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Appeasing bullies with plastic surgery
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 31, 2012, (9:20pm)
WE all agree bullying is a scourge and children can be scarred for life by the mockery of their peers.
However, plastic surgery is not the answer, as one American charity seems to think.
According to CNN this week, bullies at a school in the US state of Georgia were taunting 14 year-old Nadia Ilse (pictured left: before; right: after) about her ears, which stuck out slightly. They called her "Dumbo".
For years, she begged her mother for an otoplasty operation to fix her ears, hoping to get the bullies off her back.
Now the charity, Little Baby Face Foundation, which provides free surgery for babies born with facial deformities, has come to Nadia's rescue.
But they didn't just pin back her ears. They also gave the already pretty girl a nose job and changed the shape of her chin – $40,000 worth of plastic surgery.
The intentions are good but the consequences are dire.
What it says is that the bullies are right, and that physical appearance justifies cruelty.
In any case, as Nadia may discover when she gets back to school, unless they are confronted, bullies will always find something to pick on.
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A new broom for Town Hall
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 31, 2012, (8:15pm)
LORD Mayor Clover Moore is in for a rude shock in September's local government elections.
After eight years unchallenged as the Queen Bee of Sydney, she faces a firecracker opponent in George St cafe owner Angela Vithoulkas, who is running on the Living Sydney ticket backed by former Clover supporters, real estate agents Barry and Katherine Goldman.
Behind the long blonde hair and Greek charm is a no-nonsense fighter who, at three years old, chased shoplifters out of her parents' milk bar in Liverpool with a broom.
The daughter of Greek immigrants, Angela, 46, and her brother Con, 47, went into business together as soon as they left school.
Their first venture was a tiny sandwich shop in William St, East Sydney, where the day began at 2am and ended at 4pm.
"Work never fazes me,'' she says. ``My first customers were the Lowy boys before they were somebodies. White bread, Kraft cheese, tomato, salt, no pepper,'' she remembers.
Since then she and her brother have bought and sold 20 cafes in the CBD, and despair at the hostile business environment created since Clover came to town.
"In my business I'm only as good as today's sales,'' says Angela.
"You look after your customer. You care… That might be something Clover Moore should do."
Watching the deterioration of the city under an avalanche of red tape and business-crushing policies is what drove her to run for Lord Mayor.
Since business provides 70 per cent of council's cash, she is exasperated that business owners have almost no say in who runs Town Hall because they have been sneakily disenfranchised from the voting process.
From restoring parking spaces in the city to towing away cars which park over residents' driveways, she has a plan for everything.
Take Kings Cross. The alcohol and drug-fuelled mayhem caused by an influx of 30,000 visitors every weekend has to be managed, she says.
First, she'd fix the policing shortage by digging into council's $500million cash reserves to pay police officers to work extra shifts on weekends.
"There aren't enough police. That's a problem but we have the money to fix it,'' she says.
She would close Darlinghurst Rd between Bayswater Rd and the El Alamein fountain to all but cabs and emergency vehicles on weekends from 10pm.
"It would stop the hoons and make it into a pedestrian mall which is easier to manage,'' she says.
She would add taxi ranks to avoid the current situation in which drunks are funnelled into a single rank on Bayswater Rd and forced to compete for a scarce resource made scarcer by taxi marshalls who only let three taxis in at a time and chase down and fine drivers who pick up passengers elsewhere.
She would use council buses to ferry people out of the Cross to Central and co-ordinate with the NSW government so transport would be available to move them on home.
The benefit is that you break up a volatile crowd into small, more manageable groups with each busload timed to arrive at Central as the last one is cleared.
She also wants council to be more responsive to residents.
In Zetland, for instance, she says a pensioner had to organise a petition to try to get an extra 1m trimmed off a tree overhanging her house.
The woman has been unable to persuade council or its tree loppers to deviate from their standard trimming regime. So the offending tree keeps filling up her gutters with leaves, causing water to leak into her roof and destroy her ceilings.
Angela rolls her eyes at such stories, which she says are legion in the city where she has worked for 27 years.
"As a small business owner I don't have three years and the money to spend employing consultants to fix problems. I fix things myself, fast, cheaply and with minimum disruptions,'' she says.
Instead of skateboard parks in the CBD, and Buy Nothing New Month campaigns, she wants to make life easier for residents and businesses.
Already she's shaken the 67-year-old Lord Mayor, who tried to recruit Angela, and then dumped all but one of Team Clover in an attempt to appeal to a younger constituency.
It's a time for a new broom at Town Hall and Angela Vithoulkas proved a long time ago she wields a mean one.
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Christians and other minorities crushed in the Arab "Spring"
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 31, 2012, (5:49am)
ON the evening of 31 December, Mariam "Mariouma" Fekry, a Coptic Egyptian young woman living in Alexandria, logged into her Facebook account to express her hopes for the new year and pray to God to protect her.
She wrote: "2010 is over.....this year has the best memories of my life....really enjoyed living this year......I hope 2011 is much better.......i hav so many wishes in 2011....hope they come true.....plz god stay beside me & help make it all true. "
Just hours after writing this message, Mariam was killed, along with her mother, her aunt and her younger sister, Martina.
They were attending a midnight mass held at the Two Saints' Coptic church in Alexandria in celebration of the new year when a huge bomb exploded outside the church door, leaving many innocent people dead and injured.
The explosion rocked the very foundation of Egyptian society, creating yet another scar in the festering wounds of Muslim-Coptic relations.
So wrote Amira Nowaira in an article in The Guardian last year entitled: "The Slow Death of Tolerance in Egypt".
The tragic predicament of Christians and other minorities in Egypt, Syria, and across the Middle East receives little attention, but it is increasingly desperate, as churches are bombed and extremists gain power.
The Sydney Institute is addressing the issue with a talk on August 13 by Cairo native Lydia Khalil, a visiting fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute: "What is happening to Copts & other Christians, Kurds, Hazara, Turkomans, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Yezidis, Sabian Mandaeans, Shabak, Dom, Baha'I ..."
Khalil's background is impressive. According to The Sydney Institute, "She served as a political advisor for the US Department of Defense in Iraq, where she worked closely with Iraqi officials on political negotiations and constitutional drafting and has worked as a counterterrorism advisor for the New York Police Department and in the Office of Homeland Security in the White House."
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Climate alarmism's big scalp not so big
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 31, 2012, (5:44am)
WE anti-climate alarmists are always calling for open minds on global warming so we are honour-bound to applaud all eventualities.
