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Director David McVicar has been knighted and both choirmaster Gareth Malone and former ROH Director of Opera Elaine Padmore made OBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
David is currently in rehearsals for his production of Les Troyens, which will open on 25 June. His acclaimed Royal Opera productions include Salome, Le nozze di Figaro and Aida.
Gareth is currently working on Hot House, a community project which will result in a main stage performance and formation of a new national company. Following the success of the Military Wives choir - which he coached to number one position in the album charts - Gareth recently performed at the Queen's jubilee concert outside Buckingham Palace.
Michael Berkeley, chairman of the Governors of The Royal Ballet, receives a CBE and former Director of Opera Elaine Padmore is made an OBE. Former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and William Trevett (AKA Ballet Boyz) receive CBEs, as does Brenda Last.
Others honoured include Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Edward Gardner and Gary Barlow.


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A tipster writes in to tell us that Billy Packer has remained quite mum on the subject of the MVC during the UConn/Kentucky. Jim Nantz has mentioned it, of course, giving a little dap to the MVC. Packer just wallowed in awkward silence afterwards.
He did find time a bit later to make excuses for the power conference teams, though, saying that they were worn down by conference tournaments. But, as the tipster says, they play those in the Missouri Valley, too.
Elsewhere, George Mason appears to be our best chance at an upset right now. They lead UNC by 3 right now. Bucknell trails Memphis by 16 in the 2nd half, Northwestern St. is down 22 at the half (after WVU's Darris Nichols hit a halfcourt shot as time expired), and Kentucky trails, but by just 7, in the 2nd half against UConn.

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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day as a family was an interesting experience last weekend.
The St. Patrick's Day Parade and Festival in Ocean City is one of my favorite events of the year. It was when I was a kid and continues today as a young adult (at least that's how I like to refer to myself).
Prior to having a family, I had a pretty decent streak going where I attended the festivities each year and consequently had too much fun just about every year.
During one parade in the late-90s, I even participated and volunteered to don the "purple moose" costume for the landmark saloon on the Boardwalk.
Priorities have a way of changing quickly with kids and that often revolves around balance. It's undoubtedly been a good thing for me.
Figuring that Beckett and Carson might be a nightmare with the crowds, we sat out last year's event, and it was cancelled in 2010 due to weather. Therefore, it has been a few years since I attended.
This year we packed up the kids and headed into town. All in all, it was great fun.
Close to the stage in the 45th Street Village area, there was a makeshift dance floor set up and that's where we spent most of our time.
Despite being parents for almost four years now, Pam and I left our bag with snacks, drinks and other kid essentials in the car. That was quite the goof and mistakes like that drive me crazy. We should know better. Of course, we didn't realize it until we needed it for a snack, and it was too far to venture back through the crowded streets with two strollers.
Food is often the answer when our kids get bored and eventually forgetting that bag became more of an issue, particularly for Beckett, who was not content after wolfing down a hot dog (without the roll, of course). Carson seemed satisfied simply observing the crowds from his stroller and wiggling a little here and there to the Irish tunes.
Fortunately, an extremely nice woman (whose name I did not get) came prepared and bailed us out more than she will ever realize.
Somehow along the way, Beckett got a hold of a bag of cereal she had brought along for her granddaughter, who was cutting some rug on the dance floor, and therefore she had a new best friend.
It seems her granddaughter had munched on the Lucky Charms already, picking out her treasured marshmallows and leaving behind the other stuff. Beckett was quick to munch on the remainder of her snack.
It was no easy chore attempting to get him to return the food, and the friendly lady let him go at it and we are grateful.
Her kindness gave us another hour and has also led to some Lucky Charm requests from Beckett later in the week. We thank her for that.
Yes it truly does take a village, appropriate for a few different reasons on that day.———————————————————
Everyone calls us crazy, and that's probably accurate, but Beckett is getting a set of drums for his birthday in a couple months.
The kid has a need to jam. So much so that over the weekend we gave him some paper towel rolls and set up a makeshift drum set in the living room.
What followed was comedy as he ordered Pam to man the Elmo keyboard and me to shred up the Elmo guitar, while he played the drums and belted out his favorite tunes. He seemed to enjoy the idea of playing drums while singing in an ode to Phil Collins.
The set list that day ran the gamut from Sesame Street and Laurie Berkner to Bob Dylan (he likes The Mighty Quinn) and The Wonder Pets theme song. There were some other tunes mixed in that nobody else knew but him.
While all this took place, Carson was taking the opportunity to scale some furniture, slam the French doors and steal a drum or two from Beckett when his head was turned.
The old paper towel rolls took such a beating they started to shred, causing a decent temper tantrum from Beckett.
To stave off a complete loss of all sanity, Pam resorted to duct tape and that did the trick. It actually seemed to make them better.
The drum fascination seems to be popping up everywhere, including in church on Sunday. You see, featured prominently in the sanctuary is a drum set and Beckett fixates on it, of course.
Consequently, thanks to a friendly fellow parishioner, we use a few minutes on the drums after church as a reward for good behavior. He has excellent rhythm for a 3-year-old.
If a set of skins keeps him entertained, I am all for it. Surely, it will be a regrettable purchase down the road, but in the meantime perhaps it will reduce the number of taps Carson takes on the head from Beckett.
I drove to Salisbury on business the other day and the entire time listened to The Muppets' Just Dance video playing in the back seat. I didn't even realize it until I got to Salisbury and discovered news broke that Peyton Manning had decided to join the Denver Broncos next season. Rather than listening to the latest on this, I was listening to the Cookie Monster.I don't know what that says about me.


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Nearly 3,500 people have watched Corey Scherrer go down on one knee and propose marriage to Ashleigh Gravel.
That's in addition to the zoo employees, videographer and the 8,945-pound elephant named Surapa who were present when Scherrer popped the question last summer. ¶ Scherrer's unusual surprise proposal inside the elephant house at the Buffalo Zoo has been a hit on YouTube, and it's not the only one. Several other couples from the region can be found popping the question on the video-sharing website, including one video in which the Cheektowaga Community Chorus materializes from the crowd in the baggage claim area at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in April and serenades Sarah Candelora as Carm Saieva kneels and proposes.
The local videos are among the hundreds posted online, recording proposals ranging from simple and sweet to elaborately arranged and even choreographed.
While couples' willingness to share this intimate, life-changing event with the world might surprise their grandparents, it has become accepted among their peers.
"There are a lot of things that previous generations would have considered to be very private events. ... This generation that has grown up with Facebook and online sharing is much more comfortable with sharing publicly," says Gregory R. Wood, associate dean of the Richard J. Wehle School of Business at Canisius College.
In his classes as a professor of marketing and information systems, Wood often discusses social media use with his students. "This generation is learning to create performances," he says.
Smartphone and tablet technology put cameras in the hands of people nearly everywhere, and an avid market has developed on YouTube and TV entertainment magazine shows for such heartwarming videos as a military parent's surprise return from deployment or a romantic marriage proposal,
Wood says, "This is very clearly an extension of the reality TV phenomenon," but he points out that posting videos online goes beyond reality TV. "People are empowered to publish the contents themselves," he says. "There's no barrier at all, you take your video camera and film yourself, friends and family, and upload it."
The big question
Scherrer, the groom, admits that he is "the type of person who likes to go over the top with everything, so I was trying to think of something large scale" for his proposal. Because he knew that Gravel always had loved elephants, he told her that they had an opportunity to take a special tour of the elephant house, where they would watch Surapa paint.
