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Thank You HeadphoneAddict for a concise personal reading of the W3 phones. One quick question for you though, what is the difference in soundstage between the Limewires and the W3?
Awesome review. I can't wait to go back to HK and audition the TF10 and UM3 side by side as my next upgrade.
Headphoneaddict, did you ever try custom tips with the TF10? I'm considering getting a pair for my SF5pro because its not too expensive to do so, and was wondering how they would affect the TF10. Whichever one I end up getting, however, I definitely will go for custom tips.
You the difference between Westone 3 and Triple.Fi is THAT noticeable?
It's not like something subtle, but a "new league"?
Good night!! Someone was busy writing a review while they were supposed to be eating turkey and watching football over the weekend. ;-)
Thanks for the in-depth review HA. Appreciate the history of your listening experience as well!
Also, I didn't start my writeup until after all the turkey was gone
Nice to see there's no real disagreements between what Voltron and I posted over the weekend, and what Larry posted this morning
Especially the bits about a very coherent freq graph and the decay.. oh boy.. the decay.. Either we're all deaf, or they really are GREAT IEMs
Larry, how do yours sound on a tube amp? I'm getting a lot of background tube noise on mine, and I get none at all on ALL my other headphones or IEMS. These 3's seem a little sensitive with my DV amp.. I'm sure you know the one
I have not tried them on a desktop amp yet. Later I will try them on the Millett SSH, EF1, and WA6. I know my WA6 has always been a little quieter than my old DV336i was with very sensitive headphones. Then maybe I'll try the Headfive and Travagans Red and HR Micro Amp that I have at the bedside rig, and then the Single Power Square Wave XL and Apogee mini-DAC hp out. It all takes time, but it isn't likely that I will be using IEM with a tube amp.
The W3 are definitely more sensitive than my Image X10 or IM716, but they are not as sensitive or hissy as my Livewires, Freq Show and SE530 customs. Have you tried a volume attenuator to hush the noise, or changing tubes? I bet my Sylvania Bad Boy 6SN7 that I saved would be a good match for the W3
You have done a masterful job setting the stage for this long awaited product. [snip] Larry, thank you for taking us there and helping us to yearn for such a fine product to be part of our lives. You done good! You rock!
Here in Texas, we'd say, "That Larry, he's good people."
Let's not get carried away here... I'm sure they are great and all, but...
I'm a bit concerned with the lack of treble that seems to be a ubiquitous statement with these, even if downplayed a bit because of the excitement in how they sound - Adjusted for FOTM hype, I think this might be a serious issue for those that like treble leaning headphones???? That's the issue that kept the E500s from working as all around IEMs for me.
These have some of the best treble I have heard in an IEM, and clearly passed up the SE530 the first time I heard the W3 for a direct comparison (using the same tip first on the SE530 and then on the W3). The treble is at least as extended and present as my de-podded IM716 (at any impedance from 5 ohm - 102 ohm) and better than Klipsch Image X10 as well. If the UE11Pro have more treble those are likely not the IEM for me, and I am a person who actually likes SR-325i treble too.


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Gooser ; you left off the best celebrity shooter of all time....Robert Stack aka Elliot Ness of the original Untouchables...he is in the NSSA Hall of Fame, he actually won a World Championship in his younger days
a couple of other Hollyweird people that know their way around a shotgun
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Those guys you addressed did indeed shoot,, and very well also.
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posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 10:27 am
I've created 50 imputed data sets using MPLUS, and have been running some structural equation models. I'd like to do nested model comparisons to test some equality constraints, but am not sure this is acceptable. In addition I've been using MLR, and no correction factor is provided, so it looks like Satorra-Bentler is not possible? (I haven't seen anything on this in the imputation literature, but am still trying to run down Craig Ender's book; references would be nice if you know of any).
Tihomir Asparouhov
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Currently the only likelihood ratio test available with imputations is the ML estimator (for testing unrestricted against a structural model).
You can easily however use the Wald test for your testing purposes with imputation. Look at page 618 "Model Test" command.
George Howe
posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 12:57 pm
Thanks, Tihomir, I'd wondered about that. Worked fine!
shaun goh
posted on Saturday, March 09, 2013 - 9:30 pm
I'm wondering how to compare two nested models from 2 multiple imputed data sets in a multi-group, LGC setting.
I am interested in group differences of trajectories - differences in the means of the latent factors of the growth curves between 2 groups. I was going to constrain the means to equality and employ chi-sq testing, but am unsure how to conduct likelihood testing with multiple imputed data. Is there a way to do so in Mplus
(i.e. by "Model Test" or by hand-calculation of chi-sq differences?)
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 7:31 am
You can use MODEL TEST. Difference testing using chi-square or the loglikelihood has not yet been developed for multiple imputation.
shaun goh
posted on Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 4:21 pm
Thanks Linda, I will utilise MODEL TEST.
I was wondering, if difference testing using chi-square/loglikelihood/fit statistics have not yet been developed for multiple imputation, how does MODEL TEST run a valid test for equivalence between two nested models in the multiple imputation context?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 - 10:56 am
MODEL TEST uses a Wald test. It is not based on the loglikelihood.
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Hi Linda,
can I used the MODEL TEST option with the WLSMV estimator?
Linda K. Muthen
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Christoph Weber
posted on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 12:59 am
Dear Mplus-Team!
to clear things up (may be a silly question):
How does the Model test option calcultes the Wald test of parameter constraints?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, July 18, 2014 - 1:15 pm
See the following link:
Fabian Kirsch
posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2017 - 5:43 am
Dear MPlus-Team,
I am currently working with multiply imputed data sets and want to compare models. I used the model test command (Wald tests) as were recommended in this thread, and this worked fine.
However, I wonder whether there is a publication (or something like that) that I can refer to (cite) to argue that traditional chi-square difference tests are not yet implemented when using multiple imputation?
Thank you in advance
Fabian Kirsch
Bengt O. Muthen
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Refer to our short course on this topic (see Missing Data).
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:24 PM GMT on September 22, 2007
Tropical Depression Ten moved ashore last night over the Florida Panhandle, bringing rains of 1-5 inches over the region (Figure 1). The most serious weather associated with the depression occurred when a tornado ripped through Eustis, Florida at 11 pm Friday night. The EF-1 tornado had winds up to 105 mph, and damaged about 100 homes. The remnants of TD Ten are over southern Mississippi this morning, and additional severe weather or heavy rain is not expected.
Figure 1. Estimated rainfall for TD 10 from the Tallahassee, Florida radar.
