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Elif é uma série de televisão turca produzida pela Green Yapım e transmitida pelo Kanal 7 entre 15 de julho de 2014 a 7 de junho de 2019, em 940 episódios. Criada por Green Yapım, e dirigida por Fulya Yavuzoğlu e Oğuz Ayaz e com produção de Inci Gulen e Ozkan Ipek.

Enredo

Primeira temporada
Elif é uma menina bonita e gentil de 6 anos de idade, corre o risco de ser vendida para pagar as dívidas de seu padrasto, Veysel Simsek, um jogador cruel. Sua mãe doente, Melek Simsek, deixa Elif na proteção de sua melhor amiga, Ayse Doğan, uma empregada doméstica na casa de uma família rica. Ayse tenta obter permissão da família para levantar Elif na mansão, mantendo um segredo bem escondido: Elif é o filho biológico de Kenan Emiroğlu, o amado filho da família rica. Kenan não sabe que Elif é seu filho de um amor passado que sua família o forçou a sair. Ele agora é casado com Arzu Emiroğlu, com quem ele tem uma filha, Tugce Emiroğlu, que é uma garota muito mimada, conhecida por seu mau humor. Elif é forçada a viver na luxuosa propriedade, longe de sua amada mãe e inconsciente de sua proximidade com seu pai biológico.

Segunda temporada
A esposa de Kenan, Arzu, se sente ameaçada. Ela e seu pai, Necdet Keratira, conspiram para esconder um segredo de Kenan sobre sua filha, Tugce. Arzu faria qualquer coisa para manter sua posição na família a salvo, criando perigo para Elif. No entanto, como os crimes cometidos por Necdet e Arzu são expostos, Melek e Kenan se reúnem, e Melek tenta garantir que Kenan e Elif não sejam separados novamente.

Enquanto isso, o irmão de Kenan, Selim e Zeynep, se apaixonam e apóiam um ao outro, apesar de muitos obstáculos. Sua felicidade chega ao fim quando Arzu dispara uma arma, ferindo Zeynep.

Terceira temporada
A família Emiroğlu enfrenta dificuldades financeiras. Kenan e Tuğçe morrem quando Arzu incendeia a casa, embora Melek e Elif sobrevivam. Com a morte de Kenan, Selim se torna o chefe do negócio familiar. Necdet casa com Gonca Serdar, que procura arruinar a família Emiroğlu.

Arzu é liberado do tratamento no hospital psiquiátrico e busca vingança contra a família Emiroğlu. Selim atira nela e é mandado para a cadeia. Arzu sobrevive ao incidente quase fatal e continua a ameaçar a segurança e o bem-estar da família. Melek e Zeynep trabalham para contribuir para as finanças da família.

Quarta temporada
A vida de Elif muda quando sua mãe se casa com Yusuf e durante a mudança para outra cidade, Yusuf é morto em um acidente de carro. Melek e Elif são separados novamente. Elif se encontra em um hospital. Seis meses depois, Elif vai à casa de Macide e tenta começar uma nova vida, mas enfrenta a pressão de Tarik, genro de Macide. Em busca do legado de Macide, Tarik quer se livrar de Elif. No entanto, Elif tem um defensor em Reyhan, que escapou de sua família para estudar em Istambul e se compromete a proteger Elif contra os membros da família que querem que ela vá embora. Melek acaba sem casa com a memória perdida, tentando encontrar sua filha. Quando sua casa temporária é destruída, ela vai para outra casa, onde ela é encontrada por Inci, Tulay e Veysel.

Quinta temporada
A irmã de Macide, Kiymet, vem depois de 30 anos para vingá-la, porque no passado seu marido a abandonou grávida e se casou com Macide. Juntamente com seu filho Mahir, eles fazem planos malignos contra a família Haktanir, no entanto Mahir se encontra com Melek por acaso, se apaixona por ela e começa a abandonar seu objetivo maligno, enquanto Kiymet coloca Melek na prisão porque ela descobre que tem herdeiro na família Haktanir. Mahir a coloca fora da cadeia com as evidências apontando Tarik em vez de Kiymet. Melek revela o verdadeiro rosto de Kiymet para Humeyra e Kerem e tudo sobre ela começa ser revelado. Finalmente Mahir confessa a Kerem que ele é filho de Kiymet e Kiymet, sendo incapaz de aceitar a derrota, atira em Mahir, Kerem e Macide, enquanto antes ela revela a Mahir que não é filho do marido de Macide e o manipulou com essa mentira, a fim de conseguir seu plano de vingança. Macide morre, Kerem é transferido para o hospital gravemente ferido e Mahir é curado pelos médicos. Kiymet é preso. Mahir, Melek e Elif estão finalmente juntos e felizes.

Elenco
 Isabella Damla Güvenilir como Elif
 Çağla Şimşek como Reyhan
 Selin Sezgin como Melek
 Altuğ Seçkiner como Kenan Emiroğlu
 Volkan Çolpan como Kenan Emiroğlu
 Aysun Güven como Aliye Emiroğlu
 Hasan Ballıktaş como Veysel Şimşek
 Ozanay Alpkan como Ayse Doğan
 Ece Balic como Asli Turkoglu
 Burcu Karakaya como Birse Demiray
 Nur Gurkan como Macide Haktanir
 Ozlem Savas como Kiymet Keskin
 Nevzat Can como Kerem Haktanir
 Berna Keskin vomo Humeyra Karakas
 Cem Kilic como Levent Bakir
 Seyda Bayram como Parla Somer
 Fatih Ayhan como Mahir Keskin
 Yildiz Asyali como Rana Kaya
 Murat Prosciler como Tarik Karakas
 Parla Senol como Leman Yildirim
 Ugur Ozbag como Safak Yildirim
 Melis koc como Julide Celik
 Hasan Denizyara como Akin Yuksel
 Caglar Ozan como Tufan Colak

Ligações externas

Séries de televisão de drama romântico da Turquia
Séries de televisão de drama romântico da década de 2010
Programas de televisão da Turquia que estrearam em 2014
Programas de televisão da Turquia encerrados em 2019
Séries de televisão da Turquia
Telenovelas do Kanal 7
Telenovelas em turco
Telenovelas da década de 2010


