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PB&J Challenge 2010 Recognition Night at the Milwaukee Bucks Game

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Vivian King, director of public affairs and Tom Wiesner, Category Manager for peanut butter & jelly, carrying a sponsor banner during the PB&J Challenge 2010 Recognition Night at recent Milwaukee Bucks game at the Bradley Center. (Photo by Harry Kemp)

Two members of “Energie” lead the parade of students during the PB&J Challenge. (Kemp photo)

On Saturday, November 13, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin saluted the students who participated in the Peanut Butter & Jelly Challenge 2010. During the half-time program at the Bucks vs. Golden State game Saturday, the elementary and middle schools that collected the most peanut butter and jelly to help feed Milwaukee area children were recognized.

The PB&J Challenge is a food drive which supplies peanut butter and jelly – two of the most requested food items at Feeding America. Every day, more than 105,000 kids rely on food supplied by Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.

Special Thanks To PB&J Challenge 2010 Sponsors: Pick ‘n Save, Milwaukee Bucks, Brownberry, Jif, Smuckers, Kemps and Fox 6.

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by Derrick Bryson Taylor Jill Scott's making time in her busy schedule to do more acting. The ESSENCE Festival performer has signed on to co-star in CBS's new pilot drama Second Sight, according to a press release. The series will follow a New Orleans detective, played by Jason Lee, who suffers from an "ocular disorder" which causes him to have hallucinations. Scott will play Dr. Callier, the sp...

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Tim O'ReillyTim O'Reilly and the Radar team will lead an interactive, all-day event that brings clarity to the business side of emerging technology. How can seemingly unrelated, unimportant datapoints be focused into a coherent, meaningful picture? What are the social trends driving innovation? Who are the alpha geeks to watch? What are the weak signals that need to be tracked?

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Photo by James Duncan DavidsonThe Briefing uses insider interviews with movers and shakers, and conversations with under-the-radar innovators to bring to light to the markers of success so that participants can navigate the new opportunities and disruptions ahead. The program will be made up of truly emerging issues--the schedule won't be finalized until close to the event so that the most interesting developments breaking through can be featured.

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Robert Cook has spent years building computers, software and video games – and also has the rare distinction of appearing inside a video game. He was the model for one of the characters in ...more

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Chumby Industries
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Welcome from Tim O'Reilly
Time: 8:30AM - 9:15AM
The On-Demand Manufacturing Revolution
Dale Dougherty, Editor & Publisher, Make, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
John Hagel
Andrew Huang, Vice President Hardware, Chumby Industries
Brian Warshawsky, VP of Operations, Potenco, Inc.
Time: 9:15AM - 10:00AM

There used to be a gulf between the hardware hackers we celebrate in the pages of Make and the kind of stuff we buy in stores. That barrier is breaking down, as new on-demand manufacturing networks put not just the workshop but the factory at the hacker's disposal. We'll open with a conversation with Dale Dougherty, publisher of Make: magazine, about the kinds of activity he's seeing on the enthusiast frontier that is Make's beat. Then Dale will join me in quizzing Brian Warshawsky, VP of Operations of Potenco and Bunnie Huang, chief hardware designer of the Chumby, about their own experiences with sourcing manufacturing in China, the rationale for open source hardware, and how hardware design and prototyping is changing. We'll also have a hands-on look at prototypes of Potenco's innovative power supply for the One Laptop Per Child project, and at Chumby, the next-generation wifi-enabled clock radio that you can "hack with a seam ripper." We'll wrap up by jumping to the big picture with John Hagel, who's been making a study of the next-generation design and manufacturing networks that are springing up in China.

From Manufacturing to The Attention Economy
Seth Goldstein, CEO,
Jacob DeHart, skinnyCorp
Jeff Jonas, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics
Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Chief Creative Officer, skinnyCorp (Chicago)
Time: 10:30AM - 12:00PM

The O'Reilly Radar is an extended meditation on William Gibson's insight that "the future is here; it's just not evenly distributed yet." We look around us at things happening today that tell us something unique about the future we can expect. The first thread we're unraveling comes from, in a continuation of our discussion from the first part of the morning. Threadless is a user-generated-design, on-demand manufacturing business. Users submit designs for t-shirts and other items, other users vote with their wallet, and when there's enough demand, the products are created. Threadless has sold out of every product they've ever created.

But there's a connection between threadless and our next presenter as well. Why would threadless users work so hard to create designs for a company they don't work for? Maybe for the same reason that bloggers are experimenting with, a platform that lets others watch you surfing. We're all trying to make our mark in the world. Seth Goldstein, the founder of is fascinated with attention, and he's betting that others are too. How much would you pay to watch what celebrity bloggers are watching? Is one more step towards David Brin's transparent society?

Jeff Jonas comes at privacy from the other side. He's a master at finding people who don't want to be found, including criminals and terrorists. His "Non Obvious Relationship Awareness" (NORA) technology finds hidden relationships in social networks and unmasks false identities through "entity resolution." He's also a master of what I believe is one of the essential twenty-first century skills: extracting meaning from very large databases.

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P2P networks were all the investment rage back in 2000 and 2001, before Napster was sued out of existence and they went underground. Ed Kozel of Skyrider Networks will talk to us about how P2P file sharing is not only alive and well as a distribution mechanism, but is also on the verge of breaking out as a new platform for sanctioned commercial activity. Think AdSense for P2P...

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Investing in Data Center Construction
Paul Kedrosky
Rich Miller, Editor, Data Center Knowledge
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Debra Chrapaty, VP of Operations for Microsoft Live once said, "In the future, being a developer on someone's platform will mean being hosted on their infrastructure." She's absolutely right, and that means that building data centers for competitive advantage is going to be the big boy's sport for the next few years. We'll talk with venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky and data center analyst Rich Miller about what kinds of investment and entrepreneurial opportunities might be found in the data center wars.

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Robert Cook, Executive Vice President of Product Development and Co-Founder, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
Esther Dyson, Editor at Large, CNET Networks
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In this session, Robert Cook, co-founder and chief architect of Metaweb's freebase, will demo the project, just out of stealth mode, and will talk with me and Esther Dyson about how freebase tries to bring together the best ideas of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, to create a structured database that can be edited by anyone, with data that can be easily re-used by computer programs.

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Peter Bloom, Managing Director, General Atlantic LLC
William H. Janeway, Vice Chairman, Warburg Pincus
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It occurred to me recently that Web 2.0 (particularly the emerging Google economy) and financial markets have a lot in common. Both are highly networked information markets with a lot of money sloshing around in them. What can the Google economy learn from Wall Street, and what is Wall Street learning from Web 2.0? We'll talk about this subject with Peter Bloom, now a managing partner at General Atlantic Partners and the former CIO/CTO of Salomon Brothers, and economist Bill Janeway, former vice chairman of Warburg Pincus. The more I look at this subject, the more intrigued I get. Examining the parallels between these two economic ecosystems helps us to extrapolate new developments in both. There's a lot of food for thought for both investors and entrepreneurs here!

Backing Up Instinct with the Numbers
Bill Tancer, General Manager, Global Research, Hitwise
Roger Magoulas, Director Market Research, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Time: 4:15PM - 5:00PM

I've been really impressed with the insights that Bill Tancer, the General Manager of Global Intelligence at Hitwise, and LeeAnn Prescott, his research director, have been writing about on their analyst blogs, so I asked them to come and share with us some of the trends they've seen cropping up on the consumer internet, but more specifically, how they use apparent anomalies in the data to figure out what's really going on. They have surprising insights, and a great methodology. We'll also have Roger Magoulas, our Director of Market Research, show us some of the things that are on the Research team's radar, including a close look at the SecondLife economy everyone's been buzzing about, online hiring trends among startups, and much more.


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Music Programming in Public Libraries

As the Music Library Association's liaison to PLA, I wanted to share a program that is being presented at the MLA's annual conference in Atlanta February 26-March 2. Speakers Laurie Bailey, John Smalley, and myself will be presenting "Music Programming and Partnerships at Public Libraries."  This presentation will focus on sharing the diversity of musical activities taking place in public libraries.

If your library has a music related program you are especially proud of, or if you have entered into any unique partnerships with local music organizations, we would love to know more. We are also interested in any opportunities you provide for patrons to engage in their own musical pursuits. We know there's a lot of creative and exciting programming going on out there, and we'd like to share it.

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As a graduate student in the MLIS program at Syracuse University, I had the opportunity to work as an intern at the Fayetteville Free Library at Fayetteville, NY.  The position included working with the database of the Vincent Motto Sheet Music Collection. (http://www.fayettevillefreelibrary.org/motto)  The sheet music collection, curated by Ms. Bobbi Hampson, presents a printed music timeline of America from the Civil War through the 1980’s.  The objectives of the project were designed by the Library Director, Ms. Susan Considine, to meet the library’s strategic mission to present the collection to a growing patron base with academic integrity and functional usability.