Western Caribbean disturbance 94L
An area of disturbed weather in the western Caribbean between the Yucatan Peninsula and Jamaica is associated with a surface trough of low pressure. NHC designated this area "94L" this morning. Satellite loops show that the heavy thunderstorm activity has increased today in the region, but remains disorganized. A buoy in the region recorded sustained winds of 31 knots, gusting to 35 at 4:50 am EDT. The winds have since subsided to 20 knots. Cancun radar shows heavy rains have already moved ashore over the eastern Yucatan. This morning's QuikSCAT pass showed no signs of a circulation, and very little evidence of even a wind shift in the region. Thus, the earliest I expect 94L can become a tropical depression is Sunday afternoon. An Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate 94L Sunday afternoon.
This disturbance will bring heavy rains to Belize, Cozumel, Cancun, and western Cuba today as it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula. Moisture streaming northwards from the disturbance will also cause locally heavy rains across the Florida Peninsula. Wind shear has dropped to about 10 knots over the disturbance, and the NOGAPS and GFS models predict this shear will stay low enough to allow a tropical depression to form on Sunday when 94L crosses into the Gulf of Mexico. By Monday afternoon, my best guess is that 94L will make landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border. That doesn't give it much time to organize into a tropical depression or tropical storm. Today's 12Z (8 am EDT) run of the GFDL model did not develop 94L. The 12Z SHIPS model developed it into a 45-mph tropical storm by Monday morning. Regardless, Texas and/or Louisiana can expect very heavy rains Monday and Tuesday from this system.
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A few clumps of heavy thunderstorm activity exist along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), about 800-1200 miles east of the southernmost Lesser Antilles. This activity is moving west at 10-15 mph, and is very disorganized. Nevertheless, the region is under only about 10 knots of wind shear, so we will need to watch this area for development. A tropical wave near 6N, 23W, about 60 miles south of the Cape Verdes Islands off the coast of Africa, has some vigorous thunderstorm activity associated with it. This morning's 4:30 am EDT ASCAT pass showed a nearly complete circulation, and visible satellite images also show a fair bit of spin. This wave has the potential to develop into a tropical depression early next week as it moves westward at 15 mph.
I'll be traveling Sunday, and will not post a blog if the Western Caribbean disturbance fizzles. Otherwise, I'll post something late Sunday afternoon when the Hurricane Hunter mission sends back data.
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being a former military brat, it just burns me up about the thought of military not being afforded the opportunity to vote absentee....you would think this administration would want them to vote since they are mostly in favor of Ron Paul
seriously the difference in Virginia which has a substantial military vote could be a game changer
The Dems have always been against the military. We knew it when I was in back in the early '80s... If it was up to them, we would not have a dept of defense.
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I dont think there has ever been an election where they tried to make it so difficult for the military to vote Obama knows they dont support him. Hillary said today she will tell us about Libya sometime after the election. These are some lying sneaky people.
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Goebbels Literary Prize. Seig Heil!
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Hey, comrade zeuss, could you "snopes" this for us???
Wisconsin absentee ballots for military voters sent after deadline
By: John Hayward
If you are a member of the U.S. military on deployment, and you hail from the state of Wisconsin, please know that you have the heartfelt thanks of every patriotic American for your service… but you might not be able to vote in the 2012 election.
That's because, as reported by the MacIver Institute, "At least 30 Wisconsin municipalities failed to send absentee ballots to military voters before the 45 day deadline, according to former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Anthony Principi, and he's demanding the Government Accountability Board address the problem immediately."
The deadline was calculated using the estimated length of time required to send, complete, and return absentee ballots. This creates a strong risk that military ballots won't be returned in time to be counted in the election. The deadline was not an idle suggestion – it's part of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voter Act.
"This violation is particularly unsettling in light of the fact that, only six months ago, a federal court entered a consent decree against Wisconsin and the Government Accountability Board for similar violations of military voting rights," Principi pointed out. He said these violations "may deprive service members of their fundamental right to vote."
Principi wrote on behalf of the Romney campaign, which has asked the Government Accountability Board to push back the deadline for receiving absentee military ballots, to fully account for the failure of these Wisconsin municipalities to send them by the prescribed date. The GAB says this would require a court order.
Furthermore, the Federal Voting Assistance Program gave Wisconsin service members an incorrect deadline for submission of their absentee ballots on its website, listing the return date as seven days after the actual deadline, prompting action from House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren (R-CA). The Defense Department rushed to address the situation by emailing every Wisconsin service member with the correct deadline.
"It's alarming to know that an untold number of our men and women in uniform were provided incorrect information," Lungren said last week, when this little snafu was discovered by the MacIver News Service. "This is an unacceptable error that cannot continue. Whether it's from the battle field or at the ballot box, our men and women in uniform deserve to have their vote counted."
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Mmm. I forgot about that (the return with older receipt thing).
I was just there and got Spock and Uhura extras to hold for a bridge crew for the next movie - just in case.
My cat is having surgery today and I was up late last night with her in the emergency room, so I'm tired today and not thinking too clearly about all this.
Roojay: Star Trek figures head / hand swap really easily. Yeah I suppose you could put McCoy on Spock's body and Chekov on a Kirk body, then put Kirk's head on Chekov's body.
For Spock in the Academy days, just take his hands off before you paint the McCoy cadet body in gray or charcoal.
I still hold onto hope that Playmates will release the 2nd wave. Star Trek proved far more popular than Terminator.


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Wimple wrote:DBear wrote:Was there anything in the Irvine clue that would lead to Ca?
I got it as I lived there for 5 years and also you pass that RV park on the 5. I never considered Irvine particularly famous tho and wouldn't have gotten it otherwise.
Also - shoe peg corn was described as "popular". Popular with who?
Got final by means of a total WAG.
I agree it's difficult to pick something distinguishing about Irvine other than UC Irvine ("Zot!"). A city of 200,000+ awash in the Southern California metropolis. In most states, it would be a big deal.
As for the RV park, I recognized it on an HGTV "House Hunters"-style RV show a month or two ago, although even there they simply said it was south of Los Angeles.


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If you're travelling through the Capitol Reef area in Utah, the Luna Mesa is a required stop. Tell 'em, Ron sent you.
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Santa Maria de Los Angles mission (1767), abandoned in 1800s. Tranquill oasis and desert in full bloom. Boojum tree or cirio (pronounced as sirius) and cacti.
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West Coast Commercial Fisheries in Trouble
Saw an article in our local newspaper today that was on the 'plight' of the comemrcial fishermen her on the West Coast.
