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Howqua Valley Resort is a majestic property nestled in Victoria's High Country on the shores of Lake Eildon with show stopping views of the Howqua Valley, enjoyed by holiday makers and day trippers alike.This privately owned and family operated resort is so family friendly, offering a variety of accommodation from ensuite studios, to superior two and three bedroom cabins and cottages, and a lodge sleeping 15 to 20 people along with a choice of powered and unpowered camping sites suitable for vans, motor homes and tents or long term annual holiday sites.These accommodation options are complimented by beautifully maintained and clean recreational facilities and amenities including general store, function room, lagoon pool, mini golf, tennis courts, concrete boat ramp and much more, with public access available.The general store offers fresh produce and takeaway foods, fantastic coffee and a full sized bottle shop. The welcoming staff are only too willing to make sure you have the best experience possible.Relax and experience a truly beautiful part of the world and all that Howqua Valley Resort has to offer.
Fully self contained private dwelling with one double bed, one set of single bunk beds and a single trundle. Sleeping up to five people.
Private alfresco area with barbecue, television, bar fridge, small cooker, microwave and separate ensuite bathroom facilities.
Fully self contained three bedroom Spa Cottage contains one queen bed, one double bed, one single bunk and one sofa bed. The Spa Cottage sleeps up to eight people.
Spa cottages contains, separate bathroom and toilet areas, dishwasher, large indoor dining and lounge, faux wood look gas fireplace, corner spa, washing machine, full length balcony offering superior lake views and a private alfresco dining area and barbecue.
Fully self contained two bedroom Spa cottages sleeping up to seven people. Bedding configuration being one queen bed, one trio bunk and one sofa bed.
Full size oven and upright cooker, fridge, microwave, airconditioning / heating, lounge area with an indoor and outdoor dining areas. Private barbecue amongst beautiful gardens and and is adjacent to communal gazebo and children's playground.
This two bedroom house is fully self-contained sleeping up to eight people. Accommodation contains one queen bed, one trio bunk, one single trundle and one sofa bed.
It offers unobstructed views of the lake with and extra large outdoor decking and dining, barbecue, full laundry with dryer, hills hoist, double carport plus room for a third and fourth cars. Leather couch, conveniently located nearby the concrete a boat ramp, which has proven very popular for repeat visits.
Fully self contained and private two bedroom cottages sleeping up to seven people. Accommodation being one queen bed, one trio bunk and one sofa bed.
Additional features include an additional television in master bedroom, washing machine and dishwasher, faux wood look fireplace, balcony with lake views and private outdoor dining area with barbecue.
Howqua Valley Resort has an idyllic space to set up camp and enjoy the great outdoors, on the shoreline of Lake Eildon.
Although slightly undulating, this area is most suitable for all campers. There are six powered sites in this area, with the remaining sites being unpowered.
There is a small ensuited ablution block and camp kitchen with full size refrigerator, barbecue, free standing oven/ cooktop and basic cooking utensils for your convenience.
Brilliant access to the lake, moor your watercraft at your campsite. Camp fires subject to park owners permission/weather conditions and fire restrictions.
Please note this area is slightly undulating - mobile campers will require some levelling with basic chocks.
Most suitable for caravans, RV's, motorhomes and camper trailers with a hard floor.
Spacious 3+ bedroom house sleeping 15 to 20 people, range of bedding from single bunks and trio bunks to queen beds. corner spa bath, gas log fireplace, ceiling fans throughout, fully functional kitchen including dishwasher, several televisions, carport, giant outdoor decking area with an outdoor fire pit directly overlooking Lake Eildon.


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The counties studying the feasibility of franchising the Indian Premier League to England have sought to explore a possible get-out to Sky's £300m contract to broadcast English cricket.
Sky's patronage has generated record revenues for the England and Wales Cricket Board and the counties. However, in a leaked email written after his March meeting with the then IPL commissioner, Lalit Modi, Yorkshire's chief executive, Stewart Regan, stated: "One stumbling block in the UK is the Sky contract – essentially we need to know if there is a get-out."
Regan has since stated that the meeting with Modi was "an above‑board, transparent meeting; a fact-finding mission". However, in the email Regan further stated that paramount in a list of seven "issues for us" was "the Sky contract".
The calls to pore over its minutiae certainly suggest he intended to explore the matter further. Sky refused to comment to Digger yesterday on the threat to its commercial interests but the encroachment of IPL into established broadcasters' territories is a situation that seems to have upset others. Modi apparently told Regan that ESPN Star is "already complaining to the [Indian board] that the value of their deal for Test & ODI cricket has been massively impacted by the IPL". A spokesman for Yorkshire did not return Digger's calls yesterday.

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ARBROATH manager John McGlashan has boosted his squad with the on-loan capture of highly-rated Dunfermline youngster, Scott McBride.
Mr McGlashan explained: "We have verbally agreed a deal to bring Scott McBride to the club on an emergency loan basis until the end of the season.
"The deal should be completed by Friday (today) allowing Scott to be available for tomorrow's game against East Stirlingshire.
He continued: "He is an up and coming and very talented young player who has good pace and will be an asset to the club for the rest of the season.
"He typically plays wide-left but he is equally adept up front, in midfield or as a supporting striker.
"Originally I had planned to sign Scott during the transfer window but we had to wait so that a clause could be inserted in the deal to allow him to return to Dunfermline if they suffer an injury crisis."
The manager confirmed that the Glenrothes-based player will meet up with his team mates for training at least once a week as well as continuing his full-time schedule at Dunfermline.


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Jul 8, 2012 - George Parks, Director Wyoming Association of MunicipalitiesEditor:
We are now well into the election season. Candidates have filed, and campaigns are under way. Because my focus is Wyoming municipal government I want to express my respect and appreciation for every individual seeking to become a city or town council member or mayor.
You are to be commended for your willingness to serve your community and to take the flack you are sure to receive.
Your accomplishments will be good for your community and will bring great satisfaction, but it will not be easy.
At the recent Wyoming Association of Municipalities convention, Dr. Scott Payne cautioned that in today's world there is not much public trust for anyone, municipal officials included.
Regrettably, today's good neighbor who runs for office, immediately after being elected will be treated and portrayed by many as a self-serving manipulator who can't be trusted.
Dr. Payne offers his belief that mayors and council members who truly act as public servants can earn an improved measure of public trust. It requires humility, determination, hard work, candor, and never-ending communication.
Even after all that effort, there will still be many who are not convinced.
Some of the critics simply don't have a good understanding of how local government has to work. They just don't have the knowledge. For others -- those inclined to be negative and disapproving -- trust may never come.
Fortunately there are some in every community who really understand the difficulty of the issues and appreciate the role of an elected official.
They may not agree with all your decisions, but they can have confidence in your integrity and good intentions. They are an invaluable source of support and a key to your survival and success. I hope you find them.
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"The unique concerns of the Faculty of Arts University of Ibadan"
You are welcome to the Faculty of Arts of Nigeria's premier university, the University of Ibadan. This site introduces you to the various departments, academic programmes, research activities and linkages which have fetched the faculty a niche in the national and international university rating. The faculty provides a high quality education in the humanities and explores collaborative links with units, bodies and institutions within and outside Nigeria. With the advantage of critical thinking gained from the education in the Arts, the faculty continues to generate creative and original ideas that help to provide new solutions to the problems of development in Africa. We stay at the vanguard of developing employment and life skills through a clear focus on programmes that are sensitive to the dynamics of cultural, social, historical and linguistic needs of the society.


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When we arrived, I loved it, it was so cute, a really nice little town, peaceful. Their house was amazing, wooded floors etc really nice. I met their Dad too, who is originally from Liverpool!
We then relaxed after a busy day of walking the streets, in front of the fire and continued catching up :) We then went to the supermarket and bought ingredients to make Lasagne, and copious amounts of alcohol
We then hit the bowling alley and played 2 games of Pool, whilst drinking Tre Mokai which I so professionally ordered... just about... and more rounds of Mokai, and finishing on a liquorish shot, which was actually quite nice! Rickie and I continued blasting out our beautiful voices, personal fave- Tragedy. Arm movements and everything.
We left around 1am, and headed to town, walking in the freezing cold, to Crazy Daisies.
So much fun, and hilarious to watch the pair of them sing along to the Danish tunes. The DJ was frustrating though, he would change songs after about 15 seconds, so I'd be singing my heart out and then suddenly he'd switch it- devastating.
