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The old neighborhood under the Aurora Bridge has undergone dramatic change, but retains much of the quirky character that has made it such a magnet over the years.
By Stacey Solie | Special to The Seattle Times | May 17, 2013
With hugely popular seasonal festivals, a high concentration of live-music venues, an abundance of Thai restaurants rivaled only by an abundance of bicycle shops, Fremont is firmly established as a destination place to play in Seattle.
And, as companies such as Adobe Systems, Getty Images and Google have taken up occupancy in the low-slung office complex along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Fremont is also clearly where people go to work.
Fremont's residential community is growing, too, with many new condos, town houses and apartments going up in recent years, replacing older single-family houses.
More new housing developments are on the way — a 138-unit project on Stone Way North near North 36th Street and a 172-unit complex nearby on Woodland Park Avenue North.
In the meantime, existing residents mix with the work-hard, play-hard crowds which, on any given night, are out partaking of the neighborhood's lively entertainments.
From taking in a live performance to imbibing locally brewed beer (Fremont Brewing) or spirits (Fremont Mischief Distillery) or gorging on locally roasted organic chocolate (Theo Chocolate), there's no shortage of options in Fremont.
"I really appreciate the walkability," says Karen Woodburn, 29, who moved to Fremont from Wallingford about three years ago.
A student at Bastyr, after class on Fridays she heads to Fremont's Thrive Healing Massage for a rubdown and then meets her husband for a cocktail at Quoin. Sometimes they follow up with a game of Super Mario Brothers at the Add-a-Ball underground arcade across the street.
Josh Woodburn, a 31-year-old bioengineering graduate student at the University of Washington, likes that after a night out in the bustling lower Fremont area, the couple can wander up the hill to their one-bedroom duplex, which they rent for the under-market rate of $815 a month in upper Fremont.
"The weekends can be randy," Woodburn said. "Especially in the summer, it gets crazy."
Home values in Fremont have jumped over the past year, as they have throughout the Seattle area, according to figures compiled by Seattle-based Zillow.com.
The median value of all single-family houses in Fremont, not just those that recently sold, was $495,500 in March, up 10.8 percent year-over-year, the Zillow Home Value Index shows.
The median value of condos in Fremont was $347,700 in March, up 14 percent year-over-year, and the median apartment rent was $1,766, up 3.5 percent year-over-year, according to Zillow.
The Fremont neighborhood is considered "very walkable" (meaning most errands can be accomplished on foot) and got a rating of 86 (out of 100) from Walk Score, a Seattle company that provides automated walkability ratings.
Fremont does not try to keep itself secret. The Chamber of Commerce puts out a free map and brochure for tourists, and the area's past is immortalized in the History House museum.
Its sidewalks are dotted with historical markers for self-guided tours, or, for a more interactive experience, a costumed street-theater crew leads group tours.
These, along with zany events, including the Solstice Parade, coming up in June, featuring belly dancers and naked cyclists, and Moisture Fest, with burlesque and aerial performances, lends this little pocket of North Seattle a manic pixie theme-park festivity.
Situated between Ballard and Wallingford, and connected by the Burke-Gilman Trail, Fremont is also a neighborhood that proudly flaunts its many displays of public quirk. These include a pair of topiary apatosauruses lingering off Phinney Avenue; a larger than life-size bronze homage to Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik totalitarian dictator, who seems to be perpetually striding away from an Italian gelateria behind him; a mounted silver Cold War-era rocket pointed into the sky, as if ready for takeoff; and a one-eyed VW-grabbing troll under the Aurora Bridge.
Fremont's current incarnation is a far cry from its scruffier days in the 1960s, back when Brian Regan began frequenting the area.
A teenager at the time, Regan recalled squatting in a room on the second floor of what was then the Fremont Hotel, a historic building on Fremont Avenue North. There, he did not pay rent, he said, and he doubted that anyone else did either.
"You could live a sort of openly illegal life," Regan said.
That was a different Fremont entirely. Some of the buildings were boarded up and abandoned, partially a result of the 1932 completion of the Aurora Bridge (officially the George Washington Memorial Bridge), which dwarfs the Fremont Bridge and allows traffic to zoom past Fremont altogether.
Additionally, "the end of interurban rail service in 1939 and trolley service in 1941 sent the neighborhood into eclipse," says the neighborhood's story at HistoryLink.org.
This decades-long period of neglect also created affordable space for artists to move into the neighborhood, Regan said, beginning the area's transformation into an arts and business hub for the city.
As the neighborhood began to transform, so did Regan, who, after spending his youth on the other side of the law, had an epiphany, earned a business degree from the University of Washington and became a developer.
His most recent project is the newly constructed Saturn Building, a five-story office building at North 35th Street and Evanston Avenue North, anchored by the upscale Wine Tea Chocolate cafe.
Today, rent-free living in Fremont is nearly impossible to fathom. At the Epicenter, a six-story apartment complex whose exterior is adorned with whimsical curlicue metal sculptures, studios begin at $1,250, one bedrooms go for $1,550 and two-bedrooms for $1,950, said Lydia Anderson, a leasing agent for the building.
Perched above the PCC Natural Market, the complex has few vacancies, she said.
Anderson, a writer and a copy editor, moved to the Epicenter from Redmond a year ago and says she enjoys the car-free lifestyle, where she can walk to Peet's Coffee to get her writing done.
When Pete Hanning first moved to Fremont, in the 1990s, it still had a lot of rough edges.
"It was a lot grittier, then. A lot more blue-collar," said Hanning, co-owner of the Red Door Saloon.
The area was popular with motorcyclists, and it attracted one of the largest AA meetings in the Northwest, he said.
Since then, Hanning stepped up from bartender to co-owner of the Red Door. He met the woman he would later marry, Emily Hanning, in Fremont, and the couple recently purchased a house adjacent to the Hazel Heights P-Patch at 42nd and Baker -— a community garden named in honor of the previous owner of his home, the late Hazel Hurlburt. Hanning's house harbors one of two cisterns that collect rainwater for the garden.
Civic engagement is a strength of the neighborhood, Hanning said.
The social-services group Solid Ground was founded there.
Hanning recounted that, at a fall 2012 election debate between state Democratic Speaker of the House Frank Chopp and socialist candidate Kshama Sawant: "The tension was between the Democrat and the Socialist, and the Democrats were being pushed like they were far to the right," he said, adding, "We are in Fremont."
A central figure in Fremont's cultural, political and business realm is developer Suzie Burke.
In the residential market, Burke said Fremont's vacancy rate is typically low. "We have infill from folks going to the University of Washington, and SPU (Seattle Pacific University). They come and go. It lubricates our apartment market."
"As far as houses go, Fremont fits right into the same boat as most of the rest of Seattle. There aren't very many for sale," Burke said.
Burke anticipates that the completion of a currently under-construction property she owns, at 3400 Stone Way N., may bring new residents to the area.
So could the running-shoe and athletic-gear manufacturing company Brooks Sports, when it moves there later this year from Bothell.
Arguably Fremont's No. 1 promoter, Burke says Fremont has it all.
"It's one of the only neighborhoods of Seattle where it's actually possible to work, live, shop and totally enjoy being a Fremonster."


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I wanted to find a web host for an ASP.NET MVC site, that isn't going to break the bank while it's in its growing phase. Only data we really need is for storing user accounts for sign-up/logins, and for hosting images. I know a lot of hosts serve PHP/MySQL, and there's also plenty that serve ASP.NET Web Forms, but not nearly as many that serve ASP.NET MVC/SQL Server.
