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Washington, Dc — The number of states that have an adult obesity rate of at least 30 percent has jumped from one to three. West Virginia and Alabama join Mississippi in that category, according to the fifth annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2008" report, which was released last month.
Mississippi has a 31.7 percent adult obesity rate, followed by West Virginia (30.6 percent) and Alabama (30.1 percent). Colorado is the leanest state with an 18.4 percent adult obesity rate, although that rate did increase over the previous year from 17.6 percent.
In fact, adult obesity rates increased in 37 states in the past year, according to the Trust for America's Health report, which was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Rates rose for a second consecutive year in 24 states and for a third consecutive year in 19 states. No state had a decrease.
The "F as in Fat" report also finds that rates of type 2 diabetes, a disease typically associated with obesity, grew in 26 states last year. Four states now have diabetes rates that are above 10 percent, and all 10 states with the highest rates of diabetes and hypertension are in the South. The report also found a relationship between poverty and obesity levels. Seven of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are also in the top 10 for highest poverty rates.
Though many policies in health clubs and local and state governments have emerged to promote physical activity and good nutrition in communities, the report concludes that they are not being adopted or implemented at levels needed to turn around the obesity epidemic.
"America's future depends on the health of our country," says Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health. "The obesity epidemic is lowering our productivity and dramatically increasing our health care costs. Our analysis shows that we're not treating the obesity epidemic with the urgency it deserves."
Other findings from the "F as in Fat: 2008" report:
Although all 50 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws related to physical education and/or physical activity in schools, only 13 states include enforceability language. Of these states, only four have sanctions or penalties if the laws are not implemented.
Although the Dietary Guidelines for Americans were updated in 2005, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) school meal program has yet to adopt the recommendations.
Eighteen states have enacted legislation requiring school meals to exceed USDA nutrition standards. However, only seven of these laws have specific enforcement provisions, and only two state laws include sanctions if the requirements are not met.
Ten states do not include specific coverage for nutrition assessment and counseling for obese or overweight children in their Medicaid programs.
Twenty states explicitly do not cover nutritional assessment and consultation for obese adults under Medicaid.
Only Georgia and Vermont have specific guidelines for treating obese adults in their Medicaid programs. In Nebraska and South Carolina, the Medicaid programs specifically state that obesity is not an illness and is, therefore, not covered.
Forty-five states allow using obesity or health status as a risk factor to deny coverage or raise premiums.
"The report shows the serious impact that the obesity crisis is having on our country's health and economic well-being," says former President Bill Clinton, who co-leads the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership between the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association. The group works to advance innovative approaches combating childhood obesity and helping children lead healthier lives.
The "F as in Fat" report concludes with several recommendations to help the country set a goal of reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Some of those recommendations include:
Investing in effective community-based disease-prevention programs that promote increased physical activity and good nutrition.
Improving the nutritional quality of foods available in schools and child care programs.
Increasing the amount and quality of physical education and activity in schools and child care programs.
Increasing access to safe, accessible places for physical activity in communities. Examples include creating and maintaining parks, sidewalks and bike lanes, and providing incentives for smart growth designs that make communities more livable and walkable.
Improving access to affordable nutritious foods by providing incentives for grocery stores and farmers' markets to locate in underserved communities.
Encouraging limits on screen time for children through school-based curricula and media literacy resources.
Eliminating the marketing of junk food to kids.
Providing people with the information they need about nutrition and activity to make educated decisions, including point-of-purchase information about the nutrition and calorie content of foods.
Requiring public and private insurers to provide preventive services, including nutrition counseling.
The full report can be found at http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2008/Obesity2008Report.pdf.
States with the Highest Rates of Adult Obesity
1. Mississippi (31.7 percent)
2. West Virginia (30.6 percent)
3. Alabama (30.1 percent)
4. Louisiana (29.5 percent)
5. South Carolina (29.2 percent)
6. Tennessee (29 percent)
7. Kentucky (28.4 percent)
8. (tie) Arkansas and Oklahoma (28.1 percent)
10. Michigan (27.7 percent)


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Rosh Hashanah ushers in the New Year. Yom Kippur is time to atone. We celebrate the harvest during Sukkot and commemorate receiving the Torah at Shavuot. And Chanukah is for — presents.
Rosh Hashanah ushers in the New Year. Yom Kippur is time to atone. We celebrate the harvest during Sukkot and commemorate receiving the Torah at Shavuot.
And Chanukah is for — presents.
This year, teach the kids what the Festival of Lights is really all about with a selection of new and classic Chanukah books that explain why we celebrate the holiday, and weave in some timeless Jewish values along the way.
And what's a bigger Jewish value than food? Mama Doni, aka Akiba Hebrew Academy graduate Doni Zasloff Thomas, has just come out with Get Cooking! A Jewish American Family Cookbook & Rockin' Mama Doni Celebration with co-author Rachel Harkham ("Recipe Rachel").
The book includes holiday-themed recipes, jokes, and activities and comes with a companion CD by children's musician Mama Doni, including the songs "Chanukah Fever" and "A Land Called Sufganiyot."
"Gone are the days of mom and grandma in the kitchen making the holiday meal for the rest of the family. This is about bringing everybody into the kitchen and getting creative," says Vicki Weber of Behrman House, the cookbook's publisher.
In the Chanukah section, families can get creative with "Fill-in-the-Blank Latkes," a recipe that "encourages crazy experimentation with food and fun and celebrating the holiday," Weber says. Behrman House also released a free iPad app of the Chanukah chapter, including recipes, places to jot notes about latke attempts that were a hit at the table (and those that should be avoided like the 10 Plagues), and links to videos about the holiday.
Keeping with the high-tech theme, Behrman House also offers Too Many Latkes, by Richard Codor, available as both a paperback and an interactive e-book. It's a Chanukah fable about a father who doesn't have money to celebrate the holiday, until he "winds up with a magic potato and chaos ensues," Weber says. "It's very sweet — there's no distress, just a lot of latkes."
The e-book version has games, including a Spin the Dreidel challenge, and animated illustrations.
Another cookbook option to get kids in the Chanukah spirit is the classic The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen, suggests Amy Schwartz, local director of the PJ Library, an organization that sends a Jewish book every month to children up to age 8 who enroll in the free program. The cookbook, written by Joan Nathan, is filled with recipes and stories that teach about traditional foods and celebrations.
