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|The skull of specimen 1871496 (aka Ham the Chimp) at the US National Museum of Health and Medicine.
So too, perhaps, did Ham the Astrochimp (or the remains of him) that I had come to see. As I wrote in my last post on Ham's life story, he was born in the French Cameroons, flown to the US to take part in experiments into space flight and selected (over and above 14 other chimp contenders) for the first primate flight out of the earth's atmosphere. His successful mission 50 years ago on 31 January 1961 meant he beat Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space and paved the way for US astronaut Alan Shepard's suborbital flight in May 1961 and all US manned flights that were to follow.
But how was it that Ham's remains wound up embedded deep within this military compound? The answer is that he and his fellow chimps had been purchased by the Air Force and remained their property for the rest of their lives. When Ham died at North Carolina Zoo on 17 January 1983 at the age of just 26 (equivalent to somewhere between 50 and 60 in human years), he was delivered to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), which is located within the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
On the morning of the 19 January 1983 pathologists from the AFIP and the National Zoological Park (where he had been housed from 1963 to 1980) carried out a postmortem. This suggested he had died of chronic heart failure and liver disease rather than from any strange consequence of his brief foray into space. During the procedure, care was taken to keep his skin in good condition so it could be stuffed and displayed in the National Air and Space Museum. News of this plan reached the public on 26 January. "Pioneer space chimp to be stuffed," blurted the Washington Times. "The Smithsonian will arrange for the chimp's taxidermy," reported the Washington Post.
This caused something of a stir. "Taxidermy is the wrong stuff" ran a rhetorical leader in the following day's Washington Post. It's a darling little piece, so I hope they won't mind me reproducing an extended chunk here:
"Talk about death without dignity. Talk about dreadful precedents – it should be enough to make any space veteran more than a little nervous about he is going to be treated in the posthumous by and by.The public was outraged. A sophomore at West High School in Painted Post, New York, for example, responded with a passionate plea to the National Zoo (which she cced to the Air and Space Museum, the AFIP and the Space Hall of Fame in Alamogordo). Her letter, filed away at the Smithsonian Archives, reveals that she was "shocked and horrified" at the proposal to stuff Ham. "A chimpanzee is not a green pepper!" she wrote.
Rest assured that we're not looking for full honors at Arlington here. We know that Ham was a chimp. We certainly don't want to offend our Creationist readers – at least, not any more than we always do. But stuffing and display? The only national heroes we can think of who are stuffed and on permanent display are V.I. Lenin and Mao Tse-tung. Does this nation really want to emulate the Soviet and Chinese models? There is not one shred of evidence that Ham was a Communist....
How about treating America's First Ape with a little respect? Bury Ham."
"By treating his body like that of a stupid beast, people will continue thinking of apes as stupid beasts, and not the intelligent, almost human animals they really are. In my opinion, a gravestone would honor Ham's life much better than would having his body filled with sawdust and stuck under a glass case for countless years to gather dust."By the time she got a reply from Lieutenant Colonel George D. Imes, then director of the Department of Veterinary Pathology at the AFIP, there had been a change of thinking. "You will be happy to learn that following our initial decision, the question was reconsidered and it was decided not to stuff and display him as orignally planned," he wrote. Imes did also note, however, that "Because of the scientific value his skeleton will be maintained here at the Institute with the skeleton of Able, a famous space monkey."
So that's what happened. After the postmortem, Ham's skin and viscera were cremated and sent to be buried in the International Space Hall of Fame at the Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, New Mexico. According to the book Animals in Space, the museum's Ryita Price wrote to the astronaut Alan Shepard (who made NASA's first manned suborbital flight a few months after Ham) and invited him to the 28 March ceremony.
"I don't know if you're an animal lover or not – or how much you feel our space program owes the primates who first proved man could survive in space. I do know that you had to cope with a lot of jokes and sometimes 'unfunny ' humor about the situation. And, perhaps, now would be a good time to give a timely and dignified response to these innuendoes and, at the same time, create some goodwill for the United States space program."Shepard, it seems, didn't think so, preferring to appear on "only a handful of occasions in the interests of other pursuits." From this, the authors of Animals in Space make a carefully worded speculation. "It is possible that he still begrudged Ham for preventing him from becoming the first person in space," they wrote. It's possible, I guess, but then so, I'm told, is anything.
|Ham's grave at the International Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico.
|Dermestid beetles from Edmund Reitter's Fauna Germanica: Die Käfer des deutschen Reiches, 1911, Plate 101.
Which brings me to roughly where I began this post, walking past soldiers towards my appointment with Brian Spatola, curator at the NMHM. When he opened the Ham's drawer, I'd set a minidisc running and have put an edited version of our conversation on Audioboo. I'm so sorry about the telephone in the background. I couldn't record elsewhere as I wanted to be beside the chimp and the darn phone just wouldn't stop ringing.
|Drawer containing specimen 1871496 (aka Ham the Chimp) at the US National Museum of Health and Medicine.
|This is the pelvis of a chimp called Chuck, whose remains France obtained from Arizona State University.
