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Merrelyn Emery ((Merrelyn Emery is currently Adjunct Professor at the Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Australia. She has a PhD in Marketing and has written and co-written extensively (particularly with Fred Emery) many books and journal articles in areas such as participative democracy, change processes, open systems theory, sustainable futures, organizational culture and education.)) draws on an international body of theory and practice to support her case for the democratization of work. In discussing how this can be achieved, she looks at the surprisingly simple world of organizational design principles, and argues for an employee-centered redesign process. Worker participation needs to be supported by binding enterprise bargaining agreements (EBAs). By extension, in transition and in day-to-day practice, workplace democracy needs healthy, independent unions.
A famous series of social experiments was carried out in the United States from 1938 to 1940, to learn about autocracy and democracy. The participants were boys organized into clubs, each with leaders adopting different leadership styles. The researchers soon decided to include a third "social climate"; alongside autocracy and democracy, they studied laissez-faire (which, they believed, arose from a misunderstanding of democracy). ((Discovering "laissez faire".
(This explanation is based on Merrelyn Emery's own words.) . Included here as highly relevant to a critique of production relations under neoliberalism):
During the experiment an inexperienced leader, Ralph White, became baffled by the anarchy created by two boys who were "real hell raisers." He let all the boys "do their own thing," which resulted in some very negative effects. His understanding then was that democracy could mean total individual freedom. His approach with this group allowed the distinction between democracy and laissez-faire to be made. Many people practice laissez-faire thinking that they are being democratic, just because they are not controlling autocratically. Unfortunately, this confusion of democracy and laissez-faire is still with us.
They became dissatisfied with the chaos, confusion, and uncertainty. Even the boys who tried hardest to use their freedom to get work done found it impossible, as they experienced constant interference from other boys… The democratic leaders stimulated eight times as much independence as the authoritarian leaders and twice as much as the laissez-faire leaders (Lippitt & White, 1947). Democracy, not laissez-faire, resulted in the greatest individual differences. Although fewer expressions of individuality in autocracy should surprise no one, many will be surprised by the fact that there was less individuality in laissez-faire (Lippitt & White, 1947). Contrary to what many believe, freedom to do whatever one pleases actually results in a reduced opportunity to express individuality. Autonomy without a balancing degree of belongingness with peers restricts and inhibits personal growth (M. Emery, 1999).))
In short, the study revealed stark differences between the three modes. In autocracy, the centrepiece and focus of the work was the leader. In democracy, it was the group. In laissez-faire, there was none.
The autocratic leader made rules, dictated activities, and praised and criticized personally. The democratic leader discussed rules and encouraged group decision-making about goals, with technical help if required. The democratic leader was fact-oriented in praise and blame, and was a group member in spirit. There were no rules in laissez-faire; the leader supplied materials and gave information only if asked, did not participate in the group work, did not praise or blame, and did not attempt to regulate work.
The three structures resulted in very different behaviours. The autocracy group showed two major clusters of behaviour: submissive and aggressive. In the submissive groups, individual boys became dependent on the leader with virtually no capacity to initiate group action. In the aggressive groups, the boys felt frustration directed at the leader, and tended towards rebellion.
Aggression in autocracy and laissez-faire was directed toward other groups and individuals, as well as the leader. The group experienced inter-personal tension and scapegoating. The boys were dependent on the leader for task-oriented matters and social status. As a result, competition developed between them.
In the laissez-faire and democracy models, the boys sought more attention and approval from each other. However, only the democratic groups showed evidence of a stable co-operative structure.
Morale—in the sense of cohesion (using we not I), working together for group goals and being friendly rather than hostile—was highest in the democratic groups. It was lowest in the autocratic groups. In the latter, submissive groups suffered the lowest morale. In both autocracy and laissez-faire, the boys experienced a great deal of frustration related to their needs for autonomy and sociability.
Frustrations in laissez-faire groups were also high. The boys wanted to accomplish things, but lacking a structure for cooperation, they were all talk and no action.
