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With multiple drownings in fast-moving rivers in recent days, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin on July 5 warned residents to be extremely cautious about trying to beat the heat at their favorite swimming hole.
"That river you thought you always knew, it's not the same as it was two weeks ago," Shumlin said in a phone interview.
Shumlin spoke hours after a Vermont State Police dive team joined a Middlebury rescue crew to pull the body of 26-year-old Steven Orvis from the New Haven River in Bristol.
Orvis disappeared on July 4, two days after 16-year-old Jesse Belcher of Barre died in a similar swimming accident in the swollen Stevens Branch in Barre.
Meanwhile, last Friday, state and local road crews were scrambling to repair wash-outs, clear blocked culverts and make other repairs. Officials said Vermont's northern- and southern-most counties escaped the worst damage, with most of it concentrated in Chittenden, Washington, Addison, Lamoille and Windsor counties.
"Vermont's totally saturated. We've had extensive damage to both municipal and state roads," Shumlin said. "And the bad news is that we have a similar weather pattern projected through (July 11)."
Temperatures above 80 degrees, dew points topping a sticky, sweat-inducing 70 percent punctuated by heavy rains in the afternoon and evening have become a regular feature in Vermont in recent weeks. Fourth of July festivities were washed out or forced indoors in many places, just as some Memorial Day events had been.
Flooding also damaged railroad tracks in Roxbury, forcing Amtrak to switch passengers to buses last Thursday and Friday between Springfield, Mass. and St. Albans.
The tracks themselves held up well; what washed away was the ground beneath them, said Vermont Transportation Agency Assistant Director Trini Brassard. She said tracks and track beds had been upgraded since Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
"What saved us in this and in Irene is all the upgrade work we did. The ties and the rail didn't go anywhere. What we've been losing is the rail bed and culvert," Brassard said.
Shumlin said officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be in Vermont on July 9 to assess damage and determine what aid might be available.
Officials were watching Lake Champlain carefully. It was reported at 99.58 feet at midday on July 5, just under its 100-foot flood stage. That could create problems both for shoreline properties and, if a south wind kicks up, for major roads at the north end of the lake, including U.S. Route 2.
But conditions weren't bothering Hadley Clark, who answered the phone at her parents' Ladd Landing Marina in Grand Isle on July 5.
"Our driveway's getting a little washed-out, but other than that we're pretty good," she said. "We can launch boats with deeper keels from the ramp … And bigger sailboats can get in closer to shore."
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Sox 1st in standings — in charity
Over 10 years, team raised $52m, tops in baseball
Ten years ago, when the Boston Red Sox were sold to a trio of out-of-staters, the new owners signed a contract with state Attorney General Tom Reilly, promising to raise $20 million for area charities over 10 years. Soon after acquiring the team in February 2002, they established the Red Sox Foundation to fulfill that duty.
A report released Monday by the foundation reveals that it has donated more than twice that amount — a total of $52 million to charitable programs in the past decade — making the Red Sox by far the most charitable team in Major League Baseball.
The report offers a rare bit of good news for a team that has struggled all season, hovering at or near last place in the AL East standings.
"Frankly, they do some of the best work in the country, not just in Major League Baseball but all sports," said Greg Johnson, executive director of the Sports Philanthropy Project, a group headquartered in Cambridge that studies the impact of charity among professional sports teams and players. In 2008 and 2010, he evaluated the charitable efforts of each of the 30 MLB teams.
"It's not just using cash but leveraging the vast amount of assets — the ticket donations, ball park signage, corporate sponsors, the players, the professional staff — in tackling problems," Johnson said.
In 2010 alone, the Red Sox Foundation donated $7.6 million to charities, including those which the foundation itself runs, such as Red Sox Scholars, which provides tutoring, enrichment, and college scholarships to Boston public school students, and Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, which uses baseball clinics to promote life skills and values for youth.
By comparison, the New York Yankees Foundation — which had the second-highest charitable donations in the MLB — gave $3.6 million in 2010, according to tax forms. The New York Mets were third, with about $1.9 million.
"We take very seriously the Red Sox commitment to community, whether in New England or at our spring training home in South Florida," said Larry Lucchino, president and CEO of the team. "We know need has no offseason."
By almost any measure, the Red Sox are a very wealthy team. According to Forbes magazine, the Red Sox are worth $1 billion. The Yankees are valued at $1.85 billion. In 2011, the Red Sox had revenues of $310 million, compared to the Yankees at $439 million, according to Forbes. The nonprofit foundation revenues do not come from the team's revenues, but are raised separately.
While the Red Sox have given generously to the community, tickets remain the most expensive in baseball, with an average price of $53.38.
The Red Sox Foundation's 10-year total of grants and programs does not include the millions contributed by the team to nonprofits through the donation of more than 40,000 autographed items and Fenway events, 5,500 appearances by current and former players, and tickets to games, concerts, and special events, said the foundation's executive director, Meg Vaillancourt.
The foundation focuses on providing health, educational, recreational, and social services for at-risk groups, ranging from urban youth to military veterans, according to the report. Both the team and the foundation are active in charitable work throughout New England and in Lee County, Fla., the team's spring training base.
The foundation has won awards for the programs it runs, including the first-ever MLB Commissioner's Award for Philanthropic Excellence in 2010 for its Red Sox Scholars program. The year before, it won the Patterson Award for Excellence in Sport Philanthropy from the Sports Philanthropy Project and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In the 15 years he has been with the Sports Philanthropy Project, Johnson has seen a dramatic increase in sports charity.
"Back in the day, teams didn't have foundations," he said. "Now, all of them do, in all the professional leagues. It's part of their business model." He cites a number of reasons, including good public and community relations and brand-building.
Johnson praised the Red Sox Scholars program, which awards college scholarships to low-income Boston middle school students, but also provides them with tutoring and enrichment activities, field trips, job training, and internships. "They don't just give them money, they give them mentors," Johnson said.
Stephan Phoenix is a Red Sox Scholar who says the foundation has helped him attain his goal of going to college.
"The Red Sox Foundation encouraged me and gave me incredible opportunities through middle and high school," said Phoenix, 19, a student at UMass Boston. "I'm the first in my family to go to college and I'm determined to open the door for other kids."
In the past 10 years, the foundation has donated nearly $900,000 to the Dimock Center, a nonprofit health and social services agency in Roxbury. Players and staffers have also helped renovate the detox center and children's facilities. Earlier this year, Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine helped upgrade the preschool area.
"The team's commitment to Dimock has been a lifeline for our community," said the center's president, Ruth Ellen Fitch. "It means a lot to us to have them as partners, from the financial perspective and in ways other than money."
Another cornerstone program is Home Base, a venture with Massachusetts General Hospital, which serves veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injuries and combat stress, and also helps their families.
Nick Mochi of Cambridge spent a year in Afghanistan with the Army. "The Home Base Program helps veterans with readjusting," said Mochi, 31. "You can't expect to be deployed and come back the same person. At Home Base, they help combat veterans get back to who they once were."
In addition to the foundation grants and the team's in-kind contributions, some of the ownership partners, including Tom Werner and John Henry, and some former and current players have their own charitable foundations. Lucchino, who issetting up a foundation, has helped raise more than $1 billion for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's capital campaign.
In the past decade, the club has also helped Dana-Farber raise more than $39 million through an annual radio-telethon, an annual Red Sox-themed Rally Against Cancer, and other team events.
Boston's other professional sports teams also have charitable foundations. According to 2010 tax forms, the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation spent $1.6 million on grants and programs that year, the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation about $1.1 million, and the Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation $1.2 million.
