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Unique Learner Number (ULN) and Qualifications Reform Update
Thank you for the part you have played in the successful roll-out of the ULN during 2015/16. Around 80% (80,000) of NI pupils aged 14+ now have ULNs in place for examinations; this year will focus on getting ULNs for year 11 and processing remaining schools/pupils from 2015/6. Changes to GCSE and GCEs continue to be a focus for schools providing a range of qualifications to pupils; these events will also provide an update on this work.
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Data about <i>Lilium tsingtauense</i>
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Glossary for Lilium tsingtauense
- associated media
- A list (concatenated and separated) of identifiers (publication, global unique identifier, URI) of media associated with the Occurrence.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/associatedMedia
- catalog number
- An identifier (preferably unique) for the record within the data set or collection.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/catalogNumber
- collection code
- The name, acronym, coden, or initialism identifying the collection or data set from which the record was derived.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/collectionCode
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- An identifier for the collection or dataset from which the record was derived.
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- The name of the continent in which the Location occurs.
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- contributor
- An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
- http://purl.org/dc/terms/contributor
- country
- The name of the country or major administrative unit in which the Location occurs.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/country
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- A description of the geographic distribution, or range, of the taxon. Includes descriptions of global, regional, or political aspects of range and whether the taxon is native or introduced in portions of the range and endemicity.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution
- habitat
- A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
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- A list (concatenated and separated) of geographic names less specific than the information captured in the locality term.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/higherGeography
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- The number of individuals represented present at the time of the Occurrence.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/individualCount
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- The name (or acronym) in use by the institution having custody of the object(s) or information referred to in the record.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/institutionCode
- isotype
- An isotype is any duplicate of the holotype (i. e. part of a single gathering made by a collector at one time, from which the holotype was derived); it is always a specimen (ICBN Art. 7). [Bot.]
- http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/TaxonName#Isotype
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- The specific description of the place. Less specific geographic information can be provided in other geographic terms (higherGeography, continent, country, stateProvince, county, municipality, waterBody, island, islandGroup). This term may contain information modified from the original to correct perceived errors or standardize the description.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/locality
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/measurementMethod
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/measurementRemarks
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/measurementValue
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM)
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM), Washington, District of Columbia, USA. NMNH and USNM both refer to the National Museum of Natural History. Collections are associated with one or the other acronym. US, the US National Herbarium, is a collection within the National Museum of Natural History. URL for main institutional website: http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/ URL for institutional specimen catalog: http://collections.mnh.si.edu/
- http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34871
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM) Botany Department
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (USNM) Botany Department. Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Primarily dried specimens (e.g., skins, herbarium sheets). URL for collection: http://botany.si.edu/index.htm
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- An identifier given to the Occurrence at the time it was recorded. Often serves as a link between field notes and an Occurrence record, such as a specimen collector's number.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/recordNumber
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/recordedBy
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/scientificName
- slope
- The part of an elevation or depression between the relatively flat surrounding area and the peak of a mount or the bottom of a depression.
- http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002000
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- A related resource from which the described resource is derived.
- http://purl.org/dc/terms/source
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- The name of the next smaller administrative region than country (state, province, canton, department, region, etc.) in which the Location occurs.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/stateProvince
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- http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/typeStatus
- Upper Name
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- The verbatim original representation of the date and time information for an Event.
- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimEventDate
- year
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- http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/year
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Helsinki Design Week 2016: Design Takes Over the Finnish Capital
We share some of our favorite designs from Helsinki's 12th annual design week, which centered around the 47th iteration of Habitare.
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We take a look at some kitchen utensils and tools that make us just as giddy as new pencils did at school time.
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Welcome to our Closer Hot Seat column! We'll update this space to give you an easy-to-reference guide on who might be closest to losing their jobs. Note that this isn't necessarily a ranking of the best closers; rather, it's a guide to job security.
Latest update: August 6, 2016
It has been quite an eventful past couple weeks. Between the trade deadline and recent struggles for veteran closers, such as Huston Street and Steve Cishek, there has been a slew of new closers. Carlos Estevez could be replaced at any moment, so the best speculative add is probably Adam Ottavino — but don't forget about John Axford and Mauricio Cabrera, both of whom are backing up struggling veterans. There's a pretty big gap between the "warmish" and "hot" seats this week; guys at 23 and above look pretty safe, but the bottom seven are iffy.
Hottest: In a committee or on the verge of losing their job right now.
30. Carlos Estevez (Handcuff: Adam Ottavino)
29. Cam Bedrosian (Handcuff: Fernando Salas)
28. Jake Barrett (Handcuff: Enrique Burgos)
Hot: Guys who could be in danger after their next blown save.
27. Ryan Madson (Handcuff: John Axford)
26. Jim Johnson (Handcuff: Mauricio Cabrera)
25. Santiago Casilla (Handcuff: Sergio Romo)
24. Tony Watson (Handcuff: Neftali Feliz)
Warmish: Two blown saves in a row and these players might be in trouble.
23. Sam Dyson
22. Tyler Thornburg
21. Jeanmar Gomez
20. Ken Giles
19. Tony Cingrani
18. Edwin Diaz
17. Brandon Maurer
16. Brandon Kintzler
Cool: These players would have to blow 3 consecutive saves for their jobs to be in jeopardy.
15. Andrew Miller
14. David Robertson
13. Francisco Rodriguez
12. Roberto Osuna
11. A.J. Ramos
10. Alex Colome
9. Seung Hwan Oh
8. Jeurys Familia
7. Kelvin Herrera
6. Dellin Betances
5. Mark Melancon
4. Craig Kimbrel
3. Aroldis Chapman
Sub-zero: These players would have to blow 4+ consecutive saves for their jobs to be in jeopardy.
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December 23, 2014
Pro-Kyiv volunteer battalions are increasingly blocking humanitarian aid into eastern Ukraine in a move which will exacerbate a pending humanitarian crisis in the run up to Christmas and New Year.
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The deaths of two children killed by shelling while they played football on a school playing field in eastern Ukraine must be immediately, fully and impartially investigated.
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McGill AirClean LLC
based in Columbus, OHIO (USA)
McGill AirClean has more than 40 years of experience solving air pollution control problems for boilers, furnaces, incinerators, and a variety of industrial processes. During that time, we have helped customers comply with air emission regulation in industries such as glass, wood products, pulp and paper, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, metals, petrochemical, ...
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Recognized as a global leader, Selerant provides innovative formula-based manufacturers with product development solutions to dramatically accelerate time to market. Selerant addresses the unique concerns of formula-based manufacturers in its latest product lifecycle management solution, DevEX. With its core strenght in compliance and more than 20 years of experience, ...
CEMS Experts - a division of GK Associates, Inc.
based in Simi Valley, CALIFORNIA (USA)
For over 20 years, CEMS Experts has been providing turn-key CEMS solutions, consulting, and technical support services for the emissions compliance and process monitoring needs of our clients. Our customer base spans many industries including power generation, petro-chemical, cement, glass, forest products, landfills, municipal utilities, waste-energy, and many others. We ...
Glenro Inc.
based in Paterson, NEW JERSEY (USA)
Glenro offers infrared heaters, as well as complete infrared systems. Our hot air equipment includes impingement dryers, flotation dryers, through-air dryers and specialty batch-style ovens. Glenro's air pollution control equipment consists of three types of fume oxidizers for controlling VOCs, smoke and odor: recuperative thermal oxidizers, recuperative catalytic ...
Delta Cooling Towers, Inc
based in Rockaway, NEW JERSEY (USA)
Delta Cooling Towers are made from a Corrosion Proof engineered plastic. The cooling tower shell will never rust, flake, chip, peel or ever need painting or protective coatings applied. Delta believes its towers are the future of the industry. Metal towers do not have the long-term corrosion protection advantages for outdoor usage. The galvanizing or other metal ...