Research for the project led me to the Sheet Music Consortium, a multi-library initiative, led by to index and present similar sheet music collections. (http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/index.html)   My specific goal was to adapt the data, created by volunteers and held at the library for presentation within the Consortium.   This put me in touch with music librarians from Indiana University and UCLA.  Their assistance helped to clarify the data transfer process and to encourage and welcome a public library as a collaborative partner.

Although the project is still in progress, it has helped the library to see a much larger venue  for their special collection.  Once the Motto Collection is fully integrated into the index of metadata available on the Internet, it can demonstrate its unique value as part of the American Songbook Collection.  Students, historians, and musicians will soon be able to access music previously known only to the local patrons of the Fayetteville Free Library.  The library will benefit from knowing that have something so unique, that it draws patrons from all over the world.  I am proud to have played a part in connecting people to what is truly a special collection, the Motto Sheet Music Collection.

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Three Cheap Recipes For DIY Windshield De-Icers

Throwing vinegar or alcohol on your frozen windshield might be more efficient than hacking away with an ice scraper and cursing the snow, according to Wisebread. Inside, three easy do-it-yourself de-icing recipes that are sure to make those frigid mornings a little more bearable.

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    Sure, you could pay for a commercial deicer, but why bother if you have a spray bottle and vinegar?
    • Fill the bottle with three parts vinegar and one part water and go spritz the car before bed.

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    • “Mix one part water to two parts rubbing alcohol. Apply to the window and watch it peel right off!”
    • “Use a bottle of 70% isopropyl alcohol (50% works, too, but not as well) with a few drops of dish soap. Apply liberally to the glass with a spray bottle. (Readers also recommend adding alcohol to the washer fluid container, with a 50/50 mix, to keep wiper lines from freezing up in the winter.)”

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Except in very limited circumstances, such as an emergency or when you’re waiting for an appliance delivery, it’s generally not a good idea to follow the instructions of a robocall. Many Verizon customers have done just that, handing over their wireless account information to phishers. [More]


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Will Rupert Murdoch Be the Pied Piper of Paid Content?

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You could almost hear the sighs of relief in the hushed, thickly carpeted corridors of high-powered media executives on Aug. 6, when News Corp. chairman and managing director Rupert Murdoch announced that he was going to start charging for online news content by July 2010. At last, they exulted, somebody was jumping in and demanding that consumers pay for a product that has been given away for nothing on the Web. And even better, that somebody was not them.

"Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting," Murdoch said during a call with analysts and reporters. The Wall Street Journal, which he owns, is one of the very few news operations to charge users to see its content online. Now he wants to put all his sites — News Corp. is the biggest producer of news in the English-speaking world — behind a pay wall. That includes the online output of papers that run the spectrum of quality all the way from the snobby Times of London to the grubby New York Post, not to mention broadcaster Fox News Channel (FNC).

In making the announcement, Murdoch was butting into a long-running debate that has risen several decibels since the recession hit and blew out most of the advertising that the news industry relies on. As newspaper after magazine folds or seeks a buyer, pro-payment advocates are affirming ever more urgently that content is expensive to produce and they can't afford to keep giving it away on the Web. The free agents counter that Web publishing is based on getting traffic — the so-called link economy — and pay walls stop that dead. Customers also claim they won't pay.

So is Murdoch's declaration a classic, bold Rupertian move or the action of a desperate man? The mogul is 79 years old. His love affair with newspapers has lasted longer than his three marriages. But now it's an open question as to who will cease to exist first: Rupert or the newspaper as we know it. (Murdoch's mother Dame Elisabeth is 100.) He has made it clear that he wants one of his children — probably James — to run the show after he exits. This partly explains why he and his loyal and capable No. 2, Peter Chernin, recently parted company. But none of his children loves newspapers the way he does.

Despite the fact that, in Web time, July 2010 is an eternity from now, Murdoch clearly felt the need to do something quick. He made the announcement while discussing News Corp.'s dire year-end results: his empire took a stinging $203 million loss in the fourth quarter, and operating income was down 30% for the year. All in all, the company swung from a $5.34 billion profit the year before to a $3.38 billion loss in the fiscal year that just ended. Murdoch cares little for Wall Street, but he knows his investors need to have confidence that he's on his game. The switch to a pay model smacks of virility and aggression, the Murdoch of yore. "If we're successful," he said, "we'll be followed fast by other media."

Or so he hopes. One of the few growth areas among News Corp.'s crops were the Fox cable channels, particularly FNC, which showed a 50% rise in operating income. FNC's head, Roger Ailes, with whom Murdoch has clashed before, is likely to oppose any switch to an online fee model. It would be commercial suicide for FoxNews.com to charge for content until CNN.com and MSNBC.com do. And even if — and it's a big if — most major news websites were to follow Fox's lead, the BBC wouldn't, because it's not supposed to make money.

Murdoch's conundrum remains that his advertising-driven properties — news and broadcast TV — are in the dunny, as the Australian media baron might say, while the pay-for-content properties — movies and cable — are holding steady or growing. (His Internet assets, including MySpace, lost a third of their value. But to be fair, nobody has figured out how to make money from social networking yet.) So why not, he figures, get paid for all the content?

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"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Sherwood Anderson, grizzled author (Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter) went back to Chicago after an absence of eight years to look at the setting for his new book, Beyond Desire.

James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy who was being tormented by a crowd...

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The Changing Family: The Great Experiment

Today's parents are raising children in ways that little resemble their own youth. The question that haunts them: Will the kids be all right?

In Houston a stay-at-home dad kisses his pregnant wife goodbye as she heads for the office, and then turns back to the task of getting their four children fed, washed and ready for the day ahead. In Long Branch, N.J., parents work alternate shifts -- she during the day at a hospital accounting office; he at night, as a security guard -- so that their three kids won't be left with strangers. In Lincoln, Neb., a divorced mother of four -- one of the nation's 9.3 million single parents -- depends on her eldest daughter to fill in while she is...

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Beyond Unions: Five New Rules for Teachers

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Given their place as the most powerful public-employee alliance, teachers' unions are front and center in the debate that is going on in Wisconsin. But beyond the high-decibel clashes between Tea Partyers and public-employees' unions are contentious education-policy issues that reformers, teachers' unions and analysts have debated (and sometimes even collaborated to fix) for years.

Although teachers' contracts are often singled out, in practice the rules and regulations most commonly cited as problems by superintendents, school reformers and not infrequently teachers themselves are often found in state law as well. That's why schools in states without teachers' unions tend to operate pretty much like schools in places with powerful unions. In Virginia, for instance, where I served on the state board of education, it would be difficult to tell the difference between most of our schools and schools in heavily unionized Maryland. It's also why teachers' unions are not the only culprit here. They did not unilaterally create these rules and regulations — someone signed those contracts or passed those laws.

So forget the theatrics in Wisconsin. Reform doesn't have to mean abolishing collective bargaining. But if we're serious about having school systems that put student learning first and creating a genuine profession for teachers, here are five common practices that must change:

1. Restrictions on evaluation
Provisions in teachers' contracts limit who can conduct evaluations and how often, and they even specify how much notice a teacher must be given prior to being observed. By contrast, in most professional workplaces, evaluation is ongoing and both formal and informal. It's the same way in many high-performing schools where evaluation is a regular and continuous part of the improving process. Classroom "visits are not just more numerous but dramatically so" in the best schools, says Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit that recruits teachers and analyzes education policy. In those schools, instead of "zero, one or two [visits], it's 30 to 40 per year," according to Daly.

2. Last in, first out
With layoffs looming, policies that require "last in, first out" are hotly debated across the country. These rules, which can be found in both state law and union teachers' contracts, require that teachers be laid off according to seniority, without attention to classroom effectiveness. In other words, when layoffs happen, newer teachers — who in some cases still have several years of experience — are let go first, even if they're more effective than the veterans who are displacing them. These policies would make sense if veterans were always better than newer teachers, but abundant research shows that longevity alone is not a great predictor of effectiveness. Last month, civil-rights groups won a landmark court decision in Los Angeles changing how layoffs and seniority rules work there. But just this week, an arbitrator in Hartford, Conn. — a city lauded by national leaders, including Arne Duncan, as a model for labor-management collaboration — ruled in favor of using "last in, first out" there. Bottom line: for any organization that is serious about effectiveness, quality-blind layoffs are nothing short of insane.

3. Forced transfers and "bumping"
Organizations recognize seniority in different ways. But frequently in education, seniority confers a set of powerful rights when it comes to transferring to new schools. In practice this means veterans can bump teachers with less seniority when jobs open up or that principals are limited in whom they can choose when filling positions. In other words, teachers can force their way into a school. When the New Teacher Project analyzed this practice, it found that the policy contributed to newer teachers leaving teaching. But parents don't need a wonky report to get the basic problem here: Shouldn't individual schools get to decide who teaches in them?

