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I am currently back in school to get a degree in education and already have a BA in Art. So my question is I need to get a new computer as well as a mobile one. I would like to have it for as many years as I can squeeze out of it. It will be used as my personal computer and school computer, class projects. I am really interested in the i life software and using it with students. Now should I go with the macbook or macbook pro? I like the size and battery of the macbook for portability but the MBP has the lager screen and better graphics card.
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If you can afford it, go with the MB Pro. I've got it, and I dont regret it. Well.. wait. OK... the real reason you would go with the MBP is if you need the extra horsepower in the video card dept. There are other differneces, but they're slight. The video card is the doozie. If you need that, then go with the mbp, if not just get the macbook. Either way though, max out the ram and get an external hard drive for extra storage.
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um... the glossy displays... well I havent seen the macbook in person, ive got the mbp... i prefer mine... i had one of those "truebrite" or whatever everyone calls it... its different my brand, but its the same screen from mainland china.... I had one and I hated it when the sun got on it.
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I am about to have a squash explosion in my garden, so I wanted to be ready. I tried this casserole with some store bought, because I didn't want to waste my precious babies! It turned out great. It is an imitation of a cooked dish I used to love.
6 yellow squash
1 tablespoon chopped onion
.3 cup dates
1 tablespoon flax oil
1 teaspoon psyllium husk
salt and pepper , to taste
¼ cup sesame seeds
pinch poultry seasoning
pinch salt and pepper
1. grate all of the squash, I used my food processor
2. remove half of the grated squash to a mixing bowl.
3. add the onion, dates and flax oil to the food processor and process until smooth. Add salt and pepper to taste. When you have the flavor right, it should be a sweet, savory combination, add in the psyllium and blend till well mixed. The psyllium helps to absorb and thicken. If your squash has a higher water content, you may need to add a little bit more, you are trying to make a thick puree.
4. Pour the squash puree into the grated squash. Pour all of this into a large pie plate, quiche dish or shallow casserole.
5. Dehydrate until the top is slightly dry, as if baked. It took less than one hour. I did this while I prepared the rest of my meal.
6.Make breadcrumbs by processing sesame seeds, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Sprinkle on top of squash mixture.
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Tysons highlighted as global example for smart growth
An overflow crowd of well over 150 jammed a small meeting room at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board to hear a two-hour discussion the planned transformation of Tysons Corner into what, on its own, is expected to be the United States' seventh largest downtown in 2030, eclipsing Seattle and Houston.
All the speakers focused on what sets Tysons apart from other American "edge cities." While similar auto-oriented suburban jobs centers in other parts of the country are being redeveloped in a more urban fashion, Tysons is the only one to be centered on a heavy-rail transit connection to the rest of its metropolitan region.
Tysons Corner, which in the 1950s consisted of a general store at the corner of Virginia routes 7 and 123 (then only 4-lane roads), has expanded to hosting 170,000 jobs— While a significant number of those who work there live close by, its design make walking and biking very unpleasant and often dangerous. Located almost exactly halfway between downtown Washington and Dulles Airport, the area around Tysons often sees the worst traffic in the metro area.
The planned, and now under construction, extension of the Metrorail system through Tysons provided the impetus for re-planning the area. The Master Plan that the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved in 2010 is the result of five years worth of work: hundreds of meetings with close scrutiny and ample public involvement.
Its implementation will cost $1.698 billion over 20 years, not including the $4 billion invested in the Silver Line itself and the new High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes on the Beltway and I-66.
The new Tysons, in addition to very dense evenly mixed-use development near the three Metro stations, will feature an urban circulator, which could take the form of a streetcar or a rapid bus line. An expanded network of on-road bike lanes and off-road bicycle & pedestrian paths, as well as bike parking minimums, will help increase non-auto modes' share of daily commuters from just three percent today to 36 percent in 2030.
Automobile traffic will still increase, though, so more road capacity will be needed. Parking, however, will go from a current minimum of 2.6 spaces per 1,000 square feet of office space, to a maximum of 1.6 spaces per thousand square feet within a half-mile radius of each Metro station. The use of smart parking meters will provide an even further deterrent to parking problems.
The planning process generated some tension and controversy, as well as some factually erroneous statements made in the press. The McLean Citizens' Association, a federation of neighborhood groups representing Tysons' surrounding residential areas, was a cooperative partner throughout the process and endorsed the final plan.
The Association wants to see paid parking become mandatory in Tysons, and increased bus service and ride-sharing incentives in the area. Association President Robert Jackson says residents are likely to fight road expansion and private property condemnation, despite that the current state of traffic diverts cut-through drivers onto residential streets.
Ronald Kirby, transportation planning director for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, shared a relevant story from his own life. In the late 1960s, he worked in an office building on Connecticut Avenue near Farragut Square, where he enjoyed the urban environment and being able to walk to a variety of restaurants for lunch. His company moved to a new Tysons Corner office in the early 1970s.
Kirby touted the funding structure that made the Silver Line possible: half from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the other half from Dulles Toll Road toll revenues. He hopes developers can contribute to the financing of the Tysons Metro stations as they did to building the New York Avenue station (NoMa developers proposed its construction and paid a third of its costs).
"Tysons' future is urban; deal with it," said Dr. Robert Cervero, city and regional planning professor at the University of California at Berkeley who has had extensive involvement in the redesign. He noted that placemaking (transforming Tysons into an attractive place to live) remains a large challenge, but maintained that the good thing about its vast amounts of surface parking is that they serve as "land banking," making strategic infill easier.
Inclusionary planning, offering a compelling vision, and using conceptual images to give people a street-level view of the future mini city were key to the plans' broad acceptance, Cervero said. He noted also that bringing more residents into Tysons would do more to reduce traffic in and out than just improving transit and bicycle options.
Tysons Corner is poised to become North America's only example of a former sprawling edge city becoming a fully-fledged downtown in its own right. Making it successful—
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Photos 01-15-2011 VA-267 from VA I-66 to Dolley Madison Boulevard VA-123
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Photos 01-15-2011 VA-267 from Leesburg Pike VA-7 to Weihle Avenue
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Photos 01-15-2011 VA-123 Dolley Madison Boulevard
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Photos 01-15-2011 VA-7 Leesburg Pike
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These are great photos, thank you for providing them. You should consider posting them on this forum:
Do you have the links for any of these presentations at TRB?
Do we have a civil engineer here that can explain what these giant yellow and white gantries actually do?
Larger than downtown Seattle by 2030? Seriously?? Downtown Seattle is already pretty damn big, and also supposed to grow a LOT between now and then. The renderings of Tysons, in contrast, look like a large Silver Spring or Bethesda. Big, yes--but not THAT big.
I am not engineer but I can explain in simple terms how they work.
First off one must understand the principles post-tension construction. Concrete derive virtually all of its tension stringent from steel reinforcement.
The magic of post-tension construction is, one take multiple reinforcing concrete pieces and cement them together and pull steel wires through them and secure them under tension at both ends to make a single reinforcing concrete structure.
The lifting gantries lift the segments into positions and cements them together, After all of the segments of the span are cemented together bundles of steel wire are pulled through them and secured under tension at each end.
The photos linked below are from a photo gallery that was part of a USAToday article showing those wires being put under tension:
Closeup pictures of the segments and the holes the wires are pulled through:
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project Construction Photos 10-23-2010
I wish the Post, WTOP and the media in general would run a few stories on the cool engineering behind building a project like this. If they did that on a frequent basis, engineering enrollment by Americans would go up.
... except in the case of Tysons, almost no one there is trying access downtown DC ... it's the reverse. There's far more non-government employment there than there is in DC ... and I would wonder there isn't more employment there period than DC. And of course, if there isn't already, there's sure to be by 2030. That's what real smart growth is all about ... making the best use of all your resources.
Per the 2007 Economic Census, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, for the pay period including March 12, 2007, there were a total of 408,441 employees in DC and 87,298 employees in Tyson's Corner. Unfortunately the census does not break out government from non-government jobs, but even in the category of retail trade (NAICS 2-digit codes 44 and 45), which should be almost entirely non-government, DC had 19,117 employees and Tyson's Corner only 9,828.
