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"Don't be upset about the closing of our libraries. After all, we have the arch over the bridge and the Ray Charles Plaza. That is more important than keeping our libraries open."
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VSU 3 years ago
You're right, every cloud has a silver lining.
bigbob 3 years ago
Don't forget them million dollar welcome signs. LOL
chinaberry25 3 years ago
I would wager a bet that not one of you posting here has ever been to one of the ones being closed. If they did not have the computers the libraries would have gone by the wayside of the post offices.
jglass 3 years ago
Seriously, I know that the city supposedly has different accounts, but from which accounts did those items get paid, the arch, the Ray Charles Plaza and the city signs? What was the total figure of these items? Does anyone know?
alleebrin 3 years ago
The cost for the arches was $660,000.00, I recall, and that was for TWO! The one we have is an eyesore, if you ask me!!
J.D._Sumner 3 years ago
Jglass, Not sure about the Ray Charles Plaza (I think it was an ATI project) but the arch was a SPLOST project on the county's list approved by voters and the signs were funded by a grant from the DOT with a local match that came from the city's general fund.
Shinedownfan 3 years ago
I guess this confirms that we all should vote against T-SPLOST then... otherwise we, the voters, will approve a whole bunch more wasteful spending.
J.D._Sumner 3 years ago
That's what Democracy is all about; supporting or opposing something based on what you as an American believe is best for a community.
FlunkyMonkey 3 years ago
Why can't the civic center (you know, the white elephant that spends the majority of its time not being used) be sold to a private company/manager and that money used to fund the libraries and the RiverQuarium? Seems to me that would be the most logical thing to do. Its a win/win for everyone. Albany gets to keep the white elephant to show off and the rest of us benefit from something that will actually teach us something---
daisymae 3 years ago
That godawful...er, I mean that "beautiful" arch was a Tommy Chatmon, ATI, project. He is sitting in Florida laughing his A** off because he made his commission off the taxpayers. And if you want to know what $400K looks like, you can go look at one fourth of that on the Lee County side of the bypass. Albany citizens, your commissioners just keep wasting...err, there I go again, spending your money on all kinds of wonderful..I mean wasteful things with the stoke of a pen. Education is in the trash can, so let's just close a couple of Libraries. Roads are horrible and the city's new word, Blighted property everywhere but let's build Welcome to Albany and has anyone else noticed they took away the slogan, The Good Life City, I guess it is hard to sell the slogan, The Thug City.
alleebrin 3 years ago
I have no problem with closing the Southside library. I have stopped in many times and found the personnel to be extremely helpful; however, I was always the only patron, no matter the time of day. Which poses another question? Why was it constructed in the first place? Just like greed - offer a freebie and management will take it whether it is needed or not!
Yowsa51 3 years ago
Re: last week's MSNBC article regarding American cities mired in an "unrelenting recession" status (i.e., no short or log term recovery planned or anticipated), Albany was #1 on that listing.
GoodyGoodie 3 years ago
It is in the list but it was only listed first because the list is alphabetical.
J.D._Sumner 3 years ago
It wasn't listed as number 1. They were in alphabetical order... Although Albany was one of several metro areas, including Reno, NV and Spokane, WA., listed as being in an "unrelenting recession."
Here's the link: http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/15/12226933-city-by-city-heres-your-guide-to-the-painfully-slow-economic-recovery?lite
J.D._Sumner 3 years ago
Flunky, here's the latest data on the Civic Center usage.
2012 First 5 months of 2012 at Civic Center & Auditorium Jan-May 2012 - Events at Civic Center (Arena, Meeting Rooms, Parking Lot) = 54 Jan-May 2012 – Events at Municipal Auditorium = 12 Average 10.8 event days per month at CC in first 5 months – estimated year total= 130 increase of 45% Average 2.4 event days per month at Auditorium in first 5 months
First 5 months of 2012 participation at CC & Aud Jan-May 2012 – Attendees at Civic Center (Arena, Meeting Rooms, Parking Lot) = 84,274 Jan-May 2012 – Attendees at Municipal Auditorium = 7338
2011 Jan-Dec 2011 - Events at Civic Center (Arena, Meeting Rooms, Parking Lot) = 89 Jan-Dec 2011 – Events at Municipal Auditorium = 37 Average 7.4 event days at CC in 2011 Average 3 event days per month at Auditorium in 2011
Jan-Dec 2011 – Attendees at Civic Center (Arena, Meeting Rooms, Parking Lot) = 135,165 Jan-Dec 2011 – Attendees at Municipal Auditorium = 19,597
****this does not include any set-up or load-in/load-out days
Here are the tentative items for the remainder of the year at the CC (not including the new Tyler Perry play that was booked last week or the Mary Mary concert tentatively set of Nov 3 that was also booked last week) June 6/1 - Alb Tech 6/1 - APD concert 6/2 - panthers 6/9 - Mr. Taylor 6/14 - GA UST training 6/15 - Senior Prom 6/22 YIFL 6/23 Panthers 6/30 Panthers
July 7/21 Summer jam 7/1-28 misc
August 8/2 - Measure Play 8/4 - WWE 8/7 - CoA comedy 8/11 - Wedding Recp 8/18 - Wedding Recp
Sep 9/1 - Watt Reunion 9/19 - HR training 9/22 - Gretchen Wilson 9/22 - Dunnum Bday 9/28 - Women's Conf 9/28 - Symphony
Oct 10/13 - CCJW 10/19 - CCJW 10/6 - Chamber theatre 10/25 - Symphony
Nov 11/3 - Flood mtg 11/7 - ASU Bynum 11/10 - Faith Concert 11/11 - Sherwood 11/16 - ABA basketball 11/17 - DCSS Bball 11/23 - Sweet 16 pty 11/24 - CCA Concert 11/25 - Ballet South 11/27 - ABA basketball 11/28 - R&S leg 11/30 - Diamond Cheer
Dec 12/7 - Deb ball 12/8 - Asu Grad 12/11 - AGAPE 12/12 - Rachel's 12/14 - Alb Tech grad 12/15 - Berachah pty 12/16 - ABA basketball 12/21 - ABA basketball 12/22 - DCSS bball 12/27 - ABA basketball 12/28 - Alb Tech bball 12/30 - ABA basketball
whodat 3 years ago
Can you determine (from the numbers you cite) how many attendees at the Civic Center were there for graduation ceremonies (in May) of the local high schools?
