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The nation on Wednesday fondly remembered the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 123rd birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and vice-president Hamid Ansari leading the country in paying homage to him.
Mukherjee, Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna here this morning amid chants of hymns and patriotic songs.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Union ministers Salman Khurshid and Kamalnath and Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit were among the prominent persons who paid floral tributes at the memorial.
At the end of the ceremony, the dignitaries released tricolour balloons in the air amid playing of bands by students.
Nehru was born to Motilal Nehru and Swaroop Rani on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and his birthday is celebrated as Children's Day in India as he was fond of kids.


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It was not a good omen. This week Lewis Ranieri, a pioneer of mortgage securitisation in his "Liar's Poker" days at Lewis Ranieri, sold his property-financing firm because the subprime crisis had cut it off from fresh debt. If the industry's godfather can't navigate the storm-tossed markets, what hope its greedy children?
Banks that a few months ago were falling over each other to underwrite mortgage-backed securities and the labyrinthine pooling structures, known as collateralised-debt obligations (CDOs), that sit atop them, have admitted to more than $30 billion in losses. That figure is set to rise sharply as mortgage defaults in America climb. Citigroup estimates that big banks may be facing $64 billion in write-downs, excluding its own figures — and it was one of the top two underwriters of CDOs. Banks will be dealing with the pain for a lot longer than anyone imagined only a couple of months ago.
Most CDOs were engineered to provide both yield and safety, with a thick band of each rated AAA or even better, "super-senior." Lower-rated tranches have been in trouble for months. But the prospect of a collapse in the value of the supposedly safe portions terrifies the banks—not surprisingly, since there is at least $350 billion-worth of such CDOs outstanding.
This looks all too possible now that rating agencies have started to downgrade AAA-rated CDOs, some of them by several notches (14 in the case of one notorious tranche). The agencies have given warning in the past month that they might downgrade another $50 billion-worth of top-rated CDOs, and that looks like the tip of the iceberg. One fear is that this leads to a wave of hurried sales, because many institutional investors are allowed to hold only AAA-rated paper. In addition, default notices have been issued on more than $5 billion-worth of CDOs, as senior investors try to grab what they can.
The uncertainty is compounded by the difficulty of finding a "fair value" for these complex instruments. The fall-back method recommended in a recent paper by the Centre for Audit Quality, an industry research body, is to employ "assumptions that market participants would use", a technique known as "Level 3," which becomes subject to strict accounting regulations in America on November 15th. But "Level 3 is not that useful," confesses a risk controller at a big European bank. Banks have tended to use it as a bucket into which they throw any securities they find hard to value and then make an educated guess at the price. Among Wall Street firms, the soaring amounts of Level 3 securities now exceed their shareholder equity.
Finding a better indicator of market prices is no easy task, however. One measure, though an imperfect one, especially for CDOs, is the ABX family of indices. These relate to derivatives linked to subprime, which are traded even when the underlying bonds are not. The ABX indices are near record lows, having fallen precipitously in October. Even the top tranches are well below par value. According to Citi, some AAA-rated CDO tranches are faring even worse—at a mere 10 cents on the dollar.
Most banks are probably reluctant to mark down their assets that far. Citi and Merrill Lynch lead the list of shame, with combined write-downs of more than $22 billion. But others may just be slower in coming clean—even the teflon traders at Goldman Sachs. CreditSights, a research firm, estimates Goldman's potential CDO-related charges at $5.1 billion, for instance. On November 7th Morgan Stanley said it would write down its assets linked to subprime by $3.7 billion. For the first time, there is serious talk of banking giants running short of capital.
European banks can expect more grief, too. UBS, a Swiss bank, has reportedly been criticised for booking its mid-quality paper at twice the level implied by the ABX index. Marcel Ospel, its chairman, faces mounting pressure to resign after the bank reported big losses on fixed-income securities in the third quarter.
Banks are not the only ones who need to worry. Hedge funds hold more than 45% of all CDO assets, according to the IMF. Insurers are exposed, too; American International Group, the world's largest insurer, this week fell far short of earnings targets because of mortgage-related problems. In addition, one obscure but important corner of the industry faces a fight for survival over its subprime exposure: the specialist bond insurers.
In return for a premium, bond insurers guarantee repayment of interest on a variety of debt securities in case of default. Their mainstay used to be municipal bonds, but over the past decade they moved aggressively into structured finance. Before October, it was thought that the two biggest, MBIA and Ambac, would get away with losses in the low hundreds of millions. But the rating agencies' assault on high-grade CDOs, the bread and butter of the insurers' structured business, raises the prospect that they could run low on capital. Analysts at Morgan Stanley forecast combined losses for the two firms of up to $18.7 billion. Even the minimum expected loss, a much lower $3.3 billion, would be a huge blow for companies with combined equity capital of just $12 billion.
Some think the rating agencies will eventually have to strip the bond insurers of their cherished AAA ratings. They are loth to do this because it would "wreak havoc," not only in structured products but across financial markets, says Andre Cappon, a consultant. New issues of municipal bonds could slow dramatically, since many borrowers rely on the insurers' top rating to enhance their own creditworthiness. Over $1 trillion of debt issued by American cities and states—much of it held by retired people through funds—might have to be downgraded. Public-private partnerships in Britain, which are also customers, would also be affected.
