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Acoustic Treatment Phase one (1)
New memberUsername: Mike_l
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Registered: Oct-06
First of, I would like to thank many of you for the incredibly valuable information
Shared in this forum. I have spent hours reading before sending my first post.
I was completely ignorant in the subject of acoustic treatment, now...well...I know
Just a bit.
In browsing and looking at various posts I was able to decide to first go with the
Acoustic panels. It looks like I will use 24x48x2 Owens Corning 703 fiberglass boards with some type of wood frame.
The questions are:
1 is that the correct choice for my needs
2 where and how many will I need
3 is there a type of fabric I should use over another
I hope to get some leads from you boys.
Here is what I would like to accomplish as phase 1
Media room objectives:
1 re-arrange furniture
2 loosely setup components
3 install window treatment
4 build/install acoustic panels on walls
(where do I get the rigid board and where to put them)
5 build/install acoustic panels on ceiling (pfff...that will be fun)
steps 1,2 and 3 are all done. And let me tell you that the window treatment improved the
acoustic at a rate of at least 20%!!! Unheard of. (no point intended)
I have attached some pics of the layout of the room (office/media room) I have.
I would love some "sound advice" from all of you.
(You will notice that on the front side of the room the ceiling is much higher ( guess 15ft) than the rear)
Gold MemberUsername: Mixneffect
Orangevale, Ca. USA
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This really helps diagnose problems, and facilitate a resolution.
First of all I would have to say that your strongest feature is also your weakest link.
I am talking about the shape of the room. It is great that the room is not square or rectangular (which causes boxy and/or tunneling effects). By having a somewhat of a trapezoid, you help eliminate some acoustic problems, but you also have a few things to worry about prior to investing in acoustic treatments to your walls and/or ceiling.
The con is that the room has a high ceiling on the end where the sound is focusing from. You are sitting in sort of a cornered listening position which is somewhat crammed because of the limited distance from your focal point (the front speakers). This may be a problem with certain bass frequencies. The distance between the speakers and you ear affects some larger wavelengths since you may not be at 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, and/or full wavelengths. Your ear will pick up peaks and dips, due to the distance between your ear and the front speakers.
Another problem is that you are experiencing a bass loss problem due to the high ceiling. A lot of bass is trapped in the corners above the front speakers.
Another problem is the height of the focal point of your front speakers. It seems that the tweeter and/or its focal point may be too low. I suggest that you get taller stands to help improve your imaging and/or phasing to at least ear level, sitting on the couch in the "sweet spot".
You would be amazed at the difference of how phasing and imaging is affected just due to improperly positioned speakers vertically and horizontally. Off-axis is also a big loser, so keep that in mind as well. The best image is in the sweet spot, and it diminishes from there...
May I strongly suggest that you see what you may improve by trying to abide by these hyper physics from this site. I am confident that you will hear a big difference if you use these guidelines before you spend money on wall and ceiling teratments.
Obviously you may still need some treatment, but that may not solve your real problem.
Just my .02
New memberUsername: Mike_l
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Registered: Oct-06
thanks for your informative post. I am to do even more thinking than I had originaly thought in order to exploit what I have.
(altough I am not looking for perfection)
I have begun working on the easiest possible improvement however as per your comment.
I have gradually rased the speakers to an ear hight then built a box with a bottom 1in off the floor so only the edges are in contact with the floor. (it made more sense to me)
I will later fill those up with some sort of bricks for added stability. (see pics)
Should I avoid wood to wood contact (box/speakers) and add a layer of somthing or is that fine?
New memberUsername: Mike_l
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Registered: Oct-06
here are the pics...
Gold MemberUsername: Mixneffect
Orangevale, Ca. USA
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Registered: Apr-05
You may also want to consider in some better speaker stands.
Yes you should avoid wood to wood contact and/or anything that may add unwanted vibration or noise.
Idealy you want the tweeter to be at ear level when SITTING in the "sweet spot". Also point the speakers inwards so that the tweeters are pointing directly at your ears. These simple adjustments will make probably the biggest noticable difference.
Your next step should be accoustic treatments, but not until you identify what bass loss you have due to the high ceiling away from your listening spot. That high ceiling may also add certain midrange reverbrations or echos.
New memberUsername: Mike_l
Post Number: 5
Registered: Oct-06
I really like those stands (see pic) the problem is my speakers (made in 1974) are aproximately 14in wide 13in deep and 24in high. The weight is 45lbs.
Now the bottom base on the speaker stand is substantialy smaller as well as the top plate.
This is why I have built those boxes to the correct hight, and wide enough to avoid
wobble caused by all that weight on top.
However, I am wondering what is more stable (in my case)
1- A wide heavy box on top of carpeting or
2- A smaller stand with spikes going down through
the carpeting to the solid (wood) floor.
What do you think?
As far as the angle for the speakers I have always
used the manual for guidline. (see pic)
I will give it a try anyway to see if there is an improvement.
Any input/comments are welcome.
Gold MemberUsername: Mixneffect
Orangevale, Ca. USA
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http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/s howdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=240-717
As far as the 40* angle is concerned, I believe that is just a generic factory recommendation. It is definetly not written in stone. That configuration limits you to how far apart the speakers are from each other, as well as how far the "sweet spot" is from them. Unfortunately you may not have that comfort.
I just place my speakers symmetrically in conjunction with the TV and the room, then direct them to my ears as needed.
Just remember to keep the speakers at least 12" from the wall. This will give a better bass response.
