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Thanks for the link and the info, so I guess my plans of glory will have to wait a little longer!
Any news from @johannes?
Not yet, still waiting...
Can't wait to throw money at Johannes too! I've been reading a lot and now I really really want one... Is there a way to get an email notification when one can order?
I have got the axo for three monthsI already convinced three people to go Axoloti.If half the buyers do like me, the sells will go exponential with a 1.5 factor per 3 month.
And you can add to the effect of the increasing number of youtube demos.
I have also "sold" a bunch of them to friends. But most of them give up because it is too complicated, though...
It is my birthday in 2 weeks and would REALLY like to get me a few Axolotis fomr my birhtday
I sort of give some "support". Sometimes people just give up in the first steps because of installation and driver issues. Windows is not always friendly when you have to sort these kind of troubles.
Maybe it would be a good idea to translate the installation instructions into native languages.For example, most french people have a very limited level in English.
Yes I tro also to give support. But if you are not really familiar with the concept of modulars, it is a really hard job to learn
I remember when I first got it at the crowdfunding campaign. It was hard times, even coming from G2, which has a fairly similar interface and fairly similar object span. But I am really glad that I stuck with it. I havent really touched most of my studio since I got Axoloti, and that Includes, G2, Virus Redback, Micro Q Blofeld, Kp3, Some tc effects... Axoloti is the most fun of them all
Many synth addicts are not really into modular stuff, they just want some fixed architecture synths... to recreate some classic sounds.Yesterday, i went to a music store to buy a QuNexus and to try these Yamaha and Roland pseudo vintage mini synths. Well, the Axoloti can do better than these.
I think that the increasing number of patches in the community library is a plus for these potential users. That's why i think the General Midi collaborative library is a good idea.
Combined with the new Patch Bank facility, it is really easy to make a "preset oriented" mini synth based on the Axoloti (+ Axo Control).
So a musician : with a nerd friend can benefit from the Axoloti
I know sirsicksik just bought one QuNeo yesterday. All their products looks super nice I got a simple novation launch controller. I jjst need it for some knos and so on, but I couls use on with some better feedback, like a display or so..
to me it is about fleixiblity. In a regular synth if it even has got one, the combfilter are always placed before the amp envelope. I like it after the envelope. And so many small thing you cant do with a regular synth. When I sit with a regular synth I only see the limitations these days. Sure, Virus Redback sounds bloody good, but if it doesnt have the features, it doesnt have the features.
Euro Rack; I got 2 kids who also needs things. Euro rack is just to expensive to get started. TO have something nice with a few oscialltors envelopes and an effect or two you easily pass 1000 euro... SO for me Axoloti is perfect. If you put in the time and effort you can get super results, even with a low budget. ANd I prefer ANYDAY to support a small one man army, like Johannes, than to support some multinational companies, who only think abut € & $. Axoloti is also about just helping each other without money is involved. Being friendly and nice and having a community about a common interest.
General midi library yeah. Fun thing. For me personally Axoloti is about all the things I cant make with other synths. And General midi library comes in abundens. Havent really checked any of the patches yet, but some of the "camp fire" and 70s rock band emulations sounds REALLY funny
I want to make a travel micro synth for use in the train.Keyboards like the Korg nano are quite noisy and this can be annoying for other people in the train.Playing on the QuNexus is perfectly noiseless.The velocity, pitch bend and "tilt" functions are pure crap.But, the polyphonic pressure is a bliss when you know how to handle it.
For you and me, like most of the primary Axoloti users, have solid backgrounds in synthesis and we naturally tend to see the limitations.
For a beginner, starting with simple/limited synths or patch allows to comprehend what's going on.
For me, a very good and low cost system for such an initiation is Caustic3. (by another one man army )It costs 7€ and runs on phones/tablets. You get access to a bunch of cute little synths (substractive, additive, phase modulation, sampling, vocoder... and even, a little modular synth).
I definitely agree, but the stereotype that describes modular synthesis as purely experimental or even bloody experimental is strong and repels many people.
Having a bank of classic sounds shows that the Axoloti has the capability to produce familiar musical sounds.These patches can be used as starting points for more experimental/custom patches.
Yeah sirsicksik was talking abou this yesterday. You have like 3 different pressure sensetive thingy's pr. pad right? Is it called directions?
Yes true.
I really like the sample/wavetable side of axoloti. That was the first thing to explore. Id love to see some spectral synthesis of some sort in Axoloti. That would really open up for some new things on the sampling side. Or a phase vocoder... Oh.. Just hit me... Doesnt one of the new mutable things actually have phase vocoder? I know one of their Eurorack modules have got phase vocoder. I wonder if @johannes also has ported over that one?
Guess this is something that is worth looking into........ if we can take phase vocoder form one of the MI objects, and use it for sampling...
About poly modulation: One nowadays often talks about the axis on which pressure is applied. The X,Y and Z axis are then mentioned. One can compare it to lying a mathematical graph on top of oyur keyboard. X is from left to right, Y from front to back ) and Z for down and up (how hard you press). Using three axis polyphionically in real time will however be a challenge to 99 % of us players, especially on somehting as tiny as the Qnexus. I use a lot of poly aftertouch, so basiclly Y-axis, plus a bit of monophonic ribbon (so x-axis). Doing that right polyphonically does already produce a lot of stuff for the listener to keep track of. So polyphonic multiaxis real time use (what a mouthfull!) becomes more relevant when one wants to play complex arrangements live on one controller. With multitracking it is luckily less relevant. A form of poly expression is however always great addition to a setup.
In the mean time: Still waiting for those new Axoloti's. Dumdidumdidum.
Well, I'm sure Johannes also has other things to do. A sort of, non binding upfront prediction of when the next batch wil become available would however be nice.
I've had a couple of PMs asking me about dates, as Ive said, I don't know, but, I did ping'd Johannes, and he told me he is "working on a date, expect 2 weeks."obviously, treat this as an unofficial, rough date, subject to change... but perhaps useful to have a 'rough idea'
im guessing he is waiting for a 3rd party to commit to a date, before he knows when he can deliver... im sure he will post here once he knows.
The big picture does look good, seems like the word is getting out, and also existing users are wanting multiple boards as they find different uses for axo.
That's some great news! I feared that the project had been abandoned...and that would have been a shame, with this fine and lively community.
That's indeed great news! Thanks, Mark!
