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A review by John O'Neill
Reviewing a new Stephen King title is always a challenge. For one thing, there's the gnawing question
of whether anything you have to say matters a whit -- most readers have already made up their minds
based on the man's prior work, and the most you can hope for is maybe to sharpen the anticipation
a bit. Then there's the total lack of a frontier factor. The chief joy of being a reviewer is
"The Discovery," digging up some shiny new thing and then furiously waving people over while it's still breathing.
With Stephen King, you're just a roadie at a rock concert. You're lucky if you get to direct someone to the bathroom.
Still, we all have our crosses to bear. And mine arrived in the shape
of Hearts in Atlantis, what the word on the street said was a series of four
interlinked novellas. Shades of Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight -- two
of his finest efforts -- only this time interlinked, whatever that meant. Also new were the
sources of the blurbs on the back: The New York Times Book Review,
The Observer and GQ, of all places. When King shifted publishers
from Viking to Scribner in 1998 with Bag of Bones, his books suddenly stopped carrying
warnings from the American Cardiac Institute, instead bearing blurbs from folks such as Amy Tan and Gloria Naylor.
Looks like the carefully managed makeover from "King of Horror" to respectable American Gothic novelist is complete, I thought.
Or is it? Is King still secretly plowing the deep trench of modern horror, in stubborn
defiance of the Scribner marketing team, or has he jumped out into the wider world of mainstream
fiction with no regrets? In other words, would the inevitable chills of Hearts in Atlantis come
from unspeakable evils with unseen claws, or from Vietnam flashbacks?
You're right, of course. It's the last one, liberally garnished with Vietnam flashbacks. If the
King of Horror is back, it's with a brand new back-up band.
Hearts in Atlantis opens with "Low Men in Yellow Coats," a novella in relative terms
only (at 244 pages it's considerably longer than King's last book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon;
together with "Hearts in Atlantis" it occupies nearly 80 percent of the book). The hero here is Bobby
Garfield, 11 years old as the tale opens in 1960. Bobby has a new neighbour, an elderly gentleman
named Ted Brautigan, who's moved in upstairs. As Bobby and Ted become friends, two things of
significance happen. First, Ted gives him a copy of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a book
which Bobby finds both intensely fascinating and very disturbing. Second, he gives Bobby his first real
job: to keep an eye out for low men in yellow coats -- men who may well be chasing the harmless Ted
Brautigan, and who appear to communicate through signs and symbols: secret messages in lost-pet posters,
odd symbols etched in hopscotch games, and kites dangling from telephone wires. Bobby has to deal
with both the sudden adult responsibilities of a job, and the even more adult realization that his
new friend may be very much insane.
"Hearts in Atlantis" pulls us 6 years deeper into the 60s, beginning on the day when a
small group of college freshmen get their first glimpse of the peace sign, and fail to recognize
it. As the first stirrings of anti-Vietnam sentiment begin on campus, sweeping up some of his close
friends, Peter Riley and his companions at the University of Maine are gradually but inexorably sucked
into a never-ending Hearts tournament on the third floor of the Chamberlain dorm. The game continues
for weeks as players lose their girlfriends, transfer, drop out, and even attempt suicide... until a
small handful recognize it for what it is, and what it will take for them to be free of it.
Willie Shearman, who as a boy played a minor role in "Low Men in Yellow Coats," takes centre
stage as an adult in the third tale, "Blind Willie," set in 1983. Willie is a deeply scarred
gentleman -- both by the events of "Low Men in Yellow Coats," and by a disastrous (and only partially
revealed) battle in the Dong Ha province of Vietnam. As a result he leads a very unusual life, a
life that requires him to daily change identities in the bathrooms of Manhattan hotels. "Blind Willie"
hangs together least well as a stand-alone story -- and paradoxically is the only one to have appeared
separately, published in an earlier version in the final issue of Antaeus magazine in 1994.
"Why We're in Vietnam," the final novella in the book (the last piece, "Heavenly Shades of
Night are Falling," at 14 pages is really more of an epilogue) ties the threads of the other tales
together to reveal at last what happened in Dong Ha in 1970. Characters from each of the previous
three novellas meet here in the jungles of Vietnam, in an explosive moment of violence that has
repercussions up and down the decades, from 1960 to 1999. King takes for granted
that you know your Vietnamese history. You'll get more out
of this tale if you're familiar with the major events and players in the war, and in particular
the infamous My Lai massacre in
which an estimated 500 unarmed Vietnamese peasants and children were killed by American soldiers
furious at their own inability to locate the Viet Cong.
The actions of American helicopter pilot
Hugh Thompson and his crew, who
would later receive the Soldier's Medal
for attempting to stop the massacre by threatening to open fire on their own troops, are referred to
indirectly by several characters.
Are the tales interlinked? Yes, but to reveal how would be telling.
They each have a different narrator (some 1st-person, some not), and minor characters in one tale can
become central in another. Are they linked to King's previous fiction? Yes, but in oblique
ways. "Low Men in Yellow Coats," in particular, contains a rich slice of
King's ongoing Dark Tower mythology (Ted Brautigan even shares
a last name with the cover artist for the series' old Plume paperbacks).
And you may see a regulator or two hanging out near the margins.
Are the tales horror? Ah, there's the rub. There it is indeed.
This is perhaps the most experimental book Stephen King has ever written, and consequentially
I believe it will be one of his most controversial (and, quite possibly, one of his least understood). As
he acknowledges in his brief afterward, he has taken some unusual risks -- including a very big risk at
the close. But in large part the risks have a significant payoff. While I've enjoyed many King novels
over the decades, I can't ever recall having the theme driven home so effectively.
When Bobby Garfield at last closes the pages of Lord of the Flies in
"Low Men in Yellow Coats," he voices perhaps the central question of Hearts in Atlantis, a
question that bubbles up more than once as the children Bobby calls friends (and enemies) grow up,
face the adult world, and step out of helicopters into the green fields of Vietnam:
"The words still haunted Bobby. What if there were no grownups?
Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground
marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in
the park?... Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about."
Me too, Steve. Me too.
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- Anonymous2:54 p.m., April 06, 2011
Very well done. I even liked the birds chirping at the end.
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Great video! When is the new TynBul coming out? It has been over a year since the last posting.
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God job Dirk. Indeed, fascinating how the earliest ms bears witness of the truth.
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Last Tyndale Bulletin issue was November. Next, late May.
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iOption receives the International Binary Options Trading Association's (IBOTA) award for the best trading platform and newest innovations for 2011. On Thursday December 28th, iOption was informed of their appointment to the Binary Options Trading Associations Hall of Achievement, by receiving their coveted award for innovation in technology.
Just a short time ago, iOption launched their newest trading platform at www.ioption.com. This new platform incorporates many of the favorites of long time traders and new training formats, like OptionBuilder, which allows the trader to set their own risk and profit ratios.