AnotherMom 3 years ago
Does anyone really think those particular libraries were being overrun with patrons? If certain people in this town will not take advantage of the free education they are offered, I don't think they will be knocking down the doors of the libraries.
jglass 3 years ago
J.D., I appreciate your input into this article. You have been very helpful answering questions and giving statistics. THANKS!!!
VSU 3 years ago
No need to worry about those two libraries. Only 6 jobs were lost, and like the other squawkers said. We got that Arch, Ray Charles plaza and those welcome signs. Why sweat the small stuff. We should feel proud!
Cartman 3 years ago
Thanks for the link to the MSNBC article JD. I had not seen that. Unfortunately, it is unsurprising. But what about the second arch? I do recall that we bought both arches simultaneously with plans to install the second on the Broad Street bridge. After the public backlash on the first arch's asthetics, or lack thereof; and the intrusion on the state right-of-way issue - we just never heard what happened to the second arch. I have heard rumors that it is still in storage somewhere. Has it been sold for scrap metal? Was it never delivered in the first place? This is the stuff from which urban legends are born. The Missing Archway of Albany.
Bubbavet_rureel 3 years ago
I love Albany, we need this spirit, If you hate Albany, please pray for a renewed heart and spirit.
Riggins and Obama, four more great years!!
VSU 3 years ago
4 more crooked years!
J.D._Sumner 3 years ago
WhoDat: from City of Albany
ASU – 5/5 – 5000 (CC) Ga Regional Academy Graduation – 5/14 – 500 (Meeting Room event) DCSS Graduation 5/18-5/19 – 15,000 (CC) Andersonville Seminary – 5/25 – 435 (Auditorium) Albany Tech – 6/1 – 2500 (CC)
tocar 3 years ago
I agree with AnotherMom regarding the libraries which are gems for all ages. We should all take advantage of the many things they have to offer.
As far as the blue arches. They are a joke. We couldn't have a landmark that was classic or historical in nature, but we had to have a lighted blue arch. LOL. How funny can that be!
43cop 3 years ago
J.D., just one question. How many of the ones you have shown are paying groups?
alleebrin 3 years ago
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Dinosaur King
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|Dinosaur King
(Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu)
|Collectible card game
|Anime television series
|Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure
|Directed by
|Katsuyoshi Yatabe
|Licensed by
|Nagoya TV
TV Asahi
|English network
|Original run
|February 4, 2007 – January 27, 2008
|Anime television series
|Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure: Pterosaur Legend
|Directed by
|Katsuyoshi Yatabe
|Nagoya TV
TV Asahi
|English network
|Original run
|February 3, 2008 – August 31, 2008
Dinosaur King (古代王者恐竜キング Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu?, literally "Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King") is a card-based arcade game from Sega that uses the same gameplay mechanics from Mushiking but uses super-powered dinosaurs instead of beetles. The game was revealed in JAMMA 2005 and is available in Japanese and English versions. A Nintendo DS version has also been released in North America.[1]
In the fall of 2008, Upper Deck Company released a Dinosaur King Trading Card Game. This card game is not to be confused with the cards used for the arcade machines.[2]
The series has been adapted into an anime TV series, Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure (古代王者恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu Dī Kizzu Adobenchā?). A sequel was announced called "Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure: Pterosaur Legend (古代王者恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー翼龍伝説 Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu Dī Kizzu Adobenchā: Yokuryū Densetsu?)," which debuted February 3, 2008 in Japan. The show ended its run in Japan in late 2008.
Dr. Spike Taylor was on a paleontology mission in Africa with his son Max and Max's friend, Rex. Max discovers stone slabs and finds dinosaurs are calling them for help. An evil organization called the "Alpha Gang", led by the nefarious Dr. Z, traveled back in time to hunt down the dinosaurs and use them to take over the world. It is up to Max and Rex to travel around the world, defeating Dr. Z and the Alpha Gang while hunting down the dinosaurs (Later, the story varies as the arcade game machine keeps on upgrading).
There are different cards to collect and use in order to play Dinosaur King. The barcodes are located on the long edges of the cards for the player to scan them in the machine. So far, there are four types of cards used in this game.
Dinosaur Cards[edit]
These cards represent the "character" for the player. This is first scanned when a player scans his/her dinosaur and move. Each dinosaur is unique in the following traits:
- Basic information (meaning of name, length, period and located where; in the back of the card)
- Critical hit type (Rock,Scissors,Paper)
- Element (Fire, Water, Lightning, Earth, Grass, Wind, Secret)
- Technique points
- Strength value
- Type
And there are 7 types of Dino cards:
- Original
- Fossil
- Animated
- Alpha Gang (included Super Alpha Dinosaurs)
- Super (included animated super dinosaurs)
- Dinotector Armor (only for D-kids and Alpha Gang's Animated Dinosaurs)
- Spectral Armor (included Omega Armor for Eocarcharia only)
The armor dinosaurs are just for animated dinosaurs.
Each dinosaur type has different abilities in battle. They are as follows:
- Attack Type: Has high Move power and usually also has a strong Critical Move.
- Tie Type: Gets lower damage from a tie.
- Defense Type: Has higher stamina, but usually has a weak Critical Move.
