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The standard protocol for sharing files between Linux boxes is the Network File System (NFS). This protocol, which originated with Sun in the mid 80s, does the job, but it has many deficiencies that can cause trouble for a systems administrator. Though there are alternatives, such as the Andrew File System (AFS) that are much nicer, most of us are stuck with NFS at this time—it is standard, available on every platform under the sun and free. Fortunately, the program AMD (AutoMount Daemon) exists to make living with NFS much easier.
AMD is an automounter—i.e., it maintains a cache of mounted file systems. At a minimum, AMD should be used wherever you use a normal NFS mount, since AMD makes your network more reliable. Because of the stateless design of NFS, any process trying to access data on an NFS partition will blocked if the partition's server goes down. AMD improves the situation by keeping track of which machines are down and which are inaccessible. Since AMD doesn't mount every partition immediately or keep them mounted, as does NFS, you save overhead that otherwise would be used for kernel and network traffic from the unused partitions, and thus improve machine performance.
Configuration and administration become much easier with AMD. Instead of requiring a different fstab file on each host, you can have a single, centrally maintained AMD map which can be distributed as a file with rdist or NIS maps or even Hesiod. As an example, we have over 100 machines with one centrally maintained AMD map. One map file is certainly easier to edit than 100.
Another convenient feature of AMD is dynamic maps that change depending on any number of criteria. A single map can point to multiple places, allowing you to do operations unavailable with normal NFS. For instance, if you have multiple replicated servers, you can set up a map so that if one server goes down, AMD will automatically mount files using one of the others.
AMD operates by mimicking an NFS server. When a file is accessed, AMD uses its map to decide where that file actually resides. It then mounts that partition, if necessary, using regular NFS, and mimics a symlink to the actual location. All AMD actions are done transparently, so that from the user's point of view she is simply accessing a regular Unix symlink that points to a regular user's file. AMD maintains its NFS mounts beneath a temporary directory, by default called "a", a name choice that can cause problems. For example, the actual physical path of the directory /home/crosby is /a/home/crosby, but /a/home/crosby exists only if someone has recently accessed /home/crosby (or some other path on the same partition). Therefore, users should never explicitly access files through /a.
Diagram 1 demonstrates the three types of mounts involved: the native partition, the AMD pseudo partition and the behind-the-scenes NFS partition.
.................. . NFS Partition . \-+-a---home . | .....^............ +-bin : | : |......... |. AMD . +-home . .........
AMD does a few other things behind the scenes to keep operations healthy. First of all, it sends out rpc requests at regular intervals to all the servers it knows to see if they are alive. If one isn't, AMD will not try to mount it. This checking also allows AMD to offer access to replicated file systems; that is, you can set up multiple redundant servers, and if one goes down, AMD will try to mount another one.
To use AMD, you must first of all build one or more AMD maps. These maps are the configuration files that tell AMD exactly what to do. Many tasks can be done from an AMD map, and documenting them all would take more than one article. Listing 1 provides a sample AMD map with some common tasks, and with comments under each entry to explain it. In general, a map consists of two fields: the name, which is translated to the path name underneath the AMD mount point, and the options, which specify what to do with this path name.
I have merely touched the surface of AMD features in Listing 1. The uses of AMD are almost endless—as the man page says, "A weird imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the features." The documentation that comes with the package gives complete instructions for writing a map.
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It's that time of year again. In two weeks, 2012 will be in the history books, and before that happens, it's time to look back on the past 12 months.
You're going to see a lot of top 10 lists in the coming days, ranking everything from movies to music to hairstyles. But there's one such list we here at Fermilab are pretty excited about, and it was published on Friday.
It's Physics Today's annual list of the top 10 scientific breakthroughs, and it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that 2012 was a great year for basic research. You can read the full article here, but there are two we're involved with, and I'd like to highlight them.
There was never any doubt what would land atop this list, at least around these parts. I'm sure you've all heard about the Higgs boson, and the fact that scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland have discovered something they think might be the elusive particle.
That discovery was announced in July by a pair of extensive scientific collaborations, called ATLAS and CMS. What many people don't realize is that Fermilab is a partner in the CMS experiment, and we have a remote control room on site to monitor and analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider.
It would take a lot more space than I have to explain why a confirmed discovery of the Higgs boson would be a very big deal. Suffice it to say that scientists have come up with a picture of the visible universe, and the extremely small particles that make it up, and the Higgs is just about the last piece of the puzzle they need to know they're right. It will help determine why things have mass, and how that mass is created.
While this may sound like the end of physics, it's really not. There are plenty of questions still to be answered about dark matter, dark energy, neutrinos, and a million other things. But having this puzzle piece in place, should this turn out to be a genuine Higgs boson, would bring our idea of the universe into much sharper focus.
So yes, the discovery of a Higgs-like particle deserves to top Physics World's list, and big congrats are due the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.
