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Actually down from the hand shaking position. That can be a steep angle but the disc should be at least parallel but lower to the largest bones in the forearm.
Yes i meant thumb outermost section being almost vertical pushing down on the flight plate. So that the rest of the thumb is not in contact with the disc and the pressure of the thumb pinch is not divided over as large of an area as with all of the thumb on the flight plate. More pressure=more friction=stronger grip. The flight plate will probably bend down some and add some more grip because the tip of the thumb needs to climb out of the pit uphill. In 2003 worlds video Climo showed regular thumb orientation intead of the Jenkins grip described above and called pushing the flight plate down as having control. It is easier to avoid slipping of the disc when the base of the thumb rests on the flight plate too and the tip to finger print corner of the thumb digs into the flight plate.
The further out toward the outer edge of the disc the thumb lies the more it points forward and can be ahead of the index finger. Since the thumb is on top of the disc pushing down on it will automatically drop the front of the disc and raise the rear as long as there is room for the disc to move into the deeper front down orientation. Which is not true for every grip. Regular power grip has the disc in the crease of the hand and the base of the thumb can be in the way. So it is a trade off in grip strength if you decide to raise the rear of the disc the lie near or at the innermost joint of the thumb. Because then the base of the thumb cannot push down on the flight plate.
The Wiggins grip does not have the index finger under the disc at all so the thumb is well ahead of the middle finger which is the foremost finger under the disc. It has the the thumb and the base of the thumb on the disc but from the way others described the grip you could get an even stronger grip by tilting the head of the thumb down like the Jenkins family.
I have not experimented with actual throws yet how extreme nose down angles you could get if you weakened the grip on top of the disc by removing the base of the thumb from the top of the flight plate. So that the rear of the disc can rise close to the innermost joint of the thumb. If you don't orient the middle and ring fingers upright on the rim but almost along the rim removing the pinky from under the disc you can get a fairly strong grip and pushing the wrist down when not throwing produced about 30 degree nose down angle on the disc when the hyzer angle was horizontal. Naturally doing the same while throwing is way harder. The wrist moves and if you don't use the hyper spin technique where the wrist does not bend to the left of resting position during the throw (or shouldn't turn) the bones n the wrist will try to push the hand up as it moves from bent back to the resting position. You can fight this but it takes some muscle power and some powerful guys here got that to work on the first day and weak old me am very inconsistent with how well i do. At my feeble strength i need to use so much of my muscle power in the arm to wrestle the hand to be down when the disc rips that the forearm muscles are so tense that it slows down the throw costing distance.
The solution is twofold. Have enough muscle power in the forearm to be able to stay loose enough in the muscles for good acceleration of the arm and cheating the wrist bones. Which can happen by not allowing the wrist to bend to the left and snapping from the resting position to the right (hyper spin technique) with the hand or allowing the wrist to bend a little snapping to straight or a little right of the resting position but keeping the hand at resting position in the vertical axis until the hand is coming straight in the snap in the horizontal axis and then pushing down. The latter version is insanely difficult to time and the order to bend the wrist down has to leave the brain early because that part of the wrist snap is probably under 1/100 seconds long. And the rip occurs in super quick succession after the disc pivots very quickly. And you need to pinch the disc too at that time and aim the disc and so on so there is more to do than the brain can handle so it needs to become automated with probably thousands of repetitions. After/if you get it right which may take a lot of throws and time. So do you have years to pursue that goal or are you one of the gifted ones that get it in the first attempt and can reproduce it always? Nobody knows before you try.
These are by no means the only grip variations that are out there and at least the Bonopane grip too can produce extreme nose down angles. It just tends to hurt in the fingers while throwing. I've not used it enough to see if the fingers would adapt to it and become pain free. There may be some other grip tricks that can help too but you've got a lot of experimenting to do with the above tricks already.


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Game 12. Fifth of a six-game homestand.
Back to playing teams from Canada (boy, there's been a lot of two-anthem games so far). First of 16 straight vs. Eastern teams.
The Rangers begin back-to-backs at home, having won their last two games over Western powers (San Jose and Anaheim).
De-Whaled, de-prucha'd Sean Avery makes his season debut in place of Wojtek Wolski (groin). Mike Rupp (arthroscopic knee surgery this week) and Marc Staal (concussion symptoms) remain out.

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I'm using a DI container to assemble my application, however one area I'm a little stuck on is action controllers.
Until run time it is impossible to know what dependencies a controller has because each action can have different requirements. The logical solution seems to be treating the DI container a bit like a service locator and just injecting it into the controller. It doesn't really feel right to do this though.
I'd be interested to know how others have handled this and of there's a general consensus on how this should be dealt with.
Best regards, George
As usual I've done this in a non-standard quirky way in my pet projects, but here goes (index.php):
$injector = include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/wiring.php');
$router = $injector->create('Router');
try {
$page = $injector->create($router->getControllerName());
} catch (SpecialPage $special) {
$page = $injector->create($special->controller_name);
Now $page is a page controller. Not sure how this equates to Action.
Right now the Router pulls in the Request object, the necessary includes are handled in getControllerName() and $page is a functor (it handles the page request in construction and uses the view to paint it all in the constructor!). That's possibly a little too much magic for public consumption :).
I would probably change it to:
$injector = include(dirname(__FILE__) . '/wiring.php');
$request = $injector->createRequest();
$router = $injector->create('Router');
try {
$page = $injector->create($router->controllerName($request));
} catch (SpecialPage $special) {
$page = $injector->create($special->controllerName);
The Views class is just a factory/repository and uses the request too. I sometimes find myself using DI for dependencies, but letting a factory do the final instantiation.
I haven't tried this second code block, but looking at it now I prefer it to the snippet above that I use in my pet projects. Hm...I might still hide Request.
What I like about this setup is that I can add models to the controller or the view constructors and DI just takes care of it. The MVC flavour is hidden (e.g. PassiveTemplate or not). The injector never escapes from index.php, but I guess this is essentially the same as Kyber's.
yours, Marcus
>The Views class is just a factory/repository and uses the request too. I sometimes find myself using DI for dependencies, but letting a factory do the final instantiation.
Find myself in the same behavior. But probably with another different slant. I configure injector (all the magic you hide in wiring file) in the factory and than return the result object, like:
echo $reportRender->render($sql);
And use phemto inside this factory, building wiring upon options array (now I prefer DatasheetReportFactoryOptions class).
Agreed. Cohesion is still the best guide to constructing functions; it should do one and only one thing.
I'm not good with MVC, but I like factories simply for their ability to encapsulate the model in this case and delay binding time until the last possible moment, two best practices in one. If the situation really is as complicated as you mentioned elsewhere it is also possible to build a factory for factories. You could also use an abstract factory pattern. You declare an interface for the factory, and then an interface for each object that each factory creates. This may be an abstract class if you have implementation to automate across your factories. Then implement your factories and the objects they build according to the interfaces.
Not really, to switch the view you'd switch the controller. How can a view work without its controller?
Otherwise, each controller action needs to specify which view it's going to use. By making the relationship 1:1 this only needs to be defined once.
