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GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) -- A former Barry County man who police say is linked to the disappearance and possible murders of two men has been found competent to stand trial, in Federal Court on at least the one charge they have been able to level against him so far.
Ex-con Harold Ordway was involved in a minor accident last year in southern Allegan County. That has since blown up into a four county probe into the disappearances of Paul Atchley and Michael Van Buskirk. Atchley's blood was found on a mattress in the back of Ordway's truck after that accident. Van Buskirk's badly decomposed body was found in a field near Vicksburg. Both had been Ordway's roommates in Battle Creek.
Ordway also had a gun in the truck, and as a felon, that's a violation of state and federal law. That's what he has been charged with in Federal Court. He could face more serious charges later if evidence connecting him to the death of the two men is found.


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Reminds me of Steve Martin "The new phonebooks are here! I'm somebody now!"
We will explore this capability of having experts by forum. First we wanted to get the community-wide system in place and running a bit, as it is long overdue. Of course those who have been here know who they are, but this system also helps new members to understand who the veteran members are.
I'll ping Eric about the color suggestions, maybe we'll run a poll to get a wider amount of input/feedback.
A flaw in your system is starting to creep through: look up the user JamaL9722060 for example, just promoted to green "mentor", for someone who uses this forum in lieu of paying for training or looking up items in HELP (nothing wrong with that of course, but now he's a mentor to others? Ouch!).
Re-think time.
This isn't a great idea, it really isn't. Quantity /= quality. And in terms of making a practical improvement to the usability of these forums, sizzle /= steak.
This concept of recognition of reputation and prestige creates an interesting new dimension to the forums. This does, however, create a much more competitive environment for some users, and I imagine it also creates strong resentments against those users who don't use Kudos or hit the "Accept a Solution" button. Personally, earning repute is not my motivation for participating in these forums (I guess I still have enough of an ego to want to make this known), and I would say the minor imperfections and other particulars shouldn't matter, but the situation is a little different since "real" rewards are offered as stated in the new feature post:
"2. As you participate and rise through the levels, additional forum permissions will be made available"
"3. At higher levels, we will offer more opportunities for engagement with Autodesk"
This makes it important that everything functions correctly and fairly:
Maybe new users should have an "announcement" displayed for a time that encourages and reminds them to use Kudos and Accept as a Solution?
Since this affects other users so much, maybe users shouldn't be able to "Hide Kudo Buttons and Counts"?
A user's sheer Number of Posts should have only a little impact on this. If I replied "Thanks" to every answer I received, that's double my number of posts right there!
As quoted by the explanatory post:
"To reach the higher levels, however, requires input from other members of the community (like Kudos and Accepted Solutions)."
Does this apply to the Mentor levels of advancement? The above referenced user's current data indicates "no".
...Just my opinion.
I'm glad to see users talking about the ranking system, and if you have any suggestions at all - please throw them my way. Seriously, don't be shy! Just send me a message on here, or e-mail me at Jillian.Bejtlich at Autodesk.com.
I did want to comment though and just say that quantity never has and never will equal quality when it comes to this ranking system. I'm crunching through numbers right now (making sure all you orange labeled folks really ended up where you should have a few weeks in), and I assure you it's all very much based on how much and how well you help your peers. I'm constantly going to be looking for ways to add in additional metrics that will help me keep out prolific unhelpful people.
As CADastrophe pointed out, getting this ranking system to work perfectly depends on users to really utilize the accepted solution and kudos buttons, and that's not always easy or consistent. So this is kind of two part plea for help here.
First off, be sure to encourage use when you're out in the forums. A lot of you have something in your signature about accepted solutions, and some of you follow-up and asked if your suggestion helped. Whatever works for you and fits with your style... if you're willing and interested. As for kudos, if you give them out - others will follow. I will be doing some type of announcement that reminds users about accepted solution and kudo functionality, so hopefully this increases use.
That brings me to the second part, I can communicate with users in a lot ways when it comes to new functionality and helpful information, but how: e-mails, messages, announcements, stickies, videos, etc. What would you prefer?
Thanks all for everything you've done for these forums, and please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any ideas!
Agreed. I mentioned in multiple phone and email conversations that the ranking system isn't make or break for me. I mean, I've spent over 7 years here without it and nearly 100% of my contributions here have been to support peers rather than seek support. Dean pointed out that a lot of activity from the other side of the equasion can yield similar ranking results. There's no doubt that Dean is a helpful contributor vs. a leech of free information. We have a lot of time spent here and have only had solutions and kudos available for a short time. I know I have hundreds of solutions that are not marked either, but it doesn't change the fact that I am here to assist vs being called a Pro or Guru or Sage. Helping via PM also doesn't count, but again it doesn't matter. Those of us that have been here for years already know where the knowledge and resources for answers are. We also know what crap we will put up with from other peers. I guess we'll just see where it all goes. I don't worry about it much. I do like a lot of the new and better changes though.
The Labels exist for new nad infrequent Forum users, correct? That's the intent anyway I suppose: what is it's intended use? Like others here I pay not attention to my personal rankings here and I only have the tag to accept a reply in my signature so that it can truly help folks that prefer to search for answers instead of posting.
I have noticed an increase is pointless replies since the color-options have appeared in some of the forums sadly, but I guess some people need that boost
In answer to your question, the email feature in this forum site is a good way to get hold of me, I eventually notice the digit next to the envelope when I'm not orange-blind
Acutally, you bring up a good point with the pointless replies. There are a lot more of those for sure and I see it more in my email subscriptions. Also, there are times were solutions are not marked for your solution, but the original member will post a thanks and mark his thanks as the solution. I don't think the recognition system will ever be perfect. I've always found the best recognition comes when another member posts a link to one another's solutions or makes a referral to reach out to a particular member. Or when an Autodesk member sends a PM and says, "Take a look at this for me." That goes a lot further than you'd think.
A new member is 1 or two posts and a member is 3 posts. Maybe bump that up a bit perhaps

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Beating the spread
December 19th, 2011 at 10:15 pm by Dr. Drang
I have a weakness for parenthetical comments. Usually they're not in parentheses—my real penchant is for dashes—but whatever punctuation I use, I love to shoehorn extra comments into my sentences. And ever since I adapted Lukas Mathis's popup footnote JavaScript to work here, I've been sticking footnotes into almost every post.
The problem with footnotes on a web site is that default behavior of the
<sup> tag, which is used for the footnote marker in the body of the text, is to increase the height of the line it's in. This pushes the line down and leaves an unattractive horizontal band of white above it. In the same way stairs are supposed to have a uniform riser height to avoid stumbles, text is supposed to have uniform line spacing to keep your eyes moving smoothly.
I knew this, but I didn't know how to adjust my HTML or CSS to prevent the line spread. So I lived with it, always thinking I should look into getting rid of that, but never doing it. Then Ben Brooks tweeted this:
Do you use footnotes on your site? If so: in your CSS file enter:
sup {line-height:0;}
I would really appreciate it.
I don't know if this tweet was directed mainly at me, but I copied the code and added it to my site's CSS within a day or two.
#content sup, sub {
line-height: 0em;
I added the
#content prefix because I wanted it applied only to this section of the blog, not to the header or sidebar (which don't use superscripts or subscripts currently, but if they ever do, I want to see what a nonuniform line height looks like before forcing it to be uniform). I added the
sub because I figured subscripts shouldn't spread the lines, either. And I added the
em because I like my numbers to have units—even zeros.