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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats: Summary and Analysis
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is among the earliest poetic attempts of Keats and was published in Poems (1817). The theme of the poem is Keats's amazement at the greatness, the range and the profundity of Homer which he experienced through a translation of Homer's epics by George Chapman. The sonnet is in many ways a representative piece and exhibits Keats's poetic genius.
John Keats (1795-1821)
The sonnet is Greek in execution and Petrarchan in form. The octave presents Keats's introduction to Homer by Chapman. In the sestet we find the poet's startled reaction to this remarkable imaginative landscape conveyed to us in terms of the astronomer and the explorer. The unity of the poem is deep and organic; the last line is implicit in the first, as a flower is implicit in the seed.
Keats says that he has long been an admirer of Greek literature, but he never got an opportunity to study the works of Homer, the great blind poet of Greece. He had the occasion to hear very graphic and interesting accounts of Homer's greatness as a poet, but since he had no knowledge of the Greek language he could not study Homer's great works. His first opportunity to have a peep into the greatness of Homer's works came when he read the translation of Homer's great epics by the Elizabethan poet Chapman. After reading Chapman's translation of Homer, he felt a thrill of joy running through his veins. He found something new which he had not experienced so far. His joy in reading Chapman's Homer was like the delight experienced by an astronomer when he discovered a new planet, or like the delight of Cortez, the explorer, who discovered the Pacific. Keats' delight in reading Chapman's Homer was no less than the joy felt by the astronomers or the explorers in discovering new planets and new lands.
For some readers, the poem is marked with a factual error which reminds us of the occasional superficiality of Keats's memory and of the rapid (and sometimes careless) way in which he composed his poems. The conquistador who discovered the Pacific when climbing the isthmus of Darien was not 'stout Cortez' but Balboa. Keats's error has not marred the poem for most readers, because most readers trust Keats's word. Those who know the error know a less satisfactory poem.
The secrets of the poem's power are interesting. We have a metaphorical exploration to describe the narrator's experience of reading various poets. Then, to account for the effect of reading Chapman's translation of Homer, we are referred to actual historic discoveries-the discovery of a new planet by some astronomer, and, more concretely and specifically, to the historic discovery of the Pacific by a conquistador and his followers. Thus, there is a fine interrelationship of abstract and concrete, and historic, literary exploration and topographical exploration, cultural discovery and territorial discovery. The paradox is that after the reading of poetry has been metaphorically associated to travel around a world, a historical example of travel and discovery is used to convey the shock of a literary discovery. The glowing, shimmery vagueness of the opening makes more startlingly realistic and precise the final close-up on the conquistador and his amazed followers; and that realistic vista of the group is after all, but a simile to convey the amazement of the solitary speaker. Ironically, Chapman's 'speaking out loud and bold' is likened to an event in which all were 'Silent'.
This sonnet shows Keats's admiration and regard for Homer's genius and his poetic art. He considers Homer's kingdom as a kingdom of pure gold. One who moves about in this kingdom can drink deeply at the fountain of joy which Homer's kingdom has for all those who happen to travel in that land. Keats is very much indebted to the Elizabethan poet Chapman, who introduced him to this land of gold. This appreciation both for Homer as well as Chapman is presented by the poet in these two lines
"Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold".
Chapman's translation of Homer was really praiseworthy and Keats was perfectly justified in calling Chapman's translation and his verse as "loud and bold". This sonnet shows that Keats is both a lover of the Greeks and the Elizabethans. It has been suggested that Keats was a Greek born in the nineteenth century. But this reveals half the truth about Keats. No doubt, Keats was a great lover of the Greeks, but at the same time he was equally interested in Elizabethan poetry.
This sonnet reveals both the aspects of Keats's genius; his Hellenism as well his love for the Elizabethans. That he loved Homer and his poetry, the various legends and stories, myths and heroic accounts which Homer sang, shows his love for the Greek way of life. But at the same time he had liking for Chapman and the rich and sonorous ways in which he presented Homer to the English readers.
Keats maintains throughout this sonnet the imagery traveler and the explorer in search of gold. The richness of the background of the of imagery becomes patent when we keep in view the sixteenth century when the Spaniards set out in quest of the realms of gold, popularly known as 'El Dorado'. Like the explorers and navigators of Spain, Keats also had been in quest of beauty. In his exploration and search for 'the wide expanse' where 'deep browed' Homer ruled as his domain, he was guided by Chapman and ultimately he was successful in discovering the kingdom of Homer. Keats imagines himself no less fortunate than the explorers. This joy at the discovery of Homer's greatness through Chapman is fittingly presented by him by comparing himself with the astronomer who discovered a new star and Balboa who discovered the Pacific. The concluding lines of the poem bring before us Keats's feeling of delight and wonder at the presentation of Homer's greatness by Chapman and this delight is richly presented by the poet in two fitting comparisons that of the astronomer and the explorer of the Pacific.
Keats's effort was always to take us from the humdrum world of reality to the land of imagination, beauty and joy. He took us to the medieval world, the world of explorers, the world of Greek poets and by presenting these new glimpses of the past he made us feel less forlorn in life. He keeps us in a world of joy, beauty and legend, and enraptured by the delights of this new world, we entirely forget the worries and anxieties of life. The sonnet does not keep us to the plain of stern and stark realities of the world, but takes us to a new world of joy, wonder and delight, where we forget for the time being the sorrows and afflictions of our life. We are taken in this sonnet to many goodly states and kingdoms and to 'realm gold'. Travelling in these lands where 'in fealty to Apollo hold' we forget the worries and anxieties of our daily life. Then we are taken to the old, remote times when explorers were setting out for discovering new lands and when a greater part of the world was still undiscovered. There was romance in such explorations and Keats pictures for our delight the experience of wonder, excitement and thrill which Bolboa and his men felt while exploring the Pacific Ocean.
The sonnet is rich in poetic expressions and the felicity of phrase-making. Keats always excels in the presentation of his thoughts in the most suitable and appropriate language. In his poetry more is meant than meets the ear. There is wonderful suggestiveness, and the lines suggest emotions and feelings which are not clearly presented in poetry.
Sharma, K.N. "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats: Summary and Analysis." BachelorandMaster, 9 Aug. 2017, bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/on-first-looking-into-chapmans-homer.html.
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Ode on a Grecian Urn: Summary and Analysis
Ode to a Nightingale: Summary and Analysis
Ode to Psyche: Summary and Analysis
Ode on Melancholy: Summary and Analysis
Endymion: Summary and Analysis
The Eve of St. Agnes: Summary and Analysis
Bright Star: Summary and Analysis
Le Belle Dame Sans Merci: Analysis
The Terror of Death (When I have Fears): Analysis
Biography of John Keats

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RepliCel Files Notice of Arbitration against Shiseido Company to Resolve its License Agreement Dispute Regarding its Androgenetic Alopecia Cell Therapy
After several unsuccessful attempts to settle the dispute, RepliCel has filed an arbitration claim seeking Shiseido's full compliance with the agreement or return of the license and all collaboration data and innovations related to its cell therapy treatment for male and female pattern hair loss.
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 18, 2021 / RepliCel Life Sciences Inc. (OTC PINK:REPCF)(TSXV:RP)(FRA:P6P2) ('RepliCel' or the 'Company'), a company developing next-generation technologies in aesthetics and orthopedics, announced today it has retained Aceris Law LLC, a law firm specialized in international arbitration, to pursue the resolution of its disagreement with Shiseido Company Limited ('Shiseido').
The Company further announced that its legal counsel has now filed a Notice of Arbitration and provided a copy to Shiseido in accordance with the International Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Rules, which are the arbitration rules that govern all disagreements between the parties.
The dispute between Shiseido and RepliCel is related to a license for Asia, acquired by Shiseido, to RepliCel's cell therapy technology for androgenetic alopecia, which is the leading cause of male and female pattern hair loss.
In accordance with the ICDR rules, once an arbitrator is selected and the parties have filed their claims and responses, the arbitrator will accept evidence and arguments in support of a ruling on whether or not either party materially breached the license agreement and what relief should be awarded as a result of the ruling including enforcement of the license agreement, return of the license, and/or payment of damages including the equivalent of all reasonably expected future milestone and royalty payments.
Legal counsel for RepliCel issued several demand letters to Shiseido to comply with the terms of its license agreement which RepliCel alleges Shiseido has now breached which, if not cured, could result in the return of the license to RepliCel for re-licensing to other partners in Asia.
About RepliCel Life Sciences
RepliCel is a regenerative medicine company focused on developing cell therapies for aesthetic and orthopedic conditions affecting what the Company believes is approximately one in three people in industrialized nations, including aging/sun-damaged skin, pattern baldness, and chronic tendon degeneration. These conditions, often associated with aging, are caused by a deficit of healthy cells required for normal tissue healing and function. These cell therapy product candidates are based on RepliCel's innovative technology, utilizing cell populations isolated from a patient's healthy hair follicles.
The Company's product pipeline is comprised of RCT-01 for tendon repair, RCS-01 for skin rejuvenation, and RCH-01 for hair restoration. RCH-01 is exclusively licensed in Asia to Shiseido Company Limited. RepliCel maintains the rights to RCH-01 for the rest of the world. RCT-01 and RCS-01 are exclusively licensed in Greater China to YOFOTO (China) Health Company. RepliCel and YOFOTO are currently co-developing these products in China. RepliCel maintains the rights to these products outside of Greater China.
RepliCel has also developed a proprietary injection device, RCI-02, and related consumables, which is expected to improve the administration of its cell therapy products and certain other injectables. YOFOTO has exclusively licensed the commercial rights for the RCI-02 device and consumables in Greater China for dermatology applications and is expected to first launch the product in Hong Kong upon it being approved for market launch in either the United States or Europe. Please visit www.replicel.com for additional information.
Notable Facts:
RepliCel's three cell therapy products have now been tested in over 100 patients in four countries on three continents.
RepliCel now has key strategic partners in the United States, China, and Japan each of which are now investing heavily in the further clinical testing and development of RepliCel's products for their markets. Data from each of the clinical programs will strengthen the product development initiatives for RepliCel and its other partners worldwide.
Lee Buckler, CEO and President
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SOURCE: RepliCel Life Sciences, Inc.
https://www.accesswire.com/668473/RepliCel-Files-Notice-of-Arbitration-against-Shiseido-Company-to-Resolve-its-License-Agreement-Dispute-Regarding-its-Androgenetic-Alopecia-Cell-Therapy


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Marraquexe-Safim (; ; ) é uma região de Marrocos criada pela reforma administrativa de 2015 com capital em Marraquexe. Situa-se no centro do país e engloba uma parte do Alto Atlas.

A região inclui os territórios que formavam a antiga região de Marraquexe-Tensift-Al Haouz e ainda as províncias de Safim e de .

A região é confrontada a oeste pelo oceano Atlântico, a norte pela região de Casablanca-Settat, a leste pela região de Beni Mellal-Quenifra e a sul pelas partes da cadeia montanhosa do Alto Atlas que fazem parte das regiões de Drá-Tafilete e Suz-Massa.

Organização Administrativa
Marraquexe-Safim é composta a nível administrativo superior por uma prefeituras e sete provincias, que depois se dividem por 216 comunas (198 rurais e 18 urbanas). As comunas de Marraquexe-Safim constituem cerca de 14% do número total de comunas marroquinas.

Prefeituras/Províncias
A primeira divisão administrativa da região é feita entre provincias e prefeituras (estas últimas são o equivalente urbano das primeiras).

Demografia

Crescimento populacional
O crescimento populacional da região foi a seguinte:

População urbana e rural
A distribuição populacional em termos urbanos e rurais é a seguinte:

Regiões de Marrocos
Estados e territórios fundados em 2015
Marraquexe-Safim

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Really great location for Metro , good shops a 5 min walk away. the Hotel was easy to access even late at night with video showing how to enter , its small and only manned at some hours which was perfect for me as I just needed the room . I met the receptionist both days who was very friendly and the room itself ( number2 ) had a great balcony, it was big and spacious ..definitely a thumbs up..
Great location/reception, very clean and comfortable room. Host was very helpful and accommodating (helped arranging a transfer to airport). Highly recommended.
This spot is a great value! Luckily it is in a pretty nice area of Rome just east of Vatican City and North of the Pantheon (just about everything was walking distance!) The host was a huge help in how to get around the city and what to do. One of the cleaner places we stayed at in Italy, also with good A/C. Free breakfast coupons were provided daily for a nice little cafe a couple of blocks away from the property. Rome is an amazing city and we will definitely stay here when we come back!