Now, I have no idea how your own system works but it's common in some "MVC" frameworks to do things like this:
(for ease I'm assuming a 1:1:1 relationship for these examples )
class UserController extends Controller {
public function showList() {
$users = $this->model->findAll();
$this->set('users', $users);
public function sortList($order) {
$users = $this->model->setSort($order);
$this->set('users', $users);
public function edit($id) {
$user = $this->model->findById($id);
$this->set('user', $user);
public function save() {
if ($this->model->save($_POST)) {
else {
$user = $this->model->findById($_POST['id']);
$this->set('user', $_POST);
Which is backwards. This controller has two responsibilities: editing and listing users, causing unecessary repeated code.
Isn't this better:
class UserListView extends View {
public $template = 'list.tpl';
public function render() {
$this->set('users', $this->model->findAll());
class UserListController extends Controller {
public $view = 'UserList';
public function sort($order){
class UserEditView extends View {
public $template = 'form.tpl';
public function render() {
if ($this->model->isSaved()) {
$user = $this->model->getUser();
$this->set('user', $user);
else $this->template = 'success.tpl';
class UserEditController extends Controller {
public $view = 'UserEdit';
public function main($id) {
$this->model->id = $id;
public function save() {
Now, any controller actions which are added relate to a single view meaning they don't have to specify which view they're going to use and reduces the need for 'default' controller actions which take no parameters.
.. Hide this in the framework layer ..
Assuming you have a front controller, you could let the front controller be aware of the container and use it to instantiate the handler. The handler, however, is purely DI style. So:
class Frontcontroller {
function execute() {
$controller_name = $_GET['controller'] . 'controller';
$action_name = $_GET['action'];
$controller = $this->container->create($controller_name);
return $controller->{$action_name}();
.. Wrap the container in a factory ..
Kind of like a registry, but the registry is limited to only allow creation of controllers. Eg.:
class SomeController {
function setControllerCreator($creator) {
$this->creator = $creator;
function index() {
$someOtherController = $this->creator->createController('SomeOtherController');
return $someOtherController->stuff();
This design makes sense if controllers need to be able to instantiate each other (eg. with a hierarchical controller design)
Thanks TomB,
The latter is certainly better.
Often when doing simple lists I don't actually need anything in the controller, so can be quite lazy and combine listing and editing. But I agree It's better to have an empty controller than to mix those responsibilities.
Also I'm swinging toward the factory idea for models now. In most cases a controller will require a certain model under all circumstances, so it can just be injected in. If I can't tell which model I need till runtime, a factory for the possibilities should do the trick.
I think I just need to start focusing more on convention rather than configuration.
DI should sort out the problem of requiring different factories. You should need at most 1 for models and one for views, DI should sort out the dependencies of those as they're created.
One approach is to create the view when you create the controller.
interface controller {
public function getViewName();
public function setView(View $view);
$controller = $dic->create('MyController');
$view = $dic->create($controller->getViewName);
You could do the same with models but it's useful for the controller to access multiple models*
*In MVC proper, each MVC triad is a 1:1:1 relationship, models can access other models. This can create a lot of pointless wrapping functions in models so I think it's better to skip the middle man and allow the controller access to any model, of course this does limit portability of the triad. The controller-view relationship should remain 1:1, however.
This is what I do as well. I use a Kernel object (AppKernel, which is essentially a service locator with some additions) that is injected into the constructor of the controller, and a request object that is passed into the action that is called as the first parameter. The controller action returns a response to be displayed, which can be either be nothing (no content), a string (JSON, etc), a view object (HTML or XML template, etc.), or false (to trigger a 404). It's a little different setup than most others I have seen (including those posted here) - because it requires an explicit return instead of implicitly pre-loading a view - but I like it better specifically because it doesn't load anything automatically, and is easier for newbies to follow since it's more clear what is going on.
The controller loads any model objects, mappers/entities, or other objects it needs directly from the kernel. I don't like proxying this through an abstract or front controller (as kyberfabrikken suggested), because it's not the job of a controller to know how to load or assemble objects, and it just results in more function calls and misdirection. That's what your service locator is there for, so don't be afraid of using it directly.
My approach looks something like this (Vehicle detail from AutoRidge):
class Module_Vehicle_Controller extends Alloy_Module_Controller_Abstract
* View single vehicle record
* @method GET
public function viewAction(Alloy_Request $request)
// Get vehicle record
$mapper = $this->kernel->mapper('Module_Vehicle_Model');
$vehicle = $mapper->first(array('year' => $request->year, 'make' => $request->make, 'model' => $request->model));
// Ensure vehicle exists
if(!$vehicle) {
return false; // Triggers 404 File Not Found
// View template - uses __toString to render content when response is sent
return $this->view(__FUNCTION__)
'title' => $request->year . " " . $vehicle->make . " " . $vehicle->model,
'vehicle' => $vehicle
Thank you for the reply TomB
Both model and view objects could be passed to the controller. I had considered a factory but I decided against it as essentially the DI container is a factory and each action could have different requirements and therefore use a different factory, which just seems very messy (unless I'm looking at it all wrong). The other thing of-course is by allowing the factory access to the container, the controller's only dependency is a factory that with no clear dependencies, so we're just moving the problem.
Is there any other ideas? I'm sure others have encountered this problem.
That's what I do. You can 1) Hide this in the framework layer, so that the concrete controllers don't normally interact with the container directly (If you use a front controller pattern, you can stick it there), 2) wrap the container in a factory, that only allows you to create controller instances. This is to prevent application level code from using the container as a registry.
What sort of things does your application controller need? Are they related to each other? e.g. always models? If that's the case (and i can't really imagine anything else you'd realistically want to pass to an application controller) then pass a factory for creating them to the controller using DI and let the factory handle the creation of the objects, and although it may (?) be a slight misuse of the pattern I see no real harm in letting the factory access the container to create the objects.
You can 1) Hide this in the framework layer, so that the concrete controllers don't normally interact with the container directly Do you mean setting the container to the controller and accessing it through get methods from an action e.g.
class ExampleController
public function IndexAction()
$a_model = $this->getModel('AModel');
$this->view = $this->getView('Example');
So this would essentially be using the container as a registry?
2) wrap the container in a factory, that only allows you to create controller instances.I'm not really sure what you mean , how would this prevent the container being used like a registry?
The controller-view relationship should remain 1:1TomB, why is this? Surely you'd what to allow view switching at runtime?
2) wrap the container in a factory, that only allows you to create controller instances.I'm not really sure what you mean , how would this prevent the container being used like a registry?
The controller-view relationship should remain 1:1TomB, why is this? Surely you'd what to allow view switching at runtime?


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The cycle of chaos and disorder began early for Tonita Espinoza.
Born Dec. 6, 1968, in Ogden, Espinoza's life is a case study in extremes. She was a talented high school athlete but was beaten and abused. She wanted a military career but ended up dealing drugs. Social workers removed her from her parents' home as an adolescent and, later, she lost her own children.
Espinoza is gregarious and warm, but earlier this year she described the conflict, crime and chaos of her life with startling candor. The story could fill volumes but, she said, the pivotal moment was when the Division of Child and Family Services took her children.
"It's like you're trapped," she said. "It's like walking soulless. You stop caring. You can't do anything to change it. The only thing you have left is a desire to die."
Espinoza didn't die, but as bad as losing her children was, the experience was just the middle chapter in a nearly half-century story that split up three generations of parents and children. It was a cycle of families torn apart that pulls back the curtain on the challenges, limits and according to Espinoza failures of government efforts to protect children from harmful situations.
The first generation • Espinoza experienced chaos from the beginning. During a series of interviews earlier this year, she described being abused by her godfather and beaten by her stepfather, who she said was an alcoholic. When she confided in her mother, Espinoza was told to keep quiet.
