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Candlestick Point Park PierOverview: This plank pier is only 150 feet long. Although the views here aren't as striking as others along the bay, there is plenty to see in the 170-acre Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, including small wildlife, plus ducks and other water fowl. A colorful human subspecies — the windsurfer — often is in evidence.
Background: The site is named for Candlestick Stadium, formerly home of the Giants baseball team and current home of pro football's '49ers. (Trivia point: It was the site of the last full concert by the Beatles on Aug. 29, 1966.) The stadium, as well as the pier, is in the Alemany Gap, an opening between the coastal mountains and the ocean responsible for the wind, fog and erratic weather patterns.
Parking: Plenty of free parking; take one of the paths that leads about a third of a mile to the coastline and the pier.
Directions: Take the Candlestick Park exit from Highway 101 in San Francisco. Follow the Hunters Point Expressway around the stadium to the state recreation area. There's limited parking along the road, plentiful parking near the main picnic/ day use area.
Pier 24
Overview: Pier 24 sits on the Embarcadero underneath the Bay Bridge, the major traffic artery between San Francisco and Oakland. It was built in 1935 and used for various industrial purposes until 1980. It then was vacant for more than a quarter-century. After an imaginative, two-year remodel, it opened as Pier 24 Photography and now houses the Pilara Foundation and the Pilara Photographic Collection in 28,000 square feet. It also hosts two or three major photographic exhibitions a year. Open Mondays-Thursdays by appointment only. (415) 512-7424, https://www.pier24.org
Parking: There are metered parking spots along the Embarcadero as well as a pay parking lot at Pier 30/32 at Bryant Street and the Embarcadero.
Directions: Take Market Street to its end at the Ferry Building. Turn right on Embarcadero. Pier 24 is about a third of a mile.
Pier 14
Overview: This 637-foot-long pedestrian span is the newest recreational pier on the San Francisco waterfront. Opened in 2006, it was built so that visitors and downtown workers could get some exercise and take in the views. U-back chairs dot the pier — you can sit and do a 360-degree swivel so that your view changes from water to city skyline. It's a nice stop for anyone with 10 minutes on their hands.
Parking: The Ferry Building is about a 25-yard walk to Pier 14, https://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/parking.php
Directions: Take Market Street south to where it ends at the Ferry Building. The entrance to Pier 14 is about a 50-yard walk south on Embarcadero.
Pier 7
Overview: This is coolest pier in San Francisco to hang out, people watch and take in the stellar views. There are nice touches down its 840-foot length, including stylish ornamental iron handrails and light fixtures. Best of all are the crafted iron and wooden benches — you can happily plop down and enjoy (this stretch of the Embarcadero tends to get more sun than other spots). The pier is close to Fisherman's Wharf so lots of visitors find it, but because it has no shopping, those who come are mostly here for the views. There is also a great look down the pier's length at the imposing Transamerica Pyramid, Coit Tower and the Bay Bridge.
Parking: There are all-day parking lots across Embarcadero, but they are pricey. Better options are the metered spots along Embarcadero or on Pier 5 at the Ferry Building where hourly rates are a bit cheaper.¿
Directions: Take Market Street south until it dead-ends at the Ferry Building. Turn left on Embarcadero. Pier 7 is three-tenths of a mile from the Ferry Building.
Pier 39
Overview: The biggest outdoor, multistory shopping mall sitting on/masquerading as a pier in California. A visitor will probably have one of two reactions: waste-of-time tourist trap or a mecca for mainstream eating and the acquisition of vacation mementos. Water views are a bit obscure except through restaurant windows.
Background: There is one fabled bit of wildlife that is a big draw to Pier 39, the seal lion colony of K dock. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, sea lions began to take over docks on the west side of the pier. From late July to mid-May there can be hundreds to more than a thousand mostly younger males lolling about and barking volubly.
Directions and parking: Everything you need to know about how to get here and where to leave your car, https://www.pier39.com/Information/directionsparking.htm
Pier 41
Overview: This nondescript wooden pier serves passenger ferry traffic and has the best city skyline and harbor views of any pier along the waterfront. If you want to shoot photos or videos, this is the place to do it.
Notable views: On non-foggy days you get sharp views of Alcatraz and Angel islands, as well as the Marin coastline beyond. In the other direction, the San Francisco skyline, notably Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid, dominates. Turn north and sea lions are barking up a storm on the K dock at Pier 39.
Parking: Pier 39 garage across the Embarcadero.
Directions: See above for directions to Pier 39.
Municipal Pier
Overview: Built in the early 1930s, this crescent-shaped pier is a bit ramshackle but it puts the visitor out over the bay better than any other pier along the waterfront. There are strong views of the city as well as the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin coast, Angel and Alcatraz islands. It's also an ideal spot to get a close look at any cargo or military ship that might be entering or leaving San Francisco Bay. A walk on its 1,850-foot length is highly recommended, but even on mild days it's good to have a jacket.
Parking: Free parking in the lot at the foot of the pier, but it can fill up early in the day. Another option is to park at Fort Mason and walk to the pier.
Directions: Exit Highway 101 in San Francisco at Van Ness Avenue and take it all the way to the pier.
Fort Mason Piers
Overview: At this former Army base, the three large piers, with the large warehouses behind them, share housing for one of the largest arts complexes in the United States. A multicultural consortium of groups, including fine art museums, dance groups, theaters and even legal services for the arts, reside here, along with supporting organizations. Fort Mason has a full calendar of performance and educational events.
Background: The three piers and four multistory concrete warehouses were constructed from 1908 to 1912. During World War II, more than 1.5 million troops and more than 23.5 million tons of cargo were sent to the Pacific from Fort Mason's piers. In the 1960s, Fort Mason was decommissioned, and Congress established the first urban national park, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Fort Mason Center. A nonprofit organization was formed to run and develop the center, with the massive piers at the forefront of that effort.
Notable views: Fort Mason is mostly about indoor activities, but out on the edge of the wide piers there are fine, end-of-harbor views of the water, the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin.
Parking: Vehicles can park in the Fort Mason complex from 8 a.m.-midnight every day with the exception of major holidays. $8 maximum on weekdays, $10 on weekends.
Directions: For directions as well as information about Fort Mason and what to do there, go to https://www.fortmason.org
Fort Point Pier
Overview: From a visitor's standpoint, the pier's most notable virtue is the dramatic view of the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge as it begins its stretch across the bay. Visitors also have a good chance of seeing boat traffic going in and out of the bay. Take a jacket along because even on mild days this can be a windy spot.
Background: Built before the Civil War to provide protection for San Francisco Bay, the fort has loads of character with its striking, high-walled design notable for its elaborate period masonry. Fort Point became a National Historic Site in 1970.
Parking: Limited parking near the pier; there is more free parking in the Fort Point complex. Admission to the fort is also free.
Directions: From San Francisco, take Highway 101 north and exit right at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza before getting on the bridge. Turn right at the end of the exit ramp and then left onto Lincoln Boulevard. Take the first left onto Long Avenue and follow onto Marine Drive and Fort Point at its end. https://www.nps.gov/fopo/index.htm
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Data & Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder Prevalence
CDC has a new data visualization tool that lets users map and graph ASD data. Visit the website and explore the data!