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hey, welcome here, AO is a good fourm and have a fun here.
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Honestly, I have to agree with Dom over at Megatokyo on his opinion that its insulting to the North American Asian community as a whole that they couldn't find any English speaking Asian actor/actress' to play the roles for any live action adaptation of an Anime (I'm looking squarely at the Dragon Ball movie).
Next I have to move on and say that AnimeInsider is a joke. The several times I've picked up (Meaning browsed through then promptly put back on the shelf) the magazine while at 7-11 as lead me to believe that the level of journalism in said publication is sub-par at best, inaccurate and on the level of Teenie-bopper crap that they shovel off to teenage girls at worst. There are only two anime magazines that I can think off that rival the quality of the ones in Japan is the US version of NewType, and that only did itself under because of its cost and ADV being idiots, and the other one for the life of me I can't think of the name ATM.
The Melancholy of Harhuhi Suzumiya is a classic and concidered by many to be one of the greatest Anime of all time, on the level of the movies from Studio Ghibli and Gainax's Evangelion (To cite examples, there are more), and should not be touched.
And as an EVA fan, I'm saying that Haruhi is better then EVA, PM me if you want to flame my choice, just be prepared for the responses you get back .


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Title: | Delaying Dispreferred Responses in English: From a Japanese perspective |
Author: | Hiroko Tanaka |
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Institution: | University of Essex |
Linguistic Field: | Sociolinguistics; Syntax |
Abstract: | This article employs conversation analysis to explore the interpenetration of grammar and preference organization in English conversation in comparison with a previous study for Japanese. Whereas varying the word order of major syntactic elements is a vital grammatical resource in Japanese for accomplishing the potentially universal task of delaying dispreferred responses to a range of first actions, it is found to have limited utility in English. A search for alternative operations and devices that conversationalists deploy for this objective in English points to several grammatical constructions that can be tailored to maximize the delay of dispreferred responses. These include the fronting of relatively mobile, syntactically "non-obligatory" elements of clause structure and the employment of various copular constructions. A close interdependence is observed between the rudimentary grammatical resources available in the two languages and the types of operations that are respectively enlisted for the implementation of the organization of preference. |
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US 4484026 A Abstract A touch tablet for use in entering data into a computer or graphics display device comprises a first four-sided sheet containing a resistive material on one surface thereof, a second four-sided sheet containing a resistive material on one surface thereof and a spacer for holding the first sheet apart from the second sheet. The first sheet is oriented relative to the second sheet such that the resistive material on one of the two sheets faces the resistive material on the other sheet. Each sheet contains conductive strips formed on two of the four sides of the sheet in contact with the resistive material. A potential is applied across the conductive strips on one of the two sheets. The input lead to an output amplifier is connected to the two conductive strips formed on the other of the two sheets. A user presses the first sheet into conduct with the second sheet and the output voltage from the output amplifier is representative of one of the two coordinates of the point of contact between the two sheets. By connecting the output amplifier to the two conductive strips on the second sheet rather than merely to one conductive strip as in the prior art, the sensitivity of the tablet to noise is reduced and system performance is improved.
Claims(4) 1. Structure for use in inputing the X and Y coordinates of a selected contact point into a computer system, graphic display unit or similar structure, comprising
a first sheet of flexible insulating material containing a first surface and a second surface; a second sheet of flexible insulating material containing a first surface and a second surface; resistive material formed on the first surface of said first sheet of insulating material; resistive material formed on the first surface of said second sheet of insulating material; a first conductive strip and a second conductive strip formed on two noncontacting edges of the four edges of said first surface of said first sheet adjacent to and in electrical contact with said resistive materials on said first sheet; a first conductive strip and a second conductive strip formed on two noncontacting edges of the four edges of said first surface of said second sheet adjacent to and in electrical contact with the resistive material on said second sheet; means for applying a voltage from the first to the second conductive strip through said resistive material on said first sheet; means, electrically connected to the first and the second conductive strips on said second sheet, for connecting said two conductive strips on said second sheet to the input lead of a means for amplifying; and means for arranging said first sheet and said second sheet such that said first and second conductive strips on said first sheet are orthogonal to said first and second conductive strips on said second sheet and such that the resistive material on said first sheet faces the resistive material on said second sheet but is separated therefrom by a selected space. 2. Structure as in claim 1 including means for amplifying, said means for amplifying including an input lead connected to an output lead from said means for connecting wherein said means for amplifying has an input impedance relatively high compared to the impedance of said resistive material on said second sheet and the impedance of said resistive material on said first sheet.
3. Structure as in claim 2 including an analog-to-digital converter and wherein said means for amplifying has an output lead connected to the input lead of said analog-to-digital converter.
4. Structure as in claim 3 including:
means for switching the input lead to said means for amplifying from the first pair of conductive strips on said second sheet to the first pair of conductive strips on said first sheet, and means for simultaneously switching the voltage applied to the said first sheet to the conductive strips on said second sheet thereby to allow said system to measure the coordinate of the contact point between the resistive material on said first and second sheets orthogonal to the coordinate of the contact point measured before the connections changed. Description 1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to structure for the entry of data into a computer or a graphics display device and in particular to a tablet which is capable of translating the particular position touched on the tablet to digital representation of the X and Y coordinates of that position. 