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Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts or experiences with using either a Powerbook 12" or 15" with music software. I really like the size (and price) of the 12" powerbook but wary that the screen may not be big enough. Has anyone used music applications on the 12" and found it to be a problem or not a problem? Any thoughts appreciated.
I use my rev c 12" for Ableton Live all the time (including playing in clubs etc). no probs with the size of the screen so far. in fact i'm struggling to justify buying an external monitor (i'd like to get the 20" acd). one thing you might want to consider if you play out with the laptop is that the 12" doesn't have a PCMCIA slot for housing an indigo (dj or io) card but that really is the only drawback....and that is compensated for by the portability of the 12 compared to the 15.
Thanks for the info, sounds like a 12 could do just fine.... Out of curiosity, how do you connect it up externally, just using a normal phono cable?
I use a Maya 44 usb audio interface (two stereo outs, i can pe-listen to stuff before i play it on the main outs). I do find though that the audio hardware on the powerbook is probably sufficient (low latency, sounds ok) and i don't really *need* to pre-listen. everyone has their own preference with these things. i should add that i use the software mainly for "djing" rather than production (at the moment at least)
Great, thanks for the detail. Sound like it should be enough for my requirements at the moment too. I believe the sound card in the 12 is the same as the 15 so latency etc. should be the same.
Just forcing in my 2¢. I have the Powerbook in my sig, and it runs Reason nicely. If you use the NNXT a lot with large samples, then 2GB of ram would be essential. I only use the 512mb my PB came with PLUS 1GB of crucial, and they play well together. Reason 3 runs a tad slower on a Mac than PC, however Props have just released the 3.0.3 update which includes 'performance tweaks' so it should be a bit faster. I'd say go for the 15" 1.67GHz, the .67 GHz wont make much difference, but the 128mb VRAM might help to future proof it better. Either way a PB is a great machine for Reasoning on the go
It looks as though this is what its now between: 12" PB 15" PB 1.67 with 128mb vram (as you say, futureproofing). Only reservation is spending more money (which is always inevitably the case) and then finding out a new model comes out next week. Though thats another story..... Also, hadnt realised that Reason ran slower on a mac, would have thought mac would have been the darling of Reason since they always demo on that.
I'd say go for the 15" for the extra screen real estate. You dont necessarily need it for reason, which is fairly fixed, but if you ReWire it to Logic or Live, you'll be grateful sooner or later. Unless of course you plan on running an external monitor, which the the size becomes less of an issue. If ultra portability is a concern obviously the 12" would be the way to go, having said that the 15" is still perfectly portable (I carry it to work everyday so I can do some wonderful things during my lunch break). As emotion mentioned, the other advantage of the 15" is the PCMCIA slot. While this wont be much of an issue when you are using it at home (the core audio drivers with OSX are low latency), should you decide to take your tunes on the road, or if you decide to get some good quality monitors (the speaker kind, not the visual kind) you'll maybe want something like the Indigo. The advantage of this is that it frees up your Firewire ports for External HD's and the like. Another note on portability is the keyboard you are going to use. I recently bought an M-Audio O2, which I think perfectly compliments my Powerbook. Its only a little wider than the PB, and a touch deeper (excluding the protruding knobs of course), and once you get used to the pitch bend and mod wheels, and the reduce travel its great. Hope I havent rambled on too long! :EDIT: forgot to actually respond to the previous post! Yeah Reason runs a tad slower (havent tried the 3.0.3 update yet), but it still does everything you want, and you get the bonus of OSX! I think its safe to assume you can spend the extra money and not have a new Powerbook come out soon after. Even if there is a new one, there'll only be a slight bump in speed. Its highly unlikely there will be a G5 Powerbook before the switch to Intel. Either way you'll still end up with an awesome machine. I bought my Powerbook recently, and I really dont care if a new one comes out tomorrow - mine does everything I want it to, and I couldnt be without it while waiting for a new one! I know someone who still uses his 1 GHz 512 MB Ram Powerbook with Reason/Cubase SX/Live.
Thanks pulsewidth, really informative post. I think you've swayed me. must admit, hadnt given a lot of thought to rewire etc, so yes, the real estate could be beneficial especially as i dont intend to use another monitor. ps. not too sure where the .12ghz increase comes from, cant seem to work that out from the available numbers.
My bad. Although shouldnt it be .17GHz going from 1.5 - 1.67? eh eh?! Unless the sneaky 1.5 is actually a 1.55 GHz. bellang - it would make more sense if you use the PB like I use mine. Yes its more money, but now when I look at a 12" PB it just seems too small.
Sold, to Pulsewidth! Just ordered my first mac.... 15" with 128mb and combodrive rather than superdrive (to make up the difference)! cheers for all the advice. very much appreciated.


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- 3 tablespoons butter
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- 2 cloves garlic, peeled
- 1 small to medium onion, peeled
- 1 ripe tomato
- 1 cup long-grain rice
- 2 cups chicken stock
- Generous pinch saffron
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 4 dried guajillo chile peppers or dried red New Mexico chile peppers, stemmed
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 small to medium onion, chopped
- 1 large bay leaf
- 1 cinnamon stick
- One 32-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted and ground
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- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
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- 8 ounces queso fresco, crumbled
- Handful fresh cilantro leaves, coarsely chopped
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9th Lyran Regulars
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Ninth Lyran Regulars | |
Unit Profile (as of 3145) | |
Nickname | "Karilon Magicians" |
Parent Formation | Lyran Regulars |
Formed | unknown |
The Ninth Lyran Regulars, known as the "Karilon Magicians" [1] was a BattleMech regiment in service to House Steiner.
