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Tag, Poke and Follow
to your heart's content.
What will your data shadow look like?
Published: 05th June 2015.
Real Time Commission 2015 - Data Shadow by Mark Farid
Between June and October, artist Mark Farid will be resident in Cambridge working with Collusion and a number of experts to explore questions around the security of the data on our mobile phones. The commission calls for a new digital public work that connects with Cambridge as a world centre of technological growth, that interacts with the public, has a physical presence and sense of boldness, as well as harvesting real-time data.
Farid aims to make the public aware of the privacy they are potentially sacrificing by regularly using a mobile phone and the internet. There will also be opportunities for the public to get involved and the final work will be revealed in October 2015 as part of the University of Cambridge's Festival of Ideas.
Whether we are aware of it or not, we treat our phones as we would treat a human. We set the background to personal images, we customise their cases to our liking, we have conversations with them through programmes like Siri, and the answer to every passing quandary is found on our phones. We use them for work and for socialising; unlike a personal computer it never leaves our side. It is a link to family, friends, and foes, and they've become an extension of ourselves.
We take our mobile phones to bed with us at night and, usually functioning as our alarm clocks, they're the first thing we see in the morning. They go with us everywhere, and when they aren't within arm's reach, we're lost until we find them. We can search for people on the Internet and learn a lot about them very easily; through LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook we can quickly ascertain many elements of a person's character, and our phones are no different.
We are aware, to varying degrees, that our information is not private. The amount of information, and how intrusive this information is raises questions over the level of security over our data becomes a pressing matter as we enter an age where the digital is starting to supersede the physical, and further cries for the government to increase surveillance continue to arise. Data flows all around us from our phones all the time. Each phone sending out on average 350,000 messages a day. This comes from the phone trying to connect to WiFi hotspots, to one website telling another website about your activity, to simple messages from you to another person. This information is not private, but it is also not readily available to the public; so I ask, what if it were?
Upon connecting to a specific free public wifi hotspot in Cambridge, Data Shadow will take information from an individuals phone and create a personal data shadow. The participant's movements will be tracked and mapped, and their personal data will be projected as their shadow as they walk down the street, with other participants. At the start, the user will be prompted to allow permission to partake in this piece of public artwork, taking a range of information from the user's name and address to recently visited locations to their text messages. All data captured will be stored securely, will not shared, and will be destroyed at the end of the project.
Commissioned by Collusion in partnership with The Technology Partnership, the University of Cambridge and Arts Council England.
Follow the projects' progression on Twitter using the hashtag #RTCdatashadow
For further information on Collusion, please visit www.collusion.org.uk


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An attenuator could mean:
- Attenuator (electronics), an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an electronic signal.
- Optical attenuator, an electronic device that reduces the amplitude of an optical signal.
- Attenuator (genetics), a specific regulatory sequence transcribed into RNA.
- Impact attenuator, used on highways as a crumple zone in case of a car crash.
|This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Attenuator.
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The Doctor Is In - An Inside Look at Dr. Luke's production techniques.
Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) has quickly become one of the top producers in the "pop" world, as the man behind a string of massive hits from artists like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Britney Spears (post-shaved head) and Kesha.
In this video Dr. Luke pulls back the curtain (and opens up his Pro Tools sessions) to demonstrate his unique approach to crafting and layering sounds, samples, loops and most importantly, hooks, to create some of his biggest singles of the past decade.


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North Korea has closed down a model village in Pyongyang because it reminded Kim Jong-un of the uncle he executed.
Pyongyang Folk Village, which featured miniature version of the capital city's buildings and monuments, was a multi-million dollar brainchild of Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, and opened for tourism in 2012.
The construction of the project was overseen by Kim's uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, who was the second most powerful man in North Korea after Kim, before he was executed for treason in December 2013 by his nephew.
Jang was one of the chief influences in securing Kim as the Supreme Leader of North Korea after his father died, but was killed for being a counter-revolutionary. The state media announced Jang was presumably killed by a machine firing squad, a common method of execution in the DPRK.
After his execution, Jang was described as "despicable human scum" and "factional filth" by the media.
Recommended: Kim Jong-Un Issues Moratorium On Funerals And Weddings For Security
A South Korean news agency, Yonhap, cited sources stating Kim ordered the closure of the theme park because it reminded him of Jang whenever he visited.
"Whenever Kim passed by Pyongyang Folk Village, he often complained it brought Jang back to his mind," a source quoted in the media. Another source said the Workers' Party of Korea was shredding promotional pamphlet of the "mini Pyongyang," which included replicas of the capital's landmarks dating back since the Koryo dynasty, which ruled from 900 AD to 1300 AD.
Nick Bonner, director of Koryo Tours, a Chinese travel agency that specializes in North Korean tours, said the country's tourism department informed them the site was only being temporarily closed for maintenance.
Kim Jong-un is no stranger to killing off relatives and for the most minor transgressions, which including dozing off, clapping half-heartedly, watching soap operas and even grieving.


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By Olu Alemoru
Californian lawmaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) lashed out at Republicans Monday after the austerity budgets cuts known as the sequestration impacted local civilian personnel.
Bass was reacting to news that due to the cuts employees at the Los Angeles Air Force Base will now face 11 furlough days beginning in July.
It comes in the wake of a recent Department of Defense announcement that furloughs will impact 57,270 employees in California, resulting in a near $189 million economic loss to the state.
"While Washington continues to be consumed with trumped-up scandals and games of political gotcha, hard-working Americans are finding out that just as our economy begins to spark they will be forced to miss days of work and lose take-home pay," she said in a statement. "The real scandal is that despite this self-inflicted wound to our economy, Republicans in Washington still refuse to appoint budget conferees so that we can pass a budget that replaces the sequester and invests in the economy."
Ron Veazie, of the American Federation of Government Employees Union, agreed.
"This a major pay cut to civil service employees and it is unfair," he said. "We have already made sacrifices -- how much more do they want from us? There has to be another way. We would like answers because if there must be cuts then everyone should have to share in the pain."
Source: http://wavenewspapers.com/news/local/%20west_edition/article_4ca3081c-cc95-11e2-ba2a-001a4bcf6878.html


text: My relic hunting partner, Doug Hill, recently sent me some related photos after I blogged about my great-grandfather, Confederate Veterans and legendary Swannanoa of the Blue Ridge. Note the reference to "Old Virginia" in the Richmond Times cartoon below and how Coolidge ostensibly preferred Old Virginia to New England - at least in this situation. It's also quite providential that the cartoon refers to New England being "stern" vs. the "romance and hospitality" of Virginia as fellow Virginian Robert Moore and I have been discussing some things related to those differences. What made the New England folks so "stern"? Could it be their Puritanism-morphed-into Unitarianism?


