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MOVIESWest Nile virus-infected mosquitoes found in Menlo Park
In response to the discovery of adult mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus in Menlo Park on July 29, the San...Original post made on Jul. 30, 2015
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The $630 billion financial services industry is in talks with the Federal Government about a sweeping review of superannuation, life insurance and managed fund products held by up to 9 million Australians.
A panel of industry leaders is formulating a plan to review some 6000 products and cull, merge or restructure hundreds of them that are considered obsolete and duplicated.
Industry leaders, who meet in a committee named the "product rationalisation working group", claim that mergers and acquisitions among product providers and changing investor tastes have created a product archive that is expensive to maintain and inhibits innovation.
They are planning to meet with Ross Cameron, parliamentary secretary to the Treasurer, in the new year in a bid to re-energise proposals for law reforms that would enable the providers to make changes.
About 30 per cent of investment products are closed to investors and hundreds of others are not attracting new funds, or are uneconomic to maintain and regulate, according to industry specialists.
"It is important for the industry to have effective and efficient portfolios and for investors to have access to the most up-to-date and competitive product features," said Jo-Anne Bloch, deputy chief executive of the Investment & Financial Services Association.
Consumer groups say they are awaiting more details but want to ensure that any changes are done in the best interests of existing product holders by finding a formula that better suits their needs, without limiting rights.
The investment industry is believed to be looking for a model similar to that developed by the superannuation industry's "successor fund provisions" that enable the trustees of two merging superannuation funds to agree to a merger or acquisition based on achieving equivalent funds for scheme members.
Providers argue that the local industry requires scale to compete against larger international players but is being hamstrung by the costs of maintaining obsolete products.
Industry talks with the Federal Government are expected to focus on having product rationalisation agreed to as a key part of law reform, with possible amendments to corporate and investment law before the end of the year.
Controversial changes would include abolishing the need for providers to have majority or unanimous investor support through a meeting, which the industry considers costly, difficult to organise and usually not attended by investors.
There would also need to be changes to federal and state tax laws at both fund and investor levels.
In addition, regulators would need to be convinced that nothing had been done to diminish safeguards.
Industry experts admit that legal complexities will prevent some products from being altered while trying to match the investment mandates of similar products may prove difficult.
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The Beaches International Jazz Festival received some good news late Wednesday afternoon as Ontario's Minister of Tourism Culture and Sport, Michael Chan, announced the local event is on tap to receive a $75,000 grant from the Ontario Music Fund (OMF).

The new three-year, $45 million OMF, administered by the Ontario Media Development Corporation, is aimed at strengthening and stimulating growth in the province's music companies and supporting this growing sector.

"As we've said all along, we value the contribution of the Beaches Jazz Festival and have been a proud partner in their success over the years by providing funding through our various programs," Chan wrote in an email to The Mirror.

"In January, the Beaches Jazz Festival applied to the Ontario Music Fund and earlier this week was awarded a conditional grant of $75,000. This support will help the festival consolidate their performance stages and showcase a greater diversity of musicians and performers."

Chan said this latest funding infusion "good news for the Beaches Jazz Festival" as it "will help attract tourists and support Ontario's Live Music Strategy."

He also said Ministry staff would continue to work with Beaches Jazz organizers to find ways to ensure the event's continued success.

A formal announcement of all the successful Ontario Music Fund applicants is set to take place in the coming months.

"We're pleased and grateful we've received a conditional grant from the OMF," said Lido Chilelli, the festival's executive director, Thursday afternoon .

"It's coincidental that we got this $75,000 grant now."

Earlier this month, Chilelli was shocked to learn his 26th annual event would not be receiving a different $75,000 grant from Celebrate Ontario, a provincial program that helps new or existing festivals and events in Ontario enhance programs, activities and services that will lead to long-term improvements.

The Beaches International Jazz Festival had been awarded this funding for six consecutive years.

"It's a substantial hit, a big blow because all of a sudden we have to revisit our plans. With (Celebrate Ontario's) decision not to continue their support it's going to cause a lot of uncertainty," Chilelli said late last week, adding they'd actually applied to receive $120,000 from Celebrate Ontario as this year the format changed allowing groups/organizations to apply for a grant representing up to 20 per cent of their operating budget.

