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When someone first starts the altogether goofy endeavor of playing bike polo, they nearly always look as foolish as can be. There's so much to consider: the mallet, the bike, the wall that is APPROACHING OH MY GOD HOW DO I AVOID THAT WALL?! and so forth.
And it's so easy for those of us who have been playing for a while to suppress those memories to the same dark, secret corner of our minds that hold the memory of Uncle William drunk while dressed up as a clown and that time we peed ourselves in front of the classroom in 5th grade. Same event, actually.
But it's a horrible thing for us to forget, as you'll hopefully get new players and you'd be able to help them learn faster than you did if only you're willing to take some time to teach them.
It's with this in mind that I present a few practice drills that our dear Horse has developed to help newer players learn the basics of the sport. Keep in mind: these are probably boring as hell to more seasoned players, but to newer or less skilled players, they are well worth the effort.
Point in fact, I learned while going through these little maneuvers that I could certainly stand to work on my turning and comfort in doing so quickly. So maybe even the more experienced players should give a try to some of these just to be sure that they aren't themselves missing out on basic bike polo skills.
1. The Simple Circle/The Figure 8
The premise of this one is simple, as described in the name. Get two cones/bags/whatevers and put them about four bike lengths apart. Then just have your students (or yourself) ride around going one direction. Then go the other direction. Try to turn as closely to the bags as possible. start slow and then speed up until you don't feel like you can comfortably go any faster (to start).
Next, keep the bags exactly where they are, but cross in-between them (making a figure 8). Do the same thing as before: start slow and then speed up a bit. These two exercises are teaching you how to turn effectively, which is a skill you definitely need to have on lock down.
2. Three bag figure 8
Now spread out those two bags a bit more and add a third. Try threading through the three bags, now. staying as close to the three bags as you pass them. Essentially, the first bag you pass will be on your left, then the next one on your right, and the last on your left again. You're weavin, baby!
This will teach you to be comfortable with your bike working alongside momentum and speed, as you should try to do this one as quickly as possible. Again, do this by trying to stay as close to the bags as possible.
3. You'll feel drunk
Now get just one bag (hell, make it your own!) and try to circle around it going both directions, mallet in hand. Try keeping your back wheel as close to the bag as possible. While doing this, figure out a place to vomit.
A few notes here:
- Keep your pedals even (not one down and one up) when going through the three bag figure 8. By keeping your pedals even you are more ready to start pedaling once you clear the obstacle.
- When going around a turn (in the simple circle and figure 8), keep the pedal on the side your turning into up. it stabilizes your weight and reduces the chance of a pedal strike.
- If you feel like your front end is wobbling/bawking while doing this, try putting as much weight as you can on your saddle. By doing this, you're taking weight off the front end of your bike, which reduces that twitch.
This is a fairly simple but super useful drill. One player (without a mallet) acts as the rabbit, and another player (with a mallet) acts as the fox. We will not ask what that second player says.
The first person rides around while turning, stopping, accelerating, and slowing–basically any kind of move to shake the second person (the fox) from staying just behind them.
The second person tries to stay as close to the person's back wheel as possible, using their mallet to tap the rabbit's wheel (signifying that they are within a striking distance.
Do this one for a while (five minutes or so) before switching roles.
Being able to pursue someone effectively without getting out of position is a terrific skill to have for players of any level. By practicing this outside of a game, you're more likely to actually learn than just respond, and you'll find yourself less likely to run into the back of someone who decided to pause.
Ball Control
1. Hesitation Blues
Set up bags at intervals (the actual spacing isn't important as long as there is room for good acceleration between the bags). Next, get a ball and start at one of the bags. Try to pedal as fast as you can while still controlling the ball, and then (at the next bag), stop moving while still possessing the ball. Pause for a few seconds, and then pedal up the the next bag (again, while the ball is still in your control.
This is a great exercise for a few reasons: you're building up your off-the-line acceleration, you're working on fast mallet control, and you're working on making the ball obey you rather than you obeying it. You're also learning how to throw off people who are in pursuit of you, which is a fancy trick to have.
2. Learning to Shoot
If there is one thing that newer players struggle with, it's shooting. This exercise takes at least one person who has already figured out shooting to help out, but it's very advantageous.
Line up as many balls as you can, and then (starting away from them), pedal up and hit the ball as straight as possible. Don't worry about power, worry about good contact.
The second person stands parallel to the balls on your mallet side. They're trying to observe what you're doing right and wrong (are you swinging too early/late, are you moving away from the ball, etc.
Once you make good progress here, move to starting with the ball, moving it up the court/area you're at, and then shooting. Again, a second person watches you to make suggestions.
This exercise is one you should really be doing the entire time you play bike polo. For one thing, most people have plenty of room to improve. For another, it just feels awesome to hit the ball.
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Top of the List: The pope gives notice and grammy fashions
Here are the stories people were buzzing about on February 11, 2013.
1. THE POPE GIVES NOTICE: An historic move is sending worldwide ripples through the Catholic Church. For the first time in 700 years, a pope is resigning. Pope Benedict XVI, 85, says he lacks the strength to fulfill his duties. He will officially step down on February, 28.
The List talked with America's foremost expert on the Catholic Church, Rocco Palmo. He's the author of the blog Whispers in the Loggia.
"He's going to be remembered for resigning. He's going to be remembered for bringing the church into a new era where a Pope can say, you know if I don't have it in me any more I can't do the job," said Palmo.
At the time Pope Benedict XVI was elected nearly eight years ago, he was 78 making him the oldest Pope elected in 300 years. A conclave of Cardinals will gather 15 – 20 days after his resignation to begin the process of selecting a new pontiff.
2. DOUBLE WEATHER WHAMMIE: While the northeast digs out from a blizzard, people in Mississippi are cleaning up from a tornado. That storm system is now moving up the east coast where it could combine with a second storm system to create another noreaster. Meteorologist Amy Murphy explains what could happen saying "Cold air to the north, warm moist air to the south, the air masses clash so you never know. We could have another issue on the east coast much like we did last weekend."
Adding insult to injury, folks in the northeast are also dealing with another concern. Warmer temperatures and rain could add significant weight to the snow already piled on roofs causing them to collapse.
