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CLOUDCROFT >> In the first half of play, the Cloudcroft Bears (6-9) came out fighting despite being undersized in the paint. El Paso Faith Christian (12-8) used its size to dominate the lane and pick up the easy boards all night. The Bears fell 60-47 to EP Faith Christian on Thursday night in Cloudcroft.
The Bears' Marshall Miller scored 11 points in the first quarter, nailing three 3-pointers. Down 20-14, the Bears fought back after Miller hit another 3-pointer to put Cloudcroft within one point at 20-19.
Both squads worked the fast-break and shot from outside the paint to tie the game at 26 with 3:34 left in the second quarter.
Faith Christian wore out the Bears, keeping with their up-tempo offense to pull away 36-27 late in the second.
The Bears managed to come back within 10 points at 56-46 with 3:28 left in the contest, however Cloudcroft didn't have enough juice to come back.
Miller finished the night with 19 points while Lucas Rimmie chipped in with 11 points.
"Judging by their size, I thought they played tough inside and I thought our guys, size-wise, did a good job trying to get anything they could get in the paint," said Cloudcroft boys basketball coach Kody Adams. "But when they've got 6-foot-5 and 6-foot-4, that's hard to match up against for us. I thought we did a really good job. We fought really, really hard in the second quarter and that's where we've got to be. We've got to play all four quarters like that second quarter (we played)."
"We've been working really hard the past couple weeks because we knew they were coming up and they're really good, so we knew we had to work extra hard and we just played really hard defense on them," Martin said.
Cloudcroft will play Carrizozo at 3 p.m. Saturday.


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Background: In the 1970s, a 5.5-mile band of Midcoast shoreline, including Fitzgerald Marine Reserve (FMR), was designated by the State as an Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS), due to the diversity of habitat and species found on the broad reef. Since 1983, the California Ocean Plan has prohibited the discharge of pollutants to the ASBS.
California's Critical Coastal Area (CCA) program fosters collaboration among agencies and stakeholders to better coordinate resources and focus efforts on coastal watersheds in critical need of protection from polluted runoff, also known as nonpoint source pollution, which harms aquatic ecosystems, public health, and the local economy. The FMR watershed is Critical Coastal Area 29.
In 2011 the County began working on the Fitzgerald ASBS Pollution Reduction Program. The project is led by the Department of Public Works in collaboration with the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District (RCD) and San Francisco Estuary Institute. The project is funded in part by a Proposition 84 grant from the State Water Resources Control Board and is scheduled to continue through March 2015. The project involves implementation of targeted stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs), water quality studies and BMP effectiveness monitoring, and education and outreach. The project's goal is to improve water quality and protect beneficial uses of the Fitzgerald ASBS and additionally assist in the County's compliance with the ASBS stormwater regulations.
The RCD has a separate Prop 84 ASBS grant for their Livestock and Land Program to work with confined animal operations to prevent pollutants from entering Areas of Special Biological Significance.
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Midcoast Stormwater Drainage Committee
Midcoast Stormwater Drainage Committee (MSDC) was formed in 2007 as part of the Midcoast LCP Update. The Committee's work plan identified the following elements: Education, Identification of Problem, Potential Solutions, and Funding. MSDC received presentations from Coastal Commission staff, County Planning and Public Works staff and received comments from the public to help frame the extent of drainage problems on the Midcoast, the regulations and policies in place that impact drainage, and various approaches to improving drainage facilities. Short-term prioritized stormwater improvements identified:
1. 2nd/Kanoff/East in Montara
MSDC June 2009 Final Report recommendations approved by Board of Supervisors:
1. Drainage improvements on 2nd, Kanoff, & East Ave in Montara: Develop a conceptual design report including environmental review, and a capital improvement project, subject to available funding.
2. Conduct public meetings by June 2010 to gauge the Midcoast community's interest in developing a Midcoast Stormwater Master Plan and implementing stormwater capital projects and enhanced maintenance levels of service subject to approval of local funding sources.
3. Seek Legislative Committee support for legislation that provides funding for stormwater system improvements and provides an exemption from Prop 218 requirements for generating local revenue for stormwater system improvements.
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Family and faith keeps Donora's Anna Dolnack 100 years young
With a thankful heart, Anna Dolnack of Donora faithfully attends Divine Liturgy in St. Michael's Byzantine Catholic Church on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation.
"My mother told me that as a baby I had pneumonia and when the doctor came he said there wasn't anything more he could do for me," she said.
"I could have died as a baby, but God kept me."
On Nov. 20, the Liturgy was celebrated in honor of her 100th birthday. A reception followed in the church hall.
She admitted she "talks to Jesus all the time" as she goes about her daily chores. She has a healthy outlook on life.
She still makes her special recipe of beef soup, complete with handmade paper thin noodles.
Born in Wheeling, W.Va. on Nov. 22, 1912, she and her four siblings came with their parents, George and Elizabeth Staruch, to the borough where her uncle, John Staruch, had a grocery store at Fourth Street and Meldon Avenue.
The family soon opened their own grocery store at 12th and VanPelt streets.
Dolnack met her future husband, Andrew Dolnack of Webster, at a dance in Miller's Ballroom on McKean Avenue in Donora.
"He walked me home and said 'no more dates for you because you are my girl now'."
They were married Aug. 6, 1935, in St. Michael's Church by Father George J. Chegin. Her husband died in July 2003 just short of their 68th wedding anniversary.
"He was a very faithful husband," she said.
He was employed by American Steel and Wire and also worked extra as a bartender at the Irondale Hotel.
They had one daughter, Marian, who is married to Bob Riley.
"We live just a few doors from each other on Teeple Avenue," her daughter said, adding, "Which makes it very convenient for me to keep tabs on my mother."
Dolnack looks forward to Christmas Eve suppers at her home and prepares the traditional mushroom soup, pirohi and bobalki (dough balls and sauer kraut) herself.
"When she was more active she made the greatest paska, halushki and holupki," her daughter recalled.
Neighbors are accustomed to seeing her on her front porch swing (made by her husband), overlooking the town. She claims to be the first one out in the spring and the last one in when the weather turns cold.
State Rep. Pete Daley and his wife, Sally, came to visit her on Friday, hand-delivering official proclamations.
On her birthday, there was a phone call from Father Joseph Oppong. The former Donora priest called from Cape Coast, Ghana, Africa.
"She was tickled when he sang 'Happy Birthday' to her," the daughter said.
Dolnack says she never drank liquor or smoked, but admitted she used to enjoy casino gambling in the company of parish friends.
