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Judge Mireles in critical condition
By Craig Kapitan and Guillermo X. Garcia - Express-News
"We're all praying for his recovery, but his outlook does not look promising at this point," said attorney Thomas Rhodes, who has known Mireles for 25 years.
One of the hardest-working district judges in Bexar County, Mireles was taken to the downtown Baptist Medical Center about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, said Gary Hutton, the county's civil courts administrator.
Word spread quickly Monday around the close-knit legal community, and colleagues rushed to praise him, even before the full extent of his illness was known.
Two courthouse officials, who asked not to be identified, said the judge is on life support. Hospital officials declined to comment on the judge's condition, other than to say it was critical.
Mireles, 59, has presided over civil cases in the 73rd District Court since 1989.
Lori Massey, a former judge now in private practice, said Mireles made a deep imprint on the judicial system in Bexar County.
"He single-handedly changed the system of justice for juveniles in Bexar County" by creating a docket that focused exclusively on juvenile crime issues, Massey said.
"Because of him, we now have a juvenile court in Bexar County," she said.
Massey also called Mireles the driving force behind the creation of the county's child abuse and neglect court.
Mireles has a reputation as a "tough but fair-minded" judge who loves his family, the law and public service, Rhodes said.
"He's one of our finest judges and has given so much of himself to our community," Rhodes said. "He cared for the people he was serving in his courtroom and worked hard to make sure that justice was done."
Attorneys and courthouse officials said Mireles previously had health problems, including circulation problems in his legs that required surgery last year. Friends who asked not to be identified also said he suffered a heart attack about a decade ago but that he had recovered from it.
Through a hospital spokeswoman, Mireles' family said they were thankful for the community's prayers but declined to comment.
Mireles entered public life in 1984, winning election to San Antonio Independent School District's board of trustees.
In 1988, he won his seat on the bench. He previously served as director of the San Antonio Bar Association and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and he was named "attorney of the year" by the Mexican-American Bar Association in 1991.
The Young Lawyers Association named him "judge of the year" in 2000.
"He had broad shoulders in terms of the responsibilities we all hold as judges," said Judge Barbara Hanson Nellermoe, noting that he is quick to speak up with legislators and members of the Bexar County Commissioners Court.
This month, Mireles was unanimously elected by fellow Bexar County judges to a two-year term as administrative judge. In that role, Mireles is expected to work closely with commissioners in drafting the courts' budget.
Judge David Berchelmann described Mireles as a "tireless worker" who had a particular passion for juvenile justice.
Judge Sol Casseb echoed that sentiment, saying Mireles is always first to arrive at the courthouse each morning, often using a special key to gain entry before 7 a.m.
"I cannot tell you how much Judge Mireles does around here," Casseb said.
Massey, who regards Mireles as a mentor, noted that he is unfairly tagged as being a tough judge.
Staff Writer Elaine Ayala contributed to this report.
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And I was uncharacteristically silent.
As I've said before, I don't do particularly well when friends are attacked. I also don't do particularly well with conflict. Evil Kev says I love to fight, but he's mistaken. I love to fight with him. There's a distinct difference. Fighting is part of the spousal job description.
But no matter how sincere the intention to keep issues to issues and the personal to personal, the lines tend to get blurred. And in the most recent example I'm thinking of, there was no effort to keep it objective. It was a blatant personal attack, the accuser hiding behind the veil of anonymity.
Big surprise. One by one I've left forums, lists and even some blogs because of that type of behaviour. Also, because I'm aware of my own weakness when it comes to standing up for someone I feel is being unfairly pushed around. But the emotional cost is high. On the one hand, I feel horrid for not standing up for people when they're attacked. To be blunt, I think that's pretty shitty. If you call yourself a friend, there are certain things you do, and standing with friends is one of them.
Unfortunately, that often means standing against someone, and there's a cost there as well.
Whenever a person takes a stand, they're going to have people who dislike them for it. People will disagree. And the more honest a person is about their opinions, the greater the chances they'll ruffle some feathers. I doubt there's a person reading this who doesn't know of at least one conflict I've been in in the public domain.
Part of me wishes I could just be a smile. You know what I mean. The person who smiles and stays silent when the mudslinging starts. But then, I never feel comfortable with most of those people. They conceal all their opinions. In order to maintain an amiable public image they stand for nothing and nobody and even if a person's attacked unjustly they'll keep their nose clean. I never know what those people stand for, other than themselves.
There are people I disagree with about almost everything who I have more respect for, because at least they put their name behind their views and are passionate enough to express them.
But this week… this week I started seeing things differently. I got thinking about hiding. Just walking away for a while. Taking a break, being invisible. I go through this every few months (believe it or not) and sometimes it lasts a day and sometimes a few. This time, it's been about a week.
Seeing a friend get hurt didn't help. I felt so much rage I couldn't see straight. And then there was the sense of powerlessness. There was nothing I could do that would fix things for my friend.
Why is it the path to hate, to division, to judgment and mudslinging is so much easier than the path to camaraderie, friendship, happiness?
Much of the time, I wonder what I'm doing here. I'm not a particularly funny person, so my blog lacks that entertainment value. There are others who whine better, others who report better, and others who do a better job dishing their opinions.
Plus, my life is actually pretty boring.
When I get in one of these modes, what I really start to think is that the only thing I'm doing here is being an idiot, because I'm opening myself up for personal attack from people who don't like my opinions or decide they don't like me.
When you put yourself out there, in any capacity, you can be subjected to criticism. There are people who will like your books. There are others who won't. Some will appreciate the short stories. Others, well, not for them. Some people will like you. And others won't. Industries being what they are you can be 'in' today and 'out' tomorrow.
I don't particularly like that level of vulnerability. And after seeing the spats, the attacks and feeling my own anger and frustration at some things said, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to insulate myself.
And then I remember that a big part of the reason I started this blog was for my own discipline, to write something on a regular basis, and to try to stick to one cohesive train of thought (which is a challenge for me). And part of the reason I've kept on with it is for the readers who email and tell me how much they (for whatever reason) enjoy the blog.
There have actually been so many spats and squabbles within our community this year that I've had to remember that those we see on the internet are but a small section of the community at large. Most of my emails come from people who've never commented here, but read in relative silence. Most of the people who read books don't participate on lists or forums. And only a fraction of the authors in the genre are active online.
It's the one bit of truth expressed in a cruel, cold attack. Blogs aren't life. The internet isn't life. But I also don't think anyone here believes it is. This is just a way to keep up with people, to stay in touch, know what's going on. Most of the blogs I read these days are written by friends – Angie, Amra, Vincent, James, Stuart, Mindy, Anne, Patti, etc. etc. etc. I want to know how they're doing more than anything else.
And I think when reading stuff online gets me to the point where I'm angry, it's as good a time as any to pull the plug and just stop reading those sources. Sometimes I have to get it out of my system here, but it is true that most of these 'arguments' can't be won. People aren't interested in genuine discussion – they're interested in propping up their hobby horses.
Well, I suppose I have to give them the credit due for actually standing for something. But I've come to the point where I have a new respect for the silent smilers I was criticizing earlier. Sure, some may be only about their image and be the type who hoists a flag and follows the winds of popularity on any given day…
But some are people who are smart enough to know that most of these disagreements can't be resolved. And the cost is time, sanity and emotional energy that's better invested elsewhere.
As much as I've been saddened by some who've stopped blogging (and been annoyed at others who've bullied people until they quit) what matters most is that my friends are comfortable with their decision. They'll have my love and support, even if I miss seeing them here.
16 comments:
- Peter said...
One thing I don't like about such debates on crime-fiction forums is that if I'm going to debate about crime fiction, I'd rather discuss, in order, 1) the books 2) the people who write them, and, a distant 3) the bloggers who blog about them.
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- 10:52 p.m.
- Christa M. Miller said...
I think I know what you're talking about, Sandra. I deliberately didn't address it because I had just had a mean-spirited comment left on my blog - from family, no less - and was advised to leave it alone, not to give it any fuel and thereby satisfy the poster. So I replied to your friend, but not the other idiot.
I'm trying to take a long view that the lack of support from family is "training" for when perfect strangers take potshots at me... it won't hurt quite as much. Meanwhile, I try to leave supportive comments for friends and strangers I respect, just to "make love, not war." Or something like that.
- 11:15 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Peter, exactly. We don't always share the same opinions, but I enjoy your perspective and respect how you present your views. I actually feel like I can have an intelligent exchange with you without it becoming personal, and that's a great thing.
Christa, yes, I suspect you do know what I'm referring to. You were probably wise. I also realized that anything I said would be fuel for the fire.
And I'm sorry about the family comment. It's unfortunate, and can contribute to hard feelings and tension, no doubt. Your philosophy is a good one. In my own experience, my volume of unpleasant mail over my writing/blog is a pretty low percentage compared to the fan mail, but one criticism will stay with you longer than a few dozen compliments. Human nature, I suppose.
- 11:28 p.m.
- Christa M. Miller said...
I learned some statistic when I was in customer service that people who experience positive service tell 2 of their friends, and people who experience negative service tell 11. I wonder why negative sticks with us longer? It's got to be tied into our survival instinct, fight or flight, etc. Remembering threats in order to survive.
The comment I got is just the latest in a long, long line of jabs, disappointments, and general letdowns from someone who is supposed to support and encourage me instead. It does suck, but at least it didn't come out of left field. In fact, it's so bad that even if this person did say something nice, I wouldn't trust it. :P Thanks though.
- 11:36 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Christa, you must be my cynical twin! ; )
- 12:03 a.m.
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- Peter said...
I also think I know the comment to which you referred, which scares me. I hate to think I'm part of a small, intimate community of snipers and poisonous back-stabbers who know each other's quarrels and problems without even having to refer to them explicitly. I can think of much pleasanter ways to deviate from the subject at hand! I mean, never mind the mean-spiritedness of such debates; they're just such a waste of time, and most of us probably feel we already spend more time at our computers than we ought to.
Christa, what would you make of this: I complain about the writers and fellow editors at my newspaper far more than I say nice things about them, but when I do bestow a compliment, what a rush I get!
Perhaps we spread negative more than we spread positive news because we're ill-natured, back-stabbing bastards. Or perhaps we just expect adequate service and don't feel compelled to spread the word when we get it.
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- 4:29 a.m.
I am happy to say I have no clue which specific hassle you're referring to. That's because I hate hassles. I don't go where they show up regularly. I leave when I run across them. It's just such a waste of time and (as you rightly point out) energy. I know this is the right path for me because, when I have occasionally been attacked, I get so furious my mind contemplates all kinds of nasty, violent responses. I have books to write, and I don't want to to pen them in jail.
- 5:56 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Peter, I don't think it's that you're part of such a community (well, and not that you're not part of the community that there is, but...) the reality is that the online crime fiction community is small. It's barely a drop in the pond next to the number of people who read/write/have some involvement with the crime fiction community at large. And because it isn't very big, if you read the typical blogs you're bound to stumble across the same stuff as others.
What my husband said over there was better than anything I could have said.
Jack, you're smart. Personally speaking, the post in question was the week's required reading. And there wasn't a damn thing wrong with it, just that someone went on anonymously and left an ignorant, hurtful comment on the post. My 2 cents is definitely if you don't like a writer or a blog don't read it. End of story. That's what I do.
- 8:28 a.m.
- JamesO said...
In my humble opinion, an anonymous comment is not worth the name attached to it. Certainly there are times where anonymity is crucial - when criticising brutal regimes from within, for instance. But in the forum of crime fiction blogs, hiding behind a mask is just cowardice. If you don't want to put your name to your opinions, then keep them to yourself.
I've been fortunate in that I've rarely come across the kind of execrable behaviour you've described here, Sandra. That's probably because I don't spend much time on forums, and I stick to a fairly small set of blogs. But when the nastiness does pop up, I fall back on the lessons I learned as a kid being constantly taunted by my elder brother. Turn your back, ignore it, walk away.
- 3:31 a.m.
- Eileen said...
If it makes you feel any better if you look behind you ou would find many of us standing with you.
- 6:23 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
I appreciate that Eileen - this time, it was someone else who needed support, unfortunately. And it did bring to mind a 'life's too short' sentiment.
- 6:27 p.m.
- angie said...
Ah, the ever-present "down side" of the fab internet. Blissfully, I haven't a clue what you're talking about. I've cut waaaaaay back (that translates to...A LOT!) on blog/forum time. Partly because while there are often interesting conversations going on, there are ALWAYS dust-ups over unsolvable issues that devolve into complete crap behavior. That gets so flippin' exhausting and I just don't have the energy for it. But watching friends get hurt...that's always painful and anger-inducing. Whether online or in real life, it just sucks.
- 6:58 p.m.
Even though you feel you let down your friend, there probably wasn't much else you could do. If you did respond in your friend's defense it would just escalate the whole thing.
- 12:58 a.m.
- Daniel Hatadi said...
Like Angie, I've cut back on internet hanging too. Not out of discipline, just because I've been following other interests (and hibernating!).
So I haven't seen the anonymous comment you mention, but my first reaction would probably be to think 'TROLL' and move on.
Chances are if it was on my blog, I wouldn't hesitate to delete it. There's just too much good stuff out there in the world to waste time on crap.
- 8:55 p.m.
- Daniel Hatadi said...
After all that, I went over there and put in my 2c. Just gotta love them Intertubes, don't ya?
- 12:21 a.m.