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In the latest post to the Development Seed blog Alex Barth looks at some of the thoughts going on behind a replacement for the FeedAPI component of Drupal.
In the last couple months we've been driving efforts to bring Drupal's core aggregator up to speed so that we could use it to replace FeedAPI in Drupal 7. After trying to pull through some of the more extensive changes, I have to recognize that in this case the advantages of Drupal core work are not enough to outweigh the disadvantages.
While there was a real need for the update, the support just didn't seem to be there and development of the update slowed to a crawl. Alex notes that the original goals for the FeedAPI updates need to be rethought - don't replace the FeedAPI component, make a true successor instead. There's plenty of comments and thoughts from other Drupal-ers on the post, so read up!


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Back in September, ODH profiled Scripto, a "free, open source tool enabling community transcriptions of document and multimedia files" that was funded through a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Today is Scripto's official launch day -- the Scripto plug-in is now available for public use for Omeka, and is in public beta for both WordPress and Drupal. If you have documents in need of transcription software and you use any of those three content management platforms, download the plug-in and get started!


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Well hello there!
This may have been the longest blogging break I've taken to date... it's been really hard for me to get back into the routine of taking photos and sharing little tidbits of my life after the holidays. PLUS I was suffering from a really tough first trimester... uh-huh that's right! We're expecting our number two (woohoo!!). Another little lady to be exact, our little miss Emma is going to have a little sister. I'm about five months now, we're due early July and couldn't be more happier (minus the fact that this pregnancy has been kicking my ass big time).
By the way, if you have an iPhone, I highly recommend the Instagram App. You can find me there (marichellehills) - it's my new shortcut to blogging! It's basically a feed of pics that I share with captions, like the ones above. That's our little cutie pie testing out her new reading nook - she's growing into quite the little lady - 1½ years old now! Can you believe it?? We still can't believe how quickly it's all going. Sometimes I look at her in the morning and I'm convinced that she's grown two inches overnight. She's walking, talking (words only) and making us laugh on a daily basis.
So that's my big excuse for bailing out on you. It's a pretty good one right? I have a feeling that I won't be back to posting regularly anytime soon, but I just wanted to pop in, say hello and share our exciting news!


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Rays Have 9 Arbitration Decisions on the Horizon
Should be an interesting 24 hours for the Tampa Bay Rays front office. With 9 pending arbitration decisions to be made during this tedious 24 hour period, it could ultimately show the Rays poker hand. The arbitration list set for immediate discussion by those in the Rays boardroom comprises 6 relief pitchers, 2 former All Stars, and a offensive player picked up off waivers in 2010. Tomorrow's final decisions at the conclusion of the deadline will show a distinctive and resolute signal by the Rays head honchos of whether any of the nine have any possible future with the Rays.
But from that one secure arbitration point, it becomes more of a interesting gamble for the Rays to consider offering arbitration to their other Type-A players who might just take the arbitration offer and force the Rays hands to trade them or face some difficult financial decisions considering the Rays will cut their 2011 payroll nearly in half to around $40-59 million dollar range. But does it really seem in their past character that Carl Crawford or Rafael Soriano would accept such an arbitration offer to rejoin the Rays knowing that multi millions are lying out there waiting for their services outside Tampa Bay? Hopefully the dice do not come up "snake eyes" in this situation.
A more possible arbitration offer could be extended to Rays reliever Grant Balfour after another sub 4.00 ERA year with the Rays. This also might not be a "given" knowing the facts that the Rays are searching high and low for low cost Bullpen bodies to replace 2010 members like Balfour, Soriano and Benoit. Balfour seems like one of the two possible Rays arbitration offers ( in my opinion) that might be accepted. Then again, recently Balfour's name has been mentioned as a top tier relief option that could hit the unrestricted market full bore on Tuesday if he is declined arbitration.
The Rays again have issued their usual code of silence that is not letting out a single whisper or hint as to their final decision or possible direction in terms of these arbitration issues. But the thought of a possible arbitration offer to Choate might actually provide an adequate Rays insurance policy in the event Rays reliever J P Howell has some sort of delay in his return in 2011 from his shoulder surgery. That could instantly open the door wide for Choate or another Free Agent southpaw to join the Rays roster with an eye on a possible departure during the Trade Deadline. Roll the dice again and hope for "Boxcars".
That leads us to 4 former Rays players who have played their last games in a Rays uniform unless a drastic change of heart by the team. Brad Hawpe, who was picked up by the Rays after his release by the Colorado Rockies, and reliever Chad Qualls, who was traded to the Rays by the Arizona Diamondbacks at the Trade Deadline should be two players who do not get even a thought of arbitration by the Rays. Both had seasons to forget, and did not instill any sense of confidence in their abilities to continue with the Rays for 2011.
Qualls in particular did not seem to embrace his change of scenery and in the end almost duplicated his high dubious ERA that he maintained with the D-backs before his trade. Most people might point to his recent success near the end of 2010 and the postseason as reasons to keep Qualls, but the end result is there are dozens of reliever out there who can get ground ball outs with less extra baggage and worry than Qualls. A 5.57 ERA in a limited amount of appearances does not bode well to promoting confidence or providing an assurance of a relief reprieve.
Hawpe never seemed to get into a solid Rays groove once he came up in August mostly getting chances as a pinch hitter or the Rays Designated Hitter role. Not showing positives and embracing the DH spot might of brought an instant kiss of death for Hawpe. His .179 batting average in 15 games with the Rays did not instill any other emotions of enthusiasm or hope that he could be a possible solution to the DH problem for 2011. Hawpe was brought in to test run for a possible arbitration decision this Winter at DH for the Rays.
Instead it seems that Hawpe just folded his hand and left the table early.
There might have been 4 million little reasons ( his 2011 club option figure) that could have easily factored into the Rays deciding to decline his option for 2011. With Howell also up again for salary arbitration this Winter, it is possible that the Rays did not want to spend around $ 10 million plus just for three pieces of their 2011 Bullpen. The aspect of offering Wheeler arbitration could blow up in the Rays faces considering he posted his third straight season of 60+ appearances, and ended the season with 6 scoreless appearances. Always a gamble to offer someone arbitration as their stock is climbing.
That leaves one more soul that the Rays will not offer arbitration, but hope that he will eventually offer a bit of a "hometown discount", possibly cutting his 2010 salary up by 25 percent to make him again affordable to the Rays for 2011. Carlos Pena has been very vocal and more than adamant about returning to the Rays again in 2011. The Rays definitely can not discount the loss of offense and defense by the omission of Pena from their roster, but also can not afford another $ 10.5 million salary in 2011 for their former All Star First Baseman. The two parties must somehow find a suitable compromise.
As of right now, the only sure decision by the Rays is a arbitration offer to Benoit that will net the Rays another pick in the 2011 MLB Draft. The other eight decisions will have to be weighed with possible risks and counter balances to either extend an offer or possibly slamming the door shut to further free agent discussions. Will the Rays put their money firmly on the hopes that Crawford, Soriano will decline arbitration, thus netting the Rays additional draft picks when they do eventually sign with another team? Or could it all suddenly backfire and the duo accept arbitration and handcuff the Rays to finding a suitor for the duo before their arbitration hearings?