Same here!
@valmir @watsoninc definitely not, i think its kind of 'reaching maturity'. I think a lot of users are getting on, quietly, with their projects, they do not need the 'support' they once did.
on the software/firmware side, it was already stated, after 1.0.12 , there will be a release with more 'major changes', so the development cycle will be longer, so it will be a while before another release... again, this is possible, because 1.0.12 has reached a level of maturity. (imo)(if you look at the GitHub code repository, you will see that development is still continuing, so nothing to be concerned over)
For many people i know, the critical moment is the install under Windows.
Once they got some sound coming out of the Axoloti... they are hooked.
Always good to hear that there still is enough interest. Any "market" must still be strong enough to keep the incentive to build new stock alive and running out of stuff, circuit boards for instance, is of course always part of lean burn business.
Ah well, at least it will give us newbee's a few more weeks of romanticizing before real world issues like installing the software properly come into play.
Very cool to hear Axoloti is doing well. Must admit, ever since I've been on here I've been surprised that it wasn't massively more popular. I don't know of anything else like Axoloti. I think it's a damn fine product and has an very bright future ahead of it.

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Burke, K. (1941) The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action, pp110-1.
The above quotation encapsulates for me what it's like joining an organisation, as a consultant, or as a new employee, understood from a pragmatic perspective. On entering an organisation you pitch into an argument which is already going on and in which there are several threads of heated discussion. It's a struggle to join in, to understand what is being said and what it might mean for what you do next because you don't yet have enough history with this particular group. You take up a role and become part of the action, influencing and being influenced. Once in the organisation, not to participate is as significant as participating, because people have already noticed you. Do you have anything to say? There's no 'safe space' that people sometimes crave in team away-days, and nor is there a view from outside what is going on where you can make sense independently, somehow uninfluenced. The moment you speak your 'truth' you have become part of the discussion; you have taken sides in organisational politics.
For the pragmatists groups of people talking together, arguing, making alliances, trying not to make alliances, clarifying what we mean by what we say, is how knowledge if produced. It is fallible knowledge, good enough for now until circumstances, and the turn the heated debate takes obliges us to think differently. In doing so, thinking differently, we understand ourselves and the argument we are part of, anew. We have to decide how to take the next step, but having taken the next step, everything looks slightly different from the new position.
There might be some advantage for those engaged in this situation of flux if they can use their reflective intelligence. Although there is no stepping out of the discussion it may be more or less possible to participate but at the same time to notice how your participation influences things, and how you are influenced. The ability to notice the repeated patterns of this particular episode of hurly burly may offer different options for you and the other discussants. But it may also not be an advantage for long. It is hard to maintain an understanding of plural points of view, particularly if they are changing as the discussion changes. Is it possible to maintain your own argument and be radically open to other arguments both at the same time?
These, then, are some key ideas from pragmatic philosophy which are helpful for thinking about organisational life. Organising is a conversational activity which has no beginning and no end and which takes place in a group of groups. It is often heated because our valuations matter to us: we cannot stand outside our commitments, although we only fully realise what they are through articulating them and encountering others' difference. In struggling together as a conversational community we discover how to take the next step, which may then give us a new perspective to keep going with our inquiry. Practising intelligent reflection, noticing the patterns of our habitual engagement, may offer potential for thinking and behaving differently. But there is never just one thing going on and taking in plural points of view requires work.


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Maynard doesn't seem to mind — he was never in it for the money, he says. But the question of how to parlay Web celebrity into something — how to get beyond being a one-hit Web wonder — is the underlying theme at ROFLCon. "We know how to grab people's attention and be in the spotlight," says Leslie Hall, aka the Gem Sweater lady, "but we've got to use that to our advantage."
It's barely a few hours into ROFLCon, and already I'm caught in a live-action rickroll. As a line of conference-goers forms in the lobby, a group of young men blare Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" from a portable stereo. It's like being stuck in a noisy, unmoderated chat room. At first there are a few knowing smiles, but as the song reaches the two-minute mark, the crowd's mood turns from LOL to meh. I decide to log off and head outside.
Gem Sweater lady Leslie Hall.
Photo: Angela CappettaIn the parking lot, I find Kyle MacDonald, a 28-year-old Canadian who appeared on the day's first panel, "You Can Get Paid for This?" In 2005, he was working as a fridge deliveryman in Montreal when he placed a notice on craigslist announcing his plan to trade a single red paper clip for a house. He bartered online for the next year — swapping the clip for a pen, working his way up to a doorknob, then a stove, then a generator. A year later, he finally traded a movie role alongside C-lister Corbin Bernsen for the deed to a house in Saskatchewan, Canada. MacDonald wrote a book about his trades, sold the film rights to DreamWorks, and now travels around giving speeches, touting his story as a sort of trust-building exercise.
Internet celebrity is sometimes compared to reality-show fame: Both are fleeting and have a limited (if dedicated) audience, and both often involve humiliation and partial nudity. But reality-show contestants want to be famous. Most Internet meme makers just release an idea into the wild, often with little expectation that it will get much attention. If it suddenly gains traction, the creator might wake up to find a crashed server and a lengthy Google Alerts update. A mention on Boing Boing increased MacDonald's traffic from just a few friends one day to more than 100,000 hits the next. Sometimes the notoriety yields a few radio interviews or even a book deal; other times it earns scorn. The infamous Star Wars Kid — who was taunted and harassed after his video hit the Net — is invoked frequently over the weekend as proof of the Internet's ability to administer a massive beat-down on one unlucky schlub.
MacDonald is not exactly recoiling from the attention he gets — he briefly employed a publicist and has brought copies of his book to sign. Yet he's not interested in creating One Red Paper Clip 2.0: That would mean once again turning his life over to the Web. "I can't justify spending 16 hours on the Internet anymore," he says.
But he's not completely out of the genre: At ROFLCon, MacDonald workshops a new meme. From his pocket he pulls a photograph of five men who look like '80s-era roadies for Journey (assuming Journey didn't pay all that well). His brother found the picture somewhere online several years ago, and MacDonald has been trying to track down their identity ever since. He calls the site Who Are These Guys?
