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The explosion of smartphones, and the growing influence of mobile computing, has prompted Google to rethink its business model and strategy.
According to Google's Australian and New Zealand managing director, Nick Leeder, mobile computing is threatening the company's traditional revenue model.
"Our core business is desktop search – that's where we make most of our money – and if you think about it, the arrival of mobile phones wasn't ... necessarily fantastic news for Google," Leeder said at a speech last night to University of Technology Sydney (UTS) alumni.
"We had a very nice business going in the desktop search and suddenly people decided they would use these devices to start searching for stuff. The economics of it are completely different."
This shift has forced Google's engineers to "start with a clean sheet of paper", Leeder said, and reinvent how it responded to users. This included understanding the role mobile devices played in consumers' lives, and why, for example, they would rather lose their wallets than their mobile phones.
"Obviously [at] Google, we're very motivated to understand this stuff – we make our livelihoods out of digital and I think as we dig into it, some of what we've found is actually quite surprising," Leeder said.
The financial impact of the internet While Leeder chose not to reveal details on how the company was changing in response to evolving consumer behaviour, he said the company was now looking to more broadly understand the digital environment and its contribution to Australia's economy.
Citing a Deloitte Access Economics report, Leeder said the internet's contribution to the GDP of Australia was more than $50 billion per year. While conceding productivity benefits can be hard to quantify, Leeder said according to the report, productivity benefits to businesses and the government are worth over $27 billion.
"Even Google search and the ability to search stuff that you just previously couldn't get your hands on, [the] consumer value on that is around $7 billion. So there's some very big numbers in terms of its contribution," Leeder said.
"We are by no means at the end of this boom and we think that if we just continue along the current path that we're on now, by 2015 the internet will be worth $70 billion to the economy."
While some companies are and will transition well into the new digital environment, Leeder warned not all companies will adapt successfully and it's not "butterflies and beer" and "creates opportunity and destruction" for businesses making the transition.
"Before I joined Google I worked with two media companies going through this transition, and I know it's not easy and I know it can be very painful," he said.
"Because the scale is so big, there can be a temptation to think that we're powerless in this, that we're just riding along. I think that would be a very big mistake.
"There's nothing pre-destined or ordained about which companies are going to transition through this or countries that are going to transition through this change well, and it's actually up to us, the governments, our educators, our boards [and] our businesses to help maximise the opportunities that we have available to Australia through this transition."
The internet and regulation While debate ensues around copyright and the digital environment, Leeder said of particular interest was the current convergence trend where television, radio, print and online media were merging.
"In the case of media regulation, we need to look at the history and reasons [existing regulation] were created in the first place. The ideas were around promoting [plurality] and a diversity of voices to ensure that Australians could be heard and could reach a large audience with their ideas. That absolutely still makes sense, but the conditions that we now live in have completely changed," he said.
Leeder warned against policy makers making rash decisions and to resist calls to make immediate changes. Instead, he believes when it comes to new media, it should be allowed to unfold and for the benefits to be clearly understood. Otherwise, "the risk is that we squash a lot of that innovation that we're starting to see".
Leeder further commented on how Google's business model may be affected by the recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission decision that found search engines, including Google, would be liable for misleading ads generated by its search engines.
"We're giving some thought at the moment about what to do and because of that I can't actually say all that much, but I would say that we are in the business of creating platforms for advertisers and for users to connect, and that's our role that we see," he said.
Leeder also commented on the practice of users receiving different search results based on previous searches.
"It is true that depending on where you're searching from, what you've previously been searching for if you're logged in – if you're not logged in it would be a different story – then we will change the search results," Leeder said.
"If you think about what we're fundamentally trying to do, we try and get you what you're looking for as quickly as possible...
"It is a balance. I think one of the things that we take incredibly seriously is privacy. We only exist because users trust us to give them what they're looking for and look after their data well."
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This art quilt is made from dyed coffee filters. I was surprised at their durability. They stitched up like fabric, leaving no noticeable holes. There are folded ones at each end of the quilt. I refolded and re-ironed them several times before I got a shape I liked, and they never tore once.
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On the heels of my last post about questioning what my purpose was and what I am meant to do I have been met with what I feel is my life's greatest challenge.
I have spent recent weeks telling my husband that I didn't want to just pass through this life--I wanted to leave a legacy, make a difference. I didn't want to live my days just existing but truly living and with a purpose.
I believe this new challenge God has put before us will be trying. Not for weeks, but for months and years.
My heart's desire is to do what's right and what I believe God is asking me to do, but on paper in a list of pros and cons, that is the sole pro. The cons speak very loudly and the experts are encouraging us in this direction. I'm going through waves of great strength and courage peppered with brights spots of seeing hope but, I am often also filled with sadness, grief, and fear....lots of fear.
The nights and mornings have been difficult because my stomach hurts with anxiety and I don't want to eat or get out of bed. I wonder if the people we have in our life will be able to keep encouraging us or if, as in life, they'll get busy and move on forgetting. I'm learning that I need God, I really need Him to endure this challenge. I don't understand it. What is the purpose in all of this when all I see is grief and tragedy for our family?
I just read a blog of someone who is an encouragement to me and came across a video on a boy named Zach Sobiech. Although our trials are very different, his message in the video was what I needed to be reminded of:
Life is short.
It is a series of beautiful moments weaved together, one right after the other. There are tragedies and trials--both big and small--but, when we look back on these I truly believe we don't regret any one of them happening because they were all for the good or had goodness wrapped around them. There are many things in life that I don't understand, will never understand but have to be OK that I won't until I meet God. I believe God is good and His ways are the best ways and so I keep that hope. Because, if we don't have hope, what do we have?
I believe that this situation is calling me to a new level of obedience, strength, courage and faith. It is a test and I am determined to pass this test. Because, I know, I really know that on the other side with be life and goodness and more beautiful moments. I keep looking back at my life just a week ago and wishing I could have it all back--right down to the broken door I felt I couldn't take any more. Now, these trivial things seem easy, comfortable and manageable. I want that life back. But, I have known God was preparing me for something big and I've now met it. I can only hope that I will have the strength, courage, and faith to carry it through. I want to be the example that I'm always writing about and striving to be--believing that there are little happies all through our life if we're just willing to open our eyes. And so the new journey begins....
I will rejoice in ALL things....because life is SO good.
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The past few days and weeks have been very difficult but, weaved throughout all of the pain, there have been many beautiful moments. We don't know the purpose or outcome of what's to come but there will be beauty inside of it. Of this I'm certain.


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Rodrigo Olvera
February 21, 2017
Majestic tool for product design
great interaction between Solid CAD, Adobe, and CAD/CAM
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Francisco Romero Mendoza
May 31, 2016
Rhino is a very versitile 3D software, and Novedge a Great retailer for the product.
Affordable Powerful Modeller
Benjamin Cairns
September 28, 2015
I've been uaing solidworks for the past 8 years as a die designer and wanted to give a direct modeler a try. After playing with spaceclaim/, cadkey, rhino and ptc I decided on rhino. I found it the most customizable, most cost effective and offered a lot of great tools. The community has been very responsive and helpful. The 90 day trial period allowed me to get to know the software before purchasing where as the other softwares only allowed 2 weeks to a month. I then purchased from novedge as they had the best deal I could find. I now use rhino about 50% of the time and solidworks the rest. They translate well together though are very different softwares. Some people that come from solidworks may have trouble transitioning.
