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|Maya modeling her Summer Days cardigan
|Elena's home in Norilsk, Siberia
Kids wear is such a personal preference for parents, and I saw little in stores that I liked. So I picked up my needles again, and here I am, and I have been knitting and designing for the last 5 years now.
How did you get started?
My very first design was a sleeveless dress with some lace elements (Pink Lacey Spring Dress), which was dearly loved. I was so happy with my work, I absolutely had to bring and show it to Diane Debray, the owner of my favorite yarn store Wool and Wicker. It was Diane's idea that I should make it into the pattern; with Diane's positive feedback and encouragement over the next few months that followed I started to write down my patterns as my blog posts at first, and then started turning them into the actual patterns later.
How did you get started publishing designs?
I discovered Ravelry, and initially used it as my knitting notebook. I was very surprised when others showed such a great interest in my work. My original patterns had only 1-3 sizes the most, and the number of request to upsize or downsize my patterns was overwhelming. So it was only natural to create proper patterns and offer them to the online world. I have learned a great deal over the last 5 years, and developed a new respect for all the designers out there, as writing patterns is not always easy and there is always a lot of background work involved that regular knitters do not see.
Do you use test knitters?
Always! After my prototype is made, I write and size my pattern, then send it to my test knitters to make sure that my math holds to the actual test. Since my patterns cover sizes from baby to teenagers, I want to be sure that my adjustments for each age group are proper and the garment fits each age group as intended. I am very fortunate to work with a group of very talented knitters who test knit my designs, always challenge me to be a better writer, and trust my ideas no matter how crazy they might seem. We have a great dynamic and constantly learn from each other. Some of my designs would not be available in so many sizes without these wonderful people.
|The Maxi Dress
As I mentioned earlier, my very first piece was Pink Lacey Spring Dress, however I did not feel like I made a proper design till I created Maxi Top/Dress. It was my first fully written, sized, and tested pattern. I wanted to create a design that would grow with my girl, that would be easy to knit, and easy to wear for a little kid. I think I have succeeded with my goal and more. This design is the one I have knitted the most, both as gifts to others and as staple wardrobe pieces for my daughter. It was also my very first exposure to properly sizing a pattern. I remember being very intimidated by the process.
What is the timeline for one of your designs, from swatch to pattern to sample?
Some designs transition from the idea to the garment easily; I sketch the idea, choose yarn, stitch work, do my math, and start knitting. Other patterns can take months to develop. For example, it took me only 2 days for my Tropical Fish Skirt and Summer Days top to transition from the idea to the actual prototype garment. Yet, it took another couple of months to write, size, and test the patterns before they were presented to the knitting community. On the other hand, my Tomboy Cardigan was months in making. I had the idea long before I started working on the prototype, and I must admit that I lost some sleep over it, thinking of every little detail I wanted to be there. I had Tomboy cardigan in sketch form for about 5-6 months until I found a construction method that fit perfectly with my idea of what the design should be like. Since the construction method is fairly new (contiguous set-in sleeves), it took a couple of prototypes to finalize the design. Overall the whole process for this particular design took about 8-9 months to transition from the original sketch to the fully written and tested pattern.
|The Tomboy Cardigan
I put a lot of thought and effort in each of my designs. My "design process" always starts with an idea and or inspiration that transition into a sketch. I do not start working on the prototype unless I am absolutely sure about every single detail that will go into the design. While working on a new design, I can spend hours looking for the right yarn and color, making several swatches. I would sometimes rip the whole garment out and start from scratch just because the construction method I chose was not working exactly as I envisioned, the elements I was trying to combine were not flowing together well, or the yarn I chose was not quite right for the project. As you can see it is quite a process, but I thoroughly enjoy it, otherwise I would not be designing! One thing I don't like doing much is seaming, therefore I tend to knit and design in the round as much as possible or find ways to bring down seaming to a bare minimum.
Where do you do your design work? What does your "creative space" look like?
Nothing says Zen to me like being surrounded by lots of colorful yummy yarn. My knitting and yarn followed me everywhere in the house, or rather every room had yarn and one of the numerous projects I always have on the go. That was the case till I got my own work room! I have a computer desk that has my working notebook, markers, scissors, calculator, and measuring tape right in front of me. All my other tools and yarn for all the projects in progress are within an arm's reach on a study desk next to me. I have a very comfy Lazy Boy chair, where I like to sit and knit, while watching Netflix on my computer. And of course, it is also surrounded by yarn and projects.
|My Honey Cardigan from the Spice Girls 2 eBook
What is your favorite piece you designed? What was your inspiration?
My newest project tends to be my favorite, though I do have a couple of designs that stand out for me for one reason or the other. My newest release is "My Honey" cardigan for my Spice Girls 2 ebook. It was a bit challenging to design as I wanted to have lace yoke and at the same time keep it very simple for a large range of sizes. I found a very elegant solution and was very happy with the result. I would say it was one of my knitting experiments that went very well. My other two designs that I really love are "Color Me Pretty Hat" and "Fancy Guppy Skirt". I love the hat because it provides the knitter with so many different color possibilities and fits. I have made 6 of those hats myself, and there will be many more next winter! I love the skirt because it is so "IN" right now with the fashion, and it is such a great stash buster for all the odd left over yarns. It also provides a lot of visual fun while changing and combining various colors together; the design lends so many different possibilities to a knitter. Another reason I love this skirt so much is because it was inspired by my beloved Missoni line.
|Missoni-inspired Fancy Guppy skirt
Follow your inspiration - there is no wrong or right, don't be afraid to start. If you have an idea, write it down; you will be surprised how quickly you might forget it! If you are very new to the whole scene, find test knitters and treat them very nicely– they will help you a lot along your way, and who knows, you might build long lasting friendships. I sure did! Designing knitwear is a constant learning curve; challenge yourself, do your research, but most importantly HAVE FUN!
To learn more about Elena Nodel and her work, visit her website or her Ravelry page.


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We've closed the books on another Microbrewer's festival and are now looking forward to our next anniversary party. Details are not quite firmed up yet, but we know the date, so mark your calendars for August 27th. Tickets will probably be on sale soon, so keep an eye on our site. Thanks everyone, for making these past five years exciting! Cheers to many more.
Hoosier Beer Calendar
Events are subject to change
From the Brewers
From Clay at Sun King Brewing in Indianapolis:
Summer is in full swing and we've got lots of new beers to help quench your thirst! Cream Dream IV: A New Hop was released las week and while it is sold out in the Tasting Room already, it can be found in a number of bars/restaurants around the city... We'll be releasing Nelson, an American Pale Ale and our version of this year's Indiana Replicale, in the Tasting Room on Friday, August 26th. Firefly Wheat, Norwegian Blue and Abbey Normal are all still around, but quantities are limited and they can mostly be found in places other than the brewery. August will bring the return of Big H, our traditional Bavarian Hefeweizen, followed by Pale Ryder (the final installment of our Spaghetti Western themed Hop Trilogy) and then on August 25th Grapefruit Jungle will be making a triumphant return!