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10K Gold Diamond-Cut Hoop Earrings
Item# 17828997
A great choice for all day wear, these 10K gold hoop earrings have a diamond-cut finish. Hinged backs secure the styles.
Typographic errors are subject to correction. Merchandise enlarged to show detail and may not always be exactly as pictured. Promotions, prices, styles and availability may vary by store and online.


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Variable value stamp
A variable value stamp, is a gummed or self-adhesive postage stamp of a common design, issued by a machine similar to an Automatic Teller Machine, with a value of the user's choice printed at the time the stamp is dispensed. The value may be variable or from a fixed selection of postal rates. The stamps and machines are typically for use in retail or post office environments. As only the postal value varies from stamp to stamp, these stamps have been described as key type stamps. They are also closely related to meter stamps from postage meters.
As the concept has developed, a variety of different names have been used, including Automatenmarken[1] (Germany), ATM stamps[2] (USA), Autopost stamps[2] (USA), Frama labels (Europe) or machine labels (Stanley Gibbons catalogues).
There have been many experiments with similar systems over the years but none has been truly successful until the evolution of modern sophisticated computer printing technology. The development of the postage meter, which performs a similar function in businesses and organisations has also been instrumental in developing the technology.
The first patent for a machine to produce variable postage was taken out by Carl Bushe in 1884. In 1900 Christian Kahrs' machine was tested in Oslo. Similar machines were soon tried in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.[1]
Frama labels[edit]
The Frama company of Switzerland produced a special type of patterned paper suitable for dispensing by machine and electronic printing that could be used to create an unlimited number of different stamp designs. The British Post Office used the paper experimentally in vending machines in 1984-85 but the experiment was not regarded as a success. Frama labels were also introduced in Switzerland in 1976.[3] Frama labels were distinctive for the whole design being printed in one operation onto the special paper, including the value, rather than just the value being printed onto a pre-printed stamp.
ATM stamps & Autopost[edit]
The U.S. Postal Service experimented with similar stamps in 1989-90. Those experiments also were not considered a success.[2] The U.S. Postal Service owns a patent for an ATM dispensable self-adhesive postage stamp construction.[4]
- ATEEME, the Variable Value Stamps Study and Collecting Group, specializes in collecting these items.
- InfoBrief: ATM. Ein Kulleraugen-Informationsdienst (Schellerten), ISSN 0933-1409 (since october 1984)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Mackay, James. Stamp Collecting: Philatelic Terms Illustrated. 4th edition. London: Stanley Gibbons, 2003, p.9. ISBN 0-85259-557-3
- ^ a b c Youngblood, Wayne L. All about Stamps. Iola WI: Krause Publications, 2000, pp. 12-13. ISBN 0-87341-963-4
- ^ Mackay, p.60.
- ^ Freepatentsonline: United States Patent 5503436 . Retrieved 10 June 2007.
Further reading[edit]
- Tast, Hans-Jürgen; Abenteuer schreiben - Briefe, Reisen, Automaten (Schellerten 2008) ISBN 978-3-88842-038-2
- InfoBrief: ATM. Ein Kulleraugen-Informationsdienst (Schellerten), ISSN 0933-1409 (since October 1984)
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Variable value stamps.