The amount of productive work varied significantly between the autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire conditions. When the leaders arrived late in the authoritarian groups, for instance, the boys made no initiative to start new work or continue work already under way. In the democratic condition, the groups were already productive. In laissez-faire the groups were active but not productive.
When the leader left the room in the groups showing a submissive reaction, the percentage of time spent in serious work dropped from 74% to 29%. In the groups showing an aggressive reaction, the drop was from 52% to 16%. The motivation to work was leader-induced, not intrinsic to the boys. In contrast, the democratic group remained stable, with a negligible drop from 50% to 46%.
The democratic groups had by far the highest quality of work and made far more suggestions about how work could be done. They had internalized the group goals. Pride in work also differed significantly. The democratic groups presented their work or took it home, whereas in one authoritarian group, the boys actually tried to destroy what they had made.
Overall, the democratic form showed its superiority on every measure.
This result has been replicated many times over in just about every form of human endeavour. But how far can this study be related to the workplace? The connection comes through a major discovery made by Australian Professor Fred Emery, who worked with the Norwegian Industrial Democracy Programme from 1962 to 1967.
By 1960 Norway had still not fully recovered from the devastation of World War II and needed revitalization. The Norwegian government decided to engage in a national experiment and asked Emery and Einar Thorsrud to redesign four nationally-significant industrial sites into "sociotechnical," or participative democratic, systems. The experiments were successful, with increased productivity, lowered costs and higher quality work for the workers across all sites.
During this work, Emery discovered that there were only two Design Principles (known as DP1 and DP2) underlying all forms of organization. These corresponded to autocracy and democracy, respectively. The language was updated, as what were previously known as climates were shown to be structures. Furthermore, laissez-faire was shown to be the absence of a design principle because there are no structural relationships between the people.
According to Emery, every organization, whether it is a family, a government, voluntary group or a workplace, is governed by one of these design principles. In workplaces that legally employ people, the relationships between employees (whether they are board members, management or workers) is either autocratic (DP1) or democratic (DP2). Normally, the design principle is encoded in a collective bargaining agreement, an individual contract, a duty statement, or in job criteria.
Emery called these two design principles "genotypical", because:
"…like DNA, they determine the most fundamental aspects of organizational shape and characteristics."
The basic modules of structure that flow from each of these principles is shown below:
DP1 is called 'redundancy of parts' because there are more parts (ie people) than are required to perform a task at any given time. In DP1, responsibility for coordination and control is located at least one level above where the work is being done. That is, those above have the right and responsibility to tell those below what to do and how to do it. DP1 yields a supervisory or dominant hierarchy. Individuals have fragmented tasks and goals: one person–one job.
DP2 is called 'redundancy of functions' because more skills and functions are built into every person than that person can use at any one given point in time. In DP2, responsibility for coordination and control is located with the group of people performing the whole task. Each self managing group works to a unique set of negotiated and agreed, measurable goals, comprehensively covering every aspect of the work, social and environmental as well as production.
DP1 structures are hierarchies of personal dominance. DP2 structures are non-dominant hierarchies of function, where change is negotiated between peers.
Laissez-faire is defined as the absence of a design principle and, therefore, the absence of structure. It is every person for themself. Laissez-faire today commonly takes the form of an organization where the structure on paper is DP1, but the controls have been loosened to the point that there is widespread confusion about where responsibility for control and coordination are located.
DP1 structures induce competition, whereas DP2 structures induce cooperation.
Over time, DP1 actively deskills and demotivates people, whereas DP2 skills and motivates them.
Problems such as interpersonal conflict or lack of initiative are usually blamed on individuals, but Emery's work shows that they are systemic — the effect of design principles on behaviour.
Importantly, the Norwegian project showed that successful demonstration or pilot sites are not necessarily copied in the surrounding areas. Success does not breed success. This finding has been replicated many times since.
Emery then went on to develop a new, quick and simple method for shifting organizations to the democratic, DP2 structure. This involved "Participative Design Workshops", through which those who work in an organization set about redesigning it.