Events & Tappings:
IMA Summer Nights SeriesIndianapolis Museum of ArtFridays through the end of August enjoy Fresh•Local•Beerand a classic film on the lawn at the IMA
Brewer's Dinner at High Velocity in the JW MariottTuesday, August 2nd5 Sun King Beers Paired 4 Courses of Delicious Food$35 per personCall 317-860-4990 for Reservations
Nuvo's Best of Indy PartySaturday, August 6th 2-7 p.m.South Parking Lot of Sun KingFood, Beer and EntertainmentFor Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/
Pale Ryder TappingThursday, August 19th 6:35 p.m.Captains Cove at Victory Field
Grapefruit Jungle TappingThursday, August 25th 6-9 p.m.Sun King Tasting RoomMusic from Whitey Morgan & The 78s Food by New York Slice
Dig IN at White River State ParkSunday, August 28th Noon-5 p.m.Local Chefs, Farmers & Breweries Showcase their Wares!For Tickets: http://digindiana.
From Todd at Keg Liquors in Clarksville:
Here is the latest from Keg Liquors in Clarksville:Dark Horse - Fore Smoked Stout (Michigan)Spaten - Oktoberfest (Germany)Hair of the Dog - Fred (Oregon)Paulaner - Weisn (Germany)Hoppin Frog - Turbo Shandy (Ohio)Petrus - Aged Pale (Belgium)Ommegang - Aphrodite (New York)Rogue - Morimoto Imperial Pilsener (Oregon)
At the Bars and Restaurants
From Dan at Fat Dan's Deli in Broad Ripple:
Delirium Tremens, Old Style, Upland Wheat, Flat 12 Summer Cycle, Stone IPA on tap this week at Fat Dan's
From Ryan at Scotty's Brewhouse various locations:
Scotty's Brewhouse Northside Indianapolis now has Sun King Dream Cream IV on tap! It is $6 for a pint every day of the week.
Scotty's Brewhouse Downtown Indianapolis will be having a tapping party for the official Gen Con Beer, Thr3e Wise Men Long Fang Abbey Ale, on Wednesday August 3rd at 7pm. Buy your official Gen Con Long Fang Abbey Ale Mugs & Growlers at Scotty's Downtown or on www.scottysbrewhouse.com.
Thr3e Wise Men now has their new seasonal beer on tap, Long Fang Abbey Ale. Come in and get your Growler filled on Tuesday or Friday for $6!!! We have also tapped our new Guest Tap, Sun King Norwegian Blue.
From Patrick at Patrick's Kitchen and Drinks in Zionsville:
BBC Java Porter on Nitro, 3 Floyds Dreadnaught, Sun King Cream Dream IV...Bell's Oberon, and Founder's Double Trouble.....waiting on deck are Stone's Ruination, Flat 12 Half Cycle, and Upland's Preservation Pilsner.......
Upcoming Events:
Brew Haven Craft Brew Festival
Saturday, August 6 2pm-6pm New Haven, Indiana
Samples of over 100 different beers from more than 30 breweries will be poured at the First Annual "Brew Haven" Craft Beer Festival. Many of the brews will be rare or seasonal including (but not limited to) special offerings from Upland, Flat12, Sun King, Mad Anthony, Sam Adams and New
Five Star Distributing, World Class Beverages, Cavalier Distributing and Aalco Distributing are lending their support and will also be present at the festival. Brewers Art Supply will be on hand to help explain the hobby of homebrewing. Old Crown Coffee Roasters will be pouring their own kind
of brew. And finally, the members of M.A.S.H. (Fort Wayne Homebrew Club) will be pouring 50 of their own handcrafted beers including some that recently won awards at the Indiana State Fair Brewers' Cup, one of the nation's largest homebrew competitions.
Tickets can be purchased at Trion Tavern or through www.triontavern.com. Advance tickets cost $25 and include: unlimited samples, a souvenir tasting glass, a meal and water. A limited number of tickets will be sold the day of the event for $30. Designated driver tickets will also be available for $5. A portion of the proceeds will go to the New Haven Downtown Improvement District. This will be a smoke-free event both under the tent and inside the bar.
For the full lineup and more information…
Visit us at: www.triontavern.com
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/
Follow us on Twitter: @BrewHaven
Buffalo Wild Wings Presents FESTIV-ALE 2011, A Celebration of
Beer Tasting brought to you by Kahn's Fine Wines & Spirits
Leading the fight against cystic fibrosis, the Indiana Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation will again host the twelfth annual Buffalo Wild Wings Presents FESTIV-ALE, A
Celebration Of Beer Tasting, Brought to you by Kahn's Fine Wine and Spirits. The event will
be held Saturday, August 20 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 200 S. Meridian (corner lot of Jackson and Meridian Sts.)
"Anyone 21 years or older wishing to positively impact the lives of individuals affected by cystic
fibrosis is encouraged to attend," said Tiffane Dobbs, Development Director for the Indiana Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. "With nearly 90 cents of every dollar raised from this event going to support research, patrons will have a great time taste testing a variety of beers and appetizers while supporting a very worthy cause."
The event brings together beers from over 30 Indiana and Midwest microbreweries and distributors. For those who prefer alternative beverages, samples of specialty martinis from Subterra will also be featured.
In addition to sampling beverages, guests will also be able to sample tasty cuisine from several area restaurants. Further, all guests will have the opportunity to participate in an Instant Bar raffle, bid on silent auction items from local establishments, play cornhole sponsored by Circle City Athletics and enjoy music from one of Indy's hottest bands, Sour Mash 7.
All food and drink are included in ticket price.
To purchase tickets, call (317) 202-9210 or visit: Indiana.cff.org/festivale. Tickets are also available for purchase at select Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants or any Kahn's Fine Wines & Spirits. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door with all proceeds benefiting the Indiana Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Donations exceeding $15 are tax-deductible. Event may sell out.
Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, the mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a nonprofit donor-supported organization, is to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease. Cystic fibrosis is the most prevalent genetic disease among young Americans today, affecting some 30,000 individuals in the United States. Cystic fibrosis leads to chronic lung infections and severe digestive complications for those affected by the fatal disease. For further information about cystic fibrosis or FESTIV-ALE, call (317) 202-9210 or go to http://indiana.cff.org/festivale.
Herron-Morton Place Oktoberfest
We are holding an Oktoberfest on Sept. 24th at our park (1900 block of Alabama). It is $5 for advanced tickets and $10 at the door- all proceeds will go towards an endowment to maintain the HMP Park (event location). So far we will be serving Upland Beer, Fountain Square Brewing samples, and Schlalfy Beer samples as well as featuring live music from Hero Jr. Food vendors include Ivey Spice and Sweet Cakes by Ronda. You can get additional information from the following:
oktoberfesthmpf.com@oktoberfestHMPFFacebook Event: Herron-Morton Oktoberfest

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Not even the home button is safe from gaudy stickers that cheapen the sleek industrial design of the iPhone. Unless you are teenaged girl, then these stick-ons are the best thing that ever happened to you in your whole entire life.
Available online from Strapya, these stickers give your home button some flair with their bright colors and stripes. One pack even features a sprinkle-covered donut design. Awww, how cute. Now please excuse while I go throw up. [Oh Gizmo!]
You can keep up with Kelly Hodgkins, the author of this post, on Twitter.


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Is there anything more everyday and familiar (given that we all possess one) and yet still so mysterious and puzzling as our own human brain? In about three pounds of tissue with the consistency of Jell-O, it packs 100 billion neurons, tens of trillions of neural connections and the low-watt processing power that has enabled our species to dominate this planet.