I did send an email to Dr France to find out why she was interested in Ham's pelvis rather than a more obvious piece of his anatomy like his skull.. She didn't reply, but here's a possibility. The "Object Examination Report" filed when France returned Ham's pelvis to the NMHM "in good condition" mentions that the top section of his sacrum "is not completely fused". It's unlikely that France was interested in the celebrity status of these bones, but was focused instead on capturing an anatomical quirk.Ham's story is also told (through cartoonised footage) in the 2008 kids' film Fly Me to the Moon. As far as historical accuracy in Hollywood movies goes, this otherwise silly movie (in which three flies join Armstrong, Aldrin and the other one on board Apollo 11) is rather impressive.
At roughly the same time, someone somewhere in Hollywood was casting Ham in an altogether different role, as the inspiration for the plot in the 2001 movie Race to Space.
At roughly the same time, someone somewhere in Hollywood was casting Ham in an altogether different role, as the inspiration for the plot in the 2001 movie Race to Space.
Then, as I mentioned in an earlier post, Ham's existence is central to the plot of the 2008 film Space Chimps in which his fictional grandson (presumably descended from fictional offspring Ham sired with the North Carolina Zoo chimp Maggie in the last few years of his life) heads off into space with a couple of chimp mates. Their mission: to save a distant planet from an evil dictator called Zartog.
For a chimp or indeed for a human, Ham had a pretty startling life. Because he moved more in the human than in the animal world and we have done things with his remains and his image, he now has an impressive arfterlife too.


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Difficulty: Easy-moderate. The three marked trails, the beach and the two roads on Sears Island provide many routes for walkers to traverse.
How to get there: From downtown Searsport, drive northeast on Route 1 to Sears Island Road (which will be on the right if driving from the town of Searsport). Continue on Sears Island Road across the causeway to the island. Park on the causeway. Note the parking restrictions close to the gate. Not far past the gate is a kiosk displaying an island map. Brochures, which include the island map, are available at the kiosk.
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• The Tower Road is gravel and branches off the paved road not far from the causeway and travels about 2 miles to the communications tower, which is about 300 yards from the shore on the southern end of the island.
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Before European settlers arrived, the native people hunted and camped on the island in the summer and cast off from its shores to fish. They called it Wassumkeag for the bright sands that could be seen from a distance, according to the Friends of Sears Island brochure.
In the 18th century, Europeans named it Brigadier's Island in honor of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo, a major landowner in the area. Fishing, farming and timbering sustained landowners on the island. It wasn't until the 19th century that the island was renamed Sears Island after the family of David Sears, who had by that time owned the island for four generations.
Bangor Investment Company purchased the island in 1905. Throughout the 1900s, farm buildings on the island fell to disrepair and several industrial developments were proposed, including a nuclear power plant, aluminum smelter and cargo ports. During prohibition years, the island was used to drop off and hide liquor being smuggled into the country. And during World War II, arms were shipped out from the island's docks to the Allies.
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Personal note: Many people have suggested I visit the Sears Island trails for a "1-minute hike." Some say I should visit during the summer, when the birding is terrific, while others advised I explore the trails on snowshoes, as many do during the winter. No one mentioned Mud Season. Nevertheless, that's when I ended up taking a trip to the island. The three trails and gravel Tower Road may have been a bit soggy, but it also enjoyed some early signs of spring, spiders wandering on the rocky beach and fleas leaping from the seaweed.
I've visited the island before with my family, and kayaked around its shore. Much of my extended family lives in the Searsport area — on both my mother's and father's sides, actually. In fact, a beautifully carved bench on the causeway to Sears Island is dedicated in memory to one of my relatives, Jimmy Engstrom, the brother of my great grandmother.
"He was on the board overseeing the restoration of the clam flats and usage of them over on the island. He spent many hours there with his little dog and loved to talk and tell stories to anyone that had time to listen," my father, Stan Sarnacki, wrote to me in a recent email about Engstrom.
My father used to hunt on Sears Island when I was younger. I remember this because he would load a bicycle into his pickup, along with a bike trailer, which was constructed to pull children but ended up pulling white-tailed deer.


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Coach makes a splash
Some guys will do anything to get out of having to dance. Mike Shanahan took a dive — fully clothed — into Janet Elway's swimming pool.
Here's what happened: Shanahan, the head coach of the Denver Broncos, along with wife, Peggy, was at Elway's palatial home in Cherry Hills Village last Saturday night for Janet's Camp, a poolside bash that raised enough to send 250 inner-city children to YMCA summer camp. He had stepped up to the microphone to help auctioneer Gary Corbett sell an opportunity for two people to attend a Broncos away game. Shanahan did so well that he wound up selling the package (it includes travel on the team plane, a room at the team hotel and sideline passes) three times over, for $11,000 per.
That helped put the auction into high gear.
"How much would you pay to see the coach dance the robot?" comedian Sam Adams called out to the crowd, adding: "Do you know what the robot is, Mike?" (Adams and 9News sports anchor Susie Wargin were the party's emcees).
Yes I do, Shanahan replied, "But I'll go you one better. If we can get 10 people to pay $500 each, I'll do a one-and-a-half off the diving board. Right now."
The money came flying in, with 20 folks in all paying to see the coach take a dive, and Shanny proved he's a man of his word.
He walked straight to the diving board and made a perfect splash into Janet's gorgeous pool. Fully clothed.