Joaquin Benoit Yes
Carl Crawford Yes
Rafael Soriano Yes
Grant Balfour Yes
Randy Choate Yes
Chad Qualls No
Brad Hawpe No
Dan Wheeler Yes
Carlos Pena No
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I agree that the process seems to be a breeding ground for animosity or frustration, but it seems to wotk most of the time.
It is almostlike a yearly employee review where you are trying to get that adiitional .25-.50 cents from your boss, but in this case it is multiplied a hundred thousand times that amount.
Not sure I could sit during a prolonged session where some tells me "I suck" too long either.
Who am I kidding, it would result in someone hitting the floor.
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I can't imagine having to go into arbitration. The team brings up all the reasons they don't want to pay a player by listing his shortcomings, and the player has to sit there and listen to it. Ugh. I know it's not personal, just business, but I marvel at how both sides manage to continue on afterwards without any hard feelings.
Ah, glad my team doesn't have the heart breaking decisions to make that your team does.
Someone told me the other day that the price for the Rays success will be stressful moments like this where the valued will have to walk away and some of the refuge still stays within the system.
Would love it if we could keep Carl Crawford, Joaquin Benoit and Grant Balfour.
Sometimes it seems like cruel punishment, but then we did get another banner to riase to the rafters this Spring.
Rays Renegade
Why won't the rays offer arbitration to Pena
Why won't the rays offer arbitration to Pena
Simple reason is that Pena made a Rays high $ 10.1 million in salary in 2010. Even with a down year he led the Rays in several offensive categories and could have pushed his 2011 salary towards the $ 10-12 million dollar range with arbitration.
Both sides would like a reuniting of Pena in a Rays uniform, but possibly at a team respectable level of $ 6-7.5 million.
You know Pena's agent Scott Boras will turn every stone before taking less for a client.
Rays Renegade
Hi Cliff,
Yeah, I'm sure the arbitration system is not such an uplifting experience for those players who have to go through the process … But I guess "it is what it is", and the teams and players will use the system the best they can for the most benefit they can earn … I see that the Rays offered arbitration to seven of nine players. And the Yankees offered arbitration [only] to Javier Vazquez, knowing that he will reject it … No arbitration was offered to: Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Andy Pettitte. So the winter baseball off-season continues … The Rays and Yankees have much work to complete this off-season to get their rosters in place by spring training, as the 2011 season seems so far away!
Happy Thanksgiving, Cliff !!!
– Jimmy, "BY&L"
– http://baseballtheyankeesandlife.mlblogs.com/
Actually I think only Brad Hawpe and Joaquin Benoit are definitely going to refuse arbitration at this moment.
Of course everyone has until November 30th for the formal announcement of a decline or an acceptance.
More than a few slight of hand tricks will be positioned before that date.
I hope Grant Balfour accepts the arbitration, but he is one of the better right-hander still sitting out there on the Free Agent market.
Might be an interesting week.
Rays Renegade


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Autodesk Fortifies Digital Prototyping with Ground-Breaking Inventor Features and New Products for 201112 May, 2010 By: Nancy Spurling Johnson
Direct manipulation, as-you-go visualization, and design automation are new for Inventor, and Inventor Publisher and Alias Design for Inventor join the product line.
For years Autodesk focused on transitioning its AutoCAD user base to 3D modeling. Today, the company reports, 3D is but a stepping-stone to broader design pursuits. At the Manufacturing Tech Day media event last month, Robert "Buzz" Kross, senior vice-president of the Manufacturing Industry Group, put it bluntly: "3D is not spectacular," he said, explaining that 3D CAD today is "just what you do — it's just a technique."
What Autodesk really wants you to embrace these days is digital prototyping — that is, using 3D design, visualization, and simulation tools to "experience products before they are built." Kross said Autodesk delivers digital prototyping as a complete package for manufacturing environments. "[That] is what it takes to compete today."
Autodesk's 2011 digital prototyping lineup includes some groundbreaking upgrades for Autodesk Inventor, a few new products, and enhancements across the board for product development professionals focused on conceptual design, visualization, engineering, and manufacturing. Software products are increasingly multidisciplinary, often supporting varied functions throughout the product-development process. Indeed, Kross stated at the event, many users today have a blend of previously distinct responsibilities, including creative design, engineering, and analysis.
What's New in Inventor 2011
Inventor 2011 is full of new features that support all facets of 3D modeling.
Direct model manipulation. New direct manipulation capabilities in Inventor 2011 are said to accelerate design times on common tasks such as assembly modeling by approximately 40%, compared with Inventor 2010. With direct manipulation, all the input needed for a command can be controlled right at the point where users are directly changing geometry. Dynamic input in the sketch environment helps engineers to sketch more freely and directly.
In-the-window visualization. An eye-catching new development, literally, is Inventor 2011's new in-the-window design visualization — it's "not a rendering," Kross emphasized. New shading, lighting, and material properties offer a more sophisticated, photorealistic representation of designs, updating as you go. An expensive modeling solution should offer graphics that are better than "those in a $50 game," Kross said.
Visual display in Autodesk Inventor 2011 features significantly improved shading, lighting, and material properties in the default work environment, giving a more realistic representation of the design at all times.
Simulation. Tools in Inventor Professional 2011 simplify creating and validating multiple design iterations. The new Simulation Guide walks users through the steps required to define the best scenario to represent the particular loads or interactions, making simulation accessible to new and occasional users by helping them to set up loads, constraints, and contacts as well as generate and interpret the results. Tools also enable engineers to simulate the performance of load-bearing frame models quickly. Referring to the advanced features now found in Inventor Professional 2011 and Algor Simulation 2011, Kross said, "We are ahead of what our customers need [for design analysis], which is unusual, but I think they'll be there soon."
Tooling. Inventor Tooling 2011 improves performance for a number of key operations by more than 50%, supports dynamic simulation of mold assemblies, and helps users automatically generate the mold core and cavity for a broader range of plastic parts, whether using native Inventor or imported files.
Design automation. ILogic technology, acquired by Autodesk last year, is now fully integrated in Inventor 2011 to offer rules-based design and design-automation tools that allow users to easily capture and embed engineering and product knowledge directly into virtual models. Autodesk compares this functionality with AutoLISP automation for AutoCAD, but is quick to point out that iLogic is accessible even to the non-programmer. The new iCopy feature lets users customize commonly used assemblies by automating the process of copying and positioning similar components. ILogic also can be used to build an automated configuration-to-order process.
3D print previews. Use the 3D Print Preview tool for a sneak peek at how a 3D printed prototype will look.
The 3D Print Preview in Inventor 2011 displays an accurate representation of the printed model.
BIM exchange. Enhancements to the AEC Exchange functionality in Inventor 2011 have improved data sharing between Inventor and Autodesk Revit or AutoCAD Architecture. To maintain consistency between Autodesk products, models published from Inventor now maintain the same visual fidelity of materials when imported into Revit and AutoCAD Architecture.
New: Alias Design for Inventor
Autodesk has introduced a version of Alias Design created specifically for Inventor users. Alias Design for Inventor 2011 ($3,995+) installs directly into Inventor and is fully integrated, offering freeform shape-modeling capabilities within Inventor's parametric modeling environment. A free trial is available for download.
Integrated freeform shape modeling capabilities are now available directly within the Inventor environment with the addition of Alias Design for Inventor 2011.
New: Inventor Publisher
Following its run as a technology preview on Autodesk Labs, Inventor Publisher ($2,500) debuts for creating clearer, more comprehensive technical instructions based on 3D CAD data. The software operates on a simple import-author-publish workflow.