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A technology leader in the Air Filtration & Dust Collection industry, we deliver reliable products manufactured to perform correctly in your application. When designing Fume & Dust Control products, our first priority is worker safety. Keeping unbreathables away from the operator's repository zone requires capture-at-source equipment that is easy-to-use, ...
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HGI Industries' has created cutting edge ultra violet hydroxyl generating technology which has been at the forefront of high volume odor processing, air-decontamination and air-purification for the past decade. HGI's patented technology is the world's ONLY scientifically proven non-contained Hydroxyl Generator. This non-chemical device provides an environmentally safe ...
Logical Technology, Inc.
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LOGICAL provides MSDS and Environmental Management Software and Online Solutions featuring exceptional regulatory compliance resources for your employees. LOGICAL has customizable solutions for managing MSDS sheets, providing Right-to-Know MSDS access, tracking chemical inventory, insuring permit compliance, and generating environmental regulatory reports. In addition, ...
Tecam Group
based in Llinars del Vallès, SPAIN
Tecam Group offers advanced environmental technology for Emissions Treatment and for Industrial Waste Incineration. Tecam Group designs, manufactures and installs several technology solutions, such as Thermal Oxidizers (TO), Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO), Regenerative Catalytic Oxidizers (RCO), Zeolite Rotor-Concentrator + Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers (RTO), ...
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Teledyne Tekmar is a leader in the design and manufacturing of analytical instrumentation for the laboratory. We provide productivity-enhancing instrumentation and solutions to a number of industries including Environmental, Pharmaceutical, Wastewater, Food and Beverage, Forensics and Toxicology, Petrochemical, Industrial/Chemical and Polymers/Plastics.
Golden Specialty, Inc.
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Golden Specialty provides industry-leading products and services for on-site emissions testing of stationary sources. Our certified and deeply experienced staff use state-of-the-art equipment and redundant CEM systems to reduce risk and ensure highest quality data. We sell and lease a wide range of air testing equipment, parts, supplies, and maintenance service packages ...
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Pollution Systems designs, builds and services all types of industrial air pollution control systems. We offer Thermal Oxidizers, Catalytic Oxidizers, Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers, Direct Fired Oxidizers, Enclosed Flares, Gas Scrubbers, Particulate Scrubbers, Rotor Concentrators, Heat Recovery Systems and Ceramic Media. On-site services include equipment maintenance ...
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CTP (Chemisch Thermische Prozesstechnik GmbH) is one of the world`s leading companies in air pollution control for industrial applications. CTP was founded in 1985 and since then, its engineers, chemists and researchers have been developing individual technologies to serve customers worldwide, covering all industrial sectors. At CTP, we adhere to high quality standards ...


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The story of two Davids: How Moyes' decline at United is following the same path as Sexton's
For a fresh-faced generation of Manchester United supporters, this season's alarming slump under David Moyes is new and disturbing territory.
For those sporting rather more flecks of grey on top, though, a sense of deja vu may be appearing, for they have seen a managerial reign rather like this one at Old Trafford before.
VIDEO Scroll down to watch Wayne Rooney nutmeg David Moyes
New beginning: David Moyes after being unveiled as Manchester United manager in July
Fresh start: Dave Sexton and Frank Blunstone after being appointed by Manchester Untied in 1977
The tenure was pockmarked by disappointing days against the club's closest rivals, costly signings and a direct and dour form of football that offered little reason for optimism for the rank and file at Old Trafford.
It was another Dave in those days, but Sexton, rather than Moyes. It was 37 years ago that Dave Sexton stepped into the hot-seat at Old Trafford for a four-year reign that ended without a pot to his name.
Here, Sportsmail tracks the uncomfortable similarities between his troubled spell at Old Trafford and the tortuous time being experienced by Moyes...
Trophyless (except for the Community Shield)
No Manchester United manager in the club's history, including Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, has been able to win a major trophy in their first season in the hot-seat. Moyes and Sexton do share the dubious honour of claiming the Community Shield in their opening campaign. Sexton's Charity Shield in 1977 was shared with Liverpool after a 0-0 draw, while Moyes won 2-0 against Championship side Wigan.
Good start: Moyes guided United to victory in the Community Shield against Wigan
Honours shared: Sexton drew 0-0 with Liverpool in the 1977 Charity Shield
Dream Start
Just as Moyes league season began with a wave of optimism after the 4-1 victory at Swansea, so too did Sexton's first campaign with a 4-1 victory at Birmingham City.
Derby day horrors
But, as with Moyes, the struggles soon set in against the big-hitters, as United lost badly at Manchester City (Sexton lost 3-1, Moyes lost 4-1) and also toiled at home to Chelsea and failed to score (Sexton lost 1-0, Moyes drew 0-0).
Derby disappointment: Moyes holds his head in his hands after losing to City
Dark days: Sexton lost his derby game to City 3-1
Respite against Liverpool
Both under-fire managers earned some temporary respite with victories over Liverpool at Old Trafford in their fourth home games in charge (Sexton 2-0 in the league, Moyes 1-0 in the Capital One Cup) but the pressure soon intensified for Sexton with the fans increasingly concerned by a listless brand of football.
Not all bad: Javier Hernandez helped United beat Liverpool in the League Cup
Shock defeats
Manchester United would fall to a home victory under Sexton against Everton in March 1978, just as they did in December against Moyes. The new United boss also saw his team fall to a surprise 2-1 defeat by West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford at September, in the process becoming the first United manager to lose at home to West Brom since Sexton's team were beaten 5-3 in his second season in charge in 1978. United were also hammered 4-0 at WBA in his first season.
Mid-season shock signings from rival clubs fail to click
In Sexton's first season in charge, he moved for Leeds United stars Joe Jordan and Gordon McQueen in the winter months but the additions failed to spark United into life, as Sexton's side won just one game in twelve following the arrival of Jordan in January.
Fresh blood: Sexton moved for Scotland striker Joe Jordan in 1978
New boy: United have won just three games since signing Juan Mata joined
United have won just three of eight matches since Juan Mata arrived from Chelsea. In Sexton's final season in charge, he splashed £1.75million on Gary Birtles, who scored one goal in his first 32 matches for Manchester United. Moyes will hope that Marouane Fellaini and Mata do not prove similarly wasteful purchases.
A 3-0 defeat at home by Liverpool... but then a Cup final
In Sexton's second campaign in charge, United laboured to a 3-0 loss at Old Trafford by Liverpool to drop to 7th in the league table. The league campaign continued to falter, winning just six of their final 21 games but United did respond immediately with a 3-0 win over Manchester City.
Final chance: Sexton lead Manchester United to the FA Cup final in his second season - but lost 3-2 to Arsenal
Turning it around? Can United make the Champions League final in May
A similar result would go some way to repairing the damage for Moyes next Tuesday night. United did, however, recover to reach the FA Cup final that season (lost 3-2 against Arsenal)... see you in Lisbon for the Champions League final in May, David?
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The creepy, kooky family we've all come to know and love comes to life in "The Addams Family" musical at Tacoma Musical Playhouse.
In this original story by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and based on the classic television series and 1991 movie, Wednesday Addams (Savana Masako Smith) has grown up and falls in love with "normal" Ohioan Lucas Beineke (Jake Atwood), and invites his family to meet the rest of the Addams clan at dinner.
This clash of two worlds, the macabre versus the mundane, is told through Andrew Lippa-penned songs such as "Full Disclosure," "Secrets" and "One Normal Night," which could make the dead dance in their graves. Michele Bettinger (Alice Beineke) and Erik Furuheim (Mal Beineke) show the stark contrast between Beinekes from Ohio and the mysterious, spooky Morticia and Gomez Addams (Linda Palacios and Rafe Wadleigh).