The amazing thing about the article was the fishermen blaming the government for their plight. The fishermen claimed the government (both federal and state) encouraged them to increase their efficiency at catching fish beginning in 1976. How did the government do this? Glad you asked. The comercial boys claimed the government did this because the federal government increased the sole fishing waters limit out ot 200 miles from shore. The increase in U.S. fishing mileage from shore caused the commercial boys to go out and buy bigger and more efficient boats and gear.
Amazing how the increased enforcement out to 200 mmiles offshore was responsible for the fishing fleet to expand and get bigger boats and more efficient gear! Anyhow, the areticle goes on t0 talk about the 'poor commercial fishermen' who only did what the government asked them (er encouraged them) to do. now the commercial boys are facing diminishing returns. They can fish fewer days per year, can't fish in some areas at all (and they claim this is not fair because "there is no evidence that fish stocks are being depleted"), are one of the most regulated industries in the U.S., and can't get a good price for the fish they do catch. They also claim that they have had their catchreduced without the governemtn having good data to show that fish stocks are in trouble.
The commercial boys go on to say that they are unfairly being treated by the government who is giving farmers price supports and environmentalist who are claiming that long line nets are akin to srip minining the ocean. This of course, according to the commercial boys, means that the fovernment should be giving them money for there lack of opportunity to fish, low prices they are getting for the fish they do catch, and because the govenment caused them to go out and catch more fish.
The author of the article does point out in the last 2 to 3 paragraphs (only a small portion of the complete article and it was on a different page in the newspaper as well) that overfishing by the commercial fleet has actually caused the problem, just like it did in New England, through overfishing.
We fishermen can hope that this is the beginning of a reduction in the commercial fishing fleet along with having sustainable harvest levels (read reduced) established. I do wonder if the rest of us taxpayers will have to pay off the commercial boys here on the West Coast for not fishing despite the fact that they lobbied for increased fishing opportunity, increased harvest limits, and the allowance of longer and more efficient nets.
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my God , another stupid ...whatever it is ....
im in this forum from day one, when we had real useful stuff ....now its like big joke. i end up coming here just so i can laugh.
You people are so one-minded.
What if you don't need the progress bar if you have installed the percentage feature? You can see the whole app and the percentage is your progress.
Sure, it's nothing groundbreaking, but that's the beauty of the jailbreak community, there's always something for everyone, not just whatever is expected or what the majority wants/needs.
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IT is to be feared that intimate acquaintance with Lady Calmady's present attitude of mind would not have proved altogether satisfactory to that ardent idealist Honoria St. Quentin. For, unquestionably, as the busy weeks of the London season went forward, Katherine grew increasingly far from "hating it all." At first she had found the varied interests and persons presented to her, the rapid interchange of thought, the constant movement of society, slightly bewildering. But, as Julius March page: 293 had foretold, old habits reasserted themselves. The great world, and the ways of it, had been familiar to her in her youth. She soon found herself walking in its ways again with ease, and speaking its language with fluency. And this, though in itself of but small moment to her, procured her, indirectly, a happiness as greatly desired as it had been little anticipated.
For to Richard the great world was, as yet, something of an undiscovered country. Going forth into it he felt shy and diffident, though a lively curiosity possessed him. The gentler and more modest elements of his nature came into play. He was sensible of his own inexperience, and turned with instinctive trust and tender respect to her in whom experience was not lacking. He had never, so he told himself, quite understood how fine a lady his mother was, how conspicuous was her charm and distinguished her intelligence. And he clung to her, grown man though he was, even as a child, entering a bright room full of guests, clings to its mother's hand, finding therein much comfort of encouragement and support. He desired she should share all his interests, reckoning nothing worth the doing in which she had not a part. He consulted her before each undertaking, talked and laughed over it with her in private afterwards, thereby unconsciously securing to her halcyon days, a honeymoon of the heart of infinite sweetness, so that she, on her part, thanked God and took courage.
And, indeed, it might very well appear to Katherine that her heroic remedy was on the road to work an effectual cure. The terror of lawless passion and of evil, provoked by that fair woman clothed as with the sea‐waves, crowned and shod with gold, whom she had withstood so manfully in spirit in the wild autumn night, departed from her. She began to fear no more. For surely her son was wholly given back to her—his heart still free, his life still innocent? And, not only did this terror depart, but her anguish at his deformity was strangely lessened, the pain of it lulled as by the action of an anodyne. For, witnessing the young man's popularity, seeing him so universally courted and welcomed, observing his manifest power of attraction, she began to ask herself whether she had not exaggerated the misfortune of that same deformity and the impediment that it offered to his career and chances of personal happiness. She had been morbid, hypersensitive. The world evidently saw in his disfigurement no such horror and hopeless bar to success as she had seen. It was therefore a dear world, a world rich in consolation and promise. It smiled upon Richard, and so she smiled upon it, gratefully, trustfully, finding in the plenitude of page: 294 her thankfulness no wares save honest ones set out for sale in the booths of Vanity Fair. A large hopefulness arose in her. She began to form projects calculated, as she believed, to perpetuate the gladness of the present.
Among other tender customs of Richard's boyhood into which Katherine, at this happy period, drifted back was that of going, now and again, to his room at night, and gossiping with him, for a merry yet somewhat pathetic half‐hour, before herself retiring to rest. It fell out that, towards the middle of June, there had been a dinner‐party at the Barkings, on a scale of magnificence unusual even in that opulent house. It was not the second, or even the third, time Richard and his mother had dined in Albert Gate. For Lady Louisa had proved the most assiduously attentive of neighbours. Little Lady Constance Quayle was with her. The young girl had brightened notably of late. Her prettiness was enhanced by a timid and appealing playfulness. She had been seized, moreover, with one of those innocent and absorbing devotions towards Lady Calmady that young girls often entertain towards an elder woman, following her about with a sort of dog‐like fidelity, and watching her with eyes full of wistful admiration. On the present occasion the guests at the Barking dinner had been politicians of distinction—members of the then existing Government. A contingent of foreign diplomatists from the various embassies had been present, together with various notably smart women. Later there had been a reception, largely attended, and music, the finest that Europe could produce and money could buy.
"Louisa climbs giddy heights," Mr. Quayle had said to himself, with an attempt at irony. But, in point of fact, he was far from displeased, for it appeared to him the house of Barking showed to uncommon advantage to‐night.—"Louisa has no staying power in conversation, and her voice is too loud, but in snippets she is rather impressive," he added. "And, oh! how very diligent is Louisa!"
Driving home, Richard kept silence until just as the brougham drew up, then he said abruptly:—
"Tired? No—that's right. Then come and sit with me. I want to talk. I haven't an ounce of sleep in me somehow to‐night."