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Big-O gives us a tool to compare algorithms' efficiency and execution times without having to write the code and do the experiments. However, I feel that many people misuse the analysis unknowingly. Don't get me wrong. I am also a big fan of analytic models and understand that they provide insights that cannot be found empirically. However, in case of Big-O, I feel that it has underlying assumptions that were true when it was formed but have since become false. Thus, we need a revision of how Big-O should be taught. This post explains why…
At its soul, Big-O assumes that "more work" means longer execution. This assumption was valid up until early 1990s when computer did most of the work sequentially: computers executed instructions one at a time and if a particular operation took longer to execute (because it had to access DRAM or disk), the computer stalled and waited. Thus, the contributions to execution time from computes, memory, I/O were additive:
Total execution time = Time in compute + Time in memory + Time in I/O
However, in the last two decades, Moore's law has allowed us to build machines that are far more complex. The sole focus of computer scientists has been to increase "latency hiding," i.e., they have designed machines that minimize stalls for long latency operations.For example, out-of-order cores overlap computes with DRAM accesses, thus, reducing the impact of DRAM misses. Similarly, OSes overlap processing of other threads with I/O, thus, reducing the effective cost of I/O. In this context, quantifying the impact of a particular factor on overall performance has become next to impossible and combining contributions using addition is incorrect. Unfortunately, I still see professors teaching Big-O and additive performance analysis equations to CS graduates without explaining the dangers of relying on it.
The reason I started this article: A recent analytic model I built for a multi-core chip looked something like (details removed):
Total execution time = MAX(execution time of factor 1, execution time of factor 2, )
It actually actually correlated with my simulations surprisingly well while the Big-O of the same algorithm was way off.
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I'm somewhat confused. How does latency hiding fundamentally change algorithmic complexity? If you have one algorithm that is O((A+B)^2) and another that is O(max(A,B)^2), there's a speedup, but we're still talking about what is essentially an O(N^2) operation… isn't that still the fundamental observation that needs to be made about an algorithm?
Maybe my confusion is because I've never delved far enough in depth into asymptotic notation. I've never had cause to look beyond the broad strokes of "this algorithm is O(n), and this one is O(nlog(n)), so now I know how they'll scale with larger systems". My undergrad level algorithms courses were more concerned with understanding and devising algorithms than in being precise in measuring their theoretical runtime. Is there a context in which these distinctions (which seem subtle to me) make a big difference?
Going to have to agree with Ian. Isn't Big-O about seeing how the running time of an algorithm will change based on the size of the input? It doesn't tell us much about actual runtime relative to other algorithms, or even relative to itself, since so much is tossed aside in the "computing" of the Big-O value.
Example: If we have one algorithm that is O(n^2) and one that is O(n log n), the second one may actually be slower for the input we are using, but it will scale better as the size of the input increases (i.e. there exists some c where if n > c the second algorithm is faster).
If Big-O is taught properly, students will get what it is good for and what it is not, and "latency hiding" in modern hardware + OS's doesn't really change anything here.
The value of O notation comes from the ability to make comparisons with other algorithms, and when hardware optimizations could make an O(n^2) take less time than an O(n) algorithm then the notation has failed to serve it's (main) purpose. I think that programmers need to just rely less on the big O metric when making algorithmic decisions and ensure that the capabilities of the underlying hardware are being fully utilized by the algorithm of choice.
I think when the big-O notation "fails" to account for speed-ups due to parallelism, it is in fact the analysis of the problem that is incorrect, insufficient, or otherwise lacking, not the big-O notation.
When considering parallel algorithms, you must be careful in your analysis to assess correctly the complexity of message passing, shared memory, and other synchronization mechanisms in order to get an accurate and useful big-O.
The analysis of parallel algorithms is not an easy task, but just saying that one O(n²) parallel algorithm is better than another O(n²) doesn't say much unless you compare the complexity correctly: the first may be O(n(n+1)) while the other is O(n(n+log n)); both can be considered O(n²) ( one is n²+n, the other n²+n log n), but the first one is better, and it is likely to show in actual run-time as well.
Aater: Yes I guess a simpler comment would have just been "I concur."
Aater, you said "For example, an O(N^2) algorithm which uses an array is very likely going to be faster than an O(N) algorithm which uses a linked list." Er, that indicates you don't understand Big-O at a fairly fundamental level. Direct element access is O(1) on an array and O(n) on a list. That has to factor into the algorithmic complexity so your problem is that by not understanding the Big-O of the algorithm in full, you are drawing a bogus conclusion, that Big-O is flawed.
As Steven points out, the problem is in the analysis, not Big-O notation. Yes, parallelism makes that analysis harder, but it doesn't invalid the basic concept.
The mathematics of "big O" are not the problem. The problem is that all the pedagogical material on it assumes you that what you are counting (the left-hand-side of an O "equation") is visible on the face of the program. It is perfectly valid and reasonable to say that some algorithm requires O(n log n) cache line replacements, but you can't see a cache line replacement in the text of the program — nor in the assembly listing.
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Two of Ecuador's most active volcanoes, Tunagurahua and El Reventador, seem to be headed in different directions. At El Reventador, a new ~2 km/ 6,500 foot steam-and-ash plume along with lava flows were noted this week, along with lava fountains at the summit. People living near the volcano noticed incandescence at the volcano's summit, along with dusting of ash on the flanks of the volcano. This revived lava flow activity started last fall, but had quieted for the last few months until this new activity. The increased seismicity likely means magma is moving within the magmatic system beneath the volcano, so the likelihood of the eruption continuing is high. Larger eruptions of El Reventador, including a VEI 4 eruption in 2002 (see above), have been known to coat Quito with ash (90 km away) and within the 2002 crater, a small scoria cone and lava dome have grown since 2008.
Meanwhile, things have settled down some at Tungurahua, after last year's impressive activity. There have been some small earthquakes centered under the volcano, but right now there is only a wispy steam plume coming from Tungurahua. However, even when Tungurahua isn't erupting, it can be hazardous. As the latest IG-EPN bulletin warns, heavy rains can remobilize loose ash deposits to form mudflows/lahars. This means that people should take special caution near streams that issue from the flanks of the volcano.
If you're interested in what's going on at these Ecuador volcanoes, IG-EPN has 7 webcams(!) pointed at Tungurahua and another pointed at El Reventador (although it appears to be down right now).Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Singapore (AP) - Oil prices rose above $106 a barrel Monday in Asia as intense fighting between Libyan government forces and rebels raised the prospect of a prolonged cut in crude exports from the OPEC nation.
Benchmark crude for April delivery was up $1.71 to $106.13 a barrel, the highest since September 2008, at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained $2.51 to settle at $104.42 a barrel on Friday.
In London, Brent crude for April delivery was up $1.11 to $117.08 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Over the weekend, supporters and opponents of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi fought in several cities, heightening fears that the country is headed for a protracted conflict. Libya's oil output has fallen by at least 1 million barrels per day from 1.6 million since the uprising began last month.
Investors are also concerned violent protests and political upheaval could intensify in the Middle East, where Iran, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia have more than 60 percent of the world's proven oil reserves.
Citigroup said it raised its 2011 average forecast for Brent crude to $105 from $90, but doesn't expect the violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East to spread to Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter.
"We assume that output disruption is maintained through the second quarter," Citigroup said in a report. "Output disruption, or at least the threat of, will support a fear premium for the rest of 2011."
Some analysts expect the recent jump in oil prices -- up 26 percent since Feb. 15 -- will only have a negligible impact on inflation and economic growth in the U.S., the world's largest oil consumer.
"Oil above $100 will not send the economy back into a recession," Capital Economics said in a report. "The oil price would have to rise much further to seriously threaten the U.S. economy."
In other Nymex trading in April contracts, heating oil rose 2 cents to $3.11 a gallon, and gasoline gained 3.1 cents to $3.08 a gallon. Natural gas futures were down 4.4 cents at $3.77 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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In the historical center of Venice, close to San Marco Square and the Biennale Garden, inside the magical web of streets that connect Riva degli Schiavoni to Arsenal, you find 'Al Pestrin', your home in Venice. It is equipped with internet wi-fi. It has a fully equipped kitchen, living room with sofa/bed and pouf/bed, bathroom with tub, washer and dryer, double bedroom, single bedroom with extra bed. Al Pestrin is well served by supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, shops, banks, baccari (the typical Venetian bars) etc. It is a delightful apartment, bright because it is the 3 rd floor (no elevator), and from its windows you can enjoy a splendid view of the altane, terraces built wooden blinds on the roofs.
I have a degree in Architecture. My profession is journalist. I love to travel.
It was the apartment in which my husband lived before marriage.
It 's very bright and very close to Piazza San Marco and the Biennale Gardens. In the morning and in the evening, you can watch the magnificent spectacle of sunrise and sunset along the Riva degli Schiavoni, with the sun rising from the east and sets in the west reflecting on the water of the lagoon.
Clean apartment with three rooms, perfect for the family vocation. Very equipped with spacious kitchen. Located in a cosy Venice district, close to Biennale exhibitions.
