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Media in Birmingham
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This article is about the media in the city of Birmingham, England.
Birmingham was the first British city outside London to have a radio service from the newly formed British Broadcasting Company, with the Birmingham station 5IT starting regular broadcasting from its Witton base at 17:00 on 15 November 1922,[1] one day after 2LO started daily BBC broadcasting from London[2] and one hour before the 18:00 launch of Manchester's 2ZY.[3] 5IT pioneered many innovations in early broadcasting, launching Children's Hour in 1922,[4] developing sophisticated methods of programme control and employing the first full-time announcers in 1923.[5] The station's first announcer on its opening night was its general manager Percy Edgar,[6] who was to be the dominant figure in Birmingham broadcasting and the BBC's most influential regional director until his retirement in 1948.[7]
5IT moved its studios from Witton to a former cinema in New Street in 1923, moving again in 1926 to a completely new building in Broad Street with two studios – one of the largest the country.[8] 1927 saw the low-powered city station 5IT replaced by the BBC Midland Region – the first of the BBC's regional services[9] – broadcast from the new Borough Hill high powered transmitter near Daventry.[10] The Broad Street studios now controlled and made programmes for a region stretching across central England from The Potteries to Norfolk.
As Director of the Midland Region Percy Edgar fought against the efforts of Lord Reith to increase control over the BBC from London, writing to Reith in 1929 that "the ever growing policy of centralisation in London has clearly gone a good deal further and more rapidly than public opinion here is prepared to accept"[11] and positioning himself almost as an independent entrepreneur within the wider organisation.[12] By 1935 the Midland Region was producing 40% of its broadcast material locally, more than either of the other English regions or even the national regions of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.[13] With 14 producers it was largest BBC department outside London.[14] Notable programmes included the detective series Paul Temple which was produced in Birmingham and broadcast nationally from 1938 until 1968.[15] and Midland Parliament, which broke new ground in allowing the on-air discussion of controversial topics by members of the public.[16]
Today local commercial radio stations include Free Radio Birmingham, 102.2 Capital FM Birmingham, Free Radio 80s, Heart West Midlands, Kerrang! Radio and Smooth Radio's West Midlands News & Admin Team. The city has several community radio stations, such as Big City Radio, New Style Radio, Queer FM, Rhubarb Radio, South Birmingham Community Radio, Switch Radio, and Unity FM.Cheeky Rainbow(January 2009), BurnFM.com operates from the University of Birmingham Guild of Students, and Scratch Radio serves both Birmingham City University students and members of the local community.
Orion Media have their offices at Brindley Place. Orion Media runs the stations Wyvern in Worcester, Mercia in Coventry, Beacon in Wolverhampton and Gem 106 in Nottingham.
The launch of the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station in December 1949 made the Birmingham area the first in Britain outside London to receive a television service.[17]
The most notable achievement of the early years of Birmingham television was Cathy Come Home, described by the BBC itself as "the most famous and groundbreaking TV drama ever made",[18] and judged the second greatest British television programme of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey of broadcast industry professionals by the British Film Institute.[19] First broadcast in 1966 and largely a Birmingham production,[20] it was produced by Balsall Heath-born Tony Garnett and directed by Nuneaton-born Ken Loach, and was the first example of the hard-hitting, high-brow television drama that was to feature strongly in Birmingham's broadcast output over the following decades.
The area was one of the first to receive programming from the new ITV network in 1956. The networks' original representatives were Associated TeleVision (ATV) who served the area during the week and ABC Weekend TV who broadcast at the weekends. In 1968 ATV won the contract to serve the area seven days a week and built new studios off Broad Street at the heart of the city featuring the landmark Alpha Tower. In 1982 ATV was reorganised and became Central Independent Television, which was rebranded as Carlton Central in 1999 and again as ITV Central in 2004. ITV's Birmingham studios are famous for many shows, including Tiswas, Crossroads and Bullseye.
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Today the BBC has two facilities in the city. It is the regional headquarters and television centre for BBC West Midlands, which produces Midlands Today and local editions of Inside Out and The Politics Show; and the BBC Local Radio service BBC WM.
The BBC Birmingham network production centre, also based at The Mailbox, is one of only three in England outside London producing programmes for national broadcast. However, as of August 2012 most of The Mailbox sits unused after the BBC moved the factual departments to Bristol and Cardiff.[21]
The BBC Drama Village, based in Selly Oak, is a production facility specialising in television drama and is the home of nationally networked programme Doctors.
Birmingham used to be the largest source of nationally networked programmes to BBC One outside London, contributing 8.8% of the channel's first-run originated network hours in 2007, with its 3.6% share making it the fourth largest contributor outside London to BBC Two.[22]
ITV Central have their Gas Street Studios in the city, though the site only produces regional programming, network production from Birmingham for ITV having ceased in 2005.[23] BSkyB have a base at the University of Birmingham's campus in Edgbaston, including a news bureau and a studio with broadcast, editing and production facilities, covering an area from Mid-Wales to Norfolk and from Sheffield to Oxford.[24] The Sikh Channel, which broadcasts across Europe, Africa and Asia, is based in the city's Aston area.
Birmingham has an independent television production sector, with companies including Maverick Television, who produce Embarrassing Bodies and How to Look Good Naked; and North One Television, whose productions include Fifth Gear and The Gadget Show.
Albert Austin (born 13 December 1881 or 1885) was an actor, film star, director and script writer, primarily in the days of silent movies. He was born in Birmingham. He worked for Charlie Chaplin's Stock Company and played supporting roles in many of Chaplin's films, and working as his assistant director.
In the 1920s Oscar Deutsch opened his first Odeon cinema in the UK in Perry Barr. By 1930 the Odeon was a household name and still thrives today.
In 1930 the Birmingham Film Society was set up.