Yet even the often enigmatic workings of our mind are not immune to the probing of modern science. In recent decades imaging technologies have revealed what areas of the brain are active when we are performing various mental tasks, for instance. Now researchers can also explain "What Makes Each Brain Unique"—even those of genetically identical twins. That is the subject of our cover story on the neuroscience of identity, authored by Fred H. Gage of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and Alysson R. Muotri of the University of California, San Diego. Genes and environment have long been known to influence human behavior. But as Gage and Muotri explain, the significance of "jumping genes" is now becoming clear. These genes, which are especially active in the brain, copy and paste themselves into new places in the genome, resulting in new traits.
When you are done, you might wrap your wetware around the mental sustenance offered in other features in the issue, such as "The Far, Far Future of Stars," by astronomer Donald Goldsmith. He offers a reassuring view of our middle-aged cosmos, which is past its stellar-engine glory but still has trillions of years of vibrant activity to come. As Goldsmith eloquently puts it: "Our unfettered minds remain free to roam as far into the future as we choose."
Entries Due
April 1 is the deadline for entries to the Google Science Fair—and all entries will automatically be considered for Scientific American's $50,000 Science in Action award. The online competition is open to students around the globe in three age categories, ranging from 13 to 18.
Science in Action is a new addition to the Google Science Fair this year and will honor a project that tackles a social, environmental or health issue to make a practical difference in the lives of a group or community and that possibly can be scaled. Scientific American is also finding mentors to provide advice and thus further foster the development of the Science in Action winner's work for a year.
The Science in Action winner will be announced in June and will join other Google Science Fair finalists at the company's Mountain View, Calif., campus for a special awards event on Monday, July 23. I'll be there and am looking forward to meeting these young scientists.


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Cubbing and the Autumn Hunt
Early in the morning a Hunt of mounted riders quietly surrounds a thicket they know to contain a family of foxes. The female fox or vixen hears the movement but will not leave her cover as she has cubs to protect. The huntsmen surround the thicket, they slap their saddles, holler and shout to prevent the fox and her cubs leaving the thicket. They want to have their fun.
The hounds are sent in and the vixen comes out to protect her cubs, young fox cubs do not have the skills and knowledge of their parents, they are playful and trusting and unlikely to flee danger. Their inquisitive nature ensures they investigate anything new.
Autumn Hunting refers to the period formerly known as "cubbing". Traditionally, this was the time when the new entry of hounds learnt how to hunt their quarry. Meets were held early in the morning and the field was present to help "hold up" covert (i.e. prevent a fox from leaving the area). The hunt's riders surround the covert and shout and holler and slap their saddles, young riders shout and laugh in order to keep the cubs in the covert so the entry hounds can be sent in.
The dress code is different from formal hunting dress and is often referred to as "rat catcher". "Ratcatcher" refers to the tweed jackets that are worn. http://www.clandchunt.co.uk/AboutUs/the_hunting_code.html
During the hunting season, between 8,400 - 10,000 of these are cubs. These cubs will not reach 6 months of age.
The registered packs are estimated to kill some 21,000 - 25,000 foxes a year. About 40% of the foxes killed by the registered packs are killed in the autumn/cub hunting season. In Wales and other upland areas, a high proportion of foxes are dug out, using terriers and shot. Outside the registered packs, many more foxes are dug out and shot or are killed by people using lurchers or other "long dogs". Some of these activities are carried out by farmers, landowners and gamekeepers. www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk
"Never lose sight of the fact that one really well-beaten cub killed fair and square is worth half a dozen fresh ones killed the moment they are found without hounds having to set themselves to the task. It is essential that hounds should have their blood up and learn to be savage with their fox before he is killed."
Cubbing as described in an extract from Fox Hunting by the late Duke of Beaufort, Master of Fox Hounds, published by David & Charles, 1980.


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PlayStation title Dragon's Crown has the worst game title font I've ever seen. It also has enormous norgs. Go figure.
Developed by Vanillaware (Odin Sphere, Muramasa), the inclusion of stylized female form isn't a shock—that illegible font is.
Dragon's Crown is headed to the PS3 and PS Vita will be released globally in spring 2012.
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Sharp. Black. Buttons. A power cord. We see Art Lebedev's logo, so "alien weapon" can be ruled out right off the bat. But actually, the truth is still fairly epic.
It's a laser beam clock called Reflectius.
Sixty rotating mirrors redirect a beam of light in glorious overkill fashion, simply to tell you the time. For now, Reflectius is only a concept. But given Lebedev's concept-to-product history, don't be surprised if this goes on sale in the not-so-distant future...for a whole lot of Spacebucks. [Art Lebedev via The Awesomer]


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Reforming the International Financial Institutions: A Dissenting View
Testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
United States Senate
It was a privilege and pleasure to be appointed to the International Financial Institutions Advisory Committee in January to replace Paul Volcker, who had to resign due to heavy commitments elsewhere. I enjoyed working with the group and appreciate this opportunity to spell out the views of the four commissioners who dissented from the recommendations of the majority. (Mr. Richard Huber signed both the report and the dissent, and explained his rationale for doing so in a statement of his additional views.)
I and my fellow dissenters share the view that reform of the international financial institutions (IFIs) is desirable. We agree with a number of the proposals of the majority, in particular the need to clearly delineate the responsibilities of the IMF and the World Bank. But there are four central issues on which we disagree; I will summarize them briefly here and append the full dissenting statement signed by myself, Mr. Huber, Mr. Jerome Levinson and former Congressman Esteban Torres.
First, the report paints a very misleading picture of the impact of the IFIs over the past fifty years. The economic record of that period is a success unparalleled in human history, both for the advanced industrial countries and for most of the developing nations. The severe monetary crises of recent years have been overcome quickly. Hundreds of millions of the poorest people on earth have been lifted out of poverty. The IFIs have contributed substantially to this record. The "bottom line" is unambiguously positive but the majority portrays a negative tone that badly distorts reality.
Second, the recommendations of the majority would totally undermine the ability of the IMF to deal with financial crises and hence would promote global instability. The majority would authorize the Fund, when facing a crisis, to lend only to countries that had prequalified for its assistance by meeting a series of criteria related to the stability of their domestic financial systems. This approach has two fatal flaws:
- it would permit Fund support for countries with runaway budget deficits and profligate monetary policies (because the majority believes that IMF conditionality does not work); this would enable the countries to perpetuate the very policies that triggered the crisis in the first place, squandering public resources and eliminating any prospect of resolving the crisis1; and
- it would prohibit support for countries that were of systemic importance but had not prequalified, again running a severe risk of bringing on global economic disorder.2
As Paul Krugman put it in his op-ed on the report in the New York Times on March 8, the majority "suggested restrictions that would in effect make even emergency lending impossible."
Third, the recommendations of the majority might well undercut the fight against global poverty despite their avowed intent to have the opposite effects:
- they would shut down two major sources of funding for the poor, the regular lending program of the World Bank ($20-25 billion per year) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility at the IMF ($1-2 billion per year). The majority in fact proposes a program of "reverse aid" to the world's richest countries, returning capital to them from both the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (which they would also shut down).