The Ninth Lyran Regulars were formed during the First Succession War by the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces. It was originally composed of former Rim Worlds Republic warriors who had sided against Stefan Amaris during the Amaris Coup, when the Usurper assassinated First Lord Richard Cameron and seized control of the Star League. Gathering on the planet Karilon, they were soon attacked by a division of the Amaris Dragoons, resulting in the deaths of most of the brotherhood. Those who survived joined with General Aleksandr Kerensky against the Amaris Empire during the drive towards Terra. When Kerensky and the Star League Defense Force departed on the Exodus, they decided to enter the service of the Lyran Commonwealth rather than follow General Kerensky into the Periphery. [2]
With their vast experience, the Ninth were very successful during the early Succession Wars, achieving many victories. Attrition and turnover, however, eventually reduced their collective ability, and they were considered a regular unit during the Second Succession War. They spent most of their existence on the Free Worlds League border.[2]
Marik Civil War[edit]
During the Marik Civil War in 3014, the Ninth were sent to attack the planet Uhuru alongside the mercenary Narhal's Raiders, where they engaged the 31st Marik Militia. It was part of a plan by the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces to take advantage of Anton Marik's revolt, and by tying up the 31st Militia, the Ninth allowed smaller Lyran raids to proceed at will. The 3rd and 5th Oriente Hussars reinforced the 31st Militia before matters could come to a conclusion, and the Lyran forces withdrew. [3]
Fourth Succession War[edit]
As of 3025, the Ninth was based on Cavanaugh II. By this point, their quality rating had fallen to green. [4] They would remain there throughout the Fourth Succession War, waiting for an attack by the Free Worlds League Military that would never come. [5]
Andurien Secession and War of 3039[edit]
During the Andurien Secession, the Ninth launched an apparently unauthorized attack on Marik industrial centers nearest the Terran Corridor in mid-3038, most notably on Irian in a raid that was reportedly unsuccessful. The Ninth spent the War of 3039 back on their homeworld of Cavanaugh II, seeing no combat. in the aftermath of that conflict the Ninth was assigned to garrison Main Street in the newly-formed Periphery March, following the reorganization of the Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth. There they were confined primarily to pirate hunting activities and providing escort. [6] [7][2]
Clan Invasion[edit]
The Ninth saw no action during the Clan Invasion, remaining on Main Street, far from the front lines.[8][9]
Lyran Alliance[edit]
Like most other traditionally Lyran units, the Ninth Lyran Regulars became part of the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces with the secession of the Lyran Alliance.[2]
During the Clan Jade Falcon incursion of 3058, the Ninth was called up to reinforce the 22nd Skye Rangers on Engadine, only to discover the raiders had already defeated the Rangers and moved on to Coventry by the time the Ninth arrived.[2]
In 3062, the Ninth were back on Main Street, which was now part of the Melissia Theater of operations. By this time, the unit's quality rating had finally returned to regular. [10] They had stepped up their pirate hunting operations, and were pursuing one group that was apparently searching for a Star League-era cache.[2]
FedCom Civil War[edit]
When the FedCom Civil War finally broke out in 3063, the Ninth were deployed to Inarcs, held by elements of the elite 7th Crucis Lancers. Though they boasted a large numerical advantage in 'Mechs, they faced a major disparity in ability and they were forced to leave one of their Aerospace wings on Main Street to protect commercial shipping interests. Problems erupted almost as soon as the Ninth entered the system. The Lancers' 405th Federation Interceptor Wing destroyed a Union-class DropShip, destroying an entire company of 'Mechs in space and damaging several other DropShips. The Ninth landed on Inarcs scattered and disorganized, and came under immediate fire from Lancers' armor. The Regulars' commanding officer was killed by a freak shot to her cockpit, and all three battalions soon faced enemy fire. Under the belief the Department of Military Intelligence had been wrong and they were facing the entire RCT, the Ninth Regulars' acting commander ordered a retreat, with his surviving force totalling little more than a reinforced battalion. [11] [12] The Regulars returned to Main Street. [12]
The Ninth Regulars were called to action again during the Jade Falcon Incursion of 3064. Summoned to help defend the Theater capital of Melissia by General Sharon Bryan, the 9th Regulars found themselves assigned as part of a massed static defense by Bryan, over the objections of General Adam Steiner. The invading Jade Falcons, lead by Khan Marthe Pryde, picked away at the defenders, drawing them out of their defensive positions while cycling her own troops to keep them fresh. After whittling the Lyran forces down, Khan Pryde delivered her Coup de grâce by dropping two of her clusters directly onto General Bryan's fortified base, killing her and throwing the defenders into complete disarray. Acting quickly, General Adam Steiner gathered all the survivors he could, including the Ninth Regulars, and ordered a retreat, regrouping on Chapultepec. [13] The Ninth managed to survive with only moderate losses. [14]
Chapultepec was soon attacked by the Falcons' pursuing Omega Galaxy. Reinforced by the 2nd Crucis Lancers and Archer's Avengers, General Steiner's taskforce managed an orderly withdrawal.[15] The Ninth took moderate losses.[14]
The Ninth then joined General Steiner's taskforce as part of Operation Audacity, a bold counter-attack against the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone. Along with the 14th Donegal Guards and the reinforced 15th Arcturan Guards, the Regulars struck at Black Earth and were opposed by the 3rd Talon Cluster. Facing heavy Aerospace opposition and a bogged down campaign, General Steiner called upon the 1st Wolf Strike Grenadiers for reinforcements. The Lyrans and their Clan Wolf-in-Exile allies were soon victorious, and the Taskforce moved on. [16] Although overall losses to the Ninth were moderate, [14] the fighting resulted in the death of another commanding officer. Command fell to then-Hauptmann Annabeth Patrick. [17]
The Taskforce then struck at Malibu, where they engaged the 8th Falcon Regulars in a zero-gravity fight on one of Malibu's moons for the right to the system's recharge station, as the civilian government wanted no part of the battle. The Falcons surrendered after a few hours of fighting. [15] The Ninth took moderate losses.[14]
On Hot Springs, General Steiner's forces faced the 5th Battle Cluster, which chose to run a hit-and-run campaign as opposed to a stand-up fight. After weeks of pursuing the Falcons in vain, Steiner pulled off the planet, leaving it to the Jade Falcons. [15] The Ninth Regulars sustained moderate losses.[14]
Next, they attacked Blackjack, where they reinforced General Archer Christifori's taskforce, which was already on-planet fighting against the 8th and 10th Provisional Garrison Clusters. After putting the Falcons on the defensive, Falcon SaKhan Samantha Clees arrived, ordering both Clusters off-planet and inviting both Inner Sphere Generals to parley with Khan Pryde on Blair Atholl. [18] Once again, damage to the Ninth was moderate. [14]
With the Blair Atholl Accords, the Jade Falcon Incursion came to an end. The Ninth Regulars returned to Chapultepec to serve as its permanent garrison. [14] They would see no further significant fighting through the end of the war. [12]
By late 3067, the Ninth Lyran Regulars were still based on Chapultepec, under the command of newly promoted Leutenant-General Annabeth Patrick. They were at approximately 55 percent strength with nearly half of that considered upgraded with new technology. [19]
The Ninth Lyran Regulars spent most of the Jihad fighting pirates and each other. Leutenant-General Patrick used many administrative tricks to hamstring the Regulars who were under the command of Hauptmann-Kommandant Floyd Wood in retaliation for his constant complaints to theater command about his superior officers.[20]
The Ninth was stationed on Khon Kaen to repel any assault from the Circinus Federation. As that threat never materialized, the Ninth was transferred to the Commonwealth's border with Clan Jade Falcon. At the same time the Ninth took up their new garrison location on Santana[21] , their attached AeroSpace forces were reassigned elsewhere. This cleared up most of the problems the unit had with internal cohesion.[22]
Dark Age[edit]
The Ninth participated in multiple combats with Clan Wolf during Vedet Brewster's reign as Archon. They fought the Wolves several times during the lead up to the action on Tharkad, while simultaneously fighting off Free Worlds League Military forces. The unit was down to three BattleMech companies by the time of the Tharkad actions, so they didn't participate in the fighting on that world. Instead they focused on escorting civilians into the Buena Province and providing humanitarian relief to worlds attacked by the Wolf Clan.