Here's a little autumn-tinged flyer I drew for the indescribable and relentlessly creative Danielson! Been a fan forever so this was a blast. They're currently doing a mini-tour of the Midwest with the original family lineup in support of their brand new EP, which is truly among their best work. It's out now on Joyful Noise Recordings. Plus, Jad Fair provided the artwork for one of the videos. Looking forward to the Cincinnati show on Sunday.


Large numbers of children all over the world face significant health risks, such as infectious and chronic diseases, malnutrition, injuries and the consequences of natural disasters, protracted armed conflicts and poverty.
Every year, 4 million babies die within the first month of their life and almost 8 million children under the age of five die from preventable diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, measles and diarrhoea. These general statistics do not reveal the underlying inequalities in health between and within countries. One of the causes of the inequalities is that, in many countries, vulnerable groups of children have no or only limited access to health services. This research aims to identify the standards in international law for realizing the right to the highest attainable standard of health of the child. The central questions that are analysed: a. What priorities derive from the concept of the highest attainable standard of health of the child, its definition and the interpretation of the key constituent elements on the basis of international human rights law? b. How should this concept be implemented in the light of the international human rights standards?


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package org.apache.camel.component.infinispan.embedded;

import org.apache.camel.BindToRegistry;
import org.apache.camel.component.infinispan.InfinispanTestSupport;
import org.apache.camel.spi.ComponentCustomizer;
import org.infinispan.commons.api.BasicCache;
import org.infinispan.commons.api.CacheContainerAdmin;
import org.infinispan.commons.time.TimeService;
import org.infinispan.configuration.cache.CacheMode;
import org.infinispan.configuration.cache.ConfigurationBuilder;
import org.infinispan.manager.DefaultCacheManager;
import org.infinispan.manager.EmbeddedCacheManager;
import org.infinispan.test.TestingUtil;
import org.infinispan.util.ControlledTimeService;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.MethodOrderer;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.TestMethodOrder;

@TestMethodOrder(MethodOrderer.MethodName.class)
public class InfinispanEmbeddedTestSupport extends InfinispanTestSupport {
    protected EmbeddedCacheManager cacheContainer;
    protected ControlledTimeService ts;

    @Override
    protected void setupResources() throws Exception {
        cacheContainer = new DefaultCacheManager();
        cacheContainer.administration()
                .withFlags(CacheContainerAdmin.AdminFlag.VOLATILE)
                .getOrCreateCache(
                        InfinispanTestSupport.TEST_CACHE,
                        getConfiguration().build());

        super.setupResources();
    }

    @Override
    protected void cleanupResources() throws Exception {
        if (cacheContainer != null) {
            cacheContainer.stop();
        }

        super.cleanupResources();
    }

    @Override
    protected BasicCache<Object, Object> getCache(String name) {
        return cacheContainer.getCache(name);
    }

    protected ConfigurationBuilder getConfiguration() {
        ConfigurationBuilder builder = new ConfigurationBuilder();
        builder.clustering().cacheMode(CacheMode.LOCAL);

        return builder;
    }

    protected void injectTimeService() {
        ts = new ControlledTimeService();
        TestingUtil.replaceComponent(cacheContainer, TimeService.class, ts, true);
    }

    @BindToRegistry
    public ComponentCustomizer infinispanComponentCustomizer() {
        return ComponentCustomizer.forType(
                InfinispanEmbeddedComponent.class,
                component -> component.getConfiguration().setCacheContainer(cacheContainer));
    }
}

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Leslie Uggams (photo provided by Sam Rudy Media Relations).
Leslie Uggams—the Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress who has been opening doors for African-American actors for five decades—will perform the title role in the NY debut of Colman Domingo's newest play, Dot, at Vineyard Theatre (108 E. 15 St.) beginning February 4, 2016 and opening February 23, it has been announced by The Vineyard's Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern. A standout at the Humana Festival of Plays earlier this year at the Actors Theater of Louisville, The Vineyard's production of Dot will be helmed by the Tony Award-winning director Susan Stroman (The Producers). Ms. Stroman previously directed Mr. Domingo as an actor in The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway, Off-Broadway (at Vineyard Theatre), and in London.
In Dot, Ms. Uggams portrays family matriarch Dotty, whose three adult children gather for the holidays with more than exchanging presents on their minds. As Dotty struggles to navigate life with dementia, her children fight to balance care for their mother and care for themselves. This hilarious and moving new play grapples unforgettably with aging parents, midlife crises, and the heart of an inner city neighborhood.
Leslie Uggams – who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Hallelujuah Baby! in 1968 and an Emmy Award for "Fantasy" – had been a child actress on television before she was launched into stardom in the 60's on the popular TV series "Sing Along With Mitch," eventually becoming the first African-American woman to headline her own variety TV show, "The Leslie Uggams Show." She is best-known for her Emmy-nominated performance in Alex Haley's "Roots" and the miniseries "Backstairs at the White House." On Broadway her credits include On Golden Pond opposite James Earl Jones, Blues in the Night, August Wilson's King Headly II and Anything Goesat Lincoln Center. A prolific recording artist, Leslie Uggams has recorded ten albums.


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Best Selling » Use versatile furnishings when designing a reduced measured place. An ottoman is a great option. You can use it for seats or a dinner table, and you will even store items inside of, whether it starts up. Items which have numerous reasons are productive space savers for any smaller area.


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Carbon fiber rickshaw folds for storage
By Ben Coxworth
Carbon fiber rickshaw folds fo...
The Companion Bike's passenger seat can be removed, with the two sides of the frame then being pushed in toward each other
Companion Bike
The Companion Bike can reportedly accommodate a maximum payload of 500 lb (227 kg)
The Companion Bike, folded in
The Companion Bike in action
The Companion Bike is presently on Kickstarter
If you've ever been to Vietnam, then you'll have seen the rickshaw taxi-trikes in which the pedaler sits behind the passenger. Well, the Companion Bike is a carbon fiber version of those, that folds inwards for storage and transit.
Created by inventor Quan Pham, the Companion Bike is intended both for commercial use, and for transporting family members or friends who are unable to pedal a bike themselves. It has a full carbon fiber frame that can reportedly accommodate pedalers ranging in height from 5'4" to 6'2" (1.6 to 1.9 m).
Passengers sit in a footrest-equipped front bucket seat, that can be removed from the frame when not in use. The two sides of the front end of the frame can then be folded in toward one another, making the trike much narrower – this allows it to be more easily stored indoors, or transported within a vehicle such as a van.
According to Pham, the Companion Bike can manage a maximum payload of 500 lb (227 kg), split between a 300-lb passenger and a 200-lb pedaler. We're told that an electric-assist model is in the works, which sounds like a good idea for pushing around that sort of weight.
Should you be interested, the Companion Bike is presently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. A pledge of US$6,900 will get you one, when and if they reach production. The planned retail price is $13,000.
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Based out of Edmonton, Canada, Ben Coxworth has been writing for New Atlas since 2009 and is presently Managing Editor for North America. An experienced freelance writer, he previously obtained an English BA from the University of Saskatchewan, then spent over 20 years working in various markets as a television reporter, producer and news videographer. Ben is particularly interested in scientific innovation, human-powered transportation, and the marine environment.
ljaques March 6, 2020 11:45 AM
Jeeze, they have to work on their prices! (They've raised A dollar so far on KS.) Cute idea.
Smart bike light makes a point of keeping things simple
LeMond carbon commuter ebike weighs in at less than 30 pounds
HAVN may just be the ultimate ebike parking spot
Nox ebikes go 2 for 1 with swappable all-in-one electric drive


Great location for your business in this 2nd floor unit facing Highway 192! The zoning is Highway Commercial which allows for many uses such as: finance, insurance, real estate offices, professional service establishments, business service establishments, communication businesses, travel agencies and public and semi-public uses to name a few. The space is currently one large, open room with a storage room and a bath. Lots of potential for investor/owner user!
From Main Street and Highway 192 in Kissimmee, go west on 192 and property will be on your right at Central Avenue and 192. Unit 415 is upstairs in the building that faces 192.


