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Is it a coup attempt or just police protests against salary cuts? The 24 hour rule is in effect.
Ecuador 'coup': 50 injured in clashes
"We've treated 50 people in Quito for medical emergencies due to asphyxiation due to tear gas and impacts from pellets and teargas canisters," said Jorge Arteaga, a Red Cross spokesman.
Most of the injured had been involved in clashes outside the hospital where president Rafael Correa is being held.
Mr Arteaga said that injuries were also reported in other Ecuadoran cities where rebel police took to the streets.
Mr Correa was holed up at Quito's National Police Hospital, where he was taken after a tear gas canister exploded near him when he addressed rebellious police at a barracks nearby.
Although the police are surrounding the hospital and preventing him from leaving, Mr Correa told ECTV television that he is still running the country.
"They're not letting me out," Mr Correa said. "They've got all the hospital exits surrounded.
"Obviously, it's a kidnapping, when you kidnap the president," he added.
Mr Correa said he would not negotiate with the officers while he remains a captive.
"I'd rather die," he said.
Ecuador's president defiant after hospital rescue
A defiant Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa returned safely to the presidential palace late Thursday after spending hours held by police inside a hospital room outside Quito.
Minutes earlier, members of the Ecuadorian army — wearing gas masks — rescued him, a reporter for Ecuadorian Television reported.
Speaking from a balcony, Correa told thousands of jubilant supporters that he saw one person who was shot during the rescue, which he regretted.
He thanked his supporters — in particular his bodyguards — for standing behind him and said the rebel police effort to oust him had failed.
"Nobody has supported the police as much as this government, nobody has increased their salaries as much," he said about police protests about what they thought were salary cuts. "After all we've done for the police, they did this!" he said, adding that he was held inside the room and not allowed to leave.
"Supposed national police!" he spat. "Shame on you!"
See also:
Ecuador coup attempt? President Rafael Correa attacked in police revolt.
Ecuador's president attacked by police
State of Siege Declared Over Ecuador Coup
Coup d'état continues in Ecuador
Ecuador's leader trapped after 'coup attempt'
Ecuador President Hurt During 'Coup Attempt'
Correa Claims Ecuador Coup Attempt After Scuffling With Police
Unrest In Ecuador: Protesting Security Forces Seize Airport
Protesting police, soldiers seize Ecuador airport
Ecuador Declares State of Emergency
Ecuador declares state of emergency as country thrown into chaos
Ecuador state of emergency: Your emails
Peru closes border with Ecuador after coup attempt
Colombia Seals Off Border with Ecuador
Colombia joins Peru in closing borders with Ecuador
Troops free Ecuador president
Ecuador president rescued amid police, military clash
Ecuador unrest: Rafael Correa returns to presidential palace
Ecuador's President Freed From 'Police Siege'
Troops storm Ecuador hospital and free Correa
Obviously, it's hard to tell exactly what's going on in Ecuador at the moment, although it seems that it might be a failed coup attempt.
/if so, all I can say is better luck next time, Rafael Correa is a close protégé of oppressive socialism poster boy and enemy of the United States, Hugo Chavez
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New York, New York - April 5, 2010 - Actor, author and blogger Wil Wheaton of the popular television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the classic film Stand By Me, has signed for a guest starring appearance on the 4th season of Eureka, one of Syfy's most popular original series. The new season is slated to return to Syfy on Friday, July 9 at 9:00PM ET/PT.
In episode 403 of Eureka titled "All The Rage," sci-fi fan favorite Wheaton plays the brilliant Dr. Isaac Parrish, head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab at Global Dynamics. Parrish's dry wit and superior attitude make him a thorn in Fargo's (Neil Grayston) side -- with potentially disastrous consequences. The episode featuring Wheaton is scheduled to air on Friday, July 23rd.
Eureka seems like any other cozy, Pacific Northwest town, but is actually a secret community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research. What they've unwittingly created is a place where anything imaginable can happen� and does. New and returning fans won't want to miss the big changes in store for everyone in the small town of Eureka after a cataclysmic shift turns their lives upside down.
Eureka stars Colin Ferguson ("Sheriff Jack Carter") Salli Richardson-Whitfield ("Allison Blake"), Joe Morton ("Henry Deacon") Erica Cerra ("Jo Lupo"), Neil Grayston ("Douglas Fargo"), Niall Matter ("Zane Donovan"), James Callis ("Dr. Grant), and features Jordon Hinson ("Zoe Carter"). Co-creator Jaime Paglia and Bruce Miller are Executive Producers. The series is produced and distributed by Universal Cable Productions.
Settling comfortably last summer into its new night, Fridays at 9PM, Eureka's third season was its highest-rated and most-watched season ever averaging an impressive 3.2 million total viewers per week (with full DVR data factored in). It was also the show's best season ever in adults 18-49 (averaging 1.4 million per week) and adults 25-54 (1.6 million per week).
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Killed by soldiers, rebels, drug and animal smugglers, wild animals or simply by accident, 70 rangers have lost their lives this year. Rangers protect our parks and the people that visit them but who protects them?
In June, the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was brutally attacked by armed poachers who killed seven people, including two rangers. In early July, rangers and their families were evacuated from Virunga National Park, also in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as the latest chapter in the country's ongoing civil war in its Eastern provinces raged out of control. In India, nearly 30 rangers have been killed this year either by drug smugglers or poachers.
Some parks have very few vehicles for patrolling, making it difficult to control poaching. In others, rangers work for months without salaries, forcing them to take on other jobs to support their families, or the park is engulfed in conflict and rangers are confronted by armies, militias and refugees. In the developed world, rangers are sometimes up against by heavily armed drug lords.
These risks are all too common, and in many parks and reserves they are increasing. Adequate equipment and training in many cases can help alleviate the danger, and assist rangers in ensuring their own safety.
The IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme has taken up capacity development as a main theme of its new work programme, working on guidelines and programmes that will assist rangers in their development of skills and work experience. With more effort being made on training rangers they will ultimately be better equipped to interact with stakeholders and deal with conflict, leading to better protection for both people and protected areas. .
In addition to their service to protected areas and communities, rangers are often the only wage earners in their families. A ranger death can lead to financial disaster for a family. The Thin Green Line foundation supports families affected by ranger deaths or injury directly. Allocating funds so that the families can survive and children can continue schooling not only helps rangers' families, but can help support whole communities.
Rangers are the eyes and ears on the ground in our protected areas, and their invaluable service and sacrifices help conserve biodiversity and help others achieve progress. On this World Ranger Day, supporting them is vital to ensuring thriving protected areas and communities now and in the future.
