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A suspicious fire early Saturday morning destroyed a vacant house in the city's Genesee-Moselle area and caused exposure damage to the home next door.
Firefighters responded to an alarm about 5 a.m. at 74 Colorado Ave., between East Ferry and Genesee streets.
The fire, which broke out on the first floor, caused an estimated $30,000 damage at 74 Colorado and $8,000 exposure damage to 70 Colorado, fire officials said.


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OCEANSIDE -- With a seemingly endless line of cars packed onto Oceanside's major roads each day, the seven City Council candidates said last week that finding a way to relieve traffic congestion is one of the most important issues facing the city.
While all the candidates said last week that traffic is a problem in Oceanside, the candidates had different views about the best way to reduce congestion.
Some candidates have said the city needs to extend Melrose Drive north and build a freeway interchange at Rancho del Oro Road and Highway 78, and others said the city needs to upgrade its traffic lights so cars can move more quickly down major streets.
Two seats on the five-member council are open in the Nov. 7 election.
The candidates are incumbents Rocky Chavez and Shari Mackin, former Planning Commissioner George Barrante, Jerry Kern, a former president of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, Michael Lucas, a retired state supervisor, George McNeil, a retired educator, and C.C. Sanders, a retired Oceanside police officer.
Oceanside amended its road plans in 1995 but has not completely updated its circulation element since 1985, according to John Amberson, a transportation planner for the city. The council voted last fall to update the circulation plan following a debate about extending Melrose north to the San Luis Rey River and building a freeway interchange at Rancho del Oro.
Both projects are on the city's current plans, but Mayor Jim Wood and Councilwomen Esther Sanchez and Mackin have voted against moving forward with the projects in the last year, while Councilmen Jack Feller and Chavez have advocated proceeding with the road work. The circulation plan should be completed next fall, city staffers said.
City staffers are also studying high-tech stoplights that would keep traffic moving along busy streets, and will present the results to the council this winter, Amberson said. He said the signals that cost around $100,000 each do a better job than ordinary signals at adjusting their timing to handle traffic.
When it comes to paying for roads and traffic improvements, Oceanside will receive $249 million between 2008 and 2048 from TransNet, a regional half-cent sales tax approved by voter in November 2004.
Each of the candidates last week gave detailed responses to the North County Times about what they want to do to relieve traffic if elected.
George Barrante
Traffic problems continue to worsen in Oceanside, and the first step to reducing the congestion is building the freeway interchange at Rancho del Oro, Barrante said.
"I don't see any traffic solution in Oceanside without the Rancho del Oro interchange," said Barrante, who served more than nine years on the city's Planning Commission. "Extending Melrose is a must, too, but it's not as critical."
Barrante said the city can find federal and regional money for the projects. The only people opposed to the road improvements are people living right next to these streets, and the council needs to do what is best for the entire city, he said.
Improving stoplights so cars move more quickly through the intersection will not help the traffic problem, Barrante said, because "they don't reduce the number of cars or make the roads wider."
Barrante was critical of the council's decision to update the city's traffic plans.
"You don't need a study to tell you your shoes are too tight," Barrante said. "A piece of paper never solved traffic."
Rocky Chavez
Chavez has argued in favor of building the Rancho del Oro interchange and extending Melrose for the last year. He said the extension of Melrose will improve the safety of Jeffries Ranch because it will provide another access to the community in case of fire or emergency.
The Rancho del Oro interchange will provide a direct route to the Ocean Ranch business park and the 465-acre El Corazon property that is slated to become a massive park.
"The road goes to the economic and recreation future of the city," Chavez said.
The councilman said he is fine with Oceanside's updating of its circulation plan, but that the council should still move forward with both the Rancho del Oro and Melrose project.
"We already have enough information to make a decision about Rancho del Oro and Melrose," Chavez said. "I'm not in favor of wasting money for a whole study to prove that we need to take Rancho del Oro and Melrose off our circulation element."
As far as stoplights, Chavez said more "efficient technology is a good thing" but that improved traffic lights will not improve the situation as much as building roads.
Jerry Kern
Building roads is the only way to reduce traffic congestion, said Kern.
He said an interchange at Rancho del Oro will take cars off both College Boulevard and El Camino Real while extending Melrose to the north will relieve congestion on College.
"The big solution to traffic is building infrastructure," Kern said.
He said improved stoplights could relieve congestion slightly but that the gains won't be noticeable in a few years as more and more cars continue to pack the roads.
Kern said he "applauds the council for updating the circulation element," but said it also should have followed through on the element's plans for the improvements at Rancho del Oro and Melrose.
"If you don't follow through on the plan, you are back to where you started and wasted a lot of time and money," Kern said.
In the long term, Kern said the Sprinter light-rail line running between Oceanside and Escondido -- scheduled to start running at the end of next year -- and improvements to freeways may help reduce traffic.
Michael Lucas
Oceanside's infrastructure needs to keep up with development, Lucas said.
He said the city should build the Rancho del Oro interchange and extend Melrose because they have long been planned. Rancho del Oro is needed to get to commercial and industrial parks in the center of the city, Lucas said.
"Rancho del Oro has always been designed to go to the freeway," Lucas said.
He said he has no problems with updating the city's circulation plan, but that "all development should come to a standstill until it's finalized and can be implemented."
In the meantime, Lucas said, the city needs to use police officers to improve the flow of traffic.
Instead of improving the traffic lights, Lucas said police officers should stand at busy intersection during rush hour and change the lights as needed to keep cars moving.
Shari Mackin
Mackin said she's not a traffic expert and that the city needs professionals to study the road plans.
The city's traffic plans are out of date because the council has changed the use of certain properties, and a new plan will help provide clarity, she said.
"Oceanside needs to find out what experts say," said Mackin, who has opposed building the Rancho del Oro interchange and extending Melrose.
As far as the possibility of removing Rancho del Oro and Melrose from the city's traffic plans, Mackin said "roads come and go" and many cities take streets off their circulation elements.
The city would in all likelihood contribute millions of dollars to each project because she said "you can't just stick out your hand and say give me money,"
Instead of making Rancho del Oro a major route to the center of the city, Mackin said Oceanside Boulevard should be improved so that it could serve as the gateway to the center of town.
Mackin said traffic could also be reduced with better synchronized stoplights such as the ones used in portions of Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
George McNeil
Oceanside needs to address its traffic problem immediately and can't wait for 10 or 15 years, said McNeil.
"The Rancho del Oro interchange is a long way away and it may be built," said the retired educator. "But it is not a current solution."
McNeil has not supported building the interchange or the extension of Melrose, which he said could just become a street that people take to cut through a neighborhood.
Before making any decisions about these projects, McNeil said the city needs to update its traffic plans.
"It's critical to have an overall picture," McNeil said.
While Oceanside waits to complete the road update, he said, the city needs to move forward with doing a better job of coordinating traffic signals.
For example, a motorist heading south on College Boulevard should not have to stop between Highway 76 and Oceanside Boulevard, McNeil said.