Someone rustled up a towel for the coach to wrap around his shoulders, Janet planted a kiss on his cheek and the crowd burst into enthusiastic applause.
"I'll bet y'all haven't seen that at a charity fund-raiser before!" Corbett exclaimed. Indeed.
The applause had barely died down when another idea was floated. "What would you pay to see Janet swim laps?" Corbett asked. Ten thousand dollars, replied Rick and Cheryl Schaden of Quizno's.
The ink on the check hadn't even dried when Janet, after running upstairs to change into a red bathing suit, adjusted her swim goggles, dove in and showed her Olympic form (she was to have competed the year the U.S. boycotted the Summer Games) with the crawl, backstroke and breastroke.
This was the second year for Janet's Camp, and it was a good one. Folks came early and stayed late to enjoy a campout like no other.
The night began with cocktails and a swimsuit fashion show, courtesy of Saks Fifth Avenue. This was followed by aquatic exhibitions by the Rocky Mountain Splash syncronized swimmers and the Mile High Dive Club; campfire fare (think mac 'n' cheese and roast beef sandwiches from Epicurean Catering); a bunch of YMCA staffers dressed up like the Village People; port-a-potty and tricycle races; fortune tellers; and many, many choruses of "(It's Fun to Live at the) YMCA."
Excelsior Youth Center's Sista Soul step team also performed, thanks to the Janet's Camp hostess who'd purchased an appearance by them when she attended an Excelsior fund-raiser earlier this year. Janet also was high bidder ($4,000) on an autographed Jake Cutler jersey. What makes that purchase interesting is that Cutler is the Broncos' hot new quarterback and Janet's former husband, John, retired from that position after taking the team to two Super Bowl victories.
So who all registered for Janet's Camp?
Janet's beau, Steve Perkins, and her co-head counselor, Jean Galloway, for starters, along with Wells Fargo Bank's regional chief, Tom Honig, and his wife, Dianne; Kay and Kenny Cline (she manages Sak Fifth Avenue Cherry Creek); former CBS4 news anchor Aimee Sporer and hubby Dan Caplis, an attorney and radio talk-show host; Bill Moore, the new owner of Kentwood Co. real estate; Anne and Ralph Klomp of Trice Jewelers; Phyllis Coors; Sharon Magness Blake and Ernie Blake; Yvonne and retired Great-West Life chief Bill McCallum; and Sassy Radio personality Gloria Neal with hubby Amani Ali.
Also, Beth Jackman; Roselyn Saunders and Chris Djorup; Kathy and Darrel Schmidt; Gail and George Johnson; Kristina and Jay Davidson; Lynn Hamstra; Paul and Lauren Marcove; Devonne Marcove; Katie and Scott Smith; Pamela O'Neal; David Alexander; Jeff and Nancy Lamb Thompson; and the YMCA of Metropolitan Denver's president and CEO, Jim Hiner.
Pictures taken at Janet's Camp can be viewed at denverpost.com/SeenGallery while fellow columnist Bill Husted offers his take on the party in Denver & The West.
Denver Post Society Editor Joanne Davidson says she's willing to take a dive at Janet's Camp III, for a modest fee, of course. The money wouldn't be for her, but to fund another YMCA summer campership. Joanne's column appears every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. She can be reached at 303-809-1314 or email@example.com.


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For more information on cool things to do in "The D", be sure to check out www.Autopalooza.com and don't forget to take a look at the PDF flyer link near the bottom of the page for info on the Detroit Kick-Off.
Muskegon County, Michigan
Cruising The Lakeshore – Muskegon! Cruise along nationally recognized sugar sand beaches and dunes. While in this historic lumber town take time to visit a Landing Ship Tank that served the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day Invasion or tour the most decorated surviving World War II submarine! Have you been to a in a drive-in movie lately? You can in Muskegon! Tour lumber baron mansions at the Hackley/Hume Historic Site or enjoy one of the best art museums in the Midwest at the Muskegon Museum of Art. You can take your family to Michigan's Adventure or go for a dinner cruise out on Lake Michigan! Throw a line out and try charter fishing or be adventuresome and give kiteboarding a try! Muskegon is home to three state parks & many county parks. While in town you can take in a show at an opulent historic theater, enjoy some time at one of our many museums, or experience our "The Lake Effect" by bringing a blanket and strolling along our 26 miles of natural beauty. Great vendors and friendly people will be on hand to make this stop memorable.
For more information on Muskegon visit www.visitmuskegon.org. A special site has been set up – and a Facebook page to detail all of the great activities that will welcome the Hot Rod Power Tour to Muskegon! www.visitmuskegon.org/hotrod_powertour.htm is where you can find all of the details – like free movies on the deck of a military ship and great Lake Michigan cruise opportunities to name just a few. Find us on Facebook at wwww.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Rod-Magazine-Power-TourMuskegon/178185108876820. For videos of what you can find in Muskegon, please visit: www.visitmuskegon.org/video.htm
Champaign, IL
At the crossroads of Interstates 57, 74 and 72 sits Champaign County, a micro-urban oasis that enjoys the benefits of a big city with the charm of a small town. With the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana as the hub of the community, Champaign County offers top-notch sporting events, unique dining options, a thriving arts and culture atmosphere and wide open spaces ideal for cruising. Before or after the show, drive through the miles of countryside surrounding Champaign-Urbana, explore campustown, or head downtown for Power Tour Pint Night, where numerous local establishments will be offering "Hot Rod" specials in your honor. Don't forget to stop by the Welcome Booth at Assembly Hall to pick up your commemorative pint glass (available for the first 2,000 guests) along with a map of participating bars and restaurants.