Vaillancourt stressed that the teams' charitable arms are not in competition with each other. In fact, MLB foundation staffers meet in the offseason to share strategies. "It's clear that there is plenty of need in every community and we all share the same mission: to harness the passion of our fans and put it to work creating positive changes in our communities," said Vaillancourt.
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Preferences Editor
- 1 General Settings
- 2 Display settings
- 3 Import-Export settings
- 4 Workbench preferences
The preferences system of FreeCAD is located in the Edit menu → Preferences.
FreeCAD functionality is divided into different modules, each module being responsible for the working of a specific workbench. FreeCAD also uses a concept called late loading, which means that components are loaded only when they are needed. You may have noticed that when you select a workbench on the FreeCAD toolbar, that workbench and all its components get loaded at that moment. This includes its preferences settings.
Without any module loaded, you will have access to two configuration sections, responsible for the general application settings and for the display settings. When you are in a certain workbench the preferences of this workbench will appear as new section and file formats supported by the workbench will appear as new tab in the section Import-Export.
Clicking the Reset button in the lower left corner of any preferences display will set all of the FreeCAD preferences to their default values.
General Settings
This preferences section has 6 tabs:
In the General tab you can specify the following:
|Change language
|Select the language of FreeCAD's user interface
|Size of recent file list
|Specification how many files should be listed in the recent files list
|Enable tiled background
|If checked, the background of FreeCAD's main window will by default consist of tiles of this image:
This option only has an effect if in Style sheet/No style sheet is selected.
The image can be changed by adding the folders Gui/Images in the folder
%APPDATA%/FreeCAD (on Windows),
$HOME/.FreeCAD (on Linux) or
$HOME/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD (on MacOS).
Put there a file named background.png and uncheck/check this option to see the changed file.
|Style sheet
|Selection of a style sheet. The style sheets define how the user interface of FreeCAD looks.
|Size of toolbar icons
|Selection of the size for the toolbar icons
|Auto load module after start up
|Selection what workbench will be used directly after starting FreeCAD
|Enable splash screen at start up
|If checked, the splash screen of FreeCAD is shown when starting.
The splash screen image can be changed by adding the folders Gui/Images in the folder %APPDATA%/FreeCAD (where %APPDATA% is the the user-specific application folder of FreeCAD of your operating system). Put there a file named splash_image.png and restart FreeCAD to see the changed splash screen.
|Enable word wrap
|Words will be wrapped when the exceed the available horizontal space in the Python console. This console is shown using the menu View → Panels → Python console.
In the Document tab you can specify the following:
|Create new document at start up
|If checked, FreeCAD will create a new document when started
|Document save compression level
|Specification of the compression level for FCStd files. FCStd files are ZIP-compressed files. Therefore you can rename their suffix .FCStd to .zip and open them with a ZIP archive program.
|Using Undo/Redo on documents
|If checked, all changes in documents are stored so that they can be undone/redone
|Maximum Undo/Redo steps
|Specification how many Undo/Redo steps should be recorded
|Run AutoRecovery at startup
|If there is a recovery file available FreeCAD will automatically run a file recovery when it is started. This way files can be restored if a crash occurred.
|Save AutoRecovery information every
|Specification how often a recovery file is written.
|Save thumbnail into project file when saving document
|If checked, also a thumbnail will be stored when the document is saved. The thumbnail will for example be shown in the list of recent files in the Start workbench.
|Add the program logo to the generated thumbnail
|If checked, the FreeCAD program logo will be added to the thumbnail. This option only has an effect if Save thumbnail into project file when saving document is used.
|Maximum number of backup files to keep when resaving document
|If checked, backup files will be kept when saving the document. You can specify how many backup files will be kept. They contain the previously saved document version. The first backup file will have the file suffix .FCStd1, the second .FCStd2 and so on.
|Allow duplicate object labels in one document
|If checked, objects can have the same label/name. For example different parts or features can then have the same name in the same document.
|Author name
|All documents that will be created will get the specified author name. Keep the author field blank for an anonymous author. If the option Set on save is checked, the field Last modified by will be set to the specified author when saving the file. This field can be viewed using the menu File → Project information.
|All documents that will be created will get the specified company name
|Default license
|Selection of a default license for new documents. For predefined license the License URL will automatically be set accordingly. Select 'Other' for an own or special license.
|License URL
|Specification of an URL describing the license selected in Default license
The editor preferences settings affect the behavior of the macro editor. This editor can be opened using the menu Macro → Macros... → Edit/Create.
Note: the color and font settings also affect the Python console. This console is shown using the menu View → Panels → Python console.
In the Editor tab you can specify the following:
|Display Items
|Selection of the code type. The color and font settings will be applied to the selected type. The result can be seen in the Preview field.
|Specification of the font family that should be used for the selected code type
|Specification of the font size that should be used for the selected code type
|Enable line numbers
|If checked, the code lines will be numbered
|Tab size
|Specification of the tabulator raster (how many spaces). If it is for example set to '6', pressing Tab will jump to character 7 or 13 or 19 etc., depending the current cursor position. This setting is only used if Keep tabs is selected.
|Indent size
|Specification of how many spaces will be inserted when pressing Tab. This setting is only used if Insert spaces is selected.
|Keep tabs
|If selected, pressing Tab will insert a tabulator with the raster defined by Tab size
|Insert spaces
|If selected, pressing Tab will insert the amount of spaces defined by Indent size
Output window
In the Output tab you can specify the following:
|Record log messages
|If checked, also log messages will be recorded. They will be output in the Report view panel with the color set in Log messages. This panel is shown using the menu View → Panels → Report view.
|Record warnings
|If checked, warnings will be recorded. They will be output in the Report view panel with the color set in Warnings.
|Record error messages
|If checked, error messages will be recorded. They will be output in the Report view panel with the color set in Errors
|Normal messages
|Specification of the font color for normal messages in the Report view panel.
|Log messages
|Specification of the font color for log messages in the Report view panel.
|Specification of the font color for warning messages in the Report view panel.
|Specification of the font color for error messages in the Report view panel.
|Redirect internal Python output to report view
|If checked, internal Python output will be redirected from the Python console to the Report view panel. The Python console is shown using the menu View → Panels → Python console
|Redirect internal Python errors to report view
|If checked, Python error messages will be redirected from the Python console to the Report view panel.
In the Macro tab you can specify the following:
|Run macros in local environment
|If checked, variables defined by macros are created as local variables, otherwise as global Python variable
|Macro path
|Specification of a path to macro files
|Recording GUI commands
|If checked, recorded macros will also contain user interface commands
|Record as comment
|If checked, recorded macros will also contain user interface commands but as comments. This is useful if you don't want to execute visible actions when running the macro but to see what could be done visibly.
|Show script commands in python console
|If checked, the commands executed by the macro scripts are shown in the Python console. This console is shown using the menu View → Panels → Python console.
In the Units tab you can specify the following:
|User system
|Selection of a unit system that should be used for all parts of FreeCAD
|Number of decimals
|The number of decimals that should be shown for numbers and dimensions in FreeCAD
|Minimum fractional inch
|Minimum fractional inch that should be displayed. This setting is only available if the unit system Building US (ft-in/sqft/cuft) is used.