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Cashier to corporate office not your usual path
Charnetta Hendrix Jones' journey to a leadership role at Lowe's has been anything but a straight line
By Michael Thompson
This is the second story in a series exploring the unique, and sometimes unusual, leadership journeys of Lowe's executives.
"It was too cold, and too far from home."
With a level of honesty and self-awareness that would always serve her well, Charnetta Hendrix Jones halted her studies at Western Carolina University after her sophomore year, and returned home to the Sandhills region of North Carolina. Her mother had just undergone major surgery, and Jones knew her help was needed around the house and with taking care of her younger sister. She also wanted to work.
"I had been a cashier at Harris Teeter," Jones remembered, referencing the grocery chain popular throughout the Southeast, "but a few of my friends from there had gone to work for Lowe's and raved about it."
Intrigued, Jones looked into jobs at the Lowe's store in Southern Pines, and applied for a position as a part-time cashier. Her first day on the job was Aug. 13, 1990, and Lowe's has been her employer ever since.
Jones worked the cash register in Southern Pines until 1993, when she gave college another chance and enrolled at UNC Charlotte, majoring in electrical engineering technology. Still needing to work, she transferred to a Lowe's store in Charlotte and embarked on the kind of daily schedule that only the young can sustain.
"I'd open the store at 6 a.m.," said Jones, "work a few hours, go to class, go back to work, close the store at 9 p.m., and then go home and study." The routine was grueling, but ultimately worth it. She graduated with honors in 1995, ready to start the next chapter of her life with a degree from the school's College of Engineering. But was she ready to leave Lowe's?
"I had been with the company for five years at that point," said Jones, "and I realized that I'd be crazy to walk away." Self-awareness sent her searching for jobs at the company's then-headquarters in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and eventually to a job fair in Raleigh, where she knew a recruiter from Lowe's would be in attendance. The two of them hit it off, and 48 hours later, she got a call and an invitation to interview for a job on the company's corporate campus.
I had been with the company for five years at that point, and I realized that I'd be crazy to walk away.
—Charnetta Hendrix Jones
"It was for an entry-level position in IT," Jones recalled. "There were 36 other college grads with degrees in computer science sitting in that room. I was completely deflated. But because I had actual experience working with the systems they built, all I ever got asked about in the interview was what I would change or do differently."
She got the job, and was assigned to support the finance department, but she was struggling in that role, and she knew it.
"I didn't get it at all," said Jones, "and I was having a hard time giving finance what they needed from me, so I asked if I should go to store systems instead." And as she and her manager looked for openings that would fit her skill set better, something else grabbed her attention.
Recruiting.
The recruiter she met at the job fair in Raleigh remembered her well, and invited her to join him at college career fairs where she spoke with students about her experience at Lowe's. She was a natural, and joined the Human Resources (HR) team.
While in HR, she held positions in employee relations and store staffing, before re-discovering her true passion – store operations.
"I kind of missed it," she said, "and that's the heart of Lowe's, the heart of who I am."
HR was reluctant to lose a strong employee like Jones, but eventually the store operations team was able to bring her back to her roots with company. Today, she's the director of operations execution support, a role that combines her strengths in understanding how systems work, with her passion for stores and what works best for customer-facing employees.
From cashier to IT to HR, and back to operations, Jones has traveled an unusual path. But traveling an unusual path is nothing new for leaders at Lowe's.
"I've learned that hard work and patience leads to success," she said. "But most importantly, I've learned that I have to be authentic and honest with myself. Lowe's wants me to be me, and that's why I've had success here."
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This Life Night begins with a game called Simon Says that connects with St. Francis' life of obedience. The Proclaim focuses on poverty, chastity, and obedience as a path to happiness and holiness that is exemplified through the life of St. Francis. The Break challenges teens to come up with practical ways to live out poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Send inspires teens to make a commitment to live out poverty, chastity, and obedience in their daily lives and encourages them to be the "living stones" (1 Peter 2:5) from which the church is built.
The goal of this Life Night is to make teens aware of the beauty of a vocation to the religious life through the life of St. Francis of Assisi. This Life Night introduces teens to the evangelical counsels as a path to joy and holiness and challenges them to find ways to live out the spirit of these virtues.
– A vocation to the religious life is a wonderful and beautiful way to find joy and live a life of holiness.
– The religious life is characterized by a dedication to the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which are exemplified in the life of St. Francis.
– Not only are those in religious life called to the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but also all people are called to live out the spirit of the counsels.


Carroll Community College will present performances of "Rock of Ages" in the Theater in the Scott Center this spring.
Performances will be held on Thursday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 29 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, April 30 at 2 p.m.
This production is based upon a book by Chirstopher D'Arienzo. Arrangements and orchestrations are by Ethan Popp.


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Defence is monitoring Russian naval vessels that are currently transiting through international waters to the north of Australia.
In accordance with international law, Defence have been monitoring the Russian vessels.
Defence regularly undertakes maritime surveillance patrols in the approaches to Australia.
The movement of these vessels is entirely consistent with provisions under international law for military vessels to exercise freedom of navigation in international waters.
Russian naval vessels have previously been deployed in conjunction with major international summits, such as the APEC meeting in Singapore in 2009. A warship from Russia's Pacific Fleet also accompanied former Russian President Medvedev's visit to San Francisco in 2010.
Questions regarding the vessels should be directed to Russian authorities.
Defence will not provide further details about the monitoring activity at this time.
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Balmain the famous fashion house has released a new fragrance called Extatic Eau de Toillette. Described as a crystalline refined and elegant EDT which is luminous and sophisticated. Described as a day fragrance whereas the EDP version is described as the night version and I can totally understand why the EDT is more fresh whereas the EDP is more sweet and strong.
The fragrance comes packaged in a gorgeous soft metallic pink box that has the print of a shimmery sheet of metal circles. Described as rock and sophisticated with it's bright and mat contrast. I like how femininity meets strongness, just what Balmain is all about. The box of a product is usually designed to satisfy the first impression of consumers, luring them to pick them up at first sight. And I have to say that, the shiny 'metal' has definitely caught my eye.
The bottle is really beautiful described as architectural, graphic and modern with a mix of silver and white contrasts confers it a luminous and chic style. The bottle design is really different usually fragrances have a space or border around the edge of the bottle but this one the liquid seems like it meets the edge of the bottle creating a very seamless look. Curves of the bottle meets straight lines of the cover. The play around of such contrast is exactly what Balmain is all about.
Approaching the most important part of a fragrance, the scent is basically the essence of what consumers are purchasing for. We all want to smell good. And we certainly do not want to spend good money on just a beautiful bottle but do nothing scent wise. But good news! The scent of Balmain Extatic is one of the more amazing ones that I have ever come across.A mixture of floral, fruity and woody notes. The fragrance smells like a fruity version of Issey miyake's l'eau d'issey florale. Fragrance was made for the elegant, self confident and sophisticated Balmain woman in mind and I definitely feel that this has been encapsulated in the fragrance.
When you take the 1st whiff hello fruits!, the top notes explodes into your senses. A combination of lychee, blackcurrent and green mandarin. After 20 minutes (perhaps longer or shorter for others, depending on individuals and other surrounding factors), the top notes subsides a little and the middle notes emerges.
The middle notes are towards the floral side.Jasmine, magnolia and turkey rose fills in the middle notes space and diffuses a beautiful feminine scent.
Ammbroxan, musk and cedarwood linger on skin for hours and emits the strong side of this amazing perfume. Arousing the senses, you could be sure that it balances out the femininity of the top and middles notes of lighter scents to create the perfect balance within a bottle. In order to balance a fruity or floral scent and prevent it from being over floral or fruity it is always a good idea to include a strong base.
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Students get a taste of Healthcare Sciences
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs City, Sandwell and Rowley Regis hospitals, opened its doors to young aspiring scientists to give them a taster of what a career in healthcare science could entail.
Around 40 young people aged 14-17 years old from local schools embarked on the taster day, learning more about life sciences, physiology sciences and physical sciences and engineering.
Jilly Croasdale, Associate Director Healthcare Science, said: "I wanted to give students in our local schools the opportunity to find out more about all the different career options available to them in our hospital. With the taster day we hope to provide awareness of Science careers in a hospital setting".
The day began with interactive stands from various departments across the healthcare sciences spectrum including: Pathology, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Physics, Neurophysiology, Radiopharmacy, Medical Engineering, Medical Illustration, Gastro-intestinal physiology and Cardiac physiology.
The afternoon provided the eager young scientists the opportunity to see the departments in action with tours set up in groups.
If you are interested in a career in healthcare sciences, you can find further information at: http://www.swbh.nhs.uk/work-for-us/careers-at-swbh/scientific/