Visit http://visitchampaigncounty.org/hotrod to see complete details on the events of the day, must-see attractions and details on Power Tour Pint Night!
Madison, IL
Miami, OK
Buffalo Run Itinerary/Features
Dining Options: Joe's Grill located in Joe's Outback hours of operation: open 24 hours a day. Type of food: chicken strips, cheeseburgers, biscuits & gravy, chips, cookies, etc. The Coleman Restaurant located in the main casino hours of operation: 11am-3pm & 5pm -9pm for June 6th hours of operation will be 11am-9pm will not close between 3pm-5pm. Type of food: pot roast, pasta, steak, etc. daily specials also. Outdoors we will have some food/drink vendors
Gaming Options: Blackjack tables, carnival games including: Ultimate Texas Hold'em, 3 card poker, crazy 4 card poker. We have over 800 slot machines including keno games, draw poker games, progressive games, etc. Pool tables & darts located in Joe's Outback in the Trailer Park Bar & Grill.
Entertainment: We will have a free indoor show in our Showplace located in the main casino, doors will open at 7pm, and concert will begin at 8pm. We will have a special slot tournament for the Hot Rod Power Tour participants in Joe's Outback it is a $10 buy-in and all the money collected goes right back out to the guests as the prize pool. We will begin taking sign-ups at 5pm and play will begin at 6pm. The final round for the slot tournament will be at 7:30pm.
Players Club – New Members: All new members will receive $5 in buffalo bucks. All players club members can participate in our Swipe & Win promo game located in Joe's Outback from 7pm-10pm.
Stillwater, OK
During the HOT ROD Power Tour's stop at KICKER, hands-on demos of KICKER's high-quality audio gear will be given throughout the day's entirety, with an emphasis on Powersports products that perform in varied mobile environments including hot rods and classic cars.
Among the new products that suit hot-rod enthusiasts is KICKER's PXi50.2 Amplified Controller for iPod®/iPhone®, which is the perfect solution for users to add tunes to vehicles not previously equipped with a music source, and without jeopardizing the overall look. Also being previewed are the brick-sized PX-Series Amplifiers that can be hidden in previously unusable spaces, making them ideal for hot rods.
In addition to product demos and giveaways, facility tours of the Visitors Center will be ongoing during the day. The KICKER Visitors Center and gift shop, located inside the doors of KICKER Headquarters, features tricked-out demo vehicles and large displays that focus on speaker technology, company history, innovation and product development. Steps away, guests can literally hear and feel the rumble of KICKER's Wall of Boom. This massive display stands over 14 feet tall and 20 feet wide, showcasing 28 subwoofers and 46 additional speakers, with 18 amplifiers powering it all.
Celebrated motorcycle fabricators Dave and Jody Perewitz will also be on hand, signing autographs and visiting with fans. With more than 30 years experience as a custom bike builder, Dave Perewitz has gained a worldwide reputation as a true master. Daughter Jody recently set a V-twin, land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats as only the third woman ever to break 200 miles per hour (203.111).
Consumers needing more information on KICKER or Livin' Loud® may call the Consumer Information Line at 1-800-256-5425 or visit the brand website at www.kicker.com . Follow KICKER at facebook.com/kickeraudio and twitter.com/kickeraudio . KICKER World Headquarters and Visitors Center is located at 3100 North Husband in Stillwater, Okla., and is open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Center will extend its hours during the HOT ROD Magazine Power Tour.
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Laptop Processors: Doing More With Less (Power)
You might think that processors hardly matter anymore, especially if you're interested in lightweight notebooks. After all, just about any current notebook can handle basic Web surfing and light word processing. When you start to do more complex work, though, it's clear that processors really do matter, as I found out while testing some spreadsheets on new laptops. I tested machines that were either running Intel's third-generation Core processors (known as Ivy Bridge) or AMD's second-generation A-series accelerated processing units (APUs).
Now, I've done a lot of this testing before, most recently looking at the quad-core Ivy Bridge chips as they first came out, and they impressed me.
This time, I tested one desktop replacement notebook running a 2.6GHz quad-core 45-watt Ivy Bridge chip (with four cores and eight threads), the Alienware M17, along with several thin laptops. The latter systems were running low-voltage processors. Two of them—the HP Envy 4 and the Lenovo Ideapad U310—were Ultrabooks running dual-core 1.7GHz Intel Core i5-3317U Ivy Bridge chips, with two cores and four threads rated at 17 watts. The other one was an HP Envy 6 Sleekbook running a new 2.1GHz AMD A6-4455M quad-core APU with four integer cores (running four threads) also at 17 watts.
