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The results suggest that auditors' AIS expertise can play a significant role in complex AIS settings and in their ability to compensate for CAS competence deficiencies. The authors note that it may be prudent for firms to consider the combined capabilities of individuals when assigning auditors and CAS to engagements with complex AIS.
Brazel, J. F. and C. P. Agoglia. 2007. An examination of auditor planning judgments in a complex accounting information system environment. Contemporary Accounting Research 24 (4): 1059-83.
The results have implications on two fronts. First, the findings indicate that auditors pursue different production and pricing strategies in different segments of the market, suggesting that the Big 4 audit firms respond to the competitive pressures in each submarket. Second, the evidence raises questions about the construct validity of market share-based measures of industry specialization, which have been used extensively in the literature. The evidence suggests that auditors who obtain a large market share by auditing a large proportion of the industry sector may actually do so by producing lower quality, lower cost audits. As such, these auditors are not acting as true specialists in the sense of using specialized training and knowledge to raise the quality of the audit performed.
Cahan, S. F., D. C. Jeter, and V. Naiker. 2011. Are All Industry Specialist Auditors the Same? Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 30 (4): 191-222.
Although both auditors and fraud specialists added non-standard procedures to the audit program, auditors cut the budgets for some standard procedures, making room in the overall audit budget for non-standard additional procedures. In contrast, fraud specialists added standard procedures, but they were not more effective than those selected by auditors, and also provided less budget room for those procedures. The involvement of fraud specialists in planning an audit engagement where fraud risk is present is likely to lead to additional audit effort and cost, possibly without commensurate benefit. However, considering the potential consequences to the auditor of undiscovered fraud, it may be cost-effective to include additional non-standard procedures in an audit program if they improve the probability of discovering a fraud.
Boritz, J. E., Kochetova-Kozloski, N., & Robinson, L. 2015. Are Fraud Specialists Relatively More Effective than Auditors at Modifying Audit Programs in the Presence of Fraud Risk? Accounting Review 90 (3): 881-915.
The authors believe that when armed with knowledge of how management may intentionally or unintentionally introduce error into their FVMs, auditors will be better able to take steps to adjust for this error. Currently, professional skepticism is the best way to combat this problem. Researchers and policy makers within firms need to grapple with the possibility that existing audit team structure and incentives may not be compatible with audits that require more and more specialized valuation knowledge.
Martin, R. D., J. S. Rich, and T. J. Wilks. 2006. Auditing Fair Value Measurements: A Synthesis of Relevant Research. Accounting Horizons 20 (3): 287-303.
Based on the interviews and problems identified, the authors conjecture that potentially suboptimal auditing methods are being used to evaluate complex estimates which are an important and growing part of the financial statements. This may be negatively impacting audit quality. More specifically, auditors over-rely on management estimates because they lack the knowledge and incentives to behave otherwise. This possibility has direct consequences for auditor professional skepticism because increasing professional skepticism may be less effective unless auditors are also given the requisite knowledge to properly use it. These problems are reinforced by auditing standards and regulators which generally outline/criticize the current auditing methods without suggesting new or better ones.
Griffith, E., J. Hammersley, and K. Kadous. 2015. Audits of Complex Estimates as Verification of Management Numbers: How Institutional Pressures Shape Practice. Contemporary Accounting Research 32 (3): 833-863.
This study has implications for public accounting firms engaging in GHG engagements. Team training that establishes an understanding of the knowledge and role of the team members from differing disciplines might help to alleviate over-reliance on peer-provided evidence. In the context of multidisciplinary assurance teams, establishing and adhering to audit firm quality control mechanisms relating to evidence collection, evaluation, and review are of particular importance. Accounting firms may also need to pay particular attention in fostering an assurance environment that encourages objective evidence processing.
Kim, S., W. J. Green, and K. M. Johnstone. 2016. Biased Evidence Processing by Multidisciplinary Greenhouse Gas Assurance Teams. Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 35 (3): 119-139.
Valuators' judgment and decision making is currently unexplored. This study provides preliminary evidence on how valuators act in the presence of conflict of interest, and the need for conflict disclosures. The results of this study have implications for public accounting firms to the extent that they provide either fairness opinions and associated valuation judgments or are involved in some audit aspects related to mergers/acquisitions. This study contributes to accounting and psychology literature on conflict of interest disclosures and is the first study to test the biasing effects of conflict disclosure specifically targeting professionals performing familiar tasks. Further, this study extends existing literature of the topic by documenting that bias arising from disclosure of conflict of interest depends on whether the conflict of interest is aligned or misaligned with the client's interest. This study provides the first evidence that disclosure of conflict of interest causes bias in Client-Aligned, but not in a Client-Misaligned, conflict of interest setting.
Jamal, K., E. Marshall and H. Tan. 2016. Does Disclosure of Conflict of Interest Increase or Decrease Bias? Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory 35 (2): 89-99.
This study examines the value of non-financial specialist assurance in the capital markets setting. While similar to existing audit literature, this study offers new research by examining a setting in which disclosure of non-financial information is mandatory. To the extent the findings are generalizable to other non-financial assurance settings, they suggest caution in adopting a mandatory approach owing to cost/benefit considerations.
Ferguson, A., and G. Pündrich. 2015. Does Industry Specialist Assurance of Non-Financial Information Matter to Investors? AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory 34 (2):121-146.
The finding that higher decision authority can have negative audit quality implications is relevant to audit firm policies, which often vest substantial authority in consultants, and to the ongoing debate over standards for the use of specialists. This and other findings also suggest that it may be beneficial to advocate lower decision authority. Finally, the findings can inform audit firm policies that require consultation with knowledgeable persons, as well as standard-setters and regulators whose responsibilities to provide guidance on using consultation to conduct more effective audits of financial statement estimates.
Knechel, W. R. and J. Leiby. 2016. If You Want My Advice: Status Motives and Audit Consultations About Accounting Estimates. Journal of Accounting Research 54 (5): 1331 – 1364.
Involving two service providers, rather than one, conveys potential benefits similar to those argued for joint audits. Auditor independence is enhanced because each firm provides a reciprocal check on the diligence of the other, and the allocation of fees between providers reduces economic bonding between the client and any one firm. Regulators might consider requiring disclosure of the recipient of NAS payments for both the audit firm and other consultants to allow a more complete examination of the influence of NAS on audit quality in other settings.