New memberUsername: Scott_r_foster
Jacksonville, FL US
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Registered: Nov-06
You asked:
"It looks like I will use 24x48x2 Owens Corning 703 fiberglass boards with some type of wood frame.
The questions are:
1 is that the correct choice for my needs
2 where and how many will I need
3 is there a type of fabric I should use over another"
1) 2" panels are too thin to work as broadband absorbers [on lows as well as highs] - use panels at least 4" thick. Owens Corning 703 is an excellent choice, but the brand name is not important. There are many folks making 3 lbs per cubic foot density semi-rigid fiberglass insulation board, and all of them will just work fine [CertainTeed and Johns Manville also make them] or rockwool boards of about twice that density are also a good choice. Shop for price in your local market at commercial construction suppliers such as these guys:
You can get information of the general absorptive characteristics of many standard materials here:
2) Per our prior discussions from when you emailed me at readyacoustics.com, I suggest:
a) A pair of panels stacked vertically and mounted across each of the rear corners = 4 panels
b) A panel mounted high in each of the front corners = 2 panels
c) A pair of panels low on the front wall at the corners = 2 panels
d) A trio of panels on the ceiling reflection point = 3 panels
e) A panel on the right wall -- horizontal - at the reflection point = 1 panel [keep the drapes to handle the left side wall reflection point].
This treatment plan will work whether you use our products, or "roll your own".
3) Anything you can breath through will be fine acoustically - though you may wish to consider fire resistance.
These articles on DIY bass traps may be helpful:
As to speaker placement, as explained above, placement is critical. There are many ways to estimate good locations, but there is no substitute for actual measurement - which is not a trivial exercise. Here is a link to an ongoing discussion of treatment, placement, and measurement and how they can be used in concert to refine the quality of a small room listening environment. If you skim over the evolution of this discussion, you can see how all these factors interact... but, take it with a grain of salt... these guys are chasing perfection in a very small room and verge on hair splitting IMO. Nonetheless, the discussion and processes are illuminating of the all the various challenges.
Here are a pair of nice programs that can help you calculate placement:
then left hand menu "White Papers"
then "Calculators"
then "Room Mode Calculator"
Silver MemberUsername: Nency
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Registered: May-09
Thanks for sharing information.nice information.
New memberUsername: Dave54321
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Registered: Mar-12
Don't go overboard with ordering loads of expensive wallboards and traps. Remember that a degree of room reverb is completely normal and our brains expect it. It only becomes a problem if the sound of your music is being noticeably adversely affected.
One thing which amazingly no one appears to have asked you, and is the most important factor of all, is: what are the symptoms of your room's (and speaker-position's) sound? Too boomy? Too bright? Too echoey? Too muddy? Or what?
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CARROLLTON, Ohio — The youth involved in the Carroll County 4-H program will get to see their projects compete at the county fair in late July but after that, the program may become just a memory.
Ohio State University Extension announced June 4 that the Carroll County Extension office is closing June 11.
The closing will end all agricultural, natural resource, community development and family and consumer science programming and staffing immediately in the county.
OSU Extension will work with the local 4-H educator to continue the Carroll County 4-H program until the close of the Ohio State Fair Aug. 8.
Carroll County was one of four Ohio counties that had extension levies on the May 4 ballot. With the defeat of the levy, Carroll County does not have the ability to generate local matching funds needed to keep the extension office open.
Mike Hogan, Carroll County Extension educator, said this means that the youth who have already invested time and money into projects will get to see them through to the county fair and state fair, but then the program will end.
Once the Ohio State Fair is over, the 4-H program and 4-H membership in Carroll County will cease to exist.
"It's just the reality. We have to deal with the budget issue and the money just isn't there," said Hogan.
Carroll County resident Tom Puch is helping coordinate a grassroots effort to bring the Extension office back in some form, and is hopeful something can be done.
Puch said one meeting has already been held with a group of citizens, who are looking at and discussing what can be done to help convince citizens that the Extension is needed in the county.
"We are looking at what we did wrong with the last levy attempt and are trying to come up with an alternative plan. We are trying to figure out how to get citizens to invest in it," Puch said.
The group is considering a levy on the November ballot, but are not sure of the particulars, including how many mills would be needed.
"We have to regroup and see what we can do," Puch said.
The group would have until 4 p.m. Aug. 4 to get the levy on the November ballot.
If the ballot issue is successful, OSU Extension would be able to reopen the office and restore services once the revenue generated via the levy is collected. There are no local funds from other sources available to help support the office at this time.
Jackson and Highland counties also had extension levies that were not successful in the May primary election. Jackson County's advisory committee also plans to seek funds again on the November ballot. Until then, the local match will be funded with contributions from local donors.
Highland County Extension is seeking funding from other sources, including the county government general fund, Extension's preferred method of local funding. Highland County has minimal funding available to operate its extension office until the end of the calendar year.
Having two daughters who grew up in 4H, I find this is tragic. The lessons learned in this medium, were, in my opinion, priceless. Agriculture, in my opinion, has put its money in the wrong places, failing to subsidize small and medium sized farms, and continually stating, bigger is better.
Like the financial institutions, many Americans, do not believe this. Look at all the large farms that have gone belly up in the past year. The small and medium sized farms know how to budget for the rainy days, the industrial farms rely on the government to bail them out.
Things change and that is why I am looking for Ohio to recognize the small and medium sized farms that add to the pastoral landscape of Ohio. The industrial farms add to the woes of Ohio.
