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There are five fellow planets in our solar system that we can see with the naked eye and in May we can see all of them except Mars.
The red planet is just coming out from behind the sun and is still lost in the glow of morning twilight.
Next spring Mars will be as close to Earth as it it's ever been in the past few years.
The first planet to check out this month is Saturn: It's nearly at its closest approach to Earth for 2013, about 825 million away.
That's a long way off but its size (second only to Jupiter in girth)and its ring system make it an enticing telescope target, even for a small scope.
Let all the eyepieces sit outside for a good half-hour to acclimate and then take long continuous views to adjust to the light level coming into your scope.
You should be able to see the ring system and the actual planet with gap between. You may also see a few tiny starlike objects, some its brighter moons.
Look to the southeast for the brightest star you can see. That'll be Arcturus. About halfway from Arcturus to the horizon will be two stars almost as bright as Arcturus arranged diagonally.
The star on the upper right is Spica and on the lower left is Saturn.
On Tuesday night the moon will be just to the upper right of Spica and on Wednesday night the moon will be parked just to the lower right of Saturn.
All the planets orbit the sun in more or less the same plane. That's really apparent this week and next in the low west-northwest sky.
Jupiter is about to slip off the celestial stage, not to be seen again until late next fall as Earth is turning away from that part of space.
Jupiter is a tight conjunction with Venus and Mercury.
You'll need to have a really clear view to the low west-northwest horizon with little or no treeline about 45 minutes after sunset. This planet trio will slip below the horizon by about 10 p.m.
Early this week the three planets will be lined up diagonally. Venus will be the brightest one and the first one to pop out.
Jupiter, second brightes, will be just to the upper left of Venus. Mercury, least brilliant, will be to the lower right of Venus barely above the horizon.
It'll be fun to watch the alignment change from night to night. By the end of this week they'll be arranged in a nearly perfect triangle.
Next week the triangular pattern will break up, but all three planets will still be a tight little group.
As you're taking in this show, remember that these planets are really nowhere near each other physically. Mercury is the closest at about 106 million miles away from Earth.
Venus is more than 150 million miles distant, And Jupiter's the farthest at well over 560 million miles.
Mike Lynch is an astronomer and professional broadcast meteorologist for WCCO Radio in Minneapolis and is author of "Stars, a Month by Month Tour of the Constellations." Check his website, www.lynchandthestars.com.
The Everett Astronomical Society: www.everettastro.org/.
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Thread: GAME THREAD - Ravens/Seahawks
Re: GAME THREAD - Ravens/SeahawksI do believe, however, that from the reasons that I stated in an earlier post that Boller is not necessarily the guy that is or has ever been an "inspiration" to the offenseWOW! I feel so fortunate that the Ravens did what they had to do to make this happen. Thank you. My Heart is with the Raven....My Heart is with Baltimore and its great fans. What can I say. Here We Go!!! --Ray Lewis
No, Thank you Ray... :ww:
Re: GAME THREAD - Ravens/Seahawks
Thank you. I can come up with plenty of quotes from Derrick Mason, Todd Heap, Mark Clayton, etc:
Purple Bird comes up with NOTHING. And he can't do anything from throw that claim out there and not know what he's talking about.
It's a lie, plain and simple.
And I saw how the offense reacted with Smith in there today. They rolled over for him just like they rolled over for Boller.
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Please tell me where I am lying:
Did Jason Brown not comment on Kyle Boller being a "breath of fresh air".
Did JO not comment on his relationship with Dilfer last year in the sun when he was with the Browns in their first meeting with us.
Did Dilfer not comment in the Sun this year about his relationship with Ray this year before the San Fran game?
Did Todd Heap not say he was more than excited about having Steve McNair as the qb last year because he "brought something to the offense that the offense has never had before"?
Did Shannon Sharpe, during 2005, not say that, concerning Billick's career, he would "live or die with Boller"?
Wow, I guess I didn't come up with any hard core explanations of where I was coming from with my conclusion, now did I? I listed the sources and who I am claiming said it.
Please give me a .wav or .mp3 file with a certificate of authenticity from the Anita Marks show that would allow me to hear the statement about Boller going golfing with JO and CMAC.
Do I really care about getting that file - not really. But since you call me a liar when all I am doing is stating what I believe to be a logical deduction from what I have heard and read over the years as a Ravens fan even though I cannot give the exact article and file bibliography, I too expect the same from you then. Please give me the same amount of bibliographical information you are demanding of me concerning this plethera of quotes that Mason and all the other Ravens players have given with their overwhelming support of Boller which you claim to have.
Stinger, I guess you can call me a Boller hater just as I will call you a Boller lover. Every one of your remarks concerning the Ravens offense and qb play , ever since Boller came in after Pittsburgh, was either defending his (Bollers) bad play or telling everyone that they should feel sorry for Boller and the way he has been treated.
I guess I am blind and I can't see your OBVIOUS points about how great Boller is; but I can see the OBVIOUS points the national media and external observers make concerning Kyle Boller's play with the Ravens - he just is not the guy!!
Thanks for posting too.
Re: GAME THREAD - Ravens/Seahawks
The bottom line is that you are a liar, and you can't back up anything you are saying.
And if you want to bring up Jason Brown, I'll give you Derrick Mason who to this day continues to say Boller will be a great QB.
But that is all you have, and you can't come up with a shred of real proof that the team doesn't like Boller.
You sir, are a liar, and you continue to lie without having any proof or inside knowledge to back up your claims.
And with that, I'm done with you.
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Let's start here:
Kyle Boller, Injuries and My Philosophy
He's definitely better than he was, and he's continuing to improve. He's more mature on the field. He still brings that "Kyle energy" to the huddle, giving leadership, staying enthusiastic. But, he has been more calm after the snap. He gets to the 2nd and 3rd reads, and he'll run when he has to. The command is there. I like what he brings to the offense.
WE COULD go back a year to before McNair was brought in:
You�ve been supportive of Kyle but are you one of the players lobbying for the arrival of Steve McNair?
I want to state something right now. Kyle is my quarterback right now and whatever happens in the future [well] I�m not in control of that. That is up to upper management to make that decision. But right now Kyle is my quarterback and I have a lot of faith that Kyle can get the job done.
Even considering your rapport with Kyle, can you get excited by the prospects of having a guy like Steve here?
Until it�s all concrete and he�s here, we�ll go with it from there. Right now my excitement is for Kyle and what Kyle has shown towards the end of the season last year and what he�s put into the offseason and what he�s done the couple of weeks we�ve been here at training camp. My excitement is towards Kyle and the things that I know he can do as a quarterback.
These are just what I found with a simple Google search. If you wanted to pay for them, I could easily go back to the Baltimore Sun archives and dig up more.
Re: GAME THREAD - Ravens/Seahawks
While we're at it, here is someone else who apparently doesn't like Boller:
"He's definitely progressed," offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden said. "He sees the field better, he sees it faster. He's right there. Kyle will be fine."