Display settings
This preferences section has up to 3 tabs:
3D View
In the 3D View tab you can specify the following:
|Show coordinate system in the corner
|If checked, the main coordinate system will always be shown at the lower right in opened files
|Show counter of frames per second
|If checked, the time needed for the last operation and the resulting frame rate will always be shown at the lower left in opened files
|Show navigation cube
|If checked, the navigation cube will always be shown at the selected Corner in opened files
|Use OpenGL Vertex Buffer Object
|If checked, Vertex Buffer Objects (VBO) will be used. A VBO is an OpenGL feature that provides methods for uploading vertex data (position, normal vector, color, etc.) to the video device. VBOs offer substantial performance gains because the data resides in the video device memory rather than the system memory and so it can be rendered directly by the video device. For more background info see this webpage.
|Enable animation
|If checked, rotations can be animated. If for example the 3D Navigation set CAD is used and the mouse is moved while the scroll wheel and the right mouse button is pressed, parts are rotated. If one keeps the mouse moving while releasing e.g. the right mouse button, the rotation will continue as animation. To end the animation left-click with the mouse.
|3D Navigation
|Selection of a navigation settings set. To see what each set defines, select a set and press the button Mouse....
|Orbit style
|Selection of the rotation orbit style. When viewing a part in the x-y plane an being in the rotation mode of the 3D navigation, the difference is: If Trackball is selected, moving the mouse horizontally will rotate the part around the y-axis, if Turntable is selected the part will be rotated around the z-axis.
|Selection if and what kind of multisample anti-aliasing is used
|New Document Camera Orientation
|Selection of the camera orientation for new documents
|Zoom at cursor
|If checked, zoom operations will be performed at the position of the mouse pointer. Otherwise zoom operations will be performed at the center of the current view. The Zoom step defines how much will be zoomed. A zoom step of '1' means a factor of 7.5 for every zoom step.
|Invert zoom
|If checked, the direction of zoom operations will be inverted.
|Disable touchscreen tilt gesture
|If checked, the tilting gesture will be disabled for pinch-zooming (two-finger zooming). This only affects the 3D Navigation set Gesture.
|Drag at cursor
|If checked, rotations in 3D will use the current cursor position as center for the rotation. Otherwise always the center of the screen will be used.
|Marker size
|Selection of the size of vertices (points) in the Sketcher workbench
|Eye to eye distance for stereo modes
|Specification of the eye-to-eye distance used for stereo projections. The specified value is a factor that will be multiplied with the bounding box size of the 3D object that is currently displayed.
|Enable backlight color
|If checked, backlight is enabled with the defined color
|Intensity of backlight
|Specification of the intensity of the backlight. This setting is only enabled if Enable backlight color is checked.
|Camera type
|Selection of the camera projection type.
If Perspective rendering is selected, objects will appear in a perspective projection.
If Orthographic rendering is selected, objects will be projected in orthographic projection.
In the Colors tab you can specify the following:
|Enable preselection highlighting
|If checked, preselection is turned on and will be highlighted by the specified color. Preselection means that for example edges in parts will be highlighted while hovering with the mouse over them to indicate that they can be selected.
|Enable selection highlighting
|If checked, selection highlighting is turned on and the specified color will be used for it
|Pick radius
|Sets the area for picking elements in 3D view. Larger value makes it easier to pick things, but can make some small features impossible to select.
|Simple color
|If selected, the background for parts will have the selected color
|Color gradient
|If selected, the background for parts will have the selected color gradient
|Middle color
|Is only enabled if Color gradient is selected. If checked, the color gradient will get the selected color as middle color.
|Object being edited
|Selection of the background color for objects in the tree view that are currently edited
|Active container
|Selection of the background color for active containers in the tree view. For example if there are several parts in the tree view and one part is toggled as active body, it will get the selected background color in the tree view.
Part colors
This tab is only shown if you are in the Part or PartDesign workbench or if you have been in these workbenches before.
In the Part colors tab you can specify the following:
|Default shape color
|Selection of the default color for new shapes. If the option Random shape color is set, a random color is used instead.
|Default line color
|Selection of the default line color for new shapes
|Default line width
|Specification of the default line thickness for new shapes
|Default vertex color
|Selection of the default color for new vertices
|Default vertex size
|Specification of the default size for new vertices
|Bounding box color
|Selection of the color of bounding boxes in the 3D view
|Default text color
|Selection of the default text color for document annotations. There is currently no dialog to add annotations to documents. Annotations can only be added using the Python console with this command:
This console is shown using the menu View → Panels → Python console.
Import-Export settings
The Import-Export settings affect how files are imported and exported to and from FreeCAD. Note that the Import-Export preferences dialog offers file type settings for most workbenches but not every workbench is able to import/export all file types.
FreeCAD supports many file formats. For the following file formats it offers to apply special settings:
The Collada DAE (Digital Asset Exchange) format is a standard file format for exchange of Mesh data. The Arch workbench can import meshes from .dae files, and export Arch and other Shape-based objects to the .dae format. The Collada import functionality in the Arch module depends on pycollada. If it is not installed on your system, Collada import/export will be disabled.
For the DAE format you can specify the following:
|Scaling factor
|All dimensions in the file will be scaled with the specified factor
|Sets the meshing program that should be used. If using Netgen, make sure that it is available. This can be checked by using the Mesh module and creating a mesh using Netgen. If it is not available another version of FreeCAD, compiled with Netgen, must be installed.
|The tessellation value to use with the Builtin and the Mefisto meshing program.
|The grading value to use for meshing using Netgen. This value describes how fast the mesh size decreases. The gradient of the local mesh size h(x) is bounded by |Δh(x)| ≤ 1/value.
|Segments per edge
|The maximum number of segments per edge
|Segments per radius
|The number of segments per radius
|Second order
|Allow a second order mesh
|Allows optimization
|Allow quads
|Allow quadrilateral faces
DWG (from drawing) is a proprietary binary file format used for storing two- and three- dimensional design data and metadata. Since it is a closed source file format it cannot be directly supported by FreeCAD. Therefore the external file converter ODA is required.
For the DWG format you can only specify the path to ODA. note: All settings for DXF file format also apply to DWG.
|Path to ODA (formerly Teigha) File Converter
|Sets the path to the ODA file converter
AutoCAD DXF (Drawing eXchange Format) is a proprietary format to exchange CAD data between AutoCAD and other programs.
For the DXF format you can specify the following:
|Show this dialog when importing and exporting
|This preferences dialog will be shown when importing or exporting DXF files
|Use legacy python importer
|If checked, the Python importer is used, otherwise the newer C++ one. The C++ importer is faster, but has not as many features yet.
|Allow FreeCAD to automatically download and update the DXF libraries
|By checking this, you will allow FreeCAD to download the Python converter for DXF import and export. This converter cannot be bundled with FreeCAD because it has a different software license.
|Select what will be imported.
If texts and dimensions is unchecked, texts and mtexts won't be imported.
If layouts is checked, paper space objects will be imported too.
Check *blocks if you want the non-named blocks (beginning with a *) to be imported too.
|Select what will be created.
If simple Part shapes is selected, only standard Part objects will be created. This is the fastest.
If Draft objects is selected, parametric Draft objects will be created whenever possible.
If Sketches is selected, sketches will be created whenever possible.
|Scale factor to apply to imported files
|Scale factor to apply to DXF files on import. The factor is the conversion between the unit of your DXF file and millimeters. Example: for files in millimeters: 1, in centimeters: 10, in meters: 1000, in inches: 25.4, in feet: 304.8
|Get original colors from the DXF file
|If checked, colors will be retrieved from the DXF objects whenever possible. Otherwise default colors will be applied.
|Join geometry
|If checked, FreeCAD will try to join coincident objects into wires. Note that this can take a while.
|Group layers into blocks
|If checked, objects from the same layers will be joined into Draft Blocks, turning the display faster, but making them less easily editable ??The Draft Wiki pages don't mention Draft blocks??
|Use standard font size for texts
|If checked, imported texts will get the standard Draft Text size, instead of the size they have in the DXF document
|Use VisGroups
|If checked, DXF layers will be imported as Draft VisGroups
|Import hatch boundaries as wires
|If checked, hatches will be converted into simple wires
|Render polylines with width
|If checked, when polylines have a width defined, they will be rendered as closed wires with the correct width
|Treat ellipses and splines as polylines
|The export of ellipses and splines is poorly supported. ??Still the case?? Use this option to export them as polylines instead.