It doesn't look good for Jackson County. For the past few years, the office has only been open two or three days a week – and for just a couple hours on those days.
I think its trajic that 4h is going i am a member! Im 12 and LOVE 4h. Me and my family are fighting a losing battle to keep me in. I go and have gone to harrison county 4h for 4 years but i am still not allowed to participate next year. I see so many classmates get into trouble becouse they didnt have anything to do affter school now how many friends will get into trouble?! and what about collage oppartunities?VOTE YES ON 4H!!!!!!!!!!!


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text: A Clean Slate | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified. A Clean Slate Hoyt's Theatre, (11/03/1903 - circa. 11/1903) First Preview: Total Previews: Opening Date: Nov 03, 1903 Closing Date: Nov 1903 Total Performances: 31 Category: Play, Original, Broadway Opening Night Credits Production Staff Written by R.C. Carton Cast George BellamyHerbert BuddJ.C. CarlyleVerner ClargesDrina DeWolfeAlfred FisherJ. H. GilmourGeorge HoneyAlice LeighLaura LemmersAlfred LuntJessie MillwardHelen TracyJ. Carrington Yates © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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PERHAPS more alarming
By Fr. Wilson (articles ) | May 24, 2003
From "The Tablet," the pravda of my diocese, Brooklyn NY:
"The number of available, active priests in the Brooklyn diocese has declined 46% since 1979. Perhaps more alarming, nearly a quarter of those priests will reach retirement age in the next five years, 42% within the next ten, and 81% within the next twenty years."
Perhaps MOST alarming, I'm not even in that 81%!!
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A Rooster Named Dog
Sometimes it's all about instinct…
It's become popular to raise chickens in urban settings these days. Why? Fresh eggs and poultry go a long way in this economy. Raising your own food brings you closer to the earth. By tending to your own chickens you're assured of their health.
You may have read my article about Mycol Stevens and his off the grid WWOOFer homestead called Finca Mycol. Mycol now has a few chickens. He was headed out of town and asked me to look after them. He said they'd be in the coop and to please be sure they didn't get out because they'd be at risk of being eaten by various raccoons, hawks and the like.
So, I came over to the Finca and opened the coop to feed the chickens. Right away, "Dog" the rooster hopped out of the coop. He began crowing and basically started attacking me.
It's funny how animals have strong protective instincts. They also can smell fear a mile away. I don't know about you, but I don't have a lot of experience with aggressive roosters. Dog started flapping his wings against my shins and pecking at me. That was only half the problem. I had a feeling he wasn't going back in that coop, either!
I called Mycol and left what he described as a hilarious, if hysterical message with Dog crowing in the background. I also called my friends at the Hostel in the Forest asking for advice.
Then, I remembered Mycol has some neighbors a little walk away from the finca. I decided to ask for help. Neighbor Nate was nearby. I asked Nate "Hey, do you know much about chickens?" He replied without as much as a grin "What do you want to know?" I said "Well, Mycol's rooster got out and I need to get him back in the coop." Nate shrugged and said "Where is it?"
Nate, his pit bull and I walked over to Mycol's chicken pen. Nate reached into his back pocket and put on a pair of gloves. He asked me to help him corner Dog. Dog didn't smell any fear in Nate at all. Not at all.
Nate grabbed Dog and then turned him upside down by the legs. Dog suddenly became quite docile. Nate turned to me and said "Where do you want him?" I opened the coop and it was all over.
This sounds pretty funny, doesn't it? Well, it really wasn't at the time. I felt some fear when Dog threatened me. I had no idea how to pick up a rooster. All I knew was that he was pecking at me and those wings hurt when he flapped them against my shins. This is Farmboy 101, but I am a city boy, raised in the burbs. No way was I going to risk getting pecked by that rooster. At the same time, Mycol entrusted those chickens to me and I wasn't going anywhere until everything was OK.
Moral to the story: it's not as easy as it looks. But, with a little help from your friends, it'll all be OK.
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Yeah, roosters have that posturing thing down. I was in a yard that had a rooster in it once, and I was intimidated when he came towards me as if to shoo me away. "Yes sir, king rooster! Let me get out of your way…"


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Growing up in a Belgium coastal town in the '70s, teenager Pim (Florizoone) spends his days lost in romantic reveries, while his ex-beauty queen mum (van der Gucht) and her awful, bullying boyfriend make his life a misery. First love, though, is just around the corner.
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It won't come as a surprise to most females that men mature later than women, but new research has pinpointed the exact age that boys mature completely as 43 - 11 whole years after women.
The study into the differences in maturity between genders revealed both men and women agree that males remain 'immature' well into their late 30s and early 40s.By contrast, the average age at which women mature is just 32.
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Jin Jeong put the seal on a remarkable victory in the ISPS HANDA Perth International by defeating Ross Fisher in a sudden-death play-off to win a dream ticket to The European Tour.
Jeong was the winner of the 2010 Amateur Championship at Muirfield where he defeated James Byrne of Scotland 5&4 in the final.
The 23 year old Korean started the day one behind home favourite Brody Ninyette, but made a nightmare start to his final round at Lake Karrinyup with a four-putt double bogey before recovering to shoot a three under par 69 and match Fisher's ten under clubhouse target.
Birdies at the fourth and fifth atoned for Jeong's early blunder, but it was only when Ninyette dropped his first shot of the day at the 13th that the Australian was caught.
