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Cyberchase "Measure for Measure" Hacker's mysterious machine is finally revealed - "The Transformatron"can change anyone into anything! He learns the kids have the Network Interface Card - the final piece he needs. But the kids have also found a map that leads them to Coop, Slider's long lost father. They are shocked to discover Coop has been a victim of magnetite. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Ruff's Yard Sale Makes A Racket" Ruff realizes that he's a horrible shopper. (He just bought a sock at a yard sale for sixteen dollars, after talking the price UP from a quarter!) He also bought a broken tennis racquet at the same sale, which he plans on using in an upcoming match against his nemesis Spot Spotnick! Ruff sends Liza and Talia to the headquarters of Wilson Sporting Goods to design a new tennis racquet for him; and he gets some shopping tips from Bethany and Brian, as they head out to Brimfield Fair, the biggest flea market in the world!. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, investors get the jitters after learning that Fed officials have been talking about scaling back its massive stimulus program in the coming months. And, JC Penney says sales trends are improving into the critical holiday shopping season. Has the retailer turned a corner?. D
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Inventions That Shook The World "The 1970's" This decade is best remembered for disco and Watergate. But with inventions like the cell phone and the digital camera, the 1970s mark the beginning of the digital age to come. Other featured inventions in this episode include the bomb disposal robot, the sticky note, and the hybrid automobile. Part 8 of 10G
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The chainsaws have been cranked up and earth movers are rolling for construction of a state-of-the-art, short-game facility for the Lipscomb men's and women's golf team at Nashville Golf and Athletic Club in nearby Brentwood.
The project was recently approved by the Brentwood City Planning Commission and construction on the two-plus acre facility has begun this week. Included will be a pair of practice greens, bunkers, chipping and pitching areas along with a large practice tee.
"This new short game facility is one the key missing pieces for Lipscomb golf as we look to elevate our program within the ranks of NCAA Division I," said Lipscomb director of athletics Philip Hutcheson. "Lipscomb has always been able to promote a Christian environment, a top-notch academic experience and a campus located in a beautiful neighborhood in one of the most dynamic cities in the U.S.
"We've committed to raising the standard with our coaching and are recruiting more aggressively than ever before. The main thing we were missing was a facility that would allow us to practice and improve in the area that allows for the most improvement at the collegiate level and beyond - and that's the short game. This partnership with Nashville Golf and Athletic Club, one of the most challenging courses in middle Tennessee, immediately puts us in a position to compete for recruits and championships within our conference and beyond."
Fresh off his first year at the helm of the Lipscomb men's golf program, Will Brewer was quick to add his enthusiasm about the project.
"We are really excited about starting the construction of the project providing both the men's and women's programs a specific area to further develop scoring skills," said Brewer. "This facility will benchmark 'Lipscomb Golf' branding efforts and will continue to demonstrate Lipscomb University's commitment to excellence."
The project was aided by a number of gifts that made the dream become reality.
"Coach Brewer, and the golf council he has assembled has done a fantastic job of leading the charge in communication and fundraising and we're looking forward to seeing the payoff in years to come as Lipscomb competes for conference championships and NCAA appearances,"said Hutcheson.
Plans are for the new training aides to be grown-in and conditioned for the teams to begin practice in early fall.


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|2012-01-09, 15:47
|Link #161
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Age: 57
I was impressed by the scenery detailing. The slightly unkempt schoolyard, the rust on the roof railings were 2 of the details that stood out for me. That attention to detail bodes well for the show. If they keep up with such minute detailing, this could be a visual winner for creepy atmosphere.
ETA: Another detail that just came to mind. Although I hear it's not uncommon for Japanese hospitals to not have a labeled 4th floor, the fact that the elevator buttons did not include a button for the 4th floor shows the town is highly aware of the superstitions around the number 4. (If you don't know, the Japanese don't like to use the formal word for 4 because it sounds too much like their word for death. That's why some hotels and hospitals don't have a labeled 4th floor. Similar to how many Western buildings don't have a labeled 13th floor.)
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|2012-01-09, 15:57
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Storm Vanguard
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Type-00
Also, I tried watching the opening without the sounds... It suddenly became my favorite opening for this season. It's so freaky, man. Maybe the thunderstorm outside and my dark room improved it even more. :3
|2012-01-09, 16:32
|Link #164
Psycho Falling Deep
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: The Anime World
Age: 23
Hmm...the anime does have some kind of creepy vibe to it, but it doesn't want to make me cringe up or curl into a ball, nothing like that. It actually keeps me more focused on the anime itself and makes me take a closer look at the things they say, do and the things around them. Oh, and the opening is waayyy to cheerful.
I had my suspicions near the start when Kouchi was in the hospital bed and he was visited by three of his classmates. They seemed very uncomfortable saying his last name to the point that they requested being allowed to say his first name. Sakakibara, a name which Mei Misaki says is related to a terrible death that happened.
At the very start, we are given some images and dialogue. We are given the name Misaki from 9th grade and class 3 and that the event happened 26 years ago. This could mean some things. Either Kouchi is in the present day telling a story that happened 26 years ago involving Mei Misaki, or someone related to Mei Misaki was the one that was involved in the horrible death 26 years ago and the present day is now Mei Misaki and Kouchi in school together. Other explanation could be paranormal, undead, or just maybe even an illusion created by everyone in the class, lets not forget that all the students acted as if she was still alive and still in the class.
An image of a knife on the floor covered in blood shows up. This may perhaps be the reason Mei Misaki wears an eyepatch. Another image we see is an elevator, which looks pretty similar to the one Mei and Kouchi was in when they were in the hospital. In that scene, Mei says "My poor other half is waiting for me there" and goes to the Basement level 2 which is the Morgue. Note that she also said she was there to deliver something and she had a doll in her hand.
The class seem pretty obediant and quiet during lesson, even the teachers are serious. But when class is over, they act like any normal class would, with the anime going from shot to shot of the classmates, but they appear to be submissioned into fear on not mentioning Mei Misaki.
These are just clues i've seen, anyone is free to question or correct me
Overall, an interesting first episode. I would want to get more interested in the characters in the future episodes as not much was seen from them.
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|2012-01-09, 16:33
|Link #165
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Age: 27
Not bad, not bad at all. This was supposed to be my extra series of the season that I wouldn't write on but watch nonetheless, but it looks like I picked up a few more without thinking.
Anyways, I like the direction this show is going, and 12 episodes seems like a good length for something like this. I'm personally not a fan of ALI PROJECT, but I did enjoy the ending theme myself. Aside from that, the atmosphere is quite good and I'm interested in seeing where this will lead.
|2012-01-09, 16:41
|Link #166
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
heh 3 rows of girls 2 of guys besides that guy in the back. What starts to disturb me in PA works animation they are like CLAMP everybody loks too attractive. I knwo wierd aspect to pick on but part of me wishes to see few blander character here and there.
|2012-01-09, 17:07
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lost in wonder forever...
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: edge of my dream in the land of twilight...ZzzZzZ
Hmm, a creepy town, creepy school, school faculty and classmates that are very suspicious...
I initially never knew of this anime till I was bored and looked up the description for it. Now I'm hooked because of the mystery, gloom and doom atmosphere.
This is anime is such a contrast to most of the previous anime that I recently watched so it's a nice change.