The setting Max Spline Segment is then the maximum length of each of the polyline segments. If it is set to '0' the whole spline is treated as a straight segment.
|Export 3D objects as polyface meshes
|If checked, all objects containing faces will be exported as 3D polyfaces
|Export Drawing Views as blocks
|If this is checked, Drawing Views will be exported as blocks. This might fail for post DXF R12 templates.
|Project exported objects along current view direction
|If checked, the exported objects will be projected to reflect the current view direction
The Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) file format is a file format that allows the digital exchange of information among CAD systems. Since the specification for the STEP file format was published, the development of IGES was stopped in 1996. It is nevertheless still supported by many CAD programs.
The tab IGES is only shown in the preferences if you are in the Part or PartDesign workbench or if you have been in these workbenches before.
For the IGES format you can specify the following:
|Units for export of IGES
|Selection what unit will be used when exporting IGES files
|Write solids and shells as
|Selection how solids and shells should be output.
If Groups of Trimmed Surfaces (type 144) is selected, they will be exported as trimmed surface.
If Solids (type 186) and Shells (type 514) / B-REP mode is selected, solids will be exported as manifold solid B-Rep object, shells as shell.
|Skip blank entities
|If checked, blank entities will not be imported
|If not empty, the entered text will be used in the IGES file header for the company
|If not empty, the entered text will be used in the IGES file header for the author
|If not empty, the entered text will be used in the IGES file header for the product
Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is a wide spread format to interchange data between BIM applications, used in architecture and engineering.
For the IFC format you can specify the following:
|Show debug messages
|Shows verbose debug messages during import and export of IFC files in the Report view panel
|Create clones when objects have shared geometry
|IFC objects can share a same geometry definition between several objects, only their placement is different. So when this option is enabled, clones are used to achieve the same result in FreeCAD. One object is the base object, the others are clones.
|Import arch IFC objects as
|What will be created in FreeCAD for arch IFC objects
|Import struct IFC objects as
|What will be created in FreeCAD for struct IFC objects
|Root element
|Only subtypes of the specified element will be imported. Keep the predefied element IfcProduct to import all building elements.
|Separate openings
|If checked, openings will be imported as subtractions, otherwise wall shapes will already have their openings subtracted
|Detect extrusions
|If checked, the importer will try to detect extrusions. Note that this might slow things down.
|Split multilayer walls
|Split walls made of multiple layers
|Prefix names with ID number
|If checked, object names will be prefixed with the IFC ID number
|Merge materials with same name
|If several materials with the same name are found in the IFC file, they will be treated as one.
|Import Ifc Properties in spreadsheet
|If checked, each object will have their IFC properties stored in a spreadsheet object.
|Exclude list
|A comma-separated list of IFC entities to be excluded from imports
|Fit view while importing
|Fit view during import on the imported objects. This will slow down the import, but one can watch the import.
|Force export as Brep
|Some IFC viewers don't like objects exported as extrusions. Use this to force all objects to be exported as BREP geometry.
|Use DAE triangulation options
|Use triangulation options set in the DAE options page
|Join coplanar facets when triangulating
|Curved shapes that cannot be represented as curves in IFC are decomposed into flat facets. If this is checked, some additional calculation is done to join coplanar facets.
|Store IFC universal ID in FreeCAD objects
|When exporting objects without universal ID (UID), the generated UID will be stored inside the FreeCAD object for reuse next time that object is exported. This leads to smaller differences between file versions.
|Use IfcOpenShell serializer if available
|IFCOpenShell is a library that allows to import IFC files. Its serializer functionality allows to give it an OCC shape and it will produce an adequate IFC geometry: NURBS, faceted, or anything else. Note that the serializer this is still an experimental feature.
|Export 2D objects as IfcAnnotations
|If checked, 2D objects will be exported as IfcAnnotation
|Export full FreeCAD parametric model
|If checked, all FreeCAD object properties will be stored inside the exported objects, allowing to recreate a full parametric model on reimport.
|Reuse similar entities
|If checked, similar entities will be used only once in the file if possible. This can reduce the file size a lot, but will make it less easily readable by humans.
|Disable IfcRectangleProfileDef
|When possible, IFC objects that are extruded rectangles are exported as IfcRectangleProfileDef. However, some other applications have problems importing that entity. If this is your case, you can disable this and then all profiles will be exported as IfcArbitraryClosedProfileDef.
INP is the input file format for the FEM software Abaqus. It is used for the solver CalculiX in the FEM workbench.
The tab Abaqus INP is only shown in the preferences if you are or if you have been in the FEM workbench before.
For the INP format you can specify the following:
|Which mesh elements to export
|Selection what mesh element parameters should be exported.
If All is selected, all elements will be exported.
If Highest is selected, only the highest elements will be exported. This means for means volumes for a volume mesh and faces for a shell mesh.
If FEM is selected, only FEM elements will be exported. This means only edges not belonging to faces and faces not belonging to volumes.
|Export group data
|If checked, mesh groups are exported too. Every constraint and, if there are different materials, material consists of two mesh groups, faces and nodes where the constraint or material is applied.
Mesh formats
Meshes are a special type of 3D object, composed of triangular faces connected by their vertices and edges. They are widely used for additive manufacturing. The FreeCAD provides the Mesh workbench to create and handle meshes. FreeCAD supports the file formats AMF and its predecessor STL, OBJ, OFF, PLY and SMF.
The tab Mesh formats is only shown in the preferences if you are in the Mesh workbench or if you have been in this workbench before.
For the Mesh formats you can specify the following:
|Maximum mesh deviation
|Specification of the maximal deviation between the mesh and the object
|Export AMF files using compression
|If checked, ZIP compression is used when writing a mesh file in AMF format
The OCA file format is a community project to create a free, simple and open CAD file format. OCA is largely based on the GCAD file format generated by gCAD3D. Both formats can be imported in FreeCAD and the OCA files exported by FreeCAD can be opened in gCAD3D.
For the OCA format you can specify the following:
|Import OCA areas
|If checked, the areas (3D faces) will be imported too
The standard for the exchange of product model data (STEP) file format is an ISO standard for the computer-interpretable representation and exchange of product manufacturing information. STEP is therefore commonly used to exchange 3D data between CAD software. STEP files have the suffix .step or sometimes .stp.
The tab STEP is only shown in the preferences if you are in the Part or PartDesign workbench or if you have been in these workbenches before.
For the STEP format you can specify the following:
|Units for export of STEP
|Selection what unit will be used when exporting STEP files
|Write out curves in parametric space of surface
|If checked, parametric curves (curves in parametric space of surface) will be written into the STEP file. Unchecking the option can be helpful to minimize the size of the resulting STEP file.
|Selection what STEP application protocol (AP) will be used for the export.
AP 203 is the protocol for configuration controlled 3D designs of mechanical parts and assemblies.
