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|20th April 2007, 08:56 AM
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In practice, it should be simpler than the initial suggestion. There's no reason the "jumps" between lowpass filters and groups of drivers have to be one octave apart - this is determined by real-world room-gain measurements, instead of theory.
Also, the lowest-frequency set of driver(s) can really be anything you like: H or W-box dipoles, closed-box monopoles, heck why not something really different, like a TQWT! That would go from the ridiculous inefficiency of dipoles to the impressive efficiency of horn-loading with a quarter-wave resonance thrown in.
I'm expecting a real-world system has whatever kind of driver you like for the wideband driver - Lowther/AER, a line array of Fostexes, the notorious/famous Visaton B200, something gorgeous from 18Sound, the mythical good-sounding coaxial unicorn, the creme-de-la-creme field-coil Fertin, whatever. Then directly below that is a high-Q physically large driver for midbass. And below that whatever kind of woofer you like. With an oddball array like this, the ideal crossover spacing could be anything - again, to be determined by audition and measurement.
|20th April 2007, 11:17 AM
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Hi Lynn,
Yes so many variables, and I think the big problem we eventually hit is spectral coherence from different drivers.
You suggested tilting the baffle slightly backwards; I assumed for coincidental driver timing in the vertical plane.
Hi John,
You stated that tilting the rear-wave downwards has a significant effect upon the soundstage.
I don't dispute the soundstage shift....
but I still can't get my head properly around the statement,
because what we hear of rear output is always delayed, dispersed and reflected.
So I ask - does the soundstage become altered because it is actually the baffle edge, and thus the 'zero reference' launch plane that becomes tilted wrt the driven source we hear in our vertical plane ?
If yes,
then cannot soundstage shifting due to baffle back-tilting with HF drivers at the top, be countered by wings having equal but opposite slope, thus gradually extending backwards towards the floor - this going towards the 2D LF dimensioning you suggested ?
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|20th April 2007, 12:15 PM
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I like Lynn´s "variable geometry" concept very much. I see it as the setting of general design principles, which as Lynn says, are then to be realized accordingly to real world measurements with real drivers. His side and back firing tweeters idea is also very good.
A second and most important design principle still to be determined is how high (at least) the wide-range mid should do. We have spoken of the 500-3kHz "telephone bandwidth" as a most critical, but also about the wish of crossing over to a supertweeter at 10kHz. Determining the minimum critical midband requirements on the base of theoretical consideration could help narrowing down the selection of the mid.
A very interesting idea that could be discussed and that could complement Lynn´s variable geometry concept was brought up by Thorsten some time ago in this forum. If one uses a transimpedance -current source amp- with a driver which has an appropriate Qms, the use of such an amplifier together with the driver´s rising impedance on the lower end could be a very simple way of equalizing the 1/f losses. John Swenson has spoken here of a very nice transimpedance tube amp of his. Hawksford paper on current driven speakers shows a marked distortion reduction, from memory something like -20dB.
I like the idea of thinking about the system as a whole. People like Lynn that have heavenly good tube amps would perhaps not be very inclined to set them aside and design a whole new system. But maybe biamping can be an alternative.
H and W subs have the resonance peaks at 200-300Hz. One "advantage" of the dipole subs concerns room modes below ~300hz (depending on rooms dimensions) to about 60hz: in that range one would have to decide between more "kick" and better linearity of the upper low end. Below 60Hz I would support Lynn´s option of doing a monopole or a TQWT.
|20th April 2007, 01:26 PM
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Well this is not realy related to the current discusion but someone mentionde earlier the use of two 6" 18sound drivers. Of course these shoud have a low cross point with the tweeter because of the polar response (but they actualy beacame almost useless because the bandwith they are handling is very narrow) and so on but: Why highly praised speakers like Zu are using 10" drivers in what it seems to me a d'Appolito arangement except the very high cross point of 10Khz. The two 10" units are runing fullrange almost. I've seen other speakers (wich again, were well reviewed) using these strange D'Appolito configurations. Everything says something is not normal (from the theory point of view) but they sound well it seems.
So... what's the answer... am I missing something or it's just well.. marketing?
|20th April 2007, 08:59 PM
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I think you can do a lot with a flat baffle and one side wing - with a C-shaped cutaway profile as seen from the side, so it has the greatest depth at floor level, fading away to zero by the time it reaches the bottom of the widerange driver. If the dipole can make it down to 60 ~ 80 Hz (which isn't asking a whole lot) a completely different kind of (stereo) sub can take over from there. TQWT's and bass horns certainly qualify, with tremendous efficiency and physical "kick". That would be a great complement to the large-area dipole sound.
As for amps, the deluxe amps can be reserved for the wideband driver and the tweeters. Everything below that is going to need room EQ anyway, since the desirable region for room EQ is 300 Hz on down. Back in the days of the SAE parametric EQ (I still have one!), I used it to EQ rooms - and found out quite early that midband EQ, or attempting to "fill in" holes, is a prescription for disaster. But using the variable-Q notch filters to chase out the two biggest bass bumps - on a per-channel basis - really improved the sound a lot. It also did wonders for the imaging, something I didn't expect.
It was interesting to see at the last RMAF that Wally of Wallytractor fame is also using bi-amped speakers (of his own design) with pro EQ for the 240 Hz on down region, and goes out to client's houses to personally EQ their systems. If you've ever met Wally, he's an old-school European with excellent taste in music and sound, so I have no doubt he tunes the system to sound beautiful. What I heard at the RMAF certainly sounded agreeable and musical.
After struggling with the Ariel crossover for six months, and accepting a response curve I wasn't completely happy with, I became sensitive to an odd kind of coloration that MTM's make. For lack of a better word - this is going to sound weird - they sound hollow and forward at the same time. I could only tame this in the Ariel by intentionally allowing the mids to sink into a mild "BBC dip", which gives the speaker a subjectively neutral balance.
If the Ariel uses a conventional "measure-flat" 6 or 18 dB/octave crossover the coloration returns, so this is some kind of weird conflict between the direct-arrival spectra, the "total power into the room" spectra, inter-driver phase angles, and tight vertical lobing.
This coloration is much worse in WMTMW's or large-diaphragm MTM's. Admittedly, not everyone is aware of the coloration - but, like the notorious "rainbow effect" of microdisplay TV's with color shutters, once you see (or hear) it, you never forget it. (I was stupid enough to train myself to see it - it's most obvious on high-contrast black-and-white content - and now I see it everywhere on big-screen HDTVs as an almost subliminal flicker.)
I enjoy the Ariels because I pretty much "dialled out" the coloration with very small phase trims in the response of midbass drivers - I actually sat in the listening position with a long cable going to the crossover and slowly adjusted a damping resistor while listening to pink-noise. At one setting the coloration suddenly dropped out; I measured the value of the resistance, replaced it with a precision Ohmite power resistor, and did more evaluation with music from there. A tedious business.
I did the Ariels as a kind of a goof - it was originally intended as a quick-n-dirty transmission-line speaker with enough efficiency to satisfy the local triode nuts. I was fooled by years of reading about the myriad advantages of MTM's. The tech literature blinded me to the fact that I had yet to hear any MTM - from any manufacturer - that sounded musical or even listenable - they all had gross and unacceptable midrange colorations and almost non-existent portrayal of depth (a bad sign).
Looking back, I was overconfident and a bit cocky, thinking I could solve problems where nobody else in the industry had succeeded - or even acknowledged existed. Well, I did more or less solve it, but I still don't think MTM's are the way to go - the midband colorations are too strange, and too hard to remove with drivers that are too big, crossovers that are too complex, or drivers that are too rough. There are a lot of compromises in the Ariel that I wouldn't do now - but then again, good-quality efficient drivers were pretty hard to find back at the time I designed it, and MTM was about the only way to get into the 91~92 dB/metre region.
The Ariel experience forcibly reminded me that it is dangerous - or at least a huge time-waster - to solve problems that the rest of the industry has failed to solve. That's partly why horns scare me - so many brilliant people have worked on them for almost a century, and they still sound like horns, every blessed one of them, no matter what the pedigree, Geddes, Azura, Tractrix, JBL, Oris, Avante-Garde Duos and Trios, TAD, Altec, etc. etc. I've heard all of these at considerable length, in many different systems, in many different locations around the world.