I'm expecting heads and limps to go flying at some point in this anime or at least gory death scenes.
|2012-01-09, 17:12
|Link #168
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 24
Gah, I want moar. I love the eerie atmosphere that was present throughout the episode.
Design-wise, the MC reminds me of Satoshi from Corpse Party. I seriously hope that this will be the only parallel I will be able to draw between these two horror stories.
|2012-01-09, 17:46
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 32
What a fascinating first episode! Most definitely my favorite this season alongside Nisemonogatari's.
As has already been said, the atmosphere was positively creepy and oppressive. I was particularly impressed with the musical direction, the BGMs not only sounded beautiful, they fit the tone of the series perfectly and as a matter of fact largely contribute to it. That is good use of music right there.
Too bad they weren't as inspired when they chose who would perform the Opening song. It's completely out of place. You could replace it with any other song (that isn't an Ali project song, that is - otherwise you wouldn't notice a difference) and it would fit better.
I enjoyed the directing as well. The scene where several people are talking to Kouichi stood out for me. I loved how we got to see what everybody else in the classroom was doing. A lot of other series would have simply focused on the small group gathered around Kouichi, resulting in a static and boring sequence.
Moving on to the plot. We don't have much to go on yet, a girl named Misaki Mei was killed 26 years ago (but 26 years from when? 1998?), however, a girl by the same name roams the school. Said school looking horribly shabby (rust EVERYWHERE). The classmates are friendly on the surface -at least some of them are- but are obviously trying to hide something. The biggest mystery right now is whether she's a ghost/zombie/whatever supernatural stuff allows a dead girl to walk or a girl pretending to be Misaki for some obscure reason.
|2012-01-09, 17:53
|Link #171
Join Date: Sep 2006
This looks promising, I loved the whole creepy and unnerving atmosphere that the show created. That dilapidated look to the setting, and I also noticed the missing fourth floor in the hospital and realised why it was missing.
The atmosphere of this show does give me hope for a more suspenseful kind of horror story rather than just splashing around the ol' claret.
|2012-01-09, 18:07
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fushigi ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2011
Interesting first episode, but I didn't quite get the creepy feeling of impending dread I was expecting (and hoping for). Still a good setup. I knew almost nothing about this show going in, so when I saw Koichi's cellphone I was like WTF? What an old school phone.
So this is only one cour? A pity, it would be nice to get a longer horror show.
|2012-01-09, 18:59
|Link #173
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
That was the first time in a while where I got to the end of an episode and was surprised it was over already. They got through a good bit of the manga while still maintaining a slow, creepy vibe. Hopefully they can maintain that pace for the rest of the series.
I'm still not sold on the Noizi Itou designs. The secondary characters look fine, but Sakakibara and Misaki look so much better in the manga. The rest of the animation is excellent, as expected from PA Works. It's nice to see them give us a setting that's run-down and bleak for a change.
The OP ... well, at least it's better than Ghosthunt. When the ED started, I thought for a moment that it was Amagami SS, but as it went on it reminded me more of Angel Beats.
My only major complaint is that over the last couple seasons I've gotten used to watching a light comedies -- Yuru Yuri, Squid Girl -- with dinner on Mondays. This creates a completely different mood.
|2012-01-09, 19:03
|Link #174
Beta by Accident
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Maine
Age: 46
Excellent first episode. If Bodacious Space Pirates is the "damn, I had no idea it was going to be this good" show of the season, then Another is the "just as excellent as I expected it was going to be." At least from the first episode. It's not particularly scary, per se, but there's an excellent sense of atmosphere as everyone else has already mentioned, and so many hints are dropped just by looking around here and there (Sakakibara's mother's absence (and why his dad left the country, and what his grandfather had to say...)? What his aunt said about following the rules? The existence of a class officer for "countermeasures"? What it is the kids aren't saying about the significance of his last name? What the teacher said about everyone graduating in good health? Why Mei's desk is so battered and scratched? Even that one girl's injured ankle... And none of that even touches directly on the conversations Kouichi had with Mei.) that I'm eager to delve deeper into Yomiyama's mysteries...
As everyone else has mentioned, though, that Ali Project OP is completely awful. It's not a good song generally, and the bouncy pop melody is utterly alien to both the teaser sequence before it and the show after it. The imagery during the opening scenes was quite nice, though.
|2012-01-09, 19:04
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Hamburg
Age: 49
Picture me surprised by the overall positive reception here. Around the 6 minute mark I simply gave up. The usual Ali Project howling weakened my defenses, but when a total of 6 characters where shown, and every single one of them managed to somehow annoy me, I aborted.
Then again, old supposedly creepy legends put me to sleep sooner than anything else. So please scout the way ahead for me, and if some friends convince me that some great story lies behind all this, I'll probably give it a second chance. But for now, not. Pity for the pretty backgrounds.
|2012-01-09, 19:04
|Link #176
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Nice first episode. The pacing fits perfectly with the oppressive atmosphere and the detailed animation. Remarkable animation, I'd say.
I also noticed the missing 4th floor button, but didn't know why. So thanks to LKK for explanation.
Spoiler for for Mei:
|2012-01-09, 19:05
|Link #177
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Gensokyo
Holy crap, it's 1 am here, it's dark, the anime doesn't seem to have any loli to excite me.
In short, it makes me shit my pants, WHERE THE HELL IS THAT DAMN FLOOR 4?
No I won't be able to keep it up, it's worse than Higurashi, my heart will explode before the anime ends.
|2012-01-09, 19:18
|Link #178
Senior Member
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Four is pronounced similar to death in Chinese so some buildings don't have a 4th floor because it is associated with death (it is a superstition kind of thing).
Now this might have already been mentioned, but what does our MC's (Sakakaibara or so?) name mean? Does it give any insight into the plot?
|2012-01-09, 19:26
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Location: Virginia, USA
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Let me be the first to post on the June issue which I have not yet received. But I'm sure it will entertain. I think the bias voltage this month may be 84V...? Do I have any takers? Where did they get a 72V battery anyway, it only looks like 1 cell. anyone take a measurement of teh actual voltages? Guess what, is it UL listed. anything above 30V is coming out of the realm of low voltages, like alarm systems, thermostats. But what do I know, I can't hear any improvements anyway. JA, we on for Thursday or Friday next week, send me a meassage. Wednesday i is in NYC, doing stuff let's do Thursday or Friday all day anytime I is available, but ya gotta let me know....
You are here
While you are waiting for this month's issue, you can pick up a copy of TAS. They have a review of several Van Alstine components.
I read it, I get that too. They did a poor review. They didn't mentioon WHICH magic wire all of a sudden made Frank's DAC be worth buying...what a load on nonsense. Both publications are loaded with full page ads for magic wires!! they just had to throw in a wire zinger to keep teh wire ads coming in and paying. I have teh AVA Ultra EC, not SL. I use AVA Hafler P500 rebuilt to OmegaStar EX and DH500 OmegaStar EX ckts. Great stuff, teh new Ultra preamp is QUIET, sounds incredible, teh phono section is Quiet, smoooth, lush, teh highs sparkle like LIVE music...it's a fantastic product, hybrid tube/mosfet. Only would like to have a rack mount face plate or add on ears, like Tascam and Audio control have add on ears, Tascam comes with the rack already, a lot of my stuff is rack mount, Furman, Rane,HHB,Tascam, I wanna get it all racked over time. All 4 Hafler/AVA amps are rack faces, rack is the way to go for ease of use, compacting a bunch of STUFF, access. Rack it baby. It's the SOUND BABY, AVA comes through with flying colors!!! Rack or no rack. no noise, no switching noises, nutin' but great sound
Gentlemen, allow me to introduce the new Dickie V of audio!