"My mother didn't want anyone to know," she explained.
By the time she was 14, word of the abuse had leaked out and social workers stepped in, making Espinoza the first child in this story to be separated from her parents.
The Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) does not comment on specific cases.
Espinoza said authorities placed her in a series of foster homes. None clicked, in part due to different cultural backgrounds, and she ended up having conflicts and running away.
Espinoza's early years read like a checklist from the influential "Adverse Childhood Experiences Study." Conducted by the Center for Disease Control in the late 1990s, the study examined how abuse, neglect and household dysfunction influence people later in life.
Ominously, the study concluded that "the short- and long-term outcomes of these childhood exposures include a multitude of health and social problems." Those problems manifest themselves later in life and include alcoholism, illicit drug use, risk of intimate partner violence, depression and other issues.
A downward spiral • Despite Espinoza's early challenges, she excelled as an adolescent. She worked at the Prestwich Bean Co. in Ogden, did well in school and ran track. She joined the ROTC. And after a series of failed placements with foster parents, she finally found peace in the home of Rita and Arnold Ortiz.
"We just automatically connected," Rita Ortiz said.
But as Espinoza approached adulthood, setbacks became fast and fierce. First, while only 18, doctors diagnosed her with cervical cancer. Then, just months after enlisting in the Navy, she fainted during training in Florida and eventually received a medical discharge.
By summer's end after her high school graduation, Espinoza was back in Utah. She began a relationship with Christopher Quintana, and the young couple moved to Salt Lake City. On Dec. 28, 1988, Espinoza gave birth to their first child, Ashley Quintana. Two years later, she gave birth to a second child, Crystal.
Espinoza and Christopher Quintana's relationship was troubled. She called him a "deadbeat" and said for years he beat her, an assertion supported by his string of assault and battery charges in the late '80s and '90s. After seven years together, Espinoza left and then divorced Quintana but quickly fell into a relationship with a drug dealer. Soon, she too was dealing.
"I sold drugs," she said without flinching. "Cocaine."
Espinoza is jarringly honest about this period of her life. During lunch at a Mexican restaurant earlier this spring where she warmly greeted the staff by name Espinoza spoke openly about her criminal record. She recalled becoming a successful drug dealer. After thriving in Salt Lake Community College's social work program, she switched to criminal justice so she could learn how to avoid the cops.
Espinoza later moved back to Ogden to be with her mother, but the move was ill-fated: Her mother's boyfriend abused Ashley and Crystal, she said.
Ashley criticized her mom for not doing more, saying she was forced to "grow up in the mother role."
Espinoza agreed that Ashley didn't have much of a childhood, but added that when she learned of the abuse, she was outraged and asked friends to "take care" of the situation.
"I asked them to bring me his tongue," Espinoza said. "I never got it. But he got beat up really bad."
The second generation •Espinoza's lifestyle caught up to her in late 2000. Court records show that starting in November and continuing into 2001, she faced a slew of felony and misdemeanor charges, mostly drug-related. Espinoza is open about her legal troubles, though the details can be dizzying to track.
Espinoza's criminal cases had two results. First, she spent four years in prison, in part because at one point she fled with Ashley.
The second result was even more devastating: Like her parents before her, Espinoza lost custody of her children. Family members adopted Ashley and Crystal, Espinoza said, while her two young sons Nere de Jesus Rico was born in 1996 and Mark Anthony Arredondo was born in 1999 went to strangers.
For Ashley, the experience was a formative part of a long and increasingly chaotic adolescence. In the years that followed, she continued to run from the law, was arrested, experimented with drugs and fell in with a gang.
"I was ruthless," she said of her teenage years.
For Espinoza, losing her children was a low point.
"I just realized," Espinoza said, "I failed as a mother."
When abuse continues • University of Utah professor David Derezotes who studies social work and child abuse said the reasons families fall into patterns like Espinoza's are complex. He estimated that about one in 20 victims becomes a perpetrator, adding that harmful situations are "easily passed on" from one generation to another.
Derezotes pointed to alcohol something Espinoza also mentioned as a contributing factor in her own early abuse as a problem because it breaks down people's inhibitions.
"Alcohol works on your frontal lobe, or the 'brake' for your impulses," Derezotes said, adding that some drugs can produce a similar effect.
Jenn Oxborrow, the domestic-violence program administrator at DCFS, compared a child's developing mind to a sponge that "soaks up" what it's exposed to.
"If you're constantly exposed to violence," she said, "that's what you're going to absorb."
The result is that children who grow up in traumatic or stressful homes may devote a significant portion of their developmental energy to surviving. Later, Oxborrow said, they can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, which interferes with emotions and decision-making.
"It seems to me that the more risk a child faces, the greater risk to them as an adult," Oxborrow concluded.
Elizabeth Sollis, a spokeswoman for DCFS, pointed out that environmental factors may also play a role.
"There are probably other contributing factors," she said. "Poverty, income level, education."
Once a family begins experiencing abuse it also can be difficult to stop. Oxborrow said people sometimes don't report abusive situations because they may not know what resources are available or because there could be a stigma attached to calling authorities.
The third generation • Seven home pregnancy tests came up positive, but Ashley Quintana wouldn't believe she was pregnant until she visited a doctor.
"They did an ultrasound and there was an egg," Ashley said. "My heart just dropped."
It was June 2012 nearly a decade after Espinoza lost custody of Ashley and the now 22-year-old young woman had believed that, like others in her family, she couldn't have children. But seven months later, on Dec. 19, 2012, she gave birth to Angelino Jacobo. He was two months early and tested positive for an array of drugs, Ashley said, including marijuana, oxycodone, hydrocodone, methadone and benzodiazepine.
The years leading up to Angelino's birth were hard on Ashley, who is quieter than her mother but no less frank. After an embattled adolescence while Espinoza was in prison, an older couple ran into Ashley's car three years ago. She ended up with a back injury.
Ashley received a prescription for percocet. At first, she recalled, she used the potent painkiller to help with her injuries, but soon she started abusing it.
Eventually, Ashley started combining percocet with cocaine, using the pain meds to soften the blow of coming down. When she finally became pregnant, Ashley was still using drugs.
After Angelino's birth, Ashley tried to comply with DCFS orders but, by the end of 2012, the agency stepped in again and the story repeated: Ashley lost her son.
"It really is hard not to not just want to crawl in a hole and die," she said. "I feel like a big part of me is missing."
A larger issue • Officials at DCFS don't keep figures on the number of families that find themselves in the same situation as Espinoza and Ashley, cycling through the system generation after generation.
However, Sollis said that between January 2010 and January 2013 there were 2,934 perpetrators involved in DCFS cases who also were previously victims. Those people represent 13.4 percent of all 21,855 "supported perpetrators" or people for whom there was enough evidence to open DCFS cases.
Sollis could not comment on any particular case, but Ashley, as a mother who was taken into custody herself and then had her own child adopted out, presumably is one of those people.
Oxborrow also stressed that of all the potential cases that are called in, fewer than 40 percent are opened and supported. Of those cases, fewer than 5 percent result in DCFS removing a child.
The chaos continues • The story of Espinoza's family offers no easy answers or tidy resolutions. In March, the family protested at the Utah Capitol. They wore shirts displaying a picture of Ashley holding Angelino and hoisted signs calling out DCFS for the way it handled the case. Espinoza's voice echoed through the cavernous hall. Ashley's quavered.
