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Trying To Tame The Blackboard Jungle
To understand the educational challenges facing India, pay a visit to Dharavi, a poor and densely populated Bombay neighborhood. Its lanes are so small and winding that no vehicles can traverse them. Open drains run outside the crudely built brick and corrugated metal homes, and garbage is piled high every few yards. The area, where 1 million of Bombay's poorer migrants live, is Asia's largest slum.
This is the home of the Dharavi Transit Camp School, one of two in the neighborhood run by the municipal corporation. Outside the high school gates, ragged, half-naked children play amid scattered garbage. Some run in and out of the gates, but nobody stops them. There is no school guard, and the teachers who pass through don't bother. The school, four stories high, is shorn of paint and looks grim under the monsoon clouds.
It's past noon, and schoolchildren are starting to straggle in for the afternoon shift of classes. The girls wear blue pinafores, the boys blue shorts and shirts. Many are barefoot. Like most state-run schools in Bombay, the Transit Camp School runs classes up to seventh grade, in two shifts, with each floor teaching classes in a different language, reflecting the regional origins of its 6,000 students. Blackboards, tables, and benches crowd the 12 classrooms on each floor. With 100 students per class, the sessions sometimes spill into the corridors.
On this day, Gautam Dandage, a cement spreader, has brought his 8-year-old daughter, Ujwala, to school. She is doing O.K. in class but his older son, he complains, has lost his motivation. "My son failed because of the class master. He never showed up for class all year," Dandage gripes. The deputy head teacher, Sampat Bhandare, tries to shush the worried father, explaining that the teacher in question was sick and the school could not find a replacement. Dandage isn't convinced.
A day at school in Dharavi is a vivid lesson in India's education gap. In a nation striving to be a global leader in brainpower, the Transit Camp School underscores the enormous scale of India's struggle to provide adequate education for its youth. India has the world's youngest, potentially most productive population. Nearly 500 million Indians are under age 19. In primary school alone, some 202 million students are taught by 5.5 million teachers in 1 million schools.
Yet while free and compulsory primary education became law in 2001, the quality of learning is poor and the failure rate is high. Even in fifth grade, some 35% of Indian children cannot read or write, according to Pratham, India's largest education nonprofit group. According to government statistics, just a quarter of students make it past eighth grade, and only 15% get to high school. Of the 202 million who start school, only about 7%, or 14 million, graduate. And without a fully literate population, India won't easily sustain the demands and aspirations of its people or become a global power. "The government is failing our youth," says Vimala Ramachandran, an education specialist and author of Getting Children Back to School.
Increasingly, Indian parents want their children educated, particularly in English and computing. That's not only critical for youth; it's the key to India's development. Education is a "ticket out of poverty," says New Delhi economist Surjit Bhalla. Parents understand that when India began to grow in the 1980s and 1990s, the educated got better jobs -- "even if it meant going to the Gulf states and achieving blue- collar success," Bhalla notes.
But India's state system just isn't meeting people's aspirations. "It's two decades behind the population's needs," says Madhav Chavan, founder and program director of Pratham. Poor-quality teachers, a politicized education department, outdated learning methods, and the pressures Indian children face at home are just some of the roots of India's education gap. Many girls drop out of school after fourth grade, for example, to do household chores while their parents work. Just half of India's girls are literate, vs. nearly three-fourths of boys.
Indians can't blame the government for not trying to improve the situation. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has thousands of schemes aimed at enhancing educational opportunities. The most ambitious is the 2001 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, or universal education incentive program. Its $2.4 billion annual budget provides students with a meal a day, free textbooks, medical care, and remedial classes. The Congress Party, which returned to power in New Delhi last year, is pushing the agenda even further. The government's spending on education has gone from 3% of gross domestic product last year to 4% this year, and is expected to rise to 6% soon.
These efforts are making an impact. Almost 90% of all children are now enrolled in school -- up from 75% in 2000. Yet the growth is a strain for some schools. In the poorer regions of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, class sizes are now "too large to manage," says Venita Kaul, who oversees World Bank education projects in India. The Bank is providing $500 million for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan budget over three years until 2007.
Despite increased enrollments, graduation ratios are falling -- even in top states such as Maharashtra, where Bombay is located. This year, 57% of the 10th-grade students in Maharashtra passed their final exams -- a big drop from last year when 67% cleared the exam. "We aim for a zero dropout and failure rate," says Abasaheb Jadav, who is project director for the federal government's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Bombay. Good intentions aside, the experts say India's educational system faces its most serious challenges at the classroom level.
Start with the teachers. State-employed teachers earn up to $300 a month and often four times as much as private school teachers. But they are poorly trained, unmotivated, and often commandeered for other government services like election duty or overseeing polio vaccination drives. Consequently, teacher -- and hence student -- absenteeism is high. At the same time, increased enrollments -- thanks to the midday meal now required in all schools -- have caused a teacher shortage. As a result, in many schools, teachers have to handle up to four different grades at once, another blow to the quality of schooling.
Another issue is infrastructure. The government is boosting spending on schools, books, and classroom equipment, but the funding often doesn't reach the remote rural areas. In Bihar, India's poorest state, schools are crumbling buildings lacking roofs, windows, or blackboards. In Behrampur, a village about three hours away from the capital of Patna, the broken-down single-room school serves as a playground for the village's 200 children. Locals say the schoolmaster comes by every three or four days. Devbali Rai, a 30-year-old farmer, is near despair. "We want schooling. Our children must study," he says.
Adding to the cauldron of problems is a curriculum crisis fueled by political rivalries. In 1998, when the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party won the national elections, education became the first target of revisionist historians. School textbooks were rewritten to reflect the BJP's ultra-nationalist ideology. Then the Congress government reverted to the original facts when its party defeated the BJP in national elections last year. Now parents and teachers worry that another election will mean more tinkering with the school syllabi and textbooks. "This oscillating between the orthodoxies of the right and the left, the yo-yo-like swings in curricula, is driving parents and teachers mad," says Kanti Bajpai, headmaster of the Doon School, the country's most elite school.
All these difficulties are accelerating the rush to India's 100,000-plus private schools. For decades private schools such as the Doon School, modeled after Britain's Eton, have catered to the elite. Now even poor students are enrolling in private schools, where the tuition can range from $24 a year in remote villages to $15,000 at the top end. In underdeveloped states many private schools are just single rooms in village homes. But even in cramped surroundings students learn enough to take a school-graduating exam.