Newer types found in more recent expansions include:
- Counter: Raise a Move's power after a loss.
- Blitz: Raise a Move's power when the counter is at 10.
- Crisis: Raise a Move's power when the player's energy turns low.
- Hunter: Raise a Move's power when the opponent is weak.
- Charge: The opponent will get more damage from a tie.
- Heroic: Moves that lose to opponent's Critical move are very strong.
- Death: Can use Death fire when HP is low. (only for Black Tyrannosaurus)
- Revival: Revive once if defeated in a tie. (in fossil dino cards only)
Note: The animated dinosaurs' type are plus a 'Super' front of name of types. Ex: Chomp is Super Crisis Type.
Move Cards[edit]
These cards represent the fighting techniques of the super-powered dinosaurs in the Dinosaur King arcade game. They are only scanned once the Dinosaur Card has been scanned. Only one move card per move type can only be scanned, making a total of three possible cards that can be scanned. For example: Tail Smash (Rock), Tie Breaker (Scissors), and Atomic Bomb (paper) is a combination choice for fighting against dinosaurs.
Super Move Cards[edit]
These cards can teach the dinosaur a special elemental move and can cause massive damage when used. In the first edition cards there is only one card per element. As of the third edition each move (rock, paper, and scissors) has one super move card per element. More will be revealed over time. The player cannot scan an element card if the element of the dinosaur does not match the element of the Super Move. For example, Triceratops will be able to use the lightning strike move card unlike Tyrannosaurus. If he/she scans a "wrong" card, the game will tell the player that he/she scanned the wrong element.
Character Cards[edit]
These cards are only available in Japan, but work in English versions of the arcade game. Character Cards are cards that display members of the Alpha Gang. They can alter the game in many ways.
- 1-player: The player can choose difficulty levels without pressing all three buttons at the same time, the character on the card will be playable instead of Max, Dr. Taylor will be replaced by Dr. Z giving hints, and the player will receive an Alpha Gang level at the end of the four battles.
- 2-player: The players will play as the character on the cards.
The only way to obtain character cards is to go to Japan, get specific Japanese stamped cards, and trade them with an office. They can only be scanned before a dinosaur card is scanned.
The series was adapted into an anime TV series, Ancient Ruler Dinosaur King DKidz Adventure (古代王者恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー Kodai Ōja Kyōryū Kingu Dī Kizzu Adobenchā?), which is made by Sunrise and premiered on TV Asahi on February 4, 2007. As of 2008, an English adaptation aired on the 4Kids TV block on the Fox Network,[3] but moved to The CW's The CW4Kids block on September 6, 2008. A videogame based on that series was released as Dinosaur King.
The Dinosaur King Trading Card game was released in the fall of 2008 by the Upper Deck Company. Although the play mechanism follows the arcade game cards to some extent, they are not meant to be mixed.
External links[edit]
- Official website (Japanese)
- Official Sega Toys website (Japanese)
- Dinosaur King (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Sega takes on Taito Company claims Taito's dinosaurs infringe on its insects.
- 2007 anime television series
- 2008 anime television series
- 2005 video games
- 2007 Japanese television series debuts
- 2008 Japanese television series debuts
- 2008 Japanese television series endings
- Sega arcade games
- Sunrise (company)
- Video games developed in Japan
- Anime television series based on video games
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What is lucky about throwing punches inteded to do damage and doing damage? Answer: Nothing. And who cares about Vittles-Briggs? Vits couldn't put away an old, fat Briggs who was knocked out by Lewis a dozen years earlier. And Vittles only had 1 defense...that's it. He than retired and his brother has been the one and only champion since.
As far as your lie about Byrd refusing to fight Vits again, I'm calling you on it. Show the link where Byrdrefuses to rematch Vits. Show the article where he says no. You can't and now you're officially a liar!!
It's really funny how you just dumb down your argument and not look at the entire picture. It really shows how wrong you are each time you spout your stupid bull****. It is lucky to
another opponent. That is luck, don't be idiotic and say the first line again. By the way, you realize that when Vitali faced Briggs he was older than Briggs himself so that again shows your argument doesn't look at the big picture at all. Finally, Briggs almost KO'd Lewis in his prime while he didn't even hurt Vitali once that entire night. And, Briggs said that Vitali was better than anyone he's ever faced in his career. I'll listen to the actual boxer and not some person on the internet.
Byrd refused the rematch but was forced to defend his title to Wlad. Byrd clearly had the choice to face Vitali or Wlad and went for Wlad because he knew that there really was no chance against Vitali. Wlad destroyed him just like Vitali did but without an injury and won.
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Put out 3 signs, each 10 feet apart starting at 10 feet from the tarp. The first one is labeled "full points", the second "double points" and the third "is triple points"
Option 1: Each person gets 3 throws and they get to choose what sign (distance) they will stand
Option 2: Put a ball at each sign. They get one throw from each distance.
Option 3: Give each player a ball. They have 60 seconds to rack up as many points as they can. But they have to retrieve their own ball after each throw.
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# Joni Hayes on 27 Aug 2010 at 9:52 am
Love it! I am totally making it for our Primary activity! Thanks for the idea!
# Jacy on 18 Jan 2011 at 10:27 am
We are having a family reunion this summer (2011), and this would be an awesome game! Thanks for sharing
# Susan on 20 Jan 2011 at 7:07 am
I have a house full of boys from 23-11 and they would all love this! What kind of paint did you use that actually sticks to the tarp?
Love it!
# Kristi on 20 Jan 2011 at 7:33 am
Great idea! What kind of paint did you use?
# Janice Greenhalgh on 20 Jan 2011 at 7:34 am
You could also make a smaller one and have people stand behind the holes and the players throw wet sponges at them. Great for a hot day.