Excuse my French, but WTF??!! The multi page ad running from page 53 to 63 for Elite Audio is nothing but an ad for the White Van Guys. Did anyone in the editorial dept, read the specs for this hooey??!!(Or is the sale of that much space enough to look the other way?) This is unacceptable for a magazine of this stature. I think the entire staff owes a big apology to us, your loyal readers(let's hope you don't lose any)
Could I have been wrong? Maybe this is a joke, but, then again, April is long gone.
Excuse my French, but WTF??!! The multi page ad running from page 53 to 63 for Elite Audio is nothing but an ad for the White Van Guys.
How do you know that, Gary. While I take what you say seriously, I don't see on the face of it that ad is what you say it is.
Did anyone in the editorial dept, read the specs for this hooey??!!(Or is the sale of that much space enough to look the other way?)
The Chinese Wall between editorial and advertising works both way. The ad department doesn't see the editorial before we publish, but we don't see the ads until the book has been sent to the printers either.
I will ask our publisher, who is my equal on the magazine's business side, what the case is with this ad. But in the meantime, you might want to consider an attitude adjustment.
JohnA tkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Hi, Folks -- Wow! You guys have really piqued my curiosity. I hope the Pony Express guy didn't get ambushed by some war party outside San Bernardino, and that my June issue arrives soon. I love all the ads, especially the ones that lie in pretty colors. Gary, you should have seen the one a few years back that showed Mark Levinson dry-humping a speaker, with buck-naked T&A right in front of his nose. The apple, I think, meant "temptation" and Mark was going for the woofer, just below the camera's lower range. Now, THAT was funny, and elicited several angry letters from folks who obviously had never been forced to make this difficult choice. Or the one with the babe playing (ahem) with the AC cord...it wasn't a Power Snake, was it? God, I hope not. Gary, you're not one of these prudes who live in the gray world of literal truth, who have to be fed listless facts all the time, are you? I sure hope not -- you're missing all the fun! JA, just keep the revenues coming in...the alternative wouldn't be pretty. Without Stereophile, I'd probably have to switch to one of those awful Motorcycle Magazines, and you know how THEY stretch the truth! Cheers, Clifton
This ad also caught my eye since I saw many of these speakers on ebay at anywhere between 150 - 600 dollars for a complete surround system. I was looking for a cheap surround system for my girlfriends son.
Hey, advertizing money is incomming funds that keep the price of the mag down and since JA hasn't reviewed them in the mag then I only take the ad as something to look into, if I was looking for speakers. So I can't say its a bad thing to put the ad in. I just thought it funny that the ad immediately made me think of the ones I listed below.
I'm not sure if they are exactly the same but they seem it.
Here are some links to similar items, some are different cabinet colors:
Don L
John and Clifton, I owe a big apology for my moment of unclarity. Gee, tis is one of those times where you wish you could blame it on the alcohol, but I have to take the blame. Clifton's right about the ad money, if it stops flowing, we could lose this mag, or have to shell out more for it. I have to take things with a bigger grain of sand, which I am usually good at, but there is always the momentary lapse of reason.
You don't want to look at this then or your blood pressure will spike back up.
This might be decent enough gear, I have no idea, but a MSRP of $4799 in a respected audio magazine and an Ebay price of $875 for a new-in-box identical unit doesn't suggest these guys are serious about sound, IMHO.
I just hope the check cashed OK from the folks who ran the ads. Pt Barnum is alive and well.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, I am the great and powerful Oz!
John and Clifton, I owe a big apology for my moment of unclarity.
Thanks. We do take complaints about matters such as this seriously.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
I, for one, was shocked and dismayed upon sight of this fraudulent "Elite Audio" ad on pages 54-61 of the current Stereophile issue. I hoped this was just some sort of editorial snafu, but lo and behold, pages 98-99 feature a similarly bogus "Theater Research" ad. Gary, you were spot on with your criticism, and any "attitude adjustment" needs to be taken by Stereophile regarding its ad policies.
Money issues are one thing, but I don't feel that assisting in large-scale fraud is respectable practice for an audio magazine. I have been approached by these "white van" salesmen, and yes, they like to use these magazine advertisements as "proof" of the quality of their wares.
Stereophile should know that these adverts in such a widely known magazine could very well fool unsuspecting folk into being defrauded by bogus audio salesmen. As such, I would expect the magazine to publish a clear apology to its loyal readers in the next issue.
I immediately came to these forums, expecting to find some sort of apology from Stereophile about this travesty, but instead I find a quote from one of the most respected names in the high end audio industry, John Atkinson, in response to another shocked reader, stating:
"I don't see on the face of it that ad is what you say it is."
Please. Don't expect people to believe that even a novice in audio, let alone a professional high-end reviewer, cannot see at first glance that these pages promoting "5.1 DCS Digital", "5.1 Eds Digital", and a bunch of bogus awards are fakes. (Unless you really do think that Elite Audio laboratories are "one of the world's most revered names in high-end audio")
Rest assured, unless an apology is issued by Stereophile for this sad state of affairs, I will be cancelling my subscription promply. I know several of my audio enthusiast friends (and fellow subscribers) feel the same way.
From a disappointed subcriber,
Michael Jenders
Jeez, I hope my issue arrives soon. Here I am, responding without even having seen the ad. Still, here goes. Michael, NOBODY is "unsuspecting" enough to blame an advertisement for a bad purchase. At the end of EVERY recommendation, by every reviewer, is the caveat, "listen for yourself." This isn't some two-bit dictatorship! This is the good ol' USA, where hyperbole rules! And this isn't even a review... it's an ad, for cryin' out loud. I'm sure JA will check it out. He will act appropriately. Now, let me ask you something, seriously. Have YOU HEARD the gear advertised in this outrageous farce? Do you KNOW, from your own LISTENING that the ad is making false claims? I like Cliff's comment. If you are offended by the ad, CALL THE ADVERTISING FIRM!!
Damn. Now I'm REALLY curious. But thanks for looking out for the aurally challenged of this world. I'm sure they appreciate it, wherever they are. Say...you aren't implying that I got a bad deal on my Triangles, are you? I found out about them from advertising (and ST's reviews). Say...you aren't suggesting that I'M aurally challenged, are you??? I have an idea. Why don't YOU apply for the job of Official Czar of Ad Censorship? Just a thought. Clifton
I immediately came to these forums, expecting to find some sort of apology from Stereophile about this travesty, but instead I find a quote from one of the most respected names in the high end audio industry, John Atkinson, in response to another shocked reader, stating: "I don't see on the face of it that ad is what you say it is."
That is correct. While my eyebrows were raised by these ads -- and as I also said, I don't see the ads in an issue until after it has shipped to the printer and I don't have any control over the advertising side of the magazine, nor should I -- I don't (yet) have any hard information that these ads are fraudulent.
