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From February to September, look in the Produce department for avocados grown in coastal California. During the remainder of the year, avocados are typically grown in the warm, tropical climate of Mexico, helping to ensure a steady supply of this fantastic food at a reasonable price throughout the year. Chile, Peru and the Dominican Republic also grow yearly avocado crops. You'll find the country of origin on the produce sticker, or on a sign at the shelf.
An avocado a day may keep high cholesterol away! A recent study showed that adding one avocado per day to an identical, low cholesterol diet provided unique benefits. The addition of an avocado lowered bad cholesterol while raising good cholesterol, and decreased the number of dense cholesterol particles (which can contribute to heart disease).
Have you heard of the Mediterranean diet? It's not so much a diet, but a way of eating that focuses on fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes, whole grains and breads, fish and poultry, olive oil and moderate amounts of wine. Avocados are a perfect fit for this eating pattern, as they contain monounsaturated fats, which are emphasized in this approach to healthy eating.
Avocados are a dietitian's dream! They're naturally cholesterol-, sodium- and gluten-free, and half a medium avocado even provides 20% of the daily recommended value of fiber!
Avocados can easily be swapped into recipes to decrease saturated fat and sodium. Try replacing butter with avocado in your next quick bread or muffin recipe, or swap avocado for mayonnaise in your next potato or pasta salad.


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Fiber Laser Cutting Systems
Hypertherm, Inc., Hanover, NH, introduces two new HyIntensity Fiber Laser systems—the 2-kW HFL020 and the 1-kW HFL010. The new machines join the firm's 1.5-kW model unveiled in 2010 as reportedly the first fully integrated fiber laser systems designed specifically for marking and fine-feature cutting.
The cutting machines offer optimum performance on a range of applications and deliver consistent cut quality across a host of material types, including brass and copper, as well as mild steel to 5⁄8 in. thick.
And, fabricators can easily integrate and install HyIntensity systems onto existing cutting tables, including those already running a plasma-cutting torch.Hypertherm, Inc.: 603/643-3441; www.fiberlasercutting.com
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International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI)
To enable classifying external causes of injuries. It is designed to help researchers and prevention practitioners to describe, measure and monitor the occurrence of injuries and to investigate their circumstances of occurrence using an internally agreed classification.
Criteria underlying the classification are: a separate coding axis for each main concept, usefulness for injury prevention, useability in may types of settings (many parts of the world; emergency departments and other places where data are collected), comparability and complementarity with the ICD-10
Classification structure
ICECI has a multi-axial and hierarchical structure: core module including seven items (mechanism of injury, objects/substances producing injury, place of occurrence, activity when injured, the role of human intent, use of alcohol, use of (other) psycho-active drugs) and five additional modules to enable collection of additional data on special topics (violence, transport, place, sports, occupational injury).
Administrative status
Creation date: Consultation draft May 1998
Last date change: 2003
Change description: if no information then delete the rubric
Reference documents
Available indexes: Traditional index (draft) available for almost 50% of the classification (give pdf or an address). An automated indexing system is in preparation. (available when..)
Available formats: English: MS Word files and Pdf files - how to obtain.
Training and training materials:
ICECI website
Related WHO publication: Injury surveillance guidelines, Holder et al, 2001
English: MS Word files and Pdf files
French: draft version
Spanish: under discussion
Relationships with other classifications
Correspondence with international, multinational, national classifications
ICD-10: ICECI has been developed as a related classification with respect to ICD-10 chapter XX; ICECI does not replace this chapter because it includes the external causes and not the injuries itself. The CDC recommended framework for presenting injury mortality data provides a bridge between the two classifications (MMWR 1997 46[RR-14] p32). During the development of the ICECI reference was made to numerous classifications that deal with one or more aspects of the external causes of injury. The relationship of these with items in the ICECI version 1.1a ranges from very close (eg the ICECI item Economic activity is derived directly from the UN International Standard Industrial Classification) to quite distant (eg the categories in the ICECI Objects/Substances item and the way that they are classified, was informed by reference to at least five national and international systems).
Relationships with other terminologies
No formal relationships.
Custodianship and responsibility for maintenance and updating lies with an international group of experts: ICECI Coordination and Maintenance Group; a group of three persons act as the executive committee.
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Why SEC has not enforced their own rules and therefore possibly sympathized with the criminal naked shorts and allowed their cause to continue, is beyond imagination. This should be the first and foremost priority for SEC.
Us, American shareholders and company owners demand SEC to stop helping the crooks and get off its chair and work at enforcing and demanding naked shorts to deliver the stocks they sold within the allowed time period. Take a look at the naked short list and you should be ashamed. It is your most important job to keep the criminals off our markets.


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SKF Taconite Seal
With three- or four-stage labyrinths and an internal V ring for additional sealing effect and efficient grease purging, the new SKF Taconite Seal for split block bearing housings is made to provide protection in extremely contaminated and wet environments.
The result is:
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- Reduced grease consumption
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A single, compact taconite seal is now available globally for a wide range of SKF inch and metric split block bearing housings, in-groove mounting or optionally bolt-on for larger sizes, including features to accommodate misalignment and simplify installation.
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Brad Davis converted two penalties two minutes apart as the Houston Dynamo defeated Real Salt Lake Thursday night at Robertson Stadium. The Dynamo offense could not generate a shot on goal in the run of play, but the pair of penalties, both whistled against Jamison Olave, were all that needed to earn the three points.
The Dynamo started out sluggish and Real Salt Lake punished them early. In the 18th minute, Ryan Cochrane stepped up on Alvaro Saborio, who received the ball with his back to goal, withstood Cochrane's challenge and fed Javier Morales with a clever through ball. The RSL midfielder broke in on Dynamo keeper Pat Onstad and calmly put away his third goal in two games. The first half was a physical affair, with referee Jair Marrufo letting both teams dig into each other. The end result was, other than the goal, a lack of offensive punch for either team as both sides struggled to work the ball through a congested midfield.
In the 28th minute, the Robertson Stadium faithful held its collective breath when forward Brian Ching collapsed clutching his left hamstring. He was immediately subbed off, replaced by Luis Angel Landin.
The second half was a much more riveting affair. The Dynamo came out of the locker room and pressed the issue from the kick off. Their efforts were rewarded when midfielder Geoff Cameron was dragged down by Olave just inside the left edge of the RSL box. Marrufo immediately pointed to the spot, and Davis drilled his first goal of the season past 'keeper Nick Rimando.
In the 55th minute, Olave again was the culprit. Landin collected the ball inside the RSL area and cut back cleverly to try to free himself for a shot. Just as he spun, Olave slid in and appeared to clip Landin's foot. The Dynamo striker certainly put on the hard sell, but again Marrufo pointed to the spot.
Again Davis stepped up, and again he beat Rimando with a well-taken penalty just inside the right post.