With Britain having no significant film industry outside London until the 1990s, BBC Birmingham has been seen as "the nearest Britain had to an integrated regional film culture", producing challenging films that attracted both large national audiences and critical approval, such as Philip Martin's Gangsters (1975), a surreal but gritty portrayal of Birmingham's multicultural criminal underworld, and David Rudkin and Alan Clarke's Penda's Fen (1974), which explored the pagan mythology and Mercian identity of the English Midlands.[25]
In recent decades many films have been set in Birmingham exploring aspects of the city's culture and identity. Take Me High (1973), which starred Cliff Richard as a merchant banker reluctantly posted to Birmingham from London, celebrated regionality and used Birmingham's high-rise architecture and then-new post-war redevelopment as a symbol of a gleaming future contrasted against old-fashioned values.[26] Twenty five years later Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey (1999), adapted from the novel by William Trevor and described by the Guardian as "a small, low-key, atmospheric masterpiece"[27] used many of the same landmarks, but this time as symbols of decay, depicting "two lost souls ... subjugated to the vast inhuman industrial landscape of the city".[28] I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1989) used the city's heritage of motorcycle manufacture and heavy metal music to frame a spoof horror movie,[29] a genre also represented by Adam Trotman's Demagogue (1998),[30] and Jon Wright's Tormented (2009).[31]
Birmingham's highly multicultural population has been a theme common to many films set in the city. Handsworth Songs (1986), directed by John Akomfrah, was an experimental documentary that wove together a mosaic of first-hand interviews, archive film and recreated scenes to explore the issues surrounding the Handsworth riots of the 1980s.[32] Knights and Emeralds (1986) centred around racial tensions in the rivalry between West Midlands bands.[33] The controversial 2009 musical 1 Day, a fictionalised depiction of gang culture in Birmingham, was not screened in the city's cinemas amid concerns that it may have provoked unrest among local gangs.[34][35][36][37]
Other films with scenes shot in Birmingham include Clockwise (1986), Brassed Off (1996), Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004), Clubbed (2009).
The Electric Cinema on Station Street is still open and is said to be the oldest working cinema in the UK. Screen West Midlands, the regional screen agency for the West Midlands, is based in the city's Jewellery Quarter.
The first known Birmingham newspaper was the Birmingham Journal, which was published by Thomas Warren from 1732 and whose early contributors included Samuel Johnson.[38] The most notable of the town's early newspapers however was Aris's Birmingham Gazette, which was founded in 1741 and continued publishing until 1956.[39]
Birmingham now has two local daily newspapers—the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail—as well as the Sunday Mercury, all owned by the Trinity Mirror, who also own What's On magazine, a fortnightly listings title which has been running for 30 years. The publisher also produces The Birmingham News, a weekly freesheet distributed to homes in the suburbs along with Forward (formerly Birmingham Voice), the Birmingham City Council's free newspaper distributed to homes and via community centres and public buildings. Several local newspapers serve Birmingham, including the Birmingham Advertiser and the Sutton Coldfield Observer which serves Sutton Coldfield and parts of Erdington.
Birmingham is also the hub for various national ethnic media, including The Voice, The Sikh Times, Desi Xpress, The Asian Today[40] and Raj TV (based in The Mailbox[41]). National showbiz magazine Ikonz is based in Birmingham, one of the few outside London. The music magazine Bearded and culture magazine Fused Magazine are produced in the city.
Digital media[edit]
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Birmingham has a growing digital media sector and social media community.
The provision for media education and training in Birmingham has been acknowledged by Skillset, the sector skills council for the creative media industries.[42] Birmingham City University (BCU) received accreditation as a Skillset Media Academy in 2007, and its courses at Millennium Point (TEE), Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) and the Birmingham School of Media offer theoretical, practical and vocational studies in areas such as television and film, music and audio production, and interactive media. Further education institutions such as South Birmingham College and Birmingham Metropolitan College house extensive media production facilities and maintain close industry links. Established in 2003, the CSV Media Clubhouse's portfolio of courses comprises industry-standard multimedia production training.
The University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, founded in 1964 and closed in 2002, produced key theorists and research in media and cultural studies. The university still provides undergraduate and postgraduate education in this field as of 2010, through its Department of Sociology.
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Four Somewhat Forgotten but Beneficial Leadership Qualities 25. January 2013 Maranda Gibson Business Communications (0) I've been lucky to experience leadership from a vast group of people who handle leadership in different ways. I've had the young and hip boss, the sales driven, goal-oriented, no-nonsense boss, and everything in between. When I was fresh out of college, I realized quickly what I would respond to and what wouldn't motivate me. I've realized that some of the most important skills in leadership are some of the ones that you don't see a lot of. Communication Skills - The end goal of communicating with employees is to get a positive response. No matter if it's a one-on-one situation where the employees behavior needs to change or it's to a group in the hopes of brainstorming the next great thing, you want the talk to motivate employees to take action. Representation - Our bosses would never ask us to do something that they wouldn't be willing to do themselves. This is why they will help with calls if we're really busy or will pitch in to make things go smoother. You are the leader for a reason and showing your employees that you remember what it was like to be where they were, or be willing to pitch in goes a long way with a great office environment. Approachability - I never feel like I have to hesitate if I see something that could be worded better or something that we can change to make the experience better for the customer. Since we deal with the customers all of the time, it works for us to be able to go to our bosses and explain what we see. For example, I just suggested to my boss we change one of our email templates, and now, I need to work on the text for it. Sense of Humor - We have a great relationship with each other and our bosses and we laugh a lot together. We've been able to cultivate a positive team environment that leads to an open sharing of ideas and it just makes approachability easier to come by when we can work and laugh together. My experience is that the best leaders will be the ones that can incorporate all of the things that make us better leaders. What do you think are forgotten but important leadership qualities? What makes a great leader?
