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Many machine shops contemplate updating their software but are reluctant to do so based on fears of lost or unusable data. This company made the switch unscathed and offers tips on what software features can help fulfill a shop's needs.
When it began investigating shop control software, Duplex Mill & Manufacturing Co. (Springfield, Ohio) faced three fundamental issues regarding its data: transferability, accessibility and usability. If the company purchased a new system, would it be able to easily transfer data from its off-the-shelf accounting program, and would the new software make its data more accessible in the future? Would the switch to a new software package increase its efficiency by arranging data into a more usable format?
Many small shops are familiar with the situation that drove Duplex Mill to investigate shop control technology, because they are similarly operating under an off-the-shelf accounting software environment. Duplex Mill found that while its universal accounting software would suffice for a time, the program was beginning to limit the company's ability to change and grow. Based on lessons learned from past experience with such software, Eric Wise Jr., information technology director at Duplex Mill, was moved to compile a list of necessary features that any software package the company would purchase must have. When the company eventually narrowed its search and decided to purchase a shop control system, it found that all three of its questions about data transfer, access and use were answered with a resounding "yes."
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The company also discovered that while researching shop software options can be a formidable task, the upgrade itself does not have to be a frightening experience and can produce real benefits.
Duplex Mill's quest to integrate shop control software into its operations poses a striking contrast to what can be found in its machine shop. This shop does not use CNC or NC technology. In fact, the machine shop at Duplex Mill could be a metalworking museum of sorts. The oldest machine in the shop is circa 1860. Six manual lathes grace the shop in all, bearing the names of bygone manufacturers such as Logan, Warner & Swasey and Lodge & Shipley. There is a radial arm drill from Cincinnati, three manual milling machines and grinders used to hand-sharpen tools.
While this machine shop is characterized by metalworking equipment on the low end of the technology spectrum, it is not marked by antiquated business operations. Rather, the company has invested its resources into the appropriate technology it needs to effectively run the business. Other areas of shop operation, such as ordering, shipping and billing, have commanded more technological advancement in order for the company to stay viable. The veteran machinists and other employees have significant computer skills, and they commonly use traveling notebook computers on the shop floor. The technology available to the company will only improve with the assistance of its shop control system, which will facilitate the use of hand-held computer devices and Web-based order communication with customers.
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Duplex Mill finds that its investment in shop control technology has increased efficiency by allowing it to more effectively use information on multiple levels. Mr. Wise originally invested in this technology because he foresaw a potential for it to improve shop activity beyond the realm of the old accounting system's capabilities. However, this call for new technology has not been present in the company's machine shop. Duplex Mill actually has no need for CNC capability because employees only run about 20 parts per day. Machined components follow hardened patterns used over and over, and the company's three machinists—who have more than 75 years of experience among them—can easily do the one-off jobs on manual machines armed with their expertise.
The parts are components of mixers and blenders primarily used in agricultural and industrial applications for continuous or batch operations. An assembly of these machined parts can be likened to the beaters used in a kitchen mixer, but there are many advanced functions performed by Duplex Mill's "beaters." The products, sold under the Kelly Duplex name, can be used to handle multiple materials such as plastic, cement, powder and animal feed grains, and the company designs these machines to crush, convey, elevate, reduce, separate and more. The bulk of Duplex Mill's 18,000-square-foot facility is dedicated to fabrication and the assembly of the sheet metal that forms the funnel-shaped body of the machines. This tried-and-true design has realized little change over the past 100 years, but the machines' uses have become more complex; where once they were primarily used by large farmers to mix cattle or horse feed, now they are also used by a toy company to mix plastic for injection molding.
Duplex Mill views shop control functionality as a valuable tool, but, obviously, this shop control technology was not available when the company first began finishing castings for the now-defunct Western Foundry Co. in 1884. Duplex Mill began accounting for shop activity just like any other business in the late 1800s: with handwritten ledgers. The company can trace the evolution of its accounts by delving into the volumes upon volumes that recorded the bottom line for each fiscal year until the 1980s. However, when the company first integrated computer technology into its operations, Mr. Wise says it wasn't such a big step for functionality. The company began using a rudimentary accounting program written in the BASIC computer language by an independent software programmer. This system did accelerate the process of inputting information and reduce the possibility of human error, but the shop did not benefit from any added capacity because it was not able to manipulate and use the information in new ways. In effect the accountant was now typing the information into a computer instead of handwriting it into a book.
Duplex Mill maintained this account tracking program until it purchased Peachtree, a widely familiar off-the-shelf accounting system. The biggest advantage this system provided to the company was that it eliminated the risk of putting all the company's information into an unconventional system—almost every accountant knows how to use it. In addition, the system did save labor time by providing some new functions; for instance, it updated all ledgers automatically when someone entered a new item into the quoting or invoicing columns. As time went on, however, Mr. Wise discovered there were still more savings to be realized through more efficient management of time and labor.
Working within the confines of Peachtree, Mr. Wise began his search for new software in no hurry, because this time he wanted to get all the capability Duplex Mill required, and nothing less. He created a "must have" list of features. (See Figure 1 on next page.) He also composed a list of functions he would like to see, such as scheduling capability and Internet functionality.
