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Making Ringtones
Note: It may be worth checking whether you can upload ringtones to your phone before going to the effort of creating one!
Choose the ringtone source
The source for your ringtone will most likely be an audio file on your computer. Select the file you want and import it into Audacity using the Project > Import Audio command. Audacity can import MP3, WAV, AIFF, OGG and FLAC files. If your audio file is not in this format, you can convert it to WAV or AIFF (as long as it is not a purchased file) with SuperPlayer for Windows, FFMPEGX for OS X, or mplayer for Linux.
Alternatively you can play any audio file on your computer (including purchased files), or a CD, or any other sound on your computer including sounds playing over the internet, and record it . This is not the highest quality way to grab the sound from a CD or from a purchased file, but it is probably OK for making a ringtone, as quality often needs to be compromised in a ringtone to make the file size smaller. But if you want to grab a perfect digital copy of the CD track, or you cannot record it easily, extract it digitally to WAV or .AIFF as described at How to import CDs. Or to make a perfect copy of a purchased file, burn it to an audio CD in the application licensed to play it, then extract the CD track in the same way.
Edit your ringtone
1) Click(or in Audacity 1.3.3) and import your source file. This can be any MP3, WAV, AIFF, OGG or FLAC file that Audacity can open.
2) Select the portion of audio you want to use for your ringtone (say 15-20 seconds). To do this, click in the audio track and drag a selection area to left or right with your mouse - you can see the length of the selected audio in the timeline above the track. Many phones will loop the ringtone automatically (repeat it over and over), so choose your selection area with that in mind. To hear your selection play looped in Audacity, type L on the keyboard or hold down SHIFT while clicking the green Play button. To stop the playback, hit spacebar or click the yellow Stop button.
3) Click. This will remove the rest of the file, leaving only the section you selected. If you want to use the whole file, then skip this step.
4) Add any effects you may want to the ringtone, by clicking in the Track Panel where the mute/solo buttons are to select all the track, then click the Effect menu. Be sparing with effects, but two you may want to consider are
- Equalization. Many phone speakers cannot reproduce very low frequencies so consider removing them. You'll notice a horizontal line that keeps a steady 0 dB across all frequencies. Using the mouse, you'll be able to click a series of points along the scale to create a curve. Bring the line down to -24 dB on the Y-axis for the low frequencies from 30-300Hz on the X-axis. You may want to increase the lower frequencies above this point say to 600 Hz, and reduce the highest frequencies above say 10 000 Hz. This should make the sound somewhat richer and less "tinny" on a small cellphone speaker.
- Compressor (which will reduce the difference between loud and soft and so make the ringtone sound louder). This will again suit a small cellphone speaker which may not be able to handle large changes in dynamic range. The terms of the compressor effect are as follows:
- Threshold is the volume level at which compression starts to be applied. The further right the slider, the louder the input has to be before compression is applied.
- Ratio - the further the slider is to right, the stronger is the compression applied
- Attack time - amount of time compressor waits to respond after the Threshold is reached
- If the "Normalize" box is checked then after compression the audio will be set to maximum possible amplification without adding distortion. This may be a bad idea on cellphone speakers which can give distortions before the maximum possible level is reached. Instead use Effect > Amplify after compression and choose a new Peak Amplitude (dB) of -3 dB.
Or instead of Compressor, consider using the Hard Limiter from the LAPSDA plug-in package which will also restrict the maximum volume to -3 dB. "Wet" and "dry" refer to the strength of an effect, with 1 being full effect and 0 representing no effect. Set the Hard Limiter to a dB limit of -3 dB, Wet Level to 1.0 and Residue Level to 0.0. Now, just the same as when you amplify to -3 dB after compression, you will get no signal above -3 dB, but you will also get a very sharp reduction in dynamic range which will be more extreme than that you get with the compressor.
If after Compressor or Hard Limiter your ringtone does not sound quite loud enough on the phone, you could try setting the Peak Amplitude or dB limit to -2 dB or -1 dB instead.
What type of file does your phone require?
You need to check what type of file format your phone requires for its ringtones, and whether the file needs to be mono or stereo.
Ringtone formats
There are many different ringtone formats in existence, but they fall into three main categories:
- Monophonic - just one note at a time, usually RTTL format. If you want a ringtone in this format, it's often easiest to simply key it into your phone if it supports that.
- Polyphonic - multiple notes at a time. Some phones can play true MIDI files, others rely on sp-midi or .mmf formats
- Music ring tones - actual digitally sampled music files including MP3 and WAV supported by Audacity, plus other formats like AMR and QCP.