# Gremma on 20 Jan 2011 at 8:06 am
Great idea! I'm thinking this would be good for a YM/YW activity that I'm in charge of in June. Thanks for sharing!
# Allene on 21 Jan 2011 at 9:36 am
So cute! My boys (1-7) will love this!
# Michelle on 25 Jan 2011 at 8:17 pm
Thank you for this idea can't wait to do this with my kids
# Marne on 23 Mar 2011 at 9:35 pm
love this idea! thanks.
# Sharon on 06 Jul 2011 at 12:20 pm
Did anyone find out what kind of paint to use on a plastic tarp?
Most paints will flake off… however I haven't tried spray paint yet. The best option is to use different colored duct tape.
So cute!
I'd love it if you shared this with the Fun Family Crafts audience.
FFC is similar to Craftgawker but it only features kid friendly tutorials.
Looking forward to seeing what fun crafts you submit!
Thanks Shannon,
My husband came home and said he needed a bean bag toss for the Primary Carnival that our YM and YW sponsor each October. He was going to use particle board, but I remembered your tarp. The tarp is so much easier to use, transport and store. The carnival will be inside our church cultural hall. We will attach the tarp to some PVC pipe that is being held up by our patio umbrella stands. We will drill some holes in the PVC pipe, then tie the tarp to the poles.
Thanks for your detailed instructions.
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# elizabeth on 02 Feb 2013 at 6:43 am
How big is the tarp you used?
# Sage on 11 Nov 2013 at 12:14 pm
I love this idea! We did this fro my brothers birthday! he had so much fun!!! We spray painted a (mini) football field in our backyard and that was for touchdowns and little things like that. It was so fun!
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Love this idea. Going to put "Fire" designs around the holes and make small bean bags out of material that looks like water for my sons 3rd Firetruck Birthday Party.


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Saarjite Baartman, a young Khosian woman from Southern Africa whose body was the main attraction at public spectacles in both England and France for over five years, is perhaps the most infamous case of a Khosian body on display.
Baartman, who became known as the Hottentot Venus, was brought to Europe from Cape Town in 1810 by an English ship's surgeon who wished to publicly exhibit the woman's steatopygia, her enlarged buttocks. Her physique, particularly her large buttocks, became the object of popular fascination when Baartman was exhibited naked in a cage at Piccadilly, England. When abolitionists mobilized to put an end to Baartman's public display, she informed them that she participated in the spectacles of her own volition. She even shared in profits with her exhibitor.
The spectacle of Baartman's body, however, continued even after her death at the age of twenty-six. Pseudo-scientists interested in investigating "primitive sexuality" dissected and cast her genitals in wax. Baartman, as far as we know, was the first person of Khosian-descent to be dismembered and displayed in this manner. Anatomist Georges Curvier presented Baartman's dissected labia before the Academie Royale de Medecine, in order to allow them "to see the nature of the labia" (Curvier and his contemporaries concluded that Baartman's oversized primitive genitalia was physical proof of the African women's "primitive sexual appetite." Baartman's genitalia continued to be exhibited at La Musée de l'Homme, the institution to which Curvier belonged, long after her death.
This introduction to the history of human displays of people of color demonstrates that cultural difference and "otherness" were visually observed on the "native" body, whether in live human exhibitions or in dissected body parts on public display. Both forms of spectacle often served to promote Western colonial domination by configuring non-white cultures as being in need of discipline, civilization, and industry.
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I hadnt heard this story before...ReplyDelete
reminds me of some of these video girls out here...ReplyDelete
i dnt know if I should be offended, but i def feel some kind of way.ReplyDelete
Fascinating story, Jason. I'm not loving the fact that she was placed in a cage, though. I guess it's reflective of the ignorance of the age in which she existed.ReplyDelete
The things our people have suffered over the centuries! It's truly amazing that, as a race, we still exist, & that most of us are still sane!
I've actually done a post about Saartji on my old blog.I compared her treatment to the video girls of today.ReplyDelete
Her's was a tragic story.
I first heard about the Hottentot Venus via YouTube 2 years ago. I was always under the impression that she was their against her will. I guess not...LOL...Learn something new everyday!ReplyDelete
I'm with 25champ. I haven't heard about this before and that is mos def crazy...ReplyDelete
I think she was treated worst... but no a days these video girls know what they are getting themselves into..and simply don't care.
Enlightening. I'd heard about this from my mother, but never knew the story in its entirety. Leave it to you, to bring the truth to it all. Gotta love Jason!ReplyDelete
I can't believe they caged her though...Although it was voluntary, I doubt very seriously, they had to put the woman/girl in a cage. How ironic - that they were studying 'primitive...appetite". Hmmmm.
Have to wonder if that's why we get our asses stared at all the time now LOL! Perhaps without knowing it, the study is still being done :-)
One year when my brother was on tour, he brought me back a wooden statue whose butt looks a lot like the one on The Hottentot Venus.
I remember learning about this a few years ago. But like others, I though it was involuntary.ReplyDelete
It is not very dissimilar from what is going on today with black women.
This is very sad.ReplyDelete
There's a lot to be learned about sexism and misogyny in society from this story.
Exactly Khaki! I think some of the images we see today have direct roots from Saartje story.
I feel you!
Definitely fascinating! Black female exploitation has been around for a long minute.
Tragic indeed Val! I need to check your post out.ReplyDelete
Yeah! That part was disturbing. If that account is accurate, she supported her own exploitation.
@Sunny DReplyDelete
I guess nowadays money talks eh!
I think they caged her because europeans at the time believed that Africans were uncivilized and to spectacalize (I think I made this up, lol) her.
I agree K. Some women are doing it to themselves but I think there is a deeper issue with those woman.
It is sad Miz!
I heard about this a long time ago & it slipped my mind. That is very disturbing to know that she volunteered to be treated that way. Is that a clip from the movie? Is it out? I cant find it on the net.ReplyDelete
I think it's being released later this year.