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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): First Time by Lifehouse.
It is super secret agent time. Time to whip out my mad super hero skillz (yes, that cool. I'm whipping out the z). Because I am about to undertake a mission so sinister it can only be fathomed in the depths of a really dark place. And cold too, I'm betting. Get this - I am about to infiltrate... the happiest place on earth.
Yes, Disneyworld. That happy place.
What? You think that is easy? I must don all my secret gear, go undercover and meld in, looking like a normal happy 22 year old with her family. No easy feat. No surrie. *shakes head*
So - away with my WriterGirl cape I say! I must don civillian clothes. Blend in. Act natural. But oh, I will be watching, oh will I be watching. Every happy squeal you make when on seeing Mickey, every giant turkey leg and churro you consume, I will be there. You see, that's what we crazy writers do. We watch, we learn, and then we write fantastic stories. You never know who will be watching. And if I have a spot of fun on the Tower of Terror? So be it. It's all part of the mission.
Now the only question left is - who should I get a picture with? I need proof I was there after all, or you might not believe me. Not believe a writer? Pah! ;)
WriterGirl, over and out.
[You will be getting a "Best Of" next week from my old blog, a place very few have seen. I have some very cool adventures to share with you]. Really now, WriterGirl over and out.
(P.S You are all awesome). *Ahem* WriterGirl OVER and OUT.
(awesome) *dashes off*
The Next Great Adventure - Disneyworld.
Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): First Time by Lifehouse.
5 comments:
- Frankie Diane Mallis said...
Love it! Have fun! Can't wait to hear more!
- December 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- Shannon Messenger said...
Have a blast Heather! I may just have to hop by Disneyland this weekend now--you've stirred the need!
- December 3, 2009 at 10:24 PM
- PJ Hoover said...
It's the best place on Earth! I love it! I plan to go every other year.
Have a great time.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR over in TomorrowLand. There is no one like Buzz.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- Sadako said...
Can't wait to see what you make of it! Your writing is really funny.
- December 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Heather Zundel said...
Frankie - It was a ton of fun. I hope you enjoy the subsequent posts.
Shannon - I totally thought of you in the other Disney on Sunday. Wondered what rides tempted your interest.
PJ - Lucky! But sadly PJ, I failed in my mission. I looked all over for him!
Sadako - Thank you! I'm glad you think so. :D
- December 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama is expected to announce Friday the creation of the position of cyber czar, a person who will coordinate the nation's efforts to protect government and private computer systems from hackers, criminal gangs, terrorists and spies, people familiar with the plan said Thursday.
President Obama is expected to announce Friday the creation of the position of "cyber czar."
The czar will report to both the national security adviser and the head of the National Economic Council, the sources said.
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Shortly after taking office, Obama ordered a 60-day review intended to ensure the federal government's cyber initiatives were "appropriately integrated, resourced and coordinated with Congress and the private sector."
Melissa Hathaway, a senior member of the National Security Council who led the review process, told a security conference late last year that a public-private partnership and international alliances would be key to solving cyber security problems. Another senior official said any solution would be a "team sport" requiring a "holistic, comprehensive" approach.
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Hathaway expressed concern that critical infrastructures such as the nation's power grid and financial networks could be vulnerable. "God forbid if somebody were to take down and or manipulate our financial system, and what would we do, and would it make the current financial crisis look like a walk in the park?" she asked.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair recently told reporters the biggest cyber threat facing the United States is from nation states, particularly Russia and China. "I think China is winning the sweepstakes for the origin of most attacks on U.S. persons and organizations," he said.
The Bush administration's own review of the matter culminated in the mostly classified National Cybersecurity Initiative, which was enacted in January 2008. National Security Agency executive Sandra Stenar-Johnson said that plan consisted of 12 initiatives with three goals: reduce the current vulnerabilities in the system, defend against the full spectrum of threats, and develop next-generation technologies to maintain an edge over adversaries.
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On "Reapers"
Nellie McKay
Black reapersmenprepare for the harvest by sharpening their scythes, but a mower, driven by black horses, cuts through the weeds with indifference, unknowingly destroying a field rat with its blades. Toomer creates a contrast between the knowledge and purpose of responsible human beings and the automated disinterestedness of machines. The reapers are deliberate in their preparations, and they have an objective and expectations of rewards. But no human awareness governs the actions of machines, which cannot comprehend the devastation they cause.
In establishing this division, Toomer indicts those who carry out acts of oppression against others and asserts that they act out of elements in themselves that are less than human. Such actions violate the human reason for being and the doer becomes like the machine, without the ability to nourish human life.
From Jean Toomer: ArtistA Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936. Copyright © 1984 by The University of North Carolina Press.
Michael North
"Reapers" . . . is written in rhymed quatrains, rhymed so insistently, in fact, that it is possible to read the poem as having only two rhyming sounds for its eight lines. It is also rendered in complete, conventional sentences, and it has a fairly consistent iambic rhythm. The appropriateness of these conventions appears where they are most consistent:
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones
In their hip-pockets as a thing that's done,
And start their silent swinging, one by one.
The rhythmic repetitions of the form stand for the repetitive nature of the work, which appears most obviously in the nearly perfect iambic line that represents the resumed swinging of the scythes. This sort of work is repetitive in a physical sense, relying as it does on a few movements reiterated again and again, and in a temporal sense, since it must be done every day, every season, season after season. It is "a thing that's done," a habit.
Toomer does not print the break between stanzas as a physical break, but everything changes there nevertheless:
Black horses drive a mower through the weeds,
And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds,
His belly close to ground. I see the blade,
Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade.
The break represents a major change in the life of this rural area, the change from manpower to machines, which changes everything else as well. As Toomer put it in a letter to Frank, "The supreme fact of mechanical civilization is that you become part of it, or get sloughed off (under)." The line describing the death of the field rat embodies this change in meaning and in sound. Instead of working slowly and rhythmically, the mower moves on ineluctably, even killing the living things before it, which make a sound that is the very antithesis of the soft silent swinging of the scythes. The dying squeal of the rat affects the poetry itself, which is least iambic and most interrupted just here, as if the line itself were cut mindlessly and inorganically.
From The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature. Copyright © 1994 by Michael North.