I do wish I could find the Sun article that Willis McGahee said that he was impressed with Kyle, and the players were impressed, that he changed a play in the huddle that Billick called in and Boller didn't like. Yeah, McGahee doesn't like Boller either eh?
Bottom line, regardless of talking about his play on the field and whether he is or is not a good QB, can we put this "Everyone hates Boller" lie that Purple Bird has continued to try and push on this forum to rest now?


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NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Content marketing is the big communications trend for 2013. Done well, content marketing is an extremely effective tactic; however, publishing poor content is a waste of resources and worse, reduces brand credibility with audiences.Today on the Beyond PR blog, we define the four characteristics of successful content, and offer suggestions for ensuring the content your organization develops is truly effective and supports key sales and marketing objectives.
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"Start by asking yourself if your content is REAL," suggests Sarah Skerik, PR Newswire's vice president of social media. "Is it Real, Entertaining, Actionable and Leading? If the content doesn't hit all four of those marks, you should do some editing before it's published."
Content that exhibits all four characteristics Skerik outlines is more likely to attract qualified audiences and to hold their attention.
"Content creation is time consuming and expensive," she notes. "However, content that is truly "REAL" and is mapped to the different stages in your organization's buying funnel can be a tremendously efficient generator of qualified leads for your business."
Read the full post here: http://blog.prnewswire.com/2013/01/10/is-your-content-real-4-ways-to-attract-qualified-audience-with-content/
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EAST LANSING — Gary Harris is returning to Michigan State for his sophomore season, the school announced Thursday, leaving junior forward Adreian Payne as the last remaining question mark about next season's roster.
Harris, the Big Ten freshman of the year and top freshman scorer last season (13.7 points per game in Big Ten games), was projected as an NBA lottery pick by ESPN's Chad Ford from about midseason on. Harris said in a released statement that he looked into his stock. But the 6-4 guard, who had injury issues with both shoulders and his back last season, opted to return — and he will not need surgery on the left shoulder, which gave him the most problems.
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"When the season was done, coach (Tom) Izzo gathered a lot of great information and shared it with me and my family," Harris said in a statement. "After talking things over with my parents, it is my decision to remain at Michigan State. Playing in the NBA is definitely a goal of mine and something that I've always dreamed of, but those dreams can wait for another day. I think additional experience and maturity will be huge in my development as a player.
"I have other dreams of things I want to accomplish, both as a player and as a team at Michigan State. I love college life, and I'm no hurry to move on. My teammates and I are already excited thinking about next season. I've been doing a lot of rehab on my shoulder, and it feels stronger already. Last year was a good season for my teammates and me, but we can all improve this summer and come back for even greater things next year."
Payne is still undecided and has until April 28 to declare his intentions about the NBA draft. Assuming Harris and Payne return, several analysts rate MSU as a top-three team next season, and ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi projected MSU as a No. 1 seed in a recent look at next season's bracket.
Harris' 12.9 overall scoring average was third all-time among MSU freshmen, trailing only Magic Johnson (17.0) and Shawn Respert (15.8). His return, along with Keith Appling, Branden Dawson and Denzel Valentine, gives MSU a talented, experienced backcourt in 2013-14.
Izzo said in a statement that he "spoke with many different general managers and teams" and praised the Harris family for "the way they handled this process."
"I have no doubt that Gary would have been a high pick had he entered the draft," Izzo said, "but I'm excited to have the opportunity to coach him next year. ... Gary had a phenomenal freshman season, but his future is even brighter. ... He's been committed to his rehab, and all indications are that he's making great progress. There's no question that a healthy Gary Harris is one of the premier guards in the country."


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A Garage Makeover to Behold—The RAM Cave Minnesota
One of the three winners of last fall's $25,000 RAM Renovation Contest got a special bonus—a visit from Bob Vila. Here's the reveal.
When Rachel K. of Prior Lake, Minnesota, entered the RAM Renovation Contest last fall, it was with the very best of intentions—a gift for her dad, Dan.
"My dad's garage is his universe," Rachel's entry essay began. She added that he is not only a seasoned mechanic, handling everything from simple oil changes and brake jobs to complete engine overhauls, but also a longtime lover of Dodge Ram vehicles. Now, with two sons following in their dad's footsteps—and infringing on his "universe"—the garage needed some attention. Rachel knew that a makeover that provided organization, storage, and some man cave comforts would be her dad's dream come true.
Of course, little did she know that her entry would be one of three chosen for a $25,000 RAM garage makeover—or that Bob Vila would be on site to oversee the transformation.
"Rachel and Dan welcomed me and the renovation production crew in pretty severe early winter weather," recalls Bob. "They are a special family, and I was glad to be part of the team that turned a daughter's dream into a reality for her dad."
Here's a look at how a cluttered and unorganized mechanic's garage was, in a single weekend, transformed into a quality shop and distinctive man cave—for a most deserving dad!
To see the other two RAM Renovation Contest winners, click here.
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Welcome to Woodson Bridge RV Park.
Located in the northern portion of the Sacramento valley along the river. Relax in the coolest, shadiest, and most beautiful park on the Sacramento River. Nestled in a shaded grove under towering Valley Oak trees this unique park will give you memories to last a lifetime.
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At Woodson Bridge RV Park you will find something for everyone! With "excellent year round fishing" on the most diverse fishery in Northern California, you can feel the thrill while reeling in an average of 12 to 35 pound King Salmon! The record for the Sacramento River is a whopping 88 pounds. You can also fish for Shad (May & June only), Stripped Bass, Black Bass, Small Mouth Bass, Large Mouth Bass, Steelhead, Rainbow Trout, Catfish, and Crappie.
Take a scenic tour on the Beautiful Sacramento River and find a Bird Watcher's Paradise in the Pacific Flyway.
While staying with us you will find an abundance of activities. Take a nature hike through the 2600 acre Bidwell park, or a night of jazz at one of the many clubs in nearby Chico.
We are also adjacent to the 2000 acre Rio Vista Nature Conservatory with over 20 miles of walking trails, wildlife viewing and "boat in" hunting for duck, geese, dove, turkey and deer.
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Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart 'Fighting A Lot' On London Vacation
Rob and Kristen have been fighting while in London, despite reports of their romantic New Year's Eve dinner. Is there more trouble in paradise? Keep reading for all the latest!
Robert Pattinson, 26, and Kristen Stewart, 22, celebrated the most famous countdown to midnight by spending New Year's Eve at Mestizo, a Mexican restaurant in London, with a "group of friends!" Despite our EXCLUSIVE reporting that they were holding hands that night, a new report in Life & Style says their relationship is strained and they have been fighting a lot! Oh no!
"Things with them aren't good," a friend of Rob's told Life & Style magazine. "They've been fighting a lot."