The addition worked, which surprised me a little, because I thought the CSS would have to be more than just a one-liner. But the site looked fine to me and no one complained, so I took it to be a success.1 I thanked Ben for the tip and started adding even more footnotes to my posts.
But I didn't look at the site on my phone.
When I finally got around to doing so, I saw that the lines were fine but the footnote markers were drooping.
Apparently, Mobile Safari was interpreting the CSS a little differently. I didn't want to give up the uniform line spacing, so I started Googling for solutions. There were lots. I settled on this one from Jukka Korpela:
#content sup, sub {
vertical-align: 0ex;
position: relative; }
#content sup { bottom: 1ex; }
#content sub { top: 0.8ex; }
First it zeroes out any "native" upward or downward alignment, then it pushes the superscripts up one ex and the subscripts down eight-tenths of an ex. The result on my computers was basically the same as before, but the result on the iPhone was much better:
I can't say that Ben's suggestion was wrong. Many of the sites I found while searching for the solution gave the same CSS he did. Maybe Mobile Safari is rendering incorrectly; maybe its something that's implementation-dependent and Mobile Safari just chooses an interpretation that sets it apart from other browsers.2 Whatever the reason, I'm glad I found a block of CSS that seems to work everywhere.
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Josh says:
Any ideas how to get the popup, footnote text to fade away on touch devices? I applied your technique on my site, but have always been uncomfortable with the touch device behavior.
Michael says:
Ok, so total schmuck question, but I want to add the popup footnotes to my site, but literally have no idea how to go about it (never gone deeper than basic css and installing plugins…). Any starting point would be appreciated as I'm not getting far with Google tonight…
Dr. Drang says:
Honestly, Josh, it wasn't until a few days ago that I discovered that the popups appear on touch devices. I would swear they didn't back in iOS 4 and earlier, and they're really not supposed to.
This is my way of not answering your question; I've tapped around and gotten them to disappear, but I haven't been able to reproduce my steps. Now that I know of the problem, I'll try to add code that will hide the popups. It may be a while.
Dr. Drang says:
The first step, Michael, is to make sure your footnote HTML matches mine (and Gruber's and Mathis's). If you're using PHP Markdown Extra, it should match automatically; if not, you'll have to study the HTML on our sites and reproduce it.
The next step is to save the JavaScript someplace on your server and link to it. View the HTML of this page, scroll to the bottom, and look for the line referencing
footnote-popup.jsfor an example. That's the kind of thing you'll have to add to your site's template files.
If you're running a WordPress blog, there may be a more "WordPressy" way of doing this, but I can't advise you on that. Although I use WP here, I long ago diverged from the normal WP ecosystem—this is more a "roll your own" site that happens to use WP as its build engine.
It's hard to know how to advise you further, since I don't know any of the specifics of your site. You can email me, but don't expect quick answers this time of year. Good luck!
Michael says:
Thanks! It's a WP site, so I'll just start breaking crap and hopefully get there eventually. There was a plugin, but it seems to hate my site for some reason.
Thanks for the direction and hope you're handling the holiday chaos… might be bothering you after the new year!
Scott says:
Does seem weird that Safari and Mobile Safari would have different browser presets for something as basic as CSS interpretation. Think
#content sup { line-height: 0; vertical-align: super; } #content sub { line-height: 0; vertical-align: sub; }
would solve the same problem in a bit more semantic way, if you're into that sort of thing. Anyway, thought I'd share.
Dr. Drang says:
I may give your solution a try, Scott. It does look better than the one I found.
Highlander says:
Another solution from HTML5 boilerplate:
/* Position subscript and superscript content without affecting line-height: h5bp.com/k */ sub, sup { font-size: 75%; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; } sup { top: -0.5em; } sub { bottom: -0.25em; }
Jordan says:
If you want to scope these rules to the content area, then
#content sup, sub
should be
#content sup, #content sub


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The front panel has a drawing of a kitchen cupboard filled with dishes and boxes of National Biscuit Co. products. A larger box of Uneeda Biscuit is in the lower right corner. The back panel has a promo about the National Biscuit Co.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Nabisco
Publisher: National Biscuit Co. (Amsterdam, N.Y.)
1920 (ca.)
12 p.
15.2 x 8.9 cm
Trade Cards
Language: English
Key term: Biscuits
Copyright: This item is in the public domain.
Citation: National Biscuit Company. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=2184


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Appendix D:
Furnishing of the Chief Factor's House and Kitchen
The furnishing of the Chief Factor's House and Kitchen provided the National Park Service with an opportunity to furnish some of the first reconstructed historical buildings in the Pacific Northwest Region. Beginning in the Spring of 1976, the park curator completed reviewing the furnishings plans for the two buildings, and using the draft plan with its recommended furnishings section, contacted antique dealers in the Portland metropolitan area to begin the acquisition of the over 2000 furnishings for the Factor's House and Kitchen.
Mrs. Ruth Powers, an Oregon City historic preservationist and philanthropist with an avid interest in Fort Vancouver, donated approximately 100 objects as furnishings for the Factor's House and Kitchen. When the local antique market was exhausted in late 1976, the curator travelled to the Washington D.C. area and Victoria, British Columbia, to acquire the "hard to find" English objects.
Unfortunately, one of the problems associated with the furnishing of the Factor's House and Kitchen was that the furnishings plan itself had not been completed to the satisfaction of the park by the time the buildings were actually furnished and open to visitors. The plan required extensive revision because it had not adequately focused on evidence of original Hudson's Bay Company furnishings at Fort Vancouver or appropriate reproductions to be used in the buildings. By the time the revisions were made and the plan was reviewed and approved in September 1980, the furnishing of the Factor's House and Kitchen was complete.
Furnishing of the Indian Trade Shop and Blacksmith Shop
Even before the reconstruction of the Indian Trade Shop and Blacksmith Shop, the park curator began the task in the summer of 1980 of researching and writing the formal furnishings plans for the two buildings. These plans would identify furnishings that would have historically been found in the buildings and recommend furnishings to be acquired after the buildings were reconstructed. The furnishings plans were completed, reviewed and approved in 1980. Unfortunately, when funds were appropriated by Congress for the reconstruction of the Indian Trade Shop and Blacksmith Shop, no money was requested by the Park Service for the furnishings. it appeared at first, that the buildings would sit empty. In early 1982, the park was able to secure $23,000.00 from the Regional Office to begin the acquisition of the furnishings. However, this amount of money soon proved to be insufficient to complete the acquisition of the furnishings for the buildings. The funds were soon exhausted. The park curator located furnishings, including large numbers of apothecary bottles as well as other objects that were needed for the dispensary/hospital. He purchased these objects and donated them to the park as part of the furnishings.
Fort Vancouver NHS Parking Lot
Beginning in 1989-1990, the park, with the assistance and strong support of the Cultural Resources Division in the Pacific Northwest Regional Office, began planning for the removal of the parking lot at the reconstructed fort site. This lot had been located directly northeast of the reconstructed north palisade since 1966.