The defending champions did not go down without a fight, though. In the 63rd minute, Will Johnson found himself on the end of a Morales cross, but Pat Onstad slid over to shut down the angle. Then, in the 71st, Robbie Findley and Fabian Espindola led a swift counterattack. Espindola beat defender Bobby Boswell and ripped his shot on goal. Onstad was beaten, but Espindola's shot rocketed off the post
A scrum between Espindola and Boswell just before the final whistle raised tempers and resulted in yellow cards. But in the end, Houston was able to held on for the 2-1 win and the full points.
Real Salt Lake (1-1-0) vs. Houston Dynamo (1-0-1)
April 01, 2010 –- Robertson Stadium, Houston, TX
Scoring Summary:
RSL -- Javier Morales 3 (Alvaro Saborio 1, Kyle Beckerman 1) 18
HOU -- Brad Davis 1 (penalty kick) 52
HOU -- Brad Davis 2 (penalty kick) 55
Real Salt Lake -- Nick Rimando, Robbie Russell, Nat Borchers, Jamison Olave, Chris Wingert, Ned Grabavoy (Andy Williams 67), Kyle Beckerman, Javier Morales, Will Johnson (Nelson Gonzalez 75), Alvaro Saborio (Robbie Findley 60), Fabian Espindola.
Substitutes Not Used: Kyle Reynish, Jean Alexandre, Tony Beltran, Rauwshan McKenzie.
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Andrew Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Ryan Cochrane, Mike Chabala, Brian Mullan (Corey Ashe 68), Geoff Cameron, Richard Mulrooney, Brad Davis (Lovel Palmer 89), Dominic Oduro, Brian Ching (Luis Angel Landin 31).
Substitutes Not Used: Tally Hall, Danny Cruz, Adrian Serioux, Cam Weaver.
Misconduct Summary:
RSL -- Chris Wingert (caution; Reckless Foul) 46+
RSL -- Jamison Olave (caution; Reckless Foul) 54
RSL -- Fabian Espindola (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 94+
HOU -- Bobby Boswell (caution; Unsporting Behavior) 94+
Referee: Jair Marrufo
Referee's Assistants: C.J. Morgante; Jeff Muschik
4th official: Elias Bazakos
Attendance: 18,197
Weather: Clear and 68 degrees
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text: LEGENDS OF THE FALL: Red Bulls Academy enters winter break with honors in all age groups Tweet © With the first half of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) season over, the New York Red Bulls Academy heads into the winter break after a strong start to the season. The following summarizes where each Red Bulls Academy team stands heading into the break: New York Red Bulls U-18 Red Bulls U-18 finished the fall season at the U-18 USSDA 2015 Winter Showcase in Florida, where the team went 2-1-0 in three matches to close out the first half of the year. Through 13 matches, Red Bulls U-18 is tied in first place of the Atlantic Division, despite having three games in hand on Players Development Academy. New York is 10-2-1 with 31 points. The U-18s boast the most potent attack in the division, with 39 goals scored, and a goal differential of 23. Red Bulls U-18 return for the spring season on March 5, when they face MLS rival D.C. United. New York Red Bulls U-16 Red Bulls U-16 completed the fall season at the U-16 USSDA 2015 Winter Showcase in Floridaa perfect 3-0-0 in three games. The U-16s are 9-1-3 through 13 games and are tied in first placeof the Atlantic Division. The Red Bulls share the top spot with Philadelphia Union on 30 points, but have two games in hand on the Union. Red Bulls U-16 lead the league in goals scored (42), goal differential (31) and are tied for the second-lowest goals allowed (11). Red Bulls U-16 kickoff the spring season on March 5 against D.C. United. New York Red Bulls U-14 Red Bulls U-14 ended its season on Nov. 1 in North Carolina at the U-14 USSDA 2015 Showcaseafter playing three games on Halloween weekend. New York defeated Orlando City SC, New England Revolution and Kendall SC to finish a perfect 3-0-0 in the showcase. Through 12 games this season, the U-14s are 10-1-1 and ended the fall session on a four-game winning streak. Red Bulls U-14 are back in action on March 12 versus Bethesda-Olney. New York Red Bulls U-13 Red Bulls U-13 completed the fall season on a high, defeating Lehigh Valley United, 3-1. The young Red Bulls enter the break with an 8-2-2 record. Red Bulls U-13 return for the spring season on March 19 against MLS rival D.C. United. New York Red Bulls U-12 White and Blue Red Bulls U-12 White finished the season with back-to-back wins to finish the fall season 6-3-1. Red Bulls U-12 Blue finished the fall season undefeated in 10 games, with a 7-0-3 record. Red Bulls U-12 White and Blue return for the spring on April 2 against NJCSA. Back to news


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Official says cyber defense is a priority.
A senior Iranian military commander said Monday that Iran needs a new strategy to protect its infrastructure from computer attacks, state-affiliated Fars News Agency reports.
"Cyber threats against Iran's national security infrastructure have found a special place and share in enemies' hostile strategy," said Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces for Basij and Defense Culture Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri. "Given the country's current conditions it is necessary to consider [developing] an indigenous cyber defense model as our important priority."
Fars reported that the head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization, Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, called on Sunday for Iran to confront threats with indigenously-made unconventional, asymmetric tools.
The Stuxnet worm, reported as an American and Israeli effort dating back to 2006, was designed to set back Iranian nuclear enrichment.


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Maybe you missed it. Probably you missed it. Earlier this week, Orlando Magic forward Hedo Turkoglu was suspended 20 games by the NBA after testing positive for steroids.
Here's what didn't happen next.
Demands for more stringent drug testing. Calls for Congressional hearings. Comparisons to Lance Armstrong. I-told-you-so tweets from Jose Canseco. Wailing over Turkoglu's career statistics. Gnashing of teeth over his place in basketball history. Concern that this sets a bad example for the children. Concern that this sets a bad example for other dopers. (Seriously: Turkoglu took a left on Anabolic Avenue, and all he has to show for it 2.9 points and 2.4 rebounds per game? Did his methenolone get mixed up with a bag of oregano?)
Turkoglu's swift mea culpa and dubious-sounding excuse -- he took mystery medication from a trainer in Turkey last summer to recover from a shoulder injury, and whaddya know, he forgot to check it against the league's list of banned substances -- was not met with the pronounced public snickering that greeted Roger Clemens' totally scientific Third Ear and the short, tragic non-life of Tyler Hamilton's unborn twin. Federal agents did not pick through Turkoglu's trash. Anti-doping officials did not appear on "60 Minutes" to press for a detailed confession. No one connected the potential dots between Turkoglu and former Magic teammate Rashard Lewis, who also flunked a steroid screen in 2009; no one, not even on the Internet, took the next conspiracy-minded step and wondered how, exactly, former Magic frontcourt mate Dwight Howard's bulbous shoulders became bigger than Barry Bonds' head.