Each book the PJ Library sends out features definitions of any Jewish words or concepts that might be new. For example, in Chanukah in Chelm, written by David Adler and illustrated by Kevin O'Malley, the PJ Library version includes an explanation of the folktales of Chelm, for those who aren't familiar with that foolish lot.
The book, geared toward 6- and 7-year-olds, centers on synagogue caretaker Mendel, whose bumbling Chanukah adventures end happily when he puts in the hard work necessary to locate a table for the menorah (a table that was, Chelm-style, in front of him the whole time).
The underlying value is "malacha," or work ethic, Schwartz explains.
For slightly older readers, Schwartz recommends Hanukkah at Valley Forge, written by Stephen Krensky and illustrated by Greg Harlin. It's a fact-based story of the Revolutionary War that incorporates the values of hospitality and generosity. In the book, a Jewish soldier lights the menorah and relates the tale of the Maccabees to his superior officer, Gen. George Washington.
The Chanukkah Guest, for kids age 4 to 5, espouses the same morals. Written by Eric A. Kimmel and illustrated by Giora Carmi, the book tells the story of a bear awakened from hibernation by the smell of latkes coming from Bubba Brayna's cottage.
Bubba, mistaking the bear for her rabbi in a fur coat, welcomes him in and plies him with piles of latkes.
For the tots, try the board book Hanukkah Lights, written by David Martin — who also authored We've All Got Bellybuttons! — and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. Hanukkah Lights explains the basics of the holiday with simple, kid-friendly language and pictures. "It's about familiarizing the little ones with the traditional symbols of the holiday," Schwartz says, "and about celebrating together."
This story was originally written for the Chanukah Gift Guide, a special section of the Exponent. Rachel Vigoda is an award-winning writer and editor in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in several online and print publications.


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The Grammy-winning singer announced her 2016 Formation World Tour in a commercial after she performed at the halftime show with Bruno Mars and Coldplay. The tour will kick off April 27 in Miami and the diva will perform shows in North America and Europe. The tour wraps on July 31 in Brussels.
The tour returns to the site of Super Bowl 50, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on May 16.
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Ken Calvert on Foreign Policy
Republican Representative (CA-44)
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. IKE SKELTON (D, MO-4): Pakistan is important to the Middle East and our intentions there. Their cooperation, of course, is so very, very important. This legislation gives economic and democratic development assistance to that country.
Rep. HOWARD BERMAN (D, CA-28): We can't allow al Qaeda or any other terrorist group that threatens our national security to operate with impunity in the tribal regions or any other part of Pakistan. Nor can we permit the Pakistani state and its nuclear arsenal to be taken over by the Taliban. To help prevent this nightmare scenario, we need to forge a true strategic partnership with Pakistan and its people, strengthen Pakistan's democrat government, and work to make Pakistan a source of stability in a volatile region.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R, FL-18): This bill focuses on past actions and failures attributed to the Pakistani Government, punishing the new leadership for the sins of its predecessors. While the authors of H.R. 1886 may have sought to empower our Pakistani partners to undertake the formidable task of fighting and winning against violent extremists, it does the opposite. We have gone down this road before. I recall during the Iraq debate, Members sought to prejudge the surge strategy before it could even be implemented. Let us hope that this will not be repeated with respect to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. HOWARD BERMAN (D, CA-28): Integrating India into a global nonproliferation regime is a positive step. Before anyone gets too sanctimonious about India's nuclear weapons program, we should acknowledge that the five recognized nuclear weapons states have not done nearly enough to fulfill their commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, including making serious reductions in their own arsenals, nor in the case of the US in ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. BARBARA LEE (D, CA-9): In withholding my approval, I seek not to penalize the people of India but, rather, to affirm the principle of nuclear nonproliferation. Jettisoning adherence to the international nuclear nonproliferation framework that has served the world so well for more than 30 years, as approval of the agreement before us would do, is just simply unwise. It is also reckless.
Approval of this agreement undermines our efforts to dissuade countries like Iran and North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. By approving this agreement, all we are doing is creating incentives for other countries to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the establishment or operation of the International Criminal Court. Declares that any action taken by or on behalf of the Court: (1) against any member of the US armed forces shall be considered an act of aggression against the US; or (2) against any US citizen or national shall be considered an offense against the law of nations.
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Rep. PAUL: This bill prohibits funds made available by the US Government from being used for the establishment or operation of the International Criminal Court. Perhaps the most significant part of the bill makes clear that any action taken by or on behalf of the Court against members of the US Armed Forces shall be considered an act of aggression against the US.
In May 2002, Pres. Bush took the commendable step of repudiating the Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Court is an illegitimate body even by the UN's own standards. The Statute of the International Criminal Court was enacted by the UN General Assembly, whereas according to the UN Charter, the authority to create such a body lies only in the UN Security Council.
The International Criminal Court puts US citizens in jeopardy of unlawful and unconstitutional criminal prosecution. The Court does not provide many of the Constitutional protections guaranteed every American citizen, including the right to trial by jury, the right to face your accuser, and the presumption of innocence, and the protection against double jeopardy.
Members of the US Armed Forces are particularly at risk for politically motivated arrests, prosecutions, fines, and imprisonment for acts engaged in for the protection of the US. I hope all members of this body will join me in opposing this illegitimate and illegal court.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to House Committee on International Relations; never came to a vote.
This bill states that U.S. sanctions and controls relating to Syria shall remain in effect until the President certifies that Syria has ceased support for terrorism, has dismantled biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons programs, and has committed to combat their proliferation, respects the boundaries and sovereignty of all neighboring countries, and upholds human rights and civil liberties.
Also imposes specified trade, assistance, and military sanctions, as appropriate, on persons or countries that transfer goods or technology so as to contribute to Syria's biological, chemical, nuclear, or advanced conventional weapons programs.
Imposes specified sanctions aimed at Syria's energy sector.
Sets forth diplomatic measures intended to isolate the government of Syria.
Directs the President to provide assistance to support a democratic transition in Syria.
The Arab American Institute has compiled a Scorecard to catalogue the voting record of the 112th Congress on issues of importance to the Arab American community. For the House, we included 15 items: two bills on the Arab Spring, five bills and one letter on Palestine, two bills on Lebanon, three bills and a letter regarding civil liberties, and two bills on immigration.
RESOLUTION: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the conditions for the US becoming a signatory to the UN Arms Trade Treaty, or to any similar agreement on the arms trade.
Dear Secretary Clinton:
We are writing to reaffirm our commitment to the unbreakable bond that exists between our country and the State of Israel and to express to you our deep concern over recent tension. In every important relationship, there will be occasional misunderstandings and conflicts.