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Do these Linux "CAD" applications stand up to the standards?
Jack Wallen
Updated • Feb 13, 2018
Often, when I ask why users don't adopt Linux, I am met with the response "There are no CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications. Now I will confess that I know next to nothing about CAD, so I thought I would take a moment to highlight some of the CAD applications available for the Linux operating system, show how they are installed and started, highlight their features, and then let those that know CAD well report on how successful (or not) they are. Sort of a user-generated showdown if you will.
Believe it or not, there are a number of CAD applications for Linux. Some of those applications are far too basic for the professional-level CAD user. Some, however, are just as feature-rich and complex as the industry standard AutoCAD. So hopefully, within this article, you will find a CAD application that will meet your needs.
So, let's get our Linux CAD on!
All of the software listed below can be installed on Ubuntu Linux by following these steps:
Open up the Add/Remove Software utility
Search for "CAD" (no quotes)
Select the software you want to install
Click Apply
QCaD
QCaD is a powerful 2D CAD application that began in 1999 as a fragmentation of another application (CAM system for engraving and LASER cutting). QCaD includes DFX standard file format and supports HPGL format. QCaD's biggest advantage over many other CAD applications is its ease of use. Most CAD applications are overly complex. QCaD, on the other hand, has a user interface that is clean and easy to use. QCaD features:
35 included CAD fonts
Metric and Imperial unit support
Print to scale
40 Construction tools
20 Modification tools
Construct/Modify points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, splines, polylines, texts, dimensions, hatches, fills, raster images
Entity selection tools
Object snaps
4800 parts library
Scripting interface
QCaD is modular with extensibility being its focus. As you can see, in Figure 1, the interface is very well thought out and easy to use.
Misfit Model 3D
Misfit Model 3D is an OpenGL-based 3D modeling application for Linux that uses triangular-based models. Misfit features:
Multi-level undo
Skeletal animations
Simple texturing
Batch processing (via command line)
Plugin system for adding new model and image filters
Create rectangles, cubes, ellipsoids, cylinders
Translation, rotation, scaling, and shearing
Multiple skins for models
Frame animations
Misfit does not have the best support available and doesn't seem to support the largest amount of file formats.
SagCAD
SagCAD is another 2D designer for Linux. Upon opening SagCAD, your first thought will most likely be "Whoa, where do I begin?" SagCAD was not created for the inexperienced user. With SagCAD the interface is filled with clickable buttons and no menus. Unless you are familiar with CAD you will look on at the array of buttons and finally have to mouse over each button to know what it does. And to make matters worse, all support is in Japanese! Does this make SagCAD a bust? Only the well-versed CAD user will be able to tell. The good news for SagCAD users is that it is has been around for some time and is still developed and supported. Just make su
Wings 3D
Wings 3D is a 3 dimensional subdivision modeller that has outstanding support and features. Wings 3D is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows and features support for numerous import/export formats. Wings 3D has yet to reach version 1 so it is very much in beta. But that does not mean Wings 3D is not already quite usable. Take a look at the small gallery of images created by Wings 3D.
Wings 3D offers a users manual and tutorials for those who aren't sure where to begin.
Blender is probably one of the most popular of all the CAD applications for Linux. Blender features:
A revolutionary UI
UV Unwrapping
Physics and particles
Imaging and compositing
Realtime 3D game creation
Numerous file format support
Multiple platform support
If you take a look at the Blender Gallery you will see many reasons why Blender is on of the most popular CAD applications in Linux. I should make mention, however, that Blender does not work well in Linux when full desktop effects are turned on. There are issues with the UI and unless you turn off desktop effects, you will have a lot of trouble using Blender.
Let the tests begin. I have listed five different CAD programs, each of which serves a different purpose. I would like those of you with CAD experience to test them out and see if any of them meet your needs. Does Linux have a decent CAD application? The answer lies in your hands.
Believe it or not, there are a number of CAD applications for Linux. Some of those applications are far too basic for the professional-level CAD user. Some, however, are just as feature-rich and complex as the industry standard AutoCAD.
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Rich said on September 11, 2009 at 3:54 pm
First of all : Nice post, interesting.
But did you really think that all of this softwares can do the same thing that Autocad can do?? that must be the answer at your question..
jw said on September 14, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Check out Varicad. It is a real 3D CAD system.
I would use it over Autocad having used both I can
say Varicad works fine and many
mechanical pieces came back
perfect first time
John Smith said on September 11, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Blender and Wings3D are not CAD programs, they are lacking many CAD specific features.
hal9000 said on September 11, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I don't see any company like autodesk converting it's apps to linux ever and if they don't then its is massively unlikely that others will follow.
As other poster said, blender is a 3d app and not a cad app and its also free i think on other platforms. The money makers and market leaders just wont move to linux as far as i can see it.
Greg Folkert said on September 12, 2009 at 3:14 pm
AutoDesk Software used to be exclusively *NIX based (before it was AutoDesk). If you didn't know that, then you aren't old enough to know better. In fact the software actually ran on BSDi, SunOS and HPUX.
Knowing some of the engineers in the company, there is already a non-public version for use on Linux and has been in existence since before they went Windows only for public consumption.
I'd be surprised if AutoDesk didn't release a version for Linux in the next two years to see how it goes.
dhlii said on May 11, 2011 at 8:47 am
The earliest versions of AutoCAD ran on MSDOS. I was one of the first 100 Autocad dealers, and talked with some of the early Autocad developers. I had written several 3D wire frame CAD program for 8 bit processors at the time.
Some (but not all) of the applications that Autodesk has purchased and integrated in the interim had *nix roots.
I would not be at all surprised if Autodesk had internal Linux versions, but I would not expect to see them on the market any time soon.
gokudomatic said on September 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm
It's right that currently Blender is not a cad app, but you should see a project which aims to implement some basic cad features:
http://www.blendernation.com/tech-preview-mechanical-sketch-drawing/
Matt said on September 11, 2009 at 7:10 pm
The author was pretty clear that he doesn't know much about CAD software, so I think some of the comments so far aren't very productive. I'm a CAD ignorant person myself, so I'd also be very interested to hear some specific feedback on these apps.
John Smith: What are those CAD specific features you mentioned?
hal9000: I think the question is not whether Autodesk will port their software but whether any current Linux software is even in the ballpark of competing with AutoCAD. Also, if not, what are the missing pieces in your opinion?
And to the author: do you have any links or specific places one might look for a quick primer on CAD and CAD software? Some background research on what a professional CAD app is and what it's intended to do would be nice for those of use who know very little (or nothing in my case).
Lihalla said on September 11, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I'd like to mention VariCAD http://www.varicad.com/en/home/ which we use in the company…
Jerry Sarfati said on September 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm
You seem to have left off NX from Siemens PLM software. NX runs on SuSE Linux 10 (in addition to Windows and Mac OS).
http://www.siemens.com/nx
NX is a "high end" CAD tool used by some of the largest corporations.
nlvivar said on September 11, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Forget about AutoCAD, I want MicroStation on Linux!
Most civil projects in the US are in MicroStation, not AutoCAD.
Hugo said on September 12, 2009 at 12:32 am
I have been looking desperatly for years for a good replacement for Autocad (I generally disregard most other options). I gave many of the apps mentioned in the article a chance, just for the sake of moving to linux. It never really worked.
The best replacement I found was Bricscad (http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/).
I must say…you will hardly feel a difference from Autocad. Sure it is not for free, but hell, it also doesn't cost a million dollars!!
CutTheRedWire said on September 12, 2009 at 2:00 am
I'm actually a professional (and second generation) draftsman who uses AutoCAD everyday. I'll have to give some of these apps a go and let you guys know what I think. The QCaD program I had seen listed in Ubuntu. I've been curious about it for awhile, but now I'm going to have to look into it. I didn't know there were other options. Granted, I'm betting I'll end up agreeing that some of the list programs aren't CAD applicable, but what the heck?
jack said on September 12, 2009 at 3:40 am
Yes I did say I do not know anything about CAD – and I did mean that. Here's why the modeling apps are there. From my perspective, CAD stands for Computer Assisted Design. Because of that I added other "Design oriented apps" to the list. I left the list at the entries you see to keep this article from getting too long.
So – for those that do use CAD professionally – help us out here. Is CAD drafting only? Or is CAD for design of all types?
and to CutTheRedWire – thank you for your offer to try these out. There are other Linux CAD applications such as NX. You might give those a try as well. But for the purpose of this article, go ahead and give us your feedback on the ones listed here. Thank you so much.
Lyle said on September 12, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I used AutoCad for 6 years doing 2d and 3d and QCad the last 4 years for 2d stuff. QCad is not for 3d and does not have as many options as AutoCad. Have you ever heard of brl-cad? It is also made for linux.
SMP said on September 12, 2009 at 12:42 pm
BricsCAD does what AutoCAD does, but it is commercial, although it is a lot cheaper than AutoCAD.
There is a free download trial version.
http://www.bricsys.com/common/downloadBcad.jsp
Varkon is an unconventional parametric CAD program which takes a bit of setting up, but well worth a look at if you want to use CAD to auto generate variants of drawings based on parametric input, with bills of materials, cost estimated etc. also auto generated (eg. house plans, roof frames plant/wiring/piping layout), and you are prepared to spent time to do it. It resembles a programmable drawing generation application rather than a CAD system in many ways. The user interface is a bit quirky and crude, but it like everything else is fully customisable. Varkon is in the Ubuntu universe repository.
http://varkon.sourceforge.net/
John said on September 12, 2009 at 4:39 pm
You didn't mention BRL-CAD a 3-D solid modelling system developed by the Army Ballistic Research Laboratory. It's free.
broukoid said on September 12, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Sorry but none of these can be considered professionaly usable CAD. However there is professional and very affordable 3d/2d CAD software which runs on both Linux and Windows – it's called VariCAD:
http://www.varicad.com/en/home/ and in some cases it can easily replace AutoCAD
Dale said on September 12, 2009 at 5:18 pm
You missed, a yet to be released, system. FastCad. It has been around for some time, but the next release will support not only windoze, but OSX and Linux. I've used FastCad for ten or 15 years. It is the most intuitive, sparse, powerful, and adaptable CAD system I've found. Check it out!
Jack Wallen said on September 12, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Re-titled article. ;-)
Stomfi said on September 13, 2009 at 1:23 am