It was hot, and when, some three‐quarters of an hour later, Katherine entered the big bedroom on the ground floor the upper sashes of the window were drawn low behind the blinds, letting in the muffled roar of the great city as an undertone to the intermittent sound of footsteps, or the occasional passing of page: 295 a belated carriage or cab. It formed an undertone, also, to Richard's memory of the music to which he had lately listened, and the delight of which was still in his ears and pulsing in his blood, making his blue eyes bright and dark and curving his handsome lips into a very eloquent smile as he lay back against the piled‐up pillows of the bed.
"Good heavens, how divinely Morabita sang," he said, looking up at his mother as she stood looking down on him, "better even than in Faust last night! I want to hear her again just as often as I can. Her voice carries one right away, out of oneself, into regions of pure and unmitigated romance. All things are possible for the moment. One becomes as the gods, omnipotent. We've got the box as usual on Saturday, mother, haven't we? Do you remember if she sings?"
Katherine replied that the great soprano did sing.
"I'm glad," Richard said. "And yet I don't know that it's particularly wholesome to hear her. After being as the gods, one descends with rather too much of a run to the level of the ordinary mortal."—He turned on his elbow restlessly, and the movement altered the lie of the bedclothes, thereby disclosing the unsightly disproportion of his person through the light blanket and sheet.—"And if one's own level happens unfortunately to be below that of even the ordinary mortal—well—well—don't you know"—
"My dear!" Katherine put in softly.
Richard lay straight on his back again, and held out his hand to her.
"Sit down, do," he said. "Turn the big chair round so that I may see you. I like you in that frilly, white, dressing‐gown thing. Don't be afraid, I'm not going to be a brute and grumble. You're much too good to me, and I know I am disgustingly selfish at times. I was this winter, but"—
"The past is past," Katherine put in again very softly.
"Yes, please God, it is," he said,—"in some ways."—He paused, and then spoke as though with an effort, returning from some far distance of thought:—"Yes, I like you in that white, frilly thing. But I liked that new, black gown of yours to‐night too. You looked glorious, do you mind my saying so? And no woman walks as well as you do. I compared, I watched. There's nothing more beautiful than seeing a woman walk really well—or a man either, for that matter."
Then he caught at her hand again, laughing a little.—"No, I'm not going to grumble," he said. "Upon my word, mother, I swear I'm not. Here let's talk about your gowns. I should page: 296 like to know, shall you never wear anything but grey or black?"
"Never, not even to please you, Dickie."
"Ah, that's so delicious with you!" he exclaimed. "Every now and then you bring one up short, one knocks one's head against a stone wall! There is an indomitable strain in you. I only hope you've transmitted it to me. I'm afraid I need stiffening.—I beg your pardon," he added quickly and courteously, "it strikes me I am becoming slightly impertinent. But that woman's voice has turned my brain and loosed the string of my tongue so that I speak words of unwisdom. You enjoyed her singing too, though, didn't you? I thought so, catching sight of you while it was going on, attended by the faithful Ludovic and little Lady Constance. It's quite touching to see how she worships you. And wasn't Miss St. Quentin with you too? Yes, I thought so. I can't quite make up my mind about Honoria St. Quentin. Sometimes she strikes me as one of the loveliest women here—and she can walk, if you like, it's a joy to see her. And then again, she seems to me altogether too long, and off‐hand somehow, and boyish! And then, too,"—Richard moved his head against the white pillows, and stared up at the window, where the blind sucked, with small creaking noises, against the top edge of the open sash,—"she fights shy of me, and personal feeling militates against admiration, you know. I am sorry, for I rather want to talk to her about—oh, well, a whole lot of things. But she avoids me. I never get the opportunity."
"My darling, don't you think that is partly imagination?"
"Perhaps it is," he answered. "I daresay I do indulge in unnecessary fancies about people's manner and so on. I can't very well be off it, you know. And everyone is really very kind to me. Morabita was perfectly charming when I thanked her in very floundering Italian. It's a pity she's so fat. But, never mind, the fat vanishes, to all intents and purposes, when she begins to sing.—And old Barking is as kind as he can be. I feel awfully obliged to him, though his ministrations to‐night amounted to being slightly embarrassing. He brought me cabinet ministers and under‐secretaries, and gorgeous Germans and Turks, in batches—and even a real live Chinaman with a pig‐tail. Mother, do you remember the cabinets at home in the Long Gallery? I used to dream about them. And that Chinaman gave me the queerest feeling to‐night. It was idiotic, but—did I ever tell you?—when I was a little chap, I was always dreaming about war or something, from page: 297 which I couldn't get away. Others could, but for me—from circumstances, don't you know—there was no possibility of scuttling. And the little Chinese figures on the black, lacquer cabinets were mixed up with it. As I say, it gripped me tonight in the midst of all those people and—Oh yes! old Barking is very kind," he went on, with a change of tone. "Only I wish Lady Louisa would warn him he need not trouble himself to be amusing. He came and sat by me, towards the end of the evening, and told me the most inane stories in that inflated manner of his. Verily, they were ancient as the hills, and a weariness to the spirit. But that good‐looking, young fellow, Decies, swallowed them all down with the devoutest attention and laughed aloud in all that he conceived to be the right places."
A pause came in Richard's flow of words. He moved again restlessly and clasped his hands under his head. Katherine had seldom seen him thus excited and feverish. A sense of alarm grew on her lest her heroic remedy was, after all, not working a wholly satisfactory cure. For there was a violence in his utterance and in his face, a certain recklessness of speech and of demeanour, very agitating to her.
"Oh, everyone's kind, awfully kind," he repeated, looking away at the sucking blind again, "and I'm awfully grateful to them, but—Oh! I tell you, that woman's voice has got me and made me drunk, made me mad drunk. I almost wish I had never heard her. I think I won't go to the opera again. Emotion that finds no outlet in action only demoralises one and breaks up one's philosophy, and she makes me know all that might be, and is not, and never, never can be. Good God! what a glorious, what an amazing, business I could have made of life if"—He slipped a little on the pillows, had to unclasp his hands hastily and press them down on either side him to keep his body fairly upright in the bed. His features contracted with a spasm of anger.—"If I had only had the average chance," he added harshly. "If I had only started with the normal equipment."
And, as she listened, the old anguish, lately lulled to rest in Katherine's heart, arose and cried aloud. But she sought resolutely to stifle its crying, strong in faith and hope.
