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Hi. This hack provides for example "space/shift dual role key". When you press the space key alone, it's a space; but when you press it with another key, it's a shift. Any pairs of keys are possible. This means your hands stay almost always at their home postion.
It's a fork of Xorg "evdev" driver (= xf86-input-evdev). Read README for the details.
The latest release is 2.10.3. (Jul 2016)
* AUR for 2.10.3 by Rhinoceros. (Salkay in this forum. Thanks a lot!)
* For older versions / full source tarball / git access, visit the homepage.
When you upgrade your xorg-server-x.y.z, you have to rebuild this hack, too. More precisely, a change in z doesn't affect, but x or y does.
It can be built exactly the same way as the Xorg's original code. (I'm a Gentoo user, though.)
News for 2.10.3 (Jul 2016)
* Merges the upstream 2.10.3. Ahm itself hasn't changed since Jun 2013.
* The website migrated in Apr 2015 from gitorious.org to gitlab.com.
Q: Can I input Shift+Space if my Space is Space/Shift dual-role key?
A: Turn both of your Space and Shift into Space/Shift keys.
* xcape (AUR). It's a userland software, so you don't have to catch up the upgrades of xf86-input-evdev.
Probably I don't develop any more my hack as a fork of xf86-input-evdev. It's better to do all in user space, rather than as an X driver.
Read README.
With best regards.
Last edited by teika (2016-07-25 07:10:34)
I was just planing* on doing this slightly eccentric manipulation with actkbd, but your hack seems effortless to configure !
* https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120191
Last edited by bloom (2011-06-14 19:44:49)
Thank you for taking a look. It seems it's exactly what you want, and I hope it'll help.
I didn't know actkbd. It has its own pros and cons over mine, but it's not good that it's not maintained any more. If you like my hack, then please advertise it so that better maintainers take me over. :)
[8 oct: deleted an outdated comment]
Last edited by teika (2011-10-08 05:57:23)
Thank you for taking a look. It seems it's exactly what you want, and I hope it'll help.
I didn't know actkbd. It has its own pros and cons over mine, but it's not good that it's not maintained any more. If you like my hack, then please advertise it so that better maintainers take me over.
I did advertise your work:
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?1884 … ard-Layout
And I doubled the number of votes of the related AUR package !
I read this in the README :
And I press the space to use as a modifier, but I change my mind, and release it, and there comes an unwanted space.
I think that, as soon as the key is sending a repeat event, it should be considered as the modifier.
#You're right: I shouldn't be using the word I was using in my original post, I replaced it.
Thanks a lot, bloom. Ok, I've added the pointer to the AUR in my first post.
I don't (yet) understand your suggestion on repeat and modifier issue. I may try if you could detail more.
I confess you're better than me admitting your own fault. I often resist and later I feel petty. ;/
I don't (yet) understand your suggestion on repeat and modifier issue. I may try if you could detail more.
I was referring to the autorepeat mechanism as a way of resolving the fore mentioned issue.
If I press the original key long enough to trigger the autorepeat mechanism, then, when the original key is released, it should send a release of the translated key and nothing else.
I see, thanks. It's worth trying when I've got time. Wait a bit.
Now that I've tried it, I have found a little problem :
My Return key is translated to Control_R and if I type too fast, I press Return before having released the last key and I release the last key before releasing Return, hence I get Control_R instead of Return.
I've tried to fix it some time ago in a git branch "fast-type", but it failed. Simple, direct solution doesn't work. I don't know why. See the README of that branch for the detail:
http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/a … ype/README
Currently it's unlikely that I'll have time to complete it. Please someone write correct codes. :)
ahm-2.6.2 is released. Many new features, bugfixes, README improvements are done.
* Fast type fix
Users of this hack often have "tongue-twister of finger": Suppose you want " x". But if you press space/shift, press x, and release space/shift (before releasing x), you'll get an upper-case X instead.
Fixes are attempted with new "AhmDelay" and "AhmFreezeTT" options.
* Cancellation by timeout
Suppose you were about to input shift + A and pressed space/shift, but you changed your mind. If you release the space/shift key, you'll receive one space, but it's not what you want!
This can be fixed by long enough press now.
* "Big keycode support" is introduced in 2.6.2, but deleted in 2.6.3, since loadkeys (1) command suffices. (12 Nov 2011)
* Reset
When something is wrong, leave the keyboard untouched for 10 secs. Then all are reset to the initial state.
* 2.6.1 was never released.
For full changes, read README, "News" section:
http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/a … ter/README
Forum / mailing list
Now there's a forum for this hack:
Please use it for general topics, and use this thread for distro specific things only.
(But I'd be glad if you could add a comment here to make it draw more attention. =)
Any comments, both positive and negative, are more than welcome. Please give me a feedback. (I don't know how many have tried.)
With best regards.
AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49546
Source download: http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/pages/Home
Last edited by teika (2011-11-12 06:14:31)
Hi. at-home-modifier-2.6.3 is released. It's a bugfix release. Changes are:
* Gtk widget double press issue.
To push a gtk button, sometimes you had to press space/shift key twice, but this is fixed. If it doesn't work out-of-box, set "AhmPaddingInterval" option. (This "bug" is not the author's fault, but what's bad for users are bugs.=)
* Reset and Delayed key
"Delay" and "Reset" are features introduced in 2.6.2. If a delayed key is pressed after a long enough period is passed (i.e. a reset is done), the press was ignored. It's fixed now.
* "Big keycode support" introduced in the previous release is deleted, since xloadkeys (1) command suffices.
For full changes, read README, "News" section:
http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/a … ter/README
# By the way, I've never received any feedback. Please give me a short word of "Hi, I like this hack, please keep going on!" or so. I feel lonely. ;)
With best regards.
AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49546
Source download: http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/pages/Home
Last edited by teika (2011-11-12 06:15:23)
Hi, thanks for great hack, my fingers highly appreciate it :).
After seeing this topic, I've added PKGBUILD for 2.6.3: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54520.
BTW, can one hope for mouse support in foreseeable future? (probably it's question to xkb2-developers)
I'm aware that it's not currently supported by design, though AhmTimeout partially replaces this functionality.
# By the way, I've never received any feedback. Please give me a short word of "Hi, I like this hack, please keep going on!"
You know, some linux advocates are introverts (speaking for myself) =), but the hack is really great.
Last edited by grimp3ur (2011-12-03 16:16:46)
Hi, gripm3ur. Thanks a lot, (again!) for the AUR, and helpful comments in the AUR repository.
By "mouse support", you mean Space/Shift + mouse click, right? Actually, I think it's possible as long as the mouse is also handled by evdev driver. Notebook touchpads are major exception, whose driver is synaptic, though. (Now I understand things better than the first time I posted it.)
It's likely to benefit many. Ok, I'll try it. At least it's easy to give a try.
# On xkb2... The development seems stopped. Something has to de done in the X input, but X itself is obsolete, and if Wayland can replace X, then they don't want to spend their time in X renovation. Anyway a "correct", or at least better design of input is unknown yet, and the effort to seek one will never be a waste.
thanks for great hack
My hack owes at least to three people. =)
Oops! Ahm's REAMDE lacks gratitude to them. I've added it now. =P
Thank you for a nice idea and kind comments. Good luck.
