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I found this, surprisingly, on an architecture web site.

Mayflower Donut Shoppes, a national chain, had a menu that showed how you could eat your way from the Golden Gate Expo to the New York World's Fair.

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He said Russian fans were provoked by English fans

Igor Lebedev, a member of the FA’s executive committee, an MP and deputy chairman of the Russian parliament has said that the fans defended the honour of Russia.

His reaction comes after French prosecutors said that 150 Russia fans were responsible for the violence caused at the Stade Velodrome after the England and Russia match.

He also said that “nine out of 10” football fans go to matches to fight, whilst saying the Russian supporters were reacting to English provocation.

“The guys defended the honour of Russia, and did not allow the British in any way to defile our homeland,” he said.

“Our fans are far from the worst. It is unclear why so many media are trying to denounce the actions of our football fans – and for what exactly?

“If there were no provocation on the part of the English fans, our fans are unlikely to have got into a fight in the stands.”

He added: “We need to understand that football fans in nine out of 10 cases come to the game to fight and this is a normal situation.”

However a reputative Russian fans group – ‘Fans’ Embassy Russia’ expressed its regret at the trouble and wished the England fans well and apologised for any harm caused.

They said: “The team expresses its regret about the situation with riots involving Russian fans in Marseille,”

“We strongly believe that such behaviour is not the norm for our citizens who are travelling to support the Russian national team in France.

“We are very sorry for those English people who have been injured and are now in hospital. We wish them the fastest recovery.

“As Fans’ Embassy Russia, we would like to emphasise the friendly communication and mutual respect that we have witnessed between the fans of Russia and England during their stay in Marseille.

“From our side, we are working to help all football supporters from both countries and to foster mutual respect together with a festive atmosphere at the tournament.”

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South Pacific to Be Protected from Destructive Fishing
More than 20 South Pacific nations have agreed to restrict bottom trawling—an invasive form of fishing that can devastate marine habitats—in areas with vulnerable ecosystems, according to the BBC.

Biodiversity Can Provide Mental Health Benefits
Biological diversity in city parks and green spaces can have psychological benefits for humans, according to a new study from the United Kingdom.

Computer Sector Cooperates to Save Energy
A new effort to unite computer manufacturers, retailers, and consumers in energy conservation was launched in Silicon Valley, California, on June 12.

Solar Power Reaches 100,000 in Rural India
A solar photovoltaics (PV) pilot project in India has transformed the lives of approximately 100,000 people living in poverty-stricken rural regions by providing several hours of uninterrupted lighting every night.

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In a new partnership, 13 municipalities in Argentina have agreed to send their refuse to an innovative waste treatment facility that will turn it into electricity, biodiesel, water, and animal feed.

Meteorologists Add Climate Change to Their Forecasts
As the U.S. wakes up to the realities of climate change, global warming has made that most ordinary of conversation topics—the weather—a hot topic.

UN Refugee Agency Turns to Tree Planting
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has pledged to plant more than 9 million trees in areas of human displacement this year, enlisting both refugees and host communities to meet this goal.

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Q From Jean Cantlay, Australia: What is the origin of the expression make no bones about it?

A This is so ancient, dating practically from time immemorial, that it has long since achieved the status of an idiom. When you think about it, the saying is certainly odd. Why should the notion of having no hesitation or scruples in speaking about or dealing with some matter, no matter how awkward or unpleasant, have any connections with bones?

It has been argued that the phrase had its origin in dice games, since dice have been called bones since the fourteenth century at the latest, for the good reason that they were originally carved from bone. The image presumably is that the player doesn’t stop to call on Dame Fortune or talk to the dice after the manner of craps players (“Baby needs new shoes!”) but just rolls them.

A more probable, but somewhat surprising, origin is from the meal table. The oldest version of the expression is to find bones in something, meaning to find a difficulty or objection in some course of action. The first example is from one of the Paston letters of 1459. It seems to have been linked especially with soup: to have a bone in that certainly presented difficulties in eating it. To find no bones in something meant that you had no problems or difficulties. The idiom seems to have grown out of that.

There are other expressions connected with bones, such as having a bone to pick with somebody (to have a dispute with that person) and bone of contention (something that causes discord or dissention). Both seem to be connected with the way that a meaty bone thrown to a group of dogs will cause intense rivalry and dispute.

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Many Americans interested in language have sometime in the last thirty years come across the US quarterly called Verbatim. It was founded in 1974 by Laurence Urdang, who edited it for its first 23 years. The publication was feared defunct at one point but was resurrected with the aid of a philanthropic grant.

The cover of 'Verbatim'

The current editor, Erin McKean, has assembled an anthology of an eclectic group of articles from the whole history of the journal, in the process bringing together contributions from some of the better-known names in linguistics, dictionary making, and language writing, including the late Frederick Cassidy, Frank Abate, Richard Lederer, and Jesse Sheidlower, as well as Laurence Urdang himself.

Some idea of the fun within this anthology is obvious from the titles of a few of its 58 articles: Sexual Intercourse in American College Dictionaries, British Football Chants, Thunderboxes and Chuggies, Noun Overuse Phenomenon Article, Nullspeak: A Question of Rotating Strawberry Madonnas, and Never Ask a Uruguayan Waitress for a Little Box: She Might Apply Her Foot to Your Eyelet.

If you wish to find out what these tantalising titles refer to, you’ll just have to buy the book. But in tasting my way through the text during what would otherwise have been a boring rail journey, many things jumped out at me. Erin McKean described what she calls McKean’s Law: “Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error”. An article on US place names reveals the existence of Toad Suck in Arkansas, Knockemstiff in Ohio, and Hell and Gone Creek in Oklahoma. Walter C Kidney persuaded in another piece that a verbunkos was a dance performed to persuade people to enlist in the Hungarian army. It turns out there is a curious link between breakfast, scarecrow, and pickpocket (clue: check the grammatical function of their elements). Another article provided a fascinating insight into the vocabulary of the popular TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The anthology, like its parent journal, inevitably has a strong US bias — broadened only by occasional pieces such as one on Sussex dialect — but most of the articles can be read with pleasure by anyone interested in the vagaries of the English language.

