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Close on two years after Gary Orfield's Civil Rights Project
released its influential—and controversial—Choice Without Equality report, another of the Orfield clan is
chastising charters for their level of racial segregation. According to Brother
Myron, charter schools in his home state of Minnesota resemble "the Deep South
in the days of Jim Crow segregation," as these schools cater to niche student
markets—often of the same race. At Dugsi Academy, for example, the school's
all-black student population studies Arabic and Somali: The school has a
mission of educating East African children in the Twin Cities. A few miles down
the road, students at the Twin Cities German Immersion School, who are 90
percent white, are immersed in German language and cultural studies. Myron is
right that these "boutique" charters are racially homogeneous. But Orfield is
missing a few structural beams in his tower of rhetoric. The most crucial: This
type of "segregation" is both self-selected and voluntary. "Some people call it
segregation. This is the parent's choice. They can go anywhere they want. We
are offering families something unique," explains Dugsi's director. Instead of
lamenting the lack of diversity in these unique school models, Orfield should
respond the all-American way: via competition. Open up some racially diverse
charter schools, Myron, and let parents vote with their feet.
Charter Schools Evoke Separate But Equal Era in the U.S.," by John
Hechinger, Bloomberg News, December
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To no one's surprise, the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to be keeping Mike Tomlin around for a while. The Steelers head coach inked a three-year extension with the team, the Steelers announced. This means Tomlin is under contract through the 2016 season.
Considering Tomlin is just the third Steelers head coach since the merger, this extension was a safe bet. Tomlin has led the Steelers to the playoffs in four of his first five seasons and had the top ranked defense in three of those years. Two Super Bowl trips in your first five years isn't too bad either.
"I am excited that I will continue to be the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for years to come," said Tomlin. "I am grateful to the Steelers organization for the opportunity I have been given over the past five years to work and live in this great city, and I am excited to continue to work to bring another championship to the Steelers and the city of Pittsburgh."
No financial terms of the deal were announced but the Steelers will keep the third head coach in franchise history for at least a few more years.
For more on Tomlin's new deal, check out Behind The Steel Curtain and SB Nation Pittsburgh.


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Her family donated $96,000 to build a hospital in her memory, and later donated another $50,000 to establish a fund to pay for care for those who couldn't afford it. It is in this spirit of philanthropy that our foundation exists—to support an excellent medical facility that has served its community for more than 100 years.
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text: Congrats to Kevin Kolb and his family on septmber 27 they had their baby! The long wait to find out if Kolb would be at the game on sunday is finally over. I find this great news because I got the one thing I was asking for on my birthday, Kolb not missing any games for this (though i would in no way blame him). Im gonna enjoy the rest of my Birthday now, and i wish the Kolbs the best of luck for their daughter


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The bus drivers for students who use special transportation will call the parents of those students. If there has been a change in address, call Programs for Exceptional Children at 263-2400. If you have a childcare provider, please call Transportation Services at 263-1545 to arrange transportation. The childcare provider should be in the students home school zone.
YMCA Early Discoveries students who live in the school zone where the program is offered will ride the neighborhood buses assigned to that school. These stops can be located by referring to the bus stops listed for that assigned elementary school. Students who live outside school zones should contact their Family Involvement Specialist for transportation details.
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Morning Transportation: : All students will ride neighborhood buses to their local high schools. Students should then ride the following shuttle buses to the Technical & Career Education Center. Bayside High-Bus 145 & 328; Cox High-Bus 181; First Colonial High-Bus 174; Green Run High-Bus 214; Kellam High-Bus 595; Kempsville High-Bus 220 & 165; Landstown High-Bus 50 & 137; Ocean Lakes High-Bus 90; Princess Anne High-Bus 237; Renaissance High-Bus 490; Salem High-Bus 507; Tallwood High-Bus 557.
Afternoon Transportation: Buses will return students to their neighborhoods. Bus assignments will be given to students at Technical & Career Center.
Director: Michael D. Taylor
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Morning Transportation: All ATC students will ride neighborhood buses to their local high schools. Students should then ride the following shuttle buses to the Advanced Technology Center. Bayside High-Bus 543; Cox High-Bus 475; First Colonial High-Bus 306; Green Run High-Bus 127; Kellam High-Bus 444; Kempsville High-Bus 77; Landstown High-Bus 423; Ocean Lakes High-Bus 71; Princess Anne High-Bus 161; Salem High-Bus 599; Tallwood High-Bus 28.
Afternoon Transportation: All ATC students will ride shuttle bus 209, 578, or bus 259 to Landstown High to ride the express buses to their neighborhoods.Green Run High students will ride bus 598 to ride the Green Run High buses to their neighborhoods.
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Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
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Research Interests
- Stochastic Hydrology and Hydroclimatology
- Nonparametric functional estimation techniques (probability density Functions, regression, scenarios generation, forecasting)
- Understanding low frequency climate variability and its signatures on regional hydrology
- Incorporating climate information in water resources/hydrologic decision making
- Understanding spatio-temporal variability in Indian summer monsoon
- Nonlinear Dynamics - recovering dynamics from data
- Bayesian techniques for optimal combination of information from multiple sources and decision making
Statistical climate modeling and its application to hydrology, water resources eng. related issues; Stochastic modeling of rainfall and other weather variables; scaling issues in rainfall; Spatial estimation of hydro-climate variables; nonparametric estimation of density and regression functions for Multivariate Time series analysis of climate data; Identifying inter-annual variability in hydro climate variables and nonlinear dynamical modeling and forecasting; Inferring long range climate variability through statistical analysis of paleo proxy data.
Current Research: A decision support system for mitigating stream-temperature impacts on fish habitat in the Sacramento River, with graduate student Raymond Jason Caldwell.