2. Prior Art A number of different devices have been proposed for controlling the movement of a cursor upon a visual display. Among the various cursor controls suggested is a structure comprising four sets of switches, each controlling cursor movement in one of four orthogonal directions as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,313,113 on an invention of David Thornburg. Additional structure for the entry of two dimensional graphic data into a digital system such as a communication system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,079,194 issued Mar. 14, 1978 on an application of Kley entitled "Graphical Data Entry Pad". Kley discloses a resistive grid area to which a conductive layer may be selectively contacted so that graphical data can be generated by external electronic circuitry which measures resistance. The resistive grid area is formed by a pattern of resistive inking on a base and is separated from the conductive layer by a foamed thermal plastic insulating separator. High resistance bands surround the grid area so as to linearize its output value. The structure of the '194 patent comprises a plane rectangular resistive grid area with four edges and of moderate resistance material and a conductive layer spaced from but parallel to the resistive grid area such that the resistive grid area or the conductive layer can be displaced in the direction of the other so as to make electrical contact at a selected point. The four edges of the resistive grid area are contacted by resistive structures having an effective resistance parallel to the edges of the resistive grid area substantially higher than that of the resistive grid area. Four conductors are provided to connect on a one-to-one basis, the resistive structure connecting the edges of the resistive grid area to external circuitry for determining the X and Y coordinates of the point of contact between the resistive grid and the conductive layer. In implementing the structure, the resistive grid is separated from the conductive layer by "a large number of depending projections 24 . . . formed closely packed all along the lower surface of the top cover 12, the projections 24 extending so as to penetrate into the insulating separator 20" between the resistive grid area and the conductive material. (U.S. Pat. No. 4,079,194, Column 2, lines 23 to 26). The insulating separator 20 between the conductive layer and the resistive material is formed of an insulating therma plastic or other resilient and flexible material of a relatively low density. Upon pressing the top cover 12, the projections 24 pass through the insulating material into contact with the resistive material on the base pad 22. In an alternative embodiment, the top cover has no depending projections 24 but rather the insulating separator 20 "is of an open-work type, being provided throughout its area with a multipicity of openings 58 which extend therethrough." (U.S. Pat. No. 4,079,194, Column 5, lines 5 to 8). Depressing the top cover 12 causes the insulating separator 24 to compress so that the top cover 12 touches the resistive material on the top of the base pad 22 through one or more of the openings 58. The structure disclosed by Kley has the undesirable characteristic that the X, Y coordinates of a position contacted on the cover 12 can only be determined within the accuracy of the dimensions of the projections 24 or the openings 58 in the separator 20 between the conductive material on the bottom surface of the top cover 12 and the resistive material on the top surface of the base pad 22. Kley in U.S. Pat. No. 4,214,122 issued July 22, 1980 discloses a similar rectangular structure wherein the arrangement of conductive strips relative to the resistive grid area is selected so as to improve the linearity of the voltage gradients in the rectangular graphic area. Additional prior art patents disclosing graphical entry devices employing rectangular resistive sheets or planes include U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,900,446, 3,304,612, 3,522,664, 3,591,718, 3,699,439, 3,798,370 and 3,806,912. U.S. Pat. No. 3,522,663 discloses a flexible member coated with a conductive layer which is positioned above a base member which is coated with a resistive material so that the location of a point at which the two members are pressed together can be determined by measuring the resistances from the edges of the layer to the resistive material at that point. Again the output signal is less linear than desired. Another technique for deriving X, Y position information for input into a dispay system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,541,541 disclosing an indicator control mechanism for movement by hand over any surface. The mechanism generates position signals which cause a cursor displayed on a cathode ray tube to move to a corresponding position. The mechanism contains X and Y position wheels mounted perpendicular to each other which rotate according to the X and Y movements of the mechanism and which operate rheostats to send signals along a wire to the computer which controls the CRT display. U.S. Pat. No. 3,705,956 discloses an electromagnetic sensor held in a spaced relation to a grid network having a plurality of conductors defining a Gray Code pattern. Each of the conductors corresponds to a grid in the Gray Code and the grid network is characterized by differences which correspond to the differences in the bits of the Gray Code. As current is passed sequentially through each of the conductors, a voltage is induced in the sensor. The location of the sensor with the respect to the grid network is determined by detecting the phase of the voltage induced in the sensor. An additional structure for this purpose is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,911,215 issued Oct. 7, 1975 on an application of Hurst, et al., entitled "Discriminating Contact Sensor". The sensor comprises two juxtaposed electrical potential carrying sheets, at least one being flexible, separated from each other but permitting contact therebetween when an object of specified radius of curvature is pressed against the flexible sheet. The separation of the sheets is accomplished by discrete small buttons of insulation preferably mounted on the flexible sheet, with the spacing and the height of the buttons determining the largest radius of curvature to which the sensor will respond. Contact is made only by depression of the flexible sheet with a writing instrument and not by any portion of a writer's hand. U.S. Pat. No. 4,319,078 issued Mar. 9, 1982 on an application of Yokoo, et al., discloses apparatus for detecting X and Y coordinates of the input points consisting of a first parallel electrode group and a second parallel electrode group opposing and perpendicular to the first parallel electrode group. A pressure conductive rubber sheet is interposed between the first and second parallel electrode groups. This sheet is rendered conductive upon application of pressure to the input surface. An electrical detector is provided to detect currents flowing through first and second resistors contacting terminal ends of the first and second parallel electrode groups, respectively. Additional entry structures are provided from Sierracin using a membrane switch denoted as Transflex (a trademark of Sierracin). This structure comprises a film coated with a transparent electrically-conductive layer of either gold or indium tin oxide. The material is mounted on the face of a cathode ray tube and the alphanumeric displays on the tube are read through the material. The entire switch pad area is conductive and can be touched anywhere within the designated area of the graphic display to obtain a desired response. In one product produced by Sierracin, two pieces of an insulating film are each coated on one surface with conductive layers. Each layer then is etched to form parallel isolation lines between parallel conductive lines. The two films are then mounted such that the conductive lines on the two films are orthogonal and the conductive lines on one film are separated from the conductive lines on the other film by a small air gap. Separation is accomplished through the use of edge gaskets and/or interlayers. By applying a slight pressure, the films are brought into electrical contact with each other allowing current to flow in a specific circuit. In one embodiment, the usual method of retrieving information is to alternately drive one of the sheets of the panel with either a constant voltage or current source while using the other sheet as a sensor. The resulting X and Y signals are then scaled, filtered and digitized to meet system requirements. Whether a particular output signal is from the X direction or the Y direction depends upon which sheet is used as a sensor and which is used as the input signal source. The output signal must be taken through a pull down resistor which is large in value compared to the resistance of the sheet used as the sensor. FIGS. 