Charles Scruggs anbd Lee VanDemarr
The white South defined miscegenation practically as the rape of white women by black men. Within the black community, of course, the understanding was very differentby 1920 an estimated 70 percent of African-Americans were of mixed race, and that huge total had nothing to do with black men's rape of white women. Karintha's secrecy about her child indicates some communal violation beyond mere illegitimacy, and that disruption is hinted at in the poem that follows her story. "Reapers" describes a mechanical mower drawn by "black horses" that cuts up a squealing "field rat." More antipastoral than the work of Robert Burns, the poem depicts the suppressed anger of the black field hands, whose motivation is both economic and sexual. Killing the rat, they foreshadow Bane's slashing his friend in "Carma" and the death of Bob Stone in "Blood-Burning Moon." In the post-Reconstruction South, sexual exploitation of black women was an act of political terror, a way of intimidating both black women and black men. And although Karintha's child is a private scandal, the world of whispered facts and gossip, like secret miscegenation, powerfully affects the action in Cane.
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The African-American folk culture Toomer adapts and creates for the first section of Cane, the sorrow songs and blues lines between and within the stories, is a politicized culture. The subtle menace of "Reapers" and the direct challenge of "Cotton Song" both speak against the white South and its economic, social, and political systems. The songlike verses in "Carma" are not lyrics to nature, but refer to the secret history of miscegenation and its disruption of black family and society, as do the key images and lines from "Karintha" that are repeated in "Georgia Dusk," "Nullo," and eventually "Kabnis." Even an apparently simple lyric like "Evening Song," with its "Lakes and moon and fires" (35), anticipates "Blood-Burning Moon." Toomer also recognizes how black folk culture embraces Christianity, for slaves the religion of submission, and adapts it for resistance, as in the lines from "Cotton Song": "Shackles fall upon the Judgement Day / But Iets not wait for it" (15).
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Section 5 of "Kabnis" begins with night as "a pregnant Negress," the posibility of birth and change, but the same image recalls Karintha's child. And as the poems "Reapers" and "Cotton Song" indicate, black labor produces black laborblack birth is the source of the South's economic fecundity, cynically underscored by the cotton pickers themselves in the puns ("Hump . . . roll away") of their song (15).
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Like Gothic narratives, Cane progresses through circular repetition that both reveals and conceals. The ubiquitous dead child is one source of Cane's Gothicism, as are the lynched man or woman ("Portrait in Georgia," "Blood-Burning Moon," "Kabnis"), decaying flesh ("Face"), maimed or murdered animals ("Reapers," "Kabnis," "November Cotton Flower")and these figures also bear witness to something hidden. Gothicism in Cane depends for its effects on the hidden past erupting into the present, upsetting the social order, and raising questions about good and evil that conventional morality cannot answer.
from Jean Toomer and The Terrors of American History. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P.
Catherine Gunther Kodat
In Cane, the first-person narrative voice makes its debut in "Reapers," the brief poem that appears after "Karintha." Here, Tommer shows how the narrative "I" emerges in a vision of violence: the poet sees how the reapers sharpen their scythes for the work ahead, and how that harvesting work involves violence that is incidental and inevitable, as a mower slaughters a rat in the field and then goes on. The homology that was lightly sketched in "Karintha" between artistic capital and human capital emerges here in bolder strokes through the parallel between the actual harvest of "Reapers" and Toomers artistic "harvest," wherein disparate black folk materialsfor example, the blues stanza and gospel shoutsare gathered together to total a larger whole. Both harvests, it is hinted, do violence; this exploration of representational violence is further developed in "Becky," the story of the white woman who has two black children and is consequently ostracized by the white and black communities.
from "To 'Flash White Light from Ebony': The Problem of Modernism in Jean Toomer's Cane." Twentieth-Century Literature 46 (Spring 2000), 1-19.
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Use this procedure to prevent the automatic cloning of a zone on a ZFS file system by specifying that the zonepath should be copied instead.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Specify that the zonepath on ZFS be copied and not ZFS cloned.
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Esther "Bathing Beauty" Williams is not only still alive, she's still swimming! The woman who made synchronized swimming oh-so-glamorous had Diane Sawyer over for a swim recently and said to her, "We're a couple of troopers, aren't we? We both stayed so pretty. Isn't that the best part?". Um, obvs. [ABC News]


text: Multimedia keyboards + foobar2000: A complete guide 2006-11-11 03:35:37 [Version 0.00.2b RC1, written by ZoFreX]If, like me, you have a multimedia keyboard, you probably want it to work with foobar2000. I've divided this up into two parts: Part 1: Making the "launch multimedia application" button on your keyboard launch foobar instead of Windows Media Player. Step 1: Associate foobar with .cda files however you see fit (from foobar's preferences is an easy way to do it). That's it! Testing: Press the "launch multimedia application" button on your keyboard. If foobar is open it should jump to the foreground, if not it should open. If it worked, jump to the "It worked!" section. If it didn't, try the troubleshooting section and if it still doesn't work, try the "It didn't work!" section. Technical note: Yes, Windows determines what program should be launched when you press "AppKey 16" (media player button) by what opens .cda files. It took a while to figure this out! This can actually be changed so it matches .mp3 files or whatever, just change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\16\Association (I give no warranty whatsoever for fiddling with this, nor have I tested doing so).Part 2: Making the media player buttons (play, stop etc) work when foobar is minimised.Addendum A: Logitech SetPointFirstly, SetPoint is a horrible, poorly written program that I would strongly advise against having installed. However, you can get your media buttons working in foobar while it is minimised with a small alteration. Open up SetPoint's "players.ini" file, for me this is in C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\players.ini. At the bottom of the [players] list, add the line:Code: [Select]foobar2000=wac,foobar2000.exe,{DA7CD0DE-1602-45e6-89A1-C2CA151E008E}/1,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,0,1,foobar2000Restart SetPoint (i.e. exit it, and then start it again), and your keys should work, if you're using foobar v0.9.4.1. The window class will need to be changed if you are not, or if you're using a different user interface module - e.g. for columnsui, the classid would be {E7076D1C-A7BF-4f39-B771-BCBE88F2A2A8}. The best long-term solution is for you to know how to find out that classid, so read on:I used Spy++ to find the classid, but not all of you will have Visual Studio installed so I checked out some of the free options. WinID was the easiest to use:Step 1: Download, install and run WinID http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=WinIDStep 2: With foobar2000 visible on screen and WinID in the foreground, mouse over foobar's title and press shift.Step 3: WinID will now have taken a snapshot, click the "1" in the top left corner to view your snapshot.Step 4: Copy the class from here into the players.ini line for foobar.Step 5: Exit and re-open SetPoint. Your multimedia keys should now work for foobar when it's minimised!If you want the media button to launch foobar then use the SetPoint software to bind that.It didn't work!So you've followed the instructions, tried the troubleshooting steps, and it still doesn't work. No worries. Post:What didn't workWhether the media keys work in foobar when it's focusedYour version of WindowsYour version of FoobarWhat keyboard you're usingWhat drivers / software you have installed for your keyboardAnything else you think might be relevant It worked!Great! If you have a Windows / foobar version different to one in the "Tried & Tested" section, post so I can confirm it on that.Tried & tested on:Windows XP SP2Vista build 5744 (Part 1: setting file associations from inside Foobar on non-administrator account fails hard, setting .cda assocation to foobar through Windows makes the media application launch button work fine)foobar v0.9.4.1 Last Edit: 2006-11-12 15:53:39 by Luckz


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Clean up in the outfield?