Despite the proliferation of private schools, few experts believe they are the solution to India's educational challenges. True, they tend to be better than their state counterparts. But many are unregulated, and they still serve just a fraction of the population. Privatizing education, while often suggested by experts, isn't the answer either. India is too large, and many of its poorest parts are so remote that few private educators would want to teach there.
Yet some experiments are taking place that could provide models for education reform. ICICI Bank has invested in organizations such as Vidya Bhavan Society that are experimenting with alternate teaching systems to replace rote memorization. One of its projects is in the state of Chattisgarh, which three years ago was carved out of the large and poor state of Madhya Pradesh with the idea that smaller states could be governed more easily. "We were new and inexperienced, we needed everyone's help," recalls Sanjay Kumar Ojha, an official whom New Delhi sent to help the state's Education Dept. Ojha and team have readied a new set of textbooks, plus teacher recruiting and training programs, in just two years. The new curriculums will be introduced in 2006. If successful, Chattisgarh could become a model.
Encouraged by such efforts, Pratham's Chavan confidently predicts "a major change in the provision of education" in the coming years. The driving force will be parents who desperately want to educate their children in English. In Kashmir, the government has already switched to an English-language-based school education from the first grade. Even in conservative, Hindi-dominated Rajasthan, English as a language is now taught from the first grade. The state of Kerala, which stood alone in India for its 99% literacy rate, is now joined by Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh in the north. Such efforts could one day help India close its education gap.
By Manjeet Kripalani


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I am planning to make the 'moist chocolate raspberry g?noise' from RHC. The picture looks to good not to make it
Earlier I bought a lot of chocolate, a nice belgium chocolate, but now I saw that the recipe askes for 60-62% of chocolate for the genoise as well as for the raspberry ganache. What will happen when I put my 46% chocolate in there? Will the ganache be firm enough, or can I expect a problem? The ganache askes for some white chocolate as well.. could I substitute if with my 46% dark chocolate to gain the same result?
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WSearch is a browser hijacker that takes over Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. The program infiltrates to random computers bundled with other software that users are downloading by themselves. Once inside the system, it modifies your system's parameters and performs many unwanted actions.
WSearch replaces your default search engine and homepage. Although it looks like a regular search provider, in fact it redirects to many commercial websites and also includes these pages to your search results. WSearch can also reroute you to some malicious websites where your system can easily be infected with malware or other types of infections.
Be very careful with your downloads if you want to avoid programs like WSearch infiltrating into your computer. If you follow the steps of each installation, you will be able to see what additional programs are bundled with the main one. Refuse installing any unknown ones to your computer.
To remove WSearch, delete it from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs list . It is recommended to uninstalling ALL programs installed on the same date as problems have appeared. Some versions of this virus installs software that block browser settings from changing. To identify them, scanning with Reimage, SpyHunter or other reputable antispyware tool might be useful. Then you can uninstall the extensions and reset settings in your browsers.
How To remove WSearch from Internet Explorer:
- Click arrow on the right of search box
- Do following: On IE8-9 choose Manage Search providers, On ie7 click change search defaults
- Remove the WSearch from the list
How To remove WSearch from Firefox :
- Enter "about:config" in url bar. This will open settings page
- Type "Keyword.url" in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Type "browser.search.defaultengine" in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Type "browser.search.selectedengine" in the search box. Right click it & reset it.
- Search for 'browser.newtab.url'. Right-click and reset. This will make sure that the search page won't launch on each new tab.
- If the settings revert and scan with anti-malware programs are clean: Close Firefox, open file explorer and enter %AppData% in the address bar. enter user.js in search box. If this file exists, rename it and start Firefox again. You will have to repeat the steps above.
How To remove WSearch from Google Chrome:
- Click 3 horizontal lines icon on browser toolbar.
- Select Settings.
- Select Basics ->Manage Search engines.
- Remove unnecessary search engines from the list.
- Go back to settings. On Startup choose open blank page ( you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
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"Of all the Presidents I've served or observed, George W. Bush is the least receptive to the opinion of others. He has no interest in what others think and he doesn't listen to the advice of experts or professionals."
"It's the best reception you can get from coast-to-coast without adding a lot of extras. It's a very strong signal no matter where you are."
"I believe the General Assembly would be receptive if we see a really sharp spike in prices because of Hurricane Rita."
"They have reduced the audience's level of receptivity to a bunch of monkeys asking for the same peanuts. And they are the same organ grinders giving it to them. If that sounds extreme, it's not. It's true."
"Kohl's has been in turnaround mode for quite a while, and that's finally kicking in. There's been good reception for some of their new brands."
"I played most of my shots exactly like I wanted to. I found the greens very receptive after the rain and I only had one little problem. That was at the 13th hole where I hit a ball into a fairway divot. Other than that I made the most of the putts that I was supposed to."
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That's how I describe my Gypsy to those wanting to know "what is it?" It's like the Design Studio Software only without the computer. I love the car charger - although the battery gives you 4 hours of charge time. It's light and very user friendly and beats taking a book to read when you have time to kill waiting for the kids or traveling in the car. I absolutely love it. One really cool feature is that you can see every single image a cartridge offers - every cartridge that's been made.
The bad thing is - the only instructions included in the box is how to turn it on. You have to go to cricut.com and view the message boards for instructions. You can download a copy of the user manuel but it's like 30 pages to print. Basically, you register your gypsy; download the gypsy sync software, download the trial version of the design studio (if you don't already own it) and using an usb cord (which is not included in the box) and hook your computer up to your cricut to download the latest firmware. You can only link a cartridge to one gypsy but you can still use them on any cricut. If you need to get a replacement Gypsy, return it to provo craft, they can reinsert cartridge codes with your replacement, otherwise you've lost the use of all your cartridges in the replacement gypsy. The message boards are quite helpful. I don't consider myself a "techie" but was able to wade through this fairly easily - which was not the case for many people who bought this gem at the World Launch.
All in all, set up took a bit, (mainly because a gazillion people were all trying to figure it out at once) but I love, love love it now and everyone I show it too (true scrappers) drool!
I find that it has everything I need and MORE!
