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In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a monolith extrusion die is formed by a plurality of individual tube elements bonded together as a tube stack defining a plurality of extrudable material feed holes and reference guides for a plurality of individual shaping teeth each having a root segment located in a reference guide and each having a shaping head spaced apart from adjacent shaping heads to form intersecting rows of extrusion slots having a shape corresponding to the monolith formed by extrudable material directed from the feed holes through the shaping teeth. The method of the present invention includes stacking individual tubes into a tube stack with reference guides therein and with feed holes therethrough and locating a plurality of individual shaping teeth in the tube stack for forming a transition path for flow of extrudable material from the feed holes while forming intersecting rows of extrusion slots shaped to correspond to the monolithic honeycomb structure formed by passage of extrudable material therethrough.
1. In an extrusion die for extruding honeycomb structures of the type having feed holes for directing the extrudable material to a plurality of extrusion slots having a cross-sectional shape conforming to the shape of the cell walls of the honeycomb structural body, the improvement comprising:
a plurality of individual tube elements having an opening therethrough defining feed holes for flow of extrudable material;
each of said individual tube elements having an external wall segment thereon and said individual tube elements being stacked so that said wall segments are in engagement to provide a reference space therebetween;
a plurality of individual shaping teeth;
each of said shaping teeth having a head portion and a shank portion, said shank portion inserted into one of said reference spaces to locate said head portion in spaced relationship with a head portion on another of said shaping teeth to define extrusion slots therebetween arranged in intersecting rows conforming to the shape of the cell walls of the honeycomb structure: and
means for defining a flow transition path from said feed openings to said extrusion slots for smooth flow of the extrudable material through said extrusion slots so as to shape the extrudable material into the honeycomb structural body as it passes from said feed holes through said extrusion slots.
2. In the extrusion die of claim 1, a spacer element supported between each of said tube elements to locate said external wall segments thereon in spaced parallelism for defining said reference spaces therebetween.
3. In the extrusion die of claim 1, said tube elements being round pipes having circular cross-section feed holes therethrough.
4. In the extrusion die of claim 1, each of said shaping teeth having a head portion with an external surface of square, triangular or hexagonal configuration.
5. In the extrusion die of claim 1, said tube elements being spaced laterally of one another to provide a flow transition path into said intersecting rows of extrusion slot, said transition paths being aligned with a feed hole at all of the points of intersection of said rows of extrusion slots or with a feed hole at alternate ones of said points of intersection or with a feed hole at each intersection of alternate rows of said intersections.
This is a division of application Ser. No. 07/399,184 filed on Aug. 24, 1989 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,955,524.
This invention relates to extrusion dies for ceramic material or the like and to a method for manufacturing such dies. More particularly, it relates to a method of making extrusion dies of the type used in making ceramic monolithic honeycomb articles, such as those used in the catalytic treatment of automotive exhaust gases.
Monolithic bodies having longitudinal through passages are produced by forcing an extrudable plastic mixture of ceramic material through interconnecting die passages in which the extrudable material is shaped and coalesced into a structure of intersecting, relatively thin walls that define the passages of a honeycomb structure having a cell density which is established by the number of passages formed through a cross section of a unit of the honeycomb structure. In one application, the material is a mixture of materials, such as clay, talc and alumina, that can be fired to form cordierite or other heat-resistant ceramic.
The main purpose of such honeycomb-type structure is to provide an extended surface area for exhaust gases to pass over. The surface area is increased by increasing the cell density, e.g., the number of cells per square inch through which the exhaust can flow. At the same time, it is usually necessary to form thinner cell walls of uniform thickness.
In certain cases the monolith consists of many longitudinal passages, as many as 400 per square inch of cross section of the monolith. In the extrusion process a wet or green ceramic precursor mixture of a suitable length is formed. It is directed through an extrusion die to form a resultant honeycombed green extrusion. The extrusion is sliced cross ways to form several pieces which are dried and fired to form the monolith substrate. The internal walls of the substrate are then coated with a noble metal catalyst finely dispersed on a suitable wash coat. Such honeycombed substrates are oval or elliptical in cross-section, and the individual cell cross-section is usually generally of square cross-section. The greatest dimension of the overall cross-section can be on the order of six inches, and the length to the monolith can be about six inches The cell dimensions, however, are several orders of magnitude smaller, e.g., in the range of 0.044 inch square at the cell hole and with cell wall thicknesses on the order of 0.006 inch. In order to extrude monoliths of this magnitude cell size at desired densities on the order of 400 cells per square inch and uniformly thin wall thicknesses, it is essential that the extrusion die be a precision die.
An example of such a die is set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 4,486,934 issued Dec. 11, 1984 to James R. Reed. The Reed design represents a common prior art extrusion die which, while suitable for its intended purpose, is of a configuration and is made by a method which is very complicated to form when bodies having 400 cells per square inch are to be extruded therethrough. Use of known precision machining methods to form such high cell density thin wall extrusion paths in prior art extrusion dies involves considerable expense and difficulty.
Accordingly, one feature of the present invention is to provide a simplified extrusion die which eliminates the need to form die slots by precision machining techniques.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide an extrusion die construction from individual feed tubes and shaping teeth arranged to form an extrusion slot pattern capable of extruding monolithic honeycomb structures having 100 to 600 or more cells per square inch and with cell wall thicknesses on the order of 0.006 inch.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide for such extrusion dies made from individual components including tube elements, spacer elements and shaping teeth joined together to feed extrudable material and to shape it into a monolithic honeycomb having a cell density from 100 to 600 cells per square inch.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a simplified extrusion die for forming monolithic honeycomb structures of the type described in the preceding objects wherein the die comprises a stack of individual tube elements defining extrudable material feed openings and reference surfaces for precision location of a plurality of shaping teeth with heads thereon configured to define an extrusion slot with intersecting rows for shaping the extrudable material into a honeycomb structure.