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The flight paths of seagulls are seen in a time exposure as they fly over the left field bleachers at the conclusion of the San Francisco Giants baseball game at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., July 11, 2014.
Taking a brain-teaser on a cruise?
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A giant Rubik's Cube floats in the Hudson River to celebrate the birthday of Erno Rubik and The Beyond Rubik's Cube Exhibition at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ, July 11, 2014.
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Players partially encased in giant plastic inflatable balls roll over on the ground, their legs in the air, during their bubble soccer match in Beijing, China, July 10, 2014. The promotional event was organized by the Kappa sportswear brand, in conjunction with the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, left, serves a ball to U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn during a promotional tennis event on the Aletsch glacier at the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, July 16, 2014. The world's number three tennis player and the Alpine skiing champion played on a specially prepared tennis court on a glacier at an altitude of 11,401 feet.
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My apartment has south facing windows, which makes it SO HOT and blindingly bright. Sometimes I have to wear sunglasses indoors, and the wall of mirrors doesnt help matters! So I figured I might as well take advantage of living in a greenhouse and grow some herbs.
I've been collecting some potted herbs for the past few days. I bought some at the farmer's market, some at Home Depot, and some more at my local florist. I was looking for the perfect pot to replant them in so I could leave them on my window sill and have fresh herbs everyday. The florist had her herbs in these glass square bowls, and she told me that with a few stones below the soil for drainage, the herbs would be just fine in one of those.
Im growing: Basil, Mint, Oregano, and Thyme. I have Rosemary growing in a separate pot because it has different watering needs. I put the Oregano and Mint at the edges because they tend to flop sideways, while the Basil and Thyme will stay more upright. For instructions on a fool-proof herb garden go HERE.
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- 1 FreeCAD GUI for Data Manipulation
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Method
- 1.3 Potential Feature Requests:
- 1.4 Behavioral Issues:
- 1.4.1 Issue#3 Level of expansion of displayed data for Data tab in Combo View is inconsistent
- 1.4.2 Issue#4 New object creation should switch selection to new object (view zooms to display new object, but browser doesn't Select it)
- 1.4.3 Issue#5 Is the math capability for input of X,Y,Z in Position documented?
- 1.4.4 Issue#6 Deleting a Compound object places the Component objects at the end of the list in the Combo View
- 1.4.5 Issue#7 X,Y or Z in Position of Placement Inconsistently Maintains Significant Figues in Rolling Over From -9,999 mm to -1.1 m
- 1.4.6 Issue#8 When specifying X, Y or Z in Position, Return key doesn't always put user into Edit mode
- 1.4.7 Others
- 1.4.8 Not Really
FreeCAD GUI for Data Manipulation
The GUI for numeric data entry in FreeCAD is a versatile entity. Unfortunately it contains various inconsistencies which frustrate new (and old) users. This is a list of some of those Inconsistencies. These descriptions may not be complete, rather these are the aspects I have encountered.
A list of issues appears later in this document. It needs to be decided whether the behavior is intended, coincidental or erroneous. To demonstrate and explain them a collection of objects will be used, a screen snapshot of the objects in the Combo View is shown here and a FCStd file will be attached with the example objects.
This page is a "work in progress" and will be extended as necessary. Most likely the object collection (and screen snapshot and FCStd file) will have to be expanded and so will be updated as necessary.
Note: It is not known if these 'bugs' are hard fails or possibly intermittent; also it is not known if some of them may be platform specific. This list is created from FreeCAD v 0.14 on Macintosh computer.
Potential Feature Requests:
Right-click on Combo View Model Tab to Sort Objects Alphabetically
With large collections of objects, methods to manage the information are required. One method is by creating Groups and placing objects within them. Yet with large object collections even the number of objects in a Group can be daunting.
If the ability to sort objects alphabetically were available through a right-click menu option, then the user would at least know where in the list of objects to direct his attention to locate an object.
As an example, with initial testing of the Open Street Map data importation by Microelly2, over 500 buildings can be imported. Obviously these can all be placed into a Group named "Buildings" but the problem simply happens again within the Group. With the current versions of FreeCAD the objects are listed in the order of creation, and then the ordered can be modified by certain object operations. So looking for Building 357 requires searching the complete list of 500 buildings
Ability to drag/drop objects in Combo View Model tab to place in order
As a corollary to being able to have sorting applied to the object list in the Combo View, it would also be nice to have sorting switched off but to be able to drag objects into a user desired order. It is possible that the viewing order could be one of three:
- as is (i.e. the way FreeCAD lists objects in 0.14 and 0.15)
- alphabetic
- user determined order
If the option was available through the right-click menu then the user could decide which listing option was most useful at any given point.
Behavioral Issues:
The format for these Issues is a numbered entry for each Issue, and then within that numbered point, a bullet point for the Issue description followed by a bullet point with the steps to create the Issue. Optionally there is a third bullet point with discussion points For each Issue the following steps are assumed at the beginning of each Issue description:
- open example file
- open Views->Combo View
- click the Data tab
Level of expansion of displayed data for Data tab in Combo View is inconsistent
- if user has Position drop-down expanded then it should not close when he selects a different object
- Steps to Create:
- click on Cube1 to Select it
- click on the drop-down icon to the left of Position - the positional data for Cube1 should appear
- click on Cylinder1 - the pop-down data for Position will not appear
- When working with the alignment of different objects this is very annoying. Once the user has decided what level of detail he wants displayed, this should be maintained by the software.
RELATED http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10482 on Data or View tab being default to open
New object creation should switch selection to new object (view zooms to display new object, but browser doesn't Select it)
- If the user has created a new object then presumably that is what they want to work with.
- Steps to Create:
Is the math capability for input of X,Y,Z in Position documented?
- 400 + -17 may be entered into the X, Y,Z coordinates, is this documented?
- Steps to Create:
- enter "400+-17" into the X, Y or Z field of the Position. When you click away the string will be evaluated and the resultant displayed ("383" in this example)
- I have not been able to find documentation of this useful feature.