In this case, University of California physicist Richard A Muller deserves credit for transparency and a willingness to admit he was wrong to doubt climate science - even if it later turns out he is wrong about being wrong.
Muller says he set out to debunk climate alarmism, and surprised himself by concluding that human emissions are driving climate change at a faster rate than the IPCC claims.
"We were not expecting this, but as scientists, it is our duty to let the evidence change our minds."
Muller is being claimed as a big scalp for warmists in the climate wars, with the Sydney Morning Herald, the New York Times and The Guardian devoting vast tracts of newsprint to celebrating his turnaround. But truth be told, he was never much of a skeptic, just honest enough to feel compelled to point out glaring errors and distortions in Al Gore's influential 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth.
"Some people called me a skeptic because ... I had drawn attention to the numerous scientific errors in the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.' But I never felt that pointing out mistakes qualified me to be called a climate skeptic," Muller said last year.
If more of his fellow scientists had fact-checked Gore's sci-fi fantasy, perhaps we wouldn't be left, six years later, with an increasingly widespread suspicion of science in the community. That will be Gore's legacy.
In any case, Muller's latest analysis is worth consideration, even if it is not yet peer-reviewed. It appears on his website for all to dissect, including a dissenting early collaborator, Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
"Their analysis is way oversimplistic and not at all convincing in my opinion," Curry tells NYTimes.com.
"There is broad agreement that greenhouse gas emissions have contributed to the warming in the latter half of the 20th century; the big question is how much of this warming can we attribute to greenhouse gas emissions.
"I don't think this question can be answered by the simple curve fitting used in this paper, and I don't see that their paper adds anything to our understanding of the causes of the recent warming."
Muller's exclusive focus on carbon dioxide is also regarded as problematic by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen.
"That climate should be the function of a single parameter (like CO2) has always seemed implausible," says Lindzen. "Yet an obsessive focus on such an obvious oversimplification has likely set back progress by decades."
Of course it's easier to move from the skeptic to the alarmist camp than the other way round, and you can bet Muller's dance card will be packed from now on.
But let's hope his new fellow alarmists take the same attitude with evidence that doesn't support their thesis, so that climate science finally can exit the realm of ideology and politics and reclaim some legitimacy, whichever way it leads.
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Home is where the heart is
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 31, 2012, (5:25am)
HOMELESS people are just as homeless this freezing winter as they were when Kevin Rudd declared war on homelessness in 2007.
But where government fails, private initiatives are springing up to help the estimated 20,000 people who sleep rough on our streets each night.
Sydney businessman David Scarf has come up with a novel solution - a warm sleeping bag that works like a coat. He designed it according to specifications from Matthew Talbot Hostel clients in Wolloomooloo, including a large pocket on the inside to hold a bottle.
Scarf is distributing the coats through Catholic charity The Knights of Malta, with donations so far funding 4000 over the past two winters.
A similar initiative, Swags for Homeless, is an innovative roll-out bed in a backpack, designed by Melbourne entrepreneur Tony Clark. More than 3000 have been distributed to charities and homeless shelters.
With National Homeless Person's Week starting on Monday, there are plenty of practical opportunities to help.
Mission Australia holds its annual Sydney Sleepout next Saturday in Centennial Park, which follows Vinnie's CEO Sleepout in June which raised more than $5million for homeless services.
Homelessness will never be eradicated. But we can all help to make it less painful.
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Tattoo U - for Underage
Miranda Devine –, Sunday, July, 29, 2012, (6:48am)
TATTOOS are the ubiquitous markings of Generation Y, and increasingly frustrated parents feel powerless to stop the illegal practice of underage skin branding.
But one father is fighting back.
When Jim saw the large new tattoo across his 17-year-old daughter's right flank last weekend, he hit the roof.
He is upset with his daughter, of course, but also at the tattoo parlour which took her $85.
"I am shocked that a tattooist is thumbing his nose at the laws of NSW," he said.
"But I can find no evidence of the tattoo laws being enforced in any way."
It is illegal in NSW to tattoo a person under 18 without written consent from parents.
Jim, who does not want to give his real name, wants the law to protect young people from themselves.
The NSW Health Department advises that under-age tattooing should be reported to the Department of Community Services.
But DOCS told Jim to call the police.
"Community Services acknowledges the many challenges and frustrations which parents of teenagers may face," a spokeswoman said in a statement.
As a result of Jim's persistence, Harbourside detectives on Thursday were "investigating allegations that young persons under the age of 18 years old have received tattoos without the consent of their parents as required (by law)"
But tattoo parlours are in a difficult predicament.
The owner of Live Canvas Tattoo studio in Crows Nest, in northern Sydney, Anthony Issa, says he has done everything possible to ensure he doesn't tattoo underage customers.
He requires photo ID, makes people write their birthdate on a form with "big red writing saying you're not allowed to be tattooed unless you're 18."
Issa also has surveillance cameras. But he says kids are always asking for tattoos, some with fake IDs.
"It happens all the time. It's really hard to stay on top of it but we are pretty strict."
Clearly there are parlours which aren't careful, since Jim knows of four other under-18s with tattoos.
His quest to stamp out the practice won't erase his daughter's tattoo but it just might make it harder for the next teenager to deface his or her skin.
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We must weed out the councils gone wild green
Miranda Devine –, Saturday, July, 28, 2012, (10:15pm)
THIS is a case study of what is wrong with the O'Farrell government.
Just across the Richmond River from Ballina's Big Prawn, Bernard and Rikki Grinberg run a caravan park on eight pretty hectares behind South Ballina beach.
They have ploughed their retirement savings into restoring an old camping ground into a low-key, affordable, family-friendly eco-resort.
But now, like property owners all over NSW, their livelihood is under threat, as green-dominated councils use a new statewide planning template effectively to "sterilise" land of human influence.
The Grinberg's Ballina Beach Village has been rezoned from a recreational zone to the environmentally sensitive category of E2, which is the next stage down from a national park, and forbids tourist activity. While, technically, they are allowed to keep operating their eco-resort under an "existing uses" clause, the reality is the opposite.
Now, every time they want to change anything, whether it is to use crockery at their kiosk, hire a singer to play in their piano bar, renovate the interior of an old shed to turn it into a yoga studio, even trim a branch off a termite-infested tree that might fall on a tent, they have to submit a development application and prove to Ballina Shire Council they are not "intensifying" the use of their land.
