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Subscription is not what anyone I know wants. We collect our music like some people collect coins or stamps. As for "Sharecroppers" comments, while the technical may be right, that also all we paid for when we bought 8 tracks, cassettes and CDs. Those mediums were merely packaging for transmital of the material licensed. As for bequething them, very simple, burn them and you are set. As for "Profits" comments, Rhapsody most likely pays a licensing fee that is equal to or greater than Apples and one loses the rights to use the service once one stops payment. Neither is perfect but I do not want a fancy radio station. I want a collection that I can call up and use when and where I want.
Posted by daspiz on June 1, 2004 at 7:46 PM (CDT)
Like it or not guys… subscription services make the most sense.
Physical media becomes obsolete rather quickly nowadays. It's the content that we want. Some of us have albums that we bought as vinyl, cassette, CD and now downloads.
Why not pay $120 a year and get all the songs you want?
The thing holding it back right now is the integration into the iPod… that's what's at the heart of everyone's complaints here.
When Apple launches a sub service that allows you to transfer your songs to your iPod… all of you will praise Jobs as if he had the idea.
Your license for using your iTMS songs has already been downgraded… what about when it gets downgraded further… what about when you can play the music on one computer and burn it once… then will you admit that iTMS i nothing more than a sub service?
Come on, you know if Apple said $9.95mo. for unlimited streams you guys would be all over it!
The fanboys here are just mad that someone is challenging Apple's strategy… isn't it Apple that says Think Different?
Posted by Big Sid on June 1, 2004 at 8:31 PM (CDT)
"that also all we paid for when we bought 8 tracks, cassettes and CDs. Those mediums were merely packaging for transmital of the material licensed."
That's not true. It's about ownership. When I buy physical recordings of tracks I get the right of resale. Once I have finished with the media I can sell it or give it away. I can then use the proceeds to buy other media, or cocaine.
I can't do that with FairPlay AACs.
"Rhapsody most likely pays a licensing fee that is equal to or greater than Apples"
That's obviously not true because the an average Rhapsody listener can listen to hundreds or thousands of songs per month. If each song cost Rhapsody the same as it costs Apple then they would be bankrupt within a month or two. But they are not. I suspect they pay more along a radio broadcast license rate - fractions of pennies per song.
"one loses the rights to use the service once one stops payment."
Kind of like what happens to you when and if you one day decide not to replace a worn-out iPod or keep using iTunes. No pay (to Apple), no FairPlay AAC play!
That's why stuff like PlayFair/Hymn is so important!
Posted by Digital Rights on June 1, 2004 at 10:35 PM (CDT)
Subscription services could definitely become reality. I don't believe online purchasing in going to be the only way to access music on demand just because that's all people are comfortabe with right now or because Jobs or someone else doesn't have enough vision to think outside the box a bit more. I don't believe it's just going to be one or the other. I believe we'll have both subscription based services and downloadable music providers. I believe in both. There's room for both in the market place.
If I could access whatever music I wanted, from any device (portable device, computer, home stereo, car stereo), anywhere I was, for a small flat fee each month, this would, in effect, be like owning every CD out there providing the subscription service provider had a very deep and broad collection. It would be like XM or Sirius, but on demand, and accessbile anywhere and on many different devices.
This would demand that quite a few things be in place and would more than likely take a while to implement, but it's absolutely possible and I know I'm not the only one who would love to have access to so much music at every given moment.
Keep in mind, a subscription service wouldn't mean you could no longer buy CD's or music online. It would just compliment everything. I'd love to be able to access any album or song I wanted from any genre and any artist, wirelessly, from my car stereo, home stereo, handheld player, or laptop, wherever I was. That, IMO, would be awesome. I can't understand why anyone wouldn't love to have access to that. People act as though a service like this would prevent them from ever buying a CD or online music ever again. Not so.
Here's an interesting thread about subscription services and downloadable music. A bit of a long read, but to get the most out of it, read the whole thread.
Posted by Z on June 2, 2004 at 3:31 AM (CDT)
Although I like the idea of being able to buy and download music, right now, investing in low bitrate encoded AAC's from iTunes is a waste of money. Anyone would be better off going out and buying CD's so that they could encode them to whatever bitrates and formats they want.
Until Apple offers at least a few different bitrates so that customers can choose what quality they want and at the very least appease those with more discriminating hearing, and until they offer more than just the AAC format to get people with other players over to their store (a lot of people won't buy an Ipod just to buy from iTunes), the iTunes music store is facing without a doubt, a limited lifespan. At the very least, they'll become another version of "Sony and its Memory Stick", but they'll suffer from low and limited market share at some point - just like their computers.
The low bitrate that Apple encodes its music at for sale on iTunes is enough to indicate purchasing from there is a waste of money for many, but on top of that, virtually nobody supports AAC except for Apple, and unless you're planning on never listening to your music on anything but your computer and an Ipod, you're wasting your money by buying from iTunes.
For now I'm sticking with ripping and enoding my own CD's, the MP3 format, and a high bitrate.
Oh yeah, and I still love my Ipod. :) (If it didn't at least support MP3, I wouldn't).