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d illustrate the circuitry associated with this prior art sensing sheet. This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art graphics display input tablets by providing a touch tablet configuration which significantly reduces the impact of the impedance of the sensor sheet on the final output reading relating to the position detected by the position detecting sheet. In accordance with one embodiment of this invention, the error in the output reading is reduced to no more than one-quarter the error using the prior art detection method. In accordance with this embodiment, two pieces of an insulating film are each coated on one surface with a resistive layer. Two parallel conductive bars are placed at opposite ends of the resistive layer on each sheet and the two resistive layers are then arranged such that the parallel conductive bars on one sheet are orthogonal to the parallel conductive bars on the other sheet and the two resistive layers face each other. One sheet is used to measure the x coordinate of the position being contacted and the other sheet is used to measure the y coordinate of this position. By connecting the parallel conductive bars at both ends of the resistive material in the sensor sheet to the output circuit, the sensing error is substantially reduced compared to the sensing error in the prior art. In accordance with another embodiment of this invention, a sheet of flexible insulating material is coated with horizontal conductive lines that tap into a vertical resistor. An additional sheet is provided of identical construction but oriented orthogonal to the first sheet. The conductive and resistive materials on the two sheets are oriented facing each other but separated from each other by an insulating layer. The insulating layer has on both surfaces a conductive material. The user simultaneously enters an X and Y position by pressing on the combined sandwich of three sheets thereby to bring a conductive layer strip into contact with the conductive material on the insulating layer. The resistances sensed from the resistive strips on the two sheets of flexible insulating material by an output amplifier determine the X coordinate and the Y coordinate of the point of contact. This invention will be more fully understood in conjunction with the following detailed description taken together with the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the two sheets of material developed in accordance with this invention for use in sensing the X and Y coordinates of a contact point on the sheets. FIGS. 2a and 2b, respectively, illustrate schematically the electrical relationship of the two sheets of FIG. 1 when a point on one sheet is in contact with a point on the other sheet as illustrated by the closing of switch 13, and the basic circuit schematic in accordance with this invention which allows the position of contact in one coordinate (illustrated as the X coordinate) to be determined at a given time; FIG. 3 is a graph illustrating the reduction in impedance of the input resistance of the conductive sheet used as the input impedance to operational amplifier 34 in accordance with this invention; FIG. 4 illustrates schematically the circuitry used to allow the two sheets to yield in sequence the X coordinate and the Y coordinate of the contact point between the two sheets; FIGS. 5a through 5d illustrate structure of the prior art to measure the X and Y coordinates of the contact point; FIG. 6 shows the simplified electronic circuitry for an alternative embodiment of this invention; FIG. 7 shows a sheet of flexible insulator coated with horizontal conductive lines that connect into a vertical resistor for use in determining one coordinate of a contact point on a touch tablet in accordance with an aternative embodiment of this invention; FIG. 8 illustrates in an exploded view the components for a complete touch tablet assembly in accordance with the alternative embodiment of this invention partially illustrated in FIG. 7; and FIG. 9 illustrates still another alternative embodiment of this invention. Referring now to FIG. 1, an exploded view is shown of two sheets of conductive material suitable for use in this invention. The structure 10 of FIG. 1 comprises a top sheet 11 suitable for use in measuring one coordinate of a point being touched on the sheet and a second sheet 12 suitable for measuring the other coordinate of the point being touched. Sheet 11 comprises in the preferred embodiment a mylar sheet approximately three to seven mils thick and preferably of 5 mils thickness. Formed on the center portion of the mylar sheet 11 is a graphite ink surface 11c having a sheet resistivity of approximately 300 ohms per square. On two of the four edges of the sheet are formed conductive bars 11a and 11b of an extremely low resistance such that conductive bar 11a is substantially equipotential as is conductive bar 11b. Conductive bars 11a and 11b are formed of a silver ink in a manner well known in the art. Bottom sheet 12 similarly has formed on center portion 12c a graphite ink resistive surface having a sheet resistivity of approximately 300 ohms per square. conductive bars 12a and 12b are formed on two of the four edges of sheet 12 of a silver ink such that each bar is substantially equipotential and has extremely small resistance to the fow of current. Sheets 11 and 12 are stretched over a square frame in the X and Y directions to leave an air space of approximately ten (10) to thirty (30) mils between the two sheets. The conductive graphite surface over region 11c is arranged to be in direct electrical contact with the conductive graphite surface 12c when sheet 11 is depressed into contact with sheet 12. The air space is selected in such a manner as to ensure that the sheets do not come into contact on their own accord and that the force required to bring one sheet into contact with the other over its active surface does not exceed a selected magnitude, typically five (5) ounces. Naturally, the air gap can become larger as the size of the tablet is increased. In FIG. 2a the electrical contact between sheets 11 and 12 is illustrated schematicaly by means of switch 13 which can be either opened (no contact) or closed to indicate contact between surface 11c and surface 12c. The point at which contact is made between the two surfaces determines the X and Y coordinates of the contact point. Contact is made conventionally by pressing the two sheets together. FIG. 2b illustrates the electrical connections to sheets 11 and 12 to allow one or the other of the X and Y coordinates of the point of contact between the two sheets to be determined. As shown in FIG. 2b, sheet 12 (corresponding to sheet 12 in FIG. 1) is used to measure the X coordinate of the contact point and sheet 11 (corresponding to sheet 11 in FIG. 1) is used to measure the Y coordinate of this point. However, only one measurement can be made at a time. Thus when sheet 12 is being used to measure the X coordinate, sheet 11 serves as a sensor merely to contact sheet 12 and conduct current representative of the X coordinate of the point of contact from sheet 12 to an amplifier 34 (FIG. 2b). From amplifier 34 this signal is sent to an analog-to-digital convertor 35 to allow the voltage detected on sheet 12 by the sensor sheet 11 to be converted into digital information representative of the X coordinate of the position of the contact point. Thus the closure of switch 13 due to contact between the conductive surface 11c and the conductive surface 12c results in current flowing from battery 31 through resistor R(X) comprising the resistive surface 12c. This current creates a voltage drop through resistor R(X). contact point 13x is determined by the position on the X axis of the point of contact between surfaces 12c and 11c on sheets 12 and 11, respectively. Variable contact point 13y represents the Y coordinate of the point of contact between surfaces of 12c and 11 c. By varying the particular positions on the X and Y axes at which contact is made between the two sheets 12 and 11 the contact positions of points 13x and 13y of variable resistors R(X) and R(Y) are varied. When switch 13 is closed (switch 13 is shown as open but will be closed in response to a user pressing resistive material 12c into contact with the resistive material 11c) a voltage representative of the X coordinate of the contact point is sensed and is transmitted through resistor R(Y) which is connected at both ends 11a and 11b to the input to operational amplifier 34. Operational amplifier 34 is selected to have a very large impedance R3 relative