After the fighting on Tharkad ended, the Ninth regained some strength by absorbing the survivors of the Tenth and Twelfth Lyran Regulars. The Ninth then transferred to the Commonwealth's border with Clan Jade Falcon, spending most of their time guarding Greenlaw and Vorzel.[23]
As of 3050, their commanding officer was Leftenant General Lawrence Marlowe.[8]
By 3054, Leftenant General Jeanette Scarlett had taken command. [9] Scarlett came to the Ninth from the 26th Lyran Guards RCT, where she had served as XO and with whom she had seen combat against Clan Wolf on Tamar during the Invasion. Originally intending to retire from the service after her twenty years of service, Scarlett received a personal audience and was decorated by Archon Katherine Steiner-Davion, thus ensuring her loyalty and continued service.[2] Scarlett remained in command until her death in 3063 on Inarcs.[11]
Kommandant Lee Faulks then took command, holding it until his death on Black Earth in 3064.[17]
Hauptmann Annabeth Patrick then assumed command, holding it until after the end of the FedCom Civil War. She was formally promoted to Leutenant General by 3067 and held the command of the unit in 3085.[17][21]
In 3145 the commanding officer is Colonel Laura Sanchez.[24]
The Ninth employs small-unit tactics to successfully defend against and hunt down pirates from the Periphery. They are also accustomed to fighting in zero-gravity conditions. [2]
Composition History[edit]
Ninth Lyran Regulars (Green/Reliable)[25]
Ninth Lyran Regulars (Green/Reliable)[26]
Ninth Lyran Regulars (Green/Reliable)[8][9]
- CO: Leftenant General Jeanette Scarlett
Ninth Lyran Regulars (Battlemech Regiment/Regular/Reliable) [2][17]
- CO: Leutenant General Jeanette Scarlett
Ninth Regulars Aerospace Group (Two Aerospace Wings/Regular/Fanatical) [2]
- 712th Alliance Fighter Wing
Co: Hauptmann Kommandant Floyd Wood
- 1119th Alliance Fighter Wing
Co: Hauptmann Lissette Kim
Ninth Lyran Regulars (Regular/Reliable)[21]
- CO: Leutnant-General Annabeth Patrick
Ninth Lyran Regulars (Regular/Reliable)[24]
- CO: Colonel Laura Sanchez
- The Ninth Regulars' insignia is the head of a shark skewered on a dagger, an obvious reference to their beginnings as a group opposed to Stefan Amaris.[2]
- ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 77
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Field Manual: Lyran Alliance, p. 91, "9th Lyran Regulars Unit Profile"
- ↑ Historical: Brush Wars, p. 24
- ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 119, "Deployment Table - 3025"
- ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p. 44
- ↑ Historical: Brush Wars, p. 77
- ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 137
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 20 Year Update, p. 28, "AFFC Deployment Table - 3050"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Objective Raids, p. 21, "AFFC Deployment Table - 3054"
- ↑ Shattered Sphere p. 49
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 FedCom Civil War (sourcebook) p. 87
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 FedCom Civil War (sourcebook) p. 183 Cite error: Invalid
tag; name "FCCW183" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), p. 116
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), p. 185
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), p. 114
- ↑ FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), pp. 117-118
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Field Manual: Updates, p. 171, "9th Lyran Regulars"
- ↑ FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), p. 118
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 178, "LAAF Deployment Table - 3067"
- ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 13
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Field Manual: 3085, p. 108, "LAAF Deployment Table - 3085"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 102
- ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 128
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. 132, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces - Coventry Province"
- ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 119, "Deployment Table"
- ↑ Historical: War of 3039 , p. 137
- 20 Year Update
- FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)
- Field Manual: 3085
- Field Manual: 3145
- Field Manual: Lyran Alliance
- Field Manual: Updates
- Field Report: LAAF
- Historical: Brush Wars
- Historical: War of 3039
- House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)
- NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1
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The Senator And The Lady
October 1974 | Volume 25, Issue 6
But Mrs. Roosevelt was not privy, as were Dave Powers, Ken O'Donnell, and other Catholic friends, to Kennedy's skepticism about certain members of the hierarchy. She probably never thought that he, unlike her one-time friend Al Smith, lived almost entirely apart from the world of Holy Name societies, Knights of Columbus, and Communion breakfasts. Kennedy was yet to make publicly known his view that priests had no special competence in public matters and his growing conviction that a strict separation of Church and State was necessary for a pluralistic democracy. Following his nomination and election Kennedy would quip more frequently with friends about his Catholicism. He once wrote to John Cogley of Commonweal: "It is hard for a Harvard man to answer questions in theology. I imagine my answers will cause heartburn at Fordham and BC [Boston College]." Another time, when Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., handed him a speech draft in the 1960 campaign with the observation that it was possibly too Catholic, Kennedy replied with a smile, "You Unitarians [meaning Schlesinger and Sorensen] keep writing Catholic speeches. I guess I'm the only Protestant around here." He reminded a 1961 gridiron-dinner audience of a popular anti-Catholic story following Al Smith's defeat in 1928. As told by gleeful non-Catholics, Governor Smith, immediately upon learning of his loss to Herbert Hoover, sent a one-word telegram to the pope: "Unpack!" Tongue in cheek, Kennedy said that after his stand against federal aid to parochial schools the pope sent him a one-word cable. This one said: "Pack."
