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Starting in 2012, the 180′ motor yacht STARGAZER will be available for luxury golf charter vacations, offering private, unique golf yacht charter itineraries to discerning charter clients in America.
Measuring 180ft (54.9m) in length, M/Y Stargazer otherwise known as the 'Golf yacht' is a large expedition yacht with sleek, yet powerful and rugged lines that was built in 1964 and was refitted in 2010. The Golf Charter Yacht Stargazer boasts a golf equipment room with sets of demo equipment, a heli-pad that has been set up for coaching and social competitions. It is also possible to request first class golf coaches onboard who can help to improve your game while cruising to the best golf courses.
A golf charter vacation on the Stargazer yacht will enable you and your guests to travel to some of the best golf courses in the world while enjoying the luxury 5 star amenities. Imagine being able to play at a different golf course every day, with your own private coach to guide you, surrounded by spectacular ocean vistas. Each night you can retire to your private charter yacht to discuss the day's challenges with your fellow passengers and coaches, while enjoying delicious cuisine and a glass of fine wine.
After spending the day at a world class golf course, imagine returning the superyacht Stargazer where you enjoy a sumptuous dinner under the stars, then watch videos of your training sessions and then a good movie or a good tournament in the private screening room. As you turn in, you hear the gentle rumble of the engines as the yacht transports you to the next golf course. You wake up refreshed, your gear has already been taken to the course and your coaches are waiting to have breakfast with you before you are transported to a new course and a new day.
The golf yacht Stargazer is available for week long charters where you can visit up to 6 golf courses in one week or for long weekends, where you could travel to up to 4 golf courses. The yacht is also the perfect venue for corporate charters for client entertainment.
On the Stargazer yacht you will be in the company of world class golfers who have competed at the highest amateur and professional levels and have played some of the finest golf courses around the world, fully equipped to help you in all aspects of the game including Full swing mechanics, Short game, Putting strategy, Mental game, and oncourse instructing.
Robert McKnight, together with PGA Champions Tour player Pat Horgan III, and the yacht captain – have been developing a program to take groups (of up to 12 players) along with two coaches on golf yacht charter itineraries in Florida, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, the mid-Atlantic states, and New England as well as the possibility of Jamaica, Porto Rico and Mexico. Contact CharterWorld for further details on the golf charter itineraries possible. Or see more details on the golf charter yacht Stargazer here
The base rate of the charter yacht Stargazer is $125,000 + expenses. The all-in price for 10 golfers for a week is $190,000 which includes the gold and expenses. For a 3-day weekend you can charter the yacht for $100,000 for 10 players and for a 4-day weekend it is $120,000.
STARGAZER can also be chartered to serve as a floating hospitality clubhouse and 8-suite yacht at any of the following PGA Tour Events in 2012:
Feb. 27-March 4 The Honda Classic
PGA National (Champion Course)
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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Doral Golf Resort & Spa (TPC Blue Monster Course)
Doral, Fla.
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Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
March 12-18 Transitions Championship
Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club (Copperhead Course)
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April 9-15 RBC Heritage
Harbour Town Golf Links
Hilton Head Island, S.C.
April 23-29 Zurich Classic of New Orleans
TPC Louisiana
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May 7-13 THE PLAYERS Championship
TPC Sawgrass (THE PLAYERS Stadium Course)
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
June 25-July 1 AT&T National
Congressional Country Club
Bethesda, Md.
Aug. 6-12 PGA Championship#
Kiawah Island Golf Resort (Ocean Course)
Kiawah Island, S.C.
Aug. 27-Sept. 3 Deutsche Bank Championship (Monday Finish)
TPC Boston
Norton, Mass.
Oct. 15-21 The McGladrey Classic
Sea Island Resort (Seaside Course)
St. Simons Island, Ga.
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I also have a warthog! The best dam sharpener ever! Very easy to use and will sharpen even the Alaska knives that have crazy hard steel. I can't sharpen a butter knife till I got mine.
I also have a warthog! The best dam sharpener ever! Very easy to use and will sharpen even the Alaska knives that have crazy hard steel. I can't sharpen a butter knife till I got mine.
I have used a Lansky for years and it has always been my go to sharpener but does take a bit of time to use.
As Drhorsepower mentioned, I recently bought a Work Sharp. It got rave reviews on iFish. I sharpened 20 knives in my wife's kitchen drawer in an hour. Every knife would shave paper when I was finished. I think anyone could get a knife shaving sharp with this thing in only a few minutes.
The Work Sharp is basically a mini belt sander that uses:
80 grit belt, not for normal sharpening use
220 grit belt, this is the primary belt for sharpening
6000 grit belt, this polishes the edge, much like stropping with a leather belt
The Work Sharp won the 2011 Popular Mechanics Editors Choice award. It gets very high reviews on Amazon. I bought the last two in my area just a few days ago, they are very popular here. The factory is 2 hours away in Ashland, Oregon.
The negative on the Work Sharp you most often hear is it can potentially damage the point of the knife if you are not careful. Maybe some users are using the 80 grit belt?? Since this is a mini-belt sander, if you let the belt dwell in certain spots, it is going to sharpen the blade more in those spots. If you let it dwell on the tip it's going to round it or heat damage it. This seems to be solved with good technique. The proper technique is to insert the blade, start the Work Sharp, and stop it just as you get to the point of the blade. I am super impressed in the way it can get a knife sharpened in a hurry. Here is a You Tube video:
This has given me an idea, use the Work Sharp for quick sharpening, or on the road (with an inverter). Also set up a small 1" x 30" belt sander in my shop. This would give me a similar platform used by certain professional knife sharpeners. The wider belt would give better control on the sharpening process. A guy who professionally sharpens offers a belt sanding kit for about $200. Here is the link and a video of him sharpening with it:
I think this same "kit" could be put together for about $100 to $120 as follows:
Harbor Freight 1" x 30" belt sander: $39.99 (appears to be the same unit sold in the $200 package above)
Surgi Sharp 1" x 30" stropping belt from eBay: $27.00
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Do u guys think u could use the worksharp on a 3 blade broadhead. Would the geometry work out safely
I just used my Work Sharp for the first time on a Benchmade knife with S30V steel. In two minutes it was shaving sharp. That rocks!