Our valuable bilateral relationship with Israel needs and deserves constant reinforcement. As the Vice-President said during his recent visit to Israel: "Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the U.S. and Israel when it comes to security, none. No space." Steadfast American backing has helped lead to Israeli peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. And American involvement continues to be critical to the effort to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
We recognize that, despite the extraordinary closeness between our country and Israel, there will be differences over issues both large and small. Our view is that such differences are best resolved quietly, in trust and confidence, as befits longstanding strategic allies. We hope and expect that, with mutual effort and good faith, the United States and Israel will move beyond this disruption quickly, to the lasting benefit of both nations.
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Eric Garcetti
Hilda Solis
Jerry Brown
Jerry Sanders
Neel Kashkari
CA Senatorial:
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Newly-elected Democrats taking office Jan.2015:
AZ-7: Rep.-Elect Ruben Gallego
CA-11:Rep.-Elect Mark DeSaulnier
CA-31:Rep.-Elect Pete Aguilar(R⇒D)
CA-33:Rep.-Elect Ted Lieu
CA-35:Rep.-Elect Norma Torres
FL-2: Rep.-Elect Gwen Graham(R⇒D)
HI-1: Rep.-Elect Mark Takai
MA-6: Rep.-Elect Seth Moulton
MI-12:Rep.-Elect Debbie Dingell
MI-14:Rep.-Elect Brenda Lawrence
NE-2: Rep.-Elect Brad Ashford(R⇒D)
NJ-12:Rep.-Elect Bonnie Coleman
NY-4: Rep.-Elect Kathleen Rice
PA-13:Rep.-Elect Brendan Boyle
VA-8: Rep.-Elect Donald Beyer
Seated in special elections 2013-2014:
AL-1: Bradley Byrne(R)
FL-13:David Jolly(R)
FL-19:Curt Clawson(R)
IL-2: Robin Kelly(D)
LA-5: Vance McAllister(R)
MA-5: Katherine Clark(D)
MO-8: Jason Smith(R)
NC-12:Alma Adams(D)
NJ-1: Donald Norcross(D)
SC-1: Mark Sanford(R)
VA-7: Dave Brat(R)
Newly-elected Republicans taking office Jan.2015:
AR-2: Rep.-Elect French Hill
AR-4: Rep.-Elect Bruce Westerman
AL-6: Rep.-Elect Gary Palmer
CA-25:Rep.-Elect Steve Knight
CA-45:Rep.-Elect Mimi Walters
CO-4: Rep.-Elect Ken Buck
FL-26:Rep.-Elect Carlos Curbelo(D⇒R)
GA-1: Rep.-Elect Buddy Carter
GA-10:Rep.-Elect Jody Hice
GA-11:Rep.-Elect Barry Loudermilk
GA-12:Rep.-Elect Rick Allen(D⇒R)
IA-1: Rep.-Elect Rod Blum(D⇒R)
IA-3: Rep.-Elect David Young
IL-10:Rep.-Elect Robert Dold(D⇒R)
IL-12:Rep.-Elect Mike Bost(D⇒R)
More newly-elected Republicans taking office Jan.2015:
LA-5: Rep.-Elect Ralph Abraham
LA-6: Rep.-Elect Garret Graves
ME-2: Rep.-Elect Bruce Poliquin(D⇒R)
MI-4: Rep.-Elect John Moolenaar
MI-8: Rep.-Elect Mike Bishop
MI-11:Rep.-Elect Dave Trott
MN-6: Rep.-Elect Tom Emmer
MT-0: Rep.-Elect Ryan Zinke
NC-6: Rep.-Elect Mark Walker
NC-7: Rep.-Elect David Rouzer(D⇒R)
NH-1: Rep.-Elect Frank Guinta(D⇒R)
NJ-3: Rep.-Elect Tom MacArthur
NV-4: Rep.-Elect Cresent Hardy(D⇒R)
NY-1: Rep.-Elect Lee Zeldin(D⇒R)
NY-21:Rep.-Elect Elise Stefanik(D⇒R)
NY-24:Rep.-Elect John Katko
OK-5: Rep.-Elect Steve Russell
PA-6: Rep.-Elect Ryan Costello
TX-4: Rep.-Elect John Ratcliffe
TX-23:Rep.-Elect Will Hurd
TX-36:Rep.-Elect Brian Babin
UT-4: Rep.-Elect Mia Love(D⇒R)
VA-10:Rep.-Elect Barbara Comstock
WA-4: Rep.-Elect Dan Newhouse
WI-6: Rep.-Elect Glenn Grothman
WV-2: Rep.-Elect Alex Mooney
WV-3: Rep.-Elect Evan Jenkins(D⇒R)
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Tyler ISD Has New Slogan
Just ahead of back-to-school, the Tyler ISD is talking about its new logo and slogan.
You'll start seeing the new logo pop up right away, after it was approved Monday by the Tyler Independent School District Board of Trustees. Perhaps you were even a part of the new design. The group K12 insight helped set up focus groups to come up with the design and accept input from those who wanted a say in the way the Tyler ISD is represented.
The new logo and slogan make good use of the letter "T." The new slogan is "Tomorrow's Education Today," and the logo uses the letter "T" with columns on either side, which the district says represents strength and structure, and is symbolic of the firm foundation at Tyler ISD.
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|Determine Your Eligibility
SCPS students must be enrolled at least half-time (six credit hours) per semester to be eligible for federal financial assistance. Paralegal Studies in SCPS must be enrolled at least half time (four credit hours) per semester to be eligible for federal financial assistance.
Loyola's academic year is divided into two semesters, Fall and Spring. Each semester consists of two eight-week sessions. If you only enroll in one three-credit-hour course per session, you will become eligible for financial aid only after the first session course is successfully completed and the second session course is underway.
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Revised Award letters are emailed by OSFA to students as needed throughout the academic year. Revised Award letters are notifications of a change in your aid resulting from, for example, a change in your enrollment, a request from you to reduce or reject aid, or notification of addition assistance.