Emma Jene Lelik is a freelance writer.
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Keys to the Game: Georgia vs. LSU
Posted by Jerry Hinnen
GEORGIA WILL WIN IF: they can avoid giving LSU easy points. No kickoff returns for touchdown, no short fields following fumble giveaways, no pick-sixes or 60-yard bombs over the top. Simple, right?
Not against LSU, it's not; such is the Tigers' incredible strength in special teams and defense that they rank a mediocre 62nd in total offense ... and still a robust 13th in scoring offense at 38 points a game, better than all but seven other BCS conference teams. But as those low yardage totals indicate, putting together 8, 9-play drives that cover 75, 85 yards are not what LSU wants to do or what plays to their strengths. Even the 14-play, 77-yard march that got the Tigers on the board vs. Arkansas had to survive a botched option pitch and a near-interception from Jordan Jefferson to hit paydirt.
The Tigers can bang out those kinds of drives, of course, thanks to Spencer Ware and Michael Ford and the rest of LSU's pounding ground game. But Georgia can answer that with the nation's No. 6 rush defense, Jarvis Jones, John Jenkins, Christian Robinson and the rest. If Ware and Co. find some tough sledding somewhere between their own 20 and the end zone, is Jefferson good enough to repeatedly execute in the passing game -- against the nation's fourth-ranked secondary in opponent's QB rating, no less -- enough to put those usual 38 points on the board?
Probably not--which is why if Aaron Murray can protect the ball against Morris Claiborne and the rest of the LSU ballhawks, if the Dawgs can avoid getting burned in special teams, if Drew Butler can match Brad Wing inside-the-20 punt for inside-the-20 punt, if the Dawg secondary can keep Rueben Randle from shortcutting a long drive into a quick one, the Dawgs will have a chance. Those are big -- gigantic -- if's, of course. But that's where the Dawgs have to start.
LSU WILL WIN IF: they play their game. Georgia shouldn't be able to stay even in the special teams department when no one else has. Georgia shouldn't be able to run well enough to keep Murray out of the 3rd-and-8's in which Barkevious Mingo can tee off and Claiborne, Tyrann Mathieu, and the rest of the defensive backs thrive. Georgia shouldn't be able to get their receivers free against that secondary. Georgia shouldn't be able to offensively overcome to kinds of holes Wing will put them in.
LSU is the No. 1 team in the country for a reason. Georgia's good, but are they so good that if LSU plays to their potential, they'll be able to win anyway? No.
THE X-FACTOR: When Arkansas went up 14-0, the immediate reaction was "how will LSU respond?" Those 14 points represented a deficit more than three times larger than their previous season high ... and it was still erased and then some before halftime. But that was at home, against a team with no ability to stop the LSU ground game, and they got the benefit of Mathieu's game-swinging punt return. Let's say the Bulldogs not only ride a surge of early energy and momentum to a two touchdown first half lead, but hold on to keep a narrow edge into the game's final 20 minutes. Then how does LSU respond? It's a de facto road game. It's against the best defense they've seen since Alabama. It's for the SEC title. Do they keep their unflappable 2011 cool in that situation, too? Or not?
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Posted on: October 29, 2011 8:01 pm
QUICK HITS: No. 22 Georgia 24, Florida 20
Posted by Jerry Hinnen
GEORGIA WON: Objectively speaking, it wasn't a thing of aesthetic beauty, but we won't dare tell Georgia fans that any win over Florida ain't pretty. The Bulldogs fell into an early 17-3 hole, gained just 354 total yards, saw Aaron Murray miss nine straight passes in the second half, and committed far too many special teams gaffes to list in this short a space. But after a hot start, in the second half John Brantley played like the injured, rusty quarterback he was (missing 11 of 12 himself at one point) and the Gators were held to just three points after the break. A pair of fourth-down Murray touchdown tosses and a bruising four-yard TD run by Richard Samuel (pictured) early in the fourth quarter would be all the offense the Dawgs needed.
WHY GEORGIA WON: Because Florida simply cannot find the key to getting the ball moving after halftime. In eight second-half quarters since their win over Kentucky on Sept. 24, Charlie Weis's offense has scored a total of 10 points: seven against LSU on a lightning-in-a-bottle downfield bomb, and three today when Chris Rainey's long kickoff return meant the Gators could gain three yards in three plays and still kick a field goal. Across seven second-half possessions vs. the Bulldogs, Florida earned one first down, gained 12 yards, and started drives at the Dawg 26, 45, and 36 that totaled, yep, three points. While the Bulldogs deserve a lot of credit for putting the clamps down -- particularly outside linebacker Jarvis Jones, who finished with four sacks -- that kind of week-in-week-out futility isn't going to win many games in the SEC. Or anywhere.
A nod is also due to Mark Richt's aggressive red zone play-calling. After Blair Walsh missed a 33-yard chippie (his ninth miss of the season; he would add a tenth later), Richt twice passed on makeable field goals to have Murray throw to the end zone on 4th down. Results: 1. massive touchdown pass to Michael Bennett to close halftime gap to 17-10 2. equally massive touchdown pass to Tavarres King to tie game at 17 early second half. Without Richt's willingness to take those risks, the Bulldogs lose.
WHEN GEORGIA WON: A 24-yard punt by Drew Butler (we mentioned the special teams disasters, right?) set the Gators up at the Georgia 36 with just under 6 minutes to play. The ensuing drive: incompletion, incompletion, incompletion, sack. Even if the Gator defense had been able to get the ball back (they weren't), there wasn't any way the shellshocked Florida offense was getting a better opportunity than that.
WHAT GEORGIA WON: The inside track to Atlanta. Only home dates against Auburn and Kentucky stand between the Dawgs and a 7-1 SEC mark, and the only help they need if they win out is a single loss from South Carolina ... who's losing 3-0 to Tennessee as we type this and still have a road date against Arkansas to come. But if becoming the de facto East favorite wasn't sweet enough, that was just the Dawgs' fourth win over Florida in 21 tries and may have even saved Richt's job. Not bad for 60 minutes of work.
WHAT FLORIDA LOST: the Gators' fourth straight SEC game and any distant hope of winning the division. At 4-4 and with only one "gimme" left on the schedule (and dates vs. Carolina and Florida State still to come), Florida isn't even guaranteed of making a bowl game just yet.