- they would terminate lending to even the poorest countries if they had obtained access to the private capital markets, which we should obviously be encouraging rather than discouraging;
- they want the more advanced developing countries, even those which still include tens of millions of the world's poorest people (e.g., Brazil and Mexico), to rely wholly on the volatile private capital markets; and
- most importantly, they would in the future rely wholly on grant aid appropriated by rich-country governments when we know that this Congress, and parliaments in many other countries, are highly unlikely to support sharp increases in such funding even if the majority's reforms were to produce much more efficient aid programs.
Third, the report makes a series of sweeping and radical proposals without a shred of supporting evidence or analytical support: closure of the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, shifting all non-concessional lending to Latin America from the World Bank to the Inter-American Development bank and shifting all non-concessional lending to Asia from the World Bank to the Asian Development Bank. Some of these proposals may have some merit but the report fails to make a case for any of them.
Further, the report misses most of the central trade issues in its chapter on the World Trade Organization. This is not surprising since it is a report of the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission and the members were not chosen for their knowledge of trade. The legislation authorizing the commission did not even ask it to review the statutes relevant to trade and we believe that the Congress should simply ignore this component of the report.
We believe that there are a number of other important errors of both commission and omission in the report but that the four cited are the most critical. At the same time, we reiterate that there are numerous recommendations that merit serious attention. We hope that the Congress will focus on those and ignore the several damaging ideas highlighted in this statement and in the attached joint dissent.
Dissenting Statement
There are numerous constructive proposals in the report. We agree that reform is needed at the international financial institutions (IFIs) and support a number the report's most important recommendations: to clearly delineate the responsibilities of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, to promote stronger banking systems in emerging market economies, to publish the IMF's annual appraisals of its member countries, to avoid any use of the IMF as a "political slush fund" by its donor members, to fully write off the debt of the highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs) to the IFIs, to increasingly redirect World Bank support to the poorest countries and to the "production of global public goods," and to provide that assistance on grant rather than loan terms.
But some of the central proposals in the report are fundamentally flawed and/or unsubstantiated. They rest on misinterpretations of history and faulty analysis. They would greatly increase the risk of global instability. They would be inimical to the interests of the United States. We reject them totally and unequivocally.
Misreading History
Most importantly, the report presents a misleading impression of the impact of the IFIs over the past fifty years. A visitor from Mars, reading the report, could be excused for concluding that the world economy must be in sorry shape. But we all know that the postwar period has been an era of unprecedented prosperity and alleviation of poverty throughout the world. The bottom line of the "era of the IFIs," despite obvious shortcomings, has been an unambiguous success of historic proportions in both economic and social terms. The United States has benefited enormously as a result.
Even a somewhat narrower "bottom line" evaluation would be much more favorable to the IFIs than is the report. Almost all of the crisis countries of the past few years, ranging from Mexico through East Asia to Brazil, have experienced rapid "V-shaped" recoveries. All of the East Asians except Indonesia, for example, have already regained output levels higher than they enjoyed before the crisis. Even Indonesia and Russia, the two laggards with deep political problems, are now growing again. The world economy as a whole rebounded quickly and smoothly from what President Clinton called "the greatest financial challenge facing the world in the last half century." Whatever the difficulties along the way, the IMF strategy has clearly produced positive results.
The history of successful development over the postwar period is even more dramatic. Never in human history have so many people advanced so rapidly out of abject poverty. The World Bank and the regional development banks contributed significantly to those outcomes. The report itself notes, at the outset of Chapter 1, that "in more than fifty postwar years, more people in more countries have experienced greater improvements in living standards than at any previous time." It ignores that reality for the remainder of the text, however, and the tone throughout is so critical as to convey the message that very little progress has occurred.
The other great success story of the postwar period is democratization. More than half of the world's population now lives under democratic governments-a dramatic shift over the past decade or so. Yet the report repeatedly argues that the IFIs undermine democracy by somehow precluding local governments from pursuing autonomous economic policies. The report is particularly critical of the Fund's role in Latin America, where virtually every country has become democratic during the very period when the IMF has been most active there. IMF conditionality is obviously not a roadblock to democracy. The allegations of the report simply fail to square with the facts of history.
Promoting Financial Instability
Turning to the specific recommendations, the most damaging relate to the central responsibility of the International Monetary Fund for preventing and responding to international monetary crises. The report would limit the Fund to supporting countries that prequalified for its assistance by meeting a series of criteria related to the stability of their domestic financial systems. This approach has two fatal flaws.
First, the majority would have the IMF totally ignore the macroeconomic policy stance of the crisis country-"the IMF would not be authorized to negotiate policy reform." Hence they would sanction Fund support for countries with runaway budget deficits and profligate monetary policies. This would virtually eliminate any prospect of overcoming the crisis; it would instead enable the country to perpetuate the very policies that likely triggered the crisis in the first place and thus greatly increase the risk of global instability. It would also provide international public resources for countries whose own policies were likely to squander them in short order, without any assurance of their even being able to repay the Fund. No reputable international institution would adopt such an approach.
The proposal for adding an undefined "proper fiscal requirement" to the prequalification list smacks of an international equivalent to the Maastricht criteria, which have been extremely difficult to apply in the relatively homogenous European Union and would be totally unrealistic at the global level. If the "fiscal requirement" were left open as to content, it would require Fund negotiation ("conditionality") of precisely the type that the major rejects-as well as the strong likelihood of periodic dequalifications and requalifications of countries that would be immensely destabilizing. Hence the prequalification list would in practice be limited to financial sector considerations, as clearly intended by the majority in any event, and fiscal as well as monetary policy would be completely ignored.
Second, limiting Fund activity to any set of prequalifying criteria would almost certainly preclude its supporting countries of great systemic importance and thereby substantially increase the risk of global economic disorder. Whatever criteria might be selected, it is totally unrealistic to think that all systemically important countries will fulfill them even after a generous transition period. The Fund would then be barred from helping such countries and financial crises in them would carry a much greater risk of producing a severe adverse impact on the world economy. No reform of the Fund should block it from fulfilling its central responsibility as the defender of global financial stability through providing emergency support for all countries which could generate systemic threats. (The Executive Summary suggests a takeout from these requirements "in unusual circumstances, where the crisis poses a threat to the global economy" but Chapter 2 on the IMF calls only for "extraordinary events" to be handled by "vehicles other than the IMF.")
These proposals apparently derive from five faulty lines of analysis in the report:
- that the overwhelming systemic problem that needs to be addressed is moral hazard, despite a dearth of empirical evidence that this phenomenon had much to do with any of the three sets of crises in the 1990s (except for Russia, where the market's "moral hazard play" was related primarily to that country's being "too nuclear to fail" rather than to its economy or to prior IMF policies);
- that countries will be deterred from getting into crises, and hence having to borrow from the Fund, by according senior status to the IMF's claims on the country and by charging them "penalty interest rates"; the Fund already has de facto senior status and has already sharply increased its lending rates, however, and a crisis country in any event is motivated primarily by acquiring additional liquidity rather than by the terms thereof;
- that the IMF fails to require banking reform in borrowing countries, whereas it has done so in every crisis case in recent years;
- a misrepresentation of the extensive literature that assesses IMF conditionality, which reaches agnostic conclusions concerning its effectiveness rather than the negative verdict claimed in the report; and, closely related,
- a failure to compare actual outcomes in crisis countries with what would have happened in the absence of IMF programs; crisis countries obviously experience losses of output and other negative developments but the issue is whether they would have fared even worse without IMF help and the report, while noting the need to consider the "counterfactual," does not even attempt to address that central issue.
