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What's New in Die Design
The latest die-design and simulation software continues to help tooling estimators, engineers and builders eliminate costly delays and deliver tools that function correctly from the get-go. New features and functionality reduce design time and help reduce lead time from project initiation to pressroom production. Software providers have zeroed in on ease of use, faster processing, increased automation features, more canned routines and intuitive graphics tools to keep die designers and builders, as well as stampers, competitive.
In advance of MetalForming magazine's Die Design and Simulation Software Experience, May 29-30 in Grand Rapids, MI, we've surveyed the landscape to see just what software providers have been up to.
Do More with Fewer Keystrokes
"Everything we do relates to fewer keystrokes, accomplishing more in one command and in one dialog box so that the user need not jump around," says Eric Bragg, sales representative at TST Tooling Software Technology LLC (www.tst-software.com), Clarkston, MI. "We call it 'composed commands,' bringing everything under one hood so that when you are doing these repeat-type procedures, one dialog box contains all of the tools."That timesaver is one of many Bragg notes when describing VISI 20, the latest version of the software that TST markets for tool, die and mold design and build. It's set for rollout at the beginning of 2014.
The ability to work with an extensive range of CAD interfaces can save designers and builders precious time. For its part, VISI 20 can work directly with Parasolid, IGES, Catia v4 and v5, Pro-E, UG, STEP, Solid Works, Solid Edge, ACIS, DXF, DWG, STL and VDA files. Very large files can be handled with ease, according to company officials, and companies working with complex designs benefit from simplified manipulation of customer CAD data.
Building on that capability, "we can incorporate FEA and formability results very quickly into the strip layout," Bragg says.
Placement of 3D folding stages into the strip occurs seamlessly, and the strip can easily be updated to accommodate a reduction or increase in number of stages. At any point it is possible to access all of the strip parameters, including width and pitch, for modification when required. In addition, the 3D strip can be simulated at any point to check the design's validity and performance.
Deeper Libraries
In recent years, component libraries have been bolstered to help designers find what they need in a hurry. This is true in VISI 20. The software's proprietary component builders reportedly enable rapid and accurate placement of each standard component and ensure that modifications can be made at any stage during the project. Each component has a full list of editable parameters enabling essential adjustments to suit individual tooling requirements, including creation of clearance holes for each component. In addition, all components come with manufacturing-data attributes and a full parts-list itinerary.
Additional time savings come thanks to the ability to access data for use on future jobs. In VISI 20, "we improved the tool-building engine, where users can create a set of rules pertaining to each customer's requirements," Bragg explains. "For example, what types of materials does Customer A require as opposed to Customer B? Plugging that into the tool list allows users to gain efficiency on each job. Users do not have to redo the work; instead, they have everything at their fingertips. They can create requirements once, associate it to the tool wizard, and gain the benefit of having that information available for the next time."
Increasingly, software, besides accepting a greater variety of imported files, packs more into its offerings. VISI 20, for instance, introduces a Flange On Curve command that allows nonlinear-bend unfolding.
"Previously, you had to take that to a third-party product or perform it manually," says Bragg. "We now have algorithms to unfold nonlinear bends along a flange line. It adds speed and efficiency, allowing the designer to get the job done without having to wait for outside work."
As computing power has increased, software providers have added features that were not previously available. For example, VISI 20 offers animation so users can visualize cam movements and other tool actions, as well as collisions. And in another nod to increased computer-processor speed, the software installs 32- and 64-bit versions.
Even though software has evolved to perform ever-more complex functions, it also can help users make decisions in a hurry.
"This is open, free-form modeling software," Bragg adds. "It can perform 50-percent reviews quickly. Designers can waste a lot of time trying to get everything solved up top and planning for all of the what-if scenarios. Now the software can give them important information quickly, without forcing them to spend time in a lengthy process to get results."
Optimized Forming Simulation
Nothing spells aggravation like seeing a wrinkled or torn part on the press bed, after tool design and build. Not only a time waster, such a scenario grinds production to a halt, puts a contract in jeopardy and sends money spent on materials, tool construction and salaries up in smoke. Fortunately, software makers deliver solutions to help prevent such catastrophes. For example, Dynaform 5.9, a full-featured die-system simulation suite released in 2013 by Engineering Technology Associates, Inc. (ETA—www.eta.com), Troy, MI, contains a new Optimization Platform (OP).
Software flexibility can significantly ease a designer's challenges. For example, CimatronE 11 allows users to adapt to a variety of die and forming needs, including the ability to design progressive and transfer dies within the same interface.
The OP module contains proprietary SHERPA optimization technology from Red Cedar Technology, East Lansing, MI. It reportedly reduces development time and cost for manufacturing by reducing incidents of wrinkling, thinning and tearing. It does this by supporting optimization of drawbead forces along with binder pressure, lubrication, and workpiece material type and thickness. Importantly, as powerful as this function is, it makes optimization viable for a larger set of users, say company officials, since special optimization expertise is not required. Additionally, the latest computing platforms combined with an efficient solver eliminate demanding computing requirements.
"This solution allows quick and accurate optimization of die-face design, saving product-development time," says Arthur Tang, ETA vice president. "For many years, tooling engineers have used Dynaform as a virtual tryout for metal stamping. Now they can go beyond identifying problem areas by incorporating design optimization to improve performance and quality—removing wrinkles and cracks."
The OP module uses the same common interface as the other four Dynaform modules: Blank Size Engineering, Die Face Engineering, Formability Simulation and Die System Analysis. These four existing modules have been enhanced in Version 5.9.