"I know, my dearest, I know," she said pleadingly. "And yet, since we have been here, I have thought perhaps we had a little underrated both your happy gift of pleasing and the readiness of others to be pleased. It seems to me, Dickie, all doors open if you stretch out your hand. Well, my dear, I would have you go forward fearlessly. I would have you more page: 298 ambitious, more self‐confident. I see and deplore my own cowardly mistake. Instead of hiding you away at home, and keeping you to myself, I ought to have encouraged you to mix in the world and fill the position to which both your powers and your birth entitle you. I was wrong—I lament my folly. But there is ample time in which to rectify my mistake."
Richard's face relaxed.
"I wonder—I wonder," he said.
"I am sure," she replied.
"You are too sanguine," he said. "Your love for me blinds you to fact."
"No, no," she replied again. "Love is the only medium in which vision gains perfect clearness, becomes trustworthy and undistorted,"—Instinctively Katherine folded her hands as in prayer, while the brightness of a pure enthusiasm shone in her sweet eyes. "That I have learned beyond all possibility of dispute. It has been given me, through much tribulation, to arrive at that."
Richard smiled upon her tenderly, then, turning his head, remained silent for a while. The sullen roar of the great city invaded the quiet room through the open windows, the heavy regular tread of a policeman on his beat, a shrill whistle hailing a hansom from a house some few doors distant up the square, and then an answering rumble of wheels and clatter of hoofs. Richard's face had grown fierce again, and his breath came quick. He turned on his side, and once more the dwarfed proportions of his person became perceptible. Lady Calmady averted her eyes, fixing them upon his. But even there she found sad lack of comfort, for in them she read the inalienable distress and desolation of one unhandsomely treated by Nature, maimed and incomplete. Even the Divine Light, resident within her, failed to reconcile her to that reading. She shrank back in protest, once again, against the dealing of Almighty God with this only child of hers. And yet—such is the adorable paradox of a living faith—even while shrinking, while protesting, she flung herself for support, for help, upon the very Being who had permitted, in a sense caused, her misery.
"Mother, can I say something to you?" Richard asked, rather hoarsely, at last.
"Anything—in heaven or earth."
"But it is a thing not usually spoken of as I want to speak of it. It may seem indecent. You won't be disgusted, or think me wanting in respect or in modesty?"
"Surely not," Lady Calmady answered quietly, yet a certain page: 299 trembling took her, a nervousness as in face of the unknown. This strong, young creature developed forces, presented aspects, in his present feverish mood, with which she felt hardly equal to cope.
"Mother, I—I want to marry."
"I, too, have thought of that," she said.
"You don't consider that I am debarred from marriage?"
"Oh no, no!" Katherine cried, a little sob in her voice.
He looked at her steadily, with those profoundly desolate eyes.
"It would not be wrong? It would not be otherwise than honourable?" he asked.
If doubts arose within Katherine of the answer to that question, she crushed them down passionately.
"No, my dearest, no," she declared. "It would not be wrong—it could not, could not be so—if she loved you, and you loved whomsoever you married."
"But I'm not in love—at least not in love with any person who can become my wife. Yet that does not seem to me to matter very much. I should be faithful, no fear, to anyone who was good enough to marry me. Enough of love would come, if only out of gratitude, towards the woman who would accept me as—as I am—and forgive that—that which cannot be helped."
Again trembling shook Katherine. So terribly much seemed to her at stake just then! Silently she implored that wisdom and clear‐seeing might be accorded her. She leaned a little forward and taking his left hand held it closely in both hers.
"Dearest, that is not all. Tell me all," she said, "or I cannot quite follow your thought."
Richard flung his body sideways across the bed, and kissed her hands as they held his. The hot colour rushed over his face and neck, up to the roots of his close‐cropped, curly hair. He spoke, lying thus upon his chest, his face half buried in the sheet.
"I want to marry because—because I want a child—I want a son," he said.
No words came to Katherine just then. But she disengaged one hand and laid it upon the dear brown head, and waited in silence until the violence of the young man's emotion had spent itself, until the broad, muscular shoulders had ceased to heave and the strong, young hands to grasp her wrist. Suddenly Richard recovered himself, sat up, rubbing his hands across his eyes, laughing, but with a queer catch in his voice.
"I beg your pardon," he said. "I'm a fool, an awful fool. page: 300 Hang Morabita and her voice and the golden houses of the gods, and beastly, showy omnipotence, to which her voice carries one away! To talk sense—mother—just brutal common sense. My fate is fixed, you know. There's no earthly use in wriggling. I am condemned to live a cow's life and die a cow's death.—The pride of life may call, but I can't answer. The great prizes are not for me. I'm too heavily handicapped. I was looking at that young fellow, Decies, to‐night, and considering his chances as against my own—Oh! I know there's wealth in plenty. The pasture's green enough to make many a man covet it, and the stall's well bedded‐down. I don't complain. Only, mother, you know—I know. Where's the use of denying that which we neither of us ever really forget?—And then sometimes my blood takes fire. It did to‐night. And the splendour of living being denied me, I—I—am tempted to say a Black Mass. One must take it out somehow. And I know I could go to the devil as few men have ever gone, magnificently, detestably, with subtleties and refinements of iniquity."
He laughed again a little. And, hearing him, his mother's heart stood still.
"Verily, I have advantages!" he continued. "There should be a picturesqueness in my descent to hell which would go far to place my name at the head of the list of those sinners who have achieved immortality"—
"Richard! Richard!" Lady Calmady cried, "do you want to break my heart quite?"
"No," he answered, simply. "I'd infinitely rather not break your heart. I have no ambition to see my name in that devil's list except as an uncommonly ironical sort of second best. But then we must make some change, some radical change. At times, lately, I've felt as if I was a caged wild beast—blinded, its claws cut, the bars of its cage soldered and riveted, no hope of escape, and yet the vigour, the immense longing for freedom and activity, there all the while."
Richard stretched himself.
"Poor beast, poor beast, poor beast!" he said, shaking his head and smiling. "I tell you I get absurdly sentimental over it at times."
And then, happily, there came a momentary lapse in the entirety of his egoism. He turned on his side, took Lady Calmady's hand again, and fell to playing absently with her bracelets.
"You poor darling, how I torture you!" he said. "And yet, now we've once broken the ice and begun talking of all this, we're page: 301 bound to talk on to the finish—if finish there is. You see these few weeks in London—I've enjoyed them—but still they've made me understand, more than ever, all I've missed. Life calls, mother, do you see? And though the beast is blind, and his claws are cut, and his cage bolted, yet, when life calls, he must answer—must—or run mad—or die—do you see?"