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You broke teh wikiEdit
You requested 'Fingerprint Whorl' rename as typo,[1] but Whorl is not a typo.[2]--777sms (talk) 14:47, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
UploadWizard and OperaEdit
Happy HolidaysEdit
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|G'day, just a quick greeting wishing you and your family happy holidays and all the best for 2014. And of course, a big thank you for putting a leg up by doing what you do on Commons, and helping to make it the fantastic project that it is. Greetings from a warm west coast of Aussie. russavia (talk) 10:11, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you check why this doesn't work on ml.wikipedia ml:മീഡിയവിക്കി:Gadget-edittop.js.--Praveen:talk 03:32, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Picture of the Year 2013 R1 AnnouncementEdit
Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!Edit
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Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.
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Wielkie dzięki za lobbing w tej sprawie!!! Szczerze mówiąc, straciłam już nadzieję... -- a tu taka niespodzianka! Bardzo się cieszę -- i jeszcze raz dziękuję :-) Wieralee (talk) 23:39, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
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Upload wizardEdit
Hi! I would like to thank you to make the fix for the wizard countdown as I reported at the Village Pump. Some years ago (2013) I proposed some possible future improvements, but since I am not very familiar with Phabricator and other places where these discussions take place, nobody has really cared about that, so... Can I just leave you a note and maybe you can post them for me? Or maybe just leave me your impressions or comment about.... Here we go:
- Alert: the best part of the Wizard uploader is that you can let it go and do something else. It would be useful to have an alert when the upoload is finished and you are supposed to do something to go on, like a sound, a change of the color of the screen, or a java pop-up.
- Copy undo: when you add descriptions and categories you usually copy them from the first files. You open the "Copy menu" and the "Copy title (with automatic numbering)" is already selected, always. If by chanche you already put specific titles on each image (I do, because I prefer to keep the information in the title rather than in the description, in order to save that in my private archive too) and you mistakenly forget to unselect it, there is no way to undo, to revert it. All the titles are gone, and as a result it will take less time to start over the uploads again, instead of manually correct all the filenames one by one. Undo option would really help a lot, in case, or just a way to always unselect that option in your preferences.
- Add bottons to top as well: after adding categories/descriptions, sometimes you have to scrool the list all to the end, sometimes you need not, so it would be useful to have the "continue" botton at the top of it too (now it is at the bottom only). Also, when you finish uploading it takes you all the way up: if you do not need to revise all the images, it will be useful to have the "Upload more files" botton at the top too.
Number #1 would be really useful, but number #2 is a must-do... it screwed up so many uploads to me! N. #3 I'd especially appreciate a botton to start uploading again after a session is finished on the top. I am in the top 10 uploader of Commons, so I spend a LOT of time with the wizard. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!! --Sailko (talk) 12:38, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Sailko: These sound quite sensible, I filed #1 as phab:T122073 and #3 as phab:T122074 with some brief comments. #2 is already filed as phab:T116513. I'll try to look into this one soon, no promises about the other ones.
- Looking at the other ideas from the old thread: "Knowing how many files I am uploading" has been implemented at some point (there's a counter next to the progress bar), "Work it during the progress" is tracked as phab:T39462, and "Hot-cat facilities" is phab:T42076. Matma Rex (talk) 20:43, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Rotatebot sourceEdit
Hey, source code is there but I think it's just wrong to fix it as it will just give everyone the feeling we don't need this implemented "natively" in MediaWiki, but it really should have implemented it. -- Rillke(q?) 22:47, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Is deleted. Thanks for spotting that. Is
/* Any JavaScript here will be loaded for all users on every page load. */ correct? I think it isn't loaded for all users, nor should it be... -- Rillke(q?) 20:27, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
Duplicate file namesEdit
Hi I am not sure this https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135394 has been fixed, but I did not get an error when I uploaded File:US leading causes of death-2014.png so I am wondering if the error only affects svgs. Delphi234 (talk) 08:34, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Delphi234: It's unfortunately not fixed yet, the patch is awaiting code review. The bug affects files of all types, but only when the file name (without extension) is a prefix of the file name of some already existing file. There are no other files whose names being with "US leading causes of death-2014". Matma Rex (talk) 12:22, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
- I guess it is just if I make the name shorter? I was thinking it would be tripped up by File:US leading causes of death-2013.png 13:36, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
On another note it looks like my suggestion to just left justify the exif data was implemented. Delphi234 (talk) 06:33, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Delphi234: Yeah. I usually try to update the original report at Village pump, but it's archived very aggressively and often the thread is already in the archive. Someone would probably complain if I edited archive pages, and someone would probably also complain if I tried to restore the archived thread, and either way finding the thread in the archive would take effort better spent doing something else. I just hope that anyone interested watches the Phabricator task :) Matma Rex (talk) 12:52, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
Uploadwizard mapsEdit
Hello Matma Rex, I read that the Kartographer extension was activated on Commons this night. What does that mean for the map link for UpladWizard we spoke of (Commons:Village pump/Archive/2016/04#UploadWizard should link to coordinates)? --Slomox (talk) 07:59, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Slomox: It unblocks the UploadWizard work, since we'll now be able to use the Kartographer maps in it on Commons. There is still some work to be done on our side – I actually wrote a patch for phab:T133905 a month ago, but it doesn't work reliably (sometimes the popup will open, but no map will be visible) and I haven't had the time to debug it yet (I was focusing on UploadWizard reliability rather than new features, and recently on the cross-wiki uploads mess). Matma Rex (talk) 12:02, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
Some bubble tea for you!Edit
|U taste bubble tea it Delicious. M.Brooks Brooks mesha gay (talk) 01:47, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Broken UploadWizard interfaceEdit
Hi, do you know the UploadWizard in Italian has a broken interface? I couldn't see any recent change in messages or templates, only [5]. --Nemo 13:23, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Nemo bis: No, I didn't, thanks for letting me know. It's possible my change caused it by loading those additional messages; I think there's a
</div>missing somewhere in one of them. I've been looking at it for an hour now and I still didn't find it, eh. I wish there weren't so many nested templates there. Matma Rex (talk) 15:26, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Nemo bis: Well, that took a while. Fixed: [6]. Matma Rex (talk) 17:32, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. I had checked that message but I failed to pay attention to the table markup... Must remember next time that even tables can break the interface completely! Nemo 08:08, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
Hej. Mógłbyś zerknąć na ten gadżet? Jakiś czas temu zrobiłem tłumaczenie i po przeniesieniu do właściwej przestrzeni nazw gadżet działał poprawnie - wyświetlały się komunikaty po polsku. Teraz jest z powrotem po angielsku. Nie wiem która edycja kolejnych edytorów to zepsuła. Mógłbyś sprawdzić/poprawić? Z góry dzięki, pozdrawiam :-) Rzuwig► 11:12, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
Again facing badparams problemEdit
Thanks for your previous efforts to face this technical problem where I couldn't upload a file for "badparams" problem. After your supportive effort, I am facing same problem with another file(I uploaded previous one). I waited to upload the file till this Wednesday and even now couldn't upload this file. This is the file I wanted to upload. Please can you help me doing it. --Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 05:09, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Pavan santhosh.s: This looks like an entirely distinct problem, I'm not sure yet what's causing it. It seems specific to this PDF file. I'm sorry you keep running into issues, thank you for reporting them. I filed phab:T143993 about this and I will investigate it. Matma Rex (talk) 12:40, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Pavan santhosh.s: I think I figured out what's going wrong and fixed it. We don't do non-emergency code deployments on Fridays and weekends, so I scheduled a fix to be deployed on Monday (13:00–14:00 UTC). You should be able to upload the PDF afterwards. Matma Rex (talk) 17:11, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Matma Rex: Thank you. I will try uploading it on next Tuesday or Wednesday --Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 03:49, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Pavan santhosh.s: The issue is resolved now. By the way, while testing it, I learned that a copy of this file already exists on Commons: File:Tallapaka pada sahityam.pdf. Matma Rex (talk) 14:00, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Matma Rex: Thank you. :) --Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 15:05, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Pavan santhosh.s: The issue is resolved now. By the way, while testing it, I learned that a copy of this file already exists on Commons: File:Tallapaka pada sahityam.pdf. Matma Rex (talk) 14:00, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Matma Rex: Thank you. I will try uploading it on next Tuesday or Wednesday --Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 03:49, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
File:Accessing the cross-wiki upload tool from visual editor, step 1.pngEdit
I am dubious if this is actually your
own work if you decide to ambigiously name
MediaWiki developers as the author instead. There is no doubt of MediaWiki's license as depicted to be correct, but if this is your own work, then you should also add an appropriate license for it (GPLv2+) as a derivative work of MediaWiki.
If this is not your own work, please name the actual name of the screenshot author or "unknown". 184.108.40.206 23:16, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
- I am the "screenshot author"… I could go through all the MediaWiki screenshots I uploaded (there's more than just this one) and change the source to something else in them all, but I'm not convinced it would be necessary or useful. I re-read Commons:Screenshots and it does not provide clear advice on what the correct values for "Source" and "Author" are. I'm pretty sure the way I described these uploads is fine (but I'd be happy to be proved wrong). Matma Rex (talk) 20:40, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
Bad thumbnailEdit
Hi Matma Rex,
Would you do me a favor and look at File:Child Soldiers International.jpg, to figure out why it is wrong in the infobox at w:en:Child Soldiers International? None of the black words appear in the thumbnail. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:48, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
- @WhatamIdoing: It's a problem with thumbnailing CMYK JPG files, see phab:T38346 / phab:T141739. Matma Rex (talk) 15:43, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
Another statistics questionEdit
Hi Bartosz,
it seems, that you are skilled with queries. Do you think there is any way to review User:Multichill/Categorization stats? I'm waiting for this since quite a long time.--Kopiersperre (talk) 10:44, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
- @Kopiersperre: If you just want an up-to-date number of entries in Category:Media needing categories and Category:Media needing category review with subcategories, you can install w:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser on your computer and use it to make a list of pages in those categories (recursively). Note that this might take an hour or two. (This wouldn't be practical with a single SQL query, since MySQL doesn't really let you work with recursive structures.) Historical data might be impossible to get, though, since categories are only stored for current versions of pages in the database – you could extract it from dumps if you really wanted to, but this would be quite an effort. Matma Rex (talk) 13:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
- Ok, how can I set up a bot, which records this values again? Maybe @Multichill: would give me the sourcecode.--Kopiersperre (talk) 13:10, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
- I still have the source, but it's old style pywikibot so it needs a bit of tweaking. The queries are on the talk page so if you just want to run them now, you can throw them into quarry. If people actually care about this bot, I can restore it's functionality so it continues to update that page. Multichill (talk) 13:49, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
- Ok, how can I set up a bot, which records this values again? Maybe @Multichill: would give me the sourcecode.--Kopiersperre (talk) 13:10, 10 November 2016 (UTC)