4. Tenure and due-process rules
Earlier this month, an arbitrator in Washington, D.C., gave 75 teachers — including chronically absent and demonstrably low-performing ones — their jobs back over a technical due-process issue. Reformers groaned, but union leaders applauded. Long considered a "third rail" of education policy, tenure is now under attack in a number of states where various rules are found as part of both state law and in collective-bargaining agreements. It's hard to find someone who doesn't think teachers and other workers should have due process before losing their job. What actually constitutes "due process" is a more contentious issue, but even teachers'-union leaders agree that in many cases, the rules are out of hand.

5. Inflexible salary schedules
Today teachers are overwhelmingly paid on the basis of two factors: length of service and academic degrees. Salaries are based on master schedules with columns for degrees and rows for years of service, so a teacher moves across lanes and up the steps as his or her career progresses. Most professions pay more for experience, and there is little evidence that most additional degrees improve teaching. More problematic is what's missing: differentiation based on how challenging teaching assignments are, hard-to-fill subjects like math, science, special education or foreign languages, and how effective teachers are in the classroom. The rules of economics don't stop at the schoolhouse door, and superintendents privately complain about having to pay physical-education teachers and physics teachers the same amount, even though it's easier to find coaches than physicists. Hard to find a better example of something that works great for the adults in the system but not so well for the kids whom schools are supposed to serve.

Andrew J. Rotherham, who writes the blog Eduwonk, is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education, a nonprofit working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. School of Thought, his education column for, appears every Thursday.


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Marketing and communications specialist shecco has launched its first ever survey aimed at collecting industry perspectives on the use of natural working fluids in Canadian, Mexican and U.S. HVACR markets.

Participation in the survey by industry HVACR professionals will help to ensure the resulting free results —"GUIDE 2012: Natural Refrigerants – North America’s Market Potential" —represents an accurate overview of the market potential for natural refrigerants in North America,

Partipants will receive a free copy of the results.

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A new convention joins the ever-growing list of fan cons, Lexington Comic & Toy Con at the Lexington Convention Center in Downtown Lexington, Kentucky on March 24.

Guest of the con include comic creators…

Craig Boldman known for his work on Archie comics; Molly Durst creator of the graphic novel series Symphony of the Universe; Mike Grell creator of Warlord and known for his Green Arrow work; Mark Kidwell co-creator and writer of the zombie epic 68; Jay Leisten currently working on X-Men Legacy and Uncanny X-Men; Bob McLeod co-creator of the New Mutants; Jamie Snell sketch card and cover artist; Tom Williams created the graphic novel No Dead Time; RD Hall writer of American Wasteland: Blood and Diesel; and Allen Bellman legendary artist of Timely comics.

There is a variety of other guest as well:

Drew Curtis who runs Fark.com; pin-up artist Uko Smith; Katie Doyle of MTV’s Road Rules; Jonny Fairplay Surivior castaway turned wrestler; voice actor Neil Kaplan from such shows as Digimon, Bleach and Transformers: Robots in Disguise; Mark Ryan the voice of Bumblebee in the Transformers movies; legendary WWE Diva Tammy Sytch; and Dean Lorey producer of Arrested Development and other shows.

The con has gathered a number of former Power Rangers for the con such as Jason David Frank (MMPR Green and White, Red Zeo, Red Turbo, and Black Dino Thunder), Catherine Sutherland (MMPR, Zeo, and Turbo pink ranger), Nakia Burrise (Zeo and Turbo yellow ranger), Paul Schrier (Bulk), and Jason Narvy (Skull).

There is also a number of different exhibitors signed up at the con. A variety of comic creators like:

Kenn Minter of Near Mint Press; Jenny Stead of Ninja’d; Tim Tyler currently working on the comic Shadow Planet; Wes Hillegas of the horror comic Man Made Monster; Cristy Clemans debuting her creation Ninja Pea at the con; Dustin Carson of the limited-series No Gods; Mary E. Bartley of Nox Prophecy; Cindy Ramey of Nightshift and Nox Prophecy; Terence Hanely of the comic Lucky Girl and alien and monster coloring books; Rodney Fyke small press comic creator like PP’n'J; Brett Hatfield sketch card artist with his frist comic Mimics; Todd Beistel of Yuri – Gypsy Hunter; and Martheus Wade of Tales of the Toshigawa.

Small comic publishers Action Lab Entertainment, Ringtail Cafe, Monument Comics, Old World Comics, and book publisher Post Mortem Press.

Other exhibitors include:

The podcasters of Beaucoup Pop; Leon Rigsby who owns one of the top Minecraft servers in the world; independent film company ZP International Productions; Amanda Dyar model, writer, and editor of Bio Gamer Girl; actress Kayla Perkins; Bertena Varney a vampire sociologist and author of Lure of the Vampire: A Pop Culture Reference Book; Nic Brown author of the Werewolf for Hire series; John Berry writer of Dark Arrival; pixel artist Mike Eshelman; the Comicbook Jerk Aaron Gabbard; the costume organization Mandalorian Mercs; Annie Erskine who does graphic design for Cartoon Network; and Natasha Collier founder of Kentucky Geek Girl blog.

Rolling Video Games will be there with widescreen TVs and several different games to be played alone or in teams. The online toy store Jetts Toy Hutt will be running hourly give-aways of toys, shirts, and more and just hang out with fans instead of selling this time.

The vendors mostly consist of various comic and toy dealers. Bringing vintage and new of both. One of them, Red Viking Emporium, will be holding special drawings during the con.

The con will be from 10am till 5pm.

Tickets for the con are still available for only $8, $10 at the door, or you can buy a VIP pass for $20, $25 at the door if any left. Children under 10 get in free.

The con looks to be very exciting and big one of comic book and Power Ranger fans. Very much of a collectors con, but I am cool with that.

Check out the con at their site and follow them on social media for any last-minute guest adds and other updates.

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  • Sherman McMaine said:

    The Crowne Plaza Lexington – The Campbellhouse (Less than a mile from convention center) is offering a negotiated rate of $95.00 dollars a night for attendees. Just call 859-255-4281 and use code COM for your reservation. See you at the convention!


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Chahohbili - Georgian Chicken Stew Recipe

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This is another dish that I had while in Russia, and it's popular throughout the former Soviet Union. This might be the most commonly made Georgian dish. I'm a big fan of the flavors. I served it over rice, but it would go nicely with pasta or crusty bread too. To me, this isn't as remarkable as the Georgian beef stew that I linked to below. However, it is still delicious. And a number of guests at my dinner party preferred it to the beef. It's definitely a winner. If you throw a party and want both a chicken an beef option, these complement each other nicely.

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  • 4 lb chicken thighs and legs, bone in with skin trimmed but not entirely removed
  • Â¼ lb butter (or substitute 1 Tbsp olive oil for 1 Tbsp butter if you like)
  • 2 lb onions
  • 2 large tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 large sweet red pepper, seeds removed and chopped
  • 4 tbsp tomato paste
  • Â½ - 1 jalapeno or serano pepper, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 bunches flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • Cayenne pepper or freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste

  1. Melt the butter or heat the oil in a deep non-stick saucepan.
  2. Peel the onions, and chop them into 1/4 inch pieces
  3. Put the onions in the saucepan, and simmer on low until the onion turns translucent (about 10 minutes).
  4. While the onion is softening, put the chicken pieces in a large saute pan and fry to brown, about 2-3 minutes on each side. Add the chicken pieces to the pot and scoop about half of the onions out of the pot and into the saute pan. Brown the onions while scraping the browned bits from the chicken at the bottom of the saute pan. When the onions are browned, scrape the onions and the browned bits from the chicken into the pot with a firm spatula.
  5. Add the chopped tomatoes, red pepper, and jalapeno to the sauce pan.
  6. Simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally until vegetables are ready, about 1 hour. add salt, and stir.
  7. Finely chop the parsley, coriander, and garlic and put them in a strong bowl with a pinch of salt. Crush them with a mortar if you have one. If not, press hard with the back of a wooden spoon. Add the greens to the saucepan, stir well, bring to boil, and then remove from the heat immediately.
  8. Add cayenne or black pepper and kosher salt to taste.
  9. Serve hot with fresh bread or over rice.

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Amount Per Serving %DV
Serving Size 365g
Recipe makes 8 servings
Calories 542
Calories from Fat 350 65%
Total Fat 39.11g 49%
Saturated Fat 15.22g 61%
Trans Fat 0.39g
Cholesterol 181mg 60%
Sodium 580mg 24%
Potassium 722mg 21%
Total Carbs 14.14g 4%
Dietary Fiber 3.0g 10%
Sugars 7.18g 5%
Protein 33.16g 53%
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  • Nancy Miyasaki
    This was an excellent chicken stew that John served alongside the beef stew at our dinner party last night. It was also a hit. The flavors aren't as powerful or original, but it is still a delicious dish.
    I've cooked/tasted this recipe!
    • peter fortenbaugh
      Excellent dish.
      I've cooked/tasted this recipe!