Duplex Mill decided to purchase the E2 Shop System from Shoptech Industrial Software Corp. (Rocky Hill, Connecticut) and prepared for total implementation of the system on the first day of the company's new fiscal year, June 1, 2001. This event ushered in a 3-week adjustment period to the new system as well as a fine-tuning of both the software and the company's procedures. Mr. Wise expected that his extensive research coupled with some internal adjustments would assure that Duplex Mill's information was readily accessible.
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When Mr. Wise initially looked at possible software packages to replace Peachtree, his primary goal was to find software that used an "open" database in order to make the company's information more accessible. "That requirement almost immediately eliminates 50 percent of the programs out there. For a lot of people that won't matter," he says, "but I am looking at it from a security standpoint. I want to make sure that almost no matter what, we can get our information."
Use of an open database, such as Microsoft Access that can be used with E2, also increases forward capability. In other words, storing data in an open database allows Duplex Mill to easily transfer its information to another program if for some reason its current system is no longer available. An open database is the opposite of a proprietary database, which may hinder the transfer of a company's data into a new system. In the event that forwarding the information is not a possibility, a company would have to hire a specialized programmer to decode the program and retrieve its data.
Shoptech was able to capture all the important information from Duplex Mill's database, so Duplex Mill was able to forward its customer, vendor and inventory information into the E2 system from Peachtree. Duplex Mill sent a CD containing its database to Shoptech, and the software vendor transferred the information into Duplex Mill's shop control system in one day. Paul Ventura, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Shoptech's Cincinnati, Ohio, office, says many companies may shy away from installing new software because they anticipate a long process re-keying in all the data, but software vendors do many data transfers like this one every day.
New Capabilities
When machinists at Duplex Mill first heard that an "open" system would increase capacity on the shop floor, they may have gotten the impression that the lathes would be available for more use. Now, the company's employees are very aware of this new open architecture shop control system, because it makes their jobs easier. The additional functionality that Duplex Mill's operations have realized since implementation of the shop control system has allowed the company to increase the efficiency of labor, resources, communication and information. (See Figure 2.)
Labor. Due to the efficiency of the software, the company now realizes 50 percent more productivity per employee because skilled machinists have been freed from having to perform data-entry tasks. For example, machinists no longer have to re-key customer information into a computer because the software includes this information automatically in each order entry. The machinists can then spend that time in the machine shop.
Resources. Material costs have been reduced because the shop control system has increased the information readily available to employees involved in purchasing. Since vendor information is stored in the E2 system, Eric Brickson, operations manager, can view past purchase price data as he calls in an order for steel. Now, he can tell the vendor what Duplex Mill is willing to pay by quoting the lowest purchase price, instead of asking the vendor what the steel will cost. "With the pricing information in front of you, you pay less," Mr. Brickson says. It also allows him to "push" the vendors by comparing prices offered by other vendors.
Communication. A machinist may decide to start a job and realize the material has not arrived. Instead of involving Mr. Brickson to track down the stock, the employee can log onto one of the traveling notebook computers located in the shop and look up the order number on the system. If the employee sees that the material vendor has already been called, a note attached to the file will indicate when the steel is expected to arrive. If not, the machinist can call the vendor. Not only does the shop control system reduce labor time spent on these common tasks, it also reduces duplication. No longer will several Duplex Mill employees call the same vendor in one day looking for material.
Attaching documents such as a part drawing, a metal certification or a note to employees concerning an account to data files also improves communication among employees. Mr. Wise says a machinist may be boring a hole and say, "Next time we need to move this hole over here." The machinist can attach a note to the file, and the next time a customer orders the part, whoever does the job can make the appropriate change.
Information. Time the company devoted to implementation also led to benefits. For instance, the inventory information took about two weeks to be organized within the system, Mr. Wise says, but an added benefit was that the company could now distinguish production-related inventory, such as material, from non-production-related inventory, such as the banding used in shipping. Additionally, it took the first 20 days to get enough information on the basic machines into the system to develop a plan for a machinist to build a particular product. This included information that would be stored in E2 but that was not captured by Peachtree. Getting this data into the system was important because most of Duplex Mill's products have components that can be customized to each order, such as capacity (size).
More Payoff To Come
While Duplex Mill probably will not invest in CNC equipment any time soon, it knows there is still more information technology that can further free employee time.
1) Pocket PCs. Imagine this scenario: A veteran machinist finishes using a manual machine to bore a hole in a piece of metal then reaches into his pocket and pulls out a hand-held PC to log off the job and to find out what needs to be done next. The "Pocket View" from Shoptech will save time because it makes all the information shop personnel need easier to access. There will be no need for them to walk around the shop to look at the job board, to scan bar codes or to clock in and out.
2) WebView. The company's next step will be to make order information accessible to customers via the Internet. Clients will be able to log onto the company's Web site, enter a password, and see if an order is still on time for delivery or find out the UPS shipping number. Through Shoptech's WebView and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) technology, the customer will be able to access quoting and invoicing information as well.
All of the improvements the company has realized, along with those yet to be implemented, help the shop become more profitable, says Mr. Wise. It was absolutely imperative for Duplex Mill to make changes in its business in order to use its resources more efficiently, and so far that quest has been a success. The company has realized more capabilities with its shop control system than it ever could have with its accounting program, and additional benefits include reduced labor and material costs. Mr. Wise put much time and effort into finding the right system to fit Duplex Mill's needs and making sure that the company's information would be readily accessible to those who come after him. After all the improvements to the company's procedures are complete, perhaps the payoff of this labor will keep Duplex Mill viable for another century or so.