AP 204 is the protocol for core data for automotive mechanical design processes.
|Enable STEP Compound merge
|If checked, a compound merge will be done during file reading. This is slower but results in higher details.
|If not empty, the entered text will be used in the STEP file header for the company
|If not empty, the entered text will be used in the STEP file header for the author
|If not empty, the entered text will be used in the STEP file header for the product
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a vector image format for two-dimensional graphics. The vectors make SVG are very useful for technical drawing programs like FreeCAD's TechDraw because a vector image can be scaled to any size without losing its shape or amount of details. SVG can be scaled to any required resolution and converted to bitmap formats like PNG or JPEG for printing.
For the SVG format you can specify the following:
|Import style
|Selection how SVG object colors and line widths will be imported.
If None (fastest) is selected no color and line width settings will be imported.
If Use default color and linewidth is selected FreeCAD will use its default color and line width.
If Original color and linewidth is selected FreeCAD will use the color and linewidth from the SVG objects.
|Disable units scaling
|If checked, no units conversion will occur. One unit in the SVG file will translate as one millimeter.
|Export style
|Selection how Sketches are exported to SVG.
If Translated (for print & display) is selected, SVG objects are encapsulated in a group that is scaled and moved to the correct place in the SVG document to fit into a printable area.
If Raw (for CAM) is selected, SVG objects are placed as they are - at the same coordinates as in the FreeCAD model (1:1 export).
|Translate white line color to black
|If checked, all white lines will appear in black in the SVG for better readability against white backgrounds
|Max segment length for discretized arcs
|Older versions of Open CASCADE than version 6.8 don't support arc projection. In this case arcs will be discretized into small line segments. This value is the maximum segment length.
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK files are used by the FEM workbench for the post processing of simulation results.
The tab VTK is only shown in the preferences if you are or if you have been in the FEM workbench before.
For the VTK format you can specify the following:
|Which object to import into
|Selection what objects should be imported.
If VTK result object is selected, a FreeCAD FEM VTK result object will be imported (equals to the object which was exported).
If FEM mesh object is selected, the results in the VTK file will be omitted, only the mesh data will be imported and a FreeCAD FEM mesh object will be created.
If FreeCAD result object is selected, the imported data will be converted into a FreeCAD FEM Result object. Note: this setting needs the exact result component names and thus it only works properly with VTK files exported from FreeCAD.
Workbench preferences
Preferences for the more common workbenches are linked below. Some workbenches have no preferences. Other optional workbenches may not be listed.
Drawing Preferences (none)
Image Preferences (none)
Inspection Preferences (none)
Mesh Design Preferences (none)
Part Preferences (none)
Part Design Preferences (none)
Plot Preferences (none)
Points Preferences (none)
Reverse Engineering Preferences (none)
Robot Preferences (none)
Ship Preferences (none)
Spreadsheet Preferences (none)
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A New Hampshire woman was arraigned on a second-degree assault charge and released after being held on $5,000 cash bail for allegedly stabbing her father in the chest during an argument about the constellations on Christmas Eve.
Upon arriving at a Londonderry home on Tuesday after receiving a 911 call reporting someone had been stabbed in the chest, officers located the victim, Robert Svenson, lying on the floor with a stab wound.
"As the officers made their way through the home, they found the father on the floor holding a homemade bandage to his chest," Olson said.
After interviewing the victim and his wife, officers came to believe that Robert had been stabbed by his daughter, 22-year-old Nadja Svenson, after they got into an argument while looking at the night sky.
"After everything was sorted out and interviews were conducted, it was determined that the victim had gone out with his daughter to look at the constellations," Olson said. He indicated that they had an argument "over where the constellations were" and that things became heated.
Nadja indicated that the stabbing may have been accidental. "She said he accidentally ran into the knife," Olson said.
Robert was taken to Parkland Medical Center in Derry and treated for his wound. A charge of second-degree assault is punishable by up to seven years in state prison and Nadja is due back in the 10th Circuit Court on Jan. 2.


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There a plenty of photo editing options available for your Windows Phone. One such option is Fhotoroom. Fhotoroom is a nicely featured photo editor that has recently migrated from our Windows Phone Store to the Windows Store on your Microsoft Surface and Windows 8 PC.
We took the Windows RT version of Fhotoroom out for a test drive recently and found Fhotoroom to be a capable photo editor with potential but with some room for improvement.
Fhotoroom delivers over seventy six editing tools to Windows RT that covers your basic editing operations (crop, rotate, exposure, etc.), a wide range of filters/effects, and a collection of framing options.
Images can be pulled up from your Pictures Library on your device or from your Skydrive. Editing tools line up across the bottom of the screen with your image taking center stage.
Editing tools include crop, exposure, saturation, image rotate, sharpen, flip, mirror, black and white conversion and an edit brush. The edit brush allows you to selective apply effects such as brightness, darken areas, saturation, and softness.
Fhotoroom includes forty-two filters and effects ranging from light leaks to haze. The downside to the filters and effects with Fhotoroom is that while you have a nice selection, they can only be applied in one fashion. Fhotoroom lacks the ability to moderate how the filter is applied. You can stack filters but if you only want to apply the Hazelnut filter 50% you can't.
Along with the filters and effects, you can add one of twenty two frames that includes Polaroid, line, film, and grunge frames. Once you complete your edits, images are saved to your devices Pictures Library in either .jpg or .png formats.
Fhotoroom isn't too shabby of a photo editor for the Microsoft Surface. You have a nice collection of filters/effects and core editing tools to give your photos a little zip. While Fhotoroom has potential, I think it needs to improvements.
First, it needs the ability to regulate how much of a filter you apply. You may only want to apply a slight amount of Haze or a lot. Second, and this one is a must, there is no way to zoom into your image. Having the ability to zoom into an area of your photo helps tremendously when you're using the editing brush. You can adjust the size of the brush's area but for those tricky edits, be able to zoom in can be the difference between a great photo and a decent one.
While there is room for improvement, Fhotoroom is worth a try. The nice thing about it is that Fhotoroom is a free app for your Windows RT and Windows 8 devices. There is a full version of Fhotoroom without ads and with a few more filters/effects that is running $1.49 and is purchased from within the free version. You can find it all in your Windows Store app.
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Monthly Archive for May, 2011
Trusting God: It's simpler than we make it
I'm a control freak.
Only recently have I begun to admit that. (It's the first step to recovery, right?) For the past several years, I've faced life-changing circumstances and some – like being hired for a job – have been out of my control.
Right before those moments, I freak out. When I pray, I pray like a desperate beggar. "Lord, please please please please please!" When things don't work out the way I envisioned, I'm obviously upset. Suddenly, my prayers come from the mouth of a stubborn child. "Lord, I don't get it! Why aren't you doing anything to help me? Where am I supposed to go now? I'm lost!"…


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HCL Infosystems Ltd, India's premier information enabling company, inaugurated the first HCL Career Development Centre (HCL CDC) in Hyderabad, under its latest initiative to create highly skilled IT professionals across the country. The company has ventured into the field of IT career development with an objective to meet the increasing demand for skilled professionals from organizations across the country.
Sri R. Damodar Reddy, Honourable Minister for Information Technology and Communication, Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of Andhra Pradesh formally inaugurated the HCL CDC today in the presence of Sri B. Satyanarayana, Honourable Minister for Housing, Weaker Section Housing Programme, A.P. Cooperative Housing Societies Federation and Housing Board, Government of Andhra Pradesh and Sri. Shailendra Kumar Joshi, IT Secretary, Government of A.P. Several distinguished guests related to IT and academia including Dr. K.C.Reddy, Chairman, A.P. State Council of Higher Education and Prof. U. Tataji, Vice Chairman, A.P. State Council of Higher Education were also present on the occasion.