None of these things Mrs. Roosevelt could anticipate. What she did know was that during his first years in Congress, Kennedy supported federal aid-to-education programs in which private and parochial students would share funds for nonreligious textbooks and health services as well as for bus transportation. She had heard that in 1947 he declined to attend the dedication of a memorial chapel in a Protestant church on the advice of Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. (As he later explained, in 1960, Kennedy based his refusal on the fact that he had no credentials to attend as a representative of the Catholic Church, but he would have been delighted to join in the dedication had he been invited as a public official.) Also, in 1954, he stated that he would vote for an ambassador to the Papal See (a position he reversed later) if a nomination were submitted to the Senate (Presidents Roosevelt and Truman had favored representation at the Vatican). But most important of all in Mrs. Roosevelt's view was that Kennedy's family was known to be close to members of the Catholic hierarchy, and his father was reported to be a heavy contributor to Catholic causes. Mrs. Roosevelt's hostility toward the father was unambiguous and from the Senator's point of view irrational and unfair. Even she knew that. In the second volume of his biography of Mrs. Roosevelt, Joseph P. Lash tells of a conversation she had on Memorial Day, 1960, with Representative Richard Boiling of Missouri, a leading White House liberal and Kennedy partisan: "She knew the sins of the father should not be visited on the sons, she explained apologetically to Boiling, but she had to admit she was strongly affected by her feeling about Joe Kennedy."
When I had told her earlier that year that the Senator thought she was prejudiced against him because of his father, she readily admitted that she thought the father was a narrow-minded, bigoted, and power-hungry man but that she would try to judge John F. Kennedy on his own merits. It was a struggle for her. The father, when President Roosevelt's ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed to acquiesce in Hitler's growing power in Europe. Mrs. Roosevelt remembered one conversation in particular, a luncheon at Hyde Park with the ambassador, when he appeared to be almost indifferent to the plight of those being trampled under Hitler's boot.
It was that conversation between Mrs. R. and his father to which Kennedy referred when we talked for almost an hour in Hawaii in the spring of 1959. I was writing a book on ethnic politics; he was seeking delegate votes for the upcoming Democratic convention in 1960. Talking with me alone in his room at the elegant Royal Hawaiian Hotel, he thought it absurd that Mrs. Roosevelt did not see him as a genuine heir to her own husband's policies. There was no other explanation for her opposition or those of her liberal friends than prejudice against his religion and his father, he asserted. When I explained that the main ground for her reluctance to support him was her strong preference for Stevenson in contrast to his youth and relative inexperience, he repeated, "It's just a matter of prejudice; it's an argument she had with my father thirty years ago." When I answered back that it was more complicated than that, he was sharp. "You just don't know," he said. "She hates my father."


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how would you go about setting up stereo subs? my receiver only has a single sub output.
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You can split the sub output or some subs can be daisy chained together. Posititoning two subs gets tricky as you have to do each one separately, then balance them together. Two subs adds a smoother fill and lets each sub work less for the same output, this may not be necessary depending on the sub you use. Four subs is likely the best if you and your room can handle it, but the logistics of this can be hairy. I am currently waiting on four of the new Def Tech Mythos ST's, each with a powered sub in them so soon I will have four subs in my maiin rig and will try to post on them as I work through the review. KT
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Lower frequencies have long sound waves which can make it difficult to position a sub to fill the entire room with solid base. I think this is when a second sub can help fill some of the "gaps" created by low frequency sound waves. Try sending a test tone (or better yet get a tone generator) through the sub and walk around the room. Some areas you'll hear a fairly solid tone, while in others that same tone will seem to diminish substantially.
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If you have a receiver that has 'pre-out' and 'main-in' you can use and electronic crossover to get the bass to a set of stereo subs. See my recent post here: http://www.avrevforum.com/subwoofers...er-2-subs.html |
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Two subs are very hard to manage because of the complex wave forms and depending on the frequency the two subs could end up cancelling each other out. (Standing Waves etc.) The lower the frequency the longer the waveform. Your sub(s) could end up sound better in an other room down the hall or even accross the street!
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Multiple subwoofers are most useful because, when they're properly located in a room they can help overcome standing wave problems. This is a major benefit and I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned it in this thread. Or maybe I'm just jumping the gun, but after years of ignoring these types of forums I simply couldn't let this pass. If you place the subs according to the information contained in the Harman White paper you'll typically end up with multiple "good" bass locations in the room and you'll also know where not to sit. Especially if you use one of the many room mode calculatiors available on the web.
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The Secretary, in cooperation with the Mojave Water Agency is authorized to participate in the design, planning, and construction of projects to implement the "Mojave Water Agency's Integrated Regional Water Management Plan".
(Pub. L. 102–575, title XVI, § 16——, as added Pub. L. 110–161, div. C, title II, § 214(a),Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 1955.)
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Objective: SWBAT ask and answer questions about key details in an informational text.
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Today, I am excited about the topic I will be covering with my students. I will be teaching them all about William Kamkwamba, who, at the tender age of 14, created a windmill for his family and village in Malawi. This is a TED talk video, and so the students are going to get to hear from William, who is now in his 20s, as he shares his story. The video is a rich telling of his journey and also offers photos of his village and the items he used to create the windmill, which will elicit much conversation. As the students watch the video, they will be taking notes on a template I created.
After the video, I will read the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba. I will read and pause to let the students take notes on new information they are hearing about William.
When we are done, the students will gather their information and write about what they learned about William Kamkwamba.
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On the rug with the students, I share the student friendly objective: "I can ask and answer questions about a person who changed his world."
Then, I ask them, "What are autobiographies?" We recently read another autobiography so I am counting on them to remember. I will let them know that today they will be exposed to another autobiography in a different way. They will get to see and see the real person talking about them and an invention that changed the lives around him for the better.
Video: William Kamkwamba
Now the students get to see the TED Talk video by William Kamkwamba-How I built a windmill. I created a template with text dependent questions for them to answer. I guide them by asking them to read the question before they answer it. I pause the video for them to take notes. My students know they can use words, phrases, and illustrations to use as notes.
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The video provides rich text features like photos and captions, which I will be pointing out to them. As it happens with other videos, my students will want to share their observations:
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In order to engage deeply in the process of research, my students need to gather information from different sources. That is why I read the book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba.
My students sit on the rug with a clipboard and a paper, Ready to Take Book Notes. As I read certain pages, they take note of what captures their attention and details about William Kamkwamba's life. I pause and give them time to write 2-3 words or phrases and then move.