- About 1 in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. [Read article]
- ASD is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. [Read Summary] [Read article]
- ASD is about 4 times more common among boys than among girls. [Read article]
- Studies in Asia, Europe, and North America have identified individuals with ASD with an average prevalence of between 1% and 2%. [Data table [PDF – 232 KB]]
- About 1 in 6 children in the United States had a developmental disability in 2006-2008, ranging from mild disabilities such as speech and language impairments to serious developmental disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, and autism. [Read summary]
Identified Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Risk Factors and Characteristics
- Studies have shown that among identical twins, if one child has ASD, then the other will be affected about 36-95% of the time. In non-identical twins, if one child has ASD, then the other is affected about 0-31% of the time. [1-4]
- Parents who have a child with ASD have a 2%–18% chance of having a second child who is also affected.[5,6]
- ASD tends to occur more often in people who have certain genetic or chromosomal conditions. About 10% of children with autism are also identified as having Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis , or other genetic and chromosomal disorders.[7-10]
- Almost half (44%) of children identified with ASD has average to above average intellectual ability. [Read article]
- Children born to older parents are at a higher risk for having ASD. [Read Summary.]
- A small percentage of children who are born prematurely or with low birth weight are at greater risk for having ASD. [Read Summary.]
- ASD commonly co-occurs with other developmental, psychiatric, neurologic, chromosomal, and genetic diagnoses. The co-occurrence of one or more non-ASD developmental diagnoses is 83%. The co-occurrence of one or more psychiatric diagnoses is 10%. [Read Summary.]
- Research has shown that a diagnosis of autism at age 2 can be reliable, valid, and stable. [Read summary] [Read summary]
- Even though ASD can be diagnosed as early as age 2 years, most children are not diagnosed with ASD until after age 4 years. The median age of first diagnosis by subtype is as follows. [Read article]
- Autistic disorder: 3 years, 10 months
- ASD/pervasive developmental disorder (PDD): 4 years, 8 months
- Asperger disorder: 5 years, 7 months
- Studies have shown that parents of children with ASD notice a developmental problem before their child's first birthday. Concerns about vision and hearing were more often reported in the first year, and differences in social, communication, and fine motor skills were evident from 6 months of age.[Read summary] [Read summary]
Economic Costs
- The total costs per year for children with ASD in the United States were estimated to be between $11.5 billion – $60.9 billion (2011 US dollars). This significant economic burden represents a variety of direct and in-direct costs, from medical care to special education to lost parental productivity. [Read article] [Read article.]
- Children and adolescents with ASD had average medical expenditures that exceeded those without ASD by $4,110–$6,200 per year. On average, medical expenditures for children and adolescents with ASD were 4.1–6.2 times greater than for those without ASD. Differences in median expenditures ranged from $2,240 to $3,360 per year with median expenditures 8.4–9.5 times greater. [Read article]
- In 2005, the average annual medical costs for Medicaid-enrolled children with ASD were $10,709 per child, which was about six times higher than costs for children without ASD ($1,812). [Read Summary]
- In addition to medical costs, intensive behavioral interventions for children with ASD cost $40,000 to $60,000 per child per year.[11]
Highlighted Articles
New Data on Autism Spectrum Disorder in 4-Year-Old Children
CDC scientists published a report on the prevalence and characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among 4-year-old children.
(Published April 11, 2019)
ADDM Network update
New CDC funding will expand knowledge about children with autism spectrum disorder.
(Published December 13, 2018)
Key Findings: Opioids Prescribed Just Before Pregnancy Associated With Autism
A study from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with the CDC, found that mothers who were prescribed opioids just before becoming pregnant were more likely to have a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or a child with other developmental disabilities (DDs) and some autism symptoms.
(Published: August 21, 2018)
Key Findings: Autism is Associated with Amount of Time Between Births
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and research partners found that shorter and longer time periods between births are linked to having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The findings from this study can help healthcare providers convey information to their patients about the ideal timing between pregnancies.
(Published: December 6, 2017)
Key Findings: Prevalence of Self-injurious Behaviors Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders has published a new study showing that nearly 28% of 8-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behave in ways that can lead to self-injury.
(Published: October 21, 2016)
Key Findings: Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among 4-Year-Old Children
Data from a CDC pilot project, published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, suggest that progress has been made in identifying children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at younger ages.
(Published December 9, 2015)
Key Findings: Autism symptoms among children enrolled in the Study to Explore Early Development
A new analysis looking at autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms among young children enrolled in CDC's Study to Explore Early Development (SEED).
(Published June 6, 2015)
Key Findings: The association between assisted reproductive technology and autism spectrum disorder
New studies on the relationship between ART and autism.
(Published March 20, 2015)
ADDM Network update
New CDC funding will expand knowledge about children with autism spectrum disorder.
(Published January 2, 2015)
Classifying autism in research studies
Using standardized diagnostic instruments to classify children with autism to help find causes of the disorder.
(Published October 27, 2014)
Key Findings
Unhealthy weight among adolescents with autism.
(Published March 17, 2014)
Risk Factors for Autism
Read key findings from new CDC research.
(Published: March 17, 2014)
Key Findings
Potential impact of DSM-5 criteria on autism spectrum disorder prevalence estimates.
(Published: January 22, 2014)
- Rosenberg RE, Law JK, Yenokyan G, McGready J, Kaufmann WE, Law PA. Characterisitics and concordance of autism spectrum disorders among 277 twin pairs. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009; 163(10): 907-914.
- Hallmayer J, Cleveland S, Torres A, Phillips J, Cohen B, Torigoe T, Miller J, Fedele A, Collins J, Smith K, Lotspeich L, Croen LA, Ozonoff S, Lajonchere C, Grether JK, Risch N. Genetic heritability and shared environmental factors among twin pairs with autism. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2011; 68(11): 1095-1102.
- Ronald A, Happe F, Bolton P, Butcher LM, Price TS, Wheelwright S, Baron-Cohen S, Plomin R. Genetic heterogeneity between the three components of the autism spectrum: A twin study. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry. 2006; 45(6): 691-699.
- Taniai H, Nishiyama T, Miyahci T, Imaeda M, Sumi S. Genetic influences on the board spectrum of autism: Study of proband-ascertained twins. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2008; 147B(6): 844-849.
- Ozonoff S, Young GS, Carter A, Messinger D, Yirmiya N, Zwaigenbaum L, Bryson S, Carver LJ, Constantino JN, Dobkins K, Hutman T, Iverson JM, Landa R, Rogers SJ, Sigman M, Stone WL. Recurrence risk for autism spectrum disorders: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium study. Pediatrics. 2011; 128: e488-e495.
- Sumi S, Taniai H, Miyachi T, Tanemura M. Sibling risk of pervasive developmental disorder estimated by means of an epidemiologic survey in Nagoya, Japan. J Hum Genet. 2006; 51: 518-522.
- DiGuiseppi C, Hepburn S, Davis JM, Fidler DJ, Hartway S, Lee NR, Miller L, Ruttenber M, Robinson C. Screening for autism spectrum disorders in children with Down syndrome. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2010; 31:181-191.
- Cohen D, Pichard N, Tordjman S, Baumann C, Burglen L, Excoffier E, Lazar G, Mazet P, Pinquier C, Verloes A, Heron D. Specific genetic disorders and autism: Clinical contribution towards their identification. J Autism Dev Disord. 2005; 35(1): 103-116.
- Hall SS, Lightbody AA, Reiss AL. Compulsive, self-injurious, and autistic behavior in children and adolescents with fragile X syndrome. Am J Ment Retard. 2008; 113(1): 44-53.