At this point, the Beaches International Jazz Festival isn't receiving a cent from Celebrate Ontario.

Despite receiving the $75,000 Ontario Music Fund grant, Chilelli said Beaches Jazz still needs to come up with at least $75,000 to go ahead with the stages and performances they'd planned for this summer.

"We're still facing challenges," he said, explaining the Ontario Music Fund grant must be used for specific areas, notably production.

Organizers of the Beaches Jazz Festival, which in 2012 was listed as one of the top 10 jazz festival in the world by MSN Entertainment, still have about three months to come up with a plan to mitigate the $75,000 shortfall.

Chilelli said he's confident a solution will be reached.

"We're working as a community to forge ahead and put on the best festival we can," he said, pointing to corporate sponsors and donations.

"It's obvious we have worldwide support."

Beaches-East York MPP Michael Prue, who called on Wynne to reinstate the Celebrate Ontario funding during March 19 Question Period at Queen's Park, said there have been no concrete assurances from the administrators of the Celebrate Ontario grant program that the $75,000 grant the Beaches International Jazz festival was counting on has been reinstated.

"In fact, the organizers met with senior Ministry staff yesterday (Wednesday, March 26) and were given no such assurances," he said in a March 27 statement.

"Although Ministry staff commented that the Festival formed an invaluable part of Ontario's music festival landscape, they were unable to comment as to why they felt that the festival did not fall within the parameters of their funding program – which was centered around bringing more and new tourism traffic to the city."

Prue said the monies the province is referring to are from a separate fund; the Ontario Music Fund, which the Beaches International Jazz Festival had applied for and received.

"The Festival was successful in receiving funding through this grant – along with, I'm assuming, a number of other music festivals/venues," he wrote, underlining the receipt of the Ontario Music Fund grant has "nothing to do with the issue at hand – the issue being the festival's non receipt of funding through Celebrate Ontario."

"It now appears to festival organizers and its supporters that the government has no intention of reinstating funding at whatever level for the festival for its 2014 season – and the issue remains outstanding," Prue said.

Joanna Katchutas, the curator of exhibitions for multi-arts and photography programs for the Beaches International Jazz Festival, has created a petition calling on Premier Kathleen Wynne to restore $75,000 in funding to the festival so it can continue to support Canadian artists, the community and Toronto's economy.

So far, upwards of 2,600 people have signed the petition, which can be found at http://chn.ge/Q8w70d


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Short Sales Restrictions and Kinks on the Mean Variance Frontier
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With a short sales restriction, there may be switching points along the mean variance frontier corresponding to changes in the set of assets held. Traditional wisdom holds that each switching point corresponds to a kink, while Ross has claimed that kinks never occur. This paper shows that the truth lies between the two views, since the efficient frontier may or may not be kinked at a switching point. There is some indication that kinks are rare, since a kink corresponds to a portfolio in which all assets have the same expected return.