"Drawbeads are designed to restrict the blank from wrinkling and splitting in a forming process," Tang explains. "Traditionally, adjusting drawbeads required the layout of a large and complicated drawbead setup, which can be very challenging and time consuming. Achieving a formable panel or part through this traditional drawbead-optimization process can take weeks. Now, by accurately optimizing drawbead forces using the module, along with modern computing power, the process takes only days or hours. And it doesn't require supercomputers or cloud computing."
Bob Ryan, CEO of Red Cedar Technology, agrees.
"Until now," he says, "optimizing die systems was too difficult and time-consuming to be practical for most applications."
Given advancements in die design afforded by evolving software, the industry has powerful tools at its disposal. The key, Tang says, is to make use of it.
"The tooling industry must pursue new advanced methodologies to compete in the worldwide market."
Accuracy Triggers Lead-Time Reduction
"Nothing reduces lead times more than an accurate die design that requires little or no development or debugging," says Ray Proeber, president of Accurate Die Design Inc. (www.accuratediedesign.com), New Berlin, WI. The firm is a user and reseller of SolidWorks-based Logopress3 3D die-design software from LOGOPRESS Corp.
"Companies are starting to capitalize on the realization that the design is a small fraction of the total cost of building a die," says Proeber, "and that the larger build phase of the die, including tryout and debugging, is where the real money is made."
By simplifying the design process while providing accurate information essential for proper formation of tooling, software can make life easier and more profitable for its users. Visualization is one software has improved the design process.
"While we have had animation and dynamic interference detection for years," Proeber says, referring specifically to Logopress3, "we now have enhanced this with the ability to animate cams, pressure pads, lifters and other die components. This tool by itself goes a long in minimizing mistakes."
Ease of communication also can cut lead time and costly mistakes.
"Reducing the need for communication also is key," Proeber explains. "Today the die designer is dramatically more responsible for the die than are the employees machining the components or assembling the die. We expect that the design will be 100 percent correct when it reaches assembly. One we reduce the need for communication—thereby reducing mistakes—is to provide a simple for the designer to communicate the tolerance and the machining method of each individual holes in a given plate.
"We do this with two different methods," Proeber continues." For years we have been able to easily customize spreadsheets with hole sizes for a particular component. In the case of a dowel pin, for example, every die maker knows that a press-fit pin needs x amount of press fit if it is going into a soft plate, and y amount of press fit if it is going into a hardened plate. Die designers can set up the software so that they can select whether that dowel is going into a hard plate or a soft plate—that's the only interaction required. The software will put the correct hole size in every time."
A New Communication Protocol
Proeber goes on to describe the second method of communicating tolerance and machining information, a new feature for Logopress3: the ability to automatically color the face of a hole when placing the dowel.
"For example," he says, "when we add a dowel to our die design, Logopress3 automatically creates all of the holes at the same time as it inserts the dowel. The user can easily teach the software to automatically color the press-fit hole red, the slip-fit hole green and the drilled holes—such as the counter-drilled clearance for a dowel—yellow. The software then will default to use these colors each time the designer adds a dowel to the die. This same functionality is available for other component holes as well as for wire-EDM openings."
Again, catalogs ease and shorten the die-design process. Proeber provides an example specific to Logopress3.
"The software includes a deep standard-component catalog," he says. "Most unique about this: Not only is the component inserted along with the correct part number and supplier name, but doing so cuts the holes into all of the affected plates of the solid-model assembly. For example, when inserting a nitrogen cylinder, the stroke of the cylinder is entered by the user and the cylinder dynamically changes in the graphics window. When the designer clicks the Okay button, the software creates the cylinder and the holes at the correct depths, and creates the clamping screws at the same time."
Software also can aid in saving time by eliminating the need to repeat tasks. A new Logopress3 tool called "Copy A Set Of Components" can copy a stack of components along with their related openings and holes to another location in the die. This is ideal in cases of multiple identical forms located on different sections of the tool. And noting yet one more time-saving feature in Logopress3, Proeber calls out the command "Save With New Project Name." This finds use when the designer creates a new die similar to a previous die. The command saves an entire design as a new job with a new job number.
With so many job-assisting features in new software, Proeber advises designers not to fear 3D design, as it offers vast improvement over its 2D counterpart.
"A misconception among die designers not yet using 3D die-design software is that there is not much benefit in having 3D software for their type of work," he says. "This is more often the case for companies creating tools for simple parts with just a few linear bends. In fact, most automation tools in 3D die-design software are available whether you are working with a complex-shaped automotive part or a simple part with linear bends. During modeling of the die assembly, detail drawings are automatically created in the background and only require a bit of tweaking to finalize them. The bottom line: Designing a die using 3D parametric die-design software takes a fraction of the time required when using 2D software."
One Interface for Prog and Transfer
The ability for software to adapt to a variety of die and forming needs brings flexibility, which can significantly ease a designer's challenges. Suppose one job must be performed using transfer dies, and the next one using progressive dies, and the one after that using both. The ability to design for progressive- or transfer-die work in the same interface reduces the learning curve and eliminates waste associated with switching software or carrying multiple suites and having to become familiar with all of them.
Enter CimatronE 11, now available from Cimatron Technologies Inc. (www.cimatrontech.com), based in Novi, MI. The software allows for transfer- and progressive-die design.
"In some cases, in the same job, work must be performed in a progressive die, and at the end of a prog. stage the next phase of work must be done via transfer dies," explains Hari Sridharan, Cimatron's vice president of engineering. "CimatronE 11 makes it convenient for the user by combining progressive- and transfer-die design in a single interface."
This feature also comes in handy should design ideas change midstream.
