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The words are familiar after awhile. Theyre as predictable as the birds, currently taking flight en masse around here. Only its not a cloud of sparrows going south. Its a football season. Heres how you tell a team that is steeped in the culture of winning:
Its members dont talk about trying hard.
They dont praise the "good things" that occurred during a loss.
The notion of not giving up never crosses their minds. Why should it?
To teams who win, the bottom line could not be more obvious. It never requires rationalizing or soft-pedaling. Either you win, or you dont. If you want to be praised for trying hard, go play tee-ball. Get yourself an ice cream after the loss.
This is the big leagues, and in the big leagues the Bengals have lost four in a row. The latest was a 23-31 defeat to the Denver Broncos Sunday at PBS. Coming into the game, Cincinnati could afford to lose one of its next two, against Denver and the New York Giants, as long as it wasnt this one. As it is, the locals are 3-5, and 2-5 in the AFC, which fairly kills their wild-card tiebreaker playoff chances. If the Giants come in and beat them next week, we will bid the Bengals safe travels and see them again next July.
I could patronize them here. I could say, as Marvin Lewis, Andy Dalton and others did, that the effort was worthwhile. Because, you know, it was.
I could suggest that if they play this hard the remaining eight weeks, and fine tune some things, they could finish respectably. That might be true.
It means not much.
The Bengals won three of their first four. After Win Three in Jacksonville, Lewis could be overheard in the postgame dressing room praising his players, and telling them that the upcoming schedule was favorable. And it was: At home against Miami, on the road to Cleveland, back home with the Steelers before the bye.
Even the most cynical Stripes fan could look at that and see 5-2 before the bye. That didnt happen. The year has gone south, almost beyond redemption, so this is what you hear now:
Marvin Lewis: This team executed a lot of the game plan. A lot of things we spent a lot of time on this week, we came out and showed. If we play this hard, well be all right. (But) weve dug ourselves a hole, no question about it.
Andy Dalton: The effort was there.
A.J. Green: Were not going to give up. Were just lacking the little things.
Andrew Whitworth: We fought our tails off. We played against a team thats hot. If we can play the way we did today and eliminate some mistakes, we can put together a streak of wins.
This isnt to belittle Lewis or the players. They have no obligation to speak to the heathen media. Were grateful they do. Maybe, Whitworth is right. A roll is right around the corner. Now that Lewis has fired his last, best motivational bullet asking Dalton and Rey Maualiga to lead he cant overplay whats left of his hand. He also has to wonder what he can do to get his team to play to its potential. Because it hasnt, not for four games. And the rationalizing is troubling.
Heres what we didnt hear after the fourth straight loss, three of them at home:
This is unacceptable. We have too much talent to be playing this way. I dont care how hard we tried. Trying hard is implied in the contract. This is the most results-oriented league in pro sports. All that matters is winning.
Dalton had the sort of game Lewis asked for. Good Andy threw an unscripted 51-yard TD pass to Jermaine Gresham. With nine minutes left and the Bengals down 24-20, he did it again. Dalton escaped the rush and threw a sidearm bullet on 3rd-and-15, for 20 yards to Green. Holding nullified the gain.
The next play, Bad Andy forced a deep sideline throw to Green that Champ Bailey intercepted. Dalton said he was hit as he threw. But three Broncos defenders had Green bracketed. At best, the pass would have been incomplete. Denver turned the turnover into a game-clinching touchdown.
The standings say the Bengals are 3-5. There is no Tried Hard category.
Maybe this team is not as talented as weve thought. In that case, lets hear it for great effort and we can all wait til next year. Guys rose to the occasion, Whitworth said. Hey, awesome.
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6:00am Monday 31st December 2012 in Sport By Sam Morshead
AFTER the Mayan prophecy of the end of the world failed to materialise, Swindon Town manager Paolo Di Canio has said that a positive energy has engulfed the County Ground.
The ancient South American civilisation's calendar came to a conclusion on December 21, giving some the ammunition to suggest that the date spelt Doomsday for humankind.
As it was, Tranmere were on the end of an apocalyptic drubbing as Di Canio's men romped past the league leaders 5-0 – and from that moment the Robins boss has sensed a shift in attitude around the club.
Di Canio, whose Pagan beliefs give great significance to the passing of the summer and winter solstices, said: "The night of the 21st I had the solstice and something changed.
"The Mayans weren't good to predict the end of the world but you never know in the future, but some energy changed.
"I have some frustration that they cancelled the game (at Colchester) but I have turned it straight away into a positive.
"The 21st changed my brain a bit and gave a positive start, but it will be crucial to start well straight away.
"The first win is crucial.
"You can draw the first one and win the second one and it terms of points it doesn't change anything, but it's better to win the first one."
Di Canio is desperate to see his team defeat Portsmouth in their first game of 2013 on New Year's Day, as he feels victory will set the Robins up perfectly for a promotion charge.
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"Some will say there are still 19 games to go and it is hard to predict, I know my players and I know my team.
"If we can have eight or nine points I can tell you, until the end, we are with you."
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This started as an assignment for one of my music classes, where I was supposed to write a "musical autobiography" that would describe how music has impacted my life. But isn't that sort've ridiculous? It would be impossible for me to adequately address how music has affected my life because when I am not eating, sleeping, attending class, or running (and sometimes during all of those activities), I am interacting with music on some level. In an attempt to demonstrate how music has ingrained itself in my life, I've compiled a short playlist paired with memories that will always be tied to these songs.