PROS: I think the ability to use any mat whili designing gives flexibility. Placing items anywhere you want is great! the angling and turn functions are just a few of my favorites, as is the hide function!l I linked all my carts and love having them with me! With DS that carting carts, your laptop, and your regular crop stuff to the lab? NO FUN. now it is my bag and my Gypsy. Yes, DS has some of these too but when you are on DS it is a little more difficult to do. You can't see the buttons as clearly as you can the Gypsy. Via zoom button you can. You can work in the car (AS PASSENGER ONLY) with the car adapter. Or take it out, 4 hour life with fully charged battery.
CONS: The screen is small so for when I have tired eyes and I'm feeling a little seeing impaired I use the DS. Without the stylus it is difficult to maneuver. If they had a stylus with one of those ergo big cushy rubber things I would be set!
I Think this is my new best scrap buddy!
I got this awesome tool as a gift from my sweetie for Christmas. I seriously don't remember how I ever went without it. I love the fact that I can quickly and easily scroll through the cartridges and view what I have with a tap on the screen. It sure beats having to open up packaging time and again, flipping through booklets and getting it all set up once I've decided what I want to cut. It has saved me tons of time. I also love that you can easily cut varies sizes of shapes at the same time without having to cut, adjust the size, and cut again. Like the others have said, it does take time to figure it out because it didn't come with a manual. (how silly is that?!) But once you do a little research on the web, you get the hang of it pretty quickly. It's simple to sync your cartridges, too. I give this 5 stars-easily. I love this little thing!
I wanted one of these for a while, but finally broke down and bought one when ProvoCraft had the promotion for free cart downloads. (Can I just say I adore Smiley Cards?)
There is a learning curve. Watch videos on Youtube and blogs - just search and you'll find tons! I looked at the manual online, but for me the video tutorials were much much easier!
I love that I can design in the car, sitting in a waiting room, or just on the sofa while my hubby is working on the computer! I can save my projects and cut them out when I have time! I also love that I can upload pictures of my favorite projects, sketches, etc. for inspiration wherever I go!
I haven't had any trouble with mine at all! I had one cartridge that wouldn't link, and PC sent me a replacement that worked! Highly recommend the Gypsy!
This is my new favorite toy! It was a Christmas present from my DH, and within a few hours I was already hooked!
The functions and features are very similar to the Design Studio (DS) software so it takes almost no time to get the hang of everything if you are already familiar with the DS.
It is my constant companion now, I even take it to work to design on my lunch breaks :)


text: I am refinishing and glazing the double hung windows in my house (3 over 1 I believe they are called) and I would like to replace the vertical trim pieces in the top window pane. At one time I thought I had seen adhesive backed muttons (?) that would take the place of the originals. I'd like to know if they are indeed available and where I can purchase them.


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Windows comes up third in OS clash two years early
Microsoft's Windows, which in 2015 fell to third place among the world's operating systems, will continue to lose share this year to Android and Apple's combined OS X and iOS.
Microsoft's Windows, which in 2015 fell to third place among the world's operating systems, will continue to lose share this year to Android and Apple's combined OS X and iOS.
Both Apple and Samsung this week predicted slow growth for smartphone and mobile phone sales in early 2016, making investors queasy.
The engineering reorganization currently underway at Cisco is intended to streamline product development and delivery to customers, Cisco says.
The HTC One and the Sony Xperia Z are set to hit the market soon, but which phone is right for you?
Google's Android 4.0 operating system is more than just another upgrade.
Japan's biggest electronics and gadgets show, Ceatec, runs all of next week and many new technologies and prototype gadgets are expected to be on show.
A lot has changed in the 20 years since the first laptop computers appeared, including gigahertz processors, color screens, optical drives and wireless data. However, one thing that has stubbornly stayed the same is the conventional clamshell format with its hinged display lid that opens to reveal a mechanical keyboard.
Adam Blum, CEO of startup Rhomobile, says 90% of the programs being written with his company's open source mobile application framework are by ISVs and the other 10% by enterprises, but over time he'd like to see those percentages reversed.
Some of these 10 intriguing mobile gizmos, including a connected GPS unit, external iPhone speakers, a Bluetooth headset, and a gadget charger, are fairly mainstream. The others, well, not so much.


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33rd National Veterans Wheelchair Games
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games are a multi-event sports and rehabilitation program for military service Veterans who use wheelchairs for sports competition due to spinal cord injuries, amputations or certain neurological problems.
Attracting more than 500 athletes each year, the games, being held this year in Tampa, Florida from July 13-18, are the largest annual wheelchair sports event in the world.
In 2012, Veteran Pete Moore from Boston participated in one of the toughest competitions wheelchairs can offer — the slalom. Read his story of the challenges faced every day by Veterans in wheelchairs.
The presenters of this event are committed to improving the quality of life for Veterans with disabilities and fostering better health through sports competition.
While past games have produced a number of national and world-class champions, the games also provide opportunities for newly-disabled Veterans to gain sports skills and be exposed to other wheelchair athletes. Typically, one quarter of the competitors have never participated in any type of organized wheelchair sports competition.
Phillip Rosenberg received a Purple Heart for his service in Vietnam. Another chapter in a family of heroes, his father and three uncles had served in World War II. He's been at the games since 1982.
Events Range from Table Tennis to Power Soccer
The games are presented by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Paralyzed Veterans of America with financial assistance from corporate, civic and Veteran service organizations.
The hosts this year are the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa and the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America.
Competitive events at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games include air guns, archery, basketball, bowling, field events, handcycling, a motorized wheelchair rally, nine-ball, power soccer, quad rugby, slalom, softball, swimming, table tennis, track, trapshooting and weightlifting.
The games are made possible by great volunteers like Peg Holliday who has been volunteering to help Veterans since 1942. Last year, she drove a bus every day to get Veterans to their events.
Athletes compete in all events against others with similar athletic ability, competitive experience or age.
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Wednesday, 5 February, 2003, 13:24 GMT
Astronauts had 'minute's warning'
The crew of the doomed Columbia space shuttle would have known something was wrong with the spacecraft for more than a minute before it began to break apart, relatives of one of the astronauts have said.
"One second is like 20 years."
News of the astronauts' probable final moments comes amid reports that the US space agency (Nasa) was warned at least nine years ago that a space shuttle flight could end in disaster if tiles protecting critical wing parts were damaged by debris.
Footage examined
Nasa, which has expanded its search for debris, said it hopes to review footage taken by a US military helicopter above Texas. This may include pictures of the shuttle's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Nasa officials also want to examine amateur video footage taken of the shuttle over California which is said to show the craft breaking up.