The pal added, "Rob isn't happy. It's just a matter of time before he ends this."
HollywoodLife.com previously reported that Rob and Kristen were holding hands on New Year's, but perhaps things aren't as perfect as they seem.
This report comes on the heels another report saying the couple had a big fight before Christmas. Rob's family is supposedly having a very hard time forgiving Kristen after she publicly humiliated Rob by cheating on him with Rupert Sanders in July 2012.
Kristen Flies To London To See Robert
Kristen left Los Angeles on December 27 and was first spotted in London on Dec. 29 with Rob on the subway. What a down-to-earth couple!
Since her affair, Rob has had trust issues with Kristen and reportedly gave her an ultimatum — spend more time in his home base of London.
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The Mirror reports he is looking for a nice house so he can live there part-time with Kristen.
"[Rob] told [Kristen] that if she wants to make things work, she's going to have to accept that he wants to spend much more time in London," a source tells The Mirror.
"They decided to base themselves in Richmond, South-West London, so Rob can be close to his parents' home in Barnes. Rob knows the area as he attended Tower House, a prep school near Richmond Park. So his dad Richard put him in touch with an estate agent who lined up appointments."
Do you think Rob and Kristen are on the way to making up or breaking up, HollywoodLifers?
WATCH: Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart's Intimate NYE Party!
— Reporting by Chloe Melas, Written by Dory Larrabee
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When I first started folks mentioned carrying a clipboard to "look official" so as to ward off muggle attention. That sounded good but I use something a little smaller and more convenient. It's a small spiral bound pocket notebook. You can flip it open and lay the GPS over or under it if need be. It cammos the GPS hand well.I have used this one many times. I always have a mini-composition book in the van for notes while driving too. Now that I came across one really cheap, I have started to carry an orange vest and a hard hat just in case I need to look even more 'official' than just the clipboard.
JustJohn - I like to wear the Mechanix brand gloves when reaching into nooks and crannies, and when climbing (coral outcroppings are sharp).
Nobody mentioned it, and it may be a no-brainer, but I carry plenty of ziplock bags, and used plastic grocery bags for trash and such.


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The issue of sexual harassment in the workplace was seared into the national consciousness when, in 1991, Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of making harassing sexual statements at his confirmation hearings to be a US Supreme Court justice.
Since then, businesses have undertaken countless hours of sexual harassment seminars, employers have heeded legislation that makes them liable for punitive damages in these kinds of cases, and several high-profile class action lawsuits – particularly in the 1990s – have ended in the awarding of big damages to victims of harassment.
Yet even with all this, workplaces have seen sexual harassment claims go down just slightly in the past decade.
Now, some 20 years after the Thomas hearings, sexual misconduct allegations against GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain are drawing fresh attention to the issue of sexual harassment.
In particular, the controversy surrounding Mr. Cain has put a spotlight on secret settlements – legal agreements with confidentiality clauses that prohibit accusing parties from disclosing details about the alleged misconduct, in return for money or other benefits.
The National Restaurant Association, which Cain headed in the late 1990s, entered into secret settlements with two women who accused the businessman of unwanted sexual advances. The NRA reportedly paid the women $35,000 and $45,000.
Such settlements are gaining popularity, say workplace discrimination experts. With these secret agreements, employers can avert costly legal fees, and as important, damaging publicity. But many see worrisome consequences.
The use of confidential settlements "started in the '90s, and it's really taken off since," says Julie Berebitsky, a professor of history and women's studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., and author of the forthcoming book "Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire." She adds, "Moving forward, I think that's where we're headed."
As of press time, four women had made sexual harassment accusations against Cain, a front-runner in the GOP presidential field. Of the NRA cases, one woman has revealed her identity – Karen Kraushaar, now a spokeswoman for the Treasury Department. She had not disclosed details of the case as of Nov. 9, but she did allege that Cain made a "series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances."
The other accuser to go public, Sharon Bialek, claimed that Cain reached up her skirt, saying when she protested, "You want a job, don't you?"
Cain emphatically denies all the allegations. In a CBS News poll conducted from Nov. 6 to 10, he holds the top spot among GOP presidential candidates. But the poll also indicates that he has lost some support, particularly among women and conservatives.
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 made race-, religion-, and sex-based discrimination illegal. The term "sexual harassment" was coined by feminists in 1975, and soon after, courts began holding that it was prohibited in workplaces under Title VII of the act.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which tracks workplace discrimination, defines sexual harassment as "unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature." The EEOC adds, "Harassment does not have to be of a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person's sex."
Sexual harassment claims climbed through the 1990s, peaking at 15,889 in 1997, according to the EEOC. (Reliable figures are not available for years prior to 1990.) Claims began dropping off in the 2000s, falling to 11,717 in 2010, which yielded some $48.4 million in monetary benefits for charging parties. That dollar figure comes from settlements that involved the EEOC but not from damages obtained through litigation.
The drop in claims may reflect better workplace training on sexual harassment – or it may simply reflect a challenging economic climate that makes employees more fearful of reporting sexual harassment for fear of jeopardizing their jobs or career advancement, says David Yamada, a Suffolk University law professor and president of the New Workplace Institute in Boston.
It's also possible that the number of confidential settlements has meant fewer claims filed with the EEOC.
To be sure, the claims figures don't capture the full scope of sexual harassment, says Christine Nazer, a spokeswoman for the EEOC.
"We believe these numbers of sexual harassment are the tip of the iceberg," Ms. Nazer says. "There may be thousands or millions of incidents that go unreported."
Some estimates suggest that only 5 to 15 percent of those who feel they experienced sexual harassment file complaints.
The handling of those claims that are filed tells an interesting story. Of the 11,717 claims last year, some 6,393 were found to have "no reasonable cause." That is, more than 50 percent of the claims were thrown out. This points to a broad misunderstanding of what actually constitutes sexual harassment, says Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice in Washington and an attorney specializing in civil rights law.
"The public definition has become very different than the legal definition," he says. "It's not behavior I would approve of, but there's a big difference between crude behavior and actual sexual harassment.... Title VII and other sexual harassment laws were intended to protect people from adverse conditions in the workplace, not from every unwanted sexual advance."
Also, in some cases, as with Cain and former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, it is difficult to establish the veracity of accusers. Many incidents become a tangled web of "he said, she said" allegations.
According to Mr. Levey, confidential settlements can be an efficient way for an employer to settle a claim, whether or not it constituted sexual harassment.
The use of in-house arbitration and confidential settlements became standard practice in the early '90s, when President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1991. This allowed sexual harassment plaintiffs to receive money for emotional distress and punitive damages, says Professor Berebitsky.
"Companies could take a bath if found guilty," she says. "Employers said, 'We have got to limit liability.' That gave employers an impetus to get on the arbitration train."
Today, many employers require their workers to sign arbitration agreements that say, "in case of any claim of discrimination, you won't go to the courts but agree to enter into binding arbitration," says Berebitsky.