# BTW I've noticed you can buy Japanese keyboards from say amazon.com. When you need a new keyboard, consider buying one. This hack works better with Japanese keyboards (read README). =)
Last edited by teika (2011-12-05 09:52:56)
Hi. A hack to support mouse is available at the git branch "mouse". Feel free to try it. If you don't see any problem for a week or so, please report. You can get the source by:
$ git clone -b mouse git://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/at-home-modifier.git
I won't make a new release soon. There's one more feature request at Gentoo Wiki, and I'll give it a try. If it turns out too difficult, then I'll release with mouse support only.
Hi. at-home-modifier-2.6.4 is released. It has one minor fix, "mouse support", discussed above:
When you press space/shift and a mouse button, the result used to be shift + click, ok, but also followed by an extra, unwanted space, as if the click hadn't happened. It's because each device ignored others. Now it's fixed, as long as the mouse is also handled by evdev driver. (Notebook touchpads are dealt by synaptics driver, so it's not fixed, and won't be fixed. Use AhmTimeout option as a workaround.)
I can't provide a PKGBUILD for the latest, but one for the previous, 2.6.3, is available here.
If you find the news or README difficult to understand, then feel free to ask.
<quote>"What's inconvenient is a bug." - Teika kazura</unquote>
Hi. at-home-modifier-2.6.4 is released. It has one minor fix, "mouse support", discussed above
Excellent , I've just updated PKGBUILD, now can fall back to more convinient timeout-value. As far as I tested, fix works like a charm. Many thanks!
I can't provide a PKGBUILD for the latest
AFAIU, you are Gentoo-adept? If you're also using arch (or just want to be able update PKGBUILD in proper time) I could pass an ownership to you. I'm not saying, that I don't want to update this package .
By "mouse support", you mean Space/Shift + mouse click, right?
Exactly, sorry for too late reply, I visit archforums rather rarery.
And thanks for bothering to explain some details about xkb2 et cetera.
I thought your hack was responsible for some keyboard freezing (in fact it was the arcane terminal flow control being activated by '^s') but I might give it another try since you seem to have made some progress lately.
I had a splendid idea: map space to space / Mode_switch. And then use the standard `xmodmap` Mode_switch mechanism. Hence, one might map the cursor keys to 'space+h,j,k,l', return to 'space+caps_lock', etc.
I've found an alternative, Space2Ctrl, by Victor Moreira.
* s2c works in the user space, while ahm (=at-home-modifier) is the fork of an X input driver.
* s2c uses "X Record Extension" to detect events. I haven't given a try yet, but it probably stands between the X server and clients (or Xlib).
*** This (probably) means it can't coexist with other softwares which use Record Extension, e.g. AutoKey or xnee.
* s2c doesn't require much updates; ahm has to keep up with the upstream (= X).
* s2c is written in C++. (I don't understand C++. :P)
* The s2c code is slim; it's easier for users to hack.
*** Ahm is a fork, so the distinction of the genuine ahm part and the original X code is not clear.
* s2c is rudimentary. The sole keycode pair is hard-coded, and has no option. According to the author (in private correspondence), "more of a personal hack, very poorly tested and documented."
Read the git commit log to know the author's email address. He said he'd like more users, so sending patches may be welcome.
News: Ahm development hasn't seen any progress after the 2.6.4 release.
Welcome back, bloom. In my opinion, the space key is "too precious" to bind it to Mode_switch (roughly equal to ISO3_Level_Shift), which has very limited use. In my case, space is ctrl, and inside of emacs and shell, I can move cursors with alphabet keys, using a layout similar to vi. *Very* comfy.
On the PGKBUILD: I've sent a pm to grimp3ur, but he's probably busy. ;)
Very easy to hack indeed!
I've just released my own reworked version of it: keydouble.
The differences with Space2Ctrl are:
It's written in C.
The keycodes are configurable.
It will handle multiple natural/artificial pairs soon.
Last edited by bloom (2012-02-14 10:36:20)
Xorg has released xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0. It has multitouch support.
I've merged it to my hack, which is available at the GIT repo, "master" branch. I don't make a release at least for a week, but you can try it. (It's been running for 30 min without problem. =)
To use the multitouch support, you need:
At-home-modifier itself doesn't have any progress since the last release.
I don't have any multitouch device, so I won't test it.
Last edited by teika (2012-03-14 12:35:07)
Hi, folks. Not a news of ahm update, but of a good keyboard.
keyboard glossary:
http://www.overclock.net/t/491752/mecha … oard-guide
I recommend Japanese keyboards for at-home-modifier, because you can press many keys with thumbs. Image here:
The bottom row of my keyboard is:
Esc-BS-Spc-Ret-Tab and
(The middle one is the space bar.) as described in the README of ahm. Japanese keyboards enable such stunt which is really comfy.
I use a membrane keyboard, whose touch is bad for your finger. There hasn't been good keyboards with enough many thumb keys.
Recently a new keyboard with "cherry mx brown switch", OWL-KB109BM(B)IIB, came out:
http://www.owltech.co.jp/products/keybo … _B_II.html (Japanese)
You can buy one from amozon.co.jp, at 8000 yen or so (roughly equal to $100; these days yen is high.). They offer an English interface, too. I dislike google/apple/amazon monopoly, though. (Who likes?)
There's also "cherry mx blue" one, OWL-KB109BM(B)II, too. They say blue is noisy.
There's already many other cherry switch or capacitive switch Japanese keyboards, but they have a long space bar, which doesn't suit my purpose.
I haven't bought yet. Not cheap, but interesting. Night night.
Keyboard related essays by Xah Lee:
At-home-modifier-2.7.1 is released. (Called whimsically 2.7.1, not 2.7.0.) It merges the upstream 2.7.0, but has no changes in ahm since 2.6.4.
Modifications from the upstream 2.7.0 are:
* An upstream bugfix of horizontal scroll, X.Org Bug 46205, is included. (The fix is published after the 2.7.0 release.)
* Added an option to configure script "--without-mtdev". The upstream code always checks mtdev, and enables it when found. If you don't pass the above option, it falls back to the original behavior.
Read README for the details.
* Source tarball
* Patch against Xorg's original 2.7.0
Probably I don't develop any more this hack as a fork of xf86-input-evdev. It's better to do all in user space, not as an X driver. (And personally I'm terribly weakened.)
If you want some progress, improve Keydouble or so. I'm also interested in a rewrite in Python, which will be easier to allow flexible configuration. (In reality I don't think I'll ever write one.) It'll be great if it's integrated to AutoKey, but the AutoKey developer is not interested.
To make these hacks more popular, you can upvote my answer here to a question on Emacs Pinky in StackOverflow.
I know Xah Lee's essays, but they never helped me. That's why I wrote this hack. ;-) Thanks anyway.
Last edited by teika (2012-06-06 09:07:41)


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Powers Farm – A "Harvest Hoopla" hosted by Randolph Community Programs will take place from noon to 4 p.m. at Powers Farm, 582 N. Main St., on Saturday, Oct 21. The event will include food trucks, vendors, corn mazes, goat yoga and a beer tasting from Harpoon Brewery. For more information visit randolphrec.com.2
Norwell Farms – The fifth annual Harvest Festival will be held at Norwell Farms from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15. Attendees will celebrate the end of the farming season with games, food, music hay rides and more. For more information visit norwellfarms.org.3
Alden House – It's harvest time at Duxbury's Alden House Historic Site which means a day of exploring historic foods and textile making as reenactors bring colonial living to life from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23. Visitors will taste, touch and try early American cuisine and preservation techniques.4
Harvest dinner – A 17th century meal made from seasonal ingredients will be served by pilgrim hosts from 1627 Plimoth at Plimouth Plantation at 5:30 p.m. on Sundays Oct. 8 and 29. Entertainment during dinner includes centuries-old psalms and songs. Tickets are $68 for adults and $48 for children. For more information visit plimoth.org.5
Cranberry Harvest – Those who are willing to make a trip to Wareham will see the 14th annual Cranberry Harvest Celebration at 158 Tihonet Road. The festival includes old-fashioned and cranberry-related activities, paddleboat rides, food, music, crafters and more. For more information call 508-322-4000.