Later in the day, after a panel discussion on the strange power of LOLcats, ROFLCon volunteers walk through the hallways distributing free ROFLcondoms, in case any non-virtual sex takes place over the weekend. (Hey, it could happen.) The condom wrapper features a pair of hands printed on the outside, as though they were trying to stretch open the O-shaped rubber inside. If this image doesn't immediately make you wince, you've obviously never heard of Goatse, the anonymous orifice contortionist whose nauseating portrait — a picture that you should never, ever see — was the 2 Girls 1 Cup of the late-'90s. Goatse was at the very top of the ROFLCon organizers' wish list, though he'll appear here only in prophylactic form. "We had a subcommittee trying to track him down," Hwang laments. "Nobody's seen his face."
Goatse may have been a no-show, but the ROFLCon team did manage to attract such Web celebs as Ian Spector, who turned a series of Chuck Norris "facts" — "Chuck Norris can sneeze without closing his eyes," "Chuck Norris can believe it's not butter" — into a best-selling book; Christian Lander, whose Stuff White People Like blog catalogs such upper-class distractions as Whole Foods and grad school; and Denny Blaze, the Average Homeboy rapper whose 1988 music demo was relaunched on YouTube a few years ago. They also lured Mike and Matt Chapman, the thirtysomething siblings who created the Flash-animation series Homestar Runner. The Brothers Chaps, as they are known, have been working on Homestar since 2000.
At ROFLCon, that qualifies them as elder statesmen. And now that they're fully self-employed (they sell Homestar Runner clothing and schwag), they embody the possibility of making a career out of cheeky Internet endeavors. This was all but unimaginable around the turn of the century, when the Borat predecessor I Kiss You! guy and early Web eye-candy girl Cindy Margolis made lame attempts to cash in on Web fame (Margolis did manage to land a late-night talk show for a season — including one episode in which she was upstaged by ALF). Nowadays, though, "Internet famous" is no longer a put-down. Granted, Tron Guy can only be Tron Guy. But consider the following: Tay "Chocolate Rain" Zonday has a soda commercial, Chris "Leave Britney Alone!" Crocker has a TV deal, and the Numa Numa Kid has a publicist — and all three made cameos in a recent Weezer video. If Goatse had first appeared in 2008, he'd probably be guest-hosting Attack of the Show.
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Photo: Angela Cappetta"I think we're looking at a whole new generation of entertainment," says Ben Huh, the 30-year-old CEO of I Can Has Cheezburger, an archive of nearly 55,000 LOLcats photos. "It's not mainstream in any way, shape, or form, but it's becoming so." Huh was blogging about the pet food recall last year when he discovered I Can Has Cheezburger; after raising money from friends, he bought the site. LOLcats had actually been around for years, originating on an image board called 4chan.org, but I Can Has Cheezburger developed a LOLcat builder to make it easy for users to superimpose syntactically odd captions onto kitty and puppy snapshots. There's a LOLcats book due in November, and Huh has launched three — soon to be four — sister sites.
Despite the mass audiences of sites like LOLcats and Stuff White People Like, ROFLCon itself still feels underground. The greater entertainment-industry complex and its attendant marketing hype is noticeably absent. But considering the desirable demographic that's here this year — young, moneyed, and Twittery — it's easy to imagine that a few years from now Microsoft might be setting up hospitality tents and handing out free Baby ChaCha tchotchkes.
In a tiny greenroom at the Middle East Restaurant & Nightclub in Cambridge, Leslie Hall pulls off her curly blond wig and tosses it into an open suitcase on the floor, where it lands on a pile of brightly colored T-shirts. Tonight she'll play a set at ROFLCon's Music of the Memes. She will wear a gold leotard with gold-sequined shoes, and her opening number, not surprisingly, is called "Gold Pants."
Hall is the frontwoman for a group called Leslie & the Ly's, yet many know her simply as the Gem Sweater lady. In 2004, the 26-year-old Iowan recorded an ode to her favorite bedazzled garments. The accompanying video for "Gem Sweater" featured what appeared to be a crazy-dancing midwestern housewife boogying on an outer-space public-access station. In her exuberant live shows, she raps about fighting zombies and dinosaurs, and while most people who stumble across her videos may think she's a loon, she's actually a former art student who has deftly cultivated her Web fame. In 2006, she opened for the pop band Scissor Sisters, and in 2007 she recorded a song with Elvira. This year, she'll do her first major European tour.
To achieve all this, Hall works long hours arranging gigs, answering email, updating her Web sites, and designing T-shirts. A clever YouTube clip may draw viewers, but the money's in the merch: "Everybody should have a T-shirt ready to sell, even if the shirts are homemade," she says.
Hall is soaking up the lessons of ROFLCon. "A lot of us are in the same boat. We get a lot of hits, but that doesn't make money," she says. "We've got to be able to make it last."
Hall knows Web celebrity is a tricky, often self-limiting thing. If you try too hard, you risk spoiling one of the great pleasures of meme culture — that feeling of finding something entirely by chance and playing a part in its ascent. Only a few Internet stars can make it IRL (in real life), so Hall plans her moves wisely. Recently, she got a call from a production company asking whether she wanted to be on a reality TV show that sounded a lot like The Surreal Life. "I was like, 'Not interested,'" she says. "I don't think we should sell out quite yet."
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Seiko wins the "Petite Aiguille" prize at the 2014 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève
The winning entry, the Grand Seiko Hi-Beat 36000 GMT
In an industry waqui many watches are feted with many prizes in many countries each year, one award stands far above all the others. It is the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève. Founded in 2001, it immediately became the watch industry's "Oscars" and its award ceremony is now firmly established, alongside the Baselworld Fair, as one of the key dates in the watchmaking calendar.
On October 31, the 2014 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève award ceremony took place at the Grand Theatre de Genève. 17 awards were made in total, most of which rewarded watches in specific categories such as "Tourbillon", "Chronograph" and "Jewellery." The "Petite Aiguille" category, in contrast, was open to any watch of any type under Sfr 8,000 in price and, as usual, attracted a large entry. From the short list of six, the jury of 25 watch and luxury experts selected the Grand Seiko Hi-Beat 36000 GMT Edição Limitada as the winner.
Seiko Watch Corporation is delighted and deeply honored to receive this award. For over half a century, Grand Seiko has been the very best of Seiko, and to see its beauty, durability, legibility and watchmaking excellence recognised by the most prestigious award in the industry is the greatest possible tribute to the Grand Seiko watchmakers and designers, past and present, who have dedicated their skill and talent to the creation of this remarkable collection.