See http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GQRTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US11&-ds_name=EC0700A1&-_lang=en and http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GQRTable?_bm=y&-ds_name=EC0700A1&-geo_id=E6000US5105979952&-_lang=en
That is, clearly highways spur development. Environmentally-unfriendly, choked with traffic, unsustainable development perhaps, but still development.
Then areas seem to reach a certain "carrying capacity," the amount of people/jobs/etc that can be supported with current car-based infrastructure. These built-up areas can then (and only then?) support reworking of the urban form to a more walk/bike-friendly environment.
So maybe Maryland should follow Virginia's lead on highways so that the land gets built out quicker so we can then retrofit areas faster.
(Just throwing this out there; I really don't have an axe to grind one way or the other. I mean, I like mass transit, but it just seems ironic that building a Tysons is the best way to get mass transit)
You might be interested in knowing, this is not the first time post-tension construction has been used by contractors building elevated structure for WMATA. The first was the bridge over Eisenhower Avenue in Alexandria on the J Route Blue line, followed by the elevated west of the West Hyattsville station on the E Route Green line. Prior to the construction N Route Silver line it was last use on the elevated an both ends of the Naylor Road Station and in both crossing of the Suitland Parkway between the Naylor Road and the Branch Avenue stations on the F Route Green line.
During the construction of the elevated on either end of the Naylor Road Station the Suitland Parkway was on my commuter route. Got to watch them being built. Took roughly two weeks to assemble a span. The truss they used was not nearly as elegant as the trusses being used in Tysons Corner.
All of the above elevateds can be seen at Google Street View.
The casting plant for the segment was located on what is now the west parking lot at the Branch Avenue station.
The casting plant for the segment used to build the elevated in Tysons Corner is located between the Dulles Airport employee parking and Sulley Road VA-28 south of Ox Road VA-606.
The casting plant a Dulles Airport can be seen at Google Maps.
There is absolutely no way the level of employment that you're describing exists at Tyson's. Please either back up your claim with plausible numbers or retract it.
As a general note, Lance's trolling has, as far as I can tell, crossed a line recently. Now that he's firmly in the realm of "making @#$% up" in order to antagonize more worthwhile contributors, is it possible to get a ban? Having to wade through his BS is really starting to detract from the general readability of this blog.
At the moment, having attempted to be a pedestrian in the area, it's hard to be so optimistic. Vast areas are more unwalkable than ever before. Few intersections have any sort of allowance for pedestrians and those that do are miles apart. Many very large and recent buildings HAVE NO PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE (aka "front door") and the only access is through a parking garage. It's great that heavy rail is being put through... but to believe that heavy rail can truly transform the area? Optimistic.
Another weakness of the plan (an unavoidable one, to be sure) is that new public facilities are dependent on private investment. But new private investment won't come if the existing buildings are empty. If tastes change too fast toward urbanism (if, for example, gas goes to $10), the vacancy rate will go up and then Tysons can't be made urban. It's a St. Augustine master plan - grant me chastity, but not yet.
If the new investment doesn't work out, the value of the Metro might turn out to be not in making Tysons flourish, but in keeping it alive. New development would be attracted to the areas that are already more urban (Orange Line in Arlington, Bethesda, Silver Spring) or to those where the makeover is easier and better financed (Crystal City, White Flint). Tysons would become a haven for low-rent office uses such as government outsourcing of routine functions, something like downtown Newark and downtown Brooklyn prior to their recent revivals.
I think to some degree the ramps face a design constraint stemming from the fact that you're connecting existing roads there (even recognizing that the HOT lanes will be "new" capacity when finished). That is--there will be a new ramp linking the HOT lanes to VA-7. VA-7 passes over the Beltway. Building an underground ramp there is very impractical. There will be another new ramp linking the Westpark Bridge (the bridge over 123 between Tysons I and Westpark Boulevard) to the HOT lanes. Since one end connects to an existing bridge, that's a limitation. In both of those situations, existing development around the interchanges poses a further constraint on what can be done. The Metrorail line doesn't necessarily depend on linking up to existing roads. It's designed to augment or supplant existing modes of transportation. True, it follows existing roads because it's far more practical and less expensive to do it that way than it is to burrow under buildings; most other segments of the Metrorail (or, for that matter, other cities' subways) follow the same pattern, especially "cut-and-cover" segments. But it seems to me to be unrealistic to compare the idea of an underground subway line with the Beltway ramps (starting from the presumption that the ramps are to be built and that a transit line is to be built, such that the only question is where or how to build them; the presumption spares us the argument about whether the HOT project should be built).
Anyway, I think it's important that they find some way to augment the Metrorail line with some sort of localized transportation in Tysons. A streetcar or other light-rail system that could form a loop connecting to the Metro stations would be a very desirable idea, especially if it could be run in such a way that you would not be charged for changing from the Metrorail to the light rail. The reason I say this is that most of the office development is NOT along the Metro line, which will run along VA-7 and VA-123. Most of the office development is back along either Greensboro Drive (between VA-7 and Tysons II) or Westpark Drive (lower-density development between Tysons II and the Beltway). It's utterly impractical to suggest that your average commuter, other than the most highly-dedicated transitphile, will be willing to walk from the Metrorail to those areas (especially Westpark). Some employers, or office complexes, might run shuttle buses, which would surely help, but I have to think a fixed system with a schedule might be more effective.
(FWIW, to go off on a tangent, I think Old Town Alexandria might be another place where a streetcar loop of that sort might be useful in tying the King Street Metro stop closer to the heart of Old Town. Run the streetcar in a loop eastbound down Prince Street--which is one-way eastbound--to St. Asaph or Pitt, then north two blocks across King Street to Cameron Street and back out that--it's one-way westbound--and connect it back to the Metro.)
This is getting somewhat off-topic here, but since it interests me, and since it's somewhat related to the issue of traffic heading TO the Tysons area, I'll comment on it. I think there's another benefit of the HOT project that is a lot less apparent (because construction is ongoing) and that may be the source of some grumbling among some folks reading this blog but that is still important: The HOT project includes the reconstruction of the very poorly-designed interchange of I-66 and the Beltway. That interchange's current design is the cause of a number of daily backups. The rebuild may not eliminate them completely, but it should contribute to the more efficient flow of traffic through that area.
The main reason is the elimination of left-hand exits and entrances from what I'll call the "free" Beltway lanes. There will still be left-hand exits and entrances between the Beltway HOT lanes and the I-66 left-lane HOV facility outside the Beltway, but that shouldn't be a problem because both supporters and opponents of the HOT project generally agree that the HOT lanes should carry notably less traffic than the "free" lanes (though their reasons for that position differ). Focusing on the "free" lanes, though--pretty much everybody agrees that left-hand exits and entrances are a bad idea. The I-66/Beltway interchange has several of them that contribute to backups:
(a) Left-hand exit from the Inner Loop (northbound towards Tysons) to westbound I-66. The exit is a relic from when I-66 ended at the Beltway prior to 1982; back when the Beltway was built, the negative aspects of left-hand exits and entrances were not yet fully understood. The ramp causes backups in part because people entering the Beltway from US-50 ignore the signs directing them to use the existing right-hand exit and instead bomb across all four lanes like kamikazes, causing other people to hit the brakes. It's also a dangerous ramp because of a mid-ramp curve to the right, which appeared back in the 1990s when the ramp was redesigned to enter I-66 from the right rather than the left (this as part of the left-lane HOV project so that non-HOVs wouldn't merge into the HOV lane).
(b) Left-hand merge from eastbound I-66 to the Inner Loop. This is also a relic from when I-66 ended at the Beltway. The ramp has been redesigned a few times but still merges on the left. Traffic slows to take the ramp, slows some more because another ramp from the left-lane HOV comes in on the left, then the combined traffic merges onto the Beltway at a speed slower than the speed of traffic. Further congestion then ensues because people heading for Tysons have two miles to work their way across to the more conventional right-hand exit for VA-7.
(c) Left-hand merge from westbound I-66 to the Outer Loop. This one gets the least traffic. The reason it's designed as it is is because when I-66 was constructed inside the Beltway, the ramp from the Outer Loop to westbound I-66 already existed, VDOT didn't want to relocate it, and the exit from westbound I-66 wouldn't fit unless that other ramp was relocated. The ramp enters the Beltway on a curve and has limited sightlines in the merge area; also, drivers using it who want to exit at US-50 have less than a mile to get all the way over to the right, in the process coming into conflict with traffic merging onto the Beltway in the right lane from westbound I-66.