That tactic shields harassers and employers from accountability, says Professor Yamada.
"I am very concerned about confidentiality clauses being standard practice," he says. "If harassers are not disciplined or discharged as part of the settlement, it's quite possible that they will mistreat others in the same way.... Overall, confidentiality clauses allow bad employers to cover multitudes of sins."
Levey disagrees. "The efficient functioning of the justice system depends on the large majority of complaints – sexual harassment and otherwise – being settled. If confidentiality provisions were barred, there would be less incentive to settle and thus more litigation," he writes in an e-mail. "Moreover, it would hardly be justice to hold accused employers and harassers publicly accountable when the evidence of guilt is scant, as is often the case for settled complaints."
Michael R. Masinter, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sees the issue of public accountability differently.
"[T]he combination of arbitration agreements ... and confidential settlements can conceal the scope of a problem that, were it known, would inspire public outrage," he writes in an e-mail. It leaves "the false impression that sexual harassment is a thing of the past when it is still very much a part of the contemporary workplace."


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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist François Hollande are vying for votes ahead of a May 6 presidential runoff over the right of foreigners to vote in local elections after the anti-immigration National Front did well in the first round.
With the first round of voting in French presidential elections over and the second round just over a week away, the question of whether foreign residents should have the right to vote in local elections has surfaced as a potentially influential campaign issue.
Under current law, EU citizens can vote in local elections, but Socialist challenger François Hollande has proposed extending that right to non-EU residents of France.
Current centre-right President Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to emphasise Socialist challenger François Hollande's proposal in order to turn far-right immigrant-wary National Front voters against him. The 18 percent of the French electorate that cast their ballots for Marine Le Pen are indeed now up for grabs as the president and his rival approach what could be a close runoff vote on 6 May.
Some of Sarkozy's surrogates, including his campaign spokesperson Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and his Union for a Popular Movement party leader Jean-François Copé, have attacked Hollande and his Socialist party for his stance on the issue.
In a televised debate Monday night, 2007 Socialist presidential candidate and Hollande's former partner Ségolène Royal, specified that foreigners' voting rights were "not a priority" for Socialists. But wary of appearing inconsistent at the most crucial point of his presidential run, Hollande swiftly sought to reaffirm his support of a measure that would allow these residents to vote in local elections. "Everything that I've talked about in my campaign, all my policy engagements, will be done in the first five-year term," he said on a campaign stop in northern France.
Sarkozy's shifting stance
Sarkozy himself has changed position on the subject. Appearing on TV on Tuesday morning, he expressed his opposition to a measure that he "never implemented" and "never wanted". "Do you think that the French people want a government, a president, who thinks giving foreigners the right to vote is a priority?" he bristled.
But in 2005, Sarkozy noted in an interview with daily newspaper Le Monde "that it would not be abnormal for a foreigner with working papers, who pays taxes and has lived in France for at least 10 years, to be able to vote in local elections."
Before that, in 2001, Sarkozy had already stated that he was in favour of foreigners voting in local elections in his book "Libre" ("Free"). "As long as [foreign residents] pay taxes, respect our laws, have been living on our territory for a certain amount of time….I don't see how we can logically deprive them of a means of expressing their opinion on what their life is like," he wrote.
Today, the president justifies his about-face on the issue by pointing to changing times. "I think that 15 years ago, the risk of cultural ghettos was not what it is today," he explained Tuesday during his TV interview.
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Halo 4's a great game. 343 Industries proved it understood what made the franchise great and added a few wrinkles of its own to create an excellent experience. That said, the game still isn't worth $60.
This is true in some sense of the word, but the only thing that would make this happen is an all digital future. However you see the likes of EA's origin charging full retail prices for digital games, and you wonder if they are really interested in anything other than making a profit. The author also states that video games are a luxury which is true, but when you don't have enough money to afford the things you need, what do you do? You drop the luxuries and pay for the essentials, waiting for a price drop isn't going to kill you, and neither is waiting for the game to hit bargain bin prices.
An article where the author cries about the price of games.
That's my summary.
Not sure why the author of this article decided to use Halo 4 as his rant that games this late into the gen are not worth $60. He could have just worded his headline as " Why do console games still cost $60" but I understand the need for hits and the lesson that HipHopGamer has though these young reviewers.
We would all like for games to cost at least $40 maximum this late into the current gen but that not going to happen because games cost millions of dollars to make.
Console gaming is an expensive hobbie and has always been, my advice to the author is to stick to Android and iOS gaming if he thinks that console gaming is expensive.
How is it people keep thinking games are overpriced. Does anyone who says this have any clue how much games used to cost at all? I agree some games are not worth $60.00 especially the ones that skimp on single player and ride the multiplayer wave but that doesn't mean you should put every game in that category. Some games are worth it.
Even though I'm not a fan of Halo, if anygame is worth $60 it's Halo 4. The amount of content in this game exceeds most other games out there.


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The newest Citizen Soldiers to complete Army basic combat training and advanced individual training were welcomed to their units during a New York Army National Guard battle handoff ceremony.
The ceremony marks their completion of the National Guard Recruit Sustainment Program, a preparatory training program that provides new recruits with training, lessons and skills to excel at their initial military training.
The New York Army National Guard welcomed 45 new Soldiers to their units during the August 13 ceremonies around the state.


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Fewer released prisoners appear to have re-offended during the first year of California's historic "inmate realignment," but the legislation mandating the prison-system overhaul has led to new budget fights at the local level as some question whether a plan meant to ease overcrowding in state prisons is adequately funded.
While the statewide impact of realignment is still highly debated, a recent report on the first year of the program showed that about 15 percent of those being supervised by Orange County probation officers were subsequently convicted of a new crime, while one-third were sent back behind bars at least once on short-term "flash incarcerations" for violating terms of their release.
Realignment, which went into effect on Oct. 1, 2011, marked one of the largest changes in history for the California justice system, whose prisons had grown so crowded that courts ruled they violated inmates' rights to be spared cruel and unusual punishment.
As a result of realignment, felons who are considered nonviolent, nonserious and non-sex offenders serve their time at local jails rather than state prisons, while eligible offenders who have been released from state prison are supervised by county probation rather than state parole.
"So often we hear phrases like 'landmark legislation,' and that might be unfortunate because when true landmark legislation occurs, we might discount what is actually happening," Chief Probation Officer Steve Sentman recently said in a written statement. "In the case of California's public safety realignment plan, this was indeed a huge change to the way we manage offenders in our state."
Fighting recidivism
By forcing more local control, realignment was meant to mark a shift from warehousing bodies toward rehabilitation efforts to counter prison overcrowding and a state recidivism rate that hovered at 70 percent.