The watch that won the "Petite Aiguille" award was first revealed at Baselworld 2014. It is the Hi-beat 36000 GMT Edição Limitada (SBGJ005). In both performance and appearance, it expresses the very best of Seiko's mechanical watchmaking. The caliber has a high accuracy of +5 to -3 seconds a day and a power reserve of 55 hours. The GMT hand can be used as a dual time indicator with the hour hand being adjustable independently as the time of day hands continue to mark time. It is the perfect watch for the international traveler.
The award was accepted by Susumu Kawanishi,
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The trophy. This is the third time that Seiko
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Commenting on the award, the President of Seiko Watch Corporation, Shinji Hattori said, " I am very grateful to the GPHG and its jury for their decision to award to Grand Seiko this most prestigious accolade. For 50 years, our Grand Seiko team has worked tirelessly to create the best possible functional watch in the world. The Hi-beat 36000 caliber is our proudest achievement so far and this award will spur us on to new achievements in the future."
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Grace and Peace to you my fellow sojourners in locdom. I am so happy to be welcomed into the Locked Hair Blog Exchange. My loc journey began almost 10 years ago, it was an instant attraction but a slow acceptance of what was the inevitable. I am loving every day of being locked and can't imagine why I took so long to make the transition. Share with me as I chronicle my journey into the kingdom of natural hair as well as the story of how I became "The Jamerican Loc Diva known as rastagalNJ. Click on the title to read my story and you can visit my online photo albums at http://public.fotki.com/rastagalNJ
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Business Owners & Corporate Entities generally face a dilemma about how employees ought to be compensated for their loyalty and dedicated work ethics. Finance departments generally favor providing holiday cheer in the form of bonus at Holidays. However an often neglected yet powerful tool can be used with spectacular results. It is called the Employee Group Health Benefits Plan.
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5 Ways to Create Content When You Don't Like to Write
The dreaded blank document. You really don't want to do this. In fact, you can already feel the call of Facebook. But you know you should. You should be blogging. You should be creating content. You should have opt-ins and content upgrades.
You're a talker, not a writer. But unfortunately writing is kind of required for an online business. What's an entrepreneur to do? Get creative. In the new world of entrepreneurship, things aren't black and white. To blog or not to blog? Nope, it's how can I blog even though I don't like to write? It's working with someone who is gifted in talents that you aren't because we were meant to work together.
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Your first instinct will be to avoid writing content altogether. That's a good place to start. You need to get some kind of content out there, and if talking out your ideas is what works for you, do that. But eventually, you'll be missing out on at least half of your potential audience because not everyone watches Youtube videos or listens to podcasts.
If your business is in the beginning phases (probably 6 months or less), focus on sharing your content in whatever way you can. You're in luck because SEO is favoring video, so take advantage of your strengths to kickstart your content marketing efforts. But remember, this is just the beginning.
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Hallelujah! Now we're on to the good stuff. So you have a bank of videos, webinars, podcasts, etc. What if you could get your content in front of twice as many people? These are the people who don't watch videos or listen to long podcasts. They are in it for the goods. They want to read your content, extract value, and take action!
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What you do is get a writer like me to repurpose your content. You hand over the link to your content (Youtube video, podcast episode, coaching call, whatever) and I'll repurpose it into written content that will attract and please the segment of your ideal audience who prefers to read. I created my repurposing service just for people like you because I know you have great things to share. With my help, you'll share that with more people.
3. Record and Transcribe
If you want to create brand new content without having to write it there are creative ways to do that too. One way to do this is to simply record yourself and have it transcribed. If you're going to do it this way, it helps if you have your thoughts together. Writing an outline before you record might help. Then you've just got to find yourself a good transcriptionist who will help you put your words to paper. If you get someone who is an editor too, you might get an even smoother finished product. I like to find transcriptionists on Upwork. You'll get varying levels of experience there.
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So you want to create new content, but your ideas are kind of jumbled. Or maybe you'd just rather go over the details with a professional. This is why I created Call for Copy. This is where you can connect with me and tell me all your ideas and what you want to create. I'll ask you questions to get the information I need and help clarify your ideas and then I'll create the content you want to create. All in your brand and your voice.
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If writing isn't your thing or it is and you just don't have time, Call for Copy. I'd love to talk with you. 🙂
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Can't wait another minute to get those ideas out? Let it all go and write down everything you can. So it's jumbled and some of it doesn't make sense, that's ok. Do a brain dump and write down all your ideas. Write out the headline that's been running circles around your head. List the points you want to make. Once it's all out of there, hand it over to an editor who can turn your jumbled thoughts into a coherent, quality piece of content. That wasn't so hard was it? And if you're really ambitious, see if you can edit it yourself. The first step is just to get it out of your head in whatever way you can.


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This is a discussion on SA, DA, DAO, DAK, SAO, Safe-Action, Ultra-Safe, LEM, SRT, mag safeties – huh? within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Great thread....
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12
I like Glocks - period. It's not the only gun I like and I can't say that I like a Glock any more or any less than several other guns. But I love the reset of the Glock trigger. I like what can be a short reset with simple but good connector mods. What i don't like about the Glock trigger is that trigger safety. I must be the only person in the world that has had a number of trigger blocks due to that trigger safety. Here's what happens: as I start to push my presentation speeds, at some point apparently my trigger finger slides across the trigger forcing the trigger safety to the left of the trigger. As I then pull the trigger, the safety flexes and hangs on the left side of the trigger slot. As I said, I must be the only guy in the world that experiences that, because I've never heard anyone mention it.
Regarding the DAK trigger - I like it a LOT! I like the Sig 229/6 guns they come on. I recently purchased a Sig 229R SRT DA/SA and have done a lot of shooting with it and my 229R DAK. I simply shoot the DAK more accurately. I always shoot the DAK in the longer, lighter mode, and rarely if ever in the shorter, heavy mode. While some dislike the DAO trigger, I find a lot of comfort and confidence in it. It is a long pull, like a revolver trigger, but it is very smooth and much lighter than the DA on a DA/SA gun.
I'll just say this, probably get a lot of flack about it, but that's not going to change anything - a DA/SA takes a lot of training and discipline to shoot properly and effectively. You can illustrate this readily by setting up some challenging targets and shooting a DAK side by side with a DA/SA. Shoot three shots from each. You must shoot the first shot of the DA/SA in the DA mode just like you would if you had to draw and fire. Repeat alternating the guns for at least 48 rounds and score the targets.