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Adam Adams
This is the first letter to be published in a series of two.
From: Debbie
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sent: Fri 24/01/14 4:22 PM
Subject: Elgin OGS - re: Adams Family that lived in Bayham Township.
I have just been sent by my cousins in England two letters written in 1856 and 1857 from Adam Adams who was living on their farm in Bayham, near Vienna, Elgin County, Ontario to his uncle and aunt in England. My cousins have re-written the two letters which were found in an attic at Aldhurst Farm in Capel, Surrey, England.
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sent: Fri 24/01/14 4:22 PM
Subject: Elgin OGS - re: Adams Family that lived in Bayham Township.
I have just been sent by my cousins in England two letters written in 1856 and 1857 from Adam Adams who was living on their farm in Bayham, near Vienna, Elgin County, Ontario to his uncle and aunt in England. My cousins have re-written the two letters which were found in an attic at Aldhurst Farm in Capel, Surrey, England.
I added additional information to identify who the letters were sent to and from on top. Adam Adams was the eldest son of Thomas Adams and his wife Mary (Sayers) Adams were my 3x great grandparents and they had a farmstead in Bayham Township, Elgin County, Ontario. They are both buried in: Straffordville Cemetery, Bayham Township, Elgin County, Ontario.
I thought the historic society would be interested in these letters because it so clearly gives a picture of what life was like in the Canadian north woods.
Please feel share to publish and share these letters with others.
Debby Duluth MN USA
I thought the historic society would be interested in these letters because it so clearly gives a picture of what life was like in the Canadian north woods.
Please feel share to publish and share these letters with others.
Debby Duluth MN USA
Letter 1 - The Canadian Letter:
This letter was written to John and Mary (Sayers) Dale, Aldhurst Farm, Capel, Surrey, England from their nephew Adam Adams, eldest son of Thomas and Sarah Adams.
The Adams family was living on the Adams Farm in Bayham, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada near the village of Vienna, at the time this letter was written.
Vienna Dec 20th 1856
Dear Uncle and Aunt,
You will no doubt wonder to see the letter commencing in this way, but please excuse me for taking the liberty I have. Father and Mother are both busy and as I have a little leisure time I thought I would employ it in this way. We received yours of 17th October and were pleased to learn that you were all doing well. We are thankful to state that we are enjoying health and
have much to be thankful for. We all have our hands full and it is always rather a formidable job to write a letter especially one to Old England for we fancy that a letter going to many thousand miles ought to be a little better than common.
You are aware that we have in our possession a small farm near the village of Vienna. In summer father and my brothers employ themselves, in clearing and tilling the land, I suppose you know nothing or scarcely anything about clearing land the way we clear land in Canada. I believe the axes we use are not like those that are used in the 'old country'. Beech, maple, birch, ash, pine and other kinds of timber flourish on our 'Estate'. The pines are worked up into saw logs and sawed into planks and boards at the mills by which we are surrounded and then the timber is sent off to different parts of the world, no doubt a great deal of it goes to Great Britain.
The part of Canada in which we now reside is noted for its towering pines. The maple trees are commonly left standing on account of the sweet sap that flows them at a certain season.
The beeches, birches and ash are manufactured into cord wood and now as stern winter has set in, in good earnest there is quite a demand for wood at our little market town Vienna. We supply a good many of the citizens with fuel. The highest price now given for wood is 2 dollars or 8 shillings per cord.
Thomas my brother is our 'teamster' and now when the sleighing is excellent he has fine times with his ponies and bells. In this country it is unlawful to drive on the highways without a 'string of bells' as we call them. The sledges slip along so noiselessly over the surface of the snow that there would often be a collision were not something of the kind provided.
As I write, snowflakes are flitting through the air heralds of the storm that is approaching, not a storm to be dreaded as the mariners dread a storm at sea but a storm bringing joy and gladness not only to the schoolboys but to the labourer. I dare say my cousins often talk and read of Canada's cold climate and I suppose English folks look upon Canada as another Lapland. It is very cold here in winter we admit, but when our winter is more severe, when he hides the green fields, covers the ponds and rivulets with a crystal covering and drives away the feathery warblers, there is plenty of 'life, liberty and enjoyment' in our beloved Canada.
Father and Sarah have just returned from a funeral. Sarah informs me that she counted twenty three sleighs in the procession. The Canadian people make it a practise to attend funerals or rather it is very customary among them to attend funerals that may take place in their neighbourhood.
Do not my cousins sometimes talk of visiting America? I suppose Uncle and Aunt never expect to leave the shores of their native land. It was reported that the Queen was about to visit the province but we have since learned that it is not at all likely. My cousins would no doubt enjoy themselves much should they take it upon them to cross the blue waters and spend a few weeks on the shores of the New World. They might write a book on the manners and customs of Americans, on the natural curiosities that would meet them on every hand or of the sleighs and sleighbells if they came in winter and of the heat and rapid vegetation if they chanced to come during the summer months. For my part I often think and talk of crossing the Atlantic.I do not know what would please me more than to visit some of the European countries.
A young man living in Vienna has just returned from a visit to Scotland and England. He was gone but a very short time and travelled over a good part of England and Scotland too.
We could not but admire the proposition that Aunt made about the likenesses – mother is perfectly willing to make the exchange (exchanging photographs), and we have been thinking that while you were about it, if you please, Uncle John's might be taken in the same case. There are now no Daguerreotypists in Vienna, so that mother cannot now have hers taken. It is altogether likely that Daguerreotypes will be taken again in our village as soon as summer returns.
I have not told you that I am at present engaged in teaching at a small school in our neighbourhood – I shall be very anxious to hear from any dear cousins. I shall expect that they will write as soon as convenient and tell me whether they attend school or whether their school days are over, how they occupy their leisure hours, what magazines and papers they take and so on. If you could send us an English newspaper occasionally we should be thankful. The Canadian papers contain a good deal of European news but still we like to have an English periodical now and then.
I dare say that you have read the two works written by Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, namely 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and 'Dred'. They have caused quite an excitement in this country. We have read both of them – our winter evenings are spent reading. Sometimes the History of England which we find very entertaining. We have Taylor's Manual of Ancient History, an interesting work, and various other works together with an abundant supply of newspapers, magazines etc.
I fully expected that Father and Mother would say something this time but Father says that he has not time as we have an opportunity of sending this to the post office this afternoon. He is growing aged but still he works on his little farm and takes a delight in tilling his land and keeping things 'to rights', as he says. Often as we are gathered around our fireside he tells us of English manners and customs, and now as Christmas draws near, old Cornish scenes return to his mind, and he entertains us frequently with a Cornish tale. It was but the other evening that we were reading a piece headed 'Christmas, its ancient customs' and the writer of the article said a good deal about the superstitions of the Cornishmen. In Canada some of the people are rather superstitious but none of them ever believe that the cattle all kneel at twelve o'clock or that the cock crows all night to keep evil spirits away.