- Import. Inventor Publisher imports product data from Inventor or any number of other 3D CAD solutions. Data imported from Inventor links back to the original model, so when that model is updated, the changes automatically reflect in Inventor Publisher. "Downstream documentation" becomes a term of the past because the documentation process can begin before product designs are final.
- Author. Users create exactly the materials they need for print or digital publication. Inventor Publisher was designed for use by non-CAD users.
- Publish. Completed projects can be published to a variety of file formats, including DWF, PDF, Flash, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and a variety of image formats, including high-resolution images for print publication.
The Flash format lets users create animations to convey design ideas, communicate assembly instructions, and more. Autodesk's patent-pending algorithm is behind a feature that can automatically "explode" a design to show disassembly.
The Inventor Publisher 2011 interface is designed to be simple enough that even non-CAD users can work with CAD-based data to create exactly the product documentation they need.
Other Digital Prototyping Updates
Other developments in the line of Autodesk products for digital prototyping include the following:
- AutoCAD Electrical 2011 software helps electrical controls designers to quickly create control system designs and more easily access extensive catalog information for large electrical controls projects.
- AutoCAD Mechanical 2011 software's streamlined design environment improves user access to power dimensioning functionality, which automatically aligns part dimensions with the rest of the drawing properties without ever opening a dialog box.
- Algor Simulation 2011 mechanical simulation tools now integrate with Autodesk Moldflow 2011 software, allowing engineers to utilize Moldflow simulation results and the Moldflow material database when performing structural simulations on plastic parts.
- Alias 2011 family — including Alias Sketch, Alias Design, Alias Surface, and Alias Automotive — delivers surfacing capabilities supported by industry-leading sketching, modeling, and visualization tools, according to Autodesk. In the new Alias Sketch, a hybrid paint and vector workflow helps creative professionals more quickly transform ideas into design iterations.
- Moldflow 2011 software helps users validate and optimize plastic part and injection mold designs before manufacturing begins. Users can now easily export Moldflow simulation results to Showcase 2011 visualization software to expose defects and see how the part will look in real life.
- Vault 2011 family, a workgroup solution for managing the complete digital prototype, even for globally dispersed workgroups, features a new visual experience for graphically mapping Vault information directly to Inventor models to streamline workflows, improve reporting and decision-making processes, and accelerate model selection and interaction. For example, a color-coded product can indicate which files are checked out or which office is working on those parts.
Time for a Hardware Upgrade?
With all the advances to design visualization and simulation functionality in the 2011 product line, will users need better hardware to support a software upgrade? Not necessarily, according to Kross. He said that new versions of Inventor, Algor, and Moldflow will leverage GPU power for those users who have it, and added that improvements throughout the 2011 line will be apparent without extra hardware investment.
A requirement for new product visualization in AutoCAD and Inventor was that it function efficiently without special hardware, said Amy Bunszel, director of mechanical products. But if you do upgrade to current processing technology, she added, "you will see some very noticeable gains" in 2011 product performance.
Sketchbook Pro for iPad
Kross also touted the relatively new Sketchbook Pro, a $7.99 drawing and painting application for the Apple iPad. "Most competitors don't have a product like this," he stated. The mobile app joins Sketchbook Mobile for the iPhone, released last year.
Product availability may vary by country, so consult the purchasing options listed on the Autodesk web site.
Additional Features from Cadalyst
See the following AutoCAD 2011 reports from Cadalyst:
- AutoCAD 2011: A Look at What's New
- AutoCAD 2011 for the CAD Manager
- First Look Review: AutoCAD 2011, Cadalyst magazine, Spring 2010 (on sale now).
A review of Autodesk Tech Day for AEC is here:
Watch for a First Look review of Inventor 2011 coming in the summer 2010 edition of Cadalyst magazine.


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Next year's midterm election, which features contests for U.S. Senate and governor, will of course attract more voters and pose a bigger challenge. But nothing in this year's experience suggests the system won't be ready.
It is now remarkably easy to vote in Colorado — even easier than in 2012, when it was already a breeze. And that's a good thing, even if the mechanism — paper ballots and stamps — seems remarkably retro in this golden age of electronic communication.
Whether pain-free voting produces the desired effect of boosting turnout, however, remains to be seen. Logic suggests it should help at least a little, and the latest turnout was impressive for an odd-year election, with 319,225 more ballots cast than in 2011.
But any conclusion is premature. As Secretary of State Scott Gessler has pointed out, turnout also spiked in Denver and Pueblo, which had already been mailing ballots to inactive voters.
Historically, by far the biggest driver of turnout is a compelling issue or candidate, not the ease of voting.
Critics of the new law will no doubt continue to fret about the potential for fraud given the number of unused ballots floating around and the way officials must rely on signature comparisons to verify voters. But so long as officials take seriously their responsibility to flag signatures that don't seem to match those on file, the threat of major scandal appears remote.
Meanwhile, refinements in technology should continue to improve the databases and thus overall security.
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For those of you mourning the fact that baseball will not be part of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (or the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro), don't worry because you're not alone — there are legions of croquet enthusiasts, tug-of-war fanatics and solo synchronized swimming fans out there who have experienced a similar loss.
At the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896, nine sports were contested: wrestling, fencing, athletics (track and field events), cycling, tennis, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics and shooting. Over the years, that number has increased significantly with the inclusion of everything from table tennis to taekwondo, from basketball to badminton. While many of these new additions have stuck around, others have been phased out indefinitely for one reason or another by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which in recent years capped the number of sports contested at the Summer Olympics at 28 (there will be only 26 at the 2012 Summer Olympics). Some sports, such as tennis and archery, have been discontinued and then, years later, reinstated. Currently, to be included in the Summer Olympics, a sport must be practiced by men in 75 countries spanning four continents and by women in 40 countries across three continents. Also, unlike some early Olympic events, no motors are allowed.
Here's the thing: In the early years, the Olympics were a more loosely organized affair and sports tended to come and go with the organizing country having final say on what sports and disciplines were included. Plus, up until in 1992, demonstration sports were also held in an effort to promote up-and-coming or regionally popular sports (baseball, for example, started out as a demonstration sport in various Olympics and eventually graduated to official sport status).
Of course, many of these discontinued Summer Olympic sports and disciplines, both of official and demonstration variety, fall into the "odd" and/or "obscure" category. Here's a look at nine of them, listed alongside the year that marked their last — and in many cases, only — appearance. Now, if you'll excuse us, we're off to play a game of korfball.
Croquet — 1900, Paris
Only one person showed up to watch croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics. (Photo: Kevin Kipper/Shutterstock)
While croquet doesn't exactly fall under the "enthralling" category, this genteel — but no doubt competitive … just ask the "Heathers" — form of lawn recreation that was briefly all the rage in Victorian England was indeed an official sport in the Olympics program. Much to the dismay of croquet enthusiasts everywhere, it was a short-lived phenomenon. During the Summer Olympics of 1900, the croquet event had only one spectator, an Englishman. And the players were all French. Croquet (kind of) reappeared at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis in the form of roque, an Americanized variant of the game in which the traditional grass playing surface is replaced by a hard court and the mallets have shorter handles. And to be clear, although croquet was the lawn game du jour in mid-19th century England, an earlier variation of the game called paille-maille ("ball-mallet") was popular across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Live pigeon shooting — 1900, Paris
Live pigeon shooting involved the slaughter of a number of pigeons. (Photo: Erni/Shutterstock)
Shooting has long been an integral part of the Summer Olympics (save for 1904 and 1928). In fact, it was one of the nine original events at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Clay pigeons have traditionally — and understandably — been used as moving targets with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris in which live pigeons were used, making it the first and only Olympic event that involved the slaughter of animals. As legend has it, more than 300 birds were shot from the sky during the 1900 Olympics, with Belgium's Leon de Lunden taking top prize (21 kills). Pigeon racing, not shooting, was also an Olympic event that year, albeit an unofficial one.