For those holding CDOs, things could get worse before they get better. Tim Bond of Barclays Capital points out that defaults on subprime loans are still accelerating in America, particularly on mortgages made since 2006. This will take time to feed through to CDOs, via mortgage-backed bonds, but feed through it will. A consumer-credit slump, which looks increasingly likely, would clobber securities backed by credit-card and car loans, which are also pooled in CDOs. That would be all the beleaguered banks need.


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Zoren Legaspi surprises Carmina Villaroel with wedding proposal, ceremony
Everybody was in on the secret — except the bride.
Carmina Villaroel thought she would shoot an ice cream commercial on Thursday afternoon with longtime partner Zoren Legaspi. She did not suspect a thing when she arrived at Fernbrook Gardens, a popular garden wedding venue in Alabang.
The storyboards presented to her earlier had her thoroughly convinced that the wedding dress she was asked to wear was just for the latest commercial of the couple and their twin children, Cassy and Mavy. She didn't know that the cameras were on as soon as she sat down at the makeup chair.
Zoren had conspired with his family, friends, and Carmina's TV network, ABS-CBN, to surprise her with an elaborate wedding ceremony. He staged a fight with a crew member to distract her.
And then a flash mob led by the G-Force dance group got the ball rolling. Zoren proposed to Carmina, and a civil wedding officiated by Court of Appeals Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier quickly followed.
Based on the interview they gave to "Bandila", ABS-CBN's late evening news program, after the event, the groom had succeeded on giving the bride her dream wedding.
"Lahat ng gusto ko mangyari sa wedding nangyari talaga," an elated Carmina told interviewer Boy Abunda, who had been a part of the ruse. Then she turned to Zoren and said, "Thank you talaga, Tatay. You so know me!"
The entire production will air on ABS-CBN on November 24.
The couple have been together for 14 years, but a wedding only became possible early this year after Carmina's marriage to Rustom Padilla was officially annulled. Rustom is now better known as the transgender BB Gandanghari, a co-star of Zoren's on the TV fantasy series "Enchanted Garden".
Zoren had intended to marry Carmina during a family vacation in Japan on Holy Week, but the circumstances did not prove auspicious. Nevertheless, he later told media that the wedding would definitely take place this year.
In August, BB told InterAksyon that Carmina and Zoren deserve their happy ending.
"I'm very happy for them. They should get married and be legally husband and wife. After 14 years of living together, doon na talaga dapat papunta 'yun," BB said.


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Thankyou Ivayla. I did already look through all of those names before posting my messsage though. I just didn't find any of them very pretty if you know what I mean? They are great names, but not really what I am looking for. Thankyou for your reply though :-)
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ABC News' Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports:
Given the widely held belief that the Duchess of Cambridge has passed her due date, the anxious anticipation for the birth of England's future monarch has grown.
While Buckingham Palace never released an official due date, only stating that Prince William and Duchess Catherine's baby was due in "mid-July," the entire world has been discussing possible due dates, even betting on when the baby will arrive.
For this reason, taking a closer look at the obstetric concept of the due date and what it means is a good idea. Here's my explanation of the term:
Given the fact that only approximately 5 percent of babies arrive on their precise due date, it's no surprise when a baby is overdue. Full-term pregnancy refers to a five-week period of time between 37 weeks and 42 weeks, although babies born after 40 weeks (which represents the official due date) are considered post-term.
(Fun fact: in Obstetrics, the due date is technically referred to as the EDC, which stands for "estimated date of confinement." This harkens back to a time when pregnant women would need to remain house-bound to deliver their babies and then recover, thus they were "confined" to home!)
The important issue with projecting an estimated due date has to do with knowledge of dates roughly 10 months prior. This refers to the date of the last menstrual period, and length of a woman's menstrual cycle. For women who know the precise date of the period that occurred prior to conception, and who have a menstrual cycle that is 28 days long (many have cycles that are less or more than 28 days), and who know when conception occurred, it's significantly easier to accurately date the pregnancy and thus arrive at a valid due date. However, it's not only important for a woman to know these dates, but also crucial to have a sonogram in the first trimester of pregnancy, which measures the length of the fetus, the size of the gestational sac and can forecast the EDC.
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A sonogram performed in the first trimester is said to be accurate to within a week, when done in the second trimester within two weeks, and within the third trimester within three weeks. Thus, the accuracy of an ultrasound to provide information on the size of the fetus that can project the due date is greatest within the first trimester.
So given the complex interaction between dates of a last menstrual period, measurement of a fetus that is just millimeters in size in the first trimester and the five-week range of time wherein a fetus can be born and be considered full-term, it's not surprising that many babies pass their projected due dates. When this happens, the fetus is usually monitored a little more closely with sonograms to check the amount of amniotic fluid surrounding the baby and other parameters. Called a Biophysical Profile, this non-invasive test checks the baby's heart rate in reaction to its body movement, it's muscular tone, its breathing movements (fetal lungs and chest expand and make breathing movements in utero) and its body movements.