3. DRESSING TO DAZZLE: We all tuned into the Grammy's for the musical performances, but fashion shared the limelight. Forget hologram Tupac, check out Carrie Underwood's dress! The white ball gown's skirt acted like a giant movie screen while she sang 'Blown Away'. The best country song winner had to stand in a specific spot on stage for the digital slideshow to work. Also drawing attention, rap producer and Grammy winner 'The Dream', for his Boyz in the Hood cap. Fellow winner JayZ joked that it looked like it came from a swap meet. It actually came from the novelty store Spencer's. And bringing sexy back for a second time, Justin Timberlake sported a 'suit and tie'. The singer, actor, dancer, fashion designer definitely classed up the show with his rat pack look.
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Indiana State Police say the crash occurred Friday as traffic slowed for cleanup from an earlier crash.
A 2013 Freightliner hauling auto parts failed to slow and struck a semi in front of it, sending that semi into a Brinks truck. The driver of the Freightliner was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Regina I. Woitczak, 83, 125 Georgia St. N., died Thursday, July 20, 2000, at St. Michael's Hospital.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Peter Catholic Church with the Rev. Robert Schaller officiating. Burial will be in Guardian Angel Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Pisarski/Dzikoski Funeral Home. St. Peter's Rosary Society will combine with the general rosary at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Woitczak was born Oct. 20, 1916, in the town of Sharon, a daughter of the late Peter and Elizabeth (Yach) Grzywacz. She attended McKinley School and Sacred Heart Catholic School in Polonia.
She was married to Felix J. Woitczak on May 24, 1941, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Polonia. He died March 19, 1987.
After their marriage, they settled in Stevens Point, locating at their present address in 1948.
She was employed at the Country Spa Restaurant and the Point Bakery until retiring in 1979.
She was a member of St. Peter's Rosary Society Rose #28.
Survivors include two sons, James J. Sr., Custer, and Theodore (Mary Ann), Stevens Point; five daughters, Mary (Jess) Cook, Rosholt, Caroline Smejkal, Wauwatosa, Theresa (Robert) Borski and Betty (Roger) Borski, both of Stevens Point, and Bonnie Bryden, Beloit; 14 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
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The Story Of Dried Fruits With Recipes From Sunland: The Great Central Valley Of California
The front cover is green with a drawing of a woman pouring raisins into her batter. The back cover has the same background and reads, "Printed in the USA," at the bottom. Includes a history of dried fruits.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Sun-Maid
Publisher: Sunland Sales Cooperative Association (Fresno, Calif.)
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Citation: The Story Of Dried Fruits With Recipes From Sunland: The Great Central Valley Of California. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=2929


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Based on the common escalations that I had handled for the fencing module in Veritas Cluster Server Product in the SAMG Division, one frequently visited aspect is to check the SCSI3 comaptibility the coordinator disks used for fencing.
As a best practice, it is always better to run the vxfentsthdw utility to check if the intended coordinator disks are infact, SCSI3 compatible. This step is a pre-requisite before installing/configuring fencing module in 'enabled' state for SCSI3 mode or 'customized' mode provided atleast one SCSI3 disk is involved.
However in some cases especially scenarios for array qualification, we have noticed that vxfentsthdw returns success because the underlying VxVM-DMP module returns success even if the intended operation did not succeed. Hence to make sure such scenarios are not applicable in your environment, it is better to run the following commands, in addition to running vxfentsthdw utility on the coordinator disks:
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- vxfenadm -m -k <key> -f <diskpath> -- Reserves a key on the disk mentioned through the path
- vxfenadm -g all -f <diskpath> -- Should list the above key registered on the diskpath.
If the list of keys displayed through above command does not indicate <key> then the disks may not be completely SCSI3 compatible.
2. Remove key:
- vxfenadm -x -k <key> -f /etc/vxfentab -- Removes a registered key on the disk mentioned through the path.
- vxfenadm -g all -f <diskpath> -- Should list without the above key registered on the diskpath as key is removed with the previous step.
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Leonard Rosenbaum, President and Chief Executive Officer stated, "It has taken longer than expected, but the new facility will now enable the company to continue our growth. The new facility is over twice the size of our old facility and is laid out in a more productive working environment. The new facility allows us to bring under one roof our CVD / First Nano equipment manufacturing, Application Laboratory and CVD Materials Corporation."
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Do not look now, but everybody wants the same good credits and they are willing to create tomorrows profitability headaches by offering absurd pricing.
Even worse than the rate matching are the long terms at fixed rates offered by Farm Credit that will cause the next bloodbath of otherwise solid banks that decide to follow that move.
Enough already! It is time to remember those words your parents used to repeat, If all of your friends jumped off the cliff, would you? Of course not. So given that your most desperate competitors are likely to continue offering low pricing on long fixed terms, you have three choices:
Only one problem remains your lenders do not think it is possible to do the business without matching the rate. And you know what? With that belief system, they are right.
Not only do they have to shift their belief systems, but they also are going to need to radically shift their marketing and sales processes or they will prove that they can only do the business if they match the rate.
It is hard work to create a system that commands premium pricing from good credits. But as your mama used to say, a little hard work never hurt anybody especially if it is something worth doing. And lets face it collecting on bad loans is even harder work and not very life affirming.
So, what is the magic formula followed by lenders who are consistently getting 150 basis points more in this market against the craziest competitive moves?
Three Profit-Rich Loan Pricing Secrets of Banks Growing Net Interest Margin
Find the high-quality targeted psychographic markets that are least likely to be price sensitive. Lets be clear you want the marquee customers the ones everybody wants. And you want them at premium pricing. Period.
Where do you start? With psychographics. Define your ultimate best customers. Maybe it is second-generation farmers with more than 1,000 acres of owned land. Or maybe it is community-minded leaders with four-year degrees in agriculture. You can have several targets, but they must be tightly defined or the process does not work.
Please do not turn this top 100 definition process into a Mongolian goat rodeo. I recently talked with an executive who told me his bank had spent over a year in meetings with an outside firm at a substantial cost to determine its psychographic target markets. After a year, they still had not identified them and had not closed any business.
It should not take more than four hours to determine the psychographics of your current most-profitable customers. Then you just need to determine the vertical and horizontal markets that match that list.
The point is to determine the list and start adding value to that list within a week so that you can close 30 percent of that list of top 100 within a year.
That brings us to the next step Create unique selling propositions for each of the niche target markets.