"At the beginning of a project, designers may decide that a part is ideal for transfer, but at some point a progressive-die option is considered," explains Sridharan. "Now they don't have to scrap the transfer design and start over. They can switch it over within the same interface."
A single interface for differing die types fits in well with the CimatronE 11 suite, which, through its CAD/CAM capabilities, promises the ability to navigate a project from quoting and design all the through manufacturing. And should changes be required, the new ECO Manager reportedly offers effective assessment and seamless incorporation of any number of engineering changes in an existing project.
The new software version also enables concurrent work by several designers; a new nesting tool for transfer-die projects; and a new springback-analysis tool designed to reduce the need for time-eating shop-floor iterations. Each of these innovations lets designers create and not become bogged down in monotonous keyboard tasks that only add time and aggravation to a project."Robust software combined with computing power eliminates steps and increases speed from the beginning to the end of a project," Sridharan summarizes. "A designer recently told me that five years ago it took 25 steps to accomplish a certain task in the software, and today it takes just five steps. It's not that 20 steps have disappeared, but those steps have been automated." MF
See also: Accurate Die Design Software, Inc., 3D Systems/Cimatron Software, ETA Dynaform, LOGOPRESS, TST Tooling Software Technology, LLC
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The victory enabled the locals to get back to the .500 mark as they head into the final two weeks of the season with a 3-3 record. Sanford will host Windham at Cobb Stadium on Friday at 7 p.m., then close out the regular season the following Friday when they travel to Waterboro to take on rival Massabesic in the annual Battle of the Ridge.
In the win over South Portland, the hosts drew first blood when Duncan Preston scored on a 5-yard run in the first quarter for a 6-0 lead. Sanford countered with Shain�s first tally later in the quarter when the hard running senior scored on a 3-yard plunge as the quarter ended with the teams tied 6-6.
Sanford dominated the rest of the game, however, outscoring the hosts 40-6 the rest of the way to take the easy win.
Shain put Sanford ahead to stay early in the second quarter when he intercepted a pass and returned it 61 yards to paydirt. Quarterback Cody Mooney then passed to Jake Dexter for the 2-point conversion and a 14-6 lead.
The Riots narrowed it to 14-12 moments later on a 1-yard run by Joey DiBiase but the conversion kick failed.
That would be as close as they would get. Midway through the second quarter Shain made it 20-12 on a 7-yard run. He then closed out the scoring in the half with another tally from seven yards out. Mooney rushed the 2-point conversion to give Sanford a 28-12 lead at the half.
Zack Fulton put Sanford on the board early in the second half when he recovered a South Portland fumble in the end zone for a 34-12 Sanford lead.
Shain�s fifth touchdown, a 6-yard run, followed as Sanford increased its lead to 40-12. Josh Schroder closed out the scoring in the game with a 6-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter.
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Los Angeles Dodgers starter Josh Beckett was the pitcher no one wanted. He was the dead money, $35 million worth, thrown into the mega Boston Red Sox-Dodgers' trade two years ago.
The 34-year-old Beckett even wondered privately last summer whether he might have thrown his last pitch in the big leagues. And until two weeks ago, he had gone two years without winning a game.
Then, along came the glorious Sunday afternoon, when Beckett stood tall on the mound, mobbed by his teammates, celebrating the greatest regular-season game he ever pitched — the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season, 6-0, over the Philadelphia Phillies.
It was the 24th no-hitter in Dodgers' history and their first since Hideo Nomo in 1996. It was the first no-hitter against the Phillies at home since 1969. And in 321 career starts, it was the first no-hitter in Beckett's career.
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"I didn't think I had no-hit stuff,'' said Beckett, once the posterboy for the Red Sox woes in 2012, and a culprit of the infamous chicken-and-beer escapades by pitchers during games. "I really just kept them guessing.''
Oh, he fooled everyone all right. Really, he's been doing it all season long.
The Dodgers certainly weren't counting on him this year. He was simply a candidate to make the team as a fifth starter. It's why they signed Paul Maholm in spring training. Who could blame the Dodgers? He had a rib removed in thoracic outlet syndrome surgery last July to repair condition that was affecting his right shoulder.
He wondered if his career was over.
Let's face it, if he wasn't owed $17 million this year, the Dodgers wouldn't have bothered bringing him back.
He worked out religiously all winter, telling himself if this was it, he was going to go out his way.
"I'm going to throw as hard as I can and see what happens,'' Beckett said this spring. "I'll throw the ball until I blow out, and I'm hoping that's not for a few more years."
Beckett, showing no fear Sunday, threw 128 pitches — the last a 94-mph fastball by Chase Utley for the final out and entrance into baseball history.
"It was awesome,'' Beckett, who struck out six and walked three, told reporters afterward. "I took a moment in the ninth while I was warming up. It was what it was, and if I threw one, great. If not, I have healthy kids and a healthy wife — and that's the main goal."
A year ago, he was the unhealthy one — the numbness in his right hand and arm refused to go away. He was 0-5 with a 5.19 ERA when he was shut down for the season.
"It's crazy how simple things,'' Beckett said, "become difficult to do.''
Beckett showed up at spring training asking only that he be given the opportunity to prove to the Dodgers that he could help them.
"I'm here to try and win a job and let upper management take care of all the other stuff,'' Beckett said that February morning. "I want to be with the Dodgers. I want to be a Dodger. I felt like I was treated really good last year through everything and I'd kind of like to help repay that."
Well, guess who's been a mainstay in the Dodgers' starting rotation, showing that same fiery competitiveness that earned him the World Series MVP award in 2003 when the Marlins knocked off the Yankees?