Yes, some are much better than others, and the designs are getting better with powerful new analytic techniques like finite-element analysis. But it's ridiculous to say any of these horns sound like a direct-radiator or an electrostat. They just plain don't. All of them, even the newest and most exotic, sound very much like what they are - horns. It is obvious in the first minute of listening.
The problem of horn coloration is very deep and very serious, and nothing to be solved with a little weekend math and a dash of creativity.
I'm not as concerned about dipoles, since I've heard three completely different but wonderful systems from Linkwitz, Bastani, and Gary Pimm. This is great news, that dipoles built from such radically different set of design principles all sound so wonderful - and free of the obnoxious box colorations that plague just about every high-end speaker. The relatively minor "issues" I heard with each came down to choice of driver, crossover topology, the usual mundane stuff.
No show-stoppers, unlike horns, which seem to be one show-stopper after another (the more you discover, the worse the problems get). This is very encouraging to me, and why I've started this thread in the first place, to stimulate ideas and find out what others are doing.
|20th April 2007, 09:54 PM
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Also, pink-noise is the first stimulus you use to assess subjective speaker coloration, not some kind of minor afterthought. The BBC started using pink-noise as a subjective tool in the late Fifties, so it wasn't exactly new when Holland and Newille wrote their paper in the mid-Eighties.
On a personal level, I can't accept the study's conclusion. I've heard many different horn systems, with every imaginable profile, and the horn "sound" was immediately audible. After a few minutes of listening, you come to terms with it, if it isn't too strong, but it never goes away completely.
Music with a broad and dense spectrum like a massed chorus, or massed violins, are what bring out the coloration most severely, to the point of unacceptability for many horn systems. Of course, many listeners today never listen to classical music, and many audiophiles only listen to jaz or blues with very few instruments, thus a sparse spectrum that doesn't excite the horn coloration.
The audibility of horn coloration seems to strongly depend on the listener - I'm convinced that some people just don't hear it at all, and think that everyone else is complaining about nothing. I think other audiophiles enjoy it as a euphonic coloration, one they positively enjoy as a musical enhancement. Other people detest it - I'm closer to this group, but not all the way over in their corner. I surmise this is a lot like color perception, with significant differences in individual perception of overall color gamut, resolution of subtle hue-differences, and color harmony.
When listening to horns, I'd rather listen to the "new-generation" horn designs, such as the Azura/Lowther, Oris/AER, or the Geddes Summa, instead of the old-school Altec/JBL aluminum-diaphragm CD's with an exponential horn. But ... all of them, new or old, sound more like each other than any direct-radiator or electrostatic speaker, which have a completely different presentation.
|21st April 2007, 02:07 AM
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Lynn I have had my stint with horns in the pro world, that was my job, even messed with large line arrays, and with MTMs since I have designed decades of home speakers.
I must agree that MTMs have the trait you mention. My idea is that by mutually canceling lower than crossover frequency with each midwoofer, they eat out power response there, hence the power response in the room is always stronger around cross. By dipping them in cross I can ameliorate that but I always hear the hollow then upfront transition.
A BBC dip in my knowledge isn't a mid dip but a -2dB slant from 100Hz to 10Khz though.
As for horns the only thing I can put in a word even for the most refined ones (EAW NT series catering with DSP for horn honk named Gunness Focusing) is that they sound 'projected'. Well that's why they are made for, to mainly save and project energy to a defined area.
|21st April 2007, 04:04 AM
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Maybe it's time for you to get serious and build/listen to a three way dipole line array.
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When I lived in Paris I was lucky enough to hear, use and live with a number of high end speaker technologies. At the time I also worked in the music business and lived with a cellist . My ears were full of live music every day, all day long. As great as some of the systems I heard were, none sounded more like real music to me than the horns. It was not a matter of nuance, the horns nailed it.
The very big horn systems that we put together at the Kiron Theatre demos (designed by J.Hiraga) were by far the best imaging of any system I've heard before or since. Absolutely no problem with mass choral or strings. In fact, that's where they really shone.
So when I was in the thick of live music every day, all day, the good horn systems were by far the most life-like, the most realistic to my ears. Lack of coloration and dynamic ease where where they stood out. No direct radiator was as good, tho many were still quite wonderful to listen to.
But maybe horn colorations just don't bother me. I certainly did not hear them in those systems. I do hear them in lesser horn systems, i.e., most P.A. systems. Is it a matter of taste, or do we actually hear differently?
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I like to talk shop. I also like to listen to other people talking shop, even if their shop is not my shop (poetry, pedagogy, responsible agnostic living).
Being stimulated, educated, and comforted in the presence of shop talk is one reason that I like listening to comedy podcasts such as You Made It Weird, WTF with Marc Maron, and How Was Your Week, where stand-up comedians and comedy writers talk about (among other things) their strategies for crowd work, how they perceive the tradition of stand-up comedy and how they think they fit into it/ play against it, writing habits, and early career mistakes. Most, I find, are masters of dissection, willing to take apart a 10 word joke and discuss at length how it works/ what makes it funny/ how the joke would be less successful if they'd used an indefinite article [an ice-cream stand] rather than a definite article [the ice-cream stand].
My affection for shop talk is the reason I watch reality shows like Project Runway and Master Chef. They're shows about making: The central question of Project Runway is "What makes an exciting piece of fashion?" [The designer must consider "what's happening now" in fashion, what's been done too much, what's wearable but not so wearable that it becomes clothes instead of fashion, what kind of person is the designer designing for/ what is his or her story, whether the designer playing it too safe, whether the designer unwisely straying from the realm of his or her talents and interests…]
Similarly, the central question of Master Chef is "What makes a good dish?" [The cook must consider how to best present the dish {placement on the plate, colors of the food/ plate/ garnishes}, whether the dish is ambitious enough, whether the dish overstimulates the palette with disparate textures/ flavors/ aromas…]
Margaret Atwood once said "I don't want to know how I write poetry. Poetry is dangerous: talking too much about it, like naming your gods, brings bad luck… you may improve your so-called technique, but only at the expense of your so-called soul."
I certainly want poetry to be dangerous, as in "of consequence," or as in "a medicine that can heal or poison depending on how it's administered." But I do want to know how poems happen. And I want to talk about the making of poems, and hear other people talking about the making of poems, because my suspicion is that no matter how much I examine it, I will never understand everything that happens to produce a good poem. Then I will be reassured that the mystery is real, and I will have new ways to celebrate it. My thoughts on poetics match my thoughts on religion: If anyone's god is worth anything, that god will become no less awe-inspiring with scrutiny–the god that's worth something, more than likely, will become even more so, as it continues to elude the complete understanding of intelligent, curious people.
Larry Levis once said that "craft becomes, rightly, the most private of dialogues between the poet and his language." I think the private, highly personalized nature of craft is another reason I like hearing people discuss it: it's intimate; it offers a better knowledge of poetry as well as a better knowledge of the person who made the poetry–it exposes the poet's value system, just as people-watching with a friend helps you to better understand the friend. [Does she seem most interested in what people are wearing, how they talk to or touch the people they are with, their weights, their voices/ laughs….?]
Here are some excerpts from three of my my favorite craft essays, all from A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, which are useful as teaching aids as well as personal devotionals for the poet/ artist/ interested person:
I. "Recognizing the Image as a Form of Intelligence" by Robert Bly
"The image…keeps a way open to old marshes, and the primitive hunter. The image moistens the poem, and darkens it…without the image the poem becomes dry, or stuck in one world."
"[Psychic weight], which comes later in [a poet's] development, is connected to grief, turning your face to your own life, absorbing the failures your parents and your country have suffered…an adult grief that makes the poem feel heavy in the hand."
"When a poet creates a true image, he is…bringing into consciousness a connection that has been forgotten, perhaps for centuries."
"It is possible there is another sort of image, which the ancients knew about. It is less like a container and more like an arm. It reaches out of human consciousness to touch something else."