Gaver, J. J., and J.S. Paterson. 2014. The Association between Actuarial Services and Audit Quality. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory 33 (1): 139-159.


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A solo exhibition "I see nature like colour" by award-winning British artist Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) is available at the Mark Rothko Art Centre.
"Air" Exhibition by Marietta Patricia Leis
Marietta Patricia Leis is a multimedia artist living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The exhibition is available from 5th July till 8th September.
"Location/ Dislocation. Between Remembering and Forgetting" exhibition
"Location/ Dislocation. Between Remembering and Forgetting" exhibition is available at the Mark Rothko Art Centre. The complexity of visual language as well as the diversity of approaches is demonstrated by the range of exhibiting artists, working in a variety of media: drawing, painting, photography, sculpture as well as a site-specific installation. The idea of movement in space and the presence of different contexts is woven into the very curatorial principle of this exhibition, presenting artists from Finland, UK, USA and Latvia.
Baltic Contemporary Ceramics "Basics"
A number of meaningful events to explore the emergence of professional ceramic art in the Baltic States with a view to outlining the historical stages of its evolution and tracing their impact on the current global image of contemporary ceramic art is taking place at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre.
Exhibition of I International Painting Symposium "Silva Linarte 2019"
Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre organises the first international painting symposium "Silva Linarte 2019". It will bring together as participants artists from Sweden, Spain, Russia, Latvia, Poland and Lithuania.
Group Project from Turkey "Cilicia Breeze"
The artwork was produced in Anatolia, especially Cilica, area by a group of artists who teach at Çukurova University in Adana, a city located on the southern edge of Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast, in Cilicia.
Kirsi Kivivirta "Basic Elements"
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But Egypt's interim presidency denounced "foreign pressure" in a sign of its growing impatience with international mediations.
Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham spoke after meeting with top military and civilian leaders in Cairo as part of a flurry of international efforts to resolve a standoff between the government and supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi.
McCain said "we urge the release of political prisoners," referring to Brotherhood members who were detained after the military ousted Morsi, an Islamist, a month ago.
"In democracy, you sit down and talk to each other," Graham said, adding, "it is impossible to talk to somebody who is in jail."
Graham warned that US-Egyptian relations might otherwise be harmed.
"Some in Congress want to sever the relationship. Some want to suspend the aid," he said. "We have to be honest to where the relationship stands. ... We can't support Egypt that is not moving to democracy."
McCain and Lindsey Graham have also described the army's removal of Morsi as a coup.
Egypt's new government has held firm to a political road map announced July 3, when the military ousted Morsi following mass protests calling on him to step down.
US and other international officials have urged the inclusion of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in the political process going forward.
Top Egyptian officials said reconciliation is a priority but only after the Brotherhood renounces violence. They cite sectarian violence in southern Egypt, cases of torture of anti-Morsi protesters and the blocking of main roads.
Ahmed El-Muslimani, a spokesman for interim president Adly Mansour, told reporters that "foreign pressure has exceeded international standards." He said Egypt will protect "the revolution" — referring to June 30, the day hundreds of thousands of Egyptians revolted against Morsi's rule.
El-Musalamani didn't elaborate. However, his comments came as the country's powerful military chief Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei held separate meetings with Graham and McCain, who arrived in Cairo on Monday at President Barack Obama's request to press senior Egyptians for a quick return to civilian rule.
Egypt's official news agency MENA reported that the two Republican senators and El-Sissi discussed efforts to end "the state of political polarization and stop the violence" while moving forward with Egypt's fast-track road map. The plans calls for amending the constitution and holding new elections by early next year "without discrimination or isolation."
US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who arrived Friday, also was meeting with Mansour and ElBaradei.
Early Monday, Burns visited Khairat El-Shater, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader who is held in a Cairo prison. He was accompanied by a European Union envoy and Gulf foreign ministers.
Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president who came to power nearly a year and a half after the ouster of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak in a 2011 uprising, has been held at a secret location since his ouster.
Last week, he was visited by the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and a group of African statesmen, but the administration has said it will not allow any more envoys to visit him.
All talks are centered around averting collision between the military-backed government and Muslim Brotherhood supporters. They have been camping out in Cairo and its sister city of Giza for more than a month demanding Morsi's reinstatement as well as the return of the constitution and the parliament.
The protest camps have been used as a hotbed for street marches that blocked traffic and sometimes sparked street violence either with security forces, or Morsi's opponents.
In two incidents this month, more than 130 people, mostly Morsi supporters, were killed in clashes near their main sit-in in eastern Cairo.
The government said that it has ordered the security forces to clear out the protest camps because they pose "national security threat."
The Muslim Brotherhood publicly says it rejects any concessions and that its starting point would be Morsi's return to power. Privately, though, protesters say that the camp is their last bargaining
chip to press for the release of detained leaders and for guarantees that they will be included in politics.
A European Union official in Brussels has said diplomats were working on confidence-building measures such as releasing detained Brotherhood officials, dropping charges against other group members and dispersing the pro-Morsi sit-ins held at two squares on opposite ends of the Egyptian capital.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to brief reporters on the confidential discussions.
In an official statement after meeting with Burns on Tuesday, ElBaradei stressed that Egypt's "priorities are to secure citizens and protect their lives, their possessions and to preserve security and law ... while moving forward to achieve comprehensive political reconciliation."
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Several planning measures have been proposed to enable some shorelines to remain in roughly their natural state as sea level rises, rather than be replaced with structures. For the most part, these measures apply to areas that are not yet developed. They broadly fall into two categories: setbacks, which are regulations that prevent development of areas likely to be inundated, and rolling easements-which allow development today, but only with the explicit condition that the property will not be protected from rising water levels (Titus, 1997).
Setbacks currently are used to ensure that homes are safe from current flood risks. Several U.S. states currently require an additional erosion-based setback, in which new houses are set back an additional 20 to 60 times the annual erosion rate (Klarin and Hershman, 1990; Marine Law Institute et al., 1995). Eventually, however, the shore will erode to any setback line. Moreover, it is economically inefficient, and sometimes unconstitutional, to prevent the use of property now solely to avoid an adverse impact in the future (Titus, 1991).