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Entertainment Industry Lobbyists Don't Want To Let Canada Into Secret TPP Negotiations Until Canada Passes More Bad Laws
from the crazy-town dept
The IIPA, which represents the major movie, music, and software lobby associations, points to copyright reform and new border measures as evidence of the need for Canadian reforms and states "we urge the U.S. government to use Canada's expression of interest in the TPP negotiations as an opportunity to resolve these longstanding concerns about IPR standards and enforcement."In other words, don't let Canada join, unless it passes these horrible laws we've been demanding for years, and which the Canadian public is clearly against. If I were in the Canadian government, it seems like this is a pretty good reason to say "good riddance"... or, hell, maybe even to cut back on ridiculous copyright laws to something more reasonable, just to show that it can be done... and then to watch the industry in Canada thrive.


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Items where Research Group is "Centre for Mathematical Biology" and Year is 1985
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Maini, P. K. and Murray, J. D. and Oster, G. F. (1985) A mechanical model for biological pattern formation: A nonlinear bifurcation analysis. Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Proceedings 1984 Dundee Conference. Lecture Notes - Mathematics 1151, n/a (n/a). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 0075-8434
Oster, G. F. and Murray, J. D. and Maini, P. K. (1985) A model for chondrogenic condensations in the developing limb. Journal of Embryology and experimental Morphology, 89 . pp. 93-112.