Ilan Ramon's brother, Gadi, said he had been told by Nasa officials that the astronauts most likely perished as soon as the shuttle began to disintegrate.
"We apparently will never know if they suffered," he told an Israeli newspaper.
Prior warning?
As investigations continue, damage to the heat-resistant tiles is emerging as a leading theory for Columbia's catastrophic end.
The most vulnerable spots on the shuttle were the undersides of both wings close to the fuselage and right under the crew compartment, he said.
"There are very important tiles under there; if you lose the tiles on those stretches... it can cause the shuttle to be lost," Professor Fischbeck told the Associated Press news agency.
Nasa shuttle programme manager Ron Dittemore has confirmed that Nasa engineers are still focusing on the possibility that a piece of insulating foam - which fell off and struck the shuttle during lift-off - damaged the shuttle's heat-resistant tiles near a wheel well.
However, Mr Fischbeck stressed that it was still not certain if debris had been the cause of the disaster.
Several Nasa employees and former astronauts who worked on previous missions have said that almost all shuttles return to Earth with tiles damaged by space debris.
Authorities said that material found in the two western states could be from the wings. This could lend weight to the possibility that the shuttle was experiencing problems sooner than originally thought.
"Early debris early in the flight path would be critical because that material would obviously be near the start of the events," said a senior Nasa official, Michael Kostelnik.
"It would clearly be very important to see the material earliest in the sequence."
Remains recovered
Ilan Ramon's remains have now been identified using DNA and dental records, Israeli reports say.
His body will be flown to Israel in the coming days after a service in Texas.
"This is a relief to all of us, especially the family," Brigadier General Rani Falk, an Israeli air force attache in Washington, told the Associated Press.
Nasa has reportedly recovered some remains of at least three other crew members but has not yet released their names.
During a memorial service for Ramon and his six colleagues on Tuesday, President George W Bush led the tributes and vowed that the "cause of discovery" would go on.
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A POPULAR fireworks display that was called off after attendance soared to an unprecedented level could return this year as a ticketed event.
Great Aycliffe Town Council (GATC) was forced to cancel its annual display in Newton Aycliffe last year, as officers were worried its growing popularity would make it difficult to manage safely.
This week (Wednesday, February 26), the council's recreation committee discussed a proposal to resurrect the free fireworks display as a ticket-only event at Oakleaf Sports Complex.
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Leisure manager Judith Thexton also outlined plans to fence off access routes to the venue, increase security at authorised entrance points and publicise the "ticket-only" nature of the display in the press and on signs on the night.
Council leader, Councillor Bob Fleming, praised the report and said it should be sent to the Safety Advisory Group (SAG) for approval as soon as possible.
"I think the officers have addressed all of the problems that caused us to cancel our fireworks display last year," he added.
Yet despite the positive outlook this year, there are fears the cost of fulfilling the additional health and safety requirements could continue to rise and jeopardise the display's long term future.
Last August, the decision to cancel the event caused a public outcry, with hundreds of people joining a campaign group on Facebook called "Save our firework display at Newton Aycliffe."
It followed a record turnout in 2012, when 15,000 people, three times the usual number, attended the spectacle.
The surge was attributed to the loss of organised events in Darlington and Bishop Auckland.
This year, a budget of £15,000 has been set aside for the event –around £4,000 more than the final cost in 2012.
After the meeting, Councillor John Clare posted a warning on the campaign group's Facebook page: "We can afford this for the moment but - given the Government's unending downward pressure on council finances - no one can say how long the town council will be able to continue funding a fireworks display at maybe double the cost."
Ken Robson, chairman of the campaign group, said he would carry on fighting to ensure the fireworks continue for years to come.
He described the proposals as a step in the right direction, adding: "It is super news about this year's fireworks. All credit to council staff and councillors for their endeavours."


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I've been asked a few times recently how to use certain forms of social media. There's no catch-all answer, but over the years I've evolved a personal MO for each outlet that I use. As is fitting with evolution, these uses are subject to change and/or obsolescence. Here's how it currently stands:
Not Right About Anything is my outlet for the majority of my work. I like to comment on current events, as well as create cartoons, graphics and videos. I did such things long before the Internet was a thing to most civilians, so I find that having this platform works well for me. I treat it as a publication, giving its entries the most time, energy and review (even if it doesn't seem like it sometimes). I recommend a blog platform to those with more to say than social networks allow, and who want a potentially wider audience. When I started this blog in 2004, social media had yet to catch fire, and it was frequently the center of my online communication. Direct feedback has trailed off considerably since then, but the focus of content has changed little in nine years.
Advice: Blogs are an involved form of social media. If you find yourself writing a lot, it might be useful. If you're into shorter prose, or want to share with just a handful of people, Facebook and Twitter might be better.
Currently, I use Facebook to make witty statues to make friends laugh, and/or share personal details that I'm comfortable to share with my friends, relatives, co-workers and former bosses. When I first signed on in 2005, Facebook was exclusively a college site. As the status feature evolved and the site's reach expanded to everyone, I wrote less about politics and other controversial topics and became more neutral, not to mention more careful in my words. I'm still funny, though, I like to think. Given the site's reach, I find myself perhaps most mindful as to what I say and share there than anywhere else.
Advice: Chances are you're on Facebook already. If somehow you're not but are curious, it's probably the best place to start online.
I was a relative latecomer to Twitter, joining in 2010. I demurred for awhile, because I frankly wasn't impressed with 140 characters; I'm not known for brevity. Anyway, everything I heard about Twitter suggested that it was an even more insipid version of the old MySpace bulletin board. But it grew on me, and now I like it very much. It allows me to toss off one-liners to an instant audience, as well as see an amazing cross-section of live-tweets from other people. And not just friends, but athletes, actors, politicians, professors, pundits, scientists, businesses and publications. It's where I, like millions of Americans, first learned of Osama bin Laden's death. I like also that I can share my links to a different audience than the blogosphere and Facebook. And that I can live-tweet events in a way that is less annoying to followers than it used to be on Facebook. This also helps tremendously in the frequent instances that I regret tweeting something. Additionally, I often test out blog ideas in their infancy on Twitter, and sometimes participate in memes that later become rich blog fodder (such as Aged Bands and Rejected Olympic Events).