Beckett doesn't rely on his fastball any longer, but rather his curveball, throwing it almost any time in any situation. He has reestablished himself as one of the most consistent starters in the National League.
Now, nearly two years after the mega trade that included $275 million in contracts, with first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and left fielder Carl Crawford going from Boston to Los Angeles, and first baseman James Loney and prospects going to Boston, Beckett has emerged as the biggest surprise in the deal.
Beckett, who opened the year on the DL with a thumb injury, is now 3-1 with a 2.43 ERA. He has yielded two or fewer runs in six of his last eight starts, and, yes, he's getting better.
"Josh has been throwing the ball good all year,'' Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "For him to be able to do that today is nice, for everything he's been through with us. The surgery last year, missing the whole season. Changing himself as a pitcher. Using the breaking ball more and everything else.
"It was fun to watch."'
If the Dodgers have a sense of humor, they'll even have chicken and beer on the flight home to Los Angeles. And celebrate the man who is a living testament to what can happen when you refuse to give up.


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CHICAGO -- Nate Jones wanted to be the White Sox closer.
As he pointed out prior to Wednesday's contest, it's something many White Sox relievers wanted to do, and it's why they had a Spring Training competition of sorts.
"It just so happened Matt Lindstrom got healthy, he did well in the outings he had and he did well Monday as well," said Jones of Lindstrom, who picked up the save in Monday's 5-3 victory. "Our job now is to get the ball to him with the lead."
Jones will serve as a key relief contributor in anywhere from the sixth through the eighth, and possibly even close if Lindstrom needs a break. The hard-throwing right-hander spoke during Spring Training about how every pitcher working in those late innings with a lead basically is working as an unofficial closer.
Jones' 37 appearances of more than one inning over the last two years add to his value outside of the ninth. And he's set to take on any role given to him by manager Robin Ventura.
"The only thing that matters to me is I'm still on the team, still in the bullpen," Jones said. "I'm still excited, still ready to rock and roll, get the season going."
"We were waiting for [Lindstrom] to make sure he was completely healthy coming out of spring to be able to do that, but he's done it before and you have a little familiarity with him last year coming in," Ventura said of the closer call. "That scenario of him coming in with a clean inning, I just like it. I liked it when he did that last year, and I just felt he was the right guy to do it."


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June 1. Impressively clear explanation of why the stock market is still rising, and why it will fall: Stock prices are rising because the supply is decreasing, because companies are taking public stocks private through buybacks and buyouts...
Yet at some point, this bubble will burst. You see, the whole reason for companies buying back their shares, and for private-equity firms doing leveraged buyouts, is to put all these shares of stock back onto the public market at some point in the future at a higher price than before. But if stock prices are now rising largely because the supply of publicly-traded shares is shrinking, and if companies aren't really investing for the future, what happens when all this stock comes back on the market? The loud thud you'll hear will be the sound of shares falling back to Earth.
And when you measure it in real assets and not inflating currencies, the stock market is already falling.
June 13. I often see the statement, especially from baby boomers, that future generations will look back and be angry at us for ruining the Earth. I disagree.
Almost everyone reading this lives in a city or suburb. Are you angry at previous generations that killed the wilderness that used to be there? Iraq was once covered with dense cedar forests -- are Iraqis angry at the ancient people who cut the trees down? The seashores of the world used to be teeming with a thousand kinds of life. Now they're deserts where a few seagulls eat plastic, and we're not angry. Some of us are sad, and most of us just don't know. Even the worst change soon becomes the new normal. I'm briefly angry when I see a beautiful wild field turned into suburban houses, and then I get used to it. How much less will people feel, when they didn't even experience the world before?
Future generations will live on a planet of weeds, a world of abandoned buildings, junked cars, and cracked pavement, covered with english ivy or kudzu or himalayan blackberry or spotted knapweed or purple loosestrife. They will watch flocks of crows and hear the calls of coyotes, and "this land used to be a deep forest" will be nothing more than a factoid among the educated, just as it is now. They will also know nothing of office cubes or traffic jams or medical bills or loneliness in a crowd. In many ways their lives will be better than ours. But they will look at the spectacular buildings and freeways and dead high-tech gadgets, and tell stories of the strange golden age when people lived like gods. They won't hate us, but they might envy us.
Philip K Dick said it best in A Scanner Darkly:
God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process lies hidden beneath the surface of reality, and emerges only later. To, perhaps, our waiting heirs. Paltry people who will not know the dreadful war we've gone through, and the losses we took, unless in some footnote in a minor history book they catch a notion. Some brief mention. With no list of the fallen.
June 15. On Simon's recommendation, I've been reading John Crowley's 1979 novel Engine Summer. (You're most likely to find it as part of the three-novel compilation Otherwise.) It's set roughly 1000 years in the future, long after the fall of industrial civilization, when the narrator leaves a utopian community to explore the world. I find Crowley's "haunting, lyrical style" difficult, but some of you will love it, and the story is full of profound ideas and way ahead of its time. Here's a condensed excerpt of the part about our own age:
Oh, the world was full in those days. In those days a thousand things began and ended in a single lifetime. It was like some monstrous race between destruction and perfection; as soon as some piece of world was conquered, the conquest would turn on the conquerors, as Road killed thousands in their cars; and in the same way, the mechanical dreams the angels made with great labor and inconceivable ingenuity, dreams broadcast on the air like milkweed seeds, passing invisibly through the air, through the very bodies of the angels themselves, one dream dreamed by all so that all could act in concert, until it was discovered that the dreams were poisonous to them somehow, and millions were sickening, but unable to stop the dreaming even when the dreams themselves warned them that the dreams were poisoning them, unable or afraid to wake and find themsleves alone.
