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It might sound silly, but everyone loves receiving gifts in a jar. Why? Because the possibilities are endless! You can give your friends and loved ones all the ingredients necessary to make a delicious recipe like the Yummy Hot Cocoa Jar. Or, give a beauty product that will keep skin looking fresh during the colder months like the Gardener's Hand Scrub. Not to mention, it's such a fun gift when it comes decorated in a creative and festive jar. Homemade gifts in a jar can make for a truly special present.
When you download this free eBook, Perfect for Christmas Gift Giving: 6 'Gift in a Jar' Ideas, you are absolutely getting rid of all the stress of Christmas shopping. The first two projects will have you super excited for the sweet, chocolatey goodness of the holiday season: Yummy Hot Cocoa Jar (pg. 5) and Granny's Chocolate Gravy (pg. 6). You probably never realized you could do so much with a simple jar. This Gardener's Hand Scrub on page 8 is the perfect gift to give beauty lovers. Jars make everything easier and more organized. There's nothing more exciting than receiving something you love contained in a beautiful jar. While chocolate is always a delicious surprise, these Recipes in a Jar on page 9 can't be overlooked. The Pumpkin Bread Jars (pg. 9) are simply scrumptious. Christmas is a wonderful time to go crazy with decorations. Create a winter wonderland this season and add subtle details to your home décor with crafts like these Christmas Spirit Jars on page 11. This crafty Christmas is bound to be a merry one!
Keep reading to see what other Christmas jar crafts you can look forward to making this year. Make sure to download your free eBook today - Christmas will be here before you know it.
It's never too early to start your Christmas crafting!
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Chocolate in a Jar
Gifts with chocolate are great because, well, there's chocolate in them! If you're wondering what to get your loved ones for any special occasion, chocolate is the way to go. Not only does the sweet stuff warm your soul and your stomach, it can be packaged in beautiful ways that celebrate the magic of Christmas. Our eBook, Perfect for Christmas Gift Giving: 6 'Gift in a Jar' Ideas, brings you two very different gifts in a jar that both make for a chocolatey, delicious treat. On page 5 you'll find the Yummy Hot Cocoa Jar. There's no better reason to love a freezing cold day than a warm cup of hot cocoa. You can never get too much of this good stuff. The beautiful decorated jar has the recipe right on the inside, so you never have to worry about misplacing the instructions from the ingredients. For a creative and thrifty gift idea, make this Yummy Hot Cocoa Jar. It's a perfect homemade gift in a jar idea. Next, on page 6, you'll find a recipe for Granny's Chocolate Gravy. Didn't see that one coming, did you? This recipe is an unexpected take on both chocolate and gravy. If you want to add chocolate to every element of your Thanksgiving feast, we say why not? While you could just pour this delicious gravy right over your turkey, it's also perfect as a unique gift for the host of your Thanksgiving dinner. Decorate a jar with Christmas embellishments and pour Granny's Chocolate Gravy into it. Your loved one will be so surprised and especially excited by the culinary creativity. We know we had you at "Gifts with chocolate.." Download the free eBook now!
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Beauty in a Jar
Doesn't it seem like you're always spending so much money on your beauty routine products? Well we have big news: You can make your beauty products right at home! With this free eBook, Perfect for Christmas Gift Giving: 6 'Gift in a Jar' Ideas, you'll get the recipe for a delicious and effective hand scrub. Found on page 7, this Gardener's Hand Scrub recipe is easy to make, feels great on your skin, and looks fabulous in its jar packaging. Who knew you didn't have to be a chemist to make a product that works so well? Your friends and family will surely appreciate this hand scrub in a jar. People can be very particular about the products they use on their skin, so it can be a daunting task to buy a gift like lotion, body scrub, or perfume. No worries: this Gardener's Hand Scrub will make your skin feel so soft and it won't irritate it at all. Give them to all your friends and family and you'll be holding hands through the holiday season!
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Recipes in a Jar
By now we can conclude that anything in a jar is a really good thing. We've combined two of our favorite things yet again: delicious food and adorable jars. These recipes in a jar will have you living in your kitchen during the holiday season. You'll never want to stop crafting with food! On page 10 you'll find Oatmeal Chippers in a Jar. This scrump-diddly-umptious cookie mix is the perfect gift to give for Christmas. Cookies are always a great way to celebrate the holiday and when you put them in a Christmas-themed jar, they're even better. This Oatmeal Chippers in a Jar gift make baking a splendidly simple task. You have all the ingredients wrapped up in an adorable, spirited jar. On page 9 you'll find the Pumpkin Bread Jars that will knock your socks off. Nothing screams holiday spirit like pumpkin recipes. The sweet spice of pumpkin is simply heart warming. Friends and family won't be able to stop themselves when they get their hands on the Pumpkin Bread Jars you give them. With these recipes in a jar, you'll be the best gift-giver of the entire holiday season. What are you waiting for? Download this free eBook Perfect for Christmas Gift Giving: 6 'Gift in a Jar' Ideas right now!
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Decorative Jars as Gifts
It turns out you don't need to put anything in the jar for it to be a perfectly wonderful gift. With our free eBook, Perfect for Christmas Gift Giving: 6 'Gift in a Jar' Ideas, you get a fantastic tutorial for Christmas Spirit Jars. With this craft you'll realize that sometimes a simple jar is enough to fill a room with the spirit of Christmas. Place something special inside of it like jewelry or pot pourri or leave it as it is and enjoy it as a Christmas-themed accessory in any room of your house. There's so many options with a gift like Christmas Spirit Jars. You can let your creativity run wild and decorate each jar as you wish. There are so many different Christmas embellishments you can buy during the holidays. Each jar will be it's own unique Christmas decoration. There's nothing better than receiving a gift that is both beautiful and useful. Perhaps your friends and family need a container for their miscellaneous tchotchkes. If that's the case, your Christmas Spirit Jars will bring them so much holiday joy. You don't need a reason to love these Christmas Spirit Jars. They're fabulous on their own. Download the free eBook now so you can get crafting!
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Part one covered the original launch game, and part two covered the Burning Crusade expansion. Part three is about Corgis Unleashed.
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James Brown biopic to be filmed in Mississippi
Tate Taylor, the Mississippi native who directed "The Help," said Monday that he'll make a biographical feature film about James Brown in the state, starting this fall.
"Every frame will be shot in Mississippi. We're even doing Paris, France, in Mississippi. ... Vietnam, as well, in Mississippi," Taylor said at the Mississippi Coliseum on the state fairgrounds in Jackson, where some scenes will be shot.
Filming will take place in November and December in and near Natchez, a Mississippi River town in the southwestern corner of the state; and in January and February in the capital city of Jackson, said Taylor, who grew up in Jackson and now has a home near Natchez.
Taylor said he could know within the next week who will play Brown.
"Those are tough shoes to fill," he said.
Asked if a well-known actor or a newcomer is likely to land the role, Taylor said: "I tend to go toward relative unknowns."