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AB InBev to buy 51 percent of Dominican brewer CND
Anheuser Busch InBev
The Budweiser brewer is paying around $1 billon for a 41.76 percent stake in the Dominican Republic's leading brewer from majority shareholder E. Leon Jimenes, which itself owns 83.5 percent of CND, and also will pay $237 million for Heineken's
The Belgium-based brewer said the deal will create the leading beverage company in the Caribbean region with businesses in beer, malt and soft drinks, and operations in the Dominican Republic, Antigua, St Vincent and Dominica.
Last month, Reuters reported that AB InBev and Heineken were in a race to buy CND.
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Bonni Benstock-Intall applauds the cold-blooded murder of a schoolteacher
As you will have spotted by now, I enjoy poking fun at the imbecility of Bonni Benstock-Intall, the Holocaust-denying Hitler fan from Queens. But when I dropped by her site today, the headline brought me up short. Try as I might, i couldn't find anything funny in this.
YAWN. Why should anyone care that a Muslim teacher was shot to death in a classroom in Thailand?
I mean, one becomes used to Bonni's cheering whenever a boat full of refugees sinks, but after the Newtown CN massacre it still shocks me that even an NRA-loving gun-toting bitter-clinger like Bonni can be so dismissive when a death squad guns down a primary school teacher in front of her pupils. Still, it's not as though she was a human being, with her slanty eyes and her headbag and all.
To sum up. Two guys murder a white British soldier in cold blood, and it's the end of civilisation as we know it. Two guys murder a brown Burmese schoolteacher in cold blood, and it's boring.