Rest assured, unless an apology is issued by Stereophile for this sad state of affairs, I will be cancelling my subscription promply.
I am sorry to hear that. As I also said, I immediately alerted Stereophile's publisher to the potential issues raised by the presence of these ads in our pages, and he is investigating which ad salesperson sold them, to whom were they sold, and what information do we have on the company that placed the ads. If it does indeed turn out that these ads are not what they purport to be, then we will not run them again.
I am not sure what else you would have us do, Mr. Jenders. I am also saddened that the value of Stereophile's entire editorial content to you is outweighed by the presence of these ads in a single issue, which may or may not be what you claim.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Rest assured, unless an apology is issued by Stereophile for this sad state of affairs, I will be cancelling my subscription promply. I know several of my audio enthusiast friends (and fellow subscribers) feel the same way.
Sadly, these guys in their 'white vans' hanging around Home Depot et al will use these ads in Stereophile to dupe many people into buying their junk. I can hear them now, "Stereophile wouldn't have it in their mag unless it was TOP of the line."
Got my mag yesterday in the mail been a LT subscriber. IMHO, sad day for the mag.
J.F. Megar Jr
Okay, I'm really, really confused about what it is exactly that has got your panties all in a bunch. I just finished going through my copy of the June issue and quite frankly, the Elite ad, while somewhat of a joke, is no less of a joke than many other of the ads within the issue.
Here's some examples:
Page 17: The Wilson Audio ad which addresses the issue of value. $100K+ speakers and value used in the same sentence, what a joke.
Page 19: The Halco ad: "the best amplifier ever!" Such hyperbole. How could they!
Page 23: The Overture ad: The "Ultimate" musical experience - more hyerbole.
Page 24: Velodyne ad: Alex Smith endorses Velodyne. Who the hell is Alex Smith???
Page 31: Shunyata Research Inc.: "The Unanimous Choice" - I sure as heck didn't chose them.
Page 35: Krell: "New from Krell - Classic from Krell" Sorry guys, but something can't be both new and classic.
Page 37: Music Direct: "The World's Best iPod System" Again with that "Best" word.
Page 70: Burwen Bobcat: Claims to make MP3s sound like analog master tapes. This guy doesn't need the guys with the white van, he needs the guys with white coats.
Page 72: Siltech: DUP's favorite - this month's cooking class.
And I'm quite sure that there are a few more worth noting but I would hope that you have gotten my point. Which has Clay said "This is the good ol' USA, where hyperbole rules!" So caveat emptor.
Hi, Frank --
Only dupes can be duped. I'll wager that anyone expecting to find state-of-the-art sound equipment at Home Depot may be beyond saving (I have heard, though, that they carry a decent AC cord). If the Stereophile staff checked out the equipment behind every ad, I guess they would be reviews, not ads, eh? I'm still waiting to hear from you (or anyone else who has actually auditioned this equipment) as to how the stuff actually sounds. A discounted price at E-Bay is hardly grounds for fraud...unless, of course, the system is hot. Cheer up -- dupes get duped and become wiser for the experience. All education has some sort of tuition. Clifton
All education has some sort of tuition.
And a worthwhile education is always expensive.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Hi, Frank --
I see you're in LA, I'm in San Diego.
Remember the up-roar when the ad dept took an auto ad? At least that auto wasn't a Yugo... get my drift?
Alex Smith is a second year quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers.
That's a heck of an endorsement deal his agent must have chased down!
Maybe quarterbacks have keener insight with regard to low frequency sound reinforcement?
He went to college in Utah. You'd think he'd be endorsing Wilson.
Yeah, there's no explaining individual tastes -- Alex could certainly afford the drive to Provo, and I think Wilson has a budget sub for only about 30 large. Maybe too many head-slaps from sonically-challenged Defensive Ends, eh? When I was at Utah, our all-american was Lee Grosscup, who was a #1 pick for the Giants. He ended up in the ABC booth. C'mon, Buddha, give Alex a chance -- he was so good in college! Ooops! I forgot. There was Scott whatizname, the lefty QB from Utah in the late '80's, who was the Lions' #1 pick. Well, maybe next year. Still, I gotta stay loyal to my undergrad Alma Mater. Cheers, Clifton
Hi, Frank -- hey, if you're in San Diego and you have the June issue already, where's mine? Maybe it's being delivered by Yugo. I actually saw one a couple weeks ago, sputtering down Glendale Blvd. Jeez, at least the price was right! I can't wait to see the ad. I bet nobody at Elite expected THIS kind of publicity. I still think you should review it. Cheers, Clifton
My issue arrived yesterday. The MSRPs listed in those ads seem quite ridiculous, especially in light of Monty's post:
You don't want to look at this then or your blood pressure will spike back up.
This might be decent enough gear, I have no idea, but a MSRP of $4799 in a respected audio magazine and an Ebay price of $875 for a new-in-box identical unit doesn't suggest these guys are serious about sound, IMHO.
Alex Smith is a second year quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers.
That's a heck of an endorsement deal his agent must have chased down!
Maybe quarterbacks have keener insight with regard to low frequency sound reinforcement?
He went to college in Utah. You'd think he'd be endorsing Wilson.
You never fail to amaze me or at least crack me up. Based on the fact the Velodyne ad mentions the fact that Alex Smith is a) #1 draft pick b) a San Francisco 49er and C) a quarterback, I already had a pretty good idea about who he is. What I meant was who is he that I should care about his endorsement of a subwoofer? DUH!!
Now if it was JLo, that would be a different story. She has made a serious amount of money from the "bottom end", so her opinion I would respect, but Alex Smith. Sorry, he just doesn't cut it.
Here's a quick list of possible celebrity endorsements:
JLo - bottom end - subwoofers
Dolly Parton - top end - tweeters
Jane Fonda - negative feedback
Michael Moore - biased interconnects
Karl Rove - imaging
Maybe if Smith was endorsing a tuner, you could at least say he had experience with receivers. I'm sure there's something there for interconnects with "Shotgun", too.
I haven't seen the issue yet. In Vegas, we get ours via Pony Express or Colorado River barge, or something.
I actually figured that "Alex Smith" must be some Hi-Fi guru, self appointed or otherwise, so I was actually kidding about Alex Smith the QB.
Now, I'm amazed. Why the Hell would his endorsement mean anything?
For subwoofer endorsements, I'd expect Sam Ramey or that guy from The Oak Ridge Boys who sings, "Yeeeeaaaaah" after they sing "Elvira, Elira, my heart is on fie-ruh, for Elvira."
Maybe that one Blind Boy of Alabama, too.
Really, that was the same Alex Smith, eh?
Well, let's help him out:
"Hi, I'm Alex Smith, future Hall of Fame quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. After playing 20 pre-season and regular season games...well, I didn't really play in all of them, but I'm on the team, for now...I've stood under center enough to know that a good bottom end is crucial in football as well as in Hi-Fi. I also know that Velodyne gives me better bottom than Beyonce Knowles wearing a Dirty Sanchez.
Only Velodyne can ellicit the real-world bottom end sensation of having a rusty trombone right there in my listening room.
Owning Velodyne has helped me score more often than telling people I'm a pro football star!
Wilt Chamberlain?