In the next part of this paper we'll look at what's involved, and how it has fared.


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Karl Yune portrays Maseo Yamashiro (mentor and friend to Oliver Queen) on the hit show Arrow. Karl's character Maseo is a DC Comics character who has had a strong presence throughout season 3 in the flashback story line, as well as in the present day story as Maseo's alter ego Sarab (2nd in command of the League of Assassins and ally to DC character Ras Al Ghul). Karl was born and raised in Washington D.C. and was accepted to Columbia University as a business major. His study and love of Shakespeare during a literature course influenced him to switch his major to theater at the University's School of the Arts. While at Columbia, Yune won the role of Romeo in an off Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet and was later signed to a talent manager. Karl continued to work as a theater actor in New York City and won critical and rave reviews for his performance as Gloucester in a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's Richard the III. While casting The Last Samurai, director Edward Zwick was impressed with Yune's audition tape and Karl went to Los Angeles for the first time to meet with the famed director. Zwick later informed Karl that the studio was to cast the film out of Japan, but encouraged Karl to move to Los Angeles as he saw promise in the young actor's talent. Inspired, Karl moved to Los Angeles, only to learn that he was offered a five year contract back in New York, on the popular daytime TV drama All My Children. Yune passed on the offer and soon booked his first lead role in the cult film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. The following year Karl was picked by producer Steven Spielberg to play the memorable role of Koichi, the secret lover to Li Gong's Geisha Hatsumomo, in Memoirs of a Geisha, based on the international best selling novel. Karl continued to work in lead and supporting roles in award winning independent, foreign, and Hollywood films. In 2010, Karl was again chosen by producer Steven Spielberg and director Shawn Levy to star as Tak Mashido, the reclusive legend of the robot fighting world in the scifi drama Real Steel. Karl now resides in Los Angeles, California.
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"GameDay has saved 50% of our time with what we needed to work on and has had a big benefit for us, not just in a work capacity but a financial one too. Long-term, I think it will help us a lot as right now we're only tapping into a small portion of what is possible."
Having the ability to complete a simple, streamlined registration process in one go made things a lot easier for families to register. Our club has regular cash flow to operate effectively and a clearer understanding of reconciling funds from our juniors.
We are keen to continue with GameDay in 2023 to assist our club volunteers on a platform that they are experienced and comfortable with. By making mobile-friendly features, that has greatly assisted the experience of our club volunteers"
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Face it, movie fans: the DVD is destined to be dead as a doornail.
Only a few Blockbuster stores are still open. Netflix's CEO says, "We expect DVD subscribers to decline steadily every quarter, forever." The latest laptops don't even come with DVD slots. So where are film enthusiasts suppose to rent their flicks? Online, of course.
There are still some downsides to streaming movies—you need a fast Internet connection, for example, and beware the limited-data plan—but overall, this should be a delightful development.
Streaming movies offers instant gratification: no waiting, no driving—plus great portability: you can watch on gadgets too small for a DVD drive, like phones, tablets and superthin laptops.
Hollywood movie studios should benefit, too. The easier it is to rent a movie, the more people will do it. And the more folks rent, the more money the studios make.
Well, apparently, none of that has occurred to the movie industry. It seems intent on leaving money on the table.
For all of the apparent convenience of renting a movie via the Web, there are a surprising number of drawbacks. For example, when you rent the digital version, you often have only 24 hours to finish watching it, which makes no sense. Do these companies really expect us to rent the same movie again tomorrow night if we can't finish it tonight? In the DVD days, a Blockbuster rental was three days. Why should online rentals be any different?
When you rent online, you don't get any of the DVD extras—deleted scenes, alternative endings, subtitles—even though you're paying as much as you would have paid to rent a DVD.
Yet perhaps most important, there's the availability problem. New movies aren't available online until months after they are finished in the theaters, thanks to the "windowing" system—a long-established obligation that makes each movie available, say, first to hotels, then to pay-per-view systems, then to HBO and, only after that, to you for online rental.