The fetus can receive a maximum of two points for each of the five parameters, which help to test fetal well-being. A score between eight and 10 out of a maximum of 10 points is considered reassuring, although the Ob literature suggests that this test is really better at identifying a compromised fetus (that needs to be delivered) than it is at assessing a fetus that is "well." In other words, a low score may be more significant and predictive of an impaired fetus than a high score is of predicting a healthy fetus.
We also recommend the mom monitor fetal movement with "kick counts," which is a simple way of following how often the baby moves in utero. Though there is less room for a baby to kick at the end of pregnancy, babies in utero should still be moving at least 10 times in two hours. It's all about watching the clock at this point in pregnancy…watching and waiting.
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Feb 10, 2014
Justice Mukul Mudgal said on Monday that spot-fixing and match-fixing cannot be stopped completely, adding that betting should be legalised.
Mudgal told CNN IBN, "I believe match-fixing and spot-fixing cannot be stopped completely. They can be substantially controlled. I think betting should be legalised in India."
Talking about the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing and betting scandal 2013 probe report that his committee submitted to the Supreme Court, he said, "The committee has only made recommendations to the Supreme Court. They are not final indictment. IPL needs improvement.
Justics Mudgal said that the Chennai Super Kings' owners were passing on the information. "We have only found out that they were passing information. No finding of passing inside information could be determined."
He said the Indian cricket fans and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would be in a better position with more transparency is there in IPL.
"All cricket lovers of India will like transparency. IPL's impact is felt worldwide. BCCI will also like it to be so. It is still the best governed sports body in the country today," he said.
Justice Mudgal declined talking about the 'conflict of interest' in regards to the IPL.
The report said that allegations of fixing requires further investigation. It also rejected Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief N Srinivasan's contention that Meiyappan was merely a cricket enthusiast and found the latter to be the face of Chennai Super Kings.
The report also found conflict of interest on Srinivasan's part for holding post of BCCI chief and ownership of IPL franchisee.
The committee gives ten-point suggestion to Supreme Court for making cricket a "cleaner" game and eliminate evil of spot and match-fixing.


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Ward's heroics bring out the racists among us
Joel Ward is a hockey player who scored the kind of goal that millions who have played the sport dream about.
His Game 7 score in overtime on Wednesday lifted the Washington Capitals to a stunning 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins, eliminating the defending Stanley Cup champions on the road at TD Garden. If you've ever met Ward or talked with him and know his story, he is the type of person you'd be happy to see have such an unforgettable moment.
Ward is also black. His decisive goal had one fan base rejoicing and another revolting but the fact that he simply has darker skin that his teammates or the majority of opponents he faces was apparently enough to have a number of "fans" unleash their racist venom upon him.
SB Nation and Black Sports Online collected a number of other posts from different Twitter accounts, most of them including the n-word when referring to Ward. The veteran winger's parents are from Barbados and migrated to Toronto. [Note: The language is strong and very offensive.]
Ward took the high road in this USA Today article, saying that the comments he's seen are "shocking to see, but it didn't ruin my day."
"It doesn't faze me at all," he added. "We won, and we are moving on. … People are going to say what they want to say."
Capitals owner Ted Leonsis, in his own blog, said: "Shame on these folks who decided to take to their keyboards and show their ignorance and their racism and hate.
The Bruins released this statement condemning the comments, though it would have had more impact to say that these individuals don't deserve to be fans or shouldn't be considered supporters of the proud Original Six franchise.
Let's be clear: Slurs that target a certain race or a person's sexual orientation should never be tolerated.
For instance, not only should Philadelphia's Wayne Simmonds receive sympathy when a banana peel was thrown on the ice before his shootout attempt during a preseason game in London, Ontario, but he should also be called out for his alleged homophobic slur towards the New York Rangers' Sean Avery during another exhibition matchup.
In the instantaneous world that is social media, there have certainly been other digusting words, sentiments or beliefs flung at other unsuspecting athletes or individuals for no good reason. All this story has done is bring what is often spewed on the Internet to light.
Many have suggested turning the spotlight on those who are emboldened by the anonymity that a computer provides and call them out for their abhorrent behavior. Perhaps there would be some satisfaction in seeing what repercussions they would face or whether these individuals would dare repeat their words in the company of Ward or others.
Thing is some would recoil, maybe regret their words and perhaps even apologize. Some would go the other way and visibly express their foolish pride, perhaps even boast about it. That's people.
Perhaps the right reaction is to take note that racism still exists today and then simply ignore these hateful ones. There's already too much attention given to those where intelligence and decency is a foreign concept, if not vacant.
We should learn from athletes like Ward who rise above those who are the lowest common demoninator among us all.
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I've been craving the great outdoors this winter season. I don't know if it is my semi-city, living here in LA, that is making me antsy to get into nature, but I am desperate for trees, creatures and fresh air. While I daydream about frolicking in a pine-tree-lined forest, I thought I would share some favorite forest-y finds for myself, my home and my pup, Mr. Harvey. — Stephanie
HUMAN — I just love the whimsy of this illustrated Fox and the Forest iPhone case.
