. Olive's Blu-ray contains no extras features but it does look good and sound good. Recommended for Fuller completists, a decent rental for the masses.


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Novell and SAP have taken one step closer to each other by announcing a cooperative agreement to serve customers running SAP applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Developed, tested and validated by both companies, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications operating platform is intended to try and help SAP customers reduce the complexity of their application deployments.
Focused on both physical and virtual deployments of SAP solutions, as well as SAP's emerging in-memory platform, the company says that through this solution it hopes to provide evidence of its commitment to deliver support for open source solutions.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications comes six months after the companies' previous joint announcement made at March's BrainShare conference, which was focused on enabling customers to manage mission-critical operations on Linux. This week's news supports SAP's recommendation of SUSE Linux Enterprise for use with SAP Business Suite applications and the SAP Business All-in-One offering for small businesses and midsize companies.
"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has long been recommended by SAP as a preferred platform for customers who are looking to lower the costs and complexity of application deployments," said George Mathew, group vice president and general manager, Business Intelligence and In-memory Analytics, SAP. "Our close collaboration with Novell has resulted in a unique offering which now provides customers with immediate access to an integrated, one-stop resource for support of their deployment of the Linux operating system and SAP applications."


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Even after these years DA is still present in mainstream media!!
you know what we should do, whenever DA is mentioned or something like that we should like make an eyesonly broadcast, or send e-mails and stuff to FOX
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She was bearable in this leading role of the post-apocalytic Dark Angel,. At least we never had to see her tabs because it was too rainy in Seattle, where the show took place for halter tops.....''''''
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As a result, you've seen very little to no posts from me as I didn't really think you'd like to see my "walking to work and back" fashions. I don't remember the last time I wore pants for one full week other than last week out of necessity. I would like to never walk down that road again. I'm a skirts and dresses girl through and through and last week proved it to me. Additionally, wind blown hair? Not very awesome.
All that being said, I am a firm believer that out of something bad there can come something good. The good part of all this: I finally had the chance to get the car I have dreamed of owning for over ten years. Long story short: In high school, I was lucky enough to go on two trips to Paris with my photography class. While over seas, I came across the cutest little car ever - if I remember correctly, it was brand new over there at the time... probably around 2000 or 2001. I dreamed of owning this little car but knew we had nothing like it in the states. Fast forward to 2008: Now my little car is being sold in Michigan! I even signed up for the early release email announcement/pass even though I knew I wouldn't be buying one... I had bought my little black car in 2003 and it was definitely in fine condition. I had no reason to get rid of it.
Well, my dream finally came true this past Saturday! Let's let the pictures do the talking, shall we? :)
A dream come true!
Jeans: Gloria Vanderbilt, Thrifted, $6.99
Gingham Button Up: Blair, Thrifted, OLD
Puffy Vest: Land's End Canvas, FREE w/ gift card from giveaway
Rainboots: Hunter via Shopbop, FREE w/ gift card from giveaway
Bracelets: Clay bracelets made by me!
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This is the first time I am showing these off on here! Not sure what has taken me so long - I wear them every weekend! I am SO thankful for the giveaway I won from The Looks for Less that allowed me to buy these! :)
You had to know that I was going to pick black and white, right? :)
In conclusion: I'm as happy as could be right now! I have my dream car - which also happens to be super affordable, fantastic on gas and good on oil changes (only necessary every 10,000 miles if you're interested) and I have the rain boots I dreamed of owning for ages (thanks to a gift card I won)!
What is new with you? I double dare you to tell me something great that happened to you this week! :)


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Hey guys! I've been at java for a few months now, and I just started to get at my first, majorly ambitious project.
As I kept thinking about it, the more complex my originally simple idea became, to the point where I almost don't know what to do. Some insight would be deeply appreciated!
To put it in a nutshell, I wished to make a run-of-the-mill Text based RPG (E.G.: INSPECT Cave, GO West, ATTACK MAGIC Fireball) in order to better understand, and to have some real fun using java. I decided to go along and attempt a shot at this without reading a tutorial (...Don't even know if one exists for this kind of thing), or using any form of API (Is that the right word?) to assist me. This runs in just a standard terminal/CMD window, and uses System.out.print/println(); for the output, so the "Animation" is real simple, which lets me focus on the core of everything.