1. I Want It That Way by The Backstreet Boys
As a child (like most children, Im assuming), I probably listened to a lot of music that was specifically targeted at kids. I remember being super excited when I got the Pokemon: The Movie soundtrack for Christmas one year. In light of that, my first introduction to popular radio music was definitely the Backstreet Boys. My cousin Gina had posters all over her bedroom walls (her favorite was Brian) and she played their music every time I came over. I forced my mom to buy me their debut CD and blasted it nonstop in our home cabinet stereomy dad actually moved the stereo out of the living room because he was sick of hearing that crappy music. I never really got into bubblegum pop like Britney Spears and I hated NSync (come on! They were total rip-offs!), but to this day Ill jam I Want It That Way and sing along to the whole song.
2. In Too Deep by Sum 41
3. Radio Player by Allister
The first CD I ever bought for myself was All Killer No Filler by Sum 41. I was in third grade and my friend Dave (whos still one of my best friends) let me listen to it on his Walkman after school one day. Most people like Fat Lip because that was the big single on the Now! compilations (never bought one myself, but my cousin Annie had like eight of them), but In Too Deep spoke to emotions I probably didnt even have at that age. Plus, the melodies were so good! You listen to an album like that, all brash and summery, and it makes in impact on you, especially at that age, when youre starting to define what you like. The other song that sparked my love of pop punk is Radio Player by Allister, one of the first bands I ever heard from the now-defunct Drive-Thru Records. In the early 2000s, Drive-Thru literally told me what to listen to: this was a time before computer downloading, so when I heard of a new Drive-Thru band (Something Corporate, New Found Glory, etc. I can literally still name all twenty) I immediately went out, bought their new record, and loved it. This shaped my musical tastes, and now I write blog posts and music reviews for the site AbsolutePunk.net, which caters to that same music demographic.
4. Touch The Sky by Kanye West
This album is the reason I almost died when I was fourteen. I was in Ocean City, MD the summer before high school and was going for a run (I wanted to get on the varsity cross country team). Before returning to my hotel, I crossed the six-lane Coastal Highway to see if the record store across the street had Kanyes new album Late Registration. Long story short: on the way back I got hit by a car and totaled it with my forehead. Theres a line in this songone of my favorite rap songs everthat goes I think I died in the accident, cause this must be heaven. Chance?
5. Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan
Ive been making mix CDs for my Uncle Joe at Christmastime since at least 2004, and looking at the old playlists always reminds me of how tastes change (I mean, did he really need to hear Drunk Kid Catholic by Bright Eyes in 2006?). Nevertheless, my uncle is probably the guy who most got me into older music. He tells stories about random 60s songs that make them come ALIVE for me, and hes one of the only people in the world who I feel comfortable blathering about music to for hours on end. My favorite vignette (which he re-tells every time this song title even comes up) was one I first heard when I included this song on a mix CD for him. He looked at me strangely and said this song has his favorite Dylan line: I must admit, I was a little uneasy when she bent down to tie the laces of my shoooooooooooooe. Yep, I have no idea, either.
6. Ninety Miles an Hour by Matt Chylak
If you look at the artist for this one, you might notice something. Yep, I play music. Throughout high school, I had a backing band and played for thousands of people. Writing music has been a large part of my creative life, and part of the reason I am pursuing an emphasis in Creative Writing for my English major. This is one of the songs from my first albumI have two on iTunesand was probably one of the more popular ones. Theres nothing in the world like standing on stage and hearing a few hundred people sing your words back to you.
7. Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People
I started working at WXPN radio station last summer as a research assistant on their morning show. Every morning I would hear a variety of songs, but this one kept getting played. This was early in the songs radio cycle, before it became the impossible-to-escape jam of July and August. I met the band at a festival I was working at for XPN, and they could not believe that I had heard of them. I told them it was going to be a hit on the radio and they just smiled kind of sadly and thanked me. Later that week, I played it for my cousin in the car and said, This songs going to be huge! She listened to the whole thing and then replied, ehhhh I dont see it. For me, this song represents what I want my future career to be like: enjoying myself around music and finding new bands that I can show to other people.
8. The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot by Brand New
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Give thanks to the programmers, I say!
Does that sound arrogant, coming from someone who earns much of his living as a lighting programmer, the breed that takes a lighting designer's vision and translates it into the practicalities of how a lighting console talks to a bunch of lights, or moving lights, or video projectors, or whatever? Or maybe we're "board operators with air miles," as one student recently described programmers.
Maybe. I'm not giving thanks to myself but to the people so many of the self-styled "programmers" forget: the real programmers — the people behind the software, the people who actually make the tools we use to make our living. Without them, we are nothing.
We borrow their job title, but we don't necessarily fill it. We are like the office worker constructing a fabulously complex spreadsheet in Excel. It can be brilliantly done, beautifully constructed, a work of art in its own right, but it is built using a tool, and someone, or some team of people, had to create that tool in the first place.
These are the forgotten people in the lighting industry. When did you last even consider the programmers behind your lighting console of choice, especially in the 99.99% of the time the console performed flawlessly, however hard you hammered it? Were they thanked when a cunning new software feature let you create a chase in ten seconds that, a year ago, would have taken ten minutes to accomplish? Or only in that rare moment when something odd happened, when the cue mysteriously vanished or the playback ate itself?
Woe to you if it was the latter, because that's not fair. Compared to those working in other fields, the software engineers in our industry work to satisfy demanding requirements on relatively tiny budgets. How many programs do you have on your computer that pause, then think, then do what you asked them to do? How would you feel if your lighting console did the same thing when you pressed "go"? How often do you pay good money for the latest version of SuperVectorWordCad? How often do you download, for free, the latest console software with its exciting new features?
We are privileged that, at the moment, these upgrades generally cost us nothing (though how long that can or will or, dare I say it, should last, who knows?). We are fortunate that, even though those writing the code don't always know about entertainment lighting, they are at least led by people who do. These people know what we are trying to do with their tools and don't balk when we eventually break something but listen to our fuzzy report of how the problem occurred, then fix things so it won't happen again.