Hot air ballooning — 1900, Paris (unofficial)
Hot air balloon races must have been ... somehow exciting. (Photo: liseykina/Shutterstock)
In addition to now-discontinued official sports such as croquet, Basque pelota (a hybrid of racquetball and tennis) and both obstacle course and underwater swimming (!) races, the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris was jam-packed with decidedly offbeat unofficial events ranging from firefighting to kite flying to surf lifesaving to our personal favorite, hot air ballooning. It's unclear as to what countries took top place in the Olympic hot air balloon races, but we do know this much: This is one event that wouldn't, ahem, fly nowadays even though we'd like to see it resurrected. And on the topic of wacky contests from the 1900 Summer Olympics, contrary to popular Internet rumor, a well-attended Olympic poodle clipping competition "won by Avril Lafoule, a 37-year-old farmer's wife from the Auvergne region of France, who successfully clipped 17 poodles in the allotted two-hour time frame," never actually went down.
Tug-of-war — 1920, Antwerp
Tug-of-war had a decent run in the Olympics. (Photo: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock)
If there was a single sport that we'd like to see reinstated at the Summer Olympics, our vote would enthusiastically go to tug-of-war, the grueling, grunt-inducing game of strength that, despite being phased out after the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, lives on at corporate retreats, family reunions, church picnics and summer camps everywhere (and we don't think we're alone with this). Tug-of-war actually had a decent run at the Olympics, debuting at the 1900 Summer Games in Paris (a mixed team of Swedes and Danes took gold that year) and reappearing in all of its ropy, muddy glory for the 1904 Summer Games in St. Louis (the U.S. walked away with all three medals), the 1908 Summer Games in London (Great Britain claimed gold, silver and bronze), the 1912 Summer Games Stockholm (host country Sweden yanked its way into first) and, finally, the 1920 games in Antwerp (once again, those brutish Britons took top honors).
Glima — 1912, Stockholm (demonstration)
Two men demonstrate glima in 1934 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo: Willem van de Poll [CC by 1.0]/Wikimedia Commons)
Back before the IOC stepped in and ruined all the fun in 1924, the Summer Olympics were somewhat of a free-for-all as organizers were left in charge of selecting which sports, both official and unofficial, would be included in the Games. A shining example of this was the inclusion of a form of Icelandic folk wrestling known as glima in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. In addition to glima, Greco-Roman wrestling was an official sport, but host country Sweden forbade boxing, a former Olympic crowd-pleaser. And the other demonstration sport that appeared (for the second time) at the 1912 Summer Olympics? It's one that's not quite obscure as Icelandic folk wrestling — baseball. Unlike glima, after years of appearing as a demonstration sport, America's Favorite Pastime graduated to official Olympic sport status at the 1992 Summer Olympics and remained part of the official program up until 2008. In 2005 and 2009, the IOC eliminated both baseball and softball from the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic programs, making them the first sports to be voted out since polo in 1936. Replacing them in 2016? Not tug-of-war and ballooning (we wish), but golf and rugby sevens.
Korfball — 1928, Amsterdam (demonstration)
Korfball is popular in a number of countries. (Photo: KeremGogus/Shutterstock)
Debuting as a demonstration sport at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and reappearing eight years later at the Summer Games in its ancestral birthplace, Amsterdam, korfball is a hugely popular international sport (yeah, we'd never heard of it either) that didn't quite manage to catch on at subsequent Summer Olympics. Played either indoors or out, korfball is a coed, basketball-ish sport that managed to raise eyebrows back in the day due to the fact that each team was composed of four guys and four gals. Scandal! Today, the sport is a big deal not just in the Low Countries, but in numerous nations including Australia, New Zealand, the Czech Republic and Taiwan. Intrigued? Head over to the United States Korfball Federation to learn more about the small but well-organized stateside korfball movement, a movement which seems to be centered around Hamilton College, a small liberal arts school in Clinton, N.Y.
Club swinging — 1932, Los Angeles
Club swinging was obviously serious business. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain])
Men's club swinging, an official discipline in the Summer Olympics gymnastics program in both 1904 and 1932, is exactly what it sounds like: a bunch of dudes in tights twirling bowling pin-shaped wooden clubs of different sizes and weights in immaculately choreographed patterns. Yessir. Club swinging, or Indian Clubs, was actually a fad-ish method of strength training back in the day before Jane Fonda and Shake Weights hit the scene. And get this: Indian swinging clubs actually served as the inspiration for the modern day juggling club (and of course, the Clubbell). Who knew? In addition to club swinging, other phased out Olympic events in the artistic gymnastics department include rope climbing (1896, 1904, 1924, 1932) and tumbling (1932).
Photo: "Manual of physical training for use in the United States Army"
Water skiing — 1972, Munich (demonstration)
More than 35 athletes competed in water skiing events in the 1972 Olympics. (Photo: Jacob Lund/Shutterstock)
Although the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich were overshadowed by terrorism-related tragedy, let's not forget that two intriguing demonstration sports debuted that year: Badminton, which would reappear again as a demonstration sport during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and go on to become an official event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, and water skiing, which, sadly, has never been part of the Games, officially or unofficially, since. Shuttlecocks, not water skis, get all the love, apparently. The 1972 water skiing competition included a total of six events for both men and women – slalom, figure skiing and ski jump – with over 35 athletes from 20 countries participating. Representing the U.S., Water Ski Hall of Fame-r Ricky McCormick took first in the men's jump and figure skiing events while another American, Liz Allen-Shetter, took first in women's slalom. Other top contenders hailed from France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Australia.
Solo synchronized swimming — 1992, Barcelona
Women's duet synchronized swimming has been part of the official Summer Olympics aquatics program since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. And for a while there, so was solo (yes, solo) synchronized swimming with top athletes, including Tracie Ruiz and Kristen Babb-Sprague (USA), Caroline Waldo (Canada) and Miwako Motoyoshi (Japan). The video above why solo synchronized swimming was axed after the 1992 Summer Olympics and replaced with team synchronized swimming. Pretty ridiculous (yet oh-so-hypnotic) right? If the IOC ever decides to resurrect solo synchronized swimming from its watery grave at some point down the line (and we're not-so-secretly wishing they would), we definitely think they should open up the event to the fellas, mainly to this guy.
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The savior of the rainforest
Brazilian-born Paulo Adario and a handful of experienced bush pilots regularly risk their lives as they scour the land below for evidence of criminal logging and gold diggers in their efforts to save the rainforest
We're only 200 meters above the ground but we're already touching the clouds. An automated voice repeatedly sounds the alert: "Caution, Terrain!" and"Warning, Terrain!," but Fernando Bezerra, our pilot, takes no notice. If we flew just a little higher, we wouldn't be able to see anything anymore, and visibility is what this flight is all about. The Greenpeace airplane Amazon Edge, a Cessna 208 Caravan, is not in the air to take passengers from A to B, but to carefully observe the rainforest from above. The environmental activists' so-called flying eye is searching for signs of criminal loggers. The crew records illegal clear-cutting in a bid to stop the gangs' activities – and save the rainforest.