The HOT project will eliminate all three of these issues:
(a) Left-hand exit from the Beltway will be eliminated. All traffic from the Inner Loop to I-66 will now use a single exit on the right and will then split either to the existing ramp to inbound I-66 or to a new lane leading to the existing loop-around ramp to westbound I-66. No more cutting across traffic to the left exit.
(b) Ramp from eastbound I-66 to the Inner Loop towards Tysons will now cross over the Beltway and merge from the right, inside of the exit noted above (that is, entering and exiting traffic will not cross). No more cutting across four lanes to exit at Tysons. Also, the merge lane will be extended through to Tysons to become an "Exit Only" lane at VA-7, such that people coming from I-66 and exiting at VA-7 won't have to merge.
(c) Ramp from westbound I-66 to the Outer Loop will cross over the Beltway and merge from the right; the existing ramp from the Outer Loop to westbound I-66 is being relocated and extended to make room.
While none of these will SOLVE the Beltway congestion going to and from Tysons in this area, they should all HELP to some degree by eliminating what was a badly-designed interchange that long ago needed reconstruction. Also, I know a lot of people here seem to hate motorized traffic or any sort of highway projects, but it seems to me that to the extent a chronic bottleneck can be improved, everyone benefits to the extent (a) traffic moves better and spends less time idling and getting 0 mpg; (b) people have less reason to bail out onto the local streets.
No matter what you believe on a particular issue, I don't find Lance to be a troll. He's one of the most frequent commenters here.
I'm very happy he's here. Without someone (preferably a recurring personality) standing up for an opposing view on these issues, debates have a tendency to flatten into a preaching-to-the-choir lovefest.
His existence here not only sometimes breaks us free of things we had taken for granted, but also helps us better distill our arguments when trying to introduce these concepts to people who have never considered them.
I'm not going to jump on the pro-HOT or anti-HOT bandwagon. I'll give them credit for trying something different. My brother-in-law lives near Miami and says that their HOT lane project has been pretty successful, but it's fair to note that it's nowhere on the scale of what's being attempted on the Beltway. But anyway, I think it's short-sighted to let one's bias against the concept of HOT lanes lead one to condemn everything to do with the project. I stand by my point that the reconstruction of that particular interchange is a notable benefit.
While you are right in some aspect, it will not last for 100 years.
It's an interesting contrast though in FFX. On the one hand, they're trying to fix Tysons, making urbanists really happy. On the other hand, they're pissing the same people off with the HOT lanes.
Fortune 500 company in DC: Fannie Mae (still #81 on 2010 Fortune 500; per Washington Post Top 200 Public Companies, it employs 4,800 of its 7,000 total employees in DC at its Wisconsin Ave campus).
As to the information technology and consulting companies in "greater Tysons Corner", don't fool yourself that they are all non-governmental. Sure, the employees may not be directly hired by the government, but most of those companies exist because of government contracts. Tysons Corner is not a hot bed of innovation (neither Google nor Facebook were invented here, nor any of the newest updates to Microsoft or Apple); instead, it exists because of the proximity of the federal government and certain pieces of DOD communications infrastructure, and its main product is IT integration and consulting services for federal agencies. See the seminal history on Tysons Corner's development, Paul E. Ceruzzi's _Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005_ (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).
Similarly, the biotechnology cluster in Montgomery County exists because of spin-offs from research at NIH (a federal agency) in Bethesda. The biotechnology cluster, unlike Internet Alley in northern Virginia, did create one genius, Craig Ventner; he beat the feds at sequencing the human genome. But the J. Craig Ventner Institute is now split between Rockville and San Diego, as Ventner has come to rely more upon university research (which, in biology, is particularly strong at UC San Diego and its various spin-offs, just as Stanford, Harvard, and MIT are at the core of the truly innovative IT regions - the greater Washington area simply does not have research universities that are in the same league).
A couple fact points: I can see why Lance would think Tysons has more jobs than DC -- the Fairfax promoters like to pump their numbers up a bit. And I'm pretty sure I read about 10 years ago that Tysons was already larger than downtown Seattle office space.
But what makes Tysons and Dulles nice for companies is CHEAP office space and free parking. Raise the costs for either, and you're wrecking a nice balance. Plus, the model for Tysons seems explicitly to be Ballston -- which is not a nice place to live, although a decent place to work.
And Ballston is a great example of being cool, or the failures thereof. It isn't cool, won't be. Doesn't have great restaurants/amenities, etc. Hell, half the people who work there still have to go to the food court for lunch.
Unless you are relying on the feds to soak up office space, which does not seem likely, I really don't know where all those new jobs are going to go. Something like every new job in Fairfax county will have to be in Tysons for the next 20 years to meet the figures. You've got one rail line going in and outside of Reston and Falls Church no natural suburbs.
The developers at Tysons are right on target in wanting to create a 21st century place which combines the best of an urban area and the best of a suburban area. We ourselves in DC have been going along that road since at least the latter half of the 20th century. By putting in parking minimums, restrictions on overbuilding on lots, strict enforcement of high limits, etc., we ourselves have correctly recognized that what we had could be better. And it's working. The very reason many of these smug new hipsters have been able to move into the city to begin with is that Washington has successfully been moving itself in the future. However these smug hipsters aren't unfortunately really 'smart' (like they like call themselves) but rather 'dumb' because they want to turn the clock back and re-create a crowded unlivable city out of the 19th century.
But what makes Tysons and Dulles nice for companies is CHEAP office space and free parking. Raise the costs for either, and you're wrecking a nice balance. Plus, the model for Tysons seems explicitly to be Ballston -- which is not a nice place to live, although a decent place to work.
The landowners in Tysons realize, of course, that this situation is unsustainable and untenable in the long run, particularly if they want to grow at all. More growth with just clog the roads even more, thus there needs to be an alternative.
It's not like urbanism is some magic place. Some places are better than others, but the fundamental reason to do it is because it works. Tysons is stuck in that nether-world that's too dense to make driveable suburbia work, but not dense enough to make walkable urbanism work. The only realistic solution is to add density and build up the walkability.
That's a hell of a challenge, to be sure. But it's quite clear that the advantages that Tyson's has today are not going to be their advantages tomorrow.
This result is less than Bethesda, Rosslyn-Ballston and the K Street corridor in D.C.
Accordingly, Tysons needs massive road improvements that will cost at least $1.5 billion. This includes further widening of the Beltway beyond the HOT lanes from Route 7 to I-66 and the widening of the Dulles Toll Road by as many as three-to-five lanes. That could result in a strip taking from Wolf Trap National Park and the invasion of as many as eight Resource Protection Areas.
Moreover, by the time the improvements are made, the Toll Road, the Beltway, 7 and 123 will reach failure levels for the PM rush.
This is the Achilles plan of Tysons -- a massive plan taking public money to make a few landowers very rich.
You do realize, of course, that the landowners are in the business of attracting tenants, right?
Two things:
1. The landowners there will be paying a large portion of the costs to re-make Tysons. They've also chipped in for the Metro.
2. There's nothing wrong with making money. We have a capitalist society, and most of the highly revered urban places were created with the same sort of capitalist urban land economics. This isn't anything new, nor is it a bad thing. Indeed, this is how cities work.
And what part of the $7 billion dollars are they kicking in for the Silver Line? Roads? Schools?
I'm all for greed -- just not when the rest of us are paying for it.
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Word has is that stick rail for track work construction has been staged in the lines right of way east of the Wiehle Avenue station.
Fannie Mae is not a public company. It's owned by the Government.
I don't understand why people care so much about which companies are "headquartered" in the Greater Washington area. It's a big city! You don't need a "headquarters" here to have a large office.
Take, for example, the Big 4 accounting firms. They all have large offices here, in Tyson's actually. They're not "headquartered" here but they still contribute to employment, productivity, etc.
There are historical, financial, and tax reasons to keep headquarters in other places. Instead, you should focus on jobs and salaries, if you're measuring economic activity. (Or Gross State Product, or whatever). My point is, don't look at who has headquarters here and who doesn't.