Here are some notes:
This is a long story, so they do not take notes about every single page. To prepare for this, it is best to read the story beforehand and decide what pages would the class benefit most from stopping and giving them time to take notes. In determining where to stop, it is good to think about how the book compliments and adds to the TED Talk video.
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Now, my students get an opportunity to write about this incredible young man. I am curious to see what details of his life they include. They need to write complete sentences, and I expect them to integrate some of the vocabulary words that were used in the video and book.
As they write, I walk around and lend assistance. Some students will need support with sentence structure, others will need help with spelling words, and others will need redirection. Once I am sure everyone is diligently working on their task, I sit at the round table and if anyone needs help with they are to come to me. I sit where I can see everyone.
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The Cape experiences a Mediterranean, sub-tropical climate with hot and generally dry summers (December to February), and cold and wet winters (June to August). The winter months experience heavy rains, strong northwesterly winds and low temperatures, but the winter doesn't preclude wine-tasting and many of the indoor venues are warm and cosy during the cold months. There is even occasional snow on the surrounding mountains which only makes the scenery more picturesque. The summer months are characterized by warm, dry days with little wind in the Cape Winelands. The daily temperature in towns such as Paarl and Stellenbosch can soar up to 100°F (38°C) during the hottest months between January and March so it is a good idea to pack sunscreen and hats if exploring in summer.
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I still have things on my harddrive from about 5-6 years ago that are 128kbps.. sometimes even less. Wow how dumb was I back then. :/
I still have things on my harddrive from about 5-6 years ago that are 128kbps.. sometimes even less. Wow how dumb was I back then. :/
could you give me a 2 - 3 sentence explanation of what exactly it is
that was to stizzles, don't give a fuck about filetypes or w/e it's all the same
that was to stizzles, don't give a fuck about filetypes or w/e it's all the same
stopped at trolls
I fucking love this.
I'm so cool when you see me walking around during the day with my headphones on I'm listening to dark ambient
I did the same with Post-Rock
I still do that with post rock, hell I did it today, throughout today
and to be perfectly honest I don't understand why anyone would load up their ipod with dark ambient
that's the kind of stuff you play in a room when you have shit you need to get done, not get on a bus and kill some time listening to
Ambient/drone music is pretty much mood music, I couldn't get much done when I hear it.
My 'outside of my house' list consists of my more aggressive music like The Ocean or Anaal Nathrakh. My at home playlist is all the post-rock, ambient, etc music.
the only time i play dark ambient is when i'm doing something
i play regular ambient all the time (it's light, uplifting though)
i guess out music is pretty much exactly what i play when i'm at home
my amp plus speakers + desk > my headphones
I listen mainly to metal and post-rock when going out, and listen to everything else at home
Boris' Vein is a weird album.
Props on the Stalker-movie reference in the hardcore version.
Rosetta continue to make me incredibly happy when I listen to their music. It's so goooood.
I watched the stalker movie with a friend a while ago
It sucked, I hated it
I didn't expect WOW OH MY GOD special effects I just thought it'd have a great atmosphere. Instead I watched some guy travel from his grey, dreary russian town to green, dreary russian country and then wander around throwing bolts with 2 other guys
what's worse was that the movie was three hours long
why would have expectations for a movie like that?
I haven't seen it yet though.
it was just terrible
nothing interesting happened the entire movie
and the acting wasn't good either
there were no positives
I really like stalker
It's meandering but I love roadside picnic and the stalker games so I was biased when I watched it.
Can't wait for summer, gonna splash out on loads of batteries and get all my big summery tunes copied onto cassette and taking a boombox everywhere
***king hipster*** d(-_-)b
Summer's going to be belta because I get three months off.
I blast a boombox erry day in school, true story.
Yeah, unless you want to be entertained it's always good to have a relaxing movie.
roadside picnic, that's what it was
it was confusing
the premise was cool, the pacing was cool but they just failed to deliver anything real for me
like y'know even if they threw a couple of mutated animals running around I would have been happy
you seem the guy who'd enjoy Begotten.
Words can't describe the experience of that movie.
thanks brah
that's going to be what I finish my friday night with I think
really need to get some mates together and watch a bunch of cult movies
Anyone here read any of the Cthuthlu mythos stories by H.P. Lovecraft?
I think I may have seen this /b/efore....
Remember to watch Blade Runner and Tetsuo: the iron man, also Serbian film, and falling down.
no srsly wtf
blade runner ofc, not a cult film imo tho
I think it'd go more like this
event horizon
blair witch
sci fi/horror etc, that's how my friend and I roll
Sunshine has an amazing soundtrack, and the effects are great
which reminds me the same people did the soundtrack for that, did it for 28 days later and 28 weeks later
they're now on the list. when is the new 28 days movie coming out, i hope they plan on releasing another one
Mine takes 10 D cells which is pretty lame.
Whenever I have my headphones and I'm in a good mood and I'm walking around it's always, ALWAYS began with this song.
Dat bass.
no probs bbe <3
computer crashed again this morning. I think it's cursed
also homestruck sucks and so in turn does everybody who reads it
what kind of faggot reads homestuck
isn't that an anime fan?
nah you can get cool people who watch anime but if you read homestuck you are insta terrible
Homestuck fans are kind of like Anime fans, except there's still some good anime.
Nothing good has ever come from Homestuck.
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Collagen: A protein found in our bodies, collagen provides support to various areas of the body, including the lips. For cosmetic surgery purposes, collagen is produced from purified bovine tissue collagen. This product can be produced in various thicknesses to meet individual patient needs. However, a skin test for allergic reactions is required before receiving collagen.
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The first known settlers to Bath County arrived around 1774. Settlers were pleased with the area because of the abundance of food -animals to hunt- all due to having "licks".
A "lick" is where a mineral originates from the ground and saturates the soil or collects as deposits, Animals crave this mineral and would eventually herd to these places within the area of Salt Lick. It was once stated that a couple of hunters had saw a herd of approximately 500 buffalo at a "lick". With more settlers to move into the area, the animals began to move out, as goes the cycle of civilization. In the late 1800's the railroad was built. Documented for Salt Lick to approximately have the population of 800. Lumbering quickly became the industry for this little town. Salt Lick, Bath County is in the Appalachian Mountains where chestnut, pine, oak, poplar, walnut, hickory, and cherry trees grew. But, as the industry was depleting, obviously as it would in time with the hardwoods, the population did as well in the 1930's. The only lumber to be found now may be white oak and scrub pine. As for the railroad, 1985 was the last train to rumble through the quaint town of Salt Lick.