      • SrFusion
        January 3, 2014
        This recipe looks really good and I want to try it but doesn't seem to have enough liquid for simmering. Is it missing water or broth?
        • Smokinhotchef
          February 19, 2012
          This recipe looks and sounds exciting. I went to Russia with a track team when i was 15. I had an amazing time. We stayed with host families and ate lots of black bread, cucumbers and tomatoes with meals. I thought that was fabulous. The Borsct we had at a nice restaurant, not so much. Overall, super-awesome. Thanks for bringing back those memories of the traveller I used to be. I don't get to travel anymore. I guess i did so much then because it was mom and dad's money!!! Can't wait to try this!!

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I love Dutch frites, and I particularly like the Flemish Frite Saus called vlaamse mayonnaise that they serve at the Frite shop called VleminckX Sausmeesters on Veotboogstraat (just one block off Kalverstraat, the main walking street down the center of Amsterdam).

What gives it that special kick. It's a bit more tart than American mayonnaise.

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This should probably have a "cuisine" tag, but I'm not sure which cuisine it is... can you comment? –  Aaronut Dec 21 '10 at 15:22
@Aaronut - the question says Flemish and Dutch, and giving the spelling, I think one of the two or both applies. –  justkt Dec 21 '10 at 17:37
@justkt: Yes, I'm just not sure which. –  Aaronut Dec 21 '10 at 17:51
I would say that either dutch-cuisine or belgian-cuisine would apply, since this type of frite is popular in both countries. However, my experience is with the Dutch version, though the Dutch refer to the type of mayo that I am describing as "Flemish" mayonnaise, when they translate it. –  Cary Jensen Dec 21 '10 at 21:19
Got it. Here's to our first question on Dutch cuisine! –  Aaronut Dec 22 '10 at 1:05

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Frietsaus is just a special mayonnaise

Commercially it is lower in fat than plain mayonnaise

It has oil, starch (replaces extra oil), whole egg yolk, whole mustard seed, sugar, distiled vinegar, and lemon juice

So the kick is just the extra acid (vinegar and lemon juice), the bite from the whole seed mustard, mixed into a lite sauce, not a heavy greasy mayo

BTW: VleminckX Sausmeesters is just a touristy thing, there are plenty of shops in Holland that serve great fries

Personally I think that potatoes from Europe are a bit plain compared to many other continents/countries. the best I have had are from Fiji, the warm humid conditions make excellent deep frying potatoes, and I suspect they lace the cooking oil with a little coconut oil too :-)

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Thank you for the detailed answer. And yes, you are correct, there are many places that serve outstanding frites (in Amsterdam as well as many other places around the world). I've tried a number of them, and this one place has become my personal favorite (for now). –  Cary Jensen Dec 22 '10 at 17:11
Here's a specific recipe that sounds like exactly what you're looking for. –  Josh Dec 22 '10 at 20:07
@Josh - Seems about right except for egg, should be just egg yolk? –  TFD Dec 22 '10 at 20:34
Yes, that did seem strange. But wikipedia says about mayonnaise, "Some recipes — both commercial and homemade — use the whole egg, including the white." It would help to reduce the fat content, as an alternative to adding starch. (As an added bonus, when eaten with fries you'll actually have a pretty nice balance of carbs from the fries, fat from the yolk and oil, and protein from the white!) –  Josh Dec 23 '10 at 18:48
It seems indeed like a good recipe, but I like my mayonaise more if I add a little pepper. Adding a tablespoon of water is a good idea if you don't want it to be too greasy. –  Mien Feb 1 '11 at 17:49

Well, "vlaamse" simply means "Flemish." All I've been able to find online is sites like this one which claim that the traditional flemish mayo on fries is actually richer and less sour than the stuff we're used to, so that doesn't give us any hint as to what secret ingredients this particular recipe includes.

However, one of the standard ingredients in mayo is vinegar, which itself is a popular topping for fries in some areas. Extra vinegar would definitely give mayo a tart kick like you're describing. Think of the flavor of salt-and-vinegar potato chips... is that the same sort of kick that this mayo has?

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Could also be some other natural acid source (lemon or lime, for example), or a food additive one (e.g., citric acid). Or maybe stronger vinegar (higher acetic acid content vs. water). –  derobert Dec 21 '10 at 20:20
I have seen a recipe where lemon was called for in vlaamse mayonnaise. However, when I followed that recipe, I did not end of with the substance that I have regularly had on frites. The Dutch also sell tubes of what they call Frite Sauc, which is also very nice, and I'd like to make. Again, it is more tangy (and richer) than regular American mayonnaise. –  Cary Jensen Dec 21 '10 at 21:15
It is actually called Fritesaus or Frite Saus. I misspelled the name in my previous comment. –  Cary Jensen Dec 22 '10 at 17:14

Dijon Mustard.

It might be lemon juice as well, but you need a little bit of mustard to get the right balance, in my opinion. (although, I admit, it's been a few years since I've been to the Netherlands, and I likely haven't been to that specific restaurant)

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Did Aer Lingus take Leinster to win?

Seems like Dermot Mannion believed the bookies who had Leinster to win - Aer Lingus are offering extra flights for the Heineken Cup final - from Dublin. Nice.

Meanwhile Michael O'Leary has to come up with 24,000 "free" flights with Leinster's late capitulation. No doubt the small print will say he only had to come with 24, in the manner of the flights for life fiasco.

It would be nice to think to soon the travelling hordes could come up with another song, given that Athenry is not quite in Munster...

Now if only I could persuade Ted Rogers to carry European Cup rugby instead of NPC/Super 12.

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To twist the words of Teddy Roosevelt, more and more farmers are “treading lightly with big equipment.” They're carrying the weight of heavy equipment on tracks rather than on tires. The result is less compaction and earlier access to fields when conditions are less than ideal.

You can find real tracks devotees if you travel to McComb, OH, and talk with Dennis and Bruce Bishop. They've bought track tractors and built track equipment like you've never seen before.

The Bishops' planter rides on a Cat tracks undercarriage and a frame that Bruce designed. The frame carries a 2,500-gallon tank for liquid fertilizer and a 120-bu-capacity air-seeding unit. This represents a half-day's worth of fertilizer and a full day's worth of seed.

“That capacity allows us to pick up an extra 30 acres a day, because we don't have to stop and refill the planter all the time,” says Bruce Bishop.

Forward of the tracks, Bishop bolted a 5 × 7" toolbar to carry 16 row units on 30" centers. “The axle of the Cat undercarriage has 17° of flex in each direction. That allows us to lift the planter 10° with a single, 4" hydraulic cylinder,” Bishop says. “Because the seed and fertilizer ride over the axle, their weight doesn't have to be lifted. That's a big advantage over how conventional planters are designed.”

Two 5" cylinders lift the planter's wings on turns and also provide down pressure when needed. The 40' bar hinges in the middle and allows the wings to rise 6°. Two hinge points on each wing allow the bar to fold to 151¼2' wide and 14' tall. Bishop locks the hinge points with hydraulic cylinders to make the bar rigid and allow for down pressure.

Seed feeds from the tank to 1¼4-bu seed boxes designed for a John Deere drill, mounted on John Deere Max Emerge planter units with finger pickups. Bishop vents the boxes with ¼" elbows so air can release, but rain can't enter the boxes and corn can't jump out. Two Rawson hydraulic controllers power the planter units. With the bulk capacity, Bishop can buy seed in 30-bu bags and minimize the work involved with filling the planter.

To minimize yield loss from compaction, Bishop spread the two planter units that straddle the tracks to 33". The adjacent units are set 28.5" away, and the remaining units are on 30" centers. The spacings allow Bishop to harvest with a standard 30" corn head. Row cleaners and no-till coulters allow Bishop to plant in most field conditions.

Liquid fertilizer is pumped at 80 psi via a ground-driven piston pump through coulters mounted with high-pressure nozzles. The fertilizer units ride ahead of the planter units on a separate toolbar. Bishop blends 10 gallons each of 10-34-0 and 28% N/acre and places the mixture 4" deep, 2" off each row.

The customized planter cost Bishop about the same as a new 16-row planter, he says. But it allows him to plant when neighbors can only watch.

“As long as the top inch of soil is dry, we'll plant, regardless of how wet it is below that,” he says. “On May 22 last year, we had 60% of our corn planted while the rest of the county only had 5% planted because of all the rain we had.”

While the back axle carries the weight of seed and fertilizer, the tractor picks up about 35% of the weight of the planter and fertilizer units. Bishop modified the planter's Cat tracks to match with his tractor's 120"-wide track tread, so almost all compaction is limited to the two tracks. Two depth-gauge tires keep the planter bar a steady 20" above the soil.

The Bishops spend plenty of money on diesel fuel in the fall when they deep rip fields that have been compacted over time. They don't want to lose that advantage in the spring.

“We've seen an 18-bu/acre difference between the fields we've ripped and fields we haven't on new farms we've rented,” says Bishop. “We haven't seen a similar yield jump with beans.”

After planting, the Bishops slide the tracks from underneath the planter frame and mount their shop-built sidedressing unit on them. The frame holds two 2,600-gallon tanks for liquid fertilizer and a 200-gallon tank for herbicide. “We put the liquid fertilizer down with a ground-driven, four-piston pump and spot spray where we have weed problems,” says Bishop.