Espinoza accepts responsibility for losing Ashley and her other children, tearfully saying at one point that "her selfish addiction" robbed her kids of their childhood.
But they did say the system doesn't work and they were victimized as a result. Their list of grievances is long, but they say that one of the most important is that Angelino should have gone to his father but DCFS refused because they lost his paternity test twice. Ashley also said Angelino was improperly adopted out in December before her parental rights were terminated.
"My daughter may have done some things that were wrong, but so did the state," Espinoza said. "My daughter lost her son; what did the state get? They need to stand and take accountability."
Espinoza and Ashley both have plans to keep fighting the state over Angelino's removal. They intend to get a lawyer. They hope to prevent future situations like the one they experienced.
In the meantime, chaos remained ever present in their lives. During a conversation in early August, Ashley sounded despondent, her voice low and slow as she described trying to figure out what do next. A few days later, Espinoza described her own troubles, which continue seemingly unabated. Toward the end of the conversation, Espinoza paused, then her voice cracked as she said the hardest part is watching her children struggle.
"We've had so much trauma in our lives," she said. "I worry about my kids."
Twitter: @jimmycdii


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I-Cubs' Gonzalez hits three homers
No. 5 Chicago prospect Olt smacks first long ball since trade
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com | August 6, 2013 3:54 PM ET
A month ago, Edgar Gonzalez was home with his newborn daughter, reflecting on a 14-year career that took him from the Appalachian League to the Majors to Japan and back. At 35, he was done with baseball.
Then the phone rang. It was the Chicago Cubs.
"The Cubs called me and when they called, I was thinking about [playing again,]" he said. "But I just had a daughter, I had been spending a lot of time with her, so it was not an easy decision."
Gonzalez, who played alongside his brother, Adrian Gonzalez, for two seasons in the Majors with San Diego, started having second thoughts. Maybe he wasn't done with this game. Maybe this was a chance he couldn't pass up.
Gonzalez, who played alongside his brother, Adrian Gonzalez, for two seasons in the Majors with San Diego, started having second thoughts. Maybe he wasn't done with this game. Maybe this was a chance he couldn't pass up.
"I love the game and wanted to play more," he said.
Gonzalez made up for lost time when the veteran second baseman homered three times and Mike Olt went yard for the first time with the Cubs as Triple-A Iowa used six long balls to pound Tacoma, 10-3.
Gonzalez, who signed with the Cubs on July 10, homered in the first, fifth and seventh innings off three different Rainiers pitchers and finished 5-for-6 in helping the Cubs improve to 53-65. Olt, Chicago's No. 5 prospect acquired from the Rangers in last month's Matt Garza deal, slugged his first homer in a Cubs uniform in the sixth off Tacoma reliever Jonathan Arias.
"It's been a long career for me, so it's been a while," Gonzalez said of his big showing. "I was out for four months without playing, so I'm just trying to have fun and enjoy the game. To have [this opportunity] now, I try to have fun and for this to happen, I'm just happy."
Gonzalez went yard in the first off Tacoma starter Tom Wilhelmsen, a two-run shot to left field just moments after 34-year-old Darnell McDonald began the game with his fourth home run. The second baseman struck again in the fifth with a solo drive to right off Mariners' No. 7 prospect James Paxton and then smacked a two-out shot to right off Brian Moran in the seventh.
A veteran of well over 1,000 career games, Gonzalez said when he came to bat after hitting two balls out, he wasn't looking for a third. He's learned there's no point in swinging for the fences.
"I'm just trying to get some hits," he said. "I've been playing a long time -- if you try to hit a homer, it doesn't happen. I just wanted to hit a ball deep and it was working today. He gave me the right pitch, it was one of those days everything you do works out. I'm really happy, I was able to put a good swing on it."
Olt cracked his 12th Pacific Coast League homer in the sixth after Dave Sappelt took Arias deep earlier in the inning.
"He's a good guy, he works hard, tries his hardest," Gonzalez said of the 24-year-old first baseman. "He's been busting his butt every day. Everyone likes him, he's a good clubhouse guy."
Iowa, which totaled 16 hits Tuesday, hadn't hit six homers in a game since 2010 -- Round Rock is the only other PCL team to hit six this year. Tacoma was limited to seven hits, three of which came from third baseman Nate Tenbrink, who fell a triple shy of hitting for the cycle.
Gonzalez appeared in 193 Major League games from 2008-'09 with the Padres, hitting .255 with 11 homers and 51 RBIs. Drafted by the Rays in 2000, Gonzalez debuted with Rookie-level Princeton and short-season Hudson Valley that summer and worked his way up to Class A Advanced Bakersfield in 2003 before the Rangers selected him in the Rule 5 Draft that winter. He was taken by the Montreal Expos in the 2004 Rule 5 Draft and made his Triple-A debut in 2005 with the Nationals, spent the 2006 season in the Marlins system, joined Triple-A Memphis with the Cardinals in 2008 and saw time with Triple-A Portland in 2008 before making his big league debut on May 12, 2008.
Gonzalez then spent the 2010 season in the Japan Central League with the Yomiuri Giants before signing with San Francisco and playing at Triple-A Fresno in 2011. He appeared in nine games with the Iowa Cubs in 2012 before being relased last April 29 and returning to Japan.
"Japan is completely different," he said. "It's a different game, a different strike zone. They change the way you approach things. It's a grind, but a good way to help my family economically. You do whatever you can for your family, it's tough playing over there. I know the culture over there, so last season was a lot easier."
Chicago signed him again as a free agent on July 10, 2013, and Tuesday's slugfest marked the veteran's 21st game of the season.
Gonzalez has played in 1,060 Minor League games (and 157 in Japan) as of Tuesday, and the 35-year-old isn't even the oldest player on Iowa's roster -- South Korean reliever Chang-Yong Lim turned 37 in June. He said he talks with his brother a few times a week about the game, but he's not sure what the future holds beyond this season.
"I don't know, I learned long ago that once I make plans, God had another plan, so I just go with what comes to me," he said. "If I get another offer, I might play. Hopefully I can keep on playing longer."
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'Dogs' Austin plates career-high seven
Yankees prospect records second two-homer game in April
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | April 28, 2012 6:44 PM ET
Lately, he's been hitting them far.
New York's No. 15 prospect smacked two home runs and collected a career-high seven RBIs on Saturday evening in the Charleston RiverDogs' 14-9 road victory over the Hickory Crawdads.
Who's protecting whom in the talent-laden lineup?
"Our whole team, from top to bottom," the cleanup hitter said. "Everybody is getting the pitches they want because they don't want to face any of us."
That's fair, but no one is taking advantage quite like Austin. The 20-year-old right fielder struck a solo shot off Crawdads starter Victor Payano in the third inning.
"Just getting a good pitch and taking advantage of it," Austin said. "He threw a fastball low and away, then a fastball letter-high, and that's the pitch I hit out."
Austin hit a two-out grand slam against reliever Nicholas McBride (2-1), finishing a six-run ninth.
"First-pitch slider, [McBride] left it up and I put a good swing on it," said Austin, who also plated runs with a sacrifice fly in the first and on a groundout in the eighth.
The Yankees' 13th-round pick in the 2010 Draft leads the Class A South Atlantic League in homers (eight), total bases (67) and slugging (.870) and ranks fourth in batting (.364) through 20 games.