Many of these problems are avoided with rolling easements-a planning measure in which coastal development is allowed in return for the property owner agreeing not to build structures or otherwise artificially stop the natural inland migration of wetlands and beaches. This option requires neither a specific estimate of future sea-level rise nor large public land purchases, and it is economically efficient because it does not prevent owners from using their land unless or until the sea rises enough to inundate it. The ability of the government to prevent property owners from eliminating the shore is grounded in the "public trust doctrine," under which the public has always owned tidal waters and either owned or had an access right along all intertidal beaches (Slade, 1990). If this approach were implemented in the next decade, ensuring the continued survival of natural wetland and beach shores in U.S. areas that are still undeveloped would cost approximately $400-1,200 million (Titus, 1997).
Texas common law recognizes rolling easements along its Gulf coast beaches. Maine and Rhode Island have issued regulations that prohibit structures that block the inland migration of wetlands. South Carolina's Beachfront Management Act, passed in response to the risks of a 1-ft rise in sea level, originally required setbacks along the coast, but in the aftermath of a trial court ruling that was eventually upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court (Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council), the statute was modified to require rolling easements in some locations2 (South Carolina Beachfront Management Act, 1988). Because Canada inherited the same common law from England as the United States, all of these approaches could be applicable to Canada if its coastal zone becomes densely developed in the next century.
Several nationwide assessments have been conducted in the United States, mostly focusing on the potential loss of wet and dry land and the cost of holding back the sea. These studies have recognized that the impact of sea-level rise ultimately depends on whether-and how-people hold back the sea; they generally estimate impacts assuming alternative policies for protecting coastal land. A rise of 50 cm would inundate 8,600-19,000 km2 (3,300-7,300 mi2) of dry land if no shores are protected and 5,700-16,000 km2 (2,200-6,100 mi2) if currently developed areas are protected (Table 8-7). The loss of coastal wetlands would be 17-43% if no shores are protected and 20-45% if currently developed areas are protected-but 38-61% if all shores were protected. These results suggest that efforts to mitigate wetland loss from sea-level rise could exempt existing development and focus on areas that are still undeveloped (Titus et al., 1991).
Studies generally estimate that the cumulative cost of a 50-cm rise in sea level through the year 2100 would be $20-200 billion; the cost of a 1-m rise would be approximately twice that amount. Titus et al. (1991) estimated that for a 50-cm rise, barrier islands could be protected by placing sand on eroding beaches and the low bay sides, at a cost of $15-81 billion; elevating houses and roads, at a cost of $29-36 billion; and protecting mainland areas with dikes and bulkheads, at a cost of $5-13 billion-for a total cost of $55-123 billion.
Yohe (1990) estimated that if shores were not protected, a 50-cm rise would inundate land and structures worth $78-188 billion; Yohe et al. (1996) estimated that the cost would only be $20 billion. Their lower estimate appears to have resulted from two differences in their study: First, rather than assuming that all developed areas would be protected, Yohe et al. assessed the value of land and structures and assumed that only areas that could be economically protected would be protected. Second, the two studies appear to make different assumptions regarding the area of developed barrier islands in the United States. The Yohe et al. (1996) analysis was based on a sample of the entire coast, which included five densely developed ocean beach resorts; Titus et al. (1991) based their estimates on an assessment by Leatherman (1989)-who examined every beach community between New Jersey and the Mexican border, as well as in California, along with one site in each of the other states.
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This syllabus may be offered on an Eb , F, Bb or C tuba. The syllabus is suitable for three-valved instruments at all grades. For those pieces containing notes that require a 4th valve (and where an ossia is not published), candidates may adapt the affected passages.
The pieces set on this syllabus may be played on any of the above four tubas. Candidates may adapt passages or transpose parts and/or accompaniments as necessary for their instrument (NB many of the syllabus pieces are biased towards Eb tuba).
The repertoire lists indicate publication details, including clefs and where piano accompaniments are published separately. In addition, for pieces marked ‡ , further information about the publications (including where parts/accompaniments are issued in different keys) is available on our clarifications page.
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Gregg Allman's most visible contribution to rock music is as lead singer, organist, and songwriter within the Allman Brothers Band, founded by his brother Duane (d. 1971) in 1969. He has never threatened to eclipse the band that carries his family...
Gregg Allman's most visible contribution to rock music is as lead singer, organist, and songwriter within
the Allman Brothers Band, founded by his brother Duane (d. 1971) in 1969. He has never threatened to eclipse the band that carries his family name, but he has found occasional success and popularity with his solo work, which is distinctly different, more soulful and less focused on high-wattage virtuosity.
Allman's instrument is the organ, and he is most effective, when he is in top form, as a singer. His first instrument, ironically enough, was the guitar, and he took it up before his older brother Duane did. But Duane learned it better and quickly eclipsed Gregg. Where Gregg did excel was on the organ and as a singer (a role Duane was never comfortable with), which proved important but not at the center of a group that became famous for its 40-minute instrumental jams and three-hour sets. Through their early efforts, in bands like the Allman Joys and the Hour Glass, they shared the spotlight, with Duane taking the lengthy solos and Gregg fronting the band and offering Booker T. Jones-type keyboard playing. Liberty Records signed the Hour Glass and tried making Gregg into the focus of their efforts during the late '60s, but it never quite worked.
When the Allman Brothers Band was organized, the flashy (and vital) instrumental moments belonged to his brother and Dickey Betts and, later still, Warren Haynes. Gregg's songs, however, including "Whipping Post" and "Midnight Rider," were among the group's notable originals during its classic period, 1969-1972. Beginning with Brothers and Sisters, Betts' songwriting and singing assumed increasing prominence.
It was during the period that Brothers and Sisters was burning up the charts that Gregg Allman emerged as a solo artist with his first album, the critically well-received hit Laid Back, which put the softer, more serious, soul- and gospel-tinged side of his work in sharper focus. A tour followed, which yielded a live album that was also a success. This first period of solo popularity was interrupted by a combination of professional and personal conflicts; the Allman Brothers Band toured extensively and struggled to come up with a follow-up to Brothers and Sisters, and Gregg Allman began a relationship with Cher, the ex-wife and singing partner of Sonny Bono, which resulted in a tumultuous series of marriages and divorces for the two. These activities were played out amid Allman's well-publicized drug problems, which culminated with his testifying against a band employee in a federal drug case, which, in turn, led to the temporary but extended dissolution of the Allman Brothers Band.