But there's another entry on the list we're jazzed about. It involves an experiment performed early this year with our 170-ton MINERvA neutrino detector, which lives underground here at Fermilab. Using this device, scientists were able to send and receive a coded message using neutrinos as the carrier.
That's right. They used neutrinos – tiny particles that pass through just about anything, rarely interacting with anything else – to actually communicate information, like subatomic radio waves. Scientists have been thinking about how to do this for decades, but the experiment at Fermilab was the first time it worked.
Of course, practical applications are a long way off. You still need an accelerator to generate neutrinos and a massive detector to receive the messages. But as Physics Today pointed out, this experiment proved the principle is sound. You can read more about that here.
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Two pairs of lips, a little tongue. Nothing odd for cable television, even if it was two women. Still, when Britney Spears kissed Madonna on the MTV Video Music Awards — a lip lock that seemed designed to prove that both women were still capable of causing a sensation — it became head line news. "Tonsil hockey," leered the New York Daily News. "Booty bouncing," seconded the New York Post. "Sorry," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which had to apologize after outraged readers objected to a Page One photo of the kiss.
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Even CNN's Crossfire got into the act, featuring Spears one-on-one with Tucker Carlson — a bow-tie-wearing conservative better known for sparring 'with the likes of Hillary Clinton. Spears said that, no, she'd never kissed a woman before, and, yes, maybe she would again, if it was Madonna. She also revealed that the kiss had been rehearsed, and all involved had agreed to see how it felt in the moment. Though she denies it, even more was rehearsed: Madonna playfully slapping Spears' ass — a moment that didn't make it on the air.
This article appeared in the October 2, 2003 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available in the online archive.
"I flew to London from New York, and I couldn't believe it was all over the papers there," says Spears. "It's crazy and it's bizarre, but it's also kind of amazing." And it's the first step in launching Spears' return after a year's layoff, a prelude to an appearance on the football-season pre-show NFL Kickoff Live, just a week later, and the upcoming release of a new single and video. The question that remains for Spears is, do people still care about the music? Or is she becoming more famous for stunts like this?
"I'm not gonna come out on this record and show my crotch or anything," she says. "That's not me. I would never do anything like that. It's all in the way you do stuff, all in the way you carry things. The music is most important to me."
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Still, it's undeniable that, as the former Mouseketeer has inched past the age of consent, she's had a much bumpier career ride. Her last album, Britney, sold 4 million copies — not a flop, by any means, but considered a disappointment when compared with her previous two albums, which sold a combined 22 million copies. Then came her feature-film debut, Crossroads, which was mostly ignored by her fans and widely reviled by critics. In August 2002, Spears announced a hiatus.
"Why the hell did I say that?" she asks today. "That was so fucking stupid. But honestly? I thought I could chill out for a while and be a normal person."
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Unfortunately for Spears, her break proved neither normal nor especially chill. She suffered the highest-profile of breakups with her longtime boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, who implied she cheated on him, cast a Britney look-alike in his "Cry Me a River" video and crudely spoke about their sex life in a radio interview. Spears' New York restaurant, Nyla, closed after seven months, in the wake of a slew of bad press and health-code violations. Meanwhile, stories circulated about Spears the party girl. Star magazine alleged that she snorted cocaine in a nightclub. Spears denied the story through a representative, though she later told Star, "Let's just say you reach a point in your life when you are curious." Perhaps the low point came when Fred Durst appeared on the Howard Stern Show to share an extremely graphic kiss-and-tell, including descriptions of Spears' pubic hair. The mental image of the balding, goateed Limp Bizkit singer getting it on with America's jailbait sweetheart was, with the possible exception of those death photos of Uday and Qusay Hussein, easily the year's most disturbing.
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The library is still the place people can come to find a good book. Patrons still curl up with books and newspapers in the well-lit reading area. But the world should know that the library offers many additional services beyond the traditional expectations and childhood memories.
The Muskogee Public Library has long offered such things as literacy services, the world catalog, free databases that help with job searches and individually tailored education. Babies, teens and adults can all find something fun and interesting in one of the library's programs. There is a new such activity the public needs to know about — a craft exchange.
Craft books at the library fairly fly off the shelves. There is a constant demand. Sooner or later, the avid craftsperson exhausts our collection and even those of the system in the never-ending hunt for more patterns, instructions, ideas and inspiration. Therefore the library has started a craft pattern exchange, which is expanding into workshops and classes.
A beige metal file cabinet sits next to the video shelves. The drawers hold patterns and even magazines alphabetized by craft from applique to woodworking. The top of the cabinet holds more freebies for avid craftspeople and little handouts with the names of library books, YouTube tutorials, and teaching blogs for each craft.
The exchange is basically patron-run under an honor system. Bring in old used or unwanted patterns (up to five at a time) and exchange them for up to five free patterns. These are for personal use only and cannot be resold or used for commercial purpose. Some of the patterns will be under Creative Commons licensing and products made from these patterns may be sold, but not the patterns themselves.