In the first year of realignment, 2,249 former inmates were sent to the Orange County Probation Department for supervision, a 13 percent increase over the department's early projections. Of that number, 15 percent were convicted of new violations, 33 percent served at least one "flash incarceration," and 5 percent of the offenders were sent back to jail for not abiding by the terms of their release in what officials call "technical violations."
"Our strategy will be continued monitoring of our performance so that we remain aware of changes in outcome and respond with the right tactics," Sentman said. "We know we are doing a better job with these offenders than our predecessors."
Making a direct comparison between the local recidivism numbers during the first year of realignment and the number of individuals who were previously sent back behind bars when the offenders were supervised by state parole is difficult. Realignment significantly changed the way the population of supervised offenders is managed, and added new tools such as the flash incarcerations, which allow probation officers to jail offenders up to 10 days for violations without court hearings.
But while the recidivism numbers may be moving in a positive direction, other aspects of realignment remain heavily debated.
Budget battle
Skeptics contend that realignment allowed the state Legislature to save money by passing on the burden of "housing and supervising" repeat offenders to counties and cities.
The bulk of the local impact of realignment has fallen on the Sheriff's Department, which is dealing with an influx of more criminally astute and dangerous inmates in local jails, and on the probation department, whose caseloads have swelled.
However, a recent proposal to reduce the amount of state money that local city police agencies will receive under realignment drew concern from some local police chiefs, who argue that they are facing their own costly burdens as offenders are released into their communities.
An Orange County committee tasked with divvying up the estimated $66.7 million in state money that will be allocated for realignment locally in the upcoming fiscal year voted in late February to reduce the funds set aside for local law enforcement to about 1 percent from about 3 percent.
The proposed budget, which would leave about $565,000 allocated to local departments rather than the $1.6 million they were budgeted in the current fiscal year, angered some local chiefs, who characterized it as a "money grab" by the county.
Before realignment took effect, the Orange County Community Corrections Partnership was formed to oversee the plan locally and decide how to carve up the state funds provided to cover realignment's local effects.
During the first two fiscal years of realignment, the largest portion of the realignment funds, a little less than half, has been allocated to the Sheriff's Department, while the probation department has received around 25 percent of the funds each fiscal year.
A majority of the corrections partnership has argued that a separate $1.4 million in Orange County law-enforcement funds earmarked in the state budget would cover the difference between police department allocations in the current fiscal year and next. However, local law-enforcement officials argue that the $1.4 million was not meant to cover realignment costs.
The ultimate decision on how funds are allocated to the various law enforcement agencies will be made by county supervisors during budget deliberations in the coming months.
The local price tag for local realignment remains a moving target.
The corrections partnership on Thursday opened the door to moving state realignment funds allocated during the current fiscal year. As a result, agencies that have spent less than they anticipated in the current budget, such as the probation department and the public defenders office, will have their unused funds shifted to agencies that ended up needing more money than anticipated.
According to estimates presented to the partnership, which officials caution are likely to change in coming months, the Sheriff's Department is expected to spend about $41 million dealing with realignment inmates, $14 million more than anticipated. The county health-care agency, which helps provide medical care for those incarcerated in local jails, is expected to spend about $2.2 million more than anticipated.
Gauging the impacts of realignment
The question over how much state funding should go to local police agencies is complicated by a larger debate about how realignment is affecting local crime.
Local police chiefs already facing budget cuts, including a loss of redevelopment money, have pointed to increases in violent and property crime in some cities over the past year.
"They do their time in local custody, and then they are right back in the street again," Garden Grove police Chief Kevin Raney, the local law-enforcement representative on the corrections partnership, said of inmates. "Local law enforcement is the front line."
However, authorities acknowledge that it's too early to say whether realignment is solely to blame for rising crime rates. Some members of the corrections partnership cited that uncertainty in not allocating more money to local law enforcement.
"It's really difficult to assess in a vacuum," said Frank Ospino, the representative for the public defenders' office, during the corrections partnerships discussions. "What are local law enforcement's true trends?"
Following the corrections partnership's vote, Tustin police Chief Scott Jordan, who heads the Orange County Chief of Police and Sheriff's Association, said the local departments will continue to collaborate with the county agencies, but that it was "unconscionable … to recommend a cut in funding to local law enforcement at the risk of public safety."
A united front?
Others argue that, rather than fighting against each other for funds, local agencies should be speaking with one voice and concentrating on documenting the full impacts of realignment.
Supervisor Todd Spitzer worried that realignment is becoming a "bait and switch" in which the state promises more local control without providing the proper financial resources to make it work.
"Instead of fighting (for) scarce resources we should be making the case that this model is not working," Spitzer said. "The flood gates on this are opening. Before we drown we should be throwing our life jackets to each other."
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When I saw these hand creams I loved how cute and retro they looked. One hand cream, apparently is made for people to use after dish washing and the other is for after cleaning/laundry. How practical!
I don't know about you but I am pretty lazy about using hand cream. My skin is quite good although I did notice some crinkles around the base of my nail the other day ARGH! So I am going to start carrying one round with me all the time.
Mr C on the other hand is the hand cream expert – he uses up every hand cream I own because of his very dry skin.
See how happy these women are with housework when they have this hand cream!?
But hey, how much housework do you do!?
Well…not that much to be fair but still, I need a good hand cream!
The dishwashing hand cream is a thick yellow paste, it smells good and it gives lots of hydration without being greasy. I can see how this is appropriate for after washing up because it's a gorgeous thick texture.
The laundry or general cleaning hand cream is more of a gel, it's lighter in texture and feels very hydrating but sinks in quicker. I still prefer the dishwashing one though as I prefer creamier textures.