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UCLA vs. TULSA
Details/TV: Viejas Arena in San Diego, Friday at approx.. 7 p.m., truTV
In the book, "The Bruin 100: The Greatest Games in the History of UCLA Basketball," the contest that UCLA played against Tubby Smith's Tulsa team in the opening round of the 1994 NCAA Tournament is ranked No. 17 of all time. That makes it greater than the 1970 NCAA championship win over Jacksonville (which is No. 18), the 1967 NCAA championship win over Dayton (in at No. 19) and the 1972 NCAA championship win over Florida State (which is No. 20). Just not as great in the way you'd think it would be. As author Scott Howard-Cooper writes, that was "the day the Bruins learned the exact location of Tulsa." The Golden Hurricane's 112-102 trouncing of the Bruins will have taken place almost 20 years ago to the date when the two schools meet in the opener of the 2014 tournament in San Diego, and it provides a mysterious backstory. It all cenetered on a quote by UCLA junior Ed O'Bannon before the contest: "To tell you the truth, I didn't even know Tulsa was in Oklahoma." UCLA, which had been ranked No. 1 during the regular season when it started 14-0, had come into the tournament as a fifth seed and had to play this Midwest Regional contest against Tulsa in Oklahoma City, just 65 miles from the Golden Hurricane's backyard. The Bruins trailed 46-17 at one point. It was 63-38 at halftime. It was the most points surrendered by a UCLA team in tournament play. "It wasn't a bad dream," coach Jim Harrick said. "It was a nightmare." As for O'Bannon, he had 30 points and 18 rebounds as UCLA cut the deficit to 12 with 12 minutes left, but the rally faded. It should be noted, UCLA did win the national title the very next year, as O'Bannon took charge. At least this current Bruins team should know that Tulsa (21-12), winners of Conference USA, started this season 0-4 with double-digit losses to Wichita State and Creighton (their only games against a ranked opponent), then finished on an 11-0 run.
If the Bruins win, their second-round game Sunday would be against either Virginia Commonwealth or Stephen F. Austin.
The tournament begins with play-in first-round games in Dayton, Ohio on truTV:
Tuesday: Albany vs. Mount St. Mary's (3:30 p.m.) and North Carolina State vs. Xavier (6 p.m.).
Wednesday: Cal Poly vs. Texas Southern (3:30 p.m.) and Iowa vs. Tennessee (6 p.m.)
The National Invitational Tournament begins Tuesday.
NO. 2 MLB: DODGERS vs. ARIZONA
Details/TV: At Sydney, Australia, 1 a.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, SportsNet L.A.:
G'day and pull up a chair from a cricket field for the upside launch of the 2014 MLB regular season. Vin Scully will make the trip and Clayton Kershaw has agreed to the opening day pitching assignment — who knows, maybe Cy Young is a term of endearment for something held in high esteem on this continent. He understands the counter-clockwise problems all this could bring. "It's definitely not an ideal situation travel-wise, but I guess we've got to make it work," Kershaw said of the 15-hour plane flight. So let's do the math with this 18-hour forward-skewed time warp: The first of this two-game series begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, but it'll be 1 a.m. in L.A. Then the 1 p.m. game Sunday becomes a 7 p.m. game here on Saturday, when Hyun-Jin Ryu pitches.
Details/TV: Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, noon Sunday, Ch. 11:
So what about all that kind of a crazy, weird, wild finish at last year's event. While Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin decided to renew their track feud jockeying for position on the final lap, they ended up taking each other out — Hamlin crashed into an inside retaining wall — and Kyle Busch managed to get around the mess to win the thing, his 25th NASCAR Sprint Cup victory. Dale Earnhardt Jr., came in second and Logano was third. Hamlin, the race's pole-sitter stuck with a 25th-place finish, had to be airlifted to the hospital with a fractured vertebra. Hamlin, Busch's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, missed the next four races and suffered the effects of that injury the rest of the season. Whatever happens this time, it'll start with a Billy Ray Cyrus concert and a flyover by the Blue Angels before the green flag drops.
Qualifying is Friday (4:30 p.m., FS1). Practice sessions are Friday (noon) and Saturday (9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.) on FS1. The Nationwide Series NNS 300 race is Saturday (2 p.m., ESPN), with qualifying Saturday at 10:35 a.m.
NO. 4 NHL: KINGS vs. WASHINGTON
Details/TV: Staples Center, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, FSW:
These Capitals have not been capitalizing on Alex Ovechkin's talents this year, hanging around with a .500 record and content with trying to land the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Russian star may lead the league with 45 goals, but he has a minus-34 mark in games the Caps have lost, versus a plus-7 in their victories. Ovechkin and the Capitals have a meeting first with the Ducks in Anaheim on Tuesday before this one.
Kings vs. Phoenix, Staples Center, 7:30 p.m. Monday, FSW
Kings vs. Florida, Staples Center, 1 p.m. Saturday, FSW
NO. 5 NBA: CLIPPERS at DENVER
Details/TV: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Prime, ESPN:
It's never the right time to go to Colorado for the second game of a back-to-back, but that's the situation. On L.A.'s last visit to Denver on Feb. 3, the Nuggets' Randy Foye hit a 30-footer at the buzzer to win it, despite 36 points from Blake Griffin. The Nuggets just finished a five-game roadie by knocking off Miami, then losing to Atlanta the next night. Hang on: 12 NBA teams play Monday night on St. Patrick's Day, but not the Boston Celtics?
Clippers vs. Detroit, Staples Center, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Prime
NO. 6 NBA: LAKERS vs. SAN ANTONIO
Details/TV: Staples Center, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, TWCS, ESPN:
No matter they aren't the team they used to be, the Lakers still received thunderous boos during introductions before their game in San Antonio a couple of nights ago. The Spurs then deep-fried them in a 34-point win. The Lakers have had five days to think about it — you'd think plenty of time for even Steve Nash to heal up and give it one last try. But no. And the fans may still be booing, this time at Staples Center. The Spurs, having won their last nine, have the best record in the NBA at this point. And these two still have a scheduled matchup on the final day of the season, April 16.
Lakers vs. Washington, Staples Center, 7:30 p.m. Friday, TWCS
Lakers vs. Orlando, Staples Center, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, TWCS
Details/TV: 5 p.m. Monday, ESPNU:
What does the USC women's basketball team and the UCLA men's basketball team have in common? Yes, both are Pac-12 conference champion reps going to the NCAA tournament. And each has a sophomore point guard named Jordan Adams. Seriously. The 21-12 USC team led by coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke was the first in conference history to win four games in four days to win the tournament, upsetting Stanford and Oregon State along the way. ESPN's bracketologist Charlie Crème has the Trojans as a No. 11 seed playing at Gonzaga in the first round. He also has 18-14 Cal State Northridge as a No. 16 seed playing No. 1 Stanford at Pauley Pavilion. Aside from that, the other individual gems playing in this event are (but not limited to) North Carolina's Diamond DaShields, South Carolina's Tiffany Mitchell and Notre Dame's Jewell Loyd. If only the men's bracket had such sparkle.