Avoiding Miscommunication 7. January 2013 Maranda Gibson (0) I started reading a book about writing last week called Wired for Story by Lisa Cron. It's about the way your brain responds to storytelling and how you tailor the way you write to engage the brain. I tried to tell my friend about the book, but my explanation didn't entice her wish to read. In fact, the moment I said the word "science" she seemed disinterested. Later she told me that she liked to keep her creative side and her science side separate, and I realized that wasn't what I had meant at all. Isn't it funny how miscommunication works? While I was just trying to talk to my friend about a book, I failed to communicate the information in a way that would pique her interest. Instead, I assumed that she would understand what my underlying message was, and not focus on the mention book was applying scientific theories to creativity. Even with a friend, these miscues can occur when we make assumptions or infer meanings that aren't correct or there to begin with. Here are three ways to keep the miscommunication to a minimum. Take the time to think about what you're about to say before it just pops out of your mouth. My mother used to tell me that my biggest problem as a child was that I had no filter. It was cute when I was five and telling our landlord that he was not my father and couldn't tell me what to do, but as an adult, that's not really appropriate. Consider your relationship to the person you are speaking with. It's probably a bad idea to talk to your boss the same way you might speak to your friend after a couple of vodka tonics. Understanding relationships and how to appropriately respond based on any lines that you might cross is a must for adequately judging what you can say and how you can say it. When writing your communications let someone else read it before you send it. Sending a response via email takes away your ability to be heard, so people can (and will) draw their own conclusions on what you mean. It's important to set the tone in an email and you should never respond when you're angry or frustrated. Kenneth Roman & Joel Raphaelson's book, Writing that Works, features a chapter on how to craft a great email and breaks down the importance of tone. Bonus Tip: When you've replied to an email twice and the issue is still unresolved, it's time to pick up the phone. Our rule here is to not hit reply a third time; instead, make a phone call. Bonus Tip #2: When you find yourself starting a sentence with "Don't take this the wrong way…" you should stop talking. What's the best way to make your message clear to everyone?
International Conference Call Options 13. December 2012 Maranda Gibson Business Communications, Conference Calls (0) Not too long ago one of my favorite customers sent me an email inquiring about international conference calls. If you need to provide a way for participants outside of the United States or Canada to join your conference call we have three different options for international dialing. Option One: Participant Pays Long Distance / International Fees. This option requires no changes on how you use or are billed for your services. Anywhere in the world, a participant can call into a direct access number and be joined to the conference. You're billed whatever is standard for your account and they are billed on their phone bill what their provider will charge. This option is best for those who rarely have a need for international conferences or are one of our flat rate customers. Option Two: International Toll Free. From Argentina to Venezuela on this list of rates these countries can be provided their own toll free access into our conference bridges. You rates for domestic callers (US / Canada) stay the same and the rate for international depends on the country that connects. There is usually no charge to participants in these countries and requires a new conference line on your account. Option Three: Most countries can be dialed to from within in our system and brought into the conference line without any additional charges to them. For many of the countries there is little to no change in your per minute per person rate. Some countries are not available for outdial and we can either add a new conference line or activate this option on a conference existing on your account. Depending on what option you choose or how your account is set up, we might ask for you for an additional form to be sent back to us. International can be activated for specific users of your account in order to limit cost and availability for the services. If you need international conferencing added to your account or have any questions about how it works or the pricing for outdial rates, just give us a call and we can help.
Better Writing Lessons from NaNoWriMo 10. December 2012 Maranda Gibson Business Communications, News (0) If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you know that I spent a lot of November talking about NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it has a very simple goal – write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Such a challenge written on paper may not seem like much but when you try to do it, you realize that it becomes a feat of writing at least 1,667 words a day. The standard blog post is about 350 – 600 words. For four years, I have begun November by saying this is the year and I will complete this challenge and every year, it seems like something happens to derail my progress. This year, though, it's different and I am proud to announce that I am a 2012 NaNoWriMo Winner. Winning felt great and completing something that seemed like such a beast over the last few years was even more of an accomplishment. It honestly feels like I can do anything. I wanted to think about how I could translate that feeling into the creative energy I spend at work so that feeling of accomplishment will be in all of my work. Outline. Before NaNo began, I had the idea, plot, and characters for my novel all lined out. I took each scene and moment step by step so that I didn't get lost or forget the important points. I'd never done that before and I think that using outlines in blogging will help me to write more content that has a true outcome, instead of just mashing ideas together and hoping to end up with a great post. It's easier to get ahead than it is to fall behind. One of the things that always prevented me from completing NaNo was that I always seem to have family obligations in November. If you look at my progress chart below, I was 8,000 words ahead by day five which was a huge help for those days when I was out of town or during the holiday. Turn off Your Inner Editor. Part of the goal of NaNoWriMo is to encourage writers to just write. In a lot of ways there is no rhyme or reason to the plot of a participant's story. It's about encouraging writers to turn off the need to "edit as they go" and instead just put the words down. You can always go back and correct the things that are wrong later. Find Someone to Battle With. It was a big help to do "word wars" with a friend who was also trying to reach the 50,000 word goal and it was great to have someone that I could battle with. We would pick a time and then write as quickly as we could to see who could get the most words in a 20 or 30 minute period. Even if you battle with yourself you can set a timer to see how many words you can put down in a specific amount of time. On the next post, try to beat your personal best. The best thing about completing something like this is feeling that pressure off. There really feels like there is nothing to stop me from taking on the world – okay, maybe not, but I did write 50,000 words in 30 days, and that's a pretty amazing accomplishment. What will you accomplish today?
Customers Expect Speedy Service 29. November 2012 Maranda Gibson Customer Service (0) Let's face it – we live in a 'want it now and don't want to wait' kind of world. Look around you the next time you're out or while you're holiday shopping. Black Friday sales started at eight and ten PM Thanksgiving night and one of the biggest reasons for this is that people didn't want to wait for the sales to start in the early morning hours. Look around at any store and you'll see the development of the ideas of meeting customer's on-demand expectations. From self-check isles to overnight shipping, you can see that the world feeds our need to have things right away. Take a look to evaluate how you're operating things at your company and see if you're meeting the right here, right now expectations of your customers. Take a look at your customer service. While not everyone can eliminate phone trees and hold times, there are ways to make things easier for customers. It could be that you hire more people when your call volume is highest or train existing employees to handle accounting or minor technical calls. Evaluate the products that you offer and see if there are any new offerings you can make that customers might expect you to have. For example, if your company sells roofing shingles, you should consider selling roofing nails on your website. Customers to come to your website will consider the convenience of having the ability to buy all of the supplies they need a bonus. How long does it take a customer to find things on your site? Do they have to make a million clicks to get to the contact information or your pricing? If a potential client has to spend too long on your website to find the information they are looking for, you'll find yourself with a lot of missed opportunities. When it comes to giving a customer what they need, it goes beyond simply creating and selling and product. You have to provide those services in a way that is both informative and an efficient use of their time. How do you make sure that you're meeting the on-demand desires with potential customers?