To the contrary, nobody cared. Not really. Nobody cared because the NBA got the same pass it always gets, because everybody knows that professional basketball -- a ferociously competitive, highly lucrative sport that puts a premium on running, jumping, strength and endurance, not to mention rapid recovery during a long, physically taxing season -- does not have a performance-enhancing drug problem.
David Stern seems to think so. In 2005, the league commissioner said that PED use wasn't "a problem at the present time that we think we have." Charles Barkley seems to think so, too: four years ago, he expressed surprise at Lewis' steroid suspension, arguing that tall, lithe NBA players simply don't have physiques that suggest widespread doping. Around the same time Stern made his comment, a longtime NBA athletic trainer told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that "in the basketball culture, players want to be long and athletic. They want to be lean, and they would be fearful that added bulk would affect their lateral quickness;" a team physician said that "when you're playing every other night for 82 games, endurance is really what you're after, and steroids actually hurt that;" and 15-year league veteran Tony Massenburg added that NBA players don't even like to lift weights.
Of course, all of this makes perfect sense. Provided you have no idea how PEDs can actually enhance, you know, performance.
"That makes no sense," says former Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) mastermind Victor Conte. "Look at the biceps of Tour de France riders. They're 9-10 inches [in circumference]. We know they use anabolic steroids, specifically testosterone. For the most part, these drugs -- meaning the whole category of anabolic steroids -- are recovery drugs. They are very powerful. Would they be a benefit to an NBA player? Absolutely."
Charles Yesalis, a Penn State emeritus professor and sports doping expert, concurs.
"Distance runners have been using anabolics and growth hormones in very small doses for years," he says. "Not to build muscle. But to help recuperate. The myth of [PEDs] making you muscle-bound is so over."
I believe NBA players are using steroids. Human growth hormone. Stimulants like Adderall. The blood-boosting drug erythropoietin (EPO). Anything and everything to get an edge. I believe players are doping in the summer and doping in season and doping during All-Star Weekend, stacking and micro-dosing, injecting and rubbing in cream. Do I have smoking-gun proof? Nothing beyond the occasional failed drug test, like the one that earned then-Memphis Grizzlies guard O.J. Mayo a 10-game suspension in 2011. Is use widespread, like Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose reportedly once suggested and then denied? I have no idea.
Still, I'm convinced it's happening. So is Yesalis, who after Lewis' suspension told me there was "no doubt in his mind." To think otherwise is to have both admirable faith in the better angels of human nature and a willful disregard for basic logic. "The money involved is substantial," Yesalis says. "The drugs are available. The tests are fraught with loopholes. I don't know how complicated it is. It's the same as all other sports. Why would anybody think the NBA is any cleaner than baseball?" To think otherwise is to sound like Stern, who in 2005 delivered the following prepared statement to a Congressional committee, and only walked away a free man because declaring one's studious belief in the existence of Bigfoot before a group of skeptical lawmakers is not, in fact, a federal crime:
"The sport of basketball emphasizes a specialized set of physical abilities -- particularly quickness, agility and basketball skill -- that are distinct from those required in a number of other sports. Accordingly, illicit substances that could assist athletes in strength sports [such as weightlifting and football], power sports [such as baseball], or endurance sports [such as cycling or marathon running], are not likely to be of benefit to NBA players."
Ahem. Conte tells a story. Back when he was helping athletes dope, he gave EPO to one of his female sprinters. (Conte declines to provide her name, but it's easy to infer he's talking about retired sprinter Kelli White.) White won two gold medals at the 2003 world championships. When she subsequently confessed to PED use during the height of the BALCO scandal, anti-doping scientists such as Don Catlin found one part of her drug cocktail baffling: why was a sprinter taking EPO, a drug that boosts endurance by increasing the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity?
"What they failed to ask was this: how long do you think these athletes train each day?" Conte says. "Hours and hours. And in the offseason, training for months and months, do you think that a deeper training load wouldn't help you? These are training drugs!"
When Conte first began studying the physiology of athletic performance, he says, he was particularly intrigued by Defense Department research on Navy SEALs, whose bodies and minds are subjected to extreme levels of strain and stress during intense training exercises. "They go through hand-to-hand combat, verbal abuse, sleep deprivation, underwater demolition," he says. "It depletes the body of nutrients and builds up metabolic waste products. I saw parallels with elite athletes."
Growth hormone, Conte says, could help NBA players maintain muscle mass over the course of a long, punishing season. Anabolic steroids accelerate muscle tissue repair and healing, which could help with recovery from both hard training and hard-luck injury. EPO boosts endurance not only by bringing more oxygen to muscles, but also by speeding up removal of metabolic waste, delaying the onset of fatigue.
"I have heard a lot of athletes in the NFL and track and field describe the effect of EPO with one word," he says. "It makes you like a machine. You just don't get tired. In basketball, you might not see the effect as much in the first and second quarter, but by the fourth quarter there's a huge edge. One guy has a body full of toxins that have built up. The other guy has a body that has accelerated the removal of those toxins. He's the one who will be able to make that quick move and get past his defender."
In baseball, widespread use of PEDs inverted the usual relationship between advancing age and declining production: 30-something players were suddenly becoming better as they got older. (See Clemens, Roger. Er, allegedly.) In the NBA, a group of aging stars including Los Angeles Lakers guards Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash spent much of the last half-decade managing to pull off a similar trick; was it, as Grantland's Bill Simmons has argued, the result of "better doctors, surgical procedures, dieting, drug testing, trainers, computers, video equipment, workout equipment, workout regiments, airplanes" and even "hotel pillows?" Or was something else afoot?
Remember: during MLB's 1990s size-and-power surge, before BALCO and the Mitchell Report, people were writing straight-faced articles about Ken Caminiti's "goody bag" -- full of all-natural vitamins and nutritional supplements -- and how creatine and weight training alone were changing the sport.
"The level of these hormones like growth hormone and testosterone begin to decline in the body on average at age 30," Conte says. "At least a one percent drop per year. So guys getting up in their 30s are not going to recover like they would be in their mid 20s. That's another way [PEDs] can help."
If NBA players have ample incentives to use PEDs -- millions of guaranteed dollars at stake; the not-insubstantial fact that the drugs work -- they also have few disincentives. After all, federal lawmakers labeled the league's drug testing policy "inadequate," "pathetic" and "a joke" in 2005, and again blasted the NBA three years later. Last October, World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman said the league had "gaps" in its program -- gaps that ESPN.com's Henry Abbott identified as:
• A lack of blood testing, which means the league cannot detect HGH use;
• A lack of "biological passports," a year-round assessment of an athlete's blood profile that looks for chemical oddities and has been credited with reducing doping in cycling;
• A vulnerability to micro-dosing, a practice in which athletes take small doses of PEDs that clear the body in a matter of hours, giving testers a tiny window of opportunity;
• Advance notice to players of drug tests, particularly in the off-season, which gives players time to prepare and/or make themselves scarce.
