Overland Park, Kansas (PRWEB) February 27, 2015

According to the Center of Disease Control (http://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/2008/brainInjuries), more than 38 million children and adolescents participate in sports in the United States each year. As a result of this growing number, new and existing facilities are reaching capacity maximizing their equipment and square footage creating a need for preventative maintenance to ceiling suspended athletic equipment.

"Athletic facilities are hosting a record number of sporting events annually," says Stephen Spoonhour, President , Spoonball Sports. "With this amount of activity and parents entrusting these facilities with the safety of their children; building and maintaining safe state-of-the-art facilities has never been more important. I grew up in and around athletic facilities most of my life and a lot has changed over the years." Stephen, son of Charlie Spoonhour who was a Division 1 basketball coach at Missouri State, Saint Louis University and UNLV. "I know that parents, school administrators and facility owners expect nothing but safety for their athletes and spectators at these facilities. Having a preventative maintenance program in place not only provides peace of mind, it also ensures some accidents can be prevented."

"Most schools utilize their own buildings and grounds crews to perform maintenance when problems arise but not at a preventative level. These same buildings and grounds crews are typically responsible for an entire campus and may not be properly trained or have the correct tools to work on items that may cause serious damage or harm." Spoonball Sports offers a preventative maintenance program that partners with buildings and grounds crews to ensure all points of athletic equipment and facilities are functioning properly and provides safety reports for insurance purposes.

Spoonhour comments, "Ceiling suspended basketball structures are mostly overlooked when athletic facilities perform annual maintenance. Equipment manufacturers recommend these structures have full-point safety inspections performed every one to two years depending on the specific athletic equipment age and facility usage." Facility managers or grounds crews are asked to perform work on these massive units weighting between 900-1,200lbs each depending on the ceiling heights, often they are unaware of the dangers and liabilities that lurk around the corner if not completed correctly.

"In the event of a cable failure for example," says Spoonhour, "a ceiling suspended basketball structure would go into a free-swing mode typically shattering the glass backboard, damaging support pipes, ceiling beams and attachment locations which may lead to support pipes falling to the ground putting athletes and spectators at risk. This type of safety concern may be reduced or eliminated completely with safety strap installations at each ceiling suspended structure that raises or lowers by cables."

Notable items installed in ceilings at gymnasiums throughout the United States include: Basketball Structures, Batting Cages, Divider Curtains, Wrestling Mat Hoists and Scoreboards.

Preventative maintenance includes providing proper torque to each ceiling attachment bolt and beam clamp, aircraft cable is free of kinks or damage, cable clamps are secure with back-ups, pulleys are installed in the proper alignment to minimize stress on motors, lubrication is applied to all moving parts to prevent wear and tear and motor limit switches are set to correct height.

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A combination of multiple days of below zero temperatures, ice and snow accumulation and frozen gutters have caused problems at Maysville's Cox Building.

On Monday, Tourism Director Suzie Pratt entered the lobby of the building, only to discover water on the floor. When she arrived in her second floor office, she found more water, both on the office floor and dripping from the ceiling. Her next stop was the building's third floor grand ballroom, which also had water accumulated on the hardwood floor and dripping from several spots on the ceiling.

City employees are unsure when the leaks began, since there were no special events scheduled at the building over the weekend.

The cause of the problem, according to City Manager Ray Young and David Hord, project coordinator for the city, is the building's box gutters at the roof line. From the exterior box gutters appear to be on the outside of the building, when in reality, the guttering system is on the inside between the brick facade and the walls of the building. Box gutters have always been on the Cox Building since its construction in 1886 and were part of the $10 million restoration of the building after a fire in 2010.

Young said because of the accumulation of ice and snow in the gutters and continuous days of freezing temperatures, the ice/water backed up into the gutters. The result has been for the water to find its way into the walls of the building because of the inability to drain through the frozen gutters.

"Our main focus is to get the water out of the drains," Young said Thursday during a walk-through of the building. To accomplish that, the Maysville Fire Department has been on site two days with its ladder truck to reach the gutters and break up the ice and snow. Snow accumulation on the building's slate roof has been removed, as well as around the turret on the northwest corner. The purpose has been to keep more snow from accumulating into the gutters and to prevent it from falling onto the sidewalk below, which could cause a safety hazard to pedestrians.

Since the discovery of the water on Monday, industrial size fans and dehumidifiers have been running full-time in the ballroom and office to dry out the walls and ceilings. Pockets of water accumulation on the ceiling have been drained and the damage so far has been limited. The signature Masonic Mural on the eastern wall of the ballroom was not damaged. Damage appears to be kept mainly to the northern side of the building, which gets limited sunshine.

Young said an event scheduled for the ballroom for Feb. 28 has been moved to the Maysville Conference Center.

Young said the city will get two estimates to fix the ceilings, walls and hardwood floors, which have buckled and there is damage to the finish. It is hoped the buckling of the floors will correct itself as the floors dry out.

To remedy the problem in the future, Young said the estimates will include the installation of heat strips for the box gutters. Young said although the winter of 2014 included snow and freezing temperatures, the gutters worked fine because there weren't continuous days of below freezing temperatures like there has been this year.