Another plus for the DAK is not having a safety or decocker to manipulate. One cannot fully appreciate this until he's carried a DAO for a while, be it a Glock, DAK, or a P250. I mainly carry the P250 now in some variation. The trigger pull weight, pull length, reset length of the P250 is exactly the same as the DAK. The only difference between the two is the DAK has the short, heavy mode and the P250 is always the same.
There are essentially seven reasons I choose the P250. One, it is reliable. I'm now at about 1500 rounds through mine without a single issue of any kind, so Sig has the reliability issue resolved.
Two, I can carry all kinds of variations depending on my 'mission'. I have a compact, a full size, and a full-size frame cut back to the compact slide size and I have three X mags to adapt fs mags to the compact frame. So with those options, I can carry a full-size, which I carry most of the time, a full size grip with a compact frame, creating a 'Commander' effect, a compact with compact mags, or a compact with X mags (17 rounds in a 15 round gun).
Three, in a given size, it's lighter than Sig Classic. That may not seem like much, but it can be.
Four, the compact size holds two more rounds than the equivalent sized P229
Five, I have a small grip size for my full-size grip and it has a shorter trigger reach than then E2 type grip.
Six,, accuracy; I, and others such as Bruce Gray, find this gun to be as accurate or more accurate than any polymer gun.
Well, I have drifted, so back to topic with number seven, the DAO trigger: The P250 is about as light and smooth as it gets for an out of the box DAO trigger. Many are surprised at how quickly they can adapt to the P250's DAO trigger, and the same can be said for the DAK trigger. They're so close I can hardly feel a difference. The only significant difference is the P250 has a significantly shorter trigger reach.
In addition to these seven, I should add the resistance to an unitentional or premature discharge under stress. I just read an article about that very thing recently. After a shooting, fear, adrenilene is going to be rampant. Holding a gun under these conditions with the mind racing is not the time to have a light short trigger - things happen. That long trigger pull makes a pre-mature discharge and some unintentional discharges all but impossible. I've seen holstered 1911s with the safety off and I've seen several DA/SAs holstered without being decocked. And this is just the stress produced in training - no where near the stress level of having defended one's life.
We don't have a gun problem in the US, We have a people problem.
The problem we have is people that want to kill large numbers innocent people
in Gun Free Zones.
I like this op so much, I just wanted to put it up at the top again for anyone who has not seen it.
I finally read this thread and it was worth the time to go through it; especially for a "newbie" like me with just over one year with handguns. Thanks for all the info.
Chicken Little? Who the heck is Chicken Little? And what does she know, anyway?!
" The will of the majority, the natural law of every society, is the only sure guardian of the rights of man." Thomas Jefferson.
Great thread, very informative. I soaked it all up an have found that I am still favoring my DA/SA Sig P220r. I have fired some Glocks and I was quite impressed with the reset on the trigger. I think for me there are too many mechanics involved with making it go bang. I have a LE family member who is a die hard Glock owner and I certainly respect these firearms. I have also experianced Springfield's XDm and have enjoyed various 1911's. I have also trained with Beretta 92's for some years now. Definitly a matter of preference here but I think I will always go with something that utilizes an external hammer (with spur) and a metal frame. out of all these models I prefer my SIG. I cant think of anything that could make it inferior to any other handgun in a SD scenario. Bottom line; It's not all about the gun, It's all about the shooters ability to put bullets into BG's.
PS: To anyone who has tried the SRT, would you consider it enough of an improvement to be worth having it done on my daily driver? I dont want to get it and decide I find it less functional than before. kinda like when I bought those Equinox grips. mag release was set too deep for me to press it without having to dramatically shift my grip on the weapon. blech.
Just my two cents...
The paradigm has been set through historical use (there is no official body deciding these things, right?) The term "Action" refers ONLY to the trigger, and not the operation of the weapon (hammer and striker are fully interchangeable, for example). A trigger action is defined by two words and only two words, the former being a descriptor ("Single", "Double"), the latter being "Action."
Single Action (SA) = a trigger that releases a fully cocked hammer.
Double Action (DA) = a trigger that cocks a fully rested hammer to fully cocked then releases it.
Eliminate SA/DA in favor of:
Both Action (BA) = both a SA and a DA trigger
Either Action (EA) = either a SA or a DA trigger
Eliminate DAO. Now just DA.
To account for Glock, PF9, LC9, Kahr, et al.:
Partial Action (PA) = a trigger that partially cocks a hammer and releases it.
Terrific info on the function of handgun actions here, well done!
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I'm not aware of any 'official' definition that states '...cocks a fully rested hammer...'. The defacto definition in long standing use, used by the BATFE to classify a gun as well as the IDPA, is the simple concept of SA or DA. SA meaning one thing - it drops the hammer. DA means it does more than just drop the hammer. So with a Glock, the trigger action cocks a partially cocked striker and then releases it - that's more than one thing, hence it is classified a DAO.Originally Posted by 45super
We don't have a gun problem in the US, We have a people problem.
The problem we have is people that want to kill large numbers innocent people
in Gun Free Zones.
Hello Everyone. This is my first post here and I am also new to the world of guns. I just got my FID card and hand gun permits. So far Ive taken two self-defense courses, both taught by an NRA certified instructor who also trains police officers. As a quick introduction, I live in central NJ and am in the investment management business. So I dont come from a law enforcement background.
First of all, I wanted to thank Tangle for his write-up on the different action types. Tangle, it is obvious that you thought about the topic for a long time. I thought your post was thoughtful, articulate and well-written. Your explanation of the different action types and the pros and cons of each were clear; it is probably one of the best posts Ive read on the internet so thank you for writing it. I dont know what sticky actually means when it refers to posts but it certainly stuck in my mind.
I liked your post so much that I was inspired to join this forum. In fact, I read the whole thread several times to fully understand the topic. Before reading your post I was ready to buy a DA/SA gun but now I am leaning towards the DAO and DAK. My gun instructor however is convinced the DA/SA is the way to go. I have several questions which I want to ask everyone and will post at the end of my ramblings.