Increasing demands on the limited and variable water supply across the U.S. West can result in insufficient stream flow to sustain healthy fish habitat and populations. In the late summer and early fall, high air temperature and low flow conditions can cause rapid increases in water temperature, creating critical conditions, particularly for cold-water fish such as salmon. In addition, construction of dams and diversions along rivers for the purpose of storing and distributing the limited supply of water can further deteriorate natural flow regimes and often obstruct important migratory pathways for fish reproduction and development. The thermal impacts on the ecology of river ecosystems have been well-documented, yet there is no comprehensive modeling framework in place for skillfully modeling climate-related impacts. In regulated systems, such as the Sacramento River system, these impacts are an interaction of volume and temperature of water release from the reservoir and the subsequent exchange with the environment downstream. In this research, we develop an integrated decision support system for modeling and mitigating water-temperature impacts
and demonstrate it on the Sacramento River system. The approach has four broad components that can be coupled to produce decision tools toward efficient management of water resources for stream-temperature mitigation. These are: 1) a suite of statistical models for modeling stream-temperature attributes by using hydrology and climate variables of critical importance for fish habitat, such as average daily stream temperature and number of hours of temperature threshold exceedance, etc.; 2) a reservoir thermal model for modeling the thermal structure and, consequently, the waterrelease temperature; 3) a stochastic weather generator to simulate weather sequences that are consistent with long-range (e.g., seasonal) outlooks; and 4) a set of decision rules (i.e., rubric) for water releases from the reservoir in response to weather sequences and the reservoir thermal structure obtained from the above components. These components are coupled to develop tools that will help water managers plan for efficient mitigation of stream-temperature impacts on fish habitat. The decision support system incorporates forecast uncertainties and reservoir operating options to help mitigate streamtemperature impacts for fish habitat, while efficiently using the water and cold-pool storage in the reservoir. We find that using the decision support system substantially reduces the number of violations of thermal criteria, while ensuring maintenance of the cold-pool storage throughout the summer.
References Caldwell, RJ. 2013. An integrated framework for modeling and mitigating water temperature impacts in the Sacramento River. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder.


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#15 Julianne Masser
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Les Bois SC
As a Sophomore (2010) - Scored third and fifth goals in 5-1 season-opening win at Eastern Oregon on 9/4/10 ... Scored goal in 3-2 win over Pacific Lutheran ... Scored Whitman's lone goal in a 2-1 loss at Pacific when she intercepted a pass at midfield and dribbled 50 yards, finishing a 1 on 1 breakaway with the goalkeeper ... Scored Whitman's second goal in a 3-2 win over Pacific Lutheran on 9/25/10 ... Scored the game's opening goal in a 5-1 loss at Linfield on 10/3/10.
As a First Year (2009) - Appeared in 16 games, starting three ... Scored first collegiate goal, the game- winner, on 9/19/09 in 2-0 win over George Fox ... Also scored on 9/26/09 against Pacific Luthern.
Prep - Earned Idaho 5A All-Academic Award/Presidential Scholar Award for Soccer in 2006-2008 at Boise High ... District III Champions 2006-2008 ... Idaho Class 5A third-place state tournament finish in 2008 ... Academic State Champions 2008-2009 in both varsity track and varsity soccer ... Won Idaho State Cup with Idaho Rush/Osprey in 2008; finished fourth in State Cup in 2007 and second in 2009.Personal - Daughter of Kate Sutherland and Philippe Masser ... Has one older brother ... Enjoys singing and currently taking voice lessons at Whitman ... Wants to join Whitman Choir ... Participated in track & field at Boise High ... Considering career in social work or clinical psychology.


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Jean Racine, translated by Richard Wilbur
ComedyFull Length
6 men, 2 women: 8 totalBook/Item: THE SUITORSBook Type: DPSPrice: $9.00ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-1804-3
FEE: $80 per performance.THE STORY: One of the most hilarious French plays ever written, Racine's only comedy (1688) tells of a judge named Nigaud who has lost his mind from overwork and yet is possessed with the desire to go to court and try cases day and night. His son, Léandre, abetted by Petit-Jean (the judge's porter) and Leclerc (the judge's clerk), does his best to confine him to his house and to deny access to litigious personssuch as Chicanneau and the Countess of Pimbeschewho wish to consult him regarding their current lawsuits. The mad judge, however, threatens constantly to escape, and the situation is resolved only when Léandre persuades his father to stay at home and be the presiding judge of his own householdbeginning with an uproarious trial of the family dog for filching a capon from the kitchen. That plot, which Racine adapted from Aristophanes' The Wasps, is interlaced with a love-intrigue out of the commedia dell'arte. Léandre loves his neighbor, Isabelle, who is imprisoned in the house of a father (Chicanneau) who reserves all his money for legal squabbles and will not give her a dowry. A good part of Act Two consists of an intricate hoax in which Léandre and Leclerc, disguised as a magistrate and bailiff, get the better of Chicanneau and make possible the happy ending of Act Three. At the close of the play, Judge Nigaud is looking forward to many more intramural trials, and Léandre is betrothed to the spirited and charming Isabelle.


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Hazy yellow gold with a sturdy, creamy head. Deeply fruity aroma...apricot, pineapple, grapefruit, melon...a little malt sweetness. Just total fruit salad in the nose. Stone fruit, citrus oils, pineapple, tropical fruit sweetness. Tons of new-school hop flavor. Medium bodied and actually feels bigger than its reasonable ABV. Out of the few beers I had on my first trip to CL, this was the best. Better than the Imperial IPA, this is just bursting with ripe, fruity hoppiness. Good stuff!
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Super freshie growler purchased at the mothership about 5 hours ago. Limited release, pilot batch brewed by the "CLBC brew crew"
Pours clouded dark apricot, moderate lite khaki head, leaves a nice looking film, a thin collar and low sheeting.
Ripe fruits nose with a hint of the beloved cat piss scent, no doubt provided by the citra and amarillo dry hopping.
Soft on the tongue and smooth flowing over the tongue, this offering is super fruity, well hopped and supremly easy drinking. Dangerous at almost 7 %....
More ripe fruits all over the palate, pineapple, mangos, limes all picked up, hops well rounded and drying late. Some light leather/smoke/lime in the finish adding greatly to the complexity.