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What would also help sell a comic by gracing its covers would be big tits, wet ass, and well hung dudes sticking it in big open beavers, but then maybe I'm pitching to a different market. I'd have been a millionaire in the 1950s. Also, imagine a switcheroo world where there were tits on comic book covers but Julius Schwartz was running Maxim and every cover had a gorilla riding a purple motorcycle out of an inferno. Hey, as an aside, how do you check for a gas leak in your home office?
Also a part of the passel of tried-and-true comic book cover sales-boosters was flat-out blubbering like a stinking, fat, stupid baby. Tears sold comic books – no doubt it was part of the recipe for success enjoyed by the romance books, but the trend passed handily into super-hero adventure stories. Superman wept over many a man seemingly murdered by a misuse of the Man of Steel's mighty super-powers, Batman bawled over the occasional cadaver of the Boy Wonder, and Green Lantern was snuffling through his own snot after he woke up in that hotel room with that dead hooker and a suitcase of Peruvian flake in his bed. "Why is Green Lantern Stuffing This Rolled-Up Carpet In The Trunk Of The Used Car He Bought For Cash At A Needles Dealership? Why Is He Buying So Much Lighter Fluid??" (PS Also purple and a gorilla.)
Still among the crying cadres over at DC in the swinging Sixties, the weepingest of the all was – by my estimation - the fastest man alive, Barry "Flash" Allen. I count at least a half-dozen covers where the Flash loses his shit and hucks back salt tears like an emotional deficient, not the least of which is the spectacularly treacly, awkward and plain unusual Flash #198…
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The story – amazingly titled "No Sad Songs for a Scarlet Speedster" – is the handiwork of well-respected writer and editor Bob Kanigher, whom youmight recall as being the inspired hand behind many of DC's best war stories and the utterly berserk hand behind the story of how one time Wonder Girl fought a jive-talking splooge fountain. Basically, he was never at home writing the super-hero stuff.
Also ill at ease, by his own reports, with the super-hero stuff was penciller Gil Kane, who nonetheless never failed to put a single line down to paper which didn't punch you out in front of your girlfriend and steal your wallet. Kane was always amazing, even in this … unusual … story. "The worst thing Gil Kane ever drew" is like "The worst thousand dollars a guy gave you for no reason to spend however you want." The worst Gil Kane is also inked by Vince Colleta, but I digress …
The premise of the story is that The Flash is an imbecile. More specifically, he's rendered an imbecile while trying to show off for three recalcitrant, angry youths he'd been asked to entertain at what I suspect was an Orphanage for Ungrateful Children. Probably most of these kids had parents, they were just such dicks about it they had to go to the orphanage.
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To get on their good side, the Flash tries to build a clubhouse for the kids, only to end up having to haul bricks and defend the kids from gunfire when a group of baddies show up and take affront at the casual abandon of zoning permit application procedures happening on their turf. The Flash takes a ricochet to the part of the brain which manages "self-respect" and promptly adopts the mental and emotional level of a five year old or something.
The kids take the Flash to a cave, as you usually do for victims who have suffered traumatic head injuries, and then hunker down to endure a siege by the aforementioned baddies, revved up for more of the o' bang-a-bang. While the seemingly powerless Flash hangs out in the cave, communing with animals (I kid you not. He nurses an injured pigeon named Petey back to health while hiding out in the cave), the kids find their stones and civic responsibility, and defend the Flash long enough for him to get a second swat on the noggin and come back to normal.
Mind you, not before this scene happens:
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This is THE weirdest thing I think I may have ever seen in a comic book, and I've seen … almost everything else that's ever happened in a comic book since forever.
Flash recovers thanks to cerebral hemorrhaging and the grace of the Almighty, and the kids learn something I forget what, leaving our hero to drag his tear-soaked cheeks and snot-bedewed upper lip back home and to a much deserved rest …
|Hey lady, that guy probably has a major concussion, you shouldn't let him fall asleep!


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Sugarland returned to the stage on Thursday for their first performance since a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair left five people dead.
The Grammy-winning country duo asked its Albuquerque audience for a moment of silence in honor of those who were wounded "and the beautiful lives that were lost."
Sugarland members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush were minutes from performing at the fair in Indianapolis last Saturday when winds up to 70 mph knocked the massive stage onto the audience. Four were killed instantly, another person died later. About four dozen others were hurt.
On Thursday, the duo was joined on stage by their entire crew as Nettles sang "Love," from their 2008 "Love on the Inside" album. Then they took a break and promised to return for a professional show that would begin the healing through "the power of music."
Because the band's elaborate set and instruments were destroyed in the stage collapse, Sugarland performed in front of the basic black shell of the pavilion stage, with just lights and a little smoke. They used new instruments that were delivered to Albuquerque earlier in the day.
"This incredible machine is more than a tour and more than a set," the group said in a statement on their website. "We have always celebrated music as a healer. While music cannot change the events and losses at the Indiana State Fair, it can hopefully serve as a ritual and a balm to provide comfort and facilitate healing in this time of great sorrow."
Nettles and Bush weren't injured in Saturday's accident. Their manager said earlier this week that a decision by their touring manager to hold them back after seeing the sky likely saved their lives, the Associated Press reports.
"While we all scattered to our given families for their comfort, the trauma we experienced together binds us in a unique way that we share only with each other, and those who were there," the band said in a statement. "There is healing in our being together. There is healing in our working together."