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On Our Special Day
As Seen In: Superman #654
"You save millions of people on a regular basis, so if I get to save you once in a while, it's only fair."
Though technically the first chapter of the epic Camelot Falls storyline, Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco's Superman #654 is perfectly readable as a self-contained story and is overflowing with utterly fantastic characterization. Coming off his year-long hiatus, Clark is back at it as Superman and struggling to make both halves of his life work.
The issue is bookended by a very special anniversary for Lois and Clark – the anniversary of what isn't revealed until the very end – and lets us watch as Clark struggles to make it special for Lois while being called away constantly by Super-matters. In the end, it's Lois that makes the day special for Clark as the two enjoy a romantic evening together. It's a simple idea, but the spot-on characterization of Lois and Clark and their unique relationship is what makes this story so special; it's impossible not feel gooey inside by its end.
Superman Beyond
As Seen In: Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1-2
"To be continued."
Superman Beyond was a two-issue tie-in series to the Final Crisis event, and though it's a key aspect to the overall narrative of that story, the trippy tale in these two issues is great independent of the main story. Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke devote these two chapters to a meta exploration of Superman that sneaks up on you just as you think you're totally and completely lost.
With Lois dying, Superman is offered a chance to travel to the world of the Monitors and get elixir from the Bleed, which will heal her. Willing to do anything for his love, Superman accepts and is whisked off to Limbo, where he meets a variety of DC Comics characters from different Earths that have been tossed away and forgotten about.
While in this metafictional existence, Superman learns about the nature of his creation and uses that knowledge to win the day. At one point he says, "This is my reason to be. My purpose is simply to stop him." It's a simple yet overwhelming idea, and one that Morrison uses to great lengths in the battle to come in the pages of Final Crisis, capped off with a knowing wink to the reader and a tombstone that reads only, "To be continued."
Man of Steel
As Seen In: The Man of Steel #1-6
"You can't arrest me. I'm Lex Luthor. I'm the most powerful man in Metropolis!"
"No, you're not, Lex. Not anymore."
John Byrne was tasked with retelling Superman's origin for a new generation in a post-Crisis on Infinite Earths world. Gone was the Silver Age, and what Byrne did with Man of Steel was envision a far more technical and somewhat less idealistic version of Superman's origin. In this incarnation, Kal-El was not yet an infant on Krypton, instead encased within a birthing matrix that "gave birth" to him when the Kents found him on Earth.
The Man of Steel mini-series goes through vignettes of key moments in the early days of Superman, from his days at Smallville High to his first team-up with Batman (which is far less jovial than the original one seen in Superman #76), his first encounters with Lex Luthor and Bizarro, and his first encounter with the ghosts of his past.
The most poignant moment, though, comes when Clark learns of the despair he's caused his high school sweetheart Lana Lang. When he returns to Smallville a few years after becoming Superman, he learns how he upturned her life by revealing his secret to her – flying her around the world in a night – and then leaving for Metropolis. "You opened a door for me, Clark. And then you closed it again," she tells him. It's this moment that makes this new origin for Superman feel different; something that fit right in with the evolving nature of superhero comics of the time. Superman's journey wasn't simplistic anymore; he didn't put on costume, become a hero, and have everyone love him. Though the world was better off with him in it, it seemed it was often at the personal sacrifice of those he held dear – himself included.
22 Stories in a Single Bound
As Seen In: Superman Adventures #41
"To be honest, I am Superman. So are you, and all the people watching this."
This is kind of a cheat, I guess, considering that I'm counting this as one story, though as the name suggests, it's actually 22. For Mark Millar's final issue of the comic based on Superman: The Animated Series, he went out in style, bringing aboard pencillers like Cameron Stewart, Ty Templeton, Joe Staton, Craig Rousseau, Darwyn Cooke, and Philip Bond to tell 22 one-page stories.
Some stand out more than others, of course, but as a collective whole it's at once a brilliant exploration of confined sequential storytelling as well as a remarkable portrayal of Superman and his vast cast of characters. It's an homage to the Sunday newspaper strips of old while doing something bold with the modern format of a monthly periodical comic. Plus, it's got Clark Kent admitting on live television that he's Superman before he spins it into a clever (and inspirational) line.
Secret Origin
As Seen In: Superman: Secret Origin #1-6
"I want you to stop looking for a great savior. Lex Luthor isn't it. I'm not it. You are. All of you are."
You'll notice a great many tellings of Superman's origin story on this list. Perhaps re-imagined more than any other superhero origin tale, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank most recently revamped Superman's origin in a way that paid full homage to the Silver Age concepts that had been lost in John Byrne's Man of Steel revamp, in addition to incorporating the undying admiration of Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie. Not only does Frank draw Supes to be a spitting image of Christopher Reeve, but you'll find more than a few easter eggs that play to some iconic moments from that film albeit with new twists.
But most importantly, Secret Origin brings a realism to Clark's developmental years that we'd never really seen in the comics before, watching him develop his powers, fall in love, become an outcast, and later, an icon. It's not so much that Secret Origin explores new ideas – though it does recast the Daily Planet in the realistic modern role of a fledgling newspaper propped up by Superman's appearance – but it's the celebratory spirit with which the material is handled that makes it such a joy to read.
The creators hit many familiar beats, but each is done with enough freshness, visual panache, and clever character moments that it never feels stale.Continues


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Fighting High-Speed Rail With Lunch Boxes?
The box lunches apparently aren't enough to get people to ride the slower train, but the provider is selling the lunch boxes at the high-speed rail station.
Reporter Elizabeth Hu writes, "...although the high-speed rail line has seized the heart of passengers who once commuted by the slower trains, it apparently has still not been able to seize their "stomachs," the reports concluded."
This article is cross-posted with HSR News, Planetizen's high-speed rail news and information site.


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Don't own anything of Buffyverse. Boo!
It had been a long summer. After the big ordeal with The Master and school ending, Buffy left town to go spend some time with her father. Angel held back in Sunnydale, taking care of things in her absence.
He was hoping it'd be a good distraction over the time she'd be away, but he was sorely wrong. The Hellmouth was actually pretty calm. Sure, a vampire here, a demon there... but they were few and far between.
It was pretty depressing.
As the days neared for her return, he got more and more anxious. He couldn't wait to see her.
Yet, when the time came, he found himself staying away. Something just didn't feel right. With her, with the town. So, over the first few nights he did some digging. Hell, if nothing else, it'd be a reason to go to her.
The night he did, he waited to see if she'd go patrol but no go on that end. Instead, he watched her from afar as she did her homework, ate with her mother, wrote in her diary, then climbed into bed. It was obvious she wasn't having pleasant dreams.
When she began mumbling, he snuck up the side of the house to listen, Though, truthfully, he could have heard it just fine where he was.
He ducked out of the way when she woke but a few seconds later forced himself forward, climbing in swiftly. She noticed right away.
And didn't seem overly thrilled about seeing him. He was towards her, but kept those emotions to himself.
He tried to start of with some small talk, but that didn't turn out so well. Not that discussing "work" went any smoother.
There was something up with her, no question about that. He began to wonder if the events with The Master had done more damage than anyone had guessed.
He could tell she wanted him gone, which stung more than he'd want to admit. He knew the two of them would be a very bad idea, but that hadn't exactly changed or even lessened his feelings toward the young slayer.
He apologized, telling her he would go... then softly said he had missed her. Then he left.
He heard her say it back from the ground he'd landed on just as it came from her.
Angel supposed that was at least something.