Abbott also points out that the NBA only subjects players to four random tests per season and just two random tests in the offseason. Both numbers make Conte incredulous. "Testing you only a couple of times a year isn't much, especially when you know how quickly some of these drugs clear," he says. "EPO, synthetic testosterone, you can clear them in a day. And the offseason is when the fish are really biting. If you don't put your hook and line in the pond when you know they're biting, you're not going to catch any fish. I believe that there are really all sorts of loopholes in the testing of the NBA."
Yesalis trusts his eyes. Are NBA players as muscular as their NFL counterparts? No. But they're bigger, faster and stronger than their predecessors. More defined, too. "Just get a bunch of pictures of pro basketball players in the 1960s and 1970s," he says. "Look at how they've changed." In the early 1980s, Yesalis was a college strength coach. He remembers women's basketball players at major conference programs lifting weights. "Basketball players have been lifting for more than 30 years," he says. "The notion that they're bigger and stronger just because they started lifting weights is a bunch of crap. That can't explain it. You can't use that as an excuse."
Maybe Yesalis is wrong. Conte, too. Maybe I'm wrong. I'd like to be. I'd like to believe Turkoglu is a sad, bizarre outlier, that the reason only eight NBA players since 2000 have been caught and suspended for PED use is that NBA players don't use PEDs. Thing is, history suggests otherwise. Americans once scoffed at East Germany's no-good, very-bad, lyin' and cheatin' glow-in-the-dark Olympic athletes -- that is, until we learned that the United States Olympic Committee may have covered up more than 100 positive drugs tests for U.S. athletes who won 19 Olympics medals from 1988-2000. Mark McGwire wasn't here to talk about the past. In her 2004 autobiography, Marion Jones covered an entire page in large red letters reading: I AM AGAINST PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS. I HAVE NEVER TAKEN THEM AND I NEVER WILL TAKE THEM. Armstrong told his doubters that he was "sorry you don't believe in miracles." When the Carolina Panthers were caught up in a Super Bowl steroids scandal, not even their punter was immune. Years after his good boy sweater-wearing doping confession, Alex Rodriguez is allegedly still hanging out with Cousin Yuri. So it goes. Sports are awash in drugs. Why would professional basketball be any different? "It's the same story with all of these sports," Conte says. "If you have the financial incentive and the inept testing, and you are part of a culture where you believe your opponents are using drugs, you do what you have to do in order to be competitive. I'm not as familiar with NBA culture, but I know that all the same elements are there."
In 2004, Conte appeared on ABC's "20/20," giving an interview in which he fingered Jones and insisted that the Olympics were rife with PEDs, corruption and cover-ups. Many scoffed. Almost a decade later, he's gone from pariah to prophet, and his disquieting message -- the one that very well may apply to the same NBA that has built an entire unironic marketing campaign around the word big -- hasn't changed.
"There is no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy," he says. "Not at the elite level of sport."


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Fee adjustments
Since January 1, 2020, visitors can see a minor adjustment of 2.2% on many Parks Canada fees.
The Agency also assessed the current service level offered at Parks Canada places. Through this review, 21 sites were reclassified and their admission fees have been adjusted. Learn more about these adjustments.
Entry and service fees are charged at most national parks and national historic sites, where revenues are kept to support visitor services and facilities. This means that every time you visit a park or site you are investing in its future — and in a legacy for future generations.
The following definitions apply to entry and service fee categories unless otherwise specified
Adult - Person 18 to 64 years of age
Senior - Person 65 years of age or over
Youth - Person 6 to 17 years of age
Family/Group - Up to seven people arriving in a single vehicle in a national park
Free admission for youth 17 and under
Fees starting January 1, 2020
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Free admission for youth 17 and under
As of January 1, 2018, admission to Parks Canada places for youth 17 and under is free! There's no better time to create lasting memories with the whole family.
What is free?
Admission to all national parks, national historic sites, and national marine conservation areas operated by Parks Canada will be provided free of charge.
Free admission for youth only applies to places managed by Parks Canada. It does not apply to provincial parks, territorial parks, municipal and private parks, nor to the many historic sites not managed by Parks Canada.
Please refer to the full list of Parks Canada places before you plan your visit to take advantage of free admission for youth.
What is not free?
Parks Canada is pleased to offer free admission for youth at our parks and sites, however regular fees still apply for other experiences and services, such as:
- Camping, backcountry and other accommodations
- Canadian Rockies Hot Springs
- Northern Park Backcountry Camping and Excursion Permit
- Lockage
- Mooring
- Reservation fees
- Guided tours and hikes and programs not usually included with admission
- Some special event fees
- Firewood
- Backcountry overnight use
Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Please verify with the location you will be visiting for more information.


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The Chicago Bears will be just fine if they keep playing like this — and don't lose any more players to injuries.
Jay Cutler threw for 188 yards and a touchdown after missing a game because of a concussion, and the Chicago Bears broke it open early in a 28-10 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
Injuries to Devin Hester, Matt Forte and Charles Tillman, however, tempered some of the good feelings this win created.
Tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead and just a game ahead of Minnesota (6-5) coming in, the Bears (8-3) grabbed a 25-3 halftime lead with Cutler connecting on just about every pass. The defense held Adrian Peterson in check early on, although he did finish with 108 yards rushing. Chicago also came away with three more takeaways to increase its league-leading total to 30.
The rather easy win came after back-to-back losses to Houston and San Francisco that left many questioning how good this team really is.
But it also came with a heavy price.
The Bears lost Hester early to a concussion and watched as Forte hobbled off the field midway through the third quarter with an ankle injury. Coach Lovie Smith said Tillman also hurt his ankle.
Besides those three, the Bears lost both starting guards in the third quarter to knee injuries, with Lance Louis and Chris Spencer going down. Louis' injury forced Chicago to go with Gabe Carimi after he lost the right tackle job to Jonathan Scott.
As for Cutler, he sure looked sharp after missing Monday's blowout loss at San Francisco.
Back after being knocked out of the Texans game on a helmet-to-helmet hit by Tim Dobbins, he got off to a scorching start and completed 23 of 31 passes with an interception to go with that touchdown.
Brandon Marshall caught 18 passes for 108 yards and became the first Bears receiver since Marty Booker in 2002 to go over 1,000 yards. On defense, Henry Melton set the tone by sacking Christian Ponder on the first play from scrimmage. Nick Roach set up the first touchdown by knocking the ball out of Peterson's hands. Chris Conte set another TD with a 35-yard interception return, and Julius Peppers blocked a field goal.
The league's leading rusher, Peterson tied Robert Smith's club record with a 100-yard performance for the fifth straight game even though he managed just 25 in the first half. He also lost two fumbles.