Taylor will direct the biopic. His co-producers for the movie are Mick Jaggerand Brian Grazer, he said.
"James Brown, really, was the first real dancer that broke the ground of how people move," Taylor said. "And Mick Jagger has complimented that and tipped his hat to that forever."
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant joined Taylor in announcing the project and said the state will provide incentives, including rebates of up to 30 percent of the payroll for state residents hired on the project. It's not yet possible to put a dollar figure on the state incentive package, Bryant said, because the movie is still in the planning stage.
Mississippi lawmakers earlier this year increased the incentives that the state offers to movie makers. The new law, signed by Bryant, says the state could provide rebates of up to $10 million per project for nationally distributed feature films, documentaries and TV shows.
Brown, who died in 2006 at 73, was known as "the hardest working man in show business" and as the "Godfather of Soul." He is known for hit such as 1965's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and 1985's "Living in America." Brown was born in 1933 in South Carolina and grew up in Georgia. Taylor said Mississippi provides a similar look because it is "on that same line of latitude."
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"The Help," released in 2011, was filmed in several Mississippi locations, including Greenwood and Jackson. Taylor said he wants to develop the film industry in the state.
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Gerald A. HonigmanThe author is an educator who has done extensive doctoral studies in Mid-East Affairs and has conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth. He gives lectures and participates in debates around the U.S. Read his new book to be found at http://q4j-middle-east.com.
I know. I can hear it all now:
"Just because he doesn't like Israel doesn't make Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, an anti-Semite."
While in theory that might sound nice, in reality, the sad fact is that if you believe that, with the over three millennia-old Zionist holiday of redemption fast approaching–you'll also believe I'm the Passover Bunny.
Judeans expecting the same thing that hundreds of other different peoples, from Antilleans to Zimbabweans, expect--a place to call their own. And, in the Judeans'–Jews'–case, it's the very same place they prayed for (even in forced exile) for over three millenna, long before most other peoples ever entered recorded history.
Yes, we know about Hagel's problems with the "Jewish Lobby"–while ignoring the almost century-old influence and collusion between Arab petro-potentates and the United States government which makes the alleged AIPAC bogeyman look like child's play. While I haven't checked yet, I'll bet Hagel has already benefitted from this as well. Other Arab pals, like former Presidents Carter and Clinton, sure have–to the tune of scores of millions of dollars.
Yes, we know that Hagel is beloved by the current regime of Iran's murderous mullahs. Now why might that be?
And yes, we also know that Hagel refuses to designate Hizbullah–which loves to deliberately murder civilians all over the world in addition to those in Israel–as a terrorist organization. Among others, eighty-five Argentinan Jews were blown apart in Buenas Aires. But hey, Hizbullah is just a bunch of freedom fighters–just ask Chuck.
The list goes on. And if I had to predict whom Obama would pick for such a position, it would indeed be someone just like Hagel.
The President wields much power in deciding which peas share his selective pod. Given this–and the refusal of any Democrats to show any backbone on such issues–why should Obama's key appointees and advisors not share the same animus towards Jews who refuse to prostrate themselves to his demands that their chief does?
Think of Obama's good buddies on this same subject–Zbig Brzezinski, Susan Rice, Robert Malley, Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Samantha Powers, Tony McPeak, and many others like them. The Nation of Islam's Louis ("Judaism is a gutter religion") Farakhan even called Obama the messiah. Is this all just coincidence or a case of birds of a feather flocking together?
But, perhaps the icing on Chuck's cake came with one of the newest revelations.
Alana Goodman reported in the Washington Free Beacon on February 14th that Hagel stated in a 2007 speech at Rutgers University that the State Department was controlled by Israel. The claim would be funny if not so obnoxiously twisted.
Hagel is, no doubt, an anti-Semite through and through. His assorted assertions are typical of his breed. He sounds like a reincarnated General George Brown several decades ago. Yet, Obama's Democratic Jewish congressional and other supporters continue to live in Lalaland.
Personally, I prefer my anti-Semites out in the open–so I give Hagel credit for that. Lately, I'm getting sick of some of my fellow-Jews myself. Too many appear set to jump onto the cattle cars yet again–or worse, be accomplices to others shoving their brethren abroad onto them. This is, after all, what a return by Israel to the imposed armistice lines–not borders–of 1949 would likely translate into and the major cause of friction with the Obama crew. It is also what the fight over the settlement issue is largely all about: Judeans–Jews–once again living in Judea and in Jerusalem near their Temple Mount.
What a stretch ! Americans in Samoa but no Jews in Samaria. Got it.
Yet, maybe I'm not being understanding enough.
Since Hagel brought the subject up, perhaps–like with America's policy towards Iranian nukes–he just had a lapse of memory or was just plain innocently ignorant on the subject of the State Department and the Jews. A few examples pointing to the absurdity of his Foggy Bottom statement are thus in order.
From the get-go, President Harry Truman had to buck the State Department over the very recognition and rebirth of Israel.
Since at least the days of FDR's contacts with Ibn Saud of Arabia, the U.S. government has been in political and economic bed with the oil sheikhs. While this was and is understandable, the fact that the very resurrection of the Jewish homeland was being held hostage to others' access to oil was deplorable. As the Kurds in Mesopotamia had promises made to them broken in the aftermath of World War I due to a collusion between petroleum politics and Arab nationalism, there were active efforts to abort the age-old aspirations of the Jews. Besides the oil issue, there was also outright anti-Semitism involved.
And while an Israel, which came to be born on some 12% of the original April 25, 1920 Mandate of Palestine, sits on much less than one percent of the region, please recall that Arabs got to have the almost two dozen states they possess to date on almost seven million square miles of territory by the conquest and forced Arabization of mostly other native, non-Arab peoples' lands throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Furthermore, Arab Jordan was created on almost 80% of the original Mandate of Palestine's area.
The State Department watched as a nascent Israel was attacked by a half-dozen Arab nations in 1948 and did nothing.
In the 1950s, numerous Israelis were killed in Fedayeen attacks originating from the Egyptian occupied Gaza Strip. Then, in 1956, Egypt blockaded the Gulf of Aqaba, assumed national control of the Suez Canal, and blocked it to Israeli shipping–also violating the Suez Canal Convention of 1888. The State Department, under John Foster Dulles's lead, took Egypt's part and forced a unilateral Israeli withdrawal.
In 1967, when Israel was once again blockaded (a casus belli), Egypt's Nasser expelled the UN peacekeeping force in Sinai and Gaza, amassed 100,000 troops on Israel's armistice line, and daily called for Israel's and the Jews' deaths, America–under State Department leadership– declared "our position is neutral in thought, word and deed."
Given the above, for the first twenty years, somehow it just doesn't look like those Jews had the State Department at their beck and call.
So, how about more recent history?