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How to avoid that depleted feeling
By John Waggoner, USA TODAY
A quick Internet search will turn up dozens of calculators
that show how much you need to save for retirement. But most don't tell you
how much you can safely withdraw once you do retire so that you don't outlive
your money. In many ways, it's a knottier problem than saving for retirement.
Younger savers have time to adjust for underinvestment or disappointing returns.
Those who are living off their accumulated wealth have less flexibility.
For starters, financial advisers generally
recommend that you don't take more than 5% of your stash the first year after
you retire. You want to keep as much invested as possible. The power of compounding
means your earnings in your first years of withdrawal have a far bigger impact
than those in your later years.
Tap your
taxable funds first. You'll owe taxes on your capital gains at the rate
of 20%, or 18% for investments held more than five years.
Use your
IRAs or 401(k) plans next. The funds are taxed as ordinary income upon
withdrawal, so it's best to keep them in the tax-deferred accounts as
long as possible.
Dip into
your Roth IRAs last. Unlike traditional IRAs or 401(k) plans, Roth gains
are tax-free when you take distributions, provided you're at least 59
1/2 and you've had the account at least five years. Besides, your Roth
assets can go to your heirs tax-free.
Use that number merely as the starting point. The amount
of money you withdraw annually would depend not only on how much you've saved
but also on your lifestyle, inflation and, of course, the earnings on the untouched
portion of your money.
Consider the question of how much income you'll need. In
the past, you might have been told to aim for a retirement income equal to 70%
of what you earned while working. That assumption doesn't necessarily hold true
for more active retirees. It certainly doesn't apply to Margaret Schaefer, a
retired fifth-grade teacher in Dearborn, Mich. Like many other retirees, Schaefer,
64, has stepped up her traveling and that has boosted her overall spending.
Whether you can maintain your lifestyle depends on inflation
as well as your investment earnings. To see how much havoc inflation can wreak,
consider someone with a $500,000 retirement kitty who withdraws $25,000 a year.
If inflation averages 4% a year, that $25,000 will have the buying power of
$11,050 in 20 years.
You can adjust for inflation by increasing the amount you
withdraw by 4% or so each year. If you're earning healthy returns on your investment
say 10% a year you can do this and still count on having something
in the bank 35 years from now. For example, a retiree with $500,000 in a fund
that earns 10% a year can withdraw 5%, or $25,000, the first year and increase
that amount by 4% annually and still have $1.4 million saved by year 20. But
if the account earns just 5% a year, he may have to refrain from giving himself
a yearly inflation increase so his nest egg lasts longer. Otherwise, after 20
years, he'll have only $113,000 in his account.
The stock market's unpredictability makes calculations
more difficult. A few years ago it seemed reasonable to assume stocks would
deliver at least a 10% annual total return. That doesn't seem so reasonable
any more. If bond yields were in the high single-digits, that would take up
some of the slack. But with the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond at 5.4%, there's
little comfort there either.
If your retirement fund takes a big loss at the start of
your withdrawal period, the effects are devastating and long-lasting. Let's
say your $500,000 investment portfolio suffers a 35% loss in your first year
of retirement and then earns 11.5% for the next 29 years. If you withdraw 5%
in the first year and increase the amount by 4% annually, your bank balance
will be zero at the end of 30 years. But if the market takes the hit in year
5, you'll end the 30-year period with $870,000.
So what's a retiree to do? Apart from taking a hard look
at your spending, keep a cash reserve. Tap that first if the stock market slides
in your early retirement years. That way you conserve your investment. "That's
your ultimate safety net," says Malcolm Makin, a financial planner in Westerly,
R.I., who recommends holding a year's worth of living expenses in reserve.
Another strategy is to take a fixed percentage of your
assets each year rather than a fixed amount. That's what William Bernstein,
an investment adviser in Coos Bay, Ore., and author of The Four Pillars of
Investing (McGraw-Hill, $27.95), recommends to his clients. Using this approach,
you'll never outlive your money. There is a drawback, however: Your income can
fluctuate sharply from year to year, depending on the value of your investments.
Consider a retiree who started in 1995 with $500,000 in the Standard & Poor's
500-stock index and withdrew 5% of his account a year. Withdrawals would have
dropped from $71,000 in 1999 to $52,000 in 2001.
Finally, go with occasional inflation adjustments rather
than annual ones. Adjusting annually for changes in the consumer price index
could make you withdraw more than you need, depleting your savings sooner. The
CPI tends to overstate inflation by about 1% a year, says Philip Cooley, a business
professor at Trinity University in San Antonio. Over 30 years, that adds up
to real money. And that's what you need to fund your retirement.


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If I could earn a living doing what I love most, it would be to be a baker. The kitchen is my second home, I love experimenting, creating new things, putting strange things together, just anything. They say the way to a man's heart is through their stomach! I love watching people getting excited over something I created. Either a birthday cake, my chocolate chip cookies, brookies, (brownies and cookies together) just about anything is just as exciting for me to make as it is for the person eating it. To get my name out there as someone that can make anything for any occasion. I will learn vegan, gluten free, and other allergen free versions of my foods so everyone on the planet can enjoy something sweet now and again.
A specific goal I am already achieving is going to college for a degree in Baking & Pastry, I will be traveling to France in January 2015 for my internship to learn from the best in my industry to start my international learning in this field. How can one work in a worldly career without knowing how each part of it is different? I plan to travel around the world to get the experience of a true baker, to be able to manipulate any formula to make it native to a country.