Jeong made important par putts at the 16th and 17th as Ninyette's challenge faded, but when Fisher hit his tee shot to within a foot at the 17th and birdied the two were tied and neither could birdie the last.
On their return down the 18th for the first play-off hole Fisher caught a flyer with his approach and went through the green, leaving Jeong two putts to sew up the title.
"I was nervous, I was shaking but I controlled myself pretty well all day I thought," said former World Amateur Number One Jeong. "I don't know what I've done to be honest.
"I was struggling quite a bit when I was turning pro, but it was going to happen in the learning circuit I guess.
"I had played play-offs in mini tour events, but playing with Ross Fisher, he's one of my heroes. Playing with him in the play-off, it was unbelievable."
Jeong, who has featured on The Challenge Tour this season, had recently progressed through the First Stage of The European Tour Qualifying School, but now earns a two-year exemption to The European Tour.
"I was going to go back to Q School Second Stage the week after next but I guess I don't have to anymore," he added.
Former Ryder Cup star Fisher consoled himself with a runner-up cheque that sees him climb into the top 60 of The Race to Dubai and should qualify him for the DP World Tour Championship.
"Obviously it would have been lovely to have come here and won, but that's golf," said Fisher, who carded a closing 68.
"Unfortunately I came up a little bit short, but I can be very pleased the way I played today. I hung in there really well; it was always going to be tough.
"There are some good names up there and I knew I needed to just play really well. I felt like I did that. Hats off to Jin for winning his first professional tournament."
Ninyette's closing 72 saw him tie for third with compatriot Dimitrios Papadatos and England's Danny Willett.
As Jin celebrated his life-changing victory, there was also joy for Peter Lawrie, whose closing two under par 70 was good enough to earn him a share of 18th spot on three under and win enough money to move into the top 110 in The Race to Dubai and keep his status on The European Tour for next season.
While tour winners Richard Finch, Fredrik Andersson Hed and Peter Hedblom, along with Oliver Fisher and Joel Sjoholm, could not do enough to avoid a trip to the Qualifying School in November, Lawrie can relax and get ready for a new season.
The Irishman had actually moved into contention to win the tournament early in the day but the pressure of trying to keep his tour card meant he was never really focused on winning.
"I'm just glad it's over to be totally honest with you," he said. "I've never felt so much pressure in my life as I have the last eight weeks. You can't sleep, can't eat properly, it's just horrendous. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
"I got off to a great start today and could have pressed on and tried to win the tournament but coming down the stretch trying to get the job finished without making a mental error or doing something stupid proved too much in terms of trying to get the win.
"Hopefully I'll fly home and probably sleep for a change. Go home and be with the family and stop being grumpy. I've been that soldier for the last while so it will be nice to not have to worry for a while."


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The fourth son of David and an older brother of Solomon. He aspired to succeed his father as king, even though he knew that his brother had been promised the throne. Sensing his ambition, friends of Solomon urged the latter's mother, Bathsheba, to persuade David to forestall the conspiracy. David readily agreed and arranged to have Solomon escorted to Gihon, where he was anointed, proclaimed king, and seated on the throne. He took no immediate steps to punish Adonijah for conspiring against him, but when he learned from Bathsheba that his brother was seeking marriage with Abishag, a union that would threaten Solomon's sovereignty, he promptly ordered his brother's death. (I Kings 1, 2).
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Kizzy Reveals How New Kentucky Laws Will Affect Her [AUDIO]
On Tuesday, more than 100 new laws went into effect in the commonwealth of Kentucky. It's probably not a bad idea for any us to find out how we are affected.
On Tuesday, more than 100 new laws went into effect in the commonwealth of Kentucky. It's probably not a bad idea for any us to find out how we are affected.
Carrie and Miranda. Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan. Michael Jackson. Ricky Martin, Shakira, Miley Cyrus and more. The 2014 Billboard Music Awards had a little something for everyone and so does Kizzy's official review in order of appearance. This is hilarious! LISTEN!
The International Bar-B-Q Festival gets underway tomorrow in downtown Owensboro and Kizzy is excited. In fact, she called The WBKR Waking Crew this morning to tell us she is standing on the edge of glory! LOL! Listen.
Friday and Saturday is Owensboro's famous International Barbecue Festival.
And, this year is even better. The Riverfront is finished. Smothers Park and the new Owensboro Convention Center and Hampton Inn will be showcased to the max.
Great barbecue aromas and thick, blinding smoke will waft through downtown. And, we will be there. WBKR will be broadcasting from the event on both days. As I look back, my favorite year was 2009. I was joined on the air by Kizzy and on the streets by lovely Mrs. Moon.
Oh, Lawd! Miss Kizzy is taking over the airwaves the entire month of May and giving you the chance to WIN CASH in Kizzy's Cash Kraze. And when we say "cash" we mean SERIOUS cash. She'll give away one thousand dollars, twice each weekday on WBKR. And, she's giving away ten thousand dollars here at WBKR.com. To find out what you have to do to win, KEEP READING!!
Kraft Foods is recalling 96,000 pounds of Oscar Meyer wieners. Find out why and hear Kizzy's thoughts about the recall here!
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You've seen it on TV! And you've heard about it on the radio. The Perfect Bacon Bowl is here and yep! You can cook your bacon in the shape of a bowl and serve anything out of you want. And, naturally, WBKR morning show regular Kizzy has plenty of comments.
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Name: Alexandra White
Graduating Year: 2011
Majors/Track/Minor/Specialization: Professional Writing, Digital & Technical; Theatre, minor; Digital Humanities, specialization
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What does a typical day-in-the-life look like?