Father sometimes dreams that he is 'back in England' without money without employment and without friends. He always fancy's in his dreams that he has been in America once and had plenty to do – then he chides himself bitterly for having been so foolish as to return to the 'Old World' when he owned a farm and was so comfortable in the New, and it is only when he gives vent to his feelings that he awakes and finds it 'nothing but a dream'.
Old age creeps upon mother but she bears the character of being more nimble than most of the young girls in our neighbourhood. She is just as kind as ever and we youngsters often think that no one ever had a better mother than we have.
We often take much pleasure in looking over the Band of Hope Review that you sent Sarah and she deems it the favourite work in her small library. Sarah is now taking a small periodical called the 'Childrens paper' published at Edinburgh, no doubt you have seen it. John, the youngest subscribes for the 'Childs paper' and expects next year to take 'Forresters Boys and Girls magazine' – As for my humble self I am at present taking the National magazine published at New York. It is a very instructive and with me a highly valued publication.
I must now hasten to conclude for John who is our errand boy is waiting to take this to the Post Office. Mother was much pleased to hear from her old friends but was much surprised to hear of the death of William Marsh and others. She was sorry to learn that Robert Marsh was so afflicted but was gratified to know that he was resigned to his affliction.
We all send our love to you and to all our friends. Do beg of my cousins to write as soon as possible for we shall be so 'dreadfully pleased', as the Yankees say to hear from them and soon we shall expect to see the likeness (photograph) of Uncle and Aunt in our humble Canadian cottage. Oh, won't that be a treat. Please do not disappoint us but send it as soon as possible. - Mother has her likeness taken and it is so wonderfully life-like that we would not part with for a great deal. We would send this, for Mother might have another taken but we have concluded to wait till summer and then Father and Mother if spared will have theirs taken together and if nothing happens that shall be sent over the 'Briny Deep'.
I am
Your affectionate nephew,
Adams Adams
Father wishes me to state that for the past year he has been taking the Christian Guardian a weekly published at Toronto. Next year he intends to subscribe for the Montreal Witness.


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1976 Cherokee Chief - Fullsize Fury
Chopped Up Cherokee Crawler
In case you haven't noticed, we at Jp Magazine like fullsize Jeeps (FSJs). It started in early 2002 with Cappa's Panel Hack wagon and then the J2000 Hot Dog in 2005, plus Hazel's Evil Jeep M-715 and Murderous Overkill Willys truck. Then Trasborg brought his M-715 when he came on-board, and several recently purchased J-trucks have graced the pages as well. Despite our efforts to get the word out, FSJs are still one of the best kept secrets in the four-wheeling world. Brad Williams of Spearfish, South Dakota, is hip to the scene though, and turned his '76 Cherokee Chief into a killer off-road machine for minimal money. The strong components were retained, the few weak components were replaced, and the superfluous sheetmetal was removed.
Chassis And Driveline
The stock drivetrain from the big Cherokee was retained, as it is plenty stout from the factory. This includes the torquey AMC 360 V-8, which feeds through a Motorcraft two-barrel carburetor that runs at angles nearly as good as fuel injection. A bulletproof TH475 was a bolt-in replacement for the legendary stock TH400. The transmissions are visually identical, but the TH475 has stronger straight-cut gears for First and Second. The First gear in the transmission was upgraded to 3.08 to somewhat compensate for the 2.46:1 low range of the small, yet strong Dana 20 transfer case.
Further gearing comes from the 7.17s in the swapped-in Dana 60 axles. A front axle was stolen from a 1-ton Chevy pickup. It still uses the stock 30-spline stub outers. It runs a Detroit Locker and MileMarker hubs, while the offset E-250 Ford van rear axle runs the factory Power-Lok limited-slip differential, 30-spline axle shafts, and disc brakes. The axles sit below the factory leaf springs, which are complemented with rear blocks for additional lift. "It may not have a lot of articulation, "Williams confesses, "but it makes for awesome wheelstand photos!"
Steering is done through the factory steering box, a custom heavy-duty drag link, a high-steer arm, and a heavy-duty tie rod. Both the tie rod and drag link feature rod ends. The tires are hand-me-down 39.5-inch Super Swamper TSLs from Williams' friends at Twisted Customs. The tires have been grooved for more flex and are mounted on 16.5x7 chrome spoke wheels which do not have safety beads. This limits the ability to air down, but the price was right so who's complaining? Williams plans to add weld-on beadlock rings to the wheels in the near future. The bias-ply tires have heavy sidewalls that resist punctures and will likely last several more years.
Body And Interior
The most noticeable aspect of the Jeep is the... uh, "tadpoles" plasma cut in to the hood. Williams made the mistake of inviting some friends over to work on his Jeep and when he returned from a pizza run, the "custom cooling holes" were already in place. "Never let your friends work on your Jeep when you aren't around!" Williams advises. The doors and rear hatch were dumped to save weight. The stock dash, seats, and safety belts were all retained. The stock top was cut off behind the B-pillar and a six-point roll cage was added to retain structural integrity and safety. The fullsize spare tire is mounted on top of the cage. This location raises the center of gravity and makes the spare difficult to reach, but placement options were limited after hacking off so much of the body.
One round and one square headlight adorn the front along with a coveted Gladiator rhino grill. All of this sits behind a custom front tube bumper fitted with a Warn 8274 winch. A 4x2 rectangular box tube rear bumper and sliders mounted under the heavily-trimmed rocker panels provide some protection. The rear bumper acts as a crossmember for the shortened frame. The clever tailgate was made by grafting two CJ tailgates together to match the width of the cage after the rear of the Cherokee was chopped off at a Jeepster-like angle and dove-tailed for more body clearance on tight trails. The tadpole theme continues all the way back to the taillights, which were cut after the rear of the vehicle was removed. A trick fuel filler routes gasoline to the stock gas tank.
Good, Bad, And What's It For
This Cherokee is perfect for running the numerous rockcrawling trails found in the Black Hills of South Dakota. These trails are notoriously narrow and lined with trees and huge rocks, so why bother trying to save the body? As hard as these trails are though, we think that it would provide peace of mind for Williams to add a full locker and 35-spline axle shafts to the rear Dana 60, along with some beadlocks to allow for lower tire pressures and more traction.
Hard Facts
Vehicle: '76 Cherokee ChiefEngine: AMC 360 V-8Transmission: GM TH475Transfer Case: Dana 20Suspension: Spring-over with stock leaf springsAxles: GM Dana 60 (front), Ford E-250 van Dana 60 (rear)Wheels: 16.5x7 chrome spokesTires: 15/39.5-16.5LT Super Swamper TSLsBuilt For: Grinding through the Black HillsEstimated Cost: $4,500
Why I Featured It
While M-715s are gaining popularity, the rest of the FSJ world continues to be seemingly overlooked. Williams' Cherokee Chief should help change that. I appreciate that it works on the trail and was built with a real-world budget. Add the "unique" body work and you have a vehicle that stands out from the sea of Wranglers I normally see on the trail.- Harry Wagner


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NAHETS director of curriculum development, Chris Cannon said, "We have been working on this field training program for several years. Matt Klabacka, executive director for NAHETS, Marty Guy, chief heavy equipment instructor, and Jeff Belknap, training director at the Nevada School of Construction, recognized the need for a more organized, task-oriented field training system to supplement the NCCER curriculum in our schools. This program covers everything from safety, blueprints, and grade work, all the way through each piece of heavy equipment we teach at the schools including: skid steer loaders, tractors, backhoes, dump trucks, water trucks, compactors, loaders, forklifts, bulldozers, scrapers, excavators, and motor graders."