We enjoyed staying in Claudia's apartment very much. It was perfect for us – light and airy. The apartment is very well appointed, clean, and with everything there that we needed.
There are cafes close by and a supermarket in Fondamenta S. Giorgio Schiavone. Al Canton del Vin is in Salizada San Francesco where you can buy wine by the litre in your own plastic bottle – very good value. Also there are other good local shops here.
Arriving on the Waterbus from the airport to Arsenale is a wonderful way to arrive in Venice.
The location is good, quiet and local, away from the crowds yet close for all we wanted to see with good walks around the area :–
The Architecture Biennale. The exhibitions in the Punta Della Dogana and the Palazzo Grassi. The Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco and many other churches.
We found very good restaurants – Trattoria Jonny in Campo delle Gatte which is close by – we ate there twice. We had a nice walk along the Fondamenta Nuova to Osteria Anice Stellato in Canneregia – a very good restaurant with an inventive menu. The Trattoria dai Tosi in Seco Marina, Castello for great pizza and close to the Biennale. The Al Storico da Crea in a boatyard on Giudecca – great food and wonderful views across the Lagoon – sit outside.
On our day of arrival we ate at Trattoria alla Nuova Speranza in Campo Ruga, Castello – sarde soar and grilled spigola a perfect start to our visit and and an interesting short walk from the apartment along the Via Garibaldi and then through a few back streets – the real Venice! Afterwards we visited San Pietro in Castello which was Venice's cathedral from 1451 to 1807 – so peaceful.
The last evening we went to a Vivaldi concert by Interpreti Veneziani in Chiesa San Vidal which was outstanding!
We had a wonderful cultural time and gastronomic delights in Venice.
Thank you for being able to rent your apartment and making our stay so relaxed.
Hopefully see you next year.
Philip, Mary and Isabel
My husband and I, son and girlfriend enjoyed our stay at Claudia's apartment. Even though Claudia was away when we arrived, she had provided directions and made arrangements with a neighbor to meet us and everything went smoothly. We did not use the kitchen other than for the electric kettle for morning coffee as many restaurants were nearby. The location was very good, only a five minute walk from the Arsenale stop. The nearby bar could be heard in the bedrooms, but all was quiet late at night. We were happy to have AC as Venice was very warm the first week of August. However, the AC is located by the entry door and cool air does not reach well to the back bedroom area. All in all, it was a great stay and we recommend it to others.
Claudia's apartment was perfect for our 3 night stay in Venice. Given the heatwave, the A/C offered welcome relief. We utilized the well stocked kitchen, cooking many meals. The location was also perfect; quiet, away from the crowds but close to major sites, shopping, restaurants and transport. I will definitely be going back!
We were a family of 5 and had a very happy stay at the apartment. Claudia provided copious helpful maps to find the apartment and to find all the local facilities which was much appreciated. We found a very good local pizza take away which was a bonus.
The location was perfect, authenic as a little off the main tourist trail, but easily accessible from the Arsenale vapouretta stop.
We were able to walk everywhere and when we wanted to go further a field like Burano catch the boat. It was interesting to see the Arsenale and on the last day we left our bags in the apartment and went to the Naval museum, we then collected everything and went to the airport.
We were able to cook in the kitchen which as a family of 5 was convenient. I will certainly recommend it to my friends and family
As a family of five, finding comfortable and affordable accommodations in Europe for our recent trip was a challenge. Claudia's apartment was sufficiently spacious, clean, bright, and very reasonably priced. Located in a slightly quieter part of the island, it was still conveniently close to tourist sites, restaurants, vaporetto stops and the grocery store. Claudia was extremely pleasant to deal with and provided lots of information prior to our arrival that helped us plan a very memorable stay. The kitchen was well equipped and having air conditioning and wifi was a big plus. Molto grazie, Claudia. A la prossima volta!
Central but quiet, because in a street outside the noisy of domestic tourists, the apartment is located in one of the oldest area of Venice, where you meet venetians more than tourists. If you walk along Riva degli Schiavoni, fantastic when the lagoon is illuminated by the morning sun, and go to the Gardens of the Biennale, encounters the picturesque Via Garibaldi, very Venetian and unknown to the mass tourism, , which is typical for its restorants, its local market and the oldest fish shops. I advise you to have breakfast there in one of its many cafes. However, if you go to Piazza San Marco (you reach really in 10 minutes), you immerse yourself in the best-known Venice which needs no introduction. If you try an alternative way to visit the city, you can miss you inside the labyrinth of quiet and peaceful calli (streets) wandering aimlessly: every corner reserves a surprise. If you fear this adventurous lightness, you can follow your guide. Fortunately, no guide will protect you from the possibility of losing you, and if it happens, you should support it.
In the pictures: the house and some views of the neighborhood.
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L'arrivo tra le 16 alle 20 in appartamento è compreso nel prezzo. L'arrivo tra le 20 e le 24 ha un costo aggiuntivo di euro 25. Check-in sospeso dalle ore 24 alle 7 del giorno successivo.
The arrival between 16 to 20 in the apartment is included in the price. The arrival between 20 and 24 has an additional cost of € 25. Check-in is suspended from 24 pm to 7 am.
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H.R. 6048, To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation (18 comments ↓ | 5 wiki edits )
- This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
- This bill, or a similar bill, was reintroduced in the current Congress as H.R. 4201, The Servicemember Family Protection Act.
H.R. 6048 would amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the protection of child custody arrangements for parents who are members of the Armed Forces deployed in support of a contingency operation.
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Spc Jodie GollihughJune 10, 2008, 9:21pm (report abuse)
Please pass this bill.. My kids were taken away from me before my last deploymen and now because the impending deployemnt made my home too unstable. they would rather place my kids with their father who abused me for 8 years. I'm a good mom who has gotten to see her children less than 9 months in 3 years. Please pass this so they can have their mom as a part of their life too.
Joe ValentinJune 13, 2008, 12:18pm (report abuse)
I believe this is a well worth bill. Allowing the military member to serve his/her nation in the call of duty and know that their children will not be taken away from them upon their return will relieve stress while deployed. Military members should not be faulted for deployments.
kathy suzziJune 25, 2008, 10:10pm (report abuse)
this is a law that is the only thing to stop the outragous actions against out troops. My grandson was just given to his mother when my son deployed to Iraq in april the mother had seen my 4 year old grandson 3 times in 2 1/2 years and the judge sent him from ri to wa where he knew nothing and did not know anyone.
this happening to many of our troops when they get deployed and it is not right. why are they being punished for protecting their country.
Tim HigginsJuly 14, 2008, 3:07pm (report abuse)
Please pass this Bill as quickly as possible. Custody of our son's 5 -1/2 year-old child is at stake. The Family Court has ruled that the child's mother (our son's former girlfriend) has SERIOUS mental and personality disorders. It is the time overseas during two tours in Iraq that is preventing our son from having custody. This child deserves to be raised in a stable and loving home that our son and his darling (and sane) wife provide to him.
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Pat Higgins, Sr.July 14, 2008, 3:36pm (report abuse)
Please pass this bill!
My nephew is currently losing his rights because he was deployed to Iraq to ensure the rest of us stateside get to continue on with our freedoms and rights. It is imperative that we protect those who protect us!
Kevin HigginsJuly 14, 2008, 3:39pm (report abuse)
My Nephew is currently being hurt by the courts using his time away after he was called up for 2 tours in Iraq as a determining factor in child custody. He can give his sone a better home and a stable life where he can grow, have friends and live a normal life as compared to that with his mother. One of the main deciding things the judge has used is time away from home deployed. Please pass this soon and make this type of prejudice to our armed forces illegal.
Katherine BuckJuly 14, 2008, 4:48pm (report abuse)
Please pass this bill as soon as possible. I know a wonderful family that may lose their son and grandson to an unstable mother because of his deployment to Iraq. What kind of country are we living in that puts the safety of small children at risk because their mother or father (was or is) serving and protecting our country? These courageous men and women deserve to have the same protection from the court systems as the parent who is seeking sole custody because they spent more time with the child. This is ludicrous and the court sytems knows this and should be held accountable. Will it take the death of an innocent child placed with an unstable parent for the government to wake up and smell the coffee??? We need to speak up for the innocent children that are not able to speak for themselves.
Claudia KroeckJuly 14, 2008, 6:11pm (report abuse)
Please pass this bill as soon as possible. It is terribly unfair to count any servicepersons' overseas deployment time against them in a child custody determination. These people have given our country too much to be treated this way by our court system. PASS THE BILL NOW!
Jerry OsmonsonJuly 14, 2008, 6:22pm (report abuse)
I am appalled to learn that the law treats the very people that defend our country and our rights in such a subjectively prejudicial manner. It is unjust, shocking and morally unacceptable to penalize service men and women by denying parental rights that would otherwise not be in jeopardy! Please pass this bill without delay.