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Thanks fink. Great info. Really appreciate it
All the sharpening systems mentioned work....but technique is when gets the job done right. I was taught with an oil stone many years ago. Don't use it much any more. I use a sharpener that is diamond dust impregnated on a steel. Bought it from Calelas many years ago. Have a real small one about the size of a thermometer I use on fish hooks. The downside is it will wear out a knife much faster.
The one I like best was the cheapest and does a great job to put an edge back on a knife when you are butchering or dressing out an animal. Can't remember the name, but it is a small yellow plastic thing that has a course and fine notch on opposite sides. Bought it at WalMart for a couple of bucks. I keep one in my pocket when I am in the field, works great to dress up a knife that gets a little dull while you are using it. It only takes seconds to put the edge back in fine shape. Quick & easy
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The unsupported sanding belt is part of Work Sharp's claim to fame and why it is supposed to work well on a knife. Apparently as it "flexes" a bit around the edge of a knife blade it sharpens putting a "convex" edge on the blade. The convex edge is supposedly more robust and provides more support to the sharpened edge, helping it stay sharp longer. See the pic below.
Though I haven't tried it, its possible a small 1" x 30" belt sander idea could possibly work on Montecs because it has a flat support behind the belt.


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It's the first day of winter–and plummeting temperatures and shorter days mean just one thing at Nameberry: it's time to revisit and update our annual survey of winter baby names. Just a few years ago, we might have said that Winter was the season least friendly to names, whereas now it seems to offer the newest choices for the adventurous baby namer.
Why? Two reasons: Nicole Richie choosing Winter as one of the middle names for her high-profile little girl Harlow and then Gretchen Mol using it as her daughter's first, plus January Jones, beauteous star of the hit show Mad Men.
Winter is the season name that's seen the least amount of use over the years, yet one that holds the most potential for boys as well as girls. Translations of the seasonal name include the French Hiver (pronounced ee-vair), Italian Inverno, and in Spanish, Invierno. In Dutch and German, it's still Winter and and in Swedish, the comical-sounding (to the English speaker's ear) Vinter.


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History took place in November and a good chunk of it took place right here in Alameda.
The San Francisco Giants had just taken the World Series in a four-game sweep, a series many thought, if it happened at all, would go to at least five or six games. President Obama was re-elected to a second term, and on that momentum the California Legislature saw its highest percentage of Democratic office holders put in place since the 1800s. Proposition 32, an anti-worker sham, went down in flames.
The Alameda City Council, in a historic first, is comprised mostly of women. Alameda's own Rob Bonta was elected to the Assembly, making him California's first Filipino Assembly member, a very historic first. And, in another milestone, Alameda saw its first labor dispute in the grocery industry since 1995.
Your neighborhood grocery workers at Raley's-Nob Hill were forced to strike after 15 months of fruitless negotiations with their employer. Raley's-Nob Hill entered negotiations in fall 2011 with a new negotiator and new head of labor relations well versed in the art of "union avoidance" (busting) and strikes. From the beginning, their objective was to apply the same standards the chain has in their nonunion stores to the rest of the unionized chain. The goal of the company was to shift union members out of the jointly run union-employer health and welfare medical trust and into a company-run plan where workers would have no say over plan design, retiree benefits or, in the long run, whether there would be benefits at all. The company also wanted to permanently eliminate holiday premium and Sunday pay.
From the time picket lines went up until they were taken down, the conduct of picketers was determined, disciplined and respectful. During the strike, in another Alameda first, a rally of well upward of 300 took place in front of the store. Strikers, teachers, firefighters, members of the community and Teamsters, most of whom were from Alameda, rallied to support the strike. Clearly the community was on the side of the strikers, and that message resonated in the company's corporate suites in Sacramento.
While customers continued to stay away in droves, marathon bargaining for a settlement resulted in a tentative agreement Nov. 13. The pact provides for continued union benefits and livable wages, the primary objective of the strikers and the targets of the company. Picket lines came down around 11 a.m., although in Alameda a new kind of line went up with strikers signs announcing: "The strike is over! Welcome back! Go shopping!"
On behalf of the brave strikers in the Alameda Nob Hill, who manned the picket line 24 hours a day, seven days a week, I would like to thank the Alameda community for your support. Alamedans showed a lot of heart during the dispute, they dropped off financial donations, helped picket and provided untold calories to the strikers in the form of doughnuts! Your support is what makes Alameda a special place and really helped win the strike. Again, on behalf of Alameda's Nob Hill strikers, thank you very much for your support!
Mike Henneberry, an Alameda resident, is communications director of United Food and Commer- cial Workers Local 5.


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Carmelita Jeter pointed at the clock in amazement after the women's 4×100-meter relay race. Her team not only won the gold medal, but they also set a world record. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
United States women's 4 x100-meter relay team members, from left, Carmelita Jeter, Bianca Knight, Tianna Madison and Allyson Felix celebrate their gold medal win at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. The team set a new world record of 40.82 seconds. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Carmelita Jeter and Allyson Felix combined for four gold medals and led the women's team to a world record in the 4 x 100-meter relay.
