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2012 AKA Region 8 Director NEWS!
2012 AKA Region 8 Director NEWS!
Greeting from your new AKA Region 8 Director!
Many of you know me, but those that don't know about my kiting past experience, I was the AKA Region 8 Director in the 90's. In the year 2000, I decided that I no longer wanted to be Region 8 Director, and chose not to run for reelection. You may be asking "What happened to Rick Hawkins? Wasn't he just recently elected"? Well, do to unforeseen circumstances, Rick Hawkins had to resign his position as AKA Region 8 Director. This left a vacancy, and the AKA Board of Directors started a search for someone that would be willing to serve as Region 8 Director for 2012, and I agreed to step in and fill the position. I'm Back! If you want to learn more about my kite flying past experience, you can view my kiting profile, on the TKO Sport Kite Team website, at: http://TKO.Sportkite.Team.tripod.com/Troybio.htm
I don't promise that I can attend each and every kite related event in AKA Region 8, but I will go to as many as I can physically and financially make it to. I live in Wichita Falls, TX, which is far North central Texas, and about 20 miles from the Oklahoma state border. I'm located almost dead center in AKA Region 8, which includes the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
I hope all of you have plans to make it to as many kite Festivals, Kite Club Fly's, Kite Workshops, etc... as humanly possible! Speaking of kite Festivals and other kite related events, if you don't know where and when all of the Region 8 area kite events are, you can visit the Region 8 Kite Events calendar web page that I have been maintaining since 1997, at http://TKOGunn1.tripod.com/kitecalendar.htm As with all kite events that are scheduled each year, sometimes kite events change thier dates, get postponed, or get cancelled, for various reasons. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you contact kite event organizers before driving out of town or out of state, because sometimes an event organiser's decision to postpone or cancel an event, can happen at the last possible minute, because of weather, and various other reasons, and often, I don't receive the festival change information in time to make changes to the Region 8 Kite events Calendar.
I'm always open to questions, ideas, concerns, from all of you, so please feel welcome to contact me about any kite related topics that involve AKA Region 8! There's no such thing as a dumb or silly question, unless it comes from my wife or kids! You can contact me by e-mail, at: rd8 at aka.kite.org
Or by phone, at: Home 940-691-8522 Cell 940-224-0934.
Just a heads up, I work nights Monday thru Thursday and thus I sleep during the day, so don't expect any communication from me before about 1pm each day. I answer all e-mail and phone calls asap. If you have an issue that is somewhat an emergency, I always have my cell phone with me at work, and can talk or call you back when I'm able to.
Please, if you have any kite related news, reports, stories, that you think I should add to the AKA Kiting Magazine report, please forward them to me. If I don't know about your news, or if I wasn't able to attend your events, I can't write about it.
Fly High, Fly Safe, Have Fun!
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Welcome back, Troy.
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PHILADELPHIA—As expected, Philadelphia prosecutors will step aside so federal authorities can pursue charges over the alleged kidnapping of mentally disabled adults for their disability checks.
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Federal prosecutors will now pursue charges that include hate crimes and two murder counts, for the deaths of two women in their care.
The defendants are due in federal court Monday afternoon for a brief appearance. A fifth defendant has been added to the case.
Authorities rescued five disabled adults from a locked Philadelphia basement in late 2011, and say they had been starved and beaten over the years. They also removed eight juveniles from Weston's care.
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This lecture series at Saint John's University brings to campus leading figures from the media and culture to engage the community in a conversation on the ethical and intellectual challenges of their work in the context of these global times. The University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University sponsors this series with additional support from other programs and departments on campus.
National correspondent for The Atlantic, commentator for National Public Radio, and author James Fallows joins in conversation with Gary Eichten, Minnesota Public Radio news editor at large. For video, Fallows/Eichten. For MPR audio, Fallows/Eichten.
Dan Barry, an author and New York Times columnist, presented a reading and conversation from his most recent book "Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption and Baseball's Longest Game" at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Saint John's Pottery Studio. For more information, BARRY
On September 14, 2011, we welcomed Anthony Bukoski to our campus. Bukoski has published four other collections of short stories: Children of Strangers (1993), Polonaise (1998), Time Between Trains (2003), and Twelve below Zero (2008). He has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize and received the first award for literature by the Polish Institute of Houston. For more information, BUKOSKI
Peter Quinn, novelist, memorist and foremost chronicler of New York City and especially its Irish-American community. visited Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN, for a reading and discussion about his latest book, The Man Who Never Returned. For more information, Quinn
Patrick Hicks visited Saint John's University on March 2, 2011 to read and discuss his most recent book of poetry, This London. He is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer (2008), This London (2010), and he is also the editor of A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry (2010). His work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Virginia Quarterly Review, Natural Bridge, New Ohio Review, and many others. For more information, HICKS
Marv Davidov and Carol Masters were our guests on January 29, 2010 in the Pottery Studio at Saint John's. They shared with us their reflections from Marv's recently published biography, 'You Can Do That." For more information, DAVIDOV
Carol Connolly joined us on October 14, 2009, for an an evening of poetry and conversation. For more information, CONNOLLY
Senator Chuck Hagel spoke to us on 'America Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions....Strait Answers," on September 23 in the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater. For more information, HAGEL
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This year our speaker is J. Peter Scoblic, Executive Editor of The New Republic and author of U.S. v. Them: Conservatism and George W. Bush in the Age of Nuclear Terror. Scoblic will speak at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, April 21, 2008 in the Centenary Room at Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
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E. J. Dionne is the inaugural speaker at the Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture Series. Dionne praised McCarthy as a "poetic Isaiah whose plain literacy puts many other politicians to shame" and that rare politician "willing to stand alone in the hope that, once in a while, something good might happen." Learn more about his visit: Dionne
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Charles Simic holds a free public reading while conducting a residency on Nov. 14-17 at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University.
Learn more about his visit here.
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The 2005-06 series began with a guest lecture by Lech Walesa, former President of Poland.
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The series in 2004-2005 began with a conversation called "From the Streets of Calcutta: Teaching the Homeless and the Rural Poor of India" by S. Cyril Mooney of Loreto Day School in Sealdah, Calcutta.
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Previous Speakers
Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman is an author, essayist, and editor who touched many hearts on the evening of September 22, 2003 at Saint John's University as she spoke on her book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures.
Fadiman's first book chronicles the trials of an epileptic Hmong child and her family living in Merced, California. Fadiman's sensitive, incisive treatment of the unbreachable gulf between the Hmong and American medical systems won her a 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award.