My train arrived at its London terminus almost before I realised it. Thank you, Verbatim and Erin McKean, for filling the time so pleasantly.

[Erin McKean [ed], Verbatim, published by Harcourt in October 2001; pp352; ISBN 0-15-60129-X; publisher’s price US$14.00. Not formally available outside North America, but obtainable from online booksellers. See the journal Web site for more information, including selected articles.]

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As usual, the N.C. Museum of Art's summer movie series will include some family-friendly options this summer.

The series begins May 30 and runs on select days through mid-September. These are outdoor movies, so be sure to note the late start times. Lawn chairs, blankets and picnics are welcome at the screenings. Popcorn, candy, wine and beer can be purchased on site. Tickets to the movies are $5. Kids 6 and under are free.

Here's the list of the more family-friendly selections. The museum's website has the full schedule, which includes "Selma," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Jaws," "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Imitation Game," among others.

9 p.m., June 6, "Frozen," the sing-along version. (PG)

9 p.m., July 10, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" (PG)

9 p.m., Aug. 1, "The Book of Life" (PG)

9 p.m., Aug. 7, "Big Hero 6" (PG)

8 p.m., Sept. 19, "The Sound of Music" (G)

The museum also offers a summer concert series. The schedule includes annual family favorite Paperhand Puppet Intervention, which will put on three kid-friendly shows Sept. 11 to Sept. 13 at the museum. Tickets are $17.

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— A Kure beach man has been named a person of interest in connection with three fires at Carolina Beach that killed two people Saturday. The 22-year-old was previously charged in a fatal hit-and-run in Raleigh in February.

Marshall Hudson Doran, of 740 Fort Fisher Blvd., was being held in the New Hanover County jail on a $2.5 million bond. He was charged with attempted burglary.

Investigators say a beach-front condominium was destroyed Saturday morning. A second fire, about a half-mile away, heavily damaged another building. A car was also set on fire. Authorities did not release details about the two people who were killed.

Doran was previously arrested in February after a fatal hit-and-run on Interstate 40 near Garner. Authorities said he failed to stop after he hit and killed two men on the shoulder of the highway as he tried to avoid a truck that had spun out in the snow.

Doran was traveling 60 mph on the snow and ice covered road when he hit and killed Nathaniel Williams, 34, of Hope Mills and Larry Kepley, 39, of Winston-Salem, with his Volvo station wagon, according to the wreck report.

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    There was more than one story. Look at the story with over 90 comments. As I recall some of the comments were quite specific quoting information not released to the media, ie, prescription medication types and amounts. Same thing happened on other sites as well.

  • Kathy Sanders Dec 8, 2014
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    I'm certainly not defending him, but so far in this case he's only named as a person of interest, and as of the noon news, has not been charged with setting the fatal fires.

  • Barbara Sossomon Dec 8, 2014
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    This guy has killed 4 people. Maybe the judge he sees this morning will see that he stay in JAIL!

  • jackaroe123 Dec 8, 2014

    Let's not pretend anyone other than Mr. Doran is responsible for this (if convicted) or that it is really that unreasonable for him to be out on bond. If it is presumed that the hit-and-run was an accident compounded by the criminally negligent decision to leave the scene, there was no reason to suspect or foretell he might do something like this. It's revisionist history and Monday morning quarterbacking to say otherwise.

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    please like "Pleasure Island Fire Relief Fund" on facebook and follow the site to see how you can help. Multiple families were displaced by the fires and lost their homes, all belongings and vehicles. Thanks for your support!

  • diana123 Dec 8, 2014

    how did he get out on bail from the hit and run? most people don't have the dough to do that.

  • Glock07 Dec 8, 2014

    Our Justice system is equally responsible for these 2 deaths.

  • monami Dec 8, 2014

    Why is there any bond? He has (allegedly) killed 4 people within this year! He's too dangerous to be out of jail. How tragic that he was out of jail after he ran from police after killing two men this past winter.

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    Who supported or defended him? I clicked on his previous story and only saw 2 people? Well I guess both of them could support and defend him...

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Randy Orton defeated The Miz in the opening match of WWE Raw. After Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton exchange some heated words between one another, both men tried to hit their finisher. Orton was able to escape and an aggressive Miz came out to attack Orton before their match. We get back from a commercial break and both men are exchanging blows. Orton counters a Skull Crushing Finale but Orton escapes it. Miz has Orton on the mat and the lights go out. Wyatt Family appears to distract Miz, so Orton hits an RKO for the win. This is a good way to find Miz something fresh and interesting to work with. Bray Wyatt continues to find new faces to fight. This can benefit Wyatt until Kane comes back and reignites that feud. Miz, on the other hand, can hopefully continue to improve as a face. He is a born heel and should have never changed that.

Grade: B-

Fandango defeated Santino Marella with a roll-up. Does anyone care that Santino is back from injury? Good for him to overcome an injury but he provides nothing in the ring right now. Fandango needs something to do before people COMPLETELY stop caring about him.

Grade: D

Los Matadores defeated 3MB for the third consecutive week. The double inverted Samoan Drop was pretty impressive looking. Again, nobody is caring about these talented guys. The gimmick is very 1990-ish and people have gotten to a point where cheesy gimmicks do not work.