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Kenneth Bruce Gorelick cites irreconcilable differences for divorcing Balynda and wants joint custody of their teen son, Noah.
Kenny G answers his estranged wife Balynda Helene Benson-Gorelick's divorce papers by filing his own. The couple, who got married twenty years ago, cites irreconcilable differences as the reason of their separation. They split last January, the same month when she filed her papers.
Kenny and Balynda have two sons together. The 56-year-old saxophonist, whose real name is Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, seeks joint custody of their minor child 14-year-old Noah, while his soon-to-be ex-wife wants full physical custody of the teen. He refuses to pay her spousal support.
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The Red and Blue are 6-3 overall this season, and 0-2 against teams which join them inside the upper echelon of Division I. Already this season, Penn has travelled to then-No. 2 North Carolina and hosted No. 3 Maryland, and on Sunday, Penn will look to put the first loss of the season on the defending national champions.
Sunday's tilt with the Wildcats will be the 11th all-time between the teams, and Penn is looking to add its second win in the series. Despite the apparent lopsided nature of the series, the games between Penn and Northwestern regularly find a way to enter "classic" status. In 2008, the Quakers ended Northwestern's 36-game winning streak with an 11-7 win at Franklin Field. The Quakers put together an amazing defensive effort that day at Franklin Field, holding the Wildcats scoreless over the final 32:35 of the game to erase a 7-4 deficit and score what at the time was the biggest win in program history.
The regular season win over the Wildcats tells only a quarter of the story in what was a four-game epic story arc between the Quakers and their rivals from Chicago. The two met again in 2008 on the biggest stage of them all - the national title game. The Wildcats had been there before and experience won out in a 10-6 win for Northwestern - the Wildcats' fourth consecutive national title. The Red and Blue trailed, 8-3, in the second half but rallied to close within two - a margin as close as Penn would get.
The next year, the two teams again met twice, and again both were classics. On April 25, 2009 No. 3 Penn was edged in Evanston by No. 1 Northwester, 11-9, in a game which went back and forth all night while navigating a lengthy lightning delay. The Quakers erased a 3-0 deficit to take a 6-5 lead before halftime, but a four-goal NU run in the second half saw the Wildcats pull away. Penn scored twice in the final 6:20 to climb back into the game, but ran out of time.
Extra time was afforded both teams in their second meeting of '09, an overtime battle in the national semifinals. In a game which many called the true national championship match, Penn did not lead until Erin Brennan scored at the 2:49 mark of overtime to give Penn a 12-11 lead. Katrina Dowd scored right before the buzzer in the first three-minute session of overtime on an extremely athletic play to knot the game, and Meredith Frank scored the winner 1:29 into sudden-death overtime to send the Wildcats to the national title game. The Quakers trailed, 11-7, with 9:14 to play in the game and scored four times in the final 6:22 to tie the game, tying the affair on a Samantha Bird goal with 1:30 to play.
Brennan is the lone player on Penn's team remaining who saw action in that game (Emily Leitner was the backup goalkeeper for the Quakers) and the pair of seniors are looking for their first career win against Northwestern this weekend. Brennan has scored seven goals and has nine total points in her career against the Wildcats, including four goals and an assist last year Lakeside in Evanston.
Overall, Brenan leads the Quakers with 40 points this season, and her 4.44 points-per-game is 16th among all players in Division I - and 10th among players playing nine or fewer games. The Quakers will return Maddie Poplawski to the lineup this weekend after she missed both games last week with a concussion. Poplawski is tied for fourth on the team in goals with 15, but is valuable to the Red and Blue in the midfield where she leads the team in draw controls with 35. Poplawski ranks ninth in the country in draw controls-per-game with 5.00 and she will be locked up on Sunday with Alyssa Leonard (13th - 4.78) and Taylor Thornton (23rd - 4.10) on draws.
The Wildcats boats the nation's leading goalkeeper in terms of goals-against average in Brianne LoManto who has a GAA of 6.33. Only one team has scored more than nine goals in a game against the Wildcats this season, and seven have 10 opponents have been held to seven or fewer. LoManto's work in goal has allowed the Wildcat offense to work freely, to the tune of 15.7 goals-per-game and only one contest where the attack scored less than 13 goals.
The Quakers will counter with one of the busiest goalkeepers in the country in Emily Leitner. She is averaging 11.0 saves-per-game in her last three outings, with efforts of 12 (at No. 18 Cornell), a career-high 16 (vs. No. 3 Maryland) and five (in 38 minutes of action against Columbia) in her last three games. Leitner is 27th in the country in goals-against average (10.19) and 25th in save percentage (.447) and is one of 21 goalkeepers in the country to be in the Top-30 in both categories. Leitner and Penn's young defense corps of Lydia Miller, Allie Martin, Taylor Foussadier and Leah McBride will contend with a Northwestern offense which runs through the 2011 Tewaaraton Award winner Shannon Smith. A two-time All-American and 2011 IWLCA Attacker of the Year, Smith had a program-record 86 goals last season and 128 total points. This year, she leads the Wildcats with 35 goals and 46 points. Erin Fitzgerald is second on the team with 26 goals and 32 points while Kara Mupo has 20 goals and 26 points.