If you really want alotta bottom in your house 24-7, go Velodyne. I know I do!"
Hope that helps.
I understand that not everyone will be as troubled as I am about these ads, but it is refreshing to see that others were similarly saddened to find these ads in Stereophile.
This is not an issue of unjust ad censorship. Regardless of what you may think of the ads normally found in Stereophile, these are well respected audio companies pitching quality products capable of some degree of high end performance.
A little Googling will inform anyone about white van speakers (and the "brands" in question) and confirm to anyone what these ads represent, and I am pleased to hear from JA that this topic is being investigated.
I have to admit I didn't expect high-end gear, football, Dirty Sanchez and rusty trombone to be mentioned in the same breath.
BaBa Booey, TaTa toothey, ma ma monkey? Reiley Martin?
I have to admit I didn't expect high-end gear, football, Dirty Sanchez and rusty trombone to be mentioned in the same breath.
Speaking of rusty trombones, with Elite Audio equipment you can actually tell the brand of oil being used on a slide trombone on a well recorded CD. How many so called "high end" brands can make, or would be willing to make that claim?
Not only that, the van is not white, it's eggshell.
Rest assured, unless an apology is issued by Stereophile for this sad state of affairs, I will be cancelling my subscription promply. I know several of my audio enthusiast friends (and fellow subscribers) feel the same way.
Sadly, these guys in their 'white vans' hanging around Home Depot et al will use these ads in Stereophile to dupe many people into buying their junk. I can hear them now, "Stereophile wouldn't have it in their mag unless it was TOP of the line."
Got my mag yesterday in the mail been a LT subscriber. IMHO, sad day for the mag.
J.F. Megar Jr
I've been a subscriber for the past 3 years. I too was a little taken aback when I saw the Theater research and Elite Audio ads in the latest issue. I've seen similar ads on Ebay and have always chuckled inwardly, immediately thinking about white vans. I feel however that this ad could do some real damage. As mentioned by someone previously, these products and their price can be legitimized to potential customers since they have appeared in Stereophile. All they will have to do is get multiple copies of this issue and use it for the next 10 or so years without running a single other ad. To me this looks much like a white man scam, whatever anyone says. If I am proven wrong and hasty in making conclusions- GREAT! At least I can rest easy knowing people will not be duped. It definitely is up to the folks at Stereophile to check up on this and let us know of the outcome. Especially since most of us trust the Stereophile review and editorial staff and hold them in high esteem.
Hi, Ajay,
Okay. I finally got my June issue, although I had to pull a few arrows out of the Pony Express guy's back and water his nag. I finally read the offending ad. Ajay, Frank, and mdjender, I STILL don't see the fuss. The ad speaks for itself. It is so obviously all rot that NO Stereophile reader would do anything but laugh at it. I loved the disembodied, "Z3 is by far the sweetest sounding receiver I have ever heard," the "I" remaining forever unknown. Blue power watt meter. Bullet aluminized cones. 400 watts program per channel. Pure II decoding. Digital imaging. Absolute power! (I have to admit, that one had me reaching for my credit card -- I MUST - HAVE - ABSOLUTE - POWER. Exlamation point). FM/AM present tuner (to think mine has been absent all these years). Tube amlifier pushing 3000 watts (picture-in-circle of something that looks like a Martian IUD). Digital elite audio. Guys, this stuff makes fun of itself. Look, these honyocks wanted to reach the Stereophile audience. They paid big bucks to do it. Now their target audience is rolling on the floor. If I were at the ad desk at Stereophile (Primedia?), I would get these yokels on the horn FAST and lock 'em in for a 20-page spread for next month. I'd butter 'em up a bit on the success of THIS ad, and nail 'em for the "Super Deluxe Spread, available to only our finest customers!" I believe it was Jesse Livermore who said, "it is absolutely immoral to let a sucker keep his money." If YOU refuse it, he'll just go 'round the corner and give it to somebody else. I'd bleed these suckahs 'til ALL their advertising budget was safely in my hands, and I'd cash the checks before the ink was dry. As JA noted, a good education costs a premium, and here's Stereophile's opportunity to become Teacher of the Year. Hell, maybe JA can pocket some of the commissions and buy us all a beer next week! Cheers, Clifton
By the way, you weren't offended by the Velodyne ad? Alex Smith is six-feet-five and this thing comes up to his chest! People in Los Angeles are paying 2 million bucks for condos that are smaller than this. And, yet, Velodyne can buy up copies and show 'em to potential customers for ten years...and they'll be hooted at for ten years. Ads are, um, ads. Period. They all lie. Hyperbole is the operant trope. Anybody who makes a buying decision from reading an ad is a moron who, as I said, needs education FAST. Holy cow, Cub fans, lighten up! The money goes to a good cause. Clifton
Hi Clifton,
I guess I see it a little different from you. I feel that, in this instance, the target audience is NOT your average Stereophile reader. Most of us would recognize the hyperbole and lack of facts in the ads in question. Given the exorbitant MSRPs listed and the actual prices that these items command on Ebay, it appears to me that this ad is presumably to entice people into buying a 'bargain' that has a list price 5X the asking price. This is really hard to pass up. The fact that their print ads run in highly reputable magazines just makes the deal that much better. Where are these products sold excepting on Ebay and possible on an individual basis? If they offered a money back guarantee as other REPUTABLE mail order businesses do (Axiom, ACI, Onix, Aperion, Ascend etc.) then I would have zero problem with the ad. The point I am trying to make is that I feel that what will happen is that individuals will try to sell these products to people who believe they are getting a fantastic bargain. If and when the buyer realizes he has been duped, it will be too late. OTOH, if this a legitimate ad by a company with the means to allow a return policy (or for individals to actually hear and see the item at a showroom), then I take back every thing I've said. I'm just concerned with people being potentially conned into buying what may turn out to be junk. Regarding the Velodyne ad, let us not forget that Velodyne has a reputation for making superb subwoofers. It is NOT an unknown company like Elite Audio (though the Elite ad does claim they are 'one of the world's most revered names in high-end audio'). I also wonder about the name. It may be positioned to be mistaken for Elite by Pioneer. It all seems really fishy to me.
Yes, Alex Smith probably has no idea what great bass is, but the fact remains that you never have to buy Velodyne sight unseen (sound unheard??). they obviously have a wordwide dealer network. However, I agree that the choice of AS as a spokeman is a little bizarre.
ok so let's say "someone" got duped, and now someone has a ea-505 5.1 2000watt hunk of junk.. is it worth plugging into my grandma's tv or something? and realistically what is this thing worth? Should I just toss it in the trash and forget it happened? btw, i paid 200 if anyone was curious exactly how dumb I happen to be.