Ponder wasn't much help, going 22 of 43 with 159 yards and a touchdown along with an interception. His favorite target, Percy Harvin, sat out his second straight game with a sprained left ankle, and the Vikings lost for the third time in four games.
Cutler completed 15 of 17 passes for 117 yards in the first half, and the Bears jumped out a big lead after a shaky start on offense.
Forte fumbled on Chicago's first play from scrimmage, leading to a 40-yard field goal by Blair Walsh — all the scoring the Vikings did in the half.
The Bears quickly turned this one around, starting with Roach's forced fumble. They took over on the Minnesota 34, and Michael Bush ran it in from the 1.
Chris Kluwe then shanked a 22-yard punt, giving Chicago possession near midfield before Robbie Gould kicked a 47-yard field goal. And the Bears stopped the Vikings again early in the second quarter when Peppers knocked down Walsh's 30-yard field goal, the 13th block of his career.
Bush, in for Forte, converted on a fourth-down run to keep a drive going and Antoine Winfield shoved Brandon Marshall to the ground as he attempted to catch a pass in the end zone. Bush then scored from the 1, and holder Adam Podlesh ran in for a 2-point conversion that made it 18-3.
Ponder got picked off by Conte and he returned it 35 yards to the Minnesota 13. That led to a scoring strike from Cutler to a lunging Matt Spaeth on the next play. It might have been more had Kevin Williams not blocked Gould's 39-yard field goal as the half expired.
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Potato Gnocchi
- 4 cups mashed potatoes (without added milk and butter)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 4 teaspoons olive oil
- 3 quarts water
- 1 jar (24 ounces) meatless spaghetti sauce
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the mashed potatoes, flour and salt. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, yolk and olive oil; add to potato mixture. Turn onto a heavily floured surface; knead for 3-5 minutes or until smooth. Divide into fourths. On a floured surface, roll each portion into a 3/4-in.-thick rope; cut into 1-in. pieces.
- 2. In a Dutch oven, bring water to a boil. Cook gnocchi in batches for 45-60 seconds or until they rise to the surface. Remove with a strainer. Serve spaghetti sauce over gnocchi; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
Nutrition Facts
3/4 cup: 283 calories, 5g fat (1g saturated fat), 82mg cholesterol, 934mg sodium, 47g carbohydrate (7g sugars, 5g fiber), 9g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2-1/2 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 fat.
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Holy gnocchi!!! This made so many. Next time I will make them a bit smaller. I was in a hurry and didn't cut them small enough. As with anything made the first time, there are always improvements that one can make. I did add rosemary, oregano and basil to the recipe because I wanted that herb flavor!!!! Man, it was great. Light and fluffy and yummy. My husband wants them again. Oh, another thing I did was to boil them in a quart of chicken stock and two quarts of water. That helped to infuse flavor as well.
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This is a great recipe, I have been looking for an easy gnocchi recipe, my mother used to make these all the time, the hard way. I made yesterday and couldn't believe how easy and quick. I even froze some. Thanks!!
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By Kathleen M. Heide, Ph.D.
There has been a resurgence of interest in girls who kill, following the report of two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls who stabbed another girl of the same age 19 times on 31 May 2014. The girls reportedly had planned to kill their friend following a birthday sleepover to demonstrate their allegiance to a fictionalized Internet character known as Slender Man. Despite the horror and the apparent senseless nature of the attack, all three girls had some good fortune.
Although the victim had been left for dead, she miraculously lived. Had one of the stab wounds been a millimeter closer to a major artery by the heart, the victim would have bled to death. The victim crawled from the woods towards the street and cried for help. Had she not had the will to live and the good fortune of a passerby who heard her cries and took immediate action, the two assailants would have been facing murder charges instead of attempted murder charges. Under today's sentencing laws, these two 12-year-old girls if convicted of premeditated murder in adult court could have spent the rest of their lives in prison.
The story sparked national attention given the age and gender of the assailants and the viciousness of the act. Questions quickly followed: Are murders by girls on the rise? Do girls who commit lethal violence differ from boys?
I have been evaluating juvenile homicide offenders and analyzing murder arrest trends in the United States for 30 years. My analyses of over 40,000 case of juveniles (ages 6-17) arrested nationally for murder and non-negligent manslaughter provide convincing evidence that the involvement of girls does not show an increasing trend over the years. On the average, the proportion of juveniles arrested for murder who were female since the mid-1970s has been about 8%. Stated another way, 92% of kids under 18 who are arrested for murder are boys. Analyses of victims, weapons used, co-defendant status, and circumstances indicate that there are significant differences (not due to chance) between boys and girls arrested for murder.
Girls under 18 are significantly more likely than boys:
- To kill intimate partners
- To kill victims under age 5
- To kill family members
- To use a knife, personal weapon, or weapon other than a gun
- To kill a female victim
- To act alone
- To be involved in a conflict-related killings (e.g., argument)
Boys under 18 are significantly more likely than girls:
- To kill adolescents and adults
- To kill strangers
- To use a gun
- To kill male victims
- To be involved in crime-related killings
- To be involved in gang-related killings
- To use accomplices to kill
The Wisconsin stabbing brought attention once again to youth violence in the United States. While murders committed by juveniles under 18 have decreased substantially since 1993, when they reached record highs, it is no time for complacence. This tragic case underscores the importance of parents to be aware of their children's activities and to monitor their Internet activities. While it is unknown what factors in concert propelled these girls to plot for months to kill their friend, one fact is known from their statements to the police: their belief in a homicidal mythical internet character was part of the near lethal equation.
Kathleen M. Heide, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and author of Understanding Parricide: When Sons and Daughters Kill Parents (Oxford U. Press, 2013), Animal Cruelty: Pathway to Violence against People (Alta-Mira, 2004), Young Killers: The Challenge of Juvenile Homicide (Sage, 1999), and Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide (Ohio State University Press, 1992).
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Recent heated debate over Blasphemy laws is getting worse day by day and now the issue has gone to the level of insanity and now people are using it to score political points.
The issue got worse when instead of taking the issue in parliament or Islamic ideological council , the issue is politicized for point scoring left/right politics or liberal/mullah politics. Now its high time for religious scholars, law experts and human rights experts to sit together and resolve the issue by doing a constructive legal and academic debate. We have a very basic principle in Quran :
"O ye who believe! Be steadfast witnesses for Allah in equity, and let not hatred of any people seduce you that ye deal not justly. Deal justly, that is nearer to your duty. Observe your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is Informed of what ye do." [Al-maeda ,8]
The biggest blasphemy that can be done is to introduce things in the name of Allah and Prophet (S.A.W) which are not part of their teachings.