The June 1967 War was indeed an important moment in this relationship. I have written about this frequently–especially since its lingering issues still haunt us today. For an in-depth account, please see http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/
In the wake of '67′s hostilities, the architects of the final draft of UNSC Resolution 242 understood that Israel could never return to the armistice lines of 1949 which made it a mere nine to fifteen miles wide at its vulnerable waist–where its capitol, parliament, international airport, most of its population, and infrastructure are located. Presidents Johnson, Reagan, and others were vocal in this need for a territorial compromise over territories Israel acquired as a result of repeated attempts to destroy it by its Arab neighbors.
Lands have exchanged hands all over the world for far less.
As '67′s dust settled, however, and as the decades passed, that same State Department–which Hagel says is in Israel's pocket–did everything in its power to render 242′s call for the creation of more secure, defensible, and real borders to replace Israel's former Auschwitz lines meaningless. "Resolution To Kill The Resolution" details this in depth and is a chapter in my own book
It got so bad that when Israel started to erect its security barriers to prevent Arabs from blowing up civilian buses, restaurants, pizza parlors, hotels, and the like, the State Department used its Jew front men, like Ambassador Dan Kurtzer, to pressure Israel into not crossing the '49 armistice line–thus leaving Ben Gurion Airport exposed, and so forth.
Since I mentioned Dan Kurtzer, how can I leave out Secretary of State James Baker III? Dan was–in Baker's own words–one of his 1980s and '90s "Jew Boys."
While Bush the First was at the helm, widespread published reports circulated that Baker promised Syria's Hafez al-Assad the same deal on the Golan Heights as Egypt's Sadat received in the Sinai Peninsula–a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces. And this was prior to negotiations between the parties themselves.
Think about the implications of that today regarding what is currently going on in Syria–and the fact that the alleged "good guys" attacking the younger Assad mocked him for not retaliating against Israel for taking out advanced missiles being sent to Hizbullah in Lebanon. In a Time magazine article on February 13, 1989, Baker spoke of Israel as being a wild turkey that needed to be hunted and carefully stalked…the very same State Department dude who, among other gems, proclaimed, "f'-the Jews, they don't vote for us anyway."
The list goes on and on--like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton's famous shouting episodes at Israeli leaders who did not prostrate themselves low enough to demands for such things as the Jews providing Arabs with Israeli weapons, dismantling checkpoints in sensitive areas to save Jewish lives, and Jews daring to live once again in parts of Jerusalem near the Temple Mount and in Judea and Samaria–which Arabs had prevented them from doing until the '67 War. Recall that Jews owned land and lived there until massacred by Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s.
Okay, enough. There's plenty more, but I think you get the picture.
The very fact that Hagel thinks and says things like this is the real issue here, as the statement itself is patently ridiculous.
The "Arabist" bent of the State Department is legendary.
His propensity to such assertions leaves no doubt that President Obama has simply decided to add yet another blatant anti-Semite to his pod.
I offer no further comment–except that I hope that the 70% of American Jews who greatly aided in his re-election are happy. And the second term is just beginning.


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Horizon has partnered with Workforce Opportunity Services and Rutgers University-Newark to develop a 39-week work-study program for veterans. Participants take courses focused on software development, business writing and business solutions at night, and then intern at Horizon during the day.
One of those veterans is James Lee, who served in the National Guard while attending Rutgers University.
Lee said he was drawn to the program after watching his friends graduate from college and struggle to find good jobs. He majored in criminal justice at Rutgers but was interested in a career in computer science. The training program at Horizon offered him a window into that field.
"This program, in some sense, gave me the knowledge and the help, gave me a step inside the corporate world," Lee said. "I do enjoy what I do, and I feel like I want to complete my next bachelor's degree in computer science."
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..around an inch long. The distance of the super tweeter's center looks to be several inches from the main tweeter's center. Relatively speaking, it would be like placing a subwoofer a hundred feet from the mains(Kind of). It seems like the potential for destructive interference due to timing variations would be pretty bad. For this reason, off axis measurements/w main speaker would have been interesting.
Another thing, regarding show conditions, is that if you are not sitting perfectly on axis with these supertweeters(90% of show listeners usually aren't), what you are hearing from it is probably just your imagination, or destructive interference at the crossover point.
ENIGMAcoustics Sopranino electrostatic supertweeter
The Sopranino
Costing $3690/pair, the Sopraninos come in a handsome wooden box. The EnigmAcoustics people have obviously learned from Apple the importance of presentationthe experience of unpacking a high-end audio product should presage the sound quality to come. The Sopranino is equally well presented. A rectangular gray enclosure has a short horn at its front with a mouth measuring 6" wide by 4" high, and is mounted within a frame made from pure white, crystal-like glass. The base of the frame is faced with felt, so the supertweeter can be easily set atop the owner's main speaker. The horn mouth is covered by a cloth grille, with a flash pointing up to the left or right to indicate the channel with which each Sopranino is to be used.
On the rear of the enclosure are two brass WBT binding posts; a rotary switch with settings marked Low, Mid, and High; and a toggle switch, marked Gain, offering settings of "0" and "3dB." The rotary switch's markings correspond to high-pass filter frequencies of 8, 10, and 12kHz. This filter operates with a second-order, 12dB/octave slope; the Sopranino is connected in parallel with the main speaker so that it adds to rather than replaces the output of that speaker's tweeter.
The primary factor in the Sopranino's design is that it uses a self-polarized electrostatic diaphragm and doesn't, therefore, need an external DC voltage supply. Such diaphragms, known as electrets, are commonly used in microphones, but this is the first time I have encountered an electret used in a loudspeaker. The PTFE electret diaphragm measures 4.75" wide by 3.5" high, and is said to be 25µm thick with a moving mass of just 1.6 milligrams. This material was developed by Taiwanese institutions, primarily National Taiwan University and the Taiwan Industrial Technology and Research Institute. EnigmAcoustics licenses this technology and, to make it suitable for high-end audio applications, sandwiches the diaphragm between two acoustically transparent stators of copper-coated fiberglass, for push-pull operation. A custom-made transformer steps up the input signal to the high voltages required to produce an adequate sound-pressure level.
Although the Sopraninos can be used on top of the main speakers, EnigmAcoustics offers dedicated stands for $600/pair. These have a 13" by 10" base covered with tempered glass, and a solid-aluminum pillar and top plate. The stand height is adjustable in six steps from 36" to 48". At the end of the review period, EnigmAcoustics shipped a pair of stands for me to use with the Sopraninos, but unfortunately too late for me to try them.
I initially set the EnigmAcoustics Sopraninos atop the pair of Joseph Audio Perspective loudspeakers I am reviewing for a future issue of Stereophile. This placed the center of each horn 41.5" from the ground, which was 5" above the height of my ears when I sit in my listening chair. I therefore raised the backs of the Sopraninos so that the horns were aimed directly at my ears. The front of each Sopranino was vertically aligned with the dome tweeter of the Joseph speaker it sat on; because the Josephs' tweeters are connected in positive acoustic polarity, I connected the Sopraninos with the same polarity.
But before I did any listening to music, I felt that I needed to check my upper-frequency hearing. After all, there would seem little point in proceeding with a review of a supertweeter if my hearing cut off at a frequency lower than the unit's passband.