In addition to stoplights, the city needs to create more jobs in Oceanside for residents.
"Less people will have to leave town every morning and try to get back at night," McNeil said.
C.C. Sanders
Traffic is a problem throughout the United States, Sanders said, and "we need to consult experts on traffic who are a lot smarter than we are."
He said existing road plans call for the Rancho Del Oro interchange and extending Melrose and that the council shouldn't remove them from the plans because they are opposed by people living nearby.
"You have to think about all of the neighborhoods and not just residents in one or two parts of town," Sanders said. "I believe Rancho del Oro and Melrose are the best thing for this city."
He said that improving the traffic stoplights to reduce congestion is "just a Band-Aid solution," and doesn't address the real problem.
Sanders said he is OK with the city updating its traffic plan and that "we should keep all of the options on the table."
Contact staff writer David Sterrett at (760) 901-4067 or firstname.lastname@example.com .


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What If the Earth Had Two Moons: And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar System,
Armchair astronomers and hard SF fans who love a good game of cosmological "What If?" will find this an entertaining follow-up to physicist Comins's What If the Moon Didn't Exist? Here he presents 10 more intellectual puzzles that explore new worlds, and imagine what life there might be like. Each chapter opens with a vivid glimpse of a hypothetical new world, such as in the title scenario, where Earth's gravity captures a second moon—a scenario that ends in destruction. Equally disastrous would be an Earth with a thicker crust—unable to form new volcanoes, hot magma would simply burn through the crust's surface, melting continents and the ocean floor. In another scenario, our solar system forms 15 billion years later than it did, prompting Comins to conjecture that aliens would have more time to traverse great distances to the planet and colonize it. This is a lucid, thoroughly accessible presentation of what might have been that is sure to make this volume as popular as its predecessor. 25 b&w line drawings. (Apr.)
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Book reviewed in this article:
Mergers and Acquisitions. Edited by MICHAEL KEENAN AND LAWRENCE J. WHITE
Public Utility Economics and Finance. By KEITH M. HOWE and EUGENE F. RASMUSSEN
Guide to Computer‐assisted Investment Analysis. By WILLIAM B. RILEY, Jr., and AUSTIN H. MONTGOMERY, Jr. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1982. Pp. xiv + 303.
Application of Classification Techniques in Business, Banking and Finance. By E. ALTMAN, R. AVERY, R. EISENBEIS and J. SINKEY. Volume 3 of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press Inc., 1981. Pp. xx + 418.
Bank Credit. Edited by HERBERT V. PROCHNOW. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. Pp. xii + 427.
The Political Economics of International Bank Lending. By DAVID GISSELQUIST. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1981. Pp. xv + 251.


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March 9th, 2016 | by Julie Finn
You know that kind of sewing machine that I'm talking about. Maybe it's got a ton of fancy stitch settings. Maybe you just press a button and boom, it hems your skirt. Maybe it does some cute embroidery while it's at it. And yeah, maybe it costs a thousand bucks


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When you enter Kidder Township you are entering the front door of the Pocono's. The Township covers 70-square miles of beautifully wooded terrain in the northern tip of Carbon County. It is primarily a heavily wooded area easily accessible. If taking I-476 (formerly called the Northeast Extension of the PA Turnpike) use Exit 95 and if taking Interstate 80, Exit 277 / Lake Harmony or Exit 284 / Blakeslee. We're only 20 minutes south of Wilkes-Barre. The Township encircles Hickory Run State Park and has thousands of acres of Pennsylvania State Game Lands which provide excellent camping, hiking, cross country skiing and hunting. The many resorts within Kidder Township offer facilities for conventions, ski slopes, golf courses and lakes for boating and fishing so there is something for everyone year round. Kidder Township is a zoned community that consists primarily of vacation and seasonal homes from small rustic A-frames to large glass fronted contemporaries suitable for executive entertaining. The full time residents are, rightfully so, proud of their Township and strongly support the governing ordinances that provide building codes, anti-littering laws, trespass and abandoned vehicle controls as well as other laws that promote living in a civilized community.
As many have experienced, it is a popular vacation and seasonal home location, governed and patrolled to keep it as peaceful, tranquil and beautiful as it is. Whatever your reason for being in Kidder Township, we welcome you!
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FAA-certified, but start dates out of Carlsbad airport uncertain (psst, April)
Ken Harrison 8:30 a.m., Nov. 18
Westfield UTC, the mall formerly known as University Towne Centre, is undergoing major changes. The recession delayed a much-publicized renovation for three years, but the first phase of construction is underway.
The addition of a 14-screen ArcLight premium cinema and another 750,000 square feet of shopping space are key components.
Also included in the project are changes to the food scene. The food court, previously rather dismal in both food and atmosphere, has been updated. There are a couple of interesting-looking additions.
The most recent new place isn't in the food court, though, it's in Sears. Okay, not really. But Corner Bakery Cafe, a franchise born out of the Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises empire, has opened in what was formerly a corner of the Sears store.
Corner Bakery Café looks and feels exactly like your standard mall sit down, casual, kid-friendly, no surprises. The menu is pretty much the same, soups, chili, sandwiches, salads, and some breakfast items.
I hadn't had breakfast, so I ordered a Bacon and Cheddar Panini ($4.29). I knew at the outset that the eggs were probably powdered, since scrambled is the only choice, and I was right.
Darn. I was going to hate this sandwich. Only I didn't hate it. True, the texture of the eggs left something to be desired, but they were lightly browned, the bacon was crisp, the cheese was melty and the sourdough bread was grilled golden brown and delicious.
Not high cuisine, but it tasted pretty decent. The coffee ($1.69) was good too, and plenty strong. A pleasant surprise.
Another nice touch on the menu – nutritional information for everything they serve is easily visible on both the printed version and the board at the ordering area.
The place has only been open a few weeks, but the staff was welcoming, brought my food quickly, kept the tables bussed and the drink area clean.
When I asked whether there was beef or turkey in the chili, I was told "Beef and chicken, I think. I don't really know."
Corner Bakery Café has cakes, cookies and other baked goods for dine in or take out. Wine and beer is available.
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Leaving Nelson
Bailey's ninth grade year couldn't possibly get any worse. After losing her mother to cancer, her father decides to move the family back to his hometown in Tennessee. Leaving Nelson, the only home she's ever known, is the icing on the cake. Uprooted from the familiar, with wounds left unhealed, Bailey attempts to hide in the shadows of strangers. However, as the daughter of Fulton's hometown hero, she catches the attention of many—foiling her plan to simply blend in. Worst of all, the biggest jerk in school has decided to make her his special project. Then Bailey runs into the cute, shy boy from her English class. His charm and lopsided grin give Bailey a reason to smile again even in the midst of her pain. Could he be the one putting poetry in her locker? As new friendships take shape, Bailey's bitterness and resentment begin to slowly melt away. Just as her faith is restored, a secret is discovered. A painting of a young girl that dates back years before her birth now threatens to ravish the relationships with those she has grown to love.On a quest to reveal the truth, Bailey discovers that, though she had a difficult time leaving Nelson, what she finds in Fulton may just be what she has been searching for all along.