I fail to believe she was in agreement with her treatment. It is possible she was told one story, the arrived in another land only to discover otherwise. Ironic how they were studying "primitive sexuality", yet she was sold for sex and died from VD.ReplyDelete
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Have you ever wanted to create your own personalised, practical, ticks-all-the-boxes bag? You'll soon be able to do so as local bag designer Matthew Thomson opens his studio to the masses as part of Craft Cubed Festival.
Throughout August the self-taught designer will be inviting customers to go on "A day trip with Mattt" and road-test his bags, providing him with design and style feedback along the way.
"I tend to get ideas for new designs and products both from customer feedback, requests and developing products for my own use, as opposed to designing a whole collection," says Thomson.
Keeping the whole design process, from conception to delivery, in Melbourne is something Thomson is passionate about. With a large number of his designs being custom orders or one offs, the practicality and personal touch is something that can only be done from a hands-on position.
"This approach is also becoming better supported and recognised with programs like Ethical Clothing Australia accreditation, which we've just received."
The Craft Cubed Festival provides is a natural extension of Thomson's design philosophy.
"It gives the customer permission to be actively involved in the testing and refinement of new ideas and means there is more customer interaction than ever; most of the products are actually made to order rather than being just purchased off the shelf – though we do this as well."
This is the third time Thomson has participated in the project and says the interaction with customers throughout the festival helps him keep an open mind to his designs.
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TEAC's pro audio division announces two interfaces with polished aluminium cases, for songwriters to record music on Mac or PC
ecently TASCAM, the pro-audio and home recording division of TEAC Corporation, unveiled two new USB audio devices; the US-322, a 2-in/2-out USB audio interface with upto 24bit/96kHz recording, and the US-366 which is a 6-in/4-out or 4-in/6-out USB interface – depending on the setting of line 3 and line 4 – with upto 24bit/192kHz recording
The US-322 and US-366 are the next line of interfaces from TASCAM to combine compelling new technologies like on-board digital mixers (DSP Mixer) and on-board digital effects (DSP Effects) along with advances on the well-known US-122mkII and US-144mkII. The US-322 and US-366 sport similar aluminium casings for the same rugged reliability plus new improved HDDA (High Definition Discrete Architecture) mic pres. These HDDA Mic Pres offer a wider frequency response (10Hz to 68kHz), high S/N ratio (98dB), low EIN (-120dBu) and low THD+N (0.0045%); qualities rarely achieved in interfaces this affordable.
These all-new interfaces boast low S/N ratio, low THD and the US-366 flaunts 24bit/192kHz recording; certifying these as the best sounding interfaces to be released by TASCAM yet. The 2-in/2-out US-322 features 1 Mic XLR/Line-Guitar TRS input, 1 Mic XLR/Line TRS input, 2 Line TRS and 2 Line RCA outputs. The 6-in/4-out or 4-in/6-out US-366 adds 2 Line RCA inputs and 1 Digital RCA/Optical input/output. One click of the top-loaded "Mixer Panel" button will access TASCAM's new mixing console screen and on-board insert/send effects for easy-to-use, versatile recording. The digital mixer offers two operational modes, multi-track mode and stereo-mix mode.
After months of organized tests by TASCAM's esteemed engineers and R&D department, the new TASCAM interfaces are guaranteed to offer new luxuries, reliability and value not found before in competing models. TASCAM's US-322 and US-366 are bundled with Cubase LE6, feature easy-to-use controls, amazing quality, and feature-rich technology, advantages sure to please professional and amateur recording artists alike.
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|18th September 2013, 02:32 PM
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Revevealing Slone L-MOS 6.21 (OptiMOS) secrets
I've researched this forum a few years gained notoriety for G Randy Slone L - MOSFET amplifiers , and a few years ago, I have successfully done a few of the author circuits . Now, after a lot of researched I decided to experiment The Audiophile Project Sourcebook pages 172 to 182 described circuit Figure 6.21 , I've come across this in the name OptiMOS - but in this name of the book on these pages , however, is not to be noticing . Do you still have it just the OptiMOS assisted by some praise , some light up , many claim to have built but I have not even seen the pictures of this particular circuit Fig. 6.21 .
So, I made it , I actually finished and there are several drawbacks - it does not work that way , as I have previously worked from the prototype phase Slone diagrams .
I am also aware of the topics
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that reflect the author's unstable circuits but as far as the eye has been stated that the solution to 6.21 is perfectly capable of working . I dare to doubt this .
The problem I have is to be semiconductors V5 and V6 , they heat up circuit greatly energized for a few seconds , without Output L-MOS semiconductor output DC voltage is 650mV . In addition to tend to destroyed as R4 , R20 and R22 . V13 to V16 remain alive . It was observed that small transistors V1 to V12 and V17 , V18 nor destroyed but every attempt I have replaced all of them and also checked the diodes , all the parts are new , have been selected passive components 0.1 % accuracy . Is it still just the layout of the problems of the source? I will also still haunted by OptiMOS - which of these circuit is it really so? I have an Slone The Audiophile Project Sourcebook , as well as the High - Power Audio Amplifier Construction Manual , latest is 11.8 and 11.9 is 100 % working and very foolproof (I'm with them conducted several tests and still have not been able to kill any semiconductors ), it seems that the circuit is insecure 11.14 but now this list can be added in a newer book described a circuit 6.21 - legendary OptiMOS solution?
I will add a picture and my drawing , it seems that the drawing goes against "something" then it can be removed .
Is there anyone here who dares to suggest something based on this information , any questions that the scheme is expected - I hope to get the help of the answers to my questions. Or is there only mistake with the signal gnd?
|18th September 2013, 03:18 PM
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Hi, Have you seen this site? Plamen Todorov's DIY Blog - A solid-state tale. My favourite amp.