Posted on: August 8, 2011 9:48 pm
Edited on: August 9, 2011 1:27 pm
CBSSports.com Preseason All-SEC team
Posted by Jerry Hinnen
As part of CBSSports.com's season preview, we offer one blogger's choices for preseason All-SEC. Our team includes 11 players on either side of the ball, because any more is cheating.
Aaron Murray, rSoph., Georgia. A 24-to-8 touchdown-to-interception ratio would be damn good for any quarterback. For a redshirt freshman in his first year on the job playing without the benefit of a strong running game, it was downright outstanding. (And, in fact, made him the most efficient underclassman quarterback in the country.) Murray should emerge as the conference's clearcut best passer as a sophomore.
Also watch for: Mississippi State's Chris Relf, the conference's best rushing quarterback and option operator; Arkansas's Tyler Wilson, like all Bobby Petrino pupils a 300-yard day waiting to happen; and South Carolina's Stephen Garcia, Murray's biggest competition for first-team honors if he can eliminate the backbreaking turnovers that have plagued his career.
Trent Richardson, Jr., Alabama. Boasting arguably the nation's best combination of power and speed at the position, Richardson should find himself carrying the lion's share of the load for a Tide offense that's never shied away from pounding out wins on the ground--and will shy away even less in 2011 with an unsettled passing game and ruthless defense.
Marcus Lattimore, Soph., South Carolina. The league's near-unquestioned leader in yards-after-contact, Lattimore's ruggedness and stamina sometimes overshadowed his other stunning gifts: his Mark Ingram-esque balance, surprising acceleration, and maybe the best pair of hands for a back in the SEC. Maybe the nation's best all-around back.
Also watch for: pretty much everyone, given even the SEC's least-heralded backs (like, say, Tennessee's overlooked Tauren Poole) have the potential for a 1,200- to 1,300-yard season. But we'll spotlight Arkansas workhorse Knile Davis, a good bet to finish as the league's top rusher despite the Heisman candidates above.
Alshon Jeffery, Jr., South Carolina. The league's leading receiver in 2010 by nearly 400 yards, there are sea urchins that could tell you Jeffery belongs here. A consensus preseason All-American and first-round lock, don't be surprised if he walks away with this year's Biletnikoff Award.
Greg Childs, Sr., Arkansas. We're five selections in now and have yet to break ranks with preseason consensus, but we're not going to in this slot, either; at an NFL-ready 6'3", 215, Childs was step-for-statistical-step with Jeffery last season before an injury cut things short. Expect him to make up for lost time in 2011.
Also watch for: Childs' Razorback teammates Joe Adams and Jarius Wright, either of which could top 1,000 yards themselves; Tennessee sophomore home-run threat Justin Hunter; and junior Emory Blake, who could see a massive statistical bump as the No. 1 receiver in Auburn's more aerial-friendly offense.
C William Vlachos, Sr., Alabama. The senior leader of what shapes up as the conference's best offensive line, Vlachos will have a shot at the Rimington Trophy.
OT Barrett Jones, Jr., Alabama. After two years at guard, the All-SEC performer and All-American candidate moves to tackle for 2011.
OT Bobby Massie, Jr., Ole Miss. Senior teammate Bradley Sowell could fit in this slot, but we like the immensely talented 6'6", 315-pound mauler to take another big step forward, especially in the run game.
OG Alvin Bailey, rSoph., Arkansas. Speaking of steps forward, Bailey started all 13 games in 2010, earned freshman All-American honors, and should be the focal point of an improved Hog ground game.
OG Larry Warford, Sr., Kentucky. The future pro was named second-team All-SEC a year ago and preseason All-SEC this year by both the media and coaches--not an easy thing to do at Kentucky.
Also watch for: Sowell, for one. But every SEC team has at least one player or two with all-conference potential. Perhaps the most likely candidates not listed above are at Georgia, where center Ben Jones and tackle Cordy Glenn could put an end to the Bulldogs' years of line underachievement in their senior seasons.
Orson Charles, Jr. Georgia. No other returning tight end in the league was close to his 26 receptions for 422 yards last year--and with A.J. Green and Kris Durham gone, Charles's role in the Bulldog offense should only expand from here.
Also watch for: Auburn's Phillip Lutzenkirchen, also due to see a numbers spike thanks to other receivers' departures. And if Florida jack-of-all-trades Jordan Reed sticks to TE, expect an impact from him as well.
DefenseDEFENSIVE LINE
DE Jake Bequette, Sr. Arkansas. In collecting seven sacks a year ago, Bequette emerged as the most explosive performer in the Hogs' highly-underrated front seven.
DE Devin Taylor, Jr., South Carolina. The Gamecocks finished a quiet third in the SEC last season in rush defense, due in large part to Taylor's 13 tackles-for-loss (tops among returning linemen) and 7.5 sacks.
DT Malik Jackson, Sr., Tennessee. It won't be easy for the talkative Jackson this season--he's the Vols' only returning starter in the front seven, and he's already missing two weeks of practice with a knee injury--but no returning SEC tackle was as disruptive in 2010.
DT Sharrif Floyd, Soph., Florida. Part of Urban Meyer's famous five-star haul in February 2010, Floyd collected 6.5 tackles-for-loss despite only starting two games and has reportedly been unblockable in recent Gator practices.
Also watch for: the nose tackles in either Alabama's or Georgia's 3-4 schemes--Josh Chapman in Tuscaloosa, and Kwame Geathers or Johnathan Jenkins in Athens. Ole Miss end Kentrell Lockett is in his sixth year and could lead the league in sacks if healthy. And the early reports are that megarecruits Jadeveon Clowney (at Carolina) and Anthony Johnson (at LSU) are as good as advertised.
OLB Courtney Upshaw, Sr. Alabama. Seven sacks and 14.5 tackles-for-loss a year ago, and those numbers should only improve as Nick Saban makes him the cornerstone of a more-dedicated Tide pass rush.
ILB Dont'a Hightower, Jr. Alabama. Hightower's rusty 2010 return from an ACL injury doesn't merit inclusion here, but his experience -- combined with the expected return of the athleticism he flashed a freshman All-American in 2008 -- certainly does.
MLB Danny Trevathan, Sr., Kentucky. We're fudging the formation a bit with two inside 'backers and just one OLB, but it's worth it to make room for the SEC's leading tackler from a year ago.
Also watch for: the excellent tandem of Jerico Nelson and Jerry Franklin at Arkansas, or Chris Marve at Vanderbilt, or LSU's underrated Ryan Baker.