Advice: Twitter is terrific even if you choose to never tweet. Follow the right people — they don't have to follow you back, another bonus — and you might feel like you're in the coolest town square anywhere. If you do tweet, you'll learn the art of being short and concise. That's useful to everyone.
I'm on it, but I don't use it very much. I feel like if it predated Facebook, nobody would have ever heard of Mark Zuckerberg. Google+ has video chat, which I'm amazed hasn't caught on like it should; after all, weren't TV phones always representative of the future? The future is here, friends. I may use this more in the future when I move away again. That remains to be seen.
Advice: If you're into video hangouts and smaller Facebook-type circles, look no further. But if you want to find me, I'm more likely to be elsewhere. I could see myself using this more if I became semi-famous or otherwise sought out for some reason.
I never especially cared for MySpace, and I signed on in late 2006 only because it filled in the friend gaps that Facebook did not yet reach. Having blogged for two years already and being used to the clean, HTML-friendly stylings of Facebook, the garish frames of MySpace and the nickname system seemed juvenile by comparison. But for a couple of years, it served its own niche for me. I blogged very personal entries, the kind of things that I wanted only my close circle of friends to see. I also used it for a few months as a weekly aggregate of my Not Right blog entries (not that anyone cared). Later, the bulletin board became a must-read. But it died out quite suddenly when Facebook opened its virtual doors to everyone, leaving MySpace to become a ghost town of Mafia Wars players and spammy friend requests. I still have a profile, but mainly because I've been dragging my feet about saving the photos that I don't have anywhere else. With the site's new redesign, I may have to get on that pronto.
Advice: If you're into music, MySpace might be worthwhile. But its relevance as a social network is long over.
I hear a lot about LinkedIn as an indispensable business tool. In my experience, it hasn't been as productive as I initially thought. But that's because I don't work in a particularly corporate field. For those who do, it seems to serve a considerable purpose. Obviously, it's the kind of site where you put your best face forward, much less conducive to the casual vibe of other online networking. Also, they make you pay for a better experience, which I currently don't. As it currently stands, I have my résumé out there and a handful of connections, mostly with people with whom I'm connected elsewhere.
Advice: Check out LinkedIn, especially if someone with whom you'd like to network is active there. Creative types might find it less fruitful. And unlike the other sites I use, money talks there.
I always enjoy getting real e-mail that isn't Facebook notifications, mailing lists or ads for C1al1s. So drop me a line.
Advice: You have it. Come on!


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Kiwis expect McCaw to last
July 15, 2009
Steve Hansen and Richie McCaw celebrate after last November's win over Wales © Getty Images
Fit-again New Zealand captain Richie McCaw will be asked to play the full 80 minutes in Saturday's Tri-Nations opener against Australia.
McCaw was forced to sit out his country's opening three fixtures of the new season with a knee injury and only made his return to competitive rugby last weekend, lining up for his club side Christchurch for the first time in eight years in order to secure some much-needed game time.
However, All Blacks assistant coach Steve Hansen is in no doubt that McCaw is capable of making an immediate step up in class.
"We expect him to play the 80 (minutes)," Hansen said ahead of the game in Auckland. "He's done it before, he's our leader and we want him on the park. He's trained well, he's confident he can go 80 and I'm confident he's got the mental aptitude to do that as well."
Given that McCaw is the only specialist openside in the All Blacks' 22 for Saturday's meeting with the Wallabies, it would appear imperative that the Crusaders ace lasts the entire game.
However, Australia boss Robbie Deans, who has included three openside flankers in his match squad in an obvious attempt to put sustained pressure on the returning McCaw, believes that New Zealand are not as reliant on their skipper as many believe.
"They've got a number of players who can cover that role (openside flanker): Rodney So'oialo has been used there previously; Kieran Read has done it occasionally as well," Deans said. "They don't have specialist cover in that area but they've obviously got players who they believe can do that job."
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Subject: Re: [APG] Native American blood lines
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:06:30 -0400
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There was an oil boom in Oklahoma in the 1920s,
mainly on Choctaws' land. I first heard about it when I read
Don Whitehead's The FBI Story as a teenager.
In most of the rest of the South, what Indians who
remained and were known to be Indians were confined to
small areas and had almost no economic opportunities.
For anyone in the U.S. before 1965, having dark skin meant
social ostracism if not relegation to the inferior opportunities
available to the majority of "colored" people.
I don't have dark skin, but I grew up mainly in small towns
as part of a family who often looked very alien to locals
and who didn't regularly attend religious services. I
was born in 1958 and don't clearly remember racial
segregation as legal.
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> Colleagues,
> I have read with much interest of the "stigma" associated with being
> Native American at different times. I have a very large court case full
> of testimony concerning my great-grandmother's attempt to be registered
> as a member of the Choctaw Nation just before Oklahoma statehood. She
> was second-generation Irish, widow of a second-generation Scotsman who
> had survived his young Choctaw wife. Harmon was adopted into the tribe
> as Susannah's husband and Joanna, the second wife, was trying to cash in
> on the land lotteries. She failed. One of her daughters married a
> Choctaw man. Their son was admitted into the tribe, but not their
> daughters until after another court suit was filed. At least in the
> early years of the 20th century in Oklahoma, being Indian was not a bad
> thing.
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Megapixels are not as important as most people can think, at least if the photos you take will only end up being shared on social networks like Facebook or through Instagram for example. But megapixels are important if you have serious projects in mind, or need to print very large photos.
|Canon has created a 250-megapixel sensor
Recently Canon has made a great announcement as far as the world of megapixels refers, as they have announced that they have created a sensor of no less than 250 megapixels. We are talking about a sensor that is 10-20 times more powerful than many regular cameras, and is even several times more powerful than a high-end camera.
This new camera sensor lets you take photos with a resolution of up to 19580 × 12600 pixels. According to what is mentioned by Canon, it seems that the sensor is so good that even managed to make a very clear shot of a text on the side of an airplane that was 18 kilometers. In terms of video, Canon has indicated that it can record at a quality that is about 125 times better than Full HD and about 30 times better than 4K.
We are not entirely sure about the applications that can be given to a sensor of this type, but according to what the company said, could be used in specialized equipment in surveillance, or in measuring instruments where you have to be extremely accurate , And of course also in certain industrial tools.
Basically, do not expect that this 250-megapixel sensor will soon be available on regular camera, as that is not its purpose. Any modern smartphones, a modern camera or even 3 or 4 years ago can take excellent photos.