VariCAD, not on the list, works well for most design stuff, but what if you are an engineering company and want CAM with your CAD. Synergy from Webber (of carburetor fame) has a free CAD and and amazing AI pay for CAM.
If its just drawing design you are looking at, you left out OpenOffice, et al.
Digital Media said on September 13, 2009 at 9:15 am
I've got about 15 years using industrial-strength CAD programs like pro/ENGINEER and Catia V4/V5. More competition is good, I think that it's great that functionality is increasing in new CAD programs, and if they are making them to run on LINUX it can't be a bad thing, but in my opinion there are two problems in their large scale adoption.
The first is that CAD systems are a lot more than just basic design packages today– they are integrated into all aspects of the enterprise: manufacturing/procurement, etc. Not all companies(esp small ones) use all the functionality, but if you only have part/assembly design functionality you have something akin to a toy, I'm afraid.
Second, for new CAD packages to get adopted by companies large or small, they have to get through a resistance from the company bean counters whose job it is to keep expenses down. Even if we are talking open source, the biggest budget constraint is retraining, and in my experience it scares the hell out of cost-watchers and management.
All that said, I still believe that the tools can get so inexpensive and easy to use that they'll be compelling alternatives. CAD packages like the ones in this article are probably just the sort of efforts that the industry needs for this to happen.
knoba said on September 13, 2009 at 11:45 am
I've been using QCad (on GNU/Linux) for the last few years. I'm not a pro I just like to design and make my own furniture. I tried Autodesk on XP (in 2005 …I think) and just couldn't get into it. However; I found the learning curve for QCad incredibly easy (similar in use to PhotoShop imo.) and I find myself, these days, going into QCad with just a broad idea and coming out with a final design within hours. The program is more than adequate for my needs. I have since used it to do plans, to submit for local government planning permission, on various property projects and all my furniture designs are done using this software. I can also print individual pieces of my designs, to scale, and them use them as a disposable template. I would feel lost without it. Great piece of software!
Tel said on September 13, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I'll put in a quick word for Eagle CAD which is not too bad for circuit schematic and PCB design.
As for people defining "what exactly is CAD", you just have to look at the name: Computer Aided Design. If your computer is helping you design something, then that is CAD. Most design tools tend to be specific to certain industries, and CAD is no exception to that rule. Thus, each niche industry has their accepted favourite packages. This is a problem for linux in all niche computing areas — inertia implies that the newcomer has a lot of work to do.
Ricardo Perry said on September 13, 2009 at 1:43 pm
See my review about cad programs for linux. I'm a mechanical engineer, and i don't recommend anyone to use in production.
http://linuxmadeasy.blogspot.com/2009/09/dwg-cad-in-linux.html
http://linuxmadeasy.blogspot.com/2009/09/linux-for-engineering-pratical-case.html
Yvan Fournier said on September 13, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Did you try OpenCascade-based CAD programs for Linux ? A good start is the SALOME platform, at http://www.salome-platform.org (which is also intended for pluging physics simulation tools).
SALOME has a 3D CAD module, which can import or export STEP and IGES data, and can be scripted using Python.
You may find other programs which build just on the CAD parts of OpenCascade (http://www.opencascade.org/), such as FreeCad (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page), which is still in Alpha Stage, but seems to be under active developpement.
wally said on September 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm
None of those listed programs does the job for me.
Right now, it looks like Bricscad is the best bet.. the version they now offer for Linux is old and weak, but they – supposedly – are going to issue a Linux version of their current product. Sometime.
If so, it would be a capable substitute for AutoCad.
Ray said on September 14, 2009 at 5:51 pm
For those of you that don't know much about CAD, the biggest difference between CAD and other 2D and 3D modeling programs is that CAD is not just about appearance. Sure, you can make something look good in the other programs, but the amount of data used in programs like AutoCAD and Solidworks make the models exact and usable from a production standpoint. Also, I am not sure about how well these programs work from a file sharing standpoint, as AutoCAD and Solidworks also have many tools that become useful when borrowing parts from other projects within a given network.
Stefan Boeykens said on September 15, 2009 at 9:19 am
Frankly, if you don't know anything about CAD, then why post about it?
BricsCAD (the old version) uses WINE (but was deliberately optimized for it). The new version is in the making which promises real Linux compatibility (using wxWidgets for GUI). And OSX further down the line.
Blender et al are not CAD. You can not draft, there is no real 2D (hatching, dimensions, text, etc…), the 3D is polygonal, while "real" CAD 3D modeling should at least support proper Boolean operations and preferably decent NURBS modeling and editing.
OpenCASCADE is promising to be used as the basis for a "real" Linux CAD system, but so far there are only some attempts to use if for a full Open Source CAD system. Even OpenCASCADE itself, although Open Source, doesn't use a typical GPL or alike license, which can prevent some to use it.
Although there have been some attempts for Open Source CAD applications, I would rather see an Open Source Building Information Modeling (BIM) application, rivaling ArchiCAD and Revit. But none of the real BIM applications is running on Linux. And if they ever do, they won't be Open Source.
Pat said on September 17, 2009 at 7:37 am
I believe a large factor is what you expect out of your CAD package.
I use AutoCad and Solidworks at work.
I use QCad and FreeCAD (not to be confused with freeCAD) at home.
QCad is a great program that has all the functionality I would ever require as a hobbyist, or as a professional. I use it to generate both part drawings, and assembly drawings. I have never encountered a situation where I could not complete a design with QCad. However, there really is no comparison to AutoCad as far as efficiency. I am an experienced user of both, and it takes about twice as long to draw up a complicated part in QCad as it does in AutoCad. As the complexity of the part decreases, so does the difference in design time. A fairly simple part could probably be designed in about the same amount of time with either one. QCad is a little more cumbersome to work with, and it is not quite as intuitive. But for what it is, it is an excellent package!
FreeCAD is to SolidWorks what QCad is to AutoCad, but at a much earlier stage.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page
The FreeCAD project is being built on a solid foundation. The version I use doesn't have a front end to speak of, but I am sure that once the core is complete the front end will be the next major step. It has most of the tools required for basic 3D design. I doubt it could ever rival SolidWorks, but for a lower end package that gets the job done, FreeCAD can't be beat.
Dotan Cohen said on September 17, 2009 at 4:24 pm
If you want to see AutoCAD for Linux, request it here:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794
If you want Solidworks for Linux, you need to send them a snail-mail letter:
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/contact-information.htm
If you want to help Linux adoption overcome the chicken-egg scenario, then write to these two companies and help them realize the potential Linux market. If we do not express interest in their products, how will they know that demand even exists?
Isao said on October 5, 2009 at 9:54 pm
There is another one called gcad3d.
gcad3d.org
Also, there is a handy linux distro called "caelinux" (google it) that let you try out many CAD apps for linux without installing.
Isao
Russ G said on November 1, 2009 at 3:54 am
Only Qcad and SagCAD are Computer Aided Design/Drafting programs. The others are illustration/animation software.
Has anyone got an alternative to SolidWorks?
Esben Stien said on January 12, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Free software CAD for GNU/Linux is sadly a joke.
CAD basically means parametric modeling with NURBS, for those who knows what NURBS is;).
..and there's not a single app that has even basic NURBS tools in the free software domain.
There is ongoing work, though, and we'll get there eventually.
Today, heavy NURBS development occurs in apps like K3d, Ayam and BRL-CAD.
K3d and Ayam are not aiming for pure CAD functionality like BRL-CAD, but the more NURBS development, the faster we get there.
Sander said on May 17, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Bricsys announced the beta version of Bricscad V10 for Linux. Now it finally becomes available as a native Linux version. Initially, Bricscad will support two Linux flavors, Red Hat and Ubuntu. The first commercial version will be released at the end of June, 2010.
You can download the beta version at http://www.bricsys.com
Bud Maddock said on September 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm
CAD must do more than just drafting. I have begun to use gEDA in EE projects with a great deal of excitement, it can draw schematics, generate circuit board layouts and run Spice simulations. It can along with Tcl (tclspice) generate an automated simulation for varying conditions, output a set of curves for various input parameters, perhaps even adjust parameters on the fly while interacting with CLIPS expert system. When the simulation is finished it generates gerber files ready for commercial fab and laser printable pc board layouts for the in-house photo etcher. By contrast Linux does not offer Mechanical Engineering this level of assistance. Qcad is simple to learn, easy to use, but not a replacement for AutoCad. Varkon had tremendous potential when I learned it some years ago but there was very little in the way of documentation; Brl-Cad had even less documentation.
Blender is heaven, almost CAD for movie makers (VLC), but not what I want for Mechanical engineering where simple consistent engineering sketches – finite elements simulation – draftsman ready output and the tools for the draftsman; shop ready drawings, bills of material, shipping, cost calculation, and vendor choices are required. Linux with its 64-bit multiprocessor lead in Data Base, Super Computing and Server applications, could with a clear economics of scale become the host for a powerful future Cad.
ulusoyab said on May 13, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Do you know kedicad.
https://sites.google.com/site/cadcizim/kedicadenglish
John P said on July 13, 2011 at 7:33 am
There is also Medusa 4 from http://www.cad-schroer.com which is free for personal use. I have it and about to try it out.
Marcelino said on September 12, 2009 at 3:53 pm
The big three CAD vendors are Dassualt (CATIA) , Siemens (NX) and Autodesk. Autodesk is biggest in the number of users but Dassualt is bigger in revenue.
Siemens has supported Linux (Suse) for several years with their UG NX product. This software is used by companies like GM and Nissan.
http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/
http://mcadonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=393&Itemid=73
Curtis said on September 13, 2009 at 7:14 am
How can you _not_ mention PTC with Pro/ENGINEER ???!!! It speaks volumes that they dropped linux support on WildFire last year with version 4.0 . I guess it was too much work for them to keep both their own kernel (Graphite) and Unix GUI development going. It was used to be Unix (HP-Solaris) only when it was $40k for a basic workstation seat.
Doug B said on September 13, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Curtis: Yes, PTC dropped Linux support for Wildfire 4.0, but support continues for HP-UX and Solaris. It doesn't seem like supporting Linux would be much more work – they must really not see a market for it. This is really a bad sign…
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Q: Invoicing database design I created an application few days ago that deals with invoicing. I would like to know how to best integrate a discount to my invoices. Should I put it as a negative item (in the invoice_items table) or should I create a "discount" column in the invoice table ?