To download an audio file of her talk, visit Evening Talk. For more information, visit Anne Fadiman at Barclay Agency.
James Fallows
Award winning author and national correspondent for The Atlantic, James Fallows spoke on March 11, 2003 at Saint John's University on the imminent and long term perils of the Bush administration's unfolding war in Iraq.
Speaking to a record crowd that filled the auditorium and adjoining halls, Fallows focused on the complex diplomatic, historical and ethical issues of Washington's drive to war and our projected occupation of Iraq.
To download an audio file of the talk, visit Iraq The Fifty-first State. Earlier, Fallows was the featured guest on MPR MIDDAY. To download his commentary and Q&A with the audience, visit MIDDAY. Read more about Fallows and find additional links to his articles on Iraq and related media commentaries at About James Fallows.
Abraham Verghese
The Spring '02 lecture was given by the acclaimed physician and author Abraham Verghese who spoke on "The Search for Meaning in the Medical Profession" and the lessons learned from his memoir of HIV/AIDS, My Own Country.
"It was the gentleness of his voice," one Saint John's student replied when asked what most struck him about the talk by Verghese on campus.
Verghese visited Saint John's University and spoke to on the theme of "The Search for Meaning in Medical Life" as part of the Ethical Thinking in Global Times Lecture Series. Speaking to a full house, Verghese alternated from at times reading selected passages from his nationally acclaimed memoir, My Own Country, to sharing his reflections on lessons learned from a plague that transformed his profession, community and personal life.
In the end, Verghese dared to accept the challenge implied in the title of his talk and told us what his search for meaning revealed. To listen to his talk, click Verghese.
Brenda Wilson
A previous lecture brought NPR's Brenda Wilson to speak on the AIDS pandemic in South Africa.
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Fred de Sam Lazaro
Fred de Sam Lazaro of "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" presented a lecture in which he spoke of the challenges of covering issues of globalization in our time.
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The Sagrada Familia is probably Barcelona's best-know tourist attraction, as well as being one of the most unusual and fascinating churches in Europe. Towering above its surroundings, it stands in the northern part of the city. In 1883 Antoni Gaudi was commissioned to complete a neo-Gothic cathedral that had been begun one year before. The church became his life's work: he radically changed the plans and spent the last years of his life, right up to his death, on the building site. Even today, the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, as the church is called in full, has yet to be completed, but it has grown to become an impressive building and total work of art, nevertheless.
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Country duo Florida-Georgia Line performed a free show March 7 for a large crowd of Jacksonville University students, faculty and their friends and family.
Recently endorsed by superstars Taylor Swift and Keith Urban, Florida-Georgia Line, Tyler Hubbard of Monroe, Ga., and Brian Kelley of Ormond Beach, started their careers playing open mic nights and writing music after crossing paths at Belmont College in Nashville.
The band members talked about how it all began in an interview before the show.
"We met through a mutual friend, got together and started doing our thing. We realized we had a cool thing going with our voices," Hubbard said. "I don't think we ever expected it to quite happen this fast. We had big dreams and big goals. We had our fingers crossed and we still do."
After college, the duo set out to make a name for themselves, cramming their equipment in Kelley's Chevy Tahoe and hitting the road. They played acoustic shows and did a number of odd jobs to support themselves along the way. Mowing lawns and cleaning cars, the duo kept pursuing what they wanted to do — make music — with no plan B in the works.
With the release of the duo's first EP in 2010, they began to gain momentum, and the crowds at their shows started to expand. It was May of last year when the boys from opposite sides of the border released their EP titled "It'z Just What We Do," which included the hits "Cruise," "Get Your Shine On" and "Tip it Back."
The duo quickly caught the eye of labels when their single "Cruise" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Music chart after a mere 19 weeks, climbing to that spot faster than any band since 2006. It sold 100,000 copies even before the band was signed. In July 2012, they signed with Universal Republic Records.
Florida-Georgia Line pumped out all of their hits under the newly opened Larry Strom Amphitheatre on Dolphin Green … More
Janet Bawcom's performance at the Gate River Run was worth $17,000.
For the young fans she gave high-fives on the race course, smiles were free.
"It's an accomplishment if I can make that kid smile," Bawcom said of sharing the moment with children on the race course before she even had the lead.
After running side by side with Alisha Williams for 7 miles, Bawcom broke away to win her second consecutive Gate River Run title on Saturday, March 9, in Downtown Jacksonville.
In the men's race, Ben True pulled away from Bobby Curtis in the final mile and held on to win his first River Run title, ending Mo Trafeh's three-year run as champion.
"Once I knew that Mo wasn't making the move, I knew it was going to be more of a tactical race," True said. "I was looking forward to it.
"I figured it was going to come down to Bobby and I for a kick."
True finished in 43 minutes, 38 seconds, while Bawcom ran it in 49:44. True could not erase the elite women's head start of 6 minutes, 35 seconds, but he and Bawcom each won $12,000 for claiming the U.S. 15K national championships.
Bawcom is 2 for 2 at the race and hasn't allowed a man to pass her at the River Run, claiming an additional $5,000 for the equalizer bonus each time.
The Brooks Rehabilitation Challenge Mile drew a record 298 competitors, including former Jaguars player Richard Collier, who was paralyzed from the waist down after suffering multiple gunshot wounds in 2008. Collier finished the mile race in 9 minutes, 45 seconds.
After the race, he teared up while talking to reporters and said the race was tougher than he expected.
True, who returned to the River Run after a second-place finish in 2011, beat Curtis by two seconds. Three other men — Ryan Vail (50:18), Sean Quigley (50:20) and Christo Landry (50:21) — finished within eight seconds of True.
The 34-year-old Bawcom, who went by Janet Cherobon when she won her first River Run in 2012, beat Williams, 31, by seven … More
From getting hacked with a lawnmower blade by Billy Bob Thornton in the classic "Sling Blade" to once being described as Johnny Cash's favorite country singer, Kentucky-born country star Dwight Yoakam is versatile.
He's successful, too. The 56-year-old Yoakam has sold upwards of 25 million albums worldwide over his four-decade career. He didn't disappoint a packed house at The Florida Theatre March 5.
Yoakam blasted his hit "Honky Tonk Man," the song that introduced the singer to the masses, to an enthusiastic crowd. Yoakam's 1986 cover of the Johnny Horton original reached no. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, and its music video was the first country music video to ever play on MTV.
When Yoakam strutted his signature shuffle, he received bursts of applause from the crowd. He performed tunes from his early albums, "Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc." (1986) and "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room"(1988), to his newer albums, "Blame the Vain" (2005) and "3 Pears" (2012).