"And you shall answer, my beloved. Never fear, you will answer," Katherine replied proudly.
Richard's hand closed hard upon hers.
"Thank you," he said. "You were made to be a mother of heroes, not of a useless log like me.—And that's just why I want to be good. And to be good I want a wife, that I may have that boy. I could keep straight for him, mother, though I'm afraid I can't keep straight for myself, and simply because it's right, much longer. I want him to have just all that I am denied. I want him to restore the balance, both for you and for me. I may have something of a career myself, perhaps, in politics or something. It's possible; but that will come later, if it comes at all. And then it would be for his sake. What I want first is the boy, to give me an object and keep up my pluck, and keep me steady. I, giving him life, shall find my life in him, be paid for my wretched circumscribed existence by his goodly and complete one. He may be clever or not—I'd rather, of course, he was not quite a dunce—but I really don't very much mind, so long as he isn't an outrageous fool, if he's only an entirely sound and healthy human animal."
Richard stretched himself upon the bed, straightened the sheet across his chest, and clasped his hands under his head again. The desolation had gone out of his eyes. He seemed to look afar into the future, and therein see manly satisfaction and content. His voice was vibrant, rising to a kind of chant.
"He shall run, and he shall swim, he shall fence, and he shall row," he said. "He shall learn all gallant sports, as becomes an English gentleman. And he shall ride,—not as I ride, God forbid! like a monkey strapped on a dog at a fair, but as a centaur, as a young demi‐god. We will set him, stark naked, on a bare‐backed horse, and see that he's clean‐limbed, perfect, without spot or blemish, from head to heel."
And once more Katherine Calmady held her peace, somewhat amazed, somewhat tremulous, since it seemed to her the young man was drawing a cheque upon the future which might, only too probably, be dishonoured and returned marked "no account." For who dare say that this child would ever come to the birth, or, coming, what form it would bear? Yet, even so, page: 302 she rejoiced in her son and the high spirit he displayed, while the instinct of romance which inspired his speech touched an answering chord in, and uplifted, her.
By now the brief June night was nearly spent. The blind still creaked against the open window sash, but the thud of horse‐hoofs and beat of passing footsteps had become infrequent, while the roar of the mighty city had dwindled to a murmur, as of an ebbing tide upon a shallow, sand‐strewn beach. The after‐light of the sunset, walking the horizon, beneath the Pole star from west to east, broadened upward now towards the zenith. Even here, in the heart of London, the day broke with a spacious solemnity. Richard raised himself, and, sitting up, blew out the candles placed on the table at the bedside.
"Mother," he said, "will you let in the morning?"
Lady Calmady was pale from her long vigil, and her unspoken, yet searching, emotion. She appeared very tall, ghostlike even, in her soft, white raiment, as she moved across and drew up the sucking blind. Above the grey parapets of the houses, and the ranks of contorted chimney‐pots, the loveliness of the summer dawn grew wide. Warm amber shaded through gradations of exquisite and nameless colour into blue. While, across this last, lay horizontal lines of fringed, semi‐transparent, opalescent cloud. To Katherine those heavenly blue interspaces spoke of peace, of the stilling of all strife, when the tragic, yet superb, human story should at last be fully told and God be all in all. She was very tired. The struggle was so prolonged. Her soul cried out for rest. And then she reminded herself, almost sternly, that the Kingdom of God and the peace of it is no matter of time or of place; but is within the devout believer, ever present, immediate, possessing his or her soul, and by that soul in turn possessed. Just then the sparrows, roosting in the garden of the square, awoke with manifold and vociferous chirping and chattering. The voice from the bed called to her.
"Mother," it said imperatively, "come to me. You are not angry at what I have told you? You understand? You will find her for me?"
Lady Calmady turned away from the open window and the loveliness of the summer dawn. She was less tired somehow. God was with her, so she could not be otherwise than hopeful. Moreover, the world had proved itself very kind towards her son. It would not deny him this last request, surely?
"My dearest, I think I have found her already," Lady Calmady answered.page: 303
Yet, even as she spoke, she faltered a little, recognising the energy and strength manifest in the young man's countenance, remembering his late discourse, and the pent‐up fires of his nature to which that discourse had borne only too eloquent testimony. For who was a young girl, but just out of the school‐room, a girl in pretty, fresh frocks—the last word of contemporary fashion,—whose baby face and slow, wide‐eyed gaze bore witness to her entire innocence of the great primitive necessities, the rather brutal joys, the intimate vices, the far‐ranging intellectual questionings, which rule and mould the action of mankind,—who was she, indeed, to cope with a nature such as Richard's?
"Mother, tell me, who is it?"
And instinctively Katherine fell to pleading. She sat down beside the bed again and smoothed the sheet.
"You will be tender and loving to her, Dickie?" she said. "For she is young and very gentle, and might easily be made afraid. You will not forget what is due to your wife, to your bride, in your longing for a child?"
"Who is it?" Richard demanded again.
"Ludovic's sister—little Lady Constance Quayle."
He drew in his breath sharply.
"Would she—would her people consent?" he said.
"I think so. Judging by appearances, I am almost sure they would consent."
A long silence followed. Richard lay still, looking at the rosy flush that broadened in the morning sky and touched the bosoms of those delicate clouds with living, pulsating colour. And he flushed too, all his being softened into a great tenderness, a great shyness, a quick yet noble shame. For his whole attitude towards this question of marriage changed strangely as it passed from the abstract, from regions of vague purpose and desire, to the concrete, to the thought of a maiden with name and local habitation, a maiden actual and accessible, whose image he could recall, whose pretty looks and guileless speech he knew.
"I almost wish she was not Ludovic's sister, though," he remarked presently. "It is a great deal to ask."
"You have a great deal to offer," Katherine said, adding:—"You can care for her, Dickie?"
He turned his head, his lips working a little, his flushed face very young and bright.
"Oh yes! I can care fast enough," he said. "And I think—I think I could make her happy. And, you see, already she worships you. We would pet her, mother, and give her all page: 304 manner of pretty things, and make a little queen of her—and she would be pleased—she's a child, such a child."
Richard remained awake far into the morning, till the rose had died out of the sky, and the ascending smoke of many kitchen‐chimneys began to stain the expanse of heavenly blue. The thought of his possible bride was very sweet to him. But when at last sleep came, dreams came likewise. Helen de Vallorbes' perfect face arose, in reproach, before him, and her azure and purple draperies swept over him, stifling and choking him as the salt waves of an angry sea. Then someone—it was the comely, long‐limbed, young soldier, Mr. Decies—whom he had seen last night at the Barkings' great party when Morabita sang—and the soprano's matchless voice was mixed up, in the strangest fashion, with all these transactions—lifted Helen and all her magic sea‐waves from off him, setting him free. But, even as he did so, Dickie perceived that it was not Helen, after all, whom the young soldier carried in his arms, but little Lady Constance Quayle. Whereupon, waking with a start, Dickie conceived a wholly unreasoning detestation of Mr. Decies; while, along with that, his purpose of marrying Lady Constance increased notably, waxed strong and grew, putting forth all manner of fair flowers of promise and of hope.