Hi, Jdeclue1 -- I think you should enjoy the music you play through the system as much as you can. If you don't sense any dissatisfaction, you have an enjoyable home system for 200 bucks. If you do, eventually, tire of this system, 200 bucks is a small price to pay for admission to the upgrade club. Give them to some young headbanger, or sell 'em for the price of a couple of CD's. Then use the knowledge acquired to be more careful when you move up in quality. Pinpoint what, eventually, turned you off and avoid repeating the mistakes. Enjoy the music, and go nuts like the rest of us. Cheers, Clifton
Hi, Ajay -- it seems there are two issues here, for people who object to the ad. One of them is protective: nobody wants to see an unwitting consumer get screwed by a pseudo-legitimate come-on. All I can say to this one is, we all learn by our mistakes. Ad hyperbole is a convention. Anyone who makes a buying decision based solely on ad hype deserves what he gets. Period. This is home stereo, not a wonder drug with side effects. The second issue is indignance. Many who say Stereophile should not accept such ads voice the fear that, somehow, Elite may profit from running the ad. This is a different issue. Business people budget for advertising in order to INCREASE overall profits. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If it works, it is money well spent by Elite. If it doesn't, they should (and will) advertise elsewhere. Stereophile's job is to print the ads and cash the checks. The customer's job is simply to know where he is. In the USA. Where hyperbole is the dominant trope in advertising. Where people lie on TV, in magazines, and on your computer to make a buck. If you are in the market for ANY product and don't know these obvious facts, you need to pay up for your education. Caveat Emptor. Period. Clifton
Normally, I would agree that running ads is just part of media business. However, there is a point when discretion must be used in determining what ads are appropriate for a particular publication. If Stereophile values the brand they have created over the last 40 some odd years they will exercise their discretion in denying these sorts of ads.
As it stands, this can be chalked up to a mistake that can be corrected for the future. Continuing to run these ads suggests something completely foreign to the pursuit and advocacy of superior audio reproduction.
Hi, Monty --
I guess there is a third issue here -- pride of ownership, for want of a better phrase. Many subscribers ("owners" by subscription) who object to the ads seem to feel betrayed by the presence of interlopers, or feel they are somehow being stained by the (to them) parasitical presence of an illegitmate relative they didn't invite to the reunion. I guess this is just a personal thing that doesn't really bother me, even though it bothers others on a similarly personal level. For me, this is not worth arguing over, since the point is moot, and my "stake" in the magazine has no relationship to its advertisers. I take them all with a grain of salt, "legitimate" or otherwise. I have to say, though, that for me Stereophile's 40 years of building a positive brand name is based on the quality of their writing -- that is, their writers' abilities to combine wit and detachment in their reviews, without dogma or pompous strutting, and their unique combination of subjective judgment tempered by objective measurement and data analyses. And, of course, the sense of genuine technical expertise they communicate. Point taken, Monty, since I respect your contributions to the forum so much...but I can't imagine being genuinely offended by any ad in any context, because I just don't take them seriously. I just laugh at the bad ones and check out the good ones, as dictated by my own personal filtering mechanisms. Cheers, Clifton
I immediately alerted Stereophile's publisher to the potential issues raised by the presence of these ads in our pages, and he is investigating which ad salesperson sold them, to whom were they sold, and what information do we have on the company that placed the ads. If it does indeed turn out that these ads are not what they purport to be, then we will not run them again.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
I just got my June issue - I was one of the overseas victims of June's problems - and was shocked when I saw the "Elite audio" ads. I've never seen such a transparent scam in my life, and it's sad indeed that Stereophile got mugged by these jokers.
Or was it a case of "see no evil"? The jokers bought a huge quantity of ad space, Stereophile can pretend shock and dismay and never run such ads again . . . which is no sweat, since the jokers never wanted to run them more than once . . .
Either way, you should have inserted an apology to your readers - and the unwashed suckers out there that may get hoodwinked - in July's "As We See It".
Carl Hoefer
Castelldefels, Spain
...Concerning the Elite Audio ad...First of all great statment Gary and if there is any question as to whether the magazine made a bad decision take a look at my screenname...says it all!!!
Sure I'm at fault for buying the stuff but I will have to say that having the ad was a big push in their favor. I'm not too pissed yet (will be if this system doesn't even turn on). Gave me the "need to move it now before we get to the site to install the other system" (2 in the truck - not a van but a VERY nice truck). Everyone sported "Dream Audio Works" gear. Well I told them I'd give them $200 now and another $200 tonight if it's decent. After some bs they agreed. Basically I doubt they'll be around for the $200 nor will they return the first $200. So my question is...what is this stuff worth? $200? A bit premature I know since I haven't heard it yet but I'm sitting here at work and curious....
Thanks guys and for sterophile...the "van guys" said they'd cover the subscription cost so expect payment any day.....
Wow, 200 bucks, and what was the supposed "list price" on the gear you bought?
well, sure as shit...
someone approached my friend today with your magazine with the 10 page ad spread...
unfortunately he thought he was getting a good deal based on the "brand name recognition" of the magazine...
so who gets the cookie for predicting the future with this one?
Stereophile should know that these adverts in such a widely known magazine could very well fool unsuspecting folk into being defrauded by bogus audio salesmen. As such, I would expect the magazine to publish a clear apology to its loyal readers in the next issue.
This is getting more amazing every day.
So, these budding audiophiles who you guys all happen to know get approached by someone offering gear at something like 2% of list price, and they're amazed that what they bought is not the good shit?
Well, that answers one question.
Now, the only other question we need to answer is exactly what KIND of idiots these people are.
Reckedracing, why didn't your retarded friend's guardian call you before he threw money at that stuff? Even if by osmosis, your friend should have been keen enough to smell that audio rat.
At the confluence of greed and stupidity wait the whirpools.
i wasn't saying my friend didn't making a mistake, just confirming what others already posted regarding people using this advert to scam others...
Apologies for my cynicism last night, Reckedracing.
This whole scam kind of fits the "If it seems too good to be true, it probably isn't" category. Like people thinking they bought a real Rolex for 40 bucks form some guy in a trench coat!
On the plus side, I bet those white van people bought several thousand copies of that issue, eh?
Once again, apologies for being so dour last evening.
People scam themselves. The particular advertisement that triggers the gullibility gene only greases the slope. What if he likes the way they sound?
Buddha, if you would stop sobering up, you wouldn't have to spend so much time apologizing for the things you say and do. How many times have I told you to keep the nipple IN your mouth and never to drink anything clear? Reckedracing, Buddha really IS a good, well-meaning soul...he just occasionally forgets his medication.
Well 4 $200 bucks I got what I figured i would...a $200 system. These losers actually called me to see if I liked it and willing to pay the other $200. I just laughed and said nah sounds horrible where would you like to meet so i can return it. After some babbling about his buddy having the $$$ i just said forget it, call me if you want it back. Roommates love it...no worries on the bass rattling their room!
No hard feelings with the van guys, I got an "average" system with 5 speakers, sub, reciever, remote, etc. for $200. i will have to say it was extremly irresponisble of the magazine to print the add. It was the first thing shown to me. Maybe the mag needs to require samples sent in from new companies before their allowed to advertise...hey more free $hit why not?!
Well I'm off to rock my new system... ...you kids have fun with this electronic crap. Later!!!!!


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The people in this cartoon are "doing gender." What does this mean? What is gender?
Gender is an embodied social program, an ideological construction of the body that we do not simply perform in language and gesture,
but also inhabit and experience somatically (from the Greek, soma), in the body .
Gender is durable, although not inevitable, because it is produced and reproduced through symbolic and physical violence that privileges a purely relational, yet rigid, conception of masculinity that is sustained over against rigid conceptions of femininity.
The privileging of masculinity over femininity is wholly arbitrary–it makes no sense and might just as easily have been reversed, had certain factors in our history been different.