Yet, I'm starting to move into fuzzy territory, and, for example, I'm now thinking I need to extend different maps off of the original map base, and then parsing different item ID's into their proper places, and it's getting really complicated, and I'm not too sure what's the best course of action to go from here.
What I have so far: A completed beginning sequence that "Registers" players, and creates a save-file for them with their player object. The player object holds basic player information, like Location, name, stats, and (Soon to be) inventory and achievements. You can port the save-file, and read/write to it on different computers or locations. But this is where I get lost... I can't figure out a sensible way to implement loading the "player" into the correct "map" area. My first thought was to have a map engine figure out where to place the player based on information saved in the player object, but I can't seem to grasp at how to do that. My second problem was inventory; I envisioned a system where a class would take Item ID's saved by the inventory (Array, was my first thought), and then return the proper item using some wizard magic (Switch statements? Seems redundant for something potentially 1000's of entries long), and then I'm only limited to returning perhaps a single variable, like a name, and not potential effects, stats, and modifiers that I'd require with the said item. So then I figured I'd make a class that extends the base item class, yet I figured I'd run into problems like mismatching object types (E.G. Having the variable under Item, yet I'm trying to receive a WeaponAxe or ItemPotion), and I can't write enough statements to cover every single type of "Item".
Basically, I'm asking for thoughts on how you guys would tackle this base structure; would you have a class to handle players, a class to handle maps, and a class to handle things like database? Or would you handle it differently? I can honestly say I have never done something like this before, so suggestions would be awesome!
I know from my vague (Sorry!) descriptions this sounds like it's out of my grasp at the current point in time, but I find I learn best when I'm pushed to the limits. I hope I made a sensible amount of sense, and feel free to point out ANY inconsistencies or flaws you see, and ask for clarification if you need it! I'll also gladly post source code for you to take a look at!
Thanks a TON for paying enough attention to get down to here!


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Ah, sheer fabrics. There's nothing like them for that light, airy look when you want simplicity with elegance. But many sewers avoid using them because you can't sew with them quite as easily as you can regular fabric. We have small series of beautiful Hostess Aprons, all of which have sheer fabric accents. Our first apron, Cocktails At Eight features rich taffeta and frothy organza. We also have a Halloween Hostess Apron that is ghoulishly gauzy. And, the third in the trio is a beautiful brunch apron in full organza with waistband and pocket fabric accents. Yes, it takes some care and patience, but there's really no reason to fear the sheer. You just need to follow some simple precautions and basic rules to get sheers to do what you want them to. Then you'll be able open up new creative possibilities with these wonderful fabrics.
The trouble with sheers
'Sheer' just means these are fabrics you can see through. For example: voile, batiste, georgette, organza, organdy, and chiffon.
Some of these are slippery while others are more coarse. But they're all rather unforgiving of stitching mistakes.
Because they're sheer, all your interior work will show. And unfortunately, they're too delicate for you to use a seam ripper.
The overall rule for sheers is "Test it first on a scrap!" From ironing to cutting to stitching - make sure it's going to work before you try it on your final project.
Choosing a project
Pick a project with a simple design. First, because you won't be able to hide your stitching. And second, because sheers look best when they're highlighting a basic shape.
You only need to do this if the item you're making is going to be washed at some point. Sheer fabric can shrink or shift when washed, pulling or puckering the seams.
Laying out for measuring
Sheer fabrics are wonderful because of the way they move. But this means they also like to slip around while you're measuring and cutting them. (Like trying to give a squirmy kid a haircut.)
So, once you've laid your fabric out, you need to hold the edges down somehow. You can use pushpins, tape or sewing weights, depending on which kind of cutting surface you're using. (BTW, pushpins, tape and weights do NOT work for kids' haircuts.)
One method that works well while measureing is to pin your sheer fabric to a sheet. Use fine point pins and be careful not to pull the fabric off grain.