to the impedance of R(X) and the parallel resistors R(Y). Of interest, while the prior art (FIGS. 5a to 5d and particularly FIG. 5c) discloses a circuit similar to that illustrated here, applicants reduce the error in the measurement by using in parallel both components of resistor R(Y) rather than only one component as illustrated in FIG. 5c (prior art). The amount of the reduction ΔR increases as the value of R(Y) increases. FIG. 3 illustrates the reduction ΔR in the impedance of R(Y) as a function of the Y coordinate of the contact point when the X coordinate is being sensed. An identical curve applies when the Y coordinate is being sensed. This reduction in impedance is given by the quadratic function ΔR=(R2Y)2 /(R1Y+R2Y) where R1Y+R2Y is a constant and R2Y is that portion of the impedance measured by the prior art structure and shown as R(Y) in FIG. 5c. The impedance R3 of amplifier 34 is typically on the order of 106 ohms whereas the impedance of R(Y) is on the order of under a thousand ohms and typically five hundred ohms or less. The impedance of each of conductive bars 11a, 11b 12a and 12b is typically on the order of 0.1 ohms or less. Analog to digital convertor 35, which in the preferred embodiment comprises the well known ADC0804 manufactured by National Semiconductor, converts the analog output signal from linear amplifier 34 into a digital signal representative of the X coordinate of the contact point between conductive sheets 11c and 12c. The circuitry of FIG. 4 implements the structure of this invention. The operation of the structure shown in FIG. 2b has been described for the determination of the X coordinate of the contact point between resistive areas 11c and 12c on sheets 11 and 12. The measurement of the Y coordinate reverses the procedure and connects the input lead of operational amplifier 34 to both ends of resistor R(X) rather than to both ends of resistor R(Y). The output signal from operational amplifier 34 then represents the Y coordinate of the contact point between resistive areas 11c and 12c of sheets 11 and 12. FIG. 4 illustrates the circuitry by which this is done. In FIG. 4 similar components of the circuit are numbered identically to the numbering in FIG. 2b. Battery 31 is shown as being connected to the resistor R(X) to provide a current through this resistor which is used to measure the X coordinate. The switches denoted A1, A2, A3 and A4 are shown as closed to allow the coordinate of the contact point to be measured. The switches B1, B2, B3 and B4 as shown as open. As shown by the connections of FIG. 4, battery 31 is thus connected across resistor R(X). The switch 13 is shown as open but will be closed upon pressing resistive surface 11c into contact with resistive surface 12c. The contact 13x represents the X coordinate of the contact point between the two sheets 11 and 12. The ends of resistor R(Y) are connected by means of switches A3 and A4 to the input lead of linear amplifier 34 which thereby produces an output signal representative of the "X" coordinative of the contact point between sheets 11 and 12. When it is desired to measure the "Y" coordinative of this point, switches A1 through A4 are opened and switches B1 through B4 are closed thereby to connect battery 31 across the ends of resistor R(Y). Resistor R(X) then serves as the sensor element to conduct the signal representative of the Y coordinate of the contact point from lead 13y to the input lead of linear amplifier 34. Thus the Y coordinate of the contact point between sheets 11c and 12c is determined in a manner analagous to the determination of the X coordinate of this contact point. The analog-to-digital converter 34 provides a digital output signal representative of this Y coordinate. Naturally, the subsequent closure of the A switches and the opening of the B switches results in another measurement of the X coordinate. Because the switches A and B are alternately and sequentially opened and closed, the system can determine in sequence the X and Y coordinates of the contact point and provide signals representative of these X and Y coordinates to external circuitry for use by such circuitry. The above structure has the advantage that information is obtained representative of the centroid of the contact area rather than quantized information as in the prior art. Furthermore, by shorting together both bus bars on the sensor sheet (i.e. the sensor sheet is sheet 11 comprising R(Y) when the X coordinate is being measured and is sheet 12 comprising R(X) when the Y coordinate is being measured) a lower noise connection is achieved. The drop in sensor sheet impedance obtained by shorting both bus bars together on the sensor sheet compared to the prior art configuration is shown in FIG. 3. Gross changes in position are detected by the system by the operator moving his or her finger along the touch tablet thereby changing the contact point and fine corrections are made by rotating the finger. Because the input impedance to the amplifier due to the parallel connection of this invention is at most one-half the value of the resistors R(X) or R(Y) or less, the effective noise into the amplifier 34 is reduced. Furthermore terminating the contacts 11a, 11b, 12a and 12b (FIG. 1) into a low impedance reduces the noise and RF interference with the system. Turning now to FIGS. 6 through 9 an alternative embodiment of this invention is illustrated. In FIG. 6, the electrical schematic for a touch tablet which will provide both X and Y coordinates but in a manner not requiring the switches A1 through A4 and B1 through B4 as illustrated in FIG. 4 is shown. In FIG. 6 the positive voltage is applied to one input terminal each of resistors R(X) and R(Y). A single common is provided as shown. The tablet supplies two voltages proportional to two variable resistor outputs to a computer input channel to be processed in any one of several different ways. The particular coordinate being measured again must be sequenced in time so that first one coordinate such as Y is sampled and then the other coordinate such as X is sampled. A portion of the structure used to implement the tablet of FIG. 6 is shown in FIG. 7. In FIG. 7 a sheet 71 of a flexible insulator material such as mylar is coated with horizontal conductive lines 73-1 through 73-K where K is a selected integer and k is defined as 1≦k≦K. Lines 73-1 through 73-K tap into and are electrically connected to a vertical resistor line 72. Lines 73-1 through 73-K are formed of conductive silver in one embodiment and vertical resistor 72 is formed of a conductive resistive ink. Typical inks appropriate for use in this invention are generally well known. One end of vertical resistor 72 is connected to a positive voltage source and the other end of vertical resistor 72 is connected to ground or common. Horizontal conductive lines 73-1 through 73-K are each equipotential but are electrically separated from the adjacent lines except to the extent that each contacts a separate point on conductive resistor 72. The resolution achievable by this structure depends on the distance from line 73-k to line 73-(k+1). In operation, conductive resistor 72 typically is used as one part of an RC circuit which provides a time constant for the operation of a time interval measuring circuit. FIG. 8 shows an exploded view of the material of FIG. 7 incorporated into a complete tablet assembly in accordance with this invention. The structure of FIG. 8 comprises a first sheet of mylar 70 on which have been formed conductive lines 73-1 through 73-M, (where m is 1≦M≦M and M is a selected integer), tapped into vertical resistor 72. Resistor 72 is of a material such as to achieve a substantial voltage drop from one end to the other end of resistive material 72. Underlying sheet 70 is a spacer 85 comprising a square ring with a central portion 85a left open. Spacer 85 is formed of an insulating material. Beneath spacer 85 is a ground layer 86 which comprises a conductive sheet capable of being at a substantially equal potential at all points. Beneath ground layer 86 is a second spacer 87 with a window 87A formed in the middle thereof. Again spacer 87 is square in shape and forms a square ring capable of maintaining separation between ground layer 86 and the bottom layer 80 of the structure of this invention. Bottom layer 80 comprises a sheet identical