My Summer Storm
Nestled deep in the breathtaking mountains of Virginia, Camp Golden Meadows is the ideal place for summer romance.
At least that's what 17-year-old Bailey Baxter thinks when she makes the trip with her childhood friend, Max Martin. A summer away is the perfect escape from her father's budding romance, and it just might be her chance to kindle a romantic fire of her own with Max. Bailey packs all of her hopes and wishes for summer love in her suitcase next to a photo from her past. But when an unexpected turn of events bring old feelings to life, jealousy and betrayal unpack their bags. At odds with one of her roommates and haunted by feelings she can't ignore, the summer isn't turning out the way Bailey had planned. In the mountains, where storms are intense and often unpredictable, Bailey learns that love often behaves the same way—with great power and the potential to cause damage. Will Bailey find happiness in the midst of this perfect storm, or will it drown out the fire between her and Max?
Chasing Secrets
Some say he's a dead end. To her, he's an escape. A detour from the reality she's running from. If she takes his hand, there may be no turning back. What Bailey thought
would be her perfect senior year has turned into the perfect mess. Nothing has gone according to plan. Her relationship with her new stepmom is strained. Her long-distance relationship has her tied to the phone, and the new guy in school is taking over her job as senior editor of the newspaper. To top it all off, the one person she knows she should probably stay away from is the one she can't stop thinking about. Just like the wheels on his motorcycle, Liam Garrett's life is spinning out of control. Ever since his dad went to prison, he's been lost. A loner by nature, Liam has a hard time making friends at his new school. His job as co-editor of the yearbook places him at odds with the one person he feels connected to. And when a fatal hit-and-run rocks this small town, Liam feels more alone than ever, stuck in the prison of his own secrets. A chance meeting one morning sets these two on an unexpected path, chasing secrets that could change everything. Without her compass, will Bailey be able to navigate this uncharted territory, or will she lose herself in it?


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After releasing seven players on Sunday, the Green Bay Packers' roster currently stands at 81 players.
By Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. CT, the Packers must be down to a league-mandated 75 players, meaning they must make six transactions before day's end.
One option available to the Packers would be to place several ailing players on injured reserve, including defensive lineman B.J. Raji (biceps), wide receiver Jared Abbrederis (knee) and offensive lineman Don Barclay (knee).
In addition, two more rookies that haven't practiced or played in more than two weeks appear to meet their fate as well. Running back Rajion Neal (knee) and linebacker Joe Thomas (knee) figure to either be placed on injured reserve or released with an injury settlement.
The last transaction could come down to offensive lineman Andrew Tiller (calf), who didn't practice on Tuesday. The Packers won't have much use for someone that can't play in the team's preseason finale on Thursday against the Kansas City Chiefs unless Tiller is ready to return.
Two days away from the final preseason game at Lambeau Field, they won't be having a full-scale training camp practice.
Instead, the Packers will be having meetings and a walk-through at the team's Conditioning, Rehab and Instructional Center (CRIC) inside the stadium.
It's part of the new practice schedule instituted by head coach Mike McCarthy this season, one that's been in place for every game so far.
McCarthy will have a press conference at 11:30 a.m. CT to be streamed live on Packers.com, however, it remains to be seen whether the organization will have made their transactions in time for McCarthy's meeting with the media.
In the evening hours, former Packers kicker Chris Jacke will represent the team at the grand opening of the Bellin Health Home Care Equipment from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at 508 S. Military Ave. in Green Bay.
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On a still night beneath Biscayne Boulevard's sagging palm trees and dull streetlights near 54th Street, Heather Klinker offers redemption in the form of size-three blue jeans.
About 8:30 p.m. the 40-year-old Colorado native sees two young prostitutes by the side of the road. Krissy, a pale blond 33-year-old, and Lacey, a stick-thin brunette in a rubber dress, are trolling for customers with their eyes, staring down another night of leering faces. Klinker, a former rodeo rider, swings her faded red Saab convertible around and screeches to a halt. In the back seat her dog, Bula, scrambles to stay upright. Dressed in jeans and a denim work shirt, she saunters over to the women like some kind of avenging cowgirl savior.
"Hey," Klinker drawls. "Can I talk to you a minute? Don't worry, I'm not a cop."
The girls eye her warily, but they allow her to approach. That's all the invitation Klinker needs. She describes a shop called Good & Funky that she and some friends opened in late October. All the clothes in the purple-walled place at 3509 NE Second Ave. and 35th Street, as well as coffeepots, furniture, and books, are free to hookers who want to quit drugs and enter a rehab program. Klinker also makes appointments at clinics, gives rides, finds apartments, and does whatever is needed to right a life upended.
The nascent effort is a rare outreach program aimed at getting drug-addicted hookers off the streets. During her nocturnal rounds, Klinker has started gentle negotiations with at least ten women who have expressed interest in seeking help. Miami Police Ofcr. Gregory Bavonese, who has been monitoring prostitutes on Biscayne Boulevard for fifteen years, hasn't heard of Klinker's program. But it sounds like a good idea, he says. "In terms of going out there and contacting [hookers], I don't know of any agencies that do that," Bavonese remarks. "Hey, if this woman's starting something, and it works, it may be a place I could send people to."
Klinker is trying to make it work tonight. She softly pitches both Krissy and Lacey, hoping some of her words will sink in. Lacey is too tweaked to pay attention. She twists and turns so much she looks as though she's trying to squirm out of her dress. She's been up six days doing drugs, she explains, proudly adding the non sequitur, "I'm a juvenile. I'm seventeen." Then she waves to a passing car and wanders off.
But Krissy stays, her bloodshot eyes wide at the prospect of getting some clean clothes and maybe placing a phone call to her father.
"You got jeans there, really? And I can have them? Size three or four?" she sputters. "Wow, this is what I need. I just need some help, y'know? Do you have coffee? I know if I called my daddy everything would be okay." She's been on the streets about a month, ever since life just kind of snowballed on her, she explains. It's the heroin. She's down to three bags a day, she says, enough to prevent nausea. Her habit costs $30 per day. It might not sound like a lot of money, but "it is if you don't have it," Krissy laments. "That's why I started doing this."
She lost her clothes a couple of weeks ago, when she didn't pay on time for a room at a flophouse, she says. Then she put herself up for sale on the boulevard. She used to sell car parts. "I was good at it," she mumbles.
"Come by," Heather says calmly, while handing Krissy one business card and stuffing another into the bedraggled girl's shirt pocket. "We can help you."
"Are you kidding? I'm gonna be there in the morning," Krissy says excitedly.
Back in the Saab, Klinker muses: "I hope we can help her. It could be a different story in the morning. She's gonna need that first bag of dope and then we'll see if she'll call."