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New book recounts church gardening as peacemaking ministry
BREVARD, N.C. (RNS) Fred Bahnson's first bit of advice when he started planning a church garden eight years ago came from an elderly tobacco farmer who grabbed a handful of soil, rolled it around in his fingers and shook his head:
"You don wohn fahm heah," he said in his deep North Carolina drawl.
Those were not the only discouraging words he received as he planted and cultivated one of the earliest and most successful church gardens, 20 miles north of Chapel Hill.
But Bahnson, a Duke Divinity School graduate and a pioneer in the church gardening movement, had a different view of farming than the older tobacco farmer. He knew that if he gave back to the soil more than he took out -- in the form of compost, manure and other soil food -- he could create an abundant garden.
It was a different way of farming, born of a reverence for the Earth and a deep theological commitment to wholeness, community and peacemaking.
Bahnson's new book, "Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith," recounts some of the struggles at Anathoth Community Garden, and fleshes out portraits of four other faith communities -- places where growing food has produced what he calls "a physical manifestation of God's presence."
Such communities are "not just about healthy eating," said Bahnson, 39, who now lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. "It's not about digging in the dirt. It's about rethinking the way we live."
In 2005 when Bahnson was appointed director of Anathoth, he knew of no other church ministry like it in the state. In less than a decade, the ministry has exploded. North Carolina's Forsyth County -- home to Wake Forest University's School of Divinity, where Bahnson directs the Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative -- has an estimated 100 community gardens, more than half of them church-related.
"I can't keep track of all the faith communities that are doing this," said Norman Wirzba, professor of theology and ecology at Duke Divinity School. "It's taken off in all kinds of ways."
The movement's leaders say gardens create opportunities for people to live out their faith in a more authentic way. Most gardens allow anyone willing to contribute time and labor to be a partner, regardless of whether they belong to a congregation. Digging in the dirt brings together people of different means and backgrounds and allows for connections, not only with the land, but also with each other.
And while some gardens donate the food they grow to pantries or soup kitchens, most seek out needy people to work alongside them.
Susan Sides, executive director of The Lord's Acre, a community garden southeast of Asheville, N.C., that's featured in Bahnson's book, put it simply: "We do peacemaking and community building. The food is simply a vehicle."
But while peacemaking is the goal of community gardens, it is not always the reality.
Bahnson said he did not want to romanticize the church garden movement, and his book depicts the struggles he encountered.
Some of the older members of Cedar Grove United Methodist Church, which hosted Anathoth, saw the garden as the work of outsiders and wanted nothing to do with it. Even after the garden began yielding bountiful crops and the ministry attracted private grants that allowed it to expand, a few wondered why the church couldn't use the money to buy food for the poor instead of growing it.
Four years later, exhausted and frustrated, Bahnson quit.
"I was so consumed with the vision, I was working way too much," he said. "The garden was all I thought about. I was not giving enough attention to my wife and kids or to my own need to rest."
A two-year Kellogg Food and Community fellowship allowed him to visit other gardens and write about his experiences. In his book, he focuses on four, including a Trappist monastery in South Carolina that grows mushrooms; a Pentecostal farm and coffee-roasting operation in Washington state; and a Jewish organic farm in the Berkshires. He devotes a chapter to each, interspersed with his own personal spiritual quest.
Bahnson and his wife, Elizabeth, now live in this scenic town 30 miles south of Asheville, where they built a house and planted an orchard. Under a sloping forest canopy, they grow core crops, such as broccoli, kale, corn, beans and squash, as well as hardy kiwi, jostaberries, pawpaw, sea berries, blackberries, figs and peaches.
"One reason I'm so interested in food, gardening and agriculture is that it's a way we can be co-creators with God," Bahnson said. "We're not mere receptacles for God's agency. We're agents ourselves."
The son of a doctor who spent three years on the mission field in Nigeria, Bahnson grew up in a traditional evangelical home. In divinity school he was introduced to Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer, writer and poet.
After graduating, he traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, where he attached himself to Christian Peacemaker Teams, an organization that trains volunteers for nonviolent activism in hotspots across the world.
It was there he fell in love with the agrarian lives of the Mayan coffee farmers and decided he wanted to spend his life farming and feeding.
"The Christianity I grew up with was about a personal relationship with Jesus," he said. "Our care for the Earth never seemed to enter the conversation."
Bahnson apprenticed on several farms and eventually found his calling at Anathoth, which was birthed out of an effort to heal the community's wounds after the murder of a beloved owner of a bait and tackle shop.
From the start, the garden attracted more attention from the outside than from the church itself. Slowly, a steady stream of workers came to till, plant, weed, irrigate and harvest. Bahnson started weekly potlucks and installed an outdoor wood-fired oven. Then he and other gardeners started holding Communion services out among garden beds.
The site also became a mecca of sorts for other congregations and community leaders; each month, five to 10 people showed up to tour the garden and take notes. Soon a yearly conference at Anthoth drew 150 church leaders.
"It was clear God's hand was in it from the beginning," said Bahnson. "It was far bigger than any one of us."
The garden was also able to live up to its calling as a force for peace. Bahnson and others regularly packed boxes of broccoli and kale and took them to people in need. He taught a group of disabled people in a local group home how to plant seedlings and arranged for them to work in the garden on a weekly basis. The garden also attracted a good share of the town's newest neighbors, Hispanic immigrants.
Now, he believes, he has found a new calling, teaching faith leaders about the intersection of faith and food. And he's doing it through stories.
"We need to see viable alternatives lived out before we change our behavior," he said. "Stories enlarge our imagination. They open us up to the world."


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SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man who is accused of stealing the identity of a physician's assistant and using it to illegally perform medical procedures and sexually assault several victims was ordered to stand trial Friday.
Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, was arrested in December 2011 and faces multiple felony counts including rape, sexual battery, assault, practicing medicine without a license, false impersonation and grand theft.
He allegedly stole the identity of Carlos Guzman, a Fresno physician's assistant, and operated Derma Clinic, a clinic in the city's Mission District where he performed various procedures on nine women, including liposuction, facelifts and lip and buttock augmentations, according to prosecutors.
In a preliminary hearing completed Friday, one victim testified that Guzmangarza was smoking during a buttock augmentation that she had paid $5,000 for. She said he sexually assaulted her after injecting her with various substances.
In another incident, prosecutors have said Guzmangarza performed liposuction on a woman, then later came to her house and flushed pounds of her fat down the toilet. The women's abdomen became infected and required additional treatment.
Guzmangarza was ordered to stand trial following a lengthy preliminary hearing, according to Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. He was ordered to return to court for formal arraignment on Jan. 4, 2013.
Guzmangarza remains in custody on $1 million bail and could face more than 30 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
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A Christian school in Southern California has recently filed its own lawsuit against two of its former teachers who had sued the school for being fired after refusing to provide proof of their Christian faith.
The Little Oaks School in Thousand Oaks filed a lawsuit in federal court last Wednesday, claiming its right to hire teachers who subscribe to the school's Christian belief, arguing that its hiring practice is protected by civil rights laws at both the state and federal levels.
The teachers, Lynda Serrano and Mary Ellen Guevara, however, claim they are protected from religious discrimination being exercised by the school under California's Fair Employment and Housing Act that applies to for-profit religious groups. The school is recognized as a for-profit entity owned by Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks.
The teachers were fired in 2012 from the Little Oaks School in Thousand Oaks when they refused to provide the school with a statement of faith and a reference from a pastor. The teachers then threatened a lawsuit alleging religious discrimination and asked for $150,000 each as settlement.