Most new phones will support polyphonic ringtones. Phones supporting music ringtones tend to be more expensive models, or PDA phones combining a handheld computer.
Convert stereo to mono
Irrespective of the required file format, many phones will want mono ringtone files. So if the track you are editing is stereo, the next step is to convert it to mono.
- Click on the name of the song (in the Track Panel to left of the waveform, where the downward pointing arrow is). This brings down a selection menu.
- Select the option.
- Click on the name of one of the resulting tracks then on "mono" using the same menu
- Close the other track by clicking on [X] on the Track Panel.
The remaining track will now only have the contents from one of the stereo channels you had before. If you want information from both channels in your ringtone, do this:
- Choose as in steps 1) and 2) above
- Click on the name of both tracks in turn and make each mono as in step 3) above
- Select both tracks by using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + A (CMND + A on a Mac) and play them, and look at the green VU playback meter: VU Playback Meter
If the meter is not visible, enable it on the by checking . All you have to do is make sure the red lights to right of the green bars are not showing. If they are, you need to move the -....+ gain sliders (below the mute/solo buttons) on each Track Panel to left by the same amount until the green bars are well over to the right, but no longer bringing the red lights on. All this does is make sure you don't have distortion in the track. Then click .
HINT: If you use Audacity 1.3.3, it's much simpler to convert stereo to mono! Instead of steps 2) to 5), just click in the Track Panel then , which mixes in data from both channels to mono without distortion.
Export the file from Audacity
The following instructions show you how to export your edited (and mono if needs be) ringtone from Audacity as a WAV or MP3. If your phone needs a ringtone to be in some other format, skip to here.
Phones requiring WAV files
If your phone requires an MP3 file, skip to here.
As an example of exporting a WAV file specific to a particular type of phone, consider the following Motorola Sprint Nextel cellphones:
i265, i275, i405, i450, i560, i710, 730, 750, 760, 830, i833, i836 ,850, 860, i870, i930
These require ringtones to be in the following format:
WAV (Microsoft); Bit depth: 8 bits; Sample Rate: 8 000Hz; Channels: 1 (mono)
If your phone has the same requirements as this, the instructions below should work for your phone. If the only information you have is that the WAV needs to have a bit rate of 64 kbps, these instructions will also probably work for your phone, because in a WAV file the bitrate is always the bit depth multiplied by the sample rate, multiplied by the number of channels, and so the WAV in our example is (8 * 8 * 1) = 64 kbps.
If your phone requires WAV files with slightly different characteristics than these, you can adjust the tutorial instructions below appropriately. It's assumed you've already made the file mono as per the instructions above.
- Look at the Project Rate button at the bottom left of the screen. If it is already showing "8000", skip to step 4) below. Otherwise, click on the button and select the "8000 Hz" option. If there isn't an 8000 Hz option, select "Other ..." and type 8000 in the box that pops up (or in 1.3.3, select and overtype one of the values).
- Click .
- You'll see silence added to the end of the audio due to the conversion to 8 000 Hz, and silence in front if you chose a portion of audio that wasn't at the start of the track. Simply select the area of your audio again, and Edit > Trim. Note: If you use Audacity 1.3.3, it's much simpler: after changing the Project Rate button to 8000, do Tracks > Resample, type 8000 in the box that pops up, and click OK.
- In other than Audacity 1.3.3, click ( on a Mac) and then the tab. In the "Uncompressed Export Format" dropdown, select "WAV Microsoft 8-bit PCM)" and click OK. Then click on , select a file name to export your WAV file to and hit Save.
- In In Audacity 1.3.3, click and in the dropdown in the "Export File" dialogue, choose "WAV, AIFF and other uncompressed types" and choose a file name to export to in the "File name" box above that. Click the button and in the "Format" dropdown, select "WAV (Microsoft 8-bit PCM)". Click OK, then Click Save.
Phones requiring MP3 files
As an example of a phone requiring an MP3 ringtone, the Motorola i580 requires MP3 files at
Bit Rate: 32 kbps; Sample Rate: 8 000 Hz; Channels: 1 (mono).
If your phone has the same requirements then it should also work for you. If your phone requires MP3 files with slightly different characteristics you can adjust the tutorial instructions below appropriately. It's assumed you've already made the file mono as per the instructions above.
- If you have not already done so, download the LAME MP3 encoder to your computer and tell Audacity where to find it. Instructions on doing this are here.