- Zecavati N, Spence SJ. Neurometabolic disorders and dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2009; 9(2): 129-136.
- Amendah, D., Grosse, S.D., Peacock, G., & Mandell, D.S. (2011). The economic costs of autism: A review. In D. Amaral, D. Geschwind, & G. Dawson (Eds.), Autism spectrum disorders (pp. 1347-1360). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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I have just uploaded a set of 8 scores arranged for my school string ensemble. It would be great to get some feedback on some of them!
So a lot of people are alive. Great. So we need an image for the group. Can someone give me suggestions?
I have recently posted a medley arranged for my school string ensemble which has a great double bass tune in the middle piece.
It's been a long time since this group's been active so who's still on here?
Play Mozart Sonata No.8 in A Minor on piano. Then upload it.
Sorry I have been busy lately and couldn't update the group. WE REACHED 50 PEOPLE. So how is everyone doing?
It has been a long time since I wanted to write down this beautiful arrangment of the argentinian song "Alfonsina y el mar" by Ariel Ramirez.
After some hours of work this is the result. Comments and feedback are welcomed :)
I was just wondering; I made a string trio arrangement and tomorrow we have a trio rehearsal so I want to print out parts but I don't have Pro and won't for a long time, would anyone here that's pro be willing to do me a favor and download the individual parts PDFs and email them to me? That would be great
I`ve been trying to write for string quartet for some time but i cant make it sound to good. What should i focus on mainly when i write for it. And what roles do the different instruments have?
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Hello! I am currently the leader of a handbell group at my university and I'm looking for songs to arrange that could spark more interest for handbells.
If anyone had any ideas please let me know, thanks!
I have recently finished the second movement of my clarinet sonata and would love some feedback on any part of the piece.
This is the first time that I have ever had a finished exposition for a cello sonata and the second time I have ever had a finished exposition for a duet sonata(my first duet sonata to have a finished exposition was a flute sonata).
I didn't plan the exact structure of my exposition beforehand, but this is how it turned out:
Bars 1-18: A slow period structure as the first theme, antecendent phrase ending on subdominant, consequent phrase ending with C major cadence. This theme has a canon at the beginning of both phrases.
Bars 19-26: Transition passage based on the inversion of descending motive in the last 2 bars of the first theme with little bits of countermelody thrown in while the motive gets sequenced up to G major.
Bars 27-45: Second theme where the cello starts off with the main melody. Invertible counterpoint between the piano and cello occurs here and to highlight that, I use different dynamics for the 2 hands of the piano. At bar 36, I have the cello play the melodic bass line pizzicato, but not just because it was staccato in the piano, but also to add contrast against the legato and bowed staccato that occurred beforehand. The main melody gets transferred to the right hand of the piano and the chords get transferred to the left hand of the piano. Bar 45 is when the cello goes back to playing arco.
Bars 46-69: Closing material. Bars 46-61 have invertible counterpoint once again between the piano and the cello. In bars 46-53, the left hand of the piano plays the octave bass line, the right hand of the piano plays the melody with dotted rhythms, and the cello plays the melody without dotted rhythms. Combining these 2 melodies produces some syncopation.
At bar 54, the cello now plays the melody with dotted rhythms, the left hand of the piano now plays the melody without dotted rhythms, and the octave bass line is played by the right hand of the piano When the cello plays the melody with dotted rhythms, I add a bit of a spin to it. Instead of just copying the melody note for note, I add some embellishment, in particular, bariolage, as you can see by the notes with a 0 above them.
At bar 62, the cello sustains a G as a fragmented scale is played by the piano(for which there are 2 levels of fragmentation, thirds going up and down the scale, and groups of 3 notes in stepwise motion, again going up the scale). Then the piano sustains an A as the cello plays bariolage. The cello once again sustains at bar 65. At bar 67, a G7 arpeggio in mostly contrary motion is played before the first theme repeats.
And for those that are going to complain that I don't have slurs in here and that the cellist won't know where to change bow directions, I will put in slurs when I am finished composing this cello sonata.
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I am 57 and will start in the part time program Fall 2010. I was admitted to full time, but decided not to quit my job. I am looking forward to the fun. I love that FAMU is a very diverse school. I am an old white guy married to an old black women! She thinks this is one of the best decisions I have made. I hope so!


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The Papers of Jefferson Davis is published by Louisiana State University Press. Online ordering links are listed below each volume. Orders can also be placed by phone at 1-800-848-6224 or by fax at 1-800-272-6817.
The first four volumes contain full text or summarized notation of all known Davis documents through 1852. Due to the extensive correspondence beginning with the secretary of war period and continuing though the Civil War years, Volume 5 and subsequent volumes are selective, with routine bureaucratic communication omitted. Documents discovered too late to be included in the proper chronological sequence are published in appendices. All volumes contain illustrations and detailed endpaper maps.
Indexes are available online for Volumes 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 (1861-64).
The fifth volume shows Davis as an especially active secretary of war, overseeing revision of the West Point curriculum, construction of the Washington Aqueduct, expansion of the Capitol (including the dome addition), development of new weapons and armaments, the Crimea commission, the Pacific railroad surveys, and the camel experiment. Of the approximately 21,700 known documents for this period, 93 are printed in full and around 9,000 appear in precis form.
Order Volume 5 from LSU Press.
Covering the tumultuous last nine months of the war, Volume 11 tells of the demise of the Confederate States. It also showcases Davis' vigorous and determined efforts to maintain the government despite recurring defeats, financial disaster, failures in diplomacy and peace negotiations, and plummeting morale. Of special note are the documents concerning the fall of Richmond and the Davises' eventful flight until their capture in Georgia on May 10.
Order Volume 11 from LSU Press.
Volume 12 follows Davis and his family as they fight to find their place in the world after the Civil War. Davis was released from federal prison after two hard years, he was not free from legal proceedings until 1869. Stateless, homeless, and without means to support himself and his young family, Davis lived in Canada and then Europe, searching for a new career in a congenial atmosphere. In November 1869, he settled in Memphis as president of a life insurance company, and for the first time in four years, had the means to build a new life.
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Volume 14 covers the preparation and publication of Davis' memoirs, his travels abroad, speaking tours in the South, plantation management and personal business and family matters during the last ten years of his life. As the "Lost Cause" gained momentum, Davis became a leading voice, consulted by influential southerners on a wide range of topics, from Gettysburg to prohibition.


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Six-time Grammy® nominated rapper / songwriter B.o.B aka Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, is headed to New Zealand for one show only before heading to Australia to join the Big Day Out 2013 tour.
Headlining a new All Ages event called "PLAY" the American hip hop recording artist, singer-songwriter and record producer is returning to NZ, playing Auckland's Logan Campbell Centre on Wednesday January 16th with a stellar line-up of local artists from the Illegal Musik stable. B.o.B. is not an artist to be bound by any restrictions or the need to conform to expectations. He has a unique talent in that he produces, writes, raps, arranges, and mixes his own music. He is a one stop music creation shop from top to bottom. This allows B.o.B the rare opportunity of recording with reckless abandon. It is a freedom that he willingly accepts.
"I am constantly coming up with songs and concepts because I want to sound different. Nobody made it by sounding like everyone else."