Bonnie RussellSeptember 3, 2008, 4:14pm (report abuse)
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Oklahoma Judge gives Tinker mom a chance.
March 27, 2008
"From the bottom of my heart ... I tell you I'm sorry," Oklahoma County District Judge Don Deason said to Michelle Thorson.
The ruling means she now is the widow, not the ex-wife, of Tech Sgt. Dustin Thorson, who fatally shot their son and daughter before killing himself.
On Feb. 25, the airman shot the boy, Dylan, 4, and girl, Jourdain, 9, in an upstairs bedroom inside their base home after a scuffle with their mother, officials said.
Dustin Thorson, 35, a decorated technical sergeant who served in Iraq, then shot himself. Michelle Thorson was fleeing for help when she heard the shots that killed Dylan and Jourdain.
The airman had threatened last year to kill the children after a divorce, once saying to his son, "Tell Mommy you love her and don't want Daddy to hurt you," according to court papers.
They need counseling after returning.
Bonnie RussellSeptember 3, 2008, 4:22pm (report abuse)
What's notable is that Congress passed this as an EXCEPTION to the best interests of the child. Why is Congress playing popular politics instead of not holding the needs of our most vulernable to the highest standard? Returning Vets, especially Vets who have served more than one term, need counseling. Children do not need to be exposed to vets with PTSD but no treatment. That's beyond irresponsible. It's deadly. See www.FamilyLawCourts.com/domestic.html
Andrew SmithSeptember 4, 2008, 1:51pm (report abuse)
I agree that some do need counseling after returning, but what about the servicemembers that have no choice but to deploy? They have an obligation as a parent and to their careers. Why should they have to risk losing the very thing they are sworn to protect-their family because they have to go and serve. I have had my child for 6 years in a loving, consistant enviroment. Now I risk losing him because of a deployment. We have enought to worry about by leaving our families for a year. We shouldn't have to worry about losing them.
Glen SmalleySeptember 11, 2008, 8:41am (report abuse)
I am currently on deployment and in the near future it looks like I will be going through a trial that I will most likely lose due to being overseas. Needless to say I plan to fight it the best I can but it doesn't look good. My ex wife voluntarily gave me custody of my two sons and now since I had to leave it is being used against me. I have already seen two dedicated fathers who are with me lose custody of their children. Please pass this bill. Yes I do agree that there are some circumstances where a child should not go back to a parent. But there are many single parents who are just doing their jobs who are losing their children because we answer our nations call. It is time to protect our vets.
Robin HigginsNovember 4, 2008, 4:33pm (report abuse)
Please pass this bill as soon as possible. My husband and I have been going through 3+ years of a tremendously difficult custody battle for his 6 year old son. My husband is the clear choice: we have a stable home environment, can provide him with the love and attention he needs, we live in a young, suburban, child-friendly neighborhood where he has several neighboring friends that he sees often, and we are close to several very good schools and after-school child-care providers. I am stunned and baffled by the court's decision to leave my step-son in his unstable mother's care partly because of my husband's past two involuntary deployments to Iraq. My husband was in the US Marine Corps long before his son was born and is now being punished for serving our country and working toward the greater-good of our nation. Please pass this bill. Give our vets a fair chance to parent their own children!
Military MomNovember 14, 2008, 1:50am (report abuse)
Please DO NOT pass this bill. Parents have the CHOICE to join the military. You know this when you join and the other parent and child have NO choice about you being in the military. If you don't want to be deployed, then don't join. Ultimately, it's about the kid and what is best for them, not the parents. That being said, I'm part of a military family and greatly appreciate what every service person is doing for this country. Seriously though, if you want what is best for your child, put them with the parent that won't move them all over the country or leave at the drop of a hat. Kids need stability and cooperation between their parents.
EnigmaJanuary 3, 2009, 6:10am (report abuse)
Here is some interesting information about Bonnie Russell. From http://www.newsmakingnews.com/krausedailyjournal6,6,02.htm:
"Since her custody case began in 1990, Russell has filed more than 45 motions with family courts in Marin and San Diego Counties. She has been arrested twice for violating a restraining order and interfering with court business and has served a total of eight days in jail. Nearly all of her motions were filed pro per, and only five have been granted. Opposed by some of the state's top divorce attorneys, Russell has been frustrated at every turn. She has also been haunted by a negative psychological evaluation that diagnosed her as suffering from borderline personality disorder, susceptible to 'impulsivity' and 'lack of control.'"
EnigmaJanuary 3, 2009, 6:11am (report abuse)
"Two years after she'd been ordered to Real Solutions, Russell was in court again. As Judge Thomas Ashworth attempted to deny Russell's latest petition to change her visitation schedule, Russell repeatedly interrupted him. "My daughter has rights which this court absolutely refuses to address," Russell interjected. "This court is just as guilty of child abuse as [her ex-husband]." Fed up, Ashworth ordered the bailiff to escort her from the courtroom, and as she was gathering her belongings, Russell continued: "I am going to talk plenty," she said, and announced the launching that very night of familylawcourts.com."
EnigmaJanuary 3, 2009, 6:12am (report abuse)
"These days Russell spends almost twelve hours a day in cyberspace, waking up at 4:30 a.m. to scan newspapers from around the country for family court horror stories. She lives alone, in a two-room apartment near the beach in Del Mar. Her front door is glass, tinted so she can see out but visitors can't see in. Using one of her numerous email aliases, she spends much of the day doing a lot of what she calls "snooping"-logging on to message boards for family court professionals and other divorce- and custody-related sites."
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Grade Level: 6th - 12th; Type: Life Science
This project examines the influence of the phase of the moon on moisture capillarity in garden soil.
The goal is to have the student test a hypothesis about seed germination and the phases of the moon by conducting a controlled experiment.
How does the phase of the moon affect moisture capillarity in garden soil?
The gravitational attraction between the Earth and the Moon produces two bulges in the ocean on opposite sides of the Earth. The water in the ocean on the side of the Earth closest to the moon experiences a larger gravitational attraction than the water on the opposite side. As a result the water on the near side is pulled away from the Earth while the water on the distant side is pulled toward the Earth. Any given point of the Earth's surface experiences two high tides and tow low tides with each rotation.
According to gardening lore, seeds planted between the new moon and the full moon show better germination characteristics than those planted at other times of the month. The argument given is that the gravitational pull on the Earth's water is greatest at this time, and that this causes water in the soil to come to the surface where it is available to the germinating seeds.
Upward movement of water in the soil (capillarity) occurs when lower soil layers contain more moisture than upper soil layers. The height that the water rises to depends on the soil pore size -- the smaller the pores, the more the capillary rise. This is the process that allows moisture to be absorbed by a plant's roots.
- Commercial gardening soil
- Soil moisture sensor
- Bowl
- Water
Materials can be found at: Garden nursery or Internet
Experimental Procedure
- Read about the effects of the moon on the Earth's tides, and propose a hypothesis that predicts whether the moon will influence the growth rate of plant seedlings by drawing water to the ground's surface.
- Consult a calendar for the dates of the new moon and full moon.
- On the day before the new moon, measure out and place a small amount of water in the bottom of a soup bowl.
- Cover the water in the bowl with about six inches of commercial garden soil. Pack the soil down firmly.
- Using a soil moisture indicator, measure and record the depth at which moisture is first detected.
The moisture should initially be detected near the bottom of the bowl. If this is not the case, empty the bowl and start over using less water.
- Measure and record the depth at which water is first detected on each successive day between the new moon and the full moon.
- On the day of the full moon -- after making the last measurement in the first part of the experiment, remove the soil from the bowl. Replace it with the same amounts of water and commercial soil used earlier. Pack the soil down firmly.
- Measure and record the depth at which moisture is first detected on each successive day until the next new moon.
- Compare the results for the two monitored periods.
- Evaluate your hypothesis in light of you data. If necessary revise it, and propose additional experiments.
Moisture depth
Day 1 (New Moon)
Day 2
Day 3
Day 16 (Full Moon)
Moisture depth
Day 16 (Full Moon)
Day 17
Day 18
Day 31 (New Moon)
Terms/Concepts: Gravitation; Tides; Capillarity
- http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/mauisoil/a_comp03.aspx
- http://web.extension.illinois.edu/vegguide/step06.cfm
- http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/04700.html
- http://www.gardenguides.com/108493-soil-moisture-content-testing-methods.html
- http://www.thirstylight.com/
- http://www.amazon.com/Indoor-Outdoor-Moisture-Sensor-monitor/dp/B002B80FU4
- http://www.amazon.com/Fertile-Earth-WS-1-WaterStik-Moisture/dp/B001RLVVR2?tag=httpwwwautota-20
- http://www.new-age.co.uk/moon-dates.htm
- http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/tides.html
- http://www.gardenguides.com/86860-planting-phases-moon.html


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Arise and Build returns to Athens, Alabama stage
Author Charlotte Fulton and director Frank Travis will bring Limestone County history to life with their collaboration, "Arise And Build." It's a h
Author Charlotte Fulton and director Frank Travis will bring Limestone County history to life with their collaboration, "Arise And Build." It's a h
Patricia Ramirez Hacker, Artistic Director of The Huntsville Master Chorale, along with tenor Dennis Clements, dropped by Thursday's Morning Blend
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A gathering featuring soup, bread and an array of ideas will happen at the Lowe Mill on Friday, March 3rd from 6 to 9 PM.