When U.S. sprinter Carmelita Jeter crossed the finish line of the women's 4×100-meter relay, she had a shocked look on her face. She certainly was not surprised that her team had won the gold medal, because she ran the bulk of the final leg of the race by herself as the American team had built a sizable lead.
Jeter's reaction could only mean one thing. A world record!
The U.S. team of Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Jeter had pulled away from the field to finish with a time of 40.82. Jeter, who is from Gardena and attended Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance and Cal State Dominguez Hills, instantly knew what their team had done, because no other women's team, ever, had run that race in the 40-second range.
That time was what brought the shocked look on Jeter's face, as she pointed the baton at the clock and continued to run another 50 meters, converging with her teammates as they celebrated one of the greatest feats in track and field history.
The old world record was set by East Germany in 1985, when those women ran a time of 41.37. This current U.S. team beat that time by over half a second.
This victory put a cap on an Olympics that saw U.S. female athletes win a record gold medals. The U.S. team won 46 gold medals at the London Olympics, which is more than any other nation, with 29 of those medals coming from the women. If the American's women team was its own nation, they would have finished ahead of every other nation except for China and they would be tied with Great Britain.
After Gabby Douglas led the way in the first week of the Olympics, Jeter and Felix took the baton for the second week and brought home more gold.
Felix, who is from Los Angeles, ran for Los Angeles Baptist High School and attended USC, has been chasing an Olympic gold medal in an individual race since she was 18-years-old, when she won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the 200-meter dash.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, she again came up with the silver medal in the 200, but that time she earned a gold medal while running on the 4×400-meter relay team.
Felix entered this Olympics looking to finally take home the gold in the 200, but before that she competed in the 100-meter dash, finishing in fifth place. In a photo finish, Jeter was given a silver metal with a time of 10.78, while Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was given the gold.
When the 200-meter dash came around, the fastest women in the world all lined up. Felix's rival Veronica Campbell-Brown, the Jamaican sprinter who defeated her for the gold medal at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, was in the starting blocks, ready to defend her title. So was Jeter and Fraser-Pryce. Also in the race was American Sanya Richards-Ross, who won the gold medal three days earlier in the 400-meter dash.
Fraser-Pryce and Jeter had already defeated Felix in the 100-meter dash, but when the 200 started, there was no question what Felix was gunning for, as she was first off of the turn, and then she just had to hold off the field to finally achieve her dreams of winning a gold medal in an individual event. She won the race with a time of 21.88.
Fraser-Pryce took the silver, and Jeter picked up the bronze medal.
After the 200, Felix and Jeter were not done, because they were about to shock the world with the 4×100-meter relay.
Felix also went on to win another gold medal on the women's 4×400-meter relay team, who won with a time of 3:16.87, making her the first woman since Florence Griffith-Joyner at the 1988 Seoul Olympics to win three gold medals.
The most amazing part about Felix's accomplishments is that she did it over a wide range of races. Most sprinters will either focus on the 100 and 200, or the 400 and 200. But to run all three distances on a world-class level is extremely difficult, and rarely done. Over the past year she has run a 10.89 in the 100 (Aug 2012), a 21.69 in the 200 (June 2012), and a 49.59 in the 400 (Aug 2011). That time in the 400 would have put her in contention with Richards-Ross (49.55) for the gold medal in that event.
Felix's split on the gold medal winning 4×400-meter relay team was 48.1, compared to Richards-Ross' split of 49.0. In fairness to Richards-Ross, she was running by herself for the bulk of the race, finishing almost three and a half seconds ahead of the second place Russian team.
Felix and Jeter have represented the United States well, and also the areas where they grew up.


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By the 1990s concurrent engineering was all but dead as a lack of interest from users sent it to an early grave. But now it's been resurrected, and this time we may actually need it.
N THE 1980s, A NEW CONCEPT WAS CREATED to help companies manage projects in the modern age. Several companies coined marketing terms such as Concurrent Engineering (CCE) and Collaborative Engineering in an attempt to redefine project engineering and sell engineers and plant operations managers reports, software, consultancies and other must-have services. But its time on this earth was short lived. By the 1990s CCE was all but dead as lack of interest from users sent it to an early grave. But now it's back, and the thing is, we may actually need it this time.
Down but Not Out
CCE can mean different things to different people depending on the application. It can be applied to building a process plant, designing a product, achieving better quality control (QC), or developing stronger relationships with customers. In the process control world, CCE means involving multiple people, organizations and/or companies in a control system project. For an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, CCE goes beyond control systems to include the rest of the plant's operations and functions, from design and construction to startup.
Walter Driedger, a control engineer for EPC companies, dismissed the CCE trend faster than a pop-up ad for Viagra. "I never heard that concurrent engineering was an âin' thing. In my 30 years in process control, I have always worked in multi-disciplinary teams—about one-third of the time, it was with a multi-company team," says Driedger.
In the 1980s, the vision of electronic concurrent engineering was popularized, but it was the software, hardware and web that were not ready."
As the new millennium approached, CCE faded from view. It didn't completely disappear, people just stopped talking about it. After all, many engineers with common sense like Driedger, were able to accomplish the same thing without having to label it with a fancy name.
Driedger explains that project teams have always worked "concurrently" on big projects. "EPC companies, once they become large enough to have more than one significant project, are all organized according to a matrix structure. That means that every one is a member of a department. Once a project is officially released, a project team is created by drawing people from the various departments. Team members on larger projects may come from different companies." Driedger says for a large refinery project, a team might consist of members drawn from the client's organization, from a major local engineering company, and from an international engineering technology company.