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Right after my post he says " This is why it is nearly impossible to have any sort of discussion/argument with people like you". So it seems to me that he was talking to me.
I'm never going to absolve the Democrats of the blame for this mess we are in but on the other hand I'm not going to concede that this is fully a two-sided problem in all respects.
Specifically to the gerrymandering issue, it definitely doesn't seem like a bipartisan problem. The two states that are most notable for their ideological leanings can serve as great examples:
California - Commission consists of 5 Republicans, 5 Democrats, and 4 Independents. Government Auditors select 8 members from a pool of 60 voters, then the first 8 commission members selected can make picks on the remaining selections.
Texas - Commission consists of Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, Land Commissioner, and House Majority Leader.
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Which one of those groups of people sounds like it consists of partisan hackery and which one sounds like a bipartisan group that will be more likely to prevent partisan hackery.
I was not eferering to you. I was referring to Post #86. We must have been typing at the same time and I forgot to hit the "Reply with Quote" button. Sorry for the mixup and I apologize.
Your posts make sense and although I may disagree with some parts, you show you are flexible. Not everyone seems to have that quality.
Again, sorry for the mixup.
I knew you were responding to me when I saw the 'mixup'.
We were talking about extremism 'within' the two parties. I gave you my reply, and you then respond with this list of pointless comparisons, which I can't be bothered to refute point by point.
I also disagree with dbroncs who, in my opinion, was far too 'nice' in his response. I have never maintained that the Reps have a monopoly on bad policies, stupidity, or corruption. Extremism, however, is another matter entirely in my book.
I seriously can't believe that anyone can compare O'reilly and Limbaugh to Gore and Michael Moore in any way at all. Neither Gore nor Moore are saints in my book, and are entitled to receive criticism when warranted. But, there is one profound difference between them and the other two, they are not pathological liars or distorters of truth and fact. Also, neither Gore nor Moore are remotely in the same ballpark as far as political extremism goes.
How anyone can in all seriousness attempt to compare the TP with the Occupy movement is totally beyond me. One is a haven for the most insane extremists both within, and further to the right than, the Rep. party, while the other is an extra-parliamentary alliance of individuals protesting the evils of Wall St. Try and grasp this - the TP is part of the Rep. party, and is, in effect, trying to hijack the party from within, while the Occupy movement is a bunch of non Dem. party affiliated people protesting an issue in the streets. You are comparing apples with submarines.
And stop with that stupid buzz reference to koolaid, which we don't even have in Europe. I have never blindly followed anyone's party line, and I have made it abundantly clear that the US Dems are no more than the lesser of two evils for me. But, I see absolutely no one on the Dem side of the US divide that scares or worries me like the hordes of batshit crazy, extreme conservatives trying to hijack the Rep. party with their totally reactionary agenda.
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The content and insight of your contributions do your user name justice. I imagine you know perfectly well what my gender is, so I'll ignore your little dig.
Of course, you and jomota are fellow travelers of the far right, so you simply can't understand the overt and obvious differences between the TP and the Occupy movement. Or, you can and do, but you deny it because it doesn't fit the specious argument being attempted here.
My user name is all about justice.
I did not. But, you appear indignant so I expect you are a male. My bad.
The Tea Party is populated by peaceful American citizens whose goal is peaceful protest with the goal of the movement being lower taxes. The Occupy Wall street movement is populated by subversives and Communists. It devolved into a hellish movement of rapists and criminals and if there was any noble or honorable reasons in the beginning they quickly disappeared.
I can't take you seriously if you are going to say these things. This would be the equivalent of me saying the tea party is full of rednecks and racists.
Outside of a few isolated incidents, the OWS movement has been a peaceful movement who have expressed political ideas that are far to the left of you or even myself, but it doesn't make them communists. If you are going to judge a political movement based on reports seen on one specific news organization, then you certainly wouldn't find problems with another (politically opposite) news organization making negative reports about the tea party, would you?
See, this is where the double equivalency gets you. It leads to "my side is good while your side is bad". You put out the thought that OWS is terrible because of a few reports, lets face it, you saw on Fox News. Whereas if I were inclined to do so, I could say look how racist and white the tea party is because of a few reports on MSNBC. Even though I know that the tea party is not full of racists and bigots. And I hope that you know deep down that the OWS isn't full of murderers and rapists.
So I would as you, in the same breath as I did, admit that the OWS movement is not full of rapists and murderers. Because we both know, deep down, that just isn't true. In closing, I'm going to go back to the first point that I made and say that if you truly believe that the OWS movement is just murders and rapists, then I have nothing to say other than "you couldn't me more wrong and I hope someday that you learn that".
The Tea Party may have been predominantly white but that doesn't make them racists.
The Tea Part never "occupied" anything like the OWS gang did. The Tea Party obtained permits for their public gatherings while the OWS mob just moved in. How can anyone justify just camping out for weeks in a public plaza in front of a building and hassling people on the way to work???? The Tea party never prevented anyone from entering building, pissed in the streets or screwed tents on the grass. No mention of any Tea Party rapes either.
There were many, many instances of law breaking with the OWS. They were classless people acting like an anarchistic mob. This was reported on FOX, CNN, ABC and all the alphabets. Hannity even offered one of them a job and he wouldn't take it. And these weren't isolated incidents, they were reported all the time.
Don't know how you can't see the point.
What, exactly is you view of OWS???? What do you consider them to be????
What, the justice of an obsolete nuclear missile?
And you as a matter of course assume that posters on a sports forum are more likely to be women?I did not. But, you appear indignant so I expect you are a male. My bad.
Oh my word, yes, the Tea Party is just a kindly group of entirely peaceful, law abiding older folks who only want what is good and right for God's country, that good, righteous stuff, whatever it is, that has been taken away from them by the Godless socialist in Washington. They just want 'their country back'. And less taxes. And less debt. But everything else to stay as it is, er, except the price of gas, which has to come down. And more guns. Lots of guns.The Tea Party is populated by peaceful American citizens whose goal is peaceful protest with the goal of the movement being lower taxes. The Occupy Wall street movement is populated by subversives and Communists. It devolved into a hellish movement of rapists and criminals and if there was any noble or honorable reasons in the beginning they quickly disappeared.
As for your characterization of the Occupy movement, that says a great deal more about you than about them.