in structure to layer 70 except that conductive lines 83-1 through 83-N are orthogonal to conductive lines 73-1 through 73-M formed on mylar sheet 70. Vertical resistor 82 contacts one end of each of conductive lines 83-1 through 83-N and both conductive lines 83 and vertical resistor 82 are formed upon a mylar substrate 81. As shown in FIG. 8, sheet 80 together with the conductive lines 83-1 through 83-N measures the X coordinate of a contact point while sheet 70 together with conductive lines 73-1 through 73-M measures the Y coordinate of this point. The resulting assembly can provide a direct measure simultaneously of both the X and the Y coordinates of a contact point. Should it be desired to minimize expense and use ony one linear amplifier 34 of the type shown in FIG. 2b, the coordinates of the contact point can be measured in sequence. FIG. 9 shows an alternate design for the touch tablet of the type shown in FIG. 8. In FIG. 9, sheets 70 and 80 are as shown in FIG. 8 except that sheet 80 has formed on the top surface thereof a conductive plane 81 which is electrically connected by lead 97 to the conductive metal base and ground electrode 96. The vertical pattern on sheet 80 and the horizontal pattern on sheet 70 are formed precisely as described above in conjunction with FIG. 8. However, an insulating spacer (not shown) such as spacer 85 or spacer 87 as shown in FIG. 8 is placed between sheet 80 and sheet 70. Upon pressing upon sheet 70, the user forces a particular line 73-m on conductive sheet 70 into contact with the ground plane or conductive layer on the top side of sheet 80 and forces a particular one 83-n of conductive lines 83-1 through 83-N formed on the bottom surface of sheet 80 into contact with the underlying ground plane 96. Accordingly, the X and the Y coordinates of the contact point are again determined but in this case simultaneously if desired, depending upon whether one or two readout circuits of the type shown in FIG. 2b are used. The structures of FIGS. 6, 7, 8, and 9 have the advantage of not requiring ancillary circuitry of the type shown in FIG. 4 because these structures generate resistance values that vary in response to the motion of the user's finger or stylus on the tablet surface. These structures thus provide certain cost advantages over more complex tablets. The structure basically comprises two variable resistors which determine the X and Y coordinates of the contact point of the user on the touch tablet. Note that the spacing between the lines 73-1 through 73-M and 83-1 through 83-N determines the resolution achievable with this invention. The resolution can be doubled by adding logic circuitry to detect the contact of two adjacent conductive lines rather than merely one line. When two adjacent conductive lines are contacted as is known in the prior art the average location of contact can be assumed to be equidistance between the two lines. By having different numbers and spacings of lines for the X coordinate as opposed to the Y coordinate, the resolution of the tablet can be varied from one axis to the other. The resistive material shown as lines 72 and 82 is of such composition and dimension that the overall resistance of the strip is equal to the largest value obtained with the potentiometers otherwise used with prior art computer systems. If, by means of example, the computer system is designed for use with a 500,0000 ohm potentiometer, and the resistive strip is prepared from a silk screen graphite-based ink with a resistance of 5,000 ohms per square, this resistive strip would have to have an aspect ratio of 100 to 1 in order to generate the required resistance value. The sheets shown as mylar can also be formed of any other thin fexible insulating plastic or equivaent material. The sheets such as sheets 70 and 80 may be prepared by any number of methods including, but not limited to, silk screening, vapor deposition or lamination. The ground sheet 86 illustrated in FIG. 8 can be formed of an insulating layer on which are formed two conductive surfaces, one to be contacted by the conductive leads on the top insulating layer 70 and the other to be contacted by the conductive leads on the bottom insulating layer 80. Alternatively, this ground sheet can comprise a single conductive layer of material. The sheets 70 and 80 shown in FIG. 8 and the corresponding sheets 70 and 80 shown in FIG. 9 are arranged with relation to thin spacers so that when not pressed they are held apart from each other by tension. As the surface of one sheet is pressed with a finger or other appropriate implement, the point of contact is sufficiently pressed to bring both sheets in contact with the conductive sheet. This effectively creates two separate resistance values in accordance with the schematics shown in FIG. 6. Thus the structure shown in FIG. 8 and also the structure shown in FIG. 9 are appropriate input devices for a computer system. As a finger is moved along one axis of the structure of FIG. 8 or FIG. 9, the resistance of one sheet will change in response to finger position while the other will remain substantially constant. When the finger is moved along the other axis the resistance variations described above will switch axis as expected. Because the use of three flexible layers is an added expense and because each tablet typically requires a rigid backing plate, the alternative configuration for the tablet depicted in FIG. 9 has certain advantages. The tablet of FIG. 9 is built from a first sheet with conductive bars and resistive strip, a second sheet of the first kind with its surface adjacent to the conductive paths on the first sheet provided with a uniform, highly conductive coating and a rigid metal base of noncorrosive highly conductive material such as stainless steel. Both flexible sheets are arranged in a spaced-apart configuration when not being touched. Finger pressure brings all surfaces into contact at a point to generate two resistance values with the characteristics previously described in conjunction with the structure of FIG. 8, for example. While numerous manufacturing techniques are appropriate for the manufacture of the structures described above, the tablets of this invention are particularly suited to be manufactured using low cost screen printing techniques normally associated with membrane keyboard technology. While the invention has been described in conjunction with three embodiments, it should be understood that other embodiments of this invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art in view of the above disclosure. The above disclosure is meant to be illustrative and not limiting. Patent Citations
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The Sinking Old Sanctuary
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How cliché. Could this in fact be a metal Castlevania cover? I'm just kidding all Castlevania music NEEDS to be covered in a metal style! This one in particular is a song that I liked but it hasn't really gotten much attention. The song first appeared in Stage 2 of Castlevania Bloodlines on the Sega Genesis and can also be heard in CV: Legacy of Darkness on the N64 and CV: Circle of the Moon on GBA.
With this cover, I was really trying to go for more of the Genesis version but ended up more like the N64 version. You can hear it especially in the intro. I also had the idea to combine all three versions. I would have loved to have learned the bass line to the GBA's incarnation but I didn't ever get around to. Man was it a real BITCH to get this just right. The chord changes were just so awkward to me. The drums really threw me off on that but it can't really be metal without drums can it? This song gave me soo many problems so please go easy. I tried my best to get it somewhat decent.
I hope you don't hate it.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
funny fact, my friend played this game two days ago and recordet it while i was talking like a referee, so my own voice can be barely heard during the video, but anyways great song indeed you have made 5 stars!
Hehe how funny. Thank you for your review.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
God damn man! I think I recognize this song. Man, I really need to do a VG cover of my own
LOL Castlevania music stays in your mind forever! That's why I love it. Thanks for reviewing.