Compaction control continues at harvest with 4'-wide logger tires on the Bishops' combine and a grain cart with tracks. The Ohio farmers use the cart tracks in the spring as well, when they mount them under their shop-built soybean planter.

Air seeder or train? You can make an argument for both when you look at Todd Stanley's planting machine. The Grygla, MN, farmer has assembled more than 120' of tracked gear to plant through wet springs without compacting his soil.

“The farm size had outgrown my 40' drill, and everything I looked at to replace it cost at least $100,000. We don't have crop prices to support that kind of purchase,” he says. “Instead, I spent about twice that and put together a system that allows me to seed and fertilize in one trip.

“It eliminates fall anhydrous application, which saves a trip and reduces nitrogen loss, eliminates the custom application fee for dry fertilizer and eliminates the fertilizer blending fee we used to pay for canola,” he says. “With those savings, I could justify the cost of this machine.”

Stanley bought a John Deere air seeder with three tanks that he uses for wheat, soybeans, oats, barley and canola. He carries seed in two tanks and fertilizer in the other. When fully loaded, the air seeder weighs in at more than 50 tons.

To carry that weight, he replaced the unit's original axles and tires with 30" tracks. Fargo Products, Fargo, ND, moved the tracks forward to where the original axle mounted to take the weight off the caster wheels in front. “I wanted to take the weight off the air seeder's front tires so I didn't leave tracks,” Stanley says.

Fargo Products also built a one-of-a-kind anhydrous application system for Stanley. The company built a trailer on 30" tracks that carries two, 1,500-gallon anhydrous tanks. Stanley chose an Exactrix control system that injects liquid NH3 under pressure rather than a conventional manifold system.

“The air seeder has 95 openers on 7.5" centers. We mounted fluted coulters on the air seeder frame between every other row, 48 total, with an injection point behind them,” he says. The coulters run 2¼" deep. A ground-driven piston pump injects the NH3 at 100-110 psi, which puts it down at least another inch.

“The pressure keeps the NH3 from freezing up at the tips. With our wet spring soils and traditional application equipment, the soil builds up on the knives to the point it's like dragging a club through the field,” Stanley says. “Because we can run coulters instead of knives, we can drive faster and don't disturb the soil.” Stanley pulls his equipment with a John Deere 9520T equipped with 36" tracks.

When it's time to plant, Stanley seeds 700 acres/day with his equipment. For wheat, that calculates to two semis of seed, two semis of starter fertilizer and 14 tanks of anhydrous ammonia.

So, you know Stanley isn't kidding when he says his planting system is “the only one like it.”


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Obituary: Bobbye Hughes
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TEXARKANA, Texas — Bobbye Myers Hughes, age 83, of Texarkana, Texas, died Saturday, March 16, 2013, in a local nursing home.

Mrs. Hughes was born April 23, 1929, in Dover. She was a retired nurse’s aide.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Tom Hughes and B.A. “Sonny” Murphy.

She is survived by two daughters and one son-in-law, Tommie Hughes of Texarkana, Texas, and Jonnie and Michael Leport of Wichita, Kan.; a sister, Madge Jackson of California; and numerous other family and friends.

Memorial services will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Chapelwood Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Crandford Graves officiating, under the direction of Chapelwood Funeral Home. Visitation will be 1 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013, at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Watersprings Ranch, 7707 Sanderson Lane, Texarkana, AR 71854.
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Virginia's Judicial System

Spotsylvania Circuit Court

15th Judicial Circuit of Virginia

Circuit Courts Informational Pamphlet

Hon. Christalyn M. Jett

Phone: (540) 507-7600
Fax: (540) 582-2169

Clerk's Office Hours

8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

P. O. Box 96
9107 Judicial Center Lane
Spotsylvania, VA 22553-0096

Judge Ellis: 9107 Judicial Center Lane, 2nd Floor, Post Office Box 2627, Spotsylvania, VA 22553-2627

Judge Ellis (phone): 540/507-7624

Judge Ellis (fax): 540/507-4056

Judge Deneke: 9107 Judicial Center Lane, 2nd Floor, Post Office Box 2627, Spotsylvania, VA 22553-2627

Judge Deneke (phone): 540/507-7623

Judge Deneke (fax): 540/582-7973

Inclement Weather/Emergency Closing Number: 540/507-7498, Enter mailbox 3960#

  • Hon. Joseph J. Ellis, Presiding Judge, Chief Judge
  • Hon. Sarah L. Deneke, Presiding Judge
  • Hon. J. Overton Harris
  • Hon. Herbert M. Hewitt
  • Hon. Patricia Kelly
  • Hon. Michael E. Levy
  • Hon. Charles S. Sharp
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  • Court convenes 9:00 a.m.
  • Criminal Term/Grand Jury, 3rd Monday of each month.
  • Misdemeanor appeals are heard on the 3rd Friday of each month; 4th Friday, if 3rd Friday is a holiday.
  • Probation violation trials are heard on the 4th Tuesday of each month.
  • Civil Term, 3rd Monday of Jan., Apr., July and Oct., at 9:00 a.m. Appearance required at Term. Mature cases set by praecipe. Praecipe must be filed ten (10) days prior to Term.
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  • Arraignments may be set on any Tuesday but the 3rd Tuesday following the Grand Jury.
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  • Commissioners in chancery are utilized in accordance with Section 8.01-607 and Rule 3:23, in appropriate cases.
  • Judicial Settlement Conferences are utilized in civil cases and divorces. Please see the Supreme Court of Virginia's website at for all forms and procedures.
  • Motion days are the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Motions set at 9:00 a.m. Original motions should be filed with Clerk seven days in advance of hearing; courtesy copies of notice and motion should be sent to chambers. Time estimates should be shown on all notices. Motions exceeding 30 minutes must be scheduled through chambers (540-507-7624).
  • If any term/motion day is a holiday, pursuant to Section 2.2-3300, term/motion day will held the following day.


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How to change the screen brightness on your BlackBerry 10 phone

Save battery life (and your eyes) by changing the screen brightness on your BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10

BlackBerry 10 Brightness
By Adam Zeis on 7 Feb 2013 12:17 pm EST

Changing the screen brightness on your BlackBerry 10 phone can not only save your eyes but also your battery. Depending on your needs, lowering the screen brightness can get you some extra battery life and really help out in the long run. Most times I like to keep mine set between 10-20% for daily use, but I'll crank it up if I'm outside or somewhere with bright lighting. Keep reading to see how to change the screen brightness on your BlackBerry 10 device.

How to Change the Screen Brightness on BlackBerry 10

  • Tap the Settings icon on the homescreen or dropdown
  • Tap Display
  • Drag the slider under Brightness Settings to the desired level

Done and done! Keep the brightness down to save on battery - crank it up when you need it.

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How to change the screen brightness on your BlackBerry 10 phone

Got a question to all Z10 owners:
How is outdoor readability of the screen, I know we don't really have summer season yet, however the winter sun can be pretty strong too. Can you read the display without any problems under direct sunlight conditions? How does it compare to, let's say the Bold 9900?

The question also goes to those, who maybe got the chance to see a Q10 under mentioned conditions.

I am having an issue. When I turn my screen brightness to full I can't turn the setting down. I either need to tap 4-5 times to get the indicator to move or reboot and then move the screen brightness indicator.. :(

I just had this problem myself. What I found is, if I press and hold on the slider, and wait for the blue aura to appear, then it drags, everytime. but if I try to swipe it lower, it never catches.

So, just try to put your finger on the slider, and wait a second, then try to move it.

I think they forgot to add the "auto dim" feature on/off, cause these screens are very dim even at full blast, once in a very bright environment it lights up nicely and the vibrant colors are visible, I also find that when i slide the bar over it lags and i cant slide it for a few seconds, i'm not sure if this is happening to my device only, can others please try to slide the dimmer left and right to see if they have the same issue as me??

I love how on the playbook you can swipe down from the top right corner, hit the brightness icon and adjust it: very fast and does not disrupt what you're doing. I wish they brought the same to Z10.

blackberry 10 built to keep you moving

I really wont to keep moving but it's hard when i'm going on the street and i can't change the brightness immediately. need " "slider" for the brightness.

I really wont to keep moving but when i'm walking and etc. it's hard to type with two hands. WE ALL NEED "swype", and function buttons like select copy past and etc.

and i think we all need quick buttons to turn off/ on Internet and etc

First day i had it cranked up and I ran out of battery after about 7 hours into the day. I turned it down a quarter from full and today I lasted 12 hours, right about what I would expect from my bold 9900. I also turned off an always refreshing twitter app and switched from wifi at work to lte so nothing conclusive on my battery consumption yet though. Will take a few weeks to get it dialed in.


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Coffee Filter – Bath Sachets

If you love luxurious bath products but don't love the high prices, making your own bath sachets from simple household materials such as coffee filters can be the perfect solution. These bath sachets can be made from a variety of different filler materials, allowing you to fine-tune them to your exact needs and preferences.