- Look at the Project Rate button at the bottom left of the screen. If it is already showing "8000", skip to step 3) below. Otherwise, click on the button and select the "8000 Hz" option. If there isn't an 8000 Hz option, select "Other ..." and type 8000 in the box that pops up (or in 1.3.3, select and overtype one of the values).
- In other than Audacity 1.3.3,click ( on a Mac) and then the tab. In the section near the bottom, in the "Bit Rate" dropdown, select "32" and click OK. Then click on , select a file name to export your MP3 file to and hit Save.
- In Audacity 1.3.3, click and in the dropdown in the "Export File" dialogue, choose "MP3 files" and choose a file name to export to in the "File name" box above that. Click the button, then at "Bit Rate Mode" select the "Constant" radio button, and choose 32 kbps in the Quality dropdown. Leave Channel Mode at "Stereo". Click OK, then click Save.
Phones requiring other formats
If your phone requires files in other than WAV and MP3 format, then the best course after editing the file is to export it as a 44 100 Hz 16 bit PCM WAV file (either mono or stereo according to how the file is now), then convert it to the format you require with an appropriate conversion program.
- Look at the button at the bottom left of the screen. If it is already showing "44100", skip to step 4) below. Otherwise, click on the button and select the "44100 Hz" option. If there isn't an 44100 Hz option, select "Other ..." and type 44100 in the box that pops up (or in 1.3.3, select and overtype one of the values).
- Click .
- You'll see silence added to the end of the audio due to the conversion to 44 100 Hz, and silence in front if you chose a portion of audio that wasn't at the start of the track. Simply select the area of your audio again, and as before. Note: If you use Audacity 1.3.3, it's much simpler: after changing the Project Rate button to 44100, do , type 44100 in the box that pops up, and click OK.
- Click ( on a Mac) and then the tab. In the dropdown, select "WAV (Microsoft 16 bit PCM)" and click OK.
- Click on File > Export As WAV and select a file name to export your WAV file to.
Here is a selected list of programs to convert your exported WAV to the format your phone requires:
SuperPlayer for Windows - WAV, MP3 and most formats to AMR, MMF (SMAF only)
FFMPEGX for OS X - WAV, MP3 and most formats to AMR
mplayer for Linux (command line tool) and Windows/OS X (interface versions) - WAV, MP3 and most formats to AMR
Mobile Ringtone Converter for Windows - WAV, MP3, OGG, AMR to AMR, MMF, WAV. Free conversion limited to maximum 4 seconds, and no more than 1/3rd of a file
Midi Music Polyphonic for Windows - WAV, MP3, MIDI to MMF
PV Converter for Windows - Converts WAV to QCP. There is a tutorial here. It is a command line program but can be simply used by dragging the file you want to convert onto pvconv.exe and the converted file is then created in the directory from which the original file was dragged.
WaveToMidi for Windows and Linux - WAV to MIDI (free with 25 second limit)
AudiotoMidi for Windows - WAV,MP3,CDA to MIDI
Midisoft for Windows and OS X - various MP3 and WAV to MIDI products
Uploading your ringtone to your phone
Once you have exported your file to the hard drive and converted it to another format if necessary, typically you would transfer the file to your cellphone in one of the following ways:
- via a USB cable
- via a wireless Bluetooth connection
- connect a Card Reader (typically USB connected) to your computer then write the ringtone to flash memory storage, for example a Secure Digital (SD) card which can be used in the phone
- upload it via the internet (e.g. to a web site, from which you can then download it to your phone). There is a free web service here that allows you to upload MP3, WAV, M4A or WMA files to their site. They then send a text message to your phone with a link to the ringtone, and you download it from the link using your phone's browser.
As another alternative, Mobile Ringtone Converter for Windows includes a Web and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) server to which you connect with your phone's browser.
Note that some cellphones and carriers do not allow the user to download customised free ringtones to their telephone. See this page for guidance.
If in doubt, always look at the manual for your phone for advice on downloading ringtones to it.


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1206 W. 38th St., Suite 4104, Austin, TX | Directions 7870530.306261 -97.745291
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Sat 10am-5:30pm
Neighborhoods: General West Austin, Windsor Road
This store has been a part of the Austin community for years! They carry a unique collection of clothing and accessories.
Adios Adelante – I used to absolutely love Adelante and had shopped there for many years. Not so, anymore. When I was in grad school, my sister gave me a $75 Adelante gift certificate for my birthday. I did nothing but work full-time and go to school during those two years, so, needless to say, I didn't use the gift certificate. Then I moved, and the gift certificate was MIA for a time. When I finally found it, I called the store to see if I could still use it, and, after checking, the sales rep said "yes."