Above: Envy 4, Alienware 17x, Envy 6, Ideapad U310
A few things to note: The AMD-based Sleekbook and the Ideapad both had 4GB of RAM, the HP Envy 4 had 6GB, and the Alienware had 8GB. This shouldn't matter as these tests do not take advantage of more than 4GB of memory. Also, recall that all of these systems actually can run faster than their native speeds through "turbo" modes depending on how hot the chips go. Finally, there may be a few errors in the results, given that Windows occasionally seems to do certain things on its own and my stopwatch skills are certainly not perfect. You should discount any differences of a second or less, or a couple percentage points of the total.
Here are my results:
As you would expect, the full-power 2.6GHz Quad-core Ivy Bridge clearly beats the low-voltage systems. That's no surprise because it's running at a higher clock speed with more cores and more threads, and drawing more power (45 watts versus 17 watts for the others). As I mentioned when I tested an earlier configuration of this system, this is a desktop replacement. These systems pretty much smoke every other notebook I've tested, but they are much bigger and heavier with 17-inch displays.
Among the thinner notebooks, the difference is enormous. The Ivy Bridge systems, which scored close to each other, were notably faster than the Trinity one—more than 50 percent faster in most cases. In one of the pivot table tests, it was more than twice as fast.
The Ivy Bridge systems were generally comparable to my tests of Sandy Bridge laptops, but the big difference is that the Ivy Bridge parts are 1.7GHz, 17-watt ones while the comparable Sandy Bridge part (a Core i5-2520M) is a 2.5GHz, 35-watt one, so Ivy Bridge should offer improved heat and battery life—important for the Ultrabook form factor.
The Trinity system also shows a reduced power consumption compared with the previous generation "Llano" APU (specifically the A6-3410MX), using 17 watts versus 45 watts, but carrying a nominal clock speed doesn't seem to matter much, as Trinity comes in behind the equivalent Llano part. On the other hand, the reduced power load does let it fit into much thinner designs, which AMD calls "ultrathins" and HP calls "Sleekbooks".
Note that although Intel has dramatically improved the graphics in Ivy Bridge over the Sandy Bridge generation, the AMD processors—especially the Trinity generation—has better integrated graphics still. That doesn't show up in these spreadsheet tests, but would matter if you wanted to play intense games.
Overall, the big difference between this year's dual-core Intel chips and AMD's laptop offering isn't more performance, it's providing similar performance with less power-hungry chips that can run in thinner machines. Still, the differences in performance are notable; Intel chips are still clearly much better performers than the AMD competitor and the quad-core Ivy Bridge is pretty much in a class by itself.


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Yamaha RX-V3900 A/V Receiver
Of Tea Leaves and Logos
An A/V receiver isn't just a product. It's a series of diplomatic handshakes. Sure, manufacturers develop some of the technologies that go into their products, but they also license a lot of the technologies from other outfits—which enhances their products with the fruits of many different R&D labs. The Yamaha RX-V3900 is a beefy powerhouse on paper, rated at 140 watts times seven, but if you check out Yamaha's Website, you'll more likely notice the sheer profusion of logos. I counted no fewer than 24 different ones. You can read them like tea leaves.
Some are Yamaha born and bred. These include YPAO automatic setup and room correction, which optimizes the latter by measuring from eight points in the room. Others seem to relate to generic features, like HDMI (a licensed feature) and 8CH EXT. INPUT (not a licensed feature).
No A/V receiver would be complete without surround codecs from Dolby and DTS, old and new, which extract multichannel soundtracks from a variety of media. But Yamaha generously lards this model with additional options including SRS Circle Surround, Neural Surround (which just parted ways with THX and was purchased by DTS), and its own Cinema DSP. It also has VRS video processing by Anchor Bay, which may improve on that in your DTV or signal source—see our Video Test Bench.
Radio options are generously represented, with built-in support for Rhapsody's streaming library and separate logos for the now merged but still separate XM and Sirius satellite radio networks.
HD Radio also beefs up the traditional analog FM tuner. Want to connect a portable device? There's a Made for iPod logo on the optional YDS-11 universal dock ($99). Incidentally, the HD Radio tuner supports iTunes tagging. If you hear a tune you like, you can tag it, and HD Radio provides the info to direct you to that song in the iTunes store to purchase it.
The Bluetooth logo on the optional YBA-10 wireless receiver ($129) signifies wireless capability. The RX-V3900 plays back any A2DP Bluetooth content from any compatible device. Some portable players are compatible on their own, while others (including iPods) work with an adapter. And the receiver can play music from USB devices, such as an external hard drive or thumb drive.
Perhaps most novel are three PC-related logos: Network Receiver, Certified for Windows Vista, and dlna-CERTIFIED. (Is someone having trouble with the cAPS lOCK?) These let the AVR stream music from Internet radio stations or up to 15 PCs on your home network. The network connection also lets you operate the receiver remotely with either a PC Web browser or a browser-enabled portable device.
Hub of Activity
Paradoxically, for such a hotbed of technological intrigue, the RX-V3900 hews to the well-established Yamaha look. That includes the familiar amber display, which I've always loved, and a stripped-down front panel that only includes a volume knob, a source-select knob, a Pure Direct button, and two power buttons—one for standby and one for total shutdown. Additional items are located behind a flip-down panel, which includes navigation, tuning, zone control, front-panel inputs, etc. Most of these functions can be handled from the remote.