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Austin, Texas is one of the most important technology centers in the United States, and it was stop number three on our BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour. The excitement and enthusiasm was growing throughout the day, with attendees coming from various regions and even other states like Michigan, Oklahoma and Colorado. Many arrived early, even before we opened registration. We received many compliments for choosing Austin for the tour, highlighting local talent and opening doors of communication between Research In Motion® (RIM®) and developers.
It was clear to everyone that this is a new BlackBerry® smartphone with a clear strategy and innovative solutions, focusing on those who seek productivity and efficiency through the use of technology. Many good discussions were initiated, such as the real possibility of creating new BlackBerry Developer Groups in Texas, and also the interest to take our BlackBerry Academic Program to local educational institutions.
After our presentations in Native, Web and Enterprise, some of these attendees were ready to evangelize and promote our BlackBerry® 10 story. One of the developers I met said: "I can't wait to show this to my colleagues; they have no idea what BlackBerry 10 is…"
We also found longtime BlackBerry fans, who continue to believe in BlackBerry as we face the challenges during the transition to BlackBerry 10. Within the audience, it was evident that the desire for RIM to succeed is there.
During lunch, we heard pitches from local developers showcasing their apps. Congrats to the big winner with an app to monitor diabetes through an external peripheral that connects to our device that collects information on blood sugar levels and can share the results.
It was a great start for the tour in the U.S. and the whole team should be congratulated; we were able to change many perceptions throughout the day. I can say that the day's mission was successfully accomplished.
Some interesting tweets:
(I know this is Austin, but I found three surfers in the audience, and one of them from Brazil, from the same city I live in — can you believe it?)
Now let's move on to our next sold-out shows here in the United States. We are building a good story and we plan on keeping this momentum going for our stop in Santa Clara on Thursday June 7th.


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The deadline for the AJ's annual Retrofit Awards, championing the best in the creative re-use of buildings and construction, has been extended
The prestigious awards scheme, now in its fourth year celebrates design, engineering and construction excellence that prolongs the active life of buildings and infrastructure.
Last year the Retrofit Building of the Year Award was won by Eric Parry for their extension to the Holburne Museum, in Bath.
There were also victories for Casper Mueller Kneer Architects for the White Cube Bermondsey in the cultural building category, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for the Tea Building in the office category and John McAslan's King's Cross Station in the transport category.
The extended entry deadline for the Retrofit Awards is 17 June.
Retrofit Award categories
Specific requirements for each category can be found at the links below:
Civic & community (eg town halls, neighbourhood centres, court buildings, swimming pools and sports facilities)
Culture (eg museums, galleries, theatres, libraries and concert halls)
Health (eg surgeries, clinics, hospitals, hospices, fitness centres)
Heritage pre-1945 (listed buildings of any type) - sponsored by Szerelmey
Heritage post-1945 (listed buildings of any type)
Higher education(eg college and university buildings)
Hotels/Leisure (to include hotels, spas, cinemas, casinos) - sponsored by ISG
House pre-1945 (single dwelling) - sponsored by Miele
House post-1945 (single dwelling) - sponsored by Stonegres
Housing pre-1945 (eg apartment blocks, whole streets/areas, multi-location portfolio)
Housing post-1945 (as above)
Offices (any size)
Retail (eg supermarkets, department stores, shopping centres)
Schools (to include infant, primary and secondary schools)
Retrofit of the Year (to be chosen from the category winners)
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As Tobold writes, the pace of leveling is much less important than whether players enjoy doing whatever it is they are asked to do as they level. Many of the current problems in the genre are caused by developers' continued insistence of using the primarily solo leveling game as a prerequisite for group-based endgame activities. This turns a segment of the game that is the entire experience for many customers into a menial grind that stands between other customers and actually playing the game with their friends.
Even so, developers have financial incentives that are influenced by how they set their advancement curve, and I would argue that the consequences of getting the curve wrong vary based on the business model. Regardless of business model, no developer wants advancement to be too fast, as every model out there ultimately makes more money if players stick with the game. On the opposite extreme, however, the incentives are very different.
- In a subscription game where any added transactions do not affect the rate of advancement, the goal is to satisfy as many of the customers as possible. As Tobold says, this is an impossible task, but the developer will have to strike some sort of balance between losing income from players who get to cap too quickly versus being branded overly grindy. For many players, merely describing the slower rates of advancement often observed in games developed for the Asian market is the beginning and the end of their interest in the game.
- In a subscription game that also offers faster advancement, however, that loss of income begins to be offset by sales of experience potions and other means of accelerated progression.
- At the furthest extreme, a model where there is no recurring subscription, only sales of theoretically optional stuff like exp potions, there is very little marginal loss of income due to being thought of as "too grindy" because 90% of players aren't paying a dime to begin with. Yes, you might drive off some players who might have otherwise have bought mounts and costumes, but your primary demographic is the market that will pay to have exp boosts up and running as close to full time as possible. In other words, your lost income if a big spender decides they don't need to buy potions because the curve isn't grindy enough is much greater than your lost income from driving off significant numbers of less dedicated players with a grind.
This does not mean that every game that sells some form of exp boost is doomed to be a grindfest. In fact, I'd argue that selling max level characters might actually improve the leveling game for those who want to play it. However, as I noted a bit ago, the direction of a game developed by a for profit entity is never completely separate from how they make their money.


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Dan Deacon
Domino Recording Company
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4)
If Dan Deacon's first album, 2007's "Spiderman of the Rings," was too cartoonish and short-sighted and his follow-up, 2009's "Bromst," was too dense and insular, then the Baltimore indie-pop maestro has concisely melded his split personalities on "America" (ironically his first release for the London-based Domino Recording Company).
Deacon recently said he left D.C.'s Carpark Records for Domino because his growth in Europe had stalled. After hearing the nine-track, 43-minute long "America," Deacon's pursuit of success on a larger scale makes sense. These are sophisticatedly composed songs bubbling with broader appeal compared to Deacon's earlier work.
Tracks such as "Lots" and "Prettyboy" are within Deacon's wheelhouse — driving percussion, waves of synthesizers and hazily distorted vocals—– while still hinting at his pop sensibilities. The album's second half, "USA I-IV," takes what Deacon has learned from recent work with orchestras and ensembles and applies it to his world. But it's the unabashedly saccharine "True Thrush" that transcends the rest of his album and even his entire catalog, proving Deacon doesn't need to outsmart the listener with his compositional chops when he's riding the wave of a potent melody. He simply needs to balance both sides of his extremely busy brain.


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TapIt! Media is seeking talented, creative and motivated individuals to support our software development efforts. Responsibilities include the design, development and support of software and business critical systems for our various product offerings.
Design and develop software for key system components including ad server, reporting,optimization, and analytics
Assist in the design and development of new services in accordance with technical roadmaps
Support operations engineering staff with troubleshooting
Communicate project status to stakeholders throughout the business
Perform other activities and duties as requested
Detail-oriented with good written and verbal communication skills
Ability to develop and test software using industry best practices
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think logically
Comfortable in a small, intense start-up environment
Ability to manage one's own time efficiently
Strong knowledge of LAMP stack technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Strong knowledge of database design and performance tuning
Good design sense and experience developing/debugging customer facing web applications
Experience with Amazon AWS services (EC2, S3, etc)
Experience coding with Java, other languages and scripting languages a plus
Good knowledge of web applications and application servers, and RESTful web services
Experience with ad serving platforms and scalable, high-volume web applications a plus
Experience with MongoDB a plus
We are headquartered in Irvine, CA. This position is for our branch in Bethesda, MD.
About the Company:
Tapit! is a top-tier mobile advertising network that caters to advertisers, publishers and agencies in over 129 countries. Leveraging a complete arsenal of interactive marketing solutions, TapIt! drives results and ROI. TapIt! represents core fundamentals of client acquisitions, engagement, and retention to enable sustainable and scalable growth for brands and direct response advertisers. www.TapIt.com
Some of the companies we currently work with are:
Pandora, McDonalds, Angry Birds, Fruit ninja, Univision and many more!
We value culture heavily at our company, and evaluate strongly how and what candidate bring to the company and environment. We have a fun office, wonderful location, amazing co workers and a very bright future. It is all made in part by the wonderful staff that we have here as well as our executive leadership.