Super enjoyable IPA...Yet another winner from the Captain...I'd vote for this one to go into full production....
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Hopcitra-Pilot Batch # 55 from Captain Lawrence Brewing Co.
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First, Second ... When I think about all the years I've been in school, one year makes me pause and think - second grade. The unforgettable, miserable learning experience hit me hard, like a drummer in the band who figured out he was supposed to be playing, on the last note. The late Martin Luther King, Jr. hoped "that children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." That day Mr. King speaks of had surely not come that first day of second grade.
Large barriers of red brick captured the cold wind that only circulated inside the building. When I opened the large metal doors, it hit my face, as if it were mad, blowing back my puffy, kinky ponytails. My brand-new dress of green and white polka dots and ruffles puffed up. The building felt like a freezer. Sounds of crying babies and worried parents filled the air, blocking the mild voice over the intercom that said, "Welcome to Frazier Elementary ..." Off-white walls of rough texture stood beside me, like soldiers ready for command, quiet and still, as I walked in.
The shiny, never-ending cement floors stuck to my new, black, patent-leather shoes, making a sound as if I had stepped on freshly chewed gum. Constant opening and shutting of the thick, wooden doors echoed in the halls, making me jump. After a long, sticky, body-jumping journey, I reached my destination. Dark green, rough textured carpet, with sewn-in little red squares, surrounded the room hiding the cement floor, leaving nothing visible. The classrooms were divided by long, golden-brown tables that stood no taller than my waist.
The teacher stood behind the wooden desk with her long, black hair loosely braided. Her red, apple-pattern dress fit her slim figure, as if the dress was afraid to let go of her body. The shiny, red shoes reminded me of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Her pale face looked perfectly drawn from a cartoon character (Snow White). When she spoke, her dark brown eyes, pointed nose and small lips caught my attention. "Welcome to the second grade. I'm Ms. Hale." The sweet ring of her voice calmed my nerves as I started to feel the uncomfortable tingle in my stomach. The green chairs were neatly tucked under the tables and everything was full of vibrant colors. I sat in my little green seat and looked around the strange place to see what was happening.
Other children started to enter. So far, so good - most of the children were just like me. They all had backpacks, some had short hair, and some long, some were skinny and some fat. Then I finally noticed a difference; my skin was darker, but that wasn't too big a deal to me. I figured no one else would pay too much attention either. An hour later, I started to notice that no one was sitting at my table. Maybe the children just didn't see me.
During recess I sat on the sun-warmed, concrete sidewalk next to the teacher. I looked around and saw the white kids playing on the metal monkey bars and leather seat swings. They laughed together with huge Kool-aid smiles, as if they had known each other all their young lives, while I watched with an upside-down one. Every once in a while, I would bend over and dig my long, skinny fingers in the dirt carving out my name. After I finished, I would erase it with my new shoes, which ended up covered with the sand, and start all over. By the end of recess, I learned my name backward, forward, and every other way.
"Recess is over. Time to go back in," said Ms. Hale's soft voice, as if she was uncertain of what to say. After we got back, Ms. Hale gave the class some fruity candy for our good behavior.
During lunch the girls didn't even try to save me a seat, so I sat on the other side of the world (that is what it felt like) by the boys. My dark brown, almond-shaped eyes filled with tears which flowed silently down my cheek, past my lips and onto the table. I tried hard to hide my face, but the tears kept going. All at once I lost my appetite; the food went untouched. I gently pushed away the green tray and laid my head on the hard lunch table. I began to wish I was wearing Ms. Hale's shiny, red shoes so I could say, "I want to go home" like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
When I got home, my mother caressed me with her warm and gentle love. Even though my words were hard to understand like a foreign languge, I told her why I was crying. Afterward, I ran to my room, the air hitting my face, drying some of my tears.
The next morning, I prepared for school. Well, to be exact, for friends! My small shoulders ached because the plastic, pink and purple backpack that hung on my shoulders had been stuffed with everything from chocolate to fruity candy and toys from Barbies to board games! I was sure to get friends now! The day was excellent; the children played and spoke to me. At the time, I felt like a queen on a royal pedestal. Paying little attention to the quick change or the truth, I was satisfied with the real experience of "friendship," even though unreal.
The next year my mom transferred me to another district, and I attended a school where I found children of different shapes and sizes, with different hair, but also with the same dark chocolate skin. I was not alone!
Things I learned in my past is helping me with my future. I don't have to give all to make a friend. Even though my treatment was harsh, unforgettable and somewhat unforgivable, two wrongs don't make a right. By not acting the way I was treated, I made many friends! c
This piece has been published in Teen Ink's monthly print magazine.


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I don't really have much to add to the post that was published on the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog, but the study they wrote about bears more than just simply passing along the link, I think. The post, "How walking through a doorway increases forgetting," concerns a study out of Notre Dame that sought to get to the bottom of how the mind carves experience up into episodic memory.
Hormonal Birth Control Colors Women's Memories, Study Finds
by Cristen Conger | September 14, 2011
A new study out from the University of California, Irvine found that hormonal contraception influences how women remember emotionally provocative events, compared to women who aren't on birth control. Specifically, naturally cycling women may retain more details about an emotional event (i.e. the type of car involved in a fatal car accident, the accident setting, etc.), whereas women taking birth control pills may better recollect central information, or the "gist" of it.
Blow Your Mind: The Science of False Memories
by Robert Lamb | September 1, 2011
Each of us is a collection of memories. We're the recorded information of all the experiences, lessons and feelings that came before the present moment. So how are we to square away the knowledge that some of the memories that compose us are fraudulent? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I examine the world of false memories and misattribution. How do false memories form and how can we carry them around without realizing there's something wrong?
Blow Your Mind: Welcome to the Memory Palace
by Robert Lamb | June 24, 2011
There's a mummy dancing and unraveling.
Next to it, a noisy cat also covered in mummy wrappings.
Toilet paper. Cat food.
Let's do this.