Grade: D

Real Americans defeated Tons of Funk. I was very impressed with the booking of this match. It was not your usual 3-4 moves and then a finish. They gave it time to develop inside the ring and had Cesaro shine once again. He hit his Neutralizer for the victory and the giant swing on Tensai after the match. I think WWE is beginning to realize that the tag team of Swagger and Cesaro has potential. They just need to tap into that potential and give it the support it needs to thrive.

Grade: B-

Tamina Snuka defeated Brie Bella with AJ Lee in the corner of Snuka. There was nothing too amazing here. Snuka looked a little stiff in the ring. It has been a while since her last match on Raw. Also, I expected Brie to win. What is the point to have her lose to someone who is not the champion? Maybe they need Brie Bella to lose here and then find another challenger to Lee. Brie can be utilized much better as a piece in the Orton/Bryan storyline.

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Growing up in a small, rural, agricultural based town located east of San Diego and fifteen minutes from the U.S./Mexico border-was difficult for me. My environment was not a very stimulating place to live, having the highest unemployment rate in the whole state California. The majority of the people who lived in my town lacked the ambition and motivation to achieve anything above a high school diploma. Being is that type of atmosphere, made me very grateful for having my grandmother around during my childhood upbringing. She encouraged me to succeed and has been one of my main motivators in life. Whenever I think about my grandmother, my mind tends to flood with flashes of vivid memories of us baking pan dulce together.

I remember one particular day very distinctly. It was on a Sunday morning, I was twelve years old, and I was suddenly awakened from my deep sleep due to the loud noises I heard coming from my grandmother's kitchen.

I could hear the clank of my grandma's high heels as they hit the tile floor, the squeaking sound of the cupboard doors opening and closing, the clatter coming from her mixing bowls, and the ringing of pots and pans. I glanced at the clock, and it was 5'oclock in the morning. I made my way to the kitchen and asked her, "Why are you up so early today nana?" She looked at me and smiled; her eyes were radiating with happiness, and said, "We are going to bake your favorite dessert today, pan dulce."

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William Shakespeares Hamlet is based on the legendary prince of Denmark, who lived hundreds of years before the womens movement in a time when chastity was cherished and witch burnings were not uncommon. The sexual inequality of antiquity is palpable in Hamlet, and most of Shakespeares other productions. The only two female characters in Hamlet are Queen Gertrude, Hamlets mother, and Ophelia, Hamlets lover. Queen Gertrude and Ophelia represent the two prevalent attitudes towards women in the time of Shakespeare: either terribly wicked or epitomes of virtue. Queen Gertrudes relationship with Hamlets murderous uncle Claudius leads Hamlet to abhor women and female sexuality, and long for an illusory, wholly righteous, mother figure. This desire drives him into a state of madness in which he rejects, condemns, and ultimately destroys Ophelia. Hamlets complex psyche and unreasonable aspiration for a virtuous mother are responsible for the deterioration of his relationship with Ophelia and, thus, her suicide.

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I had recently taken my practical Driver License exam. I had taken it in an empty parking lot, quite different from the crowded expressways, and very comfortable for first time drivers. For the exam, I drove a compact, black, brand-new, rented Toyota Yaris. It was the lightest car I have ever driven. Amazingly, I felt comfortable inside it! I was not nervous at that moment. That day, I was driving on the Turnpike South Extension North, from Homestead to Miami. I learned how to drive with an automatic vehicle, a red Ford Ranger which was heavy and seemed non responsive. The turnpike was only way I knew how to get to Miami. So, in few seconds I made the decision to go there to seek for employment without considering the fact that I did not know how to drive properly.

Naturally, I was nervous, regardless of my boyfriend was guiding me.

Inside the car, he started off by explaining how I have to change lanes, pass a car, and maintain the same speed. Suddenly, I became scared of every driver who passed by. Five seconds after I took the expressway, I showed him my clammy palms, and he kindly handed me a tissue. My entirely body was shaking like a leaf moved by the wind. I could feel the adrenaline circulating by my bloodstream. I was hot, but at the same time a cold sweat had covered me. My heart was beating so quickly that I felt like a thousands race horses were inside of my chest; all of them going in different directions. Also, my shoulders and neck were a bit tight and contracted. For just few seconds I turned my eyes toward the rear-view mirror, and I saw a vivid ghost. My face was pale as a piece of paper, and my eyes wide open. Inside my eyes, my sclera was full of tiny, little, red veins ready to explode at any second. I was going through one of the most difficult experiences of my life.

The entire road had plenty of cars and I was driving like a fool during rush-hours, the worst time for a new driver to go anywhere. I was quite nervous. From my perspective, the car lanes seemed like a big towering mountain on the horizon, one after the other. The yellow lights from the cars and the morning fog created a mist which I found hard to see through. My hands were attached to the wheel and rigid as an iron statue. I must have left fingers marks on the steering wheel from holding it so tight. I heard my boyfriendÃÂÃÂs voice telling me what to do, and when to change lane, as a loud noise pounded inside my head. Anything that I heard or saw was a hundred times bigger than normal. The paved road seemed enormous and narrow at the same time. For me, I imagined that I would crash with every big truck passing by. Sometimes, I slip over the right yellow line for a few seconds because I was afraid to have an accident.

Driving on a busy turnpike freeway didnÃÂÃÂt exactly reduce my anxiety level. After 15 minutes or so, we had to stop for some diesel fuel. My boyfriend went inside to pay for the fuel, and I took a little 5 minute break from the stressful situation. I sat in the car evaluating how the next part of the trip would be. Meanwhile, that sweat-drenched tissue quickly became a soggy ball of paper mush. It was at that point that I considered taking a pill but I thought I better not because that could impair my driving. I had to overcome my fear of cars. I still hadnÃÂÃÂt managed to get accustomed to passing a car or accelerating. In two occasions, I pushed the break instead of the accelerator, and I did it with so much strength that we almost flew through the front glass.