Preparing for Communications Failures 15. November 2012 Maranda Gibson Business Communications, News (0) Superstorm Sandy has come and gone but the effect of the storm on communication remains. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, the FCC reported that 25% of the operating cell towers were damaged during the storm and the ability to make calls, send, and receive messages would be temporarily affected. When you know there's an event that could interrupt your ability to communicate with your friends and family, prepare in advance for what could be a long time without your cell phone. Have at least $5.00 in quarters in your first aid / emergency kit. I know that a lot of people under the age of eighteen have probably never seen a payphone, nor would they fully grasp the idea of calling collect. Gather some quarters before the weather event so that if you do lose service you can find a payphone and make a call. Notify who you can when you can. A friend of mine was in a hard hit area of New Jersey and it was touch and go to get a hold of her for the first week. She asked me to be responsible for updating our mutual friends, as she could get one text message out much easier than she could twenty. She would text me how she was, and I would use social networks to update our friends. Update Social Networks via text message instead of using an application. In my hometown in Arkansas, the cell phone service is pretty spotty, and most of the time is spent on the Edge network. This makes things like updating my Facebook and Twitter difficult because it can take so long for the application to load. Most social networks have a way to update your status by sending a text message and it's a great way to update your friends and family. Find Your Local Red Cross. Before a disaster strikes, find your local Red Cross and see if you can find out where they will be setting up emergency stations in the event of a serious event. You can view a list of Red Cross centers by your zip code and then you'll have a good idea of where to start if you need help. You can even check in to Safe & Well to list yourself as OK or check on friends and family. It's hard when you lose your cell phone because it's the way we connect with the world. In the event of a disaster, you have to stay connected in any way you can. Sometimes, that means that old technology might be the most reliable. Image credit to NOAA.
Delivering Promises to Customers 31. October 2012 Maranda Gibson Customer Service (0) A few weekends ago, I wanted to order some sandwiches for deliver to my house. I assumed that since there were two locations of a chain within a reasonable drive to my location, that surely they could keep their "freakishly fast" promise. After being denied at both locations, I decided to look and see exactly how far they were from my house. The two sandwiches places were mapped out to be five miles away and searching around the sandwich site, I didn't see anything that restricted delivery mileage and it seemed it should have that information. Your website is the portal to your business and what you offer to customers. So does your website deliver the truth to customers? Are there old promotions hanging out on different pages? Take an hour and go through your landing pages to make sure that you are still honoring the offers on the site. Trust me, if there's a deal available online, a customer is going to find it and ask for it. If you find anything that's old or out of date you should change it or update it. Are the terms and conditions clear? If a promotion requires new customers to send you a picture of them talking into a banana like a telephone, then make sure you put that on the website. If a customer understands the things that have to be done to have a special deal they can make their own decisions, then it builds transparency between you and the customer. Most customers can understand why or why not a company can do something as long as they don't try to hide the reasons and requirements behind it. How do you make your websites and promotions transparent for customers?
How to Speak With Less Emotion 2. October 2012 Maranda Gibson (0) It's true that delivering a powerful, moving, and emotional speech can sometimes be a make it or break it point. Imagine a coach trying to motivate his team, the boss trying to encourage employees, or a teacher trying to push their students to make it through the end of the year. Emotional speech can be a powerful tool to motivate and encourage those around you – but what happens when the line is crossed and you are suddenly speaking offensively and with a lot of anger in your voice? I'll tell you what happens – people check out of the conversation. You immediately become "the crazy person" who can't control their emotions or can't listen to a differing opinion without raising your voice and shaking your fist around. Perhaps to you, what you are feeling is just passion for your opinion, but there is a fine line between "speaking passionately" and "letting emotions drive the conversation". There are a limited number of times when you really want to let emotions drive you in a speech and most of the times, it's best to buckle them up into the back seat and let reason and logic rule the way. How we identify these emotional situations and how we are reacting to them are important testaments to our character. When should we leave emotion at the door and take a "just-the-facts-ma'am" approach? In Debate or Arguments Engaging in a civil debate with another person means that you are agreeing to keep emotions out of it. I'm not talking about the kind of emotional response that is going to make you be passionate about your beliefs; I'm talking about the emotional response that will be triggered in a response to your opponent that includes a lot of f-bombs or punches being thrown. Those kinds of emotional responses have no place in debates and arguments. At the Workplace It's best in meetings to present information in a calm and succinct way. If you have the facts to back up your position, then be ready to go with numbers and cold hard information to defend your position. It's not always that easy, I know, but the honest truth is that the more you let yourself get angry, or upset, the more you're just going to get worked up and getting worked up doesn't leave people with the idea that you know what you're talking about. When you feel your emotions rising to the boiling point, take a deep breath and count to ten before you respond, or you can ask to be excused or resume once you've had a moment to get your thoughts together. While passion drives our ambitions, I think that once our emotions get out of hand, it's time to reel a few things into perspective. Are you the person that people avoid at meetings? Is your line always forcibly muted on conference calls? Maybe you should consider a little less emotion the next time you open your mouth to speak. What do you think? Is there a difference between passion and emotion? Do you think the louder a voice rises, the more someone is right or wrong? When do emotions get in the way of your message?