Posted by Z on June 2, 2004 at 3:32 AM (CDT)
There has been a lot of speculation about variable pricing as an alternative to (or to work in concert with) current pricing models and/or subscriptions. (I think subscription is lame personally, I've never wanted to pay for a realpass or whatever).
I think that $.99 should be the ceiling, and that the variable options should be SOUTH of that number. I mean I'd buy a lot more retro & oldie stuff off of iTunes for nostalgic reasons if they were all of a sudden "50% off" ($.50 or less).
Now that Apple has proven the model, they have to discount older items. I mean go into a major music chain and you can find a bargain bin. I can get a best-of disc by "The Who" for $5-7 that has 12 songs. So the online price should be lower IMHO.
Volume! there's no production cost per purchase here like w. CDs. They've already made the major investment by digitizing the content and adding it to the iTMS catalog, so the best thing to do is move as many copies of a songs as possible. If double the sales in older songs at a discount price only leads to the revenue that it would've generated at half the sales, so what - who says they'd even approach that theoretical half at $.99/song?
related: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2003/tc20030312_9271_tc056.htm
Posted by J. on June 2, 2004 at 6:32 AM (CDT)
Sorry to correct this but the 1984 thing is:
Reminds of of 1984: "Eastasia is our friend! EURASIA is our enemy!... Eastasia is our enemy, EURASIA is our friend, EURASIA has always been our friend!"
Winston (the main guy) lives in Pacifica. Sorry just finished the book for a school project.
Posted by Andy on June 2, 2004 at 7:44 AM (CDT)
I find it interesting that you feel that you don't own your music. I burned a cd that i bought from iTunes. I then ripped it to MP3 and ACC in iTunes without any problems. Now I am able to freely distrubute my purchased songs with full ID tags in any form i see fit, whether it is MP3, ACC, or CD. If i were able to do the same with a subscription service, that would be great. But in order to "keep" the music, dont you have to pay above and beyond the monthly fee? Also, isn't a subscription service more suited to someone who is at a desk all day with 1 computer? And not the iPod carrying, mobile users that 95% of us are?
Posted by Matt on June 2, 2004 at 8:18 AM (CDT)
"Now I am able to freely distrubute my purchased songs with full ID tags in any form i see fit, whether it is MP3, ACC, or CD."
If you are distributing those CD backups of your iTMS tracks then you are illegally violating their copyright - just as much as someone who rips a regular CD then uploads the rip to Kazaa.
So the only difference I can see is that I can get higher-quality, higher-bitrate rips straight from p2p networks instead of settling for Apple's lo-fidelity expensive rips.
"isn't a subscription service more suited to someone who is at a desk all day with 1 computer?"
Japan just tested a 300Mbps wireless service.
In 120 years the notion that people spent ever more money on expensive, fragile hard disks to try to carry as much music as possible will seem quaint. We will be surrounded and permeated by high-capacity wireless networks that will deliver audio and video on-demand.
Posted by Lawbreaker on June 2, 2004 at 9:08 AM (CDT)
"In 120 years"
Maybe in 10-12 years even!
Posted by Sooner on June 2, 2004 at 9:09 AM (CDT)
A subscription service now that sounds a nice idea…i think i have a bettter one though. A service in Europe which does something else than tell us we need to have a US billing address.
For crying outloud Steve, when is this gonna happen? First we were told a month or so after the US release, then it was April 2004, now we are told sometime in 2004! Great, we might have then iTunes music store sometime before 2008! (not that im keeping my fingers crossed).
At the moment Apple really need to get their act together because the current online music stores in the UK (not mentioning Europe) are crap.
Posted by Tim on June 2, 2004 at 10:39 AM (CDT)
Lawbreaker… I do not distribute my music to others. And if i did, it is illegal only if i profit from the venture. Otherwise, i wouldn't purchase music on iTunes or buys cd's. Secondly, ACC has proven to be a better compression format than MP3, and produces smaller files. (read: more room for songs) And besides, the quality is only as good as the weakest link, likely your headphones/speakers. In addition, i could buy and fill an entire iPod for the cost of a settlement if i were busted by the RIAA. Hardly worth the risk…. And lastly, while i think that a wireless network is a great idea. I enjoy the fact that i have my music with me at all times, my playlists, my preferences and dont have to plug into a network to access them.
Posted by Matt on June 2, 2004 at 10:54 AM (CDT)
"I do not distribute my music to others. And if i did, it is illegal only if i profit from the venture."
You said:
"I burned a cd that i bought from iTunes. I then ripped it to MP3 and ACC in iTunes without any problems. Now I am able to freely distrubute my purchased songs with full ID tags in any form i see fit"
So you see you are wrong. You purchased a license to listen to some music, and to make backup copies of that music. But you do not have a mechanical reproduction right to make further copies of that music. The "defense" of saying "but I never made profit" has been tried by several thousand defendants against the RIAA so far, and has never worked.
"ACC has proven to be a better compression format than MP3, and produces smaller files."
128 Kb AAC tied in third place with Lame VBR MP3 in the most recent qualitative listening tests. Although both AAC and Lame VBR perform well, they are no match for current champion of medium-bitrate lossy encoding, Ogg Vorbis.