School officials insist that they are a Christian school noting that their for-profit status is a mere technicality that only exists because they did not have the time to file the necessary non-profit paperwork when they purchased the formerly non-religious school in 2009.
"We're a Christian school," the Rev. Rob McCoy, pastor of Calvary Chapel and headmaster of the school, told the County Star last week. "We were coming to the point where we were establishing a Christian curriculum. We wanted to make sure our teachers subscribed to that faith."
An Nbcnews.COM report noted that when the church bought the school in 2009, it began requiring employees to complete questionnaires that asked about their church attendance and what their pastor had to say about their beliefs.
By this action said the teachers' attorney, Dawn Coulson, "We do believe their personal rights were violated."
Rick Kahdeman, the school's attorney, however, said his client was simply exercising its constitutional right to freedom of religion. "The teachers chose not to [fill out the paperwork], and they knew it was a condition of employment," he told NBC.
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Phynea Maher is a 'malpa' (a Pintubi word for friend or helper) at the Western Desert Dialysis Service in Alice Springs.
A Western Arrendte woman with a strong Christian faith, Phynea has supported hundreds of Indigenous renal patients over the last decade, most of whom have relocated from remote communities.
Phynea helps clients with everyday tasks like banking and shopping - but she also acts as an advocate for patients when it comes to making difficult decisions around their care.
Her work is emotionally taxing but vital in what is an ongoing and steadily increasing health care crisis throughout the region.
"I really love doing my job because I love helping my own people," she says.
"I just seem to find with my language skills, with my family connections...I'm able to fit in like a jigsaw puzzle here,"
"I've met so many different people from so many different communities and to have [those relationships] is something that I keep very close in my heart...you walk away and you think what a wonderful job - what a wonderful thing to do."
There are over 200 renal patients currently receiving treatment in Alice Springs - some who have relocated from as far away as Western Australia.
Western Desert Dialysis (also known as the Purple House) advocates for treatment 'on country' - arguing that there are better health and economic outcomes for this model of treatment.
But while there are some communities with permanent dialysis chairs (including Kintore, Yuendumu and Ntaria), the majority of Indigenous renal patients will have to move to a major centre permanently if they want to stay alive.
Compounding the trauma of being separated from family and country is the added challenge of communication difficulties and a massive shortage in accomodation.
For Phynea, lesssening the stress of her clients is immensely rewarding.
"To wake up every day and come to the Purple House and do what I do - it's the best feeling that you could ever have," she says.
"Whether it's a simple thing of just taking them to a bank, taking them shopping, taking them for a little drive around town...just knowing that you've worked with a patient that really appreciates what you do - I think that's what keeps me ticking."
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New figures have revealed that one in five older people in Northern Ireland claim to have suffered some sort of financial abuse.
The research has shed light on the plight of pensioners across the Province who have fallen prey to thieves and fraudsters.
The findings, revealed by Northern Ireland's Commissioner for Older People, suggest 21% of people aged 60 and over (more than 75,000 people) have been affected.
The commissioner Eddie Lynch said the research is "the very first time" someone has tried to capture the scale of the problem in Northern Ireland.
Some victims claim they have been tricked into buying or selling items, while others say they have had unexplained incidents when money or possessions had disappeared.
As part of the study, 1,025 people were interviewed to produce a statistically-representative sample of older people across Northern Ireland by age, gender, and region.
Key findings show that:
• 7% of older people have experienced problems relating to money or possessions, including cash disappearing, demands for bills that had already been paid, or people continually asking about money, making them feel uncomfortable.
• 6% reported issues when it came to buying or selling goods, with some feeling tricked or pressured into buying something they later regretted. Others believed they had been tricked or pressured into selling a valuable possession for less than it was worth, while some felt a care-giver had overcharged them for their services.
• 4% said they had experienced problems in relation to charitable giving, such as being scammed into giving money to a bogus charity. Others felt they had been persuaded to contribute beyond their means to charities.
• 3% of respondents said they had experienced coercion to sign documents and/or fraudulent use of their signature.
• 1% stated that family or friends had used pressure, intimidation of punishment to try and get their money.
The findings – set to be announced today at the Action on Elder Abuse Northern Ireland conference in Antrim – suggest that incidences of financial abuse are highest in Ards and North Down (32%) and lowest in Causeway Coast and Glens (9%).
Belfast, at 21%, reflected the average for Northern Ireland as a whole.
NI's Commissioner for Older People, Eddie Lynch said he was "shocked and saddened" by the numbers involved.
"I have seen the devastating impact that financial abuse can have on older people," he added.
"Aside from the financial loss itself, this crime affects the emotional wellbeing of older people, bringing with it feelings of betrayal, embarrassment and fear. Over the next four years of my term I am committed to further examining this issue."
Action on Elder Abuse Northern Ireland director Veronica Gray urged people to report financial abuse whenever they suspected it, adding: "Financial abuse can ruin an older person's life.
"As well as depriving them of money or treasured possessions, it can leave people with feelings of shame, guilt or betrayal – especially if the crime is committed by a family member, as is often the case."
Action on Elder Abuse operates a confidential helpline (080 8808 8141), offering advice and support on all aspects of elder abuse.


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The House committee investigating Attorney General John Swallow will include a former Utah State Bar president, a cop and House leaders from both parties.
House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, appointed the nine-member panel Wednesday, launching the unprecedented investigation that ultimately could pave the way for impeachment of the state's top cop.
Rep. V. Lowry Snow, a Republican from St. George in just his second year in the GOP-dominated House, will head the committee. Snow, an attorney and former president of the Utah State Bar, will exercise considerable authority over the issuance of subpoenas and the granting of immunity to potential witnesses.
"Representative Snow is a very competent and respected member of the body, albeit fairly new," Lockhart said. "I think you'd find universal admiration of his skill and demeanor. … I have great confidence in his ability."
The committee will have five Republicans and four Democrats, although Lockhart said she doesn't anticipate partisan loyalties will be a major factor in the inquiry.
In addition to Snow, Republican Reps. Jim Dunnigan of Taylorsville, Mike McKell of Spanish Fork, Lee Perry of Perry, and House Majority Leader Brad Dee of Ogden will be on the panel. McKell is an attorney; Perry is a Utah Highway Patrol trooper.
The Democrats on the panel will be House Minority Leader Jennifer Seelig and Rebecca Chavez-Houck, both of Salt Lake City, along with Susan Duckworth of Magna and Lynn Hemingway of Holladay.
Snow said he suspected he might be tapped for the committee but "was taken aback" when Lockhart asked him to lead it.
"I appreciate her confidence," he said in an interview Wednesday night.
Snow hopes to have the committee's first meeting within 10 days. He said it is too soon to tell how frequently the panel will meet or how long the investigation will take.
"I really am committed to making certain that it is a fact-finding and that we don't begin the process with any predetermined result," Snow said. "At the end of the day, I see our work as the submission of our report … and if, at that point, the position of the body is that those findings exonerate [Swallow], then I'm entirely fine with that."
Democrats had sought an eight-member panel with four from each party so there would not be a public perception that partisan politics might play a role in the outcome. Seelig said she believes the 5-4 split can still accomplish that.
"We are moving in the same direction related to the restoration of the public trust," she said.
Swallow, who is a Republican, is under investigation by federal, state and county officers. He faces a range of allegations, including accusations that he helped broker a bribe to a U.S. senator and received improper gifts.
In addition to unveiling the members of the committee, the Legislature met in special session Wednesday, passing a series of bills, giving subpoena authority and other powers to the special House committee.