A typical day at JCC Association is far from typical. Because I work at a nonprofit, I'm juggling several different hats at once. I'm part of a two person digital team responsible for all things web for JCC Association. What I may start off with on my agenda for the day often drastically changes by the end of the day. As Digital Marketing Manager, my immediate responsibilities involve maintaining all of our websites (of which there are 11), building new websites, project managing the JCC intranet, writing technical documentation, creating social media ad campaigns, managing all email campaigns, and much more. I also do little things like help our less technical saavy folk access various websites and consult with JCC professionals across North America.
What are you most proud of accomplishing since graduating?
When I graduated I considered myself a generalist, good in lots of different areas. I was always a solid writer and most of my internship experience was in social media marketing. Additionally, I had some web development skills (courtesy of WRA 210, 410, and 7 months of re-building my portfolio), but was by no means an expert.
What is your advice for current professional writing students?
Take as many internship opportunities as you can. That's the closest you're going to get to the multiple years of experience that many employers are hoping for. Classwork cannot really prepare you for real world work like a job can (though PW classes are much more likely to do so than say, "A History of Ancient Greek Literature"). A lot of internships in our field are unpaid, but they may be able to open doors for you to future employment opportunities. Not everyone can afford to take those opportunities, but it's worth looking into making them work with secondary paid employment.
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- High winds and rain on Monday afternoon caused a tree limb about a foot in diameter to fall on a moving Ford Ranger, which was being driven by a city of Lawrenceville employee, and caused a chain reaction collision with two other vehicles.
Lawrenceville Police Sgt. Christopher Ralston said the incident happened about 1:30 p.m. when the employee was driving south on Stone Mountain Street and approaching Constitution Boulevard. The tree limb landed on the roof of the truck, and incapacitated the driver, who suddenly didn't have control of the vehicle, Ralston said.
The Ranger then struck a Chevrolet S-10 south of Constitution Boulevard, which caused the S-10 to hit a Ford Expedition. The employee, whose name Ralston did not release, was critically injured in the incident and taken to Gwinnett Medical Center. The driver of the S-10 suffered non-life threatening injuries, and the driver of the Expedition was not injured and released at the scene, Ralston said.
The Ranger and S-10 were totaled, and the Expedition had minor damage, Ralston said.
The investigation is ongoing, Ralston said, and he did not have an estimate about how fast the Ranger was going when the incident began.
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- Driver arrested in Norcross crash ( January 17, 2008 )


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I am for Spencer County going wet. If they ever get the lodge at the lake going it will be dependant on alcohol-by-the-drink. The golf course would do much better if it were wet. If the non-drinkers think there is very little alcohol consumed in Spencer County, they would be surprised to know the reality of it. Many that enjoy a drink at home stock up on what they like. The others make small purchases and then when they run out, drive drunk to buy more and drink on the way home.
I have been looking on the road. Have you? There are beer cans.
I am 10 years old and I don't like seeing beer cans everywhere. It doesn't look good at all. Do know when I get older the earth is going to be a bad place.
Also, people that drink have bad wrecks. You can die and have bad diseases.
I know it is hard for some people to stop, but buy something other than beer.
"Attention all units, you are reporting to the scene of an active school shooting."
With those words, I could feel my pulse begin to race. I watched silently as a parent's worst nightmare began to unfold. Two teenage students barely looked my way as they ran past. Their faces pale. Their eyes wide with fear.
"They shot my friend," cried one student as she craddled another laying in a dark pool of liquid. In the distance, shots rang out – and for a second, I think my heart actually stopped.
I have a problem with people who drink and think it is okay to get behind the wheel and take everyone's life into their own hands. I also have a problem with those who consume alcohol and then get violent with their family and friends. These actions are not okay with me.
Let us not cloud our county, which exudes innocence and purity for children and adults, with an unhealthy lifestyle of alcohol sales. Let us build upon our positive qualities and create additional healthy businesses to work in and recreation in rather than offer bars, ABC stores, and "Happy Hours" in restaurants for our citizens.
Organizers of the move to bring alcohol sales into Spencer County have attempted to frame this debate by ignoring the real issue.
B.J. Smith says this isn't a moral issue, but rather an economic one. Others have said it's not about alcohol, but about choice.
That's a familiar tactic that's been used often to mask a controversial topic. Proponents simply disguise it as something more defensible.
It's the middle of the night and your power goes off. You find the phone book, call the toll free number and get the recording, saying there is a power outage. But you'd like to know why the power is out and get a better idea of when it will come back on.
It is with sadness and a sense of great loss we will lock the doors to Lincoln Logs Child Care this Friday for the last time. Due to the declining enrollment/economy we are forced to close our doors.
I could not walk away without publicly commending the staff for their loyalty and service. We had a great team. A well trained staff that was dedicated to providing the best of care and the best of themselves to our children and their families.
I will miss seeing you all everyday, but the friendships will go on.
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City softball team eyes Davraa gold-A A +A
Friday, January 24, 2014
THE Crossing Bayabas National High School (CBNHS)-bannered Davao City softball team is confident to win the gold medal in the secondary division when the Davao Region Athletic Association (Davraa) Meet unfurls at the Davao Del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex in Tagum City on Feb. 9 to 12.
In an interview with Sun.Star Davao, Coach Willie Bayocboc said, "We are 95 percent confident that we will win because we have been training for such a long time, yet he will leave the other five percent to God if He would allow Davao City's softball team to win."