What a great quote. I wish NIMBY residents out here in Los Angeles would adopt a similar viewpoint of our city. Everytime a quality infill project is proposed, even if its right on top of a Metro station, people complain that its too dense. The exception of course is Downtown, which is why I live there :)
You can make Tysons a fabulous new "city" with a downtown and even rapid transit, but if people have to drive in from Woodbridge in order to work there because there is no affordable (meaning workforce not necessarily meaning subsidized and certainly not worried about luxury), there will still be some of the same problems of congestion, parking issues, and infiltration of hulking parking garages on every corner. No matter what you do to Tysons there will still be a lot of $10/hr jobs that will need to be filled.
I'm not pooh-poohing the project, mind you. But I am not sure I have seen anything about how people who work in this new city are going to live there... And frankly, being able to walk or take a short bus/metro/monorailcat to work is easily one of the greatest benefits of urban life. In addition, it keeps eyes on the street at all hours and encourages development to remember the pedestrian...
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text: In the third [3128] year of Claudius Cæsar, Simon Cephas departed from Antioch to go to Rome. And as he passed on he preached in the divers countries the word of our Lord. And, when he had nearly arrived there, [3129] many had heard of it and went out to meet him, and the whole church received him with great joy. And some of the princes of the city, wearers of the imperial headbands, [3130] came to him, that they might see him and hear his word. And, when the whole city was gathered together about him, he stood up to speak to them, and to show them the preaching of his doctrine, of what sort it was. And he began to speak to them thus: -- Men, people of Rome, saints of all Italy, hear ye that which I say to you. This day I preach and proclaim Jesus the Son of God, who came down from heaven, and became man, and was with us as one of ourselves, and wrought marvellous mighty-works and signs and wonders before us, and before all the Jews that are in the land of Palestine. And you yourselves also heard of those things which He did: because they came to Him from other countries also, on account of the fame of His healing and the report of the marvellous help He gave; [3131] and whosoever drew near to Him was healed by His word. And, inasmuch as He was God, at the same time that He healed He also forgave sins: for His healing, which was open to view, bore witness of His hidden forgiveness, that it was real and trustworthy. For this Jesus did the prophets announce in their mysterious sayings, as they were looking forward to see Him and to hear His word: Him who was with His Father from eternity and from everlasting; God, who was hidden in the height, and appeared in the depth; the glorious Son, who was from His Progenitor, and is to be glorified, together with His Father, and His divine Spirit, and the terrible power of His dominion. And He was crucified of His own will by the hands of sinners, and was taken up to His Father, even as I and my companions saw. And He is about to come again, in His own glory and that of His holy angels, even as we heard Him say to us. For we cannot say anything which was not heard by us from Him, neither do we write in the book of His Gospel anything which He Himself did not say to us: because this word is spoken in order that the mouth of liars may be shut, in the day when men shall give an account of idle words at the place of judgment. Moreover, because we were catchers of fish, [3132] and not skilled in books, therefore did He also say to us: "I will send you the Spirit, the Paraclete, that He may teach you that which ye know not;" for it is by His gift that we speak those things which ye hear. And, further, by it we bring aid to the sick, and healing to the diseased: that by the hearing of His word and by the aid of His power ye may believe in Christ, that He is God, the Son of God; and may be delivered from the service of bondage, and may worship Him and His Father, and glorify His divine Spirit. For when we glorify the Father, we glorify the Son also with Him; and when we worship the Son, we worship the Father also with Him; and when we confess the Spirit, we confess the Father also and the Son: because in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Spirit, were we commanded to baptize those who believe, that they may live for ever. Flee therefore from the words of the wisdom of this world, in which there is no profit, and draw near to those which are true and faithful, and acceptable before God; whose reward also is laid up in store, and whose recompense standeth sure. Now, too, [3133] the light has arisen on the creation, and the world has obtained the eyes of the mind, that every man may see and understand that it is not fit that creatures should be worshipped instead of the Creator, nor together with the Creator: because everything which is a creature is made to be a worshipper of its Maker, and is not to be worshipped like its Creator. But this One who came to us is God, the Son of God, in His own nature, notwithstanding that He mingled [3134] His Godhead with our manhood, in order that He might renew our manhood by the aid of His Godhead. And on this account it is right that we should worship Him, because He is to be worshipped together with His Father, and that we should not worship creatures, who were created for the worship of the Creator. For He is Himself the God of truth and verity; He is Himself from before all worlds and creatures; He is Himself the veritable Son, and the glorious fruit [3135] which is from the exalted Father. But ye see the wonderful works which accompany and follow these words. One would not credit it: the time lo! is short since He ascended to His Father, and see how His Gospel has winged its flight through the whole creation -- that thereby it may be known and believed that He Himself is the Creator of creatures, and that by His bidding creatures subsist. And, whereas ye saw the sun become darkened at His death, ye yourselves also are witnesses. The earth, moreover, quaked when He was slain, and the veil was rent at His death. And concerning these things the governor Pilate also was witness: for he himself sent and made them known to Cæsar, [3136] and these things, and more than these, were read before him, and before the princes of your city. And on this account Cæsar was angry against Pilate because he had unjustly listened to the persuasion of the Jews; and for this reason he sent and took away from him the authority which he had given to him. And this same thing was published and known in all the dominion of the Romans. That, therefore, which Pilate saw and made known to Cæsar and to your honourable senate, the same do I preach and declare, as do also my fellow-apostles. And ye know that Pilate could not have written to the imperial government of that which did not take place and which he had not seen with his own eyes; but that which did take place and was actually done -- this it was that he wrote and made known. Moreover, the watchers of the sepulchre also were witnesses of those things which took place there: they became as dead men; and, when those watchers were questioned before Pilate, they confessed before him how large a bribe the chief-priests of the Jews had given them, so that they might say that we His disciples had stolen the corpse of Christ. Lo! then, ye have heard many things; and moreover, if ye be not willing to be persuaded by those things which ye have heard, be at least persuaded by the mighty-works which ye see, which are done by His name. Let not Simon the sorcerer delude you by semblances which are not realities, which he exhibits to you, as to men who have no understanding, who know not how to discern that which they see and hear. Send, therefore, and fetch him to where all your city is assembled together, and choose you some sign for us to do before you; and, whichever ye see do that same sign, it will be your part to believe in it. And immediately they sent and fetched Simon the sorcerer; [3137] and the men who were adherents of his opinion said to him: As a man concerning whom we have confidence that there is power in thee to do anything whatsoever, [3138] do thou some sign before us all, and let this Simon the Galilæan, who preaches Christ, see it. And, whilst they were thus speaking to him, there happened to be passing along a dead person, a son of one of those who were chiefs and men of note and renown among them. And all of them, as they were assembled together, said to him: Whichever of you shall restore to life this dead person, he is true, and to be believed in and received, and we will all follow him in whatsoever he saith to us. And they said to Simon the sorcerer: Because thou wast here before Simon the Galilæan, and we knew thee before him, exhibit thou first the power which accompanieth thee. [3139] Then Simon reluctantly drew near to the dead person; and they set down the bier before him; and he looked to the right hand and to the left, and gazed up into heaven, saying many words: some of them he uttered aloud, and some of them secretly and not aloud. And he delayed a long while, and nothing took place, and nothing was done, and the dead person was lying upon