This young Atlanta native's debut single "Nothin' on You" featuring Bruno Mars, reached number one in both the United States and the United Kingdom. His second single "Airplanes", a duet with Hayley Williams of US band Paramore, also peaked at number one in the UK and number two in the US. His third single "Magic" became B.o.B's third consecutive top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the accolades have kept on coming since his debut album "B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray" reached number one on the US charts before being certified Gold.
Now B.o.B has just delivered his sophomore album "Strange Clouds" and he continues to redefine what people think 'rappers' do, stripping the typecast definitions aside and doing exactly what he wants, with whomever he wants. The proof of this refusal to conform continues as he composes duets with more superstars from Lil' Wayne and Nicki Minaj to rapping opposite American country-pop princess Taylor Swift.
There is no doubt that B.o.B's unique talent and ability to create hit collaborations is sending this young well-travelled artist on a trajectory that is headed straight for the stars! Also joining B.o.B is a local line-up that reveals some of our best hip hop and R&B talents, filling out a bill which will heartily satisfy the appetites of the most ravenous fans.
New Zealand's hottest boy band, the record-breaking Titanium will have the teenage girls screaming their heads off, with a set list that will undoubtedly include their #1 debut hit single "Come On Home", Jason Mraz's "I Won't Give Up" and second official single "Sky". A trio of hits that made Titanium the first NZ artist to ever have all three songs in the New Zealand Top 40 singles chart at the same time. Further good news for their fans, Titanium have been hard at work in the studio working on their debut album "All For You", which will be on sale from December 7th.
The line-up also includes smooth hip hop/R&B artist J Williams and prolific rap juggernaut K.One, both of whom have been busy abroad and will be back shortly to refine new material for the show. Christchurch pop singer Brooke Duff took 2012 by storm with her debut single 'Till The End' and has been performing regularly with Illegal Banditz and K.One, which has seen her develop further into an exciting new live talent.
Last but not least, setting the pace and mood for the evening and putting his well-honed skills to good use is champion hip hop DJ and producer DJCXL, part of pioneering hip hop group Ill Semantics. The combination of these artists and their reputation for giving electrifying live performances are guaranteed to entertain the crowd! This promises to be the perfect summer holiday event, with a line-up that will make the Logan Campbell Centre the place to be this 16th January 2013.
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HeadHardHat's Award Winning Geocaching Blog is a geocache treasure trove of geocaching information. Years of searchable geocaching insights await you here. HeadHardHat's GeoSnippits Geocaching Videos series can be seen on You Tube. You can also find him on his new GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast series and the Geocaching Podcast. Geocaching the outdoor treasure-hunting game which the participants use a GPS receiver to hide and seek containers called "geocaches" or "caches" anywhere in the world
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
HooHaa TB Race Update: P.J.'s Quilt Covers Second Place
6 comments:
- P.J. said...
It's still early... a marathon, not a sprint!
A 'lil HooHaa
- November 18, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- tonka_boy said...
PJ, What'ya say?
Second place is like being first place in the losers bracket.
- November 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM
- tonka_boy said...
- November 18, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Wow tonka_boy. Way to use an overused phrase. Let me guess. You've been reading "How to insult people AND make yourself look bad."
- November 19, 2008 at 4:32 AM
- tonka_boy said...
I was the model for the cover photo of the book.
- November 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Way to go tonka_boy! Always fun to make the cover of something in life.
- November 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM


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Spotted! It looks like Eva Longoria may have had a change of heart. The former Desperate Housewives actress was photographed kissing and holding hands with her ex-boyfriend Eduardo Cruz while grabbing lunch in New York City on Saturday, Oct. 26.
They were "kissing," an eyewitness reveals to Us Weekly. They were acting like "lovebirds" in front of everyone.
The friendly exes stayed close to each other as they dined at Serafina restaurant. Longoria, 38, wore a short black and white dress for the outing, with a chic red belt and her brunette locks down. Cruz — whose sister is actress Penelope Cruz — went a bit more casual in jeans, a grey t-shirt and hat. (The Counselor actress was actually the one to introduce the two.)
The Devious Maids producer and Spanish-born singer Cruz debuted their romance in February 2011 three months after Longoria finalized her divorce from NBA player Tony Parker. The two were married for four years.
Cruz and Longoria later split in March 2012, but briefly reunited in the spring. They officially called it quits in June of that year.
Longoria's recent outing with Cruz comes just two months after calling it quits with ex-boyfriend Ernesto Arguello. Longoria first met the Miami-based entrepreneur when he was cast in her Ready For Love reality dating show in April 2013. The two went their separate ways in August after four months of dating.
"It wasn't that serious," a source told Us Weekly at the time about the relationship. "He was fun."
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The family involved in a chilling clash with a pack of motorcyclists broke their silence Thursday as police said they've identified a main suspect in the assault and expect him to surrender within the next day.
The 37-year-old suspect was captured on video using his silver-colored motorcycle helmet to break the driver's side window of a Range Rover he and other bikers chased on the West Side Highway before allegedly yanking the driver out of the car and assaulting him. The suspect is expected to turn himself in Thursday or Friday.
Law enforcement officials say detectives have been speaking with the mother of the suspect's six children and with other family members to work on a surrender.
The suspect has at least 21 prior arrests, some for drugs and weapons possession and robbery, sources said.
Meanwhile, the family of the SUV driver, who ran over a biker after motorcyclists surrounded his car on the highway as he drove with his wife and 2-year-old daughter, says they are sorry for the biker's injuries but "could not have done anything differently" given the "life-threatening" situation they perceived.
Alexian Lien and his wife were out for the day with their little girl to celebrate their wedding anniversary when a group of bikers swarmed Lien's Range Rover, forcing the vehicle almost to a halt, the family said. In fear of his life, Lien told investigators he plowed through the crowd of bikers, running over one of them.
The biker he mowed down, Edwin Mieses Jr., is hospitalized at St. Luke's in Manhattan with broken legs and spinal injuries, and about 100 bikers rallied outside the hospital Wednesday to express their support.
On Thursday, Lien's family released a statement through their attorney that offered sympathies to the Mieses family but said Lien was in a "life-threatening" situation and had to take action as he did in order to protect his wife and 2-year-old daughter.
"We know in our hearts that we could not have done anything differently, and we believe that anyone faced with this sort of grave danger would have taken the same course of action in order to protect their family," the Lien family said.
Law enforcement officials said Lien's wife Rosalyn Ng made four 911 calls over an eight-minute period on the highway and that she sounded frantic in each call, screaming to the operator that the car was surrounded.
The sound of the bikers banging on the SUV is audible in the calls, according to the officials.
The chase ended when Lien's SUV exited the highway and got stuck in traffic. Police said the group of motorcyclists who'd followed Lien -- including the suspect in the silver helmet -- pulled him from the SUV and beat him in front of his wife and 2-year-old daughter.
Lien was taken to a hospital where he needed stitches for his face. He has not been charged, but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said they were still investigating.
"Well, it depends on what the circumstances are," Kelly said. "It depends on whether or not your vehicle is being attacked, whether or not you think you're being attacked, whether or not your wife and child's in the car. You have to look at the totality of the circumstances, and that's what we're doing."
Lien has no prior arrests.
Detectives have also identified at least a dozen of the bikers who surrounded the SUV, including the man who recorded the video of the chase and beating that has since gone viral, according to officials. His Long Island home was searched Wednesday and the recovered equipment is now being analyzed.