The whole story unfolds on a set that flows perfectly and purposefully (Dennis Kurtz) with costumes that add a fun mix of color and ghoul (Jocelyne Fowler) alongside the mood-filled light design by John Chenault. "The Addams Family" will keep you on the edge of your seat dying for more thanks to a solid cast and snappy choreography by Jon Douglas Rake and musical director by Jeff Strvtecky.
The Addams family also includes: John Kelleher as Uncle Fester, Jonathan Bill as Lurch, Callan Barth as Pugsley Addams and Shelleigh-Mairi Ferguson as Grandma. Their ancestors include: Colin Briskey, Cassandra DeChant, Emile Hanson, Lindsay Hovey, Sean Kilen, Kathy Kluska, Derek Mesford, John Miller, Tasha Smith and Corey Thompson.
"The Addams Family" runs at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 16. Tacoma Musical Playhouse is located at 7116 Sixth Ave. Tickets are $22 to $31 and available by phone at (253) 565-6867 and at tmp.org.


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Minolta XE-7
I finally got some rolls of film, put one in my re-acquired Minolta XE7 SLR, and took a few shots on a walk yesterday. The shutter button and film forward mechanism feel so satisfying, and the sound gratifying. The "feel" is quite remarkable, considering it derives from a complex electro-mechanical process. I suppose that in slower times it was easier to get the visceral feel just right. This camera was built 40 years ago.
I came across the repair manual for the camera and was stunned at the complex interactions that take place inside its heavy body. It's not just a matter of activating the shutter and forwarding the film. The cams and linkages need to take into account whether the film has been forwarded yet, whether the multiple-exposure lever is on, whether the self-timer is on, whether the aperture preview button is engaged, and so on. (The only electrical aspects of this camera involve the light-metering and the flash.)
The shutter button has six positions during its 2.7mm of travel. The film advance lever has five angles that activate functions through its 150 degrees of travel.
Here are a couple of pages from the service manual. First, the film advance system:
And here is the shutter system:
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With the recent release of Solid Edge ST9, I had the opportunity to ask Siemens PLM Software a few questions. John Fox is vp of marketing for mainstream engineering at Siemens.
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Ralph Grabowski: How many users does Solid Edge have? Last figure I heard was 550,000. Is this total (commercial + educational) or purely commercial users?
John Fox: At Solid Edge University 2014 in Atlanta, we announced that we had sold more than 500,000 seats of Solid Edge, not including our academic student edition, and not including our free Solid Edge 2D Drafting offering.
It was a nice milestone for us. We generally don't disclose these types of numbers at Siemens, but we made an exception for that milestone.
Solid Edge ST cutting solids with a sweep line
Grabowski: A new feature in ST9 is storing the license in an account "on the cloud" and then moving the license from machine to machine, as needed. Does this kind of license cost more than a node-locked one?
Fox: The cloud-enabled licensing method works with our existing node locked licenses, so the cost of the license does not change. It basically makes it very easy for the user to "move" their node locked license from device to device using the cloud to keep track of this.
Grabowski: And is this kind of license specific to SE9 (ie, it cannot be used with earlier releases of Solid Edge)?
Fox: This licensing option is specific to ST9. Solid Edge users can also still use the current floating license, where they use a server to keep track of the licenses. Floating licenses have a small uplift (around 2%) compared to a node locked license.
There is a good blog here on this subject:https://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/Solid-Edge-Blog/Solid-Edge-ST9-and-the-Cloud/ba-p/346814
Grabowski: I see rates posted for subscribing to Solid Edge ST9, which range from $100/month to $420/month, depending on the functions. I am wondering what the permanent license price is?
Fox: We don't publish the price of our perpetual licenses.
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[Editor note: Other CAD vendors tend to price their annual subscriptions at 1/3 the cost of a permanent license.]
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Teigha BIM
For the first time, CAD users will be able to access Revit model files independently from Revit. This was the motivation to open up Revit with the new API from Open Design Alliance:
Competitors want to interoperate with Revit files in a standalone solution through an independent organization. The only API currently available is based on dot.Net and requires a seat of Revit. Reads, displays, and writes RVT and RFA files, and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile.
As of January, there will be new license options: binary or source-code; fees to be determined. Get updates through the new Revit page on teigha.com.
Native Support for RVT and RFA Files
(RFA files are used for large models, while RVT is the native format of models.)
Future Plans
The ODA has the following plans for immediately improving its Teigha BIM:
Q: What do you mean by "custom" read interface?
A: We have our own interface.
Q: One of the complaints I have from third-party developers is that Autodesk has not provided API access to all aspects of Revit, and some of it is poorly documented. Do you have as many API calls as Autodesk, or is your implementation complete?
A: We are reading all data in the files.
Q: Will it read IFC [industry foundation classes, used as the interchange format between BIM programs] files?
A: We concentrate on RVT files, which is huge. IFCs will have to wait. [Update:] No IFCs are used for reading or writing.
Q: How does the file open speed compare with Revit?
A: We are slower, but for complex drawings is quite good. The difference is about 2x slower.
Q: When will the binaries be available?
A: All binaries are available to BIM SIG members, and all members in January.
Q: Do you expect 100% write compatibility with Revit?
A: It reads all geometry and other data, rendering is not 100%. The writing function is still be implemented, as is the ability to save in earlier releases. The RVT format is quite complex, and so there is no byte-by-byte write interface. But customers can write their model data.
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Also, persistent transactions
(Check out the Twitter stream on @upfrontezine for additional coverage of the ODA 2016 conference, as well as Randall Newton's coverage at
@RSNatWork .)
The ODA has figured out how to make DWG files suitable for client-server computing, where it is important to know who made which changes. Every entity in the DWG file is history-aware. History also makes it practical for multi-user editing.
To reduce collisions when more than one person edits the same drawing, ODA is figured out a way to integrate collision checking. This alerts users to the conflict, but it is up to the users to resolve the collision. Remember that only changes are saved, such as a transformation or a color.
Now we are getting a demo of multi-user DWG editing. One user makes a change, and then clicks Commit to save the change back to the server. Now it is possible to have changes committed automatically, but this is left to the developer.
Q: Did you get help from Onshape on creating these systems?
A: We received inspiration from Onshape. {Chuckles in the audience.]
Q: Can areas of the drawing being locked out so that other users cannot edit them?
A: This is not implemented by ODA; but developers are free to implement it on their own.
Q: How does Commit work?
A: It merges all of the history files.
Q: Is a network connection needed?
A: You don't need a persistent network connection. Changes can be made offline, and then changes are committed when you are back online. But editing offline can lead to more conflicts, and you might be surprised at what the DWG file looks like when you are back online.
Q: Is it possible to turn on revision control on drawings that are already underway?
A: Yes, it can be turned on at any point.
Q: Do you plan to implement it for Microstation DGN files?
A: I would say no, we have no such plan.
Q: What happens when two changes are committed at the same time?
A: It is not possible, as to the server there is no such thing as simultaneous commits.
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Multiple formats, too
Coffee is over (or, in my case, break for tea), and now Ilya Zavyalov is telling us about large data and multiple format for Teigha Cloud.
To handle large drawings on the cloud, some rendering is done on the server side and some on the client side (ie, in the Web browser). The server must, however, must have access to view accelerators, which is not common and so expensive. For rendering to happen on the client, however, it must be powerful enough, especially for large drawings.
There are, fortunately, techniques to make this easier:
Here is a view of the format used by Teigha for cloud graphics:
Teigha Cloud supports the following formats (plus one more to be announced later today):
Mark Up Editing
To add mark up editing to the cloud, they added polylines, circles, text, undo, and erase. From these basics, other markup tools can be added, such as leaders.