Some patrons who have already taken advantage of the craft exchange have also started coming to a craft workshop. It began as a crochet workshop, but the attendees decided to open it up to all crafts and all levels of expertise. The workshops are tentatively scheduled for the first Tuesday of every month (not including January, which has been rescheduled for the third Tuesday). Bring your craft project to work on and if you have a problem with it, maybe you'll find someone there who can help or you can help someone else.
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I remember when the 2nd gen Prius came out and Toyota was boasting that it would get somewhere south of 70mpg...try 40-45 when using standards and tests not created in the 1950s.
E85 isn't much better, as the increased demand for corn and other biofuels has made food prices go through the roof. Everywhere I go I hear people complain about the price of milk, as it's costing farmers more to feed their herds of the slaughtered.
Now the government's trying to make these CAFE regulations for every car by 2020 or so, making my shiny new Corvette a naughty toy to have, while everyone else drives the bastard childs of SMART, Renault, Mini Coopers, and other "cars" that I could crush with my thumb. Due largely to global warming (and the fear of no more gas in the next 6 months).
Really, do you think a driver of a Lambo Murcielago LP640 gives a damn how much gas he's wasting? Didn't think so.
(wait's that's not fair-the car's worth at least 250k...)
anyone who drives a Prius is quite frankly, well um.................(i very rarely use this word) a cunt, they really think thier doing thier bit for the enviroment(not that cars make much difference anyway) but due to the battiries etc they have much more enviromental impact than many normal non hybrid cars, people buy them trying to make a statement about how thier doing thier bit and try to look eco friendly, they try and give me a holier than thou look at traffic lights because i dare to drive a Range Rover-OMG just think of my carbon footprint, what they fail to know is im laughing at them spluttering around in thier silly little car with thier silly ignorant attitude and at times i would like nothing more than to drive into them.
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Part of America's problem is that many Americans believe that Alaskan oil will "save us." What Americans don't realize is that the oil in Alaska has high sulfur content thus is not economically usable in America. (i.e. We sell it overseas.) That's one of the reasons that the Environmentalists keep winning the battle to stop the drilling in Alaska. It's pretty hard to find people who want to destroy the Denali Wilderness so oil companies can profit.
is the Alaskan and Canadian oil called shale oil?, i think i remember reading about it.
something to do with the extraction and refinement costs are much higher than regular crude oil but it can essentially do the same thing if it comes to it?.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia Senate has abruptly adjourned, delaying revisions to the state budget and a decisive vote on a major transportation reform bill the House already passed until Saturday, the final day of the 2013 General Assembly.
Senators had languished in recess most of Friday afternoon awaiting written assurances from Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell not to block Medicaid expansion.
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The 2011 Saxon Motorcycle Whip features digital instrumentation, a speedometer, and a tachometer. The frame is built of steel, and a kickstand is the standard method of propping it up while in park. Front and rear brakes are hydraulic disc brakes, and there are options to convert the engine for California's emissions and smog requirements. The price-point is extremely low for a custom-built motorcycle, and it comes with a two-year warranty for the engine, transmission, and several other parts. While the Saxon Whip looks great on paper, consumer reports show another story. Not only are Saxon Motorcycles becoming less reputable in the states, but there are even fewer dealerships than there were just a few years ago. The two-year warranty sounds nice, but it is often not upheld. A long list of problems from users includes a faulty starter, poorly acting transmission, and bodywork that don't meet standards. Some builds have issues with the coils breaking every few hundred miles. All this said, these are custom built bikes, and each one can have its own array of problems if not properly manufactured. So the small price for a custom made bike is highly overshadowed by the large amount of issues that come with this brand.
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The university says Marina and Celina Suarez found the bones of a bird-like raptor in 2004 during a research expedition in Utah.
Now, the species will go by the name of Geminiraptor suarezarum.
The 29-year-old twins are from San Antonio. They were pursuing master's degrees at Temple University when they made the discovery.
Celina Suarez completed her doctorate in geology at the University of Kansas in spring 2010. Her sister completed her doctorate degree in fall 2009.
Marina Suarez is completing postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins University's earth and planetary sciences department. Her sister begins as a postdoctoral researcher at Boise State University in Idaho this month.


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SoBo Pair Inducted Into Bowling Hall Of Fame
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The South Boston USBC Bowling Association Hall of Fame inducted two new members into the class of 2009 Sunday, with Stafford Curtis and Ed Davis getting the call.
Curtis and Davis bring a wide-range of talents to the Hall of Fame.
Curtis is described as a "computer whiz" that worked with the SBBA computers after the passing of James Wood, according to league official Addison Marable.
"It was Stafford who came to the rescue and deciphered everything in the computer that Mr. Wood had.
"He was a big help for David Anderson who had been elected secretary/treasurer for the association at that time."