Austin's only other two-homer game as a pro occurred on April 12, when he plated three runs in a 9-3 victory over Rome. The next day, he went 4-for-4 to cap a stellar week.
The right-handed hitter's previous single-game best in RBIs was four, accomplished when he went 6-for-6 with four extra-base hits and four runs scored as a member of the short-season Staten Island Yankees last Aug. 21.
"That was the only game I enjoyed more," Austin said, "but this was a career highlight."
Austin played third base in the New York-Penn League and first base in the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League last year and said his switch to the outfield this season is a factor in his success.
"I feel really comfortable in right field. It has eased my mind" at the plate, Austin said. Last year, "I'd come off a bad inning at third [base]. [Playing right field] has helped me at the plate. ... It all starts in [batting practice] and doing the right things, taking quality swings."
Austin was one of four RiverDogs with multi-hit games. Mason Williams and Cito Culver, both among the Yankees' top nine prospects, went 3-for-5 and combined to drive in five runs.
Crawdads designated hitter Rougned Odor homered, doubled and collected three RBIs in defeat.
Payano yielded four runs on four hits and four walks over five frames.
RiverDogs right-hander Jose Campos struggled for the first time in five starts, giving up eight runs on seven hits and three walks over 2 2/3 frames. Fred Lewis (3-0) pitched 2 1/3 scoreless frames to earn the win.
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SOUTH WINDSOR, CT -- A new tabletop vending machine offers locations a way to control K-Cup inventory and charge for the single-cup packs. Made by South Windsor, CT-based KK Manufacturing LLC, the mechanical, coin-operated Koffee Karousel can be configured to vend a pack for 25¢, 50¢ and 75¢ (with quarters), or with a $1 coin. It can also be set for free-vend mode.
To make a K-Cup purchase, the user turns a wheel to rotate an eight-slot display to the desired selection. After inserting the required coins, the user twists the handle and retrieves the product from the bottom slot.
The machine holds up to 88 units. It measures 10" wide x 10" deep x 33" tall and weighs 26 lbs. An optional 26" high chrome floor stand is available, and custom logos can be printed and adhered to the face of the machine.
KK Manufacturing founder Paul Striebel and his father Edmund, a retired engineer, designed Koffee Karousel's prototype using a toy egg vending machine as a base. After devoting two years to perfecting their design, the duo traveled to China last year where they sourced a manufacturer for their machine. It entered production in October and several hundred of the venders are already in the field, according to Paul.
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This communication beyond words is possible only from heart to heart. So for nine years Bodhidharma searched in China, and then he could find only one man. For nine years Bodhidharma was sitting in China, not facing people; he would always sit facing the wall. If you had gone to hear him he would have been facing the wall, his back towards you. People used to ask him, "Why do you sit in such a peculiar way? - we have come to listen to you." And Bodhidharma would reply, "I am waiting for the man who can listen to me. I will not look at you, I will not waste my time; I will look only at the person who can listen to me."
Then came a man; he stood behind Bodhidharma, cut off his right hand, threw it at Bodhidharma and said, "Turn towards this side, otherwise I am going to cut off my head."
Bodhidharma immediately turned and said, "Right! So you have come! Take this key and relieve me of the work." The key that was passed from Buddha to Mahakashyapa, Bodhidharma delivered to this man. A Chinese became the seventh master, and up to now it has been traveling. The key is still there, somebody is still holding it; the river has not dried up.
To me, if all the scriptures of Buddha disappear, nothing is lost. Only this anecdote should not disappear. This is the most precious, and scholars have dropped it from Buddha's biography. They say, "This is irrelevant; it doesn't fit with Buddha." But I say to you: All that Buddha did was just ordinary - anybody can do that. But this is extraordinary, this is exceptional - only a buddha can do this.
What happened that morning? Let us start to penetrate into it. Buddha came, sat, and started looking at the flower. He would not look at the people; the flower became the wall. That's what Bodhidharma did. He would look at the wall, he would not look at the people - he would not waste his look. The flower became the wall and the crowd disappeared. Buddha looked and looked at the flower. What was he doing? When Buddha looks at anything, the quality of his consciousness is transferred. And a flower is one of the most receptive things in the world. Hence Hindus and Buddhists go with flowers to put at their master's feet or in the temple, because a flower can carry something of your consciousness.
A flower is a very receptive thing, and if you are aware of the new research in the West, you will understand it. Now they say plants are more sensitive than you, than man. A flower is the heart of the plant; the whole being comes into it. Much research is going on in Russia, in the USA, in England, about the sensitivity of plants, and something unbelievable has been discovered.
One man, a scientist, was working on plants - how they feel, whether they feel anything or not, whether they have emotions or not. He was sitting with a plant with electrodes fixed to it to detect any movement in its inner being, any sensation, any emotions. He thought, "If I cut this plant, if I tear down a branch or cut it from the earth, what will happen?" Suddenly, the needle making the graph jumped. He had not done anything, he had just had a thought: "If I cut this plant.." The plant became afraid of death and the needle jumped, recording that the plant was trembling. Even the scientist became scared because he had not done anything - just a thought and the plant received it. Plants are telepathic.


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The Italian lighting powerhouse Foscarini has unveiled its latest product, Fork—a suspension lamp inspired by the world of camping. Part of the Successful Living from Diesel with Foscarini collection, the fixture's shade is made from canvas with deliberately visible fabric overlay and denim stitching. The base is dark metal, and the diffuser is available in gray or ivory white. It uses a halogen bulb and comes in two sizes: 14.6 inches and 8.7 inches. Foscarini, 39.041.595.3811; www.foscarini.com.
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""Roysie and Pominville are highly skilled with a lot of speed," Torres said as he faced a throng of media in the Buffalo dressing room shortly after he came off the ice. "I'm going to have to make sure I'm in the right zone spot and not … lost out there. Keep my legs under me and not try to do too much. Just try to keep it simple to start."'
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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- A new regional summer
theater program will debut this June at Lindsey Wilson
Under the direction of theater veteran Robert Brock, the inaugural season of
TheatreFest! will feature three dramatic productions -- Robin
Hawdon's farcical Perfect
Wedding, a one-man production of
Mark Twain and a 75th-anniversary celebration of
Thornton Wilder's Our
The shows will be performed at Lindsey Wilson College's V.P. Henry
Auditorium, and the casts will include LWC students and members
from surrounding communities, Brock said.
"TheatreFest! strives to challenge and entertain audiences through
the production of the best from dramatic literature -- both old and
new -- and also engage the communities of Southcentral Kentucky as
audience members and participants in quality productions and
educational programming," said Brock, who is a Lindsey Wilson
assistant professor of theater.
Brock joined the LWC faculty as an assistant professor
more than two years ago after a distinguished professional career
in regional theater.
In addition to teaching theater classes at LWC, Brock also directs
several plays each school year. His LWC resume includes
Godspell, The Long
Christmas Dinner, Don't Dress
for Dinner, The
Crucible and Steel
TheatreFest! will be supported financially by the college, and LWC
students from the college's burgeoning theater program will help staff
Brock said a big reason TheatreFest! is possible is because of a
recent $200,000 renovation to the college's V.P. Henry Auditorium,
which is more than 80 years old. The 350-seat theater received a
new stage, a new sound and light system, and new
"It's one of the more impressive renovations I've seen," said
Brock, who has more than 30 years in professional theater. "After
the space was renovated, I realized it would be an excellent home
to a summer regional theater program. That will give our students
another opportunity to build their resumes, and it will also offer
the region another summer activity."