"We do feel a gap between ourselves and nature. We can remain in the gap, and let the two worlds fall apart farther and remain separate. Or a human being can reach out with his left hand to the world of human intelligence and with the right hand to the natural world, and touch both at the same time…The power that makes us able to touch both is called 'imagination'."
II. "Some Notes on the Gazer Within" by Larry Levis
"We all know that poetry had better come, if not 'as naturally as leaves to the tree,' then at least with something more alive and luminous than a servile, cynic's technique. [A] poem made to order from theory is slave labor."
"The best beginning poets I know are also the most literary: what they demonstrate is a love for poetry rather than a love for themselves."
"Poets thirst after what is pure and other and inhuman…"
"[When I] really look inquiringly inward…it is to discover how empty I am, how much an onlooker and a gazed I have to be in order to write poems…it is to find out how I can be filled enough by what is not me to use it, to have a subject and, consequently, to find myself a poet."
III. "Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man: Some Subjective Ideas or Notions on the Care & Feeding of Prose Poems" by Russell Edson
"Human intelligence sees itself as the only thing different from all things else in the universe; an isolated witness to seemingly endless cosmological processes…Human intelligence recognizes its frail root and utter dependance on the psychical universe…That out of vast mindlessness was it born…Must look upon its situation as absurd. Intelligence is in the care of mindlessness."
"Growing your own writing without going to the Iowa Writers Workshop, and without sending your work to know poets–your own garden, your own meditation–isolation!–Painful, necessary! One comes to the writing table with one's own hidden life…not dragging Pound's Cantos."
"How I hate little constipated lines that are afraid to be anything but correct, without an ounce of humor, that gaiety that death teaches!"
"[There is the poet who] neglects content for form; always seeking the way to write…the endless discussions of breath and line; the polishing of the jewel until it turns to dust."
"Beware of serious people, for their reality is flat."
"[This sense of nothingness], that life is always poised on the edge of decay, that seemingly solid structures long to become dust…and that only man holds the past with any tenderness…[it means that the writer] who has nothing to lose is allowed to be silly; the Angel of Joy prescribes it…"
[Editor's Note: For more essays on poetics and craft, please visit the "Essays on Poetic Theory" section of The Learning Lab.
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Blood drive is next week in Tonganoxie
July 10, 2013
Community Blood Center will have a blood drive next week in Tonganoxie.
The drive will be 2-7 p.m. Friday, July 19, at Tonganoxie VFW Hall, 910 E. First St.
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According to CBC, one donation can help as many as two local hospital patients. The center must collect at least 580 pints of blood every day to meet the needs of the area.
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Dave Parrington
- 1-Meter Springboard (2):
2004 - Jevon Tarantino (388.65); 2016 - Liam Stone (453.70).
- 3-Meter Springboard (3):
1994 - Evan Stewart (614.65); 1995 - Evan Stewart (655.40); 2003 - Phillip Jones (649.70)
- 1-Meter Springboard (8):
1994 - Evan Stewart (552.45); 1996 - Evan Stewart (555.20); 1997 - Evan Stewart (583.55); 2004 - Jevon Tarantino (356.35); 2011 - Michael Wright (416.85); 2012 - Ryan Helms (415.10); 2015 - Mauricio Robles (421.15); 2016 - Mauricio Robles (459.75).
- 3-Meter Springboard (11):
1994 - Evan Stewart (568.90); 1995 - Evan Stewart (598.15); 1996 - Evan Stewart (594.90); 1998 - Shannon Roy (583.60); 1999 - Gabi Chereches (629.45); 2000 - Gabi Chereches (595.40); 2001 - Shannon Roy (610.00); 2002 - Phillip Jones (596.25); 2004 - Phillip Jones (633.75); 2012 - Ryan Helms (446.20); 2015 - Liam Stone (463.50 - SEC Record).
- Platform (5):
1999 - Gabi Chereches (768.70); 2000 Gabi Chereches (595.40); 2001 - Gabi Chereches (638.35); 2012 - Mauricio Robles (438.35); 2016 - Mauricio Robles (439.90).
- 3-Meter Springboard (1):
1995 - Tracy Bonner (580.20)
- Platform (1):
1998 - Kathy Pesek (659.65)
- 1-Meter Springboard (4):
1997 - Tracy Bonner (404.95); 2001 - Jamie Sanger (311.70); 2002 - Jaime Sanger (313.85); 2003 - Jaime Sanger (323.25).
- 3-Meter Springboard:
1995 - Tracy Bonner (517.65); 1996 - Kathy Pesek (522.90); 2000 - Jane Woodard (525.35); 2008 - Lauren LeRoy (344.05).
- Platform (7):
1997 - Dawn Burton (556.35); 1998 - Kathy Pesek (658.40); 1999 - Kathy Pesek (639.90); 2003 - Kylee Wells (452.95); 2012 - Tori Lamp (335.50); 2013 - Tori Lamp (341.90); 2014 - Tori Lamp (356.10); 2016 - Rachel Rubadue (330.50).
Seasons at Tennessee: 27th Year (as of 2016-17)
NCAA Champions: 7 (5 men, 2 women)
SEC Champions: 40 (24 men, 16 women)
SEC Coach of the Year: 13 times
2013 National Women's Diving Coach of the Year
Tennessee diving coach Dave Parrington, a successful athlete on both the collegiate and international levels, has translated that athletic excellence into a high degree of proficiency in the coaching ranks. Parrington has received countless honors on every level the diving community and is in his 27th season at UT in the 2016-17 school year.
His wealth of experience and teaching ability was displayed in the successes of his athletes with divers excelling at the conference and national levels year in, year out.
The Harare, Zimbabwe, native owns an impressive resume. The SEC coaches have voted Parrington the Men's Diving Coach of the Year nine times (1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2012, 2015, 2016) and the Women's Coach of the Year four times (1997, 2003, 2012, 2013). Since arriving on The Hill, Parrington has produced seven NCAA champions and 40 SEC champions. He has coached eight USA Diving national champions.
Parrington and the UT divers have built an impressive stretch over recent.
The 2011-12 season was among Tennessee's best overall seasons in the diving well as the men swept all three diving events at the SEC Championships for the first time in program history. Ryan Helms won the 1-meter and 3-meter titles and freshman Mauricio Robles took the platform. Tori Lamp led the women all year and won her first SEC title in her signature event, the platform. Helms and Lamp were both voted the SEC Diver of the Year for the men and women.
Lamp, Helms and former SEC champion Michael Wright competed in the 2012 USA Olympic Diving Trials. Lamp also qualified for the FINA Grand Prix diving series for Team USA during the summer months.
In 2012-13, Parrington was named the CSCAA National Women's Diving Coach of the Year and SEC Women's Diving Coach of the Year after leading the Lady Vols to championship-level heights at the SEC and NCAA championships. Lamp was named the National Diver of the Year after making the finals of all three diving events, placing second on the platform for the second time, and senior Jodie McGroarty made the finals in both springboard competitions to help Tennessee finish third in the team standings for the first time in program history.
The 2013-14 season marked the re-emergence of Robles to the national scene. After missing much of the 2013 spring with a head injury, Robles put together a brilliant sophomore year. He took the NCAA bronze medal on the 3-meter springboard and scored in all three events. He earned silver medals at the SEC meet on 1 meter and 3 meter and later was voted the SEC Diver of the Year. Lamp finished her career by winning her third consecutive SEC platform title, setting a meet record in 356.10.
Parrington earned SEC Men's Diving Coach of the Year honors in 2015. At the SEC meet, Robles won the 1-meter springboard title with a Tennessee record of 421.15. Liam Stone, who joined the team in January, set the meet record to win in the 3-meter title in 463.50 with Robles taking third.
In 2016, Tennessee celebrated its first NCAA men's diving champion since 2004 when Liam Stone captured the 1-meter NCAA title (453.70 - school record). Robles ended his career as the 2016 SEC Diver of the Year, defending his 1-meter conference title and winning platform for the first time since 2012. Freshman Rachel Rubadue won the women's platform title and was the SEC Freshman Diver of the Year.