The effect is that their thriving business is becoming unviable.
From leafy Sydney suburbs such as Terrey Hills and Frenchs Forest in Warringah to Eurobodalla on the south coast, to Ballina and Byron Bay and inland to Lismore and Kyogle, wherever there is bush and greenies, councils are deciding to impose excessively restrictive environmental zones on private property.
Landowners rezoned to E2 or E3 have found their property values slashed overnight, leaving them unable to improve their land or even farm it effectively. In Ballina and Byron shires as much as one third of agricultural land has been rezoned.
What an E2 zoning does is stop, for example, a macadamia farmer leaving a paddock fallow for a year, a standard farming practice to rest the soil. If he wants to replant macadamias on that paddock, or even switch to mangoes, he has to apply for a DA.
Rezoning land to a more restrictive regime is known as dezoning, but Rikki, 55, and Bernard, 65, describe it as "land theft".
E2 and E3 zonings are "the exocet missile of green bureaucracy", they say. Planning laws have "given very powerful weapons to very misguided people".
A nearby farmer, who asks not to be named, has valuations which show the E2 dezoning has halved the value of his land.
On January 5, 2006, his farm was worth $5.6 million. On February 1, this year, it was worth just $2.6 million.
In their report, valuers Herron Todd White explained: "Ballina Shire Council draft LEP (Local Environment Plan) designates substantial parts of the [farm] as E2 Environmental Conservation zoning. This significantly limits the use (to) which this land can be put."
No kidding.
So far, the Grinbergs have had to spend $150,000 on lawyers and town planners just to defend their right to conduct business as usual.
They blame the previous state Labor government for imposing a new planning template across the state's 150 councils. But after 16 months in office the O'Farrell government has done nothing to fix the problem.
Frank Sartor, the former Labor planning minister who signed off on the changes, defends the template, known as a "standard instrument". It was intended to standardise the confusing mishmash of different definitions across NSW into 30 to 40 standard zonings.
"The template provides a great deal of flexibility. It is absolute nonsense to blame the template for planning problems that are of local councils' own making," he says.
But who will protect landowners from rogue councils? Not Premier Barry O'Farrell.
The election of a new Coalition government on a planning platform of empowering local councils has created a perfect storm. The template provides the opportunity for councils arbitrarily to rezone land, and the laissez faire attitude of the O'Farrell government gives them the freedom to do it.
And in case deep greens are applauding at this point, freedom cuts both ways, depending on the ideology of the council involved - whether that is the green ethos of locking land away from humans, or the white shoe brigade's ideal of the concrete jungle.
NSW Planning Minister Brad Hazzard is overhauling planning laws but says he is stuck with the template inherited from Labor.
"Where I have had major concerns I have stepped in to excise areas (from E2 and E3 zonings and require councils to) go back to the community and look at the science, look at the evidence," to determine if land should be locked up, he said.
"It is truly a challenge for state government because we came into power (promising) to devolve more power to local communities ...
"The challenge is to make sure councils properly consult local communities."
But he questions "whether it is appropriate for state government to take a heavy-handed interventionist approach".
Why not? Real people are being smashed.
The Grinbergs say the government is just "rejigging" rather than finding a permanent solution.
"You're just back having the fight with council," says Bernard.
"The zoning will still be manipulated by councils imposing expensive DA processes and red tape to drive owners off their land."
They say "scientific evidence" just means council ecologists will pay $150,000 to like-minded environmental consultants to produce reports proving the area is environmentally sensitive.
The Grinbergs have put elbow grease and their retirement savings into the land they fell in love with. They've turned a rundown slum into a tranquil ecohaven, accessible to families of moderate means.
"We're the ideal owners," Rikki says. "We're very environmentally conscious, clean living, and non-development.
"Yet we're the bad guys."
This is why the NSW economy is still on its knees. The O'Farrell government is squandering a huge mandate with its timid and ineffectual approach. It is more determined to be loved by everyone than to do the tough job it was elected to do: fix 11 years of Labor mismanagement.
We have an insane planning regime which is cutting the value of people's property in half. Just fix it.
UPDATE - Ballina council hits back - and Bernard Grinberg fact-checks their statement..
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Malign green councils - Victorian style
Miranda Devine –, Saturday, July, 28, 2012, (5:00pm)
MALIGN green influence on local councils continues unperturbed, no matter what flavour of government exists at the federal or state level.
In Yarra Ranges council, where a sole Greens councillor damaged the local timber industry last year by whipping up a boycott of locally made Reflex paper, the latest farce is a ban on shark fin soup.
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Kissing off the electorate
Miranda Devine –, Wednesday, July, 25, 2012, (6:53am)
Ewww is the first reaction to the idea of politicians playing Spin The Bottle with radio hosts.
And then, when you find out it was Barry O'Farrell and Jackie O, the legs buckle. Though it could have been worse. The bottle could have stopped at Kyle Sandilands.
Not that O'Farrell seemed fazed by even that dastardly prospect.
"I could turn for you, Kyle, " he joked, in video from the Kyle & Jackie O show posted on 2Day FM's website yesterday.
In the roll call of political regrets, the NSW Premier pashing Jackie O would have to rank high. No tongues appeared to have been employed, although Jackie O took the precaution of popping an Anticol in her mouth beforehand. Whether the lozenge was to sweeten her breath or kill off O'Farrell germs wasn't clear, but the Premier told her he had just eaten a Vegemite sandwich.
He had his eyes closed during the three second liplock.
"Wow. Soft lips," she said when they were finished.
"I was going to say the Anticols were quite good," he said
Ewww. Ewww. Ewww.
What was he thinking? Usually a dignified and sensible chap, his dignity is now in shreds. It's embarrassing for his wife, too.
He doesn't need to be humiliated on the Kyle & Jackie O show. He's not in Opposition, forced into unseemly stunts. He is in power. He has a whopping mandate. Surely he has more important things to do than appear on asinine FM radio programs?
The NSW economy is stuttering, we have just suffered through the worst Labor reign in the state's history and O'Farrell is just giving us more circuses.
He should at least pretend he is taking the job seriously or get out of the way and let a grownup take over.
He wasn't being a good sport yesterday. He was demeaning the office of Premier.
Next he'll be getting a spray tan and donut lips and making a guest appearance on The Shire.
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Having the courage to defeat law of the gun
Miranda Devine –, Tuesday, July, 24, 2012, (11:13pm)
THE appearance in court early yesterday of the loner accused of mass murder in a Colorado movie theatre revealed the pathetic attention-seeking we have come to expect in these heartbreakingly common tragedies.