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Ohio 94th District Representative Debbie Phillips visited the Washington State Community College (WSCC) campus on Tuesday, April 17th to kick off Green Week and Earth Day celebrations at the college. Rep. Phillips began her tour of campus meeting with WSCC President Dr. Bradley Ebersole and Ken Schilling, Chair of the WSCC Board of Trustees. Next, Rep. Phillips met Business, Engineering and Industry Technologies professors Janet Schilling, and Bob Feathers, as well as Chief Academic Officer Dr. Mark Nutter, to discuss the college's Oil and Gas Training Strategy during a tour of the Engineering Wing. Rep. Phillips also viewed and toured the Agribusiness Lab and Greenhouse, recently constructed in 2010; Agribusiness Management Professor Sara Camacho spoke with Rep. Phillips about WSCC's Agribusiness degree program.

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XANSYS History

By Dan Bohlen

The folks at PADT once mentioned it would be nice to add to the XANSYS lore a brief history of the XANSYS list.  I came up with this not-so-brief history.  I've tried to pull together from what I can recall - and a few documents I had left behind to piece the history together.  Please consider this a "wiki" history and I invite other old-timers to chime in with corrections, additions etc.  I decided to organize the history based on the system that was used at the time to pass the list messages.

Part of the XANSYS story is my story.  The year was 1994 and after ten years as a design engineer I had seen the light (thank you John Crawford) and had switched jobs into a full time analyst role.  I had used FEA a bit as a design engineer, but my new group was one of the elite hard-core analysis sections here at Aviation.  I had a lot to learn.  It was also about the time GE was started to embrace the Internet.  It was an interesting time in the stress group as well.  They had a long, successful history of using ANSYS 4.4a, but the writing was on the wall that at some point we had to transition to ANSYS 5+.  Being new in the group it worked out that I did some follow on work in 4.4a, but anything new it made sense for me to start in ANSYS 5.1.  So, not only was I learning the trade, but I was stumbling over ANSYS 5.1 bugs.  Once, I had a job where I couldn't repeat the results we had in 4.4a.  It turned out a Class III error in 4.4a was the culprit.  In ANSYS 5.1 a GUI error had also tripped me up, that we eventually turned it in and it became a Class III error.

This early experience taught me two things: I wanted to get better access to the error reports and the wider group of folks I could ask and compare notes with, the better.  At the time it was frustrating: I could email the author of my favorite comic (Scott Adams/Dilbert), but I had no connection to the greater world of ANSYS users.  A buddy of mine who used a competing product mentioned they had a bulletin board system.  (In fact he was such a frequent poster - he eventually went to work for that company!)   I had no idea how to join or start something like that.

Then it happened one day.  I had gotten myself included on the Class III email list.  And one set of reports came in with all the other subscriber email addresses attached - unintentional I assume.   It hit me: I'll just email these guys and see if they want to start up a list.  I'm no IT guy so I proposed folks just email me with a unique word in the subject line (XANs_LIST seemed easy to remember and unique enough at the time) and I'd write a mail rule to forward it to everyone on a distribution list I had set up.

This set up had many, many obvious issues.  No archive, I had to manually add folks to the list, and it was fun to hear my workstation clank away when there was a lot of postings.  There were some interesting meltdowns.  Once someone had an "out of office" auto-reply rule set up on their email - you can imagine the do loop that set up when his machine got a post from the list and auto-replied to the list, and then auto-replied to his own list posting!

But the list caught on.  This group of folks was definitely hard-core users and often the local focal points at their companies.  The biggest addition to the list after a short time was when John Swanson, founder of ANSYS Inc., joined the list.  That was just incredible.  To me this was like Thomas Edison joining a list on the light bulb and inventing.  One of the early successes of the list at this time was identifying and issue when using multi-processors on SUN systems.  When it happened to me - I figured well odds are I did something wrong, or GE's install/machine was bad.  But with the list, folks would tried it out on their systems and within a day or two we had figured out it was a generic problem.

I didn't keep too many records of list statistics, but I did find a snapshot of members I took 11/3/1997 and there were 163 of us.

Majordomo Era

The younger folks on the list may never have heard of "majordomo" (great name for software).  It was the state-of-the-art listserver software in its day.   Well, the list postings were really making my desktop UNIX box hum at times, but then there was a lucky break.  I stumbled upon a corporate GE website where one could set up an external list (including non-GE folks) on a server. It was clunky, but the posts got through faster, there was some automation to subscribing and unsubscribing, there was some software protection from end-less auto-reply do-loops, and a primitive archive.  All for the same low price - free!  We rolled it out on May 22 1997.  I don't have complete statistics (maybe the PADT guys can wiki some in here - I believe folks have transferred the old archives into the new system.)  As of August 1998 there were about 400 subscribers (Some may have been dead email addresses - no automated way to dump them.) and about 20 posts per day.  The stay here was short lived.  This list got some attention here at GE because we filled up our archive space a couple of times.  When I was asking for more space, the corporate guys weren't so sure this was the type of list they expected their system to be used for.   They let me linger a short while, but let me know we better move on.

By this time there were many Internet companies offering free lists in order to generate ad revenue.  ONELIST was one of these start-ups.  Again, being free, we got what we paid for: most of the same amenities above, but there was one hitch.  We had to ask members not to put their email addresses in posts because there seemed to be spammers harvesting them.  On 12/1998   there were 373 XANSYS subscribers (probably about ½ were lurkers!)  With Internet consolidation ONELIST was bought by YAHOO and the XANSYS list picked up a silent sponsor to remove the ads that were attached to each post.   Without fanfare the folks at PADT were kind enough to pay the "no-ad" fees on YAHOO.