I went to the store and found two pairs of earrings. To make a long story short, the owner, Tricia Mason Roberts, told me she would not honor the gift certificate. It was two plus years old, and that was too old for her. Further, she insinuated that I lied about being told that they would honor it. I received many other gift certificates while I was in grad school, and didn't use them until after I graduated, and not one other merchant refused to honor their certificate. Only Adelante. I will never return to that store.
Great Selection – I had a great experience in this store the other day. The staff was extremely helpful, trying to accomodate my style choices. It was like my own little private shopping experience. Retail is hard job, but you would never know it once you walk into this store. I strongly recommend it to anyone who is tired of going to the mall.
Cute Store, Helpful Sales Staff, and Fun Shopping!!! – From the moment I walked into Adelante, I was greeted by smiling, helpful sales staff, and bright wonderful colors throughout the shop. I go here often enough to appreciate the always changing merchandise, displays, and great prices. It's a true Austin store, with clothes and accessories that fit Austin's lifestyle that won't break the bank. Thank you for providing a great store to shop in.
Rude Salespeople, Customer Assistance Non-Existent in this store!!!! – I was in Adelante shopping today and encountered the rudest sales people in the world! I was completely ignored the entire time I was there, given a curt head nod to indicate "yes" I could try on the clothes I had hanging from my arm, and even with 4 plus sales people lingering around chatting with themselves, one sales person decided to answer the phone in the midst of my request to try on shoes. The clothing is all cheaply made, with the exception of common brands like Michael Stars, LA Made, etc which are in EVERY store in Austin. Try getting something unique and some new salespeople to run this crappy store. I WILL NEVER return and will tell every person I know, work with, run into to never shop here as well!!!!!
I am Tricia Roberts, the owner of Adelante Boutique. I have been serving Austin for the last 16 years. I try very hard to take good care of my customers and provide fair and quality service.
I appreciate your negative feedback but I would like to respond to a few of your comments. My staff would NEVER intentionally try to be rude to anyone. The phone is a constant issue at my store, I have found a solution so my staff does not have to retreive my business calls. I offer many pricepoints and this year I have paid extra attention to prices . I sell many brands which are very recognizable. A few examples are Free People, Lucky Brand, Max Studio, Kenzie, French Connection, JW Johnny Was, Red Engine, Hype, Sweetees and many more. I have real leather products and fake for vegan customers. I have changed the signs on the furniture and these pieces are FOR SALE. I welcome any personal emails or phone calls regarding any concerns.
Centrally located women's clothing and accessory boutique has comfortable chairs and couches, allowing for ample time to shop without being rushed by restless tag-alongs. – Tucked in the 26 Doors shopping center, Adelante has a wide selection of bags, shoes, jewelry and clothing for women. Fresh flowers sit in a vase on top of a central glass case that is filled with jewelry to match any outfit. Racks of tops, dresses and jeans are scattered throughout the store. Spacious dressing rooms and multiple mirrors let you strut your stuff to find the right outfit. They also sell candles to accent any room in the house.
Fantastic Austin boutique that won't entirely empty your wallet - Great Value! – We just moved to town and I had no idea where the fun stores to shop for myself would be. I stumbled across Adelante and this is an awesome boutique. Lots of colors and styles to choose from and all the jewelry and shoes to go along with. The store is nicely layed out with lots of light, roomy dressing rooms and racks that are easy to browse through. I loved that the selection ranged from items suitable for going out on the town with your girlfriends/hubby to a nice upscale evening. They will definitely see me there again!
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A Gem! Best Botique in Town. – I just moved to Austin from San Diego, and stopped in for a look around at Adelante. I found the best dress for a dinner party, and one of the nice sales ladies even suggested some shoes that go perfectly. It's a great place to shop with lots of variety in styles and prices! Highly Recommended!
Disappointed – Watch out for the very rude sales people and the most ridiculous return policy! I've spent thousands of dollars in this store and went to return two items (for store credit only mind you) and was told I was a few days outside the 14 days required, sorry! The discourteous sales clerk offered no recourse and gladly watched me walk out. I was flabbergasted! What happend to "the customer is always right"? The clothes quality and lack of respect do not warrant business in this establishment ladies. Sorry Adelante, seek new help and change your return policy!