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Last week I had a few run-ins with some excellent drinking partners.
You know the type — when you meet the conversation is always as good as the wine. The topics are as juicy as the pomegranates on your goat cheese salad. I don't always have a lot of time, but there is always time, for a bottle of wine, with you.
What makes a good drinking partner? Well, compatibility comes in many forms. There are the people we work with, and we often need an out-of-office release. Sometimes it's the people we ski with, and it's nice to mingle without the icicles dripping from our noses. Lovers and friends and neighbors and family.
Wine can put the capital "L" in lover. Wine can make a smile widen as the laughter of a friend fills the kitchen and a neighbor just happens by with a chilled bottle of bubbly. I know a guy who says when his family gets together they always drink at least a case of pinot gris. I want to be part of that family.
Wine soothes the aching muscles after a long day on the trail, eases the mind after a day of fast driving (Aspen to San Francisco in 14 hours, anyone?) and is just the relaxing tonic needed after averting a near-domestic tragedy, like accidentally burning down the backyard. A winemaker friend's nebbiolo-sangiovese blend never tasted so good as that one, the one from 1998, the one that we drank after saving the backyard from becoming blackened.
Now I have that to add to my tasting notes from the '99, '00, '01 and so on. Another time for those details.
And like the transmutation of emotion we all partake in at this time of the year, wine has the power to instantly transform the visual landscape of a situation. Like the scene in front of me right now, as I embed myself into the moment of composition and the yellow-pink-and-blue label of the Husch La Blanc sauvignon blanc blend becomes one with the same yellow-pink-blue of the Splenda-Equal-and-Sweet-And-Low packets, next to the yellow-spotted astrolemaria and my companion extraordinaire in her ochre yellow tribal print T-shirt and flowing hippy Thai-Alladdin pantaloons. Not to mention the rounded scorpion-kid-pose on the double-yellow-line deep in the redwood forest emulating the label art on a yoga T-shirt.
The sun streaming through the extra-large Victorian window makes its all so, as does the sunny marriage of land-salt-and-sea betwixt the sauvignon blanc and the Dungeness crab cakes. And gosh-darn-it, am I hyphen-happy today or what?
The point, really, is that happiness is most of the equation, most of the time. We are definitely good at that. From the festivals we pull off, the parties we host, to the turns we make, the miles we cover on our bikes, to the families we raise.
My family-of-friends, by the way, seems to be growing by the minute, as the magic potency of the valley water never ceases to amaze me, along with the power of the fruit of their vines er, I mean, loins. This time of year tells us key caveats about the journey we are on — from the ground we have covered, to possibly where we are heading. And among the bounty of emotica we wish to express, none comes more fitting to me as the lesson-in-presence-of-this-moment as the name of our server, Patience.
Whether you are Chris Davenport waiting for the right time to drop into that 4,000 foot long sliver of white in Chili, or Johnathon Pullis ready to pull that cork on something French from the 1960s (two would-be excellent drinking partners), Patience is the ultimate gift. To know, in this moment, that everything is working as it should, and this — also an ultimate gift — is as good as it gets. Patience was an awesome server, my companion deftly setting the mood. My camera-toting, wine-drinking and -enjoying and always-smiling companion, the muse for us all.
Wine is simply the pepper in the pot. And if that isn't worth drinking to, what is?
Cheers! Wine reveals truth.
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Also, most Apple rumors don't usually start with bastions of mainstream reporting like the Times and the Journal -- more like DigiTimes or Boy Genius Report. This has "strategic leak" written all over it.
Which is not to say that the rumors of an iOS watch are wrong or even a bad idea. An iWatch makes a ton of sense, especially if it requires another iDevice nearby to do the heavy lifting: connecting to networks, downloading data, and transferring it to the watch via Bluetooth, yadda yadda. An iWatch would essentially be a display device for your iPhone or iPad, locking you even tighter into the Apple ecosystem. The day something like this works with a non-Apple-blessed device like, say, Google Goggles is the day you see me elected Pope.