It took him three months to arrange the details, Scherrer says, with a lot of help from zoo staff. "They gave my friend Emily, who was the videographer, a zoo T-shirt, and fake tickets were made up for this elephant encounter," he says.
Adding to his stress, he said, was the fact that "Ashleigh is extremely intelligent, she will catch onto any little thing, and I was having anxiety attacks. It was horrible," says Scherrer.
"I am quite the detective," she admits. "I still can't believe he kept this secret from me."
Inside the elephant house, they watched as Surapa daubed paint on a poster. When a keeper turned it around, it said "Ashleigh, will you marry me?"
"She told me later that she saw the sign and read it six times before she saw me on my knee, and she kept thinking, 'Hey, that's my name. What's going on here?'" says Scherrer.
The video includes some editing after the proposal, says Scherrer, "to give it a little more of a romantic tone. People have said that she didn't seem that excited, but she was, she was freaking out. She was saying, 'How did you get this past me?' "
Since the proposal was posted on YouTube, Scherrer says, "I can't even describe to you how many messages on Facebook, how many emails, how many phone calls, how many conversations I have had about this. It's unreal the interest there has been for this." The video can be seen on YouTube with the title "Buffalo Zoo Elephant Proposal."
Gravel says, "I am a more private person than Corey, and it took me a minute when he said [the videographer] wanted to post it on YouTube. But then I thought, 'Why not share something that's this happy with everybody?'"
Scherrer and Gravel married Aug. 25, a year, a month and a day after the elephant house proposal. "He did a wonderful, wonderful job and I couldn't be happier," says the new bride.
Sharing the moment
Not one but two YouTube videos - neither arranged by the couple involved - document the moment when, with the Cheektowaga Community Chorus singing along, Carm Saieva asked Sarah Candelora to marry him in baggage claim. Together, the videos, each titled "Endless Love Proposal," have drawn more than 1,700 views.
Saieva arranged for the serenade by email and phone calls with chorus president Chris Kotowski. Since they had never met, he sent Kotowski a photo of himself in the distinctive blazer he would wear at the airport, where Candelora was picking him up. As far as she knew, the two would then hit the road for Hamilton, Ont., where they live.
"I had no idea that the videotaping was going to be happening," Saieva said. As the couple's friends and relatives hid among the people in baggage claim, Saieva's sister found a friend who taped the event.
Candelora and Saieva descend the escalator and walk past the chorus as the singers begin. It isn't until Saieva turns to face her and the singers surround them that she realizes what is happening, dropping her bag, gasping and putting both hands over her face.
Although the original plan was for the chorus to sing a full verse before Saieva proposed, he says, "I did it quick. I was getting nervous because when I came down the escalator, I could see everybody hiding."
His fiance was "completely shocked," says Saieva. "She was teary-eyed and almost couldn't comprehend what was going on."
But she did say yes.
Like Scherrer, Saieva says he sometimes has a difficult time keeping a secret. "I am terrible at surprises, I sometimes let the cat out of the bag," he says. "So I thought, I have to do something that will catch her completely off guard and she'll never know - and it worked."
The husband of a woman in the chorus also taped the event, and Saieva gave the group permission to post it. The baggage area was full as he proposed, says Saieva. "I wish somebody had caught all the expressions of the people around us - and they were videotaping it too."
When things go wrong
Every proposal ends with a question, and no matter how long the couple has been together there is always a chance that her answer might be no. Whether shocked by the surprise, harboring unspoken doubts or asked by a man who has totally misread the relationship, some women reject proposals. YouTube provides plenty of humiliating evidence, although some of the rejection films seem fake.
Some doubt still hovers around an awkward moment on the Ellen DeGeneres show last December, when a man popped the question to his girlfriend, who was in the audience. She burst into tears, saying, "I can't! I'm sorry!" There was plenty of online buzz about whether the incident was staged or real; an official comment was ambiguous.
Sometimes the answer is yes but things go awry anyway. In late July, a woman missed her boyfriend's Jumbotron proposal at Wrigley Field in Chicago. A man named Greg asked his girlfriend, Erica, to go for beer so he could alert the people around them to the planned event. But the beer line was long, the inning was short and cameras caught the man sitting forlornly alone when the Jumbotron message flashed, "Erica, will you marry me?" She later returned and Greg was filmed on one knee, slipping the ring on her finger.
Some elaborate surprise proposal videos have become viral hits. "Isaac's Live Lip-Dub Proposal," posted in May, has 15.6 million views. The proposal featured a good-natured crowd, including a uniformed marching band, dancing and singing to Bruno Mars' "Marry You."
The proposal videos can cause some grumbling, too. Saieva says when friends hear about his romantic proposal, the women are impressed, but, he says, "To this very day, I get a lot of men saying, 'You set the bar really high!'"
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Driver dies in SUV rollover on East Freeway
A 25-year-old man died after he lost control and his SUV rolled several times Thursday morning on the East Freeway, officials said.
News: Rodent causes partial blackout of downtown Houston
The man, who has not been identified, was driving his Chevrolet TrailBlazer near the 9900 block of east Interstate 10 around 5:30 a.m., according to the Houston Police Department.
The TrailBlazer veered off the roadway into a grassy median and rolled over several times. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
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Picasa Web Albums added some new features for managing your favorites and your fans. As you probably know, you can add any Picasa Web user as a favorite to get notified when he uploads new pictures. When you add him as a favorite user, you'll be included in his list of fans and he'll receive an email notification.
Until now, you couldn't remove users from the list of fans, but Google changed this: if the list of fans includes spammers, you can block them. Users "will be blocked from commenting on your photos and adding you as favorite. Blocking someone cannot be undone," mentions a warning. You can also block users who post offensive comments.
Picasa Web Albums added a list of "suggested favorites", which includes all your contacts that use Google's photo sharing service. It's a good opportunity to find interesting photos uploaded by your contacts and to add them to your favorites.
But if you can add users to a list of favorites, why is there no option to favorite images? Picasa Web added a link below each photo: "I like this" and the number of likes, but you can't keep track of the photos you like.
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Let me repeat, if you are very new to ExtendScripts, see the first two entries in this series. Here we are going to see a bit more complex example. This is what we are going to accomplish: If a book file is opened, running the script opens all FrameMaker files (chapters) added to it. Based on a property that we set in the script, it shows or hides a conditional text and then creates a pdf file of the book.
Before trying out this example, ensure that you do the following:
- Create a FrameMaker book, myBook.book. And, save it in a directory, FM_script, in your C: drive. (Feel free to change the name and location of the file. In that case, update the bookFile property value in the script.)
- Add two chapters to the book.
- Open the first chapter.
- Add some texts and apply the conditional text, Comment. (Comment is a default conditional text added in all the FrameMaker files. Don't ask me how to apply a conditional text. Google is your friend.)
- Do step 3 to 4 for the second chapter.
Let us prepare a logical order for what we are going to accomplish:
- Open the book file. (Let us do it by ourselves; we will not seek help of the script. :))
- Open the first chapter.
- Hide the conditional text, Comment.
- Open the second chapter and hide the conditional text, Comment.
- Save the book as a pdf in a specific name.