Ironically, it was during this period, in 1977, that he delivered Playin' Up a Storm, a pop-soul effort that proved to be his most accomplished and successful album. Alas, this was to be the peak of his career away from the band. His next two albums, I'm No Angel and Just Before the Bullets Fly, released at the end of the 1980s, were quickly eclipsed by the re-formed and reinvigorated Allman Brothers Band's success on-stage and on record. His 1997 release Searchin' for Simplicity and the double-CD anthology One More Try had none of the urgency or success of the band's activities. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Technology companies are leading the stock market higher, pushing the Standard & Poor's 500 index to another record high.
A pair of strong economic reports also encouraged investors Monday. Wages and spending rose in the U.S. last month, and pending home sales hit their highest level in three years.
The S&P 500 closed at 1,593, a fraction above its previous record high reached on April 11. It rose 11 points Monday, or 0.7 per cent.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 106 points at 14,818, a gain of 0.7 per cent.
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Buffalo, NY, December 30, 2013 – Score This!!!, a Western New York-based race management company, is pleased to announce that members of Team TriVault will be acting as Race Ambassadors at many of the Multisport Series races in 2014. The Race Ambassadors will be available to help at the race to answer questions and assist athletes prior to the race, in transition and at the swim start.
Team TriVault is a group of dedicated multisport athletes of all ages, abilities, and goals. The Team supports athletes, from sprint to Ironman distances, and encourages racing and training together while assisting with the growth, performance, and visibility of the team and the sport of triathlon.
The goal of the Multisport Series is to find out who is the best multisport athlete. At the end of the 2014 season, it will be determined who is the best multisport athlete based on the points each athlete obtains as long as they have competed in 4 series events. Athletes can choose any combination of races within the same series to qualify for the overall and age group standings. More and more people each year are finding the sport of triathlon to be a fun and effective way to stay active and healthy. Now local athletes have an opportunity to have even more support on race day.
While the sport of triathlon has exploded in the last decade, opportunities still remain for all athletes to pursue the sport. Vice President of Score This!!! Rich Clark stated that "our athletes have an opportunity to learn and compete in safe and well managed events". "We are excited to work with Rich and his stellar team this year" said Jon Metz, President and CEO of TriVault,
Team TriVault was formed to be the foundation for a collaborative and social multisport training and racing network with a philosophy of having fun and building a sense of community. For more information on Team TriVault please visit at www.trivault.com
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I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays this year. If you are like me and still have some parties to attend…here's a fun little salsa to bring with!
Apple Berry Salsa with Cinnamon Chips
Diane Lapacek
Cinnamon Chips
4 (7-inch) flour tortillas
1 T. granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 400-degrees. Lightly spray tortillas with water. Combine sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over tortillas. Using a pizza cutter, cut each tortilla into 8 wedges; place in single layer on pizza stone or cooking sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned and crisp. Remove to cooling rack; cool completely.
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1 c. strawberries, sliced
1 kiwi, peeled and chopped
1 small orange
2 T. packed brown sugar
2 T. apple jelly
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Quick Apple Dumplings
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Wrap 1 apple wedge in each crescent, beginning at the narrow end. Place in a 9x13 pan. Melt butter, add sugar and cinnamon, stir well. Pour oven dumplings in pan. Pour soda over top. bake 45 minutes at 350-degrees.
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Posted by Lewis on December 01, 2006
In Reply to: Ford-fix or repair daily posted by Gary Martin on November 30, 2006
: : : : : : : : where did the acronym of ford-fix or repair daily come from or when was its earliest use.
: : : : : : : So, you've heard the humorous "slogan" of the Ford Taurus, or Fords generally: Fix Or Repair Daily. Others are : Found On the Road Dead, Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge, and Frequently Overhauled, Rarely Driven.
: : : : : : : In fact, sneering acronyms have been made up for most automobile brands represented on the roads today. I wouldn't know when Ford first got hit; it may have been a very long time ago, before the blog was invented. I've heard humor of this variety just about all my life, although not about Fords and not retrievable from my book of memories at the moment.
: : : : : : : The era of the blog has made such gibes and jokes common currency, and encouraged their multiplication. Cars tend to need repairs distressingly often, and have other expensive problems, so taking a swipe at them is a reasonable way to let your feelings out.
: : : : : : : I think the era of the blog began somewhere in the 1990s, but I would be glad to hear the opinion of someone more up on the subject.
: : : : : : : Some of the resentful bloggers, as well as many Ford defenders, appear to regard the afore-mentioned slogan as aimed particularly at the Taurus, possibly because the car was a staple in Ford's lineup for so long.
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: : : : : : http://www.carbuyingtips.com/humor.htm
: : : : : Wow, that's a pretty comprehensive list of acronyms, but I have one more, from the early 80's. Chevy had a souped-up version of the popular Camaro called the IROC Z-28, which some people said stood for "Italian Reject Out Cruisin'". The real IROC stands for International Race of Champions.
: : : : Google Groups archive of Usenet Newsgroups has a cite of "fix or repair daily" back in February of 1984. The word weblog is from 1997, blog from 99, but before that people had online diaries and journals that were basically the same thing.
: : : Thanks for the information, RRC. That's exactly what I wanted to know. And while we're at it, the Ford Taurus can't be the sole hate-object of the slogan "Fix Or Repair Daily," since the first model-year of the Taurus was 1986.
: : I'll attest to Fix Or Repair Daily from around 1982. My friend Dave used to say it. He drove a Fix It Again Tony at the time, and I drove a Motorized Garbage from Britain (MGB).
: : I have "a feeling" these acronyms date far back beyond the early 80's (except the MGB one, which I just made up).
: I had a Best Shoved Along (BSA) motorbike in the 1960s. Apropos of nothing in particular, it was a present from David Essex, who had been given it by Twiggy.
my (usually polite) father told me he used to have a BSA - due to the suspension, it stood for "Bloody Sore Arse". I think it came from Northamptonshire, not Essex in his case.


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Thomaston man charged for allegedly firing gun to collect debt
BANTAM >> A dispute over drug money reportedly led a Thomaston man to shoot at an apartment building late Sunday night.