Curtis, who has served as secretary of the Friday Morning League and Industrial League, is also an accomplished bowler who has rolled in many local tournaments, Virginia State tournaments, and nine National ABC and USBC tournaments.
Over the years he has averaged 200 and his average now is about 180. His high set is 705 and is high game is 279.
Davis is the only original member still bowling in the Person County League which now bowls in Roxboro, but started in Chapel Hill before moving to Danville for one year and coming to Hupps Mill Lanes and the World of Sports for over 35 years.
Davis served his league as president on several occasions, and has been on the Board of Directors for many years.
Davis, who usually averages in the 170's and has a high game of 269, has rolled in many local tournaments and some Virginia State tournaments.


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Recently I was invited to speak before a group of retired municipal workers, and as I planned my remarks, I thought about the realty that I'm at an age when some people think about retiring and living differently than they do now. As for me, I intend never to retire from the enjoyable work I do unless I absolutely must. Nevertheless my living preferences have changed significantly in the past few years, just as if I were retiring.
When I was still in my 20s and my wife and I moved to the historic home we still occupy, I was eager and ready to restore and maintain it. I was known as the "young guy" on the block who always answered the door with a hammer or paint brush in hand. Today, very honestly, I'd rather be doing something other than hammering and painting.
The housing issues facing retired and elderly people can be quite simple, such as finding living space on one level with no steps, and at the same time, they can be quite complex, such as facing the fact that their nest egg for retirement, their home, may have dropped 20 to 30 percent in value in the last five years.
Many older people are still in the homes in which they raised their children, married them off, and then retired as empty-nesters, and these homes may have become too big to rattle around in or maintain, and the tax bill that paid primarily for the education of their children no longer has the same payback.
But they may still want to remain in those homes, no matter how impractical. Interestingly, surveys by AARP find that about 80 percent of older persons say that they want to stay in their own homes and not move, and this phenomenon has been called the preference to "age in place." It's understandable. After a long period of living in one place, our homes become an extension of who we are and how we express ourselves. Long time residence is also a connection to the community where people know their neighbors and merchants as well as their houses of worship, libraries and community service.
For a long stretch, our homes were our principal financial asset, but today, home owners may find themselves breaking even or, a worse state of affairs, they may be "underwater" when they sell if they have taken equity loans against the value of their homes. But what many are losing on the sell side, they can make up on the buy side, especially for those who are planning a move south where housing is much cheaper, as are living expenses.
Others who have paid off their mortgages and have equity can take reverse mortgages to stay put and live more comfortably through their golden years.
Those who decide to downsize still must think carefully about the percentage of income they should be paying for housing and still manage to afford other necessities of later life besides food and clothing, such as transportation and medical care. Affordability depends on their individual situations and whether they live with a spouse, alone or with relatives. Today, about 54 percent of older persons live with their spouses, 31 percent live alone, 13 percent live with relatives other than their spouse, and 2 percent live with non-relatives.
If the decision is to move later in life, people seem to know what they want. A survey done by the National Association of Realtors in concert with MetLife in late 2009 found that retired and older citizens want easy, comfortable homes, with single-story floor plans or homes that offer a first-floor master bedroom. They also like home maintenance and repair as part of their next home purchase, preferable with no necessary outside duties and low maintenance inside, washers and dryers, storage space, easy-to-open windows and easy to use climate controls.
There are other quality of life considerations, such as proximity to hospitals and doctors, shopping, transportation and recreation.
For a couple of years after the bubble burst, there were still many sellers holding on to old pricing ideas, hoping to find a buyer who would pay what the owner felt the home was worth. In the past year in particular, more homeowners are resigned to pricing their homes where they will sell, and those homes are being purchased by young couples or single individuals buying their first homes at bargain prices and low mortgage interest rates. And, if the homes need work, these young people may just be answering their doors with hammers or paint brushes in hand.
Interestingly, my daughter recently informed me that she and my son-in-law have discussed the eventuality of my wife and I living with them when the time comes. I was greatly touched, even though I'm sure we would rather remain independent as long as we can and to seek at-home care should we need it. And while the sentiment expressed by my daughter is lovely, I do wish she had waited another 15 or 20 years before discussing the matter with me!
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OpenACS Templates
Over the last few months, we've looked at the Open Architecture Community System, an open-source toolkit for creating community web sites. Last month, we even looked at how we can create a simple application package using the ArsDigita Package Manager (APM).
But at its heart, web development is all about receiving inputs in HTTP GET and POST requests and about producing pages of HTML in response to those requests. Each web development toolkit has its own set of templates, and each type of template has its own personality and quirks.
This month, we take a closer look at the OpenACS templating system, which is similar in some ways to Zope Page Templates (ZPT). The OpenACS templates are rather sophisticated in the way they collect and return data and make it possible to perform many types of automatic error checking that would otherwise be tedious or simply ignored.