"We are in the advantage side. Our players were trained since they were in grade school. Definitely, we will win," he said.
Bayocboc said that he sees Compostela Valley Province as their strongest rival, saying, "They have good players but we are prepared to fight," he said.
He said that one of their advantages is having the grade eight student Irene Lumanas in the team. "Irene is our number one pitcher. She is our youngest member but she plays softball really well," he said.
He said that even if they will never have the chance to compete in this year's Batang Pinoy national finals as the city cancelled its stint, they are grateful for the opportunity to compete in the Davraa Meet.
"Sulit ang suporta ng aming school at ng mga parents. They make us feel winners already," he said.
Coach Bayocboc also thanked Japanese international baseball scout, Itakura Kunifuni, who has been supporting them since 2011.
"Mr. Kunifuni provided us uniform, net, bat, gloves, shoes, balls and other sporting equipment. We are thankful for his support," he added. MDC
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on January 24, 2014.
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In this album, you will see many cactus species' seedlings growing and than grafted on Pereskiopsis spathulata.Growing cacti from seeds isn't very difficult. However, they need an extra attention than their parents. The seedlings flower in two to four years generally. But for some species, for example Coryphantas and columnar ones, the flowering time gets so many years.If you have a special propagator, use it. I have not, so I use a home made one.Here is step by step my seed growing method:1. The sowing medium is 2-3 mm in diameter washed sand and ready to use peat, 1:1 in proportions.2. The sowing place is 5 cm plastic pot groups in a large clear plastic box with tightly closed lid. I separate these pots into two to four compartments because the sowing numbers are limited about 5-20 grains. I obtain more space also.3. Water and spray the compost with a broad spectrum fungicid added ( eg. Captan) fresh water before sowing,4. Sprinkle the seeds on the soil surface. You can slightly press the big seeds but not bury them, and attention that the hilum is downwards. Do not forget the species name labels.5. Spray the seeds again with fungicide,6. Close the lid firmly. This home made propagator must be hermetic to obtain consistently moist soil and high humidity in the environment.7. Put the propagator in a warm room with bright lightening.In this case, the room is my working room at home. You can use your greenhouse, if you can obtain these 'must be' conditions.I use a special, sunlight emitting 2x2x18W fluorescent tubes, (Osram, Fluora). It is about 25 cm in distance to the soil surface and on for 14 hours daily.The temperature must be around 20-25 C in the system. 20-22 C is ordinary room temperature in winter and sufficient for the seedlings at nights. The day temperature raises to 24-25 C due to greenhouse effect in the propagator, by lamps.The temperature variation between night and day seems to be beneficial and to some extent simulates habitat conditions.Note that below 20 C and over 25-30 C temperatures might be harmful to seedlings or seeds not germinate.The relative humidity in the system must be over 80%. For the first two months we must ensure that the inner surfaces of the propagator is constantly covered by a film or vapour of water.You can do airing shortly time to time. It may be useful to prevent fungus proliferation. But never allow the soil to dry. It must be wet always until the seedlings reach to considerable size, to 7-8 months old, maybe to a year or more for very slow growing species seedlings. If you notice a mould proliferation, you can spray the system with the fungicide.When the seedlings are about 1-1.5 years old, you can transfer them to new pots, if you wish to.Germination takes one to two weeks usually. But for some species it takes more time and even in the same batch, some seeds can germinate weeks later. Just wait !There are some germinating methods for difficult species' seeds . For this, a procedure is 'Scarification' and helps water penetrate into the seed thus initiating the germination process, in different ways.A way for large seeds with a hard coat is softened them by soaking in hot water or vinegar, check if the seed coat swells. Also you can scarified them with sandpaper or a file or chipped with a needle.Another good way for germinating better the seeds by scarification is soaking the seeds in pure sulphuric acid for 10-12 minutes and immediately washed afterwards and then sow.Treatment with Gibberellic acide (GA3) is another very useful method for persistently not germinating seeds. Soak for one or two days the seeds in 0.5 - 0.7 gm GA3 per liter aquous solution of GA3 ( I use the 1 gram tablet form). Then sow them. It may require more concentrated solution, eg. 1 gm GA3 per liter water. Also it may require for big seeds a mechanical scarification before or after GA3.I am trying the latter two methods nowadays for the seeds of Eriosyce umadavae, Sclerocactus sensu stricto, Pediocactus, Neowerdermannia, Austrocactus, Opuntia, small Opuntioids likeTephrocactus, and Mahuenia species.Another method is named 'Stratification'. For some cold hardy species from environments with cold winters may require exposure to cold or even freezing conditions to break dormancy (simulating natural passage through a winter). There are several methods that you can try. For example, to force germination, before or after sowing, enclosed in plastic bags having been moistened beforehand, place seeds or the container in the refrigerator for at least two months at a temperature 4 C. Another way is alternately placing the seeds in the refrigerator and ice compartment over several weeks to simulate freezing and melting cycles.When seedlings reach a few milimeters, you can cover the soil surface with very fine grit or sand. This is useful for preventing algae and moss proliferation on the soil surface.Well, keep growing !
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Ian Buruma is professor of democracy and human rights at Bard College.
New York, NY - Rick Santorum, a former United States senator seeking the Republican Party's nomination to challenge President Barack Obama this year, has been saying some very strange things about the Netherlands. Ten per cent of all deaths in that country, he recently claimed, are from euthanasia, half of which are forced upon helpless patients. Old people are so frightened of being killed by homicidal doctors that they wear bracelets that read: "Do not euthanize me."