Deleting a Compound object places the Component objects at the end of the list in the Combo View
- When a Compound object (e.g. a Pad, Sweep, Loft) is deleted the component objects are removed from any Group they might belong to and placed at the end of the object list.
- Steps to Create:
- Select and Delete the object Loft1
- The object Loft1 will be removed and not appear on the list of objects. The two objects Sketch2a and Sketch2b will now be "released" from the Lost operation and be restored as objects on their own (as opposed to component objects in a compound object). However, they are placed at the end of the object list. They have been removed from the group which they belonged to prior to the Loft operation, they are removed from the Group that they belonged to as part of the compound object result of the Loft operation. In a large project this is very annoying as one must always scroll to the bottom of the object list and return the newly freed objects to their rightful place.
X,Y or Z in Position of Placement Inconsistently Maintains Significant Figues in Rolling Over From -9,999 mm to -1.1 m
- Starting with an X, Y or Z Position value of -9,999, decrementing and incrementing exhibits behavior depending on the direction. In fact, if you starts with -9,999 you never get back to your original value.
- Steps to Create:
- Set the Z value of the Position for Cube1 to -9,999
- Click the Decrement button (or press the Down arrow key),each key click will give you:
Keystroke Value of Z -9,999 mm ↓ -10,000 mm ↓ -11 m ↓ -12 m ↑ -11 m ↑ -10 m ↑ -9 m ↑ -8,999 mm
- There may be more irregularities, these are just the ones that have "caught" me.
When specifying X, Y or Z in Position, Return key doesn't always put user into Edit mode
- The behavior of the Return key is very erratic when trying to edit the X, Y and Z fields of the Position. The behavior is not exactly repeatable although it always happens. I have not been able to tie this to restarting the image. One time it works one way, the next time it works the other way. This is extremely frustrating when trying to move objects around using the keypad. You enter the keystrokes you expect to position the object and then find out that one of the 3 fields (i.e. X, Y, or Z) has gone "deaf". Of course then you have to exit problem space and start figuring how many of your keystrokes the software accepted and how many it has ignored. This is ultimately annoying.
- Steps to Create:
- Load the example project file
- Both Cube1 and Cylinder1 should have the Position of 0,0,0
- In Cube1, click on the X value, press down-arrow, press Return
- Press down-arrow
- Press Return - you enter into Edit mode for the Y value
- In Cylinder1, click on the X value, press up-arrow, press Return
- Press down-arrow
- Press Return - you do not enter into Edit mode for the Y value
- As mentioned above - THIS IS PERFECTLY REPEATABLE - try it five times and it will screw up, and if it screws up more than once, it will not necessarily screw up the same way.
- Erratic Selection
- Selection is not always predictable, sometimes there are multiple selections, this leaves the user unsure of which object an action will act upon
- Steps to Create:
- Erratic Selection after drag/drop
- having to click twice to reset Selection
- Steps to Create:
- business with negative sign, comma in data entry
- Steps to Create:
- http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14035
- Steps to Create:
- erratic Undo
- Steps to Create:
- Steps to Create:
Not Really
- does Combo View scroll when you need to drag something from the bottom to the top and the top is off the top of the display?
- Steps to Create:
- Steps to Create:
- is there a way to reset "800-170" in X,Y,Z to "630"?
- after using 400 + -17 to relocate an object, is there a method for the user to reset the field value to 383?
- Steps to Create:


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ODU Hosts CAA POD Meet (WEEKEND SCHEDULE IS ATTACHED)
By ODU Athletics
Nov. 1, 2012
NORFOLK, Va. - The Old Dominion University men's and women's swimming and diving teams will be back in the water Nov. 2-3 at the J.C. "Scrap" Chandler Pool located in the Student Recreation Center.
Old Dominion's women will compete against George Mason, Northeastern, and Towson. While the men will duke it out with GMU and Towson.
The schedule for Friday and Saturday's events will be as follows:
Friday (Swimming, Session I) - 5:00 pm
200 Free Relay
50 Free
1,650 Free
400 Medley Relay
Friday (Diving, Session I) - 7:30 pm
Women, 1 M
Men, 3 M
Saturday (Swimming, Session II) - 10:00 am
200 Medley Relay
100 Fly
200 Free
100 Breast
100 Back
Saturday (Diving, Session II) - 12:00 pm
Men, 1 M
Women, 3M
Saturday (Swimming, Session III) - 4:00 pm
500 Free
200 Back
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Fly
400 Free Relay
Old Dominion was scheduled to compete against the University of Delaware last Saturday, October 27; however, Hurricane Sandy postponed this event.
The last time ODU was in the water the Lady Monarchs went 2-0 after beating UNC-W (95.00-68.00) and Richmond (82.00-81.00).
Kimberley Rashleigh took first in the 200 backstroke (2:02.87) and in the 400 IM (4:29.20), while Yesim Giresunlu won the 500 freestyle (5:01.53) and the 1650 freestyle (17:06.13). Giresunulu's time of 17:06.13 set a new pool record in the 1650 freestyle. Jessica Hubert won the 100 butterfly by not only posting the fifth fastest time in Old Dominion University history with a time of 56.3, but also set a new J.C. "Scrap" Chandler Pool benchmark. Hubert broke her personal best of 56.91 set in 2011, which was good enough for eighth on the ODU charts. Hubert also took first in the 200 butterfly (2:04.16).
Savannah Bowers placed first in the 200 free (1:53.26).
The Lady Monarchs also won the 400 medley relay (3:53.93) with Kimberley Rashleigh, Laura Cempel, Ashley Luchsinger, and Morgan Johnson. Rashleigh and Johnson also teamed up with Savannah Bowers and Mackenzie Payment to win the 400 free relay (3:31.00).
ODU's men dropped their first dual meet to UNC-W 177.00-176.00. The Monarchs won a total of eleven individual events, led by Ryan Telep and Mitchell Ortiz winning two each.
Mitchell Ortiz won the 1 meter with a score of 243.45, moving him up from ninth to eighth on the school's top 10 list. Danny Rabe finished in second on the 1 meter and also cracked ODU's top 10 scores by posting a 231.20, which puts him ninth on the all-time list.
Ortiz continued his dominance on the diving board by winning the 3 meter (246.40) as well.
Ryan Telep earned victories in the 200 IM (1:56.17) and 400 IM (4:09.06). Bernardo Figueredo captured a victory in the 1650 free (16:32.10). Carter Watson hit the wall first in the 200 free (1:44.31), while Jason Brame posted the top time in the 500 free (4:44.24).