Probably he could advice on his experiance. Looks like he made it.
|18th September 2013, 03:37 PM
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Some time ago, Bob Cordell was hunting details of the OPTIMOS designs (there were other models), for his book, I understood, but some OPTIMOS versions are copyright to the company, ZUS Audio, to whom Randy sold his company, Seal Electronics back some years before his passing.
ZUS marketed kits, and even finished amps and published papers setting out the benefits etc. The site however, is currently down for 'restructuring'. Perhaps someone has information from ZUS that refers to amplifiers that do work as guaranteed, rather than something that may that not have been marketed or was doubtful from the outset.
|22nd September 2013, 04:47 PM
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I myself have made a mistake - in my PCB and component layout drawings have been interchanged. I might say that this amp sounds interesting. Mostly listened to Dimmu Borgir and Xandria music, and it is interesting to amplifier sound at first glance would say that the "cold" or be the right word rather a transparent.
In any case version 6.21 OptiMOS is quite a high-potential, it seems to me. Dare to recommend this amp
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App Store Insists Ninjawords iPhone Dictionary Remove "Objectionable" Content, Still Classifies it 17+
Ninjawords [$1.99 - iTunes link], a delightfully crafted dictionary application, was rejected from the iTunes App Store no less than three times of "objectionable content" and still slapped with a 17+ rating before being approved in mutilated form in just the latest of Apple's stupefying, infuriating, frustrating, and ultimately disappointing blunders that haunt their mobile platform.
Daring Fireball casts a scathing light on the Ninjawords situation, and sums it up brilliantly:
The list of omitted words includes some which have utterly non-objectionable senses: ass, snatch, pussy, cock, and even screw. (Ass and cock appear throughout the King James Bible.)
Every time I think I've seen the most outrageous App Store rejection, I'm soon proven wrong. I can't imagine what it will take to top this one.
Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day.
Yes, you cannot find words for donkeys, cats, roosters, or hardware in this one dictionary on the App Store (though you can, of course, in Apple's own Mac OS X dictionary). Gruber also rightly points out that App Store reviewers would have had to deliberately search for words like f--k and c--t to find them, given the care taken by the apps developers in filtering results, which mirrors the rejection of e-book reader Eucalyptus when not one but two App Store reviewers deliberately searched for Kama Sutra, apparently just so they could reject an app. (Maybe because they duplicate functionality of Mobile Safari?)
Steve Jobs is back. Could we desperately suggest nothing, not Eric Schmidt, not iTablets, not AT&T should be higher on his priority list than forcing sanity upon the App Store and now? Or does Apple really want the influential, tech-savvy apperati to start considering competing platforms?
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App Store Insists Ninjawords iPhone Dictionary Remove "Objectionable" Content, Still Classifies it 17+
Even though the words a$$ and c0ck are in the bible, I'm sure this dictoinary has taken them to different contexts. if their meanings are in any way vulgar, I don't blame Apple for refusing the app. Yea, yea, yea, free speech and hug a tree while holstering your pistol, whatever. There needs to be more decency in our society, otherwise we're going to continue down the path of moral collapse.
What about Dictionaire and Dictionary.com's app?
I can the expressed words, Carlin's 7, and even some others that I've picked up along the way, but it's not rated anything special, and it's been on for months...
Apple's "We Hate Developers" campaign probably needs to end soon.
ninjawords is in the app store now fyi that was fast maybe because of Rene lol.
So what gives Apple the pedigree to determine the direction of our moral compass?
Churches have long established practices and usually pretty good reference material. The FCC has a very large group of people making much more consistent judgement calls and is a public entity.
Sounds like Apple has one or two guys on payroll with an F3 Find button on their computer and a handful of out of context references to use as a basis.
I'm not sure I really care about the filtering really. It's their method I take issue with.
Brad, how is this for decency: you are a f$%king f$%ktard. It's because of m0rons like you that something like this is not dismissed as ludicrous by 100% of population. Although I am happy to see by the rest of the comments here that it is probably still about 95% of the population.
Go thump your bible elsewhere, while pretending that it gives you morality. That claim alone is ludicrous.
Pray tell, did you know that people use substitutes for those words, too? Like "kitty" as a substitute for "pu$$y." (why am I censoring this perfectly ok word?!) So what, not to preserve your sense of morality we should remove the word "kitty" from the dictionary.
You are absurd.
It's like Carlin said - it's not the words, it's the context. And no matter how hard you try, you will never, ever - ever - will be able to censor context in use.
@brad. And who shall we hold as a moral compass? Yourself? The invisible man in the sky? Morals are subjective. What's leading us down
"the path of moral collapse" is morons like you who who don't get that.
As great and the iPhone and the App store are, it appears the approval process is equally as bad.
@All the people slamming Brad... It's interesting how comfortable folks feel bringing down their hammer of wrath and fury at someone for suggesting that it's reasonable to create or live by standards. I am perplexed at how angry, belligerent and downright nasty some people will stoop in their endless quest to defend their right to do and say whatever they want. So what if Apple censors the heck out of things??? Who cares if their app store selection policies are inconsistent??? You all aren't really defending freedom of speech and peoples' rights anyway. If you were, you'd support Brad's right to say whatever he wants. You dress up anger under your own moral canopy but it's thinly-veiled window dressing to distract from your real motives... you want what you want when you want it and you're pissed cuz someone won't give it to you! No one has "the right" to any application, software, hardware or whatever. Is it kinda dopey that Apple rejected or limited the app they way they did? Sure. Is it beyond sad that people curse someone on this forum for expressing their support of Apple's censorship? You betcha!
@Brad, the problem is other apps have these words in them complete with "vulgar" definitions. Like I said the dictionary.com app as the F-bomb complete with pretty much every definition that could go with it.