Let us write functions to code step 2 to 4. First we will write a function that opens all chapters in the book.
openedBook = app.ActiveBook
savePdf(openedBook,bookFile + ".pdf")
function openBookFiles(openedBook)
var bookChapter=openedBook.FirstComponentInBook
var chapterId = bookChapter.id
var chapterName = bookChapter.Name
chapterId = openFile(chapterName)
ShowHide(chapterId, "Comment", 1)
bookChapter = bookChapter.NextComponentInBook
chapterId = bookChapter.id;
The first line created an object of the active book. We decided to keep the book opened. We could have written a function to open the book by providing its path. This just a tutorial and I don't want to complicate things!! OpenBookFiles() function is called by providing the book object. It detected the first chapter using the FirstComponentInBook property. It also detected the component ID. A while loop is added and it's valid till we reach the last chapter in the book. We found the chapter name using the Name property and opened the chapter using the openFile() method. After each chapter is opened, it calls a function, showHide().
function openFile(chapterName)
openProp = GetOpenDefaultParams()
retParm = new PropVals()
return fileOpen;
You can open a FrameMaker file using the open() method. It needs three arguments: the file name, PropVal objects, and return parameters. PropVal objects is an array of values for various FrameMaker setting. We created the default ProPValue objects using the GetOpenDefaultParams() method. Return parameters are created using the new PropVals() method. The function opens the file and then calls the showHide() method:
function ShowHide(chapterId, condTextName, showOrHide)
CondFmtId = chapterId.GetNamedCondFmt (condTextName)
if (showOrHide)
CondFmtId.CondFmtIsShown = 1
CondFmtId.CondFmtIsShown = 0
chapterId.ShowAll = 0
The showHide() function accepts the following parameters:
chapterId – The reference to the FM file that is opened.
condTextName – The name of the conditional text. That is Comment.
showOrHide – It can be 0 or 1. If it is 1, the conditional text is visible in the pdf. If it's 0, conditional text is hidden.
Using the GetNamedCondFmt() function, it finds the conditional text ID of Comment, and based on showorHide value, it makes it visible or hidden by setting the CondFmtIsShown property to 1 or 0. After conditional texts are set, the script calls the savePdf() method to save the file as a pdf.
function savePdf(openedBook,pdfName)
var params = GetSaveDefaultParams()
var returnParamsp =new PropVals()
var i = GetPropIndex(params, FS_FileType)
params[i].propVal.ival =FV_SaveFmtPdf
openedBook.Save(pdfName, params, returnParamsp)
The function accepts reference to the book file and pdf name as the arguments. Using the GetSaveDefaultParams() method it gets all the default parameters of FrameMaker. It finds the File Type index, a unique value for FrameMaker using the GetPropIndex method. In the parameter's array, it changes the file type to pdf using the params[i].propVal.ival =FV_SaveFmtPdf method. Then, it saves the file as a pdf using the Save() method.
You can also download the script here. Let me know if you find any issues.
Try to improve the code. For example, if you have a folder added to the book, you may notice that the files in the folder are not getting opened. As I mentioned earlier, my intention was to give you an overview!! It is yours now. All the best!!


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Sour grapes leads to assault on checks and balances
Please read Paul White's excellent letter to the editor in the Feb. 27, 2013 edition of the Marion County newspapers. If you have recycled your newspaper already, check it out online.
Paul has addressed the issue of removing the checks and balances system of our three branches of governance: the executive, legislative, and judicial.
This attempt, that was originally elicited by the executive branch, was dutifully picked up by the legislative branch. The issue is a sour-grapes response to court's decision that the state does not meet its obligation to fund schools.
Obviously, there is no forethought given by those promoting this Constitutional change. The power structure will change in the future to another party in power. What will they do then?
It would be remiss of me not to reaffirm Paul's reference to sales tax. It is nearly 10 percent now in some Marion County communities. Even 9 cents out of every dollar one spends is exorbitant. Let's go for a balance of tax sources.
Contact your Reps. Don Schroeder and John Barker as well as Sen. Jay Emler alerting them that their constituents care about having representative governance and responsible tax policy.
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MONKTON — With four pressure-treated benches, some recycling bins and a creative scoring system on Bristol's tennis courts, 16-year-old Justin Kimball recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout and fulfilled a family tradition.
Only about 5 percent of Boy Scouts receive the highest rank, but Justin follows three older brothers in the achievement. Justin's cousin and grandfather are also Eagle Scouts.


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You're in the Nice Price or Crack Pipe army now, you're not behind a plow. You wouldn't need to be rich, to buy this Dodge with a hitch. You just need to vote right now.
In the military, structure, symmetry, and discipline are the dictates that are mandated to ensure cohesion. Loose canons or odd ducks need not apply. That means yesterday's custom 1972 Ford Mustang would have been 4F, and in fact an overwhelming 97% of you drummed it out of our service for both its ill-conceived presentation and correspondingly egregious price.
While not quite as iconic a military vehicle as the Humvee, or before that, and more appropriately, the Jeep, the Dodge M37 pickup was at one time almost as ubiquitous. Introduced just after WWII, the M37 was a ¾-ton pickup with 4-wheel drive and no-nonsense slab-sided styling derived from the earlier WC half-ton. Over the course of its production life - 1951 - 1968 -over 110,000 were built.
This particular 1951 M37 looks the conscripted part and comes with the simple as Gomer Pyle 230-CID flathead six, New Process 4-speed (synchro in the top two) gearbox, and a New Process 200 2-speed transfer case. Axles are cart-sprung, full-floating front and rear. If you are looking for something deathproof, this just might be your truck.
Also, if you are looking for something that could potentially cause your death, this might also be the ticket, as the ad notes the truck currently has no brakes. But them's the breaks and at least it comes with a hefty bumper-mounted tow bar so getting it home shouldn't be too tough.
These trucks were pretty elemental, but do offer some cool features like split fold out windshields and a grille and light guard sturdy enough to julienne a whole herd of zombies should that kind of shit go down. Before doing that however, you'd want to remember to close those windshields to keep you from getting sprayed with zombie entrails and penises.
Despite the brakes being AWOL, the seller says the rest of the truck runs fine, and in fact it carries a current OK title. You might consider the over-square flathead's 94-bhp too meager an output to move the truck's 5,678 lbs, but that's achieved at only 3,200-rpm making this a perfect mud slogger for either your front line or back forty.
Visually, this M37 seems completely intact - which isn't saying much as there's little to fall off these modestly-equipped workhorses. That parsimonious nature also seems to extend to this M37's asking price as the seller requests but $1,500 in trade. Add to that the required brake work - parts for which are readily available - and maybe a cursory dust-off, and this truck will be ready for military celebrations, car shows, Veterans Day parades, or just looking wicked cool in while maintaining military advantage in the slow lane. Sure the paint is kind of tired, but who cares, it's not like the standard issue olive drab was all that spiffy to start with. But the question remains, cool as it is, should anyone plunk down $1,500 for this '51 Army Dodge?
You decide!
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sollicitus, are you ipscientific? The "current regime" is based on job markets and alum base, which in turn is indirectly based on ranking or reputation. Online schools have none of that stuff, by design. There are some non-ABAs that do, I have known successful attorneys who went to non-ABAs, but never anyone who went to an online school (at least who admitted it or was working in a non legal field).
If the ABA did not discriminate against online degree holders by locking them out of 95% of state jurisdictions, the pass rate would be higher because more competent students would opt for online degrees. I get a kick out of all those sanctimonious law school graduates who suffered through endless boring and pointless lectures on Property law and Civil Procedure who claim online degrees worthless. In the end, most students get by memorizing outlines and taking Barbri.
Online schools cannot attract "good prospects" because online degree holders are locked out of at least 95% of all bars. The situation will only change when ABA law schools start offering online JDs like many regionally accredited bricks and mortar schools do now with graduate degrees. The ABA schools could then get rid of over paid law professors and hire adjuncts and in theory the cost to the student would drop.


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Those who thought all out elections would bring some stability to our Council must be feeling embarrassed this week as Council Leader Mohammed Pervez took a scalpel to his cabinet, cutting out the disobedient Gratton and challenger Hill, and carving up the other portfolios in what is quite clearly more than the 'tweaking' he described it as.