Klinker, a big-boned woman with a ruddy face and short hair, is new at this. Until September she was a sales director for the Alexander Luxury Hotel on the Beach, earning a $50,000 annual salary. That job capped twenty years of work in the resort industry. Two decades of taking clients out for dinner and drinks may be a shaky foundation for a career on the streets, she admits. Hanging out with hopeless women night after night can knock the fight out of the sturdiest folks.
But Klinker figures she knows something about bouncing back. For ten years she was a hard-core alcoholic. Her habit was so bad she'd wake up in the middle of the night needing a beer just to go back to sleep. She'd guzzle a six-pack on her way home from work. "That's one beer every four miles," she points out. She consumed 30 drinks a day, morning to night. She was what's called a maintenance drinker. "I tell ya, if I wasn't off the sauce, I'd be one of them," she says, referring to the prostitutes she has met. "Except I'd be the old, fat, lesbian hooker out there not making any money."
And then she belly laughs.
Klinker grew up on a ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Boulder. Her parents had neither religion nor booze in the house. She rode broncs and bulls as well as any boy, and skied better than most of the guys. After college she taught skiing in Switzerland and New Zealand. Life became one big party, and she was good at that, too. A job in sales and marketing for ski resorts and hotels was a natural fit. In 1991 she moved to Key West as a corporate sales agent for the Boston-based Sonesta Hotel chain. Five years later she took a job in Miami as sales director for the Alexander. But alcoholism was swamping her. By 1997 she had drunk herself into bankruptcy.
In 1998 she made it through a rehab program at South Miami Hospital. Then she joined a support group and things started to improve. "I'd be going to my meetings and I'd see these women sitting on bus benches with a quart of malt liquor waiting for a john to come by," she relates. "And I had this feeling that I was lucky to have the resources and insurance to get on with my life.... I suspected they felt like they were in a dark hole with a sewer grate on top of their heads, trapped in a cycle of degradation."
That feeling grew so strong that on September 15, she plunked down $5000, her retirement savings plus a loan from a girlfriend, to rent and renovate a scruffy little storefront at 3509 NE Second Ave. "It's all I had. I'm down to my brassiere," she laughs.
A group Klinker calls her "sorority sisters from rehab" helped fix up the place. Several continue working there. Pam, a skilled carpenter, does a lot of the handiwork. Liz Dunn, a comedian and writer, also pitches in sometimes. Others donated money (she took in $551 in October), clothes, and household items. A month ago she applied for a $69,000 federal grant under the name of her nonprofit, Grubstake Resources for Recovery. She proposes to pay herself a salary of $29,000 per year if her application is successful.
It's a little past 9:00 p.m. when Klinker leaves Krissy on Biscayne and heads back to her shop. She takes some shoes to a homeless couple out back, then spies Sylvia trolling a weed-choked stretch of NE Second Avenue by the railroad tracks. For two weeks Klinker has been talking to Sylvia, a transvestite hooker who claims the bus bench in front of Good & Funky. Tonight Sylvia is wearing a black miniskirt. His long, curly brown locks are pulled back. "I've been out on the streets since 1985," he says. "Do you know how many drug programs I been in? The program doesn't change you. You have to want to change yourself." And Sylvia is not open to change right now. He's content with the bus bench, the johns, and whatever cocaine and beer he can cop.
Klinker doesn't push Sylvia. Klinker may be a do-gooder, but she's no zealot. She doesn't preach religion or temperance. She just makes herself available. As Sylvia walks away, Klinker checks to make sure the store's doors are locked, then hops in her car and heads to her home on South Beach.
The next morning at Good & Funky, Klinker folds clothes, stacks books, and brews coffee. While her hands move, her mind is fixed on the phone. By midday Krissy has not called. Klinker recalls her own booze-filled nights. She doesn't have much hope. "Krissy was probably high when she said all that. But I'm not going to give up. I'll go out again tonight if I don't hear from her."
At 1:00 p.m. Klinker takes a lunch break to run an errand. Before leaving she stuffs a cardboard sign in a gate that guards the door: "Gone to a lunch mtg. Be back in 1 hour." When she returns there's a note scrawled in pretty, loopy female writing. "Heather, it's Krissy from last night. I'll come back later." Klinker kicks herself for not being there. Any short delay, any minute obstacle, may be the cement wall that prevents her from crawling out of the gutter.
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At 2:00 p.m. Krissy comes knocking. Whatever borrowed energy she had the night before is gone. She's tired and drooping. Her face is pulled tight, all cheekbones and bulging eyes. But she wants to enter rehab. She just needs some help to get there. She's late, she explains, because she was hurting so bad this morning that she needed to get high. "That's all right," Klinker says. "I needed about 60 beers for my first trip in." And then she laughs. Klinker knows Krissy is scared. If the girl goes through withdrawal, her insides are going to feel like they are being yanked out. Klinker estimates Krissy will be jonesing again in one hour. Best to get moving soon.
"Take whatever you need," Klinker offers, pointing around the store. Krissy grabs those jeans she heard about, along with a book titled Conquest, by Jude Deveraux. "I like the old-time stuff about kings and queens," she explains. And because the hospital might be cold, Klinker instructs Krissy to take a fuzzy black sweater. Krissy puts the clothes in a bag and requests one more favor. "Maybe you can call my dad for me?" Klinker says that won't be a problem.
They head to the Saab, which Klinker refers to as her "red sled." Later, after holding Krissy's hand at Jackson Memorial Hospital's intake unit, and receiving a hug that nearly snaps her neck, Klinker returns to her shop. It's a big day. Her first success. It's a good start, but no more. Klinker eyes the bills the mailman delivered, then ponders her former life in sales. "I don't have a cent," she exclaims. "But damn I feel good."


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I met Mata Amritanandamayi at a small convention center in Chicago IL program on July 3, 1995. I came as a skeptical observer and to placate some friends who had talked about this 'Ammachi' lady for years. I stood away from the crowd and tried to be as unbiased a witness to her darsan or hug as possible. Quite frankly I couldn't imagine why these people were waiting in line for so many hours to see her. Quite frankly, I hate crowds and to make matters worse,the air conditioning wasn't working. As I watched her, I was amazed that she could greet each person with the same warmth and energy as she'd done to the last person she'd embraced. Hours passed and she hadn't taken a break or a drink - I had needed hourly breaks because of the terrible heat- and I wondered how this was humanly possible. Needless to say, I was awed and deeply touched by the self sacrifice I saw that unforgetable evening. It was life changing on so many levels, but specifically her example had me question what I had been doing in my own life for others. At the very least, I began to see Amma as an amazing role model for how we should be to other people: attentive to others, embracing their differences without judgement and with a loving and accepting heart. Amma inspired me to open up to things I'd always wanted to do, but been afraid of. Since meeting her I've been inspired to volunteer at hospice, to work with severely disabled children and brain-injured groups, all while finishing my R.N. degree. I can only thank dear Amma for the inspiration and encouragement to make the leap of faith from a self-centered to an other-centered life. I had the opportunity to travel to Amma's ashram in 2003, and see her charitable activities and institutions for myself. AIMS Hospital in Cochin was amazing - our American health care experts would do well to study how Amma's organizations stretch resources to care for so many poor. Monthly, I saw the poor widows line up at the ashram to get their pension checks. In a country that has no social welfare network, Amma has taken on that role for countless poor families, especially women and children. I also witnessed Amma's announcement at that time that she would take on the educating of exploited women and girls forced into prostitution - quite a high risk enterprise. This was all pre-tsunami, an event that accelerated Amma's charitable resources beyond what we imagined was possible. With our local ACM group (Amma Center of Michigan), we joined forces with others worldwide who've been moved by Amma's example of selflessness, to raise money in whatever small way we could, to help with this and other disasters. Our family and friends find it an enjoyable Saturday activity to help cook lunch at a local homeless shelter as part of the Mother's Kitchen project. When I look back at almost 15 years since I've met Amma, I've had the privelege to meet and work with so many talented and devoted volunteers from all over the world, it truly amazes me. Amma encourages all of us to fearlessly do our part for each other and for our earth; to treat everything and everybody with respect and gratitude.