Also no need to slam Brad everyone. As talkin73 said, he has the right to his opinions. The point isn't whether these words should be there or not. The point is Apple's completely random standards in approving apps.
doesn't matter, the HTC HERO is dropN soon!!!!
besides I have a FREE dictionary app from the AppStore tha. has every profane wrd imaginable plus it PRONOUNCES the wrds...alot of LOLs indeed
@talkin73. Brad has the right to say whatever he wants of course. I have the right to call him what he is: a moron. He was the one who brought the question of morality into it. I'm just pointing out the fact that morals are subjective. Yeah apple can do what they want with their app store. That just didn't really seem to be what brad was getting at with his whole "moral collapse" scenerio.
@Jonar1us HTC hero? Can't wait to see the crowds for that one. You may care but realize you are in the minority. A very small minority at that.
@truth. Why are you on an apple related website saying f you apple? Seems like you got a bit too much rime on your hands. If I feel strongly enough about someone to say F you I'm pretty much done with that person. You got a real hard on for apple, huh?
@jbrandonf. Please go get your pre and leave the rest of us alone. I don't think apple really needs your business. Something tells me they'll survive.....
does anyone have a copy of the original ninjawords because i think it was probably how they wrote the definitions not the actual words. the probably were a little to satirical look at the words instead of just giving the definition.
Is it just me, or are even the perpetual Apple Fanboys following this blog starting to show signs of being mad as hell and not going to take it any more....
ASSD is becoming pandemic.
ASSD, acronym, App Store Stress Disorder, an affliction of fanboys caused by chronic exposure risk averse lawyer work product. Characterized by symptoms of outrage, indignation, and early symptoms of BORS (Blush is Off the Rose Syndrome (which see). Advanced cases may lead to early suppression of their insatiable adoration and love of all things Apple, which threatens their entire world view.
Should the app store also remove safari browser sense the same questionable content can be view on many websites.
@icebike. People over 15 figure out alot of things I'm sure. Exactly what that has to do with anything is beyond me. Criticism is a serious examination of something. "fk you" is simply....well "fk you". Doesn't exactly add much to the conversation, does it? "not a black and white world"? Maybe not, but there is such thing as fact and the fact is that was a retarded comment.
safari is not on the app store.
@the real truth
I understand that I think most people above the age of 12 get that actually, I was making a point that the above questionable content can be retrieved via safari, and Apple should remove that also then...
talkin73, I don't see any comments on here telling Brad that he shouldn't be able to say whatever he wants. I see comments on here disagreeing with him. There is a HUGE DIFFERENCE between the two, but people conflate them all the time, and it's tiring. I think it's pretty telling that you consider people getting passionate about their desire to be able to do and say what they want to be a BAD thing.
To quote Robot Chicken, "I could just yell out 'Homonym!' But I prefer the homo spin. I'm teaching the world 'bout homo-nyms."http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951e5ec5d3011e5fa6701700...
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safari is apples application so it takes precedence over third party apps. That's right. I said it. Apple is a huge company that makes lots of money and looks out for themselves above all else. So what. Isn't capitalism about making investors money? If apple caters more to developers will that make them more significantly more money? If that were the case don't you think they'd be doing it by now?
Isn't the real point that a company is making decisions about what customers can see, read, do? I don't think anyone here would really defend a "moral collapse" as it was termed, but when did the average person forfeit their right to choose what they see, read or do?
Additionally, Apple has entered the preverbial "slippery slope" in censoring applications like they are. The inconsistency is a symptom, for sure, but honestly, where is the line drawn? Public organizations have tripped over this kind of controversy for years and years...I really don't think the reviewers of the app store applications have solved this one. How do you say that "this" is acceptable and something else is not?
IMHO, I think they should stick with the current federal laws...no snuff, no child porn, no threat of harm to others, no viruses. The rest, as objectionable as it can be to some (or most) is really up to the consumer.
We are grown-ups. We can handle it from here. And, the grown-ups should be handling these censorship issues for their children.
(Maybe if some people were not so quick to sue a company for allowing their customers the choice, we wouldn't have uptight, restrictive, CYOA management.)
Actually, I don't see the humor in it. Hypocrisy is what Rene is all about.
Ever notice people are chastised for defending themselves against umpteen rude commenters (like "antonioj, etc, etc) and other Twitter buddies of Rene's who constantly attack people by calling them morons, idiots, retards, etc? And what response do those people receive from Rene? "Thanks to [insert name here] for sending in the tip!"
Now he's criticizing Apple for not allowing words he himself disallows (although they CAN appear in his articles)?
Nope... nothing humorous about it. Just sad.
Watch out for that silent running black helicopter
First I jus want to say reading this blog has made my day!! :-) you guys are funny.
As far as the app goes, I am completely against there approval process. Why make an app edit there content when I can get right on safri and find somethin 10x worst. For those of you who have a problem with apps being vulgar, DONT BUY IT!!!! and if your concerned about kids gettin a hold of them, DONT LET THEM BUY IT!! I thought apple added the parental controls for a reason...
Just a thought: Do you think a blog may have censors to try to circumvent verbal abuses? Vulgar language in a blog or forum is more likely to be used "in context" to something...well...vulgar and abusive, over a dictionary which simple defines those words. IDK...just throwing that out there.
@Grant, ironic you would use the expression "straw man argument". The implication that I think it's BAD for people to get "passionate about their desire to be able to do and say what they want" is quite silly. Unless you define "getting passionate" as cursing, insulting, and degrading another person. It seems your capacity for conflating two ideas appears to exceeds even mine ;-) But it appears we do agree on one thing... it is tiring.