Michael St. Pierre, 37, 197 Pine Hill Road, apt. 6D, Thomaston, was arraigned in Bantam Superior Court on Monday on numerous charges stemming from an incident just before 4 a.m. on Feb. 24. St. Pierre was charged with two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and one count each of criminal use of a weapon, second-degree criminal mischief, second-degree breach of peace, illegal discharge of a firearm, possession of a sawed-off shotgun or silencer, attempted first-degree assault and attempted first-degree burglary.
St. Pierre was held on $500,000 bond after his arrest Sunday night, but his bond was reduced to $200,000 in Bantam Superior Court Monday. St. Pierre's next court appearance, though, will be on March 12 in Litchfield. St. Pierre posted his bond and has been ordered to not possess any firearms and to not have any contact with his accusers.
Thomaston police responded to the Watertown Road scene of the alleged shooting shortly before 4 a.m. after receiving reports of an unwanted person. Shortly after receiving this complaint, the police report states, the reported intruder began firing a shotgun inside the building. Police officers reported that they found St. Pierre in the apartment building's parking lot when they arrived -- then found a sawed-off shotgun and a camouflage hooded sweatshirt on the ground nearby.
According to the arrest report, police officers immediately apprehended St. Pierre, then began questioning the building's occupants. The victim said that he was asleep, as was his nephew, when St. Pierre tried to kick the door down. Soon afterwards, the victim stated, he heard St. Pierre leave through the front entrance without incident.
However, the report states, when the victim stood up to look out the window at St. Pierre, the defendant yelled something unintelligible before pointing his gun at the window. The victim reportedly told police that he ducked as St. Pierre fired his shotgun three times. The first shot allegedly shattered the window, not that far from where the victim had been standing. The victim stated that he then told his 22-year-old nephew to stay away from the window. By then, the responding police officers had arrived.
The incident stemmed from what St. Pierre said was a dispute over money owed from drug deals. St. Pierre was a bartender at Holly's Place, and both St. Pierre and the victim told police officers that they knew each other from that bar.
However, St. Pierre claimed that he did not fire the gun at anyone "as I already know that a sawed-off shotgun is illegal and when fired it cannot be accurately fired at anyone," he said, according to the police report.
In his statement to police, the victim claimed that he had stopped associating with St. Pierre due to increasingly erratic and violent behavior.
"(The complainant) stated that he did not know why St. Pierre fired a shotgun at him," the report states, "but (complainant) suspects that St. Pierre is probably taking some new hard drug."
Police officers reported that they had found nine holes in an apartment wall, which were the result of bird shot, as well as shards of glass from the broken window. The door to the apartment allegedly had fresh smudge marks from St. Pierre's attempt to kick the door down, and police officers reportedly found four empty Winchester 12-gauge shotgun shells in the parking lot.
Although St. Pierre reportedly told police officers that he did not intend to shoot at anyone, the police report states that St. Pierre claimed he modified his shotgun for home protection. St. Pierre also reportedly told police that he was drunk at the time of the shooting.
"I just wanted to scare (complainant) so that I could get what he owes me," St. Pierre told police.
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text: Nov 15, 2004 (CIDRAP News) – The nature of the widespread avian influenza outbreaks in Asia points to the threat of a human flu pandemic that could rival the disastrous pandemic of 1918-1920, infectious disease expert Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, warned in a public forum in Minneapolis last week.There are disquieting signs that the H5N1 virus circulating in Asian poultry flocks could do as much damage to humanity as the "Spanish flu" virus of 1918, said Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), publisher of this Web site.The H5N1 virus has already killed 32 people in Asia, and disease experts say it could trigger a pandemic if it acquired the ability to spread easily from person to person. If that happened, said Osterholm, it's unlikely that an effective vaccine could be made available quickly."At minimum, assume we will not have a vaccine in the first 6 to 8 months of a pandemic," he told healthcare professionals at a clinical infectious disease conference Nov 12 at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome.Osterholm spoke the same day the World Health Organziation (WHO) concluded a 2-day international conference on pandemic flu that drew about 50 vaccine company executives and government officials to WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO officials at the meeting urged governments to invest in vaccine development to help head off a pandemic.Osterholm said the 1918 pandemic caused "at least 40 million deaths, but probably closer to 100 million, if you talk to the historians." A disproportionate number of victims were healthy young adults, he added.Given the lack of good defenses, Osterholm estimated that a 1918-like virus arising today could cause more than 1.7 million deaths in the United States and as many as 177 million worldwide. (Editor's note: The estimate of 264 million deaths that was originally published here was later recalculated to adjust for age.) The US death toll in 1918 was about 500,000.In 1918, he said, flu victims suffered severe lung damage that led to acute respiratory distress syndrome and often died within 48 hours, he said. Further, it was the virus itself, rather than a secondary bacterial infection, that led to death in many cases.Osterholm cited signs that the H5N1 virus could cause the same kind of severe disease as the 1918 H1N1 virus if it triggered a pandemic. He said researchers recently have largely recreated the 1918 virus by sequencing its genome from preserved tissue samples from victims of the pandemic.In lab experiments, researchers have spliced key genes from the 1918 virus into present-day flu viruses and then exposed mice to the genetically engineered viruses, Osterholm said. Viruses that normally wouldn't harm the mice have been rendered lethal by this procedure. "It's not only killing the animals, but the pathology is identical to what we saw in 1918" and in human cases of H5N1, he said.Further, Osterholm said studies of the H5N1 virus isolated from recent human patients point to a gene that causes a "cytokine storm"—a flood of molecular messengers triggering inflammation—similar to what was seen in the 1918 victims. In effect, the body's immune system response to the infection, rather than the infection itself, is what makes the situation so dangerous. It also explains why healthy young adults, with their robust immune system, may be at particular risk.Multiple obstacles would make it next to impossible to produce an effective vaccine and make it rapidly and widely available if a pandemic began now, according to Osterholm.The world's total production capacity is about 300 million doses, with manufacturers concentrated in just nine countries. With current technology, it takes 6 months or more to grow flu vaccines in chicken eggs, and the yield from a given number of eggs is no more predictable than a corn crop."Production capacity will not increase significantly in the next several years," Osterholm predicted. He said vaccine makers want to develop a cell-culture method of producing flu vaccine and are unlikely to spend money to increase production with the traditional egg-based technology.The National Institutes of Health is developing a vaccine for the H5N1 virus, with Aventis Pasteur under contract to make 2 million doses. But Osterholm said the immunogenicity (ability to trigger an immune response in laboratory tests) of the candidate vaccine "has been poor.""The earlier versions of this [vaccine] are not protective against the current strains," he said.In the early stages of a pandemic, he concluded, "I don't believe we'll have a pandemic influenza vaccine of any substantial nature."He added that while antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir could be helpful in fighting a pandemic virus, they would be in short supply.