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Dear Blackbelt – I have a male friend that has developed a strong sexual attraction to me over the past 2 years of our 8-year friendship. He is supportive emotionally and I enjoy his company. He is a nice guy and gives me anything I desire, but I have no sexual desire for him as he openly does for me. There is flirtation between us, but I just can't help letting him know that sex is not something I see in our future. I'm young and single so I feel as though sex with someone I have no desire for would only complicate this situation. Is it wrong of me to continue to reap the benefits of our friendship, where I am the main beneficiary, or is it okay for me to go on as is, being that I have laid everything out on the table?
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It would probably be wise to start off any conversation about your status as friends or otherwise with any words other than "laid out on the table." If he's like most guys and is only half listening, he may get the wrong idea and think you're ready to get down to business right there in the restaurant in front of everybody.
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FATHERS who have signed up for paid parental leave complain they are being judged by their bosses and community.
Only a tiny amount of dads are using the federal government scheme, taking up just 1270 of 253,700 claims in two years.
And a report has revealed that one man was told by his employer the mother of his child would need to die in childbirth for him to qualify.
New figures have revealed the numbers of families who have signed up to the scheme, which pays new parents 18 weeks leave at the minimum wage, since January 2011.
And while women have benefited, a report prepared for the Families Department and released on International Women's Day has revealed the issues faced by men.
Just 0.5 per cent of claims were taken out by dads, who tended to be highly educated, employed full-time, wanted to spend time with family, and had a partner whose career meant she was paid more or couldn't take time off.
In NSW, 83,420 families took the leave in its first two years, in Victoria there were 64,900, in Queensland there were 49,650, in South Australia there were 17,340, in Tasmania there were nearly 5000, and the number in the Northern territory was 2500.
"Fathers who took Parental Leave Pay experienced a range of difficulties arising from negative views from employers and/or family, friends and the wider community," the report said.
They also had "major problems" with the application process, in which a eligible mother has to sign up and then transfer her leave to the father.
In seven in-depth interviews, men told of problems with employers.
"I actually had the HR manager tell my boss that it's not possible for a father to be the primary carer ... (and) the mother would have to die in childbirth for a father to get the leave," said one father, who had the company policy changed.
Others said while family and friends were "generally supportive", the wider community often was not.
"I actually had one woman in the chemist one day tell me that I was ridiculous, that I was taking my wife's role and (I) was very put off by it," one man said.
Another said mothers at school asked "what's wrong with your wife?"
But the men had good things to say about being stay-at-home dads.
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Picked up a few new pets via AH, mostly from holidays I've missed or am too impatient to wait for. I also got incredibly lucky yesterday. I picked up a rare Crow by chance as I was running around Darkmoon Isle on an alt after having just found a Darkmoon Eye in my last satchel for the month. Woohoo!
While doing some GL dailies, a spider dropped my 9th skyshard, leading to a great massacre of tricksters. Number 10 came surprisingly quick, and I am quite enjoying my new Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent. All these new shiny things really made up for how crappy raiding has been for me lately.
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I noticed something interesting and possibly unintentional about this pet's ability, Impale. When used on an enemy that is above 25% health, if the initial strike brings them below 25% the instant kill still triggers.
(e) My 11 Harbinger just took down a 23 Marsh Fiddler solo. A lucky Impale crit for 358 bringing it just under 25%, triggering the instant kill for 3.8k. This is potentially quite powerful for pvp and tamer battles.
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Does Windows 7 automatically install drivers?
I'm a noob here so go easy please
Ok so I got an MSDN membership for my birthday (Thanks Dad ) and I'm now downloading Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
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It should install them automatically, but its always a good idea to have them on hand in case you need them..
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Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit / XP Home sp3
Windows Seven comes with a ton of drivers for a lot of different hardware. Some are generic drivers that the hardware would be better served by going directly to the manufaturers site for updated drivers and others are fine. You can run the windows upgrade advisory tool to find out ahead of time if your going to run into any issues. Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor - Download - Microsoft Windows Once you have installed the Ultimate check your device manager to see if you have any yellow triangles on items if so you can post a snip of them here and we can help you find the drivers for that piece of hardware A Preferred Method of Uploading/Posting Screen Shots Welcome to seven forums Fabe
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February 24, 2005
Following the huge success of the original Sugar Hut in Fulham, London, owners Chris George, Gary Smith and Frazer Donaldson have taken on a 15th century coaching inn in the heart of Brentwood village. With its unique galleried courtyard playing an important role at the heart of the venue, the old hotel is now home to six different themed clubrooms, bars and restaurants. As a whole, the Sugar Hut Village holds nearly 900 people, dispersed through the Karma Bar, the Krug Suite, the Gallery Bar, the main restaurant, and other areas.
Having worked on the Sugar Hut in London and its sister venue, the KBar in Chelsea, local audio installation company Cosmic Electronics was called in to provide the all-important sound systems. "Volume just wasn't the issue at the Sugar Hut," explains Mark Damon. "This is not a disco, it's a very upmarket club, so the brief called for very precise, very high-quality audio. Nor did they want to see the actual speakers, so all the cabinets have been hidden behind drapes or concealed in decorative cabinets."
"the EVIDs have so much output relative to their size, they're compact and light so they can be installed onto simple wall-brackets"
Cosmic's choice of equipment was the EVID™ 'designer' speaker from Electro-Voice, supplied by Shuttlesound. The EVID range of compact, full-range loudspeakers was easily able to provide the power needed on the dance floor, as well as low-key background music for the seating and eating zones around the club.
"We were constrained in some ways by the fact that this is a listed building with low ceilings. However, the EVIDs have so much output relative to their size, they're compact and light so they can be installed onto simple wall-brackets, and their performance wasn't in the least affected by being hidden away behind cloth drapes."