The removal of the lot was contemplated for two reasons: one, fort site traffic raised dust clouds during the summer months, which drifted into the reconstructed buildings. The dust and dirt had a serious impact on the furnishings in the buildings, causing deterioration and damage to the objects over time; two, the parking lot was a significant non-historic visual intrusion on a historic scene--automobiles certainly did not blend in with a reconstructed 19th century Hudson's Bay Company site.
Regional personnel, including the Chief of Cultural Resources Division, Stephanie Toothman; Regional Archeologist Jim Thomson; Richard Winters, Associate Regional Director, Recreational Resources and Professional Services; Mark Forbes, Regional Emergency Services Coordinator; and Dan Nordgren, Chief of Maintenance; visited the park in 1989-1990 to discuss with park staff the logistics of moving the parking lot and also where to relocate it. Mark Forbes indicated that Region would contribute $7000.00 from fee collection funds to assist the park in the collection of fees out of the former interim Indian Trade Shop, and at the same time, move the parking lot to an area immediately south of 5th Street and east of the entrance gate leading to the existing parking lot.
With the arrival of a new superintendent, Dave Herrera, in February 1990, the issue of moving the parking lot was revived. Further study of the issue was undertaken and a number of archeological and landscape design plans were resolved before the actual move occurred in July 1992.
Under the direction of Park Chief of Maintenance Gary Bickford, a contingent of U.S. Army Reserves and Marines with heavy construction equipment and operators, prepared the site of the new parking lot. Within 3 weeks, the lot was finished and open to visitor parking. The new lot allowed the moving of the fee collection station and provided a dramatic new visual orientation for visitors.
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My muscles are still growing. Should I stop lifting?
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My muscles are still growing. Should I stop lifting?
I did everything the same. Same order. No distractions, the weight just felt MUCH heavier than it normally feels (mainly from the bottom part of the lift). I honestly didn't even think about the...
I recently went to a sports MD (correct term?) for some pain in my shoulders when lifting above my head. After an examination, tests, and x-rays he concluded that the problem was strictly mechanical...
Any opinions?
The decision for me is not so much about appearance right now. It's winter and I don't mind holding the extra fat for the next few months. The main thing for me is what is the most efficient thing to...
Over the past month I put on 5 lbs (172 to 177), but 2 of that was fat (14.5% to 15.5% bf). It was a dirty bulk. I ate whatever I wanted as long as I reached my protein and calorie requirements (170g...
Been bulking 2 weeks and I'm averaging 1.5 lb/week. I think it will taper down to 1 lb/week b/c I had a 1-2 pound jump (water/glycogen).
Is 1-1.5 pounds/week a good rate?
I'm more concerned with being efficient. I know the more fat you have, the more fat you'll gain when bulking. So I'm wondering at what point it becomes more efficient to cut and then bulk again.
I'm currently bulking, trying to reach 180 by the end of the year. I'm currently at 172 and estimated 14.9% bf (calipers). At what body fat level should I begin to cut?
Also, how long should I eat...
Anterior delts seem fine. It's my lateral delts that are lacking. Any opinions on which is more effective, shoulder press (dumbbells) or military press (barbell)?
Which exercise do you guys find the most effective for building up the lateral (side) delts? I've been doing dumbbell shoulder press (seated) and sometimes a set or 2 of lateral raises (although...
There's also DEXA.
Comparisons: http://www.new-fitness.com/body_fat_analyzing.html
Lifting alone would be beneficial, but would you rather work for $5/hour or do the same work for $10/hour? It's up to you.
This is taken from John Berardi's article at http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/leaneating_2.htm
Keep in mind, this article is Lean Eatin', which focuses on fat loss as a goal.
Nope. I am the same way. Some people use a lighter weight that will allow them to keep the same reps for many sets.
Personally, I keep it heavier.
Like this? :nod:
It's closer to 3-5%.
Muscle will show if bodyfat is low enough. Obviously smaller muscles will show up less than bigger ones.
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I know exactly what you mean. I always come back stronger after a week off.
In fact, that's when I got my new bench PR @ 300 when my previous was 285. I didn't even plan on lifting and had been...


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Early this week in Las Vegas, the weather is expected to be sunny, with temperatures in the low 70s Fahrenheit But along the marble-tiled corridors bridging The Palazzo and The Venetian, at St. Mark's Square by the Grand Canal (reconstructed beneath a painted evening sky in Sin City to mimic the real locale in Venice), the climate turns cloudy.
It's the first day of Autodesk University (AU) 2011, the annual gathering of Autodesk software users. Attendees — ranging from architect designing highrises and automotive stylists skinning new Ford models to filmmakers populating virtual worlds with computer-generated alien species — have begun to arrive. It's also the day product managers and company executives give members of the press snippets of the content they've lined up for the next few days.
"What's the target [computing] platform you're developing your software for the future?" an analyst asked Buzz Kross, senior VP of manufacturing at Autodesk.
"Cloud and mobile," Kross replied.
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The new offering "builds on computational fluid dynamics capabilities that Autodesk gained in the Blue Ridge Numerics acquisition in March 2011," according to the announcement.
"Making informed, up-front decisions about air flow, fluid flow, or electronics cooling is critical to help design and manufacture safer, quality products or construct more energy efficient buildings," said Buzz Kross, Autodesk's senior VP of manufacturing.
So what did Autodesk bring to the table, beside rebranding Blue Ridge Numerics' established product? The short answer is, Autodesk Inventor Fusion. The standalone direct-editing package, Autodesk points out, will let engineers "modify or simplify geometry quickly and easily from virtually any CAD system when running simulations."
Unlike Autodesk's flagship parametric modeler Autodesk Inventor, Inventor Fusion offers a lower learning curve and easier ways to create and edit 3D design via direct editing (by pushing, pulling, and rotating faces and features).
Luke Mehelcic, Autodesk's CFD product manager, clarified, "Inventor Fusion is included in the box with Autodesk Simulation CFD. When you install, you will have access to both. This includes a connection tool that takes your Fusion models directly into Autodesk Simulation CFD to create design studies."
The announcement emphasizes, among other things, what Autodesk describes as One-Click Simulation. Under this method, users may rely on the software to scan the CAD geometry and automatically identify and load certain input values they would otherwise be forced to specify on their own (for example, flow inlets and outlets). They may also rely on the software to identify and suppress nonessential features to speed up CFD solving.
Another feature, dubbed Design Study Automation, will let you set up multiple design scenarios and solve them simultaneously. The function will let you simulate fluid flows in your design under various thermal values, materials, and boundary conditions before leaving CAD.
Another feature, called Remote Solving will "[make] it easy to harness all available computational power on any user's network," the announcement states. The feature comes at no additional cost to users. However, because solver and interface are licensed separately, you may need to purchase additional licenses if you wish to run multiple solvers.
Mehelcic explained by depicting two different remote-solving usages: "For example, if I have a laptop that is not powerful enough or needs to be running other application, I can setup the simulation on my laptop and choose to run it on an open engineering computer while I accomplish other things. This would not have a cost associated with it."
On the other hand, "[If] I have an engineering desktop computer that I want to run a simulation on and I have another simulation that I want to run simultaneously on another system, this would require two solver licenses," which requires additional cost.