Speaking of the remote, it shows Yamaha's attention to detail. The volume keys are the largest ones and fall just where a right-handed person's thumb would seek them. The navigation rocker is right next door, and while it could be a little larger, it works well. Below the nav controls are transport keys, and below them are other miscellaneous buttons, many that relate to surround modes.
Above the nav controls are four macro keys, which you can program to memorize multiple commands. A liquid crystal display is located above the macros. Its blue backlighting comes on (along with button backlighting) whenever you press any of the remote's buttons. Above the LCD are 16 keys for direct input selection. If you prefer to step through inputs, two buttons below the LCD make that possible. In general, Yamaha does a good job of distinguishing controls, relying heavily on layout and background and less on size and shape. It's not a gorgeous remote, but it's a good one.
Menu graphics are full color and a pleasure to use. One thing that distinguishes Yamaha's user interface is its separation of Music Content from Input Select. They have a few items in common, such as Rhapsody and iPod Dock. You might find what you're looking for more quickly under Music Content, since it has fewer items.
If you fiddle with DSP on a rainy day, you'll find the numerous modes in nested menus. Classical includes large concert halls in various cities (I seem to have missed the Church in Freiburg in my travels), and Live/Club includes smaller venues. (This is your only chance to visit the Bottom Line in NYC now that the myopic bean counters of New York University have evicted the legendary club.)
Let me mention in passing that the Dolby and DTS complement does include the new lossless Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio codecs, as well as their improved lossy counterparts, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio. That last item is present in the product, although it's absent from the spec sheet. This receiver processes the new codecs' bitstreams through the HDMI 1.3a interface.
I hooked up my Paradigm Reference Studio 20 v4 speakers, Pioneer BDP-HD1 Blu-ray player, and Integra DPS-10.5 universal player and got to work.
Prozac for the Ears
A pattern asserted itself in movie after movie. I often have a problem with dynamically bipolar movie soundtracks—not one volume setting suffices to reconcile loud effects with soft dialogue. But with the Yamaha, this hardly occurred at all. I was able to pick an initial volume setting for each movie based on its dialogue level. When the effects got loud, my sometimes battle-weary ears were unfazed. This is some pretty clean amplification.
In the case of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Blu-ray Disc's Dolby TrueHD soundtrack may have helped. Now that I've had prolonged exposure to Dolby TrueHD, I'm certain that lossless surround helps. It can't remix a bad soundtrack, but it can help a good one sound (and feel) as good as possible. At least half of the movies I've heard in Dolby TrueHD have benefited significantly from it. In the latest chapter of the Indy saga, I weathered the dynamic swells without pawing the remote control, and what a relief that was. I fell in love with action movies all over again.
We Are Marshall—the true-life story of Marshall University's recovery from the loss of its football team in a plane crash—is a symphony of crowd noise. Variations indicate changes in the crowd's mood in response to the twists and turns of the football-inspired drama. Again, Dolby TrueHD made a difference. I got pulled right into the story (and I don't even like football).


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The investigation of a Bothell woman's February killing now appears to focus on a bicycle somebody apparently didn't want.
Bothell detectives are examining whether the abandoned bicycle, recovered by police March 1, was used by whoever fatally bludgeoned and stabbed Susann Smith inside her home on Feb. 12.
"Your affiant believes that if the bicycle was used as a means of transportation to and from the crime scene, trace evidence may be present on the bicycle," Bothell detective Michael Stone said in an affidavit filed in support of a Snohomish County Superior Court search warrant.
Police have not named Smith's estranged husband as a suspect in the killing. However, multiple search warrants filed in the case make clear that investigators are scrutinizing his actions around the time of her death.
That includes what they characterize as a misleading story he told investigators about whether he owned a bicycle.
"The investigation is ongoing," Bothell police Sgt. Ken Seuberlich said Monday. "We are following up on leads and this is just another lead that we have developed."
After Smith, 37, was found dead in her home, police questioned the man about his transportation options. He denied owning a bicycle, according to court papers.
A review of the man's credit card bills, however, showed that in late November he bought a bicycle at a store in Seattle.
Last month, detectives obtained an invoice from the sale. It showed that Smith's husband had purchased a Trek 7.2 FX Disc bicycle, the search warrant said. A search of the GPS device in the man's car also placed the vehicle near the bicycle store that same afternoon.
"During searches of Susann Smith's residence and searches of (the man's) property, the Trek bicycle was not located," Stone said in the affidavit. Likewise, nobody who knew the man told investigators about the bike.
On March 1, however, a Bothell man called police about a bicycle he noticed that was left unattended for several days at businesses and apartment complexes around the Canyon Park neighborhood.
Police logged the abandoned bicycle into the Bothell police evidence room.
On April 24, a detective checked serial numbers on the bicycle and confirmed that the Trek 7.2 FX Disc bicycle found in March had the same serial number as the one Smith's husband bought in November, the affidavit said.
The bicycle was photographed and packaged and sent to King County's evidence processing laboratory pending court approval to search it for latent prints, DNA and other trace materials.
At the time of the killing, the man had been living at an apartment just under two miles from Susann Smith's home, the search warrant affidavit said. He's since moved into the house where she was killed.