Cosmic has installed 12 EVID 6.2s, with two 18" Eliminator subs, in the main clubroom where the dance floor is surrounded by seating. In the Gallery Bar, which is used for club members and VIPs, the formula changed slightly, calling for six of the smaller EVID 3.2 cabinets. And even more EVIDs can be heard in the Karma Bar…but not seen!


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QUEBEC -- Peter Stastny doesn't have any doubt the new economics of the NHL would mean a return of the Nordiques here would be a success.
The former captain of the Nordiques looks around at some of the cities in the NHL today and says, "Why not?"
"What's the difference between Edmonton and Quebec? There's no difference," said Stastny, who might get an argument from somebody out on La Grande Allee on a Saturday night. "The situation was tough (in Quebec) in the '80s and '90s, but after 2005, things changed."
Stastny pointed to the salary cap that came with the new CBA after the lockout, which wiped out the 2004-05 season. as the economic turning point.
"Things changed 180 degrees," he said. "With the ceiling (on salaries) and support (revenue sharing) from the league, with that new deal, I don't have the slightest doubt it will work.
"I know and love hockey and I want it to grow. Having Quebec back in the league would be a big positive for the NHL and the sport."
Of course, Stastny, who defected from Czechoslovakia with his brother Anton in 1980 (they were joined by brother Marian a year later) has always had a soft spot for La Vielle Capitale.
"My 10 years here was like 10 years in paradise," he said Saturday. "I came from a totalitarian regime that I hated with a passion. I knew I had no future there. I came here as a young man who knew hockey and knew freedom and I loved the hockey and the freedom. Coming here, I was almost shocked how accepted I was. It turned out to be more than I was looking for."
Anton and Marian were on hand Saturday, too.
"The peope love hockey here," said Marian. "On the other side (of the border), the arenas are not full. People are not interested in the southern United States. I think it's natural they move north.
"If it doesn't work, it's better for them to be in Quebec City where there's an atmosphere for hockey and the people here have hockey in their blood."
The couple of dozen ex-Nordiques on hand were impressed by the turnout.
"Two years ago this was nothing but a dream," said former Nordique Marc Fortier of the return of the NHL to Quebec. "Today it feels like a real possibility."


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I've looked into this and it's actually an issue with the PackageHtmlCheck. Rather than checking the fileset to see that it includes a corresponding package.html, it creates a File for package.html in the same directory as the java file and uses the exists() method. In order for this issue to be resolved, it would require either a fix in checkstyle or a new check implemented specifically for maven. In the end, I like to do things the maven way, but in this particular case, I'm not entirely sure that putting package.html files in a different directory even makes sense anyway. Why put just a small fraction of the javadocs in a different folder? It is a little odd to put resources like images there, but the package.html files just might be better off in src/main/java.
I think that this is no longer an issue, because of the solution of
MCHECKSTYLE-40. The build output directory is now included in the class path available to Checkstyle. The package.html files in src/main/javadoc do get copied to the build output directory, don't they?
You can try using the latest 2.2-SNAPSHOT version of this plugin.
The package.html files in src/main/javadoc do get copied to the build output directory, don't they?
No, these files are only copied to the report output directory. If they were copied to the build output directory, they would end up in the JAR which is not intended.


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[This post is for "Da G-Playa" -- you know who you
are ;-)]
There are two types of people in this world -- those who know
what you mean when you say "Azeeeez!", and those who don't.
I'm currently working on my third independent film. (I say
"my" but it's not like I've written or directed or acted in them... I
just help out). Don't bother asking what they were called, because you won't
have heard of any of them.
Yet 🙂
The first film I worked on was shot in
friend-of-a-sister-of-a-friend as a way to get into film school (The Victorian College of the Arts, like
many schools, likes you to have a "portfolio" of work to prove that
you have enough
talent to take up a place in the course). I got involved because my
friend's sister had a computer problem one night, and when I went around to fix
it the director (Yen)
was there working on his script. We got chatting about the script and stuff,
and I'd always wanted to work on a film "one day," so I got involved
in the shoot with the initial role of handling continuity. Well one thing
led to another and I ended up actually being a runner and a grip / lighting technician
for the shoot.
[Note that I'll be providing links to the IMDB Glossary for many terms here, but
they mainly apply to large productions; independent films tend to be staffed with
smaller volunteer crews who may not actually have any professional experience.
The roles are less clearly defined and people just end up doing whatever needs
to get done.]
As a grip I was basically responsible for taking orders from
the chief lighting technician (gaffer).
Put up a light here; run some cable there; strike (turn on) a light, turn it
off, turn it on again, move it left, up, back where it started; go get some ND
or a gel (things you put in front of lights to change their colour or reduce
their intensity). That kind of thing. I didn't have any kind of artistic input
into the film, but I did a lot of leg work and helped to Get Stuff Done.
The second film I worked on was Bullfights and Blackmail (working title: The 18th Suspect) where I was billed as
the Assistant Director. Most
people know that the Director
has overall artistic control of the film, but while the director is working
with the actors to get the
best performance, or with the Director
of Photography (cinematographer) to get the right shot composition or other
crew members on the current shot, the AD is doing stuff like getting organised
for the next shot (making sure actors are ready; sets are dressed correctly; etc.)
and (at least in this small production) doing things that a script supervisor
might do such as making sure that all the angles for each scene have been shot;
that no lines of dialog have been skipped; and so on. Again there is no real
artistic input into the film, but it's grunt work that has to be done to let
the artistic people (director, actors, DP, etc.) get their jobs done, and
without it there'd be some pretty nasty holes in the final cut of the film 😉
Of course, because this was a short film I also did a whole
bunch of other stuff, including operating the camera crane,
"dressing" sets, and doing more grip work (including, for instance,
sticking lots of black plastic bags to the windows of a house to simulate night
time, along with all the stuff mentioned before -- unpacking, setting up,
moving, and taking down lights; putting up gels or scrims,
etc.). I also did random silly stuff like:
- Hide
behind (and catch) a door that the leading actress slammed open so that it
didn't bounce back and hit her or make a loud noise
- Wrangle a large plant
that obscured an actor's face when shot from the front door of a house to
the car on the driveway
- Applying
duct tape to the main actor's sweater so he didn't get carpet burn when
dragged across the floor
I learnt a lot from the DP and the gaffer on that shoot, and
it was great fun working with the cast & crew.
The film I'm working on at the moment is actually a
feature-length action movie, which is a big change from the previous two (short
suspense / dramas). And I'm actually in charge of lighting (for some definition
of "in charge" 🙂 ) as well as the usual hands-on stuff like operating
the crane or being a dolly
grip or doing other random stuff. I even had a short speaking walk-on role in one scene
where I witness a crime and get knocked out by one of the bad guys... very
interesting and funny stuff happened after that, but you'll have to wait until
the movie is finished before I can tell you any more ;-).