The alleged gunman, a 24-year-old neurology student, sat in the dock of the courthouse in the Denver suburb of Aurora, his hair dyed neon orange, strange fleeting expressions of self pity and theatrical madness flickering across his face, his eyes alternately flaring wide and nodding off.
How such an unimpressive person could have the power to wreak such mayhem. Twelve people are dead and 58 wounded because the gunman could legally, effortlessly, buy a shotgun, an AR-15 assault rifle, two Glock handguns and more than 6000 rounds of ammunition on the internet. Yet Americans seem paralysed, unable to stem the increasingly ready availability of guns and ammunition.
While expressing sympathy and sorrow, President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney have been disappointingly mute on guns. They should look to the example of Australia's former prime minister John Howard to see how a leader of conviction responds to such a tragedy.
Speaking from Dallas yesterday where he is visiting his son Richard, Howard said he was dismayed when he heard of the Aurora massacre. His thoughts turned immediately to Port Arthur.
In 1996, two months into Howard's term, a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 21 at the tourist site near Hobart, in Australia's worst mass shooting. The killer used the same type of AR-15 assault rifle used in Aurora.
In response, Howard forced through some of the world's toughest gun laws, including a mass buyback of semi automatic weapons, at not inconsiderable political cost in his conservative heartlands of Queensland and WA.
"Port Arthur was such a horrific thing I felt instinctively I had to do something about it and I used the authority of a newly elected PM," Howard says.
"I felt if I didn't take the opportunity we'd be headed down the American path and I was determined that wouldn't happen. It's one of the things of which I am most proud."
There was such hostility that in his first public meeting explaining the new gun laws to a jeering crowd in Sale, Victoria, Howard wore a bulletproof vest under his suit after police warned him of a credible death threat.
Howard now says wearing the vest was a mistake, but to those who watched him at the time, it only underlined his courage.
He pays tribute to Nationals' Leader Tim Fisher and John Anderson, who took most of the heat, as well as then Queensland premier Rob Borbidge.
"It was a painful issue for some National Party colleagues (though) there was overwhelming support among women," Howard says.
"But if I hadn't done something I would have been squandering the moral authority I had as a newly elected prime minister."
There's no point in having that much cash in the electoral bank without using it. If you get a big majority in politics it will disappear. The question is whether it disappears through laziness or by spending it.
More than 700,000 weapons were handed in and destroyed after Howard changed the laws, and gun homicides and suicides fell sharply in ensuing years - though by how much is disputed by academics.
The gun control lobby estimates about 2000 people were spared because of the tighter laws. That's not to say they worked perfectly, as can be seen from the recent spate of shootings in Sydney.
What is not disputed is that there have been no mass killings since Port Arthur, and we can thank Howard for that.
The same can't be said for America, despite periodic pleas for gun control. Since the Columbine high school massacre in 1999, 30km from Aurora, there have been dozens of mass shootings. In 2009 there were five.
"Its so tragic because you have the overwhelming feeling that nothing will be done, because of this obsession with the right to bear arms," Howard says.
"I think the whole thing is completely illogical even though some of my best friends, politically, are strong gun supporters.
"The right to live a normal life without fear of unprovoked murder is greater than the right to bear arms. It has nothing to do with being a conservative. It's just an exercise of common sense."
Howard says that, while he was in office, he spoke in general terms to presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton about gun control but they said it was too difficult.
In small ways people are taking control of the tragedy. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper told mourners at a memorial service this week that he refused to say the name of the accused killer: "In my house we're just going to call him Suspect A."
Refusing to give mass killers the notoriety they crave is one way of fighting back. Another has been the twitter trend which took hold this week under the hashtag RememberTheirNames.
It refers to three young men, Jon Blunk, Matt McQuinn and Alex Teves, who died in the Aurora movie theatre taking bullets for their girlfriends.
Asserting the best of human nature makes us feel better.
But until the right to watch a movie without being shot outweighs the right of a nutcase to buy 6000 rounds of ammunition over the internet, there's not much else we can do.
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Who was Jim Thorpe? Did he really deceive the world in the 1912 Stockholm Summer Olympic Games? Was the evidence against him really strong enough to justify stripping away his legendary accomplishments and erasing his Olympic record? Author Michael Sheaffer tackles these and other thorny questions of ethics, honor, and sportsmanship in his new and thoroughly entertaining novel A Hearing for Jim Thorpe: An Exercise in Frustration. A sports reporter named Bud Murphy arrives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on a hot, dry July 1915, afternoon. He's there to cover a special and unprecedented event; a hearing at the Cumberland County Courthouse regarding the case, details, and final disposition of Carlisle native son, Jim Thorpe. Thorpe was the hero of the 1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics where he won back-to-back Pentathlon and Decathlon gold. But, it all came crashing down when the Amateur Athletic Union presented evidence that Thorpe had competed in the games after having already played professional baseball before the start of the games. Dishonored, but still having popular support, Jim Thorpe was stripped of all his glory, medals, and reputation. Murphy witnesses the crowded courtroom as experts, witnesses, and history itself testify to the greatness and the infamy of Thorpe and the controversy that grew up around him. A Hearing for Jim Thorpe offers up a riveting tale of passion that celebrates the life of a true American sports hero and speculates on what could have been.
Written with a touch of humor and told as an intimate and revealing narrative, A Hearing for Jim Thorpe: An Exercise in Frustration is a book that casts a bright light into a dark corner of sports history. In the spirit of great courtroom dramas like Inherit the Wind, author Sheaffer sets the record straight, while telling a masterful drama that is both bold and uplifting.
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An Ode to the Fireplace
I don't know what the weather has become where you live, but here in Glasgow there is a distinct and heavy wiff of autumn in the air. It's chilly, it's drizzly, it's dark and that means one thing – it's time to bed down, close the curtains and resign ourselves to 'the fall'. My theory is that the good old yanks call it this because it's all downhill from here 'til Christmas. Yes, it's a little gloomy and miserable but, though it pains me to admit it, I secretly like it.
I like it mainly because I LOVE to cosy up in front of a fire. Any excuse will do. It's one of the few major perks of winter (along with Father Christmas). I could stare into a fire for hours. At the weekend we spent Sunday lunch with great friends at their house on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Long, watching the rain fall on the water outside whilst nattering in front of a roaring log fire, glass of vino in hand. It was sheer bliss. And it's got me in the mood for it. A fire, that is.