Such CCE project teams are typically used on projects in the $500-million range and up. "This works well, as long as all play nicely," quips Driedger. "It has been my experience that teams containing DCS vendors often have trouble leaving their previous rivalries aside."
Jay Kapadia, product manager for the Simulation Business Line, Invensys Process Solutions, Austin, Texas, says it was once possible for all the work to be done in one place. "Normally, in engineering design work, engineering teams from various offices work concurrently and collaboratively on the project," he explains.
"The task force approach that became popular in the â60s and â70s gathered all the relevant engineering groupsprocess, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, structural, and so ontogether on the same office floor and they worked closely to get the job done. Specialty work was handed off to vendors and managed manually. Today, this is more and more difficult as the members of the team are not co-located for a variety of reasons."
What's also happening lately is that the makeup of project teams is changing. "Automation used to be a simple black-and-white trade," says John Seaver, president of Cascade Controls, a systems integrator in Tinley Park, Ill. "It is now tied inextricably into a business' overall IT infrastructure. This evolution has necessitated much more up-front thought and consideration into the development, design and implementation of engineering and automation projects."
Because of all this, manufacturers today are requiring a more rounded project team that includes IT people with the process engineers and control experts.
Comos FEED front-end engineering software converts a simulation into a Process Flow Diagram and a conceptual 3D model, and shares it with other users.
When Fluor designed a gas processing plant, for example, it involved 50 engineers in six offices in the U.S. and Europe, all of whom had to work concurrently while sharing the same process data and knowledge.
"Certainly the diversity in location and culture has caused operational coordination problems, but these have been fixtures in the development world for more than 10 years," says Paul Butler, vice president, Technology, Honeywell Process Solutions (www.honeywell.com). "Access to the best talent in any field, independent of location or affiliation, is key to developing more intelligent and capable products and services."
Finally, not using CCE can be expensive. A study by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) says that $15.8 billion is wasted annually in the capital facilities industry. Of these costs, two-thirds are borne by owners and operators, who incur the costs during ongoing facility operation and maintenance, long after projects are completed.
NIST says these costs come from the lack of interoperability in most plantsthat is, the inability to manage and communicate product and project data between collaborating firms and within the company's design, construction, maintenance and business process systems. Such inefficiencies include manual re-entry of data, duplication of business functions, and the continued reliance on paper-based information management systems. For example, trying to find the PLC documentation for the valve sequencing logic that was developed five years ago by a vendor who has gone out of business, oftentimes proves to be a major stumbling block for paper-based systems.
In other words, get organized. Get rid of the paper. Put everything into electronic files. Communicate better. Work together. And CCE can help.
Improved Tools Make CCE Work
One reason that CCE didn't really catch on in the past two decades is that no reliable tools were available to make it work. "In the early days of collaborative engineering, there wasn't much of an emphasis on tools," says Andre Babineau, director of Project Solutions Management at Invensys Foxboro, Foxboro, Mass. "It was more a matter of having as much presence as possible at the customer site. This was certainly beneficial and contributed much to the working relationship."
"In the 1980s, the vision of electronic concurrent engineering was popularized, but it was the software, hardware, and Web that were not ready," says Tom Greer, industry analyst at Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, Madison, Ala. "And neither were people and the work processes they were doing. Cost/billing structures were based around hours and drawings produced, and many business models were constructed around traditional paper-based and CAD work processes. These models have persisted even in LST [Lump-Sum Turnkey] engineering, design and construction."
"The concurrent engineering concept has been around for many years," adds Kapadia. "But in this case, the technology trailed the concept. Products that were created to support the concept were too difficult to use productively. I'd say that the concept was placed on the back burner for a few years with some isolated cases where individuals continued to champion it."
In recent years, CAD software companies have been making tools for collaborative design. With some CAD systems, design teams around the globe can sit in on a web-based conference, review designs, make changes, and discuss the changes and run models and simulations on the changes, all in real time via the Internet.
"Language and language skills are fundamental, but you also must take time to understand the cultural differences.
Tools have come a long way. Users of Comos FEED from Invensys can convert their simulation into a Process Flow Diagram (PFD) and thereafter into a conceptual 3D model, and share it with other users.
Many of the design and engineering tools available today use the Web to collaborate with team members.
Jonathan Marshall, a project engineer at Bechtel in San Francisco, says we are finally leaving the paper chase behind. "The industry execution methodology is migrating from a document-centric approach to a data-centric approach as enabled by data warehouse software technology," he says. "Today it is rare to see work performed in one location by a contiguous team of engineers."
Ground-Up Collaboration
Concurrent engineering all starts at the plant level, where the local team works on systems design, control system configuration and software development. From there, it radiates outward, taking in all the other project team members around the world. It is vital to coordinate the work of all engineers and programmers, even those working side by side.
"Most programming methodologies still mimic the assembly line of old, where the system layout drawing is created, then the electrical design is mapped, then the application code is written," says Ron Bliss, Logix/NetLinx software marketing manager, Rockwell Automation. "It's an extremely time-consuming, linear process, with programming costs consuming up to 80% of a control system's budget."
As you might expect, control equipment companies are certainly aware of the need for CCE, and each has a solution. "In the past the question kept recurring of how to integrate the work of the different programmers in a single project," notes Graham Harris, president of Beckhoff Automation (www.beckhoff.com). "Up to now, this was only possible by comparing, importing and copying. Our TwinCAT Engineering Interface (ENI) enables tasks to be coordinated via a source code management system."
Rockwell Automation does something similar. "RSLogix 5000 software and Logix5000 controllers support concurrent engineering with programming techniques such as tag aliases, multiple data scopes, built-in and user-defined structures, arrays and application import/export capabilities," explains Bliss. "These tools allow applications to be created with less effort and completion of projects in a shorter duration."