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On the road or installed in-house, there's simply no such thing as the "perfect" sound reinforcement system. It seems that you always need an extra send, more EQ capability, and a cleaner signal - ad infinitum. And if you find a system that promises everything you need, it'll always be way too expensive.
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If, like most other mere mortals, you do have to work within real-world limitations and achieve the best possible sound and greatest system versatility on a limited budget, Yamaha's new lineup of GF-series Mixing Consoles are about as close to perfection as you're likely to get.
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The GF-series Mixing Consoles have been designed to meet the requirements of demanding sound reinforcement applications and installations - with a considerable extra margin of performance and flexibility to accommodate the widest possible range of system configurations and sources. Sound quality has been taken to the attainable limits of signal purity with an absolute minimum of distortion and noise.
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From head amps to output stages, the GF-series console circuitry has been designed to deliver the cleanest, quietest signal possible ... even under adverse conditions. The GF consoles will still sound clean and precise in situations where other consoles might succumb to RF interference or hum. Special care has been taken in designing the critical head amps for totally natural, open sounding reproduction with line or microphone sources.
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Although these consoles are built to the highest mechanical standards and are more than rugged enough to withstand the rigors of road use, they are remarkably compact and lightweight. Even the largest model can be carried by a single person for fast, efficient transportation and setup.
Three Models for All Mixing Needs
No matter how big or small your gig or installation, there's a GF-series console that will match your needs. From 12 channels to 24, all GF consoles offer the same outstanding sound quality, signal-routing flexibility, versatile features and reliability.
Mono and Stereo Input Channels:
Dual Microphone/Line Inputs
All mono input channels feature both XLR and 1/4" TRS balanced input connectors. The TRS inputs also accept unbalanced signals. All mono inputs feature switchable phantom power for direct compatibility with high-performance phantom powered condenser microphones.
Precision Level Matching
The mono channels feature a 26-dB pad switch in addition to continuously variable 44-dB gain trim for easy level matching with the widest possible range of microphone and line sources. The stereo channels do not have pad switches since they will normally be used for line-level signals, but retain the 44-dB gain trim control for a wide-range level compatibility.
HPF Switch and 3-band Mid-sweep Channel EQ
All input channels have an 80-Hz HPF filter switch that can be used to remove rumble, wind noise, and other unwanted low frequencies that can muddy the mix. The mono channels feature 3-band EQ with a sweepable midrange for maximum control precision and flexibility.
Mono Channel Inserts
For convenient insertion of compressors/limiters, equalizers, or other outboard gear you might want to apply to individual channels, all mono channels have post-EQ insert send/return patch points.
6 Aux Sends
If maximum signal-routing flexibility is one of your prime criteria in choosing a mixer, the GF console's auxiliary send system should prove to be an important feature. These consoles feature no less than 6 auxiliary busses that can be used as effect sends, monitor sends or independent sends for any purpose your system requires.
Flexible Group and Stereo Buss Assignment
The mono and stereo channel signals can be assigned to any of the console's 4 group busses and/or the stereo buss via the channel buss assign switches and pan control. A smooth, noise-free linear fader facilitates setting up optimum levels and balance between channels.
Channel On and PFL Switches
Channel ON switches allow individual channels to be switched in or out of the mix without having to change fader settings, while PFL (Pre-fader Listen) switches let you monitor individual channels or groups of channels without having to make any other changes.
Master Section:
Linear Aux Send and Group Faders
For precision level control and easy visual verification linear master faders are provided for all four groups and six auxiliary sends, as are AFL (After-fader Listen) switches for one-touch isolated monitoring. The group busses additional feature TO ST (group-to-stereo) switches and pan pots so that any group signal can be conveniently routed to the console's stereo bus.
Two Stereo Auxiliary Returns
Two stereo auxiliary returns are provided, with independent return level controls feeding the group, auxiliary 1 through 4, and stereo busses. AUX RETURN 1 can feed the group 1 and 2, auxiliary 1 and 2, and stereo busses, while AUX RETURN 2 can feed the group 3 and 4, auxiliary 3 and 4, and stereo busses. Both returns also feature PFL switches.
Versatile Monitoring and Metering
Stereo line-level and headphone monitor outputs are provided with independent level controls. The monitor signal can be taken either from the PFL/AFL buss (the main stereo buss also features an AFL switch), or from the console's tape inputs, which feature a level control and ON switch feeding the stereo buss. Four precision switchable bar-graph meters are provided for visual level monitoring.
Stereo Inserts
The stereo outputs feature insert patch points for convenient insertion of outboard "master" EQ and/or compression/limiting, or any other type of signal processing your mix requires.
Audio & Video
|Frequency Response
|20Hz~20Hz +1, -3dB @ +4dB output into 600ohms. (GROUP OUT, AUX OUT, ST OUT, MONO OUT) (Input Gain control at minimum)
|Total Harmonic Distortion
|Less than 0.1% @ 20Hz~20kHz +14dB output into 600 ohms. (GROUP OUT, AUX OUT, ST OUT, MONO OUT)
|Equivalent Input Noise
|Residual Output Noise. (GROUP OUT, AUX OUT, ST OUT, MONO OUT)
|Residual Output Noise. (GROUP OUT, ST OUT, MONO OUT) Master fader at nominal level and all channel fader at minimum, and all channel assign switch off.
|Residual Output Noise. (AUX OUT) Master fader at nominal level and all channel fader and all AUX level control at minimum.
|-64dB (68dB S/N)
|(GROUP OUT, AUX OUT, ST OUT) Master fader and 1 channel fader and assign switch on and AUX level control at nominal level. And 1 channel Gain control at maximum.
|Crosstalk at 1kHz
|70dB (adjacent input); 70dB (input to output)
|Maximum Voltage Gain
|84dB (CH IN to ST OUT); 84dB (CH IN to GROUP OUT); 58dB (ST IN to ST OUT); 58dB (ST IN to GROUP OUT)
|Ch Input Gain Control
|44dB variable
|80Hz 12dB/octave
|CH INPUT Equalization +15dB maximum
|High 10kHz shelving*2 Mid 250~5kHz peaking Low 100Hz shelving*2
|ST INPUT Equalization +15dB maximum
|HIGH 10kHz shelving *2 MID 2.5kHz peaking; LOW 100Hz shelving *2
|13 point LED METERS X 4 (GROUP 1~4 / ST L R, PFL, AFL, TAPE IN L R)
|CH Peak Indicators
|Red LED on each channel turns on when Post EQ signal reaches the level -3dB below clipping.
|Phantom Power
|+48V is supplied to electrically balanced inputs for powering condenser microphones via 6.8kohms current limiting/isolation resisters.
|Power Consumption
|UL/CSA - model 70W - 120V AC 60Hz, GENERA - model 70W - 230V AC 50Hz
|Dimensions (W x H x D)
|GF12/12: 587 x 157 x 487mm (23-1/8" x 6-3/16" x 19-3/16")
|GF12/12: 14kg (30.8 lbs.)