Coffee Filter – Bath Sachets

What you need

For each bath sachet, you will need:

1 - Large cone-shaped coffee filter (Bleached and unbleached are both fine)

Sewing thread (You can choose white so that the stitching will be less visible. However, it can also be fun to choose a color that complements your bathroom)

Narrow ribbon (Make sure the ribbon is colorfast, so that it will not fade when placed in water)

One or more of the following bath sachet filler materials:

Epsom salts
Dry rolled oats
Sea salt or Kosher salt
Dried herbs (Such as lavender, rosemary, thyme, or chamomile)
Essential oil(s) in the fragrance of your choice

It’s easy to create a basketful of these pleasurable bath sachets, whether you plan to use them yourself or to give as a thoughtful gift. You’ll find them to be just as luxurious as the bath sachets you can buy at the store, at a much lower price.

1.    Most cone-shaped paper coffee filters are simply crimped along the edges, holding the filter together long enough to make a pot of coffee. To make your bath sachet more durable, sew along the side and bottom edges, leaving the top edges open.

2.    Lay a cone-shaped paper coffee filter on your work surface, with the narrow end facing toward you.

3.    Measure approximately two inches across the bottom of the filter, making a small pencil mark on each side.

4.    Using these marks as a guide, fold the right and left sides of the coffee filter towards the center. Once you’ve performed this step, the coffee filter will be square shaped instead of triangular. Firmly crease the side folds.

5.    Pick up the coffee filter, making sure it stays folded. You can now open the top edge of the filter with your fingers, so that it looks like a small folded cup.

6.    Using a spoon, place approximately three or four tablespoons of the desired filling materials into the sachet.

7.    To make a relaxing bath sachet, use fillers such as dry rolled oats, and dried chamomile or lavender. If you prefer an invigorating bath sachet, use fillers such as sea salt, and dried rosemary or thyme. Epson salts is a good filler ingredient for all bath sachets.

8.    Shake the filling material down into the coffee filter sachet. Then, fold the top edge over, sealing the fillers into the sachet.

9.    Sew across the folded top edge of the sachet to seal. You can also sew a ribbon onto the sachet during this step, so that you can hang the sachet over the bathtub faucet if desired.

10.    You can also add a paper tag to the ribbon before sewing it onto the sachet if desired. Write the sachet ingredients on the tag, so that you can easily choose the one you want later. This can also be a nice added touch if you plan to give the sachet as a gift.

11.    To use the sachet, remove the paper tag, place in a tub of warm water and enjoy.

Home design expert, Alyssa Davis of, is particularly skilled in designing with wrought iron scroll grille and bear metal wall art.

  1. craft_girl says:

    Keeping a couple of these in the guest bathroom is a cute idea!

  2. Love this craft, going to make this with my friends for my birthday this year!!! ðŸ˜„

  3. i made this for my mom.

  4. i made this for my mom.

  5. pennyjo1947 says:

    As a mother of 5 and grandmother to 16, Christmas comes as a hardship, especially since I have retired. We draw names for gifts, but I also like to give little gifts. Last year I started the tradition of making presents for everyone. This will be a great addition for my female recipients. LOL

  6. LOVE the idea. I intend to make some for a dear friend who finally has a new bathtub and LOVES to take tubbies! She just had a baby too…what a way to relax.

  7. Great idea!!

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The WSJ Likes Me

…and they may very well be alone in that regard.

Carl Bialik of The Wall Street Journal quoted me in a recent article he wrote about Raul Ibanez:

[…] Bill Baer was a skeptic of the signing before the season, and he’s not going to let a month and a half change his mind. “We need to wait for a decent sample size before we can draw any legitimate conclusions,” Baer writes on Baseball Daily Digest.

The WSJ’s crediblity just got flushed down the drain by quoting me. They had to learn the hard way!

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  1. Bill Baer

    May 15, 2009 04:03 PM

    Movin’ on up in the world…

    I just went to a 5-star restaurant without making a reservation, thinking that they’d have a table ready for me anyway. Boy was I wrong.

    And boy were their faces red!

    Ha! Look at that — someone took my parking spot! They must not have seen me get quoted in the WSJ.

  2. Jake

    May 16, 2009 11:39 PM

    Man, Ibanez is absolutely destroying the ball.

    3 HR’s in a doubleheader? I’ll take it.

  3. Bill Baer

    May 17, 2009 12:43 PM

    I really do hope Ibanez punishes me for being skeptical. I’d love for him to hit the 60 HR he’s on pace for.

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Hobbling the Hobbit?

Indonesian scientists reject the hype about “Flores Man”

by Carl Wieland, CMI–Australia

For an update on this fascinating find, please see Hobbit bone wars, posted 28 February 2005.

8 November 2004

This is a brief update to our article on “Flores man,” also nicknamed “The Hobbit” after one of Tolkien’s fantasy groups of quasi-humans. Those who have not yet done so are recommended to read the article titled Soggy Dwarf Bones.

This tiny 1m (3’4”) alleged evolutionary sensation was found on the Indonesian island of Flores and regarded as a “new species” of human (Homo floresiensis). It was said to be at least “18,000 years” old, with the site dated as up to “800,000.”

In a recent development, Indonesian scientists have strongly refuted many of the sensational evolutionary claims about Flores man (so called in spite of the fact that the skeleton was claimed to actually be that of a woman). The country’s influential Jakarta Post (JP) ran an article on 8 November 2004 titled “RI scientists refute Flores Man finding.” (RI = Republic of Indonesia.)

The article reports Dr. Teuku Jacob, a paleoanthropology professor from Gadjah Mada University, as saying:

“The skeleton is not a new species as claimed by these scientists, but simply a fossil of a modern human, Homo sapiens, that lived about 1,300 to 1,800 years ago.”

While acknowledging the small brain size (380 cc, less than that of a chimp) and obvious differences with typical modern humans, he apparently stated that the remains were those of a member of the “Australomelanesid race, which had dwelled across almost all of the Indonesian islands.”

Referring to the skeleton’s eye socket shape and hip bone curves, Jacob suggested that it was not of a woman at all, but a male who died aged around 30. Interestingly, he also criticized as unethical the action of the Australian scientists who announced the discovery. Both Jacob and Prof. Dr. R. P. Soejono, head of Indonesia’s National Archaeology Institute, said that the Australians should have involved them when making the announcement, especially considering that the Australian scientists were not there when the discovery was made. Soejono claimed that the work on Flores was actually started by Indonesian scientists in 1976, and forced to a halt by the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Whether the refutation was influenced in part by “turf wars,” and/or national sensitivities, it is interesting that professional academic paleoanthropologists could have two such radically different views about both the identification and particularly the age of the same specimen. Certainly our view (that this is likely a miniature human being exhibiting part of the same range of post-Babel human variation as encompasses the larger so-called Homo erectus) is not harmed, if anything the opposite, by this Indonesian opinion.

The mysterious “little people”

The Indonesian comments about a pygmy Australomelanesian group of people is interesting in light of the many reports one used to hear from missionaries, mostly from the early part of last century and before, about what they often called “the little people.” These reports, mostly concerning far northern regions of Australia (hence closer to Indonesia) were of an allegedly distinct (but now no longer extant) population of very small humans, i.e., a group quite distinguishable from the local Aboriginals. Could at least some of these have been the same (or a closely related) people group as those whose skeleton has been found on Flores? Controversial Australian historian Keith Windschuttle recently published a definitive study on Australia’s short-stature tribes, referred to variously as Pygmies, Negritos, Tasmanoids, and Barrineans.1

A couple of photographs claiming to be of these people appear in the autobiographical book by Will and Marjorie Sharpe called What an Experience (Boolarong Publications, Esperance Western Australia, 1989, p. 9) and that page is shown here [right].

But wait, there’s more...

The non-European in the bottom photo is clearly of normal skull-body ratio. An article in Britain’s Observer quotes Dr. Jacob as suggesting the abnormality known as microcephaly (in which a human is born with a lower brain size) was responsible for Flores man’s small brain/skull size.2 This is disputed by well-known human evolution authority, Britain’s Dr. Chris Stringer, who points out that Flores Man has other features, not just a reduced brain, distinct from the typical human today.

However, an item posted on 1 November by Anatomy Professor Maciej Henneberg gives significant support to the “Flores Man was a microcephalic” view.3 Henneberg is the Head of the Department of Anatomy at South Australia’s Adelaide University, and has studied human evolution for 32 years. He says that the dimensions of the face, nose and jaws do not differ significantly from those of modern humans, unlike the very small braincase. He says, “The bell rang in my head” as he recalled a Minoan period human skull from Crete, which has long been identified as that of a microcephalic. Prof. Henneberg says that doing a statistical comparison of the two skulls (using the meticulous dimensions provided on the Nature website) “shows that there is not a single significant difference between the two skulls though one is reputedly that of the ‘new species of human’, the other a member of a sophisticated culture that preceded classical Greek civilisation.”