A fireplace makes a house a home, gives a room a focal point and warms not only your face but the cockles of your heart. Oh, how my chilly cockles could do with a warming. If I wasn't quite so likely to end up accidentally burning my house down, I could easily have a fire in every room like the olden days; that would suit me just fine. I've been searching the internet, perving on fireplaces for inspiration recently and thought I'd share my most mouthwatering findings. Maybe it will help you put the summer behind you and get excited about cosying up in front of the fire with a sloe gin – hell, roast some chestnuts while your at it. It's got me so desperate for some naked flame action that we've booked a last minute trip to a cottage in Skye to make sure we do nothing but stare into a firey pit for days on end. Bring. It. On.
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DALLAS – May 28, 2010 – As part of Ducks Unlimited's ongoing response to the Gulf oil spill tragedy, its board of directors passed a resolution yesterday that further emphasized the organization's commitment to restoring wetlands along the Gulf Coast.
The resolution was brought to the floor by Mike Benge and Ron Bartels, both of whom are DU board members from Louisiana.
"Obviously, everyone within DU is deeply concerned for the habitat and the people along the Gulf Coast," said DU CEO Dale Hall. "DU made restoration of Gulf Coast wetlands a priority many years ago, and this resolution underscores our commitment to restoring these coastal wetlands in the face of the oil spill. Our board of directors has made it very clear that they want DU to help in any way it can."
The board passed the resolution unanimously after Dr. Tom Moorman, director of conservation planning for DU's Southern Region, provided the group with a scientific overview of how oil affects waterfowl and wetlands.
"Right now, we know that oil is beginning to directly impact the coastal wetlands," Moorman explained. "Our hearts go out to the people of the region. We understand the impact this tragedy will have on their way of life. DU will do everything it can to restore the wetlands for waterfowl, shorebirds, fish and the people who depend on this ecosystem for their livelihoods."
The resolution states the importance of the region for migrating waterfowl—it winters more than 13 million birds in some years—and brings to the forefront three organizational priorities:
"At this time, we understand that 'top kill' tactics to stop the flow of oil could be working," said Hall. "This is encouraging news. We hope the leak can be stopped so that we can move on to the assessment and restoration phases of this cleanup. DU is ready to work with our partners and federal and state agencies to begin the restoration process."
Ducks Unlimited is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, DU has conserved more than 12 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever. For more information, go to www.ducks.org.
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Millions of kids will hit the pavement, traveling door-to-door on October 31. Papa Murphy's wants to send a word of caution to parents this Halloween: Never trick-or-treat on an empty stomach.
Historically, October 31 has been one of the take-and-bake pizza chain's busiest days of the year. In fact, many of Papa Murphy's more than 1,380 locations see flocks of costume-clad families coming through the door for the return of the Jack-o-Lantern Pizza.
The Jack-o-Lantern Pizza is made so families can bake it in their home oven before trick-or-treating. It's made from scratch dough topped with grated cheese and pepperoni slices arranged to resemble a Jack-o-Lantern's face.
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Mary Poppins: Dallas Summer Musicals opens the show about everyone's favorite nanny at Fair Park Music Hall. Cool fact: Dallas is the only place in America you can see the show right now.
Dallas Blooms: See more than 500,000 spring-blossoming bulbs at this floral fest at the Dallas Arboretum. On Wednesdays through April 3, admission is buy one, get one free for all ages.
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By J.D. LeipoldFebruary 3, 2009
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 3, 2009) - Secretary of the Army Pete Geren hosted an Army Combined Federal Campaign National Capital Area victory celebration at the Pentagon Monday, praising staff and contributors alike for raising more than $3.25 million for charity.
The Army's 2008 CFC goal for the NCA was $2.95 million; but the Army exceeded that goal by collecting $30,000 more from some 10,000 donors, marking the fifth straight year the Army has stretched its contributions.
"It was a tough time to come and ask all of you to not only exceed last year's goal, but to exceed this year's goal," Geren told the audience. "Tough economic times pinched everybody in America, but I know the reason we stepped up and responded as you all did was because you understand the need out there is so great in spite of all the difficulties all of us in the Army experienced this past year."
For more than 40 years CFC has raised millions for charities that work to improve the quality of life for those in need at the local, national and international levels. Nearly 4,000 organizations participate in CFC, providing services such as feeding the hungry, helping shelter abused and neglected children, working to cure diseases, supporting the arts and preserving natural resources.
Joyce E. Morrow, administrative assistant to the secretary said the Army was so generous in the metro area that the service received a Million Dollar Circle Award for contributing more than $3 million for the fifth consecutive year.
The Army CFC team also won awards in three of six categories entered in the 2008 DOD Communications and Marketing Contest. The Office of the Administrative Assistant was honored for best campaign writing or publication by a large agency. The Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff G-8 was selected best in photography and use of images by a small agency and the Center for Army Analysis took honors for best special event by a small agency.
"More important than the awards is the participation of our workforce and the effect that participation will have on the lives of others," Morrow said. "We can be proud of the contributions the Army team made to CFC charities, so take pride in knowing your efforts and contributions will make a difference in someone's life."


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Administration's Key Legal Adviser Barred from Gitmo Trial
When Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo, took the stand on behalf of Osama bin Laden's former driver, some Gitmo watchers called Col. Davis (pictured) a traitor to his country. Davis, who clarified that he didn't necessarily doubt Salim Hamdan's guilt, nevertheless testified that the Bush administration's military commissions — set up to prosecute detainees — had been "infected with political agendas" and corrupted by "unlawful command influence."
But whatever the public thinks of Davis's patriotism, his activism appears to be working. On Saturday, the NYT reported that a military judge, Navy Capt. Keith Allred, has disqualified Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, a legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions, which runs the war crimes system, from any further role in Hamdan's case. In granting the defense's motion alleging an "unlawful command influence," the judge wrote (link unavailable): "National attention focused on this dispute has seriously called into question the legal adviser's ability to continue to perform his duties in a neutral and objective manner." When reached for comment, Hartmann reportedly told the Times he couldn't talk. (Here's another report from the WaPo.)
"Telling the chief prosecutor (and other prosecutors)," the decision said, "that certain types of cases would be tried and that others would not be tried, because of political factors such as whether they would capture the imagination of the American people, be sexy, or involve blood on the hands of the accused, suggests that factors other than those pertaining to the merits of the case were at play."