You don't want your marking method to damage your fabric and end up as a permanent part of your project. So test it on a scrap first. A marking pencil, pen, or chalk should work.
It's best to cut sheers as a single layer. After you've laid your fabric on a cutting board, with weights, pushpins or tape around the edges, a sharp rotary cutter works best to get a smooth, straight cut. You can also use serrated scissors. Both of these will keep your fabric from moving while you cut.
The proper sewing machine needle
Use a size 8 to 11 (60-75) universal needle in your machine. Make sure the needle is new. For more information about picking out the right needle for each project, check out our tutorial on the topic.
Machine Settings
Choose a straight stitch and best tension setting. You may need to loosen it slightly.
If you have a straight stitch needle plate, or a machine that can convert to a straight stitch needle hole, you should use it. The smaller hole keeps the fabric flat and stable, and less likely to be sucked down into the bobbin. I took off the foot on my Janome Horizon 7700QCP so you could see how its Automatic Plate Converter closes down to create the straight stitch hole.
As you do your test stitching, if you notice the feed dogs are damaging your fabric or it's just not feeding properly, you can use a sheet of tear-away stabilizer under the seam (which you'll then easily tear away when done... that's why it has that name!).
Don't ever backstitch on sheers. This can cause your thread to jam. Instead, try a lockstitch if your machine has one or leave your thread tails long and hand knot the ends. Otherwise, sew your seams like you normally would.
A simple trick for pretty sheer seams
As we mentioned above, our current Hostess Apron series is all about sheer, and each features beautiful see through sashes. Here's our trick for a pretty sash seam:
You sash ties are each made up of two pieces cut with one angled end.
Using a ½" seam allowance, stitch the two pieces right sides together along both long sides and across the angled end, pivoting at the corners. Leave the straight cut end open.
Press the seams open.
Turn each sewn tie right side out and using a long, blunt-end tool, such a chopstick or knitting needle, push out the corners so they are nice and sharp. Press the ties flat.
Topstitch ¼" from the edge along both sides and across the angled end. Organza tends to want to roll, so the topstitching will keep the edge of the ties looking nice.
Turn each tie wrong side out and trim the seam allowance close to the topstitching seam.
Run a line of Fray Check or a similar seam sealant along all the cut edges. Because organza is so sheer, trimming back the seam allowance like this gives you a nice clean look from the front.
Turn each tie right side out again and press again. Super sweet sash!


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(Adapted from got milk?, Flavored Milk, The Facts: Myth vs Reality)
Some schools have made the decision to remove chocolate and other flavored milks from the cafeteria. Even though these bans have been well-intentioned, they have done more nutritional harm than good. Lowfat chocolate milk is the most popular milk choice in schools and kids drink less milk – and get fewer essential nutrients – if it's taken away.
Learn more about the myths and realities of flavored milk in the cafeteria.
Flavored milk isn't as nutritious as white milk.
Chocolate milk contains the same nine essential nutrients as white milk, including vitamin D, calcium and potassium – "nutrients of concern" that most kids fail to get enough of, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
In fact, this school year when kids pick up a carton of flavored milk with their lunch, the majority will be less than 50 calories. It's projected to contain, on average, just 31 calories more than white milk – the result of an ongoing commitment to improve the profile of school milk by the nation's milk processors.1
Flavored milk "counts" as a serving of dairy – and most Americans fall far short of the recommended three servings for kids ages 9 and up.
Milk drinkers consume more calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and vitamin A than non-milk drinkers.2
Flavored milk contains a high sugar content, up there with soft drinks.
Research shows that flavored milk contributes just 3% of added sugars to kids' diets versus sodas and fruit drinks, which account for close to half of the added sugar and deliver much less, if any, nutritional value.3
Not all of the sugar you see on the label is "added sugar." Some of the total grams are naturally-occurring lactose.
Dairy companies have worked with schools to reduce the amount of added sugar by an average of 38% in the last five years.1
The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Dietetic Association and other groups agree that flavored milk is a positive trade-off for soft drinks, which are the primary source of added sugars in children's diets.4
When flavored milk is removed from schools, kids will drink white milk. If there's any dip in consumption, it will rebound.