If you do not have great unique selling propositions that speak to major ROI where you can get the prospect to tell you that what you have is potentially worth thousands or more in cost savings or additional revenue, you can expect to have your lenders come back with their tails between their legs sharing war stories of defeat while whining, They said we can have the deal if we match the rate of our competitor.
The purpose of a salesperson is to change the conversation to that of premium pricing. A computer can take a loan application it takes extreme talent and abilities to transform the conversation to one where premium pricing is a given.
You do not get there talking about amounts, terms, how long you have been in business or how good your service is. It is delusional to think that those are differentiators that will generate more business.
If you are sending your people out without a boatload of power-packed USPs for each clearly defined target market that rock your prospects world, you can expect to do a lot of rate matching until your net interest margin is on life support. And if they have the USPs but do not know how to use them in the sales process, it is just as bad as not having any.
This is the ABC formula for premium pricing and it is nearly impossible without following the formula explicitly.
Follow a proven step-by-step sales process designed to get 100150 basis points more every time.
The days of consultative selling are over. Almost no sales training in banks today even begins to make a dent in what needs to happen to get 150 basis points more.
It is not about traditional sales processes your people need to know how to get the prospect to tell you why your USPs can either save them or make them 10 times the premium pricing you are about to charge or more.
People never argue with their own logic. When they define the cost of not doing business with you and the financial impact of not having your USPs well let us just say that the competition does not stand a chance.
The beauty of following a clearly integrated marketing and sales process designed for premium pricing is that you will never hear those ugly little words, You will need to match the rate again.
Roxanne Emmerich is the author three books including New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Thank God Its Monday and Profit-Growth Banking. Get a step-by-step look at the proven, premium-pricing sales formula in her book Profit-Rich Sales. Download a free chapter at EmmerichFinancial.com/AGB. Contact Emmerich at Roxanne(at)emmerichgroup.com.
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An Interesting Moment With Bozak
IDS-25 Stereo Loudspeaker System
The Beginning
Interest in sound, for me, may have started as early as fourth grade when I was taking violin lessons. By ninth grade, I was a devoted listener to all kinds of classical music. In the early 1950's, good sound was hard to find and nothing seemed to accurately reproduce a violin. There were all kinds of speakers available and they were all lacking in one quality or another. There had to be something better. That was probably when I became a dedicated loudspeaker enthusiast.
While in high school, I was able save enough money to purchase my first serious hi-fi equipment: a Heathkit Williamson amplifier, University Diffusicone speaker, VM record changer and Cabinart baffle—and so it began. I built many different amplifiers and speaker systems after that in my search for better sound.
My first exposure to stereo reproduction was in the early 1950's to Emory Cook's binaural recordings and the AM-FM stereo broadcasts from WQXR in New York City that I received on a National Criterion Binaural tuner. I soon had a Viking FF-75 stereo tape deck and was making recordings of a Wurlitzer pipe organ at the Lowes Theater in New Rochelle, NY. At that time I was using Telefunken dynamic microphones. This was later followed with a Magnecord 728-44 professional recorder that I used to record a few concerts plus thunderstorms and even diesel trains at Harmon, NY.
In my pursuit of stereo sound over the years, I became what might be considered, obsessed with making loudspeakers systems that could more accurately reproduce all of the stereo information contained in recordings. In the early days of stereo, I remember the very popular 1960 recordings of Enoch Light's "Persuasive Percussion." Some instruments came from the left speaker and others from the right speaker. Although this might be referred to as a stereo recording and certainly made use of left and right images, it didn't seem to fit my quest for the best stereo sound. I think it did serve as an effective introduction to stereo sound at that time where listeners heard the novelty of a different instrument coming from each speaker.
After graduating in 1959 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY with a degree in Electrical Engineering, I gained experience while working as an engineer in the Audio Products Section of the Sonotone Corporation in Elmsford, NY--a well known manufacturer of hearing aids and other audio products. I spent 8 years there designing a new line of loudspeakers and microphones. I also wrote my first two magazine articles about a stereo volume expander-compressor and sealed speaker system design.
These systems were reported by Victor Brociner in Audio magazine, August 1969. The use of column speakers dates way back at least to the late 1950's and perhaps even earlier. They were used as public address systems because they could direct the sound over a wide horizontal angle and a very narrow vertical angle instead of dispersing it where sound was not wanted or needed. This reduced the amount of reverberant sound and increased intelligibility in large rooms and auditoriums. It also reduced the possibility of acoustic feedback to the microphone. The response did not cover the entire frequency range but was more than adequate for voice range and even music of moderate quality. The sound was much superior to PA horn systems.
Besides having all the drivers radiate the same frequency range, there can be many other variations for driver sizes, column curvature and electrical control. In response tapering, for instance, the whole frequency range can be radiated by the center speakers and the highs electrically attenuated by increasing amounts from driver to driver as they progress away from the center driver. This will broaden the vertical dispersion. Most of my work has been in straight columns with the drivers all covering the same frequency range.
My interest in column speakers for the home began about 1961 while working at Sonotone. We needed a new set of speakers for the listening room to do listening evaluation of phonograph cartridges. I had recently auditioned a pair of Bozak B-4000 systems, also known as Symphony 1. Each system had 2-12" woofers an 8" mid-range and a column of eight tweeters that started down from the top. The dimensions were 44" high, 27-13/16" wide and 16" deep. The price of this Modern design in oiled walnut was $495. An alternate style featuring a double-arch design sold for $510.
The B-4000 was very favorably reviewed in the Decmber 1965 issue of High Fidelity magazine. The tweeter arrangement was referred to as a "line radiator and the array of drivers is fed into a narrow opening, or slot, which—because of its inverted taper, helps spread the highs and load them to the room with a broad and smooth dispersion pattern."
The systems were made in mirror pairs with the tweeter columns at the inside. I was taken by the imaging ability of the column but had to be seated so that I was within the height of the enclosure and fairly close to the systems. Unfortunately, management decided not to purchase them and, of course, they were too expensive for me to buy at that time.
During my employment at Sonotone, from 1959 t0 1967, I enjoyed going on Audio Engineering Society tours. One of them was to the Bozak factory and meeting Rudy Bozak. I was very surprised to see how the cones were made—a handful of "glop" was dropped into a bucket of water with a perforated conical form at the bottom. After the "glop" settled the cone was pulled out with a wire attached to the center of the form and behold, there was a beautiful Bozak cone. It was smooth in the front except for the tiny drain holes but was very rough on the back. This probably helped reduce cone breakup when in operation. The ingredients of the "glop" were proprietary but apparently there was animal hair, tar and who knows what else, but it worked well. I can't imagine how much time it took to arrive at the best formula.