Brock added that TheatreFest! should also appeal to the thousands
of tourists who visit Southcentral Kentucky's lakes and state parks
each summer.
The schedule for the inaugural TheatreFest! season
* Perfect Wedding, by Robin Hawdon -- June
21-22, 27-29 (All performances will be at 7 p.m. CT.)
* Our Town, by Thornton
Wilder -- July 12-13, 18-20 (All performances will be at 7 p.m.
* Mark Twain, performed
by Robert Brock -- June 30, July 7, 14, 21 (All performances will
be at 7 p.m. CT.)
All three productions will be at V.P. Henry
Auditorium, 210 Lindsey Wilson St.For more
information about TheatreFest!, contact Brock at brockr@
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Tattoo Stories with Judas Priest
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Judas Priest is celebrating their upcoming 40th anniversary with the release of their new concert DVD, Epitaph. The film captures the final stop on Judas Priest's 2012 tour at the Hammersmith Odeon - now called Hammersmith Apollo - in London. That night, Judas Priest performed at least one song from each of their 14 studio albums with Halford, making it a night to remember.
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford tells iHeartRadio, "It's like a good memory of a vacation or a relationship. That's what music does to you, obviously. It kind of goes hand-in-hand with an event in your life. If you have a favorite and it's relative to an incident that's happened to you, it stays with you. A lot of that is in this concert."
While they were in New York City promoting the new DVD, Rob Halford and guitarist Richie Faulkner stopped by iHeartRadio HQ, where they let us in not only on the DVD, but also on the stories behind their ink. Check out Rob Halford and Richie Faulkner's tattoo stories below.
Rob Halford
"I was a late bloomer as they say in England when it comes to getting tattoos," Rob Halford tells iHeartRadio. "At that time, a tattooed individual carried a kind of a stigma. As we know in rock n' roll, it's been around for as long as you can remember. I think I was kind of waiting for that moment in my mind to go for it.
"I remember my very first ever tattoo. I got around probably about 1990. I made friends that were covered in ink and it was like, 'Rob, get some ink.' I'm like, 'No, no, no.' Then, I was on Sunset and that famous tattoo shop, [Cliff Raven Studios, now known as Sunset Strip Tattoo] across from the Hyatt house. As soon as I walked in, the guy's like, 'Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're here. We know that once you get some ink, you're going to be back.' I'm like, 'No. I just want the one.'
"I have this very little tiny devil tattoo - the reason I got that was because being a gay man, I thought that it would be really cool to have this particular design because I did a bit of research, and I found out that this particular devil was kind of an underground secret in the 50s and the 60s. If you have this tattoo, you knew you were a gay guy. I thought if I'm going to do this, I want my first tattoo to have a really strong meaning. Two or three days looking at this first tattoo, I'm like, 'Maybe I should balance it up...' That's what started the ball rolling as they say, and I just went f***ing nuts. I was in the tattoo shop all the time. Now, I'm literally covered from head to toe."
"I've always been intrigued by the dragon element because of its mystery and its power. In the UK, we have this story about St. George and the dragon which is kind of like the American Eagle. We have St. George and the dragon. For me as a Brit, that all soaks into my existence.
"I've always felt that what we do with tattoos is kind of self-empowering as well. I think it's quite a big psychological step once you start getting a lot of ink because you're obviously trying to say something with your artwork without ever talking. The amount of people who look at you and they're able to make some kind of conclusion. It's like you're wearing your life on your skin."
Richie Faulkner
For Judas Priest newcomer Richie Faulkner (he's been with the band 2 years), tattoos have not taken up as much time (or as much skin) as those of Rob Halford. In fact, Richie's first tattoo was a less-than-poetic affair.
"I've got three tattoos. I wish I could give you a lovely story about the meaning behind them," Richie Faulkner tells iHeartRadio. "I can't."
"I was playing in London at the time in a band and we were playing pretty regular. Every Sunday, we were there. A guy came up to me one day and he said, 'Listen. You're here every week. I've got a tattoo studio down the road. Can I do some pieces on you and then you'd say... It's like an advert. Like a commercial and you send the people down there.' That's what it was. I went down there and just looked through his book. I said, 'I want that one. That one looks good.'"
The tattoo on his wrist, however, is another story.
"I'm a huge Star Wars fan. This way it says, 'Jedi.' J-E-D-I that way. The other end of the scale, we've got the Sith which is Darth Vader, the Darth Maul, the Emperor. That way is the Sith. Everyone sees the good, but I see a little bit of evil in there."
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go into your BIOS and check to see if there are other devices that you can enable for your boot order.
i have this when i press shift + F10
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network boot protocol PXE
Boot Order Int 18h
Show config message Enable
Show message Time 3seconds
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go into your BIOS and check to see if there are other devices that you can enable for your boot order.
Hear no evil, Speak no evil...and you'll never be invited to a party.
how to get into bios
what key combination at start up
i have laptop with backtrack and it works fine, but on PC i cant play BOOT
you have got to be kidding me.
ok, i could go into detail about how accessing the BIOS is different depending on the manufacturer of the hardware...
or, i could go into the fact that you have failed to list the hardware...
or i could casually mention that even the most basic google-fu would have answered this question...
but i think i'll go with 'i don't think you are quite ready for backtrack'.
i know, i know... it's been used before, plenty of times. but, plagiarism is the highest compliment that I can think of. And besides, why mess with a time-honored tradition?
good luck!
Hear no evil, Speak no evil...and you'll never be invited to a party.
i have read it on some pages but how to get information about manufracturer
because startup is to quick and i try with ESCAPE tab for slowing it, but it dont work,,, please if you can me explain..
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please if you can me show how to get into BIOS on my PC
i am noot noob how do you think, but i have trooubs with boot
the information :
Intel Pentium Core Procesor E2160 1,8Ghz 1Mb c.
800Mhz LGA775.
MBO ABIT, S.775,I-S71,SiS 671,BUS 1066Mhz,serial ATA II
RAID, VGA,7,1 soundLAN,DDR2,mATX
ok, fine. here's your get out of jail free card. use it wisely.
the method that you would use to enter your BIOS varies depending on the system manufacturer, not the BIOS manufacturer. The specs that you posted have absolutely nothing to do with this. you need to google keywords such as "enter BIOS key on boot <your system model & manufacturer>"
i have no doubt that you will find plenty of information on how to enter the BIOS from that.
however, my original statement stands. i'm not sure that backtrack is what you need to be focusing on.
go forth and prosper. i believe we are done here...
Hear no evil, Speak no evil...and you'll never be invited to a party.
ok i have done it.
i need it to UPDATE FULL BIOS
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By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — A Kirkland man who's accused of killing a bicyclist in Everett in October had his driver's license suspended in May for refusing to comply with state licensing requirements after the collision.
The Oct. 17 crash that took the life of Trent Graham, 30, remains under investigation by Everett police. A few weeks ago, detectives obtained a judge's permission to collect the driver's medical records for review.
They earlier had found evidence that the man, 56, had crashed under similar circumstances before in King County in 2010. In that crash, police reports said the man suffered from a sleeping disorder and was not supposed to be behind the wheel without taking medication.
On Oct. 17, his truck crossed all lanes of traffic on Evergreen Way and hit Graham without any visible signs of braking, according to court papers. Graham died at the scene. Witnesses said the man looked slumped over at the wheel before the crash.