Law enforcement officials said it appears the man intentionally stopped recording the moment Lien was pulled out of his car and beaten. The man told detectives that the battery on the Go Pro camera died, but investigators doubt that claim because there is additional video footage on the camera that was taken some time after the alleged assault.
The bikers in the video who have been identified by police and are cooperating with them say that most of the riders did not know each other, and that they'd only met that day before riding together to the West Side Highway.
One of the cooperating bikers is another man who suffered a broken leg after being hit by Lien's Range Rover.
Two bikers had been arrested since the ride on Sunday, but one has been released.
Allen Edwards, 42, of Queens — believed to be the man seen on video striking the Range Rover's rear driver's side window with his fists -- surrendered to police on Tuesday. But the Manhattan DA declined to prosecute, "pending further investigation of the entire incident," the office said Wednesday.
Sources said he has been cooperative and there is no indication he participated in the assault of Lien. He may have even tried to come to the victim's aid, sources said.
The other arrested biker, Christopher Cruz, of Passaic, N.J., was charged with second-degree unlawful imprisonment and reckless driving. Cruz, who was uninjured, was arraigned Wednesday. Prosecutors say he deliberately slowed down in front of the Range Rover on the West Side Highway, trapping him there, but Cruz's lawyer said that was not true.
Christopher Cruz's lawyer said in court Oct. 2 he never tried to deliberately slow down in front of Lien and that he did not know any of the other motorcyclists involved in the alleged beating of Lien.
Police are also searching for two witnesses, pictured below, who saw Lien allegedly being assaulted.
Meanwhile, the wife of the hospitalized biker said her husband is the real victim in the altercation.
"There's no hope for his back," Dayana Mieses, who has retained Gloria Allred to represent her family in a potential case against the driver, told reporters. "They crushed his spine. They broke it in two different places, so he will be forever, forever paralyzed."
Mieses was recently arrested in Andover, Mass., for driving with a revoked license. According to police and records with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, Mieses hasn't had a valid license or permit to drive in the state since 1999. He also never applied for a motorcycle license.
The records show that in June he was named a habitual offender and his right to drive in the state was revoked until 2017. It isn't clear if he had been licensed in any other state. His attorney had no comment.
Mieses and the others seen on the video were participating in a periodic rally called Hollywood Stuntz in which more than 1,000 bikers head for Times Square, police have said. There were dozens of calls about reckless driving, 15 other arrests and 55 motorcycles confiscated.
State Sen. Adriano Espaillat Thursday released new video of the group of motorcyclists taking over the streets and sidewalks of Inwood before the vicious road rage confrontation.
"They took control of the gas station across the street," he said. "They were driving on the sidewalk. People were forced to run into restaurants because they felt they would be run over by these motorcycles."
Espaillat is calling for tougher laws and stiffer penalties on rogue bikers.
"This is totally out of control," he said.


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Hairdo gets high school student sent home
Student sports 16-inch Mohawk
A DeLand High School student will be allowed back to school as long as his up-do is undone according to the principal.
Asher Stonesifer, 17, said he expresses himself through his hair, but the principal thinks the teen is going too far. The principal said it a bit too radical for school grounds.
Stonesifer said he goes for the two-spike look most often, but he likes to mix it up. The spikes stand 16-inches tall after Stonesifer grew his hair out all summer.
This week, the principal told Stonesifer the hawk is too high and sent him home.
"I'm not really in to giving up at all. Whether I win or lose, whether by the end of the year I can't have it up or I don't, I want students to know that kids have a voice," said Stonesifer.
The dress code for Volusia County Schools does not address hair style but the principal can decide when something is over the top.
Nearly 200 students have signed a petition supporting Stonesifer.
The principal said Stonesifer can have his spikes during homecoming week when students are encouraged to show school spirit.
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Colorado is helping more elderly receive dental care
By Katya Mauritson
and Steve Holloway
Guest Commentary
More low-income seniors than ever before are receiving dental care through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Old Age Pension Dental Assistance program. Begun in 1977 as a way to assist low-income senior Coloradans with the purchase of dentures, the program was later expanded to provide preventive dental care as well.
The federal Medicare program for older adults does not provide coverage for routine oral health care needs for most enrollees. And because most dental insurance is employer-based, more than 60 percent of seniors in Colorado have no insurance coverage for their oral health needs. As a result, seniors must pay for the care they receive or forgo care altogether. Often the cost of dentures and other dental service can reach into the thousands of dollars, leaving comprehensive oral health care out of reach for many low-income adults.
In 2012, the Colorado legislature appropriated $3 million to revive the Old Age Pension Dental Assistance program after it had been de-funded in 2009. This amount is nearly six times the funding available in the 2009 program. As a result, many more vulnerable seniors in Colorado are receiving the oral health care they need. These services now go well beyond providing permanent dentures, as seniors are retaining more of their teeth into old age because of such advances as community water fluoridation and fluoridated toothpastes. The expansion in funding has, for the first time in the program's history, allowed the program to extend to every county in the state.
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Category: Mel Brooks
Show & Tell: Young Frankenstein
We at Krasker Talks! sure have the Halloween spirit today. On that note, our very own evening supervisor Dave Perkins is sharing with us a little piece of spooky-fun film history from his personal collection of film memorabilia: an original movie poster for Mel Brooks' 1974 masterwork Young Frankenstein. Being a film historian, I flipped when I saw what amazing condition it is in. The colors are remarkably vibrant because it has been stored away from strong lighting. So let that be a lesson to all would-be collectors! Posters are like vampires. You gotta keep them out of the sun.


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Serafina Cuomo
Robert Sallares
Andrew Barker
5th-cent. theories about sound fall into two groups. Most though not all non-Pythagorean Presocratics were concerned primarily with the process of hearing (see especially Theophr. Sens.; cf. also Hippocr. De victu 1. 8 and 15 on hearing and voice). The Pythagoreans opened a musical perspective, beginning from observed correspondences between pitch-relations and the relative lengths of pipes or strings. They showed that the correspondences hold quite generally, through demonstrations using other sound-sources (see e.g. DK 18. 12, 13; texts attributing 'experiments' to Pythagoras himself are unreliable). The resulting hypothesis that pitch itself is a quantitative variable prompted deeper enquiries, beginning in the 4th cent., into the physical nature of sound, its causes, transmission, and attributes, as well as the process of hearing.
The Greeks did not recognise acoustics as a separate science; the issues were studied in other contexts, mainly by philosophers interested in sense-perception, by biologists and medical writers, and above all by harmonic theorists.
Adrastus (2), of Aphrodisias, Peripatetic philosopher, 2nd cent. CE
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Aëtius (2), of Amida, physician, fl. c. 530–560 CE
John Scarborough
In *Alexandria (1) and Constantinople. He wrote an extant medical encyclopaedia, called the Tetrabiblon from its division into four sections. Beginning with a summary of drug theory (see
Agathinus, Spartan doctor, 1st cent. CE
J. T. Vallance
Agathinus (Claudius Agathinus) a Spartandoctor of the 1st cent. CE, associated with the medical sect of the *Pneumatists and by at least one ancient source with the establishment of an eclectic medical sect founded on Pneumatism with additional doctrines from medical Empiricism and *Methodism. He was a pupil of *Athenaeus (3) of Attaleia, and was linked with the Stoic philosopher L. *Annaeus Cornutus. He may have taught the physicians *Archigenes and *Herodotus (2). Fragments of his doctrines are reported by *Galen and *Oribasius, amongst others. He wrote influential works on pulsation (grudgingly praised by Galen, 8. 748 Kühn), on semi-tertian fevers, and on the use of hellebore; little is now known of their contents.