We need to improve Qazaf laws for false witness, law of witness itself, importance of personal testimony, procedure of implementation and also we need to see whether this law can be implemented on minorities or not. According to fiqh Hanafi the dominating fiqh , the law cannot be implemented on Zimmi or non muslims under the responsibility of an Islamic State. Even for majority muslim population we need to see what punishment is there according to Quran and Sunnah or social circumstances of the alleged person should be considered during the case like the punishment for Zina or adultery committed by muslim with backward or uneducated social background is half as compared to other muslims and also we need to see if apology in such cases can work. Current procedure is a legacy of colonial era where there is no consideration of alleged person's s social background is given or law is applied in a real centralized manner.
We also need to see what is meant by Blasphemy? I have seen muslims being persecuted for this law just because of them having a different point of view on 12 Rabiulawwal and Waseela issue.
We neither want a Pastor Terry Jones type situation which can start a civil war in the country nor we should make it a holocaust issue on which even debate is not allowed in many countries including those who call themselves civilized.
The problem is that we are in a war mode and stuck in an unwanted war which has destroyed or social fabric and everyone is in hyper state to protect their ways and level of sanity has gone down. The policy of using sectarianism as a tool by establishment and foreign masters for expanding war has also contributed in this.
If we claim to be muslims and call our state an Islamic state then basic principles of justice and equality which were part of the first Islamic state of Madina and also part of Meesaq e Madina should be kept in mind.


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Here is a link for the just-posted paper Diameter of Polyhedra: The Limits of Abstraction by Freidrich Eisenbrand, Nicolai Hahnle, Sasha Razborov, and Thomas Rothvoss.
And here is a link to the paper by Sandeep Koranne and Anand Kulkarni "The d-step Conjecture is Almost true" – most of the discussion so far was in this direction.
We had a long and interesting discussion regarding the Hirsch conjecture and I would like to continue the discussion here.
The way I regard the open collaborative efforts is as an open collective attempt to discuss and make progress on the problem (and to raise more problems), and also as a way to assist people who think or work (or will think or will work) on these problems on their own.
Most of the discussion in the previous thread was not about the various problems suggested there but rather was about trying to prove the Hirsch Conjecture precisely! In particular, the approach of Sandeep Koranne and Anand Kulkarni which attempts to prove the conjecture using "flips" (closely related to Pachner moves, or bistaller operations) was extensively discussed. Here is the link to another paper by Koranne and Kulkarni "Combinatorial Polytope Enumeration". There is certainly more to be understood regarding flips, Pachner moves, the diameter, and related notions. For example, I was curious about for which Pachner moves "vertex decomposibility" (a strong form of shellability known to imply the Hirsch bound) is preserved. We also briefly discussed metric aspects of the Hirsch conjecture and random polytopes.
For general background: Here is a chapter that I wrote about graphs, skeleta and paths of polytopes. Some papers on polytopes on Gunter Ziegler's homepage describe very interesting and possibly relevant current research in this area. Here is a link to Eddie Kim and Francisco Santos's survey article on the Hirsch Conjecture.
Here is a link from the open problem garden to the continuous analog of the Hirsch conjecture proposed by Antoine Deza, Tamas Terlaky, and Yuriy Zinchenko.
Earlier posts are: The polynomial Hirsch conjecture, a proposal for Polymath 3 , The polynomial Hirsch conjecture, a proposal for Polymath 3 cont. , The polynomial Hirsch conjecture – how to improve the upper bounds .
Here are again some basic problems around the Hirsch Conjecture. When we talk about polytopes we usually mean simple polytopes (although looking at general polytopes may be of interest).
Problem 0: Study various possible approaches for proving the Hirsch conjecture.
We mainly discussed this avenue, which is certainly the most tempting.
Problem 1: Improve the known upper bounds for the diameter of graphs of polytopes, perhaps even finding a polynomial upper bound in terms of the dimension and the number of facets .
Strategy 1: Study the problem in the purely combinatorial settings studied in the EHRR paper.
Strategy 2: Explore other avenues.
(Nicolai Hahnle remarked that the proof extends to families of monomials.)
Problem 2: Improve the known lower bounds for the problem in the abstract setting.
Strategy 3: Use the argument for upper bounds as some sort of a role model for an example.
Strategy 4: Try to use recursively mesh constructions like those used by EHRR.
Problem 3: What is the diameter of a polytopal digraph for a polytope with n facets in dimension d?
A polytopal digraph is obtained by orienting edges according to some generic linear objective function. This problem can be studied also in the abstract setting of shellability (and even in the context of unique sink orientations).
Problem 4: Find a (possibly randomized) pivot rule for the simplex algorithm which requires, in the worse case, small number of pivot steps.
A "pivot rule" refers to a rule to walk on the polytopal digraph where each step can be performed efficiently.
Problem 5: Study the diameter of graphs (digraphs) of specific classes of polytopes.
Problem 6: Study these problems in low dimensions.
Problem 7: What can be said about expansion properties of graphs of polytopes?
Problem 8: What is the maximum length of a directed path in a graph of a d-polytope with n facets?
Problem 9: Study (and find further) continuous analogs of the Hirsch conjecture.
Problem 10: Find "high dimensional" analogs for the diameter problem and for shellability.
Problem 11: Find conditions for rapid convergence of a random walk (or of other stochastic processes) on directed acyclic graphs.
Problem 12: Study these problems for random polytopes.
A polynomial upper bound for graphs of polytopes is not known also for random polytops.
Problem 13: How many dual graphs of simplicial d-spheres with n facets are there?


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"Sorry for my late reply. I really appreciate your warm and gentle thoughts for us, and I cannot find words to apologize to the people who trusted Kazu and BIC. All I can do for them is to tell what I know without lies and hiding, but I'm sorry that I do not know how Kazu has managed her business. Both dealing and accounting are completely under her control, and nobody in BIC knows the details. I have nothing to hide, and I don't ask you to hide. I easily can imagine what happens on the discussion boards in internet all over the world., it's completely same as happening in Japan. Of course we know it, but no one can stop it."
I don't believe BIC will re-open, I am not sure how it will be handled but will
let you know when I know anything. I will not hold back anything...
It is heartbreaking to imagine what they are going through. I wish I could be
with them.
Rob had posted that I was in Japan. I was supposed to be but I was here because
my Mom had a heart attack and I was with her. I have not been in Japan since the day of the earthquake. I am hoping to find out more details about Kazue's disappearance and will share when I know anything. Right now all I care about is Kazue's safe return and her families welfare.
Unfortunately I haven't heard anything new. But I need to give more of an explanation on some things. First off all the positive comments about Kazue are totally right on. Thank you for sharing what we all know. That Kazue is an honest, incredibly hard workingwoman who loves her family and her business and has always done right by everyone.
If she is guilty of anything it is of being "generous to a fault" About Kazue and BIC. I am going to be very open and I truly hope Kazue or her family would not mind. This is probably been the most difficult time in Kazue's life right now. 9 years ago Kazue started BIC from nothing and all alone and eventually ended up with 7 employees including family.