And it all went faster as the Storm came on, that is the Storm coming on was the race drawing to its end; the solutions grew stranger and more desperate, and the disasters greater, and in the teeth of them the angels dreamed their wildest dreams, that we would live forever, that we would leave the earth, a dream they could not achieve because of the Wars starting and the millions of them falling out in a million different ways. And then the Storm, which anybody could have seen, and it all began to stop, and kept stopping till all those millions were standing in the old woodlands which they had never been in before and looking around in wonder at the old world as though it were as strange as their dreams had truly been.
July 1. A few weeks ago I read a piece about dealing with scientologists, and more generally about defending yourself from manipulators. The best trick of manipulative people is to put you in a position where the burden is on you to justify saying no. They say "Why don't you bla bla bla?" and whatever you say to explain why you won't to it, they don't accept it, until finally you give up and do it. If you allow the battle to be framed that way, you've already lost. The correct tactic is to keep the burden on the manipulator to tell you why you should do it... and whatever they say, just say, "hmm," and go on with your business.
This leads to a bigger question of what it means to be "free." Americans think freedom means no restrictions, no boundaries -- no matter what you want to do, nobody can say no. But if "freedom" is defined this way, you end up in a hierarchy, where people below you can't say no to you, and you can't say no to people above you. Then what you have is a slave society, where even the people at the very top can't say no to the system itself.
The opposite is a society where no one is ever commanded -- that is, everyone always has the right to say no. But if you can say no to anyone, that means anyone can say no to you. So to have freedom (no coercion), we have to give up freedom (no boundaries), and vice versa. It's terribly confusing to have to use a language where such an important word has two opposite meanings and no one notices.
July 18. Great bit from this Alan Weisman interview:
To see how the world would look if humans were gone, I began going to abandoned places, places that people had left for different reasons. One of them is the last fragment of primeval forest in Europe. It's like what you see in your mind's eye when you're a kid and someone is reading Grimm's fairy tales to you: a dark, brooding forest with wolves howling and tons of moss hanging off the trees. And there is such a place. It still exists on the border between Poland and Belarus. It was a game reserve that was set aside in the 1300s by a Lithuanian duke who later became king of Poland. A series of Polish kings and then Russian czars kept it as their own private hunting ground. There was very little human impact. After World War II it became a national park. You go in there and you see these enormous trees. It doesn't feel strange. It almost feels right. Like something feels complete in there. You see oaks and ashes nearly 150 feet tall and 10 feet in diameter, with bark furrows so deep that woodpeckers stuff pinecones in them.
July 24 - August 1. I just went to the dentist for the first time since I had my mercury fillings replaced nine years ago. One of my teeth has been occasionally hurting late at night, and increasingly sensitive to cold. Finally the pain got serious and I researched a good holistic dentist and made an appointment. A few days later, after a night of intense pain, the tooth was no longer sensitive to cold... not because it was healing but because it was dying. Three days ago, after another few hours of pain, it started smelling like a sewer. It's dead. Today they told me it needs to be pulled (unless I want a root canal), and that I need fillings for gumline decay on eleven other teeth. The cost of the whole job, including the setup visits, will be nearly $2500 out of pocket.
Common metal fillings are called "amalgam" or "silver amalgam," but they're half mercury and terribly toxic. It's against the law to throw the material in the garbage but not to put it in someone's mouth for years. Also, it's not bonded to your tooth but held in by drilling out to make a big hole, so it makes your tooth weaker. A well-placed composite filling makes your tooth stronger, because it's bonded to the tooth and the material is as strong as teeth. Composite fillings have improved a lot in the last 20 years while amalgam fillings have improved only slightly since the 1800's. Composite is not even that much more expensive, but it does require more skill to do it right, which is one reason dentists resist it. The main material in "composite" is plastic, and I'm sure it's toxic, but nowhere near on the same level as mercury. A composite tooth might even be better than a gold tooth, because most metal has electrical effects that are not yet well understood. Titanium would be perfect but it's too hard to work with.
Here's a decent summary of amalgam vs composite fillings, and also an article about how the root canal procedure leaves a permanent bacterial infection that causes degenerative disease. And here are a couple links I found in my own research, an article on dental regeneration and healing and a forum thread on tooth regeneration.
What I'm wondering is, why did my teeth decay? I had a bunch of cavities when I was a kid, and then none for more than 20 years, and now a bunch more. My dentist says tooth decay is 70% diet, 20% stress, and 5% brushing and flossing. Almost every fringe dental site and advice email I got suggests that diet is the key... but my diet is much better than it was when I got no cavities in my early 20's. Gord might have the answer:
My three year old son had to have over $3000 worth of dental work done recently. Why? Apple juice. We talked about it for quite a while with the dentist as we had been careful about sugar consumption, but what she said was the apple juice has natural sugars which feed bacteria which excrete acidity which attacks the enamel.
A few loose ends: A good composite filling has many stages and takes a long time. For seven fillings, I was in the chair for almost six hours over two days. They had to drill the teeth, put in a primer, something before the primer, something after the primer, the actual filling, and then drill and sand it down. There was a new assistant observing and they told her that many dentists are now using a quickie "all-in-one" composite material, and that it's inferior to doing it in many steps.
When I got my second batch of fillings, they told me something I've seen online but had not yet heard from a dentist: that one of my teeth had a small cavity that "recalcified," or healed itself.
And I could have caught the worst decay a couple years ago, and saved my tooth, with this tip: If there's a place in your mouth where the floss always breaks, make a dental appointment now!
August 9. Space dust self-organizes into life!
"These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter," says Tsytovich, "they are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve".