Vorbis aoTuV is tied to Musepack at first place, Lame MP3 is tied to iTunes AAC at second place, WMA Standard is in third place and Atrac3 gets last place.
If you are really concerned with quality then I suggest using a service like AllOfMp3.com.
There you can select a track, choose a compression format and bitrate quality, and download it. Although 128Kb AAC sounds reasonably good, it cannot compare to ~250Kb Ogg Vorbis, or 250Kb AAC for that matter!
Posted by Judge Dredd on June 2, 2004 at 3:19 PM (CDT)
Posted by Listening Tests on June 2, 2004 at 3:21 PM (CDT)
Why does everyone argue one vs. the other? Does it occur to anyone that both sales models will survive? I mean do you really want one company doing both anyhow? Do you want NBC/ABC/CBS to run the store where you buy your DVDs?
Posted by Joe Shmoe on June 3, 2004 at 8:22 AM (CDT)
Think about the numbers. Suppose you bought 10,000 tracks, enough to fill a 40 GB ipod. from itunes, that sets you back 9,900 dollars, or lets say even around 8,000 if you buy a lot of whole albums. From a record store, to get all the copyright and quality some people want, it would cost you probably around $12,500 at an average of 12 tracks per disk with each disk costing $15. So the cheapest case scenario is the $8,000 you spend from itunes. For that price, you could get rhapsody for 800 months, or around 67 years. For the price of getting the cds, that would be 1,251 months or 104 years. So basically for the price of a 10,000 song collection, you could get a lifetime subscription of rhapsody, where you would probably wind up listening to an even wider variety than your permanent collection. Of course there are a lot of variables involved, like would rhapsody even be around for ever(or something like it in the future where you could continue streaming your music), do you want to pass on your music to future generations, etc. For instance, suppose you rented rhapsody for 10 years, it went out of business and nothing like it succeeded it. you'd basically be out $1,200 with nothing to show for it. But if they implemented a fully mobile system like rhapsody that was gauranteed to be around a long time, it would prolly be worth it.
Posted by dx2j in Gainesville, FL on June 7, 2004 at 1:10 PM (CDT)
So the cheapest case scenario is the $8,000 you spend from itunes.
The cheapest option is AllOfMP3.com, which will cost around $450 to fill a 40GB iPod.
Posted by Cheapest on June 7, 2004 at 1:15 PM (CDT)
If you could explain more about allofmp3.com i would appreciate it it sounds cool, but i went there and it was all in russian or something so i couldn't really figure it out.
Posted by dx2j in Gainesville, FL on June 7, 2004 at 3:31 PM (CDT)
nm i see theres an english version i dont know why it took me to the russian one before
Posted by dx2j in Gainesville, FL on June 7, 2004 at 3:32 PM (CDT)
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Mission Earth is a ten-volume science fiction novel series by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard died three months after the publication of volume 1, the rest of the book being published posthumously.
The series' initial publisher, Bridge Publications coined the word dekalogy, meaning "a series of ten books", to describe and promote the novel. Made up of about 1.2 million words, the epic is a "satirical science fiction adventure set in the far future." Each volume in the series topped numerous bestseller lists.[1] The second volume, Black Genesis, was nominated for the 1987 Hugo Award in the Best Novel category.[2]
The books are written as the confessions of Soltan Gris, an agent of the Coordinated Information Apparatus of the Voltar Confederacy, as an exposé. Each book begins with a disclaimer from Lord Invay, the head Censor, denying the very existence of the planet Earth itself and denouncing the story as rankest fiction, despite the inclusion of characters who are real and known public figures in the novel's fictional world, such as Jettero Heller and the Countess Krak.
The Voltar Confederacy wishes to conquer the planet Earth, which they regard as an important potential base on the main route of their planned invasion of the galactic centre. The conquest of Earth is scheduled for over 100 years in the future, but the Grand Council of Voltar becomes convinced that it must send a mission to prevent Earth from destroying itself through pollution and possibly war, so as not to disrupt the future timetable of conquest. The mission is assigned to Fleet Combat Engineer Jettero Heller, a character of perfection and incorruptibility. Soon after reaching Earth, he heads to New York City. He investigates why Earth is self-destructing, unaware that he is being tracked and that factions on Voltar want his mission to fail.
Unknown to Heller, Earth is also the base for a secret plan put into action by the insane, diabolically evil Lombar Hisst, the overall commander of the Apparatus, to seize the throne of the Empire of Voltar for himself. Hisst has been importing illegal narcotic drugs from Earth and using them to enslave the entire population of aristocratic heads of government on Voltar. By turning the entire government into drug addicts, Hisst plans to take control of the Empire for himself. Because of Earth's role as a supplier of drugs, Hisst decides that Heller's mission to save the planet must not succeed.