Details/TV: Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Fla., Thursday-Sunday, Golf and Ch. 4:
Sure enough, Tiger Woods has won the last two, four of the last six and eight of the last 14 played in this century. They'd hand him a trophy if he just walked out on the 18th green with an ice tea/lemonade concoction in his hand and waved to the crowd with the other. Despite the recent back problems, he says he's not going to let Arnie down and plans to play. He does have a standing invite, right? Golf Channel has the first two rounds Thursday and Friday at noon; NBC has the final two rounds Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m.
NO. 9 NHL: DUCKS at SAN JOSE
Details/TV: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Prime:
The Sharks keep circling the top spot in the Pacific Division, and since the Ducks have slipped a bit lately, they can finally see some daylight. These two teams have this game and another on April 9 left for tie-breaking purposes.
Ducks vs. Washington, Honda Center, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Prime
Ducks vs. Florida, Honda Center, 5 p.m. Sunday, Prime
NO. 10 MLS: GALAXY at REAL SALT LAKE
Details/TV: 1 p.m. Saturday, NBCSN:
This is getting a little monotonous. There must be a reason why two of the strongest teams in the league are playing each other in the first two games of the season (they meet again in mid-July). The Lakers outlasted the Galaxy 1-0 in the opener on March 8 when Robbie Keane couldn't convert an extra-time penalty kick against Nick Rimando, who got his 109th career shutout, three short of Kevin Hartman's league record.


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The family of Jackie Robinson was honored at Citi Field on the 71st anniversary of Robinson breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier. Robinson's daughter, Sharon was at the game. Jackie's wife Rachel, and son David joined her at the pitcher's mound before Sunday's Mets-Brewers game to recognize the Jackie Robinson Foundation scholarship recipient.
For the 10th straight year, players across Major League Baseball wore Robinson's number 42-uniform.
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A Copernican Conception of Civilization
29 April 2012
Elsewhere I have written that the Copernican Revolution still has much unfinished business. For practical men who suppose that the whole of life is dictated by drives and appetites and impulses it might sound like an extraordinary claim to say that the ordinary business of life is contingent less upon one's responses to stimuli and more upon one's idea of the world, but just as G.K. Chesterton said that "…for a landlady considering a lodger, it is important to know his income, but still more important to know his philosophy," I would add that she should also know her tenant's cosmology. Indeed, philosophies and cosmologies are likely to overlap, and in some cases they coincide.
In Eo-, Exo-, Astro- I wrote about Joshua Lederberg's distinction between eobiology and exobiology, and how both of these have been absorbed into the more comprehensive science of astrobiology. Astrobiology can be considered an extrapolation and extension of terrestrial biology. This same schema of extrapolation and extension can be readily applied beyond biology to the other life sciences and earth sciences. Ultimately, the result of the systematic extension of our conceptions of science would yield a Copernican conception of science and knowledge in which the earth would no longer be the center, either literally or metaphorically.
A Copernican conception of the sciences, and the production of Copernican knowledge on the basis of a Copernican conception of the sciences, must ultimately move beyond the natural sciences and also embrace the social sciences. I would argue that the social sciences are in more acute need of the Copernican Revolution than the natural sciences, but that it is more difficult to effect a conceptual revolution within the social sciences given their less quantifiable procedures and the inherent ambiguity of observation and evidence in the social sciences. But the fullness of time must inevitably bring us a Copernican political science, a Copernican sociology, a Copernican cultural geography, a Copernican cultural anthropology, and so forth.
Beyond science, we can also seek to extend the Copernican Revolution throughout familiar conceptions of human knowledge that have unwittingly been based on Ptolemaic conceptions of the cosmos. Despite Ptolemaic cosmology now being a scientific museum piece, it continues to influence our thought because its terms and ideas are embedded in our knowledge. Just as we must make an extra effort in order to think in selective terms, according to an evolutionary paradigm — an effort that can be surprisingly difficult because it is so much easier to think in teleological terms, according to a theological paradigm — so too we must make an extra effort to think in non-earth-centered terms, according to a Copernican paradigm, instead of thinking in earth-centered terms, according to a Ptolemaic paradigm. Ultimately, pushing the familiar categories of our thought to the limit, we must formulate a Copernican conception of civilization.
All civilization as we have known it, has been eocivilization; this is terrestrial civilization confined to the surface of the earth. In so far as human beings are a natural product of the earth, and civilization is a natural product of human beings, civilization ought to be the ultimate object of study of a greatly extended conception of the earth sciences. Early in the history of this blog, in Life and Landscape (as well as in subsequent posts, like Art and Landscape), I attempted to show how the ideas by which we live are ultimately grounded in the landscape in which we have made our lives. This is a theme that I have occasionally worked to develop, but the definitive formulation of the idea continues to elude me, even as I continue to pursue it, coming at it from different angles, the better to catch it unaware, as it were. This present formulation here, of civilization as the ultimately object of the earth sciences, is a continuing part of my struggle to precisely delineate the connections between life and landscape.
Civilization as we might imagine it to be off the surface of the earth, either in the form of a greatly expanded human civilization of the future, or in the form of an extraterrestrial civilization not of human origin, would constitute exocivilization. A future science of civilizations would embrace the study both of eocivilization and exocivilization, and in the spirit of scientific objectivity the study of exocivilization ought to be quite indifferent to whether such exocivilization is derived from human civilization or not.
The larger and more comprehensive point of view would be that of astrocivilization, which would comprehend and include both eocivilziation and exocivilziation. The NASA definitions of astrobiology that I quoted in Eo-, Exo-, Astro- can be nicely reformulated (or, if you like, exapted) to express the idea of astrocivilization:
"Astrocivilization is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of civilization in the universe. This multidisciplinary field encompasses the search for civilized societies in our Solar System and civilized societies outside our Solar System, the search for evidence of the origins and early evolution of civilization on Earth, and studies of the potential for civilization to adapt to challenges on Earth and in space."
"The study of the civilized universe. This field provides a scientific foundation for a multidisciplinary study of (1) the origin and distribution of civilization in the universe, (2) an understanding of the role of the structure of spacetime in civilizations, and (3) the study of the Earth's civilizations in their terrestrial and cosmological context."
I must admit that I rather like the sound of these, and they strike me as an edifying definition of a future science of civilizations.