August 16. A right wing website published and then withdrew an essay, Conquering the Drawbacks of Democracy, making the case for Bush to declare himself "President-for-Life" and use nuclear weapons to "empty Iraq of Arabs and repopulate the country with Americans."
Reality has once again overtaken satire, and I'm seriously expecting Bush to really try the dictator-for-life thing. He's already seen that with sub-30% approval and congress controlled by Democrats, he still gets everything he wants. Suppose he just said, "I'm suspending elections and remaining as president?" What would anyone do to stop him?
If you look at American politics since 1980, it's been following a path where the rulers do more and more outrageous things, to see if the people will actually do something about it, or just complain. And we still haven't done shit. We seem to be the most docile population in history. Put yourself in the place of the domination system, and think like a competitive gamer: if a tactic works, you keep doing it until it doesn't work. So the powers-that-be are just going to keep doing worse and worse things until the American people re-learn how to do organized direct actions, like massive strikes or boycotts, or street protests where we don't go home until our demands are met. I think we have a long way to go, which means a lot of room for the abuse rituals to get worse.
August 19. The Singularity Myth is a good highly technical critique of the argument that accelerating "progress" is going to break us through into techno-heaven. Basically, an exponential curve on a graph always exists as part of a larger curve, which eventually goes the other way, and computer speed will level out by 2045 at less than 100 times what it is now, assuming we still have a computer industry. Related: Biotech's growth curves leave Moore's Law in the dust.
August 28. On my last trip to the land I noticed something: Getting into a groove of mindless repetitive work is centering. If you're feeling terrible, it makes you feel pretty good; if you're feeling super-hyped, it makes you feel pretty good. So what happens when an entire society has all mindless repetitive work done by machines? Now, instead of working wood with hand tools, which is meditative, we do it with power tools, which is stressful because you can kill yourself at any moment. It's the same with driving instead of walking.
We have made "progress" according to one narrow equation: more transformation of the world per human attention. In many other ways, machine power is a serious misstep. Of course it consumes more actual energy, which comes from hidden unsustainable sources. Also, more transformation per attention means more stress, and more and bigger mistakes. And finally, without the centering effect of meditative physical work, depressed people stay depressed and fanatical people stay fanatical, all of them pushing us toward apocalypse.
August 29-30. Just been reminded of an article I commented on a year ago in this post about mortality salience. A growing body of research shows that humans who are reminded of their own mortality turn into right wing zombies. That's why Bush's approval rating nonsensically went through the roof after the 9/11 spectacle, and why he keeps playing the "terror" card -- and when it wears off, all it takes is another terror spectacle "on American soil" to crank the zombies up again.
Of course, the 9/11 psy-op didn't work on everyone. Some of us could be immune to the death-grip effect, or we might just have a different world-view, in which the buildings hit on 9/11 were not totems. And two readers suggest that the fear-zombie phenomenon could be mostly the work of television. I'm thinking specifically about TV news. When I'm staying with someone who turns it on, I have to go in the other room, or else I have to use all my strength defending myself from the propaganda assault. Everything they say is true, but everything they take for granted is a lie.
August 31. Jeff Wells had a good post the other day, Ask not for whom the frog sings, about the way "paranormal" phenomena seem to actively hide from "proof." Of course it's all normal, and by "proof" we mean something that can be duplicated and experienced at will by anyone -- something we only demand and expect because of our cultural myth of objective reality. Here's a condensed bit from the book The Spell of the Sensuous:
Husserl's notion of intersubjectivity suggested a new interpretation of the so-called "objective world." The conventional contrast between "subjective" and "objective" realities could now be reframed as a contrast within the subjective field of experience itself. The sciences are thought to aim at knowledge of an objective world independent of awareness. Considered experientially, however, the scientific method enables greater consensus, greater agreement among a plurality of subjects. The pure "objective reality" commonly assumed by science was, according to Husserl, a theoretical construction, an idealization of intersubjective experience.
I'm reading a fantasy novel in which there are magical books that change their contents according to who is reading them and what they're ready to know, and it occurs to me that the whole world works that way. Modern science is on a doomed quest to nail the world down, but the best it can do is to declare that the stuff that varies doesn't really exist.
I'm also thinking, as soon as technology gets to the point where we can't tell a real UFO film from a fake UFO film, it will become much easier to film real UFO's, because those films will be easily dismissible and will no longer threaten consensus reality.


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We have seen some fairly surprising feats of distracted driving here on Jalopnik, but we've never seen an in-car office like this one in Germany.
The 35-year-old driver was pulled over for passing a car at 80 mph in a 62 zone on the Autobahn. It was then that the police found his setup.
Der Spiegel reports the car (a Ford Mondeo) has a laptop, a printer, a voltage converter, as well as two cell phones, a navigation device, and a GPS receiver attached to the windshield.
The police wrote the driver a 120 Euro ($152) ticket for speeding as well as "driving with improperly-secured cargo."
(Hat tip to The Truth About Cars!)
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Oct. 11 Buster Posey postgame interview
Q. First off about the grand slam, what did you see and what were you expecting there in that pitch?
BUSTER POSEY: Well, I was trying to just make sure I got that run in from third. I chased a pitch 2 one and really just told myself to see the ball. I was able to get a pitch in the zone and got the barrel on it and good things happened.
Q. Did the lead ever feel safe after the grand slam?
BUSTER POSEY: You know what? They scored two really quick and especially in this ballpark with their offense, no, it didn't feel safe.
Q. In the dugout before the last three games, Pence has rallied you guys. What did you learn about him the past few days?
