Monday, July 16, 2007

" Our aim is to totally destroy the capacity of the Nigerian government to export oil ..." from an e-mail sent by the new Nigerian guerrilla group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND), that claimed the recent attacks. A series of high tempo attacks (four in the last five days) have deeply disrupted Nigeria's oil production -- attacks on oil platforms, a pumping station, and pipelines have already reduced the country's oil production by 10%. Shell has withdrawn 330 employees from the region, and shut down four pumping stations. Four Shell employees are currently being held hostage. These attacks are substantially more sophisticated than previous efforts which were typically either riot/protests or bunkering gone awry. These new attacks include: Swarm-based maneuver . The guerrillas are using speed boats in the Niger Delta's swamps to quickly attack targets in succession. Multiple, highly maneuverable direct tv deal nits have kept the government and Shell's defensive systems off-balance defending the sprawling network. Radically improved firepower and combat training . This new capability has allowed the guerrillas to overpower a combination of Shell's western-trained private military guards and elite Nigerian units in several engagements. Note: one of Shell's private military operators was captured as a hostage. Effective use of system disruption . Targets have been accurately selected to completely shut down production and delay/halt repairs.

Perhaps the most fascinating command new to AutoCAD 2007 is Sweep . It takes (just about) any shape and extrudes it along a path. (The old Extrude hobby shops online ommand was fussier than its new Sweep replacement.) Above, I swept the red spline along the black one (the path), and told Sweep to twist the path by 90 degrees, and then displayed it in Conceptual visual style with facets and isolines turned off. Another simple trick is to sweep a circle along a helix path to create coiled springs.

Obama Urges Dean to Make Video of Democratic Debates Available to the Public Says Allowing Bloggers and others to Post Video of Debates will Encourage Participation. This is an important announcement. Obama is not only proposing that the debates be made available but that citizens be able to use and re-use this historical content that belongs to the public sphere. He gets it! Now it's time for the DNC and the other candidates to step up to the plate. A few years ago the the American Museum for the Moving Image curated an exhibit of old presidential campaign commercials, The Living Room Candidate . They had a lot of difficulty even displaying this public, historical info because of copyright lawyers from the broadcast networks. They ended up having to lock down the content so that people couldn't use it, quote from it or blog about it effectively. Imagine, content from presidential campaigns, the quintessential subject matter for public debate and discussion in a democracy! As Justice Brandeis said, "“Those who won our member pages ndependence believed . . . that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. " Lessig put out a call for this last week in a blog posting and letter entitled, " A call on the RNC & DNC to eliminate unnecessary regulation of political speech .

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" Our aim is to totally destroy the capacity of the Nigerian government to export oil ..." from an e-mail sent by the new Nigerian guerrilla group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND), that claimed the recent attacks. A series of high tempo attacks (four in the last five days) have deeply disrupted Nigeria's oil production -- attacks on oil platforms, a pumping station, and pipelines have already reduced the country's oil production by 10%. Shell has withdrawn 330 employees from the region, and shut down four pumping stations. Four Shell employees are currently being held hostage. These attacks are substantially more sophisticated than previous efforts which were typically either riot/protests or bunkering gone awry. These new attacks include: Swarm-based maneuver . The guerrillas are using speed boats in the Niger Delta's swamps to quickly attack targets in succession. Multiple, highly maneuverable units have kept the government and Shell's defensive systems off-balance defending the sprawling network. Radically improved firepower and combat training . This new capability has allowed the guerrillas to overpower a combination of Shell's western-trained private military guards and elite Nigerian units in several engagements. Note: one of Shell's private military operators was road runner sports aptured as a hostage. Effective use of system disruption . Targets have been accurately selected to completely shut down production and delay/halt repairs.

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Here's another edited page from The Illustrated AutoCAD 2007 Quick Reference , which I am close to completing. (The copy editor first savings credit card rites in red, the tech editor in pencil). For the TreeStat command:

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Here's another edited page from The Illustrated AutoCAD tweak manager 007 Quick Reference , which I am close to completing. (The copy editor writes in red, the tech editor in pencil). For the TreeStat command:

Perhaps the most fascinating command new to AutoCAD 2007 is Sweep . It takes (just about) any shape and extrudes it along a path. (The old Extrude command was fussier than its new Sweep replacement.) Above, I swept the red american express card pline along the black one (the path), and told Sweep to twist the path by 90 degrees, and then displayed it in Conceptual visual style with facets and isolines turned off. Another simple trick is to sweep a circle along a helix path to create coiled springs.

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