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Edison started investing in this space long before it was referred to as Healthcare IT. We look for market segments with long-term sustainable growth. Within Healthcare IT, electronic records and patient data analysis are two primary target markets—it is our belief that both of these market segments will experience 5+ years of rapid expansion. Our Healthcare IT portfolio exploits payers, as well as complex patient data analysis, to drive decisions by doctors administering care and by pharmaceutical companies developing drugs.
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Edison is seeking emerging leaders to guide the evolution of the pharmaceutical industry toward a more specialized, patient-centric focus. Pharma will continue to focus on mining and monetizing patient and population data to accelerate drug development. Building on our prior Pharma IT successes, such as Dendrite, POMS and Marcam, we have recognized promising market opportunities in Bioinformatics, personalized medicine and predictive modeling. The integration of pharma and healthcare was inevitable and the benefits to all participants significant.
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MARLBORO, VT - This May in its Drury Gallery, Marlboro College presents three exhibits of work by graduating seniors.
May 5-8, graduating seniors, Elham Shahidi and Chris Putnam present a joint exhibit. Shahidis work is a multi-media exploration of the relationship between art and environment. Her work will include paintings and photographs of plants of Vermont, a proposed landscape design for the Marlboro College septic field, and student artwork from a class she is teaching in drawing and ecology.
Putnam, who works in stained glass, will exhibit a number of stained glass boxes, with insects represented on their lids and with information and found objects inside pertaining to the specific insect. Her work will also include a creation myth in six panels, an abstract figural piece, and experimental ceramic tiles with melted glass.
May 10-14, Monica Merschrod, a graduating senior, will exhibit her woodworking. Examples of Merschrods furniture made with hand tools will be on display, including a chair, table, and a sewing cabinet, as well as photos of a restoration project of a timber-frame barn, and architectural drawings of a timber-frame cottage that she has designed. The partial frame of the 16 x 16 cottage will be shown on the green in front of Mather beginning May 14. All are invited to witness the raising of the frame, which will take place all day on May 9. Those who wish to participate in the raising should attend the training session convening May 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the Dining Hall.
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For most Americans, the early part of December is usually filled with shopping, spending time spent with family and gorging on an abundance of food and sweets.
U.S. midfielder Angela Hucles went to South Africa.
Hucles made her first trip to the continent on behalf of Triad Trust, a humanitarian group dedicated to promoting awareness and education for AIDS and HIV. She flew from Boston to Johannesburg and drove seven hours east to the border of Swaziland where she and her group worked with local kids in a small village for five days.
"Basically, I was down there to help use soccer and sport to raise awareness and education for AIDS and HIV," said Hucles. "I've always done things in my own community in the States, whether in Virginia Beach or Boston where I live, but this was special because I was going to a different culture, a different country and meeting people who basically can only rely on outside help. It's difficult for them to find help within their own communities."
Hucles' group included two emergency medicine doctors, one former NBA employee, 6-foot-5 Ruth Riley of the San Antonio Silver Stars (WNBA), who was certainly popular with the locals, the founder of Triad Trust, Brooke Wurst (who is a professional tutor), and one of her former students who is in the process of getting her Master's.
But it was Hucles' vocation that struck a cord with the people they met in the country that will host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first-ever in Africa.
"Brooke did intros wherever we went, and I was with all these accomplished people with great experience in their fields," said Hucles. "Then she would mention that I was on the World Cup team for the USA and I got the biggest cheer. If there are two words that mean the same to everyone on the planet, it's World Cup. The fans in 2010 will be great."
Hucles and her crew stayed in large grass huts that from the outside looked very rustic, but, built for tourists, on the inside they were comfortable and hotel-like.
"Let's just say we weren't really roughing it," said Hucles of her accommodations. "It's not like I've been in a lot of huts, but these were the nicest huts I've ever seen."
The chief of the village where she stayed had two wives, a first wife with 10 kids and a second wife with 15. The entire family and village were warm and friendly, leaving Hucles with a fresh perspective on Africa. At night, they would sit around a fire, talk and laugh, communicating even though not all spoke the same language.
"I basically prepared myself for the absolutely most extreme experience, whether it was poverty or sickness," said Hucles. "A lot of time the media portrays African culture in a certain way, starving kids or terrible civil war, and of course this is reality, but it's only part of what's going on in Africa. I saw other human beings who have some of the same passions as I do, sport and soccer, working within their community to help people. I met coaches and leaders trying to help kids and show them a better way of life through sports and other activities."