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The New York Giants claimed its fourth title with a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots.
MADONNA has slammed M.I.A. for her "teenage" antics during their Super Bowl performance.
MIA, the English-born singer and rapper, "flipped the bird" at the camera during her guest spot in Madonna's medley at Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show.
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There's hardly any new cars on show here in Detroit, but don't worry, journalists that rely on the car industry to feed them have found another way to justify their meal tickets. Apparently, the big story this year is "optimism."
"A new sense of optimism filled the Detroit auto show Monday," writes the AFP. "Optimism reigns in Detroit as big auto show begins 2-week run," says the AP. "Detroit auto show does without glitz, but there's a sense of optimism in the air," barfs the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. In fact, a Google News search for "optimism detroit auto show" returns 741 results.
What do we have to be optimistic about? According to the AP, Chrysler is going to slow the rate at which it fires people (they're calling that "hiring"), Ford won two Car Of The Year awards by the hometown press, GM's going to make more crossovers, Chrysler/Fiat will hire temporary employees instead of full-time ones when it eventually gets around to importing cars like the Chrysler Guido and the company announced it hadn't lost any more of its cash reserves since November. We didn't realize there was free crack on offer here at the show, but as soon as we finish writing this article, we're going to go find some.
As apparently the only non-high journalists in attendance (we'd describe our state more like "buzzed") we just don't understand where this optimism is coming from.
Dodge, Jaguar, Jeep, Land Rover, Lexus, Lotus, Maserati, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Ram, Scion, Smart and Volvo aren't even holding press conferences as they have nothing new to blather on about — not even a dumb radio.Lamborghini, Porsche, Nissan and Infiniti didn't even bother to show up. As far as we can tell, the only all-new production models here are the Ford Focus and the Honda CR-Z. Most of the "unveilings" are for products we've seen before or they're just relatively un-exciting concept cars. Journalist attendance is noticeably down from 2008, not to mention 2007 — both years with three press days. This year, they can barely manage one and a half. Also, it's 16 degrees outside and there's very little in the way of free beer. I hate this place.


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How do we get from today's F-1 racers to the gravity-defying hover cars of Wipeout 2048 in a mere 36 years? Sony Liverpool details this mechanical evolution in the intro video for the upcoming PlayStation Vita launch title.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
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|Information: Change In Restrictions On The Kishwaukee River In Winnebago County
|Date: 07/17/08
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NARRATIVE:The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has lifted its restriction which closed the river, and the Kishwaukee River in Winnebago County is now open. The Sheriff's Department inspected the river conditions earlier today, and made a recommendation to DNR that the conditions which existed over the weekend that caused the closure, were no longer such a significant hazard. Although the river is back in its banks and the DNR has re-opened the river, recreational users should be aware that caution should be used. The water is still higher than normal, and the current is flowing at a faster than normal rate. Recreational users should still exercise caution and use good judgment about making a decision to access the river. Skill and experience levels are more the concern now than the water conditions as far as safety considerations. The presence of debris in the river creates hazardous conditions, which are difficult to detect. Additionally, the increased water flow creates a much faster current than what has been experienced over the past few months with the lower water levels. These conditions increase the likelihood of problems for boaters, which results in exposing first responders to dangerous conditions should a rescue situation develop. As a reminder, the Rock River remains closed in Winnebago County, and the public boat launches at Macktown, Hononegah, and Atwood Forest Preserves, Riverside Park in Roscoe, Harlem Road, SportsCore, and Martin Park remain closed as well. For current river conditions, and any further updates, contact the Sheriff's Office at (815) 319-6300, or the Rock River information telephone line at (815) 316-8888.


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MetaProducts Offline Explorer is a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista offline browser that allows you to download an unlimited number of your favorite Web and FTP sites for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. Using Offline Explorer Enterprise, you can download an unlimited number of your favorite Web, FTP, HTTPS, MMS, PNM and RTSP sites for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. Offline Explorer also has many web development features that allow you to easily edit, view, browse or search downloaded Web pages (Offline Explorer has a built-in internal browser.) One of its strengths is to allow you to select (include or exclude) individual servers, directories and files using keywords.
Offline Explorer is known for its excellent user interface and for being one of the fastest known Web site downloaders available on the market today. Support of industry-standard technologies such as FTP, different proxy servers, Java and VB scripts, Java classes, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS,) Macromedia Flash, XML/XSL/DTD, Table Of Contents (TOC,) Acrobat (PDF,) M3U, AAM files, RealMedia (.SMIL, .RAM, .RPM,) MS NetShow Channel (.NSC,) VRML (.WRL, .WRZ,) QuickTime movies (.MOV) and cookies plus a built-in HTTP server that allows you to share downloaded files over an Intranet, make Offline Explorer the leader in offline browsing. The export feature allows you to copy downloaded sites to another location in different formats. Among its many awards, Offline Explorer is a ZDNet 5-star winner.
Offline Explorer Enterprise combines the usability of Offline Explorer with the power of Offline Explorer Pro and adds:
* The ability to download up to 100 million URLs per Project;
* An OLE Automation interface to enable control from other applications;
* The ability to update Projects with deleted files;
* Internal Proxy server to access downloaded sites transparently in your browser;
* Generation of Google SiteMap files.
* The fastest-possible multi-threaded processing of downloaded files by using all CPU cores.
The most significant new features:
* Office 2007-like Ribbon navigation
* Ability to mark Projects with color
* Search feature in the exported CHM files
* Project levels tab
* Enhanced Content Filters
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* Ability to index downloaded files for faster search
* FTP Upload in the Export dialog
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Offline Explorer Pro lets you take the web site with you when you travel with your laptop computer. When the flight attendants ask everybody to disconnect from the Internet, you still have your web sites on your hard drive. Even if the online content moves or changes, your files are still intact. You can even save streaming audio and video files to your hard disk, and play them back at the highest quality. And Offline Explorer Pro`s powerful export feature allows you to share and transfer files, or burn them to CD in normal or Autorun mode. Best of all, the downloaded web sites can be viewed on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers.