For sharing CFD results with those who may not have a compatible software program to view analysis outcome, Autodesk offers a free application, calledAutodesk Simulation CFD Viewer. The downloadable viewer can be used as a standalone program or a plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or a web browser.
Because many CAD packages, including Autodesk Inventor, now offers integrated stress analysis, many engineers have become proficient in such basic analysis tasks. However, CFD remains a higher-level analysis, often requiring expert intervention or supervision. Autodesk's one-click simulation, free CFD result viewer, and other measures are calculated to make CFD more accessible to a broader audience.
Autodesk Inventor 2012: Taking Steps to Unite Freeform, Direct, and Parametric Modeling
Freeform, direct, and parametric modelings are like three talented engineers with different personalities. The first is a genius with wild imagination, unbound by pragmatic concerns. The second, an impulsive new kid, has the uncanny ability to come up with quick fixes for everything. The third is a veteran, who likes to think ahead and work methodically. As their boss, you know you can get a lot more done if you can get the three to move into the same corner and work together. Trouble is, they don't get along. So, begrudgingly, you come up with a sensible compromise. You keep them in three different offices; you let their ideas flow through you; and you serve as their translator.
In certain industry segments — consumer goods and automotive, to name but two — unifying freeform surfaces and mechanical features is the only way to design. In designing mobile phones and hybrid vehicles, combining aesthetic beauty and mechanical elegance is not optional; it's essential. In the absence of a consolidated 3D modeler, engineers have to make do with software juggling: Create complex surfaces and organic shapes in one package, add mechanical features in another, and, when needed, use another package to make direct edits.
In Autodesk Inventor Professional 2012, part of Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012, three modeling modes take a few steps closer toward one another. They're not exactly moving into the same house; but they're learning to work together much better.
In Inventor 2012, you can execute freeform (Alias-style) edits to a parametric part by choosing Fusion > Form Edit. This brings you right into Autodesk Inventor Fusion (a separate program window), where you can poke, pinch, pull, and push Spline edges to reshape your part's geometry in ways not usually possible in mechanical CAD programs.
Fusion also offers a Symmetry command. Once you turn this command on, you'll be prompted to choose a symmetry plane. Afterward, any edit you make is replicated on the opposite of the plane, in reverse. The feature will be useful for creating symmetrical design with complex surfaces that are not easy to duplicate (bicycle helmets and sunglasses, for instance).
While in Fusion, you may also make direct edits — rotate faces on previously extruded features, for example — with little or no regard for parametric history. The combination of freeform and direct editing tools in a single environment makes Fusion ideal for making adjustment to imported parts and adding complex surfaces.
Once you've completed your Fusion edits, you can choose Return to Inventor to move back to Inventor's classic parametric mode (in essence, shutting down Fusion and importing your part back to Inventor). The freeform edits you made will now appear under your Inventor part's feature tree, labeled Alias objects. From this point on, you may continue to add features to your design using parametric methods.
Shuttling CAD geometry back and forth between two different program windows — Inventor classic and Inventor Fusion — is not ideal, but the workflow is smooth and manageable. Also, Inventor has improved significantly in its ability to interpret direct edits executed in Fusion as parametric steps upon reentry.
Inventor serves as the core of Autodesk Product Design Suite, which also includes Autodesk Showcase, a program you can use to create ray-traced renderings and simple animations (fly-thoughs, walk-throughs, and orbits). Unlike Autodesk 3ds Max (also included in the suite), Showcase is much easier to master and pick up, so you can be productive with it in a short time. In addition to typical rendering tools, Showcase gives you a way to compare scenes in split screens, useful for reviewing different versions of the same design (say, the came vehicle in two different paints).
Product Design Suite, like other bundles in Autodesk's 2012 portfolio, is the company's ambitious push to sell comprehensive lists of titles, put together with different users in mind (Autodesk Building Design Suite for architects, Autodesk Product Design Suite for engineers and product designers, and so on). A review of Autodesk Product Design Suite is set to appear in print in the next issue of Desktop Engineering.
For more, watch the video report below.
Inventor Fusion, a Transitional Modeler for 2D Users
Now in its third incarnation as a technology preview (a free download from Autodesk Labs), Autodesk Inventor Fusion represents the company's initiative to deliver an easier, simpler mechanical CAD modeler. But what started out as an alternative to history-based parametric modeling programs may also become a migration shortcut for 2D CAD users to venture into 3D.
Kevin Schneider, a product manager for Autodesk's Manufacturing Industry Group, noted, "Fusion tries to build a bridge where customers can reuse a lot of their existing 2D knowledge and experience, and learn new 3D experiences … lots of users, for various different reasons, have found moving to 3D a challenge. We hope Fusion provides an incremental stepping stone to them."
Some of Fusion's direct geometry manipulation functions have now been incorporated into Autodesk Inventor 2011, the latest version of Autodesk's classic history-based parametric 3D modeler. Similarly, some may soon crop up somewhere in AutoCAD, the de facto drafting and drawing program for many 2D users.
"I think there are a lot of capabilities inside Inventor Fusion that are attractive to AutoCAD users, particularly as AutoCAD's 3D tools become more sophisticated … As we refine functions in Fusion, we can choose to make some of those capabilities available and integrated them into the Autodesk Shape Manager (Autodesk's solid modeling engine). And that benefits all of the Autodesk products that use that engine, AutoCAD being one of them …"
In this interview, Schneider discusses the softer side of Fusion, why the difference between "direct manipulation" and "direct editing" or "direct modeling" is more than semantics, what the future holds for Fusion, and more.
Change Manager: The Gateway between Parametric and Direct Modeling
Several years ago, the concept of a mechanical CAD program that let you go back and forth between parametric and direct modeling environments seemed like a fantasy. In February, Autodesk announced its development team was on this quest. The Holy Grail of the coveted bidirecional workflow was to be Inventor Fusion. In Release 1, or Technology Preview 1, Fusion offered a way into direct modeling, without a way back to parametric modeling (for more, read "Autodesk Inventor Fusion, Ready for Inspection," June 24, 2009). But the most recent release, Technology Preview 2, fixed that.
Enter Change Manager, a plug-in for Autodesk Inventor 2010. The latest download of Fusion 2 contains two installation packets: a new version of Fusion and a plug-in for Inventor. (The later requires updates made available to subscription customers, so if you're not on maintenance contract, it might not work.)
I've seen a demonstration of Fusion 2 and Change Manager, seemingly showing how you might make a series of direct edits on a parametric part in Fusion and convert them into parametric edits upon import (that is, when you open the part again in regular Inventor), but I wanted to put this workflow to test on my own.
This week, I did just that. You can see the result in the video clips below:
Change Manager is, indeed, capable of translating direct edits into parametric features. But there are some limitations. Whereas it can easily recognize and convert direct edits that have correlating parametric counterparts (for example, dragging a face forward in direct editing is the same as adding extrusion distance in parametric editing), it has some trouble digesting direct edits involving rounded corners and blended edges.
Overtime, Fusion's direct-to-parametric translation algorithm is bound to improve, but I think it also illustrates the inherent differences in the two modeling methods. There are some direct edits that just don't have parametric equivalents. In a direct editing program, you might, for instance, rotate an extruded feature built with a complex profile into an odd angle, but it's highly unlikely such an edit can be translated into a series of parametric steps. I'm not suggesting that it's the shortcoming of parametric modelers, merely acknowledging that parametric programs aren't designed to accommodate such edits.