Charity Spotlight: The Parenting Center 1. October 2012 Maranda Gibson (0) As many of you know, our offices are located in beautiful Fort Worth, Texas and many of the employees and owners of this company have grown up in the area. We are proud members of the community and like to get involved with local events to support local charities and organizations. A few months ago we told you about Circle of Friends, which works with Cook Children's Hospital to provide aid to families with a cancer diagnosis. Now we'd like to bring your attention to another great local Fort Worth charity and an upcoming event. AccuConference is pleased to be a sponsor for the Parenting Center's 13th Annual Tee it Up Fore Kids Golf Tournament. The Golf Tournament will be held at the Shady Oaks Country Club near downtown on November 5, 2012. As all the locals know, the fall months here in Texas are some of the most beautiful and the greens are always filled with the amateur golfer. Why not take your love for the outdoors and the game of golf and do something to help a great charity like the Parenting Center? The Parenting Center offers skills training classes and parenting education all with the hopes of preventing child abuse and neglect. What makes the Parenting Center so unique is that the classes are designed to help parents with any kind of neglect. What if the parent can't get a toddler to stop throwing temper tantrums and time out just isn't working in your house? Skills classes teach some different approaches from how to care to newborn and how divorced parents can learn how to co-parent in a healthy environment. Contact the Parenting Center at 817-332-6489 for more information on teeing off for a great local cause!
Transcription Services 25. September 2012 Maranda Gibson Business Communications, Conference Calls, News (0) Transcription services may be at an extra cost but there are unique benefits to using them that you might not think about. Usually, we think about transcriptions we think about them for medical purposes or legal documentations of conversations and while these are great uses of a transcription there are many more reasons that adding this service to your conferencing routine can benefit your business in a number of ways. Here's a couple of other ways that AccuConference customers are making transcriptions a part of their usual conference calls routine. Any conversation that is "on the record" should be transcribed so that there is no deviation from what was said. Recording your conference calls is one way to get extra posterity for conversations, but a transcription can be sent out to those who want to keep written documentation. For videos not only are you making the content within in the video able to be crawled by search engines, you're also providing an easy way to mark sections for editing. If you're reviewing a video and need to send a few more notes over to the editor, you can transcribe the text with a timestamp feature and highlight the times that require additional review. This makes it easier for the editor to go into your video and make quick changes. The process speeds up when the editor doesn't have to go searching for phrases and gestures to remove. Under Regulation Fair Disclosure mandated by the SEC in 2000, requires that any information released to investors or analysis must be made public. The purpose of the regulation was to even the playing field between all kinds of stock holders and prevent the large investment companies from getting a "heads up" on information that could affect stock prices. Regulation FD requires broad dissemination to the public of stock information and is usually done by conference call playback or by a transcription. News stories are optimized for mobile devices when you include the transcription of the video together. I check my news applications constantly and I am more likely to "read" a story than to stop and watch the accompanying video on my phone. It will also make your news stories accessible to people who do not have the latest smartphone technology or have access to cool tablet computers. Did I mention that the content of your conference call suddenly becomes searchable? Imagine that you get an opportunity to host an incredible interview with someone and you upload it to your website and hope that people are able to find it. If you can post the text on your website somewhere your interview content can be returned as a result in Google search. What useful things can you think of for having conversations transcribed?


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- Exchange: Tokyo
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Company Profile for Sekichu Co Ltd (9976)
SEKICHU CO., LTD. operates home center stores in Gunma, Tochigi, and Saitama prefectures. The Company mainly sells lumber, hardware, paint, gardening goods, and exterior products. Sekichu also operates eyeglasses stores and sports/ leisure goods and automobile accessories stores.
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Phone: 81-27-345-1111
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The son of John Dyer Collier (editor of the Critical Review), John Payne Collier studied at the Middle Temple (1811) and was a writer for the Morning Chronicle when he helped to record Coleridge's lectures of 1811-12. Collier, who contributed articles on Elizabethan literature to the Critical Review (1816-17), was an antiquarian friend of Charles Lamb, a bibliophile, and founder of the Shakespeare Society (1841). Collier was accused of forgery and falsifying documents; though the extent of his culpability has been disputed, he spent his last years living in shame. He edited Spenser's Works in 1862.
1811 ca.[Diary Entry: Coleridge on Spenser.]
1820The Poetical Decameron.
1822Preface to The Poet's Pilgrimage.
1822The Poet's Pilgrimage. Canto II.
1822The Poet's Pilgrimage. Canto III.
1822The Poet's Pilgrimage. Canto IV.
1822The Poet's Pilgrimage; an Allegorical Poem.
Trilogy on the emendations of Shakespeare's text. 1814.
Criticisms on the Bar. 1819.
The poetical decameron. 2 vols, 1820.
The poet's pilgrimage: an allegorical poem. 1822.
Select collection of old plays [Dodsley], ed. Collier. 12 vols, 1825-27.
Punch and Judy ... an account of its origin. 1828.
The history of English dramatic poetry. 3 vols, 1831.
New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare. 1835.
New particulars regarding the works of Shakespeare. 1836.
A catalogue, bibliographical and critical, of early English literature. 1837.
Further particulars regarding Shakespeare and his works. 1839.
The Egerton papers: a collection of public and private documents. 1840.
Reasons for a new edition of Shakespeare's works. 1841.
Memoirs of Edward Alleyn. 1841.
Memoirs of the principal actors in the plays of Shakespeare. 1846.
Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays. 1852.
Reply to Mr. N. E. S. Hamilton's Inquiry into the imputed Shakespeare forgeries. 1860.
Poetical works of Edmund Spenser [ed. Collier]. 5 vols, 1862.
Illustrations of early English popular literature. 2 vols, 1863-64.
A bibliographical and critical account of the rarest books in the English language. 2 vols, 1865.
Illustrations of Old English literature. 3 vols, 1866.
Odds and ends. 1870.
An old man's diary, forty years ago. 1871.
Middle Temple
Inns of Court
Gentleman's Magazine
London Magazine
The Morning Chronicle
The Critical Review
The Literary Gazette
The Times
The Amulet
Thomas Barnes
Charles Cowden Clarke
Francis Egerton
William Godwin
William Hazlitt
Charles Lamb
DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed).
S. W. Singer, The Text of Shakespeare Vindicated from the Interpolations and Corruptions Advocated by J. P. Collier (1853); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Henry Crabb Robinson, in Diary (1869); John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (1871-72); Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature 3rd ed. (1876); Illustrated London News 83 (1883) 309 [portrait]; Antiquarian Magazine 4 (1883) 272-75; H. B. Wheatley, Notes on the Life of John Payne Collier (1884); Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921); Dewey Ganzel, Fortune and Men's Eyes (1982); Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman, John Payne Collier (2004).