The measures also empower the panel to meet behind closed doors to get legal advice, hold strategy meetings and to interview witnesses if public testimony might impede a criminal probe.
Dee said the changes to the law were necessary to ensure the House could investigate the claims effectively and stressed that when "a man's character, his livelihood and his life" are at stake, it is imperative lawmakers have all the information possible.
The House committee is expected to spend several months and potentially as much as $3 million investigating a string of alleged misconduct involving Swallow.
Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, has steadfastly resisted launching a House investigation without clear limits on its scope and a defined standard for removing Swallow from office.
He said the House is subjecting the attorney general to "the full weight of the government investigating something when we haven't defined its scope."
"No one is arguing for doing nothing," Ivory said, "but to define the standard and do it right, where accuracy is more important than speed, I think is prudent."
The House met July 3 to create the investigative panel, but a special session was necessary to ensure that the probe had the power to issue subpoenas and have witnesses testify under oath.
The House passed the changes with just a few dissenting votes. There was almost no debate or dissent in the Senate, either. Both bills go to the governor for his signature.
The House is already seeking to hire legal counsel to assist in the investigation and is also expected to tap an investigative firm. Two bills passed Wednesday would grant a license for out-of-state lawyers and investigators to work in Utah.
Swallow's lawyers, in a letter to lawmakers this week, protested the formation of the committee, arguing the Legislature is overstepping its constitutional bounds by not limiting its investigation to events since Swallow took office in January.
They suggested that the House abandon the probe. They also requested the ability to subpoena their own witnesses and to participate in witness interviews.
The head of the House wasn't swayed.
"I absolutely unequivocally disagree" that the committee is exceeding its constitutional authority, said Lockhart, who also rejected the idea that Swallow should be able to subpoena witnesses or take part in interviews. She compared the House probe to a congressional investigation in which targets are not given the same latitude.
"This is a legislative investigation," she said, "and we will conduct it as such."
The Utah Democratic Party said by giving Republicans a 5-4 edge on the committee, Lockhart had disregarded the precedent set by the evenly split legislative ethics panel, created to ensure its probes are not controlled by one party.
"[Republicans] had a choice between honesty and control, between fairness and brute power, and between restoring lost faith and partisan tactics," said state Democratic Chairman Jim Dabakis, who also is a state senator. "Unfortunately for the people of Utah, Utah GOP House leadership chose control, power and partisanship."
Swallow, who denies wrongdoing, has pledged to cooperate with the House committee, though he has expressed fears that the inquiry "could get crazy."
House leaders have said they desire to keep the panel's work as open to the public as possible. The Alliance for a Better Utah, for one, is hoping for the same.
"At the end of the day, John Swallow is a public figure, and his actions while working for the state should be scrutinized in public view," the left-leaning group said in a statement before Wednesday's special session. "In the event that changes to open-records laws are deemed to be necessary, we encourage caution. ... Above all, the Legislature should avoid any amendments that could inadvertently narrow current open-records law, thereby further exacerbating the public's loss of trust in government and government officials."
Lee Davidson contributed to this story.
Other action
The Utah Legislature agreed to pay $3 million to the owners of the Deep Creek Ranch to resolve a 16-year-old dispute over the State Armory Board's purchase of 800 acres in Tooele County.
The Armory sought to exchange credits for surplus state and federal property for the land, but the federal government said it could not legally enter into such an agreement. The error resulted in 14 years of litigation as Deep Creek sought to resolve the issue.
The $3 million reflects some attorney fees, interest and a multiplier that includes any profit Deep Creek could have received for selling the surplus property. The money will come from the state's rainy-day funds.


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"Beats excel in any area of headphone performance that doesn't involve sound" Funny quote by Gavin, can't blame him for going after that huge market. Ordered my Geek in green at $139, hopefully it will work well with JRiver software and sound at least as good as the revised Dragonfly.
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Light Harmonic again made waves at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, when it introduced the even more ambitious Da Vinci Dual DAC ($31,000), capable of handling both 32-bit/384kHz PCM and DSD128 files. To any spectator, it appeared that this young company was quickly carving out a niche for itself alongside high-end audio's most exclusive brands. So it came as a surprise when, last August, Light Harmonic turned to Kickstarter to fund the final production and packaging of a cute little gadget called the Geek Out, a portable USB DACheadphone amp ($299).
Equally surprising was the project's success. The Geek Out reached its funding goal of $28,000 in less than 11 hours, and by the end of its 30-day campaign, Light Harmonic had raised $303,061 from 2146 backersa little more than $141 per backer, none of whom had ever heard the product. On the face of it, this is encouraging news for an audio industry in dire need of a boostit's hard to ignore such stirring statisticsbut when considered more deeply, Light Harmonic's Kickstarter campaign raises almost as many questions as it did dollars.
Why did a company known for its cost-no-object DACs want to release an affordable product? Gavin Fish, Light Harmonic's VP of sales and marketing, explained: "One of my frustrations for the past several years has been that, at each audio show I attend, I see the same peopleonly older and older each time. It's becoming a clichÇ, but we need new blood. My shared vision with Larry Ho [Light Harmonic's founder and president] is to bring more people into the fold by introducing high-resolution music to more mainstream music lovers.
"For me, it's important that people not recognize us for 'cost-no-object' [products]. Instead, I want them to recognize our products as among the very best in their market segment. That's what I think we've achieved with Da Vinci. I want Geek Out to be no different: the best DAC/headphone amp in its class."
Kickstarter may be an excellent opportunity for any startup anxious to release its first product; as a venue for a best product, however, Kickstarter seems somewhat less appropriate. Shouldn't a company capable of successfully manufacturing and distributing a $30,000 DAC be able to launch and promote one that costs 100 times less?
"Kickstarter is a great place for startups," Fish agreed. "It's also a great place for companies like ours. With crowdfunding, we're able to test the market for a new idea in a much more precise way than we could in the past."
Light Harmonic isn't the first well-established brand to take advantage of Kickstarter. In March 2013, Double Fine Productions, a respected gaming developer, raised $3.3 million on the sitenot only to finance its next game, but to "develop it in the public eye." Last August, the 18-year-old Lomography camera company used Kickstarter to fund the production of its Petzval lens, gaining $1,396,149 from 3379 backers. Celebrity filmmakers, musicians, actors, and producers are also turning to Kickstarter. Perhaps, for Light Harmonic and others, financial backing is beside the point.
"If people take to your product," Fish continued, "they'll tell you how much they like it by giving you their hard-earned money. That's powerful feedback, and it gives us the confidence to get the manufacturing process moving. Prior to the Kickstarter campaign, Larry and I decided that we'd put in an order for 500 of Geek Out's enclosures. Now that we've sold well over a thousand of them, we're confident enough to increase the initial order to 10,000."
So, Light Harmonic could have successfully launched the Geek Out without Kickstarter?
"Yes," said Fish, "but the launch would have been very difficult and costly. Now, instead of traveling all over the world, knocking on doors looking for dealers to take on a new product they've never heard of, we have major retailers calling us to negotiate large purchases."
Others, apparently, have been less kind. In a blog post titled "Moribund Industry, Geek Out is Your Savior," Gavin Fish discussed some of the backlash his company had received for its use of the Kickstarter platform. "I got a call from a guy on a rant who asked, 'What's the matter with you guys? Are you so hard up for money that you have to go on the Internet and beg?'"