The last time I had my hearing professionally tested by an audiologist, it appeared that I had a slight loss of sensitivity around 3kHz, though this was still within the formal bounds of "normal hearing." Standard audiology tests stop at 8kHz, but I informally test my hearing every month when I measure loudspeakers. Using an Audio Precision System One analyzer, I sweep a tone from 50kHz down to 10Hz to measure impedance and electrical phase. For the past two decades I have started to hear the tone at around 16kHz, but my cutoff has recently dropped somewhatI am no longer bothered by the line whistle at 15.625kHz that emanates from the few CRT-based TVs I encounter.
Using the Audeze LCD-X headphones I had purchased after reviewing them in March, I set a comfortable playback level with a tone at 1kHz. I then increased the frequency of the tone in steps of first 1kHz, then 100Hz. I could still hear a discrete tone at 14,800Hz, but above 15kHz I could hear nothing but a slight click when I turned the signal generator on and off. If I boosted the level a little, I could just detect the presence of 15kHz, but not as a tonemore like a pressure. I think it fair, therefore, to say that 14.8kHz is the current upper limit of my hearing sensitivity. This is actually high for someone my age (66 this month), but this might be related to two things: that I take care of my hearing, and that I have had asthma my entire life. (Some researchers have reported a connection between asthma and increased high-frequency hearing sensitivity.) In some of the graphs in this review's "Measurements" sidebar, I have marked my 14.8kHz limit with a vertical green line.
My initial auditioning of the Sopraninos was done on a Sunday, first without the Joseph speakers hooked up. I set the supertweeters' high-pass filters to 8kHz and their Gain (sensitivity) to "0" dB, to give myself the maximum chance of hearing anything. Even so, much of the time there was not a lot to hear. Pink noise from Editor's Choice (CD, Stereophile STPH015-2) confirmed that the Sopraninos were operating, and with recordings of percussion, acoustic guitars, and orchestral violins I could hear a "wispiness" akin to the whispering of distant mosquitos. With spoken voice, there was nothing to be heard; with singing voices, only faint ghosts were audible.
I connected the Joseph speakers and, in that first hour, listened to as many different kinds of music as I could. To my surprise, given the low level of sound produced by the Sopraninos alone, I ended up increasing the high-pass filter settings to 10kHz. The Sopraninos operate in parallel with the main speakers' tweeters, and the region between 8 and 10kHz sounded a little too steely at the 8kHz setting. I then used the Perspective+Sopranino combination, driven by the Pass Labs XA60.5 amplifiers, for all my routine listening for the next week's worth of evenings. For whatever reason, the system sounded goodbut I wasn't doing any critical listening, only enjoying my music after each day's work.
Come Saturday morning, I disconnected the Sopranino supertweeters and relistened to some of the music I'd enjoyed earlier in the week. I can't claim that I heard a night-and-day difference. In fact, the system still sounded good. Just not quite as good.
Thinking I might hear a more definite difference with a different pair of speakers, I replaced the Joseph Perspectives with my 1978 pair of Rogers BBC LS3/5As. Setting the Rogers minimonitors atop 24"-high Celestion speaker stands and the Sopraninos atop the Rogerses placed the center of each Enigma horn the same 41.5" above the floor, so again I raised the backs of the supertweeters a little. Though the LS3/5A's woofer is connected in inverted acoustic polarity, its tweeter is polarity correct, so again I connected the Sopraninos in positive acoustic polarity. With these speakers, the 12kHz filter setting sounded optimal, and I left the Gain at 0dB, despite the LS3.5A's lower sensitivity.
I began with the Pass Labs monoblocks, but replaced them with the MBL Corona C15s I also review in this issue, which exerted better control over the LS3/5As' upper bass. (Neither amplifier had a problem driving the impedance of the Rogers/Sopranino combination.) But with both amplifiers, when I listened to "I Used to Be a King," from Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners (24-bit/48kHz ALAC files ripped from DVD-A, Atlantic/Rhino R2 35257-2), both ride and hi-hat cymbals sounded more realisticmore like struck bronze than shaped and textured white noise. The cymbals were also in better balance with Phil Lesh's bass guitar with the supertweeters hooked up, and, to my surprise, the LS3/5As' very slightly nasal character seemed diminished. And while this song played through the minimonitors lacked the magnificence I'd come to expect from the Wilson Alexias and Vivid Giya G3s I'd been using prior to the Josephs and Rogerses, the LS3/5As with EnigmAcoustics Sopraninos offered a small hint of it, though of course within a much smaller dynamic window.
EnigmAcoustics describes the Sopranino as recovering "the ambience present in all recordings," and as "effectively [delivering] ambience while only adding a touch of 'sparkle' to the high end of the most well-designed tweeters." The LS3/5As have always been imaging champs, but with the Sopraninos, their presentation acquired even more solidity. The individual voices in Tim Takach's arrangement of Sting's "Valparaiso," performed by Minnesotan male-voice choir Cantus on their There Lies the Home (24/44.1 ALAC files from CD master, Cantus CTS-1206), were more identifiable, even in the unison opening section. The voices were also set farther back in the ambience of the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where I had recorded them. It's an overused word, but my thesaurus gave me no choice but palpable to describe what I was hearing with this recording.
The space around the shaker and congas at the beginning and end of Lyle Lovett's atmospheric "North Dakota" from his Live in Texas (ALAC file ripped from CD, Curb/MCA MCAD-11964), acquired more tangibility with the Sopraninos helping out the LS3/5As. When Rickie Lee Jones starts singing harmony in the song's chorus, she was unambiguously placed to the left of and slightly behind Lovett. And when she softly scats at the end of the song, she can be heard to take another couple of steps back. Delicious.
As I began writing this review, listening again to the music I'd used to form my opinions as I did so, I felt the effect of the Sopraninos was less than I had expected. I played pink noise to check what was going onas you'll read in the "Measurements" sidebar, the right-channel supertweeter was no longer outputting signal above 15kHz. The Reviewer's Curse had struck again! But this leaves me with a question: How could I have perceived a problem when the fault was eliminating frequencies I can't hear and leaving intact those I could?
Summing up
There is no doubt in my mind that EnigmAcoustics' beautifully made and finished Sopraninos made a subtle but genuine improvement in the sound of my system with both the loudspeakers with which I tried them. There was a sense of loss every time I disconnected the supertweeters, the imaging losing some of that addictive palpability. But yes, at $3690/pair, plus $600 for the dedicated stands if needed, the Sopranino is an expensive means of achieving a small if worthwhile improvement to the sound of one's system. And I am not sure how much of that improvement will be audible if the owner's hearing cuts off at a lower frequency than mine. There is also the issue of the amplifier with which it is used being fazed by the Sopranino's impedance (footnote 1). An audition will be mandatory prior to purchase.
But with that proviso, I recommend the Sopranino. I haven't come across anything like it before. I'm going to miss them.