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SOUTHLAND TALES felt like just the kind of film I should be defending here, before I watched it. I fairly loved DONNIE DARKO, Richard Kelly's debut feature, and although DOMINO, which he scripted, gave me a bad vibe and I didn't see it, SOUTHLAND sounded weird and funny and crammed with STUFF, which is often the way I like my movies. Plus it's had a chequered history and a lot of critical savaging, much of it fairly crass.
TV's Mark Kermode, in particular, should be struck off the critic's list for mindlessly panning the thing on The Culture Show. "It's terrible," he said, "Really terrible. Look, here's a clip. See how terrible it is?" A twenty second clip aired, and charming but light-weight co-presenter Lauren Laverne nodded. "I see what you mean." Absolutely no critical analysis was offered whatsoever. And it's a film which certainly warrants a bit of analysis.
The task is complicated by the fact that the version of SOUTHLAND TALES released is not the original director's cut — Kelly was forced to alter his vision in order to get it screened at all, after the initial very bad response. What I mainly found myself wondering as I watched was what was part of the original conception and what had been added or subtracted to try and streamline the film and make it, what? Commercial, appealing, comprehensible?
The re-edit certainly fails on all three scores, at least on first viewing. The confusing narrative is surprising because there's so much exposition — for the first third the movie is ALL EXPOSITION. Most of it is provided by a voice-over, and that's part of the problem. Without a dramatic situation to engage us, the V.O. seems to wash over, bypassing comprehension. It's telling us exactly what's going on, but it's hard to focus, in part because it's impossible to see how the narrator, a character in the "story", knows what he's telling us. Since he's not involved in most of the action, his narration blurs the story rather than clarifying it.
I was reminded of David Lynch's DUNE, with it's many internal monologues by many characters, seemingly pasted in out of a desperate urge to make us understand. My favourite is when the hero's mum comes in a door, sees that her son is alive, looks relieved, and then her V.O. helpfully states, "My son — lives!" The redundancy is sort of comical and almost Lynchian. Kelly's narration-stream isn't as goofy as that, probably because it's been added in an attempt to normalise a very weird film.
While Justin Timberlake delivers the verbal afterhthoughts with more gusto than Harrison Ford did in BLADE RUNNER, the result is more like the plot-summary that comes towards the end of LADY FROM SHANGHAI. As Orson Welles wanders the Crazy House, he muses on What Has Gone Before, and we pretty much miss everything he's saying because it has nothing much to do with the imagery, which is far more interesting. Only when the words "…and I was the fall guy!" land on the image of Welles falling over are we able to register what's being said at all. It's not Welles' fault, it's the bone-heads at Columbia who forced him to add explanations at inapposite moments, just as R. Kelly has had to do.
Once the SOUTHLAND V.O. thins out and the plot, whatever it is, actually gets in motion, it starts to feel like we're getting somewhere. Generally the bits with music feel like a movie, rather than a tape-slide presentation or a very long "Previously on Lost" montage, and I started to feel like the film could be an enjoyable experience even without my fully understanding it. I like lots of films I don't understand. As the proceedings got more fun, I started to yearn for the original version. All the attempts at clarification seemed to make for a more boring experience.
The casting is the high point for me. I always rejoice in the gurning visage of Wallace Shawn, and it was cool to see POLTERGEIST's Zelda Rubinstein, still looking like she's been compressed in a car crusher. Bai Ling attempts to inject sultriness into every line reading or movement, Sarah Michelle Gellar does some good porn star acting, the Rock makes his eyes go beady and does weird nervous finger movements, and Justin Timberlake is rather good. Miranda Richardson seems to have been cast for her face rather than her acting, which is quaint as she's a magnificent actress, one of the real power-houses. But since her costume screams "Villainess!" and that's all her character is, she really has very little she can add.
The levitating ice-cream van at the end made me think of the flying car in Alex Cox's REPO MAN, and it seemed clear at that point that the earlier visionary punk sci-fi masterpiece (which anticipates everything from THE X FILES to Grant Morrison's comic book The Invisibles) was a definite influence. Interestingly, Repo Man now has a comic book sequel, just like SOUTHLAND TALES.
I also thought of the movie Guido's making in Fellini's EIGHT AND A HALF. "Do you like movies in which nothing happens?" The idea of a film which tries to include EVERYTHING is a perversely appealing one, even if it's doomed to fail. In a way, all films fail — they always disappoint their makers. Kelly seems to have gone into this one believing he might never be given another job, so he had to make this film stand in for an entire filmography. Ironically, it's such a high-profile catastrophe he's almost certain to be offered more work by the kind of producers who like to present themselves as taming unruly talents.
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Apple added a clocks app to the iPad with iOS 6. It's a welcome addition since the iPad didn't have an alarm clock.
However, it seems that Apple stole the look of its iPad clocks from Swiss Federal Railways. Swiss Federal Railways is not happy about Apple taking the look of its clocks without paying a licensing fee, 9 To Mac reports.
According to a Google translation of Swiss paper Blick, Apple might be hearing from Swiss Federal Railways' lawyers.
This wouldn't really be worth mention normally, but Apple makes such a big deal out of other companies stealing its designs. It just sued Samsung for $1 billion because it allegedly stole the look and feel of Apple's iPhone.
Apple's defenders will say that Apple is just paying homage to a classic clock design. And that's fine. Just pay up for that homage.
In the past, Apple has been accused of taking its cues from classic designs.