Much more desirable proposals for reforming the International Monetary Fund can be found in the recent report Safeguarding Prosperity in a Global Financial System: The Future International Financial Architecture by an Independent Task Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. That group, unlike the current Commission, reached unanimous agreement. Its members included Paul Volcker, George Soros, several corporate CEOs, former Secretaries of Labor and Defense, former members of Congress Lee Hamilton and Vin Weber, President Reagan's former Chief of Staff Kenneth Duberstein, and top economists including Martin Feldstein and Paul Krugman.
For example, the Independent Task Force suggested that the IMF should offer better terms on its credits to countries that have adopted the Basel Core Principles to strengthen their domestic banking systems in order to provide incentives for such constructive steps; this is far superior to the report's all-or-nothing approach, which would have the deleterious effects outlined above. That group also offers constructive and realistic reform proposals on how to alter the IMF's lending policies so as to reduce moral hazard without jeopardizing global financial stability, through better burden sharing with private creditors, and on how to shift the composition of international capital flows in longer-term and therefore less crisis-prone directions.
Undercutting the Fight Against Poverty
The second major problem with the report is that its recommendations might well undercut the fight against global poverty, despite its stated intention to push the world in the opposite direction. In particular, its proposal to eliminate the nonconcessional lending program of the World Bank represents another reckless idea based on faulty analysis.
First, the report would totally shut down two major sources of funding for the poor-the World Bank's nonconcessional lending program and the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. These programs help hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people, many of whom live in the poorest countries but many of whom also live in countries (e.g., Brazil and Mexico) whose average per capita income now exceeds the global poverty line.
The report would in fact return substantial amounts of World Bank capital and more than $5 billion of IFC capital to the donor countries. This proposal would amount to massive "reverse aid" to the richest people in the world! It would be financed through sizable repayments of prior World Bank loans, draining real resources from some of the poorest people in the world (e.g., in Africa and India). The proposal belies the avowed intent of the report to improve the lot of the poor.
Second, the report would bar World Bank lending even to the poorest countries if those countries had obtained access to the private capital markets. Why penalize countries like China and Thailand for doing precisely what the majority says it wants them to do-qualify for market credits?! This proposal would create negative incentives for a large number of key developing countries.
Third, and most critically, the report would rely wholly on appropriated grant funds from rich-country governments for future assistance to the poor. Callable capital that was no longer needed at the World Bank because of the shutdown in its lending programs could not simply be given to IDA; an entirely new authorization and appropriation process would be required in our own Congress and other legislatures around the world. Indeed, IDA would lose the funds now transferred to it from World Bank profits (and, under another of the report's proposals, the repayments of earlier IDA credits as well). This proposal comes at a time when Official Development Assistance, as measured annually by the OECD, has declined enormously-especially, as a share of total income, in the United States. Even if the report's proposals were to promote dramatic improvements in aid effectiveness, the results would take many years to show up and it takes a great leap of faith to believe that donor governments would provide substantially increased funds even then-let alone in the longish transition period when the changes were being implemented.
Fourth, the report wants the more advanced developing countries to henceforth rely wholly on the private capital markets for external finance. But those markets are enormously volatile as we have seen in the crises of both the 1980s and 1990s; the private money can flow back out, deepening crisis conditions, even faster than it came in. Moreover, the markets do not care if their funds are used for developmental purposes, especially poverty alleviation.
Unsubstantiated Proposals
The third major problem with the report is its cavalier recommendations for several sweeping institutional changes without any analytical foundation at all. While there may be legitimate reasons for some of these proposals, the rationale for pursuing them has not been established:
- elimination of the World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency on the basis of three lines of assertions;
- elimination of the International Finance Corporation, one of the most successful components of the World Bank family, and the parallel entities at the regional development banks, without a shred of evidence that such actions would be desirable (and without acknowledging that such a step, along with the elimination of MIGA, would undercut the report's stated goal of increasing the flow of private sector resources to the poor countries);
- a shift of funding for all country and regional programs for Latin America and Asia from the World Bank to the Inter-American and Asian Development Banks, respectively, solely on the basis of cryptic assertions that the latter would do a superior job-which run counter to the judgments of most observers.
The fourth major problem is the chapter on the World Trade Organization. The global trading system, and US policy toward it, is an enormously complex and important issue at this point in time. The Congress will indeed shortly be considering a vote on whether the United States should maintain its membership in the WTO. The chapter is totally inadequate and indeed full of errors in dealing with the issue, understandably so because the Commission members were not chosen for their expertise on trade topics.
For example, the chapter suggests that "there is considerable risk that WTO rulings will override national legislation" when there is no such risk. It believes that WTO rulings "should not supplant legislative decisions" when there is no risk of their doing so. It recommends that "WTO rulings should (have) no direct effect on US law" when they neither do so now nor ever could do so. The group's title is the International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission and the report admits that "the Commission had neither the time nor the expertise to evaluate all the changes that have occurred or the many proposals for future changes."
Additional Problems
There are numerous other flaws in the report:
- there is no reason to preclude the IMF from future assistance to high-income countries, which might need its help in future crises if global consequences are to be minimized;
- there is no reason to bar it from pushing member countries to adopt more stable exchange rate systems;
- there is no reason to propose a new set of ideas for strengthening banking systems in emerging market economies when the Basel Core Principles have already been agreed and the correct priority is to promote their adoption and effective implementation;
- it ignores the fact that the dozen countries which receive the bulk of the World Bank's loans also have the bulk of the world's population, and hence deserve substantial official funding;
- it ignores the valuable role of the Bank in strengthening the hand of reformers in developing countries and thereby tilting national policies in constructive directions; and
- it ignores central issues such as sustainable development and core labor standards that must be addressed by all of the IFIs.
The report also fails to address some of the central issues that must be part of any serious reform of the IMF. It should advocate, for example, much more effective "early warning" and "early action" systems to head off future crises. It should offer a formula for "private sector involvement" in crisis support operations, to assure sharing their financial burden between private creditors and official leaders (including the IMF), rather than simply "leaving that issue for participants." It should address the cardinal practical issue of how emerging market economies will manage their floating exchange rates, rather than simply reiterating that these countries should either fix rigidly or float freely-which very few now or ever will do. It should promote more stable exchange-rate arrangements among the major industrial countries, which are crucial for global stability and without which the emerging markets will continue to have severe problems whatever their own policies.
To conclude where we started: reform is needed at the IFIs and there are a number of constructive proposals in the report. But its recommendations on some of the most critical issues would heighten global instability, intensify rather than alleviate poverty throughout the world, and thereby surely undermine the national interests of the United States. These recommendations must be rejected and their presence requires us to dissent from the report in the strongest possible terms.
C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics
Richard Huber, Former Chairman, President and CEO, Aetna, Inc.