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Started well enough, but got very bare bones near the end. Definitely needs a conclusion and some more beef to the individual track descriptions.
Otherwise, welcome to sputnik!
Album Rating: 4.0Thanks anyway. Its a first...
Surface To Air is the most fantastic thing I've heard these gentlemen produce, with Star Guitar coming in second...
Only thing I kept off this was Galvanize.
Digging: Beastmilk - Climax
Album Rating: 3.9Hold Tight London & Believe are the best tracks here
Believe was pretty nice too
I do think the middle section of the album was definitely the weakest.
Album Rating: 3.9Agreed
Album Rating: 3.0Better live than on track, but worth having.
Don't hold back
You heard the new album, potato?
Album Rating: 3.9
i like that one song about ketamine on that one album
Album Rating: 3.9Oh, off of Dig You Own Hole. I had no idea it was about Ketamine, makes sense really
You must mean Lost in the K-hole. And yeah, new album is the worst thing ever.
I like Bloc Rockin' Beats the most off that album.
Yeah, definitely give it a listen either way, potato.
Night's just as bad, I'd say. Further is a lot like it, so that explains why I can't stand either one of them.
Album Rating: 3.9Listen to Further Potats
Its also nothing like We Are The Night as well, silly Bloc
It is
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Getting to Know Cristiano Ronaldo's New BootsNovember 27, 2008
Everyone knows this boot doesn't hang about for long.
Already lethal on the feet of the World's elite players, Nike now release the ultra-limited Mercurial Vapor IV Berry Pink—meaning the Vapor just got a whole lot racier.
Designed with one thing in mind—pure speed—the Mercurial Vapor IV has become one of the iconic boots of the modern game, thanks to a series of performances that have helped win countless trophies and accolades.
This highly limited release Mercurial Vapor IV Pink Berry/White colour way marks the eighth incarnation of the Nike Mercurial Vapor IV football boots—and has already drawn the attention of elite players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Robinho, and Nicklas Bendtnert as well as young superstars in the making—John Bostock, Jack Wilshire, and Theo Walcott to name a few.
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"We Felt We Had Been Buried Alive"
The living hell that I would know as home for 18 years was set up in 1950. Camp No. 8, part of the Xingkai Lake Prison Farm in the vast swampy wasteland along the Ke'ercha River in Heilongjiang province, was initially stocked with 80,000 Nationalist prisoners of war plus countless Chinese who had collaborated with Japan's occupation of Manchuria. A few years later, 300,000 rightists and counterrevolutionaries were sent to refill slots at the camp vacated by the dead. In August 1962 cavalry troops escorted 8,000 of us to the camp. To get there, we had to march through 400 km of wilderness. The camp's 12-sq-m prison cells were squalid dens, set 6 m into the ground. The ceilings, just 2 m above the floor, were made from a mixture of wood, grass and mud. From a distance, the compound looked like a cemetery. On each grave mound stood a pole bearing just a number. We felt as if we had been buried alive. My relatives, landholders in Sichuan province, were accustomed to suffering. Soon after the communists prevailed in 1949, 27 of my family were persecuted in the Land Reform Movement. Fifteen were sent to labor camps, while eight died of starvation in the natural disaster caused by Mao's misguided economic policies. In 1949 my mother was forced to perform supervised labor. She died in 1984, one year after she was freed from that task. I was arrested in 1955. While serving as an officer in China's army, I was accused of being a counterrevolutionary and correctly unmasked as an intelligence officer for the kmt. I was interrogated at a detention house outside Beijing's Desheng Gate and thrown in jail. On June 23, 1958, I was taken to an execution ground with others condemned to death. Twenty-seven were shot dead, while three of us were spared. The goal: to intimidate us into confessing. I was then sent to a series of labor camps, spending most of my time at Camp No. 8. During Mao's era, Chinese life was shrouded in the shadow of the nation's vast network of labor camps. Leaked official documents from the Cultural Revolution show that in 1958 China maintained 2,248 prisons and reform-through-labor camps, in which 24.7 million people were held--73% of them for political crimes. Since the communist takeover in 1949, nearly 90 million people are thought to have been sentenced to work in such camps. In Qinghai province alone, there are 103 labor camps, with an estimated 2.8 million prisoners--equal to a quarter of the province's population. Hundreds of thousands of these prisoners participated during the early 1950s in building the country's national highways and railways. Later they were sent to salt and uranium mines and to reclaim wasteland. At Camp No. 8, spring was the season for death. More than 100,000 prisoners spread out in the vast corn and soybean fields. With no beasts of burden, six people had to draw each plow as two others held it. The superintendents walked ahead of the laborers with a red flag while troops, whips in hand, brought up the rear. They were quick to lash those who were slow or weak. Once, when I heard a cracking sound, I turned to see a white-haired former professor falling down, a long bleeding whip-mark visible on his back through his torn shirt. He never stood up again. At the end of the day, with tears in our eyes, we carried his body to Coyote Hills, the prisoners' graveyard. The burial was hasty, and we knew the body would be devoured by animals before daybreak. After 18 years of hard labor, I was released. Sent back to Sichuan in 1980, I wandered around as a panhandler and later found work as a coolie on a harbor dock. In 1983, I passed an examination and became a high school math teacher. I retired in 1991 and moved to Taiwan. Only in Taiwan do I have the freedom to tell this story. Yu Shan is the pseudonym of Jiang Fang, author of The Crying Great Northern Wilderness


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Harvest weather improving
better than a week I have been promising farmers in the soggy western
Corn Belt this is not the repeat of the horrendous October harvesting
conditions of last year, and that this current time frame would be the
start of an extended period of dry weather. Well, it looks like I am
going to be able to deliver on those promises. The first half of the
weekend was wet and cold in the western Corn Belt, but it was sunny and
dry yesterday and there is a lot more where that came from.
this point, it is very difficult to say when the next significant rain
event is going to arrive in the central and western Corn Belt, the Delta
and the Plains; suffice it to say that it will not occur in the next
ten days, and quite possibly two weeks. I would think that most places
in the above-mentioned area will go the next ten days (or longer) with
no rain at all. Eastern Indiana, eastern Michigan, and especially Ohio
will see rain moving in today that will continue into a part of
tomorrow, then they too will also see dry weather for largely the rest
of the ten-day forecast.