Here's Apple's new clocks:
Here's the Swiss Railways clocks:


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LONGWOOD, Fla. – Seminole County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man during a standoff at a storage facility in Longwood, officials said.
The shooting took place Monday morning at Sure Save USA Self Storage at 1170 W. State Road 434 near Palm Springs Drive.
According to the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, the man was involved in an argument with his wife earlier in the day, grabbed a shotgun and went to the storage facility.
The Sheriff's Office said the man threatened deputies, who shot him.
The man was taken to a hospital and later died, deputies said.
No other details have been released.
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Photo Contest!
From time to time, we plan to give out some tickets and other goodies to you readers.
Sound too good to be true? That's because it is. You'll have to earn your prizes. Introducing our first (hopefully of many) photo contest. Submit your best photo by emailing it to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll pick the winner. The best photo will get four tickets to an upcoming Padres game of your choice, with consolation prizes for runner-ups.
Here's the trick…your submission must be a photo of you at a Padres game this upcoming homestand (May 18-25), which means there must be proof in the photo (think scoreboard, visiting team, etc.). Entries will be judged on creativity, hilarity, beauty and/or anything else we deem worthy. Bonus point if your picture is taken with the Friar.
Winners will be announced at the end of next week. Good luck!
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We just went to the Padres game yesterday to celebrate our 6-year-old's bday. We had a great time and posted our experience here. We'll be sure to enter the photo contest too, but wanted to share our wonderful day at Petco Park:


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Inspired by the surrealists and the political controversy surrounding the censorship of Bill Henson's photography in 2008, my film explores the impact of censorship upon the imagination of contemporary artists. By appropriating René Magritte's work, the film explores how the surrealists attempted to re-interpret reality through the transcendence of their dreams. We follow a young man wandering through the surreal world of his unconscious mind, while his thoughts are being censored by the regulators of society, symbolising the artistic desire to deny boundaries placed upon it by society's cultural and political institutions.
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The stock rear suspension of our 1957 Bel Air project wasn't doing us any favors in the handling department, that's for sure. The old, small-crown radial tires were crumbly and cracked and the air shocks made the car sit uneven, awkward almost. Couple that with some unadjusted, worn brakes and you have a hot rod most would rather not drive.
Weak drum brakes, loose steering, and noticeable body roll were all prevalent when we took it for a spin last year, so in an effort to make our newest project a safer and better-handling driver, we began looking for replacement parts that were affordable and easy to install.
We contacted Performance Online out of Fullerton, California, for a complete list of front and rear suspension pieces, including their disc brake conversion kit, sway bars, and dropped spindles. We not only wanted to help the performance of the '57, the stance needed to be straightened out as well. In last month's issue we covered the frontend rebuild process; this time, we're moving to the backside and our Tri-Five's rear suspension and brake setup.
While there are only a handful of parts needed to redo the Tri-Five's original rear suspension, it can severely improve how the hefty hot rod handles. We went with Performance Online's lowered multi-leaf springs (2-inch drop), new replacement shock absorbers, fresh hardware, an add-on sway bar to help improve body roll, and disc brakes. Being that this car is exactly 57 years old we couldn't expect it to behave like a nimble sports car, but we did want it to feel a bit more stable. Fortunately, Performance Online had all the components needed to accomplish this. If you're curious about what's involved in upgrading a Tri-Five's old bones, Source Interlink Media Tech Center manager Jason Scudellari shows how it's done.
|Tri-Five Rear Suspension & Brakes
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|1955-57 multi-leaf springs
|Polyurethane leaf spring bushing kit
|Bel Air shackle kit
|Leaf spring tie plate with shock stud
|Disc brakes for '55-57 OEM rearend
|Rear sway bar for Bel Air
|3-way adjustable shock absorbers
The rebuild started with the removal of the lower shock nut. An impact easily zapped these off, but little did we know that the removal of the rest of the hardware wasn't going to be so easy.
The tie plate was the next piece to get removed. Note the alignment pin at the center of the plate; this needs to be in place in order to keep the plate from moving around.
The rear shackles of '55-57 Chevys don't hang down like on Novas or Camaros, they sit up against the top of the frame, and their removal can be tricky if the fuel tank is bolted in place. It took some finagling, but Scudellari eventually managed to remove it.
Unlike the rear of the leaf spring, where the gas tank is in the way, the front eyebolt of the leaf spring has easier access and can be removed using an impact ratchet and breaker bar. Since our '57 still had the original hardware it was a bit tough to remove, even with the impact; for those doing this install with only hand tools, beware.
The new shackles from Performance Online are zinc-plated and noticeably thicker than the factory pieces. The thicker shackle reduces side-to-side flex, which we imagine will lessen some of the body roll. The new rear sway bar should lessen it even more.
This shot of Jason tightening the new shackle shows just how close the fuel tank is to the top shackle bolt on the driver-side. We wanted to avoid a potential fuel mess—and some time—by not having to remove the gas tank. It was not easy, however. Have a friend hold the fuel tank away from the frame while you or another friend slides the new bolt in.
We opted for Performance Online's new multi-leaf springs for our project. They are available in stock and 2-inch lowered ride heights. Performance Online offers a mono-leaf for Tri-Fives as well.
We upgraded to all-new hardware under the rear of the '57, including the tie plates that the shocks attach to and align the U-bolts over the axletubes. The tie plates come powdercoated and are way nicer than the rusty stockers.