Great for opening 3D models
Dan Schmucker
May 13, 2015
Rhino will open IGS STP and other files that my customer send me to review and adjust for producing tooling.
3D Surface modeling and rendering
Lars Nielsen
March 25, 2015
Have been using Auto CAD 2002 for a decade testing more modern and affordable programs, but been disappointed whit there lack of stability as the models get more complicated. Rhino 5.0 seems to be the middle of the road price wise and is both stable and much more advance surface modeling and rendering than my out date Auto CAD. I have upgraded my computer whit dedicated Nvidia 2100K grafic card, improving real time rendering tremendusly - just a real nice experience to work whit.
This is a great CAD program - highly recomended.
Great for product design and prototyping.
Jacques Dugal
June 23, 2014
Our shop does product design and prototyping, we use Rhino for all of our form and aesthetic modeling. It works very well for our purposes which include conceptual modeling and prototyping (3d printing mostly) of our designs. The curve tools are also very powerful, and have taken over all 2d duty for designing parts to be laser-cut.
Awesome Service
June 23, 2014
Everytime we work with Novdege I am very satisfied. Bob Thayer is always very responsive and accomadating. I will continue to order more in the future.
Rhino 5.0
Randall Taylor
May 28, 2014
Great cad program for a great price.
Rhino is very good ... Rhino + Grasshopper is superb
January 17, 2014
Rhino is a great tool. It's powerful and flexible, its learning curve is not too steep (surprising given the overall power of the solution), and it has worked for me with zero bugs or crashes. It's impressive. Grasshopper is a free add-on that makes Rhino 5x as powerful for my needs.
I like Rhino, but Grasshopper blows me away.
One of the traditional toughest challenges in modelling is how to tune or recreate your work. Creating a significant model happens in hundreds or thousands of steps -- creating each object, relationships / alignment / intersections etc. Even in a great tool like Rhino this feels somewhat like drawing. What happens if you are 20 hours into a project and determine some basic decision (like a key dimension) needs to change? Rescaling etc. can only get you so far. Unfortunately, in the traditional approach, the further you go in a project, the harder it is to change.
Grasshopper changes this approach entirely. Grasshopper is a visual programming tool that runs in a separate window, but controls what happens in Rhino. This allows you to capture all your decisions (origins, dimensions, ratios etc.) as numbers / parameters, then push a button to create the Rhino model from this. All the steps (create object, rotate, intersect, mesh, whatever) are explicit in Grasshopper, so you can always change a parameter and re-run the scenario with changes to get a new Rhino model.
This is a superb idea and the execution of it is also very good (although not yet perfect). By moving modelling further away from the "CAD drawing" paradigm and closer to the "process / programming" paradigm, many things get better. I love the fact that I can review my parameters and modelling steps with another person, that I can change the parameters and re-run models, and that I can put Grasshopper models into source code control. Grasshopper captures much of the value of very expensive modelling tools like PTC.
The only problem with Grasshopper is that there are operations in Rhino that are not yet provided in the Grasshopper layer -- in these cases, you need to work in a more hybrid mode, flipping between the two tools that breaks the new paradigm a little. It would be natural to assume anything you can do in Rhino (UI or Rhinoscript) could also be done in Grasshopper -- not yet true. Hopefully McNeel will achieve complete parity between Rhino and Grasshopper. You can bridge the gap somewhat by creating custom scripts in Grasshopper (e.g. I use Python to access the Rhinoscript API when needed) -- neat capability, I'm OK with that, but it's probably a bit much for many users.
It's hard to fully understand Grasshopper until you use it. My challenge to you is, create a model without touching the Rhino window -- just treat it as output from the Grasshopper process. You can do it, and once you fully grasp this process, it will change the way you think. Not to mention give you a massive productivity boost.
We use it extensively
October 25, 2013
Naval Architecture firm and we use Rhino in our Design work.
best program of its kind
Kai Hopf
September 24, 2013
It does the job at a good price.
No parametric but that's not what its about.
All Purpose Design
Hans Purdom
June 7, 2013
Coming from a 25 year background in 3D surface modeling, I recently looked for a transition to solid modeling for real world design and prototyping. Rhino has been the perfect bridge between the surface modeling software I know, and the strict workflows of of tools like Solidworks. For me, it's the best of both worlds. Every Rhino tool shows a solid anticipation of the problems I need to solve.
Isaac Berry
June 5, 2013
This product has all the features I was looking for and, because of the command line word prompt it allows you to type tools you may know from other 3d programs! The way it makes STL files for stereo lithography is a definite selling point for me, it is a great price range and worth every dollar!!!
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Chris Tomasi
March 27, 2013
My only complaint is the interface is different on the mac.
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Ding Liu
March 19, 2013
We buy from Novedge. Only from these guys. We got something like 20 copies in totally from these guys. Smooth! Thank you!
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Robert J Kuster
February 7, 2013
I've tried and evaluated at least a half dozen cad products. and this is by far the most intuitive and comprehensive package out there. The most important thing to me is that there is lots of help if I ever get stuck on something.
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Larry Miller
December 22, 2012
This is a terrific drawing/modeling program!
However it is very large app, and I found the InfiniteSkills training to be essential for learning all of the hundreds of things you can do with Rhino.
Also, make sure that you have the latest driver(s) for your video card.
I use it for generating CNC parts.
Rhino technical assistance was very helpful in getting my problem with my video worked out.
Overall, a great experience.
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Andrew Fowler
July 16, 2012
We are not yet using the software to its the full potential, but we are only limited by our imagination on how we can create and solve problems with this software. Keep it coming!
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William Castro
April 17, 2011
Awesome program, especially when you add T-Splines!!!!
Rhino 4.0: Most sense per dollar spent
Kenton Frederic
March 4, 2011
My first impression of NURBS was the CAD "monster" it could be. I often felt I'd be better off having a real rhino in my workshop!
I learn best when by watching, so I tuned into a McNeel's introduction webcast.
My initial investment was securing an on-going, "someone to watch" educator. This came in the form of Infinite Skill's Rhino training bundle.
Those two products quickly revealed to me that Rhino was no monster. Rather, what I always needed to tame the beast in my CADCAM hobby!
Rhino 4.0
George Grimes
February 24, 2010
As a former user of autocad 14 which I found easy to use I was pleased that Rhino has s similar interface allowing me to be drawing in 3D comfortably after about 12 hours of looking thru the included help file to locate the commands. The drawing commands are 1 mouse click from the left toolbar, and the surface and solid command menues are 2 and occasionally 3 mouse clicks. There is maximum availability of screen space unencombered with tool ribbons in the drawing area. The loft command where you draw airplane wings and car bodies as an example is really wonderful, and can be easily tuned as needed. I have used the edit/rebuild lines command on lofted curves with consistantly good results on the boolian commands. I have called the software developer Robert McNeel .com and talked to their tech department befor buying the software and was impressed with their ability to explain the software to the rest of us.
I bought it the next day from Novedge.com at a cost of $778 and would also reccommend them as the vendor.
I am using a 1.8Ghz AMD processor desktop with 1Gb of ram running windows XP which may be a little light on ram which I hope to update in a few months.
I am a retired construction worker and engineer and use this software for aircraft design. It does all the hard to do stuff effortlessly.I use meshcam and EMC2 for the CAM software and some free downloaded FEA which are not included in this software or autocad or solidworks either.Rhino also has parametric modeling which is used to streach, nudge, and poke a shape into a different shape.