The patterns according to which we have interpreted our anatomies and behaviors come from culture, not nature. Gender is a historically constructed way of responding to biology, sure. But it is also a historically determined way of responding to established practices of culture.
Historians and evolutionary psychologist believe that the invention of agriculture made an enormous impact on the way that human beings think about masculinity and femininity. See, for example, the work of Christopher Ryan.
Gender is enforced and reinforced through symbolic and physical violence. We all undergo a certain degree of symbolic violence, and we experience it directly whenever we "apply categories constructed from the point of view of the dominant to the relations of domination, thus making them appear to be natural," as Pierre Bourdieu explains in his stellar book, Masculine Domination (p. 35).
So, for example, when women view themselves through the constructed categories of ideal femininity in, say, women's magazines, and perceive themselves to be hideously fat and unattractive because they do not have the elongated and emaciated bodies of the models featured there, then they are experiencing symbolic violence.
Or, when we learn, from our parents, our media, our teachers, civic leaders, and preachers, that women are less able to do math or philosophy or auto mechanics or law than men, and unconsciously choose believe these fictions, and make choices in our lives because we have accepted them, then are experiencing symbolic violence.
We see ourselves through the categories that are present in our culture. And because our culture is patriarchal, organized according to a scheme of perceptions in which things masculine are considered to be higher or better than things feminine, the categories (for example, categories of the perfect female body) through which we see ourselves are also the expression of that patriarchal order.
When we see ourselves according to these paradigmatic ways of understanding "woman," we are victims of symbolic violence. The culture doesn't need to beat us up–we do it do ourselves every time we compare ourselves to these idealized images of starvation or hyperbolic nymphomania and find ourselves wanting. We learn to think about ourselves as second, less important than men. We also learn to fear that if we do not look as though we are continually hungering for men, that they will not want us.
This, of course, is complete rubbish, since no one but an absolute ass wants someone around who slavishly caters to their idiotic desires. And yet there are so many men who can't seem to stand women who assert themselves, and so many women who slavishly cater, or who spend inordinate amounts of time preparing themselves to be the objects of men's desires, and little or no time thinking about what their own desires really are. There are also plenty of men who can't seem to imagine that women have any legitimate desires whatsoever.
Gender works through a series of oppositions. Men know themselves as "men" only insofar as they can declare or prove that they are not "unmen" or women. Over against a denigrated Other, men set themselves up as men, as subject, as powerful, right. Just as light knows itself to be light only in contrast to darkness, so masculinity is defined over against femininity. There is no such thing as absolute masculinity or essential masculinity, just as there is no such thing as absolute or essential darkness, or absolute "down" that exists in and of itself without the concept of "up." Similarly, men habitually define themselves as men only in opposition to women.
But instead of understanding a reciprocal or equal relationship between men and women, we tend to set ourselves into hierarchical relationships. That is, we understand gender as an order in which masculine always takes precedence over feminine. But this doesn't make any sense. There is a reciprocal relationship between up and down, or hot and cold, or dry and wet. You cannot think one term without the other. That understanding makes it possible for you to see both ideas as concepts, mutually determining ideas, but not as a hierarchy.
Yet we generally do not understand these sexual oppositions as mutually dependent and equivalent, but rather as a superior-inferior relationship, in which masculinity is always superior to femininity, always "above" that which is "below" it. This is false thinking, an illusion of reality that has been enforced by symbolic and real violence. Women who have defied it have been punished, branded as whores or sluts or witches or monsters or hags. They have also been subjected to physical punishment, to beatings and rapes and mutilations and murders. Think of Anne Hutchinson,
or wise women, or people you may know of extraordinary autonomy and intransigence who, because they have refused to play the part of the "good" woman within the patriarchal order, have been slapped down or destroyed.


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If just the mention of the name Ed Asner puts the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in your head, then the actor's longtime Studio City house will probably bring to mind his trademark character: lovable, flawed, curmudgeonly, fatherly editor Lou Grant.
Talk about a warm fuzzy. The charming traditional-style home, which sold for $1.306 million, has that real-people-lived-here look. And the place oozes wall-to-wall character.
Used brick, leaded glass, exposed-beam ceilings, brass hardware and French doors are among the charms in the 2,783-square-foot home. Living space includes living and family rooms, an office, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
The self-contained master suite features a sitting area, a fireplace, another office and a walk-in cedar closet.
Brick steps lead from the back of the home to a sunny patio and a swimming pool with a spa.
Asner, 84, is a past president of the Screen Actors Guild. The Emmy winner played Lou Grant in the 1970s sitcom with Moore and in "Lou Grant," a spinoff drama set at a newspaper. He voiced a character in the animated film "Up" (2009).
Last year Asner appeared in "The Glades" and the TV movie "Christmas on the Bayou." This year he is on the series "Men at Work" and in the films "Audrey," "The Games Maker" and "Promoted."
Asner bought the property in 1996 for $540,000, public records show.
Ron Holliman and Constance Chesnut of Coldwell Banker were the listing agents. Stanton Snyder represented the buyer.
Tech money finds a home
Eric Schmidt, the billionaire executive chairman of Google Inc., has bought the Veronique and Gregory Peck estate on L.A.'s Westside for $22 million.
Set on 1.3 acres, the 1930s French chateau sits at the end of a long driveway and is surrounded by a flat lawn, mature trees and lush gardens. The neighbors include heiress Petra Ecclestone, White House interior designer Michael Smith and the Playboy Mansion.
Designed for grand-scale entertaining, the 9,182 square feet of living space features the original marble-walled foyer, vaulted ceilings, formal dining and living rooms, an office, a bar, four fireplaces, seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
French doors throughout the house open to patio space and a swimming pool.
Schmidt, 58, was worth an estimated $8.3 billion last year, according to Forbes, ranking him No. 138 on the magazine's list of the richest people in the world.
Gregory Peck, who died in 2003 at 87, won an acting Oscar for his starring role as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962). Among his other memorable films are "Roman Holiday" (1953), "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) and "MacArthur" (1977).
Veronique Peck bought the property the year her husband died for $14.135 million, public records show, and filled it with his memorabilia.
Rick Hilton, Jeffrey Hyland and Rayni Romito of Hilton & Hyland/Christie's International Real Estate, as well as Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker were the listing agents. Ron de Salvo, also with Coldwell Banker, represented Schmidt.
It's a beach wrap for producer
Brian Grazer, the prolific film and television producer, has sold his Malibu Colony beach house for $17.375 million, making it the most expensive sale in the beach community to post so far this year in the local Multiple Listing Service.
Designed for entertaining and built in 1995, the renovated Mediterranean-style home features a deck off the living room and breakfast room.
The three-story house has 6,067 square feet of living space, including an art studio, a media room, an office, a gym, five bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
An indoor swimming pool is adjacent to the two-car attached garage.
Grazer, 62, co-founded Imagine Entertainment with Ron Howard. He won an Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) and is a producer for the upcoming film "The Good Lie," starring Reese Witherspoon. He has been an executive producer for TV series, including "How to Live With Your Parents," "Friday Night Lights" and "Arrested Development."
Public records show Grazer bought the oceanfront house in 2003 for $13.5 million.
Stephen Shapiro of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, was the listing agent. Cristie St. James of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and Chad Rogers of Hilton & Hyland represented the buyer.