Police have distributed fliers in Smith's neighborhood several times asking for anyone with information to come forward.
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Battling Unbelief at Bethlehem
From Gospel Translations
By John Piper
About Sanctification & Growth
Part of the series Battling Unbelief
- Romans 4:20-21
- No distrust made Abraham waver concerning the promises of God, but he grew strong in his faith giving glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
What I want to do today is lay the foundation for a series of messages called Battling Unbelief. I hope to clarify in these messages why we exist as a church and what it means at the most practical level to live by faith in the promises of God.
All Sins Come from Unbelief in God's Promises
The conviction behind this series is that all sins come from unbelief in the promises of God. All the sinful states of our hearts are owing to unbelief in God's super-abounding willingness and ability to work for us in every situation of life so that everything turns out for our good. Anxiety, misplaced shame, indifference, regret, covetousness, envy, lust, bitterness, impatience, despondency, pride—these are all sprouts from the root of unbelief in the promises of God. Let me illustrate from a familiar text that tends to puzzle us.
The Love of Money
When Paul said in 1 Timothy 6:10, "The love of money is the root of all evils," what did he mean? He didn't mean that there's a connection between every sinful attitude and money—that money is always in your mind when you sin. I think he meant that all the evils in the world come from a certain kind of heart, namely, the kind of heart that loves money.
Now what does it mean to love money? It doesn't mean to admire the green paper or the brown coins. To know what it means to love money you have to ask, What is money? I would answer that question like this: Money is simply a symbol that stands for human resources. Money stands for what you can get from man (not from God! "Ho everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. He who has NO MONEY come buy and eat!" Isaiah 55:1). Money is the currency of human resources.
So the heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer. So the love of money is virtually the same as faith in money—belief (trust, confidence, assurance) that money will meet your needs and make you happy.
Unbelief in the Promises of God
Therefore the love of money, or belief in money, is the flip side of UNBELIEF in the promises of God. Just like Jesus said in Matthew 6:24—you cannot serve God and money. You can't trust or believe in God and money. Belief in one is unbelief in the other. A heart that loves money—banks on money for happiness, believes in money—is at the same time not banking on the promises of God for happiness.
So when Paul says that the love of money is the root of all evils, he implies that unbelief in the promises of God is the taproot of every sinful attitude in our heart.
The Aim of This Series
Every message this fall will aim to illustrate this truth and confirm it and provide practical help for battling the root of unbelief that threatens to grow in our hearts again and again every day. In a sense the main point of every message will be the same: Fight against sin by fighting against unbelief in the promises of God. Or to put it positively: Fight for righteousness and love in your life by fighting to maintain faith in the promises of God.
That's the gist of the series. But what I said I wanted to do today is lay a foundation for these messages and show you how it relates to why we exist as a church. So let me try to do that in the minutes we have left.
Why We Exist
Bethlehem Baptist Church exists for the glory of God. He created us for his glory (Isaiah 43:7). He predestined us to be his children for his glory (Ephesians 1:6). He appointed us to live for his glory (Ephesians 1:12). Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).
Whether we speak of Bethlehem worshiping, Bethlehem building up the body, Bethlehem evangelizing unbelievers, the final goal is the same at every point—that God be glorified. Bethlehem is a vision of a great, holy, free, and graciously sovereign God—a vision of GOD to be savored in worship, a vision of GOD to be strengthened in nurture, and a vision of GOD to be spread in evangelism and missions. "From him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen" (Romans 11:36).
How We Accomplish Our Reason for Existence
Now to the text of the morning! Romans 4. If the goal of all we do is to glorify God—to magnify his worth, clarify his beauty, exalt his excellence, portray his perfections—if that is our goal, then Romans 4:19–21 gives us a very crucial insight into how we go about it.
Abraham's Faith in God's Promise
Abraham got the promise of God that he would have a son when he was 100 years old and Sarah was old and barren. His response, Paul says, glorified God.
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust [or: unbelief] made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Martin Luther's Insight
I hope you agree that one thing this text teaches is that we glorify God by believing his promises. Listen to Martin Luther, who got a hold on this truth so firmly.
Faith . . . honors him whom it trusts with the most reverent and highest regard since it considers him truthful and trustworthy. There is no other honor equal to the estimate of truthfulness and righteousness with which we honor him whom we trust . . . On the other hand, there is no way in which we can show greater contempt for a man than to regard him as false and wicked and to be suspicious of him, as we do when we do not trust him. (Selections, p. 59)
Trusting God's promises is the most fundamental way that you can consciously glorify God. When you believe a promise of God, you honor God's ability to do what he promised and his willingness to do what he promised and his wisdom to know how to do it.
An Illustration of Battling Unbelief
Last night I had to battle the unbelief anxiety that this sermon would not take shape in time for this morning's service, because I got such a late start. The way I battled against this anxiety was to believe the promise of 2 Corinthians 12:8 ("My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in weakness."). And when I believed that promise, God's ability to help me, his wisdom to help me and his willingness to help me were glorified. When you trust somebody, you honor them at the deepest level.