You can see here the textures are quite different:
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) 2004, and subsequent regulations published August 2006 have significantly changed the way students suspected of having specific learning disabilities (SLD) are identified and found eligible for special education. According to the 2006 IDEA regulations (§300.307) concerning SLD, each state must adopt criteria for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability as defined by §300.8 (c)(10) that: must not require the use of severe discrepancy between intellectual ability and achievement for determining whether a child has a specific learning disability as defined in §300.8 (c)(10); must permit the use of a… Read More »
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There are many trained professionals available to help individuals with learning disabilities. Researching what each specialist can do to improve the issues that you or your child may be dealing with is important. Choosing the right one that best fits the needs of the individual can save time and money. Also, know that you may not have to see every specialist at once. Trying to work on one or two issues at a time depending on the severity of the issue can help prevent burnout and still help address each issue over time. Listed are a few of the professionals and… Read More »
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Often the child's teacher will notice the first symptoms of a Specific Learning Disability. Parents may also notice symptoms that are different from those the teacher sees. That's why it is so important for teachers and parents to share notes on the development of a child. These conversations may lead to an evaluation for a diagnosis of SLD and eligibility for special education services. Symptoms teachers might observe: trouble learning the connection between letters and sounds, confuses basic words like run, eat, want, makes consistent reading and spelling errors including letter reversals (b/d), inversions (m/w), transpositions (felt/left), and substitutions (house/home),… Read More »
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If a student is having unusual difficulty in school the parent should discuss the situation with the teacher and other school personnel. Most schools have a problem-solving team which works with families in reviewing and solving problems that affect school performance before beginning a formal process of referral for special education and related services as described in IDEA. Problem-solving activities or strategies used by the regular education teacher to address the child's difficulty may consist of changes in the physical environment, changes in instructional approaches, short-term remedial activities, peer tutoring, or behavioral management plans. Learn more about who serves on… Read More »
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Evaluating children to determine eligibility for special education services is an issue with which many parents and educators struggle. There are many factors to consider during a comprehensive evaluation of a child for possible eligibility for special education services. It's important that parent(s) know their rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), understand the process, and ensure their child receives the appropriate services. School districts need to provide parents their procedural safeguards (rights) guaranteed under IDEA before a full and individual initial evaluation takes place. When a child receives special education services for an extended period of time,… Read More »
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Young children develop rapidly, frequently experiencing tremendous change and growth physically, cognitively, linguistically, and socially. Preschoolers, for example, seem to race from one milestone to the next. Nevertheless, the rate of growth and development among young children varies greatly. Indeed, as a result of this high variability during early childhood that can be seen in nearly any environment with preschoolers and kindergartners, many professionals balk at labeling children as learning disabled. Studies indicate that early intervention can make a significant difference in a child's development and many other professionals want to respond promptly when they note developmental delays or see… Read More »
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"Why is speech-language treatment needed? My baby doesn't talk yet." "Everyone in our family was a late talker. My child will talk when the time is right." "Why worry now? Speech and language services will be available when school starts." "Treatment? Looks to us like they are just playing games." You may have had similar thoughts or comments. Usually, there is concern about a child's speech and language skills if there is no speech by the age of one year, if speech is not clear, or if speech or language is different from that of other children of the same… Read More »
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Learning disabilities (LD) is a broader term in the United States to describe various types of neurologically-based processing problems. These processing disorders can interfere with learning basic life functioning skills such as reading, writing, or mathematics. They can also interfere with higher level skills such as organization, time management and abstract reasoning. The types of LD are identified by the specific processing disorder and can be categorized within one or more of the following four areas. They might relate to getting information into the brain (Input), making sense of this information (Integration), storing and later retrieving this information (Memory), or… Read More »
Eligibility: Determining Whether a Child is Eligible for Special Education Services
When is a child's eligibility for special education and related services determined? In most states the eligibility of a child for special education and related services is considered when a child has arrived at the Tier 3 level of RTI (Response to Intervention). When a child has been in Tier 2 for a pre-determined amount of time and an evaluation is given, then a meeting is called to determine eligibility for special education services. Who makes the decision about whether a child is eligible for special education and related services? The parent of the child and a team of qualified… Read More »


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OAKLAND -- There's a lot of sharing and learning taking place at the North Oakland Village memoir writing class where a group of seniors have enrolled to "just write about their lives."
Under the instruction of Brenda Richardson, they're learning to examine events from their past, practice self-reflection, consider the concept of conflict and come away with the tools they need to record their stories in such a way that readers will want to continue turning the pages.
Richardson, a published author for the past 20 years, was herself working on a book on how to write memoirs, "You Should Write a Book," (St. Martin's Griffin, $15), when she decided to offer a class on the same topic.
"I realized that there was a wonderful opportunity for people to use memoirs for self-discovery," she said. "The class seemed a natural outgrowth of that."
Meeting every two weeks from Sept. 11 to Dec. 11, the 90-minute class follows Richardson's syllabus, with homework assignments that prepare students for each meeting. The first class focused on discussing reasons class members had for wanting to write their life stories and comparing an autobiography with a memoir.
"In an autobiography, you write about your entire life but in a memoir you're talking about a particular phase, focusing in and looking at what happened," Richardson said.
Barbara Hazzard recently retired as executive director of Hesed Community in Oakland -- which she began 30 years ago -- and from almost 50 years as a Catholic sister.
"I had quite an interesting life, so I wanted to write a memoir," Hazzard said. Though she now knows the difference between memoir and autobiography, she's not sure which one she wants to use.
"My focus really covers my life since I was in the eighth grade, so I think it's going to be a combination of the two," she said.
Another class member, Margie Bowman, now in her mid-80s, feels the time has come to record her family's rich, happy life together. Because her family is at present going through some serious, life-threatening health issues, she's chosen to write about an event that happened during happier times, when Bowman was instrumental in creating Huckleberry Botanic Preserve in the Oakland hills.
"It's very productive for my emotions to take Brenda's class and take something I did 40 years ago that was a very happy, rewarding time," Bowman said.
With an eye toward keeping memoirs interesting, Richardson stresses the need for conflict, how students handled it and what they learned from it, identifying conflict as an opportunity to look back on one's life. In Bowman's memoir, her experiences working with the park district to prevent a favorite family trail from being bulldozed and preserved as a park helped make her more politicized and changed the lives of her family.
To write a more nuanced story, Richardson stresses placing events in their historical context and has students use mapping to explore deeper memories.
"I want them to be able to identify major events in their lives and tap into the emotional power of those memories," she said. "Writing a memoir is one of the greatest acts of self-love; you're saying that what happened to me is important."
Bowman and Hazard are grateful to North Oakland Village for offering the free course and to Richardson for her thoughtful, professional instruction.
"Brenda has presented a beautifully organized course and provides online or printed examples of memoir writing that are so enlightening," Bowman said.
Aside from writing skills the class has offered a rare glimpse into the lives of an interesting, diverse group. "I really appreciate when they share about themselves because it helps me to clarify what I want to do," Hazzard said. "Gathering together with these people, getting to know them a bit through what they share, the questions they ask and what they've done in the past, it's a wonderful experience."


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I'm putting this under General because it has nothing to do with the Livingstone DNA project, and because to me it makes more sense.
Some years back I made a post with the minimal amount of info I had on my Livingstone ancestry (father's mother, her people traceable to Ulster) and there wasn't much anyone could add apart from the marriage record of my grandfather and grandmother in Ontario, which I knew of. However...
...this year I did the 23andme DNA panel, which as anyone will tell you doesn't dig very deep as far as what you can access from their website. But this is where it gets interesting, because they do let you download your raw data to use anywhere else. So I did some research and saw that GEDmatch (https://www.gedmatch.com/register.php) looked promising. They don't process the current 23andme information, but do link to a beta site that does. From there I uploaded my raw data, waited a couple of days for it to be processed, then used their admixture tools to generate reports that show putative ancestral points of origin, and folks - "Scottish_Argyll_Bute" came up in every possible permutation it sent back!
So I think that's pretty cool, and seems to lend further credence to the notion that the Livingstones/Livingstons/Levingstons are of the same origin regardless of spelling etc. Very happy about finally settling this, as far as I'm concerned anyway.