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I also finally bit the bullet and bought three yards of the AMH "Field Study" voile that I've been drooling over lately. Since I'm not working I put myself on a fabric diet, but I finally caved at the last LAMQG meeting and bought it. Our meetings are held at my favorite fabric shop, Sew Modern, and it's always difficult to walk out of there empty handed. But my birthday is coming up and I have a wedding to attend in May so I thought that was the perfect excuse to wipe up the drool and buy it.
So I am working on some things for me. And I realize that lately I haven't been as good about posting about my process here. Frankly, I do a lot more process posting on Instagram. You can follow me over there as well, if you'd like.


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Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008 is the first major exhibition to bring together the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs. The exhibition explores the ways in which photography and celebrity have interacted and changed, with portraits from the magazine's early period (1913–1936) displayed in conjunction with works from the contemporary Vanity Fair (1983–present). The Los Angeles presentation, which is sponsored by Burberry, will be the only U.S. stop on the exhibition's international tour. Photographers to be represented include Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.
Curators: Terence Pepper, curator of photographs, National Portrait Gallery, and David Friend, editor of creative development, Vanity Fair. Curator at LACMA: Charlotte Cotton, photography.
A collaboration between Vanity Fair and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sponsored by
Vanity Fair is a registered trademark of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.
Image: Nickolas Muray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Joan Crawford, Santa Monica, 1929,Vanity Fair, October 1929, © Condé Nast Publications Inc./Courtesy Condé Nast Archive.