very dry weather coming up is not good news for everyone. It is
bone-dry in Delta winter wheat areas and very dry in parts of the
eastern Corn Belt wheat areas, and those areas simply have to get rain
at some point to get winter wheat germinated. Not everyone in the Plains
hard-red belt got sufficient rain last week to ensure good planting
conditions either. Temperatures over the next week will average cooler
than normal for the eastern Plains, the Corn Belt, and the Delta with
readings in that period about three to nine degrees below normal.
coolest period will be next weekend, with readings will average a good
distance below normal and it is likely that we will see the first frost
of the fall season in the Corn Belt for especially eastern Minnesota,
eastern Iowa and points eastward. It will likely not be a real hard
freeze, but it looks like a lot of 30-34 degree lows and a few spots
reaching the upper 20s. Temperatures should warm again for the work-week
period of next week.
this afternoon's crop progress report, I would look for the national
corn harvest to be 27 percent complete, with the soybean harvest at 17
percent done; we will see a BIG jump in those numbers for next Monday's
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GO.GO gone: London's women's festival cancelled
Organizers pull the plug on the 3rd annual weekend event for women
London's three-day women's festival, particularly popular with lesbian and bisexuals, GO.GO has been cancelled.
Organizers of the event created for women in the UK posted on the website: '2012 has proved to be a very challenging year, and due to this we do not feel we would be able to deliver a festival to the standard that our artists and audience deserve'.
This is the second women's concert in the last week that's been cancelled because of a challenging economy.
The Manchester-based Ladyrock festival was cancelled yesterday. Though headliners for the festival were confirmed, this women's-only music event director cited financial difficulties for the cancellation of the show.


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Akros Introduces New Energy$ense(TM) Family of Multi-Rail DC/DC DPMUs
New AS19xx high-efficiency Energy$ense digital PMUs with multi-rail DC/DC offer 94% peak efficiency and real-time power sensing and control for total energy management
Jun 29, 2011, 09:00 ET from Akros Silicon Inc.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Akros Silicon Inc., a premier supplier of leading-edge intelligent energy management ICs, today announced the new Energy$ense(TM) family of multi-output, digital DC/DC power management unit (DPMU) ICs. Energy$ense technology features include real-time power measurements and power-subsystem health monitoring, high efficiency (94% peak) and ultra-low standby current (<10uA), digital power control (via I2C) for selectable power operating modes, fast transient-handling capability for implementing adaptive power profiles, built-in spread-spectrum clocking for EMI management, and built-in sophisticated PWM-dimming for battery-draining LED-backlight displays.
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"Akros has developed the AS19xx Series of Energy$ense DC/DC DPMUs to address the growing need for a total energy management paradigm in modern platforms," said Parviz Ghaffaripour, President & CEO. "The AS19xx family of products addresses the needs of system designers by offering 10 pin-compatible products that pack a variety of features, including a wide input voltage range of 3-27V, load range of 0.5A-10A, switching frequency from 100kHz-2MHz, and internal spread-spectrum clocking with external synchronization input. These features minimize external BOM and board space, while offering great flexibility in multi-platform designs."
The AS19xx Series is available in different combinations of synchronous buck, boost and LED-drive converter configurations. With unique feature sets to facilitate simple implementation of real-time and adaptive energy management schemas, the AS19xx series is a cost-effective choice for a wide range of applications including 4G LTE residential gateways and femtocells, tablets and large display-oriented consumer devices, ultra-books, e-books, digital photo frames, NAS and media hubs, Internet-TV and IPTV set-top boxes, automotive infotainment systems, solid-state lighting, communication equipment with cluster-power or intermediate bus architectures, and many others.
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A 43-year-old homeless man was arrested Thursday night following a complaint that he knocked on a door of a Talmadge Street residence asking for money, Athens-Clarke County police said.
When officers found Stacy Dale Morton at Church and Peabody streets speaking with a couple of college-age males, Morton explained he was trying to get gas money for a friend, police said.
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PORTLAND, Ore., April 8 (UPI) -- Alejandro Moreno and Nick LaBrocca each scored second-half goals Saturday, rallying Chivas USA to a 2-1 road victory over Portland.
Portland took a 1-0 lead in the 16th minute when Kris Boyd took advantage of a collision between Chivas goaltender Dan Kennedy and a defender, scoring into an empty net from the middle of the area.
But Moreno got the equalizer for Chivas (2-3-0) in the 48th, heading a pass from Ryan Smith into the lower-left corner from close range.
The Goats went ahead in the 82nd when Smith struck a cross that LaBrocca headed from the box into the bottom left corner.
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text: TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged down in choppy trade on Wednesday as investors stayed focused on the outcome of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting amid expectations that it may keep rates low. The Nikkei share average ended 0.1 percent lower to 15,888.67 after trading in positive territory. The U.S. Federal Reserve could offer fresh clues after Wednesday's FOMC monetary meeting on when it plans to begin lifting interest rates and how quickly it will move as it prepares for a momentous policy turn after years of aggressive stimulus. The broader Topix shed 0.5 percent to 1,304.96, and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 dropped 0.4 percent at 11,822.30. (Reporting by Ayai Tomisawa; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Eric Meijer)


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The University Libraries' hours will be modified over the Thanksgiving holiday break. Pattee and Paterno Libraries will be open from 7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25 through Wednesday, Nov. 27. The libraries will be closed Thursday, Nov. 28 through Saturday, Nov. 30. The libraries will open at 10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 for 24-hour service.
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Building a Home Theater - Part 1: Introduction and Planning
Basic Design Goals - Room Dimensions
What is the size and shape of the room you plan to use? Both the size and shape of the room are important. The size of the room will help establish the seating arrangement and will greatly influence the optimum selection and placement of the audio/video equipment.
The size of the room will help determine:
• Optimum size of the TV or projector screen
• Seating arrangement and distance
• Speaker configuration
There is no one perfect size for a home theater but a room that is at least 15 feet wide and 20 feet long with 8 foot ceilings is a good place to start. A small room is typically 1,000 cubic feet or less and a medium to large room is 2,000 cubic feet or more. Ideally you want a room that is large enough to accommodate the video display of your choice, provide room for comfortable seating and allow locating speakers away from the main seating area without being placed too close to the walls.