So an iWatch is likely, eventually. People are even talking about iCars. (And after that, iMoonShuttles, iSpacestations, and iWarpDrives.) Somebody has to do it. It's a comforting notion that a company like Apple is going to create the future for us and make it all smooth and shiny and not, say, Microsoft. Nobody wants a future that needs to be rebooted every three days because its .ini files were corrupted.
This is where Apple is most comfortable and where most of us are too: smack dab at the intersection of hype and hope. That's the reason rumors like this one work. But to expect Apple to go on indefinitely churning out devices that look like they just came off the bridge of the Starship Enterprise is at best unrealistic and, at worst, foolish. Every dream must end.
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The Arts Centre of Christchurch was recently the recipient of a generous contribution from the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal UK in London.
The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal UK ("the UK Appeal") donated $50,000 towards the restoration of the former Christchurch Boys' High Gymnasium building.
The UK Appeal is a British charity dedicated to fundraising in the UK and allocating those funds to earthquake recovery initiatives in Canterbury. It was established shortly after the February 2011 earthquakes by the New Zealand High Commissioner in London together with expatriate New Zealanders living in the UK. Individuals and corporations have been very generous with their support, and funds have also been raised at a number of creative and lively fundraising events.
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|4th March 2014, 10:57 PM
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My 21's are still hanging from the ceiling. I love them there as they do not take up any floor space. I did draw up some more OB designs, however I do not have any plans to build them as of right now. The ported 21 idea was just that, an idea and was mainly looking for feedback. I feel that you can get much more bang for your buck and space by going with some SI HT 18s or some FI subs. I think those would be better choices. If I had to do it all over again, 4 18s from either SI or FI would be the ones I'd get.
|4th March 2014, 11:00 PM
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The OBs are about 24" out from the rear wall. The right panel is only a few inches from the wall and the left is about 6-7" away. The total open area is rather large, so I was not expecting any resonances to occur. If my room was larger, I would have much liked to keep the drivers on the floor to get some good "bounce" and a bit further from the rear wall.
I'm looking forward to your prototype.
|15th July 2014, 09:30 PM
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Well, I bought the woofers in April of 2013 and now it is July of 2014 and the boxes are finally done and I am getting ready to put the woofers in them. I decides to go with 24" square by 16" deep U-frames. The actual cone of the woofer is 18" across, so that is the size of the mounting hole for the woofers. I have taken pictures of the build as it progressed. After they are running I will post the photos and comment on the success or lack thereof.
|15th July 2014, 10:07 PM
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Thanks for the update and can't wait to read about the results.
It's moving time at my house - everything's getting packed up over the next three/four weeks and we're moving about a third of the way across the country.
Probably a new set of OBs will follow
|17th July 2014, 04:35 PM
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WOOHOO! Finished the boxes, mounted the woofers and plugged them in. (Pardon my exuberance, but I am always amazed when something I build works the first time Sensitivity is about the same as the Alpha 15s on open baffle that they are replacing. Didn't get much chance to play them last night. Put on the Stereophile test CD #2, bass tracks, and got solid response down to about 30 hz or so. Put on Jennifer Warnes "The Hunter" and actually got a favorable response from the significant other, who normally couldn't care less about what we listen to music through. It was getting late, so I didn't want to annoy my apartment neighbors. Will