Next, Scudellari tackled the removal of the stock brakes. At this point we suspected that none of the parts under our Tri-Five had ever been removed, judging by the ample amount of grease and grime that thickly coated the entire underside.
Even though you can't see it in this photo, the amount of frustration in the air at this point in the build was as thick as birthday cake. The stock wheel bearings were thoroughly rusted into place and were not letting the stock axles free from the housing. After several attempts with the slide hammer, we finally got it to budge.
This photo represents one man's victory over a seemingly immovable object. With the axle freed, we could move on to the brakes.
The stock brake shoes gave way to 11-inch, zinc-plated rotors. Although drum brakes can be made to work well, disc brakes don't hold onto heat and fade like the drums notoriously do.
To attach the new brake calipers, Scudellari first installed the zinc-plated caliper brackets, which bolt to the back of the rearend housing ends. To align the caliper over the rotor, different length spacers were fitted before being permanently bolted on.
The rotors are drilled and slotted to reduce heat buildup and to keep brake dust in check, as well. They simply slide over the stock axle flange before the caliper can be positioned.
Once the brake pads were inserted into the caliper, Jason positioned it over the rotor and bolted it to the caliper bracket. The rear disc conversion kit (PN RWBK5570) also comes with a parking brake fixture.
The '55-57 Chevys never came with a rear sway bar, yet these cars are fairly heavy, so we imagine that this upgrade can really reduce body roll.
With the '57's suspension and brakes upgraded front and rear, we now feel much more comfortable driving on public roads. Now if we have to make a hasty maneuver, we feel confident our hot rod will respond. And gone is the uncertainty we had when approaching a stoplight with tired drum brakes; we can now confidently halt our '50's cruiser with room to spare.


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I am a PhD student in the IMPRS program at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolution.
I am broadly interested in the evolution and origins of modern humans. For my master's thesis project at the University of Bordeaux, I worked on the virtual reconstruction of a new specimen from the Qafzeh site (Israel, 90-100 ka; mandible Qafzeh 25), which provided new data on the morphological variability from the Middle Palaeolithic in the Levant.
For my PhD project, I focus on facial ontogeny to try to understand how large-scale changes in facial growth and development are linked with specific patterns at the microstructural levels. For this purpose, I am using methods in 3D imaging (CT scans and semilandmarks techniques) to analyse differences in shape, and surface histology (confocal microscopy) to observe the cellular activity at the surface of the bone, a process called bone modelling. The first step in this project is to work on a large ontogenetic sample to have a better understanding of the variability within the species Homo sapiens in terms of bone modelling patterns, in order to apply these findings to the fossil record. A second step is the quantification of these processes, to help us understand how they are changing through time.
As it is already known that bone modelling patterns are species specific, the study of cellular activity through ontogeny is of particular interest in terms of phylogeny. Indeed, by combining these two approaches we can better differentiate morphological features that develop homologously between taxa from those that may look similar, but result from different ontogenetic processes.
I also have experience in field work, mostly excavating in cave environments.


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The Telecom Tree lights up Victoria Park this Christmas
Tuesday 27 November, 2012
The Telecom Tree lights up Victoria Park this Christmas
Telecom New Zealand is once again lighting up Auckland with the Telecom Tree returning to Victoria Park this Christmas. The lighting of the Tree will take place this Saturday 1 December.
Telecom Chief Executive for Retail Chris Quin says that the Telecom Tree is now integrated into the Auckland Christmas event calendar, with more than 100,000 visitors in 2011.
"On opening night, we're encouraging Aucklanders to come down to Victoria Park – bring your family, bring a picnic and enjoy the spectacular display.
"We will have some very exciting special guests performing– so exciting I've been sworn to secrecy on who they are! And whether you're 9 or 90, you can't help but feel the magic of Christmas when you see light rush up the 7-storey high Telecom Tree to the star at the top," says Mr Quin.
The tree has a total of 375,000 lights and it will have a lighting display running from dusk till dawn every night until Boxing Day. Telecom will once again give children (and adults!) the chance to call the Santa line from special phone boxes at the base of the Tree. Strings of fairy lights, connecting the phone boxes to the Tree, are activated by the sound of children's voices and their wish will travel up the tree to the star at the top. From there they are transmitted to Santa's workshop at the North Pole. Anyone can also visit www.telecomtree.co.nz from 1 December to design their own light sequence which will be 'played' on the tree for all visitors to enjoy.
To help share the spirit of Christmas, Telecom is also encouraging visitors to the Tree to bring Christmas presents for children in need. The gifts will be distributed by the Telecom Foundation to Auckland City Mission and the Kidz First Children's Hospital in Manukau.
The Tree will be right in the middle of the "Auckland's Christmas Walk", which includes the largest advent calendar Auckland has ever seen in Silo Park at Wynyard Quarter, and of course the Franklin Road lights - also lit on Saturday.
What: Lighting of the Telecom Christmas Tree
When: Saturday 1 December
7.30pm - Entertainment, with special guests, begins
9.00pm - Lighting ceremony takes place
Info: http://www.telecomtree.co.nz/
What else: Launch of Auckland's largest ever Advent Calendar in Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter www.wynyardadventcalendar.co.nz Official lighting up of Franklin Road


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Good Morning on this Sunday to all of you beautiful people around the world. (Well, and a good evening as the case may be)
I love following all of the lives of people that I have met through blogging. As we each post funny little cartoons and cute cat photos on Facebook and Twitter, it makes me smile that we all share the same human nature for chuckles and sighs, pretty photos, and uplifting quotes.