The list went through explosive growth over the next few years.  By 12/2000 there were 1,500+ subscribers and about 1,300 posts per month.  And there were growing pains.  Due to circumstances I had to hand over the administration of the list to a good college buddy of mine, Stan Sak, for a time.  The demographics of the list had changed considerably since 1997.  At that time most of the members were fairly experienced mechanical structural analysts.  By 2000 many other disciples had joined in - the EMAG, fluids, heat transfer, civil engineers.  Also a large number of the posts were from college students.  The list was definitely global in nature.  We needed the netiquette translated into French, German, and Italian.

It was also at this time I tried to find a new home for the list.  The capabilities of YAHOO just couldn't manage a list of this size and volume of posts.  In 2000 my boss sent me to the ANSYS Conference (my only guess on why he sent me was my involvement with the list).  It was a great time meeting so many list members there and ANSYS Inc. folks I knew.  I took every opportunity I could to try to persuade folks from ANSYS Inc. to take over the list.  No luck.

A picture of the key XANSYS contributors at the 2000 user conference.

(Source: Mike Hiller (www.in2solutions.com)

John Swanson and Dan Bohlen at the 2000 user conference
(Source: Mike Hiller (www.in2solutions.com)

It was soon after this the XANSYS holy wars started.  I was back in the listmiester role, but it was getting onerous.  We had folks posting from countries that could NOT have had a legitimate ANSYS license.  Many, many basic questions from the student sector and just a vast array of postings based on the different disciplines.  There was the occasional flame war and I had to de-list a couple of folks for a while.  We toyed with the idea of splitting the list into smaller narrowed focus lists and even one for professionals only.  There was much debate among list members over these topics/issues.  We actually lost a number of founding father subscribers due to the signal to noise ratio of the posts.   But the form of the list today was the outcome.  One list, the use of topic labels on the subject line, and the open list it is today.

PADT - the modern era

My prayers were answered on July 3, 2002 When Martin Liddle took over moderation tasks.  Then on June 19, 2003 PADT took over the list and put it on a server with dedicated software.  I was changing jobs to where I was less of a day in day out user of ANSYS so it was a good time to depart.   XANSYS now has a real searchable archive, few software issues, and an attentive, patient moderator (unlike me!)   The utility of the list is still so obvious that I know someone would have come up with the idea, I'm just glad I kicked it off first.

Oh, and the name?  Well there were two lists in the beginning; one Internal to GE and one eXternal.  So the external one was XANSYS.  Catchy, and I figured I wouldn't offend our friends in Canonsburg (or invite a trademark lawsuit if they hated the list!)  I pronounce it "X" - ANSYS.

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Cannot understand why this game has had mixed reviews. Its an absolutely brilliant game. I loved the crash parts of the original Burnout games and this arcade version is just as fun. Bought it Thursday and have been playing it non stop and have not played anything else since even though I got about 3 other new retail games waiting to be played.
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STAFF REVIEW of Legends of Wrestling: Showdown (Xbox)

Saturday, September 25, 2004.
by KmanX

Legends of Wrestling: Showdown Box art I think I finally answered the age old question that wrestling fans have been asked many MANY times over the years ? well sort of. The answer to ?Whatcha gonna do brother when Hulkamania runs wild on you?? is simple. If that very question is posed to you and it has anything to do with Showdown: Legends of Wrestling you do nothing but ignore it. In fact, ignore the game; pretend they didn?t release the third instalment of this mediocre franchise. Yes, Showdown is that bad. The game play is not fun, the graphics are poor and the sound and commentary are terrible. The only thing enjoyable about this game is the nostalgia factor.

Anyone who grew up watching the likes of the aforementioned Hulkster, Greg ?The Hammer? Valentine, ?The American Dream? Dusty Rhodes or Randy ?Macho Man? Savage will get a kick, albeit a very brief one, out of seeing their heroes of yesteryear in the game. When I first cracked the game open I eagerly cycled through these superstars to see who was included in the game. For me there were some notable exceptions like Don ?The Rock? Muraco and ?Mr. Wonderful? Paul Orndorff but given that this is the third chapter in the series it?s understandable that the roster will change.

The story hasn?t really changed much since the first two instalments. Basically it?s the tired old tale of choosing your wrestler and fighting your way to the top. You will start in small arenas wrestling in front of what basically amounts to your closest family and friends, there are that many people in attendance. However, the more matches you win, the bigger the crowds become. With each growing audience you will unlock classic arenas that had deep roots in wrestling back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Arenas such as the Cow Palace, the Spectrum in Philadelphia and even the Skydome. As you have unlock these arenas you also unlock various match types though most are available at the start of the game. You can participate in a variety of matches including Table, First Blood, Iron Man, Ladder, Cage, Battle Royale and more. As you fight along the career mode you don?t really have much choice as to which matches you wrestle in.

When wrestling in the career mode, the one area you do have a lot of creative control over is that of the ?create-a-legend? feature should you choose not fight with an ?established? legend. This was the only bit of fun I actually had with this game. I tried to recreate the ?Ugandan Headhunter? Kamala. The creation options are pretty deep allowing you to change body, skin colour, tattoos, attire and more. For those who may not remember Kamala, he was a big fat guy with two stars and a moon painted on his belly. He also had black and white face paint. Thanks to the many options available in each category I was able to recreate Kamala. There was just one little problem. Kamala had more right angels and corners than a game of Tetris! You really notice the lack of polygons when you are adjusting the weight of the wrestler. There are so many rough edges and corners and it just looks terrible. I even noticed this when adjusting the shape of the face. Talk about disappointing, a lack of polish of this magnitude is inexcusable.