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U.S. Ports Update: Panama Canal preparation heats up
In anticipation of the Panama Canal expansion in 2014, the fight for market share of inbound cargo remains fierce among top U.S. ports.
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Influenced by an evolving maritime logistics industry, global trade transformations, the extension of the Panama Canal, and the growth of U.S. exports, U.S. port analysts see a bright, long-term future for our nation's gateways. Today, capital is being poured into seaport infrastructure from both the private and public sectors, responding to increased demand for port-centric warehouse and distribution space.
According to Jones Lang LaSalle's fourth annual seaport report, the U.S. East Coast ports will be especially competitive in 2013. "Developers, investment interests, and supply chain executives remain optimistic about our nation's seaports," says John Carver, head of Jones Lang LaSalle's Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure (PAGI) group.
As reported in the firm's earlier studies, commercial real estate surrounding major U.S. seaports continues to outperform the broader industrial market. But the report may do little to ease the minds of U.S. port authorities that argue that more must be done to make their operations efficient.
"Despite substantial investments by port authorities and private-sector business partners, inadequate infrastructure connecting ports to landside transportation networks and water-side shipping lanes often creates bottlenecks that result in congestion, productivity losses, and a global economic disadvantage for America," says Kurt Nagle, American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), president and CEO. "These congestion issues and productivity losses have the potential to stymie our ability to compete internationally."
Nonetheless, both the AAPA and PAGI analysts agree that the nation's leading ocean cargo gateways are spending the most on structural improvements. The Jones Lang LaSalle's report, which analyzes the health of major domestic container seaports and their surrounding real estate, also reveals that:
Exports are creating inland development opportunities. U.S. exports are now creating back-haul opportunities and are driving new connections between domestic maritime ports, inland destinations, and their surrounding distribution real estate markets.
Investment is pouring into ports. At least $13 billion of public investment is earmarked for port development in the next decade.
Limited options are available for large space uses. Only 20 blocks of space are available for users requiring 250,000 square feet within five miles of a major U.S. port.
Here's how the nation's leading seaports are putting investment to work to ensure their position in a competitive race that's only going to heat up in 2014.
The Port Index: Changes at the top
Success for some ports is detailed in the Jones Lang LaSalle Port Index, which ranks U.S. ports on terminal operating and real estate market factors—including the port's proximity to concentrated population and manufacturing hubs.
For the first time in its four-year history, the index has rated the Port of New York and New Jersey at the top of the list, followed closely by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
According to Aaron Ahlburn, head of industrial research for Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, these three major seaports profit from several factors: "First, they support vast local population centers; second, infill vacancy around the ports themselves remains tight and new development is prized; and third, they are connected to less land-constrained, adjacent markets that facilitate 'big-box' logistics space."
Ports like Seattle, with strong demographics and a sizeable consumer base within a 24-hour trucking window, have remained high on the Index. Similarly, others that are competitive shipping destinations, such as Houston, Miami, and Baltimore, are moving to re-establish more solid industrial leasing and investment conditions.
Ports that may not benefit from immediate large populations such as Hampton Roads, Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston remain important throughput hubs to move goods and materials into other parts of the country. However, Savannah, Charleston, Jacksonville, and Baltimore have higher vacancy rates in their surrounding port markets, but have experienced the fastest growth in occupancy over the last 18 months. "We expect development to remain cautious as these markets continue to strengthen over the coming quarters," says Ahlburn.
Many port markets that experienced significant "big box" development prior to the downturn have not been able to burn off their excess construction. Houston, Charleston, Savannah, and Jacksonville have double-digit vacancy rates.
But there are fewer than 10 existing warehouse or distribution facilities of more than 500,000 square feet within a 15-mile radius surrounding the major seaports, according to the report. For large users in markets such as Southern California or the Northeast, that means transporting cargo to inland destinations—inland ports—or bidding against other tenants for space.
This not only provides opportunities to develop smaller distribution centers or redevelop old ones, says Carver, "but it also serves to evaluate supply chain requirements, adapt potential transportation routes, and assess competitive drayage options."
Florida ports poised for growth
Miami-Dade County announced last month that the contracting phase of its project to deepen the Port of Miami's channel to minus 50 feet has begun with the solicitation of bids by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2013 and be completed in time for the opening of the expanded Panama Canal in early 2015.
Bill Johnson, the port's director, says that a deeper channel will provide ships with a more efficient, reliable, and safe navigational route into Miami. "As the closest port to the Panama Canal, we're well positioned to capture new trade opportunities," he says. "The port will double its cargo traffic over the next several years."
Meanwhile, a smaller, but important regional port to the north is undertaking three key expansion projects over the next six years. According to authorities at Port Everglades, the Broward County gateway will add five berths, widen and deepen the channel to 50 feet, and bring freight rail into the port.
According to spokesmen, Port Everglades must take these vital expansion steps to remain competitive with seaports in the Southeastern U.S. "The port already handles Post-Panamax ships," says Steve Cernak, the port's chief executive and director. "But they must be lightly loaded, which is inefficient and drive carriers away to other ports."
Gulf ports plan for inbound
The Port of New Orleans and Houston continue to vie for inbound first call. In fact, German ocean carrier Hamburg Sud recently added the Port of New Orleans to a new weekly service to Latin America through a space charter agreement with Hapag-Lloyd. The service will connect New Orleans with Caucedo, Dominican Republic; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio Grande, Mexico; and Suape, Santos, Navegantes and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"Hamburg Sud is among the world's top 20 container lines, and we're thrilled that they are now calling on the Port of New Orleans," says Port President and CEO Gary LaGrange. "This new service will allow our customers better access and more frequent service to Latin American markets."
The Port of Houston, meanwhile, is ranked first in U.S. foreign tonnage, second in total U.S. tonnage, and third in U.S. export tonnage. Federal customs revenue collected from the port's cargo exceeds $768 million per year. The $171 million in harbor maintenance tax collected annually from channel-related activities are far more than the $40 million to $50 million needed annually for adequate channel maintenance.
Compared with other Gulf and East Coast ports, Houston's ship channel receives a fraction of funds on a per-ton-of-cargo basis—9 cents where the average is 44 cents—resulting in inadequate channel maintenance. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for maintaining the channel, which is subject to constant siltation and erosion, based on money appropriated by Congress. Despite strong and bipartisan advocacy from the Harris County Congressional delegation, enormous pressures on the federal budget make it challenging to fund Corps projects nationwide.
West Coast promise
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission recently approved $7.5 million for the final phase of the Port of Los Angeles' Main Channel Deepening Project (MCDP). The project has taken the Port's main navigational channels and basins to a 53-foot depth, ensuring that the nation's number one gateway for containerized trade can accommodate container ships of all sizes for decades to come.
"Channel deepening has been our single-most important infrastructure priority," says Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D.
Dredging of the port's main channel and turning basins has already been completed. The final phase of the project involves removal of dredge surcharge material and completion of a shallow water habitat in the outer harbor.
The port's nine container terminal tenants rely on the port's deep channels to move cargo. Container terminals generate about 74 percent of port revenues and help facilitate hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs throughout Southern California. The 15-year, $370 million project will be completed in early 2013.
The Port of Oakland, meanwhile, continues its measured growth. When the port's executive director, Omar Benjamin, hired James J. Kwon to run the Maritime Division five years ago, ocean cargo industry insiders regarded the move as inspired.