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Arts Huntsville's Art Tour of Homes returns for its second year on Saturday, January 28th, 2017.
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The Huntsville Chamber Music Guild has brought beautiful music to our area for sixty-four years.
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Did James Franco proposition a teenage girl via Instagram?
In what we sincerely hope was a viral attempt to promote his forthcoming film "Palo Alto," in which he plays a soccer coach drawn to a high school student, James Franco allegedly tried to meet up with a 17-year-old girl during an Instagram conversation that she later shared with the masses.
A little background: The actor, 35, supposedly met Scottish teen Lucy when she took a video of him outside the stage door of his Broadway show, "Of Mice and Men." He told her to tag him in the video, and she obliged.
In screenshots she later posted of their purported chat from the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Franco asks where she lives, how old she is (soon to turn 18), how long she'll be in New York, if she has a boyfriend (her reply: "Not if you're around"), her phone number (the convo eventually moves to text message) and where she's staying (his reply: "You're single? What's the hotel? Should I rent a room?").
Lucy's response to the latter was a very reasonable, "April Fools' was an hour ago, though."
A photo of Franco soon arrived, along with the message, "It's me. Yes or no? Tomorrow or Thurs?"
After a back-and-forth in which a disbelieving Lucy asks for "proper evidence" that he is, in fact, James Franco, and receives a "don't tell" when she points out that her "Scottish friends will never believe," the star seemingly gives in her to entreaties for proof ("I will meet you if you write my name on a piece of paper then send it to me with your face also in the picture) with a "Lucy"-inclusive selfie. It appears no meeting took place.
In since deleted declarations on his Instagram page, Franco denied any hookup activity ("I HOPE PARENTS KEEP THEIR TEENS AWAY FROM ME. Thank you") and issued a warning: "PLEASE DON'T DM IF YOU ARE UNDER 18, THANK YOU."
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This is a perfect project and recipe for kids to enjoy on Easter. It's simple, fun, and there is no cooking or baking involved. Best part about it, the kids can enjoy eating their creation afterwards! Here is a kind of Easter treat to make.
- Waffle-style sundae bowls
- Red licorice (Twizzler is best)
- Jelly beans (a variety pack is best)
- Chocolate chips
- Coconut shredding
- Cadbury eggs or other Easter chocolates
- Various Easter candies (Peeps, cookies, etc)
1Get a small bowl and melt the chocolate chips in the microwave. Stir and repeat heating until the chocolate completely melted.
2Use a paper plate and put the waffle bowl on the plate.
3Take the Twizzler and form a "U" shape. Turn it upside down to make your basket handle. Put some melted chocolate around the ends of the Twizzler to help make it stay in place. This may take a few minutes because you want to wait until the Twizzler holds by itself.
4Use the coconut shreds and sprinkle it around the waffle bowl. The amount of coconut is up to the person (if they want to use a little or a lot).
5Place the jelly beans on top of the coconut and drizzle chocolate syrup, melted chocolate chips, or jazz it up with chocolate chunks.
6Fill the basket with their favorite Easter candies. They may put in anything they wish to (it's their Easter basket!).
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William Shatner on the Economy and Investing
William Shatner paid a visit to WSJ Speakeasy to discuss his new book and album (more on that later). Afterward, the 'Star Trek' actor and author chatted with WSJ reporters on the Markets Hub about investing strategy and his take on the economy.
Watch the Markets Hub segment after the jump, then check back in later for the longer video interview with Shatner by WSJ Speakeasy reporter Barbara Chai.


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Farmers across the country have been targeted in a campaign to improve quad bike safety.
The Department of Labour has visited 162 farms over the past month as part of its campaign to make sure farmers and their workers are using quad bikes safely.
A total of 56 written warnings or improvement notices were issued.
On average, five people are killed and 850 people are injured each year while riding quad bikes on farms.
``Since April our inspectors have been out and about visiting farmers and their workers to give them information about safe quad bike use and provide them with copies of the Department's new safety guidelines,'' said Dr Geraint Emrys, the department's chief health and safety adviser.
``Where inspectors find people working with quad bikes in a dangerous way they have and will continue to take action. This can range from warnings or penalties, to stopping quad bikes being used until safety issues are fixed,'' Dr Emrys said.
In November last year the department started its Harm Reduction campaign to raise awareness about quad bike safety, focusing on four key areas which encourage people to choose the right vehicle for the job, always wear a helmet, don't let children ride adult quad bikes, and ensure riders are trained or experienced enough to do the job.
``Farms are workplaces and farmers have a responsibility to ensure the health and safety of their staff,'' Dr Emrys said.
``The department will consider prosecution where a worker has been seriously ill or killed at work because key safety steps have not been taken.
``Previous campaigns have failed to bring down the quad bike death and injury toll on farms, and while enforcement is only one step, farmers must realise that there may be consequences if someone is seriously injured or killed while riding a quad bike at work,'' he added.
The farm visits will continue until June, and the quad bike safety campaign will continue until late 2013 with regular reviews and ongoing monitoring and enforcements.
Quad bike safety under spotlight
Farmers across the country have been targeted in a campaign to improve quad bike safety.


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Riding Out Swine Flu
As state health officials continue to monitor cases of swine flu, some North Central Florida residents have no problem "riding" out the swine flu scare.
"I'm not paranoid like that to be taking extra steps," said Parchment. "I would be concerned probably when it hit closer to home. Like if one of my friends caught the flu or something like that or somebody that I'm around 24/7. That's when I would be concerned."
City officials agree that riders shouldn't worry. They say that they are closely monitoring the cases of swine flu in Florida and working with the county health department.
"Right now there's no reason for the local public to panic at all," said City of Gainesville spokesperson Bob Woods. "We're continuing normal operations at the present time. However if the situation were to deteriorate the public should know that the RTS does have contingency plans for such an emergency."
At the Alachua County Health Department, officials are still waiting for news from the CDC regarding a probable case of swine flu in a UF student.
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CRM 3.2.2 loudspeakers
as reviewed by Marshall Nack
Has this ever happened to you? You're puttering around the house on your day off, going about your business, when out of the blue the crooning of a singer distracts you. She seems to be nearby and, what's more, sounds pretty good.
"I wonder where that's coming from," you mutter sub voce.
In a flash, you realize—the voice is coming from your system in the next room. Fooled ya, once again! For a moment you were taken in and forgot that it's just another day tinkering around in your sound room.
Isn't that what we're all after? The goal is to put on a CD or LP and create that illusion over and over again.
Where can you find gear capable of generating that double take?
I'm on the phone with my friend Marty:
Marty: So, how are the new Kharma CRM 3.2.2 speakers coming along (MSRP $33,500).
They're beauties, as nice to look at as listen to, and bonding amazingly well with the ASR Emitter I integrated amp. You know what? At the risk of sounding silly, I have to tell you: I'm not experiencing pangs of regret without my Kharma Exquisite-Midi speakers in line (MSRP $93,500).
Marty: Are you nuts? You can't say that.
So much depends on our skills as a matchmaker.
I just spent the last two months listening to the ASR Emitter I Exclusive B integrated amp. The first month it was paired with my Kharma Exquisite-Midi speakers.
I was flying high. The ASR integrated pushes all the right buttons. Needless to say, the E-M pushes them all, too. The sound was on par with my reference—the mbl 8011 AM monoblocks, 5011 preamp, and these speakers. This was superb sound that I'm sure any rational audiophile would unhesitatingly consider delectable companionship for their imaginary desert island endgame.
I anticipated a serious letdown when I swapped in the newly arrived Kharma CRM 3.2.2 speakers, simply due to the fact they are five levels down the line. Certainly, most performance parameters did deteriorate, but in one important, unforeseen way, they surpassed the E-M. So, on balance, they held their own. Let me back up a bit and explain.
I rated the mbl 8011AM amps a best buy when I reviewed them. They sound terrific strapped to the E-Ms. But one must consider this speaker's nominal four-ohm load, dipping to the high two's. Even though they are reasonably efficient (90dB sensitivity), the rule of thumb is the lower the impedance, the more difficult the load. The E-M is a tough load for an amp to grapple with.