Still another feature of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing an extrusion die for honeycomb structures including a feed section and a forming section and wherein both the feed section and the forming section are constructed from individual elements by a method which includes the steps of first joining individual tube elements to form the feed section and thereafter the step of locating a plurality of shaping teeth in the joined tube elements to form an extrusion slot with intersecting rows for shaping the extrudable material into a honeycomb structure of high cell density.
Another feature of the present invention is to provide a method of the preceding paragraph wherein the individual tube elements are joined as a stack and wherein the method includes the steps of non-contact finishing the ends of the stack without forming burrs on the ends of each of the stacked tubes.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of my invention, these and other features, objects and advantages are accomplished as follows. An extrusion die is provided with a feed section having a stack of tubes with abutting sections and spaced sections which are maintained in a spaced relationship by lengths of spacer wire which have a diameter less than that of the stacked tubes and of a shorter length. The spaced tubes have Interstices formed at one end thereof defined by reference surfaces for seating the shank portion of individual shaping teeth. Individual shaping teeth are supported with respect to each of the reference surfaces to precisely locate shaping surfaces on the head of each of the teeth to form a plurality of intersecting rows of extrusion slots. The tubes form feed holes which discharge into a transition path at one end of the located shaping teeth. The transition path directs extrudable material from the feed section into the intersecting rows of extrusion slots to form a monolithic honeycombed structure with a high density cell pattern corresponding to the shape of the intersecting rows. The extrusion die is capable of extruding a ceramic monolith of 400 cells per square inch. In one example, the shaping teeth have square heads and the individual teeth are located on 0.050 inch centers located in a square pattern. The tube members are stainless steel tubes of 0.050 inch OD with a wall thickness of 0.002 inch (the resultant ID equals 0.046 inch). The tube members can be any length. In this example, they preferably are 0.750 inch in length. If the tubes and teeth are connected by brazing, the parts may be provided with an electrolytically applied copper plate, e.g., 0.0005 inch thick.
The method of the present invention includes the steps of stacking the tube members in a V-block fixture to form a square pattern of tubes stacked on each other and bonded together. The forming section of the extrusion die is then constructed by locating individual shaping teeth on one end of the tube stack to form a transition flow path from the feed section and to form intersecting rows of openings which have a shape corresponding to the shape of the honeycomb structure of the extruded monolith.
Other objects and advantages of my invention will be more fully understood from a detailed description thereof when read with reference to the following drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective, exploded view of a portion of an extrusion die in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the extrusion die of FIG. 1 with the parts thereof joined;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line 3--3 of FIG. 4 looking in the direction of the arrows;
FIGS. 4-6 are fragmentary end elevational views of extrusion dies with different head shapes and different feed hole patterns;
FIG. 7 is a fragmentary view of a honeycomb structure formed by the extrusion die of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary view of a single cell segment of the honeycomb structure;
FIG. 9 is a perspective o f a V-block used in one embodiment of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a wire grid fixture used in another embodiment of the method of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is an end elevational view of a tube stack in the V-block of FIG. 9;
FIG. 12 is an enlarged fragmentary top elevational view of the wire grid fixture of FIG. 10; and
FIG. 13 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevational view of the wire grid fixture with a shaping head therein.
Referring now to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a portion of a representative monolith extrusion die is depicted generally by reference numeral 10. It is seen as comprising a plurality of tube members 12 forming a feed section 14. The feed section is connected to a forming section 16 comprised of a plurality of shaping teeth 18 formed from cold drawn wire having the desired shape as will be discussed.
More particularly, each of the tube members is a stainless steel tube havIng a length of 0.750 inch, an OD of 0.050 inch and a wall thickness of 0.002 inch (i.e., an ID of 0.046 inch). The teeth 18 are shown as having a square head 20 and a round shank 22. The shanks 22 are seated in interstices 24 formed between the tube members 12 as best shown in FIG. 3. The interstices 24 are defined by tube wall segments 12a which form reference surfaces for the shanks 22 to accurately align the square heads 20 of the teeth 18 on preselected centers, which in the illustrated embodiment are on 0.050 inch centers located in a square pattern.
Each of the shaping teeth 18 also has an annular sloping surface 26 thereon which is located above the outlet end of each tube member 12. The sloping surfaces 26 form a transition path 28 for flow of extrusion material from the feed holes 30 of each of the tube members 12 to extrusion slots which are formed by the square heads 20 as intersecting rows of extrusion slots 32, 34.
Additionally, the feed section 14 includes spacers in the form of wire pins 36 located between four of the tubes 12 at the inlet end 38 thereof and engaged with the external wall segment 38a at each end. The wire pins 36 thereby maintain the tube members 12 in spaced parallelism with one another to define an array of reference interstices 24 which will accurately position the shaping teeth 18 with respect to the feed section 14. Accordingly, wet ceramic material directed through the feed section will be forced through precision aligned extrusion slots 32, 34.
Each of the tubes 12, teeth 18 and pins 36 are coated with suitable bonding material, e.g., copper braze alloy or a suitable epoxy adhesive, which bonds the components together as a unitary extrusion die 10.
One feature of the present invention is that the use of separate tube members 12 and separate shaping teeth 18 enables the extrusion die 10 to be manufactured without time-consuming machining techniques. The above characterized extrusion die 10, when worn, can be replaced at relatively reduced cost because its individual parts are readily assembled by use of relatively low cost components joined together by use of simplified tooling and assembling techniques.