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David Heller
David Heller is the founder and President and CEO of IBSystems, Inc , MCADCafe's parent company. Always curious and on the look out for 'cool tech' he enjoys thinking outside the box and sharing his discoveries with you.
Exclusive: Dell's M3800 Precision Mobile Workstation – "World's thinnest and lightest mobile workstation"
July 26th, 2013 by David Heller
In this impromptu video taken at Siggraph 2013 Mano Gialusis, Sr. Product Marketing Manager gives us an exclusive first look at Dell's new M3800 Mobile Precision Workstation. Weighing in at just 4.5 lbs, less than 3/4″ thick and with a form factor rivaling that of a MacBook Pro, Dell's new mobile workstation takes portable computing power to the next level. Surf over to www.dell.com/SpeedOfLight to see why this mobile workstation is your solution for power computing on the go.
o Breakthrough design: Design on an incredibly vivid Quad HD+ display with 3200×1800 pixel density IGZO panel with multi-touch standard on all systems – bright (400 nit), crisp and sharp contrast ratio (1000:1) for fine detail for everything from graphic design to 3D models
o Workstation Performance & Mobility: The only thin and light mobile workstation with true workstation-class professional graphics with the NVIDIA Quadro K1100M and Intel 4th generation Core i7 Quad Core CPU.
o Dependability: Tested, certified and supported on industry leading media & entertainment, engineering and design applications such as Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite and AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit, Avid Media Composer, Dassault Catia and Solidworks, PTC Creo, Siemens NX and TeamCenter, among others, to ensure optimal user experience (ISV certified).
Industrial Design with Ravi Sawhney
June 25th, 2013 by David Heller
In this informative TED lecture, Industrial Designer Ravi Sawhney shows us what he does, how he does it, and why he does it.
About Ravi Sawhney
Ravi Sawhney author, columnist, lecturer, and entrepreneur is the founder and CEO of RKS Design, Ravi Sawhney has spent more than thirty years at the forefront of product and technology innovation. During that time, he has grown his industrial design consultancy into a global leader in the fields of strategy, innovation, and design. While leading RKS, Sawhney has helped generate more than 150 patents and over 95 design awards on behalf of his diverse list of international clients. He also led RKS to recent recognition as a 2011 Product Design Finalist of the National Design Awards for the firm's portfolio of work in areas such as healthcare, consumer packaged goods, appliances, housewares, sustainability solutions, entertainment/audio, consumer electronics, and lifestyle accessories.
The Rapid Evolution of the Manufacturing Industry
June 24th, 2013 by David Heller
This new IMTSTV In Brief features Steve Frizinger, NetApp's Virtualization Alliance Manager, Java Author and Economics Writer, about the current state of the manufacturing industry. Steve explains how competition and technology are driving the industry's pace, and why companies must adapt to this change if they want to survive. He also cites MTConnect as one of the leading factors for the pace change, and how it has allowed the entire industry to achieve and maintain a greater level of efficiency.
Steve also speaks about the future of manufacturing jobs in America. He offers a solution to student debts and 4-year degrees that provide few benefits. Steve explains how trade schools expose students to new and exciting opportunities never before seen in manufacturing. With these trade schools, students will be able to begin their manufacturing careers earlier and without having to repay thousands of dollars in student loans.
As the industry continues to evolve, Steve predicts that thriving in manufacturing, for both companies and workers, will be based primarily on intellect and innovation.
Dance and VR Merge With a Little Help from Dassault Systemes
June 21st, 2013 by David Heller
Earlier this week, a performance took place in Paris that merged the worlds of art and 3D technology in a way that will forever change how dance is presented and enjoyed by audiences.
The performance, known as "Mr. and Mrs. Dream" followed the story of two characters who have escaped from the imagination of their author, Eugène Ionesco, and wander through his plays like stages of their lives. They pass through time, reinvent their history, dream of their love, and measure themselves against reality in the space of a moment.
The performance was conceived and produced by two celebrated choreographer–dancers, Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julien Derouault (http://www.pietragallacompagnie.com/pietragalla/) – and 3D design technology company Dassault Systèmes (www.3ds.com). The company helped them visually translate the story, designing the sets for each scene. Immersive virtual reality and interactivity specialists took on the challenge of creating a "magical box" in which the virtual world would unfold and into which Mr. & Mrs. Dream would be plunged, live on stage. The set design became a third character, in symbiosis with the dancers.
What makes this so interesting is that the same 3D design technologies that were designed to be used for big industrial projects, such as the creation of a jet airplane or the latest automobile, can also be used to create a work of art that evokes nuances of feeling, provokes emotional responses, highlights the beauty of movement, and enhances the magic of such a show.
'The Big Brain Theory' – An Inspirational Treat
June 20th, 2013 by David Heller
Every wondered what you could do if you had a high I.Q.? Or, better yet, what you could do with a normal I.Q., creativity and a fascination with engineering? The new Discovery series 'The Big Brain Theory' is truly inspirational as it pits talented engineers against one another in challenges that tap into the contestants' creativity and technical acumen to solve real world design challenges on paper, and then fabricate and prove their designs in real world tests.
I'm hooked on this series, and I'm sure that anyone who loves engineering, solving complex problems, and gets super excited when they see their 'baby' perform to spec will be entertained, inspired, and motivated to get into the mix.
The first season of eight episodes just ended, but if you've got access to cable-on-demand, or a computer, a web browser, and can remember "YouTube.com" then you in for a real treat.
Stepping into a virtual world at the PTC Live Global Conference
June 13th, 2013 by David Heller
I just returned from the PTC Global conference in Anaheim where I was treated to a truly immersive virtual experience. David Blacklock of VIRTALIS demonstrated their Active Wall where I got the chance to get my virtual hands dirty by virtually building a wind turbine … blade by blade.
VIRTALIS allows you to take any model and then interact with it in an immersive 3D environment where you're able to walk around and examine the life size model and then use your 'hand' to interact with the projected 3D model just as if it were the real thing.
There are a wide array of applications for this new technology in many fields including the mechanical and manufacturing space. You could, for example, be immersed in a virtual manufacturing floor and then operate the machinery as a learning experience, or you could use their system to examine and get your 'hands' on a virtual prototype before finalizing your CAD design.
Watch this short video to get a glimpse of the VIRTALIS ActiveWall and then navigate to the VIRTALIS web site to get more ideas on ways you can use this modern age tool to meet your every day engineering and presentation needs in an engaging new way.
By David Heller
Siemens acquiring LMS: What Does It Mean? – By Dennis Nagy
November 12th, 2012 by David Heller
Commentary by MCAE industry veteran Dennis Nagy
November 11, 2012
A historic event: the largest acquisition in the history of the mechanical engineering simulation software market (MCAE)
On Thursday (Nov. 8, 2012) Siemens announced its intention to acquire LMS International of Leuven, Belgium for EUR 640M (~$865M), topping previous acquisitions of Ansoft ($824M) and Fluent ($589M) by ANSYS in 2008 and 2006, respectively. Two professional MCAD/MCAE pundits whom I highly respect (Monica Schnitger and Jeff Rowe) have already written on Friday (Nov. 9, 2012) about the facts of the announcement, so I will not repeat those here. As a 40-year MCAE industry veteran (ironic that I write this on Veterans Day) who has worked in the past for or with both Siemens and LMS in the specific area of MCAE, I am particularly familiar with both parties to this acquisition and I have clear views on what I think it will mean for the engineering simulation software industry going forward.
LMS started in 1980 as Leuven Measurement Systems*, a mechanical vibration testing company, and has been a leader (both in thought and action) in the combination of mechanical vibration/dynamics testing and MCAE for almost two decades now. They have always realized the synergy between simulation and testing (not simulation vs. physical testing) and have delivered on that synergy with software, testing hardware, and related consulting for their growing customer base in automotive, aerospace, and other industries. So Siemens (and their Siemens PLM [SPLM] Business Unit, into which LMS will be integrated) gains both a strong mechanical testing software/hardware presence and a highly-respected set of MCAE/testing consulting engineers.
In the traditional MCAE software arena, SPLM will have some shorter-term tactical challenges in positioning (and integrating), marketing, and selling their multiple/overlapping offerings in finite element modeling/analysis (FEM/FEA) and multibody dynamics simulation (MBD) through their multiple sales channels.** I am confident that SPLM and LMS (both known for their solid, professional management teams) will find ways to overcome these merger-related birth pains and be able to focus on the much more strategically significant (to me, at least) move into Mechatronics that this acquisition represents.
Key statements in the Siemens and LMS acquisition press releases (my emphases italicized/bolded) support this view:
The convergence of mechanical and electrical/electronics engineering needs (including embedded software in digital controls) has rapidly descended upon the traditionally decades-long separate vendor markets of MCAD/MCAE and ECAD/EDA/ECAE. We only need to look at the rapid evolution of digital electronic cost content in automobiles over the past decades (electronics from 10% in 1970 to 40% in 2010 and embedded software from 4% to 13% in 8 years [2002-2010]), to sense that meeting design requirements now demands a more integrative engineering approach at all levels from system to sub-system to component design.
LMS acquired the French company Imagine, and its promising product AMESim, in 2007 and has been heavily promoting (with apparent success) the resulting LMS Imagine.Lab platform for system simulation and Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE). SPLM previously had no real offering in this emerging MBSE space and now arguably jumps to the head of the class. Dassault Systems (DS) does have a similar product in Dymola, but it is housed in the CATIA business divisions of DS, separate from the rest of DS's MCAE line in Simulia, and seems more competitive with MATLAB/SIMULINK from MathWorks (a whole other story). ANSYS has a lesser (in my opinion) product in SIMplorer (acquired as part of the Ansoft acquisition in 2008), and finally MSC acquired, with great promise, EASY5 from Boeing way back in 2002 but seems to be slowly starving it to death since then, choosing to focus instead on acoustics and materials simulation with its recent smaller acquisitions and partnerships and some aspects of MBSE in its traditional MBD line (MSC.ADAMS and related tools).
SPLM now has the ingredients to respond to the growing need for integrated mechatronics/MBSE simulation environments. Some astute automotive engineering observers believe that the obstacle to such integration (and corresponding vendor success) lies more with the traditional "silo" organizational structures of major automotive OEMs than it does with available pieces of tools and technology. But that's a whole other topic. Stay tuned!
*At the time LMS was founded in 1980, the clear leader in modal analysis-based mechanical vibration testing was Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) of Milford (outside Cincinnati), Ohio (and I worked for SDRC at that time). SDRC also had a good presence in MCAE and decided to grow outward in different directions from the mid-1980s through 2000 (into 3-D MCAD and PDM), losing its mechanical testing interest and consequently its lead to LMS. LMS, in turn, realized the future required a strong synergy between MCAE and testing and created their LMS Virtual.Lab platform in response to that need. SDRC was taken private by EDS and merged with Unigraphics in 2001, later to be spun out again as UGS and eventually acquired by Siemens as their new Siemens PLM Business Unit in 2007. Now that SPLM is acquiring LMS, the many former SDRC employees/executives who are still in key positions with SPLM are finally getting their mechanical testing mojo back!