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Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter mainly of portraits who became the leading court painter in England. He was also a master of etching. ANTHONY VAN DYCK AS AN ARTIST Van Dyck was born in Antwerp and became an independent painter in 1615. In his younger years, he was the chief assistant of Peter Paul Rubens. In 1620, he came to England for the first time but did not succeed in getting presented to King James I. After four months he returned to Flanders. He then went to Italy where he remained for 6 years studying the Italian masters and laying the foundations of his career as a successful portraitist. In 1627, he went back to Antwerp where for some years he painted a host of masterpieces. His reputation reached the ears of Charles I of England who recalled him. In 1632, Van Dyck again arrived in London. His success in England was rapid. He painted portraits of King Charles, Queen Henrietta, the king's children, and countless personages at court in addition to images of himself and his mistress, Margaret Lemon. In the latter part of his life he only gave finishing touches to the portraits which were for the most part painted by his pupils after his own designs. He was charming to his patrons, which added to his ability to obtain commissions. In July 1632, he was knighted, and in 1633 elected painter to the king. He received a considerable pension and married the daughter of Lord Ruthven. In 1634, he took a short journey to Antwerp, and in 1641, another one to France. Van Dyck had a great influence on English portrait painting. Therefore, some scholars call him the founder of the English school of painting. Van Dyck was also known for painting portraits of people having short, pointed beards, and that's why this particular kind of beard was named after him a vandyke. During the reign of George III, a generic "Cavalier" fancy-dress costume called a 'Van Dyke' was popular; Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy' is wearing such a 'Van Dyke' outfit. The oil paint pigment van Dyck brown is named after him ANTHONY VAN DYCK'S DEATH Anthony van Dyck died in 1641 in London, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. |
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Last One To Die is no different, it tells the stories of everyday life through the dark and subtle wit of Michael Essington. A bit reminiscent of Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries, minus all the self-destructing drug abuse. Last One To Die had me laughing out loud on every page. Michael Essington's memoirs are a great reminder to pay attention to what's going on around you. If you do, you just might realize there the circus is in town every day." Eric Leach, Symbol Six
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"As I travel through life there are some things I didn't need to know. One for certain being the life style of Punk and the second being those who live it. Nor I did have any desire or interest to know those who reviewed their music or the music for that matter. However what I do have keen interest in is good writing and storytelling. Mike is one of them, a good writer and a damn good storyteller. He is eloquent and concise and doesn't get lost in the world of minutia. He tells the story and holds you captive page after page. To the point you want to cheat (go to the back of the book) but don't! Enjoy the book. Learn something you perhaps didn't know, I did. Thanks to some well written verse knowledge of a lifestyle and the honesty to tell it." Clyde A. Wray, Poet, Playwright, director and producer author of four books of poetry
"Mike E. handles the record reviews and does an outstanding job with them. His present-day takes on records that are often 20 years old are informed and on-the-money most of the time and his reviews of newer product are a reliable buying guide. But he does more than just review records: Mike is a top-notch storyteller and each review also includes an autobiographical anecdote. The story may or may not directly relate to the record being reviewed, but it does give the reader the unique opportunity to learn something about the reviewer and therefore perhaps some insight into the state of mind in which the review was written. Many celebrity "rock 'n' roll journalists" would never dare to be so open." Bryan Rutt, That's What I Was Going to Say


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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld former New Jersey State Senator Wayne Bryant's 2008 political corruption conviction last week, rejecting Bryant's claims that his due process rights were violated in the case. The court also upheld the conviction of Bryant's partner in crime, R. Michael Gallagher, the former dean of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).
For those new to the Third Circuit, Wayne Bryant was convicted on fraud and bribery charges after Gallagher arranged for UMDNJ to pay Bryant $35,000 per year for a low-show job; Bryant, in return, used his position as chairman of the state's Senate Appropriations Committee to funnel an additional $10 million per year to UMDNJ.
In a second scheme, Bryant used a no-show job as an attorney with the Gloucester County Board of Social Services to increase his state pension.
On appeal, Bryant argued that the government violated his due process rights by interfering with his access to potential witnesses in the pretrial phase of the case, that the evidence of honest services fraud and bribery was insufficient, and that the jury instructions on both honest services fraud and bribery were defective.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Bryant's conviction, finding that there was sufficient evidence to support each of the counts of conviction. The court also ruled that the jury instructions for honest services fraud or bribery were not defective.
Bryant wasn't the only disgraced politician to lose in the Third Circuit last week. On August 24, the court was equally hard on former Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo. Finding that a federal district judge had committed numerous procedural errors in sentencing Fumo to only 55 months in prison - as opposed to the suggested 180-months' sentence - the court remanded Fumo's case to the district court for resentencing.
Related Resources:
- Rod Blagojevich Guilty of Corruption, Jury Finds (FindLaw's Blotter)
- William Jefferson Convicted on Corruption Charges (FindLaw's Blotter)
- Cincinnati Public Schools in Voter Bribery Scandal (FindLaw's Law & Daily Life)
- Disgraced Politician to Receive Pension (Fox 25 Boston)


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keep banging that drum, LOL
wthrfrk80 says
how do I legally immigrate to Canada or Australia?
Bring ~$500,000 with you, or if you're under ~40 have a job offer. Or go on holiday and romance some sweetie there.
(what's odd is that all 3 dollars are pretty much at parity now -- we should do currency union when we got the chance)
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indefinite detention without trial and no habeas corpus for citizens.
those were the claims, but those claims were not true since NDAA did not change the status quo of what was already happening.
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Whittier College News ReleaseFor Immediate Release - June 24, 1998 Media Contact: Shawn Fitzpatrick at (562) 907-4277 Reference: 97/98: 101
THE RUTH B. SHANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS "SUMMER AT THE CENTER" This summer, the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at Whittier College will be hosting a month of music and dance with something for everyone. Summer at the Center--every Thursday through Sunday night in August--features country western line dancing, salsa dancing, swing dancing and Hawaiian music concerts.
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Aloha Sundays Prices for all nights are $12 per person. For more information, call the Whittier College Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at (562) 907-4203. Located 18 miles east of Los Angeles, Whittier College is an independent, four-year college offering traditional liberal arts majors and strong pre-professional programs taught in the context of the liberal arts. Whittier Law School, which is accredited by the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools, is located on a separate campus in Costa Mesa. |
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'It's All About Joe'Posted on Dec 7, 2009Those feisty progressives are at it again, running an ad against Joe Lieberman that features the actual chairman of the Connecticut for Lieberman party—but what exactly is the Connecticut for Lieberman party? Lieberman set up the organization for his last Senate run, after Democrats bounced him, but he has nothing to do with it these days—other than the fact that it's named after him. John Mertens, the star of the ad below, is clearly no Lieberman fan. He's no fan of Chris Dodd, Connecticut's other senator, either. Mertens is challenging Dodd as an independent in the next election. The Hartford Courant has more on the story. —PZS Progressive Change Campaign Committee: Advertisement Square, Site wide Previous item: Palestinians, Israelis Unite to Save Village in 'Budrus' Next item: 'Daily Show': Tactics of Mass Obstruction New and Improved CommentsIf you have trouble leaving a comment, review this help page. Still having problems? Let us know. If you find yourself moderated, take a moment to review our comment policy.
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"Costs associated with pregnancy or expenses occurred after age 18, such as higher education, are not included," the report said. The costs are lower in rural America and in the South and higher in the Northeast. Earlier generations of Americans also didn't have to pay as much to have families.
"In 1960, the first year the report was issued, a middle-income family could have expected to spend $25,230 ($198,560 in 2013 dollars) to raise a child until the age of 18," the report notes. "Housing was the largest child-rearing expense both then and now.
"Health care expenses for a child have doubled as a percentage of total child-rearing costs during that time. In addition, some common current-day costs, such as child care, were negligible in 1960."
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I bet that looks pretty creepy on a rainy stormy night!. Reminds me of some Friday The 13th Episodes. Very cool! Lots of possibilities. Be sure to show us your progress.