One embodiment of the method of the present invention includes the steps of assembling a feed section 14 by stacking copper-plated tube members 12 in a V-block tool 40, e.g., a graphite block having two surfaces 42, 44 thereon arranged at right angle to one another, shown in FIGS. 9 and 11 (40' in FIG. 11). The surfaces 42, 44 define a tube support guide which has an opening 45 at the top thereof and openings 46 at the ends thereof through which the tube members 12 and spacer pins 36 can be stacked in alignment with each other.
Specifically, the method includes a step-by-step stacking of the tube members 12 and spacer pins 36 into the tool 40 to form a tube and spacer stack 50. The illustrated stack 50 includes a first stack group 50a formed by tube 12d being placed at the apex 40a of the support tool 40. Then, second and third tubes 12e, 12f are placed in the support tool 40 along with a spacer pin 36 and then a fourth tube 12g is added to complete the first stack group 50a. A second stack group 50b includes the addition of tubes 12h and 12i on either side of the tube 12g along with spacer pins 36 to form a third row of stacked tubes as viewed in FIG. 11. The stack 50 is completed by stacking three more tubes 12j,k,l in the V-block tool 40 in a stack group 50c to complete a feed section 14 of square form. The tubes are self centered one to t he other as they are stacked. The illustrated stack 50 has the outmost tubes 12 arranged with their center lines on the corners of a square. In one embodiment, the copper plating alloy material can be replaced by a coating of a curable adhesive material which will tend to stick the tubes together in their assembled position prior to bonding by the cured adhesive, e.g., epoxy adhesive material. If brazing coatings are employed, the stack 50 prior to bonding must be carefully handled to prevent the upper tube members of the stack from rolling into a more stable triangular configuration represented by the first and second stack groups 50a and 50b. In fact, a temporary transient glue could be used to temporarily fix the tubes until brazing occurs.
The V-block support tool 40 and the braze alloy coated version of the stack 50 are placed in a vacuum furnace and brazed with the copper plating serving as a brazing alloy to rigidly join the relatively supported and centered tube members 12. The spacer pins 36 and line contacts 12m between each of the tubes 12 will produce accurately defined reference surfaces around each of the interstices 24 for receiving the shaping teeth 18.
If necessary, the opposite aligned ends 12b, 12c of the tubes in the tube stack 50 can be further finished to assure that the tube ends 12b, 12c will be parallel. Tubes can also be stacked to form a flat face by using a temporary backing plate (48 in FIG. 11) and seating each tube back against the temporary plate. One suitable finishing step is to direct rotating non-contact machine heads, i.e., the electrode of an electrical discharge machining apparatus, to remove the ends of the tubes along a precision plane. Such finishing of the tube ends is preferred since it will produce desired burr-free parallel surfaces in the resultant unitary extrusion die for accurate placement in an extrusion assembly.
The copper-plated teeth 18 then have their shanks 22 inserted into the interstices 24 which serve to align the square heads 20 thereon to form the forming section 16. The assembled teeth 18 and the previously bonded feed section 14 is placed in a vacuum furnace and brazed to form the resultant extrusion die 10 of the present invention. If desired, the exposed end of the forming section can be further finished by machining the ends 20a thereof by use of a suitable finishing technique which will maintain the opposite end surfaces of the die in spaced parallelism so that the die 10 will properly seat in associated extruding equipment. One such technique is use of a rotating electrode of an electric discharge spark erosion machine which is directed across the ends 20a to form a parallel surface without forming burrs on the edges of the shaping heads 18. Consequently, the intersecting extrusion slots 32, 34 will have their exact dimensional form preserved throughout the assembling and finishing steps of the present invention.
The finished extrusion die 10 is then placed in a suitable die holder with appropriate masking to prevent damaging the precisIon shape of the feed holes 30 or the extrusion slots 32, 34 prior to extruding the extrudable material.
The importance of the precision assembling method and resultant die construction of the present invention is best understood when it is recognized that the holes and slots form a ceramic monolith substrate with a cell density on the order 400 cells per square inch and wall thicknesses of 0.006 inch. The resultant scale of such a monolith is shown near scale in the fragmenlary end section 60 shown in FIG. 7. FIG 8 shows a blown-up section 60a of one of the cells. It has a wall thickness T of 0.006 inch and an internal wall dimension I of 0.044 inch per side. It is manifestly clear that such dimensional shapes are only attained by use of precision die constructions.
Use of the assembling methods of the present invention enables precision dies to be quickly formed by use of simple tooling and assembly techniques rather than costly and laborious steps of precision machining. Hence the invention reduces the cost of initial tooling and the cost of replacement tooling requirements when tool life is reduced because of high throughput.
The apparatus formed by the aforedescribed method can be formed from various shaping heads other than the illustrated square configuration. Also, various transition paths can be easily formed between the feed section and the forming section only by varying the pattern of the feed holes which direct extrudable material to the intersecting rows of extruding slots. Thus, as shown in the embodiment of FIGS. 1-4, the feed holes 30 are located with respect to square teeth so that the feed hole pattern includes a feed hole at each slot intersection. In FIG. 5, the forming section is formed by use of shaping teeth 70 having triangular form. In the FIG. 5 embodiment, the feed holes 72 are located to accommodate a triangular-shaped tooth. In FIG. 6, the forming section is comprised of shaping teeth 80 having a hexagonal shape 80, and the feed holes 82 thereto are located to accommodate such shaped teeth.
In each of the aforesaid embodiments, the different tooth shape will produce a different form of cell shape in the resultant monolith formed by the extrusion die. The cell shape change is easily accomplished merely by switching the shape of the tooth and the tube stacking sequence used in a particular design. If required, in all cases, at the end of the assembly process, any space remaining between the tubes and spacers (or the tubes if spacers are omitted) may be filled with epoxy resin of other material so that the extrudable material flows only through the feed holes of the tubes for distribution through the desired distribution pattern into the extrusion slots for formation thereby into the finished monolith honeycomb shapes.