My purpose in taking the gun courses was to educate myself about guns, to learn safe gun handling procedures, and to train myself in shooting a gun (reasonably) accurately. The primary purpose in getting a handgun is for home self-defense (HSD). After I saw the rioting and looting in Greece, Italy, Spain, France and the UK last year, I figured I needed to learn how to handle a gun safely. Since I believe the rioting and looting will, unfortunately, come to the U.S. in several years, I wanted to be prepared. Furthermore, after renting and shooting guns at the target range, I have become a gun enthusiast and now have a new and fun hobby! https://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/...l_1/banana.gif
After a lot of exhaustive research on the internet, gun manufacturers websites and shooting different 9mm guns (Glock 19 Gen4, Beretta 92FS, Ruger SR9c, HK P30, HK P2000 v3, HK P2000sk and Sig P226 Enhanced Elite with SRT) I have decided to get a Sig gun because I really enjoyed shooting my friends Sig P226 Elite; it was sweet! The Short Reset Trigger scares the daylights out of me though because after taking the first DA shot, I inadvertently let loose two more shots down range in quick succession. Ive decided to get the Sig P229 and a Sig P250 2SUM, both in 9mm. I realize the P250 is DAO with a stated trigger pull weight of 6 lbs. and I am OK with it.
So here are my questions:
1) Should I get the P229 in DA/SA with stated trigger pull weights of 10/4.4 lbs. or in DAK with 6.5/8.5 pounds? According to some folks the real trigger pull weights on the DAK is 7.5/9.5 pounds. Does an increase of a pound in pull weight matter? Are the DA/SA pull weights of really 10/4.4 lbs.? https://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/...1/confused.gif
2) Since I will be practicing with the P229 at the shooting range and since I really like the 4.4 pounds SA trigger, I am tempted to stick with the DA/SA. I figure 99.9% of my time with the P229 will be at the shooting range and maybe 0.1% of the time in a HSD situation (although a very critical time). So my thought is if I am in a Home Self Defense situation, why not rack the slide for the first shot so the P229 is in SA mode which is the mode I would have practiced the most? I am sure there is a flaw in my thinking. Please let me know what that is. Thank you! (I realize that by going into SA mode Ive disabled the safety feature of the DA/SA gun.)
3) For the Sig P250, the stated trigger pull weight is 6 pounds. Is that correct or is it higher? Or does it not matter?
4) I realize that a DAO or a DAK trigger have long pulls. Since I havent had enough practice and experience, how long is long? Ive seen some people describe it as loooooooong. What does that mean? One of my biggest worries is that I might accidentally shoot a family member in a false HSD situation (especially with the adrenaline going strong). So a double action pull would give me an extra second (?) to reconsider before pulling the trigger. I would not have that second with a SA.
The first three questions have to do with being proficient in using a certain type of action type. Question 4 is about safety. For me the safety issue trumps the action type question so I am leaning towards the DAK. What do you guys think?
Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts. https://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/...l_1/smile2.gif
First let me congratulate you on your decision to get and learn to use a handgun - you've certainly taken the right approach.
Then, I apologize for being so slow to respond - the last three or so weeks have been really busy for me.
The Sig P226 Elite is an excellent gun; I have a Sig P226 Enhanced Elite. The Enhanced just means it has the newer style grip.Originally Posted by BlueHawk76
The DA/SA first: There some serious problems with the DA/SA, one is the long, heavy first shot (DA), and two, the discipline required to train with the DA, and three the elevated sensitivity of the SA trigger in stressful conditions.
Let's start with the trigger weight: My Elite measures right at 11 lbs on my Lyman Digital trigger pull scale. That's about 60% heavier than my DAK triggers (about 7 lbs) and very nearly the same pull distance as a like the DAK and DAO of the P250 (about 7.5 lbs). Some time back, I measured the pull length and reset length of the DAK and P250. They are so close I could not measure the difference. That surprises a lot of people because there is a general misconception that the P250 has the long pull and reset - it is identical to the DAK in the light, long mode.
While one can master the DA/SA it takes both discipline and practice, more so than with other trigger systems. I see time and time again people at the range shooting a DA/SA by loading a mag, racking the slide and shooting in SA only to slide lock and the repeat the same mistake over and over. The mistake is not shooting about a third of the total number of shots fired in the DA mode. The 'third' comes from the stat that says the average civilian gunfight is about 2 - 3 rounds. While we don't want to bet our life on that, it still says that if I have to shoot three shots, the first is going to be a DA shot and the next two SA. Hence, based on that, we need to shoot about a third of our shots DA. I can't make myself do that! I, like the vast majority, like that single action trigger and the results I get with it. The DA/SA takes time and commitment to become proficient with it.
You pointed out one other issue, remember the premature firing with the SRT trigger system? That's happened to me too, and I shoot a LOT! I shot over 12,000 rounds last year and am up to 5900 this year with another hundred or so in the works today.
The third issue with a DA/SA is the decock. I've seen DA/SAs holstered with the hammer cocked. I won't go so far to say that that's unsafe, the hammer still can't fall until the trigger is pulled, but that same issue applies to a SD shooting. Say we've shot a couple of shots in a justified SD. What condition are we in? Have we been shot as well? Are we adrenaline pumped? Scared? And there we stand with our finger on a 4.5 lb trigger with our brain in a mode it has never experienced before. Are we going to remember to take our finger off the trigger? Are we going to remember to decock?
OTOH, we hear of very, very few issues with a DAO revolver. The issues we hear about with revolvers are the DA revolvers and practically every unintentional incident has occurred in the SA mode. The DAK and the P250 DAO are very revolver like. The cocked DA/SA is very SA revolver-like.
I wouldn't go so far as a flaw, but there we are in that high stress situation with a very short, light SA trigger. Trainers will tell you how frequently in force on force training they have to remind experienced, trained personnel to take their finger off the trigger. Ernst Langdon once told me this: "Under stress, fingers migrate to the trigger - they just do." There have been any number of training situations where, after the drill, they ask the person if they had their finger on the trigger and the person says they definitely did not and were conscious that they did not. Then they look at the video and their finger was on the trigger practically the whole time! Talk about embarassed!Originally Posted by BlueHawk76
My P250 measures right at 7.25 lbs but it is so smooth and consistent that it feels much lighter. That's probably about what the DA pull on a revolver is. In fact, the DA on a revolver may be a bit heavier.Originally Posted by BlueHawk76
What most people talk about is the long pull. Well, it is long compared to SAs and Glock and M&P type actions, but as I've said previously, it's the same pull and distance as a DAK. BTW, the FAM (Federal Air Marshals) used P229 DAKs in .357 sig for a long time - may still be using them.