his bier. And forthwith Simon Cephas drew near boldly towards the dead man, and cried aloud before all the assembly which was standing there: In the name of Jesus Christ, whom the Jews crucified at Jerusalem, and whom we preach, rise up thence. And as soon as the word of Simon was spoken the dead man came to life and rose up from the bier. And all the people saw and marvelled; and they said to Simon: Christ, whom thou preachest, is true. And many cried out, and said: Let Simon the sorcerer and the deceiver of us all be stoned. But Simon, by reason that every one was running to see the dead man that was come to life, escaped from them from one street to another and from house to house, and fell not into their hands on that day. But the whole city took hold of Simon Cephas, and they received him gladly and affectionately; and he ceased not from doing signs and wonders in the name of Christ; and many believed in him. Cuprinus, [3140] moreover, the father of him that was restored to life, took Simon with him to his house, and entertained him in a suitable manner, while he and all his household believed in Christ, that He is the Son of the living God. And many of the Jews and of the pagans became disciples there. And, when there was great rejoicing at his teaching, he built churches there, in Rome and in the cities round about, and in all the villages of the people of Italy; and he served there in the rank of the Superintendence of Rulers twenty-five years. [3141] And after these years Nero Cæsar seized him and shut him up in prison. And he knew that he would crucify him; so he called Ansus, [3142] the deacon, and made him bishop in his stead in Rome. And these things did Simon himself speak; and moreover also the rest, the other things which he had in charge, he commanded Ansus to teach before the people, saying to him: Beside the New Testament and the Old let there not be read before the people [3143] anything else: [3144] which is not right. And, when Cæsar had commanded that Simon should be crucified with his head downwards, as he himself had requested of Cæsar, and that Paul's head should be taken off, there was great commotion among the people, and bitter distress in all the church, seeing that they were deprived of the sight of the apostles. And Isus the guide arose and took up their bodies by night, and buried them with great honour, and there came to be a gathering-place there for many. And at that very time, as if by a righteous judgment, Nero abandoned his empire and fled, and there was a cessation for a little while from the persecution which Nero Cæsar had raised against them. And many years after the great coronation [3145] of the apostles, who had departed out of the world, while ordination to the priesthood was proceeding both in all Rome and in all Italy, it happened then that there was a great famine in the city of Rome. [3146] Here endeth the teaching of Simon Cephas. Footnotes: [3125] This is found in the same ms. as the preceding, quoted as A. There is also another copy of it in Cod. Add. 14,609, referred to here as B. [It looks like an afterthought of a later age, when the teaching of Peter was elevated into a specialty.] [3126] B. reads "the Apostle Peter." [3127] [This apocryphal history proceeds on the theory that St. Peter preceded St. Paul at Rome, which cannot be reconciled with Scripture and chronology. Galatians 2:9; Romans 1:5-15.] [3128] The reading of the ms. is "thirtieth." [3129] From this place to "the light" (last line of text on this page), A. is lost, and the text has been supplied from B. [3130] The ms. gives, "clad in the white." [3131] Lit. "His marvellous helps."--Tr. [See p. 652, supra.] [3132] [Mark 1:16-17. Compare Jeremiah 16:16.] [3133] The text A. is resumed after this word. The reading "and now that the light," etc., seems faulty. The *** (that) might easily have been occasioned by the *** of the word which it precedes.--Tr. [3134] The word so rendered is much effaced in B., but it seems to be ***, "humbled." This, however, might require further change of the text, such as Cureton suggests, so as to give the sense, "He humbled His Godhead on account of our manhood," unless we translated "in our manhood"--neither of which renderings seems to give so good a sense as that in the text of A.--Tr. Respecting the word "mingled" (***), which was supposed to countenance the Eutychian heresy, see Assemani, Bibl. Orient., vol. i.[p. 81. [3135] Or "offspring."--Tr. [3136] [On the Acts of Pilate see Lardner, Credib., vi. p. 605, and Jones, On the Canon, vol. ii. p. 342. If Leucius Charinus forged what goes by the name, it does not prove that genuine records of the kind never existed. The reverse is probable. See vol. i.[p. 179. [3137] [Vol. vii. p. 453. Compare vol. vi. p. 438, note 15; also vol. i. p. 171. On Justin's simple narrative all the rest was embroidered by a later hand.] [3138] From this place to "a gathering-place," p. 675, line 20, col. 2, the text of A. is lost. [3139] [St. Peter's visit could not have been previous to St. Paul's, and up to that time Simon had certainly not corrupted the Romans (Romans 1:8). The subject may be elucidated by what follows, infra.] [3140] Perhaps Cyprianus, which is found written in Syriac in the same manner as the word here. [3141] This is the time often allotted to Peter's episcopate at Rome, although it is certain that he did not constantly reside there during that period: we find him the year after at Jerusalem. [The chronological incredibility of this residence in Rome has been fully demonstrated; but it is so entirely inconsistent with the scriptural history, and with that of St. Paul in particular, that no other argument is necessary. On the other hand, it appears to me conclusively established, that St. Peter closed his life in Rome, under Nero. And I think this apostle's visit fully explained by the fact that the Roman Christians were so largely "of the circumcision," that St. Paul himself might naturally have invited him to share his own labours in Rome, on the well-known rule of his conduct (Romans 15:20; 2 Corinthians 10:13-16). See vol. vi. elucid. p. 47.] [3142] B. has Lainus = Linus, the person undoubtedly meant. The error arose chiefly from the *** [L] being taken as the sign of the accusative case. Below, the name appears as Isus, and in the Acts of Barsamya we have Anus. This sign of the accusative may be omitted.--Tr. [3143] In canon x. (see next note) it is said "in the pulpit of the church;" and in the Teaching of Addæus it is said that "a large multitude of the people assembled for the reading of the Old Testament and the New." The inhibition seems, therefore, to refer only to public reading. [See p. 661, supra.] [3144] This agrees with the tenth canon in the Teaching of the Apostles. [See p. 668, supra.] [3145] That is, their martyrdom. But B. reads "labour." [3146] This abrupt termination seems to indicate that there was something more which followed. The famine referred to seems to be the same as that mentioned in the interpolated passage at the end of the Acts of Sharbil. |


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I've been on vacation for a week while attending the annual Society for American Baseball Research convention for the ninth consecutive summer.
If you've ever wondered what exactly goes on at a SABR convention–and be honest, you probably have several semi-insulting questions–I wrote up a star-studded (Terry Ryan! Jose Mijares! Salvador Perez! Sean Forman!), picture-filled, and booze-drenched recap over at my personal blog:
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Admittedly my convention-going experience probably includes a lot more Jameson and a lot less actual SABR than most, but hopefully that paints a decent (and albeit very pasty) picture.
- cur68 - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Nice. One issue: in "but hopefully that paints a decent (and albeit very pasty) picture" you spelled "decadent" wrong.
- paperlions - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:08 PM
I think guys that never watch baseball just sit around and talk about how much Brandon Phillips sucks.
- thenoblefacehumper - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM
Well he's 5th in WAR among 2nd basemen since 2006 (when he started playing regularly). So I doubt it.
- paperlions - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Did I really need the "/sarcasm"?
Besides, he is clearly far and away the best 2B to ever live, so anything saying he is 5th is obviously a made up inane stat argle bargle. /sarcasm
- stex52 - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Don't you know that you can never understand a mano-a-mano game by doing silly numbers? Go run over a catcher or something!! (sarcasm)
- Jonny 5 - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:23 PM
I imagine waterproofing of basements and wireless routers able to penetrate sub floors are a big conversation piece.
- paperlions - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:26 PM
…and cargo shorts….and diet mountain dew.
- kopy - Jul 3, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Minneapolis is one hell of a town.
- mattyflex - Jul 3, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Can you tell me what Mr. Perez had for dinner? Because he's played 8 games since coming off the DL and he's got hits in each game and three home runs. My slowpitch tournament this evening depends on your cooperation.