Helen King
Appears in *Hyginus (3) (Fab.274) in a list of discoverers and inventors. She is described as an Athenian girl who lived at a time when there were no *midwives, because women and slaves were forbidden to learn medicine; this scenario matches no known historical period. Disguising herself as a man, Agnodice studied medicine under 'a certain Herophilus', and then practised medicine at Athens successfully, challenging the professional monopoly on the part of male doctors. Accused by her jealous rivals of seducing her patients, Agnodice demonstrated her innocence by performing the gesture of anasyrmos, lifting her tunic to expose her lower body. This revelation led to a charge of practising medicine unlawfully, but she was saved when the wives of the leading men lobbied the *Areopagus in her defence. Hyginus claims that Athenian law was then changed so that freeborn women could study medicine.
agricultural writers
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Albinus (2), writer on music, geometry, and dialectic
Edward Courtney and R. A. Kaster
Albinus (2) writer on music, geometry, and dialectic, probably identical with Ceionius Rufius Albinus (PLRE 1 'Albinus' 14), the consul of
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Alexander (15) Philalethes, 'Truth-lover', physician, fl. later 1st cent. BCE?
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Alexander (16), of Tralles, physician, 525–605 CE
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Cecil Maurice Bowra, Eveline Krummen, and Christopher Pelling
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Database archiving is critical to the long-term management of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. Archiving can shorten backup windows, speed recoveries and improve the database's overall performance. But effective archiving means carefully selecting the data to be removed from the production application and moved to secondary storage, and ensuring that it remains available and adequately protected.
Archiving ERP tablespace data requires specialized tools and a close working relationship with the application's DBA.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications are demanding, consume increasing amounts of storage and computing resources, and usually need to be running 24/7. All of that translates into a complicated backup and recovery environment. ERP applications are typically the first to be replicated for disaster recovery and, in some cases, parts of the application databases are the first to be archived.
An ERP app contains a treasure trove of data intricately tied to numerous critical processes that reflect the overall performance and health of a business. As more data is collected, the storage infrastructure can become strained, creating slower end-user response times, longer batch runs, shrinking backup windows and recovery tests that miss their recovery time objectives. To address this issue, a company will typically upgrade its ERP infrastructure, believing that more spindles, CPUs and I/O will fix the problem. Eventually, those enhancements will lose effectiveness and the company will decide to archive less-important ERP data, which leads to a whole new set of challenges.
To archive ERP data, specific data needs to be surgically extracted from various database columns, rows and tables across multiple tablespaces on multiple physical LUNs and, ultimately, from multiple disks. The extraction must be done at the ERP application level so that associated business logic can be referenced to perform the extraction. Extraction tools are typically implemented by a database administrator (DBA) with significant input from the business stakeholder. The goal is to extract older, less-critical transactions to reduce the overall size of the database. A storage administrator must understand the type of data produced by the extraction and how to effectively manage the storage that will host it.
Generally, there are two types of ERP archiving techniques: dynamic archiving and static archiving. Both pull content from a production ERP application to reduce its size, but from a storage perspective they require very different approaches.
|Tools for archiving ERP data
This table lists some of the primary providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) archiving software. In general, "Dynamic archive tables" are databases with lower access characteristics than their production counterparts. "Static archive files" contain static ERP content. "Document management" refers to the ability to manage and view the archive files, while "Primary" indicates the capability the application is most known for today.
Dynamic archiving
Applimation Inc.'s Informia, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s StorageWorks Reference Information Manager (RIM) for Databases (formerly OuterBay's Application Data Management suite) and Solix Technologies Inc.'s Archivejinni can surgically extract data from a production Oracle database and place it in secondary archive tablespaces (see "Tools for archiving ERP data," this page). These tools understand the database schema and business relevance built into the schema, and then use this information to pull all components of the business transaction from the ERP application. Because data is stored in a structured dynamic format, the archives are sometimes referred to as "live," "active" or "dynamic."
Dynamic archiving can significantly shrink the size of an ERP production app and reduce the storage required for the production tablespace and all secondary copies of the tablespace: DEV, TEST, MAINT, TRAIN and QA. For example, one large manufacturing company recovered approximately 30TB of high-end storage after deploying archiving. The major advantage to archiving data within the same database instance is that the data is still available within a tablespace structure, so the archived data can be queried in the same manner as the production data. When searching the ERP application, data that's more than three years old may come from archive tables, while data that's three minutes old will come from production tables--but it's all transparent to the end user.
Structured dynamic data is stored in archive database tables. In some cases, the archive database tables reside in the same instance as the production database. This reduces the need to access entire tables and tablespaces, which increases application response time. Because the data is older and has less immediate business value, fewer people need access and there's less business impact if the data isn't as readily available.
It's important for the DBA and storage administrator to work together on the design of the archive tablespace. While the DBA will concentrate on separating older and newer data, the storage admin provides physical separation at the LUN level to ensure archive tables can be managed appropriately. For example, if all production ERP data is deployed on Tier-1 disks, the archive ERP data can be on Tier-2 storage. Similarly, if the ERP production data is backed up using a full clone with splits to increase performance, then the archive tablespace might be backed up using a snapshot.
From a storage perspective, the biggest advantage is that a storage administrator can move these less-critical tablespaces to secondary storage. The biggest disadvantage is that dynamic archives are still databases that need to be backed up. While dynamic structure archive tables are very effective at addressing end-user response time issues, they may not fix a shrinking backup window because the tablespace must still be backed up on a regular basis. In addition, dynamic archives aren't typically stored on media that's certified by the government for long-term storage. If that certification is required, you must go one step further and extract your ERP content to a static archive.
|SAP's archiving tools
SAP, unlike most enterprise resource planning (ERP) application vendors, provides a built-in mechanism to archive data. Based on the SAP Archive Development Kit (ADK), SAP offers more than 600 archiving objects. SAP also allows third-party tools to extract business transactions from other database tables. The resulting data is written into SAP archive files containing meta data that, through SAP ArchiveLink, can be managed by a document management system.
Because SAP can handle some of the most complicated tasks of extracting business data, the method for archiving with SAP applications isn't as complicated as with some of the other ERP applications. Third-party products for SAP archiving include Open Text Corp.'s Livelink ECM (formerly IXOS), which leverages SAP's ADK to extract a complete business transaction from production tablespaces to a static file with meta data. The static file is then managed with a document management tool.
Static archiving
Some ERP archiving projects don't archive data into a structured dynamic tablespace, but instead archive the data into a static, file-based structure. Although the goal remains the same--to reduce the size of a production ERP database--the format of the removed content is quite different. EMC Corp.'s Documentum Archive Services for SAP, Livelink ECM from Open Text Corp. (formerly IXOS) and Princeton Softech Inc.'s Optim all extract content into unstructured static files or objects. These tools understand the business logic associated with each transaction. When the content is extracted, business-related meta data is created and associated with the file content.
The meta data enables the file to be cataloged by its business content. Livelink ECM, one of the most frequently used tools in SAP environments, leverages the SAP Archive Development Kit (ADK) to appropriately extract transactions from the SAP tablespace. Only SAP provides an API to extract transactions (see "SAP's archiving tools," this page). The output from Livelink ECM isn't another database table, but rather a file containing appropriate meta data and static content about the archived business transaction. Once created, the complementary information is removed from the production tablespace to reduce the size of the ERP production database.