I agree with you in broad lines, but again imho, you are being far too kind. My honest view of the TP -
I have two music scene friends, one from OKC, whom I have met, the other from SoCal whom I only know virtually. We see eye to eye on most things, especially our love of a particular genre of (originally black) music. Neither of these men are remotely racist, and they both support the TP. We can't talk politics together because our views are simply way too far apart. These two are the only two TP people I actually 'know'. The rest of my picture, or image, of the TP comes from mainstream and other media sources, and in particular from the TP Facebook page, and various other similarly extreme right wing affiliated pages.
If you spend any time browsing through those pages, you will find the most appalling panorama of rednecks, racists, gun nuts, and other batshit crazies. I'm talking about people whom 'normal', or traditional Reps would disown. Now, it's impossible to judge how representative these people are of the TP as a whole. Nevertheless, the page owners do nothing to one of 'their own' for posting racist slurs about the POTUS, but they will ban a 'liberal' if he gets uppity about it. They're very selective about granting FA rights to those who disagree with them. Just check out the polemical language of the topic titles on the 'official' TP page. Yeah right, the TP are just a bunch of real puddy-tats.
To bring up things like you don't recall any Tea Party rapes is pretty dumb imo. Individuals of any group, whether it's race, nationality, political group etc. have scum bags. I'm not a huge supporter of OWS, but I could just as easily say, you don't hear OWS screaming they want to kill the POTUS and his children, but in a very racist way like Jules Manson.
I wouldn't though, except in this case to show how stupid it is to bring things like that up.
I think both the TPM and OWS are bad movements, to be honest. But they are protected by the 1st and I have no problem with that.
I'm not saying the tea party is racist. I generally don't have a problem with the tea party. I think that they are fighting for what they believe is right and while I disagree with their conclusion that doesn't make them bad or racist. Now there is no doubt that racist groups and the tea party do share some viewpoints and racist groups are trying to cling to the tea party in an attempt to get what they want politically but you can't badmouth the tea party for that just like you can't badmouth the OWS movement for the groups who share some viewpoints with them (such as communist groups). You essentially get a Reductio ad Hitlerum argument if you do that. "Well you agree with this horrible group on point X, therefore you are as bad as group X" isn't a valid argument.
Those news organizations reported one or two incidents over and over and Fox reported on a few others that were not nearly as bad and overblown like the New Black Panther guy (reported as those he was a group even though pictures showed it was one guy). It's that kind of crap that de-legitimizes a point when you use one person to brand an entire group of people as in line with that person.
My particular view on OWS is that the group generally supports more regulation on wall street and wants accountability from their elected leaders. They want to see social programs preserved and efforts like the wars drawn down. They do want to see more control exhibited by the federal government than I do but not for malicious reasons. They are not bad people or a bad group but they absolutely have some bad apples in the mix that want to use their national stage platform for their own purposes.
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On December 10, 2012, the first Halo 4 map pack came out ... and most people could download it for free if they knew what to do. Then, Microsoft came up with some bogus story in an attempt to look like the god guys, but instead made a good portion of the Halo community furious.
Okay, so this whole affair looks like an innocent mistake that was very poorly handled.
Guessing at things I know nothing about, here's what I believe happened:
1) In an attempt to fix an issue preventing some Season Pass and Limited Edition owners from downloading the Map Pack at no cost, the Specialization Code accidentally began being seen by Halo 4 as the Season Pass, thus allowing anyone who redeemed it to be offered the Map Pack free of charge.
2) After almost a day of no response to this "mixup," Microsoft PR sent out a statement saying:
As an additional reward to those customers that participated in our "14 Day, Buy and Play" program (which ran from Nov. 6 – Nov. 20), we are providing complimentary access to the Crimson Map Pack for a limited time, through Tuesday, December 18 at 9am UTC/GMT.
There were some initial complications with the distribution of the "14 day, Buy and Play" reward tokens, and so we decided to provide the additional reward of complimentary access to the Crimson Map Pack, for a limited time, as a "thank you" to our customers that contributed to the success of the "Halo 4" launch.
I, again with no actual proof, find this statement to be total BS: mostly because it kind of makes the whole situation worse.
This is because
(a) You don't give out $10 map packs for free without making a big deal about it before hand.
(b) You don't give "qualifying" users multiple ways to actually pay money for an item without any notice that they can get it for free; for example, the description of the map pack in the dashboard reads "If you own Halo 4's "War Game Map Pass," DO NOT purchase this content here as you will be charged again." It would mention this "14 day, Buy and Play" if it was something they had intended.
(c) For anone who played Halo 4 online before Nov. 20, this "program" makes buying the Season Pass 25% MORE expensive than purchasing the map packs individually instead of 17% cheaper.
So...what should Microsoft do. Before it issued its statement, I would have said to fix the issue and let the people who got the maps for free keep them; after all, accidents happen. However, if Microsoft is going to say this was intentional, then it is going to have to to some other things if they want to keep the trust of the Halo community. First of all, just keep the Crimson Map Pack free forever, and issue an 800 MSP refund to anyone who actually paid money for it. Secondly, either (a) give all current Season Pass owners (and probably Limited Edition owners, as well, but that's a little different) 400 MSP so that they aren't spending more money on their pass than the individual maps, or (b), which is favorite idea, release a forth map pack in Summer 2013; this way Season Pass owners get $30 worth of maps. (And who doesn't like more maps?) Maybe this map pack is three remakes (I assume remaking maps from Halo 2, 3, and Reach is slightly less work than designing new maps from scratch); maybe you make a list of like ten maps and let the community vote on their favorites; hey, I'm just throwing out ideas.
If they aren't going to do any of these things, they at least need to put out official statements on Xbox.com and HaloWaypoint.com, as well as put some kind of notice on the Xbox dashboard so people don't continue to purchase maps they are supposed to get for free.
Anyway, this post is way too long, and to think I would have been totally satisfied if Microsoft just said, "Our bad," and moved on.


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Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion befits its roots in frosty Minnesota soil through its worldview, Buddhist by way of Scandinavia: Life is about suffering. The wind chill is below zero and so is your spouse; bone-dry Pastor Ingqvist beats his pulpit and you take it like a slap in the face; the cows will make their mess, you'll clean it up, and they'll do it again, every day, until, God willing, you die. No one in Keillor's Lake Wobegon actually complains (they persevere), and no one expects a miracle. Things can always get worse, and they do but it'll be over soon enough. Rhubarb pie and a toe-tapping ditty about the basic unfairness (and occasional joys) of life at least help pass the time on long Saturday nights in front of the transistor radio.