This year, at last, the people behind the products are gaining at least a little recognition in two ways. Some are featured in a new book by Robert Bell, the man behind WYSIWYG, and one of the few to span this divide. Let There Be Light: Entertainment Software Pioneers In Conversation reveals the thoughts of some of the names behind the products. Others have become known through online lighting bulletin boards, with one particularly high-profile group recently martyring themselves by leaving behind the product that they have labored so long over, the Whole Hog® III.
Both cases raise an interesting question: given that the products we use are created by relatively tiny teams of people, with the programmers often serving as or alongside product managers, how inseparable are products and their creators? When those who created the "DNA" of a product are no longer there to tend it, does the product remain unique enough to maintain its following of loyal fans who've accepted its methodology, or does it become just another lighting console driven by multiple demands from multiple users until limited by budget? Or does it stop responding altogether and become outdated? Do the end users still trust the product? After all, when we are surrounded by an audience waiting to start the show, trust is everything.
The software people have an interesting role. They must create and support a product that serves our strange, unpredictable, fussy needs. To do that, they must listen to our wants, take note of our demands, filter that input, figure out what it is that we actually need, and reconcile hundreds of contradictory ideas. Then, if they're really clever, they implement those ideas in a way that fits in with the spirit and feel of the console, doesn't interfere with the 90% of users who only use 10% of the facilities offered, gives those of us who do use more than 10% more than we actually asked for, all while not breaking anything! Tough gig!!
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I'm looking forward to seeing them in the next version.
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Hall D at the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center is not an easy place to stage an event. The room is 440ft. wide and 140ft. deep, and a row of large columns runs down one side, making it difficult to set up a stage area visible to everyone, especially when the room is packed with 6,000 people.
Pedersen Media Group (PMG, San Francisco) and Video Applications (Tustin, Calif.) have wrestled with the room's logistics several times over the years, most recently this past June when they produced and staged the Sun Microsystems JavaOne 2004 developers' conference. This marked the second year in a row the event has been held in Hall D.
PMG has designed and produced the JavaOne conference with Sun since its inception, and for eight of the past nine years, it has teamed up with Video Applications to design the event's video, audio, and content display systems. Each time, they take it as a personal challenge to make the event more dramatic and cutting edge than the year before. (See the September/October, 2003, issue for a report on the 2003 event.)
This year, organizers feel they overcame the room's spatial challenges as never before, primarily by creating a stage design around a dramatic 20'×80' center screen and two 18'×24' side screens. Equally important, however, was how they filled those screens — an all high-definition production package that included HD IMAG cameras. In addition, they developed a rich tapestry of overlays, keys, and composites that stretched the limits of the industry's most sophisticated screen-switching and video-processing system, Vista Systems' Montage. PMG and Video Applications introduced Montage to the JavaOne conference in 2003 — one of the first, major, corporate uses of Montage — but this year's event pushed the approach further.
"Supporting the demands of this event has always required thinking ahead of the status quo," says Mark Pedersen, founder and CEO of PMG. "We have a strong history of delivering staging designs which are consistent with the content demands of technology conferences. Going all HD for JavaOne this year was a natural evolution."
Creating a cutting-edge show is especially important for this particular event, Pedersen explains, because the content of the show itself is cutting edge. Java is an enormously popular software development environment created by Sun that is used to write applications that can run across virtually any device — from high-end servers to cellular phones — without regard to the underlying operating system.
"From Sun's perspective, this conference is their technology showcase for their customers and partners, so it's important for them to present an image and a brand that is consistent with that," explains Pedersen. "You couldn't do a conference about Java and put up two 15'× 20' screens with drapes. The delivery of the message would be incongruent with the message itself."
While the four-day conference included an exhibit floor and breakout sessions, the centerpiece of the conference was the multiple keynote presentations given by both Sun and its corporate partners in Hall D.
Last year, PMG and Video Applications used a 15'×45' center screen for keynote presentations. This year they went bigger — a 20'×80' Stewart AeroView 100 screen supported by a four-image SXGA blend. Eight Panasonic PT-D9600U 12K projectors, divided into four stacks of two, handled the projection.
"We like the Panasonic projectors for a whole host of reasons," says Darrell Hennegen, executive VP/COO of Video Applications. "Most importantly, we think their image processing, their contrast ratio, and their quiet operation differentiate them from other products in their category. They are real workhorses for us."
Because Hall D is so wide, even the gigantic center screen couldn't provide a good sightline from every seat. As a result, Video Applications also brought in two 18'×24' screens to place on each side of the center screen and supported each of those with a pair of overlapped Panasonic 9600s. The side screens were visually linked to the center screen through some forced-perspective scenic elements.
To maximize the impact of the giant center screen, with its 4:1 aspect ratio and horizontal resolution of 4,000 pixels, Hennegen and Pedersen knew they'd need all tape playback at HD resolution. They also decided to bring in HD cameras so they could support the IMAG feed in HD as well.
While HD playback has become more common, Hennegen points out that HD IMAG is still fairly rare in the live-event industry, largely because the rental cost of HD cameras has been prohibitively expensive. In addition, Hennegen says, "In the past, even if you did bring in HD cameras, the HD switcher, routing, scopes, and HD test equipment added costs that were beyond the range of most corporate events."
Although the broadcast and film industries have been rapidly adopting HD production tools, live-event staging companies haven't been able to follow suit. "There has been a lot of price sensitivity on the part of end clients," Hennegen says. "Budgets and rates have probably dropped five years straight." As a result, he adds, "There is this schizo-phrenic nature to the business. Production companies want to have the latest, greatest, cutting-edge stuff, but at the same time, they have one-third less money to work with than they had the year before."