The 8011 AMs are not an optimal match. They're not designed to carry this kind of impedance load. I know this from having sampled the next up mbl Reference Line 9007 monos paired with the E-Ms. Over the course of a couple of weeks, that pairing provided the ticket to a destination I shall not easily forget, establishing an enduring high-water mark. (For the record, the 9007s spec 570 into four-ohms, and have a grand 1900 watts available at peak power. The 8011 AMs spec 310 watts into four-ohms, with a peak power rating of 1100. And the Emitter specs nearly the same: 290 into four-ohms. There's more involved, but power ratings can give you a good indication of an amps' ability to handle a speaker.)
Reality and practicality came knocking, however, droving my decision to acquire the 8011 AM monos: they are smaller and weigh less than the 9007s, of course, but mainly they cost a hell of a lot less.
So the E-M was holding back, through no fault of its own—through no component's fault actually—because so much depends on synergy.
Like any other component, speakers more or less replicate changes in the signal to the best of their ability. An action commences, the signal changes, and they give you an indication of what happened. But it's never complete. Either it's stifled, like when a crescendo runs out of gas and hits a ceiling before the musicians have completed the phrase, or maybe it changes quality and becomes hard and glassy. Consider that this kind of blockage can be overall, the sound just poops out and stops expanding, or it can affect particular frequencies. Typically it's the bass that poops out, but it's possible anywhere, in the upper-mids, for example. There isn't a speaker made, or an amp, that gives you true-to-life dynamics. The guilty party may even be the interface between them, how the two react together. (This is the situation with the mbl 8011s and the E-M). The outcome is the same: it's left up to your grey matter to fill in the shortfall.
When an amp and speaker are working synergistically, a more complete action is possible. If they rise to the occasion, and still manage to maintain coherency and overall quality, the net result is going to be far more convincing.
What happens in such a relationship?
The amp becomes the master and the speaker its willing slave. When the amp barks out orders, the speaker says "Yes, sir!" and snaps to attention. What it means is whatever signal the amp is passing is transmuted into SPLs with a BIG source of distortion removed from the chain. What it means is you get the clearest and cleanest sound either component is capable of. You hear more signal and less mechanical artifact.
Here's where we factor in an amp at the caliber of the ASR Emitter I and a transducer at the level of the CRM 3.2.2. The Emitter I is very nearly a category killer in terms of the quality and range of its dynamics. And the CRM 3.2.2, with the same 90 dB sensitivity as the E-M, makes this amp much happier. With its nominal six-ohm load not dipping below four, the amp has a load it is designed to handle.
The CRM 3.2.2, for its part, is in its element. With sufficient damping factor provided by the amp, driver recovery time is optimized. The signal moved around over Kubala-Sosna wires fast as blazes, able to throw quick jabs and recover without leaving an opening, so to speak. There's no blockage, no stifling of the intent. Imagine for a moment a no-nonsense sound field. There's no fog, no mist, it's like a clear, sunny day, like looking out at the ocean and seeing for miles, the kind of day photographers dream about, the kind of day featured in too many of those allergy medication commercials. The colors are all pure and crisp; vision is 20/20.
Sure, it's a matter of transparency and detail retrieval. Clearly these, and everything else on the check-off list, can't be laggards. But there's something else.
The CRM 3.2.2 has an inordinately energetic transient response, such that the smallest dynamic shadings are made obvious. And it allows the biggest dynamic shifts room to expand. (Not to say full expansion, but enough to make you feel it's not blocked.) It has dynamic openness. This is very often the missing ingredient that prevents our suspension of disbelief. And it is the CRM 3.2.2s most outstanding characteristic.
Dudes who came by to hear this system simply uttered, "Yeah. That's got it."
Kith 'n Kin: the CRM 3.2
FAQ: What does it have in common with its little brother?
You may recall when the Kharma CRM 3.2. was introduced seven years ago, it rocked the high-end firmament. It was the toast of the town. This world-famous two-way punctured long-standing barriers and pushed the outer limits of transparency.
It may be two years since I had the CRM 3.2 in my living room, but I can still tell that the sound of the CRM 3.2.2 comes from the same place—as it should, being designed to follow in its footsteps.
All of the sibling traits are there: the same disappearing act; the see-through or see-into soundstage; the purity and speed; the major league frequency integration and transient coherency; the timbral treatment; even the size and shape of the soundfield and its characteristic images. In short, if you ever heard the 3.2s, you'll recognize the sound of the 3.2.2s.
Appearance-wise, the CRM 3.2.2 falls in with the rest of the Ceramique line and is up to Kharma's reputation for the finest finishes. I'm sure it's a considerable factor in its pricing (MSRP $33,500). The CRM 3.2.2, like its little sibling, will fit most small and medium rooms, where they visually and sonically disappear. Parts quality is the same: internal wiring is Kharma silver-gold wires; there are the Kharma cross-braced SDSS stands; the heavy-duty spike feet, and a rear port.
A couple of guys complained about warm and loose bass, which they attributed to the port. It turned out, they all own sealed enclosure speakers. They are used to the tight and tuneful bass that design produces. This is a matter of taste. Personally, I find this kind of bass overly tight and unnatural.
FAQ: How does it differ from its little brother?
The obvious physical differences are the addition of a second 7" concave Accuton ceramic driver and the larger cabinet size, but there's more.
For one thing, the tweeter is new. The CRM 3.2.2 employs a re-designed, in-house manufactured tweeter. The one on the CRM 3.2 I knew had a tendency to dominate and was somewhat thin—actually, flesh was somewhat thin all around. Occasionally it threw temper tantrums. It was excitable. (I'm talking about the first production CRM 3.2s, which had a 1.5" inverted-dome titanium, Kharma-modified, Focal tweeter. Current production CRM 3.2s use the same tweeter as the CRM 3.2.2.) The CRM 3.2s are also brighter sounding, albeit, it's treble is supple and nuanced. The space conjured by the CRM 3.2s is smaller, more intimate and seductive.
The CRM 3.2.2s treble is more controlled and I'm happy to report, has more flesh and body in keeping with the frequencies below. Still, there is no excess here—you don't want to mate it with analytical ancillaries.
The design is called a 2.5 way, where the identical mid/bass drivers cover overlapping frequencies. This necessitates a more complicated crossover than the CRM 3.2, a true two-way, but for the life of me, I can't hear it. Still, the CRM 3.2 is marginally more invisible. Note that both models spec down to 35 Hz, but oh, what a difference in output levels at that point! That extra mid/woof gives you a low-end with substantially more usable output. Another thing: the bigger and heavier cabinet (110 vs. 70 lbs for the CRM 3.2s), means the CRM 3.2.2s are able to move considerably more air and pressurize the room more fully.
The quantity and quality of the low frequencies is perfectly satisfying for the genres I listen to—classical and acoustic jazz—even enough to suggest a full orchestra. You won't be thinking about augmenting them with a powered sub, as I did when I owned the CRM 3.2s, unless you're into amplified jazz or rock, which uses synthesizers and such.
Now I put my mbl Noble Line separates back in line, keeping as many variables as I could the same.
First of all, I was surprised at how closely the tonal balance matched to the ASR. It didn't require gross adjustment or re-voicing. That said, the mbl didn't have the hefty wallop down below, or the sparkle in the treble. The leading edge wasn't as pronounced and transient weren't as dramatic. But the mbl excelled in control. (I had thought the ASR was supreme commander in that area.) The mbl brings a more even, more accurate frequency response that's warmer, sweeter and with noticeably more body than the ASR.
All of these attributes were strong clues that I needed to re-tool with a mass of TARA Labs cable—The One power cords throughout, The Zero digital link and The 0.8 ICs. This brought back most of the transient snap, along with more refinement and higher information retrieval. Funny, with the mbl amplification, I was moving in TARA Labs cables to boost the vitality of the sound; with the ASR, I had to optimize with K-S.
When I inquired if it still had "it" in this configuration, the comments were split fifty/fifty. One set of golden ears said, with a smile, there's more "it." Another said, "No, the transient isn't as exciting and 'it' is gone." Personally, I thought it had the spark of life as much as before.
Lastly, I paired the CRM 3.2.2 with the fifty-watt single-ended, solid-state Bluenote Demidoff Signature Integrated Amp (MSRP $6900). Now it was clear that "it" had vanished. The Demidoff's dynamics didn't have the range to send the big stuff where it wanted to go. It didn't have dynamic openness. But, you know what? Once again tonal balance was right on. This gave me pause. Three amps in a row had a consistency of tonal palette. Is this a coincidence, or is the CRM 3.2.2 imparting a tonal coloration? Dunno.