Rather than choosing a port functionary for the post, Benjamin sought out a savvy, and worldly deal-maker. Kwon, who speaks both Korean and Chinese, was charged with making Oakland the first port of call for inbound transpacific cargoes and with keeping the gateway positioned as the leading outbound quay on the West Coast.
Kwon had the connections and experience to get the job done, too. Under his watch, Oakland welcomed the largest containership ever to call any seaport in North America. The MSC Fabiola—a 12,562 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent-unit) vessel—is part of the fleet of the world's second-largest shipping company.
Benjamin has also been recently praised for playing a key role in the port's redevelopment of the former Oakland Army Base (OAB). The OAB project involves a transformation of the former base into a world-class trade and logistics center that will strengthen Oakland's position as an export hub. The port handles 99 percent of all containerized goods in Northern California, and agricultural products represent approximately 40 percent of the total value of exports.
About the AuthorPatrick Burnson, Executive Editor Patrick Burnson is executive editor for Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management Review magazines and web sites. Patrick is a widely-published writer and editor who has spent most of his career covering international trade, global logistics, and supply chain management. He lives and works in San Francisco, providing readers with a Pacific Rim perspective on industry trends and forecasts. You can reach him directly at
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Chilled Entrees--Dozen Best
Tom Fitzmorris June 20, 2014 10:01
At some point during our relentless New Orleans summers, even people disinclined to eat cold dishes open to the idea. Chilled dishes grow in their appealing the longer hot weather lingers. Here's a list of the dozen best such summertime delicacies. We are fortunate in having many locally-grown foods that lend themselves to this sort of thing. Among them, crabmeat is king, followed closely by big shrimp. Certain cold dishes have come to be such widespread classics that I have left them out of the consideration. Most of these have their own lists. Not included here are: Shrimp Remoulade Raw oysters Salads Sushi and sashimi Sandwiches That leaves a top dozen chilled dishes that are not only delicious but offbeat. That's enough to keep your interest for the remaining--what is it, eight more months?--of summer.
1. Pelican Club. French Quarter: 615 Bienville. 504-523-1504. In the warm months, the seafood martini is a must to begin any meal at the PC. Lobster, crabmeat, and shrimp come together on top of chilled, lumpy mashed potatoes (you may not even notice that's what it is), covered with a great ravigote sauce.
2. La Petite Grocery. Uptown: 4238 Magazine. 504-891-3377. Steak tartare has almost disappeared from restaurants nationwide. Reason: fear of raw beef, which is what this is. The best was on Arnaud's lunch menu before the storm, but that meal is extinct. However, the tartare at La Petite Grocery is fully satisfying, and something I start with at least every other meal there.
3. Clancy's. Uptown: 6100 Annunciation St. 504-895-111. Crabmeat Louis is not really a New Orleans dish--the most convincing story is that it originated in San Francisco a century ago. But it sure seems local, showing off our jumbo lump crabmeat nicely. It's a light salad, fleshed out not only with the crabmeat but deviled egg quarters and a sauce made of mostly of mayonnaise, with chili sauce, horseradish, and green onions. Perfect in summer, as either an appetizer or an entree.
4. Bistro Daisy. Uptown: 5831 Magazine. 504-899-6987. The idea of pairing beets with crabmeat seems crazy--the red beet juice gets all over the white lumps. But the flavors are really perfect together. The idea first appeared at the extinct Peristyle, where Chef Tony Schulte worked before he moved to La Petit Grocery, then to his own Bistro Daisy. The chilled crabmeat 'n' beets remains a fixture on his menu there, as offbeat and fascinating as ever.
5. Cafe Giovanni. French Quarter: 117 Decatur. 504-529-2154. The spicy seafood Caprese combines the standard tomatoes and fresh mozzarella (which makes it Caprese) with nice-looking local crabmeat, shrimp and crawfish. The sauce is a very light white remoulade. It's made as an appetizer, but it's almost big enough for an entree. Chef Duke's antipasto assortment would also make this list.
6. Mariza. Bywater: 2900 Chartres St. 504-598-5700. Quite a few restaurants make their own cured, smoked charcuterie and salumi. It's very hip to do so, and most of those who make the commitment do it well. . But at this moment the most impressive, exacting such board is covered with the works of Ian Schnoebelen, who with his partner Laurie Casebonne owns Mariza. The version that includes cheeses, olives and condiments is particularly a pleasure.
7. Galatoire's. French Quarter: 209 Bourbon. 504-525-2021. "The Galatoire Goute" is three favorite cold appetizers on one plate. Here are a) jumbo lump crabmeat maison (a dish other restaurants call crabmeat ravigote), in a light mayonnaise with mustard, capers, and lemon; 2) shrimp remoulade, tangy, spicy, and made with Louisiana shrimp of unimpeachable merit, boiled and peeled on site; and iii) crawfish with a mustardy variation of the sauce on the crabmeat. Shrimp pinch-hits when crawfish are out of season. This makes a great lunch for one, or an appetizer for the table with cocktails.
8. Hoa Hong 9 (Nine Roses). Gretna: 1100 Stephens. 504-366-7665. Vietnamese spring rolls are the ones made with big shrimp and cold rice noodles, wrapped in the stretchy spring roll skins, and served with a spicy carrot sauce or peanut sauce. Haven't had better than here.
9. Cafe Granada. Carrollton: 1506 S Carrollton Ave. 504-865-1612. An assortment of cold tapas supplies everything you need for a meal: ham, salami, manchego cheese, olives, smoked salmon, grilled chilled asparagus, carpaccio of filet mignon, and ceviche of the day. Quite a variety.
10. Antoine's. French Quarter: 713 St Louis. 504-581-4422. Antoine's makes the richest and best vichyssoise in town. The potato-and-leek soup with more than a little heavy cream. They recently brought it back from limbo, and I hope it stays.
11. Lola's. Esplanade Ridge: 3312 Esplanade. 504-488-6946. No restaurant in New Orleans has made gazpacho longer than Lola's has. The late founder Angel Miranda premiered his gazpacho at his Altamira restaurant at the 1984 World's Fair. When he opened Lola's a few years later, he continued to make the cold vegetable soup in the style of his native Andalucia. All the vegetables are pureed, and the soup is thickened invisibly by the addition of bread. Terrific.
12. Kim Son. Gretna: 349 Whitney Ave. 504-366-2489. Vietnamese restaurants have a wide assortment of "bun" dishes--roasted meats atop cool noodles, perhaps outright cold. Kim Son has the definitive local version of that, made with beef or pork.


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A cyber security competition aimed at enticing ICT university students into the information security industry has been unveiled by the Gillard government.
The Cyber Defence University Challenge is designed to test the problem-solving skills of teams of Australian undergraduates in a virtual computer network scenario. It will run for 24 hours from the 3 to 4 April 2012.
Undergraduates across Australia who are studying computer science and related degrees are eligible to register. The prize is travel and entry to the Black Hat 2012 Conference in Las Vegas, USA, in July this year.
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said that the Challenge would "raise awareness of the importance of cyber security, particularly in the university and business sectors, while also showcasing career opportunities for ICT graduates."
"The need for greater awareness of cyber security issues and for more highly skilled ICT graduates were two of the key themes to emerge from the public engagement process associated with the government's Cyber White Paper, due for release later this year," Conroy said in a statement.
The Cyber White Paper is designed to cover a number of areas including consumer protection, cyber safety, cyber crime and cyber defence. It will look at how the federal and state governments, businesses and consumers can make use of the National Broadband Network (NBN) while ensuring cyber security risks can be managed.