In another embodiment of the method of the present invention, tubes 12 are placed loosely in a V-block holder. The tubes are of the same form and material as in the first embodiment. However, if greater die strength is required, the length of the individual tubes can be increased. The tubes 12 are stacked loosely in the V-block holder 40' as described in the preceding embodiment. In this embodiment, the tubes 90 remain loosely stacked until shaping teeth 94 are precisely aligned one to the other by a fixture which will hold the teeth 94 in a fixtured location. In the present case, teeth 94 are shaped as a pIn having a square head portion 96, a transition land 97 and a round shank 98.
In this embodiment of the method of the present invention the fixture for locating the teeth 94, as best seen in FIGS. 10 and 12, is in the form of a locator assembly or fixture 100 having a hollow, square frame 102 having a plurality of spaced pins 104 secured thereto. Each of the pins 104 extends outwardly of the frame for defining reference points about which a wire grid 106 is wound. The wire grid 106 can be formed by wrapping a continuous wire around the pins 104 or can be formed by securing individual wires with the aide of a coordinate measuring machine.
The wire grid 106 has rows of openings 108 shown enlarged in FIG. 8 which are located with respect to the tubes 90 by dowels 109 which connect between the square frame 102 and the V-block holder 40'. The shaping teeth 94 are then inserted one by one in the wire grid 106 to produce an exact pattern of the teeth 94 with precisely formed intersecting rows 110, 112 of extrusion slots. The wire grid 1O6 assures the proper orientation of the square heads 96.
Once the tube and tooth structure has been built up to a desired size, it is either allowed to stand for curing of the epoxy adhesive or it is carefully placed in a brazing furnace including teeth, wire framework and tubes where the parts are joined into a unitary extrusion die like the die 10 of first embodiment but with slightly different shaped teeth. If the assembly is brazed, the teeth and the top portion 96a of each tooth 94 and the wire mesh 106 is removed from the assembly by suitable machining techniques, e.g., electrical discharge machining by spark erosion to expose the network of intersecting rows 110, 112 of extrusion slots.
The use of loosely stacked tubes 90 enables the precisely fixtured shaping teeth 94 to center and align each of the tubes 90 when the shank 98 of the teeth 94 is located in the interstices 114 of the tube stack.
In another embodiment of the invention, the entire die including the tubes 90 and the teeth 94 are simultaneously placed on the V-block support 40'. In this case, the wire framework is located on the tube-stacking V-block 40'. The teeth 94 are individually placed in a first row of cells 108a, and the shanks 98 of the teeth 94 are used as interstices spacers in place of the spacer pins 111 as the individual tubes are stacked in a first row in the block 40'. The wire framework 106 and the individual teeth guide the tubes 90 as alternate rows of teeth 94 are aligned with alternate rows of tubes until the die is fully built.
As in the other embodiments, any remaining space between the tubes may be filled with suitable plug material so that the extrudable material flows only through the feed holes 115 in the tubes 90.
The practice of my invention permits the economic manufacture of strong monolith extrusion dies which are readily built by use of individual components to avoid time-consuming machining techniques for forming small holes and slots in a solid steel plate. The assembly techniques result in high strength extrusion dies capable of use under high extrusion pressures capable of forming high density, thin wall honeycomb monoliths.
While my invention has been described in terms of certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be appreciated that other forms could readily be adapted by one skilled in the art. Accordingly, the scope of my invention is to be considered limited only by the following claims.
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Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Actividades de Construccion & Servicios SA, Spain's biggest construction company, reported a first-half loss after it sold part of its stake in Iberdrola SA and adjusted the value of the remaining holding.
The net loss was 1.23 billion euros ($1.54 billion) compared with profit of 604 million euros a year earlier, the Madrid-based company said in a statement today. Sales doubled to 18.83 billion euros from a year earlier, boosted by the acquisition of a stake in Hochtief AG, a German builder. Including that stake in the year-earlier period, revenue rose 6 percent.
The builder had a 599 million-euro loss from the sale of a 3.69 percent stake in Iberdrola in April, and ACS also took a 962 million-euro charge to adjust the value of its remaining 14.85 percent stake. ACS also provisioned 302 million euros for potential losses related to the refinancing of Iberdrola investments.
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it's september again, so that must mean it's time for... yes, wait for it...
yes, it's time for the Great Donation Coder Getting Organized Experiment of 2007.
if you participated in last years push to get things done then you'll already know how well the group worked. if you didn't join in with the fun then how fortunate it is that we're running the experiment all over again.
the idea remains simple. declare to the group that you'll commit to finishing something that you've been putting off and then get on with it. it might be something trivial that you are procrastinating over - nevermind, if you are annoyed at yourself for not doing it then i'm confident that you'll complete it within the next three months - if not a lot sooner.
to help you, there will be a variety of tips and techniques that will be discussed - many of which will have the luxury of hindsight from those of us having tried them for a year. perhaps there have been new GTD like ideas developed since last september - if you know of any then please post about them.
the group will succeed. i can say with certainty that i am not the procrastinator i was this time last year and that is almost entirely down to being part of the last experiment.
as before, your input is essential. experienced GTD'ers are very welcome, as are the greatest procrastinators on the planet. together, we'll work it all out as we go along.