**More specifically, SPLM will have the following technology/positioning issues to deal with:
About Dennis Nagy
Interview: To develop a world-class geometric kernel is not just difficult, but also is an extremely interesting task.
November 4th, 2012 by David Heller
A conversation with Nikolai Golovanov,
There is not always a clear understanding in the CAD community about where the geometric kernel ends and the CAD program begins. What is a geometric kernel, and what job does it perform in a CAD system?
We call the geometric kernel the part of a CAD system that makes the mathematical model of real and theoretical objects.
Our C3D kernel is an independent software component that consists of five groups of functions and algorithms. The first three groups are parts of C3D's Modeler module:
Nikolai Golovanov
There are several geometric kernels available on the market today. By which criteria should they be compared?
A geometrical kernel is characterized primarily by its functionality. It has to provide all the functions needed by the programmers working on their CAD software. In addition, it needs features like speed and reliability. The quality of the geometric kernel greatly impacts the quality of the entire CAD system.
For us as developers, the important aspects of a geometric kernel are its structure, its simplicity of use, and the clarity of its algorithms. These features enable developers to produce a software product in the minimum of time and with the lowest expenditure of resources.
What role does the geometric kernel play in the final product?
In our own CAD system, KOMPAS-3D, we found that the C3D geometric kernel is less than one-fourth of the program code, when measured by the amount of source code and the size of executable files. The complexity of developing the geometric core, however, is significantly larger than the complexity of the rest of the CAD system. This is evidenced by the fact that there are several times more CAD and other modeling systems in the world than there are geometric kernels by themselves.
ASCON is the only software company in Russia to publish a kernel, and one of only a very few in the rest of the world. What does this mean for you?
At the end of the last century, almost all Russian CAD systems had their own private geometric kernels. However, the core functionality of these CAD systems lagged behind their global peers. Because of the great complexity of making improvements to one's own geometric kernel, many Russian CAD companies abandoned their development efforts, and then purchased ready-made kernels.
Our company, ASCON, took a different route. We decided to continue developing our own kernel. As a result, KOMPAS-3D is now the only Russian CAD system successful at competing globally. And, of course, to develop a world-class geometric kernel is not just difficult, but also is an extremely interesting task. We proud of the results of our work, and enjoy working on it!
For a long time, your kernel remained internal to ASCON. Now, any developer can license C3D. What caused you to make this change?
It was the demand from international customers that caused us to change our minds. And so today, in our kernel development work, we rely not only on the needs of our own KOMPAS-3D developers, but more importantly on the wishes expressed by our new international customers.
For example, with the kernel being a standalone product, it had to get its own security system and we added component-specific licensing. We are actively translating the documentation into different languages. Other than this, development is proceeding as before: we constantly improve the algorithms, add functionality, and work on advancing the speed and reliability.
Tell us a little bit about the team working for you on the kernel.
Our team consists of experienced professionals, as well as new employees. All are graduates of leading universities and technical institutes. The backbone of the team consists of Aleksandr Maksimenko, Andrew Penquin, and Yuri Kozulin. Each of them is responsible for an important part of the work.
Nevertheless, we are constantly looking for talented professionals who can help us develop the C3Dkernl in new directions.
Many thanks for this interview!
About Nikolai Golovanov, the head of C3D geometric kernel development team, ASCON
Nikolai Golovanov is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering department of Bauman Moscow State Technical University as a designer of space launch vehicles. Upon his graduation, he began with the Kolomna Engineering Design bureau, which at the time employed the future founders of ASCON, Alexander Golikov and Tatiana Yankina. While at the bureau, Mr Golovanov developed software for analyzing the strength and stability of shell structures.
In 1989, Alexander Golikov and TatianaYankina left Kolomna to start up ASCON as a private company. Although they began with just an electronic drawing board, even then they were already conceiving the idea of three-dimensional parametric modeling. This radical concept eventually changed flat drawings into three-dimensional models. The ASCON founders shared their ideas with Nikolai Golovanov, and in 1996 he moved to take up his current position with ASCON. Today he continues to develop algorithms and to improve the C3D kernel.
Learn more about C3D at http://ascon.net/solutions/c3d_kernel/, http://www.facebook.com/C3Dlabs or https://twitter.com/C3Dlabs
3D Printing – Industry Briefing from Wohlers Associates
July 30th, 2012 by David Heller
Personal 3D Printers
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is experiencing staggering growth in low-cost "personal" 3D printers. These are products that typically sell for about $1,000 to $2,000 and are available as a kit or assembled machine. The majority originated from the RepRap open-source machine development at Bath University in the UK. RepRap is based on fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology developed and commercialized by Stratasys in the early 1990s.
Professional-grade, industrial additive manufacturing systems are those that are established in industry and sell for more than $5,000. Sales of these systems grew by an estimated 5.4% (CAGR) to 6,494 units in 2011, excluding personal systems. This compares to an estimated 6,164 systems sold in 2010 (also excluding personal systems), which resulted in impressive growth of 37.4%.
Personal 3D printer unit sales grew 289% in 2011, with an astonishing 23,265 units believed to have been placed, as shown at http://wohlersassociates.com/p3dp.html. However, personal 3D printers represent just $26.1 million of the total market for AM systems sales in 2011. If the personal systems category continues to grow at its current pace, it will quickly become an interesting market segment for system developers and investors.
Note: The previous information was taken from Wohlers Report 2012, a 287-page global study focusing on the advances in additive manufacturing and 3D printing worldwide. A detailed overview of the report, as well as additional information on the market and industry, are available at http://wohlersassociates.com.
Wohlers Talk: Why Most Adults Will Never Use a 3D Printer
Many have speculated on whether everyday consumers will purchase and use a 3D printer. With prices dipping to $350 for a kit and $550 for an assembled system, they are certainly affordable. Some believe that a 3D printer will someday be in every home and used to produce replacement parts as household products break or wear out.
As shown by Shapeways, Materialise, FutureFactories, Ponoko, and others, consumers are definitely interested in products made by additive manufacturing and 3D printing. Shapeways claims to be producing more than 90,000 parts (about 25,000 products) per month by AM, with a high percentage going to consumers. For years, Materialise's .MGX division has offered striking lighting designs, sculptures, and other products, with consumers paying hundreds of euros for one of them.
Indeed, consumers have an appetite for products made by additive manufacturing. However, most consumers will never own or operate a machine to produce these products. Instead, they will go to Shapeways, Amazon, or to another service or storefront to purchase these products. Most will not know, or even care, how the products were made—no different from the way they now purchase products. Consumers only care about receiving good value.
Someday, a company will offer a very low-cost, easy-to-use, and safe 3D printer targeted at children. This market opportunity, I believe, is very big because children like to imagine, create, touch things, play, and entertain themselves. These kids will be producing vehicles, action figures, puzzles, and just about everything imaginable. They are our future designers, engineers, and manufacturing professionals.
Most parents and adults are not candidates for a 3D printer. They do not want to mess with the data, manufacturing process, clean-up, and finishing of parts and products. Even if they owned or had access to a machine, it would probably not be capable of producing parts in the right material with the mechanical properties, color, surface finish, and texture needed for the part(s) they are trying to create or replace. These types of parts will continue to be produced by industry professionals and that's why most adults will never use a 3D printer.
Note: Wohlers Talk is a blog that offers views, perspective, and commentary on rapid product development and a wide range of other topics. More than 250 commentaries have been published. To read them, visit http://wohlersassociates.com/blog.
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In this seminar hosted by Plastics News, learn how to leverage additive manufacturing to assist with rapid product development and the manufacture of parts that go into final products. Tim Caffrey, associate consultant at Wohlers Associates, is one of four featured speakers. Go to http://www.plasticsnews.com/am2012 to learn more about the program and register.
Social Media and PLM
June 30th, 2012 by David Heller
Social Media has been the fastest growing phenomena and the one with the largest impact in our lives since the IT industry exists. In just a few years, it went from inception to creation of $ 100B+ value (collective market caps). Facebook's IPO, although it was considered as a technical-financial failure, was not just a record breaking valuation, but an example of record breaking growth rate for a company founded in 2004. It came after a series of other record breaking IPOs in social media, including LinkedIn, the leading professional social network, Zynga, the leading social gaming platform, Groupon, the leading Social buying platform, Yelp, the leading social rating platform, etc…
Is the Social Media Phenomena just another technology bubble?
How did we get here?
Can we truly collaborate socially on product design and PLM?
Why has Social PLM been slow to pick up?
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5 questions heading into the Orioles' offseason
The Orioles' participation in the 2012 playoffs wasn't just surprising; it was illuminating. It demonstrated how far the club had come this year and also what it needs to do to get back to the postseason -- and last longer -- in 2013. No one -- at least no one whose paycheck doesn't have a bird on it -- could have predicted that these Orioles would win 93 regular season games and three more in the postseason. But this is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. And losing to the New York Yankees in five games in the American League Division Series highlighted the club's deficiencies as well as its strengths. The Orioles need to become less one-dimensional offensively. And, like most teams, they lack an ace that will grab the ball in clutch situations and pitch deep into games, sparing the bullpen while frustrating the opposition. So with that in mind, here are the club's five biggest questions heading into the offseason and our best attempt to answer them: -- Dan Connolly
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 5, 2010) - ETSU's Laura Jansone (Jurmala, Latvia) closed her college career in grand fashion, winning her second Atlantic Sun Women's Golf Championship individual title. In recognition of her win, she earned the third Golfer of the Month award of her career, the conference announced Wednesday.
Jansone, the medalist at the 2008 A-Sun Championship, opened the 2010 Championship by shooting a 3-under, 69 to grab a three-stroke advantage. The senior from Jurmala, Latvia, who owns the A-Sun Championship scoring record with her 67 in the first round of the 2008 event, turned in just the eighth sub-70 score in A-Sun Championship history.
After a second-round 1-over-par, 73, Jansone closed out the wire-to-wire victory by recording at 1-under, 71 to finish the week with a 3-under-par total of 213, the second-best 54-hole score in conference history. She became only the fifth player in conference history to win the conference title multiple times, joining FIU's Moira Dunn (1991-93), Campbell's Mara Larrauri (1997-98), Georgia State's Lisbeth Meincke (2003-05) and Campbell's Alejandra Shaw (2006-07).
Jansone and the Buccaneers open play in the NCAA East Regional on Thursday. Fans can stay up-to-date on the event by visiting Golfstat.com for live scoring, or clicking on ETSUBucs.com for a complete wrap up following the day's action.