Worse, some movies never become available. Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, A Beautiful Mind, Bridget Jones's Diary, Saving Private Ryan, Meet the Fockers, and so on, are not available to rent from the major online distributors.
None of the movie studios would talk to me on the record about this subject, so I can't tell you why so many major movies are missing. Obviously somebody, somewhere, objects to releasing the rights—a lawyer, a director, a studio executive. (Disney's Web site answers the question this way: "Unfortunately, it is not possible to release or have all our titles in the market at once." Oh, okay. So they're not available because they're not available.)
The people want movies. None of Hollywood's baffling legal constructs will stop the demand. The studios are trying to prevent a dam from bursting by putting up a picket fence.
And if you don't make your product available legally, guess what? The people will get it illegally. Traffic to illegal download sites has more than sextupled since 2009, and file downloading is expected to grow about 23 percent annually until 2015. Why? Of the 10 most pirated movies of 2011, guess how many of them are available to rent online, as I write this in midsummer 2012? Zero. That's right: Hollywood is actually encouraging the very practice they claim to be fighting (with new laws, for example).
Yes, times are changing. Yes, uncertainty is scary. But Hollywood has case studies to learn from. The music industry and the television industry used to fight the Internet the same way—with brute force: copy protection, complexity, legal challenges.
Eventually all of them found roads to recoup some of their lost profit not by fighting the Internet but by working with it. The music industry dropped copy protection and made almost every song available for about $1 each. The TV industry made its shows available for free at sites such as Hulu, paid for by ads.
The moral? Make your wares available legally, cleanly and at a fair price—and only the outliers will resort to piracy. And you can keep making money.
Five ways Hollywood is hobbling itself: ScientificAmerican.com/sep2012/pogue


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Within the apps, you can view Word, Excel, PowerPoint, JPG, TIFF, MP3, and PDF files; if you have an external app that can read these files, you can also open them in that app using iOS's Open In feature. If you've downloaded a document to your device that's since been updated on your computer, you can grab the newest version from the CrashPlan servers by tapping the Update button within the app.
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What to Do in Arches
Spend hours getting lost in the magnificent rounded rocks of Arches National Park.
Top Experiences
For an introduction to the park's geology and ecology, join a three-hour ranger-guided tour through the Fiery Furnace area, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the park's entrance along the main road. The hike is moderately strenuous and will require some rock scrambling. To go solo through this part of the park, you will need a permit and must watch a five-minute video on safety issues before departing.
Bike along Salt Valley and Willow Springs Roads. Though you must stay on the roads, mountain bikes are the best way to travel this terrain.
Scenic Drives
If you have an hour and a half at your disposal, motor to The Windows Section of the park—the first major stop along the park's main road—to spot some of the largest arches. The two Window arches, North and South, and Turret Arch are an easy stroll from the parking lot. Across from them is large Double Arch.
If you have about three hours, continue along the main drive to the turnoff for Delicate Arch, the park's most famous formation. You can park at Wolfe Ranch and hike 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) right to the arch—wear hiking boots and be prepared for some moderately strenuous ascents—or you can drive farther to the arch's roadside viewpoints, which afford vistas of the formation from a mile away. Also of interest here: the Wolfe Ranch Historical Site, a rustic pioneer settlement dating to the late 1800s.
Just outside of the park, traverse some of the quieter paved drives, like Potash Road, for a beautiful experience with less crowds. Be sure to check for road closures throughout 2017 while major construction is happening throughout the park.
Best Hikes
Start with the mile-and-a-half (2.4-kilometer) Delicate Arch Trail, to what may be the most photographed arch in the park. National Geographic Traveler writer Charlie Kulander says seeing Delicate Arch is like seeing the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre; "it's great to behold—and there are so many more arches to discover."
If you have about two hours to visit the park, hike the Windows Loop Trail for close-up views of North and South Windows and Turret Arch. Next, amble the short trail to nearby Double Arch. Later, drive back to Balanced Rock and take the loop trail around to its base.