During the Conscious after Decapitation episode on SYSK, we all closed our eyes and counted off four seconds, since that's about how long it's been determined a person can stay conscious after being decapitated. We thought about all of the sights and sounds and sensations that can be experienced in four seconds and we were all thrilled with the horror and dread of it all.
Invention – Boosting memory with electricity on the scalp
by Marshall Brain | August 13, 2010
This article claims that, by placing electrodes on the scalp and adding a little electricity, people can boost their memories:
Skull electrodes give memory a boost
The technique uses transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in which weak electrical currents are applied to the scalp using electrodes. The method can temporarily increase or decrease activity in a specific brain region and has already been shown to boost verbal and motor skills in volunteers.
The results of the tests? "Those in the first group more than doubled their scores after receiving tDCS, experiencing a 110 per cent improvement in visual memory."
Q: How does this taste? A: Who knows?
by Josh Clark | June 23, 2010
I think it's neat that it's 2010 and we still have no idea how we perceive taste. We were supposed to have hovercars and metallic jumpsuits by now and we still only have what can be regarded as a pretty basic understanding of our sense of taste. In the last year or two, though, the scope of what constitutes has expanded tremendously.
What we know of taste has thus far been largely observational. We know that taste and smell are inextricably linked since people who lose one also lose the other. We know that the mental constructs of tastes we create and store in our brains are plastic; they can be enhanced and revised by further encounters with a taste. We know our sense of taste can be tricked by chemicals that mock the flavors of foods. We know that there are five specialized taste receptor types; umami (my favorite), sour, sweet, salty and bitter.
How to Remember Faces
by Jessika Toothman | April 29, 2010
When I meet someone for the first time, there's a 100 percent chance that 10 minutes after he or she leaves my sight, I won't be able to recall what that person looks like. At all. Sure, I'll probably remember stuff like hair color or ethnicity, but the face will be a total blank.
Living in the Shackles of Memory
by Robert Lamb | February 10, 2010
Human memory is tricky, to say the least. It's an ever-changing cloud of imperfect recollections, distortions and outright fabrications. It's a tag cloud full of joys, torments and minutia. And while savants and mnemonists can sometimes exhibit startling displays of memory, there is no such thing as total recall.
Following a 2005 study published in the journal Neurocase, however, the media had a field day with Jill Price, a California woman with an amazing capacity for personal memory. Give her a name and she can tell you exactly where and when she spoke to that person last and what the subject was. Throw out a date and she can link it to plane crashes, presidential elections and episodes of "Dallas."
Test – how good is your memory, and is lack of sleep affecting it?
by Marshall Brain | November 2, 2009
A very interesting little memory test that will check two different memory functions. When it says that you should take a 5 minute break, you should heed its advice to get an accurate reading. Face Memory Test [[[Jump to previous test - How long do you have before you die?]]]
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- Francoeur not paying attention to trade rumors
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BOSTON -- Outfielder Mitch Maier, pressed into emergency duty as a pitcher in the Royals' 13-9 loss on Tuesday night, had a surreal few minutes before he threw a pitch.
As he came out of the right-field bullpen, a fan jumped out the stands and veered near him.
"A fan getting tackled. It was awesome," Maier said. "I think it actually relieved a lot of the pressure, because it was a big distraction. I see this guy run onto the field and get body-slammed by a security guard."
At the same time, the sellout crowd at Fenway Park was bellowing out the traditional eighth-inning rendition of "Sweet Caroline." So Maier had raucous musical accompaniment.
Then, to top things off, home-plate umpire Chris Conroy came out to remind him that both benches had been issued warnings against throwing at batters, so if Maier happened to plunk somebody, both he and his manager might be ejected.
Given all that, Maier still managed to throw strikes and retired three of the four batters he faced, making him the only Royals pitcher who didn't give up a run.
"He did just what I wanted him to do," manager Ned Yost said. "He didn't get crazy. ... He's smart enough to not do something stupid, try to throw 100 miles an hour and perpetuate the agony. Just throw the ball."
Francoeur not paying attention to trade rumors
BOSTON -- Royals right fielder Jeff Francoeur figures he's given at least six or seven interviews about being traded in just the three days he's been in Boston -- probably a natural consequence because Red Sox right fielder J.D. Drew is on the 15-day disabled list.
"Like anything, there's always stuff thrown around, there are always people throwing out ideas, and once it's going, they kind of run with it," Francoeur said.
"But with me, I've planned on being here the whole year and next year, and I don't plan on going anywhere."
The non-waiver Trade Deadline is 3 p.m. CT on Sunday, and among the Royals, Francoeur and center fielder Melky Cabrera have been names in the rumor mill. Francoeur and the Royals have a mutual option for next season, and Cabrera doesn't have enough service time to become a free agent.
"Melky's talked, too, and we both like it here. We both want to stay here," Francoeur said. "It'd be one thing if we were a lot older, but he's about to turn 27 and I'm 27 and we're really young in baseball terms, so this is perfect for us."
There's something of a New England connection for the Atlanta-born Francoeur, because his father's family is from Springfield, Mass.
"Last night, my grandma was up here to get to see me play, so it's cool, it was neat for me to have her here," Francoeur said.
Francoeur has been traded during the season in each of the previous two years, so he's used to this scenario. Even last year, before the Mets dealt him to the Rangers on Aug. 31, he was often checking out chatter on the Internet. No more.
"When you start to worry about that stuff too much, it messes you up and I'm not worried about it at all," he said. "All you can do is show up and play every day. So I plan on playing here the next two games, playing three in Cleveland and go back to my house in Kansas City -- until I hear otherwise."
Prospect Perez promoted to Triple-A Omaha
BOSTON -- Catcher Salvador Perez's rapid rise in the Royals' organization continued on Wednesday when he was promoted to Triple-A Omaha. He's expected to get a shot at the Major League roster in Spring Training 2012.
Perez, 21, is acknowledged as an excellent defensive catcher and his hitting has improved with Double-A Northwest Arkansas. In 79 games, his average was .283, with nine homers and 43 RBIs. He was on fire in his last four games, going 10-for-16 with two grand slams and 15 RBIs.