I'm not sure what they mean. I've heard them praise the DAK and criticize the P250 trigger pull which we know is identical in pull and weight. The DAK and P250 are essentially the same pull length and reset as a revolver, but both have slightly lighter pulls than revolvers.Originally Posted by BlueHawk76
As for safety, I'll tell you what Ernst Langdon told me about that. He had access to a bunch of stuff we don't have. He said a study clearly showed that long trigger pulls were far more significant than trigger pull weight for preventing an unintentional discharge under stress.
I think you're right on. I know some will disagree with that, and you'll hear the brain is the only safety you need, but history simply doesn't support that simple-minded cliche. If the brain is such a good safety, how come we see so many auto, shop, hobbly, sports, etc. accidents? Brains fail, especially under stress. I've seen Golden Glove boxers in big matches get so stressed that they throw up. So much for the brain controlling the situation.Originally Posted by BlueHawk76
Still the brain is our primary safety, but because we've seen so many brain failures over the years, it doesn't hurt to have some backup for the times the brain goes astray.
Having said all that, I carry a Glock 17 gen 4 with Ghost Rocket connector in it. The Glock is a DAO to a degree, but it lacks the trigger pull length to provide the backup a long pull DAO does. Remember, pull length is more significant than trigger weight - the Glock has a relatively short trigger pull. Even the P30 in SA has a long reset to give a longer trigger pull. But, I do shoot/train a lot. I just hope it's enough so that I shoot and hit what I need to when I need to and don't shoot when I don't intend to.
Lastly (about time huh!) if you go with the P250, you may not find 'accessories' quite as readily available. You'll have a harder time finding 'off the shelf' holsters, but most of the name brand custom holster manufacturers do make holsters for the P250.
The P250 sights are another consideration. The rear sight is quite unique and may be harder to find sights to fit it.
We don't have a gun problem in the US, We have a people problem.
The problem we have is people that want to kill large numbers innocent people
in Gun Free Zones.
Thank you so much for such a long and detailed response. So to sum up, it looks like the DAK and DAO is the way to go especially from a safety and proficiency perspective. I have a few follow up questions.
1) I've heard that with the Sig P250 you feel much more of the recoil because of the polymer frame (as opposed to the metal frames on the other Sigs) and the lightness of the gun (around 25 ounces). Is that true? The problem is I can't rent this gun and feel the recoil myself. I would be buying blind.
2) All of the gun sales people I talk to don't understand why I want the DAK trigger since I am not a LEO. One person even said that they don't make the Sig P229 in DAK anymore. Is that true?
3) I am sorry but I didn't get what you meant about the P250 sights. If it comes with rear sights, why would I want another? Is the rear sight not adequate? Also, I don't plan to carry (currently) so a proper fitting holster would not be a consideration.
Thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions.
1- Not sure what happened on the center. That's 5 shots each at 3, 5, 7, 10, and 15 yds. The four off to the side were the 15 yard shots - nice group, just off to the side.
2- The head shot is 25 rapid fire, not really blazing, but not slow either, at 7 yards.
3- The neck shots are 25 rapid fire at 7 yds.
In the following pic,
1- Same as 1 above but you can see I corrected the 'left' issue at 15 yds, notice all but one shot is in the X ring, maybe that was bad ammo???
2- Head and neck shots are 25 rapid fire shots on each dot at 7 yds
3- the chest shots are 25 rapid fire shots at 10 yds
I'm not saying everyone can shoot the P250 like that, some might be better.............thinking..........well that might be a bit of a stretch..............some might not shoot the P250 as well, but the gun is a shooter!
What's not evident in the pics is how easy it was.
Gun sales people don't understand a lot of stuff - no offense to those that do know their business, but a lot don't.
The P250 does come with good sights and usually night sights, so that really isn't an issue unless you want some special kind of sight.
I'm pretty happy with the stock sig night sights that come with them.
The P229/6 series costs significantly more than a P250, and some will say you get what you pay for, but then Glocks cost significantly less than the P229/6 series as well. I like the P250 trigger better than the DAK, but that's just me personally.
We don't have a gun problem in the US, We have a people problem.
The problem we have is people that want to kill large numbers innocent people
in Gun Free Zones.
Tangle, thank you again for taking the time to answer my questions so thoroughly and with pictures too. Looks like you had a lot of fun at the gun range today! You must be retired to be able to take time off on a weekday. Your groupings are awesome. I will have to show you mine after a year or so (when I can actually shoot some decent groupings) and after I figure out how to upload pictures.
What I didn't mention before in my postings is that I am considering buying 3 guns. Based on our conversation so far I am leaning towards the following ones: 1) Sig P229 with night sights in DAK 2) Sig P250 2Sum with night sights and 3) Sig P239 with night sights in DAK. Basically what I needed to figure out was: should I choose DAK over DA/SA? and is the recoil on the P250 manageable? It seems that the answer to both questions is yes. You've giving me the confidence to proceed forward with the purchases. The difficulty in buying a gun is that one can't try it out beforehand in many cases so you are buying blind (so to speak). I am counting on Sig's quality reputation that the P229 and P239 will be just as good as the P226 I shot.
I will read the other postings on this forum but won't be able to contribute much because of my inexperience. If anyone has questions about investing , on the other hand, those I can answer (but this isn't the forum for it though!).
Take care.


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The Prototype:
The Lorraine Prototype (Later to become the Amiga 1000).
This is part 3 in the Ars Technica series on the origins of the Amiga, it's quite an amazing tale of 90+ hour workweeks with the challenge of creating an operating system from scratch after the developers realzied that, ". . . CPM and MSDOS [were] poor designs. So, [they] started creating [their] own OS design, even before the Amiga came along."
What I'm happy to learn at the end of this article is that Ars Technica plans to continue this series covering Amiga's official launch and its early years with an established product.
From Wikipedia: In 1996 PC World rated the Amiga 1000 as the 7th greatest PC of all time [1]. In 2007 it was rated by the same magazine as the 37th best tech product of all time [2].
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Paul Andrew Mitchell
RED ALERT: Be Aware of This False-Flag Scenario to Start WWIII
Have you followed the relentless media 'set-up' for war with Iran? Is it true that the unabashed hubris of neocon war-hawks and hutzpah of Zionist zeolots is for war with Iran? Are you aware of the long history of false-flag events used to start wars? Would you agree that this warrants fervent prayers and activist networking to expose and prevent this scenario BEFORE it happens?