Rudy did not adhere to the acoustic suspension principle. In fact, in his 1970/71 "The Bozak Dealer" newsletter he denounced air suspension combined with equalization to create big bass in a small box. Now, I just wonder if he was referring to the newly introduced McIntosh ML-1C and equalizer.
The text is as follows:
"We've been hearing a lot again about 'New Technology' in loudspeaker design. Nobody seems to know exactly what it means this time, but we gather that it refers to a mixture of so-called 'Air-Suspension' and 'Equalization' to create big bass in a small box. Neither of these techniques is really new and both have a questionable relationship to genuine High Fidelity. In evaluating the results of this 'new' technology you must keep in mind some basic characteristics of the speaker that control the quality of the sound. One of these is Resonance. To achieve low bass, the speaker must have a low resonant frequency.
Air Suspension systems (more accurately 'pneumatic restoration') employ a small box to present a very stiff rear load to the cone; to compensate for this; the designers increase the weight of the cone to achieve the desired low Resonance Frequency. With music you have percussive and other complex wave forms. These require excellent transient response in the speaker. A heavy moving system just isn't agile enough to follow transients. Its slow attack and delayed release ('hang-on') slur these evanescent components of music, as can be heard by experienced ears and demonstrated by oscillograms.
Then there's the matter of Bass Power. As is common knowledge, and as we have consistently emphasized, bass power varies with the volume velocity of air moved, and the lower the frequency, the more air moved, and the lower the frequency, the more air you have to move.
With a small box you can't displace enough air to develop good power in the lower frequencies. As an antidote for inadequate cone-size and cone-travel we are offered Equalization—which is, in the last analysis, not much different from the 'bass boost' that we have always had with tone controls. Old timers know that boosting the bass under these conditions increases distortion—and we have established by test that the increase is not just a few percent but can be as much as 1000%!. (For collateral reading see Bozak Dealer for May 1970, March 1968 and March 1967.)
You can't defy the laws of physics and produce an illusion—but that's a price we won't pay in a box of any size."
Never-the-less, the higher efficiency ML-1C woofer, with its 3/4 inch excursion woofer, outperformed his low efficiency 1/4 inch excursion woofer for both transients and volume velocity. The ML-1C produced only 3% distortion at 25 Hz with 100 watts input. That was more bass power than his woofer could handle.
Here's an ad for Bozak tweeters found in the April 1953 issue of Audio Engineering. The tweeters are 3-1/4" square. These are probably an earlier version of the tweeters later used in the B-4000. Later, I was able to test some of the early tweeters. They were very smooth out to 10 kHz but then cut off sharply.
A pair of tweeters was often mounted horizontally across the center of the 12" woofer. It was sort of like a coaxial speaker and offered the advantage of taking up less space on the front panel of the cabinet.
This page was supposed to be about my experience with column speakers but the Sweet Sixteen system deserves to be recognized and is indirectly related to column design. It appeared as an article by Jim Kyle in Popular Electronics, January 1961. The story described construction of a speaker system using sixteen 5-inch drivers arranged in series-parallel in a single enclosure. It was a new idea back then and was awarded The Best Hi-Fi Article of the year in the November 1961 issue of Popular Electronics. For months the author was deluged with mail, while manufacturers happily sold over 12,000 speakers for use in the Sweet Sixteens.
You might have guessed that I made one of these back then and you would be right. As with other readers, I was intrigued by the claims that with 16 drivers, response was flat to 20 Hz and that the excellent transient response in the mid-range was the major reason for the system's sweet sound. I was able to get sixteen drivers at a good price from Becker Electronics in East Durham, NY, our driver supplier for Sonotone at that time. I was not sure that I was able to hear those claims at that time or perhaps there were additional factors to be considered in how the system actually performed. No measurements were provided in the article.
I did find that the system lacked high frequencies. This was not unexpected because the driver response was limited at the higher frequencies. In April 1961, Jim had a second article published in Popular Electronics. This was titled "Sweeter with a Tweeter." He claimed that the original system would extend from below audibility to just less than 10 kHz and that a tweeter would extend the range to beyond 16 kHz. The tweeter was added between the top and second row of drivers at the center of the system. A tweeter level control was also used for the readers to set to their preference for highs. The picture shows a horn tweeter being installed.
Following this success, Jim wrote a third article titled "Stereo Sixteen Plus Four." This was another unusual design using eight 5-inch drivers and two tweeters per channel but having the two channels arranged in a single angled cabinet. The system was designed to face into the wall and, in fact, was recommended to be placed against the wall. All of the sound was then reflected from the wall. This arrangement looks similar to a Bose 901 but, of course, the Stereo Sixteen contained both channels.
It appears that in reply to the Sweet Sixteen article, James Novak at Jensen wrote a seven-page article titled "Performance of Series-Parallel Speaker Arrays" that was published in Audio Magazine in September 1961. It contained many charts and response curves and explained that there were expected losses at both high and low frequencies in the Sweet Sixteen arrangement due to driver spacing, driver directionality, etc., so it looked like there was more to the story than was first explained. However, many of the effects mentioned in the Novak article are also applicable to column design.
I also learned of the Orthophase flat panel speaker cell made in France. They could be stacked in a column of many cells. In July, 1961, I inquired to Mr. Georges Gogny in Paris, France about the specifications and cost for these drivers. These speaker cells were 4" X 8" and could be arranged in a column that would cover the frequency range from 1000 to 25,000 Hz. However, with the addition of more cells, the lower frequencies could be extended. Each cell had a diaphragm made of a thin, rigid, flat section of expanded, very light weight plastic foam. The magnet structure, in the left picture, was made up of ceramic magnets along raised steel strips so the conductive tape, in the right picture, lay in the strong magnetic field. The diaphragm was able to move uniformly back and forth. The impedance of each cell was 0.35 ohms. At that time, the cost for each cell was 212 N.F. or $42.50 each a plus the cost of importing. Unfortunately, a set of 16 cells was beyond my budget.