Tennessee divers during the Parrington era have competed at the Olympics, World Championships, World University Games, World Diving Cup, Pan American Games, the Commonwealth Games and the African Games a combined 25 times. During the 1999 and 2000 SEC championships meets, Parrington coached Gabi Chereches to an SEC Commissioners Trophy, awarded to the swimmer or diver with the highest point total at the meet.
Parrington coached Zimbabwe's Olympic team in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics as well as the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Other Olympic service includes two stints (1998, 2008) as a judge at the U.S. Olympic diving trials and a selector for the USA Olympic team selection camp hosted at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. He also served the United States' diving team as a coach for the 1997 World Cup qualifying and championships rounds and was rewarded with the USA Diving Coaches Award of Excellence. Parrington was named the head coach of Team USA at the 2014 Fina World Series in London, England, UK.
Lamp competed internationally, winning the platform competition at the 2013 U.S. World Championships Qualifying and later placing 10th in her signature event at the FINA World Diving Championships in Barcelona, Spain. She was on the USA Diving's olympic development squad and represented Team USA in the FINA Diving World Series in 2014.
Before he arrived in Knoxville, Parrington spent seven years as the head diving coach at his alma mater the University of Houston.
As a student-athlete, Parrington competed in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, representing Zimbabwe in both the three-meter and platform events. Parrington also played for Zimbabwe's national diving and water polo teams.
In August 2008, former UT head football coach Phillip Fulmer endowed $250,000 for the Dave Parrington Tennessee Diving Scholarship. The gift was a token of gratitude for Parrington's many years coaching Fulmer's daughter and former Lady Vol diver Brittany.
In the summer of 2009, Parrington married former UT swimming and diving massage therapist Marie Wilson. She has been a part of the program for nine years and is a Knoxville, Tenn., native. She has three children Jeff, Brent and Derek and five grandchildren Emily, Zachary, Camille, Blake, Maggie and DJ.


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Thanks for posting the review! I'll keep my ears open to what folks are saying about them and maybe in a year or so I'll pick one up if things stay positive and Ruger continues to work through their current issues.
Plan B
This is a discussion on Ruger LCP Initial Impressions within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I picked up the Ruger LCP yesterday, and have messed around with it a bit now: My initial impressions of it are quite favorable so ...
I picked up the Ruger LCP yesterday, and have messed around with it a bit now:
My initial impressions of it are quite favorable so far - I've run several magazines of 10 different .380 ACP loads through it, and all fed just fine. I have about 250 rounds through it so far. (Why do I have 10 different types of ammo on-hand, you ask? From trying to get a balky Walther PPK dialed in...)
It's about the same size as a Walther TPH, but lighter, and more powerful. It fits in the pocket just fine, and there are a variety of pocket holsters for it available, either generic "small auto" ones, or custom-made ones. It doesn't need much special, I'm using a DeSantis Nemesis for it, which is just about right for my needs. Most Keltec P3AT holsters should work fine, by some strange coincidence...
The sights are dreadful, bordering upon useless if you attempt to use them in the normal manner. I'm going to put some sort of white paint on the front one, and call it a day, this is not a long-distance weapon.
The trigger is about 8 pounds, has a long revolver-like pull, and has some jerky bits during its travel. The final break is very crisp and clean however. The combination of the primitive sights, the size of the weapon, and the trigger make this very much a close-range weapon for me. By comparison, I can print decent groups at 25 yards with the Walter TPH, Walther PPK, or SIG P232, whereas I was getting 6" groups with the LCP. Some part of this is likely an interaction between it being a new gun, the short sight radius, and my new bifocals :-)
It only comes with one magazine, and they don't seem to be really shipping spare magazines yet in any volume.
By comparison to all the other pocket/mouse guns I experiment with: J-frame, PPK, SIG P232, Walther PPS, Walther TPH, Glock 26 - this one is a quantum level smaller - it hides in your pocket with almost no sign or feeling that it is there. It feels more like having a Spyderco Endura in your pocket than a gun. This is truly a toss-in-your-pocket pistol, and gives you 7 shots of .380 ACP ready to go. The main downside for me compared to the others is that it will not be as useful at longer ranges - the Walther TPH, for instance, I'd be perfectly happy carrying hiking as a kit gun for rabbit/squirrel action, this Ruger is much more limited. It also cannot be fired from within the pocket with nearly as good a result as the J-frame.
The LCP has removed any lingering desire I have to pick up a Seecamp or Rohrbaugh - this is small enough for my deep-concealment desires, costs < $300, and seems very reliable and unfussy so far.
If you need/want something very small and concealable, and can accept a .380 ACP, it's well worth checking this little fellow out.
Thanks for posting the review! I'll keep my ears open to what folks are saying about them and maybe in a year or so I'll pick one up if things stay positive and Ruger continues to work through their current issues.
Plan B
Your review seems to be in line with the other range reports. At least the impressions are consistent.
Thanks for the report. If I could ever find one, I am planning on picking one up. That is after I maybe get that XD.
Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse or Rapture....whichever comes first.
I called every dealer in a 50 mile radius. Not one of them has even seen one, let alone placed an order. I really have a desire to get one. After the bad go around with a Kel Tech that my Uncle and I had this is the normal progression. I hope to get my hands on one before the end of the year.
God Bless America!!
I was fortunate to put a good number of rounds thru the LCP even before the SHOT show. I was thoroughly impressed. After about 500 or so, the thing still felt good and was not uncomfortable like my P32 KelTec.
Time to seel the P32 and get the LCP
Let us know what it's like a year from now...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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NRA Life Member
Cannot locate one in my usual places I shop,but I can wait till the frenzy is over...
Good write up. Thanks for the review.
I've been wanting to see one of the little Rugers in person also, sounds like a reliable weapon that can be purchased at a reasonable cost. That's good!!
"There is no problem that cannot be solved through the proper use of high explosives"
G. Alan Foster
Good to hear some more opinions on the new pistol.
In God we trust, everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.
Rights are like muscles: If you don't excersise them they slowly disappear.
I am like the rest - waiting for a dealer in my area to receive a shipment of a truly fine pistol. This little jack-a-doodle just may prove to be one of the best pocket pistols ever!
Thanks for the report and keep us posted will you?
thanks for the review...I am sure one will finds its way to my safe in the near future...
just like stray cats...I have put out some fresh .380 ammo, and a bowl of clean hoppes...I am sure one will show up.
--people ask why I carry, and I show them this picture. I think it says it all.--
NRA Certified Instructor--many disciplines
Ditto on most of the observatins posted. I stumbled on to one quite by accident at the Cabela's in neighboring Minnesota, bought it immediately (because I've been on four lists for nearly two months without any encouragement) and have run about five different kinds of ammo through it, including Federal HSTs (?) and GDHPs, which are currently my choice for carry ammo.
Very reliable and very impressive compared to the three KT 380s I've tried to make work over the last 2-3 years. I also got rid of a PF9 to help finance the transition. Now, I'm back to a G26 for cold weather and the Ruger for warm weather. I think a G17 with 19 rounds will work for the car and a G23 with 14 rounds will work for home duties. Can't wait for the regional IDPA shoots to have BUGs for the side matches. I'll probably be there testing the Ruger and the Glocks (in the main match).
After sitting on the sidelines since 2005, I finally joined the IDPA and shot the classified (landed in the Sharpshooter division with some timely advice from a friend who is ranked as a Master) on Saturday. Good fun with about 25 other shooters and great practice with handguns in general and a shotgun side match that revealed some deficiencies in my brand new Rem 870 HD 12 gauge.
Enjoy the Ruger and keep working on proficiency with the primary carry guns. I'll keep shooting the G26 in competition even though I get kicked on the long shots.
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Richard's N.American Photoblog
Saturday 7th July
Here are those Oakland show shots I promised...
This one is clickable...
London / Wednesday 4th July
another big photo catch up...
Salt Lake City
Here's a clickable crowd shot...
Another clickable one...
Here's ace support band Kiev.