HOUSE — I noticed this OK Pillow Case floating around Pinterest and was immediately clicking through to find the maker.
HARVEY — Bring a little nature indoors for your dog with this adorable forest-inspired dog bed.
That is the sweetest little phone case! Thanks for sharing that. I think I may just have to buy it.
Anything and everything nature or with a woodland creature on it, I'm a huge sucker for. Love these.


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State to San Diego fishermen: Drop dead
Recreational fishing closed off during massive study
Ken Harrison 1:55 p.m., March 28
San Diego The sign on Steve Olson's office door says Olson Avocado Management. The logo on his jacket reads Olson Firewood. When you work in agriculture, you have to stay flexible. "Groves we planted 10, 20 years ago, we're now cutting down," he says ruefully. "At one time we couldn't plant them fast enough. Now when you drive around you see the people have just turned the water off, and the trees are dying."
Once, California's avocado business attracted an adventurous, competitive lot. Growers scoured Mexico and Guatemala for new budwood or waited eagerly for a seed to sprout to see if it produced a hardier, more buttery fruit than its parent. In 1910 the avocado business was 50 years old, and farmers from Santa Barbara to San Diego grew 90 different varieties. Only the smooth, green Fuerte survived the freeze of 1913 to become the industry's backbone. Fuerte budwood had come from a dooryard tree in Puebla, Mexico.
The dark, pebbly, thick-skinned Hass, another chance seedling from Guatemalan stock, was patented in 1935, and the first large acreage was planted in Fallbrook. By the late 1960s, Hass's superior taste, shipping qualities, and shelf life made it the dominant variety. In 1970 California had an estimated 18,000 bearing acres of avocados, more than half of that in San Diego County.
The years Steve Olson remembers so well, the late '70s and early '80s, were boom times for planters. Every doctor, dentist, or lawyer worth his license sheltered income in a new avocado grove, which wouldn't produce marketable fruit for several years. Bearing acreage statewide was estimated at 76,000 in its peak year, 1987. To increase demand and keep prices up, the California Avocado Commission, the industry's grower-funded marketing arm, scrambled to educate Midwest and East Coast consumers in the finer points of the fruit ("First, don't eat them when they're hard...."). But in the late '80s and early '90s, the end of tax breaks stalled development, and the realities of raising a water-loving, subtropical evergreen in arid Southern California shook small growers out of the business. Olson recalls, "When we first started doing this, 25 years ago, water was, like, $100 an acre foot, and now it's about $650. Depending on the weather, a full, mature tree will take anywhere from 300 to 500 gallons per tree per week over about eight months of the year. Your water bill on a 10-acre grove will probably be $3000 a month. If the grower puts out $30,000 or $40,000 in water, and then the winds hit, and the fruit's on the ground, or they don't set a good crop, and they only get back $20,000 on the fruit, well, that's a big loss. Plus the cost of fertilizer, labor, the land." Olson estimates that 50 to 60 percent of the cost of an avocado is in the water the grove requires. The Metropolitan Water District has recently given growers a 17 percent break in residential rates, "which isn't a lot, but it helps," says Olson.
From a high of around 40,000 acres in the late '80s, county avocado acreage is now down to 27,000. As Olson sees it, the growers who've left the business, aside from some of the tax-shelter groves, are "the homeowners who planted 10 or 20 acres and planned to live on it and have that as their only income, but really didn't have the resources to keep it going for three or four bad years. Most of the people that have hung on are the absentee owners who have another business and have money and can afford to lose money here and there."
The key to making money on an avocado grove, Olson says, is to produce large fruit early in the harvest season, November and December. "All Hass avocados are the same, the large and the small." (Olson stresses the correct pronunciation; "Hass" rhymes with "pass.") "You only get big fruit if you water heavy and you fertilize heavy throughout the year. So if you can afford to do that, or if you have a well, then you can make very good money. But even then, most Southern California wells are pretty salty, and avocados don't like salt. But anyway, if you're like the majority of the growers out here who are putting on a limited amount of [district] water because that's all they can afford, your fruit doesn't grow, and you can't pick until January or February, when the prices start going down.
"[In December] I was picking some groves at $1.50 a pound, but now, a month later, prices for the smaller fruit went down to about 80" a pound." It has to do with how avocados are released to the market.
Blame the state's Department of Food and Agriculture for the high cost of guacamole in December. Each year the department sends growers regulations on what size fruit can be harvested and sent to market and on what date they can be released. This year the large Hass, the nine-ounce fruit, were released on December 2, with harvests of increasingly smaller fruit released every two weeks or so until January 20, at which time growers were permitted to strip-pick their groves. (Because avocados, like bananas, mature on the tree but ripen off the tree, growers will actually harvest gradually through August so the market isn't saturated in late January.) And because California supplies 90 percent of the nation's avocados, the fruit is relatively easy to transport and store, and most of the retail cost of the fruit is incurred before it's picked, an avocado in San Diego will cost only pennies less than an avocado in Boston at any given time.