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Here's a quick, free, cross platform way to make iPod ebooks. I'm heading off to Etech next week and since I'll have my iPod with me most of the time I figured I'd ebookify the conference schedule…Here's how to do it –
Visit the ebook creator site here. I cut and pasted the text from the Etech schedule, and cleaned up the text a bit- saved it as Etech.txt.
1. Choose the .txt file on the site, name it and upload.
2. Download the zip file the ipod-ebook-creator makes.
3. Unzip the file and place the entire folder in the notes section of your iPod.
If you can't access your iPod to add the files to the iPod you'll need to enable disk mode. In iTunes- Edit > Preferences iPod Tab > General > Select "Enable disk use".
4. Unplug your iPod from your computer go to Extras > Notes and open the first file. At the end of the file there's a link that will go to the next file automatically.
And here's the result!
Here's the original text file and here's the zip file for you Etech'ers.
The next issue of Make will have a ton, and I mean a ton of ways to stuff like this and more on your iPod including everything all about a secret kiosk mode and how to use it for some cool projects.


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Eighteen-year-old Joseph Safo-Agyare's parents were planning their son's graduation party; they never thought they would be planning the young man's burial instead. As police continue to investigate the fatal shooting of the North High School senior, his father is hoping those responsible are caught or come forward.
WORCESTER — Eighteen-year-old Joseph Safo-Agyare's parents were planning their son's graduation party; they never thought they would be planning the young man's burial instead.
As police continue to investigate the fatal shooting of the North High School senior, his father is hoping those responsible are caught or come forward.
"Somebody did it and the person is out there," said the teen's father, Franklin Safo-Agyare. "Who wants someone who is killing kids to be out there? Nobody wants to be burying their child. Whoever did it, I'm just praying to God they find who did it and whoever did it is brought to justice."
Joseph Safo-Agyare, who lived in Worcester and in Charlton with his mother, was shot sometime Saturday. It appears the shooting occurred at Hacker Court, a small side street tucked away in the Southgate Street area of the city. It was the fourth killing in Worcester this year.
People living at 6 Hacker Court, where the shooting reportedly occurred, shut the door when a reporter asked for a comment. There were candles on the porch of the building.
Police learned about the shooting Saturday morning when they saw a car speeding in the area of Foster Street about 12:45 a.m. The car's lights were not on.
The car pulled into St. Vincent Hospital near the emergency entrance. When officers headed toward the car, a woman got out and began banging on the emergency room door, police said. The woman said someone had been shot.
Joseph Safo-Agyare was carried to the door by another passenger in the car. Police were told the shooting occurred at 6 Hacker Court.
Officers headed to the scene and checked the area. Drugs were found inside the building, police said.
Residents of Hacker Court said they did not hear anything during the night. One man who lives in the neighborhood told the Telegram & Gazette he heard yelling sometime late Friday night into Saturday morning. The yelling came from the area of 6 Hacker Court.
Investigators "conducted numerous interviews and have received little cooperation," police said in a news release Sunday night.
Franklin Safo-Agyare, 43, said his son recently finished attaining all the credits he needed to graduate from North High School on June 6. The young man had played running back for the high school's football team and had attended St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, according to his father.
Joseph Safo-Agyare's family was planning his graduation party. They were going to surprise him with a car. He had been working and was excited to pay for his own cellphone.
The elder Safo-Agyare believes his son attended a party at Hacker Court, but has no idea what happened there.
"I don't know how he ended up in that area," Franklin Safo-Agyare said. "I tell him all the time to stay away from that area."
Joseph Safo-Agyare was one of four brothers. He has a 22-year-old brother, a 12-year-old brother and a 9-year-old brother. The two oldest brothers know Joseph has been killed. Franklin Safo-Agyare doesn't know how the youngest will take the news.
Detectives arrived at the elder Safo-Agyare's Worcester home about 6 a.m. Saturday and told him his son had died.
"I want the city to be safe. I have three other boys and a daughter who live in the city," he said. "I want whoever is responsible for this to come forward. Nobody's child should be treated like this. You never think it is going to happen to you."
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It's been 12 years since Cape Wind was first proposed, yet today not a single offshore wind turbine is harvesting energy off America's Atlantic Coast. While construction on the South Terminal and ultimately Cape Wind itself are finally set to begin, the delay has been costly for the SouthCoast region — jobs deferred, energy instability increased and our air that much more polluted.
It's been 12 years since Cape Wind was first proposed, yet today not a single offshore wind turbine is harvesting energy off America's Atlantic Coast. While construction on the South Terminal and ultimately Cape Wind itself are finally set to begin, the delay has been costly for the SouthCoast region — jobs deferred, energy instability increased and our air that much more polluted.
Just how many jobs are we missing out on? Cape Wind is projected to employ 600 to 1,000 people during its construction and manufacturing phases. New Bedford's South Terminal will create about 200 jobs. Cape Wind will also employ 50 people at its operations and maintenance facility in Falmouth. With the unemployment rate in the New Bedford area still around 10 percent, the economic impact of those delayed jobs is huge.
What makes this damaging delay so outrageous is that it's no accident — a coalition of big polluters and big-money landowners on the Cape have conspired to fund the "Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound," a front group that's spent millions to keep Cape Wind tied up in red tape. On Tuesday, the Alliance is set to hit an outrageous new low: At exactly the same time as Gov. Deval Patrick and Mayor Jon Mitchell are finally breaking ground on the South Terminal here in New Bedford, the Alliance's head will be in Washington urging Congress to kill incentives for offshore wind energy.
Of all the oil, mining and coal barons who've funded the Alliance, William Koch stands head and shoulders above the rest. To put it in perspective: Along with his brothers, Charles and David, William was born into Koch Industries, one of America's largest polluters. William now runs Oxbow Carbon and, with a net worth of $4 billion, comes in at No. 92 on the Forbes 400. Koch recently spent $26.5 million to secure two mansions and 1,000 feet of private beach on Cape Cod in Osterville. But he claims residence in Palm Beach, Fla., in a state with no income tax.
Koch finally broke years of silence on his Alliance funding last November, and his top reason for fighting Cape Wind was revelatory. "It's visual pollution," Koch told Patrick Cassidy of the Cape Cod Times. "For some reason in Massachusetts that doesn't count for much."
That Cape Wind would barely be visible from shore is beside the point: William Koch can't understand why we'd prioritize jobs, energy security and clean air over the view from his private estate. Either to protect his precious view from changing a little or because he's wed to dirty energy and resents a new clean energy industry, or both, billionaire Koch and his rich McMansion-owning friends in Oyster Harbors and other precious gilded waterfront neighborhoods are delaying the jobs and economic revitalization for places like New Bedford by holding back the emergence of the U.S. offshore wind industry, it's selfish and shameful.
I don't doubt the Alliance has some genuine supporters. But when the Cape Cod Times reported last August that the town of Barnstable's legal attack on Cape Wind is being bankrolled by a special gift account valued at $355,000 funded by the Alliance, it's hard to tell what's being done in the public interest and what's being done to appease a single dirty energy billionaire.
But job creation is only one party of the story. Moving forward with clean energy like offshore wind is essential to cutting the carbon pollution that's already changing our climate. Rising sea levels and warmer water are transforming seemingly every winter storm into a coastal evacuation-inducing emergency. Higher temperatures are changing nice summer days into scorchers and turning cherished winter traditions like pond hockey into distant memories.
Offshore wind energy can and must be developed in a wildlife-friendly manner. Not only do scientific studies show that properly locating turbines and requiring best management practices can minimize impacts on birds, bats, sea turtles and marine mammals, but transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy benefits all wildlife with cleaner air and water and reduction of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.