Over the last few years Japan was in a horrible economy, (as bad if not worse than the U.S.)
BIC struggled but Kazue just worked harder to stay afloat. Over a year ago her son was struggling with medical problems and after many Doctors and hospital stays and medicines he was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome as one of his problems.
This is very rare in Japan so Kazue had little support. She of course chose more time with her son and less on the business. So BIC struggled and Kazue fell behind more and more.
Kazue's sister Jimmy (who is a true gem herself) stepped up and tried to help Kazue
with the ever mounting emails (at 1 point when I visited the number was over
4000.) One comment was that BIC was turned over to a family member when Kazue's son was suffering but this is not true. Jimmy and her other sister worked more to try to
help but they were already full time. Then 6 weeks ago the Earthquake and Tsunami happened. Many areas were spared a lot of damage including where Kazue's family and BIC were located. But the devastation was and is so large that it has destroyed many lives and businesses. BIC was one. It was fragile and there was no way to save it. It is our complete hope that Kazue had a "meltdown" and ran away from everything and she is safe. But no one has heard a word for 12 days now. Kazue is an amazing Mother and that is the hardest part to imagine her being gone from her children so long.
One comment has been that they kept the business running after she disappeared.
OF Course they did! They were trying to keep it going for Kazue. Wouldn't any family try to do that for a struggling family member?? There was nothing sinister. They weren't trying
to walk away with anyone's money. I know this family, all of them are honest hardworking and kind people. Any other assumption is ridiculously ignorant.
For those who have pre-orders and deposits. If you paid by credit card contact your cc company. Paypal's limitations are 45 days I believe, so I am not sure on this. Of course eventually all will be settled but right now all is on hold depending on Kazue's situation. Many of us are have money involved but please keep this in perspective. Nothing is more important right now than Kazue's safety and the survival of her family. BLUE said it perfectly - It is very sad when a $500.00 doll deposit is more important than a human life. Thank you for BLUE for writing what most of us were thinking.
I will post when I know more but will not be active on the boards for now. Kazue
is very special and it is awful to read negative about her.
Please pray and think good thoughts for Kazue and her family.
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This incident happen to me on 14 Feb 17 at YES mathematics. Center only have two person in charge: Chia and Ang
I must admit that we are late payment for 2 weeks. I call up the center to check what time they close in order for me to make payment on behalf of my daughter. Chia answered the call. When my second time to confirm the timing. He replied: Than you think we should wait you till 12pm to come?
I quickly rush down to the center after my dinner to make the payment. My hand holding the money and start asking who is the person who answer my call and why his attitude so bad. Chia start shouting: "Is me cos you asking a stupid question just now".
Ang came out from the class, both start shouting to me. Chia : "Your child (started since Sec 1) came here for so long you don't know the fee meh why still need to ask again" I start recall and remember I call them before Jan. I was thought that there will be a increase fee from sec 3 to sec 4" Why as a parent we cannot call and double confirm the tution fee?
Ang turn: "You keep calling us this and that. You remember you call us when your girl sick? That time I only make two phone call to them. First call to inform them my Girl is sick. My girl (loss her voice) ask me to give a second call to check when is the next available remake lesson. Indirectly telling me I'm asking to many question disturbing them.
Ang start fierce and shouting towards me and say: "You should feel guilty for late payment instead of still dare to questioning us for being bad attitude" So is he trying to tell me their bad attitude and shouting towards me just because we late payment?
Chia shouting again: "Ask her girl come out don't teach her anymore" I also start shouted my girl for coming out from the lesson. Chia use the small table and block me for going in (I have no intention to go in as I know that I have no authority to go in).
Infront of so many student, Ang start fierce and shouting to ask my girl come out from the lesson. When Ang come out again, I tell him off this is between us stop shouting to my girl. His reply and behaviour make me shock: "You shout at me I shout to your daughter la" In the first place don't know who start shouting (how childish as a professional right).
I stop quarreling with them but this Chia continue scolding me: "I feel pity of your girl that she have such a bad mother who never give tution fee to her. I always so lenient to her and ask her go in for the lesson first" My girl classmate told me this chia ever scold my girl for late payment. How hypocrites he is right?
Do you want your child enter in to this kind of study environment?
Bad attitude.
Childish Behavior
Behaviour like loan shark.
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Highly recommended for all who are willing to learn.
My tutor collects material fee every lesson for the materials printed from the students who do not deposit any amount with him. By right every student is supposed to deposit a certain amount of money with the tutor, but some students did not do so. That's why the tutor has to collect the money from them every single lesson. (Some students don't like to follow instructions) like the one who sent in the review previously. I am in the same tuition class as him. I knew that he did not pass his tests at all before he joined the centre (overheard the conversations between his mum and the tutor). He scored A2 for his past few tests after he joined the centre. He should be satisfied with this kind of result. He is a kind of irritating to the class as he is always late for his lessons(rushing in in the middle of the lessons), that's why he felt that he was only copying model answers. The tutor has to explain to him all over again for the lessons that he missed. He is wasting the tutors and our time for doing that. I heard that he wanted to quit without giving one month's notice to the Centre, that's why the Principal gave him that kind of remark. The Principal is very strict with the rules and regulations for the Centre. How can the teacher follow every school's syllabus to cater for everyone ? The students in my tuition class scored very well for their Math (The teacher constantly monitored our results).
(Things will be better if everyone follows rules and regulations stated when you first join!)
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Bad staff attitude
Insufficient lesson materials
I won't really reccomend.
I postponed sessions once every 2 weeks due to busy schedule.
Principal began to change attitude towards me when I told him I was going to quit, said I wont be getting any make up lessons. Even told me how about I just quit immediately and he keep the deposit.
"My policy states" "We must go law by law"
Is there really a need to get so agitated over a student quitting?
His hands and voice were trembling when I requested to quit
Constant collection of material fees at the end of every class.
Sessions are too long, 2 hours of copying model answers is very tiring.
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Fabricators Gain an Edge with Plasma-Arc Cutting
Chances are good that unless you've studied up recently, you are not up to speed on the newly expanded capabilities of plasma-arc-cutting (PAC) technology. In talking recently with folks from two completely different types of metal-fabricating operations, who have indeed studied up on PAC technology, here's some of the feedback I received:
• "Manual cutting-machine setup procedures to bevel plate edges, for weld prep for example, that used to take as long as 2 hr. per job have been completely eliminated thanks to automation."
• "Using our new PAC technology to etch metal parts takes an 8-hr. job down to just a few minutes."
• "A set of jobs that took two weeks of two-shift production to complete using our previous PAC machine now takes just one 8-hr. shift."
• "We're saving hundreds of hours leveraging new PAC technology, edge-beveling plate sections for weld prep."
• "We recently completed a production job requiring 429 pierces. Without newer technology, we could never have quoted such a job."