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Nobody even questioned who the man behind the film really is... Was he biased? Was he honest? Was he giving us the whole truth? Did he have any alternative motives behind the making of the movie? Is the donated money going directly to the cause? I just think that people jumped on board with this guy so quickly, and it makes sense, because he seems to be supporting a great cause. There is no arguing the fact that something needs to be done immediately about the soldier children, but is this the right man to stand behind? I just think that it is interesting how nobody bothered to find other information on the film maker before jumping on his boat. There are rumors that he is not being honest about the money, but I really do not know what to believe. I should it research it more myself; what do you guys think about the Kony 2012 film maker not being honest and up front?


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and, as stu strib said earlier, the fact that tool came out so much later than drea, theater (and three to four years is a lot of time) can so act as proof that dream theater did not copy them. when an already big band hears this up and coming band's brand new debut cd, rarely will they go try and copy it.
It happens, regularly. I cited several examples in my reply to Stu. It is less common with bands like, say, The White Stripes. Mostly because they form because they want to play a certain style of music, and they're not that open to change. However in jazz and progressive genres it's extremely common. Yes changed their style in the 80s to align more with current musical trends started by other bands. So did King Crimson. This is also true of most of the virtuoso shred guitarists that I'm sure Petrucci is a fan of, too. And Frank Zappa, who Portnoy is a big fan of.
what do you think, mike portnoy and john petrucci were sitting around one day, listening to the brand new tool album, and mike goes, "hey! these tool kids are pretty good. lets blatantly copy them because we only have an unsurpassed amount of talent and have come up with plenty of completely original material ourselves. hell, we have another decade at least worth of original material, and we can outplay most bands around. so, we MUST COPY TOOL."
No, I think they were jamming in a practice room one day, maybe they had a little riff on 46&2 and some interesting melodies developed over the top of it. They had a chat about it and decided that they didn't have a problem with the similarity. Or that they were looking for a chorus for a song and somebody said "Hey, what we need here is a staccato feel like on By Demons Be Driven" and they busted one out quickly, liked it and wrote it down. Maybe later they noticed how remarkably similar that section was, but I reckon they either consider it a homage or just liked it enough to make the borrowing justified.
I've been in bands that have done this with things. It's not neccesarily a bad thing, indeed it can actually be pretty awesome if you do it with something from outside your genre. There's a bit of Fredrik Thordendal's "Sol Niger Within" where one of the riffs is a dead ringer rhythmically for the head melody of "Ravayah" by John Zorn. Not a rhythm I've heard anywhere else, personally, and there's other parts of the Thordendal album that appear quite Zorn influenced. Could be accidental, but it's cool even if it's deliberate because one song is an avant-garde klezmer/jazz piece and the other is progressive death metal. Mixing and quoting is perfectly acceptable, if done well.
I just don't like the way that DT borrow pieces from bands in a similar genre and use them with similar inflections, on the same instruments, in similar places in their songs. That just strikes me as a bridge too far. There's paying homage, there's putting your own spin on things and then there's the kind of stuff that DT do all over the place.
But to deny that they're borrowing sections of music at all? Come off it mate. Everybody does it. Particularly muso people who play a lot of solos - it's called "quoting". The difference is, most people try to modify things enough that it's not immediately obvious if you're familiar with the source. It took me a while to peg the swiped riff from Test For Echo by Rush in the intro to Lateralus by Tool for a couple of reasons:
1) Swung rather than straight.
2) The tone is different
3) The tempo is a bit different.
4) The purpose in the song is very different (intro, rather than bridge).
That's still a pretty blatent bit of borrowing, but DT don't seem to want to obfuscate even that far.
sorry, thats not the way it works. from the sounds of it, tool takes an amazing amount of inluence and idea from dream theater.
Now that I doubt.
Ok fact time.
Fact: If you read interviews, Portnoy has repeatedly cited Tool as an influence. Ditto Pantera.
Fact: If you read interviews, not one member of Tool even describes a passing enjoyment of Dream Theater. In fact, there's numerous references out of Adam Jones to hating technical guitar virtuosos, which would suggest that he's not much of a fan. Danny Carey has listed a bunch of contemporary drummers of whom he's a fan, including guys like Sim Cain and Fish (of Fishbone fame). Portnoy isn't on the list.
Fact: After Tool released Aenima, Dream Theater released two songs which use near identical sounding sections from 46&2 (see MP3) below. I have heard no other songs written prior to the Tool song which have anything like as close a resemblance.
Fact: Most other technical bands do not see the same "Accidental" occurrance of similar phrases from other bands in the same genre. See: Fredrik Thordendal. His stuff sounds like him. Ditto Opeth. Ditto Death. Ditto Strapping Young Lad. Dream Theater's stuff sounds like other people, regularly. For crying out loud, there's a song on "Six degrees" which is a dead ringer for a very well-known Peter Gabriel song. I'll give you five points if you can name both songs.
If you can't see a pattern here then I'd suggest it's because you're blinded by admiration rather than because of the absence of one.
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Robert Melvin McCowen (1918–1965) was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He graduated from West High School (Waterloo) and received his B.A. degree in music from Iowa State Teachers College (Cedar Falls), was named to Who's Who in Music in his senior year of college and began teaching elementary instrumental music in Waterloo after graduation. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at the beginning of World War II and was stationed in England as a 1st Lt. B-17 co-pilot. On his third mission he was shot down and walked through the French underground from north of Paris to Gibraltar, a distance of 1,000 miles — this took him four and one-half months. After the war he returned to Waterloo and began to teach at West High School, his alma mater.
He earned his M.A. degree from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in 1951. He was named Director of Choral Affairs at Iowa State University (Ames) in 1949. In 1950 he taught at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinios); in 1951 at Illinois Central (Macomb); and in 1952 returned to Iowa State where he remained until his death.