A: I would have it as a negative-valued item. The reasons are:

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*With invoicing, it's very important that the calculated value remains contant forever; even if your calculation formula later changes, you can correctly reproduce any given invoice. This is even true if the value was incorrectly calculated at the time - it was what it was.

*Having a value amount means that manual adjustments for exceptional circumstances is easily handled - eg, your marketing manager/accountant may decide to give a one-off discount of $100 because of a late delivery. This is trivial with negative values - just add another row, but difficult/hassle with discount rates

*You can have multiple discount amounts per invoice

*It's totally flexible - it has its own space to exist and be whatever it needs to be. In fact, I would make the discount another "product" (maybe even multiple products - one for each distinct discount reason, eg xmas, coupon, referral, etc.

*With its own item, you can add a reason description just like any other "product" - eg "10% discount for paying cash" or whatever

*You don't need any special code or database columns! Just total items up as before and print them on the invoice. "There is no spoon (discount)": It's just another line item - what could be more simple than no code/db changes required?

*Not all items should be discounted - eg refunds, returns, subscriptions (if applicable). It becomes too complicated and it's unnecessary to represent the business logic of discounts in the database. Leave the calculation etc in the app code, store the result in the db

*Having its own item means the calculation can be arbitrarily complex. This means no db maintenance as the complexity grows. It's a whole lot easier to maintain/alter code than it is to maintain/alter a database

*Finally, I successfully built an invoicing system, and I took the "item" approach and it worked really well

A: What consequences would either of those choices have for you down the road? For example, would you like to have multiple discounts, or very specified discounts later on? If there will only be one discount per invoice, then I wouldn't make it any more complicated than need be. In my opinion it's easier and clearer to have it in the invoice table - having it as a negative item will make the processing of items more difficult, I think.

A: I fully agree with making it as simple as possible, but one thing to consider is if any item should be exempted from the discount?  In that case you need to add a bool field in the details to remember which line should have discount.

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Heat things up this Valentine's Day with this all natural, warming Chili & Chocolate Homemade Sore Muscle Salve Recipe! It's great for stiff muscles and aches and is formulated so it's perfect for use in conjunction with a body massage. Just be sure to avoid getting it in your eyes or on other more, er, sensitive parts as you may find the warming effect of the chili seed essential oil a little much. Used properly you'll find it increases circulation while adding soothing heat to sore muscles.
This homemade sore muscle salve recipe yields one 4 oz. jar of warming sore muscle salve. If you won't be using this salve in conjunction with a massage and prefer it to soak in better, simply substitute the macadamia nut and sesame oil for 1 oz. of jojoba oil, fractionated coconut oil, hemp seed oil, or other "dry" carrier oil of choice.
The final salve will take on an orange tint from the chili seed essential oil but will smell faintly and pleasantly of chocolate. Do not use if you are sensitive to or allergic to capsicum.
To make this natural homemade salve start by weighing out the butters and beeswax using a digital kitchen scale, then melt either in a double boiler or microwave. Next, weigh out the macadamia nut oil and sesame oil and stir into the melted butters and wax. Follow with the chili seed essential oil and cocoa absolute than pour into a 4 oz. container of your choice and allow to set up completely.
Finally decorate your container with a label – perhaps a heartfelt Valentine's Day "I'm hot for you!" – or even a drawing of a chili pepper and gift to your favorite person in need of some love.
For more handmade DIY Valentine's Day gift ideas, be sure to check out my DIY Valentine's Day Gift Ideas board on Pinterest. You can also find more homemade salve and skin care recipes on my DIY Bath & Body Pinterest board.
Have you ever thought of using cayanne pepper. I was given a pain cream buy a doctor once which had cayanne pepper in it. The doctor told me cayanne used right on the skin is absorbed in to the body becoming a great pain killer and anti-inflamitory and is by far better than heat creams or ibuprofen gels. I don't know how true what she said is but she was a pain specialists and the cream was by far better than any I had ever used.
I am allergic to heat creams and a lit of pain killers. But the cayanne cream really was great! I used it on my back for spondylitis and on my lower abdomen for endometriosis pain.
This is incredibly similar to a cayenne sore muscle cream – and I have tried an all natural one – just instead of using cayenne extract or cayenne essential oil, which I was not able to source, I use chili seed essential oil. You can sub the chili seed eo with cayenne eo if you can find it, but they are very similar and produce the same effect in a cream or balm. Badger Balm actually makes a balm with cayenne extract and ginger eo.
Are there any oil substitutes that can be used in place of sesame and macadamia? How would jojoba or fractionated coconut oil affect the mix? Or even just sesame oil without using macadamia? I just want to make this now instead if waiting to order the other oils 🙂 sounds amazing!
You can absolutely sub oils. Jojoba and fractionated coconut oil would have less glide than sesame and macadamia and absorb more readily since they are drier oils. If you don't need this for massage then absolutely feel free to substitute. You can sub with any carrier oils in the same amounts based on the properties in the oils you are looking for.
You could sub the sesame oil with arnica oil.
Hi, I have never heard of the Chili EO and was wondering where to get it? I live in Canada but order from the US also.
I have Capsatian (sp?) powder and will use that until I get that.
I keep meaning to make one like this and haven't gotten around to it as of yet.
I like the chili chocolate combo idea.
I've been toying with the idea of making chili seed infusion from the chili seeds left over when we make our salsas. This should be where most of the heat comes from and we have many more seeds than what we can plant. Have you tried something like this?
The chili seed eo is probably pretty close to an infusion though I suspect the eo is stronger. I haven't tried infusing chili seeds but you could do in one one of the oils you're using for the recipe.
Hi! I was wondering where you found most of your ingredients?
looks awesome! i love cayenne containing message creams..i have dried cayenne pods from india,can i make an extract from it as a sub for cayenne oil? and how?


This deserves a gold star: Dallas has made its way to the top of two different lists touting the best high schools in America. And it's not the first time these schools have received top honors.
For the fifth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has declared the School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas the very best public high school in the country. That's pretty impressive, and so are the school's 100 percent graduation rate and its No. 1 magnet school rating.
Niche, which specializes in educational institution data, also released its own list of bests, this time focusing on private high schools. Rankings took into account SAT/ACT scores, the quality of colleges that students consider, student-to-teacher ratio, student and parent reviews, and more.
St. Mark's School of Texas, which last year placed first in Texas and No. 8 overall on Niche's list of smartest schools, comes in at No. 16 on the list of the country's best private high schools.
Town & Country used Niche's list to pull stats on the best boys' and girls' schools, and three Dallas-area schools make the cut. St. Mark's and The Hockaday School show up in the second slots for all-boys' and all-girls' learning institutions, respectively.
Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving comes in at No. 6 on the boys' list, helping North Texas earn its bragging rights once again.


This colorful huipil wallet is nice and compact yet you can fit the essentials.
* Each wallet is handwoven and one-of-a-kind. Made from upcycled "huipil" blouses from Guatemala. Each huipil can take up to six months to complete!
** Due to the vintage and handmade nature, there may be minor imperfections, flaws or signs of wear. If you are a collector of huipil and handmade items, then you know how these characteristics add an element of beauty and intrigue to the story of each piece.