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1. | 1862 George Puttenham: John Payne Collier, in Poetical Works of Spenser (1862; 1875) 1:clxvi n. |
2. | 1870 William Basse: John Payne Collier, introduction to Basse, Pastorals and other Works (1870) i-iv. |


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Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley expects PlayStation 3 to account for half of the company's business going forward. Speaking with GameDaily, Smedley expressed his belief that there's an audience for MMOs on PS3, suggesting that PSN has "great user base potential" (17 million strong these days).
Smedley believes that those playing PS3 games aren't the same ones playing MMOs. So he thinks putting MMOs on the PS3 is going to bring in new players. With diverse titles like Free Realms, DC Universe Online and The Agency in the works, maybe SOE can get something to click with the console crowd.
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Set of 4 porcelain plates assorted colors Travel collection by Bitossi. Measure 19 cm. diameter can be washed in the dishwasher. Barcelona-Yellow, Green-Berlin, Los Angeles- Purple, Violette-Amsterdam
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This sculptural, jewellery tree measures 36,5cm in height so that lang necklaces can hang beautifully on its branches.
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Scientists develop a gel that mimics mollusc glue to coat the insides of blood vessels.
Scientists develop a gel that mimics mollusc glue to coat the insides of blood vessels.
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.
A study suggests that some mouse models do not accurately mimic human molecular mechanisms of inflammatory response, but other mouse strains may fare better.
One of the most advanced tuberculosis vaccines has failed to protect infants from getting the disease in a clinical trial, but it may be effective in adults.
With dogged persistence and an unwillingness to entertain defeat, Bruce Beutler discovered a receptor that powers the innate immune response to infections—and earned his share of a Nobel Prize.
Some of these insidious viruses expertly subvert the host immune system, allowing their unhindered proliferation.
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With all of the threads about the PS3 and Xbox 360 I was surprised to see that no one started a thread about the Nintendo Revolution. Sony and Microsoft arn't the only companies engaging in the next-gen console wars after. For those of you that don't know, the Revolution is the sucessor to the Gamecube and is going to be Nintendo's next system. I'll start out by listing some details about the system.
1. It's more that likely that the Nintendo Revolution is going to cost less than the PS3 and Xbox 360. For gamers that don't want to spend their whole wallet on a next-gen system, this is a warm welcome.
2. Moms and girlfriends will be more likely to play the Revolution. Now I'm sure that there are moms and girlfriends that do play sony's and microsoft's console, the Revolution is much more casual friendly than the other 2 consoles. This is mostly due to the fact that most of the Revolution games with be pick-up and play friendly and offer enhanced multiplayer options.
3. The Xbox 360 and the PS3 support "backwards compatibility" but not as rewarding as the Revolutions. Through Nintendo's Wi-Fi connection service, you will be able to download NES, SNES, and N64 games. Imagine having Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Mario 128. That's 5 generations of AAA quality software on one console. Sony and Microsoft can't compete with that. The Revolution also comes with built in ports that allow you to plug in your GC controllers so that you can play GC games on the Revolution.
4. The new controller design offers tons of gameplay possibilities. The dual-analog setup gives you full 3D movement and manipulation in your games. In a recent video that was shown on the official Nintendo Revolution website, it showed a man cutting an onion, an elderly couple conducting an orchestra, a old man and a little boy fishing, and a man playing baseball. All of this was done with the Revolution's controller. This could enable there to be games that weren't previously possible on other systems and if sucessful, could make games better than they have ever been. It has also been stated that a large number of third party developers are interested in the Revolution's controller. This could lead to a large third party support which was non-existent on the GC and N64.
5. Nintendo is the only place where you can find franchises like the Mario, Metroid, and Zelda series. Not only have every game in these series been excellent but they are also the most well known characters in the video game market. Considering that millions of people have stayed loyal to Nintendo simply because they love these characters and franchises it's easy enough to say that they all will be coming to the Revolution. We could also see the return of some classic nintendo characters (Kid Icarus FPS anyone?). Throw in the fact that the Revolution is going to come Wi-Fi enabled right out of the box (It's been rumored that a new online-enabled Super Smash Bros. will be available at launch day) and you've got one hell of a gaming machine.
Well now that that is now all said and done I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks about the Nintendo Revolution and what it's strengths and weaknesses are. I, for one, am very pleased to hear that you will be able to download and play games from Nintendo's older systems. It's pretty safe to say that all of the previous Nintendo games will be downloadable but there are also possibilites of Final Fantasy titles and maybe even Metal Gear titles since both Hideo Kojima and Akitoshi Kawazu showed liking to the Revolution's controller.
I'm also very excited about the Revolution's controller. I pretty much know how FPS games will turn out but how about fighting games? How are racing games going to take advantage of the controller? Will the design of the controller show a large amount of music games being developed for the Revolution? I guess I'll have to wait till 2006 to find out. :)


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A week or so ago, George Will wrote a column in the Chronicle titled "Educating the young is the business of the state."
That seems to be a conclusion in search of supporting evidence and rationale. But it would find none of either in his article.
Re: Halls River Road project.
Having attended the zoning board meeting on this issue and speaking as a resident of the immediate area and being a retired EMT firefighter, I addressed the safety aspect of the established residents who will have to use this road daily for travel and also as an evacuation route.
Carl Hiaasen's column today (Sunday, Feb. 22) is right on the mark — that Brian Williams is lucky he was merely suspended for six months without pay and not fired outright. One can understand maybe a grunt in combat may invent a story like this, but for a guy who is such a huge public
figure to invent such an outright phony story of bravery is idiotic. Did he think no one would check? As huge as he was, did he believe it would not pop up on somebody's radar and be easily debunked?
In regard to the letter of rebuttal on Feb. 10 to my letter of Feb. 1, which stated I "should get the facts straight and verify my statements first" — I did.