Jerome Levinson, Former General Counsel, Inter-American Development Bank
Esteban Edward Torres, US House of Representatives, 1983-99
1. The final version of the report added a sentence including a "proper fiscal requirement" to the prequalification list. No rationale for that addition is stated, however, and the term is not even defined. If the "fiscal requirement" were intended to be a quantified level of permissible budget deficits, it would represent an international equivalent of the Maastricht criteria that have been extremely difficult to implement in relatively homogenous Europe and would be impossible globally. If it were simply a qualitative notion, the Fund would be back in the business of conditionality which the report rejects-and would face the prospect of dequalifying and requalifying countries as their policy stance shifted, adding an important new element of destabilization to the picture.
2. The report again made a last-minute addition suggesting a takeout from these requirements "in unusual circumstances, where the crisis poses a threat to the global economy." But the concept is never explained or defended so it cannot be taken seriously.


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The letter khaa in the word ikhraaj (and other variations of it) is read with tafkheem. Is this dependant...
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The letter khaa in the word ikhraaj (and other variations of it) is read with tafkheem. Is this dependant and fixed to just those who implement the 3 levels of tafkheem or common to both 'schools of tafkheem'?
Jazakallahu khairan
Wassalamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
The seven letters in the group always have tafkheem, even if they are at the lowest level of tafkheem they still have tafkheem and never have tarqeeq.
In the school of thought with three levels of tafkheem, the in the word "" has the lowest level of tafkheem. In the five levels of tafkheem school of thought, it has the fourth level of tafkheem.
The known scholar of tajweed, Sheikh Al-Mutawalli authored lines of poetry outlining the levels of tafkheem and at the end he said [translation],
and if it is in the lowest level
It has tafkheem, cut off from the istifaal (lowering of the tongue)
So it cannot be said it has tarqeeq
Like its opposite, that is the truth.
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Retrieve the supported photo viewfinder frame rates.
#include <camera/camera_api.h>
camera_error_t camera_get_photo_vf_framerates(camera_handle_t handle, bool burst, int numasked, int *numsupported, double *rates, bool *maxmin)
- handle
The handle returned by a call to the camera_open() function.
- burst
Whether the framerates should be valid for burst capture
- numasked
The requested number of frame rates to return in the rates array. You can specify a value of zero to determine the number of supported frame rates.
- numsupported
The pointer to an integer that is populated with the number of supported frame rates.
- rates
A pointer to a double array. The array is updated with the photo viewfinder frame rates supported. Ensure that you allocate an array with the same number of elements as the numasked argument. If the maxmin flag returns true, then the first value returned in the rates array is the maximum supported frame rate, and the second value returned is the minimum supported frame rate.
- maxmin
A pointer to a bool value which is set to true if the rates returned should be interpreted as a maximum and minimal rates, or set to false if the rates returned describe only the discrete frame rates supported.
Use this function to retrieve the set of supported photo viewfinder frame rates.
When calling this function, ensure that the rates argument points to an array which has at least the number of elements allocated as specified in the numasked argument. To determine an appropriate size for this array, you can invoke this function in presizing-mode by setting the numasked argument to 0 or rates argument set to NULL. When the function is invoked in this presizing-mode, the maximum array size required is returned in numsupported argument. You can then allocate an array of the appropriate size and invoke the function again with numasked argument set to the value returned previously in the numsupported argument.
The values that you retrieve using this function can be written to CAMERA_IMGPROP_FRAMERATE property using the camera_set_photovf_property() function.
CAMERA_OK when the function successfully completes, otherwise another camera_error_t value that provides the reason that the call failed.


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One long outstanding problem in mathematics and computer science is the P versus NP problem. While many may have heard of the P vs. NP problem in computational science through pop culture references (The Simpsons, Futurama) few understand its importance to modern computing, or what quantum computing may mean in relation to it. In this Nobel Intent write up—meant to accompany the announcement of a working commercially available quantum computer and the NI article about the science behind adiabatic quantum computing—I will highlight the basics of this million-dollar problem as well as the implications a functional quantum computer may have on it.
In computational complexity theory, P and NP are two classes of problems. P is the class of decision problems that a deterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time. Now, what that means in more useful terms is that any problem in P can be solved in less than c*nk steps where c and k are constants, independent of the input size, n. NP on the other hand, are problems that can be solved on nondeterministic Turing machines in polynomial time. A solution to a NP problem can be verified on a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time. The key difference is the machine type that is used, an NP problem cannot generally be solved in polynomial time on a deterministic Turing machine, it often has super-polynomial runtimes, e.g. c*kn. Again, where c and k are constants independent of the input size, n. As an example of an easy to check, but hard to find solution look at the subset sum problem, determining whether or not a subset of numbers adds to zero is easy, but picking that subset from a large group is very difficult.
A prime example of the difference between P and NP problems is that of
finding Eulerian and Hamiltonian circuits on a given graph. A Eulerian
circuit is a path around a graph that travels across each edge just
once. It can be easily solved in polynomial time by checking for a
graph's connectivity along with ensuring each vertex is connected to an
even number of other vertices. The (very) closely related problem of
find a Hamiltonian
circuit—a path that touches each vertex just
once—is not so
simple and is an NP-complete problem. In order to fully solve this one
would have to travel EVERY possible path (the number of paths increase
exponentially with increasing number of vertices and nodes) until it
either finds one
that only touches each vertex once, or runs out of possible paths and
determines that none exist.
Sometimes people read these definitions and infer that all problems in P are easy, or conversely all in NP are difficult. This is an incorrect view, since these analysis look at worst case scenarios, it is entirely possible to have a NP problem run much faster for a P problem given similarly sized input values. For example, a problem in P, who has a runtime of n10000 or 1,000,000n, will take much longer to solve than a problem in NP who has a runtime of 2n/10,000 for all values of n up into the tens of thousands.
There is still another level to this discussion that is critical when discussing P, NP, and potential ties to quantum computing. There is a subset of NP problems that are considered to be the hardest problems in NP, they are named NP-complete. An NP-complete problem is one who is in NP, but has the property that all other problems in NP can be transformed or reduced to it, in polynomial time. Now, here comes the bug: should ANY problem who has been shown to be NP-complete be shown to have a solution in polynomial time (e.g. can be solved deterministically without having to examine all possible choices) then ALL problems in NP can be solved in polynomial time!
Should someone prove that an NP-complete problem is solvable in polynomial time, this would imply that many of the problems at heart of today's online security measures—factoring very large composite integers—which rely on the problem not having a simple solution and not being cracked in a "reasonable" amount of time (where reasonable is often taken to be around the lifetime of the universe), could be cracked in one's lifetime. However, given the ramifications of this and the complete lack of a proof that P=NP—that is that there is no known NP-complete problem with a polynomial time solution—many computer scientists believe that P!=NP, and our on-line shopping is safe for sometime to come.
What does this have to do with quantum computers? As John Timmer pointed out in his article, a quantum computer can exploit entanglement and the superposition of quantum states to examine many possible outcomes simultaneously. Does this mean that a large enough quantum computer could overcome any NP-complete problem in only one quantum step (or quantum polynomial time)? The answer is no, this is a common misconception. While it is not proven that quantum computers cannot solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time, it is generally accepted that they cannot.