The in-game graphics on the wrestlers are decent but not great. The wrestler likenesses are vague but decent, depending on the wrestler you choose. When taking someone like Bret ?Hitman? Hart I found his digital replication to be fairly accurate but when I wrestled against Diamond Dallas Page (DDP) I thought he more closely resembled a cinderblock with eyes and bad hair than he did his actual self. Yes, he looked that bad. It?s just that when it?s the third instalment of a series the characters should look a lot cleaner. These rough graphics lead me to believe that for whatever reason the game was rushed out. Maybe the peeps at Acclaim knew they were going under so they said, ?well, lets just put what?s finished out and hope it sells 1000 copies so I can get my last paycheck.? The game just does not seem complete.

Case in point, when I went through the career mode I fought my way up to the championship match. I don?t even remember whom I fought, that?s how unimpressed I was but whatever. I won?t regale the entire match with Gorilla Monsoon-esqe commentary but the bottom line was I won. Awesome I thought, fully expecting a cool cut scene to celebrate my win. Yeah, no, didn?t happen. Instead I get some drab line of text saying congratulations or some junk like that and then it was on to the next match. I?m sure there was supposed to be a cut scene but it was removed just to get the game out. Terrible just terrible.

What wasn?t too bad was the controls. For a wrestling game, they were surprisingly decent, especially when it came to the finishing moves. To get to that point though you had to ware your opponent down. You could do this regular way or the cheesy way. The regular way would be to hook up with your opponent and then perform moves, a body slam, neck breaker, bulldog, doesn?t matter. When you have knocked them to the canvass a listing of buttons will pop up allowing you to kick your downed foe or apply some kind of stamina draining hold. That?s the way the wrestling aficionado would do it. The cheese way saves time though and I did resort to this just to see that cut scene that never was. For the cheesy way, just punch your opponent down to nothing. The AI is so bad that it doesn?t catch on or adjust to your style. Your foe will just stand there and take punches to the face. The good thing about that is you can end a match quick.

What better way to end a match than a finishing move? As mentioned they are very easy to do. The only problem is each wrestler has more than one so you will have to learn the correct pattern for the move you want. I say pattern but really it?s clicking in the right thumb stick and moving that right thumb stick in a direction. It took me a couple of matches before I figured out how to do the Macho Man?s patented flying elbow of the top rope. I know in other wrestling games I have played, the finishing move can be hard to execute.

Despite the easy to use finishing moves and the create-a-legend feature, this is still a really bad game. Instead of rushing this one to print they should have held it back. Its too bad too because the potential was there. Hopefully THQ will pick up the license and give it the treatment it rightfully deserves.

Please do not make another.

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John Mendlein, Biotech Exec With Surfer Look, Follows Winding Path as “Parallel Entrepreneur”

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When John Mendlein walks down the street, most people think one thing: surfer dude.

But for those who know better in the biotech industry, Mendlein represents a lot more than a laid-back stereotype. The tall guy with long blond hair is an intense driving force behind one of the big success stories of the past five years in Boston biotech. And now he’s following an unconventional path in which he hopes to have an impact on several of the more interesting life-science startups in San Diego today.

Mendlein reached this point without any “grand plan,” he says. First he was a scientist, then a lawyer; now he’s a biotech executive who relies on both skill sets. Mendlein made his name as a CEO when he sold Waltham, MA-based Adnexus Therapeutics to Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) three years ago in a deal ultimately worth more than $500 million. Now he’s taking the road less traveled again as a “parallel entrepreneur.” Instead of pouring all of his energy into one startup as CEO again, like a serial entrepreneur, he’s a hands-on board member at three companies pursuing big ideas in San Diego.

Mendlein’s goal—at Fate Therapeutics, aTyr Pharma, and Alevium Pharmaceuticals—is to help put together the ingredients a biotech startup needs to do something truly innovative. That means finding technologies that can shake up medicine, adding capable people, securing adequate venture financing, and creating a team-oriented culture to deliver the goods.

“It was just all interesting to me,” Mendlein said recently about how he landed on his career path. “I don’t think there was a big grand plan there. It was interest-driven and luck.”

Those who have worked closely with Mendlein say he stands out not just because of his surfer dude look, but because he has an unusual sense for what drives people—not just science. His gravitational pull became clear to me back in March, when I invited UCSD Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien to attend an Xconomy event, and he accepted the instant I told him Mendlein would be there as the moderator.

“John is intense, funny, highly perceptive,” says Noubar Afeyan, managing partner of Flagship Ventures in Cambridge, MA, who worked with Mendlein at Adnexus. “He’s very in tune with people and their needs. He has very big dreams, big ambitions, and thinks very broadly about markets and opportunities. I’m a huge fan.”

Mendlein’s journey into biotech had a classic start: as a kid at the junior-high science fair. He set up an experiment of petri dishes filled with dirty water—one with an antibiotic and one without. “You could see bacterial colonies flourishing when the antibiotic wasn’t there,” Mendlein says. “I thought, ‘Wow, I can’t even see it, but I know something’s happening.’ And that you can test things that way.”

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    The “dude” is awesome!

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    John if you are tracking this, please get in touch with me @ 650.924.5004; an interesting issue in Redwood City involving sailors and land use, would love to talk to you. Great job on all your success, I am not surprised. Editor, BTW it was UC-Hastings not Berkeley. John, hope it’s OK that I make that correction ;-) Ali


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I’m Fat, and I Fly, and I Don’t Always Like Sitting Next to You Either

My usual flying experience is not unlike trying to fit 20 pounds of jello into a 10-pound bag; I fold my arms, keep my knees tight together. But the fact is I have probably been the gross fat seatmate in someone’s airplane horror story.
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My usual flying experience is not unlike trying to fit 20 pounds of jello into a 10-pound bag; I fold my arms, keep my knees tight together. But the fact is I have probably been the gross fat seatmate in someone’s airplane horror story.