The Orthophase family of systems was reviewed in the December 1964 issue of High Fidelity magazine. The smallest system had a single cell and a dynamic woofer. Other systems had more cells. The systems did not have the cells arranged in a column but were side by side. The OR-12 had 12 cells and no woofer. The cells were arranged in a rectangle and the cabinet height was only 27 inches. That sold for $785. Because the cell impedance was so low, a matching transformer was necessary to present an 8-ohm impedance for the amplifier. The exception was the OR-12 that had no transformer. The cabinets were open back, similar to an electrostatic speaker system. The systems were only moderately efficient.
The opportunity to further investigate columns came with the need for higher power handling at high frequencies for McIntosh speaker systems. The time was about 1976, when I read about the Cylindrical Sound system of Harold Beveridge. This was an electrostatic column speaker, patent number 3,668,335 issued on June 6, 1972. This may have been the first single column that covered almost the entire frequency range.
In the Beveridge literature, it says "This 6-foot high device consolidated the entire frequency range into a vertical line source, and uniformly disperses it over a horizontal pattern, 180 degrees wide. The beaming characteristics of the high frequencies are ingeniously translated into the same dispersive pattern as the low frequencies, creating a perfectly balanced cylindrical sound wave front. The end result is flawless stereo fidelity in the home, and that, says Harold Beveridge with a grin, is what the last quarter of a century was all about as far as he was concerned."
An integral amplifier was located in the base and did require a cooling fan. Electrostatic speakers need high voltages to drive the diaphragm. The amplifier could deliver peak outputs greater than 1500 volt amperes into the speaker's capacitive load of 5000 pf. Response was claimed to be plus or minus 2 dB from 40 to 15kHz and over a wide angle of 180 degrees. The lowest useable output was 35 Hz. The system was 6-1/2 feet tall, 2 feet wide and depth was 16 inches at the center with 10 inches at the sides. The price was $4000.00. It was sold by Harold Beveridge Inc., 422 North Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. I was never able to hear a Beveridge system but had no doubts that it would have produced excellent stereo.
Infinity IRS
The Infinity IRS system appeared about 1980. It had a column of six 12-inch woofers, twelve flat ribbon mid-range drivers and thirty six flat ribbon tweeters. Twelve of the tweeters were facing to the rear, which automatically meant that the system could not be placed against the wall but must be located out in the room as it is shown in the picture.
The woofers were contained in a separate enclosure at the left. The system weighed 1200 pounds. It was was 90 inches tall and had a rosewood veneer finish.
XRT20 Long Column
Being hired by McIntosh to design speakers was the beginning of a dream come true. My first speaker design was for the ML-1C system. I designed an equalizer that was used in conjunction with an overdamped 12" woofer to produce flat response down to 20 Hz. No other speaker system could do this and I was awarded my first patent.
In the late 70's, after designing many different systems, an improvement was needed for more power handling at high frequencies. This was brought about by the higher power amplifiers that engineering kept coming up with and also the spectrum of rock music that contained more energy at the higher frequencies. Here was an opportunity to get into column systems.
At the same time, I was able to show management that the investment in our new large anechoic chamber was justified for further advancement in speaker research and design. It enabled Carl and I to measure the relevant parameters that go into the design of long, and later, short columns. It also provided a way to get a handle on what had been the elusive quality of reproducing depth and spaciousness.
I thought that a good solution for the immediate problem might be a column of 1" dome tweeters. It might be able to reveal images like what I had heard with the Bozak B-4000 and at the same time solve the problem of high power handling at high frequencies. The column for the first prototype was made in 1979 with twenty five Philips 1" soft dome tweeters that had a circular plastic mounting plate. The tops and bottoms of the plates were cut off to allow closer spacing of the domes. Later, we had custom rectangular plates made for this purpose. The tweeters were mounted on a board 1-1/2" thick and 10-1/2" wide. It was placed against the wall and ran from floor to ceiling in the listening room. The long columns avoided the requirement to be seated for best listening like with the B-4000. They also reduced floor and ceiling reflections. They each covered the frequency range from 1500 Hz to 20,000 Hz and provided outstanding imaging. They could be played very loud and we designed a suitable bass system to go with them--and so, the XRT20 was born, shown at the left. It was the first McIntosh column. It worked so well, I received two patents for the design. Although the tweeter column was designed to be mounted on a wall, a stand was also provided for those installations where wall mounting was not possible. After the XRT20 began production and my patents were issued, I received many notices from a patent research company concerning references to my arrangement of closely spaced drivers in a long column. This included Martin-Logan that made electrostatic systems. The XRT22 was a later version but was similar in design.
For further information see my XRT20 and XRT22 pages.
The XRT18 Short Column
The XRT18 was a short column system that we designed later but it was not an advance in accuracy over the long columns of the XRT20 and XRT22. The first prototype was vertically directional, as expected.
Although the short column was good for public address in large areas and had excellent directional properties for that use but vertical directionality was not desirable for a home system. The response changed when the listener was standing versus sitting. Although the column could be curved at one or both ends or bowed out in the center, this made for more awkward placement in the home, By keeping the column straight, it could still be hung on a wall or an optional stand.
One such solution to improve the vertical directionality is the use of power tapering where resistors are inserted in series with some of the drivers. Drivers at the extreme ends have the larger series resistors and smaller resistors are used as the drivers progress to the center where no resistors are used. As a result, the sound appears to come more from the center of the column when listening at the extreme ends. Because the center driver is the loudest, it handles the most power through its frequency range. Much of the power to the rest of the drivers is lost in heat through the series resistors reducing the efficiency of the column, particularly at the lower tweeter frequencies. This means for the same listening level, more power is needed.
Frequency tapering was another solution. A computer program was developed to incorporate variables of tweeter spacing, attenuation versus distance, directionality, number of tweeters, etc. It produced a formidable number of solutions. Even after streamlining the program to leave out solutions that would be of no value, it required the use of a Digital Equipment super computer and 91 hours of running time. That was a big deal in 1983 and 1984.Our computer generated crossover design was a unique solution to this problem by tapering the response from the center to the ends. This affected only the lower portion of the tweeter range and is not the same as the conventional lossy power tapering. Neither solution is as good as a long column because increased vertical dispersion increases floor and ceiling reflections as well as having lower power handling.
For further information see my XRT18 page.