But now I actually do stuff like decide where to put the
lights and how to mess around with creating depth and definition and other
artsy things. Of course I muddle through it for the most part (just like the JScript
engine), getting input from the director and another crew member who has
some formal training in lighting (but who is currently on vacation) but it's
kind of cool. I have some idea of what might look good and can play around with
the (very limited!) resources we have to try and get the best lighting for a
given scene.
At the most basic level, you want to use contrast to
differentiate foreground objects from background objects. Close one eye (so you
lose your stereoscopic
vision) and look around you. Notice how "flat" everything looks,
unless there is a noticeable difference in brightness between objects? (Try
this when you're a passenger in a car -- NOT
the driver! -- and notice how scary it suddenly becomes since you can't tell
how far away the car in front of you is). One common trick is to give actors a
"halo" effect by shining light on them from behind (more-or-less
facing towards the camera), called a "back light." If you look for it
in TV shows or movies, you'll see it all over the place. Another trick is to
have foreground lighting on the actor fade (eg) from left to right, but have
the background lighting fade from right to left, so you get contrast on both
sides but with some more variety (light-on-dark and dark-on-light). Maybe one
day I'll actually take some formal classes on the subject.
And that's it! I just thought I'd write this up since enough
people ask me what I do and now I can point them to this blog. I might even
send a link to my parents! 🙂
...And for those who don't know where "Azeeeez" comes
from, it is a reference to the brilliant movie The Fifth Element. An
archaeologist is trying to decipher some ancient hieroglyphics inside a temple,
and he has with him a child named "Aziz" who is supposed to be
reflecting light into the work area. Whenever Aziz falls asleep and lets the
reflector fall down, the archaeologist says "Azeeeez - LIGHT!"
Eventually he gets more light than he bargained for...


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Column: We've come a long, long way from dollar deals
WORTHINGTON -- I believe I have mentioned before that in the long, long ago that my dad had the Phillips 66 gas station on the Big Corner, the corner of Oxford and Humiston, where Walgreens is today. I was remembering days at the station last week as word came that the price of a gallon of gasoline has lifted above $4. Gas is copying the temperature, which earlier this month climbed 70 degrees in 58 hours.
Do you remember when the price of gas was 20 cents per gallon -- five gallons for $1? Now and again, there would be silent dealings. A man would drive his car up to the gas pumps with his arm out the window and a dollar bill between his thumb and forefinger. Often, he had his white shirt sleeve rolled over his elbow. This was a fad of that time. I would take the dollar bill and pump five gallons of gas. The driver would be on his way, no words exchanged.
If the driver wanted -- many drivers did want this -- I would check his oil as part of the one-dollar deal. Of course I would have washed his windshield and his rear window. I would have checked the air pressure in his tires. Some even wanted their radiators checked, or their batteries. It was a full-service operation.
I have lived with an eye on gasoline prices since that time. A lot of years. When the price started to climb, my dad would take a lot of razzing. Well, sometimes I got razzed, too:
"You must have bought a car; you charge more money for gas." "You must be planning a vacation; you charge more money for gas."
In fact, my dad (oh, I believe every dealer in the region) received a margin that almost never changed. Two cents per gallon. It made no difference whether the price of gas was 20 cents or $2.00. Earnings were two cents per gallon, or three cents. Most people knew this. Station operators would receive a phone call in a morning. "The price of gas is up a nickel." The price on the pump was changed, and life went on.
Gas at $4 is a mean reality. It forces up the price of nearly everything that comes to town on a truck, whether it's new cars or crates of lettuce. It also means the repair man ringing the door bell must charge a bit more.
The American media are given to praising the inventors of our time, the movers and shakers. Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. The tech crowd. I believe our inventors have failed in the one thing we would value most: devising an automobile without an internal combustion engine. Or devising an engine that would run on squeezings from grass and leaves. It was 105 years ago that Henry Ford turned out his first Model T, with a gas-burning engine. In more than a century we -- the billions of us on this earth -- have not found a way to improve on this.
I am inclined to blame the national news media and the politicians, in part. They are digging constantly, they tell us. "We will get to the bottom of this -- we will find out what is going on." They never have learned what is going on with the price of gasoline, however. "The reason for the hike in the price of gas is two refineries in Chicago are closed for maintenance." we were told. This is a lame explanation. I mean -- this is no explanation at all. Reporters and politicians just can't account for the price of gas.
Not that I do better. I remember a day when a dump truck stopped at the station for gas. I was still very new on that day. The driver asked me to check his oil. I added a quart; the oil still was not gurgling up the way it does when you fill a gas tank. I added another quart. And another quart. "What are you up to?" the driver wondered. "The oil is way down," I said. "It still isn't full." I am embarrassed to this day when I tell that story. Another case of, "We live and learn."
Ray Crippen is a former editor of the Daily Globe. His column appears on Saturdays.


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Hid a large open baffle low woofer
OK, maybe this isn't the only OB thread in the subwoofer forum. But this thread could be in Multi-Way (with most of the OB threads) or Planar (where the folks just love OB sound).
I've always been dismayed over boxed sound but you can't fight the laws of physics when it comes to long-wave cancellation, esp. when aiming for output in the 30-110 Hz range. But where do you hide a 5 foot diameter board?
Of immediate research interest to me was controlling room modes. Seemed to me that about the best you could do to fight room modes is OB with a large expanse of outlet along a wall and doubly so, if you were adding that to a corner Klipschorn.
A lot of folks follow the logic of Linkowitz. They build tiny baffles that start eating the waves above the speaker's range. Odd? Then they use a simple EQ network to move the cone progressively more far enough at declining frequencies to compensate for the cancellation. This demands several inches of excursion at lowest frequencies. The electronic circuitry is simple, but the demands on the drivers are ridiculous - a case of the tail wagging the dog.
Soooo, I had a table in my music room. Below is what it looks like underneath.
... and I installed a speaker facing the wall. See picture. The driver is a 1967 Stephens Trusonic 150W, 15 inches, free air resonance around 20 Hz, 2.5 lbs of alnico magnet. I have a few sparse parameters, if anybody is interested. The best of that era, but I wonder about today?
It is hard to describe the shape of the baffle board and total distance from the front of the driver to the back. The front of the driver faces the room wall from about 3 inches - so maybe there is a bit of front loading. Think in terms of a circle, then very roughly:
1. 145 degrees shoved tightly into the carpet... no sound getting through there.
2. 70 degrees (at the left and right sides) are to the edges of the 60 inch baffle board; so the sound has a path of about 60-65 inches.
3. 145 degrees (upwards to the top of the board) means the sound has to go up the baffle board and then across the width of the table top moving from the wall, and then under the table top to the driver's rear, about 65-75 inches.
None of those dimensions are constant curves, as you can see. That beneficially smears the path lengths and the interaction with the room.