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Children are amazing salesmen, and few kids are as cute or persuasive as those who participated in the 4th annual Big Chef Little Chef event benefiting Louie's Kids. The fete paired Charleston's most respected chefs with Louie's Kids/Fit Club participants for an evening of delicious, waist-friendly gourmet cuisine at Lighthouse on the Creek.
This year's event was absolutely packed, and partygoers circulated around the food tables inside or squeezed their way through to the outdoor deck and bar. Guests noshed on hummus with arugula, tzatziki, smoked bison, feta and naan bread from Chef Cary Zapatka of the Square Onion and little chef Maddie, butter bean salad with Carolina Gold rice cracker and grilled from from The Grocery Chef Kevin Johnson and little chef Kara Allen, and a spicy, mouth-watering Asian noodle salad from Charleston Grill Chef Michelle Weaver and little chef Auriyan, along with the countless other tasty bites from other renowned Lowcountry chefs.
As people perused the food tables, the more outgoing little chefs peddled their fare and vied for votes. Little chef Donaishia Jenkins sidled up to me with a mega-watt smile, asking, "Would you like to try our 6 bean salad?" I admitted to having already tried it, and without missing a beat, the future marketing expert flashed her grin and said, "Would you like to try it again?!"
The charmer of the evening, however, was FIG Chef Mike Lata's pint-sized cohort, Maurice. The suave little chef darted back and forth between the crowd and the table, handing out bowls of pickled shrimp with summer beans, zucchini, and fresh herbs, and as he dolled out his savory treats to female diners, the brilliant child would peer over his glasses and solemnly declare, "You are beautiful." (He is going to go far in this life!)
As the evening drew to a close, Louie's Kids creator Louis Yuhasz gave a heartfelt thank you to his staff, the participants, the little chefs, and all who attended. The votes were tallied, and the winners announced: the signature Big Chef Little Chef cutting boards would be going home with Fish Chef Nico Romo and his little chefs, De'Quan and Tre'Quan Jones for their scrumptious organic chicken, summer vegetable, and fennel wraps with watermelon shooters. De'Quan and Tre'Quan jumped up to the stage, triumphantly holding their cutting boards aloft as they received an enthusiastic round of applause.
Little chefs are program participants with Louie's Kids. Founded in 2001 by Louis Yuhasz in memory of his father, Louie's Kids is dedicated to fighting childhood obesity through behavioral change, education, and physical activity. The program caters to economically disadvantaged children and has helped make lasting, positive changes throughout the Lowcountry.


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1966 Japanese Lost in Space record and book produced by Asahi Sonorama. Lost in Space aired in Japan in the 1960s under the name "Uchuu Kazoku Robinson" which translates as "Space Family Robinson". The title of the record book is "Lost in Space: Rock Creature/Ghost in Space". This 12 page booklet features stunning Lost in Space artwork by Ritsuta Nakanishi and a sonosheet (7" vinyl 33 1/3 rpm double sided record). Includes cardboard ads, leaflet, questionnaire postcard, and bookstore's tag.
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Family: Hirundinidae, Swallows view all from this family
Description ADULT Has bluish black cap and white-lined bluish black back. Note the pale collar, reddish orange cheeks, and dark throat; forehead is white in most birds. Rump is buffy and square-ended tail is dark. Underparts are mostly pale with darker spots on undertail coverts. JUVENILE Duller than adult, with unmarked back; lacks reddish elements of facial plumage and has paler rump. Throat is dark (cf. juvenile Cave).
Dimensions Length: 5-6" (13-15 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Sep) to a wide range of habitats. Winters in South America.
Observation Tips Easy to find.
Range Texas, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Southeast, Alaska, California, Eastern Canada, Mid-Atlantic, Florida, Great Lakes, Northwest, Western Canada, Plains, New England
Voice Utters various soft twittering notes.
Discussion Compact swallow with broad-based, triangular, and relatively short wings. Pale orange-buff rump, obvious in flight, is diagnostic across much of range, but beware of confusion with Cave Swallow within that species' limited North American range. Nests colonially, making mud nests on cliffs and manmade structures. Catches flying insects on the wing. Sexes are similar.


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Brian Smith will not coach the Sydney Roosters next NRL season after the club announced he would leave by mutual consent.
The club's chairman Nick Politis and chief Executive Steve Noyce met with veteran mentor Smith today before announcing the decision.
The Roosters, who are expected to welcome dual international Sonny Bill Williams next season, are now on the lookout for a new coach.
Roosters chairman Nick Politis paid tribute to Smith's efforts at the club since joining from Newcastle in 2010, when he led the team to the grand final in his first season in charge.
"One of Brian's greatest strengths is developing young talent and he wholeheartedly embraced our strategic plan in relation to developing talented young players and he leaves the club in an extremely strong position in this area," Politis said.
"A man of strong values, Brian embraced the clubs values honesty, respect, self-control, pride in the Roosters jersey and leaves behind a strong culture that will continue to grow moving forward."
The Roosters were Smith's fifth NRL club since he commenced his head coaching career with Illawarra in 1984.
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First up was a walk around the small island to explore and take some pictures. We then went for a snorkel as we were a little hot after our walk. The water was crystal clear and we saw plenty of very colourful and friendly, inquisitive fish.
Next was our picnic lunch which was fantastic. We had beer, water, wine, salad, lovely chicken/salad sandwiches, fruit and small cakes. After a rest, we headed back into the water for more snorkeling.
We had a lovely day and were collected at around 2.30pm to head back to the hotel. We made our arrangements for our transfer in the morning to the main Island and the Intercontinental Le Moana Resort for the next part of our trip.
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