If you have a half a day or more, sign up for a ranger-guided tour through Fiery Furnace, a labyrinth of sandstone fins and other striking red rock formations. Then drive on the main road to the park's far end (about 18 miles or 29 kilometers from the entrance gate). There take up the Devils Garden Trail, a 4.2-mile (6.8-kilometer) round-trip trek that takes hikers past Tunnel Arch, Landscape Arch (part of which sloughed off in 1991), Navajo Arch, Partition Arch, and Double O Arch. The trail is moderately rugged, so be prepared with good footwear. The scenic landscape is outstanding.
The park may appear lifeless at first blush, but look closer and you'll see a variety of flora and fauna. All have made clever adaptations to survive in this harsh environment of ephemeral pools, dry arroyos, grasslands, and bare rocks.
Many of the park's animals are nocturnal, including kangaroo rats, woodrats, skunks, foxes, bobcats, mountain lions, bats, and owls. Some are crepuscular—they're most active at dawn and dusk—including mule deer, coyotes, and porcupines. Others are diurnal—most active during the day—such as squirrels, lizards, hawks, eagles, and bighorn sheep.
Plants at Arches generally fall into three categories in terms of adaptation to the environment: drought resistors, drought evaders, and drought escapers. Among them are cacti, grasses, lichens, and mosses.
Photo Ops
Beat the sun to the park's longest arch, Landscape Arch, to get a sunrise shot before high sun drains it of color.
As the day winds down, head over to the Windows formations and Delicate Arch to catch the rays of the setting sun at play along the prismatic sandstone of these park icons.
The park's website provides a useful list of best photo sites by time of day. Recommended for early morning shots: Moab Fault, the Three Gossips, Sheep Rock, the Great Wall, Turret Arch, the Spectacles, Double Arch, Cache Valley, Wolfe Ranch, Landscape Arch, and Double O Arch.
In the late afternoon or early evening, stop by Park Avenue, Courthouse Towers, Petrified Dunes, Balanced Rock, the Garden of Eden, North and South Window Arches, Delicate Arch, Fiery Furnace, Skyline Arch, Devils Garden, and Tower Arch.
Smart Traveler Strategies
It is easy to forge your own way through this park, by car or bicycle. Pull-off points encourage strolls and hikes, and basic rest facilities are widely available. You can also opt for a tour organized by one of the several authorized, privately owned tour companies that operate in the park, such as Desert Highlights, NAVTEC Expeditions, and Tag-A-Long Expeditions.
- Nat Geo Expeditions
Excursions Outside the Park
Arches National Park isn't the only park in the region blessed with arches; nearby Canyonlands National Park also boasts excellent formations.
The National Park Service manages several other parks, monuments, and historic areas within a day's drive, including Aztec Ruins National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Hovenweep National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, and Natural Bridges National Monument.
And don't forget Utah's state parks, especially Dead Horse Point State Park, just 32 miles (51 kilometers) from Moab, perched 2,000 feet (610 meters) above the meandering Colorado River.
The town of Moab is five miles (eight kilometers) south of Arches and offers just about everything a hungry, thirsty, or sleepy traveler may need, including restaurants, shops, art galleries, music festivals, accommodations, and farmers markets.
Arches National Park is located in Grand County, Utah. Check out the county's site for other nearby attractions and special events in the region.


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Classic white roller skates from Italian Roces with a clean retro look and design inspired by figure skating. High heel and nylon frame. Upper and tongue is made of PVC.
White skates that look like these Roces roller skates can be seen in the new TV-series "Soy Luna" (I'm Luna) from Disney Channel which is the sequel to "Violetta", the other very popular Disney series from Argentina. In "Soy Luna", the lead role has a strong passion for skating which she does a lot, also with friends.
With these Roces quad skates you can choose to keep the classic, all-white design or your can easily change the wheels or laces for another color to get skates that look like the ones your favorite actor of the show is wearing. You can even combine the colors as you wish to make your very own personalized skates. Most roller skate wheels with a diameter of 58mm and a width of 32mm will fit.