The stories of fat terror in the skies tend to proliferate this time of year. Most of us who fly on any regular basis have experienced a bad flight here and there, and not always due to an undesireable seatmate, but the bittersweet mingling of internalized guilt over holiday indulgence plus a busy travel season seems to add up to a lot of tales of airborne misery perpetrated by some nameless grotesque of a fat person.

The sad story making the rounds at present is that of Arthur Berkowitz, who thought he’d hit the coveted empty-middle-seat jackpot on a cross-country flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Philadelphia back in July, only to lose out at the final moment when a last-minute addition boarded the plane and sat down beside him. Berkowitz’s new seatmate was very fat, and Berkowitz responded by refusing to buckle his seat belt, in violation of FAA regulations, and spending the seven-hour flight standing in the aisle and galley area of the plane.

Berkowitz claims to be coming out with his tale of woe now because US Airways failed to give him a refund. Oh, and also because of safety.

I doubt parts of his story for a few reasons. For one, I give a big side-eye to the notion that the airline would uniformly come down on the side of the fat dude if his size were indeed an impediment to the satisfaction of FAA safety regulations.

Every major airline has a clause in their contract of carriage -- which you tacitly accept when you purchase your ticket -- specifying that should an individual prove too big for one seat, said individual must purchase a second seat. It’s a bit of legal ass-coverage that many airlines rarely employ, but it’s there for just such an occasion as this.

What counts as too big? Most airlines judge this by whether the arm rest goes down. Ridiculous, I know. And not especially definitive, considering that flesh is pliable and just because an arm rest goes down doesn’t mean the fat person is comfortably fitted in the seat, nor that spillover will not occur. But this is what they’re working with, and so if the fat passenger truly could not sit in his seat with the arm rests lowered, then indeed the airline would have every legal right to oust him, and he would have had no recourse.

Berkowitz has estimated that the man weighed 400 pounds, and although how he could possibly know that remains to be seen, that detail hasn’t stopped much of the news coverage of this event from using a headline blaming the FOUR HUNDRED POUND MAN who forced Berkowitz to stand during his flight. “400 pounds” is one of those made-up numbers people throw out as being utterly inconceiveably massive; he may as well said the guy weighed ONE MILLION pounds for all the specificity the number imparts.

The fat passenger, apparently, was “apologetic” about the whole situation, and that doesn’t surprise me, because fat folks on planes know too well that we are one terse comment away from getting booted. I make it a point to be almost unbearably good-natured, friendly, and cheerful in an airline environment, even though this is not my usual state of being. I do it because sometimes going along as the jolly fatty is the safest air route to take.

I’m a great big fat person* who flies several times a year. According to the quick tally I just did, in 2011 I have flown 12 times (so far, with four more flights planned before the year is out), six of which were cross-country flights between Boston and various destinations on the west coast. I am not as frequent a flyer as folks who fly monthly for work, but I probably get far more than the average person’s cosmic radiation dose per annum as a result of my jet-setting wanderlust.

I think this makes me a pretty savvy airline consumer. I know the security theater; I have my shoes off and my laptop out and my bag o’ dangerous cosmetic liquids inside tiny tiny bottles inside a one quart Ziploc brand plastic bag set aside while most folks are still putting their boarding passes away. I’ve got a horseshoe-shaped travel pillow and a seatbelt extender in my pocket. I carry hand sanitizer. It’s a familiar routine.

For all of this flying, I have never once been asked to demonstrate my ability to fit in a seat. I have never had a gate agent or flight attendent even look askance at my girth, as though he or she was concerned about my capacity to make my body suddenly rectangular and less than 18 inches wide.

And yet, every time I fly, I have to worry that this is going to happen.

We’d booked our most recent flight back from Los Angeles a little later than I would have liked, and thus our seat selections were limited. I chose one of the only empty rows -- the last row of the plane -- putting myself in the aisle seat and my husband at the window.** I did this hoping that it would mean we’d have an empty seat between us, and it looked good when we checked in at the airport.

But then I saw an older woman standing up in our row as we boarded, talking to a flight attendant. When we got there, the flight attendant explained that this woman was traveling with her family (two grandkids and her husband, altogether, who were sitting across the aisle), and would I be willing to give up my aisle seat so she could be nearer to them?

I could not, in good conscience, refuse this woman access to her family. I said of course, no problem, I would take the middle seat. As I sat down, still maintaining my airplane-exclusive cheery disposition, I laughingly said to the woman, “The only catch is that I will probably have to go to the bathroom at least once!” I expected her to chuckle, or maybe even to thank me for my willingness to help her out.

But the woman’s demeanor was strange. She didn’t make eye contact -- not once -- and instead responded sharply: “Well, you should just go now, so you won’t have to go later.”

It took all of my self restraint to resist explaining that, in my defense, my frequent need to pee on planes (because I drink water like a damn fish, because the air is so dry, etc) is the very reason why I book an aisle seat -- an aisle seat I’d just given away for her benefit.

She sat down for a few minutes and the tension was palpable -- fact was, this lady wasn’t exactly svelte herself, but she also seemed irritated by my very presence, sighing heavily every time I made the slightest movement. Eventually she got up and disappeared. I sat in dread for a few minutes, waiting for her to return. When the flight attendant came by I caught her attention and asked if there were any seats at all left anywhere else on the plane -- I’d pay for an upgrade, I didn’t care.

The flight attendant looked apologetic and said, “I know, I’m already trying to work something else out.” Had the sighing lady complained about me? I wasn’t sure how to feel about that, except a little peeved that she had not spoken to me directly. (I have had positive conversations with fellow passengers about the unworkability of seating arrangements in the past, all of which were resolved by some seat-swapping that made everyone involved more comfortable. It is amazing, the magical things that can happen when people talk to each other.)