Today, the WSJ's Jess Bravin reports on what effect, if any, the ruling could have on other Gitmo trials, such as the forthcoming trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five others accused in the 9/11 attacks. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said he didn't expect the neutrality issue — i.e. the argument that Hartmann's dual role of supervising the prosecution and providing legal advice to the commissions administrator constitutes a conflict of interest — to resurface in other cases because Col. Davis left the military commissions office before charges were submitted for the 9/11 conspiracy.
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The arrest stems from an incident in October 2012 when it is alleged that Welcher had sexual intercourse with a female who was unconscious at the time. Welcher was arraigned in Wayne County Court and remanded to jail in lieu of $100,000 or $200,000 insurance bond.
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The penalty kill is back in the repair shop, and the head mechanic knows he only has two days to get it running again.
The inability of the Sharks to survive two minutes of short-handed play re-emerged as a major concern after the St. Louis Blues scored three power play goals in Monday night's 4-3 victory that gives them a 2-1 edge over San Jose in their first-round playoff series.
"It has to be better," coach Todd McLellan said Tuesday of his team's penalty kill that needs to be clicking again before Thursday night's Game 4.
Players don't need to be convinced of that.
"We should be better as a group," Logan Couture said. "We've got the players to kill penalties. It's just executing -- whether it's blocking a shot, clearing the puck or being better as a whole."
San Jose's penalty kill -- which relies more on strong positional play that disrupts shooting and passing lanes than players who aggressively pursue the puck carrier -- was identified as a concern when training camp opened back in September.
The Sharks had finished the previous season among the NHL's lower echelon with a 79.6 percent success rate, good enough for only 24th in the NHL. But things only deteriorated this season as San Jose ended up in 29th place with a 76.7 percent success rate.
This isn't the coaching staff's first stab at getting things back on track. In January, with San Jose at the bottom of the NHL, McLellan hit the reset button. Different pairings were used, shifts were shortened, he tweaked his system.
Things did improve for a while. Over a 10-game stretch that same month, the Sharks successfully killed 18 of 19 penalties; over five games in March, San Jose was a perfect 8 for 8.
Then things fell apart late in the season with the Sharks giving up six-power play goals in their final two games, both of them victories over the Los Angeles Kings.
McLellan would like for his players to avoid penalties in the first place, especially those in the offensive zone.
But he also traces much of what went wrong Monday night to his team's performance in what he describes as "critical faceoffs" -- those in the offensive zone while on the power play or the defensive zone while on the penalty kill. In Game 3, the Sharks won only four of those 11 draws.
"Thirty three percent is not going to do it," McLellan said, noting the Blues have two big, mobile defensemen in Kevin Shattenkirk and Alex Pietrangelo, who can wear out a penalty kill when they have the puck.
"And when you're killing and you're tired, you tend to make mistakes," the Sharks coach said. "They pull you out of position, and it's harder to recover. The body battles are a lot tougher when you're fatigued. Winning faceoffs and getting clears are as important as reading what they're doing on their power play."
Those reads are particularly important because of San Jose's approach to the penalty kill.
"You can see the contrast between the Blues and us," said forward Daniel Winnik, who was on the ice for one of the St. Louis goals and in the penalty box for another. "They're go-go-go, and we're more set back and being in the shooting and passing lanes. Both systems work. We had a couple breakdowns (Monday) night, and they capitalized."
McLellan acknowledges that his system is less aggressive than others.
"Everybody has their own reads and jumping points," the Sharks coach said. "Some just go and take their chances. Others are more calculated."
And McLellan said it's not a matter of wanting his players to be more careful about going after the puck.
"We don't want them to be careful," he said. "We want them to be confident when they leave those positions."
Confidence can evaporate, however, and that's something McLellan will be looking to restore when his team practices Wednesday morning.
The Sharks also will be looking to improve their own power play. While San Jose has scored twice on 11 opportunities this series, it continues to have trouble sustaining offensive pressure.
"Some of it's execution," McLellan said. "When you have an aggressive team and you're able to get your eyes up and make one or two passes, those passes have to be on tape and you have to attack off them. When they're in your feet or they're off by two or three feet and you have to battle for position again, you're starting all over."
Then he put his power-play problem in perspective.
"We'll be fine," McLellan said. "I have more concern about our penalty kill than our power play."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks.


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• Collaboration is more than just a tidy word to describe diverse users working together toward a common goal. Collaboration is a mindset and a culture which, fortunately for Autodesk product users, is aided significantly by the products they use every day.
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Also in the August 2011 issue of AUGIWorld:
• The Autodesk Exchange Apps Store: In June, Autodesk launched a marketplace where you can find great apps—plug-ins, block libraries, e-books, training videos, and more. Free apps, trials, products for purchase—as close as a tab in AutoCAD 2012. Stephen Preston shows you around the store.
• Collaboration in a Multi-Disciplinary/Multi-Firm Environment: Bryan Tanner shows you how to share drawing files efficiently with those inside – and outside – your environment by using great tools inside AutoCAD Civil 3D.
• Collaborating with Autodesk Inventor Publisher: In our technology-driven world, the ability to share designs and communicate effectively has never been so important. John Evans illustrates how Inventor Publisher is up to the task.
• Electrical and Mechanical Coordination: Revit MEP works admirably as a method for bringing mechanical and electrical engineers together. Todd Shackelford shows you how it's done.
• Revit Collaboration: Then and Now: Troy Gates looks back on how collaboration workflow once worked in Autodesk Revit, and how it is done today. An emerging technology is also making inroads.
• Collaboration with Revit Structure—Work Sharing: Phil Russo takes you step by step through collaboration in Revit Structure. Lots of tips and tricks here.
• Collaboration and Data Management for AEC Projects: What's Autodesk's vision for collaborating with the Revit platform? It's 360. Revit Design Product Line Manager Anthony Hauck elaborates.
• Collaboration & Interoperability: Seth Borne describes a plethora of third-party modeling solutions and techniques for integrating assets into 3ds Max.
• Value-Driven Project Delivery: Understanding the needs and requirements of clients is critical to delivering successful projects. Here are six keys to success, from Andrew Abernathy.
• 15 Questions with Shawn Hendricks: This month's Autodesk Insiders column provides a look into the world of Shawn Hendricks, Senior Technical Marketing & Video Production Manager, Media & Entertainment Marketing.
• Inside Track: Recent developments in Autodesk and related software.
• Heads Up! Updates, service packs, and more…from the pages at Autodesk.com.