I was finally able to make it over for some photos of the barn. I popped them into a slideshow, but the photo quality isn't so hot. I'm posting a few photos in the thread too. I'm going to update with more photos as I take them too. Enjoy!!!
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I bet that looks pretty creepy on a rainy stormy night!. Reminds me of some Friday The 13th Episodes. Very cool! Lots of possibilities. Be sure to show us your progress.
Kinda looks like our barn that we use. We had to do alot of life safety updates but we have been running ours 10 years now starting on 11th. Great possiblilities in these old barns.:mrgreen:
Oh my golly we have SOOO much to do safety wise. That's all we've been working on this month and probably they next. Running new electrical, jackhammering our door sills, even removing a gazillion nails used as hangers throughout the barn as well as some structural issues like old pane windows that we are boarding over and roof and floor supports. Yeesh. I am so ready to decorate but that seems like forever in the future.....
Yikes Kim! You got your hands full! But I love the look of the place!!
This is the location for the ladies auxillary haunt??
Yepper! In years past we've done it in the bay of our fire station and moved the trucks out. Our cold climate means we can only do one weekend because the trucks need plugged in, so we set up, do our haunt for three days, then tear down all in a week. It was exhausting figuring there's only like 10 of us that do all of it. Moving to the barn gives us more time and also more weeks to do the haunt itself, but WOWZA we've got a bunch of work to do!
I remember you telling me about that!
But I think it's awesome you got this location!! Promote promote promote!! Start going to parades and fairs and stuff with fliers, you guys are going to do GREAT this year!!!
Be sure to keep us posted, and as always, let me know if there's anything I could do for you! You're the best!
One good thing after the safety is addressed......you can decorate in these things let you imagination go absolutely wild. We found a good find on craiglist, I got a drycleaner conveyor on craiglist for like 125.00, great for rotating pigs! Keep sending pics I will get some of ours up. Since ours is the Haunted Farm I try and keep everything to the theme. Farm equipment makes for some interesting scenes. Don't forget the hillbilly room with the still in it and the guy who says so you were in my corn, you know you need corn for the whiskey. lol I could go on and on......... been doing the farm now for 10 years this is our 11th. I know what you mean though wanting to get the safety done to decorate....ANXIOUS!
I would love to see photos of your barn!!!!
I'm not sure if we are totally carrying the barn theme through all of the rooms. We go to the Haunters Convention this weekend coming up and that will be our last bit of creative inspiration to decide everything. My room that I will work in ends the haunt and is a swamp voodoo witch kinda room and that's about the only thing firmed up besides a cemetery room somewhere. I can't wait!!!
I got to finish painting the walls in a whitish color, faux grundge it all up, and then BLOOD SPLATTER TIME!!!! Oh my golly, I love the stress relief I feel after slinging paint around a room. So much fun!!!bloody door.jpgsquirrel.jpgbody bag.jpg Anyhow, ths room needs some more finishing touches and dressed, but we are getting so much closer than we were a month ago!!!
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COLUMBIA — The house he used to live in was bare.
The driveway was vacant, the lights were off, the blinds were shut, the steps that led to his front door were covered in a four-inch sheet of snow.
The house on Foxwood Court was empty, because nobody lived in Mike Anderson's old home anymore.
"It's been on the market ever since he left," his former neighbor said.
All eyes were on the away team's tunnel.
The Arkansas players had already jogged out to the court, and so had the trainers and assistant coaches. The National Anthem was minutes away, and the one person that the fans wanted to see had yet to surface.
Mizzou Arena was packed, full of fans that wanted to support and cheer on the Tigers on Senior Night and also get a glimpse of the former Missouri coach.
He took two steps out of the tunnel, and you could hear his arrival.
Anderson, who coached at Missouri for six years, who led the Tigers to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, who won the 2009 Big 12 Championship, was booed.
The bartender was confused at the question. Why would Harpo's have any Mike Anderson memorabilia? After all, he left Columbia on bad terms.
In early March 2011, when Anderson was still a Tiger, he dismissed rumors stating that he had interest in coaching at Arkansas, even telling the Columbia Daily Tribune that he planned on "being at Missouri for a long time, retire here." But on March 23, 2011, Anderson left Missouri for Arkansas, signing a seven-year contract.
The bartender thought for a moment, then walked toward the backroom to the second bar. There, in the corner on the second shelf, was a white, Missouri basketball.
It had stains. It had dust. And it had a faded Mike Anderson signature.
Anderson's police escort was on high alert. His chair was placed directly behind the Arkansas coach.
The fans were chanting, heckling, and screaming at every Razorbacks mistake, and the policeman was making sure that nothing got out of control.
During the timeouts, he would turn his chair to face the crowd, eyeing every person who screamed insults at Anderson during the brief moments of silence.
Anderson stood on the court, his hands at his sides. Phil Pressey, the same player he recruited, the son of his college roommate (Paul Pressey), just made a contested 3-pointer.
He called a timeout.
Arkansas was now losing 30-15 with 7:47 remaining in the first half, the biggest deficit at that point in the game.
Anderson huddled his team and screamed at them, while the policeman swung his chair around.
The trophy he won is enshrined in a smudge-less glass display window in the room next to the main entrance of Mizzou Arena.
Lights from the top shine directly at it, while a basketball net rests on the right hand side. A large Big 12 Conference logo sits in the middle, a gold plaque stating below "Tournament Champions."
This is Missouri's 2009 Big 12 tournament championship trophy.
It was a team that went 31-7, a team that was one win away from the Final Four, a team that had Laurence Bowers, a team that was coached by Anderson.
He was quiet.
No more yelling, no more pacing, no more clapping. Anderson stood motionless on the court.
Alex Oriakhi had a put-back layup that pushed Arkansas' deficit to 30 points. Anderson watched, maybe in awe of his former school's performance, maybe in shock of his.
Seconds passed while fans screamed.
Arkansas was 18-11 coming into this game, needing at the very least to win the rest of its games for a chance to make the NCAA Tournament. Last year, his first year, the Razorbacks were 18-14, and did not make it to the big dance.
Anderson shook his head, and snapped out of his gaze. He quickly turned his back to the court, and continued his pace along the bench.
He looked like he just wanted to get out of the arena.
When the final buzzer sounded, the score was 93-63 in favor of his former team.
He walked to shake Frank Haith's hand, his replacement, the coach who won 30 games at Missouri in 2012 with the same guys Anderson recruited. They stood and talked for a few seconds before Anderson moved down the line to give two of his former players, Bowers and Pressey, a brief hug.
Following his congratulatory handshakes, he headed toward the tunnel. He slowly walked with his escort, refusing to stop for the photographers, refusing to make eye contact with the jeering fans, leaving the court of Mizzou Arena.
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