A study showed eliminating flavored milk from elementary schools resulted in a dramatic drop in milk consumption (35%), which means many children will miss out on essential nutrients that milk provides.5
Research suggests milk consumption does not recover over time when flavored milk is removed. In the same study, even the 40 schools that were in their second year of a limited or no-flavors policy did not see students moving to white milk. On average, students at these schools drank 37% less milk compared to when they had flavored milk available every school day.5
If milk is not consumed with the noon meal, it's nearly impossible for children to meet their needs for calcium, vitamin D and potassium – which are already identified by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans as limited in children's diets.
Flavored milk adds too many extra calories to children's diets and is contributing to the obesity crisis among American children.
Nearly all (95%) of 8-ounce servings of chocolate milk served in schools have 150 calories or less.1
Children who drink flavored milk don't have a higher body mass index (BMI) than those who do not drink milk.
Once kids drink flavored milk, they no longer drink white milk.
Drinking flavored milk doesn't mean kids neglect white milk. It's a small, but significant contributor to kids' milk intake. In fact, flavored milk only makes up 20%-26% of kids' total milk intake.6
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- 2011-2012 Projected School Milk Product Profile, MilkPEP School Channel Survey, conducted by Prime Consulting Group. This is a joint project of the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), the National Dairy Council and the School Nutrition Association, conducted July, 2011. Reponses were received from processors who collectively serve over 51,000, or 53% of all K-12 public schools.
- Murphy MM, Douglas JS, Johnson RK, Spence LA. Drinking flavored or plain milk is positively associated with nutrient intake and is not associated with adverse effects on weight status in U.S. children and adolescents. J Am Diet Assoc. 2008; 108:631-639.
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, NHANES (2003-2006), ages 2-18.
- Science Supports the Important Role of Milk, including Flavored Milk, in Children's Nutrition. November, 2009. http://www.eatright.org/Media/content.aspx?id=11001
- The impact on student milk consumption and nutrient intakes from eliminating flavored milk in schools. 2009. MilkPEP research conducted by Prime Consulting Group. Presented at the School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference, 2010.
- MilkPEP 2010 Consumption Tracker Q3 2010-Q1 2011. Among stand alone milk drinkers.


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German EU commissioner: Greece may get future aid package of around $13.36 billion
BERLIN – Germany's commissioner to the European Union says he expects a future aid package for Greece to amount to a little more than 10 billion euros ($13.36 billion) — which is much smaller than the country's existing two rescue deals.
Guenther Oettinger, the EU's energy commissioner and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservative party, said Saturday the third aid package should cover the years 2014-2016.
In two bailout packages so far, Greece's European partners and the International Monetary Fund have committed 240 billion euros ($320 billion) in loans. This week, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said there will have to be another aid program after the current one expires next year.
Oettinger's comments to weekly Welt am Sonntag came four weeks before Germany's general elections on Sept. 22.


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Dentures are custom made to fit your mouth, so they take on the appearance of your natural teeth. Getting your great smile back is easy – your clinical dental technician will work with your dentist to create new or replacement dentures.
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Your dentist reviews the healing process and adjusts the dentures during the first two weeks
For the next 3-6 months your dentures will be monitored for adjustments and temporary relines
A permanent reline is recommended between 6-12 months
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You'll find most, if not all dentists have the ability to fit and place dentures. During your appointment, your Maven Dental Lismore dentist will take impressions of your mouth so the dentures are custom-made to fit your mouth precisely, which will make them comfortable and effective. You'll work with your dentist to pick out the right size, shape, and colour for your false teeth and it will then be sent to a dental laboratory that specialises in creating dental materials like this. Once the denture is made, your dentist will insert the denture and make sure it fits properly. If you have any ongoing issues with your dentures, your Maven Dental Lismore is always available to answer any questions and monitor the success of your new teeth.