Footnote 1: In an e-mail in which he had sent me technical information about the Sopranino, EnigmAcoustics' Wei Chang wrote: "The low impedance in Sopranino is characterized by its step-up transformer as needed for electrostatic speakers. We've not had any user experiencing issues utilizing modern transistor-based well-designed amps driving 12kHz at 3 ohms. Nevertheless, our engineering team is developing a higher-impedance step-up transformer in order to eradicate any potential issue and ease customers' concerns."
..around an inch long. The distance of the super tweeter's center looks to be several inches from the main tweeter's center. Relatively speaking, it would be like placing a subwoofer a hundred feet from the mains(Kind of). It seems like the potential for destructive interference due to timing variations would be pretty bad. For this reason, off axis measurements/w main speaker would have been interesting.
"There was a sense of loss every time I disconnected the supertweeters, the imaging losing some of that addictive palpability."
That's the key I think - that direct comparisons don't reflect the full difference. I've learned that inserting a component that improves the sound in this subtle way doesn't make quite the impression that removing said component does, once the listener has accomodated to it.
John, I do have asthma too, suddenly I realize how this may bee a good thing, thx for info John :D
So there is no way for me to stay in the sweet spot long enough to hear any benefits anyway..
@Catch22, Asthma is allergy related and has to do with a narrowing of the airways, due to these allergic reactions, smoking can reduce your lung functions and make other problems with your airways, but it can't give you asthma.... as far as I know (I'm not a doctor, though)
When I was younger I also had asthma when exercising, but as far as I know, it's always allergy related, but potentially being more disclosed when you exercise, but still it's allergy that's always the core reason, I believe
Geir Tømmervik, master chief of Oslo Hi-Fi center has a supertweeter that goes to 200KHz for his Audio Physic Medea (well, the medea seemingly has been replaced with Kef Muon) .... He wholeheartedly claims that everything gets better when he employs the supertweeters, even the bass!
Geir is a person that always proves what he says, so I don't believe this to be rubbish.....
Would sound even better!
I wonder how much of such improvements is the result of things like the McGurk Effect, wherein what you see affects what you hear. Could a double blind test help in determining actual improvements?
See the following for an explanation.
I wonder how much of such improvements is the result of things like the McGurk Effect, wherein what you see affects what you hear.
Always a possibility with even the most experienced listeners. But then how would you explain that I detected that one of the supertweeters had stopped working properly, something I confirmed by measurement?
Could a double blind test help in determining actual improvements?
As I wrote in 1997, following my experience as a listener in many double-blind tests organized by others - see www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/407awsi/index.html - "double-blind comparative listening tests [are] the last refuge of the agenda-driven scoundrel."
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
as Remlab suggests, your recognition of the failed super tweeter was related to the sudden absence of additive or subtractive effects within the audible range of that channel.
As an avid reader of Stereophile and its sister publications, I'm familiar with the ongoing debate concerning double blind testing. Both points of view have been eloquently argued. Mikey F. has also commented on the need for educating one's ears prior to making judgements. I note Philips provides an online tutorial to help in this regard.
I acknowledge that you and your writers likely have among the best educated ears around. However, I do not understand why audiophiles should be exempt from the same rigour most other technical fields subject claims to; namely, double blind testing. It's for this reason I admire Mikey's blind listening polls to compare gear. (I don't think one has to have an agenda or be a scoundrel in order to seek such objectivity.)
I've suggested before that an interesting annual feature could be for you and your writers to blind listen to gear in differing price ranges, and rank all in absolute terms and then rank based on cost ratio. For the 99.9% of us, that last category would be most valued. Because, in the end, it should be about the music. And the closer we can get to the artist at the least cost, the better. (The wealthy can buy gear to impress friends, but perhaps some of them would value exposing "emperors without clothes".)
I forgot to express thanks for the restraint of your conditional commendation. Such measured and sober assessment is rare among reviewers of glamorous high end gear.
Also, from a marketing POV, was it wise for the creator of such expensive gear, at the edge of perceptive benefit, to include the word "Enigma" in their name?
I explored the Philips Golden Ears test/challenge, and found that while it's interesting, the cancellation** factors between their proposed 'colorations' and colorations of the devices you're listening with can lead to dubious conclusions. While I believe that the subtractive effect of switching from the 'better' component to the lesser component, and hearing the loss of resolution that incurs usually reveals an important difference, it isn't always that simple. Sometimes you just have to spend a lot of time trying different things.
**i.e., the source has an emphasis at 'x' khz, while the speaker has an equivalent recess at 'x' khz.
..just be from destructive and constructive interference at the relatively low crossover point? If it is simply meant to extend the response of a loudspeaker, wouldn't it make more sense for it to to start at 20khz if the mains tweeter is more than capable of getting there itself? I'll bet that you would have a much more difficult time guessing wether it was in or out of the system in that case.
If the loudspeaker performance is so poor that this bandaid fix may improve that performance, I would suggest getting better loudspeakers.
The MSRP of these supertweeters is $3690.
For $1499 from KEF-Direct, you can get a pair of KEF LS-50 satellite stand mount monitors.
The little KEFs need a subwoofer system for full range response. Some might argue that a subwoofer system is a bandaid fix, but I would counter that using sepatately located sources below the Schroeder frequency can provide a better solution to smoothing Eigentones in the modal response of the listening space. That woud be a better designed solution, not a bandaid fix.


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"Optimizing the setting of an electron microscope for highest resolution using statistical parameter estimation theory", Workshop: Towards Atomic Resolution Analysis 98, Port Ludlow, WA, U.S.A, September, 1998.
"Quantitative HREM: viewpoints on resolution, precision, and experimental design", Acta Cryst. A55 Supplement, Abstract M11.OE.OO5, IUCR Glasgow, Scotland, August, 1999.
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A baby delivered in a car after his parents got in an accident on the way to the hospital in southwest Miami-Dade Friday and his twin brother are healthy and home safe with their family
Parents Jessica Stanley and Antavian Milton said Antavian II came first, right after the accident happened. His brother, Antavian III, was delivered later at Jackson South Community Hopsital.
"Soon as the impact happened the first baby came out," Stanley said.
Stanley said that's when she blacked out and a Good Samaritan stepped in.
Betty Hornes, a gastroenterology technician at Baptist Hospital, was making her way to work when she saw the car in front of her struck while making a turn at Southwest 102nd Avenue and 152nd Street just after 6 a.m.
"We were at that light at 6:07 and I was watching the time because I had to be at work at 6:30 at Baptist Hospital," Hornes said.
When she saw the crash, she got out of her car to find Stanley in labor with twins. The gastro-enterologist technician delivered Antavian II.
"I'm thankful that everything happened the way that it did, like the outcome," Stanley said. "I'm not not happy that we got into an accident, but I'm happy the way things turned out. Everybody is healthy and safe."
Stanley's boyfriend, the babies' father, was driving the car and said he's glad no one got hurt as he tried to avoid the driver who pull in front of him.