Given the economics of avocado ranching and the now-legal Mexican imports scheduled to hit the American market in November, Olson and others are guarded about the future of the county's groves. They see a frontal assault by the California Avocado Commission, the industry's marketing arm, as their best hope. The commission insists its objection to the imports is not the potential effect on wholesale prices but is strictly an issue of sanitation - to prevent the infection of the state's groves with a seed weevil now found only in Mexican avocados. (The weevil is spread by direct contact with infected fruit, not by air or other means.)


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I just want to say that this is a great thread packed with awesome info. I really appreciate everyones input and seeing different styles of slaying the same beast.
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I just want to say that this is a great thread packed with awesome info. I really appreciate everyones input and seeing different styles of slaying the same beast.
Allen H
Ah, you beat me to it, Allen! When I got finished reading the end of Page 2, I had decided that I was going to write "Best Thread Ever", then I got to Page 3, and you had basically already written it, and more eloquently at that. I'm going to write it anyhow:
BEST THREAD EVER! (at least from the perspective of a sound guy, ha ha!).
I hope more people add pictures and descriptions of their audio set-ups!
Im a long time lurker but first time poster. I figured I would throw in my two cents as well. As usual I am a few days behind the rest of the world in posting.
We have several attractions and have tried a variety of systems throughout the years. We currently have 2 primary set-ups that we use.
- For our smaller attractions we use Gilderfluke SD-10s for playback. We split the L/R channels into separate feeds so that we can feed two zones from one player. We have been using these for a couple of years with no problems at all.- For our larger attractions we use an Alesis HD24 for playback. While it is a more expensive option, it gives us 24 audio zones in a single player. One nice feature is that several units can be synchronized to create a larger system.With both configurations we loop the audio on the players so that they only repeat once every hour or two.
More great input!
Thanks VAhaunt!! I think my delima is solved!! You CAN NOT beat 24 tracks for that price!!! (I ebay'd a few units...great price for used or new!!!)
Those are some very inventive systems everyone!
It looks like the approach to sound design here is starting long repeating loops, and letting them cycle all night. Is that the total approach, or are these systems playing the long loops in addition to more event-driven sound effects/music (such as an alligator sound triggering when an alligator prop pops out of a swamp scene)??
If you're using more event-driven sound design, what kinds of triggers/players are you using for those sounds?
For event driven sound, such as a triggered sound effect, I use Ap-16's from EFX-TEK, http://www.efx-tek.com/topics/ap-16.html or Hauntbot's http://www.hauntbots.com/index.php?m...edb6rja2i3ssi2
If you go the multi unit route, or even to maximize existing channels, as long as your soundtrack or ambient noise isnt too complex, what I did for an attraction to use multiple soundtracks with the same units was redesigned the sound to have a different unique track in the left and right channels.
For example there was one attraction inside a pavilion that needed one track, and then a woods walkthrough that needed another, so I ran only left speakers to the indoor, and only right speakers to the outdoor. A cheap way to extend the capabilities some, as long as you dont need panning effects.
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Don't know about the others. but I have found that MAudio and CuBase and don't lend themselves very well to individual triggered events. I run basically an hour long loop, all of the audio tracks each loop multiple times within that hour. Our front of the house stuff (impaler, flame cannons, DC pirate, etc) are all Midi controlled from the same system and are incorporated within that same hour long loop. If you knew exactly when the loop was ending, and were listening very intently for it, you can hear the 1/2 second or so pause on the hour, but most can't hear it.
We use EFX AP16+ for the triggered prop sounds, and plan on using many more of them this season, replacing most of the MAudio system. The control over the AP16+ is fantastic and they lend themselves extremely well to prop related sounds.
Most of our self container props are triggered with IR beams with a few pressure mats. Some props we simply have on their own little loop so they trigger over and over, whether there is a customer near or not. Actors love it - not! A few props are actually manually activated.
Instead of buying the Delta M-Audio 1010lt pci card with 8 in/outs, getting 4 for 32 channels, why not just buy the 8 channel surround cards as they alot cheaper and use something like reaper software to control? The surround cards come in any motherboard configurations (pci, pci-express..etc) the Big question is, can you control each channel via the reaper/audacity software say if you have 3-4 sound cards for 24/32 channels in the same PC unit, anybody try this? Additionally, you'd still need an ampliflier as the audio output as I don't think these pc cards have much power to drive bigger speakers...other than pc speakers.


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So how do we get these Hilton Honors points? Credit card signups is the fastest way, garnering between 15k and 20K per sign up. The Amex card I mentioned pays 5 points per dollar on grocery, gas and drugstore purchases that can really add up quickly.
And if you are strong willed and not easily tempted by a sales pitch, we always undertake the sales presentation at a Hilton Vacation Club property when in the area of a resort. It is usally a 90 minute presentation of their timeshare property, that is not high pressure and pays between 10K and 15K in Hilton Hhonors points. The question to protect yourself from the sales pitch is: How do your prices compare in relation to resale prices for the same timeshare unit? If they are telling the truth, the resale prices are much lower. Reason enough to get away and think about it.