Henneberg also says that deeper down in the same cave on Flores, a radius (forearm bone) was discovered. Its length of 210 mm suggests that its owner was 151-162 cm (5’ to 5’3”) tall, well within the normal human range today. And probably consistent with a healthy, good-sized member of the “little people” as depicted in the photo above. [Author’s note inserted 1 April 2005: Although the controversy about microcephaly is reported with interest, and highlights the essential humanness of the specimen, the opinion given in the first of our articles on this find is one I still hold, pending further information. I wrote in the addendum to that article, titled Soggy Dwarf Bones: “We are not suggesting that the anatomical features of the Flores woman were simply those of a (miniature) modern type human. They are those of a (miniature) Homo erectus, a variant of the modern type, but within the human kind.”]

Interestingly, the JP news report also highlighted the same fact we did, namely that the specimen was not really fossilized (mineralized). This of course is more consistent with a much younger age for the skeleton than in the Nature announcement. Dr. Soejono was quoted as saying, “...we were able to find soft tissue so that we could carry out a DNA test. We couldn’t do that if it was already a fossil.” Interestingly, a media release posted by Australia’s Southern Cross University, on 8 November 2004, suggests that the Flores (or Liang Bua, as the site is also known) people may have inhabited the island up to about “500 years ago.”

I hope the DNA results are announced soon, and we await them with great interest. The more identifiable stretches of DNA that are present, the better. We would expect that the results will be consistent with the human identification. The very fact that DNA is still present in an unfossilized specimen is another indicator for a young age, much more likely to be in the ballpark of the figure cited by the Indonesian scientists than the one reported in Nature. (DNA is a fragile molecule that falls apart very quickly, as far as laboratory measurements are concerned—see Salty Saga.)

  1. Keith Windschuttle and Tim Gillin, The extinction of the Australian pygmies, Quadrant, June 2002, <>. Return to text.
  2. John Aglionby and Robin McKie, Hobbit folk “were just sick humans,” <,6903,1345519,00.html>. Return to text.
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Inside QuarkXPress: Using Contrast to Fake Transparent Text

Application: QuarkXPress 4.x
Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows

The technique of applying transparent (or screened) text over an image is a useful design approach to enhance a page layout. QuarkXPress can’t actually create transparency, but in this article, we’ll show you how to create the illusion of it, as shown in Figure A.

Figure A
Creating the illusion of transparent text isn’t all that tricky.

Prep work
Creating this effect requires using both the Merge and Contrast options; however, both have certain requirements in order for them to become available. You can only use the Merge option when two items are selected, and the Contrast option is only active when you select an 8-bit TIFF. Also, you must set the Color TIFFs option from the Display panel within the Application Preferences dialog box to 8-bit. This lower-quality setting only affects the preview and won’t alter the image’s print quality, as long as the image isn’t embedded in the document.

To make sure the image you want to use for the background is an 8-bit TIFF, check its size in the editing software in which it was created. In Adobe Photoshop, for example, you choose Image > Mode. An image converted to CMYK mode has two preview choices: 8- and 16-bit. An 8-bit preview is applied by default; you’d have to manually change the setting for it to be a 16-bit TIFF.

Now, open the QuarkXPress document in which you’ll place the TIFF to create the transparency effect. Choose Edit > Preferences > Application ([c][shift][option]Y or [Ctrl][Alt][Shift]Y in Windows). Then, make sure 8-bit is selected from the Color TIFFs pop-up menu that’s in the Display panel, as shown in Figure B. The other choices are 16- and 32-bit–the higher the number, the better the preview (and the more memory that’s required). Click OK to exit preferences.

Figure B
The Contrast option only works on 8-bit TIFF images.

Setting the Stage
What’s next is placing the 8-bit TIFF and creating the text that you want to place over it. For the best results, make sure to choose an image that has a good amount of contrast. To place the TIFF, draw a picture box with the Rectangle Picture Box tool. Then, choose File > Get Picture ([c]E or [Ctrl]E in Windows) and locate the image you want to import. Click Open to import it into the document.

If needed, size the image to the box proportionately by pressing [c][option][shift]F ([Ctrl][Alt][Shift]F in Windows) and then scale the picture box to the image by dragging its handles with the Item tool. Now you can add the text. First, select the Rectangle Text Box tool and make a text box wide enough to fit over a good-sized portion of the image. Then, click the Content tool and enter the text. Format the text using a fairly large, thick font, so the image can be seen inside it.

With the text box still selected, click on the Background Color icon from the Colors palette ([F12]) and choose None. If your page has an Automatic Text Box, change its background to None as well. Now, highlight the text with the Content tool and choose Style > Text To Box to convert the text to Bézier paths. Whenever you use this option, you’ll get the message “Box converted from highlighted text won’t look exactly as text. Ok to continue?” Click OK. Then, choose Item > Edit > Shape or press [shift][F4] ([F10] in Windows) to change the Bézier shape to a solid picture box. (This is optional, but makes life much easier.)

With the Item tool, move the text box out of the way and position the converted text over the image. To finish up, select the converted text and then choose None from the Colors palette, so that the text contains no background color. Now let’s get down to business!

Seeing Double
What you need to do next is clone the image using the Step And Repeat option and then alter the copy with the Contrast option. You make the cloned image lighter by adjusting its contrast, which will give it a screened appearance. To do this, click on the image with the Content tool and choose Step And Repeat from the Item menu or press [c][option]D ([Ctrl][Alt]D in Windows). Enter 1 in the Repeat Count text box and 0″ in both the Horizontal and Vertical Offset text boxes. Then, click OK.

Now, with the top image selected, choose Style > Contrast, or press [c][shift]C ([Ctrl][Shift]C in Windows) to open the Picture Contrast Specifications dialog box. Select CMYK from the Model pop-up menu and click the Hand tool and then the Normal Contrast tool.

With the Hand tool, click on the line in the Input/Output graph and drag it down a notch, as shown in Figure C. Click OK to apply the change. If you don’t like the amount of contrast, just undo it ([c]Z or [Ctrl]Z in Windows), and try it again.

With the image still selected, choose Item > Send To Back (or press [shift][F5]) to place it behind the original image. There’s just one more thing to do to complete this process.

Figure C
Applying less contrast to the cloned image will create the screened portion used to fill the text.

What’s the difference?
Normally, if you place one element over another, it blocks out the image directly below it. The Merge option is the workaround to this limitation. To begin, [shift]-click on the top image and converted text with the Item tool. Now, choose Item > Merge > Difference. Then … look at your finished product!

Smoke and Mirrors
That’s all there is to creating the illusion of transparent text. You cloned an image and created some text capable of accepting an image within it, and merged the two elements together, leaving the original image intact and the text filled with a lighter, or screened, version of the original image. Only you’ll know that it’s just an illusion!

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  1. If you’re going to attempt this Quark effect to an image for monitor display only or for use on the internet, go ahead. But if your design is used in a Quark document destined for printing (ink on paper), then using Quark’s built-in contrast controls are NEVER recommended and you should find another method of creating the illusion of transparent text. This is practical advice from a service bureau professional who knows from experience that any “tweaking” of images using Quark’s built-in controls can sometimes get you very unexpected results. At the very least, you should warn your service bureau that you have modified the image in this way, and definitely request a high-resolution proof (MatchPrint, color key or blueline) before going to press.
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5 Things: Stadler shines; Woods holds up

Kevin Stadler during the first round of the 2013 Barclays at Liberty National, the first event of the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Kevin Stadler during the first round of the 2013 Barclays at Liberty National, the first event of the FedEx Cup playoffs. ( Getty Images )

Thursday, August 22, 2013

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Much like she had done many times during the regular season, Mother Nature left her mark on the opening round of the PGA Tour’s first playoff event, The Barclays.

Two different weather delays Thursday at Liberty National totaled six hours – 2:32 for the first one (8:33-11:05 a.m.), 3:28 for the second (12:47-4:15 p.m.) – make the tournament the 20th event of the Tour season to endure a weather stoppage.

As a result, only the morning groups managed to finish their rounds before play was stopped because of darkness at 7:44 p.m. Thursday, meaning just more than half of the 123-player field will have to wrap things up early Friday morning.

“I’ve hit more balls today than I’ve hit in quite a while,” said Kevin Stadler, whose 7-under 64 gave him the early lead. He leads by one shot over Henrik Stenson, Ryan Palmer and Camilo Villegas – ranked ninth, 46th and 111th in the FedEx Cup, respectively.

The first round will resume at 7 a.m. Friday, with the second round beginning at 9:30 a.m. and the morning tee times running through 11:20 a.m.

Here are 5 Things you need to know from a long day along the Hudson River:

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1. BONUS ROUND: Kevin Stadler entered The Barclays at No. 87 in the FedEx Cup standings and needing a good finish to qualify for the second of four playoff events next week at the Deutsche Bank Championship.

After carding a bogey-free 64 to take a one-shot lead after a long Thursday at Liberty National, Stadler is off to a good start in his quest to stick around for another week.