Problems remain, and there would need to be further revisions of these formulations. We no longer hope to find other civilizations in our own solar system, while at one time this hope was once quite high. Percival Lowell's poetic vision of a dying Martian civilization building canals to transport remaining water from the poles to the equatorial regions, and H. G. Wells' darker take on this same vision, making it less poetic and less romantic, but perhaps also more believable, are testimony to the fact that exocivilizations (as well as their motivations and intentions) have been of interest on earth for some time.
More important from a scientific standpoint (since we ought to keep an open mind about other civilizations within our solar system) is the systematic ambiguity between formulating descriptive concepts of civilizations on the one hand, on the other hand and the scientific study of these civilizations. The same ambiguity persists in the term "history," which can either mean the actual events of the past, or the study of the events of the past. Thus "astrocivilization" could mean the actual civilizations of the universe (which is intuitively quite clear) or the study of such civilizations (which is intuitively not quite as clear, partly because we don't have an established vocabulary and terminology for the study of eocivilization — except the already-noted ambiguous term "history").
Much work remains to be done on the study of civilization, just as much work remains to be done in completing the Copernican Revolution.
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RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook will run Android apps later this year after a software update. That much we do know. Now, Bloomberg reports that all QNX-based BlackBerry smartphones will run Android apps as well. Is it time for RIM to throw in the towel and build BlackBerries using the Android OS?
That's a tough call. According to Bloomberg's Android sources, the "Android app player" (basically an emulator) that allows Android apps to run inside QNX-based devices such as the PlayBook is being reworked to fit on smaller QNX-based BlackBerry smartphones.
The reason for having Android apps on BlackBerry devices is to address the platform's puny selection of apps in RIM's "App World" app store, a platform that developers have been hesitant to create apps for. None of which is a surprise given BlackBerry's shrinking marketshare when compared to iOS or Android.
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So the question therefore is, if a BlackBerry runs Android apps, is it a BlackBerry or an Android device? RIM will tell you it's both. QNX-based BB smartphones will have the security and enterprise features like BBM and BB email, but will finally be able to get in on the entertainment segment via Android apps.
It remains to be seen if such a dual-mode strategy will work or compromise the image of BlackBerry, but it looks promising — if Android app emulation is as smooth as RIM says it is.
RIM's in a tight spot. As its marketshare is eroded by Android and iOS, it needs to make a decision: push forward with a platform nobody really seems to care about or choose another OS and become a hardware maker only. It was extremely hard for Nokia to ditch its Symbian and MeeGo platforms for Windows Phone 7, and the fruits of that deal have yet to materialize, but perhaps RIM needs to ditch its own in-house OSes and adopt Android.
Admitting it needs Android's help is like dipping its toes into the Google pond. We'll know for sure how serious RIM is about Android in 2012 when its new QNX-based BBs hit the street. Everything really rides on how well BlackBerries sell next year. If things take a turn for the worse, it might be in RIM's cards to invest in Android more heavily.
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A glitzy London hotel was this morning's setting for the launch of HTC's new handset, Diamond, the latest phone in a long line of would-be iPhone killers.
The Diamond is roughly the same size as Apple's iPhone, although the HTC device has a smaller, 2.8in touchscreen - the display's resolution is a much larger 480 x 640, though - and a zig-zag backing 'borrowed from Nokia's similarly styled 7900 Prism – reviewed here.
HTC's Diamond: 2.8in VGA touchscreen and a 3D menu system
Users are guided around the Diamond by TouchFlo 3D, the latest incarnation of the Windows Mobile skin launched by HTC a year ago. TouchFlo 3D is also freakishly similar to the iPhone's interface, with the music folder, for example, allowing users to rummage through tracks by viewing an album's front cover.
Sadly, a "proprietary headphone connection" is built into diamond instead of a standard 3.5mm headphone socket. HTC claimed such an option would have made the phone bulkier. The smartphone has 4GB of internal storage, and there's a Micro SD card slot for further expansion.
The phone's rear hides a 3.2Mp camera
If you're more into snapping images than listening to music, then there's a 3.2-megapixel camera on board and the phone's internal accelerometer allows images to be viewed either horizontally or vertically with a flick of the wrist - again much like the iPhone.
An iPod-style control wheel is the phone's main control dial for, say, flicking though piles of images or your list of contacts - which are displayed like an old fashioned Rolodex. The wheel's also used for zooming in on webpages - all downloaded quickly thanks to the phone's 7.2Mbp/s HSDPA connection.
Diamond is 11.3mm thick - but you can thicken it with an extended-life battery
Although the handset runs on Windows Mobile 6.1, Opera is the chosen web browser. Microsoft's senior vice president of mobile business communications, Andy Lees, said this is because "Microsoft is in the middle of updating IE, so the timing of the device's launch meant it wasn't suitable for IE 6".
In addition to 3G, the Diamond supports tri-band GSM/GPRS/Edge links. It'll also guide users around at street level, because both GPS and Assisted GPS feature - though you'll have to buy navigation software separately.
HTC said that Diamond will be available in the UK next month, but a price hasn't been decided yet. The manufacturer did confirm though that all five major UK networks will be selling the phone.


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WorldNetDaily smears J Street as " 'pro-Hamas' "
In a November 29 article on Hannah Rosenthal, President Obama's special envoy to combat and monitor anti-Semitism, WorldNetDaily asserted that J Street, an organization for which Rosenthal serves on an "advisory council," is "pro-Hamas." In fact, J Street "support[s] Israel and its desire for security as the Jewish homeland" and has been praised by Israel's president and opposition leader.
WND calls pro-Israel group " 'pro-Hamas' "
WND: "Rosenthal on 'pro-Hamas' board." In an article asserting that Rosenthal's husband, Richard Phelps, worked on a project with Joel Rogers, who "was founder of the New Party," which "worked alongside the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN," WND writer Aaron Klein stated in a subhead that J Street is " 'pro-Hamas.' " Klein further wrote that J Street "brands itself as pro-Israel" and that "J Street, however, also supports talks with Hamas, a terrorist group whose charter seeks the destruction of Israel" :
J Street is a pro-Israel organization praised by Israeli president and opposition leader
WND article does not support claim that J Street is "pro-Hamas." Klein placed "pro-Hamas" in single quotation marks, but the term does not appear elsewhere in the article. Indeed, the only other mention of "Hamas" in the article is Klein's assertion that J Street "supports talks with Hamas." In a similar attack article on November 26, Klein asserted that J Street is "a controversial Israel-lobby group accused of working against the Jewish state."