Google SketchUp – The Missing Link to 3D Modeling for 2D Drafters
I would like to take a moment to tell you a story about my experiences with CAD and Architecture, and a trend I'm seeing for the future of architects and others in the field. As an architectural draftsman of many years, a software developer for CAD related products (LaunchPad), and a reprographer for Architects and Engineers for 10 years, I've had a lot of experience in dealing with CAD users over time. I migrated from CAD to AutoCAD early on. Along the way, I witnessed a lot of enthusiasm from individuals and companies who had a desire to migrate away from hand drafted plans to CAD. In the beginning though (the first 5-7 years), there was stiff resistance from within most of the companies I had contact with. The resistance was from firms that were just not ready to make the jump, or that had individuals within them who fought bitterly against the concept of CAD. During those years, I operated as a CAD consultant, where I made it my passion and career to migrate users and firms from hand drawing to CAD. Suddenly, as if overnight, all changed and the world went CAD. At that time, I was hard pressed to find anyone who was still hand drafting plans, and I thought back to all the CAD resistance that I had endured during those early days. What they say about old dogs and new tricks…so true.
A transition in CAD occurred again with the introduction of 3D CAD. 2D CAD operators, or firms who had been heavily invested in 2D AutoCAD, were now being challenged with new concepts such as BIM and generating projects within a 3D environment. I have to admit, I was one of them. I can recall looking at Revit earlier on and found the 3D capabilities to be rather complex. So, I held off from migrating to the idea of drawing plans in 3D, since the learning curve was so incredibly complicated. The concept of generating models that turned into 2D construction documents was intriguing, but the plotted results appeared rather simplistic, or did not represent themselves in a manner that I had come to expect from my 2D CAD. I talked to many other users who also tried to make the transition, and I heard the same two stories from them. One being that, if you draw large commercial, boxy projects, like hospitals, then using Revit was fine. The other was the time factor, being prepared for it to take 3-4 times longer to generate a set of plans. It was great for larger Architectural firms who had the right projects and the budgets behind them. Or, even those projects where the client was willing to pay more for a digital model of the project, if they had uses for the model beyond the construction phase of the project. In both cases, it did not seem to be a scenario that fit my needs. Nor, did it fit the needs of the customers and clients that I had dealt with in my CAD oriented businesses.
Eventually, my clients and customers wanted to go to 3D. Even I did, but abandoned the idea because I was not able to give it the necessary time. I found that what stopped most people from proceeding with 3D was that they did not have a path to executing it. That path consisted of: an economical method, easy to implement, a short learning curve, and results that did not produce a product that seemed sub-par. And, since the established products on the market only met some of those requirements, a great percentage of firms and users shied away from 3D over the last 10 years. But wait, all was not lost. Along came the new SketchUp by Google. At first glance (I was given that glance through a FREE download version of the software that's available to everyone), I was a little skeptical, and so were a lot of the other people I had talked to about the product. It looked kind of like a "toy" product at first, but now I say, don't let it fool you. You have to look at it objectively and not make the assumption that it is a limited product. After using it for a few days, I immediately determined that this product needed to be supported by LaunchPad, and it now is.
What I see is that Google SketchUp finally delivers on the essentials that non-3D architects and drafters have been looking for in the last decade. Again, let's look at some of the pieces needed in executing the path to 3D that users have been waiting for:
Economical - For starters, the Google SketchUp application is FREE. (They do have a $495.00 PRO version and I'm sure it's worth every penny.) But, FREE means there is no reason for you not to at least try it.
Easy to Implement – After going through (25) 3-4 minute videos online that show how to execute all of the basic commands, I was drawing in 3D. Wow, I had never drawn in 3D before! And, in the first day, I was making things happen.
Short Learning Curve - With most 3D products there is a demo video that makes everything look easy and fast, but when it comes to implementing and producing something of any size from it, forget it. Then, the long learning curve comes into play, which means a heavy investment in time. Take, for example, 3dStudio MAX. It's a great product and can do some really amazing things. I have seen some active modeling done from it that would knock your socks off. But, it was done by a user with years of experience and many projects under his belt. Many of us cannot accomplish this. With SketchUp, I was able to do a complete rendered 3D house in less than a week.
Great Results – This is a key element. SketchUp, out of the box, is not going to produce a photorealistic render for you. That would need some help from a 3rd party product that takes the geometry from SketchUp and generates the rendered model. But wait, there is good news. There are some really great products out there that can do this, and some only cost between $99 to $499. I wanted to go all the way with it and downloaded a 30 day trial of the $499 product. The product I used is called IRender nXT for SketchUp. The results were so spectacular from this simple to use program, that it was all it took, I am now hooked on 3D modeling.
What SketchUp brings to the CAD person is a forgiving modeling interface that is actually easy and very fun to use. As a creative Architect, you can be more artistic and free flowing with your design concepts when modeled in SketchUp. All without the accuracy intimidation found with some of the other higher-end 3D/BIM oriented products. There is a time and a place for BIM, and many higher end projects do require it. However, there are many projects that do not require the time consuming use of BIM standards. For example, you may want to put together a conceptual model for a client, with a very short turn around, to bring an idea to light. SketchUp is perfect for this and allows you to create a modeled concept in no time. It also makes 3D modeling a feasible option in terms of the decreased amount of time needed for model development, as well as a shortened learning curve that allows users to make use of the basics of modeling, without all of the BIM requirements. So, if you are an Architect or draftsman using 2D CAD and have been saying to yourself, "I need to be able to better compete in this economy and it's now time to get into 3D modeling, but where do I start?", then let me recommend Google SketchUp as that starting point. Keep in mind, it's not that I dislike Autodesk ADT, Revit or 3dsMAX, they are all great products and LaunchPad supports them. It's just that these products are a little pricey and have an extremely long and involved learning curve.
If you are really hooked on continuing to do your drawings in 2D AutoCAD, but you want to be able to provide 3D modeling of your projects without all the overhead and expense, then it's your lucky day with Google SketchUp. I personally feel it is the most impactful CAD related product of the last 10 years. I make this statement, not because other 3D CAD products aren't doing a better job, but because of SketchUp's simplicity and cost. Not to mention, it's used today by millions of users worldwide. How many seriously proficient ADT, Revit and 3dsMAX users do you know? In my many years in this industry, I may know a handful, at best. The accessibility and ease of use that comes with using SketchUp makes it worth jumping into the 3D modeling realm for 2D drafters at last.