Q: Where is the markup data stored?
A: In the DWG database.
Q: Which libraries are used for the cloud?
A: It is all our own libraries.
Posted at 02:57 AM in Travelogues | Permalink | Comments (0)
Teigha Kernel
Here are a set of slides shows how the Teigha graphics engine works:
ODA chose OpenGL ES2 because it is cross-platform, supports mobile devices, is a strong standard, and is compatible with WebGL. This last item is important, because WebGL is used for cloud-based apps. The adoption of OpenGL allows for an immediate improvement in rendering quality of visual styles, like realistic, hidden, and so on. ODA has several dozen predefined visual styles employing 60 properties - including obscure ones like Jitter effect, opacity override, and shadows type.
It also allows per-face, per-vertex, and per-pixel lighting.
Visual style effects to be added soon:
Q: Are these rendering capabilities included in the CAD system when the developer implements the latest version of Teigha?
A: Yes, they are supported by the latest release of Teigha -- as well as more capabilities in upcoming releases.
Q: Are these visual styles demanding on hardware?
A: Visual styles can be turned off, if they are.
[Disclosure: ODA paid my airfare, hotel, and some meals]
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Neil Peterson heads up the Open Design Alliance, and started off the two-day conference here in Prague with several assertive statements: "We have been known as 'the DWG guys', but today we support seven file formats. We promote open standards, and not just for DWG. We don't set standards, we are active developers; we are not a legacy organization, we are not a maintenance organization."
With Autodesk not updating the DWG format for several years, ODA has been able to redirect resources to other areas. Members get access to
Additional licensing fees needed to access the following, because they are developed separately from ODA:
The latest version of DWG is still based on the version rewritten back for Release 13 in the mid-1990s, and so it is not efficient for network use, such as server-client computing (aka "the cloud"). It does have incremental saves, but this does not show you what changed; it has no history. ODA is working on saving revision history through the Undo mechanism. This is an efficient way to send modification transactions as small amounts of information.
Teigha supports all operating systems, desktop and mobile, including some that don't appear in market share pie charts.
Teigha for the Cloud
Teigha Cloud is not specific to DWG, but handles many file formats. It does data streaming, spatial filtering, and levels of detail to help speed the delivery of vector data over the Intertubes:
ODA is first to add history of drawing modifications to DWG, not even Autodesk has this function. We will hear later today how it works. History is saved in a separate file, to ensure the Teigha version is compatible with Autodesk's DWG.
Multi-user editing is currently at alpha level as a technology preview. I think the speaker said it would ship in December.
Posted at 01:00 AM in Travelogues | Permalink | Comments (0)
There was a brief interlude when the Zip disk reigned supreme. I was reminded of this when my dad plonked a box of computer cables on my floor. Amongst the tangled mess was an Iomega Zip drive (see figure 1).
Figure 1: The second generation Zip drive from Iomega
The Zip disk was a kind of corporate standard in the late 1990s, because it held 100MB. Not a lot by today's standards of cheap 64GB USB drives, but in the day that was 32x more than the ubiquitous 3.5" floppy disk. Now, 100MB was 6.5x less capacity than a CD disc, but read-write CD discs were slow and uncommon in the mid-1990s. The 100MB Zip disc was reasonably fast and sturdy. They could be mailed by courier.
Well, sturdy-looking, anyhow. They began to suffer the "click of death," in which we knew a Zip disc had failed when the drive tried repeatedly to read it, resulting in the clicking sound. There was no recovery.
The Zip drive in the box my dad delivered was the second generation one, a Zip 250 with both parallel and USB connectors, and a slimmer build. I had bought it for my dad, because he wanted a backup system for his computer. It used 250MB disks (see figure 2) and carries a manufacturing date of November 2000. The 2.5x greater capacity was a blessing, but soon after Zip disks began to falter in popularity due to the angst of failing discs.
Figure 2: The 250 MB Zip disk
Iomega offered two other backup systems: the Jaz drive with 2GB cartridges and the portable Cliq system that used small 40MB disks. I had both. The Jaz system was fast, because it used a computer's SCSI hard drive interface, but the cartridges were ridiculously expensive.
I thought that the Cliq system would be useful for backing up photos from my first digital camera, but it was a fail. The camera's memory card was 64MB, the disks held 40MB. It was a raw backup; the Cliq did not track which files had been copied and which had not, and so I could not back up 64MB over two disks: only the first 40MB would ever be copied. In any case, the copying procedure often failed, and so I could not rely on it.
(I think that Iomega named the system "Cliq" as a rebuke against the "click of death" complaints.)
The product failures and the rise of the CD+RW disk caused Iomega to decline, its share price falling from $100 (late-90s) to $2 (mid-2000s) and finally EMC bought it.
I am amazed that we can still buy all these products on Amazon.
Plugging It In
Would a modern computer recognize technology from the 1990s? I decided to try it out. Fortunately, the box with all the cables included the power supply for the Zip drive. There was a 250MB Zip disk still in the drive. All I needed was a printer-style USB cable (that's the one with the square connector at one end), of which I had spares.
First I plugged in the power to see if the drive still worked. The disk began whirring, so it was time for the next step.
I plugged the USB cable into a Windows 10 computer, and here is what I consider amazing: the ability of Windows to detect, download, and install drivers without human intervention. In short time I was examining the contents of this Zip disk that had gone unused since March 2003.
The final test was to plug the unit into an Mac running the latest iOS. It was also recognized, mounted, and displayed the files.
Posted at 10:35 AM in Hardware | Permalink | Comments (2)
My friend Don writes
Slashdot is mostly devoid of useful info nowadays, but there were some useful comments about the value of CDs/DVDs/BlueRays in this article: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/08/26/1420259/ask-slashdot-do-you-still-use-optical-media
He made for me this summary of important comments, which I am happy to share with you:
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I have collected almost a thousand audio CDs over the past 25 years. They served as masters for the digital copies I keep on my PC. Now I've discovered that a few of them are suffering from visible bit-rot, with the aluminum layer slowly being eaten / corroded in from the edge.
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I still use optical media to ensure clean install of various OS, because unlike USB, it is much harder to sneak one past checksum when you burn install DVD directly from ISO.
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Creating a bootable USB stick under Windows is a hit-and-miss affair. I just find it easier to pop in a blank disc, burn the Linux ISO to the disc, and boot off of that.
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CDs are cheap. Give some data to someone, don't care if you get the disc back.
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USB sticks have been effectively banned on DoD [department of defense] networks. We regularly use CD/DVD media to burn software and patches to then transfer it to the classified networks. The optical drives on the high side are almost always read-only to avoid issues with transport of classified off the servers.
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Unless someone starts producing USB flash drives [and hard drives] that have a hardware write protect switch that can't be countermanded by software, there is still a need for optical media. Otherwise there is no way to protect your data from being altered or deleted by bad actors. Cloud storage is about as 'volatile' as you can get; companies offering cloud storage could suddenly go out of business and screw you out of your data, or if they're being bad actors, futz with your data or delete it.
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Optical media is dirt cheap. SSDs/Flash memory is around 30 cents/GB. HDDs around 10 cents/GB. BD-Rs are around 2 cents/GB and if they follow the same pattern as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, will eventually settle at around 0.8 cents/GB. [as of 2016]
Opinion of one reader:
CDs - Honestly, they're all pretty much the same now. If you really worry a lot about these, Taiyo Yuden makes high quality discs and Verbatim made ones that use AZO dye may have superior longevity. Maybe. By the time we know if they do or not, nobody will probably care. But honestly any name brand is almost identical in quality to Taiyo Yuden and Verbatim for CDs.