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Almost brushing architect Louis Kahns famed tetrahedral ceiling with his curly locks, the contemporary American artist Christopher Daze Ellis stood atop a ladder, painting in the geometric clipped-corner tile shapes that are part of a multi-section mural he is creating in the lower level of the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG).

As part of a 20-day residence at Yale spread over several months, Daze is painting the floor-to-ceiling,12-tall-by-36-long mural with the help of a few Yale art student volunteers. Those students are getting the experience of painting with an internationally recognized muralist with two works presently on display in YUAGs modern and contemporary arts section.

Yale junior Annelisa Leinback (pictured), who has periodically assisted with mural sketching and painting from the beginning of the project, said the murals theme of freedom resonated with her. She also found it amazing that something I helped with will be part of a permanent installation.

Dazes bio chronicles over three decades of mural making from the United States to Paris and Beijing. His work has included a mural for the Star ferry terminal in Hong Kong, lectures at Hofstra University and the Bronx Museum, completing the design of an entire train station in Hannover, Germany alongside fellow artists Lee Quinones and Crash, youth workshops with kids during the Hutuz festival in Rio de Janeiro, and completing a mural for the Vivo City shopping center in Singapore. He has pieces in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of New York, The Groniger Museum in the Netherlands, and the Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany.

Dazes trajectory as a successful artist has been the result of reinvention and a willingness to challenge himself. People that are real artists always step it up a notch. They continue to try to make it interesting for themselves they continually challenge themselves, he said in an interview after a recent painting session at YUAG.

Dazes bold, graphic compositions reveal elements of a spirited visual vocabulary rooted in the work of his early years in New York as a graffiti artist or writer, an era from which he emerged as an international legend of the aerosol medium. One of the early sales of his work after his transition to canvas was made in the company of 20th-century icons Keith Haring and Jean-Michele Basquiat, with whom he had several collaborations.

Opening his first studio in his late teens began a period of work that, perhaps more than anything, marked a turning point in his career as an artist. He used proceeds from one of his earliest sales to buy more art supplies. I didnt know how long this was going to last and at least when times were slow, Id still be able to work.

Daze noted that his new mural at Yale, painted exclusively with a brush, is different from others hes done. I primarily do murals with spray paint, but because of restrictions within the museum, I couldnt use spray paint, so my approach to it is more like doing a painting on canvas. Its kind of a first. Im able to work much faster with spray paint. This is taking longer, but Im embracing the process as something different. Its good to get out of the box and out of your comfort zone.

Part of getting out of his comfort zone will be undertaking an entirely new medium, as the artist produces a limited edition of etchings working alongside Yale School of Art student Mauricio Cortes Ortega.

Ive never done any etching before so Im learning about that process as I go said Daze.

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PennDOT will go ahead with this weekend's planned closure of the inbound Fort Pitt Tunnel despite a forecast of snow on Saturday.

The tunnel will close at 10 tonight and is not scheduled to reopen until 6 a.m. Monday as crews continue removing the tunnel ceiling. Traffic will detour through the West End.

Port Authority will open the Wabash Tunnel to inbound traffic as an alternate route from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The tunnel can be reached by exiting the Parkway West to Route 51 south and turning left at Woodruff Street.

PennDOT also plans to close the Parkway West in both directions between Interstate 79 and Green Tree on Monday night for installation of an overhead sign structure, weather permitting. The closure will begin at 10 p.m. and the highway will reopen by 6 a.m. Tuesday.

A full overnight closure also is possible on Tuesday night depending upon how the Monday work proceeds, spokesman Steve Cowan said.

Also planned to begin on Monday are overnight single-lane closures in the inbound Fort Pitt Tunnel, which will occur on weeknight through the end of the year. The restrictions will be in place from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

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Wilmington, NC (PRWEB) February 17, 2015

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The Intracoastal Angler is a great bait & tackle shop along the coastline providing the best knowledge and equipment for people who want to fish in the Wilmington area. This building will be receiving a standing seam roof with a double pitch which opens the shop up with a high ceiling making everything larger inside.

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Voter approval needed for plan to finish hospital

Bond money for the Tehachapi Hospital construction in Capital Hills may run out in November, seven months before it's slated for completion, according to a project manager report.

And that's not the only thing facing the hospital.

Stacey Pray, the project manager retained by Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District, noted at the Feb. 12 district building and committee meeting that unless the hospital secures some additional funding, the hospital construction may not be finished.

Pray said at the Feb. 12 committee meeting that she plans to stop construction at $5 million for wind down and contractor retention purposes.

The project faces a $14.7 million projected shortfall, including construction and equipment. The district's board of directors decided in October to phase out the construction of the hospital. The exterior would be completed, along with emergency care, surgery center, radiology and the kitchen. Obstetrics, intensive care, the public dining and cafeteria and administration will remain shells.

That $14.7 million includes a fully equipped surgery center, which needs to be included in the scope per California Department of Public Health since TVHD had listed it as one of the services it could offer. Pray said the district could only partially equip the surgery suite, driving down costs.

The district has spent $37.9 million to date from approximately $66.7 million in bond revenue funding the construction.

The hospital has a $83 million price tag, including construction and equipment. Pray told committee members that had the district built out the entire hospital lock, stock and barrel, it would cost close to $92 million.

Eugene Suksi, the district's chief executive officer, said that while the district might run out of bond money, the district affiliation process may offer a reprieve.

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