Results: with 5-10 db of "tone control" and "loudness" boost at 50 Hz, sounds pretty good. Organ music very nice indeed, maybe "airy", although, paradoxically, it doesn't demand the lowest freq. from the speaker for perceiving the pedals, just for feeling them. Falls short of what I am used to on large bass drums, see Signature. My sense, using my ancient bass sweep tone, is that the speaker rolls off from maybe 60 Hz which I'd characterize as the place where the OB cancellation starts to bite. Glad to hear from the simulators out there what it ought to sound like.
Yes, does a pretty nice job smoothing room resonances on its own. When I add the Klipsch back in, some of the hills-and-valleys are back. Maybe I'll need to run the Klipsch, AR, and OB to have low freq. as well as smooth room response.
Interesting discovery, OBs shake at low frequencies, even when the whole "speaker" assembly weighs around 100+ lbs. You need cinder blocks or attaching it to the building structure. In that way it is different from other enclosures. Ever think of that? I wonder why I never read that before... maybe few people have tried to get seriously low freq. from a stand-alone OB. Very low frequencies might be helped if I anchor or weigh-down the speaker; obvious challenges there.
Preliminary final thoughts. The sound is nice, just as the Planar crowd say,although "nice" is a hard term to apply to the rudimentary requirements of good bass. Room modes nicely wrangled. In the long run, I am not sure a high sub-woofer (with weak sub-40 Hz content) helps my system.
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|21st September 2010, 06:53 PM
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Hi bentoronto,
could you please make a sketch showing the
dimensions and distances to the walls ?
Position of the whole assembly in the room ?
It seems that you are heavily mass loading the
driver in proximity to the wall and facing the wall.
And the driver has already far too low free air
Doesn't look like a killer in efficiency ...
Making use of wall proximity is different with OB's
i guess ...
If you want to have some fun with the old table
- make the drivers cutout near the corner of the table top
(and close the current cutout)
- place the table top upright, the long edge as airtight as possible
aligned with a side wall (e.g. blankets as a gasket).
- the driver in the edge of the room between side wall and bottom
- the radiation axis (orthogonal to the table top) pointing in
parallel to the longest dimension of the room
- then play with the distance to the next corner in the room
(> 1,2m) and move the assembly along the edge until something
of interest happens.
Kind Regards
Oliver, RFZ believer (?)
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|21st September 2010, 08:53 PM
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Thanks for your comments and suggestions. I know you are a journeyman builder of admirable OBs. I hope you don't mind my criticism of the Linkowitz strategy.
The driver baffle board is 3.75 inches from the wall throughout its surface. So the "mouth" the driver is driving is about 170 sq inches at the edge, comparable to the cone surface area, and expanding linearly with the distance. Doesn't sound like much of a constraint.
Likewise, I am running short of good corners with large ESL panels, Klipshorns, doors, windows, etc. vying for corners to nest in. Part of my intention was to have mid-wall speaker placement to honor Toole's recommendation as far as combating room resonances when you already have a corner speaker (Klipschorn). While going quarter-pi, as you suggest would greatly help the OB, it isn't practical for me except for research purposes.
I'm a bit short on fancy woofers this morning. This driver will have to do for now. But I suppose I could sand some weight off the cone and raise the resonance. Clowning aside, like the Duchess of Windsor said, "you can't be too thin or too wealthy or have a low enough resonance." Further misquoting aside, I am allergic in an old fashioned way to "engineering solutions" that represent a kind of degradation of parameters.
While I am glad to hear your suggestions, my intuitions about geometry and acoustics suggests there's no better mid-wall arrangement than what I have in terms of the primary wave cancellation challenge but perhaps not in all second-order design goals.
After some more testing and listening, the system of Klipschorn and OB sound pretty good. DB math being what it is, the Klipschorn holds up the bass end even if the OB is kind of off the map below 45 (starts weakening around 100 Hz) and a bit of EQ does the rest (in addition to my present commitment to using the loudness button for boost at low volume levels). I don't know if my SPL meter is faulty, but the OB pumps out some sound at 20 Hz (although weaker above that). Go figure.
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Aquarium Stands - Tank for your fish Stands and Aquarium Furniture
Fish tank stand
Significance of Deciding on a PROPER FISH TANK STAND
Without the right planning, aquarium owners use whatever possible to place the fish tank. Shoe rack or desk aren't suitable. They're not as strong since they seem. Neither are they eye appealing towards the eyes in the event the aquarium furniture colors aren't coordinated using the house setting. Don't allow your aquarium become an eyesore with messy accessories in all places.
Fish tank stand
Setting up an aquarium tank stand is a significant investment, so it is worthwhile to find out how to pick the best stand for your aquarium.
Generally, dive bombs under 20 gallon may be placed on sturdy desks or shelves. If however your aquarium is heavier than 20 gallon, consider getting a dedicated aquarium stand.
CRITERIA For picking A FISH TANK STAND
To select the right fish tank, there are 2 main criteria: Firstly it should safely support the tank for your fish. Secondly, the aquarium furniture should blend using the house setting.
1. Stand Must support the the aquarium.
The support is not only depending on the sized the tank but also its filled weight. When it comes to size, the size of the stand should be longer than along the tank for your fish. Probably the most common errors is underestimating the load with the tank once it's filled up with water. A litre water weighs one kilogram. As well as the water, you will end up adding substrate for that bottom, and this is heavy. The actual weight of aquarium also depend upon the sort of materials used. Glass tanks are two times as heavy as acrylic tanks.
2 Aquarium furniture must blend with house setting.
Three factors bring about the blending - the material used, the colour and also the design.
a. Material.
The most typical materials employed for the aquarium stand are wood, metal and acrylic. Consider medical of every material.
A Wooden stand is more epensive than metal or acrylic stand. It's harder to shift it around. The looks is a lot more pleasing. It often comes with drawers to hold accessories. Wood is suitable for heavier size tank weighing above 40 gallon or 152 liters.
Unlike wood metal get rusty. The advantages are that it is lighter and simpler to shift if you wish to relocate the aquarium. It really is cheaper. It looks decorative with embellished iron scroll. It's ideal for up-and-coming small to medium size tanks (weighing 40 gallon and below).
Acrylic has the benefit of being lighter with increased choice of color however it is much less sturdy as wood or metal. It really is suitable for smaller size dive bombs.
b. Color
The aquarium color should complement another furniture in the home. Treat the fish stand as though it were an item of furniture.
b. Design
The are two forms of design - open or closed. Metal fish tanks seldom have drawers. You can improvise it by covering it using a curtain to skirt the front and sides. Wooden aquarium stands are generally closed because they have inbuilt cabinets to hold fish accessories for example filter, pump, food, etc. It hides the messes in the guests.
Where you should PLACE THE STAND
Place it against the wall so that children is not going to accidentally knock regarding this. Makes it placed on a flat even floor. For that survival from the fish, avoid sunshine. The most common place to put will be the living room where it can be viewed by guests and share pride of place beside the Tv.
Apply these guidelines along with what you will have can be a handsome aquarium stand whose color coordinates along with your other furniture, a stand that safely keep the weight of one's tank, with storage space to maintain the accessories and also the mess out of sight.