He served as district and state ACDA Chairman and was a charter member of ACDA. He directed the Iowa All-State and many other All-State festivals throughout the nation. He was in constant demand as a festival conductor, clinician and adjudicator. He conducted several summer music camps and was especially fond of the International Peace Gardens Camp. He had many articles published and several of his compositions were used in All-State festivals throughout the country.
At the time of his death, he was serving as the North Central Chairman of ACDA. He gave much to the state of Iowa and its musical activities. This unselfish dedication prompted the ICDA Executive Board to establish the Robert McCowen Award to be presented to the person who made outstanding contributions to choral music in the state.
Robert McCowen's love for his work was obvious. The relationships he developed with students in the classroom and with professional colleagues were sincere. His music was his tool to serve mankind. His concern for choral music in the state of Iowa lives on, and it is for this reason, that ICDA chooses to honor its friends who carry the Robert McCowen flame for choral music, igniting the torch for all choral participants in Iowa, lighting the way not only for students, but also for professional colleagues.*
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1967 E. Jane Ruby 1978 J. Eugene McKinley 1993 Lauretta Graetz 1968 Weston Noble 1981 Gordon Lamb 1994 Tom Janssen 1969 Daniel Moe 1985 Dale Grotenhuis 1995 Alan Hagen 1970 Francis Pyle 1986 Allen Lehl 1996 Everett Johnson 1971 Leo Grether 1988 Robert Davis 1997 Allen Koepke 1972 Sven Lekberg 1989 Jim Kimmel 1998 Robert Youngquist 1972 Charles Matheson 1990 Gloria Corbin 2000 Janiece Bergland 1973 Marvin Kelley 1991 Bruce Norris 2001 Allen Chapman 1976 James Fritschel 1992 Mark Lehmann 2001 Sandy Chapman
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Someone asked me to explain that Tweet yesterday. Well, much like the Mohammed video "protesters" the WalMart protesters were not who you thought they were, it was not spontaneous, and they had all sorts of premade apparel and signs. In the case of the Mohammed vid protesters, they weren't average people, they were Islamists, many with ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda, this was planned for a while, and they were carry al Qaeda and Taliban style signs and wearing similar headbands. For WalMart, they planned it for months, they had professionally made signs and shirts, and mostly weren't WalMart employees
(The Blaze) For weeks now, we've heard a lot about OUR Walmart's plans to disrupt the big box retailer's Black Friday sales. Media outlets breathlessly reported that the union-backed protests and employee walkouts might cause the company severe financial damage. Heck, even Wal-mart was reportedly worried about the union's Black Friday plans.
So how did it turn out?
Well, to quote Megan McArdle writing in the Daily Beast, "the planned protests were mostly a fizzle."
WalMart's sales were incredible, and the mostly non-employee protesters failed to disrupt the business. Many managed to get themselves arrested.
Funny thing though: Of the people who participated in today's nationwide demonstrations, very few of them were actual Wal-Mart employees, meaning today's action was a whole lot like the Service Employees International Union's Wednesday protest of the Los Angeles International Airport.
"No Walmart workers in attendance at Mobile Walmart picketing," reads one Alabama newspaper headline.
On my way to work Friday around 11am, there were no protesters that I could see at the New Bern Ave. nor the Glenwood Ave. stores.
(WRAL) At a Walmart in Durham, more than 100 protesters gathered in the parking lot outside the store, chanting slogans and passing out fliers to draw attention to their cause. They were not employees but shoppers and neighbors sympathetic to minimum-wage workers. Groups from Durham Mennonite Church, Triangle Jobs with Justice, Corporate Action Network and the Raging Nannies participated.
The nannies communicated their concern in song. "Walmart stores are ruining our town," they sang.
Essentially, this protest was held by the typical left wing agitators who loath WalMart, and are really upset that WalMart offers good at a low cost or something. And aren't unionized.
We did not experience the walk-offs promised by the UFCW. We estimate that less than 50 assocs participated nationwide: walmarturl.com/UiAEv7
— Walmart Newsroom (@WalmartNewsroom) November 23, 2012
According to that link, " roughly the same number of associates missed their scheduled shift as last year…" So, SEIU and other left wing agitators, perhaps you could protest things that matter, like growing federal powers, too much spending, TSA groping people, etc.
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i remember articles in popular science and some pc game mags in 99 which basically said that in the next 4-5 years we would see game engines running with real time aa, radiosity, caustics, high poly models/environments, ect, ect...
let me tell you, its 2005 and with all those effects turned on with my rig it still takes several MINUTES to render scenes with very very low poly counts in lightwave. the water drop i posted in the software section is probably less than 500 polys. radiosity and caustics are enable with only 2 lights and when i did a render at 1600x1200 with 5 pass AA it took almost 30 minutes to pop out the final image.
we have a very long way to go. i just get so irritated at all the hype that gets crammed down our throats at console release time. but business is business and i know they are just trying to sell the product. ho hum again.
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Let's hope this time the Xbox will do some real rendering at HDTV resolutions, instead of some lame upsampling. Anyway the fact that they didn't announce any spec is not good, unless they want to hide them for a reason.
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Wow, just saw the video and I am about as pumped up about the future of consoles as I was about the NV40 launch!
I've read the many threads here about pc's vs. consoles and I am begining to wonder if PC Gaming will turn into an even smaller market. You look at the tech specs of the latest consoles and it makes me more uncertain. Especially when you take the advantages of coding for consoles vs. PC Hardware.
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Very exciting stuff going on, can't wait to find out more. Seems to be more exciting than last year for sure!
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Just read this off gamespy
We Got Next - Part One (Xbox)
GameSpy reveals details on the next Xbox console.