Fortunately, not only have rental prices for HD cameras dropped dramatically, but the newest generation of screen switchers, such as Vista's Montage, has also created the ability to pass HD signals without degradation. "It is now possible to switch HD in a show live without having to employ an HD production switcher," says Hennegen. "In addition, today, the cost of producing HD content is incomparable to what you would have spent shooting in DigiBeta two years ago. The HD value proposition has changed dramatically in the last six months."
To capture IMAG for JavaOne, Hennegen used three Panasonic AK-HC931P HD cameras with Canon HD Lenses. Two were fixed cameras that were equipped with 86:1 Canon Digi-Super HD lens and a 40:1 HD lens. The third was a handheld camera with a 24:1 Canon HD lens.
One of the things Hennegen especially likes about the Panasonic cameras is that they output both an HD signal and SD SDI signal simultaneously. This was important, he said, because Sun needed a standard-def signal for webcasting, plus the client needed to distribute copies of the presentations on standard-def Beta SP tapes.
"That's another reason why this is a breakthrough year for bringing HD to the live-event stage," Hennegen says. "With today's equipment, we can bring HD cameras in at a price reasonably close to what you'd been paying for SD. We can still support destinations that require SD while sending HD to the screen and providing an HD record."
For recording, Video Applications employed four SD Sony Beta SP recorders, one Panasonic DVCPRO HD deck, and one Sony HDW-500 HDCAM deck. A Grass Valley 110CV SD switcher fed the Beta SP decks, while the Vista Montage fed the live screens and the HD record decks.
As for how the HD IMAG shots looked up on the screen, Pedersen and Hennegen were pleased with the results. "When you do a show with high-resolution graphics and great HD content and then mix that with IMAG shot in SD, it becomes very apparent that it is a painfully low-res source," says Pedersen. "That's why we wanted to push the edge for this show and bring in HD IMAG. It was clearly one of the hits of the show. When you are sitting with the clients in the front row of the audience, and all the graininess that you are accustomed to in the IMAG window is gone, and it's three times sharper, you notice. It really allows you to give the speaker a much greater presence."
Hennegen also points out that when there are several people on stage at one time, the 16:9 HD IMAG window lets you incorporate more people into the shot, reducing the need to cut back and forth between the people on stage. "You'd never shoot IMAG this wide with SD, but with the HD, you could park on a three shot and it felt very natural," he says. "The aspect ratio fit that screen look very well."
One of the most pleasant surprises in making the switch from SD to HD IMAG was how few challenges there were. "Everybody expected there would be a whole host of issues," recalls Hennegen. "Do we need camera operators with specific experience? Would there be more or less light sensitivity? Would backgrounds look too sharp and reduce the depth of field?"
In the end, however, everything worked seamlessly, he says, and the background images (usually a mixture of graphics and After Effects composited images) had just the right degree of softness.
While the use of HD IMAG was crucial to the presentation experience for the JavaOne audience, equally important was the way Pedersen and Hennegen used the immense screen space.
"One of the advantages of using a widescreen format is that you can break out of the routine of simply projecting 4:3 slides on screen," says Pedersen. "You can look at the screen as a canvas to better tell your stories. And that's what we are all about, telling our clients' stories in the most impactful way possible."
Painting that canvas began with the creation of a fullscreen 4,000-pixel graphics window with a JavaOne header and footer to cement the Java brand and carry a consistent look and feel throughout the presentations. The center of that graphics window was black. During presentations, various types of visuals — fullscreen graphic backgrounds, IMAG windows, demo windows, PowerPoint slides, text callouts, high-res JPEG images, and Flash animations — would be keyed into that center area and often layered on top of one another.
The screen essentially served as an electronic background for the stage, sometimes displaying fullscreen videos and crisp, 4,000-pixel still images of cityscapes, other times displaying subtle custom-designed backgrounds. Most often, however, the screen displayed a complex composite of imagery that pushed the Montage's prodigious image-processing capability to its limits.
"There were times when we'd have a key signal layered over another key signal that was layered over a flash animation background that itself was layered over the original 4,000-pixel graphics window background," recalls Hennegen. "And then, we'd have a HD IMAG window opened up somewhere else on the screen. That's a lot of processing going on there. And the fact that the Montage was able to handle it all is pretty impressive."
Hennegen emphasizes that the use of Montage at this year's JavaOne conference was far more extensive than what organizers attempted in 2003. "We were building and expanding on what we'd done the previous year. We used more sources and really increased the amount of layering and keying and tricks we were doing. We were dancing right on the edge of what's been done with the machine."
To prepare for this complex, content-rich event, PMG and Video Applications worked hand in hand months ahead of time to ensure that visuals were properly prepared. That collaboration was apparent in how they created the custom-designed backgrounds for the center screen. PMG's design team not only created a series of backgrounds for Sun speakers, but it also created and posted to the Web a library of other backgrounds that could be used by other corporate presenters. Some backgrounds were static images; others were Flash animation.
Also, HD IMAG required quality background imagery. "That is what the camera is going to see when the presenter is walking and talking on stage," Pedersen says. "We wanted to make sure that what we see behind that presenter is a good clean look, and not a cluttered look. We didn't want to see video feedback or other artifacts."
To ensure the backgrounds would work, the PMG team posted background templates to an FTP server where the Video Applications team could download them and run tests on its projection setup.
"We were in daily conference with each other to determine which files were working and which ones needed tweaking," says Hennegen. "And that was so important because no matter how knowledgeable you are and how good your intentions are, the fact is that when you are creating images on a monitor, but displaying them on an 80ft. screen that is composed of four images blended together, it's going to look different."