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Bryan Hartley
October 5, 2009
more than I had hoped for makes modeling and really works well with my other design work and programs like autocad, has accelerated progress considerably.
Outstanding software
Antosh Pieniazek
September 30, 2009
Rhino is a great software. It is useful across a wide spectrum of industries, and with the tools available for customization, and the plug-ins available, the potential is almost limitless. For example, Rhino could take an idea, design it, use the Flamingo plug-in to render a photo-realistic image, then use the MadCam plug-in to produce the part on your CNC.
September 15, 2009
If only AutoCAD could work so well!
The guys at Robert McNeel know what they're doing - this program sets the bar.
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Randy Haws
August 16, 2009
so far so good, from a very, very novice!
Jason Brouwers
June 5, 2009
I couldn't be happier with my Rhino purchase. The good people at Novedge were very helpful at every stage of the process.
I am a very happy customer.
Excellent surface modeler at an awesome price
May 6, 2009
I'm a happy Solid Works user and purchased Rhino for its free form surface capabilities. So far, I really like the product.
Its fun to use and I've already been able to create some designs. I'm looking forward to becoming a more advanced user. I definitely recommend Rhino if your looking for a powerful and very moderately priced solution.
What a great program!
Wes Rist
April 7, 2009
I was looking for a program to help me see in 3D some ideas I was thinking about. Since I had no previous CADD experience and can't render myself, I was hoping a program could help. Boy does it ever.
I resisted buying this program since I thought cheaper ones did all I needed, and I was afraid I could not master this one, since it has so much to offer. Boy was I wrong.
The cheaper programs crashed, and don't have nearly what this one does. Every day it seems I'm discovering another feature that just makes me shake my head. What a clever program.
The number of view modes is awesome; shaded, ghosted, rendered....I had my project done in reasonable time, and was thrilled with the result.
I don't know what other programs are thinking, they have so many features and then....don't explain them. This program does, and there are lots of tutorials available as well.
It's the BMW of programs. I looked at a lot of others and carefully made the choice to get this one and have enjoyed every day with it.
It's slick!
Rhino 4.0
Joe Holt
February 18, 2009
Novedge had the best price and worked with me to get the software delivered when I needed it..even when they did not have it in stock. Rhino 4.0 is the best 3D modeler I've found (using it for architecture)...and I've tried several since I started looking 20 years ago.
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January 3, 2009
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November 3, 2008
Rhinoceros 4.0 is the best choice for C.A.D. Novedge offers this amazing tool for the most affordable price. It's really that simple.
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Jack Mc Kie
February 25, 2008
I'm new to solid modeling. I'm a scale model maker and have drawn with 2D AutoCAD LT for a few years. I make cast parts in resin and metal. My model parts require master patterns to produce rubber molds for spincasting. My goal is to use Rhino to develop master patterns that will be made cnc and possibly 3D printed. The tutorials are good and the program in general is great. I'm just learning but I like what I see so far and expect to use it extensively.
Good value for the money and a relatively fast learning curve for the average person.
Jack Mc Kie
3d Modeling Veteran Tries Rhino
Mark Balenovic
December 14, 2007
What an intelligent, intuitive and comprehensive program! As an Autocad 12 (up to 2002 now) expert user, I'm not easily swayed by other programs. Rhino is packed with abilities, has a very easy to grasp GUI, and the command line is there, which is essential for speed. I easily lofted a set of Autocad-made hull sections into a solid, nicely renderable surface. I feel at home with the program, only after four sessions. I'm going to buy the Rhino for sure, eliminating the need for about $6,000 of resource-hungry 3D Studio and Autocad upgrades. And the Rhino and Autocad 2002 combo don't embarrass my Dell Latitude's 4-year-old Pentium 4.
Mark B., Santa Fe
Rhino 4! Try it, amazing.
December 4, 2007
Seriously, for doing anything from unfolding for quick model building to full size manufactured production, a better 3d modeler for such a price is impossible to find. Not only can Rhino open almost any format you through at it, but it can write back to those formats as well. Don't have Illustrator? No Problem, open the file in Rhino, edit it, and return it as an illustrator file. Don't have solidworks? Open a solidworks file here to view and edit and return. Need to make a 3dPrint, you can use Rhino for this also. All in All, its the best choice for modeling with the familiar interface of Autocad, but with streamlined 3d and a set of tools that you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere.
Rhino 4.0
Yuriy Taborisskiy
December 4, 2007
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CAD rookie buys Rhino
Ronald Pogue
November 26, 2007
My background; My work history was concerned with sophisticated mechanical devices, and I am an electronics/computer hobbiest, but I had zero experience with CAD.
When the need came along to use a CAD program, I asked around knowlegible folks and was pointed towards Rhino. I did the Rhino tutorials and was off and running. With no classroom training in CAD of any kind, I thought it wise to buy as much Rhino reading material as I could. I got books from Amazon, and I bought Rhino Training Manual 1. There are DVDs associated with all these publications which makes self teaching easy.
The Rhino Training manual stands head and shoulders above all the rest, being easy to understand and to the point. With the training manual to the side and my computer screen in front of me, I play with the lessons in the training manual and the Rhino program, it is fun.
I find Rhino very do-able.
Excellent 3D Drawing Tool
October 18, 2007
I first tried the demo version of Rhino and found the included tutorial easy to understand and with excellent demonstrations of Rhino's capabilities. I then tried several demo's of other 3D software and found they were no match to Rhino's ease of use and exemplary tutorial. I made a quick purchase and am even more pleased with the full learning tutorial and manual. It's the easiest to use and most intuitive 3D drawing software I have seen.
Easy, simple, quick
Fred Wada
October 10, 2007
Coming from Pro/CDRS or Desiger, AutoCAD 2006, Alias Studio, Rhino has been the most easy to learn and use 3D software by far. I don't use it for animation or particles, but for product design and scene creation it does a superb job. Simple compared to those other programs I've worked with in the past for real world designing.
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Le Ross
August 30, 2007
It beats AutoCad and a few other 3d rendering programs. I'm still a newbie with the 3d arean, so very user friendly. For those of you with lots of experience I think you'll find it up to your standards and quick to produce your stuff.
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Kyle Gloger
June 18, 2007
i like rihno i trying to save up to buy it cause im in high school and i need rihno but i cant find anyone to give it to me for free so but this is great
very good
Kyoung Seo
June 7, 2007
i love rhino
Spikes in My Booleen Subtract, Mesh Offset
May 21, 2007
I really do enjoy allot of the new tools and my never go bact to version 3. But it is a bit frustrating when things like this happen. I also realize I have more to learn. If anyone has a solution for this observation could you please advise me about how to correct it.
I love it
Maxime Verret
April 18, 2007
It is very usefull to me.
As a patent agent, I am able to view CAD models provided from inventors and give instructions to draftsmen.
I love it!
Great Upgrade
February 21, 2007
Its a great upgrade from Rhino 3.0 and under development still. I didnt think that it was out for sale thou.
Peter Herrmann
June 25, 2016
Rhino is a super program for generating 3D models. There are things it does well and things it does poorly. I use it in conjuction with RhinoCAM to generate toolpaths. It is powerful and easy to use. When using it to make models to share with other CAD systems, it is not great. As the models get more complex, they get leaky rather than be closed solids, it is painful to fix leaky solids, there is no nice way to do this, and leaky solids won't import into fussy CAD programs (SolidWorks).