"Thank you all for listening to our new stuff and giving it a chance," Yoakam said. "We didn't ask you guys beforehand, so I guess you didn't have much of a choice, though."
Yoakam peppered the set with these quips and other funny anecdotes between songs.
"A Heart Like Mine", a single off of "3 Pears," was voted the 39th best song of 2012 by Rolling Stone -- and for good reason. The song is adventurous and it transcends genre, as Yoakam has done his entire career. It's catchy, offering a twangy steel-guitar riff during the verses, and drawn-out indie rock style chorus. The "hook" of the song sticks in your head for hours after you hear it.
Yoakam's lead guitarist, 39-year-old Gene Jaramillo, wore a rhinestone blazer and looked like a last-second fill-in Yoakam picked up from some punk-rock band. He didn't play like one, though. Jaramillo added incredible leads to Yoakam's classic and current songs, without overpowering them.
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Beginning March 9 at The Dive Bar in New Orleans, Jacksonville duo Flagship Romance will hit the road on a cross-country tour. Jordyn Jackson and Shawn Fisher will make a stop at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, to perform March 14. Joining bands Man on Earth and Gone by Daylight for most of the tour, they will continue to California and back to the East Coast.
Flagship Romance just finished filming a new music video for Charity Water that will be released March 22 on World Water Day. Charity Water's mission is to bring clean water to developing countries.
This tour will be a first for Jackson. Because they only found out about the tour a few weeks beforehand, the band has not ironed out all their plans, including where they will sleep. They are planning to play some "living room shows" for friends in hopes of making some extra gas money. With friends in most of the cities they are playing, they are confident that everything will work itself out. Traveling by car, Jackson is concerned about driving through the snow.
"We are Florida people. We don't know how to drive through snow," Jackson joked in an interview with Folio Weekly.
Flagship Romance will make stops in Colorado (March 26), Michigan (March 29), Indiana (March 30) and Ohio (April 1) before traveling back down the coast. In Chicago, they will perform March 28 at the Hard Rock Café. In New York City, they will perform in another showcase that includes The New Velvet and Tommy & The High Pilots on April 8. The tour also includes planned stops in Arizona, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
The tour hits Charlotte on April 12, Chapel Hill on April 13 and Atlanta on April 14 before the duo returns home in time to begin One Spark on April 17 in Jacksonville. To follow the duo on their adventure, visit flagshipromance.tumblr.com. More
St. Augustine chalk walk organizers are seeking sponsors and volunteers for Paseo Pastel.
The chalked promenade will take place on the grounds around the city parking garage and St. Augustine Visitor Information Center, beginning with an event party 7 p.m. March 22 and continuing through March 24. This event is part of many designed to celebrate the city's 450th anniversary with a theme of "St. Augustine Living Heritage."
Organizers say this event is a first for the city, and they plan to schedule it annually through 2015, the year of St. Augustine's 450th anniversary. They expect 70 artists will be drawing on 4-foot by 6-foot sections of sidewalk 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. March 23.
Visitors can watch as the artists work, then see the finished art March 24 before it is washed away. Admission to the Chalk Walk is free.
Lee Jones, the chalk walk's featured artist, has participated in chalk festivals across the U.S. Jones hosted a free chalking workshop on Feb. 23, allowing the public to try out chalk art.
Artists participating in the Chalk Walk will be competing for cash prizes. Local businesses will also be involved with the event, which is still seeking more sponsors. Live music will be provided as additional entertainment throughout the weekend.
For more information on St. Augustine's first Chalk Walk or to get involved, visit the website or email the organizers. More
After seizing a 2-0 lead on Day 1 at the Davis Cup, a U.S. victory seemed assured with prolific doubles pair Bob and Mike Bryan taking the court for an afternoon match on Feb. 2.
The Bryans, winners of a record 13 Grand Slam doubles titles, lost for only the third time in 23 Davis Cup matches. Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares staved off a late rally by the Bryans to win 7-6 (6), 6-7 (7), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.
"We're obviously disappointed," Bob Bryan said. "We would have loved to get the point for the U.S. I feel like we're capable of playing at a higher level. We'll get back to work and hopefully the guys will get it done on Sunday [Feb. 3], and we'll have another opportunity to make this right [in a Davis Cup semifinal later this year]."
The Bryans squandered three set points in the first-set tiebreaker, then rallied after a challenge reversal gave them new life in the second set.
There was a verbal exchange at the end of the second set between the doubles pairs.
"Yeah, Davis Cup is an emotional atmosphere. They got passionate after they thought they won the set [before the challenge]. I got passionate to them," Bob Bryan said. "There were some words said. You know, no hard feelings, no grudges. It's Davis Cup. This sort of stuff happens all the time."
Soares joked that he wasn't involved: "Marcelo could explain better. ... He's bigger and stronger than me, so I just ran away."
"Bob never did this before," Melo said. "I have him as a friend. In that moment, I [was] in shock. ... At the same time, I want to see the video again to see if he did it to me or to the crowd. If the guy do to the crowd, [it's] OK. It's not OK, but it's not words to say to another player."
Melo and Soares responded by breaking Mike Bryan twice — in the third and fifth sets. They improved to 3-1 all-time against the Bryans, considered by many to be the best men's doubles pair in tennis history.
In the match, the Bryans … More
After claiming his first Davis Cup victory on U.S. soil Feb. 1, John Isner told tennis fans that he and Sam Querrey are happy to turn a 2-0 lead over to the Bryan brothers for their doubles match Saturday at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.
Isner finished off Thiago Alves with the Americans' second straight-set victory in a row on Day 1, beating the Brazilian 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3. He served 32 aces, the second most he's served in 11 Davis Cup matches.
"It was certainly choppy out there at times," Isner said. "I littered up the stat sheet for sure. I know I had a lot of aces. I had a lot of souvenirs into the crowd as well on my forehand."
Querrey beat Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the first match to give the U.S. a 1-0 lead. Querrey's victory was also his first in Davis Cup play on U.S. soil.
Querrey only lost 12 service points the entire match, and the Americans didn't face a break point on the day until the second set of Isner's match. The 6-foot-9 Tampa resident saved the break point, then served it out to make it 3-3 in the second set.
Bob and Mike Bryan will face Marcelo Melo and Bruce Soares on Feb. 2. The Bryan brothers won the Australian Open last week for their record 13th Grand Slam title.
The official attendance for the Feb. 1 matches was 3,414. More
The fifth anniversary season of the Riverside Arts Market is fast approaching, and the deadline for the March 2 opening day is Jan. 31. New applicants must pay a $19 fee and returning vendors must pay $11.