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What The IFPI Report Left Out: Its Own Study Showed That File Sharers Do Buy
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But the IFPI report doesn't mention any of that. Instead, it claims that people file share for one reason and one reason alone: because it's free. If that were the case, though, then why would any of those who partake also buy? And why would they be the industry's best customers for digital sales? It seems like the IFPI should be embracing them to see how it can get them to choose to buy more -- but instead, it totally ignores what its own researchers found, insists that it's just because content is free, and then spends most of the report demonizing its best customers and asking governments of the world to kick those people offline.


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GEAUGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) - Lawyers have made a request for a delay in the trial of admitted school shooter, TJ Lane. The judge has granted it but has not set a new date.
The judge agreed that a delay is necessary. He is asking the attorneys to return to court later in the month with an estimate on how long of a delay is necessary.
Both sides seem to agree that they need a delay in the trial to go over "voluminous" discovery in the case. Much of that discovery likely centers on the defense claim that Lane was insane at the time of the shootings.
Lane listened to the proceedings without showing any emotion.
Police say Lane entered the cafeteria at Chardon High School last February and opened fire. 17-year-old Russell King, Jr., 16-year-old Daniel Parmertor and 16-year-old Demetrius Hewlin were killed in the shooting. 17-year-old Nick Walczak remains paralyzed from the waist down. 18-year-old Joy Rickers and a 6th, unidentified victim were treated and released from the hospital.
Lane was recorded in a police cruiser after he was picked up and read his rights saying "I shot people." An officer asked why and he responded "I don't know." He faces life in prison if convicted.
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Yet Another Company Sues Over Being Called Adware
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As Eric Goldman notes in the link above, just bringing these types of lawsuits tends to backfire. As we noted above, they rarely, if ever, win, and simply filing the lawsuit draws much more attention to the company -- often including reports from users about why they do think the software in question is adware or spyware. In the meantime, if 7Search no longer offers downloads, then it's not clear what it's upset about either, since it's not like the McAfee warning is going to stop people from downloading its software -- since, apparently, there's no software to download.


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We don't get to write about Gionee's products that often. However, last time we were talking about their rather awesome Elife E7 smartphone, which is still one of the best phones ever made. And guess what? The company unveiled its "Mini" sibling.
The newly announced Gionee Elife E7 Mini is an impressive smartphone by any stretch of imagination. It comes with a 4.7-inch HD screen, MediaTek's powerful 1.7GHz octa-core chip, and a neat 13-megapixel swivel camera. In addition, there are also two SIM card slots, 2,100mAh battery and 16GB of expandable storage.
All this will soon start selling in India for INR 18,999, which translates into some $307.
As that's usually the case with smaller handset makers like Gionee, their products rarely, if ever, end-up selling in the Western hemisphere. We do hope that both the regular Elife E7 and its Mini counterpart will find its way to Europe and the U.S. In the meantime, check out few hands-on photos brought to us by the good folks of FoneArena.


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Building on a number of Mathematica's standard features, including the Import function and Database Link, Wolfram Research's corporate analysis team has developed a powerful, in-house computable data function to quickly generate statistics and create sophisticated visualizations to analyze the company's web traffic and other business data.
David Howell, Wolfram's corporate analysis team lead, says Mathematica's flexibility and integration give his group several advantages for studying how visitors interact with Wolfram websites. He says, "Often once we've computed and visualized the data, we'll think of a slight difference in how it can be presented. Because we're working in one centralized and unified environment, Mathematica, we can immediately pop into the code, make changes, and work with those new features immediately without the mental overhead of switching tools."
As a result, the corporate analysis team can efficiently generate insightful, customizable reports that anyone in the company can use to explore and understand the flow of the company's web traffic.
"Mathematica's a powerful language for doing data analysis, but in addition to the computing power, it gives us the ability to produce interactive documents that our colleagues can use to see the bigger picture of web traffic on our sites. And that really helps us focus on solving problems and helping our visitors reach their goals", says Howell.


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One man who cares more about guy's nether regions than we do is back to change the world of sex for a second time. Dr. Mike Wyllie, one of the team members responsible for Viagra, has returned with a new product to help men in the bedroom: Tempe Spray.
The product, which is expected to hit the market in 2014, is a spray-on that's applied up to 2-hours ahead of sex to make a man last up to five times longer. It's efficacy is contributed to the use of two anesthetic that begin working within five minutes of spraying to provide a man with more control of his orgasm. Side effects have included reports of a burning sensation and headaches, but the spray has passed the safety inspection of the European Medicines Agency and will be available by prescription by next year. No word on testing in the U.S. yet.
Critics worry that Tempe Spray will only act as a band-aid for the symptom of premature ejaculation, allowing men (and their partners) to overlook the stress, anxiety and relationship issues that could be the root of the issue.
Still, Dr. Wyllie is optimistic about his spray. "I feel this could save relationships."
What do you think, Instincters? Could this be a relationship saver or might this only cause more issues in the long term for couples?
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We love to ride, so we're pretty serious about National Bike to Work Day. Check out the collage below for just a few of the folks who pedaled in to work today at our home office here in North Carolina!
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Narn i Chîn Húrin (tale)
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Narn i Chîn Húrin, the sorrowful Tale of the Children of Húrin, tells of the tragic lives of Túrin Turambar and his sister Nienor.[1]
[edit] History
The Narn i Chîn Húrin was shown by Pengolodh to Ælfwine.[2]
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Narn i Chîn Húrin is Sindarin, directly meaning "Tale of the Children of Húrin".[3]
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The Tale of Grief was a name for the Narn i Chîn Húrin.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Túrin Turambar"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: II. Ælfwine and Dírhaval"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The 'Túrin Wrapper'" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 50, March 2013, p. 8