Eventually, Autodesk plans to incorporate the functions found in Fusion into standard issue Inventor, so parametric editing, direct editing, and Change Manager may all reside in the same environment.


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'Game of Thrones': That Time Queen Cersei Met Queen Elizabeth II!
June 24, 2014 Royal News
Queen Elizabeth II paid a visit to the "Game of Thrones" set on Tuesday as part of her Northern Ireland tour!
[Credit: Getty]
While fans were hoping the Queen, 88, would sit on the Iron Throne during her visit, she never attempted it, although she did seem to marvel at the chair made of swords.
Watch the video!
Her Majesty's visit with the cast and the Iron Throne takes place about 35 minutes into the footage.
'Game of Thrones' Drops Major Hint About Jon Snow's Parents
"Game of Thrones" is based on George RR Martin's fantasy series, "A Song of Fire and Ice."
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Often designed by Armani Fiori, the floral arm of the iconic design house, the centerpieces at New York City's Armani Ristorante are visually stunning and simply elegant — and are often buzzed about after leaving the table.
A centerpiece makes for a wonderful conversation piece during any dining experience. Draw inspiration from Armani Ristorante and replicate the chic centerpiece at your own table.
To recreate the restaurant's elegant centerpiece:
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (WSAU) - Officials from the Experimental Aircraft Association are continuing to battle against a FAA imposed fee for this year's Airventure.
The show starts tomorrow, and the EAA is being ordered to pay $447,000 in special air traffic control fees. That comes to about $45 dollars per plane that's expected to be at the event.
EAA board chairman Jack Pelton says that fee is already being paid through taxes on aviation fuel, and that a fee like that will mean less money being donated to the EAA's charitable funding for the year. The group is suing to have the fee set aside.
FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory says the fees are in place thanks to budget cuts in the sequester.
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Pro Basketball Talk "Steve Nash struggled to stay healthy last year, and was limited to just 15 games thanks to a nerve issue that resulted from a broken leg he had suffered the previous season. Nash was always going to come back for the final year of his deal with the Lakers, because it was simply too much money..." September 24
Lakers Nation "Heading into the NBA off-season, the future was uncertain for two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash. The veteran point guard struggled with injuries once again last season playing in only 15 games and a total of 65 games over the two-year span with the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite the persistent injury..." September 03
Pro Basketball Talk "Veteran point guards jumping straight into head coaching positions has become a hot trend as of late, with Jason Kidd taking the Nets job last season and Derek Fisher signing up for the gig with the Knicks under the tutelage of Phil Jackson this summer. Steve Nash has one year remaining on his..." June 24
No Nash or Kaman tonight, per D'Antoni.
As expected, no Gasol, Nash or Kaman tonight vs. Memphis. Henry, Bazemore & Bryant have already been ruled out for the season, of course.
Nash said he felt a "bite" in his hamstring. Thinks the setback will likely end his season.
Nick Young "looked ok" at today's practice & is expected to play vs. LAC according to coach D'Antoni. Gasol & Nash are out for Sunday.
Steve Nash says that tonight vs. DAL will likely be the last game he plays this season.
Steve Nash said ankle issue not related to nerves, but he won't play tomorrow vs Sacramento
CBSSports.com "The question with the Lakers as it pertains to often-injured point guard Steve Nash is whether to bite bullet on his $9.7 million salary for next year in the last year of his contract or use the stretch provision afforded in the CBA to waive him (spreading his money out over multiple seasons but..." March 31
Steve Nash says he won't play on this trip. Aiming to return next week
D'Antoni says Nash and Gasol are officially out for tonight's game. Kaman starts.
Steve Nash got treatment during practice on Saturday and is considered a gametime decision for Sunday
TSN.ca "Steve Nash will play for the Los Angeles Lakers Friday. According to a report from the Los Angeles Daily News, the veteran point guard participated in a non-contact practice Thursday and expects to suit up Friday against the Washington Wizards. Nash has struggled with nerve irritation in his..." March 21
ESPN Los Angeles "Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni opened the door for the chance that Steve Nash could return at some point this season after the veteran guard supposedly shut it down last week because of nerve root irritation in his back and hamstrings. "It's still a possibility," D'Antoni said..." March 20
Nash told me on Friday in OKC that he's continuing to work to stay in game shape, and could potentially be available. Stay tuned.
Sporting News "Often times fans and analysts suspend reality when discussing athletes. Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash battled the backlash that comes with that approach in the third episode of Grantland's "The Finish Line" series, which chronicles his approach to coming back from injury. Nash has been..." March 15
Mike D'Antoni officially closes the door on Steve Nash returning this season for the Lakers. "He's not going to play."
CBSSports.com "Steve Nash very well may be done for the rest of the season. But is he done for the rest of his career? "I want to come back for sure," Nash told reporters on Monday. Nash is 40, and has only appeared in 10 games this season because of a number of injuries. But he's maintained that he wants..." March 04
Mike D'Antoni says he "doubts" Steve Nash plays again this season, but wouldn't rule him out
SB Nation "Steve Nash has seen the court just 10 times this season, and with the 40-year-old's health in serious question, so too is his future with the Los Angeles Lakers. In the second episode of a web series from Grantland.com, Nash remarked that if the Lakers choose to release him under the NBA's Stretch..." March 02
Inside Socal "Instead of stuffing the box score with dazzling passes and swished shots both from beyond the arc and at the foul line, Steve Nash has spent his two seasons with the Lakers mostly stuffing the trainer's room with too many ailments to count. A fractured left leg. Sore ankles. Bruised thighs. And..." February 22
Nick Young (knee) is out for Wednesday. He did not practice. Steve Nash also did not practice and is doubtful tomorrow.
Sports Glory "Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak has no regrets about acquiring Steve Nash, who has appeared in just 60 of the Lakers' 135 games since his sign-and-trade deal from the Phoenix Suns. "Absolutely. No regrets," Kupchak said prior to Thursday's game against Oklahoma City. "You had a..." February 14
Lakers Nation "Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash has played well during his short time back from injury recently, but still can't seem to stay healthy and likely won't play tomorrow against the Oklahoma City Thunder. According to Lakers Nation reporter Serena Winters, Nash doesn't think he'll play on..." February 12
Pro Basketball Talk "Steve Nash played his 10th game for the Lakers Tuesday night (maybe now some Lakers fans will finally let go of the medical retirement stuff that was never going to happen anyway). And he aggravated his nerve root injury. Again. Nash tried to play through it but that didn't work. He said the..." February 12
Steve Nash is out for the second half with nerve root irritation, the same issue that's plagued him all season.
ESPN.com "Steve Nash exited the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Chicago Bulls Sunday and did not return because of nerve irritation in his left leg. Nash will be re-evaluated Monday and was being held out of the final portion of the game "as a precaution," according to the team. Nash received..." February 10
Don't expect 48 minutes from Nash. He'll play first 5-8 minutes of game, then sit until 3rd quarter. Then he'll play 5-8 more mins.