RAM, a Folio Weekly Best of Jax winner, promises a wide array of art, produce, food and entertainment 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday from March to December under the canopy of the Fuller Warner Bridge.
Interested artists, farmers and vendors should go to riversideartsmarket.com to fill out the application by Jan. 31. Approval and denial notifications will be sent out during the week of Feb. 4. A mandatory orientation for vendors who have not participated in RAM since June 30, 2012, is scheduled for Feb. 23.
Applications received after the Jan. 31 deadline will be processed as they are received, according to RAM. More
Sam Querrey beat Thiago Alves 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) to give the United States a 3-2 victory over Brazil in their Davis Cup match on Feb. 3 at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.
The U.S. nearly squandered a 2-0 lead after losses by Bob and Mike Bryan in doubles on Feb. 2 and John Isner in reverse singles earlier Feb. 3.
The U.S. will host Serbia in the next round in April.
Earlier Sunday afternoon, Isner extended his drought in five-set Davis Cup matches, losing to Thomaz Bellucci and allowing the Brazilians to level the matchup 2-2 against the United States. Bellucci beat Isner 2-6, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4, 6-3.
Isner fell to 0-4 in Davis Cup matches pushed to five sets. He is recovering from a bone bruise in his right knee that he suffered in early January. Isner fell to 4-10 in five-set matches as a pro, according to USTA officials. More
Filmmaker Mahmoud Shoulizadeh finished filming "The Prisoner" in Camden County this week, according to the Coastal Georgia Film Alliance.
In the film, a man on death row makes a last request of a visitor who is a former prison mate.
The shoot took only a few days with the assistance of the Camden County Sheriff's Department and the cities of St. Marys and Woodbine, the film alliance chair, Doug Vaught, said in a statement.
"The Prisoner" is the second film shot in Coastal Georgia in the past few months. "Identify Thief," starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, is scheduled for release in February. The comedy includes landscapes of St. Marys and Woodbine.


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Throughout the season former player Clive Walker provides radio and TV commentary on Chelsea's games. Here he selects five aspects from Saturday's FA Cup goal flurry that caught his eye…
1. By scoring, Southampton gave Chelsea the kick-start needed. It was similar at the start of the match to the QPR game in that we didn't impose ourselves. In hindsight we might say if QPR had also scored in the first half that might have kicked us into gear a bit quicker last week. Southampton weren't much better than us in the first half but they got the initial breakthrough and all of sudden the Chelsea players were thinking we could go out the FA Cup here, and started to play. Gradually Juan Mata, Victor Moses and Eden Hazard began to get on the ball.
2. The Chelsea back four were caught in unusual positions for the Southampton goal. There was a mistake by Branislav Ivanovic when he went for a ball and tried play it, and he was quite far forward. The pass by Jason Puncheon was sublime and Jay Rodriguez's first touch set him up for the finish, but Cesar Azpilicueta, who moments earlier had tried to cross into the Saints area, didn't get back down field quickly enough and was too far behind play.
3. The first Chelsea goal was all about Eden Hazard initially and it is good to see him making darting runs and committing defenders. We have other players good at linking up but he is one of our best at drawing defenders towards him and he did that so well for the goal. It gave Mata the opportunity to shoot.It was unselfish play from Hazard. There was a slight deflection on Mata's chip and of the two players going for it, Demba Ba was the stronger and the keener to get something on that ball.
4. Hazard was playing mostly on the right side with Moses on the left but he kept appearing on the left with Moses and caused Southampton problems there. In Rafael Benitez's first couple of games the three attacking midfielders were quite fixed in position whereas before it almost looked like they did what they wanted. I think Benitez has tried to get a little bit of structure with those three positions, whoever is selected, so as to not leave us wide open to counter-attacking. But more recently when they go forward we are seeing players able to pop up in different positions as well, which is fantastic.
5. Ramires was back playing deeper in midfield and we saw him make those runs of his, ghosting past the Southampton midfield from deep and making up 50 to 60 yards. He is not a player you would say is a dribbler of the ball but he is a great runner with the ball, and showed on Saturday he had the capacity to put Southampton's midfield out of the game time and time again.
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Good point. We may see whether or not there is much of anyrhing to that.
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UPDATE 2.55pm: Second seed Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the Brisbane International citing an ongoing right collarbone injury.
Sharapova had initially played down concerns over her availability in Brisbane after pulling out of a recent exhibition tournament in South Korea due to a neck concern.
But the reigning French Open champion pulled the pin on the Brisbane International for the second time after the right collarbone problem restricted her on the practice court.
"I had a bit of inflammation in my collarbone, and I sent it to my doctor in New York and he told me I couldn't really do much overhead training for about a week. That week was actually on Monday," Sharapova said.
"So to be fair, I haven't really given myself a chance to pretty much hit any serves or anything over my head. Just been practicing groundstrokes. So I just kind of ran out of time here.
"I started practicing once I got here but couldn't serve much ‑ actually at all until yesterday.
"Just a couple days of serving is not really enough to go out tomorrow and compete at a high level, which is unfortunate. I tried to give myself a chance, like I said, I just ran out of time a little bit."
Tournament director Cameron Pearson released a statement with Sharapova a sufficient recovery to take the court for the Australian Open.
"We feel for Maria because we saw first-hand how badly she wanted to play for the people of Brisbane," he said. "She has been fantastic since she got here and worked hard in the gym, on court and in the medical room to do everything she could to get herself right. Unfortunately she didn't make it."
She is replaced in the draw by lucky loser Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine, who will meet Australian wildcard Jarmila Gajdosova in the second round.
Very likely Dr Altchek, who dealt with her shoulder. http://www.hss.edu/physicians_altchek-david.asp A TOP man.
SIGH!!!! Seriously so damn sad that she had to withdraw!!! I was soooo looking forward to seeing her play again for several weeks already!!! ;'(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Such a bad start to the New Year!!!!
I really hope she recovers completely for the Aussie Open though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really want her to be at her best!!! So sad there always seems to be injuries T_T
Will be praying for her!!!
Hope she takes these two weeks to rest well and practice comfortably!!!!! Do you guys think she'll be fit enough by then??
And I'm also hoping time flies so I can watch her soon :(
I just watched the Serena/Alize Cornet match. To be honest, Alize played very good tennis compared to what I've seen from her over the last year. Her shots were hard and well placed...problem is....Serena played like Kim and she went after every shot and most times got them. Serena is extremely fast now, and it is clear from the size of her boobs (sorry boys) that she has lost a lot of weight and is extremely fit. Wether or not she can maintain this level of play through a whole tournament or a Grand Slam remains to be seen, but right now she is playing like the No. 1 she will most likely be after the AO.