Therefore if the goal of our church is to glorify God in all that we do, we must make it our aim in all that we do to battle unbelief. Because nothing dishonors God more than not to believe what he says. Or to put it positively, if our goal is to glorify God in all that we do, then we must make it our aim in all that we do to believe the promises of God. Because it was when Abraham believed the promise of God that God was glorified.
So I hope you can see why I think this series of messages is so important for us. Unless we can learn to live by faith in the promises of God, we will fail in our goal as a church. Unless we can learn how to battle the ever-attacking unbelief of our hearts, we will constantly fall short of glorifying God. And our reason for being would be gone.
Three Things About the Faith Which Glorifies God
Now to set the stage for the rest of the messages, let me say three things about this belief that glorifies God. If this seems too brief, please know that each of these three things will be addressed in every sermon this fall. All I want to do now is introduce them and begin to shape the mindset of our church in a certain biblical direction. And hopefully, in doing so, stir you up to trust God in new ways.
1. It Is Future Oriented
The first thing I want to say about this belief is this: Belief that honors God means banking our hope for happiness on the promises of God.
In other words belief is future oriented. It trusts God for something in the future, whether in eight hours or in 8,000 years. The function of past events (for example, the death and resurrection of Christ for our sins) is to support faith in the promises, which have to do with our future. Believing that Christ died for our sins once for all in the past and that he rose again is utterly crucial for salvation. But the reason it's crucial is because the death and resurrection of Christ are the guarantee of God's promises. People who say, "I believe that Christ died for my sins, and that he rose again from the dead," but then don't bank their hope on his promises day by day—those people don't have faith that honors the God who justifies sinners.
You can see this in our text. Right after extolling Abraham for believing the promises of God in verses 19–21, Paul says, "That is why his faith was reckoned to him as righteousness." So how did Abraham get justified in God's sight? Why did God look at this imperfect man and count him as righteous in his sight? Answer: because he believed the promises of God. It was future oriented faith that justified.
Now read on in the application to us. Verses 23–24,
But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord.
Notice! It does not say, "It will be reckoned to us who believe the past historical fact that God raised Jesus from the dead." As utterly crucial as that is! It says, we will be reckoned righteous if we believe in God! Like Abraham believed in God! And this God is the kind of God who raised Jesus from the dead so that you can trust him! So that you will know that his Son ever lives to make intercession for you! So that you will know that he reigns in victory over all your enemies. So that you will know, as verse 17 says, that he gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. He can do anything! Nothing is impossible for God. Therefore he is absolutely trustworthy.
You don't get justified by believing that Jesus died for sinners and rose again. You get justified by banking your hope on the promises that God secured and guaranteed for you through the death and resurrection of his Son. The faith by which God justifies us, forgives all our sins, reckons us righteous, is the experience of being satisfied that God will come through for you according to all his promises.
That's the first thing I wanted to say about belief: it is future oriented; it means banking our hope for happiness on the promises of God secured by the death and resurrection of Jesus.
2. It Produces Fruit
The second thing I want to say about belief in the promises of God is that it produces what Paul calls the "work of faith." Two times, once in 1 Thessalonians 1:3 and once in 2 Thessalonians 1:11 Paul refers to the "work of faith." What he means is that there is a dynamic to this kind of faith that always changes the heart (Acts 15:9) and produces the works of love.
The clearest statement of this is Galatians 5:6,
In Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any avail, but faith working through love.
Faith is a power. It never leaves the life unchanged. It can't, because what you bank your hope on always governs your life. If you bank your hope on money, if your bank your hope on prestige, if you bank your hope on leisure and comfort, if you bank your hope on power or success, it governs the choices you make and the attitudes you develop. And so does banking your hope on the promises of God day by day. Belief in the promises of God is the taproot of all righteousness and love.
Earlier in Galatians 2:20 Paul said,
I am crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
Paul lived his life every day by faith. Jesus had loved him enough to die for him, and now Paul knew he could trust him, believe him, to take care of him and meet all his needs (Philippians 1:19). When you bank your hope on the promises of God and on the presence of Jesus, you live differently. You bear the fruit of righteousness (Philippians 1:11).
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose trust is in the LORD.
He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.
That's the second thing to say about belief: it produces fruit in our lives. Belief in the promises of God is not a dead and fruitless thing. What you bank on for happiness controls your life.
3. We Must Battle Unbelief Every Day
The last thing to say is just a sentence for now. In order to keep on believing in the promises of God and bearing the fruit of faith, we have to battle unbelief every day. Becoming a Christian is the beginning of the battle not the end. Paul said to Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith; take hold on eternal life to which you were called."
In order to persevere to eternal life, we must fight the good fight of faith (1 Corinthians 15:2; Colossians 1:23; Hebrews 3:14). That's the battle we are going to study for the next 14 weeks.
And I believe that God has appointed this study for us because he loves us and because he aims to bring some great victories to our lives and to our church. The reason I believe this is because of the promise of 1 John 5:4, "This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith."
Let's bow for prayer. Every one of us in this room struggles with some sin. It may be a new thought to us that this sin is rooted in unbelief. But it is. And what I want us to do is pray silently that God would help you see the connection and then dedicate yourself to join me in the next 14 weeks in learning how to battle that unbelief and conquering sin.


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