Older versions of OpenACS used a templating system known as AOLserver Dynamic Pages (ADPs), similar to JSP, ASP or PHP. ADPs could contain Tcl code, thanks to the multithreaded Tcl interpreter running inside of AOLserver, the HTTP server that powers OpenACS. However, ADP had a number of problems. Each Tcl block was evaluated independently, making it difficult to have conditional code inside of a template. There was no standard way to ensure that ADPs were passed required parameters to give parameters optional values. And of course, the troubles really began when developers and designers needed to work on the same file. Moreover, much of OpenACS was written in simple .tcl files, which can be quite daunting for a nonprogrammer.
The programmers at ArsDigita, whose code lives on in the OpenACS Project, decided that a paradigm shift was in order. No longer would pages be invoked with their familiar .html and .adp suffixes; instead, they would be called without a suffix at all.
This is possible because of AOLserver's willingness to search, in order, for an appropriate page. Given the URL /foo, AOLserver will first look for /foo.tcl, then for /foo.adp and finally for /foo.html. (This configuration setting can be changed in the nsd.tcl configuration file that typically is located in /usr/local/aolserver.)
The OpenACS templating system relies on this fact to split the work between two different files. In general, the output generated by an HTTP request has to go through two different files. The .tcl file executes first, performing database queries and setting variables. Its final line is typically going to be ad_return_template, a Tcl procedure that then invokes the companion .adp page. The ADP can retrieve the variables as data sources.
Because the .tcl and .adp files are supposed to be developed by separate people, it's natural to expect them to drift apart or have compatibility issues. The ArsDigita engineers avoided this problem by setting up a "page contract", meaning a list of HTTP parameters that the .tcl file expects to receive, and then a list of Tcl variables (known as data sources) that will be available to the .adp page in its display.
Data sources are simply Tcl variables by another name. Inside of an .adp page, you specify a data source like @this@, with @ signs around the name. If the data source has not been defined, the template will exit with a Tcl stack trace, complaining of an unknown variable.
Data sources can be placed anywhere in a file. Their values are substituted in place of those on the HTML page before the HTML is sent to the user's browser, which means that data sources can define not only text, but also image names and stylesheet attributes.
For example, here is a simple OpenACS template that displays the user's first name in a first-level headline:
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@first_name@

That's you, isn't it?
 </master>
The master tags indicate that the page in question is not complete HTML output, but rather is meant to be inserted inside of the local master (i.e., a template pair named master.tcl/master.adp). The local master, in turn, is wrapped inside of the site's default master (normally in a template pair named default-master.tcl and default-master.adp, but this is configurable using parameters). Thus, the resulting page consists of:
default master top local master top our page local master bottom default master bottomIn this way, you can create sites that have a unified look and feel, with common headers and footers, such as menubars and contact information. The notion of masters and default masters is similar in many ways to autohandlers in the Perl-based HTML::Mason templating system.
This is all well and good, but where is @first_name@ defined? It is defined in the companion .tcl file. But it's not enough for the .tcl file to set the first_name variable. It also must mark the variable for export as a data source by naming it explicitly.
.tcl pages name their inputs and outputs in arguments to the ad_page_contract procedure, which normally executes at the top of a page. ad_page_contract is a powerful mechanism that lets us create pages that expect to receive certain inputs, which in turn promise to produce certain outputs. A call to ad_page_contract can range from extremely simple to extremely complex, depending on the needs of the .adp template page. For example, a .tcl page that sets the user's first name to a dummy value and then exports it to the .adp page could look like:
ad_page_contract { Comments and CVS information go here. } { } -properties { first_name:onevalue } set first_name "Dummy first name" ad_return_template
The call to ad_page_contract tells the templating system that the variable first_name will be exported. We then set the variable's value and finally pass those values to the template with ad_return_template. (For unfortunate historical reasons, data sources are passed in the -properties parameter, rather than something with a more informative name.)
We can pass multiple variables to the template by naming additional variables in ad_page_contract:
ad_page_contract { Comments and CVS information go here. } { } -properties { first_name:onevalue last_name:onevalue } set first_name "FirstName" set last_name "LastName" ad_return_template
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Taking a cue from Pioneer's recent announcement, Onkyo has just released the specifications of its 2010 entry-level A/V receiver line, all of which include support for HDMI v1.4 (which includes pass-through of 3D video).
The flagship of the entry-level line and, if past models are an indication, likely to be one of the most popular AVRs on the market is Onkyo's TSX-SR608 7.2 AVR. Providing 100 watts per channel through an inverted Darlington output topology, along with Audyssey DSX, Dolby PLIIz, and THX Select2 certification, the SR608 offers several notable steps up over last year's well received SR607.
New video enhancements include an upgrade to Faroudja DCDi Cinema video processing, overlaid GUI for setup, and six HDMI inputs (including one front HDMI input).