Pitcher Kelvin Herrera also was promoted to Omaha after a 4-0 record, seven saves and a 1.75 ERA with 40 strikeouts in 36 innings and 23 games for Northwest Arkansas. Earlier this summer, he was 2-1 with a save and a 0.61 ERA in eight games for Class A Wilmington.
To make room on the Omaha roster, catcher Manny Pina (.241, 16 RBIs) and pitcher Mario Santiago (3-3, 5.70 ERA) were sent to Northwest Arkansas.
Left-hander Noel Arguelles, who signed a deal worth nearly $7 million in 2010, apparently has fully recovered from shoulder surgery. He came just short of a seven-inning no-hitter on Tuesday for Wilmington's Blue Rocks.
After 6 1/3 no-hit innings, he gave up two hits and two runs, although Wilmington eventually won in the eighth, 4-3. Overall, Arguelles is 3-4 with a 2.89 ERA in 18 starts after not pitching last season.
Berroa latches on with D-backs' farm club
BOSTON -- Former American League Rookie of the Year Angel Berroa has joined the Arizona Diamondbacks' organization. He made his debut for Triple-A Reno in Tuesday night's 10-5 win over Las Vegas.
The shortstop was the AL's top rookie for the Royals in 2003 and played for them until '07. He last played in the Major Leagues for the Yankees and the Mets in '09.
This year, Berroa was playing in the independent Atlantic League, batting .263 with six home runs and 33 RBIs in 64 games for the Bridgeport Bluefish.
The D-backs sought infield depth after shortstop Stephen Drew was injured and went on the disabled list. Reno's Cody Ransom was called up to take Drew's spot on the Arizona roster.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Brooklyn Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo won't return as the team's head coach, general manager Billy King told the New York Daily News' Stefan Bondy on Sunday.
With the search for Carlesimo's replacement already underway, former New York Knicks coach and current ESPN commentator Jeff Van Gundy is a top target, according to Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski.
The move comes soon after the Nets were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Chicago Bulls on Saturday. Though Brooklyn made the playoffs as a No. 4 seed, Carlesimo's 35-19 record wasn't enough to earn him the job permanently. Carlesimo took over for head coach Avery Johnson, who was fired after Brooklyn began the season 14-14.
Nets Daily reported that while some of the team's key players such as Deron Williams and Joe Johnson supported their head coach, many role players didn't.
In the end, the decision by King was about what Carlesimo got out of a roster considered more talented than the injury-plagued Bulls squad that Brooklyn lost to in the first round. ESPN reported shortly after the Nets' loss that Carlesimo, who as a head coach has never won a playoff series, had his future with the team riding on how far he took them in the playoffs.
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ZEN BRAIN: The Embedded Mind - Perspectives from Buddhism and Cognitive Science
Instructors: Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD * Richard J. Davidson, PhD * Alfred W. Kaszniak, PhD * Evan Thompson, PhD * John D. Dunne, PhD * Cliff Saron, PhD
Contemplative practice depends on social context which shapes and gives meaning to experience, behavior, and action. From a scientific perspective, the idea that the social environment actively constitutes cognition is central to the study of embedded cognition. This groundbreaking retreat focuses on the embedded dimension of contemplative practice and experience. The retreat combines the perspectives of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and Buddhist studies and practice in order to illuminate the role that social context plays in shaping the mind. Talks, discussions, and explorations with participants are embedded within Zazen practice throughout each day.
More about the instructors:
Board Member Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD
Richard J. Davidson, PhD
Richard J. Davidson received his Ph.D. in Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychophysiology from Harvard University. He is currently Director for the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience as well as the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on cortical and subcortical substrates of emotion and affective disorders, including depression and anxiety, using quantitative electrophysiology, positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging to make inferences about patterns of regional brain function. A major focus of his current work is on interactions between prefrontal cortex and the amygdala in the regulation of emotion in both normal subjects and patients with affective and anxiety disorders. He has also studied and published several papers on brain physiology in long-term Buddhist meditators, and in persons receiving short-term training in mindfulness meditation. Among his several books is Visions of compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature (2002, Oxford University Press), co-edited with Anne Harrington.
Alfred W. Kaszniak, PhD
Al Kaszniak received his Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Illinois in 1976, and completed an internship in clinical neuropsychology at Rush Medical Center in Chicago. He is currently Director of the Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium Education Core, and a professor in the departments of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry at The University of Arizona (UA. He formerly served as Head of the Psychology Department, and as Director of the UA Center for Consciousness Studies. Al also presently serves as Chief Academic Officer for the Mind and Life Institute, an organization that facilitates collaborative scientific research on contemplative practices and traditions. He is the co-author or editor of seven books, including the three-volume Toward a Science of Consciousness (MIT Press), and Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness (World Scientific). His research, published in over 150 journal articles and scholarly book chapters, has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Mental Health, and National Science Foundation, as well as several private foundations. His work has focused on the neuropsychology of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurological disorders, consciousness, memory self-monitoring, emotion, and the psychophysiology of long-term and short-term meditation. Al has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and has been an advisor to the National Institutes of Health and other governmental agencies. He is a Past-President of the Section on Clinical Geropsychology and fellow of the American Psychological Association and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. In addition to his academic and administrative roles, he is a lineage holder and teacher (Sensei) in the Soto tradition of Zen Buddhism.