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The Crucifixion of Jesus (31 of 34) by Zach Terry
This content is part of a series.The Crucifixion of Jesus (31 of 34)
Series: Jesus, the One and Only
Zach Terry
John 19:17
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There is little town in Alabama that I have preached in a few times where the major livelihood used to be raising cotton. One year, when everyone thought they were going to have a bumper crop, a little insect called the "boll weevil" invaded, devastated the crop, and destroyed the economy of that little town.
But there were some farmers there who were determined not just to sit back and move into the poor house. One man got the idea that he could plant peanuts instead, because boll weevils don't like peanuts. Another farmer decided to plant peanuts and others followed suite and before long, bumper crops of peanuts began to repair the economy of this town. The town later became known as "Enterprise, Alabama". Do you know what they did? They erected a monument to the boll weevil, because they look at the boll weevil today, not as a curse, but as a blessing.
IN the same way the Roman Cross was a despised object in the day of our Lord - but today it has become the logo of the Christian faith and our object of greatest joy.
No other device of death and torture has ever been devised to surpass the agony of Roman crucifixion. I must warn you that what you are about to hear is grotesque. In my preparation for this sermon I literally got sick at my stomach as tears filled my eyes Yet my words cannot do it justice.
The cross was a terribly bloody display.
Criminals were crucified on a very regular basis - at times as many as a thousand in a day. Crucifixions were the most public and humiliating events known to man. It was so horrible that the Romans would not typically crucify their own citizens, but only outsiders.
This morning we are not going to focus on crucifixion in general, but the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in particular, for you see ---
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By Don Bolding
The Cove Herald
Sunday's race made 2010 a "year of records" for the seventh annual Tough Cookie Women's Duathlon in Copperas Cove's South Park.
According to race director Tzatzil LeMair, founder of Austin's Tough Cookie Fitness, the women-only event had twice the entries as last year, raised twice the money, had the youngest participant ever and a record time winner.
"The overall winner, Glenda Adams, set a record time of 49 minutes, 13 seconds," she said.
Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce Vice President Betty Price said there were more than 140 participants in the all-women duathlon that encourages female empowerment and fitness.
The chamber is one of several sponsors of the annual event which gets numerous businesses and community groups such as the Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association involved, and brings tourism to Copperas Cove.
"It was very good, and we're looking forward to another year," Price said. "We're already planning, doing some after action, looking at some ways we can improve."
The race is hosted by Tough Cookie Fitness of Austin every year and consists of a 10-mile bicycle ride from South Park to Oakalla Road and back, framed by two 2-kilometer runs.
One of the stars of the show Sunday was 6-year-old Helene Farris, daughter of Steve and Sunshine Farris of San Antonio.
While most of the participants in the duathlon were adults, LeMair said a few young women received special permission to participate in the main event rather than the children's fun run that followed.
"There is no children's division," LeMair said. "We don't want people to think that any 6-year-old can do this race. It is quite a challenging bike course and is open to traffic."
Steve Farris said his daughter has always been interested in athletics, and the duathlon allowed her to join forces with her mother and aunt.
"She doesn't have any set goals right now. She sets her mind on one thing, then on another. But my wife and her sister wanted to participate, and it was a good family outing for all of us," he said.
Another youngster who stood out was 9-year-old Lauren Garriquis of Austin, who placed 21st among all contestants by completing the event in 69 minutes.
Her father, Ron Garriquis, said Lauren wom the AAU national championship in cross-country racing and used the Tough Cookie race to train for upcoming duathlons and triathlons.
"This race was to help her build up endurance," he said. "When she puts her mind to anything, she's pretty serious."
Runner-bikers came from all around Central and North Texas, with one from Oklahoma.
The duathlon has had a military division since its inception, topped this year by Lynna Speier of Harker Heights, who finished in
76 minutes. Elvia Jefferson of Fort Hood came in second with 85 minutes.
LeMair said all participants who finished the race received "finisher medals," technical race shirts and "great goody bags filled with health and beauty samples and coupons."
"We also had lots of giveaways during the post-race festivities as well as free post-race massages," LaMair said. "We try to pamper our participants as much as possible to make them feel special.
"We even had Godiva chocolates waiting for them at the refreshments table."
Price said now that the duathlon is finished, the chamber is already planning next year's event.
Next year, the chamber hopes to get more local business sponsors.
Proceeds from the duathlon are pooled with funds from other Tough Cookie activities to benefit the Lone Star Chapter of the American Multiple Sclerosis Society.
LeMair said the race raised about $5,000 toward this year's goal of $20,000.
The next major event for the chamber and Copperas Cove will be Rabbit Fest and the Jack Rabbit 5K in May.
"That garners a huge huge turnout for us," Price said. "There's some neat enhancements that they're going to have this year."
Race director Ben Davis said this year, participants in the race will receive a special treat courtesy of the Mickan family of Copperas Cove.
The family will treat runners to sausage made with the family recipe that is rolled out annually at the Trinity Lutheran Church's annual German Sausagefest.
Cove Herald editor Jackie Stone contributed to this report.
Contact Don Bolding at firstname.lastname@example.com or (254) 501-7557. Follow him on Twitter at KDHbusiness.


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The EU Own Resources System:
Total EU revenue has to be equal to total expenditure and is required to stay within agreed legal limits, currently 1.31% of the EU gross national income (GNI) for appropriations for commitments and 1.24% of EU GNI for appropriations for payments.
The main source to finance the EU budget is now a resource based on the Member States' gross national income. This has grown to surpass the other sources, customs duties and agricultural levies ("traditional own resources"), and a resource based on a value added tax base. The own resources system has evolved significantly since the beginning of the first financial framework. In 1988, the GNI resource made up less than 11 % of EU financing, compared to 28 % provided by custom duties and agricultural levies and 57 % by the VAT-based own resource.
In 2013, the GNI resource will provide about 74 % of the EU financing, against 13 % for customs and agricultural levies and 12 % for the VAT-based resource.
The sources and mechanisms of funding the EU budget should ensure an adequate funding of EU policies. They should be judged against commonly agreed principles such as economic efficiency, equity, stability, visibility and simplicity, administrative cost-effectiveness, financial autonomy and sufficiency. None of the funding sources of the EU budget satisfies all of these principles to the same extent, and it is difficult to conceive an "ideal" funding system.
However, the resources structure should seek to comply with the most important funding principles to the greatest possible extent, while minimising negative effects from the perspective of other relevant principles. To achieve that objective, choices have to be made on the principles and their relative importance.
Although the current system has succeeded in providing sufficient resources to finance the EU budget, there is nevertheless a continuous debate about whether the source of funding could be improved in order to better comply with the relevant financing principles. The two largest sources of revenue – the VAT and GNI based own resources – display many of the characteristics of national contributions and are often perceived as such. They are provided by national Treasuries and are sometimes presented as an expenditure item in national budgets. As a consequence, Member States often tend to judge EU policies and initiatives in terms of returns compared to their national contributions, rather than looking first at the overall value of pursuing certain policies at the European level.
The overall composition of the Union's own resources system will thus be an important element to be examined in the context of the review.
In the years since the 1984 Fontainebleau agreement, according to which "any Member State sustaining a budgetary burden which is excessive in relation to its relative prosperity may benefit from a correction at the appropriate time", several permanent or temporary correction mechanisms have been introduced on the income side. These corrections, which include the UK correction – essentially consisting of the reimbursement of 66% of the difference between UK GNI- and VAT-contributions to the budget and its receipts – lump-sum payments to the Netherlands and Sweden, reduced VAT call-rates for the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Austria, as well as a flat rate retention of 25% of traditional own resources for Member States collecting them, have considerably reduced the simplicity and transparency of the system.
More importantly, this logic, alongside the increasing focus placed on a narrow 'accounting' approach with the main objective of maximising returns, has led to tensions between Member States and has coloured the public debate about the value of EU spending and the benefits of EU membership itself.
Against this backdrop, the review will take a close look on whether and to what extent the various correction mechanisms which have emerged and their underlying principles are still justified. A consensus on spending priorities could already facilitate a reform of the EU own resources system It is also in this context that possible alternative own resources should be examined very carefully, taking into account the national sovereignty on fiscal policy and, for instance, the cross-border mobility of some tax bases and the impact of such resources on related EU policies.
What principles should underpin the revenue side of the budget and how should these be translated in the own resources system?
Is there any justification for maintaining correction or compensatory mechanisms?
What should be the relationship between citizens, policy priorities, and the financing of the EU budget?