Now to Maria's problems.. Have to read between the lines here. She is not saying it directly but if you know your biology you will know that if you have a damaged collar bone, or inflamed joints at either end of it, you cannot raise your arm above shoulder level. Such injuries usually come from over exerting the muscles and joints or an old injury that has returned to haunt you because you never gave it time to heal properly. I bet on the latter. Remember last year...at the beginning, she said she had gone back to her old serve....and it worked too.....BUT it was making that serve that caused her problems in 2007/8 in the first place. Are you following me? So we are going to be hearing all kinds of excuses...lies...about what is really wrong. She wont admit to making the same mistake again. Neck, collar bone, ...so long as she doesn't say shoulder problem, people will not relate..... she thinks.
Hmmm, i don't know Philli, Maria tore her supraspinalus (i'm quite positive) which is one of the 4 rotator cuffs. It has absolutely no attachment to the clavicle. The subscapularis rotator cuff is the lone cuff on the chest (whereas the other three are on the back) and if that's the one she had torn, then definitely we could relate it to the collarbone. However, i just think she's done a lot of strengthing around the general shoulder area (for obvious reasons) and has pushed maybe a little too far.
Time will tell.
Your descriptive terminology is quite correct...the general movement of the arm is indeed supported back and front, but to balance out the movement and to compensate for correct movement within the shoulder joint, the collar bone is required to hold it all in place, much like the track rods on a steering system in a car. Nothing works right if one piece is not in order. Strange that she sent the inflamation to her doctor in NY. How did she do that?
On another note...or perhaps the same one.... have you noticed how they picked up, in both pics, the fact that she is constantly fiddling with her hair when talking to reporters. That's a distinct sign of nervousness and uncertainty and probably because she is hiding something and not telling them what she knows is the real reason.


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Sir Emeka Offor likes to describe himself simply: He is the son of a policeman, born in the small town of Kafanchan, Nigeria. It is a way of reminding himself of his humble origins. Offor – who worked his way up to become executive vice chair of the Chrome Group, a multibillion-dollar oil and gas conglomerate, and who founded the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, whose mission is to create economic opportunities in Nigeria's poor communities – prefers to let his work and philanthropy speak for him. And with his most recent gift of $1 million to PolioPlus, Offor adds another achievement to his story: He is Africa's single largest donor to Rotary.
"My dad had to make many sacrifices," says Offor, a member of the Rotary Club of Awka G.R.A. "I decided I must support the underprivileged in society – the people who are not able to afford three square meals, or the people who can't go to school."
The effects of polio are still evident in Offor's community: Nigeria is one of three remaining polio-endemic countries, and although it has made strides, the work of eradication has been challenging.
"At times the progress is slow," Offor says. "But it is my deepest hope that we can inspire all Nigerians to work together to bring about the final, permanent, and irreversible eradication of polio."
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MARQUETTE - Morgan Seibert, Whitney LaFave and Lydia Seibert made sure Friday the Marquette Senior High School girls' softball team got off to a good start in both the season and the 10th Annual MSHS Spring Swing at the Superior Dome.
Morgan Seibert took the mound win in a 3-2 victory over Escanaba. She went 3 2/3 innings, didn't give up a hit and walked just one while striking out four.
Whitney LaFave went 3-for-3 at the plate and drove in a run, while Lydia Seibert - Morgan's cousin - added two safeties and an RBI.
Morgan Seibert, who chipped in a triple for the Redettes, also picked up a save in relief of Senja Liimatta after the Eskymos had reduced a 3-0 deficit to just a run in the bottom of the fifth and final inning. Escanaba stranded a runner at second and third.
"I was real happy (with how we played)," MSHS manager Paul Seibert said. "We played flawlessly until the last inning when we had a couple of hiccups.
"Escanaba's a tough team and we outhit them 10-1. We started off on a good note."
In other contests Friday, Ishpeming and Superior Central played to a 3-3 tie; Escanaba's JV dumped Houghton, 7-1; Gladstone routed Manistique, 19-0; Marquette's JV blanked Kingsford, 5-0; Norway turned back Munising, 13-3; Kingsford edged Stephenson, 6-5; and Ironwood beat Superior Central, 10-7.
Spring Swing competition will resume at 8:30 a.m. today and continue through a 6 p.m. matchup between Stephenson and the Marquette JV squad.


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Hi guys first time posting here. I've got to work on 15 model S so far and I love these cars! Hope you like this detail it took about 30 man hours!
Very nice work...too bad you aren't in NY.
Thank you very much! Where at in NY I could recommend some one for you I know all the good ones that are opti coat pro installers
could you recommend someone in the northeast florida area near Jacksonville?
I'd like to know the VIN on that car...I've got a black one coming in a few weeks and it better not look like that...
Weschtester County, north of the city...a recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
Joe did my car with great results!! Very dedicated customer service. I HIGHLY recommend him.
Our Model S looks amazing. Thanks Joe!
Thanks Dan it was my pleasure! I'll work on finding people to take care of the cars not in my area!
@wormhole - Rich Grasa at Explicit Details in New Milford, CT applied Opticoat to my Model S and he did a fantastic job. You can find him online. I suspect he'll go to Westchester.
thanks kbackman...i'll check him out and use your name, maybe you'll get a discount next time!
how long does it last?
Western and Central CT only :(
Wormhole would you email me email@example.com your pretty close to good friend of mine who is also an OC pro installer. I'll send you his contact info! uroshah, I'm still working on yours but I'm talking to a few in your area right now, just making sure they have all the correct credentials and are approved my Optimum as OC installers.
Done! Thanks.
Wormhole Opti-Coat is permanent it has no organic material in and forms a hard bond with your paint. Once applied if the vehicle is properly washed you will only need to decontaminate the Opti-coat once a year and it will always look great
i had paint armor put on, not Tesla factor, but local provider, paint looks dull, even after cleaning, and you can see swirls etc...
Feel free to post pictures of my car Joe if you have them.
Thanks Dan! Your car is the link at the top of thread! I couldn't find how to post pics on here.
Is this Opticoat similar to Ming? I'm in Kansas City and there is a Ming not far from me that has been in business for many years and they get great reviews.
Webhost the pics, then use the following HTML:
<img src="URL" width="600">
Some sites (Flickr, etc) have proprietary code they supply for insertion. Insert/add the width="600" if necessary to match column width.