Other winners for the Monarchs included Sidni Hoxha in the 100 free (46.47) with a new ODU Pool record, Jason Haigh in the 200 back (2:06.61), and Reed Mathews in the 200 fly (1:53.19).
Although, Vitor Sa placed second in the 100 fly (50.17), his time was good enough to put him sixth on the school's top 10 list.
Be sure to follow Old Dominion's Swimming and Diving teams on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/ODUSwimDive


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Court nixes damages against NM attorney general
The state Court of Appeals has overturned damages against Attorney General Gary King for withholding public records requested by a lawyer handling a pay discrimination case against King.
The court said Thursday a district court judge in Albuquerque failed to provide evidence to support $100-a-day damages against the attorney general.
The damages were to accrue until King's office provided records requested by Albuquerque lawyer Daniel Faber, and were estimated to be at least $20,000 in 2011.
The court's ruling involves a 2010 public records request by Faber, who represented several female staff lawyers who sued King in federal court for alleged pay discrimination. When the federal case was put on hold, Faber filed a public records request for employment records he wanted for the lawsuit.


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- We've noted that Eric Pankowski is now pretty much running WWE creative. Pankowski is a Triple H hire and has impressed the McMahon family since being hired in February. Pankowski has a reputation of being all business and that he's looking at WWE's shows for what's going to be the best for the business.
- After dropping the idea a week ago, WWE may be bringing back the storyline where AJ Lee and Booker T are replaced by a to-be-named General Manager that will be appointed by Vince McMahon. We should know if they're going to go ahead with it after next week's tapings.
- Maryse and The Miz were out with friends celebrating his 32nd birthday last night. He was presented with this one-of-a-kind cake:
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RLC officer takes on 'World's toughest row'
A team of five intrepid adventurers, including one RLC officer, are taking part in one of the world's toughest rowing challenges to raise funds for…
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The men and women of 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Regiment have received one of the highest accolades that can be bestowed upon a military…
Congratulations to Major Schultz, WO2 Wright, Captain Williams and SSgt Cockburn who have received awards in the Operational Honours and Awards List. Click below to read the full story. #BritishArmyLogistics #WeSustain
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The most recent Operational Honours and Awards List, which recognises the bravery, commitment, leadership and commendable service of those within the military, has been released, including the names of four RLC personnel.
Congratulations to Major Kerry Schultz (27 Regiment RLC) and WO2 Ben Wright (11 EOD&Search Regiment RLC) who were awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service. Captain Karl Williams (27 Regiment RLC) and SSgt Steven Cockburn (11 EOD&Search Regiment RLC) both received the Queen's Commendation for Bravery.
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Behold 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. And note the Ashlee Simpsonesque transformation of his nose. Maybe people with the initials KLS are just vainer than most. And while the Guantanamo diet was good for the love handles, waterboarding leaves you bloated with bags under the eyes? In any case, something, it's hard to know exactly what, motivated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to finally tell us what was up with Al Qaeda. Easier to know is why we finally found him: some Pakistani farmer type wanted to win $25 million. Will the same tactic work for the auto industry? John McCain wants to offer $300 million — Fun fact: just under one thousandth the cost of that recent farm bill — to the first person to invent a 30% more efficient car battery. Holy mindfuck, right? Like, on one hand, he's appealing to humanity's most rational Smithean impulses! While at the same time, betraying a sinister distrust in the ability of the market to solve everything! Megan and I read a shitload of newspapers over the weekend so we could share an informed combination of disillusionment, disenchantment, disgust and depression over Zimbabwe, the SEC, the corn industry etc. after the jump.
MOE: Morning Megan! Nice weekend? Good thing I already know the answer to that question because there are like ninety things we need to discuss this morning, and like, none of them is George Carlin! We should maybe start with how they abandoned that whole election idea in Zimbabwe after Mugabe made the truly salient point in a speech that "How can a ballpoint pen fight with a gun?" And Mugabe has so much more than a gun, and he's been wielding them liberally to assassinate pretty much everyone with the combination of courage, integrity, idealism and purposefulness to openly oppose him.
One such target was Better Chokururama, a 31-year-old activist with an appetite for bravado and fisticuffs, nicknamed "Texas" for both the cowboy hats he favored and the moniker of a torture camp from which he once escaped. He was abducted on April 19, and his legs crushed by his captors with boulders.
He said in an interview afterward, as he lay with both legs in casts, that he had told his captors "that beating people would not change anything because the opposition had beaten the governing party, ZANU-PF, in the elections."
"They laughed loudly," he said, "then threw me out of the moving vehicle."
MEGAN: Ah, Zimbabwe. Is it sad, or accurate that I wonder if his statement was coerced? Because he only just got back to the country, and I can't imagine that Better Chokururama (or the 86 people killed, or the 10,000 who've been injured or the 200,000 refugees) would prefer not to cast their vote for Morgan Tsvangirai right now than wait for... something. Mugabe's death or whatever, not that his hand-picked successor will likely be any different.
MEGAN: It almost makes me wish I'd watched the end of Last King of Scotland only when the white dude fucked Amin's wife I was like, ok, seriously, I don't really need to see how this ends, it ain't gonna be good.
MOE: I'm not reading you re whether the statement was coerced. "Beating people will not change anything" or "They threw me out of the moving vehicle." The rest of his story, which I omitted, has him getting captured again with some other activists whose bodies showed up a few days later. But there's some other news that I kind of want to get to starting with how the chairman of the chief financial regulatory agency was about as worthless during the whole Bear Stearns debacle as…the old CEO of Bear Stearns! He missed most of the conference calls for birthday parties and went on vacation with his family. Guess that's what you get for expecting someone to police people making nine figure pay packages on a six figure salary!
MEGAN: Well, I meant whether Morgan Tsvangirai was coerced to drop out of the race. He got back from exile to avoid being coerced and dropped out within hours. It seems suspicious to me.
MOE: Ugh, what the FUCK is a former Orange County congressman Reaganite lose doing fucking regulating our financial sector…Oh Morgan Tsvangirai's statement that the election was a violent illegitimate sham of a political process and that he didn't want to start a civil war?
MEGAN: And re: Chris Cox, that's what you get for hiring a guy stupid enough to be a conservative Republican in New Jersey who wasn't exactly known for being hte most go-to Congressman ever to run a regulatory agency when his political ideology is based around smaller government i.e., not regulating. The only good thing about Chris Cox at the SEC is that he's not in Congress anymore.
MEGAN: And by Jersey, I meant California, sorry.