Hilton also offers "point stretcher" awards during low occupancy periods for some hotels worldwide. The normal points range is 7500 points for an opportunity hotel (few and far between) to 40K points per night for category 6 hotels. The Waldorfs and Grand Wailea Resorts can be as high a 80K points per night. The point stretchers allow a 40% reduction from the standard point requirements. As an example, a category 4 Hilton would normally be 30K per night but if it is offered as a "point stretcher" only 18K per night. Unfortunely it is hard to find the point stretcher on their website. Priority Club does a much better job of offering their discounted products to their members.
And my last comment about the Hilton program is they do not discount multiple night stays as the Marriott program does. Two nights at 30K per night is 60K with Hilton, where as with Marriott 2 night stays are somewhat less; ie one night stay is 30K and 2 night stay is 55K. It is one thing that Hilton should look into.
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., June 15 -- iPass Inc. (NASDAQ?) announced today that Secure Computing(R) (NASDAQ?), a leader in securing enterprise networks, is looking to iPass to provide their remote and mobile workforce a secure global connectivity service. Under the signed agreement, Secure Computing will deploy the iPass Corporate Access(TM) service to its employees, enabling them to securely connect to the Secure Computing corporate network.
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Mitsubishi has SEER 21 and SEER 26 single head units that wholesale in the lower end of that range.
Mitsubishi is well regarded
James - I highly recommend sticking with the big guys on ductless mini splits. Fujitsu, Daikin, Mitsubishi are all really good. There is a second tier of providers such as LG, which is ok, and a ton of knock offs that I would stay away from.
Though I am not personally familiar with these newest super-high SEER models, mini-splits are certainly a mature technology, just unfamiliar to us in the US. These were predominant in Jamaica when we studied the A/C industry there in 1998. I've seen them frequently in Europe and South America too. We put one in our own server room (Petaluma, CA) many years ago and it worked great.
You should check out this old post from Dave Robinson if you haven't already (he recently updated it too).
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The Mitsubishis I install connect with flare fittings, which means no brazing. No brazing means no nitrogen purge. If brazing is required to install other minisplit brands, then by all means be sure to use a nitrogen purge. A nitrogen purge is standard procedure for conventional split heat pump installations, so I don't see that it represents a hardship peculiar to minisplits.
If you are not employing nitrogen purge, vacuum pump and micron guage with conventional split system installations, consider another line of work.
Vacuum pumps and micron guages should be used with EVERY split system installation, mini or not
If you have a lot of competition in your local area you may want to consider using mini-splits by Friedrich Air Conditioning from Texas. The equipment is made in Japan by one of the major manufacturers, so it is good stuff. If everybody has Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, and Daikin equipment it can be a good move to carry a US brand. We know of a major outfit in Hawaii that is using the technique in their market. We have had good experiences with the equipment to date.
Hawaii??? I guess we are starting to have rainy fall weather in Portland.
How can you call it an American brand if it is made in Japan. My experiance with the company is far from good. cheap price isn't everything
Steven, I used the correct terminology. There is a distinction between brand and who manufactures the product. The Friedrich products are OEM produced by one of the major three manufacturers in Japan. You can go and spend $300-$500 more to get the Japanese brand if you like. The importance here is that you get US-support and can talk to a real person if you run into an issue.
We would all like to see manufacturing coming back to the US and North America for that matter. GE got major funding from the US government to get the GE GeoSpring manufacturing back to Louisville, Kentucky. Do you think that they would have moved it back without the extra US-dollars?
I have been looking for the last 3 years for anybody to produce WaterSense showerheads in the US. Not possible - there is not anybody.
If you show me the US manufactured mini-split that you are currently using we can talk.
The last I heard about Friedrich, DOE had referred three of their room A/C models to EPA for enforcement after failing to meet Energy Star requirements. Has anybody heard anything more about this?
This doesn't necessarily say anything about their re-labeled (Japanese-manufactured) mini-splits, but it certainly has an effect on my opinion of the brand.
Tom, I actually called the factory yesterday to get information. We do not do much with room air conditioning up in the Pacific Northwest, so I was not aware of this at all.
Friedrich told me that the original test method for room air conditioners were administered by the EPA when ENERGY STAR began. The responsibility moved over to the DOE and new test methods were established. A total of 6 out of 36 ENERGY STAR listed failed the new test procedure. All of these units were delisted by ENERGY STAR. Friedrich has introduced new models that qualify under the new testing procedures.
It looks like a change in testing methodology that caused the de-listing. We currently see similar things going on around the topic of heat pump water heaters. The ENERGY STAR rating is given based on a fictional climate that does not really exist. Many of the HPHWs won't meet ENERGY STAR requirements if a Northern climate was used.
Be careful...just because a particular set of climate conditions rarely or never exists nearby does not mean they don't exist elsewhere. A heat pump water heater that struggles in an unheated Maine or Minnesota garage or basement positively flourishes in Florida.