Meanwhile, the HD video content brought its own challenges. PMG-produced content consisted of an opening video providing an overview of Java's many uses, as well as several case studies showing Java used by specific companies. PMG shot much of the content on film and transferred it to HD during postproduction. A notable challenges was the need for PMG to deliver the videos in multiple formats.
For the 4:1 center screen, PMG provided the video in an anamorphic HD format on Sony HDCAM tapes. "We always direct clients to use anamorphic recording when filling large canvases because we don't want them to carry any black pixels," says Hennegen. "We don't want to waste any resolution. When we have it in that format, we can use the Montage to size it and stretch it out to the proper aspect ratio."
For the two 4:3 side screens, PMG provided the video in 16:9 letterbox on DigiBeta tape. During the show, the 16:9 SD version ran on the side screens simultaneously with the center screen's 4:1 HD version.
Finally, PMG also provided a version of the video in SD 4:3 format directly to Sun Microsystems for downstream distribution.
From a production standpoint, Pedersen says creating content in HD is enormously beneficial because of all the downstream flexibility. "As an acquisition format, it makes all the sense in the world. When you shoot in HD, you have the capability of putting it up on a large screen and then distributing it at a lower resolution for downstream marketing purposes if you need to."
As for the value of using an all-HD production package for live events, Pedersen and Hennegen are equally enthused. "There's no question that the clients loved it," Pedersen says. "But whether people will be willing to pay for it remains to be seen. But from my perspective, it's where shows will go, and need to go, as quickly as possible. We are certainly going to do everything we can to try and move our clients into an HD world."
Stephen Porter is a freelance writer who has been covering video, graphics, and digital content creation technologies and applications for more than 16 years.
While Video Applications tackled the video for Sun's JavaOne Developers Conference, its audio division, Audio Applications, tackled the audio, relying heavily on a line-array speaker approach.
"Hall D is a wide room — we had to have even and intelligible coverage for a very large audience. We couldn't spend days hanging speakers," says Audio Applications' executive VP/COO, Darrell Hennegen. Instead, his team chose to take advantage of the long throw distances of line arrays.
"Line arrays are driving the industry right now," Hennegen says. "They allow you to hang fewer cabinets, and they throw further. But they are long throws, not necessarily wide throws."
Ten JBL Vertec 4888 vertical stack line arrays covered the depth of the room, while eight L'Acoustic ARCS horizontal line arrays were used for the wide center fill, as well as for fill on either side of the stage.
Two Apogee AE5 units were used for down-fill between the JBLs and the ARCS, while six Apogee SSM speakers were used for front-fill. Rounding out the audio scheme were 25 Apogee AE5 delay speakers used to service the rear of the audience.
"The rear of the audience could have been supported with more powerful JBL line array speakers, which can easily throw that far," explains Hennegen. "But that would have created considerable slap-back, or echo, in the room. Therefore, we trimmed the JBL line array coverage to fall off 50ft. before the back wall and used the smaller delay speakers to provide sound in that part of the house."


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Bill E Bob, I found that little sucker too, man is it hard to see. Makes all the difference in the world! For those who haven't found it yet, it is in the same block as Board Index, all the way to the right and is just a little to the right of the h in Advanced search. Looks like a minature fly speck on my monitor. Really helps though.
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The font character is not really a fly speck.. but is a Capital A with an up and down caret to either side of it.. It is hard to see for us older folks...
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Rudi, I tried to copy the page with the fly speck for the fonts and when I highlighted it, the A with the up and down buttons show perfectly. Not so when not highlighted, still looks like a fly speck on a 15" monitor with the black and white color formatting.
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It would be nice if it would stay that way, once you've enlarged the font.
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I just tried the font sizing.. works nice. Not sure how to keep it. Going to go check the UCP and see what is there..
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Now you guys have a problem that I don't have, mine stays as I put it. Don't know what the heck is going on. There is a little delay when you first open something, small original fonts, but it then immediately changes to my selection. WHY?????????????????
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In almond orchards from Red Bluff to Bakersfield, trees of every age and variety, on Class One soils and hillside clays, flood irrigated, and on drip, are collapsing and dying in greater numbers than has been seen in decades. In some cases, entire orchards succumb.
The killer: Phytophthora fungi. Generally associated with heavy soils and excessive moisture, such as trees doused by sprinklers, Phytophthora cause crown and root rot, but some species (there are many) attack trunks and scaffolds as well.
Phytophthora fungi have long been known to be the leading killers of almond trees, but the extent of damage in recent years and the unusual occurrences have growers and tree experts alike scratching their heads over causes and prevention there is no cure once the dreaded organisms set to work.
Strange Patterns
Consider what Joe Connell, Butte County farm advisor has seen in recent years. "It's showing up more now, and in young nonbearing trees as well as in bearing orchards," he observed. "Last year we had aerial Phytophthora with more pruning wound Phytophthora and above-ground cankers. This year it's mostly root and crown rot."
A "surprise" to Connell, the disease in his area is as common in traditional orchard soils around Chico and Durham as it is on newly-planted, marginal soils. Which is not the case in Glenn and Colusa counties, says John Edstrom, farm advisor for the central Sacramento Valley. "It's more of a problem in the marginal soils of the west side of the valley, and with young trees," he says. "We have a significant amount in one- to four-year-old orchards."
Edstrom's seen entire orchards of 30 to 40 acres die. Typically,though, it's 10 to 15 percent of a young orchard that has to be removed. "We used to think 1 to 3 percent was typical, but it has doubled and tripled in the last four years," he notes.
Down south, Mario Viveros, Kern County farm advisor, first began noticing Phytophthora invasions in orchards around Shafter, a dozen miles northwest of Bakersfield. "That was two years ago," he recalls, "and every year it has gotten worse." What puzzles him, and others who have observed the phenomenon, is the disease's widespread occurrence in well-managed, older, otherwise healthy orchards on sandy soil that are flood, sprinkler and low volume irrigated, and that have no history of Phytophthora outbreaks.