CB Tyrann Mathieu, Soph., LSU. Teammate Morris Claiborne has received most of the preseason love, but Mathieu came on like gangbusters at the end of his freshman season -- culminating in an MVP performance at the Cotton Bowl -- and should be ready for an all-conference season.
CB Casey Hayward, Sr., Vanderbilt. The Commodores' disappointing 2010 wasn't Hayward's fault; his 17 passes defended led the SEC, and his six interceptions placed him second.
S Mark Barron, Sr., Alabama. His All-American status overrates him ever-so-slightly -- it's possible to get deep on Barron occasionally, if not frequently -- but no defensive back in the league (and maybe the country) has a better nose for the ball or knack for the game-changing play.
S Robert Lester, Jr., Alabama. Two Tide safeties might feel like overkill, but there's not really any arguing with numbers like these: an SEC-high eight interceptions, 12 passes defended, 52 tackles, and the Tide's league-best opposing passer rating of just 103.56.
Also watch for: Tennessee's Janzen Jackson, now that he's reportedly reported to camp in great shape after his layoff; Claiborne, obviously; Razorback safety Tramain Thomas; Georgia corner Brandon Boykin; and oh, fine, Stephon Gilmore. We don't think netting two pass breakups and three picks for a Gamecock pass defense ranked 97th in the country adds up to being an All-SEC player, but we're in the minority.
P Drew Butler, Sr., Georgia; PK Blair Walsh, Sr., Georgia. We wish the Bulldog specialists the best of luck in their 11th year in Athens. (No, we refuse to believe the pair of them have only had four years of eligibility each.)
Category: NCAAF
Tags: A.J. Green, Aaron Murray, Alabama, Alshon Jeffery, Alvin Bailey, Anthony Johnson, Arkansas, Auburn, Barrett Jones, Ben Jones, Blair Walsh, Bobby Massie, Bobby Petrino, Bradley Sowell, Brandon Boykin, Casey Hayward, Chris Marve, Chris Relf, Cordy Glenn, Cotton Bowl, Courtney Upshaw, Danny Trevathan, Devin Taylor, Dont'a Hightower, Drew Butler, Emory Blake, Florida, Georgia, Greg Childs, Jadeveon Clowney, Jake Bequette, Janzen Jackson, Jarius Wright, Jerico Nelson, Jerry Franklin, Jerry Hinnen, Joe Adams, Johnathan Jenkins, Jordan Reed, Josh Chapman, Justin Hunter, Kentrell Lockett, Kentucky, Knile Davis, Kris Durham, Kwame Geathers, Larry Warford, LSU, Malik Jackson, Marcus Lattimore, Mark Barron, Mark Ingram, Mississippi State, Morris Claiborne, Ole Miss, Orson Charles, Phillip Lutzenkirchen, preseason All-SEC, Robert Lester, Ryan Baker, SEC, SEC preview, Sharrif Floyd, South Carolina, Stephen Garcia, Stephon Gilmore, Tauren Poole, Tennessee, Tramain Thomas, Trent Richardson, Tyler Wilson, Tyrann Mathieu, Vanderbilt, Williams Vlachos
Posted on: July 11, 2011 5:18 pm
Edited on: July 11, 2011 5:27 pm
2011 Ray Guy watch list announced
Posted by Adam Jacobi
Here are the five members of this year's 2011 Ray Guy Award watch list, as determined by the Augusta Sports Council:
Bryan Anger (Sr.), California
Obviously, Drew Butler (yes, the son of former Dawg kicker Kevin Butler) is the big name here, as he won the award as a sophomore in 2009 (see right) and was a finalist again last season. But compared to some of the other names on the list, Butler was a little -- just a little -- disappointing in 2010.
Past that, Oklahoma State's Quinn Sharp has a cannon of a leg, and he was second in the nation in punting average last year (the Cowboys were third in net punting average). With Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon both coming back in 2011, the Cowboys may not have a great deal of opportunities to punt this season, but as long as we're keeping track of punts by average yardage instead of total, Sharp should be fine.
One quibble, though, and I know this is just a watch list, but where the heck is UCLA punter Jeff Locke?
Category: NCAAF
Tags: 2011 Ray Guy Award, 2011 Watch Lists, ACC, Auburn, Big 12, Brandon Weeden, Bryan Anger, California, Clemson, Dawson Zimmerman, Drew Butler, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Jeff Locke, Justin Blackmon, Kevin Butler, Kyle Martens, Non-BCS, Oklahoma State, Pac-12, Quinn Sharp, Ray Guy Award, Rice, SEC, UCLA, Watch Lists
Posted on: December 29, 2010 3:57 pm
CBS Bowl Bonanza: Liberty Bowl
Posted by Jerry Hinnen
The Basics: UCF (10-3) vs. Georgia (6-6), Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m. EST.
Why You Should Watch: The SEC's bowl tie-ins give the non-AQ teams of the world just one shot at the nation's highest-profile conference, and this is it; the Liberty annually pairs one of the SEC's also-rans against the Conference USA champion. But even with the field seemingly as tilted in favor of the C-USA upset as it could possibly be, it hasn't happened yet, as the SEC has swept all four of the SEC-vs.-C-USA Liberty Bowls to date. UCF represents maybe the best chance for C-USA yet, as they have both the airtight defense (18th nationally) and offensive starpower (in freshman quarterbacking prodigy Jeff Godfrey) to give Georgia all they want.
Of course, the Dawgs have A.J. Green and Justin Houston and Aaron Murray and a whole bunch of other SEC athletes, not to mention a statistical profile much better than their 6-6 record. Last year's Liberty went into overtime, and on paper this one's evenly-matched enough to make it 2-for-2. For depth of talent on display and a well-balanced, competitive matchup, you're not going to do much better before New Year's than the Liberty.
Keys to Victory for UCF: Frankly, the Knights should come into this game the substantially more motivated team. They're coming off of a championship season, but one without a win over BCS competition (after close losses vs. N.C. State and at Kansas State); they couldn't ask for a more perfect finishing touch than beating a traditional SEC power for the program's first-ever bowl victory. That should give the Knights an emotional edge, one that could give them a fast start against a Bulldogs team that badly underachieved to land at 6-6 and no doubt had their sights set on a bowl destination more glamorous than Memphis.
If the Knights do come away with a halftime or three-quarters lead, Georgia will be in trouble. Godfrey was a revelation after taking over for the injured Rob Calabrese at midseason, finishing eighth in the country in passer rating with a sparkling 68.4 completion percentage and 9.8 yards-per-attempt average. He added 10 touchdowns and 546 yards on the ground for good measure, pacing the Knights to the kind of balance (2,502 rushing yards, 2,493 passing) and steady efficiency (fifth in the FBS in time-of-possession at 33:09 a game) that most teams can only talk about.