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There are lots of audio and video streams available, but you can`t save them to your disk within your browser, Media Player or Real Player. Offline Explorer Pro can do this for you. Simply give it RTSP://, PNM://, NSV:// or MMS:// URL and watch the file from your hard disk. You can also download the file with the highest possible quality even on a slow modem Internet connection.
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• Download up to 500 files simultaneously
• Downloaded web sites may be viewed with your external browser or with our Internal Browser. (Note: this option requires MSIE 3.02 or higher.)
• Downloaded Web pages may be printed from the Internal Browser. It is also possible to print the whole site at once.
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• Since Offline Explorer uses relative path translation, downloaded files can be easily relocated
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Agent Sparks singers Benjamin Einziger and Stephanie Eitel bring to mind vintage new wave with their animated duets throughout much of their debut CD, Red Rover. Together with bassist Paul Fried and drummer George Purviance, they employ other modern rock styles in their depictions of oddball characters. An offbeat sense of humor is at work here, like when Einziger sings, "I like being a socialized animal/How about you?" on "Face The Day."
Eitel's keyboards playing adds to the fun of "Polly Anne," an energetic tune about a girl who never fits in, as well as the clever and catchy "Made Up Friend." Einziger's frenetic riffs compete with Purviance's tribal drumming during the religious/political satire "Razorhand," and the band brews up a tropical storm for "Camouflage." Red Rover even serves up a lighter, touching love song with "Funny Foolish."


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After juco transfer Cortez Kennedy tipped the scales at 370 his junior year, Randy Shannon, who had graduated the year before, was assigned to help him keep the weight down. Now that Kennedy is entering the NFL Hall of Fame, he's reminiscing about the little things that got him where he is today. On an interview with KJR in Seattle, Kennedy explained:
Randy Shannon used to stay in my apartment and watched the refrigerator so I wouldn't get up and eat late at night. We would get up early in the morning at the University of Miami, working out three times a day, not eating that much, drinking a lot of water. Randy, he'd play a lot of mind games with me and he was there for me. He taught me how to work.
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The inside scoops this month concern Microsoft's SQL Server support program, the growing popularity of data visualization, and SQL Server's penetration of the vertical-application market. Microsoft has a new high-end support option for customers who need high availability and the 24 X 7 support that it implies.
Unlike most of its relational database management system (RDBMS) competitors, Microsoft isn't expanding its consulting services to staff the new Microsoft Alliance program. (Microsoft's consulting services consists of about 1600 practitioners who take on a limited number of short-engagement, proof-of-concept projects but whose primary role is to provide technology transfer.) Instead, Microsoft is partnering with companies such as Compaq Computer, Data General, HP, and Unisys.
Witnessing how this support program works will be interesting. Enterprise customers are used to getting support directly from their vendors, and many customers are willing to pay a premium for high-level support. Microsoft, however, apparently views support as a cost center and is raising support prices to control or reduce demand.
Oracle and IBM, in contrast, treat support as a high-margin profit center and aggressively market their support services with varying degrees of success. I've heard few positive comments about Oracle's support (many users refer humorlessly to their "1-800-DEATHMARCH" waits on hold) and few negative comments about IBM's support for DB2.
At press time, both Unisys and Data General were offering high-availability support programs explicitly for SQL Server. Let's hope they help spread the word about SQL Server's reliability, availability, and scalability.
Data Visualization
Expect to hear more about data visualization. Once used primarily to portray simulation data, data visualization is gaining popularity as a tool with which to analyze and display business data, despite inherent dangers of this practice. (For information about analyzing and displaying quantitative data, see Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Visual Explanations, and Envisioning Information, Graphics Press.)
Software companies are joining the data visualization bandwagon. Cognos, for example, introduced Cognos Visualizer to extend its PowerPlay and Impromptu business intelligence software. Cognos Visualizer offers advanced visualization techniques, including visual scorecarding and the ability to handle scaling problems often associated with plotting more than one item along a given dimension. An Israeli startup, Maximal Innovative Intelligence, should be shipping its data visualization software, Maximal, by the time you read this. Other players include Visual Insights (a spin-off of Lucent Technologies), Visible Decisions, and Decisionism.
Vertical-Market Applications
At the Gartner Group's Windows NT in the Enterprise symposium in Palm Springs last May, Gartner's Al Hilwa noted that 70 to 75 percent of new application development uses packaged applications. So it's no surprise that Microsoft is actively supporting independent software vendors (ISVs) that develop vertical-market applications based on SQL Server. For example, if you purchase a retail accounting package that uses SQL Server, do you contact Microsoft or the application vendor with SQL Server questions?
In his "Great NT Database War" presentation, Hilwa gave Microsoft good marks for its effective channel strategy and loyal ISV community, but said that SQL Server is lagging in clustering and very large database (VLDB) support.
Microsoft reports that ISVs have developed more than 600 applications for SQL Server 7.0 in 30 horizontal, vertical, and specialty industries, ranging from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to retail. When Microsoft first launched SQL Server, it expected fewer than 300 applications by now.
Six hundred is an impressive figure until you compare it to Oracle's or IBM's numbers. Oracle claims to have about 60,000 applications offered by about 17,000 Oracle Alliance partners (ISVs and consultants). And Janet Perna, general manager of IBM's data management division, says more than 10,000 applications are available for DB2, including more than 1500 being developed for DB2 UDB for NT, from 6500 DB2 business partners (http://www.ibm.com/ software/ data/perna.html).


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CoCreate Software, Inc., a leading provider of 3rd generation PLM software applications for high-tech electronics and machinery, today introduced the world's first free Dynamic Modeling based 3D CAD software, CoCreate OneSpace Modeling Personal Edition (PE).
OneSpace Modeling PE is a freely available download offering all the power of CoCreate's enterprise OneSpace Modeling 3D CAD system for assemblies up to 60 parts.
This version enables any engineer, designer or student to experience the extraordinary power of a Dynamic Modeling based approach to 3D product development, the cornerstone of the CoCreate OneSpace Suite. And even the most casual user or hobbyist will be immediately productive through a full set of self-paced tutorials, quickstart projects, online help and user forums.