Great price
December 30, 2014
Cheaper then buying in Canada. Shipping was fast
Great Tool - Imperfect Help
John Haddock
April 5, 2014
For this serious hobbyist, scratch building large scale model cars, the promise of 3D printing is enormous. So the choice was to join the CAD community or be stuck in the past. I looked at numerous CAD programs, but settled on Rhino because of its ability to model complex curved surfaces.
Rhino has turned out to be a great choice, despite the cost. After a couple of weeks of experimenting I was confident enough of the basics to begin modeling.
I found the Rhino tutorials to be useful, but limited. They are primarily tool based, rather than app based, so figuring out how to model a complex shape generally goes beyond the level of the tutorials. Likewise, I found very little Rhino help for dealing with the challenges of 3D printing. This is a non-trivial issue which I fortunately stumbled over early on. The online advice I found elsewhere saved me a lot of re-design work. A specific Rhino tutorial to deal with this issue would have been really helpful.
Rhino 4.0
Richard Harvey
June 22, 2011
We are heavy users of Rhino. We do technical illustrations for oil and gas equipment. Rhino is easy to use and has the tools sets that we need.
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Axis, LLC
Quatlity software, training guide not required.
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March 31, 2011
Sales Experience:
I bought Rhino and one of the training guides. When I received the product both training guides come on a CD. Had I been aware of this beforehand I would not have bought the printed guide.
The product is easy to use and I have been productive using it, almost since day 1.
Product cons:
It would be nice if basic parametric editing was included as a part of the core product.
Rhino 4.0 for architectural millwork
October 26, 2009
Rhino has a great interface and functions for modeling in 3D, I couldn't be happier, I also love the ease of generating 2 sections from 3D objects. My only criticism would be the lack of control of the display of dimensions - I am used to the flexibility that AutoCAD provides in the display of dimensions, leaders, etc., and Rhino has some catching up to do in this department. Otherwise, Rhino is outstanding and has some remarkable functionality for the price.
Rhino 4.0
April 14, 2009
I'm still learning the program but have used Alias for the prior eight years and that helps with the transition. The major difference is that there is limited history built into Rhino which I guess accounts for the more affordable price but changes the way one constructs objects; you need to save often.
Overall Rhino has plenty of capability and the interface is pretty much straightforward if you're at all familiar with 3D modeling programs. The Help does include short videos that make it easier to understand vs. reading just text.
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Robert Gockley
December 10, 2007
Excellent Product. A little hard to learn, but the unlimited capabilities is well worth it.
Beginners rating
Darryl Holmes
July 16, 2007
Have only just began learning Rhino. The program seems very powerful and have had a frustrating, but great time and a lot of fun finding my way around. Am in the process of financing rapid prototyping milling machine for jewellery purposes. Rhino drives this device and is part of the package, so essential I use these early tutorials to get a bit of a head start. Will review again further down the line. Thanks for the free trial download.
We have used not for long time
Roberto Tedoldi
May 29, 2007
We have used not for long time but at first opinion is great
dental app
Axel Pomeranz
February 8, 2011
we're not industrial software experts and are just using it as a base for dental-shaper from cimsystem/ sum3d.
requires a more experienced user than dental people, but still does what it should for us. would like more training and esier apps for "regular joes"
Great App but not such great upgrade.
Nenad Stjepanovic
June 15, 2007
It's great new upgrade.However, it has a lot of bugs including low (surprisingly) performance. Booleans refuse to function properly in certain situations. The work around: use trim & split actions together with extracting surfaces from solids. If new SR1 or SR2 release could improve this I will give to it 5 stars...
it's ok
Riva Guthberg
May 4, 2007
Rhino is good for models, but not for my animation needs. To create animation I should buy an additional plug-in called Bongo.
Bruno Challenger
March 19, 2007
I had downloaded a demo version of Rhino.It was very limited all kind of accesses that's why I couldn't create any design. One more thing there is no listings of gem stone sizes, by carat, like 0.02, 0.25, 1.00 etc…
Big Problem
Karl Schulz
March 7, 2014
Great program but Rhino 5 crashes very frequently on all computers I've used. Don't know if this is a large scale problem but it definitely detracts from the experience.
Not for beginners
Naila Yehims
December 5, 2011
I wanted to learn this for a design project but it just too me way too long to learn it. In the end, I shifted to a much easier 3-d modelling software..it took me half a day to master it
Good software, bad company
Don Straus
July 12, 2011
My company bought Rhino 4.0 and found the software to be very useful. However, when we needed to move the software to a faster computer and could not find the original disk and activation code, NcNeel said we had to pay $1000 for a replacement disk. This is piracy. The CEO was sarcastic and condescending. Better to use the built in rendering in Solidworks than deal with pirates.
Rhinoceros 4.0
July 6, 2009
I used the rating, FAIR, only because I was not able to find the S/W utilities that would allow me to design the drawing that I wanted. I'm sure that the utilities are there somewhere but I could not find them. All S/W should be intuitive as far as how it works and where to find readily what is needed. With more learning time, I can probably do what i want to do but time is not a luxury.
Rhino 4.0
Rhys George
April 20, 2007
Still cant get the time to actually understand its full capacity. It is not easy if you are not used to this kind of programme. I find it hard to coprehend in some of its tasks, but maybe its's because I don't have a lot of spare time to just sit and play with it to understand it. I will keep on trying though.
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January 1, 1829
THE COLUMBIAN INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA, PLAINTIFFS IN ERRORv.JOSEPH W. LAWRENCE, SURVIVOR OF LAWRENCE & POINDEXTER, DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.
THIS was a writ of error to the circuit court of the county of Alexandria in the district of Columbia.
The action was brought, originally, by Lawrence & Poindexter, on a policy of insurance for $7000 against fire on a mill.
The declaration, after setting out the contract of insurance, avers that the plaintiffs 'were interested in and the equitable owners of the insured premises at the time the insurance was made.' After stating the loss by fire on the 14th February 1824, as within the policy, there is the following averment: 'of which said loss, together with the proofs thereof in conformity with the conditions subjoined to the said policy, the defendants, on the 20th February 1824, at, & c. had due and regular notice.'
Upon the trial of the general issue, verdict and judgment passed for the surviving plaintiff, Lawrence, for the whole amount of the insurance, under certain instructions from the court, stated in two bills of exceptions tendered by the defendants, now plaintiffs in error.
During the progress of the suit, Poindexter, one of the plaintiffs, died, and the suit instituted in their joint names, was carried on in the name of the survivor, for the use of his assignee.
The evidence exhibited to the jury on the part of the plaintiff, showed that Lawrence & Poindexter, by their agents, had made application in writing to the defendants for insurance, in these words:
'What premium will you ask to insure the following property, belonging to Lawrence & Poindexter, for one year, against loss or damage by fire, on their stone mill, four stories high, covered with wood, situated on an island about one mile from Fredericksburg, in the county of Stafford? The mill called Elba; seven thousand dollars is wanted; not within thirty yards of any other building, except a cornhouse, which is about twenty yards off.'
The premium demanded, was one hundred and five dollars.