MEGAN: Well, I mean, they already have a civil war. They also put another top party leader in prison and charged him with treason, not that anyone's seen him since.
MOE: Yeah a fucking Reaganite knownothing donothing, God I fucking can't stand those ideological free marketeers whose understanding of the financial sector begins and ends at best with some P.J. O'Rourke essay.
MEGAN: Do people really still read O'Rourke?
MEGAN: Also, he was a Congressman. I'll bet he thought the SEC gig was a step up with fewer actual responsibilities because he has more staff to hold his soft, white hand and do everything for him. Why would he miss a birthday party for regulating anything? He never did in Congress I'll bet you.
MOE: But in the wake of the internet bubble which was followed by the corporate malfeasance fest which was followed by the options backdating debacle how the fuck does someone like Cox get that job? And can Obama make hay out of this? Because I'd rather that than make um oil out of corn but that's neither here/there!
MOE: If anything it makes Obama look less hot to the Brazilians:
"We made a series of mistakes by not adopting a sustainable energy policy, one of which is the subsidies for corn ethanol, which I warned in Iowa were going to destroy the market" and contribute to inflation, Mr. McCain said this month in an interview with a Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo. "Besides, it is wrong," he added, to tax Brazilian-made sugar cane ethanol, "which is much more efficient than corn ethanol."
MEGAN: But it's the market! The market! Market failures will be regulated by the market and so regulation just damages the ability of the market to correct itself which it will do if you don't overregulate it and so Chris Cox is just doing his job by not regulating the market because regulating it would damage it!
MEGAN: Well, it's a tariff, not a tax, and it's not just on sugar-based ethanol it's on all imported ethanol but McCain's point remains valid. It's incredibly ineffecient and not environmentally sound policy to put tariffs on imported ethanol as a way of additionally subsidizing the construction of ethanol plants in the Midwest that can only be used for corn instead of whatever plant is cheapest. But that's US ag policy: those little family farmers that hardly exist anymore need your tax dollars, dammit, and if a few hundred million or more need to go to multinationals to make sure that a couple farmers won't sell out to them anyway, well, that's the trade-off we all accept to continue fetishizing the family farm.
MOE: Yeah and just to put a number on that…the last agriculture bill was $370 million, yes?
MEGAN: It was a lot, let's just go with that...
MOE: Because fucking agribusiness is so cash strapped right now the leading corn syrup supplier is only commanding a 31% premium over the market price of its shares Man, take a fucking look at this chart. If only I'd been pissed off about ethanol back when I was busy being pissed off about …oil!
MEGAN: Oh, well, ethanol was a better oxegenate for the environment than MTBE, and it seemed so environmentally friendly when the corn growers were all lobbying for it to be a corn-oxygenate back in the day. I mean, it's whole fucking purpose is to allow us to continue driving the exact same automobiles in the exact same way while marginally reducing emissions.
MOE: Anyway suffice it to say the corn industry hasmore than enough money left over to convince America the corn industry is good for America.
MEGAN: It is good, see, sweet delicious corn!
MEGAN: So yellow, so environment-y!
MOE: Ok check out this segue. So that last story was about the corn industry's public relations push to remind Americans that High Fructose Corn Syrup really isn't any worse for you than sugar…and guess what has HFCS in it? Ensure nutritional beverages…Al Qaeda logistics mastermind Abu Zubayda! Which is just one of the numerous fascinating facts we learned from yesterday's A1 Scott Shane story on the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Did you read that? I highly recommend it.
MEGAN: Ensure is so disgusting, it's supposed to be a supplement for old people and instead they're marketing it as a meal-replacement solution for healthy people and it's not. Talk about sick PR. But, no, I didn't read the story. I'm sure it's bad.
MOE: Okay, so let me guide you through the important parts of the story: I think the "little farmer guy" who turned in KLS in hopes of earning a quick $25 million and resettling himself and his family under a new identity in the US has to be my fave. Do you think there is some gated community tailored for, like, lottery winners and successful plaintiffs in massive malpractice suits where they could just sort of hide that guy away? Because that could be a fun movie starring Kal Penn.
MOE: But I guess mostly it's a profile of the lead interrogator Deuce Martinez, a wonky egghead analyst who skipped waterboarding classes and played "good cop"
MEGAN: I would snitch on anyone for $25 million, I'm just saying. Didn't we discuss a few weeks ago that the CrimeStoppers programs always end up paying out a ton more money when the economy sucks? I feel like we did.
MOE: Hahaha I really wish I remember what the fuck I read a few weeks ago but I'm just saying I don't think you could interrogate that out of me. Anyway, the whole thing was, well, KLS was waterboarded and subjected to other miscellaneous forms of torture a hundred times, but yeah aren't we sick of talking about the whole torture thing? More weird details! KLS wrote poetry to Deuce's wife! He was captured a few days after the informant sent a text message "I'm with KLS." He was originally transported to Thailand! (Or maybe that was Abu Zubayda) ... Thailand and the US are so close they didn't even have to tell the Thai PM. And Poland is "the 51st state." Really the whole "secret prisons" things seemed to be improving our relations with a lot of foreign countries before Dana Priest discovered them and Bush had them all flown back to Guantanamo.
MEGAN: The Poles just want to be part of the Visa Waiver Program and will do anything to get it. They're the only country in the EU at this point without it, if I recall correctly, but Congress keeps talking about and never passing a bill to let them into it and DHS has no idea.


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New York - November 2, 2012 - Multiple television, radio and digital platforms have joined forces with NBCUniversal to broadcast "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together,' a benefit to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy airing tonight, November 2 (8 - 9 pm/ET).
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Kevin Bacon, Mary J. Blige, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Perry, Al Roker, Jon Stewart and Steven Tyler are among the latest stars to sign on for the broadcast, joining previously announced performers Christina Aguilera (NBC's "The Voice"), Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and Sting, and appearances by Jimmy Fallon (NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon") and NBC News' Brian Williams.
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Sports Medicine Pioneer Dr. Frank Jobe Passes Away At 88
Sad news. Dr. Frank Jobe passed away this morning.
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Dr. Frank Jobe, who has served the Los Angeles Dodgers' organization for the past 50 years and who was a pioneer in the field of sports medicine, died this morning in Santa Monica at the age of 88, his family announced.
Jobe is survived by his wife, Beverly, four sons—Christopher, Meredith, Cameron and Blair—their spouses and eight grandchildren.