DVDs - You can buy Taiyo Yuden and you can buy Verbatim. Everything TY makes is great. Most of Verbatim's stuff is great except their cheap Life series of discs which is the same landfill grade crap that everybody else in the industry makes, including TDK. Note that Verbatim also makes DataLifePlus which is top notch and not the same at all as Life series. Skip everybody else here. And nobody knows if dual layer consumer burnable DVDs will last as long as single layer ones do.
BluRays - I pretty much stick to Verbatim (again, avoid Life series) and Panasonic here. Taiyo Yuden barely makes BD discs and last I checked they only made a single layer LTH type that some burners and some players may have problems with. LTH discs are a way to leverage existing DVD pressing plants so they can also make BD media and because these discs actually are written and read from backwards from normal BD media, some burners and some players have problems with them. Verbatim also makes some LTH BD discs and some regular BD discs. I advise avoiding the LTH media unless you are sure you can burn it and play it.
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Minolta XE-7
The only SLR I ever bought was a Minolta XE-7 film camera. This is the story of why it is the only SLR I ever bought.
I caught the photography bug in my teens, and lugged around my dad's Zeiss Ikon Contaflex II SLR (built in 1954 or later) around town, through vacations, and on band trips. It reeked of precise German engineering in its stiff controls, black leather wrap and dull chrome look.
Zeiss Ikon Contraflex II is distinguished from other models in the line by its f2.8 45mm unremoveable lens and supplemental light meter
But then at a trade show in our home town, I got infected. At the booth of a camera store, there was the Nikon F-series SLR in its haughty blackness and stark white logo. I needed that camera! I never did get a Nikon; it remained just a dream. My daughter, a professional photographer, is today a Nikon girl, however.
I did the next best thing, and simulated the all-black F-1 look on my dad's Contaflex by painting its chrome parts black with leftover model paint. My dad was furious and demanded I remove the black paint. Bad choice: it looked worse afterwards. The camera still sits on my bookshelf, now 60 years old.
For my 18th birthday, I asked my parents for a Kodak 110 camera (similar to the one illustrated below). I wanted it for an experiment: I wanted to know if it was the camera that made pictures bad or the photographer. That's because I'd seen terrible photos made by middle-aged men who own great cameras.
The regrettable 110 camera from Kodak (image credit www.filmphotographylust.com)
The 110 was probably the second-worst camera system ever invented (Kodak's even smaller disc film might have been the worst), and led to the cheapening of the Kodak brand. The film came in a cartridge (the only plus of this system), negatives were tiny at 13x17 mm and rated a high-speed of ASA400. The plastic camera lens was of worse construction. The result was blurry, grainy photos -- guaranteed every time.
Nevertheless, the experiment provided me with the answer:
One summer I finally made enough $$$ to afford me an SLR. I went to the Lens&Shutter store on Broadway in Vancouver looking for an SLR in the $400-range. The salesman showed me the XE-7, which I did not think I could afford. I had read rave reviews of it in the photography magazines of the time, but it had a list price in the area of $600-800 (I forget exactly). But the camera store's price was only $440, and so I snapped it up. Using a inflation calculator, the price today works out as $1,760.
All-black Minolta XE-7 (image credit www.678vintagecameras.ca)
I couldn't afford anything else for that camera, except the mandatory Vivitar 283 flash, and a lens doubler that turned the 50mm lens into 100mm for a modest 2x zoom. I certainly couldn't afford the Vivitar 70-210 zoom lens that was all the rage during the late 1970s.
Here is a cutaway view of the innards of the XE-7 (not done with CAD but with actual saws):
What was special about the XE-7?
But it was heavy. It was one of the last big, heavy SLRs. Around that time, Canon came out with its record-breaking AE-1, the first small and light, full-feature SLR, and that changed the industry for the next few decades. Later I bought an Canon AE-1 for my dad, and today my daughter uses it as an analog bonus for her professional wedding photography.
While I loved the XE-7, its weight was not practical. For my travels -- hiking, sailing, skiing, biking -- in the sometime early 1980s I eventually went the extreme other direction, buying the tiny Olympus XA2. It was small and light, and made smaller in that the flash could be dismounted. Friends warned friends that I had a "spy camera." The XA2 lasted me until about 1988, when a thief broke into our car (which was in a locked underground garage) and stole it, with our just-completed vacation photos.
Super compact Olympus XA2 35mm camera with removable flash (image credit 35mm-compact.com)
When I married, my wife brought into the marriage her compact Olympus OM-10 SLR, and so in 1985 I sold my XE-7 to afford a zoom lens for the Olympus. But then its shutter speed became undependable, resulting in over- and under-exposed photos, and in 1998 I sold it to buy a compact 35mm zoom camera.
Olympus compact OM-10 film SLR (image credit Alfa img)
In 1999, I bought my first digital camera, the ground-breaking but dorky-looking Epson PC-800 -- ground-breaking, because it was the first consumer digital camera to take photos at a resolution of greater than 2 megapixels.
Epson PC-800, first digital camera with usable resolution
I've since gone through a lot of Canon digital cameras, but a couple of weeks ago nostalgia kicked in and I wondered what a Minolta XE-7 would go for today. On eBay I found one in near-perfect condition and snapped it up for $85. It now sits on my bookshelf, a fond memory of the enjoyment it gave me through my university years.
Posted at 05:15 PM in Behind the Story, Blast from the Past | Permalink | Comments (1)
If the nausea doesn't get you, the poor-fitting glasses will
I've watched virtual reality technology for 25 years. The earliest encounters were fictional, such as in the writings of Bruce Stirling. While I was at CADalyst magazine, we did a cover story on the VR developed by Autodesk using technology from VPL.
I got to try Cyberspace for myself during an AEC Systems show of the early 1990s. I donned a heavy headset that made me look like Alien, with the thick cables connecting to an extremely powerful PC. It worked, but barely. Due to the computational load, the scene was of simple geometric shapes (a maximum of 35KB of DXF data from a 386 computer) through which I navigated. VR was proven but not practical. Autodesk soon divested itself of the division after failing to make sufficient progress. The dream of architects walking through their AutoCAD-designed models would have to wait a few more decades.
A side effect was the development of VRML [virtual reality modeling language] in the mid-1990s, the ASCII-based file format meant to define 3D geometry, the materials that covered them, and even 3D sounds. Some impressive models were created and available online, such as of SOMA (south of Market avenue in San Francisco). I thought VRML might represent the future of CAD on the Internet and even dedicated a print newsletter to the topic (CAD++VRML), but within a couple of years I realized its limitations: the developers were not interested in CAD but in entertainment. It didn't help that Microsoft attempted to monopolize VRML during discussions of the next-gen VRML V2 format by proposing a binary format.
Which brings us to today. Ever since Oculus revived the niche, VR is seen as the Next Great Hope after the failure of 3D tv for a mature technology industry looking for a new spike in profits. VR requires the purchase of powerful computers, new hardware accessories, new software, new viewing systems, and so on.
Last week I had the chance to try a consumer-grade VR system. It is based on a brand-new smartphone from a major manufacturer. It comes with goggles and a slim hand-held camera for taking 180- or 360-degree still photos and movies. The goggles connect via a proprietary port, while the camera communicates through Bluetooth.
The compact system is meant for portability, so we could take it hiking, to the fair grounds, and on family events. Recording VR photos and videos is straight forward, as the camera has just three options: 180 or 360, still or movie, start-stop recording.
Inside the goggles, the user interface is traditional for VR, where we move our head to move a green dot to select a scene to view, and then tap the screen of the smartphone to start the video. A subtle button on the goggles lets us escape from a video early.
It's the viewing that's the problem. The goggles are lightweight, looking like a pair of glasses but with a wide gray bar where the tiny monitors reside. Despite being lightweight, the glasses are uncomfortable to wear as they are designed to be one-size fits all, and so cut into the nose and ears.