"The thought of having lost an only child. To lose one would be terrible," Antavian Milton said. "I'm just blessed to be able to have them all right here now."
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|Safe Haskell
Fast start
The best way is to define config file, which is auto reloaded periodically, so you can change config while program is running to turn on tracing some function.
Typical config file with rule for root scope (see below for explanation):
/: use default
If you want to trace scope named "foo", just add:
/: use default foo: low trace
Now "foo" and children will be traced even there are no errors. To trace only "foo" without children:
/: use default foo: low trace foo/: use default
"foo/" defines rules for children of "foo".
Note, that by default all function will log their traces on error, so there is no need to turn on trace manually. You may want to turn on tracing when there are logic errors present without explicit errors (exceptions, or messages with error level).
Now we can run our log with auto reloading config every 60 seconds:
run :: IO () run = do l <- newLog (fileCfg "log.cfg" 60) [logger text (file "out.log")] withLog l yourFunction
And use it:
yourFunction :: (MonadLog m) => m () yourFunction = scope "your" $ do log Trace "Hello from your function"
The main ideas of this log library are:
- we don't want to see all unnecessary trace messages when there are no errors,
- but we want to have all possible information about error.
This library is based on scopes. Every scope have a name, and logs traces only if there are some errors. Otherwise it logs only message with
Info level.
Let's start by simple example:
test :: ReaderT Log IO () test = scope "test" $ do log Trace "Trace message" log Info "Starting test" s <- liftIO T.getLine when (T.null s) $ log Error "Oh no!" log Trace $ T.concat ["Your input: ", s]
When you input some valid string, it will produce output:
08/10/12 22:23:34 INFO test> Starting test abc
wihtout any traces
But if you input empty strings, you'll get:
08/10/12 22:24:20 INFO test> Starting test 08/10/12 22:24:20 TRACE test> Trace message 08/10/12 22:24:21 ERROR test> Oh no! 08/10/12 22:24:21 TRACE test> Your input:
Note, that first
Trace is written after
Info, that's because logger don't know whether
Trace message will be written or not, but he must write
Info message immediately. But that's not a big problem.
There are three scope functions:
scope and
scope_ is basic function.
scope catches all exceptions and logs error with it, then rethrows.
scoper is like
scope, but logs (with
Trace level) result of do-block.
Of course, scopes can be nested:
test :: ReaderT Log IO () test = scope "test" $ do log Trace "test trace" foo log Info "some info" bar foo :: ReaderT Log IO () foo = scope "foo" $ do log Trace "foo trace" bar :: ReaderT Log IO () bar = scope "bar" $ do log Trace "bar trace" log Error "bar error"
08/10/12 22:32:53 INFO test> some info 08/10/12 22:32:53 TRACE test/bar> bar trace 08/10/12 22:32:53 ERROR test/bar> bar error
Note, no messages for "foo" and no trace messages for "test", because error was in "bar", not in "foo".
Code to run log:
rules :: Rules rules = [] run :: IO () run = do l <- newLog (constant rules) [logger text console] withLog l test
Politics sets
low and
high levels. By default,
low and
high are INFO and WARN. Levels below
low are traces (
Trace and
Debug by default). Levels above
high are errors (
Error and
Fatal by default).
If you set
low to
Trace, all messages will be written. If you set
low to
Debug and
high to
Fatal, traces (in this case only
Trace) will be never written.
Sometimes we need to trace function, but we don't want to write all traces. We can get this by setting rules. Rules changes politics for specified scope-path (scope-path is list of nested scopes, for example ["test"], ["test", "bar"], ["test", "bar", "baz", "quux"] etc.)
For example, we want to trace function
rules = [ rule root $ use defaultPolitics, rule (relative ["foo"]) $ low Trace]
From now all scope-paths, that contains "foo" (all scopes with name "foo") will have politics with
low set to Trace.
We may adjust politics for scope
foo, that is nested directly in scope
rules = [ rule root $ use defaultPolitics, relative ["quux", "foo"] $ low Trace]
And, of course, we may specify absolute path:
rules = [ rule root $ use defaultPolitics, absolute ["bar", "baz", "foo"] $ low Trace]
Politics will be changed only for scope "foo", which is nested directly in "baz", which is nested in "bar", which is top scope.
Another way to define rule is using special functions from System.Log.Config module:
rules = [ "/" %= use defaultPolitics, "/bar/baz/foo" %= low Trace, "quux/foo" %= low Debug]
One more way to use special syntax for rules:
rules = parseRules_ $ T.unlines [ "/: use default", "/bar/baz/foo: low trace", "quux/foo: low debug"]
Here "/" is for root, "/path" for absolute path, "path" for relative and "path/" for child of "path" (which may be also prefixed with "/" to be absolute)
This syntax is useful to config log by file. Having file "log.cfg":
/: use default /bar/baz/foo: low trace quux/foo: low debug
We can use it to config log
l <- newLog (fileCfg "log.cfg" 60) [logger text console]
where 60 is period (in seconds) of auto reload or 0 for no reloading.
module System.Log.Base
module System.Log.Config
module System.Log.Monad
module System.Log.Text
module System.Log.HTML
module System.Log.Console
module System.Log.File


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Excitement was at a high today after a good wave forecast for the afternoon.
Skippers meeting was held at 09h30 and the race director confirmed that, today will be a day for Wave Masters.
Gautier Marcq (Judge): "I am having a super time here in Morocco. I came to Dakhla a week before the event to enjoy these wonderful conditions that Dakhla has to offer. We have a good team here and the conditions make it great to judge as the level is seriously high."
The bus arrived at Dakhla Attitude to take the riders to the city and an excellent wave spot on the coast.
The first round for men started at 2pm after a few hours wait for the wind to pick up. The waves were breaking right to left and seemed to hollow out nicely when the tied dropped a little. The sets averaged 1.5 meters and the wind increased to 15 knots around 4pm.
The first round introduced the locals to some World Class competitors and they did not disappoint. Mitu Monteiro (CV, F-ONE), Abel Lago (SPA, RRD) and hard working Brazilian rider Bernardo Monteiro all progressed to the second round.
Abel lost a fin in his heat, but managed to change boards and get back out there and finish strong.
The wind dropped below competition standards and light had diminished late in the afternoon so the day was called off. Tomorrow's forecast looks good to finish the single elimination and hopefully some sliders.


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Democrat Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has called for an international naval blockade of Iranian oil exports. He said the action should be taken before the U.S. and Israel attack Iran.
"I think (these are) options that whoever is willing to participate should explore, including Israel and including the United States," Levin told C-Span on Friday.
A naval blockade is considered an act of war.
In order to minimize the impact on world oil prices, Levin said alternative oil supplies should be put into place before the blockade. Iran is the number two OPEC oil producer. The EU has agreed on an oil purchase embargo scheduled to begin on July 1.
If sanctions do not force Iran to drop its nuclear program, a "strike is likely" within "months," Levin warned. He said an Israeli missile system installed by the United States had minimized Iran's ability to retaliate against Israel after an attack.