San Francisco
I'll have the San Francisco show pics later this week
Oakland / Saturday 30th June
lots of catching up to do...
This one is clickable....
Day off in Lincoln, Nebraska
we drove past a massive amusement park called "Six Flags"
Another clickable one...
We went for a beer with Patrick and the band - Jesse found a newspaper full of photos of criminals with info about their convictions. This struck us as quite odd.
Yes, I am listening to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as I upload this blog
I love my coffee... these people do it very very well:
The wonderful Patrick Watson:
Clickable crowd shot...
see the website story on the Tour Posters to see some photos from in Hatch Show Print - this place is a proper old-school print shop, and one of the most amazing places I have ever been. And they had cats.
the above poster is made from this:
which is made of these:
and printed with these colours:
which are made in-house like this:
If you ever go to Nashville, you simply must got to Hatch Show Print - it's on Broadway, right in the middle of things.
Just as I thought Nashville couldn't get any cooler, it did... we went to United Record Pressing, where we recorded a 4-track acoustic session, entirely analogue - mixed straight onto tape with no electronic effects whatsoever - the reverb was recorded with a speaker and microphone in a stairwell, and the delay was a tape-delay running while we recorded. Much of the equipment belongs to long-time friend of ours, Mr Brendan Benson, and we were really happy that he dropped by to catch up. We'll do a story on the recording at some point, but we recorded 4 tracks, two of which we have never played before in any form.
United Record Pressing is another magical place - they manufacture vinyl albums here, including the Vinyl version of Strangeland. I took about a million photos, so I'll get on with it.
this is the master for one side of Strangeland, from which the records are pressed:
they even print the labels here themselves:
bags of resin waiting to become records:
in machines like this:
the writing is reversed on the master so it comes out the right way around on the record:
we recorded to the machine on the left, and the one on the right ran the tape delay.
Nashville show, at the Marathon Music Works. This photo looks like I was taking a risk, but this was a freight line, and the trains are slow-moving, and you can hear (and feel and see) them coming from miles away. Don't try this at home, kids.
We were gutted when, 8 or so songs into the set, the venue's transformer (outside) caught fire, and the PA inside failed. Whilst there was no danger to anyone, it couldn't be fixed, so Silenced by the Night was the last song, though the crowd heroically finished the song without the music (just the acoustic drums!). I did remember to take a photo, so here you all are, and sorry!
different tour, same beautiful skyline:
Montreal / 18th June
border crossing...
great cafe behind the venue
Keane tickets, anyone?
squirrels live here!
This one is clickable...
Philadelphia / 16th June
this next pic should be clickable to open large (unless I have done something wrong)
NYC / 15th June
stained-glass water tower:
Leaving NY for N. Bethesda / 14th June
we happened to drive past a display by the Blue Angels
N Bethesda show
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NYC / 13th June
Boston / 12th June
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amazing photos Richad !!
Grazie Richard per queste due nuove foto dal teatro di Oakland, anche questo è molto spazioso, elegante e raffinato, poi è bellissima la foto cliccabile, come sempre mi diverto a guardare tutto da vicino e vedere voi in primo piano! Io stamattina sono andata un pò in spiaggia, c'era un vento caldo, si stava bene solo in acqua, infatti mi sono fatta una bella nuotata lunga, ora mi sento meglio! Un abbraccio caro Richard da Sabrina dalla Sicilia !!! A presto e alle prossime foto!
Hey guys, I got my tickets for Berlin, its gonne be a great evening. Can´t wait. Lets gonne be November!!!Greets
Rich, why you didn't take a pic of the Temple in Salt Lake City?, I was waiting for that :/
YAY The Oakland picture came out great!!! I miss you guys already :( But I'm making every effort to see you guys in Amsterdam and Bologna :D :D :D
Thanks, Richard!! I always love your photos :D
Oooh Rich, around the twenthy pic I still knew what to say about my favs, but now after more than, I don't know, hundreds of them, I have only one thought in my head, I just can't get enough of your pics... Even like that I still must comment about the one of the little house in Nashville is lovely and that round shiny structure, I don't know what is, but is beaaaautiful, looks like a giant drop of water in the middle of the square. That's it, keep the good work and joy in your soul, kisses!
Am I the only person, who upon first glance at a few of these comment, seeing SLC (meaning Salt Lake City, I assume), keeps thinking they're talking about 'Sovereign Light Cafe'?
This is great!! Hope the tour is going fabulously! Found myself in the LA picture!!
Thanks Richard, I was attending the Orpheum Theater show, And I have to tell you that was awesome to be there. This was my seventh concert. Since I met Keane, I am always following Keane, sending you the best wishes for you to have peace in your lives and health to be strong and that you have lots of love to still be good friends and to have your families content. Thanks to you Rich, Tim, Tom and Jesse for a great show, for all the feelings you inspire with Strangeland. -eve-
ISA, from Brasil, Sao Paulo **** Loved the new pics, "watch your step" is my favourite! Thank you, Rich and all the best! Lots of love to my favourite band! XXXXXX
Ciao Richard, che bello, nuove foto dal vostro tour in America! Molto carino il posto dove avete suonato a Salt Lake City, un palcoscenico all'aperto di fronte a quei bellissimi palazzi, wow! Mi è piaciuto anche il teatro di Los Angeles, molto elegante e spazioso, quanta gente c'era! Sono contenta che metti queste foto cliccabili, si possono ingrandire tanto e guardare tutto nei minimi dettagli,è divertente ed interessante, bravo Rich! Tropo carina la foto dell'Hotel California, mi ricorda la celebre canzone degli Eagles che adoro!!!Sai, ieri sera sono stata a Giardini Naxos a trovare una mia zia che si trova in vacanza qui in Sicilia, mi ha fatto vedere la spiaggia dove va in questi giorni, è stupenda... sabbia finissima e mare cristallino e un panorama con Taormina di fronte troppo suggestivo!!! Un abbraccio Richard, a presto! Sabrina da Catania, Sicily!!!
I can see me and sister in the Chicago shot! Whoo hoo! What an incredible show that was. Keane, you are amazing! Love these photos!!!
Hola chicos. felicidades por estar en N.American. Sois unos cracks. Tim, he escuchado Strangeland todo un proyecto de futuro, The Boys sonido beatles, medlodia que anima i positiva i Is it not true para mi es jazz. Me gustaria saber tu opinión de esta cancion. Tu eres el compositor. Espero que sigas tan receptivo, cariñoso, sonriente i cálido. Ojalá pudieras firmar mi piano en un lateral. I como no que nos invitaras a mi i a mi marido i a mi profesora de piano al estudio de Sea Fog. El dia que aprenda con la mano izquierda a tocar con la clave de Fa habra anochecido. Des de Barcelona un fort petó. Marisa.
muy bonitas imagenes Sr.Hughes! USA is really an amazing country to take pics, eh? It´s good you go flying there, so I can safe me this long 9 hours (?) flight trip (never been to USA, too long this flight for me). So, thanks very much! I must say to the venues-pics: really lovely venues, doesn´t really fit to the New World....and how amazing the Salt Lake City venue as open air place. Very cool for summer and not too big! Did I miss this time a timelapse-video? No worries. Take a well deserved rest.
LOVE the SLC crowd pic! That was the best gig of the tour as I'm sure you would agree.... The LA crowd shot is awesome too, what a fun gig! I miss you boys already *sobs* I wish our time together never ended :(
Thank you so much Richard! I love the clickable crowd shots--and can see myself in the one from Chicago!!! Cheers!
Very cute your photoblog. I hope to come to Peru soon. Greetings from a small city called Chiclayo.
Thank you for sharing so many beautiful and colorful photos! I love all the DUMBO shots... it's the best vantage point to view the Manhattan skyline. I guess dedicated crime blotters are not common on your side of the pond (unfortunately they are in certain areas in the US, and I heard it's one of the profitable areas in newspaper publishing). Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed North America and come back to tour again soon!! I had a great time at your NYC and Philly shows. P.S. Can't wait to hear those 2 new songs that were recorded in Nashville!