In a way, Santorum's canards must come as a relief to a country that has increasingly been in the news for outrageous statements by right-wing populists about Muslims and Greeks. Indeed, Santorum's view of the Netherlands as a kind of progressive dystopia has a slightly old-fashioned ring to it
New York, NY - Rick Santorum, a former United States senator seeking the Republican Party's nomination to challenge President Barack Obama this year, has been saying some very strange things about the Netherlands. Ten per cent of all deaths in that country, he recently claimed, are from euthanasia, half of which are forced upon helpless patients. Old people are so frightened of being killed by homicidal doctors that they wear bracelets that read: "Do not euthanise me."
In a way, Santorum's canards must come as a relief to a country that has increasingly been in the news for outrageous statements by right-wing populists about Muslims and Greeks. Indeed, Santorum's view of the Netherlands as a kind of progressive dystopia has a slightly old-fashioned ring to it nowadays.
The Dutch were nonetheless disturbed. Some in the country's parliament even asked whether the foreign minister should lodge a complaint in Washington.
In fact, Santorum's fantasies were swiftly refuted in the US itself. The Washington Post concluded that "there was not a shred of evidence to back up Santorum's claims", and found it "telling" that his campaign managers did not even bother to defend them. One US television station even apologised to a Dutch reporter in the name of the American people.
As the Post pointed out, there is no such thing as involuntary euthanasia in the Netherlands. The patient's consent is essential, and at least two doctors must agree that the patient's suffering is unbearable and beyond cure. Besides, the share of assisted deaths in Dutch mortality is nowhere near 10 per cent. As for those bracelets, well…
But does any of this matter to Santorum's followers? Probably not. Corrections from the "elitist" mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda. As a blogger sympathetic to Santorum put it: "The Washington Post, as one would expect, attempted to discredit Santorum."
No more filter
It is disturbing, to say the least, that the most cogent refutations of bald-faced lies no longer make any impression. After all, a democracy cannot function without a public that is properly informed. Informing the public used to be the role of serious newspapers and television networks. Of course, not everything in the mainstream media is always true: Mistakes are made. News organisations have political biases, sometimes reflecting the views and interests of their owners.
But high-quality journalism has always relied on its reputation for probity. Editors, as well as reporters, at least tried to get the facts right. That is why people read Le Monde, The New York Times, or, indeed, The Washington Post. Filtering nonsense was one of their duties - and their main selling point.
That has changed. Populist demagogues in politics and the mass media are doing everything they can to discredit the quality press as propaganda organs for left-wing elites who sneer at the views of ordinary Americans. Santorum pretends to speak for these people - that is, for a minority of Americans who are mostly white, provincial, highly religious, deeply conservative on cultural and social issues, and convinced that Obama and all Europeans are dangerous godless socialists.
The point is not whether Santorum is right or wrong factually. What he says "feels" right to his followers, because it conforms to their prejudices. And the internet, having swamped the quality press, feeds and reinforces those prejudices, making it more difficult to distinguish the truth from lies.
The public is increasingly segmented into groups of likeminded people who see their views echoed back to them in blogs, comments and tweets. There is no need to be exposed to different opinions, which are, in any case, considered to be propaganda. Indeed, Santorum's new fame will afford him a rich career as a media demagogue, even if he fails as a politician.
The truth is relative
The first people to argue that all truth is relative and that all information is a form of propaganda that reflects society's power relations, were far removed from the world inhabited by Santorum and his supporters. Several decades ago, a number of European and American intellectuals, often with a background in Marxism, developed a "post-modern" critique of the written word. We might think, they argued, that what we read in The New York Times or Le Monde is objectively true, but everything that appears there is, in fact, a disguised form of propaganda for bourgeois class interests.
There is no such thing, the post-modern critic believes, as independence of thought. Objective truth is an illusion. Everyone is promoting class interests of one kind or another. The real lie, in this view, is the claim of objectivity. What is necessary to change the world is not the truth, but another form of propaganda, promoting different interests. Everything is political; that is the only truth that counts.
It is unlikely that Rick Santorum, or many of his followers, have read any post-modern theorists. Santorum, after all, recently called Obama a "snob" for claiming that all Americans should be entitled to a college education. So he must surely loath writers who represent everything that the Tea Party and other radical right-wingers abhor: the highly educated, intellectual, urban, secular and not always white. These writers are the left-wing elite, at least in academia.
But, as so often happens, ideas have a way of migrating in unexpected ways. The blogger who dismissed The Washington Post's corrections of Santorum's fictional portrayal of the Netherlands expressed himself like a perfect post-modernist. The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland. Of course, if this were pointed out to them, they would no doubt dismiss it as elitist propaganda.
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College and the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
This article was first published by Project Syndicate.
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The young Glaswegian writer and director Alan McKendrick has forged his career in the city of his birth. Winner of the 2006 Arches Award for his text and production of The James Dean Death Scene, McKendrick's output reflects the city's culture of innovation. His work includes Finished With Engines, which was final-shortlisted for the 2007 Meyer-Whitworth Award for best UK play by a new writer. It went on to attract rave reviews when it played at the Traverse at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is currently developing a number of projects supported by a Peggy Ramsay bursary.