The image we see is low-res and suffers from astigmatism, where reds and greens bleed. Because we have to discard your glasses to wear these ones, our un-aided eyes cannot view the image properly. We were six in the group trying the new technology, and two complained of nausea within minutes. One friend suggested VR might become popular with gamers, while another disagreed.
It was a fun distraction for a few minutes on a hot summer evening. But we found that VR technology ultimately is isolating. It requires that extra stuff be set up, which goes against the current Jobsian-inspired ethos of greater simplicity.
Just as 3D tv failed, so too will consumer VR.
Posted at 09:59 AM in Impractical | Permalink | Comments (5)
Clicking that link
A reader writes:
One of my biggest challenges now is to accurately characterize the emerging threats of cybercrime and cyber espionage. Nobody wants to hear the bad news and the additional costs, but it's only going to get worse. The trick for everyone is to determine the right level of response.
I'd argue that the best approach for the cyber criminal is social engineering: getting the unwary to click. OTOH, I see a greater awareness of "don't click if you don't know." Elderly relatives I assist with computers are now paranoid about clicking on anything!
I suppose the issue for the reader might be dealing with protecting the IP [intellectual property] surrounding drawing files? What about stealing license numbers from authorized users: is this an issue?
He responds:
According to an FBI briefing that I attended, 77.3% of malware installs require someone to open an email attachment or click an email link. On the average:
- 23% of recipients open phishing emails
- 11% click on attachments
More than 85% of the attacks were targeting secret information. Most companies are astonished to find out they've been hacked by foreign intelligence services (FIS) when they are contacted by the FBI. In 2013, the FBI notified 3,000 US companies that they'd been hacked.
The FBI did their own security tests on US government security simply by leaving USB devices and CDs around. If I remember correctly, the CDs crudely marked with a Sharpie [felt pen] that read something like "August Reorg" were opened over 80% of the time!
Drawing IP is indeed important and can be monetized in many ways. For example, let's say someone got your patent drawings and then quickly submitted a bunch of similar patents in that same area.
Much bigger in my opinion than license stealing is the use of cracked software. Obviously CAD vendors lose some revenue from this practice, but what most people don't realize is that anyone who cracks CAD software can also easily insert additional code to quietly harvest sensitive information from the user's company on an on-going basis.
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More oomph!
You're probably aware that an iPad tablet uses a more powerful charger, one that puts out 2.1 ampere (A). This is twice as much as typical chargers for smartphones, which range from below 1A to perhaps 1.5A.
The reason for the more powerful charger is that the iPad has a much bigger battery. Using a normal 1A charger, it would take a long time to recharge. By pushing more electricity back into the battery in less time (which is what ampere-hours measure), a larger battery is charged in less time.
As a result, there are a lot of third-party chargers boasting that they provide 2.1A for charging. This, however, may be insufficient for your Android devices. There's two reasons.
2.1A Total Output
If the charger is a dual charger, one in which you can plug in two devices. And if the total output is 2.1A, then the tablet won't recharge. This problem affected my wife, when she plugged in her iPad and Android phone into a 2.1A charger, but found the iPad refusing to recharge.
The math is simple: 2.1A (output by the charger) - 1.0A (needed by the phone) = 1.1A (too little for the iPad).
The dual charger illustrated below outputs only 2.0A -- sufficient for two phones, but not a phone and tablet at the same time. Chargers you might pick up at a flea market or roadside stand tend to have very low A ratings, such as 300mA (0.3A), so don't waste your money on them!
At a 2.0A rating, this charger is too weak for any tablet, and barely sufficient for two phones.
I've gone through my collection of USB chargers and thrown out all that are weaker than 1.0A aka 1000mA. (There are 1,000 milliamperes in 1 A.)
If you use dual-device chargers, then make sure they have a capacity of 3.5A or more. During our kitchen renovation, I had the electrician install this 3.6A wall outlet from Leviton:
At 3.6A, this wall outlet can charge an iPad (2.1Ahr) or Android tablet (2.4Ahr), with enough left over to charge a phone (1.2Ahr).
More Than 2.1 Amps Required
Newer Android tablets are getting giant batteries and so to charge them as quickly as overnight, they come with more powerful chargers. I have two that each came with 2.4A chargers. I just read of an Android tablet that comes with a 3.0A charger.
If you try to charge them with regular 2.1A chargers, it will take forever. Indeed, the tablet might refuse to recharge with a too-weak charger.
Not just the charger needs to be beefed up. It turns out that another player in the high-amperage stakes is the USB cable used to connect the charger with the tablet. I noticed that the USB cables that came with the 2.4A chargers were thicker, and that the tablets would not charge when I used regular, thinner USB cables. The typical thin USB cable you get from the dollar store is usually rated for 1A. This is because the wiring is too thin to handle 2.1A or higher -- thin wires mean greater resistance (ohms).
Same problem is with length: the longer the cable, the greater the resistance, the slower the charging.
This fat 3-foot USB cable is rated for sending 2.4A to the device being charged.
For a longer explanation, read "USB Cable Resistance: Why your phone/tablet might be charging slow" at http://goughlui.com/2014/10/01/usb-cable-resistance-why-your-phonetablet-might-be-charging-slow/.
Fortunately, we can get 1m (3-foot) 2.4A-capacity USB charging cables for a couple of dollars on eBay.
Higher = Faster
In general, the more powerful the charger, the faster the device recharges. Android users can see this for themselves. Plug the phone or tablet into a charger, and then after 10 minutes or so, tap the battery icon. This opens a settings screen that shows the estimated time to complete charging. You will see that a high-amperage charger might finish charging in an hour or two, while a low-amperage one will take several hours.
Posted at 09:34 AM in Android & iOS | Permalink | Comments (3)
When marketeers edit
US political Webzine Politico and other American news organizations are getting into hot water after emails released by WikiLeaks showed that American media outlets sent previews of articles to the Democratic National Committee:
Politico admits reporter Kenneth Vogel made a mistake sending advance copy of article to DNC, emphasizes no substantive changes were made before publication
Leaked emails show that CNN political commentator Maria Cardona shared a draft op-ed with DNC before she submitted it
The media in the USA is supposed to be neutral, independent, and the people's guardian against government. At least that's how the myth goes. But at least they shouldn't let a political party edit articles, right?
(I assume that they sent previews to the Republican party as well, but it is Hillary Clinton that Julian Assange hates.)
Let's switch over to the CAD media, which deals with technology, not politics. Here editors are split on whether companies should see articles before publication, when the article concerns the company or its products being written about.
Some are adamant in not sending out a preview. What the editor writes is what gets published.
Some send out every article for preview by the companies affected. What the editor writes might or might not be modified by the company's marketing people.
I'm about 75%/25%. No article that appears on this WorldCAD Access blog is ever sent for preview. When it comes to the upFront.eZine newsletter, I send previews when I do interviews. I do this because I am quoting people, and I don't want to misquote them.
I don't want to misquote them for two reasons:
The interesting part is when I get back one of these interviews and I look over the changes suggested by the vendor's marketing people. Most times, they apply a light touch, such as a spelling correction or three.
I am delighted when they take the opportunity to add more technical details, because that benefits my readers.
Then, there are the problematic ones. Once in a rare while, marketing persons feel they need to rewrite the article wholesale. (Should have become an editor if they want to do that!) Then I have to make a decisions over each change: valid or not?
"Valid" means the change should appear in upFront.eZine. "Not valid" means the change was marketing bumpf inserted into the text, which I then need to extract.
The worst case involved a marketing person rewriting an interview I held with the firm's president, during which the marketing person was not present. The result read like a triumphant press release instead of an interview between two tech-savvy people.