Tag aliases are becoming a primary contributor to concurrent engineering, says Bliss. "In the past, a programmer responsible for writing code sat in limbo until every last sensor was assigned a physical address. Now, with tag aliases, programmers can write code independent of electrical connection assignments."
Separation Anxiety
While concurrent engineering has its obvious advantages, it does have a downside when you start involving internationally diverse and widely separated project teams. For example, although the universal language of business is English, we all don't speak the same version.
"Words have different meanings in various languages," says Conklin. "Language and language skills are fundamental, but you also must take time to understand the cultural differences. We have all experienced this within the U.S. when working with external engineering resources and we all speak English as our native language."
CCE seems to help, because the team can see documents. "Changes made to designs and justified in digital comments are less likely to cause misinterpretations than e-mail content or voice communications because the engineers can see the design and comments at the same time," says Greer.
All this is nothing new, says Bert Aragon, a project engineer at KBR, Houston, a global EPC. "The challenges of English as a second language have existed all along. Concurrent engineering helps in that we get responses quicker and they can be analyzed faster. E-mail is a tremendous help. As someone whose native language is not English, I can attest to the power of reading over hearing spoken English, and having the opportunity to consult a dictionary before responding."
In the U.S. and England, we cling to standard units of measure, while the rest of the world uses metrics. This can cause problems, too. "The issue isn't a language problem, it is a straight engineering problem," says one engineer. "It has been with us since Bechtel started using H1B foreign nationals in the 1960s."
Greer says if you use the right CCE software, it's not a problem. "SmartPlant P&ID for piping and instrument schematics supports multiple measurement units and the major standards," he explains. "For example, a U.S. engineer specifies MAWP of a valve in psi and his German counterpart's SmartPlant P&ID displays it in kPa."
"KBR has worked in both metric and English units for years," says Aragon. "We have processes to check these. CCE helps identify inconsistencies earlier."
|New collaborative software tools can deliver systems renderings and corrsponding P&IDs to engineering teams world-wide through a simple query. Source: Intergraph
The distributed control systems (DCSs) and other higher level software vendors also are prepared for CCE. "To facilitate implementation of our I/A Series systems, we developed an engineering tool that enables collaboration among engineers or customers in different locations throughout the world," says Foxboro's Babineau. "Anyone with access to a Web browser can be designated to share information in near real-time."
Foxboro's system works during plant design and afterward. "In engineering an I/A Series system we build a unique graphical process display for each customer," he explains. In the old days, process displays used to go through the typical review cycle, Babineau says. This involved designing the page, printing it out, sending it to the customer, getting feedback by mail or fax, implementing the requested modifications and repeating the cycle until it was perfect.
"We have now streamlined that process with an online system that grabs the screen as soon as it is created and makes it available to the customer. The screen becomes available on the Internet or an intranet via a browser and email notification goes out to all designated team members. From there, the customer has access to tools that enable then to comment on the design and request modifications."
More important to end users, it works afterward, too. "We call it the Web-based Information System for Executives (WISE) because it was initially designed as a way for customer executives to get a snapshot of information from the control system," says Babineau.
"Suppliers like Yokogawa do a lot of the configuration of control systems and integration with instrumentation, subsystems, and supervisory or MES systems," says Bruce Jensen, manager of marketing and sales support at Yokogawa (www.yokogawa.com). "We are, in essence, a system integrator of our own products with other suppliers' subsystems, instrumentation or supervisory systems. We do this either turnkey, or in collaboration with an EPC. Rarely is it with an end user."
For smaller jobs, Yokogawa can handle everything internally. On big jobs, the need for CCE becomes more apparent. "As projects became bigger, several offices collaborate on various aspects of the design and implementation," explains Jensen. "Some very large EPCs may use a controlled software system, but most automation projects can be managed through internal networking with the project files located on a file server, accessible to all team members through internal security access. Communication between team members involves teleconferencing, videoconferencing and data conferencing using such software tools as NetMeeting, WebEx, PlaceWare or the like.
Similar systems are available from other DCS vendors, HMI/SCADA software developers, and manufacturing automation suppliers. One major problem is that the software may not work with anything else outside each particular company. Foxboro's WISE may not work with Rockwell's RSLogix5000 system, for example.
Let's Play Nice
One way to make everyone play well together is to purchase collaboration software from a reputable company. Intergraph offers "data-centric" engineering, design, and operation tools, such as SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant P&ID and[t2] INtools. Aspentech also has integrated engineering tools, such as the Aspen Engineering Suite, Zyqad collaborative engineering tools, and simulation and optimization packages. Where one company stops and the other starts is difficult to determine, because they have been joined at the sales hip since 1999, and market each other's products. All the two company's many tools interface in one way or another with DCSs, HMI/SCADA software, process historians, and other control packages.
Both are often employed at the same company, such as Fluor and Dow Chemical. Fluor, for example, used Aspentech software to help develop the gas processing plant mentioned above, but it also uses Intergraph's software.
It appears, however, that you just don't buy collaboration or CCE software and expect it to run all by itself. Considerable effort on your part may be involved.
When Aux Sable Liquid Products of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, decided to build a natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction plant in Channahon, Ill., it wanted to use CCE to help the project go smoothly. They hired Delta Hudson, a local EPC to do the engineering. Tom Pearson, project systems supervisor at Delta Hudson says they used Intergraph's PDS to achieve CCE. "It integrates all engineering disciplines through one interface, and links them to a common database," says Pearson. "This integration facilitates CCE. With tools such as SmartPlant Review, we are not only able to complete electronic squad checks across disciplines, but we are able to extend reviews directly to the customer."