I called Animal Control and was transferred to "someone who would be able to answer my questions." I specifically asked the question as to whether healthy animals were euthanized due to low adoption rates and lack of enough space. I asked that question twice and was given the same answer, "yes."
I read the interesting article on training German shepherds for the K-9 Corps. We have always owned German shepherds for years when living up North.
I always walk my dogs on a leash even when they are obedience trained, as many people are nervous about walking past large dogs.
I had to raise my eyebrows at some of the comments made in your op-ed piece concerning HB 623 in today's Chronicle, dated Feb. 26. The law as it is written is indeed a one-size-fits-all approach, which makes it a bad law, and it certainly does not apply in all situations. I agree with you on that.
The Chronicle recently printed an editorial titled "Emergency room first, then trauma center." The recognition that the emergency room needs physical and procedural improvement is appropriate. However the uncritical acceptance of the logic for a trauma center designation may need reexamination.
It has been brought to my attention that some people believe technical colleges are of no importance. I am a graduate of a technical college, and I have to say I disagree.
Plans for the 11 acres, which is now being considered for the Halls River Hotel, have been argued for 14 years. First, it was condos, then cabins, now a four-story, 110 unit hotel. It was once zoned Coastal Lakes which allowed only one home per 20 acres.


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In law enforcement, many of us spend a great deal of time behind the wheel of our patrol vehicle, our office on wheels. Unlike the desk at home, however, we frequently must drive our offices at high speeds through all types of weather and traffic conditions they never taught us in our high school driver s education classes. Partly due to these job dimensions, and partly to address the issues brought up in Canton v. Harris,* law enforcement agencies regularly integrate some sort of EVOC program into their basic training regimen.
Unfortunately, due to location, budget, vehicle and instructor availability, department size and other perceived priorities, the effectiveness of EVOC training programs varies significantly from agency to agency. In some cases, like the California Highway Patrol, an immense training facility exists with multiple training settings, including high- and low-speed training, precision immobilization technique (PIT) training and much more. In others, agencies must improvise with free parking lots, construction cones and speeds that rarely exceed 40 mph. Agencies meet their training needs in both cases, but even the most effective EVOC instructor can only do so much on a 500'x400' parking lot. And, while academy programs are standardized in each state, many agencies offer little afterward.
Ultimately, whether or not your agency s EVOC program protects you legally in a crisis, you owe it to yourself, your family, your career and the public to make yourself the best driver possible. Because we know the limitations of public agencies EVOC training methods, we must look elsewhere to improve driving skills.
Fortunately, the vast legion of automotive enthusiasts around the world has ensured that numerous options exist to improve your driving skills and provide you with a lot of fun while you re learning. Many of the options listed below exist nationwide and can be done at a pretty low cost. For some, you can use your personal vehicle with little or no modification, or use the vehicles provided. For others, you will need to purchase specialized vehicles and equipment.
Regardless, the investment in your driving skills will provide benefits in your personal life, and will make you a much more capable and efficient law enforcement driver. Every option is a legitimate, controlled environment in which you can learn valuable skills, have fun and give yourself and your family some additional peace of mind.
Cost: Entry fees usually vary from $20 $50; annual membership fees may apply.
Can I use my own vehicle? Yes.
What is it? Autocrossing, also known as Solo racing, is basically a competition form of the type of traffic-coned courses you drove in the academy. But unlike the academy, each driver is individually timed to the thousandth of a second, and drivers compete against one another in similarly classed vehicles. Vehicles complete the course one at a time (hence the Solo moniker), and the events are usually held on airport runways, parking lots, etc. There are two types of Solo events, Solo I and Solo II. The difference: Solo I events are usually held on high-speed venues that require additional safety equipment, while Solo II events are low-speed that require no modifications.
Why it's good: Solo II emphasizes driver skill and vehicle handling, which means precision, smoothness and balance are the keys to running fast. Because you can use your personal vehicle, you can learn how to drive your vehicle to its limit for safer street driving, and may be able to bring your patrol car to the event. The courses change from venue to venue, so there s a lot of variety, and there is usually an event near you. Competition can prove fierce, with winners often determined by hundredths and thousandths of a second.
What you ll need: A vehicle that meets a basic safety inspection, a helmet (sometimes provided), a few dollars to enter, and a good attitude.
What if I like it? There are literally thousands of Solo events nationwide each year. Because there are many categories and classes of Solo, you can either continue driving your street car, or find something more specialized. If you feel especially confident, you can attend the annual SCCA Solo II National Championships in the Midwest. There, you ll find more than a thousand drivers, all wanting to take home the championship in their classes.
Whom do I contact? The Sports Car Club of America (www.scca.com), or the National Auto Sport Association (www.nasaproracing.com). Numerous independent car clubs also offer Solo events to their members.
Kart Racing
What it costs: Entry fees typically vary from track to track; annual membership fees may apply. You will also need to buy, rent or borrow a kart and the required safety gear. You can buy a good kart for less than $2,000, with price increases dependent on class and equipment.
Can I use my own vehicle? No.
What is it? Interested in driving a vehicle that accelerates from 0 60 mph in about 3 seconds, corners with as much g-force as a Formula 1 or Indy car, fits in the back of a normal pickup truck and can run an entire race weekend on a few gallons of gas? If so, welcome to karting. What started more than 50 years ago as a low-cost hobby has gone on to become a world-class racing scene for an estimated 100,000-plus Americans annually, according to the World Karting Association.


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- You hear that? That's the clock ticking on your fantasy season.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if you're still trying to make a run at first in your roto league, time is not on your side.
The good news is, you do have some time. Ten days, to be exact.
Making up the ground won't be easy. Unless, of course, you follow these eight simple steps.
1) Be category conscious
Take inventory. What areas are you lacking in? Some categories might be a lost cause (if you're a half run behind in ERA, you're probably not coming back) while others may be up for grabs.
In one of the leagues I'm competing in right now, it's a logjam for the lead in stolen bases. Four teams are separated by only three steals.