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Excelsior College's endowment funds support the mission of the College by providing a reliable source of funds for current and future use. Endowments represent a permanent partnership between Excelsior College and the donors who contribute to them. The legacy of thoughtful donors plays a role in the life of the College in perpetuity, and becomes the basis upon which Excelsior can build its achievements. The generosity of Excelsior's endowment donors is appreciated by generations past, present, and future.
Creating an endowment at Excelsior College secures the future of the institution and provides an essential and reliable source of funding for scholarships, the development of new degree programs and other partnerships that benefit adult learners. Endowments also ensure long-term support of the College through the stewardship and portfolio management,
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Endowments are an appropriate and meaningful way to honor the memory and legacy of loved ones. Creating an endowment enables the College to maintain its commitment to serving the public interest as a center of innovation in higher education, policy formulation and advocacy on behalf of adult learners and to conducting its affairs in a manner that acknowledges the maturity, autonomy and dignity of its students.
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Schondorf on Lake Ammersee has become an attractive place to live due to its location, its good infrastructure, the short distance to Munich and the airport. A mansion for a business couple, curious, brave and interested in design. A house with complex functional sequences. A framed view of the sculptural landscape. 380 massive acrylic glass cylinders perforating the building's exterior skin.
Archive for February, 2011
House R in Schondorf, Germany by Bembé dellingerWednesday, February 23rd, 2011
N House in Jakarta by TWS PartnersTuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Located at a typical urban housing complex, which predominantly consists of semi detached housing, this project tries to elaborate the indoor and outdoor relationship.
- Architect: TWS Partners
- Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
- Project year: 2009
Static House in Jakarta, Indonesia by TWS PartnersTuesday, February 22nd, 2011
The site is 600 square meter land area located in a an area that is medium dense, semi detached, without any physical and building typology from one and another. The client came to TWS Parters with a particular vision of garden house, which can maximize in correlation to outdoor space fromwithin. From client's brief of room program, the house was to have a huge area of 800 square meter, with the entire space to be located within the limited site.
- Architect: TWS Partners
- Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
- Area: 600 sq meters
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, California by Marcy Wong Donn Logan ArchitectsTuesday, February 22nd, 2011
The Freight & Salvage (whose non-profit organization is incorporated as the Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music) has long been the most venerable institution dedicated to presenting the best in folk and traditional music west of the Mississippi. The organization was started in 1968, where despite the small size and grittiness of the initial barn-like urban warehouse venues, "The Freight" became known for top quality performers and for its welcoming, down-home environment.
- ARCHITECT: Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects
- SIZE: 18,000 square feet
- ESTIMATED COST: $9.3 million
- SERVICES PROVIDED: Concept Design, SD, DD, CD, CA, Fundraising Support
- SOFTWARE USED: AutoCAD 2008
- ARCHITECTS: Marcy Wong – Partner, Donn Logan – Partner, Tai-Ran Tseng, AIA – Project Manager.
- GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Rick Spickard
- PROJECT/CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: Greg Thurman
- INTERIORS: Donn Logan
- PLANNING: Donn Logan
- DEVELOPER: Steve Baker
- LANDSCAPE (Green Roof): Josiah Cain
- CIVIL ENGINEER: Steve Calcagno
- STRUCTURAL: Sam Koerper
- MECHANICAL: Bill Hadinger
- ELECTRICAL: Carol Light
- THEATRICAL CONSULTANT: Adam Shalleck
- ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING: Mary Jane Lawless Marcy Wong
- ACOUSTICS: David Schwind
- AUDIO VISUAL: Adam Shalleck
- RENDERING: Patrick Ghiringhelli
- MODEL CONSTRUCTION: Justin Tang, Joyce Sirna
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Billy Hustace, Sharon Risedorph, Hali McGrath, Christo Logan
LOOP CITY PROJECT in Copenhagen & Malmo by BIG ArchitectTuesday, February 22nd, 2011
The industrial areas in the Copenhagen suburbs are next in line for urban development. A new light rail is planned to interconnect 20 development zones with a total area of 11 Km2, the size of the entire inner city. We are proposing to turn the light rail line into a spine of dense urbanity with a series of peaks at the stations. By combing the rail with strategies for energy exchange, waste management, water treatment and electric car stations, the infrastructure could become the base for a new sustainable ring of development around Copenhagen, and an artery of true urbanity pumping life into the heart of the suburbs. At certain points the rail becomes a building itself almost like a Roman aqueduct passing through the suburbs, at other points it forms small pockets of urbanity around the stations.
Praxis of Flow in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Melody Rees & Arthur AzoulaiMonday, February 21st, 2011
This project is a morphological study that emphasizes circulating forces and an extended field of movement. It is designed by dynamically simulating self-organizing biological systems. Simultaneously, selective decision making is used to sculpt innate yet deliberate spatial relationships and formal qualities.
- Project Name: Praxis of Flow
- Designers: MegaZoo Design: Melody Rees + Arthur Azoulai
- Schematic Design Completion : December 2010
- Project Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Status: Un-Built
Seven Chambers in Dalian, China by CheungvoglMonday, February 21st, 2011
As time defines history and events turn into memories, time itself again stands in the way to recall both as the constantly changing subjectiveness of presence determines the perspective of view onto the past.
The seven chambers are designed to cut the visitor, the exhibited art of the private collection and the occasional cultural and communal events out of the context of the presence to create a moment of individual reception, reflection and interaction with the long lasting history of China without any influence of singular materiality of temporary circumstances, creating the opportunity of a silent encounter with various objects and art pieces, documenting the long way of thousands years of Chinese history, leading to the day, which is today.
- Architects: Cheungvogl, Hong Kong
- Location: Dalian, China
- Client: Private Commission
- Main Use: Exhibition
- Total Area: 1'400 sqm; 1'200 sqm Exhibition, 200 sqm Facilities
- Site Area: 42'000 sqm
- Design Year: 2008-2011
- Status: ongoing – 2012
Miami Dade College Campus Center, Miami, Florida, by OPPENHEIM Architecture+Design designed using ArchiCADMonday, February 21st, 2011
The dramatic design set forth for Miami's LEED certified Miami Dade College Campus Center by Oppenheim Architecture+Design is visually daring and bold; yet upon further introspection, inherently elemental and concise in its organization of the complex programmatic mix. The proposed LEED® certified structure is conceived of as a portal comprised of a base and a top supported by two towers that allow large exterior public spaces at ground and in sky. The project is to serve as a catalyst-exasperating significant enhancement to the campus experience and image through a local revitalization of the surrounding neighborhood.
- Architect: OPPENHEIM Architecture+Design, Miami, Fla.
- Project: Miami Data College Campus Center
- Scope: 2,500,000 SF mixed-use. Architecture/Interior finishes
- Location: Miami, Florida
- Software used: ArchiCAD
Villa Allegra, Miami Beach by OPPENHEIM Architecture+DesignMonday, February 21st, 2011
Chad Oppenheim of OPPENHEIM Architecture+Design's designs, although not limited to Miami, are mainly concentrated in and around Miami. His influence is being felt most in the Design District and Uptown.
Architect: OPPENHEIM Architecture+Design, Miami, Fla.
Scope: 9,000 SF private residence. Architecture/Interior design
Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Project Team: Chad Oppenheim, Juan Calvo, Giovana Henao, Leslie Abraham, Rodrigo Londoño, and Roger Placencia
Invisible Garage by Indie ArchitectureMonday, February 21st, 2011
My mother is a liberal democrat who supports environmentally conscious legislation and business. So naturally, she opposes sprawl. I was recently driving with her through a 1990s suburb where the houses are built very close to one another, less then 10 feet apart. She said to me, "I don't know why anyone would want to live right on top of their neighbors like that." She's not alone in having these competing, yet understandable, points of view. When discussing sprawl as an urban condition, there is no lack of vitriol. But at the scale of the house, most people want their space. As historian Robert Bruegmann points out, very few critics of sprawl believe that they live in it—it's a place that is further out, less sensible, and less tasteful than their own neighborhood.
- Architect: Indie Architecture
- Project: Invisible Garage (more…)


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1. any officer with the surname of deng or ning leading a unit will cause the game to crash. any fix or patch?
2. if one force asks another force in alliance for reinforcement which is sent successfully, and then the one sending it end its alliance with that force while the reinforcement is still on its way, the game crashes saying a buffer overrun has been detected and the game has to terminate it. any fix or patch?