With an MSRP of $599, the TX-SR608 looks to offer a lot of bang for not a lot of bucks. Look for it on store shelves in April.
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Comments about HK AUDIO Lucas Nano 300 Portable Sound System:
I am a solo guitarist that plays smooth jazz and easy listening music. I use the pa to play tracks and announce tunes etc. I have had this unit about ten days and gigged with it at a wine bar, restaurant and an outdoor farmers market. overall I am pleased with its performance, however I experienced a little difficulty overcoming a thin hollow sound of my voice. A little tweaking of volume and tone control and speaking into the mic at a different angle improved the sound.
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I'm a one man band, playing a strat to sequenced background music. I also DJ part of the night. I have primarily used the Nano Lucas as a monitor system. The system has an super clear sound. The satellite speakers act as a horn would. I really don't hear any bass coming out of them. That being said, you really need to have the satellites in line with the bass bin. The bass pumps out a nice low end sound. The set up sounds best when your several feet away from it. I play in a medium sized dining room. While DJing I have turned off my peavey 15 inch cabs and just used the Nano Lucas. Of course you have to crank them up to compensate for the 15's. You almost can't tell a difference in the sound from a distance. I can't believe these little 3 and a half inch speakers can sounds as good as 15 inch speaker cabs. They just help fill up the dead spots on stage between the mains. I think ideally having two set ups would be the best sound. You could have a bass bin on each side of the stage. I bought the stands also, which are overpriced. You get adaptors with the set up to put the satellites on mic stands. The controls need to be better marked. I had to get out the manual to figure out what to turn to get a better sound. Overall this set up is super. I want another set up. The wife wants new flooring in the kitchen. Guess who wins.
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This PA has a nice form factor and is light weight. But IMHO has very limited application. I was hoping to use it for my hybrid acoustic electric guitar for small duo/trio gigs. I wanted to run the acoustic piezo pup from my PRS hollowbody into the NANO to get a more articulate and realisic acoustic sound while running the magnetic pups through my small Quilter amp. The Quilter has an 8 inch speaker so I was hopefull the NANO and Quilter would be a good match. I intended to use one of the other channels for the vocalist.
In short, even in a bedroom settting, I could not get sufficient volume from the NANO. The NANO PA could neither compete nor compliment the Quilter. Again, the NANO has a nice and clear sound, but it did not work for me at all. And, I could see using it only in a very small coffee house, with limited ambient noise, forget about using a drummer.
Additional things to be concerned about: There are no efx on this, so you may need to use some outboard processing.
Most dissapointing: be advised that despite the picture for the MF advert, this PA comes without the pictured stands and cabling. When you open the box and manual it tells you need to buy an add-on pack to set this up in the recommended fashion, stereo imaging requires puschasing the suggested add-on pack and cabless for best set up.
I was more than a bit surprised that Musician Friend let this pictured set up get by. I buy a lot of stuff from them and this is the first time I have encountered such a problem.
Also be aware that Musician Friend will charge you to ship the item back. I rarely return anything, but as I have no use for the PA, I had no choice but to return and incur the shipping fee.
Better luck next time.
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I purchased this to use for my solo gig (vocal, guitar, backing tracks). When I first fired up this system I almost sent it back. By itself, it does not meet my needs. There is a pronounced low mid hump that you can only get rid of by turning the sub down leaving the over all sound thin with little bottom end. However, after tuning the system via my Edirol M-10DX with 'Room Acoustic Control for instant automatic room compensation', it really came to life. Keep in mind, most of my gigs are low volume affairs. One outdoor venue where the stage is some 25 feet from the nearest table (and 60 feet from the bar itself) necessitates pushing the unit almost to its usable limits. I am pleased with the results of my first week of live tests. Consider that this system is replacing a Bose L1 with two subs and Tonematch and you will have some idea of the quality of this system. It will push no where near the SPL of the Bose system, yet the sound quality is so comparable most regulars didn't even notice the switch. At less than one quarter of the price and 22 lbs this is miraculous. If you are thinking of getting one of these you owe it to yourself to check it out; just be prepared to EQ liberally.
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As an acoustic guitar player/singer/songwriter I play solo gigs 6-8 times a month. My Genz-Benz acoustic amp ia getting worn and heavy. I purchased the Nano. Played my first gig with it in a loud sports bar. Was amazed at the clarity and volume for the size. It's major short coming is lack of FX and proper EQ. This can be solved with an offboard compact mixer. I also run a variety of peddles (Boss EQ, Dano Delay) and looper with my Taylor 814-CE acoustic. The tiny speakers mount easily on mike stands with the provided adaptors. The result is a nice monitor like effect in both ears with the speakers turned in just a little. I was pushing it's volume capability and got no feedback. Most gigs I play are in quietier venues so I'm sure it will be more than loud enough. Overall I'm very pleased, although in the future the FX and EQ issues will need to be resolved. My acoustic and vocals sound very very good with it. The sound is pleasingly natural and clear. It's also super light and the sub really pumps. Two of these together would really be nice if you play noisier, bigger venues. I say go for it.