Evan Thompson, PhD
Dr. Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in Asian Studies, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He is the author of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007), and the co-editor (with P. Zelazo and M. Moscovitch) of The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2007) He is also the co-author with F.J. Varela and E. Rosch of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991) and the author of Color Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge Press, 1995). He is currently working on a new book, titled Waking, Dreaming, Being: New Revelations about the Self from Neuroscience and Meditation. Thompson held a Canada Research Chair at York University (2002-2005), and has also taught at Boston University. He has held visiting positions at the Centre de Récherch en Epistémologie Appliqué (CREA) at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
John D. Dunne, PhD
Dr. Dunne is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University, where he is Co-Director of the Encyclopedia of Contemplative Practices and the Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies. He was educated at the Amherst College and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of Religion in 1999. Before joining Emory's faculty in 2005, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held a research position at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Support from the American Institute of Indian Studies sustained two years of his doctoral research at the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, India. His work focuses on various aspects of Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice. In Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy (2004), he examines the most prominent Buddhist theories of perception, language, inference and justification. His current research includes an inquiry into the notion of "mindfulness" in both classical Buddhist and contemporary contexts, and he is also engaged in a study of Candrakirti's "Prasannapada", a major Buddhist philosophical work on the metaphysics of "emptiness" and "selflessness." His recently published work includes an essay on neuroscience and meditation co-authored with Richard J. Davidson and Antoine Lutz. He frequently serves as a translator for Tibetan scholars, and as a consultant, he appears on the roster of several ongoing scientific studies of Buddhist contemplative practices.
Cliff Saron, PhD
Clifford Saron, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain and M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California at Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1999 studying the electrophysiology of interhemispheric visuomotor integration under the direction of Herbert Vaughan, Jr. Dr. Saron has had a long-standing interest in brain and behavioral effects of meditation practice and has been faculty at the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute and is currently a member of the Program and Research Council of the Mind and Life Institute. In the early 1990's he was centrally involved in a field research project investigating Tibetan Buddhist mind training in collaboration with Jose Cabezón, Richard Davidson, Francisco Varela, Alan Wallace and others under the auspices of the Private Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama and the Mind and Life Institute. Currently, in collaboration with Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace and a consortium of over 30 scientists and researchers at UC Davis and elsewhere, he is Principal Investigator of The Shamatha Project, a unique longitudinal study of intensive meditation training based on the practice of meditative quiescence (shamatha) and cultivation of the four immeasureables (loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity). The project, focused on changes in attention-related skills and emotion regulation, is the most comprehensive multimethod study to date regarding the potential effects of long-term intensive meditation practice on basic mental and physical processes related to cognition, emotion, health physiology, and motivation. His other primary research interest focuses on investigating brain and behavioral correlates of sensory processing and multisensory integration in children on the autistic spectrum.
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June Solstice's Influence Across Cultures and Ages
The June solstice has been associated with many ancient summer traditions and continues to be celebrated in modern society. It is also known as the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere. The June solstice occurs on June 20, 21 or 22 in the Gregorian calendar, which is currently used in many western countries.
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The June Solstice and Ancient Traditions
In ancient times, the date of the June solstice was an important source to help people manage their calendars and organize when to plant and harvest crops. This time of year was also a traditional month for weddings. Some societies invested much effort to establish the length of the year.
Stonehenge was built around 3100 BCE. Some people believe that it was built to help establish when the summer solstice occurred. Interestingly, the sun rises at a particular point on the horizon as viewed from the centre of the stone circle on day of the June solstice. At that point the builders may have started counting the days of the year. Many other megalith structures in Europe may have been built for similar purposes, although reasons are still uncertain.
Seasons, Equinoxes and Solstices
- Seasons Calculator – When seasons start
- March Equinox Explained
- –traditions around March Equinox
- June Solstice Explained
- –traditions around June Solstice
- September Equinox Explained
- –traditions around September Equinox
- December Solstice Explained
- –traditions around December Solstice
- Equinox day is not exactly 12 hours long
In many countries in Europe, Midsummer festivals or celebrations were held around the time of the June solstice. In ancient Gaul, the Midsummer celebration was called Feast of Epona, named after a mare goddess who personified fertility and protected horses. In ancient Germanic, Slav and Celtic tribes, many pagans celebrated Midsummer with bonfires. After Christianity spread in Europe and other parts of the world, many pagan customs were incorporated into the Christian religion. In many parts of Scandinavia, the Midsummer celebration continued but was observed around the time of St John's Day, on June 24, to honor St John the Baptist instead of the pagan gods.
In North America, many Native American tribes held ritual dances to honor the sun. The Sioux were known to hold one of the most spectacular rituals. Usually performed during the June solstice, preparations for the dance included cutting and raising a tree that would be considered a visible connection between the heavens and Earth, and setting up teepees in a circle to represent the cosmos. Participants abstained from food and drink during the dance itself. Their bodies were decorated in the symbolic colors of red (sunset), blue (sky), yellow (lightning), white (light), and black (night).
The June Solstice's Influence in Modern Times
There are many solstice observances held by New Age and Neopagan groups throughout the world. Thousands of people, including modern-day druids and pagans, usually gather at Stonehenge for this occasion.
In some parts of the United States, events that focus on the theme of the summer solstice are held. These events include: local festivals featuring art or music; environmental awareness activities that focus on using natural sunlight as a source of energy; and family gatherings.
In northern European countries such as Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the Midsummer Festival is one of the most festive summer celebrations. Celebrations occur when the summer days are at their longest – and in the north it is the time of the midnight sun. Midsummer festivals generally celebrate the summer and the fertility of the Earth. In Sweden and many parts of Finland people dance around maypoles. Bonfires are lit and homes are decorated with flower garlands, greenery, and tree branches.
Astronomy calculators
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More information
- June Solstice
- September Equinox
- September Equinox Customs and Holidays
- December Solstice
- December Solstice Customs and Traditions
- The March Equinox Explained
- Customs and holidays around the March Equinox
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- Calendar Generator – Create a calendar for any year
- Duration between two dates – Calculates number of days
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Waste Water Treatment
Delft Water-Purification Method Promises Radical Improvement
Delft University of Technology research has discovered a method that could drastically change the way we purify water within a few years. Delft, in partnership with DHV engineering bureau, has developed a compact and environmentally-friendly purification method, in which aerobic bacteria form granules that sink quickly. An important part of the project's success was the work of Delft researcher Merle de Kreuk, who, on Tuesday, 27 June, will receive her PhD degree based on this research subject.
With the new aerobic granular sludge technology (Nereda TM), aerobic (thus oxygen using) bacterial granules are formed in the water that is to be purified. The great advantage of these granules is that they sink quickly and that all the required biological purifying processes occur within these granules.