An easy solution would be to pick up either Rajai Davis (42 SB) or Eric Young Jr. (39 thefts), who are both available in the majority of Yahoo fantasy leagues. Quick-fixes like these are all over the place if you know where to look.
2) Prioritize
Let's go back to my stolen base example for a minute. While a player like Rajai Davis may give you an edge in steals, his lack of productivity in other categories make him a liability (hence why he's still available in most leagues).
It's up to you if you're willing to sacrifice home runs and RBI for stolen bases. If you have a comfortable lead in those categories and you don't think it will hurt you, go right ahead. But if you have teams breathing down your neck, you may be better off with the guys you already own.
3) Pull the plug
The time for being patient has come and gone. You need results ... NOW.
If you've been holding on to Joe Mauer (concussion) or Carlos Gonzalez (sprained finger) in hopes that they'll be able to play again this season, just give up already. Who cares if A.J. Pierzynski and Denard Span are inferior players? They're healthy.
The same goes for Jacoby Ellsbury (fractured foot) and Allen Craig (sprained foot).
Slumping hitters and pitchers should be handled the same way. There's no time to wait around for Kyle Seager (2-for-23 in his last six games) or Anthony Rizzo (one for his last 17) to get it together. If they can't produce now, you need to get someone who can, and fast.
Of course, if you're in a dynasty league and Seager and Rizzo were going to be your keepers, that changes things a bit. If not, well you know what to do.
4) Be sneaky
This is when the innings limit comes into play. If you're well below the limit, this is the time to take advantage. Pick up as many starters as you can. Get a new one every day if you have to. Whatever it takes to catch up in wins and strikeouts.
Some leagues have an add/drop limit but many don't. If you're in one of the leagues that doesn't restrict the number of transactions you make, feel free to turn your starting rotation into a revolving door.
Obviously roster space is limited, so you're going to have to drop players when they're not pitching. But if you play it right, you should be able to pick them up again before their next start (assuming another owner doesn't snatch one of them first).
Sure, it's a little sketchy but desperate times call for desperate measures. You want to win, don't you?
5) Take a knee
If you have a commanding lead in a stat that can fluctuate rapidly like batting average or ERA, why risk it?
That doesn't mean you should bench everyone. But if one of your borderline guys like Jon Niese or Dan Haren is facing an unfavorable matchup, I wouldn't hesitate to sit them. Same goes for low batting average guys like Mike Napoli or Yoenis Cespedes against strikeout pitchers like Yu Darvish or Max Scherzer.
Be VERY careful with matchups down the stretch. You don't want to lose any ground.
6) Ditch the Dodgers
Seriously, have any of them even played in the last week? Yasiel Puig, Hanley Ramirez, Andre Ethier, Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez have all been playing sporadically and it's easy to see why. With a nine and a half game lead in the NL West, they virtually have nothing to play for, unless they suddenly become interested in home field advantage (the Dodgers actually have the best road record in the NL so they might not want it).
If you're in catch-up mode, the Dodgers and other teams in the same position (Atlanta and Boston are close to clinching as well) won't be able to provide much help in fantasy.
By that same token, many of the teams that have already been eliminated are taking the same approach. For example, the Marlins (30 games back in the NL East) decided to shut down Jose Fernandez, easily their most consistent fantasy contributor this season (12-6, 2.19 ERA). The Blue Jays acted similarly by letting Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion take the rest of the year off. Which leads us to step No. 7.
7) Watch the pennant race
While the Dodgers and Braves will be taking it easy over the next week, there are plenty of teams out there that won't have that luxury. The Indians, Orioles, Rays, Rangers, Royals and Yankees are all fighting for their playoff lives right now. And though the Cardinals, Pirates and Reds are all postseason-bound, the division is still up for grabs and I guarantee none of them want to play in the do-or-die Wild Card game.
None of these teams will be resting their starters, which means fantasy owners can rely on them down the stretch.
8) Experiment time is over
It's natural to be curious about guys like Xander Bogaerts and Billy Hamilton. Both are top prospects and you never know who is going to be the next Bryce Harper or Mike Trout.
But don't let that curiosity get in the way of your ultimate goal, which is winning the league THIS season. It's way too late in the season to waste a roster spot on a work in progress. You need guys that can contribute right away and that's not a quality September call-ups normally possess. Feel free to draft them next season but don't let them get in the way of what you're trying to achieve right now.
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Hi aeajr,
Mine are just bolted on at this point. I know by reading your posts that you have a lot experience with the Spirit. I'm a newbie to all this and want to make sure everything is good to go before the first flights. I have set CG at 3.5" from LE, Gordy Stahl suggests 40% of root to start (which is 3.6" on the Spirit) no matter what the plan says. I thought I would start .1" ahead of that. Sorry, back to decalage, has this been a factor for you with the Spirit? Don |
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You can also shim the back of the wing, as described earlier. |
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If you have a wing incidence gague, you can measure it first. I did not have one at the time.
I can't say if yours needs correcting or not. There is probably some in there by design but the one have had too much. If you can secure it temporarily some way and fly it and see, that would be best. Or figure out how you would fix it before you assemble it that would be excellent. On page 27 of the kit manual it indicates that the wing and stab should be parallel to each other. So take a look. http://manuals.hobbico.com/gpm/gpma0530-manual.pdf |
Jan 31, 2008, 08:27 AM | |
Hey dwells,
Don't believe us... do some trials Fly the plane as stock, note how she reacts to different speeds, then add some shims, 1/8 or 1/16 increments and try to find differences. Stay with the most comfortable setup, that suits better your flying style, then glue everything and go enjoy the Spirit. |
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Wow! The altitude that I was able to accomplish with the real hi-start was amazing. The air up there is different. I managed to achieve several flights over 5 min and one over 7 min. My neck was getting tired. I can see the usefullness of a lounge chair.
Aeajr, I tried your suggestion with the dime taped to the tail a couple of times. It did not seem to help; at least my times dropped. I am not saying I have given up on that but that was what happened today. I did catch one small thermal but did not stay with it very well. Oh, well all and all it was a great day. I was out for 3 hours with a couple of new flyers and they were really impressed with the launch and flight of my Spirit. Randy |
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