Worse, some technical details were changed. As I emailed back and forth with the marketing person to better understand why the changes were made to the technical details, I began to realize the marketing person did not really understand the subtleties of the firm's technology. Happens.
In the end, however, when it comes to things that editors and other publishing insiders fret over, most readers probably don't care.
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Subs and clouds
During last week's conference call with financial analysts, executives from Dassault Systemes described the timeline for Solidworks subscriptions and the cloud. Note that both are optional for customers. Here are quotations:
Yes, we are introducing subscription with our next release, so potentially in earlier November.
So, the price point for subscription is going to be good old and usual formula where payback is over three-year term.
We also introducing, by the way, ... Solidworks on browser in the same timeframe. And it will only be available on the cloud subscription.
Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3990499-dassault-systemes-dasty-q2-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript
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"Jim, you're going to need to add water."
PTC ceo James Heppelmann on how augmented reality could help the company make more revenues:
A lot of people are saying that AR [augmented reality] and AR hardware is the next-generation mobile device. Today you carry a screen in your pocket, and there's a screen in your car, and there's a screen on the wall in your house, and there's a screen on your computer, and there are screens all over the place.
Maybe tomorrow you'll put the screen on your head and everything you look at will have digital displays without needing to have their own unique proprietary hardware screens. I'm just looking in my office here, I have a water cooler and I have a coffeemaker, and they both have screens.
So, I think the reason that Microsoft is spending billions of dollars, and the reason Google is spending billions of dollars, and Facebook is spending billions of dollars is this idea that there's a generation of hardware beyond mobile, and it's AR devices.
And the reason that's so exciting is because you can blend digital data onto physical objects and give an integrated physical digital experience. Now that's what's exciting to us, because physical-digital is what IoT [Internet of things] is all about. So IoT is a way for us to get information from the physical world, combine it with everything we already knew digitally from CAD and PLM, and then turn around using Vuforia to augment this back into the field-of-view of the user.
So, when I look at my coffeemaker, it says, "Jim, you're going to need to add water." I don't have to walk over to read that on the screen, it just shows up. And if I say, "How do I do that?" it then takes me through a process using CAD models to explain the process of adding water to my Keurig coffeemaker over there.
It's a powerful idea where IoT, CAD, PLM and SLM [service lifecycle management], because that's one of the primary use cases and manufacturing. All this stuff comes together and aligns unbelievably, and PTC is in such a special spot because we have all this stuff and we have the know-how and the vision and the technology to go do it and we're showing people.
When I read that report, basically it said if you like Pokémon GO, now you understand what AR is about. If you go to work and say, "How could we use AR here at work?", you're going to end up talking to PTC, because all roads lead to PTC when you start talking about AR and the enterprise.
It's one of those experiences when you see it, you just say, "Oh, wow, I didn't know you could do that!", and then your mind starts spinning about all the possible applications of it in your business or your personal life or whatever. So it's an exciting place. We're happy to be in such a unique and strong position with our technology and big ideas about what to do with it.
Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3990025-ptc-ptc-james-e-heppelmann-q3-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript
Posted at 08:03 AM in Computer-aided Design: NEWS | Permalink | Comments (2)
Whereas Dassault Systemes and Autodesk are going whole-hog into cloudifying their software, major competitors Siemens PLM Software and PTC are being cautious. They understand that CAD is a desktop program, not a tethered-to-the-Internet app.
When PTC ceo James Heppleman was asked about Creo-on-the-cloud at this week's conference call with financial analysts, here was his response:
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Cloud-based [Creo] CAD will come in some phases. Some early phases involve repositioning the product largely in its current form, but served through a cloud SaaS [software as a service] model. And then subsequent to that, we're likely to go into some deeper phases where we do more fulsome remodeling of the architecture to fully optimize it for the cloud.
But that will be an option. We're not going to take [Creo] off the market in its current form. We got a lot of customers who quite frankly use it on-premise and like it that way. So this, for us, will be an optional way to deliver the power of Creo. We're definitely not trying to flip the base to cloud. If some of them want to go there, absolutely.
I think what we see is an incremental opportunity to do a better job participating in the low end with different pricing schemes, different delivery schemes, quite frankly, digital marketing schemes, things like that, that have kind of not really been in our playbook here today. So I think this means we run the CAD business as we know it and we'd pursue an incremental opportunity enabled by a different technological delivery and go-to-market model.
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So while Dassault and Autodesk are driving customers to the cloud via executive fiat, PTC is letting customers decide.
Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3990025-ptc-ptc-james-e-heppelmann-q3-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript
Posted at 10:49 AM in Cloud | Permalink | Comments (0)
It's in the gaming software
I only ever buy keyboards and mice from Logitech, because the quality is excellent and I know what to expect. SetPoint, right? 'Tis not the case for its G-series keyboards, where the G is short for Gaming.
With SetPoint not available for these keyboards, it becomes harder to turn off irritants like CapsLock. But it is not impossible, just more work, because G-series keyboards let you turn off any and all keys!
Here's what I did:
3. Now you can click which ever keys you want turned off. The ones that are off show in gray. I turned off CapsLock and the Ins key, as I am forever accidentally hitting it as well. "Games Mode" also turns off the Windows and Menu keys; you have no choice.
4. Exit the software; there is no need to "save."
A further flexibility is that the G610 keyboard has a Games Mode button. This impressive sounding name merely turns on and off the keys you have disabled. When lit, the disabled keys don't work; when unlit, they return to working.
This, I found, is actually useful. For instance, you need to type a ransom note in ALL CAPS; turns off Games Mode, turn on CapsLock, and away you go.
Games Mode forces the Windows key off; there is one instance in which I use it: together with the cursor keys, I sometimes park windows at the edge of the screen. By turning off Games Mode temporarily I get access back to the Windows key.
Posted at 11:13 AM in Hardware | Permalink | Comments (0)
Logitech G610
I came back from vacation to find the S and K keys no longer working on my Logitech Illuminated Keyboard (yip, that's the model number). As a professional writer and touch typist, I need a good keyboard under my fingers. The definition of "good" is a keyboard that lets me type fast and accurately. I type over 120 words per minute -- almost as fast as people talk (160 words per minute, typical). Poorly-designed keyboards (like those super shallow ones on Surface-style tablets and thin laptops) make me miss keys and slow me down.
So Monday morning there was a rather urgent hunt for a replacement. I used a spare keyboard until I had time to get to the nearest store selling computer accessories. The spare, a Logitech K800, has mushy keys, slowing me down. It is a spare that I use with my spare computer. It is wireless, which means it takes up TWO USB ports: one for the transmitter dongle, and a second for the recharging cable. That was a bad purchasing decision!
I looked around on the Internet for keyboards, and saw that Logitech's G-series were recommended for having mechanical switches. ('G' is short for "gaming.") I hadn't used a mechanical keyboard in, oh, 15 years at least, when I gave my mechanical keyboard to my wife for her computer. It still works, clanking away as she types. In the meantime, I went through a half-dozen keyboards. Most wear out from me typing all day; some reach EOL (end of life) when I spill my ever-present tea on them, accidentally.
So I arrived at London Drugs (a regional pharmacy chain that also happens to sell prescriptions), and the helpful computer department salesman showed me his line of high-end keyboards in the back of the store. (The $20 ones are at the front on the other side of the anti-shoplifting gates.)
He picked out for me the Logitech G610, since it was over $100 (as I had requested) and had backlit keys that displayed only the color white, not waves of multi-color LEDs that gamers apparently need. This picture from Digital Trends does a good job of showing how tall the keys are, as well as the white backlighting:
After using it now for 24 hours, I find the keyboard lets me type fast and accurately, so that's good. It has media keys (volume, play, etc), variable brightness of the backlit keys, and a roller bar for changing the volume.