ESPN.com "The Los Angeles Lakers' long-awaited cavalry finally came in Thursday. Or at least part of it. Steve Nash, Steve Blake and Jordan Farmar returned to the practice floor, providing the point guard-depleted Lakers a sudden boon in the backcourt. All three guards are ruled out for the Lakers'..." January 30
Nash also said that he isnt playing Fri vs. Char "I havent practiced in 2 1/2 months" Thinks Tuesday might be a possibility.
Los Angeles Times "The Lakers, who have been riddled with injuries at point guard, expected veteran Steve Nash to practice Monday. But that plan was pushed back when Nash tweaked his back getting out of bed in the morning. "I'm fine," said Nash later in the day. He last played Nov. 10 and has played in only six..." January 28
Just spoke to Nash, and he's excited about the chance to play again. Doesn't expect to play as soon as Friday, however. Hopefully next week.
D'Antoni says he hopes Nash can come back next Tuesday. Nash has been out since late November.
D'Antoni hopeful Kobe & Nash return Jan. 28 vs Indy. Both will be reevaluated after Grammy trip
ESPN Los Angeles "The way Steve Nash sees it, if the next time he suits up for the Los Angeles Lakers goes south because of the chronic nerve issues in his back and hamstrings, it could be the last basketball he plays in his illustrious 18-year career. With that in mind, Nash is making sure he does as much as..." January 03
Sporting News "Los Angels Lakers point guard Steve Nash's effort to return to the basketball court will continue in Vancouver as he prepares for a possible February comeback, according to Lakers.com. Nash had trouble with injury from the onset of his stay with the Lakers, as he suffered a fractured leg and..." January 03
Steve Nash went through some light shooting drills Sunday, but he's still 2-3 weeks away from being evaluated according to D'Antoni
Steve Nash out 4 weeks still
Los Angeles Times "One-half of the Lakers' 30-something backcourt returned to action Sunday. But what about Steve Nash? "I don't know," the injury-riddled point guard said several hours before Kobe Bryant played against Toronto. "I had three good days of practice and I could play right now, but we don't really..." December 09
Steve Nash said he hasn't determined when he'll return. D'Antoni think it's "doubtful" he plays Sunday vs. Toronto
Steve Nash said it's "very unlikely" he will play Fri vs. Sac. Nash practiced for 10 minutes today, plans to practice 15 tomorrow
D'Antoni thinks Steve Nash will take part in Lakers practice Tuesday. Not entirely sure, though.
Mike D'Antoni says Lakers plan to touch base w/ Steve Nash tomorrow on how his week of rehab went. Hope is for him to practice this week
Pro Basketball Talk "When the first came out we told you not to buy the "Steve Nash is thinking retirement" rumors. We told you he was a fighter who planned to get back on the court this season and play the next one as well. But don't take our word for it — take Nash's. Here is what he said about the retirement..." November 23
I'm hearing Nash's pain is forcing him 2 seriously consider calling it a career. He'd still get $ this yr & next & LA'd get cap relief next
Steve Nash getting some shots up after morning shootaround
CBSSports.com "The Lakers announced Monday night that after meeting with a specialist, point guard Steve Nash will miss two weeks with nerve root irritation. Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash was examined today by back specialist Dr. Robert Watkins, who diagnosed Nash as having nerve root irritation...." November 12
Pro Basketball Talk "You could tell how serious Steve Nash seems to think his back/nerve issue is by his demeanor after the game. Speaking with the media in the hallway he was quiet and appeared deflated. He described himself as emotional and said this was hard to talk about. Nash played just 13 minutes and was..." November 11
Pro Basketball Talk "Steve Nash has outraced Father Time for years, but early this season he seems as if he might finally be getting passed. Nash is meticulous and committed to taking care of his body, but the hours he puts in now are not leading to the same productivity on the court — he is averaging 7.6 points a..." November 09


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Gateway continues to increase awareness of sustainability issues among campus and community members through education and outreach and empower students, staff and community members to take sustainability actions.
Community Outreach
Green Matters
The Workforce and Economic Development Division hold several lecture series at the Center for Sustainable Living, focusing on sustainability starting at home. Some examples of past expert-led seminars include:
- Putting Your Garden to Bed
- Are You Losing Heat?
- What Degree of Green Are You?
Celebrate Earth Day
An annual Celebrate Earth Day event helps community members become better environmental stewards. All three main campuses host the event with activities including seminars, workshops, demonstrations and green vendors.
Green Business Practice Seminars
Gateway holds green business practice seminars to help local business leaders learn how to make sustainability a permanent part of their operations.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Sklba, Vice President, Community and Government Relations, (262) 564-2662.
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Green Scholars
The "green scholar" program is very simple. You participate in activities that help sustain the environment. These are probably things that you already do every day. Each activity is worth points. Collect the points and you'll be eligible for a drawing and the distinction of being one of Gateway's Green Scholars when you graduate. At graduation, Gateway Green Scholars will graduate with the Green Scholar distinction and each participant will receive sustainable participation gifts. The total number of points needed to graduate with green distinction is 75.
The program runs throughout the school year and all points must be submitted by the deadline for December and May graduation, in order to be eligible for Gateway Green Scholar distinction at graduation. Individuals simply email your points on the excel spreadsheet directly to Sue Walther at firstname.lastname@example.com or 262-564-3612. Sue will monitor and assist with point assignments or any other questions that come up. Periodically an email will be sent with a green tips and a reminder to submit your points.
We plan to have an open house during the semester of the Center of Sustainable Living on the Kenosha Campus and everyone is welcome.
For additional information, contact, Stephanie Sklba, VP - Community & Government Relations, at 262-564-2662 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sustainable Living club
The goal of the Sustainable Living club is to help students identify and understand sustainable living opportunities in the community and align with Gateway's vision of sustainability. Participants will work with area high school environmental clubs, the Center for Sustainable Living, the Horticulture program and other groups to promote Gateway's sustainable living initiatives.
Green Print
Gateway's GreenPrint initiative is aimed at reducing the college's carbon footprint by streamlining ink cartridge recycling, reducing the number of machines in use and eliminating unnecessary printing. The effort requires staff and students to use more centrally located machines and to login to print, allowing the college to track paper and energy usage.


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David Beckham strips down again for H&M
"Wow, look at those tattoos!" Because, naturally, that's what draws the eye first. Behold, the David Beckham and H&M swimwear collection, which is an extension of Beckham's Bodywear range for the brand: boardshorts, swimshorts and trunks, all available in May. According to a press release, every piece focuses on fit, performance, comfort and style. (We're […] [Read More]
Excloo! David Beckham for H&M, and in Union Square
In another provocative promotion for their David Beckham bodywear line (Remember the Super Bowl commercial with Becks in his own branded scanties? Apparently there was also some kind of sporting event that day.) H&M has had nine David Beckham statues commissioned for highly trafficked stores across the U.S. Six stores in New York, including two […] [Read More]
Fashion Recap: Obama's Spizikes, tilapia Manolos + Trina Turk for Banana Republic
Spike Lee presented a special pair of Jordan Spizikes high-top sneakers to President Barack Obama over the weekend at a fundraiser. Is Obama a closeted sneaker head? We'll find out. (The Cut) Speaking of shoes, hawk a pair of sustainable Manolo Blahnik heels made of cork, raffia and discarded tilapia skin. Eco-chic designer Marcia Patmos tells […] [Read More]
Nail polish for guys: Are you manly enough to handle it?