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What would section status mean for LTAIG? I asked Tamarack Hockin, LTAIG Convenor, for the scoop - here's what she said:
"If the LTAS [Library Technicians' and Assistants' Section] petition passes the vote at the BCLA AGM in May, the most concrete benefit to technicians and assistants in B.C. will be a designated representative on the BCLA Board.
Our current state as an "interest group" is not only a misnomer, but according to the terms of BCLA's constitution precludes representation on the board. This doesn't mean that there are no technicians or assistants holding positions on the board, but it does mean that there is currently no one to speak on behalf of the collective interests of technicians and assistants.
The vast majority of LTAIG members – and, I suspect, all BCLA members – are interested in professional development and networking opportunities as part of the benefits inherent to professional association. LTAS will work with the BCLA Board to ensure that these benefits of membership are relevant to technicians and assistants and the unique work that we do.
I also want to emphasize that the creation of LTAS will benefit BCLA as a whole. Technicians and assistants have a wealth of experience and abilities to bring to the association. This is evidenced in projects like the soon-to-be-launched BCLA Mentorship Program, contributions to The BCLA Browser, and our wonderful LibTech Soup blog. Through the creation of LTAS we will be growing and strengthening the association, and we will be redefining it as a more inclusive place for technicians and assistants."
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You can also follow LTAIG on Twitter, and be sure to check out LibTech Soup, the group's blog, which is a great resource for anyone interested in library issues.
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Once again I am publishing on the request and behalf of Canadians for Animal Welfare Reform (CAFWR)
Take a look Steven Harper There is blood on your hands
Steven Harper this is what you are supporting ! Take a long hard look? Now there is CONCRETE evidence that 42% of baby seals… yes that is BABY seals ( a few weeks old) are conscious when being skinned alive! The seal hunt is over ! 80 % of Canadians don't want it. 80% translates to over 27 MILLION Canadians who want this brutal cruelty stopped. So does the rest of the world .You have no markets any more.
At the end of the day .China will say no to you and you have nowhere else to go to sell this bloody slaughter .Stock piling seal skins is laughable !Do you really believe that over time there will be a market for stock piled seal skins and meat ?
Admit defeat Mr Harper? You are only adding more fuel to the fire of the erosion of your government. All your government will EVER be remembered for is the perpetuation of Canada's "bloody shame"…… in arrogance and defiance of the wishes of Canada and her citizens
Retrain the sealers for other industries and work. BUY THEM OUT NOW?
Sarah West Founder/President
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CFAWR Challenges P.M. Harper and the Honourable Kathy Dunderdale: Do the RIGHT thing: End the Seal Hunt!!
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The Canon Powershot SD980 IS (IXUS 200 IS in europe, IXY DIGITAL 930 IS in japan) was released on August 19'th, 2009
CHDK is not fully ported to the Powershot SD980 IS (IXUS 200 IS) yet.
Technical DataEdit
- Digic IV image processor
- DryOS operating system
- 12.1 megapixel CCD sensor, 1/2.3 inch (pixel density: 35 MP/cm²), new 12 bit type
- Image size: 4000 x 3000 (JPG max.)
- 5x wide-angle (24mm) optical zoom lens 24-120mm (35mm equiv), F/2.8 - F/5.9
- Image stabilization (lens shift-type)
- Display: 3 inch touch screen, 230,000 pixels
- no optical viewfinder
- ISO 80-1600, limited ISO 3200 mode with fixed resolution, auto exposure, white balance, etc.
- Flash: built-in, no hot-shoe
- Video: 1280x720 @30fps (720p HP), 640x480 @30fps, 320x240 @30fps, format: MOV [H.264 + linear PCM (monaural)]
- Storage: SD, SDHC, MMC, MMCplus, HC MMCplus
- Connectivity: USB, HDMI mini, AV out (combined plu AV+HDMI)
- Power: Canon NB-6L rechargeable Li-ion battery
- Weight (without battery): 130g, Dimensions: 100x53x23 mm
- Specifications: Canon (english), DPReview Specifications
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FW info from dump:
Jul 17 2009 15:49:34 Firmware Ver GM1.00C
CHDK SpecialtiesEdit
This section describes special CHDK-related things...
For DevelopersEdit
General infoEdit
The LED on the back of the camera can be not only lit to green but also to orange by using a different address in your sourcecode. Do not confuse the Orange with the AF (Auto Focus) LED on the front wich also lights in a bright orange color.
To start a custom firmware stred on SD one has to Press the PLAY button not the power button
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#define LED_PR 0xC0220130 #define LED_ORANGE 0xC0220134 #define LED_AF 0xC0223030
Firmware dumpsEdit
- Firmware 1.00C blinked out by raduP (forum link), small 4MB dump: megaupload link
- Firmware 1.01C dumped by Valor available from OpenUAS here
- Firmware 1.01D (full 8MB) dumped by gbit with cBasic udumper ([1])
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When ABC Sports guru Roone Arledge was suggesting Howard Cosell for "Monday Night Football," NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle replied: "Cosell? Why don't you just dig up Attila the Hun?"
Such was the reaction generated by modern broadcasting's first Category 5 hurricane: How-wuuuud Co-sellll. The way he pronounced his own name dripped with chutzpah and self-promotion. In his day, Cosell may have been the most mocked man in America.
If the very memory of his nasal delivery is a form of aural torture, this book may not be for you. But if you remember Cosell as some sort of broadcasting pioneer, brave and occasionally brilliant, Mark Ribowsky's new tome is worth your time. At 512 pages, it has the heft of a presidential biography, a fact that would not be lost on one of broadcasting's early emperors.
Indeed, there is much minutiae here, and the book is encyclopedic in the way the late sportscaster himself could be (Cosell died in 1995 at age 77).
In detailing Cosell's Brooklyn upbringing, Ribowsky tells of a philandering mother and the tradition-bound father who was seldom home. The biography doesn't really take off till Cosell meets with a young boxer then named Cassius Clay, who would convert to Islam and become Muhammad Ali. From there on, Cosell would be an early adopter of unpopular causes and a giant target for Americans everywhere.
"(Cosell and Clay) were clearly alike, in all the right ways, and Cosell with typical humility saw himself in the same light; that he too was about to break out as just such a delegate of a new order, on a different but related plane. As Clay went, so too would Cosell," Ribowsky writes.
And if the 1960s introduced Cosell to the world, the 1970s turned him into broadcasting's biggest caricature — one moment blisteringly critical, the next smarmy and too self-aware.
At first blush, this would not seem to have mattered much to Cosell, who would rather have been hated than ignored. This book paints Cosell, often sourly, as a deep thinker in a world that celebrates the obvious. He trafficked in contradictions: bombastic yet insecure, well read but deeply devoted to a field that didn't value such things.