What they can do, however is solve problem in another complexity set known as "bounded error, quantum, polynomial time" (BQP), the quantum analogue of "bounded error polynomial time" (BPP) in classical computing theory. In this problem set the answer to a complex problem can be obtained in polynomial time with a certain probability. That is if you run it once, you can be guaranteed that you have a 2/3 (or other arbitrary probability) chance of coming up with the correct result, subsequent runs can greatly increase your odds of getting the right answer. A traditional quantum computer carries out linear operations, such as multiplying a matrix by a vector. It is theorized that if a quantum computer could carry out non-linear operations, then it would be capable of solving NP problems in polynomial time, but it is predicted that such a a machine would violate other commonly held principles of quantum mechanics.
While tomorrow's introduction of DWave's first ever quantum computer is no doubt a milestone in the scientific world, don't expect it to be able to do everything your home PC is not able to do. As our Journals.Ars Editor Clint Ecker asked, "Can I play Doom on this?", we responded with "Yes, but it will simultaneously beat you, and lose to you while ordering pizzas for your cats", such is the brave new quantum world we are poised to enter.


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I'm often asked why it's important to have an annual eye exam. If you wear glasses or contacts, you know that your vision can change over the course of a year. Even if that change isn't obvious to you, an updated prescription can make a real difference in your quality of life at work and at home. Everyday activities like reading and working on the computer are a lot more comfortable when you have the right eyewear.
Many times, patients come to us for their first exam in their early 40s, when they start experiencing presbyopia, or the inability to focus close up (i.e., when reading). However, even if you're not experiencing any noticeable change in your vision, periodic comprehensive eye exams are important, because they allow for the early detection of eye diseases and other eye problems—some of which have no obvious symptoms. Earlier detection allows for earlier treatment and a better visual outcome for most.
At the Emory Eye Center, our comprehensive eye exam includes screening for signs of eye and medical problems such as:
- Glaucoma – Glaucoma is an eye disease typically caused by an increase in pressure in the eye that can't be felt. Over time, if not treated, glaucoma damages the optic nerve and can lead to blindness. In general, there are no early warning signs, and early detection is the key to preserving vision. Often, the patients we diagnose with glaucoma haven't had an eye exam in 5 to 10 years.
- Cataracts – A cataract is a change in the lens inside the eye as a result of aging. Over time, this leads to hazy vision. Cataracts can be treated with surgery.
- Macular degeneration – Macular degeneration affects your central vision and can occur as a result of aging. Depending on the type of macular degeneration, you may experience drastic changes within a year's time. A comprehensive annual exam can help us detect the early signs of macular degeneration and treat it, if necessary.
- Hypertension – Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a systemic issue that can affect the eye in a number of ways. We can detect signs of hypertension in the back of the eye during a comprehensive eye exam.
- Diabetes – Diabetes is another systemic issue that can affect the eyes and lead to blindness. People with diabetes need to have an annual eye exam to check for diabetic retinopathy, or damage to the eye's retina, which may be symptomless until the damage is severe. An eye exam also can help detect the early signs of diabetes, allowing earlier preventive treatment.
An annual eye exam provides a baseline against which to measure future vision changes and the progression of eye disease or other medical problems. One hour once a year can make a significant difference in your vision, your health, and your quality of life.
When's the last time you had a comprehensive eye exam? Please take a moment to give us feedback in the comments section below. If you're interested in making your eye exam appointment with Emory, visit our Eye Center Patient Services page.
About Ann Van Wie, OD
Ann Van Wie, OD, is a member of the American Optometric Association and the Georgia Optometric Association. Dr. Van Wie started practicing at Emory in 2000 and is an instructor of ophthalmology.


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CNC Programming Software Recognizes Inventor-assigned Part and Feature Attributes to Program Machines Directly from Part Models
CNC Programming Software Recognizes Inventor-assigned Part and Feature Attributes to Program Machines Directly from Part Models
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Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM® software for programming CNC machine tools and a Cimatron (NASDAQ: CIMT) company, announced today that GibbsCAM has been certified for Autodesk Inventor 2015 3D mechanical design software under the Autodesk Certified Apps Program, marking the fourteenth consecutive year that GibbsCAM has been certified under the program.
Digital prototyping with Autodesk Inventor software helps manufacturers to digitally design, visualize and simulate how a product will work under real world conditions before it is built. GibbsCAM directly opens Autodesk Inventor part models, allowing CNC programmers and machinists to easily and readily program machine tools from the models, extending cost reduction and efficiency through the programming and machining processes. Certification demonstrates that the product is of high quality and up to date, and that it provides the highest level of interoperability with Autodesk Inventor software.
"We are gratified for our continuing partnership with Autodesk and for Autodesk's recognition of GibbsCAM interoperability with Autodesk Inventor," said Robb Weinstein, Senior Vice President of Sales and Strategic Planning of Gibbs and Associates. "Our commitment to joint customers around the world remains unchanged, despite changing marketplace dynamics, as we continue to optimize the CNC-programming power and flexibility GibbsCAM provides Autodesk users."
"We are very pleased to have Gibbs and Associates affirm their continuing dedication to interoperability with Autodesk Inventor through Inventor certification for GibbsCAM," said Carl White, Senior Director, Manufacturing Engineering, Autodesk. "Having companies like Gibbs and Associates as partners is highly beneficial to our manufacturing customers."
GibbsCAM offers seamless integration with Autodesk Inventor, by directly reading Autodesk Inventor IPT (part model) files, preserving all color information, CAD and hole features and attributes assigned within Inventor to provide continuity in recognizing and communicating part and feature attributes. Alternatively, with the GibbsCAM Autodesk Inventor Add-in, the Inventor user can transfer files directly into GibbsCAM with the "Transfer to GibbsCAM" menu option of Inventor software running on the same workstation. Once machining processes are defined in GibbsCAM, they are automatically updated when the Inventor model is revised.
In addition to its perennial certification of GibbsCAM for Autodesk Inventor, Gibbs and Associates offers a GibbsCAM Plug-in for Autodesk Vault to allow interaction between GibbsCAM and the Autodesk data management software, is an authorized member of the Autodesk Developer Network and is an Autodesk Authorized Independent Software Vendor.
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Williams keeps his cool
Sam Williams struck from the penalty spot in injury time as Dagenham claimed a 1-0 victory over Fleetwood.
Williams slotted the ball low past Fleetwood goalkeeper Scott Davies in the second minute of injury time having moments before been brought down by Youl Mawene inside the visitors' box.
Jake Reed had earlier hit the woodwork for the home side - taking advantage of a mistake by the out-of-sorts Mawene.
The Cod Army's best opportunities came in the early stages, Junior Brown unable to get on the end of a Barry Nicholson cross and then Nicholson sending David Ball through for the striker to fire wide.
The away side dominated after the break but failed to create any clear-cut openings. Brown could not connect at the back post following a testing cross from Tom Barkhuizen.
Then Barkhuizen struggled to turn having been sent into the box by Brown. But Williams' late penalty was enough to condemn Micky Mellon's side to their second consecutive defeat.
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Sullivan is a charecter from the Pokémon anime who appeared in the episode Whiscash and Ash.
For many years Sullivan has been trying to capture a Whiscash nicknamed 'Nero'. When he meets up with Ash and friends, he hopes that they will help him find Nero, which they do, and Sullivan battles it with his Flaaffy nicknamed Hannah. After weakening Nero, Sullivan tells Ash that he has a Master Ball which will allow him to capture any Pokémon he wishes! When Sullivan throws his Master Ball,he gets suprised when Nero all of a sudden eats it! Although shocked that his Master Ball got eaten, Sullivan says that although he failed to catch Nero this time, he will always look forward to catching Nero one day!