Key benefits available in this release include:
- Easily import and completely edit standard 2D and 3D file formats to experience the unparalleled interoperability of the CoCreate platform, where geometry is always king.
- Radically transform existing designs from nearly any source to satisfy new market requirements, while shaving weeks to months off development timelines.
- Respond to unexpected or changing requirements more easily, more frequently and much later in the development process through a history-free approach.
- Discover an easier to learn and use 3D CAD system that combines 2D's ease of use with the inherent benefits and power of 3D. Moving from 2D to 3D has never been this easy.
- 100% faster product development through empowered design teams, lean product development methodologies and the CoCreate platform.
There are two approaches to 3D product development. OneSpace Modeling PE brings Dynamic Modeling to engineers and designers worldwide, giving them choice and liberation from the overhead and complexity of history-based modeling.
"Customers tell us that CoCreate gives them extreme speed, flexibility and responsiveness to change in 3D product development. These traits come from a Dynamic Modeling based approach," said William M. Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO. "OneSpace Modeling PE ends the industry's status quo, and lets the 3D CAD users see that there is a fork in the road for 3D product development tools."
For companies and individuals wanting more, the CoCreate platform is easy to grow into. All 2D drawings and 3D models created within OneSpace Modeling PE can be unlocked and carried over to CoCreate's full production environment. Subscription licensing (rent versus own) and a 15 minute, 6 button click deployment model for CoCreate's powerful data management are just a few of the examples of how easy it is to adopt the CoCreate platform. More importantly, CoCreate's Dynamic Modeling based interoperability strengths means there is no switching cost in moving to the CoCreate platform.
This is a time limited opportunity until March 31st to secure your free copy of OneSpace Modeling PE – so act now! To register and download your personal copy: http://www.cocreate.com/free
Commentary By Jeffrey Rowe, Editor
OK, I'll admit up front here, I was skeptical about the "free" software thing. My skepticism was quickly dashed, though, after I talked to some CoCreate folks about the offer and its implications.
Although CoCreate isn't the first or only MCAD vendor to offer free software, this activity is part of a bigger plan whereby the company hopes to more aggressively compete in this cutthroat market. This offer is actually an important part of the company's commitment to this market. Other aspects that are currently in play include the fact that it is in the process of expanding its sales channel by increasing its number of resellers, and a number of flexible ownership options are available, including an option to rent the software by the week. With all that is going on, the company seems to be backing the effort across the board 100%, and that's a good thing.
CoCreate's OneSpace Modeling philosophy works on the same major tenet of lean practices of any type – keep things that are essential and eliminate those that are not. Probably the biggest thing that set OneSpace Modeling apart from the competition is Dynamic Modeling based on a history-free design approach. While not for everybody, this approach can provide some surprising benefits. So, what are some of the pros and cons of history-based versus history-free modeling?
Today, the majority of mechanical CAD products are parametric, history-based applications. CoCreate's OneSpace Modeling, however, is one of the exceptions. OneSpace Modeling's history-free architecture can make it easier to make design changes to 3D models without the need to know how a design was originally created. CoCreate calls this "dynamic modeling," and is a unique method for designing parts and assemblies. Some users may not like the absence of the history at first, especially those who have experience and a comfort level with parametric, history-based systems. However, I think that just as many users will appreciate the shorter learning curve and the likely faster changes that can be made to a design without having to deal with its design history and associated graphical model feature tree.
Parameters can unintentionally apply the brakes where the speed of design changes can be critical. For example, in parametric models, each entity, such as a line or an arc, has parameters associated with it. These parameters control the various geometric properties of the entity, such as the width and height of a rectangle or the radius of a fillet. They also control the locations of these entities within a part model.
Parameters can (usually) be changed to create a desired part for design optimization or maintaining original design intent (although that's another potential point of debate). History-based parametric modelers create and maintain a record of how a part model is built. When parameters in a model are changed and it is regenerated, the CAD application repeats the operations from its history, using the new parameters, to create a new part model. An advantage for this type of modeling is that you can perform "what if" scenarios and test various sizes of parts to determine which is the "best" part for a given purpose by simply adjusting a part model's parameters and regenerating the part.
So, while parametric history-based modeling can be a powerful design method, it can also complicate things and make models created using this method difficult or impossible to work with, especially late in the design process, based on inherent dependencies. This is exactly what OneSpace Modeling plays off of for collaborative design teams who need to perform design changes without having to concern themselves with constraints, parametrics, and history-based feature trees.
As I said earlier, beyond OneSpace Modeling, today, the majority of mechanical CAD products are parametric, history-based applications. There are, however, some notable exceptions – IronCAD and KeyCreator. CoCreate's OneSpace Modeling is a 3D CAD tool based on a dynamic history-free architecture that can make it easier to make design changes to 3D models with no need to know how a design was originally created. CoCreate calls this "intuitive modeling," and is a unique method for designing parts and assemblies, but may put off some users at first, especially those who have experience and a comfort level with parametric, history-based systems. That said, though, parameters aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
Some parametric modelers also allow constraint equations to be added to models. These can be used to construct relationships between parameters. If several parameters always require the same value, or a certain parameter depends on the values of several others, this is the best way to ensure that these relationships are always correct. This ability, however, can also lead to problems, especially if changes are made to parts that are heavily parameter-dependent.
CoCreate is doing a lot of things to increase its presence in the MCAD market, and the company seems to be going about it in a methodical and calculated way. Will they appeal to everybody? Well, no, but the way they are going about it says that they are in for the long haul.
I'm looking forward to downloading CoCreate's OneSpace Modeling PE myself and checking out what it can do. I'll report back what I discover.
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Dolly Parton has admitted feeling a little trepidation about playing at Glastonbury.
The singer, 68, has been booked to play the so-called Legend slot on the festival's Sunday afternoon this year.
She said that she hoped to bring some sun, as well as her distinctive voice, to the notoriously rain-soaked festival.
"I will try to bring some Nashville weather with me. I can't wait, though," she said.
"I've played to that many people before - years ago with Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles - but never something as big as Glastonbury. And never on my own."
Dolly, whose new album, Blue Smoke, is released in the UK this month, added: "I think I will be a little bit scared. Well maybe not scared, but definitely nervous.
"But whatever the weather, or if I'm nervous, we're going to put on the best show. No matter what."
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