Spread out beneath us lies Altamira in the Brazilian state of Parà, which is four times the size of Switzerland but home to a community of roughly 105 000 people. What looks like a sea of forest-clad islands from up here is in fact the Rio Xingú, a massive tributary of the Amazon.
The first thing that strikes you up here is the unique beauty of it all
We fly away from the water and on over the rainforest. A single hectare of land here supports 200 different species of tree – compared with only 40 species in all of Northwest Europe. Brazil-nut trees tower 50 meters tall alongside rosewood trees with their characteristic seed pods. The "earth's green lung"; this is where our planet breathes. "The first thing that strikes you up here is the unique beauty of it all," says environmental activitist Paulo Adario, himself a pilot and the person in charge of coordinating his team of brave bush pilots. "There are many places that have never been trodden by human feet." The 64-year-old Brazilian has made saving the rainforest his life's work. He started making regular flights over Pará 15 years ago. For a long time, he led the Greenpeace Amazon campaign, today he is responsible for the organization's worldwide forest strategy. He is active in Africa and Asia, too, and always travels by airplane, of course. "I feel like a bird when I'm searching the forest from the air," Adario says enthusiastically. Flying has never lost its fascination for him. In this small plane, the forces of nature are ever-present, the updrafts and downdrafts, the turbulence, the rain.
The green beauty of the rainforest is in jeopardy; you can see that from up here: brown earth, bare patches, fields that cover areas where trees should be growing. "There's a track down there that's been illegally cleared through the forest," says a voice in my headphones. It's so loud in the cockpit that each of us has a microphone to speak into. "Let's follow it!" Pilot Bezerra hauls the airplane sharply round to pick up the trail. After all, he and his team are up there to investigate and record every possible indication of illegal logging. In the fight against criminal loggers, gold diggers and stockbreeders, Greenpeace works hand in hand with the Brazilian govenment. Although the latter provides satellite data of the area, cloud cover often obscures the ground, and if environmental desecrators are to be caught, evidence and hard facts are needed. Hence the missions of the Amazon Edge, a kind of Rainbow Warrior of the sky. From picking up the first clue to gathering admissible evidence, it can take weeks. The small, single-engined airplane is indispensable here because the vast areas involved can only be monitored from above.
A while later, we are circling above an earth-colored area in which we can make out trucks and shacks. This is the construction site for the Belo Monte dam, which will turn the Xingú river into two artifical lakes covering a total area of 668 square kilometers – far larger than Lake Constance in Europe. The Brazilian government cites the country's energy needs as justification for the project, but Adario, the Greenpeace activist, remains skeptical: "I have nothing against hydroelectric power stations as such, but several small ones would be much better for the environment and the local population."
The loggers have put a price on Adario's head
A while later, we are circling above an earth-colored area in which we can make out trucks and shacks. This is the construction site for the Belo Monte dam, which will turn the Xingú river into two artifical lakes covering a total area of 668 square kilometers – far larger than Lake Constance in Europe. The Brazilian government cites the country's energy needs as justification for the project, but Adario, the Greenpeace activist, remains skeptical: "I have nothing against hydroelectric power stations as such, but several small ones would be much better for the environment and the local population."
As we come in to land, all we can see is a gray soup; the airfield is swathed in dense fog. Captian Bezerra switches off the passenger microphones. He only wants to communicate with his copilot and the air traffic controler on the ground. "Sometimes it's disturbing when everyone is speaking at once," he explains to us later. It takes us two approaches to make the landing, but then it's a soft one. To left and right of the runway there's nothing but green forest. Bezerra, 52, is one of the best pilots in Amazonia. "I picked him because he used to fly for gold diggers and survived," says Adario, "they have to fly even lower and if you can do that, you can do anything." Bezerra even used to chauffeur one of the bosses of the very criminal loggers he is fighting today. "Flying is my life," he says, "but now I'm flying for a good cause."
Even more dangerous than flying low are the criminal elements in the Amazon region. Before changing sides, Bezerra was warned in no uncertain terms by his ex-boss, and his wife received threatening phone calls. His present boss, Adario, sometimes wears a wig and often a bulletproof jacket. He works in the Amazon office of Greenpeace in Manaus, the city of two million at the heart of the rainforest. To enter the building, you have to pass through a sally port, where the second door only opens once the first is closed.
The Jeeps in the garage have bulletproof windows. Video cameras monitor the rooms, and in another building, security staff work round the clock, observing every movement. The loggers have put a price on Adario's head. He doesn't want to tell us the amount, "but it's high enough…." For a couple of years, Adario only left his home accompanied by two bodyguards.
His life has become a little easier now, since the big bosses who once fought him now meet him for dinner. "Many have realized that sustainable operations are good for their image and more profitable in the long run," Adario explains. Two years ago, the Brazilian environment minister announced that logging had fallen to its lowest level since satellite imaging began in 1988.
In 2006, the government had placed a protection order on 16.4 million hectares of forest, an area four times that of the Netherlands. The country's soybean traders also stopped selling crops grown in Amazonia – if only for a limited time. Still, the concession was likely down to Adario's missions with the Amazon Edge. In 2012, the United Nations honored Adario's efforts, bestowing on him the official title "Forest Hero." But the rainforest, one of the world's most important habitats, is not safe yet. Despite the positive announcement in 2012, by the following July a further 28 percent of the rainforest was destroyed. For Paulo Adario, there's still work to be done.


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If this leak is true (and it's boring enough to be true), then it means webOS 1.4 should be hitting soon (like we thought).
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In my presentations in Australia and New Zealand, I mentioned that people were re-discovering the benefits of removable media. While floppy diskettes were convenient way of passing information from one person to another, they unfortunately did not have enough capacity. In today's world, you may need Gigabytes or Terabytes of re-writeable storage with a file system interface that can easily be passed from one person to another. In this post, I explore three options.
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The Schedule of Talks and Abstracts for previous symposia can be found here:
The Schedule of Talks and Abstracts for previous symposia can be found here:
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The Graduate Research Symposium (also called the Graduate Student Symposium or Spring Symposium) is an all day event where graduate students in EEB get a chance to present their research to other graduates and faculty in the department. Regardless of the student's research level, this symposium provides an opportunity to present project ideas and/or results in a low-stress atmosphere and to obtain valuable feedback from grads and faculty.
The Schedule of Talks and Abstracts for previous symposia can be found here:
2004: UConn EEB hosted the Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference (NEEC)
Pages in category "Graduate Research Symposium"
The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
- Graduate Research Symposium 2007
- Graduate Research Symposium 2008
- Graduate Research Symposium 2009
- Graduate Research Symposium 2010
- Graduate Student Research Symposium 2011
- Graduate Student Symposium 2012
- Graduate Student Symposium 2013
- Graduate Student Symposium 2014
- Graduate Student Symposium 2015
- Graduate Student Symposium 2016
- Graduate Student Symposium 2017
- Graduate Student Symposium 2018
- Guide to Organizing the Graduate Student Symposium


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Mel Lipman has not received any gifts yet
Dear Mr. Lipman,
I am curious as to what you believe should be included in a book that covers 100 topics (atheist) teenagers should know. The book itself includes a variety of topics, but it is difficult to whittle the list down to the most important subjects for teens.