"What I saw looked like Phytophthora, but is was very unlikely because of the well-drained soil and flood irrigation," he said, "and we just don't get Phytophthora in Kern County."
They do now, observes Gerry Guthrie, Blue Diamond® field representative for the area. "It's showing up all over, in trees from 3 years to 20 years old and, oddly, usually in the crotch where there are no wounds," he said.
Once the symptoms appear _one-inch, light-orange gum balls on the trunk or scaffolds _ a tree lasts about a season and a half before it collapses, usually in mid-summer when it can't draw enough water past the damaged tissue to support itself, says Viveros.
While the total count of trees lost in the area isn't great yet, individual growers have suffered heavy losses. Now, the "fear factor" has set in, said Guthrie, because the disease is showing up everywhere and in the least likely blocks. The concern is, he said, "How many trees will we lose?"
Search for Why
No one knows for certain why Phytophthora is on the increase in the southern end of the valley. Viveros says work is underway to determine that, but he has some ideas.
Kern County has a lot of mature orchards, Viveros notes. "When a tree gets to be 12 to 14 years old, it forms deep pockets at the crotch where the main scaffolds come together. These pockets collect leaves, nuts and, in a wet year, a significant amount of moisture, creating ideal conditions for Phytophthora. The recent outbreaks of the disease were, perhaps, related to the heavy rains of 1994, '95 and '96 and those ideal conditions."
He observes that the heaviest-hit orchards are 14 years old or older, which tends to confirm his theory.
After digging through old texts on the disease, Viveros found a 1947 circular, number 103, Almond Culture in California, that seemed to confirm his suspicions. The circular advised growers to prune their young trees in a way that would avoid the creation at maturity of deep pockets where the main scaffolds meet the trunk of the tree. "There was a big emphasis on staggering limbs up and down the tree to avoid forming a water pocket," he relates. "I thought it interesting that it was a concern back in the Forties."
Careful tree training is as good an idea today as it was a couple of generations ago, says Viveros. "One of the best things a grower can do when training his trees is to stagger the limbs. It creates a stronger tree and it helps prevent disease."
"Proper tree training is extremely important," Viveros emphasizes. "Too often growers assign the job to unskilled people. It's scary to think that they are putting that big of an investment in their future, really _ in the hands of minimum wage workers. In the old days, tree pruners were special people. Growers were extremely particular about how their trees were pruned. Maybe we need to go back to that. To do otherwise is to put the productive lives of our trees in jeopardy."
Wind A Factor
In Butte County, Connell blames the wind as well as the rain for the harder hit that growers in his area are taking from Phytophthora this year. "Heavy winds in December whipped and flexed our trees, creating depressions in the soil around the base of the trunks," he explains. "Intense rains in February and March filled those depressions with water that the Phytophthora could breed in and launch their attack on the trunk and main roots." That plus soil that remained saturated for long periods contributed to this year's outbreak of Phytophthora, he conjectured.
Marginal Ground Chancy
In Edstrom's area, Phytophthora is primarily a problem in young orchards, and largely of the root and crown rot varieties. "We have a significant amount of it in one- to four-year-old orchards," he observes. "It began showing up in significant amounts in the last two years."
Edstrom attributes the increase to two leading causes: standing water and poor underground drainage. "First, excessive rains in recent years saturated soils and created surface puddles, raising the likelihood of spores germinating and infecting trees," he explained. "Second, new plantings have expanded into nontraditional orchard areas, usually on heavier soils that are less well drained and that have unknown subsurface drainage characteristics. Some of these areas had saturated soils for long periods."
Many of the new plantings in Edstrom's area are in foothills on the west side of the Sacramento
Valley. "While surface drainage is relatively good, as might be expected in hilly terrain, pockets and low spots pose a problem and subsurface drainage can be unpredictable," Edstrom said. "It appears that a hidden phenomenon is at work in some areas in which an underground sheet of water slowly seeps out of the hills, taking months to finish draining." This leaves tree roots under stress for an extended period, he said, setting orchards up for disease.
What Can A Grower Do?
According to IPM for Almonds, once you have the disease in an orchard, chances are that it will remain. Eradication is impossible and most species of Phytophthora will eventually kill a tree. Some species will cause a tree to slowly decline, others will cause it to suddenly collapse in spring or early summer with the arrival of warm weather. The severity and rate of disease development depends in part upon the rootstock and the species of Phytophthora involved.
Slow decline results from roots infected by species that attack feeder roots, IPM for Almonds explains. Other species attack roots en masse, causing the entire root system to decay and rapid death of the tree. Trees with crown rot infections usually decline rapidly. If invaded in the fall, they can be girdled by spring. Their stored energy will produce blossoms and leaves, but when the weather turns warm and water is needed from the roots, the tree quickly dies. Trunk and branch cankers caused by Phytophthora grow rapidly. However, trunk cankers stop growing during high summer temperatures, resuming their growth when conditions are more favorable. When conditions become less favorable for root rot fungi, infected trees are sometimes able to grow new roots and recover.
All Phytophthora species (there are at least 11) that attack almond trees are soil-borne fungi, according to IPM for Almonds. They are present throughout the almond-producing regions of the state, although they may not infest every orchard, nor do all species occur in all soils. They require free water to reproduce and infect a host.
IPM for Almonds notes that Phytophthora do not require wounds to infect a tree. The fungi enter a tree where infested, waterlogged soil or flood water touches the root, crown or trunk. If the pathogen is present in water used to sprinkle-irrigate an orchard, it may enter the trunk or branches where water collects.