Kith 'n Kin: the Exquisite-Midi
Now, before you start to think either I've gone bonkers or there's nothing more to be had from a transducer, let me hasten to bring in another speaker for comparison: my reference Exquisite-Midi's.
No, the CRM 3.2.2 crescendo doesn't have the visceral power of the E-M. No, it doesn't have the micro-dynamic shadings. Concerning both dynamic extremes, the E-M is world-class, period.
At first I thought the CRM 3.2.2 had more vitality in the mid range, but after a while, I realized it's really another manifestation of its energetic transient and the optimized amp / speaker interface.
Both speakers throw comparable proportions in the width and height at the front of the soundstage, but the E-M is able to go prospecting deep into the furthest recesses. The CRM 3.2.2 tapers the rear corners into a hemisphere. Its images are more transparent, so you could visually walk in and between them.
The E-M is warmer, darker and much fuller. It has a saturated, sweet and woody tone color. E-M images are more life-sized, massive and sculptural, its stage more dense. To take apart its sound is like dissecting a cadaver. Under the flesh there's layers of stuff: internal organs; vital fluids; eventually, there's bone. It continues to exfoliate. There's an incomparable performance to be had from the ultra-luxurious Exquisite-Midi. The CRM 3.2.2 sound, on the other hand, has none of this layering. You get flesh and bone. But the E-M could not do "it" with the amps on hand: its transient approach is less exciting, its attack softer.
It was with unmitigated astonishment and great delight that I did not suffer debilitating remorse when I substituted the Kharma CRM 3.2.2s for my Kharma Exquisite-Midi speakers. No doubt you'll find that an incredulous statement, given that the newbie lists at $33,500 while my E-Ms are now a staggering $93,500. Let me quickly qualify that: I'm not saying the CRM 3.2.2 is the better speaker. The point I'm making is the evaluation of a product occurs within the context of a system.
The E-M, with its nominal four-ohm load, presents a burden beyond the reach of the amps on hand. That is why a speaker like the CRM 3.2.2 can come along and do things its bigger sibling can't. The CRM 3.2.2 is a dream-team match-up with these amps.
First they were paired with the ASR Emitter I Exclusive B, a very fine integrated amp, and K-S wires. Quite the opposite of remorse, in short order this recipe achieved a startling level of realism that left the best ears on my listening panel nodding like bobble heads a unanimous and unequivocal, "Yup. That's got it." First time that's happened. Then they were mated with my reference mbl separates and TARA Labs wire and yes, this had "it" too.
The Kharma CRM 3.2.2 is the worthy successor to the world-famous CRM 3.2. It has a recognizably similar voice and like it, the CRM 3.2.2 puts over a speaking-with-one-voice Houdini act the equal of any magician-level transducer you'll encounter. Differences with the CRM 3.2 are a newly designed tweeter and a second 7" mid/woof. These have the effect of lowering the tonal balance and serving up much more low frequency output. You will not be thinking about a sub to go with the CRM 3.2.2.
But the biggest difference is the inordinately sensitive and energetic dynamic response of the CRM 3.2.2. The smallest dynamic shadings are made obvious, and the biggest dynamic shifts are allowed room to expand. It has dynamic openness.
The CRM 3.2.2 does everything well, some things up at SOTA level. Believe me, I looked high and low to find something to criticize—and came up with nada. The only question the consumer needs to ask is "Does the CRM 3.2.2 speak with the kind of voice you're seeking? Does it express your musical taste?" Marshall Nack
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Reprint as at 4 December 2014
Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Act 2010: expired, on 4 December 2014, by section 9(2).
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.
Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.
1 Title
2 Commencement
Part 1Preliminary provisions
3 Purpose and overview
4 Interpretation
Limitations to application of this Act and certain other Acts
5 Limits to application of this Act
6 Limits to application of Building Act 2004
7 Application for status as major maritime event in relation to certain ancillary events
8 Act binds the Crown
9 Expiry
Part 2Establishment of Rugby World Cup Authority
Authority to be established
10 Establishment of Authority
11 Functions of Authority
12 Powers of Authority
13 Membership of Authority
14 Chairperson to appoint panels to determine proceedings
15 Dissolution of Authority
16 Further provisions applying to Authority
Administrative secretariat
17 Administrative secretariat to support Authority
18 Deposit to be paid to administrative secretariat
Part 3Approvals and declarations
Subpart 1—Applications to Authority
19 Applications for approvals, declarations, and changes to conditions
20 Applications relating to test events
21 Method of making application
22 Information to be supplied with applications for approvals and declarations
23 Information to be supplied with applications for test approvals or declarations
Overlapping applications
24 Procedure in event of overlapping applications to both statutory person or body and Authority for same activity
Subpart 2—Jurisdiction, public notification, and making of submissions
Preliminary question of jurisdiction
25 Preliminary consideration of applications
26 Preliminary consideration of applications relating to tournament venues
27 Notice of preliminary decision
Notification of applications
28 Authority must give public notice of applications
29 Contents of public notice
Standing to make submissions
30 Submissions
31 Determination of affected person status
Subpart 3—Hearing and determination of applications
32 Persons with right to be heard
33 Commencement of any hearing
Determination of applications
34 Determination of applications for approvals
35 Determination of applications for declarations
36 Determination of whether adverse effects are more than minor
37 Notice of determination
Subpart 4—Further provisions applying to approvals and declarations
38 Commencement of approvals and declarations
39 Expiry of approvals and declarations
40 Effect of approvals and declarations by Authority under this subpart
41 Continuing effect of approvals after expiry
Subpart 5—Enforcement
42 Monitoring and enforcement under this Part
Enforcement by interim injunctive orders
43 Applications for interim injunctive orders
44 Making of interim injunctive orders
45 Procedure in relation to interim injunctive orders
46 Effect and duration of interim injunctive orders
Offences and penalties
47 Offences and penalties
Subpart 6—Appeal rights
Right of appeal on question of law only
48 Appeals
Part 4Procedures available in circumstances of urgency
49 Purpose of this Part [Expired]
Subpart 1—Declarations of status as Rugby World Cup permitted activity and grant of urgent approvals
50 Applications for recommendation of Authority [Expired]
Declaration of status as Rugby World Cup permitted activity
51 Matters relevant to determination of application [Expired]
52 Power to declare Rugby World Cup permitted activities [Expired]
53 Contents of regulations [Expired]
Grant of urgent approvals
54 Recommendation of Authority [Expired]
55 Granting of urgent approvals [Expired]
Subpart 2—Miscellaneous provisions
Effect of regulations
56 Effect of declaration made by Order in Council [Expired]
Effect of urgent approval
57 Effect of urgent approval granted by Minister [Expired]
Monitoring, enforcement, and appeal rights
58 Monitoring, enforcement, and appeals [Expired]
59 Offences and penalties [Expired]
Part 5Rugby World Cup liquor licences
Subpart 1—Preliminary matters
60 Purpose [Expired]
61 Interpretation [Expired]
Subpart 2—Rugby World Cup liquor licensing scheme
Purpose and scope
62 Purpose and scope of Rugby World Cup liquor licence [Expired]
Applications for Rugby World Cup liquor licences
63 Who may apply for and hold Rugby World Cup liquor licence [Expired]
64 Applications for Rugby World Cup liquor licences [Expired]
65 Applications under this Part and Part 3 for same activity or approval [Expired]
66 Applications relating to specified geographic locations [Expired]
67 Reports to Authority [Expired]
68 Public notice of applications [Expired]
Matters relevant to determining applications
69 Matters relevant to objections and determinations [Expired]
Who may object
70 Objections
Decisions on applications
71 Grant of unopposed applications without hearing [Expired]
72 Hearing in case of opposed licence [Expired]
73 Right to appear and be heard [Expired]
74 Decision on papers [Expired]
75 Decision if hearing held [Expired]
Licences issued
76 Issue of licence [Expired]
Subpart 3—Conditions of Rugby World Cup liquor licences
77 Conditions applying to all licences [Expired]
78 Other conditions of licences [Expired]
79 Licences under this Part not to affect limitations under Gambling Act 2003 [Expired]
Subpart 4—Management
80 Responsibility for management and compliance [Expired]
81 Further application of Sale of Liquor Act 1989 [Expired]
Subpart 5—Enforcement, offences, penalties, and appeal rights
82 Powers of inspectors and constables in relation to licensed premises or areas [Expired]
83 Variation, suspension, or cancellation of licence [Expired]
84 Suspension or cancellation of licence without notice [Expired]
85 Suspension of licence for public health or fire precaution requirements [Expired]
Enforcement of manager's certificate
86 Suspension or cancellation of manager's certificate [Expired]
87 Offence of licensee in respect of manager [Expired]
88 Offences by licensee or manager [Expired]
89 Offences by persons other than licensee or manager [Expired]
90 Matters of evidence [Expired]
91 Other provisions applying to offences and penalties under this Part [Expired]
Amendment to Sale of Liquor Act 1989
92 Amendment to Sale of Liquor Act 1989 [Expired]
Infringement offences
93 Infringement offences under this Part [Expired]
Right of appeal on questions of law only
94 Appeal [Expired]
Part 6Miscellaneous
95 Regulations
96 Service of notices and documents
Consequential amendment
97 Amendment to Official Information Act 1982
Schedule 1 Further provisions applying to Authority
Schedule 2 Further provisions relating to appeal procedure
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Women's hockey likely to stay part of Winter Olympics
The 2014 Sochi Olympics continued late Tuesday night with events carrying into Wednesday morning, while most in the U.S. were sleeping. Sochi is nine hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
Here's a list of what fans may have missed:
Women's hockey will survive
Thus far, the United States and Canada have continued their utter dominance of women's hockey, but even with results such as Team USA's 9-0 victory against Switzerland taken into account, these Games have been more competitive all around. Because of that, the IOC says it is "very pleased" with the quality of play in Sochi and the sport is likely to continue to be a part of future Winter Olympics. The US and Canada have won every Olympic gold and world championship of the past two decades and the lack of parity had led the IOC to threaten pull the sport unless the rest of the world showed progress.