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March 10, 2011 garyaz 40 posts | How many shaved bats in SS What percentage of bats in senior softball do you think are shaved? |
March 10, 2011 Dbax Men's 60 1341 posts | I have no idea, but I do prefer mine hairy. |
March 10, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | Its hard to believe any are. If you knew how thin they were you'd understand why. Pretty much a waste of money IMO. This is where the iCAP will change things. |
March 10, 2011 taits Men's 65 4416 posts | Definitely all over and its noted in a post about the returns on the Reebok. |
March 11, 2011 ju25 Men's 55 158 posts | I would believe that there are a small percentage of shaved and probably a little higher rolled bats at the senior level. There will always be someone trying to gain an advantage. Senior bats are almost as hot as a shaved USSSA stick. In my area(Michigan) I know of 2 upper level players that mess with their bats. One swings a 30oz. Launch and had the rod removed and weight added to the end, the other is known for beating his bats on a bowling ball. IMO there is no need to alter an already hot bat, but I do beleive that if Senior bats are banned there will be a heck of alot more shaved sticks. |
March 11, 2011 DCPete 260 posts | Absolutely right; just check out EBay & you can buy all the shaved, juiced or rolled bats you want . . . |
March 11, 2011 taits Men's 65 4416 posts | Not to ignore the fact that just about every well known web site offers them or al least rolling as a SERVICE. SSUSA and some others were informed about this long ago but the tide has only increased as far as being out there and available. Is in essence, it is ignored. So, what does that really mean if ignored as it seems to be, for myself, it is that safety is not a real concern nor is an equal playing field. |
March 11, 2011 canIjack Men's 60 322 posts | Come on Guys I won't say Definitely All Over. You read a thread and it says 3 were shaved, but it didn't say from who, or which Reeboks were shaved. And why would a senior player need to shave a Senior Bat? I have heard and seen other shaved bats but not a Senior Bat. It really isn't that Serious with us Seniors. BUT... THE YOUNG KIDS, THEY ARE SHAVING EVERYTHING. |
March 11, 2011 taits Men's 65 4416 posts | canljack, I'll agree with your last sentence. Look in your area for these things, it is easily found in the area near you about 100 places. That is just looking for rolling. Like mentioned on here, but not included in that # is ebay or other sb boards. Just do a search got either "service" for a city or town. Sacramento is full of them as is my area. Pick a state and look...except for a few states that don't have many teams you might have less. |
March 11, 2011 JamesLG 308 posts | A few years back when the nationals were in Seattle I watched several guys on one of the best teams in the country hitting new bats on the barrell with shot filled rubber mallets. It does not take much effort around a ball field to see players either tapping the barrell of a bat with another bat or something of that sort. Where do you draw the line when the end cap is never removed? Thanks: James |
March 11, 2011 taits Men's 65 4416 posts | Perhaps this is a good reason for makers to use the 'chip" in bats. Not sure if it would detect some "break in" methods, but some others it should. Last year I went to watch some teams play and say one guy swinging a new bat against an oak tree. Kinda surprised me because the guy is a good player and so is the team. |
March 11, 2011 leftyodoul Men's 60 99 posts | I really don't have a problem with rolling or other methods that guys use to break in their bats quickly. I don't consider that to be "altering" a bat. The association approved makeup of the bat has not been altered or changed. What I do have a problem with is shaving, endloading of a factory non-endloaded bat or removing the rod from the handle. All of those things would fall under the category of "altering" a bat. If the manufacturers could come up with a production process whereby the endcap would be a continuous part of the barrel that might go a long ways towards stopping the "Doctoring" of bats. My observation - There seems to be a lot of players questioning (privately) other players equipment but no one really wants to call that player out. |
March 11, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | Like I said in the earlier post the iCAP will solve the problem. If a bat is rolled, shaved or cracked it will detect it. It will tell you bat speed and the number of hits on the bat. You wont have to call anyone out. If its done like CIF the umpire has to certify the bats as legal before the game. In this case the umpire does it via a software device. If its green its good to go. If its red the bat is removed. Simple right? |
March 11, 2011 garyheifner 385 posts | In one tourney, I overheard two players talking about whether or not they were going to use their rolled bats in the championship game. They were in a lower age group. In a semi-final game in a ring tourney, we played a team that had about 15 Mikens lined up in the dug out. Yet, 6 or 7 players in a row used the same bat in an inning. It never left the home plate area until we got the 3rd out. Makes you wonder???? Down in fort meyers last year, I heard some guys talking about whether or not their rolled bats were that much better. They thought they were. Strangely, they were sitting in the eating area and didn't care if anyone heard them. The cheaters won't stop until SSWC institutes a life time ban. |
March 12, 2011 taits Men's 65 4416 posts | GaryHeifner, That won't happen either, because it's the goose (player) that lays the golden egg, the.MONEY. years ago they initiated some 'bans' but some still play and are TD's as well. |
March 12, 2011 mad dog Men's 65 3973 posts | marv,lot of the mfg'ers are putting a film inside their bats to help detect shaving,but that doesn't help anything but the mfg'er,and only if said bat is sent in for return. demarini had a chip in one of their bats,not sure why they stopped.i also like the idea of an interlocking cap that can be unscrewed for checking,maybe have it smaller on the inside,so ya can't get into shave it. lefty,rolling does enhance a bats sweetspot,a scientific study by kettering institute.i widens it out so it is esier to hit with the bat,much more than BP could ever do. to me if ya don't want to bp your lazy and don't care about your game. |
March 12, 2011 leftyodoul Men's 60 99 posts | Mad dog - I read the Kettering study and I do see where you are coming from. However, that study was done using ASA bats. I think that if a study was done using "Senior" bats the results would be a lot less dramatic due to the already thinner walls of the senior bats. |
March 12, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | The iCAP is a patented product by ASU. It will be out this spring. It will be up to the various sanctioning bodies as to whether they will adapted the product for safety issues. It will be a retrofit item. You send it in and the iCAP is installed. A device like a smart phone that has the ap on it is all you need to detect and download the information. Just pass the device over the cap is all you have to do. If SSUSA or any other body wants to participate in a growing safety issue its up to them. I for one am tired if being a target by 20 year olds on the mound. I got hit in the thigh Tuesday and I'm black an blue in a 7" circle around the ball mark. I didn't have time to flinch. |
March 12, 2011 mad dog Men's 65 3973 posts | lefty,doesn't matter what bat you would roll,it still will enhanced the sweet spot of a bat,by making a senior bat sweet spot even larger.also you would be taking at least a 100 swings off the life of a senior bat. marv don't play with them then,only thing i can say about that.yes they can be little d-heads,and when they try it on me,i shoot back.i still can hit a ball pretty hard. |
March 12, 2011 titanhd Men's 50 348 posts | Players using the same bat doesn't really indicate that a bat is shaved.That's perception and Pure speculation.Our team buys one bat to be used by "the team".If and when it breaks we get together and buy another one.We all have our own bats but,it's much less expensive when 10-12 players are buying one bat than individually buyin one.In our case it has nothing to do with the bat being shaved.Simply a team bat.Some judge too quickly. Marv. Sorry that you got hit,but that doesn't mean that the hitter was swinging a shaved bat.Would you make the same reference if the hitter had been 55? |
March 12, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | Its common knowledge in Temecula that a lot of the players in rec leagues use shaved bats. Especially the younger guys. When a player after hitting half way up a light pole on 315' fence says "no its not juiced. Its a brand new bat and that how all brand new bats are" Seriously! That's the mentality. He may not have been using one but chances are he was. The city is useless because they say if its stamped ASA thats all they can do. This will work until a serious injury. Then it will be too late. If you don't think bat shaving is rampant then look at it this way. The guy in Phoenix that shaves them is driving a new Corvette. No joke! He gets $100. So how many bats do you have to do to pay for a Z06? |
March 13, 2011 garyaz 40 posts | Found this on another web site. looks like there is already a fix to the shaving issue. The new system was devolved at the University of Arizona. It is much more than just a chip in the bat as it uses a very complex database with manufactures. This system is very advanced and does more than just preventing shaved and rolled bats from entering the field of play for it also aids the manufactures in other data input as well. Bat doctors will still be able to shave and roll bats however those bats will not be able to bypass the system and make it to the field of play. Many if not all the associations are already on board with the system. This program is not for sale or debate and information about the system is not available to the public. It will be part of bats used in association play. |
March 13, 2011 Gary19 Men's 50 2615 posts | Let's all be honest here, no one has any facts on how big of a problem it is. I am sure it happens, to what extent NO one will ever know. |