My finish from the factory isn't as bad as the black car you worked on, but it's got issues to. Swirls, hard water spots, etc. I've got a full day booked with a detail shop to address the issues with the finish.
a bunch of nice photos of body parts.... BUT it would have been a lot more informative and more effective to sell your services if you had put side-by-side before and after photos... otherwise, we have no idea what or why we are looking at the photos unless we read all the fine prints.
What is the cost?
Pretty important..
Any recommendations for an installer in Baltimore, MD?
When a professional detail shop says they "use Opti-Coat," can I presume they mean Opti-Coat Pro and not the off-the-shelf consumer stuff, or should I clarify that with them?
Any recommendations for an installer in the DC area?
@celtrog - you should expect the cost of the Opti-Coat Pro to be around $300 or so, but it may be higher depending upon how much paint correction, claying, polishing, etc, need to be done.
For me, I believe the total was $450, and the guy spent about 6 hours on my car. Looks fantastic, though, and washing it is a breeze.
I had the Opti Coat Pro installed on my Tesla in the Houston area for $475 (that included doing the windows, wheels and lens with similar products). The price included polishing the car as the first step. If the car is right off the delivery truck you might save $100 if it doesn't need the polish. Make sure the installer is using Opti Coat Pro and not Opti Coat 2.0. The 2.0 is for DIY and isn't the same as the Pro.
My car looks fantastic. Nothing sticks to it and I'm thrilled that I won't have to wax the car in the summer heat down here.
Hi - Do you know of an Opti-Coat pro detailer in New Jersey?
Go here to look for authorized opti-coat pro installers world wide.
Note that these are the professionals that use the PRO version, not the consumer version like opti-coat 2.0.
Shop around for pricing. I found John our Opti-Coat guy working out of his garage for half the price across town.
If you can get to Houston TX, give him a call at 832-264-0670. He does an outstanding job.
Get the whole car Opti-Coated including the rims.
Opti-Coat pro for all painted and plastic surfaces.
Opti-Glass pro is great for the windshield; go over 35mph and never have to use your wipers again.
Opti-Lens pro has UV inhibitors that will prevent your headlights from turning yellow.
Can anyone provide a comparison between Opti-Coat Pro and Zaino?
Can anyone recommend an Opti-Coat Pro installer in Baltimore, MD?
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Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, Gov. Robert Bentley announced shortly before noon today that he'd signed the bill.
"This will change the schools in this state," Bentley said. "There is no excuse any more for our schools to fail."
The signing comes after the Alabama Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a lawsuit by the Alabama Education Association to block the Legislature rom sending the bill to Bentley to be signed.
The bill, also known as HB84, began life as a school-flexibility measure, designed to allow schools to opt out of certain state regulations in the pursuit of educational goals.
In the last few hours before the bill's final passage, Republican leaders in the Senate changed the bill, more than doubling its length and adding provisions that would allow parents of students in "failing" school districts to claim a tax credit of up to $7,500 for move their children to private schools or other, non-failing public schools. While $7,500 is the upper limit, under the act's funding formula, tax credits would likely be no more than $3,500 to $4,000 per year.
The eleventh-hour change sparked a lawsuit by the AEA, which argued that the changes to the bill violated the Legislature's rules and the state's Open Meetings Act. A circuit court judge initially blocked the signing of the bill, but the Alabama Supreme Court vacated his decision late Wednesday.
Bentley, in announcing the signing, focused mostly on the school-flexibility aspects of the bill. He said the act will free school leaders to do what needs to be done to improve education.
"I don't want people to lose sight, with all the clutter that's going on, of the fact that we're giving schools something they've never had before," he said.
Many of the state's education policy leaders -- including state school Superintendent Tommy Bice, the Association of Alabama School Boards and the School Superintendents of Alabama -- supported the original flexibility bill.
After the tax-credit wording was added, those organizations asked Bentley to send the bill back to the Legislature for re-working. Among other things, school leaders asked for a clearer definition of "failing" schools and more clarity on who would get the tax credit.
The bill was passed without a fiscal note , a statement of economic impact that normally accompanies legislation. Education advocacy groups have estimated the cost of the tax credit at anywhere between $25 million and $367 million. That money would come from the Education Trust Fund, which is funded by sales and income taxes.
Bentley told reporters he believed the bill would not adversely affect the Education Trust Fund.
"Our goal is to make every school in this state a non-failing school," he said. "If that happens, there will be no tax credits."
The bill offers four definitions of a failing school, one of which would include the schools in the bottom 10 percent in academic performance.
Bentley said any remaining problems with the bill can be worked out through regulations and rules from the state Department of Education and the Department of Revenue. He said the 10-percent issue would likely be worked out through the education department.
Asked how the Department of Education would solve the 10-percent problem, Bentley said he didn't know, but he said it would be done. He said any remaining issues could be worked out in the next session of the Legislature.
The bill is likely to face another court challenge soon from the AEA. Before the governor's announcement , AEA executive secretary Henry Mabry said a new lawsuit could be filed as early as Friday.
Mabry wouldn't comment on the legal strategy the association would pursue in the lawsuit.
"I guarantee it will open their eyes," he said.
Speaking before the bill's signing, Mabry said he didn't doubt the governor would sign the act.
"That's his prerogative," he said. "But the people of Alabama will make him regret it."
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Gov. Kasich walks the fair
The Columbus Dispatch - July 24, 2013 8:07 PM
Gov. John Kasich obviously enjoys a fair.
Today, when he toured the 160th Ohio State Fair after opening it this morning at a ribbon cutting ceremony, the Republican governor compared a few of his interactions there to his lawmaking counterparts at the Statehouse and in Washington.
When Kasich was getting a small falcon to show him its wings, the bird quickly complied.
Kasich responded: "I wish the legislature would respond like that."
Republican Sen. Cliff Hite, of Findlay, standing nearby and following the governor on his tour, shouted out, "I heard that!"
Later, Kasich picked up archery.
It wasn't immediately clear if Kasich had ever fired an arrow before, but when he did so at the fair, the arrow went less than a foot ahead of him before it plopped down.
"That was so bad," Kasich said. "Obama even did better than that," possibly referring to President Barack Obama's opening pitch at a Washington Nationals game in 2010.
He also got to follow a tradition left by every Ohio governor since Bob Taft.
Kasich, like Taft and Ted Strickland before him, got a tree dedicated to him in the park. He approached a shovel and scooped dirt into a small whole left unfilled. "Ok. I have a tree."
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Wait a minute, does that mean the TC stuff is available in Surround? What else did that label release in Surround?
Wait a minute, does that mean the TC stuff is available in Surround? What else did that label release in Surround?