J Street supports third-party efforts and "unofficial, indirect ways to engage Hamas." On its "Myths and Facts" page, J Street calls the claim that it supports negotiations with Hamas a myth: "J Street believes that Hamas' consistent opposition to the peace process, its support for terror against Israeli civilians, its use of violence for political purposes, and its repeated denial of the Holocaust are all reprehensible and abominable." J Street further states that "we support efforts by third parties to achieve reconciliation and a unity government" and "we would not oppose a decision by the Israeli government, the United States, or other countries to find unofficial, indirect ways to engage Hamas in order to advance U.S. and Israeli interests."
J Street is "pro-Israel," "pro-peace." J Street refers to itself as "the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement" and states that it "represents Americans, primarily but not exclusively Jewish, who support Israel and its desire for security as the Jewish homeland, as well as the right of the Palestinians to a sovereign state of their own -- two states living side-by-side in peace and security." According to its website, "J Street advocates for American policies that, in our view, advance the national interests of the United States, as well as the long-term interests and security of the state of Israel."
Israeli President Peres praised J Street. WorldNetDaily wrote: "Even the Israeli government has been distancing itself from J Street, with its ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, refusing to attend its annual dinner last month. Israeli Embassy spokesman Yoni Peled told the Jerusalem Post his government has some 'concern over certain [J Street] policies that could impair Israel's interests.' " WorldNetDaily did not note, however, that, as reported by Haaretz, Israeli President and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres sent J Street "a letter of congratulations on its activities."
Kadima leader Livni praised J Street. The Jerusalem Post reported on October 23 that opposition leader Tzipi Livni "sent a letter to the head" of J Street stating that "I would like to congratulate you on your inaugural national conference" and that "[l]ike you, I believe ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by realizing the vision of two nation-states, living side by side in peace and security, is in the best interest of Israel, the United States, the Palestinians and the region as a whole."
J Street has criticized Hamas. Decrying its use of the Holocaust as a political tool, J Street "unequivocally condemns Holocaust denial by Hamas officials." J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami further stated that "Hamas' continued use of such incendiary rhetoric -- not to mention its ongoing use of terror and violence -- undercuts efforts to find a path to its inclusion in a political two-state resolution to the conflict." J Street has also criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for referring the Goldstone Report to the U.N. Security Council because it "failed to include any mention of its findings regarding violence and terror by Hamas directed at Israel and its citizens in the south."
Rosenthal has long history of pro-Israel advocacy
As head of Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Rosenthal "was a tireless advocate for Israel." Rosenthal served as executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) from 2000 to 2005. In a November 23 statement "applaud[ing]" Rosenthal's appointment, current JCPA president and CEO Rabbi Steve Gutow said, "During her tenure at JCPA, Hannah was a tireless advocate for Israel and social issues important to the Jewish community." The Forward reported on November 12, 2004, that "Rosenthal has adapted her organization to focus more on local communities, helping them to coordinate their Israel advocacy and other programs."
Jewish Week: Rosenthal "presided over a strong, well-organized response to ... Durban conference." In a November 24 editorial supporting Rosenthal's appointment, The Jewish Week wrote: "At JCPA, she presided over a strong, well-organized response to the 2001 United Nations Durban conference on racism and xenophobia that turned into a festival of outright anti-Semitism. She has a solid understanding of a Jewish world divided over many political and Middle East policy issues but united about the importance of Israel and the need to root out the scourge of anti-Semitism wherever it erupts." Indeed, in a July 18, 2001, action alert, Rosenthal wrote that JCPA was "playing a coordinating role facilitating the work of national and local member agencies" in confronting "ongoing efforts by Arab and Muslim states to use the United Nations World Conference Against Racism ... as a forum to attack Israel and to revive the old canard equating Zionism with racism." Rosenthal asked readers to urge members of Congress to sign a letter to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan "expressing serious concern about the divisive and hate-filled tone emerging in preparations for the" conference. In an August 27, 2001, press release, JCPA "praised President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell for ruling out high-level U.S. participation at" the conference. In a September 3, 2001, press release, JCPA announced that it had "walked out of the [conference] in the midst of anti-Semitic rhetoric and following attempts to single out Israel as a racist state."
Under Rosenthal, JCPA publicly supported "Israel's right of self defense against terrorism with all means necessary." In a December 3, 2001, press release, JCPA stated:
The JCPA supports Israel's right of self defense against terrorism with all means necessary. The defense of one's citizens is the first responsibility of any government. The time for waiting for Yasser Arafat to confront the terrorist groups operating in areas under Palestinian Authority control, particularly Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and to put an end to suicide attacks and anti-Israel incitement, has run out.
It is now up to Israel to find the response that will prevent such barbaric attacks from occurring in the future. There is no simple way to pursue terrorists and those who harbor them. The JCPA will stand behind the Israeli government at it seeks to develop the most effective strategy for defending its citizens.
JCPA expresses its deep appreciation to President George Bush and senior administration officials for showing strong and unyielding support for Israel following these terrorist attacks and the Israeli government's initial response. The President's unequivocal call on Arafat to confront terror groups and end these attacks is reminiscent of the actions he has taken in Afghanistan. America and Israel stand united in the fight against global terrorism, which seeks to undermine democracy, freedom, and a commitment to seek genuine peace.
Rosenthal protested expulsion of Israeli scholars from British academic journals. On July 16, 2002, Rosenthal sent a letter to John Garside, the principal and vice chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, expressing JCPA's "dismay at the expulsion of two Israeli scholars ... from the boards of two British journals of translation studies run by Professor Mona Baker." Rosenthal wrote: "The two respected professors were dismissed as part of an academic boycott of Israel, simply because they are Israelis. Such action -- excluding scholars based on their nationality, race, or religion -- is an appalling violation of all recognized norms of academic and intellectual freedom and sets an immoral and dangerous precedent. The JCPA strongly urges you to speak out on this issue and immediately end any affiliation between the University and Professor Baker's journals." JCPA urged its members to promote "counter petitions" and to write similar letters.
JCPA campaigned for Arafat Accountability Act. On July 10, 2002, JCPA urged its members to ask members of Congress to co-sponsor the Arafat Accountability Act, which the organization said "imposes a number of sanctions immediately on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority until they cease violating their commitment to end violence and terror."
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fonken-style box nomenclature... what is with those names?
Fonken, Mar-Ken, Mar-Kel, milli, micro, prime -- where did they come from?
My 1st exposure to an onken design was when i was selling audax drivers at the hifi store in the late 70s. One of the factory designs was an onken enclosure for the 15" pro driver (boy was that a nice driver). That stuck with me.