Mr. Hughes!...I've missed your blog!...found the pictures (and the process) ot the United Record Pressing quite interesting... cant wait to hear what that will sound like....nice Charger!! and the men on the motorcyle...well"That's just not right.. enjoy your cold brew and your rings!!
LOL at the sign for the Lincoln Center- like that's going to stop anybody!
@Annette M, it seems to me bands like Keane, who make deep, emotional, thoughtful music, are going to be liked mostly by people who have a more serious approach to life (not boring though) rather than people who think life's all about having fun, doing whatever they want, and being crazy. but this is just my thought on the matter. My dad (who is not a Keane Fan, but he doesn't dislike them) is the one who took me, and after the concert he was quite impressed and said Tom had one of the best voices he had ever heard! Which, in my mind, proves that Tom really is one of the best singers, and it's not just fans who think that! Just thought I'd add that last part! haha!
Thank you Richard for this update of the US Tourblog! I'm always so excited to see your pictures of the crowd, especially when I'm IN the crowd :P - I loved the picture of Milwaukee by night, it's such a beautiful city, and I enjoyed so much the weather there (and the show of course!). Nashville is nice as well, but the it was so hot, my god, queueing was a nightmare. I especially enjoyed the photos from Hatch Show Print and United Record Pressing, I already got the poster, I can't wait the vinyl to be released! I actually only buy your vinyls for collection now, since I don't have a record player here in Houston, so I hope we will be able to download those 4 tracks in mp3 as well. A huge thank you to all of you for this amazing website, to the band for sharing with your fans all the magic and the beauty of your new record (and of all the oldies performed during the tour). I will always remember my 4 concerts of this tour, I will remember Scott, and the sad moments following the shocking news about the accident in Canada, I will remember the happy memories of all the lovely fans I met, and I will keep celebrating life and music with your songs. Lots of love, Simona.
I hope we can hear those new tracks soon!
Laurelizabeth - Keane fans are for most really nice - my partner always says that whenever I drag him along to Keane concert (he loves them too -but doesn't like forking out money for anything) but hes done it 3 times for KEane this year so they must be good!
very special your photos best whishes from Chile Yo estaré esperándolos cuando retornen a Sudamérica de nuevo!! Saludos.
Dear Keane- Richard, great photos of Chicago. I see myself with little Natalie in the balcony. Thanks for the photos with Natalie after the show. I won't post those photos online, they are just for her to keep. Keep up the great work. Theresa
Just one second today, to enjoy , to jump and to shout out loud that WE DID IT AGAIN!!! SPAIN wins again the Eurocup!! what a generation of players! wow.....
Hola, chicos. Os agradezco las fotos por el tour por Estados Unidos. Es genial que podáis estar por estas tierras y llevar vuestra música tan bien hecha y de ritmo muy agradable para los oídos. Me hubiera gustado más fotos que salgáis vosotros. Bien, supongo que pronto estaréis por Europa. Que suerte poder estar all the world. Des de Barcelona, un peto ben gros. Marisa. Tim, estoy leyendo partituras que me cuesta un huevo, pero poco a poco voy haciendo. Ahora se me acaba el alquiler del piano y hemos decido comprar a plazos un piano Yamaha B3 con silence. Para mi eres un modelo a seguir. Te aprecia.
You have good eyes. Great shots!!
Thanks for all these pics, Richard. I used the one of the stained-glass window as my wallpaper
Amazing pics, hope you have had a great time xx
woohoo I'm so happy to see more amazing pics Richard!!
beautiful pictures!! Thank you Richard for sharing us these amazing photos :D Greetings from Chile.
Grazie di cuore Richard per queste nuove foto del vostro tour in America, sono tutte meravigliose! Mi è piaciuto tanto vedervi mentre registravate le canzoni sul vinile, è stata proprio un'idea brillante!!! La musica sul vinile ha un fascino particolare! Io finalmente sono in vacanza, oggi sono stata un pò al mare e ho fatto il primo bagno della stagione, l'acqua era limpida e non troppo fredda, meno male! Adesso mi sto divertendo un mondo a guardare tutte le immagini che hai messo caro Rich! Un salutone a tutta la band da Sabrina from Catania, Sicily!!!
Rich, rocks. Best photos ever. Beijos, Regina.
suitede mon message ** je vous souhaites pleins d'autres moments de BONHEUR avec vos fans pour les prochains shows*** merçi pour le cours!! (comment fabriquer un vinyl))) je vous adoreeeeeeeeeeeee
SALUT RICHARD** A chaques nouveaux continents la même émotions ; la découverte de nouveaux horizons mais aussi l'amour du partage à travers Tes photos tu nous invites à profiter de tous ses instants magiques que vous vivaient durant cette fantastique tournée** comme toujours tes photos sont magnifiques surtout celles de MONTREAL** le fleuve qui pour la nuit a mit ses habits couleurs et de lumieres *j'adore on dirait une aquarelle
ISA, from Brasil, Sao Paulo **** Wow, lots of new photos, thank you! If you really come to Sao Paulo opening Maroon 5 show (well, I do have to say the fans are not thinking that was a good idea... anyway....) ask someone to take you, Rich, to the neighbourhood called Vila Madalena, nearby Vila Ida and Vila Beatriz, you will find lots of interesting things to photograph, I guess! Great areas to take a walk, indeed! Lots of love! XXXXX
I wanna that bike ; )
Old trains *_* When you are in São Paulo(Brazil), visit Paranapiacaba. There are many beautiful old trains too :)
Amazing photos Rich!! I loving the Nashville vinyl recording photos *__* Kisses from Brazil
Never thought I would see Maurice "the Rocket" Richard here in a photoblog (hey, he's your tocayo, Rich!)! The Monarch Butterfly (incredible long distance migrant), the peace bus, el gato, and 'we (the village) believe that differences should enrich rather than divide' were my favs. Saw y'all in Toronto, still on a high from the show!