March 13, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | Yes your are correct Gary but the iCAP will take that percentage to Zero. This is the most innovative product to come to this industry in decades. Just remember you heard it here. :O) Have a good week all |
March 14, 2011 Govacho Men's 40 12 posts | Well as a catcher I really dont pick up the other teams bat after each hit. But I will pick up the ones that i think are a litte HOT or just dont sound right. I find a lot of shall we say " Miss a lined caps " which in my book can only mean one thing. The ones that get me are the Ultras that teams shave and just drop stupid bombs and act like its stock.. I picked up more than 5 Ultras this weekend all with caps that where so miss lined that when I ran my hand over them I thought I cut myself... |
March 15, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Marv19 what is an ICAP and specifically how does it work? AFAIK the only true way to tell if a bat has been shaved is to cut it open. |
March 15, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | Stick8 I can only tell you what I know from the co-inventor. The product will feed information to a software device like a smart phone. Bat speed, cracks, impact counts, removal of the cap, Rolling and wall thickness. I'm sure there are others but I'm not completely privy to all the specifics. I'm sure when more info is available it will become public. The Patent is going to be held by ASU. The primary reason for the device was to keep cheaters out of the NCAA. The NCAA was going to sanction carbon fiber bats but after test marketing showed that even collage students looking for a major league contract were cheating (Imagine that :O) they pulled the bats and put them on hold. The NCAA is well aware of iCAP so I'm sure they will be in the mix for using the product. From there it will be a trickle down movement. SSUSA is I'm sure on the radar as well. I could see bat manufactures would be on the list as well. |
March 16, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Marv19 this sounds like something for down the road. Is their a website I can check out? |
March 29, 2011 Mario Men's 50 434 posts | Bats are being shaved at the senior level. When the bat sounds different and the ball goes 30-50 feet farther than anyone else is hitting it, the bat is shaved. |
April 16, 2011 sgtmcfadden 7 posts | I would like to see a bat challenged everytime there is a ball hit over a 300+ foot fence. I played in a tournament this last weekend in Medford,Or. Fence was 315 feet. A player hit it out with a freak with no wind. I pitch and I know how fast that ball took off. Had to be an altered bat. Freaks don't have that much pop.Too bad players don't have enough self esteem to play without cheating. |
April 16, 2011 sgtmcfadden 7 posts | I would like to see a bat challenged everytime there is a ball hit over a 300+ foot fence. I played in a tournament this last weekend in Medford,Or. Fence was 315 feet. A player hit it out with a freak with no wind. I pitch and I know how fast that ball took off. Had to be an altered bat. Freaks don't have that much pop.Too bad players don't have enough self esteem to play without cheating. |
April 16, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | I agree with your last sentence sgtmcfadden. What we do here in the leagues I ump in Michigan is if a pitcher gets drilled we automatically check the bat. Unfortunately the only true way to tell if a bat has been shaved is to cut it open. |
April 16, 2011 titanhd Men's 50 348 posts | sgtmcfadden-you are entitled to your opinion,but a broken in freak is as hot as an Ultra II. The only criteria that you stated was that the "bat was a Freak and doesn't have that much pop" and "you pitch". OH and I almost forgot. "There was no wind". lol! Your perception appears to be,that if a player hits a homerun with anything other than an Ultra or other "Senior" bat when there is no wind that the bat MUST be altered.That simply is not the case in all instances. Mario. "When the bat sounds different and the ball goes 30-50 feet farther than anyone else is hitting it, the bat is shaved." That's quite a statement. The point that I am trying to make is that unless you have xray vision or have some other extraordinary "sound" abilities like Mario has that allows you to substaniate a claim that a bat is shaved.Don't speculate. It appears from the above posts that there is technology in the works for a device that will be able to allow us to make a valid determination.Today the only way is to cut the bat in half or remove the end cap.Yes there are some shaved bats being used but, lets not note someones self esteem or character based on sound,distance,lack of wind or the fact that you pitch. |
April 16, 2011 titanhd Men's 50 348 posts | sgtmcfadden-you are entitled to your opinion,but a broken in freak is as hot as an Ultra II. The only criteria that you stated was that the "bat was a Freak and doesn't have that much pop" and "you pitch". OH and I almost forgot. "There was no wind". lol! Your perception appears to be,that if a player hits a homerun with anything other than an Ultra or other "Senior" bat when there is no wind that the bat MUST be altered.That simply is not the case in all instances. Mario. "When the bat sounds different and the ball goes 30-50 feet farther than anyone else is hitting it, the bat is shaved." That's quite a statement. The point that I am trying to make is that unless you have xray vision or have some other extraordinary "sound" abilities like Mario has that allows you to substaniate a claim that a bat is shaved.Don't speculate. It appears from the above posts that there is technology in the works for a device that will be able to allow us to make a valid determination.Today the only way is to cut the bat in half or remove the end cap.Yes there are some shaved bats being used but, lets not note someones self esteem or character based on sound,distance,lack of wind or the fact that you pitch. |
April 17, 2011 Full Monty 81 posts | After reading some of these recent posts I have questions. So if a pitcher gets drilled, the bat used is automatically checked? If the bat is taken or cut open, who pays for it? What happens if the bat is found to be legal, who compensates the owner for the loss of the bat? If a ball is hit just as hard at any player, other than the pitcher, the bat is not checked? Why is it, so many seem to think that any 50+ year old hitting a ball over 300' must be using a Senior or Shaved bat? There are lots of guys that can do it, using standard warrantied bats. Maybe they are just good hitters. I'm sure MM could easily prove that! |
April 17, 2011 mad dog Men's 65 3973 posts | hell monty at 61 i can and also with ASA bats(ok just not as easy tho).there are bats being done in senior ball sad to say,most of what is being tho in my personal opinion is that they are being end-loaded some. and oh yeah a broken in freak is nasty,i had one and when it had a little over 500 hits on it it started coming alive,750 oh my,1000 out of this world then it broke around 1200 or so. |
April 17, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Answers to your questions Full Monty: 1)In the leagues I ump in Michigan, YES 2)There is no cost to examine or cut a bat open unless the bat is shipped out somewhere. Then the association pays the shipping costs. 3)The governing association 4)In the leagues I ump in Michigan, NO 5)Because there are an increasing amount of rumors specifying such. |
April 17, 2011 Pull My Finger 71 posts | stick8 So let me get this straight. Nobody will notice or suspect or care a "shaved" bat being used until only AFTER the ball is hit at the pitcher? So as long as batters don't hit the ball up the center nobody cares what bat is used? |
April 17, 2011 softballnuts 81 posts | stick8 If a 90 pound weakling hits a ball 500 feet you will not say or do anything, but a 6'5" 250 pound guy using a $40 K-Mart special hits a ball at the pitcher, you will take his bat? How does rule prevent dead pull hitters from using shaved bats? When you take a bat do you issue a receipt with your name on it to the bat owner? |
April 17, 2011 softballnuts 81 posts | stick8 If a 90 pound weakling hits a ball 500 feet you will not say or do anything, but a 6'5" 250 pound guy using a $40 K-Mart special hits a ball at the pitcher, you will take his bat? How does rule prevent dead pull hitters from using shaved bats? When you take a bat do you issue a receipt with your name on it to the bat owner? |
April 17, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Answers to Pull My Finger: 1)As an ump I have no way of determining if someone walks up to bat and has a shaved stick in his hand. Of course I have suspicions about some and of course I care. 2)No. That's not what I implied or wrote. Perhaps you need to reread what I wrote and read between the lines a bit. |
April 17, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Answers to softballnuts: 1)Yes 2)Nothing "prevents" anyone from using a shaved bat because it's common knowledge players do. You use it at your own risk. 3)No |
April 17, 2011 softballnuts 81 posts | How is it you can just take somebody's bat and not be charged with theft? If that bat gets lost or stolen while in your possession, won't you be held legally responsible? |
April 17, 2011 Garocket Men's 55 169 posts | Simple Because the roster you sign says that you agree to play by the rules set forth in the above association. If the rules says that if you hit a pitcher with a ball that your bat can be taken. Once you sign that roster you have agreed to let the association have the bat for testing. Failure to do so will be a lifetime ban for said association Do you guys never read the fine print on the rosters If not that I need to sell you a car with the best warrty that can be bought cuase the fine print will say after 24 hours this warranty is null and void LOL |
April 17, 2011 tg69 326 posts | One of my young guys hit the pitcher while playing NSA last year.They took his bat and sent it to be compression checked.took 2/3 weeks to get results,found not to be altered and sent his bat back to him.If it had been a shaved bat,he would have been kicked out of NSA for a long while,im thinking maybe 3 years,not exactly sure about time.Hitting a shaved bat would be bad enough but to hit at a pitcher at 50 feet is ridiculus,that is their reasoning behind confiscating a bat that has hit a pitcher. |