No chemicals are registered for use on this disease in producing orchards, which focuses attention on orchard management and disease prevention. IPM for Almonds offers the following management guidelines:
Water Management:
Proper water management is the most important aspect in controlling root and crown rot. Water should not be allowed to accumulate or stand around crowns of trees. Low spots in the orchard, areas that flood frequently, and places where water penetration is poor should be provided with adequate drainage or left unplanted.
To protect the trunk and scaffolds from infection, use low-angle sprinklers and remove weeds from around the base of the trees. Weeds tend to maintain high humidity and provide a favorable environment for disease development.
Edstrom adds that the most dangerous times for infection are March/April and October/November, so one should avoid irrigating then unless the soil is dry. Young trees are the most vulnerable to infection, he notes, so make certain water doesn't puddle at the bases of these trees. He advises refilling soil pockets at the bases of trees caused by trunks bending in the wind. Consider double-staking such trees to prevent recurrence.
Avoid Spreading Infection:
Be careful not to introduce the pathogen into uncontaminated soil by infected plant material, infested irrigation water, or contaminated soil on farm equipment.
Planting Guidelines:
If you are replanting an area where Phytophthora is present, plant trees on small mounds, as shallowly as possible, or on broad ridges with the upper roots near the soil level. Establish berms before planting. The ridges should be 8 to 10 inches high. Planting depth after settling should be no deeper than in the nursery, and the graft union should be well above the soil line.
Tolerant Rootstock:
Use a rootstock that has some tolerance for Phytophthora. Of the rootstocks used in almond orchards, almond is the most susceptible to crown and root rot, followed by almond X peach hybrids, Nemaguard, and Lovell. Marianna 2624 is the most tolerant.
Edstrom notes that high demand for new trees has reduced availability of the more popular choices of varieties and rootstocks. Lovell peach has been the preferred rootstock in the Sacramento Valley, given its reputation for having slightly higher tolerance of wet soil conditions than Nemaguard peach. But Edstrom thinks this reputation may not have any practical value.
Tests on layered-clay soil at Nickels Lab in the Sacramento Valley showed Nemaguard to out-yield Lovell. "If Nemaguard competes with Lovell under these difficult conditions, maybe it should be considered for more widespread use when Lovell supplies are tight," he says. All commercial almond varieties are compatible on both Lovell and Nemaguard, and cultural requirements are basically the same, he adds.
He recommends against switching from Lovell to peach/almond hybrid rootstock, unless the soil is deep and light-textured. Marianna might substitute for Lovell on fine-textured soils or where wet conditions are common, he says, but some almond varieties are either incompatible (Nonpareil) or risky (Butte and Monterey) on M2624. Almonds on M2624 produce smaller, shorter-lived trees and are subject to graft union disorders, including brown line and mild etch, he notes.
The choice of rootstock becomes more of a gamble as growers move out into marginal soils and areas not heretofore planted to almonds, says Edstrom. "Lovell and Nemaguard have been the mainstays for many years, but that was in the best soils."
Joe Connell has seen good results with Marianna rootstock in new orchards in Butte County. "We haven't had much problem with Phytophthora in these orchards," he says. "They are planted on Marianna plum root, on mounds, in marginal soils, and they are doing okay."
Edstrom suggests removing, narrowing or avoiding altogether intercrops where Phyto- phthora infections occur.
Preventive Treatment:
While no chemicals are registered for treatment of Phytophthora, two _ Alliete and Ridomil, are approved as preventive treatments in non-bearing orchards. It isn't clear how effective they are, but it may be worth trying them.
While Phytophthora is causing heartache in many orchards this year, future infections may be prevented or at least minimized by following the above suggestions.


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I read feed back a few months ago on another forum, member was very happy with the results. If my memory serves me right, was using 1.5mL every other day of this brand.
Anyone tried the stack??? Feedback would be great!
If all goes well with my current cycle with them, I think I'm going to run their cut stack with their sustanon. Seems like it would be a nice mix.
Their prices are great. I'm optimistic on the quality.
cutstack worked great for me...i was running about 1ml ED and after a few days some sides started to arise...thinking i should have done 1ml eod lol...sweating like a nut at the gym, cardio became very difficult and some strange reason i kept getting itchy...decided to stop, pct and gather myself and go at it again after a couple weeks off
i seen those mass specs yesterday too...how disappointing
Thats fucking terrible.I just told my buddy these guys have a good reputation it seems and so he bought 5 bottles of Test E. This sucks to hear. Waiting to hear what they gotta say bout this. If this is true, they should be banned for life. No fucking stories about it being just a bad batch. Complete garbage in those vials or worse.
Guess you should have told him to order from Crimson. He may be ok with the test e though.
Looks like they at least ran the oil through the tren filter to get 5% out of it.... at least we know they are efficient at cleaning filters....
They actually sent me my products I ordered with my credits. I brewed the test cyp and it is the smoothest thing I've pinned since EQ. That actually worries me a little or maybe my recipes are getting better.....I ordered a labmax kit at least it will tell me if there is hormone in there. I was curious if 5% tren would even show up on a labmax test....5% tren man....wth..not even test prop in there? Or double the prop to fake the masteron??? I mean cmon.
the problem is that you can trust nobody, there is huge problem with powder coming from China, suppliers are changing all the time. If gear was good a few months ago it can be bunk today


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Thanks to constant advancements in digital technology, everyone can record at home, and everyone can own a studio. But while many settle for an eggbox-clad bedroom setup (a myth we'll debunk later), there is another way…
Build your own professional-quality recording studio. Yes, it's a Mohammed-style mountain to move and will require a sizeable investment of both time and money (and plasterboard) but the results could be priceless.
So, courtesy of MusicRadar.com here are the 11 most-important factors to consider when building your own studio. From soundproofing to floating floors to, er... breathing.