When Bob of CSS asked me to come up with a box for the upcoming FR125S, i came up with a small box that looked like an onken. We called it the miniOnken. Update: bending to the will of the people, this term has been changed to fonken-style To keep it from unloading in the bass its ports needed to be damped.
Chris liked the FE127 driver that we were playing with better (it was happier with the small tube amps we were getting into). He asked if i could put it in a box like the miniOnken. Turns out that changing the port spacers (and the driver fitment) was all that we needed. Chris named it Fonken (Fostexonken). It was a game changer.
From the Fonken also came the Classic Golden-Ratio Fonken and the Floorstander Fonken (Mk I & Mk II). An as yet unbuilt WallFonken also exists.
Sometime later the urge to see how small a box we could get away led to an LS3/5A size box. (LS3/5A always facinated me) It took 3 trys to get right. The logical name was miniOnken but we'd already used that so we contracted it to mFonken to avoid confusion.
Now i challenged myself to make an even smaller one. Going thru the Fostex 3" it quickly became clear that the only one that would lead to a smaller box than the mFonken was the FF85K. So a pair was ordered up, and we got the next size smaller on the 1st try (i guess practice was helping). It made sense to call this a µFonken (microFonken).
It now became clear that the m in mFonken shouldn't be mini, but milli to be consistent with the prefixes in the metric system.
Then an opportunity came up to do a small box for someone on the forum for the FE108eSigma. A change of ports spacer an i had a mFonken size box with an FE108eS in it. What to name it? The easy way out was to call it mFonken108.
The concept of a larger Fonken for the FE167e had been on the backburner for awhile. When we finally did it, we didn't like deca, hecto, or kilo, so we just called it Fonken167.
About the same time, we did a FOnken for the FX120/F120A. When done, because of the almost characture size when sitting on a stand, became Fonken-steen. Chris again. I also did a dFonkenFX (deciFostexonkenFX120). A bit smaller than primeSize we now have deciSize (and no doubt centiSize at some point).
By this time just calling something a Fonken was getting confusing, there were 4 Fonken of various sizes. Since the full-size FE127e Fonken was first, we added a suffix to make it FonkenPrime.
We had started working with Mark Fenlon of Mark Audio. We got A6, A10, and CHR-70 to play with. The A6 fit into a milliSize box, and the A10 fit into a primeSize box. CHR-70 fit in a milliSize box but was best sealed. We now realized we had backed ourselves into a corner namewise -- we were struggling. Monken (Mark Audio Onken)? No way. Finally we came up with Marken6 and Marken10 (Mark onkenAlpair6). Still a bit awkward. So inspired by the names of those from Krypton (ie SuperMan), we added a hyphen and had Mar-Ken. Add the appropriate suffix and prefix (if needed) and we ended up with Mar-Ken6 and Mar-Ken10. Note that the Mar-Ken10 ended up being fatter & sqatter than a FonkenPrime because of the big bezels on all the Mark Audio drivers.
Now the CHR-70 was sealed. It wasn't a miniOnken anymore, but it was milliSize. So we ended up with mMarS70 (Mars, milliMarkSealed CHR-70).
Then Bob struck again. Bob was having Mark work on a paper cone driver. We got prototypes and needed to get them into a box quickly. So we did a millSize box. At the same time, we took the similarily sized Fostex FE103e and did a mFonken103. Bob decided to call the driver the EL70, so we ended up with mMar-Kel70.
It was always the intention to do a primeSize EL70 box, it came later. Mar-Kel70. It turned out to be outstanding!
Then came the Mark Audio Alpair7 and Alpair12. Alpair7 fits into a milliSize sealed mMarS7. PrimeSize was too big. We ended up with dMar-Ken7 (deciMark-onkenAlpair7). This one is licenced to a manufacturer in Denmark, and plans will be available for a small fee (as will Fonken167, and an extended series of prime, milli, & microSize Fonken -- stay tuned).
I'm working on a Mar-Ken12. It is a challenge thou. It wants to be in a primeSize box, but has a bezel even bigger than A10. Once i figure this out a Fonken207 may follow, it has similar size issues.
Somewhere along the way, i also did a milliSize for a Tangband W3-593 mTan-Ken593.
There is also a FonkenWoof. There are also lots of unfinished concepts (including a BiFonken & a floorstanding evolution of Fonken-steen)
Since the original miniOnken was done, further work with the FR125 has us much preferring (and recommending) this driver in a smaller box, 4.5-7 litre aperiodic so we have co-opted the origial and all of the above are considered to be members of the miniOnken Family.
There will no doubt be more.
There it is. Any questions?
CHR-Ken is the new name for the dMar-Ken70 (now in v@ version 1v1)
dMar-Ken7 @ version 1v1
Mar-Kel70@ version 1v1
Classic Golden Ratio dMar-Ken12 @ version 1v0
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|6th February 2010, 06:27 PM
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There is a prototype µFonken^2. This is 2 µFonken morphed into a single milliSize cabinet. It is a 1st experiment to check the gains/losses of 2 FF85KeN in a short array. Jury is still out (sounds good thou).
Can also be done with one driver front, one driver side mounted - a configuration that is gaining more traction as more Lotus^2 and Coniston^2 get built.
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|6th February 2010, 10:37 PM
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You're just teasing now Dave...
Useful background on the nomenclature, & possibily a salutary lesson in how model ranges can expand faster than the naming scheme can keep up... -be interesting to see how the above turns out, esp. with a side-firing driver.
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|9th February 2010, 06:38 PM
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Hi Dave,
How the mFonken108 turn out compared to the rest? I do like this little driver.
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|9th February 2010, 06:49 PM
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We didn't actually build a mFonken108. I did it up for another member, he never reported back.
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|9th February 2010, 06:54 PM
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That's a pity....I'm still trying to decide upon which milli sized one.
|9th February 2010, 07:13 PM
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What kind of support kit and budget do you have?
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|9th February 2010, 07:34 PM
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Hi Dave,
Probably a Crimson, we exchanged an e-mail a week or so ago, the idea of a 108 milli was appealing as I like this driver, I was actually thinking about the A6, if I can get hold of a pair.
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|9th February 2010, 08:24 PM
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I don't think any of the Fostex are going to really going to be at their best with the Crimson. I'd look to the EL70eN for that amplifier.
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|14th April 2010, 05:15 PM
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So... what's an onken in the first place?
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HexDefense 1.0
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