This is not a country that I like so the cat and the butterfly stole my attention in the first pictures, but the photo of the cat is wonderful, to me a hard time taking a good picture of my cats is very difficult :(
I went to my first Keane concert on June 25th in Denver. I look forward to it for a long time, and it feels like the time's going by slower than usual. I get to the day of the concert and minutes feel like hours. I haven't been to many concerts and I don't quite know what to expect from this one. We eat dinner and FINALLY it's time to go! I sit in the car, hardly able to contain my excitement! We get closer and closer...I see it! The Paramount Theatre on the left, and I see the word KEANE! this is it! As we wait for the door to open I see something I've actually know very few of, Keane fans, people who know the same songs that I have memorized by heart! People who would actually know what Bedshaped meant (maybe), who would want to go to England just to go to a little cafe by the sea, who would take a picture and have the caption be the lyrics to a Keane song, people who think Tim Rice-Oxley is a genius and Tom Chaplin is the best singer in the world! We're let in and we find our seats and wait......wait for the thing to start. The opening band, Kiev, get on stage, and they're pretty good. I find the guy playing the saxophone very amusing to watch. They end, but now they have to set up the stage for Keane. It seems to take forever, but then they come on! To see a band that I love for the first time in person! To see Tom, Tim, Richard, and Jesse standing so close! They start the night off with 'You are Young' and it's unbelievable! That voice, that perfect voice, so full of emotion...amazing! 'Day will Come' is next and it's such a fun song, but it's not an empty song, like so many artist these days make. 'Nothing In My Way' brings back memories of a friend that lives on the other side of the world, and I love the ending, it's so fun to sing along to! When that Strangeland sign lights up and then they play the song of the same name (or atleast part of it)...oh man! I love that song! I hear the beginning of 'On The Road', and I know this is gonna be great. It seems to me that it must be a fun one to play, as well as sing, and from watching Tom durning this song, it appears he really is having fun! Next, a song that's so beautiful, I hear 'A Bad Dream' and I feel like cheering! That's a song I was really hoping to hear! 'Perfect Symmetry', a song from an album that I feel lots of fans don't appreciate as much as they should. I love 'Spiralling', 'Better Than This', 'You Haven't Told Me Anything', and quite a few others. I hear People getting excited as the start of 'Everybody's Changing' is played. 'My Shadow' has that part that I like so much! "cause when your back's against the wall, that's when you show no fear at all, and when you're running out of time, that's when you hitch your star to mine" I could listen to over and over again. Yes! 'Bend and Break' is up next! I try to film it so I can show it to a friend, but my camera runs out of space before I get to the part of the song I wanted to get. 'Leaving So Soon?' sounds great! Now a song I fell in love with the first time I heard it, 'The Starting Line'. That powerful chorus! No wonder Tom likes it so much. Trying to sing along to 'Disconnected' is well...it's a bit lower than I normally sing, then it suddenly changes, and all of the sudden it gets high. But Tom sings it wonderfully! And here comes a Tim Rice-Oxley masterpiece, 'This is the Last Time'! Sing along time! Yes, it's 'Somewhere Only We Know'. I know everybody likes this song, but I can help but call it my favourite. All the memories that come flooding back when I hear this song. When it ends, the applause is just awesome! I must say 'Is it Any Wonder?' is quite entertaining to watch! 'Bedshaped'! The song I listen to on rainy days...this song is...absolutely fantastic! 'Sovereign Light Cafe', the highlight of the knew record, as well a cafe that's I'm proud to say I've been to! The crowd start clapping when the bridge comes, so I join in. The band exits the stage, but there has to be an encore. They come back on but the drummer's not there. I know what song is coming now! 'Sea Fog'. Tom's voice, the piano, the backing vocals, all of it is enough to get me teary-eyed. The song ends, and here comes Richard! He takes a picture of the crowd! Richard's awesome! I knew 'Silenced By the Night' had to be somewhere, and here it is. It might not be my favourite, but it's great live! To end the night with a bang, 'Crystal Ball'! Perfect finish to and amazing night! I sang every word of every song! But I would have liked to hear 'Hamburg Song', 'Spiraling' 'You Haven't Told Me Anything', 'Better Than This' (which is practically my theme song. I sing it anytime I'm not doing that great on something). On Second thought, I would've liked most all of their songs to be played. As we get back in the car and drive home, I feel strangely sad and happy at the sane time. That was one of the most fun things I've done! Ever! But it's over, I don't know if or when I'll get to see them live again. It was over too soon! We get home and i'm asked how the concert was. "it was awesome!" I tell them. Tom's voice! I can't get over how beautifully flawless that voice is! And as a Christian going to a secular concert, I have to say, I was impressed! There was nothing crude, the crowd was a good group of people, not annoying people you just don't want to be around. Someone asks me if I want to go again. My answer? YES! they reply, "but you just got back." so my response is "I know, But I could have listened to them play every single song of theirs and I'd still be singing along at the end!" Just thought I'd give a bit of encouragement to the band!
Not to be a spoilsport, but I was waiting outside at the Montreal show for more than 5 hours with my husband, and we saw not Richard taking some of those photos (including the one of the scalper) but another man. I wondered how Richard was able to sneak around unnoticed taking all those photos and now I know: he has a helper, at least for some! meanwhile the show was awesome and I am so glad to have been able to see it!
I really love your by night photography, especially the one of that building. The light is very pretty! And the big fisheyes of the concerts are cool as always! :-)
Rich, it's hard to choose the best pic, they're amazing! Congrats! Beijos, Regina.
Great pictures! My friend and I were at the Strathmore show in N. Bethesda. It was AMAZING....absolutely brilliant! Richard, we were so excited that we got to meet you and Tim after the show, you were both so nice (she said to say thanks for getting in the photo with her and the cool-looking security guard, that was pretty awesome of you). Can't wait to see you guys again when you come back to the D.C. area.....which will be soon, I hope!
I love all your photos, Richard. Can't wait to see shots from the mini concert in Nashville. :) It was so nice to meet you and give you the scarves as a token of my appreciation for all that you do for us. Keane music brings me joy. Thank you so much.
Awesome pics! Cant wait to see the concert at the Fox Oakland! So excited!!
This pictures are amazing, Richard! ----- People, as you know Keane are coming to Brazil to play with Maroon 5 in august! But the brazilian fans also wants a solo gig! Some fans made a video begging to the band come as soon as they can to play here again! If you support us, please use the hashtag #KeaneOnly on your twitter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfe9yvnL3Kw&feature=youtu.be Thank you!
ISA, from Brasil, Sao Paulo *** WOW, lots of new photos that I did not notice they were here before! Great, indeed, thank you for sharing, Rich, I will post on my facebook page the one with the cat, with the credits to you, of course! Have a nice week! Thabnk you again! XXXXX
Hey, Rich! Lovely photoblog =) I loved the squirrels, the cat, the stone fox and the butterfly!! PLEASE, COME TO CHILE!! WE NEED SPECIAL SESSIONS TOO!! HUGE HUGS FROM CHILE =)
Great pictures with a good artistic eye but on reflection i'd rather be in Sussex!! x
Wow, quante bellissime foto caro Richard! Ti ringrazio tantissimo per aver aggiornato il tuo Photoblog con queste immagini dall'America, come sempre, mi sembra di essere in viaggio insieme a voi, è un bel modo per sentirvi più vicino a noi! Ho gradito molto le foto dove si vedono gli scoiattoli sui palazzi, il gatto sdraiato con quell'aria tutta coccolona e anche quella dove ti vedi tu riflesso nel cerchione della ruota mentre scatti la fotografia, è troppo originale! Ti mando un abbraccio Richard, sei sempre bravissimo nel fare le foto, complimenti!!! P.S. Sai, i miei alunni violinisti hanno terminato Sabato scorso gli esami di terza media, ora mi rimangono solo gli scrutini e poi dovrei essere un pò libera da impegni, così potrò anche andare un pò al mare!Sabrina da Catania, Sicily!
Thanks Richard for the photoblog, makes me feel like I'm back in Montreal..... BTW how did you manage to take a photo of my cat Lily...LOL this kitty looks just like her, spooky! Enjoy the rest of your trip!
SALUT RICHARD ***je suis trés heureuse de voire que l'ambiance est la même dans chaque show peu importe le pays dans lequel vous vous trouvez !!!****************** le même BONHEUR de partager avec vous quelques heuresà CHANTER* /DANSER toutes ses magnifiques chansons ****un grand MERCI a toi pour l'invitation au voyage que tu nous propose a travers tes superbes photos****** tu es vraiment ADORABLE !!! ECLATEZ VOUS avec vos fans !!!***** je vous adoreeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I cant wait for see photos of Mexico!!!! I love you!!
I adore your photos Richard! Thank you so much for posting! I can't wait to see the Chicago pics!! It was so wonderful meeting you outside the venue! And your show was amazing!!! I loved it!!!
Some great pics from Montreal....really diverse...love the pink baubles pic...and kitty, of course....Eager to see Chicago pics...Sherry W., Michigan, USA...@sambawoman
Fantastic photos, as always. I love your photos, and so look forward to seeing them. I've been having withdrawals since the Boston and New York shows! Seeing you lovely boys live is one of the greatest experiences of my life, I can't thank you guys enough! Much love always!
Hi keaneeeeeeeeee♥♥ Thanks so much!!! this is beautiful,fantastic!!thanks!!! We love you so muchhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!forever!!!!! good luck!!!
Thank you guys for the amazing performance in N. Bethesda! I had such an amazing time! Hope you guys come back as soon as possible! Love you!
Que lindas fotos richi eres un gran fotografo... los esperamos ya con mucho entusiasmo en mexico.. l love keane... arriba mexico... arriba keane ♥♥♥
If I only I had been there 6 months after the last time I wento to NYC I had seen you guys! Nice pics... I hope you come to Colombia soon... we're waiting :)
Amazing captures Richard!!
I missed these photo blogs! Thanks for uploading some photos, Richard! I'm anxious to see a Jesse's one :D Loves you so much, Bárbara from Buenos Aires.
Thank you so much !!! And please come to Kyiv, Ukraine!!!!!!