The application was made upon a printed form, of which blanks are kept at the insurance office, and filled up as required. At the foot of this document was the following:
N. B. Persons offering for insurance are requested to be particular in their descriptions, more especially of what materials the walls and roofs are constructed, &c.
The policy, an unsealed instrument, was executed in the usual form, containing the several stipulations, provisos, and exceptions, usual in fire policies; and among others, the following:
'And it is understood and agreed, as well by this company as by the assured named in this policy, and all others who may become interested therein, that this insurance is made and accepted in reference to the conditions which accompany these presents; and in every case the said conditions are to be used to explain the rights and obligations of the parties, except so far forth as the policy itself expressly declares those rights and obligations.'
Upon the back of this policy were printed the 'Fundamental rules of the Columbian Insurance Company,' and also, the 'Rates of annual premiums to be paid for insurance,' among which were:
'1. Persons desirous to make insurance on buildings, are to state in writing the following particulars, viz. Of what materials the walls and roofs of each building are constructed, as well as the construction of the buildings contiguous, thereto–whether the same are occupied as private dwellings or how otherwise–where situated–also the name or names of the present occupiers.
'Each building must be separately valued, and a specified sum insured thereon; and in like manner a separate sum insured on the property contained therein.
'All manufactories which contain furnaces, kilns, stoves, ovens, or use fire heat, are chargeable at additional rates.
'In the assurance of goods, wares and merchandise, the building or place, in which the same are deposited, is to be described, also whether such goods are of the kinds denominated hazardous, and whether any manufactory is carried on in the premises. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause the same to be described in the policy otherwise than as they really are, so as the same be charged as a lower premium than would otherwise be demanded, such insurance shall be of no force.
'2. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be insured as such, otherwise the policy will not extend to cover such property.
'9. All persons assured by this company, sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the company, and as soon as possible thereafter, deliver as particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath or affirmation, and by their books of accounts, or other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required; and shall procure a certificate under the hand of a magistrate or a sworn notary, of the town or county in which the fire happened, not concerned in such loss, directly or indirectly, importing that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured, and do know, or verily believe, that he, she, or they, really, and by misfortune, without any kind of fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fire, loss or damage to the amount therein mentioned; and, until such affidavit and certificate are produced, the loss claimed shall not be payable; also, if there appears any fraud, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution or payment, by virtue of his policy.'
The property intended to be insured, was proved to be a square building, four stories high, built of stone to the square or eaves, the roof being framed, and covered entirely of wood, the two gable ends running up perpendicularly from the stone wall to the top of the roof, they being constructed of wood.
On the 14th of February 1824, the property was destroyed by fire; and the following documents were given in evidence, to sustain the right of the plaintiffs to demand payment of the loss; the same having been exhibited as 'the preliminary proof of the loss claimed under the policy.'
Fredericksburg, February 16, 1824.
To the president, directors, and company, of the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria.
Gentlemen;–We regret that we have now to inform you of the total destruction of our mill by fire, on the night of the 14th inst., which was insured in your office, the particulars of which we will forward you as soon as we can prepare the necessary documents as laid down in the conditions accompanying the policy.
The affidavit of the said Lawrence & Poindexter, with the certificate of Murray Forbes, was annexed.
We hereby certify, that by the burning of our mill, situate on an island in the county of Stafford, about one mile from the town of Fredericksburg, and state of Virginia, called the Elba mill, four stories high, the walls of stone and covered with wood, on which seven thousand dollars were insured by us in the office of the Columbian Insurance Company of Alexandria, on the 9th day of April last, per policy No. 279, and which was destroyed by fire on the night of Saturday last, the 14th inst., we lost, or were damaged at least twelve thousand dollars, exclusive of the contents of said mill. We are entirely ignorant of the circumstances which occasioned the fire, and we further certify that we have no other insurance, directly or indirectly on the aforesaid property, except the above mentioned.
Commonwealth of Virginia, Stafford County, to wit:
Joseph W. Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter this day personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace for the said county, and made oath, in due form, that the above certificate contains the truth to the best of their knowledge and belief.
I, Murray Forbes, a magistrate duly commissioned, in and for the county of Stafford, and state of Virginia, do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Joseph W. Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter; that the fire originated in their mill burnt on the night of the 14th inst. by accident, or without fraud or design on their part, as far as I know or believe; and that the damage or loss they sustained by the said fire is at least ten thousand dollars. And I further certify, that the said mill was not within thirty yards of any other building, except a corn house, which was about twenty yards off.
The affidavits of Thomas Sedden and James Vasse, were annexed.
I, Thomas Sedden, of the town of Fredericksburg, in the county of Spottsylvania, and state of Virginia, do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with the mill called and known by the name of the Elba mill, owned and occupied by Joseph W. Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter, situate on an island in the county of Stafford, about one mile from the town of Fredericksburg; that the said mill was built of stone four stories high and covered with wood; that between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night, the 14th inst., I was alarmed by the cry of fire, which I soon ascertained to be the mill aforesaid; that I have since viewed the ruins, and am of opinion that it would require at least ten thousand dollars to rebuild the same, and restore the proprietors in the situation they were in previous to the said fire; that I have no knowledge or idea how the fire originated.
Thomas Sedden this day personally appeared before me, one of the commonwealth's justices of the peace of the county aforesaid, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate signed by his hand.
I, James Vasse, of the town of Falmouth, in the county of Stafford, and state of Virginia, do hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with the mill called and known by the name of the Elba mill, owned and occupied by Joseph W. Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter, situate on an island in the county of Stafford, and about one mile from the town of Fredericksburg; that the said mill was built of stone four stories high and covered with shingles; that between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night, the 14th current, I was alarmed by the cry of fire, which I soon ascertained to be the mill aforesaid; that I have since viewed the ruins, and I am of opinion that it will require the sum of ten thousand dollars, or thereabout, to restore the proprietors to the situation they were in previous to the said fire; farther, that I have no knowledge whatever how the fire originated.
James Vasse this day personally appeared before me, one of the commonwealth's justices of the peace of the county aforesaid, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate signed by his hand.
The plaintiff also gave in evidence the following extracts from the minutes of the proceedings of the insurance company in relation to the claim of payment for the loss.
Friday, 20th February 1824.–Lawrence & Poindexter. Claim made by them this day by their attorney, Anthony Buck, with the policy and certificates of loss by fire, on policy No. 279.
On the application of Anthony Buck, leave is given to Joseph W. Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter to assign to William J. Roberts policy No. 279, effected in this office, without prejudice to any defence which this office may have against the payment of the sum insured, or to the claim of John H. Ladd, & Co. under their attachment heretofore served on the president of this company.
Saturday, 13th March 1824.–Ordered, That the secretary address a letter to John Scott, to require the title of Lawrence & Poindexter to the Elba mill.
Thursday, 1st April 1824.–The following papers were this day received, to wit: A letter from John Scott, esq. Fredericksburg, covering copies of a deed from William and George Winchester to Joseph Howard and Joseph Lawrence; an agreement between Joseph Howard and Joseph Lawrence; and an agreement between Joseph Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter, Jun.
Friday, 16th April 1824.–In the case of Lawrence & Poindexter, Ordered, that a copy of the mortgage to the banks, proof of the execution of the contract between Lawrence and Poindexter on the day it bears date, and a copy of the notes in the bank be required.