But as effective as the Knight offense was, it was the defense that did the heavy lifting, starting with a secondary that placed both corner Josh Robinson and safety Kemal Ishmael on the All-C-USA first team and finished in the national top 30 in opponent's passer rating, opponent's yards-per-attempt, and interceptions. But the Knights also have a pair of fearsome defensive ends in Bruce Miller and Darius Nall, who combined for 21 tackles-for-loss and 15.5 sacks to give UCF the nation's 10th-ranked rush defense. (Ishmael's team-leading 82 tackles helped, too.) The absence of a big-play passing game means they won't want to fall behind, but if the Knights can get out in front, their combination of sound defense and clock-killing offense will have them well-positioned for the victory.
Keys to Victory for Georgia: It's simple: if the Dawgs overcome their disappointment of a season and match UCF's levels of energy and focus, they win.
Because while UCF might have several awfully solid players, Georgia has several All-Americans. Houston led the SEC in sacks, finished second in tackles-for-loss, and was a finalist for multiple national awards; Murray might be the only freshman quarterback in the country to have had an even more impressive season than Godfrey, posting an incredible 24-to-6 touchdown-to-interception ratio; and Green might be the most purely talented college receiver since Larry Fitzgerald. And even aside from their headlining stars, Georgia can boast an offensive line packed with both experience and future NFL players like senior tackle Clint Boling; dangerous skill position weapons like tight end Orson Charles and running back Washaun Ealey; maybe the nation's best pair of specialists in punter Drew Butler and cannon-legged kicker Blair Walsh; kickoff returner Brandon Boykin, who's taken four kicks to the house the past two seasons; two steady senior linebackers in Akeem Dent and Darryl Gamble; etc.
All of that talent means it's something of a mystery how Georgia ever wound up at .500, though plain old bad luck in the form of poorly-timed fumbles and critical defensive breakdowns in close games -- the Dawgs went 0-3 in games decided by 7 points or fewer -- probably had something to do with it. Their average per-play margin of +1.2 (6.4 gained per snap, 5.2 allowed)
ranked first by a wide margin in the SEC East and fourth in the conference behind the leagues' two BCS teams and Alabama. In short, this is a team that's been much better than their place in the SEC standings (or their Liberty berth) would indicate, and if they play to that same standard, they should have enough to overpower the less-talented Knights.
The Liberty Bowl is like: That one sharp-witted, twinkly-eyed elderly gentleman in your neighborhood who you knew from church, or the diner down the street, or maybe just the rocking chair on his front porch, who told stories and though not all of them were classics, he always had one you'd never heard before and some of them stayed with you like Louisville beating Boise State 44-40 in 2004. The Liberty has been in business since 1959, making it one of the oldest pre-New Year's games, and though it's not the game it once was, UCF and Georgia promise to give it another memorable chapter in its distinguished history.
Category: NCAAF
Tags: A.J. Green, Aaron Murray, Akeem Dent, Blair Walsh, Bowl Bonanza, Bowl Previews, Brandon Boykin, Bruce Miller, Clint Boling, Darius Nall, Darryl Gamble, Drew Butler, Georgia, Jeff Godfrey, Josh Robinson, Justin Houston, Kansas State, Kemal Ishmael, Liberty Bowl, N.C. State, Orson Charles, Rob Calabrese, UCF, Washaun Ealey


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CARSON CITY (AP) Early voting in Nevadas primary election gets under way this weekend across the state.
Polls open at county registrar offices and other various locations beginning Saturday.
Voters can cast early ballots for two weeks, though locations and times vary. Residents are urged to check with their county registrar or the secretary of states website for detailed information.
Early voting ends June 4. The last day to cast ballots is June 8, primary election day.
Republican voters will pick a nominee from a field of 12 candidates to run against Democrat Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate race.
Voters also will decide if Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons will survive to face re-election in November.


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November 25, 2015
With holiday travel clashing with winter driving, knowing road conditions is important. That's why a three-level snow emergency system was developed for Ohio, but officials in some counties believe it's too confusing.
The chief deputy of the Washington County Sheriff's Department agrees that the system needs some clarification.
"It's sometimes hard when you're moving between Level One and Level Two, to actually determine where you are," according to Deputy Larry Mincks of the Washington County Sheriff's Department. "Level Three has a lot of ramifications, because there are some people who have to travel."
A level three, the most serious of the declarations, closes roadways to non-emergency personnel, and can subject any motorist to arrest. Levels one and two recommend caution on the highways, although level two says driving should be left only to those who believe it is absolutely necessary to go out.
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It's something most of us take for granted: our balance. But imagine if every time you sat up or got out of bed it seems as though the room was spinning.
"If I just got out of bed I literally have to grab furniture to not fall," said Denise Rose as she described her symptoms. She really has trouble if she gets up too fast. "Just the world starts spinning, I start feeling a little nauseous, a little flushed," she said.
"Vertigo is when you get a sense that the environment is spinning or that you are spinning," explained physical therapist with LewisGale Rehabilitation Center Nancy Cumins. "It's kind of incorrect input that your brain is getting but it's a sense of movement."
Rose had vertigo 20 years ago. At that time she, was treated successfully. "I did one treatment," Rose said. "I really did very very well continued to scuba dive and do the things I einjoyed.
But now the symptoms have returned. "Iin the past year the symptoms have started again and they seem to be getting worse," Rose said.
Now Rose who's the director of Rehabilitation at LewisGale Medical Center is finding herself in a different role, as a patient getting therapy.
Physical therapist Nancy Cumins went through several eye exercises to try to find out what's causing Rose's vertigo. Sometimes the crystal in the inner ear that makes us sensitive to gravity has become dislodged. That's why many people with vertigo feel symptoms when they make sudden movements, said Cumins.
"You may get it when you do a quick head turn things are dizzy but then it stops because the crystal has moved to a different part of your ear and it's floating in fluid," said Cumins. "As soon as that fluid stops moving the crystal stops moving so you're kind of okay until the next time you do a big movement."
The physical therapy involves moving the patient in ways that bring on the head spins. "Sometimes just so you know people are literally they have no idea where there are. They're pushing me and they're leaning and they're screaming," explained Cumins. "I'm holding on going 'just stay with me. I gotcha' because it is so disorienting for them they have no idea where they are in space."