HCL has further announced plans to set up 100 HCL CDCs across the country in the next 12 to 15 months. HCL CDCs provide specially designed courses in high-end Software, Hardware and Networking integration to groom students into industry-ready professionals. The company already has fully operational HCL CDCs in nearly twenty cities across the country and plans to set up similar centres overseas as well. HCL CDC in Hyderabad is the first such center in Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. Rajendra Kumar, Executive Vice President, HCL Infosystems Limited said, "The IT boom in India has caused a severe shortage of high-skilled ICT engineers. With HCL CDCs, we hope to play a leadership role in enlarging the talent pool available to organizations deploying IT in India. Our faculty of industry experts and veterans draw upon our over thirty years of HCL experience in IT software, hardware, networking and system integration."
"Hyderabad has proud academic legacy with several premier educational institutes providing quality higher education to the students in the city. However, there is a gap in demand and supply of quality IT professionals in a city which is the key center for India's IT industry. We are certain that HCL CDC will bridge this gap and prepare students in Hyderabad for a rewarding career in the IT industry," Mr. Kumar added.
In the world of high-end cutting-edge technologies that we live in today, the students do not have the capabilities on leading edge technologies, which is so very critical to build the ICT infrastructure in the country. It is estimated that the Indian ICT market is over Rs. 84,000 crores today, 60-70% of which is hardware and Infrastructure software.
A study by Cisco-IDC estimates that one-third of companies are not able to fill their demand for networking professionals. Also according to an estimate by E-Value, there is an estimated annual demand of around 2 lakh networking professionals in the country while the supply is limited to about 60% of the demand. The deficit is further estimated to grow at a CAGR of 21% till 2010.
"HCL CDC courses have been designed keeping in mind the specific needs of modern day organizations. Our mission is to transform our students into industry-ready professionals who are ready to take on enterprise-wide IT deployment and integration assignments from the day one, without the need for any further training by their prospective employers," said Mr. STM Eswar, Head, HCL Career Development Centre.
"HCL is offering a three-months full-time and one-year part-time course titled HCL Certified Network Engineer (HCNE)," Mr. Eswar added.
The course involves 7 modules, 21 projects and 70 online tests as part of the academic curriculum. HCL CDCs also provide for placement support to all their students who excel in their academics and display a remarkable performance during the course. The company also has plans for introducing short-term modular courses to enhance skills of working professionals, who aspire for faster growth in their respective careers. Most importantly the company offers the students various flexible payment options.
HCL is the largest IT company in India that is focused exclusively on providing a comprehensive range of ICT products, solutions and services to the customers in the domestic market. HCL is also the largest PC manufacturer in India. The company has the largest support and service network in India with 3,000+ professionals, all of whom have been trained by the company in system and network integration.
About HCL Infosystems
HCL Infosystems, with revenues (TTM) of US$ 2.6 billion (Rs. 11,897 crores), is India's premier information enabling and system integration company. HCL offers products and infrastructure solutions in the fields of computing, communication, networking, office automation, broadcasting and imaging. It has partnerships with leading global players like Intel, AMD, Toshiba, Bull, Ericsson, Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, Computer Associates, Casio, Symantec and Konica Minolta among others.
HCL has a direct sales, channel sales and retail sales network pan India. HCL has a support of 360+ customer service centers and four ISO 9001 certified state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. HCL Infosystems has pan India presence across metros and non-metros. With a mission to provide world-class information technology solutions and services to enable its customers to serve their customers better, HCL Infosystems is forever setting new standards of IT in the country. For more information please visit us at www.hclinfosystems.in
About HCL Enterprise
HCL Enterprise is a leading global technology and IT enterprise with annual revenues of US $4 billion. The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India – HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. The 3-decade-old enterprise, founded in 1976, is India's original IT garage start-up. Its range of offerings span Product Engineering, Technology and Application Services, BPO, Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products. The HCL team comprises over 45,085 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 17 countries including 360 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information please visit www.hcl.in


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CHARLOTTE -- Speaking to members of Iowa's influential delegation to the Democratic convention on Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took a shot at several Republican governors while laying out a broad vision for the party that some suspect he hopes to one day lead.
The delegation meeting was the latest of several O'Malley has attended this week -- he has also appeared before delegates from Ohio and Texas, for instance. But given Iowa's first-in-the-nation role in the presidential primary season, his visit here led to inevitable talk of his own political ambitions in 2016.
O'Malley, who addressed the full convention on Tuesday, will travel to Iowa later this month to speak at an event sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin that draws hundreds of party faithful.
"You and I are Democrats because we believe in an America that is always growing and evolving," the governor told the state's delegates. "We do not subscribe to the theory of these newly elected tea party Republican governors -- or their newly elected Republican governor retreads -- who run on the promise of restoring our economy and then, when they get into office, they govern by rolling back individual freedoms."
The retread line, a reference to Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad, drew groans from the delegation. Branstad, a Republican, served as the state's governor from 1983 to 1999 and was then elected in 2010.
O'Malley, the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, has received mixed reviews from his convention address on Tuesday, which was overshadowed first lady Michelle Obama's speech. O'Malley dodged questions about his future, even though they continue to crop at all of his events.
"The only thing I'm really giving consideration to right now is being as effective of a surrogate as I can be for President Obama and for Democratic governors," O'Malley said, adding that Harkin invited him to the event this month.
But O'Malley also repeatedly noted his familiarity with the state, pointing out that he had visited all of its counties when he worked for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign.
"I like Iowa," he said. "I know Iowa."
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner also spoke to the delegation Wednesday.
"He stacks up in that we are eager to learn more about him," Peggy Whitworth, a longtime Democratic activist in Iowa, said of O'Malley. "We know some things; we don't know a lot."
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Iowan Andy Bock said he thought O'Malley "presented very well," perhaps better in Wednesday's smaller setting than he did on stage Tuesday. "I do think that as a person in the audience, it felt more like a lot of it was important for the wider national audience," he said of O'Malley's speech Tuesday.


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Friday, December 06, 2019, 10:00am - 05:00pm
Talin Lyman's recent series of paintings, "Varietals," are the result of the artist's experimentation and study of a new technique using varietals of red wine as her medium. Layers upon layers of Cabernet, Merlot, Bordeaux, Pinot Noir, Malbec and Red Zinfandel wines are meticulously painted onto French archival watercolor paper, creating a full-bodied and elegant work of art. Although she became well known in the design world for her vibrant tropical colors, the subtle spirit of this collection leaves quite an impact. Her wine paintings take on a unique patina and exhibit a chiaroscuro effect with a modern twist. talinlyman.com
More information on this and future exhibits
Exhibits are Free to the Public | Tuesday – Saturday | 10am – 5pm


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The 2013 Valvoline Synpower Street Machine of the Year competition is now open!
The extended Street Machine team selected their favourite 16 cars from the last twelve months to come up with the finalists. Now it is your turn to help choose the winner of the $15,000 prize. Check out the gallery here, then head over to www.smoty.com.au to cast your vote.


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By Carol Cratty
The FBI has launched an international publicity effort asking for tips from anyone with knowledge about the September 11th attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi which killed four Americans.
The FBI is using the Internet and the social networking site Facebook to solicit help on the case. Last week the FBI posted "Seeking Information" notices in English, Arabic and French with pictures of the damaged consulate.
The "Seeking Information" posters say the FBI is "asking Libyans and people around the world for additional information related to the attacks." Respondents can text or e-mail the FBI or fill out a form on the FBI's website. The FBI notice says the information can be submitted confidentially.
Anyone can offer information, but the FBI is most interested in hearing from people who were in Libya at the time of the attack. "It is geographically logical that those in the Benghazi region who were in-country during that time period may have been in a more favorable position to have seen or heard something of value," said a law enforcement official.