Lombar Hisst assigns a cowardly, sadistic, greedy stooge named Soltan Gris to supervise the mission to Earth, in order to sabotage it and destroy Jettero Heller. The majority of the story is told from Gris' point of view, with an emphasis on the comical situations Gris ends up in as he tries to stop Heller. Over the course of the novel, Gris finds himself in possession of twelve tons of pure gold, which he tries to launder through a Swiss bank account in order to keep it all for himself; he becomes a prisoner of two man-hating lesbians (who end up marrying Gris after he rapes them and thereby "cures" them of their lesbianism, but not before various ingenious tortures are inflicted on him, one of which involve a cheese grater and chili powder); he repeatedly finds himself losing large amounts of money, becoming broke, and having to concoct wild schemes to save himself from his creditors; he has an affair with a young nymphomaniac teenage girl whom he cannot escape; he hires a hit man to kill Heller's fiancé, only to stumble through the affair and end up being a target for the hit man himself; he embarks on a long cruise through the Mediterranean (mirroring Hubbard's own voyages through the area in the 1970s); and finally, Gris becomes the target after Heller realizes that he is behind the operation to disrupt his mission.
Heller's investigations of Earth soon reveal to him that the entire planet is in the grip of a vast organized corporate conspiracy headed by the Rockecenter corporation and its head, Delbert John Rockecenter (the similarity to "John D. Rockefeller" is one of many blatant puns and references included in the series by Hubbard). Rockecenter is the head of a vast oil-producing corporation that keeps the population of Earth under control by using drugs and rock and roll music to keep the population sedate. (Rock music is used in the novel to spread sexual deviancy, especially homosexuality, among the population of Earth.)
Heller's attempts to break the demonic control of Earth by Rockecenter make him a target, and the corporation uses its most dangerous weapons to destroy him: psychiatry and psychology, and a mad, idealistic public relations genius by the name of J. Walter Madison (known as "J. Warbler Madman"). Madison initiates a wide-reaching public relations campaign to make Heller known to the world as the "Whiz Kid", but results in destroying Heller's reputation so that all of Heller's efforts to save the planet come to naught, as Madison's employer, Rockecenter, wanted. Fortunately, Heller's outstanding skills and abilities are reinforced by the arrival on Earth of his fiancée, the Countess Krak, and the alliance and friendship of the Mafia — specifically the Corleone family.
After a series of world-shattering events, which include the impact of an ice meteor on the Soviet Union, the world's entire oil supply being turned radioactive, and a black hole orbiting the Earth (providing free energy for Heller to harness and make available to the world), Heller returns to Voltar to find that not only have Lombar Hisst's plans to enslave the government nearly succeeded, but Madison the PR madman has been loosed on the empire of Voltar and is in the process of starting a galactic civil war.
After the defeat of Hisst and Madison, a massive cover-up operation commences to wipe out the effects of PR, psychology and psychiatry, and the CIA from Voltar's empire. All mention of these subjects is censored and the planet Earth is eradicated from all star charts and similar items. As far as the Voltarans are concerned, there is no such place as planet Earth.
Page counts are from hardcover editions, and total 3992 pages.
The The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes the series "whose farcical overemphases fail to disguise an overblown tale that would have been more at home in the dawn of pulp magazines." More forgiving literary critics usually cite Battlefield Earth as Hubbard's best work of the later years of his life. (i.e., better than Mission Earth, his only other later published work of fiction).
The books, however, do carry dozens of blurbs of praise from some newspapers and well known sci-fi authors, such as Orson Scott Card and A. E. van Vogt.
The New York Times review of the first volume, The Invaders' Plan, describes it thus: "... a paralyzingly slow-moving adventure enlivened by interludes of kinky sex, sendups of effeminate homosexuals and a disregard of conventional grammar so global as to suggest a satire on the possibility of communication through language."[3]
In L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, a survey of Hubbard's literary career, Marco Frenschkowski of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz described the Mission Earth series:[4]
In 1991, the town of Dalton, Georgia attempted to remove the Mission Earth books from its public library, citing what was described as "repeated passages involving chronic masochism, child abuse, homosexuality, necromancy, bloody murder, and other things that are anti-social, perverted, and anti-everything." The attempt was unsuccessful, though this placed the Mission Earth series into the category of banned books that have been challenged in the United States.[5][dead link]
The Mission Earth books were a major sales success, particularly the earlier volumes in the series, with all individual volumes reaching the New York Times bestseller list.[6] The extent to which this reflects actual popularity is strongly questioned.[7] A large number of booksellers, publishing executives, and former Scientologists state that, as with other Hubbard books, the Church of Scientology engaged in a massive book-buying campaign, similar to the campaign to promote Battlefield Earth, so as to deliberately inflate sales of the series in order to promote it as a best-selling work of literature.[7] Stories of the books being sent to stores bearing other stores' price tags circulated throughout the science fiction fan community.
In a two-year span, Hubbard logged 14 consecutive books on the New York Times list. Adam Clymer, a New York Times executive, said that, while the books have been sold in sufficient numbers to justify their bestseller status, "we don't know to whom they were sold." He said the newspaper uncovered no instances in which vast quantities of books were being sold to single individuals.[7]


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One of the worst roads for traffic in Bedford may soon see some relief as state and town officials work on a proposal to widen two miles of Route 101, from Route 114 to Wallace Road. Bedford Town Manager Jessie Levine met with representatives from the state Department of Transportation on Tuesday, March 5.