The Herald is not naming the man because he has not been charged with a crime.
In court papers, detectives have suggested that the case may warrant a vehicular homicide charge under the theory that the man caused a death by driving recklessly or with disregard for others' safety.
Investigators also have ruled out illegal drugs, alcohol, mechanical problems and cellphone use as possible causes of the crash.
They also allege that the man never reported his sleeping disorder to the state Department of Licensing.
A licensing department spokesman on Friday said he could not discuss individual driving records. He said that in general, the department can ask someone to re-test for their license or submit medical paperwork if officials receive information that the person's driving skills have been affected by a medical condition. That information can come from doctors and police, among other sources. The state can suspend driver's licenses if people don't comply with those orders.
Police records say the man's license was suspended in early May for refusing a driving examination.
In the meantime, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Tobin Darrow has reviewed the detectives' reports and met with Graham's family. Darrow asked detectives to obtain additional information before he makes a decision regarding criminal charges, he said last week.
Graham was a father and artist who was well-known in the cycling community. He was on his way home from work at Gregg's Cycles in Alderwood at the time of crash.
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Kelly Osbourne suffered a seizure and was hospitalized on Thursday, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
Kelly, 28, was taping her E! series, "Fashion Police," when she all of a sudden didn't feel well.
PLAY IT NOW: Kelly Osbourne Dishes On Being An Aunt
Filming stopped and she was given some water. As the cast and crew looked on, she began to experience a seizure, a source close to the star, told Access.
Melissa Rivers - who was guest co-hosting -- was seated next to Kelly and was able to grab her and help bring her to the ground.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: The 'Fierce' Miss Kelly Osbourne
A member of the live studio audience, who was reportedly a medical professional, rushed to the stage to help Kelly.
Following the seizure, Kelly was taken by ambulance to a Los Angeles-area hospital. Blankets shielded the star as she was taken to the ambulance via stretcher.
A few hours later, a rep for Kelly told Access Hollywood her condition was "stable."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Wild & Wicked: Hot Shots Of The Fiery Sharon Osbourne
"Kelly Osbourne fainted on the set of E!'s Fashion Police today. She was taken to a local hospital for further testing and is awake, alert and in stable condition. She will be staying overnight for observation as a precautionary measure. There are no further details at this time," a rep for the star told Access in a statement.
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csProgressPulse Class ReferenceThe csProgressPulse class provides a simple twirling textual cursor built out of the characters '-', '\', '|', and '/'. More...
#include <csutil/csppulse.h>
Public Member Functions
|csProgressPulse (iConsoleOutput *)
|Constructs a new progress pulse.
|Erase ()
|Erase the pulse indicator.
|Reset ()
|Reset the state and erase the indicator.
|Step ()
|Increment the progress by one pulse.
|~csProgressPulse ()
|Destroys the progress pulse.
Detailed DescriptionThe csProgressPulse class provides a simple twirling textual cursor built out of the characters '-', '\', '|', and '/'.
This type of functionality is generally used as a sort of pulse beat during indeterminately lengthy computational operations in order to let the user know that progress is being made and that the program is not hanging. By default, the pulse beat is presented to the user by passing CS_MSG_INITIALIZATION to the system print function. This setting may be changed with the SetMessageType() method. To animate the pulse object, call the Step() method each time a unit of work has been completed. At each step a backspace (\b) followed by one of the pulse characters (-, \, |, or /) is printed, except for the very first step, in which case the backspace is omitted. Erase() clears the pulse, if necessary, by printing a backspace, followed by a space (' '), followed by one more backspace. Reset() erases the pulse and then resets the state. Erase() is called automatically by the destructor.
Definition at line 47 of file csppulse.h.
Constructor & Destructor Documentation
|iConsoleOutput *
Constructs a new progress pulse.
Destroys the progress pulse.
Member Function Documentation
|void csProgressPulse::Erase
Erase the pulse indicator.
|void csProgressPulse::Reset
Reset the state and erase the indicator.
|void csProgressPulse::Step
Increment the progress by one pulse.
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:
- csutil/csppulse.h
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We specialize in ivory carvings from Europe, Japan and China. We guarantee all of our carvings to be as pictured and described or your money will be cheerfully refunded.
We have collected and cherished our ivory carvings for over 40 years. We are now retired and must find new caretakers for our treasured possessions. We were attracted to these pieces because of the stunning workmanship that has gone into their creation. We have been constantly amazed at the skill required to produce such stunning works of art.
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Get "Wild" in San Diego: Area Wildlife
Spring marks a time for renewal, rejuvenation, and new beginnings. This change can be felt with the warming temperatures and seen through blooming flora and buzzing fauna, making this season a wonderful time to "get wild" and witness San Diego wildlife on and off Paradise Point's island.
You don't have to go far to have an animal encounter. Countless San Diego wildlife residents call our 44 acres of tropical island home, which provides them with a variety of habitat types in a natural setting. The latest addition: over ten new Mallard ducklings! Besides our charming ducks, a walk along our lagoons, gardens, and beaches offers a chance to interact with:
- Lizards
- Butterflies
- Hummingbirds
- Egrets
- Mallard Ducks
- Great Blue Herons
- Night Herons
- Shovelnose Guitarfish
- Stingrays
- Leopard Sharks
- Red-eared Slider Turtles
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|9th April 2011, 09:51 AM
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The ultimate Grand Piano
Hello Gentleman and Gentlewomen,
I am an audiophile and pianist, and am looking to build the ultimate digital piano in a grand piano shell. The source will be from high quality keyboard (Roland V Piano seamlessly integrated to appear as OEM). I am seeking advice and guidance on how to effectively representing an accurate reproduciton of a real piano. I do not wish to use conventional speakers, as the cross over point scares me with phasing issues, etc.
My budget is <$10,000, so ribbons are out... I do have access to a full shop and regard myself as talented with tools, so Im up for just about anything.
I would like to hear your feedback on what type of speaker system you guys would recommend I construct to achieve maximum realism. On a side note, to fulfil my curiosity, I have a set of transducers on the way (Clark Synthesis Platinum) that I would like to attempt to mount to the existing soundboard. I would like to try this, as it almost makes sense to play a piano through a piano... you know? I have my reservations of this going well, but at least I will have a pair of transducers to play with if it doesnt work out. Thoughts on this would be appreciated!
Would ESLs work? I am not familiar with the level of tension of the diaphragm, and if a panel could successfully be laid flat without big complications arising from sagging. Also, would the volume levels of ESLs high enough to match that of a real piano?
What other suggestions would you have? What would you guys do? I am hungry for your input!
Thanks in advance!
|9th April 2011, 11:20 AM
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IMHO, nothing beats the sound of a real piano.
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|9th April 2011, 11:25 AM
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Wow Robert.....This is the craziest thing I have ever read. I dont really know where to begin, but I have a few questions.
1- Where will you be utilizing this instrument? Environment?
2 - How do you want the instrument to direct the sound? Omnidirectional, directional...?
3 - Is your goal to have a complete all in one unit?
4- Do you plan on having amplification within the unit?
5- Will there also be a kitchen sink installed?
6 - Will there be the typical grand piano top that you can open and close?
I'm also a pianist btw.
|9th April 2011, 11:27 AM
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|9th April 2011, 01:51 PM
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Don,t fool with mother nature. The modern top line grand piano is an evolutionary development of the keyboard. I don't see your purpose. "If it ain,t broke don,t fix it."
|9th April 2011, 02:16 PM
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A ten-grand-piano. Interesting concept.