Thursday, 22d April 1824.–Lawrence & Poindexter. The following papers were presented by R. I. Taylor, esq. inclosed to him by Mr. John Scott, Fredericksburg:–Deed of trust from Joseph Howard and Mary his wife, and Joseph W. Lawrence, to William J. Roberts, for the benefit of the banks, dated 13th May 1814.
An agreement between Joseph W. Lawrence and Thomas Poindexter, dated 28th November 1822.
A copy of a note drawn by Howard & Lawrence, dated 10th March 1824, to the Farmer's Bank of Virginia, at ...
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Cokie Roberts
|Cokie Roberts
|File:Cokie roberts 2944.JPG
at the 2014 National Book Festival
|Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs
December 27, 1943
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
|Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
|United States
|Alma mater
|Wellesley College
|Journalist, Author
|Known for
|Journalist, author, pundit, television l
|Contributing Senior News Analyst
|Steven V. Roberts (m. 1966)
|Rebecca Roberts
Lee Roberts
|Hale Boggs
Lindy Boggs
|Barbara Boggs Sigmund (Sister)
Tommy Boggs (Brother)
Daniel J. Hartman (son-in-law)
Paul Sigmund (brother-in-law)
Paul Sigmund, Jr. (nephew)
David Sigmund (nephew)
Stephen Sigmund (nephew)
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William Robertson Boggs (brother, deceased)
William C. C. Claiborne (ancestor)
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Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs;[2] born December 27, 1943), best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American journalist and author. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Roberts also works as a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation[3] and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.[4]
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was born on December 27, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received the sobriquet "Cokie" from her brother Tommy, who could not pronounce "Corinne".[2] Cokie Roberts is the third child and youngest daughter of ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana. He was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and a member of the Warren Commission. He was lost on a plane which disappeared over Alaska on October 16, 1972.[5] Her sister, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her late brother Tommy Boggs was a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.[6]
Roberts attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart, an all-girls school in New Orleans, before graduating from the Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, D.C. in 1960.[7] She graduated from Wellesley College in 1964, where she received a BA in Political Science.[8]
She has been married to Steven V. Roberts, a professor and fellow journalist, since 1966. They met in the summer of 1962, when she was 18 and he was 19.[9] They currently reside in Bethesda, Maryland. She and her husband have two children and six grandchildren. Their daughter Rebecca Roberts is also a journalist and was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio.
Roberts serves as a senior news analyst for NPR, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network. Roberts was the co-anchor of the ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts from 1996 to 2002, while serving as the chief congressional analyst for ABC News. She covered politics, Congress and public policy, reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts.
Before joining ABC News in 1988, Roberts was a contributor to PBS in the evening television news program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair for that program won her the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 1988.[10] From 1981 to 1984, in addition to her work at NPR, she also co-hosted The Lawmakers, a weekly public television program on Congress.
Prior to joining NPR, Roberts was a reporter for CBS News in Athens, Greece. She also produced and hosted a public affairs program on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Roberts is also a former president of the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.[citation needed]
Awards and honors
Roberts has won numerous awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award,[11] the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress[12] and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to "Who is Ross Perot?"[13]
In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was successfully treated for this.[14]
Some have questioned Roberts' objectivity as a journalist. While working in Guatemala in 1989 helping poor indigenous Guatemalans how to read, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico, was abducted, raped and tortured by members of a government-backed death squad, who believed she was a subversive.[15] During a subsequent interview, Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors. (The United States provided significant military aid to Guatemala at the time.) Roberts implied that Ortiz was lying about the entire episode, despite the fact that Ortiz later won a lawsuit against a Guatemalan general she accused in the case.[16] It was later revealed that Roberts' brother Tom Boggs' law firm Patton Boggs, was paid by the Guatemalan government to promote a more positive image of the regime, which was widely criticized internationally for human rights abuses.[17][18][19] Coupled with her treatment of Ortiz, Roberts's personal connection to a paid lobbyist for the Guatemalan government raised questions about her ability to report on the matter accurately.
The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has criticized Roberts for favoring corporate interests over those of working people. During a 1992 interview with Al Gore, for example, Roberts called for cuts in Medicare and Social Security, but suggested no cuts to the military budget.[20] Representative Alan Grayson has criticized Roberts' support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, which Grayson argues would cost the United States manufacturing jobs and worsen the United States' already large trade deficit, which has grown steadily since the passage of similar trade deals like NAFTA in 1994.[21] Grayson also noted that one of the chief lobbying groups pushing for TPP was Roberts' brother's lobbying firm, Patton Boggs.
Writing in Slate.com, Jack Shafer characterized Roberts' weekly segments for NPR's Morning Edition as "vacuous" and "four minutes of on-air blather" that relied heavily on her use of the word "interesting". Shafer also wrote, "Her segments, though billed as 'analysis' by NPR, do little but speed-graze the headlines and add a few grace notes. If you're vaguely conversant with current events, you're already cruising at Roberts' velocity. Roberts doesn't just voice the conventional wisdom; she is the conventional wisdom."[22]
- Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868. HarperCollins. 14 April 2015. ISBN 978-0-06-200276-1.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>. Stories about the formidable women of Washington, DC during the Civil War.
- We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition. HarperCollins. 1998. ISBN 978-0-06-187235-8.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>, essays
- Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation. HarperCollins. 13 April 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-009025-8.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> (2004). The book explores the lives of the women behind the men that wrote the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
- Ladies of Liberty. HarperCollins. 13 October 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-173721-3.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> continues the story of early America's influential women who shaped the US during its early stages, chronicling their public roles and private responsibilities.[citation needed]
- Cokie Roberts; Steven V. Roberts (7 April 2009). From This Day Forward. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-186752-1.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Cokie Roberts; Steven V. Roberts (8 March 2011). Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-207465-2.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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Our Steller's Jay classroom (2-3-year-olds) has been investigating ice and snow! Teachers put snow in the Sensory Bin along with four spray bottles of colorful water. You will see the children exploring and having a ton of fun. But what are the underlying learning goals?
Posted at the center is the main objective for this activity: "Control small muscles in hand." Teachers are setting up this center with the intention of students using their fine motor skills to squeeze spray bottles. This builds hand strength and muscle control, which are necessary for holding writing implements and preparing children for pre-writing skills.
In addition to fine motor development, children are also learning:
In addition to fine motor development, children are also learning:
- Social emotional skills: "Children demonstrate a belief in their abilities." Students will show the ability to adjust when things do not go their way. If they want to spray the blue color, but another child is using that bottle, the child needs to wait for their turn. Children are practicing delayed gratification and flexibility. Every day is a good day to practice sharing and taking turns. By having only four spray bottles, children will need to request turns, decide when and how to share the bottle, consider each other's needs and feelings, and use their strong voice to stand up for their needs.
- Science and Problem Solving: "Children explore cause and effect." There are many ways children can explore cause and effect by spraying water on snow. The action of squeezing the spray bottle and water coming out, mixing colors together, accidentally spraying their friend and the friend becoming upset, thinking about the nature of snow by spraying the warm water and watching the snow melt, and touching the snow and feeling their hand becoming cold.
- Communication: "Children can express themselves using words and expanded sentences." Children are communicating verbally and non-verbally all the time. At this center they would need to use their words to request a turn, ask a friend to play, stand up for their rights, and engage in an imaginative scenario with a peer.
- Cognitive skills: "Approaches problems flexibly." In order to continue to hold interest and be exciting, children may find new materials to bring into the snow, and use them in interesting ways. For example, a child might bring the people over from the block center and use their imagination to create a colorful snow world. The possibilities are endless!