The technology therefore offers important advantages when compared to conventional water purification processes. For example, all the processes can occur in one reactor. Moreover, there is no need to use large re-sinking tanks, such as those used for conventional purification. Such large tanks are needed for this because the bacteria clusters that are formed take much longer to sink than the aerobic granule sludge.
According to Delft PhD researcher Merle de Kreuk, a Nereda TM purification installation needs only a quarter of the space required by conventional installations. Moreover, Nereda TM uses 30% less energy than the normal purification process. This Nereda TM purification process is suitable for both domestic and industrial waste water.
Delft University of Technology has a long tradition in researching the possibilities of water purification with aerobic granular sludge. The maturation of the technology is largely due to the research conducted by De Kreuk. During her PhD research with Prof. Mark van Loosdrecht, De Kreuk – working together with DHV engineering bureau and supported by STOWA and STW grants – solved various technological bottlenecks and expanded the capacity of the test installation from 3 litres per hour to 1,500 litres per hour. DHV now has the final design, which is ready for practical implementation.
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North Carolina residents spoke out on one of the biggest changes proposed to the state's election laws in decades.
An overflow crowd came out to a public hearing on implementing a photo ID requirement to vote in state elections. The House Committee on Elections held the hearing before moving forward on a bill to implement the requirement.
The hearing is a part of a process put forth by Republicans to give all sides a chance to contribute to a bill they hope is soon passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory.
However, North Carolina's NAACP is not mincing words on the proposal. Speaking in front of the committee room, the chapter's president, the Rev. William Barber, called it a "poll tax," likening the measure to tactics used decades ago to discourage African Americans from voting.
Another speaker poked fun at the proposal, asking members of the House and Senate to present their own birth certificates, social security cards and other documents "by noon tomorrow" to prove they are eligible to serve.
Jay Delancy, the founder of North Carolina's Voter Integrity Project, said efforts to block or weaken a new voter ID requirement were part of a "vast left-wing conspiracy" to pad the voter rolls with non-citizens.
The President of AARP North Carolina cautioned voter ID could disenfranchise the elderly.
"Just imagine that you're 80 years old," Diana Hatch said. "You've been going to your local polling place for half a century and suddenly you're asked to prove who you are with a government-issued photo ID."
But Carol Marino of Holly Springs, who also attended the meeting, disagrees.
"My mother died at the age of 97 and she always voted, but she voted absentee," Marino said, "so I don't understand people who have to be dragged to the polls to vote."
GOP legislators passed a photo ID requirement in 2011 but it was vetoed by Gov. Beverly Perdue.
Supporters say the public wants the requirement to discourage voter fraud.
An Elon University poll conducted in February showed 72 percent of voters in the state supported the move, including 53 percent of Democrats and 93 percent of Republicans.
Civil rights groups counter the right to vote should not be subject to public opinion.
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Hello all! Another quick post with the fruits of a bit of weekend sewing. Yes I have got to write up about my latest knit dress (oooh! polka dots, lace, hopefully no iron & plenty of comfort) but I haven't time this evening so thought you'd be tickled by how I turned the outcome from that dreaded question "will you mend my xyz" into something that I took a perverse pleasure from.
Let's face it- mending is penance for something you have got wrong in a former life. Fact: the few men I have dated in my life assume that if you sew you therefore love darning socks & can make suits. Fact 2: These same men seem to think that there is nothing more enjoyable than mending a ripped crotch seam on trousers/ shorts as they were last worn (& in the case of Gary, being a builder his trousers "go" in that seam in an environment of dust & cement. He seems puzzled when I turn dusty broken-open-crotched trousers away from my genteel sewing machine & delicate hands).
I dread mending. How on earth is my sewing going to pull that faithful pair of (old) trousers through a few more months of occupational punishment? Anyway, thankfully the shorts above are not actually work shorts, but Gary's wardrobe staple between February and November. Not surprisingly they are showing signs of wear, miraculously not in the nether regions though. When he showed them to me & asked me to mend them I sighed with relief (Phew, no dust, no awkward knee holes, no gaping hole between fly & rear)
With a twinkle in my eye I asked him how he felt about patches, what were his manly boundaries? Could he cope with florals? How loud could the colours be?
I zig zagged the rips up then fashioned some groovy patches – the one on the right is Anna Marie Horner Loulouthi, left over from this skirt, & on the left, some fabric left over from my sundress. Good news! Gary loves colour & is at ease with the de-butchification of his camo shorts!
Now like I said, Gary lives in these, so I am not expecting more mending for a while, but if it can be like this, then that's fun! What do you think? Does anyone actually ever enjoy mending? Anyone take pleasure in fiddly awkward to get at patching & reinforcing? Or is it just me that hates it?!


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The break-up of Haarmann Hemmelrath continued to dominate the headlines in the German market last month. The saga, which began at the tail end of 2005, has been taking on Wagnerian proportions as each week a new twist is unveiled.
Haarmanns' split reaches home straight
Those impatiently waiting for the final curtain can probably now breathe a sigh of relief as, by February, it looked as if the final act had been reached.
As first reported on www. thelawyer.com (4 January), Ashurst made a New Year raid on Haarmanns' London office to hire an eight-lawyer insolvency team, including partners Matt McDonald, Ingo Schulz and David von Saucken. As well as doubling the size of Ashurst's insolvency group, it gives the UK firm access to the German non-performing loan (NPL) market.
As head of restructuring at Ashurst, Nick Angel would have seen the growth of the NPL market when he was running the German operation in the late 1990s. He no doubt jumped at the opportunity to pick up a ready-formed team, while the Haarmanns guys will benefit from Ashurst's finance practice.
It already seems to be paying off, as news reached The Lawyer in February that some of the investment banks, including Credit Suisse, are already lining up more work.
It was not long before what was left of the London office (namely, nine partners practising corporate, energy, finance and tax) had found themselves a new home. As first reported by The Lawyer (30 January), the London and Frankfurt offices are getting cosy with Squire Sanders & Dempsey.