Hello DaneelOlivaw,
your mail was interesting, but it - and also your PM - shows the difficulties with surround by music actual - and I am afraid a long time further on. One reason: When a company produces surround music, the surround-fans are often too choosy and don't buy the productions. And rhose, who have bought as me, has been often disappointed from often crazy msuic style or bad surround mixes. So DTS, Sliverline etc. has stopped their audio-surround productions. Another reason: I think, too many of the surround-fans have too much dreams of surround DVD-Audios from Madonna, Rollings Stones, Michael Buble etc. pp. but they don't grasp, that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush. So they ignore also our quadraphonic productions up to now, although we will help to produce actual quadraphonic music, which is really listen for many with a "normal" music taste. We are working idealstic not looking for a profite, but "only" for a balance. But the professional companies needs profit. When a profite ist not possible, they stop the productions. I think, that Even Rhino's handmade with their both only old quadraphonic re-realizations has not got such a profit. So they also stopped their activity - or knows anybody some more? They may need for my opinion 500 buyers, we only 250. I am afraid, that the surround fans can wait for a "little" endlessness, that the big companies will start actual with new surround productions. It was told before, that Universal music would offer till December 2010 10 new Audio Blu Rays with pop music. But nothing is to seen or to heard. The companies are meanwhile in a fight for survival. Actual the EMI is bankruptcy. And the "rest" produces in such a situation only stereo - more and more also for iPod etc. or download. Nothing with surround.
So it is interesting, that I know, that here and tehre in different countries are also bands, who are playing well listening music. But we are only just in the beginning. If we have a balance, we can produce some more. I know, that worldwide there are hundreds or thousand bands or musicians who are playing a very well music. But those we have also here. And some bands also from the USA or Canada are playing here in Hamburg - like our next productions with the David Celia Band.
If we have with our start for new quadarphonic music by professional working a success, then something for further productions is possible. If another would start with quadrphonic productions, I would wellcome that. Than I would have more time for my further interests and I could save a lot of my money.
Hello - The bright side
I self don't know if the TC stuff produce surround music. May be, DaneelOlivan has more informations. But actual without the Pink Floyd, The Whow or King Crimson is hardly to find surround music in the market, which is re-produced now. By the way - there are some Music Blu Rays, which are named "surround". There are also some of the big stars, but often they have only a very poor surround, which is in the rear channels most only reverberation or crying audiences. Not the surround sound, which a fan of quadraphonic surround needs.
Bright Side: sorry, there is no multichannel TC available. Based on a conversation with someone affiliated with them, I just heard they were interested in it and had discussed it with a multichannel label.
Hopefully that's screaming audiences and not crying.
Okay if the concern is making titles people want, use polls and pre-orders prior to production. I've no reason to expect major artists or labels to cooperate. There are certainly a number of second tier popular bands and beyond to pursue masters from, here's a few I'd buy all of:
Sparks, Triumvirat, Gentle Giant, Audience, Joan Armatrading, Ambrosia, King's X, Daniel Lanois, Ozric Tentacles, Robin Trower, The Chills, Catherine Wheel, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, 10cc, Brand X, Group 87, Bill Connors, Steve Morse, Dixie Dregs, Steve Hackett, Happy The Man, Romeo Void, Procol Harum, Djam Karet, Quartermass, Strawbs, Wondermints, Human Radio, Merchants Of Venus, Levitation, XTC, Sky, Dave Stewart+Barbara Gaskin, Suzanne Vega, Robyn Hitchcock
Hard to tell at a glance who has control of their masters, but I wanted to put some names out there to establish what I'm looking for.
Thanks for this thread and I wish you all the luck in the world!
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I mean no disrespect here and wish the folks at the Quadro-Surround label all the luck in the world - but based on a quick peak at the website, the notion that they could attract the likes of ESL or even a second or third tier label is highly unlikely. The artwork presented for the individual titles alone, would send most labels with even the slightest interest running for the hills. I would hope that the artwork is not representative of the actual recordings but as that is all we have to go on for the moment, it would appear that these are amateurish at best. Take a look a the cover art for the "Jass Band" - man o man o man!
Artwork/website aside, I'm willing to risk $20 to try them out and support the effort.
Placing order in the morning, fingers crossed after that.
Hello Elmer,
The "Black Jazz Cover" is only a workplace study after redording. In that time we have had not the idea to start an own label. Actual it is not in our offer. Before that, we have to do a new quadraphonic remix and may have also a new cover. The Band has some pictures. By the way - look to the professional cover to Cing Crimson with a picture of a grimace. If it was our, you would say: An illustration mad by childs. Or look to Depeche Mode - playing the angel. I think, by music is important the sound. Of course, all can be improve. Also our webside. But we are now in the first phase of beginning. And important is for us, that the quadraphonic sound has really a beginning. Those, who have hope for high polished prospects may be from Warner with a lot offer of many new quadraphonic or surround SA-CDs/DVD-Audios may wait further on. And to remember: Also the best professional advertising of the big companies in beginning the 90's has not helped to make music surroundsound to a real success. Today we have low tide - okey some times one can find a shell.
Hello Chiburb,
actual we can send the "Frank Valdor - Hot Nights in Rio". A music, predistined for a surround mix. Our next 2 productions we offer during late december. You may find this separate in the DVD-Audio threat. The discussion forum is further on our thread here.
Hello Chiburb,
because you have some pluck to buy one of our unknown production,so you should get it for free. You can test it and it would be wellcome, when you could write here a report about your impression of sound quality and quadraphonic re-mix.
Regarding covers I like the quad speakers. Purely simple and well-recognizable.
Dietrich - it's good to know that you'll be working on your graphics presentation. Please don't mistake me - I do hope for the continued and successful development of your label. It's always a difficult venture presenting new material to the public - but you have a good and willing audience here at QQ.
Hi Dietrich:
I am a fan of quad instrumental music from artists such as Henry Mancini, Percy Faith, Al Hurt, Herb Albert, Burt Bacharach, Isao Tomita, Bert Kaempfert, etc, and would like to see some releases in this genre.
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Btw, Dietrich, you may find useful to introduce your label at SurroundSound google group http://groups.google.com/group/surroundsound There may be surround fans over there who are not (regular) visitors here at QQ.
Hello Justin
I like too those orchestras, as you have named. Unfortunately such orchestras are actual nealy no more existent. Our production of the Frank Valdor orchestra ist also in the rough of big orchestras, but especially for latin music. May be there are possibilities to get rough recordings from the new Kaempfert orchestra. But actual Ican't tell details.
Hello Grill, a well hint with google. I will tell this our webmaster.