"Frank Jobe is a Hall of Famer in every sense of the word," said Dodger President Stan Kasten. "His dedication and professionalism in not only helping the Dodgers, but athletes around the world is unparalleled. He was a medical giant and pioneer and many athletes in the past and the future can always thank Frank for finding a way to continue their careers."
"I was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Dr. Frank Jobe, a great gentleman whose work in Baseball revolutionized sports medicine," said Baseball Commissioner Allan "Bud" Selig. "Since 1974, his groundbreaking Tommy John surgery has revitalized countless careers, especially those of our pitchers. His wisdom elevated not only the Dodgers, the franchise he served proudly for a half-century, but all of our Clubs.
"Dr. Jobe's expertise, as well as his enthusiasm to mentor his peers, made the National Pastime stronger. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest condolences to Dr. Jobe's family, friends, Dodger colleagues and the many admirers of his pioneering spirit throughout our game."
"Baseball lost a great man and Tommy John lost a great friend," said former Dodger Tommy John. "There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball. My deepest condolences and prayers go out to Beverly and the entire family. He's going to be missed."
Jobe, who began his association with the Dodgers in 1964, when he joined his mentor, the late Dr. Robert Kerlan, made medical history in 1974 when he performed what is now termed "Tommy John surgery." Jobe took over the full-time care of the Dodgers in 1968 and was named a Special Advisor to the Chairman of the team seven years ago.
A legend in the field of sports medicine, it was 40 years ago Jobe made history and altered the sport of baseball forever.
Tommy John was diagnosed with a ruptured medial collateral ligament (MCL) in his left elbow, an injury that previously had no cure. On Sept. 25, 1974, Jobe tried a procedure in which he removed a tendon from John's forearm and repaired his elbow. John, who had won 124 games prior to the operation, went on to pitch 14 years after the operation, compiling 164 more victories in that time, without ever missing a start due to elbow problem.
Since then, Jobe performed hundreds of Tommy John surgeries on pitchers at every level, helping to resurrect the careers of countless big leaguers. His fellowship program at the Kerlan-Jobe clinic has trained more than 250 fellows through the years.
On Feb. 21, 2008, the Dodgers announced that Jobe had been promoted to special advisor to the chairman and he took part in a special pregame ceremony at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach, FL. Jobe was honored again in front of the home crowd at Dodger Stadium on Sept. 23, 2008 in a ceremony that included his two most famous patients, John and former Dodger Orel Hershiser, among others.
Of course, since Jobe's experiment on John, several things have changed about the procedure. What was once a four-hour surgery can now be performed in about one hour. The success of the procedure not only depends on the surgery, but the surgeon, the player and the rehabilitation program. Though Jobe originally put John's chances of returning to the Major Leagues at less than five percent, Jobe estimated that 92 to 95 percent of patients return as good, if not better, than prior to the surgery.
In fact, the procedure has become so valuable that in recent years, players have signed multi-year contracts just months after they have the surgery in expectation of a high-level return.
Thanks to his passion to help players return to the field, Jobe found himself in the right place again 16 years after saving John's career, as he reconstructed the right shoulder of former Cy Young Award winner Hershiser, another procedure that had never been successfully performed on a Major League pitcher.
Hershiser's rehabilitation was a success and he presented Jobe with the game ball from his 100th career victory, which came in 1991, his first win after the surgery. Former Dodger Darren Dreifort made a similar gesture while rehabilitating at Dodger Stadium. His trophy featured a plastered replica of Dr. Jobe's hands holding a surgical instrument with a handwritten message from the Dodger pitcher.
Jobe, a native of Greensboro, NC, who studied at Loma Linda University, School of Medicine and did his residency at Los Angeles County Hospital, has often been mentioned as a candidate for enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, alongside other non-playing personnel like former Dodger owner Walter O'Malley. Jobe was honored at Cooperstown on July 27, 2013 as part of the Hall of Fame awards presentation for his development of Tommy John surgery.
He received the President's Award at the Southern California Sports Broadcasters' annual awards luncheon on Jan. 27, 2014. At their annual dinner in January 2012, Jobe was honored by the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation with the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award. Jobe was inducted by the
Baseball Reliquary into the Shrine of the Eternals on July 20, 2012. He was also inducted into the PBATS
(Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society) Hall of Fame in the spring of 2012. In honor of the 30th
anniversary of his ground-breaking efforts, the Dodgers honored Jobe on March 31, 2004 prior to a Spring Training game in Vero Beach, FL, and again during the year at Dodger Stadium.
Jobe will be remembered by his family, colleagues and patients not only as a great surgeon, but also as a true Southern gentleman. The family plans a celebration of his life.
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Mahr said 90 percent of patients given this device have survived long enough to receive new hearts.
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Overview of Research Interests of Dr. Soucek's Group
The focus of research in the Soucek group is creating new environmentally benign coatings. A new thrust is using nanotechnology to prepare smart or stimuli response coatings. We take a multidisciplinary approach to coatings science or paint technology, where the fundamental understanding of coating science begins with chemical reactions and chemical interactions within a multiphase system. We specialize in crosslinked coating systems: 1) Autoxidatively Crosslinked; 2) High Solids; 2) Crosslinkable Latexes; 3) UV-Curable; 4) Thermosetting Powder. We investigate the crosslinking reactions using model compounds, and prepare coating formulations from the model compound studies. We study crosslinking in situ (in the formulation) via a variety of techniques including Photo-DSC, Real-time-IR, and DMTA. The degree of crosslinking and coating morphology are related to the final coatings properties including fracture toughness, hardness, abrasion resistance, and corrosion resistance.
We also specialize inorganic/organic hybrid coatings. Inorganic/organic hybrid coatings are part ceramic, and part organic poly mer with a coupling agent which links the inorganic and organic phases together. The inorganic domain can be controlled from the couple nanometers to microns. We use thermosetting organic polymers where the speed of the crosslinking reactions and catalysts control the size and structure of the inorganic domain. This is a platform for a variety of Smart coating usages. In addition to bulk morphology of the coating, the ceramer coating can self-assemble on metallic surfaces to create a passivating pre-ceramic phase which has been shown inhibit corrosion even on surfaces in which corrosion has already begun. These coatings have shown outstanding abrasion, chemical, and corrosion resistance.
Our group has recently focused on three new areas. The first project is UV-curable coatings. We have a concerted effort in the UV-arena from developing new UV-curable resins, studying the crosslinking kinetics, to evaluation of coating performance. A second new area is in silicone coatings. The third field of focus is UV-curable Powder Coatings. It is my goal to create a UV-Curable Powder Research Coatings Center where industrial and academic partnerships are formed to move the UV-curable powder coatings into new coating markets.