This episode was banished to the Banned Bin because of the Japanese Earthquake.
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Hannah is the nickname of Sullivans Pokémon Flaaffy in Whiscash and Ash. Once Sullivan got Nero on land, he battled with Hannah using its awesome moves like Dynamicpunch! Hannah's current location is with Sullivan, still searching for Nero!
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Connect with fellow freethinkers and skeptics in the palmetto state. It's difficult to be a religious minority in the bible belt, and we need to reach out to each other and let each other know we're here!
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"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Leviticus 20:13
This shows how brutal and heartless the Christian god really is!
Hello, I moved to SC just a week or two ago and am in Dillon - there are no other Atheists that I know of here. Help :D
I'm a theological noncognitivist rather than an atheist. I don't say "God does not exist" because saying that's like flicking your lips with your finger going "bwibbuh, bwibbuh". I claim that Christians don't believe in anything labeled "God" because "God is the creator of everything except God" is a circular definition, and defines nothing. Christians merely believe that they believe in something labeled "God", but they don't. Most atheists believe they do too, but I don't.
they only believe that they do.
Hi, from a new member living near Myrtle Beach. Nice to see that I'm not alone in this state (where I've been living for 3 years). It certainly feels like it.
Camp Quest South Carolina's 2013 dates are 7/21-27 in Aiken, SC. Registration is almost full and the early registration deadline is just around the corner, so don't delay if you want your child to go to CQSC. http://campquestsc.org/
Anyone in the Florence area? There is a small, but growing, group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381922371839907
Camp Quest South Carolina and the Secular Coalition for South Carolina are sponsoring the t 3rd annual state-wide meetup for freethinking families and adults at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia.
We will meet for lunch and socializing at 11am at the public picnic area which is located at the west end of the zoo's parking lot (as opposed to the parking lot for the garden entrance).
For more details, here is the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/283430505125245/
Thursday, 5/2, is the National Day of Reason, a secular celebration of reason—a concept all Americans can support—with the additional goal to raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion. The Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry and the Piedmont Humanists groups both have celebrations planned.
Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry: https://www.facebook.com/events/470498083020691 or (if you're not on Facebook) http://www.lowcountryhumanists.org/eventview.php?idno=295
Piedmont Humanists is having a freethought slam at Bailey's Sports Grille: https://www.facebook.com/events/191199117695354/
Myrtle Beach Humanists & Freethinkers will be getting together for our December Social and wanted to offer an open invitation to enjoy an evening at Brookgreen Gardens with us. Members from Charleston & Wilmington groups are planning on joining in. Night of 1000 Candles is a great way to celebrate the holiday season together in sculpture gardens. This is a family friendly event. In addition to the lights in the garden there will be lots of musical groups including hand bells & bagpipe. Their holiday display is historical collection of toys.
We will meet inside at the visitor center at 6pm and enjoy the evening together
Dress for the weather, this is outside!
Sat Dec 15
Meet at the visitor center at 6pm.
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ISSA, Sportwall Form Partnership
The International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA), a fitness certification company, has teamed with Sportwall International, a manufacturer of interactive fitness systems, to provide installation and training on equipment for facilities at the local level. A select group of ISSA-certified fitness trainers will help the facility owners who have purchased Sportwall equipment to install the product and train their staff to make the best use of the equipment.
Expresso Fitness Bikes Get Upgrade
Last month, all Expresso Fitness bikes received software upgrades, including the Expresso Chases program used with the Expresso Fitness S2u bike that was launched in October. The program creates a video game-like experience for users. With the launch of Expresso Chases, the company will hold special contests for its members of health clubs with an Internet connection. Members can participate in the 1,000,000th point and 50,000th mile contests.
Life Fitness Cardio Receives Award
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Hospitals worry about short saline supply
First responders conserving supplies, using smaller dosages
Wisconsin's hospitals and first responders are conserving intravenous saline solution after federal officials warned of a national shortage possibly linked to an influenza outbreak.
Medical officials say they're cautious but not worried yet and patient care shouldn't be affected. Suppliers of the salt solution, which is used to rehydrate trauma patients and assist in the delivery of drugs, say they're ramping up production but can't guarantee when the supply will be fully replenished.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration began receiving reports in December of supply problems, production delays due to maintenance and other issues at three major saline-solution makers. The FDA began monitoring the situation and seeking alternate sources, said Valerie Jensen, the associate director of the agency's drug-shortages program.
She said the problem was exacerbated by high demand, potentially due to an increase in influenza patients who needed fluids.
FDA officials haven't heard of situations where patient care has been affected, but doctors are reassessing how they use saline solution.
"Hospitals are having to make decisions to treat more critical patients," Jensen said.
First responders also are being cautious, conserving their supplies and using smaller dosages.
Dr. Charles Cady, the medical director for the Kenosha Fire Department, said his staffers routinely administer sterile salt solution to patients with trauma, blood loss or low blood pressure. Also, if a patient needs an intravenous injection, a saline flow helps push the drug into the vein, he said.
Now, instead of administering saline routinely, first responders are saving it for patients who absolutely need it, he said. They're also dispensing it with 10-milliliter syringes instead of the standard 1-liter bags. Cady said he would prefer not to do that because it's less efficient and leaves more packaging to be discarded, but the change will help the fire department make its current three-month supply last about six months.
"It's kind of ironic, though, that we have to change the way we take care of patients because of a shortage of a product that costs pennies," Cady said.
Saline solution is essentially a 0.9 percent solution of table salt in sterile water, but manufacturers said it's not as easy to produce as one might think. For example, the components in the plastic bags must come from specific, approved suppliers, and changes to the process require a full-scale review, along with documentation to the FDA.
"More than 30 steps are involved in the manufacturing process, including production of the sterile water used to make the solutions," said John O'Malley, a spokesman for manufacturer Baxter Healthcare Corp.
Baxter and the FDA declined to speculate on how long the shortage will persist, citing uncertainty in demand and market supply.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said it was keeping tabs on the situation but wasn't offering specific guidance to hospitals
"The important thing is to have the medical staff aware and ready to implement changes if needed," DHS spokeswoman Jennifer Miller said.
No hospitals have reported being critically low on the saline solution, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association.
Cady, the Kenosha Fire Department medical director, said he was confident the cautious measures his staff was taking would be sufficient.
"Seeing how saline can be lifesaving in some patients I am very concerned, but grateful we haven't felt it (the shortage) yet," he said. "We're very careful about what we've got. I think we'll be OK."


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A popular novelist suffering from writer's block is an unforgivable crime from the perspective of crazy fans.
Meng Ke Huai (Johnny Lu) is a famous romance novelist who suffers from writer's block and can't finish his new book because he no longer believes in love.
After a flight from Taipei to Kaohsiung, an obsessive fan kidnaps Ke Huai along with an innocent bystander, flight attendant Li Xiao Yang (Janet Tsai), and forces him to finish his long-awaited novel. Strangers caught in an inexplicable situation, Xiao Yang helps Ke Huai to work through his writer's block and finish his novel. After they survive their ordeal, the two develop a friendship that turns into something more.
"In Between" is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series.
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