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Dish has been hearing good things about Stonefire Kitchen, which opened earlier this month right next to the Stonefire Station event space in Barboursville near the intersection of Route 20 North and Route 33. It's a gourmet deli and wine store brought to you by Carl and Tori Tremaglio, who opened Oregano Joe's years ago, later founded party rental company Festive Fare, and, in 2004, opened Stonefire Station. They've partnered with former Palladio Restaurant sous-chef and Johnson and Wales School of Culinary Arts graduate Jeremy Butterfield.
Of course, as is the trend now, ingredients for sandwiches, soups, pannini, salads, and other foods will be sourced locally. The owners say they'll also be offering gift baskets, sandwich platters, and picnic baskets. Check out their latest menu here.
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I attended a dinner theater in that space about a year ago. As far as I know, that was never repeated. Anyone know the story?
So I drove by there yesterday and wish the owners all the good luck in the world. It seems to be an "out of the way" place, but with their track record, anything is possible!
Is this news or a commercial? I am confoosed!
May be not a trend but definitely a marketing wagon for many restaurants doing "local".
I have spent many years in many Charlottesville's kitchen and have witness their hypocrisy.
-Mix of "big distributor" ground beef with Local organic to keep cost down.
-Local zucchini cooked in canned chicken stock to make a "local soup".
-Local greens covered with bottle bought dressing.
No dedication from any restaurant owners, just "let buy some local stuff and advertise it; that it is what is selling".
Best example is many well knows restaurants opened for 10 years with 7 years of unlocal cooking and the last 3 years of "local" cooking.
Trend or marketing?????
"Of course, as is the trend now, ingredients for sandwiches, soups, pannini, salads, and other foods will be sourced locally."
I hope you aren't implying that shopping locally and supporting our local food systems is a "trend" - for many people, it's a way to support and sustain our community and local food economy. I think this movement is much more important and far-reaching than a passing trend.


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Fixturing for Automated Welding in Automotive--Repeatability, Access and Protection are Key
Automated arc-welding cells, especially in the automotive industry, must operate correctly every time, all the time. Components for instrument panels, seats, engine cradles and other welded assemblies arrive and exit in a hurry, hour after hour, day after day.
Proper fixturing also should assist, not hinder, fabrication of parts while protecting the sensors, air lines and electronics on which automated production depends. If that isn't enough, new workpiece materials and smaller part runs require increasingly robust fixturing that can be rapidly changed out.
Part Placement and Orientation
An automated welding system requires much more than just its purchase, installation and the expectation that parts can be tossed in and welded. A robot returns to the same position every time as part of a highly accurate process. Accuracy and repeatability of the robot requires accurate and repeatable part placement.
Rough locators in the fixture will orient each part in close proximity to its final clamped location. In a well-designed fixture, these rough locators will allow a part to practically fall into its proper location and orientation by itself. An end-user typically wants its employees simply to load a fixture, and not have to take the extra steps to ensure proper orientation. That's the job of the fixture.
Best practices:
• The operator simply drops the part into the fixture and everything locates correctly;
• The parts are clamped and welded; and
• The welded assembly discharges. Ultimately, the system welds the assembly correctly every time.
Guard Against Spatter
The most common failure points on weld tools are sensors, sensor cables and air lines. Failures to these components affect location accuracy. Weld spatter is a major culprit, so a well-designed fixturing system must include measures to address spatter.
Best-practice systems feature a Teflon-based coating that resists spatter. These coatings can last as long as two years, depending on how well the fixtures are maintained. With the proper coating, spatter lays on top of the tooling rather than sticking to it. In addition to the coating, fixture builders will machine some fixture components from hardened materials, to repel heat and spatter.
Complex fixturing (shown here) works best when designers and builders of robotic-welding systems are involved with end users throughout the design of parts and assemblies.
Besides protecting the weld tools, users obviously seek to protect their parts from spatter. This can be accomplished via coated spatter covers placed on the ends of clamps. As the clamps close, the covers protect the areas of the assembly most susceptible to spatter. After welding, the covers retract. Other shields, some permanent, may be placed to protect fixture components and parts.
Proper fixturing also protects part features that require additional operations after welding, such as mounting surfaces, fasteners and bolt holes. Here, toggle or rotary clamps find use to cover at-risk features.
PLCs incorporated into fixturing enable simple control of clamps, slides and other components. Actuation is synchronized to make the setup, weld and removal sequence run as efficiently as possible. These communication tools can be tied into the overall system as part of a comprehensive control package.
Tubular Framing
Construction of the weld tooling itself can combat challenges related to weld heat, slag and spatter, while still allowing access for part handling and welding. Consider, for example, a fixture built on a flat plate—spatter quickly builds on the base plate of that tooling, causing downtime for cleaning or repair.
As an alternative, consider placing fixtures on a tubular frame. Such construction enables simplified weld access—users can roll over the tubular fixture frame to access the back side of the assembly for welding, or for system maintenance. Conversely, incorporating weld access on a flat-plate fixture base requires placement of holes in the plate, which can limit torch access. Even then, spatter-buildup issues remain. With a tubular frame, spatter generally falls to the floor without accumulating on the weld tools.
Laser welding, an increasingly popular process, can't succeed unless parts are touching—no gaps allowed. These parts must be forced into position, and fixturing, such as this clamshell setup, reliably performs such tasks.
Further, with a tubular frame the fixture builder can include access holes in the tubes of the frame to allow sensor cables, other wiring and plumbing to be run inside of the tubing. With the access holes then covered, the tubes provide slag and spatter protection. If access holes aren't an option, wires on the fixture frame allow sensor cables and other lines to safely route back to a control panel, still protected from slag and spatter.
Quick-Change Capability
The automotive industry does not like inventory; it's all about just-in-time. Though component and assembly volumes may be high, parts may be run only a couple of hours at a time. Fabrication of part families, where sets of parts exhibit slight differences, also limit run volumes. These situations demand quick tool changeouts, as idle machines aren't profitable. Well-designed fixturing enables rapid changeout.
To save time, especially during part-family work that involves minor part-feature changes from run to run, sections of weld tooling can be replaced without exchanging the entire fixture setup. Robotic tool changers, with a manual assist, can be employed to change out tooling sections. Users press a button on the automation cell's human-machine interface to release the tool changer, then pull out the section and replace it with a new one. Pressing another button energizes a clamp in the tool changer to hold the new section in place, and welding resumes after only a few minutes.
To further facilitate changeout, the ideal weld-tool setup includes quick disconnects on air and electrical lines, as well as plug-and-play communications components. These setups can make quick work of large weld tools, too, with automated systems to carry the behemoths in and out of the weld cell, and a positioner to hydraulically clamp the tool in place.