Your reference to this "censorship" is actually more disturbing than most of the other commentary. The base at which I am currently deployed in Afghanistan is surrounded by a local village with a few thousand inhabitants. In particular, the female members have lived most of their lives being threatened with death, torture and the killing of their families if they attempt to read or obtain education of any kind. Whether you agree with military occupation here is another issue and not intended as a derailment. Rather, in the context of the censorship experienced by Afghan women and people in many other parts of the world, your "passionate" indignation about Apple denying a dictionary app seems more than trite. An application which, ultimately, does not prevent a single person in our entire country from actually having access to any piece of information whatsoever. This is the "censorship" that raises your ire? Seriously?
you make a great point. This my sole reason for even posting on here. It so ridiculous that with all the shit happening in the world, truely bad, fucked up shit, this is the kind of thing people are all up in arms about. If you hate the way apple conducts itself don't buy their products. That's simple isn't it. Apparently not. It's as if people think that apple or any company should somehow be about "the people" and for "the people". Apple or any other corporation is about making money. If what they are doing is making them money they will keep doing it. Apple rejecting apps from their store IS NOT censorship for Christ sake. It's the way they choose to do business. Censorship is something mandated buy the government which effects a persons rights to say and do things. Get another fucking cell phone, realize that there's shit happening in the world that should piss off and that this isn't it, and get a fucking life
I am going to very mad if my Unabridged dictionary becomes an abridged version. If apple follows through, they've gone to far.
sure not every issue disscused needs to be about Life and death to be important. It's frusterating however when a person purchases a product, keeps said product, and continuly pisses and moans about it. Buy a pre....a blackberry.....whatever. People love to bitch and complain. And I don't think I'm just complaining about people complaining. What I am doing is making a valid point wich is more than I can say for most of the geniuses on here.


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The phone call came very early in the morning. Like most calls that come at bad times, it was bad news.
It was the same kind of call that all families both eventually expect and dread. My elderly aunt died last week after a long, long illness.
It was probably a relief. She had struggled for so very long that it did not make me sad so much. She had been released.
It made me sad that a generation of my family was now gone. She was the last of the ones who helped create what in retrospect was a most fortunate and wonderful childhood for me and my siblings. Her death was the final end of an era that really slipped away from us years ago.
Although I didn't see her as much as I should have these last years (all my fault), I grew up right across the road from her home.
She was my mother's older sister. They both married World War II servicemen. When the war was over, the men went off to work and their young wives stayed home. They raised their families a quick walk from their parents' home in the Indiana countryside. The three houses were mostly surrounded by the family farm, where the fields and woods made abundant space for the kids' adventures.
We didn't have a whole lot of money, but we were far from poor. We were very rich in family ties. Luckily my brother still holds down the fort in the old home. Otherwise all ties would be gone.
Auntie was always prim and proper, well, mostly always proper. A fine-looking majorette in a photo as a high school senior, she stayed slim while my mother tended toward the roly-poly. Actually Mom was well past the tending stage.
Auntie dressed well and spoke well but never flinched at the country life we all shared.
When she was on a horse, she "posted." The rest of us just rode. She's featured in old family movies, wearing her jodhpurs and carrying baby pigs by the feet from the barn to the pasture. Quite a combination and always a good laugh.
While I mowed grass in shorts and no shirt, pushing a giant gas mower, there she was across the road, cruising along on her riding mower wearing slacks, a long-sleeved shirt, gloves and a hat with a brim that stretched way over each shoulder.
All these are images of a kind of extended family community that I wish I could recreate today to make a similar experience for my own kids and theirs.
But, of course, time marches on.
None of this makes my family special. Families every day must deal with the loss of loved ones, with the march of time, with the distances now between the ones who once were so close.
Whether they took place on a street corner, in a subdivision or at a country crossroads, the scenes of our childhood always remain with us. We cannot return. Some of us don't want to; some wish they could if only for a while.
Selfishly, I don't grieve for Auntie so much as I do for myself. Another link to a fortunate past and the memories of how good things were is gone.
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Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Performing arts , Playing sports , Political interests , Travel/Sightseeing , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Basketball, Cycling, Walking / Hiking, Yoga
I exercise 3-4 times per week.
I don't believe in astrology
I have Dogs, Fish
Australian Shepard. Gentle, smart, friendly. Salt water aquarium
California, Mexico, Flagstaff, southern Alaska, Film Bar, Casey Moores, Four Peaks.
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Movies; TV: recently The Americans, The Good Wife, Breaking Bad, Archer, Justified, Game of Thrones; Orphan Black; NBA basketball; The New Yorker; long walks with my dog; travel; being in the classroom with my students; cooking; working out.
Movies, friends, outdoor activities, read, cook, dine, travel.
I read a lot of journalism: New Yorker, New York Times, Slate, etc. reading The Marriage Plot, Snow Crash and England's Dreaming, about punk rock in England in the 1970s
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|What he is looking for
|5'11" (180cms)
|3'0" (91cms) to 8'11" (271cms)
|Body type:
|Athletic and toned
|Slender, About average, Curvy, Athletic and toned
|No preference
|Dark brown
|No preference
|No Way
|No Way, Occasionally, Cigar aficionado, Yes, but trying to quit
|Social Drinker
|Never, Social Drinker, Regularly, Moderately
|Education / Teacher / Professor
|No preference
University Professor in Film and Screenwriting
|$50,001 to $75,000
|No preference
|Never Married, Widow / Widower, Currently Separated, Divorced
|Have kids:
|Yes, and they sometimes live at home, No, Yes, and they live away from home, Yes, and they live at home
|Wants kids:
|I'll tell you later
|No preference
|White / Caucasian
|Asian, Black / African descent, East Indian, Latino / Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Native American, Pacific Islander, White / Caucasian, Other
|Spiritual but not religious
|Agnostic, Atheist, Buddhist / Taoist, Spiritual but not religious
|Graduate degree
|Bachelors degree, Graduate degree, PhD / Post Doctoral
I have an MA in Film Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction)


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