Who made these statements? David Kerstetter, a manufacturing engineer at Schramm, Inc., an OEM manufacturer of hydraulic drill rigs; and Curt Renaud, founder and owner of Curtis Welding, a custom fabrication and welding shop.
Schramm Says So Long to Shearing, Punching
The Schramm drill-rig production facility in West Chester, PA, serves the 113-yr.-old company well, as it recently received the 2013 Governor's Impact Award for Exporting. From 2010 through 2012, Schramm tripled export revenues, opening new markets in three continents. It also received the Manufacturer of the Year Award for 2012 from the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. All of that comes not long after the company's 30,000-sq.-ft. metalforming and weld shop installed, in June 2010, a new 20- by 40-ft. CNC plasma-cutting machine. The accu-kut machine, from Advanced Kiffer Industries, Cleveland, OH, is outfitted with Hypertherm (Hanover, NH) state-of-the-art 400-A PAC equipment. While no one directly relates the new PAC machine to the company's award-winning prowess, its benefits are obvious to Kerstetter.
"We're building custom rigs with countless new part designs coming into the shop—the epitome of low production and high variability," says Kerstetter. Fabricated assemblies range to 50 ft. long and weigh as much as 20,000 lb. "To date we've created more than 6000 programs for the accu-kut machine, used to burn part profiles, bevel edges for welding and to also burn bolt holes and other internal shapes."
Schramm's PAC machine replaced shearing and oxyfuel cutting for profile cutting, and use of an ironworker to punch holes. As a result, productivity and throughput have soared. Kerstetter offers an example.
"We burn a lot of gussets," he says, noting production runs of as many as 200 gussets cut from ½-in.-thick steel plate. "That size job would take 16 hr. to complete on our previous oxyfuel machine; we get it done on the accu-kut in 1 hr."
In addition, some 50 percent of the plasma-cutting work completed on the accu-kut features a beveled edge for weld prep. Here's where Kerstetter's homework on PAC technology has really paid off, by opting to include Hypertherm's True Bevel technology. True Bevel automates cutter-path and parameter programming (such as gas type and pressure) based on the desired bevel profile. It reduces or eliminates trial-and-error time, increasing productivity and minimizing waste.
"We used to spend as much as 2 hr. setting up our oxyfuel table for beveling," says Kerstetter. "That process has completely disappeared. And, edge quality is weld-ready—we take parts right from the accu-kut to the weld booths, with no secondary edge grinding needed."
True Bevel serves as a perfect complement to another Hypertherm development—True Hole technology, also used profusely in the Schramm fab shop. True Hole, according to Hypertherm, automatically adjusts several parameters to optimize hole circularity and edge finish based on material type and thickness and hole diameter. Those critical parameters:
• Gas flow
• Amperage
• Piercing technique
• Lead-in and lead-out technique
• Cutting speed
• Timing
"We must have as close to perfectly round bolt holes as possible," stresses Kerstetter, "to ensure nice, tight fitup in the field. Our rigs drill to a depth of up to 15,000 ft., and can experience a lot of vibration. Bolts cannot rattle loose."
Last but not least, Kerstetter pours praise on the ability of the PAC system to etch parts with identification tags and other messages—often safety-related phrases for rig operators to heed. To etch with the accu-kut, the machine operator quickly switches out the machine's 400-A cutting head with a 130-A head. (Hypertherm literature says that its system can changeover from cutting with oxygen to marking with argon in 2.4 sec.)
Summarizing the impact made on his shop by the accu-kut/Hypertherm combo, Kerstetter notes that "with our old burn table, we were als two weeks behind. Now we're never behind —never. In one 8-hr. shift we can run as much production that used to require two weeks of two-shift operation. The machine paid for itself in less than one year."
Is there an Echo in Here?
Curt Renaud, namesake of Curtis Welding, Atlantic, IA, begins our discussion by echoing Kerstetter's comments related to etching with his new accu-kut/Hypertherm PAC setup. "I couldn't imagine buying a plasma machine without the ability to etch," says Renaud.
Renaud's fab-and-weld shop employs 10, having more than doubled in size since 2004. He's expanded the shop several times in recent years, to keep up with increased demand from large customers in the wastewater, precast concrete and wind-tower industries. That's quite an impressive customer list compared to the local repair gigs he cut his teeth on when he launched the firm in 1990, in a 50- by 50-ft. rented building. Today, Curtis Welding calls a 13,500-sq.-ft. shop home, outfitted with a 250-ton 14-ft. press brake, 120-ton ironworker, a vertical saw, 7.5-ton overhead crane, a bevy of welding equipment and its new 8.5- by 25-ft. accu-kut/Hypertherm PAC machine.
Renaud runs mostly ¼-in. mild-steel plate (extending to 2 in. in some cases) and 24-gauge stainless steel through his accu-kut. The machine landed on his shop floor in March 2012 after he researched the technology at the Fabtech 2011 tradeshow in Chicago. Before then, plate cutting, weld prep and holemaking occurred on a 2008-vintage 6- by 12-ft. plasma-cutting table Renaud calls "entry level." It replaced an old oxyfuel-cutting table, "and brought in a ton of money for me," says Renaud, "paying for itself in just a few months. But as the size of the jobs we began to bid on kept getting larger and larger, I decided we had to upgrade to the 25-ft. PAC table."
Renaud, like Kerstetter, appreciates the Hypertherm True Bevel and True Hole technology—"Our customers, particularly those in the wastewater industry, love the hole quality we produce," he says. And, he boasts of now being able to work with 8- by 20-ft. plates and avoid weld-splicing smaller sections. "We've eliminated beveling as a secondary process—either manually or automated. And we're saving hundreds of hours of production time while improving accuracy, so that fitup and welding in the field becomes easier for our customers," Renaud adds.
Comparing his new PAC setup to the previous version, Renaud also notes the dramatically decreased piercing time—from 2 sec. per pierce on average before to as little as a few milliseconds now. And plenty of his work requires a considerable amount of piercing.
"One recent job," Renaud shares, "required processing 51 sheets of 8- by 20-ft., 3⁄8-in.-thick steel plate, each with 429 holes. That's a production job we could never have quoted before. We couldn't compete."
What about etching? Here, Renaud tunes down amperage to the machine's 260-A cutting head to 10 A, and etches bend lines onto plate sections to ease downstream operations.
"For example," says Renaud, "we might have to weld 40 gussets to a plate. By plasma-etching the layout right onto the plate, the fitter doesn't even need to use a tape measure to lay out the assembly."Describing another etching application, Renaud notes the great deal of plate rolling performed at the shop. This work requires prebending the plate ends before inserting it into a rolling machine. "We plasma-etch those bend lines," he says, "which speeds the layout process and minimizes or eliminates any chance for error during layout." MF
See also: Hypertherm, Inc.
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