One of his finest moments: the announcement during a "Monday Night Football" game that John Lennon had been slain. Cosell crafted an instant on-air eulogy with a quote from Keats: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
The best passages of this book deal with "MNF." Cosell's frothy, confrontational style, in which he was quick to rip players, coaches and owners, drew tons of hate mail. Ribowsky details how those 14 years with "Monday Night Football," and the eviscerating heaps of mail he drew, took their toll on Cosell with rare self-doubt and heavy drinking in public.
Some of the book rambles on with too much detail, frequently gleaned from past stories and interviews. Still, it is a rich read. Famous for his bark, Cosell comes off as far brighter than the current ilk of sportscasters, with a deeper understanding of the crossover points between sports and society — a terrific interviewer with prosecutorial instincts.
Aspiring broadcasters would do well to study Cosell, not only in the way he used his voice like an instrument — to change speeds, inflections, tone — but in the way he used his equally supple mind. This book would be an excellent start.
"Howard Cosell:
The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports"
Mark Ribowsky
W.W. Norton: 512 pages, $29.95
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A private university of 11,000 students near the center of Dallas, SMU offers strong undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools.
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Einsteins Theory of general relativity relates gravity to the fabric of space-time, allowing light to bend as it passes near heavy things.
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Ten years at Mars: new global views plot the Red Planet's history
New global maps of Mars released on the 10th anniversary of the launch of ESA's Mars Express trace the history of water and volcanic activity on the Red Planet, and identify sites of special interest for the next generation of Mars explorers.
The unique atlas comprises a series of maps showing the distribution of minerals formed in water, by volcanic activity, and by weathering to create the dust that makes Mars red. They create a global context for the dominant geological processes that sculpted the planet we see today.
The maps were built from ten years of data collected by the OMEGA mineralogical mapper on Mars Express, which determines the mineral composition of the martian surface by analysing the spectrum of reflected sunlight.
"The history of Mars is encoded in its minerals," says Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration.
"These new global views, made possible thanks to the longevity of ESA's Mars Express mission, are helping us to unlock the secrets of 4.6 billion years of planetary evolution.
"The atlas released today will help to determine future landing sites for the next generation of Mars landers and rovers, and identify sites of special interest for future manned missions, helping to keep Europe at the forefront of planetary exploration."
Each map represents a different chapter in the story of geological evolution on Mars.
Maps showing the distribution of minerals formed in water
The first map shows individual sites of hydrated minerals – 'phyllosilicates' and hydrated salts that form only in the presence of water. These are primarily seen in the most ancient cratered terrain dating back to over four billion years ago, suggesting that Mars sustained surface and subsurface liquid water during its first few hundred million years, potentially providing conditions favourable to early life.
Maps showing the distribution of minerals formed by volcanic activity
The next two maps showing the minerals olivine and pyroxene tell the story of volcanism, with differences in the chemical composition of the solidified lavas yielding clues as to the evolution of the temperature and pressure inside the planet.
Olivine and pyroxene are the two primary minerals in basalt that form when lava solidifies. Basalt characterises the crust of Mars as well as oceanic crust on Earth and the volcanic 'seas' on the Moon.
Some of the most pristine, magnesium-rich olivines exposed on the surface of Mars today are found around impact craters that have excavated samples of very ancient mantle from beneath the crust.
Olivine-rich surfaces are associated with a global lava-flooding event around 3.7 billion years ago, when magma erupted onto the surface through fractures in the floors of impact craters, similar to the way in which the Moon's large impact basins were flooded with volcanic lava. Only a few traces of this global event remain today, with subsequent geological activity overprinting the signature.
Pyroxenes are particularly widespread in the cratered highlands, pointing to some of the most ancient portions of the planet's crust. In the smooth northern plains, the pyroxenes reflect the eruption of more evolved lavas compared to the pristine olivines.
Maps showing the distribution of dust created by weathering
Dust obscures much of the underlying rock on Mars, but it is very closely related to ferric oxide, a mineral phase of iron found all over the planet, with greatest abundances in the northern lowlands and the volcanic province of Tharsis.
The Red Planet's dust is thought primarily to result from chemical reactions with the atmosphere, causing the iron-rich rocks to 'rust' slowly over billions of years, giving Mars its distinctive hue.
Weathering and erosion from past glacial activity and impact events, as well as dust storms, winds and freezing and thawing cycles today, contribute to the continued production of fine-grained dust.
"Collectively, these mineral maps provide unique records of the planet's evolution through time. They exhibit the role water and volcanic processes played over the entire planet, spanning geological aeons," says Jean-Pierre Bibring, Principal Investigator for OMEGA.
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Maps providing hints for future in-situ exploration
The maps also highlight areas of particular scientific interest that may warrant further in-situ exploration, such as the abundance of hydrated mineral exposures clustered along the boundary between the low northern plains and the ancient cratered highlands.
"Against the flanks of these cliffs, thick ice deposits may have preserved ancient water-altered sites for a longer period of time than in more exposed locations," says Professor Bibring.
In some places, the maps show an overlap between volcanic outcrops and hydrated minerals: here, minerals may have become altered via heating during volcano–ice interactions.
One such location, known as Nili Fossae, is identifiable by the obvious bright red/yellow spot in the olivine map, a mineral easily weathered into clay in the presence of water. If rocks here were altered by hydrothermal activity, then conditions may have once existed there to support life.
"These are very special sites – possibly unique within the entire Solar System – with well preserved records of the environment during the few hundreds of millions of years following planet formation, during which life might have emerged on Earth and possibly at Mars," adds Professor Bibring.
Ten years of discovery
In addition to the tantalising tale of the history of water and volcanism on the surface, Mars Express has also been conducting a wide range of studies of the Red Planet, from the subsurface all the way up to the upper atmosphere and beyond to Mars' two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, providing an in depth analysis of all aspects of the martian environment.
Over 95% of the surface has been imaged by the mission's high-resolution camera, with two thirds mapped at a resolution of 20 m per pixel or better, and much of it in stereo, yielding stunning 3D images.
Ground-penetrating radar has added a third dimension to the planet by determining the vertical extent of the polar ice caps. At the south pole, there is enough water locked up in ice to cover the entire planet with a layer of water 11 m deep if melted.
Meanwhile the detection of traces of methane in the atmosphere has led to an intense debate in the scientific community: does it have a volcanic origin, or could it be the result of active biology, as it is on Earth?
Mars Express has also provided the most detailed atlas of its innermost moon Phobos, and in December this year will make its closest pass yet, just 58 km from the centre of the tiny moon.
"The decade-long observations by Mars Express of all aspects of the martian environment are providing us with a truly global perspective on the history of the Red Planet, paving the way for the next generation of Mars exploration missions," says Olivier Witasse, ESA's Mars Express Project Scientist.
"But we still have a lot to look forward to and are planning a number of unique observations with Mars Express, such as coordinating measurements of the atmosphere with NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, watching the very close pass of Comet C/2013 Siding Spring by Mars in October 2014, and monitoring the arrival of ESA's ExoMars Entry, Descent, and Landing Demonstrator module in October 2016."


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