If you had any ideas on new topics, or ideas for how to improve existing topics, I'd appreciate any advice you have to offer.
For those interested in factual history being taught in public high schools, please be advised that D'Souza's anti-atheist propaganda is being promoted at Huron H.S., Ann Arbor, as recently as April. http://humanities-notes.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-hate.html
Dear Mister Lipman,
My name is PODELEAN IOAN, and I live in Romania, eastern Europa.
You can see my profile on Google, Facebook,etc....I'm sorry that I'm obliged to write you this message, but the situation oblige me because I reach in a VERY DIFFICULT situation. My brother has traheotomie and evasive colon cancer. The expenses with the medication and the surgeon operations failed and indebleted me with more than 25 000 euro, till now. So that I bag the people to help me with how money they want. But, because I'm not a beggar, I can reward, if is necessary, the humane and generous givers, those who love art, with ones of my oil paintings, that you can see on Google / Podelean Ioan / Tablouri-de-vis(first link) or I paint their portrait or other subjects. This message IS NOT an advertisement for selling my paintings,I show you the photo with my brother and, if you need more evidences, his medical documents. Please,ms. Lipman, help me with how much you want! If you agree that, please send an e-mail to me at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call me to +40 0766564394, to establish the way oy pay.Please announce me your opinion. With respect.....
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Read about the first photos in the album here. **Click on the images below for larger versions**
We get a double shot of this next subject from the Friends Album. As with many photos in the Friends Album, this one is taken in Danbury, Conn., but by still another photographer.
Note that this baby also is wearing a ring on her left hand:
I found a Frank Allen, photographer, in Norwich, Conn., in 1887 and 1888. That's nearly two hours from Danbury in today's driving time. I'm not sure he's our man. As you can imagine, Frank Allen is and was a common name and I found many census entries.
I eventually happened upon a city directory listing for our man in 1898-1901. His studio was listed at 248 Main Street. I added another pin to my Danbury Photographer Google Map — Allen would have been right across the street from the location of Wynard's studio at 247 Main Street.
Here's Photo No. 16:
Alas, there is no photographer's imprint and no markings on the photo to help us identify this gentleman or the location where the photo was taken.
Crofutt's Danbury City Directory, 1901, Frank Allen, p 17; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 March 2011).
Norwich, Connecticut Directories, 1887-91; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 March 2011).


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General Off-Topic Board / Re: Can lawyers legally call themselves "doctor"?« on: August 05, 2012, 04:27:19 PM »
Chiropractors ARE doctors
So are witch doctors.
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Chiropractors ARE doctors
In MPRE prep the Prof talks about how ethics boards use the "what would fool an idiot" standard. As such saying your firm only hires "Jurious Doctors" (even with the Juris in front of it) would be an ethics violation in most states,
Additional question. I am teaching a college political science class this fall. How douchey, on a scale of one to ten, would it be to ask them to call me Doctor?
In my view, I would say that yes attorneys can, but they generally don't because the law profession has its own terminal degree.
Many T1 out of state law schools had pass rates which were significantly lower than CA T4s. I understand that bar pass rates are not the only metric to consider when evaluating schools, but I also think it speaks to the absurdity of the rankings scheme.
. Keeping in mind that CA has the toughest bar exam in the nation...
I've completed a substantial load of 0L prep - read all the E and E's for my 1st semester courses, the Acing Series, Flash Cards, Practice Exam Hypos LEEWS, Law Preview, Delaney, etc. Most would say doing this is a bad idea, others will say it'll be helpful. Either way, doing this before law school even starts has helped me to learn more about myself.
Anyone else doing 0L before law school starts in August?
I'm 21 years old and I have been in the military for about four years now. I have one year left and I have always wanted to go to law school but I'm pretty much lost on everything. Ive submitted two
applications. One to eastern Michigan university and one to university of Michigan. I know I need to take the LSAT, but beyond that my so called educational counselor has been useless. A few questions I have are how much does the post 9/11 gi bill cover of law school? If I have a terrible gpa from high school how do I get that to look better and what are some if the best ways that everyone has found to study for the LSAT.
Ever attended a California Community College? Trust me, it is not Harvard and the grads are not going to be successful in law school, online or otherwise.


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The Central Connecticut men's golf team will take a nine-stroke lead into the second and final round of the 79th Annual NEIGA Championship on Monday in Brewster, MA. The tournament is being played at The Captains Course and is a par-72 on both the Port Course and Starboard Course.
Central shot a day one total of 288 and leads by nine strokes over the University of Rhode Island (297) and 10 strokes over Bryant (298). There are 38 total teams in the tournament.
All five Central golfers are in the top-37, including four in at least a tie for the top-seven.
The Blue Devils were led by junior Monte Mullen who shot -2 on the day, 70, and sits in the overall lead after the first round of action. He is one of only three players under par heading into Monday's second round.
Mullen is followed by freshman Bryant Bolden (Even, 72), sophomore Connor Murphy (+1, 73), senior Matthew DeJohn (+1, 73) and freshman Nick DiReda (+5, 77).
Bolden is tied for fourth place overall and Murphy and DeJohn are each tied for seventh place. There are 189 individual golfers in the tournament.
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HONOLULU — Tony Gonzalez, Ray Lewis and Champ Bailey know what to expect. The new faces at the Pro Bowl aren't so sure, and are curious how intense they should play in today's all-star game.
"I've never been in a Pro Bowl before, so I don't know what the tempo is going to be like," San Diego Chargers running back Ryan Mathews said. "So it's going to be fun to get out there and see how it goes."
Six rookies are among the 36 first-timers, including quarterbacks Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers and Andy Dalton of the Cincinnati Bengals, who are replacing Super Bowl quarterbacks Eli Manning and Tom Brady.
Their selection makes this Pro Bowl the first that will feature two rookie quarterbacks.
"This is like the height of being an NFL player — being an all-star and having the opportunity to wear the red, white and blue — just having that jersey," said Newton, the No. 1 overall pick in last year's draft. "Only a few people can say, 'I've made it to the NFL,' but fewer number can say they're made it here."
Bengals rookie receiver A.J. Green said he spent time learning from the players he grew up admiring. He doesn't know what to expect today.
"A lot of guys aren't trying to get hurt. I think it's going to be up tempo, but not too crazy," he said.
In a game known to highlight offense, the NFC will feature two of the game's most prolific quarterbacks.
Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers will start for the NFC and will be backed up by New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees. Rodgers passed for 4,463 yards with 45 touchdowns and just six interceptions. His quarterback rating of 122.5 set an NFL record. Brees, meanwhile, threw for 5,476 yards, breaking Dan Marino's single-season record.
The NFC also features Philadelphia running back LeSean McCoy and receivers Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona), Steve Smith (Carolina) and Greg Jennings (Green Bay).
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will start for the AFC, with San Diego's Philip Rivers and Dalton backing him up.
"I think any quarterback will tell you that we wish we were getting ready to play in a game a week from now, but it's always an honor to come," said Rivers, who this season joined Brees and Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks to pass for 4,000 yards in four consecutive seasons.
The players wrapped up a week of "workouts" on Saturday.
"The practices have been great," Cardinals rookie cornerback Patrick Peterson said. "It's definitely the most laid-back practices I've ever been involved in."
The brief practices have been as grueling and intense as a poolside, Hawaiian lomilomi massage. The players, some wearing sunglasses, often sweat more after practice — signing autographs for the fans.