Thank you
hey Dietrich, would you consider sales by way of downloads over internet, beside the sales of physical discs?
by doing this you obviously could cut on manufacturing and sell more, thus get sufficient funds to make upcoming
releases at the pro. facility with nice collectable packaging.
there also downside of purchases from overseas - as a physical purchase it would cost me after currency exchange,
custom, GST (similar to VAT), postal extra charges, way over 30 bucks. i would love to give my support but not to
the government but directly to the label.
perhaps all well known pop-artists tightly guarded by the big labels, but would be nice to see releases in surround
maybe not world famous but yet good artists who's play prog. and hard rock in the past and present.
damn, i would buy without doubt such modern band like Rammstein, ASP, Megaherz, Lacrimosa, Oomph in surround
Maybe you could take one track from the "Rio" DVD-A and put it on your website for download. I think people will really like it when they hear how great it sounds.
hello Jon,
thank you vor the hint. We have also the intention to do that: Sound-examples listen by our webside. May be, that this will help to chance the impession by some, that we would produce bad quality bungling. But as beginners we can do all ideas one after the other. I think in January we are ready to present such sound examples. And by future productions straightaway.
Hello Otto,
one can see, that downloads don't help the big industry before some loss. And we self like the physical discs. I trhink, producing music is a total artwork including packing, cover,information prints. Look to the opulent third or fourth re-presentation of Pink Floyd. I think - only for my opinion - downloads and anonymus music on the hard disc or a stick is comparable with foods in the shops by packing in simple not printed paper. OK, especially younger people loves downloads. But the most only for stereo and theire headphones. I think, quadraphonic surround fans are most in a some mature older and would prefere the physical disc. And younger music fans have not forgotten how to put a disc in a player.
By the way, please write me the prices in the USA for a DVD-Audio (in the past), SA-CD (most classic) or music DVD. In Gemany those discs cost usual araound € 20,-- which is of corse a few more in $.
One can haveof course wishes - for the big artist in surround. But that will be a very long waiting. And if there is such a surround production, it sound often or most only in a poor surround mix with music further on in front. I think, many music listeners should go also sometimes in live concerts by bands with not so wellknown names as the tops. But those bands plays likewise well to the other. And also such music in surround makes fun - especially in a real quadraphonic surround soundmix.
Dietrich, I'd give a try for offering your products by downloads, Try it and you'll see. Some usefull polls about this topic:
I would be interested in rock and progressive rock. It would be necessary for it to be in english for me to go for it. I don't know what you have access to, but I would love to have a clean discrete copy of Omega-200 Years after the last war. My SQ version is worn and scratchy. Of course, there are many others I would like to hear. I often thought that a small record company could do surround to fill this niche and make a living. Maybe it will work out for you. I hope so. It would be great if you could convince the big record companies to let you make surround versions of popular recordings, and sell them. I would expect that they would want royalties, but hopefully not a big up front fee that you would have to sell a million copies to break even. I had heard that's what did in the DTS recording project. They could never break even. That and the fact that the big record companies got jealous and wanted to do their own. It was not profitable on the scale of stereo recordings and I think that's what they were expecting. But a small concern might could pull it off. Good Luck and God speed.
The Quadfather
I would suggest to also include a Pro-Logic II encoded stereo version of the surround music - we can't always listen in surround and the downmixing built into MLP, AC-3 and DTS doesn't work so well - nor does it encode stereo surrounds. Or get a hold of an SQ Position Encoder and include an SQ version since, to me, SQ has the best stereo fold down of ANY system. Next to SQ's stereo performance, all other systems suck.
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Hi, I second the recommendation for Omega. They released two sq quad albums. Perhaps some others could be remixed if you made a deal. I don't know who owns the masters now but they originally recorded in Hungary, can't be an emi size company.


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After months of planning, thinking and worrying about how the the race control officials would handle the race I am pleased to say that the new team is going to be a welcome addition to IndyCar. The new additions to the team are the new race director, Beaux Barfield whom I worked with in ALMS. New steward Gary Barnard, whom I worked with when I was race director in the Atlantic Series. New driver coach and steward Arie Luyendyk and myself, driver steward.
Yesterday at Saint Pete was our first IndyCar race, with new cars, engines and race officials it was a crap shoot to see if it was all going to work. Beaux did a great job in the drivers meeting explaining all the procedures and mainly explaining the protocol for on track behavior which includes blocking.
Arie and myself are there to sort of be a liaison between the drivers and the calls that Beaux makes in race control, if we feel that Beaux is out of line we are there to speak up on behalf of the drivers. We also look at on track incidences and help determine if any action should be taken. The only real incident that took place was between Ed Carpenter and Helio. Helio was on Ed's gear box coming out of 14 on to the front straight, Ed was pitting and Helio didn't know it so when Ed checked up to get into the pits Helio tagged him in the rear which spun him off into pit entrance. We didn't penalize Helio as it is the responsibility of the driver entering the pit to either let the guy behind know he is pitting or get off line before slowing down. Other than that we saw some defensive lines on track and some very close racing but the drivers really took care of each other and respected the new rules.
My hats really off to Beaux, as the new race director there is a lot of pressure on his shoulders and a lot of people ready to jump down his throat the minute something goes wrong. The guy is really smart and thinks through thousands of possible scenarios so he is prepared for what might happen in a race situation. He keeps a cool head and focuses on making the race safe and fair to everyone regardless of what team they drive for.
The next IndyCar race is next week at Barber in Alabama, I won't be at that one but will be back on the circuit starting at Long Beach April 14/15.
Stay tuned, ya never know what will happen next race!
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A PennDOT camera captured the scene of an accident on the ramp from Route 183 to Route 222 South in Bern Twp., Berks Co., on Friday.
Liberty High School students were finally dismissed around 4:15 p.m. after the school was locked down for most of Wednesday afternoon following a report of three gunmen entering the school, which officials now believe was a hoax.
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First responders rushed to the scene of a two vehicle accident involving a school bus on Route 222 in Richmond Township on Wednesday afternoon.
Disbelief in the house of God; pastors in Reading and Mount Penn say they were stunned when their churches were burglarized.
Many parents waited hours just to see and hug their children after hearing about the lock down.
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A 45-year-old Lehigh County man is accused of taking nearly $6,000 from a Northampton County non-profit that provides care for people with special needs, while he worked there as an administrator.
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Passengers aboard a sinking South Korean ferry faced a terrifying choice as the vessel rolled: obey commands barked over loudspeakers to stay in place, or don life vests and jump into the chilly ocean water.
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