At 03:00 PM 1/23/2012, Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:
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Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:20 PM
Subject: The False Flag Times -- [Another] New Pearl Harbor? U.S. to send old warship to Persian Gulf
WRH writes:
And the message is, "Israel is going to sink this old clunker and we're gonna blame YOU [Iran] for it!"
With the collapse of the oil embargo to force Iran into a confrontation over the Straight of Hormuz, the US and Israel are looking for another way to get the long-sought war with Iran started, and more to the point, need to make it look like Iran is starting hostilities in order to make it politically more difficult for Russia and China to support Iran.
Now, recall that Israel has a past history of attacking US warships and framing others to trick the US into attacks on Israel's enemies, with the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty (initially blamed on Egypt) as the most well-known example.
So here we have the USS Enterprise, the oldest carrier in the fleet, on her last legs, scheduled to be decommissioned next year. Her name is well known, in part because of the Star Trek TV series. Decommissioning a nuclear aircraft carrier is a very expensive process. USS Enterprise is powered by 8 nuclear reactors, all of which must be disposed of as nuclear waste material along with all the associated machinery. The US Navy would save a great deal of money, more than the scrap worth of the steel, if USS Enterprise were to be sunk in the Persian Gulf, where the radioactive mess is someone else's problem to deal with.
So, why send an ancient ship at the end of her useful life into harms way? The same reason Franklin Roosevelt moved a bunch of obsolete warships from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, while the newer carriers and warships were well away from Hawaii on December 7th, 1941.
Israel has 3 Dolphin submarines, given to her by Germany. They have been seen transiting the Suez Canal in the past, and could well be operating in the Gulf of Oman, even the Persian Gulf by now, lying in wait for a used-up and obsolete warship, more useful as a sacrificial lamb than an actual weapon, a ship with American sailors, to be attacked as Israel attacked the USS Liberty, then to be blamed on the designated target, Iran, by a compliant media.
Did I miss anything? [Comment from CR: Yes, WWII began when the US cut off Japan's supply of oil, leading to their attack on Pearl Harbor. And you missed the fact that the World Trade Centers were scheduled to be demolished because of asbestos used in construction, but it was purchased by a Zionist with one of the Bush brothers involved, and then insured for billions right before 9-11 happened. Coincidence? Or a false-flag event? Remember, a third WTC building was also demolished into its own footprint like the other two on the same day. These neocon/Zionist traitors got away with it. Beware of their plots and ploys now. Expose their treasonous treachery, because, as with 9-11, the mainstream media is running cover for the corporatocracy that profits from war. The best defense against the Big Lie is the Whole Truth. God help us!]
[end excerpt]
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
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Investment bank expects merger with Khaleeji to help provide it with retail banking exposure
Bank Al Khair, a Bahrain-based investment bank, expects its potential merger with local player Khaleeji Commercial Bank to help provide it with retail banking exposure and more stable revenues, a top executive said.
Unlisted Al Khair and Khaleeji, both Islamic banks, set up a committee to study the feasibility of a merger, with any agreement subject to due diligence and approvals by shareholders and the regulator, Khaleeji said in a bourse filing earlier this month.
A merger would create an entity with paid-up capital of about $500 million and assets in the range of $600m to $1bn, Jonathan Holley, Bank Al Khair's acting chief executive and head of investment banking, said in an interview on Sunday.
"Our motivation is to acquire a retail skill set. That will represent a bigger and more stable platform for growing and help us diversify into more consistent revenue streams," Holley said.
Khaleeji has seven retail branches in Bahrain and investments worth about BD100m ($265m) outside the country.
An independent firm is now finalising valuations for the two businesses, the executive said, adding that a deal would probably involve both cash and an exchange of shares. Khaleeji would be expected to remain listed on the Bahrain bourse after the deal.
"Basically, the valuations will drive ownership post-closing. We don't know the merger ratio yet. On the surface, they are about equal," Holley said.
A deal would also help Khaleeji, which has a market value of about $162m, expand into regions such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, where Bank Al Khair has operations.
Saudi real estate developer Dar Al Arkan is a key shareholder in Bank Al Khair, while Gulf Finance House owns 43 percent of Khaleeji, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Mergers among Bahraini lenders have been encouraged by the country's central bank, especially among smaller Islamic banks hit hard by a local real estate crisis and political unrest in the tiny island nation.
Many previous attempts to consolidate the Gulf Arab region's banking sector have been scuppered by shareholders unwilling to cede control except for sky-high valuations.
But National Bank of Bahrain and a local pension fund said in March they would buy a 51.6 percent stake in Bahrain Islamic Bank, while Capivest, Elaf Bank and Capital Management House completed a three-way merger in January.
Bank Al Khair, previously known as Unicorn Investment Bank, is also in an advanced stage of acquiring a business in Turkey, Holley said without providing details.
"We are in the regulatory stages now for the deal. It will be the largest in the bank's history."
Bank Al Khair posted a first-quarter loss of $2.8m, while Khaleeji had a profit of BD302,000.


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Stop living and just get by
They settle for the status quo
No effort is easy, so why try?
It doesn't make you a bad person
We all have the right to choose
Just seems like such a waste
Nothing to gain, nothing to lose
No need to climb any higher
No risks, nowhere to fall
Travelling along at your own speed
A sluggish pace, at a slow crawl.
Doing the bare minimum…
And that's all
You've decided that a job is a job
It's apathy that keeps you sane
Gainfully employed yes, maybe,
But it's no pain, and no gain
Feeling ordinary is acceptable
Being unexceptional is quite okay
An average life in Middletown
Ho hum, just another day
Merely going through the motions
Stopped trying, in a perpetual stall
No extra effort required
No ambition or greater call.
Doing just the bare minimum…
And that's all
The problem lies within your responsibility
You need to show that you can rise above
This bad example that you are imparting
It's your obligation, to those you love
Alter the image that you are projecting
Change the shape of your situation
Breathe some life into mundane existence
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Get out from behind your mediocrity
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There are no dead-end streets
New horizons are beyond every wall
Venture outside of your comfort zone
You need to be in it for the long haul.
No excuse for the bare minimum…
You should want it all.