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The TV series:
- Acting for Two: Robert Culp as Kelly and the General in "The Warlord".
- Actor Allusion: In "Little Boy Lost" Scott talks about childhood friends including Weird Harold, imortalized both in Cosby's standup routines and later as a character on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
- In "The Trouble with Temple", Scotty tries to fight mind control by blurting out "My name is Fat Albert and I walk like a duck!" when asked for his name.
- Cosby and Scotty also share the hometown of Philadelphia.
- California Doubling: Unlike just about every other spy series of the time, averted (although there was still some filming done in Hollywood, there was no "Somewhere In (Insert Foreign Country Here)" cheating on this show).
- Throw It In: Much of the banter between Cosby and Culp was ad-libbed.
- Written and Directed by Cast Member: Robert Culp wrote seven episodes and also directed one of his scripts ("Court of the Lion").
The picture books:
- Milestone Celebration: I Spy Mystery, which celebrates the series' 10th anniversary, and I Spy Spectacular, which celebrates the series' 20th anniversary.
- Recycled Script: Well, not so much "script", but the Challenger books all reuse pictures from the previous books with newer (and usually much more difficult) riddles.


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I had been a patient of Dr. Norman for about 12 years. Recently my family and I have fallen on hard times and lost our regular health insurance. We went through Obamacare, and were given Mesicaide through a large HMO. The moment that I informed Dr. Norman's office of my insurance change, they dropped me like a hot potato, saying they do not participate in the medicade insurance. So because we have fallen on hard times, and my husband who is a lawyer is having trouble finding work in his area of study, we do not meet the upper middle class standards that you obviously have to meet in order to be a patient of Dr. Norman, the rich man's doctor.
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So Much to Do, So Little Time
How Technology Can Help You Become More Efficient
by Lon Bencini, MinuteBids
Are you feeling the pressure? You're not alone. In an increasingly competitive real estate market we're all doing a lot more, managing more properties and working longer hours. There are solutions. Technologies are now available help us become more efficient when dealing with our day-to-day tasks. These technologies can allow more time to spend with our customers while improving our bottom line at the same time and maybe, even spend a bit more quality time with our families.
We need to take advantage of the new stuff out there; here are a couple of technologies that we've used and that you should consider to help better manage your time.
Mobile Applications
The growth of mobile usage is phenomenal. In 2011, mobile traffic was 12 times the total internet traffic generated in 2000 and it's estimated that there will be 10 billion connected mobile devices by 2017. Most consumers are using their mobile devices to find apartments, condominiums and townhomes. In 2012, ninety percent of consumers began their search on the web, according to a study by National Association of Realtors, and more than 80% are accessing this information on their smart phones and tablets, according to the California Association of Realtors. These are huge trends.
Today, many property management companies are allowing their managers to do more on their smart phones. Many are using them to make notes and snap pictures of their properties, make payments, map directions to meetings, communicate with their team and other important applications. It's amazing, but today all of this is possible on smart mobile devices.
Maintaining important documents and conducting inspections on rental properties, apartment buildings, and homes is crucial for property management companies of any size, big or small, and it can be difficult to manage this process. Property managers can now use their mobile devices to help them manage their properties, saving them time when doing their regular inspections, checking on projects and capturing data while on the go.
There are many property inspection applications available for your smart phone and tablet, though they can be expensive. Here at MinuteBids, we've just launched a free mobile application that property managers and management companies can use on the iPhones or iPads they already have, to inspect properties using touch check boxes, auto text comments, and photos to create an organized professional report. This report can then be accessed anywhere online when they need to view, print, or email the report directly to the property owner on the spot. Property reports take very little time when done from the property being inspected.
Local Information
Over the years, looking for local service providers has evolved from paper based yellow pages to Internet directories and Google searches. Angie's List, HomeAdvisor and other online directories provide lists and ratings of various service providers. It takes time and sometimes additional cost to go through these long lists and it requires some faith that the ratings are meaningful. Once you've built your list then you have to hope that the service providers you've selected are interested in bidding on your project or that you're not barraged by phone calls and emails. And, the service providers usually have to pay somebody something to learn about your project.
What we all end up doing is working with the same list of trusted service providers. It would be nice if we had the time to check out new ones, to review the whole pricing thing and to have all this activity stored somewhere easily accessible and really easy to use. It would be nice if we all had a lot more time to do this.
MinuteBids has taken this to the next step by creating a database of properties and services, all voluntarily registered on MinuteBids because the properties are managed and the service providers work primarily with property managers. It's not for homeowners, it's all B2B. Using our database, we've created an online marketplace, an eBay, if you will, for buyers and sellers of property services.
Property managers simply request bids on projects they have on their properties and service providers are matched to the project, based on the specific project and location. This saves time by ensuring property managers get the bids they need and only from those service providers interested in the work are bidding on the project, including your trusted and preferred ones.
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So you don't need to be a genius but you do need grit.
Absolutely. And I think that's true in the workplace too. You need a certain amount of intelligence to survive in any workplace. But we all know people who are really smart but don't have a good work ethic, or just can't organize their thoughts, or have terrible social intelligence, and so don't do well. We also know people who aren't necessarily going to score high on IQ tests but have all of these other skills – and they're not just window dressing, they're important in getting tasks done.