In addition to her status as a soccer player, Hucles also achieved a certain "social" status not bestowed on the rest of her party. It seems that one of the chief's sons, a young man named Mpopo, took a liking to Hucles after giving them a tour of the village. For some reason, he gave her the name Astrid (she still has no idea why, although he gave everyone in the group funny names … apparently this Mpopo was quite a character) and explained that in the traditional culture, a man offers cows to the family of the bride as a dowry of sorts. Bride? Cows? Whoa, things move quickly in South Africa! Apparently, Hucles was worth 30 cows, and Mpopo offered to throw in a lion and an elephant (he was joking about the lion and elephant…she thinks).
Considering that Hucles' mom and dad have no room for 30 cows in their modest Virginia Beach house, she was forced to turn Mpopo down, thus there went what most likely will be her only chance at African royalty.
For the rest of the trip, whenever a guy started chatting her up, her colleagues would ask, "How many cows are you going to give her? We start the bidding at 30."
While Hucles made new friends and experienced a new culture, the shock of how much work needs to be done in Africa resonated with her, as did the fact that the most booming business in South Africa is funeral homes.
"There are 10-year-olds raising their five-year-old brother because their parents died of AIDS," said Hucles. "We worked with a community center that had programs for the kids to better themselves through sports, photography, journalism and such, so kids and adults share a place to go that is safe and nurturing. Through those existing programs, we help educate about HIV and AIDS. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of misinformation out there and they are more likely to trust an American than their own people."
Of course, Hucles got to play soccer with the children. In Africa, any open patch of dirt and a few sticks for goals more than qualifies as a soccer pitch. It wasn't the plush fields of The Home Depot Center, but perhaps, in some way, it was better. Soccer at its most grassroots level, even when there was no grass.
"All the kids were fantastic," said Hucles. "They are courageous. They played without equipment, without shoes, socks and shin-guards. They are running around on horrible fields filled with cow manure and yet they still ran around that field with so much happiness and passion for the game, wanting to win and compete. And they were good players, very skilled players. The coaches told me that the goal of the community is to send at least one of their own to the South African National Team one day."
When the 2010 World Cup does roll around, Hucles may have a new team to root for after the United States. While the kids she played with are too young to represent the Bfana Bfana in three years time, she'll know first-hand the environment from which many of the World Cup players came.
"It was very special to go to Africa and to a country I've never been before," said Hucles. "To see a different lifestyle and the way people live. It wasn't through a TV program or how we view it from afar. It was right there in my face."
Speaking of in her face, after saying her goodbyes and leaving the village the group went on a safari in the Kruger National Park, where she had a little trouble with an African elephant. Seems he wasn't too keen on Hucles taking his picture, or anyone getting too close to his family. Needless to say, the group hopped back into the SUV and sped away before the big fella could make his charge. The leopard, wildebeest, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and zebras she saw were a little more willing to share their park, but let it be known, South African elephants, unlike the people, don't care if you were on a World Cup team.
In the end, Hucles hopes that the message left with the adults in the villages will go a long way in bettering the lives of the children.
"Basically, we wanted to let them know how important the coaches are in the community as they are role models for kids who often have no other adults to look up to," said Hucles. "They need to be able to answer questions about sex, HIV and AIDS prevention. They can help these kids grow up healthy and accomplish their dreams."
Accomplishing dreams is something Hucles has already done. Now, she wants to help others do the same. Even if it takes her all the way to Africa.
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|Improving Solder Paste Printing through Phase Shift Interferometry
|Written by Chrys Shea
|Monday, 01 March 2010 00:00
New measurement technology enables high degrees of verification and confidence.
Since the dawn of SMT, the solder paste printing process has been considered the primary source of assembly defects. The process itself is an enigmatic combination of art and science, and is not easy to control. As surface mount technology evolved, a variety of solder paste inspection tools progressed, often employing the latest advancements in optics, lasers and machine vision systems. But when miniaturization efforts produced 0.5 mm area array devices, the incumbent inspection technologies all fell short, either on accuracy or cycle time, or both. The ability to read 0.010˝ deposits well enough to be trusted and quickly enough to meet production requirements became the Holy Grail in automated paste inspection. That's when phase shift interferometry, a light and vision-based technology, was introduced as an inspection method, and changed the way we look at solder paste.
How does it work? Simple physics. Imagine sun shining through window blinds. The sunbeams form a pattern of stripes, alternating light and dark. These stripes appear straight on planar surfaces such as floors or tables, but seem to jog back and forth as they cross over furnishings that alter the surfaces' flat topographies. The amount of perceived zigging and zagging depends on the height of the object and the relative angles of the observation and source light. By taking several measurements at known intervals, the height of the surfaces can be calculated mathematically.