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I was all set to buy some other gear for my solo pa/piano rig and decided to try this out after reading some reviews. So far I am totally impressed with the sound. Feather-weight and compact, it packs a lot of sound. The workmanship is very good.
After it arrived, I convinced my friend to spend an afternoon doing a side-by-side comparison with his dual Bose Compact rig. We were amazed at the full sound of the HK unit.
Even when we pushed it loud, it maintained excellent fidelity. The dual Bose rig could certainly out-power the HK, but the sound quality comparison was a toss-up. HK will hold it's own in the venues solo musicians typically do.
The stereo sound capability is wonderful for a keyboard player; even if the audience will not be able to appreciate the stereo, it makes a huge diff to those of us who would REALLY like to haul our baby grands around with us.
I've added a Mackie ProFX8 mixer to add reverb for vocals and to give better control over eq and tone. (I would also have to do that with the dual Bose rig.) But the HK would handle my solo stuff fine by itself: vocal, stereo keyboard, guitar.
I've got a bunch of performances coming up, and I'll add a note about how that goes.
I can tell you I've never looked forward to playing my keyboard as much as with the HK behind it.
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I auditioned this product as an acoustic guitar rig for live performance in small venues. I was looking to streamline my set-up. The '93 Peavy Ecoustic 120 amp I was using has just worn out, and i've been using a Behrenger Xenyx 802 mixer with a Behrenger b212d powered cab, along with an unreliable old Holy Grail reverb pedal. I wanted an eqasier set up, so I tried the nano. With only volume and tone for controls, it is impossible to get an acoustic guitar sounding food, let alone a solid body electric with a piezo bridge system. Accordingly, an off-board EQ would be needed. Also, with no fx, the sound is as dry as sand, so off-board reverb or delay would also be needed. TOO MUCH set up! Instead, I replaced the 802 board with a Xenyx 1202, which is a better board (4 bands eq/channel, and an on/off switch) Plus it has digital fx that sound good, including a reverb/delay setting that sounds really warm. So I was able to cut out the offboard fx, but that's all - and I maintain a good quality acoustic guitar sound (most important).
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I bout two of these systems to replace big, heavy powered 15" mains. I wanted something more lightweight and portable for small gigs.
First off, these things have absolutely amazing sound quality! I plugged in my iPod to demo them and IK could not believe the crystal clear sound and deep, impressive bass. You can really crank the volume with no crackling or distortion.
The set-up is pretty simple - you can stack the two satellite speakers and connect them to the subwoofer/main unit for a cable-free set-up, or mount them on mic stands (or the poles in the accessories kit). Flip a couple switches to match the configuration you're looking for and you're ready to go.
I got these to use as mains for small gigs with my two-piece band. The only negative about these is that the controls are a bit over-simplified. You basically have a level knob and a tone knob for each input. The inputs are for a mic, a guitar/instrument and one for program-level audio. BUT - with a little patience you can find the right settings and get a killer mix.
The low-end output on the Lucas Nano is spectacular. I was not expecting such loud, thunderous bass. :)
For small DJ gigs, weddings, events or house parties, you could not find a more simple, compact, clear and LOUD system for his price! I would put them up against a BOSE any day. For live music applications, this won't fill a big club for a four-piece rock band, but for smaller venues or acoustic gigs it will definitely do the job.
I love that the satellites lock into the back of the subwoofer to make it one tiny, lightweight piece to move. Very cool.
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It sounds so great but it is so small - great for all kinds of applications.
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For the past four years, Benjamin, who now lives in Cranford, would stop by her father's grave to tell him about how his granddaughter was getting married, or how his grandson got into college.
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Paleontology and Our Local Desert
I will never forget an experience I had during a field geology class in my undergraduate days. We were mapping the distribution of different rock layers in the Coyote Mountains out near Ocotillo. The geology in this area is quite complex and I had been working my way up a ridge-line composed of hard, crystalline metamorphic rocks when I noticed that the ground changed from hard rock to a soft, fossil-bearing sandstone. (I figured out later that a fault line separated the two rock types.)
From this vantage point, as far as the eye could see was desert, yet at my feet were the remains of ancient sea creatures -- scallops, and oysters. At that moment I felt a real sense of the history of this place. I could envision the ancient sea in which these prehistoric animals lived and imagine the quantities of sand and mud brought down to the sea by ancient streams to bury and entomb them. My imagination then turned to the tectonic forces which altered the position of land and sea, tilting and shearing the rocks to form the complex terrain around me. I have since felt these sensations in other areas, but the desert still provides me with the most dramatic sense of earth history.