However, Delta Hudson didn't just run PDS and Smart Plant Review all by itself. They had to run it with their own Online Project Systems (OPS) software.
Likewise, Bechtel employs a combination of software from vendors and its internally developed platforms to perform work globally. "We have our own dedicated Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity with server farms strategically located to enable our work execution," says Marshall. "Our hardware systems are constantly being optimized with regard to location and bandwidth requirements as requirements change."
Bechtel is using Intergraph's PDS, P&ID, 3DCADD and Smart Plant suite. "Many specialty design applications are integrated for data exchange by DataBroker, a Bechtel-developed application," explains Marshall.
Seems like an awful lot of trouble for a lone control engineer in a small plant, without access to the resources of a big EPC. "There are many software solutions on the market today that will enable concurrent and collaborative engineering and design," says Dow-Corning's Conklin, who has been using CCE since the 1990s. "However, software solutions have a cost associated with them, over and above the initial purchase costs.
Software solutions have a certain amount of infrastructure requirements, such as hardware, networks, ongoing/version maintenance, and training. So if you have a small facility some of these solutions can be cost prohibitive."
In that case, you might want to stick with CCE tools offered by your DCS vendor. All have collaboration software for the usual control system tasks. For example, SimSci-Esscor/Invensys (Lake Forest, Calif.), has its Comos FEED software, which ties front-end engineering to operation and maintenance and software from other Invensys operations.
You can also try National Instruments' DIAdem software. It integrates with NI's LabVIEW, has drivers for accessing various databases, and allows you to analyze, organize, report, and share data with multiple users. Other low-cost project management tools are available from a variety of vendors that will allow you to do CCE on a smaller scale.
Does collaborative engineering change the way plants are operated? After the plant's built, what then? Are there any operational problems stemming from collaborative engineering?
"Concurrent engineering in the operating plant will changefor the better—the way work processes are carried out," says Greer. "Concurrent Engineering is playing an increasingly important role in executing operations, such as routine maintenance, calibration, retrofits, RBI and reliability efforts and other ongoing engineering activities."
That may be true, but it only works if the end user is able to access the CCE materials after the project is over. "If there is sufficient documentation, and this means the "as-built" after startup, then this will normally present minimal problems," says Conklin. "We have typically not had any significant issues relating to this."
CCE-ing the Future
Is CCE a fad, or is it going to really change how we work together? It went away once in the 1990s because it didn't catch on.
"Concurrent engineering is definitely not a âtoy-du-jour,' " says Aragon. "It really is the way we are doing things and it's going to be around for a long time, as far as I can see."
"Sometimes we really like our little islands of engineering expertise, because it gives us power," says Conklin. "Working together and sharing knowledge and expertise are not normal behavior for many folks. Everyone brings their background and experience to the table, so each of us has something truly unique to share. It is from this sharing that we learn again and are able to add to our cumulative knowledge and experience base."
"Concurrent Engineering is here to stay," says Greer. "Supported by technology advances in software, hardware, networks and the Web, CCE will increasingly become an important way to improve work processes to increase profitability through plant operability, safety, efficiency, and constructability."
If you are letting DCS and EPC companies design and install your next system, maybe it's time to insist that they use CCE tools and techniques so that you will be able to access the drawings, documentation and data electronically, long after they are gone. Put it into your RFQ, so that the paper chase will be over on your next control system job.
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Rose is going to have to be voted in by the fans to make the all star game. At best, he'll be back mid-January. He won't be put in by the coaches based on 2 weeks (again, at best) of play.
I don't think Rose gets voted in. Wade will at guard, and so will LeBron and Melo. I think the other two will be Williams and Bosh.
I think the best shots are Hibbert (coaches, obviously with the rule changes), and Paul George because of his defense.
Hard to say Granger with his knee issue at the moment. This will give Paul a chance to really be 'the man' if Granger misses any time.
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Roy and Paul George have the best shot in my opinion.
Lots of crow to serve up from this thread. Ol Blu, looks like i got the best of you this time... Do you need my address to send the $50? If you won't do the money, I'll gladly take a snippet of text regarding the fact that you were dead wrong and i (and several other wiser Pacer fans) were right.
The one thing with this thread is that it was pre-Granger injury, at least in terms of him not playing at all for the first half of the season. It was also before Roy's offense fell apart.
Granger would certainly have hurt Paul's chances simply due to balanced scoring and DG having the ASG rep already.
In the vote thread between Paul and West I picked Paul, but West made a run at it for the reasons I said he would, so I don't feel too bad about my prediction. He was leading the team in scoring and had Paul not taken off then West certainly would have gone. As it was he was still in the mix.
Don't see how anyone would think the Pacers would have no reps unless they thought that WITH Danny and with Roy of last season they still wouldn't be a top 2-3 team. But then we also have a few pot stirrers and who knows how sincere they were being.


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Every year there is a long list of NASCAR drivers looking to bounce back from disappointing seasons.
Former winners who failed to reach victory lane or former championship contenders who didn't make the Chase. Some might have made it, but promptly fell on their face.
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The list of comeback candidates for 2013 is not only long but features a Who's Who of racing with some of the sport's top stars looking forward to wiping the 2012 slate clean and starting over.
A few of them likely will bounce back in a big way in 2013. But others will continue to slide and wind up on this list again next year.
A big factor will be the new Sprint Cup car, which will be a challenge for every driver and team. Some will figure it out quickly, others won't, leading to some surprising performances.
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Two years ago, one of the biggest debates in the sport was whether Kyle Busch was NASCAR's best driver — despite the fact that he had never won a championship. Busch was winning races at that kind of pace, visiting victory lane often in Sprint Cup and running roughshod over the competition in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck series.