Small Room: 10' Wide x 12' Long x 7' High = 840 cubic feet
Medium Room: 12' Wide x 20' Long x 8' High = 1,920 cubic feet
Large Room: 16' Wide x 24' Long x 9' High = 3,456 cubic feet
Obviously the size of the room will help dictate an approximate seating capacity and seating arrangement. In general, the main seating should be clustered around the primary listening/viewing area or "sweet spot" in the middle of the room. Each seat should have a clear line of sight to the TV/projector screen and all the speakers. Be sure to leave adequate spacing around the main seating area for the multi-channel surround sound to work.
Home Theater – General Layout:
• Cluster main seating around the primary listening/viewing area or "sweet spot" in the middle of the room
• Center the TV/projector screen on an end wall (long axis of the room)
• Leave space around front left and right speakers to let them "breathe" (2'~3' from side walls)
• Leave space behind the main seating area if you plan to use back-surround speakers (5' or more)
The shape of the room is very important as it will affect how sound propagates within the room. The physical dimensions of the home theater will have a significant effect on the basic acoustics of the room, particularly in the lower frequency, bass region (200 Hz and lower). Selecting the proper ratio of room dimensions will help minimize standing wave resonance. Sound travels as pressure waves that radiate out from the source (speaker) and reflects off the walls, ceiling, floor and other hard, flat surfaces. Standing waves can result when sound pressure waves travel back and forth within a room. At certain frequencies, the waves traveling in one direction will combine with those reflecting back in the other direction and produce areas of high and low sound pressure in the room. Areas of high pressure will sound unusually loud while areas of low pressure will sound unusually soft. If you have the option, it is much easier to minimize standing low frequency waves by designing the room with optimal dimensions rather than trying to fix the problem later (adjusting seating, moving speakers, and/or room equalization).
The worst shape for a room is a cube where all the dimensions (width, length, height) are equal. While there is no one perfect shape for a home theater, a good rule of thumb is to keep the width of the room at least 1.6 times the ceiling height and the length of the room at least 2.3 times the ceiling height. A lot of study has been done in this area and published over the years. L. W. Sepmeyer was the principal researcher who came up with the "golden room ratios".
When designing a new home theater start by defining the ceiling height (H) and then use one of the "Golden Ratios" to establish the width and length of the room. For example: if you have 8' ceilings making the finished room 12.8' wide by 18.6' long would be ideal for minimizing standing waves and for creating an optimum sound field. The main goal is to insure that no two room dimensions are the same or are multiples of one another.
If you are contemplating using a large room with a complex shapes and are serious about sound then a professional custom installer could be very helpful in getting it right from the start.
How much of the work are you planning to do yourself? As we just mentioned, the larger and more complex the home theater project, the more likely you are going to need professional help. You should have a pretty good idea of your capabilities before you start a project like this. Know your strengths and weaknesses. Building a home theater may be a great opportunity to learn something new but don't be afraid to ask for help or hire a professional when needed. Two of your best resources are professional builders and installers. A local builder can help take care of all the construction details that may be beyond your capabilities and they should know how to do the job right, safely, and to code. You may also want to enlist a custom installer to help with the initial design and later with the installation, setup and calibration of equipment.
Hiring an ISF trained custom installer will help insure they have the experience and equipment necessary to properly calibrate your home theater.
Great 2 articles, are the other ones gonna be published? I really like how detailed yet I can still understand it. Stumbled upon this wonderful article site while looking for tips on setting up a home theater system.
If one has a smaller physical space and still wants a home theater arrangement, what can be done? Are there any good guides out there for space confinement?
hello i have a room in my basement that i am thinking of building a home theater the size is 19 x 13.5 would this be enough space?
I'm building a hom theater from the scrach. I do notg want to put windows in the room. Myh wife said tha we can put two windows of 2.13254 ft x 1.31233 ft (0.65 meter x 0.40 meter).
the room is 16.4041 ft x 13.1233 ft (5 m x 4m).
What do you advise? Regards
my home theater room size...is 29ft long...14ft Width..&..height 9ft
is it ok....wht sys is used 4 this room size..& i want 12ft screen
i got only 70sqm...second floor for my theater...with sony 3d bd system..and lg projector.i want space for toilet and a bar...is it possible?..please advice and if possible can i have a floor plan...exited:)
How does an entitled half-wit like you manage to afford enough space for a home theater? You want someone to draw up plans for your theater just like that? Unbelievable.
I am buildng a new home I am installing a 7.2 system. In my living room I have an area of 28' W X 18' L with vaulte4d cielings 36' High any speaker suggestions or placement suggestions. I am using a onkyo 818 receiver 7.2 3D w/ networking in home. Looking at monoprice speakers right know. Thanks
Due to the limited amount of space in my current home my theater messures 14'x7.5'x8'. I am only running a 1000w system and projecting an 80" picture, but couldn't be happier. I agree with everything in this article, but it's mainly a matter of working with what is avalible to you. I utilize sound absorption and black velvet to get the best sound and picture possible, and I can still seat 6 people comfortable in the theater.
my home theatre size is 18feet by 15 feet
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My room size is 25Ft long width is 12 ft and height is 10 ft.
so how can i mannage a theatre in the room?
I would like a diagram for a screen that is 160 inches wide by 120 inches high. The room will have 5 tiered rows of seating able to seat 25 people and every row will have a line of sight view. I want each row to be 3 feet wide with a rise of 1 foot to accomodate line of sight view.
I'd suggest going with the BenQ or Optoma for the best bang for your buck
I Have a living room 21'-0" by 14'8" and would like to place my 40inch TV in the Corner but would like surrounds sound that best suit my room area that was giving.
I had been using yamaha rxv 2300 in 6.1 config. I had hooked up 5 subs to the 5 main channels thru speaker level inputs and had a sub for the .1, the system was giving great performance. Now after I upgraded to aventage 2030 running on 9.1 the sound stage is too bright and bass is muddy. I hv not gone into the manual peq yet, but hv been fiddling with Ypao only yet. Any advs?
Recv yamaha rx a 2300
Speakers yamaha ns 515 series and 555 series
Subs yamaha yst 300 x 2 on fronts yst 160 x 2 on rear surrounds
Yst 45 on centre and yst 800 for the .1
BD player samsung.
i need my home arrange theater 2700cm with to 6850 is length with full setup please help me for this
Firstly.whst is the high of a standard cinema that can contain 100 people. And like how much can one budget for such cinema. What type of projection is better
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