Step 1: Location, location, location
The first consideration when contemplating building a studio is where to build it. At this stage it's important to consider just how loud you're going to be (especially your drum kit) and how viable soundproofing is for your situation.
For example, converting a garage in your garden will probably leave a decent amount of space inside after soundproofing, with minimal noise escaping. However, a room in a house or flat may be impossible to soundproof completely and leave you unreasonably cramped after doing so.
Step 2: Let in the light
You know it's working if you clap in a bathroom or kitchen and then walk into your treated room. Your claps will sound smaller, closer to you, and more singular.
Poster board can make great diffusers if it's bent into arches, the shape makes it strong, like a speaker cone. see: http://www.instructables.com/id/Sound-defusingdampening-wall-with-posterboard/
A layer of Sheetblok is not going to provide enough soundproofing, you need more than that. Why not use QuietRock. It is a soundproofing drywall which works way better than many layers of standard drywall. I am sure if you need to isolate the music from any extraneous sounds, just Sheetblok is not going to be enough.
1. You have to find paint that will not react with the foam and eventually flake off.
2. You would have to compare the bed foam to acoustic foam, not sure if it is open celled or closed, may have different sound properties.
3. You should check into the fire hazard thing, there was the Rhode Island nightclub tragedy when the non-approved acoustic foam caught on fire from stage pyrotechnics. Lining the walls with ignitible foam is not a good idea.
I'm all for building a cheap studio but do it safe. Good luck.
bulding a studio would be irtresting but seting off pyrtechnics inside of it would be kind of a like a scam using arson as a means to collett on a home oners policies.
Dude get real and yes for b) I am a bit harsh but but it is justafide !
"NB: You may want to line the inside of the Rockwool on the intake box to stop particles being dragged in by the fan"
Although to be honest, that sounds like it'd be killing the fun ;)
Great Job and Thanks for Sharing.
For those of us in the US, mineral wool is what we now call insulation. Usually it is pink and made from spun fiberglass. There are other materials used and you can get it in different grades and densities.
I've never heard the word 'eggbox' before. If anyone tried to deaden a wall with actual egg boxes or egg cartons made from recycled paper or Styrofoam, they were probably experimenting. If they weren't very particular and were not measuring the damping quality of the room, they were probably very satisfied with it. We talk about 'egg crate' as a general shape for various foam products. The egg crate foam is generally shaped with bumps and dips which resemble the shape of egg containers. One common use for egg crate shaped urethane foam is as a bed topper. Those are very good at damping sound reflections. The professionals use actual conical and pyramidal shaped foam of varying length. I've seen them about a foot deep (although I didn't measure them).
That is an awesome space. Good job on the Instructable.
Otherwise, great 'ible! Though I can't use this myself, I know several people who could. You've just contributed to world peace! :)
The studio is *so* not DIY, it was built by WhiteMark associates, same people who built RealWorld Bath, and I just don't think you should have used the photo without asking. It gives a misleading impression.
A more suitable quote would be:
"Be patients! The Great Wall didn't got build in one day!"
-Direct quote from my fortune cookie last week.
Just kidding -- that's a fantastic cookie! Totally off-topic to the Instructable, but made me laugh.Thanks for sharing!


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From: "Newman Garry G GS-12 USAFE CSS/SCOM" [private]> Add to Address Book
To: "'Beverly VA'" [private]>, "Newman Garry G GS-12 USAFE CSS/SCOM" [private]>
CC: "Rogers Rebecca S GS-12 USAFE CSS/SCXC" [private]>
Subject: RE: Beverly Nelson
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:55:03 +0200
Bev is ok. Das ist gud.
-----Original Message-----
From: Beverly VA [mailto:[private]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:46 PM
To: [private]
Subject: Beverly Nelson
Hey Garry, I am ok. But, it was deja vu of OKC all
over again. Tell Becky and Shannon that I send my
love. Please pass this email on to them.
Your Pal,
From: "Martin Jo A Civ 72 CS/SCMC" [private]> Add to Address Book
To: "[private]'" [private]>
Subject: Thank God You're Safe!
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:05:23 -0500
Good Morning, Beverly,
Roland was kind enough to forward you message to Marilyn Braxton, and
she in
turn forwarded it to the rest of us. We were all so happy to hear you
safe and okay. Thanks so much for keeping in touch with the 38th, who
turn keeps the rest of us in the loop. What a network!
God continue to be with you,
Jo Ann
-----Original Message-----
From: Beverly VA [mailto:[private]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 7:01 AM
To: Millette Roland D Civ 38 EIG/GF
Cc: [private]
Subject: This Is Beverly
Good Morning Roland,
Still on telephone stand by. Air quality is poor in
parts of the bldg. My office is in the 10th on the
"1st" floor, directly under the concourse (under the
My next door neighbor's office is in the 8th. Areas
bad are 2-6. Poor girl is a nervous wreck, they told
her to come back when she was ready. I am going to go
over and talk to her when she returns from dropping
her daughter off at school. She is feeling like we
felt after the bombing. I am holding up. I realize
now that I was in shock on Tuesday. People had asked
me did I hear or feel anything and I said no. One of
my co-workers told me that I had said "What was that?"
So, I actually did hear and felt the impact of the
crash. Then there was a lot of commotion in the hall
way and that's when we evacuated.
Celeste is in ACOT, so she is very safe! Celeste: I
called Deidre on Wed and told her if she needed
anything or if she needed to talk to call me. She
sounded very good and strong.
Thank everyone for their concerns and prayers. I have
received individual emails from different folks. I
miss you all.
Talk to you soon.
Email Date:13 Sep 01
Email To:roland Millette, Garry Newman
Email From:Beverly(Nelson)Webster
Email Cc:Celeste Richardson
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