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For the past 11 years, everyone has expected Jeff Gordon to bounce back strong and have a chance to win a fifth Cup championship. It's happened only twice — 2004, when he finished third in points, and 2007, when he won six races and finished second.
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He has six wins in the past five years but hasn't really been a factor in the championship race. Last year was a typical year. He won two races, but barely made the Chase — he needed a wild card and a spectacular performance in the final regular-season race to make it. Then, with momentum on his side, he wrecked with a stuck throttle at Chicago and quickly fell out of championship contention. Only a victory in the season finale at Homestead kept 2012 from being a complete disappointment.
Can Gordon bounce back and be a contender again in 2012?
Who knows?
The talent is still there, but at 41, he appears to be running out of time. And something appears to be missing with his Hendrick team, which has made plenty of mistakes and suffered a lot of misfortune the past two years.
He could bounce back. Or he could continue to fade into the twilight of his illustrious career.
5. Ryan Newman
Ryan Newman is one of the sport's most up-and-down drivers. He makes the Chase one year and misses it the next.
He won eight races in 2003, but has won multiple races only once since then. He has one win in each of the past three years, but has finished no better than ninth in points and has not lived up to expectations at Stewart-Haas Racing, missing the Chase twice.
His best bet to step up and be a serious factor again could be this season, when he is reunited with crew chief Matt Borland, who led Newman to 12 wins in four seasons at Penske Racing.
With only a one-year contract at Stewart-Haas, he has plenty of incentive to have a big year in 2013.
6. Kurt Busch
The 2012 season was a bad year for the Busch brothers. Kurt Busch, also regarded as one of NASCAR's top drivers, finished 25th in points while bouncing between two underachieving, single-car teams.
After a rough eight months at Phoenix Racing — just two top-10 finishes — Busch joined Furniture Row Racing in October.
Furniture Row, which has just one career victory, has more resources and potential than Phoenix Racing and Busch is capable of carrying it to another win. But a single-car team — especially one based in Denver, Colo. — faces long odds.
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WHEN the Melbourne Rebels team, which on Saturday lost 24-16 to an Israel Folau-inspired Waratahs in a pre-season trial in Hobart, was gradually unveiled in the lead-up to its first Super Rugby season in 2011, many questioned the prevalence of old hands nearing the end of their lengthy and often distinguished careers.
The effectiveness of these veterans was in many cases likely to be blunted by the struggles with years of serious injuries.
But heading into their third season, they have a vastly different look to the one that finished last (2011) and 13th (2012) on the back of a total of seven victories.
Led by three genuinely world-class players in James O'Connor, Kurtley Beale and Scott Higginbotham, the average age of the squad has dropped by several years and it is now fair to say the Rebels are a ''Dad's Army'' no more. They also have a group of blooded players who have been part of Wallabies squads in the past - Cadeyrn Neville, Hugh Pyle, Cooper Vuna and Mitch Inman - and officials are enthusiastic over a number of rookies who have continued to impress during pre-season training.
The club's expectations have had a dynamic shift with hooker Ged Robinson last week claiming that the finals series was well within reach this year and coach Damien Hill speaking of the change in training intensity with the younger bodies now at his disposal.
Sam Cordingley, who was 35 when he retired at the end of 2011 and has become the club's list manager, said the prerequisite for any player at the Rebels now was a desire to play at an even higher level.
''It's all about making sure that we are getting crowds coming in and people supporting us; that happens when you're winning. We're getting to that point now where we've got three genuine World XV players and a number of players who are developing underneath and the young kids are really going to push that performance culture from underneath.
''The key for any player we are looking to bring in, or even retain, is that they have to have aspirations higher than the Rebels, to play for the Wallabies. If you don't have that you really do have an issue.''
The older generation had been brought to Melbourne for a purpose. The Rebels needed big names to attract corporate and fan backing in a tough Victorian sporting market as well as call on their years of experience to establish a culture that would set the foundation for the club. Stirling Mortlock, Greg Somerville, Julian Huxley, Adam Freier, Al Campbell, Cordingley and even foundation coach Rod Macqueen were those who had the task of establishing the club but now do not have a direct game-day involvement.
''There was always going to be a transition in the playing group so now we're building a club effectively around some very good players who have been founding members, young guys who are developing coming through and we've also identified in our opinion some of the best young talent in Australian rugby and brought them into the club and hope they will be the backbone of the club for years to come,'' Cordingley said.
''I think we can say that to a certain extent for the first few years - not to suggest that mediocrity would be accepted - we were finding our feet and certainly there were probably some performances that we were disappointed with and that we would have liked to have improved.
''We are now … three years in and we want to be considered a fair-dinkum football club and it's heavily driven first by performance and by the culture and this year it's going to be very important for everyone in the club that we are successful because we can't just rely on the fact that we are a new side that hasn't got a great deal of rugby or is competing against another strong code.''
The Rebels this year filled seven of their possible extended foreign player allocation of eight spots. The concession drops to six next season and then falls in line with the other Australian teams of four in 2016.
Foundation player Jarrod Saffy said he had noticed a difference since returning to training from a serious neck injury.
''There's lot of young blood in [the] club, which has been great for enthusiasm and is driving that hard work through the club … it will serve us well this year,'' he said,
New Zealand import Scott Fuglistaller said that as an outsider in previous years he viewed the Rebels as an attractive attacking team but lacking in defence, a common criticism. Now that he was in the squad he could see the younger generation bringing in a harder edge.
''Youthful exuberance, that's what we need this year,'' he said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Turkey hunters should get plenty of calling action this spring, based on field reports of an abundance of Rio Grande gobblers observed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists.