Starting out
"I was born on the outskirts of Glasgow, raised and schooled there and then went on to Glasgow university, where I spent most of my time making and watching theatre. Towards the end of studying, I somehow convinced city centre venue the Arches to let me bring my 20-year-old directorial vision to bear on a Philip Ridley play for a decent run in their main space [a derelict railway arch]. The production was successful, and this early contact with the Arches would prove important in later years.
"On graduating, the professional theatre scene in Scotland seemed moribund in terms of opportunities for people just starting out, so I took myself off to Berlin where I stayed for three years, cleaning warehouses, selling whisky, writing, going to shows and picking up theatre work whenever possible. After this I moved briefly to Birmingham for postgraduate study, though I'd barely begun before I was offered my first professional writing and directing job. The climate for emergent theatre practitioners in Scottish theatre had improved during my time away, and I'd applied for and won the Arches Award for stage directors, which meant my play The James Dean Death Scene was staged at the Tron & Traverse in 2006. Then I was offered several other opportunities off of the back of that, then more projects off of the back of those, and so on."
The Glasgow scene
"It wasn't until I moved away and lived in a few other cities that I realised Glasgow was quite unusual in the way the visual art and music scenes constantly overlap. Cities like London and Berlin are of such a size that there's a multitude of entirely discrete 'scenes' – the glitch electronica bandwagon over here, say, or the contemporary dance scene over there and crossover between styles necessarily becomes limited. In a smaller city like Glasgow, these cliques aren't viable – there just isn't enough of a niche audience to sustain 'special-interest' live performances, and so events are staged that are quite naturally a mash-up of more disparate styles, and core audiences for each distinct style will come down to the one night and mingle, which creates a cross-pollination of styles and concerns. It's great."
"My inspiration comes from the people and places directly around me. The last few plays I've created, I've come up with an idea, thought it over, talked a theatre into commissioning it, cast it and then between casting and the first day of rehearsal I write maybe the first 10 minutes, with specific actors in mind. The rest gets written during rehearsals, when what the actors do with the material suggests the direction the piece should go in. In terms of writing, I like working at sprint speed. There's nothing quite like fear of an imminent public execution to make you raise your game."
What the audience can expect from a McKendrick play
"I'm consistently trying to achieve something that isn't afraid to be complex in form, in language and in what it expects of an audience, while still being explicitly entertaining and engaging. The best performances of my plays have been those where the audience has gotten visibly agitated and actively engaged, sometimes to the extreme of shouting out or heckling. I'm seeking to create an environment where an audience isn't just a group of spectators, but quite explicitly a part of the performance, more the way they would be at a wrestling match, a stand-up gig or a punk show than in what most people think of the theatre. Going to the theatre isn't fucking church, or not a Scots Protestant one anyway.
"An Arches crowd tends to slot into this engaged, non-reverential mindset particularly readily – when we first showed my play Finished With Engines at the Arches Live! Festival, for example, there was a memorable performance where various people in the audience were shouting, 'You can't say that!', with groups of folk cheering or hissing in disgust or applauding at individual lines of dialogue and dramatic moments. That's how it should be".
Favourite venues
"There are a good number of great theatres across Scotland, some have been very supportive of my work, such as the Traverse in Edinburgh and the National Theatre of Scotland, but if I had to pick one space above all others it'd have to be the Arches in Glasgow. Working as both a playwright and director, professionally speaking you can be pretty much left in your own company whenever you're not in rehearsals. I've found it invaluable to have at least one building that I know is completely behind what I'm doing, and is somewhere I can just wander into the office to kick some ideas off of the walls. The Arches isn't only a theatre, it's also a live music venue, a massive award-winning club space and an art gallery, and the best thing about it is that it takes all of these different strands equally seriously. The lack of rigid distinction between various art forms that I was talking about in this city I think owes a lot to the existence of the Arches, and Glasgow would be an immeasurably poorer place culturally without it."
People whose work I admire
"Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Judith Thompson, Naomi Wallace, Kathy Acker, Philip Ridley, and Hal Hartley, the latter of whom seems to be getting written out of the official record weirdly quickly. They are all writers who have also either directed or else worked across a variety of visual, literary and performance media. In terms of theatre-making, the Swiss director Christoph Marthaler, Benedict Andrews at the Schaubuehne Berlin, Glasgow-born international director/designer Stewart Laing and especially the brilliant New York ensemble the Riot Group, who I count myself very lucky to have been able to work with more than once.
"There are some really talented writers working primarily within music as well ... People like John Darnielle and Amanda Palmer who are endlessly interesting. Also Luke Haines of The Auteurs, who I've always admired."
Up and coming theatrical talent
"There are a beyond-healthy number of talented young artists working in the Scottish theatre scene who I think are just getting better and better, from monologist Martin O'Connor to playwright and performer Lynda Radley. Glasgow company Fish & Game are finally staging a full-scale Scottish tour of their piece Otter Pie which I've seen before and really enjoyed. A writer, director and designer that I hugely admire is Megan Barker, who's had a lot of work staged in the same venues as myself, such as the Arches and the Traverse. She's under commission to write a play for the Soho Theatre in London at the moment, amongst other things. When she's at the top of her game, which is most of the time, she comes up with the most incredible work, and I always look forward to a new play from her."


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Michael Russell MSP
- MSP for Argyll & Bute
He was SNP Chief Executive from 1994 to 1999 and has held a variety of offices within the party which he joined in 1974 aged 20. He has previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Education.
Educated at Marr College, Troon and Edinburgh University he has lived and worked in the Western Isles, Lanarkshire and the Highlands.
An author, commentator and broadcaster he is married with one son.
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