Levine said the plan right now is to widen Route 101 by at least two lanes, with a possibility of widening by three lanes, allowing a divided median with turning lanes. Levine further said that work could begin by 2015 or 2016. Much depends on funding which is currently earmarked for the project. But the start date also depends on on other factors such as moving utilities and lamp posts, securing rights of way and negotiating with abutters.
Another factor is the extension of sewers from Nashua Road to Wallace Road, and that work needs to be done before road widening can begin. �We want to coordinate that so we install the sewers before highway work begins� said Levine.
Levine also said the town of Bedford will also push for aesthetic improvements to the road including sidewalks and landscape work, trying to increase capacity and improve traffic safety issues while improving the look and feel of the town�s center.
A public informational meeting is set for Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m., in the town meeting room at the BCTV studios, 10 Meetinghouse Road. The Department of Transportation is seeking input from the public about where they feel are the main trouble spots that should be addressed in the widening project. They are also seeking input from abutters.
Route 101 is a state highway and was placed on the Department of Transportation�s 10-year plan for improvements in 2005. But because of budget shortfalls, the widening of Route 101 was removed from the list. Since then, local business and community leaders fought successfully to make the project a priority again.
�Route 101 is such an important business corridor� said Levine.
Traffic from Wallace Road and Route 114 is often heavy, impacting residents, businesses and commuters passing through.
The meeting will be carried live by BCTV.
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For most, HPV clears on its own. But, for others who don't clear certain types, HPV could cause significant consequences: cervical, vaginal, and vulvar cancers in females. Other types could cause genital warts in both males and females. And there's no way to predict who will or won't clear the virus.
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"Let's Be Cops," a new film starring Jake Johnson ("New Girl," "Drinking Buddies") and Damon Wayans Jr. ("New Girl," "Happy Endings"), centers around two 30-year-old best friends, Justin and Ryan, aimlessly searching for their path in life. After a misunderstanding at a costume party, they fall into a life of pretending to be cops. It's a buddy-cop movie with a new-school twist, and the film hearkens back to classic '80s films, with plenty of girls, guns and grotesque nudity to spare.
At the tail-end of their promotional circuit for the film, Johnson and Wayans have been visiting colleges across the U.S. and meeting students and fans in the process. ASU students got a chance to meet and take photos with the duo in front of the Memorial Union on April 26.
The State Press sat down with Johnson and Wayans, as well as writer Nicholas Thomas, about the benefits of improv on film, their working relationship and the craziest thing they've done to get a woman's attention.
State Press: College students have notoriously short attention spans. How would you describe this movie to them in five seconds or less?
Jake Johnson: Fake cops, big trouble. Boom.
Damon Wayans Jr.: Two 30-year-old dudes down on their luck dress up like cops, trying to reap the benefits of being a cop and having the authority. Girls like them more cause they look like cops, but they get into some big trouble.
Nicholas Thomas: That was so long. I almost changed the channel.
SP: This is being billed as a buddy-cop movie, but the distinction here is that you guys aren't actually cops. Tell me what else stuck out to you about this movie while you were reading the script.
JJ: It felt like a format that was familiar, but there was a new take on it. I like the buddy-cop genre, but I didn't necessarily want to do one of those movies because I've seen a lot of them. This felt fundamentally different because they're not cops, so these characters in the movie are actually fans of those movies. Rather than just being in it, they're aware of it.
DWJ: That was spot-on.
JJ: It was a good answer.
SP: I've heard you guys refer to this as a classic '80s movie, with a really funny first-act while segueing into some intense action sequences toward the end. What else sets this movie apart from other comedies that are coming out right now?
DWJ: I like the fact that our villains stay villains. A lot of these movies, the villain is very, very funny, like Ken Jeong in "The Hangover." Ours is a straight-up villain.
SP: Your characters Justin and Ryan are best friends. Since there was a lot of improv on this movie, there needed to be that inherent chemistry between you two. What was it like coming back to work together on this film after filming the pilot for "New Girl"?
DWJ: It was great because it was completely different experience from network television. With shooting a film, the stakes were higher, and it was a 42-day shoot, so it was a really intense 42 days, and then we were done.
SP: You guys are both clearly comfortable with improv. The dialogue in "Drinking Buddies" was improvised and Damon is a seasoned stand-up comedian. What do you think improv helps bring to the filmmaking process?
JJ: This is gonna be a Nick Thomas question.
NT: I mean, what's so great about the movie is the chemistry between them. Improv brings a sort of freshness. Their chemistry is the improv. A lot of time there's five different takes and each take feels fresh and new, instead of the same scene with the same lines. They're having fun in the scene together, because they're experiencing it for the first time every time.
SP: There's some great people involved with this project. Nina Dobrev is a TV superstar in her own right now and you have stars like Andy Garcia, James D'Arcy and Rob Riggle involved in the film. What was the experience like on set?
JJ: We had a lot of fun. It was one of those movies where we would all get drinks after work and talk about bits and talk about what we wanted to do. Nina really kills it. She and Damon's character have a really great love story.