The alternating light and dark stripes are known as a Moiré pattern (Figure 1), and the method of measuring them at known intervals is called phase shift interferometry (Figure 2). The Koh Young solder paste inspection system utilizes a patented, sophisticated application of phase shift interferometry to measure solder paste deposits. It essentially divides each paste deposit into tiny segments as small as 10 µm, and measures each segment's location and height (Figure 3). It then calculates the individual segments' volumes, and constructs a 3-D model of the entire solder paste deposit (Figure 4). The measured model's volume, height and/or location are then compared to a theoretically perfect model. The modeling is unprecedentedly accurate, demonstrating a gage repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R) of less than 10%.
Vicor Corp., a manufacturer of power components, uses the Koh Young inspection equipment on its prototype and production lines. Sometimes referred to as "bricks" by assemblers, Vicor's power management components are anything but brick-like on the inside. These packages contain some of the smallest and most complex SMT packages available: 0.5 mm area array devices, leadless packages like QFNs and SOT883s, and 0201 passives. The boards on which they are assembled are panelized in 10- to 20-up arrays, and a typical solder paste print consists of over 10,000 deposits, most of them smaller than 0.012˝.
Ten thousand paste deposits in the 0.012˝ range is not an impossible process, but it certainly is a challenging one. Ray Whittier, senior process engineer, is charged with keeping it in control. He uses the phase shift inspection technology extensively, both online and offline. Online process control includes screening prints for quality and optimizing throughput. Offline analysis includes stencil qualification and verification, paste qualification, and solder powder size selection.
The best place to begin employing the technology is in production. Implementation begins with programming a board, which takes about 10 min. The system's computer creates a virtual "golden board" to which it compares actual print readings. It learns the theoretical stencil aperture sizes and locations from the stencil's Gerber file; it learns the theoretical Z-height from user input, and it learns the reference plane by reading a bare board. The programmer can set a number of inspection parameters, including allowable deviations from the golden board's stencil heights, stencil volumes, or aperture positions. Typical starting parameters are 50% minimum and 150% maximum of the stencil height and calculated aperture volume, and 50% center-to-center deviation from paste to pad.
To inspect print quality, the system scans the printed board and creates a second model in its computer. It takes less than 20 sec. for it to read over 10,000 paste deposits, construct the model, and compare the measured solder paste deposit volumes and locations to those on the golden board. If every deposit falls within the programmed specifications, the system passes the board on to the next operation. If one or more deposits do not meet the set criteria, however, the system fails the board and alerts an operator.
Whittier cautions that a failed print may not necessarily be a poor quality print. It may be an indication of variation among bare boards. "Critical features like circuit card dimensions, pad sizes and locations, and solder mask alignment each can vary substantially from lot to lot. A failed inspection may be the result of a bad print, or it may be an indication of a change in the bare boards. To distinguish between the two, operators run a bare board to reset the reference plane and scan the print again. If it passes, it is returned to production. If it fails, the print is scrapped. Many of the scan fails are the result of PWB tolerances, and are resolved by the bare board re-teach operation."
How many actual print failures are captured? That depends on the complexity of the different products and the mix on the production line. Figure 5 shows the percentage of scrapped prints for top and bottom sides of the boards. The less complex bottom-side averages around a 1 to 2% failure rate, while the more challenging topside runs around 6 to 7% failures for the current product mix, with one monthly spike topping 12%. Had all these bad prints continued down the production line, they would likely have created expensive defects. Reworking BGA and QFN components is costly and risky for most assemblers, but for Vicor, rework is not an option. Failed assemblies are scrapped. With no chance for after-the-fact recovery, it is absolutely essential to catch defects at their point of origin.
How is overall process control instituted? The operating procedures are very specific regarding failures. If three true print failures occur sequentially, the process is paused and support is called out to the line to investigate the source of the failures. Interestingly, nowhere do the procedures call for visual confirmation of the machine-identified defect. Pass/fail decisions are based purely on the output of the machine. Whittier explains that "with a GR&R consistently in the 7 to 8% range, the machine is far more accurate than the human eye. It makes absolutely no sense to override a superior system with an inferior one."