These sessions are meant to move the crystal back in place. Sometimes after just a couple of sessions the patient is fine, Cumins said. "Sometimes they need some additonal therapy to kind of retrain parts of the inner ear," Cumins said. " Which is part of your balance system to get it back to 100 percent. Often just a couple of repositioning maneuvers gets the crytsal back where it belongs."
"My hope is that Nancy will do her magic," said Rose. "And get my symptoms under control."
Vertigo tends to affect older people and more women than men, but younger folks can get it too. The cause isn't always the same and sometimes it isn't known.
Cumins said many people mistakenly think dizziness is a normal part of aging, but it's not. Medicines can sometimes make you feel dizzy, but if you feel dizzy at certain times of the day or only when you roll over in bed or make quick movements, see your doctor- you could have vertigo that can be treated.


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Recently I attended a talk given by Brian Goetz, about evolving Java. It was refreshing to hear that Java is moving forward again from the Java Language architect himself. Like others, I have mixed feeling about how some of the features were added to the language, but overall, after hearing Brian's talk, Java is getting the attention it needs to "keep up".
Below you can read some of the main points from the talk. Brian's deck can be found here.
Full disclaimer, this post is me taking notes while trying to follow along with what Brian was saying. There might be a few errors. Please let me know if you find one.
This really doesn't do Brian's presentation justice, but hope you find it informative about what's coming in Java 8.
Note: I am working on a follow up post with actual running Java 8 code to demonstrate most of the features mentioned here.
A night with Brian Goetz - NY JAVA Meetup, Dec 3, 2013
- Java 8 - A new beginning
- Trying to get Java moving again
- Get things moving forward without breaking backwards compatibility
Modernizing Java
- Language
- Lambda Expressions (closures)
- Interfaces (default methods)
- Libraries
- Bulk data on collections
- Parallelism
Lambda Expressions
- Argument list, a return type, and a body
(Object o) -> o.toString
- Can refer to enclosing values
(Person p) -> p.getName().equals(name)
- Method references to an existing method
- Allows you to treat code as data
- In 1995 most main stream languages did not support closures
- Today, Java is the last holdout
- C++ added them recently
- C# added them in 3.0
- All new languages have them
Long road
- 1997 Ordersky - Pizza
- 2006 - 2008 a vigorous debate, BGGA, and CICE
- Little language evolution from Java SE 5 (2004)
- Project coin (small language changes) in Java SE 7
- Dec 2009 OpenJDK Lambda formed
- Nov 2010 - JSR-335
- Current Status
- Lambda's, Interface, Bulk Ops
Evolving a mature language
- Those encouraging change
- Adapting to changing
- hardware, attitudes, fashions, problems
- Adapting to changing
- Those discouraging change
- Maintain compatibility
- Low tolerance for change that will break anything
- Preserving the core
- Cant alienate user base
- Maintain compatibility
- Adapting to change
- In 1995 everything was sequential, with imposed order
- Very deterministic
- We want to introduce things that are more parallel
- We had the wrong defaults at the start, namely mutability
- Hard to undo this default behavior technically as well as in people's mindsets
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- Foreach loop hides complex interactions
- External iteration - client has to drive thus the what and how are intermingled
Inversion of Control
- Allows libraries to be much more expressive
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- Internal iteration - client in charge of the what, library in charge of how
Functional Interfaces
Predicate<String> isEmpty = s -> s.isEmpty()
Runnable r = () -> {println("hello");
We could have added function types, but it was obvious and WRONG
- Would have interacted badly with erasure, introducing complexity and corner cases, would have a notion of old, and new libraries
- Better to preserve the Core
- Bonus - existing library are now forward compatible to lambdas
Lambdas enable better APis
- Enable more powerful API's
- Client-Library boundary is more permeable
- Safer, exposes, more opportunities for optimizations
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Problem: Interface evolution
- If you add a method to Interface, it will break all implementing libraries (obviously)
- Source incompatible change, but binary will continue to work
- Libraries will start looking old
- Need a way to evolve them or replace them
Collections.sort()"bags nailed to side, don't want to continue this" –BG
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- Can override it, like a virtual method
- Consumer doesn't know if they are using default or another implementation found in superclass chain
A question was posed asking why is the
defaultkeyword necessary? Can't the compiler infer if there is an implementation in the IF, it is the default? "Of course it can figure it out… but we wanted extra clarity, deal with it. :) " –BG
Some might say: "We now have multiple inheritance in Java???"
- Java always had multiple inheritance of Types
- This adds multiple inheritance of Behavior
- But not of state
- Java interface are stateless (like Fortress's Traits)
Resolution Rule 1
- If class can inherit a method from superclass and a superInterface, prefer the superclass
- Defaults only considered if no method declared in superclass chain
- True for both concrete and abstract superclass
- Ensure compatibility with previous versions of Java
Resolution Rule 2
- If class can inherit a method from two interfaces, and one more specific than (a subtype of) the other, prefer the more specific
- An implementation in List would take precedence over once in Collection
- The shape of the inheritance tree doesn't matter
Resolution Rule 3
- There is no rule 3!
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- If you inherit two superInterface implementations, you (as developer) need to disambiguate which implementation to call
- The onus is on the developer to decide, not the compiler
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How Lambda's can help
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- We want code to look exactly at the problem statement
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Important thing to be able to look at code and KNOW what it does!
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- Lets say we want to massage the results of the above collection
- Another new feature added to Collections is
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- Believe it (or not), these examples are not any more expensive (perhaps cheaper) than a typical
- This is possible because it does a single pass on data
- Creates a pipeline with Filter, then Map, and then Sum invokes them
- In other words, Filter and Map are lazy operations
Imperative vs Streams
- Individual data vs Sets
- Focused on How, vs What
- Doesn't read like problem statement vs Code reads like problem statement
- Steps mashed together vs Well factored
- Goal: Easy to use parallel libraries for Java
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Conclusion: So why Lambda's? * Its about time! "All the cool kids are doing it" – BG * Provide libraries a path to multi-core (needed internal iteration) * Empower library developers
- Features left out, whats coming next?
- Value Types - A long or a decimal (or other Type), that won't need to be accessed via a pointer, instead directly from a register
- Useful for static data


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Reader Aaron Stubbs shared with his image of dark clouds hanging over the city of Detroit, shot from the Pavilion apartments near Lafayette Park.
Violent spring storms ripped across Michigan on Thursday, knocking down tree limbs, leaving thousands of people without power and bringing the threat of severe flooding in some communities.