post pics soon. I did want to mention that I tried a different (for me) box building technique. For this build I used "System 3" 15 minute epoxy, using their cartridges and mixing tubes in a caulking gun. I was originally going to just butt join the boxes, but got cold feet and put in wood bisquits at the joints. Turns out these were not necessary. After doing a dry fit to make sure of my assembly sequence, I squeezed glue on the mating surfaces with the caulking gun, spread it a bit, assembled the first box using a metal strap box clamp. By the time I got the second box set up to assemble, the first box was rigid enough to take the clamps off. By the time I got the second box glued and clamped, the first box was set enough to lift and move around. I didn't use epoxy for the strength, but for the fast setting time. System 3 also makes a 5 minute epoxy, but I don't think I could assemble the boxes fast enough to use it. 2 big boxes assembled and ready for finishing in 30 minutes. I will definitely use this glue for the next set of boxes, which will be new cabinets for my Fostex 166en full range drivers that match the MCM boxes and will sit on top.
|17th July 2014, 05:58 PM
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Initially I was thinking of a large open baffle subwoofer, something on the order of 2x3 or 2x4 meters (!) with four 12" high-excursion subwoofers mounted around the center line of the baffle and near the floor. But after thinking about it for awhile I became concerned that I would go through an expensive construction project (for such a large structure) only to end up with a resonating system that would not work well as a subwoofer. This is because I was envisioning something placed relatively close to the wall compared to your panel system (see post #15), e.g. on the order of 12" or less. I fear that such a small separation will make it behave like a transmission line or long U-frame, and that has certain drawbacks and introduces additional complexity. For the location in which I want to install the sub, you approach the room from the direction that would be looking at the "side" of the large panel, and something sticking out into the room 24" or more (to reduce the tendency of the rear space to resonanate) would not be well received by my wife! I have now decided to use these drivers for large sealed subs, since they are a perfect match for four plate amps that I current own.
But the original idea of an OB panel sub has not left me, and I may try something along the lines of what you have constructed except on the floor. I have a pair of 18" Peavey LowRider drivers that I can use and have modeled these in a wide floor standing OB (e.g. 30"H x 96"W). The response looks promising. This would also be a lot simpler to construct, even just with some temporary material for the baffle, since it would largely be along the floor. So this is the way that I will probably go with the OB sub concept. Even that might not pass the sniff test by wifey, but it would be something that I can easily pack up and bring to DIY events.
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|17th July 2014, 06:30 PM
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You are brilliant, Sky Baffle!
I love it!
Talk about 'out of the box' thinkin' (ba-dum, tish)
This might gain you some extra Hz and dB:
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PS And you could make it a more solid, single structure. Is it flush with the ceiling?
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|17th July 2014, 09:26 PM
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Thanks! It has now been taken down due to the up coming move. Maybe in the new house I'll give it a try...maybe add two more?
Or I'll put them up in my soon to be classroom, but not sure how my boss will appreciate that one?!
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Georg Ringwelski
Dipl.-Inform. (TU Berlin), Dr.-Ing. (TU Berlin)
My main research interest is the design of constraint processing systems. The
objective of this work is to integrate new CP technologies in software
components that make state-of-the-art algorithms more applicable in complex
software systems. Some main points of interest are adaptive constraint
processing, distributed constraint satisfaction, anytime algorithms for
constraint processing and hybrid algorithms.
Before coming to 4C, I was:
Latest Publications in the 4C Database:
© Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University College Cork.