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I immediately spotted the greeter, Maria, and she knew we were there for review. She directed us to the Smurfs area and I had Kenzie and Mason make their selection: Smurfette and Hackus and we were off to stand in line for stuffing.
We then chose outfits from the Smurfs section and accessorized to the nines at the Dressing Room. Kenzie loved the mini closet and put all the hangers in there! We then went to checkout and the cashier, Johnny, asked Kenzie if she wanted bows. She looked at his hesitantly and I asked what color she wanted. Johnny said little gals wanted all the colors so he put an entire handful of bows into her Build-A-Bear box! She even received a green ribbon (which is her favorite color) and we were set to go.
Smurfette has been getting the star treatment with Kenzie. Her hair is brushed out and is taken on walks in the doll stroller. Smurfette receives tons of hugs and kisses as well as is lulled to sleep in Kenzie's baby carrier. This is one pampered plush. I love Build-A-Bear because the outfits can be interchangeable with any of the plush. Kenzie actually enjoys taking the outfits off and I have to redress them.
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Murder trial in Russia inflames ethnic tensions
MOSCOW (AP) — A world martial arts champion from Russia's southern Caucasus region was convicted Tuesday of involuntary manslaughter but set free after a trial that inflamed the country's ethnic tensions.
The verdict led to protests by nationalists outside the court and prompted Russian riot police to flood the wide square outside the Kremlin to prevent possible violent clashes between nationalists and ethnic minorities from the Caucasus.
Rasul Mirzayev had punched former police student Ivan Agafonov outside a Moscow nightclub in 2011 after the drunken 19-year-old offended Mirzayev's girlfriend. Agafonov fell down, hitting his head on a sewer grate and dying four days later.
Mirzayev's trial had raised the anger of nationalists, who accused him of deliberately killing the Russian student. The athlete's supporters argued that Agafonov had provoked the lethal punch and his killing was accidental.
The Zamoskvoretsky court ruled Tuesday that since Mirzayev had already served his sentence in pre-detention he could walk free.
There are significant tensions between ethnic Russians, who make up two-thirds of the country's 142 million people, and the more than 100 ethnicities that account for the remaining third. Hundreds of thousands of Caucasus natives have flooded central Russia in search of jobs, triggering widespread xenophobia and a spike in hate crimes.
Mirzayev, a bearded and lean 26-year-old, hails from Dagestan, Russia's most multiethnic province. Dagestan has for years been an epicenter of Islamic insurgency that stems from separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.
The Caucasus has also been beset by high unemployment and rampant corruption. The Kremlin has poured billions of dollars to subsidize the restive region, but government critics say most of the money is being embezzled by local leaders.
Polls show that nearly half of Russians resent Kremlin's subsidies to the region and dislike migrants from both the Caucasus and the former Soviet Central Asian states.
A protest led by neo-Nazi leader Dmitri Demushkin erupted outside the court building Tuesday. Moscow police said six protesters, including Demushkin, were detained, while several dozen other protesters chanted "Shame!" A similar protest took place in the western Siberian city of Novosibirsk.
Dozens of riot police also gathered at Manezhnaya Square outside the Kremlin and blocked adjacent areas to prevent a nationalist rally. Last year, thousands of ultranationalists clashed with police and beat dark-skinned passers-by there to protest the shooting of a Russian soccer fan by a group of Caucasus men.
A top human rights advocate urged Russians not to escalate ethnic tensions following Mirzayev's release.
"There is no need to turn this everyday conflict into an inter-ethnic collision," Mikhail Fedotov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
But thousands of angry comments made the conviction one of the top Twitter hashtags in Russia.
"Such verdicts might trigger a social explosion," opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Milov tweeted.
Other comments suggested that Mirzayev's release was prompted by pressure from the Kremlin and Caucasus leaders.
"The regime is more afraid of a small riot in the Caucasus than a big one throughout Russia," opposition activist Nikolai Permyakov tweeted.
Even a democratic activist like Alexei Navalny has urged the Kremlin to "stop feeding the Caucasus" and helped organize this year's Russian March, a rally of ultranationalists that also drew neo-Nazis, monarchists and militant Orthodox Christians.
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