The coastal waters off Massachusetts have some of the best offshore wind energy resources in the world, the technology to harvest it is ready right now and we have workers ready to do the job. Fortunately, New Bedford finally stands ready to take advantage of this golden opportunity to make our electricity supply cleaner, more wildlife-friendly, and more secure.


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WEYBRIDGE — Vermont Congressman Peter Welch took a walk Monday with members of the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) and the James family, who own Monument Farms Dairy, to discuss an effort under way to add to Vermont's network of hiking trails.
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Mount Abraham Union High School counselor Deb Van Schaack hiked the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail this spring and summer. She began her journey in Georgia on March 8 and completed the trek in Maine on July 31. Van Schaack shared with the Independent some of the photos she took along the way.
BRISTOL — Of the people who begin hiking the Appalachian Trail with the intention of covering the entire thing, only one in four complete it. Most are young, recent college graduates, students taking a gap year, all with young joints and plenty of energy.
Not many 56-year-old women attempt the nearly 2,200-mile, 14-state trek, let alone complete it.
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Why am I getting an error pasting clipboard geometry to its original location? In earlier versions of Solid Edge like V20 when you copied geometry to clipboard and paste it back, the copied geometry was automatically placed in its original location. But in current versions the geometry is attached to the cursor and you have to click to place it. If desired, you can change the default behavior by setting the following option in "SE Options/General tab/Preferred 2D Paste Behavior (Draft, Ordered Sketch/Profile)" to "Paste to original position" OR "Paste to selected position". You can also override the default behavior on the fly during the paste operation by selecting one of the following commands: "Home Tab/Clipboard Group/Flyout arrow under Paste/Paste to original position" OR "Home Tab/Clipboard group/Flyout arrow under Paste/Paste to selected position".
Can I export to dxf without including the drawing sheet background? Yes. Uncheck the "Translate background sheet on export" option on Step 1 in the AutoCAD Translation Wizard.
How can I orient a reference plane to the opposite side? If you are creating a coincident or parallel plane by selecting one of the Base Reference Planes, it will always orient itself to the plane it is based on; however, if you turn off the base planes and turn on the base coordinate system, a reference plane from the base coordinate system is oriented by the window orientation. So if you rotate your view around and look at the orientation you wish for your resulting plane, just select one of the planes in the coordinate system.
How can I change a synchronous hole from through hole to finite in a drawing view? Select the hole in the Pathfinder. Click on the hole label on the view (blue text). This will open the command bar. Select the Hole Options. This is the second button in the command bar. Look now for 'Hole extents'. Here you will see the 'Hole Extent' button.
Is it possible to set all levels of my assembly to Simplified? Yes. Hold down the Ctrl key and then right click on the top level assembly and select Use Simplified Assembly and it will cascade down the entire tree from the selected level. This same process works with setting to Designed as well.
How can I migrate materials from ST6 to ST7? Copy the 'Materials.mtl' from ST6 to the following folder in ST7: C:\Program Files\Solid Edge ST7\Preferences\Materials OR to the corresponding Materials location in case you have customized it.
How can I change the color of a sketch display outside of sketch mode? When you get outside of the Sketch/Profile mode the sketch elements are treated as wire bodies. So the color associated with it is not what you see inside sketch or profile. You can actually change the color of wire body display by using "Part Painter" command.
Why is the Quick View Cube not showing up in my Solid Edge window? The Quick View Cube will only display using high end graphic display settings, please ensure that the 'Graphics Card Driven (Advanced)' option is selected.
What is "Bump bending" and how does Solid Edge do this? "Bump bending" is a slang term for linear bending in increments to emulate a rolled part. Bump bending generally implies multiple hits in the press brake to achieve a large arc type bend to achieve similar results that are attained in rolling. If this is the case the only thing we do to match that is to have him use Add Bend multiple times, or more effective would be to use the "Bending Method" option on the Lofted Flange command and use to cross-section sketches to determine the shape, then use the option to determine the number of hits, or bends.
How do I show a scale caption for my drawing views? To show the view scale as a caption for a drawing view in Draft do this:
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text: Jake Owen's new single, "Days of Gold," was shipped to country radio on Monday (July 29). It's the first release from an upcoming album, expected to be released by RCA later this year. The upbeat single will be available at digital retailers on Aug. 6. Owen released his previous full-length album, Barefoot Blue Jean Night, in August 2011. His next scheduled tour date is Friday (Aug. 2) at the Downstream Casino Resort in Quapaw, Okla.


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City's TIF?study
The City of New Ulm is going to study a proposed TIF project, one that would build a 50-unit apartment building near the Martin Luther College Campus.
TIF, or tax increment financing, has been around for over 40 years. It involves a city selling bonds to finance an improvement or development of a low-tax producing property, using the money for some kind of improvement, like demolishing blighted buildings or paying for infrastructure that would allow development, then using the higher tax revenue from the property to pay off the bonds. It is supposed to be used in cases where the development would not be able to proceed without TIF incentives. For many years it has been one of the few economic development incentives cities have available.
The populurity of TIF projects has waxed and waned over the years, and it is on the rebound in recent years. Counties and school districts don't like them much, since the city captures all the increase in property tax revenue, or increment, until the bonds are paid back.
The state sees TIF as a means of stimulating the economy, providing construction jobs and creating building starts.
We think the city should be willing to use TIF for worthwhile projects. New Ulm is certainly not suffering from a surplus of residential property, especially rental property. At the same time, it should give a thorough inspection to any proposal for TIF, to make sure any project is a proper use, to make sure the development will deliver the necessary increment in property taxes to make it work, and to make sure the project is indeed one that couldn't be undertaken without the use of tax increment financing.


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If you've ever been at a big trade show, you know that after a day or two–you start craving real air, real food, real anything. Something about concrete floors (badly covered with carpeting), horrible concession food and the din of the crowds that makes you want to find a tree and hug it. So I was happy to have a little nature (albeit plastic) retreat in the miniature at Safari Ltd. – they are the masters of making really small animals.
We visited briefly with Safari's President, Ramona Pariente– who was very gracious even though we were in the final hours of the show and by our own admission a little slap happy to be approaching the finish line.
You've probably seen their line in museum, gift and specialty stores. I'm not sure why but this collection of super small animals makes me so happy. What is it about miniature things that seem so fun?
Of course these small animals are just right as props for dramatic play whether it's in combination with blocks or just on their own. The line is so extensive, that you're bound to be able to find the animals, fish, bugs or birds that capture your child's interest. Designed for kids 3 & up, these are wonderful to collect and play with!


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Q: How can I prepare my aquatic plants for the fall and winter?
Sandy – Holly, MI
A: This topic—what to do with your aquatic plants—tops the to-do list of many pond owners and water gardeners at this time of year. No matter the climate where you live, you will need to do some plant clean-up and relocate them to ensure they survive the winter frost and freeze.
What you need to do depends on the type of plant. So pull on your 28-inch, PVC Coralife® Aqua Gloves™ to protect your hands and arms and keep them dry, grab your handy-dandy Pond Scissors and Pliers, and let's get to work! Here, we've outlined some basics:
Hardy Water Lilies
They may be "hardy," but that doesn't mean they're indestructible! When the first frost hits in your area and the lily's foliage begins to die back, trim the plant material back with your pond scissors to just above the root and toss it in your compost pile. Don't worry: Come spring, the greenery will reemerge healthy as ever from the plant's crown. Because water lilies are typically planted in frost-proof deep water, they will overwinter just fine.