The effort comes more than two months after the assault which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
The FBI immediately launched an investigation to determine who was responsible, but officials have provided little information about its progress. Due to the uncertain security situation in Benghazi, FBI agents did not visit the consulate until October 4th and it is unclear what forensic clues were still available to be gathered by that time. Reporters and others had already been to the site.
The law enforcement official said the FBI still has personnel in Libya but would not provide details about their specific locations or what progress agents are making.
Or maybe the Military has already taken care of the situation and this is just follow-up work. Have faith in our Military.
Sometimes the news is not so current when we see it. We are America and don't ever believe our Military doesn't have our backs! If you kill Americans there will be a price to pay. We are still free and that didn't happen by accident.
Or....maybe the situation is already taken care of and this is just finish work! Have some faith in your Military and their amazing skills and remember they have kept you safe and FREE all this time. I am sure they know what they are doing.
Remember not all you see in the news is current info...Sometimes the real work happens silently and effectively.
Check these dudes out !!!! Oil for terrorism exchange???
• VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD (World Hindu Council)
LEADERS: L.K. Advani/ Ashok Singhal/ Bala Saheb Devaras/ Bal Thackeray(EXTERMINATED)/ A.B. Vajpayee/ Savarkar/ Baikunnth Lal Sharma "Prem"/ Balraj Madhok/ The Shankaracharya of Puri, Niranjan Dev Theerth/ Rama Gopalan/ Variyar – Vishwan Hindu Parishad/ Dharmalinga Nadar/ Cho Ramaswamy
This is a good move.
I wish I could help. Everything I know has come from news accounts or first hand sources the FBI is now investigating.
My suggestion? If the FBI has learned anything about the "overseas funding" reported by the Egyptians after they captured the Libyans and Egyptians involved in Benghazi a month ago,
Then they should tip off the NSA to listen in, and then leak the info to the press.
Watch the neocon switchboard light up!
Glad that CNN is starting to cover the news about Benghazi at last! Now how about some charts that show the real issues with the economy and what it is going to take to get us out of debt. Enough with the fluff stories.
Just when you think our 'elected' officials couldn't get any worse, along comes Benghazi. All the years watching this production, this is the worst...Shame on CNN for not investigating this cover up. CNN, when the smoke clears, you just as guilty as the White House. GFY!
If we don't know what happened by now, our intelligence service has failed badly. So what are gonna do? Round up a bunch of locals, send 'em to GITMO, and be done with it! What ever happened to human intelligence? Satellites and drones can't tell us every thing!
If the US pays a reward AND offers VISAS to relocate ENTIRE FAMILIES in other countries, I am sure there are going to be some answers.
Here's a tip!!!! It was Towel Heads!!!!!!!! Hahahahahahhahaa
Are you serious? Kinda like asking who pulled the trigger in the hood. Good Luck. By the looks of what you guys left behind in the consulate after your "evidence collection visit" I don't hold out much for any results from you.


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Vonn returns to Europe and begins training again
Lindsey Vonn is feeling better and has returned to Europe.
She has started training again in preparing for her return to the World Cup circuit this month after a midseason break to recover from an intestinal illness.
The racing director of Vonn's equipment supplier tells The Associated Press that the four-time overall winner arrived in Austria on Wednesday and began light training Thursday. Rainer Salzgeber adds that Vonn plans to race the downhill and super-G in St. Anton, Austria, on Jan. 12-13.
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A Mason woman was sentenced Wednesday to six months of house arrest and two years of probation after she admitted to evading employment taxes for some of her employees.
Maria Georgievsky was also ordered to pay more than $196,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after pleading guilty March 29 to one count of income tax evasion from April 2006 through October 2008.
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LOS ANGELES – In space, no one can hear you scream. But sitting in front of a game console in a darkened room, it turns out people can definitely hear you shriek. And whimper. And curse like Pvt. Hudson himself. "Game over, man! Game over! What the f--- are we gonna do now?"
There have been a handful of video games based on the Alien movie franchise over the years, including last year's disappointing Alien: Colonial Marines, a brainless shooter that pitted heavily-armed soldiers against hordes of bloodthirsty xenomorphs.
But venerable game publisher Sega and development studio The Creative Assembly are bringing Alien back to its lo-fi, high-fear roots with this year's Alien: Isolation, a video game sequel to director Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror masterpiece.
There are no pulse rifles, smartguns or trash-talking marines here. There is just one alien, and it cannot be killed. It is the hunter, and you, the player, are the prey.
Set 15 years after the original film, Alien: Isolation casts players as Amanda Ripley, daughter of the films' heroine Ellen Ripley, on a quest to learn the fate of her missing mother. (Amanda is mentioned briefly in James Cameron's Aliens, although it's said she died during the 57 years Ripley spent adrift in stasis.)
Amanda's investigation brings her to the space station Sevastopol, where the flight recorder from her mother's destroyed salvage ship, the Nostromo, was taken. But something else ended up on Sevastopol. Hint: it has two mouths, acid for blood and a very bad temper.
Alien: Isolation comes out Oct. 7 for the Xbox and PlayStation consoles as well as Windows PCs. I spent an hour with the PS4 version of the game at a recent preview in advance of this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, and came away with some slightly soiled space-shorts.
The game does an incredible job of slowly ratcheting up a sense of tension and dread. As I explored the meticulously detailed and exceedingly creepy abandoned space station, I constantly checked my motion tracker to see if the alien was somewhere nearby. Since the beast can travel through tight spaces, I'd often see a blip approaching and not know if the monster was coming down the corridor or scuttling through an overhead ventilation shaft.
The alien hunts by sight and sound, meaning Amanda must remain quiet and hidden whenever possible. As I carefully made my way to the ship's medical centre and encountered a human looter checking the facility for valuables, I managed to sneak up behind him and take him out with a gunshot to the back of the head. (Hey, survival brings out the worst in people. And no, this puny pistol has no effect on the alien.)
I immediately hid inside a nearby storage locker, and sure enough the alien showed up seconds later to investigate the noise. As it snarled and slobbered outside the locker door, I held down a thumbstick and trigger on the game controller to make Amanda shrink back from the door and hold her breath. Just as I shrank back from the TV screen and held my own breath until the alien finally moved on.
From battling rogue sytnthetics to luring human enemies into traps, from sighing with relief when the alien slithered out of sight to literally yelling in fear when it suddenly caught me unawares, this quick taste of the game was a mixture of sweaty tension, satisfying problem-solving and blasts of pure terror.
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Until recently, the federal government provided over $200 million a year in funding for abstinence-only programs, programs that teach that sex outside marriage, at any age and under any circumstances, is inherently dangerous and wrong. This abstinence-only message provides insufficient and often false information about contraception, disease prevention, and abortion, promotes regressive sex stereotyping and stigmatizes homosexuality.
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Legal Momentum and NOW filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alleging sex discrimination in 34 of the first 100 programs funded by the Bush Administration under its "Responsible Fatherhood" initiative. The 34 programs in question provided job training services to men but not to women.
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We Try Heart of Tea Bottled Teas
We haven't had a ton of luck with bottled iced teas. We did a taste test awhile back of classic black-tea-and-lemon options (the winner was Honest Tea) and it was surprising how few of the options tasted like the tea you'd brew yourself. Bottled teas often show murkiness, mossy-ness, and bitterness, but none of the tasty sides of tea. And the additional flavors? Step away from the lemon teas that taste like cleaning fluid.