Now the bad:
Instead, the G-series comes with its own utility software, garishly designed to apparently satisfy the visual needs of gamers. After poking around a bit, I found I could get it to disable the CapsLock key. The software also allows me to control each LED individually, so I turned them off for certain keys, like CapsLock and the never-used Windows menu key. It comes with presets that cause the LEDs to turn on and off in patterns, such as a wave crossing the keyboard. That feature I quickly nixed.
As my fingers get used to the new keyboard, I am liking it for its speed and accuracy. I just hope that the fingers eventually get some stamina from pressing mechanical keys!
Posted at 11:25 AM in Hardware | Permalink | Comments (13)


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NBC's Pro Football Talk has an interview with Rodney Harrison in which he states that players and coaches are still talking, even though technically they shouldn't be. He's not surprised at all. Are you?
McDaniels: 'Wouldn't surprise me' if Belichick coached into his 70s
McDaniels: 'Wouldn't surprise me' if Belichick coached into his 70s
When will Bill Belichick retire? The Patriots coach is 64 years old, and he's been on record saying that he won't be coaching into his 70s like former Bills head coach Marv Levy. But it sure seems like Belichick has plenty of energy to stay at the job for some time, and the results, you may have noticed, have been pretty good.
MORE FROM McDANIELS: 'Don't know' who'll play quarterback Sunday
Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels joined WEEI's Kirk and Callahan Show on Monday morning, and he was asked about how much longer his boss might work. Would McDaniels be surprised if Belichick coached into his 70s despite what he said on NFL Network's A Football Life documentary back in 2009?
"It wouldn't surprise me," McDaniels said. "I know Bill loves football. His drive and his passion for the game and to try to do everything we can to prepare our team to win each week, I haven't seen one change in it. It's a great privilege to coach for him. He certainly kind of sets the tone for us. I don't see any difference in that since when I first started here. I look forward to coaching for him for as long as he'll let me."
Some have speculated that McDaniels could be the next head coach of the Patriots whenever Belichick decides to hang up his whistle. The 40-year-old has been up for head coaching positions since he's returned for his second stint in New England, but he's still with the organization that gave him his first NFL job in 2001.
McDaniels, who left to be the head coach of the Broncos in 2009 and 2010, was asked if he values the offensive coordinator job with the Patriots more than a head coaching opportunity that might not be the perfect fit.
"I love where I'm at," McDaniels said. "I've said before I think we all have aspirations to grow and get better and improve and potentially move up and what have you. Who knows? Maybe that day happens, maybe it doesn't. But I know this: I'm really thankful to have the opprtunity that I have to coach the players we have here and to work underneath Bill and Robert [Kraft] and the Kraft family. It's a privilege here. I feel like I have one of the best jobs in the world. Just thankful that I have an opportunity to come here and do it each week."
McDaniels: Don't know who'll play QB for Patriots against Bills
McDaniels: Don't know who'll play QB for Patriots against Bills
The two quarterbacks on the Patriots roster are both dealing with injuries at the moment, and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels says he's not sure which will be starting against the Bills on Sunday.
"I don't know that," he told WEEI's Kirk and Callahan Show on Monday morning. "I haven't seen them in a few days. Hopefully all those guys are continuing to get better. We'll see them tomorrow. Hopefully they're all ready to go. That would be the goal. That would be the hope . . . But as of right now I don't know that."
Garoppolo's shoulder injury, suffered against the Dolphins in Week 2, was significant enough to keep him out of Thursday night's win over the Texans. In his place, rookie third-rounder Jacoby Brissett got the start, but he injured his thumb during the game. He played through the injury, which Patriots Insider Tom E. Curran has reported is "minor."
Asked if receiver Julian Edelman would be the next in line if both of those players were unavailable, McDaniels explained that the Patriots may have used a variety of looks had they been in that kind of emergency situation.
"We have to have somebody ready to go," McDaniels said. "Julian's certainly been in that position before. There's always a couple other things you can do. There's a lot of schemes that are available to people if that situation were to ever come up , , , It might not have been one thing. It might've been multiple different things that we try at that point. We had more than one guy that was ready to go if that situation came up."
Bills coach Rex Ryan said on Sunday that he didn't care who was playing behind center for the Patriots, even if it was coach Bill Belichick. The Bills would be coming after him.
"I have a lot of respect for Rex," McDaniels said. "What he says is usually the truth. They'll blitz. They'll bring a lot of packages each week to try to disrupt the quarterback, whichever team he's playing . . . He always keeps you on your toes, makes it difficult."


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The Tablas Creek Vineyard 2011 Tannat is Tablas Creek's tenth bottling of this traditional varietal from South-West France, known principally in the Pyrenees foothills appellation of Madiran, but originally native to the Basque region. The Tannat grape has intense fruit, spice, and tannins that produce wines capable of long aging, and it is traditionally blended with Cabernet Sauvignon or Cabernet Franc.
When we imported our Châteauneuf du Pape clones, the Perrins' French nurseryman included Tannat cuttings because he believed the grape would thrive in the rocky limestone soils of Paso Robles. We have planted 3.5 acres of Tannat, and it has indeed thrived here.
Our Tannat grapes are grown on our 120-acre certified organic estate vineyard.
The 2011 vintage was our second consecutive winter with healthy rainfall, but yields were dramatically reduced by two nights of frost on April 8th and 9th. Despite the low crop loads, ripening was slow due to a very cool summer, and harvest roughly three weeks later than normal, beginning in mid-September and not concluding until mid-November. Warm, sunny weather during harvest allowed the later-ripening varieties to reach full maturity. The long hangtime and low yields combined to produce fruit with notable richness balanced by higher than usual acidity, all at low alcohol levels. Our Tannat was harvested between October 13th and 19th.
The Tannat grapes were destemmed and fermented using native yeasts. The wine was then blended with 5% Cabernet grown in our nursery block and moved to small barrels where it was aged for 18 months. The wine was bottled in May of 2013.
The 2011 Tannat shows a dense purple-black color and has a nose of blue and black fruit, mineral, smoke, game herbs (sage and juniper), and spice. The rich palate has flavors of black cherry, smoked meat, and bittersweet chocolate with big but ripe tannins and a long, smoky, generous finish. We believe that it will drink well for a decade or more.
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October 14th - 16th, 2016
Celebrate Paso Robles Harvest Wine Weekend with Tablas Creek. Join us in the tasting room all weekend for a first look at our flagship Esprit de Tablas wines from the vibrant, powerful 2014 vintage. We will kick off the festival Friday night at McPhee's Grill in Templeton (SOLD OUT) with a four-course, four-wine dinner. To be added to the wait-list call us at 805.237.1231 x230 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. On Saturday, join us in the cellar at Tablas Creek for a series of interactive harvest cellar tours throughout the day. Led by Executive Winemaker Neil Collins, guests will sample wines in various stages of the winemaking process and learn about the 2016 harvest and winemaking at Tablas Creek. Tours will be offered 10:30, 12:00, 2:00 and 3:30 (limited to 20 guests per tour; free to all guests). Details & more events »
Each month we feature a wine showing particularly well and offer it at a 10% discount. September's wine is the juicy 2015 Patelin de Tablas Blanc. Details »
The CA Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance awarded Tablas Creek one of four 2016 Green Medals for leadership in sustainability. Our practices »
September 23, 2016
By Suphada Rom
The bite of pork melted in my mouth like a pat of butter would over warm bread- a slow and even coating. The bits of vegetable melded into one with the thick and stewy tomato sauce. Chewing... not necessary with a dish as fall-apart tender as this. A scoop of weighty, creamy, cheese-laden polenta registered on my palate just long enough to be cleared away by the freshness of a large gulp of wine. Comfort food at its finest: ready to power you through the hibernation you are sure to embark on. Read More »