Apart from making these classic, white roller skates, Roces also collaborates with Disney in making the original "Soy Luna" roller skates.
Remember to check the screws before first use and tighten them if necessary.
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Kings 07 Avalanche Walled 6 Team Fi 15's on 3 DC 9k's :)
KennethColeman posted a topic in Build LogsSo I finally decided to start a build log on here.I had sort of one in the photography thread awhile back. Im in the process of building a wall for 6 of the Fi Team Series 15's on 3 DC 9k's and a ton of other extras. This will be my third build and I have done everything on my own except the doors and VU-Din/Volt meter setup which I had my Italian shop in Italy do. So here are some pics of the old setup and some pics of the new build coming here shortly. Pics arent in any specific order but best score with the 4th order and 2 18" N2's was a 152.9 sealed. Never did the door open in the kick as i prefer sealed up numbers.It could also play music at a 51 for 1 min which the Italian's call War Machine LoL. Well enjoy and let me know what you think.
My review of a 93rd Audio - TCH12D2 subwoofer
altoncustomtech posted a topic in Product ReviewsOkay, so at this point I'm sure you're wondering "Who the hell is 93rd Audio?" and "What the hell is a TCH12D2?". I'd be glad to answer that. 93rd Audio is an up and coming company started by a member of the IAK family. The TCH series subs are the first series of subs to be released. They are built here in the USA, it has a 2.5" coil and will have a 600 WRMS power rating. I was asked by good 'ol Porkchop if I would be interested in testing the prototype for this new company and line of subs. No matter what the deal was I wasn't going to pass up a great opportunity such as this so I agreed and he put the owner in contact with me. I was supposed to have a fair bit of time to test the sub, multiple enclosures, different amps, etc. however life being what it is the time table was truncated and I had to work with what I had on hand already. So I borrowed my sister's single 12" enclosure for her DCON which is 2.25cuft NET tuned to 31hz and mounted the TCH in and hooked it up in the van to the SAZ2k. So let me explain here that my testing results aren't as well rounded as I had originally planned on going into this with. The owner was hoping to have a sub that can take a good deal of power and make a presence in the competition lanes. I believe it can definitely do that and I think that it's going to be a fair sub to compete with the Sundown SA12, and possibly even the GCON and the Fi X series in specifications, performance and price point. With no official experience with any of those three that comment is really only an opinion, but I don't come to it lightly. Me and my wife threw A LOT of abuse at this sub and with 2k on tap to beat on it with and I was generally only able to reach it's limits on the most abusive songs at listening levels that belied a single sub. Okay, now with that explained it's onto the review itself. Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare -- This song is fun to listen to with a good sub setup. It's hard and fast and can sound like a complete and total muddled mess on anything that can't keep up. The TCH had no problem at all keeping up with everything that goes on. I have to imagine when I listen to the song that the band gets a hell of a workout when they play it, especially the bass guitarist and drummer, and that workout carries on to whatever is playing the song. This sub did it fast, clean and with the power it was being fed I never heard it cry out for mercy even once. Offspring - Hit That -- This is another song whose bass lines are all over the map. It has great low end bass lines with overlapping lines in certain parts of the song. On any system I had before I got the Q's those overlapping lines would sound like either a distorted mess or were just a booming bass line. The Q's showed me how detailed those bass lines really were and it was a whole new listening experience that brings a smile to my face every time I listen to it. I am very proud to say I had the same smile on my face with the TCH. The overlapping bass lines were clearly identifiable and the rest of the deep lines were reproduced with the authority I've grown used to from the Q's. Journey - Faithfully -- The name of this song sets the stage for the reproduction of the bass guitar and the drums from the TCH. It was a fantastic, enjoyable and very realistic listening experience and the sub and my components blended together beautifully. The sub is as much at home doing SQ work as it is making the windows rattle. Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes -- I love the bass lines in this song. They're nice and deep and it's fun to play this song for people who've never really heard a sub system play like that. The TCH was able to drop down and bellow out the deepest tones without any complaint as long as I kept the listening level just below obscene. If I tried to push it into the obscene realm I could hear distortion from the sub that I attributed to being well past it's XMAX. It was well beyond 70% of it's BL and well into the realm of audible distortion but understand that it was being pushed EXTREMELY hard at this point and was louder than an average person would ever try to get from a single sub. Ja Rule - Livin' It Up -- Another fun song to listen to with bass lines and drums that play in an attractive rhythm. The sub had tons of output to give but with the drums on top of the bass lines I was actually able to reach the subs XMECH and got some noise out of it. I was very surprised when that happened but remember I'm driving this single sub to the same output levels that I'm used to hearing with the pair of 12" Q's that I'm used to listening to. Alice in Chains - I Stay Away -- I'm a big fan of AiC and have about every album they've released. I Stay Away is on my top 10 list of their songs and is always cranked when it comes on. The TCH did not disappoint at all with it's ability to keep up with the note shifts and drums. It was a great listening experience with all the output I could ask for. Metallica - One -- My absolute favorite Metallica song. Any system that can keep up with this song at absurd listening levels is a good one in my honest opinion. There's a TON of musical information being thrown at every component of a system and it is pretty easy to overload it and hear lots of unwanted distortion. The TCH was right on par with the Q's on quality, keeping up with those ultra fast bass guitar riffs and Lars' unreal ability to beat the living piss out of the drums. I had a big smile on my face and listened to it twice. The second time I turned the gain knob up more to give the sub a good bit more stress and it still delivered a great performance. I was limited more by the components in the van than the sub. Staind - Outside -- Another great song it has bass lines and drums that can play havoc on a sub system. The TCH was able to play it quite well at a very moderately high listening level. As before with a few other songs when I went for the limits of the components I found a little distortion from driving it well past it's XMAX. Keep in mind here that we were almost constantly pushing this sub to the point that it was giving us the same output that we listen to the pair of Q's with. Now we don't listen to them at full tilt, the remote gain knob is generally only turned up about 1/3 of the way, however the fact that a single 12" sub was giving us about the same output and in some cases more gives credence to just how capable it is. My wife would have complained IMMEDIATELY if she wasn't getting what she wanted from it. The fact I never heard even ONE complaint from her tells me a lot as to how strong a sub this can be as she's consequently been through quite a few in the 17 years her and I have been together, lol. The enclosure I was testing it in and the sub paired together did a great job giving lots of output that sounded fantastic, but I'm absolutely certain that with a little smaller enclosure tuned a bit higher this thing would be able to excel in output levels and given multiples of the same sub in such enclosures it should do very well in the lanes. I think it's ability to also do such a good job in the sound quality department makes it a super well rounded sub that will be at home in the hands of the average listener as well as competitors. I know the owner was wanting it to be able to handle in the 1kw realm for competition use. I tried to test with some degree of accuracy the power I was applying to the sub only to find that it seems my $300 clamp on meter isn't quite as adept to this job as I had hoped. I've never been one to trust clamp test power results anyway so I wasn't too horribly worried about it myself. IMHO it doesn't matter how much power the sub was seeing during the testing. The fact it was able to give so much output for a single 12 and knowing there was 2kw of power available from the amp it was able to take abuse that a lesser sub wouldn't have. The few limitations I was able to find with it, revolving around being able to reach distortion going well past XMAX and reaching the XMECH limits could very well have been negated with an enclosure change as well. I'm looking forward to seeing these hit the market. I think for the price point the owner is going for these are going to be a great choice for daily listening setups and competitors alike. Though I have to say I feel it's going to be more popular as a daily sub given it's superb reproduction abilities. That too is just my opinion and being a fellow team member I hope he understands that. If you're looking for something new to try when they're released I highly suggest trying it out, I don't see how anyone could be disappointed. I do have some pics to post up of it. I'll wait for the okay from the owner before doing so though.