What do you do on Sundays? Do you go to church, or mosque, or temple? Do you sleep in late or wake up really early? Do you follow a set routine and stick with the tried and true or have a once a week complete deviation?
I certainly know right now my brother is on the slopes of Aspen (hi Andrew!), and my friend is on slopes too, but in Whistler, Canada. Another wonderful blogger friend is trekking through Myanmar. Robyn and her husband Dave are ambling along the Turkish Black Sea coast in search of fresh local menus to write about in their New York Times articles.
As most of our family knows, if you are at the Kenney's on Sunday morning, in terms of food, it's all about Patrick's waffles. He sleeps later than normal (but for us morning birds that might be 8am). I usually slip out with Chester and take a quiet morning walk to catch the first filmy rays of the sun.
Patrick shuffles right into the kitchen…seemingly on auto pilot…
…for the morning waffle routine.
Occasionally, we might have a deviation. It might be crepes, or french toast or…this time, Buckwheat Pancakes.
Delicious, hearty, wholesome buckwheat pancakes are one of my favorite breakfast options.
Any berries or fruit, honey or jam, sausages or bacon taste good with these thick but still fluffy pancakes.
Houston is at its finest right now. Bright blue skies, crisp cool days (that means NO humidity), and beautiful soft winds that sweep through the house.
Reserved for Sunday, is fresh hot strong coffee made in our little silver Italian coffee pot brought back from Florence 7 years ago. Dark Verona coffee is packed and pressed into the little insert cup. As the stove top flame heats up, the pot gurgles and then spits out beautiful strong scents of coffee.
It makes just enough for two small cups, so we steam hot milk to round out the heavy notes to create a smooth creamy cup.
So have a wonderful February Sunday morning, whatever breakfast choices you have at your home. Whether you're crunching through snow, or it's summertime where you live, or it is pre-humidity luxury weather here in the deep far south.
Hearty and Thick Buckwheat Pancakes…for Sunday mornings
- Vegetable oil for coating the pan
- 1 cup buckwheat flour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour (can sub with buckwheat flour for a 100% buckwheat pancake if you wish)
- 3 Tbsp sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 2 eggs
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DURHAM – The University of New Hampshire football team has to be so assignment conscious on defense during its playoff game at Wofford, the Wildcats have been practicing without a ball this week.
It's all part of the preparation for a triple option offense the Terriers call the wingbone.
The Wildcats will get their first real look at it Saturday afternoon at 2 when the teams meet in Spartanburg, S.C.
"They do a lot of things to mess with your eyes," said UNH linebacker and co-captain Alan Buzbee. "You've got to be disciplined and tackle all phases. You can't be worried about where the ball is."
Or it could end up in the end zone. That's the toughest task facing a defense that proved porous against the run two weeks ago in a 64-35 loss to Towson at Cowell Stadium.
The Tigers rushed for 415 yards.
"It was embarrassing," Buzbee said. "I don't think there's any concern. We just have to be better at what we're doing.
"If you look at the film," he added, "guys were there to make the plays. We just didn't make them."
A repeat performance and the Wildcats' season will likely end at Wofford's Gibbs Stadium where the No. 9 Terriers are undefeated this year (5-0).
Fullback Eric Breitenstein is the focal point of the nation's second most prolific rushing attack.
He's run for 1,653 yards and 16 touchdowns and is a two-time offensive player of the year in the Southern Conference.
Breitenstein has lost only 8 yards in 244 carries this year.
"He runs really hard," Buzbee said. "He's kind of the guy that makes Wofford go. If we slow him down I think we'll be headed in the right direction. He's a heck of a ball player."
The 5-foot-11, 230-pounder reminds UNH coach Sean McDonnell of former Wildcat fullback Dan Kreider, who went on to have a career in the NFL.
"He's a fullback physically," McDonnell said of Breitenstein, "but mentality-wise he's a running back. He's deceptively fast. … He rarely gets caught from behind."
The Terriers don't believe in offensive balance; they've rushed for 3,830 yards this season and passed for 574.
They will, however, throw often enough to keep the defense honest.
"As we told the defensive backs in a meeting the other day, don't assume it's a run," McDonnell said, "because the time you assume it's a run they'll throw a pass and it becomes a big play. Now we're hurt."
The Terriers average almost seven passes a game of which they're completing just over 50 percent with six touchdowns
Five Wofford backs have gained more than 200 yards and quarterback Brian Kass is the team's third leading rusher.
"It all goes back to responsibilities," McDonnell said. "Someone's got to be responsible for the dive (fullback), someone's got to be responsible for the quarterback and someone's got to be responsible for the pitch."
UNH ranks 103rd nationally in total defense and 67th against the run. Wofford averages 348.2 yards a game on the ground with 150 coming from Breitenstein.
"He's as good a fullback as I've seen in a long, long time," McDonnell said
"He's been extremely productive with the ball in his hands," said Wofford coach Mike Ayers. "Take something away and he's the guy that can hurt you."
The Terriers are tied for 41st in the country in time of possession (31:04)
"They keep offenses off the field," McDonnell said.
When the Wildcats played Army four years ago, the Black Knights featured a similar offense. Terrence Klein, now an assistant coach at UNH, played in that game.