Maybe Keillor was countering the counterculture by sending his first news from Lake Wobegon over the airwaves in the times-are-a-changin'-back year of 1974. Or maybe the emcee's playfully slippery tone alternately parodying and celebrating mid-American nostalgia for old-fashioned hard work, righteous self-pity, and what-the-hell-let's-strike-up-the-band allowed that only our close attention to a speaker's nuances would prevent another Tricky Dick. (Is that condescension or inspiration in Keillor's mock-heroic lilt? Might it be both?) Whatever the case, the host's comically longwinded monologues on life in the invisibly small town have become damn near seditious in wartime. Here is the rare popular broadcaster who's dedicated to counting casualties not just poor Junior overseas, but Mom and Pop and their corner store too.
Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion is something of a different story, even though Keillor wrote it (for the director's approval, of course). What the maker of Nashville sees in the show, predictably, is not a self-made bandleader and oddball raconteur so much as another democratic ensemble of musicians and assorted stagehands who come together in the service of maintaining their insular artists' colony in an inhospitable climate. Tellingly, Altman never shows the audience: For this gently fictionalized backstage musical set at the show's real home in St. Paul, the audience is Robert Altman, and so is the master of ceremonies. Keillor, clad in trademark suit and red Saucony sneakers, appears more as absentminded professor of non sequitur studies than as genius star of the show; his "GK," introduced in his boxer shorts, still ironing his trousers only minutes before curtain call, would rather perform backstage than onstage perhaps because his stories at the microphone here are limited to screwball pitches for duct tape and Powdermilk Biscuits ("made from whole wheat raised by Norwegian bachelor farmers so you know they're good for you"), with nary a word about Wobegon.
There are characters in the movie: the Johnson sisters from Oshkosh, Rhonda and Yolanda (Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep), county-fair-circuit singers whose loopy chats before showtime wander from the dangers of glazed doughnuts to the pleasures of rubber bands; the Old Trailhands, Dusty and Lefty (Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly), a pair of bad-joke-cracking cowboy crooners; and a hardboiled but clumsy security guard called Guy Noir (Kevin Kline), a familiar figure from Keillor's actual show. The flimsiness of these characters ends up adding to the movie's charm: These aren't really Midwestern radio performers so much as movie stars who've signed up for one more improv party with Altman. The director is chiefly interested in capturing the musical performances, which carry a casually infectious, low-key energy, even (or especially) when the stars are off-key.
Keillor's modest subservience to Altman's group dynamic feels downright gallant, and in the context of the veteran director's most humanistic movie by a wide margin, it certainly has its rewards. Spread across the dozen-odd players, the focus is soft; the movie's dressing rooms, stacked floor to ceiling with showbiz bric-a-brac, are lit as if by candle, the better for everyone in the cast to shine when it's their turn. The mood is exceedingly chatty but laid-back, which is new for the 81-year-old Altman. The director amends his copyrighted style ever so slightly: The dialogue here doesn't overlap so much as cascade; the zooms don't suggest a biologist squinting through a microscope, but someone an old man, I might as well say it leaning in for a tiny kiss.
The conceit allowing this warm elegy is that a corporate "axeman" from Texas (Tommy Lee Jones) is on his way to close down the theater and the show along with it which at any other time for Altman would've occasioned the director's defiant resistance or bitter vindication rather than what we have here, which is something closer to Oh, well it was fun while it lasted. What's most Keilloresque about the movie is its stoic Midwestern shrug in the face of imminent extinction. To give the artists the semblance of a chance to survive the corporate menace, Keillor's script conjures a patently absurd angel of death (Virginia Madsen in a femme fatale's trench coat), who could ostensibly eliminate the threat with a wave of her hand. But Keillor and Altman know that there are forces much greater than fiction or even Fate these days. The corporations have become bigger than God which is a cynic's joke. The optimist's warmth inspired by Keillor's Wobegon resolve and Altman's twilight gentility is that the artists will endure anyway.
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—Bob Johnson, American Legion Post 62 member, on donating money to the post's swimming pool
Mel Shockley said he doesn't want to close the swimming pool at American Legion Post 62 in Craig, but financial circumstances are forcing his hand.
"I've gotten used to all the smiling faces," the post commander said of local residents who use the pool.
Barring an unforeseen influx of revenue, the American Legion will close the pool March 1 as a cost-cutting measure. The pool could remain closed indefinitely.
The cost of maintaining the swimming pool — which serves community members during year-round programs like open swimming sessions, Senior Swimnastics and more¬ — has overrun the post's budget, Shockley said.
"The Legion's finances are in good shape," he said. "But, they won't be if we keep running this pool."
Shockley estimates the American Legion loses $10,000 a year operating the swimming pool. In January, he began seeking contributions from the community to keep it open.
Shockley set a $15,000 goal in contributions, and thus far, the American Legion has received pledges and donations totaling $1,960.
Most of the donations have been from individuals, which Shockley said was surprising.
"I sent out letters to the coal companies and the power plant asking for help," he said. "You know what I got?"
Shockley, answering his own question, put his hands together in the shape of a zero.
"It makes me sad," he said.
American Legion member Bob Johnson said he pledged $250 to keep the pool open.
"It's just such a good cause," Johnson said. "Our society doesn't exercise enough, and to have a place that encourages exercise is great."
Johnson said it's not too late for area businesses to donate.
"I would like to see some of the big businesses in town do their best," he said. "I know it's been tough times. I think things are getting a little easier now."
In January, Shockley said he planned to drain the pool, sell the equipment, and have it filled in if funds were not raised.
After a recent board meeting, however, the American Legion has opted to simply drain the water and leave the pool and its equipment standing.
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The bulk of any money raised would go toward paying off outstanding debt the American Legion incurred from last year's purchase of the post building.
If, however, the grant writer can secure additional funds for the pool, it will be reopened, Shockely said.
"Let's wait and see what happens," he said. "If it sits here empty for six months, it sits here empty for six months. But, if we get the money to open it up, we will."
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Yep, you do,.... if you put in the effort to create this. Best of luck, and come on back if you have a more specific question.
But seriously, it sounds as if you have to create this for homework, and the best way to learn to do it is to read the tutorials, and then just do it. Even if this is not homework, even if you're just learning Java on your own, it's not a good idea to "borrow" someone else's code because this way you'll never learn to code it yourself.
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By Kabiraa in forum AWT / SwingReplies: 7Last Post: 05-09-2008, 07:54 AM