Visit the official Google SketchUp website to find out more about this product and get the FREE download.
Coming in future postings…
There will be a (3) part video series on using Google SketchUp with LaunchPad. Part 1 is already available and you can access it here. We will also be providing other blog postings with specialty stories relating to Google SketchUp. So please, keep an eye out!
Top Reasons for Using LaunchPad
Attention: Architects, Engineers and Designers!
Here are 5 Good Reasons why LaunchPad should be an essential tool in your drafting and drawing applications:
1) Enhances Input Speed and Productivity – by minimizing the keystrokes and distances involved in entering input commands, LaunchPad makes you faster, more efficient, and allows you to create/produce more work.
2) Supports most Autodesk® and Adobe Products® – such as Photoshop®, AutoCAD® Architecture, Revit®, 3dsMax®, as well as Google® SketchUp®, applications that can move you into the increasingly popular and essential realms of 3D modeling.
3) Improves Ease of Use in Applications – with a universal command input system, as well as command editor for all programs, Launchpad allows for an easier and more simplified way of entering commands across the board and throughout a variety of different programs.
4) Creates an Ergonomic Drafting Environment – allowing you to keep one hand on the keypad and one hand on the mouse, with the eyes focused on the work/screen.
5) Portable on Any Supported Computers – the same keypad can be used on multiple computers such as an office computer, home computer, laptop, etc., with only one purchased code.
The list is even longer, but we chose to highlight 5 reasons for now. When you take these considerations into account, you can see why LaunchPad is able to help transform the way you work. You become better at what you do and more competitive through the use of the newly supported and diversified products that can propel you forward.
We're hearing from many architects in the field who value and continue to praise using the LaunchPad KeyPad. In fact, if you'd like to hear directly from some of them, please check out our "Testimonial" page on the website. Our users say it all and now they're even more excited over the 3D applications that LaunchPad supports. They see and understand how adding these new applications into their drafting and drawing environments can improve their skills and take them further in their professions by giving them a competitive edge in moving from 2D vector based drawings to 3D modeling based drawings.
LaunchPad makes learning these applications easy with its universal input system that crosses over into each of the different applications. For example, there is an editor with a command screen, component screen and materials screen that applies to products like SketchUp®, Photoshop® and AutoCAD® products. LaunchPad users who are beginning to include these new applications into their work are reporting positive experiences and EXCITEMENT over just how easy they are to implement and use, with very impressive results! They see the potential for advancing themselves among other architects in the industry and with their clients through the production of enhanced, quality representations and renderings of their drawings and house plans, etc.
So, if you are a LaunchPad user, you may want to consider some of these new applications yourself. And, if you're new to LaunchPad, then now is the time to try it. The benefits you receive with LaunchPad will only continue to grow! To find out more about LaunchPad and what it can do for you, check out the website at: http://www.launchpadoffice.com
We will be bringing you more technical information, videos with examples and demonstrations, and answers to some of the "how to" questions and scenarios in using LaunchPad with different applications. So, stay tuned…
LaunchPad Isn't Just for AutoCAD® Anymore
Are you concerned about the industry and current trends in today's Architectural, Engineering and Design markets? Do you need to enhance your skill set and job performance? Would you like to strengthen and expand your product knowledge base to increase your creativity and level of competiveness through the quality of the end product you produce (i.e., colored renderings, 3D modeling, digital walkthroughs, etc., as opposed to 2D vector based drawings)? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then LaunchPad can be a valuable tool to help expand your current talent base and take you into the latest trends in the CAD industry today.
What are the trends? Today's Architects and Engineers are feeling the pressure, whether by the client or the new requirements in design, to utilize more of the available modeling and graphical products on the market today. Users who are feeling the pinch of these trends are under extreme pressure to learn these new products, as well as the new concepts that are foreign to them, since 2D is all they have known. LaunchPad driven Google® SketchUp® and Autodesk® Revit® are just two examples of newly supported products that can enhance your skills and, at the same time, make use of LaunchPad's simplified input command macros and functions.
LaunchPad has made it its goal to neutralize the input method for all of these various products to a common input system. Instead of working with a hotkey based system (i.e., Photoshop®), an alias or command line system (i.e., AutoCAD®), or an icon/menu based system (i.e., SketchUp®), LaunchPad has neutralized the input system to one mode of input for all products.
For example, drawing a line in three different products may look something like this:
1) In AutoCAD®, it might be {Esc} {Esc} L {Enter}.
2) In Photoshop®, a designated hotkey {Ctrl} L.
3) In SketchUp®, either selecting an icon, or typing L on the keyboard.
With LaunchPad, all of these commands can be entered by only pressing a 55 on the keypad. Commands are entered using LaunchPad with one hand, the other hand never leaves the mouse, and the eyes and mouse never leave the work. And, yes, there are a variety of ways to enter commands in each of these products, but when it comes to a user needing to utilize two to five products at a time, the myriad of methods further expand the required retention level needed and additional key strokes required. LaunchPad simplifies the input process and makes it relatively universal for each of the products being used, thus making it faster, easier and more functional for the user.
LaunchPad will not only simplify the use of more complex applications that may be introduced into your work, but it will pay for itself in very little time. (See the "LaunchPad ROI" (Return on Investment) tab, "Key Counts" tab and "Demo Stats" tab on the website to find out how.) LaunchPad will increase your production time, improve your drawing experience, simplify the process, and continue to make you money well into your career. To hear what some of our experienced users have to say, check out the "Testimonial" tab on the website. User comments only reinforce the value of the product. Even in these trying times, LaunchPad truly is an investment in your future, and will take you well beyond standard AutoCAD®.


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Willeke's Violoncello Collection (Willeke, Willem)
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The European Commission sanctioned Baxter's Celvapan H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine, produced using its Vero cell technology. The company claims the vaccine is the first cell culture-based, nonadjuvanted pandemic flu vaccine to get EU clearance. Baxter is currently carrying out clinical trials of Celvapan H1N1 and said that it will supplement the licensure postapproval with additional clinical program data. The company will also provide the EMEA with immunogenicity data from the first vaccination in adults within the next few days. The current dosing schedule specified in the agency's mock-up licensure for Celvapan using another virus strain involves two 7.5 microgram doses, given 21 days apart. Baxter said a trial in healthy adults will indicate whether a single dose may be enough for the Celvapan H1N1 vaccine. The trial will also determine whether a lower, 3.75 microgram dose is sufficient to induce the required immune response.
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