In the end, the flight attendant found the woman a different seat elsewhere, and my husband and I wound up with the empty seat between us, as I’d hoped. I wanted to feel relieved, but all I felt was guilt -- towering, overwhelming guilt at this embarrassment of riches. Also anger, at the guilt. I felt guilty because the airplane seat failed to accomodate my body sufficiently to satisfy the pinched-faced crabby woman beside me, whom I would never see again. I felt dehumanized by her inability to make eye contact and acknowledge that I am a person and not simply an inconvenient sack of fat.***

It sounds absurd to me now, but still I felt it.

You’ve probably been at the airport at some point and heard someone comment about a fat stranger, “Damn, I hope I don’t have to sit next to THAT guy!” Maybe you’ve made this joke yourself. I get it, really. Airplane seats are small, and trust me when I say that the fat stranger is as miserable than you are, if not moreso, as he has not only been forced into a situation in which he must be physically uncomfortable, but in which he also may be publicly humiliated at any time. Certainly some people would argue that fat folks deserve to be publicly humiliated simply by virtue of being fat, but those people are assholes.

I know a few fat people who automatically buy a second seat every time they fly; on some carriers, the airline will refund the cost of the second seat if the flight is not full. If this is an affordable option for folks who know with certainty that they can’t fit in one seat, then great, but sometimes it’s not. Flying is not always about jet-setting off to some glamorous vacation. Sometimes people have to fly for not-fun reasons, like for work. And sometimes people have to fly to get to their sick mom’s bedside before she dies.

I’m not altogether sure whether I fit in one seat or not. I suppose much of it depends on who I’m sitting beside. My usual flying experience is not unlike trying to fit 20 pounds of jello into a 10-pound bag; I fold my arms, keep my knees tight together, scrunch my shoulders, stick as close to the window or as far into the aisle as I can manage, for six hours or more. But the fact is I have probably been the gross fat seatmate in someone’s airplane horror story. There’s not much I can do about that.

On a recent flight back from New York, I sat next to an extremely tall man whose knee fell into my leg-area, its owner helpless to contain his limbs in the space the airline had allotted. I thought about how we’re less likely to get angry at tall people for being tall on a plane; instead we’re more inclined to blame the seat configuration itself.

No one is truly comfortable in coach, let’s be honest -- not even those who fit in a single seat with room to spare. And given that most commercial airlines in the US have been struggling to turn a profit for years now, it seems unlikely that any kind of creative reconfiguation -- seats meant for tall people, seats meant for fat people, seats meant for disabled people, and so on -- is in the offing.

It sucks that Arthur Berkowitz had a terrible flight. To his credit, his outrage seems to be chiefly directed at the airline, which is where any outrage on these matters belongs. But the cumulative social urge to lay the burden of guilt on the fat guy -- because he is fat, and culture tells us that fat people are bad, and deserving of ridicule and disgust -- is too much for many of us to resist. Some feel fiercely entitled to the arbitrary amount of space the airline has decided we deserve; some think it’s unfair for space to be distributed according to need, as why should a fat guy get to be as comfortable on a plane as a smaller person? Some think the fat guy should be punished with discomfort: see, this is what you get, for being so fat.

There is no easy solution; if one existed, airlines would have implemented it by now. But I do think it’s reasonable to expect airlines to provide reasonable accomodations to all bodies, without surcharging the people who require slightly more space than others. I also think it’s reasonable to ask that we all remember that the fat people on that plane with you are also people, and they are not always edging into your seat out of a callous disregard for your comfort. As unhappy as you may be with their companionship, I can assure you they probably feel even more self-conscious and miserable than you do.

And if you sit next to me, let’s talk about it. I may be fat, but I’m also really nice. On a plane, anyway.

* Extra points if you know this reference, dudes. Extra points.

** PROTIP: nobody likes a middle seat, and nobody likes being at the back of the plane where other passengers are constantly hovering around waiting to get in the bathroom. Thus, if you book a window and an aisle in the last row, if there is one single solitary empty seat on that plane, it’ll be that most hated middle seat at the very back.

*** It is possible that something else was up with this woman, causing her disposition to be so sour, but I doubt it, as she’d seemed perfectly cheerful until the moment she realized she had to sit next to me.


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A glance at last year’s document from the Department for Communities and Local Government ‘Invitation to Bid’, makes it seem as if the tankers are already on our lawns. How much closer are they a year on?

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In this ‘invitation to bid’ issued to local authorities, it was made clear that planning permission should only be granted ‘where there are no unacceptable adverse impacts on the natural and historic environment and on human health’. Something about speaking with a forked tongue seems to fit here. Recent events involving our local authorities and the granting of permissions have ignored the people’s wishes.

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MIKE Corner and Tom Chadwick (The Yorkshire Post, December 5) are on the warpath again defending the rights of rich retirees and estate agents of Yorkshire’s two National Parks.

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ALTHOUGH many of us are still working hard to save Ryedale, Yorkshire and the UK from any fracking, it would be a mistake for local bodies not to respond to the current draft of the Minerals and Waste Joint Plan in the belief that fracking was a fait accompli.

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THE new Government has said it intends to invest in road improvements, so should immediately release funding to North Yorkshire County Council to construct a bypass of Harrogate from the A658 south of Pannal to the A61 north of Ripley. In addition, the A661 needs to by-pass Spoffoth and Wetherby to join the A1(M) at Junction 46.

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The latest statistics add to my concerns on the issue of Muslim integration into Great Britain.

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Many of us – teachers, miners, nurses, bus drivers and many other professions – not only paid our NI stamps all our working lives, but we also contributed to our works pension schemes.

Our retirement pensions, therefore, bring us well above the basic tax allowance. Quite simply, as a very large group, we pay millions of pounds in income tax which not only more than pays for our free TV licences, prescriptions, bus passes and winter fuel allowances, but also contributes towards those many state benefits that our younger brethren enjoy.

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