BUSTER POSEY: Haven't had a chance to play with him for too long, but I do know how passionate he is and he plays this game because he loves the game.
Without him and his want and will power I'm not sure we would have done this. He rallied us. He was our rock that Game 3 and he wouldn't let anybody stop believing. He just did a tremendous job.
Q. You double clutched on the attempted steal there, did you lose the grip or surprised he was going?
BUSTER POSEY: Couldn't get the grip to start with.
Q. What did you tell Sergio there in the 9th inning as all that hoopla is going on? You know how intense he is.
BUSTER POSEY: He had shaken me off a few times, and I wasn't sure on which pitch he wanted so I wanted to make sure we were on the same page.


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Diabetes means your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. With type 2 diabetes, the more common type, your body does not make or use insulin well. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Without insulin, too much glucose stays in your blood. Over time, high blood glucose can lead to serious problems with your heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves, and gums and teeth.
You have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes if you are older, have obesity, have a family history of diabetes, or do not exercise. Having prediabetes also increases your risk. Prediabetes means that your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes. If you are at risk for type 2 diabetes, you may be able to delay or prevent developing it by making some lifestyle changes.
The symptoms of type 2 diabetes appear slowly. Some people do not notice symptoms at all. The symptoms can include
Blood tests can show if you have diabetes. One type of test, the A1C, can also check on how you are managing your diabetes. Many people can manage their diabetes through healthy eating, physical activity, and blood glucose testing. Some people also need to take diabetes medicines.
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New research indicates that there are five steps that can help business leaders increase CSR's effectiveness as a lever for talent management.
It is by now an article of faith that employees who are skilled, creative and driven to satisfy customers are essential for differentiating a company from its competitors. Increasingly, success comes from being able to attract, motivate and retain a talented pool of workers. However, with a finite number of extraordinary employees to go around, the competition for them is fierce.1
There is growing evidence that a company's corporate social responsibility activities comprise a legitimate, compelling and increasingly important way to attract and retain good employees. For example, in a bid to burnish their images as socially responsible companies and thereby attract and retain talent, CEOs of high-profile companies such as Home Depot, Delta Air Lines and SAP recently pledged to deploy millions of employee volunteers to work on various community projects.2 Their efforts appear to make sense: Jim Copeland, Jr., former CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, puts it this way: "The best professionals in the world want to work in organizations in which they can thrive, and they want to work for companies that exhibit good corporate citizenship."3
In general, CSR initiatives reveal the values of a company and thus can be part of the "employee value proposition" that recent studies indicate is the lens through which managers must view talent management today. CSR also humanizes the company in ways that other facets of the job cannot; it depicts the company as a contributor to society rather than as an entity concerned solely with maximizing profits. As other researchers explain it, "a paycheck may keep a person on the job physically, but it alone will not keep a person on the job emotionally."4 Moreover, because of the many forms that it can take, CSR often serves as a genuine point of differentiation for the company.
It is not surprising, then, that so many companies engage in so many CSR initiatives. Indeed, many companies big and small, including blue-chip names such as Cisco Systems, General Electric and IBM, view employee engagement in CSR as a "strategic imperative."5 Yet few if any companies have figured out how best to reap the returns of such CSR engagement. We consider "internal marketing" to be the most apt rubric under which CSR can be used to acquire and retain employees.


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This week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went to unusual lengths to expedite a vote on enacting an internet sales tax — something supported by much of American business.
But Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is saying "not so fast."
Reid bypassed the Senate Finance Committee to bring the legislation straight to the floor, and it could be voted on as early as this week.
The Marketplace Fairness Act would require all businesses generating over $1 million in out-of-state revenue to collect a sales tax and send it to its due location. Customers are estimated to pay up to $24 billion more annually in taxes if the legislation is passed.
Normally, online-only retailers like Amazon and eBay are only required to collect sales taxes if they have a physical presence in the state, which has given them a competitive edge over local businesses. Proponents of the bill say this would level the playing field for small business.
"The Administration strongly supports S. 743, which will level the playing field for local small business retailers that are in competition every day with large out-of-state online companies," reads the Obama administration's statement on the policy.
Cruz, along with six other senators from both sides of the aisle, have sent a letter to Reid objecting his "decision to expedite" the consideration of the bill.
The letter says the legislation will erode states' rights and inflict "crippling costs" on small internet businesses.
"At a time of tepid economic growth, Congress should enact measures that are designed to promote innovation and entrepreneurial risk-taking; its priority should not be to look for creative ways to plug state budget holes," the letter reads.
eBay expressed similar concerns, saying the legislation does not contain reasonable protection for small business. Ebay sent emails to its tens of millions of sellers urging them to fight against the bill.
"The legislation treats you and big multi-billion dollar online retailers–-such as Amazon—exactly the same," John Donahue, eBay chief executive said in the email.
Unlike last week's gun vote, Cruz may not be on the winning side of this one. The legislation is expected to pass, with wide support from both sides of the Senate, President Obama and internet retail powerhouse Amazon.com.
The National Retail Federation, the worlds largest retail trade association, released a statement yesterday supporting the legislation.
"The Marketplace Fairness Act is a common-sense piece of legislation, which allows states' to enforce their own sales tax rules on remote sales, protects small business owners and e-commerce entrepreneurs with a robust small business exemption, and finally allows retailers to compete in a free and fair marketplace."
Bipartisan Letter Opposing Marketplace Fairness Act by Senator Ted Cruz


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In the first reading, Abraham bargains with the Lord. We can also think of
Moses who was willing to forego eternal life rather than let God destroy
His own people. These are people who really believe that God listens to
them. So a great question for us today is this: Do I believe that God
hears my prayer?