Fish told me that similar reactions had been posted "all over the industry forums," but that "the typical non-audiophile backer of our campaign is just happy to be getting a cool device that they hope will make their music, movies, and games sound better."
It's interesting, and perhaps indicative of today's consumer-electronics market, that these non-audiophile backers must merely hope the product fulfills its promise. Typically, in the high-end audio world, consumers are taught to trust their own ears and, if at all possible, to listen before they buy. But as traditional high-end audio dealers have become frustratingly scarce, the opportunities to actually hear a promising new component are few and inevitably compromised. In this regard, Kickstarter fails high-end audio. Backers of the Geek Out committed to buying a product they hadn't yet heard, a product that is still in development. I asked Gavin Fish how he felt about that.
"The consumers we are targeting for Geek Out are asked to buy before they try all the time. Think of how many Amazon customers there are! We just have to be willing, as a company, to expect that some customers won't like Geek Out, and we have to be okay with that."
So who were the Geek Out's 2146 backers? Considering the language Light Harmonic employed in its campaign, it might seem that the Geek Out was designed specifically for the non-audiophile. The company referred to the product as a "new USB awesomifier for headphones," complete with "3D awesomifier" technology (ie, proprietary digital-signal processing), "shareulator" technology (two outputs), and a 6" USB extension cable called the Slacker. Such languagepossibly compelling to some, surely condescending to othersreaches for an audience beyond high-end audio's walled enclosure.
Still, I suspected the Geek Out's backer list to read a lot like the list of Stereophile subscribers. Who but an audiophile would care enough about this product, from this company, to drop $140 on it, sound unheard? During the 2013 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, my suspicions were bolstered by conversations I had with attendees who'd backed the Geek Out because they were "interested in the brand." Few audiophiles can afford to take a risk on a $20,000 product, but I'd bet many would be willing to spend $140 to get close.
Kickstarter allows you to see a complete list of any project's backers, so I took a look at the Geek Out's. To my surprise, I recognized only a couple dozen names. Of those, two or three I know will buy anything, just to be among the first to say so; another two or three are collectors of gadgets who will place their Geek Outs on a shelf or in a drawer, beside a dozen other things left unused and almost forgotten; a few others bought a Geek Out to take it apart and examine its insides. But most of the backers were unknown to me, and the great majority of those backers had also supported other Kickstarter projects. Several had supported dozens of Kickstarter projects, some had supported hundreds, and oneEric Damon Walters, a clinical laboratory technologist at the Mayo Clinic, according to his LinkedIn profilehad supported 2381 Kickstarter projects.
It seems there is indeed a community of enthusiastic Kickstarter followers, and, for the most part, it's not made up of audiophiles. Of those few Geek Out supporters I recognized, most were first-time Kickstarter backers.
Through crowdfunding, Light Harmonic has managed to reach an audience outside of the typical audiophile community, but have they done it according to Kickstarter's rules? One of the site's few guidelines states that companies cannot present their projects as preorders for finished products. Yet, in the Geek Out's Kickstarter campaign, certain categories of backer were to receive a final-production version of the product. For instance, with a pledge of $99 or more, the first 100 backers will receive a Geek Out for $99; with a pledge of $119 or more, the second group of 100 backers will receive a Geek Out for $119; with a pledge of $139 or more, the next group of 200 backers will receive a Geek Out for $139; and so on. How is this graduated-pricing model different from a presale?
"I think the difference is that backers on Kickstarter almost become investors," Fish said. "Not investors in a company, but investors in an idea. That might be splitting hairs a bit, but the whole crowdfunding movement is successful partly because backers become emotionally invested in the success of others.
"The reason we decided to use a graduated-pricing model was to find out the price the market was willing to pay for Geek Out. We had previously set the MSRP at $299. We were hoping like crazy that the market would think that was a fair price. Thanks to the feedback of our backers, and the patterns in which they funded the campaign, we're now convinced our pricing model is correct. We're relieved, too."
But other portable USB DACheadphone amps have already successfully penetrated the marketAudioQuest's DragonFly ($249) and Meridian's Explorer ($299) are obvious examplesand several more were introduced at RMAF. None had needed the aid of crowdfunding. Could it be that Light Harmonic's Kickstarter campaign was less interested in establishing a fair market price for the Geek Out than in determining whether the market could sustain another USB DACheadphone amp?
If nothing else, this much is clear: As a product category, there's enormous mainstream potential for the USB DACheadphone amp.
"Geek Out is targeted to mainstream music lovers who spend up to $500 on a set of headphones," Fish told me. There are a lot of them out there. Most are buying Beats, and, as we know, Beats excel in any area of headphone performance that doesn't involve sound. They fairly beg to be matched with a good USB DACheadphone amp. Further, most people who spend over $100 on a set of headphones are buying more than just one. Will the USB DACheadphone amp become as fashionable as today's headphone?
>"Beats excel in any area of headphone performance that doesn't involve sound"
Those are my words, not Gavin Fish's. I've made the point before, in my April 2013 review of the Beats Solo HD and elsewhere.
looking forward to a complete test report.
I published a review (Amazon etc.) on the Mixr showing it to have a near audiophile quality sound when bass reduction EQ is used. The older Beats headphones on display at the Apple store I wasn't able to rescue like that due mainly to having a thick, somewhat muffled sound. But some of the newer Beats may be at least EQ-able such as the Executive - not determined yet. However in my case I'm not inclined to spend $300 to $400 on a headphone that I know in advance is going to require a significant EQ to play with a more-or-less hi-fi sound. Probably near the edge of acceptability for me is the B&W P7, which has a loose somewhat boomy bass that also thickens up the midrange, but I've found that I can adjust to the sound and enjoy the music OK with the P7.
I probably wouldn't have purchased the Mixr except that I had a few tips urging me to try it. The price at the time was $250 and it didn't bother me much that I had to adjust the bass, but in the end the Mixr earpads and comfort level weren't good, and it didn't break in and get more comfortable after 50-100 hours either, so I wouldn't recommend it unless someone needed to be wearing that logo.
I'm still wondering if there's a precedent for Beats in the audio industry - a fashion or boutique component (major component) with a relatively high price against its nearest competition, yet a well known low performance.
I'm not aware of a turntable, pickup, speakers, amplifier, CD player, or other such item that became a fashion accessory outside of hi-fi, yet became a topic of much discussion within hi-fi.
If my speculation that this is a new and unique situation, then can anyone be sure it's good for the hi-fi business - raising awareness and all?
I recall the Bose 901 as being a fashionable thing to own for people with money, while not particularly well regarded outside of say, Stereo Review. It's unique design for being top of the line without being huge, and Bose's legendary (to this day) marketing acumen did a lot for "fancy speakers" in the public eye.
The first thing that got my attention regarding the 901 was the Bert Whyte review in Audio: "To hear a thunderous low 'C' organ pedal or the clean weighty impact of a bass drum...."
Now that kind of clean and extremely deep bass was very expensive in 1968, the original large Advent loudspeakers not having arrived yet. Then, if the showroom was set up properly for the 901 (rarely), the wall of sound and enormous soundstage it generated made it a no-brainer for most people who could afford it, even if it were used just to impress the family and friends.
You can find J, Gordon Holt's review of the Bose 901 at www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/425/index.html.
John Atkinson
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Since there are already high quality examples of this exact product at that exact price point we know these kickstarter donors for the headphone/dac simply don't know what already exists or are swept up in a virtual Davy Crockett Hat fever.
So as far as the audio industry as a whole all this does is provide some small degree of public relations. It more helps this one company develop their one product in this category.