Otherwise, the Wildcats have little experience against it.
"When you play against a team that doesn't see the triple option two or three times a year, that's a plus," Breitenstein said. "We think that gives us an advantage."
Although playing one game in three weeks isn't the ideal situation, the bye week did give the Wildcats extra time to prepare for an offense they don't see very often.
"As always it starts with tackling and running to the ball," Buzbee said, "and those are two things we struggled with a couple weeks ago."
Wildcats prepare for Wofford's triple option
DURHAM – The University of New Hampshire football team has to be so assignment conscious on defense during its playoff game at Wofford, the Wildcats have been practicing without a ball this week.


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Bus stopped: Greyhound ends nearby service
For many years, central Virginia residents watched a ticket to the rest of America roll into their town in the form of a daily Greyhound bus. But on August 16, the familiar silver, red, and blue vehicles left the stations in 21 Virginia towns for the last time. Waynesboro, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Lovingston, Orange, and Warrenton won't be visited by the big bus anymore.
This pullout comes as a result of Greyhound's decision to cancel the local route between Roanoke and Washington, D.C. as part of a national restructuring. According to Greyhound spokesperson Anna Folmnsbee, it's all in an effort to better meet customer demand.
"We asked our customers, and they wanted faster service and fewer stops, so we're streamlining our network," she says.
For Greyhound, that meant discontinuing the stops with the fewest customers– and many Virginia stops fell into that category. In 2004, Waynesboro had a total of 730 inbound and outbound passengers; Orange 486; and Lovingston a mere 117 travelers.
In contrast, approximately 197,000 Greyhound passengers passed through the Charlottesville station, and that number could very well rise in 2005, as the move makes Charlottesville one of only a few places in Virginia where folks can catch a bus to a major U.S. city. As of this week, Greyhound offered trips from Charlottesville to Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Charlotte, Atlanta, Memphis, and Dallas, among others.
The discontinuation of the local Roanoke-to-Washington route could also be a boon for the Charlottesville-based Starlight Express. Offering weekly nonstop trips to New York aboard buses that boast luxury accommodations, the fledgling service already attracts a fair number of Valley customers. Starlight's co-owner David New says Greyhound's decision can only help his business. "It gives an opportunity for small independent outfits like us," he says. "It's happening all over the country– breaks one guy, makes another."


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As conservative politicians like Gov. Pat McCrory dutifully troop to public platforms all over America today to laud Martin Luther King, Jr. and his accomplishments from the safe distance of 46 years, the good folks at Think Progress have posted a couple of articles this morning that remind us of some facts that are unlikely to make their way into many of these speeches and proclamations.
In "Why Martin Luther King's dream is still unfulfilled," Annie-Rose Strasser highlights "four of the things King demanded but never saw completed": a living wage, desegregation, fair voting and unfettered unionization.
Meanwhile, in "4 ways Martin Luther King was more radical than you thought," Igor Volsky points out that King pushed for a government-guaranteed right to a job, was a critic of capitalism and materialism, denounced the Vietnam War and was a champion of Planned Parenthood and reproductive rights.
In many ways, some of today's events are reminiscent of the speeches and statements that accompanied the recent passing of Nelson Mandela (an icon who was actually, amazingly enough, older than King). It's great that conservatives are lining up to laud MLK; it just would be nice of they'd also line up to laud all of the things for which he fought.


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So my last blog post was back on January 18th. It seems like not so long ago I was meeting up with my photographer on Saturday mornings, shooting two or three looks, eagerly awaiting for the photos to hit my inbox and then spending hours going through them to whittle 50 images down to 5.
Why did I stop? Well in the beginning of the year I had foot surgery. Finally my aggressive growth spurts as a child and many many years of classical ballet finally caught up with me. I had a combination of a heightened metatarsal bone as well as a metatarsal fracture on my left foot. The surgery went well but I was instructed to stay off my feet for 3 weeks. You would think laying on the couch all day would make me blog like a mad person but nope.
Have I missed the days of blogging? Not really. (I know, I know, what kind of blogger am I?) I have to say, I got my life back a little bit. My weekends, especially Sunday's aren't spent working on a post from sunrise to sunset. I can actually get out and go to brunch, attend a fun event, or simple just rest. It's a beautiful thing.
Not only have I not posted looks, I haven't looked at or commented on my favorite blogs either. Granted I loved it, that also consumed a lot of my time. Do I miss that? Yes I do. I really enjoy looking at other individuals styles. I always found that fun. Sometimes I would see a post and think, that style is so not me but she really rocks it. Other times, I fell in love with a look or simply felt inspired by it.
That all being said, I think I'm starting to get that fire back. Recently I've been more active on insta & twitter. I think what really put a flame under my bottom, my upcoming trip.
We leave this weekend to go on holiday and I'm very excited. Off to Sweden & Norway we good. 10 days of glorious fun. How could I miss taking photos of my daily looks while strolling the street of Gamla Stan or while traveling through the fjords of Norway. I think this was the kick in the pants that I needed.
A big thank you to my fellow bloggers who never stopped visiting my blog & those you continued to comment. Yes, I can see who comes to my page, what country they are from, through what source whether it be another fashion page, search terms or goggle image. (Having status transparency on my blog, worth every penny). I'd like to give a big hug and say thank you to Mojisola at Mojintocuh.com for private messaging me not once but twice to see how I was doing. Kisses!
*I will be posting soon*