Most software companies that develop dynamic archives offer the ability to create static archives. In some cases, these files have a proprietary format (Open Text's Livelink ECM, Princeton Softech's Optim) while other products use XML (HP's RIM for Databases, Solix Technologies' Archivejinni). When stored in a proprietary format, the extraction tool provides methods to review and query the extracted files. XML provides a method to describe the content independently from any specific hardware or software. Either way, the file objects contain the business meta data that makes it possible for the business to retrieve the information and understand its content.
Once the ERP content is extracted to a static file, other factors come into play to create an effective archive. The authenticity of the static data must be maintained over time and the media the data is stored on may have to meet government compliance regulations. Historically, static files were stored on optical WORM or tape, but today companies are replacing those technologies with content-addressable storage (CAS) arrays to reduce costs and provide quicker response times. In most cases, the disk arrays also support deduplication or single-instance storage to eliminate storing duplicate data. By storing the data in a disk array, it can be replicated to a secondary array in another location, which may eliminate the need to back up the archive data. Dynamic archives can be replicated as well, but because of the cost and complexity of database replication, it's generally reserved for production data only. Whatever media or storage array is used to store the extracted files, a document management system is essential to effectively manage the files and their content.
|Backup vs. archive
The terms backup and archive are often used interchangeably, but they refer to distinctly different technical and business applications. Backing up data typically means creating a copy on media that allows it to be restored quickly in the event of data/network corruption or loss of the original. Backup data generally isn't searchable because it's assumed that if you need to restore, you'll likely restore an entire file or dataset. In addition, backups aren't usually kept for long periods of time or in a manner that guarantees authenticity of the information.
The biggest difference between backups and archives is versioning. Backups can contain multiple versions of a file or dataset to restore data to a specific point in time. An archive is a single version or "state" of data at a particular point in time that must be guaranteed to be authentic with the same integrity it had when it was in production. Another defining attribute of an archive is that once it's created, the information within it is usually removed from online storage.
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"The ability to form and fabricate gas tanks and fenders inhouse was the final step we needed to take to optimize our production line," says Jim Quinn, OCC's general manager, referring to the company's Limited Edition Production Bike Line launched in 2007. Each production bike is hand-built in the OCC shop using all-American parts. OCC makes 150 to 200 of the production-line bikes per year over six models, all of which share the same basic deep-drawn fender blank, and three fuel-tank designs. It then uses its five-axis waterjet-cutting machine to custom-trim the fenders for each specific bike model. Fenders are of 12-gauge draw-quality steel, fuel tanks of 14-gauge steel.
In addition to the hydraulic press and waterjet machine, the 100,000-sq.-ft. facility—40,000 sq. ft. dedicated to manufacturing—also houses four Haas machining centers and two CNC lathes.
"Outsourcing fenders and gas-tank halves meant we had to deal with the time and cost of shipping, which led to lengthy lead times when we made design changes," says Quinn. The company expects to keep its production lineup fresh, with periodic design changes, and strives to keep its manufacturing processes flexible to accommodate new designs and requirements for new parts. It also, according to OCC founder Paul Teutel Sr., hopes to soon offer contract metal-fabricating services with its array of state-of-the-art machines.
"We've got the fenders down," Teutel says, "and we're close with the gas tanks. Within the next year we think we'll be ready to offer full contract job-shop fabricating."
Draw Quality and Repeatability Improved
In addition to timing and flexibility, quality of the outsourced deep-drawn parts also had been a concern, and Quinn quickly learned how to tune the press and tooling to improve repeatability—forming parts with more consistency than he had been receiving with the sourced stampings. Better repeatability has streamlined downstream finishing operations.
"Our supplied deep-drawn parts came to us with undefined and irregular addendum or overpress material," says Quinn, "which made the trimming process in our five-axis waterjet-cutting machine very time-consuming. Every fender or fuel-tank stamping would require a unique setup in the cutting machine. Now, using the Beckwood press, we've been able to define the addendum for every stamping and obtain enough repeatability to allow us move right from the press to a fixture on the waterjet machine. We stamp a few fixturing dimples in the material to locate the drawn blank in the waterjet fixture, and in about 2 min. the operator can set up the blank and start trimming out the fender. This took 10 min. out of the setup process per fender."
Fenders are 28-in.-OD half-donut shapes, 5.5 in. wide, with a 14-in. draw. "We use only 70 percent of the drawn blank in the actual fender," says Quinn, whose background is in fineblanking and progressive-die stamping. He described the process used to develop the fender blank profile, and the "art-to-part" development required to eliminate the wrinkling and pinching into the upper draw ring that you might expect when attempting to develop a 14-in. draw.
"A lot of art and trial-and-error development went into the project," he says, "as we worked together with Beckwood's technicians to finally obtain the part quality we were after." Among the changes made during trial and error were the blank shape and the recipe for draw-ring pressure, so that by the fourth blank stamped, Quinn wound up with a usable part, and by the 12th blank the process was fine-tuned to form wrinkle-free parts.
Custom Draw Ring Flattens the Wrinkles
"The blank wound up being an elongated oval," says Quinn, who started with a dog-bone-shaped blank. "Then, once we defined the optimum blank shape, one of the first process parameters we identified as critical was draw-ring clearance. As the fender would make its nearly-90 deg. turn up the side of the draw ring and around a 3⁄8-in. corner radius, the steel would start to tear. So we added another 1⁄16 in. of clearance in the deeper ends of the draw, which eliminated the pinching that was causing the tearing.
"Then," Quinn continues, "to eliminate the wrinkling we were getting in the middle of the part—the mounting area—I added side plates to the draw ring." The draw ring is of 1.5-in.-thick 7075 Al; Quinn added 6 in. of flat stock to each side of the ring to smooth the edges of the fender as it draws down.
"I also machined a plate to mount to the pressure pins that hold the upper die," he adds, "to fill the gap between the edge of the part and the pins. We use the pins to support the stamping in the outward direction as well as in the drawing direction. They act just as the cushion plate and the draw ring act together to pinch the material, so now we also get the same pinching action between the male form and the upper draw ring. This prevents outward wrinkling."
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Dynamic Cushion Control, Four-Corner Active Leveling
After fine-tuning the tooling, Quinn then looked to use the multizone bed cushion (rated to 75 tons) of the press, which allows OCC to program and adjust draw-cushion pressure in as many as five different stages of the draw. At max, OCC uses 200 tons from the main ram and 66 percent of cushion capacity. Pressure is higher at the start of the draw, reduced in the middle of the draw and then increased again at the end. This dynamic cushion control throughout the stroke, in addition to programmable ram speed, "allowed us to really fine-tune the draw at its deepest point, between 12 and 14 in.," says Quinn. The press is rated for a maximum draw of 16 in.
In addition to dynamic cushion control, another key feature of OCC's new hydraulic press is four-corner active leveling. Beckwood application and sales engineer Darrell Harrelson explains how the feature works and what it means to OCC's applications.
"Linear transducers mounted at each of the four corners of the press send position signals to a motion controller (from Delta Computer Systems, Vancouver, WA). The controller manages the data to control proportional valves in each of the four hydraulic cylinders to maintain bed parallelism, critical during off-center loading conditions."