The XR19 Curved Column
This system was designed to provide some of the benefits of power handling, imaging and spaciousness that the XRT20/22 systems have. It also eliminates the requirement for a separate tweeter column. It contains a column of twelve tweeters but it is located horizontally. If the line were straight, this short column would be very directional and listeners seated in the center position for stereo would hear very few highs in the center listening position. They would only be heard directly in front of the system and not off to the sides.
However, by rearranging the tweeters into a semi-ellipse, output can be maintained to the sides. Vertical response is inherently very good. Felt strips are placed above and below the tweeters to prevent edge reflections from above and below. Because the tweeters are located far above the floor, reflections are reduced.
The curved array is an alternate solution to providing good dispersion with a short horizontal column. This could have been done vertically but was not as practical for the home. The horizontal column also works very nicely at the top of an XRT20 cabinet. Although only 12 tweeters are used in the XR19, the power handling is still comparatively high at 150 watts of program material from 1.5kHz to 20kHz.
The system is shown with the top and bottom grille covers removed. The imaging and spaciousness of this system remains very good.
For further information see my XR19 page.
The XR290 Triple Column
The XRT20/22 tweeter column provided excellent imaging for the high frequencies but it also required a separate mid and bass cabinet. The combination took up a lot of floor space. By 1990, management was looking for a column system in a single cabinet and this led to a new design. This was my chance to add more woofers. Our first prototype was seven feet tall and 25" wide.
It contained a column of twenty-four 1" soft dome tweeters and a column of four 12" woofers. An 8" mid-range was located between the bottom and top two woofers. We soon found that sound bouncing off the floor from the mid-range interfered with the direct radiation. A second mid was added in the hope of canceling radiation to the floor, but this arrangement had a very restricted listening area.
Finally, it became obvious to add a column of twelve 5" mid-ranges which avoided the floor bounce problem altogether. We ended up with a triple column system, which was an expansion of the original tweeter column concept. The accuracy of this system was even better and was fascinating to listen to. It became the XR290, shown at the right. There was a total of 40 drivers but despite the number, it was only a 3-way system. It used the new McIntosh LD/HP woofers that had copper shorting rings above and below the pole piece and reduced distortion by a factor of 10.
I made the white system at the left after I left McIntosh using the original prototype parts and dimensions. The front of the prototype was not angled back and the tweeters were not spaced away from the mids. The cabinet was one piece as I never planned to ship this anywhere. The cabinets took a long time to make. I used fiberglass as the acoustic material instead of the fire retardant cotton that was used in production systems. I never did make grilles for these two systems.
Although I thought this system would be my last and final system at home, there was still some unfinished work that I never did complete while at McIntosh and early experiments at the lab were the beginning of what I really wanted.
In 1985, prior to the design of the XR290, Carl and I had experimented with combining the mids and highs into a single driver column that could extended response down to 150 Hz or so and provide even better imaging. However, the best of the so-called wide range drivers that we tested just didn't have wide enough dispersion or go high enough in frequency. More importantly, depth and spaciousness was minimal. The front view is at the left and the side view is at the right.
Later, a tweeter was added in the middle of the column to extend the range. Unfortunately, it did not handle any power and it broke the continuity of the column right at the seated listening height.
Along with four 10-inch woofers, we were essentially back to a 3-way system and with no high frequency power handling plus a discontinuous mid-range. It reminds me of the story told by Larry, The Cable Guy, about a man whose horse had broken a leg so he shot the horse because that is what you are supposed to do when this happens. Now he has a horse with a broken leg and a bullet wound.
Now that I think of it, this system looked a lot like the Beveridge system. Unfortunately, further research was abandoned because of immediate needs for other designs.
A Unique Wide-Range Single Column
Designed by Roger Russell
I left McIntosh in late 1992 and never created the system that I really wanted. It was curiosity that kept me thinking all this time about how it would sound. The success of my first column patent and the enthusiasm generated by customers for my earlier McIntosh designs using tweeter columns was encouraging. That led to the XR290 triple column and that was a step in the right direction. For me, this logically led to combining the whole frequency range into a single column of wide-range drivers and does away with those troublesome crossover networks. I could also use the experience gained with my second patent using equalization for low frequency compensation.
One of the problems of independent research and design is expense. Some drivers, although promising in response, were very expensive and a long column of them could cost well over $1000. That was a big financial risk to take to either confirm or disprove that my idea would work the way I had envisioned it. Thanks go to an email friend in Atlanta, who had seen my work on columns in October 2000. He had asked if I could recommend some drivers he had found. I tested a couple of them for him and for the 69 cent price, these 4-inch wide-range drivers worked well enough to test my theory. They were originally intended for use in television sets. It was a way to begin. I started construction in 2004.
During construction of the cabinets, I was visited by my friend the Black Racer who was supposed to be out in the yard patrolling for bugs and lizards—but then, what else could I expect when living in Florida?
Unlike the first system that Carl and I made in the lab, I made this enclosure very narrow. I had been resigned to adding a woofer to each column but that was the easy way out to extend the low end, I found that my patented method of equalization was a better approach to bring up the bass and also compensate for the inherent loss in the highs. Although this approach seems quite unreasonable, particularly for very small drivers, the science behind this is why it works--and very well I might add. The effective cone area is equal to two 12-inch woofers and there is a 10 dB of acoustic gain as well. These particular drivers, when combined with equalization, provide response from 25 Hz to about 15 kHz. Power handling is very high and imaging is outstanding. It also fulfills my goal of having only a single column of drivers to cover the whole frequency range. The cabinet size is 87-1/2" high, 6-1/2" wide and 9-1/4" deep without the base. I wrote an article about this first prototype system titled "A Unique Stereo Column System" that was published in audioXpress magazine in November 2005. The design includes two of my previous patents: speaker equalization and drivers arranged in a long column. Below is a picture of the system in my first article.
What is a line radiator anyway? It is not several lines consisting of woofers, mids and tweeters or any multiple lines or a line and a woofer. It is one line and all of the drivers radiate the entire frequency range with no other lines or add-ons. This is my invention and it works unbelievably well. The big surprise for those who have never heard such an unusual system is the tremendous bass output that is not expected from such little drivers but that is only the beginning of the surprises that the system brings.