Conversely, it is understandable for northerners to place little priority on the importance of right-sizing AC for proper dehumidification when their cooling season consists of just a few 3-5 day "heat waves" that carry north ambient dewpoints we combat 5 straight months per year
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Mean Betty: Who is the Mystery Buyer of Kim Kardashian's Sex Tape?
Who is the mystery buyer seeking to acquire Kim Kardashian's scandalous sex tape? Meanie must know!
-Mean Betty
Good morning, kittens! Meanie would like to start the day by asking you a question: What would you do if a tape of your lovely self performing indelicate acts with another person suddenly surfaced in that most public of places, the ever-useful internet? Would you: A) Attempt to build a career out of it? B) Try your hardest to get it off the market? Or C) Build a career of it, and THEN try your hardest to get it off the market? It certainly is a conundrum, isn't it?
Meanie is especially interested in your thoughts on the matter, kittens, because of the ongoing to-do involving the sex tape of one Kim "Mrs. Humphries" Kardashian. Someone, you see, is attempting to buy the rights from Vivid Entertainment to the scandalous reel that first introduced Miss Kim to the world. But who, exactly, is this mysterious Someone? The logical assumption would be Kim herself. After all, she is now the mistress of an empire far greater than that inspired by a lowly sex tape, and as an plus for the theory, she can almost certainly afford the $30 million Vivid is asking.
But Vivid's head honcho, Steve Hirsch, said yesterday that a representative for the Someone has informed him that Kim is NOT the Someone. Nor is the Someone one of the next most logical people: Hubby Kris Humphries or another member of Kim's extensive family unit. The plot thickens!
Read Mean Betty on Jada Pinkett-Smith and the Power of the Rumor Mill
So, then, kittens, if we must accept that the Humpdashian clan is out of the proverbial picture, Meanie has another question for you: Who exactly IS the Someone? And moreover, why is he or she (or they!) so interested in acquiring this squalid piece of pop culture? Meanie has a few ideas:
1) An extremely devoted Kim fan who wishes to polish off her tarnished name and remove from the public eye this record of her most questionable moment.
2) An extremely creepy Kim fan who wishes to use the tape for his own questionable moments and who doesn't want anyone else to have access to it.
3) An avid collector of celebrity sex tapes. He or she does not collect it to watch it; he or she merely collects it the one might collect stamps, or coins, or Dolly Parton memorabilia. (This was the butler's suggestion. He says that everyone needs a hobby.)
4) The butler. (Meanie thinks it likely that when the butler mentioned that everyone needs a hobby, he was referring to this one as his own.)
But Meanie just doesn't know, kittens. Each suggestion seems more bizarre than the last (although Meanie still has a sneaking suspicion about the butler). The Someone has put forth that if the sale is successful, he or she or they will reveal the reason behind the acquisition. Meanie notes, though, that the Someone has said nothing about revealing his or her or their identity. What if we never find out who the Someone is? Horrors! Meanie will never be able to sleep for the curiosity!
Oh well. Meanie supposes she will have to content herself with her wild speculation. One does need ways to entertain oneself over one's breakfast mimosas, after all.
Mean Betty.


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Hall Call for Hull
by Bob Matuszak / Dallas StarsTORONTO -- As a teenager, Brett Hull knew he had giant footsteps to follow. That's when he decided to make his own tracks.
"I realized when I was 15 that, not just in hockey but in life in general, if I didn't figure out who Brett Hull was while still being honored and loving the fact that I was Bobby Hull's son, I wasn't going to be anyone," Brett said. "So I developed kind of the game that I played just so I could be different."
After retiring after five games with the Phoenix Coyotes in 2005, Hull continues to be the NHL's third-leading all-time goal scorer with 741 tallies in 1,269 games. He's also second on the NHL career list with 265 power-play goals, and third in game-winners with 110.
Hull added 650 assists, and his 1,391 points currently ranks 21st on the all-time NHL list. He won two Stanley Cups while with Dallas (1999) and Detroit (2002), played on eight All-Star teams -- he won the 1992 All-Star Game MVP award -- two Olympic squads (1998, 2002), and was part of the 1996 USA team that won the World Cup.
"I think I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I have no idea how it happened," Hull said on Monday from the Hockey Hall of Fame's Great Hall room, where he received his Hall of Fame ring in a morning ceremony. "I got to play with wonderful players, and I made sure when I played I was just having fun. I figured if I was having fun, then the game was going to go the right way for me."
How could things go wrong? With a blistering one-timer from the off-wing, or a wicked wrister from the right side of the ice, Hull preyed on helpless goalies throughout his 19-year career.
After spending time with Blues assistant coach Bob Berry following his breakout 41-goal campaign with St. Louis in 1988-89 to work on his quick wrist shot, Hull suddenly took the NHL by storm, racking up goals at such a rapid pace that fans would make sure to be in their seats when the game started, afraid they'd miss any of Hull's magic.
When he signed with Dallas in the summer of '98, Hull had already netted over 500 goals, including a career-high 86 in 1991 with St. Louis, and was thought to be the missing piece of the Stars' Stanley Cup puzzle. But even with his glittering past, Hull knew he had to pay his dues on a close-knit team that had just lost to the Detroit Red Wings in the 1998 Western Conference finals.