Today won't be as rainy, but forecasters are expecting 45-m.p.h. wind gusts over a period of several hours beginning in the late morning.
"The ground is wet. There could be poorly rooted trees susceptible to being knocked over by winds that are that strong for that length of time," said Bryan Tilley, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in White Lake Township. ...


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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Milo, a beagle mix who has become one of the community's most famous dogs after being rescued from traffic on U.S. Highway 12 last month, will be part of meet-and-greet fundraising events at a downtown business this week, along with the man who rescued him.
The dog and his "hero," David Cook, will be part of a bake sale fundraiser at The Garden Vegan Caf?© Thursday and Friday. The sales run noon-8 p.m. both days at the downtown Walla Walla caf?©, 36 S. Colville St.
If you haven't already heard the story, here are some quick details: Cook was headed to Walla Walla from Pasco on Jan. 31 when he spotted the dog running across the two-lane highway. He asked his friend to pull over so they could help the animal. Cook said he tried to wave to oncoming traffic to slow down as he attempted to corral the dog. However, one vehicle continued at full highway speed, just missing Cook who was in the roadway, but ultimately hitting the beagle.
Cook took the dog to Animal Clinic of Walla Walla about 40 minutes away. The animal's injuries included a broken back leg, internal herniation/bleeding, lacerations, shock and a bloody jaw. The dog did not have a microchip. Cook, who named the animal, has assumed responsibilities for Milo's care. He is attempting to raise $2,000 by the end of this month to help pay the medical bills for the animal's treatment.
Those interested in donating vegan baked goods can contact Cook at 876-1780. A website has also been set up to assist in fundraising. Contributions can be made at: www.indiegogo.com/To-Whom-it-May-Concern-1.
Walla Walla may be home to more than 100 wineries. But did you know in wine circles, it's also the location of two of the industry's most influential people in the country?
According to IntoWine.com, a website designed for people who are -- what else? -- into wine, the Valley has the 42nd and 95th most influential wine people in the United States. Paul Gregutt and Greg Harrington earned their respective places on the list of "Top 100 Most Influential People in the U.S. Wine Industry."
The list was first released Jan. 29 in a satirical salute to the date in 1919 when the "lunatic policy" of Prohibition was ratified nationally, the website said.
"These 100 people, from winemakers to law makers, bankers to bloggers, and sommeliers to celebrities are definitely people who influence wine; how it is made, marketed, perceived, sold, shipped, purchased and shared," the introduction explained.
At No. 42, Gregutt was described as a wine writer whose focus is the wines of Oregon and Washington. He publishes a column titled Wine Adviser in The Seattle Times, and contributes to publications such as Vineyard amp; Winery Management, Yakima Herald-Republic, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin's Walla Walla Lifestyles magazine, and The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, as well as 'Decanter' and 'Wine Spectator.' He is also the Northwest Editor for 'Wine Enthusiast Magazine,' and via his book 'Washington Wines amp; Wineries: the Essential Guide,' and his blog he continues to educate people about these two terrific wine states."
Harrington, who placed at No. 95, wears "several hats: winemaker at Gramercy Cellars in Washington state (which Food amp; Wine Magazine called the Best New Winery in America), and 21 Grams winery, master sommelier and formerly the wine director for Emeril Lagasse's restaurants in New Orleans and Las Vegas and wine director for the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group. He is a regular speaker at wine festivals across the country ... He has also appeared as a wine expert on numerous radio and television shows, including 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.'"
IntoWine.com aggregates information from wine experts and the wine community. Its contributors include sommeliers, chefs, bartenders, waiters, wine industry pros, wine producers and its own "gaggle of super enthusiasts."
Nearly 300 patrons of Walla Walla Farmers Co-op will share in a $370,000 cash patronage and equity in 2012, according to an announcement from CHS Inc., the producer-owned cooperative that operates it.
Of that amount, $140,000 will be paid out in cash. The dividends are based on business between Sept. 1, 2010, and Aug. 31, 2011.
"We're extremely proud that we can provide this tremendous return to our customers and owners," said co-op General Manager Mike Potter, in a prepared statement. "Through their ownership in a cooperative like Walla Walla Farmers Co-op, not only do they have access to products and services, they also share in our success and that of the integrated CHS system. This enables all of us to invest in the future of our local producers, this business and our community."
Overall, CHS expects to return up to a record $421 million in cash patronage, equity redemptions and dividends paid on preferred stock to more than 1,060 eligible cooperates and nearly 45,000 individual members and others this fiscal year. CHS's net income for its fiscal year ending Aug. 31 was $961.4 million. Patronage is based on business done with CHS during fiscal 2011, while equity redemptions represent retirement of ownership in CHS earned in past years. Since it was established in 1998, CHS has returned more than $2.5 billion in cash to its owners.
Those who have reached age 70 and representatives of the estates of deceased members are encouraged to contact Potter and request redemption of their equity.
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No. Air curtains provide up to an 80% thermal efficiency level. The continual loss of refrigerated air and build-up of humidity within the cooler will cause the compressor to burnout. Air Curtains are meant to be used as an energy saving device when the cooler door needs to be opened for loading and unloading purposes.
Generally, air curtains will operate with equal efficiency, regardless of which side of the doorway it is mounted on. However, there are certain exceptions, as follows:
- Either side of the door opening is acceptable when used for insect control or over refrigerated coolers.
- Outside installation is required when used over freezer doors because when mounted inside, the fans tend to gather moisture and freeze, eventually forming a snowball around the fan, causing it to lose operational efficiency.
- Inside installation is mandatory when used as a thermal barrier in factories, stores, etc., to prevent loss of heat and keep out the cold air.
- Heated units must always be mounted inside.
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Sometimes one unit can be installed over the door opening on top of the track, but very often there are obstructions and the unit would have to be installed much too high. Therefore, one unit on each side of the track would be more efficient because installation is then closer to the top of the door opening. The air curtain should be mounted 3" to 4" away from each side of the track to prevent interference with products being sent through.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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ALBANY — In today's economy, there is one surefire way to cause an instant traffic jam.
Lower gas prices.
That's what two Petro South gas stations in the Albany area did Thursday, prompting lengthy lines of cars and snarled traffic as drivers rushed to get gas at $2.89 per gallon.
"We're doing a gas promotion — a customer appreciation event is what we call them — where we go into a community that has a station that we service and we drop the gas prices as a way to give back to the community," Amanda Rose, marketing coordinator for Petro South Inc., said while directing traffic at the Quikway station on Radium Springs Road.