Similar experiences have no doubt been shared by countless generations and I imagine that fossils must have sparked the interest of early people, who during their wanderings in the natural world found sea shells high on the sides of mountains far from any ocean waters. The "great flood" mentioned in many of the world's creation mythologies was probably an early attempt to explain such occurrences; for it is fundamental to our makeup to be curious and to seek explanations of natural wonders.
Today we realize that the earth is a dynamic sphere (each earthquake reminds us of this) and that sea floors can become mountain tops through the action of lithospheric plate movements. Although the processes of mountain building, and the corollary of erosion and peneplanation, have been a continuous theme in earth history, at no one time was the entire earth covered by ocean water. Rather, local regions of the earth have experienced mountain building (and erosion) at different times.
For example, the now deeply eroded Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States were once a youthful mountain range with rugged peaks. Today, the West Coast of the United States is a geologically active region. In fact, our own local desert is one of the most active areas in the world.
Here the San Andreas Fault Zone joins the northern limit of the East Pacific Rise, the consequence being large-scale fault activity, widening of the entire desert basin, and high heat flow. On a more human scale, the effects of this geologic activity can be seen in the recent fault scarps along the western front of the Coyote Mountains adjacent to Route S-2. The scarps here are the result of horizontal and vertical tectonic movements along the Elsinore Fault; a smaller, subsidiary fault of the San Andreas Fault Zone to the east. It is estimated that the Coyote Mountains have been uplifted approximately 2 meters during just the past 10,000 years and that their present elevation is entirely due to movement along the Elsinore Fault.
One of the consequences of this uplift is the occurrence of tilted, fossiliferous, marine sandstone and siltstone layers on some of the higher peaks in the Fish Creek and Coyote Mountains. These fossil deposits provide us with evidence from which we can unravel the history of these mountains and the surrounding desert region.
I often use the analogy of a book when describing stratigraphy and the fossil record to others. The pages of a book contain information which we read and interpret. A sequence of layered sedimentary rocks is much like a book (laying on its back cover) with individual layers (the pages) containing information in the form of sedimentary particles (sand, pebbles, etc.) and fossils. The geologic "book" preserved in the rocks of our local desert has many incomplete or missing "chapters". I will focus on only two of these "chapters" for the remainder of this article.
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A huge thank you to ALL OF YOU for your continued support and love. Some of you guys have been following me since 2008, and I can't tell you how much it means. Wishing everyone a very happy Turkey Day!
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Patrick just ran through short program. Doubled the quad and axel but both may have been intentional. Lutz looked perfect. The rest was beautiful and not at all shaky.
Patrick just ran through short program. Doubled the quad and axel but both may have been intentional. Lutz looked perfect. The rest was beautiful and not at all shaky.
Love the new shirt!
ETA: texts from friends in the arena say he has landed some clean quads and one triple axel with hand down so far in the practice.
Last edited by luckiest1; 10-24-2013 at 04:36 PM.
No one can beat this program if skated cleanly. Just sublime quality of movement and quality of skating, you would say Patrick floats over the ice.
But I don't underatand why he keeps finishing the last spin behind the music. It happened to him at more than one competition last season too.
Just watched the men practice and thought you'd all be pleased to hear that Michael Slipchuk was at the boards right along side Kathy Johnson, giving Patrick instructions - on the triple axel I think.
Thanks everyone for the update. Just woke up in time to watch Patrick's LP run through.
blueglass, were you at the rink?
VarBar, I think Patrick was a little behind the music from near the beginning.
luckiest1, that new shirt is nice. Didn't look like a practice wear.
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Hmm, no, I don't think he was, spiky.VarBar, I think Patrick was a little behind the music from near the beginning.
Was there a problem with jumps....did he do any quads? I didn't see any in the run thru and missed the 1st practise.
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I saw a few clean quads and quad/triples in yesterday's second practice (streaming). And I saw him working with Slipchuk too.
New Patrick article on TSN:
Patrick completed the second quad in his LP run through (after he tripped and fell, of course ). He landed a few quads throughout practice. His quads are solid. His 3A was less secure.
Thanks to both of you.............kind of sets my minds at ease I hope you are both enjoying yourselves. I've been to the last 3, but couldn't go this year.
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clarie, I'm not in NB, I'm at work. I'm just a bad, bad girl.
Your wish is my command. Ha ha. I'm hoping to be able to go and "work from home" this afternoon.
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Good skate by Patrick, gah I love that program Too die for!
too bad about the quad but I was more relieved he landed a beautiful 3A.
Usually I don't like it when a skater uses their old program, but I love Elegy and this is a great program. I could listen/watch all day and not get tired.
Not his best, but certainly better than last year I think. He didn't have enough speed going into the quad....smart move to do the 3/3 instead. Skating skills are sublime as usual. Here's hoping he has a great skate tomorrow with that new program.
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Too bad about the quad, other than that it's such a gorgeous programme. And I love the new costume, so much better than last year's.
Here's hoping for a great skate tomorrow.
That step sequence is crazy amazing.