“I knew I had to play well to move on to next week, but at the same time it’s kind of out of my control, and it’s to the point where I was going to get what I was going to get,” said Stadler, who is playing in The Barclays for the sixth time in the playoffs' seven seasons. He’s advanced to the Deutsche Bank Championship three times, including last season when he made it to the BMW Championship after T-10 showings in each of the first two playoff events.

Stadler began the year making 10 of his first 14 cuts, posting two top-10 finishes during that span. But he enters the playoffs having missed six of his last 10 cuts, including two straight.

Yet, here Stadler is, leading in the clubhouse after a smooth opening round on what was otherwise a wild day in New Jersey.

“It’s probably a bonus the way I’ve been going lately,” Stadler said.

• • •

2. TIGER HOLDS UP WELL: While the weather failed to hold up Thursday, Tiger Woods' stiff neck and back were a different story.

Woods, who said Wednesday he was dealing with the stiffness after sleeping on a soft hotel bed, posted a bogey-free 4-under 67 to open The Barclays. Afterwards, Woods said his body stiffened up slightly following a second lengthy weather delay, but overall he held up just fine.

And his play around Liberty National showed it.

Despite just missing a few birdie putts, Woods managed to get four to drop. He missed four fairways and five greens; when he did get into trouble, his spot-on scrambling saved him.

"It's a long day and tomorrow (Friday) will be a short one, and Saturday will be pretty much a marathon," Woods told the Golf Channel after his round, which began at 8:10 a.m. and ended around 7 p.m.

After a par at No. 10, his opening hole, the horn sounded for the first stoppage. Upon coming back on the course, Woods put together a stretch of three straight birdies at Nos. 14-16. The horn blew for a second time with Woods facing a birdie putt at No. 17. A second return to the course produced one more birdie, at the par-3 fourth.

"The first delay we really didn't have that much time to get back out there; we had less than 30 minutes to warm up and play,” Woods said. “The third time we came out here and restarted, we had an hour, so that was nice to basically go through the whole warm-up team and get loosened up.”

Woods, the top-ranked player in the FedEx Cup standings, has won five times this season, most recently at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He’s searching for his third FedEx Cup title after winning in 2007, the first year of the playoffs, and in ’09.

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3. RORY’S WILD RIDE: Looking at the final product, Rory McIlroy’s opening-round even-par 71 looked routine. But how he got there was anything but.

McIlroy didn’t record a bogey Thursday. He did, however, make three double bogeys – at Nos. 5, 9 and 15, all par 4s. Add in an eagle at the par-5 sixth and four birdies, and you get to level par.

"Colorful," McIlroy said of his round, which was just that. "I made a few silly mistakes out there."

It’s been a disappointing year for McIlroy – by his standards, of course. He has missed just two cuts on the PGA Tour this season – one was a withdrawal at the Honda Classic. And while he finished T-8 at the PGA Championship in his last start to earn his fourth top-10 finish in 12 Tour starts this season, McIlroy has no wins.

He enters the playoffs at No. 49 in the FedEx Cup standings a year after winning his second major, at the PGA Championship, and notching two playoff victories, at the Deutsche Bank Championship and the BMW Championship.

He’s hoping for that late-season form to show up these next few weeks. The top 30 players qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship.

Take away the three double bogeys Thursday and McIlroy was pleased.

"I felt like I played well," McIlroy said. "Three 6s, which obviously doesn't help. But the rest of it was actually pretty good."

• • •

4. WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? On Thursday it was more like, what could the cart path across the hazard near the 16th green do for Scott Brown?

Set him up with the only eagle of the day at the 319-yard par-4 hole, that’s what.

Like many players Thursday, Brown went for the green off the tee at No. 16. His tee ball drifted a little right and looked as if it was heading straight for the water. But the ball hit a bridge and bounced onto the green, leaving Brown with a 3-footer for eagle.

That was about the only excitement, though, for Brown, who made 16 pars and a bogey on the other 17 holes en route to a 1-under 70.

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5. SHORT SHOTS: Phil Mickelson got off to a rough start Thursday, sending his opening tee shot into the hazard at the par-4 first hole. He bogeyed the hole, but two birdies in his next five holes had Lefty at 1 under through six holes before play was stopped due to darkness. . . . Thursday's delays created an unusual listing for a tee time in a PGA Tour event: 7:10 p.m. for Stuart Appleby, Scott Langley and Ben Crane; they completed two holes. . . . Of the 18 hole locations for Thursday's round, 12 were just four paces from either the left or right side of the green. . . . Hunter Mahan, the only player who has yet to miss a start in FedEx Cup playoff history (25 events), opened with a 69 and stands T-25 at 2 under.


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Putting a Finer Point on Multi-CAD

Chad Jackson, Lifecycle Insights

Multi-CAD. Multi-CAD. Multi-CAD. It is all the rage today. You hear about it on webinars. You see it flashed at user conferences. It’s in many an eBook. But the more discussions I see on multi-CAD, the more I wonder if folks are really talking about the same thing. You see, there are many different facets to multi-CAD.

Today, I want to put a finer point on all of them. In this post, you’ll find some definitions for different aspects of multi-CAD and learn the advantages of recent technology advances and what they mean to organizations.

Multi-CAD Part Interoperability
What is it? Multi-CAD part interoperability is simply opening a part model built in a different CAD application. For many years, this was done via neutral formats like STEP and IGES, which at times could be messy due to the differences in the geometry kernels used by different CAD applications. But today, part models built in other CAD applications can be opened in their native formats, cutting down the time spent on fixing broken imported geometry.

Why do it? So you can build downstream deliverables, like 2D drawings or NC machining toolpaths, from the part.

What’s the value? Findings from my 2013 3D Collaboration and Interoperability study showed that 49% of today’s engineers spend at least 4 hours a week fixing imported geometry. This advancement promises to cleanly bring in that geometry, dramatically reducing this timewaster.

Multi-CAD Assemblies
What is it? When suppliers design different parts of one product, you are bound to end up with designs in different CAD formats. The onus of cobbling together these parts lies with the product manufacturer.

In the past, there were two ways to approach this problem. With CAD, users would import models via neutral formats, fix the geometry, and then create the multi-CAD assembly. Alternatively, 3D visualization tools, which could open models in multiple CAD formats, could be used to assemble those parts.

Why do it? The concept of virtual prototyping promises to catch issues like interferences and performance issues in CAD instead of the testing lab, saving significant time and money spent on many prototypes.

What’s the value? This activity happens one way or another. It’s simply a matter of how much of the organization’s time is spent fixing non-design problems.
Creating assemblies out of neutrally formatted models has been time intensive. Using 3D visualization tools accomplished this task. But the traditional capabilities associated with CAD, like conducting simulations, can’t be done with 3D visualization tools.

Additionally, conducting assembly simulations can be seen as a ‘nice-to-have’ activity. If there are problems that hinder the ability to conduct those simulations, they can be dropped or forgotten.

Multi-CAD Data Management
What is it? Today’s product manufacturers often use many suppliers, each of which can contribute parts to a design. Traditionally, Product Data Management (PDM) systems have managed design data in only one format. Multi-CAD data management is the use of Product Data Management (PDM) for designs regardless of the format in which the design data exists.

Why do it? Those product manufacturers don’t just want to see the final state of the design, but want snapshots of it during its progression. In some industries, this is actually required to comply with regulations. Furthermore, today’s CAD models contain assigned materials, part numbers, authors and much more. That information often needs to be incorporated into Bills of Materials (BOMs). Extracting this information from CAD models is another important function of PDM systems.

What’s the value? Multi-CAD data management lets organizations avoid one of two distasteful options.
In the first, models in other CAD formats are simply managed as files in the PDM system. Information embedded in them is not extracted for use in BOMs. Instead, users must manually copy such information into spreadsheets.

In the second, the organization deploys multiple PDM systems, one for each major CAD format that is prevalent in their designs. This lets them extract the right information from those design models, yet there is no single source of truth across products.

Multi-CAD data management lets the organization use one PDM systems for all CAD formats.

Summary and Questions

  • Multi-CAD part interoperability entails opening a part built in a different CAD application. Progressive CAD tools allow this to be done natively instead of through neutral formats.
  • Multi-CAD assemblies are built from models created in many different CAD formats. Again, progressive CAD tools directly support this activity natively.
  • Multi-CAD data management is when a single PDM system manages all design data, regardless of CAD format.

Are there other aspects of Multi-CAD that should be considered? Which aspect of Multi-CAD provides the most value? Which still has the furthest to progress? Sound off. Let us know what you think.

Take care. Talk soon. And thanks for reading.

Editor’s Note: For more on managing a Multi-CAD environment, visit PTC’s Multi-CAD Resource Center. For more on product data management, visit PTC’s PDM Resource Center.

This blog post has been licensed for hosting by PTC. The concepts, ideas and positions of this post have been developed independently by Industry Analyst Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights. 2013-2014 © LC Insights LLC

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