His vision lives on in Burbank
Marco Zappia, the late Emmy-winning film editor, helped shape scores of television shows and one very unusual English Tudor/French Normandy-style house, which has come on the market in Burbank at $2.199 million.
Embellished with gingerbread details and other whimsical touches, the 7,850-square-foot house is entered through leaded-glass double doors. Beyond the formal entry lie a quaint parlor, a formal dining room, a great room, five bedrooms, six bathrooms, six fireplaces and an elevator.
The storybook-style breakfast room features a rounded brick fireplace, high ceilings and French doors that open to the patio.
The finished basement includes a separate exterior entrance, a media room, a billiard room, a playroom, a gym, a gift-wrapping room, a bar and an office. A secret room is hidden by a retractable bookcase.
Zappia, who died last year at 76, was a film editor for series including "Hee Haw," "All in the Family" and "Home Improvement."
He envisioned the home for decades and finally had it built in 1998.
Christopher Rizzotti of Rizzotti Realestate is the listing agent.
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Wabash to Host Japanese Education Officialsby Kelly McDorman • November 4, 2012 Share:
Wabash College, the Center of Inquiry, and the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) will host a group of educators from Japan, Nov. 6-7, 2012. The visitors represent four universities in Japan as well as their Department of Higher Education.
The Center and HEDS were asked to host the delegation by Randy Swing who is the Executive Director of the Association for Institutional Research, an organization that HEDS and the Center of Inquiry have been active with for some time. The delegation is primarily interested in learning more about study abroad. Secondarily, the group is interested in learning about collaboration with other institutions and the benefits of creating consortia and sharing information with other institutions.
Leading the delegation is Mr. Atsushi Hamana, the President of Kansai University of International Studies. Also visiting is Mr. Shuichi Tsukahara, the Director of the Department for Higher Education National Institute for Educational Policy Research. Five faculty members are in the delegation: Mr. Hideki Yamamoto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kansai University of International Studies; Ms. Chie Kasahara, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kansai University of International Studies; Mr. Shumpei Yaoita, Lecturer, Faculty of Community Studies, Shukutoku University; Mr. Kazuhisa Tomioka, Professor and Director Educational Affairs, Hokuriku Gakuin University, and Mr. Shuichi Tamura, Research Associate, Faculty of Childhood Education, Research Institute for Higher Education, Kurashiki Sakuyo University. Mr. Takashi Ikeda, from the office of the President of Kansai University of International Studies is a member of the delegation and worked closely with HEDS and the Center of Inquiry on the visit.
The delegation will be welcomed to Wabash College by President Patrick White. They will first meet with Charles Blaich and Kathy Wise who will discuss findings on study abroad from the Wabash National Study as well as the Study Abroad Learning and Cost Alliance of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. They will also discuss working in collaboration with other institutions with examples from the Wabash National Study and HEDS. David Clapp, Wabash's Director of Off-Campus Studies and International Students, will discuss the specifics and logistics of our study abroad opportunities including how our students are guided through that process before, during, and after the trips. Gary Phillips, Dean of the College will talk about Wabash's plans for assessing study abroad and immersion experiences with the group.
In addition they will meet with several Wabash faculty members who will discuss the wide range of study abroad opportunities that Wabash College offers including traditional long-term study abroad, our Ecuador program, as well as course specific immersion trips. Those faculty include, Professors Kealoha Widdows, Gilberto Gomez, Daniel Rogers, Jeremy Hartnett, Jane Hardy and Peter Mikek. Several Wabash College students who have studied abroad or participated in immersion trips will join the delegation for lunch including, Jose Herrera, Michael Carper, Matthew Paul, Keaton Becher, Hung Duong, Riley Floyd, and Yujiro Muranaka who is an exchange student at Wabash College this year from Waseda University in Japan.
Finally, several people meeting with the delegation will discuss the new Asian Studies program and our collaboration with DePauw University on that project. Joining the group from DePauw University will be Hiroko Chiba the Marguerite Andrade Professor of Modern Languages, Associate Professor of Japanese, and Director of the Asian Studies Program and David Berque who is a Professor of Computer Science.
Kelly McDorman is the Assistant to the Director for Project Management and Program Evaluation in the Center of Inquiry at Wabash College


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On an unseasonably hot morning this fall, my 11-year-old son and I set off for Hoover Dam, his first time to tour the American engineering wonder that draws nearly 1 million visitors a year.
In recent years, I'd visited the dam and adjacent reservoir, Lake Mead, as a journalist who reports on water. But I hadn't been there as a tourist since my own childhood. I looked forward to hearing how the dam's minder, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, would tell such a big story to such a big audience.
I expected to hear about the drama, human sacrifice and technical prowess behind the dam's construction. I also expected some of the growing concerns about the Colorado River that feeds the dam, having seen the bureau's worrisome charts that show how demand for the water shared by seven U.S. states and Mexico has exceeded supply — a gap growing ever wider amid epic drought and epic waste.
Americans operate under an illusion of water abundance. That fiction makes the reality of water scarcity a particularly hard concept to get across. From California to Florida, freshwater aquifers are being pumped so much faster than they recharge that many parts of the country can no longer rely on groundwater to supply future populations.


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Alder & Co: Beautiful Things for Everyday Use
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Website: alderandcoshop.com
Store History
- Founded: 2010
- Founded by: Carla Helmholz
- Headquarters: Portland, Oregon
Located just off Southwest Alder Street in Portland, this shop focuses on basic but beautiful things that we use in our day-to-day routines. Things like wool blankets, grocery bags, garden boots, and kitchen tools line the shelves.
Opened over the summer of 2010, Alder & Co stocks high-quality brands and designers including Tourne textiles, Donna Wilson blankets and poufs, Bensimon sneakers, and Baggu reusable shopping bags. They explain, "We are particularly passionate about goods that are made in the USA and we also search out special manufacturers in Europe and Japan."
They're working on an e-commerce site, but in the meantime you have to call or visit in-person to buy. For a peek at available items, check out their blog: Aldler & Co.
• Aigle 'Malouine' Boots
• Plier Bottle Openers, $22
• Hand-painted Sparrows from Japan, $20
• French Market Baskets, $40 - $48
• Nos Da Pouf $390, Matta Blankets $172, and Felt Piggie Ornament $8
• Linen Market Bag by Studiopatro, $92
• Ceramic Speakers by Joey Roth, $495
• Handmade Spinning Tops, $12 - $26
• Baggu Reusable Bags, $8
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"The Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood has listed a Santa Monica house for $1.85 million.
The Spanish-style main home, built in 1924, is described in the listing as an "opportunity to remodel … or to build a new home." A Queen Anne Victorian entry opens into a round foyer with a British brewery cast-iron tile floor. Including a guesthouse with an office attached to the two-car garage, the property has a total of three bedrooms, two bathrooms and 2,130 square feet of living space.
Wood, 30, played Frodo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings" (2001-03) trilogy. He stars in the TV comedy "Wilfred" (2011) and will reprise his role as Baggins in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" (2012) and "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" (2013).
Public records show the former child actor bought the house in 1999 from actor Dylan McDermott for $1.45 million.
Roya Kianmahd of Keller Williams, Santa Monica, is the listing agent.