The IDS-25 Stereo Loudspeaker System
After establishing that this idea could indeed work, I proceeded to make an updated system that was greatly improved and I used twenty five high-technology 3-1/2" drivers that provided better highs and lows, wider dispersion, smoother response and lower distortion. They were a lot more expensive and it was still a big risk but the results of my first system were too promising to ignore. I added a grille and some other features. With equalization, it went from 20 Hz to 18,000 Hz and beyond. It then had the listening qualities I have sought after for all of these years—accurate imaging, depth and spaciousness. I also discovered a bonus feature of outstanding coherence. My search for the right components and more accurate sound had been rewarded and I had achieved what might be the ultimate column system, that is, unless I came up with something even better, if that is possible. I wrote a second article about this revised design titled "Upgrading a Unique Stereo Column System" for audioXpress published in the July 2006 issue. It described my latest improvements.
A good wide-range driver is hard to find and I finally located one that has the qualities I was looking for.
Although this is called a 3-1/2 inch driver, the actual radiating diameter is only 2-1/2 inches. The basket is squared off on four sides allowing closer placement of the drivers. The metal cover in the rear contains the shielded magnet structure and extra reversed magnet. This eliminates stray magnetic fields. Shielding may not be as important today but could interfere with older TV sets having picture tubes.
I cut out the surround and spider of one to show the internal construction. One of the features I was looking for is the use of a copper shorting cylinder in the magnetic gap. This reduces distortion by as much as a factor of 10. The end of the cylinder can be seen in the center of the picture. The outside edge of the spider centering material is flat as opposed to a cup shape found in some woofers. A flat spider provides equal compliance in both directions.
Another feature is the long voice coil winding height. This provides a large amount of overhang resulting in a long linear excursion capability. The cone material is made of woven fiberglass. Past experience with cone and dome materials has shown that distortion is significantly lower with woven material that dissipates energy along the surface compared to rigid plastic or metal construction. It is also not sensitive to temperature and humidity changes like paper. The surround material is thin rubber and is not subject to disintegration like polyurethane foam. The total weight of the moving parts is only 2.5 grams, the same weight as a dime. That calculates out to be 0.088 ounces.
The second version was made several years ago and since then I have further refined the enclosure and equalizer. It has now become a marketable system with a professionally made custom equalizer and high quality enclosure and grille. The system is now known as the IDS-25. It was a big hit at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and received excellent reviews from several prestigious organizations. The system is somewhat radical in design and its excellent performance has dispelled doubts about the behavior of this sort of system that are not well understood. Needless to say, I have applied the same principles that the system must both measure good and sound good in order to qualify as an acceptable loudspeaker. This is now the most accurate speaker I have designed. It has revitalized my appreciation of classical music and the incredible sound has brought tears to my eyes more than I would like to say. The IDS-25 has replaced my McIntosh XR290 triple column system.
Several years have passed since my first listening experience to my single wide-range column system. I never cease to be amazed at the captivating sound, even in the first few seconds of listening. The sound quality becomes obvious seemingly regardless of the kind of program material that is played through them. Still, in the back of my mind, is the discrepancy between all of my years of conditioning to large woofers being needed for deep bass and then seeing nothing but small drivers. But even then, how much bass can these little drivers put out despite having a large combined effective area? Then, I keep reminding myself that there is also the acoustic gain of all of these little drivers working together in a column, 10dB of gain in all, making the system appear to be twice as loud and that is the equivalent of 10 times the power from an amplifier. Only 1 watt is needed to give performance equal to 10 watts and with no increase in distortion. Well, it's one of those things where hearing is believing but it is nice to know that there is a scientific explanation and this is not just an illusion. I really think the solution is to place the speakers behind a curtain so the visual distraction is eliminated. I could even suggest placing a couple of subwoofers next to the columns but not connecting them. This could give some eye relief.
OK, so this covers some of the bass performance but this is not what I initially hear. The system is a head turner. There is something about the sound that makes it more realistic. On first hearing, your attention is taken and you think—wait, what was that? There is more information in the sound than what you would expect from a pair of loudspeakers. For lack of words, I have called this coherence. The explanation is more difficult to visualize but I think it is very simply that all the frequencies are being radiated from the same place at the same time. Forget about vertical comb filter interference. You can't hear it. If that were significant, you would hear sound coming from the entire column but, in fact, you hear it coming only from the area at your listening height.
Why is it that this new term of coherence is not understood? I have suggested a physical reason why this is so but it does not seem to communicate well. We are all conditioned when we listen to loudspeakers. We know that these are imperfect devices and expect to hear less than a live performance. We have learned to ignore the imperfections — just shove them out of our consciousness and try to enjoy the music. In fact, we are so conditioned that we need to relearn what to listen for when it comes to loudspeakers. It is a bad habit and not easily broken. It takes time to learn what to listen for and then, it is there—perhaps like riding a bicycle—once learned and never forgotten. It is this that headphones can reproduce that most speakers cannot—coherence—no woofers, mids and tweeters and no crossovers—just wide-range drivers like microphones used to make the recordings. One microphone can cover the entire frequency range. The IDS-25 with all wide-range drivers comes closest to this new experience heard with headphones but without having the sound inside of your head.
The peaks in drum strikes and other percussion instruments are also an attention getter. Even sounds from violin bowing or music synthesizers are obvious. Perhaps the result of unifying the whole frequency range to wide-range drivers accounts for this dramatic improvement in transient response. This listening quality is clearly audible. The properly combined frequencies produce higher transient peaks instead of hearing interference from different drivers at different locations. As a result, this may be closer to the original waveform. Tone burst tests show excellent reproduction and that may also be related to what I am hearing.
To put it simply, a multi-way system by its nature chops up the signal from the power amplifier into 2 or 3 or more frequency ranges using crossover networks that destroy any coherence in the original signal. Then separate drivers of different construction and in different locations attempt to piece that signal back together like the original signal from the amplifier. A column of full range drivers and no crossovers bypasses this serious loss in coherence and transients. In addition, the low moving mass and smooth response of the drivers can also contribute. It sure makes a difference.
But there seems to be more benefits than just transients. Further listening reveals several other reasons why the system is so fascinating. Voice reproduction sounds extremely natural. I attribute this to the copper insert in the driver magnetic gap that greatly reduces distortion and is particularly noticeable in the voice range. It also greatly reduces the normal impedance rise at the higher frequencies found in ordinary wide-range drivers. In addition, the absence of any crossover networks eliminates several other problems such as impedance mismatch, phase considerations, driver output balance and so on. Smooth response can be obtained throughout the range without the discontinuities between drivers such as woofers, mids and tweeters that have different directional patterns and tonal balance. The small drivers eliminate any hint of a boxy sound found in many speaker systems.