- Creativity: "Uses different mediums to create form and meaning." Students may spray the snow to create a work of art, changing the white canvas into a rainbow of color.


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To make exclusions that are based on the process executables, you should use the following processes:
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The following directory-specific exclusions for Operations Manager include real-time scans, scheduled scans, and local scans. These directories that are listed are default application directories. Therefore, you may have to modify these paths based on your specific environment. Only the following Operation Manager-related directories should be excluded.
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o ?:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Log ————- > SQL Logs
o ?:\Windows\Temp ——— > Windows Temp
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I'm really jazzed with the way this turned out. The sweater is a cotton-blend with the quilt motif done in intarsia. I knit the sweater many years ago and wore it quite a bit. But, I don't wear it any more. So, how did I do it? Well, I probably should have taken more pictures, but here's the basic order of events:
- Carefully take off the sleeves by undoing the seams. This required excellent light and small sharp scissors. Cutting any threads of the actual garment would result in an unraveled mess.
- Undo the side seams so you have flat fabric.
- I used one sleeve as the back of this bag. That way I have another sleeve and the back of the sweater to make a second bag. The sleeve limited the width of the bag but not too much. The bag is plenty big.
- I used the ribbing at the bottom of the sleeve for one top edge so no serging was necessary. But, for the front of the sweater, I'm cutting into actual knit fabric and need to secure the threads. I carefully marked the horizontal line where the top edge would be and ran an overlock stitch several times along that line. That way I can cut and it won't unravel.
- I pinned the sleeve to the front, right sides facing. Then I sewed a basic trapezoid using an overlock stitch to catch all the threads. Then I ran a second line of stitching just inside the first for extra insurance.
- Box the corners and overlock several times through. Cut out the excess to avoid bulk.
- Only then did I wash the piece. I ran it through my delicate cycle just to freshen up the yarn.
- Line the bag and add the handles. Here's a shot of the lining:
Just for grins, here is a bag I made from half of a dated poncho, also hand-knit by me. Both these bags will find happy homes with my son's teachers. And, I still have half a sweater and half a poncho for additional bags. I don't have a lot of cotton sweaters in my sweater cabinet. But, there are a few in there that will be seeing new life in the coming years. Buy less and make do!!


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Another one for the "Bad Fantasy Art" challenge on the Avalanche Blog. I wanted to make a design that poked fun at the stupidity (both in concept and intelligence) of the standard female fantasy character. However, I didn't get the chance to take it as far as I would have liked. That big round loopy shape in the background was originally a dragon looking up at her, but I ran out of time and patience. Someone suggested I should have also made her a "furry," half-cat-half-human, decked in revealing armor, but I wasn't sure I could paint that and still retain my sense of dignity.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Posted by Sam Nielson
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Sam, thanks for the comment. You've got such awesome stuff here! I'm really impressed with all the Avanlanche crew's work.ReplyDelete
Awesome work Sam!ReplyDelete
You gave her awesome shapes... and color!ReplyDelete
This is really great but you forgot the unicorn in the background.ReplyDelete
Love this piece,...
color, lighting and shape. Fantastic. Great work all around!
Very fun style.
Nice one, but did you realized that maybe the theme of "fantasy art parody" is being repeated because you enjoy doing it? Nothing bad on it, of course, since the result is so great as this drawing..:)ReplyDelete
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text: Hi All, There are two things that are driving me crazy with the native "Photos" app. I have searched, but I haven't found any solution. Hope someone can point a way 1) My photos are zoomed in, and cropped. I can fix each photo by pinching and releasing, but I have to do that every time I swipe to the next photo. This is a real problem for me as when I flip through my photos, all of my subjects heads are chopped off by the zoom! (I tend to shoot tightly ) Please tell me that this can be stopped! 2) The "Photos" app doesn't seem to remember where I left it. So, each time I start it, I have to manually select "Events" and then scroll down with multiple swipes - I have a LOT of events, so this takes me ~30 seconds. This is not optimal for me. Hope there is a solution for these - Thanx - Jon


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AnySharp bills itself at the world's best knife sharpener. I'd say it has the world's best knife sharpening video ever. I can't say if it's the best, but it is definitely the smallest, most convenient and easy to use sharpener. It uses a powerful suction cup to keep it in place and lets you sharpen serrated knives as well as scissors. The Pro model is $26.97 on Amazon
I have gone through more kitchen shears than I can count. They just don't seem to hold up very well. But so far I am having great success with the Smart Sizzors (from the makers of the AnySharp) They have lots of nifty features that allow you to open bottles, crack nuts or even crush garlic. Mainly I like the feel of them and how well they work on poultry. $20 on Amazon.
Once you become a customer of Thermoworks, you may find you want a little bit of everything in their product line. I have been using and abusing the Thermapen for months and it is a trooper. It's my favorite instant read thermometer of all times. It is splash proof, shuts off automatically and easy to use and clean. Expensive, but awesome. $96.
Another item I got a chance to test from Thermoworks is the ChefAlarm with high temp cooking probe. This does not have a remote, like the older model I had from another manufacturer, but it is much better quality and has a loud alarm when it reaches temperature. It also has a second probe for sous vide if you need that. It's designed for commercial kitchens. $59.00
ProCook cast iron cookware. I wrote about this earlier in the year and for anyone who wants to invest in a piece, the prices are simply unbeatable and the styling very attractive. I use my cast iron cookware for sautéing, braising, frying, baking, roasting--you name it. I always leave a piece on the stove because I use it so often. I love that you can use it on the stove or in the oven. It's also great for serving because it holds the heat so well. You can buy a set or just one piece. Right now an 8 inch 3.1 inch round casserole is $50 and there's a additional 20% off coupon if you use the code Extra20 and free shipping! You simply won't find cast iron cookware at a better price than that. $40 with discount
Berry Breeze is a very practical gift. Instead of placing a box of baking soda in your refrigerator, the Berry Breeze uses activated oxygen to help keep food fresher much longer. It's battery operated and takes up very little space. I definitely have noticed a difference since I started using it. Produce stays fresher longer and there is no odor. $49.95
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Liver is not something that is often loved. Truth be told, when I first encountered it as a child I was terrified of it. But even then, I was always known to always try something at least once before dismissing it. I'm glad I still have that quality because I would have missed out on a lot of things if I didn't have the courage to just overlook their 'scariness factor' and get on with it.
What's lovely about the Vietnamese heritage is that it's heavily influenced by the French, and who doesn't want to be mixed up in all that loveliness? My dad actually learned French as his first language before he even learned Vietnamese or English and I'm still dreaming of the day when I get to visit myself. Anyway, one thing I thank the French for is pâté, which taught me how to love liver. We Vietnamese spread it all over our sandwiches every chance we get. I decided to try to make it myself using Julia Child's recipe and it was quite possibly the easiest, quickest appetizer I've ever made. Oh yes, and very, very delicious. I couldn't believe how good it was, especially with the super flavorful and crispy Gruyere crostini! I served mine alongside some cornichons for an added tangy contrast.
Julia Child's Chicken Liver Mousse
Yields: about 2 cups
Original recipe here.