April 17, 2011 Snot Nose Kid 49 posts | It is possible that an umpire could take a whole teams bats. Then what? Forfeit? What happens if one player is using another players bat? So if a team mate uses my bat, accidently hits one at the pitcher, they take my bat? If that is the case then who will bring their own bats to the game? People will just start using everybody else's bat and leave their bats at home for fear of losing their bats. Maybe somebody will borrow the opposing pitchers bat and then hit a ball at him. He will get hit by the ball and lose his own bat all in one play! Garocket will you please loan me your bat? |
April 18, 2011 mad dog Men's 65 3973 posts | SNK,if you use someone else's bat you had better know if they had something done to it,and if you find out they are using dirty bats,how about turning them in(by telling your coach,if your not him),and tell them they are no longer welcome on your team.if i find out someone is using dirt it is the first thing i say to them,if they are on my team,i refuse to be called dirty by association with these clown's.also if i'm pitching against them i'll walk the batter on purpose,by throwing 4 balls that can't even be touched,if they ask,i have no prol with telling them to play clean. |
April 18, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Softballnuts: 1)Because it's clearly written in the rules established by the leagues I umpire in. If the player(s) or coach object I'll show them the written rule 2) Although it has nothing to do with the issue the answer is yes, we'd be legally responsible. |
April 18, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Answers to SNK: 1)It's possible if the other team protests all their bats. If that happened they'd have to find some other bats in a hurry, wouldn't they? 2)Define the context your asking this in 3)If your teammate drills the pitcher with your bat, yes. The decision to bring specific bats to a game lies within each player. Bottom line: If you have a clean bat you need not worry. |
April 18, 2011 Shut Up & Pitch 56 posts | I fail to understand the relationship of the direction the ball is hit, and weather the bat is shaved or not! |
April 18, 2011 Full Monty 81 posts | This stupid rule seems to be based on the idea that any ball hit at the pitcher, most likely was being hit from a illegal bat. |
April 18, 2011 thebull Men's 50 59 posts | sgtmcfadden, please don't be offended but the idea of checking a Bat everytime a ball is hit over a 300' is crazy. Maybe you haven't be exposed to real power hitters, go watch a good Majors or Majors Plus Senior Team. I consider a 350+ hit routine and a good hit over 400', problem is not hitting it out it's keeping it in the Park.I use a Miken Freak in non-Senior Play and when broken-in it hits close to an Ultra 11. I do believe Shaved Bats are a huge problem, I've begun to see a few in Seniors and it's already rampant in USSSA in the Southwest. My Son plays USSSA and a Shaved Bat has become the norm, not the exception. The USSSA has their heads buried in the sand and have ignored the problem so long that it's out of control. A simple compression tester should have been developed so bats could be tested at every Tournament. My 2 cents theBull |
April 18, 2011 Bubble Gum 69 posts | Thanks Guys After reading these posts, I have to admit I think I like this rule. I have a Freak and Easton that are both legal and the warranties are about to terminate. According to what I have read, all I have to do is hit some balls at the pither and, walla, I get the bats replaced with new ones. Can't complain about that! |
April 18, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Wrong Full Monty. You don't understand the rule. If a batted ball drills a pitcher--meaning the ball strikes him at such a high rate of speed that he doesn't have time to react--is when we automatically check the bat. We look for any visible signs that the bat may have been tampered with--end cap, markings for alteration, cracks, dents, etc. Based on that observation if we suspect something we take it away and put it to a compression test. Based on the test result it's determined whether to cut the bat open or not. We've done this numerous times and word gets out very quickly that in our leagues we're serious about getting rid of shaved bats and those who use them. |
April 18, 2011 Bubble Gum 69 posts | stick8 Does this rule also apply to metal bats? I have some old DeMarini bats that I wouldn't mind having replaced. Also if I pay an Ump to have the bat sent in, I won't even have to hit at the pitcher. A win, win situation. A great way to update a bat inventory. From the time the bat is taken. About how long does it take for the new bat to be sent to me? |
April 18, 2011 tg69 326 posts | After reading some of these posts,it is clear to me that growing OLDER clearly doesnt mean growing up. |
April 18, 2011 titanhd Men's 50 348 posts | Hey stick.You and I both know that any well broken in bat will fail the compression test.You know what I swing and their age. There is no way any of my bat(s)will pass this test.They all have more than 1000 swings and they haven't been altered.I'd submit to the test but, there would be quite an issue if anyone stated that they were going to cut one of my bats in half. $300.00 up front and you can cut it into twelve pieces but, what's mine is mine and what's yours is yours. |
April 18, 2011 mad dog Men's 65 3973 posts | hey guys,it seems most don't understand any bat that is taken must be returned if clean and with no damaged done to it,if cut open it must be replaced if found to be clean,there fore no bat should be taken with out a receipt given to the player who owns it.so i'm ok if they want to take my bat as long as there is a receipt given,other wise it doesn't leave my sight,or possession,don't care what they threaten me with,you want my bat,you must be held accountable for it if something happens to it after i give it up. |
April 18, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Bubble Gum, LOL If a bat of yours is sent in to be checked and the inside is found to have been shaved it's doubtful you'll be playing much ball anywhere. But I'm pretty certain you'll have a lot more time to ponder how to get those DeMarini's replaced. |
April 18, 2011 Marv19 Men's 60 461 posts | Guys... These comments and even the string is a moot point with the iCap :O) Have a good one |
April 18, 2011 Bubble Gum 69 posts | stick8 My bats are legal but the warranty is about to expire. I won't mind them being sent in and with a little luck, cut open. That way I'll be getting new bats with another year of warranty on each one. It would be nice if they keep this rule as I could be getting new bats delivered to me yearly. If they just send them back to me and not replaced then I know they checked them out at their expense, which is fine by me. So it's a gamble that I could be getting a new bat replaced free. If I send a bat in for warranty, I will only get one replacement. But with this rule I can get multiple replacements. This is a great opportunity! Oh, and thanks for letting me know about it!! |
April 18, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Titanhd, yes absolutely I understand your concern. Many bats won't pass the test but that doesn't mean they are altered. There's a score that they go by and if a bat tests within a certain range lower than that score then you get the bat back and just can't use it. If it tests way below that range then it's subject to be cut open. I'm sure they will let the player know every step of the way. Last year there was a C players bat that tested way below that range. It was cut open and the inside was completely shaved. He's suspended and trying every legal avenue to get out of it. Have you been able to find that outfielder your looking for? |
April 18, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | LOL Bubble Gum, your a crack up!! |
April 18, 2011 Omar Khayyam 1036 posts | I like your tongue in cheek, too, Bubble Gum, but it is also a bit scary since I can imagine demented players who would deliberately try to drill a pitcher with a legal bat in order to get a replacement. Never mind if the pitcher never plays again...or dies! |
April 19, 2011 stick8 1341 posts | Good point Omar. The other poster, bubble gum is simply having a little fun. |
April 26, 2011 garyaz 40 posts | I heard from good source that over half of the bats in softball are shaved and that many of those can past the compression test. |
April 26, 2011 Dbax Men's 60 1341 posts | How would anyone know that? Your source is a moron. |
April 26, 2011 Gary19 Men's 50 2615 posts | So is anyone who would cite such a 'source'. |
April 26, 2011 garyaz 40 posts | My bad... that was for younger leagues, not senior. |


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Titanium sheet products in gages less than 12.5 mm are used for many lightweight, highly efficient structures. Since these materials are very expensive, in many cases their use requires that very careful attention be given to the prevention of crack growth and fracture. One result of this design approach is that minimum allowable fracture resistance values are specified for mill products; screening tests for quality assurance are required to certify that these minimum values of fracture resistance are met for each sheet of material. The dynamic tear (DT) test was developed for this purpose for heavier section materials (16 mm and thicker) for steels, aluminum alloys, and titanium alloys. Correlations of DT energy values with linear-elastic fracture mechanics parameters enables the determination of KIc values on a routine basis by methods that are quicker and less expensive than direct measurement of KIc. Additionally, the DT test can be used to measure fracture resistance properties of materials in the elastic-plastic and plastic ranges, which is not possible by linear-elastic methods. Past studies of the effect of specimen dimensions on measured DT energy values have shown that the fracture resistance of materials can be expressed in terms of a constant Rp. Using the relationships developed for heavier section materials, a study involving several titanium alloys in thicknesses ranging from 2.5 to 12.7 mm showed that the fracture behavior of thin-section titanium alloys could be rationalized by these methods.
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