Far too often we give up in our prayers when God does not do what we want
God to do. The Gospel today is very clear: just keep on praying! If what
we are praying for is not evil, surely God will finally listen to us in a
way that will make us aware that He does hear us and answer us.
There are two things to note about the Gospel today. First, if we wish to
be forgiven, we must forgive others. This is the basic element of the
Gospel and is taught to us as a basic element of any life which wishes to
live in Christ. Forgive and you will be forgiven.
The second aspect is persistence. We must persist in asking. Think of
Moses when Aaron and Hur had to hold up his hands in prayer. As long as
Moses continued praying, the Israelites won their battle. When he could no
longer hold up his hands, the Israelites began to lose. So Aaron and Hur
held the hands of Moses up in prayer. We can hear the teaching: sometimes
we must pray together for really important things.
Christ died for us. It is His prayer that we be saved and that we live in
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Incorporates strong typing over predicate logic programming, and, conversely, incorporates predicate logic programming into strongly typed functional languages. The style of predicate logic is from Prolog; the strongly typed functional language is Haskell.
Friday, April 18, 2014
'P' is for Predicate
'P' should be for π, but that's redundant, right? since π (pronounced 'pee' in math circles) is just the letter 'p' in Greek.
And it's 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884196939937510582097494459230
Yeah, ... I memorized that in high school. For real. People didn't believe me. Every time. So I'd recite it for them, after I wrote it down on a piece of paper so they could verify that I wasn't just spouting digits.
So, but, this post is not about π.
No. Wait. Stop using 22/7 to represent π. That's, like, way off. Way. Use 355/113 instead. And thank Chuck Moore whenever you do.
Okay, done with that aside. Onto this post. This post is about the predicate.
So, what's a predicate?
A predicate is a statement of truth, that you arrive at from other predicates.
Yeah, math and logic are like that: a thing is a thing from other things just like it. Take 'number' for example, any number, x, is just all the previous numbers before x with some starter seed (usually zero or some other representation of null).
Well, that's what a predicate is.
First of all, a predicate is more than a proposition. A proposition is something that you've been seeing already in the alphabet-soup I've been writing, so the proposition for the type of the continuation function is:
(p → r) → r
So, this says, 'given a function that takes a p and gives an r, I can get you an r,' right? Remember that?
Well, a predicate is of this form:
p |- q
Or, if you're feeling your Prolog:
p :- q
A p is true, depending on whether q is true.
(Here we go again with dependent types).
So, what's the difference? I mean, if you just reverse the arrows you could say you have:
q → p
And you could say that, but there is a difference, in that the propositional logic of
p → r
Is all very deterministic whereas the predicate logic of
p :- q
is all very non-deterministic. Predicate logic allows you to base the truth of your consequence on none, one, or several conditions.
So, you could have:
p :- q, r, s.
Which means that p is true if q and r and s are all true, as well.
These are universals, but you can get specific with it, too:
p(x) :- q(x, y), r(y, z).
Which says that there is some x in p, giving a truth, dependent upon the same x in q (associated with some y) being true, along with the same y in r being true with some z.
And, to prove that statement you have to find the (x, y, z) values that satisfy the conditions of that statement. And you keep looking until you find it.
What does that sound like? ... We'll get back to that in a moment.
The neater thing about predicate logic is that the clauses of a predicate can, themselves, be consequences of other predicates:
q(x, y) :- s(y), t(x)
r(a, b) :- t(a), w(b)
And predicates can have multiple statements to arrive at that truth:
q(1, 2).
q(2, 4).
q(3, 6).
The above is saying: "q(1, 2) is true, regardless of anything." And you can take that truth (that fact) and plug it in anywhere. The fact propagates throughout the system.
So, those three facts, along with the relation, q(x, y) :- s(y), t(x), form a predicate. A statement of truth throughout the system, covering all possibilities.
A predicate is a program.
Yeah. Wow.
In Java or Haskell or Ruby a program is thousands, tens of thousands of lines, but in a logic programming languages, like Prolog, for example, a program could be one line or several ... more than a few lines, actually, and you're going off the deep end. And how you program in Prolog is that you string these predicates, these programs, together to create an Universe of related truths, an ontology, in which you can ... play, by which I mean, you can query the system, get an answer (if there is one) or get back several answers, and explore this Universe you've created, or that someone has created for you, as an inquiry into truth.
*Sigh* I miss coding in Prolog. When done neatly, it was so neat to use.
But I don't miss coding in Prolog. It was all dynamically typed, so you could put in anything for your inquiry, and it would try it out, looking for the string "Mama meetzaballs!" even though this particular predicate is about arithmoquines. And I don't miss it for the fact that statements of fact were easy to formulate, but the functional constructs ... ugh, they were terrible.
I need me a programming language that does logic typefully and handles functional logic beautifully, like Haskell does. Maybe ... Idris? ... but Idris doesn't work on my decade-old laptop. Birthday present for moi, then?
2 comments:
- Grammy said...
Hmmmm. I always heard that a kewpie is a doll. Ha.
Best regards to you. You know, people are annoyed by the "Prove you're not a robot" thingy. When we see that we are mostly inclined to say, "forget about it." Just sayin' :) If you want more comments, undo that thingy. Ruby
aka Blabbin' Grammy. http://rubyndub.blogspot.com/
- April 19, 2014 at 4:46 AM
- mndrix said...
Would you expound on my you disliked functional constructs in Prolog? With call/N I find most of them fairly palatable. Because of logic variables I also find Prolog more natural for writing tail recursive predicates. Anyway, I'm interested in your experience.
- April 19, 2014 at 10:16 AM