Even though parts must meet certain tolerances, some unexpected variation occurs, especially when a user welds parts that arrive from different suppliers. To assist in changeout and production in these instances, tooling may be shimmable in positions along x, y and z axes. Allowing users to slightly shim the fixtures accounts for part variation and enables rapid return to production.
Staging of fixtures and changeout tooling assists in quick-change operations, as well. To maintain production levels, metalformers should stage parts as closely as possible to the weld tools. A well-designed process allows parts to be brought in on carts that integrate with the safety zone of the weld cell. And, following the welding process, oftentimes cell operators will remove the assemblies and place them on racks.
To prevent operators from becoming bottlenecks in the process, systems increasingly implement robots to handle completed welded assemblies. A robot with a gripper may come in and pull the final assembly out of the fixture from the back, as the operator prepares the next assembly in the front of the weld cell. The robot takes care of removal and may even perform additional operations on the assembly before depositing it on a conveyor.
Fixturing Evolves to Handle Increased Complexity, and Laser Welding
Automotive seat frames provide a vivid illustration of how welded assemblies have become increasingly complex. Only 20 years ago, most seat frames consisted of a bulky outer frame and a few wires for attachments. Today, frames are much smaller and thinner yet contain more parts and safety features than ever, including components and brackets for seat heaters and more complicated adjusting mechanisms. All of that translates to more complicated weld fixturing. In addition, high-strength steel is used in frame and structural components, requiring heavy-duty fixtures and clamps.
Beyond more complicated parts and thinner materials, processes themselves require new fixturing solutions. Until recently, fixtures were designed simply to hold components, and those components had to be in-tolerance because the fixtures couldn't force the parts together. However, as laser welding gains in popularity, fabricators must adapt by developing fixtures that bring parts together—no gaps allowed. These parts must be forced into position; now, fixturing can do that.
Advanced processes such as laser welding demand tighter tolerances, thus better fixtures. For example, consider sear-frame assemblies where two pans must be welded together. A tool often referred to as a clamshell closes down on the pans to pancake them together. The gap-free components then can be laser welded, with holes cut into the clamshell for laser access.
Include Tool Designers and Builders Early
Given so many advances in parts, materials and processes, and the time and cost pressures inherent in automobile production, all facets of an automated-welding installation must function in concert. That includes the fixturing. Addressing challenges and concerns during weld-cell design, as well as the design of the parts to be welded, promises to save time, money and headaches.
With features constantly added to parts, proper weld-tool design becomes critical to ensuring adequate robot weld-joint access. The ability to design and build tools in 3D prior to actual construction allows mockup of the welding process and simulation of robot movement to ensure proper access and clearance.Ideally, users should involve weld-automation suppliers during design of their parts and assemblies. This will allow the supplier to examine parts during the design phase and consult on how the parts can be properly held and the fixtures properly positioned. Metalformers should rely on such expertise during assembly and process design to ensure the smooth startup and operation of an automated-welding cell. MF
See also: Lincoln Electric Co.
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Jeremy Pound goes to prison to hear a uniquely created composition
Scarcely three weeks into 2012, and I'm back in prison again. This time, it's HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire that is enjoying the dubious pleasure of my company. In years gone by, I've also been escorted through the heavy gates of Vinney Green in Bristol, Carlford in Suffolk and HMP Coldingley, Surrey.
Not that I have done anything wrong, may I point out. I'm here at Lowdham Grange to listen to music, just as I was on the other three occasions. The work that I and my fellow concert-goers are lining up at the prison gate to hear is Mark-Anthony Turnage's Beyond This, a 12-minute piece that forms part of PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 series commissioned to celebrate the 2012 Olympics. As we wait to sign in and have our fingerprints taken, a notice reminds us of the things that are strictly forbidden from being taken into the prison: fire-arms, drugs, ladders (!), cameras, rope, yeast, blu-tack, mobile phones…
Although Turnage is billed as the composer of Beyond This, he himself insists that he had only a bit-part in its creation – about 30 per cent is his, by his estimation. The rest, he explains, came about as a result of four days of joint effort among the participating prisoners – 15 of them – in December.
'You don't know until you get into the prison who or what is going to be there in terms of instrumentation and so on,' Turnage tells me when I ask how he went about the project. 'So I didn't want to do any pre-composition, [but] just to go in, see what we had and work very hard over the week. I wanted it to be a proper collaboration. It was quite intense in that we'd come up with some ideas, throw things out, hone it down and rehearse a lot.'
As an active and enthusiastic patron of the Irene Taylor Trust Music in Prisons scheme since its inauguration in 1995, Turnage had enough experience of working behind bars not to expect to be greeted with a full-scale orchestra when he arrived at Lowdham Grange. 'People play guitars in prison,' he says. 'Occasionally you might get something else – when I worked in Scrubs once, there was somebody who played the clarinet – but it's usually guitars and keyboards because they play in bands. And there's very different skill levels – some will have never played in front of people before – but the whole challenge for us is to meld it into something that sounds good.'
Not just any prisoner can pitch up and play or sing, explains HMP Lowdham Grange's director, Gareth Sands. 'This is a long-term prison, where people serve an average of around 12 years,' he says. 'So we know our people. We have a band and performing arts, so knowing individuals who are involved in that we'd make an approach to them, as anyone would. But we also advertise to people who we don't know about, who might be new to us or have not expressed an interest in the past. From there, people apply, then we interview, do a risk assessment concerning working in small groups, and we also operate incentives and earned privileges – you have to earn the right to access certain things.'
Come the performance, those who have earned their privilege certainly don't squander it. The audience of about 40 is treated to two versions of Beyond This. One is live on stage, the other pre-recorded on film and accompanied by stunning photos by Lizzie Coombes that put the spoken and sung words – about restriction and deprivation – into stark visual perspective.
Divided into four short movements, Beyond This features an introduction, a rap section, an introspective instrumental section (the one part of the work that Turnage claims sole ownership of) and finally a burst of reggae that is catchiness itself. Despite obvious nerves from one or two, it's a polished, professional and above all enthusiastically performed affair, the prisoners themselves joined on stage by Turnage and a couple of other professional musicians and, in their dark-blue uniform, three prison officers on vocals, guitar and bass.
In a question and answer session afterwards, the prisoners themselves say what they've got out of it. One explains that, once he's out of prison, he wants to get in touch with Turnage and continue to learn more; another says he's planning to take up the keyboard; and another reflects that getting involved in prison music gives him something to share with his 13-year-old son, who has started to learn music at home; several express their enjoyment at creating something from scratch as a team.
Should long-term prisoners really be enjoying such opportunities? I would say yes, on the basis of both what I have seen and heard in very well expressed thoughts from Turnage and Sands among others – but I shall leave that debate for another occasion. What is for sure is that the 20x12 scheme has got off to an inspiring start… and I wouldn't mind HMP Lowdham Grange's ban on mobile phones being replicated at a few concert halls round the country.
Jeremy Pound is deputy editor of BBC Music Magazine
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