2 cups chicken livers
2 tbsn. minced shallots (I used one whole shallot)
2 tbsn. butter
1/3 cup cognac
1/4 cup whipping cream
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. allspice
1/8 tsp. pepper
pinch of thyme
1/2 cup melted butter
kosher salt and pepper
Remove any greenish or blackish spots from the livers, as well as any sinew. Cut the livers into 1/2" pieces. Melt the butter over medium heat in a sauté pan until the foam has subsided. Saute the livers with the shallots in butter for 2 - 3 minutes or until the livers are just stiffened, but still rosy inside. Scrape into a blender jar. Pour the cognac into the pan and boil it down rapidly until it has reduced to 3 tbsn. Scrape into the blender. Add the cream and seasonings into the blender, cover, and blend at top speed for several seconds until the liver is a smooth paste. Add the melted butter and blend several seconds more. Adjust the seasonings to taste. Pack into a bowl or jar and chill for 2 - 3 hours before eating.
Gruyere Crostini
Yields: 20 - 25 crostini
Original recipe here.
1 loaf of crusty rustic bread or sourdough
4 tbsn. butter
1 tsp. smooth Dijon mustard
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tbsn. finely minced parsley (optional)
1 1/2 oz. finely grated Gruyere (about 1/3 cup)
2 tbsn. finely grated Parmigiano or Romano cheese
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Using a bread knife, slice the loaf into thin crostini (about 1/2 - 3/4 cm thick) In a small bowl, combine the melted butter and mustard and whisk to combine. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Use a pastry brush to brush this mixture lightly on each side of the crostini. Lay the crostini on a foil or parchment paper lined baking sheet side by side. In a small bowl combine the two cheeses and parsley. Sprinkle the cheese over the tops of all of the crostini. Bake for 10 minutes until golden brown or even a little darker if you prefer it a bit crunchier. These are best eaten right away or the same day.


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text: Rifts Beneath the Ocean In this Centennial episode of Third Pod from the Sun, oceanographer Kathy Crane tells how she helped discover hydrothermal vents in the ocean floor and the strange creatures living in this environment. Listen Now Awards for Publications AGU's new GeoHealth journal and the book, Global Flood Hazard, received three PROSE Awards last week. This notable achievement recognizes scientific and publishing excellence. Read more Ethics and Equity Center The Center addresses and ameliorates bias, harassment, and discrimination in the Earth and space sciences and offers free legal consultation to members of AGU and partnering organizations. Learn more Virtual Poster Showcase AGU's Virtual Poster Showcase provides undergraduate and graduate students with a chance to hone their research and presentation skills. Learn More Rifts Beneath the Ocean Awards for Publications Ethics and Equity Center Virtual Poster Showcase


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Autumn Term
Writing: Monty Weatherall (Year 10)
This half term has seen a good start to sport at DCGS. Hundreds of students from Year 7 to the Sixth Form have represented the school in numerous sports.
In rugby, the seniors have started off well, with many students getting involved - notably some Year 11s gaining invaluable experience playing senior rugby for the 1st XV or the 2nd XV. Year 11 have put in some good performances, beating Watford Grammar in an exciting fixture and narrowly losing to a strong Haberdashers' team. Year 10 have safely secured their place in the next round of the Natwest vase tournament after putting in a thrilling performance to beat Parmiter's School 64-7. In the junior school, Year 9 most notably beat Forest school 31-5, while Year 8 is certainly an exciting year for Challoner's rugby: over 50 boys have represented the school and they are working for the Bucks cup title after they beat Burnham Grammar 57-0. Year 7 have shown potential after they won one game and lost one in their first caps against Forest School.
In football the Year 7 team have adjusted well to playing on smaller pitches. It has been goals galore and they have put in some fantastic performances like their win over Chalfonts 9-0 and their hammering of Westminster School 10-0 in the national cup. Alex Lee starred with 9 of the 19 goals. Year 9 football has been a great success. Their best performance by far came against Beaconsfield School when they won 14-0. The B team have also been competing well in the district league. The Year 10 team have moved into the next round of the Bucks cup after putting in a fantastic performance against Bourne End, winning 6-1. The 1st team have started with a 100% record including wins over Milton Keynes and Royal Latin. They also played in a great match to draw 3-3 with Eton College.
In cross country, our Junior and Intermediate teams competed at the ESAA cup first round at Cottesloe School. In the junior race, Angus Williams ran superbly to win. Alex Aldred and Tom Hunter were also in the top 10, whilst our other three runners Patrick Coyle, Daniel Cox and Angus Love all finished in the top 20. Our Intermediate team, led by Redford Denson of Year 10, won in 2nd place overall - qualifying for the Regional Final.
Thank you to Mr Deadman and his team for taking their time to organise and support all the fixtures this half term.


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DOTC is a Collaborative Partnership Between DoD and NAC
Who We Are
The Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) was commissioned by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics as a DoD initiative. The goal was to facilitate collaborative Government, Industry and Academic ordnance technology development and prototyping. Initially in 2000 the National Armaments Consortium (NAC) was partnered with the Army's Warheads and Energetics Technology Center, or WETC, located at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. Shortly after the NAC/WETC partnership was forged, the NAC expanded its role and became the industrial/academic component of the newly formed DOTC when it was stood up as a purple organization in December 2002.
What We Do
Integrate the DoD Ordnance community to work collaboratively in RDT&E of prototype solutions to advance and transition ordnance systems, subsystems and component technologies.
The DOTC Business Model
DOTC operates under Other Transaction Agreements (OTA) (10 U.S.C. 2371b) between the Government and the ATI, the acting NAC Consortium management firm. ATI also serves as a single point contracting agent for the DOTC. This unique model has resulted in more than 650 initiatives awarded to NAC members totaling more than $3 billion since 2009.
DOTC Mission
To enhance our Warfighter's lethality, survivability and combat effectiveness by facilitating the industrial and academic research, development and technology demonstrations needed to advance and expand our military technological superiority.
What is DOTC
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Key Feature
A key feature of the enterprise is its ability to leverage the capabilities and investments of all of its constituents – Government, Industry and Academia -- to maximize Return on Investment. This is accomplished through its joint planning and project execution process. In operation for the last sixteen years, DOTC is available to all Service laboratories and any other Government Agencies to aid in development and prototyping of advanced concept warheads, energetics, fuzes and other ordnance items.
Technology Areas
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- Safe & Arm Fuzes
- Fuze Producibility
- High G-Force
- Fuze Sensors
- Other
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- Minimum Signature Missile Propulsion
- Blast Fragment Warheads
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- Equipment Survivability
- Demolitions
- Active and Passive Armors
- Other
Protection & Survivability
- Air-to-Air
- Air-to-Surface
- Surface-to-Air
- Surface-to-Surface
- Shoulder Launched
- Other
Rockets, Missiles and Bombs
- Multispectral
- Data Processing and Data Links
- Tactical Cyber
- Electronic Warfare
- GPS Denied
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
- Command, Control and Networking
- Other
Sensors & Sensor Systems
- Shaped Charge/Explosively Formed Penetrator
- Kinetic Energy
- Multipurpose
- Unitary
- Other
Lethal Mechanisms
- Small Caliber
- Grenade Launchers
- Medium Caliber Cannons
- Mortars
- Large Caliber Artillery
- Non-lethal Weapons
- Mechanisms & Effects
- Fire Control
- Accessories
- Electric Weapons
- Aera Denial
- Joint Service Small Arms Program
- Other
Weapon Systems