DWJ: Nina also shoots her show out there so she knows Atlanta like the back of her hand, so she showed us around and was like our personal tour guide while we were there.
JJ: It was also really nice to work with somebody of (Andy's) caliber. He brought something to the movie that we didn't have and that we needed to make it what it is.
SP: In the movie, you guys notice that the cop uniforms really grab the attention of the ladies. Have you guys gone to similar lengths to get the attention of a woman, and if not, what's the craziest thing you've done?
JJ: I whipped my hog out while I was wearing my karate uniform.
NT: I think that's illegal.
JJ: You don't know that. Really though, I worked at a bar for a while, and when we had mixed drinks, I used my hog as the mixer, so all the girls would line up for my special mixer. But this was when I used to be a sexual dancer.
SP: So you were a bartender/sexual dancer?
JJ: That's correct.
DWJ: That's where we met.
SP: Since you guys have been visiting so many colleges, you've probably had the chance to interact with a lot of students. With graduation coming up, what would you say to students who are maybe looking to emulate your career or get their start in show business?
JJ: Put yourself on video and don't spend money on production value. Nobody cares when you're young and first starting out in L.A. if your movie looks like a Hollywood movie. Shoot it quick, shoot it with natural lighting, make sure the audio works and just show what you like to do on video.
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are patties good in the winter? When they cluster will they still be able to use it? I've read of people that have had their patties turn rock hard. Why is this and how can it be avoided?
are patties good in the winter? When they cluster will they still be able to use it? I've read of people that have had their patties turn rock hard. Why is this and how can it be avoided?
Some folks like to sprinkle on top of the telescoping cover and the bees will find it and consume it. That works as long as you put just enough for them to consume in a short period. The problem with doing this is that the dry feed can attract mold. Not what you want inside your hive. Chicken feeders will work too but be sure to bring them in at night.
You might try the Ultra Bee food patties. I tried them for the first time this year and my bees actually ate them and showed signs that they actually were attracted to them and liked them. The trick is to if possible place the food patties as close to the over wintering ball of bees as possible. This may mean placing some of the patties in between the frames.
Yeah, I thought the price of the Pro-Feeders was beeyard robbery too. I currently have about 20 hives in various locations, some very remote. Racoons, skunks, and opposums would get into the dry feed with other feeders and it would get damp or wet from setting out at night so I gave these a try. They do work very well and the design was apparently well thought out for being bee friendly.
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if we dident enforce laws we thought where unjust, there wouldn't be people who where outraged, if there weren't people who where outraged there wouldn't be a will to change.
so by enforcing unjust laws we are in fact participating in the system, that isent perfect, but can only be made better "by the people".on the other hand if good people stuck up for what they believe and did not enforce unjust laws there would be people that did just the opposite and the system would continue with its unjust ways, there wouldn't be enough supporters of change because there wouldn't be nearly as many outraged people and the matter would generally receive less attention.
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Why did you choose Kettering University?
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What was your coolest co-op assignment?
I was given five work days to create Job Element Sheets, or shutdown procedures, for over 240 machines. The Job Element Sheets were comprised of pictures of the machines and the buttons to press to shut each one down, along with instructions and safety precautions. It felt really good to get a 'well done' at the end of the week from my boss, my boss' boss and the plant manager."
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Create operating point for Simulink model
op = operpoint('sys')
As an alternative to the operpoint function, create operating points in the Linear Analysis Tool. See Steady-State Operating Points (Trimming) from Specifications.
op = operpoint('sys') returns an object, op, containing the operating point of a Simulink® model, sys. Use the object with the function linearize to create linearized models. The operating point object properties are:
Edit the properties of this object directly or with the set function.
Model specifies the name of the Simulink model that this operating point object refers to.
States describes the operating points of states in the Simulink model. The States property is a vector of state objects that contains the operating point values of the states. There is one state object per block that has a supported state in the Simulink model. (For a list of supported states for operating point computations, see Simulink Model States Included in Operating Point Object.)
The States object has the following properties:
Nx | Number of states in the block. This property is read-only. |
Block | Block with which the states are associated. |
x | Vector containing the values of states in the block. |
Ts | Vector containing the sample time and offset for the state. |
SampleType | Set this value to CSTATE, for a continuous state, or DSTATE for a discrete state. |
inReferencedModel | Set this value to 1, when the state is inside a referenced model, or 0, when it is not. |
Description | Text string describing the block. |
Inputs is a vector of input objects that contains the input levels at the operating point. There is one input object per root-level inport block in the Simulink model. The Inputs object has the following properties:
Block | Inport block with which the input vector is associated |
PortWidth | Width of the corresponding inport |
u | Vector containing the input level at the operating point |
Description | Text string describing the input |
Time specifies the time at which any time-varying functions in the model are evaluated.