Merriam-Webster lists the definition of manicure as a treatment for the care of hands and fingernails, with nary a word about whether such services are the domain of women or men. We all know that manicures are more popular with women, especially when teamed with colored polish. But what about that word, manicure? Man-i-cure. Light […] [Read More]


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Volleyball falls to Hamilton in NESCAC opener, 3-1 September 19, 2014 Bates College volleyball won the first set but dropped the next three, falling to Hamilton College, 3-1 (22-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-13), in the NESCAC opener for both teams at Scott Field House on Friday night. [read more]
Field hockey defends well, falls to No. 1 Bowdoin, 2-0 September 17, 2014 Bates College field hockey successfully defended 15 penalty corners, saved 11 shots, and blocked another 13 but fell to No. 1 Bowdoin College, 2-0, on Wednesday night at Ryan Field. [read more]
Women's soccer pushes No. 19 Bowdoin in 1-0 defeat September 17, 2014 Senior goalkeeper Alyssa Morgosh made six saves, but Bates College women's soccer fell to No. 19 Bowdoin College, 1-0, as junior Kiersten Turner scored in the 27th minute on Wednesday afternoon at Pickard Field. [read more]
Knoth scores as men's soccer falls to Bowdoin in double overtime September 16, 2014 Sophomore Peabo Knoth scored an equalizer in the 53rd minute, but Bates College men's soccer fell to Bowdoin College in double overtime, 2-1, at Pickard Field on Tuesday afternoon. [read more]
Football opens 2014 season at Amherst on Saturday September 15, 2014 Coming off its first back-to-back seasons at .500 or better since 1981-82, Bates College football seeks to continue its momentum from the last two years as it opens its 2014 season at Amherst College on Saturday at 1 p.m. [read more]
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Abe Chaim Grabia was born in the small Polish town of Brzesko on December 20, 1925. In 1928, he and his family moved to the much larger city of Lodz, where Abe attended a local public school. However, even before the German invasion, the public schools were segregated; Jews and ethnic Poles attended entirely different schools.
On September 1, 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, launching the Second World War. Lodz was captured on September 8. The Germans immediately began persecuting Jews, and ordered the establishment of a ghetto in February 1940, stating that all Jews move to a specified district of the city. However, the Germans did not actually erect a wall around the ghetto until April, enabling Abe, his father, and some of his siblings to escape. They moved to an aunt in Krakow and then to an uncle in the nearby village of Zakliczyn. When the Germans demanded that Abes father work for them, Abe went instead as his dad was far too old to perform such heavy manual labor. Abe worked in fields in the summers of 1940 and 1941, and he cleared roads of snow in the winters.
In spring of 1942, Abe was sent to the concentration camp Plaszow. Depicted in the film Schindlers List , and commanded by the notoriously evil war criminal Amon Goeth, the camp provided slave labor to nearby ammunition factories and quarries. Abe managed to escape the camp, running at night and hiding from both Germans and Poles during the day. Attempting to return to his family, Abe encountered Jewish refugees running the opposite direction one night. They informed him that the entire town of Zakliczyn had been deported by Nazis.
Abe was later recaptured by the Germans and sent to a labor camp in the town of Skarzysko-Kamienna. The camp consisted of three sub-camps, designated A, B, and C. Camp C, where Abe was interred, was the worst in terms of treatment, food, and work. Laborers in Camp C produced underwater mines filled with picric acid, and prisoners often died within months from exposure to the dangerous chemical. Abe survived for a year and was sent to a camp in Czestochowa, where he worked in a steel factory.
Shortly before Soviet troops liberated Czestochowa in January 1945, Abe was sent to Buchenwald and then to the subcamp of Colditz, where he worked in an ammunition factory. Because of the German desperation to murder as many Jews as possible in the final days of World War Two, Abe and fellow prisoners endured a two-week forced march through winter weather with little food. They arrived at the large concentration camp of Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic. On June 8, 1945, Abe was liberated by the Soviets, skinny and malnourished.
The Soviet liberators treated the liberated prisoners well; although they had little food for themselves, they fed the Jews and provided medical attention. After recuperating, Abe returned to Poland to seek his relatives. He found none and returned to Theresienstadt. Abe joined fellow Jewish refugees on a transport to England and learned that some of his brothers had survived and were in Europe. Abes oldest brother, however, had been living in New York since 1938. Abe wrote a letter to the popular Jewish Philosopher Yiddish radio show, which would read names of survivors seeking relatives during broadcasts. Abes brother heard Abes name announced and incredulously sent a telegram to him in England. Abe was able to join him in New York soon after. He became a jeweler, married an American woman, and had two children (and later two grandchildren). He changed jobs, becoming a land developer and construction salesman for a fellow survivor, Alex Gross. Abe moved to Ohio and then to Atlanta, where he currently resides.
Day of Liberation
I remember the day, everyone was running, we didn't know where to run. We run, we tried to get something to eat. The first thing, it wasn't too much. Actually Theresienstadt is located in the country, which is all fields. This was already May; we were liberated one of the last ones. And I remember a few weeks later we found a field of strawberries. And even to today's day, this is quite a few years, I eat the strawberry but I don't have the taste. I used to love it but I ate so many strawberries that summer and they were big. There was a field I bet you, could have been for a square mile just strawberries. Some German farm, they left it. And we picked it. We ate so many strawberries, or at least I did. I ate strawberries for breakfast, strawberries for lunch, with some butter, whatever I could. So after awhile I just couldn't look at strawberries.
England was pretty good. They fed us, they taught us a little bit the language. They became, we became more human. We were all wild. When we went to a camp in England, which is Windermere, like a big group of kids. They couldn't supply enough bread for sandwiches for us. Each one would eat three, four sandwiches at a time. But gradually we filled up. It took us a while. They, the people were really nice to us, they knew what's going on, so they gave us whatever to please us, you know, and gradually we slowed down a little bit like anything else, and we became more to a human race. We were very, not wild, it's just we didn't know what, what goes on. We were, we grabbed, we didn't know what, we thought maybe If I don't take an extra sandwich I would starve later on. We still thought, in the mind, we still in camp.Coping
It's hard for the survivor to understand what, how he survived. How can a person who didn't go through understand if the person who survived it doesn't think, "How did I survive? How did I get through so many years? How did, what happened?" So now, take a person who never went through. He never, like here in the United States, I'm not against it, just, "Oh, we had a tough time, we had to go on, meat was on cards." Big deal. Meat was on cards, or gas, right? Or you couldn't get a new car because there was a war, know what I mean? So how can you tell that person what went through a survivor the few years? How can you tell them? They cannot comprehend what happened. They know it was bad. They lost families, they lost uncles, but they still wasn't there. They say in Polish, like another language, what you don't see doesn't hurt as much. But you don't see it. You feel bad it happened, you know, but you don't feel it. See, what happened a lot is, a lot of people lost their families, uncles, aunts, mothers, fathers, people came over, but they didn't see it and so how can you tell them really? They feel bad that it happened. But you, how can a survivor tell them every day life, every life? Every day you lived on a string just between here and that, every minute for no reason. He just didn't like you, shot you. And nobody said anything.Anger
Well, I gave up on anger but I still don't like what I went through. You cannot be angry with the whole world what happened. You have to live with it; you cannot have poison in your system. Keep poisoning it all the time. I don't like what they did to my family. I never forget it; I can't forget it, no. But you cannot keep, you know, hating all these years and not to get sick over it. I dream about it. I used to take pills, I figure, but it didn't help anyway. It stayed in my mind. I still go through it. Still get, wake up sometimes sweating. But I cannot get rid of it, so might as well make the best out of it. You live with it.