By Raymond M. Padilla | March 8, 2005
For several GameSpy editors, Game Developers Conference (GDC) is one of the best and most enjoyable events held each year. One of the primary reasons for GameSpy's GDC love is that the editors get to interact with some of the best talents in the business. Recently, some of GameSpy's friends in the development community shared a ton of details on Microsoft's next console system. Keep in mind that all of this information is based off of alpha development kits and current projections for the final hardware. Everything is subject to change. In the first part of our Xbox expose, I'll cover the console's hardware components and software goals. Since the final name of the next Xbox hasn't been revealed yet, I'll refer to the system by its codename, Xenon.
The Guts of the Next Box
CPU - Xenon's CPU has three 3.0 GHz PowerPC cores. Each core is capable of two instructions per cycle and has an L1 cache with 32 KB for data and 32 KB for instructions. The three cores share 1 MB of L2 cache. Alpha 2 developer kits currently have two cores instead of three.
GPU - Xenon's GPU is a generation beyond the ATI X800. Its clock speed is 500 MHz and it supports Shader 3.0. Developers are currently working with an alpha 2 GPU. Beta GPU units are expected by May and the final GPU is slated for a summer release. The final GPU will be more powerful than anything on the market today; in game terms, it would handle a game like Half-Life 2 with ease.
System Memory - Xenon will have 256 MB of system RAM. Keep in mind that this number should not be equated to typical PC RAM. The Xbox has 64 MB of system RAM and is a very capable machine.
Optical Drive - As many have speculated, Xenon will not use Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Games will come on dual-layer DVD-9 discs. While the media is the same as that of the current Xbox, the usable space on each disc is up to 7 GB. The drive is slated to run at 12X.
Memory Units - Xenon will use 64 MB to 1,024 MB memory cards. 8 MB is reserved for system use, leaving a 56 MB to 1,016 MB for user data.
Hard Drive - As many have speculated, Xenon's hard drive is optional. 2 GB of the drive will be used as game cache. The final drive size is still being determined.
Camera - Xenon will have a USB 2.0 camera. It's capable of 1.2 megapixel still shots and VGA video. Photos can be used in-game and for gamer profiles. The camera can also be used for video chat. It's unknown if the Xenon camera will allow for EyeToy-like gameplay. Developers are currently using a simulated camera driver.
Sound Chip - Xenon does not have an audio chip in the traditional sense. Decompression is handled by hardware, while the rest of the chores are handled by software. DirectSound3D has been dropped in favor of X3DAudio. The former was deemed too inflexible.
Raymond's Reaction - The Xenon is an extremely impressive piece of hardware. It will allow gamers to see things like complex lighting in gameplay, amazing details through high-level shading (impeccable clouds, fur, grass, cloth, water, marble, ground, etc.), incredible textures, and new post effects (increased motion blur, heat distortion, depth of field, light blooms, etc.).
While people have already been correctly speculating about the removable hard drive and the standard DVD media, I was surprised at the inclusion of the camera. I haven't heard a single rumbling about a Xenon camera prior to GDC. The optional hard drive is a bit understandable; the only gamers that care about it will buy it anyway, while casual gamers won't care about the performance and convenience gains a drive offers. The standard DVD isn't too surprising considering that HD-DVD drives will be too expensive for inclusion in a console system in 2005.
We Got Next - Part One (Xbox)
The Software
Microsoft is requiring developers to make all Xenon titles Live enabled. One of the key reasons for this will be revealed in the second part of this story.
Developers are being instructed to plan their games for high-definition. The baseline is 720p at 1280x720 for gameplay and video clips, 16:9 aspect ratio, 5.1 Surround Sound, and anti-aliasing. These features are the current minimum requirement.
All Xenon games can be played using custom soundtracks. Owners can also play their own music directly. Supported formats are MP3 and WMA. Files can be encoded up to 320Kbps CBR or VBR stereo. The system is branded a Music Player Service.
For gameplay movies, Xenon uses Xenon Motion Video (XMV). XMV is based on Windows Media 9 and uses the mandatory codec for HD-DVD. The goal for video is 720p running at 30 frames per second with 5.1 Surround Sound.
Raymond's Reaction - Mandatory Live "awareness" isn't a big surprise. Online is one area where Microsoft is trouncing the competition. Microsoft's progression with online console gaming has progressed wonderfully (see Halo 2) and the future plans are even more interesting. (Again, see part two of this feature tomorrow for more information.)
It's nice to see that Microsoft is being aggressive with HD performance. Having all games run at 720p (potentially) makes for an incredibly engrossing experience -- particularly owners of HDTV sets. Users with standard televisions needn't worry; 16:9 content will be letterboxed to fit within a 4:3 aspect ratio by default. Developers are being instructed to make sure that any critical text will fit into and look good in 4:3.
Stay Tuned!
That's a wrap for part one of our Xenon feature. Be sure to come back tomorrow to learn more about Microsoft's exciting plans for Xbox Live. While the hardware specs and HD plans for Xenon are definitely cool, the new Xbox Live features might impact your gaming experience even more!
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i think m$ is acctually helping the pc market out. i'll get to that in a minute.
i guess i'll rant about this too. everytime a new generation of consoles is about to come out there are people who seem to hide under their beds, fearing that the age of pc gaming is over.
i promise everyone that (1) the next generation of consoles will be amazing. the graphics will be beautiful, probably better that what we see with our pc's now (infact, im almost sure of it). (2) im willing to bet that no more than 6-9 months will pass before we start hearing about or actually seeing the next generation of graphics cards. yes, they will be expensive, but they will give pc's a one up on graphics. from there pc's will have the graphics corner untill the next generation of consoles. and so it goes.
back to the m$ thing. this article makes it pretty clear that m$ is trying to make programming games an easily cross platform development experience. this is especially exciting for pc gamers because a game can be simultaniously produced for console and pc with virtually the same code and enhanced special effects can be simply coded in for newer graphics cards.