To create an operating point object for the Simulink model magball, type:
op = operpoint('magball')
which returns the following:
Operating Point for the Model magball. (Time-Varying Components Evaluated at time t=0) States: ---------- (1.) magball/Controller/PID Controller/Filter x: 0 (2.) magball/Controller/PID Controller/Integrator x: 14 (3.) magball/Magnetic Ball Plant/Current x: 7 (4.) magball/Magnetic Ball Plant/dhdt x: 0 (5.) magball/Magnetic Ball Plant/height x: 0.05 Inputs: None ----------
MATLAB® software displays the name of the model, the time at which any time-varying functions in the model are evaluated, the names of blocks containing states, and the values of the states at the operating point. In this example there are four blocks that contain states in the model and four entries in the States object. The first entry contains two states. MATLAB also displays the Inputs although there are not any in this model. To view the properties of op in more detail, use the get function.


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blufz1 Posts: 2,045Interesting re the window strip grease,think I'll try it. Less pressure in the tires or a softer riding tire might "fix" the dash rattle. Best,financially, to keep the car,if you think it's a good unit. You have already taken the depreciation:Why start the depreciation all over,again?
jonahdog Posts: 28Have to share my battery experience. My wife also drives an 07 accord. About 2 mos ago the car was dead in the am so I charged the battery. It lasted the day and was dead the next am. Took to the local advance auto, they tested the electrical, said the battery was fine but the alternator was suspect. (They were running a battery special and I purchased one but did not have it installed). Took car to Honda for same tests. Was told the diagnostic would only be @ 15 min but ended up taking over an hour!!! And on top of that, they found....nothing wrong with the alternator, but, wait for it....it needed a new battery and of course since I was there and already invested an hour of labor, purchased the Honda 100 month battery at a total cost including the labor, of just over twice what the advance battery was costing. Here's where it gets really good. My wife drove her car home and parked in the garage. Later that night I went down to check on her car and noticed the interior dome light on... Of course I checked the doors (all shut) and then found the ceiling dome light switched on. I changed it to the auto off position. (Interesting Honda didn't notice)
Seems our granddaughter is at the "push button / flip switch" age.
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1. Advance said I had good battery but alternator was bad
2. Honda said alternator was ok, but battery was bad
3. Battery was probably fine all the time
My only consolation is that the battery was approaching its useful life anyway and better to have it changed before the cold weather arrived.
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lilengineerboy Posts: 4,116Interesting re the window strip grease,think I'll try it
I did all the seals on the doors and on the frame where the door closes, as well as the window tracks (the windows are much faster now). Hopefully that will help the longevity of the window motors, since all the window motors on my '93 Accord failed between 5 and 7 years (not terrible, but on my '96 FORD Contour they never failed).
Best,financially, to keep the car,if you think it's a good unit.
Yeah, I think it was always the wrong car for me to buy. Its a size to big and not very interesting to drive. The upside is 32 mpg on my commute, and it holds a child seat in the center rear position and allows the use of the two outside seats by normal people.
You have already taken the depreciation:Why start the depreciation all over,again?
I am weighing that against the modifications I would like to make the car more palatable to me, knowing the expense of those modifications and their affect on resale value. Firmer suspension and lower profile, firmer tires (and wheels) offsets a lot of the savings. And would likely make whatever loose rattle issues I have now considerably worse. -
blufz1 Posts: 2,045My battery experience was much less dramatic. Pulled into the Honda express oil change facility. Honda does free checks with the oil change and discovered the NTB battery was below good. Sold me the Honda battery for $113. Took the NTB battery back and got a full refund from NTB. I prefer to deal with fewer vs. more vendors. 3 year free replacement on the Honda battery,the $99 NTB battery was gone in less than 2 years.
lilengineerboy Posts: 4,116I would not go beyond higher performance tires on the oem rims,but,then, I'm an unexciting person. .02.
Well, if you have the 17" wheels, that is relatively easy, but since I have the 16" wheels coupled with 205/60 tires, I am SOL there. I have been keeping my eye out for a stock sport or aftermarket 17" wheel that will let me run 215/50R17s which have a lot more options. There are several Honda/Acura wheels that will work, and a billion aftermarket ones.
Some of the spring manufacturers make a "mild drop" spring that only lowers the car about 1" so it should still do well enough in snow. Coupled with some sport oriented shocks, that should give a much more connected feel. The Acura TL has thicker sway bars and that is an easy afternoon upgrade for the rear, somewhat more involved in the front since you must drop the sub-frame.
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ezshift5 West coastPosts: 855....replaced OEM Michelin HX MXM4 215/50-17 with same size Mich Primacy MXV4 about 25,000 miles back. I join the Tire Rack folks in their high ratings of this somewhat pricey tire.
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michael2595 Posts: 72I usually buy the bridgestone Potenzas but have also bought Falken tires and quite inexpensive due to the fact tht very little goes to marketing like Michellin does.. How much of the cost of the michelin tire is related to marketing.. I bet a major portion.. Wont ever buy Micheleins again after I bought pilotsl. Never really owned them , just rented them, they blew up so many times and of vourse they were the sidewalls
robgrave Posts: 65If I were putting 10,000+ miles on my tires each year, I'd probably avoid paying the Michelin premium and go with Bridgestones, or whatever. But in fact, I drive much less than that, and it is the overall life-expectancy of the tire that matters to me most of all.
Perhaps I'm wrong about this, but the Michelin tire seems to hold up better in time (because of a softer rubber, maybe?), which makes it a better tire to have at say 6 yrs/20,000 miles. At least, that's how my thinking goes right now.