So no single one of these advantages may account for the instant attraction to the sound of these systems but when you put all of these qualities together and play music, it is a new and wonderful experience, never to be forgotten. I have often thought—did I really hear what I thought I heard? So I have to go back the next day and listen again—only to be amazed again.
If you are a classical music lover like me, then you will appreciate good sound. I have been using many Telarc recordings because they appear to be very well recorded. For instance, Pictures at an Exhibition (CD-80296), Bolero (CD-80-171) and Le Sacre du Printemps (CD-80054) are some of my favorites and are good examples of their recordings. When played through the IDS-25 at concert hall levels, the sound is so outstanding; it never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Where have I ever had an experience like this before? When attending concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City with a seat front and center in the Prime Parquet.
Additional observations
March 2011
I have now spent several years living with the IDS-25. I have not been seriously listening to any other speakers during this time. I recently brought out one of my earlier favorite designs from several years ago, the XR250. I had many good things to say about this speaker. One was the use of the new LD/HP woofers that lowered the distortion by a factor of ten.
Now, on first listening to the XR250, I could not believe what I heard. First, I noticed the imaging was very confusing and I couldn't locate the instruments in Copland's Billy the Kid as well as what I had been accustomed to with the IDS. The sound seemed to come from a wide area and didn't vary as much from instrument to instrument. The sound field had little relative depth and was more like a flat plane between the speakers. The difference was so great I thought perhaps I had wired the 250s out of phase by mistake but a battery test showed they were correct.
The second thing was glaringly obvious having a complete lack of life. There was no punch in the bass drum or other instruments as well. Even the piano seemed lifeless. It was a complete relative loss of transients and peak output. I was so used to the percussive sounds becoming alive that now they seemed dead in comparison. The third thing was the need for a lot more power. I usually set the volume control at 9 o'clock. Now it must be at 12 o'clock for the same listening level. There was no deep bass and the highs seemed to be a little clustered in one frequency area.
All together it was very disappointing for my pet XR250s. I had thought I might live with them for a while but I prefer not to go back now that I know what I am missing in the recordings. The lack of dynamics alone is enough to turn me off. Better dynamics was one of the first things I noticed when first hearing my 4" wide-range single column version but this is much more obvious now with the IDS-25. The sound of the experimental system had kept me pursuing this idea. I suppose it is somewhat from my listening experience over the years and learning what to listen for. Many people are used to inaccurate sound and perhaps have not made many comparisons with live music. They may be happy just enjoying the music with the sound as it is. When an improvement comes along, although it is heard, it may not be recognized right away unless it is pointed out to the listener.
Although the XR250 was unquestionably the best sound at the time, it must be realized that almost thirty years have gone by and improvements in sound are inevitable. A single, wide-range column system was on my mind for many years as the next step for improvements. The result was even better than I had hoped for.
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Ancient Indian wisdom celebrates the synergy of the five elements known as the panchamahabhutas. Everything in life is composed of these omnipresent elements: Akash, Vayu, Jal, Agni and Prithvi. And only when all these elements are in perfect harmony, is there a deep abiding sense of well-being and joy.
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Ending a decade-long legal battle, former Aurora gym coach Michael Cardamone pleaded guilty Wednesday to improperly touching seven young female gymnasts.
Despite the 10-year prison term imposed on him after his guilty plea, the 35-year-old Cardamone won't serve any more time behind bars.
Cardamone will walk free because he already had served nearly five years in prison after being convicted in 2005 of criminal sexual abuse charges related to the same incidents.
Those convictions later were overturned, and Cardamone faced a re-trial before striking a deal with DuPage County prosecutors that saw him plead guilty to aggravated battery, unlawful restraint and perjury.
Those charges, however, didn't allege his actions in touching the girls during their gymnastic lessons were sexually motivated — and Cardamone in court insisted he "never sexually abused anyone, ever."
"I believe I have accomplished what I have greatly sacrificed and lost to prove that my conduct as a gymnastics coach was never sexually motivated," said Cardamone, who struggled to hold back tears as he pleaded guilty.
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"I want you to understand you have pleaded guilty," Fawell told Cardamone, who because of his plea won't have to register as a sex offender.
Cardamone, though, will have to register for 10 years as a violent offender against youth.
His statement angered many of the seven gymnasts and their family members, who packed one side of the Wheaton courtroom. Several dozen Cardamone supporters filled the other side, with sheriff's deputies carefully keeping the two groups separated.
"I think we were all taken aback by that," said Bailey Prosser, now 23, a former gymnast who testified against Cardamone at his trial.
"I don't think there's any way to be satisfied with the outcome. He still shows no remorse," said Alyssa Crosby, 22, another former gymnast who had testified against her onetime coach.
Cardamone initially was charged in 2002 with improperly fondling and touching 14 young gymnasts he coached at the American Institute of Gymnastics in Aurora.
A jury acquitted him of charges related to seven of the gymnasts but convicted him of improperly touching seven others.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, then served nearly five years before his convictions were overturned.
He has been free on bail since 2009.
Several of his supporters who coached with Cardamone at his family-run gym said they still believe he did nothing wrong and said the young gymnasts mistakenly believed they had been abused or mistreated.
"As children, they're very impressionable. You can be made to believe something happened to you," said Sandy Huston, who has coached at the gym for more than 20 years.
Several of the gymnasts ripped those claims by Cardamone's supporters.
"I just think it's disgusting when someone could say we made this up," said a former gymnast, now 17.
DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said Wednesday in a statement: "Today is the day Mr. Cardamone admitted that his accusers were not lying. He admitted touching them inappropriately. He admitted he had been lying to the court. I sincerely thank each one of these brave girls for having the courage to see this case through to the end."


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This award recognizes individuals who have assisted ACUHO‐I with dedicated service and outstanding leadership, and devoted their professional time and efforts to strengthening the goals and objectives of the association.
Sealine got her start within housing and residence life as a Resident Assistant at William Jewell College (WJC) in Liberty, Missouri. After graduating with degrees in communication and sociology, her housing experiences continued as a live‐in hall director at WJC for 2 years before pursuing a master's degree in College Student Personnel Administration at Indiana University‐Bloomington.
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