"I have been getting reports from many of our field biologist and they all agree that this is going to be a good season in Rio Grande turkey country due to the 2007 spring and summer rains and mild temperatures," said Jason Hardin, TPWD turkey program coordinator. "Some of the guys mentioned last year seeing new poults as late as August. That probably means these birds had ample opportunity to re-nest two to three times over the summer. So, there should be lots of jakes seen, making it a fun year to call in lots of birds. There will be plenty of mature gobblers, as well, so hunters should not hesitate to get in the field."
Rio Grande spring turkey hunting season opens in the North Zone March 29 and runs through May 11. Special youth-only weekends are set for March 22-23 and May 17-28. The South Zone opens March 15 and runs through April 27, with youth-only weekends set for March 8-9 and May 3-4.
The spring eastern turkey season is open in 43 East Texas counties from April 1-30.
TPWD harvest surveys estimate nearly 88,000 hunters take part in Texas' spring turkey season and take about 23,000 gobblers. Most of the state's spring turkey hunting activity occurs in South Texas and in the Hill Country, where Hardin noted timely rainfall could give the bird population a boost.
"It wouldn't hurt to get a little rainfall to green it up," he said. "We still have some herbaceous plants on the ground, but it has been extremely dry in South Texas. The birds are still going to be active, but some rain would kick things off faster."
On the other hand, Hardin noted, there was too much rain in East Texas and many of the Eastern turkey poults did not survive. "Too much exposure in the first few weeks will lead to low survival," he explained. "However, the population as a whole is stable and will probably provide an average hunting season."
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"Hunters are probably not going to see a lot of young gobblers because we likely lost production due to rains throughout the nesting season last year," added Gary Calkins, TPWD district wildlife biologist in Jasper. "Where we have birds, we have birds."
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Next to the Versace mansion in South Beach's Art Deco District, this 8-story hotel is 2 blocks from popular nightclubs and 2 miles from Lincoln Road's pedestrian mall.
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Adjacent to Casa Casuarina—where Gianni Versace once welcomed the fashion set—Hotel Victor is located in the historic Art Deco area of Miami Beach, a block from the Atlantic Ocean.
Hotel Victor's lobby features a large jellyfish tank and lounges on 2 levels. An exterior courtyard and large terraces extend the hotel's public spaces to the balmy outdoors. Complimentary WiFi is available throughout the hotel. Hotel amenities include the Sugar Factory, offering American cuisine throughout the day. View Terrace offers alfresco dining on the second level overlooking Ocean Drive and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Small-caps closed weak for the first time in 2013 but good earnings reports kept the senior indices chugging along. It was somewhat deceptive action as breadth was 2450 gainers to 2950 losers.
Despite pockets of softness, the bears still couldn't manage to make a dent in this market. They still hope that we'll see a negative reaction to earnings, but Netflix (NFLX) is continuing the trend of beating low expectations and is up more than $25 after hours on its earnings report. Obviously, Apple (AAPL) is going to deliver the big fireworks.
I want to point out again that the market still has not done anything wrong. Softness like we saw today is actually healthy consolidation rather than an indication that a top is forming. We still aren't seeing negative price action, although bulls and bears are looking hard for signs that its time to hit the exits.
Even though I'm still bullish, it becomes tedious when we don't have better volatility. It is nice to have a little downside action now and then just to shake things up and give us new opportunities. But in this market, the tendency is toward very lopsided, one-way action. If you aren't in, you don't have any easy entry points.
Will the mighty AAPL help keep the uptrend going? We'll find out shortly.
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A's Place OF Coco Crisp and LHP Brett Anderson on the Disabled List
Oakland A's placed outfielder Coco Crisp on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to April 30 with a strained left hamstring and added left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson to the 15-day DL effective today with a sprained right ankle, the club announced today. To fill their roster spots, the A's have selected catcher Luke Montz and recalled right-handed pitcher Dan Straily, both from Triple-A Sacramento.
Crisp was batting .283 with five home runs and 12 RBI in 24 games before leaving the game in the 13th inning Monday with the hamstring injury. He ranks second in the American League in runs (24), tied for second in stolen bases (8), third in extra base hits (16), tied for fourth in doubles (10) and walks (17), tied for seventh in total bases (55) and eighth in slugging (.556). This is his seventh career stint on the DL, his fourth in four seasons with the A's.
Anderson is 1-4 with a 6.21 ERA in six games with the A's, including five starts. He was scratched from Monday's start but ended up entering the game in the 13th inning and pitching 5.1 innings of relief. This is Anderson's fifth career stint on the DL.
Montz was batting .283 with five home runs and 12 RBI in 15 games with Triple-A Sacramento. He also had six doubles for a .679 slugging percentage and 11 walks for a .406 on-base percentage. The 29-year-old right-handed hitter appeared in eight games at catcher, five at designated hitter and two at first base. Montz last appeared in a Major League game September 28, 2008 at Philadelphia while playing for Washington. He hit .143 in 10 games that year, his only action in the majors.
Straily was on the A's Opening Day roster and started the fifth game of the season, an 8-3 victory at Houston April 5. He struck out a career-high 11 batters in a career-high tying 6.2 innings but was optioned to Sacramento the next day when Bartolo Colón was reinstated from the suspended list. Straily went 3-0 with a 0.96 ERA in three starts with the River Cats before he was recalled on Monday to start for Anderson. He allowed six runs on seven hits in 4.2 innings and had a no decision in the A's 19-inning win. Straily was optioned to Sacramento yesterday and is 1-0 with a 6.35 ERA in two starts with Oakland this year.