"I had to earn respect by being able to adapt to coach (Ken) Hitchcock's style and defensive system," he said.
Teaming with center Mike Modano, Hull gave the Stars that extra bullet they needed during tight games, and delivered the Stars first-ever Stanley Cup championship with his game-winning goal in the third overtime of Game 6 of the finals against the Buffalo Sabres.
Ironically, it was the type of goal that was the exact opposite of what Hull was known for. Rather than unleashing a blast from the top of the right circle, or cranking a one-timer from the high slot, Hull shoveled in his own rebound from in tight past a sprawled Dominik Hasek.
"He was someone special," fellow inductee and New Jersey Devils general manager Lou Lamoreillo said. "He loved the game. Loved to play, and had fun doing it. He knew how to go to the open spot to create an opportunity for himself to score."
Brett naturally gives plenty of thanks to his famous father for helping his NHL career flourish. But he also conceded that he needed that motherly touch as well in order to gain proper perspective on things when rough waters were encountered.
"She was so supportive throughout the years," he said. "A guy like my dad, who knew so much about the game, you'd get two goals and he'd say, 'Well, why didn't you get three?' But she was always like, 'You were great, you played great.' I think she gave me my kind of laid-back attitude where trying to live up to Bobby Hull didn't seem like that big of a burden. She also helped me with my wit, so I give her a lot of credit."
Hull also was influenced heavily by Wayne Gretzky, who played briefly with Hull at the end of the 1995-96 season in St. Louis.
"We became very good friends," Hull said. "Just watching him and how he handled himself. We obviously didn't play the same way, but those were some more footsteps to follow. If you wanted to be known as a great player, you have to be able to do some of the things that he did, like score goals and be a winner. Being able to reach for those stars, it makes you a better player."
Though always outspoken on and off the ice during his time in the spotlight, Hull was humbled when he was informed that he was given the highest honor for a professional hockey player over this past summer.
"I was in my golf clothes waiting to go to the golf course," he said. "When (the call) came it was a great moment."
A moment when the game finally gave back to a player that meant so much to its growth and popularity in the 1990s.
"I think he was an exciting player in the league, and he sold tickets for the league," his first agent and current Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke said. "Not many players can do that."
That's because there weren't many players quite like Brett Hull.


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I had planned to make it from a fuschia/deep purple wool crepe that I have in the stash picked up some time ago from either a garage sale or op shop. I also had picked out the perfect brooch and shoes to go with it.
But.......It is for bust 38 in., which is about 4in. too big for me so I need to grade the pattern down a few sizes. Also two pattern pieces are missing, including a gusset piece under the arm so I need to draft one somehow with hardly any pattern markings to go by, because it is one of those old style patterns with just the punched holes. And if all that isn't enough challenges, it comes with instructions that give BWOF a run for their money in terms of brevity. So all that called for a fitting muslin, which normally I loathe doing because frankly I'm a little bit lazy.
However, after four, yes four muslins all I have to show for all that time and effort are a dress that is way too big, a dress that is way too small, and two dresses that just sit wonky and wrong all made out of fugly fabric from the stash. No goldilocks moment at all (ie no just right dress!). The problem is that the pattern is asymmetrical with all those darts and funny tucking of fabric to make the belt on the skirt front on one side only, so it is not that simple to just take some extra width out evenly across the front.
So having made this four times over and still no wearable dress, or even a UFO to show for it, I'm calling it quits and am moving on. I don't have enough time, patience or sleep in reserve these days to dilly dally around on a dress that I probably won't wear for ages anyway, and it's not like I don't another pattern or 600 to choose from! In fact, I've already found another although it too needs downsizing, hmmmm maybe I'll keep looking......
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
The dress I've sewn 4 times and still haven't made....
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Kristy, is it just too big in the bust? Or is it all the way down??
If it's just the bust and I assume that the skirt etc... are separate pieces... couldn't you take the center on the dress front that runs on the fold in say... however many inches too big it is? At least you have tried if I were you, I would pass it onto someone else that it may fit... and then it won't drive you nuts any more!!!
Good try! And I knew that you weren't just a baby clothes sewer! Your assume!! Take care and give Anna a hug!That is an intriguing pattern - I'd love to see what the patten pieces look like. I totally sympathise with the four muslins and no dress, but I still want to see the dress! Could you show us one of the muslins, just as an idea of what it would look like? I love asymetrical patterns like this.


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The kids "surfing"
Waiting on the Dolphin Cruise
The Pass at Perdido Beach
This little dolphin was being fed by the overflow of fish caught by these shrimpers.
The have real Pirate Ships!!! The people on board throw water balloons or have a hose that they use to wet the other boaters as they go by! How fun! This one had a hose that wet us!!
Connor, Karlea and Ganny
We saw a stingray in the water. It's hard to see, but it's there.
The kids trying out their new skim boards. It's a lot harder to do that it looks. Connor busted it several times. I tried it once and almost ended up on my backside.