Of course, you can brew your own iced tea—it's not that much work. (You've all heard of sun tea, but according to The Food Lab, it's better to brew it in the fridge.) But sometimes you're at work or on the road, and you just want a grab-and-go solution.
Heart of Tea, a new New York-based company brewing bottled teas with "larger, intact, quality tea leaves" caught our eye. They have two flavors currently, and will be adding more over the summer. Founder Messi Gerami has quite a family history in the tea business: his great grandfather, grandfather, and parents were all tea farmer and exporters. According to the company, "Gerami still personally oversees tea brewing to make sure the liquid is properly brewed and never over-steeped."
The result: the tea flavor in these blends is pleasant, not bitter or acrid, but full-flavored enough that you notice it's there. Heart of Tea has the tea part down. But tasting the available blends, we wished for a little adjustment in the sweetness.
The Pomegranate Orange has the flavor we were looking for. There's a rich berry-pomegranate note, grounded with the black tea, and a warming orange-zest flavor that rounds it out. But the sweetness, which comes from cane sugar, will be too much for some. We wish they'd dial it back just a little, or offer an unsweetened version alongside the juicy-sweet one. At 100 calories a bottle, it's not a crazy indulgence, but we'd think twice before drinking this daily.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Ghetto music celebrates the festival of lights
Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags stream outside our house in syncretic celebration of today's Hindu festival of lights - Diwali, and music of the moment is Alan Hovhaness' Symphony No. 22 'City of Light' in the Delos recording by Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony. Born in Boston in 1911, Alan Hovhaness's father was Armenian and his mother of Scottish descent. He studied at the New England Conservatory, and was organist at an Armenian Church in Watertown, Massachusetts where his eclectic influences included the composer/priest Komitas Vartapet and, later, the Indian musicians Uday - brother of Ravi - Shankar and Vishnu Shirali. In 1942 Hovhaness won a scholarship to study at Tanglewood with Bohuslav Martinů. But he did not gel with the Tanglewood clique dominated by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, and the official Hovhaness web site reports that his music was ridiculed by the Tanglewood set, with, allegedly, Bernstein calling it "ghetto music" and Copland talking loudly (in Spanish) over an audition of one of his symphonies. After leaving Tanglewood Hovhaness continued to develop his unique composing style, which was shaped by both Armenian and Indian music. In the late 1950s he was a Fulbright research scholar in India where he studied with Carnatic musicians, and where, in an example of converging paths, he learnt the veena - the instrument of Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan. Hovhaness' output from this period includes the All India Radio commissioned Nagooran for Carnatic orchestra, and his Madras Sonata for two pianos.
Although Hovhaness' music was rejected at Tanglewood, his champions included fellow mavericks John Cage and Lou Harrison, with Cage supervising the publication of the piano composition Mihr in Henry Cowell's New Music series. With endorsement from a vigorously trending John Cage, and with a strong element of funding-friendly multiculturalism, Alan Hovhaness' relative obscurity may seem puzzling. But the reason is almost certainly the unforgivable tunefulness of his music. Despite Cage's advocacy, Hovhaness receives just one fleeting mention in Alex Ross' influential The Rest is Noise, while in Alan Rich's survey of twentieth century music American Pioneers, his oeuvre is described as "basically a conservative one, deriving much from the more garish repertoire of late-Romantic Russian composers, but often spiced with the long, sinuous melodic lines and rhapsodic rhythms of Middle-Eastern song and dance with the occasional use of traditional Asian instruments to expand the range of tuning". Alan Rich was almost certainly damning with faint praise, but that analysis actually provides a very good reason for reassessing Alan Hovhaness. He was an a contemporary of Benjamin Britten, so how about programming some of Hovhaness' music in 2013 at the expense of the ubiquitous anniversary holy trinity of Britten, Wagner and Verdi? A happy Diwali to all my readers.
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I love the thought of those prayer flags outside your house, Bob. I offer here just two trains of thought that came to me as I read this post.
First, this is not the only time I've been given the idea that Tanglewood compared with Marlboro is by a country mile the less congenial place to be. This is all a speculative comment, but I wonder if it might be that Tanglewood was the more dominated by composers. Busch and Serkin would never have allowed this cliqueishness at Marlboro, and nor now would Ushida and Goode. Given the eminent musicians who have been at Marlboro over the years, I doubt it has ever arisen.
Bernstein's reaction to the Hovhaness recording in its entirety was to play a melodic minor scale on the piano and say, "I can't stand this cheap ghetto music." This is rich, coming from a man who as composer and conductor often flaunted his Jewishness. He was very happy to record the works of Bloch. And when he said that to write a great musical you have to be Jewish, gay or both, he evoked at that time two ghettoes. His shocking insult to Hovhaness reminds me of Luigi Nono refusing to shake the hand of Britten at the Dartington Summer School. Composers at war, and at that time they most certainly were.
In this case, it is baffling. I suspect that for certain composers AH was variously too Armenian, too melodic, too eclectic, and too prolific. But if so, on two of those counts Bernstein and Copland must have had little understanding of what constitutes 'American' music, for surely the influence of music of other lands is integral to it, and the influences in Hovhaness' music are more than the Armenian. As soon as I read the post, I looked at Music of the Twentieth Century: Style and Structure, by Bryan Simms. No mention of AH, though there is a chapter on Indeterminacy, and AH wrote one of the earliest aleatoric works. No mention of Bloch either, incidentally, so I'm wondering about Simm's grasp of American music as well.
So, AH was good enough for Stokowski, Koussevitsky, Sibelius, Cage, Martinu, Lou Harrison, Howard Hanson, Szigeti, the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations, but not for the strict serialists, which one would expect, yet nor for Copland, Bernstein, Thomson and the rest of the Americanists. As I don't care for Copland or Bernstein, and rather detest Thomson, I'm inclined to say to myself, "Who gives a damn?" The fact remains that Hovhaness was a beacon of independence, his music often magical, and his continuing neglect rather a disgrace.
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NZ Gamer - Metro 2033 was something of a surprise for most gamers at the time, bucking many first-person shooter conventions to become something unique; a first-person, post-apocalypic survival game, set in Russia.
I'm worried about the future of this game now that it's owned by Deep silver
i can not wait for this game, im literally counting down the days until i can play this.
From my understanding, Koch Media bought mot just the rights to Metro but 4A games as well? So no-one lost their job? Hopefully Koch let 4A games experiment with their engine freely, and help fund improvements when the time comes. Instead of leaving it as is.
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For Monday's episode of Steve Harvey, the talk show host and his wife Marjorie sat down with pet psychic Sonya Fitzpatrick and learned that their dog Chocolate doesn't like the hardwood floors that cover their Chicago home.
"He doesn't like the floors – could you change them?" Fitzpatrick tells Harvey, which prompts laughs from his wife. "He likes carpet."
Clearly perturbed about what he's hearing, Harvey, who has five dogs, makes a deal with the pooch.
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Argentus (Benjamin Tang K C/Benjamin Tang Kin Chong) is "a Singaporean furry artist"[1] who, in the late 90's, was to be found in Pennsylvania, United States[2].
Argentus started drawing in 1997, and his fursona is a fox[3].
As of 2001, Argentus became an alumni member of STWing; concurrently, he (together with other STWing undergraduates and staff) also initiated the Blimp Project, which claimed to be "a construction of a thirty-foot blimp capable of carrying a ten-kilogram payload".
- ↑ Furry Artist Infurmation Page A - H. Retrieved June 14, 2007.
- ↑ Benjamin Tang's homepage. Retrieved June 14, 2007.
- ↑ "Argentus the Astro Fox", self-label on art page. Retrieved June 14, 2007.
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