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As we wrap up the TechDays Tour around Ireland discussing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2 with IT Pro's I read tonight about some related information everyone should know about. There is a great posting on TechNet Edge about the some of the deployment tools Rhonda Layfield demonstrated on the TechDays Tour that answers the all too often asked question "Will there be an upgrade path from windows XP to Windows 7?" This information was forward on to me from Kurt Shintaku's with Microsoft in sunny L.A. Calf, it is a great worldwide community we work in!
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There's been a lot of press about how there isn't a an upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7. In this video, Jeremy walked me through using the latest beta of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, specifically the User State Migration Tool, to transfer the user settings and files from a Windows XP installation to a new install of Windows 7 on the same PC.
One of the really cool features in this new version is hardlink migration. In the past, if you wanted to back up all of a users files and settings, those had to be transferred to a different drive, and the new OS install would wipe the machine, complete the new install, and then you'd transfer the files back. With hardlink migration, all the files stay in place on the machine, and the Win7 install just updates file locations with hardlinks. This means the install and settings transfer happens much faster, because the files aren't transferred at all, just the paths to them are updated. It's really cool, and means you can have a fresh install of Win7, with all your XP files and settings, completed in as few as 30 minutes.
WHAT'S NEW (in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 beta): The new features in MDT 2010 Beta 1 are supported only for Lite Touch Installation (LTI)–based deployments and are not supported for Zero Touch Installation (ZTI)–based deployments using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
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A friend of former NBA star Jayson Williams pleaded guilty yesterday to tampering with witnesses and evidence, and said Williams, who is charged with manslaughter in the Feb. 14 shooting death of a limousine driver, orchestrated the ensuing cover-up.
In a surprise move, Kent Culuko, 29, of Mahwah entered guilty pleas before Superior Court Judge Ann R. Bartlett in Hunterdon County, admitting he and others altered evidence to make it appear as if the victim had shot himself.
Culuko was immediately entered into the Pre-Trial Intervention program, in which he will be required to report monthly to a probation officer for a period of 12 to 36 months.
He also is required to testify truthfully against Williams and co-defendant John Gordnick at any future hearings or trials. Under questioning by acting Hunterdon County Prosecutor Steven Lember, Culuko admitted he wiped the shotgun clean after the shooting, moved it and told other witnesses to tell authorities everyone was downstairs at the time of the shooting, which occurred in Williams' upstairs bedroom.
When asked who told him to wipe the fingerprints off the gun and reposition it, Culuko answered: "Jayson Williams."
When asked who instructed him to tell the witnesses to give false statements to investigators, Culuko again responded: "Jayson Williams." Culuko could be called to testify before the grand jury about what happened in the early morning hours of Feb. 14 when Costas "Gus" Christofi, 55, of Warren County was fatally shot. Lember is expected to present the case to the grand jury in the next few weeks. "We're ready to go to the grand jury," he said.
Judy Smith, a spokeswoman for Williams, said: "Jayson Williams intends to enter a plea of innocent to all charges at the appropriate time."
In addition to manslaughter, Williams is charged with tampering with evidence and tampering with witnesses.
The former New Jersey Nets star is accused of wiping his fingerprints from the shotgun and trying to imprint the weapon with Christofi's fingerprints.
In addition, authorities have said Williams' adopted brother, Victor Santiago, called 911 and reported the shooting as a suicide. Witnesses at Williams' house also told police that Christofi had shot himself, police said.
John Lacey, a former assistant U.S. attorney who is representing Culuko, said his client was one of those who initially gave police false information about the shooting, but corrected his statement later that same day.
"He was here today prepared to accept responsibility for his actions," Lacey said outside the courtroom after the plea deal was accepted. "I think everybody involved in that situation looks at it the same way: It was a horrible accident and they have felt terribly from Day One."
He said obviously no one in the house that night expected what happened. "When you have a new situation, whether it was right or wrong, there was panic," Lacey said.
Gordnick, 44, of Rochelle Park, who is charged with two counts of hindering another person's apprehension, tampering with evidence and conspiracy to obstruct, helped with the cover-up by taking the bloody clothing Williams was wearing at the time of the shooting and removing it from the house, authorities allege.
Gordnick turned the clothing over to police a few weeks later. Lember said it is not too late for others in the case to come forward and cooperate, but he doubts Gordnick and his attorney will do so.
"I don't expect there will be any such actions as occurred today," Lember said. "There are no plans to be meeting with him and his attorney in the immediate future. Everyone knows if they want to come and give us truthful testimony, we're willing to listen."
But Lember said Williams and Gordnick have rights as defendants and there is no expectation or pressure on the part of the prosecutor's office for them to give up those rights.
Lember also said Christofi's family was made aware of the plea negotiations and were "on board" with the arrangement worked out between his office and Culuko.
Williams had gone to a Harlem Globetrotters game on the night of Feb. 13 and hired a limousine, driven by Christofi, to take several people, including some members of the Globetrotters, first to a restaurant in northern Hunterdon County and then to Williams' sprawling estate in Alexandria Township.
Christofi, a driver for Seventy-Eight limousine service, joined the group for dinner at the restaurant and also was part of a group getting a tour of the mansion.
Sources have said that while in Williams' bedroom, Williams removed one of his shotguns and was handling it recklessly when the gun discharged, striking Christofi in the chest at about 2:50 a.m.
Christofi died shortly after being wounded.
Williams was arrested Feb. 25 after turning himself in to the State Police in Kingwood Township. His lawyer, Joseph Hayden, has said Christofi's death was "a tragic accident," and Williams publicly offered his condolences to the Christofi family after his first court appearance March 4.
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