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we have been pleasure to taking care of a lot of musicians in all of Japan for over 30 years and also We are pleased to carry a lot of request from the world for long time.
We hope we can support you too.
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We can accept 2 ways of payment, Pay Pal (https://www.paypal.com/) and Bank Wire Transfer. unfortunately ,we got some of troubles with forged documentations by fraud. That's why we closed acceptance for Credit Card payment temporary.
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We restarted the acceptance of the US dollar.
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To guarantee your item, we keep your information severely. And we will customize it to provide good service and improve our shops.
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eBaoTech's Collaborus Cloud is a full lifecycle insurance distribution and policy processing platform available via cloud. Its core focus is on enabling distribution partners (such as brokers and agents) to quote, issue, service, cancel, renew and reinstate policies. Its machine rating and underwriting functions ensure full policy lifecycle externalisation for all policy transactions. Collaborus Cloud also allows internal operations staff and underwriters to manage transactions and supports a full paperless workflow between internal / external users and underwriters.
Collaborus software solution is a global digital insurance platform, providing multi-lingual (real time language switch) and multi-currency capability that also allows country level product configuration.
Collaborus contains a versatile design studio configuration suite with a web based drag and drop design approach. The Collaborus Studio includes a design module which allows product structure, data element, user interface design, rating, rules, document generation, instalment billing, marketing plan, reporting extract, and policy data (booking) extract configuration modules. A single instance global insurance platform, Collaborus Studio focuses primarily towards allowing majority of configuration related to product implementation to be done by business analysts. In summary – a truly cloud enabled insurance design and runtime system.
With Collaborus Cloud platform, agents and brokers can quote and bind in less than 3 minutes and perform endorsements and renewals even faster. Documents can be automatically generated in seconds. Insurers have rich data for sales and actuarial underwriting analysis, enabling higher profitability and the development of products to specific customer segments.
To sum up – Empowers an Insurer to run a successful Insurance business with better managed business processes.
Collaborus Cloud is channel agnostic, so it promotes Digital Business across a number of electronic distribution points. It provides an efficient way to deploy an insurer's existing products, driving consistency and portability into new markets. With its highly configuration-driven rating, rules, user interface and documentation design, Collaborus Cloud allows implementation to production within weeks.
With the Collaborus platform, insurers can empower agents and brokers to handle fulfilment processes, resulting in faster, more efficient service for customers. The platform generates online documents in seconds, automatically books policies to insurer backend in real time, reconciles payments, and allows underwriters to focus on underwriting instead of paperwork processing. In addition, Collaborus based digital insurance platform makes full use of faster and less costly communications such as Email, SMS and Instant Messaging. It stores all online records – streamlining audit, underwriting, and claims interaction.
Collaborus Cloud distribution platform enables insurance companies to grow consumer and commercial product lines rapidly and profitably. This is achieved through a fully automated sales process and real-time policy management. Collaborus Cloud insurance platform can be used as a departmental or enterprise wide solution, providing insurance staff with a single sign on via a intuitive streamlined user interface. Acceptance rules can be adjusted in real time, e.g., in anticipation of an upcoming weather event. The access to data enables product and distribution managers to write schemes for particular customer segments with confidence. Full business intelligence can now be achieved via granular risk data.
Collaborus also supports workflow management between broker, underwriter and third party in an automated and auto rated fashion (including underwriter referral triggers, accept and decline responses). Transactions are assigned to appropriate parties depending on the business rules defined by the insurer.
User interface design – Easily create, clone and import products using drag and drop studio interface–lines of business.
Define rating algorithm using a combination of intuitive expression builders, steps and domain table management rate tables.
eBaoTech announces the release of Collaborus Cloud V4.5, cloud based insurance distribution platform for Insurers and Underwriting Agencies – now made even better! Since our last update of Collaborus v4.4 in June 2016, we've worked especially hard to introduce new features and improvements, as well as enhance customer experiences with Collaborus. Read below to learn more, or follow us on Linkedin / Twitter for more detailed and regular information regarding releases.
Insurers and Underwriting Agencies can now replace website pdf proposal forms with a smart form. The iForm supports multiple devices such as tablet or phone, and allows insurance products to be distributed electronically to various digital channels. This significantly increases the digital reach of insurance offerings and externalises policy processing for all machine based underwriting and pricing products. This compelling new feature is enabling Insurers and Underwriting Agencies to maximise their conversion success rates and dramatically lower their operating cost.
Collaborus Cloud now offers a feature for Insurers & Underwriting Agencies to manage rules around multiple brokers / agents selling new policies to the same insured (customer). The uniqueness of an insured can now be easily configured distinctly based on different Product Lines. For example, uniqueness can now be defined as an ABN of a company or an insured's "Name + Postcode" for an individual. This feature will help Insurers to maintain rules based on factors such as initial contact, higher premium.
Collaborus Cloud now supports multiple fee elements within an insurance product. Multiple fees such as administration fees, broker fees and processing fees can be quickly added to products. Fees can be applied based on certain conditions, for example – apply processing fees if premiums are below a certain limit, apply a flat cancellation fee or even apply a combination of fees if multiple coverages are taken within the policy. Fees can be defined as either percentage based or a flat fee, and either inclusive or exclusive of regulatory taxes.
Collaborus Cloud introduces three new digital office dashboards – now available for External Brokers / Agents, Underwriters and Internal processing staff. These dashboards provide a quick view of workload. For example, a Broker dashboard now presents the list of opportunities, policies referred to an Underwriter, and upcoming renewals. For Underwriters, the dashboard displays a list of assigned referrals, renewal invitations and referrals which are yet to be assigned with an Underwriter. Providing External Brokers / Agents, Underwriters and internal processing staff one source of truth and a paperless working environment.
Collaborus Cloud now offers a standard feature for users to generate and extract bordereau reports for Australian products. This bordereau report provides premium or risk data with respect to identified specific risks and can be periodically generated. The bordereau report includes pre-defined fields (as columns) and extracts data from all bound transactions, including New Business, Endorsement, Cancellation, Reinstatement and Renewal. In addition, this tool allows filters for transaction types. Users can preview the data using Collaborus Workbench and then extract the generated report in Excel format.
Collaborus Clouds' Workbench now supports the selection of fields for each product and extract for reporting purposes.
V4.5 has proven to be our biggest value add yet, by understanding our customers workflow and business challenges, we have enhanced Collaborus Cloud to ensure the entire insurance supply chain is benefiting.
From streamlined processes for internal staff, to digital mobile touch points for consumers, Collaborus Cloud can e-enable the entire 'lead to cash' workflow. As we ramp into 2017 with a core focus on 'rapid customer success', we see Collaborus Cloud providing a single turnkey solution for Insurers and Underwriting Agencies of all sizes, who are looking to scale their business without concerns of missing functionality or financial uncertainty, and protect their brand as we enter a digital age.
Collaborus Cloud now supports a dynamic, content-rich dashboard for intermediaries. The dashboard provides a quick view of transactions, including statuses such as assigned, returned referrals, renewal invitations waiting to be actioned and referrals awaiting action. An advanced search capability is also provided, with transaction results grouped for each policy record.
Collaborus Cloud provides a "Marketing Plan" feature, allowing real time product flexibility through product variances (insurance facilities, schemes or program management). These variances range from minor label changes and additional questions to more complex variances such as a special rates table or seasonal discount factors. Marketing Plan can be configured further to also include specific occupations as well as automatically attach endorsement clauses.
Renewal Premium Finalization allows a product designer to configure certain settings including capping and flooring rates, rules for premium loadings or discounts & adjustments. Such configurations control the calculation of technical premium from the expiring policy period to new renewal period. Product Designers can now rapidly design and validate a renewal premium strategy in real time during the design process.
Collaborus provides configuration settings to store additional intermediary information within the agent and insurer workbenches. This feature also allows multiple addresses to be configured per intermediary, including use for printing or data extracts.
Enhancements have been introduced to support faster response times within the Product Studio. Collaborus now displays browser-rich content rapidly through improvements in calculated fields, page navigation, visibility rules, business rules and within the rating engine.
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Auckland War Memorial Museum Centenary Plans
Posted on centenarynews.com on	08 February 2012
Russell Briggs, Director of War Memorial and Commemoration In Auckland, New Zealand, announces Centenary plans.
In a conversation with the IWM's Centenary Partnership Programme, Russell Briggs talks about the New Zealand's Auckland War Memorial Museum's plans for the Centenary.
The following is taken from the interview and can be found on the Partnership Programme website:
What's your name, where do you work and what's your role there?
I'm Russell Briggs, from The Auckland Museum in New Zealand. I have a brand new title this year – Director, War Memorial and Commemoration – in keeping with our Museum's renewed focus on the study, interpretation and commemoration of war and peace, and its commitment on behalf of the nation to a robust set of outputs to mark the Centenary.
What are your plans for the Centenary?
Auckland Museum and the department I'll be establishing have a lot of ambitious ideas for the Centenary. We will be working on a major special exhibition using our WWI collections, possibly in partnership with our country's national museum, Te Papa. We'll also be doing a number of smaller shows, with one in particular, on the Maori/Pacific peoples' Pioneer Battalion aimed at touring to Northern Europe during the "Centenary years. We are looking at a couple important joint exhibition/installation projects with Belgian and French museums. We are redeveloping our Cenotaph Database (an interactive page for every soldier who served) to create a modern, interactive feature set similar to IWM's online project. And we hope to develop with the government a "national memory project" that will work with Armistice Day commemorations for each of the four years. Finally, as if that doesn't keep us busy enough, we are the largest point of physical commemoration in the country, and fully expect as many as 100,000 people to join us on 100th ANZAC Day, 24 April 2015 for the Dawn Service.
What do you want your visitors/users/the public to know about the FWW and why?
Since we are both a universal museum and a war memorial/war history museum (and the only one of the latter in the country), we have a big expectation to create experiences and tools that both allow people to connect with our history and heritage and commemorate/memorialise in meaningful ways. Although the direct familial connection to WWI is now lost, the communal memory and societal scars are still surprisingly visceral – in many ways due to the profound impact of such a disproportionate number of young men lost at one time in a new nation – and there is a real desire to find fresh ways for young people to emotionally relate to the cost and lessons of this war.
Since I came to be a New Zealander later in life, I don't have a family connection to the Great War, nor a shared history with our typical domestic audience. But having seen the emotions still alive and real in families here, I've become strongly attached to the idea that the Centenary can be a defining moment in allowing the past to have a material effect on the future. Once you embrace that possibility, it's hard not to get excited and passionate.
What challenges are you facing or expecting to face in your work for the Centenary?
The boring obstacles of budget, time and resource are ever-present, of course, but they would be there for anything. Trying to raise the profile of a tiny little country on the world stage is always a challenge, but if could be done a hundred years ago, it surely can be done now. And finding a way to clearly represent the complex issue of Maori and Pacific peoples' participation in the war – the "why", and how it mirrored to difficult, painful relationship between European colonisers and indigenous peoples, will be a daunting but exciting challenge."
To view the original news article you must be a member of the Partnership Programme run by the Imperial War Museum, to sign up, click here.
Images courtesy Partnership Programme website
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