"If you break a sweat during practice in Hawaii, there's a rule you've got to be sent home by the NFL," said Packers cornerback Charles Woodson, who is making his eighth Pro Bowl in his 14th season.
After practice, the players usually spend their days golfing, fishing, shopping or lounging on the beach with their families. In a season that began with a bitter labor dispute is ending in paradise for these players.
"It's more than what I thought it would be. It's amazing. It's truly amazing," said Smith, making his first trip.
The players are hoping this won't be the final game in Hawaii. NFL and state officials are negotiating a deal to keep the game in the islands. Many said they wouldn't play if it were elsewhere.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy, who is leading the NFC, said his game plan was simple with such a loaded team. "Our goal is to have 11 on the field," he said.
McCarthy said the game is all about the players, who earned this trip with their work during the season.
"I don't think anybody's too worried about how many touches they get or where the ball is going to go," he said.
Maybe with the exception of Jennings, who believes he has the inside track on the throws with his coaches calling plays and Rodgers as the signal caller.
"The other (receivers) already know, when I'm in the game, 85 is going to get the ball," Jennings said.
This year's winners will receive a record $50,000 each, up $5,000 from last year, with the losing players earning $25,000.
"When that fourth quarter rolls around and there's a little bit of money on the line, I think you'll see the tempo step up. We'll all be ready for it," Packers linebacker Clay Matthews said.
Chargers tight end Antonio Gates said he expects to play hard.
"I only know one way to prepare for a game. I don't know how to go half-speed," he said. "This is still a game. Guys still got on pads and coming out to compete."
Besides the money, conference bragging rights are on the line.
"It's still a pride thing — AFC vs. NFC," Gates said. "We feel like we are the tougher division and they feel the same."
Rivers said the money is important, but isn't the main motivator for these competitors.
"Even if we were playing for nothing, when it comes down to it, they're still keeping score," he said.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With a split squad heading two different directions, the Lipscomb track and field team will participate in the Hoosiers Hills Invite in Bloomington, Ind., and at the Samford Invite in Birmingham, Ala.
"They are both very good meets and both on a 200m banked track," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "They are very similar to one another. There isn't an advantage in going to either place with the exception of doubling our entries."
The Hoosiers Hills will see the top distance runners from Lipscomb along with the 400m runners, men's high jump and men's pole vault.
The Samford Invite will see the sprinters, women's high jump, women's pole vault, thrower's and the remaining distance runners.
"Our distance runners always seem to run well at the Indiana meet and we'll send the rest to Samford who are looking for qualifying marks," Taylor said.
Coming off the TSU Invite, Lipscomb had nine event wins including Dani Walker who came away with a pair of victories in the mile run and as a member of the distance medley relay team.
"She is at another level," Taylor said. "This is the highest level we have seen for distance women. She has always had this ability. She is just starting to be confident. We're not there yet though. She still has room to grow.
"She is in the invitation sectional of the mile at Indiana, which we had targeted as an opportunity to get a top-time."
Lipscomb also saw a 36-year old record be tied at the TSU Invite when Gemikal Prude had a leap of 2.08 meters in the high jump. Prude's jump earned him Atlantic Sun Conference Field Athlete of the Week honors.
"Gemikal will be at the Indiana meet where he will hopefully have an opportunity to break the record." Taylor said.
Lipscomb will also see a new face in John Kingstead. The Stockholm, Sweden native will be running his first race for the Purple and Gold in the 3,000m.
"John should be able to help push Tim Muller and Daniel Gardner to even faster times as both of them have had a great start to the year," Taylor said.
Fans can follow Lipscomb with results on its track and field twitter page (www.twitter.com/lipscombutrack) and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lipscombuniversity.xctrack/.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With a split squad heading two different directions, the Lipscomb track and field team will participate in the Hoosiers Hills Invite in Bloomington, Ind., and at the Samford Invite in Birmingham, Ala.


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There is great reason to rejoice, folks. Hot on the heels of NBC ordering four comedy pilots and two drama pilots to series, the network has renewed the most excellent comedy series Parks and Recreation for a sixth season. Nick Offerman himself confirmed the news on Twitter in true Ron Swanson fashion. While rumors have swirled that NBC is planning an overhaul of its comedy lineup in addition to losing 30 Rock and The Office, Parks and Rec is consistently a top ratings performer on the network and is something of a critical darling. The show has only improved since its debut in 2009, and I personally consider it one of the best things on television period. Less certain are the fates of shows like Community, Go On, and The New Normal, but we'll hear firm word soon as NBC is slated to unveil its full 2013/2014 lineup on Sunday.
[Update: In addition to Parks and Rec's renewal, NBC has cancelled Whitney and freshman comedy 1600 Penn.]
[Update #2: And now NBC has announced that Up All Night and Guys with Kids are also cancelled.]


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5 fun facts about iTunes' 25 billionth song
By Doug Gross, CNN | 2/11/2013, 7:51 p.m.
On Wednesday, Apple announced a pretty mind-boggling stat: The 25 billionth song had been downloaded on iTunes.
That's billion. With a b.
Since launching the iPod in 2001, and iTunes in 2003, Apple has been a leader in digital music, virtually defining the space for competitors like Amazon and Google.
Here are five interesting facts about the milestone:
- Who did it?
Investors sour on Apple Is Apple losing its appeal?
Phillip Lupke of Germany was the lucky downloader. For happening to click at the right nanosecond, he'll be getting a 10,000-Euro ($13,528) iTunes gift card.
And it was no easy task. According to Apple, users download an average of 15,000 songs every minute.
- What was the tune?
You've probably never heard of it.
Sorry. Hipster moment over. We hadn't heard of it either.
"Monkey Drums (Goksel Vancin Remix)" was the jam in question. It's by Chase Buch, a British DJ and producer who's well known in the house-music scene. It's not so big on lyrics. Which is to say, it doesn't have any. And it probably comes across better when you're shaking it in a crowd of sweaty club kids than, say, sipping coffee and doing the New York Times crossword.
- Other iTunes milestones
25 millionth song -- "Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" Frank Sinatra, 2003
100 millionth -- "Somersault (Danger Mouse remix)," by English electronica band Zero 7, 2004
500 millionth -- "Mississippi Girl," Faith Hill, 2005
1 billionth -- "Speed of Sound," Coldplay, 2006
10 billionth -- "Guess Things Happen That Way," Johnny Cash, 2010
Alex Ostrovsky, from West Bloomfield, Michigan, was the luckiest of downloaders. For the billionth download, he scored a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth-generation iPods and a $10,000 gift card, not to mention a scholarship set up by Apple at the Julliard School of Music in his name.
- 25 billion is a lot
Obvious, right? But how much is it?
Well, it's roughly equal to three-and-a-half songs for every person on Earth.
By way of comparison, the Guiness Book of World Records lists "White Christmas" as the top-selling song of all time at around 100 million copies. Multiply that by 250 and you get 25 billion.
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is the No. 1 selling album of all time with more than 42 million certified sales. It would need to do that again almost 600 times to hit 25 billion.
For a little more tech industry-specific comparison, Google's Play Store hit 25 billion downloads in September for mobile apps running on its Android operating system.
- More iTunes by the numbers
More than 350 million -- number of iPods sold
119 -- number of countries where iTunes is available
26 million -- number of songs available on iTunes
More than 1 million -- number of songs sold on iTunes during its first week in April 2003