I LOVE YOUR PICS RCH!!!!!!!! kisses from mexico ♥
Oh my gosh, I wish I could have seen Keane in New York City! That would have been incredible. The pictures look fantastic and it seems like you guys are enjoying yourselves very much! I bet coming to America is a big culture shock considering you guys were born and raised in the UK. I'm counting down the days until you come to Vancouver :)
Richard, thank you so much for all the amazing pictures you share with us! With huge respect and love, Ana
Richard, the pictures are amazing - thank you for sharing. Enjoy the rest of your tour x
I'm so happy to see The Frog Prince Squad's flag at the front row of Keane concerts around the world again \o/ Next time I want to see it in South America aaaaaaand Brazil-il-il :-DDD
Pics are now clickable & working, thanks. I really like those venues with balconies remembers me of Shepherd´s Bush & Brixton Academy in London. They look like theaters, but also they do gigs in them or only gigs nowadays? I also like the nightshots, but where´s the book-shop with the cats¿?
THANKS RICHARD!! I've been waiting ever so patiently for this... but the crowd pics don't open like they normally do CHEERS BOYS!
@richardkeane you take awsome shoots i love all of them,thanks thanks for sharing them with us !!! *=D
Brilliant pictures, as always. I like the fact that you "focus" on such lovely (and funny) details sometimes. I loved the pictues of the crowd of course :P I don't think I can spot myself in the stage-pic you took in Philadelphia, someting is wrong with the clickable version, but in any case I was so far from the stage.... Thanks for being so nice to spend part of your day-off uploading pics for us :D I can't wait to see Milwaukee and Nashville blog :P Thanks for sharing your "visual" memories!! Love, Simona
I wasn´t in Boston, but the crowd pic is obviously not clickable. My laptop says: 404 requested Url not found. Just saying. Yup, my life is now complete. I like the butterfly pic & the Leuchtschriftzug (I´m too lazy to google for the right english word for it) well, the pic with the sign of the Beacon Theater with the twitter-logo is really awesome. I guess only in USA possible, etc. Cheers!
Swedish? Seriously? Wow.
Bless you, Richard! You guys were absolutely mind-blowing every second of the Chicago show! Thank you for everything. Some of the clickable pictures are showing up as 'ERROR' just to let you know! Can't wait for the rest! Hope you're all safe and having fun!
I can't open a larger version of the Boston crowd, and my sister and I are in the front row!! :( Amazing photos!
Absolutely love traveling with you, Richard! Thanks ever so much for sharing!!!...Sherry W., Michigan, USA.
Richard - I'm on the wrong blog - but the reason you got such a good response in the UK (bllimey even Peter Kay turned up - wish I had gone to Manchester just for that). Is that KEane was on fire. Tell tim all his new songs are brilliant and thats why they got such a good reception! I like the banter that comes out of Tom (oh yeah and that amazing singing) and it gets even better when you join in! And the next time you tour I'm going to book more shows becos you give it 100%. I took my kids and one of them is now a convert! There were also a young couple of 15 behind me so you are defintely attracting younger fans. You should join the queue becos your fans are so varied its a priviledge to be standing with them.
LOVE the photoblog Rich!! Just wrapped up the best Keane week ever with shows in Toronto, Chicago and Milwaukee...thank you thank you thank you..can't wait to see the rest of the photos from the road :)


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Answer: Both may affect the way businesses determine what constitute appropriate security measures.
In February, Senators Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins, John D. Rockefeller IV, and Dianne Feinstein introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. The intent of the Act is to give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) additional power to set cyber security standards for private companies that operate the nation's critical infrastructure. Simply speaking, the intent of the bill is to:
- Identify risk via cooperation between DHS and private corporations
- Protect critical infrastructure (although what exactly constitutes critical infrastructure is yet to be defined)
- Improve information sharing about security issues and events between DHS and private corporations
According to the Homeland Security Website: "The bill would authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security, together with the private sector, to determine cyber security performance requirements based upon the risk assessments. The performance requirements would cover critical infrastructure systems and assets whose disruption could result in severe degradation of national security, catastrophic economic damage, or the interruption of life-sustaining services sufficient to cause mass casualties or mass evacuations. The bill would only cover the most critical systems and assets in a given sector, and only if they are not already being appropriately secured."
The website goes on, "Owners of "covered critical infrastructure" would have the flexibility to meet the cybersecurity performance requirements in the manner they deem appropriate. The private sector also would have the opportunity to develop and propose performance requirements for "covered critical infrastructure."
In this regard, if this bill is passed, companies that operate anything that might be lumped into the category of critical infrastructure (i.e. financial, energy, food, medical, healthcare, etc.) may need to rethink their risk tolerance, security engineering methodologies and security operations practices. If your company does operate critical infrastructure, the Department of Homeland Security may soon police your security engineering efforts.
Coincidentally, the Insurance industry is also affecting how Security Admins determine appropriate security measures for their companies. Cyber insurance was created to protect the interests of companies in the event of a loss due to a variety of different issues including data breaches, cyber-extortion, content liability, penalties for civil actions resulting from failure to comply with a specific regulation, virus liability, cyber terrorism, loss of income due to hacking, DOS attacks, etc. While cyber insurance may be worthwhile, as those of us with homeowners or automobile Insurance know, insurance policies always contain a list of exclusions.
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Given that Security Admins are paid to take "reasonable" security measures, it's hard to imagine how these exclusions will be interpreted in the event of a breach. Only an attorney can determine the actual impact of these exclusions. Ultimately, Security Admins are compelled to work with their legal department and other business areas to ensure that their Cyber Insurance policy provides coverage in the event of a breach. In this regard, insurance companies may influence your security engineering efforts, as well.
In a recent trade show, an attendee told me that his company was forced to purchase Cyber Insurance. When I asked him why, he indicated that one of his customers required Cyber Insurance as a condition of doing business with them. This customer understood that a prerequisite to determining which Cyber Insurance policy was appropriate was to involve business data owners who are best prepared to determine the risk associated with their area of interest. Many companies have recognized the value of including business areas and specifically data owners in security engineering planning.
The Cyber Security Act of 2012 and Cyber Insurance are two motivating factors which will encourage companies to better understand risk and tolerance, and foster cooperation between IT security and data owners.


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Summer Session 2014 classes begin the week of June 30 and continue through Aug. 10, unless otherwise noted in the class schedule that will be posted online. Foothill will also offer its Early Summer Session, which runs June 9-July 18. California residents pay $31 per unit plus basic fees; fees are due at the time you register.
Registration Instructions—For registration instructions, access www.foothill.fhda.edu/admissions.php or your MyPortal.fhda.edu account.
Find the Information You Want Fast—Find information quickly by using the Foothill College website, including the comprehensive MyPortal.fhda.edu gateway, class schedule and course catalog. Use these online resources to link to specific Foothill webpages for additional information about programs, support services, courses and more. You can also get answers to many of your questions about attending Foothill College by using the free AskFoothill online information service. The college no longer prints a class schedule. For the most accurate, current course listings always access the searchable class schedule that will be available online. You'll also be able to view or download a PDF version to print pages at www.foothill.edu. Be aware that course listing and footnote information may have changed.


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CANADA STOCKS-TSX rises to a 9-month high as mining stocks rally
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* TSX up 21.48 points, or 0.15 percent, to 14,075.22
* Eight of the TSX's 10 main groups were higher
TORONTO, May 26 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose to a fresh nine-month high on Thursday as mining stocks rallied, while stronger-than-expected earnings from the country's biggest bank by market value helped financials edge higher.
The materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, rose 1 percent.
Barrick Gold Corp climbed 1.3 percent to C$22.80, while Goldcorp Inc was up 1.6 percent at C$22.22.
Copper prices reached two-week highs, while spot gold edged 0.2 percent higher as the U.S. dollar's rally paused.
Canada's two largest lenders reported an increase in bad loans to oil and gas firms as low crude prices hurt energy sector borrowers and cut into banks' profits.
Still, financials rose 0.2 percent, led by a 1 percent advance in the shares of Royal Bank of Canada to C$80.05. It said net income excluding one-off items for the second quarter to April 30 was C$2.6 billion, or C$1.66 per share, better than the average estimate by analysts. Continued...