It is understood that the Paris office has also been approached but is playing harder to get, and it is rumoured to have been approached by McDermott Will & Emery.
Meanwhile, Salans finally got itself a German base when it swooped on Haarmanns' Berlin office, as first reported on www.thelawyer.com (13 January). It is surprising that Salans has not found itself a German home earlier considering the size of its Eastern European network and the importance of Germany.
The firm has even admitted that it missed out on work because it was not based there. However, Berlin would not be most firms' first choice of the German cities, and Salans global managing partner Dariusz Oleszczuk has not ruled out a second office.
Haarmanns as we know it may be at an end, but the names will still echo around the legal market, as both name partners have set up new franchises.
As first reported on www. thelawyer.com (6 January), name partner Wilhelm Haarmann quit the firm he founded to launch a new practice with other members of the Frankfurt office. Haarmann, along with partners Francis Bellen, Christoph Schmitt, Markus Söhnchen and Jan Wildberger, founded the snappily titled Haarmann Partnerschaftsgesellschaft Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Wirtschaftsprüfer.
Meanwhile, Alexander Hemmelrath is salvaging what is left of the network for Hemmelrath & Partners, which will be home to the legal and tax practices.
The remaining German offices, along with Moscow and Shanghai, have also signed up. But that leaves Milan, the Eastern European network and the offices in Tokyo and Singapore still up for grabs. Catch them while you can, folks.
Kirkland makes foray into restructuring work
Kirkland & Ellis's entry into the German restructuring market was a logical and canny move. At the beginning of February, the Munich office revealed that it had hired two insolvency partners.
Kirkland has remained tight-lipped over the identity of one of the new recruits while he works through his notice period, but the other has been named as Bernd Meyer-Löwy, who has joined from Linklaters
Restructuring is one of the key practice areas of Kirkland. The firm has a large US practice and a growing UK one that is increasingly involved in cross-border deals, such as the recovery of auto parts retailer Collins & Aikman.
Munich managing partner Volker Kullmann says: "It's a natural decision to expand into restructuring work. It's one of the areas where Kirkland & Ellis has a strong franchise."
London partner and head of the European restructuring practice Lyndon Norley adds: "The plan has always been to have restructuring expertise in Munich. The German market represents a huge opportunity and there are very few US firms doing this type of work in the country."
Indeed, restructuring in Germany has traditionally been the preserve of boutique firms. That is not to say internationals have not got in on the act, though. Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters and White & Case all have recognised practices, but the real specialists are the niche firms such as Kübler in the Cologne area and Wellensieck Grub & Partners in the South West.
However, as more and more work takes on an international flavour and Germany continues to increase in importance, firms such as Kirkland & Ellis will be well placed to pick up the big-ticket work. Or so they hope.
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Three partners set up White & Case in Munich, two partners to Taylor Wessing, two partners set up Oldenbourg Plus
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Partners left to set up Graf Kanitz Schüppen & Partners
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In this way, the user can create his or her own customized toolpath as a combination of available choices. In other words, by choosing from the five available machining patterns and the four different tool orientation strategies, the user has 20 different ways to machine the part. Add to that the ability to lock an axis and a five-axis tool path is quickly converted to a four-axis application.
The interface is simplified by only displaying options that apply to the current work situation. For example, if a parametric machining pattern is chosen, the user is prompted to select the drive surface and the parametric flow directions the tool should follow. If the user decides to change to a simple boundary offset pattern the interface updates to display fewer options.
As the user chooses machining options, the interface updates to guide the user in a logical manner through the programming process. This step-by-step guidance helps the user avoid errors in the toolpath definition without imposing limitations. If the user decides to change a previous option, the system responds by displaying a new set of choices.
The new 5-Axis Composite Milling function from DP Technology takes full advantage of simultaneous machine movement in a streamlined format that combines power with ease-of-use.
3D Features
In addition to the compact and simplified Composite cycle, ESPRIT 2009 has also simplified the way users select areas to be machined. A new type of freeform feature lets the user select and save the surfaces to be machined and the surfaces to be avoided as a single object. Knowing that different types of surfaces require different machining strategies, any number of these freeform features can be created on a single part model. The user can then select a single feature to machine an entire pre-defined area.
The design concept of consistency and ease-of-use is extended so that the same interface is used for the freeform features, the Composite cycle, the tool manager, and the operation manager in a tabbed layout. The user stays in a familiar environment without the need to open and exit multiple dialog boxes.
Adaptable for the Future
From the viewpoint of the software developer, the Composite function requires an in-depth analysis of each step used in the process of generating multiaxis toolpaths. It also requires real-world experience working with the types of multiaxis machines that are used every day on the shop floor plus the new technology being developed by machine tool builders.
This in-depth analysis has led to the Composite cycle being composed of a collection of separate components that perform well separately and together. These components are analyzed and tested to guarantee the complete interchangeability of any component at any step. This analysis effort lends itself to a high rate of reliability in the resulting software, which ultimately benefits the user. Efficiency is also achieved because each component is created only once, eliminating the redundancy that occurs when advanced functionality is broken into a slew of machining functions.
The advantage to this type of functionality is that new machining patterns and tool orientation strategies can be added to the software at any time in the future as the technology for multiaxis machines advances. The new 5-Axis Composite Milling function from DP Technology marks a departure from traditional CAM software development so that ESPRIT can easily keep pace with the rapidly evolving technology on the shop floor.
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Ann Mazakas is manager of technical communications at DP Technology, in Camarillo, CA. Her background includes many years in the manufacturing industry, particularly in the design and manufacture of products and molds. She has been a writer specializing in metalworking and CAD/CAM systems since 1998. To comment on this article, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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A museum in Bern focussing on the Swiss mountains from scientific aspects as geology and climate to flora and fauna over history to social aspects and development.
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This museum now houses what is Switzerland's second largest historic museum, combining under one roof one of the country's most important ethnographic collections together with the Bernese historical collections from prehistory to the present day.
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