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I wish I had the dedication to tag my books as splendidly as you and others on here do. But after spending all day with taxonomies at work I find it hard to apply the same discipline in my off hours. I'm more likely to write a review than to exercise my cataloging skills. It's shameful, really.
It's truly a sad day when having several degrees is an impediment to finding a job. But then again de-intellectualization in general has been rampant for some time, so it makes a painful sort of sense. I wish you the best of luck in your search, though. All that "useless book-learning" must inevitably pay off sooner or later!
posted by S.D. at 4:57 pm (EST) on May 13, 2014
LT is an interesting place, though I am still ambivalent about crowd-sourced cataloging. I have to fight the urge to fix all the duplicate author entries, for if I tried doing that I'd probably have to quit my day job.
Do you intend to teach? I think in general there is a similar draw to librarianship for literary-minded people. I also considered getting my master's in literature before I started the library program, but one of my English professors basically talked me out of it. I wasn't that interested in teaching, and he told me I'd have better luck staying employed with a library degree. He was probably right about that!
You could always be a map librarian, or specialize in a certain type of literature. That's the nice thing about librarianship. It's essentially possible to pursue any side interest within the field. It's also a great second career (my first one was dishwashing, since that's how far an undergraduate English degree gets you, but there were many in my program who came from legitimate careers in other fields).
But I will stop now, since I'm starting to sound like some crazed librarian recruiter.
posted by S.D. at 2:38 pm (EST) on May 9, 2014
I'm a library cataloger by trade, with a particular interest in subject cataloging, so I'm always pleased to encounter such extensive tagging as yours. It really does help a lot while browsing on here, particularly with poetry collections. And, yes, you do have some interesting and amusing tags!
I have not read Aurorarama yet, but I am hoping to soon. I just discovered it recently, so still need to track down a copy. I'll certainly let you know how it goes.
posted by S.D. at 9:01 pm (EST) on May 8, 2014
It's always nice to come across another Anna Kavan fan. And a Paul Celan fan, too. Your poetry collection is full of interesting books, and the tags are quite helpful! I'm already finding some good additions to my to-read list.
posted by S.D. at 10:05 am (EST) on May 8, 2014
Yes, the food stuff was great, especially considering how hard it can be to find some of it up here :) Still didn't find some of the more specific cookbooks (specific ingredient cookbooks) but I can order them online :P
posted by Bcteagirl at 2:36 am (EST) on May 18, 2010
Thank you for your advice :) I looked up all the stores you gave me and was able to make it to one of the cookbook stores where I had a blast. Brought home a cookbook and some fancy dried goods :)
posted by Bcteagirl at 11:41 pm (EST) on May 17, 2010
Hey, do you know of any good used book stores in Calgary? Travelling there in May :)
A fellow Canadian bookworm from BC.
posted by Bcteagirl at 1:12 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2010
Wandered into your Bio fairly randomly, only to find myself suddenly nodding and grinning and feeling right at home...! Off to browse your library because of course I have nothing more pressing to do... like finish my own Comp Lit doctorate... gah...
Are you writing yet?
In solidarity,
Elizabeth ('fullmoonblue')
posted by Fullmoonblue at 3:24 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2009
Hello cocoafiend,
I just joined group read, and am starting to read through people's threads. I saw early on in Urania's thread you asked about Tatanya Tolstaya. In January I read The Slynx. (I did a short review of it on my 75 book challenge thread). It's a 1984-like novel set in the dystopian future 200 years after an event known as "the Blast." It was a quick read, and if you like that kind of fiction I'd recommend it. I'm planning to seek out her short stories which sound like they are totally different than the Slynx.
posted by arubabookwoman at 6:11 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009
Re: cookbooks without dud recipes. While I'm no fan of the person, I have several Martha Stewart cookbooks and haven't ever had one be less than excellent. Another that gets close to the same rating (no duds, but some were only 'good' rather than incredible :) is Sundays At the Moosewood.
Another nice thing about each. With the exception of the hardback collection of just recipes (which is the best buy for recipes/page), the Stewart books are a visual delight. Sundays is also a fun read in addition to being full of good stuff.
Up next for me after the dreary online recipe I book (which did yield a good soup recipe already), is a collection of pioneer recipes. I'm looking forward to it!
posted by suslyn at 6:38 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2009
hi cocoafiend,
i read ur post somewhere mentioning a film about Monsanto. i wonder if u have seen a more recent documentary (2008) by Marie-Monique Robin (France), The World According to Monsanto. i got to watch it in a Lisbon film fest just a few months ago. the discussion with the director after was very interesting, she's fearless, the nightmare of such multinational companies. she has just published a book on it which been translated to several languages (although the english translation will take the longest to come out...)
the film can be downloaded for free. interestingly, she says she doesn't mind copyrights and stuff, so long as the message gets to as many people as possible. she has waged war. here is the link, if you're interested...
posted by deebee1 at 6:06 am (EST) on Jan 20, 2009
Hello cocoafiend,
Thanks for adding me to your list of interesting libraries. I have started to scan through your shelves and the first thing I noticed was a number of shared books that L-thing doesn't recognize, flawed creature that it is. Your tags are simple and helpful. I hope to get around to updating my library soon, perhaps in the dead of winter... Great library.
cheers, Lynne
posted by zero-one_law at 7:04 pm (EST) on Dec 4, 2008
Hello My New Friend:
A part of me is jealous of you working on finishing your PhD and another part is not (LOL). I was going to study Faulkner in grad school with Michael Millgate and then more practical considerations prevailed and I am sure it was for the best. You do wonder, occasionally, "what if?" but really I have no regrets.
Poor Folk. I wanted to let you know you do NOT have to acquire it. I did not have it myself and found the full text online. I like the work so much that when I saw it in a bookstore last week, I still decided to NOT acquire it LOL. The link to it is http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/poor_folk/
posted by polutropos at 8:59 am (EST) on Dec 3, 2008
Hi, Cocoafiend. Thanks for marking my library.
I am glad to see Canadians on LT and I love your profile descriptions.
Nice to meet you!!
posted by kiwidoc at 1:53 am (EST) on Dec 3, 2008
Thanks for adding me to your list of interesting libraries! Quite flattering!!
I also sent you a "friend" request.
See you among the Booknudgers.
Paola :-))
posted by aluvalibri at 9:15 pm (EST) on Nov 29, 2008
Thx for the tips on cookbooks. I live in Romania, so reading cookbooks will be a challenge since finding them is a challenge :) But it is a passion, which I'm sure you can understand. What's your field?
posted by suslyn at 5:09 am (EST) on Nov 29, 2008
Thanks for the compliment cocoafiend!
I see we share a great interest in Sylvia Plath and Anna Kavan!
I've read of you in the booknudgers group and though still lurking, it's great fun to read.
My TBR's have grown vicariously because of it!
Barns full of books and chocolate. Sounds like heaven to me!
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