Boosting Yields and Cutting Costs
What is Whittier's favorite feature of the phase shift interferometry equipment? "The combination of speed and accuracy. Every process engineer knows the tradeoffs between the two. In this machine, there are none." His favorite unadvertised application? "Stencil verification. We now approve stencils for production faster and more accurately than ever before, as we can catch missing or improperly cut apertures in one reading" (Figure 6). His next future app? "DfM feedback to the design teams. There are no off-the-shelf DfM guidelines for the type of product we make. Using this inspection technology on our prototype lines alerts us to potential stencil printing issues while there is still time to design them out of the product."
As for offline applications, Whittier was able to quickly characterize the transfer efficiencies of solder pastes under multiple print scenarios. The data he's generated have allowed him to understand the impact of stencil suppliers and manufacturing processes on paste printing, resulting in simultaneous quality improvements and cost reductions. It's provided him with a solid comparison of current and new solder paste formulations to upgrade his materials set and reduce variation in print quality. And it's given him guidelines as to which feature sizes will require a switch to Type 4 solder paste so he can plan the timing of its introduction to meet Vicor's product designs.
Imagine increasing an end-of-line yield by three percentage points. That alone is worth the price of admission, as it directly improves profitability. Cutting costs, improving throughput, qualifying suppliers, preparing for next-generation technology – they all improve profitability also, but less visibly. And, unfortunately, they're still sometimes forgotten. CA
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|Eastern-US: China's New Competitor?
Parity emerges among EMS Factories from Asia, Mexico and the US.
For the first time in years we see parity in the Eastern US among EMS factories from Asia, Mexico and the US. This EMS market condition will permit American OEMs (the EMS industry refers to OEMs as customers) to have more EMS pathways to choose from. Now more than ever, such EMS assignments will require deeper investigation relating to the OEMs' evaluation of manufacturing strategies.
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Another late goal breaks Villa hearts
This is getting seriously repetitive, and not in a good way for Villa.
Another league game away, another late goal to ruin a result. This wasn't an injury-time sickener, the like of which denied Villa a point at Everton recently, but Santi Cazorla's 85th-minute winner ensured Paul Lambert's team left the Emirates empty-handed and with no consolation at all. Villa have carried a nasty habit of conceding late goals all season and seem incapable of curing a very serious problem.
- Match report: Arsenal 2-1 Aston Villa
It's Saturday night and Villa are once again back in the Premier League's bottom three and their inability to see games out threatens to terminate an ever-present status in the top flight. Lambert has 11 games left to find a solution. Considering where Villa would be in the table if games lasted 80 minutes is pointless. They do not and never will. Good teams in this league keep going until the final whistle. Villa have to do the same.
There was an ominous feeling about this result even before kickoff, with the news that captain Ron Vlaar, whose absence over the Christmas period seemed inextricably linked to Villa conceding goals from all angles, was ruled out the side through injury. Vlaar hasn't been totally convincing during his debut season in English football, but Villa look stronger with him in the back line. In his absence, a recall for Joseph Bennett at left back with Villa reverting to a central defensive partnership of Ciaran Clark and Nathan Baker.
It took Arsenal just six minutes to breach the Villa defence. So much for keeping an anxious home crowd waiting, building up the tension and frustration, and maintaining pressure on Arsene Wenger's wilting shoulders. Arsenal were lifted, off and running.
Villa stayed in the game, and, as expected, caused problems through their front four. Particularly Andreas Weimann, who had one or two decent runs at the Gunners' new left back Nacho Monreal. The Spaniard looked uncomfortable and unsure against the raw pace and enthusiasm of Villa's Austrian striker.
It was Weimann -- who had been wasteful with chances in his two previous appearances -- who pulled Villa level, and at that stage a point looked good. But Villa rarely looked composed. Arsenal kept the ball, kept prodding for a chance. And here is when Lambert showed a strange tactical hand. With a little over 15 minutes remaining, he brought midfielder Karim El Ahmadi on -- but not at the expense of a forward player, a like-for-like swap with Ashley Westwood. A third midfielder, to try to get hold of the ball, would have made sense.
Then: Charles N'Zogbia off, but winger Simon Dawkins on. An odd choice, when Brett Holman or Yacouba Sylla would have beefed up a midfield wide open and being picked apart by Arsenal with the minutes ticking by. It was no great surprise when Cazorla, allowed to run into space and untracked, scored his second of the game.
Villa struggle to control the ball, and therefore to control games. The team's tactics of sitting back and holding on, rather than getting on the ball, keeping possession, taking the sting out of proceedings, are risky and flawed. Keep letting the opposition have the ball, and they will, eventually, do something with it.
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