Tropical Water Lilies
Tropical water lilies prefer warm temperatures all year long, so these colorful and fragrant beauties will need to be completely removed from your pond and relocated to a protected indoor space for the winter. We'll talk more about how to overwinter these aquatic plants in future blogs.
Marginals and Bog Plants
As with hardy water lilies, your marginals' and bog plants' foliage will need to trimmed back with pond scissors and removed after Jack Frost first arrives. And if your iris, arrowhead, canna and other marginals are at or above water level, sink them lower into the pond where the water remains unfrozen during the wintertime.
Floating Plants
Unless you're lucky enough to live in a climate that doesn't freeze, floating plants like hyacinth and water lettuce won't survive the winter. Plan to remove them from your pond to prevent the dead plants from decomposing and causing water quality issues through the wintertime.
Pond Talk: How do you prepare your aquatic plants for winter?
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Sherie Spoalrich knows how confusing it can be to navigate mealtime around a food allergy. For years the Rancho Cucamonga resident dealt with stomach issues and brain fog until she finally was diagnosed with an allergy to eggs and dairy foods.
"Going to the grocery store was such a chore," Spoalrich said. "There just wasn't very much information out there to help."
When Spoalrich discovered Rancho Cucamonga's Viva La Vegan Grocery, she first became a customer then an employee with the ability to help educate the public about food allergies, which affect about 15 million Americans, according to Food Allergy Research & Education(FARE).
With a grant from Healthy Rancho Cucamonga, a city program that promotes a healthy sustainable lifestyle, Spoalrich and Viva La Vegan owner Isaak Iftikhar began a free monthly food allergy workshop. The workshops alternate between Viva La Vegan's Rancho Cucamonga and Santa Monica stores with varied topics from finding the hidden ingredients in food labels to dealing with food allergies while traveling.
The next workshop in Rancho Cucamonga on Saturday will focus on how to prepare on-the-go snacks.
Workshop leader Christine Oppenheim helps attendees understand the effects various foods have on the body and easy ways to incorporate healthy eating habits to accommodate any lifestyle.
Oppenheim, diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2012, studied at Bauman College, a nonprofit institution focusing on health and wellness through holistic nutrition and culinary arts in Berkeley, and is a chef who gives seasonal cooking lessons.
"There are so many people with food allergies and interferences, especially schoolchildren, and there's still just not a lot of education," said Oppenheim. "Many who are first diagnosed get overwhelmed and have no idea what to eat."
Oppenheim also explained the difference between an intolerance and an allergy.
"There is so much misunderstanding about these two conditions," she said. "An intolerance, such as lactose or gluten, is when your body does not have the enzymes needed to digest certain foods. For this, substances can be taken to counteract the intolerance and allow those foods to be eaten. Food allergies cause a reaction that cannot be counteracted."
Such food allergies include soy, dairy, eggs, wheat, corn, shellfish and peanuts with various reactions ranging from blisters, hives and itchy eyes and throat to swelling and shock.
"Many people feel afraid to eat anything; they feel stuck," Oppenheim said. "Education will help them to get unstuck."
The workshop concludes with two or three food demonstrations and each attendee leaves with a gift bag full of samples.
"This is a great opportunity to learn more about what to look for in the foods to buy to have better digestion. These days people have to be their own health advocate. They must research and have knowledge to be equipped."


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He meant to get around to it someday, refurbishing the old 1940 Studebaker Champion two-door coupe that had languished for years in his mother's garage. He recently had found someone nearby who could do the work.
But, as he held the folder filled with notes scrawled on paper, old repair bills, and articles that he had saved since he bought the Studebaker in 1960, Roger 'Bud' Hannaford of Marion knew he had run out of time. Cancer had sapped his strength, canceled his plans.
"He was cleaning out his desk, about a month before he passed," said Roger Hannaford III, Bud's son. "He handed the folder to me and said 'Well, it's up to you now. Do what you want with it.' I said I'd do my best to follow through."
Bud died Oct. 1, 2011, shortly after serving as grand marshal of the Old Settlers' Day parade. With winter fast approaching, the Studebaker would have to wait.
Bud Hannaford was living in El Dorado, teaching history and social studies, when he bought the car in 1960.
"I was 6 years old, I remember it as a kid," Hannaford said. "It was a pretty good vehicle back in those days. He drove that to work every day."
Bud's wife, Lavonne, occasionally drove the coupe to bridge club, but Hannaford said he never took a turn behind the wheel growing up.
"It was his possession and I wasn't going to get near it. That was his baby, you know what I mean?" Hannaford said.
When the Hannafords moved to Marion in the mid-1960s, Bud tucked away the Studebaker in the garage of Norma Hannaford, his mother, and it did not get out much, Hannaford said.
A receipt from Don's Upholstery for re-covering the seats was in the folder, along with a picture of the car in an Old Settlers' Day parade, which Hannaford estimated was in the mid-1980s.
"I wish he had a date on that thing," Hannaford said. "Dad had the upholstery done in 1982. It's in very fine shape."
Hannaford said he could not recall a time the Studebaker was out of the garage in the past 20 years.
Late this past spring, Hannaford started the restoration process, intending to have the car ready for the Old Settlers' Day parade.
Hannaford recruited the help of local car collector Jim Hefley to transport the car to Halstead, where Studebaker restoration expert Vern Ediger would work on it.
"We dug it out of grandma's garage. Two of the tires were shot, they were flat, old, and rotten. It was work just getting it out of there," Hannaford said.
Ediger's interest in Studebakers started early, and people around the world recognize his expertise.
"I'm 72, and I've been at it since I was 14 or 15 years old," Ediger said. "I've gotten calls from New Zealand, Australia, Germany, England, and other countries."
Hannaford's coupe needed a lot of work, Ediger said.
"It had never been apart before, it was all original. The engine was worn out," Ediger said. "It needed a general overhaul, kind of a major overhaul without rebuilding everything."
"They went from bumper to bumper — brakes, clutch, engine, tires, the exhaust system," Hannaford said.
Ediger finished his work in August, and Hannaford slid into the driver's seat for the first time for the trip back to Marion.
"I drove it from Halstead to Marion when we got it back. I was kind of a nervous cat. That's the first I've ever driven it, and I thought it might be the last, too," Hannaford said. "I just kept my fingers crossed and hoped Dad's blessing was upon me."
Once home, the Studebaker would not consistently start, so Hannaford took the car to Leith's Service in Marion. Dave Leith said Hannaford was his first customer to ask for help with a Studebaker.
"It was a little tricky because sometimes it would start and run fine," Leith said. It took several tries to hit on a solution.
"We did everything in stages," Leith said. "First time we cleaned out the fuel bowl, and it ran. The second time, we replaced the distributor cap, the rotor, and spark plug wires, and it ran. The third time we got the coil, and since then he hasn't had any trouble."
"We actually got it running the week of Old Settlers' Day. I'd say about Monday or Tuesday we got it fine-tuned," Hannaford said.
Hannaford's son, Scott, drove the car Sept. 29 in the parade, as Hannaford road on the float for his high school class reunion.
"He wasn't quite adjusted to it, but he got it through Main Street and back home again," Hannaford said. "That baby was running good, so I was very proud it got through the parade."
Hannaford said he would not use the Studebaker on a regular basis the way his father did in El Dorado.
"I've got a place to store it now, and I'm going to leave it there. Maybe about once a month I'll go up there, start it up, drag Main once or twice, and put it back," Hannaford said.
Hannaford expects he will get the car out occasionally during family gatherings, and may take it to car shows in Marion County. One day every September is already booked.
"My goal is to make it an annual OSD parade car," Hannaford said. "But maybe this summer I'll get it out and drive it to work, just for fun."