USA, Canada name goalies
Los Angeles Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick will start Team USA's first men's hockey game against Slovakia when the tournament begins Thursday. Quick was on the U.S. roster in Vancouver four years ago, but as the No. 3 goalie didn't see the ice. Montreal Canadiens netminder Carey Price will get the call in Game 1 for Canada with Vancouver star Roberto Luongo likely starting the second game.
Tie goes to Switzerland, Slovenia
The first gold-medal tie of the Games was awarded in women's Alpine skiing with Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Slovenia's Tina Maze each finishing the downhill in 1:41.57. Switzerland also got the bronze with Lara Gut finishing 0.1 seconds behind the winners. American Julia Mancuso, a favorite to at least win a medal, if not gold, finished a disappointing eighth, nearly a full second behind Gisin and Maze.
American woman looks for halfpipe gold
A day after the United States, including two-time defending champion Shaun White, were shockingly shut out of the hardware in snowboarding's men's halfpipe, another American favorite, Kelly Clark, will look to avoid an upset Wednesday morning. Clark qualified No. 1 in the first heat with an impressive score of 95.00. The finals begin later today.
Norway back on top of medal count
With four golds, three silver and four bronze, Norway's outstanding Olympics continue with the 11 total medals leading all nations. Canada has nine medals, including four gold and the Netherlands have eight total, including three gold. Germany has just five total medals, but four are gold. Disappointing snowboarding results have contributed to the United States sitting with seven total medals and just two gold.
USA's Amanda Kessel (28) celebrated with Kendall Coyne (26) after scoring on Switzerland goalie Florence Schelling (41) in the first period at Shayba Arena in Sochi, Russia, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The USA defeated Switzerland, 9-0. (Carlos Gonzales/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)


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Some Poets, Their Plays, and a Moment of Real Bad Taste
FEBRUARY, SAN FRANCISCO—Backpacks were piled high against the wall, folding chairs were scattered across the small stage, and the primary source of lighting came from an overhead projector that whirred noisily through the evening. Even in a literary haven like San Francisco, poetry sometimes has to settle for the bare necessities.
The classroom setting at the California College of the Arts proved somehow fitting for the final night of Small Press Traffic's Poets Theater Jamboree 2007.
The idea of the festival was to expand the role of the poet in a dramatic setting, allowing each author to recruit actors, dream up sets, and direct an actual stage show that took each piece off the page and brought it to life. How could it not feel a bit like a high school drama club performance?
Opening the event was a piece written and directed by Scott MacLeod called Hooligan's Island, in which five characters loosely resembling the cast of Gilligan's Island fired off histrionic pronouncements concerning the war in Iraq.
The familiar outfits made the audience eager to provide a laugh track. Instead, the readers keeled over in mock death poses and delivered gloomy lines such as "Nowadays, paradise lies out of reach for us / The rapid spread of war makes foes of us all forevermore." It was even more depressing than that episode where the Skipper thought voodoo witchcraft had turned Gilligan into a monkey.
The conflict in Iraq weighed heavily on other pieces as well.
"Feed," a work written and directed by Juliana Spahr, featured three iPod-wearing readers onstage—one playing the part of a newscaster, another celebrity chef Rachael Ray, and a third merely a detached voice from the wings—trading off lines about war casualties, carving up a Thanksgiving turkey, and, er, emitting random shouts of "Gobble! Gobble!"
Spahr evidently hoped to provoke some sense of outrage at injustice, but if there was any great revelation to be had in flipping channels back and forth between Fox News and the Food Network, America would be made up of millions of scholars.
Even wider of the mark was Chana Morgenstern's "The Death Experts." Set up as a mock television talk show about the beheading of American businessman Nick Berg, the rambling piece was a poorly conceived spoof of American media and politics. Here's an excerpt from the opening:
Larry Talktalk:The production was so clumsy that Morgenstern not only failed to satirize any of her intended targets but came off as the most vulgar of all by closing the piece with a long, lingering screen shot of Berg's decapitated head. Why not just condense the whole thing down to a simple haiku: "Talk shows are sleazy / The war in Iraq is bad / Hey, isn't this gross?"Hello and welcome to TalkTalk. I'm your host Larry Talktalk, and tonight we'll be discussing the case of Nick Berg, a 26-year-old contractor beheaded by al-Qaeda operatives last month in Iraq. A video of his killing is available on the Web. It's been viewed by millions. We'll watch a clip of that a little later on. I have some very special guests with me tonight. My dear old friend Joseph Campbell is here; he's just put out a fantastic book on myths of Iraq. Also with us: Georges Bataille, the founder of Acephale, a society dedicated entirely to decapitation. We'll also be hearing from Nick Berg's friends as well as key players on the World Wide Web; perhaps they can tell us a little bit more about what might have been going through Nick's head at the time of his capture and execution—pay tribute to this amazing young man. But first, let's start with the experts. Georges, talk to us about decapitation. Where does this urge to decapitate come from?
Things recovered with a performance of avant-garde composer John Cage's 1982 radio play James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet. Directed by Marie Carbone, it featured eight actors portraying major philosophical icons from the last two centuries, including not only Joyce, Duchamp, and Satie but also Mao Tse-tung, Henry David Thoreau, and Buckminster Fuller.
The dizzying conversation saw the great minds discussing subjects as far-reaching as furniture music and telepathic travel, with all the expected humor, irreverence, and flashes of historical consequence that resonate through most of Cage's work. It was like the ultimate cover version.
Better still was The Gunfight, a clever character comedy written and directed by Jamboree co-curator Brent Cunningham. Against an Old West backdrop and a classic Ennio Morricone soundtrack, it saw two cowboys facing off in a familiar pose—legs spread apart, trigger fingers at the ready, and a bearded innocent bystander shuddering nearby in a holey barrel.
From there, it was anything but a predictable scene. Before they ever got around to firing their pistols, the two adversaries attempted to trade clichéd insults but quickly got sidetracked by a laugh-out-loud argument over terminology. Cunningham obviously had a blast putting his intricate literary knowledge to use in such an absurd setting. So much so that the line that drew the biggest roar of the night was delivered in a cod Western accent: "You're getting tangled in semantics, man!"
The piece was nearly enough to make up for the dreariness that hung over the rest of the evening. But there was no getting around the biggest lesson learned in the lecture hall: Sometimes the best thing a poet can be is just a poet.
Aidin Vaziri is the pop music critic at the San Francisco Chronicle. He has also written for Black Book, Surface, Rolling Stone, Salon, and Amazon.com.
Some Poets, Their Plays, and a Moment of Real Bad Taste
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Lovely pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Lovely pictures. Thanks for sharing.
I love to see the deer, I just wish they would stay out of my flowers. This morning I discovered they had eaten some of my hostas overnight.
OH! HOW Sweet!!! They are Beautiful!! I wish I was lucky enough to see them close enough to take a picture of!!! :mrgreen: :thumbup: ;)
Thanks so much for sharing . Such sweet creatures
Great pictures. We live out in the coutry on 22 acres. Use to see 12-14 deer in the way back but now it is down to 4-6. Part of the property is farmed out and last year after they cleared the corn, I bought corn to feed the deer during the winter. Had them about 20 ft. from our garage door. Have never noticed them eating any trees or plants. Now we have soybeans and once in awhile I see a mommy and just barely see the baby jumping thru the field. I've lived here for 10 years and I still love watching them.
What a beautiful deer. And the baby is precious. Thanks for sharing your pics.
Beautiful!! Nothing better than these special "nature" moments. Gifts from God are the best!


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