For the kids we've been talking about, the same persistence and character strength that get them through college are going to help them in whatever else they do. Among my peers, graduating from college didn't mean that much. Everyone expected you to and you expected yourself to and you could still graduate and have no idea who you were or where you were supposed to go. But for these kids, what they have to overcome to get to college gives them this huge confidence and drive. It's not empty self-esteem, they've really proved to themselves that they are able to do something that everyone else thought was impossible.
Let's talk about your own education for a minute. At the end of your book, we learn that you actually dropped out of university – twice. You never graduated.
So you could say you were a classic example of character failure – you just couldn't stick with it – except that those experiences also gave you chances to succeed in unexpected ways.
I hadn't spent a lot of time thinking about that period until I started working on this book. And then I started thinking about it a lot. Interestingly enough, the work I was doing gave me two different ways to look at it: one that was harder on me and one that was more positive.
The harder point of view came from sitting in that classroom on the South Side of Chicago with Kewauna and her classmates. They were all applying to colleges and were so focused, so thoughtful about what they wanted to get out of it, and so determined to persist – so much more so than I had been at that stage. I just felt bad about myself. There's all this research about how kids drop out of college because of a lack of non-cognitive skills, and I have to admit I think that that was a big factor for me. I did not have a lot of persistence and grit at that time.
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I think what happened to me in college, both times, is that I felt, in a way that I wasn't quite able to articulate then, that I was missing that opportunity to really challenge myself. I think if I had had other character strengths, I might have been able to find a way to do that at college. I don't think it was inevitable and necessary for me to drop out. But I do think that what I did instead was, you know, this crazy idea of bicycling alone as an 18-year-old from Atlanta to Halifax …
Right, to prove something.
At the time it sort of seemed like, "Oh, this will be fun." But looking back, I really think I was trying to give myself a challenge. This is the time of life when people join the army, go away to war. ... My life wasn't at risk, but it was hard: I didn't know what I was doing and I had to figure things out for myself at every turn.
It didn't change my life and make everything clear thereafter, but I do think it shook me up in an important way and helped push me to make some better decisions about what I wanted to do.
I had the same feeling as those kids from the South Side of Chicago when they graduate from college – that feeling of confidence that comes from really challenging themselves and succeeding.
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My users are working on a project that imposes great processing power when trying to use ACAD 2009 and this 80mb 3d model. Problem is they will get an error or it will shut the application down or it will take thirty minutes to open. The hardware is Win XP Pro 32, 3.5 GB memory, 6600 Core 2 Duo. Has anyone else had issues with 3D models and what hardware are you using?
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May 3, 2010 at 1:45 UTC
I've always found that Cad programs tax the video card more than the pc processor. Make sure that what ever video card you have has the latest drivers and is up to the standards of the cad program.
May 4, 2010 at 9:25 UTC
ANy chance you have a pc running xp64 with more ram? That's a decent size 3d image, and I found performance issues in win32 on dell precisions (T3400's). Another odd thing to try, are they pulling from Autodesk Vault (Or similar product), or just over a network share? On the basic 2d images, I had engineers work on a local copy for speed, then copy/save to the network. The network itself can be a bottle neck in other words. Even with a vault, they would check out a design, save it to their local drive, and work on it. Win32 had definite problems not locking up on the 3d stuff though. With or without the 3gb switch in winxp, it pushed us into testing and using XP win64.
Another thing to look at, make sure your video drivers are up to date and approved fro acad2009. We had to ditch the dell drivers and go to nvidia or ati driectly to get better drivers on occasion.
Finally, defrag. A lot. Daily. Really, we set up defrag tasks on the heavy 3d users and it improved performance and reduced some lockups and pausing.
Also - check Autodesk for patches and updates.
Sorry if I am long winded and telling you stuff you already know, but I had to learn about this the hard way.
May 4, 2010 at 11:10 UTC
We tried everything -- patches, memory, faster cpu, etc. The last thing we tried was an nVidia Quadro FX 3800 for about $850.00. It did the trick for us.
If you need to work with large models, your video card must be fast and have a lot of memory. This model has 1 GB of video RAM.
Click here for a comparison chart: www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.htm
May 4, 2010 at 11:49 UTC
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May 4, 2010 at 12:26 UTC
I have tried loading Win 7 64bit and then a trial of 2010 MEP 64 bit to see if it would work and still not great (Trouble is that machine is a dell that needs mirrored memory and I only had 2 GB in it and when I tried to insert 2 more sticks that where the same it would just beeps at me and not except them). The video card and a faster 64 bit is my next idea.
May 4, 2010 at 2:04 UTC
OK so I looked at his video card and it does seem to be in between low and middle end model. But i think that a 64 bit5 system will also be needed.
May 4, 2010 at 2:19 UTC
We have all 32-bit systems here, and don't have a problem. Your mileage may vary, of course. We also noticed a bit of a boost in performance going to an i7 cpu from a Core2 Duo.
OK so I looked at his video card and it does seem to be in between low and middle end model. But i think that a 64 bit5 system will also be needed.
May 4, 2010 at 2:36 UTC
Yeah, having a nice video card is recommended. We did have to upgrade some of the t3400's and that definitely had an effect. This was also an issue with solidworks.
May 4, 2010 at 3:05 UTC
The company that we are working on the project with on the 3D drawings told me they are using 64-bit systems with 8 GB of ram. Now if my funding will let me get that kind of equipment we probably wont have this issue.
May 13, 2010 at 11:18 UTC
Just a side note, you can usually get away with Consumer Graphics cards over the nVidia Quadro/ ATi FireGL cards.
Hope this helps,
May 13, 2010 at 11:24 UTC
Update: I went and got * gigs of memory and loaded a Dell Optiplex with Win 7 64-bit and used one of our Nvidia Quadro 560 and then used the 64-bit install of ACAD and it seems to work. Its running a Dual Core at about 1.9, Its slow but it works. Must have just been the hardware and 32-bit issue. Thank you all!!
May 13, 2010 at 11:25 UTC
HA * stands for 8. 8 gigs of memory.
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