And with the average price of regular gasoline in the Albany metro area at $3.24 a gallon Thursday, according to AAA Daily Fuel Guage Report, area drivers were happy to wait in line.
"We've seen a good response," Rose said. "We set up this morning from 9 to 11; we've dropped the price from $3.22 to $2.89, so it's a pretty significant savings for people."
One man, who didn't give his name, was fueling his black Cadillac Escalade and shouted as a reporter walked up, "This is great, it's like early Christmas."
There was a similar response in Leesburg at the Shell station on Walnut Street, where the price was lowered from noon to 2 p.m., causing a rush in downtown Leesburg.
Petro South supplies fuel to 350 stations in Georgia, Alabama and north Florida and will soon add stations in Tennessee, Rose said.
badheavychevy 3 years ago
If this station can do this, why cant the others? From now on, I will be looking for a PETRO station when I am on the road. This proves they have just been greedy and robbing the public blind when they please. Even though I know this small gesture wasn't much.......it was something!!! and we will take it!!
Sherwood_Eagle_Alum 3 years ago
It's all marketing, hence why a PR rep was on site. It was a nice gesture. No matter how long it lasted. Kudos Petro South and the Shell station in Lee County.
Sister_Ruby 3 years ago
It's called a PROMOTION (the same thing as a SALE or a COUPON). BUY ONE GET ONE FREE. STEAK AND LOBSTER FOR $14.99 LIMITED TIME ONLY.
But nobody does it all the time, every day.
Racc 3 years ago
This is a wonderful think that they are doing but cant they do it when some of us working folks are off work. Why do it during the day when we cant go!!!!
TRUTH101 3 years ago
^^^^^^ GREAT POINT!!!!! I dont get off until 4pm....Cant please everybody.... I just wish I could have benefited.
tywebb 3 years ago
that was probably murphree filling up his black escalade he bought after he finally got qualified and received that nice raise (before those idiots realized he was NOT the right man for the job). he probably also shouted......You know anyone who's hiring?????, but the reporter wasn't able to understand him!
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|20th May 2002, 01:25 AM
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mtm versus tm driver recommendations on project with $500 driver and xo part limit
I just finished building a pair of MMMTMMM's for a friend of mine, and am interested in making a pair of speakers for myself. I listen to a wide range of music from rock (mostly classic) to jazz and classical recordings. I am a little skeptical of building or for that matter purchasing parts for the project since all my purchases to date have been after extensive listening tests, but reading this board has started to convince me that there are some out there who build for excellence in addition to value. I have extensive woodworking experience (tapered lamination, cabinetmaking, furniture projects), am not a bass freak, and place a high importance on voice reproduction and instrument sustain in the mid range and up through the high freq's.
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Creek 5350SE integrated amp, a Rega Planet (1999 model), and a Linn LP-12 turntable, Norman Labs Model 11 speakers (notice big weak spot).
As mentioned in the headline for my first personal project I would like to keep the driver and xo parts cost under $500. So far I have been largely debating between a TM and TMW designs. I was considering TL but am not shying away because I live in a smallish irregularly walled (concave) apartment and I listen to rock quite a bit. The TMW system that I was considering was a Vifa XT25TG30-04 ring tweeter, Peerless HDS 134 (850488) 5" mid-bass, and Peerless HDS 205 (805490) 8" bass. xo'ing between 2-3kHz for the top set, and 300Hz on the lower set. This gives space for an octave above/below, and relative smooth xo dropoff. The TM config that I was considering would be something like Vifa XT25 tweeter and then Focal 5w4211 mid-bass monitor-ish looking setup crossed over between 2.5-3kHz. I have heard some grumblings about the Vifa tweeter, but don't know of any other low price yet good sounding tweeters out there. I'd love to be able to get a R1 or 9700, but for my first project and without hearing beforehand, I'd like to make something to bolster my confidence first.
|20th May 2002, 01:35 AM
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mistake on the tweeters
sorry, the reason why I was kinda settled on the Vifa XT25 was that it had much nicer response curves than the Focal toxoid tweeters or the SS 9300/9500. I also saw some Morel soft domes in this price range. Recommendations or opinions?
|20th May 2002, 08:50 AM
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Re: many, many, many possibilities
One possibility -- John K has what he calls an LS3/5A clone that is a well thought-out design using a Focal mid-bass and a Morel tweeter. I wouldn't call it a clone -- that would require the same drivers.
If it doesn't produce enuff bottom, add an active sub.
Another interesting one is the TLb -- althou it wouldn't come close to eating half your budget. It has the very simple XOs i prefer. Hey you could use the left-over cash to do an active sub :^)
If you can't tell, i'm a big fan of smallish speakers with subs -- it gives me lots of versatility and gorgeous mids...
I'm sure others can point out projects that would help fill out the list of possibilities.
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|20th May 2002, 04:31 PM
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I was very interested in the TLb at first, though since I live in a very irregularly shaped small apartment and listen to alot of rock, in addition to jazz and classical, it seemed from the Hass papers and information at t-linespeakers.com that TL speakers are probably not right for my living conditions and listening style. A great design though I have to admit.
|20th May 2002, 06:54 PM
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Re: TLb?
The midbass in the TLb -- the Vifa P13WH-00 -- is an outstanding driver. It is used in the Ariel, and i have had a lot of opportunity to listen to Chris' Dalines which use the same midbass. He swapped the Linn T for a modified Vifa (the numbers confuse me) and started out with a complex computer simulated XO. As he listened he started throwing out parts until he ended up with what was best -- a single cap. That is one of the beauties of this driver -- it is well enuff behaved you can just run it FR.
In the context of your room, you could take the TLb, lose the tweeter on the back and put an inductor in series at about the baffle-step frequency. This is now a two and a half way in the same box. Or you could move the back woofer to the front (still with the inductor) and work the box a bit (you would have to be a bit more judicious with inductor choice since front-firing any miss on the exact frequency becomes more audible than when it was on the back and firing into the wall. You can configure the drivers MTM or TMM.
The next step in this series is to clone the Krix Euphonix. It uses 4 in a 2 1/2 way. Because of the MTM at the top you probably need to move back to a more complex XO at a lower frequency, you have to worry about tweeter levels and ultimate impedance.
As much as the Krix design fascinates me*, one of the 1st 2 2.5 ways with a sub makes more sense to me.
*(i will build a similar unit just to get it out of my blood -- i have more than enuff PSB/Vifa 170mm drivers to do it).
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