When does OCC load its press off-center? "This occurs when forming the oddly shaped gas-tank halves," Harrelson continues. "The tear-dropped shape of the tanks generates substantially more load on one side of the press bed than the other. Without active leveling at all four corners of the press, this off-center loading would stress the guide bushings, possibly bend the pusher pins or otherwise damage the die. The diemaker would have to look at the part and locate the centerline, then shift the part in the press to even out the load on the press."
Last but Not Least: A Green Machine
The last press feature noted by Harrelson is its use of a variable-frequency drive, growing in industry acceptance as a to "green" the stamping process. When the press is not running—and the nature of OCC's limited run sizes causes a lot of downtime—the drive consumes only 50 percent of its rated energy, slowing from 1800 rpm during drawing to 900 rpm during idle time.
"This speed reduction conserves energy," says Harrelson, "and also reduces heat in the hydraulic system and reduces sound level. Generally, payback for this feature comes in less than 4 yr. in terms of energy savings." MF
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Midway's dropped a friendly nudge that the Xbox 360 version of UTIII is now available in Europe. The game features split-screen play over the PS3 version, five new maps and two new characters. No user mods, though. Press release after the link.
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Maurice was a veteran of World War I so he has a military stone with his regular tombstone. I love that. It not only lets you know someone was a vet, but tells you a little about their service. Particularly good since getting military records can be a pain in the butt...especially since so many have been destroyed. At least you might be able to find out more about the person's unit if you can't get their file. This information can also help you get the right file if your veteran has a fairly common name.
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I haven't had much luck finding information on this unit...for WWII, sure...not so much for WWI, but it'll be something that I check out for sure. I'm a veteran and as silly as it sounds, I don't know the best places to look for this information.
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Should just cancel all other Cricket and play for the Ashes on a Test-by-Test basis tbh
Nah, 6 would be cool.
Should just cancel all other Cricket and play for the Ashes on a Test-by-Test basis tbh
Nah, 6 would be cool.
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Well... given that every Scot, Welshman and Irishman who has ever got good at cricket has always ended-up playing for the team called "England" it shouldn't really.
And it's a historical quirk that mattered little for 130 years, then the genius folk at I$C$C decided it'd be a great idea to start giving Ireland and Scotland ODI status... despite the fact that these sides have proven for a century and more to be weaker than the weakest First-Class county... you might as well give Jamaica or Barbados ODI status. And if the team had been called The British Isles none of that nonsense would have happened because Scotland and Ireland would have been recognised for what they are - part of a country that already plays international cricket, like Jamaica and Trinidad And Tobago.
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Pretty sure geography teachers aren't allowed to use the term "British Isles" anymore, as it's offensive to those in the Republic. Not sure though.
EDIT - kinda contradicted myself there, nevermind
Thanks. I like this site. I learn interesting things every day, and in this case not even directly about cricket.Originally Posted by Richard
My wife and I lived in Scotland for just under two years in the late 80s and in pre-cable days (for scrimping Aussies anyway) you didn't even hear much about English soccer, let alone cricket.
I think there is clearly a very different mindset in England about who plays for England (rugby, soccer, cricket whatever) than there is in Australia (and NZ, SA, India, Pakistan, WI etc?). Almost worth a thread. But I'd better not start it as my Geraint Jones one went a bit berserk and in combination would make it look like I do nothing but stir the possum.
So is Papua New Guinea represented by England now too?Originally Posted by Richard
I'd pay to go see the Hobart test, tbh. Tassie's a great place.
Since I started this I'll just say that there should only be a sixth Test if England do something I've always thought they should do - namely split their tour of Australia - just go for the Ashes and then two years later just go to play in the CB series as the third team who don't play Tests (as NZ are doing just now). IMO this has three advantages 1. It shortens the Ashes tour. 2. If England went just for the CB series it means we could concentrate on the one-day game for a spell - one of our problems in ODIs is a lot of them (especially on tour) are played after the Tests so the players are tired and disinterested 3.If we went to Australia every two years it gives us more experience of Aussie conditions which might help us adapt quicker in Ashes tours - its amazing to think if it hdn't been for 2005's Super series Freddie would nver have played a test in Australia before this tour. One question - in 1970-71, 1974-75 and 1978-79 Australia did have six-Test Ashes series(in fact one turned into a seven Test series because of a wash-out - much to Ray Illingworth's disgust) - why did they stop them?
As for six Tests in England, it won't happen unless we can go back to Australia being the only touring country in a summer - seven tests a season is argubly too much. Eight definately is. And about Scotland - IMO matches not involving Full Members should not be ODIs except in WC - but I can understand why Scotland choose to go down the ICC route as they will get more publicity by playing in the WC than ever they would just playing in English competitons - even if they won't cause Ricky Ponting or Graheme Smith any sleepless nights. I'd rather scotland were like Wales and competed in the CC -as Glamorgan do - then one day there might be an Ashes Test in Edingburgh one day as there will be in Cardiff in 2009 - but I reckon there's more chance of us voting for independence than that happening!
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Good idea in theory about splitting the tour to Australia. Not sure if it's practical WRT the FTP, but you never know.
What I would never like to see again is what happened last time we were down-under, whereby the Ashes was carved up by the VB series
The soccer teams have always been those of the 5 countries, not GBR, The UK or the British Isles.
In cricket it's always been a collective, just that (presumably because the vast majority were always English) the team was always known as England.
The reason you didn't hear much about cricket is probably that cricket has never been extraordinarily popular in Scotland (though more popular than most in England ever give it credit for).
Just that Geraint Jones happened to be brought-up there - the reason he qualifies for "England" is because he's actually an Australian-bred Welshman - his parents are both Welsh (as you can tell by the names Jones, Emrys and Geraint).
And in cricketing terms, ROI, NI and Britain are a collective.
England, on the other hand, went from 6 Tests to 7 and added the tri-series in the same summer. And that was the summer where England players appearing for their counties became a virtual non-event.
I highly doubt Scotland's ODI status had anything to do with their own ideas - everyone knows I$C$C are obsessed with the expansion idea, 8 teams at a World Cup doesn't sound Global enough, does it? I'd be prepared to bet I$C$C were falling-over themselves to give Scotland and the rest ODI status. For mine, indeed, games involving any substandard side shouldn't be given ODI status, World Cup or outside.
As for the split tour of Australia, I can't say it's an idea I fancy, if you're going somewhere you might as well go there to play Tests and ODIs at the same time. If English players can't take ODIs seriously enough simply because they're being played after the Tests they deserve to suffer for it IMO. And it's not like that's the problem anyway, England just don't produce enough cricketers who are good enough at the one-day game and that's shown by the domestic records of the players who get picked.
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Recently, I was interviewed by The Daily Beast about a new lawsuit that threatens the use of social media in the workplace. Employees should be able to build their personal branding using social media tools and not be obligated to hand over their profiles when they depart. In this case, Noah Kravitz, an employee at Phonedog.com in a social media role was sued $340,000 ($2.50 per each of his 17,000 followers per month) by his company after departing. There was no written agreement but supposedly there was a verbal one.
The only issue I find with this case is that Noah had the name "@Phonedog_Noah," which means that he was obviously using his account on his company's behalf and his company's name was helping him build a following by association. If Noah loses his account, it will hurt his career. Phonedog.com will yield no results from his account because Noah's followers care about him and have no relationship with his company. The case has been brought to court and lets hope it's dropped because no one will ever want to work for Phonedog.com again (especially Gen-Y!).
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