The more tire-savvy experts here may disagree, of course. As always, I'm more than willing to listen and learn.
EDIT: Michael2595 got his post in before mine, and I gather he doesn't find that Michelins hold up so well. My own experience is different (with previous cars), so there it is: no definitive conclusion. And it may very well be true that you're just paying extra for the name when you buy Michelin. I just like to think that I'm good at not wasting money. -
hondalova Posts: 189I agree with robgrave...I have a 2004 Accord V-6 EX-L 6 spd. and have always used the OEM tires (michelins). Every set I've had has lasted close to 50,000 miles (I have 157k miiles on the car and it still looks/runs great w/original clutch, starter, alternator, radiator, etc.).
In all fairness, I would note that I put two Blizzaks on the front wheels from November thry March each winter (4 wheel snowtire freaks please don't yell at me - I've heard it all - we can agree to disagree b/c I've been doing it for 30 years w/o a problem), so that prolongs the Michelin's life somewhat, and they do tend to get noisier as they get older, but I've found them to be great all around tires with good traction and puncture avoidance, right up until shortly before I decided to swap 'em out for ones. I have never had a flat.
I've also had Michelin Pilots in the past (used 'em on my old '99 Maxima GXE) and found them to be a vast improvement over the original Bridgestone Potenzas that came with that car.
To a large extent, once you've vetted objective quality, the rest is really subjective t/b/d by the individual driver.
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stickguy Posts: 16,105the OEM michelins on my 2005 were not very good. by 40K, tread was low, and they had gotten progressively worse in wet weather (not good to start with, by mid-30s they were almost dangerous). My 2005 Odyssey only got 30K out of those michelins.
both were replaced with Yokohamas that have performed very well, and are lasting much longer (especially on the van, already more on the replacements and they are only 1/2 worn).
For the Accord, the Yokohama Avid H/V4 is a good option (what I have). Not the best for snow though from the tests at tirerack, but if you live in Fla, not an issue!
I also put BF Goodrich Advantage TAs on my 2000 Acura Tl (same size as the Accord). fantastic deal from BJs (with a coupon), and they have done a good job in the 2K we have on them. Even did great in snow up in Syracuse according to my son.2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4i Limited Tech (mine), 2013 Acura RDX (wife's) and 2007 Volvo S40 (daughters college car)
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Kirstie_H Posts: 10,930That's a bit rude - people come to these discussions in hopes of getting advice from others who own the same vehicle. No one said they must take the words here as gospel handed down from above, but it's legitimate to think that you might get tire buying advice from other people who own the same vehicle you do.
I'm wondering why a business that makes money selling items to consumers is any more likely to be reliable than other members here? Surely a business would never attempt to steer a consumer to an item that has a higher profit margin than another... nah... I trust Tire Rack, but multiple opinions are generally useful.MODERATOR
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michael2595 Posts: 72you asked the same question twice.. Have you never ever bought tires before.? what makes the Honda so special?. It doesnt require low profiles nor a Z rating, etc. I believe your question is quite sophomoric.. As I stated go to to tirerack , put in your year make and model.. They will give you their choices then do the research, read the reviews and make your choice , or you can sit here and wait for somebody who can be a high school kid playing on daddys computer to give you an answer you take as the gospel .. This a chatrrom full of people no one knows who give out info that is sometime superb and many times worthless... I Asked a question here that according to one"expert" who answered it would have cost me in repairs 1200 dollars... Went to the local mechanic specializing in this repair and it cost me 400 dollars and everything is perfect. Good luck to you... By the way dont go to tire rack.. sit here, dust yourself off every week and wait for the answer you like best.. see you in a year.
blufz1 Posts: 2,045Buy at Discount Tire. Only 1 vendor and free lifetime rotations,balance,and air. They will match Tr price. I like the Goodyear Assurance Comfort Treads for comfortable,quiet, ride. GACT Tourings for better handling,mpg,but a little noisey and firm ride. 80,000/6year warranty. Keep up with the free rotations and get proration credit from DT on your next set of tires when they wear out early. Hope this helps.
tallman1 Posts: 1,874So what were they?
At the risk of sounding like a pole dancer, my OEM tires are Bridgestone Turanza EL41's. I've been very pleased with them but I'll still do some shopping when the time comes to replace them. I sure can't complain about how they've held up. And my gas mileage has been great too.
I remember reading the reviews on Tire Rack several months back and they were quite varied. I think the other OEM tires from Michelin were even rated a couple tenths of a point higher.
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Kirstie_H Posts: 10,930I didn't ask a question at all. I was responding to YOUR answer to someone else's question.
I understand that you may not find this Forum useful - there's no one-size-fits-all forum for every person, and it's almost impossible to diagnose a mechanical issue to perfection, every time, on a forum, or to give pricing estimates for every problem, fixed by every mechanic, in every area of the country. However, there are many instances in which this forum has saved others money or hassle. If you don't like the advice or appreciate the assistance in this forum, that's fine, but no one is welcome to stick around here and make posts for the express purpose of denigrating our other members.MODERATOR
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