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FL legislators propose changes to 7 districts
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Seven of Florida's 27 current congressional districts are changing under a new map proposed by legislative leaders.
The Florida legislature kicked off a special session on Thursday. The session is being sparked by a judge's July ruling that found two districts were drawn illegally to benefit republicans. Circuit Judge Terry Lewis last week gave legislators until Aug. 15 to draw up a new map.
GOP legislators proposed a new map that changes a handful of districts in north and central Florida.
A district held by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown would no longer include the city of Sanford but her district would include more of Putnam County. U.S. Rep. Dan Webster would lose part of Orange County, while the district of U.S. Rep. John Mica would also change.
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On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: > Hmm, OK, I think that makes sense. Would you care to propose a patch? Yep. Here is the patch. This patch distinguishes normal shutdown from unexpected exit, while the server is in recovery. That is, when smart or fast shutdown is requested during recovery, the bgwriter sets the ControlFile->state to new-introduced DB_SHUTDOWNED_IN_RECOVERY state. When recovery starts from the DB_SHUTDOWNED_IN_RECOVERY state, the startup process emits LOG: database system was shut down in recovery at 2010-05-12 20:35:24 EDT instead of LOG: database system was interrupted while in recovery at log time 2010-05-12 20:35:24 EDT HINT: If this has occurred more than once some data might be corrupted and you might need to choose an earlier recovery target. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center
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U.K.-based telecommunications company BT Group PLC has agreed to resell WebEx Communications Inc.'s Web conferencing services in a deal WebEx predicts will boost its European business.
BT offers the WebEx service together with its own teleconferencing services as a new product called "BT Meeting Centre, powered by WebEx." The Web conferencing service can be accessed through BT's MeetMe and its teleconferencing reservation system, WebEx said Friday. The San Jose, California, company is planning to officially announce its partnership with BT on Tuesday.
WebEx is considered the market leader in Web conferencing, a crowded space where rivals include Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. Earlier this month it reported net income for last year's fourth quarter of US$34.5 million on revenue of $53.9 million. More than 90 percent of that revenue was generated in the U.S., the company said.
Partnerships are a key part of WebEx's strategy to grow in Europe, said Tony Gasson, WebEx vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. WebEx already has deals with other European telecommunications companies, including France Telecom SA and TeliaSonera AB, but BT is its biggest partner to date, Gasson said.
"I would expect BT to be a predominant partner in Europe, absolutely. A major part of the European accounts are based in the U.K, there is a big market to be won," he said.
BT will offer the WebEx service throughout Europe, but with a focus on its home market, in English and in German, Gasson said. The Web conferencing service is also offered by other partners in Swedish, Chinese and Japanese. Spanish will be added soon, he said.
While WebEx has localized its services, Microsoft has not. Although the Redmond, Washington, vendor says it is working on localized editions of its Live Meeting Web conferencing offering, it has no language or availability details.
"Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2003 is built from the ground up to support internationalization. While Live Meeting is currently available in English only, we will be building in local language support as to best meet our customers requirements in future versions of Live Meeting," a Microsoft spokesman said.
Hooking up with BT is a smart and timely move by WebEx, said Claire Schooley, a San Francisco-based senior analyst at Forrester Research Inc.
"It is good timing, WebEx has been strongest in North America, no doubt about that. The European market is going to grow and it is going to grow very fast," she said. "WebEx does an incredible marketing job in the U.S. When you say Web conferencing, people say WebEx."
Microsoft, which acquired Web conferencing company PlaceWare Inc. about a year ago, doesn't yet pose much of a threat to WebEx in Europe, according to Schooley. "Microsoft will be a very strong competitor at some point worldwide. Right now they are still in the early stages of their service," she said.
Cisco completed its acquisition of another large Web conferencing player, Latitude Communications Inc., last month.
Schooley expects the U.S. Web conferencing market in terms of revenue to hit close to $875 million in 2004. That should grow to $2.2 billion by 2008, she said. In Europe the market is expected to be at $200 million in 2004, growing easily up to $900 million by 2008, she said.
Pricing for the WebEx service offered by BT is expected to be about the same as the U.S. service, a WebEx spokesman said. The U.S. service costs $0.45 a minute per connected user, or can be bought on a subscription basis, he said.