To start you're going to need a really, really good keyboard controller if you want action even close to the real thing. Then there is the waveform synthesis.... that's gonna be another big chunk of change.
As to the speaker system. You have two issues that I see right away. First, the strings vibrate and bounce off the angled lid of the piano, but from different positions inside the shell. Second, the shell itself resonates from how the strings are mounted.
My first thought from all this is to mount a bunch of drivers directly to the baseboard of the shell using big screws and stand offs. This way the sound waves radiate both up and down, like they do from the strings. The drivers maybe should be different sizes just the way the strings are sized for each note and each powered one with it's own amplifier. And finally, an active multi-multi-way cross over between the amps and the synthesizer.
But that's just a guess. While Yamaha may have proprietary experience with this kind of thing, I really think you're in truly unexplored territory.
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|9th April 2011, 02:58 PM
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Wow Robert.....This is the craziest thing I have ever read. I dont really know where to begin, but I have a few questions.
1- Where will you be utilizing this instrument? Environment?
2 - How do you want the instrument to direct the sound? Omnidirectional, directional...?
3 - Is your goal to have a complete all in one unit?
4- Do you plan on having amplification within the unit?
5- Will there also be a kitchen sink installed?
6 - Will there be the typical grand piano top that you can open and close?
I'm also a pianist btw.
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These are all very good questions that must be condisidered.
An ESL driver is without question the lowest distortion and uncolored driver in exsistence (IMO) as well as many magnetic ribbon and planar designs and only second to plasma technology as far as sound quality.
However they do have their own issues as far as size vs lowest reproduceable frequency and sound dispersion.
The drive electronics is a very big issue and although we here at DIY Audio have made some very large leaps and bounds and it is getting better and better and more less as expensive than it used to be.
However, It can be very costly and time consuming to get/find the right combinatoin of crossovers,amplifiers and especialy transformers to drive them properly.
All of these things must be considered along with, Is mounting the (any) driver in the piano case going to give you the kind of sound you are looking for?
As well as is might sound great in the nearfield,But how will it sound across to the other side of the room?
ESl's are well noted for there incredible detail and they don't fair well in an enclosure or having anything (even like the soft side of fiber glass insulation) near the proximity of the diagphram.
I have done some investigations on this matter.
What happens is that any reflections (no mater how small) that can be redirect back through the diagphram can cause cancelations at some frequency's, therefore, reducing the the high end detail that they are so noted for.
However this does not mean that a good compromise can not be had.
BUT, that is what it would be "a compromise" between the best and second best.
I know this as I have experimented with different ways attemping to turn the dipole esl driver into a monople driver.
It is not an easy tasc and all my attemps have turned out as "Oh it's okay" and not "Ahh that is just awesome".
Just as a suggestion, As I always try to inspire individuals to try building their own ESL's, is to maybe take a look at the magnetic planar technology.
You will still have the same issues as far as sound qaulity is concerned as listed above, But the drive requirements will be much easier and simpler than what an ESL requires.
Although good neo magnets are not cheap and are getting more expensive by the day.
I hope this gives you a little more insight as to what may be involved.
And I hope that any of this information does not discourage you in any way.
But too incourage you to see your project as a reality, as you never know, you might just come up with something totaly great as it happens quite a bit here in the DIY audio forums.
Good Luck! jer
P.S The very first time I ever heard a true sounding piano was through the Amazing Carver ribbons and then the Apogee Duetta's (which I still have) and now my very own DIY ESL's top the both of them,Cheers!
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|9th April 2011, 05:01 PM
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As to answer your other two questions sagging would not be an issue with an esl.
And with a panel area of at least 1 square foot or more the loudness would be more than enough when properly driven.
The problem is the beaming and the unequal dispersion of different frequency's are the issues that go along with most all planar drivers. jer
|9th April 2011, 05:08 PM
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Which piano module are you planning to use?
I am not up on what is available today but in the past I have found that EMU's piano module and YAMAHA's Clavinova where some of the best I have heard (IMO). jer
|9th April 2011, 06:41 PM
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Hi Robert,
whichever transducer you use, you'll be faced with the problem that the keyboard controller is designed to reproduce the sound of the piano as a whole; if you put out this sound through transducers inside a piano shell, the shell will influence the sound "a second time", so to speak. Therefore I don't know if the end result will be what you'd expect.
Having said that, my feeling is that the best way to do this is to have many different transducers, with the bass notes being reproduced at the left side and the trebles at the right side, just as in the real thing. Using ESLs this is easily realized, especially if you would use wire ESLs with electrical sectioning.
Finally, depending on what your goals are, I'm not sure whether an ESL would produce sufficient sound pressure in the very low register...
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Epidural not taking effect
The day I gave birth to my daughter I will never forget. I went in labour at about 5 in the evening and only went into the hospital at 9 that night. I had to have an emergency C-section done as I only dilated 3 cm and the contractions were about a minute apart. They gave me an epidural but it didn't seem to take effect They started cutting and I felt everything so I asked them to knock me out completely. Is it unusal for an epidural not to take effect?
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Hi Bridge85,
I'm sorry to hear about your birth experience. I'd say that it is probably more on the "rare" side that epidurals don't take effect, but I have heard of this happening before so maybe not as rare as we are lead to believe.
In the future, there are lots of ways to decrease your need for a C-section, AND there are many doctors who will do a vaginal delivery after C-Section. I'll ask Jane to take a look at your post and give you some pointers on what you could do in the future to lower your risk of needing intervention again, and increase your chances of being able to have a wonderful vaginal birth.
There's a good book called Preparing For Birth: Mothers. It discusses complications and obstetric interventions, not readily available elsewhere, which is central to enabling informed choice by parents. It's also presented in an "easy to read" format. The more you know about how to avoid complications and interventions the better prepared you will be for your next birth.
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30th April 2012 07:15 AM #3
Hi Bridge - I am sorry you had an awful experience. Unfortunately an epidural doesn't always work. In fact they are only work around 90% of the time. Prior to a caesarean and anaesthetist usually checks the effectiveness of the epidural using ice. For those epidurals not working correctly many of them can be fixed prior to surgery. For those that are not working a general anaesthetic is the only option.
If you choose to have another baby. Here are some tips on avoiding a future caesarean birth:
- Choose your caregiver carefully (Midwives have the lowest caesarean rate)
- Choose your birth place carefully (some hospitals have much higher intervention rates that others)
- Have continuous support during labour for yourself and your partner (i.e. a private midwife or doula)
- Learn about labour and birth
- Avoid intervention in labour
1st May 2012 01:01 AM #4
Dear Bridge85,
I am so sorry to hear about your birth experience. That must have been very scary.
As Jane says above, epidurals are ineffective in around 10% of cases. Indeed, a friend of mine experienced the epidural not working. This is why it is important for the anaesthetist to check it has taken effect.
I wonder if you have thought of considering Hypnobirthing in the future? This is known to reduce the chance of having a caesarian because dilation tends to happen more quickly (and the contractions are more effective) when a woman is relaxed. I mention it as it is something I am currently researching for my next birth.
Best wishes,
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Excellent suggestions my Jane and